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to get started with service this evening. If you would find a seat and grab a hymnal.
Our first hymn this evening, number 102, He hideeth my soul.
102 there, on the 1st, a wonderful Savior.
Amen at this time, we'll open with a word of prayer
to bow your heads with me.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for the opportunity
to gather together again this evening
and for this day and your many blessings.
I just pray that you'd be with those that we spoke to
this evening, Lord, that you would just get those
that are already saved on fire to start serving for you
and living that reasonable sacrifice.
Also pray for this evening that you'd be with us
for the service, that everything would be done
decently in an order.
These things we pray in Jesus' name, amen.
For our next hymn number 208 grace greater than our sin
208 hymn number 208
Grace greater than our sin 208 there on the first
Ready to start?
So if you don't have a bulletin, please raise your hand
and an usher will come and bring you one.
Of course, I'm sure most of you are aware,
it seems like some sort of water main line broke,
a few suites down.
And so we did get a little bit of flooding
over in the mother baby room area.
So please just avoid those areas for this evening.
But it seems like the contractor's already here on site, so Lord willing, this will get resolved quickly.
So please be in prayer for that, that we could just be back to 100% normal by Sunday.
But we do have there on the left side our service to all.
Let me mention this first.
Our Bible verse of the week is Genesis chapter one, verse 12.
And on the inside, our service times are listed Sunday morning at 1030 Sunday evening, 430.
And of course, this evening at seven o'clock.
We also have all of our soul winning times listed there below and all those meet here
at the church building. Please join us for one of those times throughout the week.
We do have an updated total for our soul winning statistics for the year and
below that we have a lot of great upcoming events the
Nearest one is the Bahamas missions trip and that's October 6th through the 11th just a couple weeks away
So we're getting ready for that and the day we come back October 12th is the next men's preaching night
I'll make sure to have a sign-up sheet for that coming up
October 31st is the chili cookoff
And then our one year anniversary is going to be
November 22nd we're going to have our Saturday be a soul winning marathon here locally.
We'll meet here at the church Oklahoma City soul winning marathon.
And then November 23rd pastor Jonathan Shelley from steadfast
will be preaching for us and of course he was our pastor here for many many years.
And we still love pastor Shelley so grateful for his friendship so we're excited for
him to be coming and preaching for us. Then November 26th is the Pi Fellowship.
and then bring something sweet to share
for after the service on that day.
On the right, we have our visitor card
and online giving information.
as well as our prayer list.
Definitely not a shortage of things to pray for right now.
Definitely a good time to turn to the Lord in prayer more.
And if you yourself or your family have any requests
that you would like on this bulletin,
of course you could always email us.
We'd be happy to add those for you.
But at this time, let's go ahead and go to
the Lord in prayer as a church family.
Lord, we thank you this evening
for Anchor Baptist Church and for the brethren
that are gathered here.
for the blessings that we have in life
and the freedom that we have to serve you.
I just pray that you would help
with different situations going on
around our country right now.
I pray that you would judge and destroy
the wicked people in our society
that are bringing all sorts of violence to our nation.
I pray that our government would follow the Bible's advice
to put to death people who are worthy of death.
I pray that you would just help the Kirk family through their tragedy and loss.
I pray that you'd help us as a church to use this turbulent time in our nation
to reach people with the gospel, reach people with the truth,
that if there's people out there in Oklahoma City that are just looking for
normalcy and getting back to sanity, getting back to the word of God, Lord,
I pray that you would lead them to this place that would be able to get them saved and help them
Lord, we also want to thank you for the great Memorial service that was done yesterday for Brother Kevin Rowe at Faithful Word.
I just pray that you would allow people to really consider the great testimony that our brother had and that we would follow his
example of being very zealous for soul winning and just loving other people.
I pray that you would bless Lola during her grief and all of Brother Kevin's family members and friends.
who are suffering pain right now. I pray that you just bless them during this time, Lord.
We also want to pray for Brother Paul Weathers that you would just help him to fully recover, that you bless his health, Lord.
I also pray for Brother Theodore that you bless him on his mission strip in the Philippines, that you keep him safe while he's over there.
Help him just to remember to work hard, Lord. I pray that you would keep the opportunities wide open to him, that you lead him to people who want to get saved.
I pray that you bless Brother James Perry as he travels again. Please keep him safe.
And please continue to bless him with the works that he's doing.
And of course, we pray the same for Evangelist Urbanik and
Pastor Stuckey over in the Philippines,
which will help them continue to do the great work that they're doing.
Lord we also want to pray for brother myles health that you bless the houseburg family
We also want to pray for the church members in our church here who have unsaved loved ones
I pray that those people get lots of time to hear the gospel
But I pray that when they hear it that they would get saved immediately Lord that they would soften their hearts
To the word of God. We also pray that you would just bless every aspect of the service this evening. I pray that you just
Have your spirit fill this place Lord. We love you in Jesus name you pray. Amen. All right at this time
We'll go to our third song
In your white handouts this evening Psalm 149
149 149 in your white handouts this evening
Psalm 149 there on the first
Turn if you would to Proverbs chapter 24
Proverbs chapter number 24
verse 24 the Bible reads be not thou envious against evil men neither desire
to be with them for their heart studious destruction and their lips talk of
mischief
Through wisdom is in house-builded, and by understanding it is established.
And by knowledge, shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war, and in multitude of counselors there is safety.
Wisdom is too high for a fool he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
He that deviseseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
The thought of foolishness is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to men.
If thou faint in the day of adversity that strength is small,
if thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death,
those that are ready to be slain. If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not, doth not he that pondereth the heart
consider it, and he that keepeth thy soul doth not he know it, and shall not he render to every man according to his works.
My son, eat thou, honey.
Because it is good and the honeycomb which is sweet to thy taste
So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul when thou hast found it and
There shall be a reward and that expectation shall not be cut off
Lay not wait a wicked man
against the
Dwelling of the righteous, spoil not his resting place for a just man falleth seven times and
riseeth up again, but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Rejoice not when an enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleeth."
lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
Fret not thyself, because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked.
For there shall be no reward to the evil man, the candle of the wicked shall be put
out.
My son, fear thou the Lord and the king, and meddle not with them that are given to
change.
and who knoweth the ruin of them both. These things also belong to the wise. It is not good
to have respective persons in judgment. He that saith to the wicked thou art righteous,
But to him, but to them that rebuke him shall be delight and a good blessing shall come upon them
Every man shall kiss his lips that give it the right answer
Prepare thy work without and make it fit for thyself in the field and afterwards build thine house
Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause and
deceive not with thy lips
Say not I will do so to him as he hath done to me. I will render to the man according to his work
I went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding and low
It was all grown over with thorns and nettles had covered the face thereof and the stone wall was broken down
Then I saw and considered it well, and I looked upon it and received instruction
yet a little sleep
a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, so shall thy poverty come as one that
traveleth, and thy want as an armed man." That's by our heads forward to prayer, Father God. We
thank you for this day and we thank you for our church. Everyone gathered here. We ask that you
Proverbs chapter 24 verse 1 the Bible says be not thou envious
Against evil men neither desire to be with them sometimes even Christians could have this temptation or
Foolish desire and thought in their heart of being envious of wicked people
Wanting to be around them and when you think about it. What are the reasons for that? I really think it comes down to two things
money
material wealth
things, right? And on the other hand would be power, people would be envious of them because
of the things that they have, whether that be monetary or just the power that they have,
which is why sometimes people would want to be around even evil men if they're successful and
have riches and fame and stuff like that. But when I read this verse, I immediately thought of
And whenever you think about this idea of being envious at the wicked,
I always think Psalm 73 and Psalm 37 because they both talk about the same issue.
