at this time reaching service as well it's a ten of year message that you've laid on brother jesus
name i pray next him if you would turn in your him to him number 323 more about jesus him number
323 start there right on the first more about jesus would even be some anchor baptist church
merchandise i mean who knows so we'll see who's going to be working on that chapter i definitely
would encourage everyone to memorize that chapter at least verse 19 got to at least memorize verse
number 19 for sure all right on the inside we do have our service times listed there as well as
our soul winning times we do encourage everyone to go out and preach the gospel best way to do
that is just choose one time a week that you're committed to and that is a good way to stay
consistent preaching the gospel we do have our nursing home ministry dates listed there if you
participate in that please make note of that also our year-to-date statistics i know we had at least
one earlier today out soul winning so keep up the good work with that and if you do have a salvation
make sure to let the soul winning captain know please also on the front right there is our
expecting ladies list please be in prayer for miss whitney reed for her pregnancy also upcoming
events october 31st we are going to have our chili cook-off definitely excited to see what you guys
are going to bring and kind of see the difference between oklahoma and texas when it comes to the
flavors i'm excited to try things out i'm not afraid to try new things i like all sorts of
different foods so i'm excited for that we do have enough judges like i mentioned this morning
though if you are not entering a chili into the competition and you'd like to help judges
we definitely could use some more but it's not necessary we have enough so just keep that in
mind uh november 6 through the 10th is the faithward baptist church missions conference
in tempe arizona and november 24th like we talked about this morning lord willing that's going to
be the day where this church becomes independent we go from being steadfast baptist church to
anchor baptist church lord willing and of course you know we're still going to be friends with
pastor shelley and steadfast baptist church we're still going to be steadfast in our hearts and it's
definitely a blessing that our church is still fairly close geographically to steadfast so you
know i fully intend to participate with them on conferences and soul winning and admissions trips
and everything like that so you know if you just if you hate pastor shelley you're just not going
to like me either so i'm just letting you know i love pastor shelley and we plan on being friends
with him so i'm definitely uh looking forward to that and thankful for that day that's coming up
and not just pastor shelley is going to be here but also my father-in-law pastor aaron thompson
of sure foundation baptist church he's going to be preaching here as well so we are going to be
excited to have him and i think he's bringing his wife and i think your sister's coming as well so
yeah some sure foundation member is going to be visiting some folks from first work's going to be
here so really looking forward to that day and hope you guys can make it out and invite your
family and friends on the back is the prayer list for our church please keep those requests
in prayer and as always if you have any requests please email the church i'd be happy to add that
for you that's going to be it for announcements this evening we'll go ahead and go to our third
song right for our third song if you would turn in your hymnals to hymn number 351 tell it to
jesus hymn number 351 for 351 start there right on the first are you haunted tell to jesus tell us
or the southern good evening jeremiah 34 the bible reads the word which came into jeremiah from the
lord when nebuchadnezzar king of babalon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth of
his dominion and all the people fought against jerusalem and against all the cities thereof saying
thus saith the lord the god of israel go and speak to zedekiah king of juda and tell him thus
saith the lord behold i give this city into the hand of the king of babalon and he shall burn it
with fire and thou shalt not escape out of his hand but shalt surely be taken and delivered into
his hand and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of babalon and he shall speak with thee
mouth to mouth and thou shalt go to babalon yet hear the word of the lord of zedekiah king of juda
thus saith the lord of thee thou shalt not die by the sword but thou shalt die in peace and with
the burnings of thy fathers the former kings which were before thee so shall they burn odors for thee
and they will lament thee saying ah lord for i have pronounced the word saith the lord then
jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto zedekiah king of juda in jerusalem when the king
of babalon's army fought against jerusalem and against all the cities of juda that were left
against lakish and against azekah for these defense cities remained of the cities of juda
this is the word that came unto jeremiah from the lord after that the king of zedekiah had made a
covenant with all the people which were at jerusalem to proclaim liberty unto them that every man should
let his manservant and every man his maidservant being in hebrew or in hebraes go free that none
should serve himself of them to wit of a jew his brother now when all the princes and all the people
which had entered into the covenant heard that everyone should let his manservant and everyone
his maidservant go free that none should serve themselves of them anymore then they obeyed and
let them go but afterward they turned and caused the servants and the handmaidens and the handmaids
whom they had let go free to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids
therefore the word of the lord came to jeremiah from the lord saying thus saith the lord the god
of israel i made a covenant with your fathers in the day that i brought them forth out of the
land of egypt out of the house of bondmen saying at the end of seven years let ye every man his
brother in hebrew which hath been sold unto thee and when he hath served these six years thou shall
let him go free from thee but your father's heart cannot unto me neither inclined their ear
and you were now turned and have done right in my sight and proclaiming liberty every man to his
neighbor and you made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name but you turned
and polluted my name and caused every man his servant and every man his handmaid whom he had
set at liberty at their pleasure to return and brought them into subjection to be unto you for
servants and for handmaids therefore thus saith the lord ye have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming
liberty every one his brother and every man to his neighbor behold i proclaim a liberty for you
saith the lord to the sword to the pestilence and to the famine and i will make you to be removed
into the kingdoms into all the kingdoms of the earth and i will give the men that have transgressed
my covenant which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me
when they cut in when they cut the calf in twine and pass between the parts thereof the princes of
judah and the princes of jerusalem the eunuchs and the priests and all the people of the land
which pass between the parts of the calf i will even give them into the hand of their enemies
and into the into the hand of them that seek their life and their dead bodies shall be for
meat unto the fouls of the heaven and to the beasts of the earth and zedekiah king the king of juda
and his princes will i give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their
life and into the hand of the king of babalon's army which are gone up from you behold i will
command saith the lord and cause them to return to this city and they shall fight against it and take
it and burn it with fire and i will make the cities of juda a desolation without an inhabitant
for word of prayer father in heaven we thank you for this day and the seeds playing out so winning
amen all right well we are in jeremiah 34 and let's start reading in verse number eight
bible says this is the word that came unto jeremiah from the lord after that the king
zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at jerusalem to proclaim liberty unto
them that every man should let his manservant and every man his maidservant being in hebrew
or in hebreus go free that none should serve himself of them to wit of a jew his brother
now when all the princes and all the people which had entered into the covenant heard that everyone
should let his manservant and everyone his maidservant go free that none should serve
themselves of them anymore then they obeyed and let them go so here zedekiah is the king of juda
and he's making this proclamation that everyone should let their servants be free basically
