Then right
Well, the thing that kind of gets me out of a food coma is preaching two hour-long sermons, so I just wanted to
Prepare you for that. No, I'm just kidding. It won't be two hours, but maybe an hour and a half
Hour and 45 minutes or so. I'm kidding. So I've been preaching and
I've been preaching some sermons about honey badger Baptist and this is my third and final
Sermon about it, but in Chicago, I preached one at an old IFB Church. Were you guys there when I preach that sermon?
Okay, so I kind of preached my old IFB version of it and really didn't have a lot of time to prepare about it
but
Who's listen to any of those sermons anybody? Okay a few people so
and basically what I've done is
Compared honey badgers the animal the honey badger to how some characteristics that Baptist
Should have and specifically John the Baptist here has a lot of the same qualities is he
He seems to like honey and eating weird foods and that's what honey badgers like to eat some pretty weird foods
They like cobras and you know, honey, and you know all kinds of insects and rodents
They'll eat anything basically now and we ate all kinds of things today
But they were nothing like that kind of weird stuff
but but Baptist like to eat honey badgers like to eat so, you know, you see the correlation there, but
So last week I preached and the things that I didn't really get there was a lot of things that I thought of I thought man
That would have been good, too
So I kind of preached a a 2.0 version new IFB cut and this is going to be the 3.0
version the final cut so
And I just kind of want to quickly recap if you'd never listen to sermons, you know
I would encourage you to maybe go back and listen to him. You're like, what are you talking about Pastor Thompson? Well
You know a honey badger is like a small ferocious little badger who knows what they are at least
Who doesn't know what they are? You're like, I'm totally clueless. Okay, so everybody pretty much knows what they are. They're little tiny
Badgers about this long pretty much 11 to 20 pounds
They're the size of a small dog, but they take on lions and hyenas and they're pretty ferocious little creatures
They're pretty much loners like John the Baptist was alone in the wilderness
Crete, you know and then he came out of the wilderness preaching and he was a hard preacher
So he was kind of ferocious in his preaching. Well, just like a honey badgers ferocious against other
Animals that are his enemy when he when he's preaching in this chapter
He said who hath warned thee to flee from the wrath to come and so he's ripping face on these false prophets the
Pharisees that come out to kind of challenge and like what authority do you have to come preach these things John?
It's like God's the one that gave me the authority to preach those things
So just a recap on what I've already preached about this
One point I preached is honey badgers are little in stature and few in number which is a true story and and true
Christians are few in number. Also. Jesus says there's few that be saved, right? So in reality
There's a lot of people that call themselves Christians, but in reality out of all the groups that say they're Christians
There's few that are actually saved people right and Jesus
makes that clear so and there's also
and also in the Bible you see a lot where God does a lot of
great amounts of works with a small amount of people like Gideon's 300 and
You know two lepers basically go and spoil the whole camp of the Assyrians
basically after God just completely decimates them all and really the children of Israel didn't have to do anything and
David kills Goliath very small
Stripling defeats a mighty giant who's a man of war from his youth
And so God had there's a lot of lessons in that Paul the Apostle his name is, you know
He started calling himself Paul, but Paul and Paul means little so his name was Saul
But he started calling himself Paul because he was little in his own sight later on
Saul in the Old Testament was little in his own sight but head and shoulders above the people
But then he got too big for his britches right later on so interesting little concepts there and then
honey badgers take on kill and eat poisonous snakes and so I kind of illustrated that and
They don't they they eat all kinds of things but they really have their diet is
Poisonous snakes black mambas cobras. They'll hunt them. They'll kill them and
You know like Baptist we like to eat something take a bite of something and take a power nap
And then finish eating it later on. No, I'm just kidding. But
Like brother Rob, you know during this is during the break here
now with a coat like there's a video where a cobra actually bites a honey badger and
Poisons it and it all it does is go to sleep for a little while rolls over
It's on his on his back and just lays there and then it wakes up and finishes eating the cobra. So they're pretty
pretty skilled at
Defeating their enemies and they're fearless. They're fearless is one of my points
From the previous sermon the Bible says to fear not 62 times being unafraid 26 times
God doesn't teach us to be fearful. The honey badgers are fearless
So as Christians we should also be fearless and the only person we should fear is God and honey badgers are fierce again
talking about
my kind of my point on that is that
They're fierce in the way that they stand up for the things of God stand up for the Bible and
the preaching should be fierce at times so and
focused on the honey is
was one of my points and let's look down at verse number four and
The thing about honey is that honey badgers will go after the honey no matter how many bees are trying to sting it. So
They have this really thick hide that it says and I'll get into that my next point though
But they're really they have really thick hide and so bee stings actually don't hurt. So we had some bees
attacking the children out here a little while ago and we had some kids crying we had some adults crying and
My brother Chris is tending to his boo-boos over there
He's got some kind of he's got some kind of healing crystals on there
No, he's got he's got some kind of plants herbs on there. No, I mean bee stings hurt
If I would have they would have been attacking me you would have seen a big tall white boy running for his life
from those bees but
But they don't so and I kind of just apply this to
Look at verse number four says of the same
John had his raiment of camel's hair and a leather and girdle about his loins and his meat was locust and wild honey
So locust were something that was allowed in the Old Testament
If you look at the dietary laws and restrictions locust were okay for them to eat
Those locusts only eat plants. So that was kind of one of those things
But I mean, I don't know very many people that eat locusts. So not necessarily on my diet. Not one of my choices
but the honey is something that is
Particularly good and I think a lot of Christians enjoy honey, but what does that picture?
well
it pictures God's Word in a lot of different verses of the Bible and I my point on that is just
That we should seek God's Word like a honey badger seeks honey
and the Bible really alludes to us having this desire for the honey of God's Word and
to get that precious Word of God every day and
You know, we should also if you know if a honey badger will go and get stung a thousand times to get some
Honey, we don't have to go very hard to find the honey of God's Word though
Do we have the King James Bible just at any place in our room?
It's it's completely in print for us to use
We don't have to worry and hide under a blanket with a flashlight to read it
We have you know
we are so spoiled with the Bible that we don't we don't realize that people had to only just have one page and then
Try to memorize that page and pass it on to somebody else
There's times in history where people didn't even have Bible in their own language
Or the people were burned at the stake for even just memorizing the Lord's Prayer and how much more should we
Go after God's Word and if and you know, we don't have to be stung by bees in order to raise God
We're God's Word. So we should strive to go after the Word of God the honey
That represents God's Word. So
numbers so number six on my list of how honey badgers are like
Baptists or Christians is that honey badgers have thick skin and thrive in harsh environments
They have thick skin and thrive in harsh environments
So the honey badger has exceptionally thick skin
In fact thicker than almost any other animal apart from elephants rhinos and giraffes
Would you have thought that I mean?
