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393 on the 2nd
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Song number 393
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Did we in our own strength confide
Our striving would be losing
We're not the right man on our side
The man of God's own choosing
Does ask who that may be
Christ Jesus it is He
The Lord said they ought his name
From age to age the same
And he must win the battle
Brother Jesse, right?
Mikey!
Brother Mikey
I love to tell the story
What was the number 4?
435
I don't know where Jesse came from
445 as I said 435
435 hold on
Now I'm having technical difficulties
435 on the first
That was it
Yeah that's good
Alright 435 let's sing that together on the first
I love to tell the story
Of unseen things above
Of Jesus and his glory
Of Jesus and his love
I love to tell the story
Because I know it is true
It satisfies my longings
As nothing else can do
I love to tell the story
Which will be my theme in glory
To tell the old old story
Of Jesus and his love
Brother Eli
490
Who is on the Lord's side?
Song 490 let's sing it together on the first
Who is on the Lord's side
Who will serve the king
Who will be his helpers
Others lives to bring
Who will leave the world side
Who will face the foe
Who is on the Lord's side
Who for him will go
By thy calling
By thy call of mercy
By thy grace divine
We are on the Lord's side
Savior we are thine
Brother Ramon
311
Just a closer walk with these
I am weak
But thou art strong
Jesus keep me from all wrong
I'll be satisfied
As long as I walk
Let me walk close to thee
Just a closer walk with these
Just a closer walk with thee
Granted Jesus is my plea
Daily walking
Close to thee
Let it declare Lord let it be
Last one, who do we got?
504
When the battle's over
When the battle's over I think CJ had you ask that
Song 504 when the battle's over let's sing it on the first
Am I a soldier of
the cross, a fuller of the land
And shall I fear to
own his cause or blush to speak
his name And when the battle's
over we shall wear a crown, yes we shall wear
a crown, yes we shall wear a crown
And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown
In the new Jerusalem
Wear a crown, wear a crown
Wear a bright and shining crown
And when the battle's over
We shall wear a crown in the new Jerusalem
Alright good evening everybody, welcome back to the Sherrard Foundation Baptist Church
Some of you never left, alright
I'm going to go through some announcements really quickly, if you need a bulletin would you just lift up your hand
and one of the ushers will bring you a bulletin, going once, going twice, and
moving on. On our front cover we have our verse of the week, it says
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. 1 Timothy chapter 4 verse 12, great verse there
Our service times are 10 30 am for our preaching service on Sunday morning
Sunday evening is 3 30 pm, we're going to be in Exodus chapter number 8
And we're going to finish that chapter off, and Thursday evening Bible study
is at 6 30
Let's see, we are in the book of Hebrews right now
Sowing times, our list of below, we did have sowing today, did anybody have a salvation?
You had one? Alright and then I think Dr. Drew got one?
So that makes two, alright great job everybody
And I know that the first store I knocked
I took Micah out for the first time, sowing him
And the very first store was a transvestite that was freaking out and screaming
at me, so that was really interesting, you know
He got a welcome to the NFL, sowing style
And then he got to watch me tell off a couple Mormons
that were infringing upon our territory, so
I don't think he was expecting me to be mean to them, but
I was, so, but you know I mean it was kind of
pleasant at first, but then they just, they were just kind of like circling around us
like the vultures that they are, trying to get somebody to talk to them
And I just basically told them a bunch of stuff, I'm not going to get into that right now
But praise God we got to have two people get saved, so
Amen to that, but I was going to say that Dr. Drew was preaching the gospel
And then that freak came back out and started screaming at him while he was preaching the gospel
And I think, wasn't he explaining what a reprobate was at that point or something?
I don't know how that got brought up? Oh, the person at the door asked
about the reprobate doctrine, and basically he said, that's one
right there, because they
came out and were just giving him the business or whatever, cussing him out
So anyway, there was never
a dull moment in soul winning, so praise the Lord for the two people who got saved
Below there, you can see all the praise report
And I want to tell you guys that Sturt Foundation Baptist in England
celebrated their two year anniversary, and so
they've been around for two years already, I mean things are going fast
Anyway, so speaking of that, we have the four year anniversary of Spokane
coming up, March 17th through 19th
But I did want to mention the sewing class on the 21st, the 7th and 8th is the
6th gen youth rally at Verity Baptist Church, and then March 11th is the
usher and stewardship training, that's going to be at 10am to 12pm here at the church building
That's a Saturday, if you're an out of towner and you want to participate
or just see me and I'll try to make it easy
for you to be here on Friday night or
put you up in a hotel or something on Saturday, so anyway, if you just need help with that
just let me know, I'd be happy to help, I do want to have as many
guys able to usher and do some things like that
in our church, so I appreciate anybody coming out to volunteer for that
and for your trouble, I'm going to feed you lunch
Anyway, I might let you guys vote on what you want, but
normally voting is not a thing that we do here, but food
usually I'll make an exception in some cases, so
Anyway, so Pastor Brzezinski will be preaching for us March 17th, that's a Friday night
in Spokane, at our new building, and then we'll have a soul winning
time on Saturday, if there's a blizzard, it probably won't be a marathon
but if it is a blizzard, it'll probably be like a two hour or two and a half hour
you know, I say blizzard, that's extreme, but like if it's really cold and snowy
outside, which it has been in the past, so
but I try to bump it up a week and make it, maybe we'll get a little more spring-like weather
it'll be nice, the last time we did that, we had like a lot of people saved
in the area that we were at, and it was a really successful soul winning marathon
so last year, I want to say we had like 28 salvations for the whole weekend
or something, it was really fruitful, but the new area that they're in is a lot more
receptive to the gospel, so they're getting a lot more people saved
nowadays, so anyway, I just wanted to mention that, if you're wanting to go to that
you're more than welcome, and then all the other stuff is kind of
a ways out, but I just want you to kind of take note of the soul winning stuff that we got
coming up, and the Lord's Supper, and all that stuff, so
all the other stuff y'all were here for before, so I'm just going to move on with the service
and we're going to sing another song, and we'll
receive the offering afterwards
Alright, our next song will be
song number 38, Doxology
Song number 38, Doxology
Song number 38
Song number 38, we'll repeat it twice
let's sing it out there on the only verse
Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise Him all creatures
here below
Praise Him above ye heavenly
hosts Praise Father
Son and Holy Ghost
Praise God from whom all
blessings flow
Praise Him all creatures here below
Praise Him above
ye heavenly hosts
Praise Father Son and
Holy Ghost
Amen, good to see you, brother Ramon will you bless the offering for us?
Thank you for the opportunity to get back
and hear the word praise for us, thank you for your few salvations today
Lord we just pray you bless the students tonight
Thank you
piano
Exodus chapter 8
Verse 1 in Exodus 8 reads
And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord,
Let my people go, that they may serve me. And if thou refuse to let them go,
behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.
