- Good morning everyone,
and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
It's wonderful to see everybody here today.
If we can go ahead and find our seats,
we will get started with this morning's service.
For the first song this morning,
we will start it off with song number 413.
Stand up for Jesus, song number 413.
You can sit down to sing.
It's stand up, stand up for Jesus, song number 413.
Sing that out together this morning.
Song 413, stand up, stand up for Jesus.
Serve us now with a word of praise.
Thank you once again for this awesome church.
Thank you for allowing me to do this morning.
We just ask that you help us lift up our voices,
be with us this morning as we sing unto you.
It's in Jesus' name that we pray.
The next song is 455, song number 455,
a song to most of us probably, if you know it well,
sing it out.
Perfect love for finding that out together.
- Singing, thank you so much for coming
to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you did not get the bullets in already
and you would like one, just lift up your hand nice and high.
One of our ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin.
On the front, we have our Bible memory passage
where we're working through memorizing
the chapter Romans 10.
So if you can quote the entire chapter
to a non-family member, word perfect,
you can receive a prize.
The children who can quote the verse of the week
can get a ice cream treat at our midweek service
on Wednesdays.
Inside, we have those service times listed.
We have a Spanish service, 9 a.m. on Sunday mornings.
We have three other services, Sunday morning 10.30,
Sunday evening 4.30, and then Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
Churchwide soul winning is just meeting here at the building
if you'd like to go out soul winning with us.
Regional times meet in different parts
of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
So if you'd like to go out,
we have soul winning every single day.
We have a couple ladies options in the mornings
on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Tuesdays, my wife helps lead a group and organizes that.
And then on Thursdays, Mrs. Lucy organizes a group.
And so if you'd like to go soul winning with those ladies,
you can talk to them.
Down below is our church stats so far for the year.
Keep up the great work on our soul winning.
On the right is a list of expecting ladies.
Please be in prayer for our expecting ladies.
We have an upcoming college soul winning event.
It's going to be the Texas A&M campus and college station.
Brother Diego is helping organize and lead this event.
If you have any questions, you can talk to him about that.
He's going to go down there a little early.
So if you are planning on going on Friday,
he's going to meet up at 4, and then also Saturday morning,
they're going to have a group.
Brother Sam said that he's planning
to go early in the morning on Saturday,
and he might take the church van.
So if you want to go in a church van group,
or you need a ride, talk to Brother Sam
about that for this weekend.
If you are planning on going out there,
they're meeting at the Beak--
I'm sorry, the Beak Creek Park in the morning.
And so really looking forward to that event.
Down below, also, if you're still here in town,
February 27, we're just going to have a free movie night.
It's going to be here at the church at 8 PM.
And it's going to be more like the airport.
We're going to actually take off at 8 PM.
So you can't come late and think that we're
going to wait for you.
It's going to happen right at 8 PM.
So if you want to participate in the free movie premiere,
you've got to be here on time.
Obviously, you can come late, but you just
might miss a few parts.
My brother, Fer, has been organizing some snacks.
So you get some snacks, free movie,
should be a lot of fun.
Also, children's choir practice can begin March 1st.
So we've had several different church choirs,
and they've all done really well.
It's been pretty awesome to see how many kids participate.
And so if you'd like to do that again for our Easter services,
they're going to begin practice March 1st,
and it's going to be after the evening service.
So just immediately after the evening service,
they'll begin practicing.
We have a Foley Baby Shower on the 7th,
Carthage Texas Soul Winning Marathon March 21st,
Soul Winning Mega Marathon April 4th.
So we're going to do a big push of Soul Winning on April 4th.
Easter Sunday is April 5th this year.
And then that's, of course, when our children
are going to perform.
And so we're really looking forward to that.
On the back is the note about the Baby Shower details.
So if you'd like to participate, it's
going to be from 12 to 2 at the church.
They are registered on Amazon.
If you'd like to get them a gift,
it is nursing's only preferred.
Please RSVP to Ms. Suthered if you plan on attending.
We have a prayer list there if you have
any additional prayer requests.
You can always fill out a communication card,
drop that on the offering plate, or you can email us
and we'd update our prayer list based on that.
On the inside, we had a congratulations to the Cheziks
on the birth of their daughter, Bethany Olivia.
She was born Saturday, February 14th.
Six pounds, nine ounces.
Congratulations to them.
Always great to have our church family growing.
So that's pretty much all I have as far as announcements.
We're going to go ahead and sing our psalm of the week.
It's going to be Psalm 119.
Psalm 119, it's going to be in our special psalm binders.
It'll be helpful if you use that because in the King James
Bible, it's a pretty long psalm, all right?
So it's just a portion in our psalm binders, Psalm 119.
Psalm 119, Psalm 119.
Let's all sing that together.
Psalm 119.
As the offering plates are passed around,
go ahead and open your Bibles to the book of Second Timothy,
chapter number three.
Second Timothy, chapter three.
Second Timothy, three.
Bible reads, "This know also that in the last days,
perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection,
truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good, traitors,
heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers
of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the
power thereof, from such turn away.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses and
lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with
diverse lusts, ever learning and never able to come
to the knowledge of the truth.
Now as Janus and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these
also resist the truth.
Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith.
But they shall proceed no further, for their folly shall
be manifest unto all men as theirs also was.
But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life,
purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience, persecutions, afflictions,
which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra,
what persecutions I endured.
But out of them all the LORD delivered me.
Yea and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of,
knowing of whom thou hast learned them, and that from a child thou hast known the holy
scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ
Jesus.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof,
for correction, for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect, throughly
furnished unto all good works.
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.
Father God, I pray that you give Pastor Shelley the fullness of the Holy Spirit, help him
to preach the sermon that you've laid on his heart with boldness, and help us to be
admonished by the scriptures this morning and to respond in obedience.
We thank you for our church, and we love you.
In Jesus' name I pray.
Amen.
The Bible says here in verse 16, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the
man of God may be perfect, truly furnished unto all good works."
And I want to preach a sermon this morning on this phrase brought up, "Man of God."
And Timothy is being called here the man of God, and man of God is a phrase used in the
Bible many times.
It's only mentioned a couple times in the New Testament, but Timothy is recognized as
being someone in a position of leadership in the church.
I believe it's clear he's a pastor of a New Testament church.
And so the pastor, Timothy, here is being described as or called the man of God.
Now obviously a pastor or a leader in a church needs to be well equipped to run in that position.
And specifically the Bible is giving him that equipment is through the Bible.
It says all scripture is given by inspiration of God.
That's what's going to give the man of God the right doctrine, the right reproof, correction,
the instruction.
So what?
So that he can be perfect, meaning he's complete, he's mature, and that he can be thoroughly
furnished unto all good works.
He's going to be a good example, he's going to be able to accomplish all the works that
he needs to do.
Of course, I believe every man should strive to be a man of God in the sense that they're
following God, and they're preaching God's word, and they're a soul winner, and that
they themselves are also implementing all of the works that God has for us.
But this title "man of God" is often referring to specific leaders in the Bible, the leadership
that's been appointed by God, ordained by God, and is being used by God to essentially
preach to God's people.
And Timothy is clearly, you know, identified as, quote, "the man of God."
Go to 1 Timothy chapter 6, just go back just a hair, just flip the page, and look at another
verse.
Let's look at verse number 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, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness,
faith, love, patience, meekness, 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."
And so again, Timothy is a leader, he's a pastor, he's someone that people are going
to look up to, and it's important for him to not get this covetous attitude, not allow
himself to go down a bad path where he's just consumed with money, because the Bible says
the love of money is the root of all evil.
Again, evil here I believe is referred to harm, and when we're talking about things
that are causing harm and destruction and ill will, it's a love of money that's there
somewhere at the root.
And people that have a love of money will destroy themselves, that's why the man of
God is supposed to flee after those things and not be like that.
There's certain standards for the pastor himself.
Look at 1st Timothy chapter 3, this is the qualifications of a bishop.
Look at verse number 1, this is a true saying of a man desire the office of a bishop, he
desire the good work.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior,
given hospitality, apt to teach.
This is this, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not
a brawler, not covetous.
So really you kind of have a lot of things being brought up to dispel someone that's
covetous.
When we think about Moses himself, when he was to appoint leaders in the Old Testament,
the Bible says that when they would appoint someone a position of authority, they were
supposed to be someone that hated covetousness, because this is a very important attitude
to dispel and not have in a leader in this type of position.
The man of God should not be a covetous person, should not be someone that is greedy and filthy
lucre, meaning what?
Meaning they could be compromised with money, meaning that they're going to scale back,
they're going to hold back God's Word or His message because they care more about money
than they care about preaching the truth or what God's Word says.
Someone that's concerned with the decisions of the church based on how it's going to
affect them financially or their church financially or the decisions that are being made are based
on finances and not what's right and wrong, not what the Bible actually says.
Someone that desires to heap unto themselves riches or wealth or to just basically live
some kind of a lavish lifestyle at the expense of preaching the truth and the Word of God
and serving God.
You can't serve God in mammon is what the Bible says.
You kind of have to pick one and really we should be prioritizing the Word of God especially
a leader.
You notice here it says specifically that they're not given to wine.
Now when it talks about the deacons as you look in verse 8 it says likewise must the
deacons be grave not double tongue not given to much wine.
So it almost like sounds like there's almost even a little bit higher standard for the
man of God.
There's just a little bit higher standard for the bishop that he should just not be
someone that's given to wine and that the deacon he's not given the much wine but also
specifically about the pastor again it says that he's not greedy of filthy lucre and then
again emphasizes not covetous.
So you know again wine we typically would think of like being drunk or you know someone
that's not sober and I think that's an application but also oftentimes wine is just kind of an
idea of just like extreme luxury or lavish things and he's just saying this guy's not
given to those things.
He doesn't have to have those things, he doesn't really care about those things.
Those things don't really change his attitude or behavior.
If they happen, whatever, if they don't happen, whatever, he's not really interested in those
kind of things.
He doesn't care about those kind of things.
He's not greedy or filthy lucre.
He's not someone that's coveting things that are not his.
