Church. Thank you all for coming. Looks like most of us are already sit down, so
for those who aren't sitting down yet, go ahead and find a seat. And once you've
found a seat, go ahead and open up a hymnal. We're gonna start in song number
180. Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful? Song number 180.
Song one eight zero isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful. Let's sing it out together on the first
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Heavenly Father, we thank you for this church.
We thank you for everyone that's gathered here.
We ask, Lord, that you bless everyone that's gathered here
with the Spirit, Lord.
We ask that you fill Pastor Shelly with your Holy Spirit
so that he can preach to us an edifying sermon
so we can walk out better Christians
and we came in for your honor and for your glory.
It's in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen.
All right, next up we have song number 67,
The Pearly White City.
The song has some interesting timing so make sure you watch me at the end of the verse
We're gonna hold out for a minute come in nice and slow on the chorus
And then we're gonna speed up again when we come back into the verse just watch me on that timing
The city itself is fertile
To an old...
To a great awe on the third.
coming down.
On the last.
My loved ones are gathering under
my friends who are passing away
and soon I shall join their bright numbers
and dwell in eternity's name.
They're staying now.
Thank you for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you didn't already get a bulletin and you would like one,
you can just lift up your hand nice and high
and come down and get,
just one of our ushers will come by.
and grab you a bullison.
So just keep up your hand real quick.
On the front, we have our Bible repassage,
Matthew 28, verse 13.
And if you can quote the entire chapter,
you can get a prize, but also if you can quote
the verse of the week and you're 18 and under,
there is a treat for those on our Wednesday night service.
Inside, we have our service times, our soul winning times.
One note is,
Brother Ili's time that was meeting here at the church
on Saturday afternoons is now gonna be meeting
in the North Dallas area.
And so instead of just meeting here,
there's gonna meet in the North Dallas area.
And if you'd like to participate,
you can just message him or put a message out
to one of our soul winning captains or lieutenants
and we can get you in contact with them.
Also down below is our church stats.
And we've been doing really good for February.
Hopefully we can even do better than we did for January.
We'll just keep going.
And then also on the right, we have our list of expecting ladies.
We have upcoming events, and we have our evangelist,
evangelist Fer, and some other church members
are going to be going on a cruise missions trip next week, or this week.
And so, make sure to be praying for them, that everything would go smoothly.
And we're really looking forward.
They're going to be traveling to several different destinations.
They're going to be going to the Bahamas.
They're going to be going to St. John and St. Thomas.
And so I'm really excited to find out and hear about
how that goes and what their experiences are like.
Of course, we've had so many people go to the Bahamas.
We already know that's gonna be a great spot,
but I'm kind of interested to see what their experiences
are like in St. John and St. Thomas as well.
And so be praying for them.
Also, there's a Spanish soul-winning marathon
that's gonna be happening on March 8th.
That's a Saturday.
We'll be meeting here in the morning.
And then we'll go out for a couple hours of soul winning and we'll also have lunch and go out in the afternoon as well
The areas that we're going to be targeting are going to be predominantly Spanish-speaking areas
of course because we're in Texas you could always run into people that speak English, but
The areas that we're going to going are are
designed to be areas where there's mostly Spanish speaking individuals. And so if you want to
participate with us, you can of course do so. But if you don't speak Spanish, you may not necessarily
have the opportunity to preach the gospel very much. You might need a silent, you might be a
but it is gonna be predominantly doing Spanish speaking.
We have some flyers that we've made
and we're gonna be advertising a breakfast
the following Sunday morning
and encouraging people to come to our Spanish services.
And so that's just for you to know.
If you do come to some of our Spanish services,
that might be a great service to show up for
and to just participate and to help in.
Also, our kid's choir is gonna be practicing March 2nd.
We have a spring recital happening March 22nd
And so keep those dates in mind a couple church reminders there below on the back
We have our prayer list. That's pretty much all I have as far as announcements are concerned
We'll go ahead and sing our third song, which is in our binders. It's it's actually a hymn that I wrote
It's a pretty simple hymn. It's called where the spirit blows. It should be probably the last one in your binder. So
Brother Rich is going to give us some instruction.
Where the wind blows.
Where the spirit blows, sorry.
All right.
Where the spirit blows, I want to hear those go, go, goes,
all right?
On the last of the chorus, on the go,
I want to hear it real loud.
We will go, all right?
All the first.
Jesus will be overland in sea, red, black, and white,
sweet in His sight.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go, go, go, go.
Where the Spirit blows, we will go.
Yellow and brown to every town
Not just the Jews, let's go in twos
Where the spirit flows, we will go
Go, go, go, where the spirit flows
We will go!
I'm going to speed it up a little bit on the third.
St. Christ, we bow, but He arose.
Christ, we are close, whence we rank close, we wail.
As the offering place are going around would you please turn your bibles to Romans chapter number one Romans chapter number one
Romans 1 the Bible reads, Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated
unto the gospel of God, which he had promised to four by his prophets and the holy scriptures.
Concerning his son, Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according
to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of
By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name,
among whom are he also the called of Jesus Christ.
To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints,
Grace to you in peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all that your faith is spoken of throughout
the whole world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son,
that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers. Making request, if by any means now
at length, I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you. For I long to see
the end you may be established, that is, that I may be comforted together with you by the
mutual faith both of you and me.
Now I would not have you ignorant brethren that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you
But was let hitherto that I might have some fruit among you also even as among other Gentiles
I am deader both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians both to the wise and to the unwise
So as much as in me is I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe it
to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith,
as it is written,
the just shall live by faith.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men
who hold the truth in unrighteousness,
because that which may be known of God is manifest in them,
for God hath showed it unto them.
For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead,
so that they are without excuse.
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God.
Neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man
and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts
to dishonor their own bodies between themselves,
who changed the truth of God into a lie
and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator,
who was blessed forever. Amen.
God gave them up unto vile affections, for even their women did change the natural use
into that which is against nature, and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly,
and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet."
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity,
whisperers, backbiter, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, without understanding covenant breakers, without natural affection.
implacable, unmerciful, who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy of
death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. Let's bow our heads forward
to prayer. Father in heaven, I pray that you bless all aspects of this morning's sermon.
Phil, Pastor Shelley, with your spirit, enable him to preach the message you've laid on his heart
with boldness and with clarity of mind and help us, Lord, to apply this sermon to our lives. Give
And then I want to look back at verse 29, just the last word, the Bible says whispers backbiter's
haters of God.
That's the title of the sermon this morning is whispers backbiter's haters of God.
towards the end of the chapter, the Bible is contrasting the saved with the reprobate,
those that are the righteous, those that are the wicked and the evil. And as it kind of describes
these people towards the end of this chapter, it gives us a long list of all kinds of things
that the wicked do. Of course, it's talking about in verse 29 being filled with
all unrighteousness. So every sin, everything you could think of that's wicked or against God,
reprobates are doing, they're being filled with, they're constantly guilty of doing these things.
But look at chapter two verse one for a second.
Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man,
whosoever thou art that judgest,
for wherein thou judgest another,
thou can dimmest thyself.
For thou that judgest doest the same things."
Chapter 2 verse 1 explains that even though
reprobates are guilty of this laundry list
of things that we've just read about,
Also, many people that are not reprobate
are also guilty of these same sins.
We don't want to necessarily say
only a reprobate would commit these type of sins
or guilty of these type of actions.
No, unsaved people can commit these sins
that are just normal and even saved people
can commit many of the sins on this list.
And so we don't want to limit the scope of these sins
just to the most evil reprobate people society.
We have to understand that your flesh is capable.
committing all the same sins as another unsaved flesh barring a few just
strange things. Of course there's a few abominable things the Bible says even a
normal person that's unsaved wouldn't do but being a whisper, being a backbiter
and even potentially being a hater of God is something that virtually anybody
is capable of being guilty of at some point in their life of despising the
Lord or whispering or being a backbiter and really what I find in common with
3 people is they all seem to be false accusers that could be another alternative title for
this morning's sermon is just false accusers, but you'll notice that that's really what
these people are often guilty of in the Bible.
Now, go through to 2nd Timothy, chapter number 3, go to 2nd Timothy, chapter number 3.
It's almost like there's three kind of categories
of false accusers.
