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And in life of you, be it at the cross, be it at the air, be it at the fair, be it at the cross, be it at the cross, Jesus will lead you there. Be it at the cross, there is room for all, who will his glory share. Place there a place, mark it there before, those who are anchored there. Be it at the cross, be it at the cross, be it at the air, be it at the air. Be it at the cross, be it at the cross, Jesus will lead you there. Be it at the cross, give your idols up, go down to grounds above. Turn not awake to the sparkly cloud, trust only in his love. Be it at the cross, be it at the cross, be it at the air, be it at the air. Be it at the cross, be it at the cross, Jesus will lead you there. Standing on the promises of Christ my King, through eternal ages let his praises ring. Glory in the highest happens now at sea, standing on the promises of God. I am standing on the promises of God my Savior, standing, standing. I am standing on the promises of God, standing on the promises of God. I am standing on the promises of God, standing on the promises of God. Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. It's wonderful to see everybody here this afternoon. If we can go ahead and find our seats, we will get started. Once you've found a seat, let's all grab a hymnal and turn to song number 379. Song number 379, Bringing in the Sheaves. Song number 379, let's all sing it out together. Stowing in the morning, sowing streams of life is, Stowing in the moon, tired and looking away, Waiting for the harvest and the night of the reaping, Reach out God, rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, Reach out God, rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, Reach out God, rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, Sowing in the sunshine, sowing in the shadows, We will guide you now forward to certain things, Hiding by the harness and the labor ending, Reach out God, rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, Reach out God, rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, Reach out God, rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, Going forth and bringing, sowing for the last turn, Great singing everybody. Let's open up the service now with a word of prayer. Lord we love you and we just thank you for everything you do. Thank you for allowing us to bring in the sheaves this afternoon. We just ask that you help our effort to be fruitful and we just ask that you bless this church and fill it with your spirit and it's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Alright for our next song let's go to song number 349. 349. The comforter has come. Song number 349. Let's all sing that out together on the first. Oh spread the tidings round. Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Thank you for coming to steadfast Baptist Church. If you did need another bulletin or you haven't gotten one you could just lift up your hand real quick. One of our ushers could come by and get you guys a bulletin. On our front we have our Bible memory passage Matthew 28. If you can quote the entire chapter to a non family member you can receive a prize. On the inside we have our service and soul winning times. Down below our church stats please make sure you're turning those in our maps. On the right we have the list of expecting ladies. Upcoming events. We have our choir practice that's beginning on Sundays at 2 p.m. Thank you. I think we had a big crowd participate today so I'm really excited to get to hear all of those kiddos sing on our Easter service. That's what they're preparing for and practicing for and so we're really looking forward to that. Thank you parents for allowing your children to participate in that. Also Evangelist Urbanic is going to be preaching this Wednesday so please please please come to this Wednesday and it'll be exciting to have them back. It'll be about a year from when they actually went out there so it'll be a great blessing to see them and encourage them. Also this upcoming Saturday is a soul winning marathon in Azel and there will be some food and fellowship so if you'd like to go out Brother Urbanic has put in our group chat the address and some details. If you still aren't sure you can message him. Also we that sat that Sunday so the next day if you missed out it's our barbecue bash all right and so it'll be catered by some good catering and we'll have a good time. Hopefully God willing it'll be really nice weather and we can eat outside but either way we'll be having a barbecue bash and we'll be having a lot of fun and it'll be a great time of fellowship just to continue to encourage the Urbanics. They'll be here for those weekend services as well and we'll probably let him give another testimony on Sunday just since some people only come to our Sunday services. Also we have our spring recital that's gonna be that Saturday. There's a sign-up sheet for tryouts if you can sign up for a time on that. Mansfield Soul Winning Marathon will be coming up in April April 19th which is the day before Easter and we do have some special Easter flyers that will be putting out in a couple weeks and you can be handing those out for soul winning. On the back just a note again we had 22 salvation's for our Spanish Soul Winning Marathon so thank you to those who participated and continue to pray for that ministry. Also we have our prayer list down below if you have an additional prayer request just please email us that and we'll try to update and or add you to our prayer list. That's really all I have as far as announcements we'll go ahead and sing our Psalm of the week it's Psalm 15. Brother Dustin's gonna come lead us Psalm number 15. All right that was Psalm chapter 15 Psalm 15 let's all sing it out together on the first. Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh great singing everybody now it's offered place you're being passed around go ahead and turn in your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 12 that's the book of Hebrews chapter number 12 Oh Oh Hebrews chapter 12 the Bible reads wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that set before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame and has set down at the right hand of the throne of God for consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds ye have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin and ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children my son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of him for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth if ye endure chastening God dealeth with you as with sons for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not but if ye be without chastisement where of all our partakers then are ye bastards and not sons furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spirits and live for they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure but he for our profit that we might be partakers of his holiness now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby wherefore lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees and make straight paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way but let it rather be healed follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and thereby many be defiled lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright for ye know how that afterward when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected for he found no place of repentance though he sought it carefully with tears for year not come unto the mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words which voice they that heard and treated that the word should not be spoken to them anymore for they could not endure that which was commanded and if so much as a beast touched the mount it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart and so terrible was the site that Moses said I exceedingly fear and quake but ye are coming to Mount Sion and unto the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of angels to the general assembly and Church of the firstborn which are written in heaven and