Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Faithful Word Baptist Church.
If you would, please find your seats.
We'll begin our service this evening.
When you find your seat, grab a hymnal and turn to song number 162.
To God be the glory.
Song number 162.
To God be the glory.
Great things he had done.
Song number 162.
Sing it out on the church.
The glory great things he had done
So about the old world that he gave us his son
Cheers!
You
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day.
Thank you for the opportunity to be here at church this evening.
Please feel past your Shelly with your Holy Spirit
and help them to preach boldly unto us.
And it's in Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Amen.
All right, turn in your hymnals next to song number 125.
Song number 125, The Solid Rock.
My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood
and righteousness.
The sweetest rain, but holy rain, on Jesus' name, on Christ the soul.
the bulletin so if you need a bulletin please raise your hand and the arches will bring
you a bulletin as soon as they can. If you have a bulletin go ahead and open it up on
the left hand side is our service times and our soul winning times as well as the salvations
and baptisms.
for the year.
And in case you don't know, Pastor Shelley is here tonight.
Why?
Because in case you didn't read the bulletin last Sunday night,
he is preaching for us today.
As Pastor Anderson is on another mission's trip
for the week, just reconning and getting people saved.
Amen.
And once again, for those that participated in the February
Online Soul Winning Marathon, thank you to everyone
that took part in that.
And we had eight soul winners and 59 salvations.
A reminder to the parents, please supervise your children
before, during and after church service.
To ensure and respect of everyone,
please remind your little ones to not run rough house
within the church buildings.
And the mother baby rooms are not to be used on supervised.
And thank you much.
And in case you don't know, every week
we have many donations of food and other items
that are available free for the taking on the tables
near the fellowship area.
There's also lost and found over there.
And please continue to pray for the respective ladies.
Upcoming events are right there.
Take a look at those when you get a chance.
And now let's go over to the so many for the week.
So if you've got somebody safe on Monday,
go ahead and raise your hand and give me
the number of salvations starting on this side.
Any salvations for Monday?
Is that four?
And the other salvations for Monday, Tuesday.
Salvation for Tuesday, I got three right here.
We got one over here.
And going once, going twice.
Is that three?
Three in the back.
And the other salvations.
And today.
And the salvations.
Is that one?
One back there.
And the other salvations.
Is that two?
Got two.
Any of the salvation's go once going twice Pastor Shelly. Where you hiding?
There you are. You're leading us in the next song, correct?
Alright, if you need a song sheet, we got a big eight and a half by eleven piece of paper for you
Which is the song sheet that you will need for the song to we're about to sing that's going to be led by Pastor Shelly
I wanted to sing this hymn. It's something I wrote. It's just kind of about soul winning and with all of the
Cruise missions that you guys have been leading on it just kind of inspired me to want to sing this song with you guys tonight
And so I'm gonna be singing the first verse just to give you a taste and then we'll restart and we can sing the first verse together
and go down
I also wanted to mention our group our church was inspired by you guys doing a lot of cruise missions to have our own cruise missions trip
And so we sent four people from our church out on a cruise mission this week
And they have they're going to Nassau Bahamas
St. Thomas and st. John and so far
They ended up having
95 salvations in Bahamas, nine salvations on the boat,
and another 42 in St. Thomas.
So they've had 146 salvations, just four people in this week.
So praise the Lord on that.
And yeah.
Things like that would just never happen without you guys. You guys are really
inspirational and innovative and so that really inspires me
But we're gonna be singing this new hymn that I wrote it's called where the spirit blows
One little thing that we like to do at our church and the kids get really into this
Okay, so you kids have to pay attention, but at the very end it says we will go
but instead of just singing it,
you gotta give me a loud shout for the go.
So it's gonna be, we will go,
and you gotta just really shout it, okay?
And you can lift up your hand, you can get excited,
this is okay, you can get excited in church, right?
We're not going full Pentecostal or anything,
we're just getting a little bit excited, all right?
And so, I'm gonna sing this first verse,
just to give you a taste so you can kinda learn it
a little bit, and then when we go back,
we're gonna sing that first verse together.
Jesus told me overland and sea, red, black, and white, sweet and inside, where the spirit
blows, we will go, go, go, go, where the spirit blows, we will go!
Alright, you ready?
Let's do it on the first.
Brother Alex going to lead the next song.
All right, next, if you would,
turn in your hymnals to song number 314.
Song number 314, more love to thee.
Song number 314.
You
to me, more love to me, more love to me.
And everybody, great singing.
All right, it's this time we're going to pass the offering plates.
And they have the offering plates of being passed around.
Please turn your Bibles to the Book of Jude.
the general epistle of Jude,
Jude the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called
mercy unto you in peace and love be multiplied
Beloved when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation
It was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith
Which was once delivered under the saints
For there are certain men, crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation,
ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God
in our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this,
how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,
which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation,
he hath reserved an everlasting chains under darkness, under the judgment
of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah
and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over into
fornication
and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example suffering the
vengeance
of eternal fire.
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses,
durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said the Lord rebuked thee.
But these speak evil of those things, which they know not, but what they know, naturally,
as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves, woe unto them, for they have gone
in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished
in the gain-saying of Corrie."
These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves
without fear, clouds they are without water, carried about of winds, trees whose fruit
withereth without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots.
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame,
Wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these saying,
Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly
Among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed,
And of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts, and their mouths speak with great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
But beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the spirit.
But ye beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith,
praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God,
looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ under eternal life.
And of some having compassion, making a difference.
And others, save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Now, unto him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before
the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God, our Savior, be glory
in majesty, dominion in power, both now and ever.
Dear Father of Heaven, please fill past their shell with your spirit.
Please give us all ears to hear, to receive wisdom and understanding from the sermon.
Amen, I want to say thank you very much to Pastor Anderson for having me out here and
to see you guys and a lot of familiar faces out there and I really love you guys and I
love this church so much and so it's a great honor and privilege to be back here with you
guys.
I do want to say I appreciate how many people have taken some of the advice they gave in
the past about going to Bahamas seriously because it really is soul winning made easy
our church is actually hosting this year.
in October, October 6th through the 11th,
a Bahamas missions trip.
So if you wanna just go direct to the Bahamas,
that is a trip that our churches are gonna be doing.
And of course, you can email us
if you're planning on attending.
And we can try to help you with the schedule
and the itinerary and everything like that.
But the Bahamas is a great place to go soul-winning.
Also, at the end of August, August 28th through the 31st,
our church is gonna be having our Fire Breathing Baptist
and your pastor, Pastor Steven Anderson,
is gonna be out there preaching for us as well as many others.
I haven't really made a huge announcement about that yet,
but I'm just giving you guys, since I've been,
since I'm here in the flesh,
giving you that kind of a tip, all right?
So if you're interested in ever coming out to Texas,
you know, the Promised Land's not that far away, okay?
So you can always come out there and see me.
But no, I'm just making a joke, of course.
I love Phoenix.
I love being out here with Faith Ward Baptist Church,
and it's great to see you guys again.
This evening I want to preach a sermon here based on verse 11.
And we see the Bible says woe unto them for they have gone in the way of Cain.
Now in Jude it's talking about false prophets and false teachers
and it brings up different motivations for these false prophets or essentially downfalls.
Here we have Cain being brought up.
Additionally in this verse it brings up going after the reward of Balaam,
Really, what I want to talk about, though, is the way of Cain.
Going after the reward is what we think of as preachers
preaching for money, preaching lies and simply just wanting to become filthy rich
or filthy lucre.
We talk about the gainsang of core. This is someone that was really lifting themselves up,
wanted to essentially be in a position of power and authority
and was really just kind of attacking the people of God. You lift yourselves up among the congregation,
attacking Moses, going against him and just gainsang, just being contrary to everything.
When we talk about the way of Cain, I think it's a little bit different.
It's really where someone just gets filled with envy, hatred towards their brother and
it could lead to them wanting to kill their brother, brother literally.
Now go to 1st John chapter 3, we're introduced here to this idea of the way of Cain, but
it doesn't really explain it.
in the book of Jude.
However, in 1 John chapter number three,
the Bible kind of gives us a little bit of an insight
as what was going on with Cain.
Now, Cain, of course, is a character of antiquity.
He's one of the first characters in the Bible.
We have Cain and Abel.
Cain is the first man to ever be born.
He is the first son ever born to Adam and Eve.
And Cain ends up rising up against his brother and killing him.
Now, we're going to get to that story in a minute,
Let's see the motivation first.
It says in 1 John chapter 3, verse number 12,
not as Cain, who is of that wicked one and slew his brother and wherefore slew him
because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous.
So the Bible is telling us that we need to love our brother.
Cain did not love his brother, but it ended up killing his brother.
Why or wherefore?
It's because he was evil.
and his brother was righteous.
