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is come let earth receive her king we repair him room and heaven to the seven and nature sing and heaven and nature sing and heaven heaven nature sing joy to the world the savior reigns let men their songs implode white fields and floods rocks hills and plains repeat the sounding joy repeat the sounding joy repeat repeat the sounding joy no more let sins and sorrows grow nor thorns invest the ground he comes to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found far as the curse is found far as far as the curse is found he rules the world with truth and grace and makes the nations prove the glories of his righteousness and wonders of his love and wonders of his love and wonders wonders of his love all right with that we have a word of prayer dear heavenly father thank you for allowing us to be back here this evening i pray that tonight's message will be edified to us and help us to have ears to hear and fill pastor shelly with the holy ghost you can preach your word to us and help us to come out with a new way of thinking and thank you for everything lord and i pray that everything be done for your glory in jesus name amen all right for the next song song number 421 421 the first noel 421 the first noel the angel did say was to certain poor shepherds in fields where they lay in fields where they lay keeping their sheep on a cold winter's night that was so deep no well no well no well no well born is the king of israel and by the light of that same star three wise men came from country far to seek for a king was there in ten and to follow the star wherever it went no well no well no well born is the king of israel his star june 9 to the northwest or bethlehem it took its rest and there it did will stop and stay right over the place where jesus lay no well no well born is the king of israel then entered in those wise men three for reverently upon their knees and offered there in his presence their gold and myrrh and frankincense noel noel noel well born is the king of israel thank you so much for coming to say fast baptist church if you need a bulletin for this evening please please lift up your hand nice and high whenever ushers can come by get you guys a bulletin i need one real quick i think i have only the spanish one it'll be different like they say about these let's steadfast all right now we have a psalm 146 on the front there on the inside we have our service and soul winning time and our church stats on the right is the list of expecting ladies please pray for all of them we also have other church members that are asking for prayer please do pray for them throughout the week we do have in the back a couple announcements about some of our upcoming events christmas day we're going to be having a lunch fellowship um sponsored by texas brisket so no i'm just kidding uh we'll have some texas brisket and uh we're gonna have some bread and some drinks that the church is going to be providing and then if you'd like to bring a side dish that would be highly encouraged for dessert chocolate is always a good decision and so just fyi also we are having a cookie bake-off it's going to be this wednesday so i'm starting a new book of the bible and we'll be doing the book of hosea which i'm very excited about and there's a lot of great books of the bible that i i'm looking forward to doing but hosea is definitely going to be a good one um we're going to have a competition if you'd like to enter um we'll and we'll have some voting this is our one event for everybody to vote so if you you know you really believe in voting this is this is one time to show up and get in there and you can vote your heart's content um for the best decorated best tasting and most creative um even you can even vote for your own cookie folks okay so and uh you know if you want to buy people's votes i mean i'm not even you know the only thing is we don't have any dominion voting machines or you can kind of manufacture uh so but at the end of the day um we're gonna have fun we're gonna have some cookies and i'm really excited to eat all of y'all's cookies so that's what i'm gonna do um that's pretty much really all i have as far as announcements are concerned we're gonna go ahead and sing our psalm of the week psalm 146 psalm 146 yeah that's psalm 146 in your white handouts or you can turn to your bible so psalm 146 psalm 146 praise thee the lord praise the lord oh my soul while i live will i praise the lord i will sing praises unto my god while i have any being put not your trust in princes nor in the son of man in whom there is no help whom there is no hell praise thee the lord praise the lord oh my soul his breath going forth he returned it to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish happy is he that had the god of jacob for his for his help whose hope is in the lord the lord his god praise thee the lord praise the lord oh my soul which made heaven and earth the sea and all that there in his which keep it true forever which executed judgment for the oppressed which giveth food to the hungry the lord praise thee the lord praise the lord oh my soul the lord opened it the ice of the blind the lord raised them that are bowed down the lord love it the righteous the lord the curvid the strangers he relived the fatherless and widow praise you the lord praise the lord oh my soul but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down the lord rain shall forever even thy god oh zion unto all generations praise thee the lord praise you the lord all right with that let's go to the offering plate let's turn to our bible so galatians chapter number one galatians chapter number one so so so galatians chapter one the bible reads paul an apostle not of men neither by man but by jesus christ and god the father who raised him from the dead and all the brethren which are with me unto the churches of galatia grace be to you and peace from god the father and from our lord jesus christ who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of god and our father to whom be glory forever and ever amen i marvel that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of christ unto another gospel which is not another but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of christ but though we or 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 now again if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received let him be accursed for i 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 but i certify you brethren that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man for i neither received it of man neither was i taught it but but by the revelation of jesus christ for you have heard of my conversation in times past in the jews religion how that beyond measure i persecuted the church of god and wasted it and profited in the jews religion above many my equals in my own nation being more exceedingly zealous of their traditions of my fathers but when it pleased god who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace to reveal his son in me that i might preach him among the heathen immediately i conferred not with flesh and blood neither went i up to jerusalem to them which were apostles before me but i went into arabia and returned again onto damascus then after three years i went up to jerusalem to see peter and abode with him 15 days but other of the apostles saw i none save james the lord's brother now the things which i write unto you behold before god i lie not afterwards i came into the regions of syria and cecilia and was unknown by faith under the churches of judaea which were in christ but they that but they had heard only that he which persecuted us in times past now preaches the faith which once he destroyed and they glorified god in me let us pray father thank you for this great chapter in the bible and thank you for our church our brothers and sisters in christ our pastor and his family i pray that the power of the holy ghost will rest upon him this evening and that he'll preach with boldness and authority and i pray that will open our ears and our hearts and i pray that the the preaching of your word will uh wisdom will be applied to our hearts and we'll be able to come out of here better christians and i pray these things in jesus name amen amen so we we did a bible study through the book of galatians and uh i i really feel like this verse uh here in verse one i'm sorry in chapter one is uh kind of a really important point it says in verse number 10 is there something is it on okay sorry yeah in verse 10 it says for do i now persuade men or god or do i seek to please men for if i yet please men i should not be the servant of christ and the title of my evening sermon is this you can't please everyone you can't please everyone and i think it's sometimes something we have to be reminded of is the fact that you're always gonna have people that don't like you you're always gonna have people that are disappointed in you or even really frankly just speaking an enemy of you you cannot please everyone and i think a lot of people try to please too many of the wrong people in their lives and of course the apostle paul is bringing out the point that he's not here to persuade any men he's not here to seek and to please men his only goal is just to please god and i think the more that we realize our only goal in life should be to please god the less problems you're going to have in your life okay now go if you would to acts chapter 17 acts chapter 17 one of the things that kind of uh caused me to want to preach the sermon is actually reading the translators to the reader which is kind of a preface to the king james bible and when you read the translators of the reader it's actually very long uh preface that they've kind of written a lot of different topics and a lot of different things that are going on one of the things