be heard tonight. Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. Great to see
everybody here tonight. If we can find our seats we will get started with song number 258 tonight.
Song number 258 in your hymnals. Let's open up the service now with a word of prayer. We just
thank you for the opportunity to gather here again together and sing unto you. We want to thank you
for this great church Lord and thank you for everything you're doing here and we just ask now
that you bless the service and it's in Jesus name we pray amen. All right for our next song let's go
to song number 334 song number 334 time around singing this song this week so hope to hear it
nice and loud tonight song 334 make me a blessing song 334 let's all sing that out together.
I'm gonna say vast baptist church if you need a bulletin you can lift up your hand nice and high
for us just can come by and get you guys a bulletin on the front is our bible memory passage we're
working on psalm 53 on the inside we have our service and soul winning times church stats
have a handout here for congratulations to adam and megan wood on the birth of their daughter
sydney cate she was born on the 15th 2 32 a.m six pounds 11.4 ounces measuring 20 inches long so
congratulations to them it's great to have our expecting ladies list keep turning into
blessings like this but we have several there you can be in prayer for as well upcoming events we
are continuing our choir practice after the evening services however this sunday
we are going to be skipping that one i'm going to be up in oklahoma city and we're going to be
participating in the anchor baptist church's one-year anniversary service
just in preparation they're having a soul winning marathon and push that saturday 10 a.m
and pastor aus just asked me like who is planning on coming just so i can get kind of a head count
for lunch i put it posted in our chat but is there anybody planning on going to that saturday
soul winning time that did not already indicate anything to me thank you so much and then if you
can just at least pray that the services and everything could go well up there we have a flag
football event turkey bowl november 29th brother marcel is going to be leading that for us um
we'll get as we get a little bit closer we'll probably this sunday we'll have like an address
or put a location so we can meet up for that our ladies christmas party december 5th it's going to
be here at the church building it's going to be a catered dinner and so we'd love all ladies
to attend and participate in that christmas caroling december 8th children's choir is going
to be performing december 21st or cookie bake off is also that evening christmas candlelight
service is december 24th and men's preaching and pizza is the last day of the year on the back is
our prayer list we'll go over our prayer requests we're continuing to pray for the carlson's health
their parents the miller's friends mom's cancer treatments we've been praying for brother uh horace
and miss grace for their health also continue to pray for brother tony please pray for the foley's
dad for his kidney disease and then we're praying for the uh daughter of miss madring and also our
friend who also have health issues here continue pray for brother paul and his recovery we're
praying for the goodwins family uh his sister-in-law his husband had passed away and so we're praying
for her family also if you continue pray for miss lola and her daughter for the passing of their
husband and father pray for brother wallock's aunt uh his family she had passed away and so pray for
them also if you'd pray for the burns his older brother brother joe he's visited here and been
part of our services several times just pray for him and his health and then if you'd also pray for
the warners so several prayer requests here listed in our uh bulletin we'll just say a quick word of
prayer as a church family thank you only father so much for steadfast baptist church thank you for
all these ladies and our lists who are expecting and those who are pregnant i pray that you'd please
bless them during their pregnancies please help them give them a timely birth i pray that you would
bless those that have recently given birth you just help them to recover and for their children's
development to go smoothly i pray that you would just help our church to be healthy and help those
that have temporary illness to just have quick recovery and get back into church i pray that
you'd be with these uh these lingering issues these chronic issues these serious illnesses that
we've been praying for please father if possible that you just give them mercy give them health
grant them a miracle if possible i pray they'd also just give them just patience and give them
peace during this difficulty please help those that need help with their work or jobs or they
need favor i pray they would bless our upcoming missions trips and our missions efforts and our
soul-winning efforts i pray that you would allow us to just continue to reach many people for the
gospel and i pray that you continue to bless this holiday season in jesus name we pray amen pretty
much all i have as far as announcements we're gonna go and sing our psalm of the week psalm
126 psalm 126 that was psalm 126 in your black binders psalm 126 singing everybody now as the
offering plates are being passed around go ahead and open your bibles to deuteronomy chapter number
eight that's the book of deuteronomy chapter number eight on me chapter number eight bible reads all
the commandments which i command thee this day shall you observe to do that you may live and
multiply and go in and possess the land which the lord swear unto your fathers thou shalt remember
all the way which the lord thy god led thee these 40 years in the wilderness to humble thee and to
prove thee to know what was in thine heart whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no and he
humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with manna which thou knewest not neither
did thy fathers know that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only but by every
word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the lord doth man live thy raiment wax not old upon thee
neither did thy foot swell these 40 years thou shalt also consider in thine heart that as a man
chasteneth his son so the lord thy god chasteneth thee therefore thou shalt keep the commandments
of the lord thy god to walk in his ways and to fear him for the lord thy god bringeth thee
into a good land a land of brooks of water of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys
and hills a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates a land of oil
olive and honey a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness thou shalt not lack
anything in it a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayst dig brass
when thou hast eaten and are full then thou shalt bless the lord thy god for the good land which
he hath given thee beware that thou forget not the lord thy god and not keeping his commandments
and his judgments and his statutes which i command thee this day less when thou hast eaten and are
full and has built goodly houses and dwelt therein and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply and
thy silver and thy gold is multiplied and all that thou hast is multiplied then thine heart be
lifted up and thou forget the lord thy god which brought thee forth out of the land of egypt from
the house of bondage who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness wherein were fiery
serpents and scorpions and droughts where there was no water who brought thee forth water out of
the rock of flint who fed thee in the wilderness with manna which thy fathers knew not that he
might humble thee and that he might prove thee to do thee good at thy latter end and thou shalt
and thou and thou saying thine heart my power and the might of mine hand have forgot have gotten me
this wealth but thou shalt remember the lord thy god for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth
that he may establish his covenant which he swear unto thy fathers as it is this day and it shall
be if thou do at all forget the lord thy god and walk after other gods and serve them and worship
them i testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish as the nations which the lord
destroyeth before your face so shall you perish because ye would not be obedient unto the voice
of the lord your god let us pray heavenly father thank you for allowing us to be here in church
lord thank you for your word thank you for this chapter pray that you bless pastor shelly fill
him with your holy spirit to preach your word unto us help us to receive it with an open heart lord
make applicable changes in our lives to become better christians praise in jesus name amen amen
here in deuteronomy chapter 8 we are being reminded of certain facts about what happened
in the last 40 years and and that's really it's a second telling of the law it's kind of a
remembrance of the events that has happened now my goal you know in doing this bible study i'm
kind of trying to change things a tad i want to do my best to just get through the chapter quickly
and just kind of get we kind of have an idea and then go back and kind of like revisit some
of the themes and some of the points that are made in the chapter but in verses one through
three let's read this again it says all the commandments which i command thee this day
shall you observe to do that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which
the lord swear in your fathers and thou shalt remember all the way which the lord thy god led
thee these 40 years in the wilderness to humble thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine
heart whether or whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no and he humbled thee and suffered
thee to hunger and fed thee with manna which thou knewest not neither thy fathers know that he might
make thee know that man doth not live by bread only but by every word that proceeded out of the
mouth of the lord doth man live so here in verses one through three the bible tells us that god was
testing them that's what he means by proving here he says he was testing them and trying to humble
them and to see what was in their heart what is it well he really wants to see will they keep his
commandments or not and what was one of the tests the test was that they had to go out and they had
to gather manna at a daily rate and if they gather you know specifically on the sabbath was kind of
an important day they couldn't gather in the sabbath they kind of had to gather just in the
day before and then it would multiply or would satisfy them for two days and they weren't allowed
to go out on the sabbath and there's a big deal about this and of course that's picturing a lot
of things like salvation obviously we enter into God's rest and we simply just trust in him to
give us and sustain us with life you know think about it without food you die and so in a sense
by just trusting God to provide for food that doesn't really make sense you kind of really have
to trust in him to keep you alive in the same way we're trusting in what Jesus did for us to give
us eternal life so that we don't go to hell so it's kind of like a similar test that he was
giving them additionally you know they're not going out and providing themselves crops they're
not like planting they're in the wilderness they're in the desert so you know in order to survive
they need a miracle by god every single day to go out and just gather this manna that is just a
straight miracle from god it's angels food as the bible describes it and that they're by this
miracle they're just living just one day at a time and god is kind of getting them there one
day at a time and you know that's what god wants us to do he wants us to live one day at a time
just trusting in him allowing him to sustain us allowing him to be the one that gives us that
provision and it's it's a humbling experience why because you're not trusting in yourself
you can't do anything to produce the manna the manna is a heavenly gift it's a it's a heavenly
bread that's coming down from heaven so it's not like well i'm going to work really hard today to
make sure manna shows up tomorrow you can't do anything to procure manna manna is just simply
what god is going to bless you with and so by being right with god he's going to give you the
manna so you're trusting in him which is humbling yourself saying i can't take care of myself
i can't sustain myself i need god and so i'm going to get that manna and of course the manna is
often also represented as the word of god that we need the word of god that we need god's
commandments that we need him to lead us and to guide us and to help us on a daily basis
and by making this a daily process by making this a 40 year process he gets to see what you're
really like because it's one thing to follow god for a day it's one thing to follow for a week
it's another thing to follow for 40 years and anybody that's been in a church for a while
they will notice people come and go and it's you know it's not like oh well that's just steadfast
or oh that's the quote new ifb no no that's just church i don't care what church you go to
i don't care if it's pentecostal i don't care if it's catholic i don't care if it's orthodox i
don't care if it's the synagogue i don't care what institution people come and go like clockwork and
so you have to realize even in god's house even in the right institution people are going to come
and go and we get to see what they're really like we get to see what's in their heart just like god
got to see what was in the children of israel's heart by having this long test see who's really
steadfast you know steadfast cool name i like it you know it's way better than the name is someone
