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Go to 2 Corinthians chapter 4, while you're turning there, I'll read for you from 2 Timothy 3. Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra, what persecutions I endured, but out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. It's going to get worse. The wicked are going to get worse and worse, but continue thou in the things which thou has learned, and has been assured of knowing of whom thou has learned them, and that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. Not just the parts you like, all of it. And all Scripture is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. You've got to preach the whole Bible, my friend. That's what the Bible teaches us, the entire Bible, and that includes Leviticus. That includes parts that are maybe unpalatable to our sin-sick society. It still needs to be taught. 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 8, we're troubled on every side, yet not distressed. We're perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken, cast down, but not destroyed, always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh, so then death worketh in us, but life in you. Go to Acts chapter 8. My friend, it's just a building. It's a building. I'm not trying to downplay the evil. I'm not trying to downplay the wickedness. I'm not trying to downplay how dangerous that is, to start blowing things up and setting things on fire, and how harmful it is, and how godless and wicked these people are, but I will say this. I would rather have my building blown to smithereens than for my children to have to look at a bunch of drag queens, because it's just a building. My children's souls are eternal. I'm eternal. I'm going to live forever. I'm saved. This building's not going to last forever. You know, I'd rather see a building destroyed than to see minds destroyed, hearts destroyed, people defiled. And so these filthy, disgusting perverts, you know, the real damage is just when they walk down the street in drag. I mean, what can they do? I mean, they can blow up the building. They can even kill the body, but the Bible says, Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. That's what the Bible says. Where did I have you turn? Acts chapter 8, look at verse 1, and I want to show you how all things work together for good to them that love God. All things work together for good to them that love God. Look at Acts chapter 8 verse 1, and Saul was consenting unto his death, and at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem. And they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria except the apostles. And devout men carried Stephen to his burial and made great lamentation over him. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church entering into every house and hailing men and women committed them to prison. And this is the key right here, verse 4, therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word. All things work together for good to them that love God. This great persecution upon the church at Jerusalem, you know what it ended up doing? It ended up actually causing the gospel to go further because instead of it all being concentrated at Jerusalem, which was never God's plan, Jesus told them only to wait at Jerusalem until they were endued with power from on high. Once they were endued with power from on high, once the day of Pentecost came and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, they were supposed to go teach all nations. They were supposed to go into all the world and preach the gospel. They didn't do that. Most of them ended up staying behind, but this persecution that arose about Stephen ended up causing them to be scattered abroad and it just caused the gospel to go further because they went everywhere preaching the word. They meant it for evil, but God meant it for good. And just like Joseph's brethren meant it for evil, God meant it for good. Here the Jews meant it for evil, but God meant it for good. The Sodomites meant it for evil, God meant it for good. Because you know what? Now people all over the world are going to tune in and listen to Pastor Mejia preach. Even if it's just out of a morbid curiosity. Let's hear what this guy has to say. Let's get some of this in context. Even if they might want to just listen to it at first to laugh at it or to hate on it, you know what? The word of God's powerful. It's sharper than any two-edged sword and I can't even count how many people, they started listening to my preaching just because they were mad at it or they hated it or they wanted to laugh at it. But then after they started listening to it, the word of God and then they start saying, hey, actually what he's preaching is biblical and then it starts to get through to them. And look, what if just one person gets saved? What if two people get saved? What if five people get saved? What if 100 people get saved? And here's the way I look at it. Let's say a million people read these articles and let's say 99% of them are just so brainwashed to just take what the media is telling them at face value and only 1% says, you know what? Actually, let me see what this guy's saying. Actually it's biblical. Actually this guy's right. Even if, let's say it's just 1%, well, what's 1% of a million? 10,000. Hey, sounds great to me. If 10,000 people are getting the word of God, even if 99, hey, nuts to the 99%. They were already bozos yesterday and they can be bozos tomorrow. That's not the point. I only care about the individual. It's about reaching that one person or that 10,000 people that actually hear the preaching and can hear God's word and be edified. Maybe they're already saved and then they could hear Brother Mejia's preaching. Look, if a saved person listens to Brother Mejia's preaching, they're going to get edified. They're going to become closer to God. They're going to learn more about the Bible. They're going to walk with Christ more closely and do more works for him if they listen to that preaching. They're unsaved and they listen to it. They're likely to get saved because he preaches a lot of clear salvation messages. God is going to use all this for good. It's going to be good for the church members. This is an experience that they can go through and grow through and become stronger. It's going to be a good experience for Pastor Mejia himself to go through this and gain this experience. People can see this and find out about his church and hear the preaching. In our lives, we are not the main character. We're not the main event. I am not the main character of the story of Faith Ford Baptist Church or any other story. Jesus is the main character. He's the emphasis. Here's the thing. You look at a guy like Stephen and you say, well, that was short lived. Stephen got stoned. We just read reflecting back on it there in Acts Chapter 8 and they made a great lamentation because Stephen was such a great guy and he got killed so early in the book of Acts. You wish you could see this guy go for the next 20 years, 30 years, but here's the thing. He's not the main character. This isn't the book of Stephen. It's about Christ. When Stephen dies, Christ's work goes forward. In many ways, Christ's work went forward better with Stephen being martyred. Stephen being martyred propelled the work of Christ forward. I didn't do much for Stephen's career, but Stephen's career isn't the issue. I'm not the issue. Pastor me, he is not the issue. First Works Baptist Church isn't the issue and certainly their building isn't the issue. When you make an omelet, you end up breaking some eggs. Things perish, people perish, but you know what? I love what the Apostle Paul said. He said, yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all. The Apostle Paul said, you know what? I'm willing to be a sacrificial ram. I'm willing to be sacrificed if it will cause the work of Christ to go forward, if it will cause people to be edified. The Bible commands us to be faithful unto death. We need to be willing to be sacrificed so that God's work can go forward. It's a lot to ask, but it's also a lot to ask to carry the cross up to Calvary. It's a lot to ask to die on the cross and descend into hell and raise again three days later. That's a lot to ask too. But if that's what Christ did for us, then it's our reasonable service to present our bodies a living sacrifice to God. We need to understand that we are not the issue. We're not the main character in this drama. Christ is the main character. It's his story. We are playing a side role. It's like John the Baptist said. He said, look, he's the bridegroom. I'm just the friend of the bridegroom. And on the wedding day, it's not all about the best man, is it? It's all about the groom. It's all about the bride. And John the Baptist said, you know, the friend of the bridegroom standeth and rejoiceth because of the bridegroom's voice. This, therefore, my joy is fulfilled. He must increase, I must decrease. And so that's the attitude that we need to have.