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Brother Valentine, can you open us with a word of prayer? Amen. Next hymn is 160, Crown Hymn with Many Crowns, 160. Sing it out on the first one. Crown Hymn with Many Crowns The Lamb upon His throne Hark, all the hen, the anthem crowns The music on its own Awake, my soul, and sing Of Him who died for thee And hail Him as I match this King Through all eternity Ground in the Lord above Behold His hands and side Rich wounds yet visible above In beauty glorified No angel in the sky Can fully bear that sigh But downward bends His wandering eye At mysteries so bright Crown Him the Lord of life Who triumphed o'er the grave Who rose victorious to the strife For those He came to save His glories now we sing Who died and rose on high Who died eternal life to bring And lives that death may die Crown Him the Lord of Heaven One with a Father known One with a Spirit through Him given From yonder glorious throne To Thee be endless grace For the for all has died May Thou alone through endless days Adored and magnified Amen, good singing. This time we'll have the announcements. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Sure Foundation Baptist Church. Take our bulletins and go through the announcements. If you need a bulletin, just lift up your hand and one of the ushers will bring you one. All right. On our front cover, we have our verse of the week. It says, God shall bless us and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him. Psalm 67, verse 7. Looking forward to the day that that comes. Amen. And on the inside there we have our service times, 10 30 a.m. for our Sunday morning service. Sunday evening service, 3 30 p.m. and our Thursday Bible study is at 6 30 p.m. This week will be in First Chronicles chapter 24. And tonight I'm not doing a sermon from Joshua 14. It will be a standalone sermon tonight. Today we have a soloing time at 1 p.m. Just meeting here in the auditorium. If you're planning on going soloing or you can meet on location, just make sure that Alex gets you a map to get on. So I'm not sure how many people are going to go out today, but if you are, again, just make sure that Alex knows which map you're going to if we split into two teams or three or whatever it is. So praise report so far. You can see the salvations, baptisms and attendance totals from last week. And let's see, we have our events. This weekend is the six year anniversary of our church up in Spokane, Washington. I preached there Friday night and then flew home yesterday. And it was a pretty good crowd there on Friday night. I'm pretty sure we had like twenty three, twenty four people there. So even after losing a big family up there, we still had a pretty decent turnout. The weather wasn't super great. I woke up to snow, which I wasn't expecting. So I was kind of a pleasant surprise. Sorry, Miss Amy, you should have gone. We would have had the snow that you were waiting for. So but it melted before I left. So, I mean, that's the kind of snow I like. It just appears for a moment and then it vanished the way. Right. So the only other thing we have really going on this month is the Sony marathon. But we are planning on putting, you know, putting a couple of meetings together. And a couple of those things are going to be meetings for song leading classes. So I'm going to try to do two song leading classes next Sunday right after church. We're going to do a song leading class and I'll provide lunch for all the men that signed up. And it'll be basically right after church. We're going to go into that room right there and I'll feed you. Graham, some food down your throat. And then that's always good for your singing voice to pick up. And then Remy and Bill are going to head up that class. Bill is classically trained and Remy has been selling for a long time. So anyway, yeah, he's one of the fine arts students that we have here. So anyway, I'm just messing around. But I think he really actually is possibly right. Yeah. You were in a marching band or something. OK. He was a rock and roll, ex rock and roll band. No, I'm just kidding. I don't know. I really don't know. I'm just joking. OK. So I'll shut up now about that. But anyway, so he's going to teach basically. I mean, we kind of have to you have to know a little bit about it's not just about how to wave your hands, but about how to pick up the beats and measures and stuff like that. So it's really not that complicated if you don't pick complicated songs. But if you're going to pick Master of the Tempest is Raging, you know, you probably should learn how to lead that song correctly. So, yeah, and how to do the holds and stuff like that. But it's not that complicated. And it does just take practice to get better at it. So don't be too overwhelmed with all that stuff. But that'll be next Sunday right after church. And then I'm hoping that we can do one right the week right after it so it doesn't go cold on yet. And then we'll try to just put people in on songs like maybe, you know, on a third song or the last song, a song service or, you know, of a church service. Then maybe on a Thursday night. And if you don't want it live streamed, of course, or it will shut the cameras off so that you don't have to feel that YouTube pressure or whatever, because I understand it. Trust me. I've been there before and I thought I was gonna have to do it this morning. I was like I was thinking I might want to shut the cameras off myself. So but anyway, so that's coming up. And then we have Sony Marathon on the twenty ninth and the men's preaching night that we do every quarter is on the thirtieth. And so hopefully we get who's playing on preaching on that men's preaching night. One, two, three, four, Roshan, five. Zoe, she's kicked out of the church right now. No, it's good. I'm just joking. All right. So good. We have a good little amount of people there. And if you've never preached before, love to get have you get up and try. And again, I would I would be willing to shut off the camera if you just would be too embarrassed to do that on a live stream or something like that. It's understandable. So anyhow, that's coming up. That's the things that are coming up this this month. And I'm going to be preaching a sermon fairly soon about the Lord's Supper and what we believe about that, because we only do it once a year and we're going to be doing it April 13th on a Sunday night. Like we always do the Sunday before Easter. And so it's usually a very special time and we do it different than a lot of other churches would do it. But we think that we do it very biblically. And that's why we do it. So other people do it different. But the way we do it here, we do it for a reason. So usually preach about that once a year. And then the next weekend, we're going to be having the all SFB see mega marathon where all of our churches are going to be participating. And going soloing and we're going to be joining with Verity Baptist Manila and then whoever else wants to join in with us. Also, I'm pretty sure that Strong Tower Baptist Church is going to be participating. Maybe Fortress Baptist. I'm not sure who else, but hopefully we can get some other people involved in that. And then we have Easter Sunday, of course, the 20th. And then the Sure Foundation Baptist Church Seattle's second year anniversary will have Pastor Anderson preaching for us on Friday night at 7 p.m. If you are planning on going up there, I like to say this. Get your hotel room early. They're fairly cheap. But once you get closer to those dates, they'll be more expensive. So think about those things. When the weather gets better, the hotels get more expensive here. So and then also the 15th through the 18th is the King James Conference. I would also recommend any friends that you know that are coming from other churches or anybody that you just know that's coming. I highly recommend getting your hotel rooms early. And if you're from out of town and you're listening to this, please make sure that you RSVP. Just let us know that you're coming so we can plan for our barbecue and stuff like that. And even if you don't do that, though, you can still come because I know you won't. So I know you won't RSVP. I just know people. There's been a couple of people who have said something, but I know a lot more people are coming. So and there's been a couple of people have asked if maybe someone could put them up. And one of them's Moses from Faith for Baptist Church. If anybody knows him, I would be willing to put him up for the conference. He's looking for a place to stay. So Moses, I think it's Gola or gala. I'm not sure how to pronounce it, but I call him Black Hitler. So that's actually Dylan, Brother Dylan or Pastor Oz calls him that. And it's just because he preached in Germany. OK. And he's Indian, so he's really dark. But I don't know. It's just a joke. So but he was in Germany and he preaches in German, but he's Indian, so it's not like a racist thing or something. So but it's it is funny. So I just kind of it's it's a it's a it's a nickname that stuck. So if you want Black Hitler to stay with you this conference. Anyway, it's Brother Moses. So he's a cool he's a cool, cool guy. So anyway, and