And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up, and come
into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed,
and into the house of thy servants, and upon
thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thine eating troughs.
And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and into
thy servants. And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth
thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds,
and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up,
and covered the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their
enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the Lord, and
that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people.
And I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the Lord.
And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me, when shall I entreat for thee,
and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee
and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only?
And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word, that thou mayest
know that there is none like unto the Lord our God.
And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants,
and from thy people, they shall remain in the river only.
And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried unto the Lord,
because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh. And the Lord did
according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses,
out of the villages, and out of the fields. And they gathered them together
upon heaps, and the land stank. But when Pharaoh saw that there
was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them,
as the Lord had said. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land,
that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
And they did so, for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust
of the earth. And it became lice in man and in beast, all the dust of the land
became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so
with their enchantments, to bring forth lice, but they could not. And there were lice
upon men, and upon beasts. Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh,
This is the finger of God. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he
hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had said. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh. Lo, he cometh forth
to the water, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will
send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people,
and into thy houses, and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of
swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon
they are. And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen,
in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there.
To the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord
in the midst of the earth. And I will put a division between my people and thy people.
Tomorrow shall this sign be. And the Lord did so,
and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants'
houses, and into all the land of Egypt. The land was
corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.
And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye sacrifice to your
God in the land. And Moses said, It is not meat so to do,
for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God.
Lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes,
and will they not stone us? We will go three days' journey into the wilderness,
and sacrifice to the Lord our God, and he shall command us,
as he shall command us. And Pharaoh said,
I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness,
only ye shall not go very far away, and treat for me.
And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat the Lord
that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants,
and from his people tomorrow. But let not Pharaoh deal
deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.
And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the Lord. And the Lord did
according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh
from his servants, and from his people there remained not one.
And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.
Brother Steve, will you pray for us?
The Lord God, thank you so much for the opportunity to come back to your house and worship, Lord.
Amen. Well, it's been a long time since we've been in, or I was going to say Genesis, Exodus,
chapter 8, and the last time we were here, I didn't get a chance to
finish off the sermon, so we're going to just go with one of the plagues here.
Obviously, there's ten plagues in Egypt, and we're
here on number four tonight. He read the context
of every time basically God plagues him with something else,
then Moses entreats the Lord to have it stop. Pharaoh
says he's going to do one thing, and then does another. He promises one thing.
Then he lies and draws back. And it's no different
starting off in verse 20, where the Bible says,
and also the ground whereon they are.
So even like the other plagues that have been thus far, the
plague of lice, I mean, nobody wants lice. Obviously,
that's just something that nobody wants to have to deal with. Very bad plague.
But even the frogs, like, I didn't realize how affected
some of these kids might be to think about these plagues of frogs in your house.
And it's one thing to see a cute frog and catch him out in nature or whatever, and
it's like, oh, he's so cool or whatever. But when you have him all over you, in
your bed, jumping on your face,
dying. I mean, if there's so many frogs all over the place,
you're stepping on them, killing them.
They're really loud, too, when they all start chirping together or
whatever at the same time. It can be deafening.
So we have these bad plagues come up, but now this one
I feel like might be the worst one so far.
Because I hate flies with a passion, and I think everybody
probably does to a certain extent. We don't really have to deal with it as much
here as in other places, but, you know, like in Florida
where they're like this big or something. Can I get away?
Everything, you know, they say everything's bigger in Texas, but all the bugs are bigger
in Florida, trust me. Like, they got some freaky bugs, but
flies aren't just the common house fly that you would think of either.
Flies can be, you know, I think that basically, and we'll
get into this a little bit later in the sermon, but it's not just one type of
fly. It's not just the house fly, because a house fly doesn't generally bite
or anything like that. They're just annoying, and they land on you, and they land on your
food, and you watch them putting their little nasty little tongue on the food.
It's really disgusting. You're like, I don't want to eat that now. But, anyway, it's had
barbecue outside or been to a picnic. You know, it's not just flies
that come, then the yellow jackets come, and they're obviously bees, but they
still have wings, so they fly. But, and I hate both
equally. So, actually, I hate bees more because they can sting you. But horses,
I mean, horses, flies, horse flies can bite.
And some flies have a really nasty bite, and it hurts.
And even those little, we do have those little gnats here that, like, are almost invisible
to the eye. You know what I'm talking about? They're like predator gnats or something.
Like, you can see them, but it's like, it looks like light. You know, like, you're
kind of looking through them or whatever, but they bite you. And it's really
annoying, and so this is what's been unleashed upon Egypt now.
It says swarms of flies in their houses. Swarms of flies
all over the place. And flies, what do they do? They lay
eggs in things, and then those eggs hatch into maggots.
And those maggots eat
whatever they're, they eat the dead bodies, the dead
animals, the dead, or the garbage that you throw out. And anybody
that's ever been in, like, a hot summer and, like, you threw away some
stuff and didn't think, well, hey, I got a whole week until the garbage is going to get dumped
again. And then you look, and there's just, like, maggots, like, all over the bottom of the,
I'm trying to gross you out right now, I'm sorry. But it is,
it's a horrible plague, so I mean, I just want you to understand the gravity
of this plague, it's not just not a big deal, it's a huge deal. And if you
have things that are biting you, too, on top of it, like, it must have been
a very grievous plague. But it says in verse
22, it says, and I will sever in that day
the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms
of flies shall be there. So this is the first time you
have this taking place in the scripture where the plagues are happening
but then it mentions that where the people, where the children of Israel live,
remember they, when they first came over with Jacob, they gave them the land of Goshen, which
is their own place to keep their cattle and all that kind of stuff.
And so that's kind of where they settled, is in this land called Goshen,
and it says, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies
be there. So God is able, even through plagues
and wrath and all these types of things, He's able to keep His people
from these things. And so, like, even in, like,
the wrath of what people would call the tribulation, but it's actually just in the book of Revelation,
where you have these scorpions that have the hair of
a woman and whatever, all this different stuff, well, they
attack the unsaved people that have taken the mark of the beast, but they
leave the other people alone, right? They leave saved people alone, they leave the
144,000 alone, and the people that are sealed in their foreheads,
and so it's kind of like they got that Goshen mark on them, where the scorpions
don't touch them. And so, it's a horrific plague
that takes place in the book of Revelation, but just know this, that God can
keep us and protect us in any kind
of problem that's going on in this world. So,
it says, He doesn't want, so no swarms of flies will be there,
verse 22, to the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord
in the midst of the earth. So, one of the main points
of God doing this great work is that people would know
that He is God. And so, later on,
you'll see the fear of the children of Israel is placed
upon the surrounding nations, and they already know who
they are. They already know who the God of Israel is because they watched
the God of Israel or heard of the fame of the God of Israel
as He just destroyed the land of Egypt. And later on,
you'll see Pharaoh say, you know, one of the people say to him,
like, don't you see that Egypt is destroyed? Like, what's wrong with you?
