everybody and welcome to steadfast Baptist Church. It's great to see everybody here. If we can go
and find our seats we will get started with this morning's first song. Once we've found a seat
let's grab a hymnal and all go to song number 124. Song number 124. God will take care of you.
Let's all sing that out together, song one hundred and twenty-
Thank you so much for this church.
Thank you so much for everybody gathered here this morning.
We just ask now that you help us lift up our voices
unto you and praise your name.
And we just ask all these things in Jesus' name, amen.
All right, for our next song,
let's go to song number 372.
Song number 372.
Let the lower lights be burning song number 372
Thank you so much for coming to Set Fast Baptist Church.
If you didn't already get a bulletin, you would like one.
You can lift up your hand nice and high.
Whenever ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin.
On the front, we have our Bible memory passage,
Jude 1 verse 19.
On the inside is service and soul winning times.
On the right is a list of our expecting ladies.
There's several ladies there that you can be in prayer for.
Upcoming events, our FPVF conference is almost here.
So,
That's going to be August 27th through the 31st, and I probably, I'm going to try and make a video either today or tomorrow and release it, but I am making an alteration to our schedule.
So, one thing that's going to change is just, we're not going to have a Saturday service
anymore.
Unfortunately, Pastor Reyes at our Mighty Men's conference, he ended up injuring his
shoulder and he had surgery and so he's still recovering and so he's just going to stay
home and recover for the weekend.
Um, instead of having a service Saturday, we just kind of moved some of our preachers.
So essentially the schedule is going to be the exact same, except for there's just not
going to be a 5 p.m. Saturday service anymore.
So the way the schedule is going to work is Wednesday night.
Pastor Corbin Russell is still going to preach for us.
Uh, Thursday night, we're going to have Pastor Dylan Oz, so we're moving him up a night.
Pastor Anderson is going to be preaching Friday night, so we're going to be moving him up
And then Pastor Thompson, we're gonna have him preach Sunday morning and then I'll just preach Sunday night. So
We're still gonna have pretty much the same schedule for the most part, but instead of having that Saturday
Evening service at 5 p.m. We're just gonna have we're just gonna get rid of that specific service
And we're only gonna do the Thursday. I'm sorry Wednesday Thursday Friday, and then our normal Sunday schedule
We'll end up having a replacement for our Sunday Spanish service
and so we'll update that, but I just wanted to give you guys an idea, put that out there,
I'll update the website and make a new video so that way people are aware.
And also we have down below is our Mexico missions trip,
Brother Diego is going to be leading that for us and it's in Mexico City,
so really looking forward to that. Tyler, Texas soul winning marathon.
It's a little bit east of DFW.
But if you'd like to participate, it's September 27th.
Soul Winning seminar at the church,
Brother Marcel's gonna be leading this for us.
And if you're newer to Soul Winning.
or even if you've just never been to the Bahamas I would really encourage you to participate
in this kind of a seminar he's going to really work on. Just giving some tips about
improving the efficiency of your gospel presentation and just getting a little bit sharper.
Also we have the missions trip to Bahamas October 6th through the 11th and then our famous Texas
You know, for some people, they just don't, they get offended at the idea of not putting beans in chili.
And so, you know, I don't know how they're going to handle preaching.
I mean, I just don't get it.
Um, but, uh...
It's a lot of fun.
We always enjoy ourselves and have a good time.
It's great time to just celebrate
and have fun with church members.
And so if you'd like to come
and join us for some Texas Chili,
October 31st is gonna be that on the back.
We have our prayer list
and you can be in prayer for all of our church family.
That would be great.
If you have additional prayer requests or updates,
please just email us and we'll try to keep.
Our list is up to date as possible. That's pretty much all I have as far as announcements
We'll go ahead and sing our Psalm of the week Psalm 147
All right, that was Psalm 147 and your special handouts
I'm your black binder, let's all sing that out together.
Crazy the bull.
often plates are being passed out go ahead and open your Bibles to Jeremiah chapter 23 that's the
book of Jeremiah chapter number 23
3 the Bible reads will be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pastor sayeth the Lord
Therefore, thus saith the Lord, God of Israel, against the pastors that feed my people, ye have scattered my flock and driven them away, and have not visited them, behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord, and I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries, whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds, and they shall be fruitful and increase.
fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, sayeth the Lord.
Behold, the days come, sayeth the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch,
and a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely."
And this is his name, whereby he shall be called the Lord, our righteousness.
Therefore, behold, the days come, sayeth the Lord, that they shall no more say the Lord
But the Lord liveth which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the North country,
and from all countries whither I had driven them, and they shall dwell in their own land.
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets.
All my bones shake, I am like a drunken man and like a man whom wine hath overcome
because of the Lord and because of the words of his holiness."
For the land is full of adulterers, for because of swearing the land morneth,
the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up and their course is evil and their force is not right.
For both prophet and priest are profane, yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, sayeth the Lord.
Wherefore, their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness, they shall be driven on, and fall therein, for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, sayeth the Lord."
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria, they prophesied in bale and caused my people is real to air.
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem and horrible thing, they commit adultery and walk in lies.
They strengthen also the hands of evildoers that none death return from his wickedness.
They are all of them unto me as Sodom and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
I will feed them with wormwood and make them drink the water of Gaul, for from the prophets
of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land."
Thus sayeth the Lord of hosts, harken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy
unto you, they make you vain, they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of
the mouth of the Lord.
They say still unto them that despise me, the Lord hath said, ye shall have peace, and
they say unto everyone that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, no evil shall
come upon you.
for who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath perceived and heard his word,
who hath marked his word and heard it. Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord has gone forth in fury,
even a grievous whirlwind, it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
The anger of the Lord shall not return until he hath executed,
and till he hath performed the thoughts of his heart. In the latter days, ye shall consider it
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
But if they had stood in my counsel
and had caused my people to hear my words,
then they should have turned them from their evil way
and from the evil of their doings.
And may a God at hand say at the Lord
and not a God afar off.
Can any hide himself in secret places
that I shall not see him say at the Lord?
Do not I fill heaven and earth say at the Lord?
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed,
I have dreamed.
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?
Yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart.
Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams, which they tell every
man to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal."
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream.
And he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat, saith the Lord?
Is not my word like as a fire, saith the Lord,
and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord,
that steal my words every one from his neighbor.
Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord,
that use their tongues and say he saith.
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, sayeth the Lord, and do tell them
and cause my people to err by their lies and by their lightness, yet I sent them not, nor
commanded them.
Therefore, they shall not profit this people at all, sayeth the Lord."
And when this people or the prophet or a priest shall ask these saying what is the burden of the Lord?
Thou shalt then say unto them what burden I will even forsake you say at the Lord and
Ask for the prophet and the priest and the people that shall say the burden of the Lord
I will even punish that man in his house. Thus shall ye say everyone to his neighbor and everyone to his brother
What hath the Lord answered and what hath the Lord spoken?
and the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more, for every man's word shall be his burden,
for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts, our God."
Thus shalt thou say to the prophet what had the Lord answered thee and what had the prophet or excuse me
What had the Lord spoken but since he said the burden of the Lord
Therefore thus say at the Lord because he say this word the burden of the Lord and I have sent unto you saying
He shall not say the burden of the Lord therefore behold I even I will utterly forget you and I will forsake you
and the city that I gave you and your fathers
and cast you out of my presence,
and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you
and a perpetual shame which shall not be forgotten."
Let's buy our heads forward to prayer.
Father God, we thank you for Jeremiah chapter 23 and we pray Lord God that you would fill
Pastor Shelley with your spirit and help him to preach the sermon you've laid on his heart.
Pray Lord that you bless all aspects of it and help us to apply this message to our lives
and be doers of the word, not hearers only. We love you and in Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
And man, I want to look back at verse 29 and the Bible says it's not my word like as a fire saith the
And the Bible tells us that an analogy of the Word of God is like fire.
Now we're having here this upcoming week a conference called the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship.
And I love every single word of that particular conference title because the Word of God is likened unto fire.
And when we talk about breathing, we're talking about what's being spoken by the preachers
that would come to a conference like that, that their word should be fire.
And the reason why their words are fire is because they're coming from the Bible.
If someone gets up and just preaches their own ideas and their own mind and their own
ideas, that's not necessarily fire.
It's the Word of God that should be the fire.
And we need fire breathing, preaching.
We really just need fire preaching in general.
And that's really just the title of my sermon this morning
is we need fire preaching.
What is fire preaching? It's the word of God being preached and we need the
Not all the comfortable things in the Bible
We need the difficult and the hard things to be preached in this country
And I want to give three different reasons this morning about why we need fire preaching
Why have a conference where it's emphasized in the idea of fire preaching because number one ignorance is not bliss
Ignorance is not bliss.
