Jesus, the kind shepherd found me And now I am on my way home
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days, all the days of my life
Here we store at my soul and I'm hearing We gave the peace faith in my day
We gave thee beside the still waters We might be set up the way
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days, all the days of my life
On the last mountain, when I walk through the dark coals of Mali
My Savior, He'll walk with me there Let's say peace, great man, will we be
To the mentions He's taught to prevail Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
All the days, all the days of my life
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days, all the days of my life
And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord Forever
And I shall feast at the tables then for me
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days, all the days of my life
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, there's just something about Him
Master, Savior, Jesus, I'm the fragrance after the rain
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, let all hell and earth proclaim
Kings and kingdoms will all pass away But there's something about that name
Ring the bells of heaven, there is joy today For a soul is turning from the wild
See the Father peace Him out on the way Felt the needy spirit was returned
Glory, glory, how the angels sing Glory, glory, how the loud hearts ring
Jesus, let's adore Him like a mighty singing
Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
It's great to see everybody here tonight.
We'll go ahead and find our seats.
We'll grab a hymnal and we'll start in song number 83.
Song number 83, somewhat of a newer song to the church.
I'm going higher.
Not many of us here tonight, so singing out as loud as humanly possible.
That'll sound just fine.
Song number 83 on the first.
Often I've watched the clouds up in the sky Always I've heard there were many miles high
Then as they sailed out of sight far away I said I'm going for higher someday
I'm going higher, higher someday I'm going higher to stay
Over the clouds and beyond the blue sky Going where none ever sicken or die
Love wants to meet in the sweet by and by I'm going higher someday
Men sail the ocean or soar through the air Scares can the natural I see them up there
Some seek for fame which so soon will decay I'm going higher, yes higher someday
I'm going higher, yes higher someday I'm going higher to stay
Over the clouds and beyond the blue skies Going where none ever sicken or die
Love wants to meet in the sweet by and by I'm going higher someday
Moses went up in a mountain and prayed Glory came down while alone there he stayed
But he came back he just went there to pray I'm going higher, yes higher someday
I'm going higher, yes higher someday I'm going higher to stay
Over the clouds and beyond the blue sky Going where none ever sicken or die
Love wants to meet in the sweet by and by I'm going higher someday
Often my soul has been lifted above Lost in the ocean of God's mighty love
Though I am higher than once till I say I'm going higher, yes higher someday
I'm going higher, yes higher someday I'm going higher to stay
Over the clouds and beyond the blue sky Going where none ever sicken or die
Love wants to meet in the sweet by and by I'm going higher someday
Soon will the Savior appear bless his name Someday this earth will be all wrapped in flame
Then as I see the fire mounting so high I'm going higher beyond the blue sky
I'm going higher, yes higher someday I'm going higher to stay
Over the clouds and beyond the blue sky Going where none ever sicken or die
Love wants to meet in the sweet by and by I'm going higher someday
And it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
Alright for our next song, let's go to song number 405.
Song number 405. A little more familiar song, The Banner of the Cross.
Song number 405. Don't hold back, sing it out.
Song number 405 and may sing it with me on the first.
There's a royal banner given for display To the soldiers of the king
As an inside fairy lifted up to death While the red sum ones we see
Marching on, marching on For Christ count everything but halls
And to crown him king, toil and sing Neath the banner of the cross
Though the foe may rage and gather as the plot Let the standard be displayed
And beneath its folds as soldiers of the Lord For the truth be not dismayed
Marching on, marching on For Christ count everything but halls
And to crown him king, toil and sing Neath the banner of the cross
Overland and sea, wherever man may dwell Make the glorious tidings known
Of the crimson banner, now the story tell While the Lord shall claim his own
Marching on, marching on For Christ count everything but halls
And to crown him king, toil and sing Neath the banner of the cross
When the glory dawns, tis drawing merry near It is hasting day by day
Then before our king the foe shall disappear And the cross the world shall swear
Marching on, marching on For Christ count everything but halls
And to crown him king, toil and sing Neath the banner of the cross
Alright, welcome back to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you need a bulletin please raise your hand and we'll come around and get that to you on the front.
We do have our Bible memory passage, Matthew chapter 28.
We are starting a brand new chapter.
So if maybe you weren't able to get on board or finish the last chapter as a fresh start,
you have an opportunity to start here on that.
And then we do have our service times, our soul winning times there, and our regional soul winning times.
If you need any information regarding those soul winning times, you can always contact the soul winning captain that's listed there.
And they can point you in the right direction.
We have our list of expecting ladies to be in prayer for along with our prayer list for the midweek service.
So keep those in your prayers throughout the week.
On the back we have some upcoming events.
November 24th today is, you know, Brother Oz is now officially Pastor Oz.
And so praise God for that.
If you didn't get an opportunity to listen to the sermon already, highly recommend you do that.
It was a great sermon by Pastor Shelley and definitely encourage you to do that.
Also, you know, wish Pastor Oz, I got to get used to saying that, wish Pastor Oz a congratulations.
Just let him know how thankful you are for him and encourage him in that way.
December 6th is the ladies' Christmas party.
And the information for that is on the back as well.
And there is a sign up sheet.
So if you haven't signed up, please make sure you do that.
December 9th is Christmas caroling.
December 25th after the evening service on that Wednesday is going to be the Christmas cookie bake off for you ladies.
And I'm definitely looking forward to eating some good dessert there.
And then January 1st starting off the new year, we're going to have men's preaching night and pizza.
So lots of fun things to look forward to.
And even, you know, funner things I can tell you just as an inside scoop for 2025.
You know, Pastor Shelley has a lot of great things lined up for the new year and I'm really excited for those things.
So with that, we'll go to our next song as Brother Dustin leads us.
