You would to Proverbs chapter 22 Proverbs chapter number 22
Chapter 22 good name is rather to be chosen than great riches
Loving favor rather than silver and gold the rich and poor meet together
The Lord is the maker of them all a prudent man forseeeth the evil and hideeth himself
But the simple pass on and are punished by humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and honor in life
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward he that doth keep his soul
Shall be far from them train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it
The rich ruleeth over the poor and the borrower the borrower is servant to the lender
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity and the rod of his anger shall fail
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed for he giveth of his bread to the poor
Cast out the scorner and contention shall go out, yea strife and reproach shall cease
He that loveth pureness of heart for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend the eyes of the Lord
Preserve knowledge and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor the slothful man saith there is a lion without
I shall be slain in the streets the mouth of strange women is a deep pit
He that is of horde of the Lord shall fall therein foolishness is bound in the heart of a child
But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him he that oppresseth the poor
To increase his riches and he that giveth to the rich shall surely come to want bow down thine ear and
Hear the words of the wise and apply thine heart unto my knowledge for it is pleasant for it is a pleasant thing if thou
Keep them with thee they shall with all be fitted in thy lips that thy trust may be in the Lord
I have I have made known to thee this day even to thee have not I written to thee excellent things and counsels and knowledge
That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth
That thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that sent them to thee rob not the poor because he is poor
Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate for the Lord will plead their cause and the spoil and spoil the soul of
Those that spoiled them make no friendship with an angry man and with a furious man
Thou shalt not go lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul be not thou one of them that strike
Hands or of them that are sureties for debts if thou has nothing to pay
Why should he take away thy bed from under thee remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have said
See is thou a man diligent in his business. He shall go he shall stand before Kings
He shall not stand before mean men. Let's pray
All right, well, we're in Proverbs 22 and let's read verse 28 where the Bible says remove not the ancient
Landmark which thy fathers have set now. What is a landmark a landmark is something that just
Signifies something else right it could be
Signifying a border like a property line or something like that and it's used that way sometimes in the Bible other times
It's used in the Bible. It's kind of a memorial to where you would see this landmark
And it would cause you to think of something else and really it's good to have these things in our society
And us as Christians every new generation is given
Landmarks both good and bad quite honestly we're passed down things from previous generations
And it's our job as Christians to make sure that we're not removing
The ancient landmark that our fathers have said that's what Proverbs is saying here
And of course we should examine the good landmarks that they've given us and not remove those things
And so the title of my sermon this morning is remove not the ancient landmark remove not the ancient landmark
Now go to Joshua chapter number four
Joshua chapter number four and we're going to see an example of how the Bible uses this idea of a landmark
this idea of a landmark number one this morning is we need to remember the works of previous
generations we need to remember the works of previous generations this is kind of a disease
in our society and maybe it's always been this way where the younger generation that's coming up
kind of scoffs and ridicules everything that the previous generation has done and like I said I
think that's kind of been that way for most generations but it just seems amplified today
where it seems like so many things in our society we're just completely turning around on their head
things that have been accepted for thousands and thousands of years where our society is
just looking at the ancient landmarks and saying oh these are bad let's tear these things down
look at joshua 4 5 it says and joshua said unto them pass over before the arc of the lord your
god into the midst of jordan and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder
according unto the number of the tribes of the children of israel that this may be a sign
among you that when your children ask their fathers in time to come saying what mean ye by
these stones then ye shall answer them that the waters of jordan were cut off before the arc of
the covenant of the lord when it passed over jordan the waters of jordan were cut off and
these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of israel forever so if you remember
the story god performed a miracle similar to when god split the red sea to where the children of
israel walked through the jordan river on dry ground and joshua did not want the coming
generations to just forget about that i mean that's kind of a big deal when god splits the
river right and so in order to preserve this memory now of course we have it in the word of
god and that's great but also joshua said hey we need to set up a memorial and i want everyone to
gather these stones and place these stones on top of each other so that the pre the coming
generations will look at these things and ask their fathers what mean ye by these stones and
when you have landmarks when you have memorials in your society it provides a teaching opportunity
for the next generation right and we need those things in our society we need wisdom from the
older generation and customs and practices that are good and biblical to be passed down to the
younger generation keep reading in verse 20 it says and those 12 stones which they took out of
jordan did joshua pitch in gilgal and he spake under the children of israel saying when your
children shall ask their fathers in time to come saying what mean these stones then you shall let
your children know saying israel came over this jordan on dry land for the lord your god dried up
the waters of jordan from before you until you were passed over as the lord your god did to the
red sea which he dried up from before us until we were gone over that all the people of the earth
might know the hand of the lord that it is mighty that you might fear the lord your god
forever so notice the whole purpose of having these landmarks is so that the coming generations
will know the great works of god and that they will fear god and when you start removing landmarks
when you start erasing history when you start just disregarding everything from the previous
generations you end up with a society that has forgotten god and that does not fear god and you
know that's kind of where we are in many ways as a country we're definitely seeing some positive
changes and praise god for that but i mean just your average young person today in america is not
reading their bible cover to cover every year they're not soul winners they're not free to
thrive and part of it is because the previous generation has failed to set up some landmarks
now the good news is that we have the ultimate landmark right here is the word of god and so
anything that previous generations have failed on we as a church get to examine the landmarks
that god has given us and it's up to us to preserve those landmarks it's up to us not to
forget the works of the previous generations and honestly our church kind of represents a new
generation we're a new church this is a pretty young group of people here you know we represent
a new generation and it's incumbent upon us to decide to be a church that looks at the good
landmarks of our past and decides to honor respect and preserve those things and not just
forget about them go to proverbs chapter 4 you know today the people on the left they're called
what progressive but really they're not progressing they're just destroying the foundations of our
society right they look at the things of the past things that our grandfathers and great
grandfathers believed and that people believed for thousands of years they look at those things and
they want to tear down those landmarks so that people forget god and forget to fear god but it's
up to us to preserve them now look at proverbs chapter 4 verse 1 it says hear ye children the
instruction of a father and attend to no understanding for i give you good doctrine forsake ye not my law
hey here's a great previous generation that children should be looking up to is their parents
and you know it's the parents job to make sure that they're giving good a good doctrine and good
law to their children and you should listen to your parents children do not buy into this
modern idea of oh all the previous generations they don't know what they're talking about
we have to you know reinvent the wheel every generation no your parents are giving you good
