and welcome to steadfast baptist church wonderful to see everybody here this morning in our seats we
will get started if you could find a hymnal we'll all go together song number 259 number 259 159
sounds good if you sing it loud so let's sing it out together singing everybody let's open up the
service now what a word of love you and we thank you so much for this awesome church thank you so
much for these hymns you get the you allow us to sing lord we just ask that you fill it with your
spirit this morning as we sing out unto you and it's in jesus name we pray amen our next song is
song number 156 156 jesus jesus is the sweetest name i know song number 156 sing that out and yet
and you would lie nice and high to a bulletin on the front we have our bible memory passage romans
10 verse 6 remembering we're doing the memorization for the entire chapter we have our service and
soul winning times as well as our church stats uh definitely keep up the work on soul winning
we had a great year last year and uh we want to continue doing that on the right is a list of
expecting ladies we have several ladies uh who are pregnant so please be praying for them if you'd
like to participate we have a special ministry we're trying this year where we're trying to help
organize college soul winning events and we have them on our website there's going to be a lot of
different people participating in this type of event so pay attention to that if you're interested
reminder you need to go ahead and RSVP to our marriage workshop if you're still planning on
attending steadfastvows.com and then typically uh we we try to follow up with some emails so
even if you signed up make sure if you got a follow-up email just to give us the indication
on some of the details that we were asking about but we're really looking forward to this is going
to be a lot of fun and definitely something that I think we're going to enjoy. Below is also a
do-it-yourself mission strip the Philippines some of our team is going to be going out there
evangelist firs leading a charge out there and evangelist urbanic in the Philippines is doing a
big work they have a church out there a lot of someone is going to be in manila as well as in
the area where evangelist urbanic church is and so they're going to kind of do both and so if you're
interested there's probably still an opportunity to get out there i don't know what flights cost
anymore on this issue but the Philippines is always a great place to go and preach the gospel
most people do speak english a lot of the young people do speak english and so
even if you don't speak tagalog or any of the philippine languages you can still
usually communicate with most people it's also pretty cheap as far as just food and everything
like that so if you're in that part of the world it's definitely very affordable plus it's just
densely packed i mean you'll you know new york city is pretty packed but honestly i've never seen
anything like manila specifically i felt like it's the most densely packed city i've ever been to
and of course when you're a soul winner you love that you want to be shooting fish in a barrel you
know and so it's definitely a great opportunity to go out there it's a unique experience i think
that anybody and everybody should go on a missions trip at some point it doesn't matter exactly where
is as much as just doing it because honestly it really gives you a broader perspective on life
and just what's going on in the world also you kind of realize how good we have it in america
often just a lot of the luxuries and delicacies that we have and so you can appreciate other
people what god has blessed us with and you know soul winning is just different in other parts
of the world and so it's definitely a unique experience even when you just cross the border
into mexico it's often very different you go into the caribbean it's very different you go
to the philippines certainly and so you know i definitely encourage people to participate in
missions trips we have one that's going to be planning that's planned in september it's going
to be to barbedos um one of our friends pastor steven anderson he's doing like a cruise missions
trip through the caribbean right now and uh he's traveling and gone to a lot of different places
and he's just been giving me updates along the way and for the most part the caribbeans pretty
good like it's pretty receptive uh he said though some some of the places i guess he doesn't like
that much but uh just his personal testimony he said that granada was an awesome place he got a
lot of people saved there in granada but he said when he was in saint lucia it was not receptive
it was just too derelict and just you know just not receptive at all to the gospel but he went
to the barbedos just the other day and they got like 20 something people saved him and his son
and uh he said it was very receptive he really liked it and so he said that he thinks the
barbedos trip you know looks like a really great option so we've had several testimonies of
individuals that have already been there and they said they really liked it we have a recent one
we're going to be sending some a small group from our church just to go down and try and get things
prepared seeing what good areas we can go to and and if there's any way we can maybe get into some
schools or just kind of get the lay of the land so that we can do a good job when we go down there
but in September I believe off the top of my head it's somewhere around like September 7th or
something I think it's like Labor Day weekend or something we have on our calendar though
sbckjv.com if you go to our upcoming events we have it listed out there to Barbados missions trip
and again I'm trying to emphasize that now so that maybe you can prepare and plan especially if you've
never been on a missions trip you have to get a passport sometimes that process can take a while
if you're taking your wife or your kids and they don't have one sometimes you have to you know put
in some effort energy to get that you have to check and make sure even if it's you've got one
it's not expired you got to get it renewed so also you know maybe saving up time money effort
vacation all those kind of things but it's definitely worth it people that have gone on
our missions trips to the Bahamas and other places usually rant and rave and say it was some of the
best times of their life and honestly I anticipate that this would be another great opportunity so
if you can go out to the Philippines do it go to Barbados go on a cruise missions trip go if
you would to the Philippines any of these are really great options and we really encourage people
to do missions trips for themselves I know a lot of other churches they support a lot of missionaries
and there's nothing wrong with that but we we try to emphasize you becoming the missionary and you
going on to the mission field and and you experiencing it yourself and not going to just build
a roof or you know some kind of a small shack somewhere in a third world country but rather
to preach the gospel and to lay the you know lay that foundation foundation so that's pretty much
just kind of a quick promo on the back is our prayer list if you have prayer requests and you
would like for us to be in prayer with you on something just please email us at fastbabduskjv
just indicate there's a prayer request and we'd love to add it to our bulletin
let's go ahead and sing our hymn of the week i guess it's gonna be in our binders where the
spirit blows and so if it's blowing you to barbedos you know or the philippines or mexico
you're just gonna go all right where the spirit blows for those that don't know that last go
we all shout it out where the spirit blows to be there black binder where the spirit
loves
as you're being passed around go ahead and open your bibles to the book of romans chapter number two
that is romans chapter number two this chapter two as long as we read the chapter the bible says
therefore thou art inexcusable oh man whosoever thou art that judgest for wherein thou judgest
another thou condemnest thyself for thou that judgest doest the same things but we are sure
that the judgment of god is according to truth against them which commit such things and think
is thou this oh man that judges them which do such things and do us the same that thou
shall escape the judgment of god or despises thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance
and long suffering not knowing that the goodness of god leadeth thee to repentance but after thy
hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation
of the righteous judgment of god who will render to every man according to his deeds to them who by
patient continuance and well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality eternal life but under
them that are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and
wrath tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil of the jew first and also of
the gentile but glory honor and peace to every man that worketh good to the jew first and also
to the gentile for there is no respective persons with god for as many as have sinned without law
shall also perish without law and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law for
not the hearers of the law are just before god but the doers of the law shall be justified for when
the gentiles which have not the law do by nature the things contained in the law these having not
the law are a law unto themselves which show the work of the law written in their hearts their
conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one
another in the day when god shall judge the secrets of men by jesus christ according to my gospel
behold thou art called a jew and rest in the law and make us thy boast of god and knowest his will
and approves the things that are more excellent being instructed out of the law and are confident
that thou thyself are to guide of the blind a light of them which are in darkness an instructor
of the foolish a teacher of babes which has the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law
thou therefore which teachest another teachest thou not thyself thou that preaches the man
should not steal dost thou steal thou that sayest the man should not commit adultery
does thou commit adultery thou that abhorrest idols does thou commit sacrilege
thou that makest thy boast of the law through breaking the law dishonors thou god for the
name of god is blasphemed among the gentiles through you as it is written for circumcision
verily profiteth if thou keep the law but if thou be a breaker of the law thy circumcision is made
uncircumcision therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law shall not his
uncircumcision be counted for circumcision and shall not uncircumcision which is by nature
if it fulfill the law judge thee who by the letter and circumcision does transgress the law
for he is not a jew which is one outwardly neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh
but he is a jew which is one inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart
in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of god let us pray dear heavenly
father thank you for this day thank you for allowing us to gather here together and worship
your name i pray that you would please bless pastor shelly now as he preaches your word to us
please give us open hearts to hear the word of god and to be doers of the word of god in jesus name
amen amen the bible says here in romans chapter 2 verse number 28 for he is not a jew which is
one outwardly neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he's a jew which is one
inwardly and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is
not of men but of god the bible is saying here that the circumcision that we need for salvation
is not going to please man but it does please god and really that should be our idea based on the
bible is that we should seek to please god not man and that's the title of my sermon this morning
is we should please god not man now here in this passage our first example though is that of
salvation true biblical salvation will please god but it will not please man notice it's contrasting
a circumcision that pleases man with a circumcision that does not please man and the circumcision that
does not please man is that in the heart not the outward physical circumcision the bible
is saying here that the physical circumcision that's to please man whereas the inward circumcision
is not going to please man why man wants to believe that salvation is due to his works
due to his effort due to an outward sign due to something changing on the outward and so that's
why all false religion is always pointing to their testimony they're pointing to their outward works
they're pointing to their lifestyle they're pointing to a change in their lifestyle as
evidence of their salvation or their salvation or what salvation looks like whereas the bible
says that salvation is an inward circumcision of the heart and it's not going to bring the
praise of man why because you're downplaying man's role in salvation and you're elevating
god's role in salvation now this is the emphasis in the book of romans it's describing salvation
in great detail if you flip the page in chapter three look at verse 22 well let's do verse 21
as well but now the righteousness of god without the law is manifested being witnessed by the law
the prophets, even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all
them that believe, for there is no difference. Now why is this message controversial? Why is this
missed message an offense? Because the Jews have been the ones who receive the oracles of God. The
Jews are the ones that have the heritage. The Jews are the ones who are physical descendants of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. The Jews are the ones who were delivered out of Egypt with a great and mighty hand.
