Amen, okay well thank you so much for coming this morning and I just wanted to
say thank you really quickly to our church family here that's been here
through thick and thin and I appreciate all the visitors that have come out and
made an expensive trip to Hawaii and got something stuck up your nose so you
could come here and we appreciate that but I want to say thank you to brother
Ben and his family for allowing the church to meet here today and I
appreciate the setup it's very nice and I just want to thank brother David and
miss Louisa for deciding to move away from the island that they were in there
just comfortable and the island that they love the most and then come back
here and help lead this church so that we could move forward and thank you
Pastor Mendez and miss Joanne for coming and all the visitors from from
the mainland I appreciate you being here today and I'm trying to figure out what
to do with all this stuff here it's sliding all over the place but I'll get
it figured out so again just thank you for everybody for coming and making this
a great two-year anniversary and praise God for the 43 salvations that we've had
on this trip so far now the title of the sermon this morning is the war for the
hearts of Hawaiians the war for the hearts of Hawaiians let's pray Heavenly
Father we thank you Lord so much for this wonderful day and for just the
great gathering we have here I pray Lord your spirit would be in this place today
and that Lord you'd be a part of our services I pray you fill me with your
spirit in Jesus name I pray amen all right so I just want to focus on the on
one verse that's a great chapter in God's Word Romans chapter 12 and
there's a lot of stuff I could use in this but I'm just gonna focus on one
verse today and I have three points but look at verse number nine it says let
love be without dissimulation abhor that which is evil cleave to that which is
good now this is a great verse in the scripture I'm sure you've all heard it
before great great scripture here but there's a war for the hearts and minds
of the people in Hawaii and there's a culture of sin that stops Hawaiians from
getting saved and serving the Lord now when I say Hawaiians I'm talking about
everybody that lives on these islands so and the very paradise that people love
and enjoy is the same thing that can keep them enslaved in worldliness and and
to not allow them to get saved because there's a lot of things to do here it's
a beautiful place and a lot of people come here for various different reasons
but usually Christianity probably isn't the main reason they come to the island
but our church is here to hopefully change that and we want to change that
culture if we can one soul at a time one person at a time and and that's that's
the goal here is to to help people to to get away from that and slave that
enslaved culture that they're in of sin so at like I said sure foundation
Baptist Church we're committed to changing hearts and minds and souls and
and so what what do I see as hurdles to that happening well one of the things is
we need to love people here and seek and save the lost somehow that's gotten you
know I know there's Baptist other Baptist churches here but are they going
soul winning I mean maybe there are some that do but as far as I know there's not
really a lot of that going on here it's like people come out here and the stigma
of churches out here is that they just want to come out here and and and and
enjoy paradise and just you know the church has kind of become like a country
club it happens in this in the mainland it happens here in the in this beautiful
place also but we need to overcome the part of the culture here also that is
wicked because there are some things in the culture of the islands that are
wicked and and so we need to not embrace those things we need to hate those
things and that's what this verse is alluding to we need to love people we
need to not be fake we need to come here and actually love people and when we go
out so many we need to love them and not be fake about it people can tell when
you're being fake and when you're being real but also it says abhor that which
is evil and what does that word abhor me that means to hate something doesn't it
to detest it and so we supposed to hate those things that are evil and cleave to
the things that are good so when what I said when I say culture I think there's
a lot of great things in Hawaii and in the islands the culture a lot of the
culture I'd love but there's some of the things of the culture I hate and the
Bible tells us to hate those things that are evil right and so we need to cleave
to the things that are good and and use those good things to help the people
here in Hawaii to cleave to the Lord because isn't that truly what you know
if you're cleaving to something that's good there's no none good no not one
right but the Lord is good and so if I was gonna say let's cleave to the good
things let's cleave to the to the Lord and that would be a good thing to cleave
to right so I have three points like I said point number one is having true and
real love for all Hawaiians will help win one heart at a time having true and
real love for all Hawaiians will help win one heart at a time let's look at
our verse again it says let love be without dissimulation abhor that which
is evil cleave to that which is good what does that word dissimulation mean
well it means concealment of one's thoughts feelings or character pretense
it's kind of like pretending that you love somebody have you ever had someone
that you just you know they pretend like they like you or they pretend that they
love you but you can just kind of see that they really don't you know in
Christianity we're supposed to truly love our neighbor as ourself we're
supposed to love the Lord our God with all of our hearts with all of our minds
with all of our soul and with all of our strength and to love our neighbor as
ourself it's not a fake love it's a real love and so the Bible is telling us here
to let our love be without the simulation without pretending without
being fake and so like I said people when you go so any they really can
truly know whether you care whether you actually do you have passion when you're
preaching to the to the Savior are you like a used car salesman just trying to
close a deal with them people can tell the difference and people can tell
whether you're being like robotic now obviously when you first start going
someone you're not going to be you know you're learning and you're trying to
sometimes you stammer through a presentation and you get someone saved
just by God's grace alone right but as you start to go soul winning I'm not
trying to discourage anybody from talking or or having you know you have
to have a path to reach people with okay I'm not saying don't tab up your Bible
I'm not saying don't underline things and go in an order we should do
everything decently in an order you don't go and tell them how to get saved
before you tell them how they're lost right so we have to have we do have to
have some structure to our soul winning but this this thing is true we need to
be real we need to be ourselves and we need to show people love when we're out
knocking doors and getting people saved I think of a Chuukese man named Chris he
was the last person I got saved in Waianae and like me and Sean like we
just we had two breezeways that we did basically and we have like what five
salvations and in two breezeways of these apartments and like that motivated
us to keep going you know we were we're watching people get done but I just kind
of felt like I just want to keep going you know when people keep getting saved
it's like it's really hard to stop you know for me it is anyway and I'm not
trying to be ultra spiritual here or anything like that I'm just saying that
when people are jumping in the boat and well you know the fish when the fish are
jumping in the boat that's a good day fishing isn't it and so when you're just
going at every door yeah I want to hear yeah I want to hear and there's a man
named Chris and he was from the island of Chuuk and if anybody knows where
Chuuk is it's somewhere in the South Pacific okay it's it's it's it's
actually about a 12-hour flight just from Hawaii and so in Micronesia yeah
there's a lot of displaced Chuukese people here and so yeah they're
Micronesians but his name is Chris and you know he'd he'd been in jail he he
said he just served a year in jail for I think he like did an assault or
something like that but he didn't know for sure if he's going to heaven he
thought he had a repent of all his sins and so you know the thing about Chuukese
people they're really nice they'll invite you into their home and he said I
just moved here they didn't have any furniture but you know he was very
hospitable and if you've ever been invited into a Micronesian person's home
or a Chuukese person's home there's no there's more micros than just Chuukese
by the way but he was very hospitable to us and I just sat there and explained
the gospel to him how to get saved in at one point I was asking like what do you
believe it takes to be saved and then he like gave me the wrong answer but then
like I when I was able to correct his his answer and things he goes I want to
be saved I want to be saved but you know the thing is when there's times when we