let go of your manservant let go of your maidservant and when the people hear this
proclamation from their king zedekiah notice what they did they obeyed so that's exactly
what they did they liquidated their assets if you would and if you look at verse number 12
it says or verse number 11 but afterward they turned and caused the servants and the handmaids
whom they had let go free to return and brought them into subjection for servants and for
handmaids so their initial reaction when kings zedekiah gave this command to them was to obey
you know initially they did what was right but as soon as they let these people go they immediately
turned they immediately repented and decided you know what forget what the king said forget what
the commandment was you know we're going to go back on our obedience we're going to actually take
them back into captivity and it almost kind of reminds me a little bit of pharaoh the story of
pharaoh in exodus where he keeps like what he's keep saying like yeah you can go ahead and serve
god you guys can go out into the wilderness and then as soon as they start doing he's like no
never mind come back right and here the people they initially did right but once they did right
they changed their mind they repented to do evil and there's a big consequence for that because
it says verse number 12 it says therefore the word of the lord came to jeremiah from the lord
saying thus saith the lord the god of israel i made a covenant with your fathers in the day that i
brought them forth out of the land of egypt out of the house of bonman saying at the end of seven
years let ye go every man his brother in hebrew which hath been sold unto thee and when he hath
served these six years thou shalt let him go free from thee but your fathers hearkened not unto me
neither inclined their ear so god's upset with these people because he's saying like look you
guys were in bondage in egypt pharaoh was giving you guys hard labor their task masters were taking
advantage of you you guys were slaves in egypt and i delivered you from that you know i gave you
freedom from that but in return i told you that you when you have a servant when you have a bond
man or a bond woman every seven years you need to let that person free and they were not doing that
look at verse number uh 15 it says and you were now turned and had done right in my sight in
proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor and he had made a covenant before me in the house which
is called by my name but he turned and polluted my name and caused every man his servant and
every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure to return and brought them into
subjection to be unto you for servants and for handmaids so obviously this proclamation that
king zedekiah made was something that god backed up something that god endorsed he endorsed zedekiah's
plan he said hey you did right at first you obeyed the king to do what was right in letting these
people free but now i'm seeing that you're turning back on it you've changed your mind and now you're
doing wickedly and notice the consequence verse 17 therefore thus saith the lord you have not
hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty everyone to his brother and every man to his neighbor
Behold I proclaim a liberty for you saith the Lord to the sword to the pestilence and to the famine
And I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth
And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant which have not performed the words of the covenant
Which they had made before me when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof
The princes of juda and the princes of jerusalem the eunuchs and the priests and all the people of the land
Which passed between the parts of the calf I will even give them into the hand of their enemies
And into the hand of them that seek their life and their dead bodies shall be for meat
Unto the fouls of the heaven and to the beasts of the the earth and zedekiah king of juda and his princes
Will I give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them that seek their life?
And into the hand of the king of babalon's army which are gone up from you behold
I will command say it the lord and cause them to return to this city and they shall fight against it and take it
And burn it with fire and I will make the cities of juda a desolation without an inhabitant
So get the picture in this story, you know, because this story is going to be the basis of our sermon tonight
You know god backed up the authority god backed up the kingship
When the king said you need to let all of your servants go
You need to let all of your maid servants your man servants. Let them be free and the people they immediately did
Right, but notice how quickly it was they changed their mind and you know, why did they change their mind?
Because they're thinking hey this person this servant is bringing me money
This person's helping me with my farming or livestock or anything like that
And so they're looking at this situation as a financial loss
And so they don't want to obey because they don't want to lose their money
But in doing that in wanting to hang on to their money, they actually caused the curse of god to be upon them
To where god now that he saw them, you know go from obeying to not obeying. He's like, okay
You didn't want to proclaim liberty
Well, i'm going to give you liberty to the sword to the famine to the pestilence and he's saying your guys's dead bodies
Are just going to be piled up, you know
And so it went from them not wanting to get rid of their their servants because they wanted to hang on to their money
They wanted their money so bad now they're facing a way worse problem than losing their money now. They're facing the sword now
They're facing nebuchadnezzar now
They're facing pestilence famine and the curse of God on their life and the title my sermon this evening is this obedience is
easier than correction
obedience is easier than
Correction sometimes in the heart of man
We see a commandment from God or for or from any authority and we think yeah
But if I obey that I'm gonna be losing out on something or that's gonna cause something detrimental to my life
But oftentimes what we don't see the consequences behind the door if we choose to disobey and and the point of the sermon is that
obedience is
Always easier than being corrected, you know
It would have been so much easier for these people to have lost their servants to have lost their money
Then to lose their lives then to lose their their nation and lose the blessing of God on them
And I want to go through several applications of this go to Hebrews chapter number 12 Hebrews 12 number one tonight
It's easier to obey God than getting corrected by God
And you know, we saw a good example of that already here in Jeremiah 34
It would have been so much easier just to let go of your men servants than to die by the sword
It's always easier to obey than to be corrected
Hebrews 12 5 teaches this concept it says and he have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you is unto children
my son
Despise not thou the chastening of the Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of him
verse number six for whom the Lord loveth he chastened and scourge it every son whom he
Receive it. So, you know even in the New Testament the Bible teaches this concept that God punishes his children
You know in John chapter 1 we learned that when we receive Christ we become the sons of God and the Bible says
Whom the Lord loveth he chasten it and scourge it every son whom he receiveth
So God is a God of correction. God is a God that is going to look at our actions
That's going to judge our life and when he sees disobedience in our life
He will correct us now oftentimes God is very long suffering
God is very merciful and sometimes people can test God for a really long time before he brings the hammer down on them
But the Bible promises and the Bible guarantees that God will correct his children look at verse 7 if he endure chastening
God dealeth with you as with sons for what son is he whom the father chastened if not, you know
It's just obvious that fathers chase in their children, right?
And if you saw a child that had no chastening that was never corrected that was never spanked
You would say where's the dad, you know, and unfortunately in our society
There's a lot of kids today that live their entire life never being spanked by their physical father because they don't have one
And you know, that's a shame but just like that's true physically
That's also true spiritually of this world where there's people in this world where they haven't received the Lord Jesus Christ
And they are you know without a father in a sense spiritually now if they believed in Jesus Christ
They would be adopted as his son and you know what happened God would start correcting them like his own son
Look at verse number eight, but if you be without chastisement where of all our partakers then are you bastards and not sons?
