Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to Faithful Word Baptist Church.
If you would, please find your seat,
and we'll begin our service this morning.
When you find your seat,
grab a hymnal and turn to song number 146.
Song number 146.
A shelter in the time of store.
Song number 146.
Sing it out on the first.
We're in the time.
Father in heaven, we thank you for your holy trinity father. We ask you to bless trooper
Hernandez Lord, we ask you to bless him and watch over him Lord
We know he's at work today since starting his job
We ask you Lord to bless Pastor Shelley today Lord feeling what your Holy Spirit Lord and let make his message
Edifying to us all since Jesus name of pray amen
All right, if you need a bulletin, please raise your hand
and we'll get you one as soon as we can.
If you have a bulletin, open it up.
And on the upper left hand corner is our service times.
Below that is our so many times at the very bottom.
It's our salvation and baptisms for the year.
On the right hand side, happy birthday to everyone
that has a birthday this month and an anniversary as well.
You know, happy birthday to you
if you had a birthday and an anniversary.
And below that is an announcement
about Pastor Colvin Russell.
Please join us at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 18th.
He will be preaching here and obviously Pastor
Corbyn Russell is in Tucson, and he's pastoring straight path
Baptist Church.
I keep wanting to say straight pride Baptist Church,
but he chose the name, and he ought to know better, amen.
All right on the back of it father's day information
We do have a father's day weekend so winning hiking trip
And there's a small schedule right there for you to take a look at that if you plan to go other than that join us for
So winning in downtown Phoenix. It'll be on June 6 at 6 p.m.
We call it the first Friday so winning
We're a couple of a few of our members get together and they go meet up and the meet-up is going to be at the Burton Bar
Phoenix public library and the address is right there
And so if you want to go, get a hold of Steve Tilson
if you need more information,
other than that, just show up at the time and at the place.
Other than that, look at the upcoming events
when you get a chance.
And other than that, that's all I have for announcements.
So, brother ball, lead us in the next song.
All right, if you would, please turn in your hymnals again
to song number 124.
Song number 124, God will take care of you.
Song number 124, sing it out on the first.
Be not dismayful of every time, God will take care of you.
Beneath his wings above a vine, God will take care of you.
God will take care of you
Through every day all the way
He will take care of you
God will take care of you
Through gates of toil and hearts of veil
God will take care of you
When danger spews your path astille, God will take care of you.
God will take care of you through every day or all the way.
He will take care of you. God will take care of you.
provide. God will take care of you. God will take care of you, through every day or all the way.
No matter what may be the test, God will take care of you.
We carry one upon His breast, God will take care of you.
great singing. Lastly, let's turn on our hymnals again to song number 150. Song
number 150, my faith has found a resting place. Song number 150, sing it out on the
first. My faith has found a resting place, not in device nor creed.
I trust the ever-living one, his words for me shall plead.
I need no other argument, I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me.
Not for me that Jesus saves this ends my fear and doubt
A sinful soul I come to him, he'll never cast me out
I need no other, are you meant? I need no other, please
It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me.
My heart is leaning on the word, the written word of God.
Salvation by my Savior's name, salvation through His blood.
I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me.
My great physician heals the sick, the lost he came to save.
I need no other argument. I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me.
Amen. Great singing.
All right, at this time we're going to pass the offering plays right before Pastor Shelley and some coming up here to preach for us
So if you have your Bibles, please go to Acts chapter number seven
Acts chapter number seven and yes pastor Anderson will be back next Sunday
He will be picked up on Friday, so he'll be ready to go other than that Acts chapter number seven
next chapter 7 the bible reads then said the high priest are these things so
and he said men brethren and fathers harken the god of glory appeared under our father
abraham when he was in mesopotamia before he dwelt in karan and said unto them get the
out of thy country and from thy kindred and come into the land which i shall show thee
Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Koran, and from thence, when
his father was dead, he removed him into his land, wherein ye now dwell.
And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on.
Yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him,
when as yet he had no child.
And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that
they should bring him into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
and after that shall they come forth and serve me in this place.
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and so Abraham begat Isaac and circumcised him
in the eighth day, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
And the patriarchs moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him,
and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan.
great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance. But when Jacob heard that
there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. And at the second time
Joseph was made known to his brethren, and Joseph's kindred was made known into
Pharaoh.
Then sent Joseph and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred three score in
fifteen souls.
So Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers, and were carried over into
second and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for the sum of money of the sons of
But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people
grew and multiplied in Egypt, till another king arose which knew not Joseph.
The same dealt subtly with our kindred and evil entreated our fathers so that they cast
out their young children to the end they might not live, in which time Moses was born and
was exceeding fair and nourished up in his father's house three months.
And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed and smote the Egyptian.
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them, but they understood not.
And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them one it again, saying,
But he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away saying who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
Will thou kill me as thou did us the Egyptian yesterday?
Then fled Moses at this sang and was a stranger in the land of Median where he begat two sons
And when 40 years were expired there appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire and a bush
When Moses saw it he wondered at the sight and as he drew near to behold it the voice of the Lord came unto him
Saying I am the God of thy fathers the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob
Then Moses trembled and durst not behold
Then said the Lord to him put off thy shoes from my feet for the place where there's where thou stand is as holy ground
I've seen I've seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt and I've heard they're groaning and have come down to deliver them
And now come I will send thee into Egypt
This Moses whom they refused saying who made thee a ruler and a judge,
the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
He brought them out after that he had showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt
and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness 40 years.
This is that Moses which said unto the children of Israel,
A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren.
Like unto me, him shall ye hear.
This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake unto him in the Mount Sinai,
and with our fathers who received the lively oracles to give unto us,
to whom our fathers would not obey but thrust him from them,
and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, saying unto Aaron make us gods to go before us,
for as for this Moses which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we want not what has become of him.
and they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice into the idol and
rejoiced in the works of their own hands. Then God turned and gave them up
under the worship of the host of heaven. As it is written in the book of the
prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and
sacrificed by the space of 40 years in the wilderness? Yea, ye took up the
tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your God Remphin, figures which he made to
worship them and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness as he had appointed speaking in the Moses that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen
Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles
Whom God drove out before the face of our fathers under the days of David
Who found favor before God and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob, but Solomon built him in house
How be it the most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands essay at the prophet
Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool. What house will ye build me, sayeth the Lord,
or what is the place of my rest? hath not my hand made all these things?
Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost,
as your fathers did, so do ye.
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?
And they have slain them which showed before the coming of the just one,
of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers,
who have received the law by the disposition of angels and have not kept it.
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart,
and they gnashed on them with their teeth.
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.
Then they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and ran upon Him with one accord and cast Him out of the city and stoned Him.
And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet whose name was Saul.
And they stoned Stephen, Stephen, calling upon God and saying,
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice,
Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.
And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Father, thank you, Faithful Baptist Church in the King
James Bible.
I ask you, Phil, Pastor Shelley, with your Holy Spirit,
open our hearts and our ears to receive your perfect word.
I pray this in Jesus' holy name, amen.
Amen.
And men, I want to say thank you so much for having me out here as a guest preacher.
Thank you so much to Pastor Anderson for inviting me and Faith Word is a special place in my heart.
Me and my family moved to Faith Word in 2016 and I was actually ordained in 2018 to go out
and start a church in Houston.
Now we're in the Dallas, Fort Worth area and there's a lot of people here that were here
sent out and was ordained and that I know.
I'm just kind of curious, who was here when I got ordained?
I'm just kind of curious.
I look around.
It seems like about half or a little bit more than half
of the people here, those are all the good people.
No, I'm just kidding.
You new people, I don't know you yet, OK?
I know you're not.
No, I'm just kidding.
But no, there's a lot of great people here
and it's a really special place.
And Faith Ward Baptist Church is a great church.
And what that means, we use the word church.
It's not talking about a building.
Church is the people and of course the people here are really exceptional and great people and
It's a really refreshing to be around so many people that care about soul winning that care about hard preaching
And so it's a great privilege and honor to be here. I also want to promote in y'all's bullets
And you had at the bottom
On the back page, the announcement about the FBBF,
that's the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship.
That's gonna be happening at Steadfast Baptist Church
in Texas, and that is the Promised Land, okay?
I know that I might offend some people here,
but it's green.
I don't know if you've ever seen that color before,
but it's very beautiful,
and it's the well-watered plain, all right?
