Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to our services tonight
here at Faith Word Baptist Church.
So joy to have you all here for our Sunday evening service.
Find your seats, please.
Go on your hymnals to hymn number 144.
And we'll begin tonight, hymn number 144.
A mighty fortress is our God, hymn number 144.
Once you find your place, we'll lift our voices
nice and loud on that first, hymn number 144.
Sing it out together now, 144.
A mighty fortress is our God, a bold work never failing.
Our helper he amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.
For still our ancient home, the sea to work us home,
When we in our own strength and fight our striving, be losing.
We're not the right men on our side of God's own choosing.
Thus as events may be, Christ dreams a citizen.
the battle. And though this world with devils filled should threaten to undo us, we will
not fear for God at will, true to triumph through us. The Prince of Darkness rimmed,
shall fail him. That word above all earthly powers, thanks to them, abided. The Spirit
and against our hearts drew him with a sigh.
The body they may kill, God's truth, the bite is still. His kingdom is forever.
Amen. Good singing this evening. We want to go before Lord and ask His blessing on the service so if you were by our heads together with me.
Heavenly Father, Lord, we come before you this evening.
We come and we give you thanks for allowing us to privilege
to be in church once again.
We thank you for the souls that were won today.
And we just ask your blessing upon us now
as we come into the time of worship and singing unto you.
And we ask that we would...
be focused on the words of the hymns that we're singing
and that you'd also just prepare our hearts
for the preaching to come.
We ask that you'd fill our pastor with a holy ghost
that he may preach with power
and that we may receive the message tonight
and that all that's said and done
would bring the honor and the glory to your son, Jesus Christ
and it's in his name that we pray, amen.
Hymn number 406, number 406, who is on the Lord's side?
Hymn number 406.
Who will serve the king, hymn number 406, sing it out with me now, hymn number 406.
Who is on the Lord's side? Who will serve the king? Who will be his helpers on her life?
All right, at this time, we'll go through our announcements
together.
If you don't have a bullet, then still put your hand nice
and high.
We'll get to you with one.
On the inside, we have our service times.
Sunday mornings at 1030 is our preaching service.
Sunday nights at 6.
Wednesday nights at 7 is our Bible study.
This week we'll be in Hosea, Chapter 3.
We've got the soul winning times listed there below,
as well as Salvation and Baptisms.
Across the page, the missions conference
is coming up in early November.
And this is the detailed schedule.
you know, which events you're gonna be able to make it to
and kind of make those plans in advance.
And so all the details are there.
We've got a great lineup of activities,
guest preachers, et cetera.
So as always, the missions conference is gonna be great.
On the back, there's a little map there
showing you where we're supposed to be parking.
So help us out and park in that designated area.
and then the annual Chili Cook Office coming up
in about a month.
That'll be on Friday night, October 31st,
from 4.30 to 7.30, right here.
And the details are there.
We're starting to take portraits again
for the yearbook, starting on October the 5th.
And we'll do that for several weeks
until we get all the pictures taken.
And so it's a nice way to get a beautiful portrait
of your family for free.
You get the high quality digital images.
then you get to be in the yearbook and you get to have a copy of the yearbook which is a nice
memento to have and it's a nice prayer list or cheat sheet to figure out who who the heck people
are. You can look at the the book and see their picture and learn people's names etc.
And then what else have we got?
The Spanish language cruise mission strip is coming up.
October 20th through 26th,
that's leaving out of Los Angeles, California,
and getting down into some stops in Mexico.
I think it's like three days of soul winning in Mexico.
And so be praying for the crew that's going on that trip.
And I believe that is about it for announcements.
So let's go ahead and tally up the soul winning.
from the past few days, going back to Thursday.
Anything from Thursday?
All right, gotcha.
Okay, got it, got it.
All right, anything else from Thursday?
How about Friday?
Okay, okay.
All right, and then how about Saturday?
Okay
Oh there
Anything else from Saturday help me out if I'm missing people and then what about today?
Sunday, okay, so zero for the main van, okay with brother Ian, and then we got eight over here
Okay
Gotcha in the back. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Okay. Any other groups from today? Got it? Okay.
All right. Am I missing anybody? All right. Very good. Keep up the great work with soul winning.
With that, let's sing our next song. Come lead us.
with the hymn entitled, be thou my vision. If you don't have an insert, please raise your hand and
you'll receive one. We'll sing it on that first verse together. Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart.
Be thou my vision, O Lord.
We say that thou art, thou my best thought, by day or by night, waking or sleeping, thy
presence my light, be thou my wisdom and thou my truth.
my treasure thou.
Hey man good singer everybody go on your hymnos now to hymn number 108 hymn number 108
Son of my soul hymn number 108
So begin son of my soul thou Savior dear
It is not night of thou be near hymn number 100 and 8 sing it out with me now
Son of my soul thou saith
I saw
last. Be near to bless us when we wake. Air through the world our way we take. Till in the ocean of
Man, good thing it's night.
All right, at this time we'll pass
our offering plates around.
As the plates go around,
let's turn our Bibles to Psalm 33.
Psalm 33, as we always do,
we'll read the entire chapter,
beginning in verse number one.
Fall along silently with Brother Corbin Brocus.
He reads Psalm 33, beginning in verse number one.
Psalm 33, rejoiced in the Lord, O ye righteous,
for praise is comely for the upright.
Praise the Lord with harp sing unto him with the sultry and an instrument of ten strings
Sing unto him a new song play skillfully with a loud noise for the word of the Lord is right and all his works are done in truth
He loveth righteousness and judgment the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord
By the word of the Lord where the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth
He gathered the waters of the sea together as in heap. He layeth up the depth in storehouses
Let all the earth fear the Lord, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
For He spake, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast.
The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught.
He maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
The Lord looketh from heaven. He beholdeth all the sons of men from the place of his habitation
He looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth
He fashioneth their hearts alike. He considereth all their works. There is no king saved by the multitude of an host a
Mighty man is not delivered by much strength and horse is a vain thing for safety now there shall he deliver any by his great strength
Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him
upon them that hope is in His mercy.
To deliver their soul from death
and to keep them alive and famine,
our soul waited for the Lord,
He is our help and our shield.
For our heart shall rejoice in Him
because we have trusted in His holy name.
Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us,
according as we hope in thee.
Father in heaven, we pray God that you please bless Pastor Aaron or sin film with the spirit as he preaches your word on us and help us to
Harken to the word of God tonight in Jesus name. We pray amen
Man the title my sermon this evening is the council of the ungodly the council of the ungodly flip back
If you would do the famous chapter Psalm 1
Psalm 1 the opening Psalm in this great book
It starts out by saying, blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.
And this world is filled with all kinds of ungodly counselors, people that are going
to give you all kinds of advice and counsel that's totally contrary to what the Bible
teaches.
And if you want to be blessed by God, do not listen to ungodly, unscriptural, unbiblical
You got to watch out for it. Okay, if you want to be blessed and the Bible says in verse 1 here
Blessed is the man that walk had not in the council of the ungodly
nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor siteth in the seed of the scornful, but
his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law that he meditate
day and night. So how are we going to judge
what is the counsel of the ungodly? You know, if somebody is giving us advice
how do we know is this good advice, is this bad advice?
Everything gets tested against the word of God. And so if your delight is in the
law of the Lord
and you're meditating in it day and night then you're going to know the Bible
pretty well.
And when somebody comes at you with something unbiblical,
right away you're going to say,
hey, wait a minute, this is bad advice,
this is worldly stuff,
this is not what the Bible is saying,
it's contrary to what the Bible says.
Now, here's the key to reading the Bible a lot.
loving the Bible, right?
That's why it starts out by saying,
his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and in his law does he meditate day and night.
You're not gonna meditate day and night
in something that you don't enjoy,
that you don't love, that you don't care about.
