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hundred and ten wonderful grace of Jesus on 210 and that's gonna be 210 wonderful grace of Jesus sing it nice and loud on the first wonderful the mattress grace of Jesus deeper than the mighty rolling sea higher than the mountains sparkling like a fountain all sufficient grace or even me broader than the scope of my transgressions greater for than all my oh magnify the precious name of Jesus wonderful grace of Jesus reaching to all the laws by it I have been saved to the other chains have been torn giving me liberty for the wonderful grace of me wonderful the mattress grace of Jesus deeper than the mighty rolling sea higher than the mountains sparkling like a fountain all sufficient grace or even me broader than the scope of my transgressions greater for than all my sin and shame oh magnify the precious name of Jesus praise his name wonderful grace of Jesus reaching the most by its transforming power making him God's dear child purchasing peace and for all eternity and the wonderful grace of Jesus me wonderful the mattress grace of Jesus deeper than the mighty rolling see higher than the mountains sparkling like a fountain all sufficient grace or even me broader than the scope of my transgressions greater for than all my sin and shame Oh magnify the precious name of Jesus praise his name amen gracing our heads to a word of prayer your Lord always thank you we can come back again in your house with the people I just pray you fell pastor Shelley with your Holy Spirit give them wisdom and help us to be attentive and ready to receive the Word of God and apply to our lives in Jesus name amen next gonna be 405 the banner of the cross 405 405 the banner of the cross there's a royal banner given for display to the soldiers of the key as an ensign fair we lift it up today while his ransom ones we see marching on marching on for Christ count everything but laws and to crown him King but all and see need the banner of the cross oh the foe may rage and gather as a flood let the standard be displayed and beneath its folds as soldiers of the Lord for the truth be not dismay marching on marching on for Christ count everything but laws and to crown him King oil and sing need the banner of the cross overland and see where ever man may dwell may the glorious tidings known of the crimson banner now the story tell while the Lord shall claim his own marching on marching on for Christ count everything but laws and to crown him King with oil and sing need the banner of the cross when the glory is drawing very near it is hastening day by day then before our King the foe shall disappear and the cross the world shall stay marching on marching on for Christ count everything but laws and to crown him King soil and sing need the banner of the cross amen good evening thanks so much for coming to steadfast Baptist Church if you need a bulletin you can lift up your hand nice and high and hopefully one of our ushers can come by get you a bulletin like I need one myself we have one all right I can remember pretty much anyways we're on John chapter number one and if your kids are able to quote that then we can get them an ice cream treat on Wednesdays also this is a friendly reminder since we still don't have any water fountains or anything like set up at any time you need any water our fridge has a lot of water bottles and things like that please feel free to help yourself to that at this time so just as an FYI also on the inside we are service so winning times we have our church stats on the right we have the list of expecting ladies and our prayer list please continue to submit your prayer requests via email that way we can get those updated on the back we have our upcoming events the Congo bridal shower here July 2nd and then we have the song leading class there's a signup sheet for that there's also men's conference sign up sheet I think that's pretty much all I have for announcements at this time I don't really have much so let's go ahead and go to our third song 208 grace greater than our sin all right song 208 and that's gonna be 208 grace greater than our sin all together marvelous grace of our loving Lord grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt yonder on Calvary's mount out poured there where the blood of the lamb was filled grace grace God's grace grace that will pardon and cleanse within grace grace God's grace grace that is greater than all our sin sin and despair like the sea waves cold threats in the soul with infinite loss grace that is greater yes grace untold points to the refuge the mighty cross grace grace grace God's grace grace that will pardon and cleanse within grace grace God's grace grace that is greater than all our sin dark is a stain that we cannot hide what can avail to wash it away look there is flowing a crimson tide wider than snow you may be today grace grace God's grace grace that will pardon and cleanse within grace grace God's grace grace that is greater than all our sin marvelous infinite matchless grace freely bestowed on all who believe you that our longing to see his face will you this moment his grace receive grace grace God's grace grace that will pardon and cleanse within grace grace God's grace grace that is greater than all our sin amen good singing as the offering plates are passed around please turn in your bibles to nehemiah four nehemiah chapter four we're going to read the whole chapter together starting in verse number one you can follow along silently nehemiah chapter four the bible reads in nehemiah chapter four but it came to pass that when san ballad heard that we builded the wall he was wroth and took great indignation and mocked the jews and he spake before his brethren in the army of samaria and said what do these feeble jews will they fortify themselves will they sacrifice will they make an end in a day will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned now tibiah the ammonite was by him and he said even that which they build if a fox go up he shall even break down their stone wall here oh our god for we are despised and turn their reproach upon their own head and give them for a prey in the land of captivity and cover not their iniquity and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders still built we the wall and all the wall was joined together under the half thereof for the people had a mind to work but it came to pass that when san ballad and tibiah and the arabians and the ammonites and the ashtadites heard that the walls of jerusalem were made up and that the breaches began to be stopped then they were very rough and conspired all of them together to come and to fight against jerusalem and to hinder it nevertheless we made our prayer unto our god and set a watch against them day and night because of them and judah said the strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed and there is much rubbish so that we are not able to build the wall and our adversaries said they shall not know neither see till we come in the midst among them and slay them and cause the work to cease and it came to pass that when the jews which dwelt by them came they said unto us 10 times from all places whence you shall return unto us they will be upon you therefore said i in the lower places behind the wall and on the higher places i even set the people after their families with their swords their spears and their bows and i looked and rose up and said unto the nobles into the rulers into the rest of the people be not ye afraid of them remember the lord which is great and terrible and fight for your brethren your sons and your daughters your wives and your houses and it came to pass when our enemies heard that it was known unto us and god had brought their council to not that we returned all of us to the wall every one unto his work and it came to pass from that time forth that the half of my servants brought in the work and the other half of them held both the spears shields and the bows and the habergeons and the rulers were behind all the house of judah they which build it on the wall and they that bear burdens with those that laid it every one with one of his hands wrought in the work and with the other hand held a weapon for the builders everyone had his sword girded by his side and so build it and he that sounded the trumpet was by me and i said unto the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the people the work is great and large and we are separated upon the wall one far from another in what place therefore you hear the sound of the trumpet resort ye thither unto us our god shall fight for us so we labored in the work and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appear likewise at the same time said i unto the people let everyone with the servant lodge within jerusalem that in the night they may be a guard to us and labor on the day so neither i nor my brethren nor my servants nor the men of the guard which followed me none of us put off our clothes saving that everyone put them off for washing let's pray father we thank you so much for our church for our pastor and for this congregation and i pray that you would protect our church lord and be with us as we go our separate ways after the service fill the man of god with your spirit now and give us ears to hear and soften hearts in the room so we can listen and apply and walk out of the building better christians in jesus name i pray amen amen so we're here in nehemiah chapter number four and i feel like it's