Sing them over again to me, wonderful words of life.
Let me more their beauty see, wonderful words of life.
Words of life and beauty teach.
can open the service in prayer. Amen. Alright, if you guys can open up your
Number four hundred and forty nine dwelling in Beulah land
Let's start verse one far away the noises I started wrong sorry
Let's see here far how does it start
There you go, all right start number one again far away the noise that's dry
Then I know the sins of earth be said on every hand,
That appear the things of earth in vain,
To me are calling none of thee shall.
Sons of men in battle long, the enemy withstand.
Safe am I within the castle of God's work retreat.
Pro
in contemplation. Hearing now his blessed voice, I see the way he planned. Dwelling in
the spirit here, I learn a full salvation.
great see you and now we'll have announcements all right welcome back
everyone the verse of the week is Jeremiah 29 verse 11 Jeremiah 29 verse 11
for I know the thoughts that I think towards you say it the Lord thoughts of
peace and not of evil to give you an expected and
It's Jeremiah 29, verse 11.
Service times are at 10.30 this morning
and 3.30 this afternoon.
A Wednesday evening Bible studies at 6.30 p.m.
So many times for 1 p.m. today.
I believe it was just so warning today
from the other groups.
And then yesterday was at 10.30.
We had two salvation before this month
but for a total of 73 for the year so far.
Now,
upcoming events please remember next weekend will be kind of a civil which
trip it'll start basically the whole weekend will start Friday evening for
a special service that'll be with Pastor Thompson I assume since it's not
listed it'll just be have our normal evening time at 6 30 so just make plans
for that if you can make it sure it'll be a great sermon
Saturday it'll be a church trip to Silverwood. I'm sure Remy will put out
the exact time we'll be meeting. I know most of time we end up just kind of
meeting in the parking lot of Silverwood. Tickets will be handed out and then you
got the whole day to be there. But I'm sure that information will be put out
this week for those that have RSVP'd for it. And then September 21st next
Acres I apologize, and I hope that is muted. I don't know why I messed that up, but brother acres will be preaching both Sunday services
so nice
Change up from that. So it'll be great kids if you have a John 3 16 memorized just let Miss Victoria know
And then all the rules tie the information below
I don't think there are any other announcements,
but if you do have any other prayer requests,
please just let me know
and I'll get it put into the bulletin.
Boil that if we can toad to the Lord in prayer.
Well, I guess I will take Paul's job and sing happy birthday for Ms. Victoria and brother Jason.
Paul had one job.
And let's see here.
So yeah, so today is actually Victoria's birthday.
Oh, tomorrow.
Tomorrow and yesterday was Jason's birthday.
So right in the middle.
Oh, perfect.
Even better.
As long as you're better than my singing.
Alright.
It's the intro.
There.
Alright.
All right, so way better the piano than without,
I have to say that.
All right, well, let's open up your Bibles
and sing Psalm 67.
Psalm 67.
God be merciful unto us and bless us.
Psalm chapter 67.
Let's start with verse one.
God be merciful unto us and...
the space to shine upon us, that thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving
health among all nations. Let the people praise thee, O God. Let all the people
people, righteously and govern the nations upon earth, the nations upon earth.
God shall bless us, God shall bless us.
great singing. I'm going to pause if you can play for the time. Amen.
back everybody to Sure Foundation Baptist Church if you could go ahead and take your
Bibles and turn to Proverbs chapter number one. Proverbs chapter one and as always here
at our church we read the entire chapter before the preaching.
Proverbs chapter 1, the Bible reads,
To the young men knowledge and discretion, a wise man will hear and will increase learning,
and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels, to understand a proverb and the
interpretation, the words of the wise and their dark sayings. The fear of the Lord is the beginning
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother, for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. My son.
If sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
If they say, come with us, let us wait for blood,
let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause,
let us swallow them up alive as the grave
and whole as those that go down into the pit.
We shall find all precious substance,
we shall fill our houses with spoil.
Cast in thy lot among us, let us all have one purse.
My son, walk not thou in the way with them.
Refrain thy foot from their path, for their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
And they lay wait for their own blood.
So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain, which take it the way the life of the owners thereof.
Wisdom cryeth without. She uttereth her voice in the streets.
She cryeth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates.
In the city she uttereth her words, saying,
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity,
and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Turn you at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you.
I will make known my words unto you.
Because I have called and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded.
But ye have said at not all my counsel and would none of my reproof.
I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear cometh.
When your fear cometh as a desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you,
then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me."
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
They would none of my counsel, they despise all my reproof.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
But whoso harkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet.
from fear of evil.
Brother Jake, could you please pray for the preaching?
Dear Holy Father, we thank you for this church.
We thank you for the opportunity to hear you work there.
Thank you for being here.
Amen. All right, so we're in Proverbs chapter number one.
If you want to look down there, verse number 10, where the Bible reads,
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause,
let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole as those that go down into the pit.
