335 if Jesus goes with me should be a new one for us tonight hopefully you
know it but if not you can learn it all together 335
again that's 335 if Jesus goes with me
all together
it may be in the valley where countless dangers hide
it may be in the sunshine that I in peace abide
but this one thing I know if it be dark or fair
if Jesus is with me I'll go anywhere
if Jesus goes with me I'll go anywhere
tis heaven to me where I may be if he is there
I counted a privilege here his cross to bear
if Jesus goes with me I'll go anywhere
it may be I must carry the blessed word of life
across the burning deserts to those in sinful strife
and though it be my lot to bear my colors there
if Jesus goes with me I'll go anywhere
tis heaven for me where I may be if he is there
I counted a privilege here his cross to bear
if Jesus goes with me I'll go anywhere
but if it be my portion to bear my cross at home
while others bear their burdens beyond the billows foam
I'll prove my faith in him confess his judgment fair
and if he stays with me I'll go anywhere
if Jesus goes with me I'll go anywhere
tis heaven to me where I may be if he is there
I counted a privilege here his cross to bear
if Jesus goes with me I'll go anywhere
it is not mine to question the judgments of my Lord
it is but mine to follow the leadings of his word
but if to go or stay or whether here or there
I'll be with my Savior content anywhere
if Jesus goes with me I'll go anywhere
tis heaven to me where I may be if he is there
I counted a privilege here his cross to bear
if Jesus goes with me I'll go anywhere
Amen. Great singing. That's the word of prayer.
Father, we love you. We just come before you in prayer asking you to please hear us.
We thank you for this church we have. We thank you that we have the fellowship and the preaching, all the wisdom you've taught us.
We just pray you bless the sermon tonight and you fill Pastor Shelley with your Holy Spirit.
Help us Lord to listen to the preaching and apply it to our lives.
We love you Father and we just want to pray these things in Jesus Christ's name. Amen.
Next is going to be 346. Bring your vessels, not a few.
We've done this a few times so hopefully you remember it.
346. Sing it all together on the first.
Are you looking for the fullness of the blessing of the Lord in your heart and life today?
Claim the promise of your Father come according to his word in the blessed old time way.
He will fill your heart today to overflowing as the Lord commandeth you.
Bring your vessels, not a few. He will fill your heart today to overflowing with the Holy Ghost and power.
Bring your empty earth and vessels clean through Jesus' precious blood.
Come ye needy one and all and in human consecration wait before the throne of God till the Holy Ghost shall fall.
He will fill your heart today to overflowing as the Lord commandeth you.
Bring your vessels, not a few. He will fill your heart today to overflowing with the Holy Ghost and power.
Like the cruise of oil unfailing his disgrace forevermore and his love unchanging still.
And according to his promise with the Holy Ghost and power he will every vessel fill.
He will fill your heart today to overflowing as the Lord commandeth you.
Bring your vessels, not a few. He will fill your heart today to overflowing with the Holy Ghost and power.
Amen.
Thanks for coming to steadfast Baptist Church. If you need a bulletin lift your hand nice and high. One of our ushers can come by.
We have our Bible memory passage and on the inside we have our service and soul wanting times.
Also make sure if you have any soul wanting maps turn those back in if they're completed.
Order brother Dylan. On the right we have the list of expecting ladies.
And then we have our prayer list. Please submit those via email.
We also have upcoming events. Baby Shower June 11th and we have the men's conference August 18th through the 20th.
On the back we have the baby shower in honor of the names.
It's going to be from 1230 to 230 and it's going to be here at the church if you'd like to get them a gift.
She is registered on Amazon and also bring an dessert or a dish to share.
Nursing is only preferred. We do have these cards still on the back.
There is like a box next to there as well so if you think we ran out I think we still have plenty.
I want to try and get through these cards as quickly as possible.
And then we still have also these other invites.
I was going to ask there is a soul wanting marathon this Saturday in Lawton, Oklahoma with our Oklahoma church.
Is anybody by chance planning on going that?
Ok so we do have the millsteads. I might have you just double check if you can bring some stuff for me to that.
Alright just a double check with me on that one.
I think that's pretty much all I have for announcements this evening.
Let's go ahead and go to our third song.
396 in the hymnal, 396 so little time.
That's 396 so little time.
Great song about soul winning, great reminder for us all.
Not a whole lot of time left to go out and share the gospel so do it while we can.
396
So little time the harvest will be over
Are we being done?
We reapers taken home
Report our work to Jesus Lord of harvest
And hope he'll smile and that he'll say well done
Today we reap or miss our golden harvest
Today has given us all souls to win
Oh then to save some dear ones from the burning
Today we'll go to bring some sinner in
How many times I should have strongly pleaded
How often did I feel to strictly warn
The spirit moved, oh had I pled for Jesus
The grain is fallen, lost ones not reborn
Today we reap or miss our golden harvest
Today has given us all souls to win
Oh then to save some dear ones from the burning
Today we'll go to bring some sinner in
Despite the heat, the ceaseless toll, the hardship
The broken heart or those we cannot win
Misunderstood because we're all peculiar
Still no regrets we'll have but for our sin
Today we reap or miss our golden harvest
Today has given us all souls to win
Oh then to save some dear ones from the burning
Today we'll go to bring some sinner in
A day of pleasure or a feast of friendship
A house or car or garments fair or fame
We'll all be trashed when souls are brought to heaven
And then how sad to face a slacker's blame
Today we reap or miss our golden harvest
Today has given us all souls to win
Oh then to save some dear ones from the burning
Today we'll go to bring some sinner in
The harvest wide with reapers few is wasting
And many souls will die and never know
The love of Christ, the joy of sins forgiven
Oh let us weep and love and pray and go
Today we reap or miss our golden harvest
Today has given us all souls to win
Oh then to save some dear ones from the burning
Today we'll go and bring some sinner in
Deuteronomy chapter 6 will read the whole chapter prior to the sermon
And follow along silently starting in verse number 1 where the Bible reads
In Deuteronomy chapter number 6
Now these are the commandments, the statutes and the judgments
Which the Lord your God commanded to teach you
That ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it
That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God
To keep all his statutes and his commandments
Which I command thee thou and thy son and thy son's son
All the days of thy life and that thy days may be prolonged
Hear therefore O Israel and observe to do it
That it may be well with thee and that ye may increase mightily
As the Lord God of thy fathers has promised thee
In the land that floweth with milk and honey
Hear O Israel the Lord our God is one Lord
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart
And with all thy soul and with all thy might
And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children
And shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house
And when thou walkest by the way
And when thou liest down
And when thou risest up
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand
And they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and on thy gates
And it shall be when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land
Which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob
To give thee great and goodly cities which thou buildest not
And houses full of all good things which thou filest not
And wells digged which thou diggest not
Vineyards and olive trees which thou plantest not
When thou shalt have eaten and be full
Then beware lest thou forget the Lord
Which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and serve him
And shalt swear by his name
Ye shall not go after other gods of the gods of the people which are round about you
For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you
Lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee
And destroy thee from off the face of the earth
Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God
As he tempted him in Massa
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God
And his testimonies and his statutes which he hath commanded thee
And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord
That it may be well with thee
And that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers
To cast out all thine enemies from before thee as the Lord hath spoken
And when thy son asketh thee in time to come saying
What mean the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which the Lord our God hath commanded you
Then thou shalt say unto thy son
We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt
And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand
And the Lord showed signs and wonders great and sore upon Egypt
Upon Pharaoh and upon all his household before our eyes
He brought us out from thence that he might bring us in
To give us the land which he sware unto our fathers
And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes
To fear the Lord our God for our good always
That he might preserve us alive as it is at this day
And it shall be our righteousness if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God
As he hath commanded us
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer
Father we thank you for Deuteronomy chapter 6
And for the man of God I pray that you fill him with your spirit
And enable him to thunder forth the message that you've laid on his heart
Help us to listen and apply the message this evening
And be with us as we go our separate ways after the service
In Jesus name I pray, Amen
Amen
So this evening I want to be preaching on a current event that recently happened
It's a Vivaldi school shooting
And this happened in the state of Texas
I think most people are probably aware
Who's heard of this thing?
