good afternoon everybody and welcome to steadfast Baptist Church. Wonderful to see everybody
here tonight. If we could find our seats, we will get started with the service. Once
you've found a seat, grab a hymnal and we're going to go to song number 259 together. First
song this evening. Song number 259, just saves singing everybody. Let's open up the service
now with a word of you and we thank you once again for this awesome church. Thank you for
everybody gathered here and to come here safely tonight. We just ask that you help us lift
up our voices and sing unto you with all your spirit, Lord. And it's in Jesus name that
we pray. Amen. Alright, for our next song, let's go to song number 200, or sorry, 455.
Song number 455. I've sung it a couple of times already this week. Oh, perfect love.
Great song doctrinally. Song number 455, let's pay attention to the words as we sing it this
afternoon. Oh, perfect love. Let's all sing that out together. Steadfast Baptist Church,
if you need a bulletin, raise your hand nice and high. Askers find you and bring that around
to you. This time we'll go through our announcements. On the front there, we have our verse for
the week. If anyone under the age of 18 can quote that to a non-family member, they can
receive an ice cream reward after the service. On the inside, we have our service times and
our soul winning times there for the church and also the regional soul winning times below.
We've got our stats. Those are updated up through a couple hours ago. So keep up the
hard work and soul winning. So far doing a great job for the month of February. Also,
we've got our list of expecting mothers and also there is an insert in your bulletin.
If you noticed, have a congratulations to pastor and Ms. Carrie Shelley on the birth
of their daughter, Evelyn Bell. Evelyn was born on Monday, February 23rd at 8.56 PM,
weighing eight pounds, six ounces and 20 and a half inches long. Let's go ahead and give
them a round of applause. Keep adding to the church daily almost it seems like around here.
I love that. And down below that we have our Texas A&M college soul winning marathon that's
going to be taking place. There's actually going to be soul winning on Friday. Brother
Diego is going to be heading the charge on that. They'll be meeting there at the Academic
Plaza on campus and go soul winning from four to seven PM. And then on Saturday, they're
going to be doing a marathon all day. And there'll be meeting at the Bee Creek Park
there in College Station. The church van for those who would like to go that aren't going
to be there on Friday. The church van is leaving Saturday morning at 6am. So make sure that
you're able to get up, set that alarm, get here at 6am. And brother Foley, he's going
to be driving the van down. And so definitely put that on your calendar as something to
partake in, get involved in that college soul winning. I'm definitely looking forward to
that myself. Also on Friday at 8pm, we have the Man of God movie premiere. I'm telling
you, I'm chomping at the bit to watch this movie. I've heard so many good things about
it. The trailer was awesome. It's going to be a great time of fellowship as well. And
so I encourage you to be here again. Pastor said the movie is starting at 8pm sharp. So
make sure that you're here for that. There will be some goodies for you as well. And
so definitely encourage you to show up even just a little bit early so you can find your
place for that. We have the children's choir practice beginning this coming Sunday, March
1st. On the 7th, I believe that would be the following Friday, is that correct? The Foley
Baby Shower is going to be on March 7th. And then March 21st, we're going to do another
Soul Winning Marathon in Carthage, Texas. And Brother Sam is going to be heading up
that as well. And so if you're interested in going into that, we'll get a sign up sheet
in the foyer for you guys to sign up for on that. And I'll try to have that out there
on Sunday. We have the soul winning mega marathon, April 4th. That's the Saturday before
Easter. And then of course, Easter Sunday, April 5th. And then the children's choir is
going to be performing on April 5th as well. So definitely looking forward to all those
things on the back is a note about the baby shower for the Foley's. If you have any questions
about that and you want to attend, please contact Ms. Souther. We have the prayer list
below that. So we'll go ahead and go through that at this time. We're continuing to pray
for Brother Tony's back, that it would continue to heal. Also, Brother Sue Hale's mother's
health. We've got a couple prayer requests for Brother Billy Day. We're praying for
his mother. She's having surgery in the near future, pretty severe surgery, so make sure
that you're keeping her in your prayers. Also, his cousin Adam and his wife kind of
dealing with the death and then the care of their children and then also his son as well.
