Hey, man
All right, so we're starting a new book in the Bible
it's the book of Zephaniah or in chapter number one as you read along with Brother CJ and
So there's only three chapters in the book of Zephaniah
And I actually I don't know if I've ever heard a sermon out of the book of Zephaniah who's heard a book
Okay, one person's heard out of the two people out of the book of Zephaniah all right
Well, there's two people and there's like 40 something here, so
anyway, so I've never even preached a sermon out of this before but
Just getting to study it. You know it's it's a great short little book, and I'm excited about teaching it
so the title of the sermon tonight is
Preaching in season and out of season preaching in season and out of season. Let's pray Lord
We thank you so much for the opportunity to come to church
Thank you for your word Lord and even a short book like this Lord that sometimes people overlook
I just pray that you'd help me with the Holy Ghost to
Reveal those those things in your word board that you want revealed in Jesus name Amen
All right, so Zephaniah chapter 1 verse number 1 the Bible says this the word of the Lord which came unto
Zephaniah the son of Cushai the son of Gedaliah the son of Amoriah the son of Hizkiah in the days of
Josiah the son of Ammon king of Judah, so this guy is a prophet
Obviously and and he's prophesying
He's preaching in the days of Josiah one of the greatest kings in all of Judah
and we know that after Josiah dies that things go downhill really quickly and
Then the the nation of Israel is destroyed the temples destroyed
so
Zephaniah is a prophet like I said at the time of the rain during
King Josiah so but during Josiah's reign
Israel saw a great revival and God blessed
Josiah tremendously for his obedience to the Bible and to God's commands, but so
Anybody that's read the Bible several times knows that that they were never promised a stay from basically this
Execution that was going to be happening that the Lord was going to destroy
That was going to destroy him because you know he said that he's not gonna. He's not gonna pardon the sins
You know the blood had to be paid for there's so much blood that was spilled in Jerusalem that had to be paid for
somehow so but
So we're looking at this first part
Look at verse 2 is it's the coming this is the coming judgment against the nation of Judah
It says I will utterly consume all things from off the land sayeth the Lord I will consume man and beast
I will consume fowls of the heaven and of the fishes of the sea and the stumbling stumbling blocks with the wicked and I will
Cut off man from off the land sayeth the Lord
So you know the thing is Zephaniah is preaching during a time when there's a man of that
There's a godly king you know in case you didn't notice if you were following along
This isn't a very positive chapter in the Bible is it it's pretty negative
See but people get this wrong idea about God that he's always smiling. He's always in a good mood
He's never angry at anybody
He's just always nice, and he just loves loves loves well that doesn't sound like love pouring someone's blood out
You know on the ground and their flesh being like the duck like dung on the earth
I mean that that's not very positive is it but people think that the God from the Old Testament
Is different than the God in the New Testament?
He's the same God
Read the book of Revelation. There's some pretty bad things that happen in the book of Revelation, too, so
But the thing is why would he preach a negative a few sermons here? Why would he preach this prophecy in?
a time in
Of peace when Jerusalem is doing good when Josiah is doing good when he's throwing all the abominations out of the land right?
Why why would he do that?
well because
That's what good preachers do
They preach negative even during the times when things are going right
So that's what good pastors do they don't just preach all the good all the time
You got to preach the good and the bad you got to preach the negative and the positive
You can't just preach the parts you like the puppy dogs and flowers or whatever you'd call it
You got to preach the whole Bible the whole counsel of God and even though things are going good in Judah at this time
God's still saying I'm gonna wipe you out. I'm gonna wipe out the next generations that are to come
So I'm sure that that wasn't a very popular sermon. You know, but sometimes you know, just like the Billy Graham sermon
I preach it's not very popular
Right now I have people just bombarding me all the time with messages saying they're gonna come travel to the church and whatever
Well, I don't care
Look if you preach against the wickedness of this world people are gonna come after you
So any guy that wants to be a preacher here if you got thin skin
And you get upset about every little thing that someone says about you
Then it's probably not a good idea for you to become a preacher just saying
So but you know the thing is we're supposed to preach the Word of God in season and out of season
Was he preaching was he preaching out of season in this you think?
