All right, we are there this evening in Psalm 55, Psalm chapter 55.
And I want to start reading this evening in verse number 20.
The Bible says, "He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him.
He hath broken his covenant." Verse 21, "The words of his mouth
were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.
His words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords."
You know, here in verse 21, the Bible is describing a person that outwardly is very nice.
You would think that if you met this person, this is a really nice person.
What a friendly person. This person must want the best for me.
Notice what it says. It says that the words of his mouth were smoother than butter.
Everything he says sounds so good. He talks really well.
It says, "But war was in his heart." So things aren't really matching what's coming out.
It says, "His words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords."
So he wants to kind of give you the soft spoken treatment, sound like he's really harmless.
He's not a big deal, but really he has drawn swords in his heart that he wants to harm
people with. And I think the Bible is giving us this principle here that oftentimes in life,
it's not necessarily your open, sworn enemies that are the most dangerous people in your life.
Sometimes it's the nice guy. Sometimes the person who's actually really dangerous in your life
is the guy that wants to come up to you and speak really smooth words to you. And his speech is
smoother than butter, softer than oil. Sometimes that could actually be the dangerous person in
your life, the kind of nice guy that slips underneath the radar that you wouldn't really
think much of. And the title of my sermon this evening is Watch Out for the Nice Guy. Watch out
for the nice guy. Look, I'm not saying that you shouldn't be nice or you shouldn't be around nice
people or if someone's nice, they're automatically, that's automatically a red flag. But I'm for being
nice. I'm for being kind. Okay. But what I'm against is the person that's only nice, person
that's only nice to everyone. This is your Joel Osteen. This guy, his words are smoother than butter.
His words are softer than oil. I mean, this is the guy that is just speaking such nice things,
but really what's in his heart, well, not the things of God. He's actually a dangerous person.
And I want to give you a warning this evening, why you should watch out for the nice guy. I
want to give you several reasons why you should watch out for the nice guy in your life. Number
one, nice guys are often unfaithful, unfaithful people. And you know, the Bible says that a
faithful man who can find, it's a rare person to find a faithful man today. And nice guys are just
the guys that aren't necessarily going to stick with you through thick and thin. They're not
necessarily going to go through the hard battles with you. Nice guys are kind of just surface level,
they're shallow people oftentimes. And in fact, when when a man really has no substance to him,
and other people are talking about him, sometimes let's be like, yeah, he's a nice guy, you know,
and there's nothing really else to say about him other than he's just nice. And I'm for being nice.
But if that's the only characteristic you have, that's a red flag. That's a problem. Look at verse
number 12, it says, "For it was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it. Neither
was it he that hated me, that did magnify himself against me, then I would have hid myself from him.
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together
and walked unto the house of God in company." Notice this person's saying it wasn't an open
sworn enemy that ended up turning their back on me and reproaching me. It was someone that I took
sweet counsel with. It was someone that I walked into the house of God with. It was a man mine
equal. It was something that the psalmist here didn't expect. Now in context what this is actually
talking about, Psalm chapter 55 is a Psalm of David and who he's referring to is Ahithophel.
And if you remember Ahithophel was his counselor at one point and he was a pretty good counselor
because the Bible says that in those days it was as if one inquired at the Oracle of God when they
asked counsel of Ahithophel. But what happened to Ahithophel? Well he turned on David and he went
for Absalom. He completely was a traitor to David and he you know got on Absalom's team
during Absalom's rebellion. And notice the Bible here kind of describes Ahithophel as a nice guy.
I mean just from these verses it says oh you know we took sweet counsel together. Kind of sounds
like oh man we had good times you were just a nice guy. Well Ahithophel might have been a nice guy
on the surface but really what was he? He was unfaithful. He was unfaithful to King David. Go
to second Samuel chapter 15. Second Samuel 15 look at verse 12. "And Absalom sent for Ahithophel,
the Gielinite, David's counselor, from his city even from Guilo where he offered sacrifices."
Notice "and the conspiracy was strong for the people increased continually with Absalom." So
notice the Bible here explains that Ahithophel is involved in this conspiracy. And what is a
conspiracy? That's a word that's kind of a buzzword today. A conspiracy is simply a plan
to do something. You could conspire and usually it has a negative connotation to it. It's usually
the connotation is that you're conspiring to do something bad. But really it's just a plan
to do something. Yes the Bible is full of conspiracies of course. No that does not
mean every conspiracy in this world is true. This is a side note. But look at 2nd Samuel 15 verse
31 it says, "And one told David, saying, 'Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.' David said,
'O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.'" So notice a guy who was really
close to King David, someone that King David trusted, someone who was probably on the surface
very nice, was a complete traitor the whole time, was someone who went after Absalom in his rebellion.
You know, we ought to learn from that, that just because someone's being nice to us doesn't mean
that they have our best interests in heart, doesn't mean that they truly care about us,
they actually may be planning to rebel or planning to turn against us for their own profit,
for their own benefit. Go to 2nd Samuel 16, flip the page, verse 20 says, "Then said Absalom to
Ahithophel, 'Give counsel among you what we shall do.' And Ahithophel said unto Absalom." So now
Ahithophel has gone from being David's counselor. Now he's going to give some advice to Absalom.
