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Looking forward to more things to come in the afternoon, soul winning and another sermon and some
more fellowship and we definitely like the fellowship of this church. I don't know how late you guys all
stayed here last night but maybe you left right away I don't know but I was kind of done at seven
o'clock so but it's been good being here and you know I just thank everybody for being here this
morning. The title of my sermon this morning is the dangers of being too casual, the dangers
of being too casual and I get that from chapter 1 Corinthians 14 40 in our text this morning
it says let all things be done decently and in order. Let all things be done decently
and in order. Now the great thing about this church is that there's unity and everybody seems
to get along really well or at least you're pretending in front of me which is great but
but I feel like that like we don't have problems in this church there's a lot of unity and people
aren't fighting and I don't have a lot of problems and I'm glad for that when I'm not getting phone
calls where people are fighting all the time and things like that that's great but you know and
I would take a church with 25 to 30 people any day that has no problems everybody's spiritual
everybody shows up everybody does work and I'll take you know dozens of church like that and
you know don't get me mad I might start another church by the end of the service but
but it's great to have that but also there and what made me think about this sermon is that
sometimes you know there is a danger of being too casual and when you're around people a lot
and you become friends or even just in clothing there's lots of different things where we could
get too casual and it can be dangerous because it can lead to problems from being too casual
and I'll explain that more as I get into the sermon I want to kind of really go on my notes
this morning because I have a lot of them and I don't want to keep you here hostage all day so
let's see it's 10 56 right now so I'll do my best to wrap this up as soon as possible but I think
it's just important for us to just kind of get the principles obviously there's a lot of things you
could talk about but I just kind of thought of a few things this morning that I thought were
important for us to think about and to apply to our life these principles so it says let all
things be done decently and in order so what does it mean to be decent well it's becoming or fit
you know or suitable in words behavior dress and ceremony so when Paul says let everything
to be done decently and in order he's saying let the things that are done in God's house be
fit and suitable the words are the right words the behavior is the right behavior the dress is the
right dress and the ceremony so we have a specific way that we do our services we have two songs
we have a prayer or we have one song prayer another song and then the announcements then
after the announcements we do the another song we do the offering and and then we do
what the preaching or the bible reading then the preaching and then one final song you all know
like you you've been here long enough to where you know it's kind of automatic isn't it and the
reason why we do it like that is because we want things to be done decent and in order decently
and in order so you know what to expect when you come to our church it's not a free for all
it's not three people getting up preaching at the same time in three different languages
it's not women getting up here and giving a testimony and you know preaching a sermon to us
I mean the reason why I picked this chapter is because it really does sum everything up that
this chapter is talking about and Paul's saying hey we got to have decency in our churches here
are some of the rules and here's the order and and and he's not saying this is how you do the
order of service but you know he's just basically saying have order in your service it's not
supposed to be a free for all not everybody's supposed to get up with a special song not
everybody's supposed to come up with a word of knowledge and all this stuff so it's supposed
to be done decently in an order and that's the point that Paul is trying to make you know it's
talking about tongues and we don't believe that tongues is some you know jibber jabber where
you're just you know and all this other stuff right that's not what it's talking about it's
talking about different languages and I was I was reading that little sheet you have by the Bible
the 1611 Bible out there talking about how the original Greek and Hebrew was translated into 500
languages before 600 AD and then the Catholic church took over and you could only have everything
in Latin but 500 languages that's that's pretty impressive that the that the Bible is translated
into that many languages but that's because in the book of Acts you see a bunch of people from
a bunch of different nations all getting saved you know they're having you know the the Pentecost
feast and all that stuff and so then the word of God was spread all around the world and then the
scriptures were spread all around the world but so the word decently is you know just obviously
a form of the word decent and you know it it means in a decent or becoming manner with propriety
of behavior or speech without immodesty so it does imply how we dress it does imply how we speak
it does imply order and you know like I said decent is suitable words behavior dress ceremony
and decent conduct decent actions decent ornaments or dress so you know obviously the Bible
teaches against like wearing a bunch of gaudy jewelry and having your hair broided with gold
and you know just being really decadent you know obviously we should look nice you know it's not
saying have your hair scraggly and you know don't do your don't do makeup or whatever it's not
talking about that it's just you know we don't want to get go too far with being like if I was
wearing like a three thousand dollar Italian suit or something that's too much right but should I
look nice when I get up here to preach the word of God I think I should try my best to look my best
without it being some decadent thing so now order is the arrangement or disposition of people
or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence pattern or method so what's
the apostle Paul say decent decently and in order so things in a sequence things in a pattern a
method of doing things why don't we have three people getting up and preaching at the same time
because it'd be very confusing to people why don't we have people in multiple languages preaching
and nobody being able to interpret or understand those words because it's gonna it's gonna you know
be confusing to people and if you have visitors and they're like did I come to a Spanish service
like what's going on you know did I come to some Italian service and and there's you know just
different people speaking different languages and nobody is able to interpret what's going on
so there's rules there's rules of of church conduct there's rules that are decent and and so
when you're talking about being casual casual is a relaxed or unconcerned manner or done acting
without sufficient care or thoughtfulness so you're just casually doing things it's just
you know this is not a big deal everything's just not a big deal and we shouldn't and you know when
we do things at church they should be done right they should be everything shouldn't be just so
casual all the time and and I'll get more into what I'm talking about here but imagine if there
was no structure in this church at all it would be literal chaos no leader no order of service
you know just a free-for-all women preaching people you know preaching the same time all the
time but you know we don't want that we want it to be decent and in order and that's why we do
those things and so it's not without formality so when it's casual that is without formality
that's without having anything formal going on the church is a mess or you know you're dressed
like a mess you're you came to to you know like you were going to Walmart in your pajamas or
something you know we ought not to be like that right so and and the thing is as a society we
become very casual in our society and the reason why I bring that up about Walmart is because I
mean there's videos called the people of Walmart I'm sure you've seen it and it's like people just
go dressed in any manner you know they're wearing their bunny slippers and their pajamas and you
know and all kinds of other crazy outfits right like like you know it's just going to Walmart is
a dangerous territory now when I used I used to work for Walmart a long time ago and I wasn't
even allowed to have my tattoo showing when I worked there if you had tattoos if you were
sleeved up you worked in the back room you weren't you couldn't wear earrings you couldn't have long
hair if you were a man I mean that's how far our society has become casual now you look and the
cashiers have green and pink and purple hair and it looks like they fell in a tackle box before
they they they came to to work that day they're wearing you know you used to have to wear a
specific you know tan pants and like a you know certain you had to wear a collared shirt you know
and that's Walmart now Walmart is just like their standards have gone way low so and that you know
again those people if there was those types of people or people that dressed like that they'd
be in the back room they weren't out you know they didn't come out till at night time when you
know when they you can't get through the aisles because they put all the the pallets in front of
everything you want to try to shop for so you know we just don't want to get to the point where we're
following the patterns of the world we don't want to follow what the world does as the church we
should set the standards of society and so when we go out in the world the world looks at us and
they go well hey maybe i shouldn't be maybe i shouldn't be in my pajamas right now maybe i
should be wearing something that's decent maybe i shouldn't walk out naked i mean you can't even
go any place anywhere you know especially in the summertime this is the time when people become
more casual they start stripping off the clothes more you know and and what we consider naked is
from the loins to the thighs if you're if your thighs are showing your cleavage is showing
you know you're just you're naked all right and people just don't understand nakedness anymore
and so we kind of got to walk around with blinders on half the time and it's it's really sad that