just that is steadfast a steadfast person a steadfast church a steadfast group of people
a steadfast pastor you know that is way more important than having the name or the title or
whatever and so again this passage is talking about it's more important to follow god's
commandments than it is to even care about bread or physical needs whatsoever verse number four
thy reignment wax not old upon thee neither thy foot swell these 40 years so he's reminding us
here in verse four as well that they were sustained by miracles the manna from heaven
is a miracle not only that their shoes not breaking for 40 years you know that's not like
because they're they're the jewish cobblers were so great at making shoes or something like that
okay folks no they're the same as they always were it's just it's a literal miracle that
their shoes it's a literal miracle that their clothes did not just deteriorate in the wilderness
for this 40 years and so you know god is allowing them to be sustained and this kind of just proves
maybe a point that when you trust god sometimes he just gives you financial provision or helps
you get through things that you wouldn't normally get through whereas when you don't have god on
your side well your rain that's probably going to wax old your foot is going to swell you're going
to have problems in these areas you know it's better to have less money and be right with god
than to have more money and not be right with god and that's basically the the point that he's
kind of driving here verse five thou shalt also consider in thine heart that as a man chastened
at his son so the lord thy god chastened at thee therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the
lord thy god to walk in his ways and fear him why do we fear god because if we don't he'll
chasten us why do why do my kids obey me because they'd all spank them if they don't i mean and
you say well that's that just seems barbaric okay i don't care what you call it that's what
the bible says and that's how god deals with us god says hey i'm gonna punish you just like you
punish your kid and god uses that analogy because it's very similar and yes god punishes people
who does he punish his sons his children as a man chastened at his son so the lord thy god chastened
at thee why we're the sons of god and if we're without chastisement the bible says the new
testament then you're a bastard and not a son so you know if you're not getting punished by god
you know really you're kind of the only option is that you're just not saved because according
to the bible he chastened and discouraged every son in whom you receive it so you got to think
about this way if you're saved then no if you break god's commandments you will be punished
the only way you won't get punished in this life is if you're not saved and if you're not saved you
should feel no comfort in being not saved because if you die at any moment you're going to hell so
the thing is is you fear god no matter what person you are if you're not saved you need to fear god
and get saved if you are saved and you fear god because he might punish you when you break his
commandments and do wrong and of course it's not like being unsaved you get away with it too it's
just you're more likely or god might be more long-suffering or merciful to you because he's
just hoping you get saved right but when you're saved he will punish you he's that dad that says
like hey when i come home you're getting spanked and he really means it you know and so you want
to be careful with god and keeping his commandments because he will punish us like how do you read
deuteronomy how do you read the old testament and think god doesn't punish people i mean the whole
time he's just like killing this person killing that person smiting this person leprosy over i
mean miriam gets leprosy aaron gets punished his sons get killed i mean just constant just
punishment punishment punishment punishment it's just no one saved in the old testament yes they
are saved because god still punishes the saved you know don't fall for this hyper grace mentality
that thinks like oh now that you're saved god will never punish you you should never be afraid you
should never fear god look these are lies from the devil only the devil would ever tell someone not
to fear god the bible consistently teaches to fear god in fact that's the whole the whole point of
the bible to fear god and keep his commandments that's the whole duty of man at no point are
you ever instructed to not fear god and to not keep his commandments it's just that doesn't get
you into heaven but at no point was i supposed to stop doing it i should still do it the reason why
you need to get saved is because you didn't do it and so you need to make sure that you get saved
because no one can go to heaven by their works but we need to keep keeping we need to try our
best to keep god's commandments no matter where we find ourselves in life verse number seven says
this for the lord thy god bringeth thee into a good land land of bricks of water and fountains
and depths that spring out of valleys and hills a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees
and pomegranates a land of olive oil and honey a land wherein thou shalt be bred without scarceness
thou shalt not lack anything in it a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest
dig brass now think about this god obviously is not this over the top god that just wants you to live
a life of just pure puritan just you asceticism where you just can't enjoy anything like the earth
is is evil and food is evil and goods are evil brass is evil no no no he's saying like i want
to give you the best i want to give you the best land i want to give you the best food i want to
give you the best stones i want to give you the best brass i mean the bible does not paint god is
this god that just says like you have to live this is life of asceticism and just hate all material
possessions and just hate anything and you just you have to eat mcdonald's that's the nicest food
you can ever have or something you just have to you just have to live this just like life of poverty
or something like that why would he be bringing them to the land flowing with milk and honey if
he doesn't want them to actually have some fun and enjoy their life now again i i'm kind of on
the jesus program not the john the baptist program okay john the baptist lived out in the wilderness
with wild locusts and honey and stuff and just kind of lived a really aestheticism life and yet
they said that he was crazy they said he had the devil right and then jesus is hanging out with
you know the the publicans and he's hanging out with different people and they called him a wine
bibber and a glutton and they're basically just like oh look at this guy just partying too much
having too much fun enjoying food too much which again both of those statements were false jesus
was not a glutton jesus was not a wine bibber of course john the baptist did not have a devil
but you can kind of just read between the lines and realize jesus was kind of enjoying life
john the baptist is not enjoying life and you know i just lean into this i like this side okay i want
to be like jesus so i try to enjoy life and look people they will criticize me all day long for
trying to enjoy life and part of me sometimes thinks like man it'd be easier to just be over
here in aestheticism land so that i don't get the critics but john the baptist got the critics
anyways so then i'm like well if i'm gonna get criticized no matter how i live i might as well
just enjoy it you know what i mean and then i just kind of decided i don't care anymore because all
the critics just gonna come and go and they just hate their lives and and usually it's the critics
it's just because they're lazy and stupid so that's why they don't enjoy life and then they get mad
at people that actually work hard and have you know some money in this life and it's just like
oh man how dare this guy actually enjoy food or life or have fun every once in a while and it's
just like look that's the kind of life i'm trying to have why would i not want to have fun why would
i not want to enjoy food now look obviously we should thank god for these things and we
should be appreciative of god and we shouldn't allow these things to take us away from god but
the bible is not saying that you can't have good things and this passage is not teaching that you
can't have good things it's not saying you can't enjoy life you read ecclesiastes and it's saying
explicitly like to enjoy your food and enjoy your wife and enjoy your life and enjoy all these
things you know the catholic is the one that wants to live this ascetic type of lifestyle
standing from meats and and i'm standing from the joys of marriage even and just the enjoyment that
you get with your wife and your husband and all this it's just like they try to make your life
just miserable and look the devil wants to make your life miserable now look if you're living a
very ascetic life if you live well below your means if you decide like hey i want to live a very
simple life and i just i don't really care about those things and i just want to eat you know
a pineapple mayonnaise sandwich for every meal you know go for it okay i mean my dad is the most
simple person i know and just lives a very simple life and you know what praise god for him i love
my dad but you know what i don't have to be like that and you know you don't have to be like that
you get one life you might as well enjoy it okay and again my dad doesn't have that opinion
because he would always tell me he said look son i'm gonna give you some advice this is advice
from my father okay he said there's nothing wrong with spending the money you have he said
the problem is when you start spending the money you don't have and honestly that advice has been
pretty good for for for my life and so you know hey i'm not i'm not up here saying like don't
enjoy your life you know if you want more just work harder right and if you don't want more and
you want to live simpler life then you get more time to just do whatever you want we all get to
to pick and choose you know our plight in life but god is not dragging them into the wilderness
to suffer he's trying to drag them out of the wilderness it was by their own stubbornness
and laziness and refusal to believe in him that they were stuck in the wilderness but by trusting
in him having great faith in him he brings them into the promised land he brings them into a great
land and what does he say then in verse 10 when thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt
bless the lord thy god for the good land which he hath given thee what's the point hey when you
have good things when you have been blessed when god is doing good unto you you need to make sure
that you're blessing god that is the main emphasis of this chapter is that hey you follow god he'll
bless you and then when you get blessed make sure that you bless god as a result what's the opposite
verse 11 beware that thou forget not the lord thy god and not keeping his commandments and his
judgments and his statutes which i command thee this day lest when thou hast eaten and art full
and has built goodly houses and dwelt therein and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply
and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied and all that thou hast is multiplied then
thine heart be lifted up and now forget the lord thy god which brought thee forth out of land in
egypt from the house of bondage now i want to keep reading here but what did he just say he said
there's a tendency that when you get full there's a tendency when you have everything there's a
tendency when you have more money than you need you have more goods than you need you have all the
food that you could want that your heart gets lifted up that you get prideful as a result of
that and by becoming prideful you start to forget god and it was god that gave you all of these
blessings and so instead of blessing the lord you're you're thinking highly of yourself that's the
contrast here right is there anything wrong with having the goods no but there's a danger when you
get them that you might go down this road okay now it says here in verse number 15 who led
thee through that great and terrible wilderness wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions and
drought where there was no water who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint who fed thee
in the wilderness with mana which thy fathers knew not they might humble thee and they might prove
thee to do the good at thy latter end and thou say in thine heart my power and the might of mine
hand have gotten me this wealth what is the tendency the tendency is this that you follow
god's commandments here's the thing you follow god's commandments and apart from a few exceptions
you will be blessed if you do what this book says you will be greatly blessed the reason why
people are not blessed is because they're not doing what this says and please humble yourself
a little bit because again this book is saying with all thy getting get wisdom i want to know
from five years old to now did you spend every single ounce of your effort and energy to get
as smart as you possibly could or were you lazy or did you cheat in school or did you not read
or did you use the cliff notes did you use spark notes did you not actually put a lot of effort
energy and getting wisdom does the do the bible says like whatever your hand finds to do do with
all thy strength and with all thy might are you going every day at the workplace all day just
just using all of your effort and all of your energy
and all of your strength and all of your wisdom
and praying to God faithfully,
and you kept all of his commandments
and you were a virgin on your wedding night,
and you married a godly wife.