You've got whispers, you've got backbiders,
and you've just got haters of God.
And all of these people just love
to bring false accusation on a regular basis.
And the Bible warns about false accusers,
especially in the end times.
The Bible says as you get closer to the end times
and you're in the end times,
false accusations are gonna abound.
Look at verse number three here.
Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers.
The Bible warns that in the latter days,
there should be perilous times, meaning dangerous.
And why is it dangerous?
Because there's so many false accusers in this world.
Now, go over to Titus.
Just turn to the right, just a hair.
Titus chapter 2.
Look at verse number 3.
The Bible is talking about the aged women being older women.
It's saying the aged women likewise,
that they be in behavior as we come with holiness.
Older ladies are to have good behavior
so as to motivate and encourage the younger women
to also have good behavior.
And then the Bible gives us a big list here
of some of the things that they are to do and not to do.
As we keep reading it says, as the first one,
what is the first one?
not false accusers.
It's just saying like,
hey, women need to be in good behavior.
What is just number one?
What is just the first thing being brought up
that women should not be is a false accuser?
Because it's just so common, it's just so prevalent in society that women are false accusers and not just young women, older women as well, the aged women being false accusers and then encouraging young women to follow in like suit of being a
false accuser of being a gossip of a busy body, a tatler,
going after the working of Satan, as the Bible describes.
And you know, it's not just reprobates that are false accusers.
It's not just normal, unsafe people. It's even Christians sometimes
can be guilty of being a slander, of being a false
accuser. Go to 1 Peter chapter number three. Go to 1 Peter chapter number three.
If you study your Bible, if you just read the book of Psalms
Just read the book of Psalms one time.
You'll notice this giant theme in the book of Psalms.
It's how the men of God are constantly being lied about
and falsely accused.
I mean, it is just, just...
Every chapter almost just over and over how the enemies are resting his words and lying and deceit and dissembling and fraud
I mean, there's just a laundry list of synonyms for just being a liar or slander or a railer or just false accuser
Dissembler flatterer. I mean you just have like so many different ways of describing just the same sin over and over
And you have to think about it. Why because they're being influenced by the devil
What is the devil's hallmark? What is the devil? Who is he? He is the father of lies
You have to understand that our world is truth versus lies
The only truth in this world is the King James Bible is the word of God and the lies of this world abound
And they're coming from the father of lies the devil and so this world is just filled with his lies and truth
And we have to understand where the truth is coming from is from this book
and the lies are coming from everything outside of this book coming from the
devil who wants to get you off of this book first Peter chapter 3 look at verse
13 the Bible says and who is he that will harm you
If you be followers of that, which is good.
But if you suffer for rights and the sake, happy are ye.
And be not afraid of their terror and neither be troubled.
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always
to give an answer to every man that asks of you
a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.
Having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you
as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse
your good conversation in Christ.
For it is better if the will of God be so,
that he suffered for well-doing than for evil-doing.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins,
the just for the unjust.
So, here in this passage, it's bring up this concept
that if you serve God.
If you are a Christian, if you're doing that which is right,
people will falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
And the word conversation is kind of a hard word for me.
I often just kind of struggle because I'm always thinking about
we just conversating, having a conversation talking to one another.
But it's a little bit...
Older meaning is just your behavior in general.
It's just kind of your conduct and your behavior.
And so it's saying they're falsely accusing
your good behavior, your good conduct.
So you're doing things that are good
and then they're gonna falsely accuse you.
I want you to think about that for a minute though.
They're not accusing you or saying evil of you
for the things that you're doing.
They're falsely accusing you. So you're going to church. You're reading your Bible. You're going soul winning
They're gonna then make up
false accusations because you're going to church,
reading your Bible, but they're not going to sit here
and criticize necessarily, hey, you go to church,
hey, you read your Bible.
They're going to bring up something that's not true.
They're going to falsely accuse you
of something that's not really happening
and then they're going to attack you.
And so you shouldn't be shocked
when someone just makes up a random lie about you
that has no basis in truth because you are serving God.
If you serve God, if you have a good conversation,
if you're trying to avoid alcohol,
if you're trying to avoid drugs,
if you're trying to avoid the party scene,
if you're trying to live a clean life,
if you're trying to just be faithful to your spouse
and raise children and go to church and read the Bible,
and you're trying to go soul-winning
and you're trying to just do good at your job,
people will come out of the woodwork
and they'll just make up all manner of lie
and false accusation and crazy rumors about you.
And let me just tell you, it is jarring.
It is absolutely jarring and dumb-founding
when it happens.
You can't even believe it.
And for the vast majority of my life,
for the vast majority of my life,
I don't really remember.
I'm sure it happened occasionally.
I don't really remember people making
just wild false accusations about me.
I mean, just going up, going to public school,
playing golf, going to college,
living my normal life, working at the workplace.
I don't remember people just constantly lying about me
and saying all kinds of things,
and I'm sure it did happen occasionally.
I'm sure there was always issues and stuff,
but it's pretty minor.
But I'll tell you, when I started serving God,
it's just like all of a sudden,
just people just out of the woodwork,
family, friends, all kinds of,
just saying the most insane things I've ever heard
in my life that have no basis in reality.
And it's really disturbing.
It's it's it's it's emotionally draining sometimes because when you're just falsely accused you just want to you want to
Exonerate yourself you want to make sure that they are taking a task
You want to make sure that they take it back you want to make sure that you're proven right
You want to make sure that people don't believe the lies about you and it's just it's a really grievous thing
It's a really frustrating thing. No one likes it and I just want to prepare you that if you serve God this will happen to you
Who would say, hey, since getting serious about church,
someone just came out of the woodwork
and just made a crazy lie up about me?
Yeah, look all over the room.
You're not the only one.
People just randomly make crazy lies up about you,
and you're just thinking like, I don't even get it.
I don't even understand where this is coming from.
It's coming from your good conversation in Christ.
It happens to everyone that serves God and serves Christ.
Yeah, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus
shall suffer persecution.
Go to Matthew 5 for a moment.
Go to Matthew 5.
And notice that Jesus brings this up.
You have to realize that for the most part,
you know when when you're just serving the devil people kind of leave you alone sometimes in fact
They might even encourage you in serving the devil
But boy when you start serving God now the false accusations are going to roll out now
You you're basically going to be a target for demonization
Matthew chapter 5 look what it says in verse number 10
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
Blessed are ye when men share a vial you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.
Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Now if you actually just pay attention throughout the Bible, you'll notice that the great men of God are constantly being lied about and there's no basis of reality whatsoever.
People like Jeremiah, who preached really hard against the children of Israel,
they constantly accused him of being a traitor.
They constantly accused him of falling to the Chaldeans
and being this basically double spy and having been like this evil, conniving person
that's trying to destroy them, when in fact he's just a messenger of God trying to deliver them.
He actually loves them and he cares greatly for them.
Hosea is lied about.
You see, all kinds of different Amos is lied about.
Joseph is lied about.
They bring him before a pilot and they say, you know, what has he done wrong?
He's like, well, if you're not, we're not a male factor.
We would have not brought him unto you, but it's like, was Jesus a malefactor?
No. They accused him of trying to overthrow the Roman government.
Was he trying to do that? No. They tried to accuse him of destroying buildings.
Was he doing that? No. So they're just gonna bring up all kinds of just crazy,
wild, conspiracy theory, strange things against
men of God on a regular basis. Naboth lied about.
Joseph lied about, I mean he just picked somebody in the Bible
and they're basically just lied about. You know Moses is being accused of
being in confederate with God to drag them out on the wilderness
to cause them to just be destroyed. We're not graves in Egypt.
You know it's like you just brought us out in this wilderness you know to kill us, to slay us and stuff like that.
It's like Moses delivered you out of captivity.
I mean, he delivered you out of your prison in Egypt and now you're falsely accusing him of his good conversation in Christ, that he loves the Lord.
And that's what's so funny is people will take people that are doing something good for the Lord, they go to church, they love their family, they're doing right, they're going soul winning, and then they just have to hate on them.
And really, it's just their problem, it's their fault. Go view it to Psalm 41, go to Psalm 41.
So when we talk about false accusers though, they come in different shapes and sizes.
