evening we would turn in our hymnals to song 193 page number 193 in our
hymnals we're gonna sing faith is the victory song 193
You'll open your bulletins.
Today is June 29th.
We have our Sunday morning service at 10.30,
Sunday evening, 4.30, Wednesday service at 5.30.
We have so-winning at 2 p.m.
We actually went out so-winning today.
We kept it simple,
because we knew we were gonna get caught in the rain,
so only the men went out this time.
And we actually got two right away,
and then we were able to so-in
for maybe another hour before the rain actually started.
The memory chapter, Psalm 23, and the Psalm of the week is Psalm 23-5.
Thou prepares the table before me in the presence of my enemies, Thou anointes my head with oil,
my cup, runneth over. And then year to date, soul's 150. And we have all the birthdays there.
I don't know how we got that mixed up, but we'll fix all those.
birthdays, and then it was Christian's birthday yesterday. So just wish her a happy birthday.
We sang to her last week, but I mean, you can still belated happy birthday. It just was yesterday.
And then, is that correct? Your anniversary's on the 24th? Your anniversary? Okay. July 24th,
and then the Matzos anniversary, and then Miranda's is on the 15th. And then we had a good,
And so we'll remove that, but that was really good lunch and we really enjoyed the time
and the fellowship.
And then just let me know about the men's retreat and the fire breathing Baptist fellowship.
And then the only other thing is just go ahead and at the end of the day, just like we did
last week, if you guys can just help me with your kids, clean up any of the stuff that we've
left behind.
It's good to have sister. Well, she wasn't she's not here this afternoon, but she was here this morning, sister Karen
So still pray for her. I know she's not a hundred percent and pray for the Bostics
he's in hospice now and she's about to be in a
Assistant living and then just any of the deaths in the family there at the bottom
Other than that turn your handles over to actually I don't know where to turn your hand over to so well
283 283
All right, turn your hymns to your hymnals to 283
Song 283 all the way my savior leads me
Lightest comfort here by
If we would turn in our Songbinders.
Turn in our Songbinders to Psalm 150.
If there's not a Songbinder near you,
a lot of you are on this right side.
There's some across the aisle from you.
But if you can't find one like that,
you can turn in your Bibles to Psalm 150.
Amen.
Over there in Psalm 150.
turn in our Bibles. Turn in our Bibles to Galatians chapter number five.
Galatians chapter number five.
We'll read there in the Bible
in verse one where the Bible reads,
Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty
wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Behold, I, Paul, say unto you,
that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
For I testify again to every man that is circumcised,
that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Christ has become of no effect unto you,
whosoever of you are justified by the law,
you are fallen from grace.
For we, through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness by faith, and for in Jesus Christ
neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.
You did run well, who did hinder you, that ye should not obey the truth.
This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump,
I have confidence in you, through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded.
But he that trouble with you shall bear his judgment whosoever he be and I brethren if I yet preach circumcision
Why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the offense of the cross seized
I would, they were even cut off which trouble you.
For brethren, ye have been called unto liberty, only use not liberty for an occasion to the
flesh, but by love serve one another.
For all the law is justified in one word, even this, thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself.
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
This I say then, walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
And these are contrary, the one to the other, so that you cannot do the things that you would.
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are made manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
heresies, in-beings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like, of the which I tell
you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall
not inherit the kingdom of God."
but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance, against such there is no law. And they that are Christ have crucified the
flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Let's have a quick word of prayer. You're probably God. Thank you for this day. Thank you for this
Be with Pastor Enrique as he preaches the sermon out of the book of Galatians Lord
And I pray that you be with those that were that were safe today
I pray that you
Help them to walk in the path of light help them to have a desire to serve you Lord
And I pray that you be with us all help us to receive the sermon with gladness of heart Lord
And I pray that we all get home safely tonight in Jesus name. I pray amen
All right, we're there in Galatians
Give me a second here. I just got to get that
I'm always forgetting something, but we're there in Galatians
One and we are I guess I'm on a kick. I'm not a programmer
By any means of the imagination, but I do run a digital agency
You have to do some programming stuff and programming is if then I mean if
it's and or you know like when you're setting up programming like think process
you it's if then or or you know you can have them and I guess today I'm on the
or part because the title of the sermon this afternoon is liberty or lawlessness
I know that this this morning it was what
Sealed or seared, so I guess I'm just giving you a bunch of options. It's either one or the other
But actually I thought about this one for a couple of reasons number one. I've not
I was looking back at all the sermons I've preached, and I guess because Pastor Cobb and I have alternate for so many years,
usually in the past he's preached more of the sermons near the holidays.
And so I've never really brought up like a Fourth of July or a Liberty based sermon.
But then I thought to myself, what can I really speak about Liberty that we won't really cover?
Because obviously we all believe we're free in Christ.
touch on, because this is one of the things that we hear a lot, is this thing of like, well,
you know, with freedom, we can do anything. But we also hear the contrary, right? Freedom isn't free,
right? The reason we have freedom is because we have people that have fought for this country,
we have things that have come through. And also, we also have law and order. But the challenge is
that as we continue on this precipitous fall in this country, the one thing that we see is this
We're libertarians as Christians, but we're not a free-for-all, if that makes any sense.
And we keep almost kind of going in the way of lawlessness, right, of anarchy.
I mean, you've got groups like Antifa, and you've got the left, just, I mean, everything
goes, they just want everything to go.
And even the right, I mean, I don't know how you feel about Trump.
I really don't care.
I mean, at this point, you guys know how I feel about Trump.
He's done some good things, and I mentioned those good things this morning, but I also think he's
done some really bad things. And so, for example, you know, the fact that the Supreme Court has
been removed, that they've ruled in favor of basically not giving themselves any more power
means that we were moving checks and balances in this country. You know, I don't care where
you stand on the issue of birthright citizenship, but I do care on the issue of where we get our
law and order from. The reason that our judicial system was set up the way that it was is so that
checks and balances, right? The executive branch, the judicial branch, the legislative branch,
we're all separate for that very reason. We learn this in school, right? Remember that?
The judicial branch, the legislative branch, the executive branch, and each one serve this,
what? A checks and balances. That's why we have the House of Representatives,
and we have the Senate, and then we still have the obviously the
office of the president but the more that we had towards I guess the end
times the more we had towards chaos the more we're actually gonna put on the
books
Laws that are lawlessness, right? You know the that's gonna be the theme and we've already seen it even today
And I wanted to touch on a bunch of examples by say, you know what?
