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Brother Mikey I love to tell the story What was the number 4? 435 I don't know where Jesse came from 445 as I said 435 435 hold on Now I'm having technical difficulties 435 on the first That was it Yeah that's good Alright 435 let's sing that together on the first I love to tell the story Of unseen things above Of Jesus and his glory Of Jesus and his love I love to tell the story Because I know it is true It satisfies my longings As nothing else can do I love to tell the story Which will be my theme in glory To tell the old old story Of Jesus and his love Brother Eli 490 Who is on the Lord's side? Song 490 let's sing it together on the first Who is on the Lord's side Who will serve the king Who will be his helpers Others lives to bring Who will leave the world side Who will face the foe Who is on the Lord's side Who for him will go By thy calling By thy call of mercy By thy grace divine We are on the Lord's side Savior we are thine Brother Ramon 311 Just a closer walk with these I am weak But thou art strong Jesus keep me from all wrong I'll be satisfied As long as I walk Let me walk close to thee Just a closer walk with these Just a closer walk with thee Granted Jesus is my plea Daily walking Close to thee Let it declare Lord let it be Last one, who do we got? 504 When the battle's over When the battle's over I think CJ had you ask that Song 504 when the battle's over let's sing it on the first Am I a soldier of the cross, a fuller of the land And shall I fear to own his cause or blush to speak his name And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown, yes we shall wear a crown, yes we shall wear a crown And when the battle's over we shall wear a crown In the new Jerusalem Wear a crown, wear a crown Wear a bright and shining crown And when the battle's over We shall wear a crown in the new Jerusalem Alright good evening everybody, welcome back to the Sherrard Foundation Baptist Church Some of you never left, alright I'm going to go through some announcements really quickly, if you need a bulletin would you just lift up your hand and one of the ushers will bring you a bulletin, going once, going twice, and moving on. On our front cover we have our verse of the week, it says Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the believers in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 1 Timothy chapter 4 verse 12, great verse there Our service times are 10 30 am for our preaching service on Sunday morning Sunday evening is 3 30 pm, we're going to be in Exodus chapter number 8 And we're going to finish that chapter off, and Thursday evening Bible study is at 6 30 Let's see, we are in the book of Hebrews right now Sowing times, our list of below, we did have sowing today, did anybody have a salvation? You had one? Alright and then I think Dr. Drew got one? So that makes two, alright great job everybody And I know that the first store I knocked I took Micah out for the first time, sowing him And the very first store was a transvestite that was freaking out and screaming at me, so that was really interesting, you know He got a welcome to the NFL, sowing style And then he got to watch me tell off a couple Mormons that were infringing upon our territory, so I don't think he was expecting me to be mean to them, but I was, so, but you know I mean it was kind of pleasant at first, but then they just, they were just kind of like circling around us like the vultures that they are, trying to get somebody to talk to them And I just basically told them a bunch of stuff, I'm not going to get into that right now But praise God we got to have two people get saved, so Amen to that, but I was going to say that Dr. Drew was preaching the gospel And then that freak came back out and started screaming at him while he was preaching the gospel And I think, wasn't he explaining what a reprobate was at that point or something? I don't know how that got brought up? Oh, the person at the door asked about the reprobate doctrine, and basically he said, that's one right there, because they came out and were just giving him the business or whatever, cussing him out So anyway, there was never a dull moment in soul winning, so praise the Lord for the two people who got saved Below there, you can see all the praise report And I want to tell you guys that Sturt Foundation Baptist in England celebrated their two year anniversary, and so they've been around for two years already, I mean things are going fast Anyway, so speaking of that, we have the four year anniversary of Spokane coming up, March 17th through 19th But I did want to mention the sewing class on the 21st, the 7th and 8th is the 6th gen youth rally at Verity Baptist Church, and then March 11th is the usher and stewardship training, that's going to be at 10am to 12pm here at the church building That's a Saturday, if you're an out of towner and you want to participate or just see me and I'll try to make it easy for you to be here on Friday night or put you up in a hotel or something on Saturday, so anyway, if you just need help with that just let me know, I'd be happy to help, I do want to have as many guys able to usher and do some things like that in our church, so I appreciate anybody coming out to volunteer for that and for your trouble, I'm going to feed you lunch Anyway, I might let you guys vote on what you want, but normally voting is not a thing that we do here, but food usually I'll make an exception in some cases, so Anyway, so Pastor Brzezinski will be preaching for us March 17th, that's a Friday night in Spokane, at our new building, and then we'll have a soul winning time on Saturday, if there's a blizzard, it probably won't be a marathon but if it is a blizzard, it'll probably be like a two hour or two and a half hour you know, I say blizzard, that's extreme, but like if it's really cold and snowy outside, which it has been in the past, so but I try to bump it up a week and make it, maybe we'll get a little more spring-like weather it'll be nice, the last time we did that, we had like a lot of people saved in the area that we were at, and it was a really successful soul winning marathon so last year, I want to say we had like 28 salvations for the whole weekend or something, it was really fruitful, but the new area that they're in is a lot more receptive to the gospel, so they're getting a lot more people saved nowadays, so anyway, I just wanted to mention that, if you're wanting to go to that you're more than welcome, and then all the other stuff is kind of a ways out, but I just want you to kind of take note of the soul winning stuff that we got coming up, and the Lord's Supper, and all that stuff, so all the other stuff y'all were here for before, so I'm just going to move on with the service and we're going to sing another song, and we'll receive the offering afterwards Alright, our next song will be song number 38, Doxology Song number 38, Doxology Song number 38 Song number 38, we'll repeat it twice let's sing it out there on the only verse Praise God from whom all blessings flow Praise Him all creatures here below Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts Praise Father Son and Holy Ghost Praise God from whom all blessings flow Praise Him all creatures here below Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts Praise Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen, good to see you, brother Ramon will you bless the offering for us? Thank you for the opportunity to get back and hear the word praise for us, thank you for your few salvations today Lord we just pray you bless the students tonight Thank you piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano piano Exodus chapter 8 Exodus chapter 8 Exodus chapter 8 Verse 1 in Exodus 8 reads And the Lord spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs. And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up, and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thine eating troughs. And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and into thy servants. And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the Lord, and that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people. And I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the Lord. And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me, when shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only? And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word, that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God. And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people, they shall remain in the river only. And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried unto the Lord, because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh. And the Lord did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields. And they gathered them together upon heaps, and the land stank. But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had said. And the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. And they did so, for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth. And it became lice in man and in beast, all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments, to bring forth lice, but they could not. And there were lice upon men, and upon beasts. Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had said. And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh. Lo, he cometh forth to the water, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses, and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there. To the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth. And I will put a division between my people and thy people. Tomorrow shall this sign be. And the Lord did so, and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt. The land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies. And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye sacrifice to your God in the land. And Moses said, It is not meat so to do, for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God. Lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, and he shall command us, as he shall command us. And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, only ye shall not go very far away, and treat for me. And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. But let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord. And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the Lord. And the Lord did according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh from his servants, and from his people there remained not one. And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go. Brother Steve, will you pray for us? The Lord God, thank you so much for the opportunity to come back to your house and worship, Lord. Amen. Well, it's been a long time since we've been in, or I was going to say Genesis, Exodus, chapter 8, and the last time we were here, I didn't get a chance to finish off the sermon, so we're going to just go with one of the plagues here. Obviously, there's ten plagues in Egypt, and we're here on number four tonight. He read the context of every time basically God plagues him with something else, then Moses entreats the Lord to have it stop. Pharaoh says he's going to do one thing, and then does another. He promises one thing. Then he lies and draws back. And it's no different starting off in verse 20, where the Bible says, and also the ground whereon they are. So even like the other plagues that have been thus far, the plague of lice, I mean, nobody wants lice. Obviously, that's just something that nobody wants to have to deal with. Very bad plague. But even the frogs, like, I didn't realize how affected some of these kids might be to think about these plagues of frogs in your house. And it's one thing to see a cute frog and catch him out in nature or whatever, and it's like, oh, he's so cool or whatever. But when you have him all over you, in your bed, jumping on your face, dying. I mean, if there's so many frogs all over the place, you're stepping on them, killing them. They're really loud, too, when they all start chirping together or whatever at the same time. It can be deafening. So we have these bad plagues come up, but now this one I feel like might be the worst one so far. Because I hate flies with a passion, and I think everybody probably does to a certain extent. We don't really have to deal with it as much here as in other places, but, you know, like in Florida where they're like this big or something. Can I get away? Everything, you know, they say everything's bigger in Texas, but all the bugs are bigger in Florida, trust me. Like, they got some freaky bugs, but flies aren't just the common house fly that you would think of either. Flies can be, you know, I think that basically, and we'll get into this a little bit later in the sermon, but it's not just one type of fly. It's not just the house fly, because a house fly doesn't generally bite or anything like that. They're just annoying, and they land on you, and they land on your food, and you watch them putting their little nasty little tongue on the food. It's really disgusting. You're like, I don't want to eat that now. But, anyway, it's had barbecue outside or been to a picnic. You know, it's not just flies that come, then the yellow jackets come, and they're obviously bees, but they still have wings, so they fly. But, and I hate both equally. So, actually, I hate bees more because they can sting you. But horses, I mean, horses, flies, horse flies can bite. And some flies have a really nasty bite, and it hurts. And even those little, we do have those little gnats here that, like, are almost invisible to the eye. You know what I'm talking about? They're like predator gnats or something. Like, you can see them, but it's like, it looks like light. You know, like, you're kind of looking through them or whatever, but they bite you. And it's really annoying, and so this is what's been unleashed upon Egypt now. It says swarms of flies in their houses. Swarms of flies all over the place. And flies, what do they do? They lay eggs in things, and then those eggs hatch into maggots. And those maggots eat whatever they're, they eat the dead bodies, the dead animals, the dead, or the garbage that you throw out. And anybody that's ever been in, like, a hot summer and, like, you threw away some stuff and didn't think, well, hey, I got a whole week until the garbage is going to get dumped again. And then you look, and there's just, like, maggots, like, all over the bottom of the, I'm trying to gross you out right now, I'm sorry. But it is, it's a horrible plague, so I mean, I just want you to understand the gravity of this plague, it's not just not a big deal, it's a huge deal. And if you have things that are biting you, too, on top of it, like, it must have been a very grievous plague. But it says in verse 22, it says, and I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there. So this is the first time you have this taking place in the scripture where the plagues are happening but then it mentions that where the people, where the children of Israel live, remember they, when they first came over with Jacob, they gave them the land of Goshen, which is their own place to keep their cattle and all that kind of stuff. And so that's kind of where they settled, is in this land called Goshen, and it says, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies be there. So God is able, even through plagues and wrath and all these types of things, He's able to keep His people from these things. And so, like, even in, like, the wrath of what people would call the tribulation, but it's actually just in the book of Revelation, where you have these scorpions that have the hair of a woman and whatever, all this different stuff, well, they attack the unsaved people that have taken the mark of the beast, but they leave the other people alone, right? They leave saved people alone, they leave the 144,000 alone, and the people that are sealed in their foreheads, and so it's kind of like they got that Goshen mark on them, where the scorpions don't touch them. And so, it's a horrific plague that takes place in the book of Revelation, but just know this, that God can keep us and protect us in any kind of problem that's going on in this world. So, it says, He doesn't want, so no swarms of flies will be there, verse 22, to the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth. So, one of the main points of God doing this great work is that people would know that He is God. And so, later on, you'll see the fear of the children of Israel is placed upon the surrounding nations, and they already know who they are. They already know who the God of Israel is because they watched the God of Israel or heard of the fame of the God of Israel as He just destroyed the land of Egypt. And later on, you'll see Pharaoh say, you know, one of the people say to him, like, don't you see that Egypt is destroyed? Like, what's wrong with you? But if you think about this, that's kind of what the Antichrist is going to be doing too, because he's going to be ruling for 42 months, and he's going to have these kings that reign with him, and what's going to be going on is the earth is being destroyed at the same time as he's in power. And so it's kind of like you see the same type of thing, it's like he's ruling in a place where God is destroying and putting His judgment upon the earth. But God is able to do many mighty and amazing things, including keeping His own people