Faith of word Baptist shirts this evening so good see you all here for our Sunday night service
Please find your seats now grab a hymnal and go to hymn number
323 number
323 more about Jesus hymn number
323 once you find your place we'll begin singing on that first now hymn number
323 lift your voice together now three two three
More about Jesus, what I know, more of His grace to others show, more of His saving,
fullness in, more of His love who died for me, more, more about Jesus, more, more about
died for me. More about Jesus, let me learn. More on this holy well-deserved spirit of God, my teacher, be showing the things of Christ within. More, more about Jesus. More, more about Jesus.
who died for me.
More about Jesus in his word.
Hold it up here.
to die for me
to die for me. Amen. Good start to our singing this evening. We want to go
before Lauren and ask the blessing on the service. So, I've asked for the next
Macintosh. If you believe in some prayer, please. Heavenly Father, the Lord, thank you
for allowing us to be gathered here tonight. I already prayed that you would
just be with our pastor.
that you would feel better and Lord we pray that you would just bless all aspects of the service
and that you would be with brother Ramon as he preaches to us later, that you would fill him
with the power of your Holy Spirit. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Hymn number 202, number 202.
And his wondrous love to me, lift your voices now to the Lord, number 202.
I will sing...
Bulletin time. All right, if you need one, raise your hand, and the others will get
you a bulletin as soon as possible.
So, let's go through the announcements really quick.
Service times on the left, inside left corner,
and below that is the church soul winning as well.
Very bottom in salvation to baptism for the year.
On the right side, once again, happy birthday to everyone.
It has a birthday this month,
and not just that, happy anniversary to everyone.
It has an anniversary this month.
And below that, if you're interested in a cruise
mission trip, organized by Brother Kevin Rowe,
independently of the church,
he has priority costing a tenner
in his details near the small town.
So, we need a reservation map,
which is the ones right over here by those clipboards.
All ladies on the back of the bulletin.
All ladies and teen girls that invited to a baby shower
in honor of Peyton.
All right, I'm going to mess it up again.
Somebody help me out here.
Daniel.
What?
Kaka Baker.
Yeah, I totally blew it in the morning.
Totally.
Kaka Baker alright Sunday July 13th from 2 to 4 p.m. at the church building cake your refreshments will be provided
Please bring a dish to share nursing is only preferred
Please RSVP to miss Janie a Kenosho alright join brother Caleb a Kenosho for a so many marathon in Denver Colorado on Saturday July 26
2025
There's a signed up sheet available for those
interested in participating.
More information, please speak to Brother Caleb
or email the church.
Right below that is other upcoming events.
Please take a look at those when you get a chance.
And let's quickly go over the so many numbers for this week.
So if you've got somebody saved on Thursday the 3rd,
start on the left-hand side.
Go ahead and raise your hand and let me know
how many you got saved.
Any salvations for Thursday the 3rd?
Any, any, any.
Three, two.
All right, anybody else?
Salvation for Thursday, what's that? Huh? Going once, going twice. Don't say I'm not
nice. Alright, so where am I at? Totally messed me up bro. Friday. One right here
for Friday. Alright, anybody else for Friday? Two back there for Friday. Anybody
else for Friday? Five, four, four back there for Friday. Anyone else?
All right, and Saturday, what do you have in a minute?
Huh?
One, one for Friday, amen.
Let me backtrack.
Saturday, any salvations?
I see two right here for Saturday.
Three for Saturday.
Brother Ramon, how many do you have on Saturday?
Was it one all right might as well. What about the days before?
Yeah, go ahead and text me I'll write them in
But for Saturday at least one and today
One all right one for the little man over there
All right anybody else we got one right here any other salvatians to over there
For right here for the Jimmy five brother Ian
Anybody, anybody, we got, oh, Christian, is that you?
All right, number one.
Anybody else?
Go on, it's going twice.
All right, Brother Daniel.
Find the answer in front of your hymnal with song 19.
If you don't have an answer, please raise your hand
and receive one and we'll sing it together
on that first verse.
And gold in a much-mined gold.
Steer of silver and honey,
And the honey gold.
A statue of the poor or right,
Rejoice days of art,
But the standings of the Lord.
those down to hit number 165, number 165. All worship the King, hit number 165. All worship the King,
all promise of, I'll lift your voice together now, hit number 165. All worship the King, all
Oh, tell of his life, and sing of his praise.
We call this a sign, who spread of his faith.
His chariots of wrath, the king's thunderous roar.
It shines
She's out and she's out.
Now at this time we're going to pass the offering plates and while we're passing around the offering plates
Please turn to second Samuel chapter number 12 second Samuel chapter number 12
The second Samuel 12 the Bible reads and the Lord sent Nathan unto David and he came unto him and said unto him
There were two men in one city the one rich and the other poor the rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds
But the poor man had nothing save one little you lamb which he had bought and nourished up
and grew up together with him and with his children.
It did eat of his own meat and drank of his own cup
and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
And there came a traveler unto the rich man,
and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd
to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him,
but took the poor man's lamb and dressed it for the man
that was come to him.
And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan,
As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die,
and he shall restore the Lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and because he had no pity.
And Nathan sent to David, thou art the man.