But let's just read a few verses here in Psalm chapter 73.
The Bible says,
slipped. So Asaph is the author here and he's kind of throwing a little bit of a pity party
where he's saying, yeah, you know, God's good. God's good to Israel. But for me though,
not so much. You know, I had almost slipped. You know, I almost gave up serving God. And you
could imagine why would someone want to quit serving God? Well, things get difficult in life.
They have trials. They have tribulations. They have issues. And sometimes when people are in
the flesh, they blame God for those things and they turn their eyes to the wicked.
who seem to be prospering and they have this foolish thought of being envious at the wicked.
That's what he says in verse 3.
He says,
So, of course, we as God's people, we don't want to be fools.
And when we look at fools, it's like, you know, foolishness is an abomination to a wise
person.
It's something that just annoys the heck out of us.
Could you imagine being at the point of your heart where you're envious at a foolish person?
You know, you're looking at one of these conspiratards on X and you're like envious of that person.
That's a pretty dark place.
I mean, that's a really dark place to be.
to be envious of those type of people.
But notice when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
So sometimes even though people are evil, wicked, terrible people,
sometimes they prosper in this world.
And if we get backslidden, if we get detached from, you know, the things of God,
we can look at those people and start to envy them
and start to say, man, maybe there's something in that life to be had.
Maybe I can have what they have.
Notice what he's thinking about them verse 4,
But their strength is firm.
You say, man, they die peacefully.
You know, they're not in bondage when they die
or something like that.
They die peaceably.
They are not in trouble as other men.
Neither are they plagued.
Like other men. So right the wicked often escape the judgment of God
By and large in their life because of the fact that they're not the children of God
They're not receiving the chastisement of God. God has the punishment for them laid out in hell waiting for them
They have those everlasting chains of darkness waiting for them. They're not in trouble as other men
therefore pride compass them about as a chain violence cover at them as a
Garment they their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more
then heart could wish so they're just living in health and wealth and prosperity and on top of that
they're proud about their wickedness. You know that does get really annoying.
to see evil wicked people being wicked
and then boasting in their wickedness and you just want that hammer to come down.
You want God's judgment to come down on them or you want, you know,
the righteous judgment of man to even come down on them and sometimes it doesn't
happen
and we as Christians can get frustrated by that. We could start to
fret ourselves about the wicked and some people will even
envy the wicked but I'm not going to go through this whole chapter obviously it's
not our text tonight but notice
Verse number 16, the Bible says,
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me
until I went into the sanctuary of God,
then understood I their end.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places,
thou castest them down into destruction.
How are they brought into desolation as in a moment?
They're utterly consumed with terrors.
So you know he had this bad attitude
He had this you know carnal mindset where he was getting envious at the wicked
But you know what changed his mind getting in church
And you know what will make you have the right attitude and the right mindset about things
in life is getting in the house of God.
You know what will screw your mind up is if you just spend all day, every day, scrolling
social media, just ingesting all this negativity and all these lies and all these psychological
operations and all this false doctrine, all these things going on will mess up your brain.
And you know what? You need to get back to normalcy, which is the house of God.
You know what I've really, really learned this week, and of course I've already known this, but it's been just, it's highlighted,
is that the Bible is not what is extreme in this world.
The Bible is a balanced book, folks.
The word of God is balanced, church is just a normal place with normal people.
This world is filled with freaks and degenerates and truly hateful people and terrorists and just psychotic people.
But you know what will just make your mind right is coming to the house of God and opening up the precious word of God and saying like,
ah, the truth, normalcy.
And, you know, if you struggle with this, with envying the wicked, and fretting yourself
because of evil men, just being troubled at all the wickedness of this world, you know
what will help with that is getting in church.
And by the way, you should get in church to actually seek the Lord and seek that which
is spiritual, not just to have some sort of, you know, accessory to your conservatism.
Because what I've noticed is it seems like a lot of people right now are going to the
Catholic church.
and are going to Orthodoxy.
But I don't believe it's really because they're seeking truth,
obviously, because if they were seeking truth,
they wouldn't end up at the whore of the Catholic Church.
They wouldn't end up at the Orthodox Church.
They would end up at a church that preaches the Gospel.
So they're not seeking truth.
They're just conservatives, and they want this little accessory
to their conservatism to be a trad.
to be a traditional person and to be based.
And so that's why the Catholic Church is blowing up right now,
is because conservatism is in.
But here's the truth. Here's the mentality that we should have is that I'm conservative in a lot of areas because I'm a Christian.
I'm not a Christian because I'm a conservative.
So people need to get back to actually seeking the Bible and the spiritual truths of the Word of God
and not getting all their talking points and thinking from X or Fox News or all these different outlets out there today.
We need to seek the Bible.
And you know what will fix your brain today?
The Bible will fix your brain.
Go back to Proverbs chapter 24.
So don't be envious at evil men.
Don't even desire to be with them.
First one says,
Why?
For their heart studyeth destruction.
And their lips talk of mischief.
So, yeah, they may have things going for them in their life, they may have riches, they
may have good things, but you really want to be associated with people whose hearts
just study destruction.
They just think about and dream up ways to harm people, to hurt things, to deconstruct
this world.
You know, that's not who I want to be around.
In fact, I want those people far, far away from me.
I'm glad that some people are starting to wake up to the fact that there are some people
in this world that you simply cannot coexist with, that you cannot negotiate with, that
you cannot have any common ground with.
There are some people that are just pure evil and they need to be destroyed and discarded
from this earth.
You know what?
I don't desire to be with evil men.
Why?
Right, and of course it just seems like it seems like there used to be a lot of Democrats that were just regular decent people
And look, I'm sure some of those still exist, but by and large it seems many leftists today and Democrats are just completely
bloodlusting
psychotic murderous scum
You know, you just have all these thousands of videos of people celebrating the murder
of Charlie Kirk and making jokes about his kids running to his body and his wife seeing
and all this stuff.
You know, these people are pure trash.
They deserve zero sympathy.
They deserve zero negotiation.
These people are disgusting.
It's sad we even have to share a world with these people.
Three, so it's talking about the wrong way of living your life.
Now it's going to talk about the right way through wisdom.
It's in house-builded, and by understanding it is established.
There's nothing wrong with, you know, being successful, having nice things in life,
having a great church, having a big church,
but you know how we should be pursuing those things is through wisdom, right?
Through the Word of God, through being honest, through working hard,
and you know what, in life...
in general, but especially as a Christian,
it's just not worth it cutting corners to get ahead.
Because God sees everything.
God sees your character. God sees your integrity.
And people that just want to team up with the wicked
to get the riches of this world or the benefits of this world,
you know, God sees that.
God sees your integrity.
We should build our house through wisdom.
Verse four.
Verse number five is a great verse here.
A wise man is strong.
Yea, a man of knowledge,
increase his strength.
Now, I'm going to talk first about what I think is not necessarily
the primary application of this verse,
and that is physical strength.
I don't think that's the main thing the Bible is talking about here,
but it is a totally good application of this verse
that we as God's people, and we as men especially,
it would be wise to get some strength.
And, you know, this has never been more needed to be preached than in 2025 America.
Because let me let you in on a little secret.