Yeah, because things were going good. It's like Zephaniah. Why do you got to come ruin it with your judgment sermon, you know?
Turn over to 2nd Timothy chapter 4 keep your finger there in Zephaniah. We're gonna just go verse by verse tonight
Turn into 2nd Timothy 4 verse 2
See the thing is even in the New Testament God commands us to preach in season and out of season
He's been telling people to do that the whole time. Let's see the false prophets like to preach the good stuff
Oh, it's about love. It's about grace
No, sometimes. It's about judgment, too. You got to put the whole thing in there
You can't just you know put all meat and cheese in there you got to put some veggies in there, too
Right you know some okra or something. I don't know
Anyway, I just named some kind of vegetable. I don't like so
2nd Timothy 4 to
Preach the word be instant in season out of season
reprove rebuke
Exhort with all long suffering and doctrine
Okay, that's what the Bible says to do look at verse 3. It says excuse me for the time will come
Well, they will not endure sound doctrine
But after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables
But watch thou in all things endure afflictions do the work of an evangelist make full proof of thy ministry
So this is the apostle Paul talking to Peter saying look you're gonna have to preach the whole thing
You gotta you gotta preach it in season out of season when it's popular when it's not popular when it's winter when it's summer
You know you gotta you gotta have the the winter clothes on during the summertime
You know that's out of season right wouldn't it be weird for someone to you know in the middle of winter walking here with shorts
and flip-flops
But that's kind of what God's saying to do you need to do it out of the things out of season
You need to do the things while they're in season
So basically what's he saying preach everything preach the whole thing if things are going good
You still got to preach the negative stuff too because if you don't preach the negative stuff the negative stuff is gonna happen
People aren't gonna get sin out of their life if they if you never preach against it
If you don't ever feel any conviction sitting in this church, I'm not doing my job, right?
so
And if you guys when you're preaching I don't feel anything that I'm I'm not right with God
You know everybody should feel daggers
You know from time to time from preaching amen
So we're supposed to preach against abortion when it isn't popular
Right did you know that?
It's not popular right now to preach against abortion. It's not popular right now to preach against the homos
So there's not very many churches in town that preach against the homos
There's not very many churches in this country that preach against the homos, but they got to be preached against it's not popular
It's out of season right now
It's like yeah, who knows no no homos
So if we've learned anything in the last few years is that doc it's the doctrine
We think everyone has down the devil seems to work that that angle
I mean who would have thought in a million years that the Trinity would be something that would be attacked
It would be a big debate
It's like the Father Son the Holy Ghost these three are one. It's not that complicated people
But you know people are taking that and just make it and all kinds of weird stuff out of it
So how about things like calling upon the name of the Lord?
I mean who would have thought that would be a controversial thing?
The Bible says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved
Right
Calling upon the name of the Lord's all faith
If you don't believe he's there you're not gonna call upon him right, so that's believing
But that's not complicated either, but people were attacking that earlier this year. That's works
Come on. Why would God tell you that's not of works and then say whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved
That's retarded man, that's so stupid
It's just I mean that's that's novice stuff right there
How about alcohol oh, yeah, it's okay to drink alcohol
I mean that really hasn't come up lately, but Afton seemed to really get into that doctrine, right?
Yeah, one drink is fine with your dinner
All right, what book in the chapter is that in?
You know one beer thou shalt have and one only
Thou shalt drinkest one glass of wine and not only thou will not be drunk. I mean people just make up stuff
The doctrines that I mean drinking alcohol is like drinking poison
You know if you know if you keep drinking alcohol, and you don't stop you'll die. Did you know that?