Now, some people say, oh, it's like Sodom,
but no, this is a good place, all right?
I love Texas and we have great food, but of course the preaching is going to be hot.
Pastor Anderson is going to be preaching for us, Pastor Corbyn Russell is going to be preaching for us,
Pastor Oz is going to be preaching for us, Pastor Thompson, Pastor Reyes,
and we've got a lot of fun, all kinds of events and stuff, so if you've never been out there,
I would encourage you, if you want to try and participate, it's going to be the end of August.
Really looking forward to that. Also, we are taking a missions trip to the Bahamas in October, October 6th through the 11th.
A lot of people are going. And of course, if you want to go, you just email an itinerary to our church and we'll try to get you in coordination with whatever programs we have.
But really looking forward to going to the Bahamas again. The last time I went was a couple years ago.
And I think we had about 60 people come with us.
So it's one of the largest missions trips I've ever heard of in the modern era.
And we had a great time.
Honestly, most people are telling me it was one of the best trips they've ever been on.
Just overall.
There's some places that might be slightly more receptive, but generally speaking, it's hard to find a place more receptive,
hard to find a place that's more enjoyable, beautiful, all the different combinations, and really it's a testimony to the people of the Bahamas.
They're very friendly, they're intelligent, they want to hear the Bible, and it's almost hard to believe it's real.
because, you know, you just talk to people in America, they're not that interested, they close the door.
But you walk up to people in the Bahamas and they just have a different attitude, a different spirit,
and many of them want to hear what the Bible has to say about salvation.
And it's about as easy as you're ever going to get an opportunity to just show someone straight from the Bible how to be saved.
I've had a lot of people save there personally.
I know tons of people, other people have. Pastor Anderson's gone there and there.
And he's got a lot of people saved, and so I preach a whole sermon about it.
Bahamas, so when he made easy, and I think I was right, all right?
So just a couple of different promos. Now let's get into our sermon this morning and
I want to back up to chapter 6 for just a moment to give a little bit of context
But Steven has been recently ordained and he's going out and preaching the gospel and he's really tearing it up
And he's a hard preacher. It says in verse 9 of chapter 6 then there rose certain of the synagogue
which is called the synagogue of the libertines and the
Ansyrenians and Alexandrians and of them of Silicia and of Asia
disputing with Stephen.
And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Then they suborned men, which said,
We have heard them speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.
And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes
and came upon him and caught him and brought him to the council.
And set up false witnesses, which said,
This man ceases if not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place
and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us,
and all that sat in the council looking steadfastly on him
saw his face as it had been the face of an angel."
So Stephen gets ordained, the word of God increases, he's preaching,
and of course there's opposition. The Jews are resisting him,
they're disputing with him as the Bible says,
yet they cannot resist the wisdom in the spirit by which he spake.
And boy, that just encompasses Pastor Steven Anderson
more than I could ever think of.
It is so funny how the people that don't like him,
they cannot resist the wisdom and the spirit
by which he speaks.
I've never seen any other person
where people get so mad disgruntled and hate somebody
and quote, leave, but then they listen to every single word
that comes out of their mouth afterwards.
They follow him and listen to every sermon and everything and again
It's it's not because there's something special about Pastor Anderson
It's because the word of God is special and the Holy Spirit is special and it's evident that when he's getting up and preaching
He's preaching by the Spirit of God and that is what they can't resist
They can't resist the Bible. They can't resist the truth and they hate the truth and they're very rebellious in nature
They rebel and they're not rebelling against Steven. They're not rebelling and again, that's a good name, right?
They can't rebel against Steven of the Bible or Pastor Steven Anderson. They can't seem to get away from Steven's preaching and
What is it? It's because it's the Word of God that they can't get away from
It's because the rebellious against the Word of God and the Word of God eats at their hearts and eats at their minds and eats at their
Consons and they just can't stand it. So they're stirring up people. It says here in verse 11 that they suburned men
That's just meaning that they paid somebody money or they're bribing someone to lie
This is basically there's paying people and then you see them brought up in verse 13 and set up false witnesses
So there's they're literally paying money
to people to lie about Stephen to try and hurt and harm him.
Man, I wonder if anybody's ever paid money to people to lie about Pastor Stephen Anderson.
I wonder if they're going to make a documentary about it or something, where they're going
to pay people to lie about someone so as to just try and attack them because they cannot
resist his wisdom.
Because think about it, if Pastor Anderson was such a bad guy, or if Stephen here was
such a bad guy, wouldn't you just show like, hey, let me show you chapter and verse where
you're on?
I'm just going to preach the Bible and just expose you and show you how you're such a
bad person.
No, no, no, what we have to do is we have to get liars, we have to hire false witnesses,
we have to pay them money to discredit Stephen.
That's what we have to do.
That's the whole setup to chapter 7.
Now chapter 7, I'm not going to repreach all of this great chapter, but what does Stephen
do?
Stephen tries to help the Jews realize a very important point, and this is the point of my
sermon this morning, is that they're rebellious.
That if you say what is chapter seven Jews are rebellious, but then it's not just quote Jews
Because I'm sure there's a lot of people that are like yeah, you had me at Jews
It's mankind is rebellious
And you could go back before a Jew was even the little sparkle and Abraham's eye and man was still rebellious
Okay, and I think this is what people just don't realize and this is the title of my sermon this morning is you're more rebellious than you realize
You're more rebellious than you realize.
Now, if we look at chapter 7 verse 51,
this is Stephen kind of finally getting to the whole point
of explaining how the children of Israel constantly rebelled.
He says in verse 51,
He stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears.
You do always resist the Holy Ghost,
as your fathers did, so do ye.
He's trying to say, look,
they rebelled over and over and over and over again,
and you guys are just like them,
you're rebelling just like them.
Here's what's the problem with mankind.
We all think that we're better than everybody else.
We always think that we're right.
We think, oh well, the past generations, they were dumb, they were foolish, they were ignorant,
they were rebellious, we wouldn't be like them, we're smarter than them, we're better
than them, and Stephen's trying to help them realize, no, you're just like them.
And let me tell you something, we often, through the pride of ourselves,
try to build ourselves up in our mind and think that we're a lot better than we really are.
Go through to Matthew 23. There's a similar point here about the Jews
that I think is interesting. And again, it's this mentality.
There's this mentality where you kind of just think that you're better than past generations.
You're better than your fathers. Boy, it's called being a teenager, isn't it?
It's like every teenager has to go through this phase where they think that they're somehow better than their parents, don't they?
And they just don't realize, hey, you're not so much better than the past generation or the past people.
You know, most of the time you're just the same as everybody else.
At a Matthew 23, look what it says in verse number 30.
This is Jesus talking about how the Pharisees, what the Pharisees would say.
If we had been in the days of our fathers,
we would not have been partakers of them in the blood of the prophets.
Notice, he's saying, look, you guys think that you're somehow better
than all the Jews we read about in the Bible.
When we go through Genesis, and Exodus, and Leviticus, and Numbers, and Deuteronomy,
we go through all these passages, and we go through all the kings, and we go through all the prophets.
You guys somehow think like, oh man, we wouldn't be like them.
And then what is he saying in verse 31?
Wherefore, ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
He's like, hey, actually you're just like them and in fact verse 32 fill you up then the measure of your father's you're worse
Because while they may have killed
Great men of God, they didn't kill Jesus Christ the son of God and these Jews are gonna kill Jesus Christ the son of God
Why because the Jews killed Jesus?
Isn't this insane to think that I'm gonna bless the people that killed Jesus or?
Don't we understand that Jesus Christ is the Word of God?
If they hated the person Jesus Christ, let me explain something to you. They hate the Word of God too
Because it's the same person
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
You know what? They didn't hate just a person, they hated this.
They hate the Word of God. And let me tell you something.
Those of the religion of Judaism do not love Christians or Christ.
They're anti-Christ. They hate the truth.
They hate Jesus and they hate this book I hold in my hand.
And they're wicked.
But you know what? Just because they're the epitome of rebellion, the epitome of wickedness doesn't mean that they're the only wicked people in the world.
In fact, we're all more rebellious than we realize.
Go if you would all the way back to Genesis chapter 2. Let's take a little journey through the Bible like Stephen did.
