started this evening if you would in a seat first song is number 377 rescue the
perishing number 377 7 7 rescue the perishing we'll sing there starting on
the first rescue the parent the father we thank you again for another
opportunity to gather together freely to sing praises in your name I pray that
you would just open all of our ears to the message that you've laid on pastor
Oz heart this evening you would also be with us for the song service and just
incline your ear as we sing praises unto you and that everything would be done
decently and in order these things we pray in Jesus name amen all right for
our next him turn if you would to number 409 409 the fight is on him number 409
409 we'll sing there right on the first the fire
time we're to go raise your hand and see our Bible memory passage of the week
Hebrews 6 verse 16 we're getting close to the end here so keep up the good work
on that and you'll see our updated contact information is on the front of
the bulletin so make sure you save that info in your phone the website just went
live about an hour hour and a half ago if you haven't seen it yet I wouldn't
even be mad if you pulled out your phone right now and looked at it I'm really
really excited about it and a big thank you to all the developers that are
brothers in Christ that helped with this project and they're not just you know a
charity case like oh you know we got brothers helping us like these are
actually really great developers and they made an awesome website and it
looks great right now but it's not even done there's gonna be some more things
done to it so thank you to all those men that helped you know who you are I
appreciate it on the inside is our service times listed Sunday morning at
1030 Sunday evening at 430 and our Wednesday evening Bible study of course
at 7 o'clock tonight our soul winning times are listed there please make note
of the soul winning time in gold that's our Saturday rally where we have a short
sermon and a song before we go out and preach the gospel it's a great time to
join us for some soul winning on Saturdays nursing home ministry is
scheduled there if you partake in that ministry make note of those times please
on the bottom you'll see our year-to-date stats and of course this is
including when we were Steadfast Baptist Church as well in the calendar year 2025
it'll be all anchor but we're just combining stats for the bulletin for this
and you can see November's been a great month we had 28 salvations just this
weekend so it's been a great month of soul winning keep up the great work on
that and our email address is listed there to report those totals please be
in prayer for Miss Whitney Reed our expecting lady for the church for her
pregnancy upcoming events December 9th we're gonna meet here at the building at
630 p.m. for Christmas caroling December 20th is gonna be the ladies Christmas
party December 21st is a soul-wanting rally just with a Christmas theme get
some food and coffee and we'll go out and preach around Christmas time the
gospel and December 31st is our New Year's Eve party which I wanted to
confirm what day the week that fell on yeah so that that falls on a Tuesday so
what we're gonna do is we're gonna have that Tuesday be our midweek service for
that week so don't come here on Wednesday because Tuesday is gonna be our
midweek service we're gonna have a normal service just like usual with music and
everything but the preaching for this service is going to be a men's preaching
night there's a sign-up sheet in the back really looking forward to hearing
the men preach so that's gonna be our midweek service for that week and then
of course after the preaching we're gonna have food catered and have a time
of fellowship and games and fun there is a QR code there if you'd like to give
online to our church and on the back is our prayer list please make note of
those requests and if you have any requests you can email our church I made
the emails easy to remember as possible abckjb1611@gmail.com pretty simple so
they unfortunately didn't just have abc@gmail.com that was taken already I
guess I tried to find the most simple one that wasn't taken so alright let's
go ahead and go to the Lord in prayer as a church dear Lord thank you for this
new church anchor Baptist Church I pray that this church would be a place where
people can come and hear the truth of God's Word we preached where they can
come and develop great friendships with godly people that love you and that love
each other that also this would be a great church that's a powerhouse of
preaching the gospel in this community and help us to continue this vision for
the duration of this church Lord and we also want to pray for our members that
have prayer requests and our friends that have prayer requests that you
answer these according to your will we pray for brother Moses who recently came
here from Germany fleeing persecution pray that you just bless his life and
that you just bless him for the great stand for Christ that he's taken that
you just help him to find work to be able to provide for himself Lord that
you just bless the works of his hands we also pray for brother James Perry that
his back would be healed that he would get the care that he needs to heal Lord
and we also pray for brother Cameron's mom Barbara that she would have a
heart soft to the gospel and also that you heal her body cancer we pray for
brother Alex Lee who's been looking for work we just pray that his interviews go
well that he finds favor in the eyes of his employer and you and that you just
give him the right opportunity that he needs to be able to provide but also to
serve you Lord and we pray for miss Sean for her co-worker Terry that her cancer
would be healed and miss Remy that her tumor would also be healed Lord we also
pray for those in our church whose family members are not saved that you just
please soften their hearts to the gospel and that they especially around the
holiday season would think about Christ think about the Bible that they would
just get a good opportunity to hear the gospel this holiday season Lord I also
pray during this week during Thanksgiving and all the festivities going
on that you keep our members safe especially with a lot of drunk drivers at
this time and that you just bless our church this weekend we love you and you
see me pray amen that's gonna be it for announcements this time we'll go ahead
and go to our third song alright if you will get your white handouts and turn to
holy holy holy in your white handouts holy holy holy we'll sing there starting
on the first
spring plates are being packed turn if you would to 1st Samuel chapter 15 for
Samuel chapter number 15 evening tonight we're in 1st Samuel 15 the Bible reads
Samuel also said unto Saul the Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his
people over Israel now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the
words of the Lord thus saith the Lord of hosts I remember that which Amalek did
to Israel how he laid wait for him in the way when he came up from Egypt now
go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not
but slay both man and woman infant and suckling ox and sheep camel and ass and
Saul gathered the people together and numbered them and see lime 200,000 foot
men and 10,000 men of Judah and Saul came to a city of Amalek and laid wait
in the valley and Saul said unto the Kenites go depart get you down from among
the Amalekites lest I destroy you with them for you showed kindness to all the
children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt so the Kenites departed from
among the Amalekites and Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou
cometh cometh unto sure that is over against Egypt and he took Agag the king
of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge
of the sword but Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep
and of the oxen and of the fatlings and of the lambs and all that was good and
would not utterly destroy them but everything that was vile and refuse that
they destroyed utterly. Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel saying it
repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king for he has turned back from
following me and hath not performed my commandments and it grieved Samuel and
he cried unto the Lord all night and when Samuel arose early to meet Saul in
the morning it was told Samuel saying Saul came to Carmel and behold he set
him up a place and has gone about and passed on and gone down to Gilgal and
Samuel came to Saul and Saul said unto him blessed be thou of the Lord I have
performed the commandment of the Lord and Samuel said what meaneth this what
meaneth then this bleeding of the sheep in mine ears and the lowing of the oxen
which I hear and Saul said they have brought them from the Amalekites for the
people spared the best of the sheep of the oxen to sacrifice unto the Lord thy
God and the rest we have utterly destroyed then Samuel said unto Saul
stay and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night and he said
unto him say on and Samuel said when thou was little in thine own sight thou
was not made was thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel and the Lord
anointed thee king over Israel and the Lord sent thee on a journey and said go
and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites and fight against them until
they be consumed wherefore then distal not obey the voice of the Lord but this
fly upon the spoil and it's evil in the sight of the Lord and Saul said unto
Samuel yea I have obeyed the voice of the Lord and have gone the way which the
Lord sent me and have brought a gag the king of Amalek and have utterly destroyed