There's this idea out there that somehow fire and brimstone type preaching, fire type preaching,
hard preaching, yelling, or preaching the uncomfortable parts of the Bible is not good.
It's not helpful.
But the reality is the reason why someone would get up and scream and yell and preach
the uncomfortable truths of the Bible is because they're trying to communicate what God really
What does God really think about a subject, and what does God actually feel about people, their sin, our country, our situation, their life circumstances, what does God really think, and not knowing how God feels is never going to help you.
Now, I want to come back to Jeremiah 23 several times in our sermon today,
but for now, I want to go to a different couple places in the Bible.
I want to go to Isaiah 58 for just a second,
and we're just going to kind of bounce around here for a moment,
and I want to look at a lot of verses before I prove these points,
but the reality is some people think that
they'll be better off not hearing hard preaching.
Or, here's even more common idea, is that people think,
you know, I'm embarrassed or afraid to bring
a family member or a friend to hear some kind of a radical sermon
or a hard preaching sermon or a sermon on a difficult topic.
But the reality is, them not hearing it is not going to help them.
It's not like, well, if they just go their whole lives not hearing hard preaching,
then they'll be fine or they'll be good.
No, we all need hard preaching.
I've heard it said, you know, not everybody,
hard preaching is not for everybody.
But that's a bad statement,
because hard preaching is for everybody.
And Isaiah 58 says, cry loud, spare not,
lift the thigh voice like a trumpet,
and show my people their transgression,
and the house of Jacob their sins.
The Bible does not say to ever hold back
the word of God from anyone.
So, you know, I heard this idea like, oh, hard preaching is only for certain people or radical people or extremists.
No, no, the word of God is for every single person.
Whether they're a radical leftist Democrat, or they're the most conservative Republican,
whether they're tall, small, young, old, Baptist, not Baptist, I don't care who you are, we
all need the Word of God.
And we need preachers to lift up their voice and yell what the Bible has to say, whether
it's good, bad, or ugly.
Go to Jeremiah chapter one, go to Jeremiah chapter one.
So we were just really close here, just flipped to the right, just a hair.
Jeremiah chapter 1, look at verse 7.
For thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and what serve I command thee, thou shalt speak."
You know Jeremiah was nervous about being young and preaching the Bible,
but God does not say that the age of the preacher matters because it doesn't.
Because at the end of the day we're just communicating God's Word.
And you know what? If the only people that will say what God has to say are young, then they need to say it.
If the old people won't say it, if the boomers won't say it,
if the middle-aged guys won't say it, well, then you know what?
Some young guy needs to say what the Bible says.
And you know what? Jeremiah being young, God didn't say,
well, you need to wait your turn. He said, no, what?
I don't care what your age is, you just say what the Bible has to say.
And you know what, we need people that are gonna get up
and say what the Bible says.
Oh, how dare you, you don't know what you're talking about.
You haven't been around for a long time.
It doesn't matter, because the word of God is ageless.
It's timeless, and we need people
to preach what the Bible says.
Verse eight, be not afraid of their faces,
for I am with thee to deliver thee, sayeth the Lord.
You know what, oh, well, if you say this,
people are gonna get upset at you.
Yes.
If you preach what the Bible says,
people will get mad at you.
People will not like it.
People will feel uncomfortable.
People will say,
is that preaching about me?
And then of course,
my answer is always yes.
Yes.
If someone says,
hey, was that about me?
Yes.
Were you talking about me?
Yes.
Were you trying to preach at me?
Yes.
Were you trying to make me feel uncomfortable?
Yes.
Yes, yes, yes, oh well you know what I have a I have a mad face, you know what
your little sour-puss face does not bother me. In fact usually it'll just make
me preach it a little bit harder and I'll think like hey I need to dig in
here. So if you're getting upset at the preaching the worst thing you can do is
make a bad face. You should just smile and act like you agree so I'll move on.
because I, you know what the Bible says,
hey, don't be dismayed at their faces.
Don't be afraid of their faces, okay?
What happens if you are?
Verse 17, thou therefore gird up thy loins and arise
and speak unto them, all that I command thee,
be not dismayed at their faces,
lest I confound thee before them.
So he's saying, if you get afraid to preach the Bible,
then I'll make you look stupid.
And let me tell you something.
When preachers stop preaching the Bible and they start preaching their opinions, it always
looks and sounds stupid, because the only thing that sounds good is the Bible.
The only thing that sounds wise and smart is the Bible.
And when you're not preaching biblical truths, they just don't sound right to God's people
anyways.
And so who are you trying to impress?
People are always trying to preach hard preaching but I'll just say this the Bible is the hardest preaching there is
There is no such thing as hard preaching apart from the Bible
You're not gonna get up and make people feel uncomfortable with something. That's true
That's not found in the Bible if you want to preach a hard sermon just preach the Bible
But today many people in an attempt to preach hard. They're trying to preach their ideas
Their views and you know what it's just not that hard. It's not the fire that we need in this world
Go to 2 Timothy 4, and we're going to come back to the Old Testament here in a minute.
2 Timothy 4, let me tell you something, the Bible is for everyone.
The Bible is for everyone, and we need to preach the whole counsel of God.
We need to not hold anything back.
Are you going to ever have the nice conference?
Well, I don't know what that is, but no, we're not going to stop having the Fire Breathing
We're not gonna stop having red hot preaching. We're not gonna stop preaching what the Bible says and you know what?
As long as I'm the pastor, I'm gonna preach all the uncomfortable truths of the Bible
You know, you know, it's not commanded in the Bible to grow
You know that there's no one in the Bible that says thou as a pastor must grow your church
There's nothing in the Bible that says hey you man of God make sure you have a bigger attendance next Sunday morning
There's nothing in the Bible saying make sure you have more money in the bank account next week
There's nothing in the Bible that's saying hey
You we measure a church's success by how big a building or how much money or how many people are attending
That is not what the preachers supposed to worry about
What the preachers supposed to worry about is communicating what the Bible says and
Preaching the hard truths of the Bible. What does the Bible say in 2 Timothy chapter number four?
What does it say in verse 2?
Preach the word.
That is what the preacher is supposed to do.
End stop.
Just end of sentence.
I mean, it's just preach the word.
Why?
You're supposed to be incident season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all
longsuffering and doctrine.
You know what?
The preacher is supposed to do?
He's supposed to put up with y'all.
All longsuffering.
What is that?
Me yelling and screaming and you're not changing.
And then I have to do it again.
And then we have to revisit the same doctrines
and the same ideas and the same concepts
and the same rules and the same sermons
and the same Bible stories.
Why?
Because that's what church is,
is preaching the Bible, is preaching the Word
so that we can come into unity around God's Word.
And not just Psalm 23, all of them.
Psalm 139 and not just the first half,
the second half too.
and Psalm 58 and all the Psalms, Psalm 56 and Leviticus chapter 20, all of it.
Now, go if you went to Leviticus, chapter number four, go to Leviticus chapter number four.
Let me tell you something. As long as I'm the pastor here, everything in this book is on the table.
You say, well, what happens if I bring Graham on Sunday morning? You don't know what you're going to get.
I don't know what I'm going to get either.
In fact, if you ever look at my notes,
neither of us know what's going to happen.
Okay?
I mean, I've said things that I never thought I would say,
all right?
Sometimes I even regret things that I've said.
I get it.
But at the end of the day, you know what?
At least you know, if you come to Steadfast Baptist Church,
it's real.
Am I the most polished preacher?
No.
But you know what?
I'm not trying to win an award for having those polished sermons.
You know what I'm trying to do?
preaching what needs to be said and preaching the truth. And I guarantee the
preacher that's more concerned with just communicating the truth and his little
rough around the edges is gonna have a better result than the guy that's just
making sure everything's so polished and that he never makes any mistakes but
then he's afraid to actually say some things that need to be said. And let me
tell you something, ignorance is not gonna help anyone.
In fact, ignorance is brought up in the Bible a lot.
I don't know if you realize this, but the word ignorance is found in the Bible a lot.
Look at what it says in Leviticus chapter 4, verse 1, in the Lord spake, and in Moses saying,
speak unto the children of Israel, saying, if a soul shall sin through ignorance
against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done
and shall do against any of them.
If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people,
then let him bring for his sin which he has sinned a young bullock
without blemish and an award for a sin offering.
Notice it doesn't say,
if anybody sins through ignorance, no problem.
If you sin through ignorance, you know what you had to do?
You had to have a trespass offering for your sin.
No one got off the hook for sinning through ignorance.
It says, hey, if you messed up, if you did wrong,
even though you didn't realize it was wrong,
you're still guilty for doing that.
