second for this is 364 standing on the promises this is of Christ my shame of
the testimony of our Lord me his prisoner be thou partaker of the
afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God the inside of our
bulletins you'll see there are service times listed Sunday morning 1030 Sunday
evening Wednesday or sorry Sunday evening 430 in our Wednesday Bible study
at 7 o'clock do you have all of our soul winning times churchwide soul winning
times listed there and we do have our year-to-date statistics as well looks
like we had a great day out soul winning and I did want to give everyone
an update for the New Jersey soul winning marathon the Patterson New
Jersey soul winning marathon there was a total of 40 salvations so that is great
results 40 people save for brother Cameron texted me let me see how many
soul winners he had today so there's just 18 salvations today with eight soul
winners so a total of 40 salvations for the weekend so praise God for that it
definitely seems like God answered our prayers for that event and then today
it was great as well out soul winning we do have our online visitor card there
for both visitors in church and also this is great to show people out soul
winning just about every single person I try to get our YouTube subscription or
whatever I succeed so it's just really easy just try you know as Jimenez used
to say just try all right but literally I just say hey you know can I show you
our YouTube channel on your phone and then I just pull up anchor Baptist
Church subscribe them a lot of pastors kind of have this idea that we shouldn't
you know have all the ministries a lot of people in the old IFB are like down
on putting our sermons out there making live streams because they're their
goal is to get people in church and of course we do want people in church but
if I have to choose between them sitting in their house not getting the Word of
God or them sitting in their house getting the Word of God I'll choose the
second so and you know some people do visit even because of our online
presence we had two people this morning tell us that they heard about us online
came to church so it's just a great way to get people to get the Word of God so
please do try to do that if you can we do have our online giving information
our online visitor card as well as our prayer list there on the right you have
any requests please do email the church and we will add that for you then on the
back just a review of our upcoming events this Wednesday April 1st is the
Lord's Supper April 4th that's gonna be the Oklahoma City soul winning marathon
and remember to sign up godresource.com/events there is a OKC marathon
event there you could sign up for April 12th will be our next men's preaching
night that's gonna be the p.m. service on April 12th May 2nd will be a soul
winning marathon at OSU May 9th Mother's Day tea May 20th through the 24th Anti
Israel conference you know this conference also is a really great way
to reach people because now more than I've ever seen before in my life so many
people are waking up on the issue of Zionism and the Jews and like I said
even this morning someone's telling me they're just tired of their church
preaching Zionism and so this could be a great conference to reach people as well
June 17th and 20th is the soul winning conference in Frankfurt Germany so lots
of great events coming up that's gonna be it for announcements this evening
let's go ahead and go to our third song together third song will be number 97 in
the red hymnal
I shall not watch I will come on thee as a thief now shall not know what hour I
will come upon thee thou has had a few names in Sardis which have not defiled
their garments and they shall walk with me in white for they are worthy he that
overcomeeth the same shall be clothed in white raiment and I will not blot out
his name out of the book of life but I will confess his name before my father
and before his angels he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit sayeth
unto the churches and to the angel of the church in philadelphia right these
things say if he that is holy he that is true he that hath the key of david he
that openeth and no man shut it and shut it and no man open it I know thy works
behold I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it thou has
had a little strength and has kept my word and has not denied my name behold I
will make them of the synagogue of Satan which say they are Jews and are not but
do lie behold I will make them to come and to worship before thy feet and to
know that I have loved thee because thou has kept the word of my patience I also
will keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the
world to try them which dwell upon the earth behold I come quickly hold that
thatch which thou hast that no man take thy crown and that overcome it will I
make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out and I will
write upon him the name of my God in the name of the city of my God which is new
Jerusalem which cometh down out of heaven from my God and I will write upon
him my new name he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit sayeth under
the churches and under the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write these
things sayeth the amen the faithful and true witness the beginning of the
creation of God I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot I would
thou were cold or hot so then that because thou art lukewarm and neither
cold nor hot I will spew thee out of my mouth because thou sayest I am rich and
creased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou are
wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked I counsel thee to buy of me
gold tried in the fire that thou mayest be rich white raiment that thou mayest
be clothed and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint
thine eyes with eye salve that thou mayest see as many as I love I rebuke
and chasten be zealous therefore and repent behold I stand at the door and
knock if any man hear my voice open the door I will come in to him and will
sup with him and he with me to him that overcomeeth will I grant to sit with me
in my throne even as I also overcame and am sat down with my father in his throne
he that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit sayeth under the church of
us pray gracious Lord thankful for the souls that were saved today thankful to
be gathered in your house
man Revelation chapter number three let's look at verse one the Bible says
and unto the angel of the church in Sardis write these things sayeth he that
hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars I know thy works that thou
hast a name that thou livest and art dead so here we have letters written to
real churches that actually existed from the Lord Jesus Christ I would want to
see that letter and maybe you know there'd be even some correction for us
I'm sure but anything that Jesus wants us to do we should want to hear that
correction from him and he's given this correction he says I know thy works
that thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead so Jesus is looking at a
church that formerly had a really good reputation they have a name that they
live what does that mean it means they have some sort of reputation that wow
this is a good church this is a church that does a lot of great work they have
maybe have good doctrine some sort of positive reputation but he says thou hast
a name that thou livest and art dead and you know one of the things right off
the bat we can learn from this is that just because a church or a movement was
good in times past or even just because the church is good now does not mean it
will always be that way there have been great movements in Christianity in the
past great churches in the past that if we looked at now they just don't have
their same former glory that they once have maybe they have a name that they
live maybe they still have some sort of reputation but you could actually look
at the works you could say you know this church is kind of dead it's no longer
living up to the reputation that it once has and that's why he says in verse 2 be
watchful and strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die for I have
not found thy works perfect before God so what is Jesus's instruction to this
church it's like hey number one let's stop the bleeding the good things that
you do have going for you we need to strengthen those things that remain why
because everything in this world is in a constant state of decay and if you want
something to be good if you want to have something of quality you have to
constantly be putting work into that thing whether that is your marriage your
relationship with family members friends or a church you can't just go on
autopilot in this world and just hope that things will automatically continue
to be good or even get better he says no you got to strengthen the things that
remain but that's not it verse four he said or verse three says remember
therefore how thou hast received and heard and hold fast and repent if
therefore that will not watch I will come on thee as a thief and thou shall
not know what hour I will come upon thee so first he tells them what
strengthen the things that remain then he tells us to do what remember therefore
how that's received and heard and hold fast and repent so things that you have
going good for you hold on to those things strengthen those things then you
need to remember and hold fast that which is good and do what repent
sometimes you have to look at the direction your church is going your
family's going whatever is going and you have to say hey I'm actually going a
wrong direction I need to repent I need to change what I am doing now I want to
the time I serve in this evening is this remember why you are an IFB remember
why you are an IFB first let me say this is that I love what we call the old IFB
I love the old IFB I think there's a lot of great things about them and when it
comes to the fundamentals when it comes to the most important things we actually
agree on doctrine when it comes to the most important things with the vast
majority of churches that we would call old IFB so I'm not talking about old IFB
churches that would be like repent of your sins heretics obviously you know
go see my morning sermon of how I feel about that but you know most old IFB
churches they would agree with us on things like salvation by faith alone a
lot of old IFB churches would agree with being King James only eternal security
the Trinity the importance of soul winning anti Calvinism baptism by
immersion after salvation living a separated life having the old-fashioned
hymns you know if there's an old IFB church that fits that description let me
just say this I love those people I'm for those people thank God for those
people right but here's the thing when it comes to a lot of the old IFB I think
a lot of the old IFB has a name that it lives but it's kind of dying or is just
dead right there's a lot of old IFB churches where maybe in the 60s 70s 80s
90s they were just really on fire for soul winning they were really on fire
