We should have received a handout with your bulletin.
It's got a list of songs, a large list of songs on there.
And we're going to pick a couple to start with.
You notice one that you'd really like.
I'm going to just pick randomly throughout the crowd.
And we're going to go ahead and move forward.
On that list, you'll see a bunch of different hymns.
You pick whichever one you like.
We'll do one verse and one chorus.
All right, let's go ahead and move to page 411.
Hold the fort.
Song number 411.
Hold the fort.
Everybody sing it out together real loud first.
All right, let's open up the service now
with a word of prayer.
Lord, we love you and we just thank you again
for this new year and this church
and just everything you've blessed us with in 2024.
Lord, we just look forward to the blessings in 2025.
We love you so much
and we just want your blessings upon this church
and we just ask that you bless this service now
and it's in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, let's move on to another song for the Brent.
162, good choice, 162.
To God be the glory.
Song number one hundred and sixty two.
Sing it out loud.
To God be the glory, great things he
238, 238, Christ, Libbeth, and me. Great choice. Song number 238.
Happy New Year. Thanks so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church. And if you want a bulletin,
I think our usher should still have some. We at least have a newsletter that we printed out.
It's a year-end review that Evangelist Urbanik had written for us. And so it's hot off the press.
But on the front of our bulletin, we have our Bible Mary passage, Matthew 28 inside. We have
as well as our church stats for the year,
I guess it's just zeros.
I guess we should just keep it up to date
from last year or something.
But we did a really good job,
and so Sunday we'll have those numbers for you
for the year to date from last year
so that way we can look at it.
Also on the right we have a list of expecting ladies
in our prayer list.
We'll come right back to that prayer list.
On the back we have the note about an event.
Coming up in January 11th and 12th,
it's gonna be a Springcrest Baptist soul-winning event
as well as preaching event.
And so if you'd like to go down there and visit,
there's a sign-up sheet just so we can have an idea
of how many people to anticipate or expect.
We'll be having soul-winning in the morning, lunch,
and then soul-winning in the afternoon,
and then a fellowship event.
So if you are interested in going we would love for you to fill that out
Some church reminders. I'm gonna go over those right now
Please make sure your kids are not running or rough playing in the church at any time
Children should not be on our stage area at any time children should also not be in our kitchen
Area without assistance and then also children should not be in our mother baby room areas without their mother
make sure also our fellowship room is not a play area or wrestling or anything like that.
Children should also not be using our church supplies and so also please make sure you're
cleaning up after yourself. Water bottles are for our soul winning and visitors and then
make sure you're watching your children and then we want our children to be obeying
all of the of the adults and authority. We have our update for the year.
And I'm not going to read it all of it, but if you'd like to read it, you can go through it. Our evangelist
Duncan Urbanic, who's in the Philippines
had
3420 salvations for 2024. So that is a staggering number and that wasn't
If you think about it wasn't even necessarily a full year's work. So that's some really good number. He beat our entire church. So
We should try really hard
to beat him, okay, next year as a church.
It's one guy versus us, you know what I mean?
So...
Also, he had 16 baptisms, and he's been training some people over there as well.
Brother James has been going out there, and so I'm running with him as well.
And so, really, really appreciate the work, and, you know, it's a good feeling to know
that the investment that we're making is actually producing a lot of fruit over there.
So, he's going to be visiting us in March, and coming back just for a few weeks,
just on a temporary furlough, just to come back, see his family, and visit us,
and he's going to be preaching for us.
that'll be a great time. I encourage you to come out that Wednesday. Also on the
back he has a little bit of information about some prayer requests and other
things so if you want to read that we would love for you to read about our
evangelists. Also we have our prayer request list and we're gonna go through
that right now. We've been praying for the naeems for their grandmother also for
their daughter and just sickness in general been praying for the Carlson's
Also struggling with health issues. We've been praying for the miller's friend whose mother is struggling with cancer treatments
Also, we've been praying for the scots for mr. Scott for his cancer
And we've been praying for his mother for nerve pain if he continued to pray for the Garcia's daughter Krista who's pregnant
We've been praying for brother Tony for his work. I've been praying for the Foley's for their visa. We've been praying for the
For brother Alex and his work. We've been praying for the Warners for their brother
who had an injury, also been prayer for the Hernandez's grandmother who's recovering from surgery.
If you'd pray for the Goodwin's friend, Sarah, who is recovering.
Also, we'd pray for brother Nick for his mother's salvation. We've been praying for brother Wallach's brother
Jason who's recovering from a surgery also been prayed for brother Jimmy
He said he gave me an update and said that he was getting better
But if you just continue to pray for full recovery for him and then if you'd pray for brother Sue Hales
father-in-law who
is having some brain treatments.
And so a lot of prayer requests there.
And I also know a lot of church families also just,
you know, there's been kind of a sick season for some reason.
And so we'll just pray that they'll recover quickly
and that people can get over that.
So we'll go ahead and pray right now.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for our church. Thank you so much for steadfast.
Thank you for all the work that's being accomplished in the Philippines.
I pray that you just bless
evangelist or bannock and his family and continue to use them in this new year.
I pray that you bless all these expecting ladies that you please help them with their pregnancies.
I pray you would help those that are desiring to be pregnant.
I pray that you would help those who have recently given birth that you just be with their children.
We thank you so much for all of these church members
and family members that are not with us.
We still are with them in prayer that they're struggling
with illness or sickness.
I pray that you just please help them.
Please help them to have a full and speedy recovery.
Those are struggling with these chronic issues
like cancer treatments and other serious illnesses.
I pray that you please, if possible,
just give them a miracle healing.
Give them favor and wisdom with whatever treatments
and whatever decisions they're making.
I pray that you just give them comfort and peace.
as they're going through difficulty.
I pray that you'd also just help our church family
that needs favor with their travel or with their work.
I pray that you'd also help us to reach those
that are needing the gospel or our family members
and our friends, some of the hard cases.
I pray that you would just soften their hearts,
give us the opportunity to preach to them.
And I pray that this year that you would just bless
all of our upcoming soul-winning trips, our missions trips,
that you'd allow our church to be greatly used
to get many people saved and that we could give all
of the honor and the glory to your son
and it's his name we pray in Jesus' name.
Amen.
So, traditionally, we go through a chapter of the Bible on Wednesday nights and we've
been going through the book of Matthew, but I decided to have a special service this evening
and so I'm not going to be preaching.
We're going to have men from our church preaching and we have a cup over here where men have
already entered.
If you did not already, if you showed up and you're hoping to maybe preach a sermon, you
have a button-up shirt and tie and you did not, you can go right now real quick, just
on one of those cars and put in the cup.
We're gonna have the cup up here on the pulpit area.
And so as we have men come up,
they're just gonna be doing popcorn preaching.
So they're just gonna come in here,
preach a five minute sermon or less.
And then of course, when you come up here guys,
just to give you a few instructions,
if you'll please just pull out a name from the cup
is the first thing you do.
Just let us know who's gonna be the next preacher.
Mike here is gonna be on and everything like that all you have to do is just you can just clip it on your tie
Put this in your pocket or put it put it inside pocket or pocket or whatever for you and it should be good to go
So just make sure you don't run off with it and just because we need to get started
I already picked a name out so Billy day is gonna be our first preacher for this evening
All right, and I don't know exactly how long we go. I don't know if everybody'll get a chance to preach or not
We'll probably just preach until pizza shows up.