And the title of my sermon this evening is Innocent Blood, Innocent Blood.
And the reason why I wanted to preach this sermon this evening is because, you know, of course,
a very significant event in our country happened this last Wednesday.
Of course, when Charlie Kirk, the conservative...
conservative commentator, basically, or a conservative political guy, was brutally
assassinated in front of his wife and kids at a university event in Utah.
And I saw the video of this happening, and it just made me think of the innocent blood.
That the Bible talks about people that are literally laying in wait seeking out innocent
Blood because it says right there in verse number 11
It says let us lay weight for blood. Let us look privily for the innocent
without
Cause and so that means that there are people in this world that are going out and looking to victimize and even murder people
Who are completely innocent and without any cause at all meaning for no reason at all
They have zero legitimate cause to go and cause harm to these people
Now, you know in the particular case of Charlie Kirk, you know
The the the assassin, you know, he's gonna have all his little reasonings
Well because because Charlie was a he was a Nazi and he was a fascist and and the reality is though
Is that there was no legitimate cause whatsoever and and and here's the thing about Charlie Kirk is that he was a plum-lined Republican
He had he had very he basically had no radical beliefs whatsoever
I mean if the world looks at us right they would say about us that we have all kinds of radical beliefs in reality
Nothing in the Bible nothing that God says for a commandment in the Bible is radical at all
It's it that that's the standard, okay?
But but the world would oftentimes look at us and say well, they're the radical ones. They're the they're
way radical far right or whatever, however they want to describe us.
And this gentleman, Charlie Kirk, he basically, he would represent just kind of your average
Republican.
And, you know, another thing that he would represent in the world's mind, I.
would be in general evangelical Christianity, okay, because you know
He was somebody that talked positively about the Bible, you know
And I do believe that Charlie Kirk is most likely saved because you know, you what there's a clip of him
Describing, you know talking about kind of the gospel and he described it as a gift that Jesus paid for
That we we that we don't earn and that once you're saved you're saved forever. And you know, that sounds
That sounds like a saved person describing salvation to me, okay?
And so, you know, he may have had some differing beliefs from me or this church or
conservatives in general,
but in the world's mind-eye, he did represent Bible-believing Christianity.
And so, so what happened? Well, he was a brutally assassinated, like I said earlier.
And basically there's absolutely no reason for this at all.
And, but, you know, if you went and found these people
in Proverbs chapter number one, you know,
and you asked them, hey, you know, like why did you,
why did you lurk privately for the innocent blood?
You know, they're gonna have some kind of answer for you,
right?
And, you know, there's this large segment of society
that we see that identifies with that mentality.
You see, all of these people that are putting out videos on these different media websites
of them cheering on the fact that this innocent man was brutally murdered, and they're happy
about it.
And in fact, I believe it was like the MSNBC, or I believe it's called MS now.
They were live on TV, and they had a commentator talking about the event, and then they heard
cheers in the background when the news came in that he actually died, because the initial
reporting was that he was shot, and then he later died, and so there was a gap of when
that happened.
That news organization office that we're literally cheering when they heard that Charlie Kirk had died. Okay, and this is
This is extraordinarily sick
But you know we have to realize though that there are these types of people in the world
Okay, we have to we have to realize reality here that there are those kind of people in the world and
They're out there in society. Okay
Go ahead and turn to Proverbs chapter number six Proverbs chapter number six
and if I could get a glass of
a glass of water that would be that would be great and you know the Lord
He absolutely hates the shedding of any innocent blood.
And there's various verses that talk about this,
but a perfect example of this is in Proverbs,
chapter number six, verse number 16,
it says, these six things doth the Lord hate,
yea, seven are an abomination unto him,
a proud look, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
and heart that devises wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift,
in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among
the brethren." So, you know, one of the things that the Lord hates here is the shedding of innocent blood.
And this event here that happened on last Wednesday,
You know it was a extraordinarily clear example of that happening. I mean what what we witnessed on Wednesday
Was pure evil?
Okay, that was pure evil that we witnessed on Wednesday and and the and the people that
Reacted in such a way so where they were cheering and they were happy about the fact that an innocent man was was murdered
They are also in that category of pure evil
There was no decent human being that can sit there and watch somebody like Charlie Kirk,
who's a family guy, who has never harmed anybody in his entire life.
All he did was go to these college campuses and say, hey, come debate me, hey, come have
a conversation with me, who has never harmed anybody in his life.
People that would cheer somebody like that just being brutally murdered. That is pure evil. That is complete wickedness
Okay, and the Lord hates it because I mean if they're gonna sit there and just cheer on
The shedding of innocent blood blatantly
You know, I mean they're basically putting their stamp of approval on it
You know and and they may as well have been pulling the trigger themselves at that point when they are putting their stamp of approval on it
And it's extraordinarily wicked and in Psalm 139 verse number 19
It says surely thou would slay the wicked oh God depart from me it therefore ye bloody men
So who so who are the bloody men where those are the those are the people that are looking to go out and shed innocent blood?