for hard preaching but I think that they should maybe let those things die they
didn't strengthen the things that remain they didn't hold fast to that which is
good they didn't repent when they started going a bad direction and let me
honest a lot of old IFB churches today have gotten kind of lame have watered
down the doctrine have not really emphasized soul winning aren't gonna be
as strong on a lot of things as the new IFB so the time I serve is this
remember why you are an IFB because here's the thing what does the Bible say
we have to remember these things because if we just put our movement on
autopilot or if we just put anchor Baptist Church on autopilot things could
start to change over time for the negative right and if we want to change
anything going forward it should be for the positive now go to Acts chapter
number eight while you're turning there Hebrews 2 one says this therefore we
ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at
any time we should let them slip and see the new IFB I don't think that the new
IFB really is anything new or is trying to do anything new what is an IFB it
stands for new independent fundamental Baptist right that's what we would call
our church and IFB but really what it is is it's more like renewed IFB you know
we like the independent fundamental Baptist movement of yesteryear and the
great works that men did like pastor Jack Hiles you know we love the sermons
of pastor Jack Hiles and the great soul winning movement and the the great
doctrine that was preached we just think that unfortunately the old IFB has
allowed some of these things to slip and so we're not trying to reinvent the
wheel with the new IFB we're just saying hey we need to take heed to those things
that we've heard less than any times we would let them slip because that's what
I think the old IFB has done in some areas is they've just let some things
slip they've let some things fall by the wayside and so I want to give you seven
areas where I think that the new IFB has the edge over the old IFB the purpose
of this sermon is not so we can just say like oh yeah you know we're so much
better than the old IFB I just want you guys to know that that we're better the
purpose is that we would what remember these things hold fast to these things
so that we don't let them slip so that we don't become the old IFB in 20 years
so that we don't let these things slip in so for the next several hours let me
talk to you about seven areas that I think the NIFB has the edge in all right
number one better soul winning and training better soul winning and training
here's one of the things that bothers me about a lot of old IFB churches is that
they've kind of let quality soul winning go by the wayside you know pastor Jack
Hiles was famous for you know teaching people the Romans Road having
confrontational soul winning not just showing up to someone's door and leaving
a door hanger not just showing up to someone's door and leaving a track not
just showing up to someone's door and being like hey I want to get your kids
on our bus route the old IFB used to be about going up to someone and preaching
them the gospel asking them hey if you were to die today are you a hundred
percent sure that you're going to heaven let me tell you soul winning works soul
winning works I'm with soul winning today brother Jorge this man was on fire
today he had three salvations and you know what he did he looked people in the
eye and he asked them are you a hundred percent sure if you died today you'd go
to heaven and then guess what happened he preached them the gospel they
repented they put their faith in Christ they called upon the name of the Lord
they got saved we need to hold on to biblical soul winning Acts chapter
number eight notice what it says verse 26 and the angel of the Lord spake unto
Philip saying arise and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from
Jerusalem unto Gaza which is desert and he rose and went and behold a man of
Ethiopia and eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians
who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem for to worship
was returning and sitting in his chariot read Isaias the prophet so we have this
man here this Ethiopian eunuch and he's sitting down in his chariot and he's
actually reading the Bible so this is a man who's seeking the truth I mean if you
walk up someone and they're reading the Bible boy that's a good soul-winning
opportunity right there that they already have a heart for the things of
God in some sense and it says in verse 29 then the spirit said unto Philip go
near and join thyself to this chariot and Philip ran thither to him and heard
him read the prophet Isaiah's and said understandest thou what thou readest
and notice the Spirit of God wanted Philip to go to this man and you know the
spirit moved Philip and what did Philip do Philip ran to go meet this man in the
chariot you know what didn't happen is the spirit didn't say hey hope that this
guy comes to church have him walk down an aisle do an altar call we'll have
every head bow every eyes closed and we'll ask people you know are you sure
you want to go to heaven that's not what happened Philip actually ran to this man
sat with him in the chariot it says in verse number 31 and he said how can I
accept some man should guide me right so how can this man understand the Bible
unless someone guides him he's saying and he desired Philip that he would come
up and sit with him there's a lot of people today that still desire to be
taught the word of God there's still a lot of people today that desire you to
open up the Bible and expound the scripture to them yeah you knock doors
there's gonna be people that reject you there's going to be people that don't
like you but you know there's a lot of people that desire you to come unto
them and today it was just like all the fish were biting they want they desired
us to preach them the gospel that still happens today verse 32 the place of the
scripture which he read was this he was led as a sheep to the slaughter and like
a lamb dumb before his shearer so opened he not his mouth in his humiliation his
judgment was taken away and who shall declare his generation for his life is
taken from the earth and the eunuch answered Philip and said I pray thee of
whom speak at the prophet this of himself or if some other man then Philip
notice opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him
Jesus hey we do confrontational soul winning because confrontational soul
winning is biblical right Jesus said go forth and preach the gospel to every
creature but he did not say go and just leave a door hanger and honestly just
seems like a waste of time seems like a waste of the church's time to send
people out into the heat into the cold to knock on someone's door just to leave
them a door hanger what is that accomplishing that's not accomplishing
anything folks you're there you're at someone's house you run into someone
open your mouth boldly and make known the mystery of the gospel that is an
area that I believe the new IFB has the edge because a lot of old by IFB
churches they do not preach the gospel they just leave a door hanger they just
leave a track other people I've heard stories that people go in soul-winding
with old IFB churches where they just simply ask the person like hey you
believe in Jesus and then they say yes and they just assume that person is
saved they don't sit there and ask like hey you know if you were to die today
are you hundred percent sure that you go to heaven and you know what do you think
that it takes to get to heaven oh do you think it's by believing in Jesus or
by good works or both they don't ask these qualifying questions to try to
really drill down into this person's heart to see what it is that they're
trusting in which is why a lot of times these churches are filled with saved
people and unsaved people because they're more concerned about getting
people in the door than they are about getting people saved and they've turned
the church service into evangelism rather than keeping things straight hey
the church is for edifying the believers out there the doorstep that's for
preaching the gospel and you know we need to get back to we need to hold on
to hold fast to doorstep soul winning and I'll tell you what I'm not lit I'm
not interested in listening to anyone preach a sermon who is not a soul
winner I'm not interested in going to a conference and listening to people get
behind the pulpit if they are not doing door to door soul winning hey they have
left their first works they have left their first love they need to repent
quickly or God can come away and take that candlestick from them now let me
tell you a personal story I went to an old IFB church for many years this was
not a good IFB church there's some great IFB churches here in Oklahoma City the
one I went to was not good in Boise Idaho it's called Treasure Valley Baptist
Church that's an X that church out on godresource.com if pastor Shelley or
pastor Anderson hear this that's a bad church that's where Sam Gibb got up and
said that Jesus isn't your Messiah unless you're a Jew you know that's
where Sam Gibb got up and said that Jesus's name wasn't supposed to be
Jesus all right that's a blasphemous church I would stay away from that
church but you know when I got saved I was really zealous about soul winning
because I was listening to new IFB preaching and I heard pastor Anderson
get up and I heard him preach a sermon series how to go soul winning part one
and two that's how I learned how to become a soul winner and I heard those
sermons and I went out soul winning by myself there was no soul winning program
there but I remember asking some people on staff at that church hey do we have a
soul winning program can we get a program started where we go out and
preach the gospel and I am not kidding you this pastor told me hey we don't go
soul winning out in the summer because it's too hot and we don't go because
it's too cold in the winter it's too hot in the summer it's too cold in the
winter that's why we don't go so any let me tell you what that church is
worthless a church that's a little afraid of a little bit of sweat a little bit of
cold go to Proverbs chapter number 20 hey you know what hell is very hot who
cares about you being a little uncomfortable in the summer get out
there and work you know it's why it's such a shame today that pastors like
this and ministers like this they kind of bring a reproach on the office of a
bishop because a lot of people think that pastors and bishops are a bunch of
just sissies that don't want to work hard and unfortunately that's true for a
lot of people when you're running this big palace but you're too scared to go
out there and go soul winning because you might get hot you might get cold
sounds like you need to retire buddy look at what Proverbs 20 verse 4 says
the sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold therefore shall he beg and
harvest and have nothing yeah I've got a word for someone like you that doesn't
go soul winning because it's a little too cold you're called lazy it's called