a really uh it's a really relevant chapter when it comes to some of the things that we are experiencing some of the things that we have to go i kind of mentioned some of this even in my morning sermon but there is one kind of thought that i want to draw out of this because while a lot of these things apply and we're going to kind of look through this whole chapter the one thing that i think is really important is the lesson that's very difficult for us to understand is the idea that there's going to be people that want to attack you and you kind of ask this question like how do i respond like what is the proper response when people are attacking you or trying to destroy the work of god and you know we think like oh man i wish it was the old testament or something like that where we go to battle and we go to war but this is actually old testament and their philosophy is the exact same philosophy that we want to have and and here is that philosophy it's don't feed the trolls and the title of the sermon is this evening is don't feed the trolls now i believe that is a biblical principle when we kind of study scripture and we're going to look at a lot of verses this evening but you have to be careful that you don't feed the trolls now what is a troll okay this could have a lot of definitions but really for the point of this sermon i'm defining a troll is just simply that insincerely tries to get your attention someone that insincerely tries to get your attention okay and that could be in all manner of ways that someone's trying to get your attention but ultimately a troll wants your attention that is their entire goal that is exactly what they want to do so what is it that feeds a troll is attention you know giving them any level of attention is feeding them and here's the thing when you don't eat eventually you die if you never ate you would eventually die if your grass doesn't get water it probably looks yellow right now because man is it hot out there and even if it's getting some water it might already be dead and when it comes to trolls there is only one way only one way to eliminate trolls and that is to not feed them and they have to die out eventually unfortunately they can survive a while without any food and they can even survive on some scraps and a little bit of garbage but the only way to get rid of them is to ignore them have nothing to do with them stop feeding them because the more you feed them the more they grow the more excited they get the more they have energy and everything else the only way is to outlast them and the only way to outlast them is to stop feeding them cut off their supply chain and you are in complete control of how much attention you give to trolls now look at what it says in verse one but it came to pass that when sand ballot heard that we build the wall he was wroth to great indignation and mock the jews now this is going to be complicated for some of you in this room the jews are the good guys in the story okay so when you hear jews you're going to have to think good guys and that might be really hard for you might have to write it down in your notes or something but the jews here are the the people that we're in support of okay so sand ballot is the bad guy sand ballot is just mad and angry that the jews are serving god they're on the you know the jews don't have anything to do with sand balance they could care less about sand ballot but the fact that they're building the wall just irritates the fire out of him why because people that hate god they can't climb up to heaven and go spit in god's face or yell at god they can't do it and them just walking around just being angry is not very satisfactory you know what they have to do is they have to find people that represent god and go attack them they have to go find christians and that's how they get at god that's how they basically get their revenge and that's how they basically mock god so this sand ballot he doesn't like the jews he's mocking them and he's very angry says in verse number two and he spake before his brethren and the army of samaria and said what did these feeble jews will they fortify themselves will they sacrifice will they make an end in the day will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned now he just keeps asking all these dumb questions and it's really funny because every single one of his questions is essentially like self-refuting because if the jews are just so feeble and they're incapable of accomplishing this task why is he so worried about it you know why is he so bothered that the jews are doing this and building this wall and building their kingdom if they're so incapable if they're so feeble if it's so futile if their project isn't going to be successful like why is he so bothered he's bothered because he knows they're not feeble even though he calls them people he's bothered because he knows that the work that they're doing while it may seem vain or impossible to accomplish he knows they're going to accomplish it if left alone so a lot of his questions are really what i would call a troll question meaning that there's no reason to try and answer any of these questions and there's no reason to get offended by these questions because by the fact that he's even asking them you already know he doesn't believe it he already is just trolling oh you feeble jews but you can see someone saying like i am tough you know why are you calling me feeble man you know or you get all offended like i i'm not feeble let me show you how tough i am or something like that he already knows you're tough he's just asking this stupid question to try and rile you up and try and get you all offended to get you all to start giving him some kind of attention look what it says in verse number three now to buy the ammonite was by him and he said even that which they built if a fox go up he shall even break down their stone wall so this sand ballad ends up riling other trolls up and trolls love other trolls because they just troll each other and they love all the mockery and they have a little discord chat here that they're kind of you know talking on and and tobiah is is like saying hey this wall i mean even a fox would knock this thing over now we have to understand about foxes is they're kind of notorious for being a lightweight creature um i i looked up on just wikipedia and some other articles depending on what species of fox so depending on kind of what uh type of fox it is it can weigh anywhere from 1.5 pounds to 31 pounds so basically the largest fox you're going to get is about 31 pounds that's not that much i mean a lot of dogs are going to be uh heavier than something like that but there are some species of foxes called fennec foxes they only are eight inches tall and they get up to two to three pounds so i believe personally like when when you study scripture and they're bringing up this kind of animal they're probably bringing up this kind of a fox specifically because the whole argument is that oh man even this lightweight creature would knock over their entire wall and and this is what some people would do some people would say well actually if you study the wall the wall could hold about 380 pounds and the foxes are only about two pounds so actually it could hold the weight and it's like you idiot the troll doesn't care about science and facts and reality here don't talk to them about this it can hold a fox it could hold more than a fox it's like look why are you getting all upset and trying to defend no i better i better walk and hold a lot of foxes and you know it's like no don't even waste energy on these foolish statements or these foolish talking points but we noticed that christians especially our culture today they get so offended so easily that they allow just anything and everything to set them off and then they think that logic and reasoning is somehow going to win over a troll but unfortunately what you do is you give them exactly what they wanted you started talking about them you started reasoning with their logic and that is the worst thing you can possibly do the best thing is just to not feed the troll just they say some stupid statement make some stupid question just like ignore them and a lot of us especially me you know maybe not you i want to get in the fight like you know i'm just saying like i want to solve the problem like i want to do something here's the thing you know how you do it by ignoring that's how you fight you literally fight by not giving in you have to war with yourself you have to war with the flesh and you have to say you know what i know you want to get in there and talk about how stupid they are and how foolish they are and troll them back you know matt walsh and here's the thing matt walsh made this interesting documentary called like what is a woman but all he's doing is trolling the trolls and it sounds cool and it sounds fun but let me tell you something it's not going to help it's actually feeding the trolls it doesn't help to go down to their level and say you know what i'm going to scientifically prove that a woman's a woman look the the people that don't believe a woman is a woman it doesn't matter how many papers of science you stack in front of them they're never going to believe it i mean a child knows the difference between a man and a woman a boy and a girl you don't have to sink down to their level and waste so much effort and so much energy and after you think that somehow trolling them is going to win them over or win anybody