long road ahead but my wife took off to Austin because she thought that was the last time they
were going to see him so I was kind of a little short-handed so I got my three kids with me so
just be patient with me today because I'm playing daddy and mommy and I'm not a mommy so I'm only
playing daddy so I'll just let me let me make that clear but turn your handles over page 1.3
we've done this acapella before so it shouldn't be a big deal blessed assurance on the first
blessed assurance on the first blessed assurance jesus is mine oh what a force of glory be
perfect submit a bulletin rickie pass out any bulletins if you need don't have a bulletin just
raise your hand my son will pass them out i try to rotate among all young guys where are you
eight and um so welcome to spring crest our sunday service time is 10 30 a.m evening it's 4 30 p.m
and then our wednesday service is there at 5 30 p.m our soul winning time is 2 p.m and then our
memory chapter is philippians 1 we're on philippians 118 what then notwithstanding every way whether in
pretense or in truth christ is preach and i therein do rejoice yea and will rejoice it's just a
reminder we are family integrated church so we encourage everybody to be in the services of course
if your uh your kids are just a little bit too loud we have the family you know the mother baby
room in the back and it's specifically exactly for that mother baby room birthdays coming up
nellie gavada's birthdays tomorrow and then briel i got that right right briel's is on 12 my wife is
the one that correct i didn't have that on me so always call me out if i don't it's hard for me
to keep up with all of it and then upcoming activities i left that there just so the reminder
we had a great day yesterday so thank you to everybody that came out i think we had like 30
people um pastor aus brought a couple of people from steadfast in oklahoma i believe they were
with us as well so i think it was a good time it was it started out a little disorganized you know
i had to call an audible but after that it all worked out really well so i really appreciate
everybody that joined us i think we all had a good time of fellowship i know pastor aus really
enjoyed it it was actually really cool if you've not been i would encourage you to go to nasa and
to go to all that cool stuff that they show you there and then um today we have pastor dylan aus
here uh guest preaching for us from anchor baptist church in oklahoma city oklahoma and um you know
he's a good friend i don't remember i've known him for i think over five years i think before
you were married or shortly after you were married young guy but don't let that fool you he brings
it so just get ready you know that's one of the things we really enjoy about him a couple of
things just so that you know i've known him for several years um he's most famous for preaching
a sermon when he wasn't a pastor but everybody said that he was the pastor and he said to line
him up and shoot him in the back of the head he was talking about the queers and i thought to
myself when i heard that i was like man i wish i would have said that line you know like that was
a good line but you know he's the one that gets the credit and uh you know for that also though
comes a lot of persecution and a lot of trials and tribulations so although it's really cool to be in
the limelight always pray for him and his family because to this day people are still you know
hounding him and pressuring him all because he's preaching the word of god and the truth and so
you know we really appreciate men that are willing to stand up no matter what the consequences and
preach the word of god and you know that's one of the things that we really love so he's faithful
to god his family church and also most importantly he's faithful to the lost you know always out
there we're always going to associate mostly most likely with soul winners you know those are the
people that are willing to go out there and take the time to do the things that 90 percent of
christians will never do so just encourage him and his family he's here with his daughter bethany
i think she's six so make sure you make her feel welcome you know she's uh already had a great time
i think that she bought a helmet and was an astronaut last night so i don't know if she's
not an astronaut motor now we don't know yet so leave it like that on the other uh point just
real quick uh march february 21st we have a soul winning marathon it will be from here in the
church we're going to do the antoine area and then march 21st we're going to have a soul winning
marathon again in uh i haven't decided the area there that's the week in the pastor bruce maghia
has come in he comes in that evening but there will be a lot of activity of people like uh
letting us know they're coming so we might as well just take advantage of that and then he's
preaching for us march 22nd he's from uh faithful uh first works baptist church in uh anaheim
california and then you see that congrats to all the uh january new testament challenge winners
there pray for the expecting mothers hailey and christian just keep praying for a you know good
pregnancy and on the back i updated the prayer request i did not put my brother-in-law he is uh
i'll add him later but just pray for mary sarah safe traveling versus back and uh for his quick
recovery other than that if there's no other announcement is there any announcements faster
or anything we need to cover then let's turn our hymnals over to page 20 page 20 when i see the
blood page or hymn 20 on the first when i see the blood christ our redeemer died on the cross
the sinners paid all his dues to see tea and just uh i forgot the services pastor also if you don't
mind after when you close out our prayer we just blessed the food i appreciate it we we catered in
some food it was just a lot easier than having everybody try to go out and try to fellowship
and figure out everything so whoever wants to we're gonna have a fellowship here we've got some good
homemade food from uh like the catering service or whatever and so just uh stay back and enjoy that
way you can have some time a fellowship with none of the pastor ops but we've got some young people
in the back that also came to visit us so make them feel welcome jamison in the back you know
what he's famous for is for driving me back after i broke my collarbone and that was his first time
driving to the big city so i don't know who was more scared wasn't jamison or myself but
either way he got me home safely so i really appreciate it then we have brother alex and his
fiance and nathaniel and i don't know the other young gentlemen but you know just make him feel
welcome and so thank you for that but we are going to have a time of fellowship after the services
let's turn to our last hymn 301 and then if brother trey if you could take up the tithing
offering from brother uh matt is reading uh chapter i would greatly appreciate it three zero one sweet
hour of prayer on the first sweet is it first timothy first timothy chapter six you'll turn
your bibles over to first timothy chapter so first timothy chapter six first timothy chapter six
first timothy chapter six first timothy chapter six verse one the bible reads let as many servants
as are under the oak count their own masters worthy of all honor name of god and his doctrine
be not blasphemed they that have believing masters let them not despise them because they are
brethren but rather do them service because they are faithful and beloved partakers of the benefit
these things teach and exhort if any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome work even
the words of our lord jesus christ and to the doctrine which is according to godliness he is
proud knowing nothing doting about questions and stripes of words whereof cometh envy strife
railings evil surmises perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth
supposing that gain is godliness such withdraw thyself godliness with contentment is great gain
we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out and having
food and raiment let us therewith let us be there with content they that will be rich fall into
temptation and a snare into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and
perdition for the love of money is the root of all evil which while some coveted after they have
erred from the faith pierce themselves through with many sorrows but thou oh man of god believe
these things follow after righteousness godliness faith love patience meekness fight the good fight
of faith lay hold on eternal life whereunto thou art also called it has professed a good profession
before many witnesses i give thee charge in the sight of god who quickeneth all things and before
christ jesus who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession thou keep his commandment without
spot unrebukeable till the appearing of our lord jesus christ which in his times he shall
oh he shall show who is the blessed and only potential the king of kings the lord of lords
who only hath immortality dwelling in the sight in the light which no man can approach unto
whom no man hath seen nor can see to whom the honor and power everlasting amen charge them that
are rich in this world that they be not high-minded nor trust in uncertain riches living god who give
it us richly all things to enjoy that they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute
willing to communicate laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time
to come they may lay hold on eternal life oh timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust
voiding profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsely so called which some professing
have erred concerning the faith race be with thee amen let us bow our heads and thank you
for gathering us here this morning thank you for your word we thank you for saving us and
adopting us into your family lord we pray that you fill pastor aus with your holy spirit with
the power to preach with fullness and clarity from the pulpit the lord please soften our hearts so
that way we may be edified and changed and be more effective servants for you thank you lord
we ask this from jesus amen well thank you to pastor reyes and his family pastor cob
and his wife for having me out um i do want to say it's just been an amazing weekend so far great
hospitality uh the events at nasa yesterday was really really fun i just personally am kind of a
guy that really loves aviation and i i love devouring books about nasa so going there
personally was super super fun uh with my daughter it's kind of like an early early
birthday present for her so she had a really great time and um i've been friends like pastor reyes