This generation of human beings on this Earth right now are the most sedentary human beings that have ever lived on planet Earth.
And, you know, it used to be that just men were strong.
Just period. Men were strong.
But now, just because you're a man, it's not necessarily a guarantee that you're strong
because we have so many men today that are working sedentary jobs.
And look, there's nothing wrong with that, right?
I work a sedentary job.
But here's what you should do.
If you work that type of job, you need to make sure that you're still getting strong.
You need to make sure that you're lifting those weights and running and are doing sports
or doing something to get your body moving because it is a wise thing to take care of
your health.
Bodily, exercise, propheteth, little the Bible says.
So it's not the main thing of our life.
But here's the thing, generations in time past,
they weren't as sedentary as we are now.
We need to really take care of our health.
I feel like when Gen Z gets old,
it's gonna be possibly like the sickest generation ever.
Because it just seems like a lot of people in their youth
are already destroying their health.
We need to take care of our bodies
because by taking care of our bodies,
we have more longevity to serve Christ.
So, there actually is a spiritual connection here.
I'm not saying take care of your body so that you can flex in the shower and flex in the
mirror or whatever and like admire yourself, be one of these bodybuilders.
That's pride.
That's vain.
That's stupid.
Okay?
But you know what's not being stupid?
Being strong.
You know what's not being stupid?
Being a strong man that can actually protect your family and actually take care of business
violence, for lack of a better term.
Yea, a man of knowledge increases strength.
But what I really think that this is saying
is that by getting wisdom
and by getting knowledge,
you are becoming strong.
That's really what this is saying here,
because notice it says in verse 6-4,
that means because, because of what I just said,
by wise counsel,
thou shalt make thy war.
and in multitude of counselors, there is safety.
So there's physical strength, then there's strength
that comes from being wise, having intelligence,
having knowledge, and those who have the best counsel
are going to be the most successful in war.
So, if you have an army of people and they're real brawny, they're real strong, but they're
dumb as rocks, they are going to be easily destroyed by a bunch of skinny dudes with
super high IQs and wisdom and good strategic tactics and stuff like that.
When it comes to war, it's not all just about your strength.
Think about these guys that are really well trained.
You see these videos of these really well-trained guys, and they're not necessarily bodybuilding
looking type guys.
They're not powerlifting type guys, and you see videos of these street fights where it's
like this big jack guy who's all proud and running his mouth, and then this tiny guy who
like knows jiu-jitsu or something, and the big guy just gets absolutely whooped.
Why?
Because wisdom is better than strength, the Bible says.
And so in our life, what are we now in?
And you know what? The spiritual war that we're in, it's not about being the most smart from a carnal perspective.
It's not about being tall or big and strong.
You know, it's about being wise according to the word of God.
And in the spiritual fight that we fight, we're going to be the most effective when we stick to the war plan,
for lack of a better term here, as close as possible.
And, you know, this applies to anything in life.
When you get good counsel, you're more likely to be successful.
The Bible says that in the multitude of counselors, there is safety, right?
So it's good to get multiple people in your life giving you good counsel for big decisions.
And of course, where should we go to first?
The Word of God itself.
Because if you're hearing advice that contradicts the Bible, that's bad advice.
You know, that's the enemy intelligence in war or something like that.
Verse number seven, though, it says,
wisdom is too high for a fool.
He opened it not his mouth in the gate.
So, you know, fools, they're just not going to attain wisdom.
You know, that's really sad because the word of God
is likened unto honey.
It's something that's sweet and pleasant and enjoyable.
You know, life is good when you understand things,
when you know how things work.
You know, it's nice when you go to your job
and you know what you're doing.
It sucks your first day on a job, right?
That's not fun.
Your first time doing something, it's not fun.
You know, your first time doing a certain lift in the gym,
you're struggling and you're awkward.
The first time you fight, the first time you get bad
in baseball or whatever, it's awkward, it's not fun.
But you know what's fun is when you know what you're doing.
What's fun is when you have wisdom and you know, I just feel bad for these fools of the world that wisdom is just too high for them
But you know what on second thought I don't feel too bad for them because oftentimes fools despise knowledge the Bible says
In fact wisdom in the beginning part of Proverbs we talked about how wisdom is constantly crying out to this world
And wisdom is just so available, and the truth has just never been more accessible and more shouted from the house tops as it is today in 2025.
And just imagine being a fool today. It's crazy. You know, imagine being a Mormon in 2025.
Just imagine being that stupid. That's a sad life. Imagine waking up and putting on your magic underwear.
That's really sad imagine thinking that in 1978 God came down and changed his mind about black people
My Bible says I am the Lord, I change not.
My Bible says not to be a respecter of persons, that God's not a respecter of persons.
But apparently he was before 1978, according to these moronic Mormons.
Man, what a satanic religion that is.
Imagine today, being a Catholic, where you take the sacrament
and you think you're eating the flesh of Jesus Christ literally,
that you're drinking his blood literally,
Imagine being in the Orthodox Church
and your priest pulls out this old mummy foot
and is like, hey, kiss this.
You think I'm joking?
That really happens in the Orthodox Church.
But you know, wisdom is just too high for a fool.
And you know, if you just love stupidity
and you hate truth and you hate knowledge,
sometimes God will just punish you
by allowing you to stay an idiot and a fool.
And you want to just get a glimpse at this,
just go on X.
It's full of some of the dumbest, most moronic, stupid people on planet Earth.
And just like any...
I couldn't even come up with conspiracies as stupid as somehow these people come up with.
It's nuts. It's crazy.
These conspiratars that are out there today.
You know, wisdom's just too high for them.
But you know what I like about this verse is it says,
he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
It's nice at least when a fool shuts his mouth.
This is like the ideal situation.
And I think what this is really saying, honestly, is like he has nothing to offer, right?
He can't open his mouth in the gate because he has nothing wise to say.
He has nothing to contribute to the conversation.
And so he doesn't speak in the gate, but he does say stuff.
He says a lot of stupid stuff.
His heart is discovering itself, but it's just that he really doesn't have anything of substance to offer.
And so, you don't want to live your life that way, you want to be wise, you need to read
your Bible every single day, you need to read books, you need to go out into this world
and not be sucked into social media.
Verse number eight, the Bible says,
I find this verse interesting because of how
oftentimes the way that we use language in 2025
is so much different than how the Bible uses these words
because we would think like,
oh, little Tommy's a little mischievous.
He stole a cookie.
But in the Bible, someone who is mischievous
is extremely wicked.
They're sitting there and they're just devising in their heart to do evil.
You know, if Timmy or Tommy is mischievous, you've got a big problem on your hand.
Okay? You need to make sure that that boy is getting lots of spankings to drive that out.
Verse number nine. I love this verse.
The thought of foolishness is sin.
Now, here's the thing. Sometimes we do this.
where we're out soul-winning and we're trying to explain to people that we all sin,
that we all sin every single day.
And I think sometimes we try to soften the blow with people because we don't want to be like,
oh yeah, you got an abortion, so actually you're a murderer.
Like we don't necessarily want to like be that brash with them.
So what do we do? We often talk about like, hey, we've all lied before, right?
But and here's the thing we're doing that because we don't want to be a jerk to them
They have a certain perception of sin in their mind
But what we should realize as Christians though is that the sin of lying is a big deal to God
And the fact that it's in Revelation 21 8 is not to tell you like oh, it's not that big of a deal
It's telling you it is a big deal
because it'll send you to hell.