He didn't like that his brother was righteous
and he was evil and so he wanted to kill
his brother for Envy's sake.
It says in this passage as we keep reading,
Marvel not my brother and if the world hate you.
So in the same vein, the world is going to hate God's people,
is going to hate the righteous because they're righteous.
That is why they hate the righteous
is because they're better than them.
It's because they're doing things that are pleasant in God's sight.
God has respect unto our works and our lives, and so they are envious of God's attention.
They're envious of God's affection.
They're envious of us being righteous, and so therefore they hate us and they want to
destroy us in many cases.
The Bible says in verse 14, we know that we have passed from death and life because
He that loveth not his brother abideth in death,
whosoever hadeth his brother is a murderer.
Now, where this envy and hatred leads,
unfortunately, is often leads to murder.
Murder in their heart is a concept
that the Bible brings up,
but also just literal, physical, bloodshed, literal murder.
And Cain literally murdered his brother.
Go over to Genesis chapter four,
let's go to that story now.
And this evening, I'm gonna go through a lot of Bible,
You have to try and keep up with me, but I want to go through a lot of Bible.
And I ended up realizing that I don't actually preach really long sermons.
I just don't talk as fast as Brother Ziggurah.
So if I actually spoke as fast as Brother Ziggurah, I'd have like normal link sermons.
But because I'm not as fast of a speaker as he is, my sermon is just so much longer.
But it's not that I'm necessarily giving out less or that much more information.
It's just he's disseminating so quickly.
So maybe I could become a faster speaker at some point.
But I do have a lot of information I'd like to share this evening and we're going to study
a couple characters in the Bible here about how they kind of go through this progression
of the way of Cain.
Let's start with Cain himself.
And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
In Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof,
and the Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering.
But unto Cain and his offering he had not respect, and Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth, and why is thy countenance fallen?
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted, and if thou doest not well, send life at the door,
and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him."
And Cain talked with Abel's brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field,
that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him.
So now we have a pretty simple story, Cain and Abel, they both offer something unto God.
Cain offers of the fruit of the ground, Abel offers the firstlings of the flock,
God has respect unto Abel's offering, God does not have respect unto Cain's offering.
Cain becomes very upset. The Bible says it's very wroth.
That's like wrath, extreme anger.
And that extreme anger is then shifted towards his brother Abel and we see him rising up
and slaying his own brother Abel even though Abel has done nothing to Cain.
Abel did not hurt Cain, Abel has not done anything to justify this kind of wicked behavior.
Abel would never have hurt his brother Cain, it is just simply because Abel is righteous
that he hates him and wants to destroy him.
in this story as well as other stories that are similar,
but you'll kind of notice a pattern of the way of Cain.
It typically starts with envy.
You basically have it start with envy,
that envy will then turn into hatred,
that hatred will then turn into believing lies,
and then it'll turn into actually attacking your brother.
And we kind of see here with Cain specifically,
number one, he envies his brother
because his brother's offering was accepted
and his was not.
And you can see the envy of how God was pleased with Abel
and he's not pleased with Cain,
and therefore this envy kind of sets in,
and then it causes him to have great hatred
as the Bible says he's very wroth.
He became very angry
and his anger gets settled on his brother.
Now what should he have done
is he should have recognized that his offering was trash
and realized that his offering was not what God wanted
That would have been the right thing to do, but then he's going to stick to his lies of his works based salvation
Which is offering the fruit of the ground and you often notice that people that go down the way of king
They end up harkening lives believing lies are being stuck on lies, and they can't get things right
And so Cain is a picture of work salvation, how he's offering the fruit of his works whereas Abel's offering the flock and offering the picture of salvation by faith and Jesus Christ.
What is the flock? The flock is a sacrifice. The animal's sacrificed for Abel whereas the fruit is just a picture of his works.
And this is the only two religions in the world.
Cain's works-based salvation and you have Abel's salvation by faith through the sacrifice
of the Lord Jesus Christ and the picture of the firstling of the flock.
So you kind of have this loose example here and I know I'm reading a little bit between
the lines here.
I'm going to show you a few more examples of this in a minute but you see this envy turning
into hatred, he's stuck on his lies of work salvation and he can't handle it so what does
he do?
He attacks his brother.
He wanted to kill him, he plotted to kill him, and he literally killed his brother Abel.
And that's where envy will take you.
It'll take you down the way of Cain where your envy will turn into hatred,
which will cause you to be blinded and cause you to hate your brother
and then cause you to even literally attack your brother or kill him.
Go if you would back to 1 John, for a moment go back to 1 John, I want to show you another verse here.
1 John chapter number two, and I want to show you what the Bible teaches.
Cain, the Bible says, was of that wicked one.
The book of Jude is written for us to understand
there's gonna be false prophets and false teachers.
And we wanna gain that wisdom.
But I don't believe that God only wants us
to understand the way of Cain
from a false prophet's perspective
because none of us are false prophets.
If you're a false prophet, you can leave at any time.
Okay, we hate you, all right?
We don't like anything about you or your face, die.
I mean, just go straight to hell, Cor.
You know what I mean?
Like nobody, like we're not in here like,
hey, we need to learn how to not be a false prophet.
Okay, but what we can do is we can gain some wisdom
From the fact that we learn what false prophets are like and some of the pathways they go down and making sure that we don't go
So down similar pathways because even say people I believe can go down this way of Cain
Where they have envy where they end up hating where they start believing lies and then they'll attack their brother
Now first John chapter 2 look at verse 9
He that saith these in light and hated his brother is in darkness even until now
He that loveth his brother bided in the light, and there's none occasion of stumbling in him.
But he that hated his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whether he
goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. According to the Bible, when you start
hating your brother, you become blind. Now, not literally blind, spiritually blind,
and that spiritual blindness will cause you to do things like believe lies, believe heresy,
false accusations, and that it'll cause you to then end up attacking your brother when you shouldn't be attacking your brother in Christ.
We shouldn't be attacking other saved believers. We shouldn't be attacking the saved.
We should love our brother and do good unto our brother. That's the commandment that's given here in 1st John over and over and over.
Go through to 1st Samuel chapter 18, but this can happen to save people. Who is probably the best example of this is King Saul.
King Saul is someone who's definitely saved, went to heaven.
But King Saul hated his brother and King Saul hated his brother David and he wants to destroy David
Now think about what I've already taught you and kind of some of the pictures here. What happens first envy
Then hatred then believing lies and then attacking your brother
Let's see if Saul follows this similar pattern. Look at verse number six
And it came to pass as they came when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine
that the woman, women, came out of all the cities of Israel singing and dancing to meet
King Saul with tabirates, with joy, and with instruments of music.
And the women answered one another as they played and said, Saul, slain is thousands,
and David is ten thousands.
And Saul is very wroth.
and the saying displeased him and he said,
they have ascribed unto David 10,000s,
and to me, they have ascribed but thousands.
And what can he have more but the kingdom?
And Saul, I, David, from that day and forward.
So we have a story here about Saul.
Everything with him and David is pretty much great.
Up to this point. I mean pretty much leading up to this point. They're their buddies. He's his armor bearer
He's playing the heart for him. He just killed Goliath. I mean everything seems hunky and dory until a bunch of ladies
Start saying hey, David's better than King Saul
and
He just can't handle it that ladies that are playing I mean think about it
What did the Bible even say about these ladies? It says in verse number six. It says to meet King Saul
Their primary goal was to praise Saul, meet Saul, and sing Saul.
Sing about Saul.
But of course, if you're a king, you may not always be the best warrior, right?
I mean, you might not be the one that does the most action.
So, who are they going to praise in your conquering quest or your battle?
They're probably going to praise your best warrior, which was David at the time.
So they came to meet King Saul.
They're praising King Saul.
And you know what?
It's actually praising King Saul to praise King David because King David, or it's not
King yet, sorry, Brother David, because Brother David is on his team.
Right?
I mean, you're thinking like, hey, you're a great king.
Look at your awesome warrior that's on your team, that's on your side.
It would be like if I came to Faber or Baptist Church and it's like, hey, Pastor Anderson
is a great pastor and he has this really great church member that gets lots of people saved.
It's still praising the pastor.
It's still lifting up the pastor because you're talking positively about the pastor.
But no, King Saul, he can't handle it.
He's what you would call and these people love this word narcissist. Okay. He's a narcissist where everything has to be about him
And it's like hey, what they're giving David more credit for the victories out there than me
You know, you should always ask yourself this question no matter what state it is it true?
Right if Saul's gonna get mad about this shouldn't you just ask the question, but is it true?
Hey, they gave David more credit than they gave me
Because, if it's true, then you should not get upset about it.
We should not get upset about the truth, no matter how it makes us look, or no matter
how much we don't like the truth.
We should always like the truth.
And look, this is even an unpleasant truth.
