- Amen, well, thank you so much for having me.
Thank you, Pastor Anderson, for the great honor
of being able to preach here.
And I always love coming to Phoenix,
especially this weekend where it's like eight degrees
in Oklahoma City.
And I woke up this morning and was able to read my Bible
outside in the sunshine.
So it's really, really great to be here.
Also, I wanna congratulate you guys
on having your best year ever in 2025.
Great job, over what, 10,000 plus salvations at least, right?
So thank God for that.
And this is the first time that I've seen the building
and it is amazing.
So very happy for you guys.
Once again, thank you so much for having me.
We are here in 2 Samuel chapter number 16.
Let's start reading together in verse number five.
It says, "And when King David came to be here him,
behold, thence came out a man of the family
of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera.
He came forth and cursed still as he came.
And he cast stones at David
and at all the servants of King David
and all the people and all the mighty men
were on his right hand and on his left.
So you have this guy named Shimei
and Shimei reminds me of your prototypical
ex new IFB loser, because what is this person doing?
He's just following David
and he's just following around all of David's men,
just cursing and throwing stones.
He's not out building anything.
He's not doing any work.
He's just following other people
that are doing great works and criticizing
and cursing and attacking.
And quite honestly, you know,
Shimei is probably a lot better
than these ex new IFB haters
because I'm pretty sure this is just a one-time thing
for Shimei.
I'm pretty sure this is just like a one-time event
where he's following David and he does all these things
where it's like your haters, this is their life's work.
They watch every sermon and curse and throw stones.
They watch every documentary, every reel, every video.
They are watching right now.
Even when Pastor Anderson isn't even preaching,
that's how much of hatred these people have.
So I look at Shimei and I'm like,
he's a lot more normal than the haters that your church has
'cause he kind of just did this one time.
But you know why Shimei is doing this?
Why Shimei is spending his time attacking David
is because Shimei is a loser.
Shimei has nothing else going on in his life.
He has nothing else to live for than to hate David
and to follow David.
And Shimei is not leading a kingdom.
Shimei is not the king.
He's not the one going out, slaying his 10,000s.
He's not the one that has all these great works
going for him.
All he exists to do in this moment is attack David.
Look at verse number seven.
Says, "And thus said Shimei when he cursed,
come out, come out, thou bloody man,
and thou man of Belial."
Now what happens?
You have the throwing of stones.
You have the cursing.
Now you have the railing, the false accusations
calling David a man of Belial,
calling David a reprobate here,
calling him a child of the devil.
And you know what?
We see this exactly the same thing with your haters.
We see the incessant following, the obsession,
the stone throwing, the cursing,
and you definitely also see the false accusations
even to this very exact thing here
of being called a man of Belial.
Notice verse eight.
"The Lord hath returned upon thee
all the blood of the house of Saul
in whose stead thou hast reigned,
and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom
into the hand of Absalom thy son.
And behold, thou art taken in thy mischief
because thou art a bloody man."
What else does Shimei do?
He stands with David's rebellious son.
I can't think of any person
this reminds me of whatsoever.
This wicked evil person, he's just throwing stones,
he's cursing, he's railing,
and he wants to stand with his rebellious son.
Reminds us of a lot of things, doesn't it?
Look at verse number nine.
"Then said Abishai, the son of Zeruiah unto the king,
"'Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king?
"'Let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.'"
I definitely sympathize with Abishai's mentality
a little bit here, because when I was working
for Steadfast Baptist Church,
we had LGBT protests for about three years straight.
And just imagine, just walking into church Sunday morning,
Sunday evening, Wednesday evening,
and there's constantly just this horde of shimmy eyes,
cursing and railing and saying
all matter of filth and perversion.
And I would be lying if I said to you
that I never had this feeling here.
I'm just like, let me go over
and just take off these people's heads.
Especially when they start coming to your house,
especially when they start talking about your daughters,
it kind of just unlocks this primitive rage inside of you.
And so I can kind of understand
where he's coming from here with this mentality.
But notice David's response.
Verse 10, "And the king said,
what have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah?
So let him curse, because the Lord hath said unto him,
curse David.
Who shall then say, wherefore hast thou done so?
And David said to Abishai and to all his servants,
behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels seeketh my life.
How much more now may this Benjamite do it?
Let him alone, let him curse, for the Lord hath bidden him.
It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction
and that the Lord will requite me good
for his cursing this day.
And as David and his men went by the way,
Shimei went along on the hillside over against him
and cursed as he went and threw stones at him and cast dust.
Notice David's attitude here is not,
yeah, go ahead, go ahead and take off his head.
You know, let's not let this guy curse us.
His attitude here is just like, nah, let him curse.
So what, right?
He just ignores this guy.
He just goes on about his life.
He just ignores this hater.
And you know, the title of my sermon this morning
is ignore the haters in 2026.
Ignore the haters in 2026.
Go to 2 Timothy chapter number three.
2 Timothy chapter number three.
Number one, I wanna say this.
Realize that you are blessed for having haters.
Not everyone in this world has the privilege
of having haters, and you wanna know why David had haters?
Because David was a man of consequence.
David was the real deal.
David's the king.
David has influence over people.
David is slaying tens of thousands.
David is a man after God's own heart.
David is penning scripture and the Psalms.
David is the real deal.
And because of that, the devil and his minions
are gonna come after him.
You know, people who do nothing in life,
they don't have haters, right?
You know, you watch a sports game,
you know who has all the haters?
The best players, right?
The Shohei Otani's of this world.
You know, when Shohei Otani gets up to play,
you're gonna hear the booing, right?
'Cause the guy's a beast.
But when the bench warmer gets his shot, no one cares.
No one is following,
when is the bench warmer gonna hit next?
No one is following, what's the off season trades
looking like for this bench warmer?
No one cares.
And so you wanna know why?
Faithful Word Baptist Church and your pastor
has a lot of haters is because
this is a church of consequence.
This is a church that's doing great things for the Lord.
Look at verse number 10 of 2 Timothy 3,
Paul says, but thou hast fully known my doctrine,
manner of life, purpose, faith, long suffering,
charity, patience, notice, persecutions, afflictions,
which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra,
what persecutions I endured,
but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
See, just like David had his haters,
the Apostle Paul also had his haters.
He was in peril of his own countrymen, right?
He was in peril of false brethren.