that has come to that but that's what it was like but it's also become like that in churches
there's churches where it's like the come as you come as you are mentality well are you really
sure you mean that because some people when they come as they are nowadays is a lot different than
you know come as you are that that that saying in churches you know don't worry about what
you're dressed like just come to church you know you that that could be dangerous to say that now
because they could come and you're just like hey you know there's some guy wearing a skirt or
something you know and which has happened at our church some guy walked in wearing a skirt i was
like bye you got to get out of here yeah he didn't understand why well you know we're not going to
let some weird fruitcake in with a skirt on waving a cigarette around trying to look at our kids or
something that's exactly what he was doing but anyway so we can all learn something from the
sermon and maybe you'll disagree with some of the conclusions that i come to and maybe you're not
quite there but but i can tell you this that the more casual our society gets the more casual our
churches are going to get and the more casual we get the more casual everything in our life
is going to be and and and then when that leaks over into your spiritual life which it will
then you've become just like the world you become too casual so so the first thing i want to talk
about is about how we dress so you know if you're casual with how you dress it can lead to you being
casual in other areas so if you look at old photos of like people out in the in the you know the
roaring 20s or you know you see those black and white pictures of a bunch of guys at a baseball
game they're all wearing shirts and ties all the ladies are wearing dresses that cover themselves
you did not walk out in society naked you didn't walk out in society uncovered you walked out when
people went out they went out and they were dressed to the nines that was just a that was
just a thing that you did if you're outside even at walmart i don't think walmart was around back
then but even at walmart you would still be dressed decently right and so that's how far
the standards have gone like i was looking at pictures one time at my grandma's house
of all her siblings and it was when they were younger and every one of them was wearing a dress
a long dress and then you know obviously things have loosened and the more it loosens in society
then it spills over to the churches that's when you have women wearing pants at church
and even in independent fundamental baptist churches i go and visit independent fundamental
baptist churches that aren't like us sometimes and like i went to a service not too long ago
at a church and you know half the women there were we're wearing pants and like so obviously
that doesn't get preached about that that you know and when you don't preach about it and then
they're going to be as casual as the world when they come in and then our church is casual right
and so we don't want to be too casual because like again it's it spills out from the world
into our church house so those old photos i mean just go just look up men's sporting
sporting events in the 1940s or 50s or whatever and you'll see a bunch of men in ties shirts and
ties right so and even in the professional environments like in an office environment
it's like casual friday every day in a lot of office spaces but i remember when i first started
working in an office you know you're supposed to wear you know business casual friday was casual
friday every other day you gotta you gotta dress like you're supposed to dress and and business
casual was was casual friday it wasn't you know your nascar shirt it wasn't your favorite nfl team
you know and and you know we it's funny like i knew i was going to preach this i already had
it ready when i got here and i started as soon as i got into town i started seeing all the things
that were so casual and like so i go to the to check out my to to get my rental vehicle
and everybody there is wearing like some irish t-shirt or back in it was back in green it was
like an acdc you know kind of design that said back in green or whatever you know because it's
st patrick's day and everybody wants to wear green and whatever and look you know it's it's fun
whatever but it was casual then i take pastor bazarnsky to a restaurant and you know one of
our favorite restaurants you know the the italian one down the street and we walk in there's a sign
that says wear decent attire or it said something like that it said you're expected to wear decent
attire and the first thing that we see when we walk in even the the lady's checking us in
she's wearing skin tight it wasn't yoga pants but it might as well have been that's how tight
jeans were and i was thinking is that what we pass off as decent nowadays i mean the guy that
served us at our server was wearing like a goofy looking hat and a tie-dyed sweatshirt like it must
have been casual friday there and we just didn't realize it or something but like when you have a
sign that says you know you got to be dressed right to come in here and then the people that
work there aren't dressed right it's like that's just kind of weird maybe it's just been there for
so long that everybody forgets that it's there but those are just some of the i mean that's not
that big of a deal but i'm just saying that because of how casual society is i mean i guess
that's decent dress to them but that's not what should pass for decent dress here and you know
people will say well you're just a pharisee you think that everybody should wear a three-piece
suit and every everything everywhere they go i'm not even saying that i'm just saying that when
you're at church you should wear your best you know why would you not wear your best when you
have the opportunity to do so so because any place you go today you have to be prepared to look the
other way people shouldn't look at church people and say oh don't look at them they're wearing
something that's too immodest that ought not to be ever said in the house of god or outside of the
house of god right so this come as you are leave as you came all this attitude and churches today
it's it's led to apathy it's led to be people being too casual with each other and you know
when you got a big casual church then nothing really matters anymore does it they don't care
about the bible that they use they don't care about the songs that they sing they're singing
you know shout to the lord and lord i lift your name on high and people are just doing this
and for 45 50 minutes and then the pastor gets up says a couple stories says a couple songs you
might get an nlt scripture here the young's translation over here on something else whatever
it is that fits their sermon they'll cherry pick their verses they want to talk about us cherry
picking verses they cherry pick versions at their churches right and they cherry pick what is decent
how how can you read this chapter in the bible in a church setting and get anything other than
things must be done decently in an order you can't get it and then yet women are getting up
and preaching in churches joyce myer for instance but it's not just that i mean i think that the
southern baptist church convention or the southern s yeah southern baptist church
their whole convention like kicked saddle back out for being too liberal and it's like
the southern baptists are already liberal enough as it is i think they kicked saddle
back out because i think they were ordaining women as pastors or something
so even the southern baptist convention has standards which not a lot but they still have
some right so let's turn to first king shepherd 10 verse 1 i know i've said a lot of things
just said things we've only read one scripture so that's not like me let's get into some bible here
so we have a story here about king solomon and king solomon had his problems you know
pastor pazarnsky was talking about you know his all of his wives and that would have been tough
but uh i can't i mean imagine having one nagging wife versus 700 nagging wives i i'm not saying
every wife's a nag i'm just saying that you know i mean i imagine out of the the 700 wives and 300
concubines there were some that were you never come see me solomon this is my this is my year
you're supposed to spend the day with me on this this day of the year it's our you know every two
years you see we see each other anniversary i mean i just can't even imagine how that worked but
anyway here's where solomon had things right all right and he was decent and in order look it's
first king chapter 10 verse 1 it says and when the queen of sheba heard of the fame of solomon
concerning the name of the lord she came to prove him with hard questions you know some people have
this attitude they're like well let's just see let's put them to the test and people do this
when we're out solving don't they they ask you hard questions they want to know the answers to
their questions and maybe they've had these questions for a long time and you know so we
should always be prepared to prove our doctrine to prove what we believe and obviously sometimes
we're going to get questions that are maybe a little tougher but we should all have a certain
level of knowledge of the bible and i'm not saying you have to have everything down when you're
soloing but it is good to read your bible because then you know what you're talking about you know
if there's some obscure question or hard question that's asked out there we should be able to answer
some of those questions right i mean obviously we have google you can just you know type in some
stuff real quick but it's good to just know if you're having to type everything up because you
don't know anything then maybe you should just read the bible more right so she came to prove
him with hard questions she wasn't just saying well i just want to see if what what's going on
is really what's going on she she came to prove him and it says and she came to jerusalem with
a very great train with camels that bear spices and very much gold and precious stones and when
she was come to solomon she communed with him of all that was in her heart and solomon told her
all her questions so he answered all the hard questions that she had
there was not anything hid from the king which he had not which he told her not and when the
queen of sheba had seen all solomon's wisdom and the house that he built so it's not just his
wisdom and his bible knowledge but also the house that he built and the meat of his table and the