then there's another lady that goes to our church in Spokane. Her name is Larissa, and she's been going to our church and going soloing for a long time. And she is looking for a place to be put up to. So if you're interested in that or you're willing to let one of those people stay, they're asking for accommodation. So anyway, just let me know if you're willing to do that. And Kayla's bridal shower is May 31st, so she's also registered at Target and she's getting married. So to this big guy named Gabriel, not that big guy named Gabriel, a different big guy named Gabriel. And he goes to the church in Tucson. So anyhow, Chicago Soul Winning Marathon has been planned also. And I'll be preaching at a church in Chicago on Sunday in Cicero. And also we're having Soul Winning on Friday. And that church is hosting us on Saturday and allowing us to operate out of their church. If you went last year, you know the church that I'm talking about. And we can do baptisms and stuff like that, but we're going to be operating out of that same location. So flying into Midway, the airport Midway is literally like 20 minutes away from that place. So if you're thinking about staying someplace, you might want to stay at a hotel near that area. So it's a lot better than flying into O'Hare, which is one of the worst airports in the world in my opinion. But if you're interested in going to Chicago, you've never been there, it's kind of a fun place to go to. It's just not a fun place to drive. So I just asked Brother Drew about that. He was our chauffeur the whole time and he was raging on some of the... You have to pay all kinds of tolls and fees to drive over bridges and stuff. And he was just like, you know, I paid, I paid. No, it wasn't that bad, but it was frustrating. It was frustrating for us too. Me and Bill are like backseat drivers. You've got to do it like this, Brother Drew. You know, he's just like, I did do it, you know. Two grumpy old men in the front seat of the vehicle. And one guy in the back that's not as grumpy. But anyway, it was fun. So anyway, we're family integrated. Don't forget about that. We've got all the rules and regulations down below. And the ties that have come in so far for this month are at the bottom of the page. And Eli Lambert's birthday is on the 19th, which is coming up this week. Maybe he just didn't want us to sing happy birthday to him where he had to work or something. So I've got to apologize. Okay. So but we'll sing happy birthday to him when we get a chance. Apparently nobody gets married in March. So that's all I have for announcements. And once I forgot something, let's go ahead and move on with the service. Another song. Come on up, Brother Bell. All right. So the thing about being trained as a percussionist, when I tune the timpani to a G and you hit it with the ballad, it plays a G. When I look down at the G on the page and I try and make it come out of the throat, it doesn't always actually happen. So that's the difference. All right. 323. The notes that I would sing I know not. Romans 7 singing. 323. More about Jesus. More about Jesus, what I know. More of his grace to others show. More of his saving fullness see. More of his love who died for me. More, more about Jesus. More, more about Jesus. More of his saving fullness see. More of his love who died for me. More about Jesus, let me learn. More of his holy will discern. Spirit of God, my teacher be. Showing the things of Christ to me. More, more about Jesus. More, more about Jesus. More of his saving fullness see. More of his love who died for me. More about Jesus in his word. Boarding communion with my Lord. Hearing his voice in every line. Making each faithful singing mine. More, more about Jesus. More, more about Jesus. More of his saving fullness see. More of his love who died for me. More about Jesus on his throne. Riches in glory all his own. More of his kingdom sure increase. More of his coming Prince of Peace. More, more about Jesus. More, more about Jesus. More of his saving fullness see. More of his love who died for me. Amen at this time, we'll collect the offering. And brother Alex, can you bless the offering? Dear Lord, thank you for our church here, Father. And that we can serve with our brothers and sisters. And I ask you to bless this gift, both the gift and the giver. And we can further your kingdom in Jesus' name, amen. . . . . . . . All right, go ahead and turn in your Bibles to Job chapter 31. And if you don't have a Bible, there should be one underneath the seat in front of you. Be in Job 31. Job 31, the Bible reads, I made a covenant with mine eyes. Why then should I think upon a maid? For what portion of God is there from above, and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? Is not destruction to the wicked, and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? Have I walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit? Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walk after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands, then let me sow, and let another eat. Yea, let my offspring be rooted out. If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid weight at my neighbor's door, then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. For this is an heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. If I did despise the cause of my manservants, or of my maidservants, when they contended with me, what then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb make him, and did not one fashion us in the womb? If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, or have eaten myself alone, and the fatherless had not eaten thereof, for from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb. If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering, if his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep, if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate, then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone. For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence, if I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much, if I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness, and my harp had been discreetly enticed, or my mouth had kissed my hand, this also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge, for I should have denied the God that is above. If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him, neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. If the men of my tabernacle said not all that we had of his flesh, we could not be satisfied. The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors to the traveller. If I covered my transgressions as Adam by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of my families terrify me, that I kept silent, and went not out of the door? O that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book. Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. I would declare unto him the number of my steps as a prince would I go near unto him. If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain, if I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life, let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. Brother Timo, will you pray for us? Amen. Alright, the title of the sermon this morning is, A Strange Punishment for the Workers of Iniquity. A strange punishment for the workers of iniquity. Look down at your Bible at Job chapter 31 verse number 3. The Bible says, Is not destruction to the wicked, and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity. Now, that word strange can mean, it has some synonyms that mean some different things, and there's a couple different dictionary definitions of that word. So, the first definition of strange is, Unusual or surprising in a way that is unsettling, or disturbing, or hard to understand. So, when someone said that's a strange punishment, it's something that's unsettling. It's something that's disturbing to you, and hard to understand. So, when it says that it's not destruction of the wicked, and a strange punishment to workers of iniquity, it's comparing the wicked to this term, the workers of iniquity. And the term, the workers of iniquity, is found in 27 passages in the Bible. We're going to go through some of those this morning. Not all of them, but we're going to go through some of them. There's a couple repeated ones in the Psalms, and there's a couple that I'm just not going to go to, just for sake of time. But, when it says strange punishment, that's kind of what it's talking about. God puts some kind of weird punishment, some strange punishment, something that's disturbing for us to see, something that's hard to understand, something that's unsettling to us, and it's something that makes it very obvious, probably, that God is the one that is punishing that person. And another definition could be something not previously visited, not seen or encountered before. Obviously, if you're in a strange land or something, but it also could be something that nobody's ever seen before when it comes to whatever that punishment would be. If you think about it that way, it's not maybe a disease that anybody's ever seen before. This is a strange disease. We don't know where