Yeah, basically everybody
Okay, so everybody probably has some level of information about what's happened here
And I think there's some lessons that we can take from what happened
And kind of apply the Bible
And really kind of see some important biblical lessons
I think that are evolving around these type of scenarios
These type of situations
Of course, I don't know all the facts about this
I don't think anybody knows the facts about this
Even the governor of Texas came out and said
He basically didn't know all the facts
And gave bad information
And they keep getting updated
And I don't even know if we'll ever know everything that happened
Obviously there's a lot of information to be known
But there's definitely been a lot of reporting about this situation
And I wanted to give a little bit of information about the situation
But on May 24th
There was reported a school shooting in Uvalde at an elementary school
And the person responsible
His name was Salvador Ramos
He was 18 years old
And at 11 a.m. on that day
According to the official story
According to the narrative of what they're saying has happened
Around 11 a.m.
This individual ended up shooting his grandmother
And took her car
And started driving it
Where he then ended up crashing
About two miles away from his house
Near an elementary school
So this happened on May 24th around 11 a.m.
And about 1128
So this is around the time he arrived at the school
Crashes the vehicle
And then he ends up just shooting at random civilians
In the area that kind of noticed a crash
Were coming upon him
Just trying to figure out what's going on
He gets to these individuals
And then they flee and call 911
Additionally I didn't mention this
At 11 a.m. when he shot his grandmother in the face
It said that she still called the police
So the police had been alerted I guess
At about 11 a.m.
Of a gunman of a shooting
He's about two miles away from this original shooting
And he had fired
Two minutes later
So after he had arrived near this elementary school
As an elementary school teacher
Called 911
So at 1130 a.m.
An elementary school teacher
Called said that she saw the crash
And saw him shooting
And coming towards the school
1133
He entered the school
Through a back door
Upon which a teacher had apparently propped open
At 1135
The police arrived
So I guess that's a pretty good response time
35 minutes from the original shooting
I don't understand
You know I think this is like an extremely small town too
So I don't even know what was going on
With this particular situation
But it took them several minutes to get there
1137
So the police have entered the school
There's a guy in the school with a gun
An 18 year old with a rifle
Says at 1137
The gunman fired 16 rounds
And I'm guessing they're in the direction of the police department
At 1143
Rob Elementary and Yuvaldi Police posted on Facebook
That there was an active shooter
And that the school was locked on lockdown
It says at 1144
The police officers
Arrived and were inside
And there was gunfire
And they told people to stay
To stay away
So I guess that was maybe like an official
Statement that they had made
At 1151 more police arrived
So they've been in the school
Since 1135
To about 1151
More police are arriving
At 1154
They have a person named Angel
Or Angel or Angel
Ledezima
He was streaming live video of parents
That had already arrived at the school
And were begging police to enter the school
So we don't know exactly when they showed up
But already at 1154 parents were
Begging for police to go in the school
And stop what's going on
At 1203 pm
More police arrived
A student called
911
And essentially said
That there was a shooter
In their classroom
At 1210 the student called back
And said that more people were dead
At 1213 a student called
The third time
And the police didn't release the statements
At 1215
A border patrol tactical unit arrived
At 1216
Another student called
911
And said that there was more students alive
At 1217
The school announces an active shooter on campus
More onlookers and parents were begging
For the police to go in
And to stop the shooter
Parents were trying to break windows of the school
And get their children out
I have seen video
Of parents being arrested
Tased
And stopped by the police
For trying to enter the school
At 1219
Another student called 911
And
Was hanging up
After a student told them to
Because they were worried about being heard
At 1221 the gunman fired
Again
Three gunshots could be heard
At 1236
Think about it, this is an hour
After cops have already been in the school
And
The gunman
At 1236 another student called
And they told them to just stay on the line
Quietly
At 1243
The gunman shoots at the door
Presumably cops were near the door
At 1246
You can hear on the call
I can hear the police next door
1247
The student is saying please send the police now
At 1250
P.M.
The border patrol killed the gunman
So
Apparently
Someone called the police at 11
A.M. to say that there was an active shooter
And at 1250
The police finally stopped
An 18 year old
With a gun
Now you would say well maybe he's really experienced
Well this happened on May 24th
The 18 year old
Bought the firearm
Sometime between May 16th
And May 20th
He had a max of a week
With the weapons that he had
He had
Purchased a DD M4
B7 and a
Smith & Wesson M&P 15
According to the reports and he took the
DD M4 M7
Into the school
What's kind of interesting about that
Is if you know anything about
Assault or I'm sorry
An AR
If you know anything about an AR-15
A DD M4 is a Daniel of Defense
That's the brand
Of the gun
It's not a cheap gun
Like if you were going to go buy
An AR at the store today
If you were looking for a cheap or an economical
An economic rifle
You'd probably see someone buying like a Bushmaster
Especially if they're poor
Because a Bushmaster is like $500, $600, $700
Still going to be a very
Effective gun
Still works and everything like that
In fact I looked it up
There's like 12
Brands
Of AR-15s that you can purchase
That are around $500, $600, $700
If you were to buy a DD M4
Depending on exactly what specs you got
It's anywhere from $1800 to $2000
And apparently this kid's like a poor kid
That lives with his grandmother
Has no money
But he's just going into stores
Just buying some of the most expensive
AR-15s
They have to offer
In fact he also bought 375 rounds
Of 5.56
That's like another $255
In ammo
Here's some questions I have
Where do you get all the money for all these guns and ammo?