to God the judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel see that you refuse not him that speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven whose voice then shook the earth but now but now he hath promised saying yet once more I shake not the earth only but also heaven and this word yet once more signify at the removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made that those things which cannot be shaken may remain wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear for our God is a consuming fire let us pray dear Heavenly Father thank you for the Word of God I thank you for the Spanish Sony marathon that was a success I thank you for this church and I ask you to bless pastor Shelley and help them to preach your word in Jesus name amen amen I want to look back at verse number five and the Bible says you've forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children my son the spies not thou the chastening of the Lord and I kind of started a series last Sunday night about bad attitudes and one of the bad attitudes I want to address this evening is taking a bad attitude about correction taking a bad attitude about correction and the Bible has a lot to say on this particular subject so for this evening I'm not going to be able to really go through any more bad attitudes that's just one attitude we need to address and the reality is we all need correction and we need to make sure that when we are corrected that we don't have a bad attitude about it we need to have an attitude that wants to accept correction that is willing to be corrected today and the Bible tells us that we should not despise the Lord when he corrects us we should not despise the Lord's correcting his chastening it says here in verse number five despise not thou the chastening of the Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of him God wants to correct us God wants to chasten us it says in verse six for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth now we have fathers in our lives that chase in us and scourge us in a literal in a physical way but God the Father is not going to come down from heaven and physically scourge us or physically chastise us himself he may punish us in another way but it's likened unto scourging it's like an unto chastisement but we have to understand that God does still even chastise and scourge physically us the Bible has Commandments in the Old Testament when you would break laws when you commit crimes that adults would be whipped or would be scourged for the crimes that they committed now we don't live in a biblical society we don't have biblical laws and so they've outlawed a lot of these things now they put you in a cage but it's still a physical punishment for doing things that are wrong I argue that the scourging is a better punishment than jail I think that jail is a bad punishment I think in some ways it's a cruel and unusual punishment but God does chase in us and scourge us now God may chase in us and scourge us in other ways and a kind of a metaphorical way where you know he could take away things from us he could cause us to lose our job God could cause us to become sick God could cause us to have our tires break God could cause us to lose a relationship God can cause all kinds of punishments in our life as a result of our wrongdoing of our sin of our rebellion God wants to grab our attention and if you think about it many of the ways that we relate to our children are similar to the way this the ways that God relates to us if you think about it if your children do something wrong but they come to you and they tell you themselves and they're humble and repentant about it many times you may even forgo punishing them because of their attitude because of how they approach the situation whereas when they won't confess they lie about it they won't take ownership well then often the punishment is worse and I personally do punish my children worse if they lie to me about it it's one thing to do wrong it's another thing to lie about it and then it's another thing to not say sorry and it's another thing to not get it right when we do wrong we need to be quick to say you know what I did wrong I'm sorry try to fix it and you often receive the least amount of punishment when that's your attitude when you're rebellious stiff-necked argumentative denying what happened often you'll get a worse punishment as a result and I believe that that's how God also operates with us the more that we're quick to say I'm sorry we're quick to ask for forgiveness the less that God will punish us but the reality is God loves us too much to not allow us to be punished why because he wants us to have good behavior for ourselves for those around us those who we affect and even for his own pleasure in some ways now it says that similarly here in verse number 7 through 9 it says if ye endure chastening God dealeth with you as with sons for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not but if you be without chastisement where all are partakers then are you bastards and not sons well the Bible is promising is that if you're saved you cannot just sin without consequence there will be consequence God will take care of you God will punish you the only way you would get away with sin is because you're not even saved so when you see people just getting away with sin just in egregious ways and they're not being punished it's almost an evidence that person's not even a saved person and if you were a saved person and you're sinning and you're like I don't seem to be punished you know that's a that's a scary thing that's a scary question because you have to ask this question like is that person even saved and if they are well maybe God's just waiting to drop the hammer you know what you must not fear God at all to just sin be called out on it and be saved and not do anything about it because God will recompense God will punish it's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of the Living God is what the Bible says and when you're saved you're your promise of eternal life is the same as the promise is being punished when you disobey it's the same the same God that promised you eternal life and salvation is the same God that's promising you that when you're saved and you do wrong he will punish you you know that is a terrifying thing for me I'm not motivated to go in sin when I know it's guaranteed and locked in now if you're not saved you may not get punished in this life there's no guarantee you'll get punished in this life because if he misses you in this life he'll catch you in the next one but here's the reality because you're saved he's not catching you in the next one so he's gonna catch you in this one and be sure your sins will find you out God is not mocked what sort of man soweth that shall he also reap is what the Bible says and it's really clear for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth and scourgeth every son and whom he receiveth every son also what did the Bible say whereof all are partakers do not think you get away with sin if you're saved if you are saved God knows this is what me my my kids we always say all right when there's a controversy between the children and one won't take ownership for their wrongdoing it's just like God knows and boy that's a scary thing if you think about it because here's the thing you may lie you could lie and everyone falls for it you could trick every person in your life you could convince your parents you could convince online you convince a whole bunch of people that you're lying but you can't convince God God knows God knows what we do so you know what there is no reason to ever resist getting right with God God knows you know what if you've done wrong tonight you need to get on your knees and you need to tell God I'm sorry I did wrong please don't punish me as I deserve because God will punish you God will make sure you receive a recompense the only way to really escape that is to beg for his mercy and to try to get right and look I do believe that in many cases God does not punish us as we deserve but the people that are gonna get the least amount