You're like, "Well, I didn't do any of that."
Well, then don't expect to be super blessed, okay?
But I'm just telling you, you young children in here,
you put all your effort and energy in your homeschooling
and you learn and you study and you work super hard
and you have a good ethic and you stay clean
and you're a virgin, you marry a godly person,
you're in church, you will be blessed, okay?
And you look at people that are greatly blessed
in this world, they're oftentimes even keeping
the commandments, even if they're Christian or not.
I mean, they're not just over here, drug addicts.
Drug addicts are not being successful in this world.
Whores and whoremongers are not being successful
in this world.
People that are thieves and robbers and gamblers.
I mean, even professional athletes today,
there are professional athletes making, you know,
20 million dollars a year, 30 million dollars a year.
They're broke, they're in debt,
they don't even have any money.
They have a bunch of bastard kids,
they have a bunch of whores, they have a bunch of diseases.
Their lives are a miserable train wreck.
You know what gives you success?
This book.
Why?
Because it's the truth.
And the truth is what gives you success, not lies.
And at the end of the day, the truth shall make you free.
The truth is gonna give you success in this life.
So people start doing this book,
and then guess what happens?
You start getting blessed.
But then they start forgetting why they're blessed,
and they start thinking it's because I'm smart.
No, you're not smart, you just did what this said.
This is smart.
You just started following whatever this is,
and you were following the leading of the Holy Spirit
of your saved, and so of course,
that's what actually started
giving you blessing and success.
Look, I've seen a lot of people over the years
start coming to church or start getting plugged to church,
and then fast forward five, six, seven years,
they're a way different person.
Maybe they wouldn't admit it, but I'm like,
you're a lot better off than you were when I met you.
You're a lot different than you were five years,
six, seven years ago.
And you know why?
It's because you're plugged into church,
you're reading your Bible, you're serving God,
you started doing the right things.
And yet, then they might forget why they became successful,
why they have the spouse that they have,
why they have the marriage that they have,
why they have the kids that they have,
why they have the blessings and the system in life.
And when you forget God, you know what?
It goes down a dark road.
You just forget the power and the wealth
that came from God, you think, I'm special.
And of course, that's always the problem.
You should not think that you're special.
You should give the glory and honor
to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Verse 18, but thou shalt remember the Lord thy God,
for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth,
that he may establish his covenant,
which he swear unto thy fathers as it is this day.
And it shall be, if thou do it all,
forget the Lord thy God and walk after other gods
and serve them and worship them.
I testify against you this day,
that ye shall surely perish
as the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face,
so shall ye perish, because you would not be obedient
under the voice of the Lord your God.
Now, of course, I've been making this very personal,
but notice that the text is also bringing into concepts
the nation as a whole.
If the nation as a whole forgets God,
if the nation as a whole gets lifted up in their mind
of being proud and being just so proud to be an American.
Well, wait a minute.
Is it being in America or being in North America
that makes you successful?
Or was it the Christian morals and the King James Bible
and the word of God that made America successful?
And why are we proud to be an American today
when our country's in shambles,
we have just some of the worst leaders imaginable,
we have abortion, we're trying to be the world police.
We, I mean, there's a lot of reasons
why America is not so great anymore,
from at least a moral perspective.
Obviously, we're still a superpower in the world.
Obviously, we still wield just an inordinate amount
of military strength and power in the world.
We have just technology beyond most countries' capabilities.
Our defense budget is beyond, our economy is beyond,
our human capabilities are beyond in many cases.
I mean, yeah, we still have a lot of strength
and a lot of power and a lot of wealth.
But you know what?
We've been attributing it to ourselves.
We're attributing it to the wrong places.
And of course, Israel could do this as well.
Notice again, you know, I'm gonna make an application
to America here for a second.
Wait a minute.
Who is this actually written to?
Wasn't it written to Israel?
What did he say that they would perish?
I thought that God would never be done with his people.
Oh, God's not done with Israel.
Well, he says here, if they don't do what's right,
he'll just perish like any other nation.
He doesn't care.
They're not a special nation.
He didn't say, you're a special nation
that can never be destroyed for any reason.
It doesn't matter what you do.
No, he says, hey, if you don't keep my commandments,
you're gonna perish just like any other nation
that perished.
Because you're not special in that regard.
And in fact, the nations that have the most success
are the ones that are doing what this book says the most.
And the nations that don't will be destroyed.
God will humble them.
God will show them who's really the God of the world,
the God of gods, the Lord of lords, the King of kings.
And you cannot rebel against God and have long-term success.
He will eventually humble you.
He will eventually destroy you.
And just like America, just like Israel,
God can do these things.
We're gonna come back to this.
I wanna finish on this point for a moment.
Go to Proverbs chapter 30 for a minute.
Go to Proverbs chapter 30.
You will and can be destroyed and punished
for forgetting God.
And, you know, prosperity is good,
but obviously prosperity can go to your head.
Proverbs 30, look what it says in verse number eight.
Remove, far from me, vanity and lies.
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
Feed me of food convenient for me,
lest I be full and deny thee.
And say, who is the Lord?
Notice by being rich, you could have a tendency
to think like who is God or who is the Lord
or forget who he is, right?
That's what's in view of Deuteronomy chapter eight.
That's what's in view of this proper.
And I feel like America has gone down this road as well,
where we've forgotten why America is successful
and then we attribute it to ourselves
and we praise all kinds of crazy things.
You know, I was talking to college students.
They said the reason why America is great
is because it's secular.
Like that's just completely forgetting God,
completely forgetting where we came from.
And again, it's just, it's so devoid of actual history
that it's hard to even want to respond to.
Being secular is just, it's not even in view
of our government whatsoever.
But additionally, you know, a lot of Americans would say,
well, no, no, no, we're successful
because of our government, our government structure.
You know, we have a superior government
than other governments and we have a democracy,
even though it's not a democracy,
it's constitutional, you know, republic,
but even if it's constitutional republic,
that's not what made us successful either.
And then they're like, "Oh, well, we're so great
because of our constitution."
Look, our constitution isn't what makes us great.
The thing that makes us great is God giving a blessing
unto the early settlers and the early Americans
actually wanting to follow God's commandments
and actually establishing good churches
and having Baptist churches and a lot of Baptist heritage
and people actually observing God's commandments.
That's what made America the nation that it was.
And that's what gives us success is God,
is the word of God, is keeping his commandments.
That's what makes a nation blessed or successful.
And we've gotten far away from that.
We don't even understand that.
We've forgotten why our nation is the nation that it is.
Now we're giving lip service to false gods.
We're praising Hinduism.
I mean, our president is celebrating Diwali.
I mean, how can you literally celebrate Diwali?
That is going after other gods
like this passage is brought up.
And it's because he's full.
I mean, Donald Trump is super rich,
has all the money, has all the goods,
has all the food, has everything that he needs.
So now he just praises Diwali,
not even realizing the country was built on Christianity.
Not even realizing, hey, I'm being lied to
and manipulated by Jews who did not found America,
who were not part of our American heritage and history,
going after other false gods,
allowing Islam to come into our nation.
I mean, there is a lot of Islamic synagogues
or whatever you call mosques or whatever you wanna say
here in the Dallas, Fort Worth area.
They're popping up everywhere.
They wanna make like some mega city,
some kind of a Mecca around here somewhere.
You know, it needs to be destroyed.
All of those stupid mosques need to be burned to the ground.
Not only that, I mean, you have just lip service, anything.
Buddhism, just any new age spiritualism,
just anything but Christianity at this point.
Just forgetting our heritage, just forgetting our nation.
Why? Because they got lifted up.
And you know, that could happen to an individual,
it could happen to a nation.
It happened to Israel as well.
Israel forgot the Lord God, went after false gods,
started sacrificing unto false gods,
doing the same play.
But go to Malachi chapter three, Malachi chapter three.
And you know, the Bible tells us
that we're supposed to bless the Lord.
And I wanna come back to that at some point as well.
But what was Deuteronomy chapter eight about?
Well, number one, he said in the first two verses
that he wants to prove us and he wants to test us,
he wants to humble us to see whether
we're gonna keep his commandments or not.
He showed and talked and reminded them about miracles
of provision that they've already received.
He says he's gonna chase in them
if they don't keep the commandments.
And then he commands them to bless the Lord
when they get success and not to forget the Lord
and go after false gods or go after false religion
or really just attribute their success to themselves.
And it's very easy for people
to attribute success to themselves.
Well, just look how athletic I am.
Look how smart I am.
Look how, you know, look at my skin color.
That's why I'm successful or something, you know,
like just something stupid, superfluous,
something that's not real.
They just think like, I'm so wonderful.
I'm so great.
I'm so smart.
Look what I've done.
And they think they're better than other people
and not realizing God is the one
that gives us our power to get wealth.
God is the one that blesses us.
God is the one that opens and closes doors.
And what should we do in response?
Instead of blessing ourselves, we should bless the Lord.
Now, again, blessing the Lord is kind of a big category.
We're gonna look at a lot of definitions here.
We can bless the Lord, obviously, with our lips.
Maybe a big portion of blessing the Lord
is like gratitude, saying thank you.
But I believe also, if you're blessing the Lord,
it's gonna be in your actions as well.
It's gonna be in your disposition, what you do.
Instead of going and blessing yourself,
if I said I'm gonna bless myself,
what does that sound like I'm gonna do?
Buy something for myself, right?
I mean, isn't that kind of what you think?
Like if you say I'm gonna go bless myself,
I'm gonna go get a new truck, a new car, a new suit,
a new watch, a new whatever, right?
I mean, if anybody said I'm gonna go bless myself,
pretty much everybody thinks
they're gonna do something good on themselves,
buy themselves something.
