that you would be a Pastor Thompson now. Fill in with your spirit and give us
ears to hear and in Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
All right, well good morning. It's great to see everybody again and I was
supposed to come in August but some Rona stuff happened and it got all
messed up so but I am thankful to be back here. I appreciate Pastor Mejia
inviting me to come and I also appreciate the church showing up and
listening to me preach this morning and tonight I'm preaching a different kind of
sermon so I'll try not to keep you in prison for too long here today but I do
have a lot of notes. So Pastor Mejia, I don't know if you remember the Red
Hot Preaching Conference, well Pastor Mejia had 14 pages of notes and I
had what did I say eight and it took me like an hour and 15 minutes to
preach that sermon. So I'll try to be faster than I normally am, it's one
hour per page so anyway I'm just kidding. So before I get started
preaching though I wanted to do something for Pastor Mejia. He is at the
half of three score and ten today. Today is his birthday so I wanted to
have everybody sing happy birthday to Pastor Mejia today and I'll lead that.
Can I get the piano player back up here though real quick? All right you
know happy birthday? Okay I just want to make sure. All right so at our church when we
sing happy birthday to someone we instead of saying their name and
everybody says the wrong thing, we just say God bless you and keep you happy
birthday to you. Is that okay? You guys good with that instead of saying
Pastor Mejia, Brother Mejia or whatever? Okay right. So he's halfway to his
you know we're only promised three score and ten right? So he's halfway there he
said I'm in my prime but really he's halfway there. All right let's sing
happy birthday, ready?
all right let's get into some preaching here so let's look at Luke
chapter 19 let's look at verse number 12 and it says he said therefore a
certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a
kingdom and to return he called his ten servants and delivered them ten
pounds and said unto them occupy till I come but his citizens hated him and
sent a message after him saying we will not have this man to reign over us
and of course we know that this is a parable but the Lord Jesus Christ is
alluding to the fact that there the Jews would not have Jesus to rule over
them when he was there and so let's flip over to verse number 27 after he
gets done telling the rest of the parable he says this he says but my but
those mine enemies which would not that I should reign over them bring hither
and slay them before me now so do you think that that this was an
ungraceful move by the Lord Jesus Christ because there's a lot of people
out there preaching this hyper grace that you know we're always supposed to
be nice no matter what but if you look at the scriptures you'll see a
overarching theme and when I began to study this sermon I just saw so much
scripture on this and basically the title so the title my sermon this
morning is savage it's savage and so right here we see Jesus Christ being
savage he's he's just slain these people before them and they're like and
they were like could I get a little grace he's like no and so he slew
them he had them slain before him and so there's many instances like I said
where God's men are being savage now I'm not talking about just being
some like savage dog or some savage cannibal you know there's different
meanings for the term savage now at this church I know you guys use it in
different ways also but I'm gonna give you some definitions but before I
do that I want to pray so let's let's pray Lord we thank you so much
for this great day and for pastor Mahia pray that he'd be blessed on his
birthday Lord pray that you'd help me to preach this sermon by the power of
your Holy Spirit Lord and I pray you fill me now and fill the
congregation with your spirit as I begin to preach in Jesus name amen
alright so after the Red Hot preaching conference there was some
attacking going on and you heard a certain you might have heard or heard
of a sermon called savage that wasn't very savage okay so it was talking
about that basically pastor Mahia and his gang of thugs in the rod of iron
room and all this other stuff right and how that savage is this reprobate
behavior and that we were acting like reprobates and we were not filled with
the spirit during the Red Hot preaching conference but here let me
tell you this the Red Hot preaching conference is supposed to be Red Hot and
it's supposed to be preaching against something every single time all right
it's supposed to be hot we're not having the edification conference
we're having the what we want to be edified obviously but it's not called
the edification conference it's called the Red Hot preaching conference and so
when you know sometimes you gotta you gotta say things how they need to be
said sometimes you got to get savage in your in your preaching and sometimes
in the Bible people would be savage indeed and in works also so you'd see
them say some some gangster stuff basically and then they would carry out
these gangster type deeds and I'm not you know I'm just I'm just playing
around when I say that but so we got attacked we got called out but
basically what we get called out for for being savage in our preaching
right where we were accused of not preaching spirit-filled stuff but it's
it but we were you know basically what we're doing is we're taking out the
trash when it came to a bunch of freeloaders that are backstabbing our
friends and you know they're preaching these passive-aggressive and
gaslighting sermons for months and months and months I thought we gave some
grace you know enough is enough at some point we got to call things out for
what they are and so it's funny that people get you know they they like the
savage preaching until it's against them right they don't like it once
against them so I'm gonna give you some definitions you know of savage you
know because we have some frenemies that basically just accuse us of not
being spirit-filled frenemies is a friend that's kind of this really your
enemy it's like frenemy I don't know if you've ever heard of that not but
anyway the first definition of savage is this of an animal or force of
nature fierce violent and uncontrolled pack of savage dogs roam the streets
that's the little sentence it gives now I wouldn't say that that's how we
were supposed to be but it says the number two definition kind of can fit
it says of something bad or negative it doesn't always have to be bad it
could just be negative and sometimes we got to preach negative stuff
sometimes we have to have negative actions not everybody you know likes it
when we kick people out of churches but sometimes it's necessary and
sometimes we have to preach against things that are going on in the church
and that's necessary they can't just be hyper grace and hyper spiritualism all
the time and then oh you guys have no love we got plenty of love I saw
a list of soul winners and different so many times you guys have here and it
seems like you care about people it seems like you love people and it seems
like you want to bestow grace upon people because look if we didn't care
about people we wouldn't go soul winning we just wouldn't do it we'd be like
okay well let's just preach savage every week and and you know we get accused of
just only preaching the reprobate doctrine and things like that which is
not true but you know what we got to preach it more in 2020 than we did
last year and next year guess what we're gonna preach it some more because
there's always new people coming in and there's always new people that
need to hear the truth because right now you got a bunch of people and