Continue to pray for Brother Spurgeon for job opportunity. We're praying for the Urbanic
family, for their grandmother, and then also for Miss Natalie and the baby. We have a prayer
update for Miss Ginger, her niece. April is now home and recovering, so praise God for
that. And also Brother Nick, we're praying for his brother for his salvation and health.
We're praying for Brother Brian and his tooth problems. Brother Matt Illy as well from recovering
from sickness, which I think he's doing much better, so praise God for that. And then also
we have Brother Philip Hackenberg, he wants us to pray for his wife. So at this time I'll
go ahead and say a quick word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you for all the
many blessings that you give to each one of us. Lord, you take so good care of us and
we're thankful for that. God, we're thankful for just all the things that you're doing
here in this church. God, we have many prayer requests here on this list, many of them
dealing with various health issues. God, I pray that you would be with each one of these
individuals. God, I pray that you would strengthen them. You would be with the doctors and those
that are giving them health advice. Lord, I pray that they would give them wisdom to
make the right decisions. God, pray for other issues going on in people's lives, Lord.
And we know that you listen and hear these prayers and you answer these prayers, Lord,
and we're thankful for that. And God, I pray that we would, as a church, continue to serve
you and to put you first in our lives, Lord. We're thankful for all that you do and pray
these things in your Son's name. Amen. All right, we'll go to our Psalm of the week.
I believe it is Psalm 119. Psalm 119. All right, that was Psalm 119 in your black binder.
As the offering plates are being passed around, let's go ahead and open our Bibles to the
book of Joshua chapter number one. That is the book of Joshua chapter number one.
Joshua chapter number one. The Bible reads, "Now after the death of Moses, the servant
of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses'
minister, saying, 'Moses, my servant, is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan,
thou, and all this people, into the land which I do give to them, even to the children of
Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto
you, as I said unto Moses. From the wilderness of this Lebanon, even unto the great river,
the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea, toward the going
down of the sun, shall be your coast. There shall not any man be able to stand before
thee all the days of thy life, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. I will not
fail thee, nor forsake thee. Be strong and of a good courage, for unto this people shalt
thou divide for an inheritance the land which I swear unto their fathers to give them.
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all
the law which Moses my servant commanded thee. Turn not from it to the right hand, or to
the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not
depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe
to do according to all that is written therein. For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous,
and then shalt thou have good success. Have not I commanded thee, be strong, and of a
good courage? Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with thee,
whithersoever thou goest. Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, Pass
through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you vitals. For within three
days ye shall pass over this Jordan to go in to possess the land which the Lord your
God giveth you to possess it. And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe
of Manasseh spake Joshua, saying, Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord
commanded you, saying, The Lord your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.
Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave
you on this side, Jordan. But ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty
men of Valor, and help them, until the Lord hath given your brethren rest, as he hath
given you. And they also have possessed the land which the Lord your God giveth them.
Then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the
Lord's servant gave you on this side, Jordan, toward the sun rising. And they answered Joshua,
saying, All that thou commandest us, we will do; and whithersoever thou sendest us, we
will go. According as we hearken unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee.