I hope we investigate that
I hope we investigate why it takes
30 minutes for police to find
Someone that shot their
Grandmother
I hope we investigate
Why police are in the school and did nothing
For over an hour
Essentially as far as at least stopping the threat
I mean what's going on
Why is there a door just
Conveniently open for this kid
That he comes in because most schools
Have really strict policies on these types of things
They're not allowed to just open these doors
I really hope that the cops
And the investigators actually
Try to answer some of these questions
But I don't know that it's going to be answered
I don't know what's going to happen
And I'm not going to speculate too too much on that
You can have your own ideas
I would just say this, this is weird
And if you say like, oh this story is just
All about how bad guns are
There's a lot more going on
Than just guns are bad
And I don't know if you realize this
But guns existed before public school
Ever existed
There's never been a time
Where school and guns
Didn't always exist
Simultaneously
Yet it's interesting how throughout history
We didn't just have all these school shootings
I mean people that are older than me
They didn't have all these threats
Of all these school shootings
And all these type of events happening
And people want to blame guns
But how can you blame guns
If you did a scientific experiment
And you said okay well guns always existed
Yeah
But apparently that's not the catalyst
Not guns that are going to
And in fact a gun didn't walk in there by itself
And kill anyone
An 18 year old person went in there
And we don't know all of his reasoning
We do know that pretty much not living
In a father led home
Which I've already preached on this
But mass shooters
There's a really strong connection
Where they have no good father in the home
They either have no father
Or a horrible father
And in this case
Pretty much you know same scenario
You know weird stuff going on
With the family
Students have said that the student would like to cut himself
At times
And say all kinds of weird things
We know in the bible those who cut themselves
Are filled with devils
The demonic spirits
But of course you know when you live
In a secular world they don't want to ever analyze
Anything as being spiritual
Or being under demonic influence
Or anything like that
You have to realize when you take the
Ten Commandments out of public school
When you have public school even in general
And you're just basically trying to become the most godless
Nation ever
That yeah there's going to be bad things that happen
As a result of that
Now
Here's two lessons that I think we can learn from this
Number one
We should remind ourselves
What does the bible say about education for children
Anyway
What is the right way to educate our children
And what should we be doing as far as education
Well in Deuteronomy chapter 6
Where you're here look at verse 6 again
And these words which I command thee this day
Shall be in thine heart and thou shalt teach them
Diligently
Unto thy children and shalt talk of them
When thou sittest in thine house
And when thou walkest by the way
And when thou liest down
Notice that the teaching
Is from the parents
To the children and in every single
Life circumstance
It doesn't have anybody else teaching them in this passage
It doesn't bring up any other scenario
It doesn't bring up some kind of a
Public school system
Or some kind of an education system
Where you're dropping all the kids off to learn these words
The parents are supposed to be teaching
Their children these words
And notice everywhere
When you're at home
You're just at the grocery store
You're shopping
You're going out to the ball park
You're doing whatever you're doing
You're driving
Hey you're teaching them the Bible
You're talking about the Bible
And he says hey
When you all go to bed at night
What kind of bedtime stories
Genesis 19
Judges 19
You're going to teach them about the 42 children
You want to teach them the right kind of Bible stories
My son says that's one of his favorite Bible stories
In the whole Bible
And I say amen
He wrote his own copy of the Bible out
He's practicing and writing
I don't even know
My children are
I don't get it
But they just make books
Is anybody else kids just make books?
I never ask them to make a book
But they'll just come up and be like
Hey here's a book I wrote
And it's all kinds of stories
They just write the Bible
They'll call it Holy Bible
And I'll just look it open
They just copied parts of the Bible
He just copied the story about these 42 children being torn up by
She-bears and I'm thinking
Doesn't my wife teach my children?
I said
I was just like so why did you put that in
Why did you copy that one?
It's one of my favorite stories
I was like amen
Nothing wrong with that
But you go to bed
Hey you're at dinner
You're teaching the Bible
Everywhere you should be teaching them the Bible
You shouldn't expect your children to learn the Bible at church
You should expect them to learn it everywhere
And some parents
They expect the church to teach
Their children the Bible
And then they expect the world to teach them
Every other subject
That there is out there
But again is that biblical
I will submit to you no
There is zero verse that illustrates a public school education
In fact everything the Bible is teaching
Is for parents teaching their children
It says in verse number 8
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand
And they shall be frontless between thine eyes
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thine house
And on thy gates
In fact you should be teaching the Bible so much
It should just be written everywhere
Writing Bible verses on your walls
And writing on your house
And not like these pretentious virtue signaling Jews
You just have this little tiny
What looks like a scroll attached to the door
You can't even tell what that is
You couldn't read anything
The point was that he would actually put the words
So that when you looked at the doorboards
You could actually see the words
You could actually see something like
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
Or daily in the temple
In every house they cease not to teach
And preach Jesus Christ
Trust the Lord with all thine heart
And lean not on thine understanding
These are the type of things that you should put
Where it would be visible
He's not saying just virtue signal by
Going up and just putting this Bible right here
Let's just staple a Bible right here
And let's just staple another one over here
That's not the way you decorate
The way you decorate
Is by putting the actual words up
Like steadfast
That's a good thing to put up there
And we should try to put
Decorations in our lives
That remind us of the word of God
Not anything else
Go if we went to
Deuteronomy 4
Not some kind of false religion
And look I'm not against
Other kinds of decorations
Obviously my house
Has things like hems even
Like it is well with my soul
We'll put that up or something
You can do whatever you want
But part of your decoration according to the Bible
Would be the words of God
Which makes a lot of sense
I'm not saying you have to
But I'm saying that's what the Bible is teaching you
I only want you
To teach them the Bible
I want you to literally write this everywhere
Why? Because it's really important
That we teach our children the Bible
Look at Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 5
Behold I have taught you statutes and judgments
Even as the Lord my God commanded me
He should do so in the land
Whether you go to possess it
Keep therefore and do them
For this is your wisdom and your understanding
In the sight of the nations
Which shall hear all these statutes
And understanding people
Notice when they hear Leviticus 20
They're saying man that makes sense
Okay
Verse 7 for what nation is there so great
Who hath God so nigh unto them
As the Lord our God is
In all things that we call upon him for
You know what signifies
To people that you're close with God
The law of God
He's saying the more you know the laws
Of God the more you know the statutes
And the judgments of God
They say this person is close with God
Whereas today in our culture
You bring up the law and they say