the Amalekites but the people took up this but the people took up the spoil
and sheep and oxen the chief of the things which should have been utterly
destroyed to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal and Samuel said hath the
Lord as great delight and burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying
the voice of the Lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken
than the fat of rams for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness
is as iniquity and idolatry because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord he
hath also rejected thee from being king and Saul said unto Samuel I have sinned
for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and thy words because I
feared the people and obeyed their voice now therefore I pray thee pardon my sin
and turn again with me that I may worship the Lord and Samuel said unto
Saul I will not return with thee for thou hast rejected the word of the Lord
and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel and as Samuel
turned about to go away he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle and at rent
and Samuel said unto him the Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee
this day and hath given it to a neighbor of thine that is better than thou and
also the strength of Israel will not lie nor repent for he is not a man that he
should repent then he said I have not sinned excuse me then he said I have
sinned yet honor me now I pray thee before the elders of my people and before
Israel and turn again with me that I may worship the Lord thy God so Samuel
turned again after Saul and Saul worshiped the Lord then said Samuel bring
ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites and Agag came unto him delicately and
Agag said surely the bitterness of death has passed and Samuel said as thy sword
hath made women and women childless so shall thy mother be childless among
women and Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal then Samuel
went to Ramah to worship and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul and
Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death nevertheless Samuel
mourned for Saul and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel
that's better as for word of prayer by the God we thank you for our new church
thank you about the church man all right well we are in first Samuel chapter number 15 this
evening let's start reading in verse number one the Bible says Samuel also
said unto Saul the Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people
over Israel now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord
thus sayeth the Lord of hosts I remember that which Amalek did to Israel how he
laid wait for him in the way when he came up from Egypt if you would turn to
Exodus chapter number 17 we start off this chapter with Samuel speaking to Saul
and he's saying look God chose you and so since God chose you it's time for you
to listen it's time for you to hearken to the voice of the Lord of course this
is something that Saul has shown to have a serious problem with being someone
that's presumptuous and kind of just does his own thing Samuel saying listen
I want you to pay attention to the instructions I'm gonna give you then he
brings up this group the Amalekites and God says to through Samuel to Saul that
he remembers what the Amalekites did and the first thing that jumped out at me in
this chapter is the fact that while we're saved God doesn't remember our
sin God forgets about our sin he's forgiven us of our sin the scary thing
for the unsaved is that God remembers every sin of the unsaved God remembers
the transgressions of the wicked and he here we are in the book of first Samuel
and God is bringing up something that happened way in the past in history he's
saying I still remember what the Amalekites did now let's look at what they
did in Exodus chapter 17 this is what God is talking about here in verse
number eight the Bible says then came Amalek and fought with Israel in
Rephidim and Moses said unto Joshua choose us out men and go out fight with
Amalek tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my
hand so Joshua did as Moses had said to him and fought with Amalek and Moses
Aaron and her went up to the top of the hill and it came to pass when Moses
held up his hand that Israel prevailed and when he let down his hand Amalek
prevailed so when they were having this battle it was kind of a back-and-forth
where the children of Israel were winning the Amalekites were winning
the children of Israel winning going back and forth there's a lot of death happening
on both sides then it says in verse 12 but Moses's hands were heavy and they
took a stone and put it under him and he sat there on and Aaron and her stayed
up his hands the one on the one side and the other on the other side and his
hands were steady until the going down of the Sun and Joshua discomforted
Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword and verse 14 is interesting
and the Lord said unto Moses write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it
in the ears of Joshua for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from
under heaven God is saying because of this because of the fact that the
Amalekites are fighting against the children of Israel for no reason they're
attacking God's people God says I am gonna make sure that I wipe these people
off the face of the earth he's saying I'm gonna wipe out the remembrance of
them from under heaven in fact why don't you just go ahead and write this down in
the Bible because I'm gonna wipe them out so hard that you won't even know who
they are if it wasn't for the Bible telling you can anyone go to Amalek
today no Amalek is destroyed the Amalekites have been destroyed by God yet
here we are all the way you know this story is an exodus right here we are in
first Samuel and God's saying I remember what the Amalekites did you know that's
a scary thing to think about because the unsaved like I mentioned when God
looks at us he doesn't remember our sin he's forgiven us of our sin but he will
always remember the sins of the wicked that are unsaved and he will hold them
accountable for their sin go to Hebrews chapter number 10 Hebrews chapter
number 10 and you know I'm sure as Christians we often take for granted
the fact that our sins are forgiven that God doesn't even remember them but you
know that's not the case for the rest of this world Hebrews chapter 10 verse 16
says this this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days say
at the Lord I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I
write them notice verse 17 and their sins and iniquities will I remember no
more you know this is a good proof text that you don't have to be sinlessly
perfect to get to heaven because our sins still exist it's just that God
doesn't remember them anymore you know you're not gonna have to stand before
God as someone who's been saved someone who has had all of their sins wiped away
By the blood of Christ and say well God let me explain this sin and let me tell you about this and he's gonna be like
What sins I've already forgotten all of them. Jesus Christ is our advocate. He's our mediator and God the Father has
Completely struck it from the record, you know, there's there's a book and he's saying hey, there's nothing in here your records clean
He's forgotten about our sins but go to Jude and I want to show you that this is not the case for the ungodly
This is not the case for the wicked. Hey, this is not the case for the Amalekites. Here we are
Large period of time later and he's saying I still remember what they did
You know, you think that God would have just forgotten or have just let it go by then but here's the thing
God is all-knowing all-powerful and he doesn't just forget things. He's not gonna just let things go
No, he's got a punish sin Jude verse 14 says this and Enoch also the seventh from Adam
prophesied of these saying behold the Lord cometh with
10,000 of his saints to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly
Among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches
Which ungodly sinners have not have spoken against him
You know if someone's unsaved in this room or or listening to this or just the reality of unsaved people in this world
Is that God is not going to forget about you
It's not like you're just gonna slip through the cracks and God's gonna forget about your sin
No, Jude was prophesying about this thousands of years ago that God is coming to execute judgment upon
All and the truth is the Bible says for all have sinned and comes short of the glory of God
And you know what the reality of hell is something that is on the table for all of mankind
And it's something that all people have to deal with by deciding whether or not they're going to believe the gospel
Because God is not gonna just forget your sins
Unless you have the blood of the lamb plied to your life. Good Matthew chapter number 12 Matthew chapter number 12
We're gonna see Jesus talking about the things that God is going to remember someday in the judgment verse 31 of Matthew 12
Jesus said wherefore I say unto you all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men
But the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men and whosoever speaketh the word against the Son of man
It shall be forgiven him, but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost
It shall not be forgiven him neither in this world neither in the world to come either make the tree good and his fruit good
Or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt for the tree is known by his fruit
Oh generation of vipers. How can ye being evil speak good things?