Let me just stick to the biblical part of it for this and so the title again is Liberty year lawlessness
And really is that freedom is not our anarchy, right? We are not anarchist
We are free in Christ, but because we're free in Christ
We also recognize that we want to also obey and submit to Christ and follow his rules his regulations
for our life. We're not just like a free-for-all. We're not just going to do anything that pleases,
you know, Paul said everything, all things were expedient, but not all things were
needful, right? So let's go there in Galatians 5 and verse 1 it says,
Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty, wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. So what's the yoke of bondage? Sin.
And it's interesting the way it's worded right stand fast therefore in the liberty
Wherewith Christ hath made you free the only reason you're free is because you believed in Christ
But that doesn't mean that you're not in danger of being entangled again with what the yoke of bondage
We go there and and let's kind of follow through the theme of this morning also
About the spirit. I mean if you look at chapter 5 of galatians the spirit is mentioned quite a bit for we through the spirit
wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
So there's that theme again of, you know,
that we are sealed in Christ.
We see that in verse 9 says,
a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Verse 13 says for brethren you have been called unto liberty only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh
But by love serve one another right walk in this and the verse 16 says this I say then walk in the spirit
And you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh verse 17 says for the flesh lusteth against the spirit in the spirit
Against the flesh and these are what contrary?
one to another so that you cannot do the things that you would, but if you be led of the Spirit,
you are not under the law. And I love verse 19 in the contrast we see in verse 22,
because this is a great way to explain to someone or to clarify salvation for them, right? If people,
because one of the common things is we know, or I'm making the assumption that we know we're
saved by gracing through Christ, right? That we have eternal security, that it's not of works.
But one of the things that I think is harder to learn is that how do you
consolidate that with the fact that we're still sinners, right?
And I remember as a young Christian, there was times where I would be like doubtful,
how, how is it that I'm safe?
Because, you know, you're just messing up or you're doing things wrong.
And it's because we're not, we're number one, we're not reading our
Bibles and number two, people aren't explaining things.
But I remember when this was explained, I don't remember if I listened to an
Honestly, don't remember, but if you look there carefully, verse 19 says now the works of the
flesh are manifest, which are these. So what do we see earlier this morning? We saw that the works
of God is for us to believe, the work of God is for us that he sent his son so that we could
believe on Jesus Christ, right? But here, the works of the flesh, meaning man's work is irrelevant.
It says that we do all these things right adultery fornication and clean is idolatry witchcraft
Hatred variant simulations wrath strives to dishes heresies and beings murders drunkenness reveling and such like doesn't that sound like anarchy?
I mean literally I mean that's that is the definition or one of the definitions you could put out there, right?
But then number verse 22, but the fruit of the spirit
His love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, and against there's no such law.
It's the fruit of the Spirit. The only reason that we manifest good works or anybody thinks that we do anything good is
through the Spirit, right?
Through the fruit of the Spirit. In other words, even our works aren't our works.
They're the works that Jesus Christ has allowed us to do. We have that grace of
of God in our lives. And then verse 25, let's just look there. It says, if we live in the Spirit,
let us also walk in the Spirit. So just because you have the Spirit of Christ, you know, today we
without soul winning just because they have the spirit doesn't mean they're
going to walk in the spirit. What do they have to do in order to grow?
Well, it would be beneficial for them to show up to church,
to read their Bibles, to get baptized, to try to lead their children or their
family to Christ. There's a lot of things that we do to improve
that doesn't remove the salvation from their life,
but it definitely would help not only their life, but society. And at the end of
Why do we teach all this stuff? I mean, we're saved, we're going to heaven, it doesn't really
matter in the sense of like our eternal security, but where it matters is number one, here on earth,
I mean, we're still alive.
Right? I mean, as long as God, I know we don't have a lease on life, but you know what? I'm making
plans five, 10, 15, 20 years down the road. And God willing, most of us will probably be here tomorrow.
And we still have to function in society and we have to, you know, interact with other people.
We want to know that we're making it, we're making an impact and an inroad where we influence people
to live righteously. So we don't have to worry about, you know, locking our doors or, you know,
places in the world where people are just, you know, running scared because they have,
there's lawlessness. I mean, lawlessness prevalent, right? But second of all, also we want those
rewards or that recompense that comes in eternity. I don't know what eternity looks like other
than what the Bible's given us, but the Bible's given us clear instructions that there's
crowns and rewards in heaven. And then because of that, there's also going to be a hierarchy
rule over, you know, cities, 10s, 100s, you know, 50, I don't know. I don't know if I'm gonna,
maybe I might just be, and I'll be glad to be a janitor for the Lord Jesus Christ,
but wouldn't it be cooler if he just gave you like even 10 cities? I mean, I'm not even asking
for 100, right? But I didn't, I don't know what that means either. I don't know what kind of
authority, what we're going to be doing. Obviously, my thought, and this is my opinion, is that
we're actually going to just continue doing the things that we do, but under the perfect,
incorruptible vision of Jesus Christ, right? Whatever that looks like.
Well, let me just give you that the first one go over to James one go to James one and the first point
I have for you is that the truth of liberty and the deceit of anarchy, right?
And we have to be careful. We do believe in liberty and Christ has made it very clear that we are free
That's why we love this country, you know last week I said and I'll say it again
This is still the greatest country in the world. It really is. I mean my
My wife likes to follow on Instagram this and I've said it before but I just think it's interesting for me
The interesting part is these guys have built an entire channel
It's these two British guys these two young Brits and they go around the entire country
Eating at different restaurants or going to different experiences
Why do they do that? You know why? Because you can't get that kind of experience in London.
When does a big city? You can't get that kind of experience in other parts of Europe or the world.
Why? Because we have liberty and with liberty comes, you know, the ability to just be creative,
to do things that, you know, think outside the box.
You're not, you're not basically confined to a socialist viewpoint or a communist viewpoint.
I believe I can do it in America, right?
If I'm like, oh, I see a problem in business,
and I'm like, oh, I think I can come up with a solution.
You know what?
As Americans, we believe that we could do that, right?
Or if I think of a righteous cause, maybe,
and I'm talking from the flesh, right?