So we're also, you know, you have to endure
a little bit of preaching, okay?
And, but there's pizza afterwards, all right?
So as soon as it's about that time or the pizza's come up,
then I'll probably just say this is our last preacher.
We'll still sing a song after that
and we'll pray for the food and we'll be dismissed,
but we'd love for you to join us for a pizza fellowship
and hanging out and I really appreciate
you guys coming here and preaching
and I won't yank you off the stage
unless you preach heresy so, you know,
or you start preaching too long
and then we'll literally yank you off the stage, all right?
But, you know, I'm excited.
I think our guys are gonna do a really good job
and I've been looking forward to this evening.
So we're gonna sing, I think, another song or two
and then we'll have Brother Billy come up here
and preach a sermon for us.
All right.
All right, we'll get another choice or two here.
Anybody wanna make a choice, what's up?
Footprints of Jesus, you know what number that is.
310
That was song number 310
437. 437.
Battle him of the Republic.
So he's trying to get pumped up for the preaching.
Song number 437.
Everybody's singing out together on the verse.
get their Bibles ready as the offering plates are being passed around. Get
ready to hear some popcorn preaching.
Is this on?
All right, so a couple places I want you to turn to.
The first place is going to be Romans 12, verse 9 and 10.
And then put your finger in Acts 2, verse 46, 47.
This is going to be the first and last place I go.
Who's the next preacher?
It's going to be Diego.
Yep, Orozco.
First of all, thanks for the opportunity to stand up here and preach.
It's a great honor.
I just want to start off with a prayer.
Father God, we just thank you for today, and we thank you for that fast Baptist church
and the King James Bible, Lord, we just ask that just the Holy Spirit just come upon us
and all the preachers after me, Lord, and we just ask that you just let the Word of
God just sink in everyone's heart and let us leave here more edified and looking forward
to New Year.
Amen.
So, in Romans 12, verse 9, it says,
Let love be without dissimulation,
abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good.
Be kindly affectionate one to another
with brotherly love and honor, preferring one another.
So, the topic I want to preach about tonight is fellowship or vexation, because as Christians
we all know that without fellowship, without the brethren and sisters in Christ, it's
a really lonely life, right, because I mean it's pretty obvious.
This chapter starts off with the gifts that everyone has as far as being in the body of
Christ and how our gifts and abilities all glorify God.
because the
Apologize a little nervous
Because the alternative is that we go off into the world like as say believers if if we don't go all in and
Stay in church, then what's the alternative right? We get back slidden back into the world, right?
And we think of one of the greatest examples that is lot right because
In 2 Peter it says, and delivered just lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked.
Why was he vexed with the filthy conversation is because he looked towards the well-watered
planes and he decided to go towards the things of the world as opposed to staying with the
Lord, right?
Because for that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous
with their unlawful deeds, right? Because if we don't put ourselves around godly Christians
and people that are going to hold ourselves accountable and hold each other accountable,
what happens? We get back into drinking. We get back into the things of the world.
And so how can we glorify God in that? The truth is it's really difficult, right? Because
We read our Bible, we listen to preaching, and we edify each other, right?
But the other thing is, like, how many souls do you think that lot one, right?
Probably not very many, right? Because...
when Abraham was looking to save Sodom he was he was kept getting a bigger
number and going down to a smaller number right because he kept trying to
save to save Sodom if it if it be for just ten ten righteous or whatever right
and he couldn't find it right so Abraham like the angels had to go in and
save lot right and then what happened to his wife his wife turned back to the
world and she got turned into a pillar of salt
We don't want to turn back to the world.
We don't want to get our righteous soul vexed
with the filthy conversation of the wicked.
Because we all know at work, people
talk about the worst things.
We want to be around Christians that talk about good things,
about righteous things.
So if you go to Acts 2.46, all right.
And right here, and it says,
and they continued daily with one accord in the temple
and breaking bread from house to house,
did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart.
Well, what are they doing?
They're coming together.
Why are they glad?
Because they're all there for one purpose, right?
Cause it says that they were there with singleness of heart.
What were they doing? They were praising God and having favor with all the people and the Lord added to the church
Daily such as should be saved, right?
So what's one of the biggest biggest things that our church does is soul winning, right?
So, when we come together, we come together with the purpose of serving the Lord and then
sharing the gospel, getting people saved, adding to the church, and edifying and lifting
everyone up, right?
So, we want to go into this new year, not looking for an opportunity to get back into
the world.
We want to look at spending more time with the brethren, spending more time at church,
being here as many times as the door is open, finding every opportunity to volunteer, to
Even if it's not within the buildings, fellowship with the brethren, I mean, there's plenty of brethren here
I know that spend time going to baseball games and things like that, right? Or they just they have soul-winning times
I know I know a lot of these guys here have their own soul-winning times
Let's let's find opportunities in this year in 2025 to serve the Lord to look for opportunities to get people saved
To glorify God to lift each other up and preferring the brethren and not going into the world to be vexed with the unrighteous
Alright, thanks for the opportunity, Diego, it's all you.
The next preacher is Clay.
Turn if you have your Bibles turned to Nehemiah chapter 6
Nehemiah chapter number 6
I'll say thank you to Pastor Shelley for the opportunity of preach and for having this men's preaching night
Nehemiah chapter number 6 will read the first three verses in that chapter there
Now it came to pass when Sambalah and Tobiah and Gisham the Arabian and the rest of our enemies heard that I had builded the wall and that there was no breach left therein, though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates.
That Sambalah and Gisham sent unto me saying,
Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono.
But they thought to do me mischief, and I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing
a great work, so that I cannot come down.
Why should the work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you?
So, we see here that Nehemiah is finishing up the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem,
and he continues to face opposition from the enemies of God.
And we see here that they try to trick him into meeting with them.
But they don't want to meet with them because they're sincere, they actually want to come
up with a compromise, but rather they want to hurt him, they want to kill him, they want
to do some to him some type of mischief.
And so we see here that the opposition is trying to get them to stop doing the work of God because ultimately that's their goal is for
us in general to stop doing the work of God.
But we see here that Nehemiah doesn't quit.
And the title of my sermon tonight is simply Don't Quit.
Don't Quit.
And we see two characteristics here in these verses.
I'm gonna focus mostly on verses three and four.
And the first thing we see is that Nehemiah
had a personal involvement.
Notice that says in verse three,
and I sent messengers unto them saying,
I am doing a great work.
Notice Nehemiah says, hey, I'm doing a great work.
He doesn't say like, hey, my nation's doing a great work or my family's doing a great work.
Nehemiah was personally involved in the work of God.
He was personally involved in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.
And that's a lesson to us to say, hey, we should be personally involved in the work of God.
It's not enough just to say, hey, why come to set fast?
Or, hey, my parents go soul winning.
or my family goes soul-winning, my wife goes soul-winning,
hey, that's not enough, you, are you going soul-winning?
Are you involved in the work of God?
What are you doing?
There needs to be a personal involvement
in the ministry of this church and ministry
and the work of God.
Number two, in verse four, we see Nehemiah's persistence.
It says, yet they sent him to me four times after this sort.
And I answered them after the same manner.
Notice that they come to Nehemiah four times, and he gives the same answer.
Hey, I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down.
And if you read the rest of the chapter, they come unto him a fifth time with a letter threatening him
and trying to get him to be afraid.
Then they send a false prophet to infiltrate and try to trick him.
And so we see that they're stopping at nothing to try to stop Nehemiah from doing the work of God.
