Raise your hand in the front there Bulletin we do have a verse for the week
we are memorizing 2nd Timothy 2 on the inside we have our service times and our
soul winning times for this upcoming weekend did have three salvations to
report for today so we'll get that added to our totals continue to be in prayer
for my wife as the expecting mother here of the church and our next fifth Sunday
fellowship July 28 this is a church provided fellowship so we're gonna be
having hideaway pizza I encourage you guys to stick around after the evening
service for some good food and fellowship some upcoming events to look
forward to of course brother Oz is him and his family are here for this tonight
and he'll be preaching for us looking forward to hearing from him and then we
have August 15 through the 17th is the men's conference we do have a sign-up
sheet on the back table I'm pretty sure most everyone has signed up if you need
to do that please I encourage you you won't be disappointed Pastor Shelley is
gonna be preaching that Thursday and then Pastor Jimenez is gonna be
preaching that Friday so I mean a great lineup of preachers and of course we
have the Saturday men's preaching as well so definitely looking forward to
that and encourage you if you can just make it out for one night if you can
free up some time on your schedule make sure you're there for that and then
August 24th is a ladies event and we'll get the details as we get closer to that
date for you and then August I'm sorry October 4th through the 6th so a couple
months away is going to be the heritage of the Lord conference and as I've
mentioned on Sunday this is a conference that's really kind of geared towards
young people towards the children and it's a way for Steadfast Baptist Church
to invest in our children I've been to all the conferences in the past the last
one was two years ago and it's always been a great time the kids have always
loved it and I encourage you guys if you can make it down for that you won't be
disappointed either so definitely some fun things to look forward to on the
horizon at this time we'll go through our prayer request list I do have
several updates to make for everyone this evening brother Scott he had text
me today and gave me an update of course little Mark Scott he had a heart
operation surgery today and he is doing good he everything went well there so I
did want to give an update just straight from him he brother Michael said he's
still sedated and on the ventilator and will continue to be sedated till they
see it fit to take him off the ventilator after that they'll keep him in
the hospital for one to two weeks to see how his overall how he's covered or
recovering overall so definitely keep them in your thoughts and prayers I
mean they still have definitely a good road ahead and hope that Mark is able to
heal quickly from that operation and that everything comes out positive from
that also we've added brother James Perry he's about to have hernia surgery
later on today and he's actually in the Philippines am I right on that yeah so
definitely be in prayer for him that he's gonna be going through that surgery
it's not as invasive but as anytime you're being put under and you know
having the knife put on you definitely want people praying for you so definitely
keep him in your thoughts this evening and also I want to add my cousin Brandon
Bush this week he he ended up having an accident was burned pretty badly with
some fire by starting a fire he had second and third degree burns he got
out of the hospital he's actually back home now but he's he's in pretty bad
shape he's definitely gonna have to have surgeries in the in the future as well
so if you could think to pray for him and you know from my understanding he's
not saved either so it would be if you want to add that in there as well just
the times I've talked with him you know he definitely needs to be saved so if
you can think to pray for him also continue to be in prayer for miss Remy
she's dealing with a tumor and just pray that as she works with the doctors that
she can find a path forward that works for her I know she wants to be able to
do and go forward without having to have any surgery if possible so be in prayer
that God would form a miracle there and help her through that difficult
situation also continue to pray for the Oz family they're gonna be moving to
Oklahoma City soon in the coming weeks I'll let him talk more about that and
fill us in on that but definitely continue to be in prayer for them we
have Eddie Paul as well it's my wife's grandpa he's dealing with some heart
issues some back issues also Cole Holyman for salvation continue to be in
prayer for him Christian Cornell recovery from some accidents and
surgeries I need to get an update there on him so I'll plan to do that next week
and then continue to be in prayer for brother Kevin also the Reed family
they're kind of wrapping up are hoping to wrap up the custody issues that
they're dealing with right now and so just be in prayer for them we have Zach's
mother and brother continue pray for them for salvation and also Elizabeth
Dexheimer just be in prayer for her that God would continue to bless our families
with more children obviously we want to continue to pray for that and then we
have our foreign missionaries and then evangelist Alvarez and pastor Shelley as
well so lots to be in prayer for again just remind you take these things home
and be praying for these individuals each week but at this time I'll say a
quick prayer. Heavenly Father God again just so thankful for all that you do for
us the many blessings most of all just salvation through your son Jesus thank
you for the three salvations that we had out this afternoon and just the ability
to go out and preach the gospel freely. God I pray that you would be with those
on our list that are dealing with different health issues. God some of
these are pretty severe and God we just pray that you would have your hand of
healing upon them or that you would protect them. God we pray that you
would guide them guide their decision making and give them wisdom on what to
do and Lord we pray that you would be with the doctors that are involved with
those various issues Lord that you would Lord just that you would be with them
and you would strengthen them comfort them. God we pray that you would be with
those who are in need of salvation. I know we have several family members
that were praying for to be saved. God pray that you would open a door for them
to hear a clear presentation of the gospel. God we pray for just our
families here that you would continue to bless our families with children and to
grow this church in that manner. God we pray for the Oz family. We know that
they're going to be moving up to Oklahoma City and just all the things
that go along with that. Lord just pray that you would just have all the right
pieces in place for that to go smoothly. And God we pray for Pastor Shelley and
his family. Pray that you would keep them safe. And also Evangelist Alvarez as
well. And I know that he's still dealing with some difficulties there in Houston
with some of the weather they've had. Pray that you would just help them and
open a door for those things to be resolved. And God again we're just so
thankful for all that you do. Thankful for the men that are across this world
that are doing great works for you. The ministries that they have. Pray that you
would continue to further those ministries and that you would help us to
stay motivated to preach the gospel to our city and the place that you have
given us in Oklahoma City and we'll pray these things in your son's name amen.
All right we'll go to our next song hymn number 179 such love hymn number 179 in
your hymnal. Number 179, hymn 179. So they're right on the
verse that God should love a sinner such as I should yearn to change my sorrow into bliss
nor as still he had a plan to bring me nigh how one's love like this lost love such wondrous
sinner such as I how his love so me in a scheme and on gallery and tongue find no worthy
then in love I met rest on beach monster such as I as I your glad time shall slay to bide
such as I be one prince all such as I singing as the offering plates are being passed around
turn in your bibles to genesis chapter number two genesis chapter number two good evening
genesis chapter number two please turn your bibles genesis two will read the entire chapter
please follow along silently in genesis chapter number two the bible reads thus the heavens and
the earth were finished and all the host of them and on the seventh day god ended his work which
he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made and god blessed the
seventh day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all his work which god created
and made these are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day
that the lord god made the earth and the heavens and every plant of the field before it was in the
earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the lord god had not caused it to rain upon
the earth and there was not a man to till the ground but there went up a mitts from the earth
and watered the whole face of the ground and the lord god formed man out of the dust of the ground
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul and the lord god
planted a garden eastward in Eden and there he put the man whom he had formed and out of the ground
made the lord god to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food the tree
of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil and a river
went out of Eden to water the garden and from thence it was parted and became into four heads
the name of the first is Pisan that is it which compasses the whole land of Habalah where where
there is gold and the gold of that land is good there is bedelium and the onyx stone and the name
of the second river is Gihon the name uh the same is it that compasses the whole land of Ethiopia
and the name of the third is Hedekel that is that is it which goes toward the east of Assyria
and the fourth river is Euphrates and the and the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden
of Eden to dress it and to keep it and the Lord God commanded the man saying of every tree of the
garden thou mayst freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat
of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die and the Lord God said it
is not good that the man should be alone I will make him and help meet for him and out of the
ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them
unto Adam to see what he would call them and whatsoever Adam called every living creature
that was the name thereof and Adam gave names to all cattle and to the fowl of the air and to
every beast of the field but for Adam there was not found and help meet for him and the Lord God
caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the
flesh instead thereof and the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought
her unto the man and Adam said this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be
called woman because she was taken out of man therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh and they were both naked the
man and his wife and were not ashamed. Let's bow our heads for a prayer. Father God in heaven we
thank you for this day and the souls that were saved and we ask that you fill the halls with the
Holy Spirit and that you help us to learn from your word. Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen well great to be here this evening great to see you all. I've got my family and I in town this evening because we're trying to tie up a few loose ends with this move that's coming up for us but things are moving in a very positive direction for us and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel so we're very very excited to be here and Lord willing we should be here within the next month so we're very excited for that. It's a blessing to be able to preach here for you guys this evening.