don't feel like preaching the gospel there's times when we're there and we're
out of duty and we should be there out of duty right but there's but we should
try our best once we get out there hey maybe you're you've gotten a fight with
your spouse or whatever before you and so any it's plausible it could happen
right or right before you go to church but but what I'm saying is that we you
know we need to set that stuff aside and love people when we try it you know we
want people to come to church this this church here we want people to come we
don't want to be a secret where we're meeting we don't want it to be hidden
where we're at you know we want this place this church here in Oahu to be a
beacon of hope to all that would want to come here and enjoy the services and
learn the Word of God and sing praises to the Lord you know we want to fulfill
the Great Commission you know what how we do that we love people that's how we
do that we love our neighbor as ourself and so there was many people many
stories to tell I'm sure out of the 43 salvations everybody's got a great story
to tell about how someone got saved there was a Hawaiian woman named Stacia
and she didn't know whether she was saved or not and she was so excited that
we were giving her free DVD she came out and talked to my wife afterward about it
she was like New World Order this is bad right and she was like yeah and then she
like gave her another and you know we're not handing out New World Order
it's New World Order Bible versions by the way but anyway she you know I just
think about all these faces their faces that represent souls and their lives are
changed forever once they get saved and how does that happen by showing love the
reason why we go so winning is to show people love and so it's very important
for us to actually not be fake to actually just sit there and care about
that person nothing else matters at that point except for giving that person the
gospel and doing the best job you can at presenting it we had we did have a
couple rough well we had one rough day for sure where we had one salvation and
one salvation amen but it was a little rough you know but that's fine still one
person got safe so when we go out even if it's a rough area a lot of times
still one person will get saved amen but I was thinking about David we came back
we were so winning and where was that Kalihi and it started to rain and when
it rains here people just like act like they're melting or something but they
were playing basketball these these young men were playing basketball but
they since it was raining they got under a tree and we're all sitting down and
David I didn't get to see the beginning of it but David just jumped in there and
started preaching the gospel to them and there was probably 20 I think there was
20 kids sitting there and you know when he was all done and all finished I asked
how many of you trusted in Christ and got saved just now and 15 people raised
their hand now we only counted 10 of them because we want to be a little
conservative but and I didn't see all their eyes and all their faces and if
everybody was paying attention the whole time but you know that's a great
opportunity to just sit there and preach to that many people you know what you
know why that happened is because David actually cared about those people he
just jumped in and it doesn't matter how many people there are you know jump in
and start and start preaching the gospel and he did that because he cared there
was a Samoan man named Miko who was 47 years old raised the Pentecostal and
thought he could lose his salvation and you know he didn't cry but he was close
he was there and you know when they cry of course you know they really get saved
but I'm just teasing but I mean they probably do but but you know there's a
lot of people out here that have been preached oh you know they're religious
they say they're Christian and most people will actually say that they are
Christian but most people are not saved that we talked to it's just the truth
and we need to be a church that you know we have the true gospel we preach the
right gospel so when we sit down to preach it and people are actually gonna
listen we need to love those people and not be fake about it so and again when
people are getting saved at almost every door it's a big motivator to love so and
when I say like I said when I say Hawaiians I'm talking about all people
that live in the islands not just the natives there's Japanese there's Chinese
they're Chuukese, Solomon Islanders, Samoans, Marshallese, Filipinos, white,
black, Hispanic there's all different types of people that live on this island
and obviously we don't believe in races you know there's just one race the human
race right but in Romans chapter 1 verse 13 I'll have you turn to 2nd Corinthians
5 18 but in Romans 1 13 says now I would not have you ignorant brethren that's
oftentimes oftentimes excuse me I purpose to come unto you but was let
hitherto that I might have some fruit among you also even as among other
Gentiles I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians both to the wise
and the unwise look Paul the Apostle said I'm a debtor I'm in debt to these
people and it doesn't matter what walk of life they come from whether they're
Greeks these learned people or barbarians maybe not as learned wise
unwise smart not smart simple you know it doesn't matter who they are Paul said
I'm a debtor both to the all to all these people I'm a debtor and so we are
also debtors and we need to understand that loving people is the most important
thing that we can do loving them so that they can be saved second Corinthians
chapter 5 verse 18 says and all things are of God who hath reconciled us to
himself by Jesus Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation see
he gave that to us we need to take that and we need to make sure that we realize
that it's such an important ministry it's our ministry it's all of our
ministry of reconciliation it's not just the pastor's job you know and a lot of
churches are the pastor will get up and he'll say hey invite someone to church
you know and why does he say that because they preach the gospel at every
service if you can actually call it that and a lot of these churches are that do
that are like the repent of your sins style churches so but you know it's kind
of got to that point where people think that the pastors only one that can give
the gospel though not in a church like ours look at verse 19 it says to wit
that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their
trespasses unto them and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation it's
up to us to preach the word now then we are ambassadors for Christ as though God
did beseech you by us we pray you in Christ that be reconciled unto God we
are ambassadors to Christ and what do ambassadors do they reach out to other
nations they reach out to people on behalf of someone else and you know what
God is the biggest power in this whole universe and we're ambassadors for the
most high God that's a big calling that's a big deal and a lot of people
don't take that seriously and a lot of people don't even do it you know they
forget that they're ambassadors but every single person in this church could
be an ambassador for Christ the small children hey we got there's kids can
give the gospel to and as a matter of fact it's a lot less weird when a kid
goes up to another kid and gives them the gospel than it is for a six foot
eight 300 pound guy to walk up to a group of kids you know and the parents
are like what are you doing talking to my kids you know so believe me it's
happened but you know we're not trying to harm anybody obviously we're trying
to help them Galatians 3 28 says there is neither Jew nor Greek there is
neither bond nor free there's neither male nor female for you're all one in
Christ Jesus we're all one in Christ Jesus you know what we should have you
know everybody should have an equal opportunity to be saved no matter what
color they are no matter what culture they come from and no matter whether
they're male or female Jew or Greek hey we're one in Christ Jesus and we want
those people to be part of us right Acts chapter 17 verse 26 says and that's made
of one blood all nations of men for to dwell upon the face of the dwell on the
face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed and the
bounds of their habitation so God has divided the people of the earth and he
is he's determined the times before appointed where people would be at
certain times and he's also made of one blood all nations of the earth to dwell
on the face of the earth excuse me and you know he's he's determined also the
bounds of their excuse me the the times before appointed the bounds of their
habitation so where they would be what time they would be and what does he want
that they should seek the Lord they should seek the Lord and what you know
what it's our job as ambassadors to help people seek the Lord it's our job as
ambassadors to love people but you know there is kind of a disconnect sometimes
between locals here on the island and other races or cultures and that ought
not to be but it's just the way people are you know people are like that