Go to Numbers Chapter 15, go to Numbers Chapter 15.
If you go 20 or 30 miles over the speed limit
and the cop pulls you over and you say,
I'm sorry, officer, I didn't realize I was speeding.
He's gonna say, okay, well you were, here's your ticket, bye.
He's not gonna say like, oh, you didn't know?
No problem, no, he's just gonna say,
all right, not an excuse, here's your ticket.
Officer, I didn't know that killing someone's not allowed in this country.
Hey, just let me off the hook. Nope, you're going to jail.
Look, there's no such thing. I mean, is there anything even in our laws
where you just sin ignorantly and they don't care? No, tell the IRS that.
I didn't know I owed taxes. They're not going to say like, oh, you didn't realize?
No problem. They're going to say like, oh, you didn't realize? Well, there's a fee for not realizing.
And there's an extra fee for not paying it on time and we might even repossess your house or repossess your car or take
Your goods and assets to make sure that we get paid on your taxes because you owe them period and
In the same way God is not sitting up in heaven looking down and saying oh this guy doesn't know that he's sinning no problem
He's saying this guy doesn't know how bad it is. This guy doesn't know how mad I am at him
So I'm gonna send someone to scream at him and tell him how I feel
That's how God is thinking because he's like if somebody doesn't warn him, I'm taking him out
That's how God really feels numbers chapter 15. Look at verse 29
You shall have one law for him that sent it through ignorance
Both for him that is born among the children of Israel and for the stranger that sojourn among them
You know what? We should also not have laws for legal citizens and illegal citizens. Oh, well the illegals over here
They don't know any better same law
I don't care if you understand our laws or not, you violate our laws, you get the same
punishment, the same penalty, there is no, there's no reason to allow people to get off
the hook for their sin.
Everybody that breaks the law should be punished the same.
Why?
Because that's how God is.
God's saying that's how we should do it because that's how God is.
Go to Romans chapter number two, go to Romans chapter number two in the New Testament.
Ignorance is not bliss, folks.
People think like, oh, ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance doesn't help anybody.
Ignorance is a sin in many cases.
When Jesus was talking with the Pharisees,
most of the time he rebuked them by saying this,
have you not read?
rebuking them for ignorance.
He rebukes the Pharisee that comes to him at night,
Nicodemus.
He's saying, art thou a master of Israel,
and knowest not these things?
He's not saying like, oh, it's no problem,
you don't understand.
He's saying like, how in the world are you a teacher
and you don't even understand the Bible?
You don't even understand the basic truths
of the word of God.
And you know what, ignorance is a bad thing.
Romans chapter 2 verse 9, the Bible says,
tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil,
of the Jew first and also of the Gentile,
but glory, honor, and peace to every man that worketh good
to the Jew first and also the Gentile,
for there is no respect of persons with God.
For as many as have sinned without law,
shall also perish without law.
Notice what the Bible is saying in verse 12.
If you sin, even though you're not under the direct commandments of the law because you're not the children of Israel,
notice what the Bible says, you shall also perish without law.
Meaning it's not like, oh, if I live in the Old Testament and I wasn't part of the nation of Israel
and I committed one of the sins that God gave to Moses or to the children of Israel, I'm off the hook.
No, no, no, you're still on the hook, whether you have the law or not, because the law of God is written in your heart.
God is not a respecter of persons and you know what? Lying is a sin period.
Stealing is a sin period. Murder is a sin period.
Adultery is a sin period. It doesn't matter if you realize it's right or wrong
because you know what? The law of God is in your heart and God will judge you
according so.
And as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law.
For not that here is the law just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
For when the Gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law,
these having not the law are a law unto themselves, which show the work of the law written in
their hearts, notice this, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts,
the mean while accusing or else excusing, one another.
In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel,
by the same standard, by the same gospel, by the same law.
Whether they heard it or not, we are all going to have the exact same standard,
the exact same measuring stick, and you know what?
Ignorance is not going to save anyone.
Look at chapter 3 verse 9 for a second, chapter 3 verse 9.
And here's the reality you have to understand.
It's a very important point, and it would almost seem obvious.
But...
If ignorance was good, or if ignorance was bliss, or if ignorance was somehow beneficial,
then we would see, outside of Christianity, people that are doing well.
Because if you don't need to know the commandments of God, if you don't need to hear the word of God being preached,
to be a successful person, to be a good person, to do right, well, then we would see that evidenced.
But what we actually see in the world today is people that are outside of Christianity,
other religions, other nations, are a hellhole, are morally bankrupt, are evil,
and disgusting, and that's what the Bible actually says about them.
That's what's being mentioned here in Romans chapter number three is it's
contrasting the Old Testament children of God
with the Old Testament heathen, and the heathen are to represent the
unsafe. It says in verse number nine, what then?
Are we better than they? No and no wise, for we have before proved both Jews and
Gentiles that they are all under sin. Now in verse 10
I believe if you understand the context, he's directing this at the heathen nations.
He's saying, what are the nations like that don't have the law?
What are the group of people like that are not Christian in any way?
Well, what does it say?
There is none righteous, no not one.
There is none that understandeth.
There is none that seeketh after God.
They are all gone out of the way.
They are together become unprofitable.
Their throat is an open sepulcher, with their tongues they have used deceit.
The poison of asp is under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways,
and the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.
You want to know what Hinduism is like? That's what Hinduism is like.
That is what India is like, no peace, no fear of God, idolatry everywhere.
You want to go to North Korea and see what a godless country is like?
It's heavy oppression and communism and destruction and misery and woe.
You want to go to Russia, you want to go to China, you want to go to Africa,
you want to go to the Middle East?
You know what, destruction and misery and woe and a hellhole.
Because without God, they are morally bankrupt.
Without God, it is evil and wickedness.
There is no rest.
And you know what? Ignorance is not bliss.
It's hell.
Ignorance is not blessing anybody.
Oh, man, how dare you preach the Bible?
Look, without the Bible, it's a hellhole.
Without the Bible, it's misery and woe and destruction and death and no love, no goodness.
Why is it that America 400 years ago started with about nothing and is now the superpower
of the world?
It's the King James Bible.
It's the word of God and why is it that nations that have existed for thousands of years?
Look India has been around for thousands of years. China's been around for thousands of years
Why do they still suck to live in because of false religion?
Why look this is how you can evaluate whether countries good or not when everybody is leaving by the droves or
It's illegal to leave. It's bad
When people are flooding your country like little cockroaches, then you know it's good
It's like why to why are just you go to Texas and you go to the mall and now it's just like immigrants
Just immigrants from every part of the world just everyone in there
Why would everybody from the whole why are people from Japan and China and Korea and India and Australia and Canada and Europe and Africa?
Why are they all coming here?
Let me tell you because of the blessings that came from the Word of God because we actually built a nice
Civilization based on the Word of God
Now it's being infested with false religion and is being denigrated
Constantly why is it that people aren't on a hair trigger to move to North Korea?
Why is it that people aren't just like so excited to just move to the inner city parts of India or something?
Look because false religion destroys these parts of the world
Look no one wants to get into communist China. No one wants to get into communist North Korea. Look North Korea is so bad
People are willing to do extreme things to flee this country
They're saving and scraping every single little penny they can get to give money to human smugglers
To smuggle them across the border into the foreign country many of them into
Human slavery and all kinds of just horrible life situations because somehow human slavery is a better life than North Korea
The risk of death and hiding in just some kind of confined space and just being underground and
and trying to flee into some third-world country is better than staying in North Korea. It's so bad and
Then people say like oh, how dare you preach the Bible look without the Bible. That's what the world turns into
Without fire preaching, that's what the world turns into.
You go to China, you can't preach the Bible openly.
Their churches are underground.
Churches in these other countries are underground
because they cannot openly preach the Bible.
They cannot openly preach the Word of God.
Ignorance is not bliss, my friend.
Go to Acts chapter 2. Go to Acts chapter 2.
It's not helping anyone.
If ignorance was bliss, then we would see the evidence of it.
Wisdom is justified of our children.
If we didn't need the Bible to be successful,
then the places that don't have the Bible could be successful.
And we have plenty of sample size.
We have plenty of places that don't want the Bible, that it's illegal.
I think there's, and you could, it's always changing, but I think it's like 40 countries
or something, that it's illegal in some way to either have the Bible or open Bible studies
or a church like ours.
Maybe I'm off on that number, but when I've researched it, that's been a pretty accurate
number in the past.
Middle Eastern countries have laws against it as far as that are under Islamic control.
Places like that are under heavy communist extremism like China, North Korea, these places, it's illegal in many cases.
Some places illegal to do soul winning.