Alright, for our next song, let's go to Psalm 15.
Psalm chapter 15 in your King James Bible or your laminated handout.
Psalm chapter 15.
Let's sing it out in first.
Salamite in thy tapernacle
E that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness
And speaketh the truth in his heart
E that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness
And speaketh the truth in his heart
E that backbindeth not with his tongue
Nor do with evil to his neighbor
Nor takeeth up a reproach against his neighbor
E that backbindeth not with his tongue
In whose eyes a vile person is condemned
But he honoureth them that fear the Lord
In whose eyes a vile person is condemned
But he honoureth them that fear the Lord
E that sweareth to his own herd and changeeth not
E that puteth not out his money to usury
E that sweareth to his own herd and changeeth not
E that puteth not out his money to usury
Nor takeeth reward against the innocent
E that doeth these things shall never be moved
Nor takeeth reward against the innocent
E that doeth these things shall never be moved
Who shall abide in thy tapernacle
Who shall dwell in thy holy hill
Jeremiah chapter 44 the Bible says the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all
the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt which dwell at Migdal and at
Tappanese and at Naph and in the country of Pathros saying thus sayeth the Lord of
hosts the God of Israel you have seen all the evil that I have brought upon
Jerusalem and upon the cities of Judah and behold this day they are a
desolation and no man dwell at their end because of their wickedness which
they have committed to provoke me to anger in that they went to burn incense
and to serve other gods whom they knew not neither they ye nor your fathers
how be it I sent unto you all my servants the prophets rising early and
sending them saying oh do not this abominable thing that I hate but they
hearken not nor incline their ear to turn from their wickedness to burn no
instance unto other gods wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth and
was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem and they are
wasted and desolate as at this day therefore now thus sayeth the Lord the
God of hosts the God of Israel wherefore commit she this great evil against
your souls to cut off from you man and woman child and suckling out of
Judah to leave you none to remain in that she provoked me unto wrath with
the works of your hands burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt
where there ye be gone to dwell that you might cut yourselves off and that you
might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth have you
forgotten the wickedness of your fathers and the wickedness of the kings of
Judah and the wickedness of their wives and your own wickedness and the
wickedness of your wives which they have committed in the land of Judah and
in the streets of Jerusalem they are not humbled even unto this day neither
have they feared nor walked in my law nor in my statutes that I set before you
and before your fathers therefore thus sayeth the Lord of hosts the God of
Israel behold I will set my face against you for evil and to cut off all Judah
and I will take the remnant of Judah that have set their faces to go into the
land of Egypt to sojourn there and they shall all be consumed and fall in
the land of Egypt they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the
famine they shall die from the least even unto the greatest by the sword and by
the famine and they shall be an execution and an astonishment and a curse and a
reproach for I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt as I have
punished Jerusalem by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence so that
none of the remnant of Judah which are gone into the land of Egypt to
sojourn there shall escape or remain that they should return into the land
of Judah to which they have a desire to return to dwell there for none shall
return but such as shall escape then all the men which knew that their wives had
burned instance unto other gods and all the women that stood by a great
multitude even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt in path to us
answered Jeremiah saying as for the word that thou has spoken unto us in the
name of the Lord we will not harken unto thee but we will certainly do
whatsoever thing go forth out of our own mouth to burn instance under the
queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her as we have done we and
our fathers our kings and our princes in the cities of Judah and in the streets
of Jerusalem for then had we plenty of vitals and were well and saw no evil
but since we left off to burn instance to the queen of heaven and to pour
out drink offerings under her we have wanted all things and have been
consumed by the sword and by the famine and when we burned instance to the
queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings under her did we make her
cakes to worship her and pour out drink offerings unto her without our men then
Jeremiah said unto all the people to the men and to the women and to all the
people which had given him that answer saying the instance that she burned in
the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ye and your fathers your
kings and your princes and the people of the land did not the Lord remember
them and came it not into his mind so that the Lord could no longer bear
because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you
have committed therefore is your land a desolation and an astonishment and a
curse without an inhabitant as at this day because you have burned incense and
because you have sinned against the Lord and have not obeyed the voice of the
Lord nor walked in his law nor in his statutes nor in his testimonies
therefore this evil has happened unto you as at this day moreover Jeremiah
said unto all the people and to all the women hear the word of the Lord all
Judah that are in the land of Egypt thus say at the Lord of hosts the God of
Israel saying ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths and
fulfilled with your hand saying we will surely perform our vows that we have
vowed to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings
unto her ye will surely accomplish your vows and surely perform your vows
therefore hear ye the word of the Lord all Judah that dwell in the
land of Egypt behold I have sworn by my great name say at the Lord that my
name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah and all the land of
Egypt saying the Lord God liveth behold I will watch over them for evil and not
for good and for all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be
consumed by the sword and by the famine until there be an end of them yet a
small number that escaped the sword shall return out of the land of
Egypt into the land of Judah and all the remnant of Judah that are gone
into the land of Egypt to sojourn there shall know whose words shall stand mine
or theirs and this shall be a sign unto you say at the Lord that I will punish
you in this place that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you
for evil thus say at the Lord behold I will give Pharaoh Hoferah king of Egypt
into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of them that seek his life as
I gave Zedekai king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon his enemy and that sought his life let us pray dear heavenly father I
just want to thank you for Jeremiah chapter 44 I ask you to bless evangelists
for as he preaches the word to us thank you for Pastor Dylan alls I ask you to
bless him in his church and I ask you to give everyone safe travels back home