everywhere but I'm specifically talking about Hawaii today and the islands of
Hawaii so and some somehow low some locals and I'm not saying all believe
the island only belongs to them and everyone else just needs to stay away
there is a little bit of that mentality here and you know the whole stay away
thing and this is our island and whatever but now let's turn to Psalm
chapter 50 turn to Psalm chapter 50 is that really true who who do these
islands belong to in reality Psalm chapter 50 says in verse number 10 for
every beast of the forest is mine and the cattle upon a thousand hills I know
all the fowls of the mountains and the wild beasts of the field are mine if I
were hungry I would not tell thee for the world is mine and the fullness
thereof this world is God's world this place is God's place every place that
our feet tread upon is God's you know what as ambassadors for Christ we have
the right and we have the power that God has given us to go forth and preach the
gospel to every creature and to love those people everybody equally right
we're not supposed to be respectors of persons or cultures or race or anything
like that and of course we don't believe in in race at this church like that but
you know but it the if I said if the Bible says the world is mine and the
fullness thereof does that include Hawaii the islands of Hawaii it
absolutely does this island belongs to the Lord and we need to see things how
God sees them and not by what the world teaches us we're not supposed to be
conformed to this world right so number one we we need to be having a true and
real love for all Hawaiians all the people that live in these islands and
that will help us win one person at a time one heart at a time one soul at a
time number two this morning we need an we need to abhor the parts about Hawaii
that are evil we need to abhor the parts about Hawaii that are evil now this is
the negative part of the sermon it's gonna go on for a little while so I just
wanted to prepare you for that so Romans chapter 12 verse 9 says let love be
without dissimulation abhor that which is evil and like I said that that word
abhor means to detest to hate something we're supposed to hate evil you know God
hates evil you know God hates wickedness you know God hates sin and and he wants
us to be like him so we are so that's why he says abhor that which is evil
we're supposed to abhor it we're supposed to count those things that God
sees as wicked as wicked also and a lot of times Christians don't see things the
way God sees them and they and they don't believe the Bible when it tells us
the things that we should hate the things that we should abhor and it is
the culture of Hawaii and island culture in general that seems to trump all
things I mean because do you think everybody here on the island is in a
Bible believing Baptist Church today they're not most people are out enjoying
their life enjoying the island enjoying the culture enjoying the water enjoying
the weather enjoying the hiking and all these different types of things but you
know hope even even here the same you got the same traps as we have on the
mainland sports recreation boating fishing not so much snorkeling I mean
it's cold water snorkeling but that culture can what does the devil want to
do he wants to deceive the whole world and get us doing things that don't
matter so when we're in Hawaii on a soul wanting mission strip you know let's go
soul winning when we're supposed to be in church we need to be in church that's
a culture that we need to promote but you know and we can't compromise the
Bible because of culture we can't compromise what the Bible says because
of culture so if what the Bible says about something in a culture is it says
it's wrong we need to abhor that thing right so Friday night we were driving
back from Waianae and I saw families and friends hanging out at the beaches as
the Sun went down I'm sure you could probably see that whole scene all the
way across the island but you know it was like families and friends just
hanging out together you know what there's nothing in the world wrong with
that there's nothing wrong with that but here's where it goes wrong is when the
fellowship turns to drunkenness and when the knit and when it turns to nakedness
and when it turns to drugs and alcohol and worldly music because that is a big
part of the culture just in general today but it's a big part of the island
culture there's a lot of people getting drunk there's a lot of people using
drugs there's a lot of people that because it's warm outside they say you
know what I'm just gonna take all my clothes off and then they have they act
like we need to see them the way they are and that's just you know a lot of
times you got to avert your eyes here and you should avert your eyes but
that's what makes the island not enjoyable to me and you know what God is
against those things God is against drunkenness today God is against
nakedness God is against drugs he's against worldly music he's against
alcohol and you know what that's a part of the culture of the islands that we
need to abhor we need to hate those things we need to not just say oh it's
like yeah it's okay you know it's just the way it is here no you're supposed to
hate those things isn't that what the Bible says abhor that which is evil you
know and most of the music we brother David were joking around about it but
most of the music here is about falling in love and food you know and and
there's nothing wrong with those things either there's nothing wrong with those
things but you know obviously some of the music is a little risque but a lot
you know the music here is different like even the worldly music is different
than what you would hear in the States it is a lot like me and my wife were
walking in front of the hotel the other day and like somebody was just had their
their radio cranked up really loud and it was like you know that's not you
know usually it's like gangster rap or something where we're from where that
would be playing or cutter music or you know death metal or something you know
in our neck of the woods but here it's a little different but don't let that fool
you because some of the things that are said in the in the worldly music that's
here is is still bad also and it can get into your mind look music is a way that
a lot of people learn things and so what does that constant pumping of love and
food and you know don't worry about a tang because every little tang gonna be
all right you know don't worry about anything yeah you should worry about
some things as far as like how you're acting how you're living your life hey
everything just isn't like you know slow and mellow and let it flow sometimes you
got a purpose in your heart to do things and you need to you know not just
think oh you know I'm just gonna roll out of bed and do this or you know I'm
just gonna show up whenever I feel like it things like that we don't want the
music to you don't want that kind of worldly music to influence the way your
brain thinks about things and I'm sure you can attest to the fact that like
reggae music and things like that and if it's just if all it's like the Psalms
preach all the all the doctrine in the Bible even negative stuff right but like
do you think that you're getting that negative stuff here in the music no
you're not getting hey don't be naked you know you're not getting that you're
not it's not saying hey stop drinking it's not saying that it's probably
saying the opposite isn't it and it's probably saying you know don't eat too
much it's not saying don't eat too much food mom you know it's probably saying
eat as much food as you want you know which I love the food here so don't get
me wrong but we need to understand things the way God sees them turn to
Psalm 119 104 Psalm 119 104 and see we gotta look at everything through the
lens of the Bible through the lens of the Bible look at Psalm 119 is it's a
chapter it's a long the longest chapter in the whole Bible and what's it about
God's Word that's how important God's Word is look what it says in verse 104
through thy precepts I get understanding you know we shouldn't go to music to get
our understanding we shouldn't go to other sources to get our understanding
where do we get our understanding through the precepts through thy
precepts and what to say therefore I hate every false way is that what the
Bible saying to us abhor that which is evil hate every false whale every felt
false way through the precepts of God's Word we get the understanding that we
need and so you're like pastor talks I can't believe you're talking about hate
we're in Hawaii well you know the Bible says it so am I supposed to just ignore
the parts of the Bible that are negative no we need to take the whole Bible the
Bible as a whole and learn from what it says look at verse 128 it says therefore
I esteem all thy precepts do you steam all of God's precepts this morning or
do you pick and choose the things that you like do you it's not buffet
Christianity folks you have to take everything that God says as the truth
it says therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be
right all the things in the Bible are right so when the Bible says to hate
things yes we're supposed to hate things whatever he says the love we're supposed
to love and I hate every false way what does the Bible say we're supposed to