sitting of his servants and the attendance of his minister so you see how this could spill into
church life right you know sit the sitting of his servants the attendance of his ministers
and what's it say right there and their what their apparel what is that the clothes that they're
wearing she's looking at everything and see when people come to our church they're going to look
at everything we just we we are in here and we just kind of get used to everything but when
someone is going to come here for the first time or someone comes to our church in vancouver for the
first time they're going to look around at how things are set up they're going to look around
how do the ushers attend to the services how is everything run in a professional manner and it's
not just some big joke all the time and so the clothing was important so she's the queen of sheba
she's not just some commoner she's a queen and so when she came do you think that she was dressed in
her pajamas she was probably looked nice didn't she when she presented herself before solomon
and said there was a great train she's bringing all these these fine spices and goods and and
then she sees what so what if she's really super not casual i don't think she was casual but then
she comes and she sees solomon's ministers are just kind of just laying around they're they're
sleeping you know oh solomon you wanted something else okay sorry no they're just like dialed in
everything that they have is dialed in including the clothes that they're wearing what if they're
wearing the the people of walmart outfits when they get there what do you think the queen of
sheba does then do you think that people will say well how you dress doesn't matter that's
according to the queen of sheba it did matter according to the queen of sheba it did matter
how things were being operated and how well he knew the bible and pastor pazarski mentioned this
on friday night he said we are kings and priests aren't we so when we're kings and priests you know
we should be also dressed like kings and priests and i'm not saying look that you always have to
have some super expensive outfit on or something i'm not saying that but we should be dressed
decently right and it says his apparel and his cup bearers and the ascent which by which he went
up to the house of the lord there was no more spirit in her and and you know sometimes people
like oh her spirit just left her that's that's not what it's saying i believe that it's talking
about the fact that she had like a spirit of maybe a little bit of a contention she probably she
because she came to prove him by hard questions and sometimes when people have that attitude but
then all of a sudden every it's even again soul winning you come to them and at first they're kind
of a little bit combative and then as you answer their questions don't they soften up a little bit
sometimes obviously the jerks are going to be the jerks but some people want you to prove
their hard questions like well i've never heard anybody say that brother jason's given the gospel
to some lady yesterday and she said i've never heard anybody say any of this stuff to me
so he told her all of her questions and and when she had all of her questions answered
she got saved praise god but it's the same thing with the queen of sheba she had no more spirit
left in her shoes you know you talk about the fighting spirit or you know sometimes people just
have this spirit of wanting to kind of prove everything and she obviously was like that but
she had no more spirit in her she had no more resistance in her and she she realized that she
needed to be saved and it says in verse seven it says or verse six excuse me it says and she said
to the king it is a true report that i have heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom
howbeit i believed not the words see she didn't believe it until i came and my eyes had seen it
and behold the half was not told me thy wisdom and prosperity exceeded the fame which i heard
happy are thy men happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee
and that hear thy wisdom blessed be the lord thy god which delighted in thee to set thee on the
throne of israel because the lord loved israel forever therefore made he the king to do judgment
and justice but imagine the story being changed i'm not trying to change the bible here i'm just
saying imagine the story being changed they come she comes she hears all this great stuff about
solomon his wisdom his acts all the riches and splendors of the nation and it's just a bunch of
people dressed like slobs talking like talking slobbishly and falling asleep while they're
supposed to be attending or you know just dressed terribly that would have changed everything i i
honestly don't think the queen of sheba would have got saved had it been like that so this is
an example to us that in our lives in our church lives and just even in our personal lives because
some of this stuff is just his personal attendance his and his personal apparel and things like that
it wasn't necessarily church stuff but then it goes into the realm of church stuff when it says
how he ascended up to the house of the lord you know and and and and here's a good thing to to
get out of this also he actually went to the house of the lord so you know that that's that's part of
it being faithful to the services so i just personally believe that if everything hadn't
been decent and in order done decently in an order she probably wasn't going to get saved
and if he would have been able to answer her questions her hard questions she probably wasn't
going to get saved so uh several years ago it's been now but there was a guy that got arrested
out soloing and somebody i was talking with one of the people at this church and he was like well
you know the way he was dressed when he was out soloing he was wearing a pair of flip-flops a
pair of shorts and a graphic tee and he was trying they were at like some 55 and older you know
senior citizen community or whatever and you know what they do they instantly call the police the
cops will instantly come and so he's there and he's preaching the gospel to somebody
and the cop pulls up looking for these trespassers you know they just get a call trespassers
and they're going and looking for those trespassers and then they see this guy wearing
flip-flops shorts and a graphic tee talking to some lady at the door they pull up to him and
they're like hey you know are you supposed to be here and i don't know exactly what was said to him
but when the police officer walked up to him what do you think he instantly thought did he
do you think that he instantly thought this guy's the pastor of the church do you think they thought
that they didn't think that they're like who's this dude wearing flip-flops and you know preaching
at this lady's door and you know people do judge a book by its cover sometimes and how we look when
we're out soloing how we're dressed when we're at church people do notice it and you might not think
well it's not a big deal you know quit being a pharisee or whatever that's not being a pharisee
i don't think that's being a pharisee at all i think that's just you know doing what
i think that god's standards are that we should dress nice i mean just think about what the
priest wore the priest of the old testament why did they make those specific outfits what did it
say it was for does anybody know for beauty right so those things look nice they didn't say he didn't
say grab some gunny sacks make sure they go past the loins and the thighs no they they had them
specifically made stitched the bonnets all the all the different thing that the whole outfit
and yeah they were wearing shorts it's it's the deserts okay and you know they had a robe that
kind of covered i'm sure that but they were covered they weren't naked and then and and the
clothes were nice and they're the priest of the lord so i don't think there's anything wrong with
dressing nice you know he had his priest dressed nice he had him dressed a certain way and so to
say well that's just not a right attitude well why don't you say that to god then now the shorts
thing i don't think that shorts are inherently wrong i i wear shorts sometimes but you know as
a pastor i've learned that being more uh or less casual is best you know because if you see me
if you see me at walmart and i'm just like wearing a pair of uh you know basketball shorts or
something and a graphic tee you're gonna be like well i i never thought i'd see pastor dressed like
that before or you know and that's not a good look i don't think so if i look like i'm just
going to just got done playing volleyball or something i mean when i'm out in the public i
mean i just to me i just think that the more i look at these things the more important i
think it is to not be too casual so let's look at matthew chapter 12 verse 42 just look up that
verse um so but the point of the story of me telling about the guy with the flip flops he
ended up going to jail now but imagine he's wearing a shirt and tie do you think that the
cop approaches him in the same way i don't think he does and then of course the guy's a jerk and
it's like i don't have to give my id to you cop or whatever which i understand that but maybe he
would have never asked him maybe he would just saw a guy at a door with a shirt and tie on and
looking nice and say hey pastor you know there's not there's no trust i mean they might it might
have been the same thing anyway but at least i think that people are going to look at somebody
when they're out dressed nice in public they're going to be there they treat you different when
you're we're wearing a shirt and ties yesterday and they couldn't tell which one of us was the
pastor or which you know and when people look mormons and jehovah witnesses and jews all go
out in public wearing what shirts and ties ladies and dresses so are you going to let them outclass
you i don't think we should let them outclass us they have the wrong gospel they have the right
clothes but they have the wrong gospel right and so we want to have the right clothes and the right
gospel when we go out so does it really matter how we dress i think it does it mentions this
story in second chronicles chapter nine and then uh jesus talks about it right here a little bit
he says the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation so what's that
saying she got saved didn't she and shall condemn it for she came from the uttermost parts of the
earth to hear the wisdom of solomon and behold a greater than solomon is here so she's just