That is the bloody men. It's it's where they speak against thee wickedly and then enemies take thy name in vain and and and again
What is it that they hate about Charlie Kirk? It's the fact that he is pushing
a biblical, conservative mindset to the public.
Now, we would say, hey, he's not doing it the biblical way,
and he's, you know, not everything that he believes is necessarily biblical.
But in the world's mind eye, that's what he's doing.
He's pushing a conservative, biblical worldview on to them.
And so, what is their reaction?
They're speaking against him wickedly, and then they cheer when he's killed.
Says you know for this they're speaking against who against the Lord in verse number 24
They speak against the wickedly and nine enemies take thy name in vain
Do not I hate them oh Lord that hate thee and I'm not I grieved with those that rise up against thee
I hate them with a perfect hatred. I count them mine enemies
Search me oh God and know my heart try me and know my thoughts and see if there be any wicked way in me and
Lead me in the way ever
lasting. And you know what? The Holy Spirit inspired this Psalm. This is the
Word of God and that's why we sing it as a Psalm. It's one of the
Psalms that we often sing here is because this is the Word of God and this
is how the Lord feels about people that hate Him. And these extraordinarily
wicked people that hate the Lord, He wants them to depart from Him. These
Why because
People that are going out to seek innocent blood. I mean, you know
If if somebody were to murder somebody because you know like like think about King David, you know
He he murdered Uriah the Hittite, right?
now
What did he
specifically murder Uriah the Hittite because
He was innocent just because Uriah the Hittite was innocent or was it because he was trying to cover up his own sin
So there's a certain motivation that somebody has when they're going out to murder somebody
who's innocent.
That takes an extraordinarily wicked person to go out and do something like that.
And so I would say that the people that are going out to seek to specifically murder somebody
that's innocent, that kind of person is most likely a reprobator, in my opinion.
And go ahead and turn to 2 Kings chapter number 24, 2 Kings chapter number 24.
And if you notice, you know, you know, the people that are all celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.
You know, you're not really gonna find like a whole lot of just like normal human beings that are celebrating Charlie Kurt
You know pretty much they're all they're all gonna be like blue-haired
You know, they got they look like they fell in a tackle box, you know
And it's like, you know, what is what is wrong with this person?
You know, it's pretty much always really clear that they're most likely, you know
some kind of a faggot or whatever and
You know, those are pretty much the type of people you're gonna find celebrating the fact that he was killed
Why? Because, you know, the people that hate the Lord the most are going to be the most happy
about somebody like Charlie Kirk being killed because, you know, he was, he was, you know, if you look at all the
conservative commentators out there today,
he was probably the most outspoken about being a Bible believer and about somebody who, you know, believes the Bible, right?
You know and the fact you know just the fact that he was 31 years old
You know, he was literally one month younger than me and you know, he's married and he had two young children
You know close to my older two children's age most likely and you know, they look at that father
That husband being brutally murdered in front of them and and they're happy about that
It just it just kind of lets you know what kind of people that we're dealing with. It's people that truly hate the Lord
Okay, but we're here in second Kings chapter number 24 second Kings chapter number 24 look at verse number one. It says in
His days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up and Jehoiachim became his servant three years
Then he turned and rebelled against him, and the Lord said against him bans of Chaldeans and bans of Syrians and bans of the Moabites and bans of the children of Ammon.
And they sent them against Judah to destroy it according to the word of the Lord which he spake by his servants and prophets.
Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah to remove them out of his sight.
for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
and also, notice this, for the innocent blood that he shed,
for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon.
So, you know, when the children of Israel were taken into captivity,
according to the Bible here, one of the major motivating factors for the Lord to come in
And if you read through the book of Jeremiah, this was a horrific time of Nebuchadnezzar sending in his armies
to come in and destroy Jerusalem. I mean, people are dying of pestilence, they're dying of starvation, they're dying by the sword.
This is this was not a fun time for the nation of Judah, right?
But one of the motivating factors of why he had Judah destroyed was because Judah had been filled with the blood of
the innocent the blood of the innocent and
So, you know God looks down and he is not happy with any nation that is just okay with
the blood of the innocent being shed now, of course
You know our government is right now. They're they're trying to figure out who did it and of course, you know, they they have a
guy in custody that they say was
You know was the assassin
And it most likely is because his own family even turned him in and you know, of course
There's people out there. They're saying well, you know
The reason why he did it is because, you know, the assassin was, he was super right-wing,
you know, and Charlie Kirk just wasn't right-wing enough.
And it's, the reason why this happened is because of anti-semitism.
And of course, this is total insanity because, you know, there's absolutely zero evidence for that at all.
And in fact, you know, the assassin, he had a boyfriend.
