It's great to see everybody. If we can go ahead and find our seats, we will get started.
And for tonight's first song, let's go to song number 405.
Song number 405.
The banner of the cross song number 405
Let's all sing it out tonight
Lord we love you and we just thank you so much for this church once again
Thank you for the opportunity to go soul winning this afternoon Lord and thank you for everybody
That was one to you. We love you
We just thank you so much for allowing us to take part in your ministry Lord
and we just ask that you bless everything that this church does and
Help bless the singing this afternoon is in Jesus name. We pray. Amen. All right for our next song. Let's go song number 304
Song number 304
Nothing between my soul and the savior song number 304
It's all singing out together
Nothing
Nothing pleases me, my soul and the Savior,
So that His blessed face may be seen.
Nothing grievances me, nothing's not His favor.
You're scrubbing to set fast Baptist church.
If you didn't get a bulletin or you'd like one,
just lift up your hand real quick.
Whatever us just can come by.
Jude one is a Bible memory passage on the inside,
our service and soul winning times.
Make sure you're updating our group chat with our.
uh, salvations and email statistics on the right, uh, please be in prayer for our expecting
ladies.
Upcoming events, Father's Day is next weekend.
We have our Shreveport, uh, Louisiana Marathon June 28th.
There's a sign up sheet in the four year.
Please sign up for us.
There's a Springdale, Arkansas marathon that we're going to be hosting, um, and, uh, Brother
Sam Foley is going to be leading that for us.
It's July 4th weekend.
So if you want to go out there, it's about five hours away.
remind me, isn't this to target the Marshallese people again? So I think originally,
him and brother Evan went out to target some Marshallese and that's what gave them the idea
to do the Klebern Marathon and it actually was very receptive because we've done Klebern in the past
as just a town and we didn't have that
you know, anything special as far as salvations.
But when we targeted that particular park area,
we ended up having a really good number.
So that's a testimony to those people
being a little bit more receptive.
And so if you'd like to target again,
some Marshallese people, Springdale,
July 4th weekend, and then Lancaster, Texas
is gonna be in July, that's here,
just in the Dallas 4th area.
It's pretty close to here.
It's only like 20 minutes away.
We have the men's retreat August 14th through the 16th, mark it down and we'll get a sign-up sheet going for that one.
FUBF conference is the end of August, August 28th through the 31st, so a lot of great options there.
Our teen event that we're going to be having, it's going to be the Saturday that we had scheduled for each of those days,
so the 14th, 26th, and 9th, and I have those listed in the bulletin.
So that first one's going to be this upcoming Saturday at 5.30.
It is...
designated for ages 13 and 19 only if you do have someone that's 20 to 25 that
just wants to participate it's kind of a counselor or a helper we could use it
and you're welcome to participate just see brother Mills that are me about that
For younger, they're not going to be able to participate in the activities or the events or the food and so, you know, it's best if you can just keep them at home.
Maybe one parent can come with the teenagers and one stays home or something ideally, but we don't want anybody to be not able to come.
So that's just kind of just, we are making it clear though that the games and everything is designated for those ages.
So we're excited to give them an opportunity to just have some fun.
So, and if you can participate, we would love for you to participate.
On the back, we have the list of our prayer requests.
If you can please be in prayer for our church.
And then we're going to sing our special hymn of the week, Where the Spirit Blows.
Sing it out nice and loud.
It's in our Psalm binders, Where the Spirit Blows.
All right, that was where the spirit blows.
It's all singing out real loud.
Jesus told me.
Just the Jews, let's go and choose where the spirit blows.
Vice and Phelps, and Christ who held,
But he arose, crushing our foes,
Whims, weary foes, we will...
Now as they often play to being passed around, go ahead and open your Bibles to the book of First Corinthians chapter number four.
That's First Corinthians chapter number four.
1 Corinthians chapter 4, the Bible says,
Let a man sow a count of us as of the ministers of Christ
and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Moreover, it is required in stewards
that a man be found faithful.
But with me, it is a very small thing
that I should be judged of you or of man's judgment.
Yea, I judge not my own self.
For I know nothing by myself, yet am I not hereby justified.
But he that judges me is the Lord.
therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come who will both bring
to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the councils of
the hearts and then shall every man have praise of God and these things brethren
I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes that you
might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written that no one
of you be puffed up for one against another
For who maketh thee to differ from another?
And what hast thou that thou didst not receive?
Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us.
And I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death."
For we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ.
We are weak, but ye are strong.
Ye are honorable, but we are despised.
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted,
and have no certain dwelling place, and labor working with our own hands.
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world and are the off-scowering of all things unto this day.
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus
I have begotten you through the gospel.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
For this cause have I sent unto you to Mothius who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord
Who shall bring you into a remembrance of my ways which be in Christ as I teach everywhere in every church
Now some of you are puffed up as though I would not come to you
But I will come to you shortly if the Lord will and will know not the speech of them which are puffed up
But the power for the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power
What will ye shall I come unto you with a rod or in love and in the spirit of meekness?
Let us pray dear heavenly father. I thank you for the word of God. Thank you for the message
We heard this morning. Please help us to love the brethren
And to be unified as a church, I ask you to bless Pastor Shelley now, fill him with your Holy Spirit to deliver the word to us. In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
And first Corinthians chapter 4, I want to kind of look back at verse number 6.
The Bible says in these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to a Paulist.
For your sakes, thee might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written,
against another, and I believe an attitude that the Apostle Paul is trying to discourage
here and trying to confront is this attitude of where people think that they're better
than Paul.
And that's kind of the title of my sermon this evening,
is thinking you're better than Paul.
Now, he kind of brings this up about himself
and about Apollos, where he's talking about
the accolades they do, he's talking about who they are,
because he's trying to make it clear like,
hey, if even we aren't anything special,
then nobody specials.
Kind of the point that he's trying to make
in this particular passage.
He wants people to not think, well,
You know, I'm I'm more special than someone else or I'm better than other people and he kind of goes on to explain this
In the next few verses it says in verse number seven for who make it thee to differ from another
or what hast thou that thou didst not receive?
Now, if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory
as if thou hadst not received it?
He's basically saying everything you have
was pretty much given to you.
So then why do you think you're better than other people?
Why do you think you're more special than other people?
And there can even be an attitude sometimes
where people think that they are actually
better than Paul himself.
Now, why is it that often people get this attitude, it's based on circumstances.
It's based on circumstances.
They look at maybe the Apostle Paul's life, his circumstances, who he is, and they think
that they're better because of their circumstances.
Now, what is the circumstances?
Well, let's keep reading.
He says, now you are full.
Now you're rich. You have reigned as kings without us. And I would to God you did reign
That we also might reign with you for I think that God has set forth us the Apostles last as
It were appointed to death for we are made a spectacle under the world and to the angels and to men
We are fools for Christ's sake, but you're wise in Christ. We are weak, but you're strong
You're honorable, but we are despised even under this present hour
We both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain
Dwelling place and labor working with our own hands being reviled. We bless being persecuted
We suffer it being defamed we entreat
We are made as the filth of the world and are the off-scouring of all things under this day
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons. I warn you
And what the apostle Paul is really trying to drive in is,
yeah, I get it.
Without us, because he says in verse number eight,
you have reigned as kings without us.
What is he saying?
Some of this is a little bit dense language,
but what is he trying to say?
He's saying the church is just thriving, flourishing,
highly respected when they're not there.
