Thanks so much for being here this morning, and I want to preach a sermon on the sin of disloyalty,
the sin of disloyalty. And we have a story here about Abimelech, and before we kind of get into
chapter 9 and some of what he says, I want to look back at chapter 8, and I want to look at verse 34
if you can. The Bible says, "The children of Israel remembered not the Lord their God, who had
delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side, neither showed they kindness to the
house of Jerubbabel, namely Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had showed unto Israel."
Now Gideon is a famous story where he delivers the children of Israel out of the hand of the
Midianites, and afterward he ends up having 70 sons. In chapter number 8, the Bible tells
us that the children of Israel tried to make Gideon a king, but he refused to be the king,
and he didn't want to be a king. He wanted God to be their king, and God to rule over them,
and to still be under the system the, quote, "judges." We're reading in the book of Judges,
and it was supposed to be that the children of Israel were ruled by a system of judges and
elders, and that the word of God reigned supreme in the land, not a king. It's kind of similar,
honestly, to how America is established, because we have a "constitution," and in theory,
the Constitution is supposed to reign supreme as the law of our country. However, obviously,
the Constitution is not being used correctly. We have people abusing the Constitution, not
following the Constitution, and I get that. But just generally speaking, the way we're
theoretically supposed to operate is we have a Constitution, and then we have leaders. We have
a system of judges. You have the Supreme Court judges, which essentially interpret the law,
and based on their interpretations of the Constitution, this becomes the law of the land.
And this would be similar to how the children of Israel are supposed to be operating in the Bible,
that they have judges that are interpreting the law. You have priests interpreting the law,
and you have people being guided by the Word of God, not just a king that just gets to decide
whatever he wants. Gideon, as a man of God, realized it was wrong to be a king, didn't want
to be a king, and so he did not allow himself to become king. Now obviously Gideon has problems.
Gideon has a lot of children, 70 children. Obviously this is not with one woman, okay?
Relax ladies, all right? This isn't Mormonism, all right? And one of the people that he has
children with is specifically a concubine. I want to look back at verse 31. Look at verse 30 actually.
And Gideon had three score and ten sons of his body begotten. He had many wives and his concubine
that was in Shechem, she also bear him a son whose name he called Abimelech. And so Abimelech is one
of Gideon's sons. He's of the 70 and yet he was of a concubine. A concubine is kind of a lesser
wife. The phrase broken down into google translate is just like one who he lies with and so that just
kind of gives us an idea of kind of what it's talking about. A lot of people say this is like
a live-in girlfriend. Some people say this is like a common law marriage. Some people would even have
other interpretations. I kind of think it just means all of it. Concubine is just basically
everything. It's just it's the live-in girlfriends, the common law marriage. It's kind of a catch-all
phrase for just someone he lies with. And it could be a wife. It could be not a wife. Sometimes,
though, if it's a wife, it's really looked at as a lesser wife, an informal wife, one where they
didn't have the actual legitimate marriage. It's just kind of like what we would think in our modern
contexts of a common law marriage. So because of the fact that the relationship's not as serious,
often we see in the Bible a pattern where the sons of a concubine are kind of a bad person.
And I'm not saying always, but a lot of times you kind of see the son of a concubine being a bad
person. And we can see Jephthah is the son of a concubine in the next story, yet he ends up kind
of redeeming his brethren and being good. So not every son of a concubine is just bad or doomed,
but many times it's just kind of a bad omen. And so we kind of have that precursor into chapter
number nine. Now let's start with verse one. "And Abimelech the son of Drupal went to Shechem
unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house,
of his mother's father, saying, Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem,
whether it is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbobo, which are three-score and ten
persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you, remember also that I am your bone and your
flesh. So, Bemilek goes unto his closer of kin brethren, probably we're talking about cousins,
extended cousins, other people that are from extended family, uncles, and I would say it's
not even just limited to actual like really close relatives, it's just kind of like the people that
he's the area he is from and the sense of his quote brother. Obviously at this time in history
a lot of people are pretty closely related just generally speaking but it's he's going to his
cousins, his uncles, those that are of closer kin and he's saying hey does it really make sense to
have 70 rulers? We should just have one and if you're going to pick one you know you should
kind of pick me and the reason why you should pick me is because of the fact that we are all
related and so you kind of have this geographic deep disposition to end up siding with one
particular guy just because of where he lives, who he's related to and a lot of people are like this.
This is in fact how most people are in the world today. Most people in the world today just kind of
have a geographic or a family type of loyalty today where it's like you live in Dallas you're
a Cowboys fan and it's not because you like the Cowboys it's not because you played for the Cowboys
it's not because you even know any of the Cowboys names it's just because you live in the Dallas
Forth area. Now obviously I get some people retain loyalty no matter where they travel
but let's just be honest a lot of people they pretty much just like the team where they live.