And of course thank you Pastor Shelley for always allowing me the opportunity to do that.
Tonight we're in Genesis chapter 2 and recently I was reading this chapter
and something kind of interesting that was stood out to me in Genesis chapter 2 verse 15.
Look at verse 15 it says "and the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to
dress it and to keep it." Now let's get some context of where we are in the period of time.
This is actually after the creation week of course but this is before man sinned. So that's
very important to what I'm going to be talking about tonight. This is post-creation but pre-fall
and notice what God gave Adam to do. He gave him a job. He gave him work to do. He put him in the
garden and he said hey your job is to dress and to keep the garden. Now that's work isn't it?
Now here's the thing I've heard this said before that the reason why men have to work is the result
of the curse of sin but notice that this is before man ever sinned and God actually gave Adam work
to do. So the fact that we have to work as men that is actually not a result of the curse of sin.
Look at verse number 18 it says right here in Genesis 2 18 and the Lord God said is it not good
it is not good that the man should be alone I will make him and help meet for him. So notice not only
was man assigned work before the fall before sin ever happened but even the woman as well she was
assigned to be the help me well what is she helping do she's helping Adam with his work and so we know
we know that work itself is not a result of the curse. Now let's refresh ourselves what was the
curse okay let's go to Genesis chapter 3 flip the page and look at verse 13 and let's refresh
ourselves on what the curse actually was Genesis 3 verse 13 and the Lord God said unto the woman
what is this that thou hast done and the woman said the serpent beguiled me and I did eat
and the Lord God said unto the serpent because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all
cattle and above every beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all
the days of thy life so first the first curse is the curse of Satan himself that's who God curses
first but going on here it says in verse number 15 and I will put enmity between thee and the woman
and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shall bruise his heel verse 16
unto the woman he said I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception in sorrow shalt
thou bring forth children and thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee
so when it comes to the curse specifically being applied to the woman it's not that she had to
work because she already had a job before they ever sinned but what is her curse that basically
childbirth is going to be very painful and those of you ladies who have been through that can
testify that that is true to this day right that hasn't changed why is that the case why is it that
childbirth hurts so much well it's because of the sin in the book of genesis it's because of the
curse now look at verse 17 we're going to shift to the man's curse and unto adam he said because
thou hast hearken unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which i commanded thee
saying thou shalt not eat of it cursed is the ground for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eat of
it all the days of thy life thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee and thou shalt eat
the herb of the field in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the
ground for out of it was thou taken for dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return so what is
the curse that was given to man well it's not that he had to work because he already had to work
before that but it's that his work is going to have to be a lot harder why because the ground
itself is cursed when you're living in the garden of eden when you're living in the pre-sin state
the only job that exists is tending to the garden being a farmer taking care of plants you know
bringing forth vegetables and fruits that's the only work that there is to do but now after the
sin of man god curses the ground itself to where it's going to bring forth thorns and thistles
and he's going to make farming he's going to make taking care of these things way harder on adam to
where he's going to have to work by the sweat of his face all the days of his life and he's going
to do so in sorrow the bible says but here's the question is this exact curse still around today
okay go to genesis chapter number eight genesis chapter number eight now of course of course the
curse of sin exists today right i mean we're all sinners that curse is still in this world today
and it's our job to bring the gospel to people so that we can free them from that curse by them
putting their faith and trust in jesus christ and him basically erasing all of their sins past
present and future but this curse of the ground does that exist today look at genesis chapter
verse 20 it says and noah builded an altar unto the lord and took of every clean beast and of
every clean foul and offered burnt offerings on the altar and the lord smelled a sweet savor and
the lord said in his heart notice this phrase i will not again curse the ground anymore for
man's sake for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth neither will i again smite
any more every living thing as i have done so he says there's two things that i'm not going to do
ever again i'm not going to curse the ground and i'm not going to kill every living thing right
look at verse number 22 it says while the earth remaineth seed time and harvest and cold and heat
and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease now why is he all of a sudden bringing up
hey just so you know there's always going to be these seasons these are never going to stop
well it makes me kind of wonder if when in genesis earlier in the book how god says you're
going to work by the sweat of your face and that the ground is cursed that's bringing forth thorns
and thistles it kind of makes it seem like perhaps god cursing the earth was making it to where it
was only like one season of the year kind of perpetually because that would definitely curse
the ground i mean if it was just only summer you would have a lot of thorns you would have a lot
of thistles it'd be very hard to be a farmer if there was no such thing as fall or winter or
spring or anything like that and i think what this is saying he's saying hey don't worry i'm
not going to curse the ground anymore there's going to be harvest there's going to be sea time
there's going to be cold there's going to be heat there's going to be all these things these
things will never cease i will not curse the ground anymore for this reason now of course
that doesn't mean that farming is just like at the state of the garden of eden now today but what
i'm saying is that the bible is indicating here that the exact curse that god gave during adam's
time is no longer in place today so why bring all that up this is why i want to bring all that up
is because i want to stress this idea to you that work is not a curse work is actually a blessing
that is the title of my sermon this evening work is a blessing some people have a false idea saying
well because of the curse of man that's why we have to work and work is just such a curse right
and so many people today want to complain about going to work they hate going to work and that
is kind of just a natural feeling that man has have you noticed that when men don't have a job
they know they don't think that a job is a curse anymore they actually think it's a blessing why
because work actually is a blessing and this evening i want to talk to you about three areas
in our lives that god has given us to work in go to uh second thessalonians chapter number three
second thessalonians chapter number three so first let's talk about work in this world or kind of in
church vernacular we often call this secular work right this is your nine to five this is the job
that you go to every day to put food on the table for your family look this is actually a blessing
in our lives this is not something that's a curse this is not something that you should just have
such a negative attitude towards no actually before adam ever even sinned god gave adam a job to do
god gave eve a job to do now while you're in second thessalonians 3 i want to read for you
philippians 4 10 the bible says but my god shall supply all your need according to his riches in
glory by christ jesus you know god has promised to provide for our needs but how does he provide
for those needs it's by men working it's not like you're just going to sit there in your house
and just say well you know philippians 4 said he'll provide for me and money's going to fall out
of the sky and food's going to fall out of the sky and dinner's just going to make itself and
your cars are just going to show up out of nowhere no god supplies all of our needs yes he does but
it's through work and guess what that's a blessing the fact that we are able to purchase things the
fact that we are able to buy clothes that we're able to have air conditioning in our homes that
we're able to buy good food these are blessings from god you know it doesn't come from nowhere
it comes from working and you know children are very selfish by nature and they don't understand
this they don't understand that someone has to go work by the sweat of their face to provide
and you know what it's a blessing if you have a father that does that and fathers dads men that