When the Apostle Paul is not there because he's he's going other places. He's starting other churches
He's constantly on the move and he's saying man, even when I wasn't there you guys are just
Tearing it up. You're reigning his kings. Things are going well. You're respected things are positive. Your circumstances are good
Whereas the Apostle Paul circumstances are constantly negative aren't they? He's saying we're fools
We're a spectacle of this world. We're constantly in want of things
We're being drug out of cities and despise and rejected and constantly attacked and persecuted
But you guys are just over here live in the high life while we're over here kind of in the drudges
living in the gutters
not being very popular, being reviled, being persecuted, bad things are happening to us.
And I think there's this tendency to think that your life circumstances means that God's more
pleased with you or that you're better than other people because of your circumstance.
And there can be this attitude where you start thinking that you're literally better than Paul.
You're better than Paul and it's a really dangerous attitude where you get puffed up
The things you have, you received.
How can you honestly think that you're so much better?
But people do this.
People will be given something,
and then they honestly think
that they're special now all of a sudden.
Because it's something they were given,
they were blessed with, they fell into a position.
You know, this happens often in a company with nepotism.
where a son inherits a company, gets promoted to manager or something that he did not earn,
he did not deserve, and he would not have ever had that position except for nepotism,
and then he thinks he's special.
And the reality is, you know, nepotism is a bad thing in Christianity, it should not happen.
You see this in churches today, where the pastor's son just happens to get to be the next pastor or the assistant pastor
or some position in the church and the guy's a bozo.
The guy doesn't work hard and if he had to go to any other church, he would not succeed.
People would not elevate him, he would be constantly corrected
and you know what, nepotism should not exist in churches today.
Nepotism causes problems in churches today.
Nepotism causes problems in the world today.
And at the end of the day, when you're given something,
often what can happen is you start thinking you're special.
This could even happen with our church.
You know, a lot of us, if not all of us,
have been given just a ton, a ton of Bible knowledge for free.
We've just been given so much good doctrine and so many good standards that we can start
to think that we're like somehow magically more special than other people or that we're
better than other people even though we don't realize it was just given to us.
You know, I'll be honest with you, I have to constantly remind myself and realize, look,
this church is a blessing from God, it's a gift from God.
The reason why this church exists is because of God.
It's not like I'm special.
There's nothing special about me, this is special, okay?
And God can just give things.
You know, this church has grown, we've gone through a lot of adversity, but we continue
to be successful.
And God could take that away or change that like this.
The only thing that is special is God.
We have to realize that we're not the special ones.
It's God that's special, okay?
And even the Apostle Paul, he's like,
I'm transferring myself, all these things into myself
so that you realize, hey, if Paul's not special,
then no one's special.
Because you know what special is the Word of God.
What special is the wisdom of God.
What special is doing what the Bible says,
not who's doing it.
And yet there's this tendency when there's success to think,
oh, I'm the reason why we're successful.
My wisdom is why we're successful.
I'm smart and that's why we're successful.
I'm better than other people and that's why we're successful.
And isn't that the same attitude you're getting here
where this church is saying,
oh, we're more successful than Paul,
but the circumstance doesn't dictate that.
You know, this can happen in sports.
This happens in sports. It doesn't matter when we talk football. It doesn't matter if we talk soccer
It doesn't matter if we talk about hockey where you have two guys on offense
And one guy is just a stud and then you got the other guy and he's kind of his Robin
You know you kind of got Batman and Robin in the sports world, right?
And whenever you have a Batman out there, you know what the other team will do? They will hone in on Batman
They'll triple cover him. They'll double cover him. They'll rough him up
They'll make it where they just are all focused on Batman and what that does is it frees up Robin
It frees up the other guy and then the other guy
He might end up scoring more goals than Batman or scoring more points or doing whatever and then he thinks he's special
But it's like the only reason you're special is because Batman exists
The only reason you're special is because this guy is getting so much attention and is distracting the other team.
If he didn't exist, then you wouldn't be so hot stuff.
And what can happen today, in the world today, is there's churches that could be just pretty much living their little best life now.
They're reigning as kings and they look at a church like us or other churches that are constantly being persecuted and reviled and attacked and think, oh, we're better than them.
because we're not getting attacked like they are.
We're not being persecuted like they are.
We have more stuff than them.
But here's the reality.
Without us, the enemies weren't going to just not attack somebody.
They're going to attack somebody.
You have to understand without the Apostles you guys are going to be the ones that are attacked
The reason why you're not being attacked is because the Apostles exist and some people just don't realize hey
Some Christians are just going to be hated and reviled and persecuted because they're actually the best
because they're drawing away all of the fire and all the flak and so just because you
Over here in your happy little island where nothing bad ever happens for you, you know, think that you're better
You're not actually necessarily better
We should never let circumstances dictate what is right and wrong.
And we should never allow circumstances to allow us to think that we're better than other people.
As Americans, we can have this attitude where we think we are better than every other person in this world and in this country because we have more stuff.
But let's be honest. Did you choose who your parents were?
You're just born into a family in America where you're just born speaking English where you just born going to school
Where you just born with the expectation to go to college or have a good job or people help you?
I mean in a lot of ways we're not necessarily just so much better
We're a product of our environment and how does that then make us better than people that were born in a third-world country
Or born overseas or born somewhere else, you know, we can't just sit here and constantly think that we're better because of our circumstance
I'm just better cause America, mm.
Now look, I think that America is probably
the greatest place to live in the world,
but why is America the greatest place to live in the world
is because it was the closest thing to this book
for the longest time.
It wasn't like America is just so much better
of a place than other places in the world.
There's beautiful places in the world everywhere.
There's great places to live there's there's places with lots of natural resources
It's not like America is just extra special for some reason what makes America special is the fact that they were so night of God at one
Point and we're reaping the benefits of whatever Christian heritage we used to have and now we're suffering the consequences of getting away from it
But at the end of the day if there was any nation in this world that would draw close unto God and draw night
It'd probably become better than America pretty quickly and it's not about
It's not about being America. It's about being Christian
Christian is what makes everything better because it's all about God it's about the Word of God and you know if you want a church to be great
We need to just draw a night of God and realize he's where we're getting all of our wisdom and success from
We get all of our wisdom and say now chapter 3 really hammers this point look at verse 18
Let no man deceive himself if any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world. Let him become a fool
That he may be wise for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God for it is written
He taken the wise in their own craftiness and again the Lord know with the thoughts of the wise that they are vain
Therefore let no man glory and men
Let no man glory and men. You know why a church will be successful according to God
It's because it's based on this book not some man's wisdom
There is there's this attitude out there where they think no, no, no
I am smarter than other people. That's why my church will be successful. That is the way that is the way down
The only way up is by saying this is right, and I'm just gonna do whatever this says
It's not about me.
In fact, my ideas aren't good.
This is good.
And pretty soon when you decide,
no, I think I'm a little, I'm gonna outsmart God.
I'm gonna outsmart Paul.
I'm gonna outsmart the processes here.
Then pretty soon you're just transformation church
with Pastor Todd doing all kinds of weird junk on stage,
playing basketball and trampoline and,
and look, honestly, that guy from Tulsa,
who knows what I'm talking about?
Transformation church, it's a church.
Okay, you don't wanna know, all right?
This black church in Tulsa. It's like one of the largest churches online. I think it's like the largest church in on YouTube land
This guy's everywhere Michael Todd and he has a he has books
He's he's like one of the most popular YouTube channels ever, but this guy is just a professional gimmick
And everything he does is just a gimmick to bring people into his church and to just get popular.
And I'm just telling you the things that he's done on stage are so filthy and perverted, I don't even want to repeat it.