that's all they preach is grace I literally saw Paul Chappell his YouTube
page and he was there was like a 32 week series on grace I mean how much
more grace do we need to hear about we know what grace is and I like to bestow
grace and I'm a graceful guy but sometimes you got to get savage right
so it says of something bad or negative very great or severe so and
also there's a number three definition is a brutal or vicious person
so and then number four is especially of a dog or wild animal attack
ferociously and maul okay so there's your definition but there's also a
slang definition for the word savage and it's it's the first so
savage means or is meant to be meant as brutal or aggressive since the
1500s but since the 1990s savage has also been slang for
excellent okay so sometimes we got to have some excellent preaching right
and it says and it's and has especially become to describe a remark as hilariously but ruthlessly
on point hilariously or ruthlessly on point so when you kind of sting someone with your words
but it's it's on point but it's also you know it is negative but it's funny at the same
time right so you got lots of instances in the bible and look I literally had to taper this
down okay because there's just so much in the bible I mean just think about all
the savage things that happen in the bible and I'm not talking about the enemies I'm talking
about god and his people you know that a synonym for savage is terrible and the bible says that
god is a terrible god and that we should be in awe of him and we should fear him why
would we fear him because sometimes he gets savage so look and what would you expect that
god's men would also have to get savage sometimes too sometimes we got to clean up
we got a clean house and we got to preach some stuff that people might not like to hear
so you know I guess it was just wrong for paul to rebuke peter wasn't it
you know that you know why that story's in the bible because sometimes you got to rebuke
a brother in christ sometimes you do and I guess it was wrong for the lord to call peter
satan I mean he literally what's the worst thing you could probably call someone satan
you know at first he says blessed art thou peter and the next thing you know he's saying
get behind me satan you know sometimes the lord was a little savage in some of the things that
he would say to the disciples wasn't he and they would just sit there and take it wouldn't
they you know because sometimes you need to be rebuked sometimes you need to be told you're wrong
and you need to be willing to take that rebuke because a lot of people they just they they
cower down when they when they hear some rebuke and they can't take it and you should be
able to be reproved and still you know man up and still stay you know oh I can't ever go
back to that church they they said some mean things to me hey sometimes people need to say
some mean things to you to get you right so we live in a time where the world views christians
and christianity and past christian pastors as weak lily-livered ned flanders types
preachers right who knows who ned flanders is okay i don't watch that show i don't you know
i know who ned flanders is okay he's the guy that says haddily doodly you know he's he's
like that geeky you know perception and that's how that's how the world views us
and so like you got a lot a bunch of pastors out there today they're like hey i know you're
you're a sodomite but haddily doodly welcome to my church it's like get out of here
we don't need to we don't need to have no ned flanders preachers around here we need to have
some men of god they're going to stand up and preach the truth and sometimes we got to get a
little savage so um you know like i was saying about the hyper grace stuff that's going on it
seems like our friends that were once our friends as soon as they're not our friends anymore
they're all getting on to us because they're cussing from the pulpit you know and they're
like i can't believe you said crap crap just means dumb dumb is a bible word it's just a
synonym for the same thing it's not you know that's not cussing i'm sorry if you think
that's cussing past me here if i'm wrong then you just you know whatever past when he
says is right right so if you study like i said if you study the bible you're going to see the
the god is a terrible god and that he's savage at times and his preachers are savage also
let's look at colossians chapter four verse six
but really the the i was going to preach his sermon before i ever heard that stupid sermon
by michael johnson okay i was already gonna preach it you can ask him i already told him i
was going to preach in october and august i was going to preach that before that sermon was
ever even heard of but you know so this is the real savage sermon okay it's supposed to be
so you're in colossians chapter four look at verse six it says let your speech
be always with grace but see they forget the next part here it says seasoned with salt seasoned
with salt that you may know how you have to answer every man and you know have you ever got
sweat in your eyes you know that's salt that's coming out of your body what's it do
it stings doesn't it it stings your eyes so salt can do a lot of things salt can preserve
salt is a preserving food and it also puts flavor on your meat amen we all like flavor on
our meat don't we so we're supposed to be uh we're always always supposed to have grace
but we're supposed to be seasoned with salt okay we got to be a little salty you hear that
term it's a modern day term that don't be salty like you're upset but we need to be
salty sometimes so we can you know people need to hear the truth they can't just be always
hyper grace and all this crap it has to have some salt on it it has to have some season
and sometimes your preaching has to have a little salt on it okay salt is a white crystalline
substance that gives seawater its characteristic taste and is used for seasoning and preserving
foods yeah our words preserve people you know when you give someone the gospel don't you have
to tell them that they're a sinner first don't they have to admit that they're a sinner first
that you know people don't like that but you know that's the salty part of our preaching
that we have to tell people and you know what we have to tell people that there's a literal
hell where yes people do roast there okay they roast like a hot dog down there
so people do go to hell people do they they burn forever and it's no it's always day and
night it's forever it's it's a prison that we're never going to be able to escape and we
have to tell people that we can't be graceful about that oh it's just separation with god
yeah no god's down there burning them up right so we have to we have to be
graceful but we still have to put the salt on it right so um god wants us to be salty
as christians so look at matthew chapter 5 verse 13 matthew chapter 5 verse number 13
i'm on page 2 and it's under an hour so that's good
matthew chapter 5 verse 13 says you're the salt of the earth but if the salt
have lost its savor wherewith shall it be salted it is therefore good for nothing
but to be cast out and to be trodden underfoot of men so when you lose your salt christian when
you when you're just all grace and you're never salty you never give someone the salt that
they need to you know because if you always just preach the gospel and you never tell people
about hell you're not doing your job as a christian you've lost your savor
and you're good for nothing and you're to be trot out and cast under the foot of men
that's what the bible says look at luke chapter 14 verse 34 luke chapter 14 verse 34
i'm just going to start reading because i got to get through this quick luke chapter