Probably not if you look at them
You can't really just see that by looking at them, but their skin is at least six millimeters thick now to me
I don't understand what that means because I don't use the metric system, but
What quarter-inch? Okay. Is that six millimeters a quarter-inch? See they just just like that. I mean they got it, right but
That might as well be Chinese to me. So but I
Mean on a tape measure. I might be able to see that but so it says which
To put into perspective is thicker than a buffalo
An animal which is 50 times its size. So and a buffalo has thick hide
So it's 50 times this you know as thick as a note as any other
So it's just 50 times the size of itself a buffalo. It's it's that thick of skin. So
And my point about this is honey badgers, you know
They've been found in these different areas that are harsh environments
And so one of those places is in sub-saharan Africa, which is probably where you've seen most of the videos of them
But Saudi Arabia is also one of those other places. So
Where did Moses and the children of Israel go?
During when they were given the law of God. Does anybody know so yeah Saudi or
Yeah, this so but that's Saudi Arabia
Sinai is in Arabia. The Bible says that in the book of Galatians, right?
So there were honey badgers that lived in Saudi Arabia at that time
but you know, what's funny is that the modern versions will say that
that's a mistake in the King James when it says that the
Tabernacle is made by badger skins. Who's seen that in the Bible before that these badger skins, okay?
but I'll get to that but
They say it's a mistake and that it should be say porpoise skins
dolphin skins
Manatee skins all these different versions. If you just look in your phone right now just look at the different versions
like if you look at you know, those sites that like Bible hub or something just look at
Exodus chapter 26 verse 14 and see what all the different versions say and you'll just have a pretty good laugh about that
But in Matthew chapter 3 verse 1 it says in those days came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of
Judea in verse 4 again, it says and the same John had his raiment of
Camels hair and a leather and girdle about his loins
So the guy's wearing animal skins himself as he comes out of the wilderness
So what does that tell you that it's important to have the proper?
Amount of clothing on or the right kind of clothing to live in the wilderness, right?
And a honey badger God gave him that natural ability
to have this thick skin to live in an environment as harsh as
Saudi Arabia or Africa or places like that?
So he's got the camel's hair and what do you know about camels?
They can walk in deserts for miles and miles and miles without a lot of water, right?
So they have those humps that store the the water in there and they don't have to drink much water
but John is
Representative of the fact that he's living in a harsh environment
With his camel's hair and this leather and girdle. What's a leather and girdle? Well, it's a leather belt
What is leather made out of?
Animal skin, right and it says it's about his loins. So what does that mean? John's
Using that to hold something up
What do men wear?
That they would need a belt to hold something up with what is it they wear anybody know?
Wake up people. Come on. What do they wear?
Yeah
So is he is he using it to wear to hold up his dress that he wears and the flannel graphs in Sunday school
But they show absolutely not even wear a dress
Come off it. I mean people that think that are just ridiculous. Oh, oh you think you wore pants though?
Yeah, I do think you wore pants. I think men have been wearing pants for thousands of years. I
Mean, I just ridiculous that people would think well John's wearing
Accessory just for his dress or something because I know women do that
They wear dresses and they have an accessory belt or whatever, but that's just a style
They don't need it to hold anything up. Do they I
mean do they
But men do need a belt to hold up their pants
That's why the Bible says to gird up your loins like a man
Why would a man need to gird up his loins because men wear pants, right? That's what it says
so
It says and his meat was locust and wild honey, so
Baptists are not afraid to preach in harsh environments
Maybe where they're not wanted or maybe just in a harsh crowd in harsh weather in harsh
Conditions or preach harsh sermons and John was not afraid to do those things either
He preached against the people that were so quote unquote in charge that at that time and people were probably like I
Can't believe he just said that to those people that came the Pharisees. What is what is John doing?
Is he trying to be trying to ruin his ministry right now by preaching against the Pharisees of the Sadducees
But you know what? He didn't care because he's preaching what the Word of God says
He's like you think you're children of Abraham. You're not children of Abraham. I can make of these stones children of Abraham
And so because that's what they he says think not to say within yourselves because he probably knew what they were thinking
We're children of Abraham. We're saved already. That's the same lie that they're still saying today, isn't it? It's the same stuff
They're still spouting today. It's the same stuff that independent Baptists have fallen into the trap of saying today to
2,000 years later. We're still having to say here the same old crap from these guys and it's just not true
They see God still he could raise up a bunch of white people to be children of Abraham, too
And a bunch of Chinese people and a bunch of Filipino people to be children of Abraham, too
It's not about a bloodline. It's not about what color your skin is
It's the fact that you are saved that makes you a son or daughter of Abraham. So and
so we can't
Be just whining when we get
Reproved or rebuked in sermons and
Baptists are known for preaching hellfire and damnation style preaching and
People have you ever heard people say that well
What kind of sermons does your church teach or preach about is it hellfire and damnation style preaching?
Yeah, it is
Yeah, I mean it's like we might as well just tell them now because when they get it come and get offended
They're just gonna leave and not come back anyway. So what's the point? Just tell them what we're about
It's like not every sermons hellfire and damnation preaching
but what they mean by that is
Preaching where the preaching gets excited or you start rebuking sin
Or you start rebuking ideas that are wicked and wrong or the things in this world that are wicked and vile and reprobate
And and people don't like that
People just like to hear their TED talk their 20-minute TED talk and feel good about themselves and go home and feel
You know, I just love God and God loves me and he's never mad at me for any reason not true
He can get upset with us and you know, sometimes
preachers got to get up and reprove and
rebuke and
Especially, you know, we should just not be offended when we have it coming
You know the people just love hard preaching until it roosts on their front porch
Until the chickens come home to risk and they're like, you know
I can't believe he preached about that or I can't believe he preached against my sins
Like so at some point if the preaching never preaches against your sin, then the preacher is doing something wrong
Because we all have sin
we all have sin that we have to deal with and you know what the preaching of God's Word is gonna is gonna
Pull that out of you and you know, you think well he must know somebody must have said something
No
the Word of God just
It just has a way of just slicing through your heart soul and the joints and the marrow and all that stuff
And it's a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. So when the Word of God gets preached
Sometimes, you know your little feelings get chopped in half
But you know don't get mad at the preacher
Don't get mad at the Word of God and don't get mad because somebody preached against your sin or said something you didn't like
Why don't you just get mad at yourself because you need to fix something and just get it, right?
Instead of complaining about stuff instead of whining about stuff. Just fix it because that's what God wants you to do
We should not and so what am I talking about here?
