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Am I good? Good, I can turn this one off We're here. Sorry all right, I'm excited to be here for the conference and Some great preaching a couple of days. It's been a journey. It's been an adventure But uh, hey, this is the Christian life a man and I wouldn't have any any other way Who wants to go to a conference where you stay at one? You got enemies you don't have to move anything actually, oh it doesn't work All right, so I got to use this one then right. I'll use this one. Is that better? All right All right, here we go. What was he saying? Oh conferences. All right. Yeah, it's a great conference. All right, it's been good and heard some great preaching of course, well, this is the fundamentalist conference and Heard some a lot of great preaching in regards to that. Thank you pastor Robinson for the for that sermon on the Word of God Amen, that's something that can't be emphasized enough And when we think we're over emphasizing it really the people who are listening are just getting it So that's important that we emphasize things over and over again, especially when it comes to the Word of God so Look down at your Bibles at Isaiah chapter 3 I'm not gonna reveal that the title of my sermon just yet Let me give you a couple introductory statements before I do that It says in verse number 24 and it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell There shall be stink and instead of a girdle a rent and instead of a well-set hair baldness And instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth and burning instead of beauty now here Like many other places in the Old Testament in particular obviously the the minor prophets and the major prophets we see God condemning Israel This is pretty obvious here and we see this throughout the the Old Testament and Israel had become just this fake nation Where they act like they're worshipping God, you know, they're still assembling together they are partaking of the Old Testament ceremonial sacrifices and ceremonial laws and they act like they're drawing night to God but in actuality just being a bunch of hypocrites and So what it is is it it's an insincere worship They're basically going through the motions, but there's no heart behind it and God understands that basically, you know They're drawing 9 to God with their mouths and honoring him with their lips, but their heart is far from them And in fact, we see that in Isaiah chapter 29 verse 13 We see a New Testament, but it is said particularly about Israel in Isaiah chapter 29. So keep in mind We're looking at a nation that basically they're still having church so to speak, right? They're still keeping the commandments so to speak as far as the ceremonial laws are concerned You know, they consider themselves as worshipping God and they have a name that they're living but they're actually dead Right and a lot of them think that they're living and in fact We see that from the greatest of them to the least of them. They're all in this situation. They are all in this Mindset now hold your Bible to hold your place there in chapter 3 go to chapter 1 if you would Let's look at God's diagnosis of Israel Look At Isaiah chapter number 1 Because we see them doing all these things and ends and worshiping God so to speak Let's look at what God says about Israel says in verse number 3 the ox knoweth his owner and the ass is master's crib But Israel does not know my people does not consider. So what is he saying? You're worse than the ox and you're worse than the ass Because at least the ox in the ass they know their master but you Who you're supposed to have the oracles of God committed unto you you don't even know your own master All sinful nation a people laden with iniquity a seed of evildoers Children that are corruptors they have forsaken the Lord. They have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger They're gone away backward. Why should you be stricken anymore? So what is he saying? I'm judging you. I'm chastising you I'm allowing judgment to come upon you. Why am I going to continue to chastise you? You're not changing He says we revolt more and more the whole head is sick and the whole heart faint From the sole of the foot even into the head there is no Soundness in it but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores They have not been closed neither bound up neither mollified with ointment. So what is he saying man? I'm just gonna keep if I keep judging you it seems as though you're not gonna repent You see God Chastises us he judges us with the intent of causing us to repent of our sins Amen, you know if you're not right with God, you're not serving God. You're involved in sin God is going to judge you he's gonna chastise you with the intent to produce the peaceable fruits of righteousness in your life It's not because God hates you It's not because he just wants to destroy you what he wants to do is bring you back to the place of repentance Where you can serve him and love him and do as he tells you to do and he says here look you guys are filled with wounds bruises Putrefying sores and they've not been closed. What does that mean? You're not clotting The wound is not clotting right? It's not closing up. You're not scabbing over Neither bound up neither mollified with ointment. So it's not even being treated. He said They're in pretty bad bad shape if you ask me they've become a pretty wicked nation their wickedness basically has permeated every aspect of society because it says from the sole of the foot all the way into the head you Think of basically your your layman all the way up into the authorities, you know, the leaders everyone's corrupt. He's saying Now go back to chapter 3 So In chapter 3 He begins to lay out all of the judgments that are gonna come upon Israel because of this because he's not gonna let it go unpunished Okay, and he begins to lay them out. He begins to talk about the things that he's gonna remove from Israel now ask yourself this, you know, why is God so hard on Israel? Why is he just judging them? So roughly why is he just striking them? And in fact a phrase you commonly hear read about in Isaiah is this his hand is stretched out still Now the liberal will want to tell you, you know, his hands stretched out still, you know He wants to heal you know What it means is like he's spanking them and he's like it's coming back again Like if you see the hand like this, it's like I'm not done. That's what he's saying I mean you commonly see that throughout the book of Isaiah, right? You're teaching through Isaiah his hand is he talks about the judgment and then he says by the way My hand is still stretched out. In other words. He's like I'm not done with you So just when you think you've had enough it's not over His hand is stretched out. That's a good sermon right there. Amen Now why is he hard on them? Well, I'll tell you why because unto whom so whomsoever much is given of him shall be much required and unto them We're committed the oracles of God I mean This is God's chosen people in the Old Testament and because they are God's chosen people Because of the fact that much has been given to them therefore they're responsible for much therefore the chastisement shall be that much harder Israel is at a point Where God is basically done with them at this point? now you got to keep in mind that Israel is basically like the epicenter of Spiritual activity, right? I mean, these are God's chosen people These are the ones who are supposed to be the light unto everyone else they've been given prophets and priests and pastors And teachers given the Word of God. They've seen miracles. I mean, this is the epicenter of spiritual activity There's a hub of the truth They have the Lord as their God we can say that they have a girdle of truth, right? and Yet we see here that they're backslidden we see here that God is gonna judge them and look what it says in verse 24 of chapter 3 So they're the girdle of truth. They're the ones who have the Word of God They're the ones who's supposed to be reaching into the Gentiles, you know serving God being a testimony to the heathen possessing the heathen at that But that's not what