Hi everybody, welcome to Scher Foundation Baptist Church. Please find your seats and sit down in your seats.
First song we're going to be singing is song 245. The old account was settled.
Song 245. 245. There was a time on earth. On the first.
There was a time on earth, when in the book of Hav, an old account was standing for sins yet unforgave.
My name was at the top, and many things below. I went unto the keeper, and settled long ago, long ago, long ago.
Yes, the old account was settled long ago, and the record's clear today, for he washed my sins away.
When the old account was settled long ago, the old account was large, and growing every day.
For I was always sinning, and never tried to pay. But when I looked ahead, and saw such pain and low,
I said that I would settle, and settle long ago, long ago, long ago, as the old account was settled long ago.
And the record's clear today, for he washed my sins away, for the old account was settled long ago.
When in that happy home, my Savior's home above, I'll sing redemption story, and praise him for his love.
I'll not forget that book, with pages white as snow, because I came and settled, and settled long ago, long ago, long ago.
Yes, the old account was settled long ago, and the record's clear today, for he washed my sins away, and the old account was settled long ago.
O sinner, trust the Lord, be cleansed of all our sin, for thus he hath provided for you to enter in, and then if you should live a hundred years below, up there not regret it.
He hath settled long ago, as the old account was settled long ago. For it's clear today, for he washed my sins away, when the account was settled long ago.
Oh God, for the son of thy love, for Jesus who died and is now gone above.
Hallelujah, thine the glory, hallelujah, amen. Hallelujah, thine the glory, revive us again. We praise thee, O God, for thy spirit of light.
You who have shown us our Savior, can I call it in the glory, revive us again.
This is not talking about a literal bread, but you know, it's a symbolic, you know, when you are saved, you are saved forever, you have eternal life.
Let's look at the Insight page. We're on YouTube, Facebook, Grumble, and X. Service time Sunday morning at 11, Sunday afternoon service at 4.
And join us for the Wednesday Night Bible Study at 7 p.m. This Wednesday will be in Judges Chapter 20.
To me, that's the most exciting, encouraging chapter of the whole book, so please join us if you are able to.
We have so many times, Saturday morning at 10.30, and Sunday afternoon zoning at 1.30 p.m.
And this afternoon we have 16 soul winners and 7 salvations. Praise the Lord for that.
That's a very good apartment complex. We have kids everywhere. People like to talk.
So praise the Lord for the salvations, and let's keep working on the baptisms.
Upcoming events, we'll do the Lord's Supper service during the PM service on March 29.
Of course, I preach a sermon on the Lord's Supper this morning, so if you have any questions, let me know.
But you have to be saved and baptized to partake the Lord's Supper, so it'll be a shorter afternoon service on that day.
Easter service is the week following. On April 5, we'll have a pollock right after the morning service, and then we'll have a man's preaching night during that afternoon service.
So if you are a man, if you want to preach a shorter sermon, please let me know. Please sign up for that prior.
We have so many events planned out. March 28th is the Gary Sony Marathon, and April 4th is the Mega Sony Marathon. That's the day before Easter, so we'll have a morning Sony, lunch, and then the afternoon Sony here.
Also, college Sony is coming up. Just save the day for that. May 23rd is the Indy 500 Sony Marathon. If you are here during the Memorial Day weekend, I will let you know more about where we're going to meet on the Memorial Day Sunday, because that's the once a year that we could not meet here due to the parking lot situation.
Also, next Sunday, we will lose an hour, essentially, even though we're not losing an hour, but that's how the stupid system works.
I mean, we should just abolish that, right? So, again, adjust your phone clock.
I mean, just set your phone to the auto adjust, and it should be fine. So, just don't be late for church.
Again, that's the bad one, okay? That's the one that you actually lose an hour.
So, maybe go to bed an hour early, or not, or just look miserable next Sunday.
Anyway, let's see. March Sunday afternoon preaching schedule is for you to see.
Patent offerings is there, and no birthdays coming up. Any birthdays I missed in this coming week, no?
Alright, that's all the announcement. Let's sing one more song, and then we'll take up the offering.
Alright, next song is going to be song 439. Song 49? I'm sorry, song 439.
Song 439. Count your blessings. Count your blessings.
When upon life's billows you are tempest-tossed.
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost.
Count your many blessings, name them one by one.
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly.
And you will be singing as the days go by.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your blessings, see what God hath done.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
When you look at others with their land gold, think that Christ has promised you his wealth untold.
Count your many blessings, money can't buy your reward in heaven or your home.
Count your many blessings, name them one by one.
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
So amid the conflict, whether great or small, do not be discouraged.
God is all your men, blessings angels that confer to your germ.
Count your many blessings, name them one by one.
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
Blessings one by one.
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
For we are the circumcision which worship God in the Spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh.
Though I might also have confidence in the flesh, if any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I am more.
Circumcise the eighth day of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin and Hebrew of the Hebrews as touching the law of Pharisee.
Concerning zeal, persecuting the church, touching the righteousness which is of the law blameless.
But what things were gained to me, those I counted lost for Christ, yea doubtless, and I count all things, but for the loss of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord,
for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.
And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ,
the righteousness which is of God by faith, that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection,
and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death, if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I follow after, if that I may apprehend,
that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind,
and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded, and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded. God shall reveal even this unto you.
Nevertheless, whereto we have already obtained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as they have us for an example.
For many walk of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ,
whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind the earthly things.
For our conversation is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body according to the working,
whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself.
Brother Matt, would you pray for the service?
So if you guys would look at Philippians, verse number 13, chapter 3, it says,
"Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind,
and reaching forth unto those things which are before."