The Jews are the ones that have the Bible. The Jews are the ones that have the temple. The Jews
are the ones that have the true religion in a sense. And they're the ones that have circumcised
themselves. They are the ones that offer sacrifices on a regular basis. They are the ones living a
dietary restriction where they're not having bacon. Where they're, you know, doing all of these
different rituals and ceremonies and practices. And what they don't want to believe is that that
had nothing to do with getting them saved. What they don't want to believe is that someone that
didn't get circumcised, that's enjoying bacon, that is not repenting of their sins the same way,
that's not making sacrifices, gets the same salvation that they do through simple faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so they want to hang on to those things being necessary
for salvation and therefore they don't want to acknowledge the righteousness that comes of God.
But the Bible is saying that this is made manifest, righteousness of God without the law
is being witnessed and specifically it's the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus
Christ upon all them that believe there's no difference. This is offensive to them because
they don't want to believe that Gentiles can get saved. They want to believe you have to get
circumcised. They want to believe that you have to go and perform sacrifices. They want to believe
that you have to stop eating bacon. They want to believe that you have to stop doing all of the
different things and they have to work your way into heaven. That's what they want to believe
because they think they're better than the Gentiles. They think they're better than other
people. They think that they're more righteous than other people but what the Bible is saying no the
righteousness of God is being revealed that it's without the law but they have the law and they
want to believe that the law is going to give them salvation but the law can't give salvation
why verse 23 for all of sinned and come short of the glory of God no one is without sin therefore
the law cannot give you salvation it can condemn you only verse 24 being justified freely by his
grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus many people say oh you you salvation's easy
it's free yeah the Bible says freely being justified freely by his grace through redemption
that is in Christ Jesus whom God has sent forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood
to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of
God to declare I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him
which believeth in Jesus where is boasting then it is excluded notice what is the first question
when we're defining salvation itself when we're defining what it takes to go to heaven what is
the first question the unsaved person asks well then how can i brag about it why because it goes
to show that the unsaved person is filled with pride today and they want to brag in their works
and getting them into heaven but the bible saying it is excluded because there is no works getting
you into heaven all pride all glory to man everything has been taken away it is excluded
where is boasting then there is none by the law of works nay but by the law of faith therefore we
conclude that a man is justified by faith of the deeds of the law notice salvation is by faith
without the deeds of the law it does not matter if you've been physically circumcised or not
it's whether you've been spiritually circumcised which is inside your heart and of course this
doctrine is offensive today because you know what it says it says that the jews are not special
they need salvation you know what it's also teaching is that the gentiles aren't so far gone
that they can't be saved it's also saying that it doesn't matter how many works you've done
or have not done if you believe in Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is the justifier of him which
believeth in Jesus and then why so that all the glory all the honor all the praise goes to Jesus
for our salvation and not to us well how am i going to brag about this how am i going to benefit
from this well you don't get any glory you don't get to brag and of course then the the pleasure
and all the glory goes to God not to man but see our salvation is to please God not man our
salvation does not please man it pleases God and that's the salvation that we preach and the
salvation message that we preach is offensive like a Romans chapter 10 flip over a little bit
further to Romans chapter number 10 the Bible says in verse one brother in my heart's desire
and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved how many Zionists today and preachers today
will say Israel's already saved they're already got a covenant no the apostle Paul says they need
to be saved because if they don't get saved they're going to die and go to hell Jesus Christ said to
the Jews if you do not believe that I am he you shall die in your sins and if you die your sins
you go to hell you had to believe in Jesus Christ you had to be converted you had to put your faith
in Jesus Christ to be saved and the apostle Paul wants those who are physical descendants of Abraham
to believe in Jesus Christ to be saved that's his heart's desire that's his prayer he's constantly
praying to God that they would be saved why because they're not saved verse two for I bear
them record that they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge meaning that they don't know
what they believe they don't have the right doctrine even if they have a Bible or even if
they have the word of God they don't understand it they don't have the knowledge of what it's
actually teaching verse three for they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about
to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves under the righteousness of
God what is the Bible teaching the Bible is teaching that the Jews are using the Bible to
establish their own righteousness rather than submitting to God's righteousness what is God's
righteousness faith in Jesus Christ that's what makes you righteous what do they want to believe
that circumcision that following the law that following certain commandments makes you righteous
that's establishing their own righteousness but that righteousness falls short falls flat
and they are not saved they have to believe in Jesus Christ and that's what gives them salvation
now this message is offensive why because you're telling them that they're wrong think about what
this message is saying right now this message is saying you're not saved it's saying that you're
ignorant of what the Bible actually teaches and that you have to humble yourself and deny what you
actually believe and change what you believe and believe in Jesus Christ to be saved and so only
the humble will get saved because they have to recognize hey I'm not saved I have the wrong
salvation I've been wrong about the Bible and they have to be converted go to Galatians chapter
number five go to Galatians chapter number five our salvation will not please man today and we
have to be clear about this Jews are not saved unless they believe in Jesus Christ now being a
Jew ethnically is meaningless from a biblical perspective in the New Testament the New Testament
there's neither Jew nor Greek and so we don't really care about your ethnicity about who your
ancestors are how much of a physical descendant of Abraham are you or not it's meaningless
whereas cult groups today they really emphasize ethnicity ancestry whether that be the black
Hebrew Israelites everybody just wants to be this physical Jew and it's like New Pes New Testament
Christians are like we don't really care we don't want that we just want to have this be the
spiritual Jew we want to be spiritually circumcised not physically circumcised obviously Judaism
teaches and believes that they are special because of their ancestry and who their ancestors are and
that they're they're better than other people this is what you call racism i mean what is the
inherent definition of racism is that you believe that some groups of people are superior to other
groups based on their physical genetics or their physical circumstances and look i totally reject
this i do not believe in a master race i do not believe that some groups of people are better than
other groups of people overall we all have strengths and weaknesses some groups of people
are taller shorter stronger smarter faster whatever but we all get a mix and there's no one that's
just better than anybody else overall we all basically have strengths and weaknesses and at
the end of the day there's certainly not a master race and jews are definitely not the master race
now look does that mean that people that are ethnically jewish don't have strengths and
weaknesses no they probably do and honestly what most people believe and i don't even say i can't
say i disagree is a lot of people say that jewish people have a high iq and you know i guess that's
the consequence of having a giant nose they get you know they breathe in all this air and they
superpower their brain you know all that free air they like to suck in you know but at the end of
the day like does it really matter and does it really matter what characteristics that you get
because think about it this way often we're very unsatisfied with who we are or we don't like who
we are but the bible says i'm fearfully and wonderfully made and at the end of the day
whatever trade-offs you have you get a you get a positive trade-off then you should just bless
god for whoever you are if you're tall praise god if you're short praise god if you're fast
praise god if you're slow praise god if you're smart praise god if you're simple praise god
like it doesn't really matter because whatever characteristics and whatever traits you have
god puts you together in a specific unique way and i guarantee you have some positives i guarantee
you have some strengths i guarantee you have something that god gave you that you can use
use whatever god gave you to his glory but let me tell you something whoever you are you have to
believe in jesus christ to be saved it does not matter if you're the smartest strongest fastest
the most jew the least jew you have to believe in jesus christ to be saved and of course by
preaching this kind of a message you're going to offend people why because people grow up in this
world with different religions they grow up in hinduism they grow up in catholicism they grew up
being a jew being whatever religion being non-denominational being pentecostal some
people are raised mormons some people are raised in a cult some people are raised jehovah's witness
some people are raised in an atheist household or home but what you have to do is you have to tell
all of them hey you have to believe in jesus christ to be saved and if you told them this
message hey you need to be a good person to be saved well no one gets offended by that actually
do you realize that every every single religious group every single person believes that already
even the atheist believes this everybody thinks hey we should try to be good people we should try
to help we should try to love i mean look at the messaging of the most evil people on our planet
love wins i mean look at look at the messaging we need to help people we need to love people we need
to be you know doing good there's very few groups in this world they're just saying be evil even
google itself they had messaging like when they started their company said like don't be evil
and i think they just marked out the do not okay or the not they just said do evil but at the end
of the day like every messaging is do good be good but you know what when you say say to people
you're not good that's offensive when you tell people your religion's wrong that's offensive
when you tell people hey you're not special that can be offensive to some people because everybody