But if you think about this, that's kind of what the Antichrist is going to be doing
too, because he's going to be ruling for 42 months, and he's going to have these
kings that reign with him, and what's going to be going on is the earth is
being destroyed at the same time as he's in power.
And so it's kind of like you see the same type of thing, it's like
he's ruling in a place where God is destroying and putting
His judgment upon the earth. But God is able to do
many mighty and amazing things, including keeping His own
people separated between the wicked world
that we live in and His people.
So, look at verse 23, it says,
So, God wants us to be divided from the world.
This is something that is taught, and modern day Christianity
scoffs at this, they don't like this teaching,
but even right here from this verse, you can see that God wants there to be a division.
That's why in Genesis chapter 1, He divided the light from the darkness,
those are pictures for us that we're not supposed to walk with
the children of darkness, we're supposed to be children of the day.
And we're not supposed to be just hanging out
and doing the things that the world does, and being wicked,
God wants us to be separate from the world.
So, and again, Egypt, I've said this over and over again, but Egypt does picture
the world, and so whenever he's
saying a division between my people and thy people, he's talking about
the children of Israel who picture saved Christians, because again,
not all the children of Israel were saved, were they?
But they all went through and they were called Israel, they were called my people,
because He called them out by His name, He said you're going to be a nation,
He promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob these things, but
just like back then they're not all saved, they're definitely not all saved now,
the ones that would call themselves Jews after the flesh,
they are not saved. And even like
the old IFB disagrees with us on the doctrine of Israel,
a lot of things, but here's what they will agree with us,
most of them, if they're not John Hagee, they're going to agree
that if you don't believe in Jesus, you're not going to heaven.
And so really a lot of the things that they argue with us about are semantics,
because they ultimately believe and so shall all Israel be saved,
but when do they think that that's going to happen? They think that's going to happen
when Jesus comes back and they're going to look on Him who they pierced and they're going to go
it really was Jesus, we're all going to get saved right now.
But that's just not the way it's going to happen because a wicked and evil
generation seeketh after a sign, why is God going to say hey, you've got to believe
in me, you've got to believe in my word, and then all of a sudden it's just going to be like a
sight thing for them? I don't think so.
But this is something that independent Baptist
we believe differently on, we believe that the church
has replaced and has become the spiritual
nation of Israel, and
only people that are saved are part of that nation. So it is a spiritual
nation, so whereas in the Old Testament the nation of Israel
not everybody was saved, but they were called the people of God and there was a lot of
people that were saved, but now that spiritual
nation requirement for being part of that nation is that you are saved.
That is a requirement. So the New Testament is different.
But now do I think that people, the Israel
the Israelites of the flesh can get saved? Absolutely I do. And we get accused
of hating Jews and that's just not true, we don't hate Jews.
We obviously understand that they have a different father than we do
and religiously they are holding to things
like the Talmud and they say they believe
in the books of Moses, but Jesus said if you don't believe
Moses how are you going to believe, or yeah if you don't believe in Moses how are you going to
believe in me for he wrote of me. So
but this doctrine of separation is something that God
shows us over and over again in the Bible. Turn over to 2 Corinthians chapter
6 verse number 14. 2 Corinthians chapter
6 verse number 14 and
this is a tough doctrine for especially new Christians
because sometimes
separation happens immediately with certain people, family members
friends, you know you are excited because you got saved but then
they are like hey I am excited for you too, I am so glad you are turning your life around but then
they see you going to church, they see you reading the Bible, they see you
going soul winning, they see you are plugged in, now you are three
to thrive, now the Bible is important to you, raising your kids the right way is important
to you, they see those things and they want to sever themselves away from you.
See that division is a natural division that takes place but sometimes
it takes place with us kicking and screaming.
We don't want that division to take place, we love our mothers, we love our fathers,
we love our grandparents, we love our cousins, we love our friends that we grew up with or
whatever but because of Christ all men will hate us.
It's just a fact and you are like
well I didn't sign up for being hated.
Well you know Jesus was hated and the servant
is not better than his Lord, he is not greater than his Lord, if they
persecuted him they are going to persecute us, if they called him Beelzebub
then they are going to call us worse things.
So let's look at 2nd Corinthians chapter 6 verse 14, the Bible says
be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers,
that means hooked up together, best friends or business
partnerships or whatever, it says for what fellowship hath righteousness
with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light
with darkness? See he is talking about divisions, natural
divisions, what righteousness, unrighteousness, those are two completely separate things.
Light, darkness, that's a division.
And what concord hath Christ with
Belial and Belial is like the New Testament transliteration
or whatever of, well I mean in the Old Testament it was called Belial
but it's Belial, the name is Belial,
Belialzebub or whatever you want to call them and so
this is the devil, what concord hath Christ
with the devil? They have nothing in common, the devil is
wicked and evil, they are not brothers by the way and
that's what the Mormon church would teach but Jesus just had
a better plan and then the devil became the devil and so on and so forth but
that's not what we believe, Christ is God, he's the Lord from heaven
and Belial is just some angel that wanted
God's job and he fell because of that.
And it says what part hath he that believeth
with an infidel? And an infidel you probably think of like
Muslims where they are like infidel and blah blah blah blah blah and then they are chopping people
up or whatever but infidel just means someone that is an unbeliever, that's what
it means. So what part hath he that believeth
with an infidel? And what agreement
hath the temple of God with idols? You know obviously if I had
a bunch of idols in here then that would be pretty weird and so
isn't it weird when the Catholics they could read something like that and they are like
what do you mean? What idols? And they are just like what graven images are you talking about?
They are just like all over the church, Jesus is on
a pole that they walk up in front of the congregation still hanging
on the cross, he's not still hanging on the cross folks.
So it says for ye are the temple
of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them
and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be
my people wherefore come out from among them.
Wouldn't that be separation? Wouldn't that be dividing away from them?
All these different things, come out from among them
and be separate saith the Lord and touch
not the unclean thing. So we are talking about
borders and crossing lines this morning, you know remember they
weren't supposed to touch the mount? Touch not the unclean thing.
That's what the Bible is saying here, stay away from that garbage, stay away from that stuff
and I will receive you and will be a father unto you and you shall be my sons
and daughters saith the Lord Almighty. You are like well is that
saying that you are losing your salvation? No it is just saying that God is going to
treat you like the son that you are but sometimes people
don't get this type of stuff and they still try to stay yoked up with the world.
