To your son and to his birth this Christmas season fill us with your spirit as we sing praises unto you Jesus name
I pray that will go to our second him if you would just flip the page
It should actually be on the same page if you have it open for 22 doubt it's leave thy throne
422 go ahead and start there right on the first. It's lean Bruce chapter
This is the last in the chapter. So we'll have this week and next week will be a grace week
We still have two full weeks to memorize this chapter and anyone that memorizes it word-perfect and can quote it to an adult non-family member
The option between a couple different prizes. We've got some anchor baptist church hats coffee mugs and some gift cards as well
So i'm excited to hand those out to everyone
So keep working hard the next two weeks on that contact information is there on the front
If you open up your bulletin on the left side is our service times listed sunday morning at 10 30
Our evening service at four o'clock and our wednesday evening bible study at seven o'clock all of our soul winning times are listed there
And those meet here at the church building today at two o'clock is our soul winning time our nursing home ministry schedules listed there
If you preach in that make note of those schedules there and our year-to-date statistics are listed on the bottom
Great job soul winning. We're getting close to the 550 ish mark for the year
So great job on that keep it up on the right. You'll see our list of expecting ladies
Please be in prayer for miss whitney reed for her pregnancy
And some upcoming events today is the day for the children's choir. I'm really excited to hear all the kids sing
Thank you to the halls for helping out with this and for all the kiddos for your practice
I'm really looking forward to hearing what you guys got this morning and just hearing the blessing of you guys singing
After the third song brother cameron's going to instruct the children to come up here
We're going to move the pulpit back and then we're going to have our kids choir
so i'm excited for that also I wanted to let you know I did instruct our audio video guys, they're gonna make sure that the
Choir is being recorded nicely on the camera. They're gonna be in frame. There's gonna be audio and all that
So don't feel like you have to pull out your phone and record you're more than welcome to I understand people want to do that
But if you want to just sit back and enjoy feel free to do that as well
So should be recorded for everyone december 25th after our wednesday service. We're gonna be having a cookie bake off
And december 31st, we're gonna have our midweek service on that tuesday december 31st
Rather than on wednesday, there's going to be a men's preaching night and then also some food and games
afterward
Our giving is listed there if you want to give online you can scan that code and on the back is our prayer list
Please keep all of the church members here in prayer
And if you have any requests, make sure you let me know and i'd be glad to add that for you
We're gonna go ahead and go to our third song and after that we're gonna have our children's choir
All right for our third song this morning turn if you would to
427 we three kings of orient are
427 427 we three kings of orient are and we'll sing there starting on the first
Perfect
Like the kids that are singing today to go ahead and come up I'm gonna move this back
Chapter number seven if you follow along after chapter seven judge not that should be not judge for what with what judgment you judge
You shall be judged and with what measure you mean it shall be measured to you again
And why behold is thou the moat that is in thy brother's eye, but consider us not the beam that is in thine own eye
How wilt thou say to thy brother?
Let me pull out the moat out of thine eye and behold a beam is in thine own eye thou
Hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own eye then and then thou shalt see clearly
To cast out the moat out of thy brother's eye give not that which is holy under the dogs
Neither cache your pearls before swine
Lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you and it shall be given you Zeke and he shall find
knock and it shall be open unto you for everyone that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh
It shall be open or what man is there of you whom if he asked if his son asked bread
Will he not give him a stone or if he asked a fish?
Will he not give him a serpent or will he give him a serpent if he then being evil?
Know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him
Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you do ye even so to them for this is the law and the prophets
Enter ye in at the straight gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction
And many there be which go in there at because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and
Few there be that find it beware of false prophets which come into you and which come to you and sheep's clothing
But inwardly they are ravening wolves. You shall know them by their fruits
Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit?
But a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit
Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit every tree that bringeth not forth fruit good fruit is hewn down and
Cast into the fire wherefore by their fruits he shall know them not every one that saith unto me Lord
Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven
But he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven many will say unto me in that day Lord Lord
Have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils and in thy name have done many wonderful works
Then while I profess unto them I never knew you depart from me either work in equity
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them I will liken him to a wise man
Which built his house upon a rock and the rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house
And it fell not for it was founded upon a rock and everyone that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them
Not shall be likened unto a foolish man
Which built his house upon the sand and the rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew and
Beat upon that house and it fell and great was the fall of it
And it came to pass when Jesus had ended these sayings that people were astonished at his doctrine
For he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. Let's pray your gracious Lord pray that
Amen, well, I want to say first of all great job told the kiddos
It was definitely a blessing to hear and look forward to hopefully doing that yearly
It's a really great thing to see and we are this morning in Matthew chapter number seven
Now, I hope you've gotten your Christmas sermon fix already. I've already preached two Christmas sermons this month
But we're not gonna be talking about that this morning
We're actually Matthew 7 which a good portion of Matthew chapter 7 is the Lord Jesus Christ warning people about false
Prophets now look at verse number 15 Jesus said beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing
But inwardly they are ravening wolves
So Jesus warned us about people called false prophets that appear like a sheep
They appear like they're a good person. They're a good preacher. They may even call themselves a Baptist
They may have a King James Bible, but the Bible talks about how inwardly they're not actually saved
They're not a sheep. They're ravening wolves. All right
And so the title of my sermon this morning is the biblical response to reprobate pastors the biblical response to reprobate
pastors now
Unfortunately, the reality of our world is that there are a lot of reprobate pastors out there a lot of false prophets and as we approach
The end times this is actually going to grow more and more where there's more and more false prophets abounding in this world
And I want to give a specific example of one this morning, and it's this guy named George Bell
And he was the pastor of a different anchor Baptist Church for a long long time
And he's a disgrace to that name because I got a couple articles here
This one says Ohio pastor arraigned for six sexual assault
Charges now the reason I'm bringing up this man is number one because this happened very recently and number two is I know several
People who spent their entire childhood going to this guy's church where this guy was their pastor all throughout their childhood
They visited this church even in their adulthood. And so I know people that have been affected by this guy
Let me read some of this article here
It says George Bell 72 years old the former pastor at anchor Baptist Church in Columbus
Ohio was arraigned last week for four counts of rape and two counts of gross sexual imposition
Court records state Bell was first indicted on these charges a month ago
The alleged incidents occurred between 2021 and 2024 and involved a minor under the age of 10 years old
This is a guy in his 70s doing this stuff
The pastor was then released on a twenty thousand dollar bond with strict conditions according to the court records
The conditions was that he couldn't have any unsupervised access to his cell phone
So they're letting him out with a twenty thousand dollar bail
Additionally, he's barred from accessing the Internet bell resigned from his role at anchor Baptist Church on June 27th of this year
According to a statement on their website at that time bell cited
Personal reasons for his immediate resignation and did not go into the details
The church was supposedly unaware of the allegations against Bell anchor Baptist Church did not learn of them until July 11th
The church then released an updated statement stating that they were amending their previous remarks
they said we now know that there was more to the unexpected resignation of our former pastor George Bell than we were originally led to
Believe the church said it breaks our heart to discover that there have been serious allegations and indictments have been brought any
Conduct that is contrary to the Bible and our laws as citizens are unacceptable and not tolerated
The church noted that it is fully cooperating with law enforcement and praying for victims after the arraignment last week
The church released another statement re-emphasizing its commitment to full transparency and to the truth throughout this process
Law enforcement informed the church that there was no evidence against
There was no evidence that any of Bell's alleged crimes occurred on church property or involved any church member
We invite you to join us in prayer for the victims. Okay, so this guy is
He calls himself an independent fundamental Baptist. He has a King James Bible
You know, these people go into church are a lot of people just love God just normal people that want to serve God yet
They're pastor their former pastor is going through the criminal
You know law system right now facing charges of indecent acts with children under 10 years old and it's just an ugly truth
It's an ugly reality that we live in that there are wolves out there in sheep's clothing
There are reprobate pastors out there that we as Christians need to be warned against look at that verse again
Matthew 7 verse 15 beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are
Ravening wolves. I think sometimes the simple truths often Christians forget as they think oh a false prophet is someone who you could just tell immediately
It's just so many obvious signs and there are some signs sometimes but oftentimes they appear as a sheep
They appear as a minister of light you would look at this person and say oh what a sweet old man a
72 year old Baptist preacher. He must be a nice guy yet behind the scenes. What's going on with this guy all sorts of disgusting
Wickedness and and it's not just him. It's not just this church
This happens all the time in America right now and it's a sad reality. Here's another article title. It says North, Texas
Baptist pastor arrested for child pornography. So this is happening right now all the time
You say well wouldn't what wouldn't you be embarrassed then as a preacher to talk about these issues shouldn't you be shying away?