There's obviously, even in Europe, there are passing laws where people can't pray near abortion clinics,
and you get up and you preach the Bible in Germany, they'll just shut down your church as fast and as hard as possible.
You can't just preach all the things in the Bible.
You can't preach everything in Canada.
You can't preach everything.
And look, even probably places like Mexico and stuff,
maybe they don't have laws against it,
but I'm telling you,
you start preaching hard against idolatry.
They're going to come after you.
You start preaching against the customs and the laws
of these areas,
and you are going to suffer for it.
You know, the affliction that we get is the lightest.
But someone needs to preach the Word of God.
Someone needs to preach the Bible and not be afraid.
Ignorance isn't going to help people.
Sometimes you need to say it like it is.
Look at verse 36.
Therefore, let all the house of Israel know.
Let all of them know.
What should they all know?
that God hath made that same Jesus whom he crucified both Lord and Christ now when they heard this
They were pricked in their heart and said an appeal her into the rest of the apostles men and brethren
What shall we do ignorance was not helping these people they needed to be called out and pricked in their heart
So they could actually make a change
Ignorance wasn't going to save anybody.
They needed to be confronted with the fact that they killed the Lord Jesus Christ,
that they crucified Him, and He's calling them out for being murderers.
You know what? That's what kind of preaching that we need.
Go to Ezekiel 33, Ezekiel 33.
The Bible warns in Isaiah about the prophets how they had become like dumb dogs, how they
were ignorant, how they're just sleeping and loving slumber, and they don't say anything.
They're meaningless.
They're not profiting.
You know, pretty much the main goal of a dog, or the main purpose of a dog, biblically speaking,
is to bark and to alert and to warn its owners of danger.
Some kind of an invader or an enemy according to the Bible is pretty much useless
It's not man's best friend. He's like it. He's like an alarm clock or something or he's like a warning signal
And if he can't do that, then it's just like what's the point of even having the dog and that's just a biblical perspective
I know some of you out there are just like I just love little Fido, you know
I put him in my purse and he's my emotional support animal
Well, look if he doesn't bark then he's he's not helping you emotionally
He's not protecting you and you know what most dogs ruin soul winning just they make me mad
It's like they they they're barking at the wrong people
You know, and then you see a lot of preachers today. They're barking at the wrong people too, aren't they?
A lot of preachers today are more mad at fundamental Baptist preachers than the false prophets of today
than the sodomites and the reprobates of the day.
They preach their hardest sermons
against King James only soul winning Baptist
and they don't even bring up sodomites.
I mean, they did when they were our friend,
but now they don't anymore.
I mean, isn't it interesting
that whenever somebody leaves the new FB,
that's the last time they'll ever preach hard against Fags.
They probably won't even say that word over again.
I mean, I'm not saying that it hasn't happened,
but it's like, I would love to see,
hey, someone left being our friend or something,
then they just rip on sodomite or something.
I'd be like, well, at least I like that sermon.
Well, at least they preached hard on that.
But it's like, you never even see that anymore.
Why?
Well, because they're barking up the wrong tree, aren't they?
They start criticizing the wrong people.
And at the end of the day,
preachers are supposed to warn people
against God, like here's the thing, your biggest enemy
in many cases is actually God because
if you go against God and you become his enemy
nothing can snatch you out of his hand. If you become enemies with the devil
well God could still deliver you from the devil. God could still deliver you from man
but no one can deliver you from God. That's why it's a fearful thing to fall
in the hands of the living God.
The Bible's really clear that you don't want to have God become your enemy.
You want to be right with God?
Well, I'm safe. Okay. Well, even a safe person can get on the wrong side of God and
You know as preachers as men of God we're supposed to be
Watchmen now it says in verse one look at Ezekiel 33 verse one again
The word of the Lord came unto me saying send a man speaking of the children of thy people and saying to them
When I bring the sword upon a land if the people of the land
Take a man of their coast and set him for their watchmen
If when he seeeth the sword come upon the land he bloweth the trumpet and warneth the people,
then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet and taketh not warning,
if the sword come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head."
He heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning.
His blood shall be upon him.
But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
But if the watchmen see the sword come,
and blow not the trumpet,
and the people be not warned,
if the sword come and take away,
or sorry, take any person from among them,
he is taken away in his iniquity,
but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Now notice, this is just a, this is just a truth.
This has nothing to do with even the Bible.
He's just saying, in general, cities have to be,
you know, watching out for enemy invaders.
And so just any city is just having people just constantly watch look even America
We have people that are watchmen. We have people out there noticing. Hey our Russian
Nuclear subs encroaching in our territory our enemy airplanes flying over our airspace
Now of course we can let hot air balloons do whatever they want and take pictures and I get that
But I'm just saying in general what you're supposed to do as a nation as a country is
Be looking and watching being at that tower looking out and noticing for enemy invaders warning people
Making sure that we're not caught off-guard, that people don't come in the night and take advantage of the city.
And notice, the watchman, what is he supposed to do?
When he notices danger, he's supposed to blow the trumpet as loud as possible so that everyone hears, that's the goal.
Now, what's the whole point of this parable or this analogy or this symbolism is that's what a preacher's supposed to be like,
that a preacher's supposed to be looking out, noticing danger, noticing invaders, noticing attacks,
and then he's supposed to blow his trumpet as loud as possible, that as many people as possible can hear.
That is the parallelism.
In this particular passage, it's saying though in verse 6, notice that the watchman did not blow the trumpet.
He didn't do his job.
It says, and the people are not warned.
If the sword come and take any person from among them,
he is taken away in his iniquity.
Is the guy that's ignorant, I didn't hear the trumpet,
well the enemy Vader's not gonna knock on your door
and be like, did you hear the trumpet or not?
Cause I don't wanna kill you or take over your city
unless you heard the trumpet.
We're playing fair today.
That's not how it works, he's gonna just kill you.
God's saying, look, being ignorant doesn't save you.
Being ignorant doesn't help you.
Being ignorant won't bless you.
Being ignorant, you still die in your iniquity.
Who's the problem then?
The watchman, though.
And God's saying, look, the watchman's going to be in trouble with me
because he didn't do his job.
If the watchman does his job, I'm not mad at him,
but I'm mad at the watchman that does not do his job
and he doesn't warn everybody and he doesn't blow the trumpet.
And we keep reading.
Verse 8, when I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die.
If thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man
shall die in his iniquity.
Hey, the preachers that won't preach the Bible to their congregations,
God is still mad at them. God is still going to punish them.
God is still going to perform his word against them,
And look, if you go to church and your pastor doesn't preach all the Bible,
then you as the man of your house, you preach the parts that he's not preaching your family.
Because you know what? God will deal with you according to the Bible,
not what the preacher says.
Not what the doctrine of the church is, what his doctrine is, period.
That's why it's important to go to a church where you're going to get a lot of Bible.
where you're hoping the pastor does cover a lot of bases.
But you know what?
You as the man of your house, you're the watchman of your house,
and you better make sure that your family knows what the Bible says
on every page, every verse, every word,
because you know what?
God is going to hold you accountable, not only for you, but your whole family.
You are the watchman.
And you know what?
We don't need fire preaching from the pulpit.
We need fire preaching in the home.
We need men to tell their families what the Bible says and to warn them because ignorance is not
Bliss in any cat in category situation
It says but his blood will I require at thy hand?
We know what I don't want all your blood on my hands. So I have to get up and scream and yell the Bible
Why have a conference like this so that God's not mad at me
God's mad at all the preachers that won't have a fire-breathing conference.
God's mad at all the preachers that don't preach fire and brimstone.
God's mad at all the preachers that don't preach the ugly parts of the Bible.
Don't sit here and think like, oh, God doesn't really like this preacher.
He's preaching all these gnarly parts of the Bible.
No, no, no, God's mad at the guy not preaching the gnarly parts of the Bible.
Oh, I go to this church, we never read Jeremiah,
we never read Ezekiel, we never read Isaiah,
we never read Leviticus 2013,
we never read all these difficult passages in the Bible.
We don't sing Psalm 139, that's offensive.
No, you know what's offensive?
Not warning people from danger.
That's the offense that God gets mad at.
He says in verse 9,
Look, I can't force you to do what's right. You have free will. All I can do is warn you. And if you don't turn, God will still punish you.
Hey, if you don't hear and you don't change, God punishes you. If you hear and you don't change, God punishes you.
What's the only solution changing?
The only solution is changing.
And the problem is, is light preaching doesn't work.
Go back to Jeremiah 23, go back to Jeremiah 23.
I have three simple points this morning.
Number one is, ignorance is not bliss.
Being ignorant is no excuse. God is not going to spare just because you're ignorant.
Now because you're ignorant, sometimes God will be more long-suffering.