If you've transgressed by lying,
it's damned you to hell.
And so it is a big deal.
And I think sometimes we do the same thing with this verse,
that the thought of foolishness is sin.
But here's the thing.
Being foolish is not like,
oh, you're just foolish, no big deal.
It's just a little tiny sin.
We're not gonna make a big deal out of it.
Let's actually make light of this verse by saying,
oh, yeah, you know, the thought of foolishness is sin.
What is this actually saying?
Hey, idiot, being foolish is wrong.
It's bad. It's something we should condemn.
And, you know, people get mad at me or whatever because, like, I'm gonna be that pastor that calls out the stupid, moronic conspiracy theories of our world.
But here's why, though, is because I love you and I love Jesus, and I really don't like it when the ambassadors of Christ look like fools.
Why? Because we're supposed to be representing Jesus Christ.
And so the thought of foolishness, it's not like, oh, no big deal, it's totally fine.
No, the thought of foolishness, my friend, is sin.
And you know, I really, really hate it when you see someone getting corrected by a wise person,
by an authority, and they're like, I'm serious, here's some facts, here's some truth, here's some Bible verses.
You know what fools will do? They'll just laugh.
They think it's funny, and it's like, hey, Moron, it's not funny, you're in sin right now.
Being foolish is sinful.
Now, here's the thing.
Are we all going to be foolish from time to time?
Yes, we are.
When we correct someone, should we have grace with that person to get things right?
Of course we should.
Because we're all going to be foolish from time to time.
I'm sure there's things right now I believe wrong on.
But here's the thing.
If I'm confronted with the truth, what should I do?
Change.
Believe what's right, and you know what, when you're confronted with reality,
and when you're confronted with what's right,
and you just stay with what's wrong, you are a fool.
You're being stupid and you're in sin.
And so look, you know, these dumb conspiracies that I believe are just bringing reproach to the name of Jesus Christ.
And it's not like, oh, it's just my hobby horse, it's something I really care about.
No, it's that we're ambassadors and representatives of Christ.
And when you go around posting moronic flat earth garbage, you make Christianity look like a joke.
When you sit here and deny one of the most well-documented events in human history called the moon landings,
You look like an idiot and look I love you I'm not mad at you I want you to get
right but it's like oh yeah you believe the most documented event in human
history ha ha ha it's like bro you're in sin you need to change you need to stop
being an idiot you need to stop being so simple the simple believe it every word
oh I saw a documentary called the funny thing that happened on the moon dude you
don't know anything about anything
Oh, the Van Allen radiation belts, you wouldn't have even known what that is unless the astrophysicist discovered it and told you about it.
But you use it to deny the Moonland. You're a mon! Seriously.
And look, I could go on and on. The Charlie Kirk assassination, Charlie Kirk is alive.
He was shot, he had a blood packet, and it was shot and it spit out, but it was a body double and he's alive.
It's just like, how do you help someone like this?
And it's not like, ha, ha, it's like, I see these and I'm just like,
oh, that's why I can't spend too much time on X because it just hurts my soul.
The stupidity.
And then you look at this person's account and they got a Bible verse in their account
and I'm just like, oh, it really hurts me, guys.
I'm serious.
I got to get off X a little bit because, man, it really pisses me off.
But the Bible says the thought of foolishness is sin.
You know take your here's some advice take your conspiracies a la carte. Here's some other advice go wherever evidence leads you
Don't sit here and have this preconceived idea and be like, all right, how can I fit the barometric pressure of the day?
Oh, the barometric pressure had a 3-3 somewhere in that number.
Therefore, you see this just insane stuff.
Just believe facts, follow facts, whatever those facts are.
Is there conspiracies in this world? Yes.
Is there spiritual wickedness in high places, doing the various things?
You better believe it all the time.
Do the kings of this earth set themselves together
and conspire against the Lord and against his Christ?
You better believe it.
But is everything a conspiracy?
No.
And people who work for the government,
they know that the government is too stupid
to pull off these amazing ideas that you have in your head.
Trust me, all right?
Verse 10.
The Bible says, if thou faint in the day of adversity,
thy strength is small.
So he was talking about strength a few verses ago
about getting wisdom, getting knowledge.
That's what a wise man does.
And a wise man also does not quit.
does not, you know, faint in the day of adversity.
The whole point of being strong is to be able to withstand things that are hard,
to be able to carry heavy loads.
And, you know, in the Christian life,
we are supposed to be faithful in our Christian walk
all the way to the end of our life.
You know, I hope you got a chance to watch the memorial for Brother Kevin Rowe
that was done last night.
And, you know, that was just a faithful servant of Christ.
that endured hardness, that he purposely, he did not give himself an easy life.
He just put all sorts of work and burden on himself,
going soul winning everywhere. You know, his wife was testifying how
he had this burden in his heart to repay the tithe that he owed
before he was even saved. So he was like tithing way above
what's normal. He's just like putting this on himself. You know, he was just
enduring hardness
You know, that's a great testimony.
And I don't know when I'm going to die, I don't know when you're going to die,
but what I would like to do is I would like to be serving God today, tomorrow, and every day until I die.
And you know what? Whatever tribulations or persecutions or problems that come our way,
if that makes you quit, let me tell you something, you're weak.
You're weak. And you know what? No man wants to hear that they're weak.
But boy, oh boy, are there a lot of weak men today in Christianity,
a lot of weak Baptists, a lot of weak ex-NIFB effeminate losers today
that can't handle hard preaching, they can't handle a battle,
they can't handle pissing off the world,
they want to go to just, you know, smooth things Baptist church
and have everything go great and wonderful for them.
You know what? Serving God, there's going to be issues, there's going to be problems.
Your building's gonna get flooded for no reason.
Like imagine, imagine like you get a few puddles in church
and you have to forego, you know,
going number two in the bathroom one evening
and you're just like, that's it, I can't serve God.
Let me tell you something, you're weak
and I don't want you around me during the tribulation.
Now I want you here so you can get stronger, all right?
We wanna get stronger together, but boy oh boy,
some people does not take much to get them to quit.
When things are going smooth,
Things are going fine, but you know what they don't have that house that's built on a foundation built on the rock
And let me tell you the storms of life will come in your life and in my life
You want to make sure that you've dug down deep that you've counted the cost
That you've really built your house on the rock of the word of God
Because if you don't you're gonna get blown over you're gonna get destroyed. You're going to quit
The Bible says in verse number 11,
if thou forbear to deliver them,
that are drawn unto death,
and those that are ready to be slain,
thou sayest, behold, we knew it not,
doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it?
And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it?
And shall not he render to every man according to his works?
So we as Christians, you know, when we see someone that's ready to die, they're being drawn into death,
they're ready to be slain, and we see it, we should do something about it, and you're not going to be able to have this
excuse of telling God, oh, I didn't see it when you really did.
It's like, does not he that ponder at the hearts consider, like, God knows your heart, God knows your every thought, God knows everything you've seen, God knows everything you've done, and you're not going to be able to make an excuse to him, you know, to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him, it is sin.
And of course, the best way that we could apply this to ourselves is in the area of soul winning, because we of course know for the wages of sin is death.
And that hell is not some sort of metaphorical place.
It's not Abraham's bosom.
It's not a temporal holding place.
You know, it's not annihilation.
It's not soul sleep.
It's eternal fire and torment forever and ever.
It's eternal darkness. It's eternal gnashing of teeth. It's eternal begging for a drop of water.