They like the organizations where they live they move somewhere else they just bandwagon on that
particular organization they just like those people a lot of people just like Texas because
you're from Texas and of course you are born into a family and a lot of people most people
I would say naturally speaking just kind of hey this is my cousin this is so and so she just kind
of have this built-in loyalty to the people that are close of kin close to where you live your
neighbors and there's nothing wrong with liking these people but at the end of the day if you're
going to pick a leader if you're going to pick someone to rule over you is the most important
qualification that you're related or is the most important qualification that you are geographically
close to this person you know why didn't Epimelix say hey instead of letting these guys rule over
you let me rule over you because I'm righteous because I love God because I meet whatever
qualifications or because God anointed me king none of those things are brought up it's just hey we're
brothers and this is what you could call nepotism nepotism exists in the world that we live in today
it exists in the bible where essentially you put someone in a position of power or authority just
simply because of who they are related to you know what nepotism has serious flaws and serious
issues and we should not be in a state of mind where we enable nepotism nepotism should not exist
in in our lives and we could apply this to all areas our business our family affairs whether that
be church whether that be you know our government our government has a lot of nepotism as far as
you know donald trump gets elected into office and then it's like oh let's put evonka trump
in positions of authority in our government what has evonka trump ever accomplished why is she
getting this position we look at joe biden with hunter biden severe nepotism hunter biden being
put in all kinds of positions of authority he was like hired by foreign agencies and foreign
governments to serve and it's like this guy doesn't even know what's going on he's just
doing drugs and prostitutes all the time that doesn't meet any of the qualifications for this
energy company that he's working for across seas he doesn't probably even speak a foreign language
and yet this guy is being put in positions of authority and you know what you see this in
churches a lot too where it's almost like the pastor's son just automatically gets the church
or something like that and always just thinking like why is why is the pastor's son just
automatically the next pastor or something like that you know it just doesn't really make a lot
of sense you see nepotism with the wife the wife in a lot of churches today is now the assistant
pastor or the co-pastor or something and i'm just thinking like first of all women should never be a
pastor let alone why in the world is this guy just randomly his wife just is also the pastor
you know think about this if you went to a hospital you you have like a serious injury you walk in the
er room and they're like bring in so-and-so she's married to a doctor she married a surgeon let's
put it let's let's oh you need heart surgery this lady married a heart surgeon well did she go to
medical school no has she ever performed surgery no does she even know what a scalpel is no
but she's married to a surgeon right i mean this doesn't make sense in any context you go to the
car dealership well she's married to a mechanic you wouldn't put her in there you wouldn't put
her underneath the hood and try to get her to do your job for you and and why would we do the same
when it comes to church or being a pastor just because you're married to a pastor doesn't make
you a pastor that's just it's weird it doesn't make any sense and with this guy hey just because
your brother's with this guy doesn't mean he's now qualified to be the king of israel in fact the
bible says not down the king yet they just put abimelech right into power right into authority
why because of geographic loyalty because of family loyalty but at the end of the day he's
not necessarily the most qualified leader he's not the one that you want why does abimelech want
this well abimelech wants attention doesn't he he wants power he wants authority if there's 70
rulers if there's all these different judges if there's all these different rulers you know
abimelech's not going to necessarily stand out amongst the crowd unless he's really hard working
unless he does things that are more righteous than his brethren that'll be the only way to kind of
stand out in the crowd but you'll never stand out like a king no matter what and so the only
opportunity for him to stand out in the crowd is essentially destroy all the other competition
and elevate himself as the king and of course he can't appeal to his own righteousness or pedigree
he simply appeals the only thing he has well i'm related to you well we are close of kin that's
why you should bring me in and put me up as king but this is a ungodly way to uh essentially
make decisions and you could see the that he's being disloyal to a few different people number
one he's being disloyal to god because the bible makes it clear that they shouldn't have a king at
this point and that kings are are not what god desires and i'm not going to show you all the
verses on this but secondly we can see he's disloyal to his father because his father
says explicitly that he was not going to be a king over them let's just read a few verses on this
go back to chapter number eight verse 22 the men of israel said unto gideon rule thou over us
both thou and thy son and thy son's son also for thou has delivered us from the hand of midian
and gideon said to them i will not rule over you neither shall my son rule over you the lord shall
rule over you so number one god said this gideon gerubbabel explicitly confirms this
reasserts this attitude i'm not going to rule and my son is not going to rule and you should not
have him be some kind of a king or some kind of a ruler so we see that abimelek is disobeying god
he's disobeying his father and then of course think about this loyalty he has actual brethren
when it comes to all of these 70 that he's totally trashing and totally destroying in
replace of these other men of sheikahm who he's probably even less close and kin to i mean we know
for a fact that these other 70 all have the same dad they are all having the same father they're
all of gidion and from his mother's perspective there's no indication that she had another child
outside of the children that she had with gidion that would suggest to me it's mostly likely i
don't know if you can prove it but it seems reasonable to conclude that all of the people
that he's about to kill are actually of closer kin to him than these men of shechem that he's
striking this deal with that he's conspiring with to slay all these other brethren so he's disloyal
to his family he's disloyal to god he's disloyal to his dad and yet he's just picking these other men
and he's essentially conspiring with them to destroy them so he can be king now what does
it say in verse number three and his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the
men of shechem all these words and their hearts inclined to follow abimelek for they said he is
our brother so notice something that's really important in this verse verse three the bible
says their hearts inclined to follow abimelek now disney channel would have you believe that
you should always follow your heart that whatever your heart wants or whatever just feels right is
right you know what that is not what the bible teaches the bible does not teach that your heart
is always right the bible does not teach that you always have the right affections or the right
desires in many cases you have the wrong desires that your heart is set on sin and you have to
renew your mind you have to purify your heart you have to wash and cleanse your heart through the
word of god because you could have the wrong idea here and of course i think again it's just natural
that people will often kind of cling to people because of their geography well he's from chicum
we're from chicum you know we're from texas he's from texas and texas amen we're from california
and they're from california we're from florida and they're from florida you know i would say
this about canada but nobody cares you know so just kidding but honestly loyalty stretches
wide and far when we talk about asian continents boy they are loyal to their places you know you
can offend asians very greatly if you guess their country wrong if you think a japanese person is
chinese they're going to get mad at you or vice versa or korean or philippines or whatever they
take pride in their nation they take pride in their people and look i'm not even saying this
is wrong i'm just saying this is natural there's nothing wrong with liking your people liking your
nation liking your culture liking these things it's very natural it's very normal there's nothing
wrong with it but sometimes that natural instinct gets in the way of spiritual things
sometimes that natural instinct clouds your judgment and causes you to end up having the
wrong loyalty here and end up being disloyal to god disloyal to your father disloyal to the right
things disloyal to the truth because oh my heart's inclined to this particular situation or