Hey, your second place in the whole world, wow, that's not that bad, is it?
But some people can't be second place in the whole world.
They have to be literally number one.
Even if he's not the best warrior, he has to be number one.
So you can see how very quickly Saul falls this victim of envy.
He doesn't like that David's getting more recognition,
getting any attention above him.
So he has envy towards his brother, which then turns into hatred.
Notice he's very wroth in verse number eight.
Verse nine, Saul eyed David.
So now he's looking at David.
He's upset with David.
And of course, what would be the lie?
Well, in verse number eight, it says in what can he have more but the kingdom?
And there's the thing, Saul, especially when you get in later chapters of this first Samuel,
you realize that Saul kind of has built this conspiracy theory against himself.
Or he essentially thinks that David is out to get him, David's not loyal, David wants
to kill Saul when it's the farthest thing from the truth.
David would never take the kingdom from Saul, David would never harm Saul and we even see
that modeled later in the story because David has an opportunity to kill Saul or to harm
Saul and he chooses not to twice to prove that he never would harm King Saul and basically
That is not even true, but you know what when you're blinded with envy and hatred you'll believe anything against your enemy
You'll believe any conspiracy theory any accusation because you just hate them in your heart
So you just instantly believe anything and everything about that person. That's wrong and
Then of course what do you do? He tries to attack him, right? Let's keep reading here. What does it say in verse number 10?
And it came to pass on the Marl that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul and he prophesied
in the midst of the house and David played with his hand as it other times and there
was a javelin in Saul's hand and Saul cast the javelin for he said, I will smite David
even to the wall with it and David avoided out of his presence twice.
I would love to ask David like, why did you go back?
Right?
And then he did it a second time.
At least he's no fool to do it the third time, right?
At least he's like, hey, I'm not going to let that happen a third time, okay?
The first time I was lucky, apparently.
But notice that pattern again that Saul falls victim of, he gets envious of David,
he hates David, he's believing lies about David, and then he tries to attack David.
Go to chapter 15, go to chapter 15.
Now I'm trying to just explain this to you.
At first, then I'm going to give you some application.
Now, a lot of you probably have already thought of all kinds of applications
because you're filled with the Spirit of God, and you know what?
So you can make all kinds of applications.
But you know what?
I want to prove this point again in the Bible before we really make some of our own applications.
Look at 2 Samuel 15 and look at verse number 3.
The Bible says,
But there's no man deputed of the king to hear these so all these people want to see David
They run into a son Absalom and Absalom is saying hey everything that you believe and think is right
It's not even just right. It's good
It's good and right
This is great. This is what you call flattery. Okay
When everything I mean who in here thinks that there's another person in this room that every one of their thoughts is always good and right
Your wife doesn't think that at all, okay?
No one thinks that about anyone. It's silly. I mean, it's just ridiculous. Hey everything. I don't even know what you have to say
I just know it's good already. I
Just already believe it. Okay. It's good and right
He says but you know what David he's busy
He's on a cruise mission trip or something, you know, I mean he doesn't he can't he can't talk to you
You know, there's nobody here to talk to you. Just me, you know, I'm here and I like what you have to say
He says the verse 4 but Absom said moreover. Oh
That I were made judge in the land that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me and I would do him justice
He's a social justice warrior
I mean, he stands for justice and for what is right and for what is good, you know, this
other side is bad and they don't stand for justice like I do.
You know, if I were the judge, then it would be just.
This is how evil people always talk about themselves.
They're always good, right, just, and they're on everybody's side, except for David's.
Right? Everybody in the entire kingdom, everything they have to say is good and right, except
for David. Think about that. Am I really supposed to believe of the entire kingdom of Israel,
these only one bad person and the one bad person is David? Everybody else is good. This
sounds like core kind of. It's like the game saying of core, really, if you think about
it. But it's kind of falling victim of the same strategy that we have of Cain here.
He says in verse number five, and it was so that when any man came nigh to do him to do him obeisance
He put forth his hand and took him and kissed him
So it's just like
He is just over the top of the flattery just oh man
You're so good and right and he gives him a kiss and gives him a hug gives him a thousand dollar check
I mean, you know, whatever
You know just for you, you know
Just he just loves everybody just does them good nice kisses and everything like that and
It's just it's so obvious that this guy is not sincere
If I came up with somebody it's like I have a serious matter. They're like you're already right
Like what do you haven't even heard? Yeah, I just know it's right. Do you want to kiss?
Like I would think like this is weird there's something off about this
Right, that's what you call flattery
Look flattery is insincere
I want someone to hear what I had to say and then I want them to hear the other side and then say hey
I agree with you
Because then I'm not feeling like they're just saying something to appease me then I feel like they actually care about what I'm saying and I've actually
Brightly judged they're not just sitting here. Just telling me what I want to hear people tell you what you want to hear go to a lawyer
Every lawyer, I mean you go to a lawyer, every case is good because you're going to pay them.
You know, the lawyer could lose every single case and still get paid because they get paid up front.
So why would they ever tell you that your matters aren't good and right?
Okay, that was just some free advice there.
Lawyers are fun.
Sorry if you're a lawyer out there, okay?
It's the 99% of y'all that make the 1% look bad, okay?
Verse number 11, let's skip, let's skip in the story, I need to speed up for a sake of time,
says, and with Absalom went 200 men out of Jerusalem that were called and they went in their simplicity
and they knew not anything. Now, Absalom ends up creating a conspiracy against his father, grabs 200 useful idiots.
They're probably hanging out in the ex-New I.B. group, okay?
And so he grabs these 200 people that don't know anything and he's just like,
hey, come with me to attack.
You know, we're going to attack David.
They don't even know what's going on.
They don't even know their left hand from the right hand, okay?
They have no agreement with each other.
They're heretics, motorists, oneness, non-King James only, salvation by works, whatever.
They only have one thing in common.
They're an idiot.
Okay, and they have this common rallying person Absalom that they're gonna follow and they're gonna do whatever he says
Now we can see in the story number one Absalom obviously envies David
Because he says I want to be judged in the land
So you see that initial pattern of envy then we have the hatred which is pretty obvious when you're conspiring against your dad
I'm gonna kill him that's pretty obviously have hatred for them then of course when we talk about believing lies for Absalom
Specifically, we're gonna bring up a couple
He really, because he has his hatred for his dad, he ends up believing some weird lies.
Look what it says in 2 Samuel 16 verse 21.
And Hithoffel said on Absalom,
Go in under thy father's concubines.
That is bad advice.
That is weird advice to do such a thing.
In fact, it violates the law.
It violates the word of God.
It's just a clear and obvious sin that's super wicked.
And Hithoffel's like, hey, want to do this evil super wicked sin?
And what's the point? The point is to prove that he's going to go all the way.
He's going to try and basically make it clear I'm not on God's side,
so who else is going to be with me that's not going to be on God's side?
You know, the Bible says a ruler that hearkens the lies, all his servants are wicked.
And so when you see someone say, hey, I'm going to sleep on my father's concubines
and then they're going to go off the ledge with him, just know they're all wicked.
All the people that are following this person and believing this weird lie
He's like, hey, this is going to make everybody be strong with you, because you're going to
be abhorred of thy father, right?
Says at the end of this verse, then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
Now they're emboldened by his sin.
That is not somebody you want on your team, that when you sin, they become strong.
They become emboldened.
They become, you know, basically empowered.
You don't want that.
Now, in chapter 17, he believes in another lie, look at verse 14.
And Absalom in all the men of Israel said,
the counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Hithafel.
Now, I'm skipping through this story for a second time, but Hithafel gives great advice
unto Absalom to kill his dad saying, hey, they're weak, they're tired,
let's just overtake them right now and you'll probably win.
And he was right, most likely.
But...
Houshai is kind of a double agent here.
Houshai is playing, you know, the long game here.
He's still on David's side.
He recognizes that's really dangerous for David.
So he's trying to come up with a bozo bad idea on purpose.
He's coming up with a bad idea to give unto and to fish unto Absalom.
And then when Absalom hears the bad idea,
he's like, that was a great idea.
Why? Because when you have the spirit of error, you love lies. You love bad takes.
You're just always falling on the wrong side of every single decision because you don't have that spirit of truth anymore.
God's confounded you because of your blindness. You're walking in darkness.
So you can't really see where you're going and they think, oh, Hushai has better counsel than Hithiville.
For the Lord of the point is to defeat the good counsel of Hithiville to the intent that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.
This is so funny.
He literally thinks that God is with him.
He thinks that God is going to bless him and he thinks that this advice is somehow going to give him the victory and it's from God,
whereas it's actually the exact opposite.
So he just has the exact opposite opinion, he gets it wrong, he doesn't understand the Bible.
And of course then he goes out to war, he attacks his dad, tries to kill him, and David's men are victorious, they kill Absalom.