wants to take pride in who they are i mean almost every group thinks they're better than everybody
else let's just go travel the world and i guarantee you they're better south korea thinks they're
better than north korea and north korea thinks they're better than south korea right i mean
that's how it is texas thinks they're better than oklahoma and oklahoma reckoning i'm just gonna
oklahoma thinks they're better than texas right i mean you go to california they think they're
better than everybody else you go to new york they think they're better than everybody else
you go to canada i don't know if they you know they just like maple syrup no i'm just kidding
look everybody takes pride i mean look the people that came into america from mexico
they're flying a mexican flag think about the irony of that you fled your country because it's
so horrible you don't want to go back you're afraid of being deported back but yet you're
flying the flag of oppression that you hate you're flying this flag whereas some jewish
woman that rules over your country you fled from and you hate but then you're waving it
up like why do you have loyalty to this flag when you don't want to even live there you
don't even want to be there and look you can love the people of mexico without loving the
flag and its government but isn't it just ironic that there's just something inside all of us that
just thinks that we're just somehow better than everybody else based on our ethnicity our
nationality where we're from who we are there's just something in man that wants to take pride
in glory and flesh and in man and whatever religion they grow up with or whatever religion
they have i've knocked on a lot of doors and talked to catholics and they say my grandpa was
a catholic and my dad was a catholic and i'm gonna be catholic just pride why does that matter if we
go back further enough if we go really far back into european roots i guarantee your ancestors
were pagan i guarantee they were worshiping multiple gods like on mars hill where the bible
says they worshiped every single god they even worshiped the unknown god think about how
superstitious that is think about how weird that is who do you worship everyone well who's everyone
it's not only everybody you know it's even people you don't know well who knows about them no one
knows about them but we're still worshiping him how can you worship that god in spirit and in truth
you know oh we got it we got to honor our ancestors we got to honor our fathers we got to honor
look we just need to know what's right and when you tell people what's right it's going to offend
them because grandpa didn't believe it grandma didn't believe it dad didn't believe it that's
not how i was raised that's not my culture that's not my area that's not the bible i was raised on
well none of that matters your feelings don't matter truth matters and what does the cross do
it's an offense according to the bible look at galatians chapter 5 verse 11 and i brethren if
i yet preach circumcision why do i yet suffer persecution then is the offense of the cross
ceased look our salvation message will not please man we preach it to please god we preach it because
it's the truth we preach it because we want people to actually be saved and we have to not be ashamed
of the gospel of christ did you notice that's the first part of roman's chapter number one the
apostle paul says for i'm not ashamed of the gospel of christ why is he saying that because
there's an offense to preaching the gospel because by preaching the gospel you're saying hey you
roman pagans are wrong hey you jews are wrong hey you barbarians you are wrong that's at their time
in place today in modern culture we have to look at the catholic and say you're wrong about
salvation we have to look at many modern liberal christians today and say hey you're wrong about
salvation it's not a 12-step program it's a believe on the lord jesus christ and thou shall be saved
we look at the catholic and we say hey you don't have to go through catechism you don't have to
eat some cracker that shoved down your throat to go to heaven no you believe on the lord jesus
christ and that's what gets you to heaven we have to look at the jew today and say hey you're not
special your religion is a religion of the devil the bible describes it as the synagogue of satan
and you must reject all of that and believe on the lord jesus christ if you want to be saved
we have to look at the hindu and say reject all of these false gods and believe in the one true
god the god of the bible the lord jesus christ and that's offensive you know it's offensive when you
knock on someone's door and you say hey you're not saved you're headed for hell you need to change
you have to convert you have to believe what i'm showing you and let me tell you something you get
zero glory or credit for what you're going to do oh what do i what do i have to do just receive
a free gift well that just sounds a little too easy oh so you're telling me my cousin or my uncle
or my neighbor you're telling my my my neighbor that's a drug addict can just believe in jesus
christ and go to heaven yes i am you're telling me that this alcoholic over here can just believe in
jesus and and he can be saved and look if you do a bunch of confrontational soul winning you know
that's an excuse why they don't want to believe what you're saying they bring out some person
that they don't like that they think is worse than them some example of someone that's bad
now of course sometimes they're like you're telling me that pedophiles are like no no no no we should
kill them okay and they're like okay tell me more you know i agree right obviously the bible
describes a reprobate group of people and we get that but at the end of the day many people are
just looking at someone just slightly worse than them just a little bit bigger sinner than them
and saying you're telling me he gets to go to heaven and the answer is yes if he believes in
jesus christ yeah if he put faith even adolf hitler if he put faith in jesus christ he would
have been saved now some people have this fantasy that it happened somehow in history i don't think
it happened but at the end of the day yes anybody who believes in jesus christ will be saved
anyone but here's the problem that's the only way you get into heaven and here's the other problem
most people are combining faith and works today they're they're mixing circumcision with the
gospel and the book of galatians makes it clear if you believe that you're not saved look at chapter
two of galatians here chapter number two verse 16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works
of the law by the faith of jesus christ even we have believed in jesus christ that we might be
justified by the faith of christ and not by the works of the law by the works of the law shall no
flesh be justified but if while we seek to be justified by christ we ourselves also are found
sinners is therefore christ the minister of sin god forbid what is he saying well if salvation
is a free gift by christ and then obviously we get saved but we're just still sinning is that
meaning that christ is like causing us to sin no obviously we're just not perfect he's not telling
us to sin there's never a time in the bible where god's like sin there's never a place there's
never a spot where god's like it's okay just lie steal commit murder commit adultery now it's fine
it's on the table do it fornication no problem there's never a time where god says that what
god does say is that you don't have to stop doing those things to get saved but you are already in
the process of doing them now of course when you get saved god willing you'd feel guilty and shame
about sin and you'd want to try and change your life and you want to dedicate your life to the
things of god and you want to clean yourself up and you want to allow the holy spirit to guide
you into all truth and you want to repent on a regular basis and on a daily basis and sanctify
yourself and separate yourself and be holy and try to follow god's commandments and the bible says
be therefore holy even as your father which in heaven is holy but let me tell you something
that's a long process that you'll never ever actually get to perfect perfection until you've
been fully redeemed by the lord jesus christ physically but does that make christ the minister
of sin no he wants us to follow all the commandments that's the whole reason why he died
is because we couldn't that's the whole reason why he died is to also sanctify us and to purify us
and to cleanse us from all sin but at the end of the day salvation itself had nothing to do with
my reformation it had nothing to do with my cleaning myself up it had nothing to do with
circumcision verse 18 for if i build again the things which i destroyed i make myself a transgressor
he's saying look i used to preach a reformation gospel i used to preach a clean yourself up i
used to preach a repent of your sins i used to preach a get circumcised and follow all the
commandments you know i already destroyed all that why would i then go and rebuild that again
after i totally destroyed that by salvation by faith alone i preach salvation by faith alone
and counted all those other things done i don't need them anymore why would i then go back to that
after i already destroyed it that's how i even got saved in the first place for i through the law
am dead to the law that i might live into god i am crucified with christ nevertheless i live
yet not i but christ live within me and the life which i now live in the flesh i live by the faith
of the son of god who loved me and gave himself for me i do not frustrate the grace of god for
if righteousness come by the law then christ is dead in vain we cannot mix faith and works we
cannot mix these things look what it says in verse number four of chapter two and that because of
false brethren and wares brought in who came in privilege to spy out our liberty which we have
in christ jesus they might bring us into bondage to whom we gave place by subjection no not for an
hour that the truth of the gospel might continue with you notice by adding circumcision it's now
no longer the truth of the gospel and notice the response by these men is to not give subjection
to it not allow it not tolerate it what is their response chapter one verse eight but though we are
an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you let
him be accursed as we said before so say i know again if any man preach any other gospel unto you
than that which we received let him be accursed for do i now persuade men or god or do i seek to
please men for if i yet pleased men i should not be the servant of christ true biblical salvation
will not please men you are there to preach the gospel of jesus christ and to please god not men
if your gospel causes people to be pleased it's the wrong gospel no it's going to irritate the
jew no it's going to irritate the catholic no it's going to irritate the hindu no it's going
to irritate the calvinists no it's going to irritate all of the non-denominational lordship
salvation garbage today because you know what salvation gives no glory to man and it gives it
all to god oh you're passing out get out of jail free cards no get out of hell free cards
oh well you're what you're saying is going to cause people to sin well it seems like what you're
preaching causes people to sin too i mean have you ever have you ever met a catholic they're
pretty great at sinning like i've never i've never i'm not running into catholics and i'm just
thinking like wow you really got it all together i'm not running into calvinist you know for for
being just basically locked into god controlling every single one of your movements it's weird how
all of you calvinists get sleeve tattoos all over your body and you're constantly drinking liquor
and you're constantly just smoking cigars and being lazy wow what a weird example of someone
that's just locked into irresistible grace it's a lazy doctrine for lazy christians
