Second Kings chapter 1 and this is a great chapter in the Bible and shows a great man of God
Preaching a hard truth to a king you know and a lot of times rulers won't take what King
What prophets have to say to them and they mistreat them, and you know what I'm preaching about this morning is mistreating the man of God
Mistreating the man of God let's pray Heavenly Father. We thank you Lord so much for this wonderful day Lord
I pray you fill me with your spirit. Help me to be bold help me to preach your truth with love in my heart Lord
but also
What the truth is Lord and sometimes the things that the men of God preached can be hard for people to take in?
Pray Lord that you just be with me and let the people have ears to hear Jesus name afraid amen
So yeah many times
Today unbelievers and believers alike get a little too loose about how they deal
With God's men and what are God's men well God's men well in this instance
We're talking about a prophet Elijah the prophet one of the greatest prophets in all the Bible and the king
You know it gets a message preached to him basically to his
Messengers and he sends an army to go try to capture him basically and said hey you're coming whether you like it or not
And he was like oh yeah
If I'd be a man of God then let fire come down and consume you and your 50 and so we
Read the story together, but you know it was how?
They were dealing with Elijah that God and that's the way God dealt with them
But you know it's the last time when the guy came humbly to the man of God and he was
Being respectful that he was like God said okay. You can go with him. Don't be afraid of him and so
Mistreating God's man. You know there's lots of ways you could mistreat a man of God
You know you could be rude to him you could talk trash behind their backs
You know you could do all manner different sorts of things and the world will hurt and kill preachers sometimes
You know that's been done throughout the throughout the ages a king killed Abel right his own brother
Why because he was a false prophet, and he didn't like the message that
You know he was jealous of him because he had God's favor, and you know Cain was obviously trying to work his way to heaven
He was a wicked person, but you know his brother was the first martyr in the whole Bible
And so I'm not really focusing on how people will kill preachers or hurt them
Like physically because obviously that that could make the sermon
Way longer what I want to focus on is how people just treat God's
Mess the messengers of God the ones that are preaching behind pulpits the pastors the evangelists and things like that
You know and sometimes people don't like to hear the sermons
You know they're all it's all good and fine when it's a hard sermon against somebody else or some other
people against the queers against all these other
Things that we are on board for it's easy for preachers to kowtow to those things and say you know
It's a little I want to preach a sermon that you know people are gonna agree with me on that's easy to do
But you know sometimes there's hard truths in the Bible
and I might not even be specifically talking about a person in our church, but that person takes it that way and
Sometimes you know that's just God's way of saying hey
This is something I'm dealing with you about that's why it's so important that you're here for the preaching services
You know it's not like I just go you know what what can I really reach brother Timo with this morning?
You know he's been doing this he's been doing that you know what I really want to do
I just want to preach a sermon just solely against him and so I look up all the scriptures
And I just package it just for brother Timo you think I do that. I don't do that
You know but sometimes God has a buckshot type of way that he deals with people
He's got a spreader shotgun that his word just has a way of finding and shooting holes through you and
People get upset sometimes this king was upset
That's why he sent those 50 it wasn't so he could just have him have have him escorted nicely to the king
The king was dealing with him because he was mad because of the sermon that he preached
It was a short sermon guess what you're gonna die
That's a hard sermon isn't it hey by the way guess what you know because you try to go to the devil to try to
Get your message. You know the tried to inquire of the devil guess what you're gonna
die in that bed that you're laying in right there, and he didn't like that and
Sometimes people want to inquire of God and they want to know what God's will is for their life
You know and the preacher gives it to him in a sermon
and they don't like that and they and they get upset about those types of things and then they
Deal with the preacher in the wrong way
You know they they go and they want to go to war with that preacher because I can't believe he would say that
And look that should never be so for Christians like Christians in this room right here
That should never be so hey take it in deal with it
And you know just just internalize it and fix whatever mistakes you're making
That's what God's Word supposed to do. That's that's called edifying
That's helping us to make our Christian life better because look if every sermon that you just like it because
It deals with everybody else and deals with all these other social issues and things and it never deals with you
That's not good preaching for you
Hey, we should be able to be prepared to have our toes stepped on from time to time
We should be able to have our heart ripped in half from time to time
We should be able to have our faces ripped off from time to time about the sin that we're committing and the things that we're doing
towards other people
And hey don't blame the preacher because he got up and preached the Word of God to you
So you see specifically that God in the Old Testament
he dealt you know people always were trying to rebel against Moses right and
You got to see that people would deal with men of God. They've always dealt with men of God in a bad way
You know they're ready to stone Moses
Who's basically given up his whole life to follow God and do a God says
And they're always ready to stone, and they're always murmuring and complaining
They're always upset with him and same thing with David
I mean the the people people came the malachites came and
Destroyed their town and took all their wives and children and all their servants
Captive and was the response they wanted to rebel again
They want to stone David to death for it, and he's just like you know what I'm just gonna encourage myself in the Lord
Because David was a man after God's own heart
He was leading the people right you know and they didn't end up doing it
But you know there's instances in the Bible where they do stone the prophets or the people that don't deserve it because they preach a message
That they didn't like and you see in the New Testament
How they deal with the Lord Jesus Christ same way you know they didn't like the things that he had to say they're ready to
push him off of a cliff and
the Apostles same thing they put him in prison they beat them and
You know killed some of them and evangelists in the New Testament same thing
You know Paul's having to be you know scooted out in the basket over the city wall because of a sermon he preached
So people have always responded and mistreated God's men for just preaching what God told him to preach now
I realize I don't get you know my information straight from God in a way that he audibly speaks to me
But you know where he speaks to me is through this book and so when I prepare sermons
I'm like what's God say about it
You know we need to know what God says about it, and so when I preach a sermon
I'm gonna tell you what God says about a certain subject
You know and people get mad about that sometimes and people get mad about other preachers saying the same kind of things
You know and you know what we're not perfect just so you know we're not perfect. I'm gonna misspeak up here
I'm gonna make mistakes in judgment when it comes to just you know
Making decisions in the church. Do you think I'm gonna handle every single thing exactly how you think I should do it
You know because there's like ten other people that think that I should have done in a different way
So no matter what decision I make
Somebody's gonna disagree with it someone's gonna get mad at it
Whatever whenever I preach something someone might get mad about what I preach about
You know it's just the way it is I have to make decisions every single day that some people probably don't like
You know and I'm glad that you guys don't sit there and complain to me about it all the time
I sometimes I wonder if you're complaining about me, but
As far as I know you don't so I'll just I live in that world where I just like don't think that anybody could