Is there a difference between being ignorant and not? Yes.
If you're ignorant, many times God may give you a little bit more grace or a little bit longer to make the change.
So what's really dangerous is when you are not ignorant, you might be on the short stick.
God is right there on the hedge and you don't want to keep pushing him over.
Be careful how you hear.
You know, take heed how you hear is what the Bible says.
Because when you actually know what the Bible is saying and you just don't do it,
that's a much more dangerous road than the one that doesn't know.
But at the end of the day, both are a dangerous road.
Both are leading to destruction.
Both God is mad at and God is going to deal with.
And at the end of the day, you know, ignorance is not going to help you.
People say well, I just I just want to be one of these positive people. I just like to focus on the positive. I
Just want to get benefit of that all the time and I just want to focus on the good things
I just want to be like Joe Lohstein. I'm for everybody
Well, if you're for everybody then you would warn them you would preach with the Bible says
And think about it this way, if light preaching worked,
and when I say light preaching, what I'm talking about
is they're taking the Word of God not seriously,
they're not preaching all the parts of it,
they're not preaching the hard truths of the Bible,
they're not saying things that are offensive,
it's light preaching.
Yes, some of it's a little corrective, yes, some of it is maybe to try and motivate you to be a little bit better,
but they're just not really preaching the serious parts of the Bible.
They're not even really preaching exactly what the Bible says.
They're making it light.
They're lightening what the Bible's actually saying.
If this lightening preaching was working, well, then about 40, 50 years ago when it started with all these non-denominational churches,
you know what we would see? America getting better in the last 50 years.
I mean, if light preaching worked, wouldn't they just put us all out of business
and we would just see these amazing Christians doing these amazing things everywhere?
I don't see America waxing greater.
I don't see Christians waxing greater through all this light, positive only, motivational speaking
that people are claiming is preaching today.
It doesn't work.
Light preaching does not profit.
Look at verse 16.
Jeremiah 23, verse 16,
therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets,
be old I will feed them with warm wood
and make them drink the water of gall
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
Notice that these preachers,
I'm sorry, I read verse 15,
but these preachers are making profaneness go out.
Verse 16,
thus saith the Lord of hosts,
harken not under the words of the prophets
that prophesy unto you.
They make you vain.
Look going to a non-denominational church will make you vain
What is vain meaningless?
meaningless
worthless of no profit light preaching as no profit
You go to these non-denominational churches, and let me tell you something, you will find people that have not read their Bible cover to cover.
You go to a non-denominational church, and you'll find people that have the wrong Bible.
They don't have the right Bible.
They have the wrong Bible.
They will have not memorized scripture.
They're not doing soul winning.
They're not filled with the spirit of God.
And you know what?
They're not cleaning up their lives.
They're still backslidden
and they're not doing what the Bible says.
Why?
Because light preaching makes you vain.
What will light preaching do?
Well, get you on Dave Ramsey's program
where you're paying to get out of debt.
You're paying for his advice how to get out of debt.
Here's some tips.
Stop giving Dave Ramsey money and pay off your debt.
You go to these vain churches that are all about a show
where you watch your preacher ride around
in a roller coaster on stage
and say the ups and downs of life.
What this is this is the nonsense is happening here
The nonsense is happening here where the preacher gets on the rooftop and has a sex experiment with his wife
That's gonna make you vain folks and sells a book about it. Look no one has ever benefited from reading a book called sex experiment
Going and listening to their marriage advice. Let me explain something to you. These non the nominal preachers don't give marriage advice
They give divorce advice
They explain to you why you can divorce your spouse.
They don't tell you how to stay together with your spouse.
They just give you recommendations on how to get divorced.
They give you recommendations on how to get remarried.
They give you, they're just like, oh, are you unhappy?
Divorce.
Oh, that's literally everybody.
There is no person on this planet
who's always happy in their marriage.
Doesn't happens, never happens, will never happen.
If you can divorce from being unhappy
at some point in your marriage, we're all doomed.
No marriage will ever last because you will always
be unhappy at certain points in your life.
Look, you go to these non-denominational centers, fun centers, and you know what?
You'll become a vain person that profits nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
Oh, well, they're so nice.
Yeah, and they're meaningless.
Nice and worthless.
It's just like sugar pills.
So nice.
Look at verse 32.
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, sayeth the Lord, and do tell them and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness, yet I sent them not, nor commanded them, therefore they shall not profit this people at all.
Sayeth the Lord. Let me tell you something. Going to a non-denominational church will profit you none. Oh, well, at least I'm going to church. No, you're not.
You'll become vain and light and wax worse you go to these places, and you know what they will get you divorced
They will get you thinking about the love of money
They will get you on the wrong Bible, and they will get you so backslidden you can never stand hard preaching again
Why because it'll be so offensive to you
They'll put you in teenager jeans with ripped up holes in it and some Metallica t-shirt or something
Well, they go and watch a movie for service.
Watch a Hollywood movie for service.
That's not benefiting anybody.
They're not preaching the Bible,
and they'll water people so far down,
and they'll get your wife to become your boss babe,
and go get a job, and make more money,
and then she'll never raise the next generation.
She'll never take care of you.
Vayne-Lite preaching.
And look, you know, we don't need
fundamental Baptist to become like them.
We need people to become more fundamental.
Not less, not deconstruct the faith.
You know who's been deconstructing the faith is Joe Jones,
which is a light and vain preacher who's not profiting anybody at all.
The guy that's getting up and saying you're just automatically sanctified,
no work needed.
You don't need to do anything.
Look, how does that profit anybody?
Let's just even say that was hypothetically true, which is not because it's idiotic.
How would that benefit any single person to just say you're automatically sanctified?
No work, nothing needed to do, just you're already perfect.
God's not mad at you.
How is that benefiting anyone?
How is he going to read Jeremiah?
I mean, almost the whole Bible won't even apply,
because pretty much the whole Bible, because God's just mad at people.
It's like, oh, Genesis 6, God's mad at the whole world.
Never anybody of us.
Never mad at us. Oh, no, it gets drunk. No, it gets drunk and his son goes in there and looks at his nakedness doesn't apply to us
Lot goes and lives in Sodom and Gomorrah doesn't apply to any of us. Oh
The children of Israel complaining in the wilderness doesn't apply to any of us when you complain God's not mad at you
Oh wait, I'm pretty surfers, Corinthians is saying,
hey, these are admonitions,
so that we wouldn't commit fornication,
and that we wouldn't complain,
and that we wouldn't murmur,
and that we wouldn't go after idolatry.
Imagine the idiocracy and the stupidity
of saying someone bowing down to a graven image
and feeding it food,
God's not even mad at
because you're automatically sanctified.
What a moron. What a fool. God's not mad at a Christian for committing adultery or murder or drugs or doing anything
That's illegal. That's insane
That doesn't profit anybody anything. Joyce Meyer doesn't profit anybody anything. She looks like the joker because he's a joke
She's light
Joe Jones getting up and saying oh, there's no such thing as women's clothing
Women can wear pants.
In fact, I'm just gonna put a TV up in front of everybody
and show a woman in short shorts for the service
to prove that the Bible's not true.
Look, my wife would be the first one to crucify me.
If I'm gonna put women in short shorts up here
on a screen to just for everyone to ogle.
How is that helping anybody?
What images are you in searching for your sermon?
Your little Bible study.
You're trying to find women in short shorts to show before the congregation?
Look, that's wickedness.
That's evil.
That's not helping people.
Getting up saying no rewards in heaven.
Well, then there's no motivation to do anything.
Everybody gets the same reward.
He's teaching there's no punishments on this earth for sinning.
He's saying no tithing.
Look, this is what unbelievers do, this is what false prophets do is they start deconstructing
their faith.
As they slowly, they just pick a doctrine and they just say it's not true, then pick
a new one, not true, pick a new one, not true, pick a new one, not true.
And it's just this slow deconstruction phase where pretty much they're just an atheist.
And look, I don't know if that's where he's going to end or not, but he's definitely heading
in that direction.
And he's not profiting anybody and that kind of preaching profits no one and what will be the fruit of that?
Atheism the fruit of that kind of preaching turns into atheism
It does not turn into people being good Christians serving the serving God look
It makes me wonder how in the world could someone that saved do this stuff. I don't know
And look is he for sure unsaved? I don't know, but I would not put a bet that he saved
I don't care what the odds were if someone's like I'll give you 10,000 to one
I wouldn't even put a dollar on it
And you know you should stay away from these type of people because that kind of preaching doesn't help
We need fire-breathing preaching. We need to tell women get in a skirt and a dress. It's never killed any woman
He said women should wear a skirt
insanity. No, we need the boss babes of this world. No, no, Ellen DeGeneres and Pants is
saving America. Hillary Clinton and Pants is saving America. All the divorce lawyers,
all the women divorce lawyers and Pants is saving America. No, the CEO of Cracker Barrel
And this fundamental Baptist preacher saying women should wear dresses and skirts as ruining America
Think of the insanity folks
How dare you get up, you know my grandma wears pants and she comes to church should be offended. Why don't care?