doctrine and let me tell you parents that come to this church parents that are three to thrive
parents that are reading the bible i guarantee you they're giving you good doctrine they're giving
you good things to learn and you'd be wise to obey those things look at verse three for i was
my father's son tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother he taught me also and said
unto me let thine heart retain my words keep my commandments and live get wisdom get understanding
forget it not neither decline from the words of my mouth forsake her not and she shall preserve
thee love her and she shall keep thee wisdom is the principal thing therefore get wisdom
and with all thy getting get understanding so notice how this father here is giving wisdom
to their children and he's explaining like look this is going to preserve you this is going to
keep you this is going to keep you safe and many of the landmarks that our fathers have placed in
this world and the landmarks that have been given to us by the king james bible they're there to
preserve us they're there to keep us safe and it is a foolish generation that looks at the previous
generations and just wants to tear it all down just wants to dismantle it all things that we've
always believed and we'll get into some specifics of those but we're still laying a foundation here
go to psalm chapter 78 psalm 78 psalm 78 when you're there look at verse 1 give ear oh my people
to my law incline your ears to the words of my mouth i will open my mouth in a parable i will
utter dark sayings of old verse 3 which we have heard and known notice and our fathers have told
us we will not hide them from their children showing to the generation to come the praises
of the lord and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done you know like i said it
seems like the previous generation you know the baby boomer aged people it seems like they really
drop the ball in preserving some of the landmarks that we've had in our country for a long time and
it seems like many of the older people in our country are some of the most liberal and some of
the most non-religious which is very strange it's usually not like that in the society but you know
as we are raising our children or if you're a grandparent and you're helping out with grandchildren
you know you need to take this mentality seriously in verse four where it says we will not hide them
from our children you know we need to make sure that we are putting up these important landmarks
and explaining when they say hey what mean ye by these stones and explaining the great works of
god and the great works of previous generations one of the things it says showing to the generation
to come the praises of the lord hey one good thing to pass down to the next generation is singing
i mean that's an important thing and it seems like a lot of people because many young people now you
know they came to christ maybe in their 20s or they started going to church in their 20s or something
like that they didn't really grow up in church they didn't grow up you know around music or grow
up around singing and so it seems like music is kind of a weak point for our movement if i'm just
being honest and you know we want to make sure that we're showing a good example now to the
generation coming up showing the praises of the lord you know singing should be a major part of
the christian life don't be the type of person that comes to church and you're just mumbling
you're not singing aloud because what you're doing is you're failing to put up that landmark
for the next generation to where they look at that and say like this is what we do at church
we sing out loud we praise the lord we learn instruments you know we try to do our best to
to play skillfully and learn these things that's something that needs to be passed down to the next
generation and you know we don't want to we don't want to look towards like the new evangelical
style of music because that's just faggity if you ask me you know i remember i could i only
went to church like a handful of times when i was a kid but it was to this like rock and roll style
purple lights smoke show really emotional church service that's just geared towards like divorced
women let's be honest that's what these churches are okay and it's like you know the swinging and
swaying and the high pitch falsetto singing and stuff like that and i'm just like this is weird
this doesn't seem like christianity this doesn't seem very masculine this doesn't seem very strong
you know christ real christianity is spiritual warfare real christianity is a strong religion
and many false religions even mock christianity because they say it's so weak it's so pathetic
and it's like yeah that fake christianity is weak and pathetic you know we're going to sing out
loud to the lord here not in some sensual way not in some feminine way no we're going to sing out
to god as god's people go to if you would uh let's keep reading verse five it says for he
established a testimony in jacob and appointed a law in israel which he commanded our fathers
that they should make them known to their children see it's our job to make known the word of god
to the next generation and you know what that's not just the pastor because the pastor is only
preaching three times a week what about the rest of the week you know parents need to be as they're
walking in the way as they're rising up as they're lying down constantly using these situations of
life to teach children what mean ye by these stones mom dad why do we do these things why do
we go soul winning why do you dress that way you know these are landmarks that we need to preserve
for the next generation verse six that the generation to come might know even the children
which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children that they might set their
hope in god and not forget the works of god but keep his commandments see we we ought not to be a
selfish generation that says well as long as there's peace and truth in my days you know that i'm good
you know we want to make sure that our children and our children's children will set their hope
in god and not just say nuts to what america is going to look like in 100 years nuts to what the
independent fundamental baptist church movement is going to look like in 100 years no we need
to be preserving those landmarks and taking it very seriously go to psalm 16 psalm 16 and as
you're turning there i'll read for you isaiah 51 verse 1 says hearken to me ye that follow after
righteousness ye that seek the lord look unto the rock whence ye are hewn and to the whole of the
pit whence ye are digged and you know the best way to learn ancient wisdom the best landmarks that we
could learn from and look to are the landmarks from the lord jesus christ when he says hey look
to me and this is the good thing is that we could actually take ownership of our beliefs and not just
say like oh well here's why a lot of churches are screwed up today because it was just passed down
to us that way no that that excuse doesn't fly we have to take ownership of how this church is
and the things that we preach the things that we believe why because we have the bible we have the
king james bible and we could hearken to the lord and it doesn't matter even if previous
generations did hand down some bad things it's our job to look at what we've been handed down
and compare it to the bible we need to remember as christians and and i feel like some people
are starting to take this for granted and starting to slip back a little bit here that our final
authority is the word of god and pastors and preachers they must preach with authority what
the bible says not their opinion and look if you are going to preach your opinion that's okay as
long as you're saying this is my opinion you know it makes me mad when i see preachers and
pastors getting dogmatic about things that are not in scripture things that the bible does not
explicitly say you know what i'm going to be dogmatic about the things that i heard from god
in the bible that's my job and it makes me mad because people people are easily swayed people
are easily tricked and let and let me tell you why people are easily tricked because they don't
read the bible if you want to be someone who's not easily tricked read the bible and you will
be standing you'll be anchored to the truth you'll be standing on the solid rock but it's so easy for
pastors and preachers to get up and just spout off their opinions and just pontificate their
worldly wisdom and because the people in the pew are also backslidden and in the flesh they're
like oh yeah i agree with that oh yeah that sounds good but the question is what does the bible say
it doesn't matter necessarily the landmark that was put up you look at the landmark and you say
okay is this a good landmark that matches the bible if it is let's preserve it let's follow it
and if it's wrong let's discard it and so we actually have to take ownership of what the
previous generation has preached and done as practices and culture and we get to look at the
bible to see those things psalm 16 verse 6 says the lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places
yay i have a goodly heritage and you know thank god in america us as christians we do have a
goodly heritage you know the previous generations in our country have done a lot of good have taught