So let's just flip it around.
If I'm gonna bless the Lord, what does that sound like?
I'm gonna do something good for God, right?
And I want the house of God to be blessed.
I want the things of God to be blessed.
I want, you know, something to do with Christianity,
with God to do well.
If you look up blessed according to the dictionary,
it says to show affection or benevolence towards someone dear.
Show affection or benevolence towards someone dear.
And of course, I wanna look up some verses
that talk about the affection,
but also when we think about the benevolence, right?
If I have an attitude of a blessing towards someone,
then I'm gonna do things for them.
Imagine your dad is about to die
and he's sitting on his deathbed and you come up to him
and he says, hey son, I wanna tell you about this person
in my life that did me a lot of good
and was really kind and I really liked them.
I'm not gonna be there to return that kindness,
so I want you to be there and I want you
to bless this person.
What do you think he's trying to say?
He's saying like, hey, I want you to go there,
not only be nice to the person, not only be kind,
do stuff for them, buy them stuff, you know, whatever.
You're gonna go around and you're gonna bless that person,
you're gonna do good unto this person.
So if I'm gonna bless the Lord, you know,
I want my attitude and my mindset and my heart
and my affections to be towards God,
to where I'm willing to spend my time and my effort
and my energy and my money into blessing the Lord.
Because at the end of the day, it's like,
it's kind of weird when we think about,
like this for me, blessing the Lord,
'cause I think like, well, how am I gonna bless him?
He's the one that needs to bless me, right?
But in the same way, yes, the Bible talks about us
getting blessings from God and asking for blessings from God,
but we too, in return, can bless the Lord by what?
Through our mouth, through our praise, through our worship,
but also in our actions and showing benevolence
towards the things of God.
If America is going to bless the Lord,
what would that look like?
Well, it would be like praising the King James Bible
instead of the Constitution,
instead of praising other documents
and other governmental institutions.
It would be praising the church and blessing the church
and trying to make the church really successful
and not other institutions, not other organizations.
You know, everybody is so obsessed
with the Department of Education.
They're obsessed with Medicaid and Medicare
and all of these different, SNAP.
We need to make sure that we have SNAP and EBT programs.
You know what we need to worry about?
Having good churches in America and blessing the Lord.
That's what we need to worry about.
You know what, people are using their wallet
on everything but God,
shows me that they're not blessing the Lord.
And a lot of people are just trying to bless themselves.
And what does Malachi chapter three say in verse seven?
Even from the days of your fathers,
you're gone away from my ordinances
and have not kept them, return unto me.
And I will return unto you, say the Lord of hosts.
But you said, where and shall we return?
Will a man rob God?
Yet you have robbed me, but you say,
where and have we robbed thee?
In tithes and offerings.
You are cursed with a curse.
For you have robbed me, even this whole nation,
bringing all the tithes into this door house,
that there may be meat in mine house.
And prove me, now herewith, say the Lord of hosts,
if I will not open you the windows of heaven
and pour you out a blessing,
that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes,
and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground.
Neither shall your vine cast your fruit
before the time in the field, sayeth the Lord of hosts.
And all nations shall call you blessed,
for ye shall be a delightsome land,
sayeth the Lord of hosts.
And then it says, your words have been stout against me.
But think about the context of Deuteronomy 8 with this.
He's saying, hey, if you actually give the ties
and the offerings unto me,
then you'll be a delightsome land.
Isn't he saying, if you keep my commandments,
you're gonna be in this delightsome land,
and you're gonna have this land
flowing with milk and honey,
and you're gonna have all these blessings.
And if you don't, you're gonna be a curse.
And he's saying, hey, in Deuteronomy 8,
if you don't do these things,
you're gonna be perishing from the land,
and you're gonna be destroyed from this land.
And again, at the end of the day,
obviously, you get wealth,
but what do you do with that wealth?
Well, if you're not willing to give
some of that money to blessing the Lord,
well, you know, at the end of the day,
it just shows where your heart is.
It just shows what your attitude is.
It shows where your affections are.
And you know, the problem with America
is that we're not building great churches anymore.
We're just trying to bless ourselves.
And we're more concerned with ourselves
than we are with concerning God.
And when the children of Israel returned
after their decimation,
what was the first place that they were supposed to build?
The temple, they're supposed to build the house of God again.
Because we should care more about the house of God
than we should about our own houses
and about our own things and about our own possessions.
We should be seeking first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness and then, hey, God will take care of us.
Right, but when you don't put God first,
oftentimes you won't get the blessing that God has for you.
We need to bless him.
Go to Deuteronomy 29, actually.
Go to Deuteronomy 29.
And I know we're kind of approaching this chapter
a little bit backwards,
but I wanted to just kind of get through it
to make sure we get through these verses
and then kind of hammer a few points.
Deuteronomy 29, look at what it says in verse number 18.
You know, it's a shame and an embarrassment to me
that every institution that's just vain is just thriving
in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, in Texas, in America,
and then the church houses have to be in the poorhouse, right?
And it's not like false religion is struggling.
I mean, look at the Catholic cathedrals.
Those things are booming, man.
Look at the Mormon buildings.
How is it that false religion can spend all their money
on false religion, lies, and then God's people
don't want to spend their money on the things of God?
Like, that's kind of embarrassing, it's kind of a shame,
and we should be willing to invest
in building great churches.
And of course, we don't have to necessarily
build some beautiful cathedral or something like that.
I'm not saying we have to build something like that.
But we should have plenty of money so that we can do what?
We can go out and preach the gospel.
We can go on missions trips.
We can do the work of the Lord
because we want to bless the Lord, right?
And by blessing the Lord, it's by having a powerhouse.
And look, you know what, to me is the most important part
of building the church, it's you, it's me,
'cause we're the church.
We want to build people.
So I try really hard with the money of our church
to reinvest in the people, to reinvest in the individuals,
to try and make them great soul winners
and go on mission trips and go on soul winning
and becoming just a better person,
becoming a better Christian and building the church of God.
Because you know what, it doesn't matter
if you have a beautiful building
filled with rotten, ugly people.
I'd rather have an ugly building
filled with beautiful, godly, you know, Christians.
That's what I would rather have.
And that's the house of God anyways.
That's the real house of God that we're trying to build.
Now, if we can have both, let's do it.
I'm not against it.
I'm just saying, you know, we should focus more
on the people and investing on the people
and investing in the things of God
and trying to build the house of God.
Bringing people in, obviously,
there's nothing wrong with growing as a church.
But at the end of the day,
I care more about the quality of the construction
than I do the size of the property.
Deuteronomy chapter 29, look at verse 18.
It says, "Lest there should be among you,
man or woman, or family or tribe,
whose heart turned away this day from the Lord our God,
to go and serve the gods of these nations,
lest there should be among you a root
that beareth gall and wormwood.
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse,
that he bless himself in his heart,
saying, I shall have peace,
though I walk in the imagination of mine art,
to add drunkenness to thirst, the Lord will not spare him."
Now, here's the thing, what is the Bible saying?
It's contrasting someone from blessing the Lord
to doing what?
Blessing themselves.
They hear the curses of God,
and they hear the warnings of God,
and they hear you need to keep God's commandments,
and they think, no, I'm gonna be fine,
I don't need God, I don't need church,
I don't need following the commandments,
I don't need these things, I'm gonna be good,
I got this, and what's gonna happen?
God will not spare him.
God will destroy that person.
What is the humble?
Hey, you need church, you need the Bible,
you need the things of God, you need to go soul winning,
you need to actually do what the Bible says.
You can't just ignore God's commandments and have success.
Don't think you can just bless yourself.
No, the blessing is gonna come from God.
And we have to keep God first.
Go, if you would, back to Deuteronomy chapter eight,
and I wanna remind us of a few verses here,
but let's keep on with this theme here
of blessing the Lord.
It said in verse number seven,
"For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land,
"a land of brooks of water and fountains and depths
"that spring out of valleys and hills,
"a land of wheat and barley and vines
"and fig trees and pomegranates,
"a land of olive oil and honey,
"a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness.
"Thou shalt not lack any thing in it."
I mean, that just reminds me of America.
I mean, don't we have just whatever we want?
Bread without scarceness?
"A land whose stones are iron,
"and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
"When thou hast eaten and art full,
"then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God
"for the good land which he hath given thee."
We should praise God for Texas.
We should praise God for America.
We should praise God for the Dallas Fort Worth area.
We should praise God for the food and the goodness
and the money and the riches and the cars and the houses
and all the things that we have in this good land.
We should bless the Lord.
So what does this mean?
What does this mean to bless the Lord?
We should escape from our beautiful houses
and our beautiful cars and our money and all of our food
and come and worship God together and bless him
and take that beautiful, wonderful car you have
and drive 30, 40 minutes in it to come bless the Lord.
Right?
And not just use it for selfish ambition.
Use it for yourself.
Well, I'll drive an hour to the lake.
I'll drive an hour to this restaurant,
but I'm not gonna drive an hour to church.
I'll only drive five minutes to church
because that's how I wanna bless the Lord.
Go to Psalm 26, go to Psalm 26.
I'll tailgate all day long in the Cowboys parking lot
and I'll go to the football game for hours and hours
and I'll spend just stupid money on food,
just absolutely stupid money on food.
And then they'll complain like, oh, you went to church?
Oh man, what a burden.
It's like, you spent just like eight hours
in a parking lot with a bunch of hillbillies
drinking overpriced beer and overpriced goods.
I mean, how is that, how is that better?
How is that less of a burden?
I mean, you just wasted your whole day as well,
you know, in a carnal sense.
But again, coming to church
isn't gonna be wasting the day.
Who are you gonna bless?
Well, I'm gonna bless them cowboys.
Well, you know what?
They always let you down.
God doesn't let you down.