Now, I'm going to elaborate on what Stephen did because Stephen, he started in a good spot and all the points he made were great.
expands it throughout the entire text. The entire Bible, it doesn't matter where
we start, where we drop our finger, or where we finish, there is a common theme
of man rebels and God has to redeem.
Man rebels and God has redeemed.
We are not getting better or evolving as a race, as a human race and somehow we're going to be less rebellious than we were at the beginning.
No, we're the same and it's the same pattern over and over and over and over in the Bible to such an exaggerated point like Stephen was trying to make.
And then after explaining them how they're so rebellious, so rebellious, what do they do? They stone Stephen.
Isn't that crazy?
Hey, you guys are so rebellious, you're going to be like your father's killing prophets
and then they kill Stephen.
You're just like, wow.
You can just tell people, hey, you're like this rebellious person and then they just
still rebel.
That's humanity.
Genesis chapter 2, look at verse 16.
And the Lord God commanded the man saying,
Of every tree of the garden, thou mayest really eat.
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
Thou shalt not eat of it.
For in the day that thou eatest thereof,
Thou shalt surely die.
We start the Bible, God creates man and he gives them rules.
Gives them commandments.
He tells them what to do and what not to do.
And we're now set up for an opportunity to do something.
Rebellion.
And here's the thing about free will.
Free will.
is honestly almost always going to rebel.
Say, why would you say that?
Well, just read the Bible, that's point one.
Here's another thing, just check and see how many people are actually saved.
It's about maybe five percent of the population, that's my personal
statistic, but I'm just saying like, it's not going to be much far off of that.
It might even be too high. I might be
over the top or overconfident in how many people are actually saved.
That's pretty bad when 95% of the people are rebelling against a free gift of salvation.
Not only that, then you take the people that are actually saved, how many of them even go to church?
I mean, how many people that are actually born again saved Christians?
They've accepted Jesus Christ's free gift or in church this morning.
Out of that, a large percentage aren't even in church at all.
And then, what percentage of those people that are in church are in a horrible church?
And what percentage of those people don't even use the king day's Bible?
They don't even read the modern version they have in their hand.
They're not even reading the NIV.
And then you take the people that are actually in a somewhat decent church, how many of those
people are actually living above approach, actually taking their Christianity seriously,
actually emphasizing the things of God, and pretty soon you'll realize there's not that
You realize that mankind is pretty rebellious.
You realize that mankind is not as great as Disney Channel wants you to believe, all right?
And what is the world constantly trying to tell you?
Everybody's good, everybody's hearts wonderful, follow your heart.
The Bible is just like the rebellious, the rebellious, the rebellious.
Now let's see almost instantly what does the Bible bring up?
Man rebelling, chapter 3 verse 6.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one why she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also under a husband with her and he did eat.
And the eyes of them were both open and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
So the Bible, you think about it, it's like Genesis 1, everything is being set up or explained where everything came from.
Chapter 2, here's man.
Chapter 3, they rebel.
I mean, that didn't take very long.
I mean, it's just basically, as quickly as we could possibly get to mankind rebelling,
it's like they instantly rebel.
It's kind of like that with your kids too, isn't it?
As soon as they can figure out how to rebel, they rebel.
I mean, we didn't even have to teach them by the time they're 18 months to, sometimes
they have an attitude already or anything like, what is wrong with you?
All kids are different and we get it some kids are real easy, especially at that age some kids
You're thinking like this is not my child, you know
This is your child. This is what you say to your spouse, you know, this isn't my child. This is your child, right?
So rebellious
But it's just like it's just inherent. It's like as soon as man gets a chance to rebel. He just rebels
But there's the thing God always had a plan for man's rebellion and that was redemption wasn't it?
Look at verse 15 and I will put in the tea between thee and the woman between thy seed
and her seed, it shall bruise thy head and thou shall bruise his heel.
So we get the first story of the Bible.
What is it?
Man rebels instantly and then God has to give us the plan of redemption through the seed
of the woman which is the Lord Jesus Christ and of course that's what gave us that redemption.
But let me tell you something, the devil wants you to rebel.
You know, the devil doesn't want you to keep God's commandments.
And it's really weird how this preacher, I'm going to give you a direct quote from Joe Jones, one of his recent sermons.
He said this quote,
Why are there all these people pushing the law for acceptance and blessings from God?
Where does it come from? Well, it comes from Satan.
So he's saying that people teaching you to keep God's law to be blessed by God,
Okay, show me one story in the Bible where the devil ever tells someone to keep God's commandments.
Can you show me one?
How about the first time he's introduced in the Bible? What is he like?
How about verse 4,
And the serpent sat on the woman, ye shall not surely die.
Oh, the first time he speaks, he's just contradicting exactly what God said.
He lies about what God said verse 5 for God does know that in the day you eat thereof
Then your eyes shall be open and he should be as God's knowing good and evil
So what does the devil try to do?
He comes to the woman and he tries to get her to rebel against God
That's the first thing he tries to do and let me tell you something the devil has the same agenda
Right now in America where the devil is going to women and he's whispering in their air and trying to get them to rebel right now
Why? It gets the same devil and you're the same woman you might sit here and look down on Eve and think like
Oh, how stupid for Eve to eat of the one tree you're not allowed to eat from
How foolish for you to be the first woman and just immediately rebel immediately go against the things of God
But let me explain something you're more rebellious than you realize, too
And how much is the devil coming and trying to whisper in your ear,
and how many times are you eating of the forbidden fruit?
How many times are you going against God's commandments?
How many times are you trying to think that you're smarter than God's plan,
than God's commandments? Oh, no, no, no. I'm smarter than what God set up.
God's trying to restrict me. It's so oppressive.
I'm in this garden with thousands of trees I can eat from,
but there's just this one that I can't have.
It's so oppressive.
You know what?
That's feminism today, isn't it?
Where they sit here and it's like,
you're at home, your husband pays all your bills,
you can do whatever you want.
It's just like you just can't be in charge.
But that one little tree, you're just like,
ooh, I want this little tree.
And I want to tell my husband what to do.
I want to take her this tree and then notice what does she do?
What does it say?
Verse 6,
And gave also under her husband with her feminism
right at the beginning of the Bible, isn't it?
I mean, what does the devil do?
He comes in there, he whispers in the woman's ear, you're in charge, get the apple, eat
it, give it to your husband, you want to be wise, God doesn't know this, he's holding
back from you.
God's holding back so much fun and joy and freedom, getting a job and putting on pants,
there's so much freedom, ooh look, I can move, there's so much more freedom, you can be your
Look, it's lies. You know what happens? You get kicked out of the garden.
You know what happens?
Punishment and consequences and look there will always be a man ruling over you because men are stronger than you and they're in charge.
What if you had a woman president? She's not in charge of some Jew somewhere telling her what to do.
Have you not watched Marching Desire? Jews are in control, babe.
You think that the Jews are stupid enough to think that they're letting women tell us what to do?
No, they're the ministers of Satan, okay, folks?
Somewhere, somehow, there's a guy behind the curtain, there's not a girl behind the curtain.
It's all a facade when they have a woman president or a woman leader.
She's just there as a trophy leader to make you think that women are really in charge when they're not.
And of course, what does the devil want you to do?
Oh, he wants to give you all this whiz at college.
Oh, these women, they're not going to get some,
you know, liberal arts degree.
Hmm, they're being held back
from all this wonderful knowledge,
all the knowledge of liberalism
that's not gonna help you.
You know, there's some things you just don't need to learn.
It's like, start reading the book of Quran
and realize, I don't need to finish this.
Start reading the apocaphone, you're like,
oh man, I don't need to finish this.
Well, how do you know what you're rejecting?
I mean, think about the logic of this.
It's like, just take some food that's not good.
All right, this is my example, corn dogs, right?
I don't like corn dogs, okay?
But just imagine the logic, if I try a corn dog,
I take a bite and I eat it and I say,
ooh, this is gross, I don't like it.
Well, have you had the whole thing?
Is it different than the rest?
Is it like magically tastes like something that it's not after I take a bite of it?
It's like no, I already took a bite. In fact just by the smell alone. I knew I shouldn't have taken the bite
And it's just like just the smell of Islam should have warned me from it
That's offensive well don't have a stinky religion just the smell of India should warn you from Hinduism
It's a stinky religion!
Oh, is it a coincidence that Christianity is always the one dominating the world?
What false religion is going and taking over the world?