They still try to stay best friends with their friend that is an atheist or whatever
and it just is not going to work. God is saying get away from all that stuff
and look I am not saying don't love your family anymore. People always
take this to like weird extremes. If your parents are like not saying
well I don't want anything to do with you, obviously you should still be in their life
to what you can be. But obviously if they are inviting you
to the family functions and everybody is wasted
and your children are having to walk around and see everybody drinking alcohol
and smoking pot or whatever people do at family functions these days
I mean I had some pretty dysfunctional family get together so I don't know what yours
were like but it got to the point where we just had to say look we can't come.
Well why not? And they get all offended. Why not?
It is like I don't want my kids around that.
Or some people were like they don't let their kids watch television and then
what is on the whole time you are at somebody's house? The television.
If you don't let your kids watch television. So it is like it becomes a real
struggle. It becomes very painful and
if you are going to walk with Christ you have got to live a separate life
or it is going to be kind of a miserable life.
So again I am not saying just ditch everybody. Say I am a Christian now
I don't have time for you. But the division takes place upon
what has it given us? Righteousness, unrighteousness.
Light, darkness. Christ, Belial.
I mean obviously your Satan loving aunt or whatever that has crystals
and says that she is a white witch or whatever. I mean what do you have to do with that?
You know they are taking part in something that is whether they believe
it or not is satanic. I don't care if it is wiccan or whatever other kind
of white witch they want to say that they are. All witches
are supposed to be put in ditches. Anyway
I am not saying that you should do that again. I always have to
caveat stuff like that because I don't believe that we should be
taking the law into our own hands obviously. But anyway so
look at Amos chapter 3 verse 3. Amos chapter 3
verse 3. And I would say even if it is someone that
professes Christianity
sometimes hanging out with someone that
professes Christianity or maybe they are actually saved but they are on a
different path than you are. They are more free in Christ bro than you
are. You know they think it is ok to drink. They think it is
ok to do all these different things that you would not want to be around.
You know and the thing is if you already had a problem with alcohol in your past
and you are going around to every family get together and everybody
is sauced and everybody is offering you a beer. Oh come on Jesus wouldn't be mad if you just
had one beer. Come on. You know you have been through that before. Somebody
in here has been through that before. Am I the only one?
Jesus wouldn't care. Come on.
That is the kind of pressure that you get. But if it is a fellow
believer look what it says in Amos 3.3 and obviously this is not necessarily the context of the
passage but it is still true none the less. Can two walk together
except they be agreed. So
how far are you going to take your separation to Pastor Thompson? Well if we
can't agree on things then I can't walk with
you. That is it. Well I am a Christian too.
Yeah but you are sitting there believing all this weird junk.
How can I walk together with you in unity when you are so far off
the path. When you don't even care what the Bible says
and you are going to just take some weird YouTube preacher
and that is who you are following who teaches the Nephilim doctrine or something.
It is like we just have to separate from things.
God said I am going to put a division between my people
and thy people. And see it is God that wants the division.
In 2 Corinthians 6 who was asking for us to make the division?
Was it the Apostle Paul? Well the Apostle Paul was writing
that but who is he speaking in the name of?
He is speaking in the name of Jesus. The Holy Spirit is inspiring his
scriptures that he is writing there and how are we supposed to
walk together unless we agree with another Christian.
My test for fellowship with other pastors I don't care if
they don't believe that the rapture. I don't care if we don't agree on the rapture.
I don't care if we don't agree 100% on Israel.
Those are secondary doctrines. I mean I obviously think they are wrong
but there is a lot of little nuances too that
I would disagree on with my fellow independent New IFB
Baptist pastors. Just little things. Nothing big. But salvation
by faith alone. King James only.
Salvation. Let's see. Eternal security of the believer.
You know and I know we don't say this a lot but
what kind of music you listen to does factor into it.
Because I think that if there was some guy that was like he is the next
New IFB pastor or whatever and then he is having a rock concert
every time in his church that probably would be a problem for me.
I would separate over that. You are like that is just wrong. What does it say
to separate over that? Hymns, songs, spiritual songs.
It doesn't say conform our
music to the world's music. We are supposed to conform our music standards
to God's standards. So
let's move on here. Verse number 24
and back in our text here. Separation is an important thing.
Some people are going to learn those lessons the hard way.
Some people are going to learn those lessons when people just
they are going to separate themselves from your company. That is what the Bible says.
You don't even really have to do it sometimes. There are people I have been friends with
and they were okay with me and then now they just never talk to me. It is like okay
well it is fine. I mean I am still living a great
life and I don't want to have to worry about pleasing a bunch of
people that don't believe the same thing as me anyway. If you want to separate from me
that is on you but I am going to do what the Bible says.
Anyway Exodus 8.24 and I just want to note
this also that when I was talking about Belial
Baal or Beelzebub, Baal just means Lord
but the Beelzebub is
the translation of that would be like the Lord of the Flies or whatever.
So I think it is very interesting though beings how
God is unleashing this plague of flies and remember I said that
God is judging the small g
demon gods or whatever of Egypt because they believe in all these false gods
right? I just think it is really interesting that Beelzebub
means Lord of the Flies but who is the
real Lord of the Flies? It is God, the real God.
And you are like well that is kind of weird for you to say that. Well didn't he make them?
Who is sending them to torment people?
It is not Beelzebub. It is the Lord, the real Lord
of the Flies. He is the one that is actually using the thing that they
worship or some god that they believe in and he is using
what they believe in and torturing them with it. He is
punishing them with the things that they are worshiping and
the road to reprobation is just worshiping
animals, changing the creature and making them
your god. You know and people do it now. You are like where?
People worship dogs. They do.
They worship, people, I mean Miss Sheila has been just pissing some people
off with her pit bull doctrine.
And Steve is her cheerleader over there. No I am just kidding.
He is like yeah go Sheila go.
She is like I have lost all these friends from these pit bull posts or whatever and I
go on and troll her of course because I am her pastor I can do that but
I was like what about this pit bull that saves someone from drowning?
It is like this picture of this smiling pit bull or whatever. But pit bulls
are the reprobates of the dog community. Most people know that.
And I have had pit bulls that didn't attack people or whatever. I had a pit bull that
was kind of left in my care. But when the grandkids
started coming around I just, I was glad to see him go honestly.
But he never saved somebody
from drowning and killed them or anything like that but he was actually
pretty nice. But the exception proves the rule. And the fact
is that those dogs can snap at any time. But anyway I don't want to preach about pit bulls but
I just think it is funny that people worship dogs so much that they are going to
jump on Ms. Sheila who is a Christian and they are supposedly saying their fellow Christians are like
I am tired of you railing against these pit bulls. It is like
they are dogs. I mean show me
a positive mention about dogs in the Bible. There is not very many of them.
You know a dead or a live dog is better than a
what is it a live dog is better than a dead lion or whatever?
I mean there is a positive mention I guess.
I like dogs personally like the pets.
But do I care about them more than I care about everything else?
Just saying that people have started to worship animals.
They worship their cats. I mean there are crazy cat ladies for a reason.
It is like meow meow.