Well, we should have thick skin like a honey badger does and not be offended about every little thing
you know, we're supposed to be as men we're supposed to be manly and tough and
Strong and courageous and not worrying about all these little things and then you preach one thing
That's one of the guys don't like it. There's like
They melt like a little snowflake
Isn't there a place called snowflake here
Maybe you need to move the snowflake or something because you can't handle God's were being preached
We shouldn't be easily offended little snowflakes
That's where the term comes from because as soon as you know, you're seeing it preached on you melt just like a snowflake
You know that's weak. Look at Exodus chapter 26 verse 14
So honey badgers have thick skin
50 times
Well, they have the same thickness of a buffalo which is 50 times the size of the animal that they are it's pretty thick skin
They're kind of like Baptist. They're kind of like what God wants us to be like
animals that have thick skin
Humans that have thick skin and not just like literally thick skin
But thick skin in the fact that we don't get our feelings hurt over every little thing
We don't get offended over God's Word or over every little thing that someone offends us over
Doesn't even have to be God's Word people just are offensive. We're sinful
We're gonna say things to each other. Sometimes that pisses off that is, you know, we're gonna get upset with each other
But you have to hold it against them to the end of time
But I just don't like the way they looked at me that one time. Maybe they were just having a bad day
Maybe they just got done yell at their kids all the way to church and you walked in and said hi to
Them or something. They're like, yeah, you know, it wasn't you it was them
You sometimes it's just hard to hide the feelings on your face, you know what I mean?
So don't just get us so offended about everything. It might not be you it might be them the kids
You know, they just got done whacking them all the way to the to the to the inside of the door or whatever
You don't know
You're laughing because it's true sometimes isn't it so
You got them screaming at him for four hours, you know, or however long it took you to get here
But you're like pastor you're going off and you're going too crazy
Well, let's look what the Bible says here in verse 14 says thou shalt not make a covering for or thou shalt make it covering
She's before the tent of ram skins dyed red and a covering above of badger skins
So notice that it says badger skins. Why would God say make a tabernacle a
Covering so there's all these different coverings for the tabernacle
But the top cover is what badger skin, why would he pick badger skin? Hmm?
I don't know maybe because it's 50 times thicker than any other kind of animal that size
It's leather when you stretch it out. It's probably gonna last the longest
It's probably gonna be the toughest and what was the tabernacle used for a mobile tent to house?
God when he comes down and meets with the people of God and when they're doing all the
Sacrifices and all those things but they're packing all that stuff up and who knows who who's been camping in here before
When you camp it in and the more you set up a tent and take it down
The holes start getting jabbed into the tent and all your stuff starts to wear away
And you got to fix it and patch it all that stuff and that probably after 400 years
I'm sure that tent had to be repaired didn't it?
But when you have the thickest skin you could possibly put on the top of it
That skins probably not gonna get poked through very easily because it's a badger skin
It's going over the top and what's the tabernacle ultimately represent in the Bible us?
Right. We're the tabernacle which the Holy Spirit comes into us in the New Testament
There's no tabernacle the tabernacle the tabernacle of God is with us
The Holy Spirit comes into us and we have a shelf life too
just like in the Old Testament that that tent was only it lasts so long and
So we're only gonna last for so long, right
so we're here for a specific amount of time and then we're gonna wear away like a tent would and then we're gonna
Not be able to be used anymore. Just like the Old Testament tabernacle
So but God made us to be able to last for a certain amount of time to
Ultimately, we're gonna be able to live forever and that tents never gonna wear out right which is nice
We're gonna have that everlasting
Body that won't wear away
But that tabernacle was made a badger skin for durability purposes
That's I mean probably the main reason right and so in a harsh environment
You know, we're gonna be in harsh environments. Also, I mean think about when we go out soloing
sometimes you're gonna be in Phoenix, Arizona and
I mean if it's 120 degrees outside and you're knocking doors in the middle of summer. It's pretty harsh, isn't it?
And so you're gonna need that leathery skin
To kind of help you out a little bit. You need a base tan before you go there, right?
You need to have a little bit of you can't just go there fully white
You got to kind of work it work your way up to it or wear some hats or something
SPF 1000 but
We know, you know, we do a lot of work and it's not necessarily always in the wilderness
But I mean think about here you have a different kind of wilderness
You have the plains and you have the heavy-duty snow, but do you still go soloing during the snow?
Yeah, because your honey badger Baptist up here just a different kind of honey badgers
You're the other kind of badgers, but you're still badgers, right? But
As Christians we need to have thick skin and you know
We need to learn to let the transgressions pass brush off the ridicule brush off the light affliction
brush off the persecution
Now Jesus didn't whine and complain all the time when he was stalked and mocked and ridiculed
Every single time he went someplace every time he went and preached, you know
It's a blessing that I don't get ridiculed and mocked every time I go someplace and preach
I mean literally every place he went these little weasels would come and just think of questions to ask him to trip him up
They would challenge him openly they would get mad when he would do great things like heal people. They're like
There's always there's always just someone like this one
Just looking at him sideways, I mean that would probably get annoying
I mean he had some patience because I probably only put up with that for a little while then they'd be going out the door
Headfirst, but we need to be able also to handle some criticism
You know because a lot of times peep criticism is real
And a lot that we don't like get criticized nobody likes it but sometimes criticism is good for us and
And even if it's not in the right spirit or out of a wrong heart
sometimes we do have to internalize criticism and think what can I take out of this and fix about myself and
Even though they might have meant it for a slight against you
Maybe some of that criticisms true and you can take that and work on it and make a positive out of it
Because you know, I get criticized all the time and you know
What I try to do is I just try to make the best of it and try to get better and not bitter
About the things that I get criticized about so but people have way too many feelings in
2024 they have a lot of feelings we say that at work all the time about these
You know liberals that need safe spaces and stuff like that because that we had some you know
the office workers were always like the people are like
My safe spaces and all this other stuff and it's like
We're out working in the harsh environments and harsh weather and stuff like that
And it's like yeah way too many feelings and if you're a man and you're talking about safe spaces
You got way too many feelings
You need to do some push-ups. You need to like grow some hair on your chest or something
You know quit shaving your legs be a man
Turn to Psalm 119 1 6 5
Psalm 119
165
And like this kind of encapsulates the honey badger mentality of a Christian when it comes to having thick skin
this is a very famous verse in our circles and
It's a true verse
So Psalm 119 1 6 1 65 says great peace of they which love thy law
Which we should all love God's law write the Bible and nothing shall offend them
Does it say something shall offend them? No says nothing shall offend them. We shouldn't get offended about anything really
But yet people do people get offended all the time, but yet the Bible says what nothing should offend them
We shouldn't have anything be offensive to us like that. But yet it happens all the time and
We just need to have the right attitude and we wouldn't have any problems, you know, just let stuff go
We don't have to write every wrong
We don't have to challenge every person that challenges
We don't have to say something back to every person that challenges us. Did Jesus always say something back?
