1 Peter 4, verse number one, if you dare say amen. For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind. For he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin. that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lust of men, but to the will of God. For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles when we walked in lasciviousness, lust, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries. Wherein, verse 4, here it is, they think it strange that you run not with them, to the same excess of right, speaking evil of you, who shall give an account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. For for this cause will the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. By the end of all things is at hand. Peter believed that, amen. And that was 2000 years ago. And I believe it 2000 years later. By the end of all things is at hand, be you therefore sober and watch unto prayer. And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves, For charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. We'll stop reading right there. So thank you for standing. You may be seated. I ask Lord Jesus that you'd help me this evening for a few moments of time. I pray that you'll touch this old flesh, touch my throat. I pray you'll strengthen me and empower me for a few moments tonight. I pray you'd help me to feed the flock. I thank you for the word of God. Thank you for the steadfastness of the word of God. I'm glad, Lord, that your word is settled in heaven forever. I'm glad it'll never change for me or nobody else, Lord. I'm glad, Father, that we have the truth that we can stand upon till Jesus comes. Lord, I pray now that you'll touch us and use us and help your people and give us a great week this week. And we'll love you in Jesus' name, amen and amen. Doing right while the multitudes are doing wrong. That's what I'm gonna preach about a little bit tonight. Doing right while the multitudes are doing wrong. Exodus chapter 23 verse two says, thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. Neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to rest judgment. And so sometimes we might need to be reminded that there are still some absolutes. Things that are really, should not be a question about at all. They're either absolutely right or they're absolutely wrong. Somebody said years ago, if there's doubt, there's probably dirt, amen. And so we know Jesus has warned us of the fact that there are two roads. As I said this morning, there's a narrow road that leads to life and the other is the broad road that leads to death and destruction. So he also told us that there'd be few on the narrow way and many on the broad way. And so we also know that unfortunately there'll be more people who will die without God and go to hell than they will die with Jesus, the Savior, and go to heaven. There's a pull tonight, there's a struggle, there's a temptation among our Baptist churches this evening that we all face every day of our lives to go with the majority. After all, it seems like they're living it up, having a good time, everything's just fine, nothing's wrong. They're breaking God's commandments and his laws every day and it seems like everything's fine with them. But the Bible tells us that it shall not be well with the wicked. You cannot go against the Bible and be all right, especially if you say you're saved, amen. And so I believe. and trust that we have people here tonight at the Temple Baptist Church that are truly interested in doing what's right, even though the majority will be doing wrong. Yet at the same time, the reality is that not everyone is gonna do right and walk the narrow way. Some folks are not gonna do right like they know they should, regardless of what the Bible says, what the preacher says, what the pastor says, they're gonna keep their old, rebellious, stubborn ways and do what they want to do and do as they please and stay carnal and cold and worldly, amen. I believe people with these kind of attitudes will not be helped by God until they get their heart right with God, amen. I've said this a hundred times, Dr. Bob Jones Sr. had a motto that simply said, do right, do right, if the stars fall, do right, amen. And so I'm preaching this scene with a thought, with a desire, and a hope that those of you, like myself sometimes, that are struggling, as we see people who profess to be saved, and they're living like the world, they look like the world, they're involved with the things of the world, that you and I will not be too discouraged about that. You and I as believers tonight cannot give up the fight for doing what's right. And so the great responsibility that we have tonight before us is not to compromise and to drop the ball and allow ourselves to get involved in things that will hurt and can possibly even destroy our testimonies. We can do right even if the multitudes are doing wrong. We'll have to have some determination And you'll have to have some fortitude, you'll have to have some guts to stand for truth and not get called up and all these other things that are not becoming of a Bible believer, amen. So before I get into my actual message, let me remind you of a few familiar Bible characters that did this very thing. They did right while the multitudes were doing wrong. The first one, of course, that come to my mind was a man by the name of Noah. Matter of fact, at that time in the known world, there's a little discrepancy about how many people they think that were on planet earth at the time of Noah. I've read some sources that say they could have been three to six million. And then other people say they