14 verse 34 says salt is good but if the salt has lost have lost its savor wherewith
shall it be seasoned it is neither fit for the land nor yet for the dung hill
that says dung hill doesn't it you know what that is it's the crap pile okay
it says but men cast cast it out he that hath ears to hear let him hear we have to be
salty as christians we can't just be all grace all the time and the men of god in the
bible were not like that jesus christ was not like that the apostle paul was not like that
the apostle john was not like that the apostle peter was not like that there's
john the baptist was not like that elijah was not like that elijah was not like that
jeremiah was not like that isaiah was not like that none of the preachers in the bible
were like that they were not hyper grace they told people how it was and they told people you
know they sprinkled salt on these people and they told regardless of whether they received
that message or not they've been salted turn to mark chapter nine mark chapter nine look over
verse 48 the very famous chapter where jesus goes and tells people about hell and he and
he really drives this point home he says it three times but i'm just going to show you
verse 48 says where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched talking about hell
look at verse 49 for everyone shall be salted with fire and every sacrifice shall be salted
with salt everybody that we preach the gospel to every person that hears the gospel whether
they go to hell or they go to heaven they've had some salt shaking on them haven't they and
it's it's it's kind of strange wording here every salt every one shall be salted with fire
the people that go to hell they've heard they've heard the salty message they just didn't
like it and so they chose to not be saved and they end up in hell roasting like a hot dog okay
and the people that hear that salty message and they're like hey i understand i'm a sinner
i understand i deserve hell but you know what i'm going to call on the lord for my salvation
and they believe on jesus and so look we have to be salt and light we have to shine
the light in the dark place and we also have to shake salt on every single person
and that's what the you know there was a covenant of salt every sacrifice that was received by god
had to have what on it had to have salt didn't it so we can't just be grace grace grace
hyper hyper grace oh do you have a little grace all the time okay so god has a lot of
savage moments in the bible doesn't he well let's just go over some of them real quick
and i don't have time to go through all of them because we'd be here literally for a long time
for weeks so and i don't have that much time so but think about the the the times that god just
rips on whores in ezekiel for like how many times does he say whore and harlot in that
chapter or whoredoms several times and that's savage people hey you don't hear preachers
getting up and preaching that hard most of the time jesus how about when jesus just rips the
pharisees to shreds in matthew chapter 23 how about when jesus shuts the scribes up for the
last time and they're like they they just don't ask any more questions like he just shuts them
up he's savage you know and and when you're just reading it casually you might not see the
savageness of what he's saying but think about this the pharisees were always there
every time he went to go preach somewhere they went and followed and they were just
standing there like this
and so think about preaching that way who's got up here and preached at some point
here in this building who's preached a sermon in this building raise your hand
nobody you guys have to i've seen your sermons but look think about this so you're usually not
in a hostile environment when you're preaching but jesus was always in a hostile environment
where people hated him and wanted to kill him that's savage to be able to preach the stuff
that he did knowing it was going to hair lip them every single time so how about when god
wipes jerusalem like he wipes a plate he destroys jerusalem and he's like okay the
dishes are done puts the plate away that's pretty savage isn't it how about when god
fried sodom and gomorrah because there are wicked sinners before the lord exceedingly
why because there were a bunch of sodomites even their children were turned into sodomites
you know it's pretty savage to wipe out a whole four cities or whatever it was how about when
moses destroys korah and he says if he dies to death of a normal man then you know god hasn't
called me or whatever and then what happened the earth opened up he literally we get the term
split hell wide open is when korah and all of his company dropped into hell
right yeah can i get a little grace moses no he's wicked korah and hit and everything
that pertained to him was was dropped into hell how about in the book of judges you know
when those queers uh killed the uh levite's wife and then god said they they were like
should we go up against benjamin and god's like yeah go up against benjamin and what did
he do he almost destroyed a whole tribe of israel because they were being queerbaits and
fag hags and wouldn't turn over the sodomites to uh the the other tribes to have them put to
death god's pretty savage and his men are savage um how about samson here's a savage
quote from samson you wouldn't have known my riddle except i'll plow with my heifer
you put that on a meme right how about samson literally killing one thousand men with the jaw
bone of an ass that's pretty savage it wasn't a sword it was a jaw bone with teeth on it
a thousand men of course the spirit of god was upon him when he did that but we think about
these things i mean i'm sure you're probably thinking about something i haven't even mentioned
yet right savage moments how about when ehood stabs egg long
you know and they're like i think he's going to the bathroom maybe we shouldn't check on him
and like he the sword went all the way into him he was really fat guy
and that's pretty savage that's one of god's men though that was a savior that god sent to
help the people of israel and sometimes you got to get down and dirty so i got like five
examples today that i just want to give like the full story on and maybe i'll skip through
some of the the verses but turn to first kings chapter 22 verse 5 i'll give you the first
example and i just want to hit highlights because there's just so much that i could go to
but i want to hit some highlights of some some stories i think are pretty good
um how about so number one ahab and zedekiah are roasted by the prophet makiah ahab and zedekiah
are roasted by the prophet makiah look at it first kings chapter 22 verse 5 it says
the jehoshaphat said unto the king of israel inquire i pray thee at the word of the lord
today then the king of israel gathered the prophets together about 400 men and said unto them
shall i go against ramoth gilead to battle or shall i forbear and they said go up for the
lord shall deliver it into thine hand to the hand of the king and jehoshaphat said is there
not here a prophet of the lord besides that we might inquire of him so jehoshaphat you know he
shouldn't be here he shouldn't be doing what he's doing and he gets rebuked in the next
chapter for what his his you know for yoking up with ahab but he he's at least godly enough
to realize these guys aren't telling the truth there's something there's something going on
here you know all 400 guys are just like telling them what he wants to hear basically and isn't
it that way in the world we live in now where most of the preachers out there are just telling
everybody what they want to hear and nobody wants to stand up and say what what is true