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
I anointed thee, O king over Israel,
and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul.
I gave thee thy master's house,
and thy master's wives into thy bosom,
and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah.
And if it had been too little,
I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord
to do evil in his sight?
Thou hast killed your eye of the Hittite with the sword,
and hast taken his wife to be thy wife,
and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house because thou has despised me and has taken the wife of your eye
The Hittite to be thy wife
Thus sayeth the Lord behold I will raise up evil against the out of thine own house
And I will take thy wives before thine eyes and give them unto thy neighbor and he shall lie with thy wives in the side of the
Sun for thou didst it secretly but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun and
David said underneath that I have sinned against the Lord
And Nathan said unto David, the Lord also hath put away thy sin, thou shalt not die.
How be it, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme,
the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
And Nathan departed unto his house, and the Lord struck the child that your eyes wife bear unto David, and it was very sick.
David therefore besought God for the child, and David fasted and went in and lay all night upon the earth.
And the elders of his house arose and went to him to raise him up from the earth, but he would not.
Neither did he eat bread with them, and it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died.
And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead, for they said,
Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken under our voice.
How will he then vex himself if we tell him that the child is dead?
But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead, therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead?
And they said, He is dead.
Then David arose from the earth and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the Lord and worshiped.
Then he came to his own house, and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou has done?
Thou didst fast and weep for the child while it was alive, but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.
And he said, while the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept.
For I said, who can tell whether God will be gracious to me that the child may live?
But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast?
Can I bring him back again?
I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me."
And David comforted Bathsheba, his wife, and went in unto her and lay with her,
and she bear a son, and he called his name Solomon, and the Lord loved him.
And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he called his name Jedediah because of the Lord.
And Joab fought against Rabah of the children of Ammon and took the royal city.
And Joab sent messengers to David and said,
I have fought against Rabah and have taken the city of waters.
Now therefore gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it,
lest I take the city and it be called after my name.
And David gathered all the people together and went to Rabah and fought against it and took it.
And he took their king's crown from off his head.
The weight were of was a talon of gold with the precious stones.
And it was set on David's head.
and he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
And he brought forth the people that were therein
and put them under saws and under horrors of iron
and under axes of iron and made them pass through the brick kiln.
And thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon.
So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.
Father, I thank you for the King James Bible
and 5th Word Baptist Church and the souls that were won this week.
Segura, with your Holy Spirit, open our hearts and our ears to receive your word.
I pray this in Jesus' holy name. Amen.
Amen. Well, thank you for being here on Sunday evening.
I'm sure you guys know who I am.
It's my first time being and having this opportunity to preach at our church.
My name is Brother Ramon.
If you haven't met me yet, but everybody here looks like I've met you before.
I just want to thank Pastor Anderson and Brother Chris and, you know, Pastor's wife, Mrs. Anderson.
You know, really, they changed my life.
Like, when I first started coming here at the church, it was at that little building over there.
And I think I walked in with a couple friends of mine.
You know, I think Pastor just saw like a kid with long hair or something and probably,
you know, was kind of wondering like where this kid come from, but I just, I don't remember
anything about the service, that first service, but I just remember him like preaching something
about the fags.
And I just, I was just like, I looked over to my friend and I was like, I mean, I kind
But shortly after, you know, after the service, somebody showed me the gospel and, you know,
I essentially got saved because of Pastor Anderson's ministry.
And so, you know, Brother Chris Aguro also was one of the people that kind of first
really invested in me.
You know, even though I was just a single guy.
All I could really do was just kind of come to church and just drink the milk as a new believer.
But Brother Chris really was one of the first people, especially after I got married.
He showed me a new career that I actually did pretty well in.
I was lucky enough to do well and now I've got wife and kids and I grew up in this church
in the sense that I became a man once I started hearing what the Bible requires of us men
and what the Bible requires of us as far as leadership and what God expects of us.
And thank you again to Pastor Anderson
for allowing me to preach today.
The title of my sermon is admitting you are wrong.
Admitting you are wrong.
Now, the thing about, you know,
spiritually applying this, you know, admitting we are wrong,
I mean, on the tracks that we hand out to people every day,
when we go soul winning, what's step number one?
Admit you're a sinner.
That is,
Kind of interesting because brother preach brother preach brother Chris just preached about hell this morning
And I was working on the sermon, which is you know admitting you were wrong and so he was you know showing us step two
And it's funny because I'm writing I wrote about step one this morning
Spiritually admitting that we are wrong, you know that we are sinners
specifically is an essential step in in salvation
You know, one of the first things we ask people at the door is whether they believe that, you know, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Because we're trying to show them why we need Jesus.
We're trying to show them, look, if you're honest with yourself, you would understand that there's no way that you could have salvation without a redeemer, without a savior.
That's impossible.
So, I want to be very clear, you know, trusting in Jesus is what we need to do to go to heaven.
Believing on Jesus.
I wasn't there when he died on the cross.
You weren't there when he died on the cross.
The Bible says, faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the word of God.
So we believe the Bible by faith.
and we're choosing to believe on what he says.
And in the Bible, it's very clear, we're all sinners
and we all deserve to go to hell.
And...