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
Speaketh a good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure
Bringeth forth evil things, but I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak
They shall give account thereof in the day of judgment for by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words
Thou shalt be condemned so get the picture here on one side
You have Hebrews 10 telling you that those that are saved God is not going to remember your sins
God's not even going to remember your iniquities. It's all forgiven
It's as if it never even happened to begin with then on the complete other
Extreme is the unsaved where God says that they will give account for every
Idle word that is spoken see God to the unsaved to the wicked
he's not gonna forget that one time that they blew off their mouth and
Blaspheme the name of the Lord God's not gonna forget every single instance that they had an impure thought every single time that they disobeyed
Authority every single time that they didn't honor their father or mother
You could just keep going down the list of all the commandments that people have broken
God is not going to forget a single instance of breaking his law. That's how harsh he is on the unsaved
That's why they go to hell. Oh, God's not harsh. Excuse me the unsaved spent eternity burning in hell
Yes, God is harsh, but God's righteous because those people deserve it
Why because they've broken God's commandments. So have we we deserve it as well, but that's why salvation is by grace
No one deserves salvation. We all deserve that harshness from God
But thank God God has given us mercy by us trusting in his son Jesus Christ
And so now God does not remember our sins go back if you would to 1st Samuel 15
So just seemingly out of nowhere. He's saying hey, I still remember Amalek
I still remember what they did now
He's gonna give some instruction on what he wants Saul to do verse 3 God speaking through Samuel
the Bible says now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and
Spare them not but slay both man and woman
infant and suckling ox and sheep camel and
Ass sounds like God's really serious, you know, he remembers what they did and he's so angry about it
He says I want you like I said in Exodus 17 to wipe their memory from off the face of the earth
He is saying completely
Extinguish these people all their possessions the the women the ox
Everything infant and suckling. I mean, this is not the normal mo for Israel going to battle
This is something that's way above the normal threshold. He's saying I want you to completely kill
Everything God remembered their sin and now God is ready to avenge stay there or actually go ahead and go to Romans 13
While you're turning there, I'll read real quick Romans 12 9
The Bible says dearly beloved avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath for it is written vengeance is mine
I will repay saith the Lord, you know
I'm sure that Moses and Joshua were upset at the fact that the battle kept going back and forth and that they were losing a lot
Of men presumably and I'm sure at times that they were just really upset and wanted to go and take vengeance back on the Amalekites
And wipe them off the face of the earth
But it really wasn't the time for that God wanted to wait until he told Saul to do that
And I think one of the things that this could teach us is that we need to wait in life
For God to avenge us because here's the thing God hasn't forgotten about the things that the wicked have done to us
God has not forgotten about all the hard sayings that ungodly sinners have spoken against our former pastor pastor Shelley and said fast
Baptist Church God heard every idle word of the protests God heard every idle word of the railers and the false
Accusations and the lying news media. He remembers all that and someday he will recompense that because guess what?
Those reprobates are unsaved and they're gonna split hell wide open
But you know sometimes we could have the temptation when we see the wicked like the Amalekites in our life
Attacking us hurting God's people we can say man. I want to take them out myself
I want to take care of this issue right now when really what we don't realize is that in the future
There's gonna be a Saul that God tells to go destroy those people in the future
There's gonna be a drunk driver that runs over a pride parade in the future
There's gonna be some Muslim go shoot up a pride
You know faggot bar, whatever God is going to bring vengeance and we shouldn't be the ones that go and take it upon ourselves
To take vengeance for our own behalf now
Here's the thing you say well, it seems like they're taking vengeance cuz God's you know
There's men here that are told to go wipe these people out
But here's what you have to understand is that God uses men to execute his wrath
Oftentimes you see God judge people sometimes in the Bible where he just supernaturally judges them, right?
Korah Dathan in a Byram hell literally just opens up and he just sends those sinners straight into hell
That's of God then there's other times where God tells men to execute judgment
Now this is one of the purposes of government now
I know today Americans think that government is there to tell you what mask to wear
How many booster shots you should have if you can or can't homeschool your children how much money you owe them?
But that's actually not why government was created
Look at one of the reasons why government was created in Romans 13 3 it says for rulers are not a terror to good works
But to the evil by the way
That's how you know if you have a bad government if government is being a terror to good people to the righteous
That's how you know you have a wicked government, but they are supposed to be a terror to the evil
The evil should be terrified of government the wicked should be terrified of law enforcement's
If law enforcement officials and the court of law the wicked should be scared of those people it says will thou not then be?
Afraid of the power God's given them power do that
Which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same for he is the minister of God to thee for good
But if thou do that which is evil be afraid for he beareth not the sword in vain
for he is the minister of God noticed a
Avenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil the Bible talks about this minister who is basically an official of
Human government who does not bear the sword in vain now
What do you use a sword for for utterly destroying people just like the Amalekites were supposed to be utterly destroyed
That's what you use a sword for and the Bible saying here
Hey righteous government doesn't bear the sword in vain their sword isn't just something pretty that they hang up on the wall
no, they're supposed to use that thing against the ungodly against the wicked evildoers why a
Revenger to execute wrath upon him that do it evil
You see God gave us laws in the Bible that merit the death penalty and God expects
Someone on this earth to carry that out now. It's not us. It's not individuals. It's not the family
It's not the church its human government. And so God says hey thou shalt not kill
He talks about hey, if you shed man's blood then your blood needs to be shed
He's not talking about some random guy going out and just killing someone because that person's a murderer
He's saying the minister of God that bears the sword not in vain
That's the guy that should go execute that person
And of course today we have a good system if it was followed property properly where you're charged with a crime
You're arrested. You're supposed to get a speedy trial of your peers
It's supposed to be an impartial trial you're supposed to have the presumption of innocence and that your presumption of innocence remains
Valid until there is beyond reasonable doubt of your guilt jury has to convict you and then you are
Sentenced by a judge of what the judgment is going to be there's nothing wrong with that system that systems great
But here's the thing that should happen is that the government that bears the sword not in vain should look at someone
That's committed adultery and say oh look Leviticus 21st 10 says that this person should be put to death and they should put that
Person to death why because that's what the sword is for and it's not for us to take vengeance on ourselves
You know, we should wait for the proper authorities to take vengeance for us. And here's the thing
Yeah, we're living in a time where our government doesn't follow a lot of the laws of the Bible
But you know, they do still follow some and some punishment against evildoers is better than none, right?
You know, I would rather someone who is a serial killer at least be locked up in a cage for the rest of their life
Then nothing to happen to them now
Obviously, I would rather them get put to death like the Bible says but my point is don't go avenging yourself on the wicked on the
Amalekites of this world, you know
There is proper authority proper channels for God to take care of things and God will take vengeance
Sometimes that is through man go to Deuteronomy chapter number eight
Jude or Deuteronomy 18 Deuteronomy 18 now the question is why is God?
Telling Saul to wipe out this whole nation the men the women the infants the sucklings the ox the ass
I mean, this is a gruesome description that we're reading here
And if you're not aware of other scriptures in the Bible
You might think you know
Is God kind of kind of going overboard here and a lot of people would look at this story and blaspheme the Lord and call
Them all sorts of wicked names for this story, but I want to explain to you
Why God is giving this severe of a punishment to the Amalekites Deuteronomy 18 9
Look what it says when thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee thou shall not learn to do after the
Abominations of those nations so he's saying hey when you come into the promised land which of course that was after Moses
Don't do the abominations of the people living there here. We are in first Samuel. They've already gone into the land, right?
They're in Israel. So the nations that are around them
We could safely assume are the ones that it's talking about here because they're in the land verse 10
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter
to pass through the fire or that useth divination or an observer of times or an
Enchanter or a witch or a charmer or a consultor with familiar spirits or a wizard or a
Psychomancer for all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord notice this next phrase and because of these
Abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out before thee thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God for these nations
Which thou shalt possess
Harkened unto observers of times and unto diviners, but as for thee the Lord thy God have not suffered thee to do so
So notice God is saying because of all these things this is why I'm driving out these nations from before you
Because they are a people full of witches full of
Necromancers people trying to communicate with the dead people that pass their children through the fire. These are barbarians
These are the lowest human beings people that would give their children up to the fire to sacrifice their children
People that are charmers consult with familiar spirits wizards. I mean, these are extremely wicked people
This is not your average unsaved guy that we knock on their door and they're living a good they're living a pretty good life
They're going to work. They're taking care of their family. They're just unsaved and mix up on the gospel
That's not who the Amalekites are the Amalekites are people that you may have never even met in your entire life
That's how wicked they are people that are extremely evil go to Leviticus chapter 18 Leviticus chapter 18
Let's see. What else these people were like so we see so far their witches necromancers
Consulting with familiar spirits giving up their children to the fire
Look at Leviticus 18 21 the Bible says and thou shalt not
Let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech. We see that again. Neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God
I am the Lord thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is an abomination
So what are these people sodomites neither shalt thou lie down with any beast to defile thyself there with neither
Shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down there - it is confusion
You know, sometimes I read this I think wow God actually had to tell people this stuff
Why because people were doing this look what it says in verse number 24
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things notice for in all
These the nations are defiled which I cast out before you
Did you read that the reason God is casting out the nations before the children of Israel is because they were all
Defiled in these things passing their children to the fire men with men
Women with beasts. That's how sick and disgusting these people are. Can you start to see maybe why God would say?
