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Good morning, welcome to Shure Foundation Baptist Church morning service.
We'll open with a hymn, page 227, saved by the blood, 227 in the green or the red.
You have individual soul liberty for the green or the red.
Alright.
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Amen. Brother Eli, can you open us with a word of prayer?
Amen. The next hymn, my faith has found a resting place that's 150 in the green or the red.
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My faith has found a resting place not in device nor creed. I trust the ever living one, his wounds for me shall bleed.
I need no other argument, I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me. Enough for me that Jesus saves, this ends my fear and doubt.
A sinful soul, I come to him, he'll never cast me out. I need no other argument, I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me. My heart is beating on the word, the written word of God.
Salvation by my Savior's name, salvation through his blood. I need no other argument, I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me. My great physician heals the sick, the lost he came to save.
For me his precious body shed, for me his life he gave. I need no other argument, I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me.
Amen, at this time we'll have the announcements.
Good morning everybody, welcome to Sherriff Foundation Baptist Church for our morning service.
Let's take our bulletins and go through some announcements real quick.
If you need a bulletin just lift up your hand, one of the ushers will bring you a bulletin.
Just keep them raised up right behind you Mikey.
On our front cover we have our verse of the week, it says,
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. James chapter 1 verse 22.
It's a great scripture there, applying the word of God and not just listening to it.
On our inside page there we have a short message about our church there.
And if you need to be saved or baptized, please let one of the ushers know.
We'd be happy to go through the scriptures with you or scripturally baptize you.
Our social media, you can find our church, anything about our preaching or messages are on those social media sites listed there.
The Bible Way to Heaven QR code is right there.
You could also just listen to that, scan it with your phone and listen to that if you're not 100% sure you're saved.
I go through the scriptures in the video there and just show you the plan of salvation.
Our service times are 10.30am for our Sunday morning service.
Sunday evening service is 3.30pm.
Our Thursday Bible study is at 6.30pm and our soul winning times are listed there below.
We have a soul winning today at 1 o'clock.
Brother Alex is leading right there, so get with him.
I can only have one group going out.
So, one location, one group.
So, just get with Brother Alex.
Meeting here at the auditorium at 1pm if you're planning on going out from here.
Or just meet on location at the group, at the map provided in the WhatsApp group.
Our praise report, you can see the salvations, baptisms and attendance totals from last week.
And the upcoming events, just wanted to put a note in there for our new service time starting in Seattle in August.
And our Sunday morning service is up there, will begin at 11am.
And our evening service will be at 4pm.
And we have the building starting at 10.30 all day on Sunday.
That room that we meet in and we have access to the kitchen and the mother baby room and all that stuff.
The mother baby room times are kind of different.
But we do have access to it.
So, anyway, God answered our prayers on that.
So, we did have like a really early Sunday morning time.
And Catholics like that time, but I don't think Baptists do.
So, we're more 11am or 10.30am people.
So, let's see, July 4th, we do not have service this Thursday.
So, just make a special note of that.
You might be in the habit of just being here every Thursday.
And that's good, but we won't be here.
So, the rapture didn't happen.
It happens after the tribulation.
So, if you show up Thursday and you just forgot, we're actually having church this Tuesday.
So, in a few days here, a couple days, we'll be having church again.
So, that's going to be our midweek service here.
Bible Believers Baptist Church's anniversary is coming up.
It's going to be on July 5th.
So, this Friday, we're going to have a special service at 6pm at the church building there.
Evangelist Daniel Kutzar will be preaching for us at 6pm.
And then we're going to have a soul winning marathon on Saturday.
And all the usual things we're going to meet at the church though.
For coffee and donuts or whatever kind of continental breakfast style stuff that we'll have.
And then we'll have lunch provided.
We'll probably meet at a restaurant or have it catered to the building.
And then we'll have some afternoon soul winning.
We'll try to pick some good spots for us to go to.
And then we'll have the regular preaching there on Sunday morning.
Can I get a show of hands that people are planning on actually going to Yakima?
Okay.
Alright.
Yes.
You're going?
Okay.
Cool.
Alright.
So, if you're planning on going, I might just ask again in the WhatsApp group so I can remember.
Because I might have got your hands there.
I pretty much will be able to remember that.
But, you know, I might Biden out and not remember who all said raise their hands.
But, anyway, so I'll be like him in the debate that night.
So, anyway, so the 26th and the 28th is going to be our six year anniversary.
And I did kind of lock in the details of that late last night.
So, our evangelist in Vancouver, B.C., brother Wynn Fisher is going to be here to preach for us on Friday night.
And so that will be the 26th.
We have a big group coming down from Seattle.
And then we're going to have some soul winning.
We're going to have a barbecue here like we did last year.
And I need to procure the bounce house.
I don't know if we're going to do the old rodeo thing or not.
But that got ugly.
Definitely do the bounce house.
And we're probably going to play some corn hole.
We got the corn hole games.
And I know that brother Wynn is really, they're really competitive up there at their church.
So, you might want to get some practice in.
But we'll just have a good time fellowshipping here at the church building.
And have some fun for the kids.
And have a barbecue.
So, if anybody wants to volunteer to be on the barbecue, C.J. and brother Shawn.
We'll get some good burgers.
We'll get some good dogs.
Get some good stuff to eat.
So, it will be a blessing to celebrate our 6th year anniversary.
And then all the other stuff.
The other stuff is coming off way into the distance.
But just mark your calendars for that.
We're a family integrated church.
That means the children and infants are welcome to enter the church services.
Please utilize those rooms for your convenience.
And all the other rules are there.
Please silence your cell phones.
Place them on airplane mode for the service.
Ties offerings that came in so far this month are at the bottom of the page.
And then it's Ms. Candice's birthday tomorrow.
And Ezra Ritchie's birthday the 2nd.
And then C.J. and Rachel Woods.
Your anniversary is Saturday?
Is that right?
Okay.
So, we'll sing happy anniversary to the Woods because we won't be here.
We'll be in Yakima.
And then Tony needs to come out of the booth right now.
Because we didn't get to sing happy anniversary to him and Jazzy.
So, come on out Tony.
Sit with your wife.
Yes, that's part of the fun for me.
Sorry brother Tony.
Seven years Tony.
It's been a while.
Time flies, yeah.
Alright, let's go ahead and sing happy anniversary.
Happy anniversary.
Happy anniversary to you.
God bless you and keep you.
Happy anniversary to you.
Can we sing happy anniversary to Sarah and Brian?
I thought we did.
Is he lying?
Okay.
Alright.
You couldn't lie to your, don't lie to your pastor.
It's not right now.
And then C.J. and Rachel, how long have you been married now?
About a year.
Wow, congratulations.
Alright.
Let's go ahead and sing another song and then we're going to receive the offering after that.
Alright, there won't be an altar call after just as I am.
But, it's never a bad time to get right in your heart.
Alright.
Number 270 in the green or the red, just as I am.
Just as I am without one plea, what path I walk was shared for me.
And that thou bidst me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come.
I come just as I am and waiting not to rid my soul of one dark lot.
To thee whose blood can cleanse each spot, O Lamb of God, I come.
I come just as I am.
O tossed about with many a conflict, many a doubt.
Fightings and fears within, without O Lamb of God, I come.
I come just as I am.
O wretched, blind, sight-rich as he, being of the mind,
Yea, all I need in thee to find O Lamb of God, I come.
I come just as I am.
Thou wilt receive, wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve,
Because thy promise I believe O Lamb of God, I come.
I come.
Amen.
At this time, we'll have the offering.
And as the ushers come forward, Brother Mikey, can you bless the offering?