When did Hinduism build the greatest country that's then now ruling the world and telling everybody what to do?
Oh yeah, it's always Christian nations, isn't it?
It's like the British or it's us or whatever.
It's Christians that are building this world.
And you know what? People are super rebellious and they just don't realize it.
People are super rebellious and it's the same playbook.
We don't even need another story, done.
As soon as you get an opportunity to rebel, rebel.
What we need is God's redemption constantly.
And we have to be realizing that, hey,
the devil's constantly trying to get us a rebel against God.
But the world got so bad looking at Genesis 6, verse 5,
that God had to destroy the entire world.
This is really, this is really sad.
Verse 5,
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
That's what mankind is really like with free will.
It eventually just degrades into just only evil continually.
Tick tock.
The United States government.
I mean, it can get bad.
Communism, communism, you read books about communism and you read about what people's lives are like and it feels like only evil continually.
And the only thing keeping us free is the word of God.
Verse 6, and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart.
Do you not realize God killed every single living creature
after he created them?
And we don't know the exact numbers on this.
It's probably millions of people.
It's probably even way...
It's probably billions of living animals
and all kinds of different vegetation.
I mean, the things that God just slaughtered
because of how rebellious his creation was.
And then, of course, what does he do?
He puts a rainbow in the sky to make it clear,
hey, I'm not gonna do this again
because I need to warn y'all
because y'all are gonna do it again.
Think about it.
If mankind was never gonna be rebellious again,
he wouldn't have to put the rainbow in the sky.
He'd just say, oh, well, that generation was bad.
No, no, he's like, I gotta put the rainbow in the sky
because y'all are gonna get bad again
and then y'all are gonna think like he's gonna flood it again.
And he's trying to say, I'm not.
Even though I kind of want to a little bit like
You don't think he looks down from San Francisco, and he's just like that's stupid rainbow
No, I'm just kidding. I mean he's just sitting there thinking like man
like
You know what? He's so angry. He's gonna burn it now
That's what happened. He's just like yeah, I'm not gonna flood it
Wink wink not not I'm gonna burn it. You know, it's like
He's like, man, I'm not I'm not doing this water thing. I'm doing the different kind of baptism
The one the Pentecostals claimed they like you know the baptism of fire
But it says verse seven and Lord said I will destroy man who I've created from the face of the earth both man and
Beast and the creeping thing and the vows of the air for it repented me that I've made them but
Noah found grace in that Lord so even throughout all the rebellion there was at least one redemption. It was Noah
It's kind of sad when God looks down from heaven and he's only like one guy he can stick with.
Have you ever noticed how the Bible is just like God has kind of just done with literally almost everyone on the entire planet but like one guy?
And then it's just, again, what does mankind think? Everybody's good, everybody's awesome, there's all these wonderful people.
It's like you read the Bible, no one's good.
There's only one guy and there's one guy. He still has by grace
Getting saved. He's not like good. He's getting grace, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord
So God spared Noah and his family
But it wasn't and again one of the people that was spared was wicked as hell
Think about this. I mean, let's just be honest for a second of the entire world
There's only one guy worth saving and isn't Noah a preacher of righteousness, the Bible tells us in the Testament?
Isn't Noah the greatest guy to basically ever live?
At least in this generation. I mean we're just saying like of this generation
He is the cream of the crop the best guy the only guy God chooses. He's really smart and hard-working
He builds an entire ark. He gathers all of the animals on the ark. Most men would fail at that job
I mean, there's so many men today that can't even keep a decent job today, let alone build
an arc.
This is Noah.
This guy is awesome.
And then one of his three children is the most wicked evil person ever.
Oh, I thought if you were an awesome parent, you know your kids are just automatically
awesome.
Oh, and let's think.
You can't even say they were raised in different environments, different timelines, by different parents, same parents, same timeline, and you know what, one is just wicked as hell.
It's not because of Noah, folks. It's because of what again? Rebellion. It's because mankind is just very rebellious at nature and his own heart, and we just have to realize what mankind is like.
You say, how do you know what mankind is like? I don't. The Bible does.
And it's so funny how there's all these philosophers and psychoanalysts out there that can tell
you all about humanity and the mindset and what's going on, they have all your different
therapy sessions, they're calling sermons these days, and they can tell you how to
raise a family, and it's like the Bible is just saying like the opposite of what they're
saying.
Hey, the Bible is saying people are super rebellious.
Stephen's warning, hey, you're super rebellious.
Do a thought experiment for me for a second.
If you don't think you're very rebellious,
what if I said, all right, everybody get a piece of paper
out right now, write down every single sin you committed
this week, and I'm going to read it right now
in front of everybody.
Who would want to play that experiment?
OK, no one needs to be thrown out right now.
I mean, nobody wants that.
Because we're way more rebellious than you realize.
You just thought in your mind like oh, I'm a pretty good person. Yeah, I'm pretty great. We knock on most doors
Hey, what do you have to do go to be a good person? Oh, really? How about just tell me the sins you've committed today?
Let alone this week let alone this month let alone. Let's get your worst sense that you've committed and let's read that out loud for everybody to hear
Hey, you're a lot more rebellious than you realize buddy
But then isn't it pretty easy for us to start reading the Bible and think like oh these guys are bad
Uh, hey, that story's about you.
That story's like what you're like.
You just didn't realize it, did you?
Because isn't that what Stephen's saying?
Hey, you know all those stories?
That's what you guys are like.
That's what you guys are gonna do.
You know, we sit here and read this
and we think like, oh no, I would've been great.
I would've been wonderful.
Hey, at this time, God said there's only Noah.
I only like Noah.
He's the only guy I'm gonna save.
Everyone else dead.
and a horrible death, horrible destruction of the entire world.
Go over to Genesis chapter 16, go to Genesis chapter 16.
And look, the people we read out in the Bible
are the greatest people to ever live.
And they still rebel.
The greatest people to ever live still rebelled.
How about Abram?
Genesis chapter 16, look at verse 4.
And he went into Hagar and she conceived and when she saw that she had conceived her mistress was despised in her eyes
And Sarah said in Abraham my wrong be upon thee. I have given my maid and I bosom
And when she saw that she had conceived I was despised in her eyes the Lord judge between me and thee
Look when your wife says hey be with another woman. She's lying. I
Mean you thought the eating the fruit was bad this one's crazy
Yeah, Abram is promised by God to have an heir and he loses faith and he listens to his wife, who has a stupid idea and then he sleeps with Hagar and then we get this horrible rebellion of Ishmael, this carnal rebellion, this lapse of faith in God, and look, this is Abram!
This is the father of our faith. This is one of the greatest guys to ever live and even this guy has this indiscretion
Even this guy has this rebellion even this guy goes against the promises of God even this guy loses faith in the Lord
Why because you're more rebellious than you think?
and
Boy again feminism for the win isn't it?
As soon as guys do what their wives want hey be with Hagar do with this other thing. It's just a total fail again
He should have said, like, no, that's a dumb idea.
No, God's gonna somehow give us a child.
I don't understand it, but it's not through Hagar.
And then, of course, it causes him all kinds of problems
between his wife and this weird situation.
But there's still redemption, isn't there?
Look at chapter 21, and look at verse, verse one.
Even though, think about this.
God's like, hey, I'm gonna give you a kid,
and then he does this horrible thing to get the wrong kid.
But God didn't give up on him. He still gave him the right kid, didn't He? He still gave him Isaac
Genesis 21, look at verse 1,
and the Lord visited Sarah as he'd said,
and the Lord did it in the Sarah as he had spoken,
for Sarah conceived and bear Abraham a son in his old age
at the set time of which God had spoken to him,
and Abraham called the name of his son that was born in him,
whom Sarah bear to him, Isaac.
And so Isaac is still born as the redemption
as that son that he was promised
that he would get in his old age.
You know, I kind of think that
You know Abraham got Isaac in such an old age to help people realize that Jesus was going to come kind of like a long time in the future.
Like it was going to seem way past due when Jesus ends up coming on the scene in the same way that Isaac kind of came like really late in life.
Because you think about human history, it's like 4000 years.
when Christ actually ends up coming.
They just seemed like really long.
In the same way, it's like Abraham got Isaac promised.
It was a promise, but it took a long time for that promise to come true in his life.
Because human lives are so much shorter,
obviously it was still, you know, within a hundred years or so.