So the title of my sermon today is just moving on from sin.
So obviously people in their life are going to sin at various degrees and times,
and obviously if you get saved later in life you're going to have more sin probably than people who get saved as a child.
And any sin though can take us out of the Christian life and make us backslidden and stop going to church if we don't move past it.
And I think it's just an important thing to just always keep in mind of,
"Hey, if you do sin you do make a mistake that we have to forget those things which are behind and reach forth unto those things which are before."
So I think it's a very important thing.
And in verse number 14 it says, "I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
So obviously a big thing with forgetting things which are behind is going to help you to reach towards that prize.
Because obviously in sports and different things and the Olympics and stuff especially,
like when I was in Miami visiting my mom, she had the figure skating on and like people fell.
So like you'd be in front of all these people and you'd be doing all this crazy stuff
and they're actually like really good and talented and probably never fall, but they make a mistake and they fall.
But it's crazy because they'll fall and then get right back up and just go through everything like nothing happened.
And obviously if I fell figure skating in front of all those people, I'd be done.
I would be embarrassed, wouldn't know how to do anything, but they just get up and go.
And then there's other people doing skiing and they jump up in the air and they do all these flips and stuff
and then try to land and a lot of them don't land and they fall on their back.
But they get right back up too, where it's like you barely, unless it's slow motion, you can't even tell if they fell.
So it's kind of crazy just how quick some people get up.
And the quicker you can get up, obviously the more points you're going to score in the Olympic thing,
and the same thing with us going for that prize.
And the quicker we can get up from mistakes that we do and sins that we do,
the better we're going to be and the more we can do to get a bigger prize.
So if you guys would flip over to Romans chapter number 6, Romans chapter number 6,
I'm going to read from 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse number 17.
While you turn there it says, "Therefore if any man be in Christ,
he is a new creature, old things are passed away, behold all things are become new."
So obviously as soon as you get saved it's the best time to move on from past sins.
The Apostle Paul kind of touched on a little bit in Philippians chapter 3
where it kind of talked about some things he did in his past life and he moved past that.
He counted Badang and moved on and did great works, did great things.
And same thing with us, the best time is as soon as you get saved,
your new creature put all the old things behind you and move on.
But obviously you can do that multiple times.
We see Peter as a great example of that, right?
I mean he's doing great things, he's with Jesus, he's doing great works.
Then he has some bad things that happen, he's denying the Lord, denying the Lord.
Then hey, he gets right and he does great things again.
And obviously you can keep doing that multiple times for your life.
Obviously, best case scenario, that never happens.
But in reality, it's going to happen at different levels for different people.
But everybody's going to sin, make mistakes, do wrong things.
So in Romans chapter 6, verse number 4, it says,
"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death,
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,
even so we also should walk in newness of life."
So obviously when you first get saved it says we also should,
not that we will, right?
I mean obviously everybody should walk in this newness,
they should, hey, be a new creature, start over and follow God,
but not necessarily that you're going to.
It doesn't say everybody's going to do it, but we should do it.
In verse number 5 it says,
"For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death,
so shall we also be in the likeness of his resurrection,
knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him,
that the body of sin might be destroyed,
that henceforth we should not serve sin."
So obviously, hey, when you get saved,
and the people we get saved, the best case scenario is
they stop serving sin, they get right with God,
and they start doing the same things the Apostle Paul did,
or that many people in this room have done,
is to get right with God, and to restart, to move past those sins,
and to start serving God to the full extent that they can.
So if you guys would flip over to 1 John chapter 1, verse number 8.
So in 1 John chapter 1, verse number 8, the Bible says,
"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves,
and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins,
he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us."
So obviously there's people at the door that say they don't sin, they've never sinned before,
and you know, those people are just like, whatever, you've just got to move on.
Because if you can't say that you've sinned, you can't move past that, right?
So that's a deal breaker there.
But even after we get saved, like it said already, we should walk in newness of life.
And here it says, hey, if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves.
So hey, even after you get saved, you're still going to have sin,
you're still going to do wrong things,
but you should always try to move on and, you know, to move past that.
But at no point in your life are you going to be sinless, right?
Because some people say, hey, at some point if you're saved and you're truly saved,
you're going to stop sinning, you're never going to do anything wrong,
and you're going to move past that.
But obviously, hey, the Bible says if we say we have no sin,
we're going to deceive ourselves, right?
Because every single person is going to sin.
You just have to move past it. That's the key.
And if you guys have a look at John chapter number 8,
even the most perfect, you know, family out there, right?
Everybody probably has somebody to thank.
A lot of people, obviously we know he's not even saved, but the Pope, right?
People think the Pope's just this great man or, you know, different religious leaders.
But even them, it's like, obviously we know that they're super wicked,
but even those people still do sins like everybody else.
They're not perfect. They're not these great, you know, people that are just sinless.
You know, the best person you know still is going to sin.
So, you know, us in our life, we're going to sin too, right?
I mean, some people have this weird expectation with their idol,
and they're like, "That person's just so great, so perfect."
And, you know, if you have your mindset like that, it could hurt you, right?
Because some people even say, "I don't go to church because people there are hypocrites."
But if you had this mindset of, "Hey, everybody's a sinner,"
you wouldn't really have nearly as much of that idea.
But people have this weird thing of, like, people who go to church,
people who preach, like we do especially, it's like, if we sin, it's like,
"Well, you're a hypocrite because you're saying lying's wrong."
Or, "You're a hypocrite because you say you should go to church no matter what,
three times a week and you only go, you know, once every week or you only go twice a week or whatever."