it's a prideful doctrine for pseudo intellectuals today and look i'm i'm sure there's calvinists
that are saved out there in some weird way they got sucked into some stupid garbage so they could
just justify them being lazy they could justify drinking they could justify getting other tattoos
they could justify thinking that they're better than other people for no reason because that's
what their doctrine teaches they're better than other people for no reason at all god elected me
i'm special why i have no idea just him just special like isn't it interesting that all
false doctrines what do they teach that you're special you're more special than other people
based on sometimes just in headaches just based on random election whatever that is based on your
ancestry look you know what makes someone special that they believe in jesus christ but at the end
of the day everybody can do that so really all the glory then just goes to god all all the glory
goes to god and look our salvation that we preach is not to please people it's to please god why do
i confront people about their salvation because i want to please god not man you know we need to
stop capitulating and acting like these other groups of people are saved go to first corinthians
chapter one why why why say this because there's a temptation for christians to go soft on people
that are not saved they go soft on individuals and they act like no i know i know he's not saved but
he's still a good guy i know that andrew tate's promoting islam but he's still you know he says
the workout so did richard simmons i mean isn't richard simmons known for you know the little
workouts that he's doing his little feminine five pound dumbbells or whatever they're doing
oh he's just he's known for working out okay but at the end of the day the guy doesn't even look
that buff he's like he's kind of skinny it's kind of scrawny looking didn't he lose some fight
what why is he super macho why is he super cool and look i'm not really into dudes why is it that
andrew tate almost every video he has his shirt off i don't care i'm not interested in seeing him
half naked and look that's even just putting it politely usually he's just wearing a speedo or
something and i'm thinking like i never want to see this i never want to see you in a speedo okay
don't come to our church as a man dressed in a speedo why would why would i want to sit here
and look at andrew tay and look why do people capitulate them because they want power money
influence christians today acting like catholics are brothers and sisters in christ false they're
not saved they have a false gospel people acting like all christians are just saved and every
christian is a good guy there's people that'll say oh mormons mormons are you know they're just a
little off i've had people tell me yeah glenn beck i think he's saved why you know why so they can
justify listening to glenn beck listening to mormons listening to catholics why because
catholics wield a lot of power in this country if you get up and say i don't think catholics are
saved catholics have the wrong bible catholics did not uh found this country catholics weren't
even permitted to be a part of this country we don't want catholics to be a part of our country
you know you're not going to win a lot of friends over oh so you're saying flintes is an idiot yes
i am saying that flintes is an idiot oh so you're saying you don't like matt walsh no matt walsh is
an idiot too oh you're saying you don't want to partner with people like ben shapiro no but why
do they go soft on the jew and soft on the catholic and soft on islam why because they want to please
man and not god you know what our salvation our gospel is not to please man it's to please god
and we have to say that the muslim is not saved that the jew is not saved that the catholic is
not saved and frankly speaking even most christians they aren't even saved oh well that's offensive
it's offensive when you say i don't like so-and-so because they're not saved well that's true you
know a lot of people like this guy george janko and frankly speaking the few times i've heard him
talk about salvation i don't think he's saved sounds like he's influenced by the orthodox church
and let me tell you something the orthodox are not saved either if i could think of other groups i
would just church of christ not saved anything united methodist mostly reprobate they're
definitely not saved i mean you look at most denominations today most groups today the vast
majority of those christians just aren't even saved and we should not sit here and try to please
man by just saying no i think they're saved well grandma's a pentecostal okay well is grandma
believe you can lose your salvation yeah well then she's not saved yeah but so and so goes to the
church of christ every week still not saved you're telling me this guy i know this guy he gave up
drinking he gave up his drug addiction he said he dedicated his life to christ now he goes to gateway
you're telling me he's not saved well yeah i asked him what do you have to do be saved he said repent
of all your sins and follow all the commandments not saved how dare you say that that's divisive
yeah it is divisive but i'm not here to please man i'm here to please god and let me tell you
something you preach the right gospel you will piss people off you will not be friends with
everybody people will not like you it's divisive it's controversial it offends people and all are
i'll argue all kinds of things i'll bring up controversial things all the time let me tell
you something preaching about people that are not saved is the most controversial thing you'll ever
preach saying this person's not saved this person's headed for hell this group of people are not
a part of christ they're not brothers and sisters in christ will cause the most division in general
and that's what the bible teaches that's why the apostle paul says that he's not ashamed of the
gospel of christ now in first corinthians chapter one we bring this up look at verse 17 for christ
sent me not to baptize but to preach the gospel not with wisdom of words lest the cross of christ
should be made of none effect look we don't please man by making the gospel just sound so good and
using such beautiful language and i'm just a wonderful orator you know what we do we just
simply preach what christ did you know the power of getting someone saved it's not how you word the
gospel it's just saying the gospel like that's where the power is because if it took some great
speaker if it took some great oration if it took this particular beautiful well-crafted speech
with perfect wisdom to get people saved then what is the bible saying then the cross is now no
longer powerful what is powerful is that jesus died on the cross that's powerful and look you
and i both know if you've done a lot of soul winning people are pretty much ready to get saved
when they just recognize what jesus did it's what jesus did that got them saved not you being great
at speaking frankly speaking that's why i'm capable of getting a lot of people saved in
spanish because i i am terrible at speaking spanish i am not a great orator i don't have
wisdom of words when it comes to spanish you know what i can say i can say that jesus died on the
cross in spanish i can say that jesus paid for all of our sins and you know with stammering lips
and another tongue will he speak unto this people and let me tell you something let me give you some
confidence when it comes to soul winning as long as you can just say jesus died on the cross you're
good to go and that's where the power is the power rests and what jesus did not what you say
the power rests and the wisdom of god's words not your words he uses the foolishness of preaching
to save them that believe you don't have to be some great orator you don't have to be someone
that has a high level of vocabulary you don't have to be someone that has all the wisdom of
this world you don't have to be some apologetic look there's so many churches being poisoned
today with the idea that you have to be some great apologetic to get people saved no you simply
preach the cross and that's how you get people saved today drop your apologetics and pick up
the cross and look oh well how's that gonna please man it's not the please man it's the please god
the wisdom of this world is not gonna save people you know what saves people the cross of christ
that's what saves people verse 18 for the preaching of the cross is of them that perish foolishness
but in us which are saved is the power of god notice people that don't get saved they think
our message sounds dumb well there's no way i would believe what you're saying what you're
saying it's just it's free what you're saying is it's easy what you're saying is it's simple
what you're saying is that everyone's saved i constantly hear this and i'm thinking like
no because i'm clearly saying you're not if you know if what you're saying is true then everybody
saved no you're not that's why i'm trying to get you to get saved though and let's just be honest
most people don't even claim to believe in jesus while christianity is the number one religion in
the world it's still the a minority position in general if we gather everybody that's not a
christian versus all the people that even claim christ throwing catholics in it's still a minority
position then when you actually just start making clear divisions of the people in christianity
that actually believe the gospel and believe salvation by faith it it dwindles down fast
and then even of many people that will even give lip service to salvations by faith sometimes when
you drill down you realize that's not what they actually believe they're using that language
and they're parroting it but they still don't get it they're just saying salvations by faith
but then they're still trusting in their works and that's why we have to confront people that's why
we have to explain to them no Christ really died on the cross for all your sins and at a root level
you have to understand that they don't believe that simple fact if you believe that Jesus paid
all of your sins then you don't need to work for it you don't need to pay for it it's already been
paid for so at the root level what they do not believe in is the cross they do not believe that
Jesus ultimately paid for all their sins on the cross even though they may give lip service to it
yeah Jesus died on the cross for all my sins but I have to do x y and z for my sins that's a
contradiction they don't actually believe Jesus paid all their sins if they believe Jesus paid
all their sins then they're good to go they're welcome into the kingdom of heaven so we have to
convince people of the cross and the power of the cross what is the power of the cross he really
paid it all what's the power of the cross past present and future sins what's the power of the
cross that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin what about murder that sin what about
drunkenness that sin what about yes all sin is what the bible says and so we have to convince
people that they need to trust in Jesus Christ it's not a fancy explanation it's not a philosophical
understanding you don't have to go to a seminary and learn about how God doesn't really exist to
end up explaining him and let me tell you something philosophical understanding today is trash
seminaries are trash today Greek wisdom is trash according to the bible the bible explicitly says
this. Let's keep reading. It's saying, "For it is written, 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.'" Notice that it does not say in
verse number 19, "For I will use the wisdom of this world and just tweak it so that you can figure
out I was really talking about myself." Notice he doesn't say, "I'm going to just improve the
wisdom of this world. I'm going to slightly alter the wisdom of this world. I'm going to
reform the wisdom of this world." What did he say? "I'm going to destroy the wisdom of the wise."