You know he had a boyfriend who was pretending to be a chick and it's like yeah
You know that pretty much tells you that he wasn't some kind of like far-right wing lunatic or whatever
He was he was a lefty just like all the people that are cheering that he died
Okay, and so and I don't know I don't know what that had to do with my point here about the innocent blood
But I just I just you know I just thought I would you know throw that out there and give you that information I guess
But in Joel chapter number three verse number nineteen it says Egypt shall be
Desolate and Edom shall be desolate a desolate wilderness for the violence against the children of Judah because they have shed innocent blood
In their land so you know God is destroying multiple nations
Why because they have shed innocent blood so this is something that God takes, you know very seriously and
You know this
There's a lot of innocent blood that is shed in our world today and it's very unfortunate and of course
You know we talk about abortion is basically the number one
thing where innocent blood is shed
but you know
When we think about
Things like that like abortion you know that that's done. That's kind of done in a corner
You know, nobody ever sees that happening with her own eyes, you know
Unless you like, you know sneak into a doctor's office or something like that, but it's it's it's hidden away
You know, it's kind of covered up so that nobody see we don't see it on a daily basis
But you know this this was an event that pretty much everybody saw right? I mean, I think probably
Probably most people even saw the video and you know, there's there's a lot of people advocating
They're like, hey, you know, don't watch the video because it's too graphic
Then there's other people saying hey, you should watch the video because this is what they want to happen to you
You know, and I'm not gonna tell anybody what to do
I don't I'm not gonna tell people whether or not they want to watch the video
Look it up if you want to if you don't want to go ahead. I don't you know
I'm not gonna judge anybody in that but it is true though
is the fact that these people that are celebrating this,
they would love to see that happen
to every single one of us in this room.
They would love to see that happen to us.
And we would do well to realize that,
to realize that there are enemies of God.
And because we are on the side of God,
they have become enemies of us.
Now, of course, the Bible says in Matthew chapter number five
that we are to love our enemies, right?
but
The Bible also is clear the fact that we are not supposed to love the enemies of the Lord
Of course, you know, I didn't have this in my notes, but if you if you turn to 2nd Chronicles 19
The Bible is super clear about this
Because in 2nd Chronicles 19 it says and Jehu the son of Heneini the seer
Won out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat
Just should us thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord
Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord, right? So the Bible is very clear, you know
Because jay who he's asking he's like hey, you know, should you be loving those that hate God and
the answer is no
Because he says
Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord, right?
So because of the fact that Jehu was helping those that hate the Lord, the wrath of God was going to be upon him, right?
So God is not approving of people that are
are helping those that that hate the Lord.
And you know, I don't understand why people in this world have just such a difficult time comprehending this today, because if you think about it,
There is a specific crime that pretty much every nation has in their nation that will often times warrant the death penalty.
And this crime is called treason.
Now what is treason?
It's giving aid and comfort to who?
The enemy of a nation.
So when somebody gives aid and help and comfort to the end, like if we were at war with some
nation, like let's say we got into a war with China and then there was an American citizen
who was sending money to the Chinese and sending military data to the Chinese, we would consider
that treason.
And, you know, that is a capital crime, I believe, still in America today, where if you're
caught committing treason against America, where you're literally helping the enemies
of America, they'll put you to death for that.
Now, but why, though?
Aren't we supposed to love our enemies?
But wait a minute.
The enemies of God though. We're not supposed to love. So this is not something that is hard to understand
Is it because here's the thing, you know, we we can all have personal enemies in our lives, right?
And we prompt, you know, hopefully you don't have to just like a huge list of just, you know, personal enemies, you know
Or whatever, but but we can have enemy personal enemies in our lives people that have done us wrong personally
And we'd say hey, they're my enemy, right? Well, the Bible is clear that we're supposed to love those people
But if somebody's an enemy of God, you know, we are we're not supposed to love them
Okay, why because it basically if you're loving the enemies of God
It shows the fact that you're not his ally
You know just like if you were helping a foreign adversary of the United States in a time of war
That shows you are not an ally of the United States. In fact, you were an enemy
And, you know, that's why they have the death penalty for that.
And so, you know, it's actually a very easy concept, I think, personally, to understand.
You know, the fact that, hey, you know, you may have your personal enemies, you're to
love them, but the enemies of God, that's another level.
That's something different.
Go ahead and turn to Isaiah chapter number five, Isaiah chapter number five.
Isaiah chapter number five, so again so there's this large you know and who knows
you know what the exact number is but you know there's a lot of these videos
out there and they have thousands and thousands of likes right there's
thousands of people watching these videos and liking them you know and then
sharing them or and whatever on these different social media platforms that
And, you know, it's like, well, how did this happen?
Well, you know, over the last hundred years, there's been this creeping, devilish influence in the United States of America to the point where there's this large population that absolutely hate God, that absolutely, you know, hate everything good and they want to see it all burn.
distort and flip everything in society on its head.
And we see here in Isaiah chapter number five,
verse number 20, we have verse in the Bible
to talk about this concept.