Get these cats away from me.
I like cats but they are just not loyal. That is my problem with them.
They always run off and it seems like every time I get one
they run off and all you have to do to win them over and steal them away
from their owner is put out a bowl of food that they like better than yours.
And then they are like see ya. They do a little flip off with their paw
and then they are like gone. Then you got to watch them over there
carousing with some other neighbor just because they left a saucer of milk out there
or something. They are disloyal.
At least a dog. Everybody in the family can be mad at you but when you get home
the dog is going to jump on you and lick you or whatever or try to.
They are loyal. They are a lot more loyal than cats.
I don't know how I got off on this but let's look at verse 24.
And the Lord did so. And there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house
of Pharaoh and into his servants houses and into
all the land of Egypt. The land was corrupted by
reason of the swarm of flies. So yeah when you get
all these swarms of flies you might not think that flies
have a destructive power but it corrupted everything.
And why? Well remember I told you they get on things
they lay eggs but it wasn't just one type of
fly. It's multiple types of flies and I
would venture to say it possibly could be flies,
gnats, flying beetles, kind of any creature
that flies really. And I will tell you why I think
that here in a minute but they had some god that they believed in
and I don't even know if I can pronounce that. Capri or something
like that? Capira? Something like that.
But anyway it represents the rising morning sun
by extension. It can represent creation and the renewal
of life. Flies and beetles actually
come from filth. It was like some scarab face god basically
this is where the god that I believe God was judging
them. So anyway it's a scarab face god in ancient Egyptian
religion. So they think that it represents
the rising morning sun and all this and that.
And then creation and renewal of life. Well there's only one
creator that's god. And there's only one that can renew people's life
that's god. So they had this scarab faced
god that was probably half human and half beetle or something I don't know. I didn't really look at the pictures
of it but flies and beetles actually come from filth and death
though. Like they're really born most of the time or
you know mosquitoes are born in pond scum or whatever but they don't really
have like a really great beginning. And they
eat their fill and then they turn into a fly and then they live for a few days and then they die.
It's kind of like how their life is. But
you know I think God is just reminding them
of you know what flies really do. What do they really
accomplish? Why is he allowing them to be destroyed
by this because he wants to remind them where flies come from.
And how annoying they can be. They're more
annoying or disgusting than you know just
landing on you. They are you know maggots are disgusting. I'll throw
up if I see maggots. Like I can't even look at them. My puke reaction
is just instantaneous. I don't know why I just cannot handle
seeing maggots. It's disgusting. Who's seen maggots before?
Who's disgusted by them? And can I get an amen?
Alright. I know that scene. You're weak. They're gross.
Okay. I just loogies. Green loogies.
Lice.
There's lots of different kinds of bugs. There's just
stuff that grosses me out and my puke reflex goes instantaneously.
Smells. There's certain kinds of smells that just
I'm done. You know. I will throw up instantly.
I mean I worked in a truck driver guard shack for about seven years.
And some of those truck drivers didn't take baths.
Okay. And when some of them would walk in
the waft of not showering for a month
hit me and I would just instantly run to the back
and throw up. There was only a couple that I actually puked
on but one like I just it wasn't just the smell it was the fact
that he was wearing shorts and he had like bloody like
lesions on his legs and like toilet paper was stuck to him and stuff
and then that was all it took man I was just like
he's like what's wrong with that guy?
They're just dying laughing at me but I'm
sorry it just all three images and smell hit me at the same
time and I was done. Anyway.
My grandpa said when he went to Australia
there were certain parts where they had to wear these
like nettings over their face because it's so dry
in certain parts of Australia that flies
when they land on you they go right for your eyes
or any place where they can get any kind of moisture at all.
So they go right for your eyes they try to go up your nose
they'll go anywhere where there's you know liquid
and I don't even know if I'd want to go there
if I have to wear like a net to enjoy the place
where you're just like seeing through this netting or whatever no thanks
but you know if I had flies just constantly trying to get
into my eyes you ever seen like those places you know it'll show like animals
and flies are just constantly buzzing around them all the time and then you know the
animals are doing this with their tails trying to get them away from there and
you know it's gross flies are disgusting creatures they go for the
grossest thing or they'll try to go you know I mean just for your eyes
ugh no thanks. But what types of flies were these well
the Psalms say that they were a diverse kind of flies look at Psalm chapter 78
verse 45 Psalm chapter 78 verse 45
while you're turning there I'm going to read for you in Psalm chapter 105 verse 31
the Bible says he spake and there came diverse sorts
of flies so what does that mean it means there's a lot of different types
of flies right and lice in all
their coast I had you turn to Psalm 78 verse 45 it says
he sent diverse sorts of flies among
them which devoured them and frogs which destroyed
them so a couple different accounts in the Psalms about the flies and it's
not just one type of house fly I could probably deal with that to a certain
extent but when it's biting gnats
biting flies beetles you know those big
they're not June bugs but they're sometimes
here and when it's really warm it's been a warm summer these green beetles
and they're kind of you know they're pretty big and they fly
have you ever seen them they're disgusting but
I think people call them stink bugs I don't know I don't know if they're really stink bugs
or not but I just I'm glad we don't have a lot of poison insects here
I don't think we have really any so that's nice our insect
level here is very small there's a reason why I live here
folks I was about to move to Florida one time until I saw a wasp
that long in the bathroom and I was like uh uh it's like this ain't Jurassic Park
I'm going home but
anyway but I mean why do I believe
there's different flies well the Bible says there was so I think I've pretty
much gotten it across that I hate flies but a horse
fly has caused me to blaspheme when I was younger
and before I was saved you know my wife had family members that were Baptist
and I remember we went to a camp out and
you know we're boyfriend and girlfriend or whether or not I was just trying to make a good impression on the family
you know which was a total failure but you know
we're all hanging out there was just enough breakfast to cook for every
single person every single person got one plate that's all they had enough for
this is it this is all you get and
so I have this plate of food I just get it and this horse fly
just starts trying to attack me
I don't know it wanted me it didn't want my food it wanted me and like I'd already
gotten bit by one before and I mean obviously I'm way bigger
than them I could kill them easily but when you have a plate of food in your hand what are you going to do?
