All right, well Eli just passed out all the pages for how beautiful heaven must be.
Welcome to Springcrest Baptist Church, everyone.
Thank you for showing up.
In our bulletin, we have our service time this morning.
You made it 10 30 a.m.
And then we'll do soul winning at 2 p.m.
So stick around for that.
And then we'll have our evening service at 4 30 p.m.
And then Wednesdays, we do our Bible studies,
our service at 5 30 p.m.
So if you can make that, please do.
Again, our soul winning times are at two today, and we have Pastor Cobb's anniversary.
That was what?
September 8th.
And so that was his 50th anniversary for his marriage.
It was, that's a really cool thing.
Somebody that is married that long,
they're far and few between, we need more of that.
And so we like to celebrate that.
And then I'm not sure of all the birthdays
that are this month, but happy birthday to all of you guys.
And we do have prayer requests on...
On the back of the bulletin and so be in prayer for those people and then just some housekeeping rules
You know, we have a mother-baby room in the very back if you go through that back door to the left there
It's just right across the hallway
And then if you need to go to the restroom or anything head through that back door and the restrooms are back behind this way
And just make sure that the
The kids aren't going crazy in the mother-baby room.
It's really just basically for mothers and nursing babies,
or if you need to correct your child
or give them some extra attention
if they're cutting up a little bit in church.
But thank you so much for coming this morning,
and we'll just head to our next song.
turn in our hymns to our next song song number 259 song 259 nothing but the blood
our hymnals to song 48 that's uh that's wrong I think it's actually song 248
yeah song 248 in our hymnals
Song 248 grace greater than our sin we're gonna sing it acapella. They're on the first
Is that the chapter for the, all right, cool.
So everybody turn to your Bibles to Oseah chapter number eight.
So Oseah chapter number eight,
we're gonna read the Bible while we pass the offering plate.
Give me a second to get there myself
Oseah chapter number eight the Bible reads there in verse one
Set the trumpet to thy mouth
He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord because they have trans get transgressed my covenant and trespassed against my law
Israel shall cry unto me my God. We know thee Israel has cast off the thing that is good the enemy shall pursue him
They have set up kings but not by me. They have made princes and I knew it not of their silver and their gold
They have made them idols that they may be cut off by calf. Oh Samaria have cast the off
My anger is kindled against them. How long will there be will it be or they attain to
Innocency
For from Israel was it also the workmen made it therefore it is not God
But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces for they have sown the wind and shall reap the whirlwind
It hath no stalk the bud shall yield no meal
If so, be it yield, the stranger shall swallow it up.
Israel has swallowed up, now shall they be among the Gentiles, as a vessel wherein is
no pleasure.
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone, by himself, Ephraim, have hired lovers.
Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow
have made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin."
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
They sacrificed flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings and eat it, but the Lord accepted
them not.
Now, will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins, they shall return to Egypt,
for Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples, and Judah hath multiplied fenced
cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof."
Let's have a quick word of prayer.
Dear Father God, thank you for this day.
Thank you for gathering us all here
to hear the word for each Lord.
I just pray that you feel further in our cell
with your spirit, helping to preach a bold and accurate
sermon, Lord.
May I pray that we all get home safe
and we just hear my prayer.
Amen.
Amen. I just want to say thank you to Pastor Reyes and Pastor Cop for allowing me to fill
the pulpit this morning. It's always a privilege and an honor to be able to preach the word of God
and it's always a privilege and honor to be in the house of God because you never know if you
can have a house of God in your area. So my name is Marcel. I'm a member of Steadfast Baptist
Church. I've been a member there since 2017, faithfully serving. Since then, I'm trying to get my 10-year plaque.
hopefully in a couple of years,
so that's why I go to be able to get there.
I love the Houston area.
I've been in Houston for the first time
about five years ago.
I preached out pure words.
It was always a great privilege to be able to come down
and spend time with you guys,
so we're good to see a lot of familiar faces here still.
Still at church, still serving God.
You should be there in Hosea chapter eight.
And let me just open my Bible here.
Did the mic on?
Yeah, so you should be there in Hosea chapter 8
Um, we could read that verse one and say, set the trumpet to that mouth.
He shall come as a, he shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord
because they have transgressed my covenant and trespassed against my law.
Israel shall cry unto me, my God, we know thee.
If Israel has cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue him.
And that's why I got the inspiration of the sermon today, where it says in verse 3, Israel
has cast off the thing that is good.
And the title of my sermon today is, Don't cast off the thing that is good.
Don't cast off the thing that is good.
Unlike Israel, Israel has cast off the thing that is good and as a result of that, the Bible says that enemy shall pursue him and the Bible says that they were going to be judged because of that.
Look down at verse 8, look what it says.
Israel is swallowed up.
Now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel where there is no pleasure.
So just to give you context of what's going on right now,
to go and marry a wife of Hordom
to symbolize his relationship with Israel,
how that they left the living God to serve idols.
Now, the nation of Israel at this time has been split off.
You have the nation of Israel,
which is considered the northern kingdom.
You have the nation of Judah,
which is considered the southern kingdom.
Before the kingdom was even split off,
if you would turn in your Bibles
to Deuteronomy chapter 28,
keep your finger here in Hosea.
We're gonna come right back to it.
In Deuteronomy 28, because in the beginning of Isaiah 8 verse 1, he says, set the trumpet
to thy mouth, he shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed
my covenant and trespassed against my law.
So God already prophesied about this a long time ago that if the nation of Israel will
ever forsake God, the judgment that was going to follow.
It says moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed.
Why? Because thou harkenest not unto the voice of the Lord thy God to keep his commandments and his statutes, which he commanded thee.
Verse 49 it says, the Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as an eagle flyeth, a nation whose tongue thou shall not understand.
So he says they're gonna bring a nation from far as swift as an eagle to come in to destroy them because they did not keep
God's covenant they trans they trespass against the law of the God go back to Hosea chapter 8
Now
The thing that is good, according to the Bible, is God's word, is God's covenant.
The Bible says that the laws of God, they are good, they are just, they are holy.
The word of God is so precious.
The Bible says that the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.
And Israel, they cast off the things of God as if it was nothing, as if it was a vain thing.
It says, I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange
thing.
So, Israel counted the laws of God as a strange thing, and as a result of that, they're going
to be destroyed.
Eventually, Israel, the northern kingdom, is going to be taken over by the Assyrian Empire.
They're going to be completely taken over.
And as the Bible said in verse 8, if you remember, it says, Israel is swallowed up.
as a vessel where there is no pleasure.
So God has no pleasure in them.
God is going to destroy them.
God is going to wipe them out.