that they bring up is this important concept of not trying to please everyone and the reality is if you try to serve god if you try to do what's right then you're going to always have the gainsayers you're going to have the wicked people you're going to have enemies and people that want to stop you from doing something for god and you know i i've even had somebody recently uh talked to me about our billing situation and and they were just saying well is it really worth all the problems you've had to preach what you preached you know and the answer is yes first of all but and it's someone that's a christian that you know believes the bible and i believe they're saved it's not like an unsaved person or anything like that but i'm just trying to explain i'm like really if you study the bible you know that's just the christian life like if you're going to actually do something for god if you want to make a big impact you're going to be faced with a lot of resistance a lot of issues a lot of problems and you're just never going to please everyone okay but my goal for this church is not to please the masses or to please the city or the area that we're in but simply to just please god that should be our goal and everything that we do you know when i preach sermons it's not even necessary to please you guys it's to please god because there could be a sermon where a lot of people don't really like what i preach or don't like how i said it or things i said but at the end of the day it only really matters to me if god is pleased with what i said and and if i have a problem with the bible or if god wants me to change something or alter something even myself there could be times where i preach something that maybe i like or i thought was good but then i have to question and say what is that really what god wants me to say or do or how to behave myself and sometimes i have to put myself in check and say you know what even though i like that maybe god doesn't like that or maybe god doesn't want me to do that and at the end of the day my goal here is to please god but whenever you do a big work make it known in your mind now you will make everybody else upset when you try to serve god and you try to do what's right a lot of people are gonna be angry at you and fight you and all kinds of stuff is gonna happen now look at acts chapter 17 verse 1 it's talking about paul now when he they had passed through empephilis and apollonia they came to thessalonica where was the synagogue of the jews and paul as his manner was went in unto them and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures opening and alleging that christ must needs have suffered and risen again from the dead and that this jesus whom i preached unto you is christ now i like this phrase in verse 2 as his manner was and of course i'm just kind of dropping us into the middle of the book of acts with no context but if you know where we're at in the in the chapter the apostle paul's already gone from city to city to city and is just constantly being persecuted uh dragged out of the city they're stoning him everyone's getting mad at him every time he preaches but then as soon as he gets in a new city it's like what are you gonna do now paul and it's like well as his manner was he just goes back and he just keeps reaching it i mean he just says you know what hey i know that got me in trouble in that city and i know it got me in trouble in that city and i know it's gonna get me in trouble in this city that's why i would always pray for boldness so that when he would go out he would continue to preach the same thing the same word of god regardless of where he went you know it's funny people are today always asking for prayer for boldness and all this stuff it's like they don't even understand what the apostle paul was really praying for because when you just got beat to tar you know you got the beat the tar beat out of you when you just got shredded by the previous town for preaching what you did it's going to be hard to go to the next town and preach it again you know and you could even say like our church has gone through some drama or some affliction and you can say land you really want to go somewhere else and go through all that again well here's the reality i don't want to but i'm not going to stop preaching with the bible says it's steadfast baptist church folks it's not weak lame baptist church it's not like we're going to take the the baptists out either you know a lot of churches are just changing the name you know it used to be houston baptist university now it's houston christian university you know and everybody's just getting soft and weak and lame and we don't want to do that we want to stay red hot we want to just keep opening and alleging verse four and some of them believed and consorted with paul and silas and of the devout greeks a great multitude and of the chief women not a few but the jews which believed not moved with envy took unto them certain lewd fellows of the base or sword and gathered a company and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house of jason and sought to bring them out to the people now that sounds familiar gathering a bunch of lewd fellows of the base or sword to protest where you're having church services and to try and get you thrown out of town i mean it seems like the apostle paul must know what it's like to have people try to throw you out and of course who's the ones behind it oh is the jews that were behind it wasn't it that's interesting i wonder if that's the same thing that happens today it says that when they found them not they drew jason and certain brethren the rulers of the city crying these that have turned the world upside down or come in there also say all these troublemakers came here too it's like man they screwed everybody up and they've turned everything upside down and they're causing all these problems and now they come into our town and you know what i guarantee wherever we go wherever steadfast baptist church goes wherever god decides to put us in the future you know what there's going to be people that are like oh these troublemakers have come here also you know but i didn't come to a town to please them you know i think what taga it was like man we were a really peaceful town until steadfast baptist church showed up and it's like well why it's because everyone is content with the whole city going to hell but then we get in here and we're not content with that everybody is content with drag queen story hour everyone's content with just letting queers just come into their church and do whatever they want and say whatever they want and act however they want but you know at a steadfast baptist church we say no they didn't even want to come here that's the stupid thing about it they didn't want to show up in my church and then i'm like you're not welcome and everybody freaks out it's like hey the law for hundreds of years in our country said put them to death and then i just bring up the historical fact and everybody freaks out and it's so funny to me how people get so mad at me about that and they just think like oh well i just can't believe you would ever say that or believe that in the bible it's like what about all the christians that believe it for hundreds of years it's like they don't know what to say because they just they can't understand how they're wrong and ultimately it's just because they're a coward ultimately it's because they're all these christians that don't believe like us out loud or in public it's because they're cowards and they're afraid of dealing with any problems that's why the apostle paul always prayed for boldness so that he wouldn't be a coward like everyone else so he wouldn't just be lame and at the end of the day i don't preach my sermons to please everyone it's not joel osteen it's not kenneth copeland it's not just some what can i say that everybody will like i'm sure i could preach things that everybody likes virtually speaking i'm sure i could get up and try to please and and kowtow to everybody but even when you do that you still don't please everyone i remember one of my pastors he got up and he said that he would wear a dallas cowboy's jersey to church if the cowboys made it to the super bowl and of course you know in the in the audience everybody's like whoa yeah whatever but i'm sure there was a stupid eagles fan in the audience or something you know some horrible steelers fan or something like that that was out there and you know what at the end of the day you can't please everyone i saw some map and it was just like the most hated nfl teams by geographic distribution and it's just basically you know whoever their rival is right and all of dallas and and texas and oklahoma and stuff it's like the eagles are the most hated football team but then you look at the northeast and it's all dallas you know dallas is the most hated team over in that part of the world okay and it's just so funny it's like green bay it's like everything around wisconsin is just like hates green bay you know and of course you why because you can't please everyone there is not a there's not a team in nfl that just everyone's like well we like that team there's not a baseball team everyone likes there's not a sport everyone likes there's not anything everyone like you cannot please everyone and it's a fool's errand if our church is going to strive to please everyone you know these churches that put on the billboard everyone welcome what a dumb idea that is i mean are you there to serve god or to serve men everyone welcome everyone can come i mean god doesn't let everyone in the church in first corinthians five it makes it clear certain people aren't allowed in the church and frankly speaking if someone doesn't want to even praise the lord or isn't there to serve god why would god want them to show up i mean my house is not welcome to