This is his genius advice he has here. "Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left
to keep the house. And all Israel shall hear that thou art a horde of thy father. Then shall the
hands of all that are with thee be strong." I don't know what his logic is here. He's saying,
"Oh, here's how you're really going to get it, David. You're going to go sleep with his
concubines. Then when the whole nation hears that David hates you, they'll want to love you."
Not sure what this guy's thinking is. This is what he's thinking. Verse 22, "So they spread
Absalom a tent upon the top of the house, and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in
the sight of all Israel. And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counseled in those days,
was as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God. So was all the counsel of Ahithophel, both with
David and with Absalom." And think about just the giant leap that this man, Ahithophel, made.
Going from being King David's counselor to literally just selling out King David's women,
his concubines, to Absalom and encouraging Absalom to sleep with his wives' concubines
in the side of all Israel on a rooftop. I mean, this is a huge, huge leap that has been made here.
So what does that tell us? Just because someone's nice to us doesn't mean that they're our friend,
doesn't mean that they care about us. You know, they could be planning some really wicked stuff.
And just because someone's nice isn't a red flag in and of itself. But if someone's only ever nice,
it could be a warning sign in your mind. This person might not be a faithful person.
You ever heard of a yes, man? What's a yes, man? It's a man that's really nice. And whatever his
boss or authority or someone who he's trying to garner favor with thinks they're just yes, yes,
yes, yes. And it's not because they actually agree with what that person's saying or the program
that that person's on. That's one thing is that they just want to find favor with this person.
So they throw their morals out the window. They throw their beliefs, their values out the window.
They don't care about any of those things. All they care about is garnering respect for this
person. It's a yes, man. What's a yes, man, a nice guy. That's what a yes, man is a nice guy.
Go to second Samuel 17, second Samuel 17, learn some more about this trader here. Second Samuel
17, one says, moreover, a hit the fell, said unto Absalom, let me now choose out 12,000 men,
and I will arise and pursue after David this night. So now he's ready to kill David, not only just
sell out his concubines. Now he's ready to literally get David killed. Verse two, and I
will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed and will make him afraid. And all the people that
are with him shall flee. And I will smite the king only notice a hit the fell here. What is he? He is
a bandwagoner. And look, you know, we want people to join the bandwagon for things that are good,
right? Join the salvation bandwagon, believe on Lord Jesus Christ, join that bandwagon. But he
thinks here in his mind, Hithfield thinks, well, Absalom is doing well. So now I'm just going to
completely turn on the real man of God, David, just because in my mind, Absalom is doing well.
And he's thinking, oh, I'm just going to get David killed. So he was sweet. He was so sweet. And he
was so nice. You read Psalm 55. He was so sweet and so nice to David on the surface. But what was he
doing later? Literally trying to get him killed. Look at verse 23 of the same chapter. And when
Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass and arose and got him home to
his house, to his city, put his household in order, hanged himself and died and was buried in the
sepulcher of his father. So this is the end of this loser's life for being a yes man, for being
a traitor, his advice doesn't get followed and he just kills himself. So, you know, the lesson here
is that, again, just because someone's being nice to you doesn't mean that they care about you. You
know, think about this in the workplace. If you have some sort of authority in the workplace,
don't just assume that because the employees are being nice to you, that they actually care about
you or care about your jobs. Sometimes they could be being, you know, suck ups to try to get
advantage, place advantages in the workplace, scam artists, you know, scam artists, they're, they're
very nice to you on the surface. They're like, Hey, I've got this great product for you. It's
going to help your life. It's going to make your life wonderful on the surface. They're going to
be very nice to you. What are they doing? They're lying to you. And this applies in a lot of areas
of life. Go to Proverbs chapter 27, Proverbs chapter 27, Proverbs 27, look at verse six,
faithful are the wounds of a friend. Now is getting wounds a very fun experience? No, it's not.