He didn't always say something back
It's a matter of fact, there's a lot of things he let go and I'm just to me like that's my struggle
I have a hard time
Just not saying something back to people when I feel like they do
I'm kind of like one of those people that like when I Drive and
Like someone's just a bad driver, but I need to teach them
you
Will learn
You will learn by the numbers. I will teach you how to turn the proper way or whatever, you know
I just I just want you know, someone cuts me off or something. I just I get to the bottom of the hill with them
I just want to say
How long you been driving like, you know, I'm not like a road rager that like tries to fight people or something
but I just want to be like
you realize you were turning to my lane when you turn with me or
you know people just are
so bad about
Driving and just just people just have no respect for
Anything anymore. It seems like when it comes to walking. They'll just like, you know, you're in the airport
We'll just like walk up and stand like right in the middle of it the walkway
It's like we're just cut right across as if you're not, you know, you're walking fast
you got your luggage and then they just like do like a diagonal walk really slow right in front of you like
Yeah, sure. Oh, yeah. I'll just get out of your way. It's no problem, you know, or you're waiting for a shuttle bus
I'm just using travel because I've been traveling lately
But we'll get will be sent me my wife would I'm we're in San Sacramento and we're waiting
We're going to the Red Hot Preaching Conference. So I'm already fired up, you know, but
then we were waiting for this for the shuttle bus for like 25 minutes and
Then you know, we're there we're in line
And then all sudden this big crowd comes and they all just think that they're just gonna walk in front of everybody else and get
Into the front of line and I was like, hey buddy
My wife's like don't don't stop stop
It's like hey buddy the back of the lines back here he's like
And he's just like cut starts walking back he's like does that make you feel better it's like yeah as a matter of fact it does
So now I just take Ubers to the places
So my wife doesn't get embarrassed because of me, but I don't know what why I'm telling you that but I just
Sometimes it's hard though is all I'm saying. It's hard because we live in a society
Is very selfish and they don't think about other people they don't have situational awareness and
It's hard enough to not say some to people but we don't always have to say something
So and believe me, I don't always say something because if I did be a scenes of a lot
So turn to Proverbs chapter 9 verse 7
Proverbs chapter 9 verse 7
Proverbs 9 verse 7
Bible says he that reprove at the scorner
Get at the shame. Yeah, excuse me. Get it himself. It's to himself a shame
Either rebuke at the white a wicked man. It is himself a blot
Now it's not saying don't ever do it
necessarily
But if you do do it just expect you're gonna get some kind of a repercussion for doing it
So you're getting yourself a shame if you reprove someone's a scorner right or someone's a wicked man
You're gonna get something back
So if you already know that they're like that the best thing to do is maybe they're just not saying anything to them
But it says reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee
Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. So who are the people that we should be rebuking according to this?
Well, it says a wise man, they'll love you. So when
pastor weed gets up and rebukes and
Reproves rebukes and exhorts. Who's he supposed to be doing that with?
They supposed to be just doing it to his kids
to his wife
No when the Bible says to do that it's talking about doing that with when you're preaching
So when the people in the congregation cannot handle those rebukes
Then whose problem is that?
What does that mean that you are?
Because if you're a wise man or a wise woman
You're gonna love him for doing that because he's helping you get better as a Christian or as a person
so
but it says give instruction to a wise man and
He will be what be yet wiser teach a just man and he will increase in learning
See, these are things that the pastor is supposed to be doing and these are designed to help you not to hurt you
So don't be so weak about
Receiving correction because these are things when they when the correction comes it doesn't feel good
It doesn't always feel good. And when it's someone stomping on something that you're doing wrong
It does kind of hurt it stings
It doesn't feel good. And when you feel like your sin is getting preached against it kind of is this feeling like of
Intensity like oh man, you're like caught in this weird moment where you know
It's you and it hurts and it doesn't feel good, but it is good for you
Because why would God say to do it if it wasn't?
It says rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee
But if you do it to a scorner, they'll hate you if you reprove a scorner you get yourself a shame
If you rebuke a wicked man, you get is a blot
So, how do I know that I as a pastor if I'm dealing with a wise man?
Well when he gets rebuked, he loves me for it. That's how I know
he takes the correction and gets better not bitter and
You know what? I'll never ordain a man or hire a man to the ministry that cannot take
Correction if someone can't take correction and there are a little snowflake about any type of correction
It's like oh, yeah, tell me where I'm doing something wrong. Please. Help me. Tell me and then when you tell me like
It's like you baby
What do you call yourself a man? You don't even have a beard you have a beard
How do you how can you not handle being corrected shave your beard off?
You don't deserve that beard that you're wearing on your face
It's wrong with you. I
Just I can't I don't understand that
So
One way to know that someone has wisdom is that he's able to receive instruction
Right. It says give instruction to a wise man, and he'll be yet wiser
So one way to know a just man to teach him and to watch him increase in learning
So when you teach people and they learn in your congregation or just in general it at all or to
Show someone wisdom and they receive that and receive instruction, you know, sometimes
People just instead they just get all pouty and they get all whiny and then they get all you know
Get around you and they're just they don't want to be around you
They just you know get all bottled up and stuff. It's just like, you know, why are you acting like that?
I've been rebuked before I've been reproved before I've been preached against before
And you know what? You just got to take it
Sometimes you got to take it you internalize it
Yeah, it doesn't feel good, but do something good with it because that's the purpose. I mean, isn't that what the Bible saying?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what it's saying? You know, if you're a wise man
You're gonna love being rebuked when you're wrong
When you're wrong about something and then get it, right? So
Stop being a spiritual baby that never has been told no
Because that's kind of what people act like when they get rebuked
Or never told that they're wrong
Everybody is wrong. Sometimes, you know what the funny thing of is that people never think that they're wrong
It's like I'm never wrong, but people won't say that but they act like that
Because everybody thinks they're right because nobody would say nobody would ever have their opinions all the time
you know, most people just will not admit that they're wrong and
and some people do it to such a fault that they just you can have them dead to rights and
They just won't admit that they're wrong
But just admit it
Like is there really that hard to admit that you're wrong? Just get over it. Nobody's perfect. Nobody's asking people to be perfect
so
People that cannot handle reproof or rebuke they melt away like little snowflakes and they just prove to me that they're not wise and
they're mentally weak and fragile and it's really hard to help people like that and
They can't make it as a pastor and if they're trying to be a pastor
They're never gonna make it like that
And you know what if I melt a little snowflake that's trying to be a pastor by just reproving them lightly over something
That's not even rebuking them. They were there. I'm doing you a favor. You were never meant to be a pastor anyway
I'm not talking about pastor. We I'm just saying just in general. Okay
So if you cannot handle or receive
Rebuke reproof from men
How can you receive it from God because I mean God is gonna rebuke you or reprove you way harder than I would ever do
It might not be in words like he's gonna audibly say it to you
He'll do it through the word or he'll just do it when he punishes you for not doing what's right
Turn to Hebrews chapter 12
Yes, I'm still on the same point about the skin
But
I really see this as a failure with people sometimes in the Christian life. It's like the Bible says not to be offended
Over things and then everybody's just offended over things
It's like girls
Remember like you ever seen that meme where it's like, you know, the the women referee
They throw a flag for something that happened four years ago or something
You know I'm talking about in football American football. Okay, so
There's this thing called American football and
It's not Canadian football American football
But you know, so it's just a funny thing because women like to keep track of you know
All the things that you've done wrong is funny. All right, women aren't laughing but the guys are
But
You know, we shouldn't just be keeping track on people like that. I mean, I'm not saying women only have been do it, too
So Hebrews 12 5 though, well it says and you haven't forgotten the exhortation which speak of them to you as children my son
Despise not thou the chastening of the Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of them. See God rebukes us
He says don't faint when God does it because God does it too
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourges every son whom he receiveth
If you endure chastening God dealeth with you as sons, but what son is he from the father chasteneth not
But if you be without chastisement where of all our partakers then are you bastards and not sons?