Only the Lord thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses. Whosoever he be that doth
rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words, in all that thou
commandest him, he shall be put to death. Only be strong, and of a good courage. Let's
pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing us to be in church. Thank you for all the soul
winning that's been done. Thank you for Setfast Baptist Church. I pray that you'd be with
Brother Spurgeon as he preaches us your word, that you fill him with your Holy Spirit to
preach unto us. And I pray that we'd receive it with an open heart and make applicable
changes to become better Christians. I pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. I would first
like to thank Pastor Shelley for the opportunity to preach tonight. And we're just going to
jump right into it here in Joshua chapter one. The title of my sermon is this observe
to do, observe to do. Let's look at verse number eight, where the Bible said this book
of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night
that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein. For then thou
shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt have good success. Now in Joshua chapter
one, what's going on is that the physical nation of Israel is getting ready to enter
into their inheritance. But in order to be a successful nation, they're going to need
to observe to do all of the commandments that God has given to them. So what does it mean
to observe something? To observe something means that you need to see it, you need to
watch it, you need to perceive it, you need to notice it, to regard it, or to comply with
it. The antonym of that means that someone is ignoring it. So for example, if I observe
a law, it means I see that law, I have the intention of keeping that law. If there's
a holiday that I observe, it means I keep that holiday, like I keep Thanksgiving. If
there's a holiday that I don't observe, it means that I don't regard it, I have no regard
for it. So this is important for many reasons, but one of the things is this. When you keep
God's commandments, you are not going to be grieved. And when you don't keep God's
commandments, you will be grieved. But above that, we don't want to grieve the Holy Spirit
either. And 1 John 5.3 also tells us this. It says, "For this is the love of God that
we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not grievous." So in order to observe
to do His commandments, we first need to know what His Word is. And that means that you
need to read it. You need to actually see His Word. You need to actually see what His
laws are. And many people out there, they just don't want to see His words. They don't
want to see His laws. They don't want to know what His commands are. But let that not
be us. We should know what His commands are. Because the deal is this, God's laws, His
commands, will affect you whether you like them or not, whether you want them or not.
They're still going to affect you. So in order to know this, first of all, you got
to have the right Bible. You need to have the preserved Bible, the King James Bible.
You don't want a Swiss cheese Bible, a Bible that has holes in it. You don't want anything
like the legacy standard Bible, which is younger than one, two, three, four of my kids. So
you need to read the Bible. You need to know the law. You need to know what it says. So
you know, go home, get your Bible off the shelf. If it's been there for a while, blow
the dust off of it, open it up, download a King James Bible app onto your phone is
an easy way to do it. Use the audio version. If your car's like mine and it still plays
a CD, you can get the Alexander Scorby CDs and listen to it that way as well. But however
you do it, hide his word in your heart. What did David say? "Thy word have I hid in mine
heart that I might not sin against thee." So once you know what his word is, you need
to meditate in his word day and night because not caring about his commandments is setting
yourself up for failure. So we're going to hop over to the book of Psalms in several
places. Let's go to Psalm chapter 40. In Psalm chapter 40 and verse 8, the Bible says this,
"I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart." So David had
hid God's word in his heart and he delighted to do God's will. So if you want to delight
in doing God's will, you need to know what his word is. And this is something that I
think we already do, because we know one of God's commands is for us to be out soul winning.
And I don't see people out soul winning going, "Why are we out here?" We all know why we're
out there because we know the commands. But people who are maybe ignorant of it, maybe
that's just one of the reasons why they're not in the frame of mind to go out and do
it is just because they're ignorant of it and we need to let them know about it. Psalm
119 verse 70 is the next place that we're going to go to. Well, let's go to one more
before that. Psalm 119, same chapter, but verse 97. He said, "Oh, how I love thy law,
it is my meditation all the day." Of course, David was a king and he had a nation to run
and he wanted to run those nations according to God's commandments, but this applies to
us as well because when we're going out throughout our daily lives, we need to make our decisions
based off of the principles of the Bible and that's not just going to come by letting anything
flow through our minds. We have to actively think about His commandments. We have to actively
meditate upon His Word and hopefully sometimes as you're going throughout the day, other
things that are going on are just a distraction until you can get back to His Word and get
back into His Word. Someone here in 19, same chapter, but verse 70 says this, "Their heart
is as fat as grease, but I delight in thy law." So there's a contrast here between
people whose heart is fat as grease and David delighting in his law. And what this verse
tells me is that gross people don't delight in the law of God. And I'm talking about
spiritually, okay? Psalm 119 verse 72 says this, "The law of thy mouth is better unto
me than thousands of gold and silver." It's better to have the law of God in your heart.