we see at all look at verse 24 and it shall come to pass instead of sweet smell there shall be stink and instead of a girdle a Rent Now what is a girdle? It's a belt right He's basically saying instead of a belt You see a tear you see a rent. That's what it's referring to So the nation of Israel was like the Bible belt of the Middle East right If you go to the Middle East in those days, they would be considered the Bible belt They're the ones who were girded about with truth, right? You Said what does this have to do with fundamentalism? Well today we have a Bible belt. Amen in America. It's called the south right We have something called the Bible belt, which is supposedly the epicenter of conservative values in Christian culture But a general analysis of the condition of the Bible belt will quickly show that things are not always what they seem folks You see if you were to look at Israel in those days, it's just like oh man. Everyone's going to a temple Everyone seems to know the Word of God. They're talking about the temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord I mean there is a temple on every corner There are God's chosen people I mean these are this is this is these are the people man, these are God's chosen people But God says no, no, no the girdles been rent That you you you're like those old I have be pastors who don't go sowing and they got a gut all the way out out to here and That girdles ready to burst right, you know what the Bible says their heart is as fat as grease Which leads me into the title of my sermon this evening the title my sermon this evening is the fundamentalists Bible belt By the way, I didn't say the fundamentalist Bible belt I said the fundamental less Bible belt that's what I'm talking about This evening now in chapter 3 God begins to compare Israel to a woman and we see that he draw some analogies with with the woman There in Israel and this is something we commonly see throughout the Bible and especially in the New Testament We see that God often refers to believers and churches as the bride of Christ for example, and he draws analogies there now Let me just start off by saying that not all churches in the Bible belt are fundamentalists Okay, I mean we have churches here. We have two pastors here that are in the Bible belt. So sorry guys I'm gonna rip on the Bible belt here, but you know what? They're doing great works for God Amen, and you know, we have pastor Fritz who's in the south. He's doing a great work for God There's plenty of churches that are doing great works for God, but you know what they are the remnant They're the seven thousand prophets who have not bowed the need to bail but hold on a second if there's seven thousand who have not how many have Right and just as in these days you see in Isaiah chapter one It says except the Lord of hosts have left us a very small remnant We should have been a Sodom and we should have been like unto Gomorrah So I'm not preaching against all of the churches in the Bible belt because we have some here who are doing great works for God They're preaching the Bible. They're soul-winning. They're not cutting the message They're not they don't have a Christian culture with no conviction. These are actual Baptist who are doing the work of God These are fundamentalists. Amen But let me say this the same cannot be said of other churches in the Bible belt Now, let me give you a brief history of fundamentalism in the south or should I say in America period okay now Why do we call ourselves independent fundamental Baptist? You see fundamentalism didn't start didn't have an inception with America or Europe or you know Whatever book you may read about that. We've always been fundamentalists the Bible teaches fundamentalism It's just that so many churches Baptist churches or other denominations have become so modern so worldly so liberal that we've had to coin a term called Fundamentalist in order to identify ourselves as Christians who adhere to the Word of God whereas others adhere to Commentaries and traditions and culture. No, that's not what we want to do We want to adhere to the Word of God right and therefore we identify ourselves as independent fundamental Baptist now in the 1700s you had a man by the name of Schubel Stearns who came he was in the south He was ordained he started a church and from that church about 5,000 churches were created over the last next couple of years or whatever and then you have what's called the Southern Baptist, right? there's a man by the name of J Frank Norris who was in the south and he was a Southern Baptist, but then the Southern Baptist began to go south Right, they began to get modern and liberal and what happened was J Frank Norris saw then he said I want nothing to do with this group, you know, I'm a Bible believer I believe in the Word of God I believe in the doctrines of the Bible and he separated himself and became an independent Fundamental Baptist and why did he call himself that because he said they're modern. I'm fundamental They want to go that route I'm sticking with the fundamentals of the Bible You know what today you have Baptist who are ashamed of calling themselves a fundamental Baptist and they should be because they're not Right, you know you have Baptist pastors like we got to drop the name Baptist and I'm like go for it man You should many more should When you have Baptist pastors talking about hey, we need to get rid of Baptist. I'm like Come on by this Sunday, please. I'm not trying to fight to keep them with us bunch of cowards Hey, I'm thankful to be an independent fundamental Baptist I'm thankful to be didn't a new independent fundamental Baptist So you have that and of course many churches Split off from the Southern Baptist and became independent Fundamentalists now, here's the thing This is how basically the Bible Belt was created now that term Bible Belt came from some atheists And he kind of used it as a term to basically Mock and ridicule because a lot of churches were in the south a lot of those southern those churches in the south were conservative They believed in biblical values and at one point it was like a hub of spiritual activity it was like the epicenter of Godly living I mean, you know, hey the south that's where a bunch of churches are there's Baptist They preach the Word of God they saw in they believe in separation They're fighting against liberalism modernism and every other hedonism there is These are the people of God. They're on fire for the Lord, but you know what that flame has died out It's dead and today The Bible Belt of today is not the same that it was a couple hundred years ago It's not the same now you have Christians who are there and look if you don't believe me I'm sure some of these folks here who live in the south can attest to that You go to the Bible Belt and guess what there are churches in every corner Right, there's churches in every corner and you know what? I've heard so many testimonies of people telling me we go door-knocking and everyone's saved But then when you ask them about their doctrine you ask them how to be saved like we just got to be a good person You just got it's like wait a minute Didn't you say you just didn't you just say you're a Baptist? Didn't you say you're saved and then I ask you how what must I do to be saved? They say we'll just be a good person You see they have a name that they're living but they're actually dead They have Independent fundamental Baptists on their church. They claim to be one they claim to believe the Bible But when you talk about the fundamentals of the faith such as salvation They're not even saved And You know what? The Bible Belt is very much we can compare it to Israel of today Or Israel of what we see in not today but Israel of the book of Isaiah here they become fundamental less They're no longer the Bible Belt and may I say the Bible Belt is rent folks And I know that offends a lot of Fox News conservative Baptists and you know, oh, you don't know what you're talking about I love the south and you know, we're better than California and all this stuff And you know, at least we're not liberal like you guys. Yeah. Well, at least I'm saved though and At least