found a seat into our first or we settled Lord it's not something that
we're anxious or worried about that we can just trust in you and that we have
free gift Lord I just pray that these songs that we sing that we would really
take to heart the doctrine and the truths that we're singing out unto you
Lord for the service today I pray that everything would be done decently in an
order I pray that you'd open our ears to brother Oz message and that you would
just incline your ear to us as we sing praises out to you for the rest of this
day these things we pray in Jesus name Amen for our second hymn turn if you
would to 261 261 turn your eyes upon Jesus 261 sing they're starting on the
first dole's not remember end of this chapter by memory you'll receive a prize
and you'll have a couple different options I did order those this week and
they should be coming in in a couple of weeks so I'm really excited for that on
the inside if you look at our service times they're listed Sunday morning at
1030 a.m. Sunday evening at 430 p.m. and our Wednesday evening Bible study
through the book of first Samuel at 7 o'clock p.m. we also have all of our soul
winning times listed there and all of those meet here at the church building
just make special note there of our Saturday soul winning rally we meet up
and not only do we have soul winning but we have a song to get us fired up and
filled with the spirit we have a short soul winning challenge and then we go
out and it's been pretty receptive yesterday we had three salvations in
Yukon with just two soul winning groups so that was a great job and then also
our nursing home ministry schedule is listed there you might just have to
notice that I did miss that one week there so just pay attention to the
October 27th date on that and I'll make sure to update that for Wednesday for
next week also we do have our steadfast OKC stats listed there for salvations
and baptisms and make sure if you do have any salvations to please let the
soul winning leader know or if you get any salvation throughout the week you
could always email the church and I'd be happy to add that for you now please be
in prayer for miss Whitney Reed our expecting lady of the church there our
upcoming events we do have this upcoming Friday October 31st it is Friday right
I think so October 31st is it Thursday let me double-check real fast well
either way it's the 31st yeah it's Thursday my mistake this Thursday we do
have our chili cook-off really looking forward to that we have our judges in
place so I do have the prizes for that as well hope everyone can come and
participate it should be a great time November 6th through the 10th is the
Faith Forward Baptist Church missions conference coming up very soon looking
forward to going out there and preaching about Germany should be a good time and
then on November 24th we are going to be transitioning from Steadfast OKC to
Anchor Baptist Church Lord willing and so far what I have confirmed is about
a hundred and five ish people coming in this little room so that should be a lot
of fun looking forward to that I think Pastor Shelley was gonna say that if
you're wanting your kids to come up to the stage that might help with seating
but should be awesome don't be scared away because it's gonna be crowded if
anything invite more people let's pack this place out should be a great time
really excited for that and also we do have online giving set up and again I
want to remind you that is for the new church so if you you if you scan that
code you will see at the top of the page it'll say anchor Baptist Church that
still is our congregation here but we're just you know getting things in place so
that it's basically ready to transition the day that pastor Shelley cuts ties
basically with our church so we're working on making a website we've got
online giving we're working on designing you know signs and invitations and all
that stuff but a lot of progress has been made and we're really looking
forward to that day on the back there is our prayer list make sure to keep
everyone in prayer and if you have any requests please email that to the church
I'd be happy to add you to that that's gonna be it for announcements this
morning let's go ahead and go to our third song all right for our third hymn
this morning number 275 almost persuaded 275 to seven five
275 they're on the first oh second Thessalonians chapter two we seek you
brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together
unto him that you be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled neither by spirit
nor by word nor by letter as from us as that the day of Christ is at hand let no
man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come except there come a
falling away first and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition who
opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped
so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God showing himself that he is God
remember ye not that when I was with when I was yet with you I told you these
things now you know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time for
the mystery of aniquity doth already work only he that now letteth will let
till he be taken out of the way and that shout and then shall that wickedness be
revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall
destroy with the brightness of his coming even him whose coming is after
the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all
deceit of alness of unrighteousness and then that perish because they receive
not the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this cause God
shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie that they all
might be damned who believe not the truth but have pleasure in
unrighteousness but we are bound to give thanks always to God for you brethren
beloved of the Lord because God hath from the beginning chosen you to
salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth where
until he called you by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord
Jesus Christ therefore brethren stand fast and hold the traditions which ye
have been taught whether by word or our epistle now our Lord Jesus Christ
himself and God even our father which hath loved us and hath given us
everlasting consolation and good hope through grace comfort your hearts
establish you in every good word word and work let's pray amen all right well
we are in second Thessalonians chapter number two let's start reading in verse
one Bible says now we beseech you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ and by our gathering together unto him that ye be not soon shaken in
mind or be troubled neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter as from us as
that the day of Christ is at hand let no man deceive you by any means for that
day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin
be revealed the son of perdition who oppose it and exalted himself above all
that is called God or that is worshiped so that he as God sitteth in the temple
of God showing himself that he is God and so in this passage we learned that
before the day of Christ comes there has to be a couple of things that happen
first you know a lot of churches will teach that Jesus can come at any moment
he can come during this sermon but the Bible actually says there's a couple
things that have to happen first one of those is a great falling away and
sometimes you know pre-tribbers will really just it's a really silly idea but
they'll think that the great falling away is somehow the rapture itself but
obviously the rapture is someone going up so it makes no sense to call this you
know the rapture when we're falling away but the Bible says there has to be a
great falling away first and the man of sin has to be revealed and of course we
know that's the Antichrist now the great falling away for those that don't hold
to the doctrine that it's talking about the rapture it's usually understand
understood as a great falling away from truth in general and from Christianity
and I agree with that I think that the great falling away that's being referred
to in second Thessalonians chapter 2 is basically just a worldwide massive
falling away from the truth falling away from believing the gospel or believing
in Christianity and you know if we look at our world in the day and age that
we're living in you know it's it may not be that we're living in the great
falling away but we are certainly living in a falling away because we
definitely do see in our society in our time and age a lot of people just you
know leaving Christianity leaving the doctrines of the Bible believing or all
sorts of weird stuff and people are definitely falling away from the truth
and I think a movement that kind of encapsulates this that's happening is
something called Christian deconstruction ism who's ever heard of
deconstructing Christianity or you know people will call themselves like a
recovering evangelical evangelism or sorry evangelical or they'll call them a
recovering fundamentalist and basically they believe in this movement of
deconstructing Christianity this is actually a pretty big movement and let
me read to you the Wikipedia article on faith deconstruction it says faith
deconstruction also known as deconstructing faith religious excuse
me deconstruction or simply deconstruction is a process during which
religious believers re-examine and question their beliefs it originated in
American evangelicalism where it may be called evangelical deconstruction the
term rose in popularity in connection with the evangelical movement which
began in 2016 it is sometimes called the deconstruction movement
subsequently the term religious deconstruction has been applied to other
religions as well during deconstruction a person this is the important part
doubts their beliefs identity and practices they may struggle and
experience anxiety some eventually modified their beliefs into something
more satisfactory to the believer this results in a rejection of religion for
some and a revised or renewed faith for others now with that in mind go to 2nd
Timothy chapter number four so what is religious deconstruction ism it's
basically people looking at the Bible looking at the doctrines that have been
preached for thousands of years and trying to reconsider or reinvent
Christianity and it causes some people to either walk away from the faith or it
causes people to basically revise Christianity into a Christianity that's
more suitable for them and that's why you know that this this movement is of
the devil because Christianity is not about you know molding
Jesus to our image it's about molding our image to Jesus's image that's what
real religion is that's what real Christianity is but look at 2nd
Timothy 4 it says for the time will come when they will not endure sound
Doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears?