Jesus name amen amen I don't know that I mentioned this this morning but my
wife and my kids really all my kids but my wife is home with them and they're
all sick so if you can think to pray for them you know my wife she was just
waiting on them and then I wasn't feeling good yesterday and so she's waiting
on me and you know I just really love my wife I'm very thankful for her and
just the hard work that she puts in I mean she's literally just running from
you know person to person to help us out and you know I know Pastor
he says that you know his wife is the greatest wife I don't know that I
completely agree with that doctrine because you know I have a different
doctrine but no I just wanted to mention that so that way if you could think to
pray for for our family so we're in Jeremiah chapter number 44 look down at
verse number three we'll begin reading verse number three the Bible says
because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger
in that they went to burn incense and to serve other gods whom they knew not
neither they ye nor your fathers how be it I sent unto you all my servants the
prophets rising early and sending them saying oh do not this abominable thing
that I hate but they harken not nor incline their ear to turn from their
wickedness to burn no incense unto other gods
in this particular passage you have those of Judah that have fled Jerusalem
and they sought refuge in Egypt which is
complete contrary to what God instructed them they were not to go
into Egypt and then beyond that they were still continuing to do
this wicked act of worshiping false gods burning incense unto
false gods even though God had specifically told them
that this is something that he hates this is something that
he despises and if you read further on in the text if you're
following along specifically one of the false gods
that they were worshiping was called the queen of heaven
the queen of heaven and the title of my sermon
this this evening is god is a man god is a man now to many of us this might
seem like a very basic doctrine that god is a man and when I say that he is a
man I'm not saying that he is mankind right
obviously we know that he is not mankind but
he is a male and that's this is what the bible teaches
and I found it very shocking to realize that
a lot of people on this weird doctrine of thinking that
god is somehow a female or he has feminine aspects or that god is genderless
and this is completely contrary to what the bible
actually teaches there are so many evangelical christians today that are
promoting this filth this garbage you know what they're
worshiping another god they're worshiping
another jesus they're worshiping something that's not
contained in the bible of who god is
you know i was even out so many in miami and this is the first day out so many
and i'm preaching to this woman and she says that
she thinks jesus is a black woman and i'm just like
what in the world is going on i mean obviously you know the the bible
doesn't give us a whole lot of characteristics physical characteristics
of who god is but he's certainly a man right he's certainly male
right and i was just blown away i could not even believe this
and you know this really probably stems from
this uh pop culture movie called the shack which was
originally a book that was written um by a so-called christian
and he depicts three out of the or two out of the three persons of the
godhead as being a woman i mean this is just not what the
bible says you know at the end of the day we want to get our doctrine from the word
of god not what man conjures up or thinks up in his own mind
right not that what he can just imagine in his own mind
you know i've heard people talking about the shakina glory
and they're referring to this uh you know
feminine aspect of god and of course if you want to understand anything about
the shakina glory you got to go to a specific master a specific
rabbi you know of judaism to teach you about that
garbage yeah that might be contained in the talmud
it might be contained in some of their false teachings
but that's not contained in the word of god even the catholic church
i'll read for you uh just the statement about the catholic church that says
the catechism of the catholic church which
you know if the catechism is similar to the the catholic church as the
catechism is to the lutheran church
they uh look at the catechism as being more authoritative than the word of god
right so their their catechism is their bible essentially
and it says that the catechism of the catholic church states
in reference to the father god transcends
the human distinction between sexes he is neither man
nor woman he is god so they look at you know again just
imagining out of their own mind that god transcends
gender and that he just chose to reveal himself
as a male in the word of god and to me that sounds like some queer doctrine
it sounds like some gender fluid queer stuff going on right
i mean you see christianity just allowing all these
these uh weird doctrines to creep into their churches
and there's even this guy charlie cook or charlie kirk
uh obviously i'm not a huge fan of this guy i don't really know a ton about him i
know he's some christian conservative commentator
and i looked up several uh quotes from this guy
and from all accounts he does seem to be saved at least he confesses the right
salvation from what i could tell now i could be wrong so if i am wrong
you know you can point that to me after the sermon but
you know he even is recently i saw a clip somebody posted
where he's saying that god is genderless god transcends
gender and that it was only you know he could have went either way but he just
chose to to reveal himself as a male and so what i want to do
is is just look at some just clear biblical
evidence this evening that states that god
is a man that god is a man no matter how much that might trigger
people you say well why preach a sermon like this because the bible says that
hate every false way right that you know when a false doctrine is being taught
in our society within christian within christianity
well hey those are things to go to battle against right
especially when they're talking about a god especially when they're trying
to demean or they're trying to be
blasphemous towards who god is go let's just start in the beginning go to
genesis chapter number one genesis chapter number one
one of the arguments that i was reading about is that
they'll say well god created male and female in his own image
so this is why god can be uh you know he transcends gender that he could
you know there could be a feminine aspect of god there could be a male aspect of
god that he created male and female in his own
image and i want to show you what the bible actually says
because that's not what the bible teaches notice what the bible says in
verse 26 it says in god said let us make man in our
image after our likeness now what's great about this passage is
it's teaching us what the trinity right our is a plural pronoun
and so when we're reading this and god is referring to himself
in in a plural pronoun we're understanding this concept of the
trinity which is that god is made of three persons god the father god the
son god the holy spirit and he's saying that he's
wants to make man in our image so what is that telling us
that man is going to be made in the image of all three persons
of the godhead that all three persons bear the same
uh gender if you will which is male which is
a man and it says that he's going to create them after
their uh our likeness it goes on it says and let them have dominion over
the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air
and over the cattle and over all the earth