this church isn't that's on the west coast in California. They're saved At least when we call ourselves an independent fundamental Baptist, we actually mean it and you asked me about salvation I can give you a clear answer about it. I'll stand on the Word of God and guess what? I'm not ordaining women as pastors either Southern Baptists Call themselves Southern Baptists, but they're changing on their doctrine. They're gaining women as pastors folks That's not a fundamental Baptist That's a wimp That's a limp-wristed wimp of a pastor who ordains a woman as a pastor because it's not biblical If any man desire the office of a bishop he desires a good work, you know The bishop must be the husband of one wife How does that work for a woman doesn't? It's become Fundamental less I'm gonna give you a couple things this evening as to why it's become fundamental or a Fundamental list and then I'm gonna tell you where the new Bible Belt is To make no mistake about it. There is a new Bible Belt But I'll leave that to the end of the sermon. Okay, so stay awake What makes the Bible Belt fundamentalist and look if you're in the south and you're in this room, you know Don't get offended because you're the remnant It's still preaching the Word of God You're the remnant is still soul winning You're the remnant that God is not gonna destroy he's not gonna condemn because you know what you're like the few that are in Sardis Who have not defiled their garments? Amen What makes the Bible Belt? Fundamental list now turn with me if you would go to go back to Isaiah chapter 1 First and foremost number one about let me tell you the story. I remember when I was in my old IFB Church This is in California. It was an independent fundamental Baptist Church. That's where I got saved That's where I learned about the King James Bible. That's where I learned soul winning my father-in-law He was not my father-in-law at that time. He taught me all these things as soon as they got saved He's like we got summer saturation come out solely with us on Tuesdays I went out for weeks on end and he taught me how to go soul winning and then he preached on the King James Bible For like six five or six weeks Amen and then he talked about separation and I learned what it was to be a Baptist it was great But I remember he used to have these guys come out from the south and they love coming to our church they love just visiting our church and After a while just became a habit to see them at least once a month visit our church and and he would say this he Would tell me this I think he was from Tennessee actually and he would say brother Mejia You don't know how good you have it in this church. He didn't say in California He said in this church He goes where I'm from. I can't find anybody to go so winning with me I can't even find people to just want to go so winning period I can't even find saved people He's like the body he said this and he was born and raised in Tennessee He said this brother me here I was like, what are you talking about you from you're the Bible Belt man, you're the og's And he's like the Bible Belt is not what you think It's not what you think I'm thinking myself, what do you say there's churches on every corner though? That means there's fire preaching going on on every corner every single Sunday. He's like not really a lot of politics going on in those churches and A lot of those people are just just kind of trading members Every week, it's not what you think. You know, he was telling me the Bible Belt has been rented It's torn. It's not what you think it is Why is that well number one Because they've lost their savor That's why it says in chapter 3 and verse 24 and it shall come to pass Then instead of sweet smell There shall be stink So it says instead of smelling something sweet something savory you actually stink Now what smell is he referring to? Well think about this, you know in the old text You know in the Old Testament when they would do the the sacrifices the animal sacrifices It was often for a sweet smelling savor until the Lord He would smell that because you know barbecue smells good I mean He would smell that and he would enjoy it because of the fact that they're obedient to the Lord they were obeying God's commandments And they were doing it in sincerity of heart now today. We don't do animal sacrifices. Amen Look at Isaiah chapter 1 in verse number 11 So, what does this show us well look what it says in verse 11 to what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me So are they not sacrificing animals? Yeah, they are Say the Lord I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts I delight not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he goes so what does this tell us? Well, first and foremost we see that you know what the hyper dipsticks are wrong Why because the dispensational is like to say that in the Old Testament people were saved by the animal sacrifices, right? Well folks, we have a passage here that it's in the Old Testament where God says I don't delight in that Why because it's impossible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sin. So the Bible says But yeah, you have these Dispensationalists who say no you have they have to keep the animal sacrifices for the atonement of their soul You know in order to atone for their sin, that's what the Bible says folks Did you know that Jesus there were a foreshadowing of the ultimate sacrifice, which is Jesus Christ? The Lamb of God who should take away sin it was a representation of What he Jesus Christ was going to do and here we see that God didn't even delight in that I'm just talking about the sacrifices of that day. So they're doing their sacrifice. They're going to the temple They're sacrificing and God's like I'm not delighting in that. I'm not even paying attention to that They're still doing the ceremonial laws now why because it is better to obey than to sacrifice amen and To harken than the fat of Rams now go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 2 You said what does this have to do with the Bible belt? Well, the Bible belt is filled with so-called Christians who are just going through the motions right They have a Christian culture Everyone goes to church We all go to church. We all believe in God But when you get down to the nitty and gritty fundamentals of the faith, I don't believe any of them When you get down to what they believe about salvation it's by works for them When you get down to what the Word of God is, which is the King James Bible they go with the New King James When you get down to the nitty and gritty Salvation Fundamentals of the faith they don't believe it So what do we see here? They've lost their savor You know what God says you stink. I Don't care if you're a red state You stink You smell oh But they have Christian values but it's not based upon the Word of God it's based upon the culture of the south Now In the New Testament, we don't do animal sacrifices. I mean we do but not for for ceremonial purposes. Amen And sometimes we do it religiously amen But you know what we are a living sacrifice, right The Bible says 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 So now in the New Testament, we are the living sacrifice where we die daily, right? We die daily We mortify the deeds of our body and this is how we please God because when we're mortifying the deeds of the body We're walking in the spirit. We're doing we're living spiritually now look at 2nd Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14 It says now thanks be unto God which always Causeth us to triumph in Christ and make it manifest the savor of his knowledge by us in every place For we are unto God a sweet saver of Christ by the way, no matter what region of the world you're in Amen So you don't have to move to the south to be a sweet saver of Christ You don't even have to move to California It'll be sweeter But you can still be a sweet saver of Christ no matter where you're at You know what? I'm sick and tired of these Fox News Baptists Who condemn people for living in the liberal state like God they try to make it seem as though God's an American And you know what? I see on the comment section all the time