work it's a blessing if you have a job and you're able to provide for those children look at 2nd
thessalonians 3 verse 6 now we command you brethren in the name of our lord jesus christ
that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly and not after the
tradition which he received of us for yourselves know how you ought to follow us for we behaved
not ourselves disorderly among you neither did we eat any man's bread for not what he's saying is
hey we didn't just fill our bellies without paying for it without working for it we didn't
just have things fall out of the sky and provide for our needs but what does it say but rot with
labor what does that mean it means the apostle paul was working it means that he was working
for money and travail night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you and if you read
the new testament you'll know that the apostle paul he worked a secular job so that he wasn't a
burden on these churches he had every right to take a paycheck from these churches but he decided
he wanted to set the example that he wanted to work hard and he wanted to work a secular job
verse 9 not because we have not power he's saying look i can i have every right to take a paycheck
and it's i think it's a good thing for pastors and church workers to get paid for that so that
they're not having to spend as much time worrying about the work in the world and they could work
you know in the in the house of god and in the kingdom of god and studying the bible and winning
souls to christ and training soul winners and building the church working with christ to build
the church that's good but that's not what paul chose to do he said but to make ourselves an
example unto you to follow us for even when we were with you this we commanded you that if any
would not work neither should he eat now let me ask you this is it a blessing to eat food yes well
then that means it's a blessing to work because he's saying if you don't work you shouldn't even be
eating food this is something our country doesn't understand for some reason our country actually
thinks it's a christian virtue to give money to the homeless and look of course there's people
that are down on their luck there's people that are amputees there's people that have you know
gone through really hard things in life but the people that are begging on the sides of the street
in america the vast majority of the time it's just because they're lazy and oftentimes they
are literally making more money by suckering stupid christians into giving them money than
them just getting a job and so they're kind of incentivized to keep being lazy but if we
follow the biblical example here if they didn't eat or if they didn't work they wouldn't eat
that would incentivize them very quickly to start working and they would start to see work as a
blessing not as a curse that needs to be avoided verse 11 for we hear that there are some which
walk among you disorderly working not at all but our busy bodies now them that are such we command
and exhort by our lord jesus christ that with quietness they work and eat their own bread so
we see right here it's literally a command of god to work to work to work with quietness to eat your
own bread to provide for yourself and look the commandments of god are not grievous god doesn't
give us commandments just to burden us or just to be mean to us no he gives us commandments because
he loves us and knows what's best for us and god telling us to go to work is actually a blessing
in our life so we talk about work now let's answer this question who should be working
go to first timothy chapter number three or first timothy chapter number five first timothy chapter
number five who is it that should be out there working today this is something that our society
is pretty confused on actually but look at first timothy chapter number five verse three it says
honor widows that are widows indeed now the word honor in the king james bible often means to pay
for someone financially to take care of someone financially you know when the bible says to honor
your mother and father that one way to apply that is to take care of them in their old age when
they're no longer able to provide for themselves and the bible saying hey widows that are actually
truly widowed they're basically helpless in this world and you should support those people that
are actually widows but look at verse 4 says but if any widow have children or nephews that were
nephews in the king james bible is talking about grandchildren so what it's saying is but if any
widow have children or grandchildren let them learn first to show piety at home and to requite
their parents for that is good and acceptable before god so notice it's it's showing godliness
or showing holiness or piety at home if the children or grandchildren of a widow would
financially support that widow verse five now she that is a widow indeed and desolate
trusteth in god and continueth in supplications and prayers day and night and day but she that
liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth and these things give in charge that they may be
blameless but if any provide for not for his own and especially for those of his own house he
has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel notice it doesn't say children and
granddaughters it doesn't say but if any provide not for her own house and especially for those of
her own house she has denied the faith no this is masculine here why because it's obvious and
it's implied that it's men that are supposed to be the ones working in this world it's men that
are the ones that are supposed to be the primary bread winners in this world and this is something
that human beings have understood from the creation of the world up until pretty much the
1900s and now this whole world has everything backwards where they think that it should be
women out there being girl bosses and working in the world and being ceos that's not the picture
that the bible is painting here now we know this because go to 1st Timothy chapter 5 verse 9 it
gives some more instruction here to the younger women it says let not a widow be taken into the
number under three score under three score years old having been the wife of one man well reported
of for good works if she had brought up children if she had lodged strangers if she had washed the
saints feet if she had relieved the afflicted if she have diligently followed every good work
but the younger widows refuse for when they have begun to wax wanton against christ they will marry
having damnation because they have cast off their first faith and with all they learn to be idle
wandering about from house to house and not only idle but tattlers also in busy bodies speaking
things which they ought not now pay attention to verse 14 i will therefore that the younger women
marry bare children guide the house give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully
for some are already turned aside after satan notice god's will bible says i will therefore
that the younger women marry bare children guide the house that is god's will for ladies in their
lives and today that is viewed as something that is hateful by society or something that's backwards
or something that's too old-fashioned but this is what people have been doing for thousands of
years and there's a reason for it because you want to know who was really pro getting women into the
workforce and really wanted women's rights it was called the communists it was called the russians
in world war two where women were so liberated that they got to get slaughtered and brutally
tortured on the battlefield during the most bloody war in human history oh isn't that so
loving towards women the battle of stalingrad the single most bloody battle in human history
just just absolute mountains of women were just ravished killed in the most brutal ways you can
imagine because women's rights is that god's will for women to go out on the battlefield and die
in cold blood no his will is for them to be home and his will is for men to be out working hard
and providing for them and protecting them that's god's will for women and you know it's this world
that's backwards that wants to say oh women should go out and spend their whole life getting a job
women their whole goal in life should be to climb the corporate corporate ladder no actually your
whole goal in life should be to invest into your children to be invest into your husband and we'll
talk about that a little later flip the page go to titus chapter number two titus chapter number
two it's not just one chapter of the bible that teaches this look at titus two verse two the aged
women likewise that they be in behavior has become a holiness not false accusers not given
too much wine teachers of good things that they may teach the young women so here's what older
women are supposed to be teaching younger women to be sober to love their husbands to love their
children to be discreet chased keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the word
of god be not blasphemy you know this isn't a degrading thing this is actually a great honor
for a woman to stay home to invest in the next generation to invest into her husband to take
care of the dwelling place for her family where they will serve and worship god for the rest
of their lives you know what is actually dishonorable you know what's backward is
not listening to god in that commandment because look what it says it says that it's actually