And this is a good principle for us today
that we shouldn't cast away the thing that is good.
We shouldn't cast away the word of God
because this is our protection.
This is the hedge of protection
that keeps us safe from the enemy.
And if you don't want the enemy to pursue you,
if you don't want your life to be destroyed,
off the thing that is good, like Israel did.
And I wanna go through a couple examples tonight.
What's gonna happen to a nation
that casts off the thing that is good
as it just happened to Israel?
What's gonna happen to a church
that casts off the thing that is good?
What happens to a family
that casts off the thing that is good?
Now, if you would, turning your Bibles to,
and I'm just gonna go through some history for you
a little bit, so just keep your place there in Hosea,
that's fine.
So the first thing I want to show you guys what happens when a society casts away the thing that is good
And I want to kind of use America as an example of a society as a nation
That that has cast off the thing that is good now when our country was founded
It actually used the laws of God for its capital punishment
And that's a good thing because the Bible says the law of God is perfect just and holy and good
I want to show you a few, I want to explain a few things to you.
So back in 1642, I'm going to reference the laws of Connecticut.
I'm from Connecticut, so I was raised there, so I get to bully them a little bit.
Now, you know, I love Connecticut because I got saved in Connecticut.
I was, you know, I went to a Baptist church as a seven-year-old boy in Connecticut, you know,
I swear not first on, I was serving the Lord, seeking after God, and I was in Connecticut.
And back in 1642, Connecticut used the capital to punishments that were prescribed in the Bible,
and it wasn't just Connecticut, just to be clear,
All 13 colonies at the founding of our country actually used the capital punishments that were prescribed in the Bible.
So, you know, you have Connecticut that had the capital punishments, Massachusetts, all these states that have them.
And I want to just read a few of them really quickly from this book.
So it says capital laws established by the general court the 1st of December 1642 man. That's a long time ago
1642 it's a long time ago. It says number one
It says if any man after legal conviction shall have or worship any other God
But the Lord God he shall be put to death and then it references
Deuteronomy chapter 13, Deuteronomy chapter 6, Deuteronomy chapter 17, so using the Bible as
its reference as to why it's justifiable to convict somebody who committed a capital punishment,
put them to death, they used the Bible, the Word of God, which is great.
The second one was, if any witch, if any man or woman be a witch, that is, have or consulted
with a familiar spirit, they shall be put to death, if references more verses, Exodus
chapter 22.
The third one, if any person shall blaspheme the name of God, the Father or the Holy Ghost,
with direct express or presumptuous, or shall curse God in a like manner, he shall be put
If any person shall commit any willful murder, which is manslaughter, committed upon malice, hatred, or cruelty,
it says this man shall surely be put to death.
It says if any man or woman shall lie with any beast or brute creature by carnal copulation, they shall surely be put to death.
The beast shall be slain and buried.
If any man lied with mankind as he lies with women,
both of them have committed abomination.
They shall be surely put to death.
If any person committed adultery with another,
with a married or a spouse's wife,
the adulterer and the adulterer
shall surely be put to death.
Now,
When Connecticut was founded when a lot of these colonies were founded they use all of these capital punishment
So it wasn't just Connecticut that had the death penalty for our deltry
But most importantly the most wicked thing is sodomy. I mean it's a vile affection according to the word of God
It's something that is disgusting and
Connecticut had the death penalty for sodomy
Massachusetts had the death penalty for sodomy, New Hampshire had the death penalty for sodomy, Rhode Island had the death penalty for sodomy
Vermont had the death penalty for sodomy, New York had the death penalty for sodomy,
New Jersey had the death penalty for sodomy, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland,
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia all had the death penalty for sodomy.
These were the 13 colonies that were founded. They all had the death penalty for sodomy.
Now I think that's great because that's what the Bible says the law of the Lord is perfect
I love the law of God the law of God is just and I think that's perfect
But what happened as time went on?
Most capital punishments, they actually just turned it to imprisonment, so they no longer
were considered to them a capital offense that was punishable by death, they just imprisoned
them.
And not only just saw them, it also adulterated a lot of these other sins that were committed,
they were also just considered, they just put them in prison.
Now I'll read this as well.
It says, so now this is 1642, we have the death penalty
in all 13 colonies.
Now we're gonna fast forward to 1821
when most of these capital offenses were actually repealed
and they actually just softened the blow.
And what are they doing?
They're casting away the thing that is good.
The Bible says that the law of God is good, right?
So the law of God says, hey, look,
these people need to be punished by death.
The government needs to put them to death.
That's what the law of God said.
But what they're doing is they're casting it away.
Now, obviously at this point in time,
there's still a crime and they're still being imprisoned,
which is better than what we're at today.
And we'll get there in a second.
So, in 1821, it said that every person who shall have carnal knowledge of any man.
And if you notice, before when I read the Capitol offenses in 1642, it was just verbatim
what the Bible said.
It's like they took what the Word of God says, they copied it and pasted it right into
their laws.
Now, it's just their own, now they're having their own knowledge, they're putting their
own thoughts into it.
But look at how it sounds.
Now it sounds like the NIV.
And said that every person who shall have carnal knowledge of any man against the order of nature. It just sounds weird now
Being there of duly convicted shall suffer imprisonment in new gay prison during the night during his nature life
During his natural life, excuse me
Except that it shall appear that one of the parties was forced or under 15 years of age, in which case the party forced or underage or forced shall not be liable to suffer the sad punishment.
So now, it went from the death penalty to just life imprisonment at this point.
This is in 1821.
Fast forward about another 100 years, in 1969 Connecticut was the second state to repeal
offenses against Chastity, including, you know, Chastity laws, including sodomy.
So now in 1969, we went from the death penalty to life in prison, where now is not a crime
at all.
and America has cast off in Connecticut, especially,
and not only Connecticut, but every other state as well,
the original 13 colonies,
they also have repealed the laws of, you know,
they repealed the laws against Chastity regarding sodomy.
So now sodomy no longer was punishable by death,
it was no longer just a crime in prison,
now it was completely legal.
I want to just read to you what it says in 1969. So Connecticut was actually the second state.
The first state was Illinois. The second state was Connecticut to follow this procedure.
So it says the commission has decided to adopt the basic principle that sexual activity in private
Rather heterosexual or homosexual
Between consenting adults not involved in corruption of the young by older person is no business of the criminal law
And should be left to the domestic relation court and to the concern of the spiritual authorities
So it says you know what this has nothing to do with the criminal law
It should just be left to the spiritual authorities.
And unfortunately, the spiritual authorities
stopped using their judgment to preach against this
and to call out these wicked vile sins.
And because, as a result of them actually just completely
repealing these laws against Sadami,
100 years later, in 2025, actually,
let's just jump to 2015.