over is really nonsense and there are whole genres of comedy there's whole genre i mean people their whole life goal is just like trolling people or trolling trolls or trolling idiots or trolling morons and it's like you're actually making the problem worse because you're feeding them you're giving them more ammunition you're giving them more energy they get more excited about this kind of stuff you know the worst thing you can do is feed a troll you need to just ignore the troll not feed the troll just pretend like they don't exist and i'll tell you something it drives them up a wall and eventually they move on from you because you didn't give them any food it's kind of like the stray cat my my parents would uh hop and tell me this and i'm a kid i don't know anything if you're a kid you don't know anything maybe all these cute cats in the neighborhood or cute dogs or whatever and you're like oh let's bring it up let's get some milk and you know let's feed it and let's let's be sweet to it and my mom would be like no because if you feed that cat it's going to keep coming around our house and she was right you know you don't feed a stray cat you don't feed a stray dog because it'll just keep coming it'll keep wanting that food it'll keep wanting that drink and if you ignore the stray it'll go on to the next house it'll go to the next person that's going to feed them and the same is with the troll if you don't feed the troll they move on eventually they go and find somewhere because they get hungry enough for that attention they desire so much so the more you feed them the more they're just going to keep coming look what it says in verse number four hero our god for we are despised and turn their approach upon their own head and give them for a prey in the land of captivity and cover not their iniquity and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee but they have provoked thee to anger before the builders now i'm getting a little ahead of myself and teaching so i'm going to catch up with some vital verses here in a minute but notice that when they hear all this stuff they didn't talk to them who did they talk to god there's nothing wrong with complaining to god about it nothing wrong with praying to the lord and asking for his help and asking for him to destroy them asking for i mean is this a nice prayer cover not their iniquity and let their sin be bought and let not their sin be plotted out from before thee now some people say like that's hateful that's not kind where's the redemption where's the love where's the grace pastor shelley sorry i'm reading the nehemiah you know i'm reading what the bible actually said you know some people you're not praying for their blessing you're praying for their destruction i mean this is you know and it's not like these people are just uh you know just their personal enemies or something these people hate god these people despise the lord they want to destroy the work of god there's a big difference between someone not wanting to come to your church and wanting to burn your church to the ground okay that's a complete giant difference and while the apostle paul did persecute christians you have to you have to realize that he didn't want to destroy christianity in the sense that he didn't want to destroy what he thought was the true religion he didn't want to destroy the worship of god he didn't want to destroy god he was just sincerely wrong but he still loved the lord he still loved god he still loved the things of god he even loved the bible he wouldn't have said like let's get rid of leviticus here you know some people they take paul to such an extremity that they're like well let's just never give up on this god-hating satanist you know this guy that's just this serial rapist you know let's just pray that maybe the lord would touch his heart or something like that because apostle paul and it's like whoa the apostle paul was not a serial killing maniac okay the apostle paul believed leviticus the apostle paul believed exodus the apostle paul believed all of the old testament i mean the apostle paul knew the old testament better than anybody on the planet he loved the bible he was just a little mixed up in that false religion he was a little bit you know it's basically like a really devout person going to one of these bad churches you know a really devout methodist or catholic or something like that you know these type of people are not the people that were just wanting to condemn and destroy if someone says hey i go to the catholic church every single week and i really love catholic church and i love the the bible but i just don't like baptus it's like okay well let's pray that somehow the lord would change that person's heart we're not talking about these god-hating atheists wanting to destroy churches and burn them to the ground want to kill babies these just ravening psychopath lunatics no that that's not paul paul wasn't like i think men or women or whatever no no no that's silliness okay those type of people i have no hesitation praying for their destruction praying that god would not cover their iniquity or that god would not blot out their sin but rather he would destroy them now in verse six notice what he does so built me the wall so you have all these people talking trash what is their response pray to god and just keep building pray to god keep building he doesn't he doesn't go out there and try to defend himself and do all these different things no no he just keeps doing the work doesn't verse seven but it came to pass that when sandbout and dubai and the arabians and the ammonites and ashedites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up and that the breaches began to be stopped then they were very rough and conspired all of them together to come in a fight against Jerusalem and to hinder it now notice this at first it doesn't work okay at first they're ignoring them just praying to god and then they're just doing the work but because the work is just going so well they get even more emboldened to want to attack them to go against them so you don't think you know this methodology of ignoring trolls it's not like it's just going to work overnight necessarily but it's the only method that works it is the only method that will ensure an eventual victory but the worst thing you can do is just keep feeding these losers that essentially have nothing to live for but just to destroy things i mean why can't sandbout and dubai build something themselves why do they always have to destroy other works and if they think this work is just so uh feeble and can't hold any weight you know why are they so concerned with knocking it over you know it's not like they're building the twin towers that can be just knocked over by a little plane or something like that you know i was looking up some facts and the golden gate bridge can hold four thousand pounds per linear feet so that was built that was so like you could have just like a little foot four thousand pounds per foot that's how much the golden great bridge was built to hold um i looked up the twin towers when they were constructed and the total weight of the twin towers was 1.5 million tons there's 1.5 million tons of just steel and windows and it was like insane just how much paint how much paint was on the building when you build this monstrosity and i was looking up cool stats the twin towers they had 17 babies born in the twin towers isn't that kind of crazy i guess they're just so massive that women were there and it was like it's happening you know it's just like there's nowhere to go i mean think about it you're in new york city you have the you would have to go down all kinds of elevators get into a car maybe or a taxi or walk to a hospital like it probably it was just like it's happening you know 17 babies were born in the twin towers there was also uh 3800 gold bars in the basement approximately to be at least 100 million dollars worth of value in the twin towers now i don't think there's any motive that anybody would ever want to steal that or anything but that was just an interesting fact that uh that i noticed and some even rumored there was much more than that but that's what the lease was reported at least uh 3800 gold bars 12 tons of pure gold i think like almost all of it was gone almost all of it was gone after the building was destroyed i don't know they couldn't find it i don't know what happened so just interesting facts again keep your finger here as we're coming back go to first timothy chap number six for a moment go to first timothy chap number six oh man we built these twin towers and just a fox knocks it over and it's perfect footprint and it falls at freefall speeds you know that was either really really bad construction or there's something weird going on okay but why are you so concerned you know why are you so interested in this you know the trolls they're not interested in the building they're not interested in anything that's righteous they simply just want to destroy the works of god and it's really easy who's a minister of the devil because their goals are just always to destroy the work of god now i do want to make a mention here because i'm not going to necessarily read these verses but of course there are some people that we will call out you know the bible talks about calling out the false teachers and the false preachers so the heads the tips of the spheres of false religion yeah those people need to be stopped we need to call them out and we