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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. If you could please find your seats and grab a songbook.
We're going to start out this morning with 410, Faith is the Victory. Let's sing it out nice and loud.
410, Faith is the Victory. 4-1-0, let's sing it out.
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410 on the second.
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Heavenly Father, thank you for this great day. Thank you for the victory we have through faith in your Son, Jesus Christ.
We pray that you bless our church this morning. Help us to sing out with love in our hearts for you. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, for our next song, let's go to 217, He Included Me.
217, He Included Me. Song 217, let's sing it out.
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I am so happy in Christ today that I go singing along my way.
Yes, I'm so happy to know and say Jesus included me too.
Jesus included me. Yes, He included me. When the Lord said, Whosoever, He included me.
On the second, gladly I read, Whosoever may come to the fountain of life today.
But when I read it, I always say, Jesus included me too.
Jesus included me. Yes, He included me. When the Lord said, Whosoever, He included me.
Ever God's Spirit is saying, Come, hear the bride saying, No longer wrong.
But I am sure while they're calling home, Jesus included me too.
Jesus included me. Yes, He included me. When the Lord said, Whosoever, He included me.
Freely come drink words of soul to thrill. Oh, with what joy they might find to fill.
For when He said, Whosoever will, Jesus included me too.
Jesus included me. Yes, He included me. When the Lord said, Whosoever, He included me.
Amen. Great singing. And if you don't have a bulletin yet, but you'd like one,
lift up your hand nice and high. One of our ushers can come by and get you a bulletin.
We are starting a new Bible memory passage, Psalm 59.
If you did complete our previous challenge of Proverbs 31 and you have not claimed your prize,
please make sure to do so immediately after the service.
You can ask Brother Oz or myself and we can help assist you in claiming your prize.
Thanks to everybody who participated in the Proverbs 31.
A lot of people did and I really appreciate that because there's a longer chapter of the Bible
and it definitely is about a lot of great verses in it.
And to me, you know, even when you memorize something, you may forget a little bit.
You still just have it with you there and the Holy Spirit can just remind you
of those verses at different times in your life.
And so it's just a really great exercise to memorize scripture
and to get it into your mind and get it into your heart.
And so I really commend you on doing that.
Also, you know, work on some of these shorter ones with us as well.
Psalm 59 is kind of an interesting Psalm and it's a little bit shorter.
So if you're doing it just for the prize, you may be less incentivized
because obviously we don't give out, you know, my wife was like,
give out brand new cars for, you know, do Psalm 119 and give out a car.
And I'm like, a lot of people probably memorize that, you know.
But, you know, we should memorize scripture because it's more important
than having a car is having the Word of God in our heart, okay?
And, you know, if I had the ability, I would give you a car like Oprah, okay?
But I can't do that. So, you know, but even better, you know,
better than gold and silver is the Word of God.
And so I try to challenge you to memorize different passages of the Bible.
Work on Psalm 59 with me.
This is a little bit harder verse, but a lot of the other verses are a little easier.
So once you get this one, it should be pretty smooth.
Go into the inside of our bulletin.
You'll notice our service times have actually changed.
Today is the first day of that change.
So we had our Spanish service this morning at 9 a.m.
and I really appreciated all the people that came out.
It was a great service.
Sermon was on charity and I highly recommend our Spanish service,
especially if you're just trying to learn Spanish or get better at it.
The services are really good.
You can sing the Psalms and they sound great.
Also, we have a lot of good preachers in this church
and so it's just a great opportunity to learn Spanish.
Also, if you know people that speak Spanish,
please do invite them to those services.
Give them the information.
We would love to continue to grow that ministry.
Pray for that ministry that will continue to go.
Also, God willing, maybe we need to have a couple more
soul and earthons locally that are geared towards Spanish-speaking areas.
I know Duncanville has a large Hispanic population.
Of course, every city has a lot of Hispanic people
because we all have restaurants and someone's got to cook that food.
No, I'm just kidding.
Someone's got to mow the lawn.
No, I'm just kidding.
It's kind of a joke.
At the end of the day, there's a lot of people in America,
and especially Texas, especially this part of the world,
that only speak Spanish.
I mean, you just run into them and it's not like they're lazy or something.
They just simply live in that environment.
That's what they've been exposed to.
They just haven't had a lot of chance to learn English necessarily.
And because of the way that Spanish has its own culture,
there's not necessarily an incentive for all of them to even learn English.
So many people are going to only speak Spanish
and will probably never even choose to learn English.
And so if you want to reach those individuals,
we have to speak with other tongues.
We have to speak in Spanish.
And so I definitely encourage you, if you can, learn Spanish.
Learning a foreign language is hard.
And, you know, it's difficult.
It takes a lot of time, effort, energy.
But if I was going to have to learn another language and I lived here,
I would learn Spanish because, frankly speaking, it has so much utility,
so many ways you can use it.
And I run into so many people that only speak Spanish.
And a lot of my salvations in the last five years
have been as a result of Spanish specifically.
So a lot of people that I would have not gotten saved,
or a lot of people that I got saved would have not gotten saved
if I had chosen not to learn how to speak Spanish.
And, you know, especially in Houston,
I feel like it's almost 50-50, the salvations I got.
And it's just because, you know, people that speak Spanish
are more receptive and they're very nice.
And even though I'm a gringo,
they're usually really nice about that as well.
And in fact, a lot of them are a lot easier to get saved.
You know, in English, you kind of have to combat
like a lot of false doctrine and people are weird and all this stuff.
Whereas in Spanish, there's a lot of people
that are just kind of right there and ready
and a lot more willing and a lot easier to get saved
than people that I find in English.
There's a lot more objections in English
that I kind of run into.
Not to say that there isn't a lot of Catholics
and people that speak Spanish and won't get saved,
but at the end of the day, you know, from my experience,
there's a lot of very receptive people
that only speak Spanish,
and they need someone to come and bring them that gospel.
But we don't want to just get people saved.
We want to get them plugged into church
and learning the Bible and growing and reading
and singing the Psalms.
And so, you know, definitely pray for that ministry.
I'm really excited about this change.
And then also in response to that,
our evening service is now going to change to 4.30.
So, you know, this is for all you Sunday morning glories.
You have an opportunity to still come Sunday night, 4.30.
And I was hoping that would just make things
a little bit smoother as far as eating dinner,
getting back home sooner, and everything like that.
So I'm really encouraged to have that.
Actually, I did it just so I could preach for an extra hour.
No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Maybe.
All right, so, also with soul winning times
and then church stats down below on the right,
we have the list of expecting ladies.
Please be in prayer for them.
Our prayer list, if you have any other prayer requests,
you can add them in here.
It looks like there was one written in here
to pray for Miss Celia's mother, her cancer, so surgery,
if you want to add that.
Also, I have a couple birth announcements.
The ones not in the bulletin,
but I did want to at least announce it,
was for the Larke family.
They gave birth to Esther Rose on the 29th of April,
so just a few, just not that long ago,
2 19 a.m., 8 pounds, 9 ounces,
20 and a quarter inches long.
So congratulations to them.
And then also congratulations to the Urbanic family
on the birth of Juliet Kay.
She was born on the 28th at 8 38 a.m.,
9 pounds, 3 ounces, and 21 inches long.
Congratulations to them as well.
It's great to see how our churches grow so much, so fast.
Also on the back, the note, our upcoming events,
Mother's Day Tea, May 11th.
So make sure you pay attention to any details on that
and you guys make sure to help out with the kiddos
so she can enjoy that.
And just as a hint, guys,
that means that the next day is Mother's Day, all right?
So if you're like, it caught me off guard,
and you came to my church service,
you have no excuse, okay?
So we have a Mother's Day Tea before Mother's Day, okay?
And you might want to do something, all right?
I'm just throwing that out there, all right?
May 18th is the last preaching class
that we're gonna have for this semester, May 19th.
We're gonna have a graduation Sunday.
Now, I know we have at least one.
Is there anybody else that's,
I don't think that we have, do we have another graduate?
Does anybody know of any, okay.
If you have another one, please just let me know,
or if you're listening online,
just let me know if there's someone else that's graduating.
But we do have at least one graduate from high school,
or even it could be college, May 19th.
We'll be celebrating that.
And then there's actually a couple
that I've known from Houston.
They actually came to our first service at Pure Words,
but they just haven't been in church for that time,
but they're planning on getting married,
and they're actually gonna have the ceremony here
on June 8th.
And I just asked them, I just said,
do you want to invite people?
And he said, sure.
So, again, I don't know that anybody
would probably know them,
but if you want to come, you're welcome.
There's gonna be a wedding, I believe it's 3 p.m.,
it's a Saturday, it's June 8th.
So I'm just putting that there on the announcements
so that people would be aware
that that's going to take place.
So that's pretty much all I have
as far as announcements.
We do have new cards as far as our service times.
So please feel free to hand those out.
If you do by chance notice anything that says 5.30
or whatever, just let us know if we need to change it,
or you can throw away old invites,
or you can still use them, because frankly speaking,
a lot of people don't really come to the service
based on the card alone, okay?
So it's not like a huge deal.
And if they came a little late one day,
it's not the end of the world, right?
We do have pictures still.
If you haven't taken your pictures,
please see Brother Alex after the service.
We'd love to get a photo for you for the church directory.
Additionally, there is a swap
that's going to be happening today.
I believe it's supposed to happen outside,
but I guess weather permitting.
So if that changes, we might do the fellowship room,
but as of now, it sounds like
we're going to probably be doing that
in the outdoor patio area.
The swap is simply just items that are free.
So like, if you like free items,
if you say like, I need free items,
there's going to be free items out here.
See, I didn't participate, I didn't bring anything.
We don't care.
It is not, if you brought something,
you are now just takers.