But, you know, from the concept of the Bible, it's like,
man, this is going to be a long time coming
when Jesus is inserted into the story.
And then in chapter 22, look at verse 11.
Abraham is supposed to kill his son, and it says,
And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven,
And said, Abraham, Abraham, and he said, Here am I.
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad,
Neither do thou anything unto him,
For now I know that thou fearst God,
Seeing that thou hast not withheld thy son,
Thine only son from me.
Of course, Isaac's one of the clearest pictures
Of the gospel in the Bible,
Where Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son,
And he didn't have to go through it, he was redeemed.
But God the Father literally sacrifices his son
So that we can be redeemed.
And we see he paid the ultimate price for our rebellion.
God himself paid for our rebellion, but mankind has been rebellious.
He's been rebellious in the garden.
He's been rebellious all the way up to Noah and basically the restart, the redo on humanity.
But then you even have great people like Abram, still rebellion, still getting Ishmael.
And we constantly have this redemption, don't we?
Hey, the promise coming seed, we have Noah saved on the ark,
we have Isaac is not going to be sacrificed.
Gov'u had backed Genesis 13,
but we see that humanity as a whole is just very evil and very wicked.
And it's just very rebellious to an extreme.
Look at Genesis 13 verse 13.
centers before the Lord exceedingly. You know when we think about exceeding
something I tend to think of speed limits and if you know me I drive fast
right but what do you think you exceed the speed limit means you're going
beyond the speed you're not allowed to go the speed so if you're an exceeding
center what does that mean?
It means you're going beyond the fact that we're all just sinners and we're just normal sinners.
You're going beyond normal sin to what? Vile affections.
Which, what the Bible brings up in Romans chapter number one, these guys are not just sinners.
They're exceeding sinful. They're at the most extreme end of the spectrum.
And we see this extreme, extreme evil and rebellion.
This is the worst city to ever be in the world at this time.
Look at chapter 19, verse 16.
Chapter 19, verse 16.
But even though man rebels, even though Sodom and Gomorrah is the epitome of rebellion,
and even though Lot goes to live in Sodom, which is a picture of rebellion,
God ends up still redeeming, doesn't he?
Look at Genesis 19, verse 16.
And Wally Linger, talking about Lot,
The men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters,
the Lord being merciful unto him, and they brought him forth and said him without the city."
I'm starting to notice a pattern, isn't it?
In Genesis, man rebels, God redeems, with Adam and Eve in the garden.
We see Noah is in a generation of full rebellion but then Noah is given mercy and redeemed from that generation.
We see that Lot is in the midst of the worst rebellion imaginable and yet he is redeemed.
We see that Abraham, through rebellion having the wrong son, is then end up being redeemed through Isaac, his own son.
And we constantly have this thing, go to Genesis 27.
Where it isn't about man's rebellion. It's about man's rebellion and it's about God's redemption
You know, it's not about man redeeming himself
You know, there's this false
Gospel out there the repent of your sins gospel where you have to clean yourself up to get saved. It doesn't happen
It can't happen. It's nowhere in the Bible man doesn't ever clean himself up
Man just continues to be rebellious and God constantly redeems
And without that redeemer, we would have no salvation.
Genesis 27, look at verse number 8.
This is the mother of Jacob.
It says, Now therefore my son obey my voice,
according to that which I command thee.
Go now to the flock and fetch me
from thence two good kids of the goats.
and I will make them savor meat for thy father, such as he loveth,
and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death."
And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother,
Behold, Esau, my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
My father, Perventure, will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver,
and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son, only obey my voice, and go fetch me them."
Jacob goes and he deceives his father.
This is rebellion.
He's trying to steal his brother's inheritance.
He's trying to steal his elder brother's blessing
that is rightfully his.
He is a deceiver and he deserves a curse.
But what ends up happening is he still ends up
receiving, being redeemed and getting a blessing.
Look at verse 33.
And Isaac trembled very exceedingly.
So Esau comes in, Isaac's afraid of what happened
and said, who?
It's like, who are you?
Whereas he that had taken venison and brought it me and I have eaten of all before they'll came is in a blessed him
Yay, and he shall be blessed isn't this interesting Jacob lies to his dad
The sieves his dad is in the wrong and yet he still gets blessed somehow out of it
And it's just like that's mankind's story. We sinned we lied we stole we disobeyed our parents
We had foolish thoughts we committed even worse sins than this and then yet we still get to go to heaven
We still got the blessing of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We still have a God that loves us.
We still have a God that sent his son to be sacrificed for us.
And he still does all kinds of good things unto us.
He still reigns on the just and on the unjust.
He still is constantly giving us redemption from our rebellion.
And we get this blessing.
And of course this is a great beautiful picture of the gospel
because the mother in this story is symbolizing Jesus Christ.
Because notice she's saying, hey, whatever curse that you were going to get is going to come upon me.
And isn't that what happened? Jesus Christ took that swap, we lied, stole, and rebelled,
and then our sin was put upon Jesus, and he took the curse for us so that then we could receive the blessing from the Father.
And that's the whole point of the story. You read this story, it's like the first time you're like, this is a weird story.
You know some guy putting on animal skins and lying to his dad and then getting blessed like what in the world is this?
But you know what? It's about the gospel
What are those animal skins that were put on him?
That's the imputed righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ covering us and his robe of righteousness
His sacrifice because you know how you get an animal skin you kill it
You slaughter the animal and then you take his coat and you put his coat on you
That's how you cover yourself and in the same way
We had to slaughter the Lord Jesus Christ and take his robe of righteousness and put it on you because without it
You were naked and ashamed and full of sin just like Adam and Eve were in the garden
And we see that example of rebellion and redemption
Rebellion and redemption yet we get the blessing of it. No we
Genesis 37. Go to Genesis 37. You're like, are you going to do the whole Bible? We've
been here for a while. But you know what? Let me just let me let you on a secret. This
is the whole Bible. Just let it fall open. And I'll just tell you the story already.
Man rebels, God redeems. And here's another thing that we need to learn. Everybody in
But we're leading up to the point that we need to realize that we're in the same boat.
We often think we're better than we really are and we're not.
Look at Genesis 37 and look at verse 26.
The Bible says, And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it that we slay our brother
and conceal his blood?
Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is
our brother and our flesh, and his brethren were content."
Now this is what's so funny. I don't know if you've seen maybe you've seen this before this is kind of new for me
But isn't it funny that they sell Joseph to Ishmaelites?
Now think about this if you go to Galatians, you know who Ishmael really is
It's the Jews
Because he's saying hey the Jews are really of Hagar
They're the real Ishmael and in the same way that Joseph was sold to the Ishmaelites
Jesus Christ was sold to the Jews
Isn't that kind of cool? I don't know. I just thought I liked the Bible. Sorry. You're too rebellious to like it
But we see that Joseph was sold unto the Ishmaelites
Just like Jesus is sold to the Jews because of the same people same spirit same attitude
And they think oh our hands not upon him
No, no, no, Ishmaelites aren't the real guilty ones the Romans aren't the real guilty ones
You guys are the real guilty ones aren't you?
And of course, as brethren, they represent the Jews, too.
It's all Jews. Everybody's Jews, all right?
It's always Jews are the bad ones, right?
But we see they sell their own brother into slavery.
Talk about rebellion.
Talk about evil.
Look at verse 31.
And they took Joseph's coat and killed a kid of the goats
and dipped the coat in the blood.
And they sent the coat of many colors
and they brought it to their father
and said, this have we found.
Know now, whether it be thy son's coat or no,
and he knew it and said, it is my son's coat.
An evil beast hath devoured him.
Joseph is without doubt rent and pieces.
So,
Again, another picture of the Lord Jesus Christ and again this coat of many colors
I believe represents all of humanity because Jesus didn't just die for the Jews. He tasted death for every man and
Notice his blood was on this coat of many colors
Meaning the blood of Jesus Christ has redeemed people out of every nation and out of every tongue and in every kindred
And we're gonna see them all singing and praising God in heaven
Everybody except for the Jews. They're going to be cast out
Now we're talking about the religion not necessarily physically because there's plenty of physical Jews got saved Paul
Others that are like that
Obviously Judah is going to be there
But we still have redemption in the story Joseph is sold in a slavery
We thought he was killed go all the way to Genesis 50 and look at verse 20 go to Genesis 50 and look at verse 20
But as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, to bring the past as it is this day to save much people alive.