want to take the time to address their concerns but they're not really a troll because they're a leader they're a leader of a particular institution and the way to to get them to stop is not by not feeding them but by rebuking them sharply that's what the real construction is so a troll is not the minister the leader or these type of people we're talking about the low level scum that you would you know wipe off your boots or something like that going around just trying to attack people because saying ballot is a buyer just nobodies nobody really cares they're just walking around trying to get everybody else upset everybody else involved trying to get the authorities involved things like that and the bible gives us a lot of clear instruction when it comes to handling these type of situations it says in first timothy chapter number six look at verse 20 oh timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsely so-called which some professing have erred concerning the faith praise be with the amen so here's here's a question in light of first timothy 6 20 how much effort time and energy do i do i need to spend debunking the fact that men can get pregnant so notice it says avoiding it says avoiding profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsely so-called so any kind of gender study or any of these kind of nonsense pseudoscience type articles and information like it's really pointless for me to sit here and try to explain that to people because the people that believe this stuff are either a brain dead or b lying on purpose and i will submit that i believe 95 percent of the people are lying on purpose the people there's like almost no one that believes this stuff even the people doing it they don't really believe it they're just repeating this nonsense because they they don't want to face reality they don't want to face the truth so they just lie they're just lying and i'm not going to convince a liar of logic and reasoning because they're already lying about it okay they're willingly ignorant of the truth so the bible teaches that we should ignore these things people that bring up stupid questions stupid thoughts the bible has to constantly tell us don't get into that trap don't fall for that type of argument look at second timothy chapter number two second timothy chapter number two and look at verse 23 but foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender strives let me tell you something i believe that these verses are more true in 2022 america than they've ever been because we have things like the internet we have social media we have all kinds of online platforms where trolls live trolls love these areas and they're always asking these stupid questions these dumb questions these foolish questions and the bible is constantly saying avoid them because when you try to enter an argument with this person it just brings more contention more fighting notice what it says it gender strives gender is you know a confusing word to our world but gender can often simply mean to bring forth so it's like birthing it's like you're birthing strife so there wasn't a problem and then you birthed a problem why did you birth the problem because you entered into a dumb conversation with an idiot with a fool or often a troll now here's again a troll what did i say is a troll insincere person seeking attention you know if someone had a dumb question it's okay to answer it if they were truly sincere and this is your children okay your children don't necessarily understand everything and so sometimes your children would ask a foolish question they might ask a dumb question but they're going to be sincere because they're your child of course you would answer them and you would give them understanding you help them learn these things but a troll is an insincere person not wanting a real answer and so when you try to give them that answer all you're doing is you're just feeding them you're causing them to be more riled up or excited go if you would to titus chapter 3 so we're looking at in the kind of the t's here itis chapter number 3 and look at verse number 9 it says but avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law for they are unprofitable and vain so according to the bible notice it brings up all manner of subjects questions genealogies intentions strivings about the law where they are unprofitable and vain you know it's one thing to try and help someone that's ignorant it's another thing when someone's not ignorant they just simply are just going to argue to argue you know it's one thing for someone to be ignorant of leviticus and you start showing the verses but it's another thing when they know what the verse says and then they just want to argue like well is that what it really means or you know what about in the hebrew what about this lexicon or what about this and you just they start going down this this dumb path it's foolish to go down that path with them it's foolish to enter into this conversation with this individual you just want to you know move on notice what it says in verse 10 a man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition rejects knowing that he that is such is subverted and senate being condemned himself now someone that sincerely wants an answer once you give them an answer they're going to accept it they're not going to then just you know totally ignore it or move on i've had people that they asked me they have this like line of questioning and they'll ask they'll ask this question and you'll give them a totally satisfactory answer and then they just move to another question and you're like but i just you know like i keep showing you and then they just still don't change their mind they're just still not interested it's kind of like you talk to a muslim about the deity of jesus christ and they say oh when did jesus ever say i'm the son of god and then you're just like okay well here's you know mark chapter 14 he said art thou the son of the blessed and he said i am like oh you know then you like you flip to all kinds of other places where god the father says he's the son of god and then you're like so now do you believe the son of god well no and it's like well at that point you just need to move on because i already given you plenty of satisfactory answers here there's no point in me just continuing to argue with this person now this person is becoming a troll and the more that i keep going and arguing with them the more i'm feeding this troll the more i'm just going to waste time a lot of people waste time soul winning because they keep feeding the troll you know once someone has been shown multiple answers and they just don't like it you just need to move on from the person there is nothing wrong with walking away from a conversation over and and sometimes i'll even say this there's plenty of days where i knock on the door i can tell the person's not saved but they're not really giving me any good answers and they're just kind of being a troll with me at the door and i just go to the next door and it's like people think like well wait a minute i thought that person wasn't saved why i'm trying to give the gospel it's like i could tell that conversation is not going anywhere today so i'm just going to move on like as soon as i identify this conversation is not going to get anywhere further i'm just going to give them the best i can just leave on just leave you know say like okay watch the video or here's one more verse to think about and i'm going to head out or watch this when you get a chance or check out that you know or you need to change your mind and often i'll even just leave them with the fact that like well actually the bible does say differently when what you're saying maybe some other time you'll decide to change your mind you know not necessarily leaving them saying like you're right or anything but just like bye and i'll say this some doors you have to walk away from while they're in mid-sentence because they won't stop talking or or they'll be like hey no you don't walk away you came to my door now it's your turn to listen to me and this is like wink wink nod nod i'm about to waste another 30 minutes of your time and and i'll be honest i'm not saying it's very often but sometimes i you just have to say like sorry i'm not trying to to be rude but we have to go and then and this is and this is how you handle it and then they just keep like as you kind of walk away and you just keep walking okay and it's like obviously the goal is not to be rude but sometimes you just have to walk away you just have to move on you have to keep going and that's the best way the more you just talk to the person the longer you're going to be in the conversation and the more it's just going to go nowhere and so sometimes you just have to get away from that person but a second thessalonians chapter number three so we've been a lot of the first he's go backwards a little bit the second thessalonians and look at chapter number three and look at verse number one now the bible says finally brethren pray for us that the word of the lord may have free course and be glorified even as it is with you and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men for all men have not faith the lord is faithful who shall establish you and keep you from evil notice even in the new testament the bible is warning you there are some people that are just unreasonable you have to just get this in your head some people are just unreasonable there is no point in reasoning