So, with Saul and Absalom, they tried to kill their brother and they failed, Cain did succeed.
But we can see a pretty consistent pattern of all of them kind of going in this way of
Cain.
What's the way of Cain?
They envied their brother, they hated their brother, that caused them to end up believing
all kinds of lies, and then they attacked their brother.
And we can see this happening all in our world today.
You can see this happening all the time
where people will get this envy bug
and this envy bug will lead them down a dark, dark path.
And the end is, in many cases,
an extreme attack, possibly even murder.
And you know, I kid you not,
I've seen some Christians that have gotten so mad at me
that I think if they could stab me in the back,
literally they would.
They are that dangerous of individuals those kind of people and you know your pastor is a great pastor
He's a great Christian. The Bible says yeah, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution
And you know if he's a great Christian if he has righteous works if he's getting a lot of people saved
You know what someone's getting a hip getting mad at him
And what's the first step they're gonna be envious?
Now, what are they gonna be envious of?
They're gonna be envious of his attention
Because your pastor's gotten a lot of attention, he's reached a lot of people, he has a pretty
big voice, and so there's a lot of people that envy that, just like Absom, like, oh
I wish I were judged in the land, oh I wish I was ascribed my 10,000, and you know for
many people that are at King Saul out there, it's easier for them to kill one Israelite
You know what I mean?
Saul could say, hey, I only kill 1,000, OK, I'll kill 9,000 more, so now I have 10,000.
But he's like, that's a lot of work.
It'd be a lot easier if I could just kill one guy and then I'd be at the top of the
list again.
Because he doesn't really care about killing 10,000 Philistines, he just cares about being
at the top of the list.
And so for many people to be at the top of the list, it's not to get better.
It's not to do more works.
It's not to do more mission strips.
It's not to do more personal evangelism.
It's not to try and reach more people and bring them into your church.
It's just to try and take somebody out that's better than you.
Why? Because you're envious of them.
And look, there's a lot of people that are envious of Pastor Stephen Anderson.
Now, they want to destroy him.
And think about this from Saul's perspective.
This is just crazy.
You are a nation that's hated by a lot of people you have a lot of enemies
Why would you want to take out your best warrior?
Why would you want to kill David like they haven't?
Gotten complete peace they haven't conquered all the other nations
They still have a raging wars with the Philistines and with other people why in the world when you're still in the midst of battle
When you're still trying to reclaim a lot of the promised land,
would you want to take out your absolute best warrior at that time?
It makes no sense.
Imagine you're playing professional sports,
it's the Super Bowl, or it's the Stanley Cup,
or it's the World Series,
and you have one player on your team that's just awesome,
and you're about to go to the big game,
and you're like, let's just kill our best player.
You would never do that.
But what if you said you know what I usually get the second most goals?
I usually score the second most points and I want to get the most points
So let's take out our best player just so I get more points than anybody else in the game
You know, that's a bad attitude. It's a wrong attitude. You should say like hey, we're on a team. We should try to win here
Why would I want to take out our best player?
Not only that David is loyal to King Saul to a fault. I mean if there is a fault there
But I'm just saying like he's dedicated
He's gonna stick with him through thick through thin through whatever he is thereby aside and look pastor Anderson is a very loyal person
to other Christians and other pastors.
Not only that, David's being greatly used by God.
Not only that, David increases the morale of all the troops
and of all the men of Israel. Get some excited.
And look, that's the same as your pastor.
Your pastor is one of the best warriors,
if not the best warrior on this earth.
Not only that, he's extremely loyal to the things of God
and to men of God.
Not only that, he's being used by God.
And not only that, he increases the morale of Christians around this world.
He increases the morale of many soul winners yet. How many pastors today?
They're so envious of him and they want to destroy and take out David
When it's so funny because it's like they have a church and many cases their church was founded and started by pastor Anderson
There are people their church exists because pastor Anderson either directly or through affiliates
Started their church then he filled their church with people that he reached
Then he would drive out to their church every, like, year to try and bring more people into their church.
And then they want to take this guy out. Why? So they can be number one in their church.
Because somehow they were number two and they just didn't like it.
They didn't like that someone else has started their church.
They didn't like that somebody else had brought in more people to their church than them.
And they didn't like the fact that even when he shows up, more people come to hear them preach.
I actually heard somebody tell me one time,
I visited their church and they said,
yeah, when Pastor Anderson comes,
it's Pastor Anderson Easter.
And all these people come out just to hear him preach.
And I had somebody email me and say,
hey, I'm gonna visit the church
because I wanna hear Pastor Anderson preach.
And I replied and said,
well, if you only wanna come here and preach,
you're not welcome.
Why would you say that?
That's envy, that's envy and hatred.
Why would you, I mean, like who cares?
Who cares if someone wants to come here another preacher?
If he's better, he's better.
I mean, hey, if someone's like, hey, I'm in heaven,
and they're like, hey, do you know where David is?
I want to shake his hand.
They're like, David, what about me, huh?
It's like, it's like, yeah, he's over here.
I'm in line too, buddy.
I remember when I started Pure Arts Baptist Church,
I thought, you know, there's gonna probably be some people
that come to our church,
and they start becoming really zealous,
and then eventually maybe they'll wanna move
to Pastor Anderson's church to the mothership
because it's a bigger church.
There's more people there.
They're doing more trips.
They have more events.
The weather, for some people, it's better.
Like, I like the weather.
Pastor Anderson's a better preacher.
And I thought, that's great.
If I'm a warming pod for his church, then so be it.
Because, you know what, I went to Faithwood Baptist Church and I was greatly blessed by it.
I loved it.
Who am I to stand in the way of somebody getting plugged into a great church?
But you know what?
I'm thinking like, hey, I'm on the same team.
I'm thinking, hey, we're trying to win this game and this guy's a better three-point shooter
than me and we only got one shot left in the clock, you know, it's about three seconds
left.
Hey, we're running down the field and we need to score. I can't score, but he might let's pass it to him
You know who cares we should be on the same team when it comes to Christianity
Not getting envious not getting hateful
You know, it's just crazy, but you know what? This is biblical. Go to the second Timothy chapter one go to second Timothy chapter one
It's biblical to see guys start churches
Fill the church and then that entire church want nothing to do with that guy
You would think that that's literally insane, because it is, but it's biblical, because
you know, insanity is biblical apparently.
Most people are literally insane.
Look at 2 Timothy chapter 1, look at verse 15, the Bible says, this thou knowest, that
all they which are in Asia be turned away from me, of whom are by jealous and homogenes.
The Apostle Paul is like founding these churches, he's writing the epistles to the churches.
I mean, you have an epistle in the Word of God with your name on it, written by the Apostle Paul, and he's not welcoming your church.
Because you're insane.
And I mean, there are people that have, like, their churches started by Pastor Anderson.
They got saved by Pastor Anderson.
They got baptized by Pastor Anderson.
They learned a lot from his preaching, and he's not welcome at their church.
You're like, that's insane.
That is insane, but it's biblical.
Go over to 2 Corinthians, chapter 12, 2 Corinthians, chapter 12.
You know, some people just cannot, cannot appreciate or be thankful to people that do
things for them.
It's pride.
it's pride. And this is what most people think. They think that they finally outgrew Pastor Anderson.
Like they weren't spiritual at all, and they found Pastor Anderson, they grew a lot, but now
they've outgrown Pastor Anderson. Way better of a Christian now. Second Corinthians,
chapter number 12, look at verse 15, the Bible says this, I will very gladly spend to be spent for
you, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. This is just so annoying.
But it's like you just love people and you only do good to them and they'll hate you
It's so weird. I would not believe this if it didn't happen to me
And I mean I've seen it all the time
Especially when I went to Fave Ward a lot of people got kicked out thrown out left got disgruntled when I was here a lot
It was a lot, okay
It was just like insane
And their temptation there was like, you know what a pastor doesn't do
The temptation there is there's probably two sides to every story and you know,
I don't know, he probably pissed them off or did something or was rude or whatever.
And if I wasn't a pastor, where I've literally done
only good to people just repeatedly and then they just turn on me for no reason,
I wouldn't believe it. But it's happened to me so many stinking times
that now I believe it. I'm a believer, man.
You can I mean you can literally only do super positive things for people and they'll completely turn on you and hate you for no reason
It's insane, but it's biblical
Somehow it's biblical somehow you can literally and look this is what God has to go through all the time
Because you know what God only does good unto us and look how many people rebelled against him
Look how many people don't thank him. Look how many people don't care. I mean it is biblical
And, you know, there's a specific king Saul out there that is just on a tear to destroy
your pastor and destroy your church.
And look, he's going down the way of Cain, folks.
You don't go down the way of Cain with these people.
You know, he's got his little spirit of envy podcast.