blaspheming the word of god when women do not do this it's blaspheming god's word it's backwards
it's gross and look there is a lot a lot of consequences in our society today by having so
many women in the workforce there's a lot of consequences you know one big one is that in
america we talk about this thing called the birth replacement rate and it's basically the average
number that each american woman is having of kids right and in 2022 the birth replacement rate for
american women was 1.62 look that's dangerous for society that's dangerous for a country even
just carnally speaking take all the spirituality out of it we will literally die off as a nation
if that continues we literally i mean just do the math you cannot replace yourself and so now
because we're just brainwashing women that they need to get a job they need to get a career they
need to go to college now they're not having kids anymore purposefully intentionally or they buy the
brainwashing for a while they spend all their teenage years on birth control they spend all
their 20s on birth control then they wake up in their mid-30s and realize that they're not
fulfilled and realize that God didn't create them to do this and then they can't have kids
then now they want kids but they can't do it and that's why we literally have a 1.62 birth
replacement rate in our country and look that can't go on for forever and you know what's
happening as a result of that is we're just bringing in the third world into our country
to replace our workforce because you literally can't have a workforce to supply the population
that currently exists by the americans that are here we have to literally import the third world
just to survive and you know what that's having huge consequences on our society i mean look i i
hope that we get the gospel to the whole world i hope that any person that comes here that we try
to reach them with the gospel but it is foolish for a nation and it is not biblical to say that
just anyone can come into our nation no matter what that is absolute stupidity and there should
be policies on that and we're seeing we're seeing crime increasing we're seeing our culture
deteriorating we're seeing just a uh a disunity in our nation unlike anything we've seen since
like the civil war why is that well partly it's because there's just so many different cultures
in america and so many different belief systems look how could i as a christian coexist with the
muslim i can't because i believe in the one true god jesus christ and you know what they believe
oh he's just a prophet hey how can i as a christian as a fundamental baptist uh just
get along with hindus seems like there's a lot of compromising christians that want to do that
since at the rnc some woman's putting on a headdress and praying to vishnu or whatever
the stupid false god's name is i don't know what false religion it is who cares but isn't that a
prime example that there's consequences of this happening sure is you know think about this by
having so many women in the workforce it's actually causing it to be harder for men to
provide for their families on a single income because just the law of supply and demand if
employers can just hire a bunch of women to do things cheaper than they don't need to pay the
man as much it's just simple economics kids have to be public schooled you want to talk about the
ramifications on our society because so many kids have to be public schooled because women are in
in the workforce, being taught evolution, being taught humanistic ideas, not being taught
the Bible. Now, I've heard Oklahoma is trying to change that. Praise God for that. You know,
that needs to be pushed as hard as humanly possible. But quite frankly, public school
shouldn't even exist. I mean, if it is going to exist, yeah, let's teach the Bible. But
quite frankly, every woman should be teaching her children. But instead, they're out at
work higher household costs because you have to have two cars. You have to have eating
out all the time, you have to have a work wardrobe and you have to have more expenses,
daycare expenses, right? So it's just there's a lot of negative ramifications. How about
this? How about women being put into jobs that they don't qualify for? I don't know.
Like maybe the Secret Service, maybe like the presidential protection detail. We're
having women do that now. That is insanity, folks. That is just completely suspending
all logic and reason. Look, here's the thing. When it comes to protecting the president
of the United States, I don't even think any person in this room, even if you trained for
10 years on being a trained assassin, would ever be qualified for it. You know why? Because
you should be as tall or taller than the person that you're protecting. So you could stand
up and take bullets for them, right? Whereas this little woman that's in front of Trump
is at his belly button. She's like, "Oh man, I hope someone doesn't shoot him." And he's
like way up here. It's like, that's retarded. That's retarded for a man to be in that type
of position. How much more a woman? What a joke of a country we're becoming, where even
the Secret Service is being run by a woman, literally. The head of Secret Service is run
by a woman and the people protecting Trump are ran by women. And you see just like one
of the worst security failures. I could even possibly fathom in my life at best, if that
was even true, everything that's going on. But like, I feel like we could have just printed
off Google Maps and just shown the buildings and just given it to any like wife in this
church would be like, where should security be? And I feel like every single person here
probably would figure it out better than they did. It's just such a terrible, terrible job
that was done. So we talked about who should be working. Men should be the primary breadwinners
in our society. And this is seen as something that's hateful today, but it's just what makes
the world actually run well. How should men be working? Go to Colossians chapter number
three, we talked about who should be working. How should we be working Colossians three
verse 22, it says, servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with
eye services, men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. So notice the way that
men should be working on the job site is that they should be working in an obedient fashion.
When the boss gives a command, you should be ready to obey that command. You shouldn't
sit there and just have such a rebellious attitude where you just hate everything that
the boss is saying. You don't want to submit yourself to the authority in your life. No,
the Bible says you are to obey yourself to your masters. It's not with eye service, meaning
you're not just trying to do a good job whenever the boss is looking, but rather you're supposed
to fear God and know that God is always looking at how you work and that no matter if the
boss is there or not, you should be putting in your full effort and energy into the work
that you're doing. Why? Verse 23, "And whatsoever you do, do it heartily as to the Lord and
not unto men." You know, that's the attitude that every man should have at work, whether
you like your job, whether you like your boss or you don't, is that hey, forget who the
boss is, forget what the job is, because at the end of the day, you should be working
for the Lord Jesus Christ. And God, Jesus Christ himself is the one that gave you the
command to work. He's the one that gave you the command to obey your boss. And so you're
not even really obeying the boss at the end of the day, who you're obeying is Jesus Christ.
And when you shift your perspective, that will help you when things are tough at your
job. That may help you when you may not like your boss. That may help you when you may
not like your job when you realize it's actually Jesus Christ giving me this task and I should
obey it. I should do it heartily. But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which
he hath done. And there is no respect of persons. Look, if you don't obey what the Bible's saying
here, if you decide not to obey your masters according to the flesh, if you decide not
to work hard, you just want to work with eye service, you're going to reap what you sow.
You're going to receive of the wrong that you're sowing. You know, I haven't been on
social media for several months. It's been great. But several months ago, I saw someone
post a prayer request. They said, Hey, I quit my job today. And I ripped up my boss's feedback
that he gave me. And I threw it all over his office. And I just chewed them out and
let him have it. Will you please pray for me that I could find a new job? It's like,
you are an idiot, my friend. The Bible says right here, it says, but he that doeth wrong
shall receive for the wrong which he hath done. Hey, now you're jobless. Now you can't
provide and you're receiving the wrong that you've done because God does not want Christians
treating their bosses that way. Just the utter disrespect makes me sick. I mean, I used to
work a job where I just saw people all the time disrespect the bosses and it just annoyed
me to death. You know, at this job we started at six a.m. And I remember one time the boss
came in at five fifty nine a.m. and started giving orders to the team and they're like,
it's not six a.m. yet. You can't talk to us. And I'm just like, you are insane. Like
there's something seriously wrong with you if you have that attitude towards your boss.