everyone i'm not just like anyone can just show up whenever they want it's like you should have a purpose to be there you should want to be there and of course when it comes to christianity you're just not going to please everyone in fact it's usually going to be the exact opposite you're going to make everyone upset okay go to luke chapter four i'll read for you from luke six the bible says woe unto you and all men shall speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false prophets according to the bible if if virtually everyone likes you and of course you're never going to have a hundred percent even joel osteen has people that don't like him even t.d jake says people that don't like him you know it's it's there's a small group of people that actually love the lord that don't like these false prophets but what it's basically saying is like when the world likes you you know when you can go on oprah and everybody likes you or you can go on larry king or you can go wherever you want and larry king the jew can ask you hey if i don't believe in christ am i going to go to hell and it's like cat got your tongue it's like how how can you as a pastor not even tell larry king he's gonna split hell wide open i mean it's just like what what do you need like at that point you can just say i have no message to bring it's like you know a hi-maz or something he's just like showing up and he just has no message or whatever it's just like i don't know if i got the name right what is it hi-maz and kushai they're running and you got a hi-maz he just shows up and it's just like hey what happened with my son i don't know it's like how do you go to heaven i don't know isn't it so funny knock on people's doors are you 100 sure you're going to heaven yep how do you do it i don't know are you listening to joel osteen because he's the same way he has no idea and they're just like well i just think you're following the light that you have if you just you know love the lord generically you know it'll work out for you i mean that guy is not trying to make people upset you say like hey muslims are going to hell catholics are going to hell jews are going to the lowest parts of hell larry king you're gonna be in the center you know you're gonna be in the hottest part and it's like well that's not nice you know it's so funny our protesters always tell people they hate everyone and it's like i don't hate everyone but at the end of the day you know most people are going to hell and i'm gonna tell them that you know i'm gonna i don't like virtually anything i don't like catholicism i don't like the methodist church it's like what churches do you like virtually none i mean it's like 99.9 are are terrible and then 0.01 are bad and then there's like the new ifb you know it's like i mean it's just like there's not very much good churches out there very many people that are willing to preach the bible and and serve god and of course there's no new thing under the sun you know just in jesus's day where the false prophets are loved by the world they're loved by the romans they're loved by whoever today the the preachers of this world the false prophets of the day are just loved by everyone and if you want to serve god you're gonna not please any of them luke four look at verse 24 and he said verily i say unto you no prophet is accepted in his own country did you read that verse let's read that again and he said verily you know what that means truly for sure without question i say unto you no prophet is accepted in his own country let's read that no prophet is accepted in his own country well hey pastor shelly why don't you try something different here and try to get everybody like you it's never gonna happen jesus didn't say well if you're really nice though well if you don't preach leviticus did this say if i don't preach leviticus 20 then i'll be accepted oh well if you don't preach the mean part even if i didn't preach the mean parts they would still hate me they would still eat my guts even if it's just only gospel okay that's what's so foolish about it in fact the most mad people have gotten at me in my ministry have always been related to the gospel i told some little mormon girl that she was going to go to hell she didn't change her mind and her dad wanted to tear my head off wanted to beat me and especially because i used her name you know i don't know why using her name caused the problem or whatever but it's just like that guy drove to the church and is like threatening me with physical violence for having told his daughter that if she didn't believe in jesus christ she would go to hell and i mean the girl was taller than me she was 14 she was like taller than me you know it's like how dare you talk to my daughter out skating in the public you know any here's the thing his daughter goes to a mormon church without them i'm like so you're mad at your daughter talking to me on a public street quarter but you let her go to a mormon church you let her just go to a known cult without you it's like what a bunch of hypocrites you want to know what they're teaching her but it was fine because the mormons aren't going to cause any issue for the unsaved who's going to cause a lot of issue i mean it's going to be baptists i mean mit romney almost became the president mormons think that jesus and the devil are brothers and mit romney was voted by almost every christian in our country i mean almost i mean think about who voted for the republican it wasn't the god-hating atheists it was the christians the christians are voting for a mormon why because they're so brain-dead and they're unsaved and they you know they're the world you know they're the world and they love the world they love the mit romneys of this world they love whatever false prophet but jesus is saying hey no real prophet no true prophet no prophet of god is accepted in his own country verse 25 but i tell you of a truth many widows were in israel in the days of elias when the heaven was shut up three years and six months when great famine was throughout all the land but in a none of them was elias sent save in a city of sidon unto a woman that was a widow and many lepers were in israel in the time of elisias the prophet and none of them was cleansed saving name in the syrian and all they in the synagogue when they heard these things were filled with wrath so jesus is just simply preaching the bible and think about what he just said hey prophets aren't accepted and a lot of times prophets just go and preach to distant foreign countries is this really a hot topic i mean hey jesus is going to be a he's saying hey prophets are usually foreign missionaries oh now stone stone him but that's their their ad they're so angry they're so mad they're so furious at what he's just saying here why because they hate any truth no matter what the truth is he says in verse 29 and rose up and thrust him out of the city and led him under the brow of the hill where on their city was built that they might cast him down they wanted to kill jesus for this was he preaching leviticus 2013 year i mean this is a pretty far stretch and of course what he's saying can be interpreted negatively i mean it obviously he's rebuking them and saying hey you guys aren't going to accept the real religion just like your fathers didn't and just like everyone doesn't the the vast majority of people are not going to believe in jesus christ they're not going to get saved they don't like the truth and when he says that it just really upset the jews you know when you say to jews that they're not saved it makes them mad hey you're not a child of god they can't handle that so they wanted to kill jesus for telling them the truth of the fact that they're not saved the fact that they don't like the bible they wanted to kill him go to acts chapter 16 acts chapter 16 now you could ask this to jesus was it worth it to preach that jesus i mean you got the whole city upset and they tried to kill you but let me tell you something the answer is yes the answer is yes and the proverb says the fear of man bringeth the snare but whoso put of this trust in the lord shall be saved you know what happened after they all tried to kill jesus he just walked through the midst of them yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil for thou art with me you know we're not supposed to sit here and fear man we're not supposed to try and please man we're supposed to fear god and please god and if you want to have breath in your lungs the best thing you can do is praise god and serve and please god you know the idea of oh well if i please man then i won't have any problems but then god could kill you you know man can kill me and and you know if if tons of people want to kill you they can probably get it done but you know it can definitely kill you whenever they want god i mean you can have all the ammunition and the moat and the car and you could be like well i didn't take the jab and i'm in really good health and god can just be like oh you know what brain is room anyways oh you know what just car accident oh you know what bad batch of food you know you bought that jiff peanut butter and they put something weird in it well i don't know they had a big recall or something it's like whatever it is you could just oh in fact it's just it's organic it's an organic grape but god caused you to choke on and die man wasn't that a bummer you're like this grapes are good you know you're just eating it just like dead why because the only person to fear is god and you can't please everyone in fact if you try to please people you're basically just not a servant of god that's what the apostle paul says well i just want the next town to like me okay well act chapter 16 look at verse 16 and it came to pass as we went to prayer a certain damsel possessed with the spirit of divination met us which brought our masters much gain by