inclined to this particular person says the verse four and they gave him three score and 10 pieces of
silver out of the house of Baal Beareth wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons which
followed him so they give him money to end up betraying his brother now it's probably just
coming off the page this sounds a little bit similar to jesus christ story doesn't it where
you have brethren betraying each other paying pieces of silver in order to betray and kill
their brethren this is foreshadowing what's going to happen to the lord jesus christ isn't it
where his brethren are going to turn on him and you know when we say brethren we're talking about
people like judas we're talking about the jews as a whole not necessarily his direct kin
because his direct brothers did not betray him and turn him over to the jews but they weren't
necessarily his biggest fans either but at the end of the day we have judas and we have jews
betraying the lord jesus christ into the hands of the romans and he's crucified and slain for us
and you could you could kind of liken these romans under these vain and like persons vain and like
persons because rome is very vain if you know anything about rome or their culture or their
history talk about a vain vain culture all about appearance they love their parties and their games
they're about the coliseum they're about feasting they're about accolades they're about intelligence
the bible talks about greeks you know desiring wisdom and you know don't get confused on the
word greek because since alexander the great had conquered the entire world everybody was just
considered greek even though it's the roman empire like the greek culture had just basically taken
over the entire world so even at this time while rome is in control it's kind of a greek culture
that's just under the rule of rome it's very vain culture it's all about intellect intelligence
asking questions seeking wisdom it's a lot about physical prowess you know and again this is just
what we learn from history but the romans are very vain and light persons light meaning not serious
you know light can be interpreted a lot of different ways not reliable lacking moral
restraint you can see that the greeks lack moral restraint the bible talks about the gentiles
essentially just being full of wickedness they don't know anything good they're just going
wholeheartedly after all kinds of fornication and adulteries and idolatry and just everything
carnal i mean the gentiles are described as just the most carnal people on the planet and those
are being hired in a sense to slay our lord jesus christ just like here they hire these
vain and light persons to follow abimelech and you know you need to be careful who's following
you just because you're gaining popularity just because you're gaining an attendance of followership
or subscribers or whatever doesn't mean that it's actually good or positive you could be getting a
lot of subscribers that are vain and like persons you know there's all these young teenagers and
people out there today that are gaining a following on tiktok gaining a following on instagram but
you know if you met somebody and they say yeah i spend five to ten hours a day on tiktok does
that sound like a very serious person does that sound like someone that is grave because i would
argue that the opposite of light is grave when we think about biblical concepts someone that has
gravity grave is someone that's serious grave is someone that's taking the things of god seriously
whereas light is very unreliable not taking things seriously and we notice these are the
people that follow also these are just basically your minions everybody out there can easily allow
these minions to come and influence them or do their dirty work because notice the the men of
shinkham they don't want to do the dirty work they want to get other people to do their dirty work
and you know you'll always notice leaders they always have these minions that do their dirty
work for them you have that loudmouth woman you have that weirdo psycho guy that's just like
some kind of a sycophant or some psychopath that'll just go out of his way to just hurt and harm
people they're basically just like a pit bull a pit bull that's on the leash and you're just letting
them off the leash and you know they're going to do all kinds of damage they're harmful they're a
dangerous predator and you know what there's people today that are like a pit bull and they
just want to be let loose to just wreck havoc they're you know this is what some people call
chimping out you know they just basically you let them out of the cage and they just chimp out and
they just start breaking everything and smashing everything and destroying everything and you know
these people are just ready to be hired to just destroy something you know some people their whole
life they just live to just destroy stuff it's called blm right it's the lgbt protests that we
see going on in our country and everywhere and where they just go up and down the streets and
they just destroy things and smash things it doesn't even matter the movement it doesn't
matter the cause one week it's pro elon the next week it's destroy elon one week it's hey we're
for this particular group of people the next week we're against that group of people it doesn't
matter the platform it doesn't matter the message they're just ready to be hired to destroy things
when can i start smashing when can i start looting when can i start destroying and you know what
sometimes people like this can exist in churches sometimes there's people that are in a church
and it basically they're just want to destroy stuff and as a pastor it's really important to
not just allow people to just have this attitude exist in your church to get rid of those kind of
people and yet sometimes they see this destructive behavior and members and they won't deal with them
they allow them to just do their thing and you know they have this in their mind like
well while they're destroying my enemies they're my friend but pretty soon they'll turn and rend you
you know this destructive behavior can often be turned on you look at elon again i'm just trying
to say elon was like the liberals best friend everybody liked him now it's like everybody's
going out trying to key a tesla vehicle or kick the tires or do something i don't own a tesla i
probably never will but i i did test drive one one time and as soon as i get in it we're just
driving people just flipping me off and i'm like if they knew me they probably still flip me off
don't hear me wrong okay like it was it was the right attitude they just didn't even know why
they hated me but at the end of the day it was like i just get in this car i could have been
like a liberal like them but probably not because you actually have to have money to actually buy
something and you know liberals love to just mooch on everybody else so it probably wouldn't
be that person but at the end of the day i'm just saying you know there are people that exist to
just hate there are people that just exist to destroy there are people that just want to attack
and you know what while we do preach against a lot of stuff and yeah we go on the offense a lot
that is not our only mission that is not our only calling that is not the only thing we should do
in our lives we should be for a lot of stuff we should be for the king james bible we should be
for the gospel of our lord jesus christ we should be for soul winning we should be for church we
should be for lights in the building you know i mean i get it okay we should be for electricity
that works you know and maybe it's just dark in here to just warn you that hey this world is
getting dark it's a dark time and you know people are just showing a lot of loyalty to the wrong
things and in turn they're being disloyal to good things they're being disloyal to the word of god
they're being disloyal to the things of god you know we have a lot of people warmongering right
now trying to support israel and just bombing a bunch of people and destroying a bunch of people
and again that's that attitude this attitude just nuke them all destroy them all i saw some picture
and it was just basically like an entire ocean in the middle east and it said let's just do
this they can rebuild later and i'm just thinking like that's the wrong attitude and look i'm not
gonna say i haven't had that bad attitude in the past there's been times in the past where i just
thought you know what islam is such a wicked false religion just nuke them all put them back in the
cave and nuke them all i don't even care you know what i don't believe that's the right attitude
you know we should try to give the gospel to people that are muslim and you know what some
of us have gotten muslim saved who's gotten a muslim saving here yeah look around now is it
the easiest person to get saved no but you know what there was like at least maybe almost 10 hands
who's gotten a jew saved oh okay interesting zero now i'm not saying it's never happened
my friend pastor anderson has gotten a jew saved i think he's baptized an entire jewish family but
that's rare you know there's there's a higher likelihood that muslims are going to get saved
so just from a gospel perspective only you know if we're going to have to pick between these