He says, you've known my manner of life,
all these things that I endured,
two of those being what?
Persecutions and afflictions.
Why did the Apostle Paul have persecutions and affliction?
Because the Apostle Paul was turning the world upside down
with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
That's why, because just like David was the real deal,
the Apostle Paul also was a man of consequence
and was the real deal.
And that's why he had persecutors.
And you say, well, that's David.
Well, that's Paul.
Okay, let's read the next verse.
Yay, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus
shall suffer persecution.
Hey, you know why David had haters?
Because he was a man of God.
Why Paul had haters?
Because he was a man of God.
You know why your pastor has haters?
It's because he is a man of God.
And you should not look at the persecution
and the afflictions and the shimmy eyes
and the stone throwing and the cursing and the railing
and think, man, there's something wrong with Pastor Anderson.
Man, there's something wrong
with Faithful Word Baptist Church.
No, that is a mark of a man of God.
That is a mark that your church is doing great things.
And so you know what?
First of all, you just need to realize
that you are blessed for having haters
because it means that you're doing something that's real.
It means that you are the real deal.
Go to Acts chapter 19, Acts chapter number 19,
number 19 verse number 13.
The Bible says, "Then certain of the vagabond Jews,
"exorcists, took upon them to call over them
"which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying,
"We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
"And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew,
"and chief of the priests which did so.
"And the evil spirit answered and said,
"Jesus I know, and Paul I know,
"but who are ye?"
See, Shimei, he knew who David was.
The devil knows who Jesus is.
The devil knows who Paul is, but you know what?
The devil doesn't care about a bunch of do nothing losers
that are not doing great works for God.
He's not gonna send his minions to go attack those people.
He's gonna send his minions to go attack real men of God.
Right, he's saying, "Hey, Jesus I know, Paul I know,
"but who are you?"
You know, if the devil knows you,
it means that you're a man of consequence,
that you're doing something great for the Lord.
Go to Matthew five, Matthew chapter number five.
Now, just because, you know,
we realize this with our, you know, mind,
that having haters is a good thing.
You know, oftentimes our knee jerk reaction
to haters, persecution, lies about us, attacks,
you know, we could get depressed, we can get discouraged,
but we need to remind ourselves the attitude
that Jesus actually commands us to have
when people lie about us, when we are persecuted.
Look at Matthew five, verse 10.
The Bible says, blessed are they which are persecuted
for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you
and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely
for my sake.
Jesus is saying, realize, hey, you are blessed
when people revile you, right?
Speak against you, persecute you.
You know, what could that look like?
All sorts of different things, protests,
financial issues, lawsuits, getting in the news,
all those different things.
Saying all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.
Verse number 12, rejoice and be exceeding glad
for great is your reward in heaven
for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Hey, you need to rejoice that faithful word
Baptist Church is counted worthy of persecution
because you need to rejoice in the fact
that you're at a church that's doing great works for God.
I would be much more concerned if I was going to a church
where the news never hated on the pastor,
the church never had any opposition,
the church never had any people lying or writing articles
or making posts or going after their pastor.
I'd be more concerned being in a church like that
than a church where the pastor's a little too hated
or the pastor's banned from multiple countries.
That's a great thing.
You should rejoice and be exceeding glad
that you're counted worthy for that.
Go to Galatians 1.
Just realize that hey, these haters, they're nobodies.
They're not accomplishing anything in their life.
They exist to follow you.
So don't give them that satisfaction
of paying attention to them and giving them your attention
because these people are losers.
They are doing nothing.
Number one, realize you're blessed for having haters.
Number two, value what God thinks, not what man thinks.
Part of the reason people get so upset
when they have haters and persecution
and people lying about them is that it angers us
as human beings when people dislike us for false reasons,
right, when people lie about us.
But we need to change our mentality
to just only caring about what God thinks of us.
Look at Galatians one, verse six.
The apostle Paul said, "I marvel that you are so soon
"removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ
"unto another gospel, which is not another,
"but there be some that trouble you
"and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
"But though we, or an angel from heaven,
"preach any other gospel unto you,
"than that which we have preached unto you,
"let him be accursed.
"As we said before, so say I now again,
"if any man preach any other gospel unto you
"than that you have received, let him be accursed."
Then Paul asks this great question here.
For do I now persuade men or God?
Or do I seek to please men?
For if I yet pleased men,
I should not be the servant of Christ.
Those are some very powerful words right there.
That if you as God's servant,
and look, this applies to pastors, preachers,
all of you today,
if you in your heart are living your life
and making decisions in your life
of where you're gonna stand
based off what people think about you,
then you are not the servant of Christ.
You should not seek to persuade men.
You should not seek to please men
and not make the decisions in your life
of what church you're gonna go to,
what man you're gonna follow,
based on what the world thinks about it.
No, you ought to care about the truth above anything else.
And what the apostle Paul is saying here
is very, very offensive to most of this world.
And we hear a hard preaching all the time in the new IFB,
but realize what he is saying
is a very hard saying for some people.
That hey, if someone's preaching a false gospel,
let that person go to hell.
Let that person be accursed, right?
So what would this apply to?
Hey, you know, standing against Islam,
standing against Mormons,
standing against people that preach,
you know, repent of your sins, false gospels,
let those people be accursed.
That would offend a lot of people out in the world.
Not so much people here in this room, but you know what?
We should not care what the world thinks about us,
what the news thinks about us.
And I'll say this, even what backslidden Christians think,
we shouldn't care what the backslidden, worldly, feminist,
ex-new wife, Bea, thinks about us.
We should care about what God thinks.
This goes for salvation.
This goes for any other doctrine in the word of God.
Let me give you an example.
Go to Proverbs 13, Proverbs chapter 13.
You know, what's a doctrine that we hold to very strongly
that surprisingly, a lot of this world
and even a lot of backslidden, worldly Christians
get super upset about?
How about the doctrine of corporal punishment
for your children?
You know, this is illegal in a lot of countries
because the world is just so horrified
at the idea of a parent applying corporal punishment
to their children.
But here's the thing, do I seek to please men?
Hey, if I sought to please men,
I should not be the servant of Christ.
What does the Bible say in Proverbs 13, verse 24?
He that spareth his rod, hateth his son,
but he that loveth him, chasteneth him for times.
You know, if you live your life based on listening
to what the haters think,
you know what you'll end up doing?
You'll end up hating your son.