It says verse number 20, it says,
wall unto them that called evil good and good evil
that put darkness for light and light for darkness
that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
And so, you know, you have
all kinds of people today that are saying,
hey, you know, being a straight man
and just going out and marrying a wife
and just having kids like you're supposed to
and attending church, you know, doing that,
that's actually, that's basically being a Nazi.
Right if you're if you're just a if you're just a normal Christian
Dude, and you go and you get married and you have kids and you go to church
And you love the Bible and you love God. They're like no no no you are evil
You're actually you're actually a fascist and you're actually a Nazi and
Because why well because just by virtue of you being a Christian and being straight and all this stuff
You're you're actually oppressing, you know all the other alternative lifestyles out there
You know you're you're oppressing us and when we're worthy oppressed and therefore we're righteous and we're we're the correct ones
And we're and we're the good guys. What are they doing?
Well, they're calling evil good and
good evil
I mean that's the exact mentality that we're seeing today from a large segment of our society.
So let's continue reading. It says,
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight.
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink,
of the righteousness of the righteous from him.
And you say, well, where could that be happening?
Well, I mean, it's happening in the corporate media
pretty much every single day.
I mean, the whole goal of the corporate media for the last, at least 10 years, has just been outright to justify the wicked for a reward.
I mean, anytime, you know, there's, anytime there's like a brutal, I mean, Paul talked about it last, last Sunday, you know, there was that girl on the train or on the, you know, the light, I guess that's a train, right?
I don't know. But there's that girl on the train that just got stabbed by some dude for no reason at all in complete cold blood.
And what does the corporate media do?
They seek to justify him.
They're like, well, he was hurting.
You know, well, he had a mental disorder.
And well, he had his own life problems.
And why are all these people just jumping to conclusions
about why he did it and all this stuff?
What are they doing?
They're justifying the wicked is what they're doing.
How come?
Well, it's just because George Soros
has all kinds of money.
He's paying them, they're getting paid, right?
Why?
Because it says, which justify the wicked for a reward.
Okay, that's what these giant media apparatuses
are all about, my friend.
They're trying to subvert the nation,
to subvert the people in this country,
and they've done it successfully.
Cause, I mean, again.
The
You know these these large section of our society that has decided that they love the fact that innocent blood has been shed
You know, it didn't just happen just on on its own. That didn't just happen naturally, right?
Somebody made it happen. There are dark forces in this world that have caused that to happen
And the media today is a giant part of that problem
is them just day after day, month after month,
year after year, justifying the wicked.
Okay, I mean that's how you get to the point
where people that are working for a nationwide news
organization are literally cheering for a father
and a husband's death.
It's absolutely sick.
It says in verse number 24, It says, For therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeeth the chaff,
so their root shall be as the rottenness, and their bosom shall go down.
shall go up as dust because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he that stresses forth his hand against them and hath smitten them,
and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets.
but his hand is stretched out still.
So, you know, according to God here,
you know, he is extremely angry with this group of people
that is going to turn,
that's gonna call evil good and good evil,
and that's gonna call bitter sweet and sweet bitter.
He is angry about this and he comes in and he's you know specifically in this verse. He's punishing
them for this and you know even after that he has this great punishment
You know at the end of verse there he says for his anger is not turned away
But his hand is stretched out still right and you know a lot of people have interpreted that as is like well
He's he's reaching out his hand of mercy. That's not what that verse is saying my friend
but his hand is stretched out still. What does that mean? He's coming in for another spanking,
right? He's coming in for more punishment. That's what's going on there in that verse.
And so, you know, again, God is not pleased. God is not happy with the shedding of innocent blood
and with people that cheered on and with people that are happy about it. You know, and these people,
Back in 2000, what was it? 2015, you know, they said, oh, you know, we need a legalized
gay marriage just because they just want to get married.
That's all they want to do.
Just leave them alone.
You know, and, you know, a lot of conservatives are like, hey, no, no, no, no, no.
That's not just gay marriage.
Once they get that, they're going to want more, and then they're going to want more, and then they're going to want more, and then they're going to want more, because their goal is not just to have a nice, sweet society where we're just kind of loving and accepting of everybody, no, their goal is complete destruction.
Their goal is to destroy the nation and have just all kinds of death of innocence everywhere.
Dead fathers and raped mothers. That's what they want. Okay, and God is again God is not pleased with this
And so, you know, but we we as a society we need to realize this and you know
As you know being a fundamental Baptist for the last, you know, 10 years of my life, you know
And and and preaching from behind the pulpit for the last, you know, five years of my life, you know
with what I feel like
You know, I've been warning about this, you know, we at this church have been warning about this kind of stuff for years
You know, we've been warning that these are violent people
You know, especially these these trannies these transvestite and this dude was literally dating a transvestite
You know, we've been warning about these people for years
but who has listened, right?
I mean, not that we expected the general public
to just, you know, heed a warning
and then just come over to our side,
but it still stands the fact that we have been warning
about this for years.
And look at what happened.