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence
Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the fathers of unto the father of spirits and
Live now go to Deuteronomy chapter number 28. So, you know, we learn here that God absolutely will
punish his children and some people they live their whole life in Christianity just
Constantly being punished by God and those people are the ones that need the sermon tonight that obedience is easier than
Correction. It's not like God is up in heaven just
Desiring to spank his kids all day because I don't know about you when my kids do bad
I wish that they hadn't obviously right and sometimes it could even be annoying having to spank your children
Because it's just a burden. It's something you got to stop what you're doing. You got to correct them
You got to spank them. You got to explain to them what they did wrong
You know that can be a little bit of a burden and I don't think God is up in heaven just wanting to punish us all
The time but sometimes God just has that rebellious child that child just with a hard neck a stiff neck that just constantly needs
Lots and lots of spankings and if you feel like man, I feel like I'm always just being punished by God
Well, just get this obedience is easier than correction
If you just obeyed God you wouldn't have to be corrected by God all the time
Deuteronomy chapter 28 look at verse number one
and it shall come to pass that if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God and observe and
Do all his commandments which I command thee this day that the Lord thy God will set thee on high
Above all nations of the earth and all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee
thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God blessed shalt thou be in the city and blessed shalt thou be in
The field blessed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattle
The increase of thy kind and the flocks of thy sheep blessed shall be thy basket and thy store
Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out the Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise
Up against thee to be smitten before thy face. They shall come out against thee one way and flee before the
seven ways so
Deuteronomy 28 this is more of a context of God's promises to a nation as a whole
But you know we could also apply this to our lives as well that if we
Diligently observe and follow the commandments of God that we will live blessed lives in general
That doesn't mean we're never going to be punished by God
That doesn't mean that we're never going to go through tribulation or persecution, you know
Even godly people will go through tribulation and persecution
But in general the person that's obeying God obeying his commandments that person is going to be blessed and notice
He lists all these different areas. We're gonna be blessed in our body the fruit of our body meaning our children
You know our money our store when you go out when you come in talking about battle
You know God's gonna bless you in all these different areas when you harken to his voice now
What if you don't well read the rest of the chapter and it's just all negative
Let's look at a couple of it here
It says but it shall come to pass if thou will not harken unto the voice of the Lord thy God
To observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day
That all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee cursed shalt thou be in the city and
Cursed shalt thou be in the field cursed shall be thy basket and thy store
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land the increase of thy kind and the flocks of thy sheep
Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out
So notice the converse is true that if you decide rather not to listen to God's word or obey what he has to say
You just decide to rebel against him not do what he says then every single aspect of your life will be cursed by God
And you know that should cause us to want to fear the Lord right to realize that hey God's not playing games with our life
And people today they take life so flippantly and they take their sin so flippantly at times
But I don't think people are often thinking about the consequences that can come on their life as a result of that
You know, especially how it talks about the fruit of thy body, you know
Could you imagine your children suffering for the decisions that you make?
There's a lot of people today in this world that are suffering as a direct result of the decisions that their parents made
You know, there's a lot of kids that are being raised in the home of a drug addict, right?
And they're not having parents that are raising them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord
They're not like I was talking about this morning learning about the days of creation
They're not out looking at the stars thinking about God at night, you know, they're doing they're seeing their dad smoking crack
They're seeing their mom being a whore. They're seeing their family being cursed by God because their family's
refusing to obey the Bible refusing to obey God and
Literally children are suffering as a result of that, you know
I met this guy a few weeks ago who because of his family situation because of some of the decisions that his parents made in
Life, he was actually sold to work for the cartel as a ten-year-old little boy
And he started working for the Mexican cartel from age 10 to a few years ago
And you know what his entire life has just been a train wreck
why because his parents brought him up around such this this terrible environment and that's just a really sobering thought for me to
Think about that my own children could either be greatly blessed as a result of me actually
Diligently following the commandments of God or my children can be completely destroyed because of my decisions
And while God is not holding children accountable for the sins of their fathers
You know, the truth is is that your sins though could cause consequences that your children very
Absolutely will experience and feel you know, you think about
Children being raised maybe under the roof of a single mother and oftentimes single mother will get a boyfriend, right?
And you know
We've heard this story way too many times where mom gets a boyfriend and the children are being molested by the boyfriend or by the dad
Did those children do anything wrong? Of course not but their parents sinned by getting a divorce
You know their parents sinned by committing adultery and now their life is being hurt. Their life is being destroyed
So, you know, we got to realize that there's actual
serious
Consequences on us on our nation on our church on our children
And it's just so much easier just to obey God than to be corrected by God then to deal with the consequences of sin
Go if you would to Deuteronomy 30 Deuteronomy chapter number 30 look at verse number one
It says and it shall come to pass
when all these things are come upon you the blessing and the curse which I have set before thee and now shall call them to
mind among all the nations whether the Lord thy God hath driven thee and
Shall return unto the Lord thy God and shall obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day
Thou and thy children with all thine heart with all thy soul that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity and have
Compassion upon thee and will return and gather thee from all the nations whether the Lord thy God hath
Scattered thee so notice repentance
Does lead to compassion you know that is the good news that if you have screwed up your life if you have been
Constantly being you know punished by God because of your sins the truth is that repentance does lead to compassion
You know God's ready to forgive God is ready to restore
But you know what that doesn't undo the damage that has been done before that
You know, you can't go get a tattoo and then pray and get right with God and the tattoo just magically disappears off your body
It's not going to work. You know, if you've lost your virginity, there's no one doing that
You have children out of wedlock. There's no one doing that
You know just terrible terrible things can happen in our lives to where yes. God can forgive. Yes. God can restore
Yes, god can still use you. Yes. God still loves you
But a lot of those things the actual actions themselves cannot be undone
And so, you know what's just so much easier than repenting and getting compassion from god is just obeying him in the first place
But today people think yeah god doesn't care. Yeah. God's not watching
God's not going to punish me for my actions and then they wake up and realize that they're wrong
Go to proverbs chapter 23 proverbs chapter 23 because what you have to understand about sin is that yes
There is a supernatural
Side of sin where god sees you sin and he comes down on you personally where he's actively judging your life
But there's a lot of sins where god doesn't even have to actively punish you
Just the act of committing these sins themselves punishes you in and of themselves. What's an example of that?
How about drinking alcohol?
You know if you drink alcohol god does not have to stretch forth his hand upon your life supernaturally to punish you
You know you are just punishing yourself by drinking alcohol look at verse number 21 for the drunkard and the glutton
Shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags
You know, it's so funny today when you see people supposedly in poverty in the united states of america
Who am I talking about people that are usually referred to as homeless which really they're not homeless
They're just lazy is what they are. They're not homeless. They're just drunks
They're alcoholics. They're drug addicts because look what the bible says for the drunkard and the glutton
Shall come to poverty. Oh, why don't I have any money?
Why can't I pay my bills maybe because you're drunk and guess what?
There's a built-in punishment to that sin where god doesn't even have to like put his hand on your life
And curse you for drinking just poverty is the natural result of drinking alcohol
Why because you're not going to be a good worker when you're an alcoholic
You're not going to be skilled at anything when you're drunk all the time. I mean you can't do any skilled job while being drunk
You just can't go to proverbs 23 verse 29
There's a lot of built-in punishment for sin verse 29 says who hath woe who hath sorrow who hath contentions who hath babbling
Who hath wounds without cause who hath redness of eyes?