It's not making you smarter to go to the game.
It's making you dumber.
Bud dumber.
It's not Budweiser.
You wanna get wisdom?
It comes from God's word.
And we need to bless the Lord.
You know, God's the one that gave us
all this wonderful stuff
that we're enjoying every single day.
We should go and thank him
for the things that he's given us.
The Cowboys didn't give you anything.
The Cowboys don't wanna bless you.
The Cowboys just wanna take your money and then lose.
You know that you don't get a refund
if they lose the game.
They're like lawyers.
You lose the case, they still get paid.
They're gonna bill you the exact same.
There's not a special rate for like, we win the case,
I'm gonna bill you at this rate.
And if we lose the case, I'm billing you at this rate.
It's like, no matter what, I'm billing you.
So, you know, with lawyers, you just wanna get in and out,
you know, or just stay away.
And at the same place, look, the Cowboys,
they could just totally fail, just lose, be awful.
And they already got your money before you showed up.
You already paid for it.
Look, that's not gonna bless you.
But you know what?
You bless God, you actually give money to God,
and he says he'll pour you out a blessing
that you can't even receive.
How does that make sense?
Well, look, it's a for sure loser at the football game.
It's a for sure loser at what most people
are just wasting their money on, on the lottery system,
at the casino, playing cards,
you know, whatever they're wasting their money on.
You know, you might as well realize
where all the money and wealth is coming from,
it's coming from God.
Psalm 26, verse 12, the Bible says,
"My foot standeth in an even place.
"In the congregations will I bless the Lord."
The Bible says we're supposed to bless the Lord.
Notice the text is giving us a location.
What's the location?
In the congregations.
You know what, that's called church.
Church means congregation.
Congregation means church.
It means assembly.
It means, hey, instead of blessing God wherever you want,
you should come to the congregations
and that's where you're gonna bless the Lord.
You should be in church blessing God.
Look at chapter, Psalm 28 verse six.
Blessed be the Lord because he hath heard the voice
of my supplications.
Now, for a second time,
I'm not gonna go to all these passages,
but think about this.
He says, I'm gonna bless God, why?
Because, because why?
Because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
Now, if you look at Jacob,
Jacob actually says in Genesis,
he says, hey, if you bless me,
if you give me money, if you give me all this,
then I'll give you the 10th.
So think about what Jacob's saying.
He's saying, hey, if you bless me,
then I'll bless you, right?
Jacob's saying, I'll bless, I'll give this back to you.
You give me wealth, I'll give you the money.
Here it's saying, I'm gonna bless the Lord because what?
He heard the voice of my supplications.
You say, hey, I want more money.
Why don't you pray and ask God to give you money?
But here's what you need to do.
When he gives you money,
you make sure you bless the Lord.
In return, you then bless the Lord.
Don't then be selfish with that and think,
oh, my power and my wealth got me this.
No, no, no.
Hey, if God blesses you, then bless the Lord, right?
With your time, with your money, with your effort,
with your lips, in the congregation.
Look at chapter 34, verse one.
I will bless the Lord at all times.
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
So here's what I think's the most common usage
of the word bless here, is just the praise of our lips,
just saying thank you to the Lord,
just praising God with our lips.
But again, if I'm praising the Lord with my lips all times,
did you notice what it said?
I will bless the Lord at all times.
It's gonna be pretty hard to be that thankful
and that grateful and it not affect your actions.
You know, if you have an attitude and a heart
that's just very thankful and very,
you just have so much gratitude towards the Lord,
it's gonna be reflected in your decision making,
where you're gonna go, what you're gonna do.
I'm just so thankful for God,
well then I'm gonna go to church on Sunday, right?
I'm so thankful for God,
I wanna go out and preach the gospel.
Hey, I'm so thankful for what God's given unto me
and blessed me with, so I wanna bless other people
and help other people in their situations.
You can't really have that attitude of gratefulness
and it not affect your actions.
Look at Psalm 103, go to Psalm 103,
and I wanna look at just the first few verses here.
Psalm 103, and a lot of songs are based on Psalm 103.
But it says here, bless the Lord, oh my soul,
and all that is within me.
Bless his holy name.
Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
Notice what the text is saying.
It's saying, I need to make sure I'm blessing God
with all my soul, why?
Because of the benefits that he's been giving me.
And isn't that what Deuteronomy chapter eight is hammering?
Hey, I'm gonna give you all these benefits,
all these blessings, all these good things,
so then you can in turn what?
Bless the Lord, right?
Why would God wanna pour you out a blessing financially
if you're not gonna then use that money
to further the kingdom of God in any way?
God obviously wants to pour money into you
because you're gonna use that money for him.
Just like he gives the guy that 10 talents,
he's like, hey, he wants them to gather 10 talents.
And then he's gonna bless him with even more
because he did that, right?
The guy that buries his talent and does nothing with it,
well, he takes that away from him.
Because you know what?
You need to make sure when God's blessing you
and giving you things,
that you're still taking care of the Lord.
And you know, you say, hey, well, I was faithful to God.
I've been giving him money in times,
but now that I got a lot of money,
I don't know if I wanna do that anymore.
No, you better double down, right?
If God's like really blessing you and doing good for you,
hey, you wanna make sure
that you're continuing to bless the Lord
and doing good to him.
Hey, he's been helping you.
You better be in church.
You better serve God.
You better read your Bible.
You know, don't think like, oh, things are going good.
I need to back off or take more time to bless myself.
No, make sure you're blessing the Lord.
And I do it with my soul.
All that is within me, bless his holy name.
Every ounce of me needs to make sure
that I'm putting God first,
that I'm seeking first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness.
Look at verse 21.
Bless you the Lord, all ye as hosts,
ye ministers of his that do his pleasure.
So notice, again, it's kind of tying this idea
of doing his pleasure, his ministers.
Why?
Because that's another aspect of blessing the Lord
is us making sure church is going well
and the things of God are going well
and the Bible's going well.
You know what?
Praise God for the ministers
who gave us the King James Bible,
who are blessing the Lord and blessing us
and blessing the kingdom of God
with a King James Bible.
You know, there are languages,
there are people groups
that don't have a King James Bible in their language.
They don't have this magnificent work that they can use.
You know what?
Praise God for them that did his pleasure
and translated the word of God.
One more exact translation out of the holy tongues.
One more.
Hey, they said, we're not satisfied with the Geneva.
We're not satisfied with the bishops.
We're gonna give you the King James Bible.
One more exact translation
of the holy scriptures into the English tongue.
Praise God.
Praise God for the English tongue.
Praise God for the King James Bible.
Praise God for the works and the fruits that it's given us.
Hey, you know what?
We should bless people with the things of God as well.
Hey, I love this church.
This church is great.
We should bless our children
and we should bless other people
with a great church like this.
Hey, why do we send people out?
Why do we send Pastor Dylan Oz to Oklahoma?
'Cause we're trying to bless the Lord
by creating another great church in Oklahoma
and to bless those people
and to bless the things of God.
Why do we send Evangelist Urbanic to the Philippines?
'Cause we wanna bless the Lord
and we wanna bless the work of the Lord
and we wanna start more churches over there.
Look, it's not like having Pastor Oz
and Evangelist Urbanic in our church wouldn't bless us.
He would, but we wanna use those people
and use resources to further the work of God
and to bless the Lord
and to do things to further his kingdom.
We wanna do his pleasure, not our pleasure.
Go to Psalm 134, go to Psalm 134.
We want our hearts and our affections
and our minds and our resources
and everything we have to bless the Lord.
Psalm 134, look what it says in verse two.
"Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord."
Notice, again, the location, church.
So I don't want you to get this arbitrary,
imaginary idea of what blessing the Lord is.
It's something tangible.
What is it?
It's being in church.
It's actually singing the hymns.
It's singing the songs with your heart and with your soul
and having affection towards the Lord.
What was the definition?
It's affection or benevolence towards someone dear.
God is dear unto us.
The Lord Jesus Christ is dear unto us.
So we wanna have our affections towards the things of God,
towards God, towards the Son of God, towards Jesus Christ.
We want our hearts and our minds and our souls knit
under the things of God, under the word of God.
And then of course we want our benevolence
to be towards God and the things of God.
We want church to be successful.
We want church to thrive.
We want church to have all the things that it needs.
And whenever church is going poorly,
the things of God are going poorly
and the nation's going poorly.
When you want your nation and your family
and yourself to be blessed, you bless the Lord
and then he blesses you.
When you get away from church
and you get away from the Bible
and you get away from keeping his commandments,
well then your nation is gonna be a curse
and it's gonna perish.
And it's just, these things are just tied one to another.
We have to understand where the source of success
and prosperity and blessing comes from,
it comes from God and from us blessing him.
You pour into him, he pours into you.
He pours into you, you pour into him.
And it's just a cycle, just like the water cycle,
just like the rock cycle, there's the spiritual cycle,
there's the blessing cycle of God.
You bless him, he blesses you.
Then you bless him again and then he blesses you
and it's just a perfect little cycle.
Now again, this is true
and prosperity teachers love to preach this.
It's not saying though you're gonna get
necessarily like filthy rich.
Okay, and again, what's filthy?
It's unjust gain.
Take getting money from lies and deception.
You know, Joel Osteen is filthy rich
because he preaches lies to get money.
Kenneth Copeland is filthy rich
because he lies to get money.
Look, people that have money,
that have gotten it by hard work and diligence,
there's nothing wrong with those people.
God will give you wealth with no sorrow.
God can bless you without that.
You know, you don't wanna be filthy rich
by getting money through deception and lies
and cheating and stealing and robbing from God
and robbing your fellow brothers and sisters in Christ
and charging usury and doing all these
unjust gain activities.
You wanna make money by just working hard
and loving people and being diligent
and allowing God to bless you.