separated between the wicked world that we live in and His people. So, look at verse 23, it says, So, God wants us to be divided from the world. This is something that is taught, and modern day Christianity scoffs at this, they don't like this teaching, but even right here from this verse, you can see that God wants there to be a division. That's why in Genesis chapter 1, He divided the light from the darkness, those are pictures for us that we're not supposed to walk with the children of darkness, we're supposed to be children of the day. And we're not supposed to be just hanging out and doing the things that the world does, and being wicked, God wants us to be separate from the world. So, and again, Egypt, I've said this over and over again, but Egypt does picture the world, and so whenever he's saying a division between my people and thy people, he's talking about the children of Israel who picture saved Christians, because again, not all the children of Israel were saved, were they? But they all went through and they were called Israel, they were called my people, because He called them out by His name, He said you're going to be a nation, He promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob these things, but just like back then they're not all saved, they're definitely not all saved now, the ones that would call themselves Jews after the flesh, they are not saved. And even like the old IFB disagrees with us on the doctrine of Israel, a lot of things, but here's what they will agree with us, most of them, if they're not John Hagee, they're going to agree that if you don't believe in Jesus, you're not going to heaven. And so really a lot of the things that they argue with us about are semantics, because they ultimately believe and so shall all Israel be saved, but when do they think that that's going to happen? They think that's going to happen when Jesus comes back and they're going to look on Him who they pierced and they're going to go it really was Jesus, we're all going to get saved right now. But that's just not the way it's going to happen because a wicked and evil generation seeketh after a sign, why is God going to say hey, you've got to believe in me, you've got to believe in my word, and then all of a sudden it's just going to be like a sight thing for them? I don't think so. But this is something that independent Baptist we believe differently on, we believe that the church has replaced and has become the spiritual nation of Israel, and only people that are saved are part of that nation. So it is a spiritual nation, so whereas in the Old Testament the nation of Israel not everybody was saved, but they were called the people of God and there was a lot of people that were saved, but now that spiritual nation requirement for being part of that nation is that you are saved. That is a requirement. So the New Testament is different. But now do I think that people, the Israel the Israelites of the flesh can get saved? Absolutely I do. And we get accused of hating Jews and that's just not true, we don't hate Jews. We obviously understand that they have a different father than we do and religiously they are holding to things like the Talmud and they say they believe in the books of Moses, but Jesus said if you don't believe Moses how are you going to believe, or yeah if you don't believe in Moses how are you going to believe in me for he wrote of me. So but this doctrine of separation is something that God shows us over and over again in the Bible. Turn over to 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse number 14. 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse number 14 and this is a tough doctrine for especially new Christians because sometimes separation happens immediately with certain people, family members friends, you know you are excited because you got saved but then they are like hey I am excited for you too, I am so glad you are turning your life around but then they see you going to church, they see you reading the Bible, they see you going soul winning, they see you are plugged in, now you are three to thrive, now the Bible is important to you, raising your kids the right way is important to you, they see those things and they want to sever themselves away from you. See that division is a natural division that takes place but sometimes it takes place with us kicking and screaming. We don't want that division to take place, we love our mothers, we love our fathers, we love our grandparents, we love our cousins, we love our friends that we grew up with or whatever but because of Christ all men will hate us. It's just a fact and you are like well I didn't sign up for being hated. Well you know Jesus was hated and the servant is not better than his Lord, he is not greater than his Lord, if they persecuted him they are going to persecute us, if they called him Beelzebub then they are going to call us worse things. So let's look at 2nd Corinthians chapter 6 verse 14, the Bible says be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, that means hooked up together, best friends or business partnerships or whatever, it says for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? See he is talking about divisions, natural divisions, what righteousness, unrighteousness, those are two completely separate things. Light, darkness, that's a division. And what concord hath Christ with Belial and Belial is like the New Testament transliteration or whatever of, well I mean in the Old Testament it was called Belial but it's Belial, the name is Belial, Belialzebub or whatever you want to call them and so this is the devil, what concord hath Christ with the devil? They have nothing in common, the devil is wicked and evil, they are not brothers by the way and that's what the Mormon church would teach but Jesus just had a better plan and then the devil became the devil and so on and so forth but that's not what we believe, Christ is God, he's the Lord from heaven and Belial is just some angel that wanted God's job and he fell because of that. And it says what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And an infidel you probably think of like Muslims where they are like infidel and blah blah blah blah blah and then they are chopping people up or whatever but infidel just means someone that is an unbeliever, that's what it means. So what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? You know obviously if I had a bunch of idols in here then that would be pretty weird and so isn't it weird when the Catholics they could read something like that and they are like what do you mean? What idols? And they are just like what graven images are you talking about? They are just like all over the church, Jesus is on a pole that they walk up in front of the congregation still hanging on the cross, he's not still hanging on the cross folks. So it says for ye are the temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people wherefore come out from among them. Wouldn't that be separation? Wouldn't that be dividing away from them? All these different things, come out from among them and be separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing. So we are talking about borders and crossing lines this morning, you know remember they weren't supposed to touch the mount? Touch not the unclean thing. That's what the Bible is saying here, stay away from that garbage, stay away from that stuff and I will receive you and will be a father unto you and you shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty. You are like well is that saying that you are losing your salvation? No it is just saying that God is going to treat you like the son that you are but sometimes people don't get this type of stuff and they still try to stay yoked up with the world. They still try to stay best friends with their friend that is an atheist or whatever and it just is not going to work. God is saying get away from all that stuff and look I am not saying don't love your family anymore. People always take this to like weird extremes. If your parents are like not saying well I don't want anything to do with you, obviously you should still be in their life to what you can be. But obviously if they are inviting you to the family functions and everybody is wasted and your children are having to walk around and see everybody drinking alcohol and smoking pot or whatever people do at family functions these days I mean I had some pretty dysfunctional family get together so I don't know what yours were like but it got to the point where we just had to say look we can't come. Well why not? And they get all offended. Why not? It is like I don't want my kids around that. Or some people were like they don't let their kids watch television and then what is on the