being a sluggard hey you ever heard of a jacket you ever heard of a beanie put
some gloves on and get out to work I mean does that work for the
construction industry in this world you think that the plumbers and the
electricians and the iron workers that are building this nation you think they
wake up in the morning and say oh it's cold boss can't go no they just get up
and work how much more should pastors be willing to work in the cold how much
more should soul winners be willing to work in the cold let me tell you what
there's a bunch of soft Christians today in the old IFB that won't get out and
work when it's cold hey get out and work when it's cold how about when it's hot
go to Proverbs 10 Proverbs chapter number 10 look in Oklahoma City we get
both don't we man in the winter when that Oklahoma wind is hitting you it's
already 10 degrees and then the wind chill makes it negative 3,000 degrees
that's rough right and then in the summer oh you think the wind helps but
it's just like a blow dryer just right in your face right look at Proverbs 10
verse 5 he that gathereth in summer is a wise son but he that sleepeth in
harvest is a son that causeth shame look it doesn't matter if it is winter
doesn't matter if it's summer we need to go out and preach the gospel because
guess what people are dying in the summer and people are dying in the
winter and who else is gonna do it if we don't I mean if we just take a little
break every summer and every winter who's gonna be out there doing the work
of evangelism if it's not gonna be us we need to be tough and preach the gospel
go to 1st John chapter number 5 so you know the new IFB we've got the edge when
it comes to soul winning in the sense that we're more zealous about it I
believe I believe that we're willing to do it under more dire circumstances we
do it just everywhere right and it's not just our zip code right it's not like
let's just hit the zip code around the church so we can get as many visitors as
possible it's like hey let's go all over the metro let's go all over Oklahoma
hey let's send brother Cameron and his wife let's spend thousands of dollars
for a marathon that's not gonna benefit us whatsoever when it comes to like
members I mean hey 40 people saved in New Jersey guess how many of them are
ever gonna come to Acre Baptist Church probably zero probably zero ask me how
much I care they're going to heaven that's what it's all about but not only
do I think that the new IFB is just more zealous about soul winning but I think
that we do soul winning better why because we emphasize things like
eternal security you must believe in eternal security to be saved if you
deny eternal security you are not saved because you're trusting in your works
to save you look what it says in first John 5 10 he that believeth on the Son
of God hath the witness in himself he that believeth not God have made him a
liar because he believeth not the record that God gave of his son and this is the
record that God had given to us eternal life and this life is in his son hey you
know what someone just telling us oh I believe in Jesus that's not gonna be
enough for me when I'm out so winning I'm gonna ask some deeper questions to
make sure that you've put all of your trust in Christ that you're not trusting
half in Jesus and half in your works and I'm gonna make sure that you believe
the record that God gave of his son what is that record that God has given us
eternal life if you don't believe that God's given you eternal life you're
denying the record you're calling God a liar you're not saved if you deny
eternal security and so hey we emphasize eternal security I don't believe that
you should count someone that you didn't go over eternal security with you should
always always always go over eternal security with someone at the door and
look if there's old ife churches out there that are really thorough then I'm
not talking about them this evening but I'm talking about a lot of old ife
churches that have let these things slip and they're sending people soul-winning
translation door hanging translation bus filling and look praise God if you're
bringing people on the bus to church and those people are coming to church but
you know what preach the gospel too hey praise God if you're getting people on
your bus but while you do that why don't you preach them the gospel why don't you
preach eternal security why don't you make sure that they're saved so that we
don't have to come to your church and get your people saved in your pew like
happened recently go if you would to Joshua chapter 8 Joshua chapter number
8 so that's one thing the new ife has the edge on do I say that so we can be
prideful no I'm saying let's hold on to those things let's make sure we don't
let those things slip let's make sure that soul winning is always the priority
not building a building not building a palace not having the coolest events it
is all about soul winning that is the main thing folks number two the new ife
is family integrated family integrated this is a big deal and this is something
that I feel like people take for granted that that I even forget about and then
every once in a while I'm reminded of how special it is to have a family
integrated church because that is not the normal okay a lot of churches when
you show up with your family they're gonna put a lot of pressure on you to
put your kids in the nursery for you to drop off your babies your toddlers your
children your teenagers with some random stranger during the service and look
people think that I mean people think that new ife preachers are mean let me
tell you I heard a preacher recently who is literally preaching a sermon on love
literally preaching about love and charity and grace and long-suffering and
you hear in the sermon this baby makes the tiniest little noise he's like I
can't have that baby in here when I'm preaching get that baby out of here it's
like whoa love love grace long-suffering charity a little baby peeps and you're
freaking out Wow look what the Bible says in Joshua 8 verse 34 the Bible says
and afterward he read all the words of the law the blessings and cursings
according to all that is written in the book of the law there was not a word of
all that Moses commanded which Joshua read not before all the congregation of
Israel with the women notice and the little ones in the strangers that were
conversant among them look kids need to be in church children need to be in the
main services we don't need to take the kids away from the preaching and put
them in some sort of watered-down kid version of church no here in the Old
Testament they had the real deal and notice what Joshua was reading he was
reading the blessings and the cursings hey the kids were hearing the hard
preaching the kids were getting the hard truths and look children pick up more
than you realize they pick up more than you realize they pick up more doctrine
and more Bible than you realize but also when kids are in a real church they're
hearing real biblical preaching you know they're understanding and they're
learning what real church is what does real church sound like what does real
church feel like what are what are the songs sound like at a real church hey
what is a real pastor sound like you know what any you know what they're not
only looking at the pastor and the songs they're also looking at you right
they're saying hey look mom and dad they take church seriously hey you know mom
and dad they see you all day every day and you know what they should see is
they should see a time of the week where you come here and you say hey God is
important we're gonna pay attention hey God is important it's time to sing
praise unto him hey God is important it's time to look down at the Bible and
read the words of God that are being read hey God is important it's time to
go out soul winning at two o'clock God is important you know they see that they
see those things when you go to a real church and you know what they see when
you stick them in some sort of daycare is they see I don't know cartoons they
see kids church they see candy they see just like a watered-down version of
Christianity but it's like what you see in the Bible is Joshua gets up and he
reads the blessings and the cursings he says there wasn't a word of the law that
he didn't read before all the congregation before the women before the
children look kids need to be hearing every part of the Bible God you know the
Bible says that every word of God is pure don't sit here and believe this lie
that's this stupid thought that I heard this guy Steven Crowder say saying you
know oh we wouldn't want to teach the kids the book of Revelation you know
that's too much for them no no no the Bible says every word of God is pure in
Joshua the little children they were listening to the blessings and the
cursings hey I want my kids and guess what my kids do know that alcohol is bad
they're young they I don't even think they fully understand what it is and
what it does to you but they see a bottle of it and they say that's bad you
know I don't even know if they fully understand everything about Halloween
but they know Halloween is bad they see the Halloween decorations they're like
dad they're doing Halloween that's wicked I'm like that's right and they're
more judgmental than us they I mean they get so mad they're just like oh I hate
Halloween what's wrong with them I'm just like they're not safe you know right
like hey kids understand these things and praise God for that but you want to
know why they understand that is because we're a family integrated church is
because they're listening to hard preaching they're learning doctrine we're
not just putting them away and look it's good to have children in church go to
Matthew chapter number 19 Matthew 19 they get more out of church than you
think you know the other day might one of my daughters drew me a picture and
the caption just said I love God how do they love God because they're in the
house of God because they're around people that love God because they hear
the preaching of God's word look what Jesus said Matthew 19 verse 13 then
were there brought unto him little children that he should put his hands on
them and pray and the disciples rebuked them so the disciples were old IFB right
here. Kids were brought to Jesus and they said, "I can't have that baby in here when I'm preaching.
Get that baby out of here." But notice, "But Jesus said, 'Suffer little children and forbid them not
to come unto me, for if such is the kingdom of heaven.' And he laid his hands on them and departed."
That's, you know what suffer means? It means to allow or to put up with. And let's be honest, hey,
sometimes kids are going to make some noise. Sometimes kids are going to destroy a hymnal.
Sometimes kids are going to spill something. Sometimes kids are going to ruin something in the church.
But Jesus says, what? Suffer them. Put up with it. Allow it. Suffer the children to come up to Him.
And it's like, look, look, Baptist preacher, if you can't yell louder than the crying babies,
we got a big problem. You might be in the wrong profession. It's like, hey, kids are going to cry.