What is coveting?
Coveting is desiring that which you don't have.
It's desiring things that you don't have and usually it's desiring things that you don't
have that you're not allowed to have.
That's really what covetousness truly is because there's nothing wrong with desiring things.
We all have desires, right?
We're all going to have desires that we want.
We all have to acquire things.
You save up money to buy a car, buy a house, buy clothes, you know, we all have to have
possessions in our life.
But there's nothing wrong with me desiring to, you know, have money so that I can buy
myself a car.
But if I want to take my neighbor's car, take my neighbor's wife, you know, my neighbor's
wife's off limits, that's not allowed to me or anybody else.
That's where the covetousness is coming into play, where you're desiring that which you're
not allowed to have.
Or you're not content with such things as you do have.
And so you have a disgruntled negative attitude towards what God's already blessed you with.
And you just think, well, if I could have this, you know, if I get, I'll be happy when
I get my next house, I'll be happy when I get my next car, or I'll be happy when I get
my next wife.
It's just like, no, it's just not, it's not how it works, Solomon.
After 1,000, you would think you finally arrived, and you realize it's just not all it's cracked
up to be, is it?
But the man of God is an important role, is an important picture in the Bible.
Now, I want to go to a couple more places, go to Jeremiah 33.
We cannot look up all the mentions, that would be an entire sermon in and of itself, and
that's not really what I want to talk about this morning, but the word man of God is basically
in like 72 verses approximately, there's about 77 or 78 mentions of that exact phrase in
the King James Bible.
So this is not a minor topic, this is a major topic.
This is the first time we have it mentioned in the Bible, Deuteronomy chapter 33, look
at verse 1, and this is the blessing where with Moses, the man of God blessed the children
of Israel before his death.
So the Bible tells us that Moses is quote, the man of God, and it emphasizes this particular
point about Moses many times in the Bible.
Now of course, Moses helped deliver the children of Israel out of the wilderness, well he delivered
them into, out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, into the wilderness, was going to take them
into the promised land, they rebelled, and so Joshua is going to have to be the one that
finally gets them into the promised land.
But Moses has been a great deliverer, he's delivered them out of slavery, he's delivered
them out of Egypt, he's delivered them out of the world.
And if you think about what Moses kind of represents, he kind of represents a savior
in a sense, albeit obviously God is the true savior, but he helped deliver a people out
of Egypt.
What does Egypt typically picture?
The world and being unsaved.
And so he's just like a magnetic force that just saves scores and scores of people, hundreds
of thousands, yea millions of people are influenced by Moses, delivered from the world, delivered
from Egypt, get baptized and they're the church in the wilderness, they're serving God.
And so he's a very important figure in the Bible, someone that just really had a big
effect on a lot of people.
I want to go to some more verses though to look at this and emphasize this, go to Joshua
chapter 14, go to Joshua 14, and we're going to look at a lot of Bible today, so I hope
you're ready to turn.
Joshua chapter 14, look at verse number 6, the Bible says, "Then the children of Judah
came unto Joshua and Gilgal, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenazite, said unto
them, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses, the man of God, concerning
me, and thee in Kadesh-Barniah."
Notice, again, the Bible wants to emphasize, hey, when we're talking about Moses, we're
not just talking about Moses, we're talking about Moses, the man of God.
This is someone that is an ambassador, a representative of God, and what he was delivering,
the message that he was delivering was special, because Moses is not just Moses, Moses is
the man of God.
Moses isn't the son of Pharaoh's daughter, Moses is the man of God.
Notice that's his identity, notice that is who the Bible is emphasizing and it's bringing
up.
Now I want to go to a couple more mentions though, because honestly again this is emphasized,
go to 1 Chronicles chapter 23, go to 1 Chronicles chapter number 23.
Moses is special, and that's okay, there can actually be special people.
Now does that mean that just because Moses is special or there's something unique about
him, that we need like worship men?
No we don't need to worship men, obviously we worship the Lord Jesus Christ only.
But here's the thing, if you think God is special, if you think God is worthy of honor
and recognition, then you have to treat and respect His ambassadors with some level of
respect and honor because dishonoring His representatives is dishonoring Him.
And so Moses being special is only because God is special and because God has put His
specialness on Moses because notice it's not Moses the man that's awesome, the man that's
super cool, it's the man of God.
It's what He represents that makes Him special.
It's the position that He has that makes Him special.
It's not about Moses, it's about Moses being the man of God.
That's what makes Him special.
So if you think God is special, then you're going to treat Moses special because God is
special, okay?
So you have to understand why.
First Chronicles chapter 23, look at verse number 19.
The Bible says, "Of the sons of Ebron," I'm sorry, I want to make sure I have this right.
Yeah, verse 14, "Now concerning Moses, the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe
of Levi."
So notice again, "Now concerning Moses, the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe
of Levi."
Moses is of the Levitical priesthood, in a sense, obviously it's Aaron that it mostly
gets after, but again, they're both from Levi, this special called out, you know, group of
family that's going to be recognized as holy or separated in God's sight.
Go to 2 Chronicles chapter number 30, 2 Chronicles chapter number 30.
My four looked like a nine there for a second.
2 Chronicles chapter 30, look at verse number 16.
So we're just kind of taking a gander through the scripture, but look what it says in 2
Chronicles chapter 30 verse 16, "And they stood in their place after their manner according
to the law of Moses, the man of God, the priest sprinkled the blood which they received with
the hand of the Levites."
Let's go to one more, go to Ezra chapter 3, go to Ezra chapter number 3, look at verse
number 2.
It's right there before Nehemiah, so Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Ezra chapter 3, look
at verse number 2.
Why bring up these mentions?
Well, we want to first establish some doctrines.
The man of God is an important role.
The man of God is supposed to use all scripture.
The man of God is someone that is supposed to hate covetousness.
The Bible is telling us that Moses is the man of God repeatedly and so we should be
treating Moses differently.
We should recognize, hey, there's something special about him.
And the Bible recognizes something special about him because it says this, you know,
I would say he's probably the second most mentioned as the man of God in the Bible.
Number one is actually Elisha, but Moses is also referred to very many times as this particular
person.
Ezra chapter three, look at verse number two, "Then set up Jeshua, the son of Josadach,
and his brethren the priests, and Zerubel the son of Shealtal, and his brethren and
build of the altar of the God of Israel to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written
the law of Moses, the man of God."
Now, again, it's just like the Bible just doesn't want to not throw this title on when
it brings up Moses just repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly.
So let's go to Numbers chapter 12 now, let's go back to Numbers chapter number 12.
Now that we've established, again repeatedly, how God feels, I mean this is the Holy Ghost
in our scriptures telling us who Moses is, he's the man of God, he's the man of God,
he's the man of God, he's the man of God.
You should then have some fear and some reverence toward the man of God and you shouldn't just
quickly blow off your mouth about the man of God or want to go against the man of God
because to go against the man of God is to go against God himself.
Remember chapter 12 verse 1, "And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian
woman whom he had married, for he had married an Ethiopian woman."
And this is what they said, and they said, "Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses?
Hath he not spoken also by us?
And the Lord heard it."
Now again, it's interesting, they're mad at him about marrying an Ethiopian woman.
And then the question's like, is God only talking to Moses?
It's like, how are these even related?
Like what does it even matter if you marry an Ethiopian and then like, if God is using
you to speak?
And you know, what's interesting is like, yeah, God did use other people to speak the
word of God.
I mean, Aaron is the mouthpiece that spoke to Pharaoh literally in many senses.
It's like Moses kind of delivered messages to Aaron.
Aaron's then delivering messages to Pharaoh.
So Aaron's used to convince the children of Israel to kind of follow them.
He's someone that kind of intercedes, you know, to the children of Israel.
Miriam's very influential.
Both of them, you know, probably have some kind of a complex because Moses is like their
little brother.
And so sometimes, you know, they kind of get this attitude of thinking they're better than
their little brother.
But here's the thing.
Moses is the man of God.
It doesn't matter if God's used you or if God has helped you or if God has blessed you
in some way.
Moses is the man of God.
And you just don't speak against the man of God.
And when the Lord heard it, it said in verse 4, "And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses
and unto Aaron and unto Miriam, "Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation."
And they came, and they three came out.
And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle
and called Aaron and Miriam.
And they both came forth and he said, "Hear now my words.
If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision
and will speak unto him in a dream.
My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently and not in dark speeches.
And in the similitude of the Lord shall he behold.
Wherefore then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed."
And it says, "And the cloud departed from out the tabernacle, behold, Miriam became leprous,
white as snow, and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and behold, she was leprous."
So we have God trying to just talk some sense into these three people.
He's saying, "Look, yeah, there's been people that are prophets.
There's been people that preach the word of God.
Yeah, there's been people that I've revealed things to."
But he said, "But did you, have you thought about what I did with Moses?"
He's like, "Yeah, y'all did some stuff, okay?
But did you see what I did with Moses?
Moses is not going to meet directly.
Moses is getting to see my similitude.
Moses is being obviously used by me to do these mighty works.
Then how in the world would you not be afraid to speak against this guy that God is using
so greatly?
If you could recognize, "Hey, here's somebody that's being used by God more than anybody
else," why would you not be afraid to speak against that guy?
Whoever is being the most used by God, whatever you think about them.
"Well, I just don't like that he married an Ethiopian woman."
Who cares what you think?
God's using him greater than anybody else.
And if God is using this guy, Moses, better than you, how dare you go and speak against
him?
"Yeah, but God used me."
Okay, God used you.
But that doesn't mean and does not give you the right to go and attack the man of God
who's being greatly used by God, and God's saying, "How are you not afraid to do this?"
Remember, think Miriam, Aaron, and Moses are not bad people.
We're not having a controversy between the most wicked and the reprobates and God haters
and God's people.
No, no, no.
This is just God's people altogether.
It's not even just God's people.
It's people that have been used by God.
It's like the upper echelons of leadership, and yet God is still mad at upper levels of
leadership criticizing the other layers of leadership.
Recognize that Miriam and Aaron are not bad people in general.