They that tarry long at the wine they that go to seek mixed wine. So notice woe
sorrow
Contention babbling redness of eyes. This is not God cursing you
This is not God's hand coming upon you and causing you to do these things
This is just the result of the poison that you're drinking called alcohol
If you just drink poison
This is what the result is going to be in your life with or without God's punishment look at verse
31 look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth his color in the cup when it moveth itself a right
At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder thine eyes shall behold
Strange women and nine heart shall utter perverse things
Notice God is not causing you to start lusting after women that are not your wife
God's not making you do that that is just the natural result of drinking alcohol is losing your judgment
Forgetting about your station in life the fact like I don't know that you're married
That's a pretty big detail that your brain forgets about when you're drunk
And God's not causing you to behold other women in your eyes. God's not causing you to utter perverse things
You know what's causing you to do that is the poison that you're drinking and so God doesn't even need to punish you
When you're drinking alcohol though, he can he can go above and beyond and punish you extra for sure
But here's the thing even just drinking alcohol in and of itself is a punishment and people think oh drink alcohol to have a good time
It's like you're literally punching yourself in the face and telling me you're having a good time
It's like you are retarded man. You are a stupid person to sit there and punch yourself in the face and say
I'm having a great time. Hey, isn't it great? Isn't it cool how I just nuked my marriage
Hey, isn't it cool that I've been married to my wife for 30 years and in one night of drinking alcohol
I destroyed the whole thing
Isn't it just funny that every divorced person that I know to a tee drinks alcohol weird how that works
Maybe because it destroys your judgment
Verse 34 yay thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea or as he that lieth upon the top
Of a mask they have stricken me shalt thou say and I was not sick
They have beaten me and I felt it not when shall I awake I will seek it yet again
So when you're drunk when you're drinking alcohol God's not causing you to be dizzy
God's not causing you to be like a drunken man or on a sailor or on a ship or something like that
God's not the one causing you to get into fights and have wounds that you don't even remember where they came from
You know, God's not causing you to fall over and vomit all over yourself and choke on your own vomit
You're doing that to yourself and let me tell you there's a lot of things in life where the sin itself
Punishes you or God doesn't even have to put down his hand on you though
We can and though he does the sin itself punishes you, you know, how about fornication go to Proverbs 5 Proverbs chapter number 5
You know, it's just so much easier to obey God than to be corrected than to deal with consequences
It's so much easier just to never drink alcohol
Then have to deal with the consequences of alcohol or of the supernatural consequences of God punishing you for alcohol
Same thing with fornication. Look at Proverbs 5 verse 3 says for the lips of a strange woman
That's someone that's not your wife for the lips of a strange woman drop as in honeycomb and her mouth is smoother than oil
So notice to the flesh she could appear as something that's good, you know
And when people commit fornication they're thinking this is gonna be good. This is something that I need in my life
This is what people think in their minds when they do this
But look at verse number four, but her end is bitter as a wormwood sharp as a two-edged sword
Her feet go down to death her steps take hold on hell
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life her ways are movable that thou canst not know them
Hear me now therefore O ye children and depart not from the words of my mouth
Remove thy way far from her and come not nigh the door of her house
Lest thou give thine honor unto others and thy years unto the cruel
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth and thy labors be in the house of a stranger and the more and at the last
When I flesh and my body are consumed and say how have I hated instruction and my heart?
Despised reproof. You see obedience is easier than correction because it's so much easier to avoid the whore
To avoid the strange woman to not go in unto someone
That's not your wife rather than to wake up and your wealth be filled in another man's house. Like what?
How about like alimony when men they go out they cheat on their wife
They think this is something they need and then what do they have to do?
Their wealth has to go to a different household because the government's gonna make them pay alimony to their wife or you know
they do this and then they get a divorce and the government forces them to pay child support to that mom and
Their wealth is just being squandered because of the decision that they made and notice that's not even God punishing you
That is just the result of your sin and notice this it says when my flesh and my body are consumed, you know
STDs this is a natural result of these types of sins
Where God doesn't even have to move his hand from heaven to cause you to get these diseases though
He can but oftentimes it's just a result of committing these sins
And so, you know what?
It's just so much easier to obey God where the Bible says remove thy foot far from her when you see the strange woman
Rather than to play with sin and then realize that you get bit at the end and now you have to deal with the consequences
Oftentimes for the rest of your life look
It's so much easier to just obey God than to be corrected by God go to Exodus chapter number 20 number two
It's easier to obey your parents than to get corrected by your parents
I mean sometimes kids they get this feeling maybe especially in their teenage years where they feel like my parents are constantly punishing me
my parents are constantly correcting me my parents are constantly spanking me and
Have you ever just considered maybe your life would be easier if you just obeyed your parents
Rather than just constantly disobeying them constantly disrespecting them and then dealing with the consequences of being corrected
Look obedience is easier than correction. Look at Exodus 20 verse 12
Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God
Give it thee. You know, it's so much easier just to honor your mom and dad rather than for God to cut your life short
Supernaturally because you dishonor your father and your mother and you know what?
You should never ever have an attitude where you dishonor your father or mother, you know
It doesn't even matter what they believe. It doesn't matter if they're Christians
It doesn't matter if they're living a wicked life because at least they brought you into this world
You can at least say that you can say hey
I'm here alive today meaning my parents fed me my parents clothed me my parents gave me a roof over my head
My parents sacrificed for me. My parents did good for me. And so just for that alone
They deserve honor and respect doesn't matter if they're safe
The Bible doesn't say honor your father if he's a fundamental Baptist honor your father
If he took you to church when you were a child
And look if you have parents that did raise you Christian that are saved that did teach you the Bible
How much more should you be honoring your father and mother and you know, it is just one of the most disgusting and shameful things
I've ever seen in my life to see children dishonoring their father
And you know you saw this many years ago where this like new gentle parenting came into our country
And you see like five and six-year-olds punching their mom at the grocery store
Mom, you're a bee. I mean we've heard these things haven't we haven't we seen children like this and we're thinking like these kids are like demons
Like what is wrong with these children? What is wrong with our country that we never taught children to honor their father and mother
You know when I went to the Bahamas everyone there believes the King James Bible
Everyone there knows the Bible and those people honored authority. They honored their teachers. They honored the preacher
They honored their mom and dad and today we live in such a godless and wicked society that we have children
Dishonoring their parents even when their parents raised them as fundamental Baptists
Let me say this we live in such a wicked and disgusting society that we even have
Pastors that help children that on that dishonor their parents what a sick and disgusting person you are
To ever support a child that is dishonoring their parents for any reason because God literally said that if a child
dishonors his parents that he's gonna cut their life short and
Someone that would support that it just makes me wonder like do you have any fear of God whatsoever or just want to act like you're?