I mean the Bible says that women are not supposed to wear that which were tamed on the man. Does that matter does that have an application?
Joe Jones is like well, I'm not gonna get into what that actually means. Yeah, because you don't know what it means
It's not a tie
It's like oh well if you go to the women's section of the men's section look, they're so screwed up now
Who even knows what that is? Yeah, you go to Target. It's not the men's section. It's the metro section
It's the effeminate section
And then like tucked in the back corner with some moth on it is like the normal suits, you know
I found like a couple classic nice
You know suits at Target one time and I was shocked. I'll just be on this stuff and then I'm thinking like do they have
Is there a clothing besides?
Is there a suit besides?
That I can wear and it's usually tucked away far away praise God. They're usually cheaper
Men's clothing is actually cheaper
Look we don't need this kind of weak type of preaching where we put a bunch of guys in skirts and dresses and put a bunch of women in pants
That doesn't save America. That doesn't help America whatsoever this kind of type preaching gov wood to
Isaiah 30 good Isaiah 30 for a second
Like preaching is not helping people and let me tell you something pants on women is not helping this country
I mean, show me the benefits.
What is the benefit?
How has it helped?
Now there's more confusion at the bathroom sign door
because you have this weird door sometimes
that has like a half skirt and half pants person.
It's like, what's wrong with that person?
Like, we should just put that person to death.
Like, it should just be a gas chamber that they walk into
and not using wooden doors.
It doesn't work, okay?
I mean, it's just weird today that we live in this society that's so screwed up.
And it's like women that are not fundamental Baptist, they're not losing their mind when
they go to the restaurant and they see a door that has a skirt on it.
Like riddle me that, like, oh, you're preaching so offensive.
Well, are you going to go to the restaurant and see a sign with a woman and a skirt on
it and she's just going to walk in?
It doesn't even say women, it doesn't say ladies,
it just has a lady in a skirt and they just walk in there like nothing.
Then a preacher gets up and just says it and they lose their mind.
Look, it's not the Bible that's the problem.
It's not the truth that's the problem.
And look, telling people this truth is not going to hurt anyone.
You tell all your kids.
Your kids are four or five and they're like, which one do I go in?
The one with the skirt is the one where the girls are going to go in and the one with
the pants is where the guys are going to walk in.
And they're like, cool, that's what I'm going to do.
But then a Baptist preacher gets up and says that and it's just like, what's your opinion?
And everyone else's.
Oh, man, you're just, this is just, you know, why you preach this, eh?
Well, it's what the Bible says.
The Bible says that men are supposed to dress differently than women.
Tell me what that verse means.
That's what's so funny.
The people that disagree with me, they never explain what that verse actually means,
or have any real tangible application to it.
So you're saying that the people in Ireland that wear skirts is wrong?
Yes.
They're like, yeah, but they're the Scottish Kilt.
It's gay.
It's phagody.
And by the way, they're not about to take over the world.
They're not a world superpower.
The Scottish are not about to conquer the land.
They were driven up there because they were inferior.
And their inferior genetics turned them
into having inferior genetics.
How dare you say that?
Well, you know what?
When you get pushed up into an area where you have isolated genetics, there's a reason.
You got conquered.
You got destroyed.
I don't want them coming back down here and trying to put me in a kilt.
How dare you say that?
Well, you know what?
Mixed racing is better.
Why do you think America is better because we had the mix of Germans we had the mix of the British
We had the mix of all kinds of different people and let me tell you something the more mix you get the better genetics
you'll have overall and
Whenever you get in these isolated genetics you turn into a Jew
Why do you think they have f'd up noses?
Look, why do they look in bread look why do Mormons look weird?
You know and I know like you'll see that Mormon Tabernacle Choir and from a distance you're kind of like
Oh, wow, it looks like a bunch of normal people then they zoom in you're like I
Can't find one
They all have this they just look weird
Why because whenever you just get isolated into the population, you know what your genetics deteriorate
They get worse and then pretty soon you start having weird anomalies
Look, and I'm not against people that have these anomalies.
Someone's going to say that I hate redheads or something.
But the reality is, in order to even have
a huge population of redheads, you
had a genetic bottleneck somewhere.
Because if they're just mixing with everybody,
no one will be redhead.
For the most part, why?
It's a genetic bottleneck.
Look, why do you go to these indigenous populations
around the world that have been isolated
and they're all short and have a genetic, just severe issues?
They'll be dying off and having all these problems because we need to be mixing and you know
God's people have always been genetically superior because we are a group of all nations
Look arch our church is gonna be genetically superior because we're bringing people all over the world together and
Mixing together and you know what the children are often better than their parents
Because they're getting to receive the dominant genes from both sides
Look don't marry your sister the Bible said not to marry your sister
I mean, people get mad at what I just said, but do you want me to go through all the Old
Testament and show you, you can't marry your sister and you can't marry your brother and
you can't marry your uncle and you can't marry your aunt?
What do you think the Bible is explaining?
What do you think the Bible is saying?
It's saying there's a genetic problem by marrying people close of kin.
And when you do that kind of stuff, you start getting messed up and you start looking like
Look that's why they look weird, that's why they have weird, that's why so many Jewish women are getting nose jobs
Why because they want to hide the fact that they're a Jewish woman and look I'm not I'm not saying if I was a Jewish woman
I wouldn't get a nose job, but let me just tell you something. You know what they're getting one
And you know what that Jewish woman should do she should become a Baptist and marry someone that's not like her ethnically
And I'm just saying, that's what the Bible teaches.
You don't like the Bible.
I'm uncomfortable, we'll be uncomfortable
because I don't really care.
I'll read all the passages.
It means something.
What does it say in, what do we have?
You say a 30, do we already read this?
Verse one,
Woe to the rebellious children, sayeth the Lord,
that take counsel but not of me,
and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit,
that they may add sin to sin.
That walk to go down to Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth the strength of themselves and the strength of Pharaoh and the trust in the shadow of Egypt.
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt, your confusion, for his princes were at Zohan, and his ambassadors came to Haines.
They were all ashamed of the people that could not profit them, nor be in help, nor profit, but a shame and also approach.
Look, there are people that cannot profit you.
Egypt can't profit you. The world can't profit you.
And what I've noticed is this is what happens in the world right now.
They don't like what I said because the world's actually racist.
and the world wants you to become so tribal
that you'll just basically become like a white Nazi
or you'll become a black panther or you'll become like
Vivian Mechaco or something. I mean you just have this idea where
you just, you can't marry somebody that's not exactly like you or something
and you know what, that's not biblical. And that's not the right idea.
and just going to Egypt and getting their counselor,
getting their advice.
Look, most of the Egypt today is Catholics.
If you go online, who is the biggest voices right now?
It seems like Catholics are just this mega phone today.
People like Nick Fuentes and his ilk.
You have Islamic proponents and other things like that and they're just extremely racist
and have bad ideas and look they can't help you, they can't prop you, they don't have
the solutions to our world, they don't understand why America is the way it is, they constantly
say oh America's bad because immigrants and then it's like okay what about all these white
CEOs, what about all these white politicians, what about all these white bankers, it doesn't
It seems like white people are destroying our country way more than these immigrants are.
And at the end of the day, you know, if you keep going to Egypt, they're not going to
help you.
Who's another Egypt?
How about Steven Crowder?
Yeah.
And look, maybe you just, I just wanted to come to church and you're song 23, well then
just go to Kenneth Copeland's church and he'll tell you to get money.
He'll, you'll get up there and he'll say like,
all right everybody, say it with me now.
Money, come to me now.
Literally.
He'll say it's a slot machine.
Money, come to me now.
You can just say that over and over with Kenneth Copeland.
Or you can go to Joel Osteen's church
and just hear a little pep talk.
Actually you'll have Victoria in a pantsuit
give you a little pep talk.
About you're not really worshiping God.
For him, you're worshiping God for yourself.
That's so you can hear Victoria Holstein tell you.
Or you can just go to some lame, non-denominational church and just watch a movie.
Why don't you just stay home and watch the movie?
You're just going to watch a movie, just watch a movie.
But don't come to church and pretend like you're actually a Christian,
thinking they're watching a movie.
And oh, I just wanted to go to a Baptist church today
where I get to hear the Republican talking points,
where I get to hear the conservative media talking points,
the Stephen Crowder talking point.