said with with him for a long time but i have not been down here yet spring press so it's great to
be here for the first time uh so again thank you very much for having me now let me get this sucker
plugged in here before i forget all right so we are in first timothy chapter number six and we're
going to start reading in verse 10 the bible says for the love of money is the root of all evil
which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through
with many sorrows but thou oh man of god flee these things and follow after righteousness godliness
faith love patience meekness notice verse 12 the bible says fight the good fight of faith lay
hold on eternal life whereunto thou art also called and has professed a good profession before
many witnesses here we have the apostle paul encouraging exhorting a young pastor to fight
the good fight and of course by him specifying there that he needs to fight the good fight we
know of course there's a lot of bad fights in this world there's a lot of fights that are completely
vain and meaningless there's a lot of fights that are driven by envy driven by pride and of
course we should avoid carnal fights you know we should avoid fighting over secondary tertiary
issues that are not you know the most important things we should avoid fighting with our brothers
and sisters in christ but you know there's a good fight to be fought in this world and people kind
of want to attack this idea of fighting or strife or drama as being something that is always negative
but yet the bible here is exhorting the man of god to go out and fight a fight now throughout history
independent fundamental baptists have been derided and criticized by liberals by those who water down
the truth of god's word by those who are not willing to take a stand and they would call us
names like oh we're divisive we're we're always causing strife we're causing trouble we're
causing drama we're causing strife but you know what what that is really is they're mad at us
for fighting the good fight what happens is a lot of pastors a lot of movements like the new
evangelical movement want to back off from the stances that the word of god takes and then when
we continue standing where the bible has stood they say you guys are picking fights you guys are
being divisive and you know it even came to bear last year when i remember there was this this ex
new ifb pastor this pastor who just decided to break fellowship with all of us and one of the
criticisms that he was leveling against the new ifb is he said you know the new ifb is just always
in a fight always in a drama always always in some sort of contention and i'm just thinking
like i took that as offensive because i thought yeah aren't we supposed to be fighting the good
fight i mean are we supposed to be involved in fighting for the gospel fighting for good doctrine
fighting for the bible hey of course we're always involved in a fight because we want to fight the
good fight and you know it's a red flag when people just want to have no fighting no fighting
means doing nothing doing nothing for god hey that'll get you no fighting but you know what to
i say we should fight the good fight of faith and the title of my sermon this morning is this
keep fighting keep fighting go to second timothy for this morning i want to give you three statements
regarding fighting the good fight of faith number one if you try to serve god it will be a fight
it will be a fight and look i don't care if you are a pastor if you're a man that just goes out
works a job provides for your family goes soul winning i don't care if you are a stay at home
mother if you want to do things the way god has told you to do it your life will be a fight it
will be a struggle it will be a battle there's a lot of good fights that we should be fighting
if we actually want to serve god how about the fight for pure doctrine look at second timothy
four verse one the bible says i charge thee therefore before god and the lord jesus christ
who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom notice preach the word
the instant in season out of season notice this reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering
and doctrine look if you are actually a person that cares about the right doctrine of the word
of god you know what that's going to have what's that that's going to lead to is a fight because
you know who that's going to offend is people who don't want to cling to what the word says
they want to preach their own opinions their own ideas but the pastor's commanded hey preach the
word be instant in season out of season that it says hey reprove rebuke exhort you know what that
means you got to get up and tell people hey this is the wrong idea this is bad doctrine these are
lies that are being preached and hey let me tell you what the bible actually says let me correct
your error and you know what that brings that brings strife that brings strife for people who
don't want their air to be called out that don't want their false doctrine to be called out all
right let's look at go if you would to uh verse number three verse number three the bible 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 so notice what happens if a person doesn't
want to fight that fight of figuring out what is true and sticking with what the word says they
don't care about doctrine well because they don't endure sound doctrine they after their own lusts
heap to themselves teachers having itching ears right so how could you tell if someone
just doesn't want to fight the fight of good doctrine well it would be when they follow a
preacher or a pastor that is teaching lies that is teaching heresy verse four and they shall turn
away their ears from the truth and shall be turned into fables but watch thou in all things endure
afflictions do the work of an evangelist make full proof of thy ministry for i'm now ready to be
offered in the time of my departure is at hand notice what he says i have fought a good fight
i have finished my course i have kept the faith that really famous phrase that we often hear hey
i have fought the good fight that is in the context of the instructions he just gave to timothy which
is what to preach the word you know what that tells me is that the apostle paul from the moment
he got saved to the moment he breathed his last he was fighting over doctrine he was fighting the
good fight of faith he was making sure to fight for what the word of god says and he never got to
a point in his ministry where he just got comfortable where he just kind of wanted to sit down and relax
and say you know what doctrine isn't really that that worth fighting over anymore no he says i have
fought the good fight i kept going in my fight for doctrine and look we need to make sure that we
don't allow ourselves as fundamental baptists to become ecumenical right where we just we stop
caring about doctrine and we say you know is the catholic church really that bad i mean i mean
it's five point calvinism really heresy i mean can we just get along with people who believe
you know in oneness pentecostalism that jesus is the i mean come on aren't isn't our mormons our
brothers too right you know when people start talking like that they're revealing that they
have stopped fighting for doctrine they have stopped fighting the good fight and that is
definitely a red flag what are some other things we need to fight go to titus one you know there's
a fight for good doctrine there's also a fight out there against bad preachers against false
teachers against wicked you know servants of the devil that stand up and pretend to be a righteous
person but are not look at titus one nine the bible says holding fast the faithful word as he
has been taught that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the
gainsayer so that's that's what we just talked about that's the good doctrine the pastor needs
to be fighting for that good doctrine to convince people of the truth and notice verse 10 it says
for there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers especially they have the circumcision
whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses teaching things which they ought not
for filthy lucres sake so notice because of the apostle paul's care for the truth of doctrine
he also instructs a young pastor to go out and fight and call out the people who are preaching
that false doctrine and again if you see a person they just they never call out any false teachers
they're never contending for doctrine they're never contending against bad you know wicked false
prophets that's a person who doesn't care about people right no fight for doctrine you don't care
about the word of god then right we have to fight over doctrine because we care about what the bible
says we care about the words of jesus christ okay hey we're going to go out we're going to fight
against bad preachers why because we care about god's people we care about people being influenced
by someone who has a nefarious agenda someone who would like to subvert their mind and teach them
doctrine contrary to what the bible teaches hey we're going to bring a fight to that person
and you know why we do that is because we love god's people and it's the shepherd that refuses
to fight at the shepherds whose love has grown cold it's a clear sign what's another fight we
need to fight go to 1st Corinthians 9 right now i'm just showing you hey there's a lot of good
fights that are out there and fighting in and of itself is not something that is bad yes there's
bad fights we should avoid those but you know there's good fights too look at 1st Corinthians
9 verse number 25 you know there's a fight that we fight all the time against the flesh and you
know that's probably the most important fight because we don't want to knock ourselves out
of the race by getting into a wicked life of sin look at 1st Corinthians 9 verse 25 the bible says
and every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things now they do it to obtain
a corruptible crown but we an incorruptible i therefore so run not as uncertainly so fight i
not as one that beateth the air but i keep under my body and bring it into subjection less that by
any means when i preach to others i myself should be a cast away you know the apostle paul is kind of
drawing a comparison here between the christian life and that of a really dedicated athlete
and the really dedicated athlete you know he's striving for the mastery he's striving for victory
in whatever his sport is right to win the super bowl to win the world series to to win the gold
medal at the olympics right and you know if that person has that goal that person is going to be
temperate in all things right these athletes live really disciplined lives they're going to bed at a