You know talks about me behind my back, so I
Know that's probably not true, but I just live in that fantasy world. You know what I mean, so
Excuse me so
But currently I do see a disrespect at an all-time high against pastors and especially pastors that I'm friends with
Pastors you know they're at an all-time disrespect about about pastors that are men of God
I'm not talking about Benny Hinn. I'm not talking about Joel Osteen those guys are not real pastors those guys are false pastors
Those guys are out for the money
Kanye West I mean Sunday service
I'm glad you guys came to the real Sunday service and not that one by the way. Hey. I got some $200 sweatpants
I'd like to sell you, but anyhow
Who wears sweatpants to church anyway? I mean, that's just that's just so not cool
Talk about being casual. I mean they probably have some God's man slippers for sale too by now
You know it's like they're dressed going to to go to Walmart after church or something anyway
But
Again, we're not perfect men men of God are not perfect men, and you know I'm talking about preachers and pastors and things like that
They're not always right about everything look. We're sinners. We make mistakes. Just like anybody else does, but you know we're God's men nonetheless
Those are the people of God. I'm the I'm the guy that God's put in place to be the leader here and
You know and look. I'm not trying to be like you better follow me
You know matter what I say because I'm God's man. I don't feel like that
I think anybody that talks to me know that I don't feel like that
But you know God does put men of God in place in leadership, and that's just the way it is
You know so I'm not gonna apologize for being the pastor either
But God calls his leaders and preachers men of God throughout the whole Bible
You can see him called the men of God over and over and over again
Even when Paul is talking to Timothy he says so that the man of God
May be perfect thoroughly furnished unto all good works when we read the Bible
But in Deuteronomy chapter 33 verse 1 it says and this is the blessing wherewith Moses the man of God
Blessed the children of Israel before his death so God straight-up. Just calls him the man of God
Hey, he talked to Moses in a different way than he talked to most of the prophets. He was a special prophet. He wasn't
You know
He was God talked him face to face and many and many not obviously didn't see the face of the father
But God talked to him like we would have a conversation
You know and he didn't do that with other people generally except for Jesus Christ
But number one I want to I want to just I have three points to the sermon and
I'm gonna try to go fast, so I'm not gonna try to preach an hour and 17 minute sermon today, so
Anyway, but number one about mystery the man of God we need to be careful
How we react to God's man when he preaches a sermon you don't like?
We need to be careful how to react to God's man when he preaches a sermon
You don't like or a sermon that hits home. You know maybe it's a you know you don't like it
But you don't like it because it's it's stepping on your toes on some issue
So let's look at 2nd Kings chapter number 1 verse number 2, and we'll see how
has a
hazia dealt with
A lies of the prophets says and the hazia fell down through the lattice in a summer chamber
And was in Sumerian was sick
And he sent messengers and said unto them go inquire of Beelzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this
Disease, but the angel the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite rise go up to meet the messengers of the king of Sumeria
And say unto them is it not because there's not a God in Israel that you go to inquire of Beelzebub
The god of Ekron now just again. I already said this, but Beelzebub is the devil. Okay. That's Satan himself
He's going to inquire of Satan himself this guy's supposed to be a king of
Israel okay
Over sport says now therefore thus saith the Lord thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up
But shall surely die and Elijah departed so Elijah intercepts the messengers as they're going to inquire of the devil
And he says look
Thus saith the Lord
So what is he preaching his own words? Hey, you shouldn't be doing that. No. He's saying God told him
Thus saith the Lord this is what God has to say about this subject
Hey, because you're requiring of the devil guess what you're gonna die
And that's a that's a good message. That's a hard message though, and he's preaching it to a king
You know that'd be like me going and intercepting Donald Trump's Secret Service men and saying guess what Donald Trump is gonna die
I'd be arrested right
But see well how does God how does God view that you know because people say well
You're not supposed to say anything against the powers that be hey look if they're wicked then you can say something about them
Okay because Elijah made it not rain for three and a half years and he killed all the prophets of Baal
You know event you know he had already killed all the prophets of Baal at this point
450 prophets of Baal he killed them and he defied the king and told him he was wicked and
You know sometimes you gotta tell people they're wicked John the Baptist told Herod that he was wicked
And that he was wicked for stealing his his brother
Philip's wife and he got killed because of that
But you know it's okay for a man of God to preach against the king or any other ruler if they're a wicked person
Says when the messengers turned back unto him he said unto them
Why are you now turned back they said unto him there came a man to meet us and said unto us
Go turn again unto the king that sent you and say unto him thus
Sayeth the Lord is it not because there's not a God in Israel that thou sent us to inquire of Beelzebub the god of
Ekron
Therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed in which thou art gone up, but shall surely die
So they repeat the message to the king and the king it doesn't really say how he feels about it
But he wants to know who he is who's this guy that's preaching this sermon against the king
Look at verse number seven it says and he said unto him what manner of man was he which came up to meet you and
Told you these words
Did he have a pretty smile?
You know was he a smooth-faced man
Was he you know telling you everything you want to hear no
It says and answered he is a hairy man and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins
And he said it is Elijah the Tishbite so he knew exactly who he was why because he was a hairy man
And you know some you know just set aside the fact that he was hairy look
I got a I got a hairy face, too
Okay, I got hair places that I didn't have when I was younger all right on my back and stuff like that
But you know what the Bible says that the false prophets are gonna preach smooth words
And that's what the people want to hear they want to hear smooth preaching
You know like peanut butter. It's smooth when it goes on they want that smooth preaching right?
But the Bible says that Elijah was a hairy man, you know what his sermons were they were hairy, too
Hey, nobody likes to touch a hairy back. You know what I'm saying
If you got a georgie animal steal hair on your back
You know people aren't just inclined to walk up and touch your back right especially your wife
They're like go get a haircut or something put some narrow on that thing, but you know
and
Excuse me
He answered it
He's a hairy man and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins
And he said it's Eliza so he knew exactly who he's talking about he didn't think it was Joel Osteen
He didn't think it was John MacArthur. He didn't think it was the head of Ligonier ministries
He didn't think it was you know any of these false prophets that you want to name today. He knew exactly
Who it was because Elijah didn't dress smooth he didn't look smooth, and he didn't preach smooth
He preached hard stuff, and it's a pretty hard sermon to tell a king that they're gonna die
But why did why did God why was God gonna? Just let him die well cuz he went to Satan
Why did God kill Saul because he went to a witch it's like he was inquiring of Satan himself also
And
Then it said look at verse 9 it says then the king sent
unto him a captain of 50 with his 50 and he went up to him and behold he sat on the top of a hill and
He spake unto him thou art. Oh thou man of God the king has said come down
So here's this this captain of 50 look nobody brings 50 guys with them unless they're trying to say something
You know if someone wants to come and and and talk to you
They're not gonna bring 50 cops with them
You know if they don't have plan on doing something to you
So it's like it's like he's got 50 cops with them
Have you ever seen like when cops just fill up a whole block or a neighborhood?