If someone gives you a wound, would you think right off the bat, that was a really nice thing
that you did to me? You wouldn't really think that way. But notice the Bible says faithful are the
wounds of a friend. So a real friend, someone that actually cares about you would actually
be willing to hurt you in some cases. And you know, the Bible talks about whom the Lord loveth,
he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. You know, it's not fun to get a
spanking from your parents. It's not fun to get a spanking from God. But you know, when God hurts
us in a sense, it's temporary and it's for our own benefit. Any times a wound is given to us,
it's actually for our betterment in the long run. And a true friend may be willing to wound you
in the short term to help you in the long term. But you know, the Ahithophels of this world,
the nice guys of this world look at the latter part of this verse it says but the kisses of an
enemy are deceitful you know kisses it makes you think oh how nice how sweet what a nice guy but
really what is it it's deceitful he's not your friend he doesn't care about you look at psalm
119 psalm 119 look at verse 75 of psalm 119 psalm 119 75 says this i know oh lord that thy judgments
are right and that thou in faithfulness has to notice this word afflicted me you know affliction
never sounds fun affliction never sounds like something that's pleasant that you want to go
through but the bible says that god does it in faithfulness he afflicts us elsewhere it says that
it is good for me that i have been afflicted so you know we need to be the type of people as
friends where if our friends are going down a wrong path they're going to do something that's
harmful in their life if they're in sin that we would be willing to even afflict them we'd be
willing to even wound them by telling them the truth rather than just being this yes man rather
than just being the nice guy because you know i'd rather be a faithful person than be a nice guy so
i'd rather even have my authority a little upset with me but i'm in my heart i know i'm faithful
to that person but maybe i say something that has to be said right but still i want to be faithful
to that person go to proverbs 29 while you're turning there let me read proverbs 14 5 it says
this a faithful witness will not lie but a false witness will utter lies you know what's the
opposite of the nice guy a faithful person and what is a faithful person going to do they will
not lie you know this makes me think of politicians you know what politicians are politicians are nice
guys right i mean everywhere they go they're smiling everywhere they go they're shaking hands
they're signing babies they're kissing babies they're making commercials where they're happy
you know it hasn't been since the 1940s really that there was a politician that was angry and
mad i think we all know who that one was it was in germany if you're not understanding what i'm
saying okay but most politicians they're not they're not you know angry or mad what are they
they're just so nice they're so happy i mean look at joe biden he's eating an ice cream cone what
a nice non-threatening old man but you know what he is he's a liar is what he is he's a liar oh
he's a nice guy no he's actually wicked as hell i don't care what's on his face i don't care about
the words that come out of his mouth when he's being fake he's a liar he's wicked and by the way
donald trump is wicked too talk about a nice guy i mean he just has nice things to say about
everyone oh wanita the best cleaner i've ever had in my life i went to a hotel nobody cleans
better than wanita right this is like over the top you're flattering you're being such a nice guy
but what are you you really think wanita is the best cleaner you've ever had i doubt that i highly
doubt that wanita really is the best one but he's just such a nice guy and you know what the nice
guys aren't faithful because donald trump the nice guy wants to talk about making america great again
but is he actually promoting anything in the bible that's going to make america great again
no he's not so what does that make him makes him a liar speaking of flattery go to proverbs 29
this is point number two nice guys are often flatterers nice guys are often flatterers you
know one time when i was going to sure foundation baptist church there was this really really weird
guy that was going there and i remember one time one of the cleaners i can't remember which lady
it was that was cleaning the building found this handwritten note that this guy left and this guy
wrote on this note he's like you know church plan find woman get married get ordained as a pastor
and avoid dylan and brother remy and some other guys at the church okay you remember this this is
a really weird guy he left his master diabolical plan in the church seat and so pastor thompson
confronted him about it and said hey you need to go apologize to these men and this weirdo comes
up to me and he just this is his apology he's just like hey brother dylan don't think anything
about that note i make notes like that all the time which i'm thinking like that doesn't make
me feel better that you do notes like this all the time he's like i just want to let you know
you're just the best preacher i've ever heard you're such a good speaker and i'm just like
i know myself and no absolutely not but what was he he's a flatterer on the surface he's just oh
hey brother so-and-so oh hey brother so-and-so i'm just such a nice guy meanwhile he's in church
he's like never talk to dylan he's evil what is he he's a flatterer nice guys are often flatterers
real men might say something that'll piss you off every once in a while but at least they're real
people not just saying oh i love you meanwhile you're writing little notes about how much you
hate people what a freak what a weirdo proverbs 29 verse 5 a man that flattereth his neighbor
spreadeth a net for his feet and it's flattery is such an evil evil thing to do because people
fall for it people really fall for flattery but when you're flattering someone you know what you're
doing you're getting ready to hurt them you're getting ready to harm them when you're spreading
a net for his feet what is it that's a metaphor for harming that person and when people flatter
you just realize that it's a bad person that's behind that they may seem like a nice person
but they're really not proverbs 28 verse 23 he that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more
favor than he that flattereth with the tongue notice a person that rebukes someone afterwards
the person that's rebuked that is being rebuked is actually going to think more positively about
the person that rebuked them rather than someone who flatters them and i know that i feel that way
you know i if someone rebukes me i think great praise god for that if someone gives me a criticism
and it's true i'm glad to hear it i need to know what's wrong in my life and we should all have
that attitude but i have zero tolerance for flattery no tolerance whatsoever for flattery
if someone flatters me i write that person off in my mind this is a person i can never ever ever