What is the wisdom of this world? It needs to be destroyed. It's wrong. It's off. It's false.
It's not going to lead you to Christ. What leads you to Christ is the cross. What leads you to
Christ is the Word of God. That's why he says, "Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is
the disputer of this world? Where's all the debaters? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom
of this world?" Hey, you know what the Bible does? It makes the wisdom of this world look dumb.
"For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God." After man sought
wisdom as much as possible, they became vain in their imaginations. They did not find God.
God is not limited to the intellectual. God is not going to be found of the intellectual.
Even if we took that argument, even if we believed that argument, who would theoretically be the ones
that would be closest to God and receive God the quickest? It would be the Jew. If you look it up,
again, they argue they have the highest IQs. Well, they would be number one. Who'd be behind
them? Asians. If you look up statistically, highest IQs, it's Asian countries, Singapore,
Japan, other areas of Korea and China. Why is it that these high level of IQ areas, all their
philosophy, Confucius, all of their great wisdom, all of their great understanding, why did it not
lead them down the path of truth? Why are they not Christian nations? Why are they not saved?
Because the wisdom of this world will not lead there. Why is it that the Romans did not lead
there? What did the Romans do? They created Roman Catholicism. And look, the Catholic Church
and Eastern religions are foolishness. They're nonsense. But that's the wisdom of this world.
And of course, obviously on the opposite end of the spectrum, the paganism and idolatry and the
voodoo and all the tribalism that exists in this world, that didn't lead to God either.
You know what led to God? Simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The cross. That's what leads to the
faith of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why? Because God is not a respecter of persons, and it's not a
religion for just the smart person. It's for the humble person. Christianity is for the humble
person, not for the "smart person." The smart person doesn't want to believe in Jesus Christ,
because they want to believe they're better than other people. The wisdom of this world.
What did it say? "For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God."
It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. "For the Jews require a sign,
and the Greeks seek after wisdom. But we preach Christ crucified under the Jews' stumbling block,
and under the Greeks foolishness, but under them which are called both Jews and Greeks,
Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men,
and the weakness of God is stronger than men." What is the Bible saying here? The foolishness
of God. It's saying that even the least understandable parts of the Bible, or the parts
of the Bible that don't make as much sense to us, even the least esteemed parts from our understanding
are still smarter than the smartest thing that man can dream up. The least impressive things of God
that can be understood are still more impressive than the most impressive things that man can
come up with. Just saying even the "foolishness of God". Choosing to use random blue collar workers
to go out and just preach about the cross to get people saved doesn't sound that smart,
but it's still smarter than anything that man came up with. It's still smarter than all of
their catechisms and all of their merry worship and all of their Hinduism and all their paganism,
all of their idolatry, all of the wickedness that comes from man's religion. You know what,
it's still inferior to God using humble simple people to go out and preach the gospel.
That's still smarter. It's still greater than anything that could be compared. That's why he
says in verse 26, "For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the
flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God had chosen the foolish things of the world
to confound the wise, and God had chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which
are mighty and base things of the world and things which are despised, have God chosen,
yea, things which are not, to bring to not things that are, that no flesh should glory in his
presence." What's the point? We are not to please man, but to please God. No flesh can glory in the
gospel it is not the smart man's religion as I get often accused of it's not the white man's religion
it's not the black hebrew israelite man's religion it's not the giant nose religion you know what it
is it is the faith in jesus christ religion oh what you're saying is offensive because you
don't care about culture you don't care about identity you don't care about history you i don't
you don't care about iq i don't you don't care about any of these things you know what i care
about faith in jesus christ that's what matters why because i'm here to preach a gospel that
pleases god and not man we need to put down the flesh put down our pride and we need to accept
the simplicity of trusting in jesus christ you know the bible talks about the simplicity
that is in christ and we got to destroy the wisdom of the wise with what the foolishness of preaching
the cross that's what we go out we preach the cross of jesus christ that he bear our sins and
his own body on the tree and you know what i'm not ashamed of that gospel i'm not ashamed of a
gospel where i did absolutely nothing to save myself nothing to reform myself i'm not special
in any way to him be all the glory that's why i love that him to god be the glory it's not to
me it's not to my repent of my sins it's not to my testimony everyone wants to say share your
testimony my testimony is that jesus christ died on the cross he bear all my sins in his body on
the tree he went to hell for me and he rose again for me and i put my faith in him and received a
free gift and to god be glory that's my testimony and you know what if you don't have the same
testimony you're not saved and if look that's my testimony what makes me special i'm not special
we're all in the same boat and we should go tell the entire world hey you need this exact same
gospel you need the exact same testimony if you don't have my testimony you're not saved
because my testimony is his testimony you know i'm not here to please man i'm here to please god
and let me tell you something i love entering into the world and and contending for the faith
and saying what i believe but you know what it pisses people off they're like hey what
do you think about this guy not saved they're like oh wow what what do you think about this
religion not saved false religion what do you think about mormons cult what do you think about
islam it's the exact same as mormons cult muhammad's a pedophile joseph smith's a pedophile
catholic priests are pedophiles the united methodist dyke is a pedophile everybody is
basically pedophiles in these false religions oh how dare you say that hinduism is a false
religion the pope is a wicked anti-christ foreshadowing hey i want nothing to do with
them i'm not pro zionist i'm not pro israel oh so you're pro amos no you're pro islam no
what about you pro protestants no you're pro catholic no you know what i'm pro the cross
that's what i'm pro well you're not going to please a lot of people with that message
how are you going to reach people with that message i'm not you know what i'm not going
to reach the wise i'm not going to reach the prideful i'm not going to reach those that are
entrenched in false religion and false ideologies you know you're going to reach the humble
but i'm not ashamed go to second timothy chapter one go to second timothy chapter one
quit trying to please people fools air in any ways they don't like you everybody's selfish
everybody thinks of themselves no man cares for anything other than himself i mean the bible is
crystal clear on the subject matter that people are the ultimate selfish beings they don't really
they care about you, quit trying to win them over.
You can't please man, but you can please God.
And look, we all know you can't satisfy man.
The Bible says the eyes are never satisfied.
The ears aren't gonna be satisfied.
You buy your wife all the clothes she wants
and she wants more.
You get a big house, you want a bigger house.
You get a bigger house, you want two bigger houses.
You get two bigger houses, you want a fleet of houses.
Then you want a cruise ship, then you want a yacht.
Then you want to build a colony on Mars.
I mean, man is not satisfied.
Man is not satisfied with money.
You know, wouldn't you think if money could satisfy,
there would be at least one person in the world
that's kind of rich and said, you know what?
I don't need any more money.
They never seem to do that.
They just keep trying to get more money, don't they?
It's the rat race.
I mean, think about it.
Some people in this world have billions and billions
and billions of dollars.
And look, we say this number,
it almost is like meaningless to us.
It doesn't really like translate
into our regular daily lives.
But it's like, when you actually think about
how much money that is on like a monthly basis or whatever,
it gets to a point where you would never have
to even think about money ever again.
Billions and billions of dollars.
You would never, anything you wanted to buy, eat, do
is on the table at all times at every second.
That's why they wrap their burgers in gold and eat them.
Think about how ludicrous that is.
Think about insane that.
There was some football player I saw,
I think it was Alvin Kamara.
His entire like upper teeth are like diamonds.
Like he like smiles and it's just like all diamonds
as his teeth.
It's like when you just have all this money,
you just start doing weird things.
You wanna put diamonds in your teeth?
Like that seems weird.
Like I don't get it.
They just wanna look like gold.
I mean you get flavor, flavor.
He has, he's wearing such a big clock around his neck.
I mean, can he get any bigger?
It's like they go from the pocket watch
to then this thing and then pretty soon
he's just wearing Big Ben around his neck or something.
It's just like, food can only get so good.
Then they start eating weird stuff.
And I'm telling you, rich food is weird.
Like when you start getting like
into the really fancy restaurants,
I personally just don't really have a taste for it.
It's like Fegrin, you know.
It's where they like shove all this food into a duck.
Like they just like force feed ducks
so that their livers just start to grow and expand
to where they have like this liver problem.
And then their liver is just like this over engorged
like liver that is not functioning normally.
And then they take that fatty liver and then like fry it.
And then they serve it to you, it's called Fegrin.
And I'm just like, can I just have a steak, you know?
Can I just, I'll just take ground beef, you know?
Like, why do I have to, like, who even thought of this?
Like they were eating duck liver and they were thinking like,
you know, we should stuff the ducks harder
so we can make their livers even fattier.
So we can do, you know, all this fancy caviar
and gold-plated burgers and just whatever.
And look, if you like this stuff, have fun, I don't care.
But at the end of the day, I'm just sitting here thinking
like, when you have this kind of infinite money,
it doesn't actually make the food better.
And especially if you're an American,
you're pretty much already eating the best stuff.
I mean, you're pretty much already dining
on the top level of cuisine.
You really can't get much better.