two nations which one will we pick yeah we would pick the muslim nation honestly and again muslim
nations at least throw fags off buildings i mean hey a broken clock a clock is right twice a day
i mean they got a few they they don't have their women telling them what to do i'll tell you that
they're not bringing a bunch of feminism into america that's for sure now look do i like islam
no it's a wicked religion it's a false religion muslims are on their way to hell but at the end
of the day you know what it's two bad religions and i just want to sit here and just say
nuke them all destroy them all kill them all burn them all get rid of them let's just hire some
mercenaries and let's just nuke them all and destroy them all just like the men of sheikham
no no no that's the wrong attitude don't get this attitude america you know that's not america
anyways america was not like this we did not have a foreign policy that just said nuke everybody in
the middle east that is a new recent development that is a zionist agenda that is recent in our
country we have tried to be a peacemaker we've tried to trade with all we've tried to be kind
to all in fact hitler was on time magazine at one point contrary to popular belief that he was
always evil and everybody hated him or something now obviously he's a bad person don't hear me
wrong somebody's gonna tell me he's the best christian ever i don't believe it right it's
weird it's weird when people say that okay it's weird when people say like essentially the jews
are always right and hitler's and the nazis are the worst people ever that's wrong and then it's
also wrong to say that hitler's awesome and the greatest christian ever both of these are wrong
just like islam and judaism is wrong and we need to make sure that when we're in a church we should
be careful if we're around somebody that just always wants to destroy always wants to attack
always just hates everyone hates everything never seems to be for anything never seems to be on the
positive or liking anything you know we need to be people that have a lot of likes and i get it
we're fundamental baptists we we try to be you know separated from the world we try to oppose
worldliness and so it might appear like we're against a lot of things but we also need to be
for a lot of things and we need to be for families and for children and for preaching the gospel and
for singing great hymns and songs to the lord jesus christ before christians before godly pastors
before hey soul winning in any capacity in any context before baptism before the king james bible
hey i'm for these things and i'm for education i'm for learning i'm for reading books i'm for
exercise i'm for sports i'm for getting out there and doing things you know for as the man is
so is his strength is what the bible says you know and it's kind of funny that we go and play
softball against a particular church and afterwards when i shake every man's hand it's kind of like
it's like this limp little thing or whatever and they all seem weak and they all seem cowardly
and then i'm like oh yeah that's because your pastor is weak and cowardly isn't he
it's kind of interesting how strong men often are strong and weak men are often weak and you look in
the bible a lot of the great guys in the bible are really physically strong did you notice that
do you notice jacob's like super strong it's like hey it takes a couple people from first
baptist wataga to take the lid off but jacob from steadfast baptist church could just take it off by
himself you know what i mean that's the kind of strength that we need and look being physically
strong is not all there is but let me tell you something you know there's a correlation there
isn't there it's a correlation to strength and working hard and having discipline and saying no
to things and sometimes you have to say no to things like when someone says hey can we murder
these 70 guys no i'm not going to do it verse four and they gave him three score and 10 pieces
of silver out of the house of bale bereth notice where the money comes from from false religion
doesn't it it says in verse five and he went into his father's house at ofrah and slew his
brethren the sons of drube bell being three score and ten persons upon one stone notwithstanding
yet jotham the youngest son of drube was left for he hid himself and all the men of sheikham gathered
together and all the house of milo and went and made a bimalek king by the plane of the pillar
that was in sheikham so they slay all their brethren they make a bimalek king except for one
jotham is able to escape just the youngest is able to escape out of the household and notice again
why were these guys slain did we did we was there any sin i'm going to make it really clear what
they've done oh but then you never say what they did hey here's their accusation here's their
problem here's why they're bad here's why they're wrong nope didn't mention it just slay them all
just kill them all just get rid of them they're all destroyed you know why they're destroyed for envy
that's why they're destroyed they're they're also in my opinion more righteous because they're not
plotting to just slaughter their brother i mean if we're comparing them to a bimalak they all seem
better than a bimalak and i would argue that they're ruling because based on a bimalak's
accusation he's saying hey is it better to have you know one ruler or 70 that kind of implies that
these guys were ruling so they must have been ruling things must have been going pretty good
and then what let's just slay them all let's just kill them all no accusation no real reason it
doesn't say that they started worshiping false gods it doesn't say they committed adultery it
doesn't say they were tolerating sodomites it doesn't say any of the reasons that are brought
up in the book of judges to slay someone or kill them or take over it's just just slay them just
kill them and you know what you need to be careful before you start slaying people why you're doing
it why are you just slaying people why are you just killing people they make abimelech king but
here's another question what did what did abimelech even ever accomplish why are we why are we setting
this guy up why are we making this guy the king you know there's not really a pedigree there is
there now it says in verse seven when they told it to jotham he went and stood in the top of mount
gerizim and lifted up his voice and cried and said unto them harken unto me you men of shechem that
god may harken unto you the trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them and they said
unto the olive tree rain thou over us but the olive tree said unto them should i leave my
fatness wherewith by me they honor god and man and go to be promoted over the trees and the trees
said to the fig tree come down and rain over us and the fig tree said unto them should i forsake
my sweetness and my good fruit and go to be promoted over the trees then said the trees
unto the vine come down and rain over us and the vine said unto them should i leave my wine which
cheereth god and man and go to be promoted over the trees then said all the trees under the bramble
come down and rain over us and the bramble said on the trees if in truth ye anoint me king over you
then come and put your trust in my shadow and if not let fire come out of the bramble and devour
the cedars of lebanon now we have three different examples of trees that say no and you know one of
them i think could arguably be gideon that's kind of put in this parable gideon was asked to
be lifted up above the congregation be the king and he said no now you have two more you know you
could look at this as one of the brethren or some of the brethren all the brethren it happens
multiple times maybe in his parable he knew that there had been multiple times where they had
approached other guys or approached other brothers and said hey why don't you rule or why don't you
lead and they said no but we see a pattern that multiple times they're constantly trying to set
someone up and the godly guys are saying no no no and then they come to the bramble and he says yes
but notice he has a caveat doesn't he he says if ye put your trust in me right notice if in truth
you anoint me king over you then come and put your trust in my shadow and if not let fire come out
of the bramble and devour the cedars of ebono so he's saying look if you guys are really true if
you guys are really sincere then hey come anoint me and i'll rule over you but think about the
whole situation again abimelech is turning against his closest brother for a further away brother
why would then that further away brother believe that abimelech wouldn't turn on him later or
wouldn't go against him later he's sowing a seed of extreme disloyalty here he's disloyal to god
he's disloyal to his father he's disloyal to his closest brethren why would he then be loyal to you
it makes no sense it's not and and them coming to be with him it's not in truth or sincerity either
they just want to basically have their name the men of sheikah rule and be an authority and they
want to have the preeminence among all the children of israel oh it's the sheikah party now it's the
sheikah political party and again they're not doing it in truth they're not doing it in sincerity
they didn't read it in the bible god didn't tell them to do it gideon didn't tell them to do it