trust and you need to have that attitude in your life that if someone's coming up to you giving you
insincere over-the-top praise that that is not coming from a good heart that's coming from
someone that wants to harm you and don't let the nice guy fool you don't let the nice guy
fool you he's trying to hurt you go to proverbs chapter number six proverbs chapter number six
now sometimes it's not the nice guy sometimes you have to be aware of the nice girl too
sometimes you have to be aware of the nice lady the nice woman proverbs 6 verse 23 look what it
says for the commandment is a lamp in the law is light and reproofs of instruction or the way of
life verse excuse me verse number 24 to keep thee from the evil woman notice what she does from the
flattery of the tongue of the strange woman lest not after her beauty in thine heart neither let
her take thee with her eyelids you know the bible describes the adulterous woman as the woman that
hunts for the precious life you know usually in modern culture today when we think of a predator
we think of a man but the bible actually describes a predator oftentimes as a woman the adulterous
woman what's she doing hunting for the precious life and what is the tool that she uses to do
this she uses the tool of flattery over the top in sincere praise why because men are really
susceptible to flattery because men are prideful and if some pretty woman is telling a man how
great he is he's just dumb enough to believe it but let me just warn you guys no one in here is
that cool so don't believe it you know especially you married men don't ever get in a situation
where all of a sudden some strange woman some married woman is starting to get a little too
nice realize whoa this is actually a red flag and in that situation you need to be aware of the nice
girl because these women are on every street corner the bible says they are everywhere they're at
your workplace they're at your school in a lot of churches they're in your church i hope there's
none in here tonight that doesn't mean that there wouldn't be one in the future but even churches
oftentimes are hunting grounds for the adulterous woman and what does she do she flatters men she
flatters with her tongue look at proverbs seven flip over proverbs chapter number seven verse 21
with her much fair speech she caused him to yield with the flattering of her lips she forced him
notice she forced him why because flattery is a manipulation tactic is what it is just how like if
you know martial arts you can manipulate someone's body to force them to move somewhere they don't
want to move or to do something they don't want to do this is what women do with their tongues
by flattering men they can literally get to the point where they're forcing them to do what they
want and so us as men we have to be sober be vigilant and realize we should never allow
ourselves to even be in a situation where this could happen you know a good principle that you
should have is to never be alone with a woman of the opposite or with a person of the opposite
gender you know i make exceptions for women that are my grandmother's age you know i really don't
care about that great grandma whatever i could pick someone up and help some lady from the
airport whatever that's fine but you know you shouldn't be even playing with fire with this
stuff whatsoever verse 22 he goeth after her straight way as an ox goeth to the slaughter
or as a fool to the correction of the stocks till a dart strike through his liver as a bird hasteth
to the snare and knoweth not that it is for his life i mean it could literally get you killed
because a lot of times these men they don't even know if this is a married woman that's coming on
to them and you make a mistake in this area next thing you know you could have just committed
adultery with another man's wife and you know what might happen to you he could literally kill
you in a fit of rage it happens all the time and so you married men you know you better just turn
that part of your life off and just realize i've already said i do there's no flirtation that's
allowed there's no fun conversations with other women that's allowed just get that out of your
life it's a dangerous thing to have don't ever even play around with it whatsoever look at verse
24 hearken unto me now therefore oh you children and attend to the words of my mouth let not thine
heart decline to her ways go not astray in her paths for she have cast down many wounded yea
many strong men have been slain by her her house is the way to hell going down to the chambers of
death notice it says that it doesn't say many weak guys have gotten destroyed by this woman it says
many strong men have gotten destroyed by this type of woman you know this is just an area of life that
men need to have the humility to say you know what i'm not strong i can't just be strong in my own
you know carnal might and so what the wise person would do is say i'm just going to set up safeguards
so that this can literally never happen just make it to where this this cannot happen and you're
going to be a lot safer than just trying to be oh yeah i just i'm a tough guy i can no worries i'll
be fine i could talk to this girl alone nothing's going to happen no that's a prideful attitude
proverbs 26 28 proverbs 26 28 page there proverbs 26 28 a lying tongue hateth those that are
afflicted by it in a flattering mouth worketh ruin you know this this verse specifically makes me
think about false prophets and false pastors because the bible says that when you lie to
someone you actually hate that person and all these false preachers and false prophets they
all have the same exact persona about them right they go around and they're very smooth they're
very soft they're very polished they're very well put together and they're very very nice
i mean just on the surface they're so sweet they're always happy but when a preacher lies to you
the bible says that the lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it so it does not matter how
polished a man is someone gets behind the pulpit and they're teaching lies they actually hate the
people that are listening and really what they're doing is they just serve their own belly they
serve their own lusts they're not in the ministry because they love people or love souls or love god
and want to help other people to love god more no really what they do is they love their bank
account and they see people as just a mere tool to help them to get rich and so what they'll do
they'll lie to them from behind the pulpit you know what's a common lie that these people teach
the prosperity gospel look that's a lie that preachers teach that is a hateful thing to do to
people oh full paycheck sunday right you give your money to church and god's going to return
it to you tenfold or a hundredfold give a thousand dollars today sign up and you know god will send
you a million dollars in the mail this kind of stuff is out there it may sound funny may sound
ridiculous because the new ife is just so far removed from this kind of stuff but you know i've
seen kenneth copeland's mansion and i've seen his his runway and his airplanes and you want to know