You come to Texas and you have Texas brisket
and you have arrived, okay.
You're not gonna go, there's not another state,
there's not another country where it's like,
but have you had their brisket?
No, it's Texas brisket.
Look, I travel the world and anywhere I go,
you know what they always have labeled?
The Texas so-and-so.
It's like you're in Australia
and it's like the Texas burger.
It's the Texas steak.
It's the Texas whatever.
You know, it's because we've arrived.
You know, oh, I need billions of dollars, why?
You can live in America and you can eat meat every day.
You can have chicken, you can have beef,
you can have pork, you can have all kinds of delicacies.
You can have virtually any fruit during the season.
You can have fruit juice whenever you want.
You know, we live in such a rich time today.
And at the end of the day, when it comes to, you know,
the world that we live in,
yeah, I like the pleasures of this life
and I like having fun, but I'm not here to please man
and I'm not here to please God or please myself.
I'm here to please God.
And you know, preaching the salvation by faith
is not gonna please man.
It's just gonna, it's gonna make a lot of people upset.
Second Timothy chapter one, look at verse 12.
For the witch cause I also suffer these things
nevertheless I'm not ashamed for I know whom I have believed
and I'm persuaded that he's able to keep that
which I've committed unto him against that day.
Notice he's not ashamed.
Why do you think the Bible is saying
in Romans chapter number one,
the apostle saying I'm not ashamed of the gospel.
Why do you think he's having to remind us here
in second Timothy, hey, I'm not ashamed.
Why is he saying that the offense of the cross ceases
if he preaches circumcision?
Why is he having to say that, hey, this circumcision
that's spiritual is not gonna please man,
it's gonna please God, because it's real.
We love to think, we'd love to believe
that what we preach, people are just gonna
heartily receive, heartily love, embrace fully,
but that's not how it works.
It's divisive, it's offensive, it's gonna cause problems.
You know what, I'm not here to please man,
I'm here to please God.
Notice what gospel is offending people
that he's not ashamed of.
Look at verse nine, who has saved us
and called us within holy calling,
not according to our works.
Notice that the gospel that saves,
the gospel that he's not ashamed of
is one that has no works in it.
We're not ashamed of that.
As we keep reading in this passage,
I'm going backwards, but look at verse eight.
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord.
Notice again, the same thing.
Don't be ashamed of the testimony of Jesus.
He really paid for every single sin.
He really bare every sin in his own body on the tree.
He really is the savior of all men,
especially those that believe.
Jesus Christ really did taste death for every man.
Jesus Christ really does love every single person
by giving them the opportunity to be saved.
And you know, I'm not ashamed of the testimony of our Lord.
But what is the next breath?
Nor of me as prisoner,
but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel
according to the power of God.
Notice that one affliction of the gospel
is the gospel itself.
A second application of this is the apostle Paul,
a prisoner of Jesus Christ in the sense that
he's serving Jesus Christ and he's in prison
because he's a servant of Jesus Christ.
And he's saying, "Don't be ashamed of me."
This is a partaker of Christ's afflictions.
And notice you have to be the same way.
You need to be a partaker of the afflictions of the gospel.
Why?
Because it's related.
You can't separate these two concepts.
The preacher of the gospel is someone
that you should also support,
not just the theoretical gospel itself.
We should also be in support
of the preachers of the gospel.
And even when they have negative things
and bad things happening to them,
we should still be their friend
and that's part of the affliction we have to go through.
You know what, I'm not here to please,
man, I'm here to please God.
And so yeah, I like people that are hated of this world.
My sinning pastor specifically, Pastor Steven Anderson.
I love Pastor Anderson.
And let me tell you something, he's hated of this world.
You know what, I love William Tyndale,
who died and was burned at the stake
and killed by the Catholics.
And you know what, his first accusation was
that he believed that faith alone justifies.
You know what, that's somebody I'm gonna stand with.
That's somebody that I want on my team.
It's someone that's willing to die for the cause of Christ,
even if he's hated of men.
Why is he hated of the Catholic Church?
Because if you believe like William Tyndale,
then the Catholic Church needs to shut down immediately.
Then all the Catholic priests are false prophets.
But you know what, I'm not here to please man,
I'm here to please God.
You know what, if I'm not ashamed of the Apostle Paul,
'cause you know today,
we don't have an Apostle Paul in prison
that we could point to and say like, I like this guy.
You know what, the Apostle Paul wrote a bunch of letters.
And if you know, if you're not ashamed of the Apostle Paul,
you won't be ashamed of any single thing he wrote.
You won't be ashamed of anything in this book.
But you know what, when you start saying things
that are in this book, you're not gonna please man.
You know what, I'm not here to please man.
I'm here to please God.
You know, there's so many people today
that just wanna please man.
They wanna capitulate to Democrats and liberals
and faggots and illegal aliens all in this country.
You know, in Minnesota, they wanna try to capitulate
to people that should never be capitulated to.
And you know what, I'm sick and tired
of living in a country where we have to please everyone.
Why do we have to please everyone?
Why do we have to like and tolerate everyone?
That is not a biblical principle.
You know what we should care about?
We should care about pleasing God.
We need a government that wants to please God and not man.
We need a government that's gonna say, you know what?
Hey, illegal aliens should be deported.
How is that a controversial issue?
Who in here is gonna allow someone
to break into their home tonight and not remove them?
Who's gonna do that?
Then why in the world would you do that to your country?
And why in the world would you allow that
to happen to other people?
Oh, well, it's not affecting me.
Yeah, but how would you feel if a whole bunch
of random people just showed up in your yard
and your property and your area that shouldn't be there?
And if you do that, how are you gonna reach people?
You're not.
You know, I get up and say,
"Hey, I think faggots can't be saved."
And they say, "How are you gonna reach them?"
I'm not.
But you know what?
You're a fool if you think Jesus came here
just to reach people.
How is he gonna reach the Pharisees
when he called them children of the devil?
Well, that's not gonna reach people, Jesus.
Right.
He's not reaching the Pharisee.
How is David gonna reach Goliath
when he cut his head off?
He wasn't.
You know, you have to sit here and think like,
how are you gonna please everybody?
You can't please everybody.
You need to please God.
And you know, this church,
our church services are not here designed to please man.
They're here to please God.
And let me tell you something.
You know, I'm gonna get up
and I'm gonna preach what the Bible says on these issues.
And I don't care who gets offended.
Some things need to get said
and some things need to be thundered forth.
And you know what?
This church will preach what the Bible says.
Catholics are not saved.
All idolatry is wicked.
Calvinists are wrong.
Many Calvinists aren't even saved.
Alcohol is a poison.
Let me tell you something.
Birth control is murdering children.
Women need to be saved in childbearing
is what the Bible says.
Oh, I don't like that.
What you're saying is that women should quit their career
and get in the kitchen.
Absolutely.
The Bible says that they're supposed to guide the house.
The Bible says women need to take off the pant suit
and you know what, they need to put on a dress and a skirt.
You know what, Hindus are gross.
Not taking a bath is gross.
Bathing in dung is gross.
Gluttony is a sin according to the Bible.
Let me tell you something, the Bible says
to be not among wine-bibbers
and among riotous eaters of flesh.
Let me tell you something, if you're divorced and remarried
and your spouse is still alive, you're an adulteress.
The Bible says as long as your spouse is alive,
you should be called an adulteress.
The Bible says that Jews are contrary to all men.
The Bible says that they're vipers and serpents
and children of the devil.
The Bible says of the synagogue of Satan.
The Bible says they're haters of God and reprobate.
Let me tell you something, Zionism is a false doctrine.
You have people like John Hagee getting up and saying,
"Oh, if you're anti-Semitic, that's a sin."
Which, okay, if you take it by a strict definition,
he's right.
You know what he's trying to say?
If you don't support Israel, you're a sinner.
You're not right with God.
You know who's not right with God?
John Hagee.
Let's revisit gluttony,
and let's revisit the synagogue of Satan for him.
But you know what?
These church services are not designed to please man.
They will not please man.
But you know what?
I want to please God with this church.
And there's so many churches today
going for a seeker-sensitive idea.
What is the seeker-sensitive?
Well, visitors are gonna come in.
We're gonna bring people into church.
They're seeking God, and they're sensitive.
They're sensitive.
They don't like being called an adulteress.
They don't like being called a sinner.
They don't like being told that they're an idiot for drinking alcohol.
They don't like being reproved and remanded for not following God's commandments.
They don't like being called an abomination.
They don't like being told what's right and wrong.
And let me tell you something.
I don't care, because I'm not here to please man.
I'm here to please God.
And at the end of the day, our church services are not designed to please man.
They're here to design to please God.
And you know what pleases God?
The voice of God, the words of God being thundered forth.
But you know what?
I'm not going to be someone seeking the pleasure of man, because you know what?
Then I would not be the servant of Christ.
How many churches today are saying, you know, how are we going to grow with that kind of
message?