The Bible says that there's gonna come a time where people are not going to want to put up with or endure or listen to
Sound doctrine what sound doctrine things coming from the scripture things coming from the Bible and the Bible says there's coming a day when people
Aren't gonna want to do that what they're gonna want to do is they're gonna want to heap to themselves teachers having itching ears
Meaning what they're gonna want to do is they're gonna want to go to a church or listen to a preacher that conforms with their
preconceived ideas
Rather than going to church wanting to change
Wanting to hear the truth wanting to hear what the Bible says look at verse four says and they shall turn away their ears
From the truth and shall be turned unto
Fables and that is exactly what Christian
deconstruction is it's people turning away their ears from the truth from the King James Bible and
Making up some sort of fable in their mind about what the Bible teaches and about who?
Jesus is and usually when I see someone that describes themselves as a Christian
Deconstructionist usually what they've done is they've either just deconstructed all the way to becoming an atheist
Where they say like oh, I'm a former Christian
I no longer describe myself as a Christian or they've perverted Christianity
So much to where it is no longer Christianity
It's now a complete false religion and there's many churches today in America that describe themselves as Christian
But when you go in there's nothing Christian about it. There's no Christian doctrine being preached there
There's a lot of social doctrine being preached there. There's a lot of man's-made ideology
But there's very little Bible in churches like this that deconstruct, you know
These guys are usually pretty popular on Twitter
You know, these Twitter pastors are usually deconstructionists and when you look at their posts, what are they deconstructing?
Like the doctrine of hell, you know, there's a growing movement in America today of pastors saying you know what with the Bible saying about hell
It's all an allegory. Hell actually isn't a real place of burning fire that lasts for all of eternity
You know, it's just an allegory for us or they'll deconstruct the authority of Scripture, right?
Like Andy Stanley who got up and said that the Bible is not our final authority
That Jesus is our final authority trying to conflate the two not realizing that Jesus is the Word of God
And so if Jesus is our final authority, then the Bible is our final authority, but what is he doing?
He's trying to deconstruct
Christianity so he could say, you know, don't listen to the Bible listen to Jesus and what he's gonna do is present you at Jesus
That he just makes up
He's gonna present you a Jesus that has the ideas and beliefs and characteristics of Andy Stanley that he just wants to make up
On his own, you know, they like to
Deconstruct the deity of Jesus Christ. Well, they'll say, you know, Jesus Christ was just a good man
He had some good teachings, but a lot of these Christian deconstructionists will deconstruct the fact that he is God in the flesh
That he is alive today, you know, a lot of people will just look at him is just a good teacher and they'll call themselves
Christians not only that they usually always have the most extreme
Liberal views on every social issue, you know
Not only do they just corrupt doctrine and corrupt what the Bible teaches about really important things like salvation hell the deity of Christ
Every single social issue as well. They're always on the most extreme liberal side of that, you know, these type of churches
They're always pro abortion. They're pro LGBT. They're pro divorce. They're pro drinking alcohol
I mean the pastors in these churches will drink alcohol. They will preach about drinking alcohol
They will openly drink they'll post pictures of themselves on the internet drinking alcohol, you know, that is what this movement is
It's deconstructing away from Christianity
It's turning away their ears from the truth and heaping to themselves teachers having is itching ears and when I think of okay
Well, what's a pastor that completely just embodies this movement of Christian deconstruction ism?
it is Andy Stanley like Andy Stanley to me is like the leader in the evangelical movement of
Deconstructing Christianity and really it started with Rick Warren back in the 70s
He wanted to create this seeker sensitive church where he sent out mailers into all the neighborhoods in California
And he had a questionnaire saying hey, what kind of music do you like here in California?
What kind of preaching do you like? What do you want the preacher to dress like?
What do you want the aesthetics of the church to look like and Rick Warren built a megachurch?
Basically by modeling himself after the world
You know
He heaped to himself this huge following not by preaching the Bible not by getting anyone saved by simply just
Playing to the lusts of a bunch of unsaved people and getting them into church
And he celebrated it as some great thing that he caused all these unsaved people to come to church
But it's like they're still going to hell though
It doesn't mean anything to pack your building full of people that are going to hell and Andy Stanley has kind of taken the torch
Of Rick Warren and he is the guy right now that is leading this Christian
Deconstruction movement today. Let me read a quote from him. He said this he says I understand
Why you threw baby Jesus out with the bathwater?
So he's saying when people when people quit Christianity when they walk away from the faith
He's saying I understand why you would do that. That's a wicked thing to say being a pastor being a preacher
He said I understand why you threw baby Jesus out with the bathwater
Because your church tradition you were handed and your church experience made it impossible for you to distinguish
Between the two that happens all the time, but a lot of people don't leave the faith. They just leave the church they
deconstruct they
Deconstruct their faith and this may be you as well. And again, this isn't necessarily a bad thing
So Andy Stanley is getting up at church and saying hey people are throwing out Jesus with the with the bathwater
And I totally understand why they're doing that and you know, you may be deconstructing their faith and you know, that's not even a bad thing
It's like tell me you're a devil without telling me you're a devil
You're standing up from the pulpit and you're acknowledging that people are deconstructing Christianity and he says that's not even a bad thing
No, you know what? That is a terrible thing. That is a terrible thing when our nation is
Leaving the principles of the Bible
It's a terrible thing when our nation is leaving the doctrines of the faith that made our country great to begin with no
It's not okay that people are deconstructing Christianity
But you know what?
It's not surprising to me that Andy Stanley is okay with this when he got up and he had a conference called the
Unconditional conference that was dedicated to parents of LGBTQ kids. So he's using his church to talk about these
Social issues and of course, he's not preaching what the Bible says
He has literal sodomites get up and preach behind his pulpit at this conference
He gets up and says that you know, the Word of God isn't the final authority
We could have facts preach behind the pulpit. Let's deconstruct from Christianity
You know, this is Andy Stanley who's influencing millions of people in America and so I want to preach a sermon this morning called why?