how he got that stuff by lying to people you're not going to become rich by preaching the gospel
of jesus christ you're not going to become rich by preaching hard sermons you're going to become
rich by flattering people you're going to become rich by being a really nice guy and lying to people
but not by doing what's right when it comes to getting rich in the ministry go to luke chapter
number 11 i'll read for you first thessalonians 2 5 paul said this for neither at any time used
we flattering words as you know nor a cloak of covetousness god is witness you know that's
the testimony that we need to have as christians that at no time whatsoever did we go around
flattering people and notice paul even explains why people flatter he says as a cloak of
covetousness what i just explained the bible teaches that when someone especially a preacher
someone in the ministry is just flattering you it's a cloak of covetousness it's because they
want your money number three nice guys won't say what needs to be said nice guys won't say
what needs to be said you know so far we've learned nice guys are unfaithful
nice guys are often flatterers and also nice guys just won't say what needs to be said look at luke
11 verse 44 jesus said this woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye are as graves
which appear not and the men that walk over them are not aware of them then answered one of the
lawyers and said unto him master thus saying thou reproaches us also he's saying whoa jesus
your preaching is kind of hurting my feelings now you're you're getting on to me now and what was
jesus's response verse 46 and he said woe unto you also ye lawyers for ye laid men with burdens
grievous to be born and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers woe unto you
for ye build the sepulchers of the prophets and your fathers killed them truly ye bear witness
that ye allow the deeds of your fathers for they indeed killed him killed them and ye build their
sepulchers now would the average person look at this passage and say you know this jesus guy is
very nice no they wouldn't and yet today christians think that being nice is like the pinnacle of
godliness like if you're max filled with the spirit you are going to be a nice person but you
know the bible gives the fruit of the spirits and you know that one of the fruits of the spirits is
not being nice it does it's not listed there it's never listed and jesus here he's not being nice to
these guys he's preaching hard against them he's telling them their sins he's saying woe unto them
yet is what he's saying true yes it is and here's the thing nice guys often won't say what needs to
be said look at john chapter two we'll see him do this again we know that everything that jesus
said was right everything he said was true everything he did was right everything he did
was true john too let's think about is this is this nice what jesus is doing and the jews
Passover was at hand and jesus went up to Jerusalem and found in the temple those that
sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changers of money sitting and when he had made a scourge of
small cords he drove them all out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the
changers money and overthrew the tables and said unto them that sold doves take these things hence
make not my father's house and house of merchandise and his disciples remember that it was written the
zeal of thine house hath eaten me up look this isn't very nice what he's doing here i mean i've
never gotten a whip and just started beating people i mean just like we read the bible or it's like
yeah another story in the bible but think about that he sat down he made a whip he walked into
church and this is just kind of how i picture it you know the bible doesn't give us the gory details
but i kind of picture him just walking in and just not even saying a word not even say like all right
get out no i kind of picture him just with a whip just boom he just like starts going to work it just
starts whipping people and all these jews start scurrying out of the the temple you know but that
on the surface is not a very nice thing to do that's i mean it's pretty awesome though right
but here's the thing oh jesus wasn't always a nice guy now jesus is very kind jesus is very loving i
mean jesus was so kind and loving that he allowed himself to be brutally tortured to death and
experienced hell for three days and three nights so that we can be saved but when it came to people
buying and selling in the house of god he was willing to physically beat people up to do it
and not just beat them up but scatter all their assets everywhere too scatter all their little
coins and you know watching them chase it down the sewers or something in new york city i don't know
look what jesus even said to his own mother in john two verse three and when they wanted wine
when they lacked wine the mother of jesus saith unto him they have no wine jesus saith unto her
woman what have i to do with thee that's not necessarily the nicest thing to say to your mom
right but here's the thing he's way above authority than his mom because he's the lord
jesus christ he's god in the flesh but you know what not every not every interaction jesus had
with people was he the nice guy but you know what he was always saying that which was true
he's always saying that which was right he says woman what have i to do with the kids don't say
that to your mom all right go to galatians chapter number four while you turn there let me read for
you second timothy four two it says this preach the word the instant in season out of season
reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine you know this country needs less
nice guy preachers there's way too many nice guy preachers in this country you go to the every day
you know average church and you're going to find a pastor who's never going to raise his voice
he's never going to hit the pulpit he's never going to say the things that jesus said why because
they're all nice guys they're all politicians as well you know we need less andy stanley's in
america and more pastor shellies in america less joel osteen's in america and more pastor
roger jimenez's in this country you know and those guys aren't always nice but you know what
they are they're biblical and to me it's way more important if someone's biblical than if they're
nice and if i'm looking for a church i'm not looking for let me find the nicest pastor that
i could find because you know probably the nicest pastor you could find is probably a woman pastor
because women are very nice but i'm never going to listen to a woman preach stay away from the nice
guy stay and i stay away from the nice girl galatians 4 16 am i therefore become your enemy
because i tell you the truth they zealously affect you but not well yay they would exclude you you
might affect them look you know when paul's rebuking the galatians in the epistle to the
glations he's doubting their salvation he's ripping them a new one he's saying am i become
your enemy because i tell you the truth and why does he ask that question because that's the