Because the haters, the naysayers,
those that speak against the Bible,
against biblical Christianity,
would say, hey, spanking a child is abuse.
Corporal punishment is abuse.
You know, you guys are abusers.
You guys are abuse enablers.
No, no, no, we just don't hate our son like you do.
And you know what?
I'm not gonna base my mentality on parenting
from psychological textbooks,
or from liberal New Evangelicals,
or from the ex-New IFV,
I'm gonna get it from the word of God,
because I only care what God thinks, not what man thinks.
And notice what this verse here says,
it says, "He that spareth his rod, hateth his son."
It doesn't say,
"He that doesn't spake his child at all, hates his son."
No, you know what to spare means?
Is to not give fully what is deserving in that situation.
So holding back, not giving corporal punishment
when it's needed for the child, that's sparing your rod.
And the Bible says that's hating your son.
But would the world tell you that?
Will the backslidden Christians tell you that?
Will the liberal Christians tell you that?
Absolutely not.
But hey, we got to go to the word of God,
not thinking, well, what do people think about this?
We should go to the word of God saying,
what does the Bible say?
And you know what?
We should allow the Bible to correct us.
Go to 1 Corinthians 4, 1 Corinthians chapter number four.
I love this attitude that the apostle Paul had,
that he didn't care what people thought about him.
And boy, oh boy, did he have a lot of haters.
And even a lot of the churches that he had started
and was over, constantly had people bucking at him,
questioning his authority, saying, oh man,
this guy's letters are mighty and weighty and powerful,
but you know, when he comes, he won't be such a tough guy.
I'm paraphrasing, obviously.
But you know, he had all these haters and detractors.
But I like his attitude, 1 Corinthians four, verse three.
Notice, but with me, it is a very small thing
that I should be judged of you or of man's judgment.
Yay, I judge not my own self.
Hey, he doesn't use his own human reasoning
and personal opinions to look at his life
and judge whether or not what he's doing
and preaching is right.
Look at verse four, for I know nothing by myself,
yet am I not hereby justified,
but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
Right, so when it came to the accusations,
the haters, the criticisms, all the noise from the haters,
you know what Paul said?
He said, I don't give a rip what you think.
He said, it is a very small thing for me
to be judged of you.
He's saying, hey, my own personal opinions and ideas
don't even govern my own life.
The one that judges me is the Lord.
You know what that means?
The Apostle Paul, he flushed his ideas.
He flushed his opinions.
He definitely flushed other people's opinions.
And he just came to the word of God and says,
what sayeth the Lord?
And you know what?
That is the attitude that Faithful Word Baptist Church
has had for 20 years.
And you know what?
God willing, that's the attitude it will always have.
That is what makes this church special.
You know what?
The market is already flooded in this world
of watered down, liberal Baptist churches
that are gonna scratch your ear
and tell you the things that you already believe
and not step on any toes
and not say anything that's gonna get the pastor in trouble
or offend anyone or piss people off.
But you know what?
We need to get back to an American Christianity
where people say, "Hey, me as the pastor,
"it's a very small thing for me to be judged of you."
I judge not my own self.
Hey, all I care about is what the Bible says.
And you know what, every pastor should follow
Pastor Anderson's example of that,
and every Christian should follow that example as well.
Because didn't the Bible say,
"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus
"shall suffer persecution."
Yeah, oftentimes the pastors are catching the brunt
of these attacks, but you know what,
do not think that you will be spared from persecution either.
No, you need to have the mentality of being willing
to endure that persecution.
And how are you gonna do that?
Well, first, you need to stop caring
what other people think.
And you need to only care about what the Bible says.
Go to Luke chapter number 11.
We see this example very clearly
with the preaching of the Lord Jesus Christ,
because contrary to what a lot of the liberals think,
Jesus was constantly making people mad.
Jesus was constantly offending people.
And it's not that he was saying anything wrong.
I mean, he is the word of God.
Everything that he said was right.
Everything that he did was right.
Yet he was still angering people.
And you know what I love about Jesus
is that he never backed down.
He always doubled and tripled down on his preaching.
And that's another thing I like about your pastor.
He's always doubling and tripling down
when he upsets people
because what he's preaching is from the word of God.
That's all that matters.
Luke 11 verse 42.
Jesus said, "But woe unto you Pharisees,
"for you tithe mints and rue and all manner of herbs
"and pass over judgment and the love of God.
"These ought you to have done
"and not to leave the other undone.
"Woe unto you Pharisees,
"for you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues
"and greetings in the marketplace markets.
"Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,
"for ye are as graves which appear not,
"and that men that walk over them are not aware of them."
Notice what he's saying to these people.
This is very offensive preaching here.
He is calling out the Pharisees
and he's explaining to people what is in their heart.
He's taking off the mask, right?
This holier than thou mask that the Pharisees had,
where they're laying heavy burdens on men to bear,
but you know what?
They're not even lifting their little finger
for one of those things.
They're acting like they have the love of God.
You know, they care more about the commandments of men
than the commandments of God.
And notice what Jesus says to them.
He says in verse number 42,
says, "And pass over judgment and the love of God."
You know what he's saying to these people?
He's saying, listen, you people have no judgment.
You don't know how to judge.
You guys are stupid and you guys don't love God.
Now that's an offensive thing to tell someone, right?
Especially when people are telling you,
oh, of course we love God.
Oh, we keep the commandments.
Oh, we're the children of Abraham.
Oh, we're of the circumcision.
He's like, you don't even know how to judge.
And by the way, you don't even love God.
That's hard preaching.
Then he explains their motives.
He's like, look, you just want
the uppermost seats in the synagogues.
You just want people to see you
and you just want people to give you honor
and to give you praise and to give you the accolades
and to give you all the special, you know, pomp and to do.
Notice what he says though in verse number 45,
some of the lawyers came to him,
then answered one of the lawyers and said unto him,
"Master, thus saying, thou reproach us also."
Hey, Pastor Anderson,
you're not just preaching against the fags anymore.
You're also preaching against our sins.
Hey, you know, you're offending us.
You know, you're calling out our feminist ideology.
Hey, you're calling out our worldly ideology.
You know, everyone acts like they like hard preaching
when it's a sermon against the sodomites,
when it's a sermon, you know,
against the sin that you're not struggling with.
You know, those of us that don't drink alcohol,
we love the sermons ripping on how wicked and stupid
it is to drink alcohol because we don't struggle with it.