But Nehemiah just keeps going.
Nehemiah doesn't quit.
Nehemiah stays focused on the work of God, he doesn't give in, he doesn't quit, he doesn't allow himself to get discouraged or distracted by the persecutors.
And that's a lesson to us, that when we're personally involved in the work of God,
we're going to have persecution, we're going to have opposition, we're going to have enemies.
The Bible says, yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
And persecution comes from all places, right? Of course it comes from the reprobates and the
faggots of this world, but it also comes sometimes from our family.
Sometimes it comes from co-workers.
Sometimes it comes from our neighbors or our friends.
And their whole goal is just for you to quit.
They're not sincere.
They don't actually want to reason with you, right?
When your family comes to you and says,
hey, I think you're in a cold.
They're not trying to reason with you.
They're not being sincere.
They just want you to stop serving God.
But we need to have the attitude that Nehemiah has
and determine to not quit.
Realize that the, hey, I'm doing a great work.
The work that we're doing is too important.
The souls that we're winning are too important.
Hey, it has an eternal impact.
That person, once they're saved, they're saved forever.
And we're going to see them one day in eternity.
And that work that we're doing is too important
to allow ourselves to quit just because of some opposition
or a little bit of tribulation or persecution.
And so we need to realize that.
We need to realize that we don't have time to waste to argue with these people or try
to reason with these people.
We just need to ignore them.
We need to ignore the people that want us to quit church, that want us to quit soul-winning,
that want us to quit reading our Bibles and quit praying, hey, ignore them and just keep
serving God.
Keep going to church.
Keep going soul-winning.
Keep reading your Bible.
Keep praying.
Keep tithing.
Keep fellowshiping with the brethren.
Right?
Keep doing this.
And in 2025, I don't know what's going to happen.
or some type of trial or tribulations are going to come our ways.
But we need to determine, I don't care what happens,
I'm going to be personally involved in the work of God. I'm not just going to sit back and let
other people do the work. I personally am going to be part of this. I'm personally going to
be a soul winner, right? I'm going to pick out a time in the bulletin
and I'm going to go to that time soul winning every week. And second of all, we need to
decide, hey, I'm going to be persistent.
I'm gonna keep going.
Hey, I'm gonna ignore the haters and the bozos
and the weirdos that are trying to attack us
and trying to get us out of church.
I'm gonna ignore them, nuts to them.
I don't care what they think.
Hey, I'm not gonna quit.
And we'd have the same attitude as Nehemiah.
I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down.
Marcella's up next.
All right, so this previous year I've had some success with my prayers,
so I just wanted to give some practical advice on how to pray and how not to pray.
Now let's go ahead and open our Bibles to James chapter 4.
And while you're turning there, I want to read an important verse from
John chapter 9 it says now we know that God heareth not sinners
But if any man be a worshipper of God and doeth his will him he heareth
So according to the Bible we need to do God's will if we want him to hear us and secondarily
We need to be a worshipper of God now. What does it mean to do as well?
Well primarily number one we need to do is will concerning salvation and his will concerning salvation is that we believe on the Sun
The Bible says in John 640,
and this is the will of Him that sent me,
that everyone which seeeth the Son and believeth on Him
may have everlasting life, and I will raise Him up on the last day.
So according to the Bible, if we want God to hear us when we pray to Him,
we need to be saved, we need to do His will concerning salvation.
And the Bible says God is a spirit, and they that worship Him
must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
So, secondarily, we need to be a worshipper of God.
What does it mean to worship Him in spirit and truth?
It means to have the right attitude.
It means to have the right spirit.
And what spirit should we approach our Father in heaven with?
A humble spirit.
Bible says in James chapter 4, you're already there in verse 2.
You lost and you have not.
You kill and desire to have and cannot obtain.
You fight and war and you have not because you ask not.
So number one, we need to ask if we want something.
In verse 3, it says,
Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world
is the enemy of God.
Do you think that the Scriptures sayeth in vain
the Spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
But he giveth more grace,
wherefore he sayeth God resisteth the proud
but He giveth grace unto the humble.
We need to approach God humbly when we pray to Him
and make petitions to Him and ask for things.
And also, we need to do the will of God
concerning our sanctification.
We want to be a friend of God.
We don't want to be an enemy of God.
The adulterers of this world are enemies of God
and the Bible teaches that if we want to be a friend of God,
we need to be sanctified.
The Bible says in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, for this is the will of God,
even your sanctification that you should abstain from fornication,
that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and in honor.
Don't expect God to satisfy your carnal needs. When you're proud, when you're wicked,
when you have no control over your vessel,
Expect them to be your enemy because that's exactly what he said in James chapter 4.
Yet we live in a society that doesn't seem to grasp this.
You give the slightest correction to someone and they say,
oh, you're so judgmental.
I'll pray for you.
The Bible says he that turneth away his ear from hearing the law,
even his prayer shall be an abomination.
And the Bible teaches that God is not going to listen to that person.
He's not going to listen to their prayer.
And, you know, we need to have a culture where if someone's doing something wicked as a Christian,
you can rebuke them that they will receive correction.
And God looks down at the filth and the putrefaction,
and he sees the GOP lifting up prayers to Wahaguru at the RNC convention.
And he doesn't listen to those prayers, and they disgust him, and they're in abomination too.
In 1 Corinthians 11, we read about how men are dishonoring their head, women are dishonoring their head.
Men having long hair, women having their cute little butch haircut in the old IFB.
You know, the Bible teaches that, you know, we shouldn't do these dishonorable things.
The Bible says, in 1 Corinthians 11,
Psalm 34 says the angel of the Lord in campeth round about them that fear him and delivereth him.
what having power over your head is
representational of is
respect to godly authority and when we abrogate that according to the Bible hey
I believe even the angels don't want anything to have to do with us
You know the angels they're sent by God to protect us and God is our protector
But if we turn away from him we can become an enemy and he won't listen to us
A few other tips if I still have time, you know, the Bible says we shouldn't pray with vain repetitions
I mean no one likes someone that's nagging them
I mean if you had a friend that was just telling you to take out the trash every five minutes
Probably wouldn't be your best friend. I just said I would take out the trash
Why are you asking me for the hundredth time and sometimes persistence is key with prayers
But we don't want to be repeating the same things over and over it's vain
We don't want to pray like the heathen do we don't want to pray for attention
We want to pray out of sincerity and if we have a long prayer which sometimes is necessary
It's because we should have a lot to say. So that's just some practical advice for prayers. You know, don't ask a miss
expect that God will be your friend if you're on good terms with them and
Remember, you have not because you ask not.
So always be willing to lift up a prayer.
And don't worry about the eloquence of your prayer because the Holy Spirit is going to
intercede for you if you're not an eloquent man.
But if you're an adulterer, beware.
Let's pray.
Father, we thank you for this day.
Thank you for Steadfast Baptist Church.
Lord, please fill the remaining preachers with your Spirit and help them preach from
the full counsel of God.
The next preacher is Brother Rich.
First and foremost, I just want to say thank you to Pastor
Shelley for allowing us to preach tonight.
Also, I realize this is where he gets his sermons
for the whole year, so.
So yeah, so as we begin 2025, a lot of us is coming up,
we're gonna start making some New Year's resolutions
and we're gonna be determined
to do some things for next year.
And if you would, turn into your Bible
to second Chronicles chapter two.
So if you find the one, two books,
first, second Samuel, first, second Kings,
first, second Chronicles, go to second Chronicles chapter two.