And it's like, "Yeah, you know, we still sin, we do believe that, but none of us are perfect, right?"
And obviously there's tons of different examples you can go to, right?
I mean, we believe gluttony is a sin, but I still go to the Chinese buffet once in a while, right?
So, you know, hey.
So in John chapter number 8, it says, in verse number 3, John 8-3, it says, "And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery.
And when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery in the very act.
Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned, but what sayest thou?
This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him."
So that's kind of the key to the story is like, they're trying to tempt Jesus to get him to say,
"Hey, put her to death like the Bible says," which is true, but at the same time,
it's not his place, not the law, it's like us, right?
We can't just say, "Hey, these people need to be put to death and then just go out there and do it."
I mean, it's the government's job, so they're trying to get Jesus to do something he's not allowed to do
and get him in trouble with the authorities, and it says,
"But Jesus stooped down and with his finger rode on the ground, as though he had heard them not.
So when they had continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said unto him,
'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.'
And again he stooped down and rode on the ground, and they which heard it,
being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last.
And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing there in the midst, when Jesus had lifted up himself,
he saw none but the woman. He said unto her, 'Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee?'
She said, 'No man, Lord.' And Jesus said unto her, 'Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more.'"
So kind of just like today, right, our government doesn't put people to death for certain sins,
that the Bible says it, right? So it doesn't mean that that is all of a sudden right or good to do.
And like we already talked about, we can't do anything, we can't enforce that.
But obviously some people who get saved might, like this person, do those sins, be guilty of those sins.
And obviously we all believe suicide is wrong. It's not like this person, just because the government's not going to do it,
it's not like, hey, well you have to give yourself the death penalty, right?
So the best thing that she can do is what Jesus said. He says, "Go and sin no more."
So same thing as some people don't even want to get saved because they say, hey, I've done too many sins,
or I'm too bad of a person, I've done too many things wrong.
And obviously we know, you know, obviously certain people who can't get saved,
but most of those people it's just because they've, you know, went to war or, you know, killed somebody in the past or whatever.
They're not necessarily like a reprobate, but in their mind it's like, well, I went to fight in Iraq or something.
It's like, I did some bad things. I can't be saved.
But obviously, you know, they still can.
But obviously people who get saved have the same idea of like, hey, I could never be a soul winner.
I could never, you know, be somebody that God's going to use greatly because I did a death penalty worthy sin or I did this huge thing in the past.
But just like this woman here, the Bible says go and sin no more.
Hey, move on from that sin and realize like hey, sure I should have received the death penalty, but I'm happy to be alive in America at this time or happy to be alive in Rome at this time.
And I get a pass and use that to serve God and take advantage of it.
You know, obviously there's nothing you can do about it.
You know, you got to confess it, forsake it, not do it again and don't keep doing it.
But at the same time, just because the government isn't doing their job, you know, it gives you kind of a little blessing of,
"Hey, like, it gives me an opportunity to serve God here and take full advantage of that."
So if you guys would flip over to 2 Samuel chapter 12, we're going to see the same thing with King David.
King David kind of has the same thing, and I don't know how much they were following the Bible at that time.
They were putting people to death for all the stuff they should have.
But obviously when you're the king, I guess you get an advantage of no one can put you to death since you're in charge other than God.
And while you're turning there, I'm going to read Proverbs 24-16.
It says, "For a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again, but the wicked shall fall into mischief."
So obviously, hey, you know, if you just keep falling, you fall into sin, you do it.
You got to get right and just keep going up and trying to get right.
You know, you fall, get up, and try to get right again.
And we're all going to do that throughout our life over and over again.
But a wicked person is just somebody who doesn't care and they're just going to get into sin
and just not care what anybody says and never get right with God at all.
And obviously, we're going to see with King David that, you know, he gets right with God
and, you know, he feels bad about his sin.
But obviously, the same thing with this woman is at this time he gets kind of a free pass
of the death penalty, because obviously he's the king, so he's not going to put himself
to death here.
But in 2 Samuel chapter 12 verse number 7, it says, "And Nathan said unto David, Thou
art the man, thus saith the Lord God of Israel.
I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul, and I gave
thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house
of Israel, and of Judah; and if there had been too little, I would moreover have given
unto thee such and such things.
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight?
Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife,
and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house, because thou hast despised
me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will rise up evil against thee out of thine own house,
and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall
lie with thy wives in the sight of the sun.
For thou didst it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the
sun."
So obviously here we see, hey, David did some bad things, right?
He killed Uriah with the sword, which obviously murders, a death penalty sin.
Then he committed adultery with another man's wife, which obviously that's a death penalty
sin.
And, you know, God is rebuking him sharply and is giving him tons of punishment, right?
Which obviously we see later on that he went through tons and tons of punishment.
Obviously the child is going to die here, we're going to read, and then his sons are
trying to kill him, and they're sleeping with his wives in front of everybody.
So obviously he still gets punished, but he does, you know, forego the death penalty,
right?
So he does get a second chance.
We're going to keep reading here, it says, "For thou didst it secretly, but I will do
this thing before all Israel and before the Son, and David's son to Nathan, I have sinned
against the Lord, and Nathan's son to David, the Lord also hath put away thy sin, thou
shall not die."
So here, you know, David, he confesses, hey, he says, "I have sinned, I've done wrong,"
he's obviously, you know, sorry, and he confesses his sin, and, you know, God tells him, "Thou
shall not die, howbeit because this deed, by this deed thou hast given great occasion
to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely
die."
So obviously David did some really bad things, and, you know, he gets spared the death, but
his child is going to be killed, which obviously is sad for the child, because the child didn't
do anything, right?