Again hell's fire. You gotta believe, you know, just to back up brother Chris's sermon this morning. Hell is fire
You know, and it talks about how it's in the heart of the earth and it's interesting
I always tell this to people at the door, you know, when I came to the US and I took
science they would teach, you know, at the center of the earth is the core and
The core is magma. The core is fire. Hey, the Bible knew that before
You know science put it in the textbooks and taught it to me, you know, and so here's the thing
You have to believe we're all sinners you have to admit that and
Then you have to believe, you know, we all deserve to go to hell
I'm just giving the gospel real quick, but you know, you just have to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
And once you put your faith in trust that he was the one
that lived a perfect life, he was the one that died,
was buried, and rose again for our sins,
then you're saved, you have eternal life.
And you have to believe that.
You have to believe that it's eternal.
You have to believe that it's everlasting.
Otherwise, then it's temporary.
and it's not permanent.
And that's not good news.
That's bad news.
You know, I'm preaching to the choir here, obviously.
We've got plenty of soul winners here in this building
who knows the gospel and preach it in their life.
But go ahead and turn to John chapter three.
John chapter three, in verse 34,
I'll go ahead and turn there myself.
It says, John chapter 3, there it is, 34.
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God, for God giveth not the spirit by measure
unto him.
when you tell them, hey, we're all sinners.
Yeah, I believe that.
Okay, we all deserve to go to hell.
Yeah, I believe that.
What do you believe somebody has to do to go to heaven?
Be a good person.
Live a good life.
Repent your sins.
And you know, I mean, the Bible says right there that God,
God giveeth not the spirit by measure unto him.
It's like infinite, right?
So Jesus, you cannot stack up against Jesus.
Impossible.
And so, you know, I don't bust this verse out to people.
I just tell them, look, for all I have sinned
and come short of the glory of God.
The Romans wrote, beautiful, right?
And so when I tell him that, hey, look, it says,
you've come short, you've come short.
It means that we've failed.
You know, obviously I've learned this from our pastor.
And so coming short means you can't get to heaven
based on how good you are.
And so, you know, good luck stacking up against Christ,
because he was tempted at all points,
like as we are yet without sin.
And so,
You know, you might be asking me,
like, how do I apply this?
Like admitting that I'm wrong.
Yeah, I know I'm a sinner.
I'm already saved, bro.
How do I apply this to my life?
Well, here's the thing.
Being humble enough to admit a mistake
should be a standard that we look for
in our relationships, you know?
I've had friends over the years
and then I've had really good friends over the years.
And the really good friends that I have
are the ones that are able to admit that they're wrong.
Being able to admit that you're wrong,
it shows a lot about your character.
It's hard sometimes.
If you're married,
sometimes you have to admit you're wrong
even though you're not wrong.
You know what I mean?
Sometimes you just want to be a peacemaker, you know?
And, you know, for me, I struggle with always being right.
But am I always right?
No, I'm not.
I know I'm not.
But maybe sometimes I think I am, you know,
when it comes to our marriage.
But here's the thing, sometimes you have to also,
It's necessary to admit that you're wrong,
to be successful in life, okay?
From a secular point of view,
it's beneficial to take self-responsibility.
You know, being able to make a mistake,
making mistakes is good.
In the sense that it's okay
because you can grow from it and you can make changes
improve. You can learn from making mistakes, you know, and sometimes you can even with God's word with with sound biblical preaching
You don't have to make your own mistakes. You can just get the mistakes from what the Bible says
and follow the mistakes that people have done,
and also just from the preaching of the examples
that our pastor and our friends,
our fellow Christian brothers and sisters tell us
and warn us about,
and we can learn from other people's mistakes as well.
But this makes me think of this like hardball question
that they asked me when I used to work
for a communication company.
And Brother Chris had showed me this path of a career,
and I did really good at it in the sense that
I really enjoy helping people out
and helping them solve their problems.
This was with internet and cable and things like that.
So when I went in-house,
it was a little bit more rigorous as far as,
they don't just let anybody within the company.
They subcontract a lot of people,
but to go in-house, to work for the actual company,
it was a little bit harder.
And there was plenty of guys,
just like plenty of guys want to preach behind this pulpit.
There was a lot of guys who wanted to go
and essentially work for the main company.
And so,
They would ask, they asked me this one hardball question.
And the way the interview is,
is called a star-based interview.
It's situational, it's, yeah,
situation, task, action, and result.
So it's, yeah, who's ever done a star-based interview?
Okay, one, two, three, okay, four, five.
Yeah, it's a pretty rigorous question.
a series of questions that they ask.
Now, here's the thing, one of the things they ask me
is, you know, tell me a time you made a mistake
and what did you do to fix it?
I hate interviews.
Interviews, I feel that it's tooting your own horn.
It's not my favorite thing to do.
I don't like to go and sell myself and say,
oh yeah, I'm really good at this.
You know, it doesn't make me feel good to do that.
It's a little bit outside my character to toot my own horn.
But that was a question that I prepared for and I thought about.
And I said, a mistake that I made.
OK, so what happened was back in the day, believe it or not,
your telephone had its own power going to it.
So it's called a landline.
So there was literally 87 volts going to your house
from the communication company.