If somebody says, oh, I think we should do this,
you know what, what chances are somebody could figure it out
and do it, right?
The greatest innovation, the greatest inventions
of the 20th and 21st century have all come mainly
from the United States.
But also, with that comes the extreme side of liberty, which is that anarchist viewpoint,
where now we're like, everything goes.
Let's just confuse the genders.
Let's confuse the laws.
Let's confuse morality.
Who cares that Trump is a...
Fornicator and an adulterer and married a million times. Who cares as long as he gives us good economic outcomes
Nobody cares same thing with Bill Clinton remember that I mean
Everybody give him a pass because they thought he was a cool president, you know with his little raspy voice
But that's not what we do here, right? We want
Freedom or liberty but not from authority like we want to be under authority
Right if you think about it Liberty really walks in the law of God
It's not running away from it and it comes with boundaries
And honestly the more that you submit to God's boundaries the more free you are because the bondage is what we are now free from sin
But we keep coming back to sin,
putting ourselves under the bondage of sin
when we activate the flesh, right?
It's not doing whatever you want.
You know, it's the freedom to obey God
without the fear of bondage.
And that's really where we want to head in life.
Like the ultimate, I think one of the ultimate goals
of a Christian should be that he should wake up
or she should wake up and just be like,
I can do whatever I please
because I know what I'm not gonna do.
These are things that are not in my purview and so then everything else is just free to enjoy and live life happily, right?
I mean think about I think about when I was a young man. I didn't really live a righteous life
I didn't get saved till I was 25 and I lived like most Americans and did what most Americans do
Not to the extreme that you know, I've never done drugs like for example
But you know, I mean I've tasted alcohol, which I'm not you know
It's not something I'm proud of or I've partied and I went to nightclubs and did all that
And it was always miserable, right and now I just like we do Baptist parties
Like I love going to these conferences and we stay up till 2 3 o'clock in the morning
Partying it out, you know talking about scripture and soul winning and plants and then the next day
You know what happens the difference is before I used to stay out late
And then I wake up the next day wanting like to just roll over and not ever wake up again
Right? Now, like, you stay up till 2 and you wake up at 7 and you're like,
let's go. What are we going to do today? Like, what are we going to accomplish today? Because,
I mean, we didn't do anything crazy. But you're there in James 1, verse 22. The Bible says,
but be ye doers of the word and not hears only deceiving your own selves.
Look, the only one you lie to is yourself, if you don't do what the gods ask you to.
For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in the glass
For he beholdeth himself and goeth his way, his straight way, forgeteth what manner of man he was,
but whoso looketh in the perfect law of liberty
and continueeth therein, he be not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deeds.
And I think it's interesting the way it's worded there, right? The perfect law of liberty. There is a law
to being free.
It's not just what you know what people think here because you'll hear both sides and it's just always and
I generalize, this country really is split into two sides, right, and then you kind of
have people in the middle, but usually you'll hear people, oh, we're free to do this, and
then you'll hear the opposite side say, well, we can just do whatever we want.
Isn't this a free country?
Well, yeah, but within the confines of this law, right, there's consequences to our actions.
Go over to Psalm 119, but in 2 Corinthians 3, verse 17, the Bible says, now the Lord
is that spirit, and where that spirit of the Lord is, what?
That's the the key right is the Holy Spirit
I guess I should have just named the theme of today the Holy Spirit because we're really on this kick
But Psalm 119 verse 41
Psalm 119 verse 41 which is the longest chapter in the Bible but also the chapter one of the most important chapters in the Bible in my
opinion because it's all about what God's word and we're there in verse 41 it says let thy mercies come also unto me
O Lord even thy salvation according to thy word
Social I have wherewith to answer him that reproaches me reproacheth me for I trust in thy word and take not thy word of truth
utterly out of my mouth
for I have hoped in thy judgments, so shall I keep thy law continually, forever and ever,
and I will walk at liberty, for I seek thy precepts. I will speak of thy testimonies,
also before kings, and will not be ashamed, and I will delight myself in thy commandments,
which I have loved. My hands also will I lift up to upon to thy commandments,
which I have loved, and I will meditate in thy statutes. Where do we get liberty from, from Christ?
Right, I mean anything that we want to do in life. We need to seek the Lord for that answer
The world promises freedom, but what does it deliver chaos?
right
How does it deliver chaos? Well, I mean just depends you know pick your poison perversion
Addiction
Right obviously everything leads to hell, but anarchy is just rebellion. It's rebellion, you know
It's really a satanic spirit. You think about groups like Antifa every few years. What do they do?
They just gather together to go and basically protest, but they don't protest that what they're doing is their anarchy
There's a difference between protesting, hey, I don't agree with something going to city council
or maybe joining a group. I mean, if that's your, if that's your, if that's your, what is it? If
it's not your poison, but if that's what you like to do, that's your cup of tea. But then there's
a difference between showing up to the streets and then just destroying businesses, looting.
What was it? Wasn't it recently on Kings, that Kings
The no Kings day that some of the cities like got out of hand and then all of a sudden they started looting and
You know people like to play gone race. This wasn't the black race. This was the Hispanic race
They were the ones looting they were the ones destroying they were the ones that are going in all the stores stealing
What does that have to do with protesting nothing?
It's anarchy because they think they can just do whatever they want
They feel like there's no consequences to their actions judges 21
You don't have to turn their turn to Proverbs 29 turn to Proverbs 29
But in judges 21 verse 25 the Bible says in those days
There's no king in Israel every man did that which was right in his own eyes
And isn't the book of judges one of the toughest books in the Bible to read?
Now we're not like most pastors or some pastors have said that they won't read certain scripture to ruin like a weekend
I'll read it whenever we need to read it. I'm just saying the truth though
It is it is a heart it is a hard book to read, right? I mean judges 19 judges
I mean just the whole thing Samson just really screws up
I mean we love Samson, but he was just taken why because he was he walked away from the precepts of the Lord
He decided he wanted
to marry outside of what the Lord had told him and his family told him, and they mean they gouged
his eyes. And then he had to commit suicide in a last ditch attempt to just, you know,
avenge himself before the Lord. Proverbs 29 verse 17, the Bible says, correct thy son,
and he shall give thee rest. Yay, he shall give delight unto thy soul. I like the way that that's
because we all want liberty of all sorts right and as parents we want liberty
from like riotous children right there's nothing that's more taxing to a parent
than when your kids are all like on a kick
you know, they get their second wind.