From talking about these issues since you go to a Baptist Church. You're a Baptist preacher. No, I'm not ashamed of it
I actually think we should be calling it out and being transparent about it because here's the thing
What if someone put on a fake Oklahoma City police uniform and went around the city committing crimes?
Would I then blame the Oklahoma City Police Department for what that person does? It makes no sense
It's like okay. Someone's pretending to be a Christian someone's pretending to love God someone's pretending to be a godly pastor
But they're doing this stuff to kids. They're a fake
They're a fraud and people try to like, you know disparage Christianity saying look at what all these Christians doing their wolves
They're not Christians. It's like hey, look at this guy who impersonated a police officer doing
He's going to murdering raping and killing people that wasn't a police officer. That was some psycho dressing like one
It's like this guy George Bell. He's not a pastor. He's not a godly person. He's just playing the role
He's just faking it go to John chapter number 10 John chapter number 10
You know, these are issues that churches should deal with
These are things that we should talk about and not just allow the world to control the conversation
Allow the news media to be the only ones that talk about these things going on
No, why don't we let real Christians tell you? Hey, here's what the Bible says about these people
Look at John 10 11. The Bible says I am the good shepherd the good shepherd
giveth his life for the sheep
but he that is in hireling and not the shepherd whose own the sheep are not see if the wolf coming and
Leave it the sheep and flee it and the wolf catch at them and scatter it the sheep the hireling flee it
Because he is in hireling and careth not for the sheep
So, you know Jesus is comparing and contrasting two different shepherds here
Jesus who is the good shepherd and what does Jesus do? He gives his life for the sheep, right?
He wants to protect the sheep. He loves the sheep. He died on the cross for the sheep, right? Then you got the hireling
What does he do?
He sees the wolf coming and he flees and he allows the sheep to get destroyed by the wolves
What should real shepherds be doing today?
They should be alerting everybody of the wolves that are out there not just being like well
I'm a Baptist you call yourself a Baptist. So if you get caught for pedophilia, I'm not gonna say anything because it makes us look bad
No, no, no, we're gonna try to be a good shepherd and warn against the wolves
Why because we actually care for the sheep Jesus loved the sheep
He gave his life for the sheep and real pastors and real Christians should not shy away from talking about these things
Should not be embarrassed on our account when we did nothing wrong rather
We should be calling out these false fake Christians for who they are so I'm not afraid at all to talk about this
And I'm not afraid at all that his church name is anchor Baptist Church because that's the fake anchor Baptist Church
This is a real anchor Baptist Church right here because we actually have the anchor of our souls both sure and said fast
Go if you would to Romans chapter number one
So what is the biblical response when you hear about a reprobate pastor when you see situations like this happening?
What are some lessons that we could learn because I'm here to tell you that this is not the last story you're gonna hear
Of things like this happening. This will continue to happen over and over and over
Number one, we need to double down on the reprobate doctrine. We need to double down on the reprobate doctrine
This is a doctrine that those we affectionately call the old IFB
Love to attack us for believing and they'll say that we're believing something extra biblical
Something that's not in the Bible and they'll say that this is some sort of heresy
Believing the reprobate doctrine but stories like this just confirms in my mind how much we need to double down on this doctrine
Because I'm telling you it's not a normal thing for a man to be with a child
That's not a normal temptation if you've ever had that temptation as an adult
Please never come to this church ever again because that is not a normal temptation
All right. Look at Romans 1 18 before we read it. Let me give you some definitions here
What is a reprobate? Some people may have never heard these terms. Well the biblical definition
I'll give to you and I'll prove to you with scripture is this
Someone who has rejected the truth of God and in turn has been rejected by God with no hope of salvation
That is what a reprobate is in the Bible. It's someone who has rejected truth
Rejected God and as a result of that God has rejected them back and they have no hope of getting safe
Let me make it clear these allegations against a pastor if any pastors ever done something like this. They are not saved
They have no hope of ever being saved someone does this it is a proof
It's an evidence token that they are a reprobate and they're going to hell now
Here's the dictionary definition a person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation
Sounds exactly like how the Bible uses it even just the modern dictionary says what's a reprobate?
It's someone rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation. There are people in this world that are alive that have no
Hope of salvation now granted. Let me remind you. It's the vast minority the vast majority of people
Salvation is still on the table for them
They could still make the choice to believe in Jesus Christ or to reject him
But there are people on this earth who have rejected God so much that in turn God's rejected them and they have no hope of salvation
Now, where is this taught Romans chapter one? Let's read a lot of this chapter here verse 18 says this for the wrath of God is
Revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men
So what is this saying the fact that God is angry God's wrath is what?
Revealed meaning that it's made plain. It's made obvious
It's something that you could observe and see against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men
Notice the next phrase who hold the truth in unrighteousness
So there's people that they know the wrath of God's been revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness
And these people are aware of that. They know the truth about God
There's people out there that know the truth about God, but don't believe in him
And let me show that to you Romans chapter 2 flip the page Romans 2 verse number 14 says for when the Gentiles
That's the world which have not the law
They don't have the Bible do by nature the things contained in the law these having not the law are a law unto themselves
Which show the work of the law written in their hearts their conscience
I also bearing witness and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else
Excusing one another now that could be a little hard to understand on the surface
Especially if you haven't read this passage before but what it's saying is that?
Gentiles the world just unsafe people they
Naturally do things that are contained in the law and their conscience bears witness
To what is wrong and right because God has put on the conscience of man. What's wrong and what's right?
You do not have to explain to someone all right little Susie. This is wrong
This is why it's wrong to decapitate someone you don't have to tell someone that because we all know
There's things that are just sick and disgusting that are just wrong right we know that it's wrong to steal from someone
We know that it's wrong to kill to murder to lie all these things. We know that it's wrong
We don't have to be told that it's in our nature go back to Romans 1 look at verse number
19 the Bible says because that which may be known of God is
Manifest in them don't miss that the Bible saying what's manifest in people that hold the truth and unrighteousness
It's manifest in them what that which may be known of God God has revealed himself to mankind
Okay, he's not trying to make it hard for us to know that there's a God God has put it in the
Makeup of us as human beings to believe in God as just a default setting notice
It says for meaning because God hath showed it unto them
So God himself has showed the things of God to the whole world
The question is how well, here's another example verse 20 says for the invisible things of him
From the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made
Even his eternal power and Godhead so that they are without excuse
What is this saying even just creation itself even just walking outside and looking at the Sun and the stars and the birds and the trees
all of this has been clearly revealed to us that there's a creator and
Specifically the Bible says that it says the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made
Even meaning specifically what his eternal power and Godhead?