The most humble godly person in the world when apparently you don't even know one of the ten
Commandments to honor your father and your mother look at verse 8. My son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake
You know what? I think I messed up in my notes here. I'm just gonna read this for you in Proverbs
It says my son here the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head and chains about thy neck my son if sinners entice thee
Consent thou not if they say come with us. Let us lay wait for blood
Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave and whole as those that go down into the pit
We shall find all precious substance
We shall fill our houses with spoil cast in thy lot among us. Let us all have one purse my son
Walk not thou in the way with them refrain thy foot from their path
You know when it comes to it's easier to obey your parents than to be corrected by your parents
You know some of the things your parents are gonna do for you in life is to give you instructions
And the Bible says not to forsake the instruction or the law of your mother and father
Why because the instruction that they're giving you is for your own benefit. It's for your own good
How about like this when sinners entice thee consent thou not when people are saying hey, let's lurk privily for blood
They're literally conspiracy. They're there could spear conspiring by English will work this evening
They're conspiring to commit murder and you know, this is pretty good advice from your parents
Hey son, stay away from people that are conspiring to commit murder
Why because there's gonna be serious consequences for being around people like that and being involved with activities like that
So, you know, it's so much easier just to obey mom and dad when they say hey son
Don't hang out with this person and you know, let me tell you this. It's a good idea as parents to tell your children
Hey, don't hang around this person. There could be bad people even in church
There could be bad children even in church and it's a good idea to tell your kids like hey, don't be friends with that person
Why because that person is gonna lead you down a dark path and it's so much easier for children to just obey that instruction
rather than to be drawn away with the error of the wicked and then have to deal with the consequences of
That sin go to Proverbs 13 Proverbs 13 verse number 20 he that walketh with wise men
Shall be wise but a companion of fools shall be destroyed
you know show me someone's friends and I'll show you that person's future show me who someone yolks up with and
Who people endorse and who people like and I will tell you who's a fool and who is wise
Because it is a ironclad guarantee that if you want to go be friends with fools
You will become a fool you want to be friends with wicked people you will become a wicked person
You want to be you want to be a teenager that's friends with someone that does drugs
You'll do drugs you want to be a teenager that rebels against your parents and hang out with all the kids that are committing fornication
You'll commit fornication. Why because you know what most human beings?
99% of human beings are just complete followers and don't think that you're the exception because you're not okay
You are a follower and don't think like oh I could just hang around all these wicked people all these people that are disobeying authority
Disrespecting authority, but I'm somehow different. No, you are the same. You are the same fool
You are the same wicked person go to Proverbs chapter number 30 Proverbs chapter 30 Proverbs 30 verse 17
Bible says the eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother
The ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it
You know the Bible is teaching there the Bible is teaching that when a son or a daughter would literally mock their parents
Make fun of ridicule their parents and despise to obey their parents that God can literally kill you for that
That's how serious it is to God. You know, this is this is not a game. This is not a joke
Okay, the Bible is literally saying that God can kill people for mocking their parents for disobeying their parents
And you know, I I have zero respect whatsoever for any person that would assist a child that is doing this
I don't care if you're a pastor
I don't care how long you've been in the ministry. I don't care if people follow you when you have a child
That's literally mocking his parents and you support that you endorse that you click like on Facebook on that
You know what you are wicked person not saying you're not saved not saying that you can't do things for God in the future
But you have serious wickedness in your heart to stand against the Bible's teaching on authority and decide with rebellion
Decide with children mocking their fathers to side with people disobeying their parents
You have a serious wicked problem in your heart, and you know what I will not stand with people that do that
I don't care who they are good Ephesians chapter number six Ephesians chapter number six
Ephesians chapter six look at verse number one says children obey your parents in the Lord for this is
Right doesn't say obey your parents if you like them obey your parents if you agree with their parenting style
Since when have kids been the ones putting a stamp of approval on their parents parenting style. I mean that is insanity
How about just thank you dad for bringing me alive to this age. I thank you mom for feeding me
Thank you mom and dad for sacrificing for me. Hey, thanks mom and dad for working so hard for me
That should be our attitude towards our parents and look I know there's people in here where their parents are not saved
I know there's people in here where their parents have done pretty terrible things
Okay, but that does not matter God still wants you to honor them
God still wants you to obey them if you are living under their authority and even if you separate from your parents
Even if you have an estranged relationship from them, you should not attack them. You should not disparage them
You should not rail or lie against them or disparage them in any way
You know if your parents are just so wicked and so evil, you know, let's use an extreme example
I don't think anyone in here is like this
But let's say your parents are literally sodomites your parents are literal god-hating
Reprobates, let's say that that's the case. Okay, just separate from them. Don't speak of them. Don't speak negatively of them
Just say like hey my parents brought me alive. They fed me and that's about it
You know, if you don't have anything nice to say about your parents, don't say anything at all
And you know, that's not true of all people. Okay, but it is true of your parents
It absolutely is true of mom and dad go to Ephesians chapter five flip the page back. Let me say this
It's easier to obey your husband and to be corrected by your husband. Is this Islam, you know, is this an al-qaeda church right here?
No, that is actually what the Bible teaches. Look at Ephesians 5 verse 22 wives
Submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. Let's just read that again
Okay, wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. Maybe you need to underline that or highlight it or something and
Realize that this is the King James Bible that we're reading. This isn't the Quran. Okay, we're not in Afghanistan
This is the Bible Belt. We're in Oklahoma
This is the King James Bible and the Bible says that wives are to submit to their husbands
Why because their husband actually is in authority and it's easier to obey your husband than to be corrected by your husband
Husbands can correct their wives. Yeah, that's what authority is. God can correct us. Can you not parents can correct us?
Can they not guess what husbands can correct their wives to why because they are in authority look at verse 23
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the Savior of the body
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ. So let the wives be to their own husbands in
Everything. So notice the authority structure between a husband and wife is the exact same authority structure as the Lord
Jesus Christ and the church now, let me tell you this what if I got up and I said, hey guys
I have the suggestions of Jesus right here, but you know, I'm not really gonna follow what it says
I'm just gonna do whatever I want. Would you say that our church is in subjection to Jesus Christ?
Would you say that our church is obeying him yet today?
Feminism is teaching women that well you have to come to an agreement with your husband
Well, you know if you agree with your husband's decision, then you can obey him. That's not what obedience is
Obedience is I think something else, but I'm gonna go with what you're saying
I want to make a different decision, but I'm gonna follow your lead. That is what obedience actually is you say
Well, can husbands actually correct their wives?
Well, let me ask you this can Jesus correct the church because that's the exact same relationship that God details go to
Revelation chapter number three Revelation three you say oh well the Bible says for husbands to love their wives. Yeah, what's your point?