So you've got to develop and cultivate
an actual love for the Word of God,
to where you're not just reading the Bible
because you feel like you have to,
or someone's making you do it,
but rather that you would learn to enjoy reading the Bible
and delight in reading the Bible.
Am I too loud? I just want to make sure it's good. All right. I'm still getting used to the sound here
And I have a I have a stuffed up sinuses. So I feel like I'm wearing some kind of a helmet anyway
So, all right, I'm glad to hear that I'm sounding okay
so
Here's the thing about that is that I discovered a long time ago that I end up reading the Bible more
If I read what I want to read now, I'm you know, if you have a system that works for you
I don't want to mess with your system. Everybody's different
But for me, you know, if I follow like a really strict Bible reading plan
That tells me exactly what to read every day
Then I don't necessarily read as much because it's not necessarily what I'm in the mood for
And so what I've found helpful over the years is to actually just have a chart to make sure that I read the whole Bible
because I don't want to be leaving anything out or skipping any sections.
But at the same time, I don't slavishly follow any order or plan
because I read what I feel like reading, whatever sounds good to me at the time.
And here's the thing, different days you feel like reading different things
and so I read what I feel like reading on any given day
and then I just document it, check it off.
And then on another day, when I feel like reading that other passage,
that's when I read that other passage.
And eventually, I get around to everything.
And yeah, maybe there are certain parts that you just kind of never feel like reading.
Yeah, well then those are the days where you feel really self-disciplined and you're like,
all right, let's go, book of numbers.
All right, we're going to grind this out.
Obviously, sometimes you just have to push through difficult books, but
I find it helpful to read what you like.
And here's the thing,
there's no rule that says you have to read
the entire Bible evenly anyway.
It's okay to double up on Proverbs,
you know, triple up on the Gospel of John,
you know, quintuple up on the book of Psalms or whatever.
You know, hey, it's better than not reading your Bible
that much.
So it's okay to have a Bible reading plan that says,
hey, well, I'm gonna read the whole Bible every year,
but this book that I like, I'm gonna read five times.
So learn to delight in the law of Lord. Try to approach Bible reading from a perspective of hey
I like this. I enjoy this and I want to learn and I'm having a good time and it's entertaining and
Try to have a good attitude because that's the only way you're really going to be consistent and really put in the hours of
Bible reading and if you're going to be successful in life
It's because you delight in the law of the Lord and you meditate in it day and night
So you say I don't know Pastor Anderson. I'm not really that into Bible reading
We'll just start out if you're bad at Bible reading
Start out with the parts that you think are the funnest and most entertaining and just start hitting those really hard
And see if you can start to develop the habit and develop the enjoyment of reading the Word of God.
And so his delight's in the law of the Lord and in his law that he meditate day and night.
And so when people come at him with that ungodly counsel, he right away knows,
this is wrong, I'm not going to listen to this, okay?
And he shall be like a tree, verse 3,
planted by the rivers of water,
that bringeth forth his fruit in his season.
His leaf also shun out wither,
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
The ungodly are not so,
but alike the chaff,
which the wind driveeth away.
Now remember, what's the counsel we're avoiding?
The counsel of the ungodly.
Okay, and what are those ungodly people like? Well, they're like the chaff that the wind drives away
They're just kind of a waste. They're just kind of trash
They're just kind of what gets discarded right the wheat is that which is valuable
And then the chaff is what we want the wind to blow away get rid of it worthless. Don't matter
You know what today's
counselors and influencers and bloggers and personalities and talk show hosts and everything.
You know, if they're not Christians, if they're not based in the Word of God,
you know, eventually everything that they say is just going to be gone and stop mattering.
It's the Word of God that abides forever.
Ungodly, counselors, they're like the chaff that the wind drives away.
Their advice doesn't matter.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous,
for the Lord knoweth the way of the unrighteous,
but the way of the ungodly shall perish, right?
So the Bible is telling us a certain way to live our lives
and has all this counsel and advice about marriage
and about business and about health
and about everything else that you could think of.
And those ways will last forever.
So 500 years from now,
people will still be doing things God's way.
You know, there have always been people doing things God's way.
In every century, there are people who are following the Bible and living their lives
according to this book.
But then all these other ways of the ungodly, they come and go.
Their trends and what's considered right today is considered wrong tomorrow.
All these little lifestyles and ways that people do things.
The way of the ungodly shall perish.
God's way is eternal.
The truth never changes.
Go over, if you would, to Psalm 33.
Psalm 33.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.
Be careful about who you get advice from.
The best people to get advice from are godly Christians.
Saved Christians who know the Word of God.
And if you get...
advice from someone who's not a godly Christian, who's not a saved Christian,
then you better make sure that whatever advice they're giving you, because maybe
they're just giving you like secular advice or just
advice about something technical or something, you know, just make sure that
you don't get sucked into any philosophies
and teachings that are contrary to the Word of God. And how are you gonna know
that?
If you don't study the Bible every day, you're not gonna know what goes against
the Bible.
And, unfortunately, today there are so many Christians that are just so feelings-based
and feelings-driven, and they don't know what the Bible actually says.
Now, when you think about getting advice from other people, what if you're somebody who
already knows the Bible really well?
You're already meditating in the Word of God every day.
Why would you even need to get advice from someone else?
Let me tell you why you would need to get advice from someone else is because sometimes you're too emotional about your situation
you're too close to your situation and so getting counsel from someone else even if you do know the Bible really well even if
You are really smart. Maybe you're one who's typically counseling others in fact because you know your stuff
The reason that you would need counsel the whole point
is that you want to get maybe an unbiased,
non-emotional, actually just third-party view
of your situation that's not emotion-driven.
So therefore, why in the world would you get advice
from someone who makes their decisions based on emotions
instead of what the Bible clearly says in black and white?
I mean, you might as well just listen to yourself at that point
because you know the Bible better.
The whole point of going to someone else is you want to go to someone else who can actually give you some cold calm
collected clear
teachings from the Bible
To help you out in that situation. In fact sometimes when I am trying to figure out what to do in a situation
Sometimes I ask myself this question. Well, what if someone else came to me with this same situation? What would I tell them?
Because then I can kind of emotionally separate from it and go by what the Bible says because you know what again?
The Bible's a rock the Bible's written in black and white the Bible's teachings are clear and we sometimes get emotional and
Override what the Bible saying that's why we sometimes need that third-party counselor to step in and say hey
These are the facts of the case. It's black and white. It's right and wrong. It doesn't matter how you feel
This is what the Bible says
This is what you should do because let's face it sometimes what we want to do and the right thing to do are not the same
Sometimes we feel a certain way, but what does the bible say?
Look what the bible says in psalm 33 10 the lord
Bringeth the counsel of the heathen to not not is a synonym of the word nothing
He brings the counsel of the heathen to nothing.
He brings it to naught.
He make it the devices of the people of none effect.
The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations,
blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his
inheritance.
Flip over, if you would, to 2 Chronicles, chapter number 22, 2 Chronicles 22.
It's good to get counsel from other people, like I said, to get that third-party perspective sometimes.
Now, if you don't know the Bible very well, then you definitely need advice, a lot.
from people who do know the Bible,
so they can tell you what the Bible says.
If you do know the Bible,
you still need advice from other people
because they might not be as emotional about your situation
and they can give you some calm,
collected, clear biblical advice.
Listen to some scriptures from the book of Proverbs.
It says in Proverbs 12, 15,
the way of a fool is right in his own eyes,
but he that harkeneth unto counsel is wise.
So sometimes we'll get a dumb idea in our head
And everybody else can see it except us.
So it's smart to listen to other people.
The fool just always does what he thinks is right,
whereas a wise man harkens to counsel,
listens to other people's ideas,
especially if they're in line with the Bible.