Oh you're so judgmental God told us never to judge
I don't know what God you're talking about
But our God is full of judgment
And our God
In fact if you want to be close to him
You have to know the judgments
People that don't know the judgments
That don't know the law that don't know the statutes
They're not close to God
Those that know them are the ones that are close
And nigh unto God
That has statutes and judgments so righteous
As all this law
Which I set before you
This day
He's saying hey what country is greater than this country
You know
We're going to make America great again
Let's put more of God's laws
Into our laws
That would make a nation great
And you know it's embarrassing
How ungodly our nation is
When it's a supposed Christian nation
Me and brother Ben
We went to Chicago
This week
And we got an interview with
Another fundamental Baptist
Who believes the King James Bible is the word of God
And I think it's going to be a great interview for our film
But what's interesting is on our way back
On our flight back
A young man comes and sits by us
And he's like forced by the flight attendants
You know I don't know
It's interesting nobody ever sits by me
It's like it's a full flight every time
And then just no one sits by me
And he's forced by the flight attendant to move
For like a family or something
And he sits down next to Ben
And he asks him like
Hey something about church I don't know
And the guy just said I'm a Muslim or something
He told him he's a Muslim
Well the flight attendant because they forced him to move
Gave him a free ticket
And I didn't know what it was
It was like a voucher or something
But it was a voucher for free alcohol
And the guy's like
Oh I don't want this I don't drink alcohol
And he's like I'm a Muslim I don't drink alcohol
And I'm thinking like
How can Muslims
Not have a problem admitting like I don't drink alcohol
Because I'm a Muslim
But then Christians
They're afraid to make that known
They're afraid to admit
And you know Muslims they look down upon Christianity today
Because they know what's right and wrong
In a lot of areas
And they see Christians who don't
They think like
Well you guys have a fake religion
And you guys like faggots
And all kinds of weird nonsense that's going on
And it's like to a Muslim
They're thinking like how could your religion be right
You guys are wicked
You guys are evil
You know whereas if they actually looked at real Christianity
And saw okay
Oh yeah Leviticus 2013 that is a good statute
And not drinking alcohol that is a good statute
And they look at fundamental Baptist
Dressing modestly
You know they look at the women of America today
And it justifies the hijab to them
Because they look at the women today
And they're literally like naked walking everywhere
I mean you go anywhere
And it's just women are just so immodest
They're just showing off all the parts of their body today
And to the Muslim he's thinking like
Man these girls are whores
Man these women are wicked today
I mean it wouldn't be hard to convince a Muslim today
That American women are whores
They look like whores today
And you know what
A fundamental Baptist though
Wouldn't look like that
And it might actually cause them to say
Okay well the hijab seems a little crazy
Seems a little bit over the top
Obviously these women
Who are dressing modest
That's not as big a deal
You know it's embarrassing
That our nation is even considered Christian
Even if it is
Because it doesn't look anything like Christ
It has none of the statutes
None of the judgements
You know we should bring that back
And we should be more bold
Than the Muslim
In our faith
We should be more willing to say
Hey I don't drink because I'm a Christian
As opposed to I'm a Muslim
But this is what causes
People to realize
Hey the Lord is a righteous God
And you have the righteous judgements
You're observing his laws
He says in verse number 9
Only take heed to thyself and keep thy soul diligently
Lest thou forget
The things which thine eyes have seen
Apart from thy heart
All the days of thy life
But teach them
Thy sons and thy sons' sons
Especially the day that thou sittest
Before the Lord thy God in horror
When the Lord said unto me
Gather me and the people together
And I will make them hear my words
That they may learn to fear me
All the days that they shall live
Upon the earth
And that they may teach their children
We need Christians to teach
We have a nation
We have a generation
That were not taught by their parents
And they've forgotten the statutes of the Lord
They've forgotten the judgements of the Lord
They don't know the Lord
They are so far from the things of God
And that's why it's so important
That we teach every generation
And every single one of our sons
And not just their sons
Our grandsons
I mean every single generation that you have your fingers on
You need to be teaching them the word of God
And you know what?
Grandparents often spoil their children
They should do the exact opposite
They should be teaching them the commandments of God
We need a generation to rise up
That's going to say
I'm going to teach all of my children
Grandchildren, nieces, nephews, uncles
Everybody is going to learn the Bible
And for them to fear Grandpa
Instead of getting spoiled by Grandpa
It should be that if you give your kids to Grandpa
They come back better, not worse
It used to be the case
But it's a shame today
You give the kids to Grandma and Grandpa
And they come back like spoiled little brats
They come back on a sugar high
And all they did was watch TV
Because Grandpa and Grandpa don't know what's going on
And they don't care
And they don't have the energy or something to watch the kids
You know what?
That's a shame
And that's an embarrassment
You know what?
The older generation should take on that
The older generation should take on that responsibility
And to teach their children
And grandchildren how to behave
Go to Titus chapter number 2
So far
What are we learning though?
This is what we're learning
That public school system is not shown here in the Bible
We're seeing a parent
Taught children
We're seeing grandparent taught children
We're not seeing
Just some random person in the society
And why would I want
A random person
In our county
To teach my children
I don't even know if this person is saved
I don't even know if this person is a Christian
You know the Bible says that we're supposed to separate ourselves
Wherefore come out from among them and be separate
Sayeth the Lord
How am I being separate
When I literally send my kids
To be with an unsaved person
More than me
Because the public school system
Is 8, 9, 10 hours a day
I mean that's way more time
Than most dads are spending with their children
So you're going to literally send
Your child to go and learn
The instruction of the heathen
For 8, 9, 10 hours a day
And then you're going to go to church
And read verses like
Oh come out from among them and be separate
You know a lot of fundamental Baptist
At least they get that point
But then instead of that
Instead of like
They just do their own private school
Where they grab some woman
In the church or they grab some of the ladies
In the church and they are the teachers
And they start building a school
Start having this private school
And everything like that
But again just because someone comes to our church
Doesn't make them a Godly person
And many times even these schools
Will really stretch limits
To bring in teachers
Because it's hard to fill those roles and those positions
And they let a lot of people in
They're teaching these types of things
And the only person that really loves your children
The way that you do
Is you
Look at what it says in Titus chapter 2
Look at verse 1
So he's telling a pastor
He's telling a preacher
Hey preach things that are sound doctrine
Here's a sound doctrine verse 3
The aged women likewise
That they may behavior as become of holiness
Not false accusers
Not given to much wine
To teach women to be sober
To love their husbands
To love their children
You know we need the older women to teach the younger women to love children
And here's a good way to love them
Says in verse 5 to be discreet
Chase keepers at home
Women should be keepers at home
And you say well what are they going to be doing at home all day?