and right well the sodomites could get saved no they can't someone has to stand up and
say that's not true that's not true now look at verse uh eight and it says and the king of
israel said unto jehoshaphat there is yet one man makiah the son of emla by whom we may
inquire of the lord but i hate him for he doth not prophesy good concern to me but evil
and jehoshaphat said let not the king say so then the king of israel called an officer and
said hasten hither makiah the son of emla and the king of israel and jehoshaphat the king
of judah sat each on his throne having put on their robes in a in a void place in the
entrance of the gate of samaria and all the prophets prophesied before him all the false
prophets right these are guys are false prophets and zedekiah the son of china made him horns of
iron and he said thus saith the lord with these shall thou push the strings until thou has
consumed them and you can just imagine this guy he's got like these these fake horns and he
made he's like yeah we're gonna push him out right i mean the guy's probably looking like
a total goofball but everybody's into it right so uh so it says and all the prophets prophesied
so saying go up to ramoth gilead and prosper for the lord shall deliver it into the king's hand
and the messenger the messenger that went that was gone to call makiah said unto him saying
behold now the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth let thy word
i pray thee be like the word of one of them that speak that which is good and makiah said
as the lord liveth what the lord saith unto me that will i speak and that's the way
god's man should always be whatever the book says whatever god says he's not talking to us
in an audible voice anymore but he's talking to us through his word what's god say that
is what a man of god should be preaching not your opinion not what makes you popular
not what keeps your top tithers in the church but that which the lord saith unto me that
will i speak look at verse 15 so he came to the king and the king said unto him makiah
shall we go against ramoth gilead to battle or shall we forbear and he answered him go and
prosper for the lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king so he's messing with him
right here just so you know and it says and the king said unto him how many times shall i
adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the lord so he
knows that he's that he's lying to him right here because you know what deep down inside ahab
knows that he's doomed he has to know that why would he not know that because why would he
say you're lying if all the other guys are saying the same thing but he always prophesies
evil unto ahab why because ahab is evil okay and the king said and then look at verse 17 says
and he said i saw all israel scattered upon hills the hills as sheep that have not a shepherd
and the lord said these have no master let them return every man to his house and peace
and the king of israel said unto jehoshaphat did i not tell thee that he would prophesy no
good concern to me but evil and he said hear thou therefore the word of the lord
i saw the lord sitting on his throne and all the hosts of heaven standing by him on the right
hand and his left and the lord said who shall persuade ahab that he may go up and fall at
rameth gilead and one said in on this manner and said on that manner and there came
forth a spirit that stood before the lord and said i will persuade him and the lord said unto him
wherewith and he said i will go forth and i'll be a lying spirit in the mouth of his prophets
and he said thou shalt persuade him and persuade him and prevail also go forth and do so
now therefore behold the lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets
and the lord has spoken evil concerning thee you know think about this situation you're the
only guy saying the truth even jehoshaphat and he's a godly king even jehoshaphat though
is still helping someone that god hates he's still helping those that hate the lord and so
he's the one person that has the differing and dissenting view and the different and dissenting
preaching that's a tough thing to do but that's how god wants his men to be you got to
say it you got to be savage sometimes and he and i think just the fact that he's here with
there's 400 prophets that are not on his side so and it says therefore behold the lord has
put a lying spirit in the mouth of thy prophets the lord has spoken evil concerning thee but
zedekiah the son of chanana went near and smote makiah on the cheek and said which way
went the spirit of the lord for me to speak unto thee so that one of his false prophets the
guy that made the horns walks up and smacks him in the face for what he said because
sometimes you're going to get smacked for the things that you say even even you know anybody
just preaching to your your friends your family sometimes people are going to smack you they're
going to smack you with their words they're going to smack you and they don't want to hear
the truth sometimes and so but we have to be bold as a lion we have to be bold to speak
the truth and to be savage sometimes with what we say okay so um so look at what he says
look at what makiah says to him though it's funny he says behold thou shall see in the day when thou
go into an inner chamber and hide thyself so during he's that's savage he's like he just
gets smacked in the mouth by the guy he's like yeah you're gonna you're gonna see when
you go run and hide yourself into like he's going to the closet to hide himself
and the king said of israel said take makiah and carry him back unto am am and the governor
of the city and joash to the king's son and say thus saith the king put this fellow in
the prison and feed him with the bread of affliction with water of affliction
and tell i come in peace and who gets the last word the prophet makai look what he says
makai said if thou return at all in peace the lord hath not spoken by me
and he said harken o people every one of you that's savage you know the king just said
you know what throw him in water you know give him the bread water of affliction throw him
in prison he's like if that return of peace at all he's not going to return in peace he gets
killed right that's pretty savage preaching and that's the way it's it's got to be so even when
it's not popular even when it's contrary to what every other weak preacher is saying in this
world we still have to stand up and say the truth and be savage amen what the lord has said
that will we speak so um you know what and if what we say hair lips every pit bull in la county
it doesn't matter we still have to preach the truth is there a lot of pit bulls in la county
i don't know i'm sure there are okay so number two this morning samuel goes full gangster
on saul and agag samuel goes full gangster on saul and agag look at first samuel chapter
15 verse 13 first samuel chapter 15 verse 13 now of course i'm being a little facetious here
with the uh with the point uh calling him a full gangster okay i know i'm going to get
criticized for saying that but it's a slang term okay just look it up all right so anyway
first samuel chapter 15 verse 13 but what it says it says that samuel came to saul so saul
was supposed to destroy the amalekites god had a vendetta against him and he said saul go kill
every single person every single animal every single anybody that's breathing including agag the
king they were supposed to kill everybody and leave nothing alive right so samuel comes
and and he's a little bit late but uh he he comes and look what he says he says that samuel
said to saul and saul or and samuel came to saul excuse me and saul said unto him blessed
be thou of the lord i performed the commandment of the lord and he didn't so he's just like