The fact that our nation has neglected to bring justice to people that hate the Lord and have our committing
perverted vile sin
Which the Bible puts the death penalty on what's the result of that the shedding of innocent blood because look my friend
If you don't if you don't shed the guilty blood
The innocent blood will be shed
and the wrath of God will come down because of it.
And Jeremiah 23, verse number 14, it says,
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem
a horrible thing.
They have committed adultery and walk in lies.
They strengthen also the hand of evildoers
that none death return from his wickedness.
They are all of them unto me as Sodom
and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
So what has happened?
of the people of this nation heeded the warning about these people over the last decade and even
before that know what have they done they've strengthened also the hand of the evildoers and
Strengthening the hand of the evildoers, it's not just people like cheering it on and saying, you know, we should do more of it.
Although, you know, there's a lot of these liberals that are saying, hey, no, we need to, you know, who's next?
You know, who, which conservative person are we going to kill next?
Right, they're cheering it on.
But it's any time you stray away from what the Bible says about any subject.
is when you're strengthening the hand of the evildoers.
You know, I believe that 100%,
that if you're not on the Bible about a certain subject,
then what you're doing is you're strengthening the hand of the evildoers, right?
And this nation has been strengthening the hand of the evildoers for decades and decades and decades, you know?
They, they, they, they, they, they, you know, back when the nation became, you know, when the Constitution was formalized,
you know, they basically, they lifted the death penalty off of a lot of different sins, including being a homo, right?
It seems like it, it seems like it comes up, but why?
Well, because it seems to be pretty relevant today.
I mean, Charlie Kirk was just blown away by a homo.
I mean, that's what the dude was.
If you're dating a dude that's pretending to be a chick,
you know, that doesn't suddenly make it not, you know,
he's just a homo, okay?
That's all it is.
All right, and you know we bring it up because it seems to be pretty relevant
You know and I'd rather not you know, I'd rather I'd rather not be having to talk about this this morning
You know I'd rather would have not have watched that video
I would rather have not have somebody have murdered Charlie Kirk. You know it's it's
But, here we are, you know, this is where we're at in our society.
And people have been strengthening the hand of the evildoers, and so they've been emboldened
to do this kind of thing.
And it needs to stop.
In Ecclesiastes 8, 11, it says, because the sentence against an evil work is not executed
You know and Paul talked about this last week and his sermon about lawyers
But this is the state of our justice system in America is that
Because you know righteous judgment is not speedily executed
What happens?
People are emboldened. They're emboldened to go out and commit to commit evil crimes
You know and and this is one of them
You know, I don't know if this individual that the murder, Charlie Kirk, you know, thought that he was gonna get away
Or you know, or if he was just willing to face the judgment or whatever
I bet that he thought he was gonna get away with it
You know, I bet that he didn't count on his family turning him in and him being brought to justice
And he thought he was just gonna be able to get away with it
And so because he thought he would be able to get away with it. He was emboldened to do evil
But you know aside from this
specific situation, you know, people are let out of jail, you know, after serving laughably
light sentences, or they never even go to jail for committing pretty heinous crimes,
and that emboldens them to do more evil.
You know, when they have this kind of catch and release mentality, you know, that massively
contributes to our society becoming more violent and more dangerous, you know.
And it seems like our society probably is going to become actually more
dangerous. And, you know, this is one of those interesting things that, you know,
that the media, you know, in order to get people to watch it, you know, negative
things sell, right? And so,
In the last decades, you know, they've sold, they've been telling people it's getting more dangerous and more dangerous and more dangerous when in reality it had been getting more safe, you know, in general in America.
Now, of course, there's going to be certain specific areas that have gotten more dangerous, I believe.
You know, I think probably Seattle is one of them.
But, you know, since the 70s it had been getting safer.
It has to be getting more dangerous if they're just letting people go that are they're actually committing, you know
You know sometimes violent crimes
But just like other crimes in general where they're breaking into people's houses and breaking into people's cars and you know Grand Theft Auto or whatever
You know, I believe it is it's becoming
More dangerous, you know, and and who knows what they're doing with all those statistics. They're showing people, you know
Who knows if those were even true? I don't know
but
It stands to reason, though, that when we have this justice system that just lets people go,
you know, after serving barely any time or having just no punishment at all,
and, you know, definitely not having any sort of biblical punishment,
their hand is strengthened to do evil.
And we created this environment where you could have some leftist lunatic
You know his hand is strengthened to literally go and assassinate somebody and
This is the environment that has been created in America
Why though? It's because we have ignored God's word because we as a nation have ignored God's word for far too long
You know and I hope personally I hope that this event is a catalyst for people to go. You know what?