Furthermore we have fought we've had fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reference
Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spirits and live?
so
What is the saying that we have fathers that correct us and we give them reference reverence so our parents we give them reverence
But when it comes to God, we should also even much more
Be subject unto God the Father and live
For they verily for a few days chastenest after their own pleasure
But he for our profit that we might be partakers of his holiness
Now no chasing for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous
This is what I'm talking about
When you're being reproved or rebuked in a sermon or just in general life in general even by your boss at work
Sometimes bosses can say or do harsh things or you know
If you're a lady here, your husband is like you're the boss of the home
You know, you don't like being reproved by your husband and sometimes it stings and you want to lash out
But you know, what is the Bible saying here? It's saying no chasing for the for the present
Joyous but grievous. Nobody likes being corrected. Nobody likes being told that they're wrong
Nobody likes being in trouble for things but says nevertheless afterward
It yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby
I'm not talking about husbands punishing their wives. Okay, don't get don't get twisted
All right, but God does punish us and he rebukes us sometimes and we should just be able to take that
But again, if you can't take the punishment of God, you can't take the rebuke of God
How can you take just a pastor rebuking you or reproving you for doing something wrong?
I mean, you're not gonna be able to handle what God has to give you
So the Bible says in 2nd Timothy chapter 4 verse 2 you don't turn there
But turn to 2nd Timothy 2 verse 3
I'm gonna read 2nd Timothy 4 2 it says preach the word
the instant in season out of season
Reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. This is the job of a pastor and
if you don't like that
Then there's plenty of other churches and this isn't my I'm not pastoring this church anymore
I'm just saying there's plenty of other churches that don't preach like this
You're not gonna have to be reviewed for reproved or anything like that
And you can go and you can go along to get along and never have to worry about ever being reproved or having
Anything but you know what you can also have happen that you're never going to grow
Nothing ever is going to happen where you are challenged to improve your character improve your life improve your works
improve the things in the Christian life because they're never going to challenge you on those things and
so you should want to be in a church that's going to challenge you to do better in the Christian life and
to get those things out of your life or those attitudes that you have and
Change them and if the Word of God
corrects you then you know have some thick skin like the honey badger does and just let it brush off of you and
Learn and get better and endure hardness. Look what the Bible says in second Timothy 2 3 it says
Therefore thou thou therefore, excuse me endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ
Whether you like it or not the moment you got saved you got drafted into the Lord's army
And whether you're carrying water or putting band-aids on boo-boos or whatever it is
You're doing you're working for the Lord in his army in some way shape or form
don't be a deserter and
Don't be one of those people that is
Insubordinate to the Lord to the Lord's commands. He's the captain of the army
It says no man that warth and tangles himself and the affairs of this life that he may please him
Who have chosen him to be a soldier God chose you to be a soldier so soldier up
Endure hardness and don't be so, you know upset and disheveled about every little thing that happens that you don't like
So have some thick skin like the honey badger number seven. All right, I'm all off this
So, you know, I'll chill I'll chill a little bit here. All right, so
but that I mean that's a that's a really important point of my sermon is
You know, we need to get a little bit more thick skin as
Christians and stop being offended about every little thing
Including preaching or just in general life number seven of you know, of course
I didn't go through all seven, but I gave the review. So number seven honey badgers are highly intelligent
Now I watched a video one time where this guy has this honey badger named Stoffel and Stoffel
He he has this like four foot like concrete wall and he has this like
Terrarium where he allows him though. It's a pretty big, you know
Enclosure that he has a man and he shouldn't be able to get out of it
But this honey badger is so smart that he's like
Movie pushing stuff up where he can climb up and get out and he escapes like every time he finds a way
somehow to climb even puts like a stick and climbs up the stick and climbs out and
Then he gets like a partner like a mate or whatever that the guy puts in there and then they figure out how to do things
Together, you know as mates
They're like he's even like putting these pretty elaborate ways to not let them get out of the gate
Once they get out of the enclosure
there's a gate that you have to you'd have to do two things at the same time one honey badgers climbing up and
Pushing one thing and the other ones on the bottom pushing the other one. That's how smart I mean, that's pretty smart
Like they're pretty amazing at how smart they are
So, you know, he would also they'd also break in the house
They'd find ways to open the door and get in the refrigerator and start eating the food. I
Mean and when you get you wake up in the middle of night
There's a honey badger in your refrigerator. Like you're probably like, ah, you know
They got some pretty sharp claws and sharp teeth. So but yeah, I mean, they're very clever very intelligent
And the Bible talks about turn to Proverbs 4 Proverbs chapter 4
The
Bible says
Proverbs 4 7
Wisdom is the principal thing
Now when the Bible talks about wisdom, I mean it can mean a lot of different types of wisdom
But the most the principal wisdom is what when it comes to Christianity
Getting saved is the boat is the most important thing
And so when you're saved when you get saved that is the principal thing
You know, you can be saved and never learn anything else. And as long as you're going to heaven, that's the most important thing
That's why we you know, people will criticize us and say things like well
You get the people saved then you threw the baby in the dumpster or whatever
It's like we didn't throw any babies in any dumpsters
I don't know what you mean by that
But what they do mean by that is you don't give me the discipleship
You don't give a church to go to it's like you didn't even go you didn't even do anything
They wouldn't be saved if we didn't go at least they're saved I
Mean, yeah, the baby might not be able to take care of itself right now. At least we give them a Bible
I mean that's not leaving them in the dumpster. The Bible is everything that they need
We tell them to get baptized we give them some here's some DVDs here, you know, here's some scan codes
I mean we try to make everything in scan codes now. I try to make it easy, but
Here's some scan codes. Here's some DVDs
Here's some stuff about the Bible and we try to give them everything we got
But some people are just like oh, that's just not good enough. It's like well, you know, at least they're not going to hell buddy
right, but the Bible says wisdom is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and
You know honey badgers are wise
They're smart and like intelligent as for as an animal
But
When you translate that as far as us as far as Christians or just far as human beings are concerned
The most important thing we can do is get saved and get other people saved and it says therefore get wisdom and with all
By getting it understanding. So it's not just important to get saved
That is the most important thing principle means the first thing right?