Proverbs 11.14 says,
where no counsel is, the people fall.
But in the multitude of counselors, there is safety.
So it's safe for you to be surrounded by Godly counselors,
to have a multitude of counselors
giving you good advice.
Now, obviously when the Bible says a multitude of counselors,
some people could maybe abuse this idea
and use it to shop opinions.
Ask 10 people until I get the answer I want.
And you know, if you ask enough people,
eventually you will get the answer that you want.
I think a better interpretation of the multitude of counselors is that
You have maybe different people that you ask about different things
You know the the person that I go to for plumbing advice is not necessarily the same person that I go to for
Weightlifting advice is not necessarily the same person that I go to for marital advice is not necessarily the same person
I go to for financial advice right so multitude of counselors could be that you're surrounded by
people that are experts in various subjects and you kind of have your person that you go to
in these different situations that are good at certain things.
I mean, I've had people call me and ask me for advice before,
and sometimes I'll refer them to someone else and say,
you know, here's somebody who knows more about that,
this other pastor or this other friend of mine
or this other church member,
because different people have different specialties,
different things that they're good at.
So a multitude of counselors could be a variety of counselors
for a variety of situations,
different experts in different areas, okay?
Also, it can be good to get a couple different opinions as long as you're not just shopping
opinions and just wanting to hear your opinion coming out of other people's mouths to validate
you.
The right way to seek counsel is to actually want to know what to do.
Not just can I get validated, can I get rubber stamped, but rather what should I do and you
should be ready for someone to tell you something that you don't want to hear and if it's biblical
You know, that's the right way to seek counsel.
So in a multitude of counselors, there's safety.
Another verse says the same thing, Proverbs 15-22.
Without counsel, purposes are disappointed.
But in the multitude of counselors, they are established.
Proverbs 19-20, hear counsel and receive instruction
that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
There are many devices in a man's heart.
Nevertheless, the counsel of the Lord
that shall stand, right?
So people dream up all kinds of ideas,
but at the end of the day, the council of the Lord
is what stands.
Here's a good one from Proverbs, Proverbs 20, verse five.
Council in the heart of man is like deep water,
but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Okay, now what does that mean?
Council in the heart of man is like deep water.
Well, here's the deep water, sounds like good water to me.
Because if you think about some of these bottled water brands, don't they brag about, like, how deep in the earth their water is coming from?
And the reason why is because the way that the water cycle works and you know
I was wondering about this my whole life because everybody kind of told me my whole life
Oh, the rain falls out of the sky and then you know also the snow and then the snow melts and then you know
All these rivers running out of the mountains. That's all snow melt and I thought to myself
I don't think there's that much snow up there because you have these giant raging rivers and there just can't be that much snow
to feed all these rivers, something else going on.
So I learned more about how the water cycle actually works.
Now I actually understand it, it's really fascinating.
But what it is, is that when the rain comes down,
sure, some of the rain runs along the surface,
and sure, some of the snow, you know,
the snow is stacking up on the surface and melting off.
But you know where a lot of the water goes,
it goes into the earth, right?
So when it rains, a huge,
Quantity of that water is actually percolating down into the earth and as it goes down through the earth
It gets cleaner and cleaner as it goes deeper because when the water comes out of the sky, it's not really clean
You know drinking rain water is not really the best source of water
because it's acid rain and acid rain is not just about pollution or something
all rain is acidic even in the most pristine area
rain is just rain water is just acidic by nature
okay and what sorry for the science lesson I'll be done soon I promise hang in
there
somebody said that our new auditorium looks like a college lecture hall so I'm
just
I'm just going with that vibe but anyway so here's the thing
you know that acidic rain water comes out of the sky
Every single raindrop nucleates around dirt
Basically, you know in order for a raindrop to form there's got to be something for the water to kind of
Nucleate around and typically that's like dust or dirt. It's some kind of dirt
So rainwater is just inherently dirty and I remember when I was a kid collecting rainwater and it was always dirty
It never was like a crystal clear because I always just thought as a kid like ooh clean clear rain water
And then you put out a vessel and it's dirty. It's acidic. It's dirty
But here's what happens it goes into the earth and as it slowly percolates down into the earth
The earth is like a big filter
And it's filtering the water and here's how long it takes to get down to the water table.
It could take decades.
So the water is like percolating down for maybe even decades and it's getting cleaned
and it gets more alkaline and it gets rid of all that stuff.
And by the time it gets deep into the earth, now it's just this very clean, clear, fresh,
And then what happens is at points where the water table intersects with the surface of the earth like in a jagged mountain range or something, you have a spring.
And actually those rivers are mainly fed by underwater springs that are coming from those water tables under the earth.
And so if you're not in a mountainous region,
you have to dig a well, right?
And the Bible talks a lot about digging wells
and Bible characters are digging down into the earth
and they're getting down to that water table
where that water is.
And here's the thing,
obviously it's a lot of hard work to dig a deep well,
but if you think about it, the deeper the well,
you know, it's gonna be a purer water
because it's gone through the filter longer.
Okay, and maybe I'm oversimplifying, but I think I have the spirit of God and so I'm not far from the kingdom of God with what I'm saying
Okay, so the bottom line is that deep water
It's good water. It's clean water. It's been cleansed through that filter of the earth
And so that deep water you got to work hard to get it
You got to dig that deep well and then even once the well is there, you know
You got to really pull that bucket up for a really long distance
But you know if you're smart though, you will get it counsel in the heart of a man's like deep water
But a man of understanding will draw it out. Here's what that means
It means that sometimes the people who give you the best advice sometimes the smartest and wisest people
Aren't necessarily coming to you with the advice you have to go to them and draw it out of them
And maybe they're even reluctant to even give you advice
And you have to be like, please tell me the truth here.
They're like, you can't handle the truth.
No, seriously, please tell me, I can handle it.
Give it to me straight, doc.
You know, and so that's the idea here.
Counseling the heart of man is like deep water.
But a man of understanding will draw it out. You know, you'll you'll you'll go and seek out those good counselors and teachers
and wise men and women and ask their advice and
Listen to what they have to say. See the fool is just wise in his own eyes and I don't need anybody to tell me what to do
The wise man is going to other people and saying hey, I need you to teach me, you know
And, you know, I often like to use, you know, a weightlifting example because just because
it's so relatable to, like, five people in the auditorium.
But, like, you know.
I remember, you know, just lifting weights over the years
and seeking out people that knew more about it than I did,
that were better at it than I was,
and, you know, training with those people,
and it takes a little bit of humility to admit
that, hey, I don't really know what I'm doing,
or I need help in this area,
and being willing to listen to someone
who knows more about those things.
So, versus,
The fool just kind of goes into the gym
Loads up a bunch of weight just kind of does some real like ego lifting and ends up getting hurt
Because he's not he's not thinking about proper form
He's not listening to people's advice and he's just kind of putting on a show instead of actually wanting to learn and grow and
improve
Proverbs 20 verse 18 says every purpose is established by counsel
and with good advice, make war.
Proverbs 21.30, there's no wisdom,
nor understanding, nor counsel against the Lord.
Right, that's the final test for all counsel.
If it goes against the Lord, it's garbage.
Proverbs 24.6, for by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war,
and in a multitude of counselors, there is safety.
Proverbs 27.9, Ointment and Perfume Rejoice the heart so that the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
And so, counsel is important in our lives, it keeps us safe, it helps us make good decisions,
we can get ideas from other people, bounce things off of other people, and it should never go against the Word of God.
Now, here's the thing, there are some bad counselors in our lives that need to be avoided.
And unfortunately, sometimes these bad counselors can even be relatives or family members or people that are close to us.
Look what the Bible says in 2 Chronicles 22 verse 3.