a lot of good this book right here was the book of our fathers and we should not look at just
everything that they've done and everything that they've taught and just throw that in the trash
you know we need to kind of be some have a guardianship mentality here where we're going
to guard and conserve and protect the works of our fathers now go to hebrews 12 so we want to
appreciate the works of previous generations but number two we want to build upon the works of
previous generations we don't want to have this mentality that looks at the past and says oh in
the past is when great works for god were done oh in the past that's when you could build a church
that's when you could preach hard sermons that's when you could actually believe what the bible
says and not get in trouble with anyone no we want to appreciate and honor the past but we want to
build upon those works as well hebrews chapter 12 look at verse one it says wherefore seeing also
seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight
and the sin that which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set
before us now most of the time when i've heard this verse preached i've heard it as the people
in heaven looking down at us and i do think that there is some truth to that i do think that
the people in heaven are aware of things going on in earth you see that in revelation however i
believe that the primary teaching of this verse is not that people in heaven are looking down at us
i believe that it's we're looking at the witness that they bore okay and i'm going to explain to
you why i think that but go to if you would uh isaiah chapter 43 isaiah chapter 43 because what
does it mean to be a witness right so a witness could be certainly could be someone that's seeing
something that's a fair interpretation i mean that's a fair thing of what a witness is
but also a witness could be someone that's bearing testimony of something let me show you that in
isaiah 43 verse 10 it says ye are my witnesses saith the lord now when he's saying you are my
witnesses he's not saying you guys are physically seeing me it's not like the people here are
physically laying their eyes on god it's saying you're my witnesses saith the lord and my servant
whom i have chosen that you may know and believe me and understand that i am he before me there was
no god formed neither shall there be after me i even i am the lord and beside me there is no
savior so what are these people witnessing they're witnessing saying god is the true god he's the only
lord he's the only savior they're bearing witness they're they're preaching in a sense a truth
that's what they're witnessing there it's not saying that they're seeing god now go to hebrews
chapter 11 so a witness is someone that bears testimony hebrews chapter 12 does not exist in
a vacuum it's within the context of hebrews 11 and what is hebrews chapter 11 it's known as the
hall of faith where imagine you're going through you know like the baseball hall of fame or some
sort of museum where you're walking from exhibit to exhibit to exhibit where god's saying look at
this person look at all the great works that they did through faith look at the next person right
let's start reading some of that it says in verse 32 and what shall i more say for the time would
fail me to tell of gideon and of barack and of samson and of jephthah and of david also and samuel
and of the prophets who through faith subdued kingdoms wrought righteousnesses righteousness
obtained promises stopped the mouths of lion quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge
of the sword out of weakness were made strong waxed valiant in fight turned to flight the armies of
the aliens women received their dead raised to life again and others were tortured not accepting
deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection and others had trial of cruel
mockings and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonment they were stoned they were
sawn asunder were tempted were slain with the sword they wandered about in sheepskins and
goatskins being destitute afflicted poor minted beautiful words up next of whom the world was not
worthy they wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth and all these
having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise god having provided
some better thing for us that they without us should be made perfect should not be made
perfect and of course this is just a beautiful passage here but it kind of fits into our first
point of god is giving us all these great stories of the previous generation right god doesn't want
us to forget all the works of these people and so he records it in hebra's 11 saying look hey don't
forget the great works that these men did why because it was god that helped them and then when
you get to hebra's chapter 12 verse 1 it says this wherefore so wherefore because of all these
great works that these men in the past did seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud
of witnesses and i believe it's just they're witnessing to god's faithfulness they're witnessing
to all the great works that god accomplished through them let us lay aside every weight and
the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us
i believe the primary interpretation of this passage is not that the people in heaven are
looking to us i believe that it's we're looking to them we're looking to the witness that they
witnessed the confession that they confessed and that we say look at the great works of this
previous generation not because we say oh they're so great it's because the god of those people are
so great and we realize hey because the great works that previous generations did through faith
by the power of god we have access to do the same thing we have the same exact access access to god
to do great works through faith that's why he says wherefore let us lay aside every weight and the
sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us see
all of hebrews 11 culminates in in hebrews 12 one where the goal the action the application of
him listing all those previous generations is so that we would run the race is so that we would
do great works for god and so yes we want to look at the previous generations and we want to honor
their works but we have to realize that the reason that they did those works was from the power of
god and realize that we ourselves could also do great works for god and we don't have to have this
mentality that the dispensationalists have where they they look at our world and say well the
reason why churches aren't thriving and growing and the reason why great sermons aren't being
preached and why many people aren't getting saved is because we're in the laodicean church age
they'll preach that you know history is recorded into seven different dispensations or ages and
that right now we're living in the laodicean church age which means that we're just kind of
doomed to failure we're doomed to apathy we're doomed to be living in a generation that doesn't
care about god look that's like weird calvinist garbage we get to take ownership of the works
that we do we don't have to just sit here and just pray for revival to come we could actually just
look at the works of the previous generation believe that god helped them believe that god
can help us and just get out there and do the work you know this weekend steadfast baptist church
had a great soul winning marathon in mexico where they got almost 200 people saved i believe
you know the old i've beat it while they're sitting around praying for revival some people
who actually want to put aside the weights and run the race are going to mexico and opening
their mouth and people are getting saved people are doing great works for god and so yes i love
history i love the old generations but we don't look at that and be like man must be nice it must
have been so cool back when america was on top back when christianity was on top no we could just
do that right now we could just make church great today we don't have to say oh the best days of
church was in the 1960s that'll never be topped again no the greatest days of church could be
ahead of us and guess who gets to decide that we get to decide that oh isn't god going to be the
one to decide that no because god already wants the great commission to be fulfilled we already
know god wants the word of god to be preached god wants people's lives to be changed god wants
pastors to preach good sermons this isn't a question of is god going to sprinkle pixie dust
on america and have revival come it's going to be a matter of are we going to obey the word of god
or not are we going to look at the landmarks that are given to us in the king james bible and are
we going to say hey we're going to fight for those things we're going to build upon those things we're
going to put up better landmarks than just throw up our hands and give up and say oh all that's in
the past you know that's a lame attitude that is not an attitude that we should take go to john
14 john chapter 14 john 14 verse 12 says jesus said this barely barely i say unto you he that
believeth on me the works that i do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do
because i go unto my father and whatsoever you shall ask in my name that will i do that the