The child didn't do any of the sin, so it's just another thing to remember that, hey,
even though you might be spared the death penalty in America right now for doing a death
penalty worthy sin, doesn't necessarily mean that your family won't be affected, or people
that you love won't be affected, because just like David is being the king here, he's like,
no one can put him to death other than God, and God obviously says, "Thou shalt not die,"
but the child dies, right?
Which obviously maybe for him that could even have been worse than him dying, and maybe
he would have said, "Hey, like take me out and just let the child be born."
But obviously, hey, David used this to still move on and to do great things for God and
to continue to move past it, but it's just a thing of, hey, even though you can always
move on from sin and maybe God won't take you out, but you've got to remember that,
hey, your loved ones might not be as lucky and maybe that will affect them because sin
will always affect people in your family and it's not just you, right?
If you guys flip over to Psalms, chapter 103, Psalms 103, so obviously, you know, God can
still punish people in the family even though they didn't do anything wrong and sometimes
there's just built-in punishment for sin, right?
I mean, you look at people who get divorced and, you know, their parents are split up.
Obviously, then their kids might start having grandkids or great grandkids and then, you
know, one parent or grandparent is going to be home alone for Christmas and Thanksgiving
and they're not going to see each other as much because everything's split up and then,
you know, they're going to be closer with certain people maybe.
So it's just built-in punishments for sin that we do in our life.
So even if we do move past it, it doesn't necessarily mean like, well, there's no punishment
for it because everything you do is going to have some sort of punishment, right?
I mean, if you're just always at the Chinese buffet like these people that I've seen in
Florida one time where it's like there's just a built-in punishment for being there all
the time, right?
I mean, it's hard to walk, it's hard to do things.
So even though I do like being there all the time and my wife's always trying to get me
to go more, so I tell her, "Hey, we can't go all the time because there is a built-in
punishment for going there too much.
So in Psalms 103 verse number 8, it says, "The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow
to anger and plenious in mercy.
He will not always chide, neither will He keep His anger forever.
He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy towards them that fear
Him, as far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions
from us.
So obviously, hey, you know, God's slow to anger, He's plenty us in mercy, you know,
He's not dealt with us after our sins, you know, He's not rewarded us according to our
iniquities.
And obviously, you know, King David is seeing that right with what he did is, hey, you know,
God still blessed them and did great things with them, obviously after that, and even
now they still, you know, call Jesus the son of David, right?
I mean, so obviously God could have did a lot more to David and a lot more to us because,
I mean, how much we do to God and how much bad things that we do, you know, God is never
going to reward us according to that because obviously we should all deserve hell, right?
Because we've sinned, we've lied, we've done tons of bad things, and obviously God's never
going to send us to hell because, like the last verse says, He's moved our sins as far
as the east is from the west, and even more than that, He blessed us on this earth still,
right?
I mean, He's given us a good job, good churches, we can get rewards in heaven, so, you know,
there's tons of stuff that God does for us even though we sin, but obviously there still
is a built-in punishment, then there is a punishment, and we never know how far that
punishment is going to be and who it's going to affect, so you should, like I said, move
on from that sin, but don't use that as an excuse to just keep trying to sin or say,
"Well, you know, I can keep going to the bar and keep going to the, you know, the casino
and doing all this bad stuff because God is merciful, He's going to forgive me and I can
always move on from it, it's not a big deal," but you never necessarily know when God's
going to be sick of it and, you know, come down on you like a ton of bricks, but obviously
we are all going to mess up no matter how much you try, but don't use that as an excuse,
don't say, "Hey, like, I'm just going to keep doing it because, you know, God's merciful."
Don't use it as an excuse, use it as a learning block to say, "Hey, I need to move on from
whatever in my mind is saying, 'Hey, I can't be a preacher, I can't do whatever, I can't
be a soul owner because of X, Y, and Z.'" Put that past you and say, "Hey, I can do it
because God's forgiven it, you know, He wants me to do great things for Him."
Don't use an excuse, do it as a reason to serve God more.
So go to Luke chapter 7, and obviously the best case scenario is that we all would have
gotten saved as a kid, served God, learned the Bible, done great things our whole life,
but obviously there is kind of a benefit, not necessarily a benefit, but along those
terms of, "Hey, if you do bad things in your life and God forgives you, sometimes you
have more of a love and desire to serve God more."
Kind of like the apostle Paul is like, I'm sure he wished that maybe he didn't do some
of that stuff in his life at the beginning, but at the same time, like if he would have
gotten saved young, grew up in a Christian home, would the outcome have been different
at the end because he didn't have, you know, that burning thing in his mind of all the
bad stuff he's done and kind of use it as a motivation.
And we're going to see that in this parable in Luke chapter 7, in verse number 41, it
says, "There was a certain creditor which had two debtors, the one owed 500 pence and
the other 50.
And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both.
Tell me therefore, which of them will he love, or which of them will love him most?
Simon answered and said, 'I suppose that he to whom he forgave most.'
And he said unto him, 'Thou hast rightly judged.'"
And in verse number 47, it says, "Wherefore I say unto thee, her sins which are many
are forgiven, for she loved much; but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little."
So I think kind of the new I of B is kind of a good example of this.
And obviously, like I said, the best case scenario is to grow up being saved and to
never do bad things.
But the new I of B is kind of unique, where like most people didn't grow up in church,
or like they grew up in a church that wasn't saved.
Their parents weren't necessarily saved or didn't serve God.
And it's like a lot of people got forgiven a lot, and then they do a lot of works.
Whereas there's other people that grew up in church, they heard the Bible all the time,
they were saved young, and then they just kind of like never pan out or never do anything.