with the unreasonable okay that's why reason's really important logic is really important and this is why it's important that you know men are the ones working in the workforce because they're logical and reasonable you know and it's not to be a knock on women but sometimes women can be a little bit unreasonable at times okay because of a lot of different factors and and that's why god put men in a certain role and put women in a different role because women they have their strengths and men have theirs men are pretty much locked into logical men are just locked in black and white they're just locked in to just hot or cold they're locked in i mean your kids you know dealing with kids with a dad is always just like green red black white you know it's either a spanking or he's going to play with them like there's like no middle typically they're just very logical consistent whereas women they kind of dwell in like a little bit more of a you know they have more empathy they're more they have more sympathy towards children and it causes them to go into a little bit more gray areas you're not necessarily going to be as divisive that's not their nature is to be that way they're a little bit more agreeable because they're a follower you know they're not a leader and there's nothing wrong with these attributes it's just different it's not to put down women it's to say that women are different their strengths are used in a different way their weaknesses are manifest in other ways because there's a reason why my voicemail at steadfast baptist church is two people there is two people that that call me okay almost but you're like feminine men and women that is the only people that call me and i would say it's almost all women if you want to if you want to look at steadfast baptist voicemail it's just woman woman woman woman woman sodomite woman woman woman woman woman sodomite woman woman woman woman woman and it's like why do they care so much why are they just so adamant i'll tell you why it's because they have a harder time discerning between logical facts and they have a harder time you know just discerning the truth on some of these issues and so they're more easily led astray why is it that the devil tempted eve and not adam no we live in a society that's just rejected objective truth where they think that you know a man is like six eight and has a wingspan of like seven one to be competing against women that are like five four and swimming and i i heard the statistics it was like there was this girl trying to break the world record and one of the swim meets recently in like one of the olympic games or something like that or i can't remember the competition you look it up but she was she's basically going to compete and she was hoping to break the world record by like a tenth of a second that was her goal and then this dude that calls himself leah thomas or whatever he broke the world record by 38 seconds 30 i mean she's hoping to beat it by a tenth of a second he beat by 38 seconds okay there's a difference between men and women and in all kinds of ways there's a reason why the snake went to eve and tempted her because she doesn't think the same as adam he's different you know first timothy chapter number two makes it abundantly clear that adam was first formed and then eve and adam was not deceived but the woman was deceived okay so they have a harder time delineating the black and white sometimes that's just a fact there's a reason why then you know you have all these workplace issues and sometimes you have this woman that's being unreasonable and it's a it's basically just a a stick in the spokes of a bicycle and it just it doesn't end well i'm against women in the workforce okay sorry you didn't get that already now obviously there's nothing wrong with a woman working it's not sinful i'm not saying that it's sinful because women find themselves in all manner of situation you know a young woman that has no kids or just early marriage you might be doing some kind of a job or a woman that's asked having child-bearing years maybe she's working or whatever or if you have a derelict loser husband or a deadbeat dad or someone that just abandons you as a woman i would work to provide for my family because what other opportunity like what other options do you have okay so there's all kinds of situations where a woman working makes sense i'm not saying it's a sin but what i am saying is that when you understand that women and men are different there's a reason why you know god made it where the man is the provider and the woman is the one that's staying home with the children because the woman's the best at staying home with the children and the man's the best at going out and providing that's the ideal that's what god has ordained and when you bring up this this talking point most people won't agree with you you know what i'm not gonna do i'm not gonna go on a diatribe and explain why feminism is wrong to these people and i'm also not gonna go around and blow my mouth off about it you know if a woman cop shows up in a situation where i've called the police i'm not gonna just get mad at her for existing okay and that's not gonna help you it's not gonna help you to get there and just be like what are you gonna do well she could pull out a gun and shoot you you know it's not like it's not like guns have any prejudice like i'm not gonna fire because a woman pulled the trigger okay and obviously it's foolish to just pick people apart or whatever issues or sins they have you know just because someone's not in an ideal situation also doesn't mean that god couldn't bless them or that god doesn't love them or that god isn't working in their lives or something like that that's also a foolish thing to think okay because if we were to if we were to live by that example none of us would be blessed by god because we all have sin in our lives we all have issues we all have come short so that's another stupid thing to think but what i'm trying the main goal of the sermon is that is the is to help you understand not everybody's reasonable and sometimes just any person is just not reasonable at a moment in time i brought this up because women tend to be more unreasonable than men not saying that women are only unreasonable and men are reasonable but just generically speaking men are going to be reasonable more often women can have moments where they're tending to be a little bit unreasonable you know when they're about to give birth they're not the most reasonable okay in that moment in time they might say things or do things that are a little bit abnormal that's okay and maybe god allowed them to kind of have this like weird thing going on with their brain just so they can survive the trauma because us as men we might you know having our side of the brain do something weird because we're going through that trauma you know since we're more logical or reasonable we might try to like you know grab the baby and pull it out or something because we're just so frustrated by it you know women just start going crazy so you don't even know what's going on but obviously god did those things on a per for a reason on purpose sometimes losing your mind a little bit is helpful because you forget you know my wife i i remember when we talk about her child birthing he would she would like try to relive it with me and she never remembered it correctly but she always remembered it in a really positive way like she wasn't screaming she wasn't delusional there wasn't that much pain it was over quickly and i'm just thinking like not my experience you know but i'm glad that was what you thought about it so that you'll do it again you know it's like it's like maybe that uh being unreasonable also just helped you have weird memory loss or something but also you know think about how the bible describes it women as soon as they give birth the bible says they like forget all their pain because they have a man child born in the world and stuff like that you know as as men we're built differently than women but i'll say this some men are just very unreasonable too and some women are unreasonable and some people just have an unreasonable day once you identify someone's being unreasonable you move on it does not matter who it is what scenario what's happening you just say okay you're not abiding by facts and logic so i'm going to go ahead and just end this conversation for now and i'll even help you here's some marriage help if your marriage is having a fight and it's it's an unreasonable and illogical point stop fighting and revisit it okay you don't want to just keep going down this road you don't want to keep feeding the troll as it were you want to just okay let's just stop let's just quit for a minute let's come back when maybe we're being a little bit more reasonable maybe we're not as angry we're not as frustrated because that is not a good road that you want to go down so if you went to matthew chapter number seven matthew chapter number seven trying to make you feel uncomfortable this evening okay you already because it's so hot matthew chapter number seven and look at verse number six give not that which is holy unto the dogs neither cast your pearls before swine lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you notice that the bible is saying there's a group of people that you don't want to give them something you don't give them that which is holy here's you know what's holy this so when there's a dog or a troll online why do i