father may be glorified in the son like i said we have to realize there's nothing stopping us
from doing the greatest works for christ that have ever been done because jesus already told
us how he felt about it right hey greater works will they do verse 13 and whatsoever you shall
ask in my name that will i do that the father may be glorified in the son you know a faithful man
who could find the bible says the bible talks about a wicked generation a rebellious generation
you think that if we actually decided as a church that we're going to pray to god and say god we
want to believe exactly what the bible says we want to fulfill the great commission we want to do
all the works that you want us to do we want to follow you with all of our hearts please bless us
god you don't think that god's up in heaven just like excited to answer that prayer because do you
think there's very many people in this world praying that do you think there's very many
churches that actually above all else above money above buildings that they just want to preach what
the bible says no many churches today they're concerned about money they're concerned about
having you know a nice appearance and being good with the community and not having you know a
disgusting protester outside the door like we have today you know those are the things that
they're worried about where it's like okay i preached that in 2022 let me check the landmark
here oh yeah leviticus 2013 yep i still believe that yep that's still a landmark that we're going
to stick with doesn't matter how the world changes doesn't matter who likes it or doesn't like it and
guess what a lot of people are starting to like it i mean oklahoma is the wrong place to be
protesting against this because this is the most conservative state in america okay and look there's
there's even governments now that are petitioning the supreme court to get rid of gay marriage you
faggots better be scared because change is coming and we're going to keep preaching what the bible
says and it doesn't matter if it's in season or out of season we're going to stick with the
landmarks we're going to preach what the bible says and i don't care how many people decide to
come to this church i don't care how many people like me or don't like me because i want to preach
the truth that's why i'm in the ministry and i would rather preach the truth not my opinion
i'd rather preach i'd rather be dogmatic about what the bible says and grow very slowly yay or
never grow then be one of these compromising fake christians that get behind the pulpit
and preach lies i'm not in this to preach lies i want to preach the truth go to philippians chapter
one philippians chapter number one and you know what i'm not going to look at previous generations
and say man that was really cool back when you could rip face against otomites oh man that was
cool back in the day when you know pastor jack hiles would say hey some of you men ought to ask
your wife's permission to say amen once in a while in the sermon right back when pastors would call
out feminism back before pastors were kowtowing to feminism back before pastors were subtly jabbing
at authority biblical authority and stripping authority away from parents and husbands and
pastors oh man must have been cool back in the day before the pulpits were filled with what a
bunch of weak spineless preachers you know what we could just do that right now we could just
preach the truth right now and guess what we're an independent baptist church we don't have to worry
about what anyone else is preaching or what they're doing we here get to decide to preach
and believe the truth philippians 1 8 for god is my record how greatly i long after you all in the
bowels of jesus christ and this i pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge
and in all judgment see the bible teaches us that we should not just get some knowledge
and just coast get some bible preaching get some soul winning get some church programs and then
just ride that till jesus comes the bible saying that we should abound more and more and we as
christians should constantly be thinking about the more that we could do for the lord jesus christ
how can we get more people saved how can we reach more people how can we preach more good sermons
how can we teach more good doctrine we should constantly be having this growth mindset not
saying like well we're in the laodicea and church age so let's just all show up pay your tithe have
a two-minute sermon and go home no we're going to actually do our best to abound more and more go
to deuteronomy 27 deuteronomy 27 so number one we want to respect previous generations we want to
look at the landmarks they've given us number two we don't want to just take those landmarks and do
nothing with them we want to actually build upon those things right we want to do our own works
and not just ride on their coattails number three we need to protect the ancient landmarks of previous
generations so we're going to get a little more specific now but deuteronomy 27 17 says cursed be
he that removeth his neighbor's landmark and all the people shall say amen what does the bible say
bible says that when there's a landmark that has been put that has been placed and it's a good
landmark it's a godly landmark it's something that god wants there when a society takes those
things away people are cursed a curse comes upon your nation and us as god people god's people
we're supposed to have the attitude that says hey if someone wants to take away landmarks hey that's
a curse we're supposed to say amen to that right and of course the most obvious the most obvious
curse upon our nation the last several decades is this filth of sodomy where it starts off
with people just being told that they're normal that they're born that way and it progresses to
2015 allowing them to get married and then it turns into you know trannies going into schools
reading to kids in indecently exposing themselves taking kids into all these tranny bars allowing
faggots to adopt children which 100 of children that are being adopted by sodomites you better
believe those kids are being molested there's no reason that anyone should ever give a sodomite
a child but what have we done we've taken down the landmarks where it's like for thousands and
thousands of years in our world sodomy has been looked at as an abomination as a crime as one of
the most disgusting things imaginable and all the empires of the past that ended up destroying
themselves and getting destroyed by god what did they embrace right before the end homosexuality
Pompeii Rome Greece these places were destroyed by god and they were filthy abominable places
that practice homosexuality i mean Sodom and Gomorrah why did god destroy them because it was
all the people of the city young and old were compassing about lot's house to abuse him and
the angels that were there why because they're predators and you know it is a curse it's a curse
when we take the landmarks that god's given us to protect us and we decide to remove those things
and look thank god because of the preaching of the word of god and just the insanity of the
world we're living in like i said some people are starting to realize how gross this is and how
insane this is and how thankfully the state of oklahoma passed through committee and lord
willing that this gets signed into law where they are going to ban all state-run uh promotions of
lgbt pride or intersex pride month or anything like that and all of these policies are going
to be scratched from our state and that it will be illegal to fly an lgbt flag on any state
property look praise god for that hey this is oklahoma that's a good start right we're sick
and tired of people taking down the ancient landmarks we're sick and tired of sitting here
and having to pretend like the lgbt are not pedophiles i'm sick of having to pretend like
when you're giving up a child to a sodomite to adopt that we're not just giving up this innocent
child to be destroyed by this wolf we're not pretending anymore look we're not going to
pretend we're not going to call you ma'am when you're a sir i'll call you a filthy freak how
about that is that better i'll ask you to you know take some lead to your head from the government
i am sick and tired of our society acting like this is normal and pretending and playing the games
no we're done playing the games why because the bible says if a man also lie with mankind as he
lied with a woman both of them have committed an abomination they shall surely be put to death
their blood shall be upon them and guess what i'm going to say that dogmatically because that's not
my opinion you want to know what my opinion is my opinion is also that they're gross and disgusting
but guess what the bible says that it's an abomination so my opinion is in line with what
the bible says now just so happens my opinion also agrees guess what there's going to be times where
your opinion does not agree with the bible you know what you should do you should submit to the
landmark you should look at the ancient landmark that's been set up and say that must be there
for a reason let's not take down that ancient landmark no maybe you just lack wisdom maybe you
just haven't read the bible go to jeremiah chapter 6 jeremiah chapter number six jeremiah 6 16 says
thus saith the lord stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way