Jesus loves the church does that mean that he's not in charge does that mean that he can't correct course husbands are to love their wives
But you know what people don't know what love is
You know Bible said that love is the fulfilling of the law and people think like oh love
Means my husband does everything I want him to do love means my husband agrees with me all the time
Love means I ask something of my husband aka my servant and he do with it. This is what people think love is okay
Well, let's see what love looks like
Revelation 3 verse 19 as many as I love I
Rebuke and chasten be zealous there for and repent
You know I feel like if this world ever saw a husband like rebuke his wife
They would be calling the police. They would say like wow, this is abuse. You know, the husband just said what's a rebuke?
It's a stern correction just be like hey stop that we're not doing that. That would be like a rebuke, right?
Jesus the Bible says he loves us and he rebukes us and chastens us
What does that mean?
That means that Jesus as a loving authority figure is allowed to correct people that are under his authority and guess what?
Husbands are allowed to correct their wives now
We've been raised in this backward world in this feminist nation in the United States of America in 2024
Where we don't really see
Biblical principles being carried out in our daily lives and I guarantee you if all of us think back on our parents marriages
It probably didn't look like Ephesians chapter number five describes it
Okay
But here's the thing when you come to the Bible you need to absolutely flush your worldly influences flush your
Experiences down the toilet and just look at what the Bible actually says this is called
Renewing your mind saying that hey, I probably believe things that are wrong. I have bad philosophies
I have bad ideas and I need to just look at what the Bible says and actually conform my mind to what the Bible says
Not just well, I mean, there's no way a husband that can actually correct his wife. That's al-qaeda. That's terrorism
No, you're just an idiot. No, you're just carnal. No, you're just a feminist
Yes, a husband is in charge of his wife and a good husband should correct his wife. Let me prove that go back to Ephesians 5
Ephesians chapter number 5 verse number 25
It says husbands love your wives even as meaning in the same way as Christ also loved the church and gave himself
For it. So what is one way husbands should love their wives? Well, it should be by being selfless
By giving yourself for your wife working hard to provide for her making decisions that are in her best interest
Right leading for the benefit of your wife that is loving your wife as Christ loved the church
But that doesn't not mean that you're not in charge. That does not mean that you don't have to correct issues
Here's how I know that you have to correct issues look at verse
26 that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word
So notice what Jesus does to the church is he has to cleanse us
He has to wash us by using the word of God meaning, you know
We open up our Bibles in the morning and it's like Jesus getting some soap and he's like Ephesians like clean up your life
And just Colossians just make clean up all your issues and Psalms and Proverbs and Jesus is just constantly correcting us
I mean when I read the Bible Jesus is constantly just fixing problems that I have I read that like I'm not doing that and Jesus
Tells me the right way to do something. So if we're supposed to love our wives like Christ love the church
How does that actually look? Well, it looks like us leading for her better betterment
Looks like us being selfless self less and it also looks like us
Correcting problems. That's what a leader is. I mean, that's what God does. He corrects issues
This is what parents do they correct issues
This is what godly husbands should be doing as well. Why because God made you the authority in your home men
And don't buy this feminist attitude that you're not allowed to correct your wife
You just have to hope and pray that she will obey you
No
You make her obey you correct her in the same way that Jesus Christ makes us obey and correct us
With the Word of God and notice how does Jesus correct by giving commandments do this don't do that
That's what the Word of God is right, so it'd be very appropriate for husband to do the same thing. Hey wife do this
Stop doing this honey. I love you, but what you're doing right now is not right
This is actually what the Bible says and this is what you need to do. There's nothing unloving about that
That's extremely loving, you know
It's only just a wicked feminist attitude that would look at that just simple correction and think like abuse al Qaeda
This isn't Christianity. No what we just read was the Bible go to Psalm or go to Proverbs chapter number 21
And you know ladies it would just be in your best interest for your marriage to just get this idea into your head
Obedience is easier than correction
Obedience is easier than correction. You say I don't like being you know, corrected by my husband
Just obey him then you know
And this is what a lot of ladies do unfortunately is they get corrected by their husband and instead of submitting
What do they do? They nag they fight they backtalk they complain
Why because this is just the example ladies have been shown unfortunately in our country and it's not like this
In other countries in the world, but it sure is like this here in America
Why because we've been rejecting the Bible
But let me tell you why this is not in your best interest ladies to nag your husband to backtalk him to fight against him
Look at Proverbs 21 verse 9
It says it is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house
So notice if you are a brawling woman and you want to you know
Rebell against your husband and not take his correction. The Bible says that it's better for him than to just go into the corner of a housetop
And what's funny about this verse is it doesn't say like well, it'll seem better to him in his carnal mind
It'll seem better to him to be separated into the housetop. It just says no it is better
It just objectively is better to be in the corner of an attic in a dusty dirty attic
Than with a feminist it just objectively objectively is better look at verse 19. It is better to dwell in the wilderness
Than with a contentious and an angry woman doesn't say like well he thinks it's better to go to the woods
But if he was spiritual, you know, he would want to be around the angry and contentious woman
just like objectively it's better to be in the middle of the woods in Idaho and fighting off bears and
Wolves and mountain lions then to deal with an angry contentious feminist and you know what?
It's such a shame today that so many ladies have been brought up and taught to be a feminist and to be an angry and
Contentious woman because it's just hurting them. You know why because it's turning away godly men from wanting to marry them
You know, there's all these women out there. They have so much potential. They're young. They're beautiful. They're virgin
They're just waiting for some man to take them and and that's on the table, right?
But then they're told Oh be a feminist and the only guys that are attracted to them are guys like Andrew Tate guys
They just want to abuse them and use them for their body
Rather than a godly man that actually wants to marry her and be with her for the rest of his life
But you know what?