But that's where you go. When you start saying, you know what, I don't need the wisdom of God,
I'm going to outsmart this way of building a church, then you end up becoming Michael Todd and then you become a giant fool.
just a clown act, just a circus clown and just become just so
reprehensible because God will take you down that path.
You want to become the non-denom, you'll become like the
non-denom. And the non-denom gets weirder every year.
because they have to keep outdoing themselves.
They have to keep outdoing their show.
I remember when my church started doing this thing
called at the movies where they would take Hollywood movies
and they would just show them for the sermons.
Because they say, well, in the summer it's hot
and everybody likes to go to the lake and do whatever.
No one comes to church, so like we have to turn
our church service into a movie theater, literally.
So they would have popcorn they would have they'd have the big posters of the action ears
And you could take the picture with the face like you're like now the Avengers or your Iron Man or whatever
This is what they were doing for the church service at first
I thought oh, this is just a Friday night thing to just have fun and then it was like no no
This is Sunday morning. This is in replacement of church
Because again, I'm not saying you can't show up and watch a movie at church.
I'm just saying like I'm not going to replace the Sunday morning service with a movie.
Let alone a Hollywood movie, okay?
Like we're not even talking like a Christian movie.
We're talking about a Hollywood movie and then it'll be like finding Jesus and Iron
Man.
It's like maybe he's just not there.
Can we find Jesus in the story of Daniel and the lion's den?
Can we find Jesus in the story of Jonah and the well?
Do we not have enough stories in the Bible about Jesus?
Do we now have to start inventing ways to try and find Jesus in Iron Man?
Like, that's just silly.
It's silly, but that's the wisdom of this world.
I'm just telling you, that is the road that the world is going down,
and then you just look silly in the eyes of anyone that's halfway serious.
You know, the thoughts of the wise, they're vain.
You know who thinks who I think embodies that is Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson had some debate or something with like 20 atheists and
Like they just shut him down instantly because the guy has no opinion and the guy even said that he said you're nothing
And I was just thinking, like, that's the best way to encompass Jordan Peterson.
He's just a vacuous soul of nothingness.
He just says words with no meaning, and it's all vanity.
Vanity of vanities, say, of Jordan Peterson.
Because everything he says is vain.
Everything he says is meaningless.
And look, those are the wise people of our world today.
People that are looking up to, paying money, to hear, speak.
People that just say nonsense because the wisdom of man is nothing.
This is everything. This is all the wisdom that we have in this world.
And the reason why people are successful is because they humble themselves and they do what the Bible is saying.
And that's how a church is going to be truly successful.
I want to go to some verses. Go to Psalm chapter 1. We'll go to a real familiar passage here.
Go to Psalm chapter 1.
We want to be careful that we don't get this attitude where we think that we're better than Paul though and
You can you can really easily do this
It was really easy, especially when you looked at Paul. Oh, this guy is reviled and bad things are happening
I mean, why do you think all of Asia turned against Paul?
Why do you think at my first answer no man stood with me?
Why do you think he said all men for sick me? It wasn't because he was so successful
It wasn't because he had huge parties and mansions and money, and why was it?
Because he's getting shipwrecked, stoned, imprisoned, bad things are happening to him,
so people are turning on him because of circumstance.
His doctrine didn't change, his personage didn't change, his attitude didn't change.
In fact, I think the letters that he write get better and better.
I don't think there's anything.
There's nothing wrong with Paul, it's just his circumstances are bad and so people turn on him.
Because people think they're better than Paul because they look at circumstance and they decide oh you must be bad
Just like Job's three friends. They look at a circumstance. You must be bad. You must be wrong
I'm better than you now. They were never better than Job, but as soon as Job lost money, they're better than him now
So how does that make you better?
Just because they're more because you're more unpopular or you have health issues or you get older with now
You're better that doesn't make you better
What makes you successful is submitting to the Word of God.
Psalm 11, blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly,
nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor siteth in the seat of the scornful,
but his delight is in the law of the Lord.
And in his law that he meditate day and night,
and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water
that bringeth forth his fruit in the season, his leaf also shall not wither,
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
You want to be successful? Do what the Bible says.
You say, what is your plan for this church, Pastor Shelley, it's right here.
And whenever we're not doing this, let's do something else.
And anything that I think of, or any wisdom I have that's outside of this book, you know
what is inferior, it's not what's going to contribute to the success of a church.
This is what's going to contribute to the success of this church.
And not just my church.
My business endeavors, my state, my country,
every single thing hinges on this being my wisdom.
And when you make this your wisdom,
when you make your laws based on this success,
when you make your wisdom or your laws based on the Quran,
it's weird.
When you make it on liberalism, weirder.
It gets really ugly, really fast.
This is what makes a good society.
This is what makes a good state.
This is what makes a good family.
This is what makes a good church.
This is what makes a good person.
Is the wisdom that comes from this book.
And the Bible can't hammer this point enough.
I'll just be honest with you.
Let's look at a lot of verses on that for a second
and then I want to go to a story on this.
Go to Proverbs chapter 21.
Let's look at a lot of Proverbs for a second.
And you know, it's not a bad habit or a bad idea
to read Proverbs every day.
even with your other Bible reading
because we just need lots of proverbs.
And what I like about proverbs is they're clear statements.
We need to base our lives on clear statements in the Bible.
You can twist stories as much as you want, I'm telling you.
I hear people twist stories and ideas,
but if you don't have a clear statement in the Bible,
you should be careful making one in your mind
because you could be wrong.
But you know what the Proverbs aren't wrong and Proverbs are right and we want to balance them with lots and lots of verses
But look at what the Bible says. This is important. This is really important Proverbs 21 look at verse number 30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord
You cannot outsmart God
You cannot outsmart God's wisdom.
You cannot figure some way to do something and it'll be more successful, more blessed, or work out better than whatever this book says.
This is the ultimate, this is always right, and you're always wrong.
There is no wisdom to outsmart the Bible or God.
You cannot do it, don't even try.
And when you try, he'll show you to be the fool that you are.
Look at it, we're close, chapter 23, look at verse 4.
Chapter 23 verse 4, here's one for Americans.
Labor not to be rich.
Cease from my own wisdom.
Notice what the Bible is saying again.
Turn off your brain and put on this book.
Stop, cease from your own wisdom.
Stop thinking you're smarter than the Bible.
No, no, I gotta really work really hard for money.
I gotta get rich.
I mean, okay, what if there was a community in America
where their primary goal was just getting rich or die trying?
I mean, if there was one group of people
that just seemed to just be like obsessed
with quote, getting rich,
and then yet they never seemed to get rich.
I mean, people that are just obsessed with getting rich,
you know what they do?
They play lottery, they go to casinos,
they get involved in all kinds of money scams,
they get scammed.
The guy that wants to get rich real quick at the car dealership,
making shady deals with the salesman,
the guy that wants to get rich quick selling drugs,
the girl that wants to get rich quick by selling her body online,
it fails and it never works.
The guy that actually ends up having wealth
is the guy that just works hard and saves money.
Why? Because he's not laboring to be rich,
he's just doing a good job and being a good steward of what he has
and then God will bless him in the long run.
The person that's out there just trying to get rich super fast ends up destroying themselves
Seize from your own wisdom and the reality is that's not the purpose of our life. Anyways is to acquire riches a
Man's life does not consist of the things in which he possesses and the abundance of the things which he possesses
It's not about how much stuff you got anyways
Seize from your own wisdom, but what is the world gonna tell you get as much good?