And it's like what are all these cops doing that's kind of what it's like having 50 guys come up and just little old Elijah
The Tish bite one prophet of God and they got to have 50 guys to come bring a man
And there's a reason probably why they brought those 50 guys because look what happens next
It says and notice that he called him thou man of God so they knew he was a man of God
but the king saith
come down the Kings tell hey the Kings telling you better come with me and
again, let's see and look at what Elijah answered and said to the captain of 50 if I be a man of God then let
Fire come down from heaven and consume thee and I fifty and there came down fire from heaven and consumed him
And is 50 how are they dealing with Elijah? Well, they're trying to get tough with them. You know what it didn't work
It didn't work. He said you know what if I be a man of God don't let fire come down consume me
So was Elijah a man of God yes or no? Yeah, because fire came down and consumed them
So that's God saying hey, he is a man of God
All right, and you better learn how to talk to him with respect
you better come to him with respect and not try to just come and
Get mad because the king got a hard sermon preached against them
You know
But that's the way that politicians would react now to hard sermons being preached against them because most of them are queers anyway
Or queer lovers and so when we preach a hard sermon against their little faggot buddies
Then they get all upset about it and they try to do things to interrupt our
Preaching our YouTube or you know, just look what they did the pastor Menes
You know those little their little political buddies because he dared to preach a sermon against their sodomite friends
That's just the way it is. That's the way it's gonna be and people are gonna react badly
But you know what? The people of God shouldn't be the ones that react badly to sermons
It should we should react in a right way. So he says again also verse 11
And he also said unto him another captain of 50 with his 50 and answered and said to him
Oh man of God thus hath the king said come down quickly
So here's this other guy. He thinks he's a tough guy too. He's like, hey don't just come but you come down quickly
get down here Elijah and
He says a lot and it says Elijah answer is sent unto them
if I be a man of God
let fire come down from heaven and consume thee in thy 50 and the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and
His 50 so again
Thought you made they made another mistake
He's coming to Elijah and a baton and not the right way
Okay
He's coming to the man of God in not the right way
Because why because of the sermon that he preached against the king that's what it all boils down to they didn't like
The king didn't like the sermon
he's trying to you know, basically rough Elijah up because of his sermon and
That's exactly what people do today. They get mad at the preacher, you know, and really
They're mad at God ultimately because God's the one that told him to do that
And so but they people always want to deal with the person that was told to do that
Look, God told me to preach the word to be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long
Suffering and doctrine. That's what God told me to do as a preacher. That's one of my qualifications
So if I rebuke and if I don't exhort then I'm not doing part of my job
If I don't rebuke then I'm not doing part of my job if I don't reprove that I'm not doing part of my job
I got to do all three. It's a trinity of preaching. Amen. And that's what got in part two parts. That's negative
So sometimes we God kind of makes it seem like we need to kick in the pants twice two out of three Sundays, right?
You know, so we need to kick in the pants all the time
And then we need to be exhorted to do good works make you feel bad
Make you feel good
Encourage you to do good. How about that?
but
Look what it says
So this other guy comes to him too says behold there came down fire from heaven and burnt up the two captains of the former
50 where am I at verse verse 13?
Let's let's start again here and he sent again a captain of the third of the third 50 and his 50
so so a hundred and two people are smoked right now and
the third captain of 50 went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and
Besought him and said unto him O man of God
I pray thee let my life and the life of these 50 thy servants be precious in thy sight
Behold there came down fire down from heaven and burnt up the two captains of the former 50s in their 50s
Therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight
And so this is the key right here is that the other two guys didn't come up in that in that way
they came up trying to get tough and
God was you know made sure they he literally smoked them
They fire came down and burnt them up and killed all those men, but when he came when they came humbly
Hey, isn't it humble to get on your hands and knees and say hey, I beseech thee let my life be precious
Nine eyes, you know a lot of times people think that preachers are just supposed to be only
Soft all the time and always nice all the time, but sometimes there's a reason for people to get angry
There's a reason for God's people to get angry
There's a reason why God's men will are supposed to thunder from the pulpits of things that God is upset with
so
Look what happens verse 15 and the angel the Lord said unto Elijah go down with him
be not afraid of him and he arose and went down with him unto the king and
He changed his message and said you know what you're not really gonna die
No
That's not what happens look at verse 16
And he said unto him thus saith the Lord for as much as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Beelzebub the god of Ekron
is it not
Because there's no God in Israel to inquire of his word therefore thou shall not come down off that bed on which thou are gone
Up, but shall surely die
So you know what the message doesn't change and you know why because the king didn't change
See the king
Didn't change what he had what he had in mind at all the king didn't change
You know God will sometimes change his mind and not do something that he was gonna do like think of Nineveh for instance
He was gonna destroy Nineveh in 40 days and because they reacted to his preaching then the were in the right way
God spared them and saved a lot of those people
their souls
But the problem that we see here is that he didn't change anything and so you know what God didn't change his sermon
God didn't change his message said hey, you know what he's he's now he's face to face with the king
He's like you know what you're gonna die
Why because you went and saw
And sought after Beelzebub the god of Ekron and so
That's a guy with some guts. That's a preacher with some guts because one thing to say it
Outside or at in the pulpit or something like that, but to say it to someone's face is a whole nother story
And say guess what you're still going to hell. You're still gonna die
You're not gonna recover because you know what you worship the devil and to say that in someone's eyeballs is
A lot different than saying it behind a pulpit
so I had a lot of a lot of respect for Elijah the prophet because he was not a
Smooth preacher he was a hairy preacher. He was literally hairy and his sermons were hairy
But we see in this story that God's man preached some hairy hard stuff to this king and God dealt with the men according to how
He treated that man of God the first two
Got rebuked and and and the the last one
He got spared
so
The first two captains died with their 50 men the last captain came with respect in a humble manner and God spared him
spared them
So how do you address God's men? How do you talk with them? How do you treat them? How do you talk about them?
That's an important thing because look we shouldn't just go around willy-nilly
talking bad about preachers
Willy-nilly talking bad about pastors we better have some respect and you know what hey, maybe they're not perfect
Maybe they don't always make the right decision. Maybe it's something they preached you didn't agree with hey
It's okay to disagree with the preacher sermon
You know it is but to badmouth them behind their back like a weasel is not the right thing to do
We should be
Respectful, and you know hey if you're gonna come to God
It's man and say something you better come in a respectful manner
All right
Proverbs 9 verse 8 says reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee
So notice the difference between so a scorner is a person who expresses
Contempt or disdain for someone or something you're always you know you're always just mad you're you're you're someone
That's always gonna be contemptible and disdaining somebody or something
So it says reprove not that type of person lest he hate thee so a person that's a scorner
You know if you say hey, you know what you're doing wrong, and that person's like well. I'm quitting church anyway, then that's fine
I'm never coming back is that the right way to respond no
It's not well. I'm just gonna go to this church because you know what they're never gonna. Tell me I'm wrong
That doesn't that seem really dumb
Like when you think about it that way, and you know how many people quit churches because of stuff like that
Well, I can't believe you'd talk to me like that
Well, I can't believe you'd act like that I
Can't believe that you respond like a little child whenever you get rebuked over something I?