suesaying the same followed paul and us and cried saying these men are the sermons of the most high god which show unto us the way of salvation that doesn't sound bad it's like pastor shell is the best pastor of the land stupid protesters it's like what what are you what are you talking about i remember me and brother nick we went to the bahamas one time and there was like medusa or whatever what was her name with usala or pandora that's what i'm sorry i missed her name her name is pandora literally and boy did nick open a pandora's box i'm like preaching the gospel of this one person and he's just like i'll just go to the next door and open pandora's box literally so he comes back to me and he's just like i don't think that i think this lady's like possess the devil or something i mean it was something weird and so we we kind of start walking and she's just mad dogging us and just looking at and there's this kid there and nick's like i'm gonna try and get this guy saved so i tried to run interference and i mean this chick is not having it i tried talking to her about anything and distracting her she eventually just starts interrupting brother nick who's trying to get this young kid saved and she i think she was successful in basically stopping this kid from finishing hearing the gospel and brother nick said some not so nice things there but but it was funny because then we just kept going and uh then as we were walking back behind you know and she had said all kinds of crazy things but then she's just like these guys are the servants of god you know it's like what in the world you know this chick is just uh is a psycho she's probably demon possessed okay and it's like it's just weird that you go into an area and maybe even a seemingly normal person just all of a sudden they're just like you know i i feel like i had this every once in a while when you go soul winning you go so when you knock on a door and you ever had somebody like oh you're from a church well god bless you that's so bless your heart you know that's so wonderful and you're just like well do you think if you die today you go to heaven how dare you ask me that question bam and you're just like what just happened you were so nice and so excited i gave you church but then just asking if you're gonna go to heaven you just like turn into a psycho you know it's like what demon was living inside of you you know it's weird but again my goal wasn't to please that person it's called confrontational soul-winning you know here's another thing that happens people say oh yeah i'm going to heaven yeah i know for sure yeah absolutely i'm 100 certain and they're like it'd be a good person and you're like you're not going to heaven that's not nice people don't like that necessarily that's confrontational of course in a general sense it is nice because you're trying to get them saved but to them it may not feel nice it may seem a little combative or you know they don't really feel comfortable with someone disagreeing with them or ultimately just saying they're going to die and go to hell but at the end of the day that's the job that needs to be done and these men oh well i don't want to have to deal with this psycho person following around harassing me wherever i go but you know what how else do you get people saved you know we've even gone out soul-winning last we went so many and some losers followed us around while we're trying to get people saved and it was so funny because even though they literally showed up while we're preaching the gospel the person that was preaching the gospel at the time was able to finish preach them romans one give them a sodomite deception and then the cops threw the protesters out it was like the most epic fail ever that you could ever have just a total loss because these people are just complete losers and it's like you go out and it's like well i don't want to have to deal with that no one wants to i mean it's hard to even look at these people let alone talk to them for five seconds and they're just their voices are disgusting it's just like you just sound like a cat being strangled you sound and look ugly and you're gonna burn in hell for all of eternity i mean you have nothing going for you that's why they kill themselves so often it's just they're just so disgusting and filthy and they have nothing to live for and it's just it's just terrible but you know fortunately for this lady she could actually have the devil cast out of her a lot of these reprobates they're just destined to have devils inside of them until they die they're kind of like the swine where basically they just have devils until they run off of a steep cliff and violently drown in the sea and you know maybe the devils will violently kill them or something eventually who knows we if we could be lucky we could pray for that but it's not going to ever have a situation where you're going out and going to preach the gospel and everyone's just going to clap for you as you walk down the street like thanks for coming guys go guys you're awesome or whatever you know obviously she got a little bit of a positive thing from this chick but notice it says but paul being greed it wasn't like paul enjoyed that paul didn't like the heckling and and the protester and all this stuff but look at verse 19 and when her master saw that the hope of their gains was gone they caught paul and silas and drew them into the marketplace in the rulers and brought them to the magistrate saying these men being jews do exceedingly trouble our city and teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive neither to observe being romans oh these guys are preaching things they're not allowed to do they're breaking the law you're not allowed to soul win here you're not allowed to solicit here you're not allowed to do you know when you go to an apartment complex to preach the gospel you're going to make people mad every karen apartment manager is going to be mad at you i'm going to say you're breaking the law and it's like no i'm not here's the legislation you know sometimes it doesn't even work because people will the cops will break the law the cops will do things that aren't even right and try to harass people it says in verse 22 and the multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates ran off their clothes and commanded to beat them and when they had laid many stripes upon them they cast them into prison charging the jailer to keep them safe or safely this is not like an uplifting story if you think about it hey you preach the gospel you're getting people safe then a demon possessed woman you heal and cure her of her demon and then you know you get rewarded for that the whole city draws you out and beats you and puts you in prison that was a pretty terrible experience and you can maybe ask paul and silas hey was it worth it to cast out that devil because couldn't they just let the devil just keep screaming and doing his thing or whatever it's like is it worth it to pray for reparations to die you know is it worth it for this demon to be cast out but you know what happens a few verses later a jailer is going to fall down on his knees and say sirs what must i do to be saved and you know what's going to happen in that moment they're going to say it was worth it at some moment paul is going to go and take that guy and he's going to baptize him and his whole family and you know what he's going to look in the eyes of little children that got saved and are going to heaven now and you're going to ask him that question hey was it worth it and he's going to say yes it was yes it was because i'm not here to please the entire town i was here to get this guy saved i was here to get his his wife saved and his little children saved and if it was one family that i got saved out of this wicked place you know what it was all worth it because i'm not here to please everyone right you can't please everyone but of course when you go into a town they're going to be upset because you upset the status quo because you took away their money you know who doesn't like us preaching the word of god is the churches across the street because they don't preach the word of god and they know we're a threat to anybody in their church that's legitimate actually realize wow our church sucks i'm going to go to that church our church doesn't preach the bible our church is is wrong and us gaining more and more people and of course they don't like that because they only care about money they only care about their building they only care about their own skin go to acts 19 go to acts 19 i mean you want to read a consistent theme in the scripture it's paul going in an area and everybody's mad everyone's upset look at verse 17 and this was known to all the jews and greeks also dwelling at ephesus and fear fell on all them on them all and the name of the lord jesus was magnified and many that believed came and confessed and showed their deeds many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all men and they counted the price of them and found that fifty thousand pieces of silver so mightily grew the word of god and notice this and prevailed you say hey paul was it worth it yeah it was worth it because we burned the false books the word of god grew people got saved and you know what we prevailed you know what they can do whatever they want to us but steadfast baptist church is going to keep prevailing the gates of hell may rage against our church but we're just going to keep winning and we're going to keep prevailing and we're just going to keep going and we're going to get more people saved and we're getting more people righteous and we're going to cause more women to obey their husbands and we're going to have more men lead their wives and we're going to have more people get baptized and we're going to have more people read their bible and we're going to have more people use