What does Andrew take gonna tell you?
Become a top G right get all kinds of money and stuff that guy has the worst life imaginable
You know they always want to talk about how they get so much women or whatever
It's like look my wife is awesome
I get to go home to a woman that actually loves me and cares about me and I can have intelligent conversation
You think the dumb bimbos that he's hanging out with it's fun to talk to
Why is he constantly chasing a new one if they're so great?
Why does he constantly have to have a new lady if if haven't if that lifestyle is so great?
I mean, there's no satisfaction in that
Saddest there's satisfaction in a wife. There's not satisfaction in a whore
That's why they have to constantly discard them and trade for different ones and there's no there's no real joy in that
Cease from your own wisdom get married young
Have a wife for a long time get married to a husband go to Proverbs chapter 3
Oh, no, I think that I figured it out, you know,
I gotta go to college first,
we gotta live together for a while,
and I gotta kick the tires a couple times.
No, no, just get married young.
Seize from your own wisdom.
Oh, you know, my life would be so much better
if I was rich.
Just seize from your own wisdom
and just be happy where you're at.
Cause even rich people aren't happy.
They don't even think they're rich.
You could talk to like the second richest person,
he's like, oh, I'm not rich compared to the first guy.
You're just never going to be rich.
That's why it's a bad mentality in a lot of ways.
Even the church that thought they were rich, the Bible says that they were poor, blind,
miserable, and naked.
Stop worrying about money and riches and all this other stuff.
You know what it all does?
It just makes you upset.
You know how many times do you thought about money and just been like, I'm really content
with how much money I have?
I don't need a raise.
Don't need more money. I don't need a bonus. I'm I'm doing I need to give money back to work
You know you pretty much when you think about money, you're just discontent, aren't you?
You think you want more more house bigger stuff
Inflation's obviously just a terrible disease. It's happening to our country
But at the end of the day, it's like just don't worry about that kind of stuff as much
We should be worried about spiritual things.
Proverbs chapter 3 verse 1,
my son, forget not my law,
but let thine heart keep my commandments.
Psalm 1 told us that our delight
was supposed to be in the law of the Lord.
We're not supposed to forget it.
We're supposed to put it in our heart.
We're supposed to keep it.
For a length of days and a long life.
Notice this and peace.
Shall they add to thee?
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee, bind them about thy
neck, write them upon the table of thine heart.
So shall thou find favor and good understanding in the sight
of God a man.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not under
thine own understanding.
And all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy
paths.
Be not wise in thine own eyes.
Fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
It shall be health thine evil, and mower or morrow to thy
bones.
What is the Bible saying?
The Bible is saying, don't trust in your own wisdom.
Don't trust in yourselves.
I mean, how many times do you need the Bible to tell you this?
But it's hammering it.
It's hammering it.
Stop thinking you're smarter than the Bible.
Stop thinking you're better than other Christians.
You know what?
Just humble yourself and do what the Bible says.
And 1 Corinthians 4, it's telling us to be a follower of Paul.
Be like Paul don't sit here and think I'm better than him. I'm gonna outsmart him. Oh, I see this one Christian
He's getting persecuted. I don't want that. So I'm gonna live a different life
I'm gonna live the non-denom life, but you know what? That's your own wisdom. Oh
Well the non-denom guys they seem to have so much money and riches. Well labor not to be rich sees from my own wisdom
Well, they're cool to hang out Jordan Peterson nobody wants to talk to that guy anyways
Look at chapter 4 verse 5
Get wisdom, get understanding, forget it not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.
For sake or not, and she shall preserve thee, love her, and she shall keep thee.
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get understanding.
What does the Bible say?
You need to get the wisdom from where?
From the Bible.
Verse 8, exalt her, and she shall promote thee, she shall bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her.
Look, when you say, hey, this is where I'm going to get success, then God will elevate
you.
When you say, this is where I'm going to get success, God is going to drag you down.
God will bring you down.
You think you're so smart?
Well, if you're smart, then you'll do what the Bible says.
Proverbs 11, look at verse two.
Proverbs 11, verse two.
When pride cometh, then cometh shame, but with the lowly is wisdom.
I'm not smarter than my fathers of the past.
I'm not better than other people.
I need this, that's the guy that's going to end up becoming wise.
And the guy that's by pride thinking he's better than other people
and smarter than other people, he will come to shame.
You will come to shame.
Look at verse 12.
He that is void of wisdom despises his neighbor.
But a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
Hey, you just don't understand what's going on with Paul.
So you end up despising him and this is where that pride comes in that pride creeps in and you start thinking you're better than Paul
And that's what caused you to hate him
But you don't realize that hey you might not be any different than him and you might even be worse than him if you were in his situation
Most of us don't realize
It's so easy for us to just pick other people apart and think well if I was him I would make a better decision
or if I was in their shoes, I would do better."
You know, you always kind of think you're better than other people
or you would make better decisions,
but do you really know that? You don't.
And the guy that lacks wisdom is constantly despising his neighbor,
looking down upon him, thinking that he's better than him,
thinking he's superior.
And you know what? It's a dangerous, dangerous mindset.
Proverbs 13, verse 10.
only by pride cometh contention.
But what the well-advised is wisdom.
Just realize when there's a fight,
when there's an argument, when there's contention,
someone's prideful.
Someone is prideful.
Could be both, but at least one person is.
Notice what the well-advised is wisdom.
Again, there's this contrast of wisdom and pride.
Go over to Proverbs 15, verse 33,
and we'll go back to some other verses too,
How many how many Proverbs are gonna show me? Well, how many do you need?
If you don't think you need of these it's probably because you're prideful and you do need them
Proverbs 15 look at verse 33
The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom and before honor
Is humility?
You want to be honored you want to be great you want to be lifted up you have to humble yourself
And what does the humility look like? It's not a meaningless platitude
It's not just getting up, humble yourselves, this is what humbling yourself looks like,
reading your Bible on a daily basis.
Because you say, you know what, I need it, I have to have it, I have to have the Bible,
I have to read the Bible and let me tell you something, when you meet someone that's prideful,
let me just tell you something about that person, they're not reading their Bible.
I want to prove it to you, you're going to Deuteronomy chapter 17, you're going to Deuteronomy
Why it is and again, there can be multiple reasons you don't read your Bible
But one of the dangers of not reading your Bible is pride
One could be just simply you're you're you're distracted
You're lazy or it may be a bad priorities. I mean that those are those can be other legitimate reasons
But here's the thing
Even though that might be the justification or why you're not reading your Bible the result of not reading your Bible is that you'll become prideful
Someone that's reading the Bible
and saved, okay, granted they actually can benefit from it,
it's not like a robot reading it, will not be prideful.
What does the Bible say?
Deuteronomy chapter 17, look at verse number 18.
And it shall be, as it's talking about the king,
when he sinned upon the throne of his kingdom,
that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book,
out of that which is before the priests the Levites,
and it shall be with them, and he shall read there
in all the days of his life, why,
that he may learn to fear the Lord his God
to keep all the words of this law and these statutes to do them,
that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren.
What does the Bible say is the result of reading your Bible that you're not prideful?
That's the result of it and
Who would be in the most danger of becoming prideful?
The king I mean the guy in charge the top dog the top G or whatever
That king is the one that's most likely to get more prideful and he's saying hey if the king reads his Bible every day
He will not be prideful and he will not lift his heart up above other his brethren
So when you meet somebody that's prideful and lifted up above people just let me I'll just explain it to you
They don't read their Bible
Or maybe they're just reading and they're glazing over and they're not actually paying attention to the words on the page.