Maybe we ought to go back to the old past
Maybe we ought to go back to the Bible. Yeah, maybe that's what we should be doing and going back to that instead of letting it get even worse
Go ahead and turn to John chapter number three John chapter number three
John chapter number three and this is a we're gonna look at verse number 19 but
this is these are kind of like the quintessential verses that tell us you
know because you wonder like well so what well why is it that these these
people would it would hate us right why why is it that because like you know
we're not we're not going out and you know we're not beating anybody up we're
You know, we're not going out and just, you know, seeking out people to have conflicts with them and and and to be, you know
Nasty with people or anything like that, you know, we're you know, we're coming to our church
We're reading the Bible. We're hearing the preaching of God's word
You know, and then, you know, somebody like Charlie Kirk, you know, he's literally going out to seek
have their opinion heard and you know to rebuttal their you know have a
conversation with them you know or debate them or however you want to say
that and you know just let's just have a discussion of ideas right you know
why would they hate that right because I mean if they have these great ideas if
they're wise in their own eyes if they're wise in their own sight wouldn't
their ideas win wouldn't they be able to prove us wrong
Well, John chapter number three tells us what's going on.
It says, And this is the condemnation, the light has come into the world, and men love
darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.
For everyone that doeth evil hateeth the light, neither cometh the light, lest his deeds should
be reproved, but he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest
that they are wrought in God.
You know, the reason why you find people that just hate, you know, Christianity, hate anybody
that pushes it, is because they are evil, because their deeds are evil, because they
have done abominable works.
This is why.
Let's see here.
Go ahead and turn to Romans chapter number 19, or excuse me, there is no Romans chapter
Turn to Romans chapter number 12 Romans chapter number 12
so
You know we see the fact that
There are extremely evil people in this world
you know, and there's probably more than we would like to believe and
They hate that which is good and in fact they go out to seek innocent blood and
We you know, we saw the perfect example of that on Wednesday
And there's many of them that are even happy about it, and they will even cheer it on.
Now, you know, as Christians, we need to realize that there are people out there like that
that would love to see us all killed, that would love to see us all in the same place
as Charlie Kirk.
You know, have the same thing that happened to him happen to us.
You know, that's why they're like, hey, who's next, right?
You know, we should do well to realize that.
You know, we should be wise as serpents,
but the Bible says also that we should be harmless as doves.
All right?
Now, you know, we are not the ones
that are advocating for violence, right?
You know, we preach the Bible
and we advocate for the Bible's laws.
But we are never advocating anybody to do, to take up, and do anything of their own volition
and of their own hands.
We do not advocate that.
The Bible is clear in Romans chapter number 12 verse number 19, it says, Dearly beloved.
Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place on the wrath, for it is written,
vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."
So according to the Bible, it is not our job to go out and seek vengeance against any of these people.
Our job is to expose them. Our job is to expose and preach the truth. That's what our job is.
Our job is not to go out and seek
physical justice in this life.
You know, if the laws are changed
and justice is brought to these people, praise God.
But that is not our job at the end of the day.
We're going to leave vengeance up to the Lord.
And of course, you know, this is something,
you know, as part of Christianity,
in general, Christians know this.
Right, you know often times, you know, you know, obviously none of us are perfect
You know, probably all of us have taken vengeance upon somebody for something that they did, you know
You know, so, you know, somebody wrongs you in some way. You're like, oh, I'm gonna get it
You know, and you go and get back at them. We've probably all done that at one point, you know, obviously not to an extreme degree
but you know
You know, maybe somebody made you mad and and you kind of did something back or whatever. We've all done that but you know
Christians, you know, we don't take that to an extreme.
Why? Because, you know, we know what the Bible says.
And so that's why you don't see in general
on the right wing of politics or whatever.
That's why you pretty much never see any of those people
going out and trying to kill people
and assassinate people, right?
That's why you don't really see that happening.
But, you know, unfortunately,
The left side of politics are constantly trying to assassinate people on the right, you know
And so that you know, they want to blame they're like, oh well the violence is on both sides, but that is a complete lie
It's the violence is not on both sides. It's one direction and
You know, they better hope it stays one direction because you know if if if the right-wing people in this in this nation get fed up enough
If they do punch back, it's gonna be ugly.
It's gonna be very ugly.
And, you know, I bring this verse up
because I don't want the right wing to punch back.
Why?
Because we need to leave it up to God.
Because if the right wing punches back,
it's not gonna be pretty, it's not gonna be good.
It's gonna be extremely bad.
It's gonna be extremely violent.
And, you know, that could potentially destroy our nation.
And we don't want that to happen.
And so again, you know, we as Christians, we need to leave it up to God to take vengeance.
Our job again is to expose the truth, is, you know, we're going to preach against these
people all day and night, but we are not to take vengeance into our own hands.
And so go ahead and turn to Hebrews 7, 12, Hebrews 7, 12.
You know I was thinking about this this week
You know that there's there's been all you know a lot of bad news
You know that kind of this last week there was that girl that was murdered on the train
violently and horribly and you know, I think of course of
Brother Kevin Rowe who was
Killed in a in a in an accident by a drunk driver
And then, you know, we think of, you know,
Charlie Curt being brutally murdered
in front of his wife and children.