whole time you are at somebody's house? The television. If you don't let your kids watch television. So it is like it becomes a real struggle. It becomes very painful and if you are going to walk with Christ you have got to live a separate life or it is going to be kind of a miserable life. So again I am not saying just ditch everybody. Say I am a Christian now I don't have time for you. But the division takes place upon what has it given us? Righteousness, unrighteousness. Light, darkness. Christ, Belial. I mean obviously your Satan loving aunt or whatever that has crystals and says that she is a white witch or whatever. I mean what do you have to do with that? You know they are taking part in something that is whether they believe it or not is satanic. I don't care if it is wiccan or whatever other kind of white witch they want to say that they are. All witches are supposed to be put in ditches. Anyway I am not saying that you should do that again. I always have to caveat stuff like that because I don't believe that we should be taking the law into our own hands obviously. But anyway so look at Amos chapter 3 verse 3. Amos chapter 3 verse 3. And I would say even if it is someone that professes Christianity sometimes hanging out with someone that professes Christianity or maybe they are actually saved but they are on a different path than you are. They are more free in Christ bro than you are. You know they think it is ok to drink. They think it is ok to do all these different things that you would not want to be around. You know and the thing is if you already had a problem with alcohol in your past and you are going around to every family get together and everybody is sauced and everybody is offering you a beer. Oh come on Jesus wouldn't be mad if you just had one beer. Come on. You know you have been through that before. Somebody in here has been through that before. Am I the only one? Jesus wouldn't care. Come on. That is the kind of pressure that you get. But if it is a fellow believer look what it says in Amos 3.3 and obviously this is not necessarily the context of the passage but it is still true none the less. Can two walk together except they be agreed. So how far are you going to take your separation to Pastor Thompson? Well if we can't agree on things then I can't walk with you. That is it. Well I am a Christian too. Yeah but you are sitting there believing all this weird junk. How can I walk together with you in unity when you are so far off the path. When you don't even care what the Bible says and you are going to just take some weird YouTube preacher and that is who you are following who teaches the Nephilim doctrine or something. It is like we just have to separate from things. God said I am going to put a division between my people and thy people. And see it is God that wants the division. In 2 Corinthians 6 who was asking for us to make the division? Was it the Apostle Paul? Well the Apostle Paul was writing that but who is he speaking in the name of? He is speaking in the name of Jesus. The Holy Spirit is inspiring his scriptures that he is writing there and how are we supposed to walk together unless we agree with another Christian. My test for fellowship with other pastors I don't care if they don't believe that the rapture. I don't care if we don't agree on the rapture. I don't care if we don't agree 100% on Israel. Those are secondary doctrines. I mean I obviously think they are wrong but there is a lot of little nuances too that I would disagree on with my fellow independent New IFB Baptist pastors. Just little things. Nothing big. But salvation by faith alone. King James only. Salvation. Let's see. Eternal security of the believer. You know and I know we don't say this a lot but what kind of music you listen to does factor into it. Because I think that if there was some guy that was like he is the next New IFB pastor or whatever and then he is having a rock concert every time in his church that probably would be a problem for me. I would separate over that. You are like that is just wrong. What does it say to separate over that? Hymns, songs, spiritual songs. It doesn't say conform our music to the world's music. We are supposed to conform our music standards to God's standards. So let's move on here. Verse number 24 and back in our text here. Separation is an important thing. Some people are going to learn those lessons the hard way. Some people are going to learn those lessons when people just they are going to separate themselves from your company. That is what the Bible says. You don't even really have to do it sometimes. There are people I have been friends with and they were okay with me and then now they just never talk to me. It is like okay well it is fine. I mean I am still living a great life and I don't want to have to worry about pleasing a bunch of people that don't believe the same thing as me anyway. If you want to separate from me that is on you but I am going to do what the Bible says. Anyway Exodus 8.24 and I just want to note this also that when I was talking about Belial Baal or Beelzebub, Baal just means Lord but the Beelzebub is the translation of that would be like the Lord of the Flies or whatever. So I think it is very interesting though beings how God is unleashing this plague of flies and remember I said that God is judging the small g demon gods or whatever of Egypt because they believe in all these false gods right? I just think it is really interesting that Beelzebub means Lord of the Flies but who is the real Lord of the Flies? It is God, the real God. And you are like well that is kind of weird for you to say that. Well didn't he make them? Who is sending them to torment people? It is not Beelzebub. It is the Lord, the real Lord of the Flies. He is the one that is actually using the thing that they worship or some god that they believe in and he is using what they believe in and torturing them with it. He is punishing them with the things that they are worshiping and the road to reprobation is just worshiping animals, changing the creature and making them your god. You know and people do it now. You are like where? People worship dogs. They do. They worship, people, I mean Miss Sheila has been just pissing some people off with her pit bull doctrine. And Steve is her cheerleader over there. No I am just kidding. He is like yeah go Sheila go. She is like I have lost all these friends from these pit bull posts or whatever and I go on and troll her of course because I am her pastor I can do that but I was like what about this pit bull that saves someone from drowning? It is like this picture of this smiling pit bull or whatever. But pit bulls are the reprobates of the dog community. Most people know that. And I have had pit bulls that didn't attack people or whatever. I had a pit bull that was kind of left in my care. But when the grandkids started coming around I just, I was glad to see him go honestly. But he never saved somebody from drowning and killed them or anything like that but he was actually pretty nice. But the exception proves the rule. And the fact is that those dogs can snap at any time. But anyway I don't want to preach about pit bulls but I just think it is funny that people worship dogs so much that they are going to jump on Ms. Sheila who is a Christian and they are supposedly saying their fellow Christians are like I am tired of you railing against these pit bulls. It is like they are dogs. I mean show me a positive mention about dogs in the Bible. There is not very many of them. You know a dead or a live dog is better than a what is it a live dog is better than a dead lion or whatever? I mean there is a positive mention I guess. I like dogs personally like the pets. But do I care about them more than I care about everything else? Just saying that people have started to worship animals. They worship their cats. I mean there are crazy cat ladies for a reason. It is like meow meow. Get these cats away from me. I like cats but they are just not loyal. That is my problem with them. They always run off and it seems like every time I get one they run off and all you have to do to win them over and steal them away from their owner is put out a bowl of food that they like better than yours. And then they are like see ya. They do a little flip off with their paw and then they are like gone. Then you got to watch them over there carousing with some other neighbor just because they left a saucer of milk out there or something. They are disloyal. At least a dog. Everybody in the family can be mad at you but when you get home the dog is going to jump on you and lick you or whatever or try to. They are loyal. They are a lot more loyal than cats. I don't know how I got off on this but let's look at verse 24. And