was like why live in Europe? So, what about me? I Live in a different part of the world that might not blessed by God What about me? Folks we have a better country to go to all of us as Christians are immigrants in this world Did you know that the Bible says we're sojourners in this world? But we can be a sweet saver of Christ look what it says for we are unto God a sweet saver of Christ and them that are saved and in them that perish To the one we are the saver of death unto death and to the other the saver of life unto life and who is sufficient for these things for we are not as many which corrupt the Word of God But as but as of sincerity, but as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ So what is it saying here? Well when we serve the Lord when we're a living sacrifice We are a saver not only unto God of Christ, but also to just the lost and dying world To those who want the gospel and those reprobates who hate us You see a Christian who is a living sacrifice is gonna affect both, right? We're serving God what's gonna happen? We're gonna go so any we're gonna see people saved We're gonna be a saver of life unto life Where we see lost people and lost people are attracted to the light We preach the Word of God and we get them saved. Amen, but in like manner Because we are a living sacrifice, you know what that smell is gonna repel a lot of wicked people Isn't that true? Our gospel has the capacity to draw and win the loss and repel wicked people You know what you say? Well, no, I don't agree with that I think you know, the message should be kind and loving and all these things folks. We're not politicians Politicians can do that they do a really good job at that and This is the way they do it by lying. Amen But as Christians We don't have that option and you can't please everyone if you're gonna be a servant of Christ So when we are a sweet-smelling saver of God We are going to attract those who want the truth and we're gonna repel those who don't not only do we repel those who don't We cause them to hate us as we have clearly seen the last couple days where people are literally losing sleep I'm not joking Losing sleep to try to shut us down You say how do you know that? Well because they uploaded a video right and the guy who's like trying to shut us down he lives here in Ohio because we're in his backyard and He's like trying to shut us down and you know what he does. He uploads this video I see it at seven o'clock in the morning. He uploaded it five hours before Guess what? That means he's not sleeping Now one is probably because he's just the lazy bum who lives in his mother's basement or something has no job or Two he just hates us that much That he just can't sleep. He said well, what were you doing five hours before? I was like on my third dream. I Was knocked out He giveth his beloved sleep the Bible says I my head hit the pillow and The Sandman came He came and went and it was a good great night's sleep and I was ready for the next I'm not losing sleep I'm still not gonna lose sleep. I'm having a great time here. There's there's a party going on here. Okay? You say well, you know, it's because you preach controversial service and I say all those things about the homosexuals Yeah, that's what happens when you're a fundamental Baptist duh When you preach the fundamentals of the faith it builds upon all these other doctrines You know when you believe eternal security, you know what when you start growing into perfection Becoming entire you learn the reprobate doctrine right Hey when you grow in your love You also begin to grow in your hate as well Ye that love the Lord hate evil So if you love the Lord, you know what you better start hating some evil, too Why because we're supposed to be a sweet saver of Christ We don't want God to look down upon us and say you guys stink. You guys smell like dirty feet. I See you going to church. I see you assembling together. I see your assemblies and I see your solemn feasts I see you out there and gossiping and you claim to be you know The hub of truth and you're the Bible belt, but you stink you smell I'm not pleased with the way you smell right now you living sacrifice You smell like a dead carcass We want to be a saver unto life To win people to Christ but also savor of death go to John chapter 3 if you would John chapter number 3 So the Bible belt have lost its savor It doesn't have that savor the way it used to have I don't know, you know, they always vote for the Republicans Ever, you know every every four years I mean that seems about there, you know, they're like folks don't measure spiritual success based upon what who votes for what? We got to get away from that stuff Stop trying to measure spiritual growth based upon how much you know about the pop up about politics Show me how many you know about this Some people spend way too much time with you know, pastor Chris Tucker on Fox News Rather than listening to the Word of God from a man of God who knows what he's talking about Look at John chapter 3 verse number 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned by he that believeth not is condemned already Because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God and this is the condemnation The light is coming to the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil For everyone that doeth evil hated the light Now they're coming to the light unless this deed should be reproved, you know, this reminds me of So yesterday pastor Burzins was preaching letting loose preaching, you know, the Bible teaches fundamentalism and I'm up I'm there in the back and I try to I see someone trying to get in Like through the side doors you can see them through the glass and I thought it was like one of the people from the conference so I go out there I turn the corner and there's two guys there and they're just like And I'm like, hey and they just started running they ran Now look folks it you know These guys if they want if they were smart, which I said they're not, you know, if they were smart They would have been like, oh, I'm sorry. This is the wrong conference. Yeah, I was looking for something else They saw me and ran Which led me to believe? Oh, these people are wicked. Why because the wicked flee when no man pursue it Right You say why would they run? I'll tell you why because of the fact that evil hated the light Neither cometh to the light These guys aren't bold. They're not gonna be Reason files, bro You know what they're gonna do they're gonna run Which you see and I was just like you guys here for the god. No And they're like running True story And then he upload appears like they have some exchange of words for faster me here. Yeah, the exchange of words work. No That's all he did Why because Evil hated the light neither coming to the light Less his deed should be reproved and you know what if I were to corner those little cowards I would have rebuked them and they would have pissed their pants That's what would have happened Look what it says in verse 20 Verse 21, but he that doeth truth cometh to the light You know people who actually want the truth They want to come to the men of God they want to come to the soul winner because they actually want the truth They come to the light This is everyone but he that doeth the truth coming to the light that his deeds may be made manifest But they're rotting God You see if these people these so-called Christians who are trying to shut us down because that's what they claim to be False brethren creeping in unawares, right? Let's talk I'm here in Ohio You got three pastors from the new IFB here for From the new IFB here. Why don't you come to show us that your works are wrought in God? Why are you scared? I'll tell you why cuz they're wicked. That's why So we see go bang going back to the Bible Belt, I'm just trying to get this off my chest. Sorry You know that the Bible has lost its saver though, we don't see that One because we don't see them winning people to Christ generally speaking So winning really doesn't not that it doesn't exist, but it's not really done, especially considering the fact that it's the Bible Belt They're supposed to be the light You know, thank God for a