So what can you learn just from creation that there's a God and that he's powerful that is revealed to every single human on earth
There's not a single person that can have an excuse because the Bible says so that they are without excuse
No one could say like well God I didn't know you existed. He could just say well, did you see the stars?
Did you see the birds? Did you see the animals?
Did you see earth because all of these things were screaming to you the godhead or the godhood of the Lord and his power
And so someone who is an atheist made a conscious decision to reject the knowledge of God
Why because all of us are born with a default setting all of us have been revealed truth by God
When we see that stuff, we know God exists
That's the first level of truth now knowing God exists is not enough to get you to save right?
Because you could believe God exists, but which God is that?
Of course, we know it's the Lord Jesus Christ the Trinity
You have to put your faith and trust in that God to save you
But by default God made us believe in God and the Bible says that the fool have said in his heart
There is no God
It's a foolish thing to say because it's so foolish to look at the universe in its beauty and grandeur and
Complexity and to say this all got here by an explosion
Yeah, the big bang happened and just everything just multiplied it became this beautiful life that we see this beautiful universe
It all just happened from a random explosion. You are an idiot if you believe that
That's such a foolish thing to believe and it's so funny to see the smug
College professors of our world tell you that the universe began with an infinitesimally small
But dense little dot in the universe that exploded into nothing and that's how we have this beautiful world in this beautiful universe
You are a fool because when God made this world when God brings the Sun up every morning
You're looking at that glory and beauty and God is screaming to you that I'm the creator that I am the Lord that made everything
That's what he is screaming to you
And so it's main manifest in them so that they are without excuse and here's a a common
Misconception about reprobates that I hear people say some people say well
Every single reprobate has heard a clear presentation of the gospel and has rejected that that is not true
That is not correct now many reprobates have heard a clear presentation of the gospel and have rejected it
That is true
But you do not need to hear and reject the full-on truth of the gospel to become a reprobate
You have to just reject truth in general and if God reveals to you truth
Creation that there's a God that he's powerful and you reject that you are on your way to becoming a reprobate and God could reveal
To you more truth, whatever that is you reject that truth you're getting closer and closer to becoming a reprobate
And yeah, if you've heard the whole gospel and you reject that
Oftentimes that person is going down a very dangerous road of becoming a reprobate
But what I'm telling you is that even if someone just looks at creation and God is screaming to them
I'm your creator. I made you and you say no God's not real
God doesn't exist you can be on your way to becoming a reprobate simply from rejecting that truth
That is what Romans 1 is clearly saying so that is not a true statement that every single reprobate has heard the gospel
That is not true. Look at verse number 21 because that when they knew God
So they have some sort of knowledge of God
Do they not they glorified him not as God neither were thankful but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish
Part was dark and let's slow down and think about this. It says when they knew God, okay
There's not a person on this earth that has never known the truth of God
Every single person has known the truth of God because the Bible just said that it's been manifest in them
It's been revealed from heaven. It's been made plain. It's been made obvious
Every single person knew that there was a God but there's people that knew that but what did they do?
It says they glorified him not as God, right?
They want to mock him mock creation mock the idea of the flood
Mock the idea of the biblical account of things and they want to become fools. The Bible says it says this neither were thankful
You know, I've never met an atheist that was thankful for God because they're atheists, right? They're not thankful, but they became vain in their imaginations
Meaning they just had empty foolish stupid thoughts like the Big Bang like evolution like hey look at some monkey that we somehow
You know my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was this monkey. That's a vain thought that's foolish that stupid kids
Don't believe that and it says this and their foolish heart was
Darkened notice their heart is the recipient of an action from God. What is that action that God is doing to them?
He's darkening their heart
He's causing them to now even go deeper into the foolishness and folly that they're starting to go down to verse 22
Professing themselves to be wise they became fools and don't atheists love to profess that
Oh, we're the only ones that believe in science Christians. Don't believe in science. We're the wise ones
We're the smart ones when God's looking down from them saying you're a fool. You think you're so smart
you're an idiot is what you actually are verse 23 notice what they do and
Changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to
Corruptible man and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things people that go down this road
They often go down a road into humanism where they're exalting man as the ultimate, you know specimen and
You are your own God. You are a hundred percent, you know creator of your own
Reality is things like this. This is like what the Nazis went down
They went down the road to humanism where they were exalting the Aryan race as like the master race
These were, you know, they were exalting that mankind or they go down the road of animal worship, right?
You could see this on both sides of the reprobate spectrum
You got people that just exalt humanity and the human mind and the human body and then you have reprobates that exalt animals
And it's like we need to give equal rights to animals and we have to all be vegetarians
Because animals are the exact same things as human beings
Why because they don't believe in God and God clearly made animals to serve us
But since they don't believe in God, they see animals as the exact same playing field as human beings
They glorify animals rather than God verse 24 says wherefore meaning for this reason God also
Gave them up now
I would just like to know how people that deny the doctrine that were explained this morning would explain this verse away where they're rejecting God
They're becoming fools. They're having vain thoughts. They're exalting man. They're bringing down God
They're exalting animals and then the Bible says God gave them up
He's giving up on them and he gave them up specifically to this wherefore. God also gave them up to
uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between
Themselves. Here's the truth. God did not cause the reprobate to be wicked
Okay, God did not cause them to be wicked, but he does allow them to be wicked
He says you want to be wicked and just be a fool and reject me and you want to put humans and animals on the same
Playing field and you want to just go act like an animal you want to be like an animal in your heart
Well, Bible says God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to do what to dishonor their own?
Bodies between themselves. This is what reprobates do they do sick disgusting things with their body. That's what reprobates do verse number
25 who changed the truth of God into a lie and
Worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen. We talked about this notice again verse 26 for this cause
God gave them up unto vile
affections vile meaning disgusting gross
Unseemly something that you and I would look at and it would just be
unfathomable for us to do such a sin to such a disgusting thing
But the Bible says God just gave them up to those vile affections now
It's gonna describe what is a vile affection for even their women did change the natural use
Into that which is against nature and likewise also the men
Leaving the natural use of the woman notice burn in their lust one toward another men with men
working that which is
Unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was me
God gave them up to vile affections to do those dishonoring things in their bodies
Because they've rejected God because they become fools Bible says God gave them up to those vile affections specifically what women
Leaving the natural use of the of the man and burning in their lust together with another woman or men
Leaving the natural use of the woman and burning in their lust with another man. That is not normal
I don't care what you've heard on your stupid television shows
your sitcoms your commercials your brainwashing from your university or your high school that love is love and that these people are
normal these people hate God and they've rejected God they've
Rejected creation and as a result God's given them up to these vile affections and you have to realize that things like sodomy is
Not the cause of becoming a reprobate. It is the manifestation of someone being a reprobate
Okay, it's not like sodomy is an unforgivable sin or something like that or a sin that God did not die on the cross for
He died for all sins, but here's the thing once someone goes down that road
They reject God they reject God over and over and over again. God rejects them
He gives them up unto vile affections to do things that normal human beings could not do
But you know who could do them things like animals and you know
What's so funny is you have these these LGBT apologists in our world and they'll say oh being a homosexual is totally normal
Because look at how these animals do it
It's like you're just validating what the Bible says about how you now have been given the heart of a beast and you're such
A fool that you think being on the same level as an animal something good
You know what animals also do they kill their own children and eat them
You know what animals also do they eat their own vomit and their own dung oftentimes you want to be like an animal
Well, that's what sodomites are they've been turned over to the heart of a beast and let me tell you something
Unnatural affections vile affections. This also applies to pedophilia. This is not only
Exclusive to sodomy it is a vile
Affection for a man that is an adult to want to be with a child
Whether that child is male or female because here's what people don't understand
Oh, well, he was a straight guy that molested a little girl. No, there's two orientations
straight and crooked
Straight and crooked if you are an adult and you desire to be with a little girl. You're a fag
You are a reprobate. You are a sodomite. No, no, that's not a straight man being into a young girl
Any man that is into a little girl is crooked any man?