And I got my inspiration because Solomon in this chapter,
He's actually beginning a new reign.
It's a new king in the kingdom.
You know, there's kind of like a New Year's resolution.
And what is the first thing that Solomon
determines to do when he takes over the kingdom
or when he becomes king and he inherits the kingdom
from his father?
That's what I wanna look at tonight.
And you know, most of us, most people in society,
most people in America,
we're coming up with some New Year's resolutions,
like to get a better job, to start a business,
to grow a business.
save some money, to lose some weight.
Now, that's my New Year's resolution every year
to lose some weight.
My New Year's resolution every year is to lose
at least 30 pounds, and it never happens.
The reason being is because my wife always feeds me so much
and she cooks so good, so it's hard for me
to achieve that goal, but I'm not complaining.
But Solomon, if you would look at 2 Chronicles 2 verse 1, it says,
And Solomon determined to build a house for the name of the Lord and a house for his kingdom.
So, the first thing that Solomon wants to do when he becomes a king is to build a house for God.
Now, whenever you set out to do anything, you first need to be determined to do it because if you're not determined to do it, you're not going to achieve that goal.
The real reason why I never achieved the goal of losing weight because I'm not determined to do it. That's the honest truth.
You know, I'd rather just eat something delicious
than to skip out on that.
But we see Solomon, he's determined.
And the title of my sermon is,
Be Determined to Build God's House.
I think the most important thing that we need to,
you know, that we need to be determined to do for 2025
is build God's house.
Look what it says in verse five.
And the house which I build is great.
For great is our God.
Our God is, sorry, for great is our God above all gods.
So not only does Solomon want to build a house
for the name of the Lord, he wants it to be great.
And whenever we do something for God,
we want to make sure that we do it great.
Now, what does it mean to be determined?
To be determined, it just says to come to a decision
or resolution, to decide or make a firm decision.
and I want us today to make a firm decision
to be at church every single service for 2025.
That's the first step in building the house of God,
just showing up to the house of God.
Now, we're not like the Catholic church
who thinks that the house of God is a physical building
that's so beautiful, that windows are all colorful
and all nice, you know, when you come to our church,
you know, the first time I see this place,
I'm like, is this a warehouse, is this a chop shop?
But the building, the physical structure is not the church.
The people inside the church is what makes up the church, is what makes up the house of God.
Now, you don't have to turn there, actually turn to Hebrews chapter 10.
I'm going to read out of 1 Peter chapter 2.
It says ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house and holy priesthood to
offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
So we're not building a physical infrastructure, we're building a spiritual house.
And that's how, you know, we build the house of God in the New Testament is by building
the spiritual house by getting people said, well now there's multiple steps, I'm only
going to give you one.
That's what I wanted to be determined to show up to church every single service for 2025.
Look at what it says in Hebrews chapter 10 verse 25.
It says, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the matter of some is, but exhorting
one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching.
So the Bible tells us in Hebrews chapter 10 to not forsake the assembling of ourselves
together.
That means not to forsake church.
People have a tendency to forsake church, to not even show up.
But people will show up every single day to the nine to five.
You know, to a sporting event, people go to all type of football games and baseball games and basketball games.
But the church house is the most important institution.
So how are we not going to show up to the church house every time the doors are open?
You know, God blessed us with such a great church here in Texas. Why wouldn't we come?
You know, church is so important because coming to church is going to provoke men to be manly, not to be effeminate.
not to be soft, not to be wanting all the time,
to be hard workers, to do great things for the Lord.
It's gonna provoke women to love their husbands,
to love their children, to be obedient, discreet,
taste keepers at home, obedient to their own husband,
that the word of God be not blaspheme.
It's gonna teach children to honor their parents
so they can learn to honor God.
It's gonna teach children to fear their father
so that way they can learn to fear God someday.
And when you get provoked by the preacher,
What that, what's that gonna do for you
is gonna help you have some convictions in your life.
It's gonna help you to be determined
to be at every single church service.
It's gonna provoke you to be at church
every time the door is open
so that way you could be edified.
It's gonna help you be determined to pray every single day.
It's gonna help you be determined to
go soul-winning every single week.
It's gonna help you be determined to thank God every day.
You know, for 2025,
Are you determined to build your own personal portfolio
to get a better job?
Those are great things to do, get a better job
and build into business.
But the most important thing is serving God,
building the church house.
And that's how we're gonna be pleasing unto God
when we do something that actually matters with our lives.
So let's pray and the next preacher is gonna be rich.
Lord God, we thank you for this day.
Thanks for the opportunity to allow us to preach.
We actually bless all the preachers coming up.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Alrighty, first of all, I want to say thank you to Pastor Shelly for this opportunity to preach.
If you would, turning your Bibles to Genesis chapter number one.
It's always a great honor to be up here.
So we're starting a whole new year and I figured why not start at the beginning of the Bible and
So the Bible says in verse one,
in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
So obviously we're very familiar with this verse
because it's the first verse in the Bible
we've all read it a bazillion times.
But notice that there are the first four words,
in the beginning, God.
And that's the title of my sermon, in the beginning, God.
You see, when we do anything, it should be God first.
Everything should have God at the beginning.
And what we end up doing a lot of times is we put ourselves first.
And that's not how we grow in this life.
The Bible says in Romans 11 verse 36,
for of him and through him and to him are all things
to whom be glory forever, amen.
This theme is all over the Bible.
Turn, if you would, to 1 John chapter 4.
See, his mercies are renewed every morning, the Bible says.
That's the start of the day, so we should put him first.
At the beginning of every day because he puts us first
He promised us eternal life before the world began
Everything is God first and we should put God first in our lives and it's a shame when Christians don't
Bible also says in Matthew chapter 6 seek II first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things should be added
unto you we shouldn't be putting all of our worry and concern into the world because
God promised that he would add those things unto us all those things that are needful to us if we put him first
You're in first John chapter 4 look down at verse number 19
The Bible says, we love him because he first loved us.
Without God, we could do nothing.
We as Christians ought to recognize in the beginning God.
Turn to one last place, Revelation chapter 22.
See, all of us have a choice every day when we wake up.
Every one of our mornings has something that comes first.
So I would challenge you, is it God?
Is God what comes first in your day?
I mean, I don't know about you guys,
but when I miss a day of Bible reading in the morning,
I don't feel right with God.
I don't feel right with God when I forget to pray
for someone that needs it,
or I neglect to ask for forgiveness,
or I'm bitter against one of my brethren.
My if my day doesn't start within the beginning God then I don't feel like I'm right with God
You're in Revelation chapter 22 look down at verse 13
Bible says I am Alpha and Omega
The beginning and the end the first and the last
Let us be Christians that put God first
Let's let us this new year be Christians that put God first every day
And let us not take his mercy and his grace for granted,
but rather every day wake up and say, in the beginning, God.
Next preacher is Jacob Plant.
I want to first thank Pastor Shelley
for the opportunity to preach here.
It's always a great privilege and an honor
to preach at such a great church.
And I want to wish you all a happy new year.
It's the time of the year when we think of new beginnings
and we think of things, habits,
that we might want to get rid of
or habits that we want to adopt.
Because obviously we're not perfect.
But there is one, that is, and was, and always will be perfect, and that is the Almighty God.
So go to your Bibles to Revelation 1.8.