Don't understand that you know I mean I guess I do
Because a lot of people they can't deal with the they have pride in their heart
And they think they're always right about stuff, but I'll tell you what you're not always right about stuff
And you need to understand that sometimes you're wrong
And instead of getting mad about it and quitting the church and going to pastor sissy pants church
Instead then why don't you just deal with your problem that you have and fix it and get over it
Don't go to pastor sissy pants. You know where that road ends your end up lame
You end up you know singing
What is that?
contemporary Christian music with Josh Tice
And learn how faggots are really saved and having them preaching there in your church and not telling people that there's some pervert in your church
That's a level four sex offender
There's nothing more there's nothing more worse than I could that I could think of than finding out
That some freak is in your church and the pastor never told you about it
And then when they do tell you about they're like well
I'd eat dinner with them
Well, then you're a fag hag
It then you're you know what you're doing you're not protecting the sheep of your pasture
You're protecting this person because you're holier than now and you think that oh, I got to protect them
Why don't you protect the rest of the children in your church instead?
Instead of protecting these sodomites and these pedophiles that are in your churches you think well
I just I cannot imagine why that you would ever come to that conclusion
How could you ever come to that conclusion
That it's okay to protect someone and to keep it a secret from the rest of your congregation about some filthy
Weirdo that's in your church, and then let them be in around children all the time and let them teach children
I was Josh Tice is this
little feminist
Peminazi looking pastor that sounds like a queer. He looks like a queer, and you know he lets queers preach in his church
There was a guy who's like don't identify me as a former homosexual identify me as a new child of God
He's just like telling he's telling the story about when he was 14 years old
He started having desires of the same sex or whatever
And that he knew what was wrong, and then he got saved
And then he started telling his pastors and youth pastors about it
And they're like well, maybe you should work with children, and you can share you know what?
Maybe you should work with children. How does that cross your mind?
How is that the next thing that comes out of your mouth?
Well, maybe you should work with children and teach them
You know through your experiences that guy's a queer he always gonna teach him is how to be molested
and how to do it to other people a
Level you know what a level four sex offender is as someone that has
with small
children three four years old
Brother Scott you know found out that there was some
Level four sex offender of the church he was at and this guy had not told him for 18 months
That he was there, and if you go and look at all the things that he did it's gonna make you sick
You know what makes me sick about this pastor is that he you know he wants to sail
We have a bad spirit and Andersonite this and Andersonite that
While he has a level four sex offender in his church
Predator you know the article it wasn't just an article. It was a court document that said he was a sexual
Psychopath he was deemed a sexual psychopath. I think it was either by California or the state of Washington
And he's been everywhere
He's had a 35 year court history of doing all this stuff, and then pastors are gonna get up and act like it's okay
To just have this guy and well
It's not you know I it's not my business to tell them what they what they've done isn't it
How about the business of the people that have little children in their churches is it is that your responsibility to let them know?
That they have a predator a wolf in the church, and you're not gonna do anything about it
But then people will say well you're so mean pastor Thompson you're so you guys you knew I have to be passengers
You're so mean you know what's mean not telling a person that has a small child that that person was a predator of that
Exact type of person or that's age of child and not to tell him that's wicked as hell
And that needs to be rebuked and called out and pastors Smallwood or whatever his name is he's a wicked person
He's not a really deserves
He needs to step down from preaching God's Word and be kicked out and thrown out on his face
You got to get a guy in there. They'll actually preach the truth and tell people hey
Not only is there there's no you should just tell people
There's no sex offenders in this church because I won't let him in
Not I'm you know we went to a church called Amazing Grace Baptist Church
And I'll tell you what there's five guys there that I knew of
They we don't know their names
Because guess what it's a secret
That they have these five perverts in their church and nobody knows who they are
They're not allowed to be around children. Well. I'll tell you what every time. We're all in the service together. They're around children
But
Yet they think it's so noble and so great that they've taken these queers and and whatever they are into the church these
Molesters into the church and don't tell anybody about it. That's wrong
And they should be thrown out on their face period
How is it that a man of God could actually just make that decision in their heart after reading what that guy did
That pastor small Smallville or whatever his name is
He needs to be tarred and feathered and and and prayed it around town
You know and maybe you know there's but there's pastors that are saved that I'm sure they get caught they get well
They go to their pastor friend, and they say well
What would you what do you do in this situation, and they say well? You know what brother?
We just got to love everybody
And so that that keeps going on and on I'm glad the pastors that I'm friends with wouldn't allow that to happen
in any situation
There's even a hint of a molester. They're gone
Because look we got to protect the people the myth all the people in there
Is it worth just destroying a church and destroying someone's family for one pervert that you think got saved?
Even if you think he's saved
He should be allowed in it's just period and I don't know how I got off on that
Huge ranting story, but just I'm so pissed off about it
I'm just and I'm sick of pastors that will just sit there and just act like we're the bad guy
When in reality you're the bad guy for letting them in
The Bible says give instruction to a wise man
He'll be wiser teach a just man
And he will increase in learning the fear of the Lord's beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the holy is
Understanding for by me thy day shall be multiplied in the years of thy life shall be increased
So look if you give instruction if I'm preaching a sermon and you didn't know something or maybe you are corrected on something in your
Heart a wise man will get wiser a wise man will get instruction a wise man
You know a teeth it says teach the just man. He will increase in learning
Hey if a guy's a just man, he's gonna increase in the learning, but you know what a scorner does
He's gonna hate you for the sermon you preached
He's gonna hate what you have to say he's gonna, and it's not just what I have to say it's what God has to say
You know if sodomites weren't even allowed to be you know their houses were destroyed
They're even close to God's house. How are you gonna? Let him in God's house. I just I have no idea how that happens
Where they got off on this thing well such for some of you
Well such for some of you. I don't know any former home wasn't here
So now not such for some of you
And if any of you are such for some of you you can just get up and walk out of here right now and don't come back
You know everybody loves the hot preaching until it burns them
That's true
Everybody loves the hard preaching until it steps on their toes
Are you a scorner or are you a wise man? Are you gonna take in what God's Word has to say well?