Or maybe they just skipped all of the bad parts of the Bible and they're reading a commentary,
or they're reading some devotional with just like one happy-go-lucky verse or something,
but they're not reading Jeremiah.
They're not reading Lamentations. They're not reading Ezekiel. They're not reading Leviticus. They're not reading Deuteronomy
They're not reading the Proverbs. They're not reading the Psalms
They're not reading the churches because you know you read this and you start thinking like man, I'm screwed up
Man, I got problems man. We're rebellious man as sins
I'm not better than other people
But boy, when you don't read this and you just live your little happy little life on your little island,
you start thinking, oh man, I'm just so much better than other people.
Look at all the money, look at all the success, look at all the fame, look at what's going on with me.
And you just, it just lifts you up.
The king just sitting there eating the grapes, just having a fun day.
He might think he's better.
But you start reading the Bible and you start realizing, oh wow, I'm not hot stuff.
I'm not as great as I think I am.
I need to humble myself before God.
I need to get right with the Lord.
You see, kings disregard the Bible,
get really prideful, destroy their nation.
Other kings find the Bible.
They're like, where did this book come from?
They read it, they rent their clothes,
and they become very humble,
and they start doing the Bible, and God blesses them.
And look, this is a common pattern in the Bible.
The people that read the Bible know the Bible
are going to be humble,
and when you meet someone that's prideful,
I'll interpret it for you.
They're just not reading the Bible.
They think that they're better than other people.
It's very easy to get this attitude.
Now, I want you to go to Jeremiah chapter 44.
I want to read a story about this,
and then I'm going to give a couple examples of some stuff,
but we need to be careful that we don't get this attitude
where we think we're better than other people
because of the circumstances.
We need to be careful that we don't think
because of our circumstances, God's pleased or angry with us
based on circumstances alone.
Circumstances doesn't dictate reality.
Circumstances can be like Job.
I mean, Job's circumstances are the worst imaginable,
and yet he's the most right with God.
So it's like the worst situation,
best guy, most right guy with God.
And you could have the exact opposite.
You could have King Nebuchadnezzar.
He's just conquered the entire world.
He's in charge of everything.
Circumstances are at an all-time high,
and yet God then turns him into like a physical reprobate.
because God couldn't be angry with someone.
God couldn't be angry with Pharaoh.
You can't allow circumstances to tell you where you're at.
You say, man, things have been going really well in my life.
That doesn't mean that you're right with God necessarily.
Things are going poorly.
That doesn't mean that you're on the wrong path.
We don't allow circumstances to determine what's right and wrong.
We allow this to tell us what's right and wrong.
Read this and then figure out where you're at.
If you're not in church, you're not right with God.
I don't care how happy your life is.
If you're not reading your Bible, you're not right with God.
Jeremiah 44, look at verse 7,
therefore now thus saith the Lord,
the God of hosts, the God of Israel,
wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls
to cut off from you man and woman,
child and suckling out of Judah,
to leave ye none to remain,
and that ye provoke me into wrath with the works of your hands,
burning incense and other gods,
Whether ye be gone to dwell,
that ye might cut yourselves off,
and that ye might be a curse and a reproach
among all the nations of the earth.
Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers,
and the wickedness of the kings of Judah,
and the wickedness of their wives,
and your own wickedness,
and the wickedness of your wives,
which they have committed in the land of Judah,
and in the streets of Jerusalem?
They are not humbled even under this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
Therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
And I will take the remnant of Judah that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt, a sojourn there,
and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt.
They shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine.
They shall die!
From the least, even unto the greatest, by the sword, and by the famine, and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach, for I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence,
to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there,
for none shall return, but shall as a shall escape.
Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense
unto the other gods, and all the women that stood by
a great multitude, even all the people that dwell
in the land of Egypt, and Pathros answered Jeremiah saying.
So the thing, Jeremiah is just like ripping.
I mean, you talk about a face ripper.
You talk about calling people out.
I mean, he is just in their face saying,
you're wicked, and you're wise wicked,
and you're dad's wicked, and you're king's wicked.
And because you wanna go to Egypt, you're gonna die.
And you're gonna die in horrible ways like famine,
and pestilence, and by the sword,
and I'm gonna consume all of you,
and you're gonna all die.
That's pretty extreme.
I mean, that's pretty, I mean,
you say like, ah, that's not a positive message.
That's Bible.
How many churches are you hearing a message like that?
Well, cease from your own wisdom and preach the Bible.
He is telling these people this is going to happen to them.
And what is the context?
The context is Jerusalem has been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.
There's just a few people left, the poor of the land.
And Jeremiah says, hey, God wants you to just stay here.
And then they're like, eh, let's go to Egypt.
And he's like, no, don't go to Egypt.
God said not to go to Egypt.
If you go to Egypt, then he just told him what's gonna happen.
So this is them answering the man of God
and think about it, Jeremiah's just been preaching
for years, hey, Nebuchadnezzar's gonna destroy us.
Nebuchadnezzar's gonna destroy us.
He's gonna wipe this place clean.
He's gonna just knock everything down.
Then it happens, then you just see God
pour out his wrath on them.
And then Jeremiah's like, all right, don't go to Egypt.
You would just think like, okay.
Great, whatever you said, like I'm going to do it now, right?
What, how do they answer?
As for the word that thou has spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not harken unto thee,
but we will certainly do whatsoever thing go forth out of our own mouth.
Hey, we're going to do whatever we say.
To burn incense under the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her as we have done
We and our fathers our kings and our princes in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem
For then had we plenty of vitals and we're well and saw no evil
He said oh, yeah, my dad my king my husband and me. Yeah, we did do that
We did burn some incense, uh-huh
And we have plenty of vitals
And we had all kinds of everything was well with us when we were doing that. It's like hun. Did you forget what just happened?
You lost all that the city's gone
You've been destroyed and then it's just there's like some I like but it was great when we were doing this
No
That's the whole reason it happened
That's their answer
Verse 18, but since we left off to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings under her
We have wanted all things and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine
And when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings under her
Did we make her cakes to worship her and pour out drink offerings under her without our men?
Now again, why I'm being sassy is it sounds like verse 8 19. This isn't the men talking
Sounds like the women are like hey, well we did all this wicked false religion stuff. Did we do it without our men?
Hey, our men knew what we were doing. Hey, our husbands were there. Yeah
Eve was right there standing next to Adam when she hands them the apple, huh?
Feminism at its best feminism just saying yep
we were just doing whatever we want doing whatever we say and our husband was right there with us and
How did the how did the chapter even start? Did you notice?
I'm not this chapter, but this thought, verse 15.
Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense in other gods.
Don't let that verse skipped you.
He is saying,
it's not like the husband was ignorant.
God's like,
these are the guys that knew.
Then the wives are like,
yeah, our husband was right there when we were doing this crap.
And then it's just like,
they're thinking they were blessed because of their false religion.
Why? Because their circumstances were good.
because their circumstances were nice.
And you know what, I wonder how many women in America today
think that they're right with God because,
well, things are going well for them or something.
Well, I'm still getting to go shopping.
Who cares that we're up to our eyeballs in mortgage debt
and up to our eyeballs in credit card debt
and that our whole society is collapsing around us
and communism's on the brink.
Everything's just going great.
You know, we got a woman governor.