he's just jesus is alluding to this story but the point of me showing it to you is that he's saying
this lady got saved and and what and what ties that all together what's how was how everything
was presented to her when she came to see him she gets she gets saved turn to matthew chapter 6 verse
25 matthew chapter 6 verse number 25 the bible says in matthew 6 25 it says therefore i say
unto you take no thought for your life what you shall eat or what you shall drink nor yet for your
body what you what you shall put on talking about your clothing is not the life more than meat and
the body than reinment so basically he's saying like why are you worried about having clothes
and food those are the things that i'm going to provide for you now skip down to verse 28
and why take he thought for raiment talking about clothing consider the lilies of the field how they
grow they toil not neither do they spin and yet i say unto you that even solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these so what does that tell you about solomon how was he dressed
even solomon so he's like referring back to the fact that solomon was well dressed
and then he's saying we shouldn't worry about those things because he even even just a flower
in the field is clothed with more array and nicer you know because obviously god made that thing
it's in nature but it says wherefore if god so clothed the grass of the field which today is is
and tomorrow is cast into the oven shall he not much more clothe you oh ye of little faith
therefore take no thought saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or wherewithal shall
we be clothed for after all these things do the gentiles seek for your heavenly father knoweth
that you have need of all these things so god knows what we need so to the people would say
well i can't really just afford to dress nice there's a place called goodwill there's thrift
stores you could actually go and what somebody threw away that is just not cool and in style
to them anymore that's one man's trash is another man's treasure and we can go and find you know
yeah not a lot of people dress like this anymore and that's why those goodwill coat racks are
filled they have your size somewhere they have they've had my size i mean they they have your
size somewhere and god knows that you need these things so when you say like i don't know i mean
i just can't afford to dress nice that's just not true that we can't afford to dress nice and you
know what god's saying here is don't worry about those things i'm going to provide those things
for you right so god will provide for us but if your attitude is well i just i'm not going to do
that because i can't afford to then you're just like basically saying well you know i don't care
how i dress because um i just can't afford to dress like that i'm not a pharisee or whatever
it says take no thought um yeah verse 34 take take therefore no thought for the morrow for the
morrow shall take thought for the things of itself sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof so
god knows that we need things and he you know and the reason why i bring this up is because
i had someone come and preach a sermon about standards when i was
newly saved and i'm wearing a tank top trailblazers jersey because it's playoff
season of course i'm representing i had my tickets to the gun show i think i was i didn't even
i didn't even have like a sleeve shirt underneath it was just the straight tank top jersey this is
your pastor i'm wearing a pair of basketball shorts in church and like i don't know if he
just like said well i was going to preach this sermon and then he decided to preach another one
because he saw me sit in the crowd but it was actually rollin rasmussen's son matt rasmussen
and he's preaching this this sermon about he's just bringing standards into it and i felt like
this big at the end of the sermon and i don't know that he was doing that intentionally i don't think
he was but that's what everybody thinks when someone is preaching something that's a little
too hot you're just like oh this is he's talking about me so you know he tells a story too about
how when elvis was really popular and and rollin rasmussen was his was his dad they're all sitting
at the dinner table and elvis is in the prime of his popularity and he has the sideburns sideburns
used to be a sign of rebellion and wickedness because of elvis right so at the table he's like
hey dad i think i'm going to grow my sideburns to look like elvis and he's like oh that's great son
where are you going to live i've never forgotten that story i think it's just super funny but i i
mean i felt bad because i felt like you know why wouldn't i dress up and and i really honestly i
couldn't afford to go off and buy new suits and clothes and stuff like that and i and i talked to
the pastor afterwards you know not not him but my pastor i was just like you know i'm sorry that
i haven't been dressed and nice for church i was like honestly i really can't afford to go out and
buy a bunch of pants but as soon as i can i will and then he just gives me money to go buy some
clothes just like that it's like god has he knows that you need these things and even though someone
gave me the ability to do that he thought well if this is his heart then i want to help him do those
things and obviously we got people in our church that are nice like that god will provide for you
if you if you want it but you know if we seek first the things of the kingdom of god then he's
going to provide all the things we need right so you you know who president zelinsky is of the
ukraine guy the guy comes to the united states and we're giving him billions
and billions of dollars and he shows up in a tracksuit with a gold chain on
it's like what in the world like and and people mocked him for that in this country in a country
that's very casual and a lot of things but you know what's not still uh casual in people's minds
that a president from another country that's coming to grovel for money to fight a war that
we have nothing to do with and they're still mocking him for wearing a tracksuit at the
when he goes to meet with the president of the united states
what is it casual friday every day in ukraine or something good night
so it does matter how we dress even if you were going to meet some governor i know i
not our governor okay but some other governor
not gay ensley but like maybe i don't i don't even know i don't even know what governor's good
i have no idea but like yeah disantis how about that but anyway we wouldn't wear a t-shirt and
shorts and flip-flops to meet a governor like that would we i mean if you did we people would
be mocking you that's right and then biden's like here's a check you know and and then there's like
a pic i think there's like a picture with zelinski in his tracksuit and then like all the the the
statesmen and and people the vice pre you know not the vice president but i don't know who all
was in it but they all take their ties off for the picture and just have their collars hanging out
it's just like just to dumb themselves down and make them look not as you know you know
staunch or whatever but it does matter what we dress like it does matter what we look like
when we come to church we should be dressed as nice as we can we're out in public you know
think about the image that you're presenting because what if that's your opportunity to give
somebody the gospel and it's just like then you're dressed in a i'm with stupid t-shirt
or something you know that's just we got to think about these things now the other thing
we need to think about is not being too casual with our speech and our personal life not being
too casual with our speech and our personal life let's look at collagens chapter four verse five
collagens chapter number four verse five
and like it or not people do judge us by our speech it's just a fact how we talk
don't use here's a good guy don't use words you don't understand that's a good that's a good thing
and if you don't have a lot of understanding in words learn you know reading is going to help you
learn words and and things like that but i'm not just talking about that i'm talking about
how you talk to people what you talk to people about look at collagens four or five it says
walk in wisdom toward them that are without redeeming the time let your speech be always
with grace seasoned with salt that you may know how you ought to answer every man now i realize
that there's freaks that are gonna yell and scream at us and if you can take it just take it sometimes
you can't all right everybody's kind of blown up on somebody i'm sure at some point when you're
out and someone's just being some wicked evil troll to you or whatever but for the most part
we should try to make sure our speech is always with grace and seasoned with salt so that doesn't
mean that you're just always nice no matter what without giving them the hard truths because salt
does sting doesn't it so you might not be delivering that with a with a sharp tongue
but just the words that we speak are salty to people when you're actually preaching what
the bible says when you actually tell someone at the door it's like hey you know i'm at your door
and i realize i'm not invited to guess but the bible says that like there's a heaven to gain
and a hell to shun and if you don't believe on the lord jesus christ the bible says that you're
going to end up in hell i mean that's not an easy thing to say to people but that is graceful isn't
it yeah you're giving you're showing them you know god will give you the grace you got to get
saved but at the same time you're not seeing it like a jerk you know i think that's what it's
saying we should be like that and in proverbs chapter 25 verse 11 i won't have you turn there
you can if you want but uh proverbs chapter 25 verse 11 says a word fitly spoken is like apples
of gold and pictures of silver sometimes people just come up and they have the right thing to say
at the right time you're like man that was well said that was like perfectly delivered perfect
timing for that to be said and those are the types of that's the way our speech should be
you know we're adding to the conversation we're not just shooting off at the mouth
over every little thing and and not listening to people when they're talking and you're just ready
to just say the next thing that you want to say you know a word fitly spoken is spoken at the right
time and in the right place and in the right setting so turn to first corinthians chapter