And look, if God blesses you, then so be it.
Obviously, we have to work in a sinful world.
You can't, there's no such thing as a clean business,
but at the end of the day, there's working hard,
and then there's doing things that are just
obviously sinful, overtly bad, overtly criminal,
and we don't wanna get money by that.
We don't wanna lie to people.
You know, you can be a salesman,
you can be a good salesman, or you can just lie to people.
You know what, just be a good salesman.
Be someone that has character and integrity
when they sell a product, right?
If you do service, do a good service.
Don't do a cheap service
and try to take advantage of people, right?
You work in, you know, the world that we live in.
Hey, you know, sometimes usury is just part of the game, man.
I mean, good luck with that kind of stuff.
But hey, at least just be honest
and use integrity in that industry,
in the finance industry and banking
and, you know, any kind of lending
or any of that kind of stuff.
I mean, hey, make sure you're on the up and up
and you're not some of these, you know,
crooked, evil, wicked people.
But at the end of the day, hey,
God is not gonna bless those
that are not keeping his commandments.
And you don't wanna be filthy rich.
You don't wanna be loaded.
But let me tell you something.
If you bless God, he will bless you.
It's true.
It's not like it's not true.
But at the end of the day,
you're not gonna probably have Elon Musk wealth, okay?
You're not gonna have a Silverstein wealth.
You're not gonna have a Rothschild kind of wealth, right?
'Cause the only way to get that kind of wealth
is just to be a dirty rotten scoundrel, okay?
And talking about them, this chapter is about Israel, okay?
But I wanna just make one more point
from this passage that I thought was important.
And it's the fact that we need the Bible.
And again, I've been hammering that point,
but that's what actually gives us the wealth,
that's what gives us our life,
that's what gives us success.
Everything comes from the Bible.
And that's what's emphasized
in the very beginning of this chapter
in verses one through three.
And he has a famous quote here in the passage
that's quoted in Matthew chapter four and Luke four.
Go if you would to Matthew chapter four.
But it said that man does not live by bread only,
but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
So the Bible is emphasizing that the most important thing
that we can even have in this world is the Bible,
is the word of God.
And not just the word of God, every word of God,
every single word of God.
Now this is quoted in Matthew chapter number four.
And it's kind of interesting because it's like Jesus
kind of goes through a mini exodus
like the children of Israel did.
'Cause you know, they're like 40 years in the wilderness.
He's like 40 days in the wilderness.
And you kind of like have a lot of parallels
between what Jesus goes through
and what the children of Israel went through.
He's tempted of the devil.
But he's the thing, the children of Israel failed
and Jesus Christ is successful.
And he overcomes them.
And of course the manna is way to test them.
Him not eating is his way to be tested.
Is he gonna keep the commandments or not?
And then that's what the devil's doing here
is tempting him.
It says in verse three, "And when the tempter came to him,
he said, 'If thou be the son of God,
command these stones to be made bread.'
But he answered and said, 'As written,
ye shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God.'"
So hey, we need every single word of God.
Luke 4.4 also says this a little differently,
but basically says the same thing.
Luke chapter number four, verse four,
and this has gotta be one of my favorite verses
in the Bible.
I like a lot of passages.
You know, Psalm 12, six and seven is a great passage.
I love Romans chapter number 10, nine and 10, and verse 13.
I love lots of different verses,
but Luke 4.4 has just gotta be one of my favorite verses
in the Bible.
And it's removed in a lot of modern versions.
The second phrase here mentioned in Luke 4.4,
but it says that man should not live by bread alone,
but by every word of God.
Whereas the every word of God is taken out of the NIV.
It's taken out of the ESV.
It's taken out a lot of these modern versions.
And you know, it's just a shame.
It's embarrassing for them.
They should obviously just burn their translations
because they're not every word of God.
And more important than, you know,
having organic bread is having an organic Bible, okay?
That's actually got all the nutrients and all the minerals
and it's got all the words
because you need every word of God.
You know, there's bozos out there today.
There's liars out there today that downplay the Bible
and the importance of the word of God
and act like it's not needed
or it's not what God even wants us to have.
You know, the Bible's dangerous.
You know, people like Nick Flentes,
which this bozo online that has captured
a lot of people's hearts and minds
because he just says stupid things and he attacked Israel.
And I guess if you just attack Israel,
it's like, oh, I'm just some automatically friend.
Well, look, not liking Israel is a normal attitude, okay?
Don't act like this is special.
The Bible says they're contrary to all men.
Okay, so that just makes you a normal person
and not a grifter, not someone that's just being paid to lie,
not getting paid $7,000 every post that you make, okay?
So yeah, not liking Israel doesn't make you special.
But this guy, this Nick Flentes guy is a Catholic
and this is a quote that he had in a recent video.
He said, "Christ left us a church, not a Bible."
And then he said, "The Bible was not canonized
"until centuries after the gospel."
And he said, "In the book of Acts,
"we were left a church, not a Bible."
Now again, this is just such a Catholic attitude.
It's not like this one guy is just a bozo
and the Catholics have a different view.
This is a Catholic view,
that you need the church to tell you what the Bible says.
And that by having a Bible and being able to read the Bible,
it's actually dangerous
and people are gonna come up with weird ideas,
like transgender pastors.
He said, "The Protestant Reformation
"and giving the Bible to people
"is what gave us transgender pastors."
Well, I'd love to see the passage in the Bible
that someone read that decided to have a transgender pastor.
Look, no one read the Bible and thought,
"You know what, we need trannies, you know?"
No, people read the Bible and said, "Let's kill them."
That's what the Bible says.
Says to stone them with stones.
That's what the Bible says.
The Bible says he made them male and female.
There's no such thing as transgender or tranny or whatever.
Look, obviously a man could dress like a woman.
That's called being effeminate or a cross dresser.
And in Deuteronomy 22, it says you're in abomination.
It doesn't say like, "Hey, let's make this guy the pastor now."
That's nonsense.
Look, just because people say things in the name of Christ
doesn't mean the Bible is what caused them to do it.
In fact, those churches hate the Bible
and they're not reading the King James Bible.
So it'd be silly to then accuse the Bible
of actually causing them to be like this
or to act like this.
They hate the Bible.
They hate the King James Bible.
They burn the King James Bible.
But the Bible's clear that we need every word of God.
It's not like, oh, well, God, we just need church.
We don't need the Bible.
Look, I'm for church.
I've already spent a lot of time
talking about the pros of church.
Let me tell you something.
The Bible is just as necessary
or more necessary than church, in my opinion.
And we shouldn't downplay either.
Church is super important.
The church was bought by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Christ died for the institution of the church.
But at the end of the day, we need the scripture.
We need the Bible.
And to say that Christ left us the church
without a Bible is just retarded.
I'm sorry.
It's retarded.
Go to Acts chapter 17.
Go to Acts chapter number 17.
It's like, it's so funny.
This is what Catholics say.
They're like, oh, you should thank us
for giving you a Bible.
It's like, you know, I just love this type of an attitude.
You know, it's like, oh, okay.
You know, thank me for America.
It's like, I didn't even build America, number one, okay?
You didn't give me a Bible.
So I'm definitely not gonna thank you.
No one alive gave me the King James Bible, okay?
It was translated 400 years ago, buddy.
You can't take credit for that.
I don't care who your daddy was, okay?
It's like, it's so silly to act like,
yeah, my great, great, great, great, great, great,
great, great grandfather was a translator
on the King James Committee.
Well, you still didn't give me the Bible, okay?
Even if that was true, which it's not
for a lot of these Catholics, okay?
But it's just silly to say
that the Catholics gave us a Bible.
What do you do before the Catholic Church?
Did the Catholic Church invent Hebrew?
Did the Catholic Church go back in time
and give the tablets of stone to Moses on the Mount?
Like how in the world is the Catholics gonna take credit
for the Bible?
And look, Acts chapter number 17,
look what the Bible says in verse 11.
Let's see, did God give us just a church in Acts
or did he give us a Bible?
Well, let's see what the Bible says in Acts chapter 17,
verse number 11.
These are more noble than those in Thessalonica
and that they received the word with all readiness of mind
and searched the scriptures daily,
whether those things are so.
So here's a group of people that go to church,
but you know what made them better
than the people that go to church?
Is that they went home and actually read the Bible.
But Nick Fuentes has no idea what the Bible actually says.
And so that's why he makes stupid statements
like the Catholic church.
Oh, you need the Catholic church
to interpret the Bible for you.
But that's just gonna take you back to the dark ages, buddy.
Go to the second Timothy chapter number three.
Here's clear text, clear proof.
In the book of Acts, they were going home
and reading the Bible to make sure
that the Bible matched the church.
Why?
Otherwise, the church can lead you down a bad path,
like the Catholic church, which will lead you to hell.
There is no salvation in the Catholic church,
which again, the Catholic church,
their official doctrine is there's no salvation
outside the Catholic church.
You have to literally be a part of a Catholic church
in order to be saved.
And while you're part of the Catholic church,
you have to be taken to Eucharist,
because they believe you have to literally eat
Jesus' physical body and physical blood
in order to go to have salvation.
You have to be in a state of grace.
And so when they excommunicate you,
they refuse you to have the Eucharist,
thereby believing that you're not saved.
You will die and go to hell,
or go to purgatory or whatever nonsense they have.
I know that, but I'm just saying,
they don't believe you will be saved
if you're not in a state of grace.
And to be in a state of grace,
you have to be actively attending mass.
And actively attending mass, you have to eat the Eucharist,
because you have to literally eat his physical body
and his physical blood in order to go to heaven.
And then they'll say like,
"Yeah, we believe in faith alone too."
Liar, you don't even know what faith means.
They believe in hardcore works.
They believe in cannibalism salvation.
You have to eat human blood and human body
in order to go to heaven.
That's what the Catholic Church officially teaches.