And that phone that would ring, whether it
was rotary phone or buttons or whatever,
it was a landline plugged into the wall,
that used to have its own power.
A lot of reasons, but one of them is E911 services.
So it's independent of power.
Power goes out, the communication company
has its own power supply that provides power
along the same lines as the phone line, essentially.
There was this house. We were doing conversion conversions at the time
We're going from this old system that provided power to your home. We're no longer doing that. It's all gonna be voice over IP
It's just basically a fancy way saying it's over the internet. So
Essentially, you're installing this modem and then you plug the phone into the modem and
You could put a battery in there if the power goes out you would still have you know a landline even if there's no
Electricity and there's a power outage
The problem is, sometimes technicians are lazy.
You all know how workers can be lazy.
We might all have had our moments in the past.
Now, here's the thing.
When it was coming from a pole some some houses have their power line from the from the from the service pole
Like SRP or APS and it goes to your house, right?
It's you can see the power line go into your house some houses are like that South Phoenix where I live lots of houses like that
Okay, so
This person who ever installed it they threw the telephone line or the coax line on top of
That power line and you know what I don't want to do
I don't want to touch that power line
And I don't want to touch that phone line because it could possibly be carrying that current a
little bit of voltage from that power line and
I've got a wife and kids and it's just cable man
You know, and so here's the thing I tell the person look
We've got the situation
Your your power line is touching our communication line. I just I don't feel safe touching it and
So their phone was working
So I wanted to call my boss and so this is again
I'm telling you this story, but I'm telling this story
to the interviewer so I could get a job,
a better job to provide for my family.
Now, I have to admit like what I did,
I'm really trying to get out of touching that power line
because I'm new, I'm not, I don't feel safe
touching this thing that could possibly have voltage.
But then the woman that, I'm pretty sure
She comes out and she's like help me help me please help me
Right, and I'm like what's going on?
And she says my my husband is having a seizure or a heart attack or something
She's like I'm freaking out. Can you call?
You know the firemen or the ambulance or call 911 and I said wait a second
Don't use your cell phone your phone's still working. I haven't cut it yet. Call from your landline
If you call them, they're gonna already have your address
tied to your phone.
They're not even gonna ask you where you live.
They're just gonna show up.
That's why it's called a landline.
You know, you're choking, you call 911,
you pass out by the door and you open it,
they're gonna find you.
It's tied to your house.
Not a lot of people have landlines anymore,
but
Anyways, so I told the story.
I made this mistake of not really figuring it out,
doing my best to do what I can to get this install done.
But when this situation arise,
I told them to call using their landline
so the ambulance came within minutes
and the guy was fine as far as I know.
a really hard question, but that's how I was able to answer that.
You know, hey, this is a time where I did wrong,
but this is how I was able to remedy it or fix it,
or at least it, you know, God turned it into good in a sense.
Now, I'm gonna show you how admitting that you're wrong
actually helps you out.
And it'll really surprise you.
Why admitting that you're wrong is a key part of Christian life.
You know, obviously we already talked about salvation.
You know, admitting to God that, you know, we can't make it to heaven without Him.
We need Jesus to save us.
Okay?
But obviously in our lives, how would we apply this is,
we put this into practice by being able to have honesty.
and being able to confess like our wrongs
and our mistakes to each other.
Okay, so go ahead and turn to Proverbs 28.
Proverbs 28.
It says, he that covereth in verse 13,
he that covereth his sins shall not prosper,
but whoso confesseth and forsakeeth them shall have mercy.
We must acknowledge
when we've sinned and so you know whether that's before God before man you got to do it
You go ahead and turn to James chapter 5. I'll read to you from 1st John
verse 1 if we confess our sins
He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
Look, God has a power to forgive.
And if I make a mistake,
you know the first person that I would ask to forgive me?
You should ask God.
That's the first person you should ask.
If you mess up, you do somebody wrong.
Man, you should ask God to forgive you, you know?
Obviously, you gotta to make it right
with the person that you've offended.
You gotta go to them.
You gotta make it right with them.
You know if we confess our sins again, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and
To cleanse us from all unrighteousness spiritually once we believe on Jesus. Guess what our sins is as far as the east is from the west
He doesn't even see our sins. He just sees you know the robe of his son
and so
Where to have you turn James 5 verse 16
Confess your faults one to another
and pray one for another that you may be healed.
So the Bible is commanding us here
to confess your faults one toward another.
And you know, go ahead and turn to Luke 15.
Confessing your faults one to another.
Like we're not Catholic here.
We don't go around and just tell our pastor
all the sins that we've done.
And I'll tell you the truth. When I came to this church, you know, when I, as a visitor, when I came here, I had just been living a worldly life.
But here's the thing, once I got saved,
it didn't change overnight.
It took about a year for me to start coming to church
and hearing the preaching and renewing my mind
and washing my mind and stop listening to the world's advice
and start listening to the preaching
that's thundering forth from this pulpit in this church.
I was kind of debating whether I should say this is but here's the thing when I first got saved
One of the things that I that was definitely wrong about and I didn't believe right away
Was the reprobate doctrine and that's because I had grown up my whole entire life around these kind of people
And you know, I just was in under the assumption
that like they're untouchable.