the king james bible next year i mean next year more people are going to use the king james bible than ever before we're going to release our film and we're going more people are going to make fun of james white next year than ever before the liar and the snake that he is i mean more people are going to hear all kinds of stuff we're going to probably make more headlines for things that we preach and you say what sermon i don't know yet you know i don't write sermons hoping to get headlines i just write sermons and then that just happens and you know it's going to keep happening you say how do you know that well have you read acts it's like how did paul know the next time he goes and everybody's gonna be mad at him because it's the same message and people are the same okay and jesus christ even knew hey if i keep preaching this and go in this area i mean they're going to kill me you know it's going to happen and he knew that was his destiny he was just kind of slow rolling it to get the right timing and to be crucified okay but of course paul is doing all this to have all the success says in verse 21 after these things were ended paul purposed in the spirit when he had passed through macedonia and akia to go to jerusalem saying after i've been there i must also see rome and he sent it to macedonia two of them that ministered on them timotheus and erastus but he himself stayed in asia for a season and the same time there arose no small stir about that way for a certain man named demetrius a silversmith which made silver shrines for diana brought no small gain of the craftsman whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation and said sirs you know that by this craft we have our wealth you know there's this conspiracy of businessmen saying hey we're going to lose out on our money if we let this guy just keep preaching what he's preaching it's going to be a detriment i mean it's like hidden valley and craft and all these companies got together like if we let pastor shelly keep preaching about ranch people aren't going to eat this stuff ever again you know and we get all of our gain from our ranch dressing okay and it says in verse 26 moreover you see and hear that not alone at ephesus but almost throughout all asia this paul have persuaded and turned away much people saying that there be no gods which are made with hands so that not only this our craft is in danger to be said at not but also that the temple of the great goddess diana should be despised and her magnificence should be destroyed whom all asia and the world worshipeth he's saying look we're going to lose our money we're going to lose our catholic church we're going to lose everything and it's like they can't allow this verse 28 and when they heard these things these sayings they were full of wrath and cried out saying great is diana the pheasants but you know it's a problem diana's dead folks where is diana the pheasants where's their great temple goddess what happened to their false religion it eventually failed and it crumbled and it's worthless and it's nothing because the only real religion is christianity the only real god is the lord jesus christ and of course by him preaching the real god they realize they are false religions in trouble false religions are going to come and go but the lord jesus christ christianity the bible is going to stay and whenever we whenever we preach loudly you know it does it threatens all false religion and they know they're going to lose you know when other people preach their false religion you know what i'm not afraid of losing ours i'm not like you know what i'm really afraid that the catholic church is going to pull all the people out of my church tomorrow oh man i'm so afraid the mormons are going to get you guys and to join their cult you know it's just so afraid of false religion you know false religion is terrified of us talking to their people why because they know we can expose them for the liars and the frauds and the charlatans that they are that's why they're so terrified of our message that's why they have to constantly censor us and cancel us and lie about us and slander us and say don't let your people listen to them look even fundamental baptists are like this there are fundamental baptists that say don't listen to that church don't listen to steadfast because you know what they're so afraid you might move here they're so afraid you might actually come to our church they're so afraid that they might actually learn something from the bible but you know what i'm not here to please men i'm not here to please fundamental baptists i'm here to please god and you know what if you're so afraid of losing people why don't you get the right religion you're so afraid of people being lost to your sermon why don't you just preach good sermons you know it's not threatened to lose people pastor roger menes you know it's not threatened to lose lose people pastor steven aniston you know why because they preach the best sermons ever good luck out preaching those guys you're never going to do it anyways and you know what when you got the right religion and you're preaching the word of god and you've actually studied the bible and you're full of the holy ghost you're not afraid of anything you're not afraid of any of this false religion or lies or slander or whatever i mean if you just google steadfast baptist church it is just like hate article hate article hate article hate article hate article hate article and i'm just like that's not gonna do anything i'm what you can't even do anymore now literally the top like 30 results are just slander articles against our church what's 50 more gonna do because nobody even scrolls to the fourth page you've already got the top three pages and it still didn't work you already put a hundred one star reviews on google it didn't work you already nuked all of our channels it didn't work you know what it's not gonna work and they'll say oh okay we'll kill you still won't work right because god will either follow your plan or he'll just give a new pastor and you know what the new pastor is gonna be the same as this guy he's gonna get up there and he's gonna preach the same things and then he'll be like let's get rid of him and then another new guy and then it's just like you know methuselah's hair or whatever it's just like you get one snake and another one comes out except for this is the good version right i mean god will just keep raising up new men and new people and let me tell you something christianity is going to keep prevailing and i'm not going to apologize for preaching the word of god loudly i'm not going to say well i don't know if i should preach the bible i don't know if i should preach that part of the bible i don't know if i like that no no i'm glad i preached all of it and i'm going to keep preaching it and if they want to have peace they can have peace but they're never going to want to have peace you know i am for peace but when i speak they are for war our church is going to constantly ruffle feathers and upset the status quo and not everyone's going to like us go to first kings chapter 12 you know even king solomon arguably one of the coolest guys on the planet one of the smartest guys he brought in a lot of peace and a lot of wealth to his nation yet virtually the majority of his people didn't even like him it's like you know this is why democracy will never work because democracy is never going to like the leader that they need they're never going to want the right person in power you know even if you could get the right political candidate to run for office america's not going to vote them in and that's even if you could do it theoretically obviously our elections are rigged okay we get that but i'm just saying even if our elections were legitimate a hundred percent they would vote donald trump in i mean if we had legitimate elections who would america choose they would choose donald trump that is going to not fix america that's not good for america of course people like the idea because they just don't want to drink poison coming from the democrat party i get that but you know what donald trump is not a healthy option either you know just because it's the lesser of two evils doesn't change the fact that it's evil folks you know it's still a horrible option and when it comes to church you know churches also if the majority got to pick would not pick the right pastor would not pick the right leader the majority of christianity would not do the right thing that's why you have to bold leaders that know what's right who don't care about pleasing the masses who are just going to do what's right i mean the children of israel are not going to rally behind moses moses has to basically drag them kicking and screaming through the wilderness you know they want they rose up a captain for themselves some loser you know they get behind cora some false prophet you know they're going to always rally behind some wicked unsaved person they're not going to rally behind the leader and in many cases they have to have the right leader force them to do the right thing in many cases and king solomon being great look what they said about him as soon as he's he's dead first kings 12 verse 3 that they sent and called him and jereth bowman all the congregation of israel came and spake an array of bones saying thy father made our yoke grievous now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father and his heavy yoke which he put upon us lighter and we will serve thee it's like man your dad was a bad ruler he grievous and yo he didn't like what he was doing do it way better and then we'll serve him go to luke chapter 14 go to luke chapter 14 you know if solomon can't please everyone i can't he was the smartest person to ever live not everybody's gonna like where you put the temple not everyone's gonna like how you design the temple