But you know, when people start getting offended
is when the sermon is on their toes.
Did you preach against me?
Were you talking about me?
Hey, who cares?
Was it true?
That's the answer you should be,
that's the question you should be asking.
And notice his response.
And he said, won't you also, ye lawyers,
for ye laid men with burdens grievous to be born,
and ye yourselves touch not the burdens
with one of your fingers.
Notice that he go, oh, I'm so sorry.
I was actually addressing the Pharisees.
If you understand, I was preaching against them,
and so don't even worry about it.
You know, don't get offended.
Here, I'm gonna make a clarification.
I'm gonna be a pastor caveat,
where it's just like every single statement
is caveated a thousand times
because he's afraid to offend anyone.
He's afraid to say anything hard.
Jesus is just like, oh, you're offended.
Won't unto you also.
That's hard preaching.
That's a man of God says, oh, you're offended.
Well, too bad.
Here's your issues now, right?
Oh, you know, is the sermon against me?
The answer's always yes.
It's always yes.
If you ever feel like Pastor Anderson
is preaching against you, it's because he is.
Because the word of God convicts us all.
Why would you come to church
to hear something has nothing to do with you?
Oh, I just wanna come to church and hear preaching
that I cannot apply to my life in any way.
Nothing that I need to learn.
Nothing that I need to change.
I just wanna hear the pastor scream
about how bad Jews are every day.
And it's like, look, there's a time and a place
for the anti-Israel conference, amen.
But do we really need Sunday morning, Sunday night,
Wednesday to be about the Jews?
No, folks, right?
We're saved in here.
There's, I don't believe there's any believing, you know,
Judaic Jews in here, maybe some ethnic Jews.
All right, I don't know.
But no one practices Judaism in here.
There's a time and a place for it, absolutely.
But you know what?
Preaching against the Jews is not hard preaching for us.
Preaching against our sin is hard preaching for us.
And you know what?
If you ever think that the sermon is about you,
that's because it is.
Now, oftentimes what's funny is that,
I've even learned this in my short time of being a pastor,
when people often think this about them,
you honestly were not coming to this sermon
thinking about them whatsoever.
You didn't have them in mind.
You weren't on the forefront of the pastor's mind.
But that person thinks it's about them
and they get super offended.
And what I've noticed about people is that,
there's people that think the sermon is about them
and it's not about them,
but they have a good heart and they make the change anyways.
Other times, the sermon absolutely is about them.
And it's like, yes, this sermon is for you.
This point is for you.
But because they're so stiff-necked and prideful,
even though it's for them, that person still doesn't change.
You know, so we need to have the right heart
towards preaching as well.
That, hey, come to church just saying,
hey, all of this is for me.
And just accept what the Bible says.
Go to Ezekiel chapter two, Ezekiel chapter number two.
Well, what if it, you know, what if I bring my grandma,
what if I bring my grandma or my boss and they get offended?
Well, woe unto your grandma and your boss too.
Because you know what?
Your grandma and your boss needs hard preaching as well.
You know, I don't want to have a church culture
where it's like the pastor is so worried
about having visitors and so worried about, you know,
filling bodies in the pew
that he can never preach anything hard
because what you end up doing is you end up filling
your church full of fluff, full of people
that can't handle the hard preaching.
And you know what?
I'd rather have a small church of people
that I could just rip face on anything to
than a big church where I'm constantly worrying
and running scared as the preacher.
That is a bad church dynamic
when the preacher is the one running scared.
We need to get back to a culture
where women are not judging the pastor.
Hey, it's a very small thing for me
to be judged of women in the congregation.
Let me just say, or deacons running the church,
or a board of elders running the church,
get back to pastor led churches.
Look at Ezekiel chapter two, verse three.
This is Ezekiel's mission.
Says, and he said unto me, son of man,
I send thee to the children of Israel,
to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me.
They and their fathers have transgressed against me,
even unto this very day.
For they are impudent children and stiff-hearted.
I do send thee unto them, and thou shalt say unto them,
thus saith the Lord God.
Now I feel kind of bad for Ezekiel here,
'cause this does not sound like a fun preaching assignment.
What sounds fun is saying like,
hey, you wanna preach at Faithful Word Baptist Church?
I'm like, yeah, that sounds really fun.
Imagine this is your call.
I'm gonna send you to the children of Israel,
people that are stiff-necked, hard-hearted,
their fathers have rejected the word of God,
they reject the word of God,
they're rebellious to this very day.
That's a much harder preaching assignment.
And obviously I've never had something to this extent,
but it kind of reminds me of when we went
at Steadfast Baptist Church,
we went to the Arlington City Council meeting
because the city was proposing to proclaim
Gay Pride Month in Arlington, Texas.
And we went there and we preached to the city council
and on one half of the room,
it's just filled with faggots and sodomites.
And then we have these angry city council members before us.
And when we're preaching, it's not getting the amens.
Like when you're preaching in a new IFB church,
you're getting literal hissing, literal growling,
literal sneers and jest and just angry sounds.
You know, that's not as easy of an audience to preach to.
Let me just be honest with you.
But notice his command in verse five.
"And they, whether they will hear,
or whether they will forbear,
for they are a rebellious house,
yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them."
He's saying, hey, your job Ezekiel is not to be liked,
is not to make sure that everybody agrees with you.
It's just for you to be a prophet.
It's just for you to preach the word of God.
Verse number six, "And thou, son of man,
be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words.
Though byers and thorns be with thee,
and thou dost dwell among scorpions,
be not afraid of their words,
nor be dismayed at their looks,
for they are a rebellious house."
Right, what are we talking about?
How about your haters?
Hey, don't care about what the haters have to say.
Don't care about the looks
that they give Faithful Word Baptist Church.
You know, preachers, don't get up and preach
worrying about the looks in the congregation
or the words in the congregation.
Hey, just thus sayeth the Lord.
Be willing to be an Ezekiel.
You know, at times you're gonna have to be an Ezekiel
where you're gonna have to preach
and you're gonna have to be disliked.
Sometimes you're gonna have to be an Ezekiel
and you as a church are gonna have to go forward
standing on biblical truth,
standing on what God has said,
being disliked by this world.
And you know what?
People that are gonna go far in Christianity
and stay faithful and be steadfast
are people that are gonna have to endure that suffering
of not being liked, of being hated, of being lied about.