Like I didn't have any place to set it down you know and I'm not making an excuse for myself
but I did say I blasphemed
the name of the Lord and then my food went
flying so I got instantly punished for that I should have been put to death
but God spared me and allowed me to get saved later
but I'm afraid of horse flies and
if they even come close to landing on me I'm running alright
I'm swinging and hitting stuff so if you ever see me doing that I'm not having like a
seizure or something I'm just like actually trying to fight off some kind of insect
bees I've kind of gotten to the point
where I realize if you just sit still they won't land on you and sting you
but sometimes they do anyway so I'm still like
there's like Vancouver Lake Park or whatever if you go down there
and try to have a picnic or something you can't bring a piece of chicken out without
like 15 bees swarming around you so it's like you're trying to bite
it and you're just like getting yellow jackets off of you
or something that's why I just don't like having picnics
not where there's lots of bees better get some bee spray or something
but anyway I'm done telling you about my phobias and my
faults here let's move on to verse 25 it says
and Pharaoh called for Moses and for
Aaron and said go ye sacrifice to your God in
the land so here Pharaoh's like alright alright alright
this time I'm just going to let you do it but you got to sacrifice in the
land but didn't he just get done saying
that I'm going to separate you my people from your
people but then Pharaoh's like okay well let me just compromise with
you and you can sacrifice to your God but just in the land
Moses said it is not meat so to do for
we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord
our God lo we shall shall we sacrifice
the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes and will they not stone us
and this is an interesting verse but
Moses is basically saying that they're
not going to understand the ways that we're doing things they're not going to understand why we're doing
things it's an abomination to them just like it's an abomination
to the world the preaching that comes out of this pulpit it's an
abomination to the world the fact that we go and knock on people's doors
the first thing out of that freaks mouth today was
how do you have the audacity to come
and knock on my door and ask me for money?
I'm like I didn't ask you for any money I just invited you to church
and that was apparently that was a mistake but I mean
then this freak just starts to curse me out it's an abomination the things that we do and not
everybody acts like that but it's still the way we
do things is an abomination to them to the world they don't understand
it that's why they always try to say well Christians wouldn't act like
this Christians shouldn't do this but it's really funny to me when the Christians
you know some atheist blog will say something
and then it'll be like one of our preaching clips or something
look what this hate preacher said and then
like other do-gooder Christians will get on there and be like we don't
believe that we don't do this we don't do that those people aren't real Christians
and then they'll just the atheists will get on there and they'll say
well doesn't your book say this though?
So they look like scum they look
like phonies it's like why don't you just jump in
with us and do what the Bible says and
you know and just believe what the Bible says and quit cow-towing to all these people
that hate your God and don't like you anyway
you think you're going to win them over with your little phony I don't
we don't really believe that the Bible says it as clear as day
and like one of these people were like they're backing up everything they say
with what your book says what now and they're just like
you know people just make excuses they want to be
halfway in and halfway out they want to be part of the world and part
of Christianity and what happens is that both sides don't like you
so anyway
the things of God belong to the people of God our customs
and our beliefs are strange and abominable to them as
their ways are to us right we want to be
different we want to do what God says that's why we don't play
crap crock or other worldly styles of music
to drawing crowds that music is an abomination to
God and it should be to us also and
you know I know that the temptation to go back to some of the old music sometimes
is really difficult because music is a very powerful instrument in our lives
and you grew up listening to these songs and you know some of these
worldly songs sound good and they make you reminisce on things but what's it making you
reminisce about what you used to do
why do you want to go down that path it does make you
nostalgic that's why they have classic rock and
rock for your certain era or rap for your certain area now
it's just like I don't even understand what rap music is anymore
they used to have different styles and now they're all just
what is that
anyway rap is bad back when I was a kid but now it's even
worse now it's just they all try to sound the same and it just all sucks so
not that I listen to it but I just you know you can't help but
hear things when you're out in the world or whatever but what I
mean by crap I mean that's Christian rap what I mean by crock
that's Christian rock and they're both crap and crocks
so anyway the music is an abomination to
God now I get a lot of flack over teaching
stuff like this but let me just tell you something right now we're not supposed to
pattern our stuff after the world you're like well your hymns
were the popular tunes of the day or whatever how do you know that
because you read it on the internet because you want to separate from hymns songs and spiritual
songs so you just want to make our music corrupt too you want to make our
music an abomination our music that we play in here is spiritual
music it teaches doctrine and yeah not every
hymn is good and not every person that wrote that hymn was good but you
know there's a music and a melody that we play singing
and making melody in our hearts to the Lord we're not here to have
a rock concert drums I mean show me in the Psalms
where it says to play drums thou shall play
drums thou shall play on the drummed instruments where does it
say that it says stringed instruments that's a stringed instrument
you see the strings right there you can see them and yeah it's on a
this stop
percussion instruments they'll say well cymbals are drums
the high sounding cymbals that's the drums in the Bible is that a bass drum
no and look I'm not saying that drums are evil
incarnate in their self but look at what drums are used for
to make a beat why do they have drum circles where people do acid and
LSD and mescaline and they all just stand around
some fire and you know go into their demonic trances or whatever together
that's not what Christians do but yeah they'll
still pattern their music after the world and
I've heard about this Ashberry
revival that's going on or Asbury or whatever it's some revival
going on in Kentucky where they've had a worship service going on for the last two
weeks it's kind of hitting the big news even CNN and the mainstream
so called media is reporting on it and I was
kind of reading up a little bit about it I'm not like an expert on the situation but
I don't think it's an independent Baptist you know college
that it's happening at and I just want to read a little expert
excerpt on some of the things that are going on
see I think that when this church got started
when other churches like it got started and there was a revival
of soul winning because there's a dearth in the land when it comes to soul winning
there's a dearth in the land when it comes to preaching the word of God
and I think that churches like this and friends of ours
we have filled a gap that is sorely needed in this country
you know what we don't need we don't need us to be
swinging and swaying and carrying the TV
and washing the windows and all that other stuff
I'm not saying that's even wrong to do that but
people act like they're being so spiritual because they put their satellite
dishes up and a lot of times like in a Baptist church if you have some
Pentecostal leaning person have you ever been in a church where it's like they'll just like
stick one hand out so nobody can see it
I'm not joking it happens but anyway it says
I just wanted to get to this one part
I don't have time to read the whole article but it says
it began
February 8th as a normal church service according to
Asbury college students and leaders
a gospel choir sang at the end of the service and some students stuck around
afterwards it's called fellowship the nascent gathering
got attention on social media with content about the meeting
racking up millions of views as the day passed videos on
TikTok and Instagram show people swaying to worship music
weeping and repenting of their sins and encouraging
the testimonies of their fellow attendees it didn't say it like sparked
from some soul winning you know massive
outreach program it was a bunch of beatniks
with guitars you know singing
all breathy and being all queer like and soft
with their songs nothing that's probably any good at all
how's that a revival folks it's just it's not a