That's okay. Out yell them. You know, I was soul winning last week and this woman was listening to
the gospel and her kid is just melting down this whole time. And I looked at that kid. I said,
listen, kid, I'm a Baptist preacher. I can out yell you. And then the kid calmed down. The wife
kind of laughed, but it's like, you know, I'm joking kind of, but I'm also not joking. Like if
I have to yell over your kid also winning, I will do that if I have to. And it's like, if your kids
are crying in church, obviously can get to a point where it's just like super distracting.
At that point, that's why we have them other baby rooms. That's why you can take them out.
You know, if they're just losing it and melting down, don't just sit there or don't just like,
I've seen some people, there's like kids absolutely screaming and moms just like
slowly walking out as the child's dying. It's like, all right, you know, going out of service.
But look, little peeps, little noises. It's like, why can't Baptist preachers just suffer
the children, right? It's good to be family integrated. Also, you know, it's safer to be
family integrated. It is not safe to just drop off your kid with a random stranger because guess what,
pedophiles use churches as hunting grounds. And you know what churches where they're giving
positions away where you're going to have access to children. Guess what, that can attract sure good
people. I'm sure it could attract some good people, but that could also attract some pedophiles.
Yeah, there's the sweet old lady nursery worker and they're not all bad. I'm not saying they're
all evil or something like that. But you know, is it worth the risk? No, it's not worth the risk.
You know, there was that church in Ohio. It was an it was called another anchor Baptist church
where the pastor was like in his late 80s. He got arrested. He got charged with pedophilia and he was
one of these pastors that would just pressure people. You got to put your kids in the nursery.
You got to put your kids in the daycare. You got to give us your kids. Look, that's weird.
It's weird when someone some random person is just demanding that you hand over your children.
Look, you know, if you're in another state, another city on a Sunday, I recommend that
you still go to church, but I recommend you keep your kids with you, you know, and you don't have
to give your kids over to the pastor. Yes, pastors have authority in church, but you know,
they don't have authority over your children. They can't tell you give me your children.
All right, you could be respectful about it, but I would always decline that. Keep your children
with you. Go view what a second or first Corinthians two first Corinthians two. So hey,
I think the new IFB sharper on soul winning, more zealous on soul winning. We've got the edge there.
I think we've got the edge when it comes to family integration. Number three is that the new IFB is
sharper on doctrine. The new IFB is sharper on doctrine. Now here's the thing in the sermon
that I've been preaching for you so far this evening there's already been 24 Bible verses
which is not really that much in my opinion. 24 Bible verses not that much but here's the thing
you may not realize this but many old IFB sermons and I'm telling you if you've never been old IFB
this is going to sound crazy to you but I'm telling you the truth right now many old IFB sermons have
one Bible verse one they get up they start the sermon they read one Bible verse and then they
preach the rest of the sermon and that's it recently I heard a good old IFB sermon it had two and it was
a good sermon but it had two Bible verses and here's the thing even though some of these guys
are really good preachers and they're really talented and like they have seriously good
preaching ability because the Bible though is not being preached and emphasized as much in the new
IFB doctrine can suffer doctrine can fail because when you're just getting up and reading one verse
for the whole sermon that's not a lot of doctrine it ends up being a lot of the pastor's opinion a
lot of the pastor's ideas and look some of these guys are talented they're funny but they're not
preaching the Bible you know let me give you an example of this this is a guy I like okay but I'm
just telling you this is a good example of what I'm talking about Tony Hudson I you know I love the
guy but I'm not really worried about saying his name because I doubt he's ever going to come preach
for us or anything like that but you know Tony Hudson recently preached a sermon I think it was
called like they became as women they became as women and I'm telling you he just got up he read
one verse and the rest of his sermon was just his opinions and his ideas and a lot of his opinions
I agreed with and a lot of his opinions I thought was funny as all get out the guy is hilarious the
guy is entertaining the guy is a good speaker but you know what the bible says preach the word you
know what the house of god is not a comedy show the house of god is not the pastor's entertainment
bit this is the house of god and we've been commanded to preach the word and you know what
it annoys me when preachers get up and take god's time and god's people's time and spend the whole
thing preaching their opinion I may agree with their opinion let me tell you it makes me really
mad when I disagree with their opinion but even if I do agree with their opinion I still don't
like it and you know what if you preach behind this pulpit and you get up and you just preach
your opinions and even if I agree with all your opinions I'm still gonna be mad if you're not
preaching the Bible because it's not about your opinions it's not about your comedy show it's not
about your bit it's about the word of God being preached and we need more Bible in our sermons
today go if you would to first Corinthians 2 verse 4 it says this in my speech and my preaching was
not with enticing words of man's wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit and of power that your
faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God look the life changing power
from a sermon is not found in the preacher's wisdom it's not found in his illustrations his
stories his opinions it is found in the word of God that is where the power is found and you know
what if there's many preachers out there who are very wise who speak well who are so talented but
here's the thing if they take all that talent that they have and they don't use the word of God as
they're preaching what can happen is people in the congregation their faith is going to stand in the
wisdom of that pastor in the words of that pastor whereas if someone gets up and maybe they're not
as eloquent they're not as dynamic but everything they're saying is just biblical they're just
dropping Bible verse after Bible verse backing up all of their points you know what then happens is
that the congregation is putting their faith in what the words of God and that is a much more
lasting faith than having their faith in man's wisdom you know you've heard the saying you keep
them with what you win them to right we want to win people to Bible doctrine so that we wanted
to make it to where hey how do we keep people by preaching Bible doctrine and if I you know went
off of Bible doctrine and started preaching my opinion my ideas you would be mad at me you would
be annoyed you'd be like hey these sermons are really starting to suck whereas like if you always
just emphasize the Bible you have to keep emphasizing the Bible to keep the right type
of people 1st Corinthians 2 verse 12 notice it says now we have received not the spirit of the
world but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to
us of God which things also we speak notice not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth but which
the Holy Ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual hey when we get up we want to use
the words that the Holy Ghost gave us what is that that's the word of God and we want to compare
spiritual things with spiritual you know the sermon time is not the time for the pastor to get up and
read all of his commentaries and read all of his concordances and read all of his secular books
read all of these charts you know that's the time that you compare spiritual things with spiritual
go through with Isaiah chapter number 28 Isaiah 28 you know it really annoys me when a preacher
gets up and they want to defend their doctrine and they're like well if you go to Clarence Larkin's
dispensational book of truth well if you go to the Schofield reference bible notes it's like you know
what i want to hear it from the bible hey if you're gonna if you're gonna contradict our doctrine
if you're gonna tell us we're wrong about something you better show me in the bible or i'm not
listening don't care what Clarence Larkin said i don't care what your commentary says i don't care
what your books say i don't care what your chart says i don't care what preachers of yesteryear say
i don't care what dead theologians say what does the bible say that's what we want to hear look
at isaiah chapter number 28 verse 10 the bible says for precept must be upon precept precept upon
precept line upon line line upon line here a little and there a little here's another edge
that we've got when it comes to doctrine and preaching is that many old ifb churches never
do verse by verse bible studies they only do topical preaching and it's kind of weird because
like the old ifb there's some of them they only do topical sermons and then a lot of very liberal
churches they never do topical sermons they only do expository preaching i believe that we should
have a mix of these things and the bible says here that precept must be upon precept precept
upon precept line upon line you know i think it's good for us that we have our wednesday bible study
that we're going through verse by verse through a chapter why because that's going to make us
sharper on doctrine it's going to be harder of course we're humans we can still make mistakes
but it's going to be harder for us to have these big huge holes in our doctrine and just have these
big errors in our doctrine when we're taking the time to go through verse by verse through a chapter
also how am i going to get away with preaching one bible verse per chapter if i have to go through
the whole chapter on a wednesday right i'm not going to just get up to like all right let's all
stay in let's read one verse i'm just going to yell at you for the rest time no we're going through
every single verse now here's the thing that means that not every single wednesday sermon is just
going to be like the most exciting off the chain sermon because you know what we're doing we're
going line upon line we're going to go through every single word of god and let's be honest some
chapters in the bible are more exciting than others right that's just the fact but you know
what we need to have the character and the discipline to say all right every word of god