stronghold Baptist Church. Amen Thank God for a mountain Baptist here in the south, right? Yeah. Thank God for a mountain Baptist Church Thank God for the pastors in our movement who are in the south who are leading the place That's probably the reason why these hurricanes haven't destroyed the entire south yet because of these churches Aren't they don't they get hurricanes every single year right They get hurricanes every senior year it destroys everything and you know what the reason why is because God's judging the south Because of the fact that tombs whoever much is given of him shall be much required. Well, we haven't been destroyed yet Yeah, cuz pastor persons is there that's why Yeah, cuz pastor Jason Robinson is there that's why cuz pastor Fritz is there that's why Cuz you have men of God who are actually preaching the Word of God and God has seen five righteous men Who are there? Who are preaching the Word of God? That's why it hasn't been destroyed. That's why I believe California maybe hasn't been destroyed And I'm not saying that pastor Jimenez and I are the only men of God there There's plenty of old IFP churches there that don't agree with us that are still preaching the Word of God And you know what God is blessing us with more souls So what about those fires though folks? I see the fires is a blessing from God You said why because it caused one of the most wicked Jews in California by the name of Ben Shapiro to move to the south Yeah, Tennessee, right then you go to Tennessee Yeah sucks for you guys He Moved there all these wicked people are leaving California these these wicked higher-ups and I just heard that another fire just burned millions of dollars worth of marijuana Amen He said what did you do? I praise God for that. I see that the silver lining in everything folks and I'm not this diehard California no, I'm a diehard Christian who just happens to live in California, right? But our savers should produce two diametrically opposite effects because Jesus Christ can Reconcile people as well as divide them, right? The Bible says go to 1st Peter chapter number 2 1st Peter chapter number 2 the South has lost its saver They're no longer what they used to be the bread. The Bible has been rent. Excuse me. The belt has been rent The Bible belt has been torn it's been rent It's no longer what it used to be look at 1st Peter chapter 2 verse number 7 unto you Therefore which believe he is precious He's precious the Bible says but unto them which be disobedient the stone which the builders disallowed the same is made of the head of the corner a stone of stumbling and a rock of Offense even to them which stumble at the word being disobedient were unto also they were appointed the Bible says so What is he telling us? You know, Jesus Christ is precious to those to us He's precious to those who want the truth But to others who hate the truth, he's a rock of stump a stone of stumbling And not he's not precious to them This is the kind of effect that we should have So when we are serving God living a life that's holy unto him Obeying his commandments so when he preached in the Word of God that smell that aroma is gonna capture people who want the truth But it's gonna completely repel those who don't and that's the way it should be Matthew 5 13 says he are the salt of the earth, but if the salt hath lost its savor Wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing But to be cast out and to be trodden under the foot of men the Bible says Not so winning not fighting off these wicked people. In fact folks I heard that the the Southern Baptist are actually changing their name To appeal to the BLM wicked crowd They're capitulating to black lives matter Unbelievable now they're doing it for this political reason. They're scared. That's what they're doing it for. Why don't you change your name before? Well, it's for racial reasons and what Southern Baptist stood for well, that's funny so that's the first time you've ever heard that Southern Baptist is that is that the only time you've ever known about it or is it because BLM put the pressure on you and You capitulated to wicked individuals doesn't look like you're being a saver of God Unto the loan to these wicked people folks. We're not gonna capitulate to wicked people as you can plainly see We're not gonna capitulate when they try to shut us down and they're slandering us and they're doing all this wickedness It just makes us want to fight harder. That's what it makes us want to do They think they'll discourage us and scare us not gonna happen This is what we signed up for We thrive on this stuff We love this stuff don't we when they're kicking us out we have to move stuff and soul winning It's just like just makes life exciting Amen We got to fight the forces of darkness not capitulate to them Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them the Bible says So the Bible tells us that we have to not fellowship with them not agree with them But not only on top on top of that we have to reprove them Over God forbid the Southern Baptist should get up and preach against BLM Preach against Black Lives Matter a bunch of cowards they Black Lives Matters needs to be called out and Tifa needs to be called out So aren't you afraid that they're gonna come get you? What are they gonna do? Well, what if they kill you for me to live as Christ and to die is gain My subscribers will go up I'll get a martyr's crown. We come out winning no matter what Be a sweet-smelling saver go to Ephesians chapter 5 Ephesians chapter number 5 The Bible belt has been rent They're capitulating to wicked people they're not reaching new people I literally hear that a church like five different churches on the same block and they just basically get each other's members It's all happens. They're not reaching anybody new they're filled with gray heads And look, there's nothing wrong with having gray heads in your church Amen, but you know what if you are a thriving church and you're so many you're gonna reach younger people I mean, there's a bunch of young people here including myself, amen Look at Ephesians 5 verse 1 be therefore followers of God as dear children and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and Have given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor Now what makes it a sweet-smelling savor but fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness Let it not be once named among you as becometh saints neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting Which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks, you know, what makes a church a sweet-smelling saver purity Right, you know, what's part of purity Church discipline But I guarantee you if these churches are not so winning they're not practicing Church discipline They probably have fornicators in their church. They probably have a bunch of drunkards in their church And you know what? This is why they are a stink of God. That's why they smell Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savor the Bible says Hey look folks if we want a be a sweet-smelling saver unto the Lord We need to make sure we stick with the Bible no matter what the what the times say No matter what happens in the culture no matter who tries to bully us no matter who tries to get to get get get us To capitulate to their motives and their agenda. We need to stick with the Word of God and the fundamentals of the faith and not capitulate to that Go with go back to Isaiah chapter 3. What makes the Bible belt? fundamental less Number one because they've lost their saver Don't be a good-for-nothing Christian Keep stay salty How you stay salty by getting salty Over these issues. Amen Because they've lost their saver and number two, this is the title of the sermon but it's true the girdle of truth has been rent you see the Word of God is no longer is No longer the center point of those churches in the south anymore. Now they may say it is You know, they they draw nine to God with their mouth and they honor them with their lips But their heart is far from them I mean folks this is said of who in the New Testament the Pharisees With their phylacteries and the scripture on their forehead and on the and on