certain time they're waking up at a certain time they're counting all their calories they're
counting all the protein they're counting you know the push-ups they're making sure they're
hitting progressive overload in the gym they're working on every skill i mean these people are
are very commendable just from a carnal sense because of just how disciplined they are right
and he's saying hey these people do this though for a corruptible crown we as god's people are
striving for an incorruptible crown how much more should we be temperate in all things as well
how much more should we care about the fight for doctrine how much more should we care about the
fight against false prophets how much more should we care about the fight against our own flesh
right and making sure that we keep our body under subjection less when we go out and preach to
others we ourselves become a cast away we've seen it many times in many different churches and if
you stay in church you will continue to see it your whole entire life people who are on the
right track men of god preaching good leading churches you as soul winners doing good leading
your family going down the right direction and then people getting carried away off that path
into a life of wicked sin and yourself become a cast away you know that's an important fight
in your life and you what you ought to never give up in the fight in your life against the flesh
you ought to never just take for granted like oh yeah you know i would never go into a really big
sin i would never do something that would destroy my life i would never do something that would
destroy my family's life said every idiot that once destroyed their life hey let him that think
if he standeth take heed lest he fall you know there's a fight against our flesh today and we
ought not to sit here and be puffed up and prideful and say oh i've been in church for this amount of
years i can never go down that direction no no you can you stop reading your bible you stop going
to church you stop praying you stop soul winning you stop singing out to the lord you stop memorizing
scripture you start walking in the flesh you are headed down the path to destruction it doesn't
matter how long you've been saved it doesn't matter the great works that you've done for god
in the past and look i'm just telling you that is a good fight that we need to be fighting today
and it's probably the most important fight is the fight against the flesh go to jude what are some
other fights we've got jude right before revelation hey you know what scratch that here's here's the
ultimate most important fight the fight for the gospel of jesus christ that is the most important
fight you know what we we ought to never shy away from a fight about the gospel someone wants to
pervert the gospel someone wants to come in and teach repent of your sins we're gonna fight you
someone who says hey you know jesus christ is the brother of satan and here's a new testament of
jesus christ called the book of mormon we're gonna fight you we're not going to give up on the
gospel look at verse 1 jude 1 says i jude the servant of jesus christ and brother of james
to them that are sanctified by god the father and preserved in jesus christ and called mercy unto
you in peace and love be multiplied beloved when i gave all diligence to write unto you of the
common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you notice that you should
earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints for there are certain
men crept in unawares who are before of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men turning
the grace of our god into lasciviousness and denying the only lord god and our lord jesus christ hey we
are called to earnestly contend for the faith and when when evil men creep in unawares turning the
grace of god into lasciviousness perverting the nature of the gospel you've got to fight on your
hands with baptists and you know what i'm kind of glad that baptists have the reputation of of being
fighters because yeah you know we are going to fight against the false prophets in this world
someone's got to do it right you know we're not going to get up here and pretend like catholicism
is okay it's not we're not going to sit here and pretend like you can be a catholic and go to heaven
no no no catholics believe a false gospel catholics believe you have to confess your sins to a priest
that you have to take the eucharist and that the eucharist transforms into the literal body and
blood of jesus christ it's blasphemy the roman catholic churches of the pit of hell and you know
what we are going to fight against the catholic church the mormons the repent of your sins heretics
we're going to fight against all these people because we've been called to fight a good fight
all right go to if you would uh first john chapter number two now number two this morning i want to
say this if you are willing to fight the good fight you will be attacked by compromisers i
said number one hey if you're going to serve god it will be a fight if you care about doctrine if
you care about the gospel if you care about the sin in your own life it's going to be a fight
every day and let me tell you something if you actually want to fight that fight you will be
attacked by the compromisers in this world i think one of the biggest red flags one of the biggest
signals that a preacher a church or a movement is starting to water down doctrine back off off of
the truth not want to fight the good fight anymore is when you constantly hear the preaching
complaining about all the fighting oh there's just so much fighting oh why is there got to be so much
division rodney king can we all just get along right and to me that's just a sign like hey this
preacher doesn't want to fight anymore and what what the preachers do that don't want to fight
anymore that don't want to ruffle feathers that don't want to say the hard things that need to be
said is they attack the preachers that will that is always what happens all right let me give you
some history here now i think a great example of of what i'm explaining to you is the ministry of
billy graham now i recently read a book it's called pure words very easy to remember really
great book it came out by evangelist caleb garroway a young man in the old ifb and beside a very few
minor things the book was excellent highly recommend that you read it but he kind of he
kind of gives some history into the independent fundamental baptist movement and evangelical
movement and he had a little section of his book about billy graham and honestly that's what
inspired this sermon is reading this section and billy graham is reading this section and
billy graham i didn't know this but billy graham when he started his ministry he actually started
his ministry only working with fundamentalist christians he only worked with fundamentalists
he was at one point a board member of the sword of the lord publications started by brother john
r rice brother john r rice is a great man of god of yesteryear saved brother love him for sure and
he was at one point a board member of the sword of the lord from 1947 to 1952 so that's kind of
the start of billy graham's ministry the end of his ministry if we just fast forward billy graham
unfortunately became one of the biggest ecumenical preachers on planet earth he was working with
catholics pentacostals people who didn't even profess faith in jesus christ he was working
with these people and it's just like man how do you get to that point let me give you a quote
this is a quote from billy graham towards the end of his life he said every man that loves christ
or knows christ whether they are conscious conscious of it or not they are members of the
body of christ now the bible says sirs what must i do to be saved believe on the lord jesus christ
and thou shalt be saved hey you have to know jesus to be saved you have to believe on jesus
christ to be saved billy graham says if you love or know christ whether you're conscious of it or not
you're a part of the body of christ he says this whether they come from the muslim world
or the buddhist world or the christian world or the non-believing world they are members of the
body of christ because they have been called by god they might not even know the name of jesus
but they know in their heart that they need something that they don't have and they turn
to the only light that they have and i think that they are saved and are going to be with us in
heaven that is a very scary quote right there he's saying doesn't matter if they come from
the muslim world the buddhist world the hindu world even if they don't even know the name of
jesus hey all you have to do is know that you need something i'm sorry but that's not what the
bible says it takes to be to be saved the bible doesn't say like no you need something and thou
shall be saved no says believe on the lord jesus christ and thou shall be saved and you know what
muslims following the light of islam will spend eternity in hell unless they repent and believe
in jesus christ jews they will go to hell unless they repent and believe in jesus christ same for
every false religion and so of course this man was a false teacher i told you to go to first
john too look at verse 19 the bible 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 made
manifest that they were not all of us look just listen to me just use some common sense today
please if someone starts their ministry working with only fundamental christians they're working
shoulder to shoulder with john r rice they're part of the sword of the lord ministries and they go
from that good solid foundation good doctrine good brethren they go from that saint to saying
muslims hindus buddhists as long as they follow the light that they have those people be saved
folks this person was just never saved right it's not like billy graham you know got confused along
the way it's not like billy graham lost his salvation billy graham was a wolf in sheep's
clothing okay now here's the thing when billy graham started yoking up with catholics and
unitarians and pentacostals and every single flavor of christianity and non-christianity
that exists rightly so he started getting called out by the baptists by the independent fundamental
baptists because he would have these huge rallies these huge crusades and when you came down to the
altar to get saved there would be all these different types of altar workers you got an
independent fundamental baptist altar worker here you got a catholic priest here you got a
methodist here you got a unitarian here you got a pentacostal here you got a presbyterian here
and just whatever flavor of false doctrine you wanted you can come and get right and of course