The only woman that a godly man wants to be with for the rest of his life is a submissive and godly wife
And you know, thank God I have that because I feel really bad for these guys that get married and all of a sudden
They wake up and realize like wow, I'm with a brawling and contentious woman and they're thinking like I need to go to the attic
I need to go to the wilderness and they're driven that way by their wife
you know the Bible says life and death is in the power of the tongue and ladies can
Build up their marriage by speaking kindly by obeying their husband or they could destroy it by being a brawling and contentious woman
But I'm telling you obedience is easier than correction in every area of life go to Proverbs 15 verse 17
This is better as a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith to me
That's a really powerful Bible verse because in my house. I have a rule that every dinner must have meat
I am NOT a vegetarian. I don't know if you remember my sermon on vegetarianism. I don't like it at all
I am anti vegetarian, but the Bible saying like it's so important to have a godly and just a
Home with love and peace in it that you would rather literally eat a vegetarian meal than the best
Texas barbecue spread spread out before you but there's hatred in the home
That's saying a lot because I think God knows how much we love meat
Okay, that is saying a lot to say like I just rather eat, you know salad just nothing else to have peace
But that actually is true because any man that is actually with this type of a woman
They would tell you like I'll become a vegetarian today for my wife to chill out
Right. That is just a true statement go to first Peter chapter number two first Peter two
You know again, I love this quote the pastor Shelley told me he said life is all about obedience
But the question is to who life is all about obedience
But the question is to who every single person in here must obey someone
So it's funny. Everyone's with me. Yeah obey God. It's easier to obey God than to be corrected by God
Yeah, obey your parents. It's easier to obey your parents and be corrected by your parents like hey obey your husbands
It was like, oh, this is al-qaeda. It's just like no just renew your mind
Know that God wants what's best for you
God's not giving his commandments to harm you to keep you in chains to make you a poor little house slave
No, it's actually gonna make your life great when you follow his commandments
Number four it's easier to obey your boss than to be corrected by your boss. Look at 1st Peter chapter 2 verse 18
Servants be subject to your masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the foward
So notice if you're in the workplace and you have someone that's placed an authority over you
You are to obey that person not if they're nice
Not if they're talented at their job not if you know more than them or if they know more than you it just it doesn't
Matter if they're good. It doesn't matter if they're forward or gentle you must obey your boss
And it's easier to obey your boss than to be corrected by your boss. No one likes being corrected by their boss
It's not fun if you're a man if you've had a job you've been corrected by your boss, and you know what that's not fun
But you know what but your boss you won't be corrected by him as much be a good worker
Show up on time. You know if you just do this if you just make it your mission at work to make your boss money
You will not be corrected by him at least not very often if you make it your mission at work to say all right
I'm gonna do this work
Not the way that I would like it not the way that I would do things but the way that would please my boss
You're gonna be golden you're gonna be corrected much less at work when that is your attitude look at Colossians chapter number three Colossians
Chapter three Colossians 3 verse 22 says servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh
Not with eye service as men pleasers but in singleness of heart fearing God
So notice when you're at work
Who you should really be surking seeking to please beyond anything else is God and by pleasing your boss
You're going to be pleasing God because God is the one that told you to be subject to him
God is the one that told you to submit to what your boss says it says not with eye
Service meaning when you're at work, you shouldn't be thinking like well
I'm gonna slack off and do nothing until the boss is in the room
Then now that his eyes are on me
I'm gonna make sure it looks like I'm working hard and producing for the company. No rather. You should just be fearing God
I'm saying you know what I'm gonna obey my boss. I'm gonna do what my boss says
I'm gonna seek to please my boss not because I like him or I agree with him
But because I like God and I want God to like me and let me tell you it's easier to just obey your boss
Than to be corrected by your boss go to Romans 13. Let me say this number five
It's easier to obey the government than to be corrected by the government and oftentimes if you're corrected by the government
It's the final correction. You're going the long sleep after that one
Oftentimes look at Romans 13 says in verse 1 let every soul be subject unto the higher powers
But there's no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God
So notice God is the one that ordained authority and the fact that we have human government the fact that we have
Husbands in authority the fact that we have bosses in authority that authority was ordained of God
God set that in place verse 2 whosoever therefore resisteth the power
Resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves
Damnation so when we resist any form of legitimate authority
Who you are resisting at the end of the day is actually God himself because God is the one that instituted that authority
And so our attitude when it comes to government should be that if the government is not, you know
encroaching into our spiritual lives and stopping us from doing the things that God commanded us
We should obey the government and man that's hard to say because we have a really stupid government. Let's be honest
We have a government full of people that don't like God that aren't following the commandments
But if they make a law, it's not a sin
It's not harming our conscience in any way or anything like that. We should obey that law for God's sake
The fact that God is the one that instituted the authority and notice there's consequences if we don't
Romans 13 verse 3 verse 3 for rulers are not a terror to good works
But to the evil and you know, even even now in 2024 though our government is wicked
In general our government is not going around every day terrorizing good things
I mean, I don't know about you
I've been soul winning for about 10 years
And I could count on the number the number of times like the police have stopped me on like one hand and it was in
Washington state where it's a lot more of a godless place
But like in texas and oklahoma the police is not really out there being a terror to good works
You know, in fact one time I was in texas in bedford and some you know
God-hating freak called the police on us and this big old dude with a cowboy hat gets out of his patrol vehicle
And he's like, yeah, what's going on or whatever?
And just oh, you know, we're out soul winning goes. Well sounds like somebody doesn't like the bible. He's like have a good day
It's just like okay, cool
You know the cops are not exactly out there terrorizing us here in texas and oklahoma. You know what they're doing
Let's be honest. They're usually terrorizing the evil. Oh, yeah, you're back the blue
You know, you're a government worshiper bootlicker. No, let's just be honest police in texas and oklahoma are not out there terrorizing soul winners
It's just not happening folks. Okay, get real wake up. Look what it says
Wilt thou then not be afraid of the 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 a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil
You know what?
I've just noticed throughout my life is the people that are really afraid of cops or that really hate police officers
Are the ones doing evil, you know, they're so afraid and they just hate the police
Yeah, because you've got drugs in your car
You should be afraid or you know, you've got a bunch of illegal stuff that you're doing you're doing all these crimes
It's like yeah, i've never been afraid of the police because i'm not breaking the law now
I'm not saying that we shouldn't you know check authority using our constitution making sure that we have limited government
And limiting the powers of police, you know, they shouldn't be out being authoritarians
But at the end of the day if the if an officer gives me a command
I'm just gonna obey the higher powers if they say show me your hands gonna show them my hands if they say hey
Put your hands. Excuse me on the steering wheel. I'm just gonna do that because let's be honest
The police are not out terrorizing me. They're not out terrorizing you
You know who they're out terrorizing people that are shooting other people people that are out slinging drugs
You know, I'll tell you an example right before I moved from Texas
I was with brother Jacob plant and brother Evan and we were out soul winning and all of a sudden
Right across the street. I hear gunfire just you know
We're in a cedar Hill neighborhood in South Dallas
and all of a sudden I hear gunfire going off and I'm kind of like in the easement of a home and I kind of
Just look over at the easement and there's these two young black teenagers with their pistol
Just firing their pistol down the road. Those kids should be afraid. Those kids should be terrified
Those kids have a reason to be scared
Why because if the police showed up and they have a gun and they're pointing down the road and they're firing it
The police are gonna put bullets in their brain. They're gonna be dead
why because he doesn't bear the sword in vain and by the way, that's a good thing because I don't want to live in a society where
I'm in a neighborhood with my family and kids are just shooting randomly down the street. I say to the police
Yeah, go take those little stupid kids out, you know again, where's the fathers in America? Where's the homes in America?