9 verse 22 first corinthians 9 22 the bible says to the weak became i as weak
that i might gain the week i made all things to all men that i might by all means save some
so look we we need to to get on the people's level that we're with and the common people will hear us
gladly but you know if we're just going around talking you know just cussing up a storm or
or whatever all the time out in public and things like that people it diminishes you because you
know it does kind of just show that you don't care you're being too casual with your language
and i'm not preaching against cussing right now or whatever but i'm just saying that does the
world think that when you say something that's quote unquote a cuss word it does bother that
like they can say everything that they want at work they can say every filthy thing and tell
every filthy joke but the minute they know a christian said the s word or whatever you know
then they oh i thought you were christian it's like but it's okay for you to talk like that it's
like oh i'm not a christian you know it's just so people do watch what we talk how we talk and what
we talk about and things like that so i do think it's wise to not just go around you know and
obviously you don't want your kids to talk like that and it's about being intelligent and sounding
intelligent and being able to use the right words right so don't be too casual with your language
but also don't be too casual with your friends family and church family even when it comes to
what you're talking to people about and you know i know in a church this size everybody's friends
we all get along and things like that but there should be some mystique left in your relationships
you shouldn't tell everybody everything about you you know they're you know once the mystique is
gone then it's kind of like they're you know and here's the thing is dangerous is to tell somebody
something that you don't know how they're going to respond to it i'm not saying be fake i'm just
saying that there's things that might you might have done in the past things that you regret that
if you tell somebody something about yourself regardless of whether a christian or not they
might not be able to help but judge you for those things is it right i'm not saying it's right i'm
just saying that it happens so turn to proverbs 11 verse 12 proverbs chapter 11 verse 12
and you can do this with your family too you start talking about
people at church in front of unsaved family members and things like that that's not a good
look that's not something we should be doing because what you're just painting a picture
of what your church is like to them like why would i want to go there when they act just
like everybody else does you know and i remember before i got saved the church that i actually
started going to was an independent fundamental baptist church and the pastor was caught like he
was just buying like all these extravagant things for his family he was buying like couches and cars
and just stealing like he was stealing money from the church and i heard that from my wife through
her family members that went to that church i said see that's why i don't want to go to church or
whatever so people when they hear things like that and should that have ever come to my ears
why would that ever need to come to my ears obviously that's a church issue and i don't
even believe that they handled the issue right they should have fired him or or whatever but
they actually turn them into the police for it and he ended up doing prison time over something
that's a first corinthians you know issue where you don't give it over to the judges basically
because we can judge those things we can just say hey you're not allowed here you're not allowed to
handle money or whatever it is if someone steals we have the ability to throw those people out
but to turn them over to the wicked justice system you don't even know what they're going
to do i mean they could throw him in a hole so deep he's never going to get out of it
solitary confinement federal prison or whatever it is like i just think that the whole thing was
handled wrong but the point i'm saying is that for some reason that church business leaked into
an unsaved person's ears and i judged the situation i was like well i don't want to go
to that church now thank god i got saved and then you know i've despite knowing that stuff
i still went went to that church and i got plugged in and started serving the lord i got baptized
and all that stuff but not everybody's going to go there some people they have a lasting thought
about how churches are and they'll never get over that because they heard something they should have
never have heard you know come out of the walls of a church building that just shouldn't have
shouldn't have taken place i don't remember how i maybe my wife just told me about it
i think is what it was but that they that came from church members so we can be too casual with
our conversations outside of this place where they have no place in our in our personal family or
or unsafe family even safe family members that are don't come here like our business shouldn't
just be spread abroad to everybody right now it says in uh proverbs chapter 11 verse 12 it says
he that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor but a man of understanding holdeth his peace
so if you have understanding you're not going to tell them everything that you know or everything
about yourself or everything about our church or whatever and it says a tale bearer reveal
the secrets so here's another verse where this can help us when you're telling secrets about
other people or telling things about other people that you know you're a tale bearer you're taking
something that somebody else told you and you're telling it to somebody else and we all know how
the game campfire works right where you're all sitting around a campfire and the first person
is it called campfire it's called telephone it's always played my wife i was thinking i'm getting
this wrong i already know because i've said this so many times but around a campfire you
play the game telephone okay i'm sorry i got it right this time she was like but anyway
the telephone but uh it's called telephone and you play it around the campfire right it
and you say something you know some phrase or something and by the time it gets around to the
very end it's something completely different and that's what tail bearing is and sometimes it could
it could start out as something right but then by the time it gets back it's like that's not what
happened at all so we shouldn't be going around telling secrets about our church members or
talking about things that they might have told you in private because it's not right it's too casual
but you know you that told that person that you were too casual to tell that to somebody else
that you don't know and obviously we've been together for a long time this church has been
together for a long time and i'm sure there's things that you might have told people that you
regret telling them i don't know but i'm just saying this as a principle that it's not wise
to tell your whole heart about everything i mean think about samson the strength was in his hair
that he grew long because god told him to do it and they're always trying to get the secret of
samson's strength aren't they and then to the point where they're painting people are there
they're going to kill all these people if they don't tell them the truth about it and then
finally delilah you know he's schmoozing with some some you know witchy woman some
whore of babylon or whatever and she finally just wears him down to tell him the secret tell him
tell me the secret tell me the secret and she's like you just don't even love me samson and she's
just playing playing him right so he finally tells her and she cuts off his hair and so she told him
his whole he told her his whole heart and he paid dearly for it didn't he and so there's just
some things that you just you don't need to tell nobody needs to know everything about you like i
said sometimes people are going to hear something that you've done in your past and maybe they've
never done that before and to them it's just something that they can't get past and i would
say that when you're asking other people for information that maybe you don't want to know
that information maybe you should just not ask for that information see my sermons about
boundaries when i was talking when i talk about things that are appropriate to ask people things
that are appropriate to talk about but i bring this up because it's an important thing we
shouldn't get too casual with our speech why because it leads to danger in your life it leads
to danger in your christian life or just in your life outside of you know don't tell everybody at
work everything about you don't tell everybody at your work you know don't just start playing
you know pastor anderson's wildest you know wildest sermons or whatever in front of your
co-worker before you even get them saved you know what i mean it's like have some discernment with
that like you believe this you know they're vile they're rapidly you know it's just like
jumping on the pulpit and whatever i mean those aren't the you like those types of sermons i like
those types of sermons but where do you need to start off with them first you know let's get to
the jumping on the pulpits after we get them saved you know what i mean so by the way now
that you're saved let me teach you the reprobate doctrine so but so turn to let's see oh i said
so keep there and then i'll have you turn to proverbs 25 here in a second but it says a
tail bear reveals secrets but he that is a faithful spirit conceal with the matter see
the opposite of a tail bear is someone that's of a faithful spirit and they're going to conceal the
matter you're like well that's isn't that covering it up yeah it is you know people don't need to
know everything about your life people don't need to know every dirty secret that's ever been in
your family or everything you know they don't need to know that stuff and i think it's better
to conceal those things than it is to tell people that they might think differently about you
because of it you know what i mean and people say well you're being that's just being fake i'm not
fake well that's not being fake that's doing what the bible says right it says you conceal the
matter yeah proverbs chapter i'm not saying when things need to be said they need to be said but
i'm not i'm talking about just general things okay proverbs 25 verse 17 proverbs chapter 25