We've got one more step.
In 2015, after they repealed these laws against Sadami,
The Supreme Court has had actually they they have they passed the bill said that
They passed the bill that we need to observe homosexual
It says the right to marry is a fundamental right under the due process clause of the 14th
Amendment.
The Equal Protection Clause requires state to treat same-sex couples equally in marriage.
Therefore states must issue marriage license to same-sex couples.
States must recognize valid same-sex marriages performed in other states.
The laws of God were being prescribed at 1642,
and obviously there's a bunch of more laws,
but I just want to focus on the laws of sodomy
because I feel like sodomy is destroying our society
more than we know or more than we realize,
and it's a wicked vile sin,
and God put that in the Bible for a reason,
and I want to focus on that, but at 1642,
the laws against sodomy, they were to be punished by death.
In 1821, they had life in prison.
In 1969, it was no longer a crime.
America has cast off the thing that is good.
Not only has America cast off the thing that is good,
if you were to turn in your Bibles to Romans chapter 1,
Not only have they cast off the thing that is good. They're not calling good evil and evil good
They're not actually celebrating
Sodomy in America now. We actually have something called pride month
We have a month when we celebrate homosexual for 30 days 30 days
We're supposed to lift these people up and show how great these people are and
That's how far we've come as a society where we used to put them to death
And now we actually celebrate them.
America has cast off the thing that is good
and they've received the evil.
Now, it says in Psalm chapter 12,
you should be in Romans chapter one.
It says, the wicked walk on every side
when the vilest men are exalted.
The Bible tells us that when the vilest men are exalted,
the wicked walk on every side.
Now who are the violent men? These are homosexuals. The Bible says homosexuals are the violent men
Homosexuals are the worst people in society
Homosexuals are the most nasty people according to the Bible. They're vile
Look what it says in Romans chapter 1 verse 26
Romans chapter 1 verse 26 for this cause God gave them up unto vile affections
For even their woman, they changed the natural youth into that which is against nature.
And likewise also the men leaving the natural youth of the woman, burning their lust one
toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves
that recompense of their error, which was meat.
And even as they did not like to retain God or the knowledge, God gave them over to a
The Bible says that men with men, women with women,
is called vile affections.
So when you're celebrating a month for homosexuals,
you're lifting up the violence of men.
And the Bible said that the wicked walk on every side
when the vile as men are exalted.
Let me ask you a question.
Why isn't Jeffrey Epstein's list being revealed?
Because they're all in government.
Because they're all,
All our society and once you reveal that we're going to have to redo the government
We're there's going to be a lot of there's going to be a lot of house cleaning because these people are in government
Now i have a just a quick list i don't even have all of them because it's too many
We go from
Sodomites happen to be put to death homosexuals faggots
to
Celebrating them and exalting them and not only just exalting them now. We're elevating them in positions of leadership
You have Pete Buddha judge. You have Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin. You have Jared Paulus
He's the first elected openly gay governor of Colorado
Like this is this is something to be cool about you know like nowadays like just the first black man to do this job
There's a first like who cares if he's a black man white man
If the guys are righteous man, let him do the job.
And if he's a wicked man, get him out of there.
And these people are exalting these, these open like, hey,
this guy's an openly gay guy.
Let's just celebrate him.
Let's top him off.
So he's the first elected, openly gay guy.
We have Sharers Davis, US representative from Kansas,
who's another side of my that's in there.
And they, you know, people will say, well,
If you read in the law that says well, what consenting do couples do behind closed doors is their business?
Well, let me remind you what homosexuals like to do in closed door. They like to rape people
They like to commit molestation. Did you guys hear of Jeffrey Dahmer what he was doing behind closed doors?
It's not about what they do behind closed door. They want to rape children behind closed door
They want to kill people behind closed door. Well, why would you say that?
Well, the Bible says that they're filled with all unrighteousness
Look at the Bible says and you should be there still in Rome in Romans chapter 1
And it says in verse 29,
being filled with all unrighteousness,
fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity,
whispers, backbiter's, haters of God,
despicable, proud boasters,
inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
covenant breakers, without natural affections,
implacable, unmerciful, who knowing the judgment of God.
So, homosexuals, they know the judgment of God.
They know that they deserve to be put to death,
and says, who knowing the judgment of God,
that they which commit such things are worthy of death.
Not only do they do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
So what they do behind closed doors is murder, wicked, despicable, proud, haters of God.
They molest children.
This is what these people do behind closed doors.
So these openly elected gay person
that is in the government now,
this is what he likes to do behind closed doors.
Pete Buttigieg, this is what he likes
to do behind closed doors.
Jared Paulus, this is what he likes
to do behind closed doors.
You know, in your face, they will act like
these are the nicest people.
You know, whenever you meet a faggot,
they're always just so nice.
They try to be so nice or friendly.
Hey, how you doing?
But as soon as you get them upset, they will kill you.
There was a slit your throat.
And look, I don't know if you know this,
and you probably do, but Charlie Kirk was killed
by, guess what, a faggot, a homosexual.
And look, you can't, so I like to use chatGBT a lot.
So I asked chatGBT, hey, was the person
that killed Charlie Kirk a faggot?
And guess what it said.
So it says, I found no credible evidence that the man who shot Charlie Kirk was a sodomite.
It says, what is known from public report, the accused shooter is Tyler James.
So this is the person that supposed we killed him.
I have no idea.
who really shot him. Obviously, the Lord knows. But look what it says. Prosecutors say Robinson
had become increasingly concerned about gay and trans rights. This is the person that killed
Charlie Kirk. He became increasingly concerned and had political views that diverged from his
fathers. Robinson, the same guy, had a transgender roommate with whom he wasn't a romantic relationship
He's a faggot
He's a homosexual
Yeah, so this is what these people like to do see what happens is when you don't kill them and put them to death
They're gonna kill you and put you to death illegally
Just like to the Charlie Kirk all these mass school shootings all these things that are going on are happening by faggots by
Homosexuals by these wicked depraved individuals. This is why the Bible says hey put these people to death
society decided to cast away the thing that is good now we have faggots in
government and the Bible says this
It says in Isaiah, you don't have to turn there.
He says, I, for my people, children are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
All my people, they which lead thee, cause thee to err
and destroy the way of thy past.
So the Bible says that if a woman leads you as a man,
she's gonna cause you to err.
I know you think your little sweet wife
will never mislead you or misguide you, but she will.
If a child is leading you, he's going to misguide you.
He's going to cause you to err.
That's why as men, you need to lead your families.
You don't let your wife lead you.
You don't let a child lead you.
You lead your family.