It says, he also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
Now, you know, God forbid right that that your mother would be your counselor to do wickedly because in a perfect world
Of course parents would be giving their children
Godly advice godly instruction now listen when you're a child you have to obey your parents
You need to live with your parents obey your parents
Respect your parents honor your father and mother, but when it comes to obeying your parents
We ought to obey God rather than men and so you should not obey your parents if they're specifically telling you to sin
Okay, so even though we get up and preach hard about obeying your parents as we should
Obviously there is this one caveat if your parents are telling you to murder
Steel commit fornication
You know might seem crazy that your parents would tell you to do that
But you know you kids that are growing up in a Christian home
You should thank God every day that you're growing up in a Christian home
And then you don't have parents telling you to do those things because guess what there are parents telling their children to fornicate
There are children that are being told by the parents to steal or even murder and do you know
There are all kinds of horrible things going on in this world. Thank God every day you live in America
Thank God every day that you live in a Christian home
Quit whining and complaining about your problems because there are a lot of people out there that have it a lot worse than you and I do
But you know what there can be these situations where a parent is a wicked counselor well
Here's the thing you should whenever you're in that situation
We're an authority figure is telling you to sin what you should always try to do is try to find a way
To make both God and your authority figure happy try to find a way to keep both happy
If your boss at work is trying to tell you to do something sinful you try to find a way to make both happy
That's the best way to go not necessarily just you ungodly wicked wretch, you know, I'm not gonna do that dishonest
You know, that's a good way to just get fired
And so a lot of times, if your boss is telling you to do something ungodly,
you try to find a workaround, you try to find a solution,
you try to find a way to make both God and your boss happy.
But at the end of the day, sometimes you're in an impasse
and one of them is not going to be happy.
Well, you know what? It better be your boss that isn't happy.
You got to do what God says.
And it's the same thing with your husband, right?
If your husband is telling you to do something ungodly,
you find a way to try to make both God and your husband happy.
But you know what? At the end of the day,
If you have to choose between obeying God and obeying your husband, you've got to obey God.
If you have to choose between obeying a parent and obeying God, you obey God.
Because the Bible says that we should all be subject unto the higher powers.
The highest power is God.
Okay, then other earthly authorities rank in below that.
Okay?
And so we want to always make sure that we go with the highest ranking authority and God is the ultimate authority.
But if you're in that situation where you're growing up in an ungodly home, then yeah, you ought to obey God rather than men.
But at the same time, you know, you got to respect and obey and be at peace with your parents while you're at home.
But once you grow up and become an adult and you leave father and mother and you cleave unto your wife and you two are one flesh,
you know what, if parents or in-laws
are giving ungodly advice at that point?
You know what?
Do not harken unto that ungodly counsel
just because it's mom or just because it's dad
or just because it's grandma or grandpa.
At the end of the day,
this guy's downfall is that his mother
was his counselor to do wickedly.
So sometimes bad advice bad counsel can even come from a family member come from aunts uncles siblings
even parents God forbid and
We got to watch out for that just because people are our family doesn't mean that they're good counselors for us necessarily
It says, wherefore he did evil on the side of the Lord, verse 4, like the house of Ahab,
for they were his counselors after the death of his father to his destruction.
So here you could have a situation where maybe you have two parents and one of your parents
is pulling you in a godly direction, the other one's giving you bad advice.
Maybe your parents are divorced, maybe they're together, either way, sometimes maybe one's
one's giving you bad advice. Sometimes bad advice can even come from
family and at the end of the day our ultimate loyalty is to the word of God
what the Bible says. Let me give you some examples of bad advice.
You know when people are telling you to leave your spouse that's bad advice
and I see this coming from mothers
a lot right especially parents that are divorced
and let's face it a lot of people are divorced okay
And you know, if you're divorced tonight,
I'm not chastising you, I'm not down on you,
because obviously that's just the world that we live in.
It's the reality of your life.
Your past is the past and doesn't matter.
We're just forgetting the things to our behind
and reaching forth under those things to our before.
You're married now, stay faithful now,
stay till death do us part now.
That's all you can do is look forward.
But here's the thing is that you know when you got so many divorced people out there
I've noticed that misery loves company and divorced people really want you to get divorced too
Just like Eve really wanted Adam to take a bite of that fruit just like she did and so you got all these people out there
That will counsel you to leave your spouse to counsel you to leave your husband counsel you to leave your wife
I have seen so many marriages fall apart in my short lifetime
Thankfully, it hasn't happened a lot in our church,
but there have been people who came to our church
who ended up getting divorced,
one person left the other or whatever,
but more in kind of just my greater orbit
of just people that I know across the country
that I've gone to soul winning and preaching events with
and people at sister churches and old IFB churches
and just people that I've known in my greater orbit
that have gotten divorced and there is a very
common theme when you see a wife leaving her husband
where her parents are cheerleading her leaving her husband.
Or some divorcee mother is cheerleading the daughter,
or the dad is cheerleading the daughter,
or it could go the other way as well.
Cheerleading the son to discard his wife.
And I'm telling you, it's wicked and it's everywhere.
And I'm telling you that a lot of these divorces would not
happen without that cheerleading from parents.
And what I really want to get across to you tonight
is just how powerful counsel is, OK?
Counsel can be extremely powerful.
And here's an example where counsel makes or breaks this guy.
Whether he's listening to dad or mom or other family members who he's listening to is everything
Counsel is everything. Okay. Now. Here's the way this works
Let's say you have someone
Who has it in their head that they're gonna do something?
Contrary to the word of God, but they want to get advice
They want other people to kind of rubber stamp that they want other people to sort of approve that or make them feel better about it
Let's say you have a person and they really want to do something that's unbiblical, that's wrong, that's sinful
and they go to someone that they think is going to agree with them, that they think is going to bolster them,
that they think is going to say, oh yeah, girl, you are too good for him and drop that zero and get you a hero, whatever.
You know, that they think that that person is going to back them up
on their bad decision.
Oh yeah, you should definitely do that.
Yeah, you're justified to leave your wife.
Oh, your wife is such a monster.
You just need to leave your wife
because you can do better and blah, blah, blah,
this kind of garbage, okay?
If you have a person who has it in their head
that they're gonna do something sinful and ungodly
and they go to someone that they think is gonna back them up
and then that person tells them,
no, you're wrong, you need to stay married.
You're the one who's out to lunch here. You're the one who's wrong. That's powerful and
You know what? I've seen this go that way
I've seen situations where you have people that are ready to do wrong
But then as soon as an outsider tells them hey, this is what the Bible says you're totally wrong
You need to straighten up and fly right and then it's like catastrophes averted
But then the opposite is also true.
When someone goes and complains about their spouse
and then the person is bolstering them
and oh, that's so horrible and oh,
you deserve so much better
and then you're being mistreated or whatever,
then it can cause that person to go off the cliff.
even if maybe they weren't really that serious about doing it,
that ungodly counsel can really pull people down a dark path
and the good counsel can really talk people off the ledge
and I've seen counsel be so, you know,
I mean I want to give like specific examples but I don't want to
talk about people's personal business, I don't want to talk about other people's
personal business,
I don't want to talk about my own personal business, but at the end of the day
where one counselor either makes or breaks a situation.
By either giving a righteous counsel or an ungodly counsel. So when people come to you for advice
This is a big responsibility and woe unto you if you give unbiblical
ungodly advice because of whatever your little ulterior motive is whatever your stupid ideas are that you picked up in this world and
All your little I mean come on man. We all know right? No, we don't we all know what the Bible says
And if it's not biblical is wrong
There's no counsel against the Lord!
There's no counsel that contradicts the Word of God!
Well, some of us we've got to use common sense.
No, we need Bible sense!
Christian sense!
Today's so-called common sense is often just an amalgamation of what people have watched on TV
and listened to the radio their whole lives.
No, we need black and white, what saith the Lord, what saith the Scriptures.