All the people that were going to bring something already did.
So what we really need the takers,
because there is a lot of stuff, I saw a lot of cool stuff.
So check it out.
It's first come, first serve.
Or if you can punch them in the face and take it.
No, I'm just kidding.
Please don't wrestle anybody or hurt anybody.
But obviously, first come, first serve.
You got to put it in your car.
And so we'll do that in between services this afternoon.
I believe it's between 1 and 3 p.m.
So if you'd like those things, you can check them out.
Hopefully, it'll all get taken.
That's pretty much all, again, I have as far as announcements.
We'll go ahead and sing our third song for this morning.
It's going to be Psalm 146.
Psalm 146.
All right, let's sing it out together.
Psalm 146.
Praise ye the Lord, praise ye the Lord, O my soul.
While I live will I praise the Lord, I will sing praises unto my God.
While I have any being, put not your trust in princes,
Nor in the Son of Man, in whom there is no help,
Whom there is no help.
Praise ye the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.
His friend going forth, he returneth to his earth in that
very day his thoughts perish.
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help,
Whose hope is in the Lord, the Lord is God.
Praise ye the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.
Which made heaven and earth the sea,
And all that there in it which keepeth truth forever,
Which exuciteth judgment for the oppressed,
Which giveth food to the hungry, the Lord looses the prisoners.
Praise ye the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.
The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind,
The Lord raiseth them that are bowed down,
The Lord loveth the righteous,
The Lord preserveth the strangers,
He relieveth the fatherless and widows.
Praise ye the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.
But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down,
The Lord shall reign forever,
He is our Messiah unto all generations.
Praise ye the Lord, praise the Lord.
As the offering plates are being passed around, please turn your Bibles to 1 Timothy chapter 4.
1 Timothy chapter number 4.
1 Timothy chapter 4.
1 Timothy chapter 4. The Bible reads,
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter time some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils,
speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron,
forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving,
for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ,
nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
For bodily exercise profited little, but godliness is profitable unto all things,
having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation,
for therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God,
who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
These things command and teach, let no man despise thy youth,
but be thou an example of the believers in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity,
till I come give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy,
with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
Meditate upon these things, give thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear to all.
Take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine, continue in them,
for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.
Father in heaven, we thank you so much, Lord, for Pastor Shelley and his family.
I pray that you fill in with your spirit and enable him to preach the sermon that you've laid on his heart with boldness.
And Lord, I pray that you would soften hearts in the room and give us ears to hear
so that we can apply the message to our lives and make necessary changes to serve you better.
We love you and in Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
Amen.
I want to look at verse 12. The Bible says,
Let no man despise thy youth.
And that's a really great phrase in the Bible.
Really, we can all learn from this specific phrase.
Number one, if you're older, this is really geared towards you,
that you should not despise people for being young.
And additionally, the counterpart would be if you are young,
that you should take this as an admonition that just because you're young
doesn't mean you can't do something great for God,
or that you can't be spiritual, or that you can't be a Christian,
or that you can't be used by God.
And in fact, I believe the Bible emphasizes young Christians throughout the Scripture.
And that's the title of my sermon this morning, is Young Christians.
Young Christians.
If you use the word young, it's a relative term.
You can say, who are you talking to?
Anybody that claims that title, okay?
So if you're two years and younger, I'm talking about you, okay?
And I'm going to bring them up, all right?
If you're three years old in the service,
who is three years old and can understand what I'm saying?
Raise your hand if you're three years old.
We have a three-year-old, there's a three-year-old in the building.
I see that hand, all right?
If you're four years old, raise your hand.
All right, I'm talking to you this morning, okay?
I'm talking to you and you, all right?
If you're five years old, raise your hand.
There's a five-year-old, I see.
Oh, I see that hand.
Six years old.
If you're six, there we go.
We've got a couple six.
We've got a lot of six-year-olds.
Wow, we have a ton of six-year-olds.
That is a popular age.
All right, seven.
If you're seven years old, all right, there we go.
I see that hand, yep.
Eight years old.
Several eight-year-olds, wow.
How about nine?
Got one.
All right, oh, there's another nine.
Ten.
Ten years old, there we go.
We got like every age covered, all right?
Eleven.
Do we have, there's an eleven-year-old, all right.
Twelve.
Multiple twelve-year-olds, all right.
Thirteen.
There we go, thirteen.
Fourteen.
We got a fourteen-year-old.
Fifteen.
We got fifteen.
Sixteen.
All right, good.
We can drive home safely, okay?
Seventeen.
Do we have a seventeen?
Eighteen.
Nineteen.
Oh, there's eighteen, yep.
Nineteen, twenty.
All right, twenty to thirty.
All right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There we go.
Yeah.
Hey, I'm talking about y'all, okay?
You say like thirty-one, you're still young, okay?
Don't worry, don't hesitate, all right?
Everybody else can raise their hand in their mind, okay?
We're all still kind of young, relatively, right?
According to, you know, Jacob,
he was talking about how he was still young
when he's like over a hundred, all right?
Because he's like thinking about his father's being really old, so.
But what I want to emphasize is the idea
that the Bible is for
everyone that raised their hand.
Not just older people.
It's not just for mature adults or older people.
It's for every single person
that I just talked about right now.
And the Bible emphasizes young Christians.
I want to go to 1 John chapter number 2,
go to 1 John chapter number 2.
Of course, 1 Timothy 4 is written to a pastor.
And think about this,
that it's talking about a pastor being young
and nobody despising them.
And of course, you know,
Jesus Christ was around 30 years old
when he began his ministry.
Many other great men of God
did things in their 20s and 30s.
And frankly speaking,
if you don't want to gain wisdom
from someone like me who's 36 years old,
well, you wouldn't want to have learned
from a lot of great people in the Bible
because Jesus Christ,
he was 30 years old
when he was out there preaching the Word of God.
John the Baptist,
his contemporary is about the same age
when he went out preaching the Bible.
Joseph was literally in charge
of the whole world at age 30, okay?
I mean, albeit in the throne,
yeah, of course, Pharaoh was greater than Joseph,
but Joseph basically was in charge
of the entire world at age 30, okay?
And yet so many people look down upon
young people or people that are younger than them
and think like they can't serve God
or they don't have wisdom
or they shouldn't be running things
or they shouldn't even be in charge.
In fact, according to the United States,
someone could correct me,
but I'm pretty sure you have to be 35 years old
to be president, isn't that true?
So they wouldn't even let Joseph lead our country.
And we have to have someone like Biden, right?
We have to have someone that's literally
got two feet in the grave already.
And of course, we see where a nation is headed,
and there's this attitude of like despising youth.
I mean, virtually no one in our government
or Congress or Senate is young.
I mean, it's pretty much just like
they're literally walking zombies, okay?
And there's nothing wrong with someone being older.
You can have great wisdom.
You can be used of God.
But there's also nothing wrong with being younger.
And I want to encourage the young people in this room
to take their Christianity seriously.
We have a lot of children in this room.
We have a lot of children in this church,
and you're being brought here by your parents.
You're being forced to come to church.
And you know what?
I don't want you to be here feeling like you're forced.
I want you to serve God because you want to serve God,
because you love God.
And you know what?
The Bible is trying to encourage you
to have a relationship with Jesus Christ
no matter what your family thinks.
The Bible says in 1 John 2, look at verse 12,
I write unto you, little children,
because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
Yes, little children get saved.
Children get saved.
You know, I think it's very rare,
but sometimes they get saved under the age of five.
You know, it's possible.
I don't think that every kid is capable of doing that.
Most kids are not capable of fully understanding everything
until they get a little bit older than that.
But on rare occasions, you can have a very precocious child
that's ahead of his contemporaries,
and they can even get saved younger than that.
Most of the time, kids need to get around five, six, seven
before they typically are understanding the gospel
and even have a chance to be saved.
But yes, I believe many five, six, seven-year-olds
are getting saved in this world,
and the Bible is saying that their sins are already forgiven them.
Praise God that a five-year-old
can have all of his sins already forgiven
at five.
The worst sins that kid's going to commit,
he hasn't even tried yet.
He doesn't even know what they are.
He hasn't even thought them up.
But all the sins that he's going to commit in the future,
they've already been forgiven him
when he trusted in Christ as a little child.
You know, I believe I got saved at age five,
and you know what?
My worst sins were not when I was one, two, three, and four, and five, okay?
It was not.
People might think that you have to repent of all your sins to get saved.
Well, I didn't have big sins when I was five.
I don't even know.
You know, I made fun of fat people one time when I was five.
I don't know.
Like, I probably stole, I stole my sister's cereal,
you know, when I was a little kid.
I don't know, like, I can't think of any big sins.
I don't know what I did, and you know what?
I know this for a fact.
Whenever I accepted Christ, I wasn't sorry about either of those.
I know I wasn't sorry,
and I did it in the future, okay?
But I was still saved because salvation is a free gift,
and he's writing to the little children,
hey, your sins are forgiving you.
Now, is that encouraging me to sin?
No, I didn't want to sin as a little kid.
I didn't want to do things that were wrong.
I liked serving God.
I liked obeying my parents,
but at the end of the day, I already knew that all my sins were forgiven me.
Verse 13, notice it says,
I write unto you, fathers, because you've known others from the beginning.
I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one.
I write unto you, little children, because you've known the father.
Notice he's writing to the little children,
and then specifically in verse 13, he also brings up young men.
Why? Because the Bible is written for little children and young men,
young Christians.
He's emphasizing three groups.
Two of them are objectively young.
He's identifying three groups,
and two-thirds of those groups are young people.
Why? Because God cares about children.
God cares about the young men.
And you know what?
It's really important that you take Christianity seriously at a young age.