they're not doing it because the bible they're doing because their heart was inclined to them
alike and they're being disloyal in many ways they're being disloyal to god disloyal to their
father disloyal to gideon did you read what it said let's remind you verse 35 of chapter 8
neither showed the kindness of the house of druable namely gideon according to all the goodness which
you'd showed under israel you have god delivers you from extreme oppression from extreme slavery
from extreme evil gives you prosperity he does it through the hands of gideon and then you turn on
gideon and you rent gideon and you attack gideon and you attack his house and you do evil and you
recompense evil for good how does this even make sense that's not dealing truly that's not dealing
sincerely being disloyal is what it is and you know what it's a sin now the bible says in this
parable it kind of he gets specific and that's what i like about jotham you know he's a specific
preacher all right he names names now he says this in verse 16 now therefore if you've done
truly and sincerely and they have made a bimalek king and if you have dealt well with jerubbabel
in his house and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands for my father fought
for you and adventured his life far and delivered you out of the hand of midian and you risen up
against my father's house this day and have slain his sons three score and ten persons upon one
stone and have made Abimelech the son of his maidservant king over the men of Shechem because
he is your brother if you have dealt truly and sincerely with Drupal and with his house this day
then rejoice ye in Abimelech and let him also rejoice in you this is sarcasm folks he's saying
oh yeah if you've done truly well get excited rejoice be real happy that you've done this
but notice he's rebuking him in the whole context he's saying as you've totally trashed my dad and
trashed our house that only did good unto you wink wink nod nod if you've done truly and sincerely
and bringing in Abimelech to be your king well then get real excited be happy today it's a
glorious day what does the bible say if we keep reading verse 20 but if not let fire come out of
Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Milo and let fire come out from the men
of Shechem and from the house of Milo and devour Abimelech and Jotham ran away and fled and went
to beer and dwelt there for fear of Abimelech his brother now we have this great prophecy he calls
them out right away he says hey you guys have done truly and sincerely if you've done what was right
well then you know what get all excited be happy with your new leader here but if you haven't done
right well you're going to be destroyed and this is the this is the problem with disloyalty when
you sow seeds of disloyalty when you show that you're not going to be loyal to someone you know
what you tell all your followers you don't have to be loyal yeah and when you show that you're not
loyal well it's going to come back to bite you because the bible says be not deceived god is
not mocked for whatsoever man so it's actually also real right and the last thing we need to do
is show disloyalty because especially as a leader because when you show disloyalty
boy people will turn on you so fast and so quick and it's even worse when you show disloyalty for
no real reason for not a clear reason for no justifiable cause you just you just attack people
or go it just it's such a bad move and you know we live in a world today where people are constantly
betraying one another and traitors and backstabbers and truce breakers and false accusers and all
kinds of evil in this world you know at least at the house of god can we have some people
that are going to be loyal for the sake for the sake of time i'm not going to go through
the rest of the story but what has the story in we already read it abemalax people turn on him
and they devour him and they destroy him and that fire comes out and look when you side with a bunch
of people that are just destroyers and vain and light persons well pretty soon they're just ready
for the next highest bidder and they'll turn on you again because you don't you know you don't
want to build a following of people that turned on people to come be your friend yeah you want
people that are loyal to be your friend you know one of the things i like about brother ben
is that whenever there was this big blow up when i first came on to take steadfast baptist church
i kind of had some issues with adam fannin and he was the evangelist in jacksonville florida at
the time to my face everything fannin said was good he said i can't wait to work with you i'm
so excited adam fannin said i don't even need to be pastor i'll serve 10 years just being the
evangelist i don't need this but then behind my back he's telling everybody i don't like pastor
sailing he's bad i need to be ordained in six months so it's just like to me it's one story
to everyone else is a completely different story so weird so i basically said hey this guy's
shown himself to be kind of bad wicked if you elect me as your pastor if you guys want me to
be your pastor if you choose me to be your pastor i'm gonna fire him yeah and i made it clear i
didn't i didn't like hide that i was gonna do that i made it real clear everybody's like oh
that's real dramatic well i've been dramatic from day one yeah i've been dramatic from temple zero
okay folks you know what i mean like before i even came you already knew it was drama it's like funny
people like oh you're just always you know i can't believe you're a dramatic right now it's like
what do you mean it's like it's fanning then it's manly perry then it's grace and fritz then it's
i mean just name i'm probably forgetting like a hundred names galligator i mean whoever and
i mean there's all kinds of just people it's just like good night yeah obviously there's going to be
drama because we're doing something for god i get it okay but this is what i like about brother ben
is that he was close friends with fanning and look there's nothing wrong with that he he was
serving he was trying to help his leader but whenever this went down he didn't just immediately
turn on adam fanning he just didn't immediately like think he was bad he kind of like was trying
to give him the benefit of the doubt he wasn't just ready to flip on a dime because that would
have been weird if i said hey are you friends with this guy yeah i'm ready to burn him right now
even though he was wrong even though he was doing bad things it was like it took a lot of bible it
took a lot of thinking it took a lot of just hey i'm not going to just switch on this guy just
because i'm going to switch on this guy and he's right and obviously you know he made a good
decision eventually but at the end of the day you know it makes me nervous when people are just
ready to burn loyalties even if it's to a bad person even if it's somebody that did something
wrong you know it's kind of weird when people are just ready to just burn them now you've already
had a lot of issues and problems i get it but i'm just saying somebody that you were close to that
you were friends with if you're just ready to burn them on a hair trigger you know that shows that
you have a heart issue you have some kind of a problem there because you're just ready to just
burn people you know because being disloyal is a bad thing go if you went to deuteronomy chapter
12 go to deuteronomy chapter 12 and and the reason why loyalty is so important is because without
loyalty you can't really accomplish anything you know when you talk about like a fighting context
this is so important and look i've never served in the military god willing i never will i don't want
to but just understanding from afar what it's like loyalty's super important on the battlefield
just because if you can't count on your teammates comrades sorry for the russian you know context
whatever your partners if you can't count on your your group your squad whoever it is that
you're on the battlefield with to have your back to do their job you can die and if you're not
doing a good job you can you can cause other people to perish and to die and you need some
loyalty you need people to be willing to die for you need people to do their job do their work
if if you're on the battlefield and everybody's about to just run away everybody's just looking
out for his own self people aren't gonna like help you people aren't gonna fight for you people
aren't gonna risk their life for you like it's just not gonna work and you need that you need
that loyalty you know it's embarrassing when you have a quote school shooting and you've all the
texas and police officers are afraid to go in and confront a shooter now again there's a lot of
conspiracy theories about what actually happened there i don't know but just on the surface that
situation's embarrassing when law enforcement's afraid to do their job and you know if they're
going to make a vow to protect and serve they should do it you know you're supposed to honor
your oaths if you make a vow to somebody you're supposed to honor that breaking that would be
a sin if you tell someone you're going to be loyal to them or you're going to be their friend
or you're going to do something for them and you break your word you're a vow breaker you're a
truce breaker and that's a sin and you know what i like about jesus he doesn't break vows you know