This shouldn't have to be said any man that's into a little boy is crooked. It's disgusting
It's not natural and you and I know what I'm saying right now is true because we all have the flesh
We all have a sin nature. We're all tempted to do things in our flesh that are not pleasing to God that are not right
But none of us have ever desired to be with a child
No one in here if you're normal has ever experienced that lust in your heart desire in your heart
You've never experienced that because it's not in our
Created being to do that God did not create us to desire that just like I've never ever ever
Had a desire to grab an AR 15 and walk into an elementary school with little kids and start just mowing them down
You want to know who has that type of a mentality that type of a desire someone who is a reprobate?
Someone who desires as a pastor to molest little kids under the age of 10 is someone who has been given over to reprobate mind
I don't care if you're a Baptist. I don't care if you're a pastor. I don't care if you tell people you believe the gospel
I don't care if you tell people you believe God
You've rejected God you hate God. You're a liar
You are a sheep in wool your wolf and sheep's clothing is what you are
You want to present yourself as someone good, but really who you are is a reprobate
Okay, and it's not just exclusive to sodomites. There are people that do other just extremely unnatural grievous sins
Like I mentioned school shootings. That's not something a normal person ever would do. You know, it's funny. It's not funny
It's terrible, but it's just ironic that all of the school shooters last couple years. Haven't they all been LGBT?
Oh, yeah
Because they're reprobates because they have unnatural affections because they have vile affections because they've rejected
God look at verse 28. It says and even as they did not like to retain
God in their knowledge explain this to me if they never had
God in their knowledge if they never knew the truth
How is it that they even have the choice to retain something or to not retain something in order to retain some information?
You have to have had the information to begin with okay in the Bible saying that these sodomites these reprobates
They don't want to retain God in their knowledge. It's not saying that they don't have the knowledge of God
They've never retained the knowledge of God
It's saying that they don't want to think about God
But the truth is every single person on this earth has been created with the knowledge of God including sodomites
But they don't want to keep God in their knowledge
This is how I know and you just have to come to the decision in your life where you decide that you're gonna believe what?
The Bible says over what man tells you over what the brainwashing you've heard is because what are the what does some sodomites say?
I love God. I'm a Christian. I've heard sodomites that have protested our church say that they're Christian
They go to church. They love God. Okay, whose word am I supposed to take this?
disgusting sodomite or the Bible the word of God
Jesus Christ is the word of God. Am I gonna take Jesus's words where he said that these people don't even want to retain God in their
Knowledge, or am I gonna listen to the sodomite?
Let me tell you you're a fool if you believe what this world says about sodomites over what the Bible says
You need to repent you need to change your mind and say you know what? I don't care what I've heard before
I'm gonna listen to what the Bible says
verse number
29 we'll get to in a minute, but let me just say this I lost my spot here
So it gives them a depraved mind as a punishment verse 29. Excuse me
Now the Bible is going to explain what these people are like on the inside
Never mind how they present to you on the outside who cares what they say
They're like this is what the Bible actually says that they're like on the inside verse 29
The first two words are very important being filled and then the Bible is gonna go on and list all these sins that these
Reprobates are being filled with it's not just that people that have rejected God and have become reprobates or become sodomites
It's not like they've just achieved a certain level of wickedness and they're gonna stay there for the rest of their life
Every single day that someone has rejected God and is now a reprobate
They're being filled with more and more and more wickedness and unrighteousness, which is what makes them so dangerous
It's kind of like how if you get saved and you start walking in the new man and you start reading the Bible
And you start going to church and you start praying you're gonna get filled with the Holy Spirit and you're gonna mature in your Christianity
Right. I mean if you're serving God for ten years faithfully doing all those things
You're gonna be a much more righteous Christian than you were day one that you got saved. Okay. Well, it's the exact opposite thing
We're talking about when it comes to reprobates where it's like day one that God gave them over to a reprobate mind
They're pretty wicked. They're pretty terrible
But every single day they're being filled more and more with unrighteousness and what if someone's allowed to live on this earth?
There's a reprobate for 10 20 30 70 years
That's why you often see it's these old guys that do these heinous things because they've been being filled with
Unrighteousness for who knows how many years now, what are they being filled with? Well, just all unrighteousness
The Bible says anything evil you could think of anything bad anything wicked you could possibly think of
Reprobates and sodomites are being filled more and more with it every single day of their life specifically says
fornication wickedness
covetousness maliciousness full of envy murder debate deceit
malignity whisperers back biters haters of God
despiteful crowd boasters inventors of evil things
Disobedient to parents without understanding covenant breakers without natural affection implacable unmerciful
I mean, it sounds like the Bible is just trying to shake you and just tell you like these people are bad
These people are wicked and you see people today like oh we should accept the LGBT. We should love them
You see businesses we are an LGBT friendly business
What they're saying is we are a God-hating friendly proud boaster inventor of evil thing disobedient to parents without natural
Affection covenant breakers without understanding
Implacable and merciful friendly business. It's like why would you advertise that?
Why would you why would you be proud or happy in the fact that you're cool with the worst scum of the earth?
That's not that's not a Christian attitude to be loving and accepting of child predators of
Perverts that's not an attitude that Jesus had it's not an attitude you could find anywhere in these 66 books of the Bible
it's an attitude you got from the world and it's wrong verse 32 says this who knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such
Things are worthy of death not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them
The Bible says the only answer for this type of person is death
That's why in the perfect law of Liberty in the law of God in the Old Testament these heinous sins that are unnatural
Like homosexuality in Leviticus chapter 20 verse 13 was a capital crime
Punished by death why because there's no such thing as oh someone's a reprobate
Well, let me just pull out my Bible and just give them the truth of the gospel. They already had the truth
They already rejected the truth. They don't want to retain God in their knowledge
God's already given them over to reprobate mine. They're without hope of salvation. I can do nothing
I can do nothing for a reprobate. I cannot pray for them and ask God to fix their situation
I cannot ask God to allow them to humble themselves to believe the truth
I can't show them a Bible verse that'll change their mind
They are without hope which is why the Bible says not my opinion
The Bible says that they're worthy of death because there's no fixing them. There's no therapy. There's no counseling
There's no prayer. There's no Bible preaching. Nothing can fix them. And so the Bible says that the most merciful thing and the most loving thing
You could do for society is to lawfully execute them because guess what when someone's found to be committing sins that are clearly
Unnatural that a normal person would not do and you put that person to death you prevent them from molesting kids for decades as a pastor
Oh, I'm just so loving I just love sodomite so much as you and your stupid attitude is allowing kids to get molested in church
That's the attitude that's allowing kids to get molested and raped by these disgusting
Pedophiles because you want to act like you're loving you are the most hateful person on this planet to allow a child to get hurt
I'm so sick of us being painted. You guys are hateful. You guys are mean because you say what the Bible says
Meanwhile, you want to enable child predators to keep hurting people and stand on your little soapbox and act like you're superior
Or better than us. You're wicked as hell
You are disgusting and it's such a shame that so many Baptists today stand up pretend that they believe the Word of God and sit
Here and enable and assist
Pedophiles, I guarantee you every time I see stories like this
There's all these stupid pastors that say let's pray for pastor so-and-so that got busted being a pedophile
I'm gonna pray that he gets run over. I'm gonna pray that he gets killed in prison
I'm gonna pray that he gets AIDS and dies
I'm gonna get I'm gonna pray that he could stop harming other people because I actually do love people
It's called the victims of these disgusting crimes whose lives are changed for forever. I mean people that experience
sexual abuse as children
Especially especially in a homosexual way
They're messed up for the rest of their lives and oftentimes these people grow up and they blame God for what happened to them
And it's so sad that someone would grow up have something so terrible happened to them where they blame God
When God was the one that gave the law of God to protect those children
It's our fault as a nation for not adhering to what God said and these poor kids grow up
They say God. Why did you allow this to happen to me?