At a young age.
Many of the people that do great things for God
started Christianity at a young age.
A lot of people that I know,
and I'm not saying that there isn't people that are late comers
and that you can't,
there's never a bad time to start serving God.
But when I look at some of the people that I greatly respect
and have done really great things for the Lord,
they took Christianity serious at a young age.
And they got really serious as little children,
as young adults, as young men.
They took Christianity as important to them,
and that their walk with God is important.
And you know what?
The Bible says very specifically about the young men,
they've overcome the wicked one.
The devil is trying to destroy the youth in this country.
And we need to really encourage them to combat that
with the power of the Word of God.
No one's really defending the children.
We talk about, oh, we need to give teachers guns.
Oh, we need to put them in a specific private school.
Oh, we need to do these things.
We even need to homeschool.
But here's the thing.
Those aren't going to protect the children.
You know what's going to protect children?
The Word of God.
Amen.
Is the Bible, is Christianity,
is being saved?
Those are the things that need to be emphasized today
and encouraged today.
And you know what I don't like?
I don't like that almost every other church,
they literally make their children as second rate citizens
because they put all of the children
in a separate program.
They have a separate program for the children,
and that second program is run by who?
The lesser pastor.
Right?
I mean, let's just be honest.
Is the best, the absolute best preacher
and the best sermons and the best things
being taught to the children,
or is it the random guy that just graduated
from Bible college, or this random,
I mean, in fact, many times it's a random single dude.
It's a random single dude that is teaching
the children and the youth and the teenagers.
A lot of times they're predators,
they're perverts, they're weirdos.
There's not a lot of scrutiny.
There's not a lot of accountability.
They don't even know what's going on.
And again, I'm not against youth ministers.
I'm not against people that want to help serve
in the younger generations.
I've served in all of those things.
I served in the nursery.
I've served in young kids ministries Sunday schools.
I've served in junior high and high school ministries.
I've served in everything you could probably imagine.
I've served in college ministries.
I've done all kinds of different things.
I've had basketball groups.
I've taught classes.
I've gone to different things.
I've done camps.
I've done it all, and I'm for that.
But I know back then, objectively,
I was not the top person.
I was not the best person.
I wasn't the person that was really keen
on delivering the right sermons.
And one thing I did appreciate, though,
is that my parents wanted me to go to big boy service
to get the best preaching.
And even at a young age, five and up,
I was always in main church service
with my parents even though there's
almost no other kids in there.
You know what?
Kids can understand the preaching.
I was five years old,
and I understood what the preachers were saying.
I was six years old,
and I understood what the preachers were saying.
I knew what they were talking about.
I liked the Bible.
I also knew that they said weird stuff, too.
Okay?
They said garbage and junk sometimes,
and there were certain people that would come in.
I'm like, I don't like that guy.
He preached lies.
He preached false doctrine.
He said things that aren't even in the Bible.
And you know what?
Even a five-year-old can tell people who are fake
and who are insincere,
and you know what?
They can also tell that flat-earthers are stupid.
Okay?
Because I was asking all my kids about this,
and they were preaching to me how the earth is a sphere.
Okay?
I didn't even tell them.
I was just testing them.
I'm like, hey, what's the shape of the earth?
You know?
And I'm like, how do you know that?
And it was funny because I asked my nine-year-old.
I said, you know, asking him about the earth,
and I said, is the earth moving?
And he said, yeah.
I said, how?
Prove it to me.
He said, well, you know what?
The earth goes around the sun in a one-year cycle,
and that's how we know that it's a year.
And I was like, wow, that's a brilliant point
because in Genesis chapter number one,
it literally tells us that the sun, moon, and stars
are for the times and the seasons.
And here's the thing.
On that stupid, idiotic, retarded flat-earth model,
you just have this little mobile thing.
It's arbitrary what a year would be.
It's arbitrary what a day would be.
It's arbitrary what a month would be.
It's meaningless, whereas according to the Bible,
these are for signs and times
and understanding of our calendar.
Our calendar literally comes from cosmology.
You understand what a year is?
It's a full cycle, a full orbit of the earth around the sun.
You understand what a moon is?
It's a full orbit of the moon around the earth.
You know what a day is?
You understand what a day is?
It's a full cycle.
It's a full turning of the earth.
And you want to know where a week comes from?
From the seven days of creation.
It comes from the King James Bible.
And even atheists have to understand
there's seven days in a week because of God.
Everything's because of God.
Everything comes from Genesis chapter number one.
And you know what?
Even children know what that is.
And you know how I know my kids aren't going to be flat-earthers?
Because they're already teaching to me when they're young.
It's never a bad time.
You know why someone's a flat-earther?
It's the same reason why young black men go into gangs.
No father in the home teaching them.
The reason why you're a flat-earther
is because your dad didn't teach you the shape of the earth.
It's a father problem.
Because you know what?
In order to have that problem, it's a spiritual delusion.
It's an issue where you were never taught something from your dad.
And if you learn it from your dad, you'll never forget it.
You won't go down these crazy, weird trains of thought.
And at the end of the day, we need to encourage the youth
to take Christianity seriously.
We need young men to take it seriously.
And we need fathers to invest in their children
and not think like, oh well, maybe when my kid gets older,
he can take Christianity seriously.
They need to be taking it seriously now.
You need to be teaching and training them now
and investing in them now.
And there's so many great Christians in the Bible
that are very, very young.
Look what it says in verse 14.
I have written unto you, fathers,
because you have known him that it's from the beginning.
I have written unto you, young men,
because you are strong, and the word of God abideth in you,
and you have overcome the wicked one.
Notice he gives so much admonition to the young men.
Hey, you have the word of God inside of you.
You've overcome the wicked one.
Don't get sucked into his traps and to his ploys.
He's saying also in verse number 15,
love not the world.
Neither the things that are in the world,
if any man love the world,
the love of the Father is not in him.
Let me tell you something.
It is so much harder to stop loving the world
when you're older.
When you're older.
When you've already got a taste for that,
it's so much harder to get it going backwards.
What's easier is being a young person
and just never getting that love of the world
deep into your heart
and going down that worldly path.
We need to keep our youth pure.
We need to keep them to have a love of God,
a love of the Bible,
and to not get infected with this carnal, sinful desire of loving the world.
The Bible is really explicit on this.
Verse 16,
For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes
and the pride of life is not of the Father
but is of the world,
and the world passeth away and the lust thereof,
but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
You know what this makes me think of specifically?
It's high school.
High school really, really emphasizes what?
The lust of the flesh.
The lust of the eyes.
It really comes out in high school.
It's a really big deal.
Specifically, the pride of life.
In high school,
it's never been more important to be popular.
Like, there's no environment
where popularity is as important as high school.
Like, for some reason, high school is just this heightened situation
where everybody just feels like they need to be popular
or it's important to be popular
and to care what other people think about you.
And you know what?
All of this stuff is junk and it's carnal.
It's not spiritual.
It has no meaning.
The pride of life,
of course, being a jock,
being on varsity,
being the smartest,
being the valedictorian,
or having all these accolades.
It's just so important.
The pride of life.
You know what?
Or having just money.
Frankly speaking,
you know where the cool kids were in school?
The ones that had money.
It's just because their parents bought them Nikes
or bought them the cool clothing
or they had the nice watch
or they had the nice car.
I mean, let's just be honest.
When you're 16
and you're driving a beat up Honda Accord,
nobody's like, hey, let's get in your ride.
But there are kids
that are going to public school today
and they will show up at school at 16
with a brand new Corvette.
In fact, if you drive by the parking lot
of South Lake Carroll High School,
it is like a luxury car dealership.
I'm not even joking.
I drove by it and I thought like
literally every single one of these 16 year old kids
is driving a nicer car than me.
Like it's all BMWs and Land Rovers
and Teslas and pimped out trucks
and just like I was just thinking like
these are a bunch of 16 year old kids
and they have the nicest cars
I've ever seen in my life.
Why? Because at that time
it's so important, right?
Who's going to give you a ride?
You're going to lunch.
You're going out.
You're hanging out with people
like they want to get in the cool cars
and just it's the pride of life
is that an epitome, folks.
You know, this is another advertisement
for home school of why, you know,
public school system, that environment
just really ruins children.
Because just like this verse is saying
and I don't know if you noticed this in verse 16,
it says, or verse 17,
and the world passes away.
You know what also passes away?
High school.
In a moment.
In the blink of an eye.
All of a sudden, it's just over.
All that popularity, all of that pride,
all of that lust,
all of the things that were going on,
your status in school, who you were,
if you were on varsity,
if you were the valedictorian,
it's just, you graduate and it's over.
And it's meaningless
and it'll never matter again.
And some people, they even try to like relive that
or try to like keep it going,
but it just ends almost immediately.
And it doesn't even matter at all.
It's vanity of vanities.
And so many children, they're chasing after that.
So then they go to college
and they try to replicate that.
And then they graduate college
and they just keep trying to do it.
There's people that just try to keep partying
and being these college frat people
and sports junkies and whatever
for the rest of their life,
but it's all vanity.
You know what the children should really be emphasizing
when they're 13, 14, 15, 16, 17?
Serving God.
Reading their Bible.
Being spiritual.
Doing things for God.
And the crop and the product
of our world today is not generating
young Christians who love the Lord,
who are zealous, who are on fire.
They're going to a lot of these programs
where they go to church
and it's literally just eating candy
and just eating crackers and juice
and just singing songs.
They're like, wah!
Wah!
And they're all getting up and down
and just yelling and screaming.
And then you know what?
As soon as they get older,
they quit going to that church
and they start going to Stephen Furtick's church.
Because church is a circus.
I've worked in those environments.
I know what it's like.
These youth programs are a circus.