And let me tell you something, these people are just envious of pastor Anderson, envious
of him so much.
don't want to live in Phoenix I don't want to have his family I don't want to
have his food preferences I don't want to wear his shirts yet nobody was
accusing you that you're an envious of his attention just like King Saul
King Saul wasn't envious of David's height King Saul's taller
King Saul wasn't envious of David's wives or envious of David's family.
He wasn't envious of David's clothes.
He wasn't envious of David's wallet.
You know, he's envious of one thing, his attention.
And let me tell you something.
People today, they're envious of one thing and it's the attention that Pastor Anderson
draws.
is the attention that he's earned for having read the Bible so much, memorized so much scripture,
preached unapologetically the Word of God, stood strong, been steadfast, been a consistent soul winner,
and you know what? Been doing it for decades. That's why he gets attention.
And he's basically spearheaded a pretty big revival in this country.
Yay in the whole world, folks.
So many soul winners, so many people.
It's so funny how these people
always criticize the quote, New IVB.
They're only friends or ex-New IVB people.
I'm like, if you hadn't been part of the New IVB,
you wouldn't even have any friends.
If it wasn't for the New IVB,
you'd have zero friends still.
And this is so funny, the New IVB's so bad,
but then when people leave and go to other churches,
you know who they hang out with?
Other ex-New IVB people.
And then they'll say like, you guys are so uncharitable,
it's so unkind, it's so bad.
But then you only hang out with new IP people.
It's like, where's the connection in your brain?
That's loose.
Let me help connect it for you, okay?
And look, this King Saul out there,
this guy is just insane, man.
He is insane.
Only a weirdo and a psycho would wanna put out videos
with their wife on the thumbnail
My wife would be so mad at me if I put a, if I, there's a video out there where I have her face as a literal rabid serial killer.
And I'm thinking it's good and I'm sharing it.
You know, this is a guy that takes his children, his little tiny children, and makes videos attacking other pastors.
That's what you call good parenting.
Okay, just in case you didn't know.
Take your little kids and make troll videos with them.
That's how you raise really good children.
Orges other trolls
This guy the same guy he publicly admits he's a troll
I don't even know how you could be more embarrassing and cringe as a pastor to get up and just admit
I am a troll and be dead serious
Not trolling somehow. I
Don't know how you as a grown man would play a board game with other pastors faces on it
Like make a board game of other pastors that you hate and you obsess about and watch and then play that board game
mean he makes psycho ex-girlfriends seem normal or you know this guy this guy's
literally a laughing stock because look King Saul starts believing all kinds of
weird lies and goes down a bad path anybody that does this starts believing
weird things and going down a bad path one of them is thinking that the Roman
centurion and the Bible when the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified this this
King Saul
thinks that the Roman centurion literally saw the veil rent in the temple
When Jesus Christ crucified he has eagle eyes that can see like
Super far away through buildings walls
Into with a holy of holies and could see the veil of the temple rent and then he calls people stupid for not believing that
He thinks you're stupid if you don't think a Roman centurion could see
Hundreds, if not thousands of feet away, through buildings' walls, see the Holy of Holy Temple's
rent.
And I have to ask this question, this person's main goal in life is just to destroy your pastor.
I don't want to give him, I don't want to say his name, I'm sorry, I know who I'm saying.
I don't want to say his name because he would get so excited if I just said it.
It's like, whenever they get back, ah, hi, from drugs, it's like just hearing his name
out loud.
In fact, you'll probably just say it out loud a couple times for me when he's watching
this just to give himself that little, ah, because he just likes it so much.
But his goal is to destroy your pastor, and I'm thinking like, what would that accomplish?
Like, let's say you're finally successful, Cain, you killed Abel.
Now what?
I mean, what is that really going to do for the world?
I mean, if Pastor Anderson goes away, that's just going to hurt this church.
Less soul winning, less good sermons in the world, and they would have nothing to do on
Wednesdays and Sundays anymore.
I mean, this guy's almost like keeping y'all alive on your little drug high.
And you know, this is what you should really be appreciative of, is that when you give
money to Fayford Baptist Church, you know what that money is used for?
Getting people saved.
going on cruise mission strips and you know taking people out to the small town
soul winning or taking people to Indian reservations or I mean just getting
thousands and thousands of people saved and some of the best ways possible one
on one soul winning we're confirming it you're showing it clearly you're
praying with them I mean you're basically just spoon feeding the gospel to
thousands and thousands and thousands of people over here and when you give more
money it just increases that
What happens when you give money to King Saul?
Well now you get more Spirit of Envy podcast episodes.
Now you can watch them sooner. You can watch the slander video a little sooner.
Or you could give it to somebody that's gonna make movies that never come out.
I mean, think, you have this money, you could give it to a church where they're actually gonna get a bunch of people saved.
Or you could give it to someone that's gonna never produce a film.
and then ask you to switch your donation to another film that you don't want.
Because that's a great way to use money, right?
Move your donation.
Just to make a hit piece against somebody you actually like.
That's weird.
And then you can have this tagline,
for the first time ever,
Pastor Anderson's kids speak out against him.
Where have you been six months for the last six months?
Like how would you make a movie that says this is the first time this is happening when no one believes that?
No one ever believes that hey, you know, we should do we should just raise money to kill David
Why isn't he our best warrior isn't he the one that's driving around the country and dragging people into your church to hear your sorry sermons
Isn't he the one that's actually motivating your members to go out soul-winning?
Isn't he the one that's taking your members on missions trips because you won't go on a missions trip?
And you're not sponsoring missions trips?
Isn't he the one that's basically encouraging your church members to go to your church three times a week even when the preaching's lame?
Isn't he the one that's encouraging your church members to tithe you and do good unto you?
Let's kill that guy.
Let's harm that guy. Let's maim that guy.
Oh so you can watch another Spirit of Envy podcast where they bring on Tyler Baker to
explain to you the trinity, right?
Let's give money to this guy that's basically going to bring on Tyler Baker to explain to
us the trinity.
And the same King Saul is basically just hearing the Catholic trinity just being taught to
him and just saying, I agree with that, yeah, I'm learning so much.
How can a fundamental Baptist pastor need a modalist
switched into Catholic theologian, teach him the trinity?
I thought this was supposed to be the faithful word
that you were taught.
Holding fast the faithful word which he had been taught.
Why in the world would a Baptist pastor of a decade
or two decades need to learn the trinity
from an online troll and a modalist?
It's because you're blinded with hatred and pride.
And in fact, I heard this King Saul, he said in this little podcast attacking the new FB,
he said, well, I think that three bodies is ridiculous when it comes to the Trinity.
Believing three bodies is ridiculous.
And he says, next breath.
Well, I do believe that Jesus is sitting next to the Father, though.
And I do believe that, you know, well, you know, Moses saw his back parts.
How do you explain that?
Basically, Catholic troll, and this little Catholic troll is just like,
ah, well, you know, it's anthropomorphic.
Everything in the Bible about God's anthropomorphic
when it talks about having wings and feathers.
Now, you know what's so stupid about this idiot?
Is anybody that knows anything about words
knows that anthropomorphic has nothing to do with wings and feathers.
You know what anthropology is?
Now if you have feathers and wings raise your hand
That's a bird, okay
So you know what?
They what they it's so funny these people are just so smart and they just so brilliant and I just studied all these terms
It's anthropomorphic
Look if you were actually smart you realize it's zoom or fic. Oh
It's the wrong word
But again, look, I believe that you do have the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, you have
three persons.
Now, I want to take a second to explain this.
Go if you would to Genesis chapter number one, go to Genesis chapter one.
We don't want to be these hateful, envious people that start believing all kinds of heresy.
And what was a heresy that tried to creep in this church?
Modalism.
And don't let anybody gaslight you into saying it wasn't modalism, it was literal modalism.
The person thrown out of this church, Tyler Baker, said that Jesus had never been seen
by anyone.
He said that Jesus is sitting next to Jesus.
He said that whenever you baptize, you should baptize the name of the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Ghost, and that name is Jesus.
And one of his little buddies, one of his little underlings that was his best friend,
I messaged him multiple times, and he said that the father became the son.
The father became the son.
That is not the Trinity, folks.
That is modalism.
That is oneness.
Now I think since then, bakers now become like slightly Catholic or something and believes
in this weird version of the Catholic Trinity.
I just want to prove what the Bible has to say on this subject because, you know, in
the end of the day, you can sit here and laugh and say like, I think that the VIP is ridiculous
on this topic.
But it's so funny that you can't even prove what you believe.
The same guy that's just hating our pastor Anderson, hating on the new IP, hates us, won't
explain what he actually believes, just mocks our viewpoint, or mocks any viewpoint, really.
Look, the word body is a little loaded.
And I'm taking a rant here for a second, okay?
So give me a little bit of leeway.
But.