That is what we need to base our lives on, folks.
And you know what?
If you're going to give people advice, you better make darn sure that it's coming straight
from the Word of God and that you're not contradicting the Bible.
And if you don't read the Bible, and if you don't know the Bible, and if you don't delight
in the Bible, and if you're not meditating in the Bible day and night, then you know
what?
You just tell people, hey, I'm probably not the best person to get advice from.
And then go slap yourself and go read your Bible.
Don't you just be doling out advice that you saw on Sally Jesse Raphael or Geraldo Rivera
or Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Phil, Dr. Spock, Dr. Kevorkian.
I don't know.
I don't know who you're listening to.
But the thing is that one person got that no
God bless you I see that hand, but the point is that you know
Counsel can make or break
people's lives
marriages
That are on the edge, and I'm telling you there are marriages that are like on the edge right and it's like they could go either way and
You could be that person that tips it in the right direction
or the wrong direction.
You know, I will bring up one situation.
There was a situation where the church
that I was going to, the pastor just had
some really bad, weak teachings on marriage.
You know, he never counts anybody get a divorce,
but he's always talking separation and blah, blah, blah.
All kinds of bull crap teachings on marriage,
and you know, he was one of these like submitting
to one another types, where he tries to apply that to marriage.
And so, you know what I'm talking about, right?
It's one of those.
But any who, you know, he gave someone in the church
advice about leaving her husband.
And I mean, she's sitting there and she's getting divorced.
They're drawing up the papers.
She's talking to the lawyer.
And I went to her and I said, you know what?
I said, listen, I said, you never hear me talk
against the church.
You never hear me talk against the pastor.
You never hear me contradicting the pastor.
I love our church.
I love our pastor, but I must say something right now
that what he is saying is wrong.
It is wrong, it is not biblical, it is not what the Bible says, and you must not listen to him.
I said, I think he's a great man of God, you know, but he's wrong because the Bible says.
And I said, look, you know, I don't go around criticizing the pastor.
I would never say this if it weren't urgent. Do not listen to him.
And they're still married to this day, decades later.
Okay, and you know what?
That pastor was just ready with his stupid advice
to just send him, and then he'll just throw up his hand
and say, oh, it's not my fault.
I didn't tell him to get divorced.
I just said separation and blah, blah, blah.
But divorce was what was happening.
The papers are already being drawn.
Because guess what?
Separation is the dress rehearsal for divorce.
Okay?
The trial separation is the dress rehearsal for getting divorced, and it's wrong
And so you know that I mean there are a lot more examples that I could think of just where I've seen it go the other way
You know bad counselor steps in
evil in-laws come in
divorces come in and push it the other way
It's a big responsibility to counsel people to give people advice
You want to make sure that you're giving right advice and you want to make sure that you're receiving the right advice
Now if you would flip over to Psalm a hundred and seven
Psalm a hundred and seven
And again, sadly sometimes it is family members that they could give us ungodly advice, especially if they're not Christians
if they don't even believe the Bible.
But here's the thing, even so-called Christians
can just give you super unbiblical advice
because they just don't care what the Bible says.
Even if they're so-called Christians,
even if they've been Christians their whole lives.
I mean, and you know what I've noticed
that kind of blows my mind
is that some people just never learn.
Because I would that wouldn't you think that like if you talk to somebody five years later
They'd be a little smarter than the last time you talked to them
I mean, I hope that when you talk to me five years from now. I'm a little smarter than I am now
I hope so. I hope it's not like man every time I talk to this guy. He just gets dumber
But what's funny is that you'll you'll talk to people and ten years went by
Twenty years went by and they've just learned nothing
What have you been doing for the last 20 years?
Like, because the rest of us are like learning stuff.
We're going to church, we're listening to sermons,
we're reading our Bibles, we're having life experiences,
we're making mistakes, we're learning from our mistakes.
And so, you know, you think that we're all kind of like
learning, growing, let me tell you something.
There are a lot of people in this world,
they are moving backwards, mentally and spiritually,
unfortunately, it's just true.
And you know, a certain person that shall remain,
Unnamed is a person that has been a constant source of bad advice in my life
and poisoned other people around me with his bad advice.
And it's funny, this person, back in the 1990s, in the year 1996,
was just a bleeding heart for homos.
Now here's the thing, being a bleeding heart for homos in 2025,
slap yourself. Okay?
They're vile, they're reprobate, they're wicked,
God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and that's an example to those that after
should live ungodly.
But you know at least in 2025 you have the excuse of the constant brainwashing
that's out there and a lot of people are sucked in by it and they didn't hear
good Bible preaching
because it was banned on all the social media and YouTube banned it and
everybody banned it
But, I mean, I'm talking about this individual in the year 1996, back when the fags were
in the closet.
This is the kind of stupid, idiotic advice that this person gave me.
He was working at a call center and there were a couple of sodomites at his call center.
Now back then you didn't necessarily know who the sodomites were because they're pretty much in the closet in those days
Where they belong
We don't want to see their garbage. We'd rather just go through our lives just never knowing or thinking about it
You know what we don't know can't hurt us
But this guy had a buddy that he worked with and he's friends with this guy and this guy wrote him a letter and
wrote him a letter and said hey, I just want you to know that you know
can tell that you really want to be my friend and I just want you to know that
you don't want to be friends with me because you're an evangelical Christian
and I'm a homo and so you're an evangelical Christian I'm a frickin
sodomite and so therefore you don't want to be my friend right so that this
faggot had a lot more sense than a lot of Christians
So he's just like, hey, I don't want you, you know, I'm just saying this friendship is not gonna work because you know
right
But what is what does this bozo say to me he he shows me the letter
And he shows me the letter and he says he says now here's here's what he's expecting me to do
He's expecting me to be disgusted by him
Yeah
He's expecting me to have nothing to do with him and because I'm a Christian
Obviously, I must not want to be friends with faggot
But he's like no, that's not what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna just show him the love of Christ
And I'm just gonna continue being his friend
And I'm just gonna be buddies with this faggot because I'm such a good little bleeding heart little liberal Christian
And that's what I'm gonna do and that's how you and that's how you should do Steven as well
This is how you should be as well
Okay
You know, and here's the thing, you know, I was like 15 or whatever and I didn't really know what the Bible said
I'm just gonna be honest with you. I had not read the Bible like I should have
I'd never read the Bible cover to cover and so I remember hearing this and I didn't I didn't really know what to think about it
I didn't necessarily know if it was right or if it was wrong
You know because when you're just a teenager and someone who's older than you that you kind of look up to gives you this kind of advice
You're kind of thinking like okay, maybe okay, you know
You just kind of like your default is to think that maybe that that's right. That's true, you know, okay, right?
Then this same person
Decides he's gonna take me because this guy not only worked at a call center, but he also cut hair on the side
And he decided that he thought it would be a good idea to take me to go get my hair cut by his faggot friend
in the year of 1996.
You know, so I went along with it and I went and got my hair cut by a freaking sodomite.
Because I'm just, part of it was just like a morbid curiosity because I'd never even seen one in the wild.
You know?
I'm just being honest so you know so I wouldn't got I wouldn't got the haircut and
I mean the guy just seemed like a totally normal guy because he's in the closet
You know and whatever so I went and got you know
I guess it must have been my most faggoty haircut, you know, I don't know
But anyway, you know so I wouldn't got my haircut by this guy
But it's like but then but looking back
What a bunch of evil rotten unbiblical garbage, but it all sounded so good at the time didn't it?
At the time, it sounded so good and so loving and so caring.
But looking back, it just makes you think, what kind of an idiot,
what kind of an idiot goes and takes a teenager
and just exposes them to some faggot on purpose,
brings them some impressionable teenager,
oh, you need to be friends with sodomites,
you need to go get your hair cut by a sodomite,
you need to love the queers.