and walk therein and ye shall find rest for your souls but they said we will not walk therein so
notice walking in the old paths it's the good way the bible says and it provides rest you know god's
commandments are not grievous everything that god gives us in the law of god is to protect us to
protect the innocent to establish justice but when you decide not to walk in the old paths when you
want to deconstruct christianity you know that brings that brings bondage sin destruction pain
people's lives being destroyed you know when you start removing landmarks you start destroying
society and go to psalm chapter number 12 psalm chapter number 12 what are some what are some
ancient landmarks besides you know we talked about homosexuality what are some other ancient
landmarks that our fathers have set up for us that we should protect how about the king james
bible we are going to stick with the king james bible we're not interested in changing to the
modern versions why look at psalm chapter 12 verse six the words of the lord are pure words
as silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times verse seven notice thou shalt keep
them oh lord thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever you know the bible teaches that
it was god's job it was god's responsibility he was the custodian of his word and it was his
responsibility to preserve the words of god from this generation when these things were written
forever and you know it takes faith of course to believe that but you know what i do believe that
i do believe that god has preserved his word through all generations i don't believe that man
has just corrupted the word of god to where it no longer exists on this world because you know many
church doctrinal statements they'll say like hey we believe the word of god that it's the final
authority in all matters of faith and practice so long as it was written in the original manuscripts
it's like well how helpful is that hey isn't it great to know that you could know what the bible
says and you could follow it and we could submit ourselves to it if we had those original manuscripts
but man shucks if they got destroyed they got buried so here's our you know niv where it's
the best we have it's like i thought you were a christian i thought that you believed through
faith that jesus christ died and rose again from the dead like don't we believe that our savior
died and came back to life isn't that a miracle last time i checked so it's like you'll believe
that jesus died on the cross and rose again but you won't believe that god preserved his words
like like who believe raise your hand if you believe god created the heaven and the earth
okay yeah god created the universe but he can't preserve his word that's the level of faith that
these churches have today the original manuscript onlyists oh you guys are so uneducated you know
you king james onlyist bro i actually believe god created the heaven and the earth i believe
that jesus christ rose again from the dead yeah i believe he preserved a book for us and guess
what it's nice to read a book that has authority that can correct my opinions and that can correct
your opinions but you want to know why a lot of pastors don't want to be king james only is because
they want to be the final authority they want to be the landmark where they get up and say oh let
me correct what the bible says in front of you because here's my non-existent knowledge of greek
and i'll tell you what the bible actually says and then now you're supposed to just submit to a man
and so now man is your final authority yet we're the cult for being king james only when we actually
have statutes in a law book here that we must submit to where pastors who aren't king james
only they gotta make up whatever they want and say oh this is what the bible actually says go to
second corinthians chapter two second corinthians chapter two now many people today would scoff at
the idea that there is a conspiracy to corrupt god's word and folks what is a conspiracy it's
multiple people agreeing to do something that is what a conspiracy is right conspiracies do exist
in this world especially conspiracies that the bible tells us exist okay how about second
corinthians 2 verse 17 for we are not as many which corrupt the word of god but as of sincerity
but as of god in the sight of god speak we in christ see the apostles were saying look we are
not like the many people meaning there's lots of people that do this that corrupt the word of god
now how do people corrupt the word of god well one way is just by preaching lies out of it
preaching things out of context and just preaching false doctrine trying to make the bible say
something it doesn't say you know that's one way that people try to corrupt the word of god
but here's another really obvious way when they translate the word of god into something that's
not true when they take what the bible says and they change it into something completely different
and people that are against king james onlyism they'll often say oh well the modern versions
they don't affect doctrine at all and there's nothing important that's changed in those versions
okay let's see if that's true go to isaiah chapter 7 and i'm going to show you some
important doctrines that are corrupted in the modern versions and look there's plenty of minor
doctrines too that are affected but let's just talk about some major ones isaiah chapter 7 you
know this is a landmark i'd like to hold on to how about believing in the virgin birth of jesus
christ i believe he was born of a virgin why isaiah 7 14 therefore the lord himself shall give you
a sign behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name emmanuel now that is
important you know why it's important is because the lord jesus christ never sinned and why is it
that he never sinned because he didn't have an earthly father his real father was god so when he
was born he was 100 man but also 100 god in the flesh and so that's what enabled jesus to live
his life perfectly never sinning it's because he was born of a virgin here's what the rsv says
therefore the lord himself will give you a sign behold a young woman shall conceive and bear a son
and shall call his name immanuel there's a big difference between a virgin and a young woman
okay and it makes a big doctrinal difference because jesus was not just born of a young woman
because guess what lots of people are born of a young woman but he was born of a virgin
that is an important doctrine and look it's not just the rsv it's the nrsv it's the net
it's the ceb all of these bibles all say young woman you know that is a serious attack on a
major landmark of believing in the virgin birth go to uh colossians chapter one colossians chapter
one what about the blood of christ that's pretty important isn't it the the blood of jesus christ
that atones for our sins colossians 1 verse 14 says in whom we have redemption through his blood
even the forgiveness of sins we have redemption through the shed blood of jesus christ it was not
just his perfect life that saved us it was that and also the shedding of his blood and also his
burial and also his descending into hell and also his resurrection from the dead his the whole
gospel all of jesus's life is what culminated to salvation but the bible is talking about how
we have redemption through his blood the niv which i call the non-inspired version is says this in
whom we have redemption the forgiveness of sins so the blood of christ is just removed why would
you remove the blood of christ i mean we're christians here who's going to be reading the
bible christians what does the bible teach that through the blood of christ we have redemption
well that's gone in the niv go to first john chapter five first john chapter five you know
how about the trinity it's a very important doctrine a doctrine that we take for granted
here in america and here in oklahoma because pretty much everyone believes in the trinity here
the only time i run into someone that doesn't believe in the trinity is usually when i'm talking
to a muslim which is very rare and when i talk to a muslim i have to spend a lot of time on the
trinity because they reject that concept you know even on the dome of the rock that's on mount
mariah to this day there was an inscription written on the inside of that dome like the year
670 or something like that ad that says like it's not fitting for christ or for god to have a son
speak only the truth of god it's not fitting for god to have a son you know they deny
the trinity first down five seven says for there are three that bear record in heaven the father
the word and the holy ghost and these three are one that's a very important verse it's a very
famous verse the niv says this for there are three that testify that's it that's the whole verse
isn't that helpful i mean isn't that a really helpful verse for there are three that testify
next that's garbage that is corrupting the word of god that does make a serious doctrinal difference
and many people today many textual critics want to tell you that first john 5 8 should not be in
your bible but i'm reading that and the holy spirit's bearing witness to the truth of that
verse for me saying yeah there's three that bear record in heaven the father the word and the holy
ghost these three are one how about john chapter one go to john chapter number one john chapter