When we talk about the word body, obviously you could think of it as like a physical property, right?
We all have physical bodies and God is a spirit, so he transcends our human body.
I would not say that God the Father has a human body. Nobody believes that, nobody thinks that.
But I do believe that he has some type of shape or
loosely I'm using the word body just because of lack of English words to use.
But he has some kind of either spirit body or some kind of a shape.
And I believe the Holy Spirit is the same.
Now, let's just walk through the Bible for a second
and see what the Bible says about God, not a theologian.
Because you know what?
I'm not envious of Pastor Anderson.
I don't hate Pastor Anderson.
I don't believe lies about him and I don't want to attack him.
So, you know what?
I can actually understand the Bible
because I'm not blinded by this hatred.
Now, what does the Bible say in Genesis chapter 1 verse 2?
And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Now how on the, riddle me this, how does the Spirit of God move if it doesn't have anybody whatsoever?
What's moving?
Have you ever seen nothing move?
We usually see things move.
Right now. I'll be it. I do not believe that the Holy Ghost had a physical human body like we do
But he obviously has something because he's moving
And you know this is before anything else that's moving exists
This is before any of the animals or any of the man has been created
This is the Holy Ghost moving on his own moving on the page on the face of the waters
Now I'm gonna speed up look at verse 26 and God said let us make man in our image. They all have an image
Look at verse 27, so God created man in his own image, God has an image.
So the Bible says, look at chapter 3 verse 8, and they heard the voice of the Lord God
walking in the garden, somehow God's walking, have you ever seen nothing walk?
How about verse 22, and the Lord God said, behold, the man has become as one of us.
That sounds like there's more than one
Our image one of us sounds like they all have the same image
But there's one of us is hate. We're singling out one of the three, right?
Look at verse one of chapter five
This is the book of the generation of Adam and the day that God created man and the likeness of God made him
God made Adam
To look like him
You know
I look like something, you look like something, we don't look like nothing.
If God is literally nothing, well then how could he make us look like, we wouldn't look like anything then.
You know why we look the way we look?
Because God has a head and eyes and hands and arms and legs because he walks and he talks.
He walks with me and he talks with me.
Hey, isn't that a hymn that we sing?
How do these people even sing that?
Oh, yeah, because you're not saved,
I guess he doesn't walk or talk with you.
That's what it is.
Go to 1 Peter chapter number one, go to 1 Peter.
I'm not done.
I'm gonna continue this little rant here for a second,
because I don't believe lies.
Isn't it so funny that King Saul can make fun of me
for saying that I think that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
have three bodies, and then he just immediately debunks
himself, but I do think Jesus is sitting here as the Father.
I just don't know how to explain that.
Look, anthropomorphic is just a stupid way to just make the Bible dumb.
What is anthropomorphic?
It'd be like if you said, hey, I saw my, you know, car running or crying or something,
giving it human characteristics that it doesn't have.
They're claiming that every time the Bible talks about God walking, talking, looking,
anything, that it's not real.
That we're just a we're just assuming you can actually talk and walk and look because humans can't but God doesn't actually do any of that
That's an insane way to read the Bible
Insane you have to be blinded with hatred and pride look at 1st Peter chapter 1 verse 12
Under whom it was revealed
That not under themselves, but in us they did minister the things which are now reported under you by them that have preached the gospel under you
with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven which things the angels desired to look into.
Notice that the Holy Ghost was somewhere and then He went somewhere
because He has a spatial location.
He was in heaven and then He was sent down from heaven.
Go to Luke chapter 3.
We saw that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters in Genesis chapter 1.
We see Him coming down from heaven
being referenced here in 1 Peter chapter number one Luke chapter number three
actually records the Holy Ghost coming down from heaven and let's notice one of
the words it uses Luke chapter 3 look at verse 22 and the Holy Ghost ascended in
a what bodily shape I can't believe you think you think that the Holy Ghost has
a body what did the Bible say the Bible said that the Holy Ghost came in a
I didn't make that up. I didn't dream that up.
The Bible said that the Holy Ghost came in a bodily shape.
Hey, that doesn't that fit with him moving upon the face of the waters in Genesis chapter number one?
Doesn't that fit with what the Bible says in 1 Peter that he's coming down from heaven to the earth?
So we see that he can change locations based on where he's at.
Now, of course, this bodily shape somehow resembles that of a dove, or he's descending in the way like a dove,
but he's in a bodily shape period.
He's manifesting himself where he can be seen that was the whole point is John the Baptist literally seeing the Holy Ghost
Not only that in this verse. It says this and a voice
Came from heaven. Where is this voice coming from?
Nothing again, or do you think it's coming from God's mouth?
You know who talks people that can talk
God can talk
It's not just an abstract nothing where voices are coming out of it
It's a person with a mouth that's actually speaking.
Everything came into existence from God speaking.
Did you not realize that?
And God said, let there be light.
God spake the whole world into existence.
Go to Matthew chapter number three.
Let us not get goofed up on this doctrine.
I mean, you actually have three right there.
Jesus in the water, the Holy Ghost descending,
and then you have the Father up in heaven
who can hear His voice.
There's all three.
Now, admittedly, yeah, the Son of God, especially at that point in time, has a limited mortal
flesh that he's wearing.
He's obviously limited in that particular capacity.
But and I guarantee the Holy Ghost is not in the same form as the Lord Jesus Christ in
that moment.
But yeah, I'm loosely using the word body to reference the fact that there's all three
of them there isn't there.
We see the Son, the Holy Ghost, and we see the Father.
Look at Matthew chapter number three, verse number sixteen.
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straight way out of the water and lo, the heavens were open unto him.
And he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him.
And lo, a voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved Son.
And he knew my well-policed.
Go to Mark chapters number 16 now. Go to Mark chapter number 16.
Let's just see what the Bible says about Jesus being on the right hand of God consistently.
Now, you know who has right hands?
People with right hands.
But you said, this is silly, Pastor Shelley.
No, no, when you're envious and hateful,
you believe the dumbest things ever.
You can't even believe that somebody has a right hand
when the Bible says they have a right hand.
Look what it says in Mark 16, verse 19.
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them,
he was received up into heaven and sat
on the right hand of God.
Yes, Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God. Go to Acts chapter 2. Now, I'm going to go real fast, so you've got to go quick with me, all right, because it's a sake of time.
Acts chapter 2, look at verse number 33. We're going to do a speed run of these.
The Bible says, therefore, being by the right hand of God, exalted.
Look at chapter 7, verse 55. Acts 7, verse 55.
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.
And said, behold, I see the heavens open and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.
Romans chapter number eight. Romans chapter number eight, look at verse number 34.
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, ye rather, that has risen again, who is even at the right hand of God
who also make it intercession for us.
I believe that Jesus is literally sitting right next to the Father and literally talking to the Father and literally making
intercession for us up in heaven and that when I pray to God in Jesus' name it actually means something.
And you know, it's by His blood that I have mercy and forgiveness and I'm not punished
according to my sins the way I deserve.
Ephesians chapter 1, look at verse number 20.
Ephesians chapter number 1, look at verse number 20.
The Bible says which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places.
Now how in the world, how much more explicit could the Bible be than when it's talking about God the Father and saying his own right hand?
Ah, that's anthropomorphic.
Of what?
It's a symbol. It's a metaphor.
Of what?
How about his hand?
Could it could just be that could it just be simple that it's just his hand
right
Colossians chapter number three go to Colossians chapter number three
Look, it's weird when a fundamental Baptist pastor is going to then start believing all kinds of Catholic doctrine
Or a pastor turns into a modalist or a pastor turns into a Calvinist or a pastor turns into all kinds of weird heresies
That he's never taught been taught
That's weird because you know what usually learned things from somebody that's teaching you and then you have to ask this question
Who's teaching you?
Who are you listening to well? I found this online troll that makes hater videos, and he taught me the Trinity
What would you think a pastor Anderson said like you know after 20 years of pastoring I started finding this online troll and he taught me the Trinity
Wouldn't you be a little weirded out like what's wrong with you, bro?
Like which you're going down the way of Cain
There's something weird going on with your brain Colossians chapter 3 verse 1
If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God
How many times in the Bible have to tell you this like what does it mean go to Hebrews chapter 1 go to Hebrews chapter 1 I
Want to belabor this point more, but I I don't know I
Might come back look at Hebrews chapter 1 verse 13 the Bible says this but to which of the angels said he at any time
Sit on my right hand
Here's another great verse in Hebrews since we're here, look at verse 3.
Who being the brightness of his glory in the express image of his person.
Here's the question, did Jesus look like something?
Yeah, they saw Jesus and they really saw his hands.
I mean that's a huge part of 1 John chapter 1 is the fact that they saw his hands, they handled him, they touched him.
It's a big deal to Thomas that he saw his hands, they saw the print of the nails in his hands.