Well, where does the Bible say grow?
Show me in the book where it says, thou shalt grow as a church.
In fact, Jesus, oftentimes he lost people.
He had 5,000 and then it's just like whittled down virtually no one's there.
then the few people that stayed,
he's like, "Are you gonna go away also?"
He didn't say like, "Oh, no, please stay."
He didn't say, "Do I need to change the message?
Do I need to trim the message?
Are you offended?"
He just said, "Hey, blessed is he
who sort of is not offended in me."
That's what he said to John the Baptist
when he went through hard times.
When John the Baptist is in prison,
and you know what, when the Apostle Paul goes to prison,
you know, we should not be ashamed of the Apostle Paul.
We should still love the Apostle Paul.
We should love everything that the Apostle Paul said.
And you know what?
Nuts to this world.
This is a sinful and adulterous and a wicked generation.
Why would I capitulate to them?
Why would I try to please them?
I wanna please God at the end of the day.
You know what?
The preaching behind this pulpit should be seeking
to please God and not man.
The services of this church are aimed
to please God and not man.
And you know what?
It's gonna offend people.
It's gonna offend the sensitive.
It's gonna offend the prideful.
It's gonna offend the lazy.
It's gonna offend the slothful.
It's gonna offend the jerk.
It's gonna offend all these different people.
It's gonna offend the person that loves money
more than the things of God.
It's gonna offend any and all people
because the Bible is offensive.
Why in the world would I have a church service
that's not offensive?
The Bible offends!
Jesus Christ causes division.
And look, I'm not trying to be offensive
just to be offensive.
I'm saying when you preach this book, it's offensive.
Hey, I think we should be kind, gracious, long-suffering.
We should love people.
We should go out of our way to help people.
We should do good unto people.
We should think about other people's needs.
But at the same time,
we need to preach whatever this says, good, bad, or ugly.
And let me tell you something.
When you do, it'll offend people more
than you could ever do on purpose.
I can't even offend you as much on purpose as I can
by just saying what this book says.
And number one, we need a salvation
that pleases God, not man.
Number two, we need services that please God and not man.
Number three, we need singing
that pleases God and not man.
Go to Psalm 58.
Hey, we sing Psalm 139 in this church.
And yeah, I've seen visitors' faces too.
♪ Do not, I hate them ♪
It's like little kids are just belting this.
And the visitor's like, what in the world?
Like, where am I?
And I'm thinking like, how can you even look
at the television for five seconds and not hate somebody?
And who in this world doesn't hate somebody?
Everybody hates somebody.
Everybody, you take the liberal Democrat
and bring him in here, he hates all of us.
I mean, the liberal Democrats hate Trump
with so much vehement hate.
You have people that you have Antifa,
hates everything good, normal and natural.
Then you have anybody that's normal and natural
hating Antifa.
You hate people that are scumbags, fraudsters,
you know, people that are doing things that are illegal.
We all hate pedophiles.
Even pedophiles hate pedophiles.
No one likes pedophiles.
Look, you have to hate someone
and look, we should hate the enemies of God.
If you love the gospel, if you love God,
if you love truth, if you love holiness,
if you love righteousness, you're gonna hate somebody.
The more you love, the more you hate.
If you think you love everybody,
you're only lying to yourself and no one believes you.
Psalm 58, here's another one we put to music.
Do ye indeed speak righteousness over congregation?
Do ye judge uprightly, oh, sons of men?
You know what he's saying?
Like, do you actually think that you have it all together?
You know what's right?
You have the perfect judgment?
Yea in heart, ye work wickedness.
Ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
The wicked are estranged from the womb.
They go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
They're poisons like the poison of a serpent.
They're like the deaf out of the stop of their ear,
which will not hearken to the voice of charmers,
charming never so wisely.
Break their teeth, oh God, in their mouth.
Break out the great teeth of the young lions, oh Lord.
Well, that's not a nice message.
How are you gonna reach people with that message?
You know what, I'm gonna sing it to them.
That's how I'm gonna reach them with it, all right?
Hey, if you don't like God's word, nuts to you,
because you know what, this is a house of God.
This is not a house of man.
We're not here to worship man.
We're not here to sing kumbaya.
We're not here to say we love all religions.
We're gonna love all people.
We want good to all people.
We're gonna sing break their teeth, oh God, in their mouth.
That's what we're gonna sing.
That's the philosophy that we have.
You say, well, I don't really like this.
Well, do you actually speak righteousness?
Do you judge uprightly?
It gets worse, look at verse seven.
Let them melt away as waters which run continually.
When he bended his bow to shoot his arrows,
let them be as cut in pieces, as a snail which melted.
Let every one of them pass away
like the untimely birth of a woman,
that they may not see the sun.
That's not very nice.
What does the Bible say in verse 10?
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeeth the vengeance.
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
So the man shall say, "Verily!"
There is a reward for the righteous.
Verily is a God that judges in the earth.
You know, in Minnesota this last week,
there was some lesbian that was trying to run over
an ICE agent with her car,
trying to just ram into him a little bit.
And I think he just opened fired on her, shot her,
and she ended up dying as a result
of this particular exchange.
This lesbian, and look, even if she wasn't a lesbian,
I think it's justified.
But because it was a lesbian, I rejoice.
I rejoice when I see the vengeance,
because that person had for the right to live
by being a lesbian and by trying to harm a agent
with their vehicle.
This is crazy.
And look, you think for one second
that all the Somalian Muslims were gonna come over here
and do good to white, liberal, lesbian women?
Like this ICE agent is saving these liberal,
white women from their own folly.
There's never been a time
where white, liberal women that are lesbians
are gonna be loved on, cherished,
and taken well care of by Muslim men.
Like what insanity do you even believe in here?
You're gonna go and protest
that enemies of you can be in your country illegally?
This is nonsense.
And you know what?
I know every one of these lesbian dykes
is not welcoming them in their home.
They're not bringing them in and sheltering them.
They're not giving them money.
They just wanna go out and harm agents of the law
because you know what?
They're against all truth and all righteousness
and all the authority that God has placed in this world.
And let me tell you something.
Don't pick fights with cops.
It doesn't matter if you like them or not.
They have the legal right to kill you
if you mess with them.
Why would you wanna mess with them?
And look, they are scared.
I can't even imagine being a law enforcement agent
right now.
Just the threat on their life.
ICE agents are being shot at and killed and attacked.
Look, you don't wanna mess with that.
It's just like, I'm not gonna go and antagonize a pit bull
and just hope for the best.
I'm gonna stay away from pit bulls.
I'm gonna stay away from bears.
I'm gonna stay away from lions.
I'm gonna stay away from dangerous animals and predators.
And you know what, I'm gonna stay away from cops.
I'm not gonna call them.
I don't wanna hang out with them.
I certainly don't wanna go where there's a riot.
I don't wanna go where they're doing
some kind of a police work.
That's a fool's errand.
You know what, I'm also not gonna be sad
when people that are idiots,
literally attacking police officers get what's coming to them.
And you know what, I wish that they would actually take
all the lesbians, they'd take her wife
and they'd line her up and put a bullet in her head too.
And there's people protesting all over our city
and all over our country for this lesbian.
Like what kind of wickedness do we have in our nation?
Yeah, these are the same people that praise
Charlie Kirk getting assassinated
and Christians just being executed in broad daylight
for no reason.
Think about it, a woman tries to run over a cop, justified.
Charlie Kirk is on a college campus giving out free hats.
He deserves to die.
He deserves to be shot.
That's liberal logic for you today.
Oh, they don't hate, oh, they hate Charlie Kirk.
And they hate anybody that has anything to do
with Christianity or the things of God
or that stand in opposition to them.
Let me tell you something.
I am not here to please man, I'm here to please God.
Oh, you think facts should be killed?
Yes, I do.
That doesn't please man.
I'll tell you, I mean, most Christians,
they get so triggered by this.
I mean, it's like the most offensive thing
I can possibly say.
I'm like talking to all these Christians
and the people that like care about the truth in theory.
And I'm just like, yeah, I don't think facts can be saved.
I think they're reprobate and they should be executed.
And they're just like, whoa.
You know, it's like their version of the Holocaust
or something, you know?
And it's just like just as believable as six million
as faggots getting saved, I'll tell you that.
Where's the six million faggots that are saved?
You know, instead of questioning how many people died
in the Holocaust, let's go find the six million faggots
that are saved too.
Boy, it's really hard to find them.
And there's always this guy on line, right?
There's always this cousin's uncle's brother
who supposedly survived the Holocaust.
It's like the same thing with a faggot, right?
There's always this brother's cousin's dog sitter
that supposedly got saved, and then when you go find it,
it's like, oh, actually, I don't really believe that.
No, actually, I'm not saved.
Right, every time you try to hunt these people down,
it's like, well, actually, I lied about it.
Why'd you lie about it?
'Cause they're liars, they're dogs.
Go to 1 Peter chapter four, we're gonna finish there.