want to sit here and feed them this that is the worst thing you know there are plenty of idiots and trolls online and they'll ask all kinds of questions and i'm just like i'm not going to give you this whereas you see you see these people are like what about this bible verse and they're just like i hate god you know like what about this verse you know and it's like dude why would you even tell somebody you know they're like well i think that every uh old testament prophet was a pedophile okay i'm not responding to that comment you know people just say the weirdest junk and it's just like don't even respond to that person don't even respond to the unlearned question you know it's like okay i'll see this people literally post things online and it'll be like a hundred verses or well that may be exaggerated like 12 verses but it'll be just like this giant paragraph where they're like well first you have to get this doctrine and then you have to learn this doctrine and then you have to look at these verses and then you have to consider this opinion and then you have to look at this ancient article then you have to look at and it's just like that's an unlearned question if you have to go to that much detail to respond to the person how was it not an unlearned question it was an unlearned question you know when jesus was rebuking the pharisees he would say have you not read because what is he pointing at this is an unlearned question if it is a learned question you wouldn't need to bring up have you know when i when i hear these preachers and these pastors you know calling me out this is what i always think like have you not read have you not read it's like oh jesus was never harsh what have you not read any of the new testament you know it's like oh jesus only loved it's like you haven't read the bible you don't know any of the bible it is funny this one pastor like across the street or something he was like jesus was never harsh and then he starts reading like matthew five and he's like jesus was harsh here just like you don't nothing you say makes any sense to you it's just in one out the other ear all you're concerned with is giving you know a meatball sub to some sodomites outside that's all you can care about but if we go to Philippians chapter number three you know what i'm not going to give that would just hold into the dogs i'm not even going to give subway to that to the dogs here'd be my question how do how do those pastors apply that verse give not that which is holy unto dogs what group of people are you unwilling to give something to yeah us that's right why because satan loves satan satan will feed satan you know who should not feed satan is us we should not feed satan we should not feed the dogs you know these christian theologians they're like when did jesus ever call someone a dog right here oh you call them names jesus called them names what do you want what do you want me to do but but here's the thing i don't want to just follow this this this train of trolls that are following me and just you know constantly rebuking them and constantly explaining them how they're wrong and people love to do this i mean you'll post something on facebook and then you'll have a troll and then you'll comment on that troll and then another troll come and they come on that role in the cup and then it's like 400 comments it's like how did that turn into 400 comments because you started putting out scraps you know if i just start putting out kitty food and milk and bacon i'm gonna start having all kinds of critters come on my porch in fact the other day i don't know how this is possible i looked at my back yard there was five raccoons in my backyard you know and i don't even live in the country like i live in the city i'm thinking like where did you guys come from but you know unfortunately in the area i live the trash is not put in bins or whatever you just leave your trash out in the front yard and then they eventually come pick it up but a lot of people do that at night you know what happens we get lots of possums and raccoons and all kinds of creatures that live in our neighborhood because people are constantly leaving all their trash out overnight or in their front yard for hours for the trash pickup and so these critters are just surviving on all that food if we weren't putting our trash out like that we had dumpsters that were locked or bins that were locked or whatever the trolls wouldn't the raccoons wouldn't exist the night creatures wouldn't exist all the possums and look the possums that live near my house are the most giant possums i've ever seen i mean they are the biggest possums i've ever seen in my life the biggest trolls and sometimes the biggest people are the biggest trolls an inside joke right what you said in uh philippians chapter 3 verse 2 beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of concision you know you got to be aware of these people go to luke chapter 23 luke chapter number 23 luke chapter number 23 and look at verse number eight the bible says and when harry saw jesus he was exceeding glad for he was desirous to see him of a long season because he had heard many things of him and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him notice that you know it's funny to me when you think about this harry really wants to see jesus you know they always act like oh they hate the christians and they hate the baptists and whatever but they actually love them you know it's like oh man i hate your preaching you should stop preaching but here's the thing they love to listen to our preaching it's the most it's like the most exciting thing in the world to them they are so excited and in fact if you're preaching a sermon that has anything to do with them in their mind they're even 10 times more excited they're just so giddy and just so like oh yeah and it's like harry's i just want to see a miracle by jesus you know he's the secret online listener you know the secret troll that wants to follow them around because they have nothing better to do and they know where the real excitement is verse 9 then he questioned him in many words but notice this but he answered him nothing hey i want to be like jesus which questions are you going to answer none of them none of them i get answered all kinds of questions you know it's funny almost every call that we get i bet you won't call me you should call me hey i really want you to call me hey i dare you to call me back like guess what not gonna happen i mean i have no desire to talk to these people just like jesus had no desire to talk how is that loving where's your where's your message of redemption for harrod i don't have one harrod can go jump off a bridge the golden gate bridge you know i don't have any love for harrod i don't have any love for the dogs i don't have any love for the trolls i don't have any love for san ballad i don't have any love for dubaiya i don't have any love for the concision i don't have any love for these type of people you know what i'm going to pray i'm going to pray that god doesn't blot out their sin i'm going to pray that god doesn't cover their iniquity and the only time i'm going to talk about them i'm going to talk to them about them to god when i'm in private by myself i'm going to get on my knees and i'm going to pray lord please destroy these people but you know what i'm not going to do i'm not going to explain to them why men are men and women are women i'm not going to i'm not going to tell them well but did you know that bible verse is in the bible oh let me show you oh no no it's a king james bible not the niv and look i'm not talking about explaining these things to your loved ones your children or whatever we're talking about the trolls we're not feeding the trolls do not feed the trolls go back to nehemiah chapter number four go back to nehemiah chapter four and we're going to finish now i think that probably everyone hopefully can connect some dots on what i said but i want to make it real clear too okay these people outside should be ignored 100 actually 110 like they just don't even exist now i'm not saying to not be aware of your surroundings and keep yourself safe what i am saying is when they speak at me it's like i heard nothing i didn't hear anything i don't care i'm going to look past you i'm not going to involve you because the worst thing you can do for our church is is this hey man oh yeah cool sign oh that's really loving oh yeah you guys are really loving you know what you're doing you're feeding the troll and then you go post it online like look at these losers what they're doing online all you're doing is feeding the troll and saying please come back and do it more so if you don't want them to show up which i don't know what you feel like that's what i want okay if you do want them to go away you have to stop feeding the strays don't care just don't even look there's like the first time i've ever seen them someone had like posted a video of them online and i was like wow you're 10 times more hideous than i ever thought because i just never looked and there's a lot of good reasons lately why not to look in their direction there's another thing don't just why in the world does every guy just have to line up at the front and just stare at them and just be like it's like you're giving them what they want the more you look at them the more you talk about them the more you stand outside the more you you do anything that has anything to do with them you're feeding the troll the