You're angry pastor Thompson. You're darn right. I'm angry. I'm angry because of the state of Christianity right now
I'm angry because we have pastors that let perverts into their churches
And they act like they're just so holy and wrong. I can't believe you Anderson
I just so mean you knew I have to be pastors are so mean no. You're just a little fag
Hag that's what your problem is and you need to get out of the pulpit and let somebody in there
That's gonna preach the truth
And quit preaching your stories quit preaching your little one verse
And then not even it's not even talking about what your sermon has to say
One or two verses and you're done, and it's all stories and funny
Haha this and that and look I like to joke around too, but you know what there's a time to be serious
And I'll just get up and tell the positive parts of the Bible get up and tell the negative parts of the Bible, too
But there's churches all over there's Baptist pastors all over the place that won't preach a negative sermon if they start preaching about homosexuality
They gotta they gotta say why you know your sins are just as bad as theirs. It's never just their bad
It's their bad, and you're bad, too
It's those sickest sermons like that look why don't you just preach against that sin and just leave your congregation out of it because
Hopefully none of them are a bunch of homos
So 2nd Timothy chapter 316 let's turn over there
2nd Timothy 3 16
The
Bible says without controversy great is the mystery. Oh, I'm the wrong one 2nd Timothy 3 16 all scripture is given
By inspiration of God it is profitable for doctrine for reproof or correction for instruction and righteousness
That the man of God may be perfect truly furnished unto all good works
Hey let that man of God in your life
Give you what you need all scripture is given by inspiration of God
So everything in this book is applicable to us and want some way shape or form whether it be spiritual from the Old Testament
You know or whatever
practical
You know everything in there's for us as far as it is profitable for doctrine
It's profitable for reproof. It's profitable for correction. Hey, can you take correction?
Can
You take correction you should be able to and if you can't they need to figure out why you can't and change
For instruction and righteousness that the man of God may be perfect truly furnished unto all good works
Hey, you know what's gonna. Help you be perfect truly furnished unto all good works all scripture all of it the whole thing and
We need to understand that God's Word is there to correct us. It's there to give us reproof. It's there for doctrine. You know
For 2nd Timothy chapter 4 verse number 2 2nd Timothy 4 verse number 2 the Bible says preach the word
be instant in season and out of season
Reprove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine
But you know what what Paul was telling Timothy to do to preach the word
Not as opinion not poems not stories not anything else not commentaries from
Charles Spurgeon and John Wesley and
Matthew Henry and all these other hey if you're going to the commentary before you just go to the Holy Spirit
Then you're wrong in your heart
Hey get rid of that stupid study Bible that you got and get you just a text-only Bible
You see this this is text-only
Don't let somebody else be your Holy Spirit
You're saved you got the Holy Spirit in you you don't need to go to
John Calvin's Geneva Bible and look at all the notes there if you want to go astray you're gonna do that
I'll tell you what Calvinism is a wicked doctrine
And I don't want to get any commentary from John Calvin
Says the time will come
Well they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers
Having itching ears and they shall turn
Away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables fables like what oneness fables like what the Flat Earth
They want to hear these teachers and in the Nephilim. There's another one
And all this stuff all this stuff man all this stuff like the the blood moons
and
Rabbi and going after rabbis and all this other stuff look hey you stick with the New Testament
And rabbis are wicked by the way they don't believe in Jesus. That's why they call themselves rabbis
They don't believe in Jesus, so why are you going to them to try to learn some Bible knowledge hey
I got something for you. How about just the Bible
How about just listen to preachers that are saved and quit listen to a bunch of preachers that are not saved
We
Don't need teachers that have itching ears
Take when you're little you want your little ears tickled so you can feel good when you go home
That's what happens when you go to Joel Osteen's church
You're gonna have your little ears tickled. Oh, I felt so good today when I left church
You should feel bad when you leave church sometimes
Sometimes you should feel bad. I'm not saying all the time obviously we're with God's people we want to fellowship
And you know most of the times when I have a most of times. I have a good day at church
But I mean we should have a bad time every once in a while
We're listening to some preaching that stomps on our toes and rips our face off and cuts us to the heart
And if preaching is never doing that for you, then either your preachers not good, or you need to get right with God
period
So number one was be careful. How you react to God's man when he preaches a sermon
You don't like number two don't be too casual with the man of God
Don't be too casual with the man of God look at first Samuel chapter 16 verse number four now
The reason why I added this point because I noticed that I sometimes people just don't know and look
I don't need some title or whatever, but I think that people should reap you know back in the old days people used to say mr.
Harrington mr.. Sawyer mr.
Mr.. Yefim off mr.. Holmes they would talk to people with respect hey, ma'am
Hey miss things like that, but you know people are so casual within themselves. They're also casual pastors, too
What's up Aaron you know like some person you know why would you just what you know you know that?
I'm a pastor just be respectful
You know you don't have to call me some people call me pastor Aaron
And maybe it sounds better to say that and then pastor counsel whatever look I don't get too mad about it
But you know some people do
And I think that we've just gotten too casual in society to where we we dress too casually sometimes
We ought not to you know the the clothing that people would wear
to
Funds you know some fun Center like Disneyland or something like that. They're wearing to church
You know I mean people are just too casual
And it's not good to be too casual
Because sometimes people can blow you know can cross the line with you because you've allowed them to be too casual with you in your life
And there's nothing wrong with your
Children come all right. You know what really makes me mad was when someone calls their parents by their first name
instead of mom and dad
Hey, mom and dad or mama or Papa. That's good
But don't say if your dad's name is Stan. Hey Stan. How's it going?
That's too casual. That's disrespectful in my in my world where I came from and I'm
You know not that old. I mean I guess I kind of am but
People should call people you know we're brother Joe or brother
You know whatever and maybe we're too casual here at this church about some things. Maybe we are
Maybe we need to change the culture, but you tell I'll tell you what you shouldn't be too casual with the man of God
Do you think that in the Bible people were casual with Moses?
Do you think in the Bible people were casual with Samuel do you think in the Bible people were casual with Jesus?
What'd they call him Lord?
Master teacher whatever
You know and even the Pharisees would call him that
Because they knew it would be a sign of disrespect to just say hey Jesus
Because that's disrespectful
But we live in a time. We're just that people are super casual about everything look at first Samuel 16 verse 4 says and
did that which the Lord spake and
Came to Bethlehem and the elders of the town trembled at his coming and said comest thou peaceably
You know they're trembling. They're afraid. Why are the people afraid of Samuel?