you know it seems like he's kind of cowering down here to samuel a little bit
but when you see what he does you're gonna understand why and it says and samuel said what
meaneth then the bleeding of the sheep in mine ears and lowing of the oxen which i hear
see saul didn't have any dissenting voices either he was the king and samuel's here telling
the king what's up he's like you're wrong you did not keep the commandment of the lord
why are these sheep bleeding in my ears why are they why is he hearing this they should
be dead right and it says and saul said they have brought them from the amalekites for the
people spared the best of the sheep in the oxen to sacrifice the lord thy god
and the rest we have utterly destroyed but that wasn't what he was supposed to do
then samuel said unto saul stay and i will tell thee what the lord has said to me this
night and he said unto him say on this is the tough part this is where he has to
really tell him what's up and samuel said when i was little in thine own sight
was thou not made the head of the tribes of israel and the lord anointed thee king over israel
and the lord sent thee on a journey and said go and otherly destroy the sinners the amalekites
and fight against them until they be consumed wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of
the lord but didst fly upon the spoil and did it's evil in the sight of the lord and saul
said unto samuel yea i have obeyed the voice of the lord and have gone the way of the lord
that the which lord has sent me and have brought agag the king of amalek and have utterly destroyed
the amalekites but the people took of the spoil so he starts blaming the people that's bad
leadership just so you know but the people took of the spoil of the sheep and the oxen and
the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed to sacrifice unto the lord
thy god and gilgal and samuel said hath the lord as great delight and burnt offerings
and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the lord to obey is better than sacrifice and to
hearken than the fat of rams just remember that always it's not what you give it's not
what you put into it it's what you obey of god god is is going to bless you more for obeying
than for the things you give you can't just give gifts to get out of things all the time
you can't just give gifts to your children and to get out of being a bad apparent
you know what i'm saying so think about that the next time you just think you're going to just
wipe something away with the present all right um so that's just a side little freebie there
but verse 23 says for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness as the iniquity
and idolatry because thou has rejected the word of the lord he has also rejected thee from
being king so i mean that's pretty gangster to just say hey guess what you're not the king
anymore you know and and i think that that's pretty savage that's that's some savage stuff
to say it to someone that's the king of israel you know walk up to joe biden and say
that i well i wouldn't be that scary but uh he probably wouldn't even know what was going on
but but look at what saul says it says and saul said unto samuel i have sinned and i have
transgressed the commandment of the lord and i and thy words because i feared the people
and obeyed their voice that's always a bad sign of leadership to fear the people and obey
their voice see when you're in leadership they're supposed to obey your voice and they're supposed
to fear you now therefore i pray the part of my sin and turn again with me that i may worship
the lord and samuel said to saul i will not return with thee for thou has rejected the
word of the lord and the lord hath rejected thee from being king over israel
and as samuel turned away to go he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle and rent it
so like samuel's just walking away from me he's like wait wait and then he rips
he rips part of his mantle like mantle is like like a like a like a cloak or something right
he rips it and look at what he says and samuel said unto him the lord hath rent the kingdom
of israel from thee this day and hath given it to a neighbor of thine that is better than now
well he just says he's going to give it someone better than you saul that's pretty savage
that's pretty savage preaching right there and says and also the strength of israel will not
lie nor repent the strength of israel will not lie nor repent for he is not a man that
he should repent then he said i have sinned yet honor me now i pray thee before the elders
of the people and before israel and turn again with me that i may worship the lord thy god so
samuel turned again after saul and worshiped and saul worshiped the lord then said samuel bring
ye hither to me agag the king of the amalekites so he's like i'm not done yet
i got some more savage stuff to do right here and aga came onto him delicately he's just like you
know and aga said surely the bitterness of death has passed he's like can i get some grace
so and samuel said as i sort of made women childless so shall thy mother be childless among
women and samuel hewed agag in pieces before the lord and gilgal and you know what god didn't
say that was wrong sam you should have gave him some grace no samuel it says he hewed agag
in pieces okay so whatever he was using to do that with which was a sword
yeah it says as thy sword has made women childless so shall thy mother be childless
among women so he takes his sword and he chops him up into pieces
so it must have been a pretty sharp sword okay and samuel went full gangster right there
right first he just rebuked the king of israel and told him hey i'm gonna give the kingdom
to somebody that's better than you and then he chops up the guy that he was supposed to chop up
right and so the word hue means to chop or cut okay so he he chopped him into pieces
before the lord so you know and so the next chapter his reputation precedes him
okay look at first samuel chapter 16 verse 4 when sam comes to town the people have a new
attitude it's like debo coming you know debo is coming right and look look what happens
he's like the the godly version of debo though right so look at verse 4 it says and samuel did
that which the lord spake and came to bethlehem so he was supposed to go and
anoint david the king and so he came to bethlehem and it says and the elders of the town
trembled at his coming and that word trembled means to shake involuntarily typically as a result
of anxiety excitement or frailty have you ever like gone swimming and it was the water was
really cold you get out you're just like trembling you can't stop it that's how scared
they were when he came they were literally trembling when sam came to town okay when samuel
came to town look what it says and the elders of the town of the town trembled at his coming
and said comest thou peaceably you know the chapter before he chopped the guy up into little
pieces and so yeah they had they they better be scared you know and that's the thing is that
people think that god's men should just be just like these little frail joel osteen and rick
warren looking guys and that we should have pink shirts on and that we you know these little
special glasses you know so we look smarter and all this other stuff but when samuel came to town
the people trembled they were scared they were frightened and look i'm not saying that you
should be scared that i'm going to chop you up into pieces all right you can shake my hand
after the service it's fine i'm not going to chop you up but you know sometimes we've got
to chop some people up though with our words in the new testament we got to chop some people