of punishment are the ones that beg for his mercy and get it right and turn and repent in their hearts and their minds they're a gracious and merciful person to other people they're very forgiving unto other people well then you know what you may not get punished that much the way that you deserve but if you're someone that's very unforgiving you're very nasty you have a lot of bitterness you're you're holding other people's feet to the fire and you are in sin and you're not taking ownership for it boy you should be terrified you should be really terrified of what God may do to you and you know when we get corrected by God when we get called out when we recognize we're doing something wrong we better have the right attitude about it and get right with God many people have the wrong attitude when they are corrected they cannot handle correction they as the Bible says stiff their neck and the Bible uses physical descriptions of people that respond poorly to correction I mean what is a stiff neck is like you know it's like you know when you get caught you do something wrong what is the the natural reaction you kind of like look down you're shamed you're humbled what's a whores forehead it's one that's not embarrassed what is someone is embarrassed you know they're hiding they're ashamed they're what is the horse like yeah I'm a whore it's embarrassing it's embarrassing that a whore just can literally just be open about a disgusting sin and not even care not even feel shame not even feel embarrassed not have any kind of change in their attitude or demeanor people that are prideful and arrogant don't show any remorse any kind of contrition on their behalf you know this is a bad attitude or people even get mad when they are corrected Jonah gets corrected by God and then the Bible says he gets angry that was wrong it was wrong for Jonah to respond that way I'm not gonna go through all the Bible because there's too much Bible in this go to go to Genesis and you'll see okay not literally I'm just saying if you go to Genesis you'll see Cain is rebuked by God and then Cain has a bad attitude about God's correction he says sin lies at the door and he's telling them hey you should be a ruler over sin don't let sin rule over your life but Cain has a bad attitude and then kills his brother because he responded poorly to that correction God will correct us but you know what he does it for our benefit he doesn't because he loves us even in our own parents they do it because they love us too look at verse 9 furthermore we have had fathers who are fresh which corrected us and we gave them reverence you know if your parents spanked you you know you shouldn't do complain about it to other people you know the Bible says you should respect your parents because they punished you bad parents don't spank good parents do spank if you're gonna try and convince me this is a bad parent because he disciplined his child I'm not gonna agree with that I don't agree with that that is not what the Bible teaches the Bible teaches that you are disciplined by your parents because it's right it's right the reason why people are bad typically according to the Bible is because they were not punished the Bible says he that hated this son is the one that spares the rod he that spared this rod hated his son but he that loveth them chasing them times is what the Bible says you know what we should be disciplining our children and when you're disciplined children recognize that your parents love you your parents discipline you because they love you I heard some communists preach that whenever you discipline your children you have to set aside your natural affection that is satanic garbage okay that is satanic evil garbage because the reason why it's hard for parents to discipline their children because they actually love them it's the natural affection that actually makes it difficult to punish them if you didn't even care about them punishing them would be meaningless to you in fact you may even Joe enjoy it okay that would be making like the government and the prison industrial complex you know great or something no no having natural affections that make discipline hard the person that loves you is willing to do it the person that hates you just whatever just I don't really care you know Oh Jeffrey Epstein's client list nah that's wicked that's evil to not punish evildoers okay and if you love your children you'll punish them you see them playing in the street and you don't really care no punishment if you care you'll bring them up and you'll whoop them because you know what a whooping they'll survive the semi-truck not gonna survive you see them putting metal into the electrical outlet you smack their hand that's way worse than being electrocuted to death they go touch something hot or they try to touch something on you smack their hand because you don't want them to hurt themselves and injure themselves you're disciplining them for their own benefit and you know what God is gonna constantly discipline us and correct us for our benefit for our safety to protect us from evils and dangers God doesn't want you to become a drug addicted loser God doesn't want you to get filled with STDs and be an empty vain relationships God doesn't want you to suffer the horrors of divorce he's telling you just like don't do it you know you'll never really appreciate the things that God's keeping you from until you go through them but let me tell you something being addicted to drugs is worse than you can imagine I don't even know I've never done drugs I never will do drugs but I'm just I'm just taking the bank the people I've seen go through this and talk about it you don't want to you don't want to even fight this people that go through divorce I've never been divorced never will be divorced but let me tell you something I've seen what it's like I've seen how many times they had to file documents with the government I've seen the ugliness it is it is an ugly ugly selfish sin you think like oh man someone told me not to be divorced that was mean no no you know what's mean what the judge will do to you you know what's mean is what your ex will do to you you know what's mean is what the court system and the government and police and everybody else is gonna do to you that's gonna be mean and when we get corrected on issues instead of bristling instead of getting stiff-necked instead of getting prideful instead of rolling your eyes we should receive correction don't have a bad attitude about someone correcting you the Bible says in verse 11 now no chastening for the present seem to be joyous I am NOT saying you need to enjoy punishment no one enjoys punishment in fact that's the whole point if you enjoyed it it wasn't punishment if you liked it it wasn't punishment that's how you can tell as a parent if you punish your children if they didn't suffer in any way it wasn't a punishment it says no chastening for the present seem to be joyous okay but grievous nevertheless afterward it yielded the peaceful fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby what is the goal of chastisement it's to cause better behavior we inflict temporary pain for permanent righteousness or alter alteration of behavior so we want to have to produce a good outcome hey don't put metal objects in the electrical outlet you get your hand smack temporarily and then you learn I'm never gonna do that that was a dumb move you know you don't have to be electrocuted to realize it's a bad move you don't have to get hit by a car to realize it's bad you don't have to get divorced to realize that it's bad and you know what when someone cracks you when someone chastises when you someone tells you no you know what the right response is to appreciate that later it won't appreciate in the moment nobody will nobody likes it nobody wants it it's not fun it's grievous but you know what afterwards we should realize hey thank you mom and dad for spanking me because you know it's worse than being spanked is being beaten up in prison you know it's worse than being whipped rotting in a cage being in solitary confinement having a cop throw you on the ground