Sometimes, who's ever tried to put their kids to bed
and then they just get like this weird second wind
and you're just like,
maybe I'll just throw them out the window,
you know, maybe they'll just fall asleep.
Yeah, I'm getting to raise a hand over there, right?
People say, oh, you shouldn't say that.
People that say that just never raise any kids, right?
I love my kids and I think they're great.
But every once in a while, I'm like, I don't know.
I don't know how these guys came from me, right?
I don't know what's going on here, but we've got to put some order.
But you know what? I'm so glad they have a bed time because it just gives us rest and
liberty from having to deal with all their nuances every day. Mom, we were watching something,
my wife and I and some lady literally grabbed a clicker and she said, I'm going to click every
And then it was like her kids had said mom to her like requesting stuff like 300 times in a day
She's like I did the math if they do this every day
It's 85,000 times that I hear the word mom. No wonder moms get so annoyed when they hear the word mom, right? I
Related to her. I don't even like to hear the word mom for my kids because I'm just like what do you need now?
Go get your own juice. Go open your own door. Go get your own toilet. I don't know. I'm just whatever it is, right?
And I'm not picking on my kids. Just those are all kids. That's just kids in general, right?
But the Bible says,
Correct thy son and he shall give thee rest. He shall
He shall give delight
Unto thy soul. Well, look the way we get rest in the land is when we allow the Lord to correct us
And we'll give the land rest
It says where there is no vision
the people perish, but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. A servant will not be corrected by
words, for though he understand, he will not answer. And so I don't know why I added that one,
but that's still a really good verse. Just apply that one to your life and however you need to.
I don't know how it ties to this sermon, but you know, maybe it was because the
sermon will not be corrected by words, right? We, even though we serve the Lord Jesus Christ,
what's the alternative? The alternative is just worse, right? So if we don't correct our children,
there's no guarantee. First of all, if you correct your children, just like if you correct
people in the church, chances are you're going to be better off. There's no guarantee though,
because unfortunately, we're all human, right? So I could raise up my children in the fear and
admonition of the Lord, I can give them all the best tools. And I've told my wife this,
I'm not being negative. I'm not even like hoping for it, but I am prepared for it.
My kids could just all turn to be bad side of hell. They could all turn around and say,
they hate me. I know you look at my two year old daughter and she's really cute,
but even that one could one day turn around and be like, you're the worst dad ever. I hate you.
It's just life. I'm not, I hope that doesn't happen, but I'm just prepared for the reality
So it's no guarantee, but the alternative is if we don't give them any direction,
if we don't give our country direction, it just leads to pure anarchy.
You know, there's a difference between not liking your parents
and hating them to the point where you might even kill them, right?
And you say, that sounds extreme.
That's what the Bible says is going to happen in the end times.
I mean, it's not like it's not over the news.
Was it I said I wasn't gonna bring them up, but you know what I did do a little bit of the research first of all
This one actually I didn't do the research. We just know my generation grew up with the Menendez brothers
Remember that they just killed or they just murdered their own parents
Why oh because they were abusive
And then when they described the abuse, I was like, well, that's not, this doesn't sound
that horrible.
I'm not saying that maybe they weren't abused.
I'm not saying that maybe it wasn't justified, but it wasn't for them to take it into their
own hands.
They just didn't have the right upbringing.
Now there's all this controversy what in the Dallas area, this kid named Carmelo Anthony
The parents or the people his family raised like a million dollars and they go for me and then they took the money out
And then they're they're kind of victimized because people are mad at them for raising all that money for a murderer
They're like well, he was 17. It didn't matter how old you are murder is murder
You know I mean
But why are we having those issues because people don't you know?
They think they're just free to do whatever they want and they think that there's no consequences
Right.
I mean, you'll hear it out in the streets if you look, just go out long enough and just
pay attention to what people are saying.
And people say all kinds of crazy stuff.
They give it all away.
Right.
Oh, they'll try this one as a child or a juvenile.
Oh, you know, I teach my kid, you know, that's been around forever.
Even, you know, gypsies and or people that raise children to be a little bit ordinary.
Sometimes they'll use them knowing that the police won't, you know, prosecute them at
the same level.
Gangsters, even the Nauticals will recruit young children to be like Cicadios, like to be murderers,
hitmen, because they know that in the court of law they won't try them the same as an adult.
Look, it's anarchy. It doesn't matter what the age is, who the person is, it's anarchy. Go to 2nd
Peter 2, verse 19. So we see this contrast, right? We see this huge contrast between the truth
Liberty and the deceit of anarchy in 2 Peter 2 verse 19 the Bible says while they promised them liberty
They themselves are the servants of corruption, for of whom a man is overcome of the same as he brought in bondage.
For if after they have escaped the
Pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
They are again entangled therein and overcome. The latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness
than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandments delivered unto them.
But it has happened unto them according to the true proverb
The dog is returned to his own vomit again and the soul that was washed to her wallowing in the mire
Now I've never had a pig
But you know what I've had dogs all my life and two things the dog would do
You could have just kept it with the dog is they will return to their own vomit and nothing irked me more
Than my mom or my dad asking me to wash the dog only to let him out into the backyard wet
and roll around in the dirt and get themselves all dirty again, right?
You know, you basically have this animalistic instinct when it comes to
like freedom without restraint.
You know, it's this humongous anarchist viewpoint.
Let's go to point number two, go over to John 8.
What's the source?
True freedom, you know, I was raised here in the United States. I got here in
1985 from
Tampico, Mexico
My parents like I didn't speak a lick of English
My mom actually was making fun of me yesterday because I called her to say hello
And she reminded me that when I first got here my cousin
I have a cousin who's a month older than me and I would go up to him and I'd be like, hey Michael
What should I show I should like I thought I was speaking to him in English, but it was just gibberish, right?
But the cool thing about growing up in the United States from a young age,
I don't know if they still do this, but I grew up in the public school system
and there's a lot of things that weren't great. But one of the things that was still great
in my time was they taught us about, you know, the Fourth of July, about the revolution,
about liberty, about all the values that came with that. And it just makes you want to be
a proud American, like you want to be part of this movement. But the reality is
Why has America always had this liberty mindset versus like think about Mexico,
Mexico doesn't have that mindset. The reason is the source of freedom or true freedom is what
the Word of God.