It's better to know His commandments than it is to have great riches. Psalm 119 and
verse 142, He says, "Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is
the truth." If you want to know the truth when things are maybe a little bit cloudy,
you just need to go back to His law. You know, Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and
the life." And He said, "No man cometh unto the Father but by me." And we know that all
the scripture, every verse, these are things that we need to know so that we can do them
as we're going throughout our lives. Last one here in Psalm 119, 150, He said, "They
draw nigh that follow after mischief; they are far from thy law." So even just from
a carnal standpoint, people that would be out there wanting to break the laws in society,
they want to be mischievous in society, they're trying to be far away from the law. They're
trying to do things out on an island somewhere. They're trying to hide what they're doing.
They're trying to be far away from the law. But for us, it needs to be the opposite. We
don't want to follow after mischief, so we want to be close with God's Word. We want
to understand so you know what His Word is so that you can observe it, but not just observing
it, observing it to do it. That is the point. So, don't observe what the Bible says and
then not do it. Because, for us in particular, when you don't do what God commands, we're
going to get chastened. And I don't know about you, I'd rather have as little chastening
as possible. So, it's also like this, the example of looking into a mirror and then
you see the problem with yourself and you're not fixing it. But when you're made aware
of the problem from the Word of God, you need to fix it. Don't sweep it under the
rug, don't be haughty about it, don't be stiff-necked about it, take the
correction and fix the problem. And then hopefully you won't have to go through
the chastening. So again, 2nd Timothy 3.16 and I'll read it for you here says,
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may
be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works." And we know that these
things were written for our admonition as well. And Jesus said, "If you love me,
keep my commandments." So if you love him, you need to know what his commandments
are, you need to keep them, you need to do them, observe to do them. People who
don't love him, they're not going to observe to do it. So what I take from
that is this, don't let your conscience be your guide, let his commandments be
your guide. So it also means this, there is no command that is too big or that is
too small. So let's go over to the book of Matthew chapter 5. Matthew chapter 5
we're going to go to verse 19. The Bible says this, "Whosoever therefore shall
break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be
called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But whosoever shall do and teach
them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." So if someone is
teaching men to break one of the least of the commandments, that person is the
least in the kingdom of heaven. And so this verse shows us several things.
Number one, it shows us that yes there are great and least people in the
kingdom of heaven. And Jesus, you know, in your Bible this is red letters. I'm
looking at black and white here, but this is red letters. This is something that
Jesus told us. So those that do and teach the commandments shall be called
great. But those that are breaking it and teaching against the commandments,
they're going to be the least. And we're talking about saved people here. We're
not talking about the world here. So if there's someone out there who's teaching
against God's commandments, you can know that they are the least in the kingdom
of heaven. And that's why you want to observe to do according to all that is
written. And I'm going to give you an example of someone who's teaching against
the commandments. This is in the Bible. Revelation chapter 2. Go to Revelation
chapter 2. We're gonna hop over to verse 18. Revelation 2 18 says this, "And unto
the angel of the church in Thyatira write, 'These things saith the Son of God,
who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass. I
know thy works and charity and service and faith and thy patience and thy
works, and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding, I have a few
things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which
calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit
fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to
repent of her fornication, and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into
a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation accept
they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death, and all
the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts, and
I will give unto every one of you according to your works. But unto you I
say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which
have not known the depths of Satan as they speak, I will put upon you none
other burden, but that which ye have already hold fast until I come." So a
couple things here is that you have a church, and these these churches in the
New Testament, it's not it's not like they're ignorant of the things that Paul
wrote or ignorant of the things that John wrote. They're a lot closer to it
in the time frame than we are for sure. And you have this church that is
suffering that means they're allowing this woman Jezebel to preach. And notice
that it says, "That woman Jezebel which calleth herself a prophetess." That's not
what God called her. That's what she was calling herself. So she was teaching God's
servants to commit fornication and to eat things that are sacrificed unto
idols. And in verse 22, God brings up those that are committing adultery with
her. And so she's teaching against several of the commandments of God here.