is pure there's something in this chapter that god wants us to learn let's preach it let's pay
attention to it let's give heed to the doctrine verse 11 for with stammering lips and another
tongue will he speak to this people to whom he said this is the rest wherewith he may cause the
weary to rest and this is the refreshing yet they would not hear but the word of the lord was unto
them precept upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line hear a little and
there a little that they might go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken hey
the bible says man shall not live on bread alone but by every word of god hey i'm all for the
topical sermons i love the topical sermons i don't believe we should have only the verse by verse
sermons but you know what the bible also says line upon line precept upon precept every word of god
we need today i'll read for you first simothy 413 says till i come give attendance to reading to
exhortation to doctrine here's something else you know before the service we read an entire chapter
whatever is the anchor text for my sermon whatever the main text that i'm pulling from in my sermon
we read that entire verse why because the bible says give attendance to reading in the old ifb
that is not how they do things usually the preacher gets up and he just reads one verse
some churches i've seen they'll read you know five or six verses surrounding that verse
i like that we just read the whole chapter because you know what i'm not trying to hide anything
i'm not trying to pull anything out of context not trying to pull a fast one on any of you
i want you to see the full chapter pay attention to the whole chat and you know what give attendance
to reading pay attention to the reading don't just sit there actually read go if you would
aphesians chapter four aphesians chapter four now another reason why i believe we have the edge on
doctrine is because our church services are not geared towards evangelism in the old ifb many of
the church services are geared towards getting people saved now look i'm for getting people saved
but that's not the purpose of church look at aphesians chapter 4 verse 11 and he gave some
apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the what
perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of christ
why is that god gave us men of god it's not to get everyone in the church saved it's that we
could perfect the saints by feeding them doctrine perfecting them helping them grow he says for the
work of the ministry i'm trying to exhort people to get to work to go out and preach the gospel
to serve god for the edifying of the body of christ till we all come in the unity of the faith
and of the knowledge of the son of god unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of
the fullness of christ why that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried
about with every wind of what doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they
lie and wait to deceive notice if churches are not emphasizing doctrine if pastors are not getting up
and clearly teaching bible doctrine then the congregation is in danger of being carried about
with every wind of doctrine like children right what do the old if we do oh you want to learn
doctrine come to bible college come to the bible institute pay us money then we'll finally teach
you doctrine why don't you teach doctrine in church why is it that your church services are
geared towards the lost that is not how church is supposed to be you're supposed to go out there
preach the gospel to the lost hey bring them in and then teach them to observe all things
whatsoever christ hath commanded that's the great commission right hey reach them baptize them teach
them all things that's what we're supposed to do but what does the old if you do they preach a
sermon and it usually is about salvation and you know what they do at the end of this sermon they
say all right everyone every head bowed every eye closed if you're not 100 sure today that you would
die go to heaven you know you need to come up here to this altar you need to do business with
god today is the day of days for you no one's watching raising oh i see that hand oh there's
another there's a who knows what i'm talking about i'm not making stuff up right now this is how it is
every single church service and it's like why is it that there's just constantly people getting
re-saved at your altars it's once saved always saved seems like you're not doing a good job of
emphasizing doctrine if people are constantly getting re-saved it's ridiculous we've got the
edge there we need to keep that we need to hang on to teaching doctrine and there's a big consequence
of the old ifb not emphasizing doctrine guess what that is is that they end up being wrong on a lot
of doctrines how about this how about the old ifb supporting and loving the synagogue of satan what's
a big issue in the old ifb is that they get up and they promote and they love people that hate
jesus christ people that the bible says are anti-christ hey he is anti-christ that denieth
the father and the son the bible says guess what jews are anti-christs and a lot of people thank
god are waking up to this you know what it makes christianity look bad when people walk into a
baptist church and there's a synagogue of satan flag up there and they're worshiping the jews
they're worshiping those that killed the lord jesus christ go to galatians chapter number three
galatians chapter number three say why do they do this well here's why is because they do not
emphasize doctrine they just repeat cute things that they've heard they just look at the commentaries
they just ask themselves what do men of the past say what are we supposed to do hey we're supposed
to ask ourselves you know are we believing what's right let's hold fast to that which is good hey
let's repent if we need to if we believe something wrong look at galatians 3 verse 16 the bible says
now to abraham and his seed were the promises made he saith not and to seeds as of many but as of one
and to thy seed which is christ what's the promise that's being referred to that all the nations of
the world would be blessed through abraham's seed now the bible defines us what that seed is that
seed is the lord jesus christ this is not saying hey abraham your physical descendants are going
to be the reason that the whole world is blessed no the king james bible which i thought the old
ifb believes the king james bible says this seed the modern version says descendants but the king
james bible says seed what is that seed it's the lord jesus christ hey you know who god's chosen
people are are those that believe in jesus christ hey if you are of the descendant if you're a
descendant of abraham and you believe in jesus your god's chosen people if you're a descendant
of abraham and you don't you're going to go to hell when you die regardless of what your dna is
look at verse 28 galatians 3 verse 28 here's some doctrine there is neither jew nor greek
there is neither bond nor free there's neither male nor female for you are all one in christ
jesus and if ye be christ then are ye abraham seed and heirs according to the promise what does the
old ife often say no no no the seed of abraham that's the jews oh that's the people who rejected christ
that's the people who go and worship in the synagogue those are the people that have the
torah and then you know go to the wailing wall in jerusalem that's the seed of abraham no no no
read this again what does it say and if ye be christ then ye are abraham seed you know we are
abraham seed the people at anchor baptist church that believe in you we are the chosen we are the
chosen people christians are the chosen people not the christ hating jews go to first peter 2 first
peter chapter number two you know this is a doctrine today that's just screwed up in the old
ifb because they're not you know emphasizing doctrine first peter chapter 2 verse 9 it says
this but ye are a chosen generation a royal priesthood and holy nation a peculiar people
that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness
into his marvelous light which in time past were not a people but are now the people of god
which had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy so who who is it that's the
chosen generation who is it that's the royal priesthood who is it that's the holy nation
who is it that's the peculiar people it's those who were at one point not a people
well were the jews a people at one point of course they were was israel a people at one point
absolutely so that can't be talking about the jews can it no it's talking about a group of people
that was not a people but now we are a people it says hey that we did not obtain mercy now we have
what is that that's believers in jesus christ of all nations jew or gentile male female bond free
you believe in jesus christ you are the chosen you are god's chosen people go to mark 13 you know
they're just messed up on that doctrine and you know i don't know about you it frustrates me going
to church after i've read my bible i've studied the word of god it frustrates me going to church
just to hear lies preached on the pulpit i mean isn't this supposed to be the pillar and ground
of the truth and look like i said i'm for these guys that are king james only salvation eternal
security doing great things i'm for them i would be their friends i would preach for them i would
let some of these guys preach for me not all of them but some of them but here's the thing i don't
want to go to a church to hear lies i just don't and you know what saying that the jews are god's
chosen people it's just a big fat dirty lie here's another big fat dirty lie the preacher of rapture
and i'm sorry i think it should insult the intelligence of people that actually read their bible
to get up and say that it can happen before the tribulation what does the bible say mark 13 verse
23 but take ye heed behold i foretold you all things but in those days after that tribulation
the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars of heaven shall fall
and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken and they shall see the son of man
coming in the clouds with great power and glory and then shall he send his angels and shall gather
together his elect from the four winds from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part
in heaven hey when are the elect gathered to meet the lord in the air after that tribulation hey it's
a great movie called after the tribulation the bible teaches we are raptured after the tribulation
and you know what it is just a lie it's a false doctrine why do they have that false doctrine
because they're not emphasizing doctrine in their churches it's well you got let me show you this
chart let me show you this chart let me show you this commentary i mean it's the time of jacob's
trouble brother don't you know that it's like that has nothing to do with end times the captivity