some of those people were good people the baptist there hey a lot of people got saved there because
they walked the aisle and went to a fundamental baptist that showed them the gospel i'm not saying
no one ever got saved at those rallies but here's the thing he's yoking up with all these false
prophets and what happened is the baptist started calling him out you know what they started doing
they started fighting they started contending right why well look at second john chapter 1
verse 10 the bible says if there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine receive him not
into your house neither bid him god speed for he that bideth him god speed is partaker of his evil
deeds hey we're not going to sit here and accept the false gospel of catholicism and say hey god
bless you brother yeah you could help us with our evangelistic efforts you know you can go sit right
here people will come up to the altar you could preach them that they need to worship mary you
could preach them to kneel to a statue you could you know teach them all these wicked false doctrines
no no if you bless a catholic priest if you if you allow them into your house or the house of god
you are a partaker of their evil deeds right so billy graham is a partaker of the wickedness of
the catholic church of all these other denominations that i said for you go to aphesians five aphesians
chapter number five i'm just showing you some verses here that baptist preachers got up and used
to rebuke billy graham back in the day they used second john one they used aphesians chapter five
look at verse number nine the bible says for the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and
righteousness and truth proving what is acceptable unto the lord notice it says and have no fellowship
with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them for it is a shame even to speak of
those things which are done of them in secret but all things that are reproved are made manifest by
the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light hey we like the light of god's word we want
to shine the light of god's word to expose the darkness that exists in this world and the bible
says hey have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness it doesn't say like hey spring
crest baptist church let's try to work together with the catholics of houston to go out and do
some great work for god no no have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather
reprove them there's two parts of that number one separate yourself from the false doctrine
from the false workers but you know what it's not just enough to separate yourself from lies
separate yourself from false doctrine false gospels you also have to reprove it the bible says hey have
no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them right so you know what it's
it's a cop-out it's a coward type pastor that would get up and you know in his heart he knows
something's right in his heart he knows the catholic church is evil in his heart he knows
you know name the doctrine that the jews are no longer god's chosen people but you know what you
got to get up and say it you got to get up and reprove the lies that exist in this world
you know people are not mind readers in the congregation the pastor needs to get up and
reprove wickedness he needs to fight that fight who to second corinthians chapter six let's see
another verse that was used at this time second corinthians chapter number six look at the command
of god here in verse 14 the bible says be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion hath light with darkness and
what concord hath christ with belial or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel and what
agreement hath the temple of god with idols for ye are the temple of the living god as god have
said i will dwell in them and walk in them and i will be their god and they shall be my people
wherefore come out from among them and be separate saith the lord and touch not the unclean thing
and i will receive you and i will be a father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters
saith the lord so the bible says hey do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers right
so we as a church or as a movement or as christians in general you know we should not get get that
yoke and start dragging the plow of god's kingdom of god's work shoulder to shoulder with someone
who's not saved with someone who is not preaching the right gospel with someone who comes from the
hindu world or muslim world or unbelieving world and they're they're still in that world right it's
not that they came out of that world and believed in jesus christ it's like they're still a muslim
they're still a hindu they're still an atheist you know we're not going to have fellowship and work
together with those type of people we're going to come out from among them and be separate saith
the lord now does that mean we don't love them of course we love them we love them enough to go
preach them the gospel and tell them that they are in danger of eternal fire if they don't believe
in christ of course we love the muslim of course we love the hindu of course we love the atheist the
person who doesn't love those people is the one telling them that they're just fine staying that
way as long as they follow the light that they have that's uh that's an unloving thing to say
no we got to be loving and we got to separate ourselves in our work that we're doing from
for christ from the unsaved and we're going to go to the same to get them saved we're not going to
try to work with them to get the world saved that doesn't make sense since they're not saved
themselves anyone following this common sense train of logic here all right now what was billy
graham's response to this criticism because all those verses i gave you this is what baptists
were getting up and screaming and yelling about when billy graham started working with all these
people here was billy graham's response and i want you to pay attention to his subtlety he says the
fighting feuding and controversies among god's people even within evangelical circles is a very
poor example to our governments i am absolutely sick and fed up with the controversies that
rage among christians many times over non-essentials many of our controversies revolve around
personality clashes most of them are the are of the flesh and from the devil they could all be
avoided if all our lives were spirit-filled i am determined by god's grace that i'm going to stay
out of these controversies and divisions among god's people and continue to preach christ and
him crucified to sinful men we as christians should love each other even though we have strong
differences this was in an interview in christian life magazine in 1956 so what did i tell you that
the backsliders the compromisers the ones moving away from solid doctrine what do they do why are
we fighting guys what's up with all the drama can we all get along hey we shouldn't be fighting
right now we shouldn't have all this strife we shouldn't have all this controversy we shouldn't
have all this drama meanwhile billy graham was the one starting the division because guess what
john r rice and the fundamentalists they were just standing where they've always stood but it
was billy graham who left the sword of the lord and started working with muslims and catholics and
hindus and buddhists and unsafe people and then he wants to cry victim oh there's so much division
oh there's so much problems so much fighting when he himself is the one causing the division
and i've just noticed this in the old ifb the new evangelical movement i've seen this all my life
is like the people constantly crying about division and drama and fighting are the ones who are
basically saying please excuse my teaching a false doctrine and say nothing about it that's what
they're saying please allow me to be a compromiser please allow me to drag people away from fundamentalism
to drag people away from being hardcore from preaching the hard sermons from teaching the
truth of god's word please allow me to do this while you sit silently and say nothing or i'm
going to call you a sower of discord that's exactly what people do that is exactly what billy graham
did when really the real men of god were just standing where they've always stood right and
isn't it funny how like the ex new ifb split over the last couple years it's like one group
was just standing where that where the new ifb has always stood and another group was changing
watering things down preaching liberal doctrine preaching feminism preaching all these terrible
sermons and then we get accused of being the ones causing division causing strife but no no no i'm
not going to accept that because we're just standing where we've always stood that's the truth
go to second samuel chapter number 15 second samuel chapter number 15 now a lot of bleeding
hearts a lot of very simple people they would hear a statement like that from billy graham and
they would they would fall for it hook line and sinker because they say man you know he's saying
we should all get along doesn't that sound great he's saying that christians should stop fighting
doesn't that sound awesome and it's like yeah if christians can get on the same page that we're
going to stick with what the bible says then we could all get along but you know what it's like
the simple bleeding heart people that just want to have unity at any cost you know even if it means
at the cost of doctrine even it means that the cost of congregations being affected by bad preaching
look at second samuel 15 verse 1 it reminds me of the fools who followed absalom the bible
says and it came to pass after this that absalom prepared him chariots and horses and 50 men to
run before him and absalom rose up early and stood beside the way of the gate and it was so that when
any man had a controversy came to the king for judgment then absalom called unto him and said
of what city art thou and he said thy servant is of one of the tribes of israel and absalom said
unto him see thy matters are good and rights but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee
so notice absalom is not a hard preacher absalom is not going to rock the boat absalom's not going
to preach the hard sermons he's not going to piss people off by telling them what they need to hear
right he just wants to be this smooth preacher that gets along with everyone who's liked by
everyone and when people come to him he says oh you got a matter well guess what i've already
judged your matters are good and right right beware of the pastor not who preaches hard
against your sin you should love the pastor that preaches hard against your sin you know beware