You know, being on fire for all of eternity. That's what this world is heading towards.
And you know, I just cannot imagine why Christians who are saved,
and guess what, if you're saved, you know what hell is.
If you're saved, you know what you were saved from
and what this world still needs to be saved from.
And you know what? What a wicked and selfish person
a Christian is who refuses to preach the gospel.
You know what Paul said?
Woe unto me if I preach not the gospel.
You know what? Woe unto Christians that refuse to preach the gospel.
You know you need to make sure that you are faithful to soul winning make sure that you do not lose your first love
You know because think about this illustration
You know you men that are defenders that are protectors that call yourself men
You know imagine you just see some innocent victim just being brutalized physically in front of you and you just look at it
And you just walk away and do nothing
Heartless
Cowardly right and you know what you want to know why a lot of people don't go Christians or don't go soul winning is because they're cowards
is because they're afraid of going and talking to an individual.
You know, it's funny how prideful men are.
They're so tough.
They're such big bad guys.
And boy, oh boy, they'll shoot you and they'll fight you.
Oh, but you can't go knock on someone's door.
That's too scary.
You can't ask someone if they were to die today
that they'd be going to heaven.
You know, don't, just drop the tough guy act
if you can't go preach the gospel to some housewife at her home, okay?
Drop the tough guy act.
You know, if you can't do that, don't tell me
that you're gonna see someone getting brutalized
and you would do something.
No, you'd probably be like all those people on the bus
watching Irina Zatushka or however you say her last name,
just getting slaughtered and just turn away.
Because that's what Christians are doing
when they're not soul winners.
Just like how all those people, they just watched her get killed.
And they just like, oh, yeah, she's getting her throat slit. Interesting, yeah.
And they just did nothing about it.
How much worse is it, actually, when Christians don't go soul-winning?
It's like, oh, yeah, these people are just going to go burn in an eternal hellfire for all of eternity.
They have no hope of ever getting out.
They're going to have God's wrath and hatred abiding on them forever and ever.
Oh, who cares? As long as there's peace and truth in my days, as long as I'm going to heaven,
you know, God's going to render that to people.
And you are going to give an account at the judgment seat of Christ of what you did in your body.
And he's going to render to every man according to his works.
And you know what? There's going to be a lot of Christians that have nothing to show for their lives
because they didn't go soul-winning.
Then you're going to have guys like Brother Kevin.
who was like a 24-7 spiritual first responder just constantly saving people
and constantly shooting the bad guys and constantly putting out the fires
and constantly giving people spiritual CPR, bringing people to life.
You know, that guy is a real one. That's a real man.
And you know what? Brother Kevin was not, you know, physically the brawniest guy
that ever existed, right? He just wasn't. But you know what? That was a man right there.
That was a man.
We need some more men in our country today that have enough love and enough strength to go be some spiritual first respond.
You need to join the SWAT team and go pull people out of the fire spiritually.
Look at verse number 13.
My son, he's giving some advice now to his son.
My son, eat thou honey because it is good and the honeycomb which is sweet to thy taste.
So notice how the Bible just says that eating honey is good.
So, you know, people love to have their different, you know, dietary preferences and the dietary advice that they have.
But I would just warn you that any dietary advice that just goes against a clear statement in the Bible, you should be aware of, okay?
If someone just says, like, honey is bad, I would just say, like, you are factually wrong, right?
Now, I'm not talking about some weird, you know...
Synthetically processed zombie honey or something right, but real honey the Bible just says it is good
Can you eat too much of it? Can there be too much of a good thing? Absolutely, but let me just I'll just give you my opinion right now
So I'll always tell you when something's my opinion. Here's my opinion about fad diets
Okay, is that the average person eats such a poor diet?
that you could choose any fad diet and you will temporarily see extreme positive results.
You know why I say that? It's because I could grab 10,000 people that will swear up and down by their fad diet.
that it and that it helped them. Why? Because it is helping them, right? And
look, I'm not against someone just choosing to do those things. They just
want to do that. They're doing it for health reasons. Maybe they just want to
lose weight. They're doing this temporary program. That's fine. There's nothing
wrong with that. I would never judge someone for doing something like that.
What I would have a problem though is if someone starts preaching for doctrine,
the commandments of men.
Right? So when someone gets up and says, you know, the Bible condemns eating meat, it's like, wrong, buddy.
Jesus ate fish.
I mean, there's all these meat sacrifices in the Old Testament.
The New Testament tells us that all is clean to us.
Just pray for your food, shut up, put it in your mouth, and enjoy.
That's the New Testament diet.
But really, I think that the Bible overall teaches a very balanced diet.
Bread is spoken of well, honey is spoken of well, milk is spoken of well, meat is spoken of well.
I eat a very balanced diet. I'm not an expert dietitian or nutritionist or anything like that.
But have your opinions. I don't care whatsoever.
But please do not sit here and say like the Bible says you have to be vegan.
The Bible says you have to be carnivore. The Bible says you have to.
Because then at that point you're teaching false doctrine.
Have your opinions, but don't get up here and say, like, you must be a vegan.
And also, don't tell me not to preach against vegetarianism.
That's just a free tip for everyone.
So notice, it's sweet.
It's sweet to thy taste.
The spiritual lesson I think we can gain from this though, besides the carnal,
is that you know what? God wants us to enjoy life.
And God has given us life to enjoy.
And the Bible does not teach asceticism
The Bible does not teach that you can't have any pleasure.
The Bible does not teach that you're a more godly Christian
because you just eat granules of rice every day and that's it.
And you sleep on the hard concrete because having a bed is too carnal.
And spending money on furniture is too carnal.
You know, you see attitudes like this out there.
But you know what? God wants us to enjoy our life.
He wants us to work very hard.
But you know what? If you work very hard,
you should enjoy life.
You should enjoy some good food.
Hey, you should enjoy a nice steak.
You should enjoy honey.
You should enjoy juice.
You should enjoy marriage.
You should enjoy going out in beautiful nature
and all these things.
Can there be, in some of these categories,
too much of a good thing?
Absolutely, right?
You know, I think about when I live in Idaho,
I mean, people just worship nature there.
And every waking second is to go out hunting
and mountain climbing and white river rafting,
all this stuff.
There's nothing wrong with doing those things, but if we're, like, sacrificing, working hard for God to enjoy life,
I believe that's where the problem begins.
But also, there's a spiritual connection, verse 14.
So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul, when thou hast found it.
Then there shall be air reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
He uses this carnal truth, hey, honey is good, honey is sweet, you know what else is good and sweet?
Wisdom.
And that's really the most sweet thing.
And that's why in Psalm 19, the Bible is referred to as being like honey from the honeycomb.
Because it's just sweet to our taste.
Wisdom is sweet. Wisdom is beautiful.
You know, it's been, it's been a really heavy last like month.
some things in my life, lots of national tragedies,
lots of people we know having tragedies.
It's been a heavy couple of months,
and I feel like the Bible right now to me
is as sweet as it has ever been in my life.
I'm so thankful for the Word of God, aren't you?
Man, praise God that we have the Word of God.
And you know what, thank God that God gives us honey.
and our wives, our marriages, our children, sunshine, this beautiful world,
but above all, way above all, thank Him for the King James Bible.
Because that is the sweetest thing that exists.
The precious words of Jesus, thank God for it.
Verse 15, lay not weight, O wicked man.
against the dwelling of the righteous.