But what's worse than a woman leading you
is a saggett leading you.
That's even worse.
I don't want no saggett leading me.
I don't let my wife lead me and I damn sure don't want no faggot leading me and unfortunately
because society decided to cast away the thing that is good now we have faggots in government
faggots leading us and the bible said that they're going to cause you to err why do you think that
they shut down hate speech these things are not just because they're hateful it's because they want
to not say what the Bible says,
and that the Bible says that in Leviticus 2013,
if a man lies with another man,
he shall be put to death,
that is an abomination.
That's what the Bible says.
And they don't want us to pre-step.
This is why they're gonna cause us to err.
And you know what's even worse than that?
People just fall into the trap
and they fall into it.
And this is just the beginning I mean it obviously there's been hundreds of years and these little things that have been that has been happening is
We can see it evident today, right?
But the Bible said that at the end time it's gonna be as it was in the days of lot
Right, so if you think about it was interesting
In the days of Lot, the Bible said that they were marrying and being given a marriage.
Let me tell you something, inside of them there were all faggots.
It was faggots marrying and being given a marriage.
And then the Bible said that God rained down fire and brimstone from heaven to destroy them
as an example of how he feels about this sin, about faggots, about homosexuals.
That's what the Bible said. And that's what's going to happen at the end time.
We're going to have a bunch of faggots everywhere. And you know what?
You Christians buttercups better buckle up and be ready for war because you know what they're gonna come and try to take
All of your rights away. They're gonna try to cause you to err and you know as Christians we can't back down
We can't slow down. We got to just preach what the Bible says and stand for what the Bible says
Now unfortunately
Not only has society especially America has cast away the thing that is good by just getting rid of all by getting rid of the
capital punishments prescribed in the Bible
Also churches have cast away the thing that is good
Churches and we see that when society cast away the thing that is good just like Israel in the Old Testament
How they were destroyed the Assyrians came and wiped them out
America one day is going to be destroyed and be wiped out because it's
capping away the thing that is good. A church, if it's not, you know, doing what
the Bible says, if it's not holding fast to things that are good and it castes
away, a church will cease to exist as well. Now, if you would turn to Psalm
chapter 12, Psalms 12, and what I want to focus now is what happens when the
The most important thing as a church as the institution of God is the Word of God itself and
Many churches today have cast away the King James Bible
They have cast away the sacred pure words of God
And the Bible says that the Word of God is pure.
Ligurus says in Psalm 12 verse 6,
the words of the Lord are pure words
as silver tried in the furnace of earth,
purified seven times.
Thou shalt keep them, O Lord.
Thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever.
And the Bible says that the Word of God is pure words.
And most churches today in America
are not using the King James Bible.
And there's many reasons why you should only use the King Banes Bible because the Bible said that it's perfect. It's preserved
There's no error. I believe the King James Bible has no flaws in it at all now
I'll just give you one example from a modern translation in the NIV and most of you guys know probably know this but in the
And I in the King James Bible if you would just go to act chapter 8 really quickly
And act chapter 8
And actually up to eight there's an Ethiopian eunuch who gets saved
And he has a great question and the question he asks is what does hinder me to be baptized like this guy wants to get baptized
This guy is zealous for God. He gets saved. He wants to just get baptized right away
He doesn't want to waste any time and as the Bible says it says to go to all nations
Teach them all things and it says it says teach all nations says to baptize them the first step after you get saved
It's to go get baptized
And Acts 8, this Ethiopian eunuch, he's asking,
what does hindered me to be baptized?
And look what it says in verse 37.
And Philip said, if thou believest with all thine heart,
thou mayest, and he answered the said,
I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
So the only requirement for getting baptized
is believing in Jesus Christ.
That's the only thing you have to do to get baptized.
You have to be saved.
You have to believe in Jesus Christ.
And the Catholic churches don't believe this.
All the churches don't believe this.
That's why they ripped this verse right out,
because they just want to baptize
whoever they want to baptize.
They want to justify baptizing babies.
Babies can't believe in Jesus Christ.
They need to believe in Jesus Christ first,
then go get baptized.
And a lot of churches are literally casting away
the Word of God, the pure words of God.
And what's even worse than casting away
the pure words of God is casting away
pure words back to church. That's even worse than casting away the pure words of God.
Because not only do you cast away the pure words of God, you're also casting away
the sound doctrine that comes from the Word of God.
You're also casting away the missions that come from the Word of God, which is evangelism.
You're shutting down evangelism. You're shutting down sound doctrine.
You're shutting down a church. And the church was a good church.
If you've been to Pure Word Baptist Church, that was a great church.
When I visited Pure Word Baptist Church, I love Pure Word Baptist Church.
Pure Word Baptist Church was a great church. It was running on all cylinders.
What happens was somebody decided, hey, you know what?
I want to cast away this church.
I want to cast away the pure word Baptist church.
So how does God feel when he goes and he dies on the cross
to shed his blood to purchase the church
and you go and shut down the church,
you go and cast it away as if it was nothing?
You know this this is something that God hates God despises God does not like at all and most churches today
You know are also gonna get guys gonna just shut them down himself because they're not even just doing what God prescribed them to do
God prescribed the church to preach to God if you would turn to Revelation chapter
2
Revelation chapter 2
You know
The church has
Many good the church is a great institution has many good things that that uh that we can do and
The number one job of the church the whole mission of the church the first job the Bible says to teach all nations
That's the first job of the church and if a church stops preaching the gospel
The Bible said that the candlestick will be removed. What does that mean? The church God will shut the church down
God will not see that church
as a church anymore, it will be an illegitimate church.
And that's why it's important that this church
never cast away the thing that is good, which is soul in it.
And any church that names the name of Jesus Christ,
that believes salvation by faith alone,
that believes in eternal security,
that believes in the record of God,
should never cast away soul-winning,
because that's what makes you a church.
A church is not a church if it's not soul-winning.
You know, I'm a businessman,
and if I don't do business, I'm not a business.
Like, if I don't, I do lawn care.
If I don't go and do lawn care,
I'm not a business, I don't do nothing.
If a church is not soul winning, it's an illegitimate church
and God will not recognize anymore as a church.
And that's why it's important for us not to cast away
the traditions that have been passed down to us
from the word of God and to preach the gospel to every creature.
And we're gonna see a church in emphasis
that decided to kind of cast away soul winning,
the most important thing.
The first step of a church is just go soul winning.
In Revelation chapter two, verse one,
It says unto the angel of the church of Ephesus,
write, these things sayeth, he that holdeth the seven stars
in his right hand, who walketh in the midst
of the seven golden candlesticks.
I know thy works and thy labor and thy patience
and how thou canst not bear them which are evil.