Right, we based everything in our country on the Word of God, whereas in Mexico, everything's based on Catholic corruption, right?
It's just like whatever the best thing of the day, and you know, I mean, they're suffering that with the first woman president in Mexico.
That's a judgment from God. That's not a that's not a good thing. That's a bad thing, right?
Go to John 8. Go to John 8 just as a way of
But we not only need our salvation, but we need our submission to Christ, right?
We are freed from sin, but not too soon.
And
so we need to remove this rebellious spirit from our lives, right?
Freedom begins when we get saved,
but it continues when we submit to his work.
And there is a difference. I remember when I first got saved, nobody really gave me direction.
So I continued living the life that I was living. And it was just miserable. I'm just going to be
and actually I do remember one thing that stood out and it was more miserable because I remember
his name is Pastor Johnny Pope. That's who led me to Christ. He served at Christ Church Baptist
Fellowship right here up in 1960. And I remember when I got saved, he said, now things are going
to get worse before they get better. Because now you've got a target on your back.
I remember that stuck to me and I just remember I actually went down a more dark path for like a few months
Before I was like, you know, I need to figure this thing out
Like I don't want to just continue down this because the Holy Spirit does move in you
And of course the Lord is also chastising you but go to John 8 verse 31
The Bible says then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him. See that's why we're not
Antisemitic. I mean Jews believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. We love him, right?
But the challenge is most Jews are not going to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
It says, if you continue in my word, then you are my disciples indeed, and you shall know the truth.
And the truth shall make you free they answered him. We be Abraham's seed and we're never in bondage to any man
How says thou ye shall be made free?
Jesus answered them barely barely I sent to you. Whosoever committed sin is a servant of sin and the servant of sin
I mean in the servant of by the night in the house forever, but the son of by death ever if the son
Therefore shall make you free. You shall be free indeed. How do we avoid sin at all costs through the word of God?
That's why the Bible says to meditate there in day and night.
You know, the times where I have it the toughest and sometimes it's not even just sin,
sometimes just things are going wrong.
Nine times out of ten I can point to the fact that I've been dropping the ball somewhere in my spiritual life.
I mean, the Lord's not going to...
How do you expect the Lord to bless you if you're not willing to submit?
The blessing of salvation and the blessings of life are way too, way different things, right?
It's like my children and you, anybody who's sitting here, you're blessed because you didn't do anything to end up in the United States of America.
Even me, I didn't move over here. I didn't spend the money to decide to move from Tampico to the United States of America.
I didn't realize that I was going to have such a great privilege live, you know, with great comfort and some of the best, you know,
options available to us in the entire world.
I didn't know that at five.
I mean, there's no way.
The reason I'm here is because of my parents, right?
I mean, there's no way.
And it's the same thing with salvation.
You know, just cause you got saved,
doesn't mean that you're afforded all the benefits
of salvation here on this earth.
The only thing you were afforded is
that you are now gonna be in heaven.
Right? Just like if you were born in the United States, the only thing you're afforded is the ability to take advantage of everything that happens in the United States, right?
I'm an American citizen, so I can take advantage of the privileges that are afforded to me in this country from a governmental standpoint, from a libertarian standpoint.
I can own my property, quote-unquote, you know, it just depends on how you look at it.
But, you know, we can do things like that because we live in the United States, but go to another country.
That privilege doesn't carry over.
You can't just show up to like ten buck two and be like, Hey, I'm an American.
So, Hey, I'm just going to continue doing what I do.
Go over to Roman six, go over Roman six.
I'm right there in verse 16.
The Bible says, no, you, no, you not.
that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey,
whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness. But God be thanked that ye were
the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered
Into salvation right being then made free from sin you became the servants of righteousness
Hey, you didn't just go from hey, I'm free from sin to just for you to do whatever I want
You're now what the servant you're submissive to righteousness
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh, for as you have yielded your member's servants to uncleanness and to iniquity and to iniquity unto iniquity,
even so now yield your member's servants to righteousness unto holiness, for when you were the servants of sin,
And we're in bondage to sin. The only freedom is in Christ
But that doesn't mean we're not servants to some law. We all have to obey some law
Even anarchy obeys last because at the end of the day, you know what?
There's laws that you can't even control like the law of aging
Who slowed down their aging tell me
right
Now, I know I'm looking at Mo and I'm not picking on him, I'm just saying, I remember being 23.
When you're 23, you think you're not going to have rage.
And then one day you wake up and you're 45 and you're like, where did 23 go?
What happened, right?
Because we're subject to the laws of life, right?
We're subject to, I know people, we live in a weird world where people argue that the
laws of gravity don't exist, but we're subject to the laws of gravity, right?
I've literally seen videos where people are like, well, gravity isn't real. You've been brainwashed,
blah, blah, blah. I'm like, okay, whatever. We're subject to these things, but we're also subject
to one law or the other. If we're an anarchy, we're subject to sin. And if we're in righteousness,
then we're subject to the freedom in Christ. Go over to Romans 8, just a few pages over.
Ultimately, what we want is freedom from eternal death. It starts with salvation,
I make that that nuance because obviously when you're saved you're not going to have eternal death
But we also want freedom from eternal death in the sense that we don't want to influence other people's
eternal death
We really do want to be that light on a shining hill
Right. I mean even today. What do we do? Like we have options on a Sunday. You don't have to be here
You don't have to have the long day and go out soul winning and try to avoid getting wet.
We don't have to do any of those things, but we do them because we also don't want others
to go to hell.
You know, those two people that got saved are two less people going to hell, right?
And what it does is it gives me liberty.
You know in my flood and I'm sorry in my spirit to just know that God's gonna reward me in some other form or fashion
Now we don't do it for the reward, but we also don't deny the reward like God's clear
He says hey, he's gonna reward us. He's not gonna leave us nor forsake us
You know, we don't have to worry about tomorrow because God's already taking care of it
Go to verse 8 it says there is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walked not after the flesh
But after the spirit for the law of the spirit of life in Christ in Christ
Jesus had made me free from the law of sin and death
For what the law could not do and that it was weak through the flesh got sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh
And for sin condemned sin in the flesh
that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh,
but after the spirit, for they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh,
but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit, for to be carnally minded is death,
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
And I think one of the reasons I've also probably never brought a sermon on
I'm not anti-patriotic, I'm just not patriotic to the point where it's my God, right?