Americans are deconstructing from the faith why Americans are deconstructing
I want to give you five reasons this morning why I believe this is happening that way we can make sure we're not making these
Mistakes we can look at our church and make sure that we do the opposite of what these churches are doing
They're causing this issue go to Deuteronomy chapter number six Deuteronomy chapter six number one
The first reason why I think this is happening in our country is because parents have forfeited the responsibility of raising children
Parents have forfeited their responsibility of raising children
You know people that are my age oftentimes kids that are my age that grew up in this public school system
You know, they grew up in the public school. They grew up in daycare
They grew up with both parents working and they were raised by pretty much everyone but their parents now
Thankfully that wasn't the case for me. My mom stayed home for most of my life, but you know a lot of my peers
Were not even raised by their parents and look what the Bible says in Deuteronomy 6 verse 1 now
These are the commandments the statutes and the judgments
Which the Lord your God commanded to teach you that you might do them in the land whether you go to possess it that thou
Mightest sphere the Lord thy God and keep all his statutes and his commandments
Which I commanded thee thou and thy son and my son son all the days of thy life and that thy days may be prolonged
Here therefore o Israel and observe it that it may be well with thee and that you may increase
mightily as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee in the land that floweth with milk and
Honey, so if you notice there's a blessing for keeping God's Word and haven't we seen in America since the founding of our nation?
Our nation has been very blessed. Our nation has been the land that flows with milk and honey
You know our nation has been one of the safest in the entire world, you know wins last time. We've been invaded
I mean 1814 right? I think it was the last time that our nation was invaded unless you count the you know border invasion
Right now is one but you know, we have we don't really have a bunch of wars in our lands
We have a lot of wealth and prosperity, you know, you could walk around the streets here and you're likely not gonna get killed or hurt
It's a very safe land
It's been a land that's been very blessed by God and you want to know why is because this nation started out fearing God
No, not everyone who founded this nation was saved
but you know what our nation as a whole was definitely at least culturally Christian and at least everyone paid lip service to the
Word of God and said that they believed it and I'm excited to preach a sermon coming up soon when we do Lord willing
We're to do a documentary pretty soon about American history. I'm really excited to share some of the things
I've learned about that
But let me tell you what our nation absolutely did start fearing the Word of God believing the King James Bible
It was very Christian in a lot of senses and that's why we see our nation has been so blessed
But we see today our nation getting worse and worse, right things aren't getting better. They're getting worse
Why because people are turning away from the Bible people are turning away from the truth
Like not like we used to look at verse 4 it says here
Oh Israel the Lord our God is one Lord and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy
soul and with all thy might in these words
Which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart and notice and thou shalt teach them
Diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou
Walkest by the way and when thou liest down and when thou
Risest up so notice the Bible saying thou singular
Speaking to the individual. It's your job to teach your children the Bible
Diligently, you know God gave you children for you to raise
I know that's a wild concept in our modern culture
But today Americans think that God gave us children for us to give those children to the government to race
to spend eight hours a day in a public school for someone else to teach them and then for them to get off school and
maybe have a sports practice and they're raised by the coach for a while and then they go to daycare until mom gets off work and
Basically, they have a couple hours at night with their parents and that's it
That's all that they're getting interaction with their parents
It's like is it any wonder that so many people are deconstructing from the faith when they're not around faith
I mean winter children being taught the Bible today in America. It's not in the public schools, you know
It's at least since the 1960s. It hasn't been you know, at least you know before the 1960s
Yeah, you know, I'm still against public school even then but you know, at least they had the Bible there
At least they're praying there, you know
Thank God that Oklahoma is leading America right now making changes with this in the state of Oklahoma Education Department
Because recently this year the director of the Education Department of Oklahoma
Directed every single public school in the state of Oklahoma to teach the King James Bible. That is awesome
I never would have thought that would have happened in my lifetime
But you know, there's been a couple things that have just shocked me last couple years Roe v. Wade being overturned
Never would have thought that would have ever happened
Now you got some dude in in Oklahoma Department of Education saying like you will teach the Bible
Hey talk about strong leadership, right?
That's type of leadership we need right there is a guy to just get up and say you're teaching the Bible now and earlier this
Month the Education Department of Oklahoma actually opened up bids to receive
55,000 King James Bibles for public schools in Oklahoma. That is fantastic and in his stipulations
He said like it has to be a King James Bible. It has to have a copy of the Declaration of Independence
It has to have the US Constitution. It has to have the Bill of Rights and it has to be a leather bound Bible
That's amazing, you know, praise God for Oklahoma leading the way on that
But look, you know, maybe it's just gotten so bad that some of these leaders in Oklahoma are saying like man art our state is
Deconstructing people are leaving the faith people are no longer Christian. You know, we got to do something about this
Where does it start? It starts with teaching children and while I'm happy for Oklahoma doing that, I think that's great
Don't forget though that the Bible says thou shall teach them diligently
It is our job as parents to teach our children the Word of God and not just shirk our
Responsibility and hand our kids off to someone else and just trust that they're gonna do a good job
Because I'll tell you this even if Oklahoma starts teaching the Bible in schools
I'm still not gonna trust a public school teacher to teach my kids the Bible because you know
This is in the news right now
A lot of people are really upset a lot of teachers are really angry about this you think they're gonna faithfully teach your children the Bible
No, absolutely not. So even if this is happening while that's good while we should celebrate that
I'm still gonna teach my children the Bible and you should too look at uh, let's go to verse number eight
It says this and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and on thy gates
And it shall be when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he swear unto thy fathers
To Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give thee great and goodly cities
Which thou buildest not and houses full of all good things which thou fillest not and wells dig which thou diggest not
Vineyards and olive trees which thou plantest not when thou shalt have eaten and be full then beware
Lest thou forget the Lord, you know Bible is admonishing us
You need to teach your children the Bible you need to write God's Word and on your house on the post
We need to get the Bible out everywhere
Lest you forget the Lord and have we not seen in this time in this generation right now in America an
Entire generation of people that have forgotten the Lord we have we see so many young people today are completely biblically illiterate
They didn't grow up by their parents teaching them the Word of God. They went to Andy Stanley's church
They didn't learn any doctrine. They didn't learn the Word of God
They're not reading it themselves. And so now we have a whole generation that has forgotten the Lord
You know, it's cool is when we went to the Bahamas last year
their nation was like this where you go to the school and there's just King James Bible verses on the walls and they're teaching the
Bible in their schools and parents are teaching their kids the Bible and you know what in the Bahamas though
Many of them were not saved. They definitely did not forget the Lord
I mean it was easy to get those people saved because they already knew doctrine. They already knew the verses
They just needed a spiritual soul winner to show up and explain to them that it's not by works
That was pretty much it just explaining them the salvation is not by works that you can't lose your salvation and they were just ready
To believe why because their whole nation from the time they were born every day in school every day at home
They're being taught the King James Bible
Whereas here in America, you know
You go to a lot of young people and it's not as easy to get them saved as it is in the Bahamas
Because they have not grown up with the Word of God in their hearts
That seed has not that ground has not been watered whatsoever
So a lot of times, you know, it's harder to get those people saved
Of course, we're still going to try and of course, we do get young people saved all the time
But it's definitely not like places like the Bahamas
Why because our nation has been walking away from the things of God go to proverbs chapter number four
What are we talking about?