and shove his boot on your face having handcuffs wrapped around you and being thrown into a tiny backseat of a police car getting mug shots and being an embarrassment in society you know it's worse being addicted to all kinds of drugs and narcotics and having all kinds of horrible relationship drama having bastard children people ripping your heart out emotionally look let me tell you something for some men the worst thing that it could ever be imagined is happening to them for so many men in our society they married the wrong woman or made bad decisions and now that woman has taken them to court has taken their kids away from them is taking their paycheck is taking their alimony and is now with another man and so many men are committing suicide because of the anxiety the stress the pressure you think that parents just discipline you a little bit as mean you don't even know what mean is ask Asian cultures what it's like okay you don't even know Americans are so spoiled and many of us are brats and we just don't understand our society but you know what we should appreciate correction God corrects us now when you are punished don't have a pity party about it receive the correction and move on with your life it says in verse 12 wherefore lift up the hands which hang down on the feeble knees and make straight paths your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way but rat but let it rather be healed saying if you get punished if you get corrected if you get a little embarrassed don't just sit here and wallow in your own sorrow just fix it and move on fix it and move on don't say oh man my parents are so mean or they they're nicer to my brother or they're nicer to my sister they're punishing me a little too much and having a bad attitude about it just move on you know why you're getting punished more because you're a worse kid your parents did not just decide one day you know what let's just punish this other kid more for no reason in fact your parents wake up every day hoping they don't have to punish any of their kids ever again I mean you're just sitting here like I hope I never have to do it ever again but then you do it they're like and the reason why you're being punished is because of what you did stop being bad and I even have had a bad attitude about correction plenty of times in my life there's plenty of times where you know maybe you get caught in your brother doesn't get caught right or whatever and then you kind of then you're just kind of like mad about this isn't fair and this isn't right you know what if you got caught you're fortunate because now you have an opportunity to become a better person the person that doesn't get caught is actually gonna become more of a rotten person anyways you know chastisement is a blessing according the Bible let me let me shock you go to Psalm 141 for a moment let me get a Psalm 141 for a moment and explain to you what the Bible teaches don't let the world gaslight you on this narrative let me tell you something physical punishment is a good thing physical chastisement is praised in the Bible physical chastisement is desired in the Bible and you know as children you should be thankful that your parents spank you if they do if your parents spank you that's a good thing it's not a bad thing look at Psalm 141 and look at verse 5 let the righteous smite me it shall be a kindness what is the attitude of the psalmist hey I'm glad when I get hit I'm glad I when I get smitten because it's actually a blessing unto me again in some ways this is metaphoric some ways it's not if someone were to commit an actual crime and they were to be punished by society that could actually still be a kindness now we in church we're not gonna hit each other we're not gonna physically discipline each other we have church discipline it's not like that I don't have a paddle okay guys don't worry but let me tell you something you know you'd be better off getting a whooping than having God deal with you in many cases and a lot of times you know adult punishment it's more of a verbal correction it's more hey you're doing this wrong you know instead of having a bad attitude about verbal correction you need to appreciate it and say hey thank you for correcting we need to be a church we need to be a group of people that is willing to be corrected because if you're if you're being corrected there was something wrong obviously none of us just want to face unwarranted criticism and sometimes that happens when people just say things and it's not really true but generally speaking when people give you correction it's usually pretty warranted because most of the time it's hard to offer criticism or offer offer some kind of correction to somebody but you know you go soul winning and you do something weird you do something wrong and someone offers you correction you should be like thank you in fact let me tell you something when I went to preaching class at faith board Baptist Church you know what I wanted the most out of it was correction that was the thing I wanted the most if I preached a sermon in that class you know what I did not want praise I wanted correction I don't want to know what I did good I want to know what I did wrong so I can become better because if I only hear good job then I won't get better you don't make someone better correction I've gotten a lot of professional lessons whenever in all kinds of sports specifically in golf tons and tons of instruction over my life you know what they did not do at that lesson is tell me what I was doing right you know they're telling me what I'm doing wrong and that was why I was paying them the whole point of paying the professional was to say what am I doing wrong how do I do it better like what is the technique what is the form what is the reps what can how can I improve that is the whole point it is a kindness it is a blessing for someone to correct you yet many people have this bad attitude where they're already arrived they're already the best Christian they're already the best worker they're already the smartest person they're the best at business they're the best husband they're the best soul winner they're the best man they know everything they've learned every conspiracy theory and you cannot correct these people you don't want to be around these people though you know I want to be around people that want to learn that want to grow that are ready to improve those are the type of people that I want to be around and that's the type of good people that the Bible describes we should be ready for correction I'm always ready to be corrected in this specific specifically from this book if I do something wrong chapter and verse now again I get a lot of criticism from people and you know it's not on it's not warranted it's not accurate but let me tell you something if if you want to correct me and it's according to this I'm ready to change right now that should be our attitude our attitude should be like whatever this says and that's why I challenge a lot of fan members and friends people have criticized me as a pastor or a church or a ministry I'm always like okay show me in the Bible where I'm wrong and I'll fix it well you know yeah you know why you know why you don't want to say something in the Bible because you don't know what this is saying and you're wrong because you know what if we play that game then it's like all right my turn I got some verses for you let's go to there right but the godly person is ready to say hey this is the truth whatever it says let's do it and we should have that attitude we should say you know what let the righteous smite me you know why do some people like hard preaching this verse most people don't like hard preaching though because they realize when they come you might get smit you might get hit a little bit you might it might hit you where it hurts in the heart you know some people don't realize how much they're used to hard preaching you have like visitors come or you have new people you bring your family member but you're just kind of used to passage always preaching and then you bring your mom you're like oh man you know then everything