best way is to ignore the troll they don't exist and i tell you i'll tell you what you say man i really want to get at them you will you will you want to drive them insane just they don't exist they can't stand that so much and you know what they do they go attack other people because i'll tell you i mean as much as they yell and scream about me when i kind of walk to my car it's only because they've never gotten my attention but beyond that they never give me anything because they know that i'm never going to give them even an ounce of my attention they know that i could care less if they exist they don't exist in my mind because pretty soon i won't even know that they exist i'll be in heaven and i won't even know that they existed i'm just already stepping i'm going a step ahead you don't exist you are you're just trash you're worthless trolls nothing you say matters i'm never going to have anything to do with you i'm going to completely ignore you and that's how we should we should exist you know the reason why these people are so excited is because they've gotten so much attention in fact i'll tell you this these trolls out here had been talking about processes in your church and almost none of them he wanted to do it and like no one was going to come and then you know what happened he got all this attention and it riled them up and encouraged so many more of them to come and you know what they talk about you know they talk about the people that give them attention they talk the people in this room that they don't talk about are the ones that just come to church and go and the people that go out there and gawk at them and talk about them online and whatever they are their number one targets they're the people they harass the most they're the people they threaten the most the people they follow around the most there's a reason why because you're giving them attention if you want them to not harass you if you want them to leave you alone ignore them a hundred percent pretend like they don't exist don't drive through them you know drive away from them ignore them get away from them they're unreasonable they're wicked men i'm just trying to make it abundantly clear and this is not just one scenario this is all scenarios online at your workplace when you're in public you know i just try to get away from these freaks and weirdos and unreasonable people as fast as humanly possible if you're like triple mass and wearing an i love biden shirt i'm not engaging in a conversation with you you're like harrod to me i have nothing to say like i'm not interested in wasting my life and wasting my breath wasting my time on people that are unreasonable and i'm trying to help you realize that's not what they did in the bible they just said you know we're going to keep building nuts to you i'll pray about you i'll pray for you i'm not going to talk to you but i have nothing good to say now let's keep reading in our chapter a little bit says in verse seven but when it came to pass that when said valid in tibiah and the arabians and the emenites and ashtabites heard of the walls of Jerusalem were made up and then the breaches began to be stopped then they were very raw and all and conspired all of them together to come in a fight against Jerusalem and to hinder it nevertheless we made our prayer unto god and set a watch against them day and night because of them so notice they pray to god and then they just make sure that they're defending themselves and they're safe and judith said the strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed and there is much rubbish so that we are not able to build the wall and our adversaries said they shall not know neither see till we come in the midst of them and slay them and cause the work to cease so again they they plan this thing and they just lofty words like we're going to come on them we're going to get them we're going to destroy them they're not going to see what happened and it came to pass that when the jews which dwelt by them came they said unto us ten times from all places when she shall return unto us they will be upon you so they're just they threatened them and they didn't threaten them once they threatened them twice three times four times five times six times seven times eight times nine times ten times they did an 11th time though what if they had what if they had given them the time of day it would have been 11 times 12 times eventually they run out i don't know what the number is but i'm just telling you you got to stop feeding the troll so that it eventually ends this verse 13 therefore said i in the lower places behind the wall and on the higher places i even set the people after their families with their swords their spears and their bows and i looked and rose up and said on the nobles and to the rulers and the rest of the people be not afraid of them remember the lord which is great and terrible and fight for your brethren your sons and your daughters wives and your houses he gives them a pep talk because they don't know if there's going to be a war or not they're like we're ready though and you better fight and it came to pass when our enemies heard that it was known unto us and god had brought their council council did not they returned all of us to the wall everyone just worked there was like this big scare that there was going to be like some bad thing happened on this day and they threatened them 10 times but they found out the message god let them know what's going to happen they prepared themselves and then it was a nothing burger and you know most times people are worried about things that are never going to happen and there's all these idle threats and there's all these just just you know threatenings but they're not going to really do anything and even if they try god will take care of it i mean there's 40 men that made an oath that said they were going to not eat or drink until they killed paul that's pretty serious but it didn't really work out for them we like didn't read again what happened to them and we just ignored them and then they just died or broke their oath or whatever he says in verse number 16 it came to pass from that time forth that the half of my servants rot in the work and the other half of them held both the spears the shields and the bows and the harbogens and the rulers were behind all the house of judah they which build it on the wall and they that bear burdens with those that laid it every one with one of his hands rot in the work and with the other hand held the weapon so they they're holding weapons and building simultaneously skip to chapter six skip to chapter number six it says now it came to pass when san bai and gesham the arabian and the rest of our enemies heard that i had builded the wall and that there was no breach left therein though at that time i had not set up the doors upon the gates that san ballot and geesham sent unto me saying come let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of ono but they thought to do me mischief and i sent messengers under them saying i am doing a great work so that i cannot come down why should the work cease while i leave it and come down to you so of course sometimes you might have to do some level of response but again he didn't come himself he just said you know what just go tell them nuts to you i'm not going to talk to you i don't i'm not interested i'm not going to feed the trolls i'm not going to quit working i'm not going to waste time these people are unreasonable people he says in verse number five then sent san ballot is serving unto me and the like man or the fifth time with an open letter in his hand so they're like hey come talk to us no hey come talk to us no hey come talk to us no hey come talk to us no hey come talk to us no it's like why change your message it's just no no no no no and notice they don't take no for an answer because they're implacable verse six warren was written it is reported among the heathen and gash mu sayeth it that thou and the jews think to rebel which cause thou buildest the wall that thou mayest be their king according to these words so then they just lie about them say hey here's this letter you guys are rebelling you guys are criminals you guys are inciting rebellion you know condition or whatever he's like i'm not going to waste time answering this nonsense these are false accusations these are slanders i'm not going to sit here and try to respond to every slander every lie all the libel you know what i'm just going to keep working because if you waste time responding to every slander what you're going to do is you're going to splinter where you get 10 more slanders if people slander you 10 times and you respond then they'll slander you 100 times and they respond then they'll slam you a thousand times because they realize that it worked and here's their only goal your attention your attention you they won by you answering their slander they won by you giving them time effort and energy you just say you know what no no no no and that is your response ignore ignore ignore don't feed don't feed don't feed no no no get them away the worst thing you can do defeat a troll because then you'll get fat and then when they get fat they can survive without food for a while you want to keep them thin you want to keep them hungry you want to you want to make it where they just don't have a chance and in fact on youtube and social media stuff like that i just immediately block every troll and i have to constantly redo it