i like about jesus he doesn't forsake us or leave us or abandon us and that gives us the confidence
to fight for him and to go to the end i mean imagine if jesus christ said hey your salvation's
on the table i don't know i don't know if i want to give it to you in fact you could be doing
everything right and i might just take it away for any reason i might not even tell you the reason
would that really give you the confidence to want to go to church and serve him and to go out and
battle and to fight no no no you know what gives us that confidence the assurance of salvation
let me tell you something you can't lose your salvation because god is the most faithful person
in this universe and god will never leave thee and god will never forsake thee and god will never
give up on you and god is loyal to you what does the bible say in deuteronomy chapter 12 verse 19
take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the levite as long as thou livers upon the earth
you know what just like god will never leave you you know what the bible says do not forsake the
levite yeah and look here's something that you should be loyal to to church as christians if
christ died on the cross for you if he gave his life for you then you know what and he bought this
church with his blood we ought to be loyal to church now i'm not saying it has to be just a
church you know what but you need to be loyal to church you say sunday morning i'm gonna get my
butt in church where the lights are on or not whether this sermon is is getting recorded to
the highest quality or not because you know what all those people that are gonna eat chips off
their chest they're sitting around not serving god this morning aren't they yeah all those
people that are just counting on the internet to deliver them god you know what sometimes you
got to just show up and you know what church is not the internet church is the local assembly
of the believers we're having church right now now look i'm not against people listening to
internet i'm not people down on anybody listening to a sermon online praise god and if you're sick
we have the great opportunity of still being able to listen to good preaching from afar
but you know what if you can't you get your butt in church and you sit down and shut up and praise
god you should be loyal to church jesus christ died for us we ought to be loyal to going to
church and loving church and not forsaking the levite the levite represents the priesthood
represents the men of god represents the peace of god and you know what the bible says you
shouldn't forsake the pastors and the preachers and the priests of god and the church of god and
the house of god that's a commandment i didn't say that the bible said that deuteronomy 14 look
at verse 27 why does the bible say this because there's a tendency for people to forsake church
forsake pastors forsake men of god forsake the things of god and you know what we should not be
on a hair trigger to forsake men of god to forsake priests to forsake church we should love church
that should be where one of our biggest loyalties is deuteronomy 14 look at verse 27 and the levite
that is within thy gates thou shalt not forsake him for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee
you know the levite was such an important job you know he's he's giving up a lot of his life
to serve god therefore you should then really be kind to that guy and not forsake him and take
care of him you know and look living in america and in the context especially of history it's
about as good as you're probably ever going to have it you know and even being a pastor here
whatever afflictions i've gone through are extremely light in comparison to historical
figures to biblical figures you know i don't want to undermine the fact that look being a pastor
that's going to stand strong on the things of the Bible and is going to actually preach what the
Bible says today and not hide his preaching. You know what? It's going to be a little bit of a
sacrifice and they're going to have to make some compromises and you know maybe what they want.
They're not going to get everything that they want. It may hurt their job. It may hurt their
career. It may hurt their finances. It may hurt you know their family sometimes. You know they're
going to have people leave them and desert them and be a traitor and do all this kind of stuff to
them. But you know you don't have to be that person and the bible is saying don't do that.
Why would it give us a commandment? Because a lot of people will. A lot of people are going to
forsake the Levi. A lot of people are going to forsake church. They're going to forsake pastors.
They're going to forsake good people and you know I want to be the person that's the opposite. I want
to make sure that I'm not forsaking pastors but I love pastors. I'm constantly telling people hey I'm
for you. I'm with you. I want to help you. Whatever. I don't want to forsake good men of God. You know
James chapter four says therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it is sin.
Now I want to be really explicit about church for a second. You know I think when it comes to church
there are some important things to consider. Number one I believe you should go to the best
church in your area and if you are going to the best church in your area if you decide to then
just decide to go to another church not the best church in your area you know what the best church
is in your area and you were going and then decide to go to a different one not for a legitimate
reason i believe that's a sin you're going backwards the bible says to him that know
what to do good and doeth it not to him it is sin if you have an opportunity to go to the best
church in your area and you're not going to that church well then you know what i think that's
wrong not only that if you choose to go to a church you're going to a church and then you
go to a different church that has worse doctrine you're going backwards on doctrine i believe
that's again a sin i believe that if the direction of the church is heading backwards and not forwards
you know what hey maybe you could make that change but you know what if you're going to
leave a church that's going backward or you're going to leave a church to go to a church going
backwards from a church going forward well you know i believe that's wrong again if you have
if you're going to a church that's just gangbusters on soul winning and getting
thousands and thousands of people saved and you decide to go to church where they're not
gangbusters on soul winning i think that's wrong and a sin too because at least you're supporting
the work even if you're not doing it you're just supporting the work of a church that's doing a
great effort you know the bible tells us when the children of israel are supposed to go into
promised land you know two of the tribes soon after tribes didn't want to go in because they
weren't going to inherit but it's like hey why discourage you your brethren you know what you're
supposed to still go in there and fight with them anyways because it's wrong for you to just be
selfish and do your own thing and discourage your brethren and not go to war and not get in the
fight you know what you go with your brethren to the fight and if you're leaving a church during
a battle that's i believe a sin and you're going to discourage other people now look if the battle
is because the pastor is changing the bible into a false version leave right i'm not saying that
there isn't times to leave a church what i'm saying is look if your church is being attacked
because of a spiritual issue like they're being righteous and they're being attacked i think it'd
be wrong to leave a church during a battle i think it's wrong if you go to a church if you leave a
church and then the church you're going to now you're going less if you move churches and now
go to church less than you were i believe that's a sin if you switch churches and you start reading
your bible less it's a sin if you switch churches you start going soul winning less it's a sin if
you switch churches and now you're not getting that same sin out of your life or you're going
backwards on sin i believe that's a sin you know why pick a church hey how about this church is
the best church in my area that's doing a lot of soul winning that's right doctrinally that's
moving in the right direction you know what that is what we should be loyal to we should be loyal
to that institution and as soon as that institution is not loyal to god well then hey we can trump that
and say hey i'm going to go to the church as being loyal to god because my ultimate loyalty
is the god but you know what if your ultimate loyalty is the god you'll go to the best church
in your area if your loyalty is the christ then you'll go to the church that's going soul winning
if your loyalty is the christ you'll go to a king james only church if your loyalty is the christ
you'll go to a church that has the right doctrine because you know what that is the church you should
be in and you know you go to a church that's filled with saved brethren that love the lord too
because if you love your brethren then you love christ if you don't love your brethren you don't
love christ right what's another thing you should be loyal to go to proverbs 23 you know you should