You know it's literally poison
So why would you drink?
things that are poisonous to you that get you drunk to make you do stupid things and say stupid things and act in stupid ways and
And for some reason people's judgment is like hey
I'm good to drive as they go off and kill somebody else's family. You know it's a wicked sin
So we but we need to hammer the basics we need to hammer baptism
We need to hammer salvation if you haven't noticed in the last year. I've hammered salvation by faith alone a lot
Why am I doing that because it needs to be preached?
Because people are forgetting how to get saved it seems like
You know next thing you know people will be like it is repent of your sins. No, it's not repent of your sins
You know
And also, I've been hammering a lot the King James Bible
And I'll always continue to hammer that I don't care what anybody says
This book right here is the only book that's ever being preached in this church ever as long as I'm here
There's nothing else that book right there old faithful. That's the real faithful right there
But why do I preach the basics why I mean you know those are the least viewed sermons too on YouTube
It's like growing grace and knowledge
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You know sodomites 500 is
You know we got it. We got to know that the simple doctrines also the ones that are easy to know
the simple the
Sincere milk of the word we need to know those things to look at verse 4 Zephaniah 1
Zephaniah 1 4 says I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem
And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place in the name of the Chemerims with the priest
so
Baal is the Old Testament
What we would call he's Satan that's who bail represents Satan and the Chemerims are
Like his priests so the priests of Baal. That's what they were called the Chemerims
You know when I looked up the definition it said those who go about in black
So there's a lot of people to dress in black all the time, and they you know so the Chemerims are still around
They're just not in Israel anymore. I guess
but
But they're wicked priests. God said I'm gonna cut them off. I'm gonna cut off the name of Baal and
It is true during Jesus's time you didn't see him talking about Baal all the time because they weren't worshipping bail anymore
They just had become their own new religion
Which was the Christ rejecting you know Judaism basically so turn over to 2nd Kings chapter 23
2nd Kings chapter 23
Israel really had a big
Problem like worshipping bail like that was like the thorn in their side for hundreds of years was to worship
bail
but look at 2nd Kings 23 verse 4 it says and the king commanded Hilkiah the priest and the priest of the
Second order and the keepers of the door to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for
Baal and for the grove and for the host of heaven and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and
carried the ashes of them unto Bethel, so
This is you know he's preaching this during the time that Josiah is doing this and he kicked all that stuff out
But then right as soon as Josiah died they brought it all right back in
So you know it's not like he just preached
He wasn't just preaching this for no reason look at verse 5 it says and he put down the idolatrous priest
That'd be the chimerims right the out the idolatrous priest
whom the king of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and the
places round about Jerusalem and also that burned incense and a bail to the sun and to the moon to the planets and to all the
hosts of heaven and he brought
This is Josiah doing this and he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord and without Jerusalem
Under the brook Kidron and birded at the brook Kidron and stamped it
Small to powder and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people and he break down the houses of the
Sodomites that were by the house of the Lord which are where the women wove hangings for the grove
So King Josiah was a righteous righteous king right and it says that he broke down these the houses of these sodomites
And what are sodomites their homosexuals?
So he broke their houses down just because they were by the house of the Lord, right?
Notice Josiah didn't invite them to church
Did you notice that he didn't say he'll come on in the temple because the Bible says they're not they're not allowed to come into
the town
They're not allowed
So he put down the idolatrous priest like dogs
You know he didn't just put him down like he had it like he was picking him up or something and put him down
No, he put them down
You know like you know an old dog
That you know has gone had rabies or something like old yellow or something, I don't know
but
You know he put these idolatrous priests down like dogs, and he break down the houses of the sodomites
You know it doesn't say that they weren't in the houses when he broke them down either does it by the way
So they could have still been in the house right just bulldoze these guys
You know
They shouldn't have been there
They should have had no business being there
so you notice that all this like bail worship and all this other stuff like the sodomites and
All the all the priests of bail and all this worship all this stuff is tied together with Satanism. It is
They're his children. They're the children of the devil
So he broke down their houses. He destroyed all their idols their groves or false religious items
Sounds to me like Josiah didn't really have respect for religious liberty
He wouldn't have done too. Well in the United States would he?