Father, thank you for bringing us all together.
Amen.
All right, go ahead and turn in your Bibles to 2 Corinthians chapter number 2.
2 Corinthians chapter 2, if you don't have a Bible, there should be a Bible under the seat in front of you.
2 Corinthians 2.
2 Corinthians 2, the Bible reads, But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
And I wrote this same unto you, lest when I come, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice,
having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears, not that you should be grieved,
but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part, that I may not overcharge you all.
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many,
so that contrary wise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
To whom ye forgive anything, I forgive also. For if I forgive anything, to whom I forgave it.
For your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ, lest Satan should get an advantage of us, for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,
I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother.
But taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ,
and maketh manifest the saber of his knowledge by us in every place.
For we are unto God a sweet saber of Christ, and them that are saved, and in them that perish.
To the one we are the saber of death unto death, and to the other the saber of life unto life.
And who is sufficient for these things?
For we are not as many which corrupt the word of God, but as of sincerity,
but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
Brother Eli, will you pray for us?
Thank you for the book of II Corinthians, Father. Thank you for the obvious power of it,
Lord, because you helped us to understand, Father, what you have to say.
Help me pray that you would build up the pastor function here,
and fill us with this good Lord so that we can understand your word of truth.
We pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
Amen. Well, before I get started, I just wanted to say that today is...
I'm just going to be preaching a message about religious liberty,
so I figured it was, you know, we're not going to have church on Thursday,
because we don't want to drive into Saigon after the service is over,
so I figured it would be appropriate to preach something about liberty,
because we live in a land that proclaims that it believes in liberty,
and a lot of our liberties are being taken away,
and they're always constantly challenging the laws of our land to try to interpret them.
People will say that the Constitution is a living document,
but really the only real living document is the Bible.
The Bible says it's quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intent,
intents of the heart, so the Bible is the only thing that's...
So quick means alive, so the Bible claims that it's alive,
and it can discern our intents, it can discern our heart,
so when we read it and we get convicted or we hear the Bible preached,
it is supposed to affect us and admonish us to do what's right,
to get sin out of our lives, and, you know, when we think about liberty,
we probably do think about the liberties that we have in the United States,
and in reality, you know, the only thing that really gives us true liberty is the Spirit of God.
Look down at 2 Corinthians 3, verse 17 in your Bible there.
It says, Now the Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Now, each and every one of us, if you're saved today,
we have the Spirit of the Lord indwelling us.
That is the promise in the New Testament, that we would have the Spirit of the Lord,
and the Spirit of the Lord cannot depart from us, we cannot lose the Spirit through sin,
we can grieve the Spirit, we can, you know, make the Spirit of God angry,
we can have God angry at us, but we can never lose the Spirit of God.
So it says, Now the Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
So, we do have liberty in Christ Jesus our Lord,
and He has given us the Comforter, which He calls the Spirit of God.
The term liberty is the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
So, when you think about like Moses and the children of Israel,
it's a good picture of, you know, Egypt being a picture of the world,
and when the children of Israel were freed, it's like they were freed from the world, from sin,
and God's design was to take them after salvation and take them into the promised land,
and then obviously in that picture is, you know, going in and conquering the land for Christ,
and that's when you see Joshua in the New Testament, he pictures Christ,
and his name is actually the same name as Jesus in the New Testament,
and they just didn't have the sh sound in the New Testament in Greek.
So, anyway, that's why his name appears different in the New Testament.
So, anyway, that's not what I'm preaching about,
but now, what it means we have liberty, where we have liberty is,
we're no longer slaves to sin, and we're no longer enslaved in our mind.
The Bible talks about how the devil has trapped people,
he's enslaved people at his will to the system that he's designed in this world,
because the Bible says that he is the god of this world, small g, right?
And because he is the god of this world, he has a lot of freedom to enslave people,
and those people that aren't saved, he can pretty much do a lot of things that he wants to do with them,
because they are not free.
But we are free from the devil, we're free from sin,
and even if we were in prison for our beliefs,
even if someone told you, you can't believe that,
our minds belong to the Lord Jesus Christ.
We have the new man, we have a new mind, we have a new heart as we are saved,
and so people could tell us, hey, you can't believe that, or you shouldn't believe that,
but our minds are free to serve Christ.
Our body could someday not be free to serve Christ,
but our mind, they can't take that away from us.
They cannot take away the liberty that we have and what we believe.
They cannot take away our belief in Christ.
That's just something that this world can never do.
We're free to serve God as he intended.
Now, the difference between what the liberty that the United States talks about,
it does have the intention of the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
That is part of what the United States' picture of liberty is,
but it's also the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions
imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.
Now, that's all true, too, but there should be a restriction on people's behavior, okay?
But the behavior restrictions have gotten way looser.
There should be law and order.
People say the pursuit of happiness is one of the things that we get to enjoy as Americans,
but they've taken that pretty far.
When people are dressing up in dog masks and pretending like they're animals
and just all the weird stuff that we see in this world now,
that is not what is intended by liberty.
I mean, people are like, well, what do people do in the privacy of their own homes?
But they're not doing it in the privacy of their own homes.
Now that they're out of the closet,
now they're out of the darkness and into the light,
they're out in full view of everybody.
They want to just show everybody what they really are,
and then people are just like, wow, I really don't want to see that.
And they're like, no, you will see it.
We won't force you to see it.
And I'm glad that we haven't had to see as much this month as we have in times past.
I think that Bud Light losing all that money, they really did get together,
and they said, you know what, maybe we went too far with this.
Target was like, yeah, maybe we should stop selling pride clothes for little kids.
And they lost a lot of money.
So they kind of got the picture, maybe we should just dial this back a little bit.
But this is how agendas become, this is how they work.
They'll go two steps forward and one step back.
So it's not as much now, but they just went full tilt,
and then people freaked out and were like, okay, this is enough.
When you're putting a transvestite on a beer can, you've gone too far.
But I would say they went way too far the last several years in a row.
But anyway, I'm preaching about that tonight, so I don't want to get off too much on that.
But what made me think, my wife actually kind of gave me the idea to preach this sermon,
and there was a lot of religious liberty top things that we had to deal with last week.
And a lot of the things that we have to deal with are people calling us,
or specifically calling me, and saying,
do you know that you have all these women and children and all these people on our property,
and they're knocking on people's doors, and they're telling us,
they're inviting people to church, can you believe this?
It's like, yeah, I mean, they're sent there.
We have all these signs.
And Miss Crystal had to deal with this top-tier Karen boss last week.
She was like level 10 on the Karen boss spectrum.
And she was an older woman.
I don't know if maybe someone said that she might have been in her 70s,
but maybe 60s, 70s.
But she gets face to face with Miss Crystal, calling her a liar,
screaming at her at the top of her lungs,
and seeing her children cry, who are in tow with her,
and just flipping out, full Karen boss,
we need to start recording these people,
and just posting them on the internet and shaming them,
because this is just ridiculous.
And this person called me a couple times,
and the first time I didn't answer,
and they called me from a different number,
and so they called me from a different number and then chewed me out,
and I had already left a message that day and whatever.
I was just like, whatever.
They said that the little kids were out of control and just all this stuff.
And I don't know all the details of everything that was said,
but what I do know is that my wife had to kind of jump in between
and be like, hey, you need to stop.
And then she's screaming at them as they're walking out of the complex
at the top of her lungs, and it's like a condominium or something.
But she called me and left all these messages,
and I'll tell you later on about the phone call and the sermon,
a little bit more about it.
But I also had another, it was like a Ken.
He wasn't a top 10 Ken, but he was like maybe a 7, 6.5.