Look, if your boss talks to you before you clock in, who cares? Just be the best employee
anyways. I'll read for you Proverbs 18 nine. It says he that is slothful in his work is
brother to him. That is a great waster. You know, God doesn't want us to work in a way
that we're wasting company time or company resources but man you see this all the time
and even on social media people like to brag about how little they do on their job I mean
I remember back when Elon Musk bought Twitter which is now X or whatever he was talking
about all the Twitter employees that they would make videos like a day in the life of
a Twitter employee and this girl would like she'd clock in and then she'd go to Starbucks
and then she'd go play pool and then she'd go get a massage and then she'd send an email
and then she'd get some bubble tea and then she'd go to lunch and she'd just like clock
out and it's like wow talk about someone that's a great waster someone being paid for a job
and doing nothing that's not how God wants us to be working. Go to Ephesians chapter
number four Ephesians chapter number four Ephesians four verse twenty eight says let
him that stole steal no more but rather let him labor working with his hands the thing
which is good that he may have to give to him that need it when the Bible here is saying
hey you're you were stealing don't steal anymore now what you need to do is you need to work
with your hands I think what this is kind of symbolizing here is working an honest job
you know God wants us when we go to work to be putting our time effort and energy into
something that is actually profitable for society profitable for customers something
that is actually a positive work in this world you know there's some jobs that Christians
should just not have you know there's some sinful jobs out there how about loaning on
interest you know that is a sin the Bible teaches that interest is a sin and if your
whole job is just to steal people's money look that's that's not a good job to have
you know there's a lot of these mortgage companies where they just do something called churning
where they literally just try to refinance you over and over and over just to get the
processing fees and they don't care about if they're ruining you financially they just
want to just all they're doing is just shifting money around and they're just making millions
and millions of dollars off doing nothing that's not profitable right that's not a
good job payday loan businesses taking advantage of the poor this would not be a good job to
have this is not working with your hands that which is good okay selling scam products there's
always companies out there that will lie to you about what the product is or about the
functions that it has you know that would be an example of a job we should avoid how
about being a bartender right that would be a job that's not working with your hands that
which is good how about being a drug dealer that's not working with your hands that which
is good look just because you're making money doesn't mean it's a good job no you have to
be doing an honest job and there's nothing wrong by the way working with your hands literally
nothing wrong with having a blue collar job there's nothing wrong with you know working
and doing construction or some sort of job where you're working with your hands but that's
honest work and that actually is providing people benefit and value in this world it's
not something that should be looked down or despised no that's actually honest work go
to Proverbs 21 I'll read for you first Thessalonians 4 it says in that you study to be quiet and
do your own business and to work with your own hands as we commanded you the Bible says
that we should study to be quiet this isn't saying that never talk on your job never talk
to your co-workers never send an email to your workers or or communicate in any way
what it's saying is actually be working honestly right not just talking not just wasting time
no actually just be quiet when you when you clock in put your head down and work hard
until the very end of the day and don't waste time did I have you go to Proverbs 21 Proverbs
21 verse 5 the thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness but of everyone that
is hasty only to want what is someone that's hasty it's someone that's not patient the
Bible saying that if you're just really hasty with your work you're really hasty to get
rich that basically your life is going to tend only to want or to lack or you're needing
things this is the get rich quick scheme people that's not the type of jobs that God wants
us to do you know God doesn't want you to go to Andrew Tate's website Hustlers University
and try to learn to get a get quick rich scheme by basically selling pornography you know that's
what Andrew Tate did to make all his money was that working with his hands that which
is good was that an honest job was that working for the Lord no it's just smut and filth and
I cannot even believe that people like Andrew Tate he's a complete loser he's there's nothing
cool about him he's like oh you know Andrew Tate you know someone told me this well Andrew
Tate caused me to start working out it's like okay well when I went to high school
Michelle Obama told us to work out so does that mean that Michelle Obama's cool like
Michelle Obama gave us like the food pyramid when I was in high school and said like eat
healthy foods it's like go Michelle Obama now it's like okay cool I bet you Andrew Tate
you know uses toothpaste too like that doesn't make him a good person what fools so we talked
about work in this world let's talk about this work in the home you know work in the
world is a blessing but what's even more of a blessing than work in this world is work
in the home you know I wish that people would adopt this mentality today because it's really
true even if you are working an honest job even if you are providing for your family
you know the work that's done in the home is of a lot more value and is a lot more long
lasting than someone just erecting a building or selling a product or selling a service
know the whole the work that's done in the home that is a real blessing and when you
have that you should appreciate that go to Malachi chapter number 2 Malachi chapter number
2 Malachi 2 verse 14 says yet you say wherefore because the Lord hath been witness between
thee and the wife of thy youth against whom thou hast dealt treacherously yet is she thy
companion and the wife of thy covenant so we're talking about marriage here it says
in verse 15 and did he did not he make one yet had he the residue of the spirit and wherefore
one why did God make of twain one flesh that he might seek a godly seed and you know there's
a lot of reasons why God has given us marriage and why God has given us the home you know
God wanted Adam to have companionship God wanted Adam to have a help meet but right
here in Malachi we get one of the reasons why God gave us marriage and that's because
God today is seeking a godly seed God is seeking the next generation of Christians to be
raised up to be brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and you know what
that is work but that work even though it could be a burden what it really is is it
is a blessing the home the work that we do at home as mothers and fathers as husbands
and wives that is a blessing today there are people like I kind of spoke about earlier
that are intentionally not having children has anyone heard of this this trend called
dinks has anyone heard of this okay a few people dual income no kids and these people
basically get online and they brag about how they're intentionally purposely never going
to have children and they're like look how cool we are we can go to bed whenever we want
look how cool we are we could wake up whenever we want look how cool we are because of how
much extra disposable income we have look how cool we are because we can go on all these
vacations but look these people that are intentionally purposely not having children are missing serious
blessings in their lives and they're they're not understanding one of the main reasons
God even gave us marriage in the first place because it says right here that he was seeking
a godly seed that is one of the biggest reasons why you even get married is to have children
look if you purposely in your mind are thinking I never ever want to have children no matter
what you shouldn't even get married because that's the whole point now obviously there's
situations that people can't control but what I'm saying is if you're just intentionally
saying I will never have children that's a selfish attitude you know I had a family member
like this who's this idiot Joe Biden abortion-loving freak can't stand this guy but when he married
his wife the condition of them getting married is he said hey you have to tie your tubes
before we ever even get married you shouldn't have even gotten married then that's a wicked
thing to do and of course they ended up getting divorced in like four months so she ruined
her body they ruined their life four months it's just over that's these dinks that are
celebrating how great they are no it's not great go to Psalm chapter 127 Psalm 127 Psalm
27 verse 3 it says lo children are in heritage of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is his
reward as arrows are in the hand of a mighty man so are children of the youth happy is
the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed but they shall speak
with the enemies in the gate I mean the Bible here is just straightly explaining to us that
having children is a blessing and it's something to be desired like as a mighty man that goes
out to war wants to have his quiver full of arrows or in modern-day vernacular when the
soldier goes out to war and he wants to have lots of magazines for his rifle it's the same
way that you should desire to have a lot of children right and yet today there's people
who are intentionally not doing that now of course why is it that they're not wanting
to do that it's because it's work what's the sermon work is a blessing and if you live