And of course, you know,
Nick Fuentes would be someone that would adhere to that
and believe those type of arguments as well.
And they downplay the Bible,
which that's actually what gives you salvation
because faith comes by hearing and hearing
by the word of God.
You actually believe what the Bible says.
You believe John 3.16 and that's what gets you saved.
The Catholic Church lies to you and says,
come down to this pedophile in a dress up here,
let him shove a cracker in your mouth
and you're gonna go to heaven.
Now you just sound like a parrot.
Oh yeah, the parrot, Nick Fuentes.
Bawk, probably want a cracker, bawk.
Give me some mass, bawk.
You don't need a Bible, bawk.
The guy's just gonna die and go to hell.
Like a stupid little parrot that worships a woman statue.
What a simp.
And then he wants to sit here and act like he's so manly
and so tough.
You know he's gonna drag everyone back to the dark ages
like the idiot that he is.
Let me tell you something, the Bible gives you wisdom.
And the Bible tells you the Catholic church
is a den of idiots that can't read and don't wanna read
and don't wanna study the scripture 'cause they're lazy.
And so they're gonna die and go to hell.
You know what, faith comes by hearing
and hearing by the word of God.
And you know what, I don't hate Catholics.
I just want them to get out of that stupid cult
that they're in and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and get saved.
'Cause Catholics will not go to heaven
by getting a cracker shoved down their throat
and then drinking a little bit of alcohol to top it off.
Chase it down with some wine.
You know, that's not gonna save you whatsoever.
It's just gonna, you know, burn your throat a little bit.
And look, you think I'm lying.
That is exactly what the Catholic Church is doing.
Whether you like it or not, that is being Catholic.
The Bible says that we need the word of God.
And yes, Christ didn't physically hand a King James Bible
to people before he ascended up into heaven.
But let me tell you something,
the scriptures were already in people's hands
before he even showed up.
And when they're going around in the book of Acts,
they're showing up in Greek places
where they already have the word of God.
The Bible says in Acts chapter number 15
that Moses was read in every synagogue.
People that wanted the Bible could have scripture.
I get it, that it was not necessarily as easy,
they didn't have the printing press and blah, blah, blah.
But you wanted the Bible in the Old Testament,
you were gonna have the Bible.
Reason why people didn't have the Bible
is 'cause they didn't want it.
Second Timothy chapter three,
look what it says in verse number 15.
And that from a child,
thou hast known the holy scriptures
which are able to make thee wiser
than the salvation through faith,
which is in Christ Jesus.
Oh, you need someone to interpret it.
You need some priest to interpret it.
No, no, no.
A child can understand it.
No, even a little child can read the Bible
and it can make him wise in the salvation
because it's believing on the Lord Jesus Christ
that saves you.
And you know what?
It's the Bible that gives him his salvation.
Notice it doesn't say the church.
Notice it doesn't say catechism.
Notice it doesn't say some priest
absolved him of his sins.
No, it was the Bible.
It was the word of God.
It was the holy scriptures
that made him wise in the salvation
because it's by putting your faith in Jesus Christ.
And let me tell you something about the Bible.
Oh yeah, it's Jesus.
In the beginning was the word
and the word is with God
and the word was God.
This is Jesus, welcome to Jesus.
How in the world can you say
Jesus didn't give us a Bible when he is the Bible?
That's the ignorance that comes from the unsaved mind
of the Catholics today who will lie to you
and send you to hell.
Look at 1 Timothy chapter number four and verse number 13.
1 Timothy chapter four,
not only do you need to read the Bible at home,
you need to read the Bible in church.
And look, you go to the Catholic mass,
they're not gonna sit there with a King James Bible
following along with their little homily.
It's just a fancy show where they're gonna get a bit,
they're just gonna get a smoke machine.
I need to just do this for an example lesson sometime.
They just walk around and it's like poofing smoke thing.
This is like smoke, and they're just like
putting smoke on the bread.
It's like, look, we smoke brisket, folks.
We're not smoking crackers, all right?
They're over here smoking crackers,
and then they just do their little stupid song and dance,
and then they have everybody walk down,
they just shove crackers in everybody's throat and go home.
It's like, that is not what the Bible teaches at all.
What does it say in 1st Timothy chapter four, verse 13?
"Till I come, give attendance to reading,
to exhortation, to doctrine."
You know, that sounds like "Steph S. Baptist Church."
You show up, we're gonna read a lot of Bible,
and I'm gonna scream at you,
and it's gonna be a lot of doctrine.
I'm not gonna shove a cracker down your throat.
I'm gonna shove Leviticus 20, 13 down your throat.
I'm gonna shove 1st Timothy.
I'm gonna shove 2nd Timothy.
I'm gonna shove John 3, 16.
I'm gonna shove the word of God.
It's gonna be Deuteronomy chapter number eight,
is what it's gonna be.
And we're gonna see what's really in your heart.
Do you like the Bible or not?
Because if you like the Bible,
and if you don't like the Bible, you don't like Jesus.
That's why Catholics are always downplaying the Bible
because they don't like Jesus.
And they're always stripping the power away from the Bible,
and they're stripping the authority away from the Bible,
just like they stripped the power and the authority
and the personhood of Jesus away
with their stupid Catholic trinity too.
And look, it's the same as oneness.
Tonight I ran into a oneness Pentecostal pastor.
Just go figure, you know?
Go through it to Psalm chapter one.
I wanted to just go through a couple Psalms.
Oneness Pentecostal pastor.
I'm like, this guy's not gonna get saved.
Okay, I get it.
But I was like, I've never ran into somebody like this.
I just want to ask him some Trinity questions real quick.
Now again, he testified clearly
he does not believe in salvation by faith.
I mean, this guy is the most hardcore work salvation.
He's just like, he just, I didn't even ask him questions.
He's just telling me without me even asking.
He's just like, oh, and I was gonna let you know,
like if you commit suicide,
there's no way you could repent of that.
So I don't believe they could ever go to heaven.
And you know, you definitely can lose your salvation.
And if you commit any sin,
you're gonna lose your salvation.
I don't believe you can trust Christ
and commit any sin and then go to heaven.
'Cause he said, "Anybody that sins is not going to heaven."
And I'm just like, "Wow."
And I was like, "Are you a simple, he's a guy."
And he's like, "No, Pentecostal."
And I was like, "Like oneness?"
And he's like, "Yes."
And I'm like, "Okay, I wanna ask you questions."
So I just started asking about the Trinity.
And look, it's the exact same as these
classical Trinitarians.
Just everything about God's a metaphor
and it's just one person.
And you know, it's funny because it's like the oneness guy
is just honest about his language.
He's just honest about the words that he's using.
It's just the classical Trinitarians know
they can't just say certain things.
The weirdest thing this guy did say though,
is when he said, "Jesus sent his own son
"to be the savior of the world."
And I was just like, "Wow, that's weird."
I was asking him like about spirits.
He's like, "You can't see a spirit
"unless it comes in flesh."
And I'm like, "Oh, okay.
"What about the Holy Ghost?
"Isn't it a sin in bodily shape as a dove
"and didn't John the Baptist see it?"
And he's like, "Well, the spirit can do whatever it wants."
Okay.
I was like, "Hey, what about John 17, five,
"where it says, 'Glorify me with thine own self,
"'with the glory that I had with thee before the world was.'"
He's like, "Oh, that's about Gentiles."
I said, "Oh, Exodus 33, when Moses hands covering his face
"and he sees God's back parts."
I was like, "Did he see the Father?
"Did he see God?"
And he's like, "Oh, he saw the fire."
And I was like, "The fire?"
And he's like, "Yeah, the fiery, the burning fiery bush."
And I was like, "Isn't that exodus like four
"or something like that?"
And he's just like, "The spirit can do whatever it wants."
I'm just like, "Hey, Genesis one, two,
"the spirit's moving on the face of the waters.
"Yeah, the spirit can do whatever it wants."
And I just said, "So then what about all these passages
"like God sitting next to the Son,
"like Jesus Christ is the right hand of the Father,
"and you see God in heaven."
And I'm like, "Are they all metaphors?"
And he's like, "Yeah, they're all metaphors."
Like, wow.
Go believe like this guy, you know?
The oneness Pentecostal heretic.
It's just funny.
And again, these people, if you think about it,
they just hate the Bible.
You just show them things in the Bible
and they hate the Bible, they downgrade the Bible,
they attack Jesus because they don't like Jesus.
And the doctrine about Jesus gets screwed up and messed up.
And look, why does the Catholic have a screwed up Trinity?
Because he doesn't believe in Jesus.
And what is Jesus?
It's the Bible.
Look, you can't be so screwed up on the Bible
and be right about Jesus.
Why?
Because Jesus is the Bible.
You know who's gonna have the best view of Jesus?
The person who has the best view of the Bible.
The person who has the best doctrine
is gonna be the one that has the best view of who Jesus is.
And is gonna understand who Jesus is the best.
And of course, the one that understands Jesus the best,
the one that's doing the works.
So it's like, oh, why do you guys always point to
salvation and the fruit and whatever?
Well, buy their fruits, you shall know them.
Hey, hey, Nick Fuentes, let's compare fruit for a moment.
Right?
Like what, he said, oh, the Protestant Reformation
is like screwed us all up and gave us trainee pastors
and Steven Anderson and all this stuff.
It's like, okay, what's the better fruit after 1600s?
After the 1611, we got the King Day's Bible.
So from 1611 to now, what gave us better fruit?
The King Day's Bible or the Catholic Church?
What did the King Day's Bible produce?
Well, the Kingdom of UK or Britain,
from the 1600s to the 1920s became the world empire.
That's interesting.
And in fact, they basically just conquered like everything.
Colonization, oh no, is a scary word.
It's like, okay, what did the Catholic Church produce?