He was a maintenance man.
We deal with a lot of these maintenance men when we're out,
and they just seem to think that they're now the security boss of the complex,
and they take it upon themselves to enforce the rules
that we're not supposed to be there soliciting.
Well, we're not soliciting, and by the law we're not soliciting.
By the Supreme Court, which ruled in our favor, we're not soliciting.
So I spoke with that individual on the phone,
and he's telling me the same thing.
All these kids are out here, and it's pandemonium.
And I think that when they think that they call me
that I'm going to give them this answer,
like, oh, well, I'll just straighten this out right now.
Because this is what people think.
I want to talk to the manager.
This is what Karens and Kans do.
They want to talk to the manager, and the manager's going to say,
the customer's always right, but this is a church.
And when you want to talk to the manager,
the manager's going to tell you how it is.
Whether you're male or female, I'm going to tell you how it is.
I'm going to tell you what the Bible says.
I'm going to tell you what the law says.
And they just seem to think that because they put up a sign
that says no trespassing, no soliciting,
that that means that they can just treat us however they want
or do whatever they want, and that's just not true.
You can't just walk around. You can't touch people.
You can't get in their face.
You can't follow them around and disrupt them.
While they're doing something that this country has said we can do,
our Constitution and the Bill of Rights says that we can do,
and more importantly, what the Bible says we can do.
So, we do have liberty in this country,
and we are blessed to live in a nation where we do have freedom of speech
and the freedom of religion.
And there's discrimination laws that have been passed in this country
that you can't discriminate against people based upon their religion.
But, you know, there's all these laws about this stuff,
but when it comes to Christianity, they do want to cut us short.
They do want to say, oh, but we didn't mean Christianity.
Oh, let's treat the Muslims with all this respect.
Let's let them do what they want.
Let's let any other religion, but Christians, no way.
And they'll even pass legislation.
I preached about the House Bill 6090 where they say specifically
that if you say that the Jews killed Jesus, that that is anti-Semitic
and against the law.
And it hasn't passed the Senate, and even if it does,
we'll still preach the same thing.
Because we have freedom of speech, they can pass whatever law they want,
but if it's against the Constitution, against the Bill of Rights,
it's null and void.
So, as a Christian, as Christians living in the United States,
we do have amazing freedoms.
We have a lot of, we have amazing freedoms, we have amazing liberty,
and that liberty does come from the Spirit of God Almighty,
and in our church we have liberty.
We have liberty to preach what we want
and to go unmolested, supposedly, to preach the Gospel.
There's a lot of nations on this earth, like North Korea, for instance.
You can't believe whatever you want.
You're to believe whatever the state tells you to believe.
They're indoctrinated from a very early age.
They have to worship their leader, who's Kim Jong-un, or whatever his name is,
a little short, fat guy that rides around on horses and looks stupid.
And if you're caught practicing Christianity, they beat you,
they throw you in camps, or they just murder you.
You can't even escape.
It's like a total police state-type country,
and if you're caught trying to escape, they'll kill you.
They'll kill you or they'll capture you and put you in hard labor,
making big rocks into little rocks.
And so we have a lot of, and that's the extreme, of course,
but there's a lot of countries that, and here's the thing,
if you don't use the liberty that you have,
if you don't use the freedom that you have,
if you don't fight for that freedom,
and I'm not saying we should take up arms or fight physically,
but if we don't fight and just use our words and use our rights as Christians,
we will lose them.
And this is what's happening in this country,
is that pastors are too afraid to stand up and say what the Bible says,
and that's why all this stuff is happening in our country.
Preachers stop preaching the truth.
Preachers stop preaching what the Bible says.
I almost got arrested one time for knocking on doors a long time ago
when I went to a church in Hazelville.
And my pastor would have been mad if I would have got arrested.
And that's the only reason why I didn't get arrested,
because I felt like this guy is going to arrest me for what?
Preaching the gospel?
And at that time I was a little ignorant.
I was a fairly new Christian, maybe had been saved for a year and a half,
two years or something.
And I was really surprised that the supposed apartment managers
saying they were Christians but then calling the police on me.
I was just like, what are you talking about?
I'm trying to get people saved here.
And you're saying you're a Christian, you're going to throw me out?
And they're just like, yeah, there's no soliciting here, whatever.
This is before that law was passed,
or before the Supreme Court ruled on that ruling.
So it was before that happened.
But as a pastor, I want to back up my people.
If you're doing what's right,
and you're doing what the Bible says,
and you're striving lawfully,
then when apartment manager Karen, top ten tier Karen calls me,
I'm going to stand up for my people and tell them,
I'm not going to go, oh, the customer's always right.
I'm going to say, no, you're wrong.
Our country allows religious liberty.
Our country allows free speech.
You don't pay their rent, Karen.
And so you don't have the right to tell them what they can and can't believe.
You don't speak for the whole apartment complex.
She's not an apartment manager.
I asked her that. Are you the apartment manager?
No.
I said, well, then you don't have the right to tell them to leave.
Oh, yes I do.
No, you don't.
And neither does the maintenance manager.
I said, go fix something, buddy.
Why don't you just go fix something?
I mean, is that your job description?
To harass Christians to come and knock on people's doors?
No.
Your job description is probably, fix stuff.
Fix the leaky faucet.
Fix the carpet.
Fix the apartment that somebody else trashed.
Or whatever it is your job is to do, it's maintenance.
It's not security.
So what we're allowed to say in our world today is getting more restrictive.
They don't even want us to say certain words.
When I was a kid, calling people fag was just a normal thing.
It wasn't like, oh, I can't believe you said that.
It was just normal.
Our friends would call each other that on the playground.
Oh, you fag, you know, whatever.
Now it's just like, oh, I can't believe you said that.
It's like saying the n-word.
No, it's not because black people were born black.
They can't help that.
And to call them a derogatory term is just wrong because it's wicked.
It's wicked to be a racist.
But they're not born that way.
They become that way because God gives them over to the reprobate mind.
So people are like, well, that's offensive.
You should use terms that aren't offensive.
Well, they call themselves queers, don't they?
So if it's not offensive, it's in their little moniker.
It's LGBTQ.
That stands for queer.
So if I call them queers, is that offensive to them?
No.
If I call them homos, that's just short for homosexuals.
Is that offensive?
No, it's not offensive.
If I call them sodomites, is that offensive?
They don't even know what it means.
But when I say faggot, everybody knows exactly what that means.
And they're just trying to say,
you can't say these certain things.
You can't say whore.
And people condemn me for saying speech like that from the pulpit,
but the Bible uses the word piss.
The Bible uses the word bastard.
The Bible uses the word whore.
The Bible uses the word whore monger.
The Bible uses the word drunkard.
It's not I have an addiction problem.
It's you're a drunkard.
You're a drunk.
The Bible has some strong language in it,
and we shouldn't be shying away from what the Bible says.
We shouldn't just be like,
oh, that word for this time.
No.
The Bible's timeless.
The Bible, you know, to say the word bastard,
you know, to say the word bastard,
you know, just means an illegitimate child.
Well, just say that then.
No, because bastard
has a negative connotation to it.
That's why people don't want us to say it.
Because it means something negative.
We should never just say anything negative.
You know, don't ever say the word hate.
Well, the word hate is in the Bible plenty of times.
You know what? Sometimes God hates people,
not just sin.
God actually does hate people.
I'm not preaching about that today, though.
But all I'm preaching, I'm just saying this,
is that in our world today, they're trying to
stop us from saying things that are offensive.
They don't want us to say
illegal alien.
They want us to say undocumented person.