people are gonna get mad at you how much money did you spend on the temple solomon did you really have to you know use cedar did you have to really put that much gold in there whatever it's like look he's there to serve god folks of course what expense would you spare for god's house you know that's kind of a foolish idea oh did we really have to work that hard look you're serving god here and of course at one point in time solomon's servants is as happy are thy servants and queen of sheba was impressed but you know it's kind of like his immediate circle the general populace though is not on team solomon they're not that impressed they don't like it and it's often because they don't know what they really want they don't really know what they need of course solomon's the guy that they should have but if they voted someone in they'd vote biden in and their world would get thrown upside down and then they would be like well i don't want they don't understand why they keep voting in their own oppression and keep voting in the wrong thing luke chapter 14 looking verse 26 if any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my disciple you can't please the world with christianity you can't even please your own country with christianity and even more so we dial it in you cannot please anyone in your life notice what he says father mother wife children brethren sisters oh and yourself who are you going to please you can't please anyone you should only worry about pleasing god not even your own self you know if i try to please myself what does that what does that look like you know playing a lot of golf eating steak all the time and just relaxing and then you know i could do all these things you know even by doing that i would probably still be discontented i'd still not be satisfied i would i'd have all kinds of problems i'm never going to really get the true pleasure i can never really even please myself you can never please your wife if you're trying to appease her with carnal things good luck if you said you know what all right honey i am gonna today i am gonna buy you all the shoes that you ever wanted and you'll never want a new pair of shoes again that'll never happen you couldn't do it i will all right honey today i'm gonna buy you all the clothes you could ever want you'll never want new clothes again you're never gonna want you know you buy anything for someone and the eye is not satisfied with seeing you know you can't you buy a house and it's immediately not big enough you buy a car and it's not tall enough and man is that that's a challenge right you buy whatever it is and it just well if it had this extra bathroom right you have the honey do list and you get it all done there's a new one that'll creep up actually it's a new 20 but like you could net you're never gonna satisfy your wife from a carnal perspective she's always gonna need more want more even just you yourself your children you're never gonna satisfy them in fact many times it's funny we take our kids out to a restaurant we'll eat dinner and dessert and we'll get in the car where are we going for food now it's like what what did you just say you know where are we going to eat now it's like did i not just feed you you know it's like did you not just get manna from heaven it's like what is this cucumbers and garlic nonsense you're talking about right and it's like it's just because of the carnal mind is never satisfied the flesh is never satisfied you cannot please it and by trying to do it you're going to just fail that's why you should just decide i'm never going to worry about that and i'm just going to only worry about serving god and i'm going to even do it to the extremity of where i would hate myself i would hate that relationship i would hate despise those things i would not choose those things verse 27 whosoever did not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple for which of you intending to build a tower sit it not down first and count at the cost whether you have sufficient to finish it less happily after you have laid the foundation and is not able to finish it all that behold it began to mock him saying this man began to build and was not able to finish this is what i think about every pastor that gets up and preach against homos and then after the heat they apologize and then everyone mocks them forever it's like if you're going to get up there and you're going to preach that you better stick to your guns forever never back down never go backwards you know if you're going to become a christian if you're going to start going to church you better just say i'm doing it forever don't don't back down don't be a quitter count the cost don't say you know what i was going to do it while i'm pleasing people but as soon as i'm not pleasing the right people i'm going to quit no no no just say i'm here to please god and that's the only relationship i care about i'm not here to please my wife i'm not here to please my children my parents my brother my sister my friends my work acquaintances my neighbors my community my city my area my state my country i don't care nuts to all of them they're dead to me you know the businesses always try to do this they try to appeal to the masses don't they and they always flip-flop on everything they'll put something out there and then everybody gets mad oh sorry we didn't mean that it was a glitch you know paypal says they're going to find you twenty five hundred dollars if you share misinformation they put that in their terms of service that they could just take twenty five hundred dollars out of your account for sharing misinformation and then everybody freaks out and they were like we accidentally put that in our terms of service you know oops sorry that was a glitch that's not a glitch you're just you were trying to appease the woke mob and then the whole everyone's just like you're psycho and then they're like okay no we're not and business is you know really they're just whores folks okay they all they care about is money and they're just gonna do what they'll do anything for money you say what's a whore she'll do anything for money what is a business it does anything for money so it's not really the business's fault for what happens or what they do it's the customers businesses are kind of that mirror relationship we talked about this morning to customers and culture because they'll say and do anything they would get up and they would say leviticus 2013 tomorrow if our entire culture said you have to we're not gonna buy your stuff i mean they'll get up and they'll put a steadfast baptist church flag in front of their business if they have to they don't care you know that why do you think they put the rainbow flag out it's not it's not because they care i remember we went me and my wife went to a restaurant in austin which man talk about a pit of hell we went to austin and we go to this barbecue restaurant and it seems normal all of a sudden a fag couple walks in which is every place in austin and as soon as they do they just get all the rainbow stuff out they just start putting it everywhere and it was so awkward because it was like there was nothing out they walk in and they just start getting the flags they just start they're just like putting one over here and over here and thanks so much for coming into our restaurant it's just like you bunch of lying snakes bunch of flattering devils you don't really care and of course they do this but it's so tiresome to appease everyone they're spending all this money trying to appease everyone it's just going to destroy them the businesses that are going to survive in our culture in our economy are the ones that care the least about appeasing everyone you know that's you know the the businesses that have already got this model wells fargo which of course the jews already know that they're never going to appease everybody and they're smart about this so you know i remember i went to wells fargo training because i was a personal banker for them and they'll just tell you straight up they say we will not strive to please everyone you cannot please everyone they said all we want to do is trap people with seven products and they'll never leave us i mean this is their training they're just real they're real just honest about it they're like look if you get seven bank products with us they statistically you'll never leave us and they said and the people that have one or two products and they're kind of mad they're going to leave anyways so nuts to them we don't care we're not going to try to appease them and it's like you want to know why wells fargo's still doing good and and making lots of money because they they're right when you have a mortgage credit card two checking accounts and a savings account and your retirement account all with wells fargo the chances of you taking all of that and going to another bank are almost non-existent so they're just like our only goal is to just lay you get you seven products or more and then you we got you for life we got you trapped we got you burdened we got you laid down and of course these are the type of business you know there's certain businesses they don't care what everybody else thinks like in and out in and out doesn't care if you like their fries because they're not trying to make you like their fries and they realize you know they're also not trying to appease people that like chicken they're not trying to appease anybody that likes anything virtually they're just like here's our burger take it or not and it's like why is it that in and out is crushing it and making so much money and their line is giant and then you go look at jack in the box which literally offers every cuisine you can imagine i mean it's like tacos and and asian and burgers and flapjacks and it's like they're like let's just offer everything and it's like but it all sucks and you can't appease