one verse one you probably all know it in the beginning was the word the word was with god
and the word was god again another great verse about the trinity another great verse about the
deity of jesus christ because we know that the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and that's
talking about the lord jesus christ well here's what the new world translation says in the beginning
was the word and the word was with god and the word was a god you think that makes some
doctrinal difference between saying that jesus christ is god capital g god or a god little g
yeah that makes a big difference okay that's a false doctrine to say that jesus is not god go to
matthew chapter five matthew chapter number five here's a big one and this one has ruined so many
people's lives in our country this one is preached all the time and causes people to sin you know
there's there's doctrinal differences those are terrible but there's also application differences
that ruins people's lives and this is one of those matthew 531 says it has been said
whosoever shall put away his wife let him give her a writing of divorcement but i say unto you
that whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of what fornication cause of her to
commit adultery and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committed adultery jesus said that if
you divorce your wife for any other cause than fornication you're committing adultery you're
causing her to commit adultery now the bible uses a very specific word there fornication what is
fornication it's carnal relations before marriage what is adultery it's carnal relations with
someone else other than your spouse while you're married right and so the idea here is that okay
yeah if you are lied to if there was fraud in the marriage where you think you're marrying this
virgin and you come to the wedding night and you find out she's got diseases or she's unclean
she's lied to you about her virginity yeah you could put away you had that annulment provision
in god's word where it would not be adultery for you to put that woman away but any other cause
would be adultery but here's the thing modern versions don't teach this modern versions do not
teach hey the only reason that you could divorce in which which here's the thing also let me just
make this clear is that Jesus made it clear that because of the hardness of their hearts Moses gave
them this commandment so it wasn't even God's will to have divorce for any reason you have to
understand that right off the bat why because there's a difference between what's right and
what people do right God did not want polygamy but he gave permission provisions here's what you do
if you do take another wife that's not God saying please go take another wife he's just recognizing
that this is something that people do you know he said hey let not the wife depart from her husband
don't let the husband depart from her wife but and if she depart right so it's not God condoning
divorce he's just saying like because of the hardness of your heart this provision was allowed
now here's what the modern versions say in the niv they say this it has been said anyone who
divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce but i tell you that anyone who divorces
his wife except for sexual immorality makes her the victim of adultery and anyone who marries a
divorced woman commits adultery so according to the modern versions you could get a divorce
for sexual immorality now last time i checked jesus said not even to lust after a woman in your heart
and that if you do that you've committed adultery in your heart would that fall under sexual
immorality i would say it would and so what are these modern versions doing they're basically
giving a license to divorce for any reason and people are struggling in their marriage
and instead of having a man of god tell them look stay married fight for your marriage be faithful
to your vows you said till death do us part don't give up on your marriage instead of hearing that
they're hearing oh sexual immorality what did he do did he look at a picture he shouldn't look at
oh did did she talk to someone oh did they you know have commit literal adultery which according
the bible has the death penalty but that's not a reason to divorce the bible does not say that if
you commit adultery you are allowed to divorce your spouse the bible does not say that if your
spouse is looking at something on the internet that they shouldn't be looking at that you have
grounds to divorce your spouse you do not get to divorce your spouse once you've consummated that
marriage you say there was no fornication there was no marital fraud it's till death do us part
and if you marry someone else after you are divorced you are committing adultery that is
what the bible teaches but look these modern versions they are hurting people go to galatians
chapter number two galatians chapter number two hey here's an obvious landmark that we should
fight for how about salvation by faith alone look we are never going to change on that doctrine
that is a foundational doctrine that salvation is not obtained by you turning over a new leaf
repenting of your sins being a good person it's only faith alone in christ look at galatians 2
and i love this this verse here because the apostle paul just like repeats this ad nauseam
at how much it's only by faith verse 16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law
but by the faith of jesus christ even we have believed in jesus christ that we might be justified
by the faith of christ and not by the works of the law for by the works of the law shall no flesh
be justified that was one verse folks i mean how many times is he going to tell us in one verse
that you're not saved by the law you're not going to be justified by the law you're only going to
be justified by faith hey by the way have i said we believed in jesus christ too by the way we've
been justified by faith it's by faith alone and look we're not even going to entertain this debate
oh well is it by repenting of your sins you know oh because you see all these stupid gospel tracks
all the time where it's like what do you have to do to be saved oh you just have to believe in jesus
and repent of your sins false information folks should you repent of your sins yes you should
do we teach people to repent of their sins yes we do to get to heaven no to get to heaven to receive
salvation the bible says is a gift and last time i checked when you received a gift no one charged
you anything for it no one gave you some you know little terms and conditions saying like if you
receive this gift you're admitting that you're going to pay me 300 in the future that's not a
gift folks and this is so simple but look there's been some landmarks that i look at that have been
so simple that our generation has forgotten like homosexuality it's like duh this is disgusting
this is a crime why would we ever support this you know but it's like hey this is a landmark
that we need to fight for that we need to contend for and even sometimes we're gonna piss off other
baptists about this but you know what we're never going to compromise on this repent of your sins
gospel it is a false gospel go to if you would isaiah chapter 58 isaiah 58 here's another great
landmark that we've been handed down as baptists that we need to defend and fight for and that is
hard preaching and this landmark is in serious threat of disappearing today there are not that
many churches out there that are really preaching hard look at isaiah 58 verse 1 cry aloud spare
not lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgression and the house of jacob
their sins you know i do not want this church to be built upon positive only preaching and upon
giving some sort of soft water down message and making sure that everything that's said is so nice
and well polished because here's the problem when you win people to that type of a church when you
win people over with that style you have to keep them with that style and preachers sometimes
shackle themselves because they're so eager to grow at any cost that they they water down the
message you know they they soften the tone they're not crying aloud they're not sparing not
most churches in this country you will walk into and you will never hear a preacher lift his voice
you will never hear a preacher yell i mean so many i see all these clips all over uh youtube
instagram facebook whatever of these churches and preaching clips and it's like every church i see
lately the preacher is always sitting down now it's like he's always sitting down on a bar stool
and it's like what is this a ted talk those things are super gay anyways like no this
shouldn't be some sort of ted talk this is cry aloud spare not and notice show my people
their sins you know what hard preaching is it's biblical it is specific it is corrective that's
what hard preaching is is when you're actually preaching the word of god showing people where
they're wrong and you know a wise person loves to hear that kind of preaching you know i can honestly
say that when i got saved and when i started listening to hard preaching that was all that
i desired i would never want to go to a church that preaches soft i would never want to get up
and hear a pastor who's sitting down on a stool whisper sweetly into the microphone i am not