of the pastor that refuses to say anything hard to you be aware of the pastor who refuses to ever
correct you or rebuke you no no we need that correction in our life because you know flattering
people like Absalom are bad people notice verse four says Absalom said moreover oh that I were
made judge in the land and that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me and I
would do him justice so notice the self-righteousness oh we're just we are the ones that are just we you
know we stand with the victims we stand against abuse we are for unity we are for all getting along
right the self-righteousness that comes from him verse five and it was so that when any man
came nigh to do him obeisance he put forth his hand and took him and kissed him and on this manner
did absolim to all israel that came to the king for judgment notice this so absolim stole the hearts
of the men of israel right and that is that is the danger of not calling people out like absolim of
not fighting against bad creatures false prophets heretics is that you run the risk of letting their
smooth talk and their charisma and their feigned love that they show towards people to steal the
hearts of god's people i mean you really expect me to believe that there's never been a saved
person who's just followed a false prophet oh absolutely it happens right there are safe people
who fall for the the charisma and the good speaking ability and the strong leadership
capabilities of these false prophets like billy graham but you know what we need to call
out people like that so that he doesn't steal the hearts of god's people notice it says go if you
would to verse number 10 it says but absolim sent spies throughout all the tribes of israel saying
as soon as he hear the sound of the trumpet then he shall say absolim reigneth in hebron and with
absolim went 200 men out of jerusalem that were called notice this and they went in their simplicity
and they knew not anything these people were simple right they were lacking wisdom they
were stupid if you will and these are the types of people that get carried away with the absolims
right it's these bleeding hearts today that it's like hey you know just ignore the doctrine ignore
the false teaching that Billy Graham has been teaching ignore the ecumenicalism that he's been
doing working with unsafe people didn't you hear in life magazine where he said let's all get along
right what is that that's a simple person that is someone just going in their simplicity following
these people and look we should not just immediately believe or follow someone just because they get up
and use spiritual language they get up and make you feel good they get up and it kind of tickles
your ear how we judge things is what does the bible say that's how we judge do not allow yourself
to be carried about by some charismatic leader someone talking really well all the flowery
spiritual talk no no you need to let this book guide your life and you know what if if one group
wants to fight about doctrine hey let's talk about doctrine let's talk about the issues let's talk
about the bible and the other one says no let's not talk about those things let's just all get
along let me tell you if you're coming with this side you're foolish and simple okay no we want to
talk about doctrine we want to talk about the issues we want to talk about the bible just because
someone talks spiritual does not make them spiritual let me explain something to you
spiritual people don't constantly preach heresy okay spiritual people don't constantly preach
terrible sermons spiritual people don't take stands with the wicked haters of god spiritual
people don't teach doctrine contrary to what the bible says this should be common sense folks
okay but you know what it's not common sense today reminds me back of when i was working
at steadfast baptist church and you brought it up in the announcements this morning i preached a
sermon um it was called why we won't shut up and it was about why we're not going to stop preaching
against the sodomites because it's what the bible says because we love people we want to protect
people from the wicked predators of this world and i preached that sermon pastor shelly also has
preached many sermons like that he's gotten in the news a ton he's gotten tons of the protests
and i remember there was this church next to ours and it was called northside nazarene church in
wataka texas and this guy got up and he preached the whole sermon against me and pastor shelly
and he's bringing up direct quotes from my sermon and let me tell you to the simple bleeding hearts
this guy would have seemed so spiritual you know why because he was so nice and he had such a nice
soft voice and you know he had poise and you know the building is so nice it has all the purple
lights and so wonderful and he speaks to you so kind right but it's like you know how i know that
this guy is not spiritual well because when first of all because he's preaching against the sound
doctrine that we preach that's one thing secondly when we're being protested by the wicked sodomites
those that the bible says hate god sodomites you know abortion loving feminists people practicing
witchcraft all these women literally taking off their clothes and exposing them to the children
in our congregation these are the type of people that were protesting us you know what this jerk
this false prophet piece of crap did is he went and stood shoulder to shoulder with the sodomites
in front of our church and he handed out subway sandwiches to them and he gave them water and
gatorade and he said come and use my church to use the bathroom it's like you know how i know
you're not spiritual is when you're standing with the enemies of god i don't care how nice you sound
i don't care how big of a building you have i don't care how charismatic you are when you're
on the same team of wicked sodomites when you're on the same team as people who despise their
parents rise up and rebuke their parents curse their parents all these wicked evil feminists
these loudmouth railers when you're on their side you're not spiritual and don't come at me with
yeah you know i just don't like that the new ifb is fighting well we're going to fight the good
fight and don't sit here and criticize us because we're standing where we've always stood we're not
going to let you gaslight the situation like this now this is what billy graham said as well
because this because what i'm explaining to you this exact same thing is happening to fundamentalism
today it happened to fundamentalism in every generation it will continue happening to
fundamentalism in the future here's what billy graham said he said god cannot bless us if there
are divisions fighting and strife how can god possibly bless a situation like that pastors and
christians need to repent of the sins of strife controversy and fighting so according to billy
graham strife controversy and fighting are just sinful i tell you this is not of god many people
wonder why revival has not come to america this is one of the primary reasons we've had enough
name calling and mudslinging let's repent of our sins fall on our faces before god and spend the
time in prayer that we used to spend in controversy and see what happens i guarantee god will send us
a revival now look to someone who has not read their bible very much to someone who is not very
spiritually mature what he just said sounds really great right hey let's stop fighting let's stop
having controversy let's just pray let's just read the bible right to someone who you know doesn't
think about things spiritually that might sound good but for those who actually want to contend
for the faith for those who actually care about the bible and the doctrine and the lost souls of
muslims and hindus and buddhists and atheists someone who actually cares about those things
you know what we're gonna do we're gonna keep fighting we're gonna keep fighting the good fight
and that's the title of my sermon hey keep fighting do not allow people to browbeat you or to make you
feel like you are not spiritual or you're doing something wrong by caring about the bible and by
actually caring about the things of god and actually caring about the right doctrine look
you should care about those things you know if you went to a church you went and visited some
other church and the pastor got up and just taught lies the entire time and just taught his own
opinions the entire time like i hope that would make you mad i hope that would upset you you know
and by the way it's worth it to be in a good church where you're actually getting fed you know
if you live in houston texas you need to be going to springcrest baptist church if you're visiting
this morning if you live here in houston and you're visiting this morning you need to get your butt
in this church because you need to be under a pastor or pastors here you're blessed with two
here pastors that actually care about doctrine that actually care about fighting the good fight
of faith because i tell you what there may be eight million people in this city but there are
very few pastors in this world that are actually willing to piss people off with the truth very
few most pastors they just care about their comfortable life their paycheck the steady tides
coming in and you know what they kind of end there no no no we in the new ifb we actually care
folks we actually care about the truth and we're willing to suffer persecution to stand for the
truth go to matthew 23 you say i don't know billy graham might have been right maybe we
should all just get along maybe we should just not not fight maybe we shouldn't you know call
out the bad teaching maybe we shouldn't call out the bad preachers you know well maybe maybe
we should just be more like jesus all right let's see let's see what jesus was like matthew 23
verse 13 all right here's jesus mister get along with everyone don't call anyone out he says
woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men
for neither go you neither go in yourselves neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in
woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye devour widows houses and for a pretense
make long prayer therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation woe unto you scribes and
Pharisees hypocrites for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte and when he is made
you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves woe unto you ye blind guides which say
whosoever shall swear by the temple it is nothing but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple
he is a debtor he fools and blind for whether it's greater the gold or the temple that sanctify the
the gold, we just need to be more like Jesus.