everyone and who is literally going to jack in the box for tacos they use craft singles as their cheese on a taco it's like what is this i should get a refund no wonder it's two for a dollar you're just trying to get them off your shelf you're just trying to get rid of this thing okay and the reality is you know that's why they're failing is because they're trying to appeal to the masses whereas in and out it's like look we put john 3 16 on the cup here's our burger the fries suck do you want it or not and it's like this is steadfast baptist church's philosophy okay we got a preaching burger this the song leading it is what it is okay do you show up or not okay it's a long line just get in there get out all right i mean this is what you're supposed to have the right you can't appease everyone folks and they're not going to change who they are they're not going to accommodate to your wishes and wants you know and we as as a church need to realize we're not here to accommodate what you want we're going to do whatever we want go to second corinthians chapter number 10 seconds and at the end of the day if you want to please god you have to you have to decide i don't care what other people think and i love this about the translators what they wrote to the reader i want to read a little bit of this okay it says this and more to this purpose his majesty that now reigneth talking about king james and long and long may he reign in his offspring forever himself and children and children's children always knew full well according to the singular wisdom given unto him by god and the rare learning and experience that he had obtained unto namely that whosoever attempted anything for the public especially if it pertained to religion and the opening and clearing of the word of god the same set of himself upon a stage to be gloated upon by every evil eye yay he casteth himself headlong upon pikes to be gored by every sharp tongue he's saying hey if you try to do something public for god you know what every evil eye is going to want to try and attack you every person is going to try to get you on a pike they're going to try and gore you with their sharp tongue and the sharp tongue in the bible is basically working deceitfully i could read a lot of verses for you on that but just one it says they have sharpened their tongues like a serpent adders poison is under their lips sila and of course wicked people always try to twist everything you say and lie about you in the most crafty way to destroy you oh they're a hate cult it's like our church isn't a hate cult it's the most loving people i've ever met in my life yeah we hate pedophiles that's everybody i guess the whole world's in the hate cult we hate pedophiles you know the difference is between me and the world on that issue i realize that every home is a pedophile and they haven't figured that one out but we both hate the same people i don't hate anybody that they don't hate it's just they haven't connected the dots yet okay but they want to craft all these lives they're a registered hate group you know what i never did i never registered with the splc i never called them up and said please put me on your list how do i sign up i mean what kind of a stupid they're a registered hate cult who did i register with you lying devil you snake what kind of an idiot are you i didn't register with anything register with anybody oh they don't even understand what they're saying and you know what king james had all the same enemies as we do people lying about him and making false accusation at him i'm sure this is something no one ever said about me oh he must be a homo if he preaches against homos it's like of course there was lying snakes that did that about king james too saying oh this guy's a homo you know that would be the same as you going and watching the young turds or the young turks out there slandering our church or our friends saying like oh if he preaches against homos must be a homo then and then running with that story the slander and lies that happen it says in their uh preface for he that meddleth with men's religion in any part meddleth with their custom nay with their freehold and though they find no content in that which they have yet they cannot abide to hear of altering and i love that sentence he's saying and though they find no content and that was that he's saying false religion is not content with their own false religion he's saying the catholics are not content with catholicism the methodist is not content with methodism the atheist is not content and just being an atheist you know what they just can't stand it that you believe what you believe it's like y'all can do whatever y'all are y'all want i don't care but you know what they just can't even stand it that i just get to believe what i want it's like you can believe any lie but you can't believe that truth and of course they find no content in their own religion and their own false lies and deception and of course that's what he's saying you know you go out and try to do right and they're gonna be so riled up they're gonna attack you and of course the making of the king james bible itself was a complete rebuke to the catholic church is a complete rebuke to the whole culture in the world that there was there so many people attacking king james and attacking these men and trying to kill people constantly to get the word of god out but look at the fruit of the king james bible praise god for a man that's bold enough to fight against the catholic church because you know what tried to happen the catholic church tried to kill king james and do a coup and get him out of throne also what so then he doesn't overthrow the catholic church and write his own get his own bible translation out there and change the church forever and change christianity forever of course the gates of hell were raging against king james we're raging against the king james bible we're raging against the word of god but you know what prevailed the king james bible did and you know what we need men to stand up and say i'm going to do a great work for god i'm going to do a big work for god and let god's word prevail next to them they are going to fail they're going to burn in hell for all of eternity and all those people that tried to kill king james are burning in hell for all of eternity and he is still coming up our lips regularly i mean if you were to say hey pastor name kings of england it's like if i had you know hadn't studied this topic i could have said none because i don't care but it's like everybody knows king james everybody's heard everybody's heard of that i mean you could go the most ghetto place in the world you know the most the most dark-skinned ghetto thug and he knows king james he doesn't know king henry he doesn't know king edward but he knows king james and he knows all about it because he's got one right in his hand usually i love that black people love the king james bible right it makes it they're great well but is it worth it is it worth it just to rile everybody is worth it do all this work you know what about all the fights what all the enemies it's always worth it folks how about john the baptist which he said to hear it is not lawful for they have that brother's wife he lost his head was it worth it john the baptist well i'm sure rotting in prison wasn't fun either and he's remembered as being one of the greatest murderers for all of eternity yeah let's go when you go to heaven ask john the baptist if it was worth it you know we're in a baptist church it is worth it hey the greatest churches on the planet are baptists and it was john the baptist is the greatest man to ever live and you know what he rebuked a roman with jewish law i love when everybody's like yeah but we're not under jewish law how dare you bring up leviticus oh yeah so harrod was he was he under jewish law oh he wasn't but you know what he was under god's law because it's not jewish law that i have in my hand right now it's god's law yeah and you know who's under god's law everyone it's the same lord overall leviticus 2013 applies regardless of what country you live in every verse of the bible applies no matter who you are you're still going to go to god's hell if you don't believe in jesus christ and you know what all of god's laws apply to everybody how can a jew how can a person of israel tell a roman king that is breaking god's law because you're always subject to god's law period ah but we're in the new testament you're an idiot you're an idiot if you think in the new testament god just said no laws now because you have one of two options either god's law or no law other or arbitrary man's law that makes no sense law comes from the word of god and you know what the bible says they hate him that rebuketh in the gate and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly you know what there's a guy speaking in the gate they hate the guy at the city council meeting but at least there's a guy at the city council meeting rebuking everyone they hate the guy in the political office hey they hate it when any politician goes into congress or anywhere and preaches the bible you know what god bless every man in our country that'll get into those positions of power and will preach the word of god and will say anything that the bible says instead of ted cruise the fag-loving idiot who wants to abolish our laws against sodomy in texas ted cruise said in a a public statement he said he wants to get rid of uh our law in texas statute 21.06 which makes sodomy illegal he said hey we should take that off the books because of lawrence versus texas ruling and i'm like why do you so badly want laws against sodomy taking off the books buddy fag-loving idiot ted cruise zionist shill i mean that guy is wicked what kind of a wicked person wants to take books i mean if anything we need to add leviticus 2013 back well is