attitude that a lot of people have and that is the attitude that our country has today
where they don't want to hear anything that's true whatsoever you know i heard pastor anderson
tell a story on wednesday that he was watching a video on youtube that was posted by a university
it's a scholarly video it's posted by a university and he made a comment where he cited cdc.gov
and was citing statistics about the sodomites from cdc.gov and he just said hey you're wrong
about the statistics here's the source from cdc.gov and they deleted that comment why because it was
mean but it was true though who cares if it's mean and look we need some people to say what's true
today about the sodomites to say what's true that they're a bunch of filthy animals that spread
disease in society that they're a bunch of child molesters that they're a bunch of rapists that
they're a bunch of reprobates rather than just being nice to them what has been accomplished
in america the last 10 15 years by being nice to sodomites is it like andy stanley's church
so that he could host a conference in october called the unconditional conference he hosted
a conference in october called the unconditional conference that was dedicated to lgbt youth and
their parents and in this conference he invited two sodomites that were married to each other
to preach sermons for the conference and the quote from these two sodomites we're talking about how
they're so excited to be able to preach so that because it's the message that the children need
to hear so they're literally just admitting their heart like we're here behind the pulpit so that we
could defile children with our message that's where we've gotten as a nation by being nice to
sodomites you know first it was they can get married then it was they can have all equal rights
then it was well we could have drag shows out in public then it was well we could take children
into the drag shows too then it was like well we could allow homosexuals to attend church
then it was well we could now let drag queens attend church now there's faggots behind the
pulpit why because of nice guys like andy stanley that won't say what needs to be said which is
that these faggots should get a bullet in their brain that they should get the death penalty not
be preaching behind the pulpit what a nice guy andy stanley is what a nice guy you are for letting
children in your congregation be abused by pedophiles how nice of you andy stanley how
nice of all the pastors today that are enabling sexual predators in their church to harm people
permanently to scar them for life to hurt them spiritually because you just want to be nice well
you know what go to hell andy stanley and every single pastor like you go to hell go to ecclesiastes
chapter number eight psalm 127 says i am for peace but when i speak they are for war you know
that's what preaching is like you preach what the bible says it's not always nice but you know what
if you're preaching what the bible says it's always true always true my last point this evening is
this nice guys won't put wickedness in check you know nice guys are the type of guy that lets their
wife get pushed around at a baseball game and does nothing about it have you ever seen videos like
that where where some dude will like attack some guy's wife and he's just too timid to do anything
about that i've seen videos like that you know what that guy is he's just a really nice guy
you know what we need some guys that are willing to put wickedness in check in america and not
just be the nice guy look at ecclesiastes 8 11 says this because sentence against an evil work
is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil
and the bible teaches that if you don't punish crimes you don't punish sin people's heart is
going to be even more lifted up to think that it's okay to go commit those crimes or okay to
commit those sins and you know we have states like washington state oregon california today
where there's a big problem right now where foreign immigrants are going into people's houses
they're squatting there and the police are not removing them has anyone heard about this stuff
going on and literally there's just random foreign immigrants in your home they're doing
something illegal but you know what these governments are just too nice they just have
a little bit too much of a bleeding heart they said well these poor people have nowhere to go
so we're not going to kick them out you know we need some some real men in america they're
going to pick these people out and throw them out of our country not to mention out of people's
homes and i'm i'm kind of blown away that we live in such a nice society and such a polite society
that someone can literally go into your home and the man of that house doesn't just go in there
and grab you by the throat and throw you out of your house but you know why he's not doing that
is because the police would side against him because the police would then arrest that man
and then his life is ruined and he can't provide for his family and he can't protect his kids
anymore why because people are too nice look at proverbs 20 verse 26 a wise king scattereth
the wicked and bringeth the wheel over them you know the wise king in the bible isn't always nice
you know why because a wise king would destroy wicked people and i'm talking let me talk about
the old testament for a second okay in the old testament you know what a wise king would do
he would see sodomites by the house of god and you know what he would do he would kill them
physically i'm not talking spiritually right now okay i'm talking old testament there's
facts by the house of god the wise king would say hey go level their houses to the ground and
kill those people and get them out of the land that's what the wise king would do in the old
testament well today obviously we're in the new testament and i 100 believe in the rule of law
100 believe that you know people worthy of death should be put to death through the proper channels
through the government but even that isn't really happening a lot of times now you know for example
in the state of texas if you rape a child sorry to use a crude word but let's just talk about a
crude subject for a second you rape a child you do not get the death penalty on your first defense
it has to take two has to take two children because one child's life isn't worth it to the
state of texas needs to be two and by the way if you murder someone in the first degree in texas
you don't automatically get the death penalty only if you murder a police officer then it's
it's worth it you know what i think is if you murder anyone in the first degree whether you're
a cop or a grocery store worker or a door dash driver you should be put to death it's not like
some person's life is more than another and i don't think you should have to rape two children
i think that you should be a sodomite and be put to death because i already know you're a pedophile
already know what you're capable of and so that's the point where you should be put to death you
know what this verse makes me think of makes me think of donald trump because donald trump if
there's anyone that knows how truly corrupt and how infiltrated our government is by sworn enemies