Man, did you see they changed the logo to Cracker Barrel?
Well, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, brethren,
I'm just not going to be able to go to Cracker Barrel this Sunday.
You know, they're not going to get up and say something like,
hey, you know what's the problem with the CEO of Cracker Barrel?
It's not that she made the restaurant nicer or cleaner or freshened it up.
You know, the problem is that she's not home raising children.
That she's wearing the pantsuit, but you know what they're not gonna get up and say that because all the boomers in their congregation
Have a short haircut and pants on and they killed like 90 some percent of their children
They only have 1.2 children or whatever and so they're not gonna get up and actually you're buke the woman for what's wrong with her
They're gonna get up and say like oh they took the old man off the sign
Well, you know what nobody went to crack her barrel for the stupid guy on the sign
And let's just be honest, most of us stopped going there because the food sucks.
Did they need to rebrand themselves? Probably.
I mean, you went in and it was kind of gross and degrading.
They cleaned it up a little bit. I don't think that even hurt them.
But maybe they needed to dress the food. I get that and you know, this is what's crazy
They think like oh this woman who was running the company. Oh, you mean like how they had a woman CEO for the
before her to
Were you mad when they had a woman CEO back then too because guess what?
I was because she should have been in the kitchen at her own house serving her family
Not being the CEO of cracker barrel
Yeah, but what Stephen Crowder said, you know liberalism is destroying America. No, he's destroying America
He gets up and he says oh, there's no church in in our area that preaches against bags
I'm here. Yeah, what are you talking about?
Get up with his little partner Gerald to get up and teach false doctrine constantly
Look, that's not benefiting anybody going to Egypt going to the world going to Alex Jones
Look, Alex Jones has been speaking on radio for decades.
You know what?
I meet somebody that's still actively listening to Alex Jones.
I'm not thinking like, look at the fruit of his ministry.
I'm thinking like, here is a tin foil hat wearing weirdo
that has a bunch of storable food
that's not profiting anybody anything.
That doesn't like church,
because you know what, Alex Jones is negative on church,
doesn't use the King James Bible,
is wrong on doctrine, isn't even saved.
He's not helping people.
People got saved despite Alex Jones, not because of Alex Jones.
And let me tell you something,
those kind of people aren't saving America.
Stephen Crowder isn't saving America with his divorce.
Stephen Crowder and all of his ilk aren't teaching people the Bible and doctrine.
Catholics aren't saving people. Orthodox aren't saving people.
We need some badness to get out there and light a fire and to burn down the conservative movement.
To burn down the MAGA movement. It's not saving America.
It's not making it great.
Oh, Trump's going to save America. What has he done?
We need some fire preaching to burn it all down,
to burn down the non-denominational fund centers.
Someone needs to burn down Gateway,
and I'm saying spiritually.
Someone needs to round up all the fags in this country,
like the government, and burn them, and that's literal.
You know the Bible says now,
so not suffer a witch to live.
You know the Bible says certain people
should be burned to death in this country.
And you know what, that would save America.
That would make America great.
Donald Trump's trying to wonder how to get to heaven.
Someone needs to preach him to gospel instead of all the false prophets surrounding him lying to him.
Him going to the wall and going...
That's not saving anybody.
All these churches preaching their Zionism isn't saving anyone.
Look we need some real preaching today go if you would back to Jeremiah 23 I'll finish here's the thing
What is fire preaching look like it's saying you should never drink alcohol. It's poison
You go to most churches they they won't say that you know what we need someone to get up and talk about of the whores of our country
You know, getting up and talking about the problem with this woman, CEO of Cracker Brothers,
it's just tons of women in the workplace.
It's the woman who got a job to become the HR director for Astronomer and is a home-wrecking
whore that was lying with her boss, the CEO, and is becoming a public humiliation.
There's a bunch of home-wrecking whores in the workplace today.
That's why women should be at home guiding the house giving none occasion of the adversary to speak reproachfully
For some are already turned aside after Satan
Women forsaking their children to go in the workforce are after Satan
Well, you know if there's a woman that works that I know okay, sorry
Look if God didn't give you children if you're before children or after children and you want to get your little job
I'm not gonna scream at you and say that you're so wicked and evil
But if you're forsaking your family and your kids to go in the workforce, it's wrong
It's wrong. I
Don't even care of a fundamental Baptist preacher does it and you know what how they're Baptist preachers
Send their wife to the workforce and then get up and preach a whole sermon excusing it
And the same word exception. I know no other people couldn't handle this, but we can handle it. It's weird
Who's reading their Bible and praying and saying you know what, I think what the congregation
needs today is for me to tell them why it's okay for my wife to have a job and for me
to be the house husband.
No one read the Bible and thought that.
No one.
That never happened.
And you know what you'll notice about a lot of bad preaching and even from fundamental
You know, you'll notice about young inexperienced preachers.
It's always an attack sermon and it didn't come from the Bible.
They just pick something and they just attack it.
They're not even thinking about the Bible.
Or the title of their sermon is not a biblical truth.
It's not coming from the Word of God.
You know what? Fire preaching is coming from the Word of God.
Now, does it apply to the world? Absolutely.
Should it apply? Yes.
You know what? You need to say what the Bible says
and you'll scare people to death with preaching.
They'll be like, man, I can't bring my drunk uncle here.
I can't bring the hoarse cousin that I have.
I can't bring my friend that's committing fornication.
I can't bring my Zionist boomer family members.
I can't bring this drug-addicted junkie to church and I'm not feeling comfortable.
I can't bring all the lazy people in my life.
I can't bring all the feminist boss babes here to church without them getting reproached.
I can't bring someone that has false doctrine in here or with the wrong Bible
or that's worshiping idols.
I can't bring the Hindu neighbor without them getting offended.
I can't bring the people in here that are wanting to buy and sell merchandise.
I can't bring the people in here that are dressed wrong and have wrong hair without
them getting offended or people that won't discipline their children or won't tell their
kids what to do or aren't healthy.
And let me tell you something.
You want to make people mad, just preach about being healthy.
It's apparently the scariest thing you can possibly say.
And I'll just be honest, like all the things I preach, the things that makes people the
most mad is just preaching and being healthy.
Last year at the red dot conference, I preached a sermon called gross people and I'll tell you most people didn't like my sermon
And you know what? I thought good job
If everybody likes my sermon, I'm thinking like it probably wasn't that hot
Boy when a lot of there's a lot of mixed reviews
That's when you know it's like that might have worked
And he's like how did you say that? Well, someone needs to say it
Hey, well this preacher would never say it. Well, that's his problem. It's not my problem. You know being healthy is not a bad thing
Somebody needs to preach against faggots and say, oh, when are you going to stop preaching that? Never?
Well, they're not protesting. Okay. Well, that's their problem. I'm gonna still yell about them
Somebody needs to preach about reprobates and divorce and look you even go to an old ivy church today
You go to just a normal old IP church, even some former new IP churches, and you know what?
They won't be talking about alcohol, whores, fornication, Zionism, drugs, being lazy, feminism, false doctrine, idolatry,
the buying and selling that they do in their churches, the hair and clothing standards the Bible has,
disciplining your children appropriately. How about this? Not just flushing all their children down the drain with birth control.
How about being healthy? Well, the preacher can't do that because he has to start himself.
They won't preach about faggots because they got the one leading the choir
and they can't preach about reprobates
and they can't preach about divorce because they're allowing everybody in their church
to get divorced and remarried to each other.
There's so many fundamental Baptist churches I've seen
where they're swapping wives.
How dare you?
Someone needs to say what the Bible says.
Jeremiah 23, look at verse 20, and this is the part that's really important.
Why do we need fire-breathing preaching?
Well, number one, ignorance is not bliss.
Number two, light preaching doesn't have profit,
but here's the last point.
If you actually preach what the Bible says
and you preach these gnarly things and you make people mad,
you know what, sometimes they change.
The only thing that's going to change them is the Bible,
so why don't you just give them a chance to change?
Proverbs 23, look at how sad this is.
The angel of the Lord shall not return until he have executed until they have performed the thoughts of his heart in the latter days
You shall consider it perfectly. I have not sent these prophets yet. They ran. I have not spoken to them yet. They prophesied but
If they had stood in my counsel and it caused my people to hear my words
Then they should have turned from their evil way and from their evil doings
He said, you know what? If the preachers of America would just get up and all just say what the Bible says, people would actually change.
Say, what's the problem with America today? Is it Donald Trump? Nope. Is it preachers who didn't vote for Donald Trump? Nope.
It's preachers who just won't say what the Bible says. That's the problem in America.
And look, if every preacher said it, you can't escape to some other church.
It's not like you can't run down to the light and vain church.