And you know, it's kind of crazy to think of just all the people that are doing, a lot
of people that are doing the most works, I should say, it seems like people who God forgave
a lot, right?
And obviously, hopefully, the kids that are born now and the people that hear this preaching
are going to keep going on to that.
But you know, obviously, us older people, we are kind of like this, right?
God forgave a lot of us of a lot of bad stuff.
And obviously, hey, a lot of people looks like, hey, God forgive them, but they rewarded
that by loving God a lot and trying to do great works.
And I think that that's a great testimony, though, of hey, even if you do a lot of bad
things, as long as you put that in the past and then just serve God with all your heart,
God can use you just as much as anybody else.
And God seems to love working with people that maybe you wouldn't even think that they
would ever be a preacher.
Like me, I would never assume that I'd ever preach.
Like I don't like talking in front of people.
I don't like going out and just talking to a bunch of people.
I'd rather just be by myself and doing my own thing and not being around a bunch of
people.
But, you know, here I am and I'm sure there's tons of other people like that as well.
And obviously though, like I said, kids don't use it as an example or as a reasoning to
not do the more stuff than us and try to be, you should try to be better than us and not
try to just, you know, use that as an excuse of like, well, you know, God didn't forgive
me as much so I'm going to do little, try to do more and more and more.
But obviously for people who get saved door to door, this is a great example of, hey,
just because you maybe went to fight for the Israelis or whatever in Iraq and you killed
people or whatever, doesn't necessarily mean that you can't serve God, you know, you should
still try to be the greatest Christian you can be no matter what.
So if you guys can flip over to 1 Corinthians chapter 11, so obviously there is us moving
on from sin but at the same time God can still judge us for sin and you know we should want
that so we can improve.
In 1 Corinthians chapter 11 verse number 31 it says, "For if we would judge ourselves
we should not be judged, but when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should
not be condemned with the world."
So obviously God is just like a child, right, He's going to chase it and He's going to punish
His children if you're saved.
But obviously if you're going to judge yourself first and get rid of that sin early, then
obviously you're going to be punished less, you're going to be chastened less.
Like if King David would have stopped right at the beginning when he looked upon a woman
to lust after, if he would have just stopped, there would have been less punishment than
at the end when God has to kill the child, right?
So you guys can, or we can turn here, Hebrews chapter 10, Hebrews chapter 10.
So in Hebrews chapter 10, verse number 27, in Hebrews 10-27, it says, "But a certain
fearful looking-for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries,
he that despised Moses' law, died without mercy under two or three witnesses of how
much sore punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden underfoot
the Son of God, who hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified
in an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace, for we know him
that hath said, "Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, saith the Lord."
And again, the Lord shall judge His people.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
So obviously, hey, it's very fearful if you don't turn from those sayings, or even if
you do turn from sin, and you know better.
It is fearful to fall into the hands of God, and God could punish you worse than anybody.
He can do really bad things to you, and obviously, it's scary as a kid, right, when your dad
or your mom's mad at you, and they're screaming, and they're coming at you, and you're trying
to close the door or whatever.
They're coming at you.
One time, my brother did that.
He closed the door, and he locked it, and then my dad, he was really young, he was like,
"I got a chainsaw, I'm going to cut the door open," and he opened the door, and then, obviously,
he got spanked or whatever, but it is fearful even just when your dad or whoever is coming
at you, let alone when God is coming at you, and God, he said he shall judge his people,
so obviously, it's very important.
You guys can flip over to Hebrews chapter 12 quick, but it's very important that as
soon as you realize you're doing something wrong, you get right with God, you confess
that you turn from it and you hope that God doesn't come down on you like a ton of bricks,
but obviously, he's going to chase in his children and he's going to judge his people,
so you want to keep that in mind, but obviously, it's going to happen no matter what, so you
still have to move on, you still have to push through it and just take the punishment, just
like a child, right?
You know your dad is going to come down on you, you just have to take it and move on
and keep going.
It says in Hebrews 12-6, it says, "For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth
every son whom he receiveth.
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons.
For what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not?
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and
not sons."
And then let's get down to verse number 10, it says, "For they verily for a few days chastened
us after their own pleasure, but he for our profit that we might be partakers of his holiness,
now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless afterwards
it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby."
So hey, obviously, you know, again, if you're getting chastised and you're getting punished,
If you do something bad, God's dealing with you the same way as a parent is a child, and
that's kind of a good thing, right?
I mean, it's kind of proof that God loves you and that you're saved and that you're
in His will and you're doing the right thing.
Because it's like if you have a child that is never getting punished and the parent's
never doing anything with, it's kind of like that's sad, right?
It's like a neglected child.
Whereas if a parent is always on you and like you need to do better on your science and
you need to do this and do that and you're getting spanked, it's kind of a good thing
as it shows your parents just love you, they're really in and thinking that you can be successful
and you're not a bastard, right?
None of us wants to be a bastard.
So I'm going to read two verses here quick for sake of time, I have to turn there, but
in Revelation 3.19 it says, "As many as I love I rebuke and chasten, be zealous therefore
and repent."
So obviously the same thing, the Bible's just focused on that a lot, you know, God's going
to rebuke, chasten, and the best thing to do is just repent and get right.
And in Psalms 119 verse 11 it says, "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not
sin against thee."
So that's kind of the whole thing that the best thing to do when you want to move on
and do things right is to hide God's word in your heart, and that's going to cause you
not to sin against God.