They don't want us to say homeless
or derelict or bum.
They want us to say
experiencing houselessness.
I mean, they're experiencing houselessness.
They're a bum.
They're homeless.
I mean, that's what they are.
They're drug addicted homeless people.
We're in America, folks.
We're the richest nation on the face of the planet.
People can find jobs if they really want to.
So,
I'm not buying that.
Are there some exceptions to the rule?
I'm sure that there are.
Someone that just couldn't afford to live in their place anymore.
I get it. Not down on those people.
I'm talking about the people that
want to be out there on purpose.
So,
and if Christians don't wake up today
and stop being a little scared of their own
shadow preachers
and people just stop.
We need to stand up for Jesus.
You know that song?
Stand up, stand up for Jesus.
It's not just talking about just standing up.
It's talking about standing up for Jesus.
And not just letting people mock and blaspheme
Him in our presence all the time.
And I'm not saying to get physical.
Again, we have a,
it's not a carnal war that we're in.
We're in a spiritual battle.
So I just want to take a look at a few liberties
that we have as citizens of the United States
and as
we've been commanded
by our Lord to do.
We have liberty in Christ
to do
and keep His commandments. That's above
everything. That's above
any civil government
that we have on the face of the planet.
But we also have
rights from our government also.
The First Amendment
is
Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment
of religion.
So there's not to be a one
religion, like the Church of England
is the religion of England.
Now they allow other churches
to be there, but there was a time when no other
churches were allowed to exist, basically.
Catholicism
was banned and it was just
the Church of England alone.
And so, but they are established,
they're sponsored by
the state of
England, or the Church of England, or,
excuse me, the government of England
to be, you know,
so they're appointed by the king.
The king is over
the church and that's just not,
the Bible doesn't teach that.
So, but we're not,
the First Amendment teaches that we're not supposed to
establish a religion. So Baptist
is not the national religion of the United
States. It says,
or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof. So
the First Amendment says, we
have the free exercise
of religion.
Freedom of religion. It's in the First
Amendment.
So what does our religion teach?
That we are allowed to preach the Bible,
God, Jesus said, what you hear
in darkness, preach on the house tops.
We're,
we have the ability
to preach what we want, what the Bible
says we can preach.
And we have a commission to preach
the Gospel to every
creature, and to go door
to door and preach
the Gospel. That is the way the
Apostle Paul turned the world upside
down, is by going
door to door, daily
and in every house.
Right? So,
and it says, or abridging
the freedom of speech.
What is abridging?
Have you ever had like, this
is the abridged version of this book?
It's where they take out and they just put like,
they don't put everything
in the book. They shorten
it down, they cut it short, right?
They just give you kind of the
main things of the book.
So, we're not supposed to have
abridged freedom of speech.
That means
we can say what we want.
That means we can say whatever we
want. So,
or the press, or the right of the people
to peaceably assemble.
It says, and
to petition the government for redress of grievances.
It's not just that we have the right
to assemble, to
petition the government
for a redress of
grievances. We just have the right to
peaceably assemble. Period.
So, what does the church do?
We're peaceably assembling here today.
We have the right to do that. They cannot
stop us from assembling
as a church. This is what
our government has given us these rights.
But, more importantly,
Jesus Christ gave us these rights.
The second amendment is a well
regulated militia being
necessary to the security of a free state.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed.
But, what happens today? They're
always trying to infringe on these rights, aren't they?
Oh, you can only have ten rounds in your magazine, or whatever.
It's like, well,
do you really need that AR-15 to go duck hunting?
Well, first of all,
I would never use an AR-15 to go duck hunting
because you're going to blow all the meat up.
But,
but, if I wanted to,
if I had that red dot on there, it would probably be
a nice head shot. You don't harm the body
at all. It just, head goes
I mean, it might be practical
in some settings, but, you know,
most people use shotguns, right, when they're hunting
bird, or any kind of
fowl, right? So, but
the right of the people
to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed. That means we're allowed
to have weapons.
And, it doesn't say
that it shall not
be infringed
it shall not be infringed.
So, when they're making all these rules
and regulations about our guns,
that's not under the Second Amendment.
They're breaking the Constitution
Amendment, the Second Amendment.
So, you're like, well, what about
automatic weapons? Why do we need automatic weapons?
Well, you know, because
if the government goes bad, the idea
was, just like the founding
fathers, when they revolted against England,
they took up arms
and fought. So, we
have the same mindset
if our government was to go bad,
then we would be able to do the same thing.
But, you know, they kind of
made it so lopsided
now that we would never stand a chance.
But, good luck taking everybody's guns away
from them. I mean, they're really
trying hard to
make this happen, and they do
really try hard to restrict everything.
But, you know, the government,
like I said, everything's
always trying to be infringed
upon. They're always trying to
curb our speech. They're always
trying to curb what we can do in our religion.
And, these bosses at these apartment
complexes, and these,
what, these housing
authorities, and all these other,
what do you call those, the HOA's?
The HOA bosses?
They're
usually Karen's and Ken's too. I mean, we
had an HOA person
punch one of our church members
before. I mean, that's how
crazy they get. So,
I wanted to read you the
1964 Anti-Discrimination Act.
It says, this law
makes it illegal to discriminate
against someone on the basis
of race, color, religion,
national
origin, or sex. The law
also makes it illegal to retaliate
against a person because the person complained
about the discrimination,
filed a charge of
discrimination, or participated
in an employment discrimination
investigation or lawsuit.
The law also requires
that employers reasonably accommodate
applicants and employees
sincerely held religious
practices, unless
doing so would impose an undue hardship
on the operation of the employer's
business. So, people
that really do go to church on
Sunday should be able to get that Sunday off.
I mean, unless it's some
undue hardship upon the business.
But, you know,
they'll let people pray,
Muslims pray five times a day,
wear their head
gear, their Cobra Commander outfit,
you know, I mean,
9-11 was supposedly carried out by all these
Saudi terrorists and stuff,
but then you see Cobra Commander and his
wife get on, or you see
some guy get on with all of his children
and his wife is Cobra Commander,
they're the last people to get on the plane.
It's like, you know,
it's kind of a scary situation.
It's almost as scary as you see
that the woman is the pilot on the plane.
It's like,
it's like, can I get off this flight now and just
rebook?
That's a joke, but
kind of.
Anyway,
you're not supposed to be able to
discriminate against people because
of their religion, but they do.
I mean, my work tried to fire me over it.
They brought me in front
of the council,
and they tried to fire me.
But you know what I did?
I brought in the First Amendment.
I brought in this law,
and actually, if you really dig deeper into
the 1964 Anti-Discrimination Act,
it says
if it's a new religion
that just came about
today,
and you're practicing that religion, they
don't have the right to discriminate against that.
And my defense was,
I said, I don't belong to a new religion.
I belong to the religion called
Christianity, which is a
well-known and established religion,
and I said the things that I believe
are things that are in the Bible.
And then I preached Leviticus 2013
to them, and I preached
several other passages, like
Romans 1.
I'm not saying I'm Paul,
but I felt like
Paul, preaching in front of this
council of people, but
I wanted them to see that I'm not afraid
to stand up for my rights.
I said, if you try to fire
me, I'm going to sue you.
I'm going to sue
you because you're breaking
the law. You're violating my
rights under the
Constitution. You're violating the
1964 Discrimination Act.
So if anybody in this room ever gets fired
for what you believe, then
just throw this stuff in their face.
Because that
changed the temperature
in the room real quick. They're like, can we get a copy
of that stuff? What, you
didn't know the Constitution said that?