Revelation 1.8 says,
Sayeth the Lord which is and was and which is to come
the Almighty
New Year's same God is the title of the sermon
The same God has always been from the beginning
In fact, he says I am the beginning and the end
He's outside of time
He cannot better himself
As one that is a wretched sinner
There are no areas of improvement with God
And the reason I bring this up is because there are a lot of people out there
that seem to be confused as to the nature of God.
They think that God somehow is different now.
They seem to think that God, the God of the Old Testament,
is different from the God of the New Testament, or from how He is now.
They think that somehow God now is not mad at sin.
They believe that God is actually somehow more comfortable with sin.
They say that somehow God now is not mad at sinners.
They profess that God is not mad at you.
They say things like, God loves everybody.
They love the preachers that tickle their ears.
And for looker's sake, will rest the scriptures,
preaching things which they ought not.
They see Jesus flipping the tables in the temple.
And they say to him, chill dude.
It's no big deal, but when they see strange doctrines like feminism, they say to themselves,
how can I make this holy thing conform to that unholy thing?
They see the only one, true God, the creator of the universe.
And say to him, keep it up buddy, you got a lot to learn about the world.
That's not how we do things in 2025.
So let us remember that it is us humans that need to change and conform ourselves to what this is
This old book
Because even though it is 2025
This God will always be the same God
Proverbs 17. Thank you, Pastor Shelly, for this opportunity to preach. Proverbs 17.4,
the Bible says, a wicked doer giveth he to false lips.
and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
I just want to talk about the first part.
A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips.
Two things can be concluded
from this first part of the verse.
Number one is that if you find someone
continually giving heed to false lips and listening to lies,
you can just mark it down for sure
that person's a wicked doer.
Ah, these people that fell on the wrong side of every issue, like, are you really thinking
there's something?
No, really, like, the Bible says, a wicked doer giveth he to false lips.
So you may not know what they're involved in, what's going on behind the doors, but
either you believe this verse or you don't.
Someone who's always falling on the wrong side of every issue, listening to all the
false lips, wicked doer, for sure, either believe the Bible or don't.
That's what it says.
Okay, well, hey, I don't want to be that guy
that's always listening to false lips.
Well, it gives you the solution.
Don't be a wicked doer.
It's that simple, we're done, all right?
Don't be wicked, and you won't give he to false lips.
Okay, well, if you want to turn to 2 Thessalonians,
chapter two, the passage I'm about to read to you,
the context is, it's talking about how the antichrist
is going to deceive the unsaved,
but some of the same mechanics,
of how this works can work with saved people
because we still have this carnal mind,
we have this carnal body.
So if you're in 2nd Thessalonians chapter two,
verse number eight, we'll start.
I just want you to pay attention
to the correlation between lies and truth
and then unrighteousness.
Notice the pattern of when unrighteousness
and lies are mentioned,
and just notice the pattern here in verse eight.
And then show that wicked,
the big wicked doer, be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with spirit of his mouth
and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, even him whose coming is after the
working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness
of unrighteousness, and then that perish, because they receive not the love of the truth
that they might be saved.
And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie."
that they all might be damned who believe not the truth,
but what do they do instead?
They had pleasure and unrighteousness.
And so these people are unsaved,
but some of these saved mechanics,
some of these same mechanics can work with the saved
since we have the kernel Bible.
Let me explain what I'm talking about.
Let's say I have an alcohol problem, okay?
Now, if I didn't have an alcohol problem,
someone could quote verses to me or the Bible says like,
hey, you know,
You know wine is a mocker and strong drink is raging and whosoever's deceives everybody's not wise and as a non-alcohol drinker
Yeah, sure, man. I believe that however if I have an alcohol problem
Because I have pleasure in that unrighteousness because I'm a wicked doer in that area of my life
I'm gonna struggle to listen to the truth in that area
However, I might give heat to false lips.
I'll go to beer drinking baptists and have them tell me,
hey, glass of wine a day, blah, blah, blah,
make your heart better, whatever.
I'll listen to them.
I'll listen to it because I like it, okay?
In that area of my life, I'm a wicked doer
and so I'm gonna give heat to false lips in that area.
So that's kind of how the mechanics work, okay?
So what's a quick solution?
If you go to Ephesians four real quick, please.
One quick solution is that James 4-8 says draw a night of God and he will draw a night of you
Okay, cleanse your hands you sinners
Clean your hands you wicked doer clean up your life and
Purify your hearts you double-minded
Notice the pattern sinners and double-minded
If you're a wicked doer if you're a sinner you have some sin issues also, they're gonna be double-minded. Okay?
If you have huge sin issues, you're going to be like,
I don't know, is this pastor with all this fruit?
Like, is he a bad person?
I don't know, man.
You're going to come out on the wrong side of that issue.
Because you have reasons.
If you're already like, covetous,
or you have envy towards a particular brother,
you're going to have reasons to believe lies about that person.
If I hate a particular person, you
can tell me anything you want to about that person.
I'll believe it.
I hate brother so-and-so.
Tell me, I'll believe it because I hate that. I've coveted since I envy that guy. I'm more likely to believe it
So there's a direct correlation between getting the sin out of your life and then just not listening to lies
And so draw a night of God, clean your hand you sinners, get the sin out of your life
You wicked doer and purify your hearts. You double-minded. You won't be double-minded and believing lies if you clean up your life
Also
What's the point of going to church one point?
If you don't want to believe lies, come to church and listen to a pastor who will tell
you to clean up your life.
So Ephesians 4, 11-14 real quick, and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists
and some pastors and teachers, why?
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of
the value of Christ.
Till we all come into the unity of the faith and into the knowledge of the Son of God and
the perfect man, under the measure of the statue, the fullness of Christ.
That, why do we have pastors for perfecting ministry,
edifying the body of Christ?
Why?
That we henceforth be no more children,
tossed to and fro,
so I'm not listening to false lips,
and carried about with every wind of doctrine
by the slide of men and cunning craftiness,
whereby they lie and wait to deceive.
So you want to avoid listening to false lips,
come steadfast back to church,
so you can hear how to clean up your life.
Draw the night of God, reach Bible, come to church, and you won't be listening to lies
this year.
David, can you draw the next person?
Sorry.
Samuel.
Next preacher, I drew Jacob's name.
Next preacher is Brother Nick S.A.
Turn with me to Proverbs chapter 10 and verse five.
I wanna thank Pastor Shelley for the opportunity to preach
and thank you to all the preachers
that prepared great sermons.
Proverbs chapter 10, verse five.
The Bible says he that gathereth in summer is a wise son, but he that sleepeth in harvest
is a son that causes shame.
And this verse uses in parallel summer and harvest because the time, the season in which
you harvest is summer.
Things are growing, things are flourishing during summer.
Whereas in winter, things are not growing.
Things are dead.
And you have a limited time during summer in which to gather fruits,
and a wise son is going to capitalize on that window of opportunity.
Whereas a foolish son is going to be sleeping and he's going to beg for bread in winter
and cause shame.
And what this verse is teaching us is that the time of opportunity is limited.
And I want to apply this verse to soul winning.
John 4.35 says, lift up your eyes and look on the fields for they are white already to harvest and he that reapeth receiveeth wages and gathereth fruit unto life eternal.
Harvesting and gathering is directly tied to winning souls and gaining eternal rewards.
Our church is filled with wise sons. We are a soul-winning church and we are gathering.
But we can all improve on our soul-winning so we can harvest more.
And the title of my sermon is,
Harvest While You Have the Opportunity.