Like from a big picture perspective, these are people used by God.
Aaron, we're going to have the entire priesthood named after him.
It's going to be the Aaronic priesthood.
He is going to be the high priest of the children of Israel.
This is not like some just rando.
This is not some lame duck.
This is like the number two guy.
This is the guy that spoke to Pharaoh, and yet God's mad at him.
That should just stand to reason that even if you're number two, you don't talk bad about
number one.
Right?
I mean, look, you could be literally number two on the planet and God's still like, how
dare you talk about number one like that?
Because you just don't go against the man of God.
Okay?
Let's go to Numbers chapter 16.
Numbers chapter 16.
Now that was like number two, you know, Matt, what about people that are even lower on the
totem pole?
Well, that's a real dangerous Cora.
Okay?
Like, man, you're like number, you know, 475, like where are you coming from?
I don't even know if you made the list, but you're just, you're just way further down.
All right?
It says in chapter 16 verse one, now Cora, the son of Ishar, the son of Kohath, the son
of Levi and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab and On, the son of Peles, sons of Reuben
took men, and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, 250 princes
of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown.
And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said unto them,
Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them.
And the Lord is among them, wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation
of the Lord.
So, interesting story, you know, Miriam and Aaron speaking against Moses wasn't a good
enough lesson for these guys.
I mean, Miriam got smote with leprosy, was without the camp for a week, God says it's
like he spit in his daughter's face to shame her, this is kind of the language he's using,
this has already happened, now these bozos come out of nowhere and it's 250 of them.
Think about the numbers game here, it's 250 against two, and when the Bible is talking
about these people, again, we're not talking about openly obvious wicked people, we're
not talking about protesters, we're not talking about the sodomites of this world, we're talking
about other men of "renown" in the congregation, these are the other leaders, other big picture
guys, people that people will be looking up to, leading groups of people in charge, having
authority, these are men of renown, big picture guys, they're all now going to attack number
one and number two, because did you notice that it said, the Bible emphasizes things,
notice in verse three it says they gather themselves together against Moses, and notice
this, and against Aaron, it says the word against twice, it just wants to make it really
clear they're against, they're going against these people, and of course this is what's
so funny, they're against Moses and Aaron, they're somehow bad.
But then every other person in leadership, according to them, notice this, are holy and
every one of them is great, right?
He says seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, isn't interesting, it's
like there's a problem with Aaron and Moses, but literally every other person is good.
It's like I can be friends with everyone but you guys, what?
How is it that literally everyone is good?
Everyone is holy, except for number one and two, except for Aaron and Moses, right?
Like I'm just reading what the Bible says here.
It's just crazy, 250 of these guys, all attacking, everyone.
You know what this is?
It's when you have such a high standard of separation, you have such a high standards
of separation that you have to separate from Aaron and Moses, but you can literally be
friends with anything else.
How does, how does, if you have such a high standard of separation, how can then you just,
join up and be buddies with literally anything and everything else?
That doesn't compute.
If you had such a high levels of separation, then you'd be separating from tons of people.
Not literally friends with everyone, but Aaron and Moses.
That just doesn't really compute.
That shows hypocrisy.
That shows insincerity.
That shows that, you know what they really want to do?
They just want to skim off the top one and two so they can position themselves as number
one or number two.
That's the only point of this.
Why would they say everybody else is great?
Because they want everybody else to be underneath them.
They want everybody else, they want to flatter them and make them so special so that they'll
lift them up.
Again, the whole point of this is to lift themselves up above the congregation, you
know, because they're going to accuse Aaron and Moses of doing this.
And it shows that what?
They're covetous.
They just want a position of power and authority.
They don't actually just want God's word to go forth accurately or truthfully.
They're not men that hate covetousness.
They love covetousness.
What are they coveting?
They're coveting a position that is not theirs to have.
They want Moses's position, but they don't want to work for it.
They don't want God to use them.
They don't want God to elevate them.
They want to elevate themselves.
And of course, then this is going to be the accusation they make against Aaron and Moses
because people love to project their own insecurities and problems.
It says that when Moses heard it, he fell, I'm sorry, in verse three at the end, "Wherefore
then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?"
But Moses was out in the middle of the wilderness just living his best life, hanging out with
Jethro and his wife, Zipporah.
And then God's like, "Hey, I'm going to send you back," and he's like, "Nah."
And then God's like, "Yo, you're going, buddy."
He gets mad at him.
Moses was, Moses did not lift himself up above the congregation.
He was reluctant.
He didn't even want to go.
God is just like coming up to him and being like, "Bro, you're going to go."
And he's like, "Who are you going to send?"
He's like, "You."
He's like, "I don't want to go."
But he's going to send them anyways, isn't he?
Why?
Because he's the meek.
He's the meekest man upon the earth, is what the Bible had said.
We skipped over that verse, but the Bible told us that he was the meekest man upon the earth,
meaning he's not someone to lift himself up.
He's actually the most humble person on the planet, and that's who God chose.
Why?
Because God doesn't like to elevate prideful people and then use them.
People that are prideful that get elevated are against God's will, and God loves to
tear those people down.
If you lift yourself up, God will tear you down.
If you go ahead and just humble yourself, and you're just a lowly servant, God may
decide to elevate you.
But at the end of the day, we shouldn't be seeking for elevation.
We should be seeking to be right with God.
And wherever God places us, hey, that's God's doing and God's choosing.
But if God places the meekest man upon the earth in a position of authority and leadership,
you just don't go against the man of God.
You don't speak against the man of God.
You don't attack the man of God.
You don't try to drag down the man of God.
But of course, Korah and his whole rebellion want to attack them and project their sin
upon these people.
Now, I'm not going to read the whole chapter, but we're going to kind of skip through.
Look at verse number seven.
It says, this is, this is the instructions that we're getting.
It says, "And put fire therein and put incense in them before the Lord tomorrow.
And it should be that the man whom the Lord doth choose, he shall be holy.
Ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi."
So Moses is kind of like rebuking them saying, "Hey, you know what?
Fine.
Let's just have a standoff.
God, let's let God choose who he likes.
You say that I lifted myself up.
You say you're holy.
You say you're of God.
All right.
We're going to have a little standoff.
Let's see who God picks."
And he says, "The Lord is going to choose," okay?
He says, "He shall be holy."
Who's holy?
The one that God sets apart.
What is to be holy set apart?
What is to sanctify set apart?
What is to sanctify?
To be holy.
He's saying, "Okay.
God's going to show us who's the actual holy one.
God's going to show us who's the actually separated one."
And you say, "Well, how's he going to do that?"
He's going to literally separate them.
God's going to separate them and then it's just going to become obvious
who is the sanctified one, who is the set-apart one,
who is the holy one, who is the one that God likes.
Now, again, let's skip to verse 9.
He says, "Seemeth it but a small thing unto you,
that the God of Israel separated you from the congregation of Israel,
to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord,
and to stand before the congregation and minister unto them.
And he hath brought thee near to him,
and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee, and Seek ye the priesthood also."
So he's like, he's kind of correcting them too.
And he's saying, "Look, it's kind of crazy that you guys are in the most elite group,
the children of Israel, then you're in the most elite tribe, Levi.
And then you're also in a position of authority amongst that particular tribe.
And then it's just still not enough for these people.
It's like you're in a great position, you're being used by God, you know, you're so close
to God already, but it's just not enough.
You just can't be content with the position that you have.
You just, well, but you're just not Moses.
I'm just sick and tired of everybody just telling me, you know, that they like Moses
or something, or that they listen to Moses or something.
It's like, it's Moses.
How can you not be on Moses's side?
Moses took you out of Egypt, bro.
How could you not like Moses?
But they just hate Moses for some reason.
It was, notice he said, "Seemeth it but a small thing in you."
They really, in a sense, kind of disdain the things of God.
It's like, man, God saves you and brings you into this position of leadership and appoints
you and elevates you, and it's to them it's a small thing, it's a light thing.
They don't take it serious enough, because to them it's all about power and authority,
and it's like, look, God hasn't done something little for you, God's done something great
for you.
Why are you not content when you already have something great, when you already are in a
great position?
You know, that should be a message for every American.
It's like, man, Americans, God's already given you so much, and yet Americans seem to be
the least content in many ways.
Content with their finances, content with their house, content.
I mean, it's like, Americans are probably the least content with their housing when
we have far superior housing than the rest of the world.
Americans are the least content with their car, and we have the best cars, albeit they're
imported.
But hey, you know, our imported cars still have to meet higher standards.
You go to other countries, they don't have to have the car be certain sizes and shapes
and meet safety requirements and all kinds of stuff.
You know, if that thing moves, it's like fine in other countries.
Here at least we have some regulations, we have some standards, but it's like people
in America, they're just so, you know, ill content, even though they have so many great
things.
They think it's a light thing.
These people also have this attitude, this covetous attitude.
It's a light thing.
It's a little thing to them.
It's a small thing to them.
This is a bad attitude.
Look at verse 12.
"And Moses said to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, which said, 'We will not
come up.'"
And Moses is like, he's like trying to get people to like come, and he's like trying
to get them to show up to this event, he's trying to get them, and they're just like,
no response.
You know, that's a really good picture of leadership, is when they get called out publicly,
and then they just, no response.
It's like, hey, did you teach this?
Did you say this?
Did you do this?
No response.
The internet's not real.
Don't listen to the internet.
It's like, that's weird.
It's like, hey, maybe you should respond to what's being said about you.
Maybe you should deal with what's being said about you here.
But they don't want to do it.
They're just kind of like, you know, just eh.
Verse 15, "And Moses was very wroth."
So, you know, there's nothing wrong with being mad sometimes.
The meekest guy on the earth was very angry.
At specifically, Dathan the buyer, "I'm not coming up."
And said to the Lord, "Respect not thou their offering.
I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them."
He said, "Look, I've never done anything bad with these people.
I haven't taken any money from these people.
I've only done good unto them.
I've only given them money and helped them and blessed them.
So, you know what, God?
Don't respect their offerings.
Basically, just shut them down.
Turn them off."
That's how Moses feels about these particular people.