They have different motives, and even the whispers
and back fighters in my mind are just really similar.
Like it's really a pretty similar concept.
I think there's a little bit of nuance to them,
and we can see some different motivations in there.
And when we really look at a whisperer,
One of the things that the Bible brings up and we'll get there in a moment, but is the concept of how they want to just essentially
Destroy friendships that is kind of like one of their main goals is what a whisper does now in Psalm 41
Just look at verse 7 first all that hate me whisper together against me
Against me do they devise my hurt?
the book of Psalms is a great book because not only does it have application for us, but
It's often talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.
And we know about the Lord Jesus Christ,
that there was many people constantly whispering
against Jesus and trying to conspire against him
and they ended up destroying him.
And so you have parallels of the psalmist
talking about Jesus.
You have parallels of the psalmist
talking about himself and even David.
He had his enemies whispering about him.
Saul, Saul is a whisperer.
Saul is one who's saying things in private
He wants to kill David and he wants to slay David.
And so he's going around whispering and he wants people to not be friends with David.
He wants Jonathan to not be friends with David and we see Saul exhibiting this attribute
of whispering in some parts of his life.
And you have to understand, if Saul can do it, any saved person can do it.
Saul was anointed king by God, Saul was considered humble in his own sight, little in his own sight.
He was greatly used by God in one portion of his life.
So that tells me that any person could become a Saul at any point,
and anybody could become a whisperer at any point.
And whispers are not someone that is friendly.
Whispers are hateful.
Did you notice what it said?
All that hate me whisper together.
Notice a word in this verse.
All did you notice that word Calvinist all?
Every single person that hates him whispers
Every single person that hate is hateful
is whispering about them.
So you should basically just realize
people that are whispers are hateful.
They're hateful people.
Don't allow them to deceive you and make you think,
oh no, this is a friendly, kind, good person,
but I know they're whispering about this other person.
No, no, no, a whisper is hateful.
Amen.
And you should be aware of whispering.
When someone comes and wants to whisper in your ear
about someone else,
just realize they're a hateful person.
And just realize they'll whisper about you as soon as you're not looking as soon as you're not around and really you have to just
Realize some people just want to watch the world burn
Some people just want to watch the world burn and this is often what a whisper is like
Is they're just going around just they're a destructive force and they just want to destroy anything and everything
They're jaded. They're upset. They're envious
They have their own prideful issues and so they just want to watch the world burn. That's called the devil folks
The devil is not content just going to hell by himself
He wants to watch the world burn with him.
He wants to drag down as many people with him as possible.
And this is a satanic attribute
that people that are on their way down
want to drag as many people down with them as possible
and they want to burn everything in their sight.
They want to pull a Zemri
and say, well, if I can't have the kingdom, no one can.
Let's just burn everything down with me.
Now, this Psalm is actually a great Psalm.
I want to read a little bit of it,
and then we're going to move on.
But it says in verse one,
blesses he that considered the poor,
the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble,
the Lord will preserve him and keep him alive,
and he shall be blessed upon the earth,
and that will not deliver him
under the will of his enemies.
The Lord will strengthen him
upon the bed of languishing.
That will make all his bed and his sickness.
I said, Lord, be merciful unto me.
Heal my soul for I have sinned against thee.
Now a couple things to point out.
Number one, if you want to be delivered from your enemies,
help poor people.
Isn't that, I mean, that's kind of what it's saying.
Now, of course, when you help people,
you don't want to let your left hand
know what your right hand do it.
You want to do your alms in secret
and you want to do good and bless people.
But, you know, just people that are just generally
going out of their way to help poor people
considering them and doing things for them.
These are the people that you're constantly
seeing being delivered.
And we won't know that's why they're delivered,
but the Bible tells us that's why they're delivered, right?
Verse number four, though,
also we see that the psalmist says,
frives sinned against thee.
This is not a perfect guy.
I'm so glad I read verses like this.
I'm so glad that I read verses where I realize,
hey, the Psalmist is also not perfect,
because you know what? I'm not perfect.
And sometimes I sin, and sometimes I make mistakes,
and sometimes I screw up,
and sometimes I'm not right with God.
And you know what?
What we're supposed to do?
Get right with God.
Hey, when you sin...
Go back to the Bible. Go back to church. Go back out soul winning
You know one of the best cures for getting out of a backslidden nature or if you're sinning too much is to go soul winning. I
Mean I've heard some people criticize saying if you're too sinful stop going soul winning. That's the worst advice
The best advice is start doing spiritual things.
You just immediately start walking in the spirit
and try to realize the whole point of your life.
I mean, the woman of the well
is in a pretty sinful condition,
but then she immediately just drops her water pot,
goes and tells a whole bunch of people about Jesus,
and helps a lot of people get saved.
I mean, that's a great move.
She shouldn't have been like,
I need to wait to stop being sinful for a while
before I can tell anybody about Jesus.
No, she just went out there
and told a bunch of people about Jesus.
And you know what you often find
is that when you start serving God, it feels good.
So I just encourage you to keep walking in the Spirit more anyways, okay?
But there's nothing wrong with walking in the Spirit at any point in your life, okay?
That would be a silly idea to say like, you need to wait to start serving God.
No, serve God right now.
Just make a change, just repent right now and start reading your Bible, going to church,
whatever it is, just make a change.
Verse five says, this might enemies speak evil of me.
When shall he die?
Notice that they are just not content with this person existing.
They just want him to die.
They're just ready for him to perish.
Verse 6,
So this guy is just going around, just dreaming things up,
gathering iniquity.
He goes everywhere and just tells everything.
Everything he says is just vain and meaningless.
It says in verse seven,
all that hate me whisper together against me,
against me do they devise my hurt?
So they're plotting.
They're not just whispering.
They're plotting, they're thinking,
how can I destroy this person?
How can I hurt this person?
How can I do them some evil?
And they devise something,
and then they start whispering and spreading lie,
and spreading gossip, and spreading whatever,
because they just want to hurt this person.
Verse eight and evil disease say they cleave it fast unto him and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more
So it's like this guy's down
I mean, you kind of get a picture, the psalmist is sinned and the psalmist is at a weak point.
They're kind of at a low point because he's lying down and they're saying, oh, he's down.
He's never going to get back up and we can't wait for him to die.
And they're just going around saying all kinds of evil against him.
They're kicking him while he's down.
Which did eat of my bread hath lifted up his heel against me boy
I'll tell you it just really hurts when people lie about you that you thought were your friend and
Not that you thought were your friend that just was your friend
I'm saying you hung out with this person you broke bread with this person you did activities with this person
You went to church with this person and then they just lift up their heel against you
It just it's a special kind of cruel punishment
It's a special kind of evil to hurt people that you are friends with verse 10
But thou, oh Lord be merciful unto me and raise me up that I may requite them. So you're saying hey God
Heal me
Make me better so that I can repay them that's what he's saying that I can requite them
By this I know that thou favor is me because my enemy does not triumph over me and as for me
Thou uphold us me in mine integrity and set us me before thy face forever
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting. Amen. Amen. So again, the soulness is not perfect
We already saw that, but at the same time he still has righteousness. Did you notice that it says in verse number 12?
And as for me thou uphold us me in mine integrity. So again, no one's gonna be perfect. We're all gonna have sin
We're all gonna make mistakes, but there's the guy that's actually still sincerely pursuing the Lord
That's the just man that falls seven times. It's rising up again
And then there's the guy that just simply is sinning and doesn't care
He's presumptuous in his sin, he's presumptuous in his rebellion, he's adding iniquity to his
rebellion and you know that's a different kind of person and the Lord is going to hear those
that are of a contrite and broken spirit and are trying to serve God and recognizing their need
for his grace and humility and there's the person that doesn't care that they sin they don't think
God's going to punish them and let me tell you something that the person that is humble God
will show grace unto and the forward person God will show himself forward unto that person as well.
When you're a contrary person go over to Proverbs chapter 16 Proverbs chapter 16, but let me tell you something whispers are
Evil wicked people
They are not your friend
You just you should just immediately
Think wow, I don't want to be your friend if you're gonna whisper to me about other people
And it's just an easy temptation
Because this is what typically happens a lot of times people will come and whisper to you about someone that you already don't like
It's really easy to hear whisperings about people you don't like
Because in some cases your carnal flesh kind of just wants it to be true. Anyways, you're just kind of like yeah, I bet yeah
Of course that guy's bad. Yeah, of course does happen, you know, but we don't want to be around whispers because let me tell you something
They're just not your friend
What is the point of a whisper?