Teaching the children
You know of course it wouldn't make sense
For a woman to just go and stare at the wall
For 8 hours a day
While their children are at the public school system
Okay yeah I get that
You know what that's because she's supposed to be teaching them
She's supposed to be the keeper at home
Raising the children
And of course
You know while I teach what the Bible says
That doesn't mean that every single person
Is always going to be
You know meeting all this criterion
I was raised in a public school system
Some kids in our church are going to go to public school
Some people are not going to be in an ideal situation
And of course my
Hope
My hope is that people if they have an opportunity
To make a change that they will make this change
If they can't
But if you can't you know what
Who in here was home schooled
I just want to know like of the adults
Who was home schooled
Almost like 4 people okay
So that tells you that almost everybody
We were the exception though to the public school system
Alright
Praise God that there was some exception
I'm not saying that you can't come out of it
You know what you come out of it a little scarred
You come out of it a little damaged
You come out of it with some thoughts
And images
And words
And songs and outfits
And all kinds of stuff
Some hair colors
Some hairstyles
I mean the MC hammer pants
I mean I don't know what it is you came out there with
But you got some issues
And we all can recognize hey
I think if my parents had just kept me at home
They probably would have shielded me from some stuff
That I got into
Some decisions and some friends that I had
That I wish I hadn't
And so look
Home schooling while
Could sound weird
Always going to be superior
And I couldn't tell of the home school people
Maybe some of you know
It's
Even if they are weirder
I'd rather my kids be weird
And innocent
Than cool
And know all the stuff that the public school kids know
And be doing
All the stuff that the public school kids are doing
There's a lot of wickedness
In that arena and you know
We need to encourage
Mothers to be keepers at home to raise their children
You know as long
As you got children in the home
I think you should be there with them
Keeping that home
Go to Lamentations chapter number 4
Lamentations chapter 4 and if you have a wife
That's willing to teach your children at home
You need to raise that woman
And I'll tell you this
You know it's not easy
It's not like raising kids is easy
Ask this question like
Why does public school exist
Because it's hard
It's not
Going and working in a secular job
As far as if you're just going to go
What do women typically do
Whenever they don't
Home school or something like that
If they go get a career
Maybe they're a secretary
Or maybe they're a marketing person
Or maybe they're a manager or whatever
That's going to probably be easier
From a mental perspective
Because dealing with children is hard
You know raising children, teaching children to read
Is going to be one of the most frustrating things
On the planet
And some children learn better than others
And I'm not going to name any names for myself
But some of our children are easier
To teach than others
And the ones that are hard
It's really frustrating
Like I have to say
Of all the tasks I've ever done in my life
It's up there
It's like one of the most frustrating things ever
And maybe I don't have a lot of patience
I don't know
But I'm just saying like I think it's a very difficult task
And if you were to say hey Pastor Shelley
Do you think it's easier to stay home
With all those kids and raise them
And like teach them school
Or like come to work and deal with all your issues
And I'm like my job is way easier
And people often look at me like
Oh your job is so hard
You got all these issues
You got all these haters
I do but it's so much easier
I mean I'd rather deal with a terrorist
Without than the terrorist within
And I'm telling you
It's real
But it's a very necessary job
You know you need a person in there
And women are tough
Women can deal with a lot
They have the ability to multitask
A lot better than I do
And so you know
God made them for this role
God gave them this ability
To manage you know this household
And I think it's important that women embrace
That role and do this
Look at what it says in Lamentations chapter 4 verse 3
It says
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast
They give suck to the young ones
The daughter of my people has become cruel
Like the ostriches
In the wilderness
Cleaveth at the roof of his mouth for thirst
Young children ask bread
And no man breaketh it unto them
Now in this passage Lamentations is about
The destruction of Jerusalem
And the prophet
Jeremiah is lamenting
Over the destruction
That's why it's called Lamentations
Lament is to be sorrowful
Sad
He has all these emotions tied
Because he doesn't like the destruction of his people
You know when I look at America I just feel sad
I feel sad that our country
Is just destroying itself
Is just ruining itself
And that women are ruining themselves
And destroying themselves by
Not deciding to have children
You know they're taking drugs to destroy
Their uterus
And they're literally destroying their children
Through abortion
And destroying their children through birth control
And they're you know
Taking these drugs causes breast cancer
Causes all kinds of other
Evils and all kinds of other
Problems
Because women take birth control
It also destroys their drive
To be with their husband in the bedroom
It's like one of the side effects
Is that it basically causes you to not even
Want to have that type of relationship
And because all these women aren't wanting
To have that relationship
It's causing more marriage problems
And it's causing all kinds of issues
And because they're messing with all their hormones
I mean women
All those hormones lined up right
You know what I'm talking about
And when you're taking all these drugs
I mean you're getting it even weirder
You're messing these things up
And you're causing all these types of problems
And because their hormones are changing
It causes their affections to change
And one of their affections
Is even just towards children in general
You know
Little girls
You don't even have to tell them anything
You know what they love playing with?
Little dolls
They love playing mommy
They love playing all of these
I mean they just want to be moms from like day one
And they just love the idea of children
It's our society and the hormones
And all this other junk that has to come in
And warp their mind
And brainwash them
And get them to where they don't love their children anymore
Because it's a natural affection
To love children
And for women to want to have children
And here in this passage
The fact that it's like animals
Seem to be better mothers
Than the women here in Jerusalem
He's saying look even sea monsters
Grow out the breast
And they get stuck with the young ones
But he's like but the women here
They're literally forsaking their own children
Now
Let's give a context so we understand this
Go over to Job 39
But in
Jerusalem
The women have become so hardened against their young ones
That they have roiled their own children and ate them
So because they're starving
Because they have no nourishment for themselves
They
You know in this kind of metaphor seemingly
They're not feeding their children
Because they just have no nourishment
Because like even the animals
Would like basically feed their children
These women they're not even feeding their children
They're not even taking care of them
They basically are more in concern
With them than they are their children
Which is actually against
Nature
Women by nature
Naturally care about their children more than themselves
They love their children more
And they would willingly hurt themselves
Or cause a detriment to themselves
Rather than to their children
Whereas it's showing
This group of people have gotten to a point
Where they care about themselves way more
Than children and you know that reminds me
Of America
Where it seems like there are so many women
In America that
Way easily sacrifice their child
Over themselves
They care so much more about themselves
Than their children
And you know even in the most grotesque
Ways they care more about their own career
Than they do children right
They would rather just rip their children
Into parts and suck them
Through a vacuum
Just so they can have their career
Just so they can have their dreams
Just so they can have their big house or whatever
They can have their vacations
They can have their shopping spree
Or they can have that purse
That matches every outfit
God forbid you would have to have
A purse that goes with like 4 or 5 outfits
God forbid
You would actually have to have
A 4th bedroom
Rather than a workout room
Or a movie theater room
Or God forbid
You would actually have to go to the park
As your vacation
Then get to go to
Can Can or you know wherever
Right I mean that's
I mean that's literally what women are choosing
And I hear it