So the more you know the Bible, the more you keep the Bible in your heart, the more
you're going to be able to not sin and then you won't have to move on and move past your
sin because you know the Bible more, obviously, like, you know, the more preaching that you
listen to here, the longer you've been in church, the less you have to move on from
major sin because you know the Bible.
But obviously, looking back, when I first got saved, there's tons of things I wish
I wouldn't have done and would have known, but obviously you can't just program the Bible
in your mind as soon as you get saved, right?
So there's going to be tons of stuff that you're going to learn along the way.
So obviously, Elon Musk is working on those brain chips, though.
So now you might be able to get somebody saved and be like, here, put this Neuralink in.
It's got the scurvy Bible on it, and just inject it into your brain, right?
So obviously, moving on from sin individually, we kind of talked about it a lot, and I'm
sure most people know.
It's, forget the past sins, confess unto God, ask for forgiveness, and then God's punishment
is going to come, but just use that as a lesson, move on, and then learn the Bible more and
more, listen to preaching, and hide it in your heart.
And that's about all you can do, right, for sin in your personal life.
But this is kind of why I wrote the sermon, was here, this is more interesting, to me
is moving on from sin as a nation.
So obviously, to me this has been in the news a lot, and it's kind of made me mad with
things recently.
So it kind of gave me the idea of this sermon.
But I want to talk about individually first, because that's more of stuff we can control.
And this is going to be kind of a relation of why it made me mad with just all this stuff
going on with the Epstein stuff and everything, and how you move past things as a nation,
right?
In personal life, it's more easy to just forget the sin, you forsake it, you stop doing it,
and you can move on.
But as a nation, we can't really have any control about that, right?
There's nothing we can do.
But if you guys would flip over to 1 Peter chapter 2, obviously people can be judged
and go to hell, and God can judge them there, or God can judge people in this life as well
like we've already seen.
But nations are different, right?
As a nation, you can't ever go to hell as a nation.
Nations can only be judged on this earth, right?
So God does expect a nation to punish major sin, and obviously like we already talked
about, America, and then obviously I'm sure throughout all of history, kings never put
themselves to death or whatever.
So there's always like huge exceptions probably in all of history, but as a whole, God does
expect nations to punish major sins, and in 1 Peter chapter 2 verse number 13, it says
submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether it be to the
king as supreme or unto governors, and here's the key, it says as unto them that are sent
by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of them that do well.
So, you know, God wants the king, he wants the government, he wants them and their sent
to be the punishment of evildoers.
And obviously in my opinion, and I'm sure probably most people's opinion, America is
terrible at doing this and America doesn't have any concept of punishing evil people,
evildoers, people who are doing really bad things, and obviously if you're never punishing
evil people, you can't move on as a nation from sin.
Because obviously as a person, an individual, you can move on from that sin if you forsake
it, you confess it, you ask for forgiveness, you know, even if you did a death penalty
worthy sin, like we've already seen people do, all they can do is move on and it would
be the government's job to do the rest, which they're not going to do, right?
And in America, we see this right now a lot with the Epstein stuff, and obviously I don't
want to go into detail on all the stuff he's done, but obviously he's probably one of the
worst people to ever live, and he's connected with a certain country.
It seems most people that are wicked are always connected with somehow, and it's got like
some sort of star or whatever.
So it's kind of funny, though, seeing the Republican Party, right, because I don't have
everything in front of me, but kind of a timeline is like the whole election is like they're
running on releasing all the information, right, and it's like we're going to release
all the files and we're going to take care of this and everybody vote for us because
we're going to get to the bottom of this, right, and then they get elected and it's
like we're going to do it, it's on the desk, and then it's like somehow it's like goes
from that to like it never existed, and it's like I don't know, like that seems fishy.
So there's the only Republican that seems to be like really fighting for it is this
guy that's like right across the river from me, his name is Thomas Massey, so he seems
to be like constantly fighting, and he like trying to pass this law because everybody
ran on like releasing the files, so he's trying to get it out there, but they won't do it,
they don't exist anymore, so he's like well I gotta pass a law to get these files released,
so he's trying to do it, obviously he's getting blocked, so he has to like get like 200 signatures
or something crazy for all this stuff to even be able to be voted on to be released, and
he finally gets all these signatures, gets it released, and he has to work with a Democrat guy
to help get the stuff released, and obviously the Democrats under Biden didn't release it either, so
you know now they are for it I guess, but it could have been released under them which didn't happen
because they're both funded by the same people, the same country or whatever, so obviously he
finally got it passed, and then once it's up for the vote no one wants to be looked like I'm the
person that voted against releasing this criminal mastermind, human trafficking, terrible person,
so everybody votes for it and then Donald Trump signs it and says we'll release it, even though
like they said it didn't exist like just before this, but now they're going to release it and
Trump signs it, but ever since then it's like constant attack and lies and slander and like
attacking this guy's wife when like apparently Trump did a tweet or a true social thing where
he said like this guy's wife is a radical leftist so Thomas Massey has turned into a democrat and
I looked into his wife and it says she worked for Rand Paul when it's like he's like super
conservative whatever so it's like just everything's a lie nothing's true but just non-stop attacking
ever since he passed this this thing and they've been kind of forced to release this but I have a
bunch of quotes here of things that um Trump and uh Pam Bondi said in regards to this this thing
because obviously like I said the Republican Party ran on releasing and holding people accountable
for this human trafficking island that was going on so this is quotes from uh uh Donald Trump it
says on November 16th of 2025 on social media he framed the release as a way to end the political
narrative it says House Republicans should vote to vote to release the Epstein files because
we have nothing to hide and it's time to move on from this Democrat hoax perpetrated by radical
left lunatics in order to deflect from a great the great success of the Republican Party so
you know that's kind of the thing now is like the the Epstein thing is just all a hoax it's
perpetrated by the left and you know it's just trying to hide from the great success the