is like you know yeah but because other people can't handle it as much sometimes right you bring that friend you bring that co-worker you bring whoever and you're just thinking like whoa that's a little bit spicy right but for us we like that I want I want to go to a church where the pastor is ready to correct me where I need to be corrected now again I need it you need it we all need encouraging sermons we all need encouraging verses sometimes we're down on our luck sometimes we're having a bad you know time in our lives we need someone to come alongside and bear one another's burdens the Bible provides us a lot of comfort a lot of peace a lot of grace and we want to balance that but you know what we also need a lot of correction and we should be willing to be corrected we should have an attitude that says you know what I'm ready to be corrected now what I'm saying so far I'm sure all of you agree it's when we start talking about things that are corrective that's when you start disagreeing okay and you know what submission is submission is not agreeing submission is doing something that you don't agree with right it's really easy when we have a position of submission where we're supposed to submit to either a boss or our parents or you know if you're a wife your husband of your children your parents it's really really easy to do what they say when you agree because you agree you know it is not easy to do it when you don't agree when your boss asks you to do something to work that you don't want to do or you don't like that's when you see if you're really submissive when God asks you to do something that you don't really want to do or you don't really like that's where we see if you are submissive okay and that's how we have to test ourselves and when God's offering us correction we need to do it even if we don't like it look at the rest of verse 5 and let him reprove me it shall be an excellent oil which shall not break my head my preaching has never hurt anybody physically you know I can get up and scream and yell and you're gonna be sound in that little chair I'm not gonna come over there I'm not gonna literally hit you in the head I haven't thrown any Bibles in anybody you're safe sticks and stones may break my bones but word shall never hurt me yeah and you know it should not hurt you the truth the truth should help you right hey I want this guy to approve me I want this guy it's not gonna break my head for yet my prayer also so be in their calamities hey I'm gonna pray for them they're gonna pray for me you know if someone tells me something I need to hear it's not gonna hurt me it's a blessing in fact we should want it we should desire correction we should have an attitude that's ready for correction but there are many people that if they're corrected they get a bad attitude they get offended they get upset they're disgruntled you know that's a bad attitude go to the Proverbs chapter 13 go to Proverbs chapter 13 so I'm just kind of proving this point for a moment in my sermon but we need to have a good attitude about correction some people act like being smitten is like abuse the Bible says it's kindness the world's vocabulary abuse the Bible's cat the Bible's wording kindness it's kind parents that smite their children are kind parents that spare the rod are hateful they are hateful people but society would want you to believe that it's hateful to smite your children or to punish them you know why because the world's run by Satan and you know what Satan wants rebellious spoiled brats and you know what causes rebellious spoiled brats people that aren't punished smiting what is the rod of correction do it'll drive the foolishness out of your child leaving them to themselves brings your mother to shame okay now some people are so thick-headed and so strong-willed you can't smite it out of them but you know what you will never fix them if you don't and so we have to offer that correction the Bible says in Proverbs 13 verse 1 a wise son heareth his father's instruction but a scorner heareth not rebuke what is the bad attitude you will not receive correction look children if your parents tell you that you're wrong you're wrong I mean I'll just when kids get older they argue about everything and the most pedantic little things you'll just say like hey it takes 30 minutes to get a church no it doesn't yes it does no it doesn't it's like yes it does and they're like no I think it takes an hour you're wrong they'll argue with you about math you'll be like hey this is the this is you know what is 2 times 8 and they're like 20 no it's 16 no that's 20 you're wrong you're a child you don't know but they'll just argue they're stubborn this their stiff neck sometimes and I just don't know why but children will often argue and think that they're smart and think that they know things know what just do what dad says many times we're foolish we don't really understand and when we argue with our parents it shows that we're ignorant you as children when your dad says something do it when your mom says something do it just accept their correction accept what they're saying you know in some ways it sounds counterintuitive but it's like even when they're wrong they're right and that should be your that should be your attitude hey I'm just gonna submit even if I thought you're wrong because many times when you think they're wrong you're still wrong there's been plenty of times where I thought I was right about something and I was challenged from the Bible or a preacher and then I ended up realizing later that I was actually wrong did you realize that you can think that someone's wrong and you're still wrong anything you disagree with me on you're still wrong it was a joke okay I'm just I'm just saying like obviously people are gonna think that they're right about everything we all think that we're right about everything we think but did you know none of us are right about everything no including me who in here would say I've changed my opinion on something this year yeah wow we all learn something right so at every state you keep realizing you're wrong about something just realize you could be wrong about something in the future too we're constantly wrong about things we have bad ideas we need to constantly be challenged and the person that won't be challenged becomes a scorner they make fun of everything they make fun of correction they talk badly about church they talk badly about their parents they talk badly about authority and really they just mocking God when we fear God we're gonna receive the correction in our lives we should not be someone that scoffs at correction we should just receive it and say thank you and move on with our life and look even if someone gives you correction you don't really agree with just say thank you and move on with your life and if it makes sense and it's biblical do it we should change and adapt Proverbs 15 look at verse 12 Proverbs chapter 15 and look at verse number 12 why do people not like correction why it's because they love sin that's why they don't they like their sin they like the pleasure the sin is giving them and they don't want to change that's why they don't like correction verse verse 10 correction is grievous unto him that forsake it the way and he that hateth reproof shall die hell and destruction are before the Lord how much more than the hearts of the children of men a scorner loveth not one that reproveth him neither will he go into wise notice the Bible is saying that it's a kindness to be smitten and then this guy he hates the guy that corrects him because he has a bad attitude he has a bad heart so let me tell you something when you don't like correction it shows that you're a bad person in fact when I was doing the preaching class with Pastor Anderson he didn't say this up front this is a private thing but he was saying when he would correct somebody if they didn't receive it well the first time he noted that person would want nothing to do with them would never put them in leadership just one time you didn't even know that you didn't even know that as soon as you said something and you kind of just bristle