I went to an independent,
fundamental Baptist church.
I visited this church one time.
One time, okay.
And we went there
and the service had about 30 people in it.
Maybe, I'm just throwing out numbers,
around 30 people.
But their youth department
had like hundreds of kids
because they bust all these kids in.
And most of the people just even worked.
They didn't go to the church service.
They just went to this kid's service.
They're all dressing up in costumes,
like characters,
like Buzz Lightyear.
Like what does Buzz Lightyear
have to do with the Bible?
This is an independent,
King James only,
fundamental Baptist church.
They're busting in kids.
Hey, I'm all for,
if you want to bring kids into church,
I'm not against that.
Obviously, you need to be careful
who's doing that.
And there could be some problems.
But I can see the heart in that.
I can see people wanting to reach people
and bring people in.
I'm not going to tax somebody
for wanting to reach kids.
But you know what I'm not going to do?
I'm not going to dress up
like Buzz Lightyear.
I'm not going to get the B team
to go and preach them
some kind of a hyped up, juiced sermon
and give them crackers
and basically teach them
that this is what church is.
You know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to give them
a King James Bible.
And I'm going to have them
sing an old-fashioned hymn.
And for some reason,
you know, my kids love this.
Other kids in this room love this.
It's so bizarre that my kids'
number one activity is playing church.
They love church.
They go and they sit there
and they'll sing hymns.
I didn't tell them to do this.
I've never told them to ever try this,
play like this.
I wanted this.
I'm thinking like,
you probably had so much church
you never want to do it again.
They have church services like every day.
They're sitting here
setting up church,
preaching to each other,
preaching the fags out the door.
In fact, my kids are harder
preachers than me
because they're sitting there like,
take that crying baby
out of the service.
And I was thinking like,
I've never even done that
that I can remember.
They're like getting in there
and I'm just thinking like,
hey, this is great.
You know, kids are going
to just replicate
whatever they see
and whatever they hear
and whenever they see
Buzz Lightyear preaching sermons,
I wonder where they're
going to go to church
when they grow up.
You know, my kids are going
to go to the church
where they're taking the babies
out of the service, okay?
They're going to the church
as being,
they have to walk through
the protesters
to get into the building.
That's how you know
you have a good church.
If they're not protesting,
then there's nothing
worth protesting there.
That's what I view it.
Go ahead to Proverbs 1.
I'm just getting started.
Here's the thing.
If you're young,
I'm preaching to you.
You take Christianity seriously.
You read the Bible
because you want to read
the Bible, not because
I'm telling you.
You memorize Scripture
not just for an ice cream
treat because you want
the Bible in your heart.
Hey, you learned how to go
soul-wanting because you
want to get people saved.
When I heard the gospel
as a five-year-old child,
it took me a few weeks
to decide to accept it,
but after I accepted it,
immediately after accepting it,
that same day,
I went and tried
to tell my friends
how to get saved
and tried to get them saved
at five years old.
If you're five years or older,
you could potentially
get someone saved.
Now, I'm not saying
that you have to.
I'm not saying that
every kid's capable of this,
but here's my criterion
of someone being capable
to get someone saved.
They're saved.
That's it.
I mean, if you're saved,
you should know how
to get someone else saved
because if you're saved,
you know how to get saved.
If you don't know
how to get someone saved,
here's my question.
Are you saved?
Because it should
be really simple.
I talked to a pastor
at a church I was attending,
and it was an old
IFB church.
I loved the church.
It was a blessing
to my family.
They didn't have an
official soul-wanting program,
and I said,
hey, I'd go on Saturdays.
I would love to have
extra people going with me.
If you ever can make
an announcement
or encourage people
to want to go,
that would be great.
If not, it is what it is.
We don't want to just
encourage people
to just start going out there.
They don't even know
what they're doing.
I'm thinking,
if they're saved,
they already know
what they're doing.
Sure, maybe you're not
the best soul-warter
in the world,
but I'm just thinking,
how could you be saved
and not be able to explain it
in your own language?
It's believing in Jesus.
Here is John 3.16.
Again, should we be
really good soul-winners?
Yes.
Should we use
a lot of wisdom,
and should we study
and memorize these verses?
Yeah.
I want to be
a prepared soul-winner,
but at the end of the day,
if you're saved,
you're ready to go.
You're ready to be
a silent partner at the least.
We need more people
to go out there
soul-winning.
We need more children
to even go out there
soul-winning.
We want to encourage
the next generation
to be soul-winners,
not because dad
dragged you out there,
but because you want
people to go to heaven
You know why
I told my friends
how to get saved?
Because I didn't want
them to go to hell.
That's why.
I don't know
what happened
from that experience,
but I do know this.
In my adulthood,
I actually thought about this,
and I looked
both those people up,
and both of them
go to church.
Both of them
are now Christian.
I don't know
if they're saved
for sure or not,
but here's the thing.
I know their parents weren't.
Their parents were atheists,
and they never
went to church.
They were in that environment
choosing to go to church
in their adulthood.
Well, I don't think
that it hurt
that I tried to tell them
how to be saved
or how to go to heaven.
That probably planted
at least some seed,
even if they didn't
for sure get saved with me.
They may have planted
a seed for later
to be watered,
and then get saved.
Again, I tried my best.
I even prayed with them,
so it's not like
I didn't try,
but at the end of the day,
we need children
to take the gospel seriously.
You know, it was a blessing
when we went to Bahamas,
because there was a lot
of young people there
who were trying
to get people saved.
I mean, little Aliyah's
over here knocking
out of the park
talking to all kinds of people.
She's very young at the time.
She's under the age of 10,
and she's out there
showing the gospel
to a lot of people,
trying to give them
the gospel.
You know, that's encouraging
to see a young person
caring about people
getting saved,
because you know what?
She didn't have to.
She could have just been like,
this is a fun vacation.
I'm just gonna sit back.
I want to be timid.
I want to be shy.
But you know what?
When you realize that
this person's
gonna go to hell,
it should motivate you,
even as children,
to say I need to
open my mouth with boldness
and make known
the mystery of the gospel.
People are like,
what do you think
about women preachers?
Well, I don't like
Joyce Meyer,
but I like little girls
like Aliyah
preaching the gospel.
And you know what?
That's more important anyways
than Joyce Meyer getting up
and showing everybody
her tattoos at age 80.
It's like,
what profit is there
of an 80-year-old
going out there and,
hey, look at my tattoos?
It's disgusting,
and it's gross.
Even the guy that gave
the tattoo wished
he had never had to do it.
You had to pay him.
It's disgusting.
But you know what?
I love little women,
little girls that want
to go out there
and preach the gospel.
That's a blessing.
And we need
to recognize that the Bible
is for young people.
Look at Proverbs 1, verse 4.
To give subtly to the simple,
to the young man
knowledge and discretion.
Young people are being
destroyed today
by the sins of this world.
They're being corrupted.
They're being infected
with all kinds of just
junk and degeneracy.
And the Bible is saying,
this is the cure, Proverbs.
The book of Proverbs,
and honestly,
if you really read
the book of Proverbs,
you'll understand
it's written specifically
to young people.
It's trying to tell them,
you don't have to make
every mistake.
Learn from other people's
example.
Learn from what the Bible's
saying and just realize
you're never going to
make that mistake.
I've never had to learn
what it's like to take LSD.
I could just use
other people's experiences
to recognize,
I don't want to do that.
I have made mistakes,
but at the end of the day,
I never know what it's like
to do hardcore drugs,
and I've never smoked pot,
and I never want to.
I've never done some
of those things,
and I'm so glad that
I've never done it.
I'm not sitting here like,
man, I wish I had
tried it a few times.
That would have been cool.
No, in fact,
the mistakes that I have made,
I wish I didn't even
make those.
And I remember being
a young person
and really having a strong
desire to be pure
and not go down these roads,
and I remember being
in high school,
having a zeal to be right
with God,
and many times I was
encouraged to drink alcohol
and to do drugs
and do all these kinds
of things, and honestly,
I turned it down.
When I was in high school,
I had offers multiple times.
Like, I could have done it
if I wanted to so easy,
and multiple times
I turned it down,
and it was only because
of the fact that I cared
what the Bible said.
It's the only reason,
because other people
in my family drank,
it wasn't even really
an issue.
It was just simply,
I just was trying to stop.
But here's the problem.
I didn't have other people
around me just keeping
reminding me of that,
and you go to college,
and you're around it
just so much
and so much pressure,
you can finally make a mistake
and you can go down
a dark path.
And I wish that, you know,
I hadn't even gone to college.
I wish that I hadn't even
been around some of those people.
I wish I had been
an independent fundamental Baptist
at that time in my life.
I wish I had heard
hard preaching at that time,
because I believe
as much zeal as I had,
I would have never
touched that stuff
if I had just had
a little bit of encouragement,
if I just had like
a few people alongside me.
And you know what?
You as a young person
encourage the other
young people to do likewise,
to serve God.
I had no friends in my life
that wanted to serve God.
Nobody.
Even when I went to church,
it was so weird,
because I grew up
in this non-denam church.
I call them
non-evangelical churches.
But our youth department
would come and go.
Like, it was weird.
It was a church
running 10,000 people.
But their youth department
would just come and go.
They'd bring in a new guy,
and basically the youth department
would turn into like
500 kids overnight,
and then he would do
something shady and get fired,
and then it would go away.
And then they'd bring a new guy.
It was like the same story.
It was just like
they bring in a guy,
and then he does shady stuff
with the kids,
and then it goes away,
and then just repeat,
rinse and repeat.
So at different times,
it's just like
I'm the only kid at church,
or I'm one of the 500.
But when it was the 500,
it wasn't church folks,
because those 500 kids
weren't godly.