"And Moses said unto Korah, 'Be thou in all thy company before the Lord, thou and they
and Aaron, tomorrow.
And take every man a censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the Lord.
Every man a censer, two hundred and fifty censers, thou also and Aaron, each of you
his censer."
So basically, it's like a standoff, 250 men of God against, you know, Aaron and Moses.
But here's the thing, God's going to really show us who the real man of God is.
And we're having a standoff here, 250?
How could 250 people be wrong?
Can one guy be right?
Because that's how it works.
You could have a multiple choice question and add 250 wrong answers and one right one.
Because that's how math works.
Two plus two equals four.
Every other number is wrong.
How could every other number be wrong?
It's called math.
How could you have 250 people and they're wrong?
That's just, that's just how it works sometimes.
Because there's only one right answer.
How could there be all these religions and we don't know like what's right or wrong?
They're all wrong and only Christianity is right.
Jesus Christ is the way.
It's the truth.
Oh, that's exclusive.
You better believe it.
Salvation by faith alone, one way, one Christ, one Savior, one faith, one baptism, one church.
Hey, there's only one and Jesus Christ is the one.
And when we look at these particular situations, yeah, sometimes there's just the man of God
and these other people, men of God, they're fake.
They're not legit.
They're covetous.
God's going to shut them down.
God's going to turn them off.
Look at verse 21, "Separate yourselves from among this congregation."
So this is Moses saying, let's read verse 22, "And the Lord spake unto Moses, and unto
Aaron, saying, 'Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them
in a moment.'"
Now, you have to, again, I'm not reading the whole chapter because it would take a while,
but you have to get this picture, okay?
The 250 guys represent like a leadership.
They get the entire children of Israel to also side with them temporarily.
It's basically Moses and Aaron versus 250 leaders and the entire group.
And then God's like, "Hey, you need to just get away from all of them because I'm just
going to destroy everything.
I'm going to burn it all down."
And then it says in verse 22, "And they fell upon their faces and said, 'O God, the God
of spirits of all flesh, shalt one man sin and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation.'"
So at first, you know, you're going to just get the context here.
It's like Moses is very mad at the leaders.
He's fine with God smoking them.
Like, he doesn't have any problem with that.
He's thinking like, "Let's go," okay?
But he just doesn't want all of the sheep.
He doesn't want all of the simple to end up getting punished with them.
And so he's like saying to God, "Please don't just slaughter all of them.
You know, please don't just destroy all of them."
And he's like one man saying, he's kind of putting it all on Korah.
He's kind of like, "Hey, let's not just let everybody fall after Korah.
That's just not fair."
And the Lord's speaking to Moses, saying, "Speak unto the congregation, saying, 'Get
you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.'"
So then God's like, "Fine, this is what I'll do.
I'll just tell everybody, get away from these guys.
Get away from the leadership.
You don't want to be smoked?
Okay.
Then get away from Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, because you're in dangerous territory standing
with these people, okay?
And then it says, verse 26, I'm not reading the whole, it's a great chapter, read the
whole chapter later, right?
"And he spake unto the congregation, verse 26, 'Depart, I pray you, from the tents of
these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest they be consumed in all their sins.'"
You know what's funny is like, in this chapter, we don't even learn anything about these guys'
sins.
Only thing we know about is that they're against Aaron and Moses.
But they notice that God is saying, "Hey, these guys are wicked, and they've got a lot
of sins, and all of their sins."
Because let me tell you something, where there's smoke, there's fire.
And the guy that is perfect is never perfect.
The guy that you think is just so holy is not so holy.
When this guy says, "All of us are so holy," it's all a smoke screen.
It's just lies.
These guys are actually very wicked.
Look, a guy that's going against the man of God and attacking the man of God, there's
other things under the hood.
It's like when you see one cockroach, there's never just one cockroach, okay?
The guy that has the "perfect marriage," it doesn't exist.
We're all married to sinners.
Who are you going to fool?
The guy that says he has no sin is a liar.
He's only deceiving himself, okay?
We live in a fallen world among fallen people, and the people that try to act the most polished
are usually the most wicked.
Case in point, Pharisees.
Pharisees are the most polished on the outside, and in many cases they were the most wicked
on the inside.
The biggest hypocrites on the inside.
And I'm telling you, it is no different in 2026.
No different.
We're just learning what the Bible has to say this morning, and then we're going to
really apply it, all right?
I love the Bible.
It's more relevant than anything.
It'll tell you what's really going on in every situation.
You just have to have faith to believe it.
Just believe the Bible.
It's always right.
Well, of course, God is going to destroy them in a really special way, it says in verse
28, "And Moses said, 'Hereby you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these
works, for I have not done them of my own mind.'"
Anybody that is a hater would just start calling Moses the most prideful person.
Even though the Bible says he's the most meekest, he's like, "Hey, God sent me to do all these
works."
Just FYI, it was me that he sent, but I didn't do them with my own mind.
I'm just doing what the Bible says.
I'm just doing what God told me to do.
So don't get mad at me for doing what God told me to do.
How dare you get mad at a guy for doing what the Bible says, what God told him to do.
It says in verse 29, "If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited
after the visitation of all men, then the Lord hath not sent me."
He's like, "Hey, if this is just like a normal thing, we just walk away and nothing happens,
then I guess just, just, I'm not special.
But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up,
and all that I pertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit,
then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord."
He's saying, "Look, if something unique, special happens, and all these guys get smoked,
then you know I'm of God." Right?
Now this is what's so crazy, and it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words,
that the ground clave asunder that was under them, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallow them up,
and their houses, and all the men that I pertain unto Korah, and all their goods.
They and all that I pertain to them went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them,
and they perished from among the congregation.
So it's just like, just, hey, if I'm special, they're gonna die in a special way,
and then just immediately the earth just opens and just, bam, dead.
You would think like, wow, Moses is special.
But you know what's so crazy?
That the children of Israel have the exact opposite reaction.
I mean, it's hard to even believe, you know, how these people, like, respond to this particular situation.
But it says in verse 41, "But on the morrow, all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron."
Did you not learn from Miriam?
Did you not learn from Korah?
He's dead.
And then they get mad at him.
And then this is what they say, "You have killed the people of the Lord."
What?
No, no, no.
The whole point was we were showing who was the real people of the Lord.
It was Aaron and Moses.
It's like they just, they're just too stupid to get the message.
And boy, you live long enough.
You'll see people that are too stupid to get the message.
They can't even put a puzzle together.
They can't even read half the words on the page.
And you just point out, hey, this guy's a bozo.
And they're just like, he's the people of the Lord.
And you're like, okay, follow him.
Have fun.
I was trying to warn the person that had a brain in their head.
I guess since you can't put a puzzle together, you know, sorry.
Yeah, Cora bad.
Moses good.
Put the puzzle together.
Okay, fags can't put puzzles together either, right?
Two pointy ends don't, you know, fit together.
But these, they should have figured it out.
And it came to pass when the congregation was gathered against Moses against Aaron that
they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation and behold the cloud covered him, the glory
of the Lord appeared.
And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation, the Lord spake unto
Moses saying, "Get you up from among the congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment."
And they fell on their faces and Moses and Aaron took, take a censer and put fire therein
from off the altar and put on incense and go quickly into the congregation and make
atonement for them.
For there is wrath gone out from the Lord.
The plague has begun.
So the 250 leaders and their whole families just get destroyed, wiped out, taken off
the scene.
Yet the congregation is still stuck on stupid.
And so God just starts plaguing them and just cursing them and causing just death among
them and problems and just kinds of issues and just, and so they have to still intercede.
But look, you follow stupid, you still get punished.
You can't, you can't just think that there's no consequence to following Korah and Dathan
and Abiram and just following stupid, hey, if you're going to continue to follow stupid
and attack Moses, attack the man of God, God will punish you.
He spared them the first time they followed.
He kind of gave them an excuse, "All right, fine, get away from them."
But then when they doubled down, wow, then God's like, "I guess you just didn't learn
your message, did you?"
And then God will punish them severely.
It's just, it's just crazy.
Now, Numbers chapter 17 continues with God's effort and just trying to explain to these
dense people, "Hey, Moses and Aaron are legit, follow them.
These are my guys."
You know, of course, it takes a little bit of faith, but this isn't even that much considering
what Moses has done for you.
Considering that all the other guys are dead, considering the fact that everybody else that
attacked them is being plagued, it's like, "What else do you need, buddy?"
Well, more, okay?
Numbers chapter 17 says in verse number 5, this is what Moses is saying is going to happen,
"And it shall come to pass that the man's rod whom I shall choose shall blossom, and
I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel whereby they murmur
against you."
So it's like, "All right, fine.
We'll have another standoff.
We're going to just grab a rod, one from every tribe.
We'll pick out 12 guys, and they'll have a rod.
And you know what?
Only the guy that I pick is going to produce fruit.
One rod is going to be different than the rest of the rods."
And he's saying, "Then, then I can get y'all to cease murmuring.
Then I can get you to shut up."
This makes me feel better as a parent, because I'll admit, sometimes we have to tell our
kids to shut up a lot.
And I'm thinking like, "Man, what's wrong with me and my children?"
And then I'm like, "Oh, it's just the Bible."
God's just like, "Shut up.
Stupid murmuring."
It makes God mad, and it makes parents mad.
Kids, stop arguing.
Stop complaining.
Stop murmuring.
Just shut up.
Do what you're told.
This is called children.
There's a lot of lessons in this.
I like it.
Look at verse number eight.
It says, "And it came to pass that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of
witness and behold the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded and brought forth
buds and bloomed blossoms and yielded almonds."
So what do we see here?
Aaron's rod, buds, and the others, duds.
You got a bud and you got a dud.
You got 11 duds, one bud, and it's like, "Hey, who is the guy that we should follow?"
The guy yielding fruit, the guy yielding almonds, the guy who blossoms.
Some people blossom, some people are just still just a dud.
They're just still doing nothing.
Boy, who should we follow?
Should we follow the rod that's doing nothing?
That's doing nothing?
That's accomplishing nothing?