Hey, why don't we just nuke this whole country?
Why don't we just wipe these people off the face of the earth since all their children are being molested by sodomites anyways?
And are living a disgusting life being tormented being abused even their animals are being to be abused
Why don't we go ahead and just kill all the oxes and asses too while we're at it
Since these poor animals are being abused by these sick Amalekites look at verse 25 and the land is defiled
Therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it and the land itself itself vomited out her inhabitants
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments and shall not commit any of these abominations
Neither any of your own nation nor any stranger that sojourneth among you for all these
Abominations have the men of the land done which were before you and the land is
Defiled that the land spew not you out. Also when you defile it as it spewed out the nations that were before you
You know
So we're starting to get a picture why God would be so harsh with the Amalekites and in God's judgment
Which let me remind you is better than my opinion is better than your opinion
You know his ways are higher than our ways. We have the flesh. We have a sinful mind
We don't understand things as good as God does and God looked down from heaven and saw a bunch of sodomites
Saw a bunch of beast of files saw a bunch of witches and said you know
What these people aren't even fit to breathe air
These people are not even fit to be alive to even be around your nation. Why because people like this
Corrupt the world they corrupt the world and you know the truth is we all corrupt things to a certain extent because of our sins
But you know, there's a difference between sins that are natural that are common to man a man lusting after another woman
It's wrong. It's a wrong thing to do. There's no excuse for it
But you know, there's a big difference between that and a man that would be with a child and a woman that would stand before
A beast these are on completely opposite sides of the spectrum
They're not even in the same universe and someone that is that demented
Here's what you gotta understand about people that are guilty of these type of sins is that they will do anything
They will do things that your mind can not even fathom
Unless someone opened up the criminal record and said here's what this person did because you know
If we didn't know about people like Jeffrey Dahmer
We wouldn't even be able to think about how someone could lure someone into your apartment
Drug them up and then chop up their body and eat them
That's what that sick sodomite Jeffrey Dahmer did you know?
These are things that we can't even comprehend because we're normal people but guess what God knows everything and he says look the Amalekites
You just need to kill their women their children their asses their oxy all of them need to die
That was God's righteous judgment and you know today we have people that want to love the Amalekites today
We have people say oh just give counseling to the Amalekite. Look, let me tell you something. This is gross
But let me just say it a woman that would stand before a beast
There's nothing you could do to fix that person that person needs to be put down like a dog
Because quite frankly the dog is better than her and a man that same thing for him and a sodomite same thing for him and a
Pedophile same thing for him
it's why Jesus said that it's better for someone that offends a child to just go ahead and have a
Millstone tied around their neck and it'd be dropped into the sea. It's better for that to happen than to offend one of these children
and so God sees God knows the future God knows what the world would look like if
Nations like the Amalekites were just continued to allow to continue to live and thrive and how much damage that they would cause to
People's life and God actually in his love and in his mercy
Says these people have to go and what you have to understand is that people call God hateful
But on the other side of the coin whenever you see the hatred of God is the love of God there, too
As well because you know what? Yeah, God does hate the pedophile
God does hate the sodomite God does hate the beast of file
But you know what he loves the child that was gonna be abused by that person
He loves the innocent victim that was gonna be harmed that was gonna be drug that was gonna be murdered by that innocent person
And so God is actually protecting the innocent by telling Saul
To wipe these people out go back to first Samuel 15 first Samuel chapter 15
God remembers what the wicked did and he's not gonna show them mercy
He wants them destroyed verse 3 now go and smite Amal Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not
but slay both man and woman infant and suckling ox and
Sheep camel and ass and Saul gathered the people together and numbered them until I Eem
100,000 footmen and 10,000 men of Judah and Saul came to a city of Amalek and laid wait in the valley and
Saul said unto the Kenites, so this is a different group go depart get you down from among the Amalekites
Lest I destroy you with them for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt
So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites
So notice God isn't just on a bloodbath campaign here where he just wants to kill everyone
No, because when the Kenites showed up they were not someone that was like the Amalekites
They were actually just innocent bystanders. And so Saul warns them and says hey get out of the way
We're coming to take care of these people get out of the way lest you get destroyed with the Amalekites
And so we see on one hand God remembers what the wicked did and he's ready to pay them back
God also remembers the kindness and the good that the Kenites did to the children of Israel and he's showing mercy on them
it makes me think about how Jesus talks about how if someone just gives us a
Glass of cold water in the name of a disciple. He will in no wise lose his reward, right?
So while God sees every sin every idol word and he's gonna hold people account to that
He also sees every good thing that is done and he remembers that and takes that into account
When he's making decisions as the Lord of the universe
So he looks down and he sees these Kenites and he kind of puts it in the heart of Saul here to warn those people
Why because these aren't the beasts of piles. These aren't the sodomites
these are actual just innocent bystanders verse 7 in Saul smote the Amalekites from Havila until thou comest to sure that is over against
Egypt and he took a gag the king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword
but
Saul and the people spared a gag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings and the lambs
And all that was good it would not utterly destroy them
But everything that was vile and refuse that they destroyed utterly. So here we see once again Saul
Disobeying God because God made it very clear. I want to wipe out the remembrance of these people from the earth
I want woman child
Suckling ass ox. I want you to destroy everything and while he mostly obeys God, you know what?
He said I'm gonna keep a gag. I'm gonna keep their king. Not only am I gonna keep their king
I'll destroy the things that are vile and refuse
But I'm gonna keep the things that are good. I'm gonna keep things that are nice
I'm gonna keep the things that have monetary value and Saul once again, he's the leader, but you know what?
He's not following God. He's just on his own
Program and you have to realize that in life God has given us very
Detailed instructions and he expects us to follow them exactly as he said and when you obey God
90% of the time, you know what?
You could still incur the wrath of God on your life and God could still look down from you and be angry at you
For partial obedience because partial obedience is disobedience if he says kill them all the answer is did he do that?
Yes, or no. No, he did not he could sit there and protest saying well, I killed most of them
Well, I I mostly obeyed you Lord, but you know what? Let's see how God feels about it verse 10
Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel saying it repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king
He's saying I regret this for he has turned back from following me and have not performed
My commandments and it grieved Samuel and he cried unto the Lord all night
Notice in God's eyes, you know, we might read this story and we might see a guy who said who we say
Yeah, he partially obeyed. Yeah, he followed God to a certain extent
But the way God sees it is he says hey this person has stopped following me
This person has stopped obeying me and have not performed my commandments
You I might look at this or Saul might look at this and say oh I've performed your commandments 90% of the way
No, God says you have not performed my commandments. No, he says you're not following me
whatsoever first Samuel chapter 15 look at verse 9 again, it says but Saul and the people spared a gag
And the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings and the lambs and all that was good
It would not utterly destroy them, but everything that was vile and refuse that he utterly destroyed
Why is it that Saul did not fully obey God for the same reason that a lot of Christians and a lot of Christian leaders?