It's parents jobs to teach their children the bible proverbs four verse four hear ye children the instruction of a father
Not of a school teacher not of a daycare worker of your father your dad and attend to no understanding
For I give you good doctrine forsake ye not my law for I was my father's son
Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also and said unto me
Let thine heart retain my words keep my commandments and live get wisdom get understanding forget it not
Neither decline from the words of my mouth forsake her not and she shall preserve thee
Love her and she shall keep thee so notice the bible is describing in proverbs four a godly father
Commanding his children to observe the bible's, you know the commandments commanding his children to learn the bible to get wisdom to get understanding
To keep those things to not walk away from those things and you know, i'm not going to ask for a raise of hands
But if I did if I asked you, you know
How many people in this room was taught the king james bible by their dad?
There'd probably be very few hands in the room and that is a big reason
Today why people are deconstructing from christianity?
But you know what we need to change that in our generation so that when our kids are grown they can say like oh
Yeah, my dad definitely taught me the bible. My mom absolutely taught the bible and you know, I hope people homeschool
That's what I recommend people do. I think that's great. It's something that my wife and I definitely are learning
We have a lot to learn. We're navigating that process
We just started this year
But one thing that my wife does every day that I think is the most important part of our kids education is the bible
Studying the bible is more important than math and reading. Well reading is reading the bible. That's important
It's more important than math. It's more important than science and look if you know me
I love to learn I love to read
I love to learn about all sorts of stuff and I hope you do learn as much as you can about everything
But the most important thing to teach our children is the bible is the word of god
That needs to be the primary focus of our kids education go to proverbs 22 flip a couple pages proverbs 22
Proverbs 22 verse 6 says train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart
From it. Now, of course, we know that children absolutely still have free will when it comes to getting saved
The child has to believe on the lord. Jesus christ. You can't force someone to do that
You know to follow christ is a decision that someone has to make to willingly do that
But what proverbs is explaining here is that it's just abundantly more likely that if your child grows up in a christian home
That that child is going to be saved. I mean who's who's more likely to get saved kids growing up in my house
Or kids growing up in homes in india. It's obvious, right?
Who's more likely to grow up and actually follow god and keep his commandments and live godly life kids growing up in our homes
Or kids growing up in china, obviously, it's our homes, right?
So when we train up children in the way that they should go
It's infinite infinitely more likely that they will follow those things
But what you have to do is actually train them and that's what you know parents of previous generations have failed to do
Is train their children and now we're seeing a big movement of deconstructing away from christianity. Go to second peter chapter
Number two second peter chapter number two
So number one, why are people deconstructing?
Well people are deconstructing because parents have forfeited their responsibility of raising their kids
They've given it to other people number two why people are deconstructing is because there's been an explosion of false prophets in america
Look at second peter chapter two verse one. It says but there were false
prophets also among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you who privily shall bring in
damnable heresies even denying the lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift
Destruction so what's happening is a lot of people are going into all these churches and they're hearing some pastor who they think is a man
Of god they think is saved they think is righteous or godly
But is actually a false prophet and what this false prophet is doing is they're privily bringing in damn noble heresies
And so what's happening is they're being taught all these lies all these false doctrines that are hurting them
Harming them spiritually not only is it damning their soul to hell believing things like
Repentance for salvation as far as works go or teaching you could lose your salvation
But also you think they're being taught good things about marriage
You think they're being taught good things about raising their kids or how to live life or just how we should have a Christian
Outlook on this life. No, they're being taught all this trash that's harming them
And then what they're doing is they're noticing. Wow, my life is terrible
Wow, the Bible is not working and they blame God for it
They blame the Bible for it not realizing that it's actually the false prophet that's been lying to them. Who's actually the one to blame
It's not Christianity. That's the problem. It's Andy Stanley. That's the problem. You know, it's not Christianity. That's the problem
It's Joel Osteen. That's the problem. But today people obviously if they're unsaved they're blind
They can't differentiate that they just they connect them and they look at it as one in the same thing
Look at verse number two. It says and many shall follow their pernicious ways
Pernicious just means harmful
Notice this by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of
Why is it that people would speak evil of the Bible of church of Christianity?
It's because of false prophets and people love to say oh, you know
You guys are mean when you preach that sermon against the sodomites and that's why people hate Christianity
Well, not according to the Bible because if what was preached against the sodomites is in the Bible
That's the way of truth
But the way of truth is evil spoken against when false prophets bring in their pernicious ways
They're harmful ways people today are going to church today
They think they're going to be blessed by God to be blessed spiritually
But every time they go they're actually being harmed. They're being harmed spiritually and sometimes people are being harmed physically to look at verse number three
And through covetousness, so they love money shall they with feinted words?
That's fake words make merchandise of you whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not in their damnation
slumbereth not and you know
This is something that is just so obvious to us that are saved and to read the Bible, but people don't realize
Average unsaved Joe do not realize that there's churches where they don't care about you. They don't love God
They don't love the Bible whatsoever. They are just covetous
They just love money and so what they want to do is through fainted words through fake words through lying
They want to make merchandise of the congregation see people today are very naive. They think church good preacher good
Automatically just no problem someone standing up with the Word of God. That means they're a good person
No, absolutely not. There are false prophets in this world that are trying to make merchandise of you through their covetousness
And this is why you have mega churches today doing just the wildest and craziest things to fill their congregations
So they can make money. Okay, let me give you some examples. You have
Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma led by pastor Michael Todd
Where he literally had a bunch of singers come in and do gospel versions of Beyonce songs at church
You have all these whores on stage half naked you got flames
You got you know a circus going on and they're singing Beyonce songs with some Jesus lyrics
And it's like why is pastor Todd doing that because he loves money because guess what it's so easy to fill your church
with people when you have people singing Beyonce songs because guess what Beyonce concerts are full of people but you know what a lot of
People don't want to go to church to hear them
Screamed at by a preacher what the Bible actually says people don't want to go to church where they hear the old King James Bible
That's gonna rebuke them that's gonna tell them that they have to change
That's gonna tell them the truth people just want to heap to themselves teachers having itching ears
People just want to show up to a church and just be entertained
Why because Michael Todd doesn't care about God and the people that go to his church don't care about God either
And guess what the natural man does not care about God
There's none that seeketh after God the Bible says to seek after God. You got to get saved
You have to have the Holy Spirit of God, you know, just filling your church with unsaved people
None of those people are gonna actually desire the things of God. That's just not how it works. Look at verse
So actually, let me give you a couple more examples. So you also had James River Church
Has anyone heard of James River Church? There was recently a big conference there
Regarding men. It was like a men's conference and Mark Driscoll preach there
And he ended up rebuking the pastor of James River Church, which Mark Driscoll is a sermon for another day
I don't like him. I think he's a false prophet, too
But basically the reason why he rebuked the church that he was preaching at is because this church had a ex-male stripper
Get up on the stage rip his shirt off dance on a pole and then swallow a sword
That's church today in Missouri in the Bible Belt. It's like hey idiots going to that church
Your pastor doesn't love God. Your pastor is through covetousness
Making merchandise of you that pastor's thinking how can I make money? Well, let's just make church a complete circus
And that's what's happening today
And this is why people are deconstructing people are not deconstructing because of pastor Shelly or pastor Anderson or me
People are deconstructing because they go to church and they have to watch a male stripper. Yeah, I'd be deconstructing too
You know what's funny is I went to church very few times as a child very few times
Maybe like five times my entire childhood
But it was always one of these evangelical churches and I hated it
I hated it because it was like a bunch of faggity effeminate dudes wearing just
Unseemly clothing swinging and swaying and squeaking on the stage and the pastors crying every service
And he's got a glass pulpit and you know, what is going on?