Oh, you wouldn't be able to handle Jesus is hard preaching.
I mean, Jesus is not saying here, let's all get along.
Let's not fight over anything.
Let's not call anyone names.
Let's not, you know, fight over these issues.
I mean, he's screaming at these people.
He's saying woe unto them.
Like curses are gonna come upon you.
He's calling them blind.
He's calling them hypocrites.
He's saying that they're making a pretense.
He's saying that they're fake, right?
He's saying they're gonna receive the greater damnation.
He says that they're unsaved on their way to hell
and they're going out making people twofold more
the children of hell than themselves.
That's the preaching of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hey, you know why we're Baptist is 'cause we love the Bible
and what the Bible says.
You know, my Bible does not show a long haired hippie Jesus
who wants to get together and drink a beer with you
and hang out with all the sodomites.
My Bible shows a Jesus that is serious
about the things of God.
And if someone's a hypocrite, if someone's a fake,
if someone's getting up and preaching damnable heresy,
he's gonna get up and say, "Woe unto you."
He's gonna scream and yell.
He's gonna cause a fight.
Well, maybe the apostle Paul's different.
Go to Acts chapter 20.
News flash, no, he's not.
Okay, it's the same way.
Let's see the apostle Paul's attitude towards these things.
Acts chapter number 20, look at verse 29.
The Bible says, "For I know this,
that after my departing shall grievous wolves
enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Also, if your own selves shall men arise,
speaking perverse things,
to draw away disciples after them.
Therefore, watch and remember
that by the space of three years,
I cease not to warn every one day, night,
night and day with tears."
Sounds like the apostle Paul cared
about fighting the good fight.
And you know what?
If there was a wicked person that needed to be called out,
if there was a bad teaching that needed to be called out,
if damnable heresy is creeping into the church,
you know, Paul's not gonna just preach a sermon about it.
He's not gonna just make a podcast about it.
He's not gonna just make a video about it.
He's gonna not cease to warn you night and day
for a long time, it says, three years.
Notice with tears, why is he doing this?
He's motivated by love.
And you know, don't fall into this hyper-spiritual thing
that the loving preacher's always very nice.
He never raises his voice.
He never calls anyone out.
He never preaches against false doctrine.
No, Paul here is warning people
for three years, day and night, with tears.
Why?
Because he loves the truth.
He loves God.
He loves his word, and he loves God's people.
And you know, you could see a person
that loves by their correction of error,
by their willing to fight the good fight of faith.
The person that's just backed off from the fight,
it's a person who does not love.
It's a person who's backed down on their love.
I'll read for you Proverbs 28 verse four.
The Bible says, "They that forsake the law
praise the wicked, but such as keep the law,
contend with them."
So hey, if you love the law of God,
if you love God's word, that'll be demonstrated
by the fact that you are contending with the wicked.
But if you have made affinity with the wicked,
with the haters of God, with those that forsake God's law,
then that just shows that you don't love God's law, right?
Go to Romans 16, Romans chapter number 16.
Romans chapter number 16, verse 17,
the Bible says, "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them,"
which notice this, cause divisions and offenses
contrary to the doctrine which you have learned
and avoid them, "For they that are such
serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly,
and by good words and fair speeches
deceive the hearts of the simple."
Notice, he's calling people out,
he's telling them to mark, make it known,
make it plain, make it obvious,
the people who are causing divisions and offenses
contrary to the doctrine.
So notice, is the person, is the pastor who gets up
and marks an individual, calls out a bad, you know,
false prophet, calls out a false religion.
You know, is that person causing the division?
No, no, no, no, no.
It's the person that's teaching doctrine contrary to that,
which we've learned, that's the person causing division.
And do not allow yourself to be gaslit
when Pastor Reyes gets up and has to preach super hard
on the biblical Trinity and explain,
and point out the error to you of the false doctrine
that's creeping in church.
Don't sit here and say like,
why does Pastor Reyes have to be so divisive?
Why does he have to talk about these issues?
No, no, no, the person being divisive was the one
teaching the damnable heresy.
Get mad at that person.
Oh, I don't like the pastors are constantly
having to call things out, preach against error.
Okay, well then get mad at the error
because we're just doing our job.
We're doing what the Bible has commanded us to do.
No, the person causing the division
is the one preaching heresy.
Billy Graham caused the division.
And you know what?
We shouldn't sit here and think like,
oh, well, Billy Graham was the good guy
'cause he was the one calling for unity.
You know, beware of feigned calls for unity
from people preaching liberal garbage.
If people are backing away from fundamentalism,
if people are backing away from hard preaching,
people, you know, all of a sudden just turn on the new IFB,
want nothing to do with us.
Let me just explain something to you.
That person is the one causing the division,
not the other way around.
And I refuse to take that criticism against us,
that we're contentious, that we wanna fight,
that we want to just cause strife
for the sake of causing strife.
No, no, no, we wanna fight the good fight.
We wanna care about doctrine.
We care about the gospel.
We care about the Bible.
We care about God's people in the pew.
And so, hey, if someone comes after the right doctrine,
then we have a fight on our hands.
That's just how it works.
Go to Isaiah 62, Isaiah 62.
Again, let me explain to you.
When someone doesn't wanna talk about the issues,
let's not fight over doctrine.
Let's not fight over the Bible.
Let's not fight over the truth.
Let's not fight over the gospel.
Here's what they're saying.
They're saying, please leave me alone
as I take God's people down the wrong path.
Please just leave me alone as I harm my congregation,
as I harm God's people, as I teach lies,
as I teach a false gospel, just please let me do that
and don't bother me in doing that.
We're not gonna allow that to happen.
If someone goes down that road, we're not gonna just,
oh, okay, you can just quietly teach damnable heresy.
No, no, no, we're gonna call people like Billy Graham out.
Now, number three, last point this morning is this,
keep fighting and never compromise.
Hey, if you wanna serve God,
you will have a fight on your hands, okay?
Number two, if you actually wanna fight the good fight,
people will call you names for doing that.
People will call you divisive for doing that,
even though you're just standing where the Bible stands.
Number three, keep fighting and never compromise.
Even if people call you names,
even if people falsely accuse you of being divisive,
you know what, just keep fighting and never compromise.
Never compromise.
What does the Bible say in Isaiah chapter 62?
Verse number six, the Bible says,
"I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,
"which shall never hold their peace, day nor night.
"Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence."
You know, the Bible says there's a time to speak,
there's a time to be quiet.