verse 17 the bible says withdraw thy foot from thy neighbor's house lest he be weary of thee
and so hate thee now this can be a problem too that you're always staying and i and look i'm not
talking about people that are weekend visitors sometimes or someone needs to stay at somebody's
house i'm not talking about that but people that will just plant roots you know like couch surfers
you know when i was you know younger there was people that would just sleep on other people's
couches and never go home it's just like what you know it's the person on the couch or whatever
and you know we don't want to i think the point of this verse is that if you spend too much time
around people then you're going to get too casual and then when you get too casual it bothers the
person whose house it is yeah so like maybe the first time you go over to someone's house
you know they offer you something to drink and then you've gone over there two or three times
and now you're just walking up to the refrigerator and looking what's in there that's being too
casual i mean but if someone says help yourself to the fridge help yourself to this i i don't
think that's wise to do that because you can't help but get mad when they eat your favorite food
or whatever it's like oh the captain crunch is gone again i hate this man or whatever
they drink the cream off the top of the milk and ain't my captain crunch it's just like you can
become too familiar with people you can become too casual with people when they're at your house
a lot and so that's why it's just wise to you know again maintain the mystique the first time
you go to someone's house you might ask where's the bathroom oh it's right down to the hall to
the left or whatever and then just it's just and i'm not saying this is rude but then you know the
third or fourth time you just go right to the bathroom without asking and and i don't think
that that's rude necessarily and especially you know if my kids come over they're just like in the
fridge looking through the cupboards you know whatever leaving the toilet seat up still or
whatever not jiggling the handle whatever it is i mean but those are our kids you know
but even this like remy slow down on my diet root beer buddy you've gone too far i hate you
no i'm just kidding i'm just joking feel like oh i was like what happened to all my root beer it's
gone but anyway but it's just a good principle to not get too casual even with your friends
even with your family and even with your church family so we love each other and you know the
best way to keep that keep that you know mystique going is that just don't get too casual and then
you won't have those problems right so because people get too casual like then they start
crossing lines of decency when they delve into your personal business or giving you health
advice that you didn't ask for giving you food advice that you didn't that you didn't ask for
i didn't ask you whether you like mcdonald's or not or whether you thought it was bad for you
and mcdonald's you know i'm not saying it's good for you and i don't i rarely eat there i promise
you that but what if i did eat mcdonald's once every once in a while it's like is that is that
really your business to tell me how bad it is for you it's not because you know the people there's
some people that that's their favorite food or whatever and obviously that's not healthy but
like if here's the principle you should take out of this is just don't tell people don't give
people advice that they didn't ask for if they say well what do you think about mcdonald's you know
you think it's good for you no it's like but but you're okay with chipotle you're okay with
all these other different fast food places right but it's just mcdonald's like they're the only
ones with the bad food right but mcdonald's you know they they had that super size me
uh documentary which i've been told that some of that's fake i don't know i don't really care but
people have a stigma against mcdonald's even when my mom was a little girl my grandpa told her that
they put cow eyes in the in the burgers and that one time he opened up a big mac and there was a
big cow eye in the middle of the patty of course he was just making it up but like i got told that
story from a child and i was like i'll have a happy meal please but all i'm saying is that
we can get too familiar and then we're like intruding upon people's personal business
into child rearing like you know well this is what i do with my kid and and whatever and it's hard
to not do that sometimes because you see people struggling maybe in child rearing
they're like well maybe you should try this but if you're going to give someone advice
i would say that you should probably ask that person if it's okay you know and and even then
it might it's a touchy subject so i don't run around telling people marriage or i don't give
people advice that they don't ask for i don't give them marriage advice i don't give them child
rearing advice i'll preach it from the pulpit but i'm not going to walk around to my church members
and say well maybe you should just do this that's not my business my business is to preach the word
of god and if they listen to the word of god and they receive the word of god then they're going
to change those things based upon what the bible says and if they don't do it it's not my job to
follow up with them yeah yeah so it goes for anybody in church you know when you're giving
people uh you know you're you're the md naturalist or whatever at the church and you know all the
remedies and stuff just be careful you know because what if that kid was allergic to that
thing and then you're like here's this oil this oil will will cure all your ailments or whatever
and then that kid gets sick because of it then you're the one that told them to do that you know
what i mean like i think we just gotta be careful doing stuff like that i don't want to kick that
dog too long because i know people get mad but it's just the truth so um and then you know your
personal convictions can can rub off onto other people and you're like well i personally would
never do this or it's like do you have a bible verse for that well as a matter of fact i do you
know it's just like but that's not your business it's just not your business to go around telling
other people how to live their lives it's too casual so let's look at second kings verse
chapter 20 verse 12 now in second kings chapter 20 verse 12 this is a really interesting story
but it shows someone that's being too casual with strangers you know when new people come to the
church or you meet new people you still should be not too casual with them now this is a leader
he's the king of israel or the king of judah and he has you know he hezekiah gets sick and then
he recovers from a sickness and someone heard that hezekiah was sick and you know it starts
off with good intentions but words would end up everybody being enslaved and taken to babylon
because he was too casual look at the story in chapter 20 verse 12 it says and at that time
barodak beladdin the son of beladdin king of babylon sent letters and a present unto hezekiah
for he had heard that hezekiah had been sick and hezekiah hearkened unto them and showed them all
the house of his precious things the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious ointment
house of his armor and all that was found in his treasures there was nothing in his house nor in
all his dominion that hezekiah showed them not is that what you do when you first meet someone or a
stranger comes to visit you or someone you don't know do you show them every treasure that you own
in your house brother shawn do you take brand new strangers right to your gun your your assault
weapon area do you show them all of your gun i mean you might but i would just say don't do that
because you know don't let them don't be too casual but anyway now everybody knows shawn has
gone i'm sorry brother shawn as if nobody knew that already though i'm sorry brother shawn
but anyway oh man i'm being too casual i'm sorry forgive me let me repent real quick i'll be ready
but uh but hezekiah shows him everything so all of his all his wealth basically and it's all in
his house and there was nothing that he didn't show him and then came isaiah the prophet unto
king hezekiah said unto him what said these men and from whence came they unto thee and hezekiah
said there come from a far country even from babylon and he said excuse me what have they
excuse me what have they seen in thine house and hezekiah answered all the things that are in my
house have they seen there is nothing among my treasure that i have not showed them he showed
him everything and so this you know god's showing him here through a prophet coming to him saying
you're making a bit you made a big mistake here buddy and isaiah said unto hezekiah hear the word
of the lord behold the days come that all that is in thine house and that which thy fathers have
laid up in store unto this day shall be carried into babylon nothing shall be left saith the lord
and of thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget shall they take away
and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of babylon and said then said hezekiah unto
isaiah good is the word of the lord which thou has spoken and he said is it not good if peace
and truth be in my days that's a really terrible way to look at things and he probably regrets
saying that he's in heaven he's like if he could talk to us right now he'd be like i regret that
you know but even a wise and godly king that did mighty works for the lord and was was a righteous
he's he's in heaven right now but he made a big mistake didn't he he was too casual with his
visitors and then because of him doing that babylon now knows everything that they have
the emissaries of that kingdom know that when they come and batter down the walls later on
all the riches and all the gold that they have everything that's in their house and isaiah said
there's gonna be nothing left so in leadership we have to be careful also you know those that
are leaders we have to be careful about telling everything you know telling everything about
everything we do and and just talking about other people's problems to other people in our church
and just stuff like that we got to be careful you know there's this thing called fraternization
and fraternization is when you know you are friends with the people that you're in leadership
over in the business world right and like at walmart they had a they had a policy about people
that were managers or supervisors that they had a no fraternization policy because what ends up