You didn't know about the
It always applies to everybody else, but
when a Christian brings it up, they're like, oh, we didn't know that
was in there.
As they're showing me
a montage of my greatest
clips in front of me,
in front of my union stewards and stuff.
I'm like, can I get
some popcorn and a Coke here?
Can I get a copy of this?
This is pretty good.
But that's what, I mean,
they're just like, did you say this?
I mean, you watched it.
But it was
carefully clipped. Like my
Massa sermon. When I
preached that sermon, I started off with a
story about how these two lesbians
drove all these five kids off the cliff
and drugged the dogs too. They
killed them all.
They drove off a cliff in California and killed
all these kids because they were abusing them.
And then I said,
they deserve the death penalty and they're wicked and all this
other stuff. They just put that part in.
They didn't put the part about how they
used these two lesbian
white women, adopted five
black children, had them
pose in these pictures, and
they were just basically using them for
social media clout.
But behind closed doors, they were
beating them, starving them.
They'd already been charged in Minnesota. That's why they moved from
Minnesota to Portland, and from Portland
to Woodland.
And they moved across the street from
my family
friends of ours, and
one girl was starved so bad
that she literally jumped out the top story window
of her house and
ran to the neighbor's house
and said, please, can I get some food? They're starving
us. And then, you know, the pit
bosses come over and grab
her before they can do anything to help.
And so, instead of facing
the music that they were going to face for
abusing these kids, they decided, let's
just murder them and kill
ourselves too. And so, but I'm
the bad guy because I preached
that they should kill themselves.
Or, I mean, that people, yeah, the people that do
those things should kill themselves and not kill
the kids. Why not?
I mean, there's such evil reprobates that they
wanted to kill the kids and the dog.
I mean, the dog wasn't
even precious in their eyes.
People, but people
get more, they probably get more upset about the dogs
getting killed than the kids
in our weird world that we live in.
So, let's turn to Joshua chapter one.
Joshua chapter one.
So, in Joshua chapter one,
in the Old Testament, we have
Joshua being commissioned
by God after Moses dies.
And, of course, again, this is a picture
of the Lord Jesus Christ,
Joshua is,
and the commission
is given
to him by God. Just like
Jesus in the New Testament
is commissioned by God, right?
Joshua chapter one verse one says,
Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, it came
to pass that the Lord spake unto Joshua
the son of Nun, Moses' minister
saying. So, who
spoke to Joshua
and through Joshua? It was Moses.
So, when Joshua takes over,
you know, it's picturing the taking
over from going from the law
to the New Testament. So, now
turn to, just keep your finger here in Joshua
because we're going to come back to it multiple times.
But now, just flip over to Hebrews chapter
one verse one.
In the Old Testament, God spake to us by prophets.
He spoke directly
to Moses, and here
He's speaking to Joshua,
but in the New Testament
He spoke to us through
the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what it says in Hebrews 1-1.
It says, God who at sundry
times and diverse manner
spake in time past
unto the fathers by the
prophets, hath in these
last days spoken unto us
by His Son.
So, how have we been spoken to?
By His Son. Who did He speak to?
Us.
Whom He hath appointed heir of all things
by whom also He made the world.
So, God's spoken to us
by the Lord Jesus Christ
Himself. We have the, if you have a red letter
edition of the Bible,
then we have the words that Christ
actually spoke. And,
of course, Jesus Christ is the
Word of God. So, I mean, you can basically count
the whole thing as the words of Christ.
But,
He's the heir of all things.
He has a job for us to do.
So, Joshua had a certain commission.
He was to go and basically
take over the land of Canaan
and kill all the residents
basically and
take over and live in their
stead or replace them.
Right? And
we have a different
agenda here in the New Testament.
So, but we do have a
commission, just like Joshua had a commission.
Joshua's commission to
bring the children of Israel into the Promised Land
and we have
a commission that was given to the Lord Jesus
Christ and we are now
sent out to also,
not to take men's lives,
but to save men's lives.
So, to turn them from
death to life. Right?
And so, we also are trying to
conquer the heathen, but it's just a spiritual
conquering as opposed
to a literal
conquering. We're out there trying
to kill the old man in them.
And through
slaying them with the sword of the
Spirit and quickening
them. So, making them alive.
We take the sword of the Spirit out there
and we present the Gospel to people
and we kill that old man
and give them a new creature
with the sword of the Spirit. Right?
This is our task that we've
been given. And like Joshua
and the children of Israel,
we're commanded to go,
so we also
are commanded by Christ to go,
by Christ Jesus
to preach the Gospel, to baptize
and teach the Bible.
Look at Joshua 1, 2. It says
Moses, my servant, is dead.
Now, therefore, arise,
go. And you'll see that.
I love that term in the Bible. It says it
quite a few times. He says that to
Jonah when he tells him to arise,
go into Nineveh again
and preach the preaching that I bid thee.
But he tells
Joshua, Moses my servant
is dead. Now, therefore, arise,
go over this Jordan
and all this people into
the land which I do give to them
even the children of Israel.
Every place that
the sole of your foot shall tread upon
that have I given unto you
as I said unto Moses.
So, for us in the New Testament,
I believe that this Scripture holds
true for us also that every
place that the sole of our feet
touch is also given to
us.
And every place our
foot treads, we're allowed to go
there because we have a
specific unction from the Holy
One. We have a specific commission
to go and preach the
Gospel to the whole world.
It's not just limited to the
promised land like it was for
Joshua or for them to
have these certain parameters where they
were to go to at that time to
conquer the land of Canaan.
But we have a different commission now.
But it says from the wilderness of
Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates
and the land of the Hittites and unto the
great sea toward the going down of the sun
shall be your coast. But that's not
so for our cases. So the
physical nation of Israel, they had borders
didn't they? But we have no
borders. For the people
of God in the New Testament
every nation is represented.
Every nation has saved people in it.
And our commission is
a worldwide commission. In the New Testament
we're not limited to a geographic area.
Our commission again is
the whole world. Look at Matthew chapter 28
verse 18.
Matthew chapter 28 verse 18.
Matthew chapter 28 verse 18 the Bible says
and Jesus came
and spake unto them saying
All power is given
unto me in heaven
and in earth.
Go ye therefore and teach all nations
baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
So when the Karen
apartment manager tells you what authority
do you have to be here?
I have authority.
God gave me the authority.
He said to go and I went.
That's our authority.
We don't need any other authority than that.
And really if we did
sneak into North Korea we do have
the authority to go there.
Now you might die the moment you try to walk across
the demilitarized zone or whatever.
What is it called?
Is that what it's called?
So we have like more troops I think
in the world stationed there than any place
else in the world. At least
that was a statistic a while ago. I'm not sure
if that's still true.
But there's a bunch of American troops on one side
and then there's this
stretch of land
and then you have the North Koreans on the other
side. But we've
been commissioned to go and do these
things. So if someone says
well you don't have the right to be here. This sign
says this. Hey this
sign right here, this sign here
says we can go.
Our Lord and Savior said we can go.
The God of all Heaven and Earth, the one who made
this world said we can go.
And you know what? That does trump any
kind of law in this world.
And you know again
you might get killed for going certain places.
And maybe we should go to the places
that are actually allowing people in right
now. I think that's the smart move.
If you're going to instantly die the moment
you walk somewhere you're really not
you're just kind of giving up your life for
nothing at that point. I mean that's not for
nothing. If you just want the
rewards, yeah I mean you're going to get
a martyr's reward instantly.
So you know maybe if you have
cancer that you know you're never going to beat
you know here's some Bibles.
You know whatever.
But they'd probably shoot the Bibles
and you know it'd be worthless.