They didn't care about the Lord.
They're coming in
telling us how Harry Potter
teaches the Bible,
like finding Jesus
in the book of Harry Potter.
We literally even had kids
committing fornication
in the church bathroom.
It was like a literal party.
Like, there was nothing.
I actually didn't even go
because I found it
too reprehensible
to go to the kids' services
because I was like,
this is so bad.
Like, I'm not just gonna
go to the big boy church.
But then I'm like by myself.
In public school,
I didn't have any friends
that wanted to serve God
whatsoever.
And you know what?
You being a young person
that wants to serve God,
you need to inspire
the other young people
to serve God.
And you know what
is gonna really give you this?
Is the Bible,
is the book of Proverbs.
Notice it gives you
the young man knowledge
and discretion,
knowing where to go
and what to do.
Here's another good advice
for young people.
Chapter 5, verse 15.
Drink waters
out of thine own cistern
and running waters
out of thine own well.
You know, hey,
this is a context, though,
that's not just talking about water.
Water's great.
I drink a lot of water.
Drink a lot of water, okay?
But this is talking about
something specific.
It's talking about marriage
and look at what it says
in verse 16.
Let thy fountains
be dispersed abroad
in rivers of waters
in the streets.
Let them be only thine own
strangers with thee.
Let thy fountain be blessed
and rejoice with the wife
of thy youth.
Here's the word I want
to emphasize in this verse.
Thy.
Rejoice with the wife
of thy youth.
It's not talking about
the age of your spouse.
It's not talking about her age.
It's talking about your age
saying, you know what,
getting married young
is a good idea.
Is a good idea.
And frankly,
the temptations of the world,
drinking alcohol
fornication, drugs,
getting into mischief,
you know what'll help you
is having a help meet.
Keeping you grounded.
A lot of times they say,
oh, it's the old
ball and chain.
This is what's commonly
referred to in the world.
They say, oh, this guy
is gonna get married
to the ball and chain
and he's not gonna be
able to have fun anymore.
No, he's not gonna be sinning
and doing wicked evil things.
Yeah, having a wife
will literally stop you
from doing a whole bunch
of horrible things.
Oh, you're stuck with your wife.
You know, I'm not stuck
with my wife.
I love my wife.
I wish anything, you know,
if I could go back in time,
I'll go back to the honeymoon
phase of our marriage.
That was great.
I love that time.
We constantly reminisce
of the times in our life
when we didn't have kids
and we were married.
Wow, that was easy.
Man, that was fun.
For some of you,
it was a short period, okay?
Me and my wife
got the experience
of her five years
and it was a lot,
a lot of fun.
We really,
but at the same time,
I wasn't wise enough
to even utilize that time
to its fullest potential.
We could've even had more fun
and been enjoying that part
of our life even more,
but I'm telling you this,
you know, living that party,
world lifestyle,
it has no satisfaction.
It's not fun.
You're gonna regret it.
You need to rejoice
with a wife, with a youth.
We need to encourage
the children to decide,
hey, getting married young
is a good thing.
It's not a bad thing.
I am not against people
getting married young.
That's a positive.
That's a pro.
We should encourage this.
This will help them
when you have that buddy,
you have that person,
that companion to come
alongside of you
and to help keep you
from sin, and probably
the only real regret I have
when it comes to my
relationship and my marriage
with my wife
is that I wish
I had gotten married sooner.
If I had gotten married sooner,
I would've sinned a lot less.
I would've made a lot less
worse decisions in my life
and I wish that I had
even gotten married
younger, not older.
There's this idea,
oh, you need to wait
until you're certain,
you know, get older
and then maybe you can marry
or, you know,
graduate from school
and get a job
and do all these things
and then maybe
you can get married.
What about all those
years in between?
I mean, the Bible says
it's better to marry
than to burn.
Hey, you know what's
gonna keep a lot of people
pure and Christian and godly
is getting married young
and having a companion
to come alongside
and serving God together.
It's good to have,
you know, one being alone,
the Bible says it's not good.
The man being alone,
God didn't think
that was good.
You know when God said
it was very good?
When he had Adam and Eve,
then it was very good.
And you know what?
It's hard being a young,
single man in this world.
I can't even imagine.
The temptations
are out of control.
The sins are out of control.
The young people
are out of control.
I remember reminiscing
of times when I think
about in the past
and I thought literally
no one my age
wants to serve God.
That's how I felt.
And when I say literally,
I mean it to the most
extreme point,
like I didn't even know
a single person.
If you have other friends
that are around your age
that want to serve God,
you have it better off
than I did
because I genuinely thought
like nobody cares about God,
nobody cares about the Bible,
nobody cares about truth,
nobody cares about doing things
that are honest and pure
and lovely and serving God.
And you know what?
It's a shame and embarrassment
how bad our society
and culture has come.
But it's reality.
And we need the young people
to get the Book of Proverbs
deep into their heart
because this world
is a tough, tough,
temptation-filled place.
The boundaries of society
have been lifted.
It's almost complete anarchy
when it comes to morality
in our country.
And the thing that'll give you
boundaries is this book
is the Book of Proverbs.
You as a child
need to start building
boundaries for yourself
and building walls for yourself
because you know what?
Trump's not going to build
the wall for you, okay?
Go to 1 Samuel,
chapter number 16.
Go to 1 Samuel,
chapter number 16.
I want to get into
three points,
and I'm going to try
and go quickly through
these points for sake of time.
But this is an important sermon,
and there's so much Bible
that I would love to bring up.
I'm not even
able to get to it this morning,
but I have three simple points
that I want all of you
young Christians
to really, really
emphasize in your life.
And again, who am I talking to?
Zero to two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight,
nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
We don't have the 16-year-old,
but I'm still thinking about you.
17, 18, 19, 20, and plus.
Hey, I want you
to take these things seriously,
what I'm bringing up.
And what I want to bring up,
number one, point one is this,
we need young Christians
to praise the Lord.
You were created
to praise the Lord
at every age.
And what I find fascinating
is when we think
about certain people
in the Bible,
David is greatly used of God.
But what's like the first
thing that David does?
What's the first real mention
of David is his ability
to praise the Lord,
his ability to make sweet music
under the Lord
through musical instruments.
You know, we've had recently
a few times a children's
music recital.
We have children
playing musical instruments.
And I'll be honest,
some of them
are extremely impressive.
They're all great.
Honestly, the best music
recitals I've ever been to,
and I've been to
some really bad ones, okay?
I actually hated music recital.
Like, if it was
a children's music recital,
I would be like,
I'd rather go shopping.
Okay?
And I'd rather talk
to the Flathearther almost,
okay?
But I actually enjoy
the music recitals here.
They're good.
And some of the kids
are really good.
And you know what?
David was an excellent
instrumentalist.
Excellent.
What's so crazy is
they're literally scouring
the entire country
for the best musician
to help King Saul.
The absolute best.
And you know who they find?
The youngest son of Jesse
the youngest son of Jesse, David.
Look at 1 Samuel 16, verse 16.
Let our Lord now command
thy servants,
which are before thee,
to seek out a man
who is a cunning player
on a harp.
And let him come to pass
when the evil spirit
from God is upon thee,
that he shall play
with his hand,
and thou shalt be well.
Look, we're talking about
the most significant person
on the planet
is the king of Israel.
He has a specific need.
We need to find the absolute
best musician on the planet
to help the king,
who's the most important
person on the planet,
and who are they gonna find?
They're gonna find
a young man named David.
Look what it says
in verse 17.
And Saul said unto the servants,
Provide me now a man
that can play well,
and bring him to me.
Notice even
what they're looking for.
They're not looking
for a child.
Give me the man.
I'm looking for a man.
Give me a man.
Verse 18,
Then answered one
of the servants,
and said, Behold,
I have seen a son of Jesse,
the Bethlemite,
that is cunning and playing,
and a mighty, valiant man,
and a man of war,
and prudent in manners,
and a comely person,
and the Lord is with him.
Wow.
Wouldn't that be great
if someone said that about you?
Hey, I found this guy,
and not only is he
a good musician,
let me just explain something.
He's epic
in every area of his life.
This guy is a man of war.
This guy, the Lord is with him.
Think about,
in order to have
all of these attributes
told of you,
this didn't happen overnight, folks.
This is years,
and he's young.
That means from a very young age,
David was a man of war.
At a very young age,
the Lord was with him,
a very young man.
He had learned how
to play musical instruments,
and he was a great musician.
And you know what?
We need to train
the young people
to be great musicians
for the Lord.
What is high school
treating you to be?
A great musician for corn,
for Metallica,
for Van Halen,
for some band,
to be popular on YouTube.
Why can't we have musicians
that are training now
to be great musicians
for the Lord?
That's what we need.
We need people that are gonna
praise the Lord with skill.
Did you know that most,
let me clarify,
that very many popular musicians
in our world
actually got their start in church?
Elvis Presley was actually
initially a gospel singer,
as crazy as that is.
Now, as part of the
Pentecostal church,
I don't even know
if the guy was saved,
but he was a part of that.
Katy Perry,
if you can believe it or not,
was raised by Christian parents
and was in the church choir
and was highlighted as a singer.
And you know what?
Maybe that's a case
against special music.
Cause I guess she really
liked the spotlight.
And then, of course,
what was her first single
that came out?
I Kissed a Girl and I Liked It.
What a reprobate.
What a disgusting degenerate.
She has to sell her soul
to the devil day one.
And you know what?
We need young people
that like God
and love the Lord
and are gonna sing
a sincere heart
and are gonna praise God
and be like a David.
You know the Bible
says this about David?
He was the sweet
psalmist of Israel.
Do you think it's a coincidence
that the guy that's prepared
his heart and his mind
to play instruments
unto the Lord
is then used
to literally pin down
some of the greatest
songs of human history?