the Lord did so. And there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants houses and into all the land of Egypt. The land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies. So yeah when you get all these swarms of flies you might not think that flies have a destructive power but it corrupted everything. And why? Well remember I told you they get on things they lay eggs but it wasn't just one type of fly. It's multiple types of flies and I would venture to say it possibly could be flies, gnats, flying beetles, kind of any creature that flies really. And I will tell you why I think that here in a minute but they had some god that they believed in and I don't even know if I can pronounce that. Capri or something like that? Capira? Something like that. But anyway it represents the rising morning sun by extension. It can represent creation and the renewal of life. Flies and beetles actually come from filth. It was like some scarab face god basically this is where the god that I believe God was judging them. So anyway it's a scarab face god in ancient Egyptian religion. So they think that it represents the rising morning sun and all this and that. And then creation and renewal of life. Well there's only one creator that's god. And there's only one that can renew people's life that's god. So they had this scarab faced god that was probably half human and half beetle or something I don't know. I didn't really look at the pictures of it but flies and beetles actually come from filth and death though. Like they're really born most of the time or you know mosquitoes are born in pond scum or whatever but they don't really have like a really great beginning. And they eat their fill and then they turn into a fly and then they live for a few days and then they die. It's kind of like how their life is. But you know I think God is just reminding them of you know what flies really do. What do they really accomplish? Why is he allowing them to be destroyed by this because he wants to remind them where flies come from. And how annoying they can be. They're more annoying or disgusting than you know just landing on you. They are you know maggots are disgusting. I'll throw up if I see maggots. Like I can't even look at them. My puke reaction is just instantaneous. I don't know why I just cannot handle seeing maggots. It's disgusting. Who's seen maggots before? Who's disgusted by them? And can I get an amen? Alright. I know that scene. You're weak. They're gross. Okay. I just loogies. Green loogies. Lice. There's lots of different kinds of bugs. There's just stuff that grosses me out and my puke reflex goes instantaneously. Smells. There's certain kinds of smells that just I'm done. You know. I will throw up instantly. I mean I worked in a truck driver guard shack for about seven years. And some of those truck drivers didn't take baths. Okay. And when some of them would walk in the waft of not showering for a month hit me and I would just instantly run to the back and throw up. There was only a couple that I actually puked on but one like I just it wasn't just the smell it was the fact that he was wearing shorts and he had like bloody like lesions on his legs and like toilet paper was stuck to him and stuff and then that was all it took man I was just like he's like what's wrong with that guy? They're just dying laughing at me but I'm sorry it just all three images and smell hit me at the same time and I was done. Anyway. My grandpa said when he went to Australia there were certain parts where they had to wear these like nettings over their face because it's so dry in certain parts of Australia that flies when they land on you they go right for your eyes or any place where they can get any kind of moisture at all. So they go right for your eyes they try to go up your nose they'll go anywhere where there's you know liquid and I don't even know if I'd want to go there if I have to wear like a net to enjoy the place where you're just like seeing through this netting or whatever no thanks but you know if I had flies just constantly trying to get into my eyes you ever seen like those places you know it'll show like animals and flies are just constantly buzzing around them all the time and then you know the animals are doing this with their tails trying to get them away from there and you know it's gross flies are disgusting creatures they go for the grossest thing or they'll try to go you know I mean just for your eyes ugh no thanks. But what types of flies were these well the Psalms say that they were a diverse kind of flies look at Psalm chapter 78 verse 45 Psalm chapter 78 verse 45 while you're turning there I'm going to read for you in Psalm chapter 105 verse 31 the Bible says he spake and there came diverse sorts of flies so what does that mean it means there's a lot of different types of flies right and lice in all their coast I had you turn to Psalm 78 verse 45 it says he sent diverse sorts of flies among them which devoured them and frogs which destroyed them so a couple different accounts in the Psalms about the flies and it's not just one type of house fly I could probably deal with that to a certain extent but when it's biting gnats biting flies beetles you know those big they're not June bugs but they're sometimes here and when it's really warm it's been a warm summer these green beetles and they're kind of you know they're pretty big and they fly have you ever seen them they're disgusting but I think people call them stink bugs I don't know I don't know if they're really stink bugs or not but I just I'm glad we don't have a lot of poison insects here I don't think we have really any so that's nice our insect level here is very small there's a reason why I live here folks I was about to move to Florida one time until I saw a wasp that long in the bathroom and I was like uh uh it's like this ain't Jurassic Park I'm going home but anyway but I mean why do I believe there's different flies well the Bible says there was so I think I've pretty much gotten it across that I hate flies but a horse fly has caused me to blaspheme when I was younger and before I was saved you know my wife had family members that were Baptist and I remember we went to a camp out and you know we're boyfriend and girlfriend or whether or not I was just trying to make a good impression on the family you know which was a total failure but you know we're all hanging out there was just enough breakfast to cook for every single person every single person got one plate that's all they had enough for this is it this is all you get and so I have this plate of food I just get it and this horse fly just starts trying to attack me I don't know it wanted me it didn't want my food it wanted me and like I'd already gotten bit by one before and I mean obviously I'm way bigger than them I could kill them easily but when you have a plate of food in your hand what are you going to do? Like I didn't have any place to set it down you know and I'm not making an excuse for myself but I did say I blasphemed the name of the Lord and then my food went flying so I got instantly punished for that I should have been put to death but God spared me and allowed me to get saved later but I'm afraid of horse flies and if they even come close to landing on me I'm running alright I'm swinging and hitting stuff so if you ever see me doing that I'm not having like a seizure or something I'm just like actually trying to fight off some kind of insect bees I've kind of gotten to the point where I realize if you just sit still they won't land on you and sting you but sometimes they do anyway so I'm still like there's like Vancouver Lake Park or whatever if you go down there and try to have a picnic or something you can't bring a piece of chicken out without like 15 bees swarming around you so it's like you're trying to bite it and you're just like getting yellow jackets off of you or something that's why I just don't like having picnics not where there's lots of bees better get some bee spray or something but anyway I'm done telling you about my phobias and my faults here let's move on to verse 25 it says and Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said go ye sacrifice to your God in the land so here Pharaoh's like alright alright alright this time I'm just going to let you do it but you got to sacrifice in the land but didn't he just get done saying that I'm going to separate you my people from your people but then Pharaoh's like okay well let me just compromise with you and you can sacrifice to your God but just in the land Moses said it is not meat so to do for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God lo we shall shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes and will they not stone us and this is an