Flip over a couple pages to Proverbs 13 and verse 18.
I want to speak to those who have never soul-winned before.
And I want to tell you to start soul-winning.
Start soul-winning.
There is an abundance of opportunity to become a soul-winner in this church and what you could do is you could come to soul-winning seminars a
Couple months ago. We had a soul-winning seminar with tons of soul-winners giving advice
And it was great great place for someone who's never sold one before and great advice for people who are already seasoned
Another advice is to be a silent partner
You don't have to know how to preach the gospel to start soul winning you come and you be a silent partner
And it doesn't take any
Great gift to just come and listen come and pray for your partner as he preaches the gospel
And there's tons of opportunities going on missions trips,
getting tons of experience listening to someone preach the gospel,
coming to the local soul-winning marathons.
Every Sunday between services, we have a church soul-winning time,
and that is a great, convenient time to come soul-winning.
And I want you to consider the like-minded brethren that we have around the world
who do not have a church full of soul-winners.
They do not have a church where they can come along and be a silent partner and gain that
experience and they would envy the opportunity that we have in this church.
Capitalize on the opportunity that we have.
Harvest while you can.
Mark up your Bible with the Romans road.
All of our church materials has a video of Pastor Shelley preaching the Bible way to
heaven.
Watch that video right down the points that he makes.
Make a base for your own gospel presentation and this year set a goal to start talking
And I want to adjust the wise sons who are already soul winners.
Harvest more. Harvest more.
Maybe you have an abundance of free time, like a lot of single people, for example.
Make a goal to learn a language. Make a goal to learn a language.
Whenever I moved to Irving, I had absolutely no idea that it was so heavily Hispanic.
But I was already learning Spanish because I had a goal,
you know, one out of ten or one out of twenty doors was Spanish only,
where I lived before.
And I wanted to just get one soul saved here or there,
you know, whenever we knocked on a Spanish door.
And I set out with that goal.
I did not know when I moved to Irving
that it was gonna be 90% of my soul winning
would be in Spanish.
And if I had not taken the time,
taken the opportunity to harvest while I could,
learning Spanish while I had a little free time,
I would be missing out on a great harvest right now.
Learn a language if you have time.
Go with new partners out soul-winning and be willing to learn new illustrations and new verses.
We can all improve. And I want to tell you to improve on your efficiency.
Improve on your efficiency. Being thorough in your gospel presentation is the most important thing.
But being concise and thorough means preaching to more souls in our limited time whenever we go out soul-winning.
If you can preach the gospel for in an hour, hey, wouldn't it be great better to preach in 30 minutes?
If you can preach in 30 minutes, wouldn't it be better to preach in 15 minutes?
Capitalize on being able to be more efficient so you can harvest more.
And my last advice here is to humble yourself and receive criticism or advice from your soul-winning partner.
Look down at your Bible Proverbs 13 verse 18. It says poverty and shame shall be to him that refuses instruction
If you don't heed instruction whenever someone offers it to you you are going to be a son that caused the shame
You are not going to harvest as much
You can think that your soul winning presentation is so polished and so perfect
But why don't you listen to the instruction that someone would offer to you to improve so you can harvest more while you have the opportunity?
It says, But he that regardeth reproof shall be honored.
And maybe you have no extra free time and you're already soul winning as much as you
can.
Well, great.
Praise God for that.
But can you memorize one extra verse this week?
Can you squeeze in one extra soul winning time?
Can you start applying some of the advice that maybe you've heard from your partners?
And our time to labor for the Lord is limited and you should want to be the best soul winner
Amen. Turn with me, if you would, to Philippians chapter 3.
Philippians chapter 3 in the Bible.
And first of all, thank you, Pastor Shelley, for this opportunity to preach today.
And as we enter into a new year, there may be things that we have to do introspection on
looking to the Word of God, looking in ourselves and reflecting,
what does the Word of God tell me that I should be like?
What does the Word of God tell me that I should do?
What areas do I need to improve on when I head into this new year?
It's a new year and a new opportunity.
While you're turning to Philippians 3, the Bible teaches in Philippians 1,
he that hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ,
that he's going to continue performing that work in us, working things out in us,
working in our lives so that we can be better and more greatly used of God,
because that work is never finished as long as we live on this earth,
that there's always more work for us to do so that God's going to use us in a greater and more
13. The Apostle Paul says this. Brethren.
I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do for getting those
things which are behind and reaching forth under those things which are before.
Now the Apostle Paul here says that he has not yet apprehended. What exactly does
that mean? If we back up to verse 12 we'll get a little context on what that
word exactly means. Not as though I had already attained, he says, either we're
already perfect, but I follow after. We have a contrast here with what he's
and this idea of not being perfect already.
He has not yet arrived.
He's not yet been perfected.
There's still room for improvement.
But I follow after, he says,
if that I may apprehend that,
for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
When he says in verse 13,
I count not myself to have apprehended.
He's saying that I have not yet arrived.
This is one of the best Christians that we could talk about,
that we could perhaps argue about.
Who's the best Christian in the Bible?
the Apostle Paul is up there. He's one of the most greatly used Christians, most mightily used
Christians, used by God in a great way to get thousands of people saved, to start many churches.
He was used...
greatly by God, and this is a humble attitude that we should have,
I have not yet apprehended. He's saying that I have not yet arrived.
There are imperfections that I bet God could reveal to me
and have me to work on and improve in my life so that I'll be even more fruitful
for Him. And everyone here should be able to say the same thing.
Now the Bible says in Philippians 3 verse 8, we're going to see a little bit of
context leading up to this point where he admits that he's not yet arrived.
And here's part of what took place to get in there.
Ye doubtless, verse 8.
And I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord,
for whom I have suffered the loss of all things.
And do count them but dung that I may win Christ.
One way to work on our imperfections, one way to do more for God in 2025 is get the dung
out of your life.
Dung can simply be vanity in context he's talking about this false religion that he
adhered to, lies that he adhered to in the past.
Christ and we can apply this verse to ourselves and our lives and we need to
Ask the Lord to reveal these things to us so that we can, as well, get the dung out of our lives.
You know, the Bible says in Proverbs 25,
take away the dross.
First of all, take away the dung out of our lives.
Second of all, take away the dross from the silver, the Bible says in Proverbs 25.
Take away the dross from the silver and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
What exactly is dross?
It's basically this waste product that is involved in the refining process of silver and gold.
forth a more pure vessel that's more mightily used of God.
In a great house the Bible says there are not only vessels of gold and of silver but
also of wood and of earth and some to honor and some to dishonor.
If a man therefore purges himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor sanctified
and meet for the master's use and prepared unto every good work.
that he which hath begun a good work in us will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Get the dung out of our life. Take away the drops from the silver. It could be in regards to your
gospel presentation or a sermon. Hey, take away the drops from the silver and you're going to have
a more pure product used of God. Now, the Bible teaches that we should run with patience. The
Christian life is a marathon. Obviously, we need to have balance in the Christian life. The Bible
And the Christian life is like a mega-marathon, not a sprint.
But it says,
Let us lay aside every weight in the sin which doth so easily be set us,
And let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
Philippians 3.14,
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded.
Now, he's referring to this mindset that he recently just told us that he's not yet arrived.
He's not yet perfect.
Let us, therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded.
That we should have the same mindset that he had, that there's things we could work
on, there's things we can improve on, and guess what he says next?
And if in anything he be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this under you.
God will reveal even this under you.