He would have been a great president for us though, right?
Sounds like he didn't agree with what the Constitution says
You know that all religions, okay?
God doesn't feel that way. I don't understand why people think that even like people in Baptist churches are like oh
Yeah, all religious no God doesn't like other religions. He doesn't he thinks they're wicked
Now if we can get him saved
Amen, but a lot of times
They're not getting saved you think God likes the Mormons going from door to door passing out their junk sending people to hell
No, of course. He doesn't he doesn't like the Jehovah's Witnesses going out pretending to be Baptist
Saying that Jesus didn't have the didn't resurrect and in his real body
Sending people to hell
It's wicked and God's always going to be against false religion
Zephaniah 1.5 turn back there
Zephaniah 1.5 if you have your finger in there still
These cute little baby waters keeping it interesting Anthony all right
Okay all right so
Zephaniah 1.5 says and then that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops and then that worship and that
Swear by the Lord and that swear by Malcolm
So it's just continuing to list all these people that God's going to put down right then that worship the host of heaven
Upon the housetops. There's people that worship even today the host of heaven
They they're called astrologers
You know these people that say oh you can guess what kind of person you are by what month you were born on the cusp
Of you know whatever Leo, and I don't know I forgot all that stuff
I don't want to know any of that stuff anymore. I'm glad I'm not into it anymore, but
It says and then that that worship and swear by the Lord so even the people that worship and swear by the Lord
They're obviously
Not right with God, but it says even we're safe people killed during that siege you think of course they were
God God didn't spare anybody. It was left in that city when he when he actually went and destroyed Jerusalem
I'll show you some verses here in a little bit, but he it was an utter destruction
So but it says in the swear by Malcolm
So I was trying to figure out who this Malcolm guy is but in the Bible
He's known by other different names see all these these
Cultures they had this it was the same
Demon that they were worshiping
But they just called it like a different variation of that name like there's bail and bail um and just different names so
Malcolm is also Moloch known as Molech or Milcom or
Malick so different different names from different cultures would call them something different, but what it is
It's a demon okay. They're worshiping the devil the Bible says that those people who worship those other gods
They were worshiping devils
so
though they were
In verse look at verse 6 it says and then that are turned back from the Lord and those who have not sought the Lord
Nor inquired of them see it is the people that are backslidden from the Lord see God will still kill his own people
That's what people don't understand is that you could be saved
But God could still kill you did you know that and I know that could seems kind of scary, but
Look look at it again verse 6
It says and then that are turned back from the Lord and those that have not sought the Lord
Nor inquired for him, so you're talking about unsaved people, but you're also talking about safe people
People that have turned back see you can be saved and be really far away from God
You can be saved and be backslidden from from the Lord. I mean look at Samson. He went to a harlot
He had both of his he had his hair cut off because he told the secret of his strength
He had his eyes poked out with pokers
You know he was blind pushing
Pushing and making sport for the people
You know it's because he was he was being punished because of the things he did on this world see people
Don't think that you can lose your salvation, but you can't lose your salvation
God just might make you lose your life your job your family
Anything you hold dear he's try. He's gonna try to continually bring you back to him and when all else fails
You're done
You know he might punch your ticket. Just like Ananias and Sapphira
So
anyway
So God would not spare Judah because why?