You know, but that's doesn't circumstances don't dictate if it's right
What does it say in verse 20 then Jeremiah said and all the people to the men and to the women and to all the people
Which had given him that answer saying the incense that you burn in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem
Yee and your fathers your kings and your princes and the people the land did not the Lord remember them
and came and nodded into his mind so that the Lord could no longer bear
because of the evil of your doings and because of the nominations which you
have committed
therefore is your land of desolation and an astonishment
and a curse without an inhabitant as at this day.
He's like, check the whole reason you're wanting to go to
Egypt is because God destroyed your city because of what you're doing.
What are we supposed to base
our decisions on? What does the Bible say?
Did they ever say Jeremiah, let's think about what the Bible says about this. Should we burn incense into false gods?
Well, if we go back to the law, we'd realize, nope.
We'd realize that women shouldn't be bossing their husbands around either.
We realized in all kinds of different things and then they would have just said, oh, yeah, let's not disrespect the prophet because the prophet
wasn't speaking of himself. It was God speaking through the prophet. But you know what? They thought they were better than Jeremiah, didn't they?
They thought they were better than the Word of God.
They thought, no, no, no, that's not how you're successful.
You're not successful serving God.
You're successful burning incense under the Queen of Heaven.
That's how you're successful.
That's their own wisdom.
But then they get destroyed, don't they?
And you know what?
In this world, people will constantly think,
hey, I'm smarter than the way that God has me
designed to live and the rules that He has for me.
And they try to outsmart the Bible
and they're just going to look like fools in the end.
You know, I constantly get this accusation.
I constantly get this reproach.
People will say, hey, Pastor Shelley,
why don't you stop preaching about faggots?
Why don't you stop preaching Leviticus 2013?
Why don't you stop making documentaries
like, you know, you made sodomite deception.
Did we really need LGBT terrorists, too?
What are you gonna make a third one?
Don't test me.
Hey, cease from your own wisdom as for you. Hey, yes, someone the sodomites are gonna attack
Sorry that you're not strong enough to handle a little bit of persecution, but let me tell you something
I'm gonna preach whatever the Bible says
Because I'm gonna cease my own wisdom and I'm gonna preach the Bible and I've had people that are
Christian that are saved look at me and say you should stop preaching about fags
which they don't say it that way, about the LGBT.
He should stop preaching about them.
And it's like, oh, fags, is that what you're talking about?
Yeah, yeah, fags, yeah, yeah.
It's like, dude, it's fag.
Oh, they're like, why do you have to say that word?
Can't you just not say that word?
Well, you know what?
I could not say it, but then guess what?
Whatever the next word, sodomite,
let's just say we all stop saying fag.
Then sodomite would be outlawed.
And then Sodomite would be outlawed, then Gabe would be outlawed,
and then pretty much we wouldn't even be able to, we can't even say anything.
Because they're going to go after the hardest word,
so if they're going to just censor me, I might as well just stick with the best word.
Which is faggot.
And I'm just going to keep saying, oh, you're not going to grow a church if you say faggot.
I don't care because I'm not in the business
of figuring out what works and doesn't work.
I'm just gonna preach whatever the Bible says.
You know, the Bible calls them brute beasts.
The Bible calls them disgusting.
The Bible wants you to me to communicate in plain language.
And you know what, if I get up and say sodomite,
people are like, I don't even know what's going on.
If I say faggot, people are like,
oh, wow, I know what he's talking about now all of a sudden.
People are like, I'm offended
that you would use such a harsh word.
Well, you know what, I'm offended by faggots.
Amen.
And I don't really care about your wisdom.
I just care about what the Bible says.
Show me in the Bible where it says,
talk nicely about them.
Be kind towards them.
Treat them with respect.
I don't see that, but I see pastors saying that.
See pastors saying, let's roll out the red carpet for them.
What junk?
People today, they're so offended by words today.
They say, oh yeah, I'm sure that if I stopped
using the word fag, it would really greatly improve
our church somehow.
Right?
I mean, there's been this huge battle online where you can't use certain words, but let
me tell you something, fags have lost the culture word lately.
Have you noticed that?
I mean, on X, you couldn't say fag or anything close to that for the longest time.
Now you can say fag it whenever you want.
And they are losing the culture word.
You want to know why they're losing the culture word?
Because somebody will get up like Pastor Anderson and stand on his pulpit and scream about how he's never backing down and
Then it's still popular in 2025 and it still gets all kinds of views. He gets up and says hey
I want my kids to be gay. I just don't want them to be disgusting filthy faggots
And everybody laughs and thinks it's hilarious now because the tide is turned
And you know without that kind of preaching without that reaching literally billions of people yet
You're not gonna win the culture war
You know I'm glad that we're winning the culture war. I don't like seeing the stupid faggot rainbow
Everywhere at every single shop and in every single business for an entire month. Sorry. You love that so much
You know what? I like the word faggot way more than your stupid rainbowed everywhere and trannies everywhere and the parades everywhere
And you know what if everybody at the workplace is saying faggot they wouldn't fire everybody
Don't try this at work
I'm just trying to say, hey, don't get mad at me
for trying to win the culture war here.
I mean, if the Bible says put them to death,
let's just say it.
Yeah, yeah.
Let's just say put a bullet in their head.
Let's just say line them up against the wall
and put a bullet in the back of their head,
front of the head, side of the head,
up the head, down the head.
I don't really care.
As long as it's getting the job done.
I mean, the Bible says stone them with stones.
I posted on X, like just a few days ago,
burn it with fire.
They banned my account.
The Bible talks about burning people.
Burning witches, burning people.
Yeah, that's what the Bible says.
And you know what?
It's not my wisdom.
It's Bible wisdom.
I didn't dream up stoning people.
I didn't dream up burning people with fire.
The Bible said to do it.
And we should just say whatever the Bible says.
And you know what?
I want to win the culture war in this country
and not allow a bunch of faggots to win.
Yeah, amen.
You know, it's like this big thing online.
It's this big thing on Twitter
now that you can say faggot and retard, okay?
It's like this big thing.
But you know, people get so offended by these two words.
And of course, a lot of people get, you know,
get offended by the word retard
because you're saying that person's dumb.
It's not because the words just inherently just bad or something. It's because people don't like to be called dumb
But you know, it's this big thing where we finally won and people can finally say things that express themselves
And look if someone said hey, I think there is flat and they're like you're retarded
It's to help them realize you're an idiot stop being an idiot stop being a fool
act like a normal person and
The other but at the end of the day the Bible calls people fools it repeatedly calls people fools for believing dumb things
Hey, I can use whatever derivative of idiot or fool or whatever I want to
And you know what? I don't want to live in a society where everybody is so afraid of a word today
And they allow words to dictate your feelings and your emotions
Now look obviously
You can use words offensively if you kept if you talk straight guy that saved a fag. He's gonna be mad at you
He might punch you in the face
Okay, that doesn't mean that just because there's a word out there you can use it however and whenever you want
But at the end of the day, we shouldn't get mad at words
We shouldn't allow words to dictate what's going on because you know what then that's your wisdom again
And I'm stick and tired of people acting like Christianity is about words
What words you can and cannot use and whatever is going around, you know, I'm not the censorship police and I never will be
And I'm sick of it, and then people will think
they're literally better than me
because of the words they use and the words that I use.
Well, I'm better than Pastor Shelley,
because I don't use that word.
You're not better than me.
You're not better than me just because you don't say faggot.
You never will be.
That doesn't make you better.
You know what makes people better?
This.
And you know what?
At the end of the day, show me in this where I'm wrong,
and I'll change.
Because I'll cease to my own wisdom right now,
and I'll do whatever this says.
But you know what?