Why is this church and it's like I want to know part of that, you know
But I did love the truth because when I came across the truth
I believed it and when I heard a documentary called New World Older New World Order Bible versions
And I saw the truth of God's Word
I was like this is awesome
And then I saw the gospel at the end and I believed it and I called upon the name of the Lord
Then I heard guys like pastor Anderson and pastor Jimenez preaching and I was like, that's a man. That's good preaching
That's what the Bible says. That's a church I can go to but I'm not gonna go watch some dude swallow a sword
I mean, I wouldn't even I wouldn't want to see that anywhere not to mention church
What kind of bizarre world are we living in right now?
This is why you have churches that go out and they promise you faith healing. They promise miracles
They have billboards that says miracles done here. Why because they're empty. They're fake. They're liars
They just want to make money of you
That's it and they will fill their churches by any means necessary. Look at 2nd Peter chapter 2
verse 14 says having eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls and
Heart they have exercised with covetous practices first children
so notice what we're talking about people are deconstructing because of false prophets and one of the attributes of a false prophet is having
eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin and
People are getting mad at Christianity because they find out their pastor is a pervert a perverted person, right?
They're getting mad at Christianity because their pastor got arrested for molesting children
They're getting mad at Christianity because their pastor was caught in adultery or picking up prostitutes or something gross like that
And you know, let me just talk about Mark Driscoll for a minute
You know he gets up and I heard this out of his own mouth in his sermons
Saying that when he's counseling people or when he's preaching sermons that God
puts movie like crystal images into his mind and he says he was counseling someone and he said to the wife well
I know what's wrong with your marriage is you didn't tell your husband about that six foot three blonde dude that you committed adultery with
And then he goes on to graphically describe that and he says that God the Holy Spirit is putting images of that happening into his brain
He says that while he's preaching he's getting these images into his brain of just sick stuff
It's like you're a false prophet having eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin
You know people are getting mad at Christianity because they hear idiots like Mark Driscoll getting up and they're saying like this is a pastor
This is God's church, you know, and then they end up getting burned by that and they end up just walking away from Christianity
Hey, it's not the Bible that's turning them away
It's the false prophet that's turning them away
I know these guys that commit these grievous disgusting sins like molesting a child
The Bible says that they should be put to death
So your problem isn't with the Bible or your problem is not with God
Your problem is with the false prophet your pastor goes out and commits adultery
Well, the Bible says he's supposed to be put to death. Your problem isn't with the Bible
It's with that false prophet. And so today people are angry at Christianity over, you know
Hypocritical preachers and guess what? It's the false prophets fault. It's not
God's fault go to first John chapter number two first John chapter number two
The third reason why I think people are deconstructing from Christianity in America is that there's been a decline in soul winning in America
There's been a big decline in soul winning in America
I want to read for you 2nd Corinthians 4 the Bible says therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy
We faint not but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully
But by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God
But if our gospel be hid it is hid to them
That are lost in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them
Which believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them
The Bible teaches that God has given us the ministry of reconciliation
It's our responsibility this treasure that we have in earthen vessels to go out to preach the gospel to get people saved and
That's important because until someone saved the Bible says that they're blinded the God of this world has blinded the eyes of them
That believe not so when someone is unsaved they can't understand scripture
They can't understand the spiritual things of the Bible. They're blind
So what's happening is they're going to all these churches and they're not even saved to begin with and then they're quote
Walking away from Christianity
but you want to know why they're walking away from Christianity is because a lot of them were not even saved to begin with and
So, you know you have someone that saved and that has the Spirit of God and what I tell you go first
John 2 look what it says in verse 19
It says they went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us
They would no doubt have continued with us
But they went out that they might be manifest that they were not all of us
So Bible teaches, you know when someone says that they're of us they're with us
But they go out from us and that doesn't mean they go to a different church. That's a good church means that they deconstruct
They say I'm walking away from Christianity
I'm walking away from the faith it just shows that they were never of us to begin with and so you got people saying like
Oh, I used to be a Christian, but now I'm an atheist
it's like and you were never saved to begin with because the Bible teaches that we have the Holy Spirit bearing witness of the
Truth in our hearts and the Holy Spirit is never gonna bear witness to atheism because that's a lie
You're never gonna go from being saved to being a Mormon if you go out from us
You say I'm a Mormon now you were never saved to begin with. Oh, I was saved
I was an independent from no Baptist now
I'm a Catholic that believes you have to do works for salvation and confess your sins to the priest
You were never saved to begin with you went out from us so that it could be made manifest
It could be made obvious that you were never of us to begin with look at verse number 20
but ye those of us that are saved we have an unction that's an anointing from the Holy One and you know all
Things I have not written unto you because you know not the truth
But because you know it and that no lie is of the truth
See we have the Holy Spirit we have the anointing of God. We have the truth
We know what's right and none of us in here are ever gonna be convinced that Jesus Christ is not God
Right just like now that you know, Santa Claus isn't real. I could try to convince you for hours
You're never gonna be convinced that Santa Claus is real
You're never gonna be convinced that the tooth fairy is real
Why because you know the truth and once you know the truth, you're not gonna back off from that
Yeah, you can get back slidden you can live a worldly life. You can be far from God, but you're never gonna lose your salvation
You're never gonna walk away from the faith go to John chapter number 10 John chapter number 10
So here's the problem. These people are quote deconstructing from Christianity, but guess what?