So the the most important thing is to get saved but also get
Understanding with that and so get saved and then get understanding
get that with that wisdom get understanding and
with all like getting get understanding and
You know, so Christians are counted as wise because they're saved according to God. So there's people that like
Well, there's this guy that's been emailing me some weirdo
He's just like, you know
It's it's a shame that you're teaching children these things and you know, it's like oh, what are you teaching them?
So they came from monkeys
They have no hope
I mean look at what the schools are producing a
Bunch of people at one America a bunch of people that are beating each other up at school
Stomping out people that are smaller and weaker than they are
There I mean, they're just kind of living up the evolution rules. I mean, you know
Mercy's for the week. No mercy for the week, you know like the karate kid, right?
they're just
There's one a pack of kids beating up one little white kid or whatever or one little kid
They're beating up people that are weaker than them
It's not even one-on-one at least when I was the back of my day you didn't do more than one-on-one
It was a one-on-one thing
I don't know when that became a thing where people just jump in and fight like that
But when I write come from that you just didn't do that
Was that the same way with you?
Yeah, I mean one-on-one. Let's do this one-on-one, right?
But nowadays is just 30 on one and then you stop when they're convulsing on the ground
That's what school that's a public schools teaching people
That's what's so great about public school. I
Mean, what what is what is communism?
Produced
You know, like so upset about what Christianity's produced. How about America wouldn't even be here without Christianity
Canada wouldn't even have been put here without Christianity. The people are just so upset about colonizers
This place people would still be in
teepees and chasing, you know chasing Buffalo around if it wasn't for the colonizers that came and taught people Christianity and
Taught people language and taught people culture. Yeah, there was some wicked people that came over with them
But that's not that has nothing to do with me. You know, I don't know I can't can't help that
But I I thank God there's people that are here in these cities now that can still get saved, right?
Massive amounts of people that can get saved
so I guess we should just give it all back to the natives that were worshiping totem poles and
Eating each other and fighting each other and enslaving each other instead
Let's just go back to the old roots, right? I don't think so
so
The Bible says the fool has said in his heart that there is no God
So the fool is likened unto
The person that doesn't believe in God
So you you know, this person is like there's people that have you know an eighth grade education and
I would rather be I
Learned that God's not real because I learned science and math and all this other stuff
I'm like, you know what? I would rather be handicapped and going to heaven
Mentally handicapped and going to heaven then believe all you didn't know all your science and all your knowledge and be going to hell
Which is where you're going to when you die
You know
What is what how does God track wisdom you get saved? That's what he how he tracks wisdom
You know and all giddy if I would rather just know the Bible
then all the math and all the science and all that other stuff and all the things that the
Public fool system teaches people so they can grow up and grow to come
I mean, what is what is the goal here for society to send their kids to college?
That's just like the biggest deal
Let's save all their money and and so we can give it to our kids to go to college
So they can go play beer pong at school and waste all the money that we spent
Working hard our whole lives to save up in some
Account so they can go and waste it on, you know underwater basket weaving
For their major and in college or whatever so they cannot get a job so they can go and you know protest against
The you know Israel or something on the college campuses. It's like is that what it's really all about?
No, it's not what it's really all about
it's about being wise and having salvation and not being a fool and being an atheist who's done abominable works and
Does nothing that's good for this society. What does an atheist do for our society?
Just scoff and mock at God's Word and I mean
Let me let me write you an email so I can tell you how stupid Christianity is
You know and and maybe that'll be on his you know, what God says to him right before he throws him into the lake of fire
see John the Baptist was a righteous man, he was a wise man because he was saved and
We're wise when were saved but that's just kind of scratching the surface, you know
We can learn a lot more than that
I think that that verse that's saying you therefore get wisdom and with all that getting get understanding
It's not the end we should be lifelong learners of
Biblical things but others I'm not putting down learning other things like science and all that stuff. I'm not saying that
I'm just saying that that's not as important
Being saved is the most important thing
So
number eight honey badgers have dangerous enemies and
We have dangerous enemies that are always trying to come at us
Some idiot was trying to deliver a pizza here just a little while ago
How many times have they tried to deliver pizzas to you guys?
Yeah, there's some weird fag is just always messing with us about trying to deliver pizzas or whatever. It's a Pizza Hut's
Calling me right before the service
Like we didn't order a pizza. He's like, yes you did. I was like no we didn't
Yes, no. No we didn't
We're not we didn't order pizza, but you're gonna argue with the customer the customers always right? We're not taking your pizzas anyway, but
honey badgers particularly young ones
They can
You know predators will come and try to kill them and take them from their parents
And we kind of live in a world that's like that today
you know lions leopards hyenas dogs and snakes and in particular try to
Hunt the
Honey badgers cubs. So let me read that list to you again
lions leopards
hyenas dogs and snakes
so those are similar enemies that we
Are talked about in the Bible that come against Christians spiritually, right?
you know the devil is called the serpent the red dragon and
Of course dogs were talked about quite a bit in the Bible and not in a positive way and
Lions now, of course, Jesus Christ is the line of the tribe of Judah
But also the devil is pictured as a lion and also his demons are also pictured as and look
Let's look at Psalm chapter 35
Psalm chapter 35
You
Psalm chapter 35
Bible says but in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together
Yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me and I knew it not they did tear me and cease not
With hypocritical mockers and feast they gnashed upon me with their teeth
Lord how long wilt thou look on
Rescue my soul from their destructions my darling from the what's-it-say there the lions. I
Will give thee thanks in the great congregation of appraise thee among much people
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me neither
Let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause
For they speak not peace, but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land
Yea, they opened their mouth
Against me and said aha. Aha our eye has seen it
This thou has seen Oh Lord keep not silence. Oh Lord be not far from me
Turn to Psalm chapter 22 verse 12 Psalm 22 verse 12. So, you know, a lot of the psalms are prophetic and
talking about the death of
Jesus and
This specific one here is one of those
Prophetic Psalms
Psalm 22 verse 12. The Bible says many bulls have compass me about strong bulls of the Shawn have
Beset me round. So and you'll you see this a lot where they're be setting round. This is what predators do
they like to circle around their prey and
Go after them, but it says they gaped upon me with their mouths as a ravening and roaring
lion
Now, I don't know if anybody's ever been around a roaring lion before has anybody actually heard a lion actually roar for real
Like been around it anybody
Okay, have you seen it on like a zoo?