And again, it's like in Italy, it's in Spain,
it's in France, did they take over the world?
Are they world superpowers?
Were they empires?
Now look, admittedly Spain and France
did conquer a lot of places.
It didn't colonize a lot of places.
But let's compare the colonizations as well.
You know, Britain colonized America.
How did that turn out?
Oh yeah, it's the world superpower.
It's the greatest nation on earth.
Other places, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland,
South Africa, India, the Caribbean, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
I wonder if those are some of the most developed,
most blessed places in the world.
Or are they the most third world countries?
The most subservient countries.
Now, the Catholic Church, they were influential
in Italy, Spain, France, Poland, Eastern Europe,
then Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and the Philippines.
These are some of their most notorious things.
Now look, I'm not against Brazil, Mexico,
Philippines, these places, 'cause they're very nice,
they have good people, but let's just be honest,
they are not the more blessed nations
in comparison to the British colonies,
and it's simply because of the King James Bible.
It produced better fruit than the Catholic Church.
If the Catholic Church was the truth and this was a lie,
why are we producing better nations
for hundreds and hundreds of years?
Now, Britain fell and you say, oh, that's what Protestantism
eventually leads to, it leads to the fall.
Now, Britain eventually became secularized,
in fact, it got so bad in 1966,
the Beatles, John Lennon got up and said this, quote,
we're more popular than Jesus.
That's a pretty blasphemous statement,
but you could argue that it's at least accurate.
He's probably just describing the culture of that day
that Britain had gotten so far away from God
that now a band, just a musical group,
is just more of the heartthrob.
Who are they blessing?
They're blessing the Beatles,
they're not blessing the Lord God
that gave them the wealth and the power
and the nation that they had.
And because they turned away from God and they forgot God,
now they're invaded by a Muslim horde.
Now they're under Muslim regime.
Why?
Because they forgot the Lord God
and he's gonna make them embarrassed
and a shame and a mockery.
And you know what?
America could go down the same path
if we do the same things.
Look, what gave us prosperity and blessing
with the King James Bible is the word of God is God.
Bible, okay?
But look, we need the word of God.
We need the Bible.
And I know this is a long sermon,
but hey, you need some more Bible.
We're testing you, all right?
Psalm one, look at verse two.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord
and in his law that they meditate day and night.
Hey, I'm for church,
but you need Bible more than you need church.
I want you to read your Bible every day
more than I want you to go to church.
But the person that reads the Bible every day
is gonna wanna go to church.
That's why I want you to read your Bible.
You know the reason why people quit?
It's probably 'cause they stop reading their Bible.
And then they go to a church
where they don't wanna hear the Bible being preached
'cause they stop reading their Bible.
You read the Bible every day.
You read the Bible.
You read the King James Bible every day.
You are not gonna go to a non-denominational church.
You read the Bible every single day.
You're not gonna go to the Catholic church.
You're not gonna go to one of these weird fun centers.
You're not gonna wanna go to some lame church.
You're gonna say like, I wanna go to a church
where I'm hearing the Bible being preached.
That's why I want people to read the Bible.
Psalm 78 verse one, "Give ear, O my people, to my law.
"Incline your ears to the words of my mouth."
What kind of instruction would he be giving here
if you don't even have the Bible?
Psalm 119.
And let me tell you something, Nick Fuentes.
Psalms was written before your little Catholic church
is before Jesus Christ showed up.
Why would God be giving these scriptures
and these admonitions for you to read the law
and to read and meditate on his word
if you couldn't even do it?
Psalm 119 verse one.
And of course, this entire psalm should be read
in the context of this,
'cause it's all about the Bible.
It's not about church, it's about the Bible.
Blessed are the undefiled in the way
who walk in the law of the Lord.
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies
that seek him with the whole heart.
You know, we should be seeking God.
We should be walking in the law of the Lord.
Those are the people that are gonna be blessed.
Look at verse nine.
Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed thereto according to thy word.
You know how you're gonna get success as a young man?
Shut off Nick Fuentes and read your Bible.
You know how you're gonna clean up your act?
Read the Bible, which'll tell you,
hey, whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing
and obtaineth favor of the Lord.
You ask Nick Fuentes, he says women suck.
He says he doesn't like women.
He says women can't be your friend.
He downplays marriage.
And then you wonder why he's not married.
Look, it's a doctrine of devils.
You know what?
The devil wants a nation to have no marriages
so you can have a bunch of angry men
that are ready to go to war.
You know what?
A bunch of happy married men that have kids
aren't ready to just go enter into some war
and go kill themselves.
You know what?
They're also gonna be blessed financially
and they're gonna be protecting their nation.
You know what?
The devil's the one that wants to destroy marriage
and stop people from getting married.
And you know what?
It's a satanic doctrine.
We should encourage young men to go
and find a young woman to marry.
One in the flesh, not one of these e-girls online.
Let me say, I have too much to say.
You know, everybody decides on a video
in like the first few seconds,
whether they're gonna watch it or not.
It's like this phenomenon, like shorts or reels or whatever.
You have to get them in the first three seconds or whatever.
Let's be honest for a second about every video
that pops up with a girl on it.
If you're a guy and a girl was dressed very modestly
with no makeup on, you would immediately go like this.
'Cause you could not care less what she has to say.
What's the only reason why a guy would sit there
for a second and actually listen
to what the girl has to say?
'Cause she's dressed inappropriately
and gonna say something, or not necessarily,
she's dressed inappropriately and just attractive, right?
'Cause if she was dressed inappropriately and ugly,
you would go even faster, all right?
But let's just be honest.
You're not sitting there like, man,
I just can't wait to see what this young woman
wants to say to me or whatever.
Meaning what?
All the women online are whores, quit listening to them.
Quit listening to the online whores
and go find a real girl and go talk to her.
Because you know what?
It's so stupid to think like,
oh man, I can't find a good woman.
We're not gonna find her online
'cause the women online are whores.
The good women aren't putting themselves online.
The good women are not making reels of themselves
because they know dressed modestly
and doing whatever people aren't gonna wanna listen,
they're not gonna get the clicks,
they're not gonna get the likes
so they don't do that, they're not online.
Only the whores are online.
And then you get this appetite for a whore that's online.
Quit going through all the reels
and watching Nick Flint as trash women
and go find a real woman and just like her.
You can't marry your phone.
I don't know, it's AI, people are gonna be like,
"Yes, you can."
Don't tell me that, I don't wanna know.
Read your Bible, look at verse 18.
"Open thou mine eyes, that I may hold wondrous things
"out of thy law."
God wants you to watch the Bible.
What it says in verse 97.
"Oh, how I love thy law, it is my meditation all the day."
Verse 99, "I have more understanding
"than all my teachers, for thy testimonies
"are my meditation."
Look, you're not gonna learn by going to the Catholic Church,
you're gonna learn by reading your Bible.
You wanna become the smartest person alive?
Read the Bible, memorize the Bible, study the Bible.
The only thing stopping you from being the smartest person
on the planet is your laziness and not reading the scripture.
One more place, go to Proverbs 13, 13, we'll finish.
Proverbs 13, verse 13, "Hey, God's testing you,
"God's proving you every single day.
"What's in your heart, what do you like?
"Are you gonna read your Bible?
"Are you gonna meditate on his word?
"Are you gonna bless the Lord?
"Or are you focused on yourself, blessing yourself,
"focused on listening to liars and weirdos?"
Look, Nick Fuentes is not gonna save our country
from anything.
If he had his way,
we would immediately go back to the dark ages.
And you know what?
I would be killed for my views on the Trinity.
I'd be killed for my views on salvation.
I'd be killed in my views on the Bible.
I'd be killed for even having a Bible.
Why would I wanna vote that in?
Why would I want that?
And no one married?
No men are married?
This guy is not curing anything.
He's not helping anything.
He's not blessing anything.
The guy is not even athletic.
At least some of these Catholics work out and look strong.
I mean, what does this guy have to offer?
Nothing, absolutely nothing.
He's a liar.
Proverbs chapter 13, look at verse 13.
"Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed."
This guy is telling you, you don't need a Bible.
You need the Catholic church.
He will be destroyed.
What do you believe?
Oh no, there's no way God can do,
God can do whatever he wants.
"But he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded."
Don't fall for these stupid online personalities
and these people downplaying the Bible
and saying you don't need the Bible.
You need the Bible.
You need the word of God.
That's what gives us success.
The person that despises the word,
that's the guy that's gonna be destroyed.
And you know, you need to be steadfast with your Bible,
not with these guys online
or these influencers or whatever.
You know what?
It's the word of God that gives us this power
and the wealth and success.
You know, if you're a young man, you know,
read your Bible, get a girlfriend,
marry her, come to church.
That's simple.
And people want to make it really hard.
People want to make it really difficult
because they want to get away from those simple commandments.
You know what?
The Bible will give you its success.
Read it and enjoy the blessing.
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you Heavenly Father for the word of God.
Thank you for all that you've given us, all the blessings.
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to live in America.
Thank you for all of our forefathers
for building a nation and giving us a heritage
that's based on the scripture and based on the word of God.
I pray that we wouldn't forget
why we have such a great nation
and why we have so many blessings
and why we have so much food
and why we have so much prosperity
and why we can have so much freedom
and why we can have so much just opportunity
to live our lives and do as we will.
I pray that with all that opportunity,
with all that blessing, with all that money,
with all that food, we would in return bless the Lord.
We wouldn't forget where we came from,
that we wouldn't forget the Lord,
we wouldn't forget the Bible,
but rather we would read our Bibles
and we would bless the Lord in our hearts
and our minds and our actions
and that you would continue to bless us in return.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
- All right, for our last song,
let's go to song number 42.
Song number 42.
Latest sun is sinking fast.
Song number 42.
Singing, everybody, you are all dismissed.