of the babylonians the time of jacob's trouble let me help you with some end times theology that
has nothing to do with the rapture that has nothing to do with the tribulation that's nothing to do
the wrath of god no brother you got to look at it's time of jacob's trouble amen just stop saying
that why don't you say what the bible says go to act chapter number 20 number four where do we have
the edge and remember we need to hold fast to these things we have to make sure we don't let
these things slip number four longer sermons you're like is this an edge is this something
that's good about the new ifb you're like i thought something was bad hey you know we need
god's word to be preached today and if you're going to spend you know the five dollar a gallon
to get here don't you want to hear the bible being preached don't you want to be here for a
while we need some long sermons today act chapter number 20 verse 7 and upon the first day of the
week when the disciples were when the disciples came together to break bread paul preached
unto them ready to depart on the morrow and continued his speech until midnight till midnight
look back there we got several hours to go folks till midnight verse 8 and there were many lights
in the upper chamber where they were gathered together and they're sat in a window a certain
young man named euticus being fallen into a deep sleep see kids you got to be careful about falling
asleep in church look what happens kids look at it euticus right here euticus fell asleep during
church it says and as paul was long preaching he sunk down with sleep and fell down from the
third loft it was taken up dead you know one of my kids they've never fallen through a loft
but i think you guys remember that one time where there was just a sudden shriek out of nowhere
it was because one of those kids fell asleep and just fell down off the chair right you got to be
careful kids not to fall asleep during church and paul went down and fell on him and embracing him
said trouble not yourselves for his life is in him you know to quote a little saying that the old
ifb loves to say so much if it was good enough for the apostle paul it's good enough for me
right hey if it's long sermons are good enough for the apostle paul is good enough for me
if the apostle paul will get up and he'll preach all night he'll preach till midnight then i think
people can handle an hour an hour long sermon you know an hour and a half long sermon look you know
the other earlier this year i tried to challenge myself can i run for longer than a pastor shelly
sermon and i made it to two hours and some people do it way more than two hours that's great that's
awesome but it's like hey some people could run for two hours you can't sit there for one you can't
sit there for 50 minutes and hear god's word being preached it's like come on guys we need we need to
hear some long sermons today how much is how much time do people give to social media during the
week how much time do people give to entertainment to video games to all their extracurricular things
it's like can we not give the house of god three hours a week do not pay attention in church for
three hours a week i think we've got the edge there go to first corinthians five here's another
area i think the new ifb has the edge we need to hold fast to these things not let them slip
that is church discipline church discipline a lot of churches in the old ifb will scarcely sometimes
never execute church discipline and oftentimes when they do it it's because you listen to pastor
anderson or you listen to the new ifb it's true i mean i went to the old ifb church for three years
and i went soul winning by myself they didn't have a soul winning program so i'm doing my best
to just love this church to contribute to go soul winning tithe was trying to be a good member
and i didn't go around spreading my beliefs or my doctrines but one time this girl called me
and she said hey this person told me that the rapture happens after the tribulation
i know you read your bible a lot can you help me prove this person wrong and i said that person's
right it does happen after the tribulation hey i didn't go around spreading my doctrine but if
someone just straight up asks me yeah i'm just gonna tell them and then in this giant church
like thousand people church next week i get a call from the church secretary saying you know the
pastor wants to meet with you and it's like why does the pastor want to meet with like this 17
year old 16 year old kid or whatever and i just felt kind of weird about it but i was like okay
whatever i'll go and you know he meets with me and he's like you know i heard that you've been
listening to this guy Stephen Anderson and you know he's in Arizona and he's really dangerous
all this stuff and i said yeah you know you know i got saved by listening to new ip preaching
i listened to him i listened to other new ip preachers i think they're great and he's like
well you know i appreciate your candor but i really think that you need to meet with sam gip you need
to talk to sam gip about the rapture and i'm just like horrified in my mind because i've already
heard pastor innocent ripping against sam gip and just calling him a damnable heretic because
he's saying that jesus isn't the messiah and i just said you know pastor with all due respect
if there's any correction that i need i'd way rather get it from you you know you're my pastor
i've listened to sam gip i don't you know agree with his doctrine and he ends up saying he's
like well you know sam gip knows this a lot better than me which even as a teenager i thought it was
weird that the pastor couldn't explain to me the preacher rapture it's like you're the pastor it's
like you're a man in your 60s you can't explain this to me then my phone is being blown up by
sam gitt for like the next three weeks and i'm just like super annoyed i don't want to meet with him
and then finally pastor anderson he posted this video he's just like it was called like treasure
valley baptist church is wicked or something like that and finally i'm just like i'm done i'm leaving
this church i'm going somewhere else but you got to understand like it was really hard for me at
first because i'm listening to new ife preaching and i'm hearing these pastors get up and just
rip face like you need to go to the best church in your area you need to stop complaining you need
to just go to a good church and be a blessing and i'm just like i'm trying man i'm trying
i'm like i don't think you realize how bad it is and they're like you know if you're in america you
have a good church to go to it's good and then finally pastor arson uploads treasure valley
baptist church is wicked i was just like all right i'm not crazy it was just like miserable going
there but you know what the pressure was on me right it's like oh this guy who's a soul winner
this guy who's just minding his own business a teenager going soul winning of his own volition
we gotta have meetings with this guy we gotta put the pressure on this guy we gotta send
the witch at endor sam gimp to talk to this guy but you know what i never saw i never saw
fornicators getting kicked out of church i knew of open couples and fornication nothing ever
happened to them nothing happened to the drunks nothing happened to i mean there was literally
pentecostals in this church there was literally a family that was an ex ministry family the guy was
an ex pentecostal pastor he went around teaching everyone oneness heresy i knew about oneness
before the new ifb oneness controversy because of this nut job walking around our church saying
hey you know jesus is the father he was never kicked out but you know who's dragged in the office
the teenage soul winner that was listening to pastor anderson that's wicked folks look what the
bible says in first corinthians 5 verse 9 it says i wrote unto you in an epistle not to company
with fornicators yet not all together with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous
or extortioners or with idolaters for then musty needs go out of the world he's saying hey i'm not
saying you have to separate from the unsaved obviously you can't separate from these sins in
unsafe people because this is just what unsafe people are like but he says but now i have written
unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or
an idolater or a railer or a drunker or an extortioner with such and one no not to eat who
Who is someone that's called a brother?
Well, it would definitely be people that go to church, right?
I mean, don't you say, hey, brother so-and-so,
brother so-and-so?
So if brother so-and-so is guilty of these things,
fornication, covetousness, extortion, idolatry,
railing, being a drunkard,
the Bible says with that type of a person, don't even eat.
It says don't even eat with that type of person.
Don't even be friends with that type of person.
Don't even hang out with that type of person.
How much less have that person in your church?
How much less have an open situation of fornication
and just no one deals with it?
You got people going around teaching damnable heresy,
no one deals with it.
Teenager that listens to Pastor Anderson,
let's put the screws on this guy.
It's crazy, but that's what a lot of old IFB churches
are like.
It says in verse 12, for what have I to do to judge them
also that are without?
Do not ye judge them that are within?
Paul's saying you need to be judging in the house of God.
You need to be judging these things.
But them that are without God judgeth,
therefore here's the command, put away from among yourselves
that wicked person.
You know, this may seem strange to a lot of people today.
Why though?
Because doctrine's not being preached.
Because if you're going line by line, precept upon precept,
through 1 Corinthians 5, eventually someone's
going to have to explain this concept of church discipline.
That the Bible says there are some people that
are to be put away from among you,
that are not to be allowed in the house of God.
You say, well, I thought the church
was a spiritual hospital.
Never does the Bible say that church is a spiritual hospital.
That is not in the Bible.
I mean, the Bible says endure hardness
is a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
You want to compare it to something,
I guess we're like a spiritual boot camp.
And guess what?
This isn't 2016, you're 2015 Obama military.
We've got some requirements and no trannies allowed.
You know what, there's some requirements
that you got to meet to attend the house of God.
And it's called not being a railer,
not being an extortioner, not being a drunkard,
not being covetousness.
No, you know what?
The house of God is more like a spiritual boot camp
than a hospital.
Hey, out there, we're trying to heal people,
trying to get in the gospel.
Here, we're trying to train people.
We're trying to help people become effective soldiers
for Jesus Christ.
And so you know what?
Yeah, we are not gonna allow these things in church.
And how about this?