That's saying nothing?
While speaking, interestingly enough.
Or should we follow the guy that's blossoming, blooming, producing fruit?
And then what did God say?
This should just cease the murmurings.
It should just shut you up.
But of course people don't, sometimes the idiots, again, the people suck on stupid,
they won't get the message.
It says in verse 10, "And the Lord said to Moses, 'Bring Aaron's rod again before the
testimony to be kept for a token against the rebels, and thou shalt quite take away their
murmurings from me that they die not.'"
And so he's saying, "Look, you know what God wants to point to?
God's like, 'Let's point to the fruit.
Let's pick the fruit and say, 'Hey, let's look at the fruit, and this is how we decide
who's right or wrong.
This is how we decide who God blessed and who God didn't.
This is how we decide who's right and who's wrong as we point to the fruit.'"
And some people get mad, they'll be like, "Oh, how dare you point to the fruit."
That's how God did it.
That's God's method.
God's method is saying, "Hey, check the fruit."
What did He say in the New Testament, "Repeatedly buy their fruits, you shall know them."
How do I know who's right or wrong?
The fruit.
It's like, "Hey, which tree is the good apple tree?"
I don't know the one with apples on it.
The one with no apples on it, it's like, "Who cares about this tree?
Chop it down.
Get rid of it.
Why cumber at the ground at the end of the day?"
And she's like, "Hey, if it doesn't have fruit, it doesn't matter."
Why did God get rid of Israel?
Because it wasn't bringing forth the fruits thereof.
So He's going to give it to a nation that's going to do what?
Bring forth the fruits thereof.
Why would God bless a church, bless a man of God, bless His messenger that's not yielding
fruit?
What's the point?
God is the husband man that prunes the branch, prunes the vine, so that it'll bring forth
more fruit.
If you're not on the fruit program, you know, maybe it's because you are a fruit.
I don't know, but at the end of the day, God points to the fruit as the testimony to shut
everybody up.
Alright, so let's apply it.
Let's apply the Bible.
How do we apply this particular chapter?
Let's go back to Numbers chapter 16, alright?
Let's just think about some of these things for a second, alright?
Moses, the man of God, what did he do?
He delivered hundreds of thousands, yay, millions of people out of Egypt in a special way.
Got lots of people saved.
You know, that makes me think of someone like, I don't know, my friend Pastor Stephen Anderson,
who influenced hundreds of thousands of people, got lots of them saved, delivered them from
Egypt, the world, caused them to not be so carnal and worldly minded, got a lot of them
baptized while walking through the Red Sea, and trying to help lead a huge group of people
in the wilderness to do what?
Go into the promised land.
And of course, that picture is what?
Having victory, success, conquer your enemies, what, soul winning, preaching the gospel.
And look, there's a lot of people that have been drug in the right direction that never
really became a soul winner, never really produced the fruit, never really wanted to
go that way.
They never want to turn back to Egypt, turn back to their old ways, get stuck on stupid,
all kinds of just crazy things.
That's just how it works.
Now somebody's going to say like, "Ah, you're saying he's Moses?"
Well, he's a lot like him.
I mean, Moses is kind of a generational talent, a generational person used by God that influenced
hundreds of thousands of people.
And so when you look at somebody that's just influencing hundreds of thousands of people,
you have to realize it was God that did that and God used him to do that.
So then why would I be so easily attacking this person, so quick to go against them,
how would I not fear to attack the guy that God used so greatly?
And you say, "Oh, well, you're just picking against your friend."
Okay, show me the person that's different.
Show me the guy that you like that is reaching the same number of people, having the same
kind of impact, that is the zealous for the soul, that's preaching the same kind of sermons,
and I'll go follow him too, right?
And look, if I lived in a Denver generation, there'd be different people.
If I was in the 90s, I'd say like, "Hey, let's go to First Baptist Church, Hammond, Indiana.
Let's follow Jack Hiles, a guy that was obviously used by God, another person that I wouldn't
want to attack."
You go back further generations, I mean, look, you just see some guy making a huge splash
for God and changing, you know, the spiritual condition for hundreds of thousands of people.
It's just not somebody you want to go against.
And what I've noticed of people that don't like Hiles, bad people, bad people.
They're the rebels, they're the rebels.
So yeah, there's a lot of parallels there.
Now we have 250 men, princes, that means rulers, famous in the congregation, men of renown.
You know, this makes me think of like 250 pastors.
We're not arguing, this is like reps against, you know, God's people.
This is just like, and again, I'm saying from a, the public perspective.
Okay, I'm sure some of these people might actually have been bad, but I'm just saying
in general, the persona, the picture, the standoff is kind of against pastors against
pastors, priests against priests, men of God against the man of God in a sense.
And you know, Pastor Anderson's had a lot of pastors that are against him.
And again, what's so funny is that they all have to, quote, separate from him.
But then they can be friends with literally every other pastor on the planet.
They can get up and say stupid things like this.
I can't approve of Pastor Anderson's friends list, so I can't be friends with him.
And I'm thinking like, do you know your friend's friends list?
Because it's way worse.
It's objectively worse.
Again, they hold people to a certain standard, only Moses, only Pastor Anderson, and not
everybody else.
Everybody else is holy.
As soon as you're not friends with a new IP, you can be friends with literally anything
and everything.
They don't seem to be separating from anyone.
They can be friends with anybody.
They can be friends with people that they used to say that they hated.
They used to say we're heretics.
They used to say we're damnable freaks.
It's like, yeah, Tyler Baker is a damnable heretic freak.
Now he's my friend.
He's holy.
What?
How does that work?
How does it work that somebody that you condemned in the past, nothing about them has changed.
They've only gotten worse.
But now that you've separated from Pastor Anderson, now you can be their friend, now
your buddies, now Herod and Pilate are finally good buds, you know?
Interesting parallels, again.
And then of course, what's their accusation?
That Moses is lifting himself above the congregation.
It's like, "Oh, Pastor Anderson is trying to make himself special," or whatever.
Dude started a church in his house.
He had to give people donuts just to show up to his service on Christmas Day.
Like what are you talking about?
The guy's just preaching like the most radical stuff that's causing him to lose support from
his own pastor, lose support from other people, getting shut down by all kinds of different
conferences.
I mean, he went and preached like an awesome sermon at a conference early in his career,
"Blessed are the pure in heart," one of the greatest sermons I've ever heard.
It's like 20 minutes or something, and everybody's like, "Oh, man, we want to like invite you
to our church."
Like all these people like him.
And then they hear that he's against the pre-trib calf, golden calf, and then they
just all shut it down, isolated from everybody, you know, deserted by his own sending pastor.
He preached publicly against Jack Scop, which probably caused a lot of people to, you know,
have negative feelings about him.
He's not trying to lift himself up with anything, he's trying to isolate himself by just caring
about the truth.
And then what happens?
He's a voice of one crying out in the wilderness, and let me tell you something, the phoenix
is a wilderness, and boy, God elevated him.
God allowed him to be used and for a lot of people to hear him and for, you know, lots
of people to get saved, a lot of people to get turned towards the things of God, a lot
of people to get zealous, a lot of people to start doing soul winning, just crazy impact.
And you say, "Oh, you're just saying that."
Show me the guy that's having more.
I'm open.
I'm listening.
Show me the guy preaching better sermons.
Show me the guy infecting more.
Show me the guy that's put more people that are not a fundamental Baptist into a fundamental
Baptist church.
Show me a guy that's impacted so many people's doctrine.
Show me a person banned by more countries.
I mean, it's got to mean something.
Do you think God is up in heaven like I can't use anyone, I can't do anything?
Or if he's just using somebody to do a lot of stuff, you'd think like, "Hey, that might
be someone we should pay attention to," right?
I mean, I had to be honest with myself when I was younger, you know, there's always this
fun question I ask myself of like, "If you can go any time in the Bible, go back in time
and experience it yourself, where would you go?"
And like for me, I was just like, "Man, I'd really like to follow Jesus.
I'd like to be in the three and a half year ministry and be like one of his disciples
and follow him around."
And then I had to be honest with myself and I said, "You know what?
No, I wouldn't."
Because I'm like not even going to church regularly.
I'm not even reading my Bible that regularly.
I'm not following anybody on this earth that cares about the things of God.
I was just like, "You know what?
I'm a joke."
And I said, "If I would have followed Jesus, if that's what I really believe in my heart,
if that's who I really am, if I was someone at the time of Jesus that would have actually
followed him, then I would find somebody that's being used by God the most right now and I'd
follow them."
Because how dare I sit here and claim, "Oh, I would follow Jesus."
And I can't even do anything for God right now.
That's a joke.
You're lying to yourself.
So I said, "All right, let's find that guy and let's follow him.
Let's follow the guy that's following Christ."
If you're going to be someone that would follow Jesus, you would follow somebody that's following
Christ.
So that's what I did.
But, of course, these people want to lift themselves up, Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
They can't stand that they're a pastor of a church and members of their church come
up to them and they say, "Hey, did you listen to Pastor Anderson's sermon last week?"
"Hey, how'd you hear about our church, Pastor Anderson?"
"Hey, Pastor, I want to get baptized after the service."
"Oh yeah, who got you saved?"
"Pastor Anderson."
And for them, every time it's just like, "Argh, but you know, I'm the pastor of this church."
Okay, who cares?
You're not that special.
Let's just wake you up.
You're not that special.
Yeah, when everybody's knocking down the door because of you and the things that you've
said and done and all the work that you've put in, then okay, let's give you some recognition.
But when you're just sitting there warming up a church, you're not that special.
And again, it's not that being a pastor isn't special, didn't he say?
It's not a small thing.
But you know what?
They're not content just even being a pastor, like, hey, can't you just say, hey, we've
entered into other men's labors and just be content with that?
And at the end of the day, if you're on Jesus's team, why do you care?
It's like, hey, we went, we won the basketball game, but I didn't score very many points.
We had to keep passing it to Michael Jordan, you know, Michael Jordan scored like 50.
It's like if you were a good teammate, you would just be like, man, Michael Jordan scored
50.