I love the United States of America, I love what it stands for, I love the freedom, but
I'm also not going to turn a blind eye to the sin and destruction and influence that
we're pushing not only in the United States but across the world.
We're going around the world convincing them about all our stupid sin, just everything
You don't have to raise your hand. I don't know if people watch, watch movies, but just think about it.
If you grew up watching cinema of any sort, when was the last time anybody watched a foreign film?
Very rare, right?
But if you meet a foreigner, when was the last time they watched an American foreign film?
Probably like within the last week.
We dominate the cinematic space. We dominate television programming.
And let me tell you, it's not what you're going to read here in the Bible, it's exactly
the complete opposite.
It's drugs and fornication and the glorification of violence and murder.
The same people who tell you that our country should have known guns are the same guys who
are making a movie all about shooting everybody up.
Isn't that funny?
They're like, oh, it's atrocious that, you know,
so-and-so country would have all this genocide.
And then, you know, it's the same guy
who, like, has a whole movie on chopping people up.
You know, I mean, just, I don't know who I'm talking about because literally you can turn on the TV right now and literally find a movie about chopping people up, a movie about a sadistic serial killer, a movie about fornication in all forms, a movie about adultery, a movie about just, you know, doing what feels right.
You could, isn't that what we grew up with? Oh, how many times did you hear this in a movie? Oh, just follow your heart.
How many times did you find a movie where it says, oh, you know, and there was always that one couple. They're like, oh, we don't believe in marriage. We just believe in being faithful to each other.
I mean, I can't tell you growing up how many times I heard that in the movie, right?
What was the other, what's the other ones that you hear from movies?
Hey, you're young, you got to live life, do what feels right.
It's complete opposite of and but this is it's not just that we watched it. We're disseminating to the entire world
We're literally
Prostalizing the entire world making them twice the child of hell. It's just it's it's one of the worst things ever
You know, you either have
freedom or you have anarchy and then at least my third point go over to Jude go over to Jude
We're gonna be there in verse 4
Anarchy in the pulpit
What corrupts the pews you say anarchy in the pulpit and that's weird. What do you mean by that?
Well, it's up to the preachers of
America to preach the truth
And number one if you omit stuff
Your fomenting anarchy
But also if you're preaching stuff incorrectly your fomenting are anarchy because you're confusing the flop
I mean, the Bible gives us very clear instructions on church discipline, for example.
You know, that's not the sermon, so I'm not going to go through it, but how many churches
in America, like, would probably get rid of 90% of their congregations if they implemented
church discipline?
I'm not even kidding, right?
I mean, how much adultery and drunkenness and fortification is going on in the majority
You say, well, you're saying that none of your church,
I'm saying that if I find out about it, we're going to deal with it.
And if you're doing it, you need to take it up with God.
But I'm just also saying that I'm not going to miss any words,
and I'm just going to preach about it.
Probably most people wouldn't, you know,
probably you wouldn't even need to do church discipline
in a major church if the pastor just got up and preached the truth.
Most people would be offended and be like, I'm never going back.
because it's too legalistic it right it's too it's too rigid you know i don't like church i've
heard all that in my life right but i like it's got too many rules bro you live in in america
like there's rules everywhere you got a job there's rules right you got a car guess what there's
rules you don't pay your parking tickets find out what kind of rules you but the preachers are
You know, they're, they're sowing seeds of anarchy and it is concerning because even
though we might have some respite right now from some of the evil that's going on in the
world, it's going to ramp up again.
We need to prepare the next generation to be able to battle against that.
You know, this morning we had like 15 kids in the audience, which was great, but man,
my goal is to give them the tools necessary to fight against that tide that's coming
Today people abuse grace
They ignore standards. They just reject the authority go to verse 4 of Jude says for there are certain men crept in unawares
Who are before of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men?
What are they doing? They're turning the grace of God of our God into lasciviousness and denying
The only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ and then he says I will therefore put in remembrance though
You once knew this and by the way, this is a great verse for those people that say the Jews are God's chosen people
Let's see what Jude 5 really says it says though
You once knew this how that the Lord having saved the people or the Jews out of the land of Egypt
Afterward destroyed them that believe not
Hey, just because I saved you
Physically if you disobey, I'm gonna just who destroyed him. God did
And the angels which kept not their firstest step but a state but left their own habitation
He hath reserved and everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah in the city is about them in like manner giving themselves over to fornication
And going after strange flesh and set forth an example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire
And I want you to pay attention to verse 8 it says likewise
also these filthy dreamers what defile the flesh
despise dominion, meaning they hate authority and speak evil of dignities.
They're rebellious. They're rude. They're obnoxious. They talk back.
They're just, they're jerks, basically, is what it comes down to, right?
Titus 1.16, you go over to 2nd Samuel, but in Titus 1.16, go to 2nd, I mean, go to 1st Samuel 15,
It says, they profess that they know God, but in their works they deny Him being abominable
and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate.
But it's from the pulpit.
You know why we like the book of 1 Samuel, go to 1 Samuel?
You know why we like the old-time prophets?
Because they were man's men.
And I like the old-time prophets because they take you out if you didn't preach the word.
Right?
Samuel, Samuel literally chopped up a king in pieces.
when Saul couldn't do it, right?
We're in 1 Samuel, verse 15, verse 22, Bible says,
and Samuel says,
hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings
and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord,
behold, to obey is better than sacrifice
and to hearken the fat of rams,
for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft
and stubbornness is as iniquity and adultery
because, pay attention right here,
because thou has rejected the word of the Lord.
He has also rejected thee from being king and what are we aren't we saints and kings and of a royal priesthood?
But if we reject God's word Samuel saved
He's in I mean a soul is saved and he's in heaven, but he rejects the word of the Lord here on earth
And verse 24 says in Saul said unto Samuel,
I have sinned for I have transgressed
the commandment of the Lord in thy words.
And I love this because I feared the people
and obeyed their voice.
So look, we're obeying somebody even in anarchy.