Why did you allow my father to be hurting me as a child or my grandfather or my brother or whoever or my pastor?
God, why did you allow the man of God to abuse me and cause just like I said to put a bullet in their head
I said to put them to death
I said that these people shouldn't even be alive and it's unfair that people blame God
But it's just the reality of what happens and oftentimes these people that are hurt as children they grow up
They reject God they never believe in him and they die and go to hell
How sad is that when if we as a society would have just protected them would have just loved them enough and would have just
Stop being so prideful leaning on our own understanding and just listen to what the Bible was saying
We could have protected that child
We could have had them never gone through the harm and trauma that they went through and that person maybe would have grown up
To love God and have gotten saved and have been a servant of God
Maybe a soul winner and reach other people for the gospel instead
They're going to hell and I'm telling you there's real
consequences for not teaching this and not preaching this and shame on any pastor that
Refuses to touch the scriptures that we're talking about this morning. Go if you would to John chapter 12
I'm telling you the lesson that we need to come away from stories like this is that we need to double down on this doctrine
What we believe is the truth. We're not wrong about this doctrine. I'm not a little bit
You're thinking like maybe there's some things off about this doctrine. No, we are a hundred percent right about this doctrine
There are people that are on this earth alive with no hope of salvation
Who God has rejected and given a reprobate mind that is gospel truth right there. I'm not questioning it whatsoever
Here's another passage that teaches this
This is from the Lord Jesus Christ himself in John 12 verse 35
The Bible says then Jesus said unto them yet a little while is the light with you
now that could be interpreted a lot of ways because John chapter 1 says that Jesus is the light of the world that he lights every
Man that comes into the world and our lives the Bible says is like a vapor
So, you know if we have a very short time to believe in the light and to get saved because our lives are very short
But also another way the Bible says is right here walk while you have the light less darkness come upon you
For he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whether he goeth verse 36 while ye have
Light believe in the light that ye may be the children of light these things spake Jesus and departed and did hide
Himself from them. Another truth is that you need to believe in Jesus Christ
While you have the opportunity in this life because there's times where Jesus hid himself from people and he says hey believe in the light
While you can why because you don't always have that opportunity necessarily some people do some people have a really long time in this life
Some people get saved in their 80s and 90s. It's very rare
It does happen
But for a lot of people you need to believe in the light when you have light
Do not put off salvation do not think as a child that oh, you know
My parents are saved and I come to this church and you know
I like the preaching all that but you yourself have not made sure you're 100% saved
You need to believe in the light while you have light everyone needs to take salvation extremely seriously stay there
I'm gonna read Isaiah 55 6 the Bible says seek ye the Lord
While he may be found call ye upon him while he is near
Why because there could come a day where he can't be found for you there could come a day where he's no longer near
To you and you can't call upon him, and you need to do it while you can verse 37
But though he had done so many miracles before them yet
They believed not on him that the saying of Isaiah's the prophet might be fulfilled which he spake
Lord who hath believed our report and to whom had the arm of the Lord been revealed verse 39 is key
therefore they could not
believe because that Isaiah said again he hath blinded their eyes and
Hardened their heart that they should not see with their eyes
Nor understand with their heart and be converted and I should heal them. This is what people do
Oh God
Please help this sodomite for their eyes to be opened for their heart to be enlightened for them to be able to believe on God
And God's saying like I made it to where they can't believe I darken their heart. I shut their eyes
I made it to where they can't believe because they've rejected me too many times
And so you're not gonna have that prayer answered from God when Jesus is literally saying that they could not believe
It's not that they were too sinful that Jesus couldn't excuse their sin that Jesus didn't die for their sins
It's that to get saved
You know you have to do believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved you have to trust in him
But these people they could not believe let me tell you if you can't believe in Jesus that means you can't get saved
there are people on this earth that cannot get saved because
They cannot put their faith in Jesus Christ. They've already rejected him too many times and think about it
God made salvation so easy, you know, it's just trusting in him for salvation
It's not like Jesus is asking us to beat ourselves on the back like the old Catholics did it's not asking us to go to Mecca
He's not asking us go to Jerusalem. He's not asking us to repent of all of our sins. He's just said hey
It's a free gift. All you have to do is accept this free gift by trusting in Jesus Christ
That's it. And if someone is just so foolish or just hates God so much with like no, I don't want your free gift
I want to reject you. I want to go to hell
I want to be rejected by God God's gonna allow them to make that choice and people say that the reprobate doctrine
Contradicts free will it's actually the exact opposite God saying oh you freely want to reject my gift
You want to reject me you want to hate me. You don't want to retain me in your knowledge
Well, I will allow you to do that. I will give you what you want
You want to go to hell? I will give you what you want and once I give you this choice
This is your final choice. You can never get out of it now. Just like once we're saved we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
We're sealed with the Spirit of God. We can never go to hell. We're always saved that doesn't negate our free will
We made the one time free will choice to accept Christ to believe on him
And once we do that, we're secure in the Father's hand. There's nothing we could do to lose that
Well, once someone makes that final choice of rejecting God their fate is sealed. They cannot believe they cannot
Be safe go to Jude only one chapter of the epistle of Jude right before Revelation and though we've been talking about
Sodomites I want you to understand that false prophets and people that are into weird perverse stuff are usually very
closely interconnected and the Bible actually gives us this picture and Jude look at verse 4 says for there are certain men crept in
Unawares who are before of old ordained to this condemnation
ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord God and
Our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance though
You once knew this how that the Lord having saved the people out of the land of Egypt
Afterward destroyed them that believe not and the angels which kept their first estate but left their own
Habitation he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day verse 7 even as
Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after
Strange flesh are set forth for an example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh
So notice the mouse talking about false brethren crept in unawares and he's saying hey the angels that fell from heaven
That and our demons they're not gonna escape God's wrath. Just like the sodomites who go after strange flesh and fornication
They're not gonna escape God's wrath
Then he says likewise also saying these false prophets are also like sodomites how in that they?