And I can't think that they wouldn't have observed them. They would have known
the commandments, but they're not doing them. Matter of fact, they're going quite
the opposite direction with it here. And I'm gonna give you the commandments that
she's teaching against. If you want to go to Deuteronomy chapter 5, Deuteronomy
chapter 5 and verse 6 says, "I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the
land of Egypt from the house of bondage thou shalt have none other gods before me
thou shalt not make thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that
is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the waters
beneath the earth thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them nor serve them
for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me
and also Deuteronomy 5 18 where the Bible says neither shalt thou commit
adultery so these are things that she's she's teaching them to eat things that
are sacrificed unto idols which is something that was already explicitly
addressed by the Apostles and not only this but you can't eat something that
sacrifice unto an idol when you don't have an idol in the first place and the
Bible already told us not to have graven images we're not to have you know a
graven image of a baby Jesus or the Saints like a Mary and a Joseph we're
not Catholic this is idolatry and the Bible also tells us in 1st
Corinthians chapter 6 this is another one of the things that she is teaching
against 1st Corinthians 6 says flee fornication every sin that a man doeth
is without the body but he that committeth fornication sinneth against
his own body what know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
which is in you which ye have of God and you are not your own for you are bought
with the price therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are
God's so here's the thing the people that were listening to her they're
listening to her podcast they were taught against what God said then they
broke God's commandments and that was her intention and this is exactly what
the devil wants to do as well first of all the devil doesn't want people to get
saved but then people who are saved the devil wants them to be ineffective and
I'm sure if he can make you the least he would want to do that so don't follow
Jezebel shut it off and observe to do according to everything that he's
commanded us you want to be a doer of the word so in contrast to that I want
to show you an example of someone who did well so go to the book of Daniel
Daniel chapter 6 Daniel chapter 6 and verse 4 the Bible says then the
presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the
kingdom but they could find none occasion nor fault for as much as he
was faithful neither was there any error or fault found in him then said these
men we shall not find any occasion against this Daniel except we find it
against him concerning the law of his God then these presidents and princes
assembled together to the king and said thus unto him King Darius lived forever
all the presidents of the kingdom the governors and the princes the
counselors and the captains have consulted together to establish a royal
statute and to make a firm decree just real quick did you notice who they left
out sounds like Daniel wasn't involved in this meeting and just for the record
you know who is the best president ever Daniel he's one of these three
presidents just want to point that out okay all right so he said the
counselors and the captains have consulted together to establish a royal
statute and to make a firm decree that whosoever shall ask a petition of any
god or man for 30 days save of thee o king he shall be cast into the den of
lions now o king established the decree and signed the writing that it be not
changed according to the law of the Medes and Persians which altereth not
wherefore King Darius signed the writing and the decree now when Daniel knew
that the writing was signed he went into his house and his windows being open in
his chamber toward Jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and
prayed and gave thanks before his God as he did a four-time so when the
government during Daniel's time made a law made a decree which was against the
commandments of God what did that change for Daniel not a thing Daniel
still prayed Daniel still gave thanks to God Daniel survived the lion's den
Daniel is great in the kingdom of heaven Daniel's I believe one of the
hundred forty four thousand that gets to come back and do more soul winning so we
need to be like Daniel we need to dare to be a Daniel the Bible does tell us
to pray without ceasing we're supposed to pray about everything and we're also
to in everything give thanks so if the government says that it's illegal to say
that the Jews killed Jesus we're just gonna say the Jews killed Jesus because
that's what the Bible says we're gonna observe to do all things that he's
commanded us so we might even have a conference about it so we need to keep
praying like Daniel did we need to keep giving thanks to God and look going
through life if things are going well if things are going too well still observe
to do what he's told us to do and when things are going wrong when things are
going sideways just stick to his commandments sometimes the only way
around is through so just stick to your guns like Daniel did so here's some
things that we need to do go to Hebrews chapter 10 Hebrews chapter 10 and verse
25 says this not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the
manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see
the day approaching so there's some that have the manner of forsaking church
they're just not in church yeah hardly see them around but the Bible tells us