interesting verse but Moses is basically saying that they're not going to understand the ways that we're doing things they're not going to understand why we're doing things it's an abomination to them just like it's an abomination to the world the preaching that comes out of this pulpit it's an abomination to the world the fact that we go and knock on people's doors the first thing out of that freaks mouth today was how do you have the audacity to come and knock on my door and ask me for money? I'm like I didn't ask you for any money I just invited you to church and that was apparently that was a mistake but I mean then this freak just starts to curse me out it's an abomination the things that we do and not everybody acts like that but it's still the way we do things is an abomination to them to the world they don't understand it that's why they always try to say well Christians wouldn't act like this Christians shouldn't do this but it's really funny to me when the Christians you know some atheist blog will say something and then it'll be like one of our preaching clips or something look what this hate preacher said and then like other do-gooder Christians will get on there and be like we don't believe that we don't do this we don't do that those people aren't real Christians and then they'll just the atheists will get on there and they'll say well doesn't your book say this though? So they look like scum they look like phonies it's like why don't you just jump in with us and do what the Bible says and you know and just believe what the Bible says and quit cow-towing to all these people that hate your God and don't like you anyway you think you're going to win them over with your little phony I don't we don't really believe that the Bible says it as clear as day and like one of these people were like they're backing up everything they say with what your book says what now and they're just like you know people just make excuses they want to be halfway in and halfway out they want to be part of the world and part of Christianity and what happens is that both sides don't like you so anyway the things of God belong to the people of God our customs and our beliefs are strange and abominable to them as their ways are to us right we want to be different we want to do what God says that's why we don't play crap crock or other worldly styles of music to drawing crowds that music is an abomination to God and it should be to us also and you know I know that the temptation to go back to some of the old music sometimes is really difficult because music is a very powerful instrument in our lives and you grew up listening to these songs and you know some of these worldly songs sound good and they make you reminisce on things but what's it making you reminisce about what you used to do why do you want to go down that path it does make you nostalgic that's why they have classic rock and rock for your certain era or rap for your certain area now it's just like I don't even understand what rap music is anymore they used to have different styles and now they're all just what is that anyway rap is bad back when I was a kid but now it's even worse now it's just they all try to sound the same and it just all sucks so not that I listen to it but I just you know you can't help but hear things when you're out in the world or whatever but what I mean by crap I mean that's Christian rap what I mean by crock that's Christian rock and they're both crap and crocks so anyway the music is an abomination to God now I get a lot of flack over teaching stuff like this but let me just tell you something right now we're not supposed to pattern our stuff after the world you're like well your hymns were the popular tunes of the day or whatever how do you know that because you read it on the internet because you want to separate from hymns songs and spiritual songs so you just want to make our music corrupt too you want to make our music an abomination our music that we play in here is spiritual music it teaches doctrine and yeah not every hymn is good and not every person that wrote that hymn was good but you know there's a music and a melody that we play singing and making melody in our hearts to the Lord we're not here to have a rock concert drums I mean show me in the Psalms where it says to play drums thou shall play drums thou shall play on the drummed instruments where does it say that it says stringed instruments that's a stringed instrument you see the strings right there you can see them and yeah it's on a this stop percussion instruments they'll say well cymbals are drums the high sounding cymbals that's the drums in the Bible is that a bass drum no and look I'm not saying that drums are evil incarnate in their self but look at what drums are used for to make a beat why do they have drum circles where people do acid and LSD and mescaline and they all just stand around some fire and you know go into their demonic trances or whatever together that's not what Christians do but yeah they'll still pattern their music after the world and I've heard about this Ashberry revival that's going on or Asbury or whatever it's some revival going on in Kentucky where they've had a worship service going on for the last two weeks it's kind of hitting the big news even CNN and the mainstream so called media is reporting on it and I was kind of reading up a little bit about it I'm not like an expert on the situation but I don't think it's an independent Baptist you know college that it's happening at and I just want to read a little expert excerpt on some of the things that are going on see I think that when this church got started when other churches like it got started and there was a revival of soul winning because there's a dearth in the land when it comes to soul winning there's a dearth in the land when it comes to preaching the word of God and I think that churches like this and friends of ours we have filled a gap that is sorely needed in this country you know what we don't need we don't need us to be swinging and swaying and carrying the TV and washing the windows and all that other stuff I'm not saying that's even wrong to do that but people act like they're being so spiritual because they put their satellite dishes up and a lot of times like in a Baptist church if you have some Pentecostal leaning person have you ever been in a church where it's like they'll just like stick one hand out so nobody can see it I'm not joking it happens but anyway it says I just wanted to get to this one part I don't have time to read the whole article but it says it began February 8th as a normal church service according to Asbury college students and leaders a gospel choir sang at the end of the service and some students stuck around afterwards it's called fellowship the nascent gathering got attention on social media with content about the meeting racking up millions of views as the day passed videos on TikTok and Instagram show people swaying to worship music weeping and repenting of their sins and encouraging the testimonies of their fellow attendees it didn't say it like sparked from some soul winning you know massive outreach program it was a bunch of beatniks with guitars you know singing all breathy and being all queer like and soft with their songs nothing that's probably any good at all how's that a revival folks it's just it's not a revival it's they're trying to be like the revival of the 1800s the great Welsh revival and all these things and I would say that those probably were fake too those were fake you know and then they're like oh these great revivals that happen it's only a revival if it's getting people charged up to serve God in the way that he wants to be served it's not the way that they want to do it look we're going to serve God the way the Bible says to do it and swinging and swaying and constant worship that's not revival that's them sitting there doing nothing you want to worship me worship me in spirit and in truth it's not just a rock concert because I've been asked about this and so I want to kind of chime in about it but to me it's not revival you're like well you're just hating because they had two weeks of worship I'd be bored not because I don't want to worship the Lord I'd just be bored with that situation there's more to Christianity than singing songs that's the whole package turn to let's see let's look at Exodus 8 27 it says we will go three days journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as he shall command us see Pharaoh was like hey why don't you just stay in the land and you can sacrifice if you want and Moses is like we're going to sacrifice to the Lord we're going to go three days journey like I already said and we're going to sacrifice to the Lord our God as he shall