But it's not going
to help them if you can't preach it to them. So anyway
turn to Mark chapter 16
verse 15, Mark 16, 15.
So Joshua and the children of Israel were
commanded to go into the Promised Land but Jesus
has commanded us to go into the whole world.
Mark 16, 15 says
and He said unto them go ye into
all the world and preach the
gospel to every creature.
That's pretty plain simple isn't it?
All the world.
You know all means all Calvinists. Not just
you know not doing it at all.
That's what they believe in. Just not
preaching at all. People are just automatically
going to get saved somehow. But
preach the gospel to every creature.
And
so why would we preach the gospel to every creature?
Because everybody can be saved.
He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved.
But he that believeth not
shall be damned. You know when people take this
I got to caveat this real quick because
it says and is baptized. People
go see you have to be baptized to be saved.
But look at the semicolon after the
semicolon it says but he that believeth not
shall be damned.
So it doesn't say he that believeth not
and is not baptized shall be damned. It's he that
believeth not. Because salvation is by faith
alone. It's not by works.
Number three
like God would not forsake Moses and
Joshua. Jesus will never forsake
us in our time of need either.
So we are allowed
we should have great boldness when we go
out. And yes sometimes
soul winning does get a little scary.
And you know Robert and Crystal's kids were
really scared when all that happened.
And I understand
why because you know people have threatened to
throw people in jail and all this other stuff.
And I understand why
some freak screeching
Karen is going to freak some kids
out when they're not used to hearing that kind of stuff.
And all of a sudden
we're at someone's door and some
screechers there just flipping
out. You know it's going to affect kids.
But she's in the right
though. You know we're wrong
for just loving people and want to preach the
gospel to them. But
Joshua 1 5 let's go back to Joshua 1 5
it says
in verse 5 it says there should not any
man be able to stand before the all
the days of thy life as I was
with Moses so I will be with
thee. I will not fail
thee nor forsake thee.
So with this charge that
Joshua was given he said hey just
like I was with Moses I'm going to be with
you. And did Moses get
in some times of danger where he thought his life
was in jeopardy? Yeah even by his own
people. Like they wanted to stone him
more than once. He had people rise
up against him in the congregation and try
to overthrow him. But God
was always on his side. Even his own brother and sister
tried to do it. They're like he married
this Ethiopian woman. They're racist
or whatever. And he's like
God's like no. I'll just
turn you white as snow. How about that?
Miriam? And she's like oh no
I'm white now.
She had to be white for
7 days.
So how's that for
you want to be racist well I'll just make you white. How about that?
Anyway
verse 6
be strong and of good courage
for unto this people
shall thou divide for an
inheritance the land which I swear unto
their fathers to give them. So again
you know these are
things that really happen but they are also pictures
for us. Hey we need to be strong
also and have a good courage and
use the liberty that God has given us
and preach with boldness the
things that God has had us to proclaim.
Now we're supposed to be nice at the doors
and try to get people saved. But
you know when people are flipping out on us like that
I don't have a problem if you're just saying
hey this is what our rights
are. You know you're infringed upon our
rights. How about I just start recording you?
How about I call the police on you?
And you know what when we start doing that
then maybe there will be a change.
And if there's not well hey at least
they knew that a prophet was among them.
We're going to get thrown out anyway.
But you know what the real blessing was about that?
And I was thinking about this and my
wife was telling me about this. So they
got Karen'd out of the
out of the
the condos. It wasn't an apartment complex
but it was the condos.
But coming down they went
back to the other apartment complex that was
almost done anyway or was already done.
And they were stopping and talking to people. Nobody was
getting saved. But then they stopped
these two Chuukese teenagers
and she ends up getting two Chuukese
teenagers saved.
And so think about how
God sets things up.
It's like she's out there being bold with
her children. That freak just
messes with her. She's upset.
Her kids are crying. But how does
God reward her? How is He still with her?
How does He not forsake her?
Well He says here's a couple kids that need to
be saved. Maybe God just
orchestrated that so that you know she's
going to get persecuted because all that live godly
in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
And then she goes down to the place where
she's supposed to be for a divine
appointment with those young men
and they get saved.
And why was there so much opposition
because we got
22 people saved out of that apartment complex.
That's why.
In like a four week stretch.
I mean the devil doesn't
like us reaping
in the land like that.
We had 13 people saved on one Thursday.
That's an hour soul winning time.
That's amazing.
So
God was with
that soul winning. God was with
Miss Crystal as she
was just being bold.
Be strong and of a good courage.
That's what the Bible says.
And that He will not fail us nor forsake us.
Matthew chapter 28
I'm not going to have you turn back there but I'll just read it to you.
It says teaching them to observe
all things whatsoever I've commanded you
and lo
that word lo means
it's drawing attention or an interesting
to an interesting or amazing fact.
You know when the Bible says lo have you ever thought
well that's just kind of poetic language or whatever it kind of is.
It's like lo I
saw the earth.
But Jesus is saying this.
He said lo I am with you
always even unto the end of the world.
That's amazing.
You know draw your attention to that fact.
He's saying lo
look at this.
Draw your attention to this.
I am with you always even unto the end
of the world. Amen.
So He's
always with us
even unto the end of the world.
He's never going to leave us nor forsake us.
Just like He promised that to Joshua
He promised that to Moses
that promises to us in the New Testament
for the Great Commission.
He promises these things.
So when that crazy condo lady comes
screaming in your face
when your children are crying and scared
He's with you. He will not fail you.
He will not forsake you.
I am with
you always.
That's what the Bible says right?
Until when? Until the end.
So number four
don't turn aside
keep doing the work
and abide.
Don't turn aside keep doing the work
and abide. Look at Joshua 1.7 it says
only be
thou strong
and very courageous
that thou mayest observe
to do according to all the law
which Moses my servant commanded thee
turn not from it to the right
hand or to the left that thou mayest
prosper whithersoever
thou goest. So there's
this admonition to keep
the commandments of God. Now of course
we're not under the law
but there's a lot of commandments given
in the New Testament isn't there?
There's still commandments in the Old Testament. I mean
just because Jesus died on the cross
does that mean we're okay to kill people now?
We're okay to just run around murdering people?
Are we okay?
Is it now it's okay to be a transvestite?
Now it's okay to be a sodomite?
No it's not. Those things are still
in effect
but we are not under the law.
So I would just say
but the Bible says
if you love me keep my commandments
that's what Jesus said.
His commandments are not grievous
unto us and so
if there's commandments in the New Testament
are we supposed to obey them?
So to say that we should
keep God's commandments, there's nothing wrong
with saying that. But obviously
we don't keep God's
commandments for salvation.
Or to prove that we're saved necessarily.
Look at verse 8 it says
this book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth
but thou shalt
meditate therein day and night
that thou mayest observe to do
according to all that is written therein
for then thou shalt make
thy way prosperous and then
thou shalt have good success.
So keeping God's
commandments, reading
the Bible, knowing
what we believe.
This is part of what God wants
us to do and we have the right
right now in this country
to have Bibles. Again I'll draw you
to other countries in the world
where the Bible is completely outlawed.
Completely outlawed.
And you know what? We used to have the Bible
and the Ten Commandments in schools.
And then they took it out and then you can just
see the statistics of
teen pregnancy
and fornication
and just all the
different crime and
unwed mothers giving birth
and fatherless homes.
All these statistics just went up
shot up when they took the Ten Commandments
out. Shot up when they took prayer out of school.
Shot up when they took God out of school.
And I'm not saying
that we should force religion at school.
I actually don't even think that public school
should exist. Honestly
that's what I think. And now look at
public school. I mean
you've got a bunch of sodomites
teaching kids in public schools.