You know, go hear my sermon last week.
No sodomites or pedophiles are allowed in the house of God.
Some churches and old IFB, they have an open policy
saying we welcome sodomites, we welcome pedophiles.
Hey, bring the sodomites into the house of God.
That is wicked.
The Bible says they are not allowed.
The Bible says they should be put to death, okay?
Bringing sodomites into the house of God is wicked and evil.
You're begging for God's judgment.
All right, you're bringing in pedophiles
that could harm these kids.
You know what, any pastor,
even if he is a good person overall,
if a child gets hurt in his congregation
because he allows pedophiles,
I believe God should hold him accountable to that
and will, it's evil.
Go to John chapter number two.
What's another area that we have the edge?
Number six, the new IFB is not constantly emphasizing
and talking about money.
Good night folks.
And if you've never been old IFB,
it's gonna be hard for you to really appreciate
what I'm talking about.
How much the old IFB emphasizes money.
And you take for granted the thing
that all of our events here are free.
Everything that we do is free, all the food is free.
We have these soul winning marathons, just all free.
The material's free.
That is not usually the case in the old IFB.
In the old IFB a lot of people are charging you
for your soul winning materials.
You wanna go to that men's retreat?
You gotta pay for it.
You wanna go to this mission strip?
You gotta pay for everything, right?
And even when they do offer things that are free,
it's like, they're gonna get up behind the pulpit
and just be like, hey, let me tell you what.
These conferences, they cost a lot of money.
We're taking up a special offering right now.
You can just find it in your heart to give.
Please do that, please give more money,
please give more money.
Did I talk about money yet, right?
Just emphasizing all these things.
You know the Bible talks about the tithe, and that's true.
The Bible does teach to tithe.
That's Bible doctrine.
But the Bible doesn't say, hey, you know,
we need to take up a special offering
for every little thing that we do.
You know, there's no vision offering in the Bible.
You know, it gets real annoying
when you go to the house of God
and you're just constantly being pestered about money,
and it's constantly putting on a show,
and it's guilt trip preaching.
You know, oh, you know, God loves a cheerful giver,
so if you don't give, you know,
you must not be a really godly person, right?
It's crazy.
Look at John chapter two, verse 13.
It says, and the Jews' Passover was at hand,
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
and found in the temple those that sold oxen,
and sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
So what does he see?
He goes to the house of God,
and he sees people buying and selling.
This is something you see a lot in the old IP.
You show up, and as soon as you walk through the door,
it's the book stands, it's the DVDs, it's the materials,
and, you know, pastors get up,
and immediately it's just like,
hey, thanks for inviting me.
All my books are in the back over there.
You go ahead and buy it.
Like, money, money, money is constantly being emphasized
in the old IFB.
Notice what Jesus did.
When he had made a scourge of small cords.
You see, Pastor Anderson isn't alone.
Sometimes you gotta use a cord, all right?
And when he had made a scourge of small cords,
he drove them all out of the temple,
and the sheep, and the oxen,
and poured out the changers' money,
and overthrew the tables.
Oh, you just gotta be more Christ-like.
You sure about that?
You sure you want that?
'Cause Jesus sat down and made a weapon.
He sat down and carefully made a scourge of small cords.
Oh, Pastor Anderson's so evil.
The cord, Jesus used cord's plural.
Cord's multiple.
And he went in there and he flipped the tables.
He started beating the crap out of Jews with a cord.
He might be on the ADL hate side or something like that.
Oh yeah, the Jews hate Jesus, that's right.
Jesus beat these people with a weapon, with a cord.
He saw their tables, he flipped them over,
and said unto them that soul doves,
"Take these things hence.
"Make not my father's house and house of merchandise."
And his disciples remembered that it was written,
"The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up."
Hey, you know what, in the house of God,
why don't we emphasize, why aren't we zealous
for soul winning, for doctrine, for hard preaching,
for fellowship, for things that are good?
Why is it that the focus of our ministry
would ever become money?
Why is it that you'd get up
and just constantly emphasize money?
You know, let me just say this too.
Another reason why I knew Roger Jimenez was going downhill
is because let me tell you
one of the ways you could identify bad preaching.
It's this game called Drop the Hammer, all right?
Invented by Pastor Jonathan Shelley.
And I used to have to do this for people all the time.
And it wasn't fun when I had to do this for like Manley Perry
and like heretics and stuff like this.
But there's this game called Drop the Hammer.
It's called open someone's sermon
and drop it to a random point in the sermon.
And you know what you'll find with good preachers
is that you just constantly see them just preaching truth,
preaching hard, preaching the Bible.
And you know, you can go to any sermon
and you can just take 10 years worth of preaching,
a Pastor Anderson, Pastor Shelley,
you just drop the hammer,
you're just gonna find good sermon, good point,
that's Bible, that's true, that's good.
But you know what you find with bad preachers
is that you could go to a big swath of their preaching,
doesn't matter how long it is,
you just find, oh, bad doctrine, bad idea,
false doctrine, heresy.
Well, here's one of the concerns that I had
with Roger Jimenez when he was going downhill
is you play Drop the Hammer and it's just like,
talking about money, talking about money,
talking about money, talking about more money.
Hey, money, money.
Hey, you know, your gift is spiritual giving.
Hey, some people can't go slowly,
but did you know you could give?
Hey, have you heard about the vision offering?
Hey, have you heard about the offerings,
the special offerings?
It's like, dude, if I'm playing Drop the Hammer
and I'm just constantly hearing about money,
that is a wrong emphasis.
We should not, in the house of God, make things about money.
Now look, we need money.
There's nothing wrong with money.
The Bible has tithing.
The house of God operates out of money.
You know, someone who's right with God has no problem
with the house of God being blessed,
the man of God being taken care of.
But you know what?
When money becomes the focus,
that's a ministry that's going the wrong direction.
When you show up at church and everything costs money
and the sermon's about the money,
it's always pressure on the money.
Look, that's a bad thing.
You know, we like in the new IFB,
we like to emphasize hard preaching.
We like to emphasize doctrine.
We like to emphasize soul winning.
We like to emphasize fellowship.
You know what?
We're just not that into palaces in the new IFB.
Have you noticed that?
I mean, look around.
We're just not really that into palaces.
We're not really into the things of this world.
You know what?
We're into the service of God.
And you know what?
Hey, praise God for churches out there
that get big, beautiful buildings
and they never compromise in their preaching.
But let's be honest, that is the exception, not the rule.
Show me the church that has the big, magnificent palace
and it's probably a church that's watered down doctrine,
that's not preaching hard, that's compromising somewhere.
Go to 1 Corinthians 14, 1 Corinthians 14.
And look, I'm not, you know,
I was saying that you drop the hammer
and you hear a lot of heresies, heretic.
I'm not saying Roger Mendes was a heretic.
I'm just saying I could tell something
was going in the wrong direction
'cause it was always emphasizing money.
Number seven, where the new IFB has the edge.
No feminism, no women preachers,
no women screaming amen.
I mean, I almost have a heart attack.
When I'm at these old IFB churches, I constantly, amen!
I'm just like, what is happening right now, right?
And by the way, I don't think it's appropriate
for little kids to be screaming amen either.
You know, young children, little boys screaming amen.
I don't think that's appropriate either.
But especially women.
Look at what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 14 verse 33.
For God is not the author of confusion,
but of peace as in all churches of the saints.
Let your women keep silence in the churches,
for it is not permitted unto them to speak,
but they are commanded to be under obedience
is also sayeth the law.
Hey, God's not the author of confusion, but of peace.
You wanna remove peace from a church
and you wanna introduce a bunch of confusion?
You let the women get up and preach.
That's gonna lead to confusion.
That's gonna take away peace from the church.
You know, it's so cringe and annoying.
When you go to an old IFB church, you go to a conference
and it's Pastor John and Pastor Susie.
And they stand up next to each other on the stage
and Pastor Susie is giving you the rundown
of how their ministry works
and how their missionary trips are going.
It's cringe.
It's confusing.
It's not biblical.
The Bible says let your women keep silence in the churches.
It's not, notice what it says.
And if they will learn anything,
let them ask their husbands at home,
for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
So they're not supposed to be teaching.