Even in a rebellion. I'm either listening to everything you guys are telling me and believe me as I do with you guys here
Just everybody has an opinion. I'm just I've already I already I know that so it's not and I'm not picking on anybody
You guys have opinions and if it was a different set of congregation members, you know what they'd have opinions
So I have opinions if you ask me, I'm gonna give you my opinion
Everybody loves to give their opinion, but you know what we shouldn't do is heed to all those opinions. We should heed to the word of God
Right, that's the big thing. So let's start up
We've got yeah, we've got a couple minutes. I'm I still got time. I just want to make sure and then the fourth point
I have for you is
Anarchy is why I said anarchy starts. I mean in the pulpit corrupts the pews, but the boundaries of liberty
Start where here? It's also starts in the church
I didn't say liberty. I said the boundaries of liberty. Where does liberty start?
Out in the hedges and the highways to the uttermost part of the earth.
But hey, we want to drag those people to church
and say, hey, let me show you what the Bible says about the life you're living right now.
Let me give you some boundaries so that you can be more productive, be more result-driven for the Lord.
And the problem is that the church has done such a horrible job.
And then we wonder why the world is the way it is.
I guarantee you we went out to like a Republican convention or something and we said,
man, I really take issue with President Trump having Paula White as a spiritual advisor
because the Bible says that women shouldn't be preachers.
I'd probably be kicked out of that convention.
I mean, let's just be really honest.
That's sad
Right, I mean it's sad that we we get to the point where we're the enemy for telling people the truth
We'll go around just saying, hey, the Bible just said, you know, I've had this conversation over and over with a family member.
I'm not as contentious with them anymore because I've learned to grow it, like be more patient.
But recently I was having a conversation about some pregatory prayers that's in the vigil and
then the individual was like, I don't want to continue this conversation because you're always going to come back with, well, it's not me.
It's God. But it isn't. It's not me. It's God. It's in the Bible.
But this person doesn't want to hear it because they think that they're like, well, it's because you're always right
I was like, I'm not right
God is right
You give me enough time by myself and I definitely I guarantee you I will be wrong a hundred percent of the time
And so will you the only reason that I'm right in anything is because of God Almighty
And people get so offended.
Look, I'm not going around telling you
how right I am about anything anymore.
The young me maybe would have told you that.
I don't care about being right.
I care about being right in God's word.
I'm just getting plowed through these,
but go to over to Hosea,
so you don't have to follow me with these.
Go to over to Hosea, but the problem is
there's no authority in the home,
no authority in the church,
no authority in the nation.
The attack is literally against God. We know this, right?
I mean, Samuel had to face the fact that the people wanted a king
And he was so mad at them and what happened? What did God say? He's like, it's not you that they've rejected
It's me
The anarchy is rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ first Corinthians 1440 says let all things be done. What decently and in order
Hebrews 13 17 says obey them that have rule over you and submit yourselves for they watch for your souls as they must give account and
That they may do it with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for you
Romans 13 once has led every soul be subject unto the higher powers for there's no power
But of God the powers that be are ordained of God
We need to obey things period I
Wish it was the other way
I mean like in my flesh in my younger self. Let me let me let me retract that statement correctly in my flesh
I wish it was the other way around but the reality is you realize quickly
Actually, you're glad that it's not the other way around
Authority is there for a reason right? I mean we all have to answer to someone
somewhere somehow some way and it's so much better when you actually just give
it and just follow the rules even if the person that's leading is a jerk
because overall God's gonna bless your efforts. That's why we have so many
problems with feminism today right? I think of feminism because you know I get
Well, oh, so if I have an abusive husband, you know, you're saying that I just have to submit.
Yeah, you say that sounds like a really jerkish thing to do.
No, because you didn't ask me the other part, which was, you know, there's a book in the Bible called Proverbs.
And that book is 31 chapters of warnings.
literally warnings warning warning don't marry this guy if he does these things
but nobody wants to listen to their parents anymore right hey how many of
our parents don't I mean I'm glad in my even in my rebellious state that I
listened to my mom there was all these girlfriends that I had when I was a
young guy and she never liked any of them you know I think back to my I think
back now and I'm like I'm so glad I didn't end up with that one or that one
like if my life would have been miserable
There's a reason right because once you're in it, it's over like you've got to submit
So why not choose correctly so you don't have to deal with the consequences of choosing bad?
So that's the thing everybody wants to just choose do whatever they want and then they want no consequences with it
Right, that's why I tell my daughter like look you better choose right
I mean, I tell my son too, he better choose, right?
But he's gonna have to lead with authority.
It's a different choice, right?
But my daughter, like I said, don't do it
because it'll hurt me to see you suffer
knowing that I have to obey the Lord
and you have to obey that authority.
So don't marry an idiot, just don't do it.
Don't marry a moron, because I'll be so sad.
Just, I don't know what I'll do.
Like I just, I'm just thinking of myself.
But you're there, Josef.
What's the end of anarchy what like what's the opposite so you it's liberty or
What I did I call it anarchy? Liberty or lawlessness, right? But either way it's anarchy. It's really what I want to focus on
What's the end of lawlessness? What's the end of anarchy? It's ultimate destruction
And we're headed that way right? We're literally writing lawlessness into our law books
We're so enamored with lawlessness that we're making it the law let's just
Let's just and what we're gonna get to the point where it'll be hate speech to preach against certain groups or about certain things
There's countries in the world where that happens already. There's a pastor pastor bull guard is his name
I've met him personally several times
He's in South Africa and he's constantly being taken up against the courts for preaching against the sodomites
Because it's actually a hate crime. It's hate speech punishable by law
South Africa. Literally they were like, how do we get away with breaking God's law?
Oh, we'll make our own law. We'll just write it in the books. We'll just make it for ourselves.
But go to Hosea, I'll just read for you really quick. 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 7, the Bible says,
for the mystery of iniquity death already work, only he who now let it will let until you be
taken out of the way. Matthew 7 23 says, then I will profess unto them, I never knew you depart
iniquity. We're going to get judged as a nation, as individuals, as a church. I don't want,
I just don't want that. Like, I think about the more I read my Bible, I'm like, look,
it's our duty to stay on the straight and narrow. When judgment comes to this country,
I believe it's already here, but I'm talking when it just keeps escalating. I want to be
To the best of my ability. I know I'm not perfect
But I want us to be just so enamored with the Lord that he just builds his wonderful heads of protection
Where we kind of live in this little bubble from the rest of the world
And you know what currently we kind of have this little bubble our church group our church family
That's shielded from the rest of the filth of the world
Because what are people doing right now on a Sunday? They're not a church
Every every Sunday morning. I come down clay road pastor. You've seen them
And I have to avoid what? All the cyclists.