You know what?
Don't be afraid of their faces.
Go to Nehemiah chapter number four.
Nehemiah chapter number four.
You know, the whole point of being a man of God
is not to amass some giant church bank account
or to have some huge building.
Go praise God, you guys have an awesome, huge building.
You know what I like about Faithful Word Baptist Church
is that you guys have an awesome, huge building
and you never compromised.
You never cut down on the preaching.
You never watered things down.
You never got soft.
Pastor Anderson has always just been,
"Hey, thus saith the Lord."
And the church grew and the church has a great big building.
That's amazing testimony.
Number three, this morning I wanna say this.
Don't let the wicked distract you from doing God's work.
Do not let the wicked distract you from doing God's work.
We're here in Nehemiah chapter four
and Nehemiah is a cupbearer to King Artaxerxes.
He hears about Jerusalem's ruined state.
He gets permission to go rebuild and he starts rebuilding.
And when he starts rebuilding,
immediately the haters just start showing up.
Look at Nehemiah chapter four, verse one.
"But it came to pass that when Sanballat
"heard that we builded the wall,
"he was wrath and took great indignation
"and mocked the Jews."
Look, there are just some people in this world
that get mad when you do something good.
You know, there's haters of God,
there's reprobates in this world that hate God,
that hate the work of God.
And when they find out there's a great work being done,
it's gonna make them mad.
It's gonna make them angry.
It's gonna bring out the workers of iniquity
to stand against you.
And you know what?
Even people that are not reprobate,
people that are just envious, right?
The Bible talks about how there's some that preach Christ,
even of envy and strife, right?
Where they're in it for the wrong reasons.
They just want the preeminence.
They just wanna look cool.
They want the power.
They want the influence.
And when they see a Nehemiah doing a great work,
they get angry.
What a wicked reaction that is.
Look at verse number two,
and he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria
and said, "What do these feeble Jews?
Will they fortify themselves?
Will they sacrifice?
Will they make an end in a day?
Will they revive the stones out of the heaps
of the rubbish which are burned?"
Now, what do these feeble Jews, right?
And haven't we heard the haters of the new IFB for years
saying, "Oh, these little tiny storefront strip mall churches.
What are these people gonna do?
Get tens of thousands of people saved?
That's what we're gonna do.
See thousands and thousands of lives changed.
Train up soul winners.
Train up the next generation
of independent fundamental Baptists.
How about completely change the country's opinion
on things like Zionism?
I mean, if you just got saved,
let me explain something to you.
10 or 15 years ago,
it was so rare to hear preachers like Pastor Anderson
preaching against Zionism and against the Jews.
Now everyone's doing it.
Now it's like the default position.
You know, if you just got saved,
you're just getting new into this,
let me explain to you something.
10 years ago, preaching against the faggots
would literally get thousands of angry sodomites
around your building.
It would get you in the news.
It would get you fired from your job.
And look, some of that still happens,
but now so many more people agree with us on those things.
And you know what I believe it is?
I believe it's people like Pastor Anderson
and new IFB preachers have actually made
a huge difference in this world.
What do these people do?
Change the world, how about that?
That's what we're doing.
Look at verse number three.
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was with him and he said,
even that which they build, if a fox go up,
he shall even break down their stone wall.
Even if they do succeed, ah, it'll end.
It'll get destroyed.
Nothing will come of it, right?
Now here comes the haters, right?
Notice Nehemiah's response.
Verse number four, "Hear, O our God, for we are despised,
"and turn their reproach upon their own head,
"and give them for a prey in the land of captivity,
"and cover not their iniquity,
"and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee,
"for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders."
Notice, he hears the haters
and he doesn't necessarily engage with them right away.
What does he do first?
He just starts praying.
He just starts praying a little in precatory prayer.
You know what, in precatory prayers work.
You ought to be scared to go against Nehemiah.
You ought to be scared to go against real men of God
'cause they might just say, "Here, God, listen to this."
You hear what they're saying?
You hear the false accusations?
Do you hear their reproach against you?
And then they end up having God working against them.
But I love this in verse six.
"So built we the wall,
"and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof,
"for the people had a mind to work."
Hey, ignore the haters in 2026 and just build the wall.
You know, we need to like steal Trump's slogan for 2026.
What should the new IFB's slogan in 2026 be?
We're gonna build a great, beautiful wall, folks.
It's gonna be the best wall.
And you know what?
If you come against us, we might just pray and say,
hey, listen to these people trying to stop us
from doing God's work.
Because here's what I know about your pastor
is that he's not a fraud.
He's not one of these people preaching of envy and strife.
I know that about myself.
And you know what?
If you're coming against real men of God,
you should watch out.
You should be very afraid to do something like that.
He says, you know what?
We built the wall.
Amidst the haters, he just built the wall.
Go to Proverbs 14.
Here's some practical tips for ignoring the haters, right?
'Cause we want to ignore the haters.
Why?
Because we want to go build the wall.
We want to do great works for God.
We don't want 2026 to be consumed with
what are the haters doing?
What are the haters saying?
What do they think about us?
Do they like us?
Are they mad about us?
You know, I just want to go forward getting people saved.
I just want to read my Bible.
I just want to love my family.
I just want to work.
I just want to go run some miles.
I want to go hit the gym, right?
I just want to live my life serving God,
doing things that I'm interested in
and not focusing on these people.
Let me tell you one thing you need to do.
Ignore anonymous trolls.
I have a personal policy for myself.
No name, no profile picture, no response.
I am not going to dignify some loser
in his mother's basement with my time and my response.
No face, no profile picture, no response.
These cowards that want to attack us online.
You know, and let me just say this.
You got some, if you got some anonymous account
that you use to go troll people and attack people,
you need to get a life, my friend.
You need to get a hobby.
This is why you're perpetually single, my friend,
is 'cause you got some anonymous account online
that you spend your whole life obsessing
what other men are doing.
It's like, bro, are you gay?
What's wrong with you?
Hey, no picture, no name, no response.
Ignore the anonymous trolls.
Let me say another practical tip for you guys.
Use the block function gratuitously in your life.
Use the block function gratuitously.
You know, it was kind of a shame
when the X New IFB account shut down.
What was that, like six months ago, eight months ago?
I don't know.
There was that X New IFB group that Pastor Who,
I mean, Salvador Alvarez set up,
and he closed and he set it up again,
he closed, he set it up again, closed, set it up again.