Look, we need a salvation that pleases God and not man.
We need church services that please God and not man.
We need singing that pleases God and not man.
And you know what?
We ultimately need a spirit that pleases God and not man.
We need a spirit that pleases God and not man.
I'm not gonna be a seeker sensitive,
and I don't want this church to get that way.
You know, a lot of churches have this uncomfortable idea
of like, we have to grow,
and so they're willing to grow at all costs.
We're gonna trim the message.
We're not gonna read the entire chapter
before the service starts.
We're not gonna sing Psalm 139 on Sunday morning.
We're not gonna put Psalm 58 to music ever.
We're not gonna sing a song like that.
People, how do you expect to reach people?
I'm not trying to reach people with Psalm 58.
I never in my life have ever thought,
you know what, we'll bring more people in, Psalm 58.
That's gonna really reach people.
I never thought like the reprobate doctrine
is gonna really reach people.
I never thought like, hey, I wanna try
and just preach this really uncomfortable truth
in the Bible to reach people.
In fact, usually when you look at those passages,
you think like, this is gonna like lose people.
This will cause people to not wanna come.
This will cause people to leave
when you preach against their sin.
That's what hard preaching is.
You know what?
The soft preaching isn't working.
This nation is not being reached with the soft,
liberal, seeker-sensitive churches.
And if it was, there's more than enough to go around.
There's more of them to go out and just have a wet noodle
to try and win people to Christ.
But you know what?
This church will never be that way.
And I do not care about offending the sensitive.
I care about pleasing God, not man.
I will call those that are not saved unsaved.
I will preach on everything in the Bible,
no matter how uncomfortable it is.
I will sing the most gnarly songs in the Bible.
And you know, at the end of the day,
I'm also gonna have a spirit
that's trying to serve and honor God.
What will they say about you?
Well, look at chapter four, verse one.
For as much then as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh,
arm yourselves likewise with the same mind.
For he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.
That he no longer should live the rest of his time
in the flesh of the lust of men, but to the will of God.
For the time past of our life may suffice us
to have wrought the will of the Gentiles
when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine,
revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries.
Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them
to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.
We shall give an account to him that is ready
to judge the quick and the dead.
For for this cause was the gospel preached.
Also to them that are dead that they might be judged
according to men in the flesh,
but live according to God in the spirit.
Notice that we are to live.
We're supposed to live how?
According to God in the spirit.
We are to live according to God in the spirit.
That means we're not supposed to drink alcohol,
you Calvinist.
We're not gonna drink liquor.
And look, that offends so many Christians today.
Oh, how dare you say that I'm not really serving God
when I'm just drinking alcohol
and going to the non-denominational fund center.
You're not serving God.
You're not living in the spirit.
You're not walking by the spirit.
Oh, that's gonna offend people.
Well, I'm not here to please man.
I'm here to please God.
And let me tell you something,
being sober pleases God.
Drinking alcohol does not please God.
You know what it does?
It pleases man.
Man loves alcohol.
Man loves beer.
Man loves liquor.
That's why it's everywhere.
You go to the football game, everyone's drunk.
You go to the restaurant,
there's beer, liquor, tequila, shots,
all kinds of Jack Daniels.
You tell people, hey, I don't drink.
I don't like being around people that drink.
They're offended.
That's gonna be super offensive.
You tell people,
"Hey, I go to church three times a week, where are you?"
I don't wanna go to church three times a week, I'm busy.
Sorry, I'm busy too.
But you know what?
I'm seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
Hey, you know what?
You're not right with God
by going to your liberal fund center on Easter only.
Frankly speaking, you can go there three times a week
and you still wouldn't be right with God.
That place is a weirdo place.
Hey, you have the wrong Bible.
That's the wrong spirit.
Hey, you have the wrong drink.
You need to get welches, not your wino.
Quit being a winebibber.
Hey, your lifestyle evangelism is reaching nobody.
You need to be a confrontational soul winner.
You need to confront people on the gospel.
Hey, your CCM music is lyrically devoid of any value.
You need to get some Psalm 58 in your life.
You need to get some Psalm 139.
You need to get something that says where the spirit blows.
That's where I'm gonna go.
Hey, you know where the spirits blow
in Steadfast Baptist Church?
You know where the spirit's blowing?
The Philippines.
You know where the spirit's blowing?
Barbados.
You know where the spirit's blowing?
Into the ghettos of South Dallas,
we're gonna go out and preach the gospel to every creature.
That's where the spirit's blowing.
You know where the spirit's not blowing?
In a Calvinist church that's dead as a doornail.
In the Catholic church that's a den of iniquity
filled with reprobates.
You know where the spirit's not blowing?
Israel.
You know where the spirit's blowing?
In the true Israel of God, the house of God.
That's where it's blowing.
Hey, you tell people, hey, I'm not gonna drink.
I'm not gonna do drugs.
I'm not gonna go hang out with you.
I'm not gonna party.
I'm not gonna forsake church.
I wanna serve God.
You tell people, hey, I don't wanna live here.
I'm gonna move to Steadfast Baptist Church.
People think you're strange.
You know what they think?
They think going and listening
to some non-denominational guy get up and say nonsense,
that makes sense, but moving to a church
where you're gonna actually hear the Bible preached,
that's strange.
They think going to a place where you can actually go
and preach the gospel regularly, that that's strange.
They think moving for the things of God is strange.
Whereas I would say, hey, moving for a job
that's gonna take you away from the things of God,
that's strange.
Oh, how did that work out for a lot?
Where he moved for financial gain
and not for spiritual things.
He pitched his tent towards San Francisco,
I mean, Sodom.
I mean, let's be honest, isn't San Francisco
one of the highest paying places in the world?
I mean, if you're gonna get some of the highest paying jobs,
where are your two places?
New York and San Francisco,
where it's filled with faggots and Jews.
Show me the great church in San Francisco.
And look, I wish there was one.
I don't know if there is, maybe there is,
but it's definitely not making a lot of noise.
It's definitely not preaching Leviticus 2013.
You know how I know it's not preaching that?
Because it would be hounded every day.
You can't be there preaching that message
and not be attacked every day.
I mean, think about how we were attacked in Texas.
Let alone, just imagine if we were in San Francisco.
Man, they'd be bombing our building every day.
We'd be the bomb, just like Pastor Mejia, you know?
You know how I know he preaches that?
He got bombed, literally.
That's an awesome church.
Hey, if you live in California, go to Lawrence County,
go to Pastor Mejia's church, go to First Works,
Baptist Church, and LA.
Hey, you don't have to come to this church to serve God,
but why don't you go to a church where they're actually gonna,
you know what, have a salvation that pleases God, not man?
You need to go to a church where the service is there
to please God and not man.
You need to go where the singing is gonna please God
and not man, and you need to go where there's people
that have a spirit that they wanna please God and not man.
It's closing prayer.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for the word of God,
for the gospel, thank you for paying for all of our sins.
Thank you for giving us free salvation.
I pray that we wouldn't be ashamed of it.
I pray that we wouldn't be ashamed of the house of God.
I pray that we wouldn't be ashamed of the epistles of Paul,
the epistles that are written to the churches.
I pray that we wouldn't be ashamed of the Old Testament.
I pray that we wouldn't be ashamed of the things of God.
I pray that we wouldn't be ashamed
of the ministers of God.
I pray that we wouldn't be ashamed of the Psalms
and the hymns and the spiritual songs,
giving praise to God.
I pray that we wouldn't be ashamed of those
that have a spirit that want to serve God.
I pray that we'd have shame for the things of this world,
that we'd have shame towards the lasciviousness
and the lust and the excess wine and all the drunkenness
and all the rebellion and all the adultery
and all the fornication and all the false religion.
I pray to be ashamed of the world
and not of the things of God.
And I pray that you would help us to have the right spirit
so that this church could be pleasing to you
not to man in Jesus name we pray, amen.
- All right, for our last song,
let's go to song number 18.
Song number 18.
Song number 18, take the name of Jesus with you.
Song number 18, let's all sing it out.
Take the name of Jesus with you.
Child of sorrow and of woe, it will joy and comfort give.
Take him then where you go, as you say.
Oh, how sweet, hope of earth and joy, as you say.
Oh, how sweet, hope of earth and Jesus' destiny.
If temptations round you gather, bring that holy name and prayer.
Oh, how sweet, hope of earth and joy, as you say.
Oh, how sweet, as you say, for Jesus builds our souls with joy.
When the gods receive us and His songs are told to flow.
Precious name, oh precious name, as we add His name.
Kings of kings, who ever Christ complete.
Precious name, oh how sweet, hope of earth and joy of death.
Precious name, oh sweet.
We have a baptism this morning.
Brother Cameron is coming for baptism.
Have you trusted Christ as your savior?
And I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost.
Buried in the lightness of His death,
raised to walk in newness of life.
Make sure to congratulate our baptism.
God bless you are dismissed.