Well, let's read look at verse 27
An ungodly man digs up evil, and in his lips there is, as a burning fire,
a throwered man sow a strife, and a whisperer separates his chief friends.
So here's the thing, the whisperer doesn't have friends.
You know why?
Because he's a whisperer, because he's hateful, because he's a rotten person.
What does the Bible say?
A man that has friends must show himself friendly.
Let me tell you something, these whispers aren't friendly type people.
but they'll just kind of flatter you a little bit
and they're usually a light acquaintance,
but then they'll come around
and they'll just whisper to you about someone else.
It is not that they want to be your friend,
they just want to destroy the friendship you have
because they're envious of your friendship.
They're mad that you're closer to this person
and that just irks the fire out of them.
They say, I want to be this person's friend
and I'm just mad that you're good friends with them
so I just want to whisper
so that y'all stop being friends.
Their whole goal is just to destroy. Did you notice what it said in verse 27?
It said, in his lips
there is as a burning fire. Let me tell you something. You know what that means?
They just want to watch the world burn.
They want to burn friendships.
They want to burn relationships.
They want to burn marriages.
They want to burn families.
They want to burn churches.
They want to burn soul winners.
They want to burn the work of God.
They want to burn godly women.
They want to burn men that actually rule their household.
They want to burn democracy.
They want to burn our presidency.
They want to burn the Constitutional Republic.
They would love to burn the Constitution.
And you know what?
They'd love to burn this book while they're at it.
And they'd love to burn everything
that's godly and true and righteous.
They would burn everything
and we would just become a communist hellhole so fast.
Because they just want to watch everything burn.
And let me tell you something.
We should stay away from whispers
because they are not good people.
Go through to Proverbs 26.
You know who is a whisperer?
Here's a whisper in your Bible that you need to learn about her name is the Lila
The Lila is a whisper and the Lila is this evil wicked
Woman, she's a whore too
She is a whore and let me tell you something about the Lila
She does one of the most betraying cruel things you could imagine to take Samson
Who loves her his secret?
and to use that to attack him.
And let me tell you something,
it is evil and it is wicked
to take private information of people
and then give that to enemies to use against them.
I mean, that is a Delilah move if I've ever seen one.
And let me tell you something, in a military situation,
you reveal secrets like that, you're gonna kill people.
And you know what, Delilah doesn't care.
She's fine burning Samson and destroying Samson
and harming Samson.
And look, obviously Samson shouldn't have been
in this type of relationship with this type of woman,
but there's technically nothing wrong
with Samson telling his wife or his spouse his secrets.
but you know she's not really his wife and it's not really a good relationship
so by entrusting his secret to this woman he was putting himself in a dangerous situation,
wasn't he? But here's the thing, there's nothing stopping Delilah from just being a loyal person
and just loving Samson back and saying you know what I would never reveal this secret,
I would never use this information against you because I love you.
But you know what, she doesn't love Samson.
She's a whisperer and she's hateful.
All that hate me, whisper.
And of course she's gonna whisper to the Philistines
and whisper to her men of her country, Samson's secret,
so they can use that to destroy him.
So they can use that to harm him and hurt him.
And let me tell you something.
People that come to churches
and use people's information against them
are wicked and hateful.
Take it to the bank.
He said, I don't think that.
I think that they're nice and kind.
Well, you don't believe the Bible.
I mean, imagine reading the story of Samson to Delilah,
one of you single guys, and then you come up to me and say,
hey, I was thinking about dating this girl named Delilah.
What do you think?
I'd be like, bro, she's hateful.
No, no, no, she just did that to him.
She wouldn't do that to me. Oh, yes, she would
Yeah, she would and let me tell you something, you know people think like oh
I know they burned you pastor Shelley and I know they lied about you pastor Shelley and another attacking our church pastor Shelley
But they wouldn't do that to me
You are so full of it
You just don't believe the Bible because let me tell you something the whisperer is a whisper to everybody
And you know what?
The only reason they won't whisper about you is because apparently you don't have a good
conversation in Christ.
Because if you have a good conversation in Christ, they will falsely accuse that.
They will attack you.
And let me tell you something.
You should get away from a Delilah, from a whisper.
What does Proverbs 26 say in verse 23?
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potchard covered with silver drops.
What's the point? They just want to watch things burn folks says the verse 24 he that hadith
Dissembleth with his lips and layeth up to see it within him. You know dissembl means lies about it. He's fake
You know, you know, if you're gonna catch one of these haters or whispers just just being honest with you
You're not gonna you're gonna say like hey, why'd you whisper because I'm a hateful piece of crap
Because I'm Delilah they're like I didn't do that
It's like, wow, I caught them lying and then I asked them if they were lying and they said they weren't.
I'm like, some people's logic. I'm just thinking like, what do you mean?
You mean you caught Bill Clinton with Monica Lewinsky and then you asked him on national television
and he said, I did not have sexual relations with that woman?
I mean, what man in here would say that if Bill Clinton did to Monica Lewinsky, he did that to your daughter?
And you asked him, hey, did you have sexual relations
with my daughter?
He said, no, you would think that was honest.
You would think that was true.
I mean, come on.
Oh, this guy doing this evil thing.
And we asked him if he did it.
And he said, I didn't do it.
Look, I've caught people red-handed with all the proof
you could ever want in their life.
And say, like, hey, all the facts prove that you did it.
And they're like, I didn't do it.
Because they're a liar.
You just have to understand liars lie
You have to realize evil people will whisper and lie and do wrong
You can't just believe them he that hated
Decembaleth with his lips
Verse 25 when he speak affair
How is he gonna answer the question? Hey, we caught you lying. Oh
I love you. I would never do anything harmful to you. I love everyone
I would never do anything evil.
I just, you know, I just try to do good.
I always try to do what's right.
I just love justice and honor and integrity.
And I try to do everything that's good.
You know, the whole congregation is holy.
What does the Bible say?
When he speaketh fair, believe him not.
That's what the Bible says.
For there are seven abominations in this heart.
This guy is worse than you think.
Whose hatred is covered by deceit.
His wickedness shall be shown before the old congregation.
Somehow when you're just bubbling with hatred inside,
it just ekes out eventually.
You just get caught doing something
that just doesn't, isn't consistent with love.
Because when you just are filled with hate,
it's gonna confuse you.
and you're going to end up slipping up by saying something, doing something, acting a certain way.
You just can't fake it for so long. You just can't fake it forever and eventually it comes out
and then you just have to realize, hey, this person is hateful. This person's not who they're
acting to be. They're pretending to be something that they're really not. It says in verse 27,
Those that are afflicted by it
Did you read that again a lying tongue hate it those that are afflicted by when someone comes and whispers whatever about you
They hate you and they hate that person and they just want to harm you and
Of course people want to go around. Why would someone want to whisper?
You know anyone the whisper because they're afraid of someone else hearing and then saying well, that's not true
Well, wait a minute. I don't think that that's accurate
and then actually trying to discover what the real truth is.
They just want to come and tell you something
and for you to not fact check it,
for you not think about it critically
and to just believe lies and to allow things to just fester.
And look, I'll tell you, there are evil, evil whispers out there.
Go to Psalm 15, go to Psalm 15.
I've known people they just they just basically go around and they try to pit everyone against each other now even in my
high school days this happened one time and
It was kind of funny because I wasn't really directly involved, but essentially I had a group of friends
mostly because we all played golf together and
Essentially there was three guys
And I'm kind of, I'm kind of like mainly friends with one,
but I'm kind of, you know, somewhat associated
with friends with the other two guys.
But you have friend A, B, and C, all right?
And friend A and B are really good friends.
They're really close, they like each other.
C is kind of on the outside.
C isn't as close as A and B.
And you kind of know, like, hey,
he probably wants to be close.
And I was hanging out with A,
and just me and A hanging out.
C comes around, and C says, hey, B's a piece of crap.
You know, B's really bad, B's always talking trash on you to A.