They were never saved to begin with so if you want to stop this deconstruction movement of people leaving the faith
Why don't we get them saved so that they have the Holy Spirit inside of them bearing witness to all truth
And then they're not going to deconstruct from the faith
and so really the reason why so many mega churches are filled with all these unsaved people is because
Real churches have dropped the ball on soul winning soul winning is you know, it's something we take for granted
It's something that our church does and other like-minded churches really emphasize
But if you go to other churches, it's a rare thing to find a church that's out soul winning
It's a rare thing to find a church that goes out
confronts people with the gospel
Asks them directly if they're 100% sure they're going to heaven and actually presents them a clear direct gospel presentation
That is hard to find. Okay. Yeah, you'll find churches. They'll go out and they'll put door hangers
They'll leave cards, you know the card says Jesus loves you or whatever
But it's rare to find soul winners that actually will preach the gospel and that's why we have so many people filling churches
That aren't saved because not many people are preaching the gospel today
But the good news obviously is that once we do get these people saved they can never lose their salvation
Look at verse 27 Jesus said my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and I give unto them
Eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand
My father which gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand
You know, Jesus is teaching us this concept that once you're saved, you're always saved
You're not gonna go from believing in Jesus Christ
Trusting in his death burial and resurrection to save you
You know believing that you're sealed with the Holy Spirit that you're in God's hand that he'll never leave you nor forsake you
To all of a sudden just well, I don't believe that anymore
No, it doesn't work like that when someone says that it just shows that they were never saved to begin with and so we need
To do a better job as Christians going out preaching the gospel and getting people saved go to Isaiah chapter number five Isaiah chapter number five
Fourth reason why I think American Christians are deconstructing is because preaching has become shallow
Preaching in churches today has become very surface level very just full of platitudes and meaningless statements
But not a lot of deep Bible not a lot of theology not a lot of conviction or hard preaching
It's very shallow look at Isaiah 5 verse 5 in that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory and
For a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people and for a spirit of judgment
To him that sitteth in judgment and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate
But they also have aired through wine and through strong drink are out of the way
The priest and the prophet have aired through strong drink. They are swallowed up of wine
They are out of the way through strong drink. They air in vision. They stumble in
Judgment so the Bible is talking about this phenomenon
That's going on at this time where people in the land in general are just airing from the truth and they're stumbling in judgment because of wine
because of strong drink because of literal drunkenness so much so that it even says even the prophets and even the priests are
Airing through strong drink and today in America like I mentioned early earlier. There's many pastors that drink alcohol in our country
There's many pastors that will talk about in their sermons them drinking beer them drinking alcohol
They'll hang out with their pastor buddies and drink they think it's totally fine. They have no issue with it
It's part of their culture literally
But because of that you see the result in their church is that they're preaching the air in judgments
How can you sit here and preach what the Bible says when you're literally supposed to be thrown out of church for being a drunkard
How can you get up and with authority?
Preach any verse what the Bible says on alcohol when you're bragging about drinking with your pastor friends
How can you ever get up and exercise church discipline when you yourself should not even be in church?
Much less be a pastor of the church and as a result, what do you see today?
Shallow preaching because if you actually preached the full Word of God and you actually preached against sin the way that God describes it
These men would lose their church members because if they actually showed God's standard and then the congregation saw
What utter pieces of crap these pastors are the fact that they're running away with a secretary like Greg Locke
Committing adultery the fact that they're drinking alcohol, you know
Like the guy just mentioned that it's having these perverted visions while he's preaching, you know
They would run away from that church screaming but because they can't do that
They can't preach deep things because there are people actually wake up and know the truth
They have to preach the most shallow messages imaginable and every service is just a gospel presentation
God loves you. God loves everyone cold. Hell good sin. Let's go home and pass the plate
That's what churches have become and because of that people are spiritually malnourished and people are not building a strong
Foundation on the Word of God, you know faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God
Why are people walking away from the faith? Why are people not having a strong faith is because they're not having a lot of the
Word of God preached. They're not reading a lot of the Word of God. It's both of those things
Verse 8 says for all tables are full of vomit and filthiness
It's that there is no place clean, you know church should be a place that is spiritually clean
You know, obviously we're all sinners
But can we not have a bunch of spiritual vomit and and filth around here a bunch of adulterers fornicators?
Drunkards idolaters. No, we don't need those people here
But churches are filled with those people because pastors themselves are like that go to a second Timothy chapter number four
Second Timothy chapter number four, you know, the Bible does not teach that we should just preach these shallow
weak
surface level type sermons second Timothy four verse one says I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ
Who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom preach the word be instant in
season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and
Doctrine so if you notice biblical preaching when Paul is directing Timothy how to preach here
He's telling him you need to go rebuke people
you need to go reprove them and you need to exhort them with all long-suffering and doctrine and
hard preaching is biblical corrective and
Specific and today when you go to churches, you don't hear that you're not really hearing
Specific sermons on sins when you go to these new evangelical churches or these megachurches and you're not hearing a lot of Bible
You know, you're hearing a lot of Andy Stanley's opinions tearing down the Bible, but you're not really hearing the Bible
And if you are it's definitely not a King James and you're not hearing any correction
The only correction that these new evangelical preachers give is against fundamentalists
This is the only correction that they do is stop listening to guys that tell you that drinking alcohol is bad
Stop going to churches that say that women should wear dresses stop going to churches where the preacher wears a suit and tie
You know, like the hardest preaching I've ever heard from new evangelicals is just talking crap about fundamentalists
You know, you got Steven Crowder and his buddy Gerald and they were asked during one show
Hey, what kind of church should I look for and Gerald just said any church that doesn't tell women to wear skirts and dresses
It's just like wow
Not not who has the gospel who has the King James Bible who has the truth? It's just like stay away from the preachers that say that
That's where we're at in America. Why because it's just shallow sermon after shallow sermon shallow preaching
It doesn't preach hard on sin go to Luke chapter number three Luke chapter number three
You know when you look at guys in the Bible though, their preaching is not like these megachurch preachers. It's very different
Let's look at John the Baptist. Let's see if this sermon was preached in a megachurch today
How do you think people would react to this verse 7 then said he to the multitude that sounds like a big church multitude
Right that came forth to be baptized of him
Oh generation of vipers who hath fleet who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come that sounds negative
Does it not verse 8 bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance and begin not to say within yourselves
We have Abraham to our father for I say unto you that God is able of these stones
To raise up children unto Abraham, you know, you got John the Baptist preaching against Zionism
You got John the Baptist preaching against the Jews here. How would that fly in big churches?
They would not like that look at verse 9 and now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees
Every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire and the people asked him saying
What shall we do then he answereth and saith unto them he that have two coats
Let him impart to him that hath none and he that hath meat. Let him do likewise notice
He's giving instruction in his preaching. This is what you should do with your life. This is how you should live your life
What is that reprove rebuke exhort? That's biblical preaching, but you don't get that in modern churches today
You don't get that in mega churches where you're being instructed how to live your life
You're being corrected what you're doing wrong. You're being yelled at woe unto you
You know who's warned you to flee from the wrath to come look at verse number 11 verse 12
Then came also publicans to be baptized and said master. What shall we do?
He said unto them exact no more than that which disappointed you and the soldiers likewise demanded of him saying and what shall we do?