Spoil not his resting place,
for a just manfall is seven times,
and riseeth up again,
but the wicked shall fall into mischief."
So we get kind of a description of what the wicked are like here.
What are the wicked like?
They lie in wait.
Right?
The righteous are as bold as a lion.
You know, we are fighting this spiritual battle and you know, we take it on the offense.
We go into this world.
We're open about our beliefs.
We want everyone to know what we believe.
We're screaming the word of God from the house top.
We're preaching the gospel to every creature.
We're not like lying in wait and being all secretive and subtle.
But you know what the wicked does?
Just like Satan, Satan is subtle, he's lurking, he's walking around like a lion seeking whom
he may devour.
This is what wicked people are like too.
They lie in wait as for blood.
Their snipers is what they are.
A bunch of cowards that just sit there and lie in wait
to just attack some innocent person.
This is what the wicked are like today.
Lie not, wait a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous.
Look at verse number 17.
The Bible says,
Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth.
And let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleeth.
Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him.
And he turn away his wrath.
From him again, this kind of goes in line with the mentality. I was trying to express to you on Sunday morning
That us as Christians our default mode in life should be that of love
Charity long suffering
Mercy right so of course we are to love our family
We are to love one another love the brotherhood. You know what else Jesus said is to love your enemy
And you know what? This is one of the harder things in Christianity.
This is kind of where the rubber meets the road for someone's maturity.
You know, it's pretty easy, in my opinion, to go to church.
I think it's pretty easy to read the Bible.
I think it's pretty easy to tithe.
But you know what's hard?
What is really hard is loving your enemies.
That's difficult.
When someone has personally wronged you,
when someone has personally crossed you,
and look, like they actually did you wrong.
Like you're on the right, they're on the wrong.
You have this enemy, but yet Jesus calls us to love our enemies.
And yes, are there people who, when God cuts them down,
when God cuts down the wicked, the city rejoices?
Yeah, there are those people, amen.
Yeah, the righteous shall rejoice when he seeeth the vengeance.
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Yes, there are those people, but you know what?
That's not most people.
And when your enemy falls, when your enemy is getting a spanking from God,
or even if there's someone unsaved and your enemy is just going through calamity or hardship or bad time,
you know what a wicked attitude would be? It would be to rejoice in your heart about that.
Or to rejoice openly about that.
You know, don't do it openly, don't even do it in your heart.
And you know, one of the reasons for that, it says like, God could just, you know,
It says there lest the Lord see it and it displease him and he turn away his wrath from him
So you know God's seeing everything at all times and if God's coming down on someone
But then he sees you rejoicing about it
He might turn away from that person and you really understand this if you have kids
Because especially as kids get older sometimes they just say that the dumbest things when their siblings are getting spanked
Like siblings have transgressed siblings are getting spanked and those be like but dad I did good
But dad, did you see what else this child did?
I'm just like, shut up.
All right, shut your mouth right now,
or I'm gonna spank you too.
You know, other parents, you agree with me,
it gets annoying when they do that, it does, right?
You know, God's the same way.
If God's coming down on someone,
he doesn't want to hear you being like, yeah, yeah.
God, give it to him harder, come on, spank him harder.
Like, come on, that's not a good attitude.
Don't have that attitude towards people.
Love your enemies.
Rejoice not when thy enemy falleth.
Now, hey, when people that hate God and when reprobates
and when sodomites get the retribution coming to them,
the righteous judgment coming to them from God,
praise God.
And you know what?
I love God's law.
All of His commandments are right.
You're not going to show me anything in the Old Testament that I'm going to shirk away
from or say, ew, gross, I don't like that.
I love all of it.
Let's bring back God's laws.
Let's bring back God's moral laws.
Let's bring back God's criminal laws.
I'm for it.
You know, you got this idiot Nick Fuentes.
this young guy who is super influential.
He's got a big podcast and he has like this Groyper crew.
I guess like Groypers are people that follow Nick Fuentes
or whatever.
You know, I saw a clip from him this morning
where he was talking about how he really loves the gospels
and when he thinks we should emphasize the gospels
and amen to that, I like that statement.
But he was just saying like, you know,
some people aren't gonna like this,
but you know, there's some things in the Old Testament
that I can't really defend.
Like insinuating that there's something morally wrong with God's law and he was bringing up like the Amalekites being destroyed
Which, here's the thing, when you read Leviticus, God makes it clear,
hey, I destroyed these people because they were a bunch of faggots.
They were doing bestiality.
They were sleeping with mom, sleeping with siblings, sleeping with daughter.
They're doing all these disgusting, filthy things.
He says, hey, the inhabitants of the land did all of these things.
Therefore, I took them away as I saw good.
Who would you be to stand in judgment of God saying, oh, that wasn't good?
No, it was good.
Leviticus 2013 is good.
God's judgment is good today.
And we as Christians, how dare a Christian blaspheme God's word
by saying, like, oh, I can't morally defend it.
He doesn't need your defending.
The Bible doesn't need my defending.
It's just truth is truth.
God's justice is God's justice.
And he's always right.
But you know leave it to a Catholic to say something that stupid and look I I hope this guy isn't some sort of like false prepper
False prophet reprobate. I hope he gets saved. I hope he finds the truth, but you know what? That's a wicked thing to say
and he's deceiving a lot of people,
he's leading a lot of people astray.
I don't care what you think about his politics,
you know, do not think that this is some sort of,
you know, Christian champion.
The guy is unsaved.
The guy is on his way to hell.
Unless he rejects the Catholic Church
and trusts Christ alone,
he will go to hell.
It's ironic for a guy who says we should focus on the Gospel.
Buddy, you don't even believe the Gospel.
You believe the gospel of you be a good person.
You do good works.
Whereas the Bible says for by grace are you saved through faith.
And that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,
not of works lest any man should boast.
But that's what Catholics love to do today.
They love to boast.
Look at verse number 19.
The Bible says,
Fret not thyself because of evil men.
Neither be thou envious at the wicked.
Very similar to verse 1 there.
For there shall be no reward to the evil man, the candle of the wicked shall be put out."
So it's good to remember that, hey, being wicked does not pay, especially for a Christian.
It may temporarily pay for the unsaved, but if you are saved and you are a child of God, it will not pay for you.
Don't think that there's going to be a reward for doing something evil there's not.
Verse number 21.
My son, fear thou the Lord and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change.
For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
You know, this is, again, the Bible is a very balanced book.
We are supposed to fear God and the King.
You got this extreme view out there today.
Let me tell you, there's an extreme view out there today
that says, I only follow God.
I only obey God.
I only fear God.
That's not biblical, folks.
The powers that be are ordained of God.
And you know what, it's wicked for a Christian
to despise authority.
Do you not be one of these Christian anarchists?
So stupid.
The Bible does not teach anarchy.
The Bible is not anti-government.
I am not anti-government.
I'm pro-righteous government.
I'm pro-government existing.
I mean, if government ceased to exist today,
let me tell you what would happen.
The strongest and most brutal,
reprobate warlords would take over our country and rule.
That's what would happen.
If we had no government, here's what would happen.
You'd have a million times more people like the shooter who killed Charlie Kirk who says,
I don't like you.
I don't like your ideas.
I'm just going to kill you.
And then they're going to say, all right, well, we're going to kill you back.
And then we're going to kill you back.
And then basically, just the most brutal, barbaric, hardcore warlord would end up running society.
This is what exists in third world countries to this very day when they have a failure of government.