The Book of Psalms.
And again,
they're not all Davids,
but the vast majority
of the Book of Psalms
is from and authored by David
because he dedicated himself
unto praising the Lord.
I would love to see
more young people
dedicating their lives
to writing great music,
new psalms, new hymns
that we could look to someone
and say that is
the sweet psalmist of Texas.
The sweet psalmist of steadfast.
The sweet psalmist of Baptist.
The sweet psalmist of Israel
because you know what?
We're Israel.
Not a bunch of
Christ rejecting Jews
in modern day Israel,
right?
There is your one anti-Semitism,
okay, for the day.
Go to Psalm 150.
I wish I had more time
to put all kinds of psalms
in music, and maybe I will,
Lord willing,
but I do it also to try
and inspire you
and other people
to make great ones.
And a lot of people have tried.
A lot of people put effort in.
But you know what?
We need skilled people
that have a lot of talent
to do it,
not just every yahoo.
And I'm not against
people trying,
and you know what?
If you create a song
and it helps you
and it's a blessing,
praise God.
But if it's not great,
we probably won't sing it,
okay?
I'm just going to be honest.
I'm not trying to hurt
your feelings
or anything like that,
but we want to keep
a certain level of excellence
when it comes
to praising God.
So we're not just trying
to just get anybody
and everybody
to just write
some kind of a ditty
because I've heard some
and I'm just thinking like,
okay, you know,
whatever,
but if you enjoyed
making that,
go team, right?
I'm not against you.
You sing it.
You learn it.
Have fun.
But I don't think
that people were struggling
to want to sing
the songs of David.
It was probably
a melody in their heart.
It probably was really catchy.
They probably really liked it,
okay?
And I want to inspire
people to do that.
Look at Psalm 150 verse 6.
This is what the Bible says.
Let everything that hath
breath praise the Lord.
If you can hear
what I'm saying
and you're breathing,
this is you.
You little children,
you're supposed
to praise the Lord.
Go backwards
to chapter 148
and look at verse 7.
And of course,
we sing these.
Praise the Lord
from the earth,
ye dragons,
and all ye deeps,
fire and hail,
snow and vapor,
stormy wind
fulfilling His word,
mountains and all hills,
fruitful trees and all cedars,
beasts and all cattle,
creeping things
and flying fowl,
kings of the earth,
and notice this,
all people,
it's not just some people,
it's all people,
princes and all judges
of the earth,
both young men
and maidens,
old men and children.
Hey, we need
young Christians
to praise the Lord.
Hey, when we're
singing psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs,
we want you little children
to sing it out
with all your heart too.
Amen.
You sing unto the Lord,
you make a joyful noise,
you make a loud noise,
and you know,
we need some young
Christians to sing
and praise God.
You know what we need?
We need young
18, 19 and 20-year-old men
to get loud
and to sing hymns
and not singing
Metallica
and not singing
rap and rock music
and destroying their minds
and their hearts
because you know what?
Music destroys the mind
and the heart today,
and so much music
today is corrupting
the youth
because it's getting
their minds only infected
with the love of money,
with fornication,
with drugs and alcohol
and being cool and prideful
and being famous,
and everybody just wants
to be famous today.
Everybody wants to be
an influencer today,
and everybody wants
to be so cool,
and you know what's
the most popular videos online?
It's music videos,
it's dancing music,
it's dancing to songs,
and it's always
the worst songs,
the most filthy
communication imaginable.
It's disgusting.
You know what we need?
We need 16, 17, 18, 19,
20-year-old men
16, 19, 20-year-olds
who are praising God
with hymns
and spiritual songs,
singing and making melody
in their hearts
unto the Lord.
That's what we need,
and if you want
your children to serve God
and love God,
you know what?
They need to be
singing hymns
and spiritual songs,
not Madonna,
not Katy Perry,
and you know what?
These are a little outdated
because the modern artists
are so bad,
shame on you
if you even know their names
or sing their songs.
I don't even know
what they are
because they're so,
they're so degenerate.
I don't even want to mention,
just even mentioning
them are filthy.
Just the song title.
The song title
of certain artists today
are so degenerate,
so ungodly,
so satanic,
it's hard to even
want to bring it up
and make attention to it.
They just use
acronyms for them
because they're so bad,
and it's so funny.
People think
that that's okay.
You explain what
Let's Go Branded means
and they're all offended,
but you explain
what WAP means
and they're not offended,
right?
The world's not
offended by that,
but they're offended
by what Let's Go Branded means.
It's disgusting
and it's filthy.
It's abominable.
Our country,
we're supposed to be
simple concerning evil.
Praise God for people
that are just like,
I don't even know
what's going on.
I don't even know
a lot of rap music
is so unintelligible.
It's like,
brush, brush, brush,
brush, brush, brush.
It's like,
it's stupid.
Now of course,
they use
really sensational beats.
It's not like
the music isn't catchy.
The music is designed
to be the most
sensory overload,
just sound great.
Even with AI now,
AI can just make
amazing sounding music.
Hollywood and the
music industry
has been pumping out
really great tunes.
they can make it sound amazing but then they attach these satanic evil lyrics to
it and I'm not even pro the contemporary Christian movement that's
trying to be like well let's have the exact same rap song and just swap the
lyrics for Christian lyrics look I don't want it to sound like that
let's make it sound like a sweet melody out of the Lord you know our
music sounds different if you came here you're like I didn't listen to
this on the radio you know Hollywood doesn't have songs that sound like
hymns with bad lyrics they just they're not the same and I don't want to be the
same I don't want to get close to that when it comes to this church service you
know what you do on your free time I don't care what you do obviously
there's nothing wrong with a tune some people get mad about tunes I'm not
mad at tunes or musical instruments or anything like that but when it comes
to our church services we want to be old-fashioned go to Psalm 119 go
backwards a little bit go someone 19 rap and rock is destroying our country
college is destroying our youth and it's not because they're too anti-semitic
that's not the problem with college they want to talk about defunding
colleges because of their anti-semitism that's not the problem with college
the problem with college is almost everything else that's the real
problems that we have with college and you know what if they shut down a
bunch of colleges I wouldn't cry tear that's for sure I wouldn't be sad that
would actually help America because we're corrupting our youth we're
destroying our youth through these programs and it's so important to the
government that these colleges pop out or pop out the right propaganda not
the wrong and so they're really upset that they're kind of confused on all
their propaganda they're like we don't know what we're creating anymore
because because they're just wicked but you know what we need the youth to
love the Bible and say you know how I'm gonna become a better person it's not
college it's the Bible look at Psalm 119 verse 9 wherewithal shall a young
man cleanse his way how are you gonna get better by taking heed thereto
according thy word the Bible is what cleans up young people and makes them
better and you know what if you want to stay pure it's the Bible that's
gonna keep you pure go to Acts chapter 21 I kind of mentioned this earlier but
I want to emphasize this again to not only are we supposed to praise the Lord
and of course Jesus even said out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
that was perfect to praise we're not just talking about youth as far as
teenagers you know what three four five and six year olds singing out loud
with their heart of the Lord God loves that I think I love that when
little kids sing it's like the coolest thing ever in fact some of the
most popular singers of all time were actually children how about Michael
Jackson Michael Jackson was one of the most popular singers in American
history at a very young age very iconic voice extremely talented
extremely talented individual but he didn't use his efforts towards the Lord
did he he used his efforts to give his father money and he was exploited by his
father his father wasn't taking his son to church to sing praise unto the
Lord he was saying my son's really talented so I'm gonna take advantage of
him and his brothers and we're gonna make a lot of money and look where
that in where's the Jackson family now where's Michael Jackson now Michael
Jackson was so confused in his head that he literally bleached his skin to
become white now he did end up realizing that Jews ripped him off that
was that wasn't that wasn't his problem but at the end of the day the
guy had a great talent we could use more great preachers and singers of
the Word of God you know what would the God we had Michael Jackson become
an independent Baptist but you know when they're young and you get them
in an early age they go down a path of destruction look at just look at
Hollywood's young people they put them in this Mickey Mouse Club and it's
really just a pedophile ring and they come in and they I mean these
kids are some of the best best-looking most talented filled with
energy and life and then in about four years they look like they want to kill
themselves looking the most depressed suicidal drugged out just all of their
youth has been robbed from them these there's some of the worst-looking people
I mean some of the girls especially they just looked so awful like Miley
Cyrus she was so popular the Hannah Montana thing was like the most popular
thing ever and she at that time looked young energetic whatever and then she
turns 18 19 and she just looks like a used prostitute like she looked like a
50 year old prostitute that smoked every cigarette and done every drug and
been just taken advantage of by LSD and of course again why because her
dad prostituted his daughter Billy Ray Cyrus prostituted his daughter and
pimped out his daughter and you know what we need the fathers today to
say hey my children are important instruments to serve God you know
Samuel's mother said I'm going to dedicate my child under the Lord and
I'm going to give him under the Lord and you know what Samuel as a little
tiny baby child was given the Bible and given the Word of God and was a
minister of the Lord and you know we need women also to minister look
instead of prostituting your daughter once you turn him into a preacher into a
preacher of the gospel into a soul winner you know a great man in the
Bible was the Philip the evangelist Acts chapter 21 look at verse 8 it says
this and the next day we that were of Paul's company departed and came in a
Caesarea and we entered in the house of Philip the evangelist which
is one of the seven in a boat with him and the same man had four
daughters virgins which did prophesy that tells me they were young because
if they're virgins and it's four I mean most likely you know the oldest is
probably only 18 19 years old and you know having kids around two years apart
is probably very likely it's probably very similar so he's got like a 18
year old a 16 year old a 14 year old a 12 year old that are preaching the
gospel that are taking evangelism seriously they're not just saying
that's what dad does no that's what we do we as a family are evangelists
taking their dad's occupation seriously taking their love for the Lord
seriously and you know what it's not possible to really force someone to be
a soul winner that's something that you have to decide in your own heart
you have to get your own zeal and your own fire and you know what praise
God for Philip the evangelist praise God for four daughters that say you
know what we're gonna preach the gospel to we're gonna take it seriously and
you know what they were so good at it it was obvious like this could be
happening in a dark secret nobody knows it's being mentioned because