of our country it's donald trump because he's seen the lawfare he's seen people try to put him in
prison he's seen people try to stop him from speaking on social media which is insane to
stop the president of the united states who's elected by the people to not be able to talk
to the people that elected him he's literally seen someone try to take his own life literally
was shot at in the head by someone and you know instead of donald trump getting up and saying
let me just let me just level to you what a bad situation our country is in we're infiltrated by
communists we're infiltrated by people that hate america we need to fight these people we need to
root these people out of our government and out of our country you know what the first post he
made after he got shot was he said this we need unity but the bible says that the wise king would
bring the wheel over the wicked that tells me donald trump's not a wise man because the last
thing that america needs right now is unity you know we need unity in here why because we have
something common we could unify around we could unify around the king james bible we could unify
around the truth you know what what is what is america nowadays what are we unifying about
we have people from all over the world with all different religions with all different beliefs
what is there to unify over you know am i supposed to unify with people that actually
like kamala harris am i supposed to unify with someone that thinks it's okay to brutally
rip to pieces a child in its mother's womb you really think that i should have unity with
someone like that you think that i should have unity with someone that thinks it's okay to give
their child over to a drag queen to be in some sort of sick festival with these people i want
no unity with these type of people i don't want unity with communists i don't want unity
with democrats whatsoever you know what i want and i'm not saying it's going to happen this
this won't happen what i want is for america to be a christian nation that's what i want now of
course we see our world just going down the tubes i understand that but the only unity that i would
ever be interested in having is with another christian that's it and how donald trump could
have i mean think about this you're the commander in chief of the united states you swore an oath
to defend and protect the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic and you and your
brain think that the election was stolen and that someone's about to usurp the office of the
presidency against the rule of law and against the will of the people and all you do is just
complain on twitter about it you do nothing about it you're not a wise man you're not a wise man
you're not a real leader and you know what he's too nice donald trump is too nice of a guy which
is hilarious because what does the left say about him that he's the meanest guy on earth you know
what my criticism is of him you're way too nice that's why i don't like donald trump you're too
nice you're way too accepting you're not safe you don't believe the bible we don't need unity
with the wicked and here's the thing i'm not just preaching my opinion because go to second
corinthian six what i just said is not just my opinion second corinthian six fourteen says this
be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers so when are the only time we're
supposed to be yoked together with someone when they're a believer for what fellowship
hath righteousness with unrighteousness what communion have light with darkness and what
concord hath christ with elial or what part had he that believeth with an infidel and what agreement
had the temple of god with idols for ye are the temple of the living god as god hath said i will
dwell in them walk in them and i will be their god and they shall be my people verse 17 wherefore
come out from among them and be ye separate saith the lord and touch not the unclean thing
i will receive you look as christians we should not be interested in unifying with wicked people
and i don't care what label they give themselves i don't care whether that's a church that's wicked
like repent of your sins pentecostals no fellowship with them i don't want anything to do with them i
don't care if that's catholics i don't want anything to do i don't care if that's god-hating
democrats and communists i don't want anything to do with them and the bibles commanded me to come
out from among them and be separate so no donald trump the last thing that we need right now is
unity between all these wicked people and christians go to proverbs chapter number 23
you know let me change gears for a second here we're talking about how nice guys they won't put
wickedness in check and we talked about how the government isn't doing that the police aren't
doing that the president's not doing that you know sometimes parents aren't doing that too parents
you better not be too nice you better put the wickedness in check in your home too look at
proverbs 23 verse 13 says withhold not correction from the child or if thou beatest him with the
rod he shall not die thou shall beat him with the rod and shall deliver his soul from hell you know
there's a lot of parents in america that are just way too nice and they think i would never spank
my kids that's so mean but really that is the nicest thing you could do for them is correct them
because the bible says that it will deliver their soul from hell and you go out soul winning it's
funny because when you only spend time with god's people you see what children are like and even
sometimes then you're thinking like whoa these kids are crazy right and my own included sometimes
all right i'm not throwing any jabs there but then you go out soul winning and you're like holy crap
these kids are like demon possessed or something but what is it it's that their parents just never
spank them and i mean never spank them there's some people in church where they they don't spank
even close to as much as they should and you should spank your children a lot you should
correct your children a lot but then you go out soul winning and you could tell wow these are
children that have never been spanked at all and then that's them at age five age ten then they
reach age 20 and what are they they're antifa members they're black lives matter members they're
a bunch of communists is what they are they're a bunch of biden voters a bunch of kamala voters
you know we gotta we gotta not be so nice with our children sometime and realize that really
what the kind thing to do is not necessarily what the nice thing to do is it's not really nice it's
not really fun to spank your child and make them cry but you know what it is the kindest thing you
could do to them it actually is the most beneficial thing you could do for them go to first crinthians
five you know this also can apply to church where sometimes a pastor or the leadership of a church
can just be way too nice and not put wickedness into check but you know the bible commands us that
there's times where a preacher where a pastor must put wickedness in check in the local church