your entire life just avoiding as much work as possible well you're not going to reap
very many blessings because you reap what you sow and so if you reap a lot of work
at the workplace in our secular jobs you're going to reap a lot of blessings because you
reap what you sow and look yeah it's a lot of work having children it's not easy especially
when they're young that's the only phase i know of right now but i'll tell you this it's
not easy i have four girls there's a lot of estrogen in my house there's a lot of tears
of course there's a lot of laughter too there's a lot of fun but my oldest daughter was born
in march of 2019 and there has not been a day in my house since that date that there's
not been crying literally just like march 5th 2019 to this very day every day there's
tears in my home why because I've got a lot of women in my home that's just how it works
and that's a lot of work but you know what it's a blessing I love it I wouldn't trade
it for anything in the world and yeah it is hard and people think that I'm insane because
I'm 27 and we've had we have four kids but it's like it's a blessing God says that it's
a blessing but why are people avoiding it because it's work and and don't don't miss
hear me it's work you decide to have a lot of kids it will be hard it will not be easy
but it will be a blessing go to Deuteronomy chapter number six Deuteronomy six and truth
be told I'm probably in one of the easier stages because little kids little problems
big kids big problems little kids little mistakes big kids big mistakes and that sounds scarier
to me than having little kids right now you know Deuteronomy chapter number six verse
six and these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart and thou shalt
teach them diligently unto thy children look the Bible says that we are supposed to diligently
teach the commandments of God to our children does that sound like it's easy no it does
not that takes a lot of work a lot of effort this is a big book right here there's a lot
of truth in it there's a lot of doctrine in it and it takes a lot of work to teach someone
that literally knows nothing coming out of the womb to know and understand the word of
God but God says that it's our job to diligently teach them to our children that's a lot of
work but here's the question will that reap a lot of blessings oh you better better believe
that it will you better believe that it will when you put in the time and the effort to
actually train your children to teach them the word of God then that is going to carry
with them for the rest of their lives and the principles and the doctrine that they
learn from God's word will turn into blessings not even just in your life but in their lives
and I don't know about you but as a parent I would rather my children be blessed than
me I would rather my children have successful and happy lives than even myself and so if
we can deliver the word of God to them and it changes their life man that's a lot of
work but it's a blessing too it says and thou shalt talk of them notice when thou sittest
down when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou
liest down and when thou risest up that sounds like a lot of work just constantly teaching
and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand and they shall be as frontless between
thine eyes and thou shalt write them upon the post of thy house and upon and on thy
gates. Man, the Bible here is not making it sound like this is going to be easy. It's
when you're sitting, it's when you're standing, it's when you're walking, it's when you're
in your house, it's when you're not in your house. I mean basically the Bible's saying
that throughout your entire life you should be using it as a teaching process for your
children and we only have a very limited amount of time with our kids and even just my children,
the oldest is five and I feel like five years have just gone by like that. I feel like I'm
going to blink and all of a sudden they're going to be teenagers and they're going to
be gone and the mentality I think that sometimes parents fail to realize before it's too late
is that we are not raising children. We are raising adults. We are raising adults and
too many parents are just caught up in the day to day of their life and of their job
and just watching what's new on Netflix or just scrolling social media away and every
day their children are getting older and older and older and all of a sudden they're gone
and many parents they just have regrets of why didn't I spend time with them, why didn't
I teach them the Bible, why didn't I put in the hard work of raising them so that I could
reap the benefits of them being godly children.
It's like, oh now they're gone and my son has gotten multiple women pregnant, what do
I do?
It's like nothing, you're screwed, sorry, it's not very comforting but it's like you
should have thought about that before, you should have put in the work before.
Sometimes it's like you can't undo things, you know, your daughter grows up and you didn't
teach her to love God, you didn't show her that church was important, you didn't teach
her the Bible and she grows up and she just marries some worldly guy and is just out of
church for the rest of her life, it's like what do I do?
It's like you could pray but you can't go back in time and so what you should do right
now is realize, man I know it's a lot of work, I know it's hard, I know I'm stressed out,
I know I'm tired but I need to put in the work of raising my children.
Why?
Because I want to reap the blessing that that work provides.
I'm going to read for you Proverbs 10.1, it says, "The Proverbs of Solomon, a wise son
makeeth a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother."
Look, you will reap what you sow and if you put in the hard work, when you're old and
your children are grown up, it says that you're going to be a glad father if you have a wise
son.
But what's the converse of that?
If you're a mother that has a foolish child, heaviness, sorrow.
I mean, imagine if your child grew up to vote for Joe Biden, wouldn't you be disappointed?
Wouldn't you be disappointed if you had your grown son over for dinner at Thanksgiving
and their grandchildren are there and they're thinking, you know, I'm not sure if these
kids are boys or girls.
I might have to wait till they get older and see if they want to get a gender reassignment
surgery.
Wouldn't that give you some heaviness?
You know that there's literally people in this country that are dealing with that situation.
There's literally moms dealing with their grandchildren being transitioned.
There's dads dealing with their sons that grow up to be sodomites.
That's literally happening.
That's real pain that real people are experiencing.
It's not just something that's funny to us.
No, it's actually really happening.
Why?
Because they didn't put in the work and now they have heaviness.
I'll read for you Proverbs 22-6, "Train up the child, train up a child in the way he
should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Look, of course, children still have free will and all human beings have free will,
but at the end of the day, when you train your child up in the things of God, you will
have a major influence in their life.
You will have a major impact on how they turn out as people and it takes a lot of work.
Now even if, even if someone doesn't have children, you know, you still have work to
do in the home because God has probably given you a spouse to take care of.
And you know what, that is an important relationship in our lives, the relationship between husband
and wife.
And it is a lot of work to keep up that relationship too.
And it is important.
And just like with children, you reap what you sow.
The people that have the best marriages are the ones that invest the most in their marriages.
And if God hasn't blessed you with children yet, then you know what, just invest as much
as you can into your marriage and say, Hey, that's my work at home is my wife.
Hey, that's my work at home is my spouse and us together.
We're going to have the most Christ honoring marriage as humanly possible.
That should be your goal.
And hey, you know, there's, there's other carnal work at home too.
You know, part of the job of a woman is to keep the house just like a man goes out and
sweats and makes money.
You know, a woman is supposed to keep the house.
That is hard work.
You know how I know it's hard work because you can literally pay companies to come clean
your house for a lot of money or they, you could pay them to come clean the church for
a lot of money, right?
And you could pay people to tutor your children and you could pay people to wash your laundry
and you could pay people to cook you meals.
These things cost a ton of money.
Why?
Because it's a ton of work.
Okay.
So I'm not minimizing the work that women do at home and I don't think anyone ever should
and women you shouldn't see yourself as lesser or beneath a man because you don't have go
to a corporate job.
No, your work at home is very valuable and it's very honorable and you know what?
More important than any of that, it pleases the Lord and that's what you should care about
most regardless of what people say about you, regardless of what the politics of the country
is, just knowing that hey, I'm doing what God wants me to do and that provides peace
in our lives.
For the sake of time, let's go to the last point here, you know we talked about work
in this world, we talked about work at home, this is the last area that God has given us
to work in our life and that is working in the kingdom of God.
The spiritual work that we do, go to Ephesians chapter number six, Ephesians chapter number
six.
You know working in the world is a blessing, it's a blessing to have a job, it's a blessing
to provide for your family.
Working at home is a blessing, it's a blessing to have family members, a mother, a father
or a spouse or children, that is a great blessing in our lives.
You know what the greatest blessing that God has given us in our lives is the opportunity
to work for him, that is a blessing.