Hey, and even if you didn't understand everything
from the sermon, especially married women,
married women should not be walking up to the pastor
after the sermon.
What were you saying there about Daniel's 70th week?
I'm gonna say go ask your husband.
Go ask your husband that.
And if your husband has any questions, he can come ask me.
But it's not appropriate for married women to be going up
and just talking Bible with the pastor and stuff like that.
No, the Bible says you need to ask your husband at home.
And you know what, husbands, read your Bible.
Become spiritual so that you can actually
answer your wife's questions.
What a shame in a marriage when the wife is more spiritual
and the wife knows more Bible.
And look, ladies, you should be as spiritual as possible.
You should know as much Bible as possible.
You should make it a challenge for your husband.
But you know what, husbands, you better meet that challenge.
Listen, if your wife reads the Bible five times a year,
you better read it six.
You better figure it out.
I don't care if you gotta sleep three hours a night,
you better lead your wife spiritually.
Because I'm gonna tell her, you ask your husband.
I'm not gonna sit here and have a private conversation
about doctrine with your wife.
It's just not gonna happen.
You know, some pastors like to take control
of people's lives in that area.
That's weird, if you ask me.
Go to the First Timothy chapter number two.
But notice it says, hey,
let your women keep silence in the churches.
Of course that means they're not the pastor.
Of course that means they're not teaching.
But you know what?
Also, they shouldn't even be saying amen.
I don't think it's biblical.
I don't think it's right for women to be screaming amen.
You know, it's the leader of the house.
Hey, it's his job to endorse what's being said, right?
And you know what?
Amen.
You should say amen.
You should, hey, you know when something's being preached,
it's from the Bible, say amen.
That's a good thing.
You're endorsing what's being said.
But you know what?
The wife does not have the authority to endorse
for her family what's being said.
Children, you don't have the authority to endorse
what's being said, the man does.
Let your women keep silence in the churches.
This would go really over well in the old IFB.
First Timothy chapter two, verse 11.
Let the women learn in silence with all subjection,
but I suffer not a woman to teach,
nor to usurp authority over the man,
but to be in silence.
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
And Adam was not deceived,
but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Notwithstanding, she shall be saved and childbearing
if they continue in faith and charity
and holiness with sobriety.
So notice the Bible says, I suffer not a woman to teach.
And most Baptists, I don't know about most anymore,
but a lot of Baptists will say, yeah, of course,
women pastors, that's not biblical.
But yet they'll have tons of women
leading Sunday school classes.
They'll have tons of women, you know,
leading some sort of fellowship class
where they're getting up, they're studying the Bible.
Look, I think that's wrong.
That will never be allowed at Anchor Baptist Church.
There will never be a position of teaching the Bible,
of teaching doctrine that's ever led by a woman ever,
because the Bible says, I suffer not a woman to teach.
Now go to Titus chapter number two,
'cause the way that people will kind of respond to this
is they'll go to Titus chapter number two,
and I believe they take this out of context.
Notice what it says in Titus chapter two verse three,
it says, the age of women likewise,
that they be in behavior as become with holiness,
not false accusers, not given to much wine,
teachers of good things,
that they may teach the young women to be sober,
to love their husbands, to love their children,
to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home,
good, obedient to their own husbands,
that the word of God be not blasphemed.
And so people that will say,
see, look, the elder women are supposed to teach
the younger women.
And I say, yeah, they are supposed to teach those things,
but the question is how?
You really think that we need to have a class
where an older lady gets up
and she has on some sort of whiteboard?
It's like, all right, class,
here's what we're gonna go over today.
Be sober, you got that?
Love your husbands, love your children,
be discreet, chaste, keepers at home,
good, obedient to their own husbands.
All right, we'll see you for next week.
We're gonna go over those same things again.
No, no, no, what is this saying?
It's that by your lifestyle,
you're showing a good example, right?
By your lifestyle, the aged women,
they're showing, hey, they love their husbands,
they're obedient, they're chaste, they're meek, right?
They're quiet, they love their children, right?
They're keepers at home, they're good, they're obedient.
How do you as an elder woman teach other women?
By being this type of woman.
And you know what, praise God for that.
That's a very valuable thing to have in a church.
That's a very honorable and praiseworthy thing,
to have a woman living in her role,
being godly, being a great example,
that is very praiseworthy.
You know what, we should honor godly women.
We're for godly women.
You know, a virtuous woman, her price is far above rubies,
the Bible says.
Praise God for godly women.
But you know what, it's disgraceful
when a woman gets up and says, I'm Pastor Susie.
It's disgraceful, it's wicked, it's wrong.
One of the moments in my life
that my wife and I had the biggest cringe ever,
was we were at a restaurant, and we were listening.
You know, the people behind us,
you can sometimes hear what they're saying,
and it was a female pastor counseling a man.
It was a female pastor counseling a full-grown man.
And I couldn't hear all that they were talking about,
but I remember my wife and I heard this,
you believe that I'm the woman of God, don't you?
Well then, you need to take my advice.
And I just like, I got my fork, and I'm just like,
should I just slam my head into this,
and just, should I end it all right now?
It was like, so cringey and terrible, you remember that?
It was a terrible situation.
But it's like, that is not giving honor to Christ.
That is not giving honor to God.
That is out of bounds, that is wicked.
And you know what the old IFB needs
to stop letting women get up and preach,
stop letting women get up and lead their Sunday school,
stop letting women scream amen in the congregation.
It is not biblical.
And I don't care how feminist this world gets.
The new IFB, hey, we're gonna hold fast
to that which is good.
We are gonna make sure we don't let these things slip.
Go back to Hebrews 2, Hebrews chapter number two.
Look, someone could hear a sermon like this
and be like, oh, Pastor Oz hates the old IFB,
he thinks the new IFB's so better.
Look, you guys know me.
I speak positively of the old IFB.
I'm for these guys.
I reach out to these guys.
I would love to do things with them,
work with them, go soul winning with them.
But I'm just saying, you know,
these things that we talked about tonight,
I find them to be very important.
I find it to be right from the word of God.
It's not my opinion that I'm giving tonight.
It's just straight from the Bible.
Look what Hebrews 2 verse one says.
Therefore, we ought to give the more earnest heed
to the things we have heard,
lest at any time we should let them slip.
Look, thank God for the old IFB,
'cause if it wasn't for the old IFB,
the new IFB wouldn't even be here.
What is the new IFB?
It's hey, we're looking back at the good things
of the old IFB, and we're trying to hold fast
to those things and not let them slip.
We're trying to examine our ways,
we're trying to open up the word of God and say okay,
where have some people let some things slip along the way?
Let's hold fast that which is good
so that they don't slip in the future.
And look, don't be mistaken.
Don't think that just because the new IFB is great now,
don't think that just because our church is doing good now
that that means that we'll always be that way.
We have to remain vigilant.
We cannot go on autopilot.
You cannot coast in your Christian life.
You always have to be adding life into that thing
or it will die.
You gotta, guess what, you read the Bible before,
you gotta read the Bible again tomorrow.
Hey, you've prayed before, you gotta pray again tomorrow.
You went to church before,
you gotta come again on Wednesday.
And you know what, the new IFB,
we've received these good things.
We need to hold on to these good things
and not let them slip.
Let's pray, Lord, thank you so much for your word.
Thank you for the new IFB movement, Lord.
We love this movement because of the souls
that are being saved, the doctrine that's being preached.
Help it to always be about souls, doctrine,
the word of God, the service of God.
Help us never to slip into feminism
or caring too much about money
or the things of this world or the palaces
or anything like that, God.
I pray that the good people in the old IFB,
that they would just repent of the areas where they're wrong.
I pray that there would be brotherly love between us
so we would be able to work together
for the cause of the gospel.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
- The final song, turn in your red hymnal
to song number 97, "I Need Thee Every Hour."
Song number 97.
Sing this one already.
But did I sing it in the beginning?
Did we sing "Bring Them In" yet?
OK.
Sorry.
Song 389, "Bring Them In."
[MUSIC - "BRIING THEM IN"]
(SINGING) In the shepherds' boar's riding out,
and the herds are cawing the steed.
Who's got a strength, shepherds, for shepherds?