and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth notice this
in verse 26 the bible says so god created man
in his own image so the his here is a is a personal pronoun
referring to god right he's going to create
man in his own image in the image of god created he him
now i know in the society we live in everybody loves this he him
right but let's understand what the bible is actually teaching us here
because when it says he we're referring to god
that that pronoun is for god the him is the pronoun for adam
it's the pronoun and it's singular notice that
he's not talking about male and female he's talking about
god creating created he him in the sense that he's
referring to the male to adam to the man
not including the female and then it goes on notice
and it says male and female created he
them now we get a plural pronoun that's inserted here
to teach us what that god created male and female but did he create
female in his own image no that is not what the bible says
the bible says that god created man in his own image
and woman came from the man and so i again we live in a weird society
today where this type of a doctrine is under attack
but the bible is very clear that god created adam in his own likeness
in his own image but the female if she was not included in that
let's just look at another passage to back this up what i'm saying it just
in case maybe you think uh differently go to first
Corinthians chapter number 11 first Corinthians
chapter number 11
we have a passage on the authority structure that god designed
that god created and it goes into great detail
about that and uh just that men should not have their head covered
and the covering is their hair so it's just teaching that men should not have
long hair women should not have short hair
but notice what the bible says here in first Corinthians chapter 11 in verse
number seven the bible says for a man indeed
ought not to cover his head for as much as he
is the image of the and glory of god so the bible specifically telling us that
the man is the image of god you know what this teaches me
is that jesus christ wasn't some long-haired hippie
you know jesus wasn't walking around with some long hair
like the catholic church likes to to portray him as or the orthodox church
or many protestant churches they want to portray jesus as
this long-haired hippie dress-wearing freak and listen friend they have another
jesus that's not the jesus of the bible
because the bible says that man was made in his own image
and the bible says that man indeed ought not to cover his head for as much as
he is the image and glory of god so that's teaching us that even god
himself would have had short hair but then it goes on notice and it
says but the woman is the glory of the man
notice it doesn't say that the woman was in the image of man
it just says that she was the glory of the man
and of course if you read in jenice if you go if you're familiar with that
story that god created eve to be his help
you know that would be suitable for him to help him with the work that god
had given him to give him a companion
and so again the bible is teaching very clearly that
adam was made in the likeness of god but the woman
was made as the glory of the man the bible says in verse number eight for the
man is not of the woman but the woman of the man
neither was the man created for the woman but the woman
for the man and this is the authority structure that god has
given to us like it or lump it you know i didn't last time i checked i
didn't write this bible god wrote this bible
right so you can not like me all you want but listen this is what the bible
says i'm just want to preach what the bible says
i could care less what man imagines up go to genesis chapter number 32
go back to genesis chapter number 32
genesis 32 let's read a story a very famous story about jacob
where he wrestles with god and um this story kind of reveals to us
again this same concept that god is a man and this is you know what people will
call an old testament appearance of jesus christ
you do a lot of study in the bible you know
and we'll get into some of that this evening is that i believe that this
the man that jacob wrestled with here was jesus christ is this his name
what hadn't been revealed unto us because jesus christ didn't
come into existence 2 000 years ago when he was born of the virgin mary
no he's always existed right he is from everlasting
and so jesus christ is the second person of the trinity he has
always existed because he is god the bible says in genesis 32 and verse
24 and jacob was left alone and there wrestled
a man with him until the breaking of the day
this is the first example of mma in the bible verse 25 the bible says and when
he saw that he prevailed not against him
he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow
of jacob's thigh was out of joint and he wrestled with
him so notice what is the bible saying that jacob wrestled with a man
now when you're just reading these few verses it may be kind of hard to
figure out exactly what is going on in this story but let's keep reading the
bible says in verse 26 and he said let me go for the day breaketh
and he said i will not let thee go except thou bless me
and he said unto him what is thy name and he said
jacob and he said thy name shall be called no more jacob but israel
for as the as a prince has thou power with god and with men
and has prevailed and jacob asked him and said
tell me i pray thee thy name and he said
wherefore is it that thou dost asked after my name
and he blessed him there notice this in verse 30 and jacob called the name of
the place piniel for i have seen god face to face and my life
is preserved so the bible is revealing unto us that jacob understood
that this man that he was wrestling with was god
standing before him that this was god manifest
in the flesh and again this is called an old testament appearance of the lord
jesus christ this happens multiple times throughout the
old testament if you've ever did any study on that
topic i know there's many sermons out there you could reference
there's a whole host of these events that take place
but notice here that jacob he didn't wrestle with a woman
he wrestled with a man he wrestled with a male and it's always
you know blows my mind it's like god must have took it pretty easy on him for
jacob to win that wrestling match because you know obviously
god could just you know but to fit that picture and to fit that
you know what he was trying to get across through that message
he allowed jacob to prevail over him
turn your bibles to exodus 15 so just over a few
chapters to the right exodus chapter number 15
look at one other example here exodus 15 and verse number three
the bible says the lord is a man of war the lord is his name
you know god he's not jone of ark god is not some woman warrior
and let me just help you out any woman warrior is not going to be
causing any fear or strike any fear into their enemies
if it's a host of men right men are going to go in
and in the bible teaches us that women are the weaker vessel
i mean this is just a fact you know i it's funny today and
i just thought of this is i was getting ready to i had to go get gas
right so i drove down to cosco to get some gas and there was this woman out
she was trying you know at cosco you only you can only go one direction
right so sometimes you get in that lane where you got to pull that
gas line or whatever across your vehicle to get on the other side
and there is this woman she was struggling so bad like she could not get this
thing over there and she goes and knocks on her door and the guy gets out
and he does it with ease like it was and i was just thinking like well