their forearms and all these things But we knew that they didn't know the Word of God Most of the time when Jesus said have you not read he was talking to the Pharisees You know and we laugh at the Pharisees who had the Bible on their forehead on their forehead and on their forearm But you know you have independent fundamental Baptists in the south who have their Bibles like this and they don't read it or they have a wrong Bible The girdle has of truth has been rent look what it says in Isaiah chapter 3 In verse number 24, let's read It says that it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink and instead of a girdle a rent Now, how do we apply this to churches in the south or the Bible Belt? Well, you know, where does the truth come from in a society? It should come from the house of God Which is the pillar and ground of truth When anything takes place in the media or in the news, you know People should go to the local New Testament Church to see what God has to say about that Not to Fox News not to President Trump not to Chris Tucker. We need to go to God To find out what God says about those things, but here's the problem Christians don't go there because they're not preaching the truth You go to these churches and it's just an extension of Fox News It's a vote Trump campaign Not just in the south you have this all over America where you find these conservative churches Vote Trump. I'm not gonna tell you who to vote for but I'll tell you who not to vote for And it's like only two people right it's like so you're raising the same vote Trump that's what you're saying Look You should go to a church and have a pastor that has like no knowledge of those things or Very minimal knowledge of those things someone had to tell me the debate was this week I didn't know weren't you telling me that pastor burns is that you didn't even know that it was on that day My Fox News Baptist relative had to tell me that you know Trump. They're debating right now I'm like, oh, I don't even know that because I'm not interested in those things What I would rather listen to an hour-long sermon Preaching God's Word than to listen to an hour-long debate of lies Now don't get me wrong it was funny It's hilarious But it's not what I want go to Isaiah chapter 1 oh But you go to the south oh man You got your your your your Trump flags your Republican flags And you you ain't you know, they get on Biden for saying, you know, if you don't vote for me you ain't black Well, it's just like well if you don't vote Trump you ain't about believe in Christian bless God It's nonsense folks I vote Jesus Look at Isaiah 1 12 when you come to appear before me who has required this at your hands to tread my courts Bring no more vain oblations Incense Is an abomination to me the new moons and Sabbaths the calling of assemblies I cannot away with it is iniquity Even the solemn meeting meetings your new moons and your appointed feast my soul Hated there are trouble unto me. I am weary to bear them the Bible says Oh, but they have so many churches and they meet so you know, God says I'm weary with that stuff. I Am weary with this assembling these solemn feast I'm sick and tired of it Going to church has become a culture but it's not a biblical conviction. I Guarantee if you go to one of these people who are a part of these churches in the Bible But why do you go to church from a biblical reason? They wouldn't know what to tell you If you tell them why do you go to church? Well, cuz we grew up in church It's my grandma went to church Why I go to church because the Bible says forsake not the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is and So much the more as you see the day approaching because it's the pillar and ground of truth. That's why Truth has fallen in the streets of the Bible belt folks and look Just look and people think well, you know, the south is so conservative all these great things happen folks they actually have one of the highest rates of Sexually transmitted diseases in the south Can someone explain that to me how that works would be in the Bible belt? shouldn't it be that in the Bible belt you would have the highest morality the least amount of diseases because God's men are preaching the Word of God. They're preaching against fornication and adultery Isn't that what it should be? Go to Revelation chapter 2 Revelation chapter number 2 and The reason I'm preaching on the Bible belt is because literally this year has been one of the craziest years and People think that the way to solve the problem is to move to a different location And I'm not talking about the spiritual problem talk about the political problem a Lot of people think well, I just need to move to a different region. I gotta go to a red state Because then I'll be safe Folks, you'll be safe if you serve God You'll be safe if you believe right You'll be safe. You know if God before us who can be against us. It's not like if Trump before us Who can be against us? It's not like well if I just move to a red state Everything's gonna be hunky-dory folks problems follow you no matter where you go. And let me just remind you America's Babylon So people move from Babylon gets ready to go to Babylon You're just moving to a different region of Babylon Yeah, but it's not as bad as California governor new scum as I like to call him He said this he said look California is just the rest of the United States fast forward Coming to a city near you That's what it is People are so afraid of California and all these things. It's like no matter where you go Babylon's gonna catch up and Look as Bible believe in Christians shouldn't we understand that already especially when it comes to end times Bible prophecy You think this is bad wait till the New World Order comes You're not gonna be able to live anywhere after that as a Bible believe in Christian It's not gonna happen. You're only basically you're you're you're you're you're you're only keeping the judgment of this world Coming upon you for just a little time It's eventually gonna catch up to you Moving to a different location will not change your problems Now sometimes it may change spiritual problems Maybe you're in an area where there's no church. You're not doing well spiritually You need to get under a man of God in a church a local New Testament Church If that's what you need then do it and amen to that But if you're like, oh my home school my kids I don't know what I'm gonna do I get people messaging me all the time about that How do you home school in California and I tell them I don't my wife does I Yeah, you know the vaccinations and stuff and it's just like I'm I mean I got vaccinated when I was a kid But I mean I was like, how do you do it it's just like you guys complicate things way too much Be simple concerning evil wise into good I Think sometimes if people get their focus off of the Bible and off of God and off of the things of God You know the problems begin to become magnified Right the problems of this country begin to get magnified people start freaking out and you're like The world's coming apart. It's not coming apart for me Aren't you nervous of what's gonna happen? No Aren't you afraid what California's gonna go through? No I'm still serving God my church. We're still serving God no matter what Look at Revelation chapter 2 verse number 12 It says into the angel of the church of Pergamos, right? These things say he which hath a sharp sword with two edges I know that works without dwellers even where Satan's seed is this is referring to Ben Shapiro's company. Just kidding And the hold is fast I'm my name and has not denied my faith even in those days where an Antipas was my faithful martyr who was slain among you Where Satan dwelleth, but I have a few things against thee because I was there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam Who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel to eat things sacrificed unto idols and to commit fornication? So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans which thing I hate Repent or else I will come unto thee quickly and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth What is he saying? Look churches need to get right with