What happens? Just gangs and warlords take over and run the show.
You know, to some extent, this is how Mexico is to this very day.
Being anti-government is stupid.
Back to, you know, the thought of foolishness is sin.
The Bible says, fear the Lord and fear the king.
We should have a good amount of respect for government.
For the ministers of God, Romans 13 says,
for power and authority in general.
Because fearing the king, what's the spirit of the law there is respect human authority.
God has ordained, God given human authority to pastors, to kings, to government, to fathers
in the home, to mothers in the home, to husbands and the marriage relationship, to bosses
at work, any legitimate authority that we have in our lives, we should honor and respect
those people.
We should fear the king.
It says in verse number 23,
These things also belong to the wise.
It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
He that saith unto the wicked, thou art righteous.
Him shall the people curse.
Nations shall abhor him.
But to them that rebuke him, shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them."
When I read this this week, I was thinking of the fact that I was trying to think,
who is it in our society that is wicked that many people say are righteous, or that most people say?
is righteous. I can think of a lot of examples, but one where a lot of people
are really starting to wake up on is this false prophet who is burning in hell
right now named Martin Luther King Jr.
And our whole country loves to exalt and idolize this man, Martin Luther King Jr.
We have a whole holiday in his honor and I grew up, I grew up not knowing the things I know now
and I thought he was a great guy.
I was all for, you know, integration and for people not being racist
and the things that he said about being judged by the content of your character.
You know, if he actually believed that, that'd be great.
But being judged by the content of your character, not the color of your skin, that's a great thing.
Amen to that. I am against racism, but here's the truth, is that Martin Luther King Jr. called himself a Baptist pastor.
And as a Baptist pastor, he denied the doctrine of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.
Which by extension, you know what that does? That denies the deity of Jesus Christ.
And is it any surprise, he also denied the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The guy was not a Christian.
The guy dead sure was not a Baptist pastor.
Find me any other Baptist pastor in the world
that denies the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
That denies the virgin birth.
Explain to me why we have a holiday exalting this guy.
Already, he's a false prophet who's burning in hell.
Then on top of that, you have all these FBI documents, the MLK files that have been released
more and more over the years, where this guy was involved in all sorts of filthy, disgusting
hotel orgies and just gross, abominable behavior.
He had communist leanings.
you know, exuding to the nation that he's some sort of righteous Baptist minister,
some civil rights activist.
Bro was a rapist.
Bro was a pervert, a complete reprobate.
I mean, if someone in a position of religious leadership...
going around and having a bunch of orgies. You could take it to the bank. That guy is a
reprobate. On top of the fact that he's denying the virgin birth and denying the
resurrection of Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King is screaming in torment and
agony in hell right now. You know what? You should not like him. You should not
exalt him or look at him as some sort of American hero. Bro was like the worst of
among us. Bro was one of the worst Americans
to possibly exalt, you know, it's funny, I've seen all these super racist black preachers lately
getting so upset because people are comparing Charlie Kirk to MLK because it's kind of the
first political assassination that's been as public and brutal pretty much since then.
And I'm thinking, like, I'm upset that you're comparing Charlie Kirk to MLK as well.
Because Martin Luther King is a piece of garbage, a piece of trash,
an adulterer scumbag who's in hell, whereas Charlie Kirk professed
to believe the gospel.
Charlie Kirk, I was not a fan of his, I didn't listen to his stuff,
but Charlie Kirk seems like a normal...
Guy who loved his wife a lot.
I mean, for the videos I've seen, it seems like he really loved his wife.
His wife speaks super positively of him.
She's his greatest cheerleader, which that's a good sign and a family dynamic.
Seems like he was a good dad.
Seems like he believed pretty good thing.
Was he wrong on Israel?
Yes.
Okay, I get how there's so many people right now that are just like on this witch hunt
that want to reprobate him.
I don't think that's a good spirit.
You're not going to get extra rewards in heaven for being the reprobate police.
And I think the only reason people are doing this
is because they just want an excuse in their heart
to like rejoice over this or to not feel bad.
You know, let me give you some,
I'll educate you with some Gen Z lingo tonight.
This is word called edgelord.
And an edgelord is someone who comes up with the most extreme wild takes on things that
people could be like, man, he's so edgy, he's so cool.
It's just like, you know, some Christians, they just want to be edgelords, like, we should
celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk.
Not even sad.
Yeah, he was killed in front of his kids and wife, yeah, I'm not even sad about that.
I'm such an edgelord.
And it's like, you're weird, man.
You need to stop.
It's not a good attitude, okay?
Look, if he's unsaved, man, that makes it even more sad.
That makes it even more tragic, makes it even more heartbreaking.
You don't need to be a reprobate police, okay?
Jesus said, let the wheat and the tares grow together.
God's gonna sort it out.
I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.
He seemed like a good guy.
He was completely hated by all leftists and by all the wicked people.
He was not spoken well of by all men.
He was hated by a lot of people,
and that's kind of a good sign for him.
And look, I'm not some sort of like Charlie Kirk fan or apologist.
I never listened to the guy before this.
I'm just saying, like don't have this weird attitude of rejoicing over this
or feeling no sorrow or no pain, it's just weird.
Super weird.
Don't say to the wicked, don't say to Martin Luther King, thou art righteous.
And you know what, don't say to someone like Charlie Kirk who is likely a Christian,
who is likely in heaven, you know, don't say to that person that he's wicked.
Because God hates both of those things that's wicked in God's eyes to do that
Verse number 26 every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer praise God for metaphors
Because if you try this, it's gonna it's gonna get physical real quick. Don't do that
Verse 27 Pastor Jones came upon me there. Sorry. I'll have to work on that
chat verse 27 Bible says prepare thy work without
and make it fit for thyself in the field and afterwards build thine house.
So of course the Bible here is just giving us the wisdom of planning, making a plan for your life, having foresight.
Not just being foolish and just making super rash and quick decisions with your life.
Jesus said in the New Testament to, you know, who's going to build a tower and doesn't sit down and count the cost,
whether he has sufficient to build it.
You know, we as Christians, we should be, you know, slow to make huge decisions in our life.
Be wise, get good counsel, read the Bible, count the cost before you do something.
Something like, for example, getting married.
You want to make sure that you are ready to provide financially for a wife because you
think like, all right, yeah, I can make it work.
No big deal.
I can provide financially.
Then five years down the road, you got five kids and it changes real fast.
And so you want to make sure you think about these things.
Verse 28, be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause.
Deceive not with thy lips.
Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me.
I went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the man, void of understanding.
Notice how the lazy person in Proverbs is also described as someone as being void of understanding.
You know, for example, the Bible talks about how if you're deceived by wine, you're a fool.
The Bible also says that the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.
So, for example, people that are drunks,
which I believe that would also apply to people who are drug addicts,
what does the Bible tell us that type of person is?
Someone who is foolish.
Someone who lacks wisdom, lacks knowledge.
That person comes to poverty,
and you know what that person also often is?
Very lazy.
I went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the man,
void of understanding and lo,
It was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
So, people who are just lazy, lacking understanding, you go to the super ghetto parts of our city and ghetto areas in this country,
and you know what you're going to see? You're going to see trash everywhere. You know why? Because stupid, lazy people love to litter.
Like when I pee when I see people littering
I remember being in Cedar Hill working at steadfast mowing the lawn and I see this person just roll down their window
And they just throw their whole bag of fast food just right out the window. It's like what a stupid moronic lazy person
You know, we need to bring back some shame into society where you just have no shame whatsoever.