I hear it without even trying
I remember being on elevators
And I just women will get on the elevator
And they're just talking it up
Because women like to talk apparently
And they're just like man I don't want another child
They're so awful
They're going to tie me down
I don't like being around them
I couldn't even imagine staying home with my child
Like it's so hard
It's so difficult
Like I have to get away from them
And it's just a weird
Culture that we live in
And look every woman
Has moments where she wants to get away from her children
Okay I'm not trying to get down on you
Typically my wife is kind of the type of opinion
Where she's just like I want to break with my children
I want to break with my children
And as soon as she gets it she's like I want to be with my children
I can't win for losing I guess right
Because you know you have that just strong desire
To be with them and you love them
And look we all need a break
Women don't get enough breaks
We get that
But you know what they're built to be resilient
I have to get way more breaks right
But Job chapter 39 look at verse 13
The Bible says this
Gave us thou the goodly wings under the peacocks
Or wings and feathers under the ostrich
Which leaveth their eggs in the earth
And warmeth them in the dust
Forget it that the foot may crush them
Or that the wild beast may break them
She is hardened against her young ones
As though they were not hers
Her labor is in vain
Without fear
Because God has deprived her of wisdom
Neither have they imparted her understanding
You know what this makes me think of American women today
Taking their children and just dropping them off
At the public school system
Not realizing that the foot may crush them
Not realizing that the wild beast may come and destroy them
Why? Because she's hardened against them
She's not worried for them
She doesn't have any kind of concern
I mean who looks at our government today
And thinks like oh man they're a really safe place to be
You know that's a really great group of people
That can really take well
Good care of my children
A bunch of government officials
A bunch of government servants
A bunch of government workers
You know this is in my opinion
Almost the worst people you could hand your children to
Maybe like a fault
Maybe like a false religion
Would be like above that
But I mean if you're just talking about like
Who should I not give my children to
The government's got to be up there
Yeah isn't that what public school is
I mean it's just run by the government
You're literally letting Joe Biden
And Kamala Harris
Decide how to take care of your children
I mean this makes no sense
It only makes sense if you just don't really care about your children at all
And you've become hardened against them to the point where
Well whatever happens happens
And you know you can see this
There are certain areas where you'll go to apartment complexes
And certain apartment complexes
They literally let their kids just run everywhere
I mean you're just looking outside
Just like two year olds
Four year olds just running everywhere
And you're just thinking like
What are you doing
Dodging cars and whatever
And it's just like
They just not care
That's the answer
They really don't care
Children to them are a burden
And they're not really willing to kill the child themselves
But if it happened well whatever
You know if I lose a few eggs here and there
I mean this is the type of
Situation that we live in
You know what where are the parents is a good question
Where in the Bible teach
Like hey just drop your kids off some random place
And then come back with them
You know my kids don't know about public school
They don't know about public school
We'll go to 2 Kings chapter 2 for a moment
They don't know what public school is
Or how these things work
They love the idea of a school bus
That's really cool to them
And they think everything is a school bus
You know when we go to the
When we go to an airport
They're like we get to ride the school bus
Because you know you park your car and you ride the shuttle
And it's like it's the school bus
And they think it's awesome
I remember explaining the concept to Clayton
Recently it's just like yeah you know
Some people they just take their kids and they just drop them off
With a random teacher and they're there all day
No mom or dad
Like would you want to do that?
No
Why would they want to do that?
He's like that doesn't sound like fun
He wants to be with mom
He wants to be with mom more than me
And I get it you know the kids like mom
More than me right now and that's fine
I like that
But they want to be where mom is
And that's natural
It's not natural just leave your kids some random place
And when kids are by themselves
Bad things happen
Look what it says in 2 Kings chapter 2
Verse 23
This is what I always think
Where are the parents?
Look at this little children
They're literally roaming out of the city
That's not going to do anything good
And you know you don't mock
The bald headed guys
You know be careful
Be nice to brother Jason
Alright
And he turned back and he looked on them
And cursed them in the name of the Lord
And there came forth two she bears out of the wood
And tear 40 and 2 children of them
Here's another thing
Don't mock the man of God
You know what you just let kids on their own
They'll just do anything say anything
Look little children are foolish
You know
The Bible makes it clear that foolishness
Is in the heart of a child
It's bound in the heart of a child
You know the rod of correction shall drive it far from it
But it doesn't say like
Oh every child starts out good
It says every child starts out terrible
That's why raising kids is hard
And you thought it was going to be
Look you have to drive the foolishness
Out of your children
Let me tell you something
You say why do my kids not behave
Because you haven't driven any foolishness out of them
That's why
If you want your children to behave
If you want them to be well instructed
You have to drive that foolishness out of them
On a regular basis
Go to Proverbs chapter 14
Not let the public schools do it
And you know they don't do it anyways
They used to actually in public school
They used to spank
And again
I don't want a stranger spanking my children
But it's better than nothing
And you know
Public school systems are so screwed up
I don't want to talk about their policies
Because all their policies suck
Why don't we stop paying property taxes
And giving it to these public school systems
And just fund all of them
Okay
That is stupid
I don't believe in the public school system
It doesn't produce
High quality results
It's just a glorified babysitter
So mom and dad can just go do whatever they want
It's not right
Proverbs chapter 14 verse 1
Every wise woman builds her house
But the foolish pluck it down with her hands
You know another weird thing about public school
If you think about it
Is why do you get the summer off
I don't even understand it
Like it basically just
Treats you to be lazy for a few months every year
Because in real life
I don't get a summer off
I mean what job
Just gets a summer off
No one gets, you know other countries
They don't have this idea of just like
Oh we just get the summer off
Or something like that
That's why even with our homeschooling
You know while we do take some breaks in the summer
You know we still want to keep teaching them stuff
Because we don't want to create a lazy
Attitude in our children or a habit
Where they just get used to just taking these
Giant chunks of time off doing nothing
Just using your children
Nothing good
You know they can still work
They can still do tasks
They can still learn things
Even when it's hot outside
Okay makes more sense anyways
So if you went to Exodus chapter 22
Exodus chapter 22
So here's the thing point one
And this is the main chunk of my sermon this evening
Is this we need to teach our children
Not let someone else do it
And here's the thing
We suffered from this school shooting
But you know there could be a day
Where even a homeschooler
Suffered from something like this
If the parents weren't armed
And we need to defend ourselves
And we need to eliminate gun free zones
You know where I believe there should be a gun free zone?
Nowhere
I mean I've worked with people
And I think if their gun was waterproof
They would shower with it
But I'm thinking like that's fine
Okay
There's nothing wrong with having a weapon
On you or near you at all times
It makes logical sense
Gun free zones
Bad things happen
Because you know what happens in a gun free zone
Guns still enter
Into your magic invisible wall
It's interesting that
People are dying from guns in gun free zones
It doesn't seem like it stopped it
Okay
You know what stops guns from killing people?
Armed security
You know
It's really hard to kill people like the president
You know why?
Not because he has a bunch of gun free zones surrounding him
Because he has a bunch of armed people with guns surrounding him
And hey
You know what's a really well protected church?