hate every false way what does the Bible say we're supposed to abhor that which
is evil we're not supposed to make excuses for it doesn't matter what
culture you're in culture does not dictate what we believe the Bible
dictates what we believe and we need to conform to what the Bible says and to
what Christ says and not what the world says not what our culture teaches any
culture that you're in there's always gonna be pitfalls in every culture and
look what in when it's false we're supposed to hate it when it's evil we're
supposed to hate it and not just sit there and make excuses for it it's not
enough to say I believe that God says things are right the conclusion ought to
become that we hate every false way isn't that what the Bible says if you
love if you love things you're gonna hate other things I think I heard a
sermon about that before love hates have you heard that sermon before it's a
really good one so and I think there was a guy here that I think preacher that
sermon but look if you love everything you love nothing if you love children
you hate pedophiles period if you love flowers you hate weeds you know and so
there are you know God gives us that balance in the Word of God he gives us a
balance you know we can't just look at everything the way we want to look at it
and Christians today are picking and choosing what they want to obey and we
can't do that that's not what the Bible teaches you know here's another part
here's a part of the culture that I abhor Island time Island time now Island
time is a thing here on Oahu you're like Pastor Thompson what is Island time that
sounds fun you know and a lot of people think it is fun to just you know not
care what top what what time they get to things and I'm really glad that nobody
was late this morning because you know I was like I'm gonna preach it anyway I'm
gonna rip your face so what is Island time it's an it's a it's a system of
time which others sometimes derogatory ascribe to Islanders examples Hawaiians
or Fijians which they sometimes ascribe to themselves to account for their
supposed tendency to be leisurely not rigorous about scheduling and often
tardy what is tardy it's being late and so it's it's a fit like bad don't worry
about a thing everything's gonna be alright I'll get there when I get there
you see where music can can influence the way you think about things you see
how just everybody making excuses for being late all the time can be a reason
why you're late all the time everybody else is late so what difference does it
make look I don't want our church to be known as being an island time Baptist
Church you know we should strive to be on time as much as we possibly can now
does that mean nobody's ever late for anything of course it is an island and
like David brother David said it's a living and breathing thing when it comes
to the traffic I understand that but you know what sometimes you just need to
leave earlier and so if you don't if you're the one that's always late you're
the one that's always tardy and you just don't care then you know that's a wicked
way to think about things it's it's to be just too leisurely to be not rigorous
about your scheduling at all it's not a good it's not a good aspect it's not a
Christian quality because if everything's supposed to be done decently
in an order doesn't it make sense that everybody's on time for church I mean
how can you do things decently in order when everybody's late for church and I'm
glad nobody was late this morning amen great job everybody but you know but it
is something in the culture in in the islands and it's probably any island in
the Pacific we're just you know hey don't worry we're on vacation it's okay
to be late you know it's not okay please yeah turn to Colossians chapter 3 verse
22 I'm gonna read a couple verses to you Ecclesiastes 9 10 says whatsoever thy
hand findeth to do do it with all thy might hey if you're gonna go to church
go to church with all your might and wouldn't that include being on time
wouldn't that include singing out to the Lord wouldn't that include you know
anything that you find to do anything that you want to do in this life you
should do with all your might according to the Bible here James chapter 4 verse
17 says therefore to him that knoweth to do good and do with it not to him it is
sin when you know you're supposed to be doing something right as a Christian and
you don't do it it's sin and so if you know you should be on time for church
then what what is that then you then you should understand it is sin to just
have that attitude is what I'm saying I'm not saying if you're ever late but
it's some kind that it's a sin but if it's constant if it's a constant
leisurely attitude where you just don't care because when you're late it does
affect other people it does affect the rest of the you know it affects a pastor
when he gets up and everybody starts walking in when he's preaching it's
distracting and it's rude so we should try our best as Christians to do
everything with all of our might here in Colossians chapter 3 look at verse 22 it
says servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh not with
eye service as men pleasers but in singleness of heart what to say fearing
God even in your secular jobs you know you're supposed to be doing you know
obviously you work for that company you work for that boss but who are we
ultimately supposed to be fearing God right look what it says in verse 23 and
whatsoever you do do it heartily as unto the Lord and not unto men when you're
not being late it's not just because you don't want to affect everybody else here
it's because you don't want to affect God and so it says do it heartily as
unto the Lord and not unto men knowing that the Lord that of the Lord excuse me
you shall receive the reward of the inheritance for you serve the Lord
Christ who are we ultimately serving here today we're serving the Lord and so
hey Island time should not be a part of our culture at this church we need to
abhor Island time we need to abhor that thought process that would put us in a
place where we're just lackadaisical and just leisurely coming to church hey go
to church with all your might so we need to strive to be on time and start on
time I again I don't want our church to be known for that here's another thing
about the culture in Hawaii so there's just you know promote just promoting the
culture of the old culture of Hawaii hey when Christian missionaries came here
things changed and I'm not saying that all the Christian missionaries were good
that came here but see they still brought forth the laws of God here and
things did change culture did change but they're the the people of Hawaii the
people that were here before that that change took place was a polytheistic
system of religion they believed in multiple gods many deities and I'm not
even gonna try to pronounce all the names of these and I just don't really
care to but they have they also believe the believed in each family considered
to have guardian spirits that protected their family it's kind of like you know
it's just like all the other pantheon religions in the world they believed in
multiple gods a false creation story and then just that brought forth a system of
religion that was even wicked in itself so the people of Hawaii believed in
heathen gods before the the Lord Jesus Christ was ever preached here and so in
just like a quick breakdown again I'm not gonna try to name all these gods
because first of all I might not pronounce them right so I don't want to
sound too stupid up here but one breakdown of the Hawaiian Pantheon
consists of the following groups the four gods they have four different gods
and then they have 40 male gods or aspects of God and 400 gods and goddesses
on top of that and then a great multitude of gods and goddesses on top
of that the spirits the Guardians and look I don't understand all of it and I
don't really care to but one thing I do know is that when culture today is
promoting that kind of stuff it's a dangerous place for the islands to be in
hey don't forget why Hawaii kicked all those gods out of here in the first
place you know and obviously I'm sure it didn't happen with everybody and a lot
of the culture still maintained at that aspect but look what do you think that
believing in multiple gods is something that should be promoted here in Hawaii
absolutely not those gods need to leave and we need to be thundering forth the
fact that it's wicked to sit there and promote that in any kind of cultural
thing where they're just saying well this is what you know they used to
believe and then that also and they start dancing just like they danced back
then they start wearing exactly what they wore back then they start chanting
the things that they chanted back then as if that's some kind of great part of
our culture here it's not a great part of the culture it's something that it
should be banished forever because God is not going to put up with that kind of
stuff and he thinks it's wicked and you know what I think it's wicked I want to
the heathen gods that were in Hawaii before Christians ever came here here's
another thing that's promoted these tikis or false idols and so what is it
tiki well it's a wood or stone image of pollen of Polynesian supernatural power