You know, by selling Joseph and his slavery, he goes to Egypt, and he interprets the dreams of Pharaoh, and they're redeemed out of seven years of famine, which the whole world would have died again.
And so in an interesting way, through man's rebellion of selling the brother and the slavery, God used that for redemption and saved all of mankind.
salvation to mankind in the same way.
So we see that same plan of rebellion and redemption. Rebellion, redemption.
Now Joseph himself has, I believe, a form of rebellion and you know this isn't
necessarily as explicit but this is just my interpretation of the facts
and for sake of time I'm not even going to dwell on this but you see Joseph
ends up taking everybody's lands and all their possessions,
and he basically enslaves his own brethren to the Egyptians.
To where not only do they have no money,
the Bible says that they had to pay a fifth part.
all of their produce and everything in the future. So now they have this huge
tax burden of like 20% to where now they're kind of enslaved by the
Egyptians. But then God raises up Moses, which is what we read about in Acts
chapter number seven, and Moses ends up delivering them out of Egypt. And so even
though Joseph sold his brethren in the slavery, and I believe that was a bad
allowing them to be redeemed through Moses.
Go to Judges Chapter 17, go to Judges 17.
I'm just going to tell you about some other stories.
How about as soon as the children of Israel get out into the wilderness,
Aaron immediately makes a false God?
That's just insane.
I mean, you have been with Moses, you've seen ten plagues on the Egyptians.
You have the most dramatic plague of the Passover lamb where the blood is sprinkled on the door
and all the firstborn were killed in that night.
Then you're marched out to the Red Sea.
You see the Egyptians coming after you and then God by a pillar of fire
stops them from slaughtering you, then parts the Red Sea,
then allows you to walk on dry land. As soon as you get on the other side
you see them still marching to kill you and then God just closes in the sea and
just destroys all of them
right before your eyes. Then you march out in the wilderness a few days
and then you make a golden calf to worship and say this is your God.
I mean, you've been doing this for weeks,
yeah, months, possibly even years,
just seeing miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle.
A few days in the wilderness, false God immediately.
And let me tell you something, Faith Word Baptist Church,
you'll have people that'll serve here
for years and years and years,
and see God doing all kinds of miracles
and wonders and great works,
and then just a little bit of wilderness,
and these people are just gone.
These people just instantly have a literal false God. They're now, hey John MacArthur's right
What in the world? How could you come to this church for years and then go to John MacArthur?
Go become a Calvinist
You were not selected
You're not that elect you're not that special your rebellious is what you are
Calvinists are not special, they're rebellious, and they're wicked, and John MacArthur's an idiot.
John MacArthur's commentary on the Bible, he has the quote for the whole world, he says,
now that's not really everybody.
That's just the people that would repent and believe.
It's so silly, it's like, he says the same thing about John 3.16, Forgot to Love the World,
but then it's so much funnier in the New Testament when it says the whole world,
I mean, I think world is clear enough, but then the Bible says the whole world, and then
John MacArthur interprets it as like, well that's just the Calvinist, that's just those
who are repentant to believe.
Well you know, that would be like less than 1% of the population.
Can you imagine trying to describe to somebody what 1% of the population is like by calling
them the whole world?
Do you think it may make you confused on that?
Ah, this guy is the power of God.
He's a wicked devil. He's the father of lordship salvation and you know what?
He didn't make Jesus the Lord of his life
He was already his Lord and he already denied him
He denied the Lord that bought him and he's gonna go into hell
But you know what there's there's evil wicked rebellious people that will be with you for years and then they come out of the woodwork and
You know what sometimes even good people get sucked away in this nonsense Aaron's a good guy
Aaron is not a bad guy. Aaron's a good guy, but for some stupid reason he made this golden cap because of peer pressure
Because he's like, well, I don't know what's going on with Moses
Well, you know what sometimes you don't know what's going on with Moses
But he's still Moses just leave Moses alone
Well, where's Moses at? I've never heard of this Bahamas place. It's even real
hmm
Well get a globe Earth and realize it's real, okay?
And, yeah, it's a real place, but we haven't seen them,
you know, where's the other one?
Well, don't become Aaron and make a false God.
But you know what, people do that.
You know, people literally tell me this,
and I kind of cringe at it, but they'll say like,
oh, I'll say, hey, I'm gonna preach a fateful word,
or I'm gonna go preach somewhere else,
and they're like, oh, well, we're gonna go to,
we're gonna do something else for church that day then.
I'm thinking like, why?
You don't go to church even if you're like if your path, you know your path is not showing up. You just don't show up
Is God still there?
Is the Bible still there?
Did Jesus still die on the cross? Is God still seated on his throne in heaven?
Like what in the world?
Like we now like why are we doing a completely radical different thing just because Moses went on the mountain for a little bit
It's like let Moses do his thing
You know, and it's not like Moses is going to the gentleman's club or something
He's going out there to commune with God. I think it's okay
But then man just rebels instantly man is just heart is just set on rebellion isn't it?
Aiken takes the Babylonius garment and of course just instantly rebels and cause all kinds of problems
I had you turn to judges chapter 17 judges is just a train wreck of a book
It's really fun and exciting because it's drama, but it's definitely a trainwreck
That's like Christianity today, okay
Christianity today is a trainwreck, but it's kind of fun to like experience, you know
It's like crazy dramas happening in the Bible, but you know, that's life life is drama man
All the times that there's no drama. It's like one the shortest verse in the Bible and they had rest for 40 years
All right next story
Judges chapter 17 look at verse 6
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes
Did you know everything you do you think is right?
Otherwise you wouldn't do it
You constantly justify yourself. You constantly think everything you're doing is right. You think everything you believe is right.
You think all of your advice is right.
And you know what? This is why it's dangerous for prideful preachers to get up and just expound whatever they think because they already think that they're right.
You know, we're supposed to preach the Word of God and let me tell you something you need to go to a church
Where the guy up behind the pulpit only cares what this says not what he thinks because we're not supposed to trust in our
Own wisdom. We're not supposed to lean on their own understanding. We're supposed to trust in the Lord
This is really our guide. It's like even if I don't understand it. This is right
And you know what you need to go to church or someone's gonna preach you the Bible and not what they think because let me tell you something
Everybody thinks that they're right, but basically everybody's wrong
Everybody's rebellious by nature.
This is right.
We have to constantly renew our mind and we have to humble ourselves in the sight of
God and get right with God.
You know, I forget that story where the Bible's just like, yeah, and then everybody's doing
everything right.
Oh, everybody's perfect again.
Oh, I remember that New Testament epistle.
Hey, remember that church in the Bible where it's just like, oh, you guys have perfect
doctrine, no problems, no fighting?
Good job, guys.
High five.
No, it's pretty much just like you guys have a lot of issues like serious serious issues
Every single church every single person why because rebellion is rampant in this world look at chapter 21 verse 25
I'm making a big deal about this because Stephen made a big deal about this and let me tell you something
You think you're better than you really are
You think you're a lot smarter and a lot more intelligent and a lot more godly than you really are
And we need to constantly read the Bible to humble ourselves and realize, you know what, I'm not that great.
I need a redeemer.
And here's the thing, if I need something, if I need Jesus, if I need the Bible, if my ideas aren't good,
you know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to read the Bible constantly so I'll constantly get the right ideas to replace my bad ones.
And then I'll constantly go to church to get the right attitude and the right spirit because I realize I don't have it.
But what does the prideful person do? I don't need the Bible and I don't need church because I'm already right.
But you're not right
There's no person that's not reading the Bible. That's not going to church. It's godly at all
They're wicked and evil and rebellious and against the things of God and you know what?
It's a fool's errand to think oh well
I'm gonna get out of church because I'm afraid of what's happening in humanity. I'm afraid what's happening in this church
I don't want people to go bad. Look you're not gonna go bad by showing up here
You're already bad
You're already rebellious oh
Man, I don't want to go to church for my kids might screw up your kids are screwed up already
How do you know that I know
What I want this to happen my wife runs they're already screwed up you're already rebellious
And I know everything I do is right. Yeah, you and everybody else and judges to huh judges 21 look at verse 25
In those days, there was no king in Israel.
Every man did that with just writing his own eyes.
Oh man, you're just so awesome, aren't you?