be loyal to is your parents people need to be loyal to their parents and it's sick how so many
people are disloyal to their parents you know what when you sow seeds of rebellion when you sow seeds
of being disloyal you know what it can happen in your life too when you just walk away from church
i mean if you just drag your family to a good church this is a warning you take your family
to a good church for they're in good preaching and then you drag your teenagers you drag your
kids out of that church and take them to a lame church they notice yep they notice and you're
showing them some weird signs of disloyalty and then what are they going to do to you nice thing
if your parents aren't the best parents you stay loyal to them no matter what kids i don't care
what your parents do you stay loyal to them you love them you do good to them look what the bible
says in proverbs 23 verse 22 harken unto thy father that begat thee and despise not thy mother
when she is old you know what that is that's loyalty so be loyal to your mom until she dies
and then you know what stay loyal after the fact and don't trash your mom even after she died too
and you know what don't trash your dad get ian respect whatever rules he had be like the sons
of recap that just say hey you know what dad said we can't live in a house so i'm living in a tent
dad said we can't drink wine so i'm not drinking wine and we're not talking about alcohol we're
talking about juice all right no one should drink wine period when we talk about alcohol
aphesians chapter i'm just go to go to mark chapter 7 go to mark chapter 7 the bible says
children obey your parents and the lord for this is right honor thy father and mother which is the
first command with promise that it may be well with thee and thou mayst live long on the earth
look there's consequences to being disloyal to your parents it's a sin it is a sin to not be
loyal to your parents it is a sin to not honor your parents it is a sin to not be loyal to your
church and to church the church of god it's a sin not be loyal to christ and to the word of god
it is a sin to do these things and you know what abimelech hey he wasn't loyal and look how it
turned out for him now in the story i don't think i didn't read all of it pardon me if i get this
wrong wasn't it like three years or something like that someone can help me yeah it was like
around three years or something maybe more maybe less but it wasn't immediate when he ended up
getting destroyed yeah and this is what some people think they're disloyal and nothing bad
happens for a year and they're like oh see i got away with it oh see i'm good you know those seeds
of disloyalty sometimes take a long time to grow just like a plant you know you want like a tree
you can't get a tree overnight a tree takes years to grow but boy once you get a giant tree it's
hard to get out it's hard to pluck that thing out and you know what you don't want to just sit there
and sow all these seeds of disloyalty you know what we need to be sowing seeds of loyalty
we need to be demonstrating to those around us hey i'm a loyal person hey i'm gonna be loyal to
my parents and you know what when your children see you loyal to your parents that's gonna plant
seeds into them that when you get old they'll be loyal to you when you're not loyal to your parents
in their old age boy you're asking for trouble when it comes to your kids now again i don't care
what mom and dad do though if your mom and dad don't take care of their parents you still take
care of them when they get old all right don't follow in their footsteps you do right but you
know what we should be honoring our parents into their old age mark seven verse nine says this
this is jesus speaking and he said to them full well you reject the commandment of god that you
may keep your own tradition for moses said honor thy father and thy mother and whoso curseth father
and mother let him die the death but ye say if a man shall say to his father his mother it is corbin
that is to say a gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me he shall be free and you suffer
him no more to do ought for his father or his mother making the word of god of none affect
through your tradition which you have delivered and many such like things do you notice they're
just trying to get all these people out of the hook of honoring their parents hey it's no problem
just be disloyal to your parents just like the pharisees it is no problem for them to be disloyal
to god is it the pharisees and the sadducees reject the word of god trash the word of god repeatedly
and in the same vein they're just like hey let's just trash our parents too because you know what
they just have no loyalty we need to have loyalty to our parents because ultimately our heavenly
father is what we're supposed to show loyalty to let's show loyalty our heavenly father you know
praise god that jesus christ was loyal to us that when he's in the garden of gethsemane and he said
that he didn't want to go to the cross that he said nevertheless not my will but thy will be done
that when he was on the cross he said father forgive them for they know not what they do
that when jesus christ was dying for the sins of the world you know what he didn't give up
he didn't quit because he said at any moment he wanted to he could have just asked for a legion
of angels than he would have gotten at any point he could have ended it at any point he could have
just said i'm done i don't want to this is too hard i don't like it this isn't fun you know what
jesus just put away that little button and just said you know what i'm not pressing that button
i'm loyal and think about it he's loyal to us deserve it people think like oh i'll be loyal
to people that deserve it well i don't deserve it and christ is loyal to me christ is loyal to you
you know what my parents don't deserve it oh my church doesn't deserve it be loyal to your church
be loyal to the priests of god be loyal to the levites you know you should also be loyal to your
spouse go to proverbs 31 i was going to bring up friends but then i realized i had like eight
sermons this morning so that's going to be just not good for this evening but you know hey we got
a lot of stuff to think about you know we need to be loyal to the people in our lives spouses you
just have to be loyal to your spouse man proverbs 31 look at verse 10 who can find a virtuous woman
for her price is far above rubies the heart of her husband notice this that's safely trust in her
so that he shall have no need to spoil she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life
you know i kind of like the last part of verse 11 i never really thought about it this way
maybe you have you probably have i haven't it's just like he's saying you know what she's not a
gold digging whore he's saying she's not going to leave him even if he doesn't have a lot of money
even if he's poor and you know there's a lot of women today that if a rich guy walked by
they're just ready they're ready to jump ship right they're ready to just drop them like a bad
habit and do whatever but you know this guy says you know what my heart is safely trusting in my
wife i don't need spoil i don't need to be rich i don't have to have a five car garage i don't
have to live in the nicest part of dfw i don't have to make tons of money you know what my wife
loves me period and she will do me good and not evil all the days of my life that's the kind of
wise that we need to have that's the kind of women that we should have in this society that's the
kind of daughters that we should raise today and say you know what i'm going to give my heart
unto my husband it doesn't matter for better for worse for richer for poorer it actually made it
hey inflation's kicked us all in the nuts guys i'm sorry ladies we got kicked hard in the nuts
and then stomped on and then pissed on by our government and inflation and the jews and usury
and let me tell you something none of us are probably better off in the short term right now
many guys are working double shifts extra things trying to figure out ways to make money because
it's hard i've had more than one job i've had two jobs or more for the last decade there's never
been a time where i haven't had overlapping and i'm not saying like you have to do this i'm just
saying it's hard it's hard to provide it's hard to make up the money and you know what your husband's
only working with one job just be content with such things as you have right you have food and
clothing you're supposed to be content and be loyal to your husband and love your husband and
appreciate him no matter what and you know what do good unto him all the days of his life look
what it says verse 12 she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life you know what that
is loyalty we need some loyal wives today you know the bible says let not the wife depart from her
husband the bible says that if you put away your wife you're committing adultery against her you
know how many men are divorcing their wives today or wives divorcing their husbands it's evil it's
wicked and of course what happens when they get divorced well they get remarried and then you know
what happens they get divorced even more likely because when you sow the seeds of disloyalty you
reap the seeds of disloyalty let alone all the rampant adultery that happens look when you