People are more concerned about their health than they are about their spiritual health.
So annoying. I think it's only annoying because it's Sunday morning. I'm like,
you should be at church. I almost feel like rolling down the window and I'm like,
bro, what are you doing? Get to church. You know, I'm not going to. I stay clear of that.
But go to Hosea. Hosea 8 verse 1, the Bible says,
Sorry, I needed to take a drink. It's been a long day set the trumpet to thy mouth
He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord
Because they what have transgressed my covenant and trespassed against my law
Israel shall cry unto me my God. We know thee Israel have cast off that thing that is good
The enemy shall pursue him and I love this verse for they have set up kings
But not by me
They have made princes and I knew it not of their silver and their gold have they made them idols
They that they may be cut off
The calf
Osemeria has cast the off. My anger is kindled against them. How long will it be?
Air they attain to innocence
For from Israel was it also the workmen made it therefore it is not God
But the cap of Samaria should be broken in pieces and I like this says for they have sown
The wind and they shall reap of the whirlwind. It has no stock, but the bud show yield though meal
If so be it yield the stranger shall swallow it up
The judgments come in. I don't think it's a coincidence. We've had some weird weather
Right, I mean, I know it's like we it's cyclical, but we've had some weird weather
I was telling my wife. I was like what a blessing. I look at as a blessing, but it's still weird
We're like we're already in July and we've yet to have a real heat wave
By the way, I'm not I'm not praying for it to come. I'm just saying it
It's interesting right and not only that but there's like
All kinds of weather systems and storms and heat waves and I know part of it is part of the sickle
But then the extremes that's the judgment from God
So let's go just let's close this thing out in conclusion
Go to 1st Peter 2 go to 1st Peter 2
In conclusion, you're not gonna find freedom by casting off the rules like you we have to live it in a law and order country
But we also have to be careful
Who's spewing that and where it's coming from because Trump says he's for law and order, but
He's not a Christian and he's not preaching from the King James. So I don't think everything he says is law and order
I'm just let's just be honest. I
Still think he's better than the alternative. I just don't think he's he's that great. I was just let me just
Right the reality is we have to surrender who Jesus
It's not a license to do as you please, you know, honestly, I mean, I'm looking at my
notes here.
I'm just making sure I'm not because it's a little repetitive.
But what we want to do is we just want to focus on the fact that like this 4th of July,
we want to, if we really want to celebrate freedom, what we need to do is praise the
Lord.
I mean, really, that's what it comes down to.
I was trying to come up with a really fancy way to say this, but praising the Lord and
What you say to do will do remember when Moses spoke to the children of Israel and they're like no
We're fearful of the Lord. We will do what he asks. You know, we want to do what he says. That's the attitude
We need to have
Because no remember shortly after they went down and we're rebellious
All of us are capable of
onslaught and rebellion and anarchy or even fomenting it.
I mean, it's real easy to do that. That's why we need to be in church.
That's why we need to read our Bibles.
That's why we need to constantly be just pushing this law and order in our lives.
Matthew 11 verse 29 says take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am meek and lonely in heart and you shall find rest
Unto your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. You're there in 1 Peter 2 Galatians 5 13 says
For brethren you have been called into liberty only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh
But by love serve one another and then there in 1 Peter 2 verse 15. We'll close out with that one says for so of the will of God
That with well-doing you may be you may you may put to silence
The ignorance of foolish men. Look, we don't need to argue with people all the time
We don't need to debate people. We just need to live righteously
It'll speak volumes now. We're not lifestyle evangelists, but we are lifestyle righteousness
We should live righteously regardless, but who cares about what people think we just do it because the Lord does people will take notice
But I love verse 16 it says as free and not using your liberty for cloak of maliciousness, but as a servant of God
honor all men
Love the brotherhood fear God honor the king. So look, I know people are mad and I'm not I'm gonna say this very
Carefully, I'm not tipi told you say if Trump decided to make it to dictatorship and become king
We would still need to honor the king
Now I'm I'm not for it at all the country is fine the way it is the Constitution is awesome
The legislative branch the executive branch this judicial branch should exist
He should be out of here in four years and we should replace him with another president good or bad like the system works
But countries change we need to listen to what the word of God says right servants be subject to your masters with all fear
Not only to the good and gentle
But also to the forward the challenges nobody wants to do that
Well, I'll only listen to him if he's good to me
I mean how many people have had jobs where you hear that kind of stuff? Well that guy's a jerk
I mean, I've been guilty of being mad with authority. I mean we all have a rebellious spirit if we're not careful
But we don't we need to not activate it. So
On the 4th of July, as you look at Liberty and you go back, study it out, but the Founding
Fathers did do some good things, right?
They looked to the Word of God for the way that they found in this country, the way that
they established it, and what we need to do is look at the good stuff that they did and
then enhance it with the Word of God and then live our lives that way, right?
They're going to shoot off fireworks, and they're going to do all kinds of lewd things.
You know what you should do is just read your Bible and thank the Lord that you're free
in this country.
You say, that sounds real simplistic.
The Lord doesn't want you to be fancy, He just wants you to love Him.
I mean, that's really the truth. So let's close in a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today.
Thank you for your blessings. Thank you for opportunity to be here, Lord. Thank you for all those in attendance here today, Lord.
Thank you for the wonderful rain and the cool temperatures in the month of June.
Thank you for all the freedom that you give us, Lord, to live life according to your rules.
I know it sounds like a paradox, but when we read the Bible, it makes perfect sense and
submit to your word, Lord, and would walk in your ways and would allow them themselves to be their paths to be lighted by you, Lord.
And Lord, I just ask on the 4th of July that everybody would enjoy time with friends and family and that if an opportunity presents itself that we would be able to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and shine forth as a light on a shining hill.
Thank you for this day. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
the final game. All right, turn your handles to song 304.
Song number 304, sweet hour prayer. We'll go ahead and knock a fella.
All right, we'll play it. Song 304.
Sweet