first crinthians five look at verse one it is reportedly calm it is reported commonly that
there's fornication among you such fornication as is not so much as named among the gentiles
that one should have his father's wife and you're puffed up and if not rather mourn that he
have done this deed might be taken away from you notice it says that they're puffed up you know
this makes me think of makes me think of the new evangelical liberal church that's literally proud
and literally boasting about how accepting they are of people that should be kicked out of church
like look at how godly we are look at how long suffering we are look at how charitable we are
why you ask well because we have sodomites in the front row tonight or man i'm so loving as a
preacher because we have so many you know fornicators in this church and we just love them
so much more than any other church and back there this is the idolatry section we just love them so
much we're just so glad that the idolatry section is here tonight you know that's being way too nice
look at verse three for i verily as absent in body but present in spirit have judged already
you know don't be afraid of that word judgment as though i were present concerning him that have so
done this deed in the name of our lord jesus christ when you are gathered together in my spirit
with the power of our lord jesus christ to deliver such in one unto satan for the destruction of the
flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the lord jesus you know the bible teaches that
there's times where a pastor would literally have to kick someone out of church deliver that person
unto satan for their life to be destroyed and you know here's the thing that actually is the loving
thing to do for the congregation because let me tell you when church discipline doesn't happen it's
vexing it's vexing to be in a church you know i was in a church one time an old ifb church
where there was this family that was an ex pentacostal pastor's family the dad was an
ex pastor and these three twin girls uh were there and they were going around the church
uh telling people about the doctrine of modalism they're going around the church telling people
that jesus is the father and you know i appreciated the fact that a guy did that at sure foundation
baptist church a pastor thompson kicked him out you know let me tell you about this one guy that
was kicked out of church all right i'm just bringing up the old sure foundation stories today i guess
there's this one guy where we would go soul winning with him and he would knock on the door
and as soon as the door would open he'd put his foot through the threshold and he would go my feet
are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace i'm here to preach the gospel to you do you
remember okay you remember wow that sucked going soul winning with that guy it was so annoying it
was so terrible so weird and this guy believe it or not you're gonna be shocked he was a modalist
oneness uh heretic he was completely unsaved he was a complete weirdo but you know during the time
he was going to that church it was vexing just like please don't pair me up with this guy i don't
want to go soul winning with this guy you know i don't want to hear this guy preach at the men's
preaching night i don't want to talk to this guy and you know during that time where he's not yet
kicked out it's it's vexing you know when the pastor actually exercises church discipline it's
such a weight released off of your shoulders it's it makes the church so much better not to have a
guy in the church that preaches a sermon called don't poop on god's car literally that was his
men's preaching night sermon and he literally just went like this he's like and i took my staff even
beauty god is faithful by whom you were called the anger of the lord h divided them the fool has said
in his heart so answer that riddle explain the riddle right now explain the riddle to me right
now that was literally his sermon and i'm just sitting there thinking like i hate this guy and
i was like pastor thompson can you please get this guy out and then it happened i was like thank you
god look you know thank god that pastor thompson wasn't just too nice you know because a lot of
churches who say oh you know god's just working on him we just got to be patient with this guy
he's like you believe oneness heresy you believe in modalism and you're corrected on it and you
dig in get out you believe in damnable heresy and you don't want to repent lee why because we don't
want to have unity with that type of people we want to have unity around people that actually
believe the bible and we want to have leaders today that are not too nice last verse i'll have
you go to galatians chapter 5 i kind of mentioned this in passing go to galatians chapter 5 galatians
5 look at verse 22 it says this but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering
gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance against such there is no law you notice what's
not listed there nice being nice is not one of the fruits of the spirit being nice is
not the ultimate goal that a spiritual leader can attain to and just like wow my pastor
so great why because he's so nice you know what that's not the goal of our lives is to
be nice okay now like I said at the beginning of the sermon I'm okay being nice I want to
be around people that's nice but I don't want to be around people that are only nice and
I don't want to be around people that are nice to the wrong people or nice about the
wrong subjects I want people that are actually going to sometimes hurt my feelings if I need
to be corrected I want someone that's actually going to say what needs to be said whether
it's positive or not you know I'm glad that we have a savior that would go into a temple
and whip some people that need to be whipped you know I wish that we had a president that
would actually put wickedness in check I wish that we had leaders of police departments
that would enable police officers to put wickedness into check I wish that was the case today
and I wish that we had more pastors in America that would put wickedness into check and say
what needs to be said I wish we had more parents in America that wouldn't just be nice but
they would actually do the kind thing by correcting their children and by putting wickedness in
check you know let us as God's people tonight not just strive to be nice but strive to be
biblical and beware of the nice guy in your lives beware of the nice girl in your lives
was that with that let's pray Lord thank you for this day thank you for the warning in
your word just pray that everyone here would be vigilant and that they would see warning
signs if someone was trying to manipulate them or flatter them or get something from
them and I just pray that everyone here would be having a heart that's willing to be corrected
and hear some things that are mean from time to time as long as those things are true and
just pray for just the hearts of everyone in our country that people stop being so offended
by the truth but that they would actually desire truth in their lives from the word
of God in Jesus name we pray.