Because of Manasseh turn to 2nd Kings chapter 21, and I believe that Manasseh got saved
Now I do I believe Manasseh got saved, and he was a really wicked person. He was a really wicked king
He'd done war stuff than almost anybody else
Turn to 2nd Kings 21 verse 10
2nd Kings 21 verse 10
The Bible says 2nd Kings 21 10 says and the Lord spake by his servants the prophets saying
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations and hath done wickedly
Above all that the Amorites did which were before him and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols
Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel behold
I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah that whosoever heareth of it
Both his ears shall tingle
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab
And I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipe at the dish
Wiping it and turning it upside down
So I mean you have that picture you got your your food that you just got done eating right there's still some residue
Just wipes it clean turns it up
I picture of just like rinsing the dish and then turn it upside down so the water
Could be I mean totally wipes it clean right? That's what he's saying that he's gonna do to Judah, Jerusalem
Verse 14
and I'll forget the remnant of mine inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies and they shall become a prey and a
spoil to all their enemies because they have done that which was evil in my sight and have provoked provoked me to anger since
The day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even unto this day
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much
Till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another
So why why is God doing this because of what Manasseh basically Manasseh was the camel or the straw that broke the camel's back
Right and he had shed much innocent blood
Beside his sin wherewith he made Judah the sin in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord
Now look at skip down to verse 20 well skip over a couple more chapters to chapter 23 second Kings 23
look at verse 25
Second Kings 23 verse 20 or chapter 23 20 verse 25
And like unto him was there no king before I'm talking about Josiah
That turned to the Lord with all of his heart and with all his soul and with all of his might
According to all the law of Moses neither after him arose there any like him
So he was a great king. Amen
look at verse 26 notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah because
Of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him with haul and the Lord said I'll remove Judah out of my sight
As I have removed Israel and will cast off this city Jerusalem
Which I have chosen and the house of which I said my name shall be there. So there it is right there
I mean he said I'm not I'm you know
It doesn't matter how how much he turned to him. He still is going to destroy Jerusalem and Judah because of the things
That Manasseh did turn to 2nd chronicles chapter 33 2nd chronicles chapter 33
2nd chronicles 33 verse number 1
Bible says this Manasseh was 12 years old when he began to reign and he reigned 50 and 5 years in Jerusalem
He did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord like under the abominations of the heathen
whom the Lord hath had cast out before the children of Israel and he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had
broken down and reared up the
altars for Balaam and made groves and worshiped all the hosts of heaven and
Served them and he built altars in the house of the Lord whereof the Lord had said in Jerusalem shall my name be forever
And he built altars for all the hosts of heaven and the two courts
Of the house of the Lord and he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom
Sacrificed his own children in a fire. That's pretty wicked. I mean, what did he not do?
He pretty much did everything you could do to make God super angry, right?
He says also he observed times and he used enchantments. He used witchcraft and dealt with the familiar spirit spirit
So he's just talking with demons and just hanging out doing witchcraft
And with the Wizards and he wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger
And he said a carved image the idol
Which he had made in the house of God of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son in this house
And in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel. Well, I put my name forever
So he really made God angry
He was so angry that even when Josiah turned to him with all his heart and there was no king like him after that
God still said nope. It's not enough. The blood had to be punished. The wickedness had to be punished
And you know abortion is wicked as hell. Did you know that today?
Turning your face from the poor and needy
Not giving proper judgment not visiting the widows and the fatherless and their affliction. God is not gonna put up with that
But
Abortion, I mean do you think God is just gonna sit by and let America keep killing all their their babies?
And he's not gonna do anything about it. No, there will be a reaping there will be you know
Judgment from God and not just this country, but it's going on everywhere in China
They can't even find girls to marry their boys because they've aborted them all
Japan is like losing their population
You know this this whole thing with
Planned Parenthood
It's wicked as hell
You know
Killing children. That's the I mean, it's so funny. The liberals are always like oh, you know, we don't believe in the death penalty
How could you Christians believe in the death penalty?
How could you believe in abortion? That's what I want to know
How can you believe that it's okay to murder a child in the womb the safest place that there is for him
And
That's the kind of things that Manasseh was doing and allowing to be done in his country at that time
So there's nothing new under the Sun. It's always been going on and God is gonna punish
The heathen for doing all this wickedness
Turn to Psalm chapter 119
And God is always gonna judge the false religion too, there's a stinking psychic house that I drive by on occasion
It's got this big hand in the window or whatever. It's off of sr
500 I pray that God burns that place to the ground every time I pass by it every time I go by the Lovejoy
Abortion Center in Portland. I pray that God destroys it somehow and kills everybody inside there
Maybe then they would wake up. Yeah, it's wicked
Psalm 119 104 the Bible says through thy precepts I get understanding therefore. I hate every false way
See we're supposed to hate and hate is a strong word isn't it?