up with our words and we got to hew people into pieces and sometimes people got it coming
and sometimes people need to hear the truth and it chops them up on the inside it chop the
word of god will chop your heart into pieces too and make you you know when your people are
thundering forth the bible it should chop you up sometimes you shouldn't you shouldn't ever
walk out here going i feel so great i mean obviously you should feel good but i'm just saying
you should be able to get a kick in the pants out of the out of the preaching
it shouldn't always be positive grace grace grace hyper grace hyper grace you know can i get a little
grace you need to get chopped up sometimes and i'm i know that this pastor here will chop you
up from time to time like every service right maybe not every service but look we need to
edify the people we need to preach doctrine and we need to be loving and we need to be
graceful but sometimes we need to get savage and sometimes people gotta you know samuel do you
think that he'd chop people up every week probably not but you know the people were afraid
of him and he was a man of god there's nothing in the world wrong with being afraid
when the man of god thunders forth from the pulpit you should be because if he's preaching
what god says then you should be afraid because that's what that's who told him to do those
things it was god you never see god getting mad in any of these verses i've read does it ever
say but god was mad because no it doesn't say that it says he chopped him up before the lord
the lord was watching him do it and the lord was pleased he was pleased why wouldn't he be
he did what saul didn't do what saul didn't have the guts to do that he was a bad leader
and so a good leader had to come and show him how it's done
and so when they said when they said come to self peaceably he said peaceably
i'm coming to sacrifice to the lord sanctify yourselves and come with me to sacrifice and
he sanctified jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice so here we have samuel
going full gangster and people being afraid the next time he comes to town and trembling with
fear okay there's nothing wrong with god's men you know getting savage sometimes look at verse
or number three david savagely destroys goliath david savagely destroys goliath in word andy
okay look at first samuel chapter 17 verse 45 first samuel chapter 17 verse 45
it says then said david so of course we got this the famous story of david and goliath right
and we we think about these stories and but sometimes you don't really pause on the details
of what david actually did here because he was he went full gangster too here so and david is
a young man probably like maybe a teenager maybe early 20s i don't know exactly how old he
was but i know that he was called a stripling so and usually a stripling is not like you know
a full-grown mature adult with all of his man muscles and all that stuff right
but david was filled with the spirit of god when the spirit of god comes upon someone
you know i mean sam i i don't believe that samson was some big hulking you know he
didn't look like lou forigno or whatever when he walked around he probably was just a little
tiny you know maybe just a regular average guy but when the spirit of the lord came upon him
he slew a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass you know he picked up the city gate and
carried it up to the top of the hill you know he broke the cords that that they put
anything that they tried to bind stanson with he would snap them off easily so look at what
david does look at verse 45 says then said david to the philistine thou comest to me with
a sword with a spear and with a shield but i come to thee in the name of the lord of hosts
the god of the armies of israel whom thou hast defied this day will the lord deliver thee
into mine hand and i will smite thee and take thine head from me and i will give the carcasses
of the host of the philistines this day to the fowls of the air and to the wild beasts of
the earth that all the earth may know there is a god in israel you think god wasn't didn't
have his back he absolutely had his back and what did he just tell him he's not going to
smite you and chop your head off it's pretty savage isn't it but let's see if he backs
up what he says look at verse 47 it says and all the assembly shall know that the lord
saith not with sword and spear for the battle is the lord's and he will give you into our
hands and it came to pass when the philistines arose and came and drew neither to meet david
that david hastened and ran toward the army to meet the philistine and david put his hand
in his bag and took thence a stone and slang it and smote the philistine in the in his forehead
that the stone sunk into his forehead so imagine you know i'm i'm for scale i guess i could be
goliath today so i i need what what's your what's what's his name can i can your boy
come up here real quick what's his name jaden come up here jaden all right here's david
here's goliath
it's about right you want to fight you want to fight me jaden okay we'll sit back down
so david is fighting a man like for scale that was probably what it was really like right
so david you know was savage you know like for a young man to stand up against a giant and
it wasn't you know it wasn't like goliath wasn't a battle-hardened warrior goliath was
probably a really tough guy but when it comes to the battle david said it was it was the lord's
battle right so that stone sunk into his forehead that means it went inside his head
right and what happened he fell upon his face to the earth so david prevailed over the
philistine with a sling with a stone and smote the philistine and slew him but there was no
sword in the hand of david so what's david do well therefore david ran and stood upon
the philistine so he just gets he's standing on top of his dead body and what's he do
it says he took his sword and drew it out of the sheath thereof and slew him and cut off
his head there with savage right is that savage or what this young guy just got any you know
do you think goliath's sword was big or do you think it was like this one let's see i always got
my little sword on me too it's not for scale but uh he just takes his sword out and what's
he do he takes his giant sword out of its sheath while he's standing on top of goliath's
dead body with a stone sunk into his head and what's he do and cut off his head there with
he chops a giant's head off and when the philistine saw their champ champion was dead
they fled now skip down to verse 54 it says and david took the head of the philistine
and brought it to jerusalem but he put the armor in his tent so he spoiled the philistine
but look what did he do he grabbed the head think about this have you ever picked up a
dead corpse's head before i haven't i hope none of you guys
but he picks up this guy's head and his head is not a regular-sized person's head
it's a giant's head who's 10 feet tall nearly so he's way taller than me i mean i think the
ceiling is probably eight feet no it's like it's probably seven feet right because i'm six
foot eight so he's like three feet taller than me and bigger and probably more muscles
and all that stuff so way more muscles so he's carrying around this dead giant's armor
puts it in his tent and he's just carrying his head around with him that's pretty savage
i mean if that's not savage i don't i don't know what is you know chopping a guy up into
little pieces that's pretty savage but chopping a giant's head off and carrying it around with
you that's really savage well you're like pastor chopson how do you know he carries it around
with him well look what it says in verse 55 and when saul saw the giant or saul saw