You know when it talks about how to get people saved I'm not gonna do what the world wants me to do
I'm gonna do whatever this says
two by two
From house to house they cease not to preach and teach Jesus Christ. That's how you get people saved
You know what, I'm not gonna come up with some gimmick.
I'm not gonna come up with some sideshow attraction
to try and get people saved.
I'm not gonna just hand out a track and walk away.
No, I'm gonna open my mouth boldly
to make known the mystery of the gospel
and that's how I'm gonna get someone saved.
And you know what, I'm also not gonna use my own wisdom
to say, well, but I think, you know,
you could add a little bit of works and you'd still be saved.
Well, the Bible doesn't say that.
What about the guy in the jungle?
Well, you know what my, my wisdom might think there's a way for this guy to get heaven without the Bible
But I'm gonna cease from my own wisdom and I'm gonna say you know the Bible says it needs the gospel
And I'm gonna go to the jungle and then I'm gonna give him the gospel
I love how people always bring up this guy in the jungle, and I'm thinking like well, let's go talk to him
Well as this guy in the jungle go to hell yeah, let's go talk to him
I always like when they like bring up Africa, and I'm thinking like you realize that Africa is way more of a Christian nation than we are
Like they have Christianity in their school like we don't even allow the ten commandments in our school
And you're so worried about Africa over there. It's like why don't you worry about yourself, buddy?
Why don't you cease from your own wisdom and think like instead of worrying about this guy?
You've never heard of how he's gonna get saved worry about how you're gonna get saved
People are so worried and trying to think like how do I build a church? Well, you know what?
Don't think about how you're going to build a church.
Don't worry about it.
Don't plan about it.
Just do whatever this says.
When I was going to Faithward Baptist Church,
and I was under the tutelage of Pastor Stephen Anderson,
I remember he preached a specific sermon at one point,
and he said, there are some people out here
that think they will have the success
of Faithward Baptist Church
without preaching the hard stuff.
I like post-trib, I like the anti-Zionism,
but I'm never gonna rip on facts.
I'm not gonna preach the Leviticus 2013.
I'm not gonna go down those roads.
I'm not gonna get up and scream and yell.
I'm not gonna do all these things.
And they think I'll be more successful.
I'll be more popular.
I'll have less persecution.
But let me tell you something.
You're gonna have just as much or more problems.
Because you know what happens
when you stop preaching those things?
Pretty soon they start coming in.
Pretty soon the congregation starts getting soft on that issue.
Pretty soon the congregation starts letting their uncle and cousin
and whoever watch their kids and do stuff and they start having all kinds of other problems.
Pretty soon you have the music minister and the piano
guy and you have the choir and you have all these guys up there
prancing around like little faggots because there
you won't use that word and then it's just going to hell in a handbasket.
At first, Baptist Church Ham in Indiana,
they weren't necessarily...
Jack Hiles wasn't always in control of his Bible college.
And so at one point, because there was the separation of powers,
you know, the Bible cause got offended by the word fag.
So you know what they did?
They banned the word fag.
So you couldn't say fag at the Bible college anymore.
So then Jack Hiles brings in a guy named Mark Turner.
To come preach a sermon he explains the issue and he says do your worst
and
Mark Turner preaches a sermon called six flags
Who's ever heard this sermon before anybody you might need to listen to the sermon?
Preaches are called six flags and
Basically the whole sermon I'll just give you a nutshell
The whole sermon is about how he went to church and he used the word fact and a guy in the congregation got offended by it
And you need to listen to him. He explains it way better listen to his version, but I'm gonna spoil it for you
This guy comes to church. He's offended by the word fag comes over the pastor afterwards. I don't like that word pastor
He's like, okay
so then later the guy
He kind of gets out of church or something
but the pastor is just shopping at the supermarket and then he catches a glimpse of some woman at an aisle and
He kind of looks he's he kind of thought like you recognize her
He looks away and he looks back and he realizes it's that guy to dress
And then he says, he chases him down the aisle,
the guy's running away,
and he finally corners him in the grocery store,
and he says, this is what I yelled,
six flags, six flags!
But it was a euphemism for what he really said.
Because guess what he really said faggot. That's what he really said you disgusting faggot
Oh, I wonder why the guy got so offended by the word faggot because let me tell you something straight guys hate faggots
They're not soft on faggots and guys that don't like that word. I'm nervous around you
Just like Mark Turner was and you know what why in the Bible cause you to get soft on the word faggot
You get to choose. What do you want? Do you want me to stop using the word and start drawing a few more in here?
Because I don't even want one, I don't want to tolerate a little bit.
I can handle a thousand faggot words over one faggot person showing up in this church
ever.
I don't know, I think you're just, you know, you're just doing, you know, whatever you
want.
Look, I'm going to not just, the word itself isn't even as offensive as just saying they
should be put to death.
Just say that too.
When's the last time you heard that?
They won't preach Leviticus 2013.
Hey, when you decide what to preach,
just preach Jeremiah 44.
Don't preach whatever you want.
Preach the Bible, preach the Word,
be instant in season, out of season.
Hey, when you go to a church,
you should go to a church that's gonna preach the Bible,
and you know what? God will build his church.
You say, what's your program in building the church?
I don't have one.
I don't even know how to do it.
If someone were like, hey, put on a seminar
of how to grow a church, I'd be like,
I don't even know what to do.
I just get up and scream and yell
about what the Bible says.
You're like, does that work?
I don't even know that it does.
But God just brings people to this building.
I don't know why.
And you know what, if people leave, okay.
Because you know what,
I'm just not really laboring to be rich.
I'm not really trying to figure out how to build a big church.
Now here's the thing, I don't want to get in the way.
I don't want to limit the growth of this church because I won't plan, or I won't save,
or I won't figure out ways to accommodate growth.
But at the end of the day, if the preaching causes people to come and go,
then so be it, because I'm just not going to stop saying what the Bible says.
And I'm not going to stop influencing the culture.
And you know what, I might be reviled and persecuted and hated and the off scouring of this world.
But you know what, I'm not trying to win a popularity contest because I don't really care anymore.
I already lost the popularity contest.
People don't really like me and that's okay. I don't need to be liked.
I just want to say what the Bible, someone needs to say what the Bible says.
And of course we need to extrapolate on that too.
Of course, you know, some words that we use are an extrapolation, but show me where I'm wrong in the Bible and I'll change.
Hey, when you decide how to be married, you need to do whatever this says and not what the world is telling you.
Don't live together. Don't fornicate. Get married young. Stay faithful to your wife. Wives, just do whatever your husband says.
Win. Every time.
What about the exceptions? I didn't bring up a exception.
Obviously, the Bible does have a caveat, you do what God said, but if it's within the Bible
and it's within your husband, you just do it.
That's the Bible.
What happens if your husband's a jerk?
Sorry.
See, it's from your own wisdom.
Everybody wants to just sit here and create all these exceptions that don't exist in the
Bible because they think they're smarter than God, they're smarter than the Word of
God.
Hey, what about this thing God didn't bring up?
You don't think God thought of that?
You know why God didn't talk about it because it doesn't need to be talked about because it's not as important
The things that need to be talked about are in here how to raise children. Well, let me tell you something. You better spank them
Seize from your own wisdom spank your children. I know I'm gonna do time out
I'm gonna count to three. I'm just gonna give them whatever they want. That's not that doesn't work
Never has never will when it comes to your finance when it comes to your career
See some your own wisdom and just do whatever the Bible says don't think that you're better than Paul
Don't think that you're smarter than this book. Don't think well. Look at what what's happening to Paul
Okay, that's happening to Paul, but you know what you're gonna have the best success you have when you just do whatever the Bible says
Tithing showing up at church
Putting church as a priority saying hey, I don't want to work Sunday nights.