command us it's not how Pharaoh wants to command us it's not how the government wants to tell us how to worship oh you can't be here you can't preach that you can't sing that song no you don't have the right to tell us how to worship our God you don't have the right to tell us where we can worship our God we're going to worship our God the way he says to do it and that's what Moses is saying we're going to do it how he commanded us to do it the government does not have they want to talk about separation between church and state but how come they're always shutting down our channels how come they're always trying to stop us from going forward what is this little church here this little church in a little big strip mall area why are you so afraid why are you so afraid of steadfast Baptist church why are you so afraid of faithful word why are you so afraid of these churches if we're not doing anything it's because we are doing something and we're doing something that they don't like and who cares separation between church and state we'll use it too leave us alone why do you care what I'm preaching if it's nobody's listening to it then why do you care so much you're just you're not allowed to do that you worship the Lord here the way we tell you to no we're going to go three days journey we're going to do what the Lord says so now I will say this in times past governments have shut down Christians governments have killed Christians government have shut down Christians it's been going on since Christianity was since Abel Cain killed Abel first prophet first false prophet it began at the beginning the fight the struggle the violence and the violence take it by force so now we do have the right to serve God however we want but reality versus what the Bible says sometimes doesn't really work out does it but we still have to serve God the way he says regardless of what the government is doing or saying to us because Moses didn't back down did he he just said we're going to keep doing it we're going to do what we want and then you know he basically just said well then yeah you can do that and then he lies again so civil disobedience in such cases is right and needed if the government says you got to stop preaching you can't preach anymore I'll be like no I'll preach if I want I'm going to preach what the Bible says and you know you can't say these words anymore yes I can and I will you can't go to these apartment complexes anymore I can and I will and you know what if you try to stop me I'm just going to do it anyway and then what are you going to take me to jail he's guilty of trying to go win somebody to Christ you know these people are so that guy was so mad that I knocked on his door and it's just like you know a guy is a loose term okay he's so mad but don't they accuse us of not being loving all the time so what other Baptist in this city knocked on some tranny's door and tried to give him the gospel even though like I was like ah but which other one came to their door today but then instantly were met with hate which way do you want it are we supposed to love you or are we supposed to hate you well I'll just stick with the hate how about that but I'm just making the point that nobody else was out there doing that and you know why we do that because the Bible says we're supposed to do we're supposed to go out and knock each door so FYI though folks our belief isn't what is always reality we have to be able to operate within the systems that we're in and I'm not saying compromise I'm just saying they could just say hey by the way if you don't take the mark of the beast we're going to kill you oh wait that's going to happen right so don't be surprised when you know the Bible says do this do that do this and then we're just met with heavy resistance it's going to happen so but you know the government I'm not saying the government can't or won't stop us with violence because they absolutely will at some point right now we're not doing that but it's coming it's coming so let me read verse 27 again it says we will go three days journey into the wilderness and sacrifice the Lord our God as he shall command us so it's not again how we want to sacrifice and worship him but how he dictates to us how he wants to be worshiped and sacrificed to this is another problem with Christianity today is that they want to tell everybody well this is what my God says this is what I believe about my God my God would never do that it's because your God is not real he's a figment of your imagination and so the God of the Bible has some different beliefs than you do and you know maybe you're just really not a Christian because you just don't want to follow along with what God says to do that's the thing you might not agree with it but it's his world it's his you know we're his children and he's going to dictate to us how we're going to do things your children shouldn't be dictating to you how you do things I don't dictate to God as his son what he's supposed to do this is how you're supposed to believe I mean Abraham was very ginger when he was like shall not the whole God of the earth do right can I just say one more thing he's just like will you destroy the righteous with the wicked you know but Abraham's asking a question because he's like well is God unrighteous but he was very careful and delicate the way he said it and God you know loved Abraham and he you know but sometimes we question things in the Bible we question well what does this really mean or why is he saying it like this or why is he so mean and he's not mean he's holy he's just he's right our mind has to match what God says and we got to conform to his thoughts his processes his word he doesn't have to conform to us well God I thought this was all about love you have a skewed view of Christianity and you know I mean out in the battlefield today I get the first door battlefield and then the Mormons come and they're just like intentionally trying to antagonize us with their kindness they're so nice oh hey how's it going brother get on my face I said this is our territory you sons of Belial but you know I mean I'm with a new soul winner so I'm being a little nicer than I normally would be but I didn't want to be nice at all I wasn't nice really just like you're preaching a false gospel you know do you believe in Kolob you know because I'm trying to show him like these people seem nice they look nice they have the Baptist haircut they're dressed like a Baptist they look they're polite but inside they're ravening wolves and if we don't see them for you know we shouldn't look on the outward appearance of them and go oh they're so I was like you know moving people's stuff into their house and doing good deeds and all that stuff you're just trying to cover up for the fact that you're teaching a workspace salvation I was like how do you even know you're saved he goes I don't even know what that means I was like exactly it's exactly what I said you don't even know how to be saved because you're not saved you're going around trying to bring people with your false gospel they look nice they act nice but they're not nice and so you know what they were like okay we'll see you later god bless I was like god curse I was like I hope god curses you and destroys you with your false gospel they're sending people to hell folks they're the worst scum on the face of the earth 19 years old not even married scum yeah I mean reprobate they're coming and preaching false gospels they were there visiting someone who they already converted I mean it seems mean I know but that's because it is it is mean but should I be nice to them? so that they could just go and you know mess around with somebody else for a while it's like I got dorsinok buddy just get out of here they make me mad anyway did I seem like I was mad there? alright so anyway let's move on to more crazy stuff here alright listen I don't have time to get into all this but and I'm going to preach a whole section on this but I do want to kind of go to just one quick part of Exodus chapter 32 before we end and obviously I mean I could have gone to John chapter 4 to talk about how you know Jesus told the woman that was the Samaritan woman she was like we say we're supposed to worship this way you know and you guys think you have to worship a Jerusalem and Jesus corrects her and he just says you know the day is coming where we're not going to worship at any either place but they worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth so it doesn't matter whether they're saying this is a revival over in this place in Kentucky or whatever we have to worship him in spirit and in truth the way he wants it's not up to us to dictate how that works that's not revival folks don't believe it for one second if CNN's