or roll your eyes or do whatever he just marked you and he's just like not gonna ever put this person in leadership and let me tell you something that's the right move and you don't even realize how many people are doing that subconsciously you don't know how many times your boss is doing that subconsciously he comes and gives you feedback and you don't receive it well he may never give you feedback again because he's looking to fire you as soon as he can you need to take correction well when someone gives you a correction you need to have a good face a brave face on accept the correction say thank you implement it and move on with your life don't be these type of people that just say like I don't know about that well I don't like that idea well here's why I think you're wrong about that huh you know you should just say thank you for your perspective hey you know if you need to ask a clarifying question that's fine if you don't understand the correction it's fine to clarify the correction you know what receive the correction say hey I appreciate that I want to get better thank you I do you have any other correction do you have anything else you would like for me to do because I enjoyed that you know what if you would desire to be good you'll want as much correction as possible if you desire to be bad you want no one to ever tell you anything we just know where your heart is based on your correction how many times are you being corrected and you enjoy it you like it or you're asking for it or even asking for correction in your life or you're the type of person that if someone offers a correction it'll change your relationship with them Proverbs 22 look at Proverbs 22 verse number 10 cast out the scorner and contention shall go out ye strife and reproach shall cease it's like cast out the guy sharing screenshots from your group and then no more screenshots are being shared it's weird how that works hey you cast out disgruntled people and then everybody's all happy and we're unified you know people are like ah it's a cult y'all just y'all just do it ever pass this how he says yeah because they actually like what I say why would I want to keep people in here that don't want to do the church's program it's like here's the King James now he's in IV why would we want that person hey we do so winning by preaching his faith alone well I think it's faith and works you can't go so winning with us why would I want that you know what what is the point of a church if we don't agree on doctrine at what point are you a church anymore and as opposed to a social club or just a YMCA or something or just me in fact those places still have rules those places love standards they still have I mean these clubs social clubs they'll have a dress code in fact their dress code is in many cases more strict than the dress code here you go and join the YMCA they have rules they have all kinds of policies and procedures you try to bring alcohol in there you try to come in drunk they'll throw you out oh it's a cult you go to a restaurant you go to a restaurant that serves alcohol they'll throw you out if you drink too much they'll cut you off they'll say you're done buddy get out of here you cause problems they'll throw you out look churches are gonna have rules and standards as well it makes sense it's logical it's reasonable and you know we don't want scorner what's a scorner someone that hates the church someone that's gonna say like well I don't like Pastor Shelley then why are you here I don't like brother fur okay then leave hey in fact you just don't like the people here you can leave whenever you would like because I want to be around people that like the church that aren't like sitting here just like I just can't stand everybody I can't stand being here I just can't stand a preacher then leave no one is forcing you to be here no one I promise you that and notice when we get rid of that person strife and repulsion are gonna cease we won't have as many problems we need to get rid of problem people Proverbs 22 it's pretty close verse 15 foolishness is bound on the heart of a child but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him notice again correction is what brings us peace it brings us more wisdom more knowledge it just makes things better but I'll tell you people that have a bad attitude and cannot be corrected ruin it for everyone I worked for a software company and we had a woman that worked for us she was what's known as a product manager it's a glorified position of nothingness okay but product managers don't have any technical skills and they essentially are supposed to be good at communicating they're supposed to communicate the product wishes from the client the customer to the developers they're good at working with people okay they have people skills all right because you talk to developers and developers aren't supposed to have the people skills right they have the long neck beards they show up late they're in gym shorts they're kind of awkward they play Dungeons and Dragons sometimes they're trying to catch a Pokemon go in the middle of the stuff so walks in with a problem and they start talking in you know all kinds of code language person doesn't know what's going there's a product manager supposed to be the in-between right now what do you think would be important for that role wouldn't be someone that's easy to be in treated gracious able I communicate we had this woman that worked for us in this position the most toxic individual unwilling to be corrected about anything nagged everybody and was just just you know for lack of a better word a female dog all right you can believe in that whatever you want all right and this woman just made it miserable for everybody now I'm a type of person that even if I don't like you and even if you're kind of a net negative on the team I just try to make up the hedge and just keep going because you're on my team and I'm willing to carry your burdens so you are like that I'm not gonna get you in trouble with work I'm just gonna make it work and I'm just gonna keep moving on but I'm not everybody plenty of other people there that are like I don't want to work with you so you know what they all complained to the manager they're like this person is toxic this person won't be corrected this person's whatever see what they did they fired her because if you went to her and you said hey I don't like your attitude she would be like and I don't care or she would be mean she would be rude she'd be condescending she would talk to me and she would just use only pronouns I don't know why women do this but they only use pronouns and you don't understand what they just said so you're like who's the he who's the they what's the things hey can you get the thing from the guy with the stuff over by the things and it's like are you talking about Carl and the printer yeah of course you knew I was talking about that one just get it well sorry you know I was just trying to make sure I understand but let me tell you something about the real world ladies you can get fired if you go work for subway they can fire you you go work for the software company they can fire you you know what I've noticed that some women just don't get we just don't fire you as our wife are the house worker but how come if you went to the real world where you could get fired you talk nice to the boss you talk nice to your co-workers but then in the home you can be rude and mean and condescending because you know you can't get fired you know that's a bad attitude and you can't you don't like correction you know what wives should be willing to be corrected and what is it the Bible say go to Proverbs 21 you're pretty much right there look at verse 19 it is better to dwell in the wilderness than with the contentious and an angry woman now in the real world they just say you're fired by and they don't have to deal with it but when you're married you know what men do they hide they go to the man cave they go to the bar they go hang out with the dudes they go to poker night they get addicted to video games they go they do anything else because you know what they don't