That's why I even enjoyed the first time
I even heard somebody speaking against them.
You know, because it was like,
it was like these people are untouchable.
You're just supposed to just love them
and don't mind them and they're just like everybody else.
But here's the thing, you know what I did?
I preached the gospel to these people that I knew.
I preached it to them and the vile,
filthy, disgusting, blasphemous garbage
that came out of their mouth.
You know what it did for me?
It proved the Bible right.
It proved the Bible right where it says
that they're haters of God.
that these sodomites, that these, you know,
this stupid triangle flag that I see at, you know,
more and more at people's front doors,
at flying these fag flags in their houses,
you know, I'll still knock them, but here's the thing,
I was wrong.
I was wrong thinking that if somebody
that God had already given up on, like it said,
In Romans 1, three times, God gave them up, God gave them over.
I was wrong in thinking that I could get them saved.
I was naive and I needed more faith where it said that God gave them up, God gave them
over.
And I wasted my time and I sat there and had to listen to the most absurd, most vile blasphemous
things towards my Savior and our Lord Jesus Christ.
I regretted it, but you know what?
I was wrong.
I was wrong, and Pastor Anderson was right.
And you know, honestly, I can't even tell you
how many things I disagree with Pastor Anderson.
You know, I'd have to think really hard.
But, you know, here's the thing.
In Luke 15, you know, let's talk about saved people.
And obviously for these filthy sodomites or they're done for by the way our our friends over in
Indianapolis
Indianapolis, you know since we're on that subject real quick, you know, hey, I support those guys
You know, hey, they're just going and preaching the God the God's word about the sodomites
And they're freaking out in Indianapolis. So, you know, they're
They're making a change
You know, I kind of have seen, you know,
Pastor Anderson preached these super unpopular things,
but like he's been preaching it lately
as kind of a part of his sermons is,
you know, the world's turning around.
So don't let people think that your preaching is in vain
or because you're preaching what God says
that it just, you know, nobody's listening.
There's no effect.
There's a ripple effect.
There's a ripple effect and you know most normal people
You know don't even like faggots
They think they're gross. They're just brainwashed like how I was brainwashed, you know and so
But, you know, these churches, you know,
they claim to have, you know, these Baptist churches,
you know, that claim to believe, you know,
the King James Bible, but then they're, you know,
they're soft, or they backpedal,
or they don't preach the word of God
when it comes to the sodomites.
They need to admit that they're wrong.
They need to admit that...
God was right when he said that he gave them up
and he gave them over and there's no hope for them.
They're walking dead.
They're walking around dead.
You know, I heard, I forgot where I heard it,
but it was like somebody said like,
oh, these guys, I think it was the Indianapolis thing.
And it was like, you know, they'll say that they would have,
rather that their son be dead.
than for their son to be a faggot.
I'm like, yeah, if my son was saved
and he died, at least I'd see him in heaven again.
You know, but I'd rather my son be dead and in heaven
than for my son to be a filthy,
sodomite, harming children, harming other people,
being a predator, getting them drunk, that's what they do.
These bunch of fags, that's all they do,
they go around, you know, that's why they have bars
and baths or whatever, they're little social clubs,
they just wanna just do their filthy acts with each other
and you know what, they're looking for other people,
that's what the Bible teaches, they go
and they wanna harm innocent people to convert them
cause they can't reproduce, so they have to recruit.
Where were we? Luke 15. Luke 15. This is, you know, obviously the prodigal son story.
So, you know, Enny said, where was, is this 11? A certain man had two sons.
And the younger of them said to his father,
Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me,
and he divided unto them his living.
And not many days after the younger son gathered altogether
and took his journey into a far country,
and there wasted his substance with righteous living.
And when he had spent all,
there arose a mighty famine in that land.
and he began to be in want.
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country
and sent him into fields to feed swine
and he would feign have filled his belly
with the husks that swine did eat
and no man gave unto him.
Look, he hit rock bottom.
He hit rock bottom.
Okay, but you have to remember, this is a son.
Right in John chapter 1 but as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God
Even to them that believe on his name. So this is a son
And he's getting he's getting punished
and
He would have feigned have filled his belly with the husks
Verse 17 and when he came to himself
He said, How many hired servants of my father have bread enough to spare, and I perish with hunger?
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father,
I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Make me as one of thy hired servants, and he arose and came to his father.
But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion and ran, and fell on his neck and kissed him.
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and his shoes on his feet.
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat, and be merry.
For this my son was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found, and they began to be merry."
Look, this is a beautiful story.
This is an excellent story that God has here.
The thing about it is this son,
what I want you to remember is that he came
like to his own senses.
He admitted to himself that he's messing up,
that he's messed up, that he's hurt people.
He's admitted to himself.
He is honest with himself here.
You know, but you know what he did? He went to his dad and he confessed it to his dad and
His dad saw him that he was back in the sense that
He knew that his son
You know, what did he offer?
Make me as one of thy hired servants
Hey, I'll work for you dad. I'll do the work dad
I'm gonna make that change, dad.
So this son, he's willing to put in the work.
Obviously, again, very clear salvation's not of works.
It's by faith.
We're talking about having God's mercy
and having God's blessing in our life.