And these, you know, these verses came to mind this week,
you know, and I kind of wanted to end the sermon
on kind of a lighter note, you know,
but Paul, he had a positive sermon this morning and,
you know, I kind of wanted to end this sermon
on a lighter note.
You know and you know because
It seems like a pretty dark world out there today
You know where you have all these people that are cheering for the first for somebody's death and of you know
Of course, there's this righteous anger that people have you know and this you know seeing Charlie Kirk get shot
Has affected a lot of people
A lot of people have, you know, been affected by this, you know, they saw what happened
and it makes them mad, it makes them viscerally angry, you know, and, you know, I believe
that is a righteous anger that people are having.
And so, but this has been, you know, a rough week for a lot of people because, you know,
there's, it seems like all this innocence is being killed and all this innocence is dying.
But, you know, we as Christians, we just need to do our job.
And you know, we ought to remember that our lives are fragile and that when we die, you
know, we're going to heaven someday.
And while we're here, though, we ought to remember that they're up there waiting for
us.
And look at Hebrews chapter number 12, verse number 1, it says,
who, for joy, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame,
and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."
So you know, there's a great cloud of witnesses today.
You know, Brother Kevin Rowe, and I believe Charlie Kirk is included in this, we're
Right, they're up there. They're they're witnessing our action. They're they're witnessing what we're doing for Christ today
And because of that
Because we know that you know those people are waiting up in heaven
You know many of us may have family members that are waiting in heaven for us
Because we know that this is true
Let us lay aside every weight and the sin with just so easily beset us. Let this be a motivating factor for us today
Let I mean hey let the fact that the Charlie Kirk became a martyr
Let that be a motivating factor for people to straighten out their lives to lay aside every sin and all the weight
Which just so easily beset us and let us run with patience our race that God has given each individual to us
Let us run our race for him
Let's just let it motivate us to serve God even more.
Let it motivate us to become even greater Christians
than we ever were before and become even closer to God
than we ever were before.
Let this be a motivation to us.
And remember, hey, we're going to see all those people again someday.
And so we may as well, while we're here, run our race.
And if we ever get down, if we ever discourage,
Version number two is that we need to look under Jesus the author and finisher for our faith
You know it made it you know it ought to make us angry that innocent people are killed
But remember, you know Jesus Christ was the quintessential innocent person. Yes, you know
You know people like Charlie Kirk and and Kevin Rowe, you know, they died, but yet they were sinners
You know, we you know, they they had sin, but Jesus Christ he had no sin
And so you can't get any more extreme than that,
where Jesus was completely sinless, right?
He never broke the laws of God one time,
and yet he was murdered, and yet he was killed.
Yet the innocent blood was shed.
But he is our example.
We're looking to Jesus, who's the author and finisher
of our faith.
And remember that he shed his blood for us.
So we ought to be able to work hard for him and you know if our if our blood is shed for the cause of Christ
Well, he shed his blood for us and so we ought to remember that and in 1st Corinthians
Or 2nd Corinthians, excuse me chapter number four verse number eight. It says we are troubled on every side yet not distressed
We are perplexed but not in despair
Persecuted but not forsaken
but not destroyed. You know, God, you know, God is not forsaken the earth.
God is still on his throne. And you know what? Sunday is coming.
And we ought to remember that. Sunday is coming.
You know, Jesus is coming someday and he is going to bring judgment upon the earth.
And he is going to judge the works of all these evil and wicked people.
And so we leave the vengeance up to the Lord.
And while we're still here on this earth,
our job is to just run our race for the Lord.
There may be all kinds of injustice in this world.
There may be all kinds of innocent blood shed on this earth.
But you know what?
You know, we can't control everything in this world.
We can only control how we react to what happens.
That's the only thing that we can do.
I can control how I act, and you can control how you act.
You are in control of the decisions
that you make every single day.
And so we ought to take this event and just use it
to give us energy to serve God even more
and run our race with patience.
Let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for this day, Lord.
I thank you for everything you've done for us.
Lord, we thank You that You've given us this great opportunity to serve You in this life.
And though there may be many injustices in our world today, Lord, we know that the greatest
injustice happened to You when You were crucified and killed on the cross, Lord, for us.
But Lord, we thank You that You suffered that for us and that we may be able to take up
That still can continue to serve you, Lord.
Dear Jesus' name, amen.
All right, if you guys can open up your hymns
to number 63, number 63.
Number 63 in your hymnal.
What a day that will be.
Number 63, let's start there in verse one.
There is coming a day when a heartache shall come.
No more clouds in the sky, no more tears to dim the eye.
All is peace forevermore on a happy golden shore.
What a day, glorious day.
will be. What a day that will be, where my Jesus I shall see. And I look upon his face,
the one who saved me by his grace. When he takes me by the hand and leads me through
yes day that will be there'll be no sorrow there no more burdens to bear no
more sickness no pain no more partying over there and
I shall see, and I look upon his face, the one who saved me by his grace.
When he takes me by the hand, it leads me through the promised land.
What a day, glorious day that will be.
Amen.