Not a gun free church
A church where everybody's carrying
Okay
Because if you tried to come in it's a suicide mission
Literally
I don't even think you'll get in
Because not only do you have a bunch of people carrying
You have God defending us on top of that
But you know what
God is a practical God
God doesn't want you
To just walk around
Just like a willy nilly
And just asking to get hurt
And just say
Oh God will protect me
God wants us to be practical
God wants us to be smart
It's like locking your doors
Hiding valuables out of plain sight
You shouldn't just put a kick me sign on your back
And walk around
And you certainly shouldn't advertise
You know
Guns are yucky or something like that
You want to say the exact opposite at your house
You know like the ones where it's like
We shoot first and ask questions later
You know
And praise God we live in a state where there's still castle doctrine here
Let me tell you something
You need to defend yourself
Stay away from gun free zones
You know it's a gun free zone
Every public school
Virtually
I think in some cases teachers have been allowed to carry
But they should bring
They should allow every teacher to carry
And have armed police officers there
As long as you're going to have public school
I mean I strongly disagree with it obviously
But as long as you're going to have it
You should have as many people carrying guns as possible
And you should have cops there that are willing to actually
Shoot someone there
Now look at Exodus chapter 22
Look at verse 2
If a thief be found breaking up
And be smitten that he die
There shall no blood be shed for him
The Bible didn't say hey
If you catch somebody stealing from you
Just let it happen
Reparations
No
You defend yourself
And you know you should defend your family
And you know if someone breaks through your house at night
As a man
You are obligated to defend your family
Don't be a coward
Don't be a weakling
And if you say I'm not that strong
Well get a strong gun
Okay get a big gun
This is how much strength it takes to defend your family
I mean
Can you do that one?
I mean that one's pretty easy
Okay
And you need it and I need it and we all need it
From all kinds of danger
Not just from Fido
Not just from Kujo or whatever
If you go to Matthew chapter 24
You need it from other kinds of dogs too
You don't know what these rabid beasts might try
Have you ever read Genesis chapter 19?
And you say why do you need an AR?
15
Have you ever read Genesis 19?
It was every person in the entire city
And at the rate we're going
With these stupid pride parades
And all these faggot
Queer bait leaders
In our city
It's not going to decrease anytime soon
All these people from California moving here
Trying to bring in their liberalism
And queer bait voting policies
In here
Trying to encourage people
I've seen videos and they're asking people
Would you end racism or homophobia?
And they're like they can't even decide
Man's rights are so important
I mean how are people
How do people even think that's real?
A dude wearing a dress
Is important in America?
I mean I don't know what
Where we're going
I don't know how far we're going to fall
But obviously God has given our
Nation a spirit of slumber
And it's filled with idiots
It's filled with complete moronic
People today
And we need to defend ourselves from idiots
That's why I don't get in cars with flat earthers
You have to defend yourself
Matthew 24 look at verse 43
But know this
That if the good men of the house had known
And watched the thief would come
He would have watched
And would not have suffered his house to be broken up
Notice that the good men of the house
This is Jesus giving the parable
He's saying hey if you were the good men of the house
You wouldn't let your house get broken up
And you know what? Men need to defend their houses today
Physically and spiritually
And in every way
And you know what? The public school system
Is not the way to defend your children
You're literally handing them to the
Mental wolves
And it might even be physical wolves
As evidenced by what happened recently
And who knows?
The sky's the limit
I think if Democrats had their way
They would want hundreds of school shootings to happen
Because they want to disarm our country
You know what?
Guns didn't cause the problem
Guns have always existed
In fact I think Daniel Defense
They're under all this heat
You know they sold like 50,000
AR-15s in 2020
That was a lot of them that didn't kill anybody
I mean
You want to get mad at the one that did
Even though it didn't do it by itself
Okay
But how about the 50,000 that didn't?
And how many people
Are being killed by law abiding citizens?
I mean
How many law abiding citizens
Are going around killing people?
This guy's a criminal
Walking into a school killing
He's a murderer already
He was a murderer before he ever shot a child
And you're really precious
You know police officers
Who can save in two hours
I mean how many of y'all are excited
About the fact that if you call cops
With an active shooter it might be two hours
And that's in the case that there's
Children at risk
You know
Don't tell them you're from steadfast or something
They may come slower
Okay
I mean if you tell them it's a school shooting
It takes two hours
I mean man
What if it's a drug dealer?
They're not even coming
They weren't coming
But there's plenty of areas in America
Where if you're in the wrong part of Chicago
They're not coming
You call them the wrong place in Portland
They're not coming
They'll literally let Antifa
Just assault and shoot
And do all kinds of manner of evil to people
In front of their eyes and do nothing
And you know police officers
Have no obligation
Legally to get involved
They can save their own neck if they want
Obviously they're a coward
And we understand that they're a coward
But what I'm telling you is that
Cops, while I'm all for calling them
When there's a problem and we need to
You should never ever
Depend on them as your only source
Of safety
They're just there
To file the right report or something
They're there
To clean up the mess I guess
But if you're waiting for them
To clean up the mess
They're going to clean up your mess
They're going to clean up you
Because criminals aren't waiting
And criminals know that the police
Response times are getting worse and worse
Because now
The police are more concerned with having
An LGBT liaison officer
In the city of Arlington
They have a police officer
Dedicated
To ensuring that the LGBT
Feels safe
I mean
What kind of world do we live in
Where a couple decades ago the police
Are arresting these freaks
And now they have a police officer
Dedicated to making sure that they feel
Comfortable and safe and whatever
They're taken care of
I mean where's the Baptist
Police officer
Why do they get their own
Police officer
I'll give you one guess if it's a male or a female
She isn't going to protect
Anybody anyways
Okay
I mean this is bizarre the world
Is heaven
And the cops keep getting more
Feminine
I'm just saying they keep hiring more women
And more ladies
And look if you think the guys are cowards
Just wait until there's an active shooter with a bunch of ladies
There to
Basically decide what to do
They're not
And again
You have a problem and a lady cop shows up
Are you really going to be like
Let's let her deal with the situation
What kind of man is waiting for a woman to save him
In any situation
This is bizarre
A bunch of men that aren't really men
The LGBTQ right
Did you go to Proverbs 7 I want to make sure
I can't remember where I told you to go
Or where did you go
Matthew 24 okay
Go to John 10
I'm going to wrap up this sermon right
There's too many good things to say but
What can we learn from this
Don't hand your kids off to the wolves
And think that
It's going to go well with them
And you know I feel bad for all of these parents that lost children
I'm not here to try and condemn the parents
But I am saying this
You should learn from your mistakes
If you have more than one kid
If these parents that lost a child
Have another student
They should say I'm not going to take them back to that school
The parents that didn't
Lose a student
Are screaming for the cops to do something
And got tased and arrested for trying to protect
Their own children I mean think about this
Your child is in a burning building and the fireman