Go to Deuteronomy, go back to Deuteronomy chapter 12,
go to Deuteronomy chapter 12.
You think you're hot stuff and you're not.
You need the Bible, you need church,
you need heart preaching,
you need to get that rebellion out of your mind
and heart every day.
Actually multiple times a day, probably.
And even then, after that, you still got problems.
I mean, think about this.
Don't you bathe yourself daily?
There was only one guy that does.
But it's hot here.
Someone needs to take a shower, OK?
I mean, don't you brush your teeth?
I mean, my kids are supposed to brush them in the morning
and in the evening.
And they're supposed to bathe.
Why?
Because you get stinky fast, don't you?
Hey, guess what? You need that in the same way as spiritualness.
You're a real rebellious and you need to keep washing off that rebellion and constantly renewing your mind and constantly getting
right with God, because you're more rebellious than you realize, and
it's so easy to give in.
It's so easy to just go down to the dark side. It's so easy. You know, it's so much easier to not go to church than to go to church.
It's so much easier to not read your Bible than to read it.
It's so easy to not go soul-winning, than to go soul-winning.
It's so much easier to not get up and dress yourself and show up at church.
It's so much easier to not have to put your kids in nice clothes and argue with them and fight with them
and strap them down to the car seats and drive, who knows how far to get here.
It's real easy to not do that, isn't it?
It's real easy to not have standards. It's real easy to just go along with everything
It's real easy to just buckled all the peer pressure of your family and to accept everything
It's real easy to just do nothing and be nothing and have no works. It's real easy
You know what it takes work and effort and energy
To try and get right and to clean yourself up and why because you're rebellious and it's so easy
Don't think like oh man, you know, I'm just so good. I got it. Look. It's so easy to get off the right the right track
So easy to go down the dark the dark path. It's so easy to go to the non-denom church. I
Mean it's a beautiful building
Think think about this. Don't they make church just ten times easier
They have an amazing kids program with a jungle gym and they're gonna give them crackers and juice
Your kids are going to be like, this is the greatest day of my life.
And you're going to sit in a comfortable, nice chair without your kids.
Most people would just say, where do I sign up?
In fact, I went to a non-nump church, that's where I grew up in.
I went to a non-nump church where people would just show up to drop their kids off.
They wouldn't go to church.
This is the life hack, okay?
They just take, but think about how much they don't like their kids.
I mean, they already have them in public school for the whole week,
and they're probably a babysitter, and then they can't even stand them for a few hours on Sunday.
They have to ship them off.
I mean, hey, putting your kids in public school versus home schooling, way easier.
I mean, we can just do whatever we want.
Be selfish, not having kids is real easy.
Having just one kid or two kids, real easy.
What does the Bible say, though?
Junior 9, chapter 12, verse 8.
You shall not do, after all the things that we do here this day, what is it?
Every man with server is writing his own eyes.
Don't do what you think is right.
Do what the Bible says.
Go to Revelation 3, we're going to speed up.
Hey, Eli and his sons, rebellious, Saul rebellious,
David commits murder and adultery, rebellious,
Solomon goes after false gods, rebellious,
all the kings are bell against God,
they're taken into Babylonian captivity,
Ezra and Nehemiah, they come back
and they pluck out their hair
and they pluck out the hair of all the men there
and say, you guys are so rebellious!
And you married your children of strange women!
Just like Solomon did. We just got back from 70 years of captivity and you're going straight back to false religion again
Why because man is rebellious
Then you show up with Jesus and the Jews and they killed Jesus
Then the apostles go out into all the world and you know what they're stoned and laughed at and mocked and ridiculed
They can't even go to the churches that they started
The churches are so rebellious.
Oh yeah, deotrophies.
Yeah, I see you.
Not even letting you go back to the own church that you started.
I mean, John can't even go back to where he came from.
All of Asia's turned away from the apostle Paul.
Hey, that's the Bible.
And then people think like, oh man, you know,
the new IMB's weird or something.
It's like, sounds like it's the Bible.
Pastor Anderson can't go back to churches that he started.
or brought all the people in.
They've turned away from him
and they don't like him.
Wow, that sounds like the Bible.
Even Barnabas turned on Paul.
And who was right in that story?
Oh yeah, we forgot about Barnabas, didn't we?
And then the only mention we have of Barnabas later in the Bible
is him dissembling likewise with the Jews
and falling to the persuasion of James and Peter
and going down a bad road.
Barnabas was a great guy.
Now he's gone.
The bleeding heart Barnabas is out there.
Falling after a John Mark or something and you know some people say well John Mark seemed to get right
but we don't know if that was because of Barnabas because Barnabas is gone.
Paul's the one that keeps doing stuff.
Hey Paul's like hey all the Jews just they're not worthy of everlasting life quote from the Bible.
I'm gonna turn under the Gentiles.
Then you get even into Revelation, that's why I had you turn, even these churches have serious issues.
I mean, you kind of have like Philadelphia as a bright spot, but for the most part these seven churches in Asia,
major problems, major rebellions.
Look at this one in verse number 14, and under the angel of the church or the lay of the sea, and it's right,
these things say of the amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God,
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot.
I would that thou were cold or hot.
So then, because thou art lukewarm,
and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods,
and am need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched
and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
You know, God doesn't like people being lukewarm.
Hey, if you have a position,
why don't you just tell everybody what your position is?
Don't be lukewarm.
Nobody likes it.
Hey, if you like Pastor Anderson, just say you like Pastor Anderson.
If you don't like Pastor Anderson, just say you don't like Pastor Anderson.
But don't be lukewarm.
That's weird.
And you know what? There's a lot of churches out there, they think that they're great,
but they don't even realize that there are nothing.
It's like, where's your soul wedding? Where's your missions?
Where's all the works that you're doing?
How many churches have criticized this church and your pastor?
And it's like, they have zero missions, trips.
They're promoting zero soul-winning events.
The soul-winning at their church is virtually dead,
except for the few holdouts from the new IB
that are still holding their nose and going to that church.
It's like, what works do you guys have?
I mean, they're running 13 or something,
or 20 people or something like that,
that live in some small backwoods community.
It's like, oh, wow, that's impressive.
How about, you know, a church that's here in the Bible, they, look, they're rich.
This is what many people think, well, we have a lot of money, we have a big building,
we have all these people, we must be doing good.
Uh, where's your works?
I mean, do you think God's please, hey, I'm sitting on 300 people in my church,
and we're getting like 1.5 people saved and 0.3 people baptized every year.
He's like, hey, you guys are poor, blind, and naked.
miserable, because you're letting your wives tell you what to do. That's a
miserable existence, I'll tell you what. Look, there's a generation that are pure
in their own eyes that is not washed from their own filthiness. People are doing
that which is right in their own eyes. These people think that they're right
and they're wrong. You can sometimes realize you're more rebellious than you
think. Go to 1st Peter 3, I only have two more places I'm gonna go, so I preach
long. Your pastor tries to finish it in an hour, I don't care. I don't have to
First Peter chapter number three I'll be here tonight if you want to hear a couple more sermons all right
Hey, what about it just America?
Doesn't America kind of think it's pretty awesome pretty special and it's not at all. I
Mean we have like a whole month. I don't know if they've changed it officially or not
We still have a whole month dedicated to faggots
and trannies?
Trannies are the most disgusting things in the planet.
They hate themselves.
I constantly see posts of them talking about how they hate themselves
and they just want to die because their life is so miserable.
Why would I celebrate that?
What lifestyle am I even promoting? Suicide now?
Mutilation and suicide?
Is that what we've come to?
That sounds like a devil's religion.
That's promoting mutilation of your body and suicide and
Promoting men in dresses and promoting men wearing lipstick
Men wearing lipstick
Men putting on mascara and eyelashes and
Chopping off the one part of their body that's real sensitive
Why would I be celebrating that?
America's so great. We have a whole month
a whole month dedicated to that nonsense, to that filth, to that perversion.
I mean, America is not what it used to be.
I feel like you don't even realize like the patriots of America are founding fathers
would be possibly killing us, they'd be so mad.
They'll be fighting against us. They'd be like, what's wrong with you? I mean, Nehemiah is ripping people's hair out
I can't even imagine what our forefathers would be doing
You know in the state of Georgia, it was illegal to be a Catholic for hundreds of years
We just allowed Catholicism go rampant in our country and look Catholicism is the tip of the iceberg
How about we have Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses talk about the weird freaks we allowed to exist in their culture
Hinduism, and all kinds of paganism, and just nonsensical religions.