commit adultery with someone why do you think that they're not going to commit adultery on you
like it's insane if you think oh we're going to divorce our spouses and run off together
why in the world would you ever think that person would ever be loyal to you you know it's just it's
crazy how people just have just such a short-sighted mindset and they don't realize hey when you're
disloyal other people be disloyal to you we need to be the most loyal people and set an example of
loyalty you know in our government they even have this thing called spousal testimonial privilege
it's that you're not required to even testify against your spouse ever in fact they even had
some provisions where as a spouse i could just petition the court and say i don't even allow my
wife to testify against me and they would just honor it now i don't know if that still is an
effect but it used to be it used to be just like you could just say they're my spouse they can't
testify against me because i said so because it's like you just it just shouldn't happen it's not a
reality now i get it because we live in such a perverted society sometimes you have this like
reprobate psychopath child molester I don't really care what you do that guy but apart from your
husband or spouse being a literal child molesting psychopath reprobate then you know what you just
keep your mouth shut and you're loyal to him and you love him go if you would to second timothy
and i'm gonna finish on this point what should our ultimate loyalty be it's christ christ is
loyal to us we should be loyal to him we should be loyal to him and loyal to the people that we
talked about church we should be loyal to the the things of god we should be loyal to our spouse
we should be loyal to our parents i mean these these are really important obviously sometimes
there's conflicts and and i'm not saying that you always know exactly how to handle everything
that takes discretion but you know we should be loyal to the truth so if there's ever a conflict
of of some of these parties then i'm just going to be loyal to whatever's true whatever's right
and my ultimate loyalty is always to christ christ is that trump card and the bible even says in
revelation 2 be thou faithful unto death how can i be faithful in the death if i didn't know that
christ has has me he's got me i've got that safety net i've got that security blanket that no matter
what happens that's why he's saying be thou faithful unto death you know what is christ asking
for extreme loyalty i mean if someone's saying you have to die for me that's pretty much the
ultimate price we we could argue maybe abraham abraham was asked to offer his son that's another
picture of the ultimate loyalty the ultimate price being asked to either give of your give of your
child or give of yourself is pretty much the ultimate price being asked to be paid in the
bible why because christ demands extreme loyalty and you know we should show extreme loyalty to
the things of god the bible says if thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small
and you know what will be the point of having any of these relationships if you couldn't count on
them what will be the point of having parents or having children if you couldn't count on them
what's the point of having a spouse if you can't count on them what's the point of having a church
if you can't count on them and you know what when people have need when people want stuff from us
we should also be loyal to them and help them and i don't know those people i don't know
the people that are coming and asking of us and asking me to help them and we're just nah we
can't help kick rocks buddy we're pretty much i mean we're 24/7 let's do it what do you need
let's help now sometimes you need to be told that you're wrong sometimes you need to be told that
you're stupid but i'm not gonna i'm not gonna be disloyal i'll tell you that you're stupid
faithful are the wounds of a friend as the bible says but the kisses of an enemy are
beware of the guy that'll give you a kiss that should always be the case right
you know the bible says in romans 12 that we're supposed to be a living sacrifice
the bible says greater love hath no man than this that a man laid down his life for his friends
the bible says hereby perceive we the love of god because he laid down his life for us and we ought
to lay down our lives for the brethren in second timothy chapter 2 look at verse number eight
remember that jesus christ of the seat of david was raised from the dead according to my gospel
wherein i suffered trouble as an evildoer even under bonds but the word of god is not bound
therefore i endure all things for the elect's sakes that they may also obtain the salvation
which is in christ jesus with eternal glory it is a faithful saying for if we be dead with him
we shall also live with him if we suffer we shall also reign with him if we deny him he also will
deny us if we believe not yet he abideth faithful he cannot deny himself you know i love about christ
even when we fail he won't fail us he'll never fail us he'll never leave us but you know what
what did the apostle paul say therefore i endure all things if you look at the definition of charity
in first corinthians chapter 13 you know what charity does it endures all things because the
apostle paul was showing the ultimate picture of love and charity and true sincerity is saying hey
i'm never gonna leave thee i'm never gonna forsake thee the sermon's over but i want to make one last
proclamation maybe it's dark for a reason i don't know but here's the thing all these people that
have forsaken and given up and trashed and walked away and attacked the new ifb and its pastors
if you have done truly and sincerely then you should rejoice in what you've done to be really
happy about it to be really excited about it you know i've seen a lot of examples of hey when
you're disloyal for no reason when you're disloyal when you're walking away and attacking people
because you want the preeminence boy it doesn't turn out so good does it when you're not showing
yourself to do things in sincerity and integrity boy you're sowing some really bad seeds of
disloyalty when you're attacking those people when you're forsaking levites when you're forsaking
men of god when you're forsaking the things that are right you know what the bible says hereby
receive with the love of god because he laid down his life for us and we have to lay down our lives
for the brethren how are you going to lay down your life for the brethren when you're walking
away over nothing and look we've had all kinds of shapes and sizes of this we've had judices and
fakes and frauds and frenemies and people that were sincere and backslidden and walking back
and whatever i mean you got all shapes and sizes but let me tell you something it's all the same
abimelech when you sow these seeds of disloyalty and when you walk away from good friends and from
good men of god and people that haven't done anything wrong to you boy let me tell you something
you are in for trouble that fire may come out and destroy your bramble you should be warned
just like jotham said hey what you've done hey if you're true and you're sincere and you've done
right just be so excited and rally behind your guy and isn't it so funny that so many people
they just rally behind their pastor just because of geography i mean everybody just likes their
pastor and their pastor can do no wrong no matter where they are you know that's not the right
attitude you know if your pastor's walking off a cliff don't walk with them if your pastor's
walking backwards don't walk with them if your pastor's saying you don't need to fear god
run screaming in the other direction if your pastor gets up and says he believes the earth
is flat run away you know hey if your pastor's getting up and switching bibles or doing all this
weird stuff you don't run away you know what be careful too when you see your pastor being so
disloyal be careful boy i just i sure would not want to be friends with someone when i watch them
just trash a lifelong friend that'd make me nervous confidence in an unfaithful man is like
a broken tooth in a time of trouble and you know what we need some friends with some loyalty i'm
going to preach that tonight you know we need we need some ride or die friends if you want to hear
that sir and come tonight all right let's go some prayer thank you heavenly father so much for being
so loyal to us and sending your son and allowing him to go through such pain and suffering thank
you for never giving up on us thank you for never quitting on us thank you for always loving us
thank you for always being there for us thank you for wanting to have fellowship with us no matter
what i pray that you would just help us as a congregation to set an example of loyalty to you
loyalty to the things of god loyalty to church loyalty to our spouse loyalty to our parents
loyalty to our friends i pray that you would help us to just not be someone that just easily walks
away someone that just faints in the days of adversity but rather is willing to deal hardships
and and endure difficulties i pray that you would just help this church to just continue to have
unity and love for the brethren i pray that you would help use this church to do great exploits
and for us to be a bright and shining light in such a dark world in jesus name we pray amen