that's basically what it stands for and you know those things that you see
they're carved or you know that stuff's done all around the world it's done all
around it's done in Native America it's done in all kinds of heathen cultures
all over the world carving images making images you know it's not something you
should have in your house it's not something that you should promote it's
not something that we oh it's just a cute little tiki you know what it
represents it's idolatry and God is not okay with idolatry that's how a culture
will spin down faster than you know what does the Bible talk about Romans 1 how
they started to you know worship these animals and make images of these animals
and what do you see around the world all these cultures where God destroyed
the the place before is when they start into idolatry and cannibalism and all
these other things so that is something that we need to abhor we abhor idols we
know whore carvings of wood and stone and not just say oh they're just tikis
no they're wicked and we need to abhor them God abhors idols God hates idols he
hates idolatry and we need to hate it too there's a there's also in in culture
there's this this thing about the land being stolen you know and obviously I'm
sure not everything was done right but here's the thing you got to think about
and I'll just I'll just I'm gonna refer to some history here the Tahitians
oppressed the first settlers and I'm probably gonna butcher this where David
is that the mark mark cases is that how you huh mark cases they're there's
actually islands that they came from and they settled in Hawaii first right and
so basically the Tahitians oppressed these first it says first settlers so
who were the first settlers the mark cases I'm probably saying it wrong in
our cases calling them commoners and forcing them to run off and make a
living in the mountains it was the Polynesians from Tahiti who came to
inhabit much of the Hawaiian Islands before the Westerners landed on the
islands in the late 1700s so so here's the thing so why was taken over by the
United States but you know the Bible has this principle it's called reaping and
sowing you ever heard of that in Galatians chapter 6 verse 7 it says be
not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man so if that shall he
also reap so hey if you run off the first settlers that are here then guess
what maybe someone else is gonna run you off too or maybe someone else is gonna
oppress you too and you see that principle happening through the Bible
all the time so to say that the land was stolen stolen you know obviously this is
God like I said this is God's land this is God's island and so I don't think
that we should you know there's this attitude of hey this really belongs to
to whoever hey what about the Marquesas are we gonna give it back to them too I
think that they were all killed off pretty much the ones that were on the
island anyway so here's another here's another thing that we should hate in the
Hawaiian culture the mahou the mahou or fag culture of Hawaii now you might be
surprised because nowadays like I mean it's getting worse now but there was a
culture in Hawaii where they like where they hated homos and and so but that's
not so much today is it because now it started to be in vogue or whatever
we're in you know it'd be wrong for me to not mention Pride Month because it's
such a wicked thing that you would give these prideful abominations a whole
month to be celebrated when they're wicked and evil and destroying our
culture but it's it's in it's happened it happens in Hawaii and you know what
in the past it was a thing in Hawaii in the past and you know what we need to
abhor these wicked practices we need to abhor that part of the culture and so
I'm just gonna read you some things about the mahou so mahou means homo or
fag in Hawaiian right so and and so according to some the pre-colonial
history of Hawaii mahou were notable priests and healers although much of
this history was eluded through the intervention of missionaries see when
the missionaries came this practice stopped or at least was in it was it
was intervened on by the missionaries others described the mahou as not having
access to political power being unable to aspire to leadership roles and
perceived as always available for conquest by other men so basically these
homos were like their priests and the healers they're like the witch doctors
or whatever right and so but it was not looked down upon in the culture at that
time so it says that let's see the the first published description of mahou
occurs and captain William Bly's logbook of the bounty which stopped in
Tahiti in 1789 you ever heard the mutiny on the bounty you ever heard that story
that was actually a true story it says where he was introduced to a member of
class of people very common in the city where they landed and and they called
them mahou who alt although I was certain was a man had great marks of a
femininity about him so basically captain Bly saw a homo and they said
that's a mahou so that's where the word comes from that's that's where it was
first like you know noticed in in in Western culture that these Tahitians had
these mahou's these homos trans of trannies or effeminates why a surviving
monument to the history are the wizard stones but I've never seen these wizard
stones but apparently they're in Waikiki have you ever seen those or do
you know what I'm talking about okay maybe you don't but these wizard stones
on Waikiki Beach which commemorate four important mahou who first brought the
healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii well I'm glad I never saw him because I might
have been tempted to do something to them but anyway in 1891 when painter
Paul Gogwin I think that's how you pronounce it first came to Tahiti he was
thought to be mahou by the indigenous people so you know a painter being a
homo I mean who would have thought right due to his flamboyant manner of dress
during the time his 1893 painting papa moe mysterious water depicts a
mahou drinking from a small waterfall missionaries to Hawaii introduced
biblical laws to the lands in the 1820s under their influence Hawaii's first
anti-isodomy law was passed in 1850 so there used to be anti-isodomy laws here
you know what but before the missionaries got here it wasn't that way
it was something that was okay in culture and normal but see when God's
laws get thundered forth and God's laws get preached then things start to change
but you know what they're heading back in the wrong direction it's heading back
in the wrong direction right now these laws led to the social
stigmatization of the mahou in Hawaii so hopefully they started throwing them off
rocks and things like that but anyway it says beginning in the mid 1960s the
Honolulu City Council could you imagine this happening now required trans women
to wear a badge identifying themselves as male so haven't things changed here
in Hawaii they don't do that anymore do they and the Hawaiian City Council is
probably so liberal right now they're probably all mahou's themselves but an
American artist George Bittles Tahitian journal from 1920 to 1922 he writes
about several mahou friends and Tahiti he was a fag-hag apparently of their
role and native Tahitian society and the persecution of mahou friend napu who
fled Tahiti due to colonial French laws that sent mahou and homosexuals
to hard labor in prison so back then it was you know in the 1920s as far back as
the 1920s it was it was wrong and so even in 1960 they had to wear a badge
that said hey I'm a male even though there were some kind of queer I mean
think times have changed in Hawaii times have changed all over pastor Shelley put
that documentary together the sodomite deception he put all these things of
different laws and he's been putting like a clip up every day it's anti
Pride Month at steadfast Baptist Church which I'm glad to hear that I might have
to copy that next year but but the point is is that in Hawaii he missed these
statistics in Hawaii you know maybe he can add another clip about how wicked
you know Hawaii's become but back in the day when the missionaries came here and
thundered forth God's laws and hey you know just the myth of the fact that
people say well people Christians this is a new doctrine that you guys teach
this is something new the you know this whole hating homos and anti sodomy stuff
no it's not it's normal Christians used to believe this stuff and now they're
all just compromising in his book David Malo described how Lee Loa is that am I
saying that right it's like an ancient king from the 1500s it might that I say
that right or is it do you know how I keep asking the Hawaiians here but
anyway they're not gonna say anything so they're just gonna make me look dumb no
I'm just kidding but supposedly he's this ancient king from the 1500s and
they have like his some artifact in the museum that was from him but he was
supposed to be like the original king or whatever that turned things around in
Hawaii but he described this David Malo described how this king originated the
practice of moe I'm probably gonna butcher this to I I kind I I cana okay
come here and look at this David pronounce this form I need a translator
all right right here a kind okay so that means what homos do between themselves