yeah buddy why didn't you get out and do that from the first place right
why are you gonna sit there and allow your wife to struggle
and it's just this concept that god has just designed men to be stronger than
women it's not a a bad thing
it's just how god designed us right and the bible says
you know that god is a man of war that he's a mighty warrior
and i believe that's what the bible is trying to teach us here
about god you know when i think of a mighty warrior i'm not thinking of
some woman i'm sorry i'm just not because the
mightiest men that we could think even throughout
history even in the secular world the mightiest warriors were men
i mean that's just the fact
go to uh heber's chapter number one heber's chapter number one
how about the fact that god he gives us his name
and his name is god the father and god the son
it's like how stupid can you be to think that Jesus is a woman
how stupid can you be to think that god is a woman
when the bible literally calls him the father when it calls him the son
i mean this is just basic doctrine but again people just wanting to
imagine things in their own mind wanting to be rebellious to the word of god
and not just allowing the word of god to teach them
but to come up with their own doctrine
the bible says in first timothy 215 for there is one god and one mediator between
god and men the man christ jesus so the bible
is telling us that jesus was a man specifically
you're in heber's one verse three the bible says who being the brightness
of his glory and the express image of his person
and upholding all things by the word of his power
when he had by himself purged our sins set down
on the right hand of majesty on high so the bible is talking about jesus christ
here and it's saying that he is the express image of
his person right go to colossians chapter number one
colossians chapter number one
the bible says in verse 15 who is the image of the invisible god
the firstborn of every creature so in the bible is saying that
jesus christ was the image of god the father that's he's the express image
of god the father i like to use the example of of a father and son
right my son he bears a lot of the similar
characteristics similar traits as i do as i have
i think god designed that to teach us this concept of
jesus christ being his son he's a separate person
my son is not me right we don't believe in this one this weird
a doctrine of god just switching modes no there are three separate persons to
the godhead to what we call the trinity and
even though my son looks very similar to me guess what he's his own person
right but he is an express image of his father
right and so you can kind of understand it from that
perspective another thing you can think of when we're talking about an image
would be like a mirror right a mirror gives us an image
of something the bible also says here that he's the
image of the invisible god and so a lot of people get confused
when the bible says this that god the father is invisible
and of course what the bible is referring to is the fact that he is
invisible to us right we can't behold god
you know the the father and there's only been few people throughout history
that have even seen parts of god the father but nobody
has seen god's face and live the bible says so nobody has seen god the
father's face and and live through that or
been able to speak of that right so what the bible is
i guess the point that i'm trying to make here with this and i don't want to go
too far off track is that even though the bible says that god is
invisible doesn't mean he doesn't have physical attributes physical
characteristics go to exodus 33 exodus 33 and this is important because a lot
of the arguments for for god not having a
gender for being this genderless god is they would say well god the father
doesn't have any physical characteristics that he doesn't bear any
physical characteristics that you and i could see
and that's not true the bible just says that no man has seen god's face and
lived you know the bible says that um it's the
only begotten of the father which is it's the only begotten of the father
which is in the bosom of the father he out declared him is what the bible says
so you know jesus christ obviously he
himself has seen god the father but no man has seen
god the father but there are other parts of god the father
that have been seen in history one specific
instance of this is moses notice what the bible says in exodus 33
in verse number 22 it says and it came to pass
and it shall come to pass while my glory passeth by
that i will put thee in the cliff of the rock and will cover thee
with my hand while i pass by and i will take away my hand and thou shall
see my back parts but my face shall not be seen
so moses here is seeing the backside of god and god is kind of shielding him
from his glory so that way moses isn't completely consumed
by the glory of god the father and notice that god he has a hand
god has back parts but obviously god is not mankind
right god is not a human like we are of course jesus christ came in the form
of a human but god uh is not a human being
and so what the bible again is teaching us is that god does have physical
appearance and god is a male god does have and bears
these uh attributes that we can clearly see
from the bible i'll just read for you philippians chapter two and verse six
jumping back to the sun the bible says who being in the form of god thought it
not robbery to be equal with god but made himself a no
reputation and took upon him the form of a servant
and was made in the likeness of men and being found
in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient
unto death even the death of the cross so the bible is teaching us that jesus
christ was god he said the bible says that who
being in the form of god thought it not robbery to be equal with god
jesus christ is just as much god as the holy spirit or just as much god as god
the father right they're all god but jesus christ
humbled himself he took on the fashion of man
he took on the form of man and became a servant so that way we could benefit from
that so that way we could be saved through his shed
blood on the cross you know he lived that sinless life
that we could never live and he sacrificed his body for us
and he shed his blood he was buried he rose again the third day
and that gives us salvation and he did that because of the grace that he
wanted to shed upon us but the bible is telling us though
that jesus christ wasn't a you know he wasn't just man
of course when he came to this earth he was a hundred percent man
but he was also a hundred percent god right and again a lot of religions out
there deny that they reject that you know i'm
shocked to find out that some people think jesus was a woman
which is just you know crazy to me but even the holy ghost
you know a lot of people throw shade on the holy ghost and what a lot of people
even baptists i've heard say that they they believe that the holy ghost is the
feminine aspect of god the feminine aspect of god
let's just test that with scripture go to john chapter number 14
john chapter number 14 and again this doctrine primarily from my
understanding is coming from judaism is coming from these rabbis where these
baptist pastors are just bowing down and worship these
these false preachers these false prophets you know practicing judaism
and you know they want to get a deeper understanding of the bible so they got
to go to some Hebrew rabbi well listen the bible tells us
clearly that the holy ghost was a man as well
again we've already proved that in genesis one when he said we made
that we can make god that we can make man in our image