And thou hast tried them which say they are apostles
and are not.
And that's found them liars and has born and has patience and for my name's sake has labored and
Has not fainted nevertheless. I have somewhat against thee because that has left our first love
So when a church stops preaching the gospel just know God has something against you
If you're not preaching the gospel God has something against you personally and you don't want to be on God's bad side
Why because that's left your first love. We're gonna say the verse 5
Remember therefore, from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works, or else
I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of this place, except
thou repents."
So he tells us right here that he will remove the candlestick of a church.
The moment a church ceases to preach the gospel is the moment a church ceases to be a church.
This is the first step of the church.
He says to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
Not only are we supposed to preach the gospel in our local city, in our local area,
but he said in all the world.
And we need people that can get on fire for so many, that can have a love for the lost.
Once these people die, they will go to hell forever.
And unless you have people that die in your life and you understand the reality of death,
that people die every single day,
you know, you might not understand,
but people will die and go to hell
where the fire is never quenched.
And all you have to do is just go to this individual
and show him what Jesus Christ did,
tell him to put his faith in Jesus Christ,
and once he does that, he can never go to hell.
That's all you have to do.
You just have to be the vessel
that's willing to go out there and do the job.
And just like Israel I said that they cast off the thing that is not good and because of that God sent them among the Gentiles
And that there were a vessel that had no pleasure
God will have no pleasure in you if you are not preaching the gospel if you are not preaching the word of god
I want god to be pleased with me
Do you guys want god to be pleased with you?
If you want God to be pleased with you,
you need to just preach the gospel.
You need to just go to your local church,
go out with them so many.
Today we're gonna have so many at two o'clock.
I hope I see everybody there
because if not, I'm gonna know God
doesn't have pleasure in you.
Maybe you guys go on different days, you go whenever you go, but I don't know when you
go.
So to me, if you don't go to bed, you don't go.
So go so many at two o'clock, come knock some doors, so that way God can be pleased
with you.
You know, the Bible says every branch of me that bears fruit, God purges.
They may bring forth more fruit.
And you know what?
The day that God opened the doors for me to do a lot more soul-warning.
I feel like every year of my life I've been doing way more soul-warning than the year before.
This year I've gotten way more salvation than I've ever gotten in my entire life.
In our church, we keep stats of everybody.
So I normally don't keep stats, but you know, you know,
and you keep stats and you go soaring faithfully,
God will keep increasing your opportunity
to get people saved.
Like, I'm talking, I was talking to brother James,
he's got, you just said 1500 people you got saved last year.
That is insane.
I think my you know, you know, like my goal before like I want to get two people saved the week
I want to get 100 people saved the year which is fantastic
If you get two people saved the week one person saved the week that is great
The Bible says that the good ground is 30 fold 60 fold 100 fold that is amazing
So I was like a hundred fold and this guy like yeah 1500. I'm like what I want to be in the thousand club now
I want to go, I'm planning on going to the Philippines,
hopefully Lord ruling next year,
because I want to hit the thousand club next year.
And you know what, let me tell you something,
if you decide to spend your life soul-winning
and preaching the gospel, God will purge you,
God will bless you, God will open up the doors for you
to do way more evangelism.
You know, I own the business and I give this example,
you know, I have a couple workers,
I've got two guys who's bringing in,
let's say a hundred grand a year,
and I got another guy who's bringing in 500 grand a year.
This guy here he's gonna get I'm gonna make sure he gets whatever he wants. He's happy
He's satisfied because I want the guy to keep working for me. I wanted to keep doing more work
I wanted to bring that 500 to a million right same thing with us
If you're so in it for God and you're doing a great work for God
God wants you to do the same exact thing as well
God wants you to bear fruit get a lot of people say do a great work for him and he opened up the doors for you
But the moment you stop doing it, you're gonna be like a castle yourself. God has no use for you
Robert says, every branch of me that bears not fruit, God takes it away.
And you don't want to know what God's going to do to you if he takes you away.
It's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God,
just because you want to be lazy and selfish and not want to go preach the gospel and do work for the Lord.
So we see that when a church casts away the thing that's good, like soul winning,
what happens? That the church sees to be a church.
You have no point in your life. Your whole purpose of life is to serve God
and to get people saved from the fires of hell.
Another thing that churches don't do is they're not preaching all the counsel of God if you would turn to
1st Timothy turn to 1st Timothy chapter 4
So I go to 2nd Timothy chapter 4
Second Timothy chapter four
While you're going to second Timothy, I'm going to read to you from Proverbs chapter four
And Proverbs chapter four this is what
The problem is the problem is he says so I give you good doctrine for shaky not my law
So the church is not only supposed to just preach doctrine. It's supposed to preach good doctrine and
If a second Timothy chapter 4 you should be there look what it says is I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ
Who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom?
preach the word be instant in season
out of season, reprew, rebuke, and exhort with all
long suffering and doctrine, for the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine, but after their old lust shall the heaps of themselves, teachers having itching
ears, and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables."
So the Bible tells us to preach the Word of God and to be instant in season,
out of season, and to reprove, and to rebuke, and to exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
I give you good doctrine.
David said, I give you good doctrine.
And good doctrine is going to save you
from destroying your life.
When a church doesn't tell you, hey, stay away
from a homosexual, you're going to end up
letting your child be babysit by a homosexual
and get defiled and now your child is destroyed,
his mind is destroyed because you didn't have good doctrine
because the church didn't give you good doctrine.
They didn't teach you that.
The Bible says that there's going to be a time
when people don't want to hear a good doctrine.
But at the end of the day,
you don't cast off the thing that is good.
You make sure that you're hearing good doctrine.
This is why we come to the best church in the area.
Why? Because we want to hear good doctrine.
We want to hear what the Bible says on every subject.
We don't want the Word of God to be under a bushel.
We don't want it to be vague.
We don't want it to be watered down.
We want the pure words of God.
That's that's given to us and why is it so important to have good doctrine?
The bible says good doctrines will save us from being destroyed look what it says in first timothy
chapter four
And first Timothy chapter four
First timothy chapter four
We're going to say the verse 15 it says meditate upon these things referring to the word of God
It says give thyself holy to them. This is
Paul telling Timothy what he needs to do Paul is telling Timothy that he needs to meditate upon the word of God
And he needs to give himself wholly to the word of God that that profiting may appear unto all
Look at what it says in verse 16
Take heed unto thyself and to the doctrine
Continue in them for in doing this that shall both save thyself and them that hear thee
So when you continue in good doctrine, not only would you save your own self
but you're also going to save the people that are listening to you and you need to hear a good doctor so
you can save yourself so you can save other people when people have advice or they have questions
you could give them good sound doctors from the Word of God and save them from destroying their life
if you would go to Titus chapter two most churches are not going to give you good
doctrine most churches are not going to tell you what the Bible says because they're compromising
Look what it says in verse in Titus chapter 2. This is good doctrine. I love how the Bible just spells everything out for you
the Bible he says
Have good doctrine, it's gonna save you.