He said unto them do violence to no man neither accuse any falsely and be content with your wages
So notice John the Baptist is calling out these soldiers sins here
He's saying look you need to be content with your wages. Don't be doing violence to people
Don't be going above and beyond your call of duty as a soldier and just be violating people
I mean soldiers are known to do this, right?
They're raping and pillaging and looting John the Baptist saying don't do that
He's correcting their behavior verse 15 and the people and as the people were in
Expectation and all men mused in their hearts of John whether he were the Christ or not
John answered saying unto them all I indeed baptize you with water
But one mightier than I comeeth the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose
He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire whose fan is in his hand
He will thoroughly purge his floor and will gather the wheat into his Garner, but the chaff he will burn with fire
Unquenchable and many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people. So what does he in John the Baptist little sermon here?
What do you got? You got replacement theology. You got preaching against sin
You got you know instructing people to change their life and you have warnings of hell now
Is that what Joel Osteen's sermons are like today? Is that what Andy Stanley's sermons are like today?
He wouldn't touch any of those topics the only time these preachers get upset is at fundamentalist actually preaching the Bible
That's the only time you see them get mad number five
If you would go to Romans chapter number 10 Romans 5. Why is it that people are deconstructing from Christianity?
Number five is because people are distracted from the word of God. We live in a society today
That is the most distracted society that has ever existed in human history. That is a fact
That's a big claim, but that is an absolute fact
We live in a time and age where people wake up they open social media. They doom scroll all day
They spend all day at work on social media. They come home. They watch Netflix all night
They go to the movie theater. They play video games. They watch TV. This is what Americans lives are like just constantly
Distracted. Okay. Now look at verse number 17 of Romans 10
So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God
Why is it that people are walking away from the faith?
because in order to have faith you have to be hearing the word of God and in order to have a strong faith a
Lasting faith a faith that's gonna make you steadfast and unmovable. You're gonna need a lot of Bible
But you know what Christians aren't getting a lot of Bible today because they're too distracted with the stupid football game tonight
Too many Christians today. They're not getting the Bible today because they're not going to church
They're watching NFL football or they're watching the World Series and they're skipping reading their Bible. They're skipping going to church
They're not hearing the word of God and is it any wonder why they have such a weak
Movable faith because faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God go to second Timothy chapter number four second Timothy
Chapter number four in second Timothy for the Apostle Paul is giving instructions to Timothy
But I think this applies to us to look at second Timothy for 13
Paul said till I come give attendance to reading. What does it mean to give attendance something?
It's to do something purposely to put effort into doing something and Paul is saying hey Timothy until I come
I want you to put a lot of attendance
I want you to put a lot of care effort and energy into reading the word of God and though this is Paul talking to Timothy
I think this is also Jesus talking to us to that God that Jesus Christ is telling us a until I come
Give attendance to reading and you know the difference between
Christians that serve God their whole lives Christians that stay in church. They stay faithful to their families
They read the word of God
They go soul winning the difference between people that are actually steadfast and those that deconstruct is one thing
people that read the Bible every day and people that don't the biggest difference between whether or not you will be in Christianity for the
Long haul as a disciple of Jesus Christ is are you gonna get up every day and read the Bible every day?
Because if you don't your faith will weaken it will atrophy just like physical exercise
If you just sit down on the couch all day and do nothing your body will become weak
You'll get fat and you'll get weak
It's the same thing spiritually if you do not
Exercise the Word of God coming into your heart the Word of God coming into your eyes and ears
You will start to get weak spiritually. You'll start to have a faith that is wavering
Go to Hosea chapter number four Hosea chapter number four, but today in America, what are people doing?
They're spending all day watching the news. You're spending all day listening to worldly podcasts
They're spending all day filling their heart with the world's music with the world's philosophy with video games with movies with TV
with social media
Everything but the Bible and is it any wonder why we have a whole generation that has such a weak faith with weak
Doctrines and they think like Wow fundamental Baptists are crazy. It's like no you've been watching Jewish produced movies all day
You've been watching faggot actors kissing and TV shows all day. And so you think we're crazy. You're crazy
You need to renew your mind. You need to read the Bible
Look at Hosea 4 1 hear the word of the Lord
Ye children of Israel for the Lord have a controversy with the inhabitants of the land because there's no truth no mercy
Nor knowledge of God in the land boy. Does that sound like our country right now? Where is truth going today?
Why is it that pastors are standing up and saying that the Bible is not our final authority?
Why are pastors standing up today and having homosexuals preach behind their pulpit because there's no truth today
There's no mercy today
There's no knowledge of God in our land today because people aren't reading the Bible
But verse 2 by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery
They break out and blood toucheth blood
Therefore shall the land mourn and everyone that dwell at their end shall languish
With the beasts of the field and with the fouls of heaven yay
The fishes of the sea also shall be taken away yet
Let no man strive nor approve another for thy people are as they that strive with the priest
What is he saying? He's saying you people are so stiff-necked and just you know rebellious that you're like people that argue with the preacher
You're like people that argue with the Word of God the man of God
And is it any question today why people think that fundamental Baptist preachers are so crazy and they want to strive with the preacher
They want to strive with the pastor. It's like because you're not reading the Word of God
That's why so you hear actual real doctrine coming out of someone's mouth and you're shocked and horrified because you've spent all day
Listening to Joe Rogan. You've spent all day watching Netflix and listening to the news and then you hear the Bible being preached
You think that's insane. What women have to wear skirts. Are you crazy? Are you the Taliban? Are you an abuser?
What's wrong with you spanking your kids? I mean, do we need to call 9-1-1 you spank your children?
It's like wow, you've never read the book of Proverbs. It's like you're crazy man. Look at your children. They're like demons
Why are they walking on the walls? How is that even possible? Can you spank your kids? Look at verse number 5
Therefore shalt thou fall in the day and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night and I will destroy thy mother
Verse 6 my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because thou has rejected knowledge
I will also reject thee and thou shalt be no priest to me seeing thou has forgotten the law of thy God
Notice this I will also forget thy children. Is there any wonder why the young generation today is so far from God and is deconstructing from the faith
Maybe it's because the generations before us forgot the Word of God. Maybe it's because they stopped preaching it
Maybe it's because they stopped teaching their children and now God is angry at our nation. Why because truth is fallen
There's no mercy. There's no knowledge of God. We have blood touching blood
We have lying killing stealing adultery even in the house of God even behind pulpits
Is it any wonder why God is upset today? Is there any wonder why people are deconstructing because they're not reading the Bible today
Christians they don't know Bible verses all they know is slogans that they've heard at their megachurch
Tell me if you've heard some of these love wins. We've heard that one a lot
Haven't we when a Christian says love wins?
I'm just like, oh you've never read the Bible because Romans 12 says love is the fulfilling of the law
Okay, the Bible teaches that love is the filling of the law then people are like, wow, you guys are preaching the law
That's pretty unloving. It's like wow, you don't know what love is let go and let God said no Bible verse ever
God helps those who help themselves love the sinner and hate the sin. Don't judge. Did you see where was that in the Bible?