right but notice what the bible says in john 14
verse number 16 the bible says and i will pray the father
and he shall give you another comforter that he may
abide with you forever even the spirit of truth
whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not
neither know with him but ye know him for he dwelleth in you and shall
be in you so notice the personal pronoun that's being used here is a male pronoun
him he we're referring to the holy ghost the comforter
skip down to verse number 26 the bible says but the comforter
which is the holy ghost whom the father will sin in my name
he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance
whatsoever i said unto you so to me it doesn't sound like
this is the feminine aspect of god this sounds like this is the masculine
aspect of god just like the son is the masculine aspect of god just like
the father is the masculine aspect of god because god
is a male god is a man
you know and it wouldn't make zero sense if the holy spirit was this
feminine aspect of god because then that means that
god is sometimes acting like a man and sometimes he's acting like a female
well the last time i checked is that's called being effeminate
right the sin of effeminate effeminacy
and the bible says that you know that's wicked that god hates
you know effeminacy where men are acting or portraying or dressing
a girly right you know you say well what does that look like we'll go look
up this guy named mark ward this guy is the quearest
uh a faggity sounding person i've i've heard in a long time
i can't say ever because you know we we have a lot of encounters out so
winning but i mean this guy sounds like a queer
you know and he has a testimony where he professes
faith in jesus and that it's it's one say it always say you know
whether or not he believes that or not you know it doesn't really matter to
me you know the guy is living in sin every day
every time he opens his mouth he's he's uttering sin
just because of how he talks he's got his false friend
you know i was watching this this uh interview of him
it was so weird and this guy i would never let my children around this guy
i would i would not want to be friends with this guy i would want
nothing to do with this guy just because of how effeminate
he acts but he's being interviewed and this is
this is definitely off topic but he's just like has this itch
or on his ear and he's like wow i have an inching ear but
you know not a not an itching ear like i want to hear a false prophet but my
ear just literally itches and i mean i'm watching this and i'm just like
what in the world is this guy saying what in the world is this why is he
talking somebody shut this guy up
you know this guy is is a somebody who's attacking the king james bible
he wants to bring the king james into you know modern english
is how he calls it because you know heaven forbid somebody actually study
to show thyself approved before god a workman that needed not to be shamed
you know heaven forbid somebody actually spend some time
you know looking up harder ass harder parts of the bible
you know studying the bible is not easy you know there are aspects of it
that are hard there are words that are archaic
in the king james bible but that doesn't hurt you to actually go and to study
those things to learn new things sorry i kind of got off on a tangent there on
this guy um this guy you know he's kind of the
epitome of what current christianity is at today
where they view god as this feminine god where he's this
soft soap limp-risted you know girly man and you know god he doesn't like these
things these things are sin unto him and he say
where is this doctrine coming from go back to jeremiah 44
Jeremiah chapter number 44 you say what's the root cause
of this doctrine that god somehow has feminine aspects to him or that god is
a woman
well i submit unto you that the root cause of this doctrine
is feminism feminism is what is driving this wicked ideology
of god being a woman or god being genderless
you know and feminism is really destroying christian churches today
it's destroying baptist churches today
i was looking up this this uh article on this person glint glennon doil may never
heard of her she's a writer but she's kind of famous for using
always using feminine pronouns for god and somebody asked her why she
she thinks god is a woman this is a response she said
i don't i think it's ridiculous to think of god as anything that could be
possibly that could possibly be gendered but as long as the
expression of god as female is unimaginable to many while the
expression of god as male feels perfectly acceptable amen i mean
she has a right view of how most christians you know i would hope
think of god and as long as women notice this and as long as women
continued to be undervalued and abused
and controlled here on earth i'll keep using it
so this feminist writer she refers to god with feminine pronouns with
female pronouns because she feels as though women are undervalued
abused and controlled here on earth and that god having
the male pronouns god being a man is somehow
a detriment to women i mean this is basically what she's teaching
she wrote this book called untamed uh it was published in
2020 and uh i don't i know i know nothing about this book
i was just looking at one of the uh critiques of it if you will
publishers weekly wrote this testament to female empowerment and self love
with an endearing coming out story at the center will delight readers
i mean it sounds like a book i never want to read in my life
a bunch of feminist garbage you know and and what's sad is this is something
that's getting worse and worse in our society
feminism and you say well why is god being portrayed as a as a woman
or you know these weird doctrines how is feminism at the root of it
well let's just read our text this evening because
you know what can end up happening is you read through some of these these
passages and you can maybe lose track of what exactly is going on
and so i want to slow down and really kind of pick apart what
the bible is teaching us here in jeremiah 44 where you have
this group of people who fled into egypt and they're worshiping false gods
namely the queen of heaven now notice in verse number nine
the bible says have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers
and the wickedness of the kings of juda and the wickedness of their wives
and your own wickedness notice this and the wickedness
of your wives which they have committed in the land of juda
and in the streets of Jerusalem so who is Jeremiah
primarily preaching to here he's preaching to the husbands isn't he
he's preaching to the men it goes on in verse number 10
so that they here are going to be referring to who
their wives the bible says in verse 10
they are not humbled even unto this day
neither have they feared nor walked in my law
nor in my statutes that i set before you
and before your fathers so Jeremiah his message is primarily to the men to
the husbands but the rebuke is because of what
the wives are doing it's the men's fault and we're going to get to that
but it's specifically what the women are doing and who they're worshiping
notice there in verse number 15 skip down to verse number 15
the bible says after Jeremiah finished what he's saying it says that all the
men which knew that their wives again
we're getting an idea as to really who Jeremiah is referring to here who he's
preaching against then all the men which knew that
their wives had burnt incense unto other gods
and all the women that stood by a great multitude
even all the people that dwelt in the land of egypt
in pathrose answer Jeremiah saying as for the word that thou has spoken