And so here's the thing.
You might be able to fool people by telling them just sorry.
But, you know, your actions will always speak louder than words.
And so, God, you've got to remember, he sees right through people's hearts.
You know Hebrews 412 go ahead and turn up first ammo 16 for the word of God is quick and
Powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword
Piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and it is a discerner of the thoughts and
intense of the heart
So the Bible says the word of God is alive. It's powerful. It's sharper than any two-edged sword
I want that sword, you know what I mean?
We got it right here, you know?
But imagine if this was like a literal sword,
like, did you cut this pulpit in half?
Like, that's sharp.
Okay, but look, the thing is, is God can tell your intentions,
so you better be honest with yourself.
God can see you right through your, you know,
Man, you know, one of these people that left our church,
like texted me, like God can see right through your flattery,
okay?
And you know what's the biggest flattery ever?
Is when somebody who leaves our church
texts you and says, you know,
how you doing?
Merry Christmas, whatever.
You know what they're really saying and I got this from I think Pastor Dylan
He like posted something like this a short a short little post
You know, you know what they're doing when they leave our church and then they text you you know what they're doing
They're saying you're better than the person sitting next to you
You're better than the church because they don't like the church
They're saying you're better than Pastor Anderson
You know because why why aren't they here supporting him?
They're flattering you.
You know what I do?
I just block the number.
Somebody else that left our church,
I think, might have asked my wife,
are we still friends?
And I'm just thinking to myself,
I don't really wanna be friends with somebody.
Number one, can't admit that they're wrong.
And they double down.
Number two, I don't wanna be friends with somebody.
Who can't tell the truth from a lie?
Who are not honest with themselves?
I mean, I don't wanna rub,
I mean, the Bible calls us soldiers.
You know what I mean?
Imagine going to battle
and then somebody like can't tell the enemy
from your fellow army men or whatever.
I mean, that's wild.
That's, you get friendly fire.
You're gonna shoot me, bury me, not tell anybody else.
You know, there was this one bozo that came to this church
and I stopped being his friend, he went on some radio show,
he was part of the whole oneness crap,
and so this guy, you know, I took him out shooting
and I don't do this anymore, but...
He literally stepped out of his vehicle.
We were in the woods.
He stepped out of the vehicle, pulled out his shotgun.
His wife is right here in a baby, and he goes, boom!
And I look over, and I'm like, did you mean to do that?
And his wife looks terrified.
This guy had an ND, it's a negligent discharge.
And we're in the forest.
And I'm thinking to myself, we're gone.
Because you know what he couldn't do?
You know what I asked him if he meant to do that?
You know what he said?
He said, yeah, I meant to do that.
Yeah, next to your wife, either answer's wrong.
It's like, no, I didn't mean to do that.
Then why was your finger on the trigger?
That's basic firearm safety you don't put your finger on the trigger till you're ready to shoot and don't point at anything
You're not willing to destroy
You know, so here's the thing
That's I I did not mean to do that wrong answer. I meant to do that wrong answer
Okay, and the guy couldn't admit that he was wrong. Guess what I stopped being his friend before the oneness thing
I didn't want anything to do with this guy
The guy couldn't even admit that he was wrong
Look, there's no mercy without confession.
Like you have to be able to admit.
And you know, honesty with God,
that's how you begin restoration.
You know, that's how you get in God's grace
is you gotta come to Him,
you gotta give Him like what you're doing wrong.
You can't live life like,
you know, I've been teaching my wife Tagalog words
and I think Tagalog words are funny.
So there's a word called kawawa it's like kawawa. It's just like oh like so pitiful or
It's like you know some people it's just like every nothing they do is ever their fault
They just want you to always just feel like kawawa towards them
You know what I mean? It's like it's like it's never their fault. It's always like oh, you know well cuz you know
I don't know, I guess I could like, what if I was like that?
So I grew up in the Philippines, you know?
There's some, I had to wake up and there's no lights
because there's no electricity.
And you know, I have to go like this for my matchbox
and turn on my candle so my Filipino accent's coming out.
You know?
And it's like, I have to go to the bathroom,
there's no water, so I had to pour the bucket of flash.
You know like I could sit here and be a victim all day long and
Just act like
It's just I've just been dealt like
Bad hands all my life and I'm just I want you just to remember that I'm kawawa. Oh
Kawa, you know
Look, it's the way you look at life
You know
Sometimes I feel like the best champions in the world,
like best boxers or whatever,
if the guy had no hands,
he would still be the best boxer in the world.
Just because of the way that their attitude is,
the way that they look at the world.
And you know, that's what I love about our church
and even, I really learned this from our pastor.
You know, he's so gracious.
Sometimes we'll have to be like, hey, pastor, this guy.
you know, Robert, you know.
And then it's like, it's like this guy, you know,
he's doing this, he's doing that.
I mean, I guess brother Chris kind of already
let the cat out of the bag.
So many times I don't have to really refrain.
I just don't want to talk about the guy.
But, you know, essentially,
pastor's like, oh, you know,
I just want to give him another chance.
Maybe we could just give him, maybe he's new, right?
Yeah, he's new.
Okay, well, you know, maybe we'll just give him
another chance.