interested in that type of church and i'm just being honest like if that was my only option
growing up as a teenager i might not even be here today you know i thank god that there was some men
that preserved that landmark that said hey let the world get liberal let the churches get soft
let the preachers get quiet and soft but they're going to still preach hard you know thank god
that i had that preaching to listen to and to grow to grow from because like i said i probably
would not be here today go to the second timothy chapter four second timothy chapter four but
realize hard preaching what is it i mean a pastor's job is to correct bad behaviors bad ideas bad
attitudes bad doctrines and then people today will be like well a preacher should never you
know preach against an individual and preachers should never preach a sermon where you kind of
know what he's talking about and it's like pry aloud spare not show my people their transgressions
that's the preaching that god is prescribed look at second timothy four one i charge thee therefore
before god and the lord jesus christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing
and his kingdom preach the word again like i was saying today preachers need to preach what the
bible says and if you're preaching your opinion make that known that's fine but i get sick and
tired of hearing preachers just dogmatically preach their opinion you know i'm going to
preach a whole sermon about this pretty soon but let me just give you a little preview of what's
coming you know i've heard this recently that it's just it's just wrong to always spank a teenager
it's just carte blanche it's wrong to spank a teenager teenagers should not be spanked i've
heard this i've heard these exact words that if you spank someone over the age of 10 you are doing
more harm than good this is coming from an independent fundamental baptist pastor now
guess what that's called that's called second opinions chapter one because the bible doesn't
say that let me let me just go through this logic okay the bible we could all agree that the bible
says to spank kids we could agree with that right we could also agree that in the law of god a stubborn
and rebellious son who's a glutton and a drunkard and who after he is chastened chastened doesn't
repent that he's supposed to be put to death okay okay okay spanking a child good capital punishment
for a child in certain situations good okay there's also uh corporal punishment for adults for
criminals there's capital punishment for adults for criminals but a teenager can never be spanked
what where are you getting this from you know what it is it's you not being dogmatic about
what the bible actually says it's people just saying like here's my philosophy on child rearing
i read these books and i heard that it's going to cause a teenager to feel humiliation and i
heard from a teenager who grew up in a home that was spanked where they said that they didn't like
being spanked yeah because it's called a punishment it sounds like if you didn't like it and you don't
want it sounds like it was probably the best punishment for you then not just like oh man i
loved it when my parents gave me this punishment because i could still do whatever dude if it was
bad it sounds like that's the good punishment then stop preaching your opinion and people in the pews
read your bible read your bible do not take the words that you hear as a hundred percent gospel
truth what you should do is be ready to receive it and then look at your bible and say is that
what the bible says oh okay never spank your teenagers oh yeah the bible never says that
anywhere okay if that's your opinion cool have your opinion say your opinion but you know what
hard preaching is actually preaching what the bible says hard preaching is not getting up
and screaming and making other people feel small and less than you as you stand on your opinion
that's not hard preaching hard preaching is saying what the bible says and look i'm sure there's a
ton of people that would be offended at me saying that the bible does not condemn spanking your
teenagers but guess what it doesn't bible does not condemn spanking your teenagers the bible says to
beat your son with the rod the bible says that a stubborn and rebellious son would actually be put
to death so you know there's something wrong with your logic here where it's like spank them put
them to death but in between here they're just safe like it's like it's like the city of refuge
you know when you're a teenager you're in the city of refuge you can't be touched that is stupid and
you know what preaching that undermines authority pisses me off i would rather die kicking and
screaming fighting for biblical authority than to ever give a single inch on any of it i am not
going to sit up here and preach a whole sermon about the exception to obeying authority right
oh you know wives if your husband tells you to sin you don't have to obey that's true but guess
how many times that's been true for my wife in our marriage zero guess how many times my parents
have ever told me to sin zero i can't even think of a time that the government has told me to sin
but we're going to sit here and just emphasize all right kids if your parents tell you to sin
you have to disobey them yeah no crap but is that what i'm going to emphasize or am i going to
emphasize what the bible teaches obey obey obey obey you know what i'm so sick and tired of these
pastors preaching their opinion it says preach the word the instant in season out of season reprove
rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine long suffering and doctrine refers to the fact that
when you preach the word of god people are not always going to immediately jump on board with
that sometimes you preach a doctrine and it's a landmark that's so foreign to our society
and it's so foreign to our carnal minds that you have to preach it over and over and over
and over again and sometimes people aren't going to agree with you they're not going to get it
right away but preachers should have the long suffering to continue to preach the truth no
matter what and as our world gets more and more crazy and more far away from god's word it's going
to require more long suffering on our part as preachers to say like hey here's another sermon
on this topic and you know you guys need to be patient and realize that we live in a crazy world
and that sometimes i've just got to preach the same things over and over and it's like i just
preach about spanking your kids guess what i'm gonna preach about next weekend you're gonna hear
it again you know be patient because i need to have long suffering on these issues for the time
will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lust shall they heap to
themselves teachers having itching ears and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and
shall be turned unto fables that's what's happening en masse right now is people are turning away their
ears from the truth people i mean it's so important for you to be reading the bible you you better not
have this prideful mentality that thinks like i've read it before in the past i'll be able to spot
false doctrine you know my heart would never be changed from the truth of god's word no you have
to every single day be reading the word of god and anchor yourself in the scripture otherwise you will
be a person that whose opinions will be driven by other men's opinions rather than what the bible
says i'll skip some of this for sake of time here let's go to roman's chapter 10 roman's chapter 10
roman's 10 hey here's a landmark that was handed to us that i want to defend and that is door to
door soul winning confrontational confrontational soul winning not just hey at the end of each
service we're gonna have the music play and you can come up to the altar and someone will talk
to you no we actually want to go out and preach the gospel roman's 10 verse 13 for whosoever
shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved by the way you must call upon the name of
the lord to be saved you must ask for the gift of salvation that's how you put your faith in him
verse 14 how shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in
him whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach
except they be sent you know god's kind of giving us like a backwards process of salvation right
someone calls upon the name of the lord to do that they believe to do that they had to hear to hear
they had to have a preacher to have a preacher they had to have been sent and so us as an
institution what are we focused on we're focused on sending right we want to send out soul winners
and they're going to preach and people are going to hear and people are going to believe and people
are going to call upon the name of the lord how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things but they have not all obeyed the gospel
for as i saith lord who hath believed our report so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the
word of god you know there's probably plenty of books on how to get someone to come to christ and
how to grow a church but you know what i'm interested in what i want to be dogmatic about
is what the bible says that it comes by hearing the word of god and so we as christians need
to go out bibles in hand and go confront people with the gospel and teach them the word of god