I enjoyed it for one purpose, and one purpose only,
is I could go in there and I could just see
all the members of the group
and just block all of them preemptively.
'Cause I'm building a wall.
I don't care what any of you think,
and I don't care what any of you say.
You know, I wanna go forward and build the wall.
Look at Proverbs 14.7.
The Bible says, "Go from the presence of a foolish man,
"when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge."
Doesn't say hang out with the idiot,
read the idiot's posts, private message,
and argue with the idiot.
Go from his presence!
Go away from the fool!
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way,
but the folly of fools is deceit.
Fools make a mock at sin,
but among the righteous there is favor.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness,
and a stranger doth not intermental with his joy.
The house of the wicked shall be overthrown,
but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
Hey, I wanna be friends in real life
and on social media with the upright, right?
Because the house of the upright is gonna flourish.
I don't wanna be around the house of the wicked
because you know what?
That house is gonna be overthrown.
And when that house is overthrown,
I don't wanna be anywhere near their house.
I don't even wanna know what they're saying.
I don't care because we're going forth and building a wall.
So let me just give you some advice.
Please just block the haters, block them.
Don't obsess over them.
Go if you would to Psalm 101, I'll read for you.
Matthew 7, 6, the Bible says,
"Give not that which is holy unto the dogs,
"neither cast ye your pearls before swine,
"lest they trample them under their feet
"and turn again and rend you."
You know, your inner peace as a person
is so precious and valuable.
And especially if you've had a time in your life
where you've just lost peace in your life
and you're constantly stressed
and you're constantly worried
and you constantly have all these issues,
you realize how valuable that peace is.
You know what, guard that inner peace.
That peace is valuable.
Don't just give it to dogs.
Don't just give it to swine.
Guard that.
And if that means blocking tons of people,
block tons of people.
And here's another tip.
Do not go intentionally seeking out hater material online.
Don't intentionally go to their groups.
Don't go to their YouTube channels.
Don't try to go read their posts.
Obviously, sometimes we're gonna hear about stuff,
but look, do not go seeking out hater material.
It's just gonna ruin your mental health.
It's gonna take away your joy.
It's gonna take away your peace.
You know, focus on building the wall.
Look at Psalm 101 verse four.
It says, "A foward heart shall depart from me.
I will not know a wicked person.
I don't even wanna know these people exist.
They're dead to me.
They have no value.
They're not doing anything of value with their life.
You know what, I don't even wanna know a wicked person.
Who so privily slandereth his neighbor?
Him will I cut off.
Him that hath a high look and a proud heart
will I not suffer.
Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land
that they may dwell with me.
He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house.
He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Hey, don't invite the haters into your home
through your cell phone, through your computer.
You know what?
The wicked, they're not gonna dwell in my house.
They're not gonna tarry in my sight.
I'm gonna cut those people off.
And overall in 2025, I think I did okay
in ignoring the haters, but you know what?
I wanna just completely ignore them in 2026.
I wanna just say like, hey, I don't even know these people.
I will not even know a wicked person.
You know what?
I'm not going to their groups.
I'm not going to their YouTube videos.
I'm not gonna look at any of that stuff.
Even people bringing stuff to me.
Oftentimes I just tell them, I don't even wanna hear it.
Even my own wife.
She came to me last week and she's like,
oh, this rando wrote an article about you.
I'm just like, I don't even wanna read it.
And she's like, oh yeah, you know, here's the title.
And here's my cool nickname I got, the cancer of Oklahoma.
What a great nickname is that?
Now, Pastor Anderson, my wife told me
he got a really cool nickname.
His nickname was like the war dog of the desert.
Like, I just got cancer, you know?
Like, he got war dog of the desert and I got cancer.
And they're like, I didn't read the article, you know?
But my wife, she showed it to me.
And I'm like, hey, you know,
thanks for the new profile picture.
You know, the picture they made of me,
I was like, yeah, that's a decent picture.
Thanks for the new profile picture,
but I'm not reading the stupid article.
You know, thanks a lot.
And it wasn't even about me.
It was about all sorts of laymen in our movement
and other pastors.
You know what, just let these people die in your mind.
Do not pay any attention to them.
Don't go read their material.
Oh, you wrote a whole article about me?
I don't even know who you are, bro.
It's like, you're not even CNN or CBS.
You're not even the Oklahoman or anything like that.
It's like, who are you?
I don't know, and I don't care.
Don't read this stuff.
Go to Philippians chapter four.
Philippians chapter number four.
Someone needs to get Pastor Anderson
one of those military patches,
like the war dog of the desert.
And he needs to be like, his title in his office
is like Pastor Anderson, the war dog of the desert.
Philippians chapter four, look at verse number six.
Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer
and supplication with thanksgiving,
let your requests be made known unto God.
When it's saying be careful for nothing,
it's not saying, tread carefully, be cautious.
It's saying, don't be filled with care.
Don't be filled with worry.
Don't be filled with anxiety.
Instead, just bring your supplication
with thanksgiving to God.
Isn't that what Nehemiah did?
He heard the haters and he just prayed to God, right?
Verse number seven, in the peace of God,
which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts
and minds through Christ Jesus.
That is so valuable, folks.
Having peace in your heart, it's unparalleled in value.
It is priceless, having peace.
How do you do that?
Look at verse eight.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report,
if there be any virtue and if there be any praise,
think on these things.
Hey, in 2026, ignore the haters.
Focus on the good.
And here's the awesome thing about being on the winning side,
being in the new IFB, being at Faithward Baptist Church,
is there's so much good to focus on.
Shimei has nothing to live for.
He's got nothing going on in his life.
That's why he's chasing David.
That's why he's throwing rocks at David.
That's why he's cursing David.
It's like, hey, we've got a church to serve in.
We are ambassadors of Christ.
We've got a city to save.
We've got a world to save.
We've got cruise missions trips to go on.
We've got great friends.
You know, we got our families.
We have our wives.
We have America.
We have great jobs.
Some of you have great businesses.
Like, focus on the positive.
Don't spend your life thinking about these haters
and these losers.
Look, you are the sole purpose they even exist.
Don't give them attention.
Don't focus on them.
Focus on building the wall.
The wall of your church, your ministry,
your health, your business, your friendships,
your, all these things, focus on that.