Like Discovery Channel or some kind of thing like that. Yeah, okay
The some of those lions their war their war just terrifies people
Because they are the king of the forest. I don't learn that from the Wizard of Oz
I learned that from the Bible says they're the king of beasts. So and that's most people that's what they believe, right? So
they're a pretty scary animal to come face to face with and
The Bible talks about them being you know, one of the enemies, you know, and this is spiritually speaking
It's not like there's literal lions. He's talking about this is the types of people that they are
And so these are the types of enemies that we have that are coming against us also
Jesus Christ here talking about bulls and
Lions says I'm poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax
It is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a pot shirt my tongue cleaved with my jaw
Jaws and thou has brought me into the death of dust for dogs have compass me
The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. It was another word for dogs that we know the sodomites, right?
So it's really interesting that the Bible calls the dog sodomites and we and people say well there
You know Jesus doesn't mention the sodomites in the New Testament. Well, he mentioned when is this happening?
This is when he's at the cross, right?
It doesn't mention him when he's at the cross
But what does the Bible say was it literal dogs that are accomplishing about?
No, there is but it says dogs. So he's saying bulls
Lions dogs all powerful and scary type animals that are very powerful
But he says dogs have compass me about the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me
They pierced my hands and feet. What's it talking about?
It's talking about the crucifixion who was around him a bunch of reprobates and a bunch of scumbags
It says I may tell all my bones they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them
They cast lots upon my vesture
But be not thou far from you Lord all my strength
Hastie to help me deliver my soul from the sword my darling from the power of the what the dog
Isn't it weird how sodomites are just so if that's like the big thing of our day right now
But what if I told you that that's probably what it was like back then and we just don't realize it
I mean, I think it probably was more
I mean, do you think that there were just no sodomites in Jesus day?
Well, it just doesn't talk about them. But does that mean that they weren't around of course they were around
I mean, why is this same dog?
You know if you think that this is just a regular, you know, man's best friend or something type of dog
That's not what it's talking about
So when it's talking about, you know, when Jesus says give not that which is holy unto the dogs
And when he's saying, you know
The dog returns to its vomit and the sow to its wall in the mire
Or when it says give not that which is holy unto the you know
And when it's saying cast out your pearl before swine, what's he talking about?
You think he's just talking about just
Animals, you know your literal pearls. Oh, he's talking about the the the pricely things of God
Casting them before the pearl the swine now because swine are
You know like a filthy animal to the to the Jews and dogs are no are not much better
we were talking about it earlier and this is kind of disgusting but
Talking about if some of the guys and I was I wasn't saying this
they were
But how they would put like piles of manure chicken was a chicken manure who was saying that?
Yeah, and that their dogs would go eat it
Or the frozen cow pies in the field the dogs would go eat the frozen cow pies in the field
I mean, that's how disgusting dogs are
But like I mean the things that they do the that the actual you know, the sodomites are doing are pretty disgusting, too
Isn't it?
But yet there's commercials on television about it. They're celebrating it for a whole month a whole month. I
Mean Jesus Christ is celebrated for one day. Maybe two if you count Easter, but it's not a whole national holiday in our country
one day Christmas
That's it in a whole month in June where they're putting you know using
Money from the government to put crosswalks down. You have to walk across that across the street. I mean this it's disgusting
They're celebrating filth and they're putting it right into our faces
Jesus is talking about these types of freaky beasts that were surrounding him and
encompassed and
encompassing him about
Circling him around about and this is the kind of stuff that we have to deal with too
And like we're not dealing with it right now
But we do deal with it and it's not just that they come to our physical presence
But it's always something that we have to worry about
Just like the honey badgers have to worry about their children being taken by these predators or them themselves
Because they're small in number
You know, these lions are way bigger these types of animals these snakes
also, these
pythons way bigger way more powerful and if you're not paying attention they can ensnare you and
Kill you and destroy you first Peter 5 8 says be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring
Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour
so
We have to be on guard against these things and we have to be leery of
These types of things and not not say oh we got to let him in and hang out with us
No
We got to let them out keep them out and keep them away from us and keep them away from our children
See the honey badgers they'll fight tooth and they'll fight to the death for their little cubs
You know what we need to fight against these evils and not allow this sickness to infest
and infect our churches and we need to always continue to fight against this mentality where
They're normal. They can be saved and all this stuff. No, they can't be saved folks
They cannot be saved their reprobates. We need to put on the full armor of God. Look at Ephesians chapter 6
Ephesians chapter 6
Ephesians chapter 6 verse number 10
You
The Bible says in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 10
Finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and the power of his might
Hold on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle
Not against flesh and blood but against
Principalities against powers against the rules of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places
This is what they really are. These lions these beasts these dogs
This is spiritual wickedness in high places
They've crept into every crevice of every school system every government facility
Up into the highest levels of our governments in this government in our government back home
They're in they're dug in like ticks everywhere we go every system we have and
We the only way we can resist this is a spiritual resistance. We wrestle not against flesh and blood
We can't like literally fight against them because they'll destroy us, right?
So we have to put on the whole armor of God
like the Bible says in verse 13 there wherefore take on the whole armor of God that you may be able to
Withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand
Stand therefore having your loins gird about with truth and having the breastplate of righteousness and your feet
Shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace and this is where a lot of Christians
Don't they don't get taught this they don't get taught
You got to have this your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace
They don't teach that so there's a lot of Christians walking around
They've heard a lot of sermons about having the full armor of God on but they forget to tell them about their feet don't they?
this is pretty important to have something covering your feet when you go out into battle and
you know part of the battle and
Part of staying in the fight and being a soldier of the Lord is that we're prepared to preach the gospel of peace
This is the battle
What is the fight all about it's about getting people saved and that's what Jesus came to do is to seek and save that which is
lost
So part of the battle is actually putting on the shoes and that represents going so winning doesn't it?
And to have the best kind of shoes on to be able to keep going and keep you know
It's nice to have a good pair of shoes
These are the shoes I wear they're echo unlimited
I think yeah
Size 48 the British size, you know, I like these shoes. There are 14 points of comfort
made in England
Well, I've already
Beat the brakes off a couple pairs of these shoes
And I and I try to buy a couple pairs extra just because I like them so much
I don't want them to like stop making them and for me not have any more
So I like those shoes because I can go so any of them and preaching them super comfortable
It's good to have a good pair of shoes
Don't go cheap on your shoes
Don't I mean with kids? Yes, because they grow out of them like two minutes
Like I just buy you new pair of shoes like two weeks ago
Will they grew again? So kids? Yes adults. Take care of your feet, especially if you're a soul winner
Get the most comfortable shoes
You can wear out someone in because if you're gonna be doing it for a long time do it turn to Ezekiel chapter 16 verse 10
Now I talked about the badger skin being used to cover the tabernacle, right?