Do not fully obey God you want to know what it is. It's the love of money
That's what it is because Saul was told to completely wipe everything out
But notice all the things that were good the fatlings the lambs and he would not utterly destroy those things only the things that were
vile and
Refused refuse he looked at the people God told him to destroy and he says, okay, this is bad. This is vile
This is gross. Yeah, we could destroy this. Oh, but no look at the assets that this guy has look at all the cattle
This guy has look at this fat link. I'm gonna keep those things
He looked at things that had monetary value and he refused to destroy them. He refused obey God
Why because he had some sort of love of material goods in his heart go to Romans chapter 1 Romans 1 while you're turning there
I'll read first Timothy 6 10 the Bible says for the love of money is the root of all
Evil which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many
Sorrows, you know made me think about this today and not just today through a long time in this country
Our country has had a serious problem with the Amalekites. They're called the sodomites today
The Amalekites in our nation is the LGBTQ
2759 or whatever you want to call them
That's the Amalekites today in our country and you know what God has given us very clear
Passages in the Bible of how he feels about it what he did to them and he tells us in the New Testament
Hey everything that I told you in the Old Testament about them is still an example unto you today of how
I feel but there's a lot of Saul pastors that they see hey God's told me to destroy them
But you know what they do they spare they spare and they won't do it
You want to know why the same reason Saul did it they love money. They want to have a big building
They want to have the nice programs. They want to have the prestige and they don't want to piss people off
That's what they don't want to do. They don't want to do the rough nasty job of
Explaining to people that sodomites are a bunch of pedophiles that hate God that molest children
you know what they'd rather do they'd rather get up on Sunday and put a weird smile on their face and
Talk smoothly and softly to them and tell them every Sunday about the love of God the love of God the love of God
Okay, what about the love of God when God told Saul to kill men women children babies?
Oxes and asses we need to talk about that love of God
Oh, yeah, you don't want to because you love money and the Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil
Now where's our clear instruction?
Where did God clearly tell us how he feels about it Romans 1 verse 24 the Bible says wherefore God also gave them up
To uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves
Who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature?
More than the Creator who is blessed forever amen for this cause God gave them up unto vile affections
Just like the vile things we read about in Leviticus for even their women did change the natural use into that
Which is against nature and likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burn in 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
I'm not gonna break down everything in this chapter tonight. It's outside of the scope of this sermon
We'll do that sometime
But the one thing I just want you to realize about this chapter is that it is crystal clear that we're talking about
Sodomites here, right women have left the natural use they perverted nature and men are now with men doing that
Which is unseemly we're obviously talking about sodomites here now notice what it says
Verse 28 and even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge. Oh, they'll get saved the Amalekites will get saved
Let's pray for the Amalekites to get saved. Let's preach the gospel to the Amalekites
They don't even want to retain God in their knowledge. They don't want to think about God
They want to do anything but think about God God gave them over to a reprobate mind means rejected
God has rejected these people just like he rejected the Amalekites. Where was the message of hope for the Amalekites?
Where was where was Saul going up to them and saying yay 40 days and Amalek shall be overthrown and then they get right with God
And repent no, no, no, it was kill them all because they're reprobate
They're rejected to do those things which are not convenient being filled now
The Bible is gonna tell us what they're like with all unrighteousness
Remember I said things we can't even think up of just everything that's possibly of sin is what they're filled with fornication
That's obvious the most perverted form of fornication wickedness. Yep covetousness
Yep, they got nothing else to live for but this world
maliciousness full of envy murder debate deceit
malignity
whisperers back biters haters of God
despiteful proud right pride month boasters
inventors of evil things they sit around and think about ways to harm
disobedient to parents without understanding
covenant breakers without natural affection
implacable
Unmerciful who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things notice are worthy of death
Not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them. Hey, you know to the pastors out there
I missed the part in this chapter
I missed the part in this description where it says worthy of going to church
Oh filled with desire to change their life where in the Bible
Do you see any group of people that's given such a long list of adjectives to describe how wicked they are
This is but this is the list right here where God is just taking so much time to explain to us
How terrible sodomites are how wicked they are where in this passage do you see bring them to church?
Where in this passage you see let them be around your children where in this passage
Do you see go over to your gay uncle's house for Thanksgiving and hang out with him and let him talk to your kids
Hey, where do you see spend Christmas with the faggot family members?
No, you just see warning after warning after warning telling you how bad they are and at the end God says
Oh, they're worthy of preaching the gospel. Is that what he says? They're worthy of loving them to Christ changing their ways
No, he says they're just like the Amalekites. They're worthy of death now
Did I just make this up or is this just the Bible tonight yet? How many pastors will never preach this chapter?
Oh, they'll preach the first part about how we're not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation
Oh, amen. Amen from faith to faith and amen to those things. That's great
But you know what there's a lot more in that chapter that God gave us and there is major
problems happening in our country because of Saul pastors that want to spare a gag and guess what it's making everyone else gag to
By you sparing a gag, you know who wants to go to church with a flaming faggot next to you
And you know, we live in Oklahoma praise God where I almost never see these people
Maybe it's just because I was protested for so long that I was just used to seeing hordes of faggots every week of my life
So now it just feels like they don't exist. I know they exist here
Of course they do but you know
I it's like even if they're not everywhere in your peripheral and you're not just thinking about them all the time which thank God
I'm not I hope you're not you know what this is still in the Bible for a reason and I'm not just preaching this because oh
I just love to preach against the sodomites. I mean what other application can you make?
I mean, what's the group of people today that God's not gonna show any mercy to that God has no love for that
God wants completely destroyed its faggots. Those are the people today
Those are the Amalekites today and you know what America would be a better place if our rulers
Opened up Leviticus verse 2013 and said hey, let's start executing this law. Let's start implementing this law and I'm not saying hey
Let's not take vengeance, right? Let's allow God to avenge us. We're never going to
Advocate violence against any sodomite. I don't recommend anyone goes out and does anything to them
I think you should just stay as far away from them as humanly possible
But what I do think is that the government should be rounding these people up
I think that the government should be putting them to trial that the government should lawfully be putting them to death
Because that actually is the loving thing to do for our country and guess what I'm not Saul
So I don't care of the financial consequences of preaching this truth because I actually love people and actually victims
And you know what it's just a shame today
How our country went from being a godly nation went from being a place where?
Homo's were so afraid to exist in the United States of America that they used to be in the closet
Some of you young kids have never experienced a time where sodomites were in the closet
You know, there's other places in this world where sodomites are still in the closet. It's called Russia
They are in the closet in Russia because you know that if you fly an LGBT flag in Russia or you promote any type of
LGBT propaganda in Russia that that is a crime in the nation of Russia. Did you know that the state?