david go forth against the philistines he said unto abner captain of the host abner who's
whose son is this youth and abner said as thy soul liveth o king i cannot tell
and sorry turn the page here and the king said inquire thou whose son this stripling is
and as david returned from the slaughter of the philistine abner took him and brought him
before saul with the head of the philistine in his hand he's like he's got the size 20 bowling
ball in his hand like hey what's up king check it out that's savage is that not savage
they're like pastor thompson you know yeah this is the old testament yeah i know but the
bible has savage men in the new testament too i'll get to that here in just a minute
but let me ask you this could you imagine joel osteen walking around with a giant's head in his
hand how about rick warren could you imagine rick warren from saddleback church walking
around with a giant's head in his hand no how about paul chapel
how about michael johnson imagine him carrying around a dead giant's head how about manly perry
oh got quiet in here
there's nothing manly about backstabbing your friends i'll just tell you that right now
and you know what he's like this mighty hunter right supposedly
but like in texas they have no private property i just want to say this because i'm from the
northwest and when we went out hunting we went out and hunt and found the animal and shot them
we didn't put put them in front of a feeding trough and then act like we're some mighty hunter
when you just sneak up and just shoot them you know when they're eating food i mean i don't know
maybe maybe i'm just not a texas style hunter but in texas that's what you do
you're allowed to feed them and so that's how you draw them in is just putting food out
for them for free to eat and then you walk up and kill them that's not very sporting to me
like when i went hunting when i was a kid we'd drive around the back of a truck and we'd
see something on the ridge we'd stop and use bow and arrows not guns like we were i don't know we're
going into our native side or something but anyway bow and arrows and we'd shoot the animals
with bone arrows i'm not saying you're bad if you shoot animals with guns but to me it's
not manly to sneak up on an animal when it's eating food and just like yeah i really got that
brother
just because like michael johnson makes his point in his savage term he's like
his name is manly his name's manly i don't care just because someone's name is manly doesn't
mean that they are right okay and i just can't picture either of those two guys walking around
with a giant's head in their hand that's all i'm saying and you know hunting to me is when
you're going out and hunting something you're not just like
you know you're up in a blind you know i'm gonna get hunters mad at me about this but
i don't know i just hunted different when i was younger so whatever number four
eliza mocks and kills the prophets of bale
savage look at first kings chapter 18 verse 25 first kings chapter 18 verse 25 i'm doing good
on time i can't believe it i've got two pages left pastor what am i going to do
all right number four elijah mocks and kills the prophets of bale this is another thing that
people get mad at us for when we preach that we mock other people and make fun of them
well god's men do do that in the bible here's an example look at verse 25 first kings
chapter 18 and elijah said unto the prophets of bale choose you one bullet for yourselves
and dress it first for your many and call on the name of your gods but put no fire under
and they took the bullock which was given them this is the prophets of bale this is a
big showdown between elijah and the prophets of bale and it says they took the bullock which
was given to them and addressed it and called on the name of bale from morning until noon
saying oh bale hear us but there was no voice nor any that answered and they leaped upon the
altar which was made and it came to pass at noon that elijah mocked them
he mocked them so there's these 400 guys they're jumping up and down on this altar
and they're calling on their false god
rapture practice
elijah mocked them you know what mocking means it means to make fun of someone
arguably the one of the greatest prophets of the whole bible the prophet elijah when you see
the mount of transfiguration who appeared moses and elijah so elijah you know he's going
to come back in the end times right he's going to be one of the two witnesses
elijah mocked them and said cry aloud for he is a god either he's talking
like he's talking he can't hear what you're saying or he's pursuing maybe he's hunting
or he's on a journey he took a little journey or paired venture he sleepeth and must be awakened
he's taking a nap he can't hear you right now i mean he's just ripping these guys into shreds
he's mocking them he's making fun of them and they cried aloud and cut themselves after the manner
with knives and lancet lancets until the blood gushed out upon them so they're on
this altar they're doing their rapture practice now they're cutting themselves
and it came to pass when midday was passed that they prophesied until the time of the offering
of the evening sacrifice and there was neither voice nor any to answer nor any that regarded
and so he just mocks them you know that's pretty savage but you know we're not supposed
to mock people the man of god is not supposed to did you see god say but god was
not pleased with the mocking that elijah did no he didn't care he probably laughed too
yeah skip to verse 40 it says in elijah i saw here he's he's uh in word and deed savage
and elijah said unto them take the prophets of bale let not one of them escape and they
took them and elijah brought them down to the brook kishon and slew them there how many of
them was there pastor mahea that's a trivia question was it 700 i thought it was 400 okay
well i'd agree with you but we'd both be wrong i'm just kidding i don't i don't remember
if anybody has the answer google it is it 750 i'm probably wrong all right well i should
have studied that part before i open my big mouth but anyway notice he didn't take take
okay we're both wrong all right so we need to study more but notice that he didn't take
them down to preach the gospel to them come bring the prophets of bale down and give them the god
why didn't you give the false prophets the gospel you know why because they're false
prophets and they can't be saved that's why so look if you see a catholic priest at an airport
and he's wearing his dress and his backwards collar he's a false prophet you don't give him
the gospel he's accursed he's already occurred if a mormon missionary comes to your door
with their stupid little hat you know their stupid bicycle helmets that say elder jones or
whatever and they're like 19 years old they're false prophets because how many people have
knocked the doors of mormons and they were missionaries before to get saved how many actually
mormons do you actually get saved in reality i mean most people are are very fortunate to get
one you know i i have not got a dyed in the wool mormon saved not one joe's witnesses yes but not
not mormons they're false prophets you know and what did elijah do he took him down and
slew them 450 prophets savage that's savage and you know what it's the right thing to do
because that's what god says to do to false prophets in the millennium it's going to be a
different story the lord jesus christ is going to dash people to pieces like a potter's vessel
does that sound does that sound graceful no it doesn't sound graceful he's going to
slay he's going to have these people come and they're going to be slain before him
so you know what he he didn't say well hey the still small voice is telling me to give