And they'll say, oh they're not
teaching that in school. Yeah they are.
Quit trying to lie.
Just like they're not doing
transgender surgeries, right?
Even though they just put some
hospital put up, oh
this is such and such with these
transgender surgeries and then they deleted the video
because they're supposedly
not doing them. But they're doing
them. Gender affirming care for
minors. That's what they call it. What does that
mean? Well they're chopping
body parts off and adding body parts that
didn't exist before. That's what it is.
Or hormone blockers
or putting these things into their bodies.
So
we have a certain responsibility
with our liberty
that God has given us as saved people
Hey, we should be reading the Bible.
We should be keeping God's commandments. We should
be in church. We should be out preaching
the Gospel. We should be doing
good works. Keeping
the commandments. And we've got to read
our Bibles folks. Get into
your Bible. Even if you only can
read the Bible for a few minutes a day,
just read the Bible. And it's
sitting right here day and night.
Meditate in it. Learn something.
I mean we're learning
in the chronicles.
I just learned something new the other day. I didn't realize
that Amasa was the
nephew of King David. Who already
knew that?
One person.
I mean, I'm a pastor
I didn't know that. People are like, you're a
pastor and you didn't know that? Well there's a lot of things I don't know.
There's a lot of things you don't know either.
So we all have a personal
responsibility to read the Bible.
But you know when you really dig into something you're like, oh
I never realized that connection. You're just
looking at every name. You're like, who's that?
That name sounds familiar.
Shalom. Who's Shalom?
You know, all these other things.
So, but you're going to learn new things.
It's not like you just read the Bible one time and it's like, okay I knew everything now.
That's not how the Bible works.
There's layers.
So, but it says in verse 9,
Have not I commanded thee
be strong and of a good courage?
You notice that God just keeps
telling Joshua this over and over again.
Because it's so important for us because you know what?
When we become weak and cowardly
and not bold, that's
when our liberty will be taken away from us.
That's when our liberty to preach the Gospel.
Our liberty to preach hardened churches.
That's when our liberty to proclaim
our religion,
which is Christianity in this country,
will lose it. Because if
people aren't using their liberties, they're going to lose
their liberties.
And it shouldn't be just one
set of churches making these big stands.
You know, if everybody,
if all the churches that have
saved pastors would just stand up
and stop talking about revival all the
time, the revival is to get
out and get your people soul winning
and you to get out with them and start
preaching the Gospel and start
preaching hard in your pulpit so
everybody, if all 6,000
Baptist churches in this land
start preaching hard sermons and start
going out soul winning, it would make a
difference. Because you know what?
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there
is liberty. And the more
people we get saved, the more liberty there is.
And God said be strong
and of a good courage.
Be not afraid.
Neither be thou dismayed. For the Lord
thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Isn't that what Jesus said too?
He's going to be with us
always.
So turn to Luke 24 verse 44.
Now you have this different
account in the end of Luke
where he's on the road to Emmaus
and he meets up with a
few disciples.
Is it important for us to know
the Scriptures? Of course
it is. And you know we have
the end of Matthew
the end of Mark where
Jesus gives the specific
Great Commission, right?
It's more detailed in Matthew
and then the
scope is given and it's saying
every creature in the whole world.
And in Luke we have this
ending here where
he's on this road to Emmaus
he's walking with these two disciples
and it says in verse 44
it says, and he said unto them
these are the words which I spake unto you
while I was yet with you that all
things must be fulfilled
which were written in the law of Moses
and in the prophets
and in the psalms concerning me.
It is important for us to know the Bible.
That's why Joshua
he was told, hey meditate
therein day and night.
You need to know the Bible. Why do we need to
know the Bible? So that we know
where it's talking about
Jesus is.
Right? Where it's talking about Jesus
and the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms.
And basically the whole Bible.
You can find Jesus Christ's
imprint in the whole Bible in the Old Testament.
And it says
then he opened their understanding
that they might understand
the Scriptures. And God's
given us the Holy Spirit.
And we have the ability to understand them.
We have no need that any
man should teach us in reality.
We should be able to read the Bible
and understand it for ourselves.
He's given us pastors and teachers and evangelists
for the perfecting of the saints
to help with admonishment
rebuke and reproof
and exhortation. But
to understand doctrine and to know what the Bible
says is our personal responsibility.
We should do it
so that we know what
the Bible says ourselves.
It says in verse 46
And said unto them, Thus
it is written, and thus it
behooved Christ to suffer,
and to rise from the dead the third day,
and that repentance
and remission of sin should be preached in
His name among all nations
beginning at Jerusalem.
So, it does have that commission
there to preach repentance.
Is it repentance of sins?
No. Because that's not salvation.
It's repentance unto salvation.
Because when you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
your sins are remitted.
And it says should be
preached in His name among all nations.
See, it's not, again, not
just at Jerusalem, but it says
beginning at Jerusalem.
And so, in our church
our Jerusalem is Vancouver, Washington.
And then we branch out from there
and preach the Gospel
in every place. It says,
And ye are witnesses of these things. And behold, I
send the promise of my Father upon you,
but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem
until ye be endued with power
from on high. Acts 1-8
Turn to Acts 1-8.
Acts 1-8.
The Bible says,
But ye shall receive power
after the Holy Ghost has come upon you,
and ye shall be witnesses
unto me both in Jerusalem,
and in all Judea, and in
Samaria, and unto the uttermost
part of the earth.
Christ was very clear with His commands, wasn't He?
First in Jerusalem, then
Judea, which is like would be the country,
then Samaria, the country
next door, and then the uttermost
part of the earth. So,
that could be the furthest place
from your doorstep, right?
So, He's given us dominion
wherever the soles of our foot
touch, that is what He's given
to us to go and
not conquer the heathen in a physical
way, but in a spiritual way.
Again, the sword of the Spirit
preaching the Word of God
and making disciples,
baptizing them, teaching them the Bible.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
And we're going to do our best as a church
to proclaim that liberty, but we need
people to stay with it.
You can't just, we can't take a break.
We really can't. You can take rest periods,
but we can't just say, well, you know,
I'm going to stop serving for a couple of years.
We've got to stay zealous.
The more people we free from the devil and sin,
the more freedom we're going to have.
And we have to
exercise our liberties, not just
the ones that God's given us,
but also the liberties that we've been afforded
by our government.
We are able to
go to the government against
them for our grievances against them.
And we should be able to throw
these laws in their face
when they try to persecute us with them.
But we know that we also live
in Babylon, USA. So at some
point, at some point God says
get out of here, my
people, lest you be partakers
of their sins. So there's going to be
a point where He's like, you just need to go.
If you're a believer, get out.
But there's also going to be a time
when people are going to be beheaded for their faith
in what's called the Great Tribulation.
And everybody's
supposed to run that's a Christian at that point.
But we don't run now.
People want to go out into these
and build
grain silos and have
all these
escape rooms and
stock up on weapons with bunkers
and all this other stuff.
You're going to be the first one fragged.
You're going to be the first one blown up.
So they're going to be like, we know this Christian has
a silo here.
Nuked.
And God can
protect His people. He said
I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee. Look, even
if you are a martyr, even if you do
get killed during the Tribulation,
you have a martyr's crown.
Go out
swinging spiritually.
Not swinging
physically, but swinging spiritually.
So
number two I said, we have the Constitution
and the Bill of Rights on our side.
Specifically the First Amendment, freedom of speech
and freedom of religion. I say number
two because number one we have the command of the Lord
Jesus Christ to go and preach
the Bible. Preach the Gospel.