God They need to repent in the south. They need to repent in every place, but specifically I'm talking about the south today Because what God's gonna do is he's gonna bring Jesus Christ to cause a division with the sword and Isn't that happening today? Where you have new IFB people going into independent fundamental Baptist churches And you know what? These churches are not preaching the Word of God the way they should and what happens there's a division that's created There's a division that's created. Oh, no, these people are just cantankerous New I have people they're just troublemakers This is a bunch of bozos and troublemakers and you know, they do this no, it's Jesus Christ bringing the sword to divide Did you know Jesus likes division? Yeah, he likes to divide things night and day the animals when they were sacrificed We Christians from strong Christians he wants to divide the Bible says he has set aside those who are godly for himself What do you call that dividing them? So, you know what God does sometimes he brings candlesticks to a local New Testament church to revive that thing and The pastor doesn't want to hear it and you know what he does he brings a sword and divides It's called the church split Sometimes it's necessary. Amen The Bible says in Matthew 10 34 think not that I am come to send peace on earth I came not to send peace but a sword Prime come to set a man at variance against his father and daughter Against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law that last part was not very hard though Amen, go to chapter 3 of Revelation Revelation chapter 3 if you would The South the Bible Belt has lost its savor folks They have a name that they're living because they're called the Bible Belt But when you look at the fundamentals of what they believe you look at the core beliefs if You look are they girt about with truth? No But they have Bibles. Yeah, but it's the wrong Bible. Oh But they're all in churches, but they don't even know why all they say they believe in Jesus, but they're not even saved Folks, where are they right on? Well who they vote for I? Don't see that in the Bible folks You Yeah, but in the in the south you don't have to wear your masks And let me just say this. I hate the masks. Okay, I Despise them, but you know what? I don't whine and complain about oh, you know I have to wear my mask sometimes when people tell me at a restaurant or at a store why because it's only gonna get worse You know what I want to see these Christians who complain about the mask Complain about the things that God complains about way more and you have Christians literally who weren't fighting the battles before against the sodomites They weren't fighting against the battles against the false doctrines against false prophets But all of a sudden this comes up and now they want they want to go gung-ho on this They just want to be a patriot and the martyr firm for America And look again, I hate the masks, but you know what? I also fight the homos. I Hate the mass, but you know, I also fight against the reprobates I Also fight against false doctrine and false prophets So don't come to me you haven't even preached a sermon against sodomites like in five years You haven't preached a sermon against false doctrine in like five years and all of a sudden you're just this patriot You're just dying for the cause of Christ Because you're fighting for the mass. Come on, that's ridiculous The Bible says in Revelation chapter 3 verse 14 on to the angel of the church of the lay of the scenes Right these things say at the Amen the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation of God I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would that thou were colder hot So then because our lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew thee out of my mouth because I'll say us I'm rich and Increase with goods. I have need of nothing. We're a conservative state we have all I can carry I can open carry and No, it's not that our wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked the Bible says You think you got it all good, but you know what when I assess your situation You're poor you're miserable. You're blind and naked now. Why is that look at verse 18? I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried on the fire that thou mayest be rich and White raiment that thou mayest be clothed and that thy shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes with eye Salve that thou mayest see so what is he saying? I encourage you to go get in some trials in some fights Go buy gold Hey, you want to fight a real battle the real battles not against the liberals. Let me just let you know something The real battles against Satan Who has both the left and the right Just let me let you in on a little secret here What are you are you left or right? I'm neither. Are you left wing or right wing? I'm on a different bird You're on you're on the the Thunder Turkey or whatever what do you call them now the Thunder chicken Pastor Robinson has these weird names for these animals. He calls a deer. He calls them swamp donkeys Cryptozoology in light of the but in light of Pastor Robinson He's saying here you need some trials, but you know what trials come when you actually preach the Word of God He says as many as I love I rebuke and chase and be zealous therefore and repent So this isn't a sermon just hating on the Bible belt It's a sermon to rebuke so that the people in the south can get right with God Get fired up again go sowing again pick up pick up a King James Bible and start preaching the Word of God preach against the reprobates Preach against the wicked people of this world false doctrine false prophets preach with the Bible preach the whole counsel of God Behold I stand at the door knock and if any man hear my voice and Open the door. I will come into him and will sup with him and he with me. What is he saying? I'm knocking at the door of every single church saying are you willing to suffer for my sake? You know what God considers something with him. What does that? What does that mean? It means are you willing to fellowship with me? What did Paul say that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the what? fellowship of his suffering You really want to get close to Jesus you suffer with Jesus You really want to get close to God You suffer That's what he considers fellowship because then you're at you're right there on the front lines where he was and where he is and He's speaking to churches here You know what? Jesus is at the door of every church in that Bible Belt Man, he's been knocking for a long time And unfortunately, none of them have opened the door yes, we have we're not we hate biting We hate liberals and we don't we're not that's not Folks if you think that's the enemy which obviously Biden he's only wicked. He's just an idiot But you know what that's not the real that's not the battle that we should be fighting We should be in the hottest part of the battle fighting for the souls of men Fighting to preach the Word of God you think you're gonna get a martyr's crown Because if you stood up on your Republican views Folks you get rewarded for the souls that you win and for serving God. Oh But there's a church on every corner, yeah, but the cornerstone is probably not in every church What makes the Bible Belt Fundamentalists number one because they have lost their Savior the girdle of truth has been rent But also because the power of God is no longer present there The glory of God is departed go back to Isaiah chapter 3 and verse 24 Isaiah chapter 3 verse 24 says and it shall come to pass then instead of a sweet smell There shall be stink instead of a girdle a rent instead of well-set hair baldness instead of a stomacher a girding of Sackcloth so keep in mind. He's referring to a woman here, right? Making the comparison to Israel and he's saying look instead of having those tears and that well-set hair You're gonna be bald Now what does that mean it means the glory has departed because the hair of a woman is her glory So You who do we think of in the Bible that when they lost their hair the power of God was gone Samson But you know what the Bible says he wished not