revival it's they're trying to be like the revival of the 1800s
the great Welsh revival and all these things and I would say
that those probably were fake too those were fake
you know and then they're like oh these great revivals that happen it's only
a revival if it's getting people charged up to serve God
in the way that he wants to be served it's not the way that they
want to do it look we're going to serve God the way the Bible says to do it
and swinging and swaying
and constant worship that's not
revival that's them sitting there doing nothing
you want to worship me worship me in spirit and in truth
it's not just a rock concert because I've been asked about this
and so I want to kind of chime in about it but to me
it's not revival you're like well you're just hating because
they had two weeks of worship I'd be bored not because
I don't want to worship the Lord I'd just be bored with that situation there's more
to Christianity than singing songs that's the whole
package turn to let's see let's look at Exodus 8
27 it says we will go three days journey into the wilderness
and sacrifice to the Lord our God as he shall
command us see Pharaoh was like hey why don't you just stay in the
land and you can sacrifice if you want and Moses is
like we're going to sacrifice to the Lord we're going to go three days
journey like I already said and we're going to sacrifice
to the Lord our God as he shall command us
it's not how Pharaoh wants to command us it's not how
the government wants to tell us how to worship oh you can't be here you can't
preach that you can't sing that song no you don't have the
right to tell us how to worship our God you don't have the right to tell us
where we can worship our God we're going to worship our God the way
he says to do it and that's what Moses is saying we're going to do it how he
commanded us to do it the government does not have they
want to talk about separation between church and state but how come they're always shutting down our channels
how come they're always trying to stop us from going forward what is this little church
here this little church in a little big strip mall area
why are you so afraid why are you so afraid of steadfast Baptist
church why are you so afraid of faithful word why are you so afraid of these churches
if we're not doing anything it's because we are doing something and
we're doing something that they don't like and
who cares separation between church and state
we'll use it too leave us alone why do you care what I'm preaching
if it's nobody's listening to it then why do you care so much
you're just you're not allowed to do that you worship
the Lord here the way we tell you to no we're going to go three days journey we're going to do what the
Lord says so
now I will say this in times past governments
have shut down Christians governments have killed Christians government have shut
down Christians it's been going on since Christianity was
since Abel Cain killed Abel
first prophet first false prophet it began
at the beginning the fight the struggle the
violence and the violence take it by force
so now we do have the right
to serve God however we want but reality versus what the Bible
says sometimes doesn't really work out does it but we still have
to serve God the way he says regardless of what the government is doing
or saying to us because Moses didn't back down did he
he just said we're going to keep doing it we're going to do what we want
and then you know he basically just said
well then yeah you can do that and then he lies again
so civil disobedience in such cases
is right and needed if the government says you got to stop preaching
you can't preach anymore I'll be like no I'll preach
if I want I'm going to preach what the Bible says and
you know you can't say these words anymore yes I can
and I will you can't go to these apartment
complexes anymore I can and I will
and you know what if you try to stop me I'm just going to do it anyway and then what
are you going to take me to jail he's guilty
of trying to go win somebody to Christ you know these people
are so that guy was so mad that I knocked on his door and it's just like
you know a guy is a loose term okay he's so mad
but don't they accuse us of not being loving all the time
so what other Baptist in this city knocked on some tranny's
door and tried to give him the gospel even though like I was like ah
but which other one came to their door today
but then instantly were met with hate
which way do you want it are we supposed to love you or are we supposed to
hate you well I'll just stick with the hate how about that
but I'm just making the point that nobody else
was out there doing that and you know why we do that because the Bible says we're supposed to
do we're supposed to go out and knock each door so
FYI though folks our belief isn't what
is always reality we have to be able to operate within the
systems that we're in and I'm not saying compromise I'm just saying
they could just say hey by the way if you don't take the mark of the beast we're going to kill you
oh wait that's going to happen right
so don't be surprised when you know the Bible says
do this do that do this and then we're just met with heavy resistance
it's going to happen so but you know the government
I'm not saying the government can't or won't stop us with violence because they absolutely
will at some point right now we're not doing that but it's coming
it's coming so let me read verse
27 again it says we will go three days
journey into the wilderness and sacrifice the Lord our God
as he shall command us so it's not
again how we want to sacrifice and worship him
but how he dictates to us how he wants
to be worshiped and sacrificed to
this is another problem with Christianity today is that they want to tell everybody
well this is what my God says this is what I believe about my God
my God would never do that it's because your God is not real
he's a figment of your imagination and so the God of the Bible
has some different beliefs than you do and you know
maybe you're just really not a Christian because you just don't want to follow along with what God says to do
that's the thing you might not agree with it
but it's his world it's his you know we're his
children and he's going to dictate to us how we're going to do things
your children shouldn't be dictating to you how you do things
I don't dictate to God as his son
what he's supposed to do this is how you're supposed to believe
I mean Abraham was very ginger when he was like shall not the whole
God of the earth do right can I just say
one more thing he's just like will you destroy the righteous with the wicked
you know but Abraham's asking a question because he's like well
is God unrighteous but he was very careful and delicate
the way he said it and God you know loved Abraham and he you know
but sometimes we question things in the Bible we question well what does this really mean or
why is he saying it like this or why is he so mean and he's not
mean he's holy he's just he's right our mind
has to match what God says
and we got to conform to his thoughts his processes his
word he doesn't have to conform to us well God I thought
this was all about love you have a
skewed view of Christianity
and you know I mean out in the battlefield today I get the
first door battlefield and then the Mormons come
and they're just like intentionally trying to
antagonize us with their kindness they're so nice
oh hey how's it going brother get on my face I said this is
our territory you sons of Belial
but you know I mean I'm with a new soul winner so I'm being a little nicer than I normally
would be but I didn't want to be nice at all
I wasn't nice really just like you're preaching a false gospel
you know do you believe in Kolob
you know because I'm trying to show him like these people seem nice they look
nice they have the Baptist haircut they're dressed like a Baptist they look
they're polite but inside they're ravening
wolves and if we don't see them for you know
we shouldn't look on the outward appearance of them and go oh they're so
I was like you know moving people's stuff into their house and doing good
deeds and all that stuff you're just trying to cover up for the fact that you're teaching
a workspace salvation I was like how do you even know
you're saved he goes I don't even know what that means I was like exactly
it's exactly what I said you don't even
know how to be saved because you're not saved you're going around trying to bring people with your
false gospel they look nice they act nice but they're not nice
and so you know what they were like okay we'll see you later
god bless I was like god curse I was like I hope god curses
you and destroys you with your false gospel
they're sending people to hell folks they're the worst scum on the face of the earth
19 years old not even married scum
yeah I mean reprobate they're coming
and preaching false gospels they were there visiting someone who they already converted
I mean it seems mean
I know but that's because it is
it is mean but should I be nice to them?
so that they could just go and you know mess around with somebody else
for a while it's like I got dorsinok buddy just get out of here
they make me mad anyway did I seem like I was mad there?