want to be around a contentious and an angry woman what is contention it's fighting it's arguing it's the exact opposite of being willing to receive correction look if you as a husband just say hey honey do this differently she said yes sir no problem done you would like to hang out with that person but if you say hey I don't like this you're sleeping on the couch tonight you know okay well how many times does he want to correct you now he won't want to correct you now see here's the thing if you go to your boss and he says that to you he says like hey you need to fix this and you're like well you're as if you can get that report he's like so you're not gonna do the report right bye you're fired but then how come wise don't treat their husband like they would a secular boss isn't that isn't that kind of weird I mean your your husband is willing to live with you for the rest of your life pays all your bills takes care of you when you have your time of the month they have to be there and deal with that your boss doesn't care and yet many women will treat their boss way better than their husband this doesn't make sense and they'll literally drive their husband to the wilderness and then they'll complain about having a bad marriage you know you have a bad marriage because you can't be corrected because you're angry because you're contentious because you have a bad attitude a bad spirit and you say oh you just you're so misogynistic you know men are in charge well look I have to probably pay all your bills you know how to pay your bills I have to go to work and you know how I keep a job I have to do everything that my boss says we're not in a different boat than you we're in the same boat but the problem is I have to go to submit some guy that doesn't even like me that didn't you know give me a bunch of money and is it promised to be my boss for life I have to actually keep him happy and make him money and do whatever he says whereas you have to obey the husband that loves you and bought you an engagement ring and is doing good unto you you know it's not fair you have a better boss let's just be honest you have a better boss and you know what in order for us to keep that job and pay your bills we have to do everything that we're told so why wouldn't you do everything that you're told and you know why there's a lot of problems in marriages because wise will just not be corrected and you know what you make your house a toxic environment like that woman did but because he can't be fired you know what it just keeps being unresolved here's here's some things that would be interesting let me ask you this wives how would you feel if your husband corrected you about your appearance would you say that's a kindness or would you become angry and contentious if they corrected you on your appearance what if they corrected you on how you cleaned the house or the lack thereof how would that go it's really quiet in here how would you feel if your husband corrected you on your cooking that was burnt that didn't have that had too much salt in it you didn't cook this long enough this needs a different sauce I mean is that really unreasonable I mean if you went to the restaurant and they burned it do you send it back I mean if they give you the wrong order if they do it not the way you were expecting I mean in fact you go to a restaurant they'll say cutting your steak make sure it's cooked exactly how you want cuz we we want to get we'll get you a new one hey you're not completely satisfied we'll make another one what would you say if I'm not completely satisfied with the meal you just made me how would that go at the kitchen table I'm just I'm just saying some things I mean do you like correction what if your husband corrected you on your parenting would you be willing to do it but you know the wives that say hey I'm willing for my husband to correct me on my appearance I'm willing for my husband to correct me on my cleaning I'm like my husband to correct me on my cooking I'm willing for my husband to correct my parents you know what they will they'll be better looking they'll have a cleaner house their food will be better prepared and they'll become a better parent why would you not want that and if you won't take correction from your husband who will ever correct you and how will you ever become a better wife how would you ever become a better person you know what me going to preaching class I want to know how I can do better and look I'm not a wife I'll never be a wife but if I was a wife you know what I want I would want my husband to help me in every one of these areas I would want him to constantly tell me how I can improve in these years now can you don't need to be a jerk about it it should be mixed in with lots of compliments and lots of grace but I'm just saying we should also be willing to receive some correction shouldn't we how about correction on your schooling I mean isn't your children's education important wouldn't you be mad if you felt like teachers or principals or schools weren't doing a good job in your education and yet should women be willing to accept correction on their schooling how about correction on your behavior did you know at a workplace they have behavior standards you can't just act however you want your emotions are not always right at the workplace but how come they're magically right in your home it shouldn't always be the case either the Bible is telling us to correct our behavior and our attitudes constantly telling us to be content sometimes husbands need to tell their wives to be content sometimes husbands need to tell their wives to be joyful sometimes husbands need to tell their wives to you know what have a good attitude about correction sometimes husbands need to tell their wives all kinds of things there are a lot of relationships out there you say like hey we never fight well you probably never say any of those things you know why it's so quiet in here is because we all know hey that's kind of spicy you think you like hard preaching you don't even know hey children same way your parents tell you not talk that way don't talk that way your parents say you don't know something don't pretend like you do your parents are smarter than you we need to accept what they say go to go to Proverbs chapter 3 go to Proverbs chapter 3 and you know what we as God's children need to act the same way hey we're the bride of Christ and we are the children of God so in the same way when God corrects us even if we don't understand it even if we don't like it even when I agree with it we just do it we just do it and you know what we're happy about it we're ready to change we want to be good children we want to be good Christians and we should love love love correction please change your attitude about look people that are really really smart and really successful in life love correction just a fact they love to learn how to get better and a lot of rich businessmen you know what they will do they'll have meetups they'll get together they'll have little conferences and they'll critique each other on their businesses on their plans and they'll try to learn from each other how to get better pros that are really good at their sport they'll go play with other pros and they'll learn their technique they'll learn how they practice they'll learn their form and they get really really good the guys that are not very good and fail and flop they already arrived no one can show them anything don't be this person when you go to work be ready to learn you're ready to grow and even if you have a new guy on the job hey you could still learn things from the new guy learn things from the boss we should just always just be ready to learn we should want to go to church to be corrected we should want to go to the job to be corrected we should go to our spouse and be ready to be corrected and let me play the flip verse here for a moment you know it's okay for you men to be corrected by your wives just like I would love for my boss or me as a boss to be I can be corrected by my employees I can be corrected by my church members and you know what as a husband you shouldn't