The title of my sermon tonight is We're Not Perfect.
Let's do something about it.
We'll pray.
Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for our church.
Lord, please help us individually grow in the Lord
and collectively as a church do even greater works
than we've ever done before.
And Lord, I pray you reveal these things
that you would have us to work on in this year
and that you'd help us to do so and to be diligent.
And in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Christian.
Romans 12, one, please turn to Romans 12, one.
Thank you, Pastor Shelley, for this opportunity.
I beseech you therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God,
that you present your bodies a living sacrifice.
Holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Chapter 12 starts by beseeching or pleading with us, therefore, brethren, referring to
the previous chapter where he talks about Israel being broken off because of unbelief.
He continues by the mercies of God, because as believers, our response to the mercies
In the Old Testament, the people would present an animal in the same way we are to present
ourselves before Jesus who is our High Priest.
Now the sacrifice is us, a living sacrifice.
To sacrifice means you're giving something up or offering up something of value.
Acceptable unto God means that God approves of it on His terms.
And the title of my sermon is,
Be a Living Sacrifice.
My first point is to be a living sacrifice at work.
Do quality work on the job.
It will be physically and mentally demanding.
It will be a sacrifice.
Colossians 3 says,
And whatsoever you do,
do it heartily as unto the Lord,
and not unto men.
Obey the boss without answering again.
Don't steal his time and have an excellent spirit.
That will set you apart.
Provide for your own and be acceptable unto God.
Be a sacrifice at home.
First Timothy five says,
I will therefore that the younger women,
Mary, bear children guide the house.
Have kids that's presenting your body is a living sacrifice and train up a child in the way he should go
You know when you spend years training your children, it is a sacrifice
But that's going to set you apart
and establish generational blessings.
Be discreet, chaste, keepers at home.
That's acceptable unto God.
So be a living sacrifice at work.
Be a living sacrifice at home.
Be a living sacrifice at church.
The Body of Christ. You will have to give up other things to attend church, but we should offer our labor knowing that our labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Endure sound doctrine at church. That will separate you from the world instead of conforming to it.
We should constantly ask, what is acceptable unto God?
But how many churches busy themselves with a lot of activities but their soul winning is non-existent?
and their missionaries unproductive. The first works are acceptable unto God.
Romans 12 charges us to present our bodies, and someday we will literally present ourselves
before Christ. We won't come into condemnation, but we will be asked to give an account.
And I want to encourage you to be a living sacrifice this year.
And I really hope this helps.
You know, we should, first of all, turn to 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 5-14.
You know, the fact that we'll stand before Christ shouldn't impact how we live.
For the love of Christ constraineth us because we thus judge that if one died for all then we're all dead and
That he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves
But unto him which died for them and rose again
After the resurrection Jesus said to Thomas behold my hands
What do hands look like when they've been nailed to a cross?
Consider his sacrifice for you, but oftentimes we think what is expected of us is unreasonable.
Be a living sacrifice. It's not too much to ask. It's your reasonable service.
The next preacher is Ben, turning your Bibles to 1 Thessalonians chapter 2, 1 Thessalonians
chapter 2, verse 14, 1 Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 14.
for ye brethren became followers of the Church of God, which in Judea are in Christ Jesus,
for you also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews,
who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us,
and they please not God, and are contrary to all men, forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles,
that they might be saved, to fill up their sins all way, for the wrath has come upon them to the
They say tannic lie of anti-Semitism.
I'm going to read some verses for you.
The Bible says in Revelation chapter 2 verse 9,
I know that it works in tribulation and poverty,
but thou art rich, and I know the blasphemy of them
which say they are Jews and are not,
but the synagogue of Satan.
The Bible says in John chapter 8 verse 44
Ye are of your father the devil and the love of your father you will do
He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him
When he speak of the lie he speak of his own for he's a liar and the father of it
And now I'm going to read from an article that says,
trying to make Christianity a crime,
conservative say, controversial house bill
and anti-Semitism makes the Bible illegal.
They're trying to make it illegal
to preach what the Bible says.
And this is what they're saying.
They're saying that it's illegal to say,
that the Jews killed Jesus.
The House of Representatives has passed a bipartisan legislation
requiring the Department of Education to use a controversial definition
of anti-Semitism that conservatives claim makes the Bible legal.
Critics say the definition which was adopted from the International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance
would essentially make blaming Jews for the death of Jesus Christ
among other things.
on par with a hate crime.
So saying that the Jews killed Jesus
is now going to be called a hate crime
according to these wicked people
that say that they're Jews but are not
but they're the synagogue of Satan.
And they keep wanting to say everything is anti-Semitic.
Well, let me ask you this.
Here's an Israeli flag.
Here's an Israeli flag right here.
Here it is.
Is this anti-Semitic?
It's a piece of garbage, it's a star of rim frame and all these people that believe in
this false religion of Judaism are going to hell and you know what, they can take their
fake flag in their fake country and their fake false anti-Christ religion and go to
the lake of fire forever.
Where's the true Israel of God and the Bible says in Romans chapter 2 verse 28
For he is not a Jew which is one hourly neither is that circumcision was outward in the flesh
But he's a Jew which is one and really the circumcision of the heart and in the spirit not a leather
Whose praise is not a man but is of God
The true Israel of God is of all Kindred's nation tongue to people, and guess what, everybody in this room that's saved, you're Israel.
You're the Israel of God, you're God's chosen people, and guess what, this is the flag of God's chosen people.
God's Word is the true Israeli flag, and that right there is a piece of garbage to the false God, Rempham.
Please turn to Galatians chapter 3 verse 28.
Galatians chapter 3 verse 28.
Bible says in Galatians chapter 3 verse 28, there is neither Jew nor Greek. There's not a bond nor free.
There's neither male nor female for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if you be Christ, they know you Abraham seed and here's the word of the promise.
So like I said, we're the true Israel God. We're God's chosen people.
The title of the sermon is The Satanic Live Anti-Semitism.
Everybody that's saved, that's in this room and is in the entire world that's saved
is the true Israel of God.
And the Bible teaches that these people, the synagogue of Satan,
they're going to go to outer darkness
and we're going to go to the New Heaven, New Earth, and New Jerusalem forever.
We're going to be in Jerusalem.
And these wicked liars that say they're Jews but are not, but they're the synagogue of Satan,
they're going to be burning in hell.
Let's pray Lord. Thank you for allowing us to be here tonight
I would ask that you please fill brother Ben with your spirit and please give him boldness to preach a word
And please help the congregation listen what he has to say in Jesus name. I pray amen
The last preacher, Jonathan Spurgeon, Revelation chapter 19, the context, is the battle of
Armageddon in which the Lord Jesus Christ returns to overthrow the Antichrist's New World Order,
and we have a description of him here in verse 13. We have a description of Jesus. He's identified
In Revelation 19 and verse 13 it says he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and his name is called the Word of God.
The part of the verse that I wanted you to pay close attention to is the latter portion of it.
It's where I derived the title of my sermon.
It says in his name is called the Word of God.
Now, this is a foundational doctrine that the scripture teaches us.
It's the title of my sermon, Jesus is the Word of God.
Jesus is the Word of God.
And he's identified this way not just in Revelation chapter 19, but also in 1 John chapter number
in which the Word of Life, which was handled and manifested,
describes Jesus. Also, a famous portion of Scripture in John
chapter 1, which says in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. It
goes on to tell us that the Word was made flesh.