Now, here's the thing.
That's how I thought in those days a little bit because of these influences you know then when I turned 16
I started reading my Bible cover to cover by the time I was 17
I was finishing my Bible cover to cover and I discovered Romans 1 and I kind of grabbed ahold of Romans 1 and
I got kind of excited about it
You know and my dad had already taught me the reprobate doctrine from Hebrews chapter 6
But then I found it in Romans 1 and I kind of connected the dots of the sodomites on the reprobates and the rest is history
Amen, and you know and I went around and I started evangelizing my whole family and all my friends and cousins and everybody
I was teaching everybody the reprobate doctrine as soon as I found it in Romans 1 and you know what but what if I hadn't read my Bible?
What if I would have just listened to him
and I'm just surrounded by sodomites
and there just could be a bad influence on me,
there could be an evil influence on me,
they would have been a corrupting influence on me,
they could have even done something to harm me or something.
Right? But you know what? This same fool, this same idiot who gave me that wicked advice
about like, oh, we got to just be so tolerant of homos and I got to be friends with this
homo at work and I got blah, blah, blah. And oh, I'm so loving and everything I got.
Here's the thing, the same idiot, fast forward 30 years, he still thinks the exact same way.
He's still saying the exact same things. It's just he's learned nothing.
And you know what? He just continues to give evil advice to members of my family, evil advice to everybody who talks to him because he's learned nothing.
And you know what? Oh, did that faggot ever get saved? Oh, nope!
Go ahead, pick yourself up off the floor. You thought that the homo was going to get saved, not...
You see what I'm saying?
So it's like, so what did he accomplish?
What did he accomplish by coddling his sodomite buddy
at work and exposing everybody in his life
to his little, look how, look how holy I am.
Look how loving I am.
I've got a sodomite friend in 1996.
What did he accomplish? I'll tell you what he accomplished. He didn't nobody got saved as a result
But you know what did happen is now the sodomites are out of the closet because guess what?
There's a million people just like him doing the same thing
And because you have a million people just like them in America doing the same thing,
Christians have now just totally just
bought into this tolerance of the Sodomite death style
and just bring them into our churches and just bring them into our families
and just bring them into our lives. When you know what? It used to be
ostracized and the Bible says that the Sodomites houses that were even near the
house of God
King Asa and King Josiah and people like that
are breaking down the houses of the Sodomites.
The Bible says they're vile, they're reprobate,
they're filthy, and you know what's funny
is that the Bible says God gave them over
to a reprobate mind.
God darkened their foolish hearts, the Bible says,
and he gave them up, he gave them over, he gave them up.
And then Christians come along and they're like,
well, I'm not gonna give them up.
How could God just stop and think about this for a second?
How could God require us to do something that he's not willing to do? Can you explain that to me?
Can you explain that to me?
So here's the thing. How could God require us to forgive someone that he won't forgive?
How could God require us to accept someone that he won't accept?
That wouldn't make any sense, would it?
Are you more loving, more forgiving, more tolerant than Jehovah God?
It's stupid. It's foolish.
But you know what? Thankfully, that bad influence in my life,
that bad counsel that I was getting, trying to get me to be a fag-loving idiot
and tolerate this filth, even in the 90s, okay?
Thankfully, it was overridden by meditating in the Word of God.
because otherwise, I would have been victim to that
and I would just be another lame, watered-down,
soft-soaked dishrag of a preacher.
But thankfully, I got into the Word of God
and I got some other better counselors in my life
that were a good influence on me
and that actually pulled me in the other direction
and that actually taught me the truth.
But you know what, that person has destroyed
other people's lives since with his bad counsel
and bad advice because he's a bleeding heart libtard.
And it's not biblical and at the end of the day his advice wasn't biblical then and it's not biblical now
That's the problem and this person fancies himself such a good Christian and he's so loving and kind
But let me tell you something. There's so much fake sloppy agape Christianity in this world. It's everywhere
It's a dime a dozen people with their little hippie-dippy, you know, kumbaya type of Christianity
It's it's everywhere
It's worthless. It's on sale right now.
Clearance. Everything must go.
Folks, we've got to go by the word of God. There's no Bible verse that said
coddle sodomites. There's nothing like that.
You know, the Bible has nothing but really
strongly negative things to say about those types of people.
and the Bible's clear that they're reprobating.
I need to do a whole sermon on the reprobate doctrine
because you just gotta keep ringing that bell
because it's so important that people get that.
But the Council of the Ungodly, folks,
it can come from relatives,
it can come from so-called Christians,
it can come from really nice people, really nice people,
and they're gonna tell you to rebel against your parents.
Bad advice.
When someone's telling you to rebel against your parents bad advice. Oh, let me tell you about another bad counselor
Growing up my uncle who later turned out to be a sodomite
my uncle Mike
Later turned out to be a sodomite. So we called him soda Mike is what we called him
But this guy, you know, he would he would give he would be a bad influence on us
He was always trying to get us to listen to the worst music
You know, I'd go to work with him and spend time with him and it's just always nine-inch nails or just some something really
Blasphemous something really perverted. It was always just the worst music
He'd always make a point to try to smoke pot around me and try to expose us to weird things one time
He took us hiking my uncle
Took his hiking in Northern, California, and we're hiking along. Sorry for the weird stories tonight, but
We're hiking along in Northern California takes us out in the middle. Nowhere hiking and
Next thing you know a guy comes hiking toward us on the trail stark naked with just a backpack
I'm saying just a backpack and
I'm like what the heck, you know, we just thought it was a fluke
Because sometimes when you get out in the middle of nowhere, especially California,
especially Northern California, out in the middle of nowhere,
there'll be some weird people out there just kind of freaks out there or whatever.
But then here's the thing, you know, another half hour goes by and there's more.
And here's another dude, just a backpack, okay?
And he's wearing the backpack on his back, okay?
And it's like, you know, and pretty soon it became apparent
to take us into some weird area
where he knew that we were gonna be exposed to these things
and see these things.
I don't know if it was some kind of a nude forest.
I've never even heard of such a thing before or since,
but he just thought it was funny to try to just expose
these kind of clean cut Christian kids
because he knew that we're growing up Baptist,
our parents are keeping us clean and safe
and we've never drunk or done drugs
or a fornicate or anything like that.
And so he just thinks it's funny
to kind of just play us the worst music.
take drugs in our presence,
show us weird hippies that are nude or whatever,
just to try to just get in our heads and corrupt us.
Let me tell you something,
there are people out there,
they're wicked and they want to corrupt you.
And this ungodly person, any time,
You complained about your mom and dad to uncle Mike, you know, of course
He's just going to jump in and just oh, yeah, your parents are way too strict
Your parents are totally that's what he would tell us your parents are too strict your parents are unreasonable
This is what you should be doing. Don't listen to church. I used to go to church. I used to do all that
I'm done with that. Here's why just just a bad influence bad advice bad counsel
And finally, you know, and this is before this before we knew he was a homo later
He turned out to be a homo then it all kind of made sense
Why is this hater of God and why he was always trying to be such a bad influence in our lives?
But here's the thing even before we knew that, you know, finally, I just realized I need to get away from this person
Because he's a bad influence
He's not bringing me closer to God
He's trying to pull me into sinful things and tell me he'd try to tell me a filthy story from his life
And you know just and I'm telling you
Everybody's gonna have people like that in your life
Like I'm not gonna ask for a raise of hands
Hey, who's got somebody like that that you could think of from your childhood or from junior high or from high school
Or from when you were in college or even right now
There are people out there like that these evil count and some of them are really out in the open like
Sodomite, you know where they're just they're clearly not a Christian and they just they want to corrupt you and it's obvious
Others are going to be more subtle
Because they're pretending to be a Christian
But it's like a bleeding heart, emotional driven type Christianity that's not consistent with the Word of God.