obviously they were known for being preachers known for being evangelists
instead of being known for being on ole fans instead of being known for being
the cheerleader that's easy instead of being known as the girl whose body's
all over the internet instead of being known as the teenage girl that got
pregnant hey when I was in school girls were getting pregnant now got the
little boys are getting pregnant you know I'm joking of course guys can't get
pregnant but it's so weird it's so weird the world that we live in and we
need to remember that the youth are important we invest in the youth and
keep them from being corrupted and you know what as a young person not
only should you praise the Lord you should preach the Word of God you
should be a preacher of the Word of God just like these four young
virgins go to first Samuel chapter 17 first Samuel chapter 17 you know here's
the thing Samuel was given the Word of the Lord and he was considered a
minister of the Lord and this is like a little little child in fact the
Lord appeared unto Samuel and spoke to him and gave him the Word of God
and you know what I like about this when God gave the Word unto Samuel did
you notice it was only a negative message he's like preaching hard against
Eli and in fact the Bible says of Samuel you should read it read read first
Samuel chapter 3 he says Samuel is afraid to tell Eli the preaching but
then Eli said hey God's gonna do this to you if you don't tell me and
even a young boy he feared God he feared the man of God and he told them
the message that was hard to hear and you know what we need young
people to be able to preach the truth without fear and to preach the
uncomfortable message of the Bible people like how dare you show young
people sodomite deception hey there's nothing in the Bible that's not for
children it is for all ages and you know what I'm not embarrassed that my
children have seen the sodomite deception or read Genesis 19 or judges
19 you know what I'd be embarrassed of my five and six year olds watching
Nickelodeon watching a lot of the Disney movies you want to talk about
the filth let's let's talk about the Disney movies for a second and talk
about the pedophilia in those movies talk about the sodomy in those movies
talk about the fact that half of the movies are kids mating with animals
Beauty and the Beast oh that's that I'm I don't want my kids to read
about pedophilia I want them to literally see a woman kissing a wolf dog
that's what I want them to see and singing songs about that that's
disgusting you know we need young people to want to preach the Bible and
to care about the Word of God and to have boldness today to reach the Bible
and frankly speaking sometimes the youngest or even the best if you're the
youngest of your siblings don't think like well I can't do something because
my brother hasn't Excel your brother Cain wasn't the better brother Abel
was and Seth hey Jacob and Esau it wasn't Esau the older it was Jacob
that was the younger hey of Joseph's brethren it wasn't all the 11 well
the 10 older it was Joseph the youngest at the time that God revealed himself to
that he used greatly Joseph was even a great man of God at age 17 Daniel and
his companion Shadrach Meshach and Abednego were little children and
they were serving God even though their parents weren't there you know
what you serve God you read your Bible because you're have a desire to
serve God and to preach the Word of God you know my parents never made me
read the Bible if you're a kid in here who in here your parents make you
read the Bible they tell you or force you to read the Bible you better be
raising your hand back there cuz I force you all to read the Bible yeah
some of y'all but you know what I'm for that I'm not against that but you
know what it would be great if kids are reading the Bible not because the
parents are forcing because they want to read it I read the Bible as a kid
often and no one told me what to do no one told what to read no one told
me I even had to read the Bible I just did it and you know what would
God children today would want to read the Bible so they could preach the
Bible so they could love the Lord and it's sad how so many people
don't want to serve God and in fact even in the same family I believe that
Jesse was a great guy I there's no reason to believe that Jesse wasn't a
godly man wasn't a Christian man there's no indication that any of
these children are even bastard children of his they all seem to be in
a godly family I would liken Jesse's family unto a family that's coming to
our church a great guy great brother but you know what only one of them
really wanted to serve God only one of them was really spiritual only one
of them wanted to do big things for God and that was David that was David
and so you know what just because your family doesn't want to serve God you
serve God anyways hey you little children if your brothers and sisters
don't stay an independent fundamental Baptist you stay an
independent fundamental Baptist hey you children if your siblings don't go
soul-winning you go soul-winning if your siblings don't read the Bible you
read the Bible if your siblings don't want to be a Baptist they want to just
go to a Bible Church you go into a Baptist Church hey you be a
fundamental Baptist you believe the Bible you take doctrine seriously so
I'm so offended I get a Bible Church yeah we know you don't care about
doctrine enough it wasn't John the Bible guy it was John the Baptist
folks and you know what I know is the people that have Baptist on their
name care more about doctrine than the people that don't I'm so offended
okay well show me the Bible Church that's taking soul-winning as
seriously as faith-ward Baptist Church show me a Bible Church that is
preaching harder against faggots than a Baptist Church show me a Bible Church
that has greater standards than the Baptist churches in this America don't
tell me you love church more you don't if you love the Bible and if
you love truth you would be a fundamental Baptist a King James only
soul-winning fundamental Baptist I don't care what age and you know we
need young people to say I'm gonna be an independent fundamental Baptist when
I die and then I'm gonna still be one in heaven all right well I'll be
fundamental Baptist in heaven all right whether you wanted to be a
fundamental Baptist you're gonna be one in heaven so you might as well start
now look at first Samuel chapter 17 look at verse 14 and David was the
youngest and David was the youngest and David was the only hey you young
children you serve God you know what I'm the youngest of my family but that
doesn't stop me from being a great person of God that doesn't mean I can't
do it and you know what I didn't have an example to follow I didn't have
people that wanted to serve the Lord like I wanted to you know what you
don't have to follow someone's example be a leader a leader is not a
follower a leader is doing more than everyone around them a leader is
inspiring other people to serve God more than they are a leader is someone
like David who in the book of Psalms is saying that he has more wisdom than
all his teachers why because thy thy word is a meditation upon his heart
look at verse 16 and the Philistine drew near morning and evening and
presented himself 40 days and Jesse said unto David his son take now for thy
brethren of this parched corn and these ten loaves and run to the camp to
thy brethren and carry these ten cheeses on the captain of their
thousand and look how thy brethren fair and take that but you notice
that it says Jesse said unto David his son Jesse is telling David to go
and visit his brethren and see how they do you know that sounds like oh
yeah God the Father is sending Jesus Christ to check on his brethren and
see how they do now it says in verse 19 now Saul and they and all the
men of Israel were in the valley of Elah fighting with the Philistines and
David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with the keeper and took
and win and Jesse as Jesse had commanded him this is what I love about this as
Jesse commanded him everything that David did was exactly how he was instructed to do
it he didn't come up with his own will he was doing what his father
told him and he came to the trench as the host was going forth to the
fight and shouted for the battle for Israel and the Philistines had put the
battle in a ray army against army and David left his carriage in the
hand of the keeper of the carriage and ran into the army and came and
saluted his brethren you notice every time David leaves something he leaves
someone else in charge to take care of it too he's not neglectful he's not
lazy he's making sure everything's taken care of and David left his
carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage and ran to the army
came and saluted his brethren and as he talked with them behold there came up
the champion the Philistine of Gath Goliath by name out of the armies of
the Philistines and spake according to the same words and David heard them
and all the men of Israel when they saw the man fled from him and were
sore afraid and when all the men of America saw the faggots they fled and
were afraid when all the fundamental Baptist saw the faggot protesters they
fled and were afraid when all the men that are Christians in America see
the enemies of the day they're afraid and they're running away scared
they're a pansy pansy Baptist not any different than today then then back then
where was the fire-breathing preaching back then where was the guy
that was willing to go in the battle when the men heard Goliath speak they
were afraid when the house passed a bill saying you you're anti-semitic if
you preach the Bible Baptist were afraid why are you afraid why are you
afraid of a guy in pigtails in a tiny hat can't he get a hat that fits anytime
I get a fitted hat I make sure it actually fits on my head before I buy
it what an idiot it's like a little child it's kind of like a little baby
cap and we see all of our leaders literally putting baby caps on and
bowing down to a wall because they're afraid they're afraid you really expect
me to believe that Donald Trump cares about that stupid wall in Israel you
think that Greg Abbott cares about that wall in Israel you think Rand Paul
cares about that wall in Israel oh yeah it's literally every other
politician you can think of you think Lionel Messi the soccer player cares
about the wall in Israel Bolsonaro Milly Javier Milly of Argentina you
think they care no no they're afraid buddy they're cowards they're pansies
they're afraid of Goliath it says in verse number 25 in the minute Israel
said have you seen this man that has come up surely to defy Israel as he
come up and it shall be that the man who killeth him the king will enrich
him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's
house free in Israel hey here's an invite here here you go guys young
single guys who want a bride kill Goliath there you go verse 26 and
David spake to the men that stood by him saying what shall be done to them
to the man that killed his velocity and take away their approach from
Israel for who is this uncircumcised Philistine that should
defy the armies the living God I like I like Davis attitude what in the how is
this guy he's defying the armies of God of Israel like what are you what
are you guys doing and the people answered him after the man are saying
so shall be done the man that killed him he's thinking like hey I
get a reward it's like someone should just kill this guy just to do it let
alone there's a reward attached to it on top of that and the people
answered him after this matter right verse 28 and Elliot Eliab that his
elder brother heard when he spake unto the men and Eliab's anger was
kindled against David and he said why camest thou down hither and with whom
has thou left those few sheep in the wilderness oh oh your little tiny
church oh you guys just have a tiny little church and you just don't you're
just preaching online to get popular right you just preach to your sermons
for clickbait and you have this little tiny church well what are you
doing a lie up oh you have a big multitude of art you have a huge army
shouldn't you be able to take Goliath I mean isn't it so sad that
literally the churches that are running 10,000 on Sunday morning they