You can't go run down to the water down southern Baptist church or to the non-denominational
church.
Look, they're all deconstructing.
You know, they go from New IFB to X New IFB to old IFB to southern Baptist to non-denom
Or something and then pretty soon. They're just a united Methodist church
It's probably the bottom of the barrel. I don't know then they just become Mormon or something
They just go off in little cults and do whatever they're doing
This is like slow deconstruction phase that people go through and you know what we need to stay red hot
We need to be preaching the fire. We need a fire-breathing Baptist Fellowship conference
Go if you would do Ecclesiastes 7. I'm just gonna give you a few more verses to think about and look
I don't know if hard preaching works.
I don't know if that message is right.
You're gonna lose people.
You know what?
We keep gaining people.
And here's the thing, we're not sheep stealing.
We keep gaining people that weren't
in a fundamental Baptist church.
We're bringing people in that weren't fundamentalists and making them fundamental we're bringing people in that weren't dressed right and they're dressing right
We're bringing people in from that were not soul winners and we're making them soul winners
And we're making them King James only and we're making them actually go to church when they weren't going to church at all
And they're actually making changes in their life. Why because people change with hard preaching
People stop drinking because of our preaching
People stay married because of hard preaching.
Kids don't commit fornication because of hard preaching.
Kids get disciplined and act right because of hard preaching.
People actually make good decisions because of hard preaching.
Now, do people make bad decisions?
Yes, despite the hard preaching.
But let me tell you something.
They don't make good changes without it.
Show me the church where they're not hard preaching
and everybody's making the changes.
Doesn't happen, won't happen, has never happened.
Oh, you just hate people.
You just get up and yell and scream and whatever.
Yeah, because I want you to change.
Cleasiac is 7 verse 5.
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise
than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Go to Revelation 3 and I'll finish.
We need fire preaching.
And you know what?
This church is not gonna walk away from that.
I'm not I'm not gonna allow us to just go and become more soft. I'm not you say
Well, what if you don't grow good, then I don't have to try and figure out buying a new building
And what if less people come I don't you know, I'm not sitting here like well
You know, I'm gonna preach a good sermon if a lot of people show up today
That doesn't matter I
Mean honestly like having people here doesn't doesn't impact what I'm gonna preach or not
My job is to preach whatever the Bible says and to thunder it as loud as possible.
And you know what, if that causes our church to grow, pray as God.
If it causes our church to shrink, pray as God.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
I'm supposed to get up and preach what the Bible says.
And I hope you, as a smart Christian, will have heard this warning and say,
I need to go to a church where they're going to preach the Bible,
where they're not going to water it down,
where they're not going to slowly fade into the old IB phase of their church.
I mean, have you ever, I mean, look,
first Baptist churches are everywhere
that are 100 years old.
Why do they all suck?
Cause they've had a long enough time to suck.
Cause a lot of churches, I mean, just over time,
they just start going down that water down phase
and then eventually they change the name.
It was the first Baptist church of Louisville.
I've actually visited that church before.
They're a Southern Baptist church.
So they were already, you know, going down the drain.
They've changed their name now.
Now it's Valley Ridge.
Look, where I lived in Amarillo, there was a church that was big, Oasis, and it was just like Baptist, real big.
Oasis Baptist Church.
And then, pretty soon I was driving by, now it's just Oasis.
No Baptist anywhere on the sign.
Look, you look at a lot of non-denominational churches today, let me just explain where they came from.
They pretty much came from Baptist or Pentecostals, and they just took the name off the sign.
And they just, it is just watermark.
fellowship. Then it's just experience. Then it's just the door. Then it's just the
upper room. Like where are you even coming up with these names? Like some of
these names at least like the door it's like okay Jesus is the door you know
watermark I'm just like man someone explain to me how that's even real. I'm
thinking like what names did they reject as a church and their little planning
It's probably all the names were better, you know, honestly.
Oh, well, I don't like this kind of preaching.
Okay, you can leave whenever you want.
Revelation 3, look at verse 19.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.
Be zealous therefore, notice this, and repent.
Good preaching should rebuke you, should rebuke the fire out of you,
and then it should cause you to do something, repent.
People are not going to change without hard preaching.
People aren't going to do what's right.
without hard preaching.
And look, why do we need another old IVB church
so that we can all become more effeminate,
overweight, and zinus,
and have cringy altar calls,
and have cringy special music that's real special,
and cringy evangelists?
You know, I saw a church recently
that had 400 evangelists that they support.
And I was looking at the wall
and I had a picture of all of them,
like all of them and their families.
And I think I only saw, you know, forgive me because it's not
necessarily accurate, but I only saw one where they had more than two kids.
And here's another thing.
It seems like a lot of these evangelists, they all have a look too.
And it seems like a lot of these churches, they're not sending their best and brightest.
They're kind of sending their leftovers and their rejects out to go do about
nothing for the Lord Jesus Christ.
You know, we're sending our best, we're taking someone like Duncan Urbanic, who is arguably
one of our best church members, great song leader, zealous, knows the Bible, hardworking,
and we're sending him out on the missions field to do a great work for the Lord.
Oh well, you know what, you're hard preaching, you're going to lose people.
Yeah, I might lose all the weirdos that want to kill all their children and then move to
a foreign country and try to learn a language for seven years while sucking out thousands
They do nothing.
They could go with us in South Dallas for seven years, not learning a language, learning
ebonics or whatever, and getting them saved.
And you can already pretty much communicate.
Look, I mean, it's just insanity what the world is turning into.
Oh, I just want to go to the old IP church where we support 400 missionaries who do virtually
nothing and kill all their children while they move across the country and try to learn
a language.
They moved to Israel
Why do we want why do we want that? Why do we want cringy evangelists and evangelists cringy special music cringy altar calls
Which look if altar calls work wouldn't they be getting so many more people saved than us?
I mean they have them after every service
You know it's more effective than the altar call when you confront a visitor and say hey, what do you believe about going to heaven?
Because that I've seen people get people saved after our services all the time
And I've seen the same people going down to the altar call every week.
They're not getting resaved.
That would be scary.
Look we need some fire preaching today, and you say I don't like this kind of church or this kind of style
Well, you know what all the other styles are welcome for you, but you know what it's not fixing America
I've seen the fruit of it
I can see the evidence of it and you know what I see the fruit of this church every single day
Or we keep reaching new people and making new people fundamentalists and new people Baptist
And you know what don't be afraid to bring grandma to the fire-breathing Baptist fellowship
Bring grandma to the fire-breathing Baptist fellowship because you know what ignorance isn't helping grandma. She's not getting any younger
She needs to hear the message
Ignorance is not bliss and you know what grandma used to live in a day when being a faggot was illegal
She might actually like that preaching
Oh, I'm afraid to bring grandma to here pastor Anderson or pastor. Shall he preach the sermon well?
You know what that's your problem
Cuz grandma needs to hear it and so does grandpa
And so does your cousin and so does everybody because you know what the only thing that's going to profit them is the word of God
Not this light preaching that's not going to help grandma
And you know, it's not going to help grandma never telling her the truth because then she can't change. Oh
Well, you know what I'm offended. I don't like this. Well, that's your problem
We need people to come to the conference. Look, I'm not having a conference so you don't show up
I'm having a conference so you do show up
So I'm giving you so many goodies. We're trying to soften the blow. All right
But we want it to be real what happens and you know, don't be afraid of the Bible embrace the Bible love the Bible
Be zealous and repent
Let's go some prayer. Thank you Heavenly Father for the word of God. Thank you for giving us warning of the dangers of sin
I pray that we wouldn't be offended by the Word of God, but we'd be offended by sin,
that we'd be offended by light preaching, we'd be offended by people that are cowards,
we'd be offended by people that hold back, we'd be offended by people that spare, we'd
be offended by people that lie, we'd be offended by people that are taking church lightly and
not seriously, we'd be offended at people that are ashamed of the Bible, or ashamed
of the Gospel, or ashamed of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I pray that we would not be offended by the truth.
We would not be offended by God's Word.
I pray that He would help us to be zealous,
that He would help us to be on fire,
that we could go out and we could burn down
all the false doctrine and the lies and the deception
and the things that are ruining America.
that we could actually have a real revival where people actually love the Bible and love the King
James and they love soul winning and they love doctrine and they love heart preaching and they
love the old fashioned hymns and they love the Psalms and they love God's people and they want
to do what's right and in Jesus' name we pray men. All right for our last song.
Let's go to song number one hundred and thirty six song number one hundred and thirty six
master the tempest is raging song number one hundred and thirty six let's all sing that out
That is what shall be promised.
That's me.
After the terror is over, the hell of this feeling ends.
Your son is...