them an invitation to church did he see this is the prophet that had the still small voice
you know what it didn't say to him the still small voice did not say to him to go and get the
prophets of bale saved did he no he already killed them the still small voice came to him
later so what did they do they slew them now there's lots of different stories like this
in the bible lots of different stories where you can i mean you're probably thinking of more
than i'm like last night we were just talking i was like man these are good ideas i gotta get
these in so there's a couple i did actually put in here but um look think about david's
mighty men how savage were they i mean they killed lion they jumped down in pits in the
snow and killed lions you know one of them took like a giant ethiopian guy's own spear and
killed him with it you know they slayed multitudes of people and they were just regular people that
david recruited in the beginning and then they turned into mighty men of god you know what
they did they slew they were savage and they were gangster right i mean they were the mighty
men the the greatest fighting force in all the bible so here's another one number
four or number five this is the last point g who walks on jezebel's dead corpse
g who walks on jezebel's dead corpse that's pretty gangster isn't it that's pretty savage
so look at second king chapter nine verse 30 second kings chapter nine verse 30
actually i got to turn over there myself second kings chapter nine
verse number 30 look at the bible says and went now jihu god specifically chose him as
the king and he was supposed to slay all of ahab's line and kill everybody that pertained to
ahab everybody nobody was getting a pass this is just one part of what jihu did okay jihu
was was about it he was about about it he was about about it look at her story it says when
jihu was come to jezreel jezebel heard of it and she painted her face
tired her head and looked out a window and as jihu entered in at the gate he said
jihu had zimri peace who slew his master and he lifted up his face to the window and said who's
on my side who and there looked out to him two or three eunuchs and he said throw her down
she's up in this tower like thinking she's getting protected and he said and he said throw
her down so they threw her down and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the
horses and he trode her under foot that's an old English old English way of saying
he walked on top of her corpse as he walked into the building he trode her down under foot
is that what that means he stepped on her dead carcass as he walked past she gets thrown
out the building blood splashing on the you know on the horses and on and he just like
boom boom just like like a bump in the road right
that's pretty savage that's pretty savage and he noticed it doesn't say that God was angry
about that he was he had sometimes we got to be savage and so and when as this this is pretty
good too what he says after this it says when he came in when he was come in he did eat and
drink and said go see now this cursed woman and bury her for she's a king's daughter
savage i just like picture him like taking a couple quarters like go bury her you know
it's pretty savage you're like pastor thompson this is a morbid sermon
it kind of it you know but the bible has some some hard things in it the bible has
some hard stories the bible has some saints in here that the people get upset about you know
but was it right for david to kill goliath was it right
prophets of bale was it right i mean all was it right for samuel to chop egg egg into pieces
you know it's right when a man of god gets up and gets a little savage sometimes it's not
that the spirit of the lord is not upon him because in all these cases i guarantee the
spirit of the lord was upon them so and definitely when david i mean think about
samson you think about all these men that are filled with the spirit in the bible
and they're doing things that are savage that's not a reprobate behavior
because god is a terrible god you know what if you're his enemy if you're god's enemy don't
be surprised if things get a little savage for you also sometimes we have to tell a brother
or a sister in church that they're wrong sometimes we have to rebuke rebuke kings
and false prophets you know and people shouldn't get angry about that you're like
the new ifb is so mean
at least somebody's being mean somebody has some hair on their legs and gets up and preaches
what the bible says and you know what it's not a reprobate attitude to get nasty sometimes
sometimes we gotta be and we need more rebuke in 2021 than we had this year we're gonna need
to keep rebuking people because there's nobody else doing it we're gonna have to still keep
preaching the reprobate doctrine because nobody else is doing it in season out of season
and it's out of season right now right but for the new ifb it's always hunting season
amen so we need salty preaching not splenda preaching okay we're getting plenty of splenda
preaching sweetness and light this fake grace humility and we need to put on our rough garments
and we need to get up and rip some face we've seen what the end of the stevia preaching is
no offense if you use stevia i'm just saying that that type of preaching
is weak we've seen how it makes us look weak it makes christianity look weak it makes you know
god look like a joke when all you are is just sweetness and light all the time you don't
preach negative things in the bible two-thirds of this book is negative people and there's
a reason why because we're a sinful people and we do sinful things and god has to take
action sometimes and get a little bit savage and god's men have to get a little bit savage
it can't always be grace grace grace we got enough apathy we have enough weakness we have
enough false doctrine we have enough schisms in other churches we don't need it in churches
like this we need unity we need singleness of heart we need to be in one accord we can't have
people one person believe and repent of your sins back here and lordship salvation and then
grace by faith and then full-blown works right here that's not unity but that's what you
see in most churches is they're not teaching the truth they're afraid to get up and get savage
and say look if you believe that jesus's name is yeshua you need to get out
quit spreading that false yeshua name around our church quit spreading the flat earth in our
church get out man quit spreading racism in our church get out
romans 12 says let love be without dissimulation
we need to tell people we love them when we love them but we also need to cling to that
which is good and abhor that which is evil what's evil get rid of it hate you know what
a poor means it means to hate and so we need to get a little more savage not less
and we need to just stop just stop stop following these people that are like
oh they're so mean hey we're nice the service i'm nice have i yelled anybody today
oh nice pastor me here it's nice well most of the time i'm just kidding
anyway there's nothing wrong with being savage let's pray lord thank you so much
for this great church and uh pray that you would just bless and continue to bless
this church and help it to grow lord to pray that you would uh lord just bless brother
bahi on his birthday and pray that it'd be a great day of fellowship and servitude in
jesus name we pray amen amen song number 145 as our last song it is well with my soul
song number 145 song number 145
see you on that verse when peace like a river attended my way when sorrows like sea
whatever
with my soul
it is
is
my soul
is
with my soul
is
and the lord shall be
so
oh
all right gracie i want to give you the winners by the way that sermon was