He's like trying to tell A, like, he's not really your friend,
he doesn't really like you, and all this, and I'm just thinking like,
whoa, I've never heard this before.
Then I'm hanging out with B, and then C comes around,
and C comes around and says, hey, A doesn't like you, B,
and he's talking crap on you, and he's doing all this stuff,
and I'm thinking like, wait a minute, you know.
So I'm fishy about this
So then I got a and b together because I just happened to be that ear just kind of hanging around and I said like hey
This guy's saying you both are talking trash to each other. I've never seen it. I've never heard it
I don't think this is true and they were like yeah, this isn't true. This person just wanted to destroy their friendship
So that he could insert himself or do something and let me tell you something that happens all the time
Where people will just come around and let's just try to tell hey so-and-so doesn't like you or saying evil about you
And they're just trying to break up your friendship and ruin your friendship
And let me tell you something when you're upset with somebody if you are not friends with somebody just go to the person
Please just go to the person and just say hey, I'm upset about this because sometimes it's based on
misconceptions
Sometimes it's based on things that aren't true
Sometimes it's based on things that are true and you want it to change or be fixed
But they're not gonna fix it until you address it with them
Say hey, I saw you do this or act like this or you're doing something that I don't like I
Want to be your friend, but you need to change
or you need to do this differently and then maybe you could actually repair that relationship.
But you know what you shouldn't do is take information about this person
and then go whisper about them and lie about them and exaggerate
and try to destroy their friendships and get mad at them even if they don't want to be your friend.
That's evil. It's wicked. It's satanic. We don't want to be a whisperer.
Of course, a similar thing is being a backbiter. This is brought up in Psalm 15.
Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?
Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness,
and speaketh the truth in his heart.
He that backbiteeth not with his tongue.
Notice the person that's gonna be in church,
the person that's serving God,
is the person that's not backbiting with their tongue.
Now when we think about a backbiter.
It's really kind of supposed to give you an image right now
Of course these people aren't literally biting you on the back unless it's Mike Tyson or something. Okay
They're not gonna necessarily literally bite you, but why are they biting you that because they hate you because they want to harm you
Why is it on the back?
Because they don't want to be confronted on the issue.
They don't want you to fight back for yourself.
They don't want you to defend yourself.
So they do it when you're not looking.
They try to harm you from behind.
So they're just kind of a coward
and they're kind of an evil person.
And really what they are, if you think about it,
is too faced.
Because to your face, they're not gonna hurt to harm you.
But as soon as your back is to them,
they'll bite you right away.
So they act one way, and then they totally flip on a dime.
Now, here, it's a warning about people being backbiter.
What should we be?
We should be in verse two, the person that speaks the truth in his heart.
There's nothing wrong with telling your friend or telling people they did something wrong.
Right?
I mean, there's nothing wrong with just saying, like, hey, I don't like this.
There's nothing even wrong with just saying, I don't like you.
But you know what's not good is saying I like you and then I
Don't like him. I don't like him. Hey, I like you. Hey, you're cool
Hey, he's really I hate him. I don't like him at all. That's being a backbiter
If you don't like someone just say like hey, I don't really like you. Sorry
You know, I like that person way more
You know, I can be friends with someone that doesn't like me. I cannot be friends with someone as a backbiter
Because you know what? I'm fine with people just being honest.
People being truthful. Just saying, hey, I just don't like you.
Or I don't like this. Or I'm, I don't, just be an honest person.
You know what? We're all sinners. You don't have to be a lying scumbag.
You don't have to be a backbiter. Okay? None of us are perfect. We all have sin.
But let me tell you something. I'm not as a backbiter. If I talk negatively about
somebody,
If you hear me criticizing someone,
just know for a fact that I would tell them to their face.
And just know that I have no problem
with them hearing what I have to say about them.
That should be your litmus test.
If you're gonna talk negatively about someone,
you should be willing to say it to their face.
Okay, and if you're not,
then you're a backbiter is what you are.
Okay, there's nothing wrong with saying like,
I don't like Joe Biden.
Because if Joe Biden, I was like, I don't like you.
I might even explain it in more gratuitous language, okay?
But at the end of the day, I'm not gonna go around
and say like, I love you.
You're so awesome.
I love how you sniff children, you know?
So great.
No, no, no, I'm gonna say you're an evil pedophile.
Get away from me.
Okay, and it's I don't have an opportunity to tell him to his face
So it's not like I'm trying to be a coward and not telling him. I just don't have the opportunity
Okay, but there's nothing wrong with saying you don't like someone there's nothing wrong with saying you disagree with something
But what's wrong is being a backbiter about it
Where you're dishonest to them in person where you lie to people about it, and then you bite them in the back later
That is being evil
That is being wicked or just lying about people. Of course, you can say you don't like someone. That's not necessarily lying
But you shouldn't just make up lies about them because you don't like them. Go to Psalm 55 go to Psalm 55
And we'll see another passage on this. You know, you should be
Very careful with anybody that appears to be backbiting
If you notice someone is saying something about someone to you
But then when they're around that person, they're acting completely different,
that's a dangerous person.
I've seen this in my life.
I've worked at a company where I had a co-worker,
he would just talk mad trash about our boss.
He would say, our boss is an idiot, he's dumb, he doesn't know what he's doing,
I have no respect for him.
He's saying this just verbatim.
I kid you not, 20 minutes later,
We walk into the office just back from lunch
and he's like, hey everybody,
I just want to make an announcement to the group.
I just want to say how much I appreciate our boss
and how much I love him and respect him
and things are great.
And I'm thinking like,
I've never even seen someone do this, ever.
Even when they did love the boss.
Like just this random announcement
to the rest of the people that how much they love him.
But especially 20 minutes after just telling me
how much he hates the boss.
You know, that's a dangerous person.
That's a wicked person.
It's insane, but people are like that.
I just couldn't even believe it.
I was just thinking like, what in the world is wrong with you?
If you don't like the boss, just keep your mouth shut.
You know, but don't go around singing his praises
when I know it's fake.
Because then I know you're fake.
Psalm 55, look at verse 12.
For he was not an enemy that reproached me.
Then I could have borne it.
Neither was it he that hated me
that did magnify himself against me.
Then I would have hid myself from him.
But it was thou a man mine equal, my guide and mine acquaintance.
We took sweet counsel together and walked under the house of God in company.
You have to understand that we typically think of all these bad people as being like people on the outside or protestors or the reprobates or something.
This is not a reprobate.
I mean, it might be.
I'm just saying it's not someone
that we just obviously recognize as a reprobate.
This is not somebody that is just on the outside.
This was somebody that was on the inside.
Now, of course, they could have been a Judas
and I think that's being alluded here.
So don't hear me wrong.
Yeah, he probably was a rep in this situation,
but not everybody that's a backstabbing trader
is always a reprobate either.
It can be another Christian, it could just be a Delilah.
It could be a King Saul who's just trying
to exact revenge on you and try to take advantage of you.
But let me tell you something, boy,
it is just a special kind of hurt
when it's somebody that you hung out with,
you've counseled with, you've done good things unto,
and then boy, they just come out of nowhere and attack you.
What is the Bible saying in verse 15?
That's extreme
But let me remind you first Corinthians chapter number five is about saved people and what does the Apostle Paul say?
To deliver such in one unto the devil for what?
For the destruction of the flesh
That is the same thing that's being described here
Let death seize upon them and let them go down now
Of course, this one's a reprobate Judas and let them go down quick into hell at first Corinthians five
It's a different story. It's like let him die that the soul may be saved
That the spirit may be saved. Okay, so obviously
You can't stop someone from being saved if someone saved they're saved
But you know what when you do the same activity when you do the same thing, you know what sometimes you get the same carnal punishment
You may not get the same eternal punishment,
but you can get the same carnal punishment
for having been a wicked, hypocrite, evil scumbag.
And you know what, it is a scumbag
to go to church and then betray people in church.
I mean, you're betraying Jesus.
You're just being just an evil type of person.
Look at verse 21 of this chapter.
Just when he speak it fair, but what does it say? But war was in his heart
Again, this is why people get confused. They say like oh, but I talked to them and it was smooth as butter
It was fair, they said all kinds of nice things.
Yeah, but when you see the inconsistency in their action,
just take it to the bank.