this came from. Punishment, obviously, is the infliction of a penalty as retribution for an offense. So, when someone breaks the law, they get punished. When someone breaks God's commandments, they get punished, and that is by being afflicted for the offense that they've committed. Now, not everybody that gets convicted of a crime pays what they should pay for it, especially in the time that we live in. People can do some pretty horrific things and not really get in trouble for them like they should. They should be getting the death penalty, for instance, in certain things, and they don't. And this world is kind of messed up when it comes to justice and law, but God is the ultimate judge, and He will punish people how He sees fit. So, if they think that they're getting away with something, it seems as though they've gotten away with something, God is not going to let them get away with it. So, either He's going to punish them in this life or the life to come, or maybe He punishes them in this life and the life to come. Maybe they're just going to get double smack-downs in both places. So, what does it mean by iniquity? Well, iniquity, the etymology of the word is like an old French word, but of course, this is a Hebrew word also, but it kind of just means like not just. So, when you say someone's a just man, what does the Bible mean by that? It means that they're saved, doesn't it? But when they're not just, what does that mean, that they're not saved? So, if you're a worker of iniquity, you're someone that works. If you just take the term, that guy's a worker, what does that mean, that that guy does labor to get stuff done, right? But if you're a worker of iniquity, that means you're laboring to do things that are wicked. You're laboring to do things that are evil, and it might not just be in a church setting. It could be just out in the world, because there's all kinds of psychopaths and weirdos out there that don't even necessarily have anything to do with churches. Like, you know, I mean, there's serial killers and just weirdos out there in the world that just don't even darken a church's doorstep. They don't get in and start causing chaos and problems in churches, necessarily. But they're still a worker of iniquity. And their day is going to come just like anybody else's. But sometimes God allows people to live for long periods of time, and you're like, why is God letting George Soros live and just cause all this destruction and chaos in the world? But then, you know, he cuts short the life of some other false prophet or some other really evil man. Or why does he let Billy Graham live to be this lifelong false prophet evangelist or whatever? But when people come and they're purposely just trying to harm the people of God and they're trying to harm God's people and the cause of Christ, and they're doing it, they're just doing all kinds of wickedness, God sometimes He does just punish those people in such a way where it's like, hey, that's something that these people should learn to avoid. Maybe it's a learning tool for these workers of iniquity that would try to do the same thing. Hey, this is the end of some of these people that just ceases, they don't cease to attack the people of God and the works of God. And God sometimes just destroys them. I was talking to brother Bill on the phone last night and we were talking about how Herod, well, I was thinking about Herod's son, the other Herod, but Herod the Great is the one, the dad that you pulled up. Yeah, so the one that tried to kill baby Jesus, he died of gangrene of his privy members. His privy member turned black and fell off, and that's how he died. I mean, kind of a gross way to die, right? That's a pretty bad way to go out. I mean, but that's a strange punishment, isn't it? That's not something that you hear of every day, that's pretty unsettling. For any guy in here, that's just like the most horrific thing that you could think of. I mean, one of the most horrific things you could think of to die in that manner. But his son died, I think his bowels fell out or something. I mean, imagine dying like that. There's other instances of things like that happening. I mean, he killed John the Baptist. He killed James, the brother of John, with a sword. You think you're just going to get away with doing stuff like that and God's not going to take retribution upon you? Of course he's going to take retribution upon you. He's going to destroy you. So, a worker of iniquity is someone that's actively just coming and trying to destroy God's works and things like that, because the run-of-the-mill sinner isn't necessarily going to get these strange-type punishments. The worker of iniquity is like another way of calling someone a reprobate. It's another way of calling someone a child of the devil or a son of Belial. And it's someone that has been given up on and is beyond the hope of redemption. And of course I preach sermons about that topic many times, but I just want to focus on this term, workers of iniquity, this morning, because it's kind of what the sermon's about, a strange punishment for the workers of iniquity. And there are people in this world whose sole purpose is to cause terror and chaos in the lives of mankind, just in general. But there's also psychopaths that are specifically dedicated and Satan uses them to root into churches, undermine the authority, undermine the people, draw people out, pull people aside, make them fall out of the way. These types of people are dedicated to what they're doing, and they're just like terrorist sleeper cells, agents that are sewn into the church. They're the tares that are sewn in among the wheat, and they're ready to activate at any time, like some weird sleeper cell agent, just like Judas did. I mean, think about what Judas did. I mean, obviously Jesus picked him because he fulfilled scripture and all that, but he was also showing us that these types of people exist. He pretended to be just like them. He went and preached with them. He went out two and two, just like everybody else did. He preached just like everybody else did. But Jesus knew he was a devil from the beginning, but we don't have the ability to know that. We think we can pick him off. Some people are easy to pick off. Some people's tails hanging out. Some people's ears are poking out, these wolves. But some people are a lot harder to tell. None of the disciples knew that Judas was bad, none of them. Even when Jesus straight up just said, it's the one who I dip the sop in the cup and hand it to him, it's him. Because they're like, hey, John's just like, tell me which one it is. It's literally the one that I dip the sop in and hand it to him, and John still didn't, you know, he didn't get it. None of the disciples were like, is it I? They're thinking it's them instead of him still. And then when he goes out, the Bible says that Satan entered into him. And he went out and it was night. They think that he's just going out to give money to the poor because he's so hyper spiritual all the time that they just think that he's just doing all these great works. This happens in churches all the time. There'll be someone that comes in and they're doing all these works to be seen of men and everybody thinks they're great and they're sowing more than everybody else. They're helping people more than anybody else supposedly. They're just doing all these works to be seen of men. And then in reality, they're a wolf in sheep's clothing. And again, sometimes it's easy to figure out. And look, I'm not saying, hey, if someone's helping people that they're a wolf, okay? I'm not saying that. I'm just talking about that some of these people are like video game numbers and so on. It's like it's the worst neighborhood on any of our maps and they're like, yeah, I got 10 saved there. It's like, no, you didn't. Come on. But anyway, these types of people, they'll come in and be like Judas. And what did Judas do? He betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver. And he even repented of his sins afterward. He actually felt bad. Look, reprobates can seemingly do good things. They can even feel sorry for what they did sometimes. I mean, Judas, he came back and tried to give the money back to them. He did give it back. He was like, hey, I've betrayed the innocent blood. And they're like, that's your problem, buddy. And he left that money and then they used it to buy a field to bury people like him in. They called it the field of blood because they couldn't take that blood money back. They could use it to buy and kill the Lord Jesus, but they wouldn't take it back. This is how hypocritical they actually are is that they'll sell the flesh of a man and betray their own Messiah, but they won't take the money back that they used to buy him in the first place. Like, oh, we can't take that. It's the price of blood. It's like, yeah, but you paid for the price of blood. Anyway, let's look at some verses together. Let's look at Job chapter 34, verse 22. Now, again, the term workers of iniquity is in the Bible in 27 verses. We'll look at some of them. I'll try to go through them fairly quickly this morning, but I've done this before, but it's good to be refreshed on these