that we're not supposed to forsake the assembling and also that we need to be
exhorting one another and so much the more as we see the day approaching
meaning that the the closer it looks that we're getting to the time of Christ
return we'd need to have more church we need to be in church more often and not
less because you're going to be as you're going to be strengthened in the
inner man when you are bringing in his word and when you're not bringing in as
much of his word you're just going to be weak spiritually and that's not the
position that you want to be in and Jesus told us again if you love me keep
my commandments so what that means is if you love Jesus you're going to be in
church and if you don't love Jesus then I guess you're just never going to be in
church then and being in church is not like this billboard sign that I have to
see when I'm driving over here going past the the Cedar Hill State Park that
there's a billboard sign up over there from one of these non-denom churches
and it says loving Jesus in all seasons anybody else have to see this sign how
are they loving Jesus in all seasons first of all do you even know who Jesus
is do you know his word are you keeping his commandments he said if you love me
keep my commandments not to mention that the billboard sign is contrary to the
commandments of God even in its messaging and you say which non-denom
church is this in Cedar Hill I don't know but for the sake of argument let's
just say that it's heritage of hyper grace community Bible Church or
something like that and let's talk about the hypocrisy on that for a second
because you know Joe Jones up in Idaho he used to preach that he wanted to make
one of the non-denom churches in Boise quit that's what he used to say and now
he is a non-denom church so he didn't subtract a non-denom church from Boise
he shut down a fundamental Baptist church and then he added one and I guess
is as you could say in chemistry for any chemists out there if you're not part of
the solution you're part of the precipitate you say what's the
precipitate it's dross okay so and why did he do that he did it because he
doesn't love the Word of God that's what it boils down to all right another
thing that we need to do go to Matthew chapter 28 Matthew 28 19 and 20 you
know this this is the Great Commission says go ye therefore and teach all
nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you
and lo I am with you always even unto the end of the world amen so we know
that God's Word told us to teach all nations and we're not just hearers of
that at this church we're doers of that we go out we do the soul winning because
someone's got to take up the slack for all the churches that aren't doing it
so and on that note I got one for you knock knock oh that was lame knock knock
no he isn't he quit soul winning he shut down the church he left and
everything he's not doing any soul winning pastor who's not there no soul
winning no church and it makes me mad that someone would take a good church
with a good name pure words Baptist Church and would drag that through the
mud but thank God that the core members from pure words they're still down
there they're still doers of the word because Houston needs it we don't need
Houston to turn into a spiritual wasteland and along those lines too let
me say this I think it was just last year I was listening to a sermon from
another church and I heard someone say this they said I would rather skip
soul winning then or this let's see they said this I they said I would rather
skip going to church than skip going soul winning let me let me repeat that
to make sure I said it right they said I would rather skip church than skip going
soul winning but here's the problem with that these things are not mutually
exclusive it's not like we're having church and soul winning at the same time
you don't show up at the door and it's like hey do you want a map or do you
want to stay for service these are these are at two different times and we're
commanded to do both and the problem the problem with that too what bothers me
about is this is that if you quit church you're eventually going to quit soul
winning too because you're not going to be exhorted to continue doing the work
that's just the long and short of it so you should be here and you should
observe to do all things that he has commanded us all right another thing
that we need to keep doing go ahead and find the book of Amos chapter 5 Amos
chapter 5 and verse 15 says this hate the evil and love the good and establish
judgment in the gate it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto
the remnant of Joseph so in talking about observing to do the things that
he's commanded us to do another thing that we need to do is keep hating the
reprobates and look at this verse 515 hate the evil love the good it may be
that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph well
we want God's grace as we're going through life so let's continue to hate
the evil and you say like who well like the wicked people in the Epstein files
and the wicked people who aren't releasing the Epstein files as well
let's go to Proverbs 813 Proverbs 813 the Bible says the fear of the Lord is
to hate evil pride and arrogance and the evil way and the froward mouth do I hate
so we are to hate pride and it doesn't matter whether you know as far as this
world is concerned whether it's in season or out of season you know I'm
still gonna hate the idea of a pride month I'm not in favor of it and I'm
also going to continue to hate the fag flag the fake rainbow that they're
flying and I'm gonna continue to hate every homo because that is observing to
do what God has told us to do and you know even when it comes to the people