There's war in their heart, war.
And let me tell you something,
there is war in some people's hearts.
war. There is a conspiracy and a confederacy of people that have
left our church to hate on me and to hate on our church and to
drag people out of this church. And they are whispers and they
are back biters. And let me tell you something, when they speak
fair, when their words are smoother than butter, there is
war in their heart. And you should believe them not. And
they are not going to be your friend. They don't want to be
your friend. They just want you to stop being my friend.
And they want you to stop being friends with people in here and they want you to just basically destroy yourself
And look this is not a new concept
Some people would think like oh this just happened this has happened ever since I started pastoring
If you've ever been to Stefa's Baptist Church,
we have a revolving door.
We have 20 to 30 people leaving our church every six months.
I mean, just basically we just have like 20 to 30 people
just leaving our church, getting kicked out,
all of the above, just like every six months,
just every year, every six months.
And then we have about like 40, 50 people joining our church
every six months or whatever.
So it's like somehow we just keep gaining.
Like, you know, people will be like,
oh, all these people left the church.
It's like, yeah, but we just somehow just keep getting people.
And then it's like, we keep growing somehow.
And I'm just thinking like, we don't have any room.
Like, can y'all just, I mean, can all you fake people
just leave already?
I mean, I get up and scream it and yell it.
I'm just thinking like, how do you go to a church
when the guy's screaming for you to leave?
And then you just still want to just use information against them,
release private information, and then pretend like you love them.
I mean, yeah, that would be like you going and saying,
I think Delilah really loves Samson.
That's a joke. That is a joke.
They do not love them.
There is a satanic conspiracy theory against this.
And you know what, I've noticed that almost all these people go to the same church.
it's weird. Go to Psalm 26, go to Psalm 26. There was a person and look I could
tell you story after story after story you wouldn't even probably believe all
of them. It's insane. I'm gonna share one. There was a person that came to our
church back when we were in Sanson Park, had a large family, would travel all the
time and was really unstable with his family life.
but I was going through like a personal issue
and had some problems in my house
and so I had just shared some information with people.
This person knew.
They were like, hey, can I help?
And I'm like, no.
And they're like, can I help?
And I'm like, no, can I help?
And they're just so insistent that finally I just said,
like, fine, you can just show up
and I can probably have you do something.
What this person did that I didn't know at the time
is they came and they took pictures of my house.
All they did was just go around and covertly
take a bunch of pictures of my house.
And then they wrote a 42 page document just with the just the wildest story
I've ever heard in my entire life just accusing me of all kinds of just crazy
nonsensical things that I've that I've never could you could never believe in
a million years and then they just email this out to all kinds of there's
emailing us out to every pastor friend of mine to all kinds of church members
there's all these kind of people
And of course, this person, then whenever they do this and I call them won't answer the phone, won't talk to me, won't show up, just hides.
Then every time, mysteriously, I would just visit Jacksonville or visit Oklahoma City. They would randomly just show up at the church.
And I have like no chance to just like confront this person, won't take a call. What am I even supposed to do about that?
You know, it's just super weird and super crazy and creepy.
Okay, this person is evil.
This person is an evil scumbag fraud dissembler.
Okay?
And then I realize, oh, this person still goes to church here.
And happens to go to church with lots of our ex-members.
But you know what?
I don't want to go to church with a person like that.
You know the Bible says in Psalm 26 verse 23,
let's just read what the Bible says.
Look, I'm sorry. No. Yeah, Psalm 26. Let's sort of verse one for a second. All right
Judge me a Lord for I have not walked in mine integrity. I have trusted also the Lord therefore
I shall not slide examine me a Lord
and prove me, try my reigns in my hearts,
for thy loving kindness is before my eyes,
and I have walked in thy truth.
I have not sat with vain persons.
Neither will I go in with the Semblers.
I have hated the congregation of evildoers,
and will not sit with the wicked.
You know what? This verse motivates me as a pastor to root out dissemblers in our church because I refuse to go to church with people that are fake.
I refuse to be in a church service with people that are going to lie and be a snake and be a gossip and be a whisper and be a backbiter and just do evil unto people in this congregation.
I refuse to do that. And you know what? People that want to leave our church want to go hang out with those people and go to church with those people, you know what? That's evil.
And you know what?
I don't care how big our church gets.
I will not stop enforcing church discipline.
I will not allow snakes and dissemblers and whispers
and backbiteers to just hang out
and be like a hiding place for them.
And look, that is one person of many
that are all Confederate and going to the same place
and hanging out.
How do you wanna go to church with that person?
I don't wanna go, yeah, invite them over.
Make sure they have their phone with them when they come over to your house
May all but that's cool because it happened to you it wouldn't happen to me
You're just lying to yourself
Yeah, you're lying to yourself and look that is just one story of all kinds of just crazy
insane weird things that happen
And look, people are constantly joining our church,
so they don't know about the latest drama.
There's not like a bulletin board
with the most wanted list or something in our hallway.
But let me tell you something,
there is like a hundred people
on our kicked out bad list of our church.
There is a lot, a lot of people,
and it's taken time to accumulate.
And then it's like, they all go to a church together.
It's like, I don't wanna go to that church.
I mean, these are just some of the worst, of the worst.
And look, some people are not necessarily that bad,
but at the end of the day, they get sucked in
to the lies of these people.
They allow the whispers and the backbiteers
to affect them evil and they go down with them.
They go hang out with them and they think like,
oh, well.
I didn't have any friends at Steadfast.
I heard people that criticized,
they said like, people are friendly to me
and people are charitable to me or whatever.
It's like, go hang out at Fake Baptist Church.
Go hang out with Delilah
and then tell me how great friends you have.
You know, it's all fake, it's a charade.
They just want to whisper and they want to make you think,
oh, there's all these magical, wonderful friends out there.
Look, I've been in the old FB, I've been in the non-denominational circles, I've been
in all kinds of churches, I know what kind of friends are out there.
And let me tell you something, the people in this room, it's not even close to the type
of quality of people to hang out with.
It is not even close, my friend.
The people in this room are such high caliber.
It is an honor to be a pastor of this church.
It is a privilege to be a pastor of this church
because I don't just pastor a good church,
I pastor a great church.
Yay, arguably one of the best churches in the world.
And you say, what's a church?
It's not the building, okay.
We don't not have the best building.
It's not the bank account.
It's not the entity.
It's not about the name.
It's the people, folks.
And you know what makes y'all so great?
You know how I love y'all so much?
How much you want to get people saved?
It's not your food preferences.
I'm constantly trying to get y'all on better food, OK?
It's not your sporting ideas.
I mean, look, golf's the best sport, folks.
You guys need to learn.
Do you think I even like baseball or softball?
I just do it to hang out with y'all because I like y'all.
Okay?
I mean, there's so many things that I would love to fix and change.
But you know what?
I wouldn't want to fix or change as you're zeal for soul winning.
And your love for the loss and wanting to get people saved.
And let me tell you something.
There is a conspiracy theory to attack a good church all the time.
Every single part in the Bible is just pointing to this.
You know, don't let the whispers and backbiders get you down.
And of course, these people, they just cannot move on.
It's so funny that they want to constantly say
that we're a cult.
And I'm like, look, these people are way bigger
of a cult than you could ever imagine.
They are in the biggest hate cult and they cannot leave.
And they listen, look, they listen to my sermon still.
You know that and I know that.
They tell you.
They still listen to Pastor Anderson's sermons.
These people that think I'm so bad
and think Pastor Anderson is so bad,
they listen to more of Pastor Anderson's sermons
than I could ever wish to want to listen to.
How does that even make sense?
How can you not just move on with your life?
And look, it's not like people that go to another church
or just serve God in another way,
I attack or do any evil to.
I don't care!
You know, here's a witness, how about Brother Evan?
Evan goes and visits another church all the time.
When have I ever attacked you or said anything negative about that?
Have I ever said anything about you not going there or not visiting there?
Never.
You know why?
Because I don't care.
If you want to go serve God or visit another church or hang out with other people, praise God.
In fact, I love the pastor of the church that he's been visiting.
I talked to him and we're friends.