But you know, when it comes to the things of God,
when it comes to doctrine,
and especially for the watchman, who's the watchman?
The preacher, the pastor.
You know, our job is not to keep silent.
I didn't stand in front of this pulpit today
to keep silent unto you.
I came in front of this pulpit
to proclaim God's word to you, right?
And God's people should not be keeping silent.
We that make mention of the Lord,
we should not be keeping silent.
Look, we should continue to preach God's word
no matter who that offends.
And I think one of the biggest examples of this today
is like with the modern version issue.
Because you know, the textual critics of our world,
the people who would try to get us off the King James Bible
and onto the new King James, onto the NIV, onto the ESV,
you know what they constantly accuse us of being?
Divisive. Oh, the King James onlyists, they're so divisive.
They're causing strife in the body of Christ.
Oh, you know, King James onlyists, they're just a cult
and they're causing division.
And it's like, wait a second.
So you want me to leave the Masoretic Hebrew
of the Old Testament that's been passed down
for thousands of years?
You want me to leave the Texas Receptus Greek
that's been passed down from the time of Christ,
that's been used by English speakers
in the King James Bible since 1611?
You want me to move away from this position
because in the 1800s, some German dweeb
named Konstantin von Tischendorf found a document
in a trash can in Mount Sinai's monastery
that had the book of Barnabas in it, for crying out loud.
You want me to leave the King James Bible because of that?
You want me to leave the King James Bible
because of a document you found in the Pope's library,
Codex, Vaticanus?
Oh, the King James onlyus are so divisive.
No, no, no, you're divisive.
You're causing God's people's strife
trying to get us to move away from God's word.
Don't sit here and take this criticism,
"Oh, King James onlyus are divisive."
No, no, no, the textual critics are divisive.
And you know what?
I'll never compromise on the King James Bible
if I'm the last preacher on earth
because this is God's word.
And if you move away from God's word,
let me explain something to you.
You're the one that's causing division.
And yeah, I will call you out James White.
Yeah, I will call you out Mark Ward.
I will make it known to God's people
that you're a wicked devil and that you're the one
that's causing division, not us.
Here's a quote I saw on YouTube.
King James onlyism equals a hindrance to the gospel,
a cult.
You know what's funny about that?
If the King James Bible is such a hindrance to the gospel,
why is it that every soul winning church
I've ever heard of in my life uses the King James Bible?
Why is it that I've never run into a soul winner
using an NIV, an ESV, the new American standard,
the new King James?
You know, in Oklahoma City,
I thank God I live in the Bible belts.
And I heard it called once by Pastor Anderson,
it's the buckle of the Bible belt.
Let me tell you, that is true,
because when I go soul winning,
not only do I constantly run into people
that are saved at the door,
I run into other soul winners
from other churches that are saved,
out soul winning all the time.
Praise God for that.
And you know, every single time I do that,
you know what book they have in their hand?
The King James Version.
The King James Bible is not a hindrance to the gospel.
I mean, this is how people get the gospel,
is through the King James Bible, all right?
Go to Matthew 24, Matthew chapter number 24.
Let me tell you, the people causing division
are the ones that don't believe
God's promise of preservation.
Those are the ones causing division.
Look at verse 35 of Matthew 24.
Jesus said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away."
Hey, I actually believe that.
And if you don't, you're the one causing division.
Go to Psalm 12, I'll read for you Matthew 4.4.
But he answered and said,
"It is written, man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
God said that we need every single word.
And you know what that means?
If God says that I need every single word,
that means that I believe that we have every single word.
Why would God say, you need every word?
Just kidding, we don't have every word.
What? That makes no sense.
Hey, you know, you need every single word.
Well, I mean, this is kind of the best we got.
It's the closest that exists to the original manuscript.
Right, that's what the textual critics say.
Hey, you know, the modern versions,
this is as close as we have to the original manuscript.
Oh yeah, is that why your New Testament
is on its 28th edition?
The Nestle Law is on its 28th edition?
Weird, just keep getting closer to the truth.
Right, no, it's garbage.
Psalm 12 verse six, the words of the Lord are pure words.
As silver tried in a furnace of earth,
purified seven times, thou shalt keep them, O Lord.
Thou shalt preserve them, notice,
from this generation forever.
Right, he doesn't say, hey, my words are gonna be buried
in Alexandria, Egypt.
It's gonna get moved to the Pope's house.
You're gonna find it there.
Hey, my word is gonna get buried in a trash can
and some German dweeb is gonna find it.
And hey, you know, my word's gonna be found in some caves.
Thousands of years later, no, no, no.
He said, I'm gonna preserve this word
from this generation forever.
We actually believe in preservation
and people who are not King James only
do not believe in the doctrine of preservation.
They just don't.
We're gonna keep fighting on this issue.
Go if you would to Deuteronomy 22.
Hey, I said, keep fighting and never compromise.
Hey, never compromise the King James version.
Keep fighting.
Don't let people tell you,
oh, you gotta get off that old book.
You gotta join the club.
You gotta get on our program.
No, we're gonna keep fighting for the King James.
How about this?
How about cross dressing?
Look at Deuteronomy 22 verse five.
The Bible says the woman shall not wear
that which pertaineth unto a man.
Neither shall a woman, or I'm sorry, where am I at here?
Neither shall a man put on a woman's garment
for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord.
The Bible says that women are not to put on a garment
that pertains to a man.
And it doesn't matter how much the times change.
It doesn't matter what's accepted in society.
What matters is what the Bible says.
And so we as Baptists, we get up and we say,
hey, women should not be wearing pants
because you're putting on a garment
that pertains unto a man.
And all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
And you know what the new evangelicals will do?
You Baptists are so divisive.
You Baptists just wanna fight.
You Baptists just wanna sow discord among brethren.
No, no, no, you left where the Bible told us to stand.
You have caused division by telling us
that God just doesn't care about your appearance whatsoever.
Didn't Jesus say, hey, clean the inside of the cup,
then clean the outside of the cup also?
Of course, what's inside is most important.
By day in our country, we are just,
it's like we're begging for God's judgment on our land
or something like that.
Look what it says in verse 23.
I like how these topics are related
'cause they're both filthy.
In verse 23, it says, neither shalt thou lie with any beast
to defile thyself therewith.
Neither shall any woman stand before a beast
to lie down thereto.
It is confusion.
The world says that they're loving,
that they're just born differently,
loving someone else.
The Bible compares these two people,
man with man, woman with woman.
It's just like a woman that would lie down before a beast.
It's just like a man that would be with an animal.
Both are filthy and disgusting and depraved
and are worthy of no respect whatsoever.
They need to be called out and reproved.
Hey, have no fellowship with the unfreeble works
of darkness, but rather reprove them, the Bible says, right?
Not affirm them.
This is not an LGBT affirming church or movement.
Look at verse 24, defile not ye yourselves
in any of these things.
For in all these, the nations are defiled,
which I cast out before you, and the land is defiled.
Therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it,
and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments,
and shall not commit any of these abominations,
neither any of your own nation,
nor any stranger that sojourneth among you.
All these abominations have the men of the land done,
which were before you, and the land is defiled,
that the land spew not you out also.
We need to file it as it spewed out the nations
that were before you.
You know, we're doing a service to our country,
to our land by preaching against the Sodomites,
because in times past,
when these nations were just filled with Sodomites,
the land just spewed them out, right?
What is that a metaphor of?