Won't even let you go in and rescue your own child
I mean why is that I mean it's like this doesn't even make sense
You're literally being restrained
From the people
That are providing the safety
This is foolishness
Hopefully those parents will say you know what homeschooling
Sounds really good about right now
And realizing that evil people exist
You know I think that the Democrats
Don't want to they want to tell you
Everyone's good the guns are bad
Let me tell you something there's bad people
Guns are neutral
And it's interesting how there's
Literally just so many guns
I mean there's like 300 million guns in our country
People aren't dying
Every second from these guns
The guns didn't go rogue not terminator
They're not going to turn on or something
Be safe
I don't know about the Teslas
They're a little scarier
I don't know about your phone
But the guns are okay right now
When they started putting chips in those
It's like whenever they put a chip in anything
It's ruined right
In your computer in your cell phone
In your hand
Chips always make things go bad
But you know
These cops should all be fired
And investigated seriously
I don't know what happened
I personally don't believe
That they're all cowards
Because I just I don't think that
Any police officer
Very few police officers
Would truly make
These horrible decisions
I think something weird going on
Personally okay
But let's just say that they did
Let's just say that everything they said was right
Just for the sake of argument
Well then they're a bunch of hirelings anyways
Look at John chapter 10 verse 10
The thief cometh not but for to steal
And to kill and to destroy
I am come that they might have life
And they might have it more abundantly
I am the good shepherd, the good shepherd
Given his life for the sheep
But he that is an hireling
Not the shepherd
Whose own the sheep are not
Seeth the wolf coming
Leaveth the sheep and fleeth
A hireling and careth not for the sheep
You know police don't care about you
They are hirelings at the end of the day
And you know I'm not saying
Every cop's a bad guy because I think
There's a lot of cops that have
Sincere intentions
That have
You know a desire to protect and serve
But at the end of the day you have to
Admit he's just the hireling
You know most cops aren't doing it pro bono
They're getting paid
They have a pension
That's why they're still pleasing right now
It's hard to switch
Careers when you're a cop your whole life
Because who's going to hire you to do anything else
And
You know when it comes down to the line
Of their life or your life
Many times
Human nature kicks in
And instinct kicks in and they're just going to be afraid
And they're not going to you know stick their neck out
I mean
Think about Peter
Peter thinks that he would die for Christ
But then when the moment comes
And a little girl is saying
Do you know Christ?
It's like no
You know the Bible teaches that very few people
Would be willing to die
You know in Romans chapter number 5
Talking about how Christ died for us
Even for a good man some would dare to die
It's like yeah there are some brave people out there
You know and I've heard cool stories
I've heard stories of men in the military
You know they're in a tank
Some enemy throws a grenade down
Into the tank hole
And a guy just like dives on the grenade
And swallows it up in his body
So that the rest of the men in the tank survive
You know that's a bold move
That was a courageous move
For someone to basically just take their life out
You know there have been men in the battlefield
There have been men in the police academy
There have been firefighters
There have been EMS
There have been all kinds of men that have died in the line of duty
But let me tell you something
They're the exception
Most of these people are cowards
And they're hirelings
And when push comes to sub
They're not going to be willing to die for you
That's why we need to defend ourselves
And you know what the government
And the police and the public school
Will certainly not defend you
From the spiritual dogs that exist today
As evidenced by coming to our church anytime
They don't care
They're not going to protect them from predators
You know what you as the man of the house
They're going to protect their family from spiritual predators
And from false information
And from lies
And all the deceit and the evil that's going out there
And you know while
If you don't put your kid in public school
You still need to realize you need to teach and train them
And you need to defend them
You need to raise your children
As if they're surrounded by wolves
They are
This world is a dangerous place
The bible says perilous times are going to come
Before the coming of Christ
It's not going to get better
It's waxing worse by the minute
Waxing worse every single day
That we live in this country
And we need to learn how to defend ourselves
We need to teach and train our children
To be smart
And they're going to be like Daniel
Ten times wiser than the public school system
And even if your kids go to public school
You know what by you taking them to church
And teaching them the bible and these things
They can still overcome those obstacles
Because even Daniel learned the wisdom of the Chaldeans
But he's still ten times better than them because he learned the bible
He learned the word of God
And we need to do so
We need to teach our children so
Let's close in prayer
Thank you Heavenly Father for the children that you bless us with
Thank you for the opportunities that you've given us
I pray that we wouldn't take them for granted
We wouldn't be like the ostrich
That's hardened against our children
We wouldn't just consider children a burden
But rather we'd consider them a blessing
That we'd devote our lives to our children
That we'd teach and train our children
We'd love them
I pray that we would take on the difficult task
The responsibility
Of defending them
Defending them from predators
Defending them from physical predators
That men in this room would have courage and boldness
To stand up against the evils of this day
That by our boldness and our courage
We could inspire other men and women
To defend their children
To protect their children from the predators
From the evil that's out there in this world
And we understand that we can't do it on our own
We need you to help us
I pray that we would do our part
And we would lean and trust the Lord
For you to do your part
And that you would just protect and guard our children
As we teach them and train them in the words of the Lord
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen
Amen, with that let's go ahead and sing one more song
Before you head home
You'll take out your hymnal there to 210
210
Wonderful grace of Jesus
Song 210
210
Wonderful grace of Jesus
All together
Wonderful grace of Jesus
Greater than all my sin
How shall my tongue describe it
Where shall its praise begin
Taking away my burden
Setting my spirit free
For the wonderful grace of Jesus
Reaches me
Wonderful the matchless grace of Jesus
Deeper than the mighty rolling sea
Higher than the mountains
Sparkling like a fountain
All sufficient grace for even me
Broader than the scope of my transgressions
Greater for than all my sin and shame
O magnify the precious name of Jesus
In Jesus' name
Wonderful grace of Jesus
Reaching to all the lost
By it I have been pardoned
Saved to the uttermost
Chains have been torn asunder
Giving me liberty
For the wonderful grace of Jesus
Reaches me
Wonderful the matchless grace of Jesus
Deeper than the mighty rolling sea
Higher than the mountains
Sparkling like a fountain
All sufficient grace for even me
Broader than the scope of my transgressions
Greater for than all my sin and shame
O magnify the precious name of Jesus
Praise His name
Wonderful grace of Jesus
Reaching the most deviled
By its transforming power
Making Him God's dear child
Purchasing peace and heaven
For all eternity
And the wonderful grace of Jesus
Reaches me
Wonderful the matchless grace of Jesus
Deeper than the mighty rolling sea
Higher than the mountains
Sparkling like a fountain
All sufficient grace for even me
Broader than the scope of my transgressions
Greater for than all my sin and shame
O magnify the precious name of Jesus
Praise His name
Hope you all have a wonderful night. God bless.