I don't want to work Wednesday nights.
I want to go to church.
I'm going to go soul winning.
I want to go on missions, trips.
Hey, somehow God will make it work better.
Think, no, I got to prioritize my career.
I got to... God doesn't know how to make these things work.
I got to labor to be rich.
No, cease from lying in wisdom.
Put church first.
Put God first.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness
and all these things shall be added unto you.
Hey when it comes to building a country, how do you build a country? I don't know. Just do whatever this says I
Mean you read our early fathers and they said hey, we don't know how to make laws
But here's some laws
Let's just put them in our loss and then it was like oh oops the most successful experiment. We've ever had I
Mean you have a bunch of random Joes just showing up with nothing in an indigenous population
And now we have the most successful powerful country in the world.
How did that happen?
It was this again.
Oh, no, no, no.
You shouldn't put fags to death.
You should marry them.
That's not going to be a successful nation.
That's not going to be a successful country.
Putting them to death is the right thing to do.
Putting murderers to death is the right thing to do.
Putting rapists to death is the right thing to do.
Hey, when it comes to our laws, we should just do whatever the Bible says.
You know, we're not going to outsmart God.
I could go on and on and on.
Church discipline, same thing.
Well, you're taking God away from people.
I heard this stupid accusation.
It's like, you're taking God away.
Like, hey, this guy that won't stop committing fornication
and when confronted, he won't change.
I'm gonna take God away from him.
No, no, no, no, I'm not doing it.
I can't take God away from anybody.
I can't reprimand anybody, contrary to popular belief,
either.
At the end of the day, you know what?
If someone's in this sin, we're just supposed to get rid of them
until they repent or get right.
If they rail, we're supposed to get rid of them
until they repent or get right.
Now the other thing, as soon as someone's like,
I'm sorry, I don't want to do it,
I'm bringing them back into the church.
I'm not going to sit here and hold it over their head
or try to embarrass them any more than they need to be.
But it's basically like, look, if you won't repent,
if you're not going to get this right,
if you don't want to change, well then we have to say bye.
Right, we have to ask you to leave. But how many churches are exercising in church this month?
Well, you're not gonna build a church that way. Well, you know what? I'm not interested in building churches.
I'm not interested in being rich. I'm not interested in being the next Joel Osteen.
I'm not interested in trying to be like the old IFB with some giant Bible college and some giant Christian school filled with faggots in it.
No, I don't care about that you know what someone needs to preach with the Bible sense and let me tell you something when you
Have more money and a bigger building and some big Bible college
Well, then you stop preaching the Bible
Don't you and you stop doing the soul-winning and you stop doing all the activities that God actually said are important
And you know what I don't want to prioritize things that are not in this book. Yeah, we're gonna do things that are extras
We're gonna have extras. I like extras, but let me tell you something. I'm not gonna extras get in the way of this book
And we need to seize some of our own wisdom and we need to not think that we're better than Paul or better than some other church
Or you know what? There's this stupid disease in the mind where people think they're better than Pastor Anderson for some reason.
Well, you know what look at Pastor Anderson. He's had some bad ordinations
Okay, well everybody has bad ordinations. Good luck with that. Oh
Well, he had some bad kids. Well, you know lots of people have bad kids when you have 12
I mean, have you ever heard of, I don't know, Jacob?
What was his ratio?
You, with your 1.5 kids over here that aren't even raised,
think that you're so much better than Paul.
You think you're so much better than everybody else.
Oh, well, you know what?
Look, this guy's gotten all this negative attention
or persecution or hate or whatever.
Well, you know what?
The apostle Paul got way more negative attention than you.
But you know what?
It's because he's better than you, actually.
He wasn't because you were better than him.
And let me tell you something, there is a disease out there
where people are just gonna think that they're better,
they're gonna be more successful,
they've outsmarted things.
But let me tell you something,
you can't outsmart this book.
Please, please, please do this book.
Do what this says.
And you know what, as a church,
as the leader of this church,
I want to do whatever this says,
no matter where that leads us.
And if that leads us to be growing, shrinking,
Sideways up ways left ways. I don't really care. I'm gonna go wherever the spirit blows
Hey, if anything I've learned that I have no idea what's gonna happen next I
Have no idea if you said hey pass the cell you're gonna be in seat
You're gonna be in Cedar Hill. I would have said no. I'm not
At any point
If you had told me what this church would be like I wouldn't believe you if you'd say when I was gonna start pure as Baptist church
I'll be it steadfast. I'd think like that's no that's gonna happen. I
Wouldn't think that would ever happen. There's so many things that have happened. I was thinking there's no way that would ever happen. I
Would never do that. I would never be there. I'd never be like that things wouldn't happen
But you know what you just go where the spirit blows
And you just say you know what I'm not smart. This is smart
Please, please, please just
Don't allow pride to eat at you and you say you know what?
I kind of struggle with that a little bit read your Bible a little bit more. That's the cure
What's the goal of the sermon just read your Bible?
Because when you don't read your Bible you start getting prideful you start thinking you're better than other people
You start lifting yourself up your heart gets lifted up
You know when you start reading the Bible you see what the men of the God are like in the Bible and then it's it's not confusing anymore
You see men of God getting persecuted in the Bible. You're like, oh, well, that's what I see in real life
You don't read the Bible and you think this guy's getting persecuted because he's bad
You're like Job's three friends
You know when you read about Job's three friends, you're like, I don't want to be Job's three friends. I
Don't want to be the false accuser. I don't want to be the deotrophies. I don't want to be the Demis
I don't want to be the Barnabas. I don't want to be these other people
I want to be the guy that's with Paul and you know what loves Paul and appreciates who Paul is
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for giving us
the only lamp and the only light in our life.
Thank you for giving us wisdom.
I pray that we would not lift our hearts up
above our brethren, that we'd not think that we're better
than other Christians, that we would not think
that we know how to do things right,
but rather we would just trust in the Lord
with all our hearts.
I pray that you would just motivate us
to start reading our Bibles more.
and humbling ourselves and just doing whatever the Bible says,
not thinking that we can outsmart your wisdom
or outsmart your ways.
I pray that as a church, if we could humble ourselves,
we could be an example unto others
that they too could humble themselves.
I pray that you would help to humble our nation,
humble our state, humble our country, humble Baptist,
humble Christians, humble husbands, humble men today
to say, we need the Lord, we need the Word of God.
I pray that we can be humbled through the Word of God,
that we wouldn't have to be humbled through
severe chastisement.
But I pray that you would help us to be humble.
And I pray that you would help us to not
be prideful against other people.
And I pray that you would give us success
so that you could get all the honor and glory.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
All right, in closing, let's go to song number 415.
Song number four hundred and fifteen, song number four fifteen, victory through grace, song number four hundred and fifteen.
It's all singing out.
Conquering now and still to conquer right into the peak.
To the strong is the battle, not for the swift is the race.
But it's for the true and the faithful, victory's promise to the race.
Conquering now and still to conquer, who is this wonderful?
Thanks for watching!
What a great song to remind us that it's not our own wisdom and strength and power,
but it's through His grace.
And we have Pierce coming for baptism this evening.
Pierce, have you trusted Christ as your Savior?
Then I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Bury the likeness of His death.
Praise to walk in newness of life.
Make sure to congratulate Pierce.