alright so anyway let's move on to
more crazy stuff here alright
listen I don't have time to get into all this but
and I'm going to preach a whole section on this
but I do want to kind of go to just one quick part of Exodus chapter 32
before we end
and obviously I mean I could have gone to John chapter 4
to talk about how you know Jesus told the woman that was the Samaritan
woman she was like we say we're supposed to worship this way
you know and you guys think you have to worship a Jerusalem and Jesus corrects her and he just says
you know the day is coming where we're not going to worship at any
either place but they worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth so it doesn't matter whether
they're saying this is a revival over in this place in Kentucky or whatever
we have to worship him in spirit and in truth
the way he wants it's not up to us to dictate how that works
that's not revival folks don't believe it for one second if CNN's
reporting on it and making a big deal out of it it's garbage
okay guaranteed they don't preach
salvation by faith alone and eternal security I don't even know I'm just going to
just I'm not even there yet I have judged already
if it's popular in
the culture that we live in today then it's not right
someone challenge me on it
then I'm going to eat crow if it's true but you know sometimes I'm wrong
but anyway let's look at Exodus chapter 32
so Moses is handed
God writes with his own finger on the ten commandments
Moses and Joshua are walking down the mount they're like yeah
it's going to be great whatever I'm getting the ten commandments right so
the story earlier they weren't supposed to touch the mount all that stuff now Moses
coming back down and the people corrupted themselves very quickly
and when you're not following
God you're going to get into the wrong types of things but
let's look at Exodus chapter 32 verse 17 it says
and when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted he said into Moses
there's a noise of war in the camp
so when Joshua hears what's going on down there what does he think is
happening he thinks it's a war it sounds like you know
some kind of Slayer concert going on or something down there it's some
kind of you know cannibal corpse or some kind of
heavy metal rock band going on
you know something like that but it says
in verse 18 and he said it is not the voice of them that shout for mastery
neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome
but the noise of them that sing do I hear so
Joshua's like you know he doesn't say I hear singing
this is great worship music yeah let's do this for two weeks
straight it's not like that at all is it they're doing something wrong
but they're singing so does it matter what kind of music you
sing or does it not it matters of course it matters
and it says verse 18 or excuse
me in verse 19 and it came to pass as soon as he came
nigh into the camp that he saw the calf so
you know and then and the dancing the calf and
and the dancing and Moses is like here I
am to worship here I is that what he does
no it's like the kill bill music it's like
he's upset
he saw the calf they heard the singing
they saw the calf they heard that they saw the dancing and Moses
anger waxed hot Moses
had a temper and it says and he and he cast the tables out of his hands
and break them beneath the mount God's autographed
first edition ten commandments
you know he's just
like he's fired up he's it says he waxed hot
and so obviously what happens after here you know obviously
challenges are in and all this stuff I don't have time to get into that when we get to that chapter
in the Bible we'll go over it but I'm just saying that just because you
think it's worshiping the Lord doesn't mean that it really is
it's God's standard that we have to have
why was Moses mad is dancing wrong
in itself it's not wrong because the Bible talks about dancing
but what type of dancing was it
well it says that they were naked
that's the other thing Aaron made them naked to their shame
and I don't know what that exactly means because naked could be from the
loins to the thighs or topless or whatever but
I don't know I don't think they were completely naked I hope that that's not the case but
it was really wicked what was going on they made them gods
that they they were like these are our gods oh Israel
they made golden calves Aaron's like hey I got all their earrings off
and I threw them in the fire and poof this calf came out
I mean worst excuse in the Bible ever
but you know the point is is that
Pharaoh wanted Moses to do the
the king the government wanted Moses
and the children of Israel to worship according to their will
but see we're supposed to worship according to God's will
so verse 28 in our text it says
and Pharaoh said I will let you go that you
may sacrifice the Lord your God in the wilderness
only you shall not go very far away
so now he's compromising again entreat for me again
he's telling them how to practice their faith
and Moses said behold I go out from thee and I will entreat the Lord
that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh from his servants and from
his people tomorrow so they still have to deal with it for the rest of the night so Moses
is like alright you want to compromise well here's my compromise it's not happening today it's
happening tomorrow but let Pharaoh not deal deceitfully anymore
in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord and Moses went out
from Pharaoh and entreated the Lord and the Lord did according to the word of Moses
and he removed the swarm of flies from Pharaoh from his servants
and from his people and there remained not one
and just let me say this when God does something he does it all the way
he does what he says he's going to do not halfway done
but then it says and Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also
neither would he let the people go and are you
surprised at this point that he wouldn't let the people go
it's not a big surprise and God always says
does what he says he's going to do but reprobate trash
always lie and go back on their words and obviously
Romans 1 explains to us
that they're filled with all unrighteousness I don't have time to turn there but they're filled
with all unrighteousness they're haters of God they're covenant breakers Pharaoh's
a reprobate he hardened his heart God hardened his heart he hardened
his own heart so just in summary and to end this sermon
God is the Lord of everything including the Lord of the flies
he's the Lord of all nature he made it all he controls
it all he can send the lions he can send the lightnings
he can send the wind storms he can send the whirlwinds you know everything
is subject to the voice of God except for us it seems like
but you know when we start when people start worshipping
the creature and the creation instead of the creator
God is going to judge that situation and it doesn't matter
whether it's the world or not he's still going to judge the world the Bible says
he's going to judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he have
ordained that's the Lord Jesus Christ and we must remember that God
dictates how we're supposed to serve him how we're supposed to worship
him where we're supposed to worship him in what manner we're supposed
to worship him and it's not what some you know okies out in
Kentucky say it is what they're non-denom
you know it even said didn't it say swinging and swaying
that's what the article said so that's probably what they're doing if you go if you watch a
TikTok video of it or something which I don't recommend because it's Chinese spyware but if you watch
a video about it then you're probably going to see exactly what
I explained exactly what I explained
so we must worship him and serve him in spirit and in truth let's pray
Lord we thank you so much God for the Bible and Lord that
we can be instructed by it I pray you'd help us to be a people that's separated
unto you Lord and I know that we're still working on things in our lives and
Lord there's many flaws that we have and Lord none of us have it all
figured out none of us is perfect but Lord I pray you'd help us
to just get things right in our life that might be wrong
Lord I pray that you'd help us to be separate when it calls for it and
just pray that you'd help us to realize that it's
your word that dictates how we do things including everything in our
church all the music we listen to and any
programming that we watch I pray Lord you'd help us to be a church that's separated
and loves you and Lord that people would see revival when they
actually come to our church and see it for their own selves
we pray, Amen
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Nothing but the blood of Jesus
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
How precious is the floor
That makes me white as snow
No other fount I know
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
For my part in this I see
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
For my clean slate this might be
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
How precious is the floor
That makes me white as snow
No other fount I know
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
Nothing can force an atone
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
Not of good that I have done
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
How precious is the floor
That makes me white as snow
No other fount I know
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
This is all my hope and peace
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
This is all my righteousness
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
How precious is the floor
That makes me white as snow
No other fount I know
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
How precious is the floor
That makes me white as snow
No other fount I know
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
How precious is the floor
That makes me white as snow
No other fount I know
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
How precious is the floor
That makes me white as snow