That's not something you should look at as like oh I have to serve God, oh I have to
go to church, oh I have to read your Bible, no we get to serve the Lord Jesus Christ.
That is awesome.
You know too many Christians today they don't have that attitude.
They think that serving God is a drag and what a shame that there's some Muslims on
this earth with more zeal towards their false religion than a lot of Christians are towards
serving God.
Look at Ephesians 6 verse 12, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness
in high places."
You know the Bible says that we wrestle, wrestling, it kind of invokes the idea of a fight or
of a struggle.
And you know our struggle or our fight or the thing that we're putting our energy into
in this world is not against flesh and blood.
But yet if you looked at Christianity today, you would think that the Bible teaches the
exact opposite of this because so many Christians today they're not deciding to put all of their
energy and effort into the work of God, but rather they're trying to put their work and
energy into the carnal fight pastors today are more concerned with Donald Trump.
They're more concerned with the RNC.
They see it as more of a goal in their mission in their ministry to make sure that Trump
gets elected into office.
Then they care about going soul winning this Saturday.
Then they care about spending time in their Bible this week.
Then they care about spending time in prayer for their church members.
No.
What are they doing?
They're just praying for Trump.
Look, pray as much as you want, but I'm just telling you that that's not the work that
God has called us to do in this life.
So many people today, they take politics way too far to where it's their whole life's goal.
It's their life's work.
Look, I don't think there's anything wrong with paying attention to the news.
I don't think there's anything wrong about being interested in that kind of stuff.
Maybe it's your hobby, maybe it's the thing that you're kind of nerdy about, whatever,
I get it.
When I was a teenager, I was that nerdy guy that would literally watch C-SPAN, okay?
When I was a teenager, I went to programs called Patriot Academy, and in my law enforcement
class, we had to write the Constitution out by hand.
We had to write the Declaration out by hand.
I get it.
Some people are raised that way.
But look, I care way more about the work of God than any of that stuff.
All that stuff could disappear tomorrow, and we still have the spiritual nation.
All that could disappear tomorrow, and we still have soul winning.
We still have Christianity.
We still have church.
Look at Luke chapter number two, if you'll turn there, Luke chapter number two, Luke
chapter number two, verse 49, Jesus's parents have kind of lost him here and they're looking
for him.
And in verse 49, it says, and he said unto them, how is it that you sought me?
Whist ye not that I must be about my father's business?
See, Jesus referred to the work of God to ministry as a business, and a lot of people
would be so offended that if you called a church a business, but let me just tell you
right now what a church is, it's a business.
But guess what?
We're not in the business of making money.
We're in the business of bringing a spiritual profit to the kingdom of God.
You better believe we are looking to make a profit at this church.
Oh yeah, we're trying to make a profit by winning as many souls as possible to Christ.
We do want to make a profit.
Hey, this is a business, and I'm not ashamed to say that.
I think it's the greatest business in the world.
But what kind of work should this business be doing?
Well, it's not just selling products.
It's not necessarily just providing a carnal service
or anything like that.
It's winning souls to Jesus Christ.
That's what God ordained the local New Testament church
to do, is to go out and reach people with the gospel.
Go to Matthew chapter number 21, Matthew chapter number 21,
Matthew chapter number 21, verse 33.
He said, "Here another parable.
There was a certain householder which planted a vineyard
and hedged it roundabout and digged a winepress in it
and built a tower and let it out to husband men
and went into a far country."
You know what this is?
This householder, this is an investment that he's making.
This is a business.
This vineyard is this householder's business.
And look, he's putting a lot of work into it.
He's planting a vineyard.
He's hedging it roundabout.
He's making sure it has a security system
and it has, you know, safety and all that.
He's digging a winepress, assets to make money.
He's building a tower.
He's really protective of it.
And he's letting it out to husband men.
He's renting out this vineyard for people to work.
Why?
Why would someone that owns a business
be motivated to do this, to make money, right?
To build a profit.
And Jesus is drawing this parable.
He said, hey, there's this business owner.
He's trying to make a profit.
Look at verse 34.
And when the time of the fruit drew near,
he sent his servants to the husband men
that they might receive the fruits of it.
What was the business owner's goal?
To receive the fruits of the vineyards, to make money.
And what is the spiritual application of this?
God's business, God is in it to make a profit.
It's not money 'cause he owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
It's a spiritual profit.
He's in it to win souls to Jesus Christ.
And that's one of the greatest works that we could do
in this business, in the work of the kingdom of God,
is win people to Christ.
Proverbs 11.30, I'll read for you.
It says, "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,
and he that winneth souls is wise."
And that's what we should be spending so much time,
effort, and energy on, is preaching the gospel,
reaching people with the gospel, and not only that,
training the next generation of soul winners.
Look, the gospel can't just die with us.
We've got to train the next generation.
You know, something I've been doing recently,
I've been wearing kind of like a hidden camera
when I'm out soul winning.
I've just been filming soul winning presentations
of people getting saved.
And what I'm hoping that these videos can do
is be a tool for new soul winners
that don't know how to preach the gospel,
to be where, hey, you can just send them this link
and they can watch a video of a real gospel presentation
of a real person getting saved.
And hopefully that could train people
so they can learn how to become soul winners.
Why?
Because we're trying to make a spiritual profit here.
We're trying to get people saved.
And we wanna train as many people to do that as possible.
Flip over a few pages to Matthew 28.
We'll go through these last ones pretty quick here.
Matthew 28, you know, another work that God wants us
to do in this business is baptizing people.
Matthew 28 verse 19, Jesus said,
"Go ye therefore and teach all nations,
"baptizing them in the name of the Father
"and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost."
You know, that's part two of the great commission
is baptizing people.
And notice it's not in the name of Jesus only,
like the Pentecostal say, it's in the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost.
Hey, we're gonna baptize people biblically,
but look, that is something that God wants us to do.
Go to Hebrews chapter number four.
Here's another great work that we could do
for this business, for the work of the kingdom of God,
and that is the preaching of God's word.
Not just soul winning, but explaining the Bible,
applying it to our lives,
helping us make changes in our lives.
Look at Hebrews four, verse 12.
"For the word of God is quick and powerful
and sharper than any two edged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit
of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart."
The Bible says that the word of God is like a sword.
And boy, does America need us to whip out this sword right now.
There's so many things that just spiritually
need to be destroyed right now in our nation.
And what it's going to take is spirit-filled men taking
the word of God and wielding that sword.
We need to take the word of God today
and wield that sword against Catholicism, against Mormonism,
against the Pentecostals.
We need to raise it up high and slay Islam.
We need to slay this woke, wicked, transgender ideology
with Leviticus 2013.
Hey, we need to use the sword today.
God expects us to do it.
It's one of the good works that God wants us to do.
And you know what?
I personally want to dedicate my entire life to doing that.
You know what?
It should not even just be me.
It should be all the people in this room.
You should be preaching to your mom and dad.
You should be explaining the Bible to your co-workers.
Of course, try to get them saved first.
But look, Christians have been so cowardly for so long
that even though Christians have outnumbered
the wicked in our nation for so long,
we're just getting slaughtered in the culture.
You know, I do care about doing everything
we can to bring back a Christian culture to America,
not just stopping and getting people saved.
Wouldn't it be great if we could get a Christian culture
back in America?