Let's see what it says right here in verse,
in Titus chapter two, first one, it says,
but speak thou the things which become sound doctrine.
This is what the preacher's supposed to be speaking,
sound doctrine, look what it says in verse two,
that the agent men be sober, grave, temperate,
sound in faith, in charity, in patient.
The agent women likewise, that they be in behavior
as become as holiness.
not false accusers, not given to much wine,
teachers of good things, that they may teach the young woman to be sober,
to love their children, to love their husbands,
to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient, to their own husband, that
the Word of God be not blasphemed.
So the Bible tells us right here that good doctrine is when you tell a lady
Hey, you need to be discreet. You need to be chased. You need to be keepers at home
You need to be obedient to your own husband. That's good doctrine. Good doctrine is telling men
Hey, you need to be sober. Stop taking everything for granted. Stop thinking everything is a joke
Why don't you become a man and man up put your big-boy pants on and be a man and be sober to be grave grave
It's like really serious take things seriously
young men don't take life seriously, little boys don't take life seriously.
It's like when you become a man, it's like, I feel like not as an older man is like,
man, life could end any moment. You could die any day.
And you know, a good friend of mine, her husband passed away from faithful word and is a tragedy.
And this guy was young. He was 38 years old.
38 and your life is over and it's like if you don't take your life seriously now
And get as many people saved now that you care for God when you stand before Jesus Christ
You will be ashamed that you wasted your life
It would be a shame for all of you turning like,
man, I wish I've done more.
And you know what?
Even people who are doing a great work for God
that are getting thousands of people saved,
I bet you they feel like they could do more
because we know that we have a short time.
And good doctors was gonna save our marriages.
The reason why most marriages are falling apart.
And we're gonna go into my third point now.
My first point is when the society breaks down,
why society breaks down when they cancel the thing
that is good, like the laws of God.
Why churches break down when they cancel the thing
that is good, like soul winning, sound doctrine.
The Bible says to teach them to observe all things.
So the church's job is to make sure that they're teaching
all things in the congregation.
And the third point I wanna make is when a family
cast away the thing that is good, like marriage.
Marriage is honorable according to the Word of God, and if you want to have a successful marriage,
if you want your marriage to work, you want your marriage to thrive,
you have to listen to the laws of God. The laws of God is going to lead you, it's going to guide you.
If you would, turn to...
Turn to 1 Timothy.
The Bible says that marriage is honorable and Genesis chapter one when God had created man and woman
He told him to be fruitful and to multiply. He said that all things were good
That was good to God when when when a young man and a young woman get married that is good
That's a good thing. God likes that. It's honorable
The Bible says he that finally the wife obtained a favor of the Lord when you get married you get extra favor from God
to kind of go through some, you can stay there for 71, but I'm going to read
something else to you, but I want to go through some some statistics, and it's
pretty saddening, but this is reality. So I was looking up like just the marriage
rate, right? And you know, in the 1940s, you know, about 61% of whites were
And then if you fast forward to today, it says that 53% are married, so the whites didn't really have a much decline in their marriage rate,
but the black community went from, you know, 60% to 30%, like completely just dropped in half.
And...
It's actually pretty exciting because, you know, I grew up in the black community and
I kind of see what they're going through.
And it's pretty exciting because, like, it shows, like, non-marital births in America
for 2023, for black people, 70%.
70% of black kids that are being born, that are born, are born to parents that are not
even married.
And if they're not even married, I mean, I'm sure they're not even in the home, they're not there.
And this is very detrimental to a family.
You know, the Bible says that marriage is honorable.
That's a good thing when a man and a woman gets married and they have children.
But men have decided to just not get married anymore
Men don't they don't society in America. They're not esteem in marriage as highly as they should esteem it as the Bible
esteems it and the marriage rate is just dropped significantly and
The reality is you know, everyone needs a father in the home, but a black boy definitely needs a father in the home
And what sad is like if you look at the as a result because of the father's not in the home
The incarceration rate is
In the whole population in prison about 40% of the population rate in prison is African-American people black boys black people
Which is my body because if you actually look at the society if you take the sum of all the people in America
Black people only make up about 13% of the population in America, which is not much
White people make up about 60% Hispanics make about 20% and you have other groups as well
So why people are the biggest group and obviously, you know
Because of that they're also have a big population in prison as well
There's a 30%
But how is it that black people have the same rate of people in prison about 37% almost 40% black people in prison and
The reason why is because dad is not in the home
Dad is not there and they need a father to be there. They need a man of God
They need a man to guide them in Genesis chapter 1. You don't have to turn that you should be at 1st Timothy
And the Bible says in God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have
Dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fall of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and
Over every creepy thing that could be upon the earth. No God made man to have dominion over his family
You as a man have dominion are supposed to rule your family and first Timothy chapter 3
Look what it says in verse four. This is giving the qualifications of a bishop a pastor
It says one that rules well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity
So, the Bible teaches that the pastor, he's the example of the flock.
This is how the rest of the congregation should be, how the pastor is.
And one of the qualifications, one thing that the pastor needs to be succeeding in, is succeeding
in, is ruling his house.
He needs to have his house in subjection.
And this tells me that if a father is not in the home, there's not going to be much
Tell you I mean you guys probably know this you know kids little boys are not afraid of mom as he is afraid of dad
You know I have five sons and they don't fear mom nowhere near as much as they fear me mom says things about ten times
I just look at them
When I look when I do this
That's the difference
And I say, hey, what do you, you know, they start trembling because dads are supposed to put the fear of God in his children and
Mom is to help me. She's supposed to help them discipline the children help him do whatever needs to do
but dad is supposed to be the main disciplinarian and
If the pastor his job is to the guy the pastor himself is not a female pastor because a woman
I'm supposed to preach in the church
But the pastor he's supposed to rule well in his house having his children a subjection
This tells me that the man his job is to make sure that the kids are alive
And if black fathers were at home, then I'm sure the population rate of black people in prison will be significantly decreased.
It wouldn't be so high.
Now look, I can talk about this because my wife is black,
my children are all black.
I'm Dominican, but I'm black too.
I know Dominican, they don't like to claim that they're black.
But our ancestors are all black.
And I was raised in a black community.
I know what they went through, what they go through.
I lived it.