Republicans are doing and then in July 2025 it says well speaking on the House lawn he suggested
the investigation was a waste of resources we should not waste time and energy on Jeffrey
Epstein somebody that nobody cares about but everybody ran for office saying like hey we need
to get these files out there we're going to release all the files on Epstein but now it's like turned
from like that to it's a waste of time nobody cares about it when like it seems like tons of
people care about it but according to him nobody cares so it says during a cabinet meeting when a
reporter directed a question about the Epstein investigation to it attorney general Pam Bondi
Trump interrupted and expressed disbelief that the subject was still being raised are you still
talking about Jeffrey Epstein this guy has been talked about for years it's like yeah because
everybody's trying to figure out like why nobody's in jail for it it says are people still talking
about this guy this creep that is unbelievable I can't believe you are asking a question on
Epstein at a time like this it just seems like desecration most recently following the release
of millions of pages of documents Trump grew frustrated when asked why some files were still
redacted or withheld it's like because they released it but it's all like in black marker sharpie
nothing's you know out there it's just like they hide everything it says I think it's really time
for the country to get on to something else now that nothing came out about me it's like
nothing about me is in there so let's just move on from it I think it's time now for the country
to maybe get on to something else like health care or something that people care about like everybody
cares about getting these files and information and holding people accountable because I mean
obviously you know if any one of us had this human trafficking network island like they would be
investigating your family you your bank accounts like any person that you've ever talked to in
your life would be probably investigated and looked into but here it's like no one's looking
into anything like they're all from a certain country but somehow it's like can't connect the
dots they need to get like that big map like on the investigation and the police shows where they
have like all the suspects and it's like tie all the dots and it's all like somebody in the middle
east but uh so if you guys have flipped over to first uh samuel 15 so obviously it has happened
like a year a few years ago it's not like it's that long ago but that's kind of like the whole
thing it's like we need to move on to something else um are we still talking about that it's
not a big deal it's that was years and years ago but what does god think about like punishment for
major crimes like is it just after a few years like well it's too late we can't do anything
so in first samuel 15 verse 1 it says samuel said and to solve the lord sent me to anoint thee
to be king over his people over israel now therefore hearken now unto the voice of the
words of the lord thus saith the lord of hosts i remember that which amalek did to israel how he
laid wait for him in the way when he came up from egypt so obviously hey samuel's talking to Saul
and it's just like random of like hey i remember what amalek did to israel when they were getting
out of egypt it's like god don't you know like the whole book of judges is like in between here
like that was so long ago like why don't we worry about like health care or like whatever and like
this is what god says to do in verse number three it says now go and smite amalek and utterly destroy
all that they have and spare them not but slay both man and women infant suckling oxen sheep
camels and asses so obviously like this is a huge like crazy thing because you know unless people
were living a long time it's like no one's alive that actually did that this is like a long time
later obviously there's still probably a wicked nation but obviously this is a long time down
the road and god's like hey i remember what these people did when they were leaving uh egypt and
it's like go punish them so how much more when it's like just a few years ago um that supposedly
epstein committed suicide or whatever um you know it's like not there hasn't been this long ago
right and god still is holding out punishment for something that happened way in the past so if you
guys have flip over to second samuel 21 so obviously this isn't just an anomaly because
we're going to see the same kind of thing here in second samuel chapter 21 and i'm going to hurry
for sake of time it says in second samuel 21 1 it says then there was a famine in the days of david
three years year after year and david inquired of the lord and the lord said it is for saul
and for his bloody house because he slew the gibyanites so here we see a famine in israel
and david didn't do it but it's for who saul but saul's already dead so you know same thing
evsteen's dead right but you know we can still punish right and verse number two it says
and the king called the gibyanites and said unto them now the gibyanites were not of the children
of israel but the remnant of the amerites and the children of israel had sworn unto them and saul
sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of israel and to juda and we're going to skip down
for to verse number six for sake of time but it says let seven men of his sons be delivered unto
us and we will hang them up unto the lord in gibia of saul whom the lord did choose and the king
said i will give them and then and uh we'll skip down to verse number eight it says but the king
took the two sons of rispa the daughter of my maya whom she bear unto saul armoni and mef
or mishboseph and the five sons of mica the daughter of saul whom she bear up for adriel
the son of barzalai the mohelite and he delivered them into the hands of the gibyanites and they
hanged them in the hill before the lord and they fell all seven together and were put to death
in the days of harvest in the first days in the beginning of barley harvest so here these people
are being put to death for something that saul did and then david has a famine for three years
because of that and obviously saul's not even around so you know obviously the republicans and
trump and the fbi director and all these people who keep saying like hey it's in the past let's
move on let's worry about other things that people care about but it's like what does god say what
does god care about does he care about things that happen in the past it seems like in the bible
you could have a lot of stories of people being punished years down the road i mean just look at
the you could have like a 12-part series right about the israel or whatever of all the things
that they were being punished for years down the road like um you know when they go to babalon and
all these different places of all the punishments for sins that happened obviously at that time but
also years before and years before that and god expects sin to be punished and people to be held
accountable so the same thing pam bondy even worse she said this quote here it says uh the american
people i'll read here it says in a moment that went viral for its perceived deflection bondy stated
the american people need to know this they are talking about ebbsdean today you know why because
donald trump it's like oh man seems kind of bad i wouldn't want to be like in here but uh it says
because donald trump the dow the dow right now is over 50 000 i don't know why you're laughing
because she's talking with the thomas massey guy i was talking about um in regards to a lot