Wasn't that awesome?
Wasn't that great?
I just kept passing him the ball because he's Michael Jordan, right?
It's like, ah, but I want to be Michael, yeah.
I want my shoes.
I want my name on shoes.
I want to be on Wheaties.
I want to make my own Space Jam movie.
It's like, sorry, bro.
There's one Michael Jordan.
Don't try to lift yourself up.
Let them come to you with the movie, okay?
There's always these punks.
There was some guy that like ran his mouth claiming that he was better than Michael Jordan
or something like this.
Michael Jordan has been retired.
He just shows up at practice and just like just dunks on the guy and trashes him, even
out of retirement, just to shut him down.
There's so many people that would love to run their mouth, but it's like, look, if you're
special you don't have to say it.
Other people say it for you.
When you have to tell everybody how special you are, it's because you're not that special.
That's just how life works.
But of course, Cora, I mean, you know why Cora and Dathan and Byron, all these people
aren't special?
We never heard about them until they told us that they were great.
Who else?
Who else in the Bible is telling us that Cora is great?
When did we have a story?
When Joshua or Moses are coming up, "Hey, have you heard about Cora?"
It's like, we don't care about you.
Cora has to tell everybody he's great.
Cora has to tell everybody that he's so wonderful.
It's like, Cora, we don't even know that you exist.
Why don't you do some work and then we'll recognize you?
But some people, they don't want to do work to be recognized, they just want to tell everybody
they need recognition.
You know, to me, it doesn't bother me.
Look, if every single person in my church has been saved by someone else, praise God,
because they're saved.
Why would I be mad about that?
I would be disappointed.
I'd be disappointed that you're not saved.
I'd be disappointed that you don't love God, right?
And of course, as a pastor, you're pastoring God's sheep anyways.
You're just supposed to be there to help make sure that the church service runs well, to
make sure the work of God goes well.
And at the end of the day, if I have Michael Jordan on my team, I don't want to try and
convince all the other players on my team, "Hey, let's stop passing it to Michael."
It's like, "No, let's pass it to him more.
Hey, set more screens for Michael.
Hey, make sure you're getting him good passes.
Hey, make sure you're getting him good looks.
Hey, this guy's harassing him a little bit, foul him kind of hard next play."
You know?
That's what you would say if you actually like Michael, if you actually like winning,
if you actually like your franchise, if you actually like what's right.
It's like if you like God, you're going to like the people that are serving God and trying
to get God's work accomplished, okay?
Yeah, they have to attack them.
Well, of course God gets mad at them and then he just wipes them all out, destroys them,
gets rid of all these leaders.
Then all the people are just stuck on stupid.
They follow them.
They're going to get plagued.
They're going to get destroyed.
They're going to be having all kinds of problems and of course, you know, there's no new thing
under the sun.
Same thing happens, you know, with everybody that attacks Pastor Harrison.
It's just like the same story just over and over.
And of course a couple, I guess a year and a half ago approximately, sometime in like
October-ish, late September 2024, there was kind of this big drama or controversy with
my friend Pastor Anderson.
And his four children come out making videos just saying all kinds of crazy things about
him.
Then you have a bunch of pastors coming out saying a bunch of things against him.
And of course it's kind of like this question of like, is he qualified or not?
Is this guy qualified or something?
That's like this big question.
But again, isn't that kind of similar to what we see in the story?
It's like, hey, who's the legit guy here?
Is it Aaron Moses or is it us 250 guys?
And it's just like, well, the 250 guys didn't take you out of Egypt and didn't walk through
the Red Sea and hasn't been leading and didn't go up to the mountain, didn't talk to God
and we just now heard about him.
Like, you've been a pastor for five minutes and we care about your opinion?
Your pastor who?
But here's the thing, I was the first person to kind of make a video in support of Pastor
Anderson on this particular issue and I've learned some lessons and I just want to quickly
go through some lessons that I learned from this.
And I agree with pretty much everything I said in that video, but one of the things
I said is, look, time will tell who's right and wrong and God will reveal who's right
and wrong in this issue, because this is how God works.
God is not mocked for what Silverman soweth, that shall he also reap.
The truth is always going to come out.
You know, at the end of the day, we have to recognize this.
Go if you would to Psalm 105.
We'll go to a couple of verses to prove these points, but one of the lessons I learned in
this drama, and I think it's really important to recognize, is that we need to give benefit
of the doubt to the fruitful pastors.
Just like Moses, we should always just give them the benefit of the doubt.
We don't want to attack him.
We don't want to criticize, "Hell, he married an Ethiopian woman."
Who cares?
We don't want to say, "Well, I've been used by God."
Okay, but he's been greatly used by God, why would I want to sit here and attack that person?
Someone that's been greatly used by God, we should have a lot of respect and reverence
and fear towards doing anything harmful or negative.
And we want to be really careful and treat them well because we love God.
God's special, so we should treat them special.
And you know, the Bible warns about this.
Psalm 105, look at verse 15, saying, "Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm."
So be careful about attacking the man of God and going against the man of God.
And of course, when I think about what was happening to Pastor Anderson, of course, every
enemy and satanist and witch and reprobate in the world was loving it.
And they all united, wanted him to step down and get out of the ministry.
Look, when every horrible, wicked person shares your sentiments and beliefs, that should be
a red flag to you.
She'd be like, "I don't know if I'm on the right side here."
Kids rebelling against their parents is obviously bad, but again, time will tell.
So what should we do?
And if there's a drama and we have a pastor that's just being greatly used by God, producing
tons of fruit, we should always just give them the benefit of the doubt, because there's
a thing.
Let's just say we gave him the benefit of the doubt and then we fast forward to today.
It's just obvious that there was huge problems and he's not used by God and there's no fruit
and there's all this crazy stuff.
Then we're just like, "All right, I guess we were wrong.
We'll change and move on."
Right?
I mean, why wouldn't we just, "Okay, we'll move on."
It was obvious.
But you know, in the midst of confusion and all this stuff, the devil wants you to start
making decisions that you shouldn't be making.
So just give the benefit of the doubt, let all the dust settle, and then just be like,
"Oh, okay."
I mean, look at all the almonds.
It's obvious who's blossoming.
It's obvious what's going on.
Let's just, "Okay, good."
And it makes sense that the person that's producing tons of fruit is going to be more
reliable than a bunch of rebellious punk kids that are dressing like goth freaks and getting
tattoos all over their body, that are talking to faggots and trannies.
You know, you kind of think, like, "I don't know who's right on this side, the guy inquiring
of trannies or the guy that's just a Baptist pastor preaching the gospel.
I don't know.
Seems a little obvious again, right?
But it's in hindsight, and I get that.
But what should we all learn?
We need to give the benefit of the doubt to fruitful pastors.
Let's apply this to Jack Hiles.
Jack Hiles had four kids, and pretty much all of them have major issues, some even worse
than others.
One of his daughters went on a TED Talk and literally just trashed her dad, called him
a cult leader, just falsely accused him of almost anything and everything in the book.
There was a guy who at the church did a public, he got like the news media and all this stuff,
had like this public announcement claiming that Pastor Hiles was sleeping with his wife
and committing adultery with his wife and had banished him to his own basement, all
this weird stuff.
And Pastor Hiles had to make a public statement about it and he said, "If any guy I banish
to their own basement, he's a wimp."
It's just like, I agree.
I mean, look, any guy in this room is gonna tell me it's real, that another man is gonna
come into your house and know your wife while banishing you to the basement?
That doesn't match reality or the Bible at all.
The Bible says jealousy is the rage of a man.
Men will die trying to defend their honor and their family from that kind of nonsense.
That is an unrealistic, unreasonable idea.
It's not even kind of close to reality.
Every man would just tear that person to shreds and kill everyone.
I mean, this is how it works, okay?
Like, it's just insane.
It's insane.
"Oh, but, you know, this guy said it."
Well, he's a liar.
Of course, he's a liar, tacking Hiles, and look, I've defended Hiles, even though he
had four bad kids.
And look, at the time of Pastor Anderson having four kids, you know, coming against
him, I'll just be honest, it was something I hadn't really thought about, it's not something
I anticipated at all.
It was something that was definitely difficult to kind of analyze, and I still don't get
it.
I'll just be honest, I still don't get it.
It still doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense to him.
It doesn't make sense to anybody.
It's confusing.
But you know what's not confusing?
One Rod Budds and another Duds.
Sometimes you're like, "Why would 250 guys that are with Moses just totally rebel and
just, you know, do this crazy stuff?
I don't know.
It doesn't make sense."
But they did.
One Rod Budd, one earth swallowed them up and killed them all.
Here's number two lesson I learned is that you will be secretly recorded at all times.
Okay.
Go to Ecclesiastes chapter 10.
But you know what's okay about this is if you always just say things that you believe,
who cares?
Obviously, this is what had happened.
People secretly recorded me and it wasn't good enough, so then they had to splice it
together and try to make it sound like I was saying things that I wasn't even saying.
Because even being secretly recorded wasn't good enough.
It's like, "Oh, now we have to twist it."
Look, don't trust secretly recorded videos that are spliced together.
That's a pretty unreliable source of information.
But be careful because, hey, in this church you can and will be secretly recorded by virtually
everyone.
If you didn't know this, the governments and Google and everybody's already been doing
it anyways, okay?
They're listening at all times, all right?
Ecclesiastes 10, look at verse 20, "Curse not the king, know not my thought, and curse
not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that
which hath wings shall tell the matter."
It's like Twitter, Elon's listening, all right?
And that bird will tell everybody, okay?
You can't get away with almost anything in these days.
Go to Psalm 101, go to Psalm 101.
Here's another point I learned, we shouldn't have grace for railers.
No more grace for railers.
Railers always show themselves to be much more wicked than you anticipate.
Just like Korah, Dathan, and Abime, they're much more wicked than we really understand.
And God's like, "Hey, I'm going to consume them all."
Psalm 101, look at verse 5, "Who so priddly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off.
Him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer."
I'm not going to have you turn to all these places because it's going to take too much
time.
Go to Revelation 3.
Here's the fourth lesson I learned.