One thing I realized is that all of my friends
Now my my dad got deported when I was a kid and luckily my I had a stepdad who was in the home
and that kind of saved me from a lot of trouble and
You know my mom my stepdad they got separated when I was about 13 years old
And I played football and my coach kind of helped me stay in line
And one thing I realized is that me having male leaders in my life helped keep me on the straight and narrow
and it helped me stay on the right path.
It helped me have some type of guidance in my life.
Whereas a lot of my friends who didn't have a dad
in their home, unfortunately, they're in prison,
they're in jail, they destroyed their lives,
and now they're trying to make up for lost time
because they didn't have dad in the home.
And it's important that we have dad in the home
so that way, you know, we can raise up a golly seed
and to God, you know, isn't...
You know, when you decide to leave your family,
you're casting away the thing that is good.
How can you leave your children?
How can you not be there for your kids?
They're the most beautiful things in the world.
Come here, Mateo, come here, buddy.
Like, this is my son here, my oldest son, Marcel.
Like, how can I leave him by himself?
How can I not raise him?
How can I not be here for him?
Like it breaks my heart to even think about it and people are leaving their kids to themselves to fend for themselves to raise themselves and
Let me tell you something that I was his foolishness is bound in the heart of a child
Even though my son is a pretty good upright kid. He is still foolish and what I do is I spank the foolishness out of him
And now he's a good boy
Go sit down. So it's like like you should love your child is the thing that is good having children is a blessing from God
If you will turn to Genesis chapter 18
I'm really focusing just on the black community,
and my heart goes out to them,
and I want them to have a father and a home.
I want them to raise their children.
I don't want them to cast away the thing that it gives.
God bless you with a beautiful, like to have children.
God bless you to have a wife, and to raise them
and enjoy your children, enjoy the fruit of your labor.
Look what it says, you should be there.
Where did that have you turned?
Okay.
This is a good verse here in Genesis chapter 18 verse 19.
Look what it says.
This is referring to Abraham for I know him that he will command his children and his household after him
And they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham
That which you have spoken unto him
So, God is saying, look, I know Abraham, I know that he's going to command his children
after him, and if you're going to rule your house, you need to give them commandments.
You need to give them rules.
You're not just ruling your house by just being there and having no rules, no guidelines,
no commandments, because what happens is when you don't have rules, when you don't have
commandments, when you don't have punishments, the Bible says that, you know, if you don't
Bob said, if you beat your child, you'll deliver his soul from hell.
So if you don't beat your child, most likely your child will go to hell, because that's
what the Bible says.
If thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die, but thou should deliver his soul
from hell.
And if you don't beat him, most likely he will go to hell.
And we see that God knows that Abraham, he's going to command his children, but what happens
is when you don't command your children, when you don't restrain your children, they
end up becoming children of Belial.
First Samuel chapter 3 verse 13
Now there's a story about Eli how he has sons and
Eli didn't do what he was supposed to do. He didn't command his children
He didn't rule well his own house and as a result. Let's see what happened to his kids
Now look first Samuel first let's start at verse 2 first Samuel verse 2 verse 12 chapter 2 verse 12
It says now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial
They knew not the Lord so Eli didn't command his children Eli didn't rule his children and what happens to his kids
His kids turned to children of Belial that's children of the devil that means they were reprobates
Look what it says in chapter 3 verse 13
This is God talking about Eli it says for I have told him verse first time in chapter 3 verse 13
For I have told him
That I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knoweth
Because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not
This is why you need to have a father in a home,
because when your sons make themselves vile,
you need to restrain them.
When your children are disobedient,
you need to restrain them.
When your children are acting up,
you need to restrain them.
When your children are acting foolish,
you need to restrain them.
And when you don't restrain them,
we see in the stats that 30% or 40%
of the prison population is African-Americans
because they weren't being restrained as a child.
They weren't being restrained their father weren't the father wasn't there to restrain them and now they're in prison
And if we want to fix that we just need dads to step up to the plate to man up to do their job and to be there for their kids
If you will turn to Genesis chapter one, so we see that, you know, 70% of black kids were born out of wedlock versus 26% of whites.
30% of the incarceration are blacks and the white populate and and white
But the population of black is 13 compared to 60% of white. So is a major
disproportion is just outrageous
And the last thing I'll kind of talk about touch on really quickly is casting with a thing that is good,
you know, a woman, they need to make sure that they don't cast away the thing that is good.
And in Genesis chapter one, it should be there.
Genesis chapter one, look what it says in verse 27.
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created he, him,
male and female created he, them.
And God blessed them and God said unto them,
be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth
and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea
and over the file of the air
and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
So God's will for a woman is for her to be fruitful and to multiply
What does that mean to be fruitful? Have a lot of kids. This is God's will for your life and
Most women unfortunately in our society don't want to have kids
They don't want to bear children because the reality is having children is a lot of work
We're having children as a sacrifice when you have a child when you have a child
It's no longer about you and people want to people want life to be about themselves
But when you have a child, it's all about your children.
When you have a family, when you become an Adele,
and you become a man, a woman, it's no longer about you.
You know, when I was a child, I thought as a child,
I spoke as a child, everything was all about me.
But now, everything that I do is literally for Jesus Christ,
for my wife, and for my children,
and for my brothers and sisters in Christ, and for the law.
That's everything that I do.
There's nothing about me.
I don't have time to just do what I want to do.
I've learned to love doing the things of God because it's fun and it's clean and it's wholesome now doing things for myself
Is going on mistress going to different parts of the world getting people saved and on the tour
I like to try the food so you got some good food and see and see the creation of God
See how God created the world see the cultures of every different part of the world. That's the fun now
But the thing is when you have a family
is a sacrifice. The moment you get married, you're sacrificing yourself to your spouse,
you're sacrificing yourself to your children, you're sacrificing yourself to God.
And the reason why most marriages don't work, because they calculate the thing that is good,
they don't want to do what the Bible said that they need to do in their marriage,
they want to do what they want to do in their marriage. And as a result, most marriages fail
Most women are not even a virgin by the time they get married, they cast all the things that is good.
Being a virgin on your wedding night is a good thing. Most women can't even say that anymore
because they cast off the thing that is good. And what does a God want for a woman to do?
It doesn't matter what my opinions are or what I think, what does God want a woman to do?
If you would turn to 1 Samuel 1, I'm going to tell you what God wants us to do at 1 Timothy 5.
I will, therefore, that the younger woman marry,
bear children, guide the house,
give none occasion to the adversaries to speak reproachfully
for some are already turned aside after Satan.
What does God want us to do?
What does God want a woman to do?
Not what Marcel wants a woman to do.
What does God want a woman to do?
He wants her to get married number one.
Right, so the first step, we need to get married, right?