of this stuff because he was questioning her why they're not releasing the documents and doing the
stuff and this is her response back to him in this uh congressional like hearing where he's like
grilling her and it's like the dow the dow it says i don't know why you're laughing the dow
is over 50 000 right now the smp at almost 7 000 and the nasdaq smashing records americans 401k's
and retirement savings are booming that's why we should be or that's what we should be talking
about so instead of talking about like this guy in this criminal network of like emails where it's
like saying in the email like he worked for the roth child family which you know wherever they're
from but uh so you know he's working for the roth child family and all this stuff you know all
the politicians and the rich people it's like this huge criminal network but it's like we shouldn't
be talking about that and she said donald trump i didn't say it but um because of donald trump and
then also the dao and it's like i mean how much better for ecclesiastes 12 14 where it says for
god uh shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or whether
it be evil because like hey like we might never know it but obviously god is going to take every
secret thing and he's gonna uh obviously make it known and it's going to be judged right i mean
most people are reprobates and going to go to hell or in the government private especially the
Rothschilds but um you know obviously they're going to be punished someday and then in first uh timothy
6 10 is like perfect for this pan bonnie thing it says for the love of money is the root of all evil
which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through
with many sorrows so it's like all this lady can talk about is like all these innocent victims and
i'm pretty sure i don't know if it was at this hearing or other hearings but they brought like
victims there and like people that said they were involved and obviously there's tons of photos and
all types of just crazy stuff which like i don't recommend looking into is so evil but like you
know to then just deflect that and just like hey all these people are making money in the stock
markets america's 401ks and retirements are booming or whatever but for sake of time you don't have
to turn there too much but i'm sure most people know this story but in mark five it's kind of
like what does jesus care about does he care about the retirement savings the money or helping people
and then uh mark chapter five verse uh number 13 jesus is casting the unclean spirits out
and it says and forthwith jesus gave them leave and the unclean spirits went out and entered into
the swine and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea they were about 2 000 and were
choked into the sea so these people had this business where they had these swine and jesus
sends all these unclean spirits into them and they commit suicide down the island kind of like
supposedly ebstein did or whatever but the swine died so it's like these people lose all this money
right so pan bonnie is like hey the 401ks people are making money and i looked it up and based on
today's value it's at a herd of 2 000 adult market pigs is worth approximately 360 000 to 400 000
so jesus wanted to destroy somebody's business worth about up to 400 000 just because he wanted
to save one person so you know most people 401k ain't even up 400 000 on the market so how much
more of hey let's punish these evil wicked people involved in this stuff and who cares about the
market if the market goes down because of it who cares let's punish these people and i obviously
have a lot more pages but we're out of time so i'm going to read one more verse and we'll close
on that but in psalms 9 verse 17 you know this is what's going to happen to america if they don't
get right with god and start punishing evil people it says in psalms 9 17 says the wicked shall be
turned into hell and all nations that forget god so obviously america needs to wake up it just gets
worse and worse and you know it's like so bad now that like a conspiracy theorist is like somebody
who believes what the conspiracy theorists uh don't believe so it's like if you're a conspiracy
theorist nowadays it's like you don't believe israel is running the government it's like
it's just so clear and like everybody just knows or believes it and it's like it seems like
everybody's woken up to that issue and america just keeps not wanting to you know fix that and
get right and they want to deal with all these satanist reprobates and uh nations that um hate
god right i mean because obviously the nation of israel doesn't love jesus and america just wants
to be super close with them obviously started a war with or to help them out now but obviously
america just like that verse is turning into hell right it's just like worse and worse all the time
i mean even when i was in miami it was like every day on the news somebody was getting shot somebody
was getting smashed into with a car it's like you know just you go out uh in in certain areas like
when we went uh one time still wanting a stronghold we're like we went to an apartment complex and like
everybody there was just muslim like the whole apartment complex every door is just like full
hijab like everybody and it's like this isn't what america used to be and as it gets worse and worse
and as america turns away from god it's like god's going to bring these people in here that have
nothing to do with our culture our country that don't fit in and it's like that's a punishment
from god and it's just going to turn this nation into you know a hell on earth of just
terrible country because obviously you can't have a nation where everybody's different right it's
like you can't have a church where like half the people over here are jews and have the people over
here uh muslim and then the mormons in the back and the jehovah's witnesses like that's not going
to work you can't have a nation like that either where everybody's different everybody's fighting
and obviously more and more you see like in minnesota where it's like really bad people are
you know burning stuff down or um fighting with the police and obviously as america gets worse
and worse that could spread in other places and hopefully america starts to judge sin and as a
nation that they punish people that are evil and i think this ebstein thing or whatever would be a
great start of just hey all these rich politicians or uh the roth childs or whatever start to get
arrested thrown in jail and held accountable and then you know you can move on as a nation because
people are going to start to not want to be held accountable for a speeding ticket when there's a
pedophile island that's like who cares the dow or whatever it's like you know at some point it's
like you have to judge the people that are doing the worst stuff before you can judge somebody for
not having a seat belt on right so we'll close with the word uh prayer thank you lord for a
great day today and thank you for letting us see uh tons of people get saved and for uh let us have
a great church to be at and for uh having great people to fellowship with and please keep everybody
safe as they travel home and uh let us have a great week this week we love you and thank you
and in jesus name we pray amen amen last song of the evening we're gonna be singing song 315 song
315 take my life and let it be take my life and let it be song 315 take my life and let consecrated
lord to take my hands and sub the love as of the take my feet to taste and sing singing uh
Brother, would you please close that with a word of praise?
Amen. You are dismissed.