I mean, that guy's merciful, you know, I don't have as much patience I'm working on it.
But you know, here's the thing, God is looking into our hearts.
You know, that guy, he would apologize, he would say sorry, but did he really mean it?
No, he didn't mean it.
He just go back home, chat to you beauty, tell me what to say, you know, and it's just like
Your actions once you hit post it kind of lets us all know hey, you're sorry wasn't really sorry
You know
Did I have you turn somewhere
first Samuel 16
But the Lord verse 7 but the Lord said unto Samuel look not on his countenance countenance or in the height of his stature
because I have refused him.
For the Lord seeeth not as man seeeth,
for man looketh on the outward appearance,
but the Lord looketh on the heart."
God looks at your heart.
Tonya, you can fool us.
You might be able to fool people.
You might be able to fool your parents.
You might be able to fool your spouse,
your brother, your sister, your boss.
But look, you can't fool God.
God knows where your heart's at.
You're not honest with yourself.
If you're not comparing what you're doing to God's standard,
you might be fooling yourself a little bit.
You might be being held back from some blessings.
Man, that was 0.1.
OK, I'll just try to speed up here.
Go ahead and turn to 1st Samuel 16.
Pride keeps you from admitting your fault.
You know, pride is a wall that blocks us from having, like, reconciliation, you know?
And so Proverbs 16, you're in 1 Samuel 16, Proverbs 16 verse 18 says pride goes before
destruction and then haughty spirit before a fall.
James chapter 4 verse 6, God resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble.
Galatians 6-3, for if a man think himself to be something
when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Don't be fooling yourself.
That's the worst, you know?
I used to pray a lot, you know, God, God please
just show me when I'm doing something wrong,
please just punish me right away, Lord.
I would literally pray that, like, you know, but then.
Brother Chris, you know, he taught me some things
and he's like, you should just pray for wisdom, bro.
So you don't get whooped.
And I'm like, dude, you're so right.
So like, you know, just pray for wisdom.
You know, because if you're right in God's eyes,
he's gonna give you wisdom.
He's gonna give you joy.
Right?
Isn't that like Ecclesiastes, you know?
And here's the thing, you know,
You know, we're all guilty of this.
You know, if you're beefing with your brother,
your sister, your spouse, you know, people in the church,
you got issues all the time, why is it the same people?
Got real quiet.
You know what I mean?
Same people always got beef with somebody.
Here's the thing, you know, you gotta let stuff go.
You gotta let stuff go and you gotta ask for forgiveness.
Look, tomorrow I might wake up and yell at the wrong person.
in my household or something.
You know what I mean?
But look, you gotta confess that to God.
You gotta move on and you gotta try again, right?
You gotta forgive, but you can't hold grudges.
You can't let the sun go down upon your wrath.
You have to forgive it,
and especially in a church like this,
you know, where there's all kinds of people,
you don't have to be friends with everybody.
But you should be able to admit that you're wrong and even when you're not wrong
you want to be a peacemaker and you want to just be able to get along with people and
Respect them because they're a saved child of God
You know here's the thing even if you don't think if you got your doubts about this person you don't know
You don't know you know everybody's in a different stage of their Christian life and that's
The beauty about our church, we've got people
who are super advanced, teaching those who are new.
We've got people who have been a Christian for 10 years,
five years, and some people excel faster than others.
You can learn a little bit of something from everyone
in our church, so you should get along with people.
And so, you don't want to let your pride
having like reconciliation and just having closure
and just moving on with your life
instead of holding on to stuff.
Now, in a first Samuel 16,
David was blinded and misjudges, you know, the situation.
And I'll show you here because it's actually,
because we read about how David, you know,
when Nathan came to him,
He said, look, there was this U-lam, and essentially, it makes
it sound like this guy's pet.
It's kind of funny.
But anyways, so there was this U-lam.
And this other guy, the rich guy, he takes this guy's lamb.
What it is, is it's a picture, and he killed it,
and then David essentially prescribes the death penalty.
He prescribes the death penalty, he's like,
that guy shall surely be put to death.
And here's the thing, stealing somebody's lamb
is not the death penalty.
And so the pride here is that David has sin in his life
that's preventing him from seeing.
and having true, you know, righteous judgment
because, you know, you're supposed,
he says the guy is supposed to be given like four more lambs,
but the guy doesn't deserve to die
for stealing somebody's property.
Now, David, we all know, did what?
He committed murder.
So isn't it interesting that the punishment that he's prescribing, he was actually guilty of?
So God pardoned David because as soon as he gave him,
as soon as the prophet Nathan
told him, thou art the man, what happened?
Right away, David said, what?
I've sinned.
He admits it and he fixes it.
and God spares him of the judgment that he was supposed to get.
You know, God gave him pardon.
And so, obviously, he didn't get to see his child.
His child died.
He got punished on this earth still.
And so, God still punished him, obviously, but he's in heaven, right?
And all babies go to heaven.
And so David, because he had pride, he prescribed a little bit too harsh of a punishment here.
And so we got to be careful because pride blinds you.
Now, I've got a whole bunch of examples of people
shifting blame and not taking self-responsibility.
This one's kind of funny.
Adam blames Eve, right?