Hate is the opposite of love okay, and we're supposed to hate every false way
Psalm 119 126 if you go down a little bit further
Says it is time for thee Lord to work for they have made void by law
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold yea above fine gold therefore
I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right, and I hate every false way
So are we supposed to love the false way?
Hate the sin love the sinner no look anybody that's murdering their own children. I don't like them
Now I'm not saying they can't be saved
I'm just saying that if they if they are saying that they're saved and they think that abortion is okay
Then they're wicked as hell
wicked as hell
Turn back to Zephaniah chapter one
Zephaniah chapter one
It just irritates me this whole abortion thing I just thought
6,000 children a day
You know six thousand children a day. That's a lot
Times that by 365. It's a lot of kids. That's just in this country
China's got billions of people how many you think they're aborting a lot India same thing
It's just like sacrificing them unto Moloch you know
Because they want their sacrifice them for their life to be better or whatever
I they don't kick you know at least be responsible. You know be responsible I
Just don't understand it
But it's just the sign of the times that we're living on where people just think it's okay to call a baby a blob of
Tissue it's not a blob of tissue if they go straight to heaven when they die
It's not a blob of tissue. They have a soul. They have a spirit. They're going straight to heaven
Which is probably good for them because their parents are wicked as hell anyway
But it still doesn't excuse the fact that they're murdering their own children. It's murder capital offense murder
Zephaniah 1 7 says hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God for the day of the Lord is at hand for the Lord
Hath prepared a sacrifice he had hath bid his guests
So the day of the Lord it's talking about the day that that Zephaniah is preaching about
So there's a there's a day of the Lord in the future that's coming
But there was a day of the Lord for them, too
And so a lot of times in the Bible you'll have dual meetings for for different passages
And you can you can see how some of these parallel some of the things that you see in Revelation and Daniel and the prophetic
books
But there is like a real-time
fulfillment of this and that's when the their day of the Lord came when he let Nebuchadnezzar
Come and destroy the temple and kill everybody and take him captive back to Babylon
So there is a twofold meaning here when it's talking about the day of the Lord
You'll see that as you go through it, but there's like multiple
examples of this you know I think
Dan just talking about the 70th week prophecy
you know how Jerusalem will be destroyed, but again that temple is gonna be built again and
He's gonna destroy
He's gonna destroy Jerusalem again
You know they're all over there right now hating Jesus, but they're gonna get conquered again. You know so
There's dual meanings in Scripture
So look at verse
8 says and it shall come to pass and that in the day of the Lord's sacrifice
I will punish the princes and the king's children and all such as are clothed with strange apparel
That's an interesting
Way of putting something right like maybe cross-dressing. I don't know strange apparel
I mean, what do you think of what you think of strange apparel?
You know
That's a synonym for queer yes, you're right Anthony
It's it's like yeah strange apparel, and you know it's like cross-dressing skinny jeans women's pants
Dudes in dresses I was telling Cher there's this lady
I got saved and I run into her Walmart, and I say are you still saved and she always says yes, but
She hasn't come to church yet, but you know so she might not be really saved just kidding
but
She still says she saved when I see her every time, but when I got her saved
She goes I got to take my son to
to work and out of the corner of my eye I saw
What appeared to be a dress like it was like a an old lady's style nightgown?
You know like as the zip up warm looking ones
But it was a dude wearing it that was her son
And I just I'd already gotten her saved. You know what am I gonna say?