It's not like oh, I'm friends with old IB people and you can't I can still be friends with them, too
Ha
But let me tell you something
You know, I'm not gonna go to a church where everybody is just
Seek of a recording me and doing all kinds of evil and just trying to harm people and whispering in a backbiting and railing and be like
Oh, look at this wonderful church
It's insane, it's insane.
And you know what I know about that person
that I'm talking about, the other pastor that I like?
If I called him and said, hey, this person's like secretly
recording me and doing all this weird stuff,
he wouldn't let that person go to their church.
But the other person won't even take a call or an email
or wouldn't even take five seconds to hear
about the evil people in this church.
In fact, the person wouldn't even let me just try
to help them when they were going through a hard time.
You know, it's it's evil to think like hey, here's another brother in Christ
Here's another pastor that's being attacked and I wouldn't even let I wouldn't even hear them out
It's weird it's weird my friend
and let me tell you something, people cannot move on
and you know, there's all these haters online too.
I don't really care about them that much,
but it's so funny to me that they'll never stop
and they'll constantly attack our church
and try to get you to leave your church.
They don't actually want you to go to their church.
They'll say that.
They'll say like, I never want you to come to my church,
but they just want you to leave this one.
Because they just want to burn you.
They just want to burn you, okay?
And it's so funny to me that these haters,
they can only get attention.
They can only get views on their sermon they can only get views on their documentaries if it's about the new IVB
If it's about Pastor Anderson or it's about the new IVB here's here's my challenge to all of you haters
Get attention that has nothing to do with the new IVB
one time
And you know who's someone that did that how about Brother Dylan Oz?
Brother Dylan Oz who is just a layman, you know, they love to throw that term around a layman
a lay guy, the laity.
He preached a sermon that got millions,
yay, billions of views online.
And in fact, they were calling him a pastor.
They thought he was more of a pastor
than you pastors online that can't get any attention.
I mean, you would probably pluck your own eye out
if it would give you attention online
and you can't even get it.
So you just have to constantly talk about the new IB
because it's the only attention you can get.
I mean, you could make a documentary for six years
and put tens of thousands,
you had hundreds of thousands of dollars into a film,
release a trailer, get a thousand views,
then just put out a hit piece against the new IB,
get 10,000 views in like a few days.
It's like
Why it's because you're not good at getting attention and you're an attention whore and so why do they attack the new?
I'd be it's one reason. I want attention today. I
Didn't get enough attention today. I gotta talk about the new FB again
I need more attention new FB again, and they're just gonna keep hitting that button
They would hit any other button if they could get attention
I mean, if there was any other button that they could press,
then they would just start pressing that button.
They're like a drug-addicted junkie.
And they're just like a monkey just hitting the button,
just giving them the shot of insulin or whatever,
just giving them that little drug high,
and they're just like,
Pastor Hanson, ah!
They wake up in the morning,
and they're just like so sad and have such a pathetic life.
They can't just open the Bible and read the Bible,
that they're just like,
As soon as they're done preaching their sermon,
they're going to go online and be like,
what did Pastor Shelley preach?
I'm going to get the popcorn out
and I'm going to go watch his sermon.
Oh man.
Because they cannot go five seconds
without getting their drug high of the new IVB.
And let me tell you why,
because we're the only game in town folks.
If there was something else that they want to listen to,
they would listen to it.
Why is it that every one of these other Baptist pastors
has a YouTube channel and they're not getting tons of views?
Why?
Why is it that pastor Anderson can start a YouTube channel
and in one day have more views and more attention
than anybody else?
It's because he's preaching great sermons in the truth.
Why is it that you can have 40,000 subscribers
and upload a video and nobody cares?
It's because you're not speaking the truth. Let me tell you something. The truth is powerful. Oh
But you know what you're you're in a cult
Well, what's the cult? It's listening to pastor Shelley. Well, do you listen to pastor Shelley? Oh
You're in a cult you listen to pastor Anderson. Do you listen to pastor Anderson? Hmm. Yeah, but you like obsess about him
What?
Who obsesses about what?
And look, let me tell you something.
They're all envious of Brother Dillon
because he's a lay guy and got more views than them.
So they have to hate on Brother Dillon.
And you know what?
You know why Dillon got a bunch of views?
Because he's a great preacher.
He's a way better preacher than these losers than these lame people and look we have other great preachers in our church
Brother Ben preachers good sermons brother Joe preachers good sermons brother Diego is a rising star my friend
But he's getting more sermon more views on his Spanish sermon
Just then these guys will get on their hottest bestest sermon
When they don't mention Pastor Anderson
Of course, they have to just mention pastors because they need attention
They will never stop because they need attention.
They are an attention whore.
It is like trying to get a meth addict
to stop taking meth.
They will never stop taking meth.
They are psycho ex-girlfriends.
And you know, it's so funny that these haters
are just so bad at preaching.
I mean, look, you know who's great at preaching?
Pastor Bruce Meah.
Why does he get tons of great views
and people are paying attention to him?
Pastor Roger Jimenez, great preacher.
And you know, you look at YouTube,
you know who can't be on YouTube?
Pastor Jimenez, Pastor Mejia, Pastor Anderson, and me.
We just can't be on YouTube.
It doesn't matter what we do, what we try.
I mean, I try to explain this to people.
I try to explain this to evangelist fur.
I'm like, I can't be on YouTube.
He like doesn't he didn't fully understand it. He just makes a random channel has nothing to do with me phone numbers
I've nothing to do with me. Whatever and they just upload it just immediately gone
It's just like yeah, and then and then the people you know, I can't have Facebook
I'm a known terrorist according to Facebook or whatever
You can't even put my name on anything and this is so funny that he doesn't be like oh post the show
He's hiding behind his anonymous account. I can't have an account
I'm not hiding.
It's like me hiding.
This is from Jonathan Shelly.
Here's a video with my face on it.
He's hiding.
What are you talking about?
I don't hide.
You're the coward.
You're the person that hides.
You're the person that whispers.
You're the backbiter.
And you know what?
Many of you are just the hater of God.
Go to Psalm 14, go to Psalm 14.
I have too much to say.
Psalm 14, haters of God, look at verse one,
the fool has said in his heart, there is no God.
They are corrupt, they have done abominable works.
There is none that do with good.
You know who also wants to destroy our church?
Faggots, faggots and dykes.
And you know what, it'll be a cold day in hell
when I'm on the same sideline as a bunch of faggots
and dykes and freaks and witches and Satanists
and God-hating reprobates.
It is going to be a cold day in hell.
I don't care if I hate a Baptist church,
if I despise everything about them,
if they're right on the gospel,
you will never see me side
with the evil satanic works against that church.
I mean, good night, the haters of God.
Boy, when they're in your crowd, when they're your friends,
you know you're on the wrong side.
And boy, there is just some people,
they're just so good at being on the wrong side every time.
They're allergic to truth.
And you just see them and it's just a bad take
after bad take, it's just like they can't get anything right.
And you know what, those are the people
you should stay away from.
They can't get anything right whatsoever.
Now, I'm just gonna give you a laundry list
of verses before you end.
If you wanna keep up, you can,
but I'm gonna go through Psalms real quickly.
And this is what I want God to do.
I want God to punish the whispers,
the backbiteers, and the haters of God.
Now, of course, there's two categories here.
There's obviously the same and the unsaved versions of this.
But you know what, I believe God pours out
the same carnal punishment on both.
And I believe it's biblical because if you look at 1 Corinthians chapter number five,
the railers are supposed to be delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh.
But this is what my prayer is going to be for these people.
Psalm 3 verse 7 is that God would smite all mine enemies upon the cheekbone.
I pray that God will break all the teeth of the ungodly.
Psalm 5, 6, I pray that God is going to destroy them that speak leasing.
Verse number 10, that God will destroy thou them, O God,
let them fall by their own counsels, cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions.
I'm going to pray Psalm 610,
let all my enemies be ashamed and sore vexed.
I'm going to pray Psalm 716,
let his mischief return upon his own head.
I'm going to pray Psalm 1015,
break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man.
Seek out his wickedness till they'll find none.
I'm gonna pray Psalm 11, verse number six,
that God would reign, snares, fire, brimstone,
and a horrible tempest upon mine enemies.
I pray Psalm 12, three,
that the Lord shall cut off all flattering lips
and the tongue that speaketh proud things.