unto us in the name of the lord we will not
harken unto thee now you might start off reading this
thinking that this is the men responding to Jeremiah
but i submit unto you that these are the wives
that are actually saying this we're going to get to the remainder of what they
say but just think about this is like the men
they're ready to answer Jeremiah and just like some weak
soft man who's not guiding and leading his wife
how the bible describes his wife is going to what be that loudmouth
stubborn woman that speaks up on his behalf i mean have you ever been
around a guy where he goes to have a conversation and his
wife just interrupts or his wife just over speaks
over him right speaks over him or speaks for him
somebody who's very weak usually is you know you can typically tell that from
that and listen i'm not saying that is wrong for women
to be a part of a conversation don't misunderstand what i'm saying here
i'm just saying that Jeremiah he's preaching to the men
but it's the women the stubborn loudmouth women that responded
notice what it says here it says in verse 16 we'll read the whole passage it says
as for the word that thou has spoken unto us in the name of the lord
we will not harken unto thee but we will certainly do whatsoever thing
going forth out of our own mouth to burn incense unto the queen of heaven
and to pour out drink offerings unto her as we have done
we and our fathers our kings and our princes in the cities of Judah
and in the streets of Jerusalem for then had we plenty of vitals
and were well and saw no evil but since we left off to burn incense to the
queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her
we have wanted all things and have been consumed by the sword and by the
famine and when we burned incense to the
queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings
unto her notice this don't miss this did we make her cakes to worship her
and pour out drink offerings unto her without our
men so who is it that's speaking here in this passage
talking about the wives the wives were upset that Jeremiah was preaching the
word of God against them that he's rebuking them
that he's preaching hard against their wickedness what they were doing the
thing that God hates and what did they do they
interrupted their husbands they spoke over them
they said but we will certainly do whatsoever thing going forth out of
our own mouth right and this is something that God
just it is disgusting unto God to have
this type of a mentality especially coming from a wife
you know God never intended for a woman to be the spiritual leader of the
home he is always intended for the man to be the spiritual
leader of them you know you don't know how many times i've seen
where you know people who are soul winners
who were free to thrive get out of church because they allowed their wife to
you know to be that spiritual leader in the home
that they the husband allowed his wife to lead them to
some other church you know that teaches a completely different gospel
even i mean i've seen it with my own eyes
you know people who we served alongside of and yet
they end up going down that road because of this idea of feminism
and women making the choices in their home
how to serve the Lord you know feminism always leads to disaster
it always leads to disaster you know you say well
go to go to numbers chapter number 30 numbers chapter 30
you say what should these men have done find a temporary place to dwell
you know avoid the conversation avoid the conflict
or maybe he should have disallowed the vow that his wife was making
you know and this is a concept in the old testament
and it is clearly not something that many people
practice today but you know the bible does not teach
equal rights for men and women you know and and this is really the horror
the the first milestone if you will of feminism
is that they provided rights to vote for women
and a lot even evangelical and virtually there's very few christians i know
that would think that women voting is is a negative thing
they would think that's a positive thing but what they don't understand is
that the bible does not teach that men and women have the same
rights now here's the thing men and women are all
are one in christ jesus you know we're all equal in that manner
right when it comes when it comes to getting saved
and serving god even going out and getting people saved
you know women can be better so when there's the men
i've seen it you know and so it's possible
for a woman to serve god to a very great extent
so don't misunderstand what i'm saying but the bible does not prescribe
equal rights for men and women notice this is god
and him giving laws unto moses when the nation of israel is going to be set up
in numbers chapter 30 i want to read a couple
passages here numbers 30 and verse number six
the bible says and if she had at all and husband
when she vowed or uttered ought out of her lips
wherewith she bound her soul and her husband heard it
and noticed this and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it
then her vows shall stand and her bonds
wherewith she bound her soul shall stand but
if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it
then he shall make her vow which he vowed
and that which she uttered with her lips wherewith she bound her soul
of none effect, none effect, and the Lord shall forgive her.
See, you know what the Bible is telling us here?
Is that men and women have different rights.
God is saying, hey, if a man vows a vow,
hey, he should perform that vow.
But if a wife performs or utters a vow,
her husband has the right in the day in which he hears that vow
to disenold that vow, to disallow it,
to say, no, we're not gonna do that.
We're not gonna serve that God.
We're not gonna serve the Queen of Heaven, right?
And so the men that Jeremiah is preaching against here
and Jeremiah 44 is, you know,
the reason he's preaching against them
is because they held their peace, right?
And so ultimately, the reason why feminism
is increasing in this world is because, you know,
men are opening their mouth.
Men aren't telling their wives no.
Men aren't disallowing their vows.
And, you know, the Bible is very specific
on this concept of the authority in the home.
That the ultimate authority in the home is God,
and under that is the husband, right?
And that the wife should be in subjection
to her husband in all things, the Bible says.
And I don't have time, again, to go through all those
verses, but I really just wanna focus in on
why is it that people are going off
on these weird doctrines of thinking God is a woman
is because of feminism.
Because men stop telling their wives no.
Because men stop being the spiritual leaders in their home.
Because men stop making the spiritual decisions
for their family.
This is the reason why feminism is rising,
that why feminism is creeping into
even Baptist churches today.
I mean, how many Baptist churches are allowing women
to get up and teach the Bible?
What does the Bible say?
Go to 1 Timothy chapter number two.
1 Timothy chapter number two.
There are plenty of Baptist churches,
even the one I grew up in,
and they have the right gospel.
They're right on many things,
but one thing that they did is they allowed
a lot of women to preach in the church,
to teach the Bible.
And that's something that should not be allowed.
God has specific instructions for how
the church ought to operate.
And whether you like that or whether you hate that
doesn't really matter because it's God's word.
Because it's what God says.
And it would do us all well as Christians
to just humbly accept God's word
and apply it to our life
and not look at it as being something that's against us.
It's for our benefit.