happening is you have your favorites that you give all and you can't when you have a favorite
you can't help sometimes but to give them better benefits than what other people are getting and so
as leaders we got to be careful not to obviously there's people you probably like better than other
people i understand that but when you show that favoritism to other people in the church
it's not good and so you know i i'm not saying i'm not friends with people in our church i think
i am friends with people in our church but they're also you know i don't want to be too casual either
and and some of these things just being a pastor i i know i've just come back to bite me in some ways
where i'm too casual with even people that work for me in the ministry and then those things you
know are blasted on the internet later or some variation of that story whether it be totally
true or not but i just learned being a pastor you just can't be too casual even with church members
that you love and know and and you think that they're your friends and then later on you find
out they're not so and you think about david and joab what did david do well he he's sending
letters of hey joab killed this guy he was too obviously that was a wicked sin but he was too
casual in letting him know things that he was doing that was wrong and then david was never
able to correct joab in his life because joab held something over his head for the rest of the time
that he was king and so then he's like solomon make sure this guy dies but he didn't do it himself
why didn't he do it himself because he knew the secret and so he was able to just act certain
ways toward david where he would have never allowed that to take place and so you don't want
to put yourself in a position where you're in a compromising position where someone's holding
something over your head because it's just not good so like these are things that we have to
think about and principles we have to get you know david never checked him because he felt like he
couldn't and so i don't ever want to get a position where i just don't feel like i can
correct someone because they have something on me or something like that so i would just say that
in all aspects of our life just don't show everybody everything you have don't tell everybody
all your secrets and don't show everybody all your wealth the first time they ever come over
your house well this is where i keep my jewelry and this is you know where my best ties are or
you know whatever here's where my gun here's my my wall my fake wall where i have all my guns or
whatever don't do that here's my safe here's the combo to my safe just in case i die i know you're
a stranger it's just like you're asking to get robbed i mean don't do that and i know that i
got to be done so i'm just going to skip some of this but um let's see i'm going to skip the
entertainment part but i think it is important that we're not too casual in our entertainment
but i'm going to skip that for sake of time but we don't want to be too casual with the things
that we allow in our house that set no wicked thing before your eyes and so on and so forth
because if you don't want to have you know you don't allow whoremongers and adulterers
and things like that in your house then why would you let them come through on the tv screen to your
kids so anyway that i'll have to preach about that later on maybe i'll finish this at a certain
another time in a different sermon but um when it comes to church turn to jeremiah chapter 6 verse
13 jeremiah chapter 6 verse 13
jeremiah chapter 6 verse 13 says for from the east of them unto the or from the least
excuse me of them unto the greatest every one is given to covetousness from the profiting
even unto the priest everyone dealeth falsely they have healed also the hurt of the daughter
of my people slightly saying peace peace when there is no peace were they ashamed
when they committed abomination nay they were not all at all ashamed neither could they blush
therefore they shall fall among them that fall at the time that i shall visit them they shall
be cast down saith the lord and so he's talking about people being you know just turning wicked
and becoming abominable in church and in church life it says in verse 16
thus saith the lord stand in the way and see and ask for the old pass where is the good way and
walk therein and you shall find rest your souls but they said we will not walk therein so you
know there is a danger with churches being too casual in the way that they stop following the
old pass they stop going with the good way they won't walk there and they refuse to do those
things and then god just kind of is like you know what i'm just done with this whole thing let me
restart let me hit the reset button and then jerusalem had to be reset right all the people
who were doing these types of things were were basically cut off and god got rid of them so
it's because you know he said he says also i set watchman over you verse 17 saying harken to the
sound of the trumpet but they said we will not harken see we got to start listening we got to
start listening we got to start applying things that we hear in church it says therefore hear
you nations and know o congregation what is among them hear o earth behold i will bring evil upon
this people even the fruit of their thoughts because they have not hearkened unto my words
nor to my law but rejected it and to what purpose cometh there to me incense from sheba and a sweet
came from a far country your burnt offerings are not acceptable nor your sacrifices sweet unto me
so this all are welcome kind of mentality that there is in churches is not is not good
because there's some people that aren't welcome right and so that's the problem with modern day
churches being too casual now you're just letting anybody in anybody that wants to come in they're
more than welcome all are welcome i mean when it's being said from independent fundamental
baptist churches that's when you know that the churches have become too casual
they don't kick people out anymore they don't exercise church discipline there's not you know
they let freaks and weirdos into their churches right so you know obviously the john getz story
isn't like a a new story that's been preached about before but here's the thing here's what
here's what john getz said and this is from the most influential baptist church in the whole
country arguably obviously a lot of ifb think that they're liberal but a lot of ifb in this area
and in in in oregon washington california but even all over the country they sell his books
in their churches and they go off of the things that paul chapel says but john getz works for
paul chapel and so paul chapel heard him preach this sermon he knew he was preaching this sermon
he didn't decry this sermon and say it was wrong so obviously he he was okay with it
this is how he feels too well here's what john getz said every human being regardless of their
ethnic background their education their financial status their religious beliefs and sexual
orientation deserves to be treated with respect and dignity let me say it again every person on
this planet regardless of their sexual identity orientation deserves respect and dignity now again
this is a baptist independent fundamental baptist saying this to a the church in lancaster there
and and and it's just so wicked that they would say that and and and they're not people aren't
even allowed to be upset about it because in their rules and regulations first they say you know
homosexuality is a sin and all this other stuff yeah like we didn't know that right but
here's some of the things that they say in the subcategories under that heading
it says all people are welcome all people are welcome to attend our regular worship services
for we believe that all people need and deserve to hear the truth of the gospel that sounds so
sweet doesn't it it sounds like they just love everybody right but unfortunately you know not
everybody should be in church you know if a drag queen walks into this service i expect the ushers
to make that person leave immediately they're not allowed there's no homos allowed in this church
period so and and here's the thing is that they actually expect these people to get saved
so what kind of gospel are they preaching like did they think that someone that's a homosexual
someone's a sodomite is actually going to get saved they're not going to get saved the bible
says that they're reprobates so you're what you're expecting them to follow the rules of normalcy in
a church setting and then so you're they're they're they're going to put these rules out
look what it says well you can't see it but anyway it says those who attend may not display
and promote behavior that demonstrates violations of the sinful behaviors listed in the section
in church services on the church grounds or at church functions so you think that they're just
going to come to church and not going to show what they do and behind closed doors that they
want to defile people's brains they want to defile children's brains they're going to come in and
they're going to do that you think that you're just nicely saying please don't kiss each other
at the church services they're not going to listen to that they're reprobates they're
they're sodomites they have no they have no restraining bolt on them anymore right
so look at again you can't see you can't look at it but church it says church
church representatives shall enforce the doctrinal position of the church
so people that aren't staff can't say anything this and why am i saying that because that's
what it says look or uh but shall not display over disrespect for those who condone or display
the sinful behaviors listed in this section so first they say those people aren't allowed to do
these sinful behaviors but even if they do you're not allowed to show disrespect towards them you're
not allowed to like give a dirty look like what are you doing you filthy homo why are you kissing
in front of my children like that why are you dressed like a drag queen you know i was just
talking to paul about this yesterday i said i never thought we'd get to the point where
you know transvestites are normal because even fags hate transvestites they're so weird and
they're all fags but you know what i'm saying like they they think it's weird they make fun of them
so even in the subculture of sodomites they make fun of them but now it's just like now it's all
good you know you got this weird teacher in canada wearing fake prosthetics in front of