huh yeah yeah so this practice was basically homosexuality and so this king
is the one that introduced this and it says the relationship had no stigma and
were accepted practice beginning with the Ali I I don't know Ali here and then
copied by the other classes so the king started it and then they and then it was
copied by other classes and then even warriors engaged in this practice hey
this is not something commonly taught here in Hawaii is it but you know it's
true it says in many cases the men felt involved felt an honor and
responsibility to honor their higher ruling class hurt you know the person
that was in charge or whatever they thought it was something that was okay
to do but see when the Christian missionaries came here and said no this
is not okay to do things changed but what I'm saying to you now is that the
culture does not dictate what we believe God's Word still says the same thing
about these mahou faggots as it did back then and so what's changed the
culture but you know what we need to help change the culture to the way it
should be you know a lot of I know a lot of Hawaiians don't like this practice I
had a friend of mine he's a work a person I worked with we were driving
down the street in Portland and he saw two men kissing and he freaked out he'd
never seen anything like that in his life he's from Hawaii's from Waianae he
said man if someone did that on the beach here they would get they would get
catch cracks is what he said they would get licked and that doesn't mean you
know that means you know they get beat up it's like people know that people do
stuff like that here but to do it in public in front of people not okay I'm
sure that things have even changed since he left but the point is culture does
not dictate what we believe it's the Word of God that dictates what we believe
and you know what we still should abhor these mahou's we should still abhor
these homos and not just kowtow and you know it's pride month you know pride
is what got Sodom and Gomorrah fried just remember that so I'll tell you a
quick story and I've told some people here this story but when I was here and
pastor Jimenez was here the two December's ago I was looking for the
restroom at the park and it was dark outside there was no lights or any
covers or you know there's no lights I couldn't see which one was the men which
one was a lady's restroom and it was just like one of those park you know
you know you could walk right in or whatever but I sought when I the first
one I saw was a person wearing a dress and so I thought okay well that's
obviously the women's restroom and I didn't even look at the other one I just
went and used the restroom I was like why is there no urinals in here well you
know I accidentally used the ladies restroom in there you know why because
both pictures had people with dresses on them and so the Bible says very
clearly in Deuteronomy chapter 22 verse 5 the woman shall not wear that which
pertaineth unto a man neither shall a man put on a woman's garment and hey
when a man in Hawaii puts on a skirt that is a woman's garment I don't care
what your culture says it's wicked it's wrong it's effeminate it's faggot II and
so it says for all that do so our abomination unto the Lord thy God so
what are what's an abomination something God hates and so we should hate that
part of the culture of the islands period I don't care what the previous
culture was you know but that's something that gets promoted here that
we should abhor we should hate those things and again nakedness is a big
problem in the island of Hawaii the islands of Hawaii Isaiah chapter 47 verse
2 says take the millstones and grind the meal and cover thy locks make bear the
leg uncover the thigh pass over the rivers thy nakedness shall be uncovered
so when you roll up your you know your skirt and your thighs are showing guess
what the Bible teaches that the night nakedness shall be uncovered yay thy
shame shall be seen and unfortunately people don't have any shame today
anymore and they just want to show off their bodies when the Bible says that if
you uncover your thighs from the loin to the thighs is where your clothing should
reach otherwise you're naked okay and it says thy nakedness shall be uncovered
yea thy shame shall be seen it's too bad that people just don't understand that
they should be ashamed to be naked Adam and Eve were ashamed weren't they and
they didn't even make the right clothes and God had to make them new ones
because just naturally people will just will sin they'll they'll just do things
that God's not okay with turn to Exodus chapter 28 verse 42 and I'll show you
the Bible so it's it's it's a shame for women to be naked but it's also a shame
for men but God still has the same standard for men as he does with women
if that if you're if your thighs uncovered but the Bible says it's
nakedness all right Exodus chapter 28 verse 42 the priests were supposed to
be made special garments reaches to cover their nakedness well how well
what what what were the the lengths that they had to do well it says from the
loins which is here to the thighs shall they reach so we're suppose men we're
supposed to cover up to you know I've been searching in Hawaii and not too
super hard but I've gone into some stores we're staying by a mall and I'm
trying to find a pair of trunks that I can wear they covered down to the end of
my thighs but you know what the culture has gone back to the old 1980s NBA style
shorts or something where John Stockton's wearing you know shorts this
short and all these players you know it I liked when people wore long shorts and
the long shorts came into style that was when I was growing up it was long
shorts if you wore these short little shorty shorts you know people made fun
of you we need to get back to where we're making fun of people for wearing
stuff that doesn't cover up their thighs but there's the again it's the culture
it's not just the culture here it's the culture everywhere it's the culture
with ladies dresses and skirts you know they basically they're they're showing
more than they should be and it's hard for ladies in our church to even find
stuff you have to you have to search and for men you have to why should you
have to search for something to cover up with shouldn't that just be what's
normal but see nakedness is a big problem and it's a big problem here and
we need to abhor those things and we need to do what the Bible says we need
to cover what the Bible says to cover and not worry about what the culture
says oh you know that's the only shorts I could find well you know what I'm
gonna I'm gonna search harder I'm gonna search high and low and maybe I can
find some Samoan shop that will sell some that actually go down to my knees
you know I'm a taller guy so it's a little harder for me I guess the shorts
I tried on yesterday probably to fit a normal person's you know went down far
enough but I tried them on I was like nope can't do it you know but the you
know we need to abhor the wicked culture that we're in hula dancing that's
another thing that happens and and you know what it is a religious thing the
chanting that goes on with it it is a religious thing and it might not be
nowadays or whatever so much but even like when my wife went with the dolphins
and miss JC last year they were trying to get them to do some kind of weird
dance where they're worshipping the dolphins or something I don't know but
it's just something in the culture where people just want to get in touch with
nature and all this other stuff but tattooing is another thing tattooing hey
you know the Bible says you should not make any cuttings in your flesh for the
dead nor print any marks upon you I am the Lord look I'm not trying to get down
on people that have already had tattoos okay but look we shouldn't just because
the cultures like oh yeah these tribal tattoos and these Hawaiian tattoos and
these Maori tattoos or whatever look that's what heathens do and so the even
the practice and other islands it's coming back as a big thing because you
know what people have stopped thundering forth God's Word they started being all
loving they started being just so loving that they can never preach what God says
to hate it's wrong it's wicked we need to pour that which is evil you know and
and I'll just say this that when the missionaries came things were as bad as
you could get culturally things were as bad as you could get and you know what I
believe that God had mercy on these islands and how do I know that well
because they're still here the people are still here they're not destroyed
because it doesn't matter what culture you are what nation you are when you get
down to the depths of human sacrifice and idol worship and worshiping multiple
gods you're on God's deadline and he's not gonna just keep putting up with it
he's going to destroy you but you know what God sent you know people came here
and I'm sure that people have been being saved ever since missionaries the first
started coming over here again I don't know about all of them I don't I'm sure
some of these guys were preaching false Gospels and things like that but if
God's law is going out and people are obeying it you know that's a good thing
regardless of who is preaching it right so if people are assimilating to what