and preach the gospel go to deuteronomy chapter 22 deuteronomy 22 here's another great landmark
that was handed to us about biblical dress standards biblical dress standards i mean this
is one of those landmarks that definitely sticks out a little bit today in our society
because it's just so common for people not to dress the way the bible teaches go to deuteronomy
225 it says the woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man pertain means having to do
it being assigned to there's a clothing that is assigned or associated with a man neither shall
a man put on a woman's garment for all that do so are abomination unto the lord thy god i would
venture to say 95 of america unless you're just some god-hating reprobate would say that a man
wearing a dress is gross that it is an abomination that it's something that we should not allow in
society but here's the thing that's because in our culture we don't see it all the time and so it
shocks us still when we see a man in a dress we're like what the what is this this is disgusting
right we have to realize that throughout all of human history that same feeling is the feeling
that someone would get if they saw a woman wearing pants why because pants are something
that pertains to a man and it used to literally be illegal in america for a woman to wear pants
i'm not 100 sure on this fact check me but i believe hillary clinton was the first person who wore
pants in the senate during a senate session someone fact-checked that later but that's that
wasn't that long ago i mean hillary clinton's still alive today somehow i don't know how but
the power of satan i guess but look like this was not that long ago where everyone would agree
that i'm saying right now everyone would take these things for granted why because this landmark
was just so obvious but again we can't just take things for granted and this is a good example of
why we can't take things for granted because a couple generations go by and now you know if
you're a lady and you wear skirts and dresses sometimes people are going to think what's wrong
with you like there's something weird about you or people get offended that you wear skirts and
dresses only and it's like why are you offended is because you know that it's wrong that you're
wearing pants otherwise it wouldn't really make sense like if someone was wearing a baseball hat
i'm not offended why are you offended when other ladies are only wearing skirts and dresses because
it's written on your conscience and in your heart that you are dressed like a man when you wear pants
and according to the bible people that do that are an abomination meaning it's gross it's disgusting
it's something that provokes a negative feeling in god himself when he sees a woman dressed in
pants now here's the thing because unfortunately this is so accepted in our culture it's not like
some lady that walks into our church visiting wearing pants please don't say anything to them
about it don't make any weird you know faces or anything like that i will never police people in
this area if a lady came to our church and wore pants for the rest of her life as long as she's
okay with hearing the preaching that i say about it she's welcome to come okay now a man in a dress
is a different story ushers you better stop that before it ever even comes into this place okay
that is not allowed whatsoever go to uh let's again i just i keep ranting so much here yeah
let's do let's just do one more ephesians chapter number five go to ephesians chapter number five
you know how about the landmark of male authority you know we already talked about this a little bit
but you know what i am not going to let this landmark be destroyed i am not going to let men
who are just weak and afraid of their wives and of ladies in their congregation who are little
closet feminists or something like that or closet feminist pastor's wife i am not going to let these
people sway me from the words of god that the bible teaches because the bible teaches we talked
talked about last week, woman preacher detected, sermon rejected, right? Oh, why? By virtue
of the content of her sermon? No, by virtue of the fact that she's a woman. And the Bible
literally says that a woman should not teach, that a woman is not to usurp authority over
the man. Look at Ephesians 5 verse 22, "Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as
unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of
the church. He is the savior of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let
the wives be to their own husbands in everything." It can't really get much more clear than that,
folks. Oh, but what about the husband who's commanding his wife to sin? Okay, of course,
she would obey the higher powers in that situation. But how about we focus on what the text is
focusing on, which is, "Wives, obey your husbands." Hey, how about, "Men at work, obey your boss."
"People, obey your government." "Church, obey your pastor." This is what the Bible
emphasizes. Yeah, you could talk about the one weird scenario where a husband's saying,
"Hey, let's hide a body, baby. Let's go commit a murder." Okay, yeah, please disobey your
husband if he's asking you to hide a body, but I'm just going to take a wild guess that
there's not a single lady in here whose husband's ever asked them to do that. If so, we might
need to have a chat, all right? But let's focus on what the Bible focuses on. God put
up a landmark that said men are in authority, men are in charge of the church, men should
be in charge of the government, men should be in charge of their wives. Let's not let
that landmark get destroyed. You know, we've seen our country suffer so much damage by
letting this landmark get destroyed. I mean, we gave women the right to vote and it's
like, what is women's, and I'm not saying godly Christians in this room, of course,
but I'm just saying like your average American woman voter, like what's her big issue? Shout
it out. What do women voters care about more than anything? Abortion. Yep. Oh, well, let's
give women right to vote. And what do they care about? They care about murdering their
babies. Sounds like this was a failed experiment, folks. Sounds like we should repeal the 19th
amendment because you know what? Men are all jazzed about killing children. Now there are
those wicked people out there as well, but look, that's a disgusting, abominable sin.
And why is it that we give all these leftist women? I mean, you got to realize that Satan
hates you, ladies. Communists hates you. The leftist Democrats hate you. And they want
to rip you away from your father, rip you away from your husband that loves you. And
they want you to depend upon the government. And they want you to get your self-worth and
your financial needs taken care of from the government providing for you so that you could
help the Jews and the wicked people in authority pass all these terrible laws. Because guess
what? Women that stay home, women that are married, women that have children are much
more conservative than these foaming at the mouth leftist women at the University of Texas
for example. You know there's a big difference between those two because one is walking after
the way of Satan and one has actually stayed with the ancient landmark and realized that
when God gives you a commandment, when God sets up a landmark, it's for your own good.
And what does Deuteronomy say? "Persed be he that removes that landmark." And it brings
a curse on our nation and you know we've had the curse of abortion because of this issue.
We'll finish in Proverbs 22 where we started Proverbs chapter 22. Proverbs 22 verse 28
says, "Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set." You know we need to
be sober and realize that in our country, in our movement, in Baptists in general,
there is always a serious threat of our landmarks being removed. Always. And you know, big battles
have happened recently over topics I never would have imagined that we'd be fighting
over. Let me tell you, big battles will come again in the future and we have to defend
the landmarks that God has given us. We are a new generation in this room. We are a young
church, both in age and just in time existing. And we have the opportunity and the mandate
from God to look at what previous generations have given us and look at what the Bible says
and say, Hey, do these things match? If so, let's defend those things. If not, let's put
up our own landmarks. So number one, remember the works of previous generations. Number
two, build to previous generations. Number three, protect the ancient landmarks of previous
generations. Lord, thank you for your word. Thank you for the landmark that we have in
the King James Bible. I pray that you'd help all of us to put our pride aside and our fleshly
wisdom aside and that we would just fully submit ourselves to what the Bible teaches
and that we wouldn't become dogmatic on our own opinions or philosophies, but that we
would truly allow the word of God to correct us. And I just pray that you would just help
us as a new generation to have a vision to do the greatest works that we could possibly
do and help us to defend the good landmarks that our Father set up. We love you in Jesus
name we pray. Amen.
All right our last hymn this morning will be number 36 Christ Arose hymn number 3636 Christ Arose we'll sing there starting on the first.