Let me tell you what happens when you have children they make a mess. They're messy. They're dirty
I forgot the verse is like the oxen are not the crib is clean
Oh, we're no oxen are the crib is clean, but by much increase, you know something like that
But pretty much like well, there's no oxen the crib is clean the house is clean when you have no kids
But by much increase when you have a lot of kids is like soon as you clean right here clean turn around messy
Soon as you clean right here turn around messy
And that's a result of having children.
They're just dirty, they're filthy,
you gotta teach them, you gotta command them, hey,
you clean your bottom, you don't pee on the toilet seat,
you don't pee on the floor, you pee in the toilets.
And a child, and the mom's job is to keep the home.
He said, I want her to get married,
bear children, and guide the house.
Her job is to make sure the house is nice and tidy.
That's all he wants her to do.
That's what makes God happy.
That's what God wants you to do.
But what do most women want to do today?
They want to cast off a thing that is good,
and they want to go get a job.
They want to go work a nine to five.
They want their boss to tell them what to do.
They want to go listen to some other man.
It's like, it doesn't even make.
They want to go clean toilets at Subway.
Clean toilets at a bar.
Why don't you just clean your toilets in your own house?
They want to go to the bar and submit to the boss
and clean tables with throw-up.
Why don't you just clean the throw-up in your own house?
No, but I want to make my own money.
But my husband's a millionaire.
I asked the relative one time.
I said, because she's against having a lot of children.
And she's a liberal and she's a guest like woman staying at home and being smitten to the husband
So I'm like, well, let me ask you this one of the husbands in Milly here. Would you still want a job?
Yeah, I want to have my own money
Like it doesn't make any they just cast off the thing that is good and this person is divorce
This person is not happily married. This person's children are trainwrecked literally
Because they want to do what they want to do instead of just them submitting to God
I want to do what God wants them to do they want to do what they want to do now
If you would you should be there and first sandwich up the one
And first time we chopped the one now this is about Hannah
Now, Hannah was barren, and Hannah wanted children,
and she just couldn't have any children.
Look at what he says in his first sandwich out of the one.
It says, now there was a certain man of Reimathetheum,
Sophia, something like that, of Mount Ephraim,
and his name was Alkenna, the son of Jehoram,
the son of Elihu, the son of Tuah,
the son of Zuf, and Ephrathite.
And he had two wives, the name of...
One was Hannah, and the name of the other was Panina.
And Panina had children, and Hannah had no children.
And this man went up out of the city yearly to worship
and to sacrifice unto the Lord of Holes and Shiloh.
And their two sons of Eli, Half-Knife,
and he is the priest of the Lord were there.
And when the time was, and when the time was
that Elkanna offered, he gave to Panina, his wife,
and to all her sons, and her daughters, portions.
But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord hath shut up her womb.
And her adversary also provoked a sore for to make her fret because the Lord has shut up her womb and
As he did so year by year when she went up to the house of the Lord so she provoked her
Therefore she wet and did not eat then said al can of her husband to her hand up
Why we was down and why eat is down not and why is that heart greed and my not better to thee than ten sons so
Hannah, she was really upset at the fact that she could not have any children and her soul was vexed
because her enemy, her op, the person she beefed with, the person she had problems with, right,
was provoking her every single year. Every year her children all got gifts and she got a gift
and Hannah had no children. All she wanted was children and a woman's value is in her children.
If you raise up a bunch of golly Christians to do a lot of great souling for the Lord,
don't think your work is in vain. God is going to bless you mightily in heaven for that because
you're sacrificing your life for the next generation and her value was in her children and today
women could care less about their womb being shut and you know instead of you know their
their womb is not even shut then what they do is they go and kill the baby and the baby comes in
the womb they kill it they eradicate the baby out the womb and it's like Hannah all she wants
And eventually that's Samuel, she has a child and she offers him to the Lord and she has many more children
But we'll see at the beginning like her. She was really upset because she couldn't have any children now
Ladies don't care less about having children and God wants you to have children. God wants you to bear children
There are certain stances where sometimes women don't have children
But I'll look at up statistics in
Just 2020
It says the GUTMATCH Institution Estimate estimates about 930,000 abortions in America
in 2020.
So almost a million ladies have committed an abortion,
have committed murder in 2020.
And here's how you stop abortion.
Let's just go back to the first step.
When a society cast a way to think that it's good
like the laws of God, that's how you stop abortion.
When a person commits murder and they're put to death,
that's how you'll stop the abortion rate
just like that in America.
That's how you stop adultery rate in America overnight
when you just institute the laws of God.
In 2023, the estimated number rose to a million,
one million and 37,000.
Like, that is ridiculous, 37,000.
In 2024, it rose up to a million and 38,000.
So I looked at what's the total estimate of abortions.
And since it's been keeping track since 1973 through 2017, so from 1973 to 2017, there's
approximately about 63 million abortions.
That is outrageous, and abortion means murder.
That means they killed their child.
So, you know, obviously if a woman committed abortion,
you know, that's not my business between you and God.
I'm not mad at you.
But I want you to know how God feels about it.
That's murder in the sight of God.
You're killing one of God's children.
You know, my baby's not even here,
but if I can hold my little baby,
she's the most precious thing in the world.
Like, how can I have killed her?
Like I'm so happy she's here. I'm so happy that all my children are here. I'm so happy that I have children
I'm so happy that God didn't shut my wife's womb and I'm able to have as many children as possible
I have seven kids and Lord willing I can have as many as possible because the Bible says is a good thing
To be fruitful to multiply is a good thing and when you're not multiplying
You're casting off the thing that is good and you're gonna become, you know,
Unpleasing in the sight of God
So, if you want your house to be blessed by God, you need to make sure that you're running
it according to the principles of God.
If a society wants to be blessed, if a society doesn't want to be destroyed, they need to
keep the laws of God.
If a church wants to thrive, it needs to make sure that it's not casting all the thing that
is good, which is so winning and preaching sound doctrine.
Let's pray and we'll get closing.
Lord God we thank you for this day. Thank you for the opportunity Lord to be able to preach your word Lord
I hope I was able to help somebody Lord help somebody to make the right decision to be able to go down the right path Lord
We know that when children or woman or faggots rule over us,
is gonna call us to err,
is gonna call us to go down the bad direction, Lord.
But we know that good doctrine helps us
to go down the right direction,
helps us to go down the right path, Lord.
We thank you for your word.
We actually bless the soul winning today.
We actually bless the rest of the day.
Bless all the child of the Lord.
We thank you.
We love you.
Pray all those things in Jesus' name.
Amen.
All right now, we're going to turn in our last hymn, hymn number 135.
Song number 135, Jesus what a French are sinners.