It doesn't follow what the Bible says.
And they're both going to tell you to rebel against your parents.
They're both going to tell you to leave your spouse.
They're both going to give you unbiblical advice.
And it's like the devil comes at you from both sides, the white magic and the black magic.
You know? And he comes at you from both sides and it's both wicked.
He's coming at you both ways to try to get you.
and give you that bad advice and be a bad influence.
I remember when I worked at Round Table Pizza,
people trying to corrupt me at Round Table Pizza.
I remember the guys literally raised money
and they came up with like $200 some dollars
and they approached me one night and said,
we will give you this stack of cash right now
if you come with us to the Gentleman's Club right now.
We will give you $200 some dollars.
I'm like, you know, that was a lot of money
for people that are making minimum wage at Round Table.
But they wanted me to go with them so bad. You know why? Because they knew that I was clean cut
They knew that I was a virgin. They knew that I went to church. They knew I didn't drink
They knew I didn't party and so they're begging me to go with them to the gentleman's club
Literally offering me two hundred some dollars to go to a gentleman's club
Just people that I worked with at round table and and and you know what's sad is that most of them were just
You know atheists agnostics or whatever some were even Catholic
And then what's funny is I witness to these same Catholics and tell them that salvation is a free gift and they'd say well
You can't just live however you want
You know two months later. They're trying to pay me to go to a strip club
Let me tell you something.
This world is filled with ungodly counselors.
It could be family, it could be friends,
it could be classmates, it could be work buddies.
You've got to have the word of God to anchor you.
That's the only way that I was able to navigate that thing
with these different influences coming at me.
Thank God my parents were a godly influence on me
the whole time.
My parents didn't ever try to pull me into ungodliness.
My parents were a godly influence.
The churches I went to were godly influences.
But you know what?
There were plenty of snakes creeping in
and trying to pull me aside and ruin me
and get me to do this, get me to do that,
expose me to this, expose me to that.
And I have a suspicion that your life's
probably the same way, you know?
And so you need this sermon to understand.
Do not listen to the counsel of the ungodly,
even if it's coming from someone
who claims to be a Christian.
I'm sorry, I'm still getting over this throat cough thing.
Psalm 117, this sermon's not over.
Psalm 117, I said, turn there, such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death being
Because they rebelled against the Word of God and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
Now, you might want to read this as condemned, but it's not condemned, notice a T there.
They condemned. And this is what it means, they had it in contempt.
Meaning that they did not properly respect it.
They didn't have it in its proper elevated place in their mind.
They thought, well, God's counsel just isn't really that important.
And so they ended up sitting in darkness, shadow of death,
being bound in affliction and iron,
because they rebelled against the words of God
and condemned the council the most high.
Therefore he brought down their heart with labor,
they fell down and there was none to help.
Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble
and he saved them out of their distresses.
Not listening to good, godly counsel from the word of God,
from men of God, from godly Christians,
is going to put you in a world of hurt and suffering that you could avoid if you'd listen
to good advice. Go to Proverbs chapter one. I'm almost done. Proverbs chapter one.
The counsel of the ungodly. Don't listen to it. Don't walk in it. How am I going to know?
You've got to meditate in the Word of God day and night. You've got to read your Bible.
If you read your Bible, you won't be fooled. If you don't know what the Bible says,
if you're not reading your Bible, you're going to be susceptible to stuff that sounds good.
Because you know what? These people that come at you, man, sometimes they sound good.
The lovey-dovey Christians that just want to tell you all this like soft
fake stuff that's against the Bible and hey follow your heart and
Leaving your husband's fine leaving your wife's fine rebelling as your parents is fine
You know cuz cuz they're bad and they're mean and they're abusive and all this dumb crap
You know at the end of the day that stuff can sound pretty good if you don't know the Bible
You can fall for it.
And you know what, even Sotomike was a pretty convincing guy in his arguments
when he would tell you the virtues of
his lifestyle and, you know, before we knew it was a homo.
You know, when he's, you know, telling you about all these fun things
and you know what, we thought that he was cool when we were kids.
You know he had the black converse all-stars with the pink on the inside back in the 80s the really ultra-high top and
Then kind of fold them down
So that the pink is on the outside
You know and he had like the surfboard and he had the Toyota van and he's blasting
Oingo boingo or whatever and it's just like you know he was just kind of the cool fun uncle
right? And you know what? You can you can fall for that and think like this guy's
living the fun life, this guy's cool, this guy you know, except if you know the
Word of God you're not gonna fall for it at all. You know the Bible you're gonna
be like no this is sin, this is wrong, this guy's way out to lunch. This guy's
not going to church, he's not faithful to his wife, he's drinking, he's taking
And you know what, as sure as I'm standing here preaching this, there are young people
in this room that are stupid enough that they're going to take drugs.
I bet you there's a young person right now listening to me, some idiot, some foolish
teenager that's going to go out of here and take drugs because they're a complete idiot.
You know, I was just talking to my dad this week and we were going through his spiritual history and his life
And I filmed an interview with him where we talked about who got to see that interview that I did with my dad
A lot of people saw it where you know
He was telling me all about his life and and his history and everything like that and
He was talking about he was constantly offered drugs in the 60s
Everybody was taking drugs everybody was obsessed with getting high in the 60s
And he was constantly being offered LSD.
And people were even huffing gasoline fumes to get high,
which is so dangerous, kills so many brain cells and can easily kill you.
And he was even talking about, he said,
he even knew people that were smoking banana peels to get high.
And guess what? Smoking banana peels don't get you high.
But they just, it was just an urban legend back then,
you couldn't really fact check things,
So one guy smoked it. He's like, oh man. Yeah, it's so amazing and then everybody starts smoking
Banana peels there's even a whole song about it
mellow yellow
Right, and you know what it was a hoax
But my dad said he had friends Huff and gasoline and
You know doing all this stuff and you know what these are and getting high
Doing acts of vandalism
You know do I think and I said I said well dad
I said why did you what what kept you from from taking drugs?
Why did you never try the drugs? Why did you never take the LSD?
I said is it just that you weren't stupid enough to try it is that what it was because you'd have to be a complete idiot
to try that stuff and
You know what you say well. I'm offended because I tried drugs. We know it if you've done drugs
I hope you realize that it's stupid now.
And you should be like, yes, amen, Pastor Anderson.
I was stupid to have done that,
and please yell about how stupid it is.
And if you're gonna sit there and be offended that I say,
hey, taking drugs makes you an idiot.
If you're like, oh, I'm offended because I took drugs,
well then you know what, it makes me think,
it makes me think you're probably still an idiot
and you're probably gonna take them again.
Because if you learned your lesson,
you'd be like, yeah, you're right, Pastor Anderson,
that is stupid.
That is idiotic.
And by the way, I do agree with what Alcoholics Anonymous says once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic,
once a drug addict, always a drug addict.
And you know what I mean by that?
And you know what they mean?
Because a lot of people misunderstand that and get offended by that.
But what it means is that you should know about yourself that you always have the potential to relapse.
And if you know that about yourself, then you will take precautions to never go down that road.
I'm a recovering alcoholic, then here's what you know is I can't be anywhere around alcohol.
I can't social drink. I can't drink one beer.
I can't just smoke one hit off the marijuana cigarette. Does everybody understand?
That's what alcoholic synonymous is saying with that, and they're right.
If you have abused alcohol and drugs in the past, you should run screaming in the other direction from that
so you can not get anywhere near it.
Just stay out of the bar completely
But to those that have not tried those things let me tell you something
Just remember that Pastor Anderson said you're an idiot and I hope that when you take your first hit on LSD or a
blunt
or whatever stupid crap you put in your body.