But you know what? I have never ever ever been afraid of the police are gonna shoot me because I've never pointed a gun at a
Police officer. I've never brought a knife out at a police officer. I've never gone here. Let me show you my ID. Here you go
You know, I've never done anything like that. I've never resisted a police officer's order. I've never done anything stupid like that
He's like, oh man cops just hate black people cops are just ready to kill black people
Maybe if black people are shooting down the street maybe but I guarantee you if the black people weren't doing that those little black kids
Weren't doing that they'd have no issue and guess what if a little white kid was down the street with an AR-15
Shooting randomly into people's houses. You know the police would do they'd put a bullet in his brain and what what's the sermon about?
It's easier to obey than to be corrected
Isn't it easier just to obey a police officer than for him to throw you onto the ground and make you obey?
Isn't it easier to obey the police officer than for him to shoot you and kill you again back to our first story?
Oh, man, I just don't want to give up my money. I just don't want to give up these servants
Okay, death is your other option. Which one would you have rather had? It's like, oh man
I don't want to obey this police officer because he's mean he's racist. It's like, okay
Do you want your face smashed into the ground though? Do you want to get shot? No, okay
Then just obey and you know what the attitude we should have as Christians when it comes to government
Is that if they're not asking us to sin we should obey them now if the police officer says hey
You guys aren't allowed to preach the Bible anymore
You guys aren't allowed to go sowing anymore. That would be the time that we obey or disobey, but let's be honest
We are nowhere near that right now
We're just not you know, there's other countries in the world like Germany where they literally had at the church plant there
they had a first-time visitor and the police literally followed this woman to her house and started asking her questions about why she went to church and
Then people want to tell me about how bad American police officers are like you have no idea what the rest of the world's like
No here
We actually have a lot of liberty and a lot of freedom and the police in general are not out to get us here in America
It's easier to obey the government than to be corrected by the government
Lastly here go to Hebrews 13. We'll make this quick number six
It's easier to obey your pastor than to be corrected by your pastor Hebrews 13 verse 17
Obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves for they watch for your souls
As they that must give an account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for you
So notice the people that are ruling and in charge your pastor. He doesn't want to do his job with grief
He wants to do it with joy and contrary to what some people might think about pastors
Pastors are not wanting to go around and just correct issues and problems all day
What they really want to do is just preach the word of God lead the house of God do soul winning
When people to Christ get them baptized, you know change people's lives for the better
It's not like pastors are just wanting to deal with all these drama and problems all the time
But the reality is is that the pastor is to be ruling is to be over people and you know
What that looks like is that there's gonna be issues constantly that the pastor has to deal with
I don't know where people get this weird idea from that pastors
You know can never preach against individuals when it's literally the pastor's job to correct bad doctrines bad ideas bad behaviors
Just bad things going on in church. It's the pastor's job to fix and say oh, I don't want to be corrected by my pastor
Well, it's easier to obey than to be corrected just like in every other area of life. Go to Acts chapter 20
While you're turning there, let me read first Timothy 5 17 the Bible says let the elders that rule well
So notice they're ruling be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine
So the elders the pastor they are to be ruling they are to be exercising
Authority look at acts 20 28 says take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost have made you
Overseers to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood for I know this that after my departing
Grievous wolves shall enter in among you not sparing the flock also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them
Therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years
I cease not to warn everyone night and day with tears go to second Timothy 4
So there we saw that the pastor is supposed to be the ruler. He's supposed to be the overseer
he's supposed to feed the flock of God and
One of the things he's supposed to be doing is watching out for false prophets or false brethren that are gonna come and creep in
Among them bringing in damnable heresy and think about it
How would a pastor correct false brethren or false prophets or damnable heresy being brought into the church?
You'd have to correct that issue by preaching against it, right?
So don't get this weird idea like pastors can never preach against individuals or anything like that
Second Timothy four verse two says preach the word be instant in season out of season and notice the
instruction to the pastor reprove
rebuke
Exhort with all long suffering and doctrine
So it is the pastor's job to reprove to tell people that they're wrong to rebuke to sternly tell someone that they're wrong
To exhort them that is part of a pastor's job
And it's I'm sure not the most fun part of his job if you don't want to be that person that's getting corrected
It's easier just to obey than to be corrected and look I've been corrected by the pastor before I'll be honest
I have it's not fun
I don't enjoy it
But it was because I was doing something dumb or I wasn't listening to him or wasn't doing the things that he wanted me
To do and I deserved every bit of it
I I've had a pastor tell me this before come to church this Sunday because the sermon is about you
Okay, I've literally had a pastor. Tell me that oh, how dare you preach against me. I'm quitting Christianity
I'm deconstructing from the faith. I've been abused by a church by a pastor. It's a cult
No, the pastor literally said this sermon is about you. So don't skip church this Sunday
I was like, yes, sir
And I just sat there and I took it and I followed in the Bible and I took notes and I fixed the problem
And you know what? That wasn't fun. That wasn't a great time
I've experienced many other sermons I enjoyed more than that one
But you know what that was a necessary sermon for my life and you know what I just learned is that hey
It's just easier to obey than to be corrected. Oh, man. I don't like being corrected
Just obey then and you don't have to be corrected go to Proverbs 13. We're almost done
obedience is easier than
Correction Proverbs 13 15 says good understanding giveth favor, but the way of transgressors is hard
Your life will be hard when you rebel against authority, you know, you want to rebel against God? He says hey sell your servants
Okay, I'll do that. Never mind you go back on it
Your life's about to be really hard when you get the sword the pestilence and the famine, you know, you say oh man
I'm gonna disobey my parents. Okay. Well, it's gonna be really hard when you're getting spanked all the time
Well, you know, I just want to disobey my husband. You're about to have a hard marriage
It's about to be a hard time for you if you want to rebel against your husband
Oh, I want to just disobey the cops F the police cops can't tell me what to do, man
It's about to be really hard when you get your face shoved in the concrete
Oh, you know who care? I'm gonna point my gun at the police. No, no worries. Who cares?
It's about to be really hard when you're about to get shot and killed, you know, or if we had God's law
Oh, you know who cares what the Bible says? I'm gonna go commit adultery man
Your life is about to be hard when you're stoned to death. Oh, you know, I'm gonna blaspheme the name of God
Well, that's gonna be hard for you when you're put to death or how about this?
Oh, I'm gonna go make a video cursing my father or mother. Well, that's gonna be hard for you when you're literally stoned to death
When you're literally killed, you know, the message that we need tonight is that obedience is easier than correction
Obey the authority in your life and you will have a better life. You will have a more happy and prosperous life
Let's pray Lord. Thank you for this day. Thank you for our fam families here and for our church family. I just pray that you would
Bless our church that you would help us to hold authority
Highly esteemed in our mind and that we would truly submit ourselves to the rightful authority in our lives
Not just go along with what we agree with but even when we're challenged and we disagree that we would submit ourselves
To you to our pastor and to other authorities in our lives. We love you in Jesus name. We pray. Amen
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