What can I say I was just like oh, man
I'm glad he didn't come to the door when I was there. I might have just walked away
but
There's no new thing under the sun. They were wearing strange stuff back. Then they're wearing strange stuff today
And you know people were dressing like queers back in Zephaniah's day. There were sodomites in the land right just I had to get them out
And you know God punished the people for dressing queer back then he's gonna punish people for dressing like it today, too
And you know strange apparel could also be the kind of junk that you put on your bodies
Like have you seen some people wearing strange apparel in Portland before?
like you know the
Where I was drunk with Richard. He's got an interview. I said
You know those little things you can cut out the and have like the glass where you can see their teeth
I said if you do that you get the job right off. I mean they're
He's like should I dye my hair pink
He's a shoo-in I said just give some gauges in your ears, and you'll get the job for sure
Joking around though because
That would be disgusting if I saw Richard with pink hair. I'd kick him out instantly
You know, but people putting kool-aid in their hair and pouring water on it or whatever. I mean, it's just weird
That's strange isn't it that's strange apparel to me
You know if you're walking around with all kinds of hooks in your face and stuff
I mean, I just I don't understand it
I don't understand the allure of looking weird, but you know the Bible says that they were wearing
It says I will punish the princes and the Kings
Children and all such as our clothes with strange apparel, and that's what the Bible says right
He's gonna punish the ones that are wearing the weird clothes
Because that's what it is strange means weird or queer, right?
Zephaniah 1 9 says in the same day also will I punish?
Those that leap on the threshold
Which fill their masters houses with violence and deceit and it shall come to pass in that day sayeth the Lord
There shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate and in howling from the second and the great crashing from the hills
How you inhabitants of maktosh and all the merchant people are cut down and they that bear silver
are cut off and it shall come to pass at that time that I will search Jerusalem with candles and
Punish the men that are settled on their leaves that say in their heart the Lord will not do good neither
Will he do evil? I thought that was an interesting way of saying that I will search Jerusalem with candles
So that's like the equivalent of like going door-to-door with flashlights, right? You know God's gonna bring the candles out
Hey, let's make sure we get everybody
He's not leaving anybody untouched and especially these clowns that are resting on their leaves basically boozers
so what it's talking about and
The say in their heart the Lord will not do good or evil
that was the problem with the people in Jeremiah's generation and
And Zephaniah's generation is that they just would not hear the words of the Lord
You know, he was preaching at the same time as Jeremiah was Jeremiah was around at the same time as Josiah was
so
It says in verse 13 therefore their goods shall become a booty and their house is a desolation
They also build houses and not inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof
The great day of the Lord is near it is near that and haste and hasteth greatly even the voice of the day of the
Lord the mighty man shall cry there bitterly
So I know this has been a negative sermon
But you know you need some negativity in your life sometimes, don't you?
But these it says these mighty men will cry bitterly you know the guys that think that they're tough guys in the end
They're gonna be crying like little babies in a corner somewhere. You know and the Lord's flashlight is gonna be seeking them out
so
But then you I mean you start to see parallels with it talking about the real day of the Lord
You know the day of the Lord that's coming soon
Here and you know it says woe to you if you desire the day of the Lord
I don't want people to get killed and to be wiped out
You know God God wants everybody to be saved I want everybody to be saved
But you know obviously there are people you know the Bible is written
It's gonna happen and so what's he say he's gonna punish the earth
He's gonna punish the ones that are committed iniquity
Those that are not saved are gonna be punished they're gonna be killed they're gonna die and they're gonna go to hell
So but we got to save as many as we can while we can
Revelation 1 turn over to Revelation 1
I'm almost done
Revelation 1 verse 7 says behold he cometh with clouds and
Every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him even so
Amen so the the speaker here in Revelation 1
7 says even though they're gonna be crying even so amen
Amen that they're gonna be whining they had their chance they had their chance to to repent and get saved and they wouldn't do it
Verse 8 says I am the Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending sayeth the Lord which is which was and which is to
come the Almighty
Great verse to show that Jesus Christ is
God
He says he's the Alpha
He's the Omega the beginning and the ending
Sayeth the Lord which is which was and which is to come the Almighty who's coming back. Jesus is coming back
And he's not gonna be
Smiling when he comes back
He's gonna be angry
Revelation 6 turn over there
Revelation chapter 6
Revelation 6 verse 10 the Bible says and they cried with a loud voice saying how long the Lord holy and true dost thou
not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth and
White robes were given unto every one of them and it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season
until their fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled and
I beheld and he had opened the sixth seal and lo there was a great earthquake and the sun became black
As sackcloth of hair and the moon became his blood and the stars of heaven fell
Unto the earth even as the fig tree casteth her untimely figs
when she is shaken of a mighty wind and the heaven departed as a scroll when it's rolled together and every mountain an
Island were moved out of their places and the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains
And the mighty men and every bond man and every free man hid themselves in the dens
And in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and rocks fall on us
And hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb for the great day of
His wrath has come and who shall be able to stand the answer to that question is nobody
nobody's gonna be able to stand and
Does it sound like Jesus is smiling in the Great Tribble?