That the Lord departed from him and we have a bunch of people in the Bible Belt who think they still have the Lord with them But you know what they're bald I'm not bragging on any of you guys who are bald right? God bless you I'm spiritually we're talking about here. He's saying this like You're bald because the glory of God is the part of you no longer have the power of God in your life Folks there was a time when J Frank Norris was there in the 1920s. He's preaching the Word of God He's seeing a lot of people saved I mean, he's doing a great work for the Lord and now was a great work that was being accomplished So the power of God was there Can't be said of that today. Oh You don't pass me here. They have the power of God Haven't you seen all those great movies that the Southern Baptists have come out with even Hollywood will will you know promote those things? Yeah, that's the problem That's not the power of God. It's the power of production movie production We're talking about the power of God to be able to preach the Word of God and see people save they've lost that I'm pretty much out of time go to Isaiah chapter 3 Why is the Bible Belt fundamentalist because the beauty has been diminished The beauty has been diminished. It says it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell There should be stink instead of a girdle or rent Instead of well-set hair baldness instead of a stomach or a girding of sackcloth and burning instead of Beauty he says now when it's talking about the burning. I believe it's referring to like a Sore of some sort you think of like a putrefying sore or some sort of inflammation That's on the body. So you look, you know, you get this picture of this woman who at one time was beautiful But then because of her disobedience has received these open sores upon her face this burning this inflammation and it's removed the beauty from her face and What makes a Christian beautiful? Well, if the Bible says the n-word man, right? but Jesus Christ Being a Christian adhering to Christian doctrine is what makes Christians beautiful Not to the world but to God right But the beauty has been removed from it, so yeah, you know they can have the title Bible Belt Conservative red state. Oh, it's such a beautiful place and it's such a beautiful place to go and live And there's so many churches there and it's great. It's just awesome. God says it's ugly because of the fact That they have a name that they're living but they're actually dead now who is the new Bible Belt? He said are you gonna say it's California? No, I'm not gonna say it's California Who is the new Bible Belt? Go to John chapter 4 Well, it depends Okay When it comes to the United States, who is the new Bible Belt? Well, here's the thing is often the belt is worn around the loins, right? But not always Sometimes it's worn around the paps Jesus Christ wore the golden girdle Around his paps in the book of Revelation, right? So what's the point of that? Well, what I'm saying is this is that sometimes the belt can relocate to different parts of the body It just really depends on who has the truth now look what it says in John chapter 4 in Verse 19 the woman saith unto him sir I perceive that thou art a prophet our fathers worshiped in this mountain and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. So she's saying, you know, hey, we're from the south But you're saying we should go worship in California She's talking geographic geographically speaking, you know, it's like where should we go to worship God? Where is the region where God is at? right Jesus saith unto her woman Believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father he said there's gonna come a time when it's not based upon a region a Geographical area where you're gonna worship God ye worship, you know Not what we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews, but the hour cometh and now is when the true worshipers Shall worship in the south Nope Shall worship in California Nope shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth For the Father seeketh such to worship him God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Where's the new Bible Belt? It's wherever there is a local New Testament Church Preaching the Word of God faithfully soul winning. You are that Bible Belt Pastor Burzins Bible Belt is an extension of my Bible Belt My Bible Belt is an extension of Pastor Anderson's Bible Belt Pastor Anderson's Bible was an extension of Pastor Robinson's Bible Belt. We're all over this place So you don't have to go to a specific? Geographical location to have the power of God upon your life because they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth Not in a state Not in the north not in the south Not in the east not in the west no folks in spirit and In truth and let me just say I rather worship God in a liberal state Than being a red state and not worship God at all Amen I Rather be a hell-raising fiery Baptist preacher and some blue state Then Be some limp-wristed pastor in a red state Folks you would think that if they're in a red state they would preach harder. I Mean come on But folks, what does that tell you they based their worship based upon what region they're in? We should be Christians no matter where we're at We should preach the Bible no matter where we're at because they that worship him worship him in spirit and in truth Yeah, the Bible Belt has been rent but that's okay doesn't mean the Bible Belt doesn't exist it's at pastor birds in this church It's at Mountain Baptist Church. It's at first words Baptist Church. It's that shield of faith Baptist Church That's what the Bible Belt is Because these are churches that have their loins gird about with truth, but let me just say this those belts They can also be rent They Can be rent they can be torn And relocated to a different church How do we avoid that? Just keep preaching the truth. Amen Keep soul winning keep standing for the Word of God no matter what happens Inspire heads and have a word of prayer father. We thank you so much for your word And Lord, I'm thankful for all the pastors who came out of the Bible Belt and those who preach the Word of God faithfully Those who stood on the Word of God those who went and preached the gospel and saw people saved And I pray that those who are in the south and in the Bible Belt But they're not preaching the Word of God faithfully the Lord. I pray that they will repent That would get right with you and start becoming men of God Not these little sissy boys who just want to fight a political battle, but they don't even know a lick of Bible They're allowing Calvinism to infiltrate their churches They're allowing false doctrine to infiltrate their churches. They're ordaining women as pastors. This is shameful This should not be said of Baptist I pray God that you'd help us to have a greater appreciation for the fundamentals of the faith and Help us to build there upon that. We may be perfect in Christ and in Jesus name we pray. Amen Pastor Burzins, can we sing one more song? Let's pick a song real quick Let's do nothing but the blood of Jesus here. I'll leave this one pastor Burzins. I got this. Yeah. Sorry to get have you get up page 15 We'll dismiss in a song here Nothing but the blood of Jesus Nothing but the blood of Jesus nice and strong on that first verse Ready on that first verse what can wash away my sin Nothing but the blood of Jesus What can make me whole again nothing but the blood of Jesus Oh Precious is the flow that makes me white as snow No other fount I know Oh On that second sing it for my part in this I see nothing, but the blood of Jesus for my cleansing this my plea Oh Precious is the flow that makes me white as snow No Other founts I know nothing, but the blood of Jesus Nothing can force in a tone nothing, but the blood of Jesus not of good that I have done Nothing, but the blood of Jesus Oh Precious is the flow that makes me white as snow No other fount I know nothing, but the blood of Jesus Great singing. Oh, man. I forgot And The winner is the Radisson Read them and weep suckers. All right. So hey, we'll see you guys here tomorrow morning at 10 a.m Get ready to win some souls you are dismissed