Our nation has become pagan and ungodly.
It's unimaginably filthy and abominable.
We have so much adultery and fornication and STDs, and just nonsense.
Our nation is not what we think it is.
And look, how many people just don't even realize they're saved in our nation?
Yet they think they are.
They're more rebellious than they realize.
They think they're going to heaven because they're a good person,
but you know what, there's redemption and they can get saved.
How many people think their nation is great and don't realize that it's pagan,
but let me tell you something, there's a cure to America that's called Christianity.
Hey, you know how many people are using the modern version and they don't realize how bad it is,
but you know what, the King James Bible is the cure.
How many people don't realize that they're a feminist?
But being Sarah is the cure look what it says in 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 6
Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him Lord whose daughters y'all are as long as you do well and are not afraid of any amazement
Hey, just be like Sarah and just call your husband. Yes, sir, and just do whatever he says
No need to fight. He's right
He's not always right feminist
I need to correct him, feminist.
I need to tell him what to do, feminist.
Hey, when he's driving, I need to be a backseat driver,
feminist.
I don't think that's feminist.
Well, you're more rebellious than you realize.
I don't like that.
I want to tell my, just shut up.
I mean, do you want to be like Eve
and just lead us all into sin?
You know what and Sarah had her bad moment, but you know what? This is the good moment for Sarah
Call your husband Lord and just do whatever he says. Hey, you know what then you'll have a lot better life. I promise
You know, this is what women are worried about. They're they're afraid like if I don't tell my husband
You know what to do. He won't make good decisions
But honestly, just just let him just let him be and you'll probably make you'll probably surprise you
If you nag him to death, he'll probably run away
Some people don't realize they're lukewarm. Why don't you be zealous and go soul-winding today?
Hey, some people don't realize they don't like hard preaching
You need smart preaching in your life
Some people don't realize they can't handle persecution at all
You need to get some persecution in our country's filled with divorce and adultery and alcoholism and tattoos and just just filth
Just a bomb to both filth everywhere
You know you need you need hard preaching more than you realize
He'd go to even fours and go to he was for no finished. I mean I can't emphasize this point enough
I have not been bombastic enough. I have not exaggerated enough
You're worse than we think
So like oh, this isn't very encouraging sorry it's reality
This is what's encouraging God still wants to redeem you
Even though you're kind of a feminist, and even though you're kind of rebellious, and even though you're kind of lazy,
and even though you kind of suck in general, God still wants to use you.
I may not even want to use you, but God does.
You know what? You can go out soul winning today and get someone saved.
Even the most weird, awkward person can get someone saved because the power of the gospel is what gives people saved.
See, I'm not that good at speaking. Who cares? You can give the gospel. You can get someone's aid
And you know what? We have to realize that I need church. I need the Bible. I need faithful word Baptist church
I need Pastor Stephen Anderson. You know what's wrong with the world? We don't have enough Pastor Stephen Anderson's
Pastor Stephen Anderson is not causing problems in this world. He is helping people stop being so rebellious
The world would not be better off with people not having him. Our world would be worse
We need more people like him and we need more Christians like you guys and we need more people to support him
And you know what? Praise God for a church that can handle a couple tribulations
Praise God for a church can handle a couple rocky roads
Praise God for a church that can handle some lies. Praise God for a church that can handle a couple rebellious kids
I mean who's stronger? Teenagers or us? Let's show them who's tougher, right?
Hey, who's tougher? A bunch of lying, railing, slandering weirdos?
I mean you've had the weirdest people come to this church.
Don't let them win. Show them you're stronger.
You're not going to get me off of this train.
Because you know what? This train is the Bible. It's the Word of God.
Don't let some Korah come in here some holier than now and distract you
Don't let your extended family or mother-in-law gets you out of this church
Don't let some person attack you
What do you know what you need to do? You need to just make up your mind already and just say hey
I'm new I'd be for life
I got a short life to live I'm just gonna go all in
Bay Ford Baptist Church is my church
When just forever
I'm just I'm you know, I'm gonna take this woman my wife till death
Why don't you do that to this hey King's Bible till death
This church till death
soul winning till death
I mean, isn't that beat out faithful into death and I'll give the crown of life
Isn't this called faithful word, bad research?
Holding fast the faithful word?
Someone's gotta hold fast on it.
Someone's gotta stand up to rebellion.
Someone's gotta stand up to the feminist.
Someone's gotta stand up to the Calvinist.
Someone's gotta stand up to the liars.
Someone's gotta do the hard work.
Someone's gotta actually tell their wife what to do.
Someone's actually gotta get this house in order.
Someone's gotta preach the hard truths.
Someone has to stand against all odds.
Someone has to stand against friends turning on them and stabbing them in the back.
Someone has to go to the Caribbean and give them the gospel.
Somebody has to preach the word of God.
And you know what? Someone needs to stand behind those men
and actually say,
Here, my Lord, send me.
Let the redeemed say so.
Let all the people of God say amen.
Hebrews chapter 4, and you know what, you're going to keep screwing up, and you're going to have problems, and you're going to make mistakes.
But you know what, we need to just never give up. Don't quit. Don't be a quitter.
I respect people that screw up and want to stick with it way more than the people that didn't screw up and just quit.
God likes sinful people that don't quit way more than the non-sinful that quit.
Hebrews 4, look at verse 14,
seeing that we have a great high priest.
Hey, we have a great high priest. His name is Jesus.
That has passed in the heavens. Jesus is the Son of God.
Let us hold fast our profession.
If we have not a high priest,
which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities,
but was in all points tempted like as we are,
yet without sin.
Let us therefore come boldly under the throne of grace that we may attain mercy and find grace to help in time of need
Hey, we need some redemption. Why because we're rebellious
But never get the stupid attitude in your mind where you think I'm pretty great
You're rebellious
We're all rebellious and we we need Jesus
We need the Bible. We need a good church
Other people need a good church like this
be that living sacrifice that says hey you know what I'm gonna go through
difficulty and problems and I'm gonna screw up and whatever but God's gonna
keep redeeming us and keep redeeming this church and we're gonna go out
there and we're gonna help get a lot of people saved and at the end of the day
what else matters anyways but the souls you can take with you to Christ up into
heaven and you know that God is using this church greatly this year let's not
let's not quit
Let's go harder in the next half
Let's do more
Let's get more sold out more plugged in
Let's give more of our time finances and effort and energy to the things of God and just realize I'm rebellious
I'm screwed up but God can still use me because God's redeeming me for salvation and he's going to keep redeeming me from all my mistakes
Let's close in prayer
Thank you, Heavenly Father so much for
Constantly redeeming us when we don't deserve it. Thank you for using us even though we're sinful
I pray that we wouldn't allow our pride to get the best of us, that we wouldn't get
lifted up above our brethren, that we wouldn't think that we're somehow extra special, but
we realize we're just sinners saved by grace, that we're very rebellious by nature.
that we need to constantly renew our minds, we need church, we need the Bible,
we need churches like Faithward Baptist Church, we need pastors like Pastor Stephen Anderson,
we need to stand behind the men of God and the soul winners
and the people that are going to actually make a big difference in this world.
And I pray that you would help us to not get distracted with all the losers and the weirdos
and the freaks and the problems and the issues, but we just keep our eyes on Christ.
When we fall short, that we would have the boldness just to come to you and ask for mercy
and never give up, never quit.
But be steadfast.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen.
Let's turn in our hymns lastly if you wish to song number 140.
Song number 140, we have an anchor.
wings of sky. When the strong tides lift from the table strength, will your anchor drift
or firm remain? We have an anchor that keeps the soul. Stand fast and sure while a billows
roll. Fasten to the rock which cannot.
Proud and firm and deep in the Savior's love.
It is safely more to the store with sand.
Or just well secure by the Savior's hand.
The tempest raging while this flow
On a green witch of our Lord.
We have an anchor that keeps us whole.
Step fast and sure while the billows roll.
Pass it to the rock which cannot move.
Grounded firm and deep in the Savior's love.
When our eyes behold through the gathering night,
past by the heavenly shore, with the storms all past forevermore.
We have an anchor that keeps the soul, stand fast in shore while the billows roll,
fast into the rock which cannot move.
Thanks for being your guest.