So it says in Genesis three, it says,
and the man said, the woman whom thou gave us to be with me,
she gave me of the tree and I did eat.
She didn't point a gun to his head and make him do it.
Obviously, there's no guns, I'm joking.
But, you know, it's just kind of funny how people,
sometimes their default reaction is not self-responsibility.
You know, and here's the thing, Genesis 3.13,
and the Lord God sent unto the woman,
what is this that thou hast done?
And the woman said, the serpent beguiled me,
and I did eat.
It was the snake's fault, made me eat it.
You know, here's the thing.
I get it.
That was something that I had to learn in my life,
taking self-responsibility for my actions,
but if you humble yourself
and you just take self-responsibility
for the things that you've done,
you've admitted that you're wrong,
you can make changes and you can move forward
and you can have restoration with God.
And so,
You know obviously David did that and so Psalm 51 I'll have you turn to
Psalm 32
Psalm 51 for I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me against the the only have I sinned
Obviously we talked about the prodigal son where he says father. I've sinned against heaven and in thy sight
So this is admitting you're wrong and how it's restoring you know fellowship and it's restoring
It's allowing God to give us grace really, you know, and so
Psalm 32 verse 1, blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered, blessed
is the man unto whom the Lord impudeth not iniquity, and whose spirit there is no guile.
Luke 7 verse 47, wherefore I say unto thee, her sins which are many are forgiven, for
she loved much, but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
Psalm 32, it says, blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered, blessed is the man unto whom the Lord impudeth not iniquity.
Oh, I already read that one.
Let's see here.
Isaiah 1, 18.
Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow.
Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
And so God says, let us reason together, sayeth the Lord,
though your sins be scarlet, they shall be white as snow.
Look, obviously the biggest forgiveness,
the biggest mercy is God's grace, the unspeakable gift
that God has given us eternal life
and that this eternal life is through his son,
it's in his son.
But I wanted to add this in. I kind of added it late as one of my points.
You know, as the Matthew 18 verse 23,
you know, talks about there's the kingdom of heaven, therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a certain
king, which would take account of his servants.
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought onto him
which owed him 10,000 talents for as much as he had not to pay his Lord's commandment to him to be sold and his wife and children and all that he had.
and payment to be made, the servant therefore fell down and worshipped him,
saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
The Lord of that servant was moved with compassion and loosed him,
and forgave him the debt.
But the same servant went out and found one of his fellow servants,
which owed him in hundred pence, and he laid hands on him,
and took him by the throat, saying, pay me that thou oweest.
I like that story a lot because it reminds me
how much God has forgiven me, how much God,
all the stupid stuff I ever did,
all the sins that I committed, God forgive me,
had forgiven me.
God forgave me because I believed on his son
because I put my faith and trust on the Lord Jesus Christ.
There's so much that you're forgiven.
You know, you're gonna go around
and just be short-fused with people.
You're gonna be unforgiving to people around you.
You know, you should admit to yourself,
hey, God's forgiven me so much.
Imagine like, imagine if you,
You know, I'm not saying like anybody at our church
do this, but imagine if I killed somebody.
Imagine if you committed murder.
And then, you know, you got saved,
but then you're gonna go around
and just be super short with people.
I mean, that's, you gotta just remember
how much God has forgiven you.
I mean, you took away a life,
but then you can't,
Be merciful into somebody who is alive,
who's maybe at a different stage of their life.
We want to be people that also, yes,
we admit that we are wrong,
but we also want to be able to forgive others
because God has forgiven us so much.
And so,
Whether you're a longtime Christian
or you're just starting out,
you've been saved maybe a few years, a year,
the key to growth is humility.
Being humble enough to admit what you've done.
Again, God's looking at your heart,
so you better be honest with yourself.
Because like I said,
you might be able to fool people around you,
but you can't fool God.
So you gotta be humble.
You gotta see, you know, when you're justifying sin.
I mean, we've all done that at some point.
You know, we're doing something
and then it takes us a while.
We're kind of justifying sin.
Isn't that the way sin works?
Sometimes we're sitting there and we're just like,
oh, you know, I'm just doing this
because I'm, you know, I'm bored or whatever.
And so,
God expects honesty, he expects humility,
and he expects us to be able to admit that we are wrong.
In return, we should also forgive one another.
And so, I thank everybody for being here tonight.
And thank you for listening.
Let's go ahead and pray and end the service here.
Dear Lord, I thank you Lord for your word.
I thank you for giving us such great verses on sin
and forgiveness and I pray you please help us all here
to be able to admit.
that we are wrong when we are showed, Lord,
and help us to admit immediately
without defaulting to any type of excuse
as David admitted right away.
And I pray, Lord, you please just help us
to forgive one another and help us to be humble
and to grow in grace.
And thank you for the mercy that you've given us.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Amen. All right, ladies and gentlemen, take your hymnals.
Please go to hymn 310, number 310.
Footprints of Jesus, hymn number 310.
When you find your place, we get together,
sing on that verse, sweetly, Lord,
and we're ready to follow you.
Come follow me, hymn number 310.
Sing it out on that verse now.
Sweetly, Lord, I hear you calling.
this evening we are dismissed.