because we keep getting new channels we keep losing our old channels and i have to keep going but as soon as i identify someone as a troll you know block i don't say like you know what i didn't like this question but let's let them answer let's let them ask 12 more no no no it's just like hide from channel block permanently banned forever have nothing to do with this person it's like what are you going to do with the 10 000 emails you have and the 10 000 voicemails you have delete mass all delete purge every all the work that they did i mean they spent all this time all this effort energy i mean people leave me three minute voicemails and it's just like and i don't even have to i'll make dylan do it you know i don't even have to do it yet it's like send messengers no like i want to talk to faster shelly no oh that was easy you know if it worked if it got my attention then you know what they would do it 10 times more because they know that it worked and people love to get your attention people love to stop you from doing the work that's important you know we all have really important jobs in here the women here have such important jobs raising their children educating their children whatever work that god's given them they have so many things that they can be doing helping their husbands husbands in this room have so much so much work i mean with gas prices and inflation and everything i mean you have to work 10 times harder just for the same paycheck you know as far as the economy is concerned as far as essentially evening out the biden economics that we live in nowadays you have to you have to put in all this extra effort energy because there's all these supply chain issues it's 10 times harder to do the same job as it was the last time you know because customer service is so frustrating it's like you have to spell out your order to people and then they're still going to get it wrong i mean you could just like engrave it in tablets and hand it to them and they just can't even figure it out and and they won't get it right and nobody cares i mean everything's getting harder and more difficult we have so much work to do so many things that we could be building and people are going to constantly try and knock this stuff down we don't want to just give our attention to things that are that aren't profitable god already gave us these verses for reasons jesus didn't say you know give not that which is holy unto the dogs for no reason it's real it's a real threat a real threat to our church it's a real threat to your job it's a real threat to your life you know you can spend your whole life arguing with trolls but let me tell you something it's going to benefit you nothing and unfortunately it's like really it's like doing meth because if you do any kind of hardcore drugs you do a little bit you're going to want to do a lot of it you smoke a little bit of math you do a little bit of lsd then you know what's going to happen you're going to have a desire to do more of it and the thing with trolls is you feed one troll and you just have like 10 pop up and then you feed another one it's like 100 pop up and then it's just like man i just spend my whole life just answering like all these trolls and i just have all this work to do and you just get all confused like you think you're actually doing something or accomplishing something and you're literally just ruining your life you're like watering the weeds in your front yard why would you water the weeds what if you just said you know what let's walk around your yard with a water pot and just water the weeds only like why would i do that let's water the dandelions and then let's pick up the dandelion and blow it in our yard you know what's going to happen you're going to have 20 more dandelions next week and then what have you picked up all those dandelions you're like let's blow these two then you're going to have a hundred next week and then you go pick up and you're like man this is becoming i have all this work to do blowing all these dandy lions everywhere that's what you do with the trolls you know and it's it really it's childish it doesn't look cool i've never in my life heard any of the women in this church say did you see how my husband answered this troll online so cool and that's my husband's comment you know did this troll did you see that amazing based my husband's a chad they don't even say that you know what they think lane that guy was a loser why are you talking to him why are you doing that why are you taking pictures of freaks and showing me like hey do you want to see this video i took of all these topless women and freaks outside it's like no why would i ever want to see that ever i looked away when i was out there you know it makes no sense to do this stuff just stop feeding the trolls grow up mature a little bit because here's another thing that happened when you feed the trolls you encourage other people to feed trolls with you because people think oh that was cool i want to do that oh you commented i want to comment i want to make a video i want to troll i want to do it's like and it just spirals out of control where then everybody's just giving them exactly what they want and you just feed them a smorgasbord you're just catering to them everything they want you know what we'll keep people coming to protest us not subway sandwiches you giving them attention you could never give them an ounce of food and they'll keep coming as long as you give them attention you know what subway sandwiches never makes anybody show up anything because look at the parking lot there's no one there nobody wants to eat that junk you eat that junk because you're like mcdonald's or this is like yeah i don't know i hate myself so i'll just eat here that was your moment of being unreasonable you know i went back you sometimes have moments of unreasonableness it's like you you start eating subway and you're like oh man what happened to me i didn't know i've fallen this far it happens the best way okay some people at mcdonald's let's go ahead and close in prayer all right thank you heavenly father so much for our church thank you for giving us these great commandments things are giving us something important to do you know so we don't just waste all of our time our effort our energy i pray that you would help us to realize that we have an important job we have good work to do that we wouldn't get sucked into all the traps we get sucked into all the stupid arguments all the foolish questions all the oppositions of science false is so-called we wouldn't spend our life talking to trolls we wouldn't spend our life trying to reason with the unreasonable but rather we try to go out and seek and save that which is boss we would we would preserve the holy for those that are holy and that we would invest in our wives we'd invest in our children we'd invest in our church we would invest in our friends we would invest in our jobs we'd invest in things that actually have value that have importance that are going to be profitable unto us because we realize we're going to reap where we sow and no one wants to sow the troll and reap trolls i pray that you would just help encourage us to just ignore these wicked people and that they would just help just destroy them for us just just don't even forget any sin that they've had bring it all to your remembrance and please just just destroy them as quickly as possible in Jesus name we pray amen amen with that let's go ahead and sing one more song before we head home we'll take out your hymnal 396 so little time great song to remind us to go soul winning we're all running out of time song number 396 sing it all together on the first so little time the harvest will be over are we being done we reapers taken home report our work to jesus lord of harvest and hope will smile and that he'll say well done today we reap or miss our golden harvest today is given us our souls to win oh then to save some dear ones from the burning today we'll go to bring some sinner in how many times i should have strongly pleaded how often did i feel too strictly worn the spirit moved oh had i pled for jesus the grain is fallen lost ones not reborn today we reap or miss our golden harvest today is given us all souls to win oh then to save some dear ones from the burning today we'll go to bring some sinner in despite the heat the ceaseless toil the hardship the broken heart for those we cannot win for those we cannot win misunderstood because we're off peculiar still no regrets we'll have but for our sin today we reap or miss our golden harvest today is given us all souls to win oh then to save some dear ones from the burning today we'll go and bring some sinner in a day of pleasure or a feast of friendship a house or car or garments fair or fame we'll all be trashed when souls are brought to heaven and then how sad to face the slackers blame today we reap or miss our golden harvest today is given us all souls to win to win oh then to save some dear ones from the burning today we'll go to bring some sinner in the harvest wide with reaper's view is wasting and many souls will die and never know the love of christ the joy of sins forgiven oh let us weep and love and pray and go today we reap or miss our golden harvest today is given us all souls to win oh then to save some dear ones from the burning today we'll go and bring some sinner in amen that third stanza really stands out despite the heat keep up the great work on soul winning god bless you are dismissed