can't take on Goliath how are you scared when your church is running
10,000 you're running 10,000 Christians and you're afraid of a
bunch of sodomites I mean they would dwarf the protesters in their area I
mean they have to scrounge up every freak and degenerate and trash from the
gutter and all the sewer rats to come and protest our church and they
still can't outnumber us I mean they're trying to find as much trash in
the dump heap as they can to bring out here and they still can't they're
paying people to come out here and they can't even get enough folks it's
like a church with 10,000 is afraid sick it's disgusting I know you're
prideful and I am prideful for for Goliath wanting to be destroyed no
you're wicked for not wanting to fight God's army or fight with God's
army fight the enemies verse 29 and David said what have I now done is
another cause and he turned from him toward another this we have to do when
your brother's a bozo you turn to another okay you don't want to serve
God that's your problem I'm gonna talk to somebody else and he turned
from him toward another and he spake after the same manner and the people
answered him again after the four manner and when the words were heard
which David spake they rehearsed them before Saul and he sent for him
and David said to Saul let no man's heart fail because of him talking
about Goliath thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine and Saul
said to David that were not able to go against this Philistine to fight with
him what's the number one reason for thou art but a youth let no man
despise thy youth hey you know what if you're a young person that wants to
serve God and you see an area where someone's not willing to fight don't
be discouraged and think you can't fight no you fight anyways if someone's
not getting someone saved you get them saved if someone's not teaching the right
doctrine you teach them right doctrine hey if someone's not willing to combat
Goliath let some young guy get in there and fight him because you know
what the old guys aren't getting it done and some people might get mad at
a church like ours and think oh well post was surely was so young when he
started this church or took over did all these things why didn't see
anybody else lining up I didn't see anybody else getting so excited to jump
in the battle and it's like David I guarantee I guarantee if someone else
stronger bigger and elder than David said I'll fight David said okay good I'm
on your team I'll help you you go you know why David stepped up because
no one was getting it done he wasn't prideful it's not prideful to
recognize that God needs a job done and you say if no one will do it I'll
do it that's not prideful what's prideful is you know what attacking
someone that's willing to do it and saying oh you're just you're young
you're youth you can't do this yeah you know what who cares of age is a
number folks there are really smart people that are really young and you
know what there's a lot of people that have a lot of great zeal and we
need to encourage those people I think there's a lot of people going to
Bible calls today that have a lot of fire and they go to Bible cause and it
gets watered down it gets weakened we need to take the David's of this
generation and and add fire to their fire but we need to pour gas on that
fire that's what I'm trying to do okay I want them to get more excited to
preach the Bible and you know of course this is a physical battle but
what's the battle that we're supposed to do we're supposed to preach
the Bible I want to see more young preachers become the best preachers
we've ever had don't think like well I'm not an older person I'm not
Pastor Anderson I'm not Pastor Jimenez I'm not Pastor Hiles I'm not Lester
Roloff I'm not these guys of the past you know what it doesn't matter if
you've got the Bible you've got the Word of God abiding in you preach the
best sermons that have ever been preached you fight Goliath you get in
the battle you do something for God you don't allow people to talk you
down don't be despised because your youth hey we're gonna potentially
ordain a couple young guys to be pastors in the future let no man despise
thy youth don't think because you're young you can't do something great for
God you know what you do the greatest thing for God you get into
the battle and you fight hard and you know what you serve God and you
don't care about what this world has to say don't care about all the
naysayers and oh you're prideful and you want attention and all this
stuff no no you say hey there's a Goliath in this world and I'm gonna
slay him I'm not gonna allow the armies of Israel to be defiled you know
it doesn't matter if no one will fight them I'll fight them that's the
kind of people that we need we need some young Christians young Christians
want to go to one more go to Ephesians chapters no I'm sorry go to
first Kings chapter 3 and I'll finish I know it's a long sermon but you
need it I need it time would fail for me to bring up Jephthah's daughter
Isaac Daniel and his friends Jesus at 12 years old having greater questions than
anybody's ever asked before in church at 12 years old folks hey at 12 years
old asking the pastor and asking men questions of the Bible time would fail
to me to bring up Joseph and the great exploits of him at age 17 and
then becoming such a great leader at age 30 I mean Joseph ran Potiphar's house
in his 20s and in fact he was such a good ruler that Potiphar didn't even
know what's going on he was just like Joseph's got it you know and his
young 20s Joseph is ruling Potiphar's house over grown men he's such a Chad
okay and and none of that it's an Egypt he doesn't even speak Egyptian he
had to go to a foreign land under just being imprisoned think about the
class elevation he took himself from because you know you don't just start
like a slave and then become the master of the house overnight I mean
that took time to be a faithful slave learn the language learn business
learn economics learn management learn human resources learn all of these
different aspects that come with running anything and you know he
elevated himself at such a young age time would fail to me to bring up all
of that we need to inspire the youth to serve God do something great for God
even when you're young number one you need to praise the Lord number two
you need to preach the Bible and number three you need to pray you need
to pray and Solomon was found himself at a very young age we don't know
exactly maybe 17 18 19 20 somewhere that range he's becoming the king of
Israel the most powerful nation on the earth at such a young age and God
literally tells Solomon to just ask for whatever he wants like he's so
pleased with Solomon and you know what the word pray means ask you know
what ask means pray you little children you pray to God you pray to
God for the things that are important to you pray to him and what is Solomon pray
for well and I do want to point out one verse verse 7 notice what he says
in the middle of this verse about Solomon about himself I am but a little
child in his view he was a little child he's ruling this nation he's
ruling this country what you know that that would be refreshing to meet an 18
year old that doesn't think they know everything boy wouldn't that be nice
for an 18 year old to recognize like I'm not smarter than everybody I don't
know more than everybody I don't have understanding you know what I need to
do I need to ask God to give it to me and of course that's what he does
he says in verse number eight and thy servant is in the midst of thy
people which thou has chosen a great people that cannot be numbered nor
counted for multitude give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to
judge thy people that I may discern between good and bad for who is
able to judge this thy so great a people I do not think that I am above
average intelligence necessarily maybe it is it doesn't matter I definitely
don't think I'm a genius or anything that's smart but you know what I do
know a lot of really important things and a lot of wisdom that comes from the
Bible because God gave that wisdom to me from reading the Bible and I
remember my whole life as a young man reading this story and you know what
encouraged me to do every day of my life I pray at night and I ask God to
give me wisdom when I was five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve and
all the way up to 36 every day you know what I pray I pray and ask God to
give me wisdom because that is the principal thing get wisdom and you know
what we need children start praying for that you know what there's plenty of
times where there was things in the Bible I just didn't understand I
couldn't recognize and just the power of God the Holy Spirit just
enlightened my eyes and just showed me great truths of the Bible and I
couldn't it's not a carnal thing it's impossible in my mind it's not like
putting the labor and effort or work or doing something gonna do it it's God
blessing you from the Holy Spirit to teach you the Bible you know you get
that you pray and ask God and he'll give it to anybody he'll give it to
anybody there and in fact some of the coolest times of my life are just when
something in the Bible finally clicked and you're just like wow you know for
me some of the coolest times was and I understood Jacob and Esau and that
chapter where they're basically swapping places and the inheritance
because it was the weirdest story to me like why in the world is Jacob
putting on animal skins the whole book of Esther made no sense to me and just
one day it just like boom it was just like wow it all made so much
sense there was a day where I was just I was actually gave up on trying
to understand the timing of the Passover but there was just a day
that I had by myself my wife was out of town I could do anything I
wanted so I started reading the book of Mark and then just all and I didn't
have this in mind and there's all of a sudden it was just like wow I understood
the timing of the Passover and it's just like look these things aren't
because I'm special you know what's special God you know it's special the
Holy Spirit you know it's on the table for every single person gifts
from God you know who gets them the person that asks for them you have
I want the little children in this room to ask God for things ask God for a
godly spouse that's something you should be praying for ask God for
wisdom ask God to give you boldness ask God to give you a zeal and a fervor
to serve God unlike your contemporaries unlike your brethren unlike your
family we need to serve God because we care about God and I want the young
people to do so the children the young men the young adults and hey even if
you're old all this applies to you but please please encourage the young
people in your lives to take Christianity seriously let's close in
prayer thank you Heavenly Father so much for giving us the Bible and the
Word of God I pray that you would just light a fire in the heart of all
these young children that you would just help give them a zeal an
unquenchable zeal for the Word of God and I pray that you would just help
them to have their own personal relationship their personal desire to
praise you to preach the Word of God to pray to read the Bible to take it
seriously thank you so much for all these great examples thank you so much
for caring about us when we're young I pray that people would realize that
their life is important and these young children are important and I hope
and pray that all the men and the older women in this in this church we
would set our affection and hearts on the young and on the youth and trying
to inspire and encourage them to be the next Davids of our generation the next
Samuels the next virgins which did prophesy that we could actually have a
great revival in the youth and that you'd help protect these young people
from that wicked one and from the world in Jesus name we pray amen
all right for a final song this morning let's go to 125 the solid rock 125
the solid rock one two five the solid rock
my hope is
Jesus blood and righteousness I dare not trust the sweetest frame
Oh Jesus name on the second
ah
when all around my soul his way he that is all my hope and stay
Oh
thank you all for coming god bless you are dismissed
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