We should follow those who are the most zealous for soul winning.
You know, the people that, according to the Bible, that follow Jesus are going to be made
fishers of men.
And he said about Peter that, "Henceforth you shall catch men."
I don't want to follow someone that's not doing anything.
Someone that's not catching men.
Someone that's not producing lots of soul winners.
Someone that doesn't care about missions trips.
Someone that doesn't care about the missions.
Someone that's, you know, going against that.
I don't want to follow that person.
I don't want to have anything to do with them.
So you say, "Hey, who should we follow?"
The guy going out soul winning.
That's who we should follow.
And when you're in a controversy, you need to basically, and you're in a drama, it's
a time that you need to also become more spiritual.
So number one, we've learned we should give the benefit of the doubt to the fruitful pastor.
Number two, you're going to be secretly accorded.
Number three, we shouldn't give grace to railers.
Number four, we need to be following those that are zealous for soul winning.
Number five, we should try to be more spiritual in a time of distress, of a time of controversy.
You know, it says in Revelation 3, look at verse 19, "As many as I love, I rebuke and
chase and be zealous, therefore, and repent."
Sometimes we have to look at ourselves and say, "Hey, maybe there's an area in my life
I need to clean up.
Maybe I need to tighten things up.
Maybe I need to read my Bible a little bit more.
Maybe I need to get to church a little bit more.
Maybe I need to go soul winning a little bit more."
You know, we need to reflect on ourselves what we should do and not just what everybody
else should be doing.
Go to Acts chapter number four, go to Acts chapter number four, here's the sixth lesson
that I learned in all this controversy is that good preaching equals good person and
bad preaching equals bad person.
Now of course this can change and evolve.
You could have someone that was preaching good and it shows that there was something
good in their heart at the time, but then when their preaching changes, well there's
something off, there's something wrong.
And I've had to learn this lesson the hard way, kind of excusing some bad preaching.
Now again, when we talk about bad preaching there's two ideas here.
Number one is the content, number two is the delivery.
You can have great delivery with poor content and I would call that bad preaching.
You can have great content and poor delivery and I would say it's good preaching.
It may not be great, but it's good.
And here's the thing, I evaluate people's preaching more on the content than the delivery
itself.
And again, to be a pastor I think you need both.
You have to be apt to teach.
We don't want someone, even though they have good content, that's a poor communicator that's
not able to deliver in an efficient manner.
We want good delivery, but most importantly we want good content.
In preaching classes I get a little bit frustrated when I have to spend more time on content
than delivery because at the end of the day if you're preaching bad content it's like
why are you even in this room?
You need to be having some good content.
And the bad content people are bad people.
There's an issue with them.
Why?
Acts chapter 4, look at verse 20.
"For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."
You know why people have bad content?
Because they're seeing bad content, because they're hearing bad content.
Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speak it.
Someone that preaches for an hour, you're going to know what's in their heart.
It's like it's Texas brisket, you know.
It's going to come out.
You're going to know a lot about a person from what they say.
If you just listen, you really pay attention, you can see what's in someone's heart.
That's why they said about Jesus, "Never man speak like this man speak."
Because you know what's in his heart?
Pure gold.
Pure holiness.
Pure righteousness.
Truth.
When you listen to the devil, there's no truth in him.
Go to 2 Timothy chapter 3, here's two more lessons.
Number seven is that we should be honest at all times.
It seems pretty clear, I mean you would think like a little obvious, but here's where I'm
really emphasizing this, is that you should be publicly honest as well.
You don't want to be putting out a message in one sense, and you're kind of holding back
or not being who you really are, and there's a lot of times people are just kind of disguising
what they're really feeling and thinking, and they're not really being honest with all
the parties.
They're not really being clear where they stand.
They're not making it manifest who they are, but you know that's not the apostle Paul.
The apostle Paul makes everything manifest, and he says in verse number eight, "Now as
Janus and Jambri's withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth.
Men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith, but they shall proceed no further,
for their folly shall be manifest in all men as theirs also was."
So the guys against Moses, they conceal their real motives.
They hide them.
They'll eventually come out, but they were hiding them for a while, and then it says
verse 10, "But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering,
charity, patience, persecutions, afflictions, which came to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at
Lystra, what persecutions I endured, but out of them all the Lord delivered me."
Notice that what's manifest, what's fully known, what everybody knows about is his purpose.
Everybody knows where this guy stands.
People won't have to wonder who he likes, who he doesn't like, who he's siding with,
who he doesn't side with, how he feels about a situation.
And look, we need leaders to make it clear where to go, who to follow, what to do.
When leaders give an uncertain sound, it's chaos.
We don't know where they stand on doctrine, when you don't know where they stand on application,
when they don't know where you don't know where they stand on an issue.
You know, it's just going to cause problems.
It's a failure of leadership.
Leadership should say, hey, we're going in this direction, let's go.
Not just like, where does everybody want to go?
Oh, y'all like that way?
Y'all like this way?
You like this way?
Where's most people going?
I'm going to follow them.
Oh, that's a follower.
A leader doesn't ask where everybody's going.
A leader just goes where he's supposed to go.
And he says, who's coming with me?
Okay, that's what a leader does.
A leader can't see anybody else.
He's in front.
A leader isn't looking at where everybody else is.
A follower is looking where everybody else is.
You know, leaders just do what's right.
Go to Proverbs 17.
Here's the last thing is we should not take everything personal.
Man, everybody likes to make everything about themselves.
And look, if you have your four oldest kids talking to trainees and publicly attacking
you while simultaneously having tons of pastors attack you and publicly attack you, don't
you think you might be a little pissed or a little bit upset or maybe act a little different?
Yeah, it would stand to reason that someone might be acting a little different.
So when they say something a little off, maybe you just don't take it personal, okay?
What does the Bible say in Proverbs chapter 17 verse 17?
"A friend loveth at all times."
You know, sometimes you've got to realize your friend's having a bad day, having a
bad season, having a bad week, a month, year, whatever, and you just don't necessarily
take everything personal.
Here's a tip for your marriage.
Don't take everything personal.
Don't take everything your wife's ever said to the bank.
It's a good thing we forget a lot, okay?
I mean, man, you love somebody, you're passionate, sometimes you just say the worst things.
Sometimes you just say dumb things.
Like I've heard a lot of fights in my life, and they weren't just me and my wife, right?
I've heard parents fight, siblings fight, all kinds of, and I hear couples saying stuff
like I hate you, I've never loved you in my life ever.
I hear them say we're, you know, we're done, we're getting divorced, blah, blah.
I've heard you, I've heard it all, okay, but they didn't mean it.
That's not true.
Oh, I don't even know why I married you, I've never loved you, I was forced to marry you,
blah, blah.
It's just like you're a liar.
You love this person.
You're just saying it because you're mad, you want to get at them, okay.
So look, yeah, in this controversy, when I was talking with Pastor Anderson a lot of
this, I did question him about a lot of things.
I asked him a lot of personal questions, a lot of things, and at one point he frankly
just said to me we're no longer friends.
But you know what, I just didn't take it personal, but you know who did take it personal?
Pastor Mena is one of the same things I said to him.
And look, if my wife says hey we're done, you know what I say, no we're not.
She doesn't say that, but I'm just saying if she were to say that, because why?
I'm not done with my wife.
You know if someone said to their spouse I'm done, they're like good here's the divorce
papers.
They were already ready to walk away.
If my friend, somebody I like, says hey I'm done with you, I'm going to be like I'm not
done with you.
I don't care what you think.
I'm going to be your friend whether you like me or not.
You know?
That's a lesson.
Don't take everything personal.
This is chapter 7 as well.
This is chapter 7.
I mean it's just a biblical principle.
People say dumb things, stupid things.
Don't take everything to heart.
Don't sit here and be the kid on the couch at the therapist.
Like one day I was playing catch with my dad and he said I was stupid and unathletic.
Well maybe you were stupid and unathletic that day.
You know?
It's like your dad was just trying to toughen you up a little bit, okay?
Don't sit there and be on the couch like I'm just a bad person because one day my dad
said something mean to me.
It's like, "Bro, man up."
Ecclesiastes chapter 7, look at verse 21, "Also take no heed unto all words that are
spoken."
Did you notice?
I mean, this is a commandment from the Bible.
Don't take heed to every single thing that's ever been said.
Sometimes you just got to say, "You know what?
That wasn't true.
That was exaggerated.
It was a bad day.
Whatever.
Let it go."
Hey, pastor said a naughty word.
Just let it go, all right?
Not for the people liked it, okay?
But you know what?
I publicly supported him, but at the same time, I probably scrutinized my friend Pastor
Anderson during that drama more than anybody, and I didn't have to sit here and tell everybody
every bad conversation I had with him, and like, "Oh, he was mean to me," or something,
or, "He used a bad word."
Who am I to judge?
You know what I mean?
And yeah, I had issues.
I mean, there were four kids who were tagging him, but you know, I thought about Jack Hiles,
like, I still support Pastor Hiles.
There was a little discrepancy that I had mentioned that I was kind of concerned about
between him and some testimony, but when I confronted him about it, he cleared it up.
It wasn't an issue.
I told him that maybe he should consider taking a leave of absence, but when we talked about
it, there was nothing to do.
It's like, what are you going to tell these punk kids, you know, hey, quit being a punk
kid.
It's like, I guess there's not really much to do.
He had some unusual behavior and it was causing a lot of division, but you know what I ended
up realizing?
That division was good.
And then you have to ask yourself this question, we fast forward a year and a half, where are
they now?
Pure words Baptist Church doesn't exist.
Publicly attacked Pastor Anderson.
Shield of Faith publicly attacks Pastor Anderson?
Doesn't exist.
Whole fast Baptist Church put up a public statement attacking Pastor Anderson.
Doesn't exist.
Boy, that's really holding fast under the end, huh?
Pastor Roger Menes publicly attacks him.
No longer a pastor.
Now here's the thing, who's qualified?
Is it the guy who's railing and slandering Pastor Anderson or is it the guy who spanked
his kids?
Well, let's fast forward a year and a half.