I hope you hear my voice in your head saying,
you're a stupid fool who should have known better
if you grew up at Faithful Word Baptist Church
and had a bunch of hard preaching,
and then you go out and take drugs.
You know what you deserve to happen to you?
If you listen to this kind of hard preaching
for your whole life at Faithful Word,
and then you go out and take drugs,
you deserve to be one of these people
out in the parking lot right now,
who's fried their brain and is walking around
talking to themselves because they're just permanently broken.
You know what?
When you've heard the hard preaching, when you've had the biblical doctrine poured into
you and you decide young people, teenagers, young adults to go flush it down the toilet
and giving in to the Council of the Ungodly
and listening to your friend,
oh come on man, marijuana is actually good for you.
Here's the Council of the Ungodly.
Marijuana makes you smarter.
Look at these musicians and how creative they get
when they smoke a little weed
and you know, this is gonna make you a better writer.
This is gonna make you better at guitar.
Are you stupid enough to believe that?
This is gonna open your mind, man.
Whole another dimension
Look at verse 24 of Proverbs 1 it says because I've called and you refused I stretched out my hand and no man regarded it
You said it not all my counsel and would none of my reproof. I also will laugh at your calamity
I will mock when your fear cometh you think I'm gonna you want to know who I feel bad for it
Let me tell you who I feel bad for
I feel bad for kids growing up in a Muslim home.
I feel bad for kids growing up in a Hindu home.
I feel bad for kids growing up in an atheist home.
I feel bad for kids growing up in a Buddhist home.
I feel bad for kids growing up in a Mormon home.
You know who I don't feel bad for?
I don't feel bad for independent fundamental Baptist children
who are too stupid to listen to the Word of God
being spoon fed to them so they go out
and listen to the counsel of the ungodly.
If you go ruin your life, I'm not going to feel bad for you at all.
You know who I feel bad for?
feel bad for the people who didn't know better. I feel bad for the people who
didn't have the privilege of growing up in a Christian home, who didn't have
parents who loved them. I feel bad for people not growing up in America and
being constantly inundated with the gospel and Christianity everywhere
we go and having a church like ours with the Bible. But you know what, when I've
called and you refused, God says, when I stretch out my hand and you don't
When I gave you counsel and advice, and you don't listen to my advice, and you know what?
This is what God is saying, but you know what? I could say the same thing.
Because you know what? I'm a man of God.
Because I'm an ambassador of Christ, because I'm speaking the word of God,
and I'm sitting here, I'm holding out my hand.
I'm giving you counsel, I'm giving you advice, and then you're going to listen to some POTHEAD!
You're going to listen to some derelict, drug addict, fool, give you fentanyl, and then I'm supposed to feel bad for you.
Look, I have a lot of sympathy for a lot of people, but it's not you.
I have a lot of sympathy for the people who are growing up without these teachings, without the Bible, without Jesus, without Jesus in their heart.
That's what I feel bad for.
Man, I feel bad for a billion Hindus.
You know, I feel bad for a billion and a half Muslims.
I feel bad for people who grow up with weird hippie parents, you know, telling them that
they might be a trainee.
That's what I feel bad for.
You know what I don't feel bad for?
Sniveling little punk teenage brats who grew up in a Christian home and piss on their parents
when they grow up.
That's who I don't feel bad for.
And you know what? Here's the thing. My parents are awesome parents, my parents are godly parents, and I'm nothing but thankful for my upbringing.
But you know a lot of people have the exact same upbringing, and look at those same type of parents, or even those exact same parents, and think like, oh my parents, even though you're in like the top 1% of the planet for parents.
Just your parents are saved
Just just knowing Jesus at a young age you have an amazing advantage
You better let you better listen
To the advice that the man of God is giving you that your parents are giving you that other brothers and sisters in Christ are giving you and
Not listen to the debauched
weirdo
nose ring
Freaks of this world
Liptard, metal, booger, pot smoking, LSD taking idiots, frying their brain, telling you how
to live your life.
But oh, their shoes are cool, the van's cool, the music's cool, don't be an idiot.
I'll laugh at your calamity.
I'll mock when your fear cometh.
When your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress
and anguish cometh upon you, then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer.
They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me, for that they hated knowledge and
did not choose the fear of the Lord.
They would none of my counsel.
They despised all my reproof.
Therefore, shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices."
You see, counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, and a man of understanding will
draw it out.
But then on the other hand, you have somebody serving up counsel for you on a silver platter
and saying, don't take steroids, and here's why.
And giving you all these good reasons not to take steroids.
Giving you all the biblical reasons not to gamble all the biblical reasons not to take drugs not to drink
Not to fornicate not to commit adultery. Here's why you don't get an abortion
Here's why you need to get married. Here's why you be faithful. Here's why you work hard at your job
Here's why you honor your parents and it's explained to you and it's explained to you and it's explained to you three hours a week
It's explained to you
You know and then pastor Anderson sick and then brother say Gora gets up and explains it to you
You know, and then you're in the soul winning bus and somebody's explaining it to you
And then your door-to-door soul winning in between doors somebody's explaining it to you
Listen to what?
God is saying in his word and through the people that God has put in your life because I'm telling you something
The devil is going to put people in your life to counsel you
I mean, I don't know, maybe I'm the only one.
Am I the only one?
Am I the only one who's got that uncle?
Am I the only one with these bad influences in my life
that were trying to get me to go down these dark paths
my whole life?
I must just be me.
I guess I'm just the only one that was offered pornography when I was 13 at the Christian school.
I guess it was just me.
I guess I'm the only one who was offered drugs, offered alcohol,
offered all these things and had to withstand all these temptations.
I guess it was just me.
No, I have a feeling that there's no temptation taking me but such as common demand.
And I'll bet you the devil is going to put...
And I guess maybe I'm focusing in on the young people today.
You know, maybe this is a good one for the teenagers.
And the children, let me tell you something,
teenagers and children,
the devil already has people ready to talk to you.
And you know what?
I don't know if the devil knew
that I was gonna be a preacher or anything.
I don't know.
I don't even think he even knew that.
I don't think the devil knows the future.
I don't think, I mean, God knew that I was gonna be a pastor,
but I don't think the devil necessarily knew that.
I don't even think the devil was even giving me special treatment.
I think the devil was probably just tempting me the way he's probably just going up and
down the ranks of every Christian kid in every fundamental Baptist church, in every evangelical
church and just putting these little demons in your life to try to get you hanging around
sodomites, try to get you drinking, try to get you partying, trying to get you to go
over to the dark side.
think and it's from being in the Word of God. Because thankfully I read the Bible
cover to cover and I saw through it and then thankfully God blessed me with
allowing me to get into a really hard preaching church at age 17. So at age 17
a lot of my stupid liberal ideas that I had in my head they got preached out of
me in a leather lung fundamental Baptist church. I'm out of time but
I just want to leave you with this one last verse.
The thoughts of the righteous are right,
but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
There's some bad counsel, deceptive, lying counsel out there.
Don't fall for it.
Test everything with the word of God.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for your word.
And Lord God, we pray that you just guide us, Lord.
And to those good counselors, Lord, help us to listen to Godly men and women in our lives that actually
back things up with the Word of God.
Lord, when these evil influences come and they inevitably will,
help us to just get away from them and just
to realize them for what they are, these little shoulder devils,
Trying to get us off the right path Lord help us to just really saturate our minds in the word of God so that we don't go astray and
Lord thank you so much for salvation and
Thank you so much for your unspeakable gift of eternal life through Christ and it's in Christ's name. We pray amen
Amen take your hymnals, please go to hymn number 315 number 315
take my life and let it be hymn number 315 send us out together and be a
smith tonight hymn number 315 take my life and let it be consecrated Lord to
the hymn number 315 sing it out together now
take my life and let it be consecrated more
Man, good thing tonight we are dismissed.