It's a metaphor of the fact that you bring God's judgment
upon your nation by tolerating sodomy.
Go ahead and read Genesis 19, folks.
Go ahead and read Judges chapter 19.
You are bringing the judgment of God upon our nation
by accepting and tolerating sodomy.
And so pastors get up today and say, love is love.
They're just like everyone else.
Bring the faggots into the church.
Make them nursery workers.
Or as Andy Stanley does, let them preach at conferences.
Andy Stanley let sodomites preach behind his pulpit
at conferences, right?
I mean, he's just begging for God to kill him.
He's just begging for God to just nuke our country, right?
What are we doing?
Hey, we're actually loving our country
by preaching against this filth,
by saying that they're worthy of death.
What are we doing?
We're standing right where the Bible stands
in Romans chapter one, in Leviticus 20,
second Peter two, in Jude.
You know, people can call us divisive all they want,
but we're not the ones causing division.
They are.
How about this?
We're almost done this morning.
Go to Romans seven.
Hey, how about divorce and remarriage?
Another topic that Christians
just like to get real offended about.
People don't like to talk about pastors today,
aren't willing to take a stand on this issue.
And if you do, they'll call you divisive.
But let's see what the Bible says.
Romans chapter seven, verse two.
The Bible says for the woman,
which hath and husband is bound by the law
to her husband so long as he liveth.
Hey, it is till death do us part.
You got up, you made a vow for better or for worse,
in richer or poorer, in sickness and in hell,
you said till death do us part.
And the Bible says you are bound by the law
to your husband as long as you live, as long as he lives.
Notice it says, but if the husband be dead,
she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Hey, if your spouse dies, you're good to get remarried.
You're allowed to do that.
But then the Bible says in verse three,
so then if while her husband liveth,
she be married to another man,
she shall be called an adulteress.
But if her husband be dead,
she is free from the law so that she is no adulteress,
though she be married to another man.
Hey, if you divorce your spouse and marry another,
that spouse is alive.
You got married to someone else.
That is adultery.
That is wicked.
Jesus said what God have joined together,
let no man put asunder.
The Bible says that God hates putting away in Malachi.
And what does man wanna do today?
Well, you know, I don't love him anymore.
I don't love her anymore.
Well, she doesn't cook enough
and he doesn't make enough money.
And she does this and hey, you know what?
Nuts to all of that.
And just put your excuses in the trash
because at the end of the day,
you made a vow and you ought to honor that vow.
And if you get divorced and remarried, that is adultery.
And you know what?
We are never gonna stop preaching that truth.
Even if that offends everyone,
we are just messengers of what the Bible says.
We have to be faithful to what the Bible says.
It's not like we're just trying
to have all these fights in this world.
But guess what?
When preachers depart from what the Bible says,
and we stay where the Bible was,
there's gonna be division.
There's gonna be fighting.
There's gonna be conflict.
But you know who's starting the conflict?
People who move away from what the Bible says.
Go to 1 Timothy 6.
1 Timothy chapter number six.
You know, whenever a movement, a preacher, a denomination,
whenever anyone in this world
preaches something that is false,
preaches damnable heresy, preaches false doctrine,
moves away from what the Bible says,
we are left with two choices.
We can either go along to get along and what?
Compromise.
Just say, all right, you know,
we're just gonna not call you out on it.
We're just gonna let you teach lies.
We're just gonna let you teach a false gospel.
We're just gonna let you say all these horrible things.
We could just either go along with it and have peace
and have harmony and get along with everyone.
Or you know what?
We could just fight the good fight.
We could just keep fighting.
And we can just say, hey,
call us all the names that you want,
but we're standing where the Bible stands.
Look at 1 Timothy 6 verse 12.
The Bible says, fight the good fight of faith.
Lay hold on eternal life,
whereunto thou art also called
and has professed a good profession before many witnesses.
You know, do not be ashamed of the reputation
that we have as Baptists of being ones
that would actually fight the good fight.
Hey, oh man, those Baptists, they're King James only,
and they're not going anywhere.
You're exactly right, we're not going anywhere.
We're gonna keep calling out the lies of this world.
We're gonna keep calling out false doctrine.
We're gonna keep calling out the textual critics.
We're gonna keep calling out the feminists.
We're gonna keep calling out the faggots.
We're gonna keep calling out the communists.
Hey, we're gonna keep preaching God's word.
We're gonna stay right here.
We're gonna stay steadfast on God's word.
And you know, anyone who wants to depart,
you go right ahead, but you're gonna be at war with us.
And don't be surprised when there's conflict,
and don't come at us calling us the ones causing division.
No, no, no, those who depart from the faith
are the ones causing divisions.
Let's pray, Lord, thank you so much for your word.
Thank you for your instruction
for us to fight the good fight.
I pray that Spring Crest Baptist Church
would always be a church that fights the good fight,
that the men and women in this congregation
wouldn't shy away from conflict
as long as that conflict is over the good fight of faith.
I pray that you would just strengthen Pastor Reyes
and Pastor Cobb and help them
to continue leading this congregation.
Please bless everyone as we go our separate ways today.
And I thank you very much
for the opportunity to preach, Lord.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
- Let's go ahead and turn our hymnals over to page 12.
And after this we'll eat so we can go out there and fight.
Man, that was a great sermon.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate that.
Number 12, let's go ahead and sing this as we close out.
Number 12, Blessed Redeemer.
On the first.
♪ Of Calvary's mountain, one dreadful morn ♪
♪ While Christ my Savior weary and worn ♪
♪ Facing four sinners, death on their frown ♪
♪ That He might save them from at last ♪
♪ Blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer ♪
♪ Seems now I see Him on Calvary's tree ♪
♪ Wounded and bleeding, four sinners pleading ♪
♪ Lying, forgive them, seated pray ♪
♪ Wore His blood away, for sin, blessed Redeemer ♪
♪ Precious Redeemer, seems now I see Him ♪
♪ On Calvary's tree ♪
♪ Wounded and bleeding, four sinners pleading ♪
♪ Lying, unheeding, oh how I love ♪
♪ Your Elf, can my pray be ♪
♪ Seems now I see Him on Calvary's tree ♪
♪ Sinners pleading ♪
- Quick, let me, a couple of announcements.
First of all, thank you very much, Pastor Oz.
Looking forward to tonight.
We have some food, I'm gonna bless the meal.
And then, if you guys will, I mean,
women and children first, and then the men.
I know men get hungry, but women and children first.
Of course, Pastor Oz, I know you're with your daughter,
so, you know, go ahead and take care of her.
And then after that, we can fellowship a little bit.
And then if the parents will help the kids out
in getting any of the food or anything in the fridge,
I would greatly appreciate that.
We got plenty of trash cans.
If you have any questions,
is that Brother Keith or Brother Trey?
Pastor Cobb or myself.
Oh, and that door is blocked,
so just coming through this door.
Sorry, I don't know if you know this,
but Brother Trey actually,
and they all know a little bit about construction.
And that door is actually not only a door anymore,
but it's a structural wall.
That's 'cause it's shifted so much,
so that's why we gotta keep these doors closed.
Let's go ahead and pray for the meal.
Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today.
Thank you for the admonition to keep fighting, Lord,
and help us to remind ourselves
that we need to take heed and keep on the good fight.
And Lord, I just ask that you would bless the food
we're about to eat and the fellowship,
and then bless the activities this afternoon
and the preaching tonight.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.