Don't judge. Oh, yeah one portion of Matthew chapter 7 verse 1 that you don't read the whole thing of only God can judge
I don't know why people say this because I don't think you want to be judged by God. Okay, God just said in Hosea
I will forget your children. I don't want to be I don't be judged by God when God closes the door
He opens a window God works in mysterious ways. This is what Christians know today. They know meaningless
slogans and platitudes that they heard from their fake preacher
Their fake pastor that doesn't love them that doesn't love God that loves money
And let me tell you you go to a church and I just want to I just want to shake people
It's like you're going to a church where someone's swallowing a sword and dancing on a pole
What is wrong with you, but what's wrong with you is that your mind has been corrupted and defiled because you've spent your entire life
Drinking this world from a water hose from a fire hose and you're getting a little thimble of Bible every week
You're getting a little thimble of a verse from a false Bible version and you're wondering why your mind is so far from the things
Of God it's because you're not reading the Bible. You want to know why people are deconstructing either
They just weren't saved so they're like, oh I'm deconstructing. It's like you were never saved to begin with
That's why you're an atheist right now or they're walking away from the faith because they had no foundation
They weren't built on the rock. They were built on the shifting sands of the NIV
They were built on the shifting sands of Joel Osteen of fake Christians of you know
false Bible versions of
Preachers opinions and self-help books, but they had little to no Bible in their heart
And it's just like you will fail if you don't read the Bible your faith will be weak
If you do not read the Bible look at verse number 7
Hosea Ford says as they were increased so they sinned against me therefore
Will I change their glory into shame?
And you know that is a sad verse because I feel like America right now is being changed from glory to shame
It's being changed from a glorious nation that was built on the King James Bible
Whose laws were built on the Word of God and on the law of God to now we have a woman running for president
That openly talks about how she wants to have abortion in our land how she wants to be able to kill babies in our land
And you know what our glory is being changed to shame
I saw this video of this World War two veteran which World War two was a lie as well
We should have been involved in it, but a lot of those guys that fought in that war were seriously bad dudes
That's for sure and I saw this World War two veteran and he was crying and he was just saying like this isn't what my boys
died for when he was looking at our nation today and
Seeing the abortion and the feminism and the sodomy and the fake churches and the liberalism and just seeing what our nation's becoming
And you got this guy that's just crying saying like this is not what my boys died for right here
But you know what's happening is our nation is being changed from glory to shame look at verse number eight
They eat up the sin of my people and they set their heart on their iniquity and there shall be like people
Like priests and I will punish them for their ways and reward them for their doings
You want to know why truthfully truthfully why guys like Joel Osteen Mark Driscoll?
All these false prophets are thriving is because people allow them to thrive like people like priests
You got a bunch of wicked people that don't want to hear the truth
You got a bunch of wicked people that don't want to hear any preaching against sin
They don't want their lives to be challenged. They don't want to hear what God has to say
They just want to heed to themselves teachers having itching ears
You know what those guys will be glad to oblige supply and demand when the nation has a demand for false
Teaching for lies then you see churches like this thriving today and you see churches today where the preacher actually gets
Mad and preaches against sin. Guess what?
It's not as packed in here this morning as it is in Joel Osteen's church
All right, why because we live in a nation that's being turned to shame
We're living in a nation where it's like people like priests and people often get the leaders that they deserve verse 10
For they shall eat and not have enough and shall commit whoredom and shall not increase
Because they have left off to take heed to the Lord whoredom and wine and new wine
Take away the heart and not only today are people just distracted with all the technology that we have in our world
But you know what people are also distracted with in America today whoredom wine and new wine, right? Only fans
Alcohol and money. That's what that verse is talking about right there
And today people care more about those things than they do about waking up and reading the King James Bible
And as long as people are like that then we're gonna continue to have people deconstructing from Christianity as long as people are like that
We're gonna continue to have mega churches with fake pastors that are perverts that hate God
Thriving financially in our country as long as people are that stupid to prioritize those things over the Bible
You know, we need to remind ourselves that reading the Bible is one of the most important things in our life
It's something that we have to give attendance to I mean you wake up every day and you go to work
You give attendance that you're like I need to make money for my family. I need to provide for my family
But it's like you also need to give attendance to reading the Bible. That is more important than your daily bread
That's more important than your job. That's more important than your family
Reading the Bible and guess what all those other areas of your life will be benefited by you reading the Bible
It's not like you're gonna be a worse husband by reading the Bible. You're gonna be a better husband
You're not gonna be a worse father by reading the Bible
You'll be a better dad by reading the Bible and people today think oh, you know
People are deconstructing from the faith because steadfast Baptist Church is so hateful
It's like no
Let me tell you why people are deconstructing from the faith is you gave your child to the government to raise them
You didn't love them. You didn't teach them the Bible
You brought them to a church with a false prophet as the pastor that didn't have the right gospel
You didn't teach your kids to read the Bible
You taught them to love sports and to love money and to love whores and to love wasting their time on nothing
That's why people are deconstructing from Christianity today because Christianity in many ways has become very shallow
Go to 1st Corinthians chapter number 15 1st Corinthians chapter number 15. Let's end on this verse
You know, it's been kind of a negative sermon this morning
But you know the positive thing is that you can actually control all these things in your life
You can actually decide to teach your kids the Bible
You could decide to preach the gospel to your children and to preach the gospel to this world
You could decide to bring them to a good church where there's not a false prophet as the leader where there's not shallow preaching
And you could actually instruct your family to read the Bible. Those are all things you can do yourself
So, you know while the world is deconstructing we need to reconstruct
Real Christianity real biblical Christianity and once we do that we need to remain steadfast in that Christianity
Look at first Corinthians 15 verse 58. We'll close on this first. Therefore my beloved brethren be ye steadfast
Unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord
Let's pray Lord. Thank you for this day and thank you for our church
I just pray Lord that we would be able to be a force for
Good change in this community in Oklahoma City that we'd be able to reach people with the gospel and that we would teach them
To observe your commandments to read the Word of God and that people would just get a true love for God in their hearts
That they would want to build their lives around the King James Bible
around Jesus Christ around a good church and that you would just help us never to be like people that are
Deconstructing but rather that we would just construct what you teach in our lives and remain steadfast to that
We love you in Jesus name. We pray. Amen this time. We'll go to our last hymn for the morning
You would grab a hymnal turn to number
156
Jesus is the sweetest name. I know number
156 156 sing there on the first
as such love, as the blessed name, songs for his name. Jesus is the sweetest name I know, as the same as his love and wine. Jesus is the sweetest name I know. Someday I shall see him face to face, and for it is great to me. Jesus is the sweetest name, as the reason why I am so. Jesus is the sweetest name I know.