ideas. So Job chapter 34, verse 22 says, There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. So you can't hide in a dark enough place. You can't be in a dark enough shadow to where God won't find these people and seek them out to destroy them. And, you know, it reminds me of that passage when they say, when they go into the caves and the dens of the earth and say, until the mountains fall on us and hide us from the face and the wrath of the Lamb, they're trying to hide in a dark place, aren't they? They're trying to hide from his vision, but you can't hide from the eyes of God no matter how deep it is, no matter if you put lead encased, you know, enclosures around it. God can see through all that. There's nothing hidden from his eyes. And the workers of iniquity cannot hide themselves. They can try all they want. That's why they like to do things in the dark. You know, that's why the Bible, when Judas betrayed him, it says, And it was dark. Why does it give us that detail? Because in the darkness is where the workers of iniquity really like to operate. You know, night, the day separated from the night is a picture for us that we are the children of light and the children of darkness. These types of people operate on the sly, in the dark, when shady things happen. Look at Psalm chapter 5, verse 5. Psalm chapter 5, verse 5. It's the first time it's used in the Psalms. And it's used in the Psalms more than anywhere else. And of course, the Psalms, a lot of them are talking about the Lord Jesus Christ himself. And of course, David is writing a lot of these. And he was attacked a lot by workers of iniquity. But of course, the Lord Jesus Christ was dealing with them in his earthly ministry a lot too. But, Psalm chapter 5, verse 5, the Bible says, The foolish shall not stand in thy sight. Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. So, again, the term is just going to be over and over again, but see how it says thou hatest all workers of iniquity? It doesn't say he hates their sin, does it? Is that what it says? No, it says he hates them, doesn't it? So, that's why I say they're reprobates because they're people that can't be saved. Because if he hates them, he hates them, then when God hates somebody, that means they've already hated him. And once they hate him, then he hates them back, and then they're destined for hell. They have been given over to a reprobate mind. Look at Psalm 6, verse 8, Psalm 6, verse 8. It says, Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity, the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. Now, we should also, when people like this are involved in our lives, or they're attacking our church, or attacking other churches and we know about it, we should pray that these people not only depart from us, but there is a thing, you know, there's different kinds of psalms, and there's many imprecatory psalms that are in the book of psalms. People really get mad when we pray imprecatory prayers towards these types of people, but it's biblical. I mean, there's songs about it. There's songs, whole psalms, that are just imprecatory psalms against these types of people. And these are things that people are like, I can't believe that you would preach this from the pulpit, I can't believe that you believe this, and it's like, whatever, you know, you can bury your head in the sand and just want to believe all the rainbows and unicorns and everything's peachy king in the Bible, but that's just not the case. The truth of the matter is, is that there are people like this, and you are going to encounter them, and in this church we've had to battle against these types of people. Look at Psalm chapter 14 verse 4, Psalm chapter 14 verse 4. And it's not just one we've had to fight against, it's multiple people we've had to fight against in this church alone. But let alone all the other churches that we have fellowshiped with in the past, or still fellowshiped with. It says in Psalm 14, 4, it says, Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread? So one of the qualities of the workers of iniquity is that they go after specifically my people. What is this talking about? The people of God. They eat them up, and it says, and call not upon the Lord. So this is not talking about saved people, is it? Because if they call not upon the Lord, that means they're not what? They're not saved. So a worker of iniquity isn't just, it can't be just some saved person that's just kind of fallen out of, you know, God's favor or something, or that they're just being like a Saul type character. Now these people do not call upon the Lord because they're not saved. But they eat up my people. Notice how it makes a difference here too. It says the workers of iniquity eat up my people. So what would that tell you? That they're not his people. Because they're workers of iniquity. And it says, now turn to Psalm chapter 28 verse 3. Psalm chapter 28 verse 3. Psalm 28 verse 3, the Bible says, Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts. See, they pretend to be good people. They pretend to be nice people. They pretend to speak peace to their neighbors. But it says mischief is in their hearts. They really are wicked and evil people trying to plot some scheme against them. Trying to plot something. I've noticed this about sodomites a lot, that when they first move into a neighborhood, they're always nice to everybody. And, hey, let's do a block party. Let's put little book stands at the end so the kids can read them. And then they're the ones, really, that are causing all the turmoil and chaos in the neighborhoods. They do this at work too. They bring in the lesbians to the workplace and the homos. And then everybody's like, I think this person's going to be a really great one. They're going to be great. Any time I've ever worked someplace where they bring them in, I'm just like, no they're not. You'll see. And they always end up doing the exact same thing that they do every single time. They cause nothing but hate and discontent with the fellow workers. And they just make their reprobates. They're workers of iniquity. They do it everywhere they go. And it's not just homos that are workers of iniquity, but not all workers of iniquities are homos, but all homos are workers of iniquity. Okay? So, but these types of people will speak peace to their neighbors. And are we neighbors in this church? Of course we are. We're neighbors. And so when they come into churches, they speak peace to us too, but mischief is in their hearts. They're plotting. They're scheming. They're data mining. That's why I say don't just give your heart to every believer that first walks in the door and tell them all your secrets. Don't tell people your past if you don't want it broadcast on the internet like five years later. I mean, just you should guard your heart to a certain extent. I'm not saying don't be friends and don't share some of your heart's desires and things like that, but I would not share your worst failures in life with people that you don't know. And even some people that you do know. Look at Psalm chapter 36 verse 12. Psalm chapter 36 verse 12. The Bible says there are the workers of iniquity fallen. They are cast down and shall not be able to rise. Once they're dead and gone, they shall not be able to rise. You know why? Because they're in hell. They're not going to be able to rise again. Only saved people rise. Psalm 37 one. This is a Psalm of David. It says, fret not thyself because of evildoers. Neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. Don't look at them and think, oh, why are they being seemingly blessed or whatever? It says, for they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb. They're not going to last long, these workers of iniquity. And you know what they have to look forward to? Even if they do live to a ripe old age. They have hell to look forward to and we go to heaven. Look at Psalm 59 verse two. Psalm 59 verse two. See that term workers of iniquity is in the Bible more than people realize. Psalm 59 verse two. The Bible says, deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from bloody men. See, when the Bible's making these contrasts and just giving you these little details in these verses when it's talking about the workers of iniquity, it's giving you qualities that they are like. It's giving you things that they will do. And so when David's saying, or whoever's writing the Psalm, deliver me from the workers of iniquity and save me from bloody men, it means that they're capable of committing murder or committing violence. Psalm 64 verse two. Psalm 64 verse two. The Bible says, hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked. So what does that tell you? That they have secret counsel against saved people, right? From the insurrection of the workers of iniquity. What is that insurrection? Well it's a violent uprising against an authority or government. And if this is a Psalm of David, then, you know, did people try to rise up against King David? They did. His own son was a worker of iniquity, Absalom. And David wanted to handle him with kid gloves even to the end. He's like, don't harm him, don't put your hands on him. And Joab obviously disobeyed