Well, maybe some of these people heard the story about how he chopped up somebody into little pieces with a sword
Maybe that's why they were afraid
But you know the fear of God is gone for people's eyes and the fear of the man of God has gone from people's eyes
Also, people are super casual when they should probably shouldn't be super casual
Now people come up and start calling Lord Thompson after the end of the service that's don't do that, please
But you can call Pastor Thompson's is an acceptable thing to call me. I think
But if your kids are walking up to me going hey Aaron, what's going on? That's too casual
You know and you maybe you don't agree with that
But you know show me in the Bible where people were super casual with the man of God
Show me in the Bible where people are super casual with just other people
they weren't and
Look at what it says and he said and yet, and he said peaceably
I am come to sacrifice on the Lord sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice
And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice
So you know he came into town and people had mad respect for him didn't they?
So much that they were afraid and shaking in their boots when the man of God came to town look at 1st
Timothy chapter 4 verse number 11 1st
Timothy chapter 4 verse number 11
1st Timothy 4
verse
Number 11 the Bible says these things command and teach let no man despise thy youth
Why did Paul tell people not our Timothy not to let people despise his youth?
Because people are disrespectful because people he's just a kid. He's 20 years old and he's a pastoral
Maybe he read his Bible 25 times before he became the 20 year old pastor you ever think of that
Maybe he's been married a couple years and has a couple kids already
But you know just because they're young look Paul saying let no man despise thy youth was Timothy a pastor yes or no
You know was he a bishop was he an elder yes? He was an elder in the faith, okay?
There's two different types of people when it's talking about elders
Elders there are people that are just elderly people and there's also elders in the faith that are spiritually older than you and in the Lord
Know a lot more things than you do when it comes to God's Word
and so he said let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the believers in the world in
Conversation and charity and spirit in faith and purity till I come give attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine
Neglect not the gift that is in thee which was given thee by
Prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery
So he said hey don't neglect the gift. That's in thee you know when pastor a minute
Is who was here when pastor men is ordained me?
Okay, he laid his hands on me in front of everybody. He asked the congregation
Do you want pastor you know Aaron to be your pastor?
Everybody said yes
He laid his hands on me and he prayed a prayer that get that he wanted God to give me a special anointing
Right and that he would use me and help me
Right so when that was when that happened, that's there's a special gift
That's given to people when they're ordained, and they're they're given
you know they're given a gift and
That gift is that you know you become a person in the ministry of a man of God if you're the pastor of the church
Or if you're ordained for a special purpose as an evangelist
And look we don't have like special powers where we can float or anything like that. It's not that
It's that just God has put us, but like he prates because I believe that God did give me a special anointing when he did
That I'm not saying I'm like the greatest things in sliced bread or anything like that, but I believe God's Word
And he says hey neglect not the gift
It's in thee which was given to thee by a prophecy pastor and men has preached a sermon in here that day
And said and and you know he said great things about you know keys
To being what was the term?
Seven habits of a highly affected pastor that's right
And you know he was just laying out the things that a good pastor is gonna do
And after that he ordained me and laid his hands on me, and I believe that people aren't supposed to despise me
Either and they're supposed to treat me with respect
Hey, I treat people with respect
And I expect people to respect me back. I'm not saying that people are being disrespectful to me
I'm just saying that as a general purpose
People that are pastors people that are men of God you should treat them with respect and don't get too casual with people
I've heard pastor Anderson preach about how people walk up and call him Steve
And people do that when I'm out of town preaching hey Aaron
Hey, Steve
You know it's like it's just like it's it's almost as it wouldn't really bother me so much if I didn't think that they're just
Trying to be casual with me on purpose
They're trying to get casual and just
They want to I don't know they want to equal us out like we're both pastors together or something hey Steve I
Don't even call my fellow pastors by their first names
I'll say pastor
Shelley pastor
Manly Perry pastor Stephen Anderson pastor he men is do you think I ever call pastor a minute is Roger?
Hey Roger, what's going on I?
Never have done that I never will do that because I have a lot of respect for pastor a minute
And I respect him as a man of God, and I'm not gonna come to him. Just go hey Roger. How's it going?
Doesn't that sound weird coming out of my mouth. I feel like I've blasting just by saying
I'm just saying we shouldn't get too casual okay look at Exodus chapter 32 now
This story is a famous story about when the Ten Commandments were given to Moses and
Right away the people start rebelling
And Moses gets super ticked off
He is super ticked off. It's like one of the maddest parts where he gets you know and he gets he's got a temper
He's the meekest man on the whole face of the earth at that time, but also has a fiery hot temper
When people you know cuz like I said he gave up his whole life
to be the leader of the children of Israel at God at God's prompting and
You know here these people are as soon as he leaves they're partying and dancing naked in the camp and making golden calves
I mean, that's pretty disrespectful isn't it look at Exodus 32 19
says it came to pass as soon as he came nigh unto the camp that he saw the calf and
The dancing and Moses is anger waxed hot and he cast the tables out of his hands and break them beneath the mount
so the Ten Commandments
You know etched in stone by the fingers of God he comes out. It's like boom
Breaks him in a million pieces. I mean imagine. I can't even imagine what his face looked like, but he probably was looked super ticked off
But
It says and he took the calf which they had made and burnt it in fire and
Ground it to powder and strawed it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink of it
Drink this take it put it. You know it's like when you want to try to give your kids medicine or going
Good take the medicine
You know what I'm talking about if your parents right
Take these garlic drops, and I'm just kidding
Sorry overstepping my bounds all right
But listen what listen what Aaron says here
He says so he realizes everybody there realizes how upset he is and
And Moses said unto Aaron what did this people unto thee that that was brought so great a sin upon them
Listen how Aaron responds to him Aaron's the older brother mind you okay, and Aaron said let not the anger
of my lord wax hot
Thou know'st the people that are set on mischief. What did he call his younger brother?
He said let not my lord
the anger of my lord wax hot and
So Aaron even in the midst of this crazy situation that's going on
His mate make sure to call him now. He's not calling to my lord like he's just saying like my lord my boss
Hey boss, I'm sorry, but he's saying it in a respectful term in English right my lord my leader
Okay, don't get don't be too angry here. Let's not be hasty Moses. You know
But did Aaron even in the midst of all that he didn't he didn't say
Moses
You know even that that's his brother his younger brother. He is a Moses
No he said my lord, you know why because he came to him with respect even though he was in hot water himself
He's probably wondering where the punches are gonna start coming from
but
You know the point is is that even Aaron?