reporting on it and making a big deal out of it it's garbage okay guaranteed they don't preach salvation by faith alone and eternal security I don't even know I'm just going to just I'm not even there yet I have judged already if it's popular in the culture that we live in today then it's not right someone challenge me on it then I'm going to eat crow if it's true but you know sometimes I'm wrong but anyway let's look at Exodus chapter 32 so Moses is handed God writes with his own finger on the ten commandments Moses and Joshua are walking down the mount they're like yeah it's going to be great whatever I'm getting the ten commandments right so the story earlier they weren't supposed to touch the mount all that stuff now Moses coming back down and the people corrupted themselves very quickly and when you're not following God you're going to get into the wrong types of things but let's look at Exodus chapter 32 verse 17 it says and when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted he said into Moses there's a noise of war in the camp so when Joshua hears what's going on down there what does he think is happening he thinks it's a war it sounds like you know some kind of Slayer concert going on or something down there it's some kind of you know cannibal corpse or some kind of heavy metal rock band going on you know something like that but it says in verse 18 and he said it is not the voice of them that shout for mastery neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome but the noise of them that sing do I hear so Joshua's like you know he doesn't say I hear singing this is great worship music yeah let's do this for two weeks straight it's not like that at all is it they're doing something wrong but they're singing so does it matter what kind of music you sing or does it not it matters of course it matters and it says verse 18 or excuse me in verse 19 and it came to pass as soon as he came nigh into the camp that he saw the calf so you know and then and the dancing the calf and and the dancing and Moses is like here I am to worship here I is that what he does no it's like the kill bill music it's like he's upset he saw the calf they heard the singing they saw the calf they heard that they saw the dancing and Moses anger waxed hot Moses had a temper and it says and he and he cast the tables out of his hands and break them beneath the mount God's autographed first edition ten commandments you know he's just like he's fired up he's it says he waxed hot and so obviously what happens after here you know obviously challenges are in and all this stuff I don't have time to get into that when we get to that chapter in the Bible we'll go over it but I'm just saying that just because you think it's worshiping the Lord doesn't mean that it really is it's God's standard that we have to have why was Moses mad is dancing wrong in itself it's not wrong because the Bible talks about dancing but what type of dancing was it well it says that they were naked that's the other thing Aaron made them naked to their shame and I don't know what that exactly means because naked could be from the loins to the thighs or topless or whatever but I don't know I don't think they were completely naked I hope that that's not the case but it was really wicked what was going on they made them gods that they they were like these are our gods oh Israel they made golden calves Aaron's like hey I got all their earrings off and I threw them in the fire and poof this calf came out I mean worst excuse in the Bible ever but you know the point is is that Pharaoh wanted Moses to do the the king the government wanted Moses and the children of Israel to worship according to their will but see we're supposed to worship according to God's will so verse 28 in our text it says and Pharaoh said I will let you go that you may sacrifice the Lord your God in the wilderness only you shall not go very far away so now he's compromising again entreat for me again he's telling them how to practice their faith and Moses said behold I go out from thee and I will entreat the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh from his servants and from his people tomorrow so they still have to deal with it for the rest of the night so Moses is like alright you want to compromise well here's my compromise it's not happening today it's happening tomorrow but let Pharaoh not deal deceitfully anymore in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord and Moses went out from Pharaoh and entreated the Lord and the Lord did according to the word of Moses and he removed the swarm of flies from Pharaoh from his servants and from his people and there remained not one and just let me say this when God does something he does it all the way he does what he says he's going to do not halfway done but then it says and Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also neither would he let the people go and are you surprised at this point that he wouldn't let the people go it's not a big surprise and God always says does what he says he's going to do but reprobate trash always lie and go back on their words and obviously Romans 1 explains to us that they're filled with all unrighteousness I don't have time to turn there but they're filled with all unrighteousness they're haters of God they're covenant breakers Pharaoh's a reprobate he hardened his heart God hardened his heart he hardened his own heart so just in summary and to end this sermon God is the Lord of everything including the Lord of the flies he's the Lord of all nature he made it all he controls it all he can send the lions he can send the lightnings he can send the wind storms he can send the whirlwinds you know everything is subject to the voice of God except for us it seems like but you know when we start when people start worshipping the creature and the creation instead of the creator God is going to judge that situation and it doesn't matter whether it's the world or not he's still going to judge the world the Bible says he's going to judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he have ordained that's the Lord Jesus Christ and we must remember that God dictates how we're supposed to serve him how we're supposed to worship him where we're supposed to worship him in what manner we're supposed to worship him and it's not what some you know okies out in Kentucky say it is what they're non-denom you know it even said didn't it say swinging and swaying that's what the article said so that's probably what they're doing if you go if you watch a TikTok video of it or something which I don't recommend because it's Chinese spyware but if you watch a video about it then you're probably going to see exactly what I explained exactly what I explained so we must worship him and serve him in spirit and in truth let's pray Lord we thank you so much God for the Bible and Lord that we can be instructed by it I pray you'd help us to be a people that's separated unto you Lord and I know that we're still working on things in our lives and Lord there's many flaws that we have and Lord none of us have it all figured out none of us is perfect but Lord I pray you'd help us to just get things right in our life that might be wrong Lord I pray that you'd help us to be separate when it calls for it and just pray that you'd help us to realize that it's your word that dictates how we do things including everything in our church all the music we listen to and any programming that we watch I pray Lord you'd help us to be a church that's separated and loves you and Lord that people would see revival when they actually come to our church and see it for their own selves we pray, Amen What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus How precious is the floor That makes me white as snow No other fount I know Nothing but the blood of Jesus For my part in this I see Nothing but the blood of Jesus For my clean slate this might be Nothing but the blood of Jesus How precious is the floor That makes me white as snow No other fount I know Nothing but the blood of Jesus Nothing can force an atone Nothing but the blood of Jesus Not of good that I have done Nothing but the blood of Jesus How precious is the floor That makes me white as snow No other fount I know Nothing but the blood of Jesus This is all my hope and peace Nothing but the blood of Jesus This is all my righteousness Nothing but the blood of Jesus How precious is the floor That makes me white as snow No other fount I know Nothing but the blood of Jesus How precious is the floor That makes me white as snow No other fount I know Nothing but the blood of Jesus How precious is the floor That makes me white as snow No other fount I know Nothing but the blood of Jesus How precious is the floor That makes me white as snow