Go to Nehemiah chapter number six,
Nehemiah chapter number six,
Nehemiah chapter number six, look at verse one.
Now it came to pass when Sanballat and Tobiah
and Gisham the Arabian and the rest of our enemies
heard that I had builded the wall
and that there was no breach left therein,
though at that time I had not set up the doors
upon the gates, that Sanballat and Gisham sent unto me saying,
"Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages
in the plain of Ono."
But they thought to do me mischief, right?
So he got done building the wall.
He's saying, "The only things left to do
is put these gates in."
This guy Sanballat and his buddy
wants to come have a meeting with me.
He wants to take me away from my work.
Just wants to have a meeting, just wants to chat.
Verse three, "And I sent messengers unto them saying,
'I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down.
Why should the work cease whilst I leave it
and come down to you?'"
That is the attitude we need to have.
Hey, the work that Nehemiah is doing is important.
He's doing a great work.
He's building the wall.
And you know what?
He's not gonna stoop himself down to the level
of Sanballat and Tobiah and go waste his time with them.
No, he's like, "You know what?
I'm just building the wall."
And in the same way, we gotta realize,
hey, we have a great work that we've been called to do.
And you know what?
You are a member of a church
that is doing great works for God,
getting tens of thousands of people saved.
There's so many opportunities at this church
and in the new IFB to go out
and build a great wall spiritually.
Why would you waste that opportunity
paying attention to the shimmy eyes,
paying attention to the sand balance,
paying attention to the Tobias,
paying attention to the ex new IFB.
They're not building a wall.
Ignore them.
Number one, realize you're blessed for having haters.
Go ahead and turn to Psalm 58.
Number two, value what God thinks, not what man thinks.
Number three, don't let the wicked distract you
from doing God's work.
Number four, trust that God will judge the wicked.
Trust that God will judge the wicked.
Psalm 58 verse 10.
The Bible reads, the righteous shall rejoice
when he seeth the vengeance.
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked
so that a man shall say,
verily, there is a reward for the righteous.
Verily, he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Of course, we know that many of the haters of the new IFB
are these psychopath, reprobate, sodomites,
those evil children of the devil.
And of course, God's gonna judge all of those people
in hell for all of eternity.
But you know what?
Sometimes God comes down on our enemies in this life,
in this life, in this world.
And the Bible says when we see that,
we could look at this and rejoice and say,
man, verily, there is a reward for the righteous.
Verily, he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Go to Nehemiah chapter number six.
I should have had you stay there.
Nehemiah chapter number six.
Sometimes, God will give you victory over your enemies
by literally killing your enemies.
And you know, there has been people
that have risen up against men of God,
like Pastor Shelley and Pastor Anderson,
and great churches who have literally died,
who have literally gotten bizarre, strange,
flesh-eating skin diseases.
And God is like in the process of judging these people.
You know what?
God is a very fearful and terrible God.
And so you know what?
God's gonna judge these people.
God's gonna come after these people.
Other times, you know, God could give us victory
in some ways by sometimes just killing our enemies.
Psalm 35, stay in Nehemiah six.
I'll read for you Psalm 35 19.
David prays, he says,
"Let not them that are mine enemies
"wrongfully rejoice over me,
"neither let them wink with the eye
"that hate me without a cause."
Right, so David, he did not wanna see his enemies
rejoice over him.
He's praying that God would not allow his enemies
to rejoice over him.
He's praying that God would destroy his enemies.
Sometimes God destroys them physically.
God can kill our enemies.
Other times, I think God gives us victory
by just giving us the victory
in the work that we're accomplishing, right?
Just letting us be on the winning side,
letting us prosper, letting us thrive.
Notice Nehemiah chapter six, verse 11.
"And I said, 'Should such a man as I flee,
"and who is there that being as I am,
"would go into the temple to save his life,
"I will not go in.'"
Some people would look at this and say,
"Oh, Nehemiah is being prideful saying,
"'Should such a man as I flee.'"
But you know what?
Any child of God that is in church,
that is reading their Bible,
that is going out preaching the gospel,
your life is just infinitely more value
and is producing more value to this world
than any of these haters.
And so you know what?
Excuse me if I think that any soul winner
is way better than these do nothing loser haters.
Yes, I do believe that.
And so he's just saying,
"Hey, should such a man as I flee?"
Verse 12, "And lo, I perceived that God had not sent him,
but that he pronounced this prophecy against me,
for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
Therefore was he hired that I should be afraid,
and do so and sin,
that they might have matter for an evil report,
that they might reproach me."
See, our enemies want us to be afraid
so that we will sin,
so that we will quit serving God,
so that we will back off,
so that we will not preach the hard things
that need to be preached.
Verse 14, "My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat,
according to these their works,
and on the prophetess, Noadiah,
and the rest of the prophets,
that would have put me in fear."
I love verse 15, "So the wall was finished."
See, God gave him the victory
to finish the work that he set out to do.
In the 20th and fifth day of the month Elul,
in 52 days, and it came to pass
that when all our enemies heard thereof
and all the heathen that were about us saw these things,
that they were much cast down in their own eyes,
for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
You know, it reminds me about your year here
at Faithful Word Baptist Church, 2025.
Remember at the beginning of the year,
Pastor Harrison said, hey,
we're gonna have our best year ever, right?
Hey, we're gonna go build that wall.
And even though the sand ballots and Tobias
and all these haters came against you,
tried to make you be afraid,
tried to get you to stop building,
you won, didn't you?
2025, best year ever.
Hey, 2026 is starting off with a bang.
Pastor Anderson and his son going to admissions trips,
getting over a hundred salvations in a few weeks.
Just with those two,
it's very clear that God has made it evident
who is on his side.
God has made it so clear who is in the right.
And so look, you know you're on the right side,
just have courage and have boldness into 2026
to not let these haters cause you to stop.
Go to Nehemiah 13, sometimes he'll kill your enemies.
Sometimes he'll just give you the victory
in the work that you're setting out to do
and the goals that you have.
Other times, God will just publicly humiliate your enemies.
Just absolutely humiliate them, make them look silly,
make them look dumb.
It's exactly what we see in the text, Nehemiah 13 verse four.
And before this, Eliasheb the priest,
having the oversight of the chamber house of our God
was allied unto Tobiah, right?
So this is the enemies and their allies here.