You know when all this is happening when he comes back to sound like he's gonna be happy with everybody
No, it sounds like he's gonna judge the world for their iniquity. That's what he's gonna do
I
Was just sick of this mentality and Christianity where it's just always happy happy joy joy
grace grace grace grace
Ice cream ice cream ice cream, you know, look if there's got to be some negativity people aren't gonna change
Under saying grace grace grace all the time. It's just not gonna happen
There's got to be judgment judgment judgment judgment sometimes
It sounds like Zephaniah in a time of good
Said I'm gonna preach a negative message whether you like it or not
And that's the right thing to do in season out of season
Zephaniah 1 15 let's finish it off
Says that day is the day of wrath a day of trouble and distress a day of wastedness and desolation a day of darkness
and gloominess a day of clouds and thick darkness a
Day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities and against the high towers and I'll bring distress upon men that they
Shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the Lord and their blood shall be poured out as dust and their flesh
As the dumb that doesn't sound like a very pretty picture. Does it I mean just thinking that think about that blood being poured out
Like you're pouring out a pitcher of blood. It's pretty gross
neither
Verse 18 neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath
But the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy
For he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land
You see how it kind of goes back and forth to talking about Judah and then talking about you know
The time of the end there's dual meanings in those there's a future
There's a future partaking of the scripture in the Great Tribulation in the Great Tribulation on the day of the Lord
so once Christ comes and takes
And takes and rescues all those people and raises the dead
then
that's when the wrath comes half hour later fireballs start coming and
Nobody's gonna be able to stand and all the tough guys and all the mighty men all those guys all the rich men
Try you can't buy your way to heaven
Your silver and gold aren't gonna do anything for you
You know because God's not mad at you though God's not mad
That's the message that you're getting today in Christianity, it's disgusting
God's never mad at you be free, bro
You're so caught up in the Old Testament. You're caught up in in all the bad. You know the negativity, bro
Just do whatever you want get that Christian tattoo oh
There's no such thing as a Christian tattoo
Just saying you can put Ephesians whatever six one or whatever
You can put whatever verse you want on you, but God's never gonna say that's a Christian tattoo
He's never gonna say it
Look if you have a tattoo. I'm not mad at you
God might be but I'm not no I just
I'm just kidding, but you know I'm just sick of this mentality in Christianity
That is just you know you're always negative. I'm not always negative. I'm positive sometimes
You know you're not gonna hear a positive sermon this Sunday either, so if you were looking for positivity
It's not happening this weekend either
We've got to leave you with a nuclear bomb before I leave to the Philippines, right?
Anyway, when I get let's say we'll have one more sermon out of this and then when I get back
We'll finish the book off. Let's pray dear Lord. We thank you so much for the scriptures. We thank you Lord that
You're a God of judgment and a God of mercy
And I just pray that you would bless each and every person that came tonight pray if there's someone here
That's not saved Lord that they would before they leave this building that they would trust you as their Savior Jesus name Amen