God's culture says and and cancel culturing their own culture that's good
right so and cannibalism was a reality at the time when missionaries came here
there's actually missionary stories that I've read that you know one of the guys
was wounded and then like in the middle of night people came from a it was a
little like a more remote island and came and they cooked the guy up and ate
him a missionary I mean it was still going on in the 1800s so we can't you
know I believe God had mercy though because when he sent people to these
islands and and it was and the Christian culture was assimilated I think that
that was a good thing for Hawaii and it needs to continue to be that look
generation after generation faith to faith these things need to still go
forth and again culture does not dictate what we teach and what we believe captain
cook was eaten after being killed according to legend I've heard a lot of
like I actually heard that from a Hawaiian I was like I never heard that
you know why you know why I never heard that because that's not something that's
popularly taught it's kind of like a it's not like when you go to the what is
the place where they huh yeah that's not something that they're generally
teaching or what's the cultural center do they the Polynesian culture center
do they teach that they captain cook at that they cook captain cook no they
don't teach that but he didn't the whole body didn't get back I mean they asked
for the body back and I think that they gave back some of it but what happened
to the rest of it well Hawaiians know what happened to the rest of it they got
they got eaten because they believe that that would take that person's power or
spirit or whatever but I believe God had mercy on this place and we we got to get
look if you start teaching the same things look those things can come back
in Fiji it was known as a headhunter island I mean it was called it was you
know it was the island of the islands of cannibalism and it that's a well-known
fact so but we don't want the culture to slide back into these types of bad types
of culture right so there's also high places where people sacrificed here and
I actually found one of the places went up read the plaques on them and there
was still things that I don't even know what the place is called but it was on
this side of the island somewhere and we just happen to find it we were trying to
find some waterfall that they want to charge like 50 bucks for you to get into
or something so anyway we ended up going up to this neighborhood and we found
this high place where they sacrificed it says they sacrificed human sacrifices
there but what I'm saying is that the culture is coming back to the place and
there's still people that hold to this culture I'm not saying there was human
sacrifices going on up there but there was still sacrifices up there was people
that put their offerings up to the false gods that they believe in still and we
got to take and smash those kind of things with the preaching of God's Word
so there's also you know have you ever heard of the word taboos taboos are
basically laws that were put in place during that time and I know that I'm
kind of running out of time here but a lot of the the laws were really stupid
laws and they were religious in nature but there were there was a system in
place called taboos and you know they separated men and women during meal
times guess what happened if you ate with your with a woman in the meal time
what happened brother David that's a pretty stupid law hey you know we all
like having dinner with our wives right all those guys we enjoy those things but
if you did that in the early Hawaiian in that time they'd kill you for it what a
stupid rule restrictions on gathering and preparation for food there was
restrictions on looking at touching or being in close proximity with Chiefs and
individuals of known spiritual power if you looked at a chief accidentally the
hour stepped on a shadow done you're dead I mean I think that what God
replaced all that with is a lot better amen and so there was restrictions for
overfishing which I'm okay with that but here's here's like even going to the
Hanama Bay I mean they make you sit down and watch a video about how you're
supposed to love and respect all this stuff and look I'm not for like
destroying what's beautiful and what's good but like they go overboard with it
it moves to worshipping of the island itself and the animals and fish and all
those other things and it's just it's wrong it's it's wicked and we need to
abhor it animal environmental worship just the turtles themselves you know I
was looking at all the fines you can get like there's different degrees of turtle
touching and right if you're riding them and making videos about it I mean I
think it's a felony and it's like up to a seventeen thousand five hundred dollar
fine like there's all these different categories like you know I guess maybe
if you just accidentally rubbed up against one you might get a fine for
fifteen hundred dollars I don't know but isn't it weird that you can go to and
get an abortion it probably any of these Planned Parenthood's that are on the
island or any place on the mainland that's okay to do that but if you touch
a stinking turtle then you know you get the book thrown at you how how backwards
is our society how backwards is our culture today when it's okay to murder
children but you can't you know accidentally steal you know you can't you
can't ride a turtles back in the ocean you know it's weird and and here's the
other thing and they call these green turtles they're called honu is that
right and so as and they're considered sacred to Hawaiians who believe them to
be a kind of ancestral guardian spirit so why would people be so if it's not
just it's not just a conservationist they're upset about it's Hawaiians
themselves sometimes they're like don't touch our you know ancient guardian
spirit you know the honu turtle that's that's not what God that's not how God
perceives things that's not you know animals were made for our enjoyment and
for God's enjoyment and look I'm not saying gut all the turtles and eat them
and stew tonight I'm just saying that what they're you know the culture here
is to like basically worship nature and worship animals and hold that over all
other things look God is above all other things period so number one I know that
was a long point but number one having true and real love for all Hawaiians
will help us win one heart one soul at a time number two we need to abhor the
parts about Hawaii that are evil number three is a very quick point we should
only cleave to the parts of Hawaii that are good Romans chapter 12 verse 9 says
let love be without disemolation abhor that which is evil cleave to that which
is good so we need to cleave to the good things yeah we need to abhor the evil
but we need to cleave the things that are good turn to Acts chapter 11 verse
23 Acts chapter 11 verse 23 the Bible says in Acts chapter 11 verse 23 says
who when he came and had seen the grace of God was glad and exhorted them all
with the purpose of the heart excuse me that with purpose of heart they would
cleave unto the Lord so what what what were the Apostles teaching hey that
people should cleave unto the Lord you know what we abhor the things which are
evil what a Paul say put away those idols what a Paul say hey you met you
people are too superstitious he didn't say all I just respect your culture no
he said get out and get these things out of here quit worshipping idols quit
eating meat sacrifice unto idols and so Christianity Christianity is not a
respecter of culture and so we don't need to be either you know what we need
to cleave to we need to cleave to the Lord we need to teach people to cleave to
the Lord and the things that he teaches the Lord is good and marriage is good
that's a that's a part of the culture here that that you know family is
important family is an important thing having children is good those are those
are cultures here that I think that we can respect the love of family Reese
even just the the term respect you know respect goes a long way here on the
island there's nothing wrong with that's a good part of the culture good food hey
I'm all for it hey the book of Acts talks a lot about it you know daily for
every house they cease not to teach preach Jesus Christ they went you know
from house to house eating bread you know they they broke bread together you
know it is a big part of culture and like in Hawaii you know amen like I love
that part of the culture their food is good so but the beauty of this place hey
I get behind it I just don't want to worship it okay the kindness you know
there's a lot of kind people here and I can get behind that culture I can get
behind the warrior spirit you know I'm not saying beating people up but I'm
saying hey you know if we could turn that into a warrior spirit for the Lord
that's a great spirit to have hey we're at war aren't we we're in a we're in a
war against wickedness we're in a war against evil you know what we need to
turn the culture to going to church reading the Bible praying soul winning
these are Christian cultures that we should impress upon the Hawaiian people
and in the Pacific in you know quasi Christianity did help the people of