Verse number five,
and he had prepared for him a great chamber
where for time they laid the meat offerings,
the frankincense and the vessels and the tithes of the corn,
the new wine and the oil,
which was commanded to be given to the Levites
and the singers and the porters
and the offerings of the priest.
So this site was kind of like a holy site, if you will,
that was used for the service of God.
And you've got this Eliasheb the priest,
you know, this ex new IFB priest here,
who instead of having this area being dedicated
for the service of God, he makes this great bedroom,
this great chamber for Tobiah, the hater,
the one that was coming after Nehemiah, right?
And look how this man just gets utterly humiliated.
Look at verse six.
But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem,
for in the two and 30th year of Artaxerxes,
king of Babylon, came I unto the king.
And after certain days obtained I leave of the king.
And I came to Jerusalem and understood of the evil
that Eliasheb did for Tobiah,
in preparing him a chamber in the courts
of the house of God.
And it grieved me sore.
Therefore I cast forth all the household stuff
of Tobiah out of the chamber.
Now that's gotta be pretty embarrassing, right?
You get this great accommodation set up for you.
This guy set up your nice hotel room.
And you know what?
Nehemiah shows up and he just starts chucking things
out the window.
He starts flipping tables.
He starts taking all of his personal belongings
and he just starts throwing it out in the street.
You know what that is?
I got humiliated.
That's one of the ways that God can judge our enemies
is just by causing them to look like fools,
causing them to look weak, causing them to be embarrassed.
Go to first Kings chapter two.
You know, these people need to fear God
'cause sometimes the haters, hey,
sometimes they're just, the earth opens up
and Korah, Dathan, and Abiram just go straight to hell,
right?
Other times, God just causes them to fail.
Other times, God causes them to look stupid.
It's so important to be on the Lord's side
because you know what?
If God is against you, no one can be for you.
But if God's with us, no one can be against us.
What about Shimei?
Let's look at the end of his life here.
Second Kings one, or first Kings two, verse one,
says, "Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die.
And he charged Solomon his son saying,
I go the way of all the earth.
Be thou strong therefore and show thyself a man.
And behold, thou hast with thee Shimei,
the son of Girah, a Benjamite of Behurim,
which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day
when I went to Mahanaim.
But he came down to meet me at Jordan,
and I swear to him by the Lord, saying,
I will not put thee to death with the sword.
Now therefore, hold him not guiltless,
for thou art a wise man.
And knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him,
but his whorehead bring thou down to the grave with blood.
So David slept with his fathers
and was buried in the city of David.
One of the last things David did is he said,
hey, I was merciful to this guy.
I didn't take vengeance upon myself.
I didn't revenge my own hand.
But he's saying, hey, I want you to remember
what Shimei has done,
and I want you to requite that of him.
And sometimes the wicked can seem like
they're getting away with it for a long time,
but then there comes that day where Solomon takes over,
where Solomon takes care of business.
Go to 1 Kings 2, verse 36, it says,
"And the king sent and called for Shimei,"
so this is Solomon and Shimei,
"and said unto him,
'Build thee a house in Jerusalem and dwell there,
and go not forth thence any with her.
For it shall be that on the day thou goest out
and passest over the brick chidron,
thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die.
Thy blood shall be upon thine own head.'"
So even Solomon here is being merciful to him,
saying, "Go here, build a house,
stay in that house, don't leave.
You go over this river, you will be put to death.
I will avenge my father for your cursing."
Look what happened, go to 1 Kings 2 verse 44.
"The king said moreover to Shimei,
thou knowest all the wickedness
which thine heart is privy to,
that thou didst to David my father.
Therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness
upon thine own head.
And King Solomon shall be blessed,
and the throne of David shall be established
before the Lord forever.
So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada,
which went out and fell upon him that he died."
And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
Right, so Shimei, he's chasing David,
he's throwing rocks, he's cursing.
David shows him mercy and he goes on to live for many years.
And you know, he probably thought that he got away with it.
He probably thought, oh, God isn't mad.
The king isn't mad.
He let it go.
But you know what?
Whatsoever a man shall sow, that shall he also reap.
You will reap what you sow.
And you know what?
These haters ought to be fearing and trembling before God
to come against a church and a movement
that is preaching the pure King James Bible,
that is standing on sound doctrine,
that is changing this country's opinions
on things like the Jews, things like the sodomites,
that's waking up this country in a great way,
that's going throughout the world,
preaching the gospel to every creature,
getting tens of thousands of people saved,
you are not gonna be unpunished coming against us.
That's a warning to them.
And you look at a guy like Shimei,
and you realize, hey, David's fine, Solomon's fine,
David's the king, David's the man, David's got a kingdom,
David's got influence, David's got power,
David's got something to live for,
Solomon's got something to live for.
But you know what, these Shimei's don't.
So you know what we should do?
Just ignore these people, ignore the haters,
ignore the Shimei's.
God will avenge us in due time.
God can kill the wicked in this life.
God can cause us to just clearly have victory.
God could give them shame and embarrassment.
Last place we'll go to, Isaiah chapter eight,
Isaiah chapter number eight, Isaiah chapter number eight.
Isaiah eight, look at verse number nine.
"Associate yourselves, O ye people,
and ye shall be broken in pieces,
and give ear, all ye of far countries,
gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces,
gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught.
Speak the word, and it shall not stand,
for God is with us."
Doesn't matter if the wicked gets together and conspires
and takes counsel against us and speaks evil of us.
Hey, if God be for us, who can be against us?
So you know what my charge to you in 2026?
Ignore the haters.
Focus on building the wall.
Focus on soul winning.
Focus on reading your Bible.
Focus on loving your family.
Focus on your friends.
Focus on your ministry.
Focus on your business.
Focus on your health.
Hey, just focus on the positive
that you got going on in your life.
Don't sit here focusing on the sand ballots,
the Tobias, the shimmy eyes.
Ignore the haters in 2026.
Let's pray.
Lord, thank you so much for the opportunity to preach here.
Thank you for Faithful Word Baptist Church.
I pray that you would strengthen this church, Lord.
I pray that you would grow this church's influence
and just reach in this country, in this world.
I pray that you would strengthen Pastor Anderson,
that you would just help him to continue being a pastor
that doesn't care what people think,
that just stands on the word of God,
that isn't afraid of people's faces, Lord.
Please bring him back safely to this congregation
to preach this Wednesday.
We love you, Jesus, and we pray, amen.