it worth it yes it is it worth it i'm not going to shift overton window and take that law off hey i hope someone challenges lawrence versus texas and we have a trigger law even if it's not the right punishment just any punishment is better than what we have going on right now go to isaiah 55 i'm pretty much finished look we could read everywhere in the bible people don't like the truth people don't like god's word and i'm not here to please you or them or anyone i'm here to please god and we should want to please god in our lives and we should want to go to church that's going to please god and not please you because you know we're not special we're not worth it i'm not worth it to please god's worth it to please you know the king james bible is worth it to stand on and to elevate not ourselves we should humble ourselves and and hold ourselves you know in disdain in comparison to the word of god and whatever the bible says and however we can improve and if you know if our church has has got a lot of problems or a lot of issues let us let us just want to get better and magnify the bible over ourselves instead of lifting up ourselves and saying you know what we've we're just too unworthy we've fallen short let us let us be better you know instead of comparing ourselves to this world let us compare ourselves to the light of the bible and the light of this world and instead of constantly wondering if people like what i'm doing or like what i'm saying why wouldn't i just open this and see if god likes what i'm saying and if god likes what i'm doing and saying you know what you know go to revelation and read about the churches and say hey are we doing that are we making that mistake not like well we're better than the house church that's not even a real church folks why would i care well i just want to make sure i'm pleasing to the new ifb that's stupid who cares if the new ifb likes what i say or do i should only care if god likes what i say or i do and of course me preaching the word of god is always worth it it will never be a detriment and look what god says in isaiah 55 verse 11 so shall my word be that go forth out of my mouth it shall not return unto me void oh is it worth it yes every time the bible is preached it's always worth it go to second timothy choose last place of return second timothy chapter two god's word is the the reason why we're here is for god's word to be thundered for and if we won't do it who will do it if i never preach leviticus 2013 what texas pastor will i'm serious who's gonna ever read that out loud who's ever gonna expound on that oh but you know if you do it you'll get hated look i do it so that other people can because if we do it and we keep succeeding and we keep prevailing it's going to encourage and embolden other people to start saying it and other churches does even say you know anything negative you know just the word hate out loud or something you know by us getting up and preaching whatever the bible says whenever they see a church actually standing on the word of god it's going to embolden other churches going to embolden other christians to serve god and again you know when moses made the right decision it may not have pleased a lot of people but it caused a lot of people to get right with god and i preach sermons to try and get people right with god i know that there's been sermons where i preach where i can tell the person didn't like it but then they made a positive change in their life and i'm thinking like well praise god you can dislike me but if you make positive changes in your life then it's great you know oh well is it worth it look it's not about me being your friend or being popular it's about the word of god having success and the apostle paul at the end of the day it's like hey was it all worth it the apostle paul i mean all the beatings all the hate all the slander your own countrymen just despise you i mean humanly speaking nobody liked paul he was on the run for his life constantly i mean very few people on the planet could even stand his soul even the people that he was friends with couldn't stand him they were ashamed of his chain as the bible says he said all men forsook me all men the apostle paul is by himself everyone despises him no one likes him hey paul was it worth it yeah verse 10 therefore i endure all things for the elect sakes that they may also obtain the salvation which is in christ ease of eternal glory you know what it's worth it for every person that gets saved it's worth it for every person that makes a positive change in the life it's worth it for every baby that's born it's worth it for every marriage that's that's rescued it's worth it for every child that doesn't isn't raised or reprobate it's worth it for everything that happens you know we have such a big impact it's worth every baptism it's worth it for every person that decides to take a step of faith in the christian life it's worth it for every soul winner that goes out there and preaches the gospel the first time it's worth it for every musician that finally opens their mouth and praises god or plays an instrument for god you know there's a lot of people that wouldn't do things for god if it weren't for the preaching of god's word because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god and we have to realize souls are on the line every decision that we make you guys i make is affecting people's eternal destiny whether they burn in hell for all attorney or whether they go to heaven we should never look at what we're doing is it's just it's meaningless or it doesn't have an impact we have a giant impact have you ever looked at our bulletin i mean look i mean 1731 salvations 1731 salvations this year you're going to tell me what we do doesn't matter this church doesn't matter i mean thousands of people are getting saved every single year that i mean just the impact of one salvation is important let alone thousands and thousands of people are going to be in heaven because of the result of this church and you know if we stop serving god if we stop being faithful if we compromise and water down then we'll be like the house church where their stats are zero oh but they're more pleasing to the community more people like them what's the point in that i would rather be the most despised church in our area as long as we're getting more people saved than to be the most pleasing and have one kid get saved a year than have you know or nothing burger that a lot of these churches do i'm not here to please men if you stay with this church one thing is going to be for certain our church is going to be hated more next year it's going to be hated even more the year after that it's gonna be more disliked less people are gonna like it less people in your lives you know it's gonna be less cool like if you think it's cool to be part of our church now it's gonna be less cool in the eyes of the world and even less cooler and i'm gonna make more people upset we'll have more enemies more problems more more church members would be like can you believe pastor sally said that they'll have more examples of things i said they didn't like and maybe someone weren't even good i don't know i don't agree with everything i say okay but at the end of the day i'm here for one reason for the elect sakes to get people saved and i know it if you keep coming to our church you're going to keep seeing people get saved turn to righteousness loving the lord doing right and we need to make sure that our motivations in our decision making is not to please man but it's to please god they give me father so much for all that you've done for us your inspeakable gift of the lord jesus christ and his example that he showed us that he wasn't there to please mankind he was there to rescue and save souls and that he died on the cross for all of us even though the whole world hated him he had to become a laughing stock and a gazing stock and and to be spit upon and ridiculed and beat and crucified and just bloodily just tortured and killed and going to hell so that we could have salvation and i pray if jesus christ can can go through so much just shame and embarrassment and hatred that we too would be willing to go through some evil go through some slander go through some persecution not for our benefit but for the benefit of others for our love for mankind for our love for the elect's sake that they could also obtain salvation i pray that you would use us for your honor and your glory in jesus name we pray amen all right for the final song song number 428 428 it came upon the midnight clear 428 it came upon the midnight clear that glorious song of all from angels bending near the earth to touch their hearts of gold peace on the earth good will to men from hence all gracious king the world in solemn stillness lay to hear the angels sing still through the cloven skies they come with peaceful wings unfurled world and still their heavily music floats for all the weary world above its sad and lonely planes they bend on hovering wings and ever o'er its babble sounds the blessed angels sing and ye beneath life's crushing load whose forms are bending low will toil along the climbing way with painful steps and slow look now for glad and golden hours come swiftly on the wing who'll rest beside the weary road and hear the angels sing for lo the days are hasting on by prophets' bars foretold when with the ever circling years comes round the age of gold when peace shall over all the earth its ancient splendors fling in the whole world give back the song which now the angels sing we have a baptism this evening mr sister linda is coming for baptism miss linda have you trusted christ as your savior yes then i baptize in the name of the father son and holy ghost buried in the likeness of his death raised to walk in newness of life congratulations make sure to congratulate sister linda on her baptism