Was respectful to his brother and called him what he was he was their leader, and so he called him my lord
So don't be too casual with your pastor and other men of God realize this also
That even the greatest leaders have people rebel against them
Even the greatest leaders in the whole world have people rebel against them, and so this is something that pastors
You know I know as a pastor sometimes
I'm just like discouraged when someone betrays me or betrays pastor he meant I get actually more mad when people mess with pastor of men
Is then when they mess with me?
but
Even the greatest leaders you know people are like well
I can't believe you let all these people rise up in your church pastor Anderson when all these modalists started leaving and stuff
But it's like people rebelled against Moses, too. They made a golden calf and danced around it as soon as he left
You know I mean he
God
Made the heaven and the earth to see and all that in them is
Created the world in six days rested on the seventh and the first people he created rebelled against them
Even
The greatest leaders God's a perfect leader isn't he he does nothing wrong. He's sinless
To this day God has never sinned. He's not capable of sin
He's not capable of lying, but yet a third of the angels rebelled against him including Satan the anointed chair of which covereth
So I don't start thinking you know judging leaders by how people betray them people are gonna betray leaders. It's just that simple
So
Even Moses had people that betrayed him. He was a great leader Jesus Christ had Judas betray him
Jesus Christ had many people didn't follow him after he preached that hard sermon
About having to drink his blood and eat his flesh, and they didn't understand that that was a spiritual thing
But you know just keep in mind that people are gonna rebel
Against leadership and sometimes I lose track of that as a pastor
I'm like well can't believe this person's not being loyal to so-and-so and you know we I shouldn't I shouldn't think that way
Because if you just read the Bible that happened a lot
so
You know in fact Christ came to his own people and they received him not
not only did they not receive him they said they screamed crucify him and
Totally turned on him and nailed him to a cross and killed him and today
Those people that are supposedly Israel that are supposedly
You know Jude you know Jude the Jews still spit on the ground three times every time his name is mentioned
They hate him they teach their children to hate him to this day and Jesus was a Jew
But yet his own received him not
They rejected him they crucified him so what I'm saying in point number two is don't be too casual with God's men
Okay number one was be careful
How you react to God's man when he preaches a sermon you don't like number two
Don't be too casual with the man of God and number three be cautious
How you talk about God's man be cautious? How you talk about God's man look at Numbers chapter 12?
Numbers chapter 12
And
Numbers chapter 12 verse number one I got a hurry here says a Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses were they doing it to his face
No
Miriam and Aaron his own brother and sister spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married
For he had married an Ethiopian woman, and they said hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses
Hath he not spoken also by us and the Lord heard it?
Hey, you don't got to worry about the pastor hearing it so much
You don't got to worry about the leader hearing about it so much. You know you got to worry about hearing it
the Lord
Because the Lord hears everything that we say the Lord knows everything that we think the Lord knows everything that we do
And so you know what who you should be worried about
When you speak about a pastor behind his back or behind you know your preacher here behind his back or any?
Other pastor or any other man of God behind their back you got to worry about the Lord hearing it
Because he's the one that's gonna punish you for it. I might never hear the criticism that I get behind my back
But I'll tell you who does hear it. It's God
Why don't you step into my shoes?
Why don't you walk a mile in my moccasins and tell me how you're gonna make every decision perfect?
This is now Moses was very meek
Above all the men which were upon the face of the earth and the Lord
Spake suddenly unto Moses and unto Aaron and unto Miriam come out
He three unto the tabernacle of the congregation and they three came out the Lord came down in a pillar of a cloud and stood
At the door of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam and they both came forth at this time
They're probably really regretting talking about Moses. I'm sure that they know why they're being called forth
And he said hear now my words
If there be a prophet among you I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision and will speak unto him in
A dream my servant Moses is not so who is faithful in all mine house with him
Will I speak mouth-to-mouth even apparently and not in dark speeches and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold?
Wherefore then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
Now that's probably one of the scariest moments in the Bible
You know hey
Moses my guy, so why were you not afraid to speak against Moses?
You know God's a you know appearing to them in a pillar in the tabernacle. I mean that's probably pretty scary
And the anger the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed so you know someone's just really mad
They just walk away from you really quickly. You know what I'm talking about like they're just so mad
They just had to just walk away. God just like
He was he was ticked off
And then he just departed and the cloud departed off the tabernacle the old Miriam became leprous white as snow
And Aaron looked upon Miriam and behold she was leprous
And Aaron said unto Moses last my lord I beseech thee lay not the sin upon us
Wherein we have done foolishly and wherein we have sinned, so what did they do that was foolish?
They talked about the man of God behind his back and God heard it and it says wherein we have
Sinned so it is a sin to talk bad about the man of God behind his back
You got something to say to me won't you come up and say it?
You know and and obviously if you're coming at me with the wrong spirit
I'm not gonna call fire down, but you know my the way I respond to you might not be as positive as you might think
So look I don't have a problem with people questioning things that I do
I don't have a problem with people questioning something. I preached
I don't have a problem with somebody disagreeing with me about something
But what I do have a problem with is if someone was gonna come to me
And they have a bad attitude as they come
because you know I
Understand this I'm not saying to never question or disagree with me
I'm not saying that you should never question the man of God
That's that's that's a doctrine that the old IFB would teach hey don't ever you know they're right
You're wrong every time that's not true because we know that they're not always right. I'm not always right. I make mistakes
But
You know you might think well, man. I wouldn't run it like that
or I wouldn't have made that decision or
You know maybe I said something you don't like
Maybe I said something wrong
And I do I say stuff wrong sometimes, but you probably like it's almost like you guys already know yeah
He flubbed that one up. I'm look. I'm not like a gifted speaker, and you guys probably know that by now
But I you know sometimes I mess up and say something
I shouldn't or whatever, but I will own it if I say something wrong, and I'll apologize or whatever
But if you come to me, and you're like hey pastor Thomas
I don't really agree with you on this, and this is why blah blah blah
But the way you come to me about it is what I'm gonna view and and how you come to me
Should be in a way. That's respectful
First Timothy 5 1 says rebuke not an elder
But entreat him as a father and the younger man as brethren look. I'm the elder here
I'm the man of God in this church
I'm the pastor of this church and the Bible says to rebuke not an elder
And what are we talking about how you talk about people behind their back well rebuking me behind my back is the same thing as
Rebuking me isn't it to my face
It's pretty much the same thing, but most people are too cowardly to do that to a pastor
Most people are too cowardly to do that and so they'll just go behind your back, and I'm not saying anybody here is
But I don't know if anybody that's talking bad about me behind my back. I'm just saying that in general
This is how we should be towards men of God
This is how we should be towards God's people you know God's men and if they're doing something wrong
Hey, maybe you're just they're just something that you just disagree with doctrinally don't spread that garbage around the church
Don't sit there and talk behind my back in
front of other people at the church in front of other church people and say I disagree with Pastor Thompson because
You're wrong. You're wrong instantly even if you're right you're wrong because you shouldn't be doing that
We have dedicated trolls that are bent on destroying me