Sponsored news media of Russia got up on their government phone it funded program. This is like NPR
This is like PBS and they said we will pay for one-way flights to United States for all sodomites. It's just like done
It's like this is great. This is wonderful. And obviously Russia is not some beacon of the gospel
I get that but at least they don't want these freaks in their nation
And what a shame it is that we're the trash can for faggots Russia's like hey
Where do we put all of our sodomites? Let's just pay for a flight to America. Let's just send them to Miami
Let's send them to San Francisco. Let's send them to Dallas, Texas
Yeah, there's a lot there. Wow. What a shame go back to first Samuel 15
You know what? I think that God is angry at pastors like Saul today like God was angry at Saul
He says look this guy's gone back from following me. This guy's not obeying my commandments
I think that's how God feels today about pastors that won't preach about this issue
Verse 12 and when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning
It was told Samuel saying Saul came to Carmel and behold he set him up a place and has gone about and passed on and
Gone down to Gilgal Samuel came to Saul and Saul said unto him blessed be thou of the Lord
I have performed the commandment of the Lord
Notice the self deception of Saul here and no one even asked him. He just comes up and he says hey
I just want to let you know blessed be be the Lord. Of course. Let me start with that
Let me get my spiritual talk going here. So I'll let you know that I have obeyed God
Okay, if someone came up to me saying that I would immediately have a lot of questions. Why are you saying this?
Hey, I just want to let you know I've done really good today. I have obeyed God. I've not sinned at all
It's like this is weird
But this is how deceived Saul is in his mind and this is and this is kind of what pastors do
This is exactly what they do today. They say well I preached that it's not a delights some lifestyle
I've obeyed the commandment of the Lord. I said that sodomites need to repent of their sins to get saved
It's like hold on idiot. When did the Bible ever say being a sodomite is a sin. Guess what?
It never says that never says that. Oh, let me let me take a bold stand right here
This church will always preach that being homosexual is a sin
Hey idiot, the Bible says that they should be put to death
The Bible brings up in Leviticus 18 how their abomination and they should be put to death Leviticus 20
Their abomination and they should be put to death Romans one. They're worthy of death. Okay, Jude
Hey, remember when I killed all the sodomites in Sodom and Gomorrah. Yeah, this is an example of how I feel about it today death
Where where is the oh they're sinners though. No, you haven't obeyed the word of the Lord
Creature by getting up and saying well
I've obeyed God's commandments because I said that it's not a good lifestyle
The Bible doesn't care about their lifestyle
The Bible cares about their life the Bible cares about them being alive because they're hurting other individuals
God expects his men to actually faithfully preach what God told them to preach not just oh, yeah
I've obeyed God. I said it wasn't good. We don't hey, we don't have any pride flags up here in June
Like this is the stance of Baptists today. Oh, yeah, the Methodists. They've got flags on their church, but here
We're not flying an LGBT flag. Guess what? That's not a stand idiot. You're being Saul. You're being stupid
You're being disobedient verse 14 and Samuel said what meaneth in this bleeding of the sheep in mine ears and the lowing of?
The ox in which I hear hey, it's really obvious to tell that Saul didn't obey because God said kill everything and he's hearing
It's like Samuel's like what is this all? Oh, you obeyed God then. Why am I hearing these animals?
It's like oh old IFB you obeyed God then why am I hearing about children being abused in your church?
Why am I hearing about Cameron Juvenile the faggot being moved from one Baptist Church to another?
After being exposed as a faggot, why am I hearing about that?
Hey, the bleeding of the sheep in mine ears is proof that you have not obeyed God stay there
I'll read for you first Timothy four or five twenty four says some men sins are open beforehand
Going before to judgment and some men they follow after hey
Some sins are very obvious and in the open and it's very obvious when sodomites are in church that the pastor has not obeyed
The voice of the Lord. It's very obvious when Israel flag is in church that the pastor is not reading his Bible that doesn't understand
Zionism doesn't understand replacement theology and in your life and in my life
I'm sure that there are sins that are open beforehand that people could just look at us and say like yeah
This person has that problem and you know when when you start to hear the bleeding of the sheep in your life
You should say like hey, maybe this is a sign that I'm actually not obeying God
Maybe I actually need to make a change here
Maybe this is a clear obvious sign that there's something wrong in my life and actually fix it and not have this self-deluded
Mentality of Saul saying oh, I've obeyed the voice of the Lord look at verse 15
Says in verse 15 and Saul said they have brought them from the Amalekites
So he blames other people for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice
Unto the Lord thy God and the rest we have utterly destroyed
So what does Saul do once again?
He gives a spiritual excuse for a sin and I'm gonna keep hammering the same application about these pastors that won't preach against
The LGBT sodomites because they do the exact same thing. They give a spiritual reason. Well, we just want them to be saved
Well, we just want to love on them and explain to them the love of Jesus
But it's like guess what it doesn't matter what you want because God rejected them whether you like that or not doesn't really matter
God gave them over to a reprobate mind. And so if there's nothing God could do for them
There's nothing that we could do for them
The only thing that's gonna happen by inviting sodomites into your church is that they are going to harm people in your church
And you know, it's just a shame how bad pastors have become today where the higher link is
Like the guy that sees the wolf and fleas, right?
But yet pastors today are worse than hirelings because they're not just seeing wolves come into their church and just running away from the problem
They're actually inviting the wolves into their church. Like that's how bad of a shepherd that they are
I mean, could you imagine if you got hired to watch over a flock?
I used to live in Idaho and there's a lot of wolves there and the wolves will go in and they will kill an entire
Flock of sheep in one night. They won't even eat the sheep
Like they'll just tear them to shreds and just kill them all let's say an Idaho farmer
Okay hires you to protect his flock and you set up in your camouflage. You've got your AR 15
You're ready to go, but you decide you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna pull out a predator call
You know what a predator call is it's a call that sounds like a dying animal with the goal of having wolves come to you
So that you could shoot and kill them. It's really fun. Okay, but you're like
All right, I've been paid by this by this guy to take care of his sheep. I know what I'll do
I'm just gonna call the predators here. Hey, you could come to this flock. I'll love you. We'll invite you
Hey, go play with the sheep would go play with sheep. You don't watch the sheep. In fact, I'm out of here
You wolves have got this right? That's what pastors are doing today
They're not just so stupid or lazy that they just fall asleep when they're supposed to be watching or something like that
they're literally just getting out the predator call and just
Crying out to the world come to my flock come hurt the children here
Let me tell you something this block is not up for sodomites to prey on because this church has a no sodomite policy
No one who is involved in any unnatural sin is ever welcome at anchor
Baptist Church is ever welcome at any activity of anchor Baptist Church
And you know I expect if one of those freaks try to come to this church for the ushers to immediately call the police and
To lawfully remove that person as a trespasser. This is not an argument with them
It's not a conversation that they're gonna have no they're not allowed period end of story. What if the laws?
I don't care. I care what the Bible says verse number
16 says then Samuel said unto Saul stay and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night and he
Said unto him say on and Samuel said when thou wast little in thine own sight
was thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel and
The Lord anointed the king over Israel and the Lord sent thee on a journey and said go and utterly destroy
The sinners the Amalekites and fight against them until they be consumed
Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord?