I'm gonna pray Psalm 17, verse 13,
that says, Arise, O Lord, disappoint him,
cast him down, deliver my soul from the wicked.
I'm gonna pray Psalm 18, verse number 40,
Which says thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies that I might destroy them that hate me
I'm gonna pray Psalm 25 verse number three where it says that God is going to let them be ashamed
Which transgress notice this without cause
Without cause I'm gonna pray Psalm 28 verse 4 that God will give them according to their deeds and according to the wickedness of their endeavors
I'm going to pray that he gives them after the work of their hands and renders to them their dessert.
I'm going to pray Psalm 31 verse 18,
let the lying lips be put to silence,
which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
I'm going to pray Psalm 32 verse 18.
I must have written that down.
Psalm 31 verse 18, I already read that, verse 10.
Psalm 32 verse 10.
I'm gonna pray that God brings many sorrows to the wicked.
I'm gonna pray Psalm 35 verse one,
that God would plead my cause
and that he would fight against them that fight against me.
Verse four, that they would be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul,
and that they be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my
hurt.
Verse 5, that they would be as chaff before the wind, and that the angel of the Lord chased
them.
I'm going to pray verse 6, let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of the
Lord persecute them.
I'm going to pray verse 26 that says, let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together
that rejoice at mine hurt.
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.
Verse 13, the Lord shall laugh at them.
I pray that God would just laugh at these people.
Verse 15, their sword shall enter into their own heart
and their bows shall be broken.
Verse number 17, the arms of the wicked shall be broken.
I'm gonna pray verse 28 that says,
for the Lord loveth judgment, I'm gonna pray that God judges.
I'm gonna pray verse 36, which says,
yay, he passed away and lo, he was not.
Verse 38, I'm going to pray that the transgressors shall be destroyed together and the end of
the wicked shall be cut off.
I'm going to go to Psalm 55 and I'm going to pray verse number 9.
that says, destroy O Lord and divide their tongues.
For I've seen violence and strife in this city.
Look, I could go on and on and on and on,
but let me tell you something.
This church is special.
The work that we're doing is special.
We are getting many people saved.
Many people are making better decisions for their family,
for their marriage, for their job,
for their lives, for their eternity.
And it's gonna be a cold day in hell
when I lay down and just take it.
You know what I'm gonna pray to God and look I'm not gonna fight these people myself. I'm not gonna avenge myself
I'm not gonna go after them the way they've gone after me
You know what I'm gonna do
I'm just gonna pray to the God in heaven that they apparently don't fear whatsoever
That God will just deliver them unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh
Because you know what? This church is important, and the work of Christ is important, and you doing nothing for God is meaningless, anyways.
And let me tell you something. You know what? I'm not going to lay down and just take it. You know what? I've never taken anything.
I'm going to fight. I am steadfast. I am committed. I believe the Bible. And you know what? I love God.
And you know what the Bible says,
the prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
And let me tell you something,
you should be afraid to have me preaching against you.
You should be afraid to have me praying against you.
And you should be terrified of the Lord God.
It's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of the living God.
You know what, there's a curse upon people
that would get thrown out of church
for being a railing, lying, dissembling, whispering,
backbiting, hater of God.
And let me tell you something,
you should never wanna be on that list.
You should never want to be on that list.
And look, I've seen some of the most evil,
horrible things happen to people
that got thrown out of church or left church.
The worst things you can imagine.
I'm not even gonna plant those ideas in your mind
because they're so evil.
Evil stuff and you know what? I didn't pray that for them many of times
I'm hoping that they would get restored
But let me tell you something when you're gonna attack my church when you're gonna whisper against us when you're gonna be a
Backbiter when you're gonna be a railer. You know what you better realize I'm gonna fight
You better realize I'm gonna do something go to Psalm 24 go to Psalm 24 and you know what?
People that love church should have no fear coming to this church people that love God should have no fear
People that love the truth should have no fear. You know what if you're a lying snake gossip dissimbler
You should be terrified
You should be terrified. You know what's coming up soon Easter and we're gonna have the Lord supper and all the fake people
Boy, I hope you show up. I hope you show up and I hope you take of the cup of the Lord unworthily
And he will he will destroy you
But you better think twice about taking the Lord of the cup of the Lord when you're such
a deceitful, evil, conniving piece of crap.
And yeah, I said crap, sorry, but I'm not sorry.
Look at verse 3, Psalm 24.
Who shall ascend in the hill of the Lord, or who shall stand in his holy place, he that
had clean hands and a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul in a vanity, nor sworn
deceitfully?
He shall receive the blessing from the Lord
and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
You know what?
Let us not be people that are swearing deceitfully.
We will receive the blessing of the Lord.
We will receive the great reward for serving God.
I want to show you one more, chapter 32, verse two.
Don't be caught being this whisperer.
Don't be caught being this backbiter.
Don't be caught being someone that hates God.
Even if you do make the mistake, you can always get right.
Hey, there's been people that have gotten right.
We move on, we forgive, we forget.
We don't care, I don't care.
I just don't want you to be on this war path
of destruction for yourself.
You know, you should never want to be in a situation
where there's a church out there
that you would never allow to be attending
because you're a railer.
because you're a backbiter, because you're a gossip,
because you harmed them, because you lied to them,
because you won't even deal with the sin issues that you had.
Why don't you just repent and get right
and say sorry and fix things?
I would never want to be on that list.
And look, I had someone this week out of nowhere
who did all kinds of evil.
just mess with me and say, hey, you know what?
They always listen to sermons, okay?
I was listening to their sermons, it was really good,
and I just realized that I was wrong, and I'm sorry.
I lied, and I'm sorry that I did all this stuff.
Will you please forgive me?
And I'm just like, yeah, no problem, move on.
And you know what I did?
I prayed that God would bless that person,
and I prayed that God would do good on that person.
And you know what?
If that person never comes here, again, I don't care.
But at the end of the day, I want them to be blessed.
I want them to serve God.
But don't be this railing, backstabbing, evil whisperer.
And why would you want to go to a church?
Like, think about this.
You were in a church where all these evil people
were thrown out and you agreed with it.
And now you're going to go and go to church with those people
and hang out with those same people.
Like, isn't that weird?
There's something weird about that.
Something weird about why you'd want to do that.
So I'm 32, look at verse number two.
Blessed is the man,
unto him the Lord imputed not iniquity,
and in his spirit there is no guile.
Let us be people that have no guile in our spirit.
No deceit, no trickery, no lies.
Let us just be honest people.
If you don't like something, just say it.
You know I'm honest, I don't like Indian food.
There I said it.
That's a silly carnal example. It's meaningless. I'm just trying to say like I I am not a perfect person
I make mistakes if you think I make a mistake come tell me if you don't like something
I did or said come tell me I'm an open book
I've always been an open book people have constantly said things to me
You know at the end of the day, but one thing you won't catch for me is not being sincere
I always tell people exactly how I feel.
I'm completely consistent.
I'm not going around whispering about anybody.
I'm not backbiting about anybody.
I'm not trying to hurt or harm other people.
If I don't like somebody, you'll know.
And if I like you, you'll know that too.
He's not fake and let us not be fake people let us not hurt and harm the brethren because when you do that you're whispering
It's Christ your backbiting. It's Christ and you're hating on Christ. Let's close in prayer
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for giving us these instructions and
helping us to just realize evil people exist,
bad things are gonna happen,
people are gonna lie and be false accusers and persecute.
I pray that we wouldn't fall victim
to their lies and deception.
We wouldn't allow people to come around
and whisper in our ear and use smooth, buttery words
to try and confuse us or trick us or trap us.
I pray that you would help us to realize
the important work that's being done here
and that
we wouldn't allow the evil people to destroy our friendships and our family and our work and our
soul winning, but rather we would just be steadfast. I pray that you would just persecute these people
that are attacking any work of the Lord, that you would shut up their lying lips, that you caused
them to be ashamed and confounded, and I pray any of them that would get right, that you would just
touch their heart, they would repent, they would stop lying and gossiping and they would just move
Amen.
All right, for our last song, we're going to go to song number 191.
Song number 191.
In my heart, there rings a melody.
Song 191.
Sing it out on the first.
For he washed my sins away, he worked with him.