This church and other pastors that I'm friends with in their churches
You know what I don't want to deal with I don't want to deal with trolls from the inside that are secretly undermining our
Doctrine in our church. I don't you know the last thing we need to be is killed by friendly fire
That's like one of the worst things that happen to the military where you know hey, we accidentally killed our own troops whoops
What did they die for well because we're stupid we didn't know we're supposed to be shooting over here
You know I mean
I don't want to get killed by friendly fire by people that I'm supposed to be friends with or people that are people of my
own church
But you know people betray pastor Anderson all the time
people betray pastor he men is all the time and
Then they end up getting kicked out of the church
And then they're mad because they got kicked out because they were betraying them
I don't understand that
If you don't want to get on board the program go to a different church that you like better
But people have made it their 24-7 job to watch every single sermon by every single pastor that we're friends with
Watch our sermons look for any flub or mistake or something they could grab ahold of and twist and lie about
And they want to dig up dirt
They want to try to make us look bad all the time
And I don't even want to mention these clowns names, but there's a lot of people out there doing this
They have these secret groups out there. They're getting snapshots of things that we say and and things like that
but there's a toothless fool from Arkansas and
He's basically look
he left he left the church and
Then he's lost everything
Including his toe his teeth
He's got diabetes. He's just he's being chastened by God or destroyed by him one of the two
He's he's completely you know
Going to get trying to get lawsuits created and all this other stuff and the guy
His wife and child and child left him while he was in the hospital. He must be just a great guy
You know what I think I think God's just destroying him because he's a fool
Because he's a wicked person and just you know the funny thing is that a lot of these people people helped
That's what I don't get it's like
people helped them
People prayed for them people
Love them and try to give to them and and do all these nice things for him
And then they just turn and stab you in the back like a rat fink
It's wicked
There's also a jobless loser that was kicked out of Verity Baptist Church
He was also treated good
You know given lots of chances, but you know he just
Still
Continues to rail on pastor Jimenez even though pastor Jimenez bent over backwards to try to be nice to the guy
That was a mistake. I pray that guy dies I
Do
You know David prayed for people to die sometimes in the Bible
I think this is an instance where he does that guy just needs to die hopefully you know he gets run over by a bus
Or something like that
I
Another man that moved to Verity did an inner he did an interview and totally disrespected pastor Jimenez
Pastors family invited them to their personal Christmas and
Went out and bought them gifts and literally tried to make them feel like family invited. I mean to his parents house
You know your Christmas like I mean you ever everybody in here has their own Christmas pretty much, right?
And to bring an outsider in isn't like a normal thing that people do
But to make this guy a part of their family and Britain you know they just moved they didn't have anything
They didn't have any money for Christmas presents. They brought him over invited him for dinner bought them presents
They wrapped him up and unwrapped him there, and you know they were treated like family
And you know what that rap think loser did he left and went and did an interview and talked a bunch of trash about pastor
Jimenez what a loser I
Hope God the curse of God is upon his life. I hope he dies soon
You know what because you should just go around railing against pastors
You know it's one thing to talk bad, and then like I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that
Everybody's probably done that before
But to sit there and just make it your life's mission to try to destroy that pastor. What did he do so bad?
try to give you work inside the church try to encourage you to serve the Lord and
Then you just turn on him like a like a loser like a rat think like a piece of trash that you are
You know what pastor? I'm as doesn't really have a trash can church there, but you know what it is. It's
So-and-so's trash can I'm not even gonna mention his name
Cuz he just thrives on stuff like that
but all these losers are are coming to his trash compactor and and and you know you know these people that
Get kicked out or leave pastor men is his church, and you know the funny thing is is the pastor men is is so long-suffering
And in and tries to do and bends over backwards and tries to help people even when they've just stabbed him in the back
He still forgives them
Because people don't know how many chances he actually gives people I know pastor a minute
I know how many chances he gives people it's not like it's just like he's on a hair trigger to kick people out of his
Church or something
There was another guy that moved down there
mostly physically blind and
Was given the royal treatment also including rides to church all the time
Given a video ministry to watch over well. He didn't really watch over it but
Which he was awful at by the way
Turned on pastor and men is and followed this clown out of the out of his church the other clown that I was talking about
That I won't mention his name
You know and making terrible videos, and then goes out and talks smack
About pastor and men is after all the good things that him and all the church members did for him people letting him
You know giving him rides and stuff like that all the time. You know and then he makes a video
That's the world's dumbest video. I've ever seen in my life. It was like 30 minutes of something. I'll never get back
But you know what
What's good is that pastor men his videos are better than ever now now he's got brother Oliver
It's like a blessing in disguise because this guy was ruining his video ministry
Like you remember when the orange videos were out like the hazy orange type ones that was him that was doing those videos
And you know the reason I'm talking about this because they're just people that won't sleep
Until they've caused somebody to stumble or someone to fall Bible says in Proverbs 4 14
It says enter not into the path of the wicked and go not in the way of evil men avoid it pass not by it
Turn it turn from it and pass away for they sleep not except
They have done mischief and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall
There's people out there, and we don't realize you know we don't think like them
So we don't understand why people are like this
And just blows our mind because it's like how could you do this?
But just because they're wicked people and we're and you're not and so because you don't think like that
Then you can't understand it
and that's just the truth and
These people will just sit there and talk and bash about bash pastors, and they're not afraid to speak evil of dignities
They're not afraid to sit there and rail on men of God that don't deserve it that only just
extended their hand in peace to them, and they slapped it away and
And and they've tried to drag their churches and their names to the mud
You know and a lot of these people have been helped by other church members and family members
But you know what God still has a reward for you for that
If you're one of the people that's helped one of these losers
You know that ended up turning on people turning on the pastors turning on their churches
You know what God still is gonna reward you for that
You know because how would you know that they were that evil?
But number one we need to be careful how we react to God's man when he preaches a sermon you don't like number two
Don't be too casual with the man of God number three be cautious. How you talk about God's man
Because here's the thing God is going to repay God is going to avenge
Any pastor that's maligned and talked badly about and God's gonna make a record pence for that
He's gonna make sure that they that they get with their what they deserve when it comes to that
And we just need to understand that we need to treat the man of God with respect
I got to treat the man of God with respect
You know even if I don't agree with one of these preachers one of the things that they say you know what it doesn't matter
Because I'm not their judge. God's their judge, and I'm not gonna sit there and talk trash about a pastor
So anyway, let's pray Heavenly Father. We thank you Lord for this day
Pray that you'd help us Lord to just keep these things in perspective
Help us to make sure that we're respecting God's men and Lord
Lord we're not above everybody else, but Lord you put us in leadership
and I just pray that you'd help us Lord to be good pastors Lord and be worthy of
Having respect Lord, and I just pray that you continue to bless this church Lord
Thank you for the new members that we have Lord, and I just pray that you would
Dismiss us and and Lord that you'd bring us back for the evening service in Jesus name we pray Amen