Hawaii but in 2021 you know what Hawaii needs we need more Jesus Christ we need
more true Christianity and we need less Island and Hawaiian culture that's what
we need and so if we want to win the battle for the hearts and minds of the
of these islands and the souls of the Hawaiian Islands we need to reach the
islands with the true gospel and the Great Commission and the Lord Jesus
said he gave us all he said all powers 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 of the Holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I've commanded you and lo I'm with you always even unto the end of the
world amen you know what all powers given unto our Lord Jesus Christ you
know what he said he said that we are supposed to go and teach people we're
supposed to get people say we're supposed to get them baptized we're
supposed to teach them the Bible you know what that doesn't change upon the
culture we're supposed to do the same things teach the same things preach the
same things we can baptize people even better here we got water all over the
place amen but that's the culture that we need to promote here the Hawaiian
Islands you know our fifth I was right about that 1500 miles if you go through
all the atolls and all the different all the little small islets and all these
things but there's one point three seven five million people in the Hawaiian
Islands that's a lot of people that's a big population and you know the u.s. saw
Hawaii as a strategic location for military might but I also see Hawaii as
a strategic location for warfare for us for Christian warfare you know it is
truly the pearl of the Pacific there's no doubt about that but I think that
through preaching the gospel here that we can reach also other islands in the
Pacific you know pastor in minutes has the Philippines pretty much locked down
but there's a lot of people there too I mean they could use way more people over
there but I would like to see other places evangelize Guam and Chuuk and the
Marshall Islands and the Solomon Islands and Samoa Tahiti and Fiji and the Cook
Islands and all these different places you know the Pacific is a big area but
it takes a big vision to reach these people as I don't want to just reach
Hawaii I want to branch out and reach other places in the Pacific because you
know what the island people are very receptive and the Bible does talk a lot
about Isles and islands the Bible talks about a more than you think and I think
that Isaiah really had a heart for the island people because there's a lot of
verses in Isaiah that talks about Isles and islands but I'm gonna burn through
some of these I might have you turn to a couple but I just want to burn through
these and be done because it's 1203 and we got to get rolling here but Psalm
chapter if you want to write them down I'm just gonna read them and go through
them really quickly and then we'll be done Psalm chapter 97 verse 1 says the
Lord reigneth let the earth rejoice let the multitude of Isles be glad thereof
Isaiah chapter 24 verse 15 says wherefore glorify you the Lord in the
fires even the name of the Lord God of Israel in the Isles of the sea
Isaiah 41 verse 5 says the Isles saw it and feared and the ends of the earth
were afraid drew near and came he shall not fail Isaiah 42 4 he shall not fail
nor be discouraged till he have set judgment in the earth and the Isles
shall wait for his law the Isles shall wait for his law there's islands out
there that are waiting to hear God's law and you know what there's no vision for
it right now there's no vision for it when I look at all these islands and I
spent hours looking at them yesterday and I've spent hours before looking for
them but you know what the number one religions are Catholicism Mormonism
Seventh-day Adventist Protestants but you know what I never see I never see
Baptist on there I never see Baptist as a major religion you know what we need
to make that change when people go to any island in the Pacific they should be
able to go to a Baptist Church and sit down and hear God's Word preach to them
and and have a place where they can worship in spirit and in truth and we've
fallen down on the job and we need to evangelize the Pacific just like we've
evangelized other places and people say well yeah you know there's a stigma
about going to these islands and it's paradise and all this stuff well it's
not paradise for people are going to hell
Isaiah 51 verse 5 says my righteousness is near my salvation has gone forth and
my arms shall judge the people the Isles shall wait upon me on mine arm
shall they trust you know what if we go the salvation has already been sent
forth and it says the Isles will wait upon me my arm in my arm shall they
trust you know what if we go to the islands guess what people are gonna get
saved people are gonna trust Christ Isaiah 60 verse 9 surely the Isles wait
for me and the ships of Tarshish first to bring thy sons from afar their silver
and gold with them unto the name of the Lord thy God and to the Holy One of
Israel because he hath glorified thee Isaiah chapter 66 verse 19 says and I
will set a sign among them and I will send those that escape of them unto the
nations to Tarshish pull and Lud that draw the bow to Tubal and Javin to the
Isles afar off that have not heard my fame neither have they seen my glory
they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles see the Isles afar off God
thinks about the islands too but unfortunately Christians have forgot
about the islands and you know what we need to pick up that torch and we need
to make sure that people see the light of God on all these in all these other
places also Paul said I will go to the Gentiles and they will hear it that's
the truth Zephaniah chapter 2 verse 11 says the Lord will be terrible unto them
for he will famish all the gods of the earth and men shall worship him even one
from his place even all the Isles of the heathen see God's message is supposed to
go forth to everybody including the islands Isaiah 42 verse 10 says sing
unto the Lord a new song and his praise from the end of the earth ye that go
down to the sea and all that is there in the Isles and the inhabitants thereof
let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice the villages
that Kedar doth inhabit let the inhabitants of the rock sing let them
shout from the top of the mountains let them give glory unto the Lord and
declare his praise in the islands see God wants the whole world to worship him
God wants the whole world to believe in him and to be saved but he also
specifically points and narrows it down to the islands of the sea because we're
not supposed to forget about them we're supposed to have a vision for them where
there is no vision the people perish and I'll tell you what the Presbyterians
aren't aren't knocking doors the Presbyterian you know the Wesleyan
churches aren't not aren't knocking the doors these other church you know
they're not knocking the doors they're just going there and just set making
people to fold more the child of hell than they are themselves these Mormons
you know they're going and they're knocking all these doors and
unfortunately Baptist aren't and we need to change that culture that's the
culture I want to change let's get Baptist knocking doors again amen so I
want to help reach the Pacific Islands for the Lord Jesus Christ I want to have
my vision shared with our people and we need to get busy we got a lot of work to
do there's a lot of work to do and you know we need people that will rise up
and care about the people of not just Hawaii but all the islands of the
Pacific and you know I've looked at not just Hawaii again but the other Pacific
Islands and again there's not a lot of Baptist influence that needs to change
we can change that you know we can have a vision and and you know is not is it
gonna happen tomorrow now it's not gonna happen tomorrow it's gonna happen next
year it's probably not gonna happen next year but you know the Christian life is
measured in decades and so are you in it for the long haul you know do you want
to share that vision of reaching people and the Pacific Islands and in Hawaii I
do I hope that you share that vision with me and number one we have having
true love and real love for all Hawaiians will help win one heart at a
time we need to abhor the parts about Hawaii that are evil and we should only
cleave to the parts of Hawaii that are good let's pray Heavenly Father we thank
you Lord so much for your word Lord and all your statutes being right and true
every single word Lord I pray you to help us Lord to love people in the
islands here and also in all the Pacific Lord that we'd have a vision for the
future Lord I pray you'd help us to abhor the things and hate the things
that you hate Lord and not to shy away for them from those things or that we'd
stand forth and and let God be true and every man a liar Lord I pray that you'd
help us obviously to cleave to you and Lord we'd teach others to do those
things also Lord I pray you'd help us to fulfill the Great Commission here in
Hawaii or I prayed help us to build the church here or we know you build it but
I pray you'd help us to be faithful the things that we need to do Lord and I
pray you just watch over and and bless pastor Jimenez as he preaches his sermon
in the afternoon here Jesus name we pray amen