You could do something like that.
You know, just lazy.
You go to the worst ghettos in America.
You drive by their grocery store.
You know what you're going to see?
You're going to see shopping carts everywhere.
You test my theory.
You test it.
You go ahead and go to Southlake, or I'm in the wrong city, Southlake is the DFW.
That's the rich area.
Here, it's Nichols Hills.
You go to Nichols Hills.
You go to, what's the other rich place?
Eh, okay, shout it out, the village?
What is it?
Gallardia, okay.
You go to these areas, find their grocery stores.
You know what you're gonna see?
Civilization.
You're gonna see there's not a bunch of trash on the ground.
There's not all these beer bottles everywhere.
There's not all these heroin needles.
Men are wearing belts, actually.
Their pants are not down to their knees.
You know what I mean?
Men who carry guns, they use holsters actually,
believe it or not.
And you know what, their shopping cart goes back into where it belongs.
Meanwhile, you go to the ghetto, you know what you're going to see?
Beer bottles everywhere, people sleeping on the ground, tents, trash, shopping carts everywhere,
and you won't even see them at the grocery store.
You'll just see them everywhere throughout the city.
It's like, how did how did Target's shopping cart get underneath this bridge?
Right?
Trash, you'll see the sagging pants, you'll see the the no holstered weapons, all that stuff.
Why? Because it's just what stupid lazy people do.
You say, I don't like that. That's mean. That's what the Bible says.
That lazy people are very, very messy people.
And when you go soul winning and you go into these areas, it's very disgusting oftentimes.
It's very gross. Now look, this isn't me hating them because hey, we're going to them to love them to give them the gospel.
We love those people. We want to help them.
We want to teach them the Word of God.
Literally, a lot of these people did not have fathers,
and that's sad.
They need fathers teaching them these things,
but maybe they need to come to church
and have some brethren that could be fathers for them
and teach them these things.
But I'm just telling you the reality of this world.
The reality of the world is that really lazy people,
really simple people are often extremely messy
and you see it when you go to certain areas,
when you go to certain towns.
When my family moved from California to Idaho,
we were shocked when we went to downtown Boise
and it was cleaner than any place we've ever seen in our lives.
And we never saw homeless there,
we never saw trash there.
It's extremely dirty, extremely high crime, and it's just like, not all places are the
same.
You know, you got a hardworking group of people, you got a righteous group of people, it's
going to be less crime, a lot more clean, whereas you go to these more wicked areas
with laziness that abounds, it's going to be a lot more dirty, a lot more crime.
Notice it says in verse number 31 and low,
it was all grown over with thorns and nettles
had covered the face thereof
and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
If you want to understand this verse,
just go soul-winning in Anadarko,
and this will be a reality to see.
I love verse 32.
It says, then I saw and considered it well.
I looked upon it and received instruction.
There's a great way to learn things in this world and it's simply by opening your eyes
and observing and soaking in information
and just letting the reality of how things are in this world teach you.
This guy, he didn't need a formal lesson.
He just looked at the situation and he considered it in his heart.
You know, this is what people need to do today.
They need to go look at the homeless camps.
They need to go with us to the SWAT team soul winning times, into these ghetto areas, and
get instruction and say like, hey, I don't want to live like this.
I don't want to end up like these people.
And you start wondering, why did they get to this place?
And you start figuring out, okay, they all drink alcohol.
They all smoke pot.
a bunch of them do all these drugs, right?
Laziness, just living off government welfare
for their entire life, not working hard,
sleeping too much, as we'll see later on in this verse.
All these things, you know, we should receive instruction
from that saying I don't want to end up going down that road.
And here's the thing.
There's no difference in these characteristics of life
just because you're a certain skin color.
I'm sure someone will listen to this sermon and try to say,
oh, Pastor Ross is being a racist.
Here's the thing, if we who are majorly white in this room,
okay, you know, people hate me on X
because I allow black people into my church,
we've got one, folks, all right?
God bless you.
But it's just like, you can't win with these people, all right?
Even though we're majorly white,
I'm somehow, I hate white people or whatever.
Some people think I hate black people, some think people hate white people.
I guess that just means I'm preaching the truth because I piss off everyone.
Where is that going with that?
Okay, yeah.
So, all of us in here, if we just start drinking alcohol all the time, being drunks, sleeping
all day, shooting heroin, smoking pot, not working, you know what our neighborhoods
would look like, you know what our homes would look like, you know what we would start to
smell like?
It would look and smell like crap is what it would.
working hard and following what the Bible says.
That's all it has to do with.
You know, it's cliche, you know, it's not a skin issue,
it's a sin issue, guess what?
That's as true as the day is long.
It is.
Verse 33,
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to sleep,
so shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth,
and thy want as an armed man.
So he receives instruction,
he notices something about this type of person,
is that they just sleep too much.
They're just sleeping and you know what this bears out with what we see today
Amongst the super poor the impoverished areas of America. That is is that they're often just asleep
Why are they asleep because they were so drunk the night before
Why are they asleep because they're literally asleep on heroin and you know?
I see this every single day in downtown Oklahoma City people sleeping all day long
having the audacity when they do wake up to ask you for money. It's just it drives
me nuts. It drives me nuts seeing people harming these individuals by helping
them continue in that state. Giving them money so they can do more drugs and
drink more alcohol and stay in that hellish lifestyle. That's not loving my
friend. What's loving is getting these people to get to work.
You know, I like Governor Stitt's program he's done lately.
If I understand it correctly, I believe that the government's been going in arresting them
and saying, hey, we are going to give you a free ride to rehab and you've got no criminal
charges or if you refuse that, we're taking to jail because either way, you're going to
get clean.
You know what?
That's actually a loving thing to do.
Yeah.
It's ugly.
Yeah.
It's not fun.
Yeah, I wish they never would have gotten to that place in their life to begin with.
But you know what's hateful is letting these people just rot in drugs and die at a young
age from overdoses?
That's someone's mother, brother, son, friend.
That's a real person.
It's sad to see people living this life.
And as much as people want to say,
we're so hateful because we don't give them money,
you know what?
If people listen to what I'm preaching right now,
that's actually the loving thing.
That would actually help these individuals.
And so, of course, we could take a lesson for our lives too,
not to be one that just lives to sleep.
The Bible says, love not sleep.
You know, we need to get good sleep.
It's important for our health.
I'm not against a good night's rest.
But don't be one that just loves sleep,
that lives to sleep.
You know, again, I just want to close on this idea.
Go watch Brother Kevin Rose Memorial.
That man lived to work.
He was not a lover of sleep. His wife was talking about on mission strips. He's waking up at the crack of dawn
He's preaching all day. He's even cooking dinner for all of his fellow soul winners
All this stuff and staying up late fellow shipping till midnight and waking up again at 4 a.m
I mean that guy was a hard worker
You know God bless that man and the testimony that he left. Let us truly work till Jesus comes
Let's pray Lord. Thank you so much for the book of Proverbs for the great wisdom in this in this chapter
Pray that you please help us to apply these things to our lives and Lord
I understand that some of the things said tonight could offend a lot of people
But of course we realize we're all sinners
We all need grace and mercy from you Lord and help us to show that grace and mercy to other people as we all grow in the faith together
We love you Jesus. Let me pray amen
Final hymn this evening, number 325.
325, trust and obey.
325, they're on the first.
are dismissed.