get mad if your wife offers you advice like honey that that jacket doesn't look good with those pants you know why she said that because it doesn't look good together honey do you look weird you look sloppy honey you need to get a haircut honey you need to brush your teeth honey your breath smells bad you know she's gonna give you all kinds of different advice honey maybe you should try to get up a little earlier to get to work on time honey you know look I'll be honest with you my wife makes me a way better person than I really am and she offers me all kinds of good advice all the time sometimes her advice is wrong but most of the time it's right and she offers me a lot a lot of good advice and we should be ready to receive correction from our wives our wives will help us be better men and you know what ladies your husband will help you to become a better wife we should just be ready for correction the next time someone offers you correction don't get mad about it receive the embrace the correction and often when you have a bad attitude they'll stop offering correction and really all you're doing is hurting yourself if you have a good at if someone offers you correction and the next time you receive it really well they'll be ready to offer you more and it just gives you an opportunity to get better and better and better look what if husbands and wives were ready to just say hey do this better and then she's like yeah you do this better and he's like you do this better you know what you'll just constantly get better and better and better and better and better if you say like I can't I can't tell her anything and then she would never listen to what I have to say they'll just get worse and worse and worse we need to be willing to accept each other's correction we need to be willing to accept and hear other people's advice in our life it will make us a better person Proverbs 3 verse 11 my son despised not the chastening of the Lord neither be weary of his correction for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth even as a father the son in whom he delighteth happy is the man that finest wisdom and the man that getteth understanding when I go to one more verse go to Proverbs chapter 17 will end go to Proverbs chapter 17 look just be ready to be corrected please don't have a bad attitude about it and in fact you should probably be looking for more ways to be correct in your life not less and if you didn't like something I said change you're being corrected change your attitude don't have a bad attitude about correction when you go soul winning look for an opportunity to get better when you come to church listen to the sermon for something you can improve not why you know I really hope my wife listened to the sermon tonight I hope you listen to the sermon tonight I hope my husband listen the sermon tonight I hope you listen the sermon you children I hope you listened I hope you are paying attention I hope you're applying things whatever is there to apply to you you know what allow the Holy Spirit to guide you in all truth have a better attitude have a better spirit and you know what just be a happy person you know what punishments not the worst thing that can happen in fact what was the attitude the guy he was happy and what happens is you get punished you're gonna be in a little low spot for a moment maybe a little embarrassed maybe you don't like it but then you don't want to just stay in that you need to make yourself happy again and it'll heal you did you remember what it said in Hebrews about how you let it heal you when you receive that correction okay your attitude will determine a lot of these things and just being happy heals things look at Proverbs 17 verse 22 a merry heart do with good like a medicine but a broken spirit drieth the bones when you get corrected don't get bitter don't get a bad attitude about it don't stay dry don't stay cold just say you know what I'm so glad I got corrected I must have people in my life that love me because you know who corrects you people that love you you know why your husband offers you correction because he loves you you know why your wife offers a correction because he loves you children you know why your parents offer you correction because they love you you know why your pastor offers you a lot of correction it's cuz he loves you if you go to a church and he's like he's never correcting me he doesn't love you if you go to a church and they don't preach hard it's because they don't love you if they're not trying to challenge you because they don't love you if your boss will never give you instruction or correction he doesn't love you he doesn't like you and you know what God does love us that's why this book is full of correction God loves you so much to correct you on every page virtually and the Holy Spirit will constantly approve us and he wants to do that but you know when we recognize what someone did for us we need to just have a hair a merry heart be happy about it because that'll heal it that'll heal whatever embarrassment shame discomfort you have from being corrected you know in some cases and in most cases in all cases we're not gonna like correction in the moment but we should just want the correction anyways so we can become better Christians we can be better people and the people that embrace this sermon and take correction for the rest of life will end up being successful happy and having a good life and the people that don't like what I said will become scorners and hateful and bitter ugly nasty lies fact fact if you don't like correction you have a miserable life if you embrace correction you'll have a great future ahead of you let us be people that embrace correction just goes in prayer thank you for the father so much for the Word of God so that we constantly improved by your correction please help us to have the right attitude I pray as husbands and as fathers that we willing to be corrected by our wives when needed we'd be corrected by the Word of God we corrected by church and preaching I pray that when we go to work that we could have a good attitude that we would appreciate the correction we receive from our bosses and from those in charge of us I pray that you would help wives to have a attitude that desires correction and becoming a better wife that they would not allow themselves to become too emotional and too adversarial and angry and contentious and just having a bad spirit but rather they'd be willing to become better wives and mothers I pray that you'd help the children in this room to recognize the importance of correction they would listen to their father and their mother's advice and they would not scorn and I pray that you just help us as a Christian people to be an example of receiving correction we thank you for all that you give us in Jesus name we pray amen all right in closing let's go to song number four hundred and twelve song number four hundred and twelve onward Christian soldiers honor Christian soldiers, marching as to war with the cross of Jesus, glowing on before Christ the royal pastor, wings against the globe Over into battle, seen it never grow Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war With the cross of Jesus, glowing on before At the sign of triumph, Satan's books of glee Onward, Christian soldiers, on to victory Helps foundations wither, at the shout of praise Brothers, lift your voices, loud your echoes raise Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war With the cross of Jesus, glowing on before Like the mighty army, who's the church of God Brothers, we are dreading, where the saints have trod We are not divided, all but God in thee One in hope and doctrine, one in charity Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war With the cross of Jesus, glowing on before Onward, they keeping hope, join our acting hope Then lift up your voices, in the triumph song Glory, honor, honor, on to Christ the King Lift up countless ages, may an angel sing Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war With the cross of Jesus, glowing on before Great singing everybody, you were all dismissed Thank you for watching!