Defile the flesh and so you should not be surprised when someone stands up and says
They're a man of God and they get exposed to be a false prophet and you also see things like
Pedophilia associated with that all sorts of just gross sexual sin that is tied together in the Bible
why because a sodomite is a reprobate a sodomite has rejected God a false prophet is a reprobate a false prophet has
Rejected God and when God gives someone over to a reprobate mind
He allows them to do things that are vile that normal people wouldn't do
Okay, so you often see the same type of sins between these two people because they have something in common
They hate God they rejected God and God rejected them go to Deuteronomy chapter 31 Deuteronomy chapter 1
so, you know, I'm not ashamed of
Exposing stories like this bringing stories like this up in church because I'm not the one that's the fake pastor and the fake Christian
I'm saying let's call these people out. Let's expose it. Hey, let's go expose that guy
That's putting on an Oklahoma City police uniform and committing crimes because he's fake and so I'm not like oh man
The police department is gonna feel so bad about this. They didn't do it. They didn't do anything wrong anchor Baptist Church
We didn't do anything wrong. I'm a real Christian. You're a real Christian. Let's expose these fake Christians
Let's explain the reprobate doctrine is true number two
The other lesson that we need to take away from this is that churches need to implement the family integrated model
This is a good model that again. We need to double down on this model
Remember why we believe this why we do this and encourage other churches to do the same. Okay. Look at Deuteronomy 31 verse 11
Is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose
Thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing verse 12 gather the people together
notice men and women and
children and my stranger that is within thy gates that they may hear and that they may learn and fear the Lord your God and
Observe to do all the words of this law and that their children which have not known anything may hear and learn to fear
The Lord your God as long as he live in the land whether you go over Jordan to possess it God saying
Hey when you gather people together and you open up the Word of God and you start reading it
Make sure you gather the men the women the children the strangers
Everyone well one reason why is because you want these children that have not known anything
To grow up and know the Lord to know the Bible to fear God and you know
That should be one of the major desires of our hearts for our children is that they would grow up and know the Bible
Love the Bible love God. This is why we don't have some sort of nursery where we just take all the kids
we take them away from the service and they're just gonna go in there and eat a bunch of junk food and play a bunch of
Games and just waste the time that they have in church where they could be hearing the Word of God
At least learning how to turn in the Bible learning how to sing the songs
Participating in the choir things like that. You want your kids doing those things from a young age
That way they grow up and they have a solid foundation
It doesn't make any sense to take a child and waste their entire youth
Going to the little kid church the little daycare and then when they're 18, it's like hey
Here's a Bible for the first time in your life, you know, you've never actually turned in it before
You've never actually paid attention to church
You've never actually heard hard preaching in your entire life because you've been in the nursery that doesn't make any sense
Right or the bus ministry, you know
another reason why we don't have a
Separate kids part of our church is because we know that there's pedophiles like this out there
We know there's reprobates out there like this
And so we want to have a culture where parents protect their children where it's not just normal
To just pass your child off to a complete stranger. Oh, but they went through background checks
Okay, who went through background checks on the 70 year old pastor who is background checking him?
It doesn't matter what the background check says if you've never been caught in the past
But you're just so simple and so foolish you think oh church good church safe
Everybody at church must be trustworthy and my children know and I bring up this guy
Because I know several people that went to this guy's church and they told me just this year earlier this year
They went to this guy's church visiting from out of state and they went in the church with their little kids and the pastor
Was this guy he was just very very insistent on the fact that they would turn their kids up to the nursery
did not want to allow them in the main service this guy who has six charges of
Pedophilia basically is just saying like no you need to turn your kids in well
They fought and kicked and screamed basically to where the pastor kind of relented and allowed them to go in the service
But the first peep that their child made the pastor got up and just rebuked them and publicly shamed them and made them
Go put their children in the nursery and they did what was he doing?
He was creating a culture to where he was making it very normal in the church
That you had to feel this pressure that you had to give up your child to someone else now
I wonder why this guy was so
Insistent on these people giving up their sub 10 year old kids up to some random stranger
Maybe because he's a pedophile and was doing this crap behind closed doors for years
You know, no normal person is be like you have to give up your kids. No, no, no, no
You can't sit with them. You have to give up your children. That is weird
That is bizarre behavior and you know what it needs to stop being just an accepted thing in churches that you just go into church
And you just give up your child to some random person sure
Just yeah, let your teenage daughter go have behind closed door counseling with the pastor great idea. No, that's retarded folks
That's stupid and you know men in the ministry you should never ever ever be alone with a woman
You should never be alone with someone of the opposite gender if you're in a council a young lady your wife better be there
With you that would be an open door policy
You should never ever want to be alone with children with women that is not a normal thing to do and you know
We want the exact opposite culture in this church
We want the culture where if we see a man that's just off alone with some young lady
That's not his family member. All of our alarm bells are going off in our head being like, whoa, what are you doing?
This is weird, you know, there's no behind closed door counseling
There's there's nothing like that because we want the exact opposite culture of these people
You know how how terrible of a feeling as a mother and father where you go to church where you want to hear the word of?
God preach your pressure to give your kids in you know
You have to kind of fight the pastor which that's probably not comfortable to do
Just to have your kids that sit in the church and then you just get publicly shamed to where you just kind of relent and give
Your kids up, you know, and they said they were never going back to this church anyways because of this situation
And then once this came out things kind of made sense as to what they were experiencing, you know
It's so it's sad that a couple people I know spent their entire childhood in a church with this man as their pastor
It's it's terrible go to Matthew chapter 18 Matthew 18
Verse 1 at the same time came the disciples unto Jesus saying who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven and Jesus called a little
Child unto him and set him in the midst of them and said verily I say unto you except he be converted and become as little children
He shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven and whoso shall receive one such little
Child in my name seeth me but whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the deep
Depths of the sea that is the words of Jesus Christ again people have this attitude love the pedophile love everyone
Just forgive everyone
Jesus saying it's better for a child offender to take a stone wrap it around their neck and be cast into the depths of the
Sea then for them to offend a child so if that's how Jesus feels about a child being harmed being offended
What we're gonna do as a church is we're gonna do everything in our power to protect children have a culture where children are
Cherished loved accepted into the congregation. They're part of the family. They could hear the preaching of God's word
They could sing with us and we are going to protect them
And if some wolf ever came into this church and tried to harm a child that there would be a ton of men here ready
To take care of that wolf and you know
God forbid you would ever be in a situation in your life where you actually came upon someone in the act of harming a child
But in the state of Oklahoma, it's legal to use lethal force to defend someone going through that situation
You know, we need to bring a culture back to our world where pedophiles are afraid and terrified
To do the sick things that they do and let Oklahoma the red state the Bible Bible Belt state
Be a place where pedophiles think if I do something
Dad's gonna come blow my head off or the cops are gonna come blow my head off or someone is if I do something to a child
That's how you should feel and let me tell you this is a dangerous world. I was out soul winning in Texas earlier this year
With a great family at Setfast Baptist Church and they have they have a lot of kids if they're listening forgive me
I forget how many kids they have I want to say like between six and eight kids
They have a lot of kids and they always take all their kids out soul winning mom always does a really good job
She's always vigilant watching her kids and there was this weird guy walking around the apartment complex
I was just getting really close to her children and she was out with her husband. They were both watching this
He was just acting very strange
Well, we go soul winning and when I get done knocking doors, I come back and I see there's like 16 police cars at this apartment complex
And what this guy did is he was hunting for children and he went around that family got close to their kids
But mom and dad are paying attention being vigilant
You know this guy did he went to another kid that was running around and grabbed the child and ran off
Just tried to abduct the child in broad daylight on a Saturday morning in the middle of an apartment complex
You know people that do that stuff should be afraid that if I catch you
Grabbing one of my kids and running off then I'm gonna put a bullet in your brain so fast
You're just gonna instantly wake up in hell. There's there's no question
There's no question what I'm gonna do to you and what every righteous person should do to someone that tries to take your child from you
They should be terrified. You say that's unchristian
Well, would it be better than if I put a millstone around their neck and just drown them in the depths of the sea?