I mean they literally touched him and handled him and looked at him and you know what, he looks exactly like what?
God the father because he's the express image of his person the father is a person and then if you keep reading
Notice it says at the end of this sat down on the right hand of the majesty on I the Bible is real clear
It's on the right hand
Right hand right. I have so many more of these. Let's go to just Revelation chapter 4. I
Want to just keep going with this topic. I think you realize he's on the right hand or you're an idiot at this point
Revelation chapter 4, look at verse number 2.
And immediately I was in the spirit and behold, a throne was set in heaven and one sat on the throne.
And there's the thing, God the Father is seen at least four times in the Bible.
And every time he's seen, it's the exact same.
All the different descriptions of him, they're always the same.
You know why? Because that's what he looks like.
If you see somebody you're always describing the same person,
it's because it's the same person.
I don't believe that God the Father is this shape-shifting person
that's gonna show up as a black woman named Jemima and make you pancakes.
I don't think that we're gonna go sit on a bench
and a lizard's gonna come up and talk to me and it's really God.
Okay? I don't believe in that.
That is not Christianity.
I believe that God the Father really looks the same,
and if we saw him, it'd be exactly how the Bible describes him.
that he's sitting on a throne, and there's a rainbow above his head,
and there's all these different descriptions of him looking like Jasper,
and there's this, like, clear glass that he's sitting on,
and there's this fire underneath him with this live coal pit,
and there's these special angelic beings, these seraphims, and whatever they're standing there.
I mean, it's always describing the exact same picture every single time.
Why? Because it's exactly where it looks, what it looks like when God is in view.
And there's one sitting on that throne at this time.
It's obviously God the Father here.
Verse three, it says,
he that sat was to look upon like a Jasper
and a Sardine stone.
And there was a rainbow round about the throne,
in sight like an animal.
And it goes on and on and on and on.
Look at verse nine.
And when those beasts give glory and honor
and thanks to him that sat on the throne,
who liveth forever and ever.
Verse 10, the four and 20 others fall down before him
that sat on the throne.
Look, I really believe that God is sitting on a throne.
I don't think this is some euphemism for something, some hyperbole, anthropomorphic, God doesn't
really sit.
I heard somebody say like, oh God, if your God sits, then that means he needs rest.
What?
This is stupid logic.
This is unsaved man's logic.
Look at chapter five verse one, and I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne
I think that God really had a book in his right hand and he's sitting on the throne.
How can you not believe this stuff?
Go over to Ezekiel chapter one, go to Ezekiel chapter one.
Ezekiel sees God.
Same deal.
First take of time, I'll just fast forward a couple parts that I was going to go to,
but you see when God shows himself unto Moses?
You say a similar thing.
In the context of, he's got the two tables of stone, he has to be clouded or in fire,
he has to be kind of just disguised.
But the Bible says about the Ten Commandments that God literally had written it with his
finger.
It says it was engraven and written with the finger of God.
You know who has fingers?
People with hands.
People with right hands.
People that sit on thrones with right hands with books in them.
And I really believe that God really wrote books.
He's a writer.
He's the best writer of the best literature.
He's the best speaker.
Never a man's spake like this man's spake.
He's the best at everything, even the walking.
The walking and the talking and the right, everything.
He's the best at it.
Ezekiel chapter 1 verse 25.
And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone, and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Hey, whenever they see God, what does it look like, a man?
Huh, the Bible says that God created man in his image, and then when they see God and someone sitting on the throne, what does it look like?
Riddle me that.
What does the Bible say, a man?
I'm just telling you what the Bible says.
Isaiah, go to Isaiah for a second.
Go left, go to Isaiah chapter number six.
I'm only preaching a whole sermon on the appearances of God in the Bible,
but you're getting a little sneak preview here.
Isaiah chapter six, verse one,
In the year that King Isaiah died,
I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne,
high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Above it stood the seraphims, each one had six wings.
Now, again, it's going to describe these creatures,
these creatures described in Revelation,
they're described in all kinds of different ways.
Every single mention of God, the Father is sitting on a throne,
you have these special creatures surrounding it,
you have the fire pit, you have that rainbow.
I mean, it's just consistent every single time.
Go to John chapter one, go to John chapter number one.
And you say, I don't think that's really what God looks like.
What's the point?
You know, even if you want to argue, like, well, I think God transcends His own creation.
Okay, you can believe that, but I live in His creation, and when His creation sees Him,
this is what He looks like.
I mean, can you really fault me if the Bible saying that the Holy Ghost has sinned in a
bodily shape, and I say, man, it looks like the Holy Ghost has a body?
Oh, that's blasphemy.
That's what the Bible is saying.
That's how the Bible is describing it.
Why think that the Holy Ghost transcends that?
Okay, you can believe that all day long while you smoke marijuana, but guess what?
The Bible describes God as being something we can actually see.
And we have the Father sitting next to the Son, and the Son sitting next to the Father.
And we have the Son in the water, and we have the Holy Ghost ascending, and we have one
sitting on the throne.
And you know what?
It helps you get away from this stupid, modalist doctrine where you're baptizing people saying
that the Father's name is Jesus.
It never says that.
The Father gave the name Jesus unto His Son.
Is what the Bible says.
He was given that name by the angel delivered unto Mary and Joseph.
But you know what?
It's obviously given from God.
Look at John chapter 1 verse 18.
It would be a pretty pointless verse if you couldn't see him.
No man has seen God at any time because there's nothing to look at, folks.
Wouldn't that be weird?
It actually kind of has value if someone could see him, right?
No man has seen God at any time.
The only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, you have to declare him.
Now, bosom is basically like your chest.
You know, it has chests?
He was bosoms look at chapter 3 verse 13 and
No man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven Jesus was in heaven
before he came down
What was in heaven Jesus and he came down look at chapter 5?
I'll give you one more and we'll move on chapter 5 look at verse 37. There's so much more to talk about in this subject
But boy, I just want to show you the Bible talking about God here. This is what Jesus said to the Jews
And the father himself, which has sent me, have borne witness of me, you have neither
heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
What a meaningless statement if he has no shape.
Oh, you haven't seen his shape because he doesn't have one.
Ha!
It was a double trick.
No, no, no!
Ha!
The only begotten son has seen his shape.
He's literally been in his bosom.
He knows him.
He's seen him, and he's declaring him unto us.
But the Jews have never seen him,
because their faces would melt like Indiana Jones
if they saw God, all right?
Like a lot of these haters would.
You know, just flip back, maybe a page.
Look at John chapter three verse three,
and I'm gonna make a point finally.
You're like, man, what was the point of this?
Well, let's recap for a second.
We don't want to go down the way of Cain.
What does the way of Cain do?
We get envious of someone.
That's righteous, doing good.
It causes us to hate them.
Then it causes us to believe lies, all kinds of weird lies,
like right hands aren't really right hands,
and bosoms aren't bosoms, and walking isn't walking,
and bodily shapes aren't bodily shapes,
and shapes aren't shapes, and nothing's, you know, right.
And then we start attacking people.
Then we start trying to attack Christians,
and attack God's people, and going down a dark path.
We want to make sure that we just start here and say like,
I'm just not going to envy anybody.
Right?
How do you not go down the way of Cain?
Don't envy people.
You know how you don't envy people?
Stay humble.
You stay humble.
You know, the greatest man born among women was humble.
The greatest guy I've ever lived.
I mean, if there's anybody to brag, it's the greatest guy.
John the Baptist.
Yes, Baptists are the greatest.
There I said it.
The Bible says the greatest person ever lived was a Baptist.
I'm just glad I'm on his team.
You know what I mean?
John the Baptist.
I even got his name kind of, you know?
Here we go.
John the Baptist, the greatest man born among women, was humble.
What does the Bible say in verse 30?
He must increase, but I must decrease.
You know, when John the Baptist, ministry was threatened.
When John the Baptist's followers were threatened when people started following Jesus more than him and he was bringing more people to the table than John
You know John said great
He must increase
You know, it's about Christianity. It's about Christ. It's not about personalities
You know the way of Cain is about me myself and I
And these selfish pastors that just love themselves,
they want to tear other people down because they're in love with themselves.
They're in love with themselves and they want attention.
The greatest people got tons of attention,
but it's not because they wanted attention,
they weren't even seeking the attention.
They were seeking Christ and the attention came.
The way up is down.
Humble yourself and God will lift you up in due time.
But boy, when you lift yourself up, boy, you're headed for a destruction.
You're headed for the way of Cain, which is straight down.
Have John the Baptist attitude.
Go if you went to Philippians, chapter number two, you know, the Bible says in 1 Corinthians
13, charity vaunteth not itself.
Charity vaunteth not itself.
Charity, I describe it this way, it's true love.