Baptize
converts in every place in the whole
world. And if we stop using our
rights, we're going to lose them.
And that means we do stand
and fight for our rights and let our voice
be heard. These top
ten Karen bosses and
friends need to be told kindly
at first I would say.
But I mean if they just go from zero to crazy
you know it's kind of hard to be
kind in that moment. I
understand that.
But I just tell the matter
of factly, but you know that
maintenance guy yesterday,
why was that going on?
Well there's two people preaching the Gospel at the time
when that call came through to me.
And he
calls me up and he's like
these people are all here and they've got kids
and everything. It's just like yeah
okay. Oh kids
they're terrifying you know.
They're terrifying kids.
Like what's the deal?
What's the
deal is that he's trying to
stop people from getting
saved. But see
God is faithful. And
he said they told me to F off.
I was like yeah I'm sure
and this is the other thing that they always lie too.
They always want to lie and
make it worse than it is.
Like they think I'm just going to call my church members up and go
did you really tell this guy to F off?
No.
I already knew what was going on in the group.
I was watching it all go
real time. I'm like
the commander in chief like watching
you know
they're like on their little radios or whatever.
Oh someone's preaching the Gospel
right now.
I'm just like gold team go
you know.
Record. Record
him.
But yeah so two people
end up getting saved. There's people preaching the Gospel
right at that moment. So that's
why the Karen bosses show up. That's why
you know Ken the
maintenance man shows up and then calls
me and wants me to just stop this
craziness. And then as soon as I said
well listen I was really nice too. I just said
hey man you know I know
you're probably not going to like hearing this but
we do have the right to be there
and the supreme
court has ruled it's like click. He just hangs up on me.
So
he wants me to
just and this is what they want. They
want what they want and
this is what our world has taught people
is that you should be able to
go to the manager and they're
going to give you whatever you want.
And when I talked to that
Karen lady yesterday
or the day before yesterday she actually called
the police on me. The police called
my phone.
And they're like some
kids are running amok on the
property. I'm just like
I don't
he left the message. I didn't call back but
you know he said this is incident number
or whatever. It's like we didn't do anything wrong.
So she's the one
I was like lady you're lucky that we
they didn't call the police on you.
And she was like
well you know she's just like
she's like one of those oh well I never
you know one of those types of people.
And she goes
you better you need to obey the laws of the
land. I said yeah except for
if they're null and void by the Lord Jesus Christ.
She's like oh you know
I was just like she just kept going
on she's like you you don't
talk you let me talk and I
just like you're talking to a man right now.
I was like no maybe a man's never talked
to you like this before but there's a man
talking to you. You called me. I'm
explaining to you what the Bible says
and what we're allowed to do and then
I said and then she just kept you know
she wasn't going to listen to reason.
She was just a satanic old hag
is what she was.
And so I told her such
and said don't call me back.
Stop calling me and that's
when you know a little bit later she called the
police or whatever.
So like good luck.
We got the law on our
side.
So
we are to obey the laws of the land but
you know when
when they're null and void when it comes
to what the Bible says.
So there's
RCW whatever
whatever
is that an RCW for here brother Alex
that you posted in the group?
Washington State. Listen to this.
It says, Canvassing for religious purposes
is not solicitation.
It's not
solicitation.
You just throw that RCW in the
police officer and just show it nicely
kindly. This is the RCW.
The Supreme Court
also ruled that department managers HOA
managers cannot restrict our first
amendment right of freedom
of expression, freedom of speech,
freedom of religion.
Only individual tenants, owners
can request no trespassing orders from
the police. Department managers
can't. They can say it all they
want. They can put don't breathe on
the sign but does that mean we can't breathe
when we go into the apartment complex?
You're not allowed to breathe. Hold your breath.
No.
Those tenants must also
tell us that they don't want us to
come back. And that's fine. We're not
there to badger people.
Many call and do leave messages
and go don't ever come back. You know they'll come
home and see the card on their door and they'll go
don't ever call me and blankety blank
leave this trash on my door such and such.
Then I'll just like text back
what apartment number are you? I'm not telling you
what apartment number I'm in. It's like well then how am I
supposed to not come back because I'm coming back
at some point you know. But they never
do. They never want to leave
that message. They never want to tell
me what door, what place they're from
and it's like what do they believe that we're going to
come back and kill them or something? We're going to vandalize
their apartment or their house or something. It's like
we're not you. We're not
we're Christians. We're not going to do that.
But in order to take you
off the knock list
that we don't necessarily really have
but
in order for us to not come back you kind of got to
tell us what your address is.
They just assumed that they were the one special door
that we came to that day or something.
Like oh yeah go to one door today
everybody. And then if they don't answer
then just write that address down. I mean
we go to hundreds of doors every week.
Hundreds of doors.
Like they need to be able to tell us.
So let's make
some quick application and I'm done.
We have religious liberty
now. Are you exercising it?
Are you preaching?
Are you homeschooling?
Because we have the right to homeschool. Some countries don't have that right.
Are you raising your
children in a Christian home?
And you're like well yeah I'm a Christian but are you
raising them in a Christian home?
So we have the right to do that now
but in some countries you don't have the right to keep
them out of the regular public school.
You don't necessarily have the rights that
we do in this country. And
let's use those rights that we have
so that we don't lose them.
And Moses said
in Numbers
11 29 he said,
God
wants everybody to preach.
Not necessarily behind the pulpit
but he does want people to preach behind the
pulpit but everybody can
preach. Are you going door to
door with the Gospel while we have the
freedom to do it in this country?
Our freedom of speech
and freedom of religion are a rare thing in this world
and in this nation
it can and will be taken away.
So
the Bible says in Jeremiah chapter 12 verse
5,
If you're not doing it while it's
easy, I don't believe you're going to
do it when it's hard. I'm sorry I just
don't believe you.
So this is the training ground
now when it's still
fairly easy. The Karen bosses
and the Ken bosses are few and far
in between and it happens I guess
on a regular basis but most of them
aren't as extreme as what happened to Miss Crystal.
But
you know if you think I'm just
thinking you're going to be some super saint and you're not sowing right
now it's
not going to happen.
So just get right and get sowing
if you're not going or if you've fallen off of it
or whatever. But we
need to use our liberty to make men free.
And
Christ is the one that really makes people
free and all we're doing is preaching Christ to
them so they can get saved.
And I still want Americans
to be saved. You know I say a
lot of stuff and our country is going in a
bad way and there's not a lot of faith
in the political system but our faith should never be in the
political system. You know
revival really is going to
come at the church house.
This country is going to be made right in the
church house not the white house.
So we need to remember that and
if we don't use our liberty
again we're going to lose it. And I've said that a lot of times
in this sermon. But
there's a lot of people in bondage right now today
that are counting on us to
get to their door. Let's pray.
Lord we thank you so much for this great church
and pray that you'd help us to
just remind us Lord on a
regular basis Lord that
we do have great freedom in this country.
We have great freedom from you.
And pray that we would use
the freedom and liberties that we have
Lord while we
still have them. Pray that you would just help us to be
bold and strong and of a
good courage and remind
us and help us to remind ourselves
that you will never leave us
nor forsake us no matter what happens. In Jesus name
we pray. Amen.
Up stand up for
Jesus
ye soldiers of
the cross
live by his
royal banner
it
must not suffer
loss
from victory on
to victory
his army
shall he
lead
every foe is
vanquished
and Christ is
born in need
stand up
stand up for
Jesus
the trumpet
follow me
for through the mighty
conflict
in this is
glorious day
ye that
the
Brother Alex, can you close this with a word of prayer?