that order and thrust him through with a dart. Like that actually needed to happen. Like how could you allow Absalom to live after that? You just can't allow that to happen. But he did command him not to do that. But he needed to go, obviously. But insurrection, you know, these people violently uprise. I mean, who are the ones that are the MAGA haters and all the ones that are doing insurrections in all these different cities? What's the type of people that they are? A bunch of sodomites. I mean, look at all their pictures, their mugshots where they get arrested, these rioters and stuff. They all have the multicolored Kool-Aid style hair. You know, like they just grab the purple bleach or they bleach their hair and put the purple dye in it and whatever. They have all these bones and piercings in their face. Like they fell into a tackle box or something. And yeah, they look like the weirdest freaks in the world. When Kyle Rittenhouse had to put on his fine shooting display in Kenosha, the Kenosha kid, you know, those people that were attacking him were reprobates. They were workers of iniquity. One of them had raped like six boys or something and he was still walking the streets and breathing. But guess what? There was a strange punishment that came to those guys. A 16, 17 year old little chubby white kid, you know, hit his mark every time. And those guys are now lying in hell someplace. So I think that one guy, I think the first guy he shot that was trying to kill him. I mean, one of the guys at least, I think he shot in the privy members. Was it the first guy? Yeah. Yeah, he was the guy that molested a bunch of boys. And then, I mean, his shots rang true. It's almost like God was guiding the bullets exactly where they needed to go. I mean, you think that's an accident? I'm not saying Kyle Rittenhouse was like some godly Christian or something, but God has a strange punishment for the workers of iniquity. You know, those men died doing, you know, what they did to others. They were chasing a little boy and they died doing what they were already doing to other people. They died chasing a young boy. They died at the hands of something that they were already tormenting before in life. And talk about irony. I'm just going to get one more little boy. No, you're not. This little boy has an AR-15. So, the great equalizer. So, anyway, what verse was I in? The violent insurrection can come to an end really quickly. Psalm 92, let's go to Psalm 92. Psalm 92, verse 7, the Bible says, When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever. That's a comforting psalm to me, that when they all rise up and flourish, that they'll be destroyed forever. So, that's good to know. And maybe that's talking about the end times, you know, because there is going to be a reprobate army that's going to rise up against God's people. It's called the great tribulation. You can't buy or sell, so that would probably tell me that you can't work anywhere unless you've taken that mark. Every government worker will have the mark of the beast. Every police officer, every military personnel. I mean, how are you going to work in the military and it's the beast army without that mark? You have to have it. To be a police officer, you have to have it. I mean, who do you think is going to be chasing people and rounding them up? And probably, it'll probably be like when the Russians were going around putting bags over people's heads and throwing them in the backs of vans, you'll have the snitch neighbors that are snitching everybody out like the commies that they are. Look at verse nine in the same chapter. It says, for lo, thine enemies, O Lord, for lo, thine enemies shall perish. All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. Notice how it says, thine enemies shall perish. So, these people, make no mistake, they could be our enemies too, but most importantly, what you need to take out of this about the workers of iniquity is that they're God's enemies. And so, the Bible does talk about us praying for our enemies and doing good to our enemies. Those are our personal enemies. Those are the ones that work that just don't like you because you're a Christian or whatever. Those are people maybe in your family that don't like you because you're a Christian now or whatever, but that's not talking about the workers of iniquity, the reprobates, the freaks. That's not talking about them because those are God's enemies and God doesn't want us doing good or praying for his enemies. That is the difference. Even when Jeremiah was, he was praying for people and God says, pray not for this people. The ones that were just already done, God's like, stop praying for them. Why are you doing that? But then there's Christians, these Christians that'll be like, you should just pray for Billy Graham or you should pray for John MacArthur that he turns his heart. He's on his last lap right now, according to his own words. He's dying, and you think he's just gonna get saved right now after he's been a false prophet all these years? He's a false prophet, folks, and I don't care what he did during COVID. Oh, he stood up against COVID. Stood up against COVID. I think he took the PPP money. Oh, he stood up against COVID. He stood up against COVID and he took the PPP money? Okay. Well, I don't see that as standing up to it. I'm pretty sure. Somebody might want to fact check me about that, but I'm pretty sure that he did. I could be wrong, though. Look at Psalm 94 verse four, Psalm 94 verse four. The Bible says, How long shall they utter and speak hard things and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? This is another thing that they like to do, especially when they've already been found out and then they just go on their campaigns and say all these hard, speak all these hard things against God's men, against God's people. John MacArthur got a $2 million PPP loan. John MacArthur got a $2 million PPP loan as he stood against COVID. Yeah. Thank you, brother Shawn. Fact check. Facts correct. Certified fresh. No, I'm just kidding. Anyway, I think that's something else. But anyway, yeah, so they took the PPP money, but they stood against COVID. Yeah, that's funny how that works. But anyway, so yeah, these people, and the Bible says that these people make hard speeches and the Antichrist, when he rises up, he's gonna make these hard speeches against God because he's gonna be the king of the reprobates. He's gonna be the king of the workers of iniquity, but all these people that are like this, they like to speak hard things against God's people and it says they boast themselves. The workers of iniquity boast themselves. They brag about how they've gotten away with it. Oh, I'm not getting punished. Oh, I'm living the best, I'm getting the best sleep I've ever gotten. Oh, you're praying against me? Keep on praying against me because I'm living my best life that I've ever had. Ever since I left your church, I'm doing great. Well, how you doing now, buddy? How you doing now? You know, God's punishment doesn't necessarily just come right when you're doing the things that you're doing or right after you've done the things that you've done, but maybe he's gonna strike you with some incurable disease later on so that you get leprosy and you die a slow, agonizing, and painful death. Yeah, you can fake your way that all your family's with you. Who cares? You know who's not with you? God's not with you. And when you die, you're gonna split hell wide open and nobody's gonna mourn you except for your fake family. Psalm chapter 94, verse 16. Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? You know, these people need to be stood up against. It's not like, you know, yeah, we pray for our enemies. We pray for those who despitefully use us. But that's not who these people are. These people are the worst of the worst. These people are the reprobates and who's gonna stand up for me? God does, he doesn't need anybody to stand up for him but should we be praying for them and helping them and saying, oh, I'm sorry that this is happening to you? No, when the workers of iniquity are getting punished, we're not supposed to be like feeling sorry for them because obviously God is doing that to them for a reason. He's giving that strange punishment to them for a reason. It's because of what they've done. It's not like, you know, they did a couple things and then walked it back and said they were sorry. There's been plenty of time for some of these people to have said that they're sorry and walk it back. But they just dig in and just even get more proud and then act like they never did anything wrong and wonder why, oh, I just can't understand why this is happening to me. Well, I can understand why. I can definitely understand why. Look at Psalm 125, verse five. They have a lot of, I mean, has any of their characteristics so far been remotely good? Have they been even redeemable at all? No. Look at Psalm 125, verse five. The Bible says, as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity, but peace shall be upon Israel. See, God's gonna give his people peace, but the people that try to turn aside to the way they are, to their crooked ways, God's gonna lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. They basically are like the workers of iniquity. If someone's saved and they're turning, and this is like a warning type sermon for people. All these people are just out there raging against churches like us, saying all manner of evil against men of God. You should be careful what you say, and people will mock that and say, oh, the man of God, and say, oh, don't touch God's anointed ones, and they mock that we would say something like that, but that's what the Bible says. You're mocking God's word. It's like we're all anointed by God obviously in this room if you're saved, but there is something called the man of God in the Bible, and Moses was called the man of God in the Bible, and he was the leader of the children of Israel. What, you think in the New Testament that pastors are not the man of God? You're crazy if you think that, and if you think that you're just gonna get away with just bashing pastors that are good men just trying to lead congregations and preach hard and go sowing and just trying to do a great work for God, and you think you can just say and make up all kinds of lies and evil against them, and you think you're gonna actually get away with that? You're not gonna get away with it. There's a strange punishment coming to you, and then these boasters like to brag, oh, yeah, I'm just being blessed more than I ever have been. Well, what happens when you're haughty in your spirit? What happens when you're prideful? You're gonna fall. You're gonna get smoked. You're gonna get destroyed, and God's gonna lead you forth with the workers of iniquity, and the people that are carried away by these types of people, you're gonna get carried away with them too, and you're gonna get punished like them. Look at Psalm 141, verse nine. Psalm 141, verse nine. I mean, this isn't a small amount of instances in the Bible where this specific type of person is mentioned in the Bible. Psalm 141, verse nine. Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me. So that's like a trap, right? Something you would catch an animal with, and the jinns of the workers of iniquity. Jinns is kind of another way of saying a snare, but it's like a tricky type of a snare. It's something that is cunningly set out. So a jinn and a snare of the workers of iniquity. What do they do? They like to put traps and set traps for people so that they can accuse them, so that they can take them down in some way, shape, or form. That's not a good person. I mean, that shows that they're plotting these things. They're planning these things. They're thinking about them. It's like premeditated workers of iniquity. They're doing this on purpose. People are sinners in general, and a lot of times it's not premeditated that they're gonna do these things. Sometimes people do just do things off the cuff, and they sin when they have this opportunity to present itself or whatever, but that's why they have premeditated murder. Where someone actually plans and goes through the planning to do something, that's the death penalty. But if somebody gets in a fight because they catch their wife in bed with somebody else and they kill the guy, that's not first-degree murder. That is second-degree murder or even, I mean, I think it's vengeance, really, but in this day and age, you get thrown in jail for that. But it seems to me that that's, if it's the death penalty, sorry, buddy. You shouldn't have been sleeping with somebody else's wife. I'm not saying to do that, but I can understand it. It's just like the guy that some karate instructor took some boy that he was instructing, took him across state lines, kidnapped him, was molesting him, and then his dad, when they were hauling him in in front of the TV cameras or whatever, he was pretending like he was on the phone or whatever. That was premeditated. He had a pistol in his pocket, and then as soon as the guy went to walk past him, he just walked right up, shot him right in the head. And he didn't go to jail for that because of what he did to his son. But nowadays, that guy would spend years in prison for that, and the guy that molested him would do months, if that. I mean, how crazy is that? That worker of iniquity would not do time. And we had a guy in our church that did like six, I think he did like six months in jail or something for getting into a fight where he, I think he was fighting like three people at the same time and like beat him up or something, and he won against three people at the same time and did that, and then there was a guy that was part of the Big Brothers, you know that Big Brothers organization where you're supposed to just take a boy that doesn't have a dad, take him out, do stuff with him, but he infiltrated that system so he could molest boys. He's a queer. And he did like 40 days suspended sentence. But somebody that's defending himself, I mean, obviously, you know, he roughed him up some, but broke somebody's jaw or something. Did six months in jail for that. I mean, that's weird. That's what the world we're living in though. So where am I at here? So we went through the ones in Psalms, let's look at a couple of Proverbs here. Proverbs 10, I'm just walking you in order here so it's not so rough on you though. Proverbs 10 verse 29, the Bible says, the way of the Lord is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. So saved people, you know, God's gonna give strength. But destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. Sounds like they're not getting saved. They're getting destroyed. Look at Proverbs 21 verse 15. Like obviously you're getting the picture here, but I'm just showing you there's no hope for positivity with these people. Proverbs 21 verse 15, the Bible says, it is joy to the just to do judgment, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. So I mean just over and over again in the Bible, it never gives them a break. It never says there's any hope for them. Every time it's judgment, every time they're just doing super evil things, they're plotting, they're scheming, they're working behind the scenes, they're turning people aside, and there's only one fate for them. It says that God hates them. God hates the workers of iniquity. People always say, you know, hate the sin, love the sinner, and quote Gandhi, right? It's like, dude, do you realize you're quoting Gandhi, who is burning in hell right now? He was a Hindu, he was a weirdo, and you're quoting him instead of the Bible? You know, saying that God never hates anybody? Does he hate him when he throws him in hell? At least admit that. Nope, he still doesn't hate him then. Well, that's pretty weird for you to say that. This is how far they're willing to just do gymnastics to avoid that God hates people sometimes. So let's look at a couple of these strange things that God will do to them, and this is talking about what he does, will do to the children of Israel if they start acting like the heathen that they were gonna throw out. Look at Deuteronomy chapter 28, verse 27. While you're turning there, I'm just gonna read for you Job 31, verse three. Again, it says, it says, is not destruction to the wicked, and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity. Deuteronomy 28, verse 27 says this, the Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, put an H before that, and with the scab. Some of these things I'm not sure what it is, but I know what a scab is. Do you know what a scab is? It's like what happens after you get a wound, right? And with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. So there's things that God can put upon somebody that are a specific punishment from him. Isn't that what it's saying? He will, it says, the Lord will smite thee whereof thou canst not be healed. The Lord, look at verse 28, it says, the Lord shall smite thee with madness and blindness and astonishment of heart. So God can smite people and do specific punishments for people when they push God too far and do all kinds of manner of evil and wickedness. Look at verse 35, it says, the Lord shall smite thee in the knees and in the legs with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. So, I mean, he specifically says that he'll give you some kind of disease called a botch and I'm not exactly sure what that is, but it doesn't sound pleasant, does it? I mean, Job had boils from the bottom of his foot to the crown of his head when he was being, he was allowed to be, Satan was allowed to destroy Job but not kill him. And what did he do? He put the worst thing you could put on somebody, some, these boils that broke forth in him and he was scraping his skin and just, he was miserable. So I don't know if that's what this is, but whatever it was, it was pretty bad and Job was in a lot of pain and misery because of it. Now, let's turn to Jeremiah 30, verse 12. So there are things that God can do to a person and so would you think that that would be strange? How about a disease that only 70 people in the world right now have? Only 70 people in the world right now have and you got it and it's worse than every other case in the world that everybody else has. And you attacked this church and you attacked other churches and stole their money and then gloated about it. You took the Sodomite's side, you abandoned your wife and married another. You abandoned your children. And then you think that you're just gonna get away with that and then all of a sudden you have a disease that the Mayo Clinic can't figure out. You have a disease that John Hopkins University can't figure out. You're given six months to live and then before they were mocking, before they were saying that they get their best sleep that they've ever gotten now, how are you doing now? How are you doing now? Not good. And you know what? That person is a worker of iniquity. That person tried to destroy our church and other churches and that person was a Judas Iscariot from the beginning. That person was with us before we even started the church. That person pretended to be my friend. That person pretended to be friends of ours, of all of our people and was like a literal Judas. I say literal, I really mean it. And now look at them. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can ask me and I'll show you exactly what I'm talking about right after church. So look at Jeremiah chapter 30 verse 12. Jeremiah chapter 30 verse 12. It says, for thus saith the Lord, thy bruise is incurable and thy wound is grievous. There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up. Thou hast no healing medicines. All thy lovers have forgotten thee, they seek thee not, for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased. Why cryest thou for thine affliction? Thy sorrow is incurable, for the multitude of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee. So my message to the reprobates that are just messing with us all the time, to the weirdo that's sending me death threats all of a sudden again, maybe you should check in to what I'm talking about and see what the fate of the workers of iniquity are. You wanna keep messing around? We'll just keep praying against you. We'll just add you to the imprecatory prayer list and hey, it might not happen tomorrow. You might think, oh, I'm getting blessed more than ever. But that's how God does it. He makes you think you're being blessed more than ever. And then you're just like, ha ha ha ha. It's like that meme where the guy, the wrestler's like smiling, he's like this, and then like the big, tall wrestler's standing behind him like this. Like he just doesn't realize he's about to get smacked. It's like that meme. You know what I'm talking about? Isn't it like the undertaker's behind him or something? I don't know who it is. But the guy's smiling, he thinks that he's just gotten away with it or whatever. But he doesn't realize that his doom is coming. And the person I'm talking about is basically smited with some kind of crazy leprosy where these boils break out in them and they turn into these blackened, like dead blisters or something that's disgusting looking. It looks very painful. It's actually worse than what I kind of had in mind. But God is the one that makes up the punishments. It doesn't matter what I really want. And this is a person I once called a friend that I thought was my friend. I was really hurt by this person. I mean, just bushwhacked. Just blindsided by this person and many other people too in this church. But when he realized that they were just a Judas the whole time, it's just like, and then all of the damage and things and relationships in this church that happened because of them, it's just horrific. And if you don't think that imprecatory prayers work, well, if you don't think that that's an act of God, then you're crazy. If only 70 people in the world have what this person has and that all these world-renowned doctors can't figure out what's wrong with them and it's making news that it's just like some crazy disease that world-renowned doctors in the Mayo Clinic can't figure out. Johns Hopkins University doesn't know what it is. They think that they know what it is, but they don't really know. Maybe it's the botch of Egypt. Maybe it's some kind of crazy leprosy. I don't know what it is, but I know that the doctors gave him six months to live. So, and you know what, I don't feel bad about that. Because I don't like also looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life, especially being how the person moved back to right where our church was that he also tried to destroy. Proverbs 24 verse 17 says, Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth, lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. A lot of people would quote this verse and say, you're wrong, Pastor Thompson, for your attitude about this, but notice how it says when thine enemy falleth. Is it true that this person's my enemy? Yeah, but more importantly, it's God's enemy. That's what I'm, you know. Turn to Matthew chapter five verse 43. Matthew five verse 43. But if you don't believe me about the imprecatory Psalms, just look up, just Google imprecatory Psalms and read all of them. Because there's a lot of them. More than I have time for today. But what did Jesus say? Matthew 5, 43, very famous passage, it says, Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good unto them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. I agree with that, but that's not what I'm talking about here. You have to be able to differentiate things in the word of God. I'm not saying for you to hate your enemy, but you should hate God's enemies. That is a difference. He didn't say, you know, don't hate God's enemies. Did he? He said, he's talking about your personal enemies. People that you personally have problems with. People that just hate you. It's not about the broader thing of hating God. Look at 2 Chronicles 19. Because otherwise the Bible would be contradicting itself when it comes to the imprecatory Psalms. And the Bible's not contradicting itself. Look at 2 Chronicles 19, one. It says in 2 Chronicles, I just want to show you the difference, okay, because people get confused about this and Christians are like, how could you say those things about that person that you don't feel bad? I don't feel bad. My nature is not to want to see people suffer though. I really don't like seeing people suffer. I mean, who really likes to see people suffer? Weirdos like to see people suffer. But when someone suffers because you know that they're deserving it and it's vengeance from God because of what they've done to hurt God's kingdom and what they've done to hurt God's people and what they've done to hurt God's men, then it's something that we should take joy in knowing that God keeps his promises. Look at 2 Chronicles 19, one, it says, and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem. This is after he's made affinity with the wicked king in Israel. It says, and Jehu, the son of Hanani, the seer, went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, who's a good man, he's saved. It says, shouldst thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord? Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord. So what's he saying? You shouldn't help them that are ungodly, that hate the Lord. Not everybody hates the Lord. Just because someone's unsaved, it doesn't mean that they hate the Lord. Someone just doesn't believe in him or they might not even like him very much or whatever. But for someone to say they hate God, that is different. To say I hate God and they work against him to try to destroy him and his people, that is different. That's why he said wrath is upon thee from the Lord. To a saved person. So when saved people say these dumb things, or they help the Sodomites and give them water and feed them sandwiches when they're protesting Pastor Shelley's church down at steadfast, and then this same bozo I'm talking about that's gotten destroyed by the Lord, is like when they got steadfast kicked out, this person's like, you guys are effing beautiful or awesome or whatever, and just praising them for getting the victory against them. This person is now on the side of the Sodomites. When I've heard him preach some pretty harsh sermons from our pulpit against these same people, I still have the sermons he's preached. I have them on my hard drive. If you ever want to see them, but now all of a sudden he's completely flip-flopped on that, okay. That just shows that he was a phony from the beginning. Look at Psalm chapter 58. This is a pretty harsh psalm. This is like completely negative all the way through. Pastor Shelley, I was listening to his service this morning and they just put this psalm to music. There's a couple imprecatory psalms that has been put to music. Psalm 139 is another one. I thought you were gonna sing that this morning, Brother Bill. What happened? Kayla, do you know that one? What? All right, let's sing in Acapulco tonight if you want. Acapulco has drums in it though, we can't do that. Just kidding. All right, Psalm 58 verse six says, Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord. Let them melt away as waters which run continually. When he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away with a whirlwind, both living and in his wrath. The righteous shall be sad, is that what it says? The righteous shall donate to their cause, to help them pay for their medical bills, is that what it says? No, it