Charity is true love. It's sincere love true and sincere love is not bragging about itself lifting itself up
It's it's not gonna vaunt itself. It's not it's not about self praise
We didn't you know charity is the the ultimate goal Christianity
You know, this is a church full of all stars. Let me just be honest
There's a lot of people in this church that are some great soul winners, some great preachers,
some talented musicians, people that have been dedicated to Christianity.
I mean, you have a lot of great people in here, but you know what?
Don't try to get in this competition of seeing, I want to be better than everybody.
You know what you should do?
You should be excited when one of the great people in this church does something great.
Hey when someone comes back from a missions trip and they did something awesome you should be there to high-five them and tell
Them good job, and you're just glad they're on your team
Not get envious of them
Hey a pastor Anderson is better friends with somebody in this room than you you know what you should just be glad that they're friends with him
Because he doesn't have many good friends
You know if there was somebody in this room that's actually good friends of pastor Anderson and they're sincere
You should be happy that he has a sincere friend because boys sincere friends are just like hard to find
I just feel like everybody's a traitor at this point, so you know, I'm just saying this how it feels sometimes.
It's not the right attitude. It's wrong because there are some good people. There are some sincere people out there, but let me tell you something.
Boy, you know, if someone's closer friends with somebody in this room, don't get envious of that relationship.
Be happy for them, that they have a great friend.
Don't be envious of someone's wife.
If someone has a more meek and submissive wife than you just be glad that they have it and just say they couldn't handle my wife
Yeah, I'm tough I could take care you know what I mean
If you think oh this guy this this guy is a better husband than mine
I wish I had a better husband that made more money or whatever
Where's taller?
Whatever sorry, I'm short so I don't you know
Don't don't think that way. Just be glad they have a great husband
Hey, if they have a awesome kid just be like I'm glad they have an awesome kid
If they have a better house than you just be glad they have a better house than you if they have a nicer car
Just hope they'll let you take it for a spin
Yeah, I never want to own one, but I love driving Teslas because you can go really fast I
Know all right
It's possible. I've heard, okay?
I'm just saying, like, let's not get envious of each other.
Let us just get rid of all that.
Let's not be envious of other churches.
Hey, this church has more people than us. Okay, great.
Hey, this church has a better music program. Great.
I mean, if I heard of a church, hey, this church got more people saved than you this year.
I'd be like, awesome.
If everybody in my church came up to me and said,
like, hey, I heard this pastor preach a sermon,
it's my favorite sermon I've ever heard.
It's way better than yours.
I'd be like, I want to listen.
That sounds awesome.
I can't wait to listen to this sermon.
You know what I mean?
Like, I'm excited to hear this sermon
because I love Bible preaching.
I love the word of God.
You know, instead of being mad at people being better
than you, why don't you just say, I'm glad for you
and I'm going to work harder?
You know, and I hear Faith Board Baptist Church,
hey, they're doing cruise mission trips,
and I said, hey, let's try to do it too.
Hey, Pastor Anderson's puttin' music to Psalms,
I'm gonna try and put music to Psalms.
Hey, Pastor Anderson preaches great sermons,
I'm gonna try and preach great sermons.
Hey, Pastor Anderson makes cool movies,
I'll try to make a cool movie.
Instead of just tearing people down
and attacking everybody and getting envious and hateful,
you know what, we should just lift one another up.
And we should love one another, we should be excited to be on each other's team, because
you know when you don't, you're going to start believing really stupid things.
Really really stupid things.
You might even make a whole documentary about it called A City Lost.
Stupid.
Let me just, let me just ruin it for you, it's boring, okay?
The worst punishment would be to watch a city lost on one time speed.
And let me say this, if City Lost was an awesome film,
I would say it's an awesome film.
I have no problem saying that.
You know what, it's a stupid film.
And you know what, I don't want to waste money and time
and resources on stupidity and lies.
You know, when you just, you have hatred in your heart,
you'll believe any lie.
In fact, it's just like, who's got a lie for,
oh, weekly, worldly news?
Come on, give me a lie.
The onion, give me a lie.
Democrats, give me a lie.
I believe all women.
Everything you say is good and right.
Just any accusation, and I just immediately believe it.
Don't be this person that believes every accusation.
You know, don't just believe everything that you hear.
You know, especially against people that are good,
that you've known, that are consistent, that are sincere.
I recently ordained someone,
Brother Dylan Oz, of Anchor Baptist Church.
I think he's come and preached for you guys a couple of times.
Great preacher great guy. He worked with me very closely for years and he said
Recently to me. He was just kind of I didn't ask he's unprovoked. He's just like, you know, I've been with you
And I've like seen this but I just didn't believe it until it happened to me how people just lie about you for
No reason whatsoever when you become a pastor
It's like sometimes you just can't really understand how it's just like you just only do good or you try to help people
And people just come out of nowhere and just make up the craziest stories you've ever heard
In fact, there was this person that a couple years ago in my church
They kind of forced their way to come help me at my house for something
Well, they end up covertly taking dozens of pictures of my house and then forging like a 40 page document
of all kinds of information about, like, the tax of my house,
like, the tax statements, and old pictures, and all that.
And crafted this weird narrative to try and make me look like an insane psychopath
and just emails it out to all kinds of people.
And I'm thinking like, who does that?
Who does this kind of weird junk?
Who does this stuff?
And you know, that happens when you want to serve God, crazy, weird, psycho things.
And so if you get a weird email about me, please don't just immediately believe it, okay?
It happens.
And you know what?
If you get a weird email about somebody else in this church, don't just immediately believe
it.
You know, what does the Bible say in Philippians chapter 2 verse 3?
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind, let each esteem
other better than themselves.
What if we just have this attitude of, hey, I'm just trying to, like, encourage other
people and I actually sincerely in my heart believe other people are better than me?
Well, you won't ever go down this road the way of Cain.
If Cain said, you know what, Abel's better than me, because he is, he would have never
He would have never gone down the road.
He would say, you know what, I need to be like Abel.
Maybe he could have asked his brother for help.
Maybe he could have fixed things.
You know, we need to have an attitude where we actually
are trying to look positive towards our brethren,
trying to encourage our brethren,
we're trying to help our brethren.
And when brethren are better than us,
let us celebrate their success.
Let us celebrate their victory.
Let us be excited that they're on our team.
You know, Christianity, it's just the same.
I mean, think about what the new IFB could have done recently
if we were all still on the same team.
I mean, think about what they could have accomplished.
When all of Asia turns away from Paul,
well, now where are all those churches?
We see churches in the book of Revelation
being threatened to lose their candlestick already.
We see churches in the seven churches in Asia.
That's what Revelation's written to.
There's some bad churches already.
It's like almost instantly.
And look, that can happen.
Churches just come and go because people get envious,
they get hateful, and they just,
they're not on the same team.
Let us not be like that.
Let us be people that are excited about other serving Christ.
You know, when Pastor Anderson gets back
and he gives you a report of getting all these people saved,
why don't you give him a high five and say,
Why don't you be excited that you have a pastor that does the work of an evangelist?
Why don't you be excited that you have a pastor that, on the week,
he's going out and getting people saved instead of making a podcast to attack other people?
I mean, what's the point of that? Making movies to attack other people?
I mean, it's just silliness, folks.
It makes literally no sense unless you understand the way of Cain.
That's why I wanted to teach you this stay away from the people that are going down the way of Cain
You don't get envy
Who can stand before envy?
It's a dangerous dangerous road if your envy is of someone
You need to fix that right now
If there's somebody that you don't like because they're better than you you need to change your attitude right now
And you need to pray that God will help you to like that person
We need to like our brothers in Christ.
Let's close in prayer.
Cigarettes turned on my mic.
Offer some more.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for this church.
Thank you so much for Faith Ward Baptist Church.
Thank you so much for Pastor Stephen Anderson.
Please just keep them safe as he's out reaching people with the gospel
Please bless all the other soul winners and those that are out on missions trips or they're not able to make service this evening
I pray they'd be with them help them if they're sick
I pray that you would help bless all the upcoming missions trips the upcoming cruise missions trips
And I pray that you would just help to use this church greatly for your honor and glory
And I pray that you would help us to not have an envious attitude or a hateful attitude towards our brethren
But rather, we would just be excited when people are successful, and they're used by
God.
And in Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
Lastly, turn in your hymnals to song number 183.
Song number 183, Oh How I Love Jesus.
the sweetest name on earth.
Oh, how I love Jesus.
Because he first loved me.
There tell me of the Savior,
the one who died to set me free.
of His precious blood,
He'll sit us perfectly.
Oh, how I love Jesus!
Because He first loved me.
He'll tell me what my Father
Oh, how I love Jesus, Oh, how I love Jesus,
Because he's first love me.
He tells the lovers loving heart,
Oh, how I love Jesus, oh, how I love Jesus, oh, how I love Jesus in the tumors of me.