One guy's not a pastor anymore and the other guy is getting lots of fruit.
I wonder who God chose.
The polished apple that just looks so good on the outside that's never had a fight with
his wife ever, and it's like, hey, God said, hey, through Moses, he's like, hey, if some
new thing pops up, then you know, like, this is not, this is not like a common experience.
And a new thing popped up I've never heard of that took somebody out, moral sin.
I've never even heard that in my life.
Some new thing came out of nowhere called moral sin that just took a pastor out of the
picture.
Look, it should ring some bells in your head, buddy.
You know, and I think about what has transpired in 2025, Faithward Baptist Church got 10,121
people saved.
From cruises specifically, they had 1,778.
Pastor Anderson personally had 182 people saved.
Their church went on 22 foreign missions, like as far as going to different countries.
54 of their members went on these missions trips.
He went on 10 cruises himself, and again, these were to go doing soul winning and stuff.
He increased his followers on X
from 5,000 to 26,000 that year.
They got a new building.
You know, our church, we had 14,501 salvations
and we supported him.
In the US, that was 7,174.
In the Philippines, we had 7,327.
There's still a lot of churches that are friendly
towards us.
You know, you have Anchor Baptist Church,
First Works Baptist Church,
you have Spring Crest Baptist Church,
Straight Paths Baptist Church,
Sure Foundation Baptist Church,
Fortress Baptist Church,
I believe Strong Tower Baptist Church,
Manila, the churches in Manila,
with the Philippines, with Pastor Stuckey,
you have our Philippines church,
you have Pastor Bogart in Calvary Baptist Church
in South Africa, you have Pastor Kevin Sepulveda.
I mean, you have like 23 churches that exist.
You know, I mean, Pastor Thompson has five of them,
and he's doing great.
Straight Paths has three,
Fortress I think has two.
I mean, there's still a lot of churches
that are supporting, and you know what?
Those churches are really zealous about soul winning,
I'll tell you something.
They're getting the most people saved,
the most mission strips, the most public,
the most zealous about soul winning.
When you look at the other crowd,
it's gone, doesn't exist, nobody cares.
It's like, I mean, a lot of them just gone, okay?
But you look at some people that are left.
Okay, Pastor Jason Robinson,
guy who now changed on the Trinity,
took back everything he said on the Trinity,
and is now friends with Tyler Baker,
friends with McMurtry.
You have Baker with Value Baptist Church,
another church that's gone, doesn't exist anymore.
Now he's a Calvinist, he didn't realize he was chosen.
Isn't it interesting, they always want to be chosen,
not chosen.
Pastor David Berzins, he made some public claim
that he was a first-hand witness of severe child abuse
from 14 years ago against Pastor Anderson,
which is what's crazy to me.
If you witnessed severe child abuse,
why would you do nothing for 14 years
and then randomly do something 14 years later?
That sounds about as credible as a guy
being banished to his own basement.
Because if you, like, think about this.
Let's say you wanted to be a pastor,
and you came to my house and saw me
severely abuse my children in an egregious way.
Would you still support me and want to get ordained by me?
But then 14 years later, magically want to separate?
That story just doesn't make sense.
Well, number one, it doesn't make sense
'cause he wasn't actually a witness.
It was actually supposedly his wife.
But again, she didn't really see anything,
so it's just a fairy tale.
But again, just slandering people,
bringing things up like this.
You kind of have to ask yourself this question.
When all these churches are gone, gone, gone, gone,
gone, destroyed, changing,
like how long are you gonna stay stuck on Supit?
Is somebody gonna repent in this story?
Then you have Verity, who then brings in Pzarnski,
which, look, this guy, bad preaching, bad preaching.
I probably, I mean, I can't even do it justice.
We're late, but it's okay.
I'm gonna keep preaching, all right?
Bad, bad preaching, weird stuff, weird junk.
The only thing that's consistent with Pzarnski's preaching
is that it has nothing to do with the Bible.
It is just his personal opinion trying to fit into something.
And many times he's just saying the exact opposite
of what the Bible says.
I could prove it from so many different sermons.
But of course Verity wants to stay stuck on supid.
You look at Pastor Stuckey,
I always called him Switzerland, all right?
Guy's just kind of like a neutral guy.
But you know, that's okay, he's a missionary.
Missionaries have to be kind of, you know, on both sides.
But you know, you look at Pastor Stuckey,
probably the soul winningest pastor of 2025 in the world.
So you know what?
I just like people and give the benefit of the doubt
of anybody that's doing that many works for God.
But you know what?
Still being friends with all these bad people,
I'm sure it's caused him some problems.
I'm sure there's been consequences by being friends
with some of these weirdos and bozos
and some of those issues.
But you know what?
I still like Switzerland and he's producing a lot of fruit
and I'm gonna be super supportive of him.
But then you have to ask yourself this question,
who's qualified?
Roger Menes, Joe Jones, pastor who?
Who's rod butted and who's dutted?
Here's a question, how many people have to be punished
for you to realize you're on the wrong side?
And that's a scary position because after God's punished
everybody and you still don't get it,
then he has to punish you.
It's like, hey, Cora, David and Byron, they're all punished.
And then it's like the congregation just the next day,
we're still stuck on stupid.
He's like, all right, fine.
Then I'm gonna have to plague you.
And like the simple should be where?
You know, you are on the wrong side.
You're rod dutted.
You attacked the man of God.
You should not go against the man of God.
Okay, now look, does that mean that a man of God
couldn't do something wrong?
I mean, David did.
David committed adultery, committed murder.
You know what, we're calling him out for what he did,
calling him out for his sin.
And even then, God still had David
in that position of authority
and you just still don't attack David.
Who's gonna attack David?
Let God deal with it.
And look, if God continues to allow that rod to bud,
I'm just gonna keep being their friend.
I'm gonna keep being their bud.
And the rods that are keep dudding,
I'm just gonna be like, I don't wanna be your friend.
I don't wanna be around that.
And you know what, you should separate yourselves
from these people that are going against the man of God,
lest you also get swallowed up with their evil
and with their wickedness.
Learn some lessons, let's learn some lessons from this.
What are the lessons the other side learned?
What is the other side saying about this?
They don't even wanna talk about it.
They don't wanna bring it up.
Oh, you guys just bring up numbers.
Yeah, Aaron's Rod Butted is a testimony
to cease the murmurings.
How many people have to be punished?
I mean, look at McMurtry.
The guy is just punished by being himself.
And look at the other people.
The other people are punished by having to be his friend
or pretend to be his friend.
And look, all these people don't really like each other.
They're not genuine friends.
They wouldn't really support each other
when the chips are down.
They're all just in a rat race,
trying to climb to the top themselves.
And you know what, you're gonna get stepped on
when you're hanging out with a bunch of rats,
hanging out with a bunch of scumbags.
You're gonna go hang out at Temple Zero.
Go give Jews a bunch of money
to go tour the wrong facility.
Isn't it funny, they take you down to some tunnel.
This is the real place.
Why do Jews always wanna take you into a tunnel?
Look, folks, you know, it should be obvious.
I don't like the sermon.
Well, you know what, you're the problem.
I like God's word and the story in Numbers is just like,
it just comes off the page.
But it's good to take some lessons.
It's good to reflect.
And look, time will always tell.
God is not mocked.
What shall remain soeth that shall also reap.
When God takes one guy out and elevates the other guy,
we know who won.
We know who's right.
And you know what, if we were wrong, which we were,
but if we were, we would just say, hey, we're wrong.
God, please forgive us.
Please help us to get right with you.
Please help us to restore ourselves in your position.
Please help us to take accountability for actions.
Let us be zealous and repent and go back to the first works
and support the fruit bearing trees
and like the guys that are actually doing the big works
for the Lord and doing the soul winning
and doing the missions and trying to reach the world
with the gospel because at the end of the day,
everything else is just vanity.
You know what only matters?
The souls that we can take out with us to heaven.
You know, it's like, oh, you know, Pastor Anderson
just keeps pastoring and keep getting people saved.
Well, you know, I guess we need more disqualified pastors
then, you know what I mean?
Like, is that, the qualified guys keep failing
for moral sin and the disqualified guy
keeps getting more people saved
and turning more people to righteousness.
Seems like you just don't understand the Bible then.
Seems like maybe you just have the wrong opinion.
Well, I don't like the Ethiopian woman he married.
Well, I don't care about you, your opinion, you know?
Let us be careful who we criticize and go against
and let us not attack the fruit-bearing trees
'cause God will come down on us like a ton of bricks.
Let's respect the man of God.
- Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for your word.
Thank you so much for doing so many great things
in this world.
Thank you for blessing our church
to get so many people saved last year.
I pray that we would always be zealous of good works,
that we would be zealous of good preaching,
that we would be zealous of soul-winning,
that we'd be able to recognize in controversy
whose hand God is guiding.
I pray that you would help us to make sure
to check ourselves, and to recognize the issues
that we have, that we would become more spiritual
in times of controversy and difficulty.
I pray that we wouldn't get lazy and apathetic
and rest on our past, but rather we'd look to the future.
I pray that you would help us to support
the men of God in this world,
those that are fruit bearing trees,
the pastors and the missionaries
that are getting scores of people saved,
and doing great works for you.
I pray that we would recognize it,
and treat them with reverence and fear,
because at the end of the day,
we recognize that we just love you,
and we're giving you the honor
and the reverence and the fear.
And I pray that you would just help our church
to be a great testimony to what Jesus has done for us,
and the gospel, and this light
that's lighting up this such a dark world.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
- Okay, for our last song, let's go to song number 100.
Song number 100.
Day by day.
Song number 100.
Let's all sing that out together.
Day by day.
Song number 100.
Day by day.
Passing on the strength I find.
My trials with trusting in.
Life's discovery.
Work is a journey into the Lord.
- We have a baptism this morning.
Brother Joshua's coming for baptism.
Do you trust the Christ as your savior?
- Yes, sir.
- Then I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost.
Buried in the likeness of his death.
Raised to walk in newness of life.
Make sure to congratulate our baptism.
God bless, you're dismissed.