children and then they see they snap a picture of him just recently and he's dressed normal out in
society it's like so what was the purpose of that guy dressing like that at school to pervert
children's minds when you allow them in the house oh lord that's exactly the thing that they're
going to do here too and here's a here's another thing for you if they're already past the point
of no return if they're already reprobates what do you think that they're gonna how are they
gonna get saved but you know this church here that lancaster baptist church and i asked paul
chapel to his face it wasn't just on his website or anything like that i tapped him on the shoulder
after i heard him preach and i asked him what do you believe about repentance and you know what he
said to me repentance is two sides of the same coin you have to repent of your sins and you have
to believe it's a simultaneous action that happens at the same time this is what they
say that's work salvation so why do they want the homos to come into their services because they
think that they're going to change them and then they could tell some cool sad story or whatever
about how some homos came and now they grew their hair out and now they're they married
men and or whatever and that that's just normal and that they really got saved like well they're
married now if they sound like a queer they talk like a queer they dress like a queer they wear
their hair like a queer they're queers and even if they grow their hair long if they're a butch
they're still queers you can't a leopard can't change its spots you know once they're a queer
they're always a queer and you're like well that's not true i know someone's cousin's uncle's
brother's nephew's sister's cousin that went to this church over in india that that person was
a homo and now they have a thriving family shut up with that garbage it's always somebody else
that they know it's like bigfoot we almost saw him you know i heard him like cracking branches
in the in the back i saw his footprints in the in the sand or whatever it's like come on that's
garbage i know someone personally that goes this is what people always say it's never that they
got someone saved because i'll tell you what i've been i've been giving the gospel to people since
2001 and i've given the gospel to people i knew were sodomites they have never gotten saved not
one time don't you think that out of all the times i preach the gospel to people even accidentally at
the door there were sodomites at least one of them would got saved they never do they never
have i used to think they could get saved but you know the bible and experience tells me that that's
not true so look we don't want to be casual and just let allowing anybody to come you know it
sounds good all people are welcome at our services but that's not true not all people are welcome at
our services as a matter of fact that there's people that if they're in church and they're
committing certain sins they're not welcome in our church either so you know people just want
to you know claim this high moral ground or whatever and act like we just hate people
well we do hate some people we sang the song it's chad's favorite song do not i hate them
oh lord that hate thee and what kind of person doesn't like god's word being sung
it says the pastor of the church will consistently preach against all forms of sinful behavior
as well as other sinful behaviors so they always have to throw a bone to you know well i know i
know this is bothering you but we're going to preach against other sinful behaviors too
right the bible says in deuteronomy 23 17 it says there shall no whore of the daughters be
no whore of the daughters of israel nor a sodomite of the sons of israel there's no sodomites in this
as the sons of israel thou shall not bring the higher of a whore the price of a dog into the
house of the lord thy god for any vow for even both of these are an abomination unto the lord
so if they're not supposed to come to the house of the lord then why would we let them in well
that's that's old testament pastor also now it's okay to let freaks in our church you know i had
this this i was talking to a pastor just recently and he's like you know jesus went to sodom and
gomorrah to give them grace before he burned it up and i was just thinking that didn't happen
okay he sent two angels into sodom to see whether the things that were happening were so
and he said see you know he still gave them a chance to be saved and i was like yeah but
here's the problem with that that theory law and his two daughters are the only ones that left
there alive okay so if they could get saved then why didn't any of them leave with lot out of all
those people if sodomites can really be saved don't you think one person from sodom and gomorrah
would have went out with a lot that just shows me that you know and and abraham's like you know
jew and god down or whatever he's just like i'm sorry that's this is joke but anyway
if there's 50 that are saved if there's 40 they're saved if there's 30 that are saved
if there's 20 they're saved if there's 10 that are saved and god's like yes i'll spare the city
for that many and then it gets down to 10 so what does that tell you none of them were saved
they were all sodomites none of them were saved so that theory that jesus came to preach grace
to sodom and gomorrah or whatever that didn't happen he went to abraham and you know the lord
appeared to abraham in the plains of mammary but the two angels and then god rained fire and
brimstone down on that place because you know all these sodomites got you know destroyed because
there was not 10 righteous people in the city so this should establish us as not being too casual
with these people and allowing just anybody to come to our services it's not happening not on
my watch it'll be over my dead body and they're like yeah we're fine with that yeah i know you
are that's why you're always sending me death threats and stuff i understand you're you know
why would i expect filthy dogs to act any different way it's like you know if we had
dogs in our services right if we just and i'm talking about real dogs like the the dog kind
of creature do you think that they would follow the rules that we set in place for them in the
church services do you think they would they'd be jumping on people's legs and you know trying to
eat people's food out of their hands and just that that's how dogs are you know the dog kind
is like man's best friend or whatever but they are kind of you know disgusting sometimes they
eat crayons and it comes out of their dung and you know they just don't eat anything
you know brother robert showed me this meme yesterday where it's like Hulk Hogan going like
this you know his neck muscles are popping out he's like every time i tell my dog don't go to
the bathroom right here don't go to the bathroom right here and it's like the dog just like
instantly just does that anyway you're like trying to drag him away from the yard like
that's the neighbor's yard or i didn't want to clean that up or you know my point is is that
when the bible compares them to dogs because they act like a dog would all the filthy things that
they do that so you're not gonna be able to train a dog to sit in the services now i'm people are
gonna be like what about the cni dogs and stuff i'm not talking about that just talking about
your normal household pets but even cni dogs and and service animals will still get out of line
sometimes in services or whatever i've seen that happen and they're having to get onto them or
whatever but my point is you know we've become too casual in our society and we need to rein in
our casualness and realize that it's a danger to be too casual in any area of your life and it can
bleed into other parts of your life and then even into the church and don't be too casual with god
he's not daddy oh daddy or whatever or he's not the man upstairs he's the lord your god he's
the lord god of israel and he demands to be respected he he wants to be worshipped in spirit
and in truth and we worship him it's not like you're just having a casual conversation
with some friend of yours so address him the right way walk me i mean when he appeared to moses he's
like take your shoes off when he appeared to joshua is take your shoes off you're on holy
graham when you meet with god it's a holy thing that's happening and you know i believe that
people are too casual with god they're just acting like he's the genie that's going to get him
all their three wishes or whatever for the day and you know they address him flippantly i don't
think we should do that that's what the atheists do they call them sky daddy and all this other
stuff we ought not to be disrespectful when it comes to the things of the lord and so everything
should go out of the house of god and we should be setting the standards in society the way we
dress the way we talk the way we act all these different things and we should our church should
be not casual and i'm not saying not friendly not fun i'm not saying that i'm saying not too casual
so and i believe you put these principles in place in your life then it's not going to bleed
into your church life it's not going to bleed into your life at work or at home or whatever so let's
pray heavenly father we thank you lord so much for this wonderful day we pray that you just bless
everything that happens from here on out pray bless the food that we're going to eat
and the soul warning as we go out and preach your word just say we pray amen
all right if you want to take your hymnals we're going to turn to page number 39
it's page number 39 how beautiful heaven must be
page number 39
how beautiful heaven must be
all right we'll sing it out on the first
it's made for the pure and the free
these truths in god's word he has given how beautiful heaven must be
how beautiful heaven must be sweet home of the happy and free
me
no wish or elsewhere to be
god's light is forever there shining how beautiful heaven must be
how beautiful heaven must be
sweet home of the happy and free
fair haven of rest for the weary
how beautiful heaven must be
pure waters of life there are flowing
and all of the drink make me free
where jewels of splendor are glowing
how beautiful heaven must be
sweet home of the happy and free
fair haven of rest for the weary
how beautiful heaven must be
the angels so sweetly are singing
up there by that beautiful sea
sweet chords where your arms are ringing
how beautiful heaven must be
sweet home of the happy and free
fair haven of rest for the weary
how beautiful heaven must be