Because Jesus said that would be better for them to offend a child. That's what our Lord and Savior said
And so at this church, we're going to protect children go to Ezekiel chapter 34 Ezekiel 34
And you know God is so angry at preachers and pastors that allow children to get hurt
Under their care and authority and that is something that I never ever want on my head and on my hands
I never ever will will allow that to happen
I'll do everything in my power to protect children and everyone should be a team here where we're all in this together
Protecting children and looking out for wicked people Ezekiel 34 verse 1 and the word of the Lord came unto me saying
Son of man prophesy against the shepherds. That's pastors of Israel
Prophecy and say against them thus saith the Lord God unto the shepherds
Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves
Should not the shepherds feed the flocks you eat the fat and clothe you with the wool
You kill them that are fed but you feed not the flock the diseased have you not strengthened neither
Have you healed that which was sick neither have you bound up that which was broken neither?
Have you brought again that which was driven away neither?
Have you sought that which was lost but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them like this pastor just with force?
Saying give your children to someone else verse 5 and they were scattered because there is no shepherd and they became notice
Meat to all the beasts of the field when they were scattered, you know, there's a lot of pastors today
They're causing the little sheep of God to become meat to beasts to sick people with the heart of a beast
Because they're not doing their job as pastors. They're not doing their job of protecting the flock
They're getting up teaching lies saying invite the pedophiles invite the sex offenders sit with them in your row
Let them be the daycare workers. Let them preach
Let them take care of the house of God and it's causing the little sheep of God to become meat
To the beasts of the field and God is gonna judge these people says verse 6
My sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every high hill
Yay, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth and none did search or seek after them
Therefore ye shepherds hear the word of the Lord as I live say at the Lord God
Surely because my flock became a prey and my flock
Became meat to every beast of the field because there was no shepherd neither
Did my shepherds search for my flock but the shepherds fed themselves and fed not my flock
Therefore oh ye shepherds hear the word of the Lord thus say at the Lord God behold
I am against the shepherds and I will require
My flock at their hand and cause them to cease from feeding the flock neither shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore
For I will deliver my flock from their mouth that they may not be meat
For them by the Bible teaches that God is going to require at the hand of a shepherd the flock
That's been scattered that hasn't been taken care of that hasn't been fed and that became meat to the beasts of the earth
God is going to require that flock at that pastor's hand. And so for me, I don't want that on me
I want to make sure we do everything that we can to protect this church
But you know even saved pastors should be warned that when you don't preach the reprobate doctrine
When you don't warn the flock to say hey stay away from sodomites stay away from reprobates
Don't put your kids around them. You protect your children
Don't just trust anyone with your kids when pastors aren't saying that and then their little sheep are becoming
You know meat to beasts of the field God's gonna judge those pastors for that
So, you know lessons like this when we look at stories like this pastor bell George Bell
You know pastors and preachers need to be warned saying I need to warn my flock about these things
Number three go to Romans 13 another lesson we need to be reminded of is number three
Sins worthy of death need to be reported to law enforcement. Okay, there's this culture in some churches where they just think
Everything is a church matter. Everything is a matter where you know, the church judges and it's handled internally
There are some things that are not the church's authority not the church's scope and we should bring those things to law enforcement
What am I talking about? Primes sins worthy of death are sins that need to be brought to law enforcement immediately
And I will absolutely do that. I am not gonna cover up for sins worthy of death
That's not gonna be a conversation between me and you it's not gonna be a church matter. It's gonna be 9-1-1
What is your emergency? That's what it's gonna be and it's gonna be we're gonna go to the cops
We're gonna get the legal teams involved and we're gonna go to the fullest extent of the law go to Romans 13 3
It says for rulers, that's the government are not a terror to good works, but to evil
Will thou not then be afraid of the power do that which is good and thou shall have praise of the same
For he is the minister of God to thee for good
But if thou do that which is evil be afraid for he beareth not the sword in vain
For he is the minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil
The Bible says that it's the government's job to bear the sword
Now thankfully in America we do have the right to bear the sword for things like hey
You're you're about to experience great bodily injury or death or someone's running away from your child
You're allowed to use self-defense and stuff like that. But when a crime has already been taken place, it's already happened
No one's in immediate danger right now
That's not your job to go take vengeance upon that person and you go take the law into your own hands and you be the judge
Jury and executioner know what we should do is call the rulers that don't bear the sword in vain and allow them to take care
Of it. So pedophilia these kind of crimes 100% need to be taken to law enforcement. It's not a church
Discipline issue go to 1st Corinthians 11 1st Corinthians chapter number 11 number 4 something we need to be reminded of with this story
Number 4 we need to follow men as they follow Christ
Why do we need to be reminded of this because I could imagine these poor people that have gone to this church for decades and decades
Maybe you know they find out that their pastor was such a fake and a fraud
it could hurt them a lot to think that they were investing so much into the church or into that person and
It might make them want to just quit serving God or just quit going to church
But look at 1st Corinthians 11 verse 1 the Bible says be ye followers of me
Even as I also am of Christ. See God does want us to follow men. He does want you to follow your pastor
He does want you to listen to spiritual leaders in your life
He gave us authority for a reason but you follow your pastor as he follows Christ and when stuff like this happens
It's just a guarantee. Okay. This is a bad guy. This is a bad pastor. We're moving on. We're not listening to him anymore
No, we're not gonna visit him in jail. We're not gonna pray for him. It's just over move on but here's thing
Before stuff like this happens people didn't settle in their heart
Why they're serving God to begin with because here's the thing I've been in church for over a decade
I've had different pastors and never once never once did I have this thought of well if my pastor quits or
Fails or God forbid even does something wicked. That means I'm gonna quit serving God. I've never once had that thought
I've never once thought like well everything in my spiritual life just rises and falls with my pastor
I've never had that thought but a lot of people evidently do because when their pastor goes bad
Or they their pastor quits the ministry when the pastor gets arrested for something terrible
oftentimes tons of people just fall out of church and quit serving God and it's just like you never obviously settled in your heart who you
Were serving to begin with because the pastor should have nothing to do with whether or not you go soul winning on Saturday morning
The pastor should have nothing to do with whether or not you wake up and read your Bible and pray to the Lord and follow
The commandments of God that has nothing to do with the pastor the pastor is a position of authority to rule the church
Well to make sure things are going right to bring forth the word of God to preach the Bible things like that
But you know what?
The pastor is not God the pastor is a man and yeah follow that man as he follows Jesus Christ
But if he doesn't don't and don't allow that to cause you to feel bitter to the Lord go to Colossians chapter 3 Colossians chapter
Number three and people are just revealing their own heart when they quit over a man. It's like, okay
So you were the one that was just following a man
You were the one that everything rose and fall on your perception of a man and it's just like bro. You're the cult guy
You're the one that's following a cult leader because I don't care who quits. I'm still gonna serve God
I don't care who gets arrested for what I'm not I'm gonna serve God
I'm not gonna care about those things Colossians 3 verse 23 and whatsoever you do do it heartily as to the Lord and not
Unto men knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance for ye serve the Lord
Christ remember who it is. We serve whatsoever. We do let us do it unto the Lord and not unto men
Let us go soul-winning because you love Jesus and love souls
Let us come to church because we love Jesus
We love the institution that Jesus died for read your Bible because you love the word of God
Not because you want Brownie points or a pat on the head from some man
Because the man doesn't really matter at the end of the day matters is Jesus Christ
I've never once thought that if a pastor failed me that God failed me
I've never once thought that if a man failed me that means that God failed me and here's the good news that someday
We're gonna get the perfect pastor go to 1st Peter chapter number 5 1st Peter chapter number 5 1st Peter 5 verse 1
Bible says the elders that's a synonym for pastor the elders which are among you
I exhort who am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ and also a partaker of the glory that shall
Be revealed feed the flock of God which is among you taking the oversight thereof not by constraint
But willingly not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind neither as being lords over God's heritage
But being examples to the flock notice verse 4 and when the chief shepherd shall appear
Ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away someday. We're all gonna have one pastor
He is gonna be the perfect pastor
He's truly the good shepherd that giveth his life for the sheep the chief chief shepherd the Lord Jesus Christ
That's who I'm really looking forward to for being my pastor someday and guess what?