The Bible says in 1 Timothy chapter number two and verse 11,
let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
So Paula White, who's the Joker lady?
I always forget her name.
Joyce Meyer.
You know, all these weird false prophets,
these women false prophets,
there's been plenty of times where I've been out souling
and I'll meet somebody and it's a woman
and she's like, yeah, I'm a pastor.
And I'm just thinking like, oh, this is gonna go well.
Or their mom's a pastor or their grandma's a pastor.
The Bible clearly says what?
Let women learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach
nor to usurp authority over the man,
but to be in silence.
The Bible says for Adam was first formed then Eve
and Adam was not deceived,
but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Notwithstanding, she shall be saved in childbearing
if they continue in faith
and charity and holiness with sobriety.
So the Bible is teaching us this concept
that women should not even have any type
of leadership role,
a role of teaching the Bible within a church.
Obviously there are gonna be areas for women to serve in
and we 100% encourage you to do that, right?
When it comes to souling, hey, be a soul winner.
Go out and preach the gospel.
And this is the thing is a lot of people get confused
and they say, well, the Bible says
they're supposed to be silent.
Well, they're supposed to learn in silence, right?
When we're talking about the church setting,
you know, they're going to sit down
and listen to the preacher who should be a man, right?
Getting up and expounding the word of God.
Why?
Because Adam was not deceived,
but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
You know, God has a reason for doing this.
And you look at all the women preachers today
and many of them are all false prophets.
I mean, I don't know if they exist,
but I don't know that I've ever seen
a single woman that actually had the right gospel
that was a pastor, right?
It would be few and far between if that's true.
I'm not saying it couldn't be true,
but most of the time, that's the case.
So, you know, the Bible, again, it's teaching us,
and I want to kind of park on that point before I move on
is that, yes, of course, in the church setting,
women are supposed to be in silence,
they're not supposed to preach,
but obviously my wife, you know,
we homeschool our children
and my wife is teaching doctrine to our kids.
She's teaching them the Bible,
so it's not to say her role isn't important.
In fact, I believe her role is probably, you know,
her job that she does is probably more important
than my job in many aspects, right?
My job is kind of just providing those carnal needs,
whereas my wife is providing a lot of spiritual needs
for our children, right?
But here's the thing,
she's not doing it without any guidance, right?
I'm kind of giving her direction, instruction
on what should be taught,
what doctrines should be focused on,
what, you know, parts of the Bible should be read.
And so, you know, there's an oversight there,
but it doesn't mean that my wife can't teach my children
that she can't go out and preach the gospel
and get somebody saved.
And this is how often, you know,
people look at the Bible as they,
especially this idea of feminism
and women who embrace feminism
is they look at it just like this writer,
Glennon Doyle, who thinks that God is just trying
to undervalue her, abuse her,
and control her here on this earth,
by setting her in subjection to her husband.
And at the end of the day, you know,
feminism, it's only going to destroy,
I've seen it destroy so many families.
And it's subtle, it subtly creeps into houses,
it subtly creeps into families,
where, you know, people start siding
with a woman who's in rebellion to her husband.
Just because maybe they don't like
what the husband's asking his wife to do.
Now, obviously, if your husband is causing you to sin,
that's, you don't want to do that, right?
And not to say that a woman couldn't be
a spiritual leader of the home
if not a good husband exists.
God's perfect design is that the husband would lead home,
but you know, I grew up in a family
where my dad was not spiritual, my dad was not saved,
my mom was saved, and my mom took us to church
three times a week.
My mom, you know, was the one that, you know,
was being the spiritual leader.
But you know, that's not ideal, right?
There are exceptions to rule.
You have Lois and Eunice in the Bible.
They were godly women that raised Timothy
to be a godly man.
But that's not God's design.
God's design for the family is that the husband
would rule the house.
The husband would be that spiritual leader.
The husband would be making the decisions
on how they're gonna serve the Lord
so they don't go off and start serving the Queen of Heaven.
So they don't start going off
and getting ingrevious sin against the Lord.
And so hopefully that was a help to you.
Let's pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, God, I pray that you would help us
all, especially the husbands, the men here in this room,
that we would take caution.
We would take the warning that we have here in Jeremiah 44
of what feminism leads to in the family,
what feminism leads to in the church.
And God, I pray that we would be bold enough
to say no to our wives,
to be bold enough to say no to feminism
and to embrace the clear doctrines,
the clear teachings of your word,
whether, you know, at first we like them or not.
We should humbly come to your word.
I pray that we would all humbly come to your word
and just accept what the Bible says,
what you have preserved for us,
what you have given unto us.
And we would know that this is without air
and we would just humbly apply it to our lives
knowing that we're gonna receive blessings for doing that
and not disaster, not destruction
by being in rebellion to those things.
Or thank you for just all the great doctrine
that you provided for us in the King James Bible.
And I pray we'd all strive to be better Christians.
We pray these things in your sons' name, amen.
All right, in closing, let's go to song number 402.
Song number 402, our best.
Song number 402, let's all sing it out together.
Our best, song 402, let's sing it out together on the first.
Hear ye the masters call, give me thy best.
For be it great or small,
that is his test.
Do then the best you can,
not for reward,
not for the praise of men,
but for the Lord.
Every work for Jesus will be blessed.
But he asks from everyone his best.
Our talents may be few, these may be small.
But unto him is to our best our own.
Wait not for men too long,
heed not their slide.
Winning the smile of God brings its delight.
Aiding the good and true,
there goes unblessed.
All that we think or do be in the best.
Every work for Jesus will be blessed.
But he asks from everyone his best.
Our talents may be few, these may be small.
But unto him is to our best our own.
Great singing everybody, you were all just missed.
Thank you.