that protested us guess what they protested us but we won where are they
at we're here where are they at Psalm 97 in verse 10 go ahead and turn there
Psalm 97 it says this ye that love the Lord hates evil he preserveth the souls
of his saints he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked so even though we
went through all those protests and everything you know God preserved us
and who delivered us out of that who brought us through that God's the one
who delivered us out of that alright some things we need to continue to do
go to 1st Corinthians chapter 15 1st Corinthians chapter 15 verse 58 the
Bible says this therefore my beloved brethren be ye steadfast unmovable
always abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as you know that your labor
is not in vain in the Lord so being a doer of the word is not in vain and I
want to I want to show you that too in Galatians chapter 6 Galatians 6 9 the
Bible says and let us not be weary in well-doing for in due season we shall
reap if we faint not that means that it's not always going to come right away
you don't want to faint when it gets hard so be steadfast in doing well be a
doer of the word and this is something that I know if you're observing to do
what he said then you're not gonna you're not gonna fall to moral sin it's
not gonna sneak up on you it's not gonna creep up on you it's not gonna come at
you sideways if you're observing to do the things that he's commanded you to do
and look there's two types of congregations in the world today there's
those who don't give a rip about what God said and there's those who care
about his commandments and we don't want to be a congregation that is going
their own way so look I don't want to be on the wrong side of things going
against what God told us to do so just a couple of examples on that is one thing
is that God has commanded us to discipline our children and let me just
say this you know when it comes to qualifications a pastor is qualified
because he disciplined his children if someone's not disciplining their
children then they wouldn't be qualified and I'm kind of sick of grown men who
are married and have their own kids complaining about how their dads chasing
them growing up we were all chasing growing up okay so and when it comes to
marriage as well what God has joined together let not man put us under do you
want to be on the side where they're trying to tear apart what God put
together not me I don't want to be on the wrong side of God when it comes to
that and you're married until you're buried that's how it works that's a
till-death marriage so that's observing to do what God has commanded us to do
so let's go back just real quick to Joshua chapter 1 there and I want to
read this verse to you again he said this book of the law shall not depart
out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou
mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein for then thou
shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt have good success and how
did this work out for these guys that were here with Joshua well what happened
is that while they were there with Joshua while Joshua was leading them
they're observing to do the commandments they're going into the land
they're gaining that inheritance they're having success and then after Joshua
passes away all of the elders that overlived Joshua they continued to
observe and to do the commandments they continued to have good success but what
happened after that and this is you can find this in Judges chapter 2 I believe
it is is that there rose up a generation that knew not the Lord so either that
means that they weren't being taught what the commandments of God were or
they were being taught and they were just the ones who didn't care about it
and then what happens is we go into the book of Judges is you have these these
ups and downs where they're not observing to do what God said they're
going into bondage they're crying out to the Lord and then they cry out God
gives them a deliverer they follow commands things are going well things get
too good they stop observing to do what he commanded them and things start going
south for them again and that continues all the way into the book of Kings they
go into the book of Kings and you have good King bad King good King King who
doesn't care about the commandments and so what happens you get to King Josiah
and when you get to King Josiah they have forgotten about the commands they
had to go digging around to even find the book of the law so we don't want
that to be the case with us we want to hide God's Word in our heart and we want
to observe to do according to all that he's commanded us to do so whether you
are you know whether you're a a man woman boy girl if you're going to go
through life and you're gonna be like a Job who loses it all or you're a King
Hezekiah who has to die from a sickness or you're a John the Baptist who dies
in prison this is what I know is that any man of God who observes to do
according to all that is written shall have good success so I don't know about
you that's what I want I hope that's what you want so let's observe his
commands but not just observe it make sure that we do it let's go ahead and
pray. Heavenly Father thank you for your word and thank you for your commandments
and your principles that you've given to us please help us to observe to do what
you have commanded us to do so that we can have that good success that you want
us to have in Jesus name I pray amen. For our last song this evening let's go to
song number 404. Song number 404. The battles over. Song number 404. Let's all sing that out together.
Am I a soul?
Hey everybody you are all dismissed.