No matter what any pastor on this world does
someone who claims that title claims that position no matter what lies they teach or bad actions they have or
Weakness that they quit on God doing guess what?
We all have the chief shepherd coming for us someday and he's gonna be the perfect pastor for all of eternity
And that's who we're all serving here. Anyways, right? We're here for the chief shepherd. I'm the under shepherd
I'm the human ruler, but this right here is the authority
This is the real authority and someday, you know
This is gonna be sight for us when Jesus Christ is ruling and reigning on this earth last point
Number five go to psalm chapter 82 psalm chapter 82 number five
We need to pray for the victims of reprobate pastors
I didn't say let's pray for the criminals. Oh, let's pray for the pastor that fell from grace
No, this isn't falling from grace. This is reprobate activity
What you do need to do stop being a holier-than-thou and a virtue signaller praying for these wicked people
What you should actually do is pray for the victims
What you should actually do is pray for this poor man's wife who was married to him for fifty something years
We recently just had to file a divorce against this guy and I can't even imagine the amount of pain and hurt that a woman would have
Dedicating her life to being a help for her husband in the ministry. Her heart's probably pure
She's probably saying, you know, I love God. Let's build this church. Let's do something great for God
Meanwhile, her husband was with little kids
I couldn't imagine the pain that she's going through right now and just the conflicting emotions that she's having
That's a woman we should be praying for that's someone that you should care about
Not this criminal look at psalm 82 verse 1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty
He judge it among the gods. How long will you judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked?
See law defend the poor and fatherless do justice to the afflicted and needy
Deliver the poor and needy rid them out of the hand of the wicked look stop being a respecter of persons
Saying oh this guy is a pastor. We need to pray for him. No, why don't you worry about the poor and needy?
Why don't you worry about the victims?
Why don't you worry about the people that this monster hurt and possibly destroyed their whole lives?
Those are the people that we need to deliver from the hand of the wicked and while we're not the government
We can't execute justice what we can do though is keep preaching the reprobate doctrine
What we can do though is make sure that we're a family integrated church to protect the kids that are here
What we can do though is at least pray for those victims go to Psalm 34 Psalm chapter 34
We'll go to a few more places and we'll be done here
Psalm 34 verse 18 notice what the Bible says the Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and
Saveth such as be of a contrite spirit, you know, these people church members the wife the victims
These are people with broken hearts this morning
I guarantee you that they've been going to a church that they probably loved that they've invested in
They probably thought one way about their pastor and it wasn't true
You know, they've invested into it a ton and now they're heartbroken
Those are people that we need to pray for because the Bible says that God is nigh to those people
God will draw nigh to those people. God loves those people. We need to pray for them. Go to Psalm chapter 55 Psalm
55 I'm sorry Psalm 58 while you're turning to Psalm 58. Let me read for you first John 5 16
The Bible says if any man see his brother sin a sin, which is not unto death
He shall ask and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death
I do not say that he shall pray for it. Someone is committing a sin worthy of death
Do not pray for that person. That is what the Bible is saying you do
You're not only just doing something that's wrong
But you're actually making God angry because God doesn't want to hear you praying for a monster Psalm chapter 58. Here's a prayer
Do you indeed speak righteousness? Oh congregation. Do you judge up rightly? Oh you sons of men?
Let's see who's right yay in heart you work wickedness you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth
The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they be born speaking lies
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent
They are like the death adder that stop at her ear which will not harken to the voice of charmers
Charming never so wisely notice what the Word of God says in verse 6 break their teeth
Oh God in their mouth break out the great teeth of the young lions. Oh Lord. Let them melt away as
Waters which run continually when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows
Let them be as cut in pieces as a snail which melteth
Let every one of them pass away like the untimely birth of a woman that they may not
See the Sun you see the only types of prayers you should be praying for sick
Pedophiles like this dirty old pastor is in precatory prayers
You know when I got up earlier and said I hope this guy dies. That's biblical in
Precatory prayers praying that something bad happens to someone praying that someone has an early death is
Biblical when someone is a sick pedophile when someone is a reprobate and no we're not gonna sit here and pray
Oh God, forgive this man. I pray that he's restored to a pastorship someday
It's like no, we're gonna pray that his teeth is broken out of his mouth. We're gonna pray that he melts like a snail
So that the victims of his crime can have some sort of justice and guess what there is a God that judges in the earth
Yes, God will burn this guy in hell and every pedophile and every one of these sick reprobates
But sometimes in this life God also judges on this earth and you know our government
That's part of their job to do and when the government is shirking capital punishment
They're neglecting the responsibility that God gave them to do the government should not be having someone on death row
For 15 20 years for crimes worthy of death. You should get arrested
Charged have a fair trial and when there's evidence to convict you you should be put to death
And we should pray that our government will go back to doing that the right way once again, you know
Praise God just this month Oklahoma executed a pedophile praise God for that, you know, our government needs to be doing that
That's part of the rightful
Responsibilities that God gave them to do that's not our job
But it is their job now granted this person was on death row for way too long for literally being a cannibal and a pedophile
This should have taken one day have the court and then do it that day and people are complaining
Oh, you did it before Christmas. Why did this guy get to see the last 20 Christmases?
Why did this guy get to experience last 20 birthdays?
Why did this guy get to spend taxpayers for hundreds and thousands of days at our expense?
After he was already convicted of being a cannibal and a pedophile
No, he should have been put to death and we need to pray that hey, praise the Lord
Our government still does this to an extent, but they need to be doing a lot more of it
Just look at the pride parades all those people need to be convicted
I'm serious. That is a capital crime in the Word of God is being a sodomite
Those people all need to be taken out by the government every pedophile every cannibal every school shooter
These are sick reprobates that should be put to death last verse will go to his Proverbs 31 verse 8
This should be our application right here in verse number 8 Proverbs 31 verse 8
Open thy mouth for the dumb meaning those that can't speak
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction open thy mouth
Judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy
You know, let us as Christians as anchor Baptist Church be the one voice
Amongst all the brainwashing in Oklahoma City and this state in this country saying that this is normal saying that this should be a new
Orientation trying to lower the age of consent
Let us be the one voice that speaks up for the dumb the little children that are being appointed to destruction and say you know
What no being a sodomite is not normal. It's not love. It's a crime worthy of death. No, no, no
We're not gonna play around with this pedophile garbage like they're doing in Europe
Every single pedophile should be smoked by the government period and that's the stance that we're gonna hold and we're gonna protect kids in
This church and we're gonna call out false prophets in this country that stand up and call themselves Baptist pastors and are doing this sick stuff
You know what? God has charged me to protect the flock and that's what I'm gonna do. Merry Christmas. Let's pray Lord
Thank you for this day. Thank you for our church
I just pray that you please judge the wicked pastors that are out there that are either harboring defending or even
Committing these wicked sins themselves. I pray that you please protect the little children across our country
They're becoming meat to these predators
I pray that you'd cause Christians to wake up and stop being so foolish as to believe what this world is telling them
About the agenda going on right now. There's a war for people's minds right now
And I just pray that you please help our minds to be renewed by what the Bible says help us to truly love children and truly love
Victims by calling out those that oppress them. We love you in Jesus name we pray. Amen
That will go ahead and sing one last song this morning. If you would take your hymnals and turn to him number
424 Oh come all ye faithful
Number 424 we'll go ahead and start there right on the first
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