And honestly, Oklahoma's already on the right track
for doing that.
But look, we should push it as hard as we can.
I love that the new IFB does the documentaries.
I love that they post the short videos.
I love that they get on the news and all that stuff.
Why?
Because we want to make the Christian culture permeate
throughout this country again.
And it shouldn't just be the pastor,
shouldn't just be the preacher.
Look, someone asks you at work, hey,
what do you think about children being mutilated?
You're like, well, let me just show you
real quick what the Bible says.
We need to stop being afraid of the personal consequences
that we are going to face, because if you just
decide to be afraid and cower, the consequences you're
going to be facing are going to be way worse than the things
that you're afraid of or whatever.
Here's another great work that we could have.
I'll read for you for these last couple ones for sake of time.
Verse Thessalonians 5.25 says, brethren, pray for us.
Very short verse, very succinct verse,
but a very powerful verse.
Brethren, pray for us.
A great work that you could be doing in the work of God
is simply praying for your brothers and sisters in Christ.
You know, we have this prayer list here.
I think you guys have a great job doing a great job
putting this together.
You know, don't forget about the missionaries
that are overseas.
Don't forget about those guys.
I mean, those guys are sacrificing a lot
for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And we're living here in the creature comforts
of the United States of America.
And there's a lot more money here.
There's a lot more luxury here.
And these guys are in the Philippines.
And let's just be honest,
that's not the nicest place in the world.
Those guys are making a sacrifice to go there.
And so what's the least we can do for them?
Pray for them.
Don't forget about them.
Look, Germany is listed here.
Those guys need prayer.
Those guys are going through serious persecution.
Way more persecution
than Steadfast Baptist Church ever went through.
I mean, in Germany, they literally got this lady saved.
She visited church for the first time and she went home
and the police were at her door interrogating her
for going to the church.
These guys literally, almost all of their homes
have been literally raided by police
and all of their electronics have been taken
and they're being literally criminally charged
that could have punishments leading to literal prison
just for attending this church.
Look, you gotta be praying for those people.
You know, and honestly, who knows if that church,
if we don't pray for that church,
it's possible that that church literally won't even survive.
That's just a reality.
And so right now, while that hasn't happened yet,
you know what we need to do?
We need to be praying for those people.
That's a great work that we could do
in the kingdom of God, not forgetting about these people.
I mean, there's some major surgeries in this bulletin
for a little baby.
Man, we gotta be praying for that.
I mean, I couldn't imagine going through that situation.
We gotta be praying for that child.
We gotta be praying for the parents,
because, I mean, that's just heart-wrenching
even to see in the bulletin, quite honestly.
So be praying.
Here's another work that we could do.
I'll read for you again, Hebrews 10, 24.
"Let us consider one another to provoke unto love
"and to good works,
"not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together."
You know what a great work we could do
in the kingdom of God is?
It's simply fellowshipping
with our brothers and sisters in Christ.
Simply being there to sharpen, to iron, to sharpen iron,
to be there to sharpen the countenance of your friend.
And you know where you do that?
You do that right here in church.
You know, that is a work
that many people are forsaking today.
Even the Bible, at this time, they were forsaking.
It says, "Not forsaking the assembling of themselves
together as the manner of some is."
Meaning at this time, it was already people's proclivity
to skip church or to skip out
on the assembling of God's people.
But, you know, let us not be that way.
Let us be the exception to that.
You know, let us realize that church is not just a building
that we show up to a few times a week.
No, it's actually real people with real lives,
with real souls, with real children
that are gonna grow up, with real problems in their life
that are going through, you know, real heartaches.
And realize that you as a Christian,
one of your jobs as a Christian
is to fellowship with believers
and you can make a big difference in someone's life
just by showing up to church.
You don't necessarily know all the effects
you're having on people by simply you just talking to them,
by simply you just being a true friend to them.
Let me tell you something,
true friends are hard to find in this world.
This world's cutthroat,
people will just stab you in the back on a dime.
And look, it's nice to be around some people
that are actually real.
And you know where you're gonna find that?
You're gonna find that in the local New Testament church.
You're not gonna find that anywhere else.
Last thing I wanna talk about is another great work
we could do in the kingdom of God
is visiting the fatherless and widows in their affliction.
And I know you guys are already doing this
because you have the nursing home ministry,
but I just wanna encourage you guys to not give up on that,
to keep going on that.
And I've done that before.
I've preached in those ministries before.
I know at times it can be hard when you're preaching
and Joe Biden's talking to himself back there.
He's having like a dementia episode
and he's like yelling at you while you're preaching.
It happens, I get it.
But you know what?
That is a good work that you're doing.
And in fact, in James chapter number one,
the Bible says that that's what pure religion even is,
is visiting the fatherless and widows in their affliction.
You know, a lot of those peoples are literally widows
or they're widowers.
And my mom for a time worked in a nursing home
and would take care of them until they literally died.
And she said that sometimes no one ever comes to see them,
no family member ever calls them,
and they literally just die alone
with the employee of that nursing home.
And you know what?
Not all of them are like my mom,
where she's gonna love on them and take care of them
and pray with them.
I'm sure some of them couldn't give a care less.
They couldn't care less about those people, right?
That is a terrible situation.
And look, by us going there, by us loving them,
by us preaching to them,
that is a good work that you're doing.
And don't give up on that.
Keep doing that for as long as you can.
That's a great work in the kingdom of God.
Honestly, I think it's kind of a miracle
that that's even happening,
because I thought that after COVID,
that that would be done for forever.
So praise the Lord that that's happening.
You know, just in conclusion,
just realize that there's a lot of work
to be done in this life.
There's a lot of things that you could decide
to put your energy and effort into.
And rather than complaining about the fact
that you have to go to work,
or the fact that it's so hard to raise children,
or the fact that it's so hard to go to church
three times a week,
it's so hard to get out there and go sowing,
it's so hard to read the Bible,
why don't you just realize that work is a blessing?
Realize that you were put on this earth to work,
not to lay around and just live
for the pleasures of this life,
and to just watch TV all day,
and to just stack as much money as you can,
and just to go on as many vacations as you can.
No, God told Adam before he ever sinned to work.
And God told Eve, "Listen Eve, you're his help me,"
way before they ever sinned.
So look, working is not a curse, work is a blessing.
Let's close with a word of prayer.
Lord, thank you so much for this day.
Thank you so much for the work that you've given us to do in our lives.
Thank you for the jobs that you give us.
Thank you for our families, and thank you most of all for the ministry of Jesus Christ.
Thank you that we're all included in that and have opportunities to be profitable for
you.
I pray that you would just turn all of our hearts to you and that we would truly desire
to work for you as the main goal of all of our lives.
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
Right, we'll go ahead and sing one last song to conclude the service.
If you would, grab a hymnal and turn to hymn number 422, hymn number 422, "Thou didst
leave thy throne," hymn number 422, sing that right on the first.
"Thou didst leave thy throne, when thou came to earth's home, was there found no root?
For there is fruit, such it rang, will sing, oh, thy rules have come to end in great yeast.
And the birds there, in the shade of the forest, was the sun, oh thou sun, in the deserts of
Galilee; with a lynch it set thy beam, and with crown thy come to vague; there is fruit
in my sight, joy come for me.