The Bible could not be more clear that Jesus
is the Word. And with all of those Scriptures in mind,
And with the idea in mind that Jesus is the Word and the Word is God,
I'm more than comfortable making this statement,
ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to God.
He's right here.
And more specifically, allow me to introduce you to Jesus.
He's right here.
I'm holding him in my hand.
Now I'm not referring to, obviously,
the binding of this book.
I'm not referring to the pages or the ink
or the physical components that make up this book.
But what I am talking about are the words.
The Bible says Jesus is the Word of God, and I don't care who this offends,
because apparently some people, they get triggered by this teaching, and it does not matter to me.
It doesn't matter how often I get mocked and ridiculed for believing this and for teaching this with all of my heart.
it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters to me is that the Bible so clearly articulates
that Jesus Christ is called the Word of God. Period. Like it or lump it. That's what the Bible teaches.
And this theological concept...
You can add more depth to it and you can understand it a little bit better when you consider
the parallels that exist between the person of Christ and the written Word.
When his body was laid in a tomb it saw no corruption in the same way we know that the word of God has not seen corruption
but rather has been kept pure throughout all ages and preserved.
just as the Bible teaches us that the Lord Jesus Christ was without sin.
It tells us that he did no sin, neither was Gael found in his mouth and in the same way we know that the Word of God is perfect and without error.
Just as the Bible says about Jesus that his Word was with power, we know that the Word of God is quick, powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword.
of the Trinity, is from eternity past, we know that the Word of God is forever settled
in heaven and eternal in nature.
Just as Jesus Christ is both fully man and fully God, we know that the Word of God was
written by God through man, holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
And that's what the Bible says.
And it's a good question.
And there's a passage in Acts chapter 4
that I find to be a poignant one.
And it says that the Jews had a certain perception
of Peter and John.
It says now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John
and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men,
the arrogance of the Jews.
They marveled and they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus.
And you know what? My hope and my prayer for all of you is that it could be said of you
by the way that you act, by the way that you preach, by who you are, by what you live for, that you have been with Jesus.
You know my hope and my prayer for steadfast Baptist Church in
2025 is that it could be said of all of us
By the way that we act, by what we preach, by who we are, by what we live for, that we have been with Jesus.
And you say, well, how is that possible?
He's in heaven.
Well, you're discounting something.
Remember what I said.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Jesus.
Read this.
Live for this.
And it can be said of you that you truly have been with Jesus.
Why? Because Jesus is the Word of God.
It's that simple.
Let's pray. Father in heaven, we thank you so much for this fellowship tonight
and for the men's preaching night.
And I pray, Lord, that you would just bless the food that we're about to eat.
In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
All righty, please turn your Bible to the book of Titus chapter 2, and while you're
turning there, I also want to say thank you to Pastor Shelley for the opportunity to preach
tonight.
Let's read in Titus chapter 2 starting in verse 1 where the Bible says,
And what's going on here in the book of Titus is that the apostle Paul has written these instructions to Titus.
We could say Paul the aged and he's told Titus what to teach.
And one of the things that is on Paul's mind is that he wants Titus to remind the aged men
to be sober. Now sobriety is defined in the dictionary as not being intoxicated or drunk.
Sober-mindedness would extend further than this. We could look at sober-mindedness
as being, first of all, that a person is not crazy, that you're not out of your mind. Second,
on drugs and alcohol, third in our case that you would be filled with the power of the Holy Spirit
and taking every thought captive for Christ. And so you want to be as far to the right on that
line as possible. Now my focus here is on not drinking alcohol because here's the deal,
you cannot be filled with alcohol and filled with the power of the Holy Spirit at the same time.
And Titus 2-2 is a command from God to be sober. Now I look this up in the modern versions and
This chapter 2 and verse 2 here, that phrase, be sober, is gone from several of the modern
versions.
It is gone from the new international version.
It's gone from the new living translation.
It's gone from the new American standard.
It's gone from the Christian standard.
It's gone from the home of Christian and it's gone from the legacy Bible.
It's missing from all those.
So here's the deal, people that are reading those modern versions are not reading that
command for the aged men to be sober.
How many of the modern Bible churches are not sober either?
For that matter, how many of the ancient Catholic men were sober last night?
How many of the aged Presbyterian men were sober last night?
How many of the aged men in the non-denoms were sober last night?
No, a lot of these folks were drunk last night because they're not reading that command,
they're not hearing that command.
Even in the Southern Baptist Church, they were drunk last night
because they're not reading that command, they're not hearing that command
and they have women pastors, but that's another topic.
So if you look up, let's go over to another command over in the book of Ephesians chapter 5.
Ephesians chapter 5 and verse 18 says this,
and be not drunk with wine.
That's pretty clear, be not drunk with wine
wherein is excess, but be filled with the spirit.
But in the Catholic public domain Bible,
it says inebriated.
Well, what's easier to understand?
If I go into South Dallas, I say inebriated, I'm going to get answers all over the board
as to what that means.
But everybody from the young children to the aged men, they know what drunk is.
And the Bible commands us not to be drunk.
So the modern versions are permitting alcohol because they're not saying to be sober.
But we are commanded in the King James, be not drunk.
be sober. And if you read the King James Bible it's not going to be too long before you get to
Genesis chapter 9 and you get to Noah who shows us a good reach and why the aged man should be
sober so that they never get taken advantage of by wicked people. That's the reason to be sober
right there. You keep reading and you get to Genesis chapter 19 and you get to Lot who shows us that
nothing good comes from drinking alcohol and there can be severe consequences for doing so.
We'll get to 2 Samuel chapter 11 to Uriah the Hittite and he shows us that you should
seriously question the intentions of anyone who would offer you alcohol.
But there's also some good examples.
We find the good example of Joseph who never drank alcohol even though his family turned
against him.
You find the prophet Ezekiel who did not drink even though his wife passed away.
You find Job who did not drink even though he lost everything that he had.
And you find Daniel who did not defile himself with the king's meat when he was young and
to file himself with the king's wine
when he was older either.
So here's the thing, you are going to go through
hard things in life, but when you do,
don't turn to alcohol, turn to the word of God.
Don't turn to smoking.
Turn to the Word of God.
Don't let some physician of no value
get you hooked on prescription drugs.
Turn to the Word of God instead,
because there's no benefit to consuming alcohol.
There's nothing good that comes from it.
And if you want to age fine and you want to age well,
then what you need to do is be sober.
All right, to wrap things up, we're gonna sing a few more songs.
Congregational choice, here, who wants to make a choice?
Is Eve wants to make a choice?
Two, 16, all right.
All right, 216.
Song number 216.
Shirley Goodness and Mercy.
Song number 216.
And now I am on my way home.
Surely goodness and mercies will follow me
All the days, all the days of my life.
114, all right.
114, I think is one of my favorite songs.
114, The Great Physician.
Song number 114.
Let's sing out together first.
The Great Physician now is near the sim.
He speaks the truth, be hard to cheer, Oh, hear the voice of Jesus, sweet...
Thank you so much for coming to our special service.
We do have pizza fellowship, lots of food,
so make sure to stick around.
Have some dinner with us,
and thank you so much for coming.
I hope you enjoy your happy new year.
I'm gonna pray and we'll be dismissed.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much
for allowing us to be gathered here.
Thank you for this new year.
Thank you for this food and this fellowship.
I pray that you would just help empower us to live
a life that's a sacrifice and pleasing unto you and that we get many people saved this
year in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.