says the righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance. And vengeance belongs to the Lord, we're not supposed to take vengeance. So when God gives us the vengeance that he promises to give to us, because he's the one that repays, right? I repayeth, saith the Lord. It says when the righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance, he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, so that a man shall say, verily, there is a reward for the righteous. Verily, he is a God that judgeth in the earth. Thank God that there's a God that judgeth in the earth, and I can know that when I pray the things that God tells me that I should pray for, and when a wicked person like this has come against our church and pretended to be something that they're not, and decided to try to destroy our church instead, and decided to move on and destroy other churches, that was the plan. But the plan already failed, so God destroyed the plan, he stopped all that stuff from happening, and then when he just went on to do more wickedness, now God just decided to just kill him, in the most horrific and painful way possible. And then people are gonna go, oh, I can't believe that you're saying this and that about, what about his kids, what about his wife? You know what, what about Judas' wife? What about Judas' kids? What did David pray about that? Let them be continual vagabonds. Let his mother and father not be forgiven for their sins. I mean, he's getting down to things that I don't even know that I would pray about. It's like, dang, he's like saying just curse everything. I'm not even saying that. But they're probably better off without this scumbag, honestly, because he is a worker of iniquity. He would no doubt destroy their lives also. So there is a reward for the righteous, and that's seen when God moves and does what he says he's gonna do, that we know that, first of all, you know that who's right in the situation? Who is actually right? Because a lot of people are like, no, no, they're good, they're righteous, and Pastor Thompson was doing all the things that he was being accused of. Now do you see who was right? Who was right? Was Pastor Shelley right, or was he wrong? Well, their plan didn't go through. They lost. They lost in court. They lost the lawsuits. They lost everything. And now one of them's losing their life. I hope the rest of them learn to fear, and that they see the horrific things that are happening to that person, and that they just quit what they're doing while they're behind. And maybe, just maybe, if they're not reprobates, they just apologize for what they've done and get their hearts right with God. And some of these people might just be caught up with all this, all this bashing former pastors' churches that they went to. Maybe they just learn a lesson here, and think, well hey, Todd from Reason Files just died in some alley or something, going to buy his shoes in the middle of the night, or whatever he was doing, which is like a code word for buying drugs. And then ends up dead. And then his partner's so scared that started the whole thing that he just took all his videos down and retired from coming after us. But they never still apologize. The people on the news report that I was watching about what I'm talking about today, they're like, we just don't know where this could have came from. We just don't know how this happened. We just don't have any answers. Well, I do. If you mess with God, and you mess with God's people, then maybe a strange punishment is gonna come upon the workers of iniquity. That's, I mean, I'll call, the Mayo Clinic might wanna call me and find out some more information. Johns Hopkins, hey, maybe you should just open up this book and then maybe some of those mystery illnesses that you can't figure out, hey, maybe you should just go, this is just something that God did. You know, like in insurance companies, they have like policies, and I know that we have an insurance person here. Is there an act of God policy in your insurance? Like, at least the insurance companies understand. It's called act of God. If a thunderbolt comes through your roof of your house and destroys it, that's part of the act of God policy. I'm pretty sure, right? Because you can't really stop a thunderbolt from going through your house. Who controls the lightning and the thunder? God sendeth the lightning, doesn't he? If a tree falls down, I mean, I don't know if that's an act of God or not, but I think that might fall into the same policy. I'm just saying, if a strange punishment, some mystery disease, falls upon someone that tried to destroy multiple churches, and then forsakes his wife, forsakes his children, it's just that, I mean, I'm not even saying all the horrible, horrific things that they've done, just for the sake of that person, but like, the person is beyond scumbag. The worst of the worst. They, the vengeance is easy to see now. So, but like, if you have time, read through Psalm 109. I'll read a couple verses for you, and then we'll close here in just a second here. We got a couple more verses to go through, but Psalm 109, verse 16. It says, because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him. As he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. Psalm 139, verse 21. Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred. These are the words of God. They might make you bristle and feel all, I'm uncomfortable. But you know what, it's the word of God, folks. This is King David, a man after God's own heart. I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them my enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. I mean, David follows up, I hate them with perfect hatred, and said, try me and know my heart. This is scripture. This is inspired by the Holy Ghost, and allowed to be put in there for us to read. See, people just are not balanced in their Christianity. And a lot of churches just don't go through things that our church has gone through. A lot of churches don't go through the things that Faithful Word and Steadfast and Verity have gone through, and they just don't understand what these churches have gone through, and so they don't see things like that. So they don't have these battles, because they're already done conquered. Why is Satan gonna even involve himself in a church that doesn't go soul winning? You're like, oh, all you talk about is soul winning. And you try to wash away your sins with soul winning or whatever. Well, first of all, that's just not true. But second of all, if your church isn't soul winning, God has either removed your candlestick, or he's fixing to, as the southern people would say, he's fitting to take away that candlestick. That's what the Bible says. If you've lost your first love, you better just get out there and start doing it again. Luke, in the New Testament, Jesus says his term about workers of iniquity. There's people who'll say, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? This is in Matthew. And in thy name have we cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works? These are the works of salvation, false prophets. We've preached in your name. Didn't this person I'm talking about preach in his name? Didn't he do supposedly many wonderful works? Well, what happened to those works? Destroyed. They've come to not. And maybe on that day he might say that. But what's Jesus gonna say to him? I'll profess to them I never knew you. Depart from me, ye that work iniquity. In Luke 13, 27, it says, But he shall say, I tell you, I know not whence you are. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. That's the only time that exact term that we just went through all those passages about is said in the Bible, and it says, all ye workers of iniquity. It's not just some. It's not the ones that didn't get saved. None of them get saved. Because it says, all ye workers of iniquity. All workers of iniquity are going down. And it's not just some. It's not just all of them except for a few, it's all of them. So I'm happy and joyful that God answers prayers and you can call it morbid all you want, but I call it an answer to prayer. And I'm thankful for answered prayer. Let's pray. Lord, thank you so much for your answered prayer. And I thank you, Lord, so much that you have allowed us to see the end of someone who was super wicked, did wicked things to our church, has not apologized, has shown no remorse, and just walks around acting like they did nothing wrong, that they were righteous. Lord, I pray that you would just end that suffering soon. Lord, I do still continue to pray those imprecatory prayers toward that person. And I pray that, Lord, you would continue to carry out that vengeance towards that person. I'm just thankful for your answered prayer, Lord, today. And Lord, we ask that you would just bless us as we go our separate ways and our soul wanting out there today. And I pray that you would bless it in a special way. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Amen. We have 144 more emails. 144, one, two, three, four. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. We're going to have the same, right? 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