But didst fly upon the spoil and didst evil in the sight of the Lord and you know, it cannot be stated enough
It cannot be said often enough how dangerous the sin of pride is in our lives when God is saying look when you were little
In your own sight everything was great
God had Saul
Planned to use him as a great leader and a great king and we've seen a lot of chapters in this book
Where we just focused on the great leadership qualities of Saul and what a good man
He was I want to know why God was using him is because he was little in his own sight
He didn't look at himself as being someone special or great or wonderful
But now he's this guy that thinks hey, you know, I know God told me to do this
But I just think that we should spare a gag
I just think that we should spare all the nice things from Amalek and God's saying, you know
Hey, I'm upset at you because of this because you're no longer little in your own sight verse 20
And Saul said unto Samuel yay, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord and have gone the way which the Lord sent me
They have brought a gag the king of Amalek and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites
No, you didn't Saul and here's the thing about people that are prideful
It's it's it's one of those annoying sins to deal with because people that are prideful are completely blind to their issues
Pride is a blinding sin and people that struggle the most with pride
They don't even know that they're prideful oftentimes that's the scary thing about it that we have to really ask God to search our hearts
And pray and look at the scriptures and examine our actions to objectively decide whether or not we're being prideful
Because if you're just up to left to decide am I prideful you're pretty much always gonna think no
But the truth is you look at God's commandments and you say God told you to do this
But you just thought it was totally fine to not do that. You're prideful
Oh, you know, I know the Bible tells me to obey my husband, but you got to understand my husband's an idiot
My husband makes the wrong decisions. You're prideful. Oh, yeah
I know the Bible tells me to listen to my boss at work to be subject to him to not work for him with just eye
Service but to be fervent in spirit with him
But what you got to understand is that I'm I'm better than my boss cry and the reason you disobey him is because you think
You're better than him and here Saul thinks he's better than God
Saul thinks his way is better than God and again, this is like a lot of pastors today where they don't say
This is the final authority the King James Bible is the final authority
They say whatever my opinion is is the final authority and when the Bible doesn't jive with what they say
Oh, don't worry in the Greek. It actually says to spare a gag and all the nice things that's and that's how they get around God's commandments
Oh, I know that the Bible says to kill all of them
But what you gotta understand is you don't speak Greek and if you go back to the Greek it actually says whatever I think
Because I'm better than God. That's the Saul mentality
Look at verse number 21
It says but the people took of the spoil sheep and oxen the chief of the things that should have been utterly destroyed to sacrifice
Unto the Lord thy God and you see what he does
He blames the people yet
We saw the narrator of the Bible said that Saul and the people spared a gag Saul and the people
Spared all the things that were nice and good yet. He wants to be a weak leader here and just blame his followers
And this is what this is what pastors will do too. It's like hey pastor. Why aren't you preaching against the LGBT?
Why aren't you preaching what the Bible says they may not say this with their mouth?
But this is the reason because of the people because the people will get mad because the people will leave my church
Because the people will stop giving me money and so they decide to make a political decision to not preach the truth
Because of the people they'll blame the people for their own sin or it's like hey husband. Why aren't you going to church?
Why aren't you leading your family? Why'd you stop soul winning? Why'd you stop being free to thrive? Oh, you gotta understand my wife
Wake leader you saw all of a leader you oh, why'd you spare? Well cuz the people did it. No, you're just weak
No, you're just a coward. No, you're just a hypocrite
No, you need to just gird up your loins like a man and just say yeah, you know what?
I need to get back in church. Yeah, I need to tell my wife. Let's go soul winning. Yeah
I need to tell my children
Let's serve the Lord and not just blame your followers
Verse 22 and Samuel said have the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying
The voice of the Lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams
People make up all these stories in their mind and they think well, you know, I'm making this big sacrifice of doing all this work
But here's the thing if you're sacrificing something, but you're not obeying God God doesn't have any pleasure in that
You know, you got people all over this world in false religion that will give their life savings to a false church
You got people in Mexico that will literally beat themselves
And I know someone who witnessed his mother as a child in Mexico wake up in the morning and get one of those things and just
Start beating herself bloody. That's a great sacrifice
But guess what God's not pleased with that because God never told you to do that
And so it's like oh, well, I wanted to you know, make this big sacrifice of all these great things
That's why I spared a gag. That's why I spared the good things. But guess what God doesn't care about that
He cares about you obeying his voice, right?
So it's like what would God rather a preacher not preach against the sodomites not preach anything controversial
Ignore the spicy passages of the Bible so that he could build some big building
Some big ministry and have all this money and and the pastor's thing is mine. Oh Lord, look at all this money that I'm using for you
But hold on would God rather actually a preacher or a pastor to maybe not have all this great things
He could sacrifice but actually to obey the voice of the Lord
You know, I don't think John the Baptist had that much money yet. He was the greatest man born among women
Where was John the Baptist supporting a hundred missionaries to whatever country when did John the Baptist do that?
When did John the Baptist donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to anything like that?
Not saying there's anything wrong with that stuff if God has blessed you to do that great
but I'm just saying God doesn't want us to disobey his commandments and
Refrain from preaching the whole counsel of God at the expense of building something big having a bunch of money having a great program
You know what if we have to be John the Baptist in the wilderness ministries, but preach the whole Bible
That's the church
I want to go to go to verse 23 while I read Romans 13 10 the Bible says love worketh no ill to his neighbor
Therefore love is the fulfilling of the law pastor. You say you love God
Well loving God is fulfilling the law Christian
You say I love God of his fulfilling the law love is obeying the commandments verse 23 says
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry
Because that was rejected the word of the Lord. He have also rejected thee from being king
You know God looks down from heaven
He sees a stubborn Christian a stubborn preacher and he thinks in his mind this guy's acting like an idolater
This rebellious person is acting like an idolater
You know God looks down from heaven at a wife that rebels against her husband
You know, he thinks this woman's acting like a witch
That's literally what the Bible says that should not be us and notice what he says because you rejected the word of the Lord
He has he has also rejected thee from being king rebellion leads to replacement
rebellion leads to
Replacement as a leader as a country
I mean think about the Jews themselves Christ came did they submit to him and accept him as Lord and Savior?
Nope, they rejected him and they were replaced
Saul rebelled against God and he was replaced verse 24 and Saul said unto Samuel I have sinned
So finally it gets through a little bit to him for I've transgressed the commandment of the Lord and my words
Because you're the people and obeyed their voice now
Therefore I pray thee pardon my sin and turn again with me that I may worship the Lord and Samuel said unto Saul
I will not return with thee for thou has rejected the word of the Lord and the Lord hath
Rejected thee from being king over Israel. Saul says hey, I've sinned. Will God please forgive me
Will you just turn again with me so that I could worship God and you know what Samuel's answer was no
That's and think about it because in the scope of salvation
Saul is saved and we'll come to that later in this book to explain why Saul is saved
But I believe firmly that Saul is saved so God has forgiven his sins from a salvific standpoint
But when it comes to restoring him as king that ship has sailed God is done with him and once someone has become a
Proverbial Saul once someone has rejected the God and God is there's there's no helping that person restore
There's things in your life that you could do then of course, you know, you could never lose your salvation
But there's sins that you could commit there's actions that you could perform in this life to where once you do them though
You're sorry though. You repent though. You ask for forgiveness. There's gonna be irreversible consequences for those things
You know what comes to mind is things like adultery, you know, oftentimes someone commits adultery
What should their spouse do and when the other spouse commits adultery, they should forgive them
That's what should happen
But the reality of life sometimes is a lot more messy than that
Sometimes you commit adultery on your spouse and your spouse divorces you and leaves you and it's never repaired ever again
It's the right thing to do. I'm just telling you that those things happen, right?
Hey, you could be really you could go out and drink on New Year's Eve
You can go out and drive down the road and you could go kill someone
Being a drunk driver and you could wake up the next day in your vomit feeling really sorry for yourself
You could be praying to God and asking him to forgive you and if you're saved
He does he does still love you and he has forgiven your sins, but you know what that person ain't coming back that person's dead
There's nothing you could do to fix that the Bible says he that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed
And that without remedy once you get to this stage that Saul's gotten to there's no fixing. It's all you're done being king, right?