Why do they use that because it's extra thick skin, right? It goes it covers that tabernacle for many many years and
That tabernacle that they had was used for about 400 years before they built the temple
So I'm not saying that that first layer lasted for 400 years
Maybe they had to renovate it or whatever. I'm not sure but
It lasted a long time and a good pair of leather shoes are gonna last you a long time
Isn't that true? If you buy leather good quality leather it lasts a long time
Look what God says here. He's talking about all the quality stuff that he's given to the children of Israel
Look at verse 10 Ezekiel 16 10. I clothed thee also with broided work and
Shod thee with badger skin. So what does shod mean?
He made them shoes out of what?
Badger skin the best kind of leather you can get baby badger skin, right?
And I girded thee about with fine linen and covered thee with silk
So he's talking about these fine things and he's talking about these badger skin
now
Badgers usually hunt alone, but when they mate they hunt in pairs
So like Stoffel when he got his little buddy, you know, his his wife or whatever
They were partners in crime after that right getting out of everything, but they will hunt in pairs
You know what and and God wants us to hunt for souls and pairs and I mean hunt in a good way
All right, or we're trying to get people saved, you know, he sends us out to and to you know
And and shoes come in what pairs don't they so you got to have two?
Shoes because you have two feet most people do anyway, so, you know, I'm not saying anything bad about people
They have one foot. Okay, or no feet, but I'm just saying in general you have shoes you have two of them, right? So
God shod them with badger skin shoes
fine leather very important and
This is part of the armor of God. I'm not saying that particularly badger shoes
We don't have we're gonna go kill some badgers tomorrow
I mean, it might be a good thing to get into I mean if you guys are thinking about lucrative business
You know badger skins might be the way to go, you know, but
I'm just saying that it's part of the armor of God and
we need to
Have that mentality that we're not gonna quit soul winning till the very end
We're never gonna quit
We're gonna keep going and you know
The most important thing we can do is seek and say that which is lost because Jesus found it so important
He actually gave his life and shed his blood and went to hell for three days and three nights and
and faced the lowest hell for three days and three nights and
rose again for us so that we could be saved and the and the and the best thing we could do is
serve him all the days of our lives and
The last point I just want to say is that they're fierce protectors of their family so
We need to protect our families from the evils of this world from the wickedness of
The hella vision the wicked music of our day the wicked agendas of our time the erosion of our society
And we need to be able to willing to protect our family spirituality and their physical
Needs if needed we need to protect them with our lives dads
We need to protect our children with our lives and our wives with our lives
Protect our churches protect our integrity protect our doctrine our unity in the faith with fear with the fierceness of a honey badger
Jesus Christ one fearless man
thick-skinned tough
Strong in spirit fervent zealous willing to die for those he loved
Took on the Lions took on the bowls of beige and took on that old serpent called the devil and Satan
He took on the Leviathan
He experienced the sting of death and the fires of hell and
You know we were you know he took on the great red dragon. He took all this for us and
Like the honey badger
fighting off a pack of dogs
for us
And he took upon himself the form of a servant and gave us an example
To look up to because you know what he gave up himself dying for others
He did things for other people
You know what we need to think about other people besides ourselves like Jesus did that example of him
taking on for himself the form of a servant and
Giving up his life for us
making of himself of no reputation and
Humbled himself in the form of a man right became obedient to the death even the death of the cross
Jesus Christ fought the forces of hell on earth and the power of darkness of Satan himself
allowing himself to be
seemingly defeated
Yet actually securing our ultimate protection, and what is that it's eternal life
It's our eternal protection. I mean you want to talk about being protected
He protected us didn't he I mean right now. It seems like we're unprotected a little bit
But we're not really because the moment we die we're going straight to heaven
Eternal life eternal security we can't lose it. I mean it's nice to have security isn't it?
It's nice to have safety eternal safety, so he gave us eternal life eternal security and eternal safety
Think about that and
Let's
Let's look at I know I'm running out of time here
I'm pretty much done, but I wanted to look at a couple of more verses here with you if you don't mind
revelation chapter
How about chapter 21
You
Start with the verse 4
In the future we're not gonna have to struggle so much
It's not gonna be so rough says and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death
Neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away
So that's a good something to look forward to no more death no more crying no more sorrow
all these things are gonna go away and
in verse
8 we also
Have this promise here says but the fearful and unbelieving the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters
And all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone
Which is the second death, and we use that verse a lot out so wanting
But you know what's nice about that is that we're not gonna have to deal with those people when we go to heaven
There's gonna come a day when we don't have to worry about those people being around us being around our kids
We're gonna be safe from those things
We're not gonna have to worry about anything like that
Cuz God protects us forever by keeping these freaks and weirdos and predators away from us forever
That's safety, right?
No more sorcerers. No more idolaters. That's gonna be great. No more murderers and
It and verse 2 of look at chapter 22 verse 3
Actually, I'm sorry look at verse 27. I'm sorry. I didn't get there verse 27
Got three more places, and we're done
What's in this next chapter anyway?
But I'm revelation 2127 and they're showing no wise enter in to it anything that defileth
neither whatsoever worketh
abomination
No more homos they work with abomination don't they guess what there's no more queer there's no queers in heaven
Or make it the lie, but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life look at Revelation 22 verse 3
There shall be no more curse
But the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it and his servants shall serve him
We get to serve him without worrying about anything else. We were 15 or without or what?
dogs
by by homos and
sorcerers and
Hormongers and murderers and idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie I
Think that there'll be actual maybe dogs like the ones you can pet maybe
But the other kind of dogs. They're not coming in they're done
So that is something to look forward to so you know if there's a silver lining this month for us
Just think of this verse in heaven. There's no dogs
Verse 17 and the spirit and the bride say come and let him that hear us say come and let him that is a thirst
come and whosoever will let him take the water of life freely and
We have this promise that all
salvation's just free
You know and we can go and offer that to people and you know what anybody that you know is a child in this
Room that maybe you're not saved. We know what Jesus gives it to us for free
So anytime you ever want it you can just ask them for it. It's not great
All you have to do is believe on Christ and you're saved and you're safe
And you're eternally saved
And you can't lose it forever
So let's pray Lord. We thank you so much for this great new church and
Just want to pray especially again once again for pastor weeb as he begins to lead this church
And to pray that Lord you would be with them with your spirit and Lord this whole congregation
I pray you Lord that you would just help them to help him and that Lord
This would be a powerhouse of soul winning for many many years to come and that many churches would
Would come from this this church location here and be formed in Canada and Lord that
Many soul winners would be trained here and in other places in Canada and Lord that many
Salvation's would spring forth from this church Lord a fountain of life a fountain of water
That people can get for free in this great nation of Canada Lord. We pray these things in Jesus name. Amen