And it's kind of like pastors that that do really grievous sins
Passers that are found out to be committing adultery
Passers that are found out to be you know, going out and gambling at casinos and hiring prostitutes. Look, there's no restoring that
I hope God forgives you. I hope you live a good life. I hope that you still be a soul winner
I still that you hope attend a different church, right?
but being a pastor is never in the cards again for you whatsoever and
Saul has just shown himself to be too prideful too stubborn too self-willed and you know what he's just done with leadership
He's not gonna be a king anymore
verse 27 and as Samuel turned about to go away
He laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle and it rent
Samuel said unto him the Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day and have given it to a neighbor of thine
That is better than now so he gets mad
He rips his garment and Samuel reminds him of this truth that we all should think about that
There's always someone better than you out there there is you know there could only be one person on the earth
That's the best at one given thing and guess what in this room. We're not any of it. Okay look
There is a better pastor out there. There is a better song leader out there. There is a better
Greeter out there. There is a better
There's a better everything out there because there's always someone better than you and so if you're in a position if you have
Leadership in any way you know what the right view is God
Please use me though. I'm a sinner though. I'm you know just a man
I pray that you just enable me help me to do this great work not to just think like well
I'm the king of Israel because I'm head and shoulders above the people and I make the decisions here
Even if God tells me to do something I'm smarter than him
You know what? That's a good way to get replaced and he rips the mantle here
And it's a symbol the fact that God's ripping away his leadership and really what this also symbolizes stay there is Matthew 21 43
Jesus said therefore I say unto you the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation
Bringing forth the fruits thereof just like the kingdom was taken from Saul and given to who?
David the kingdom of God was given to physical Israel the Jews and was then taken from them and given to spiritual Israel
God's children today
Christians verse 29 and also the strength of Israel will not lie nor repent
For he is not a man that he should repent. I love that title of God
Strength of Israel, you know who that is. That's the Lord Jesus Christ and the strength of
Israel today that nation over in the Middle East that's not the real Israel. It's a fraud. It's a fake nation
They think oh their strength is the fact that they're Jews if they have favor with God and they have the Iron Dome missile defense system
But really the strength of Israel is Jesus Christ
That's the strength of Israel and if that false nation doesn't have Jesus Christ
They have no strength and we're gonna see actually when the Antichrist comes to power that he's gonna march into Jerusalem and destroy that
Place someday and then Jesus is gonna come down and reign for a thousand years from Jerusalem verse number 30
And he said I've sinned yet honor me now
I pray thee before the elders of my people and before Israel and turn again with me that I may worship the Lord thy God
So Samuel turned again after Saul and Saul worshiped the Lord. He's like, yeah, I've sinned but just honor me anyways
He's just living in some sort of fantasy not facing reality
You know, hey, he could honor you before the people Saul
But it's over between you and God God wasn't harkening to your voice in the last chapter when you prayed on him
You know what? It's gone too far. You're not gonna be king anymore verse 32
then said Samuel bring ye hither to me a gag the king of the Malakites and a gag came unto him delicately and
A gag said surely the bitterness of death is past
I just I love the picture of this a gag coming to him delicate you just imagine like a gag's like
So you're not mad at me anymore, right? You're not gonna kill me anymore, right?
You know the bitterness of death is past and then Samuel brings the yo mama jokes into it
He says as thy sword have made women childless
So shall thy mother be childless among women Samuel hewed a gag in pieces before the Lord in
Gilgal. Hey, there was a man that actually feared God
There was a man that was actually willing to do the dirty work
There was a man that was actually willing to take out the sword and look a gag in the eye and said hey a gag
You made a bunch of women childless and now yo mama is gonna be childless. Boom just chops them up
That's a real man of God right there. That's a dude that was actually filled with the Holy Spirit
That's a dude who many Baptists today would say is bad. He has a bad spirit. He's crazy
He's a freak show this pastor doesn't have the spirit of God. Well, what would you have thought of Samuel?
Hewing a gag in pieces after he's bringing his mama into it
The last thing a gag ever heard was a joke about his mother Wow. I love the Bible
I mean the Bible's awesome. Oh the Bible's so boring. What are you talking about? This is better than any movie
This is better than any Netflix show
I mean
This is fantastic and then Samuel went to Ramah and Saul went up to his house to give you of Saul and Samuel came no
More to see Saul until the day of his death
Nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel
I kind of understand how Samuel's fear feeling here because Samuel loved Saul
They were friends and it pains him to see the road that Saul has gone down someone that used to be good
Someone that was on the right path. Someone was doing the right thing and Samuel had to watch
Saul get filled with pride and start disobeying God and start doing stupid things
Saying stupid things being a terrible leader and you know
What ended up happening is that they were not friends again for the rest of their life
They've separated each other and they didn't see each other for the rest of their life. He was sad about it
But you know what Samuel was not willing to compromise to stay friends with Saul
Samuel wasn't gonna say well, okay, you know because I like you Saul because we're friends. I'm gonna tone things down a little bit
I'm gonna walk as you're walking. No, Samuel's a man of God and he's going to do the dirty work
He's gonna hew a gag of pieces whether Samuel wants to or not
And you know you'll experience this in life if you haven't already where you're gonna love someone
You're gonna respect someone that person may even be a leader like Saul and you're gonna see them start to change
You're gonna see them start going down a bad path
You're gonna see them. They used to preach spiritual sermons. They used to hew the egg eggs and pieces
they used to preach hard and now every sermon is trash and now every sermon is
Carnal and now every sermon is coming from a soul and you know what?
Hey, that kind of sucks sometimes but I'm still gonna hew a gag and pieces
I'm still gonna obey God and if I have to separate from someone and that person is not really my friend for the rest of this
Life, so be it. You know, I go to Luke chapter 14 Luke chapter number 14. This would be the last verse tonight
Luke 14 verse 26 Jesus said if any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren
And sisters yay and his own life also he cannot be my disciple
Whosoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple
You know why we have human relationships in this life that we love and treasure
I mean, these are some of the greatest of them, right mother father wife brothers sisters
I mean for a lot of us
These are the dearest people in our lives that we care the most about and also the fact that we thank God have a church
That is so knit together and unity, you know
There's a lot of relationships in this church that are at family level if not exceeding family level
But I'm just trying to tell you that if you want to be the disciple of Jesus Christ
Someday if you stick around in church, you will have a soul that you love in your life that will stop following God
You will have a soul in your life that will start to get prideful that will disobey God's voice and that will be replaced someday
And you have to make a decision at that point
Are you going to be like Samuel where you're just gonna stay steadfast?
You're gonna continue to obey God. You're gonna queue up a gag. You're gonna stick with the hard preaching
You're gonna stick with soul winning. You're gonna stick with a red-hot church
You're gonna stick with the Bible or are you gonna change and follow after your friend? Well, this is the choice
That's before you. Do you want to be a disciple of Jesus Christ or do you not?
That's the real decision that you're making and some of you have already had to make that decision
If you haven't you will in the future. Let's pray Lord. Thank you for this day. Thank you for this great chapter in your word
I pray that you would just help us and the preachers of our country to recognize
The amulet of our nation that we'd be willing to preach hard against the things that you want us to
That we would be humble and realize that your commandments and your word is wiser than us is better idea
It has better ideas than us and I just pray that we would submit ourselves to those ideas
And I pray that we would be like Samuel that though sometimes
It's hurtful to separate from friends that we would esteem Jesus Christ higher than any human being on this earth
We love you Jesus. Let me pray. Amen for our last hymn this evening. She'll grab your hymnal and turn to number
415 victory through grace
number
415
415 we'll sing there starting on the first