could have been 25 to 30 million. I don't know for sure. But I do know this brother Steve, Noah and his wife and his two sons and their two daughters were the only ones out of how many they were that got on the ark. So it's safe to say that Noah did right while everybody else was doing wrong. You don't have to jump on the bandwagon and have all that peer pressure and feel like you're being put under pressure to do this or do that. If it's not right, it just ain't right. Amen. And so there's no need to even argue about it. I think about Daniel. I believe him and the Hebrew boys, they did right when everybody else was doing wrong. Well, the king passed a decree for Daniel and said, don't pray no more. Well, he know the king really didn't do it. He just signed the paper. He didn't even read the legislation. He just signed the paper. And after he signed it, he kicked himself. He said, man, I wish I hadn't signed that. But he doesn't sit with his sickness so he couldn't go back. And we know the story. Daniel was thrown in the den of lions, but guess what? He survived. We know he did. He was doing right while everybody else was doing wrong, according to the world. And the Hebrew boys, hey, sure enough, they didn't bow and they didn't bend and they didn't burn. Amen. How many would have been out there on that plane, that great massive land that day, there with all of that stuff going on when the big king said, I want you to fall down and worship this big image that I've made. And everybody, as far as I know, everybody bowed down, but three boys. They had enough guts to do right when everybody else was doing wrong, everybody did wrong. I mean, even some of their buddies that come with them into captivity, they bailed, but not them three boys, amen. I think about Joseph, we could go on with all that. I pray that I can encourage you to simply keep doing right, even though the multitudes are doing wrong. And if you're not doing right, you might not have your life lined up to the scriptures. This may be a chance to do so. I got four points. I don't have no point, but we'll go to the house. Number one, you're gonna be in the minority, but don't give up. You're gonna be in the minority. Our church, churches of black faith like us, are in the minority tonight. Amen. 1 Peter chapter four, verses three and four, the Bible said, by the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles when we walked in lasciviousness and lust and excess of wine, revelings, banquets, and abominable idolatries, when they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of right, speaking evil of you, amen. And so we see that we have a past life. Thank God for that. for the time past of our life, amen. It's past, thank God. It's behind us, amen. So the multitude do not have a past life. They've not got saved. They're still living that life, amen. But me and you ain't, thank God, hallelujah for that. Many church folk have religion, but it's not salvation. And it will not be enough to bring them out of the world. I would really search my heart if I said I was saved and it didn't get me out of the world. to some degree. Amen. That's right. It will. It will bring you out. Matter of fact, you have a desire to get out a lot of that stuff. You'll hate it. You'll hate the stuff you used to love and start loving the stuff you used to hate. Amen. So what's alarming to me is the fact that the minority seems to be growing smaller and smaller every passing year. Getting littler and littler, amen. So we cannot give up the fight of doing what's right. And you may ask a question, what is exactly that? Well, it's just simply getting our lives lined up to the Bible and living out the scriptures. That's what living right's all about. Get myself lined up to what the Bible said and live it. That's what Christianity is really in a nutshell. We need to, we need to be reminded that the multitude is usually wrong about anything anyhow. Everything anyhow, ain't that right? So I wanna say, number one, you're gonna be in the minority, just go ahead and just get that in your head, but don't give up, amen. You do have some people around you. We're not by ourselves, even though we're in the minority. Number two, I will say that the end of all things is at hand, so don't give in. Verse number seven, but the end of all things is at hand. Be therefore sober and watch unto prayer. That word sober there, be sober, he says, be you therefore sober, that means to be of a sound mind. It means to be in one's right mind. It means to exercise self-control. It means to curb one's passions. So I've been thinking about the stuff that we're seeing people do, who profess to be saved these days, that they have either lost self-control, or they have absolutely lost their minds. And can I say it's probably the latter than the before. They've absolutely lost their minds. I mean, listen, I don't wanna get political tonight, but when you look on the other side of the aisle, I'm just assuming we all Trump people here, we're probably all Republicans, if you ain't get right with God and do that, amen, by the way. But if you look on the left, them people have absolutely lost their minds. Brother, I'll suggest suppose somebody, Some congressman, six of the Republicans, would have told Biden, would have told the military, don't you listen to what the commander in chief has to tell you to do. Just suppose that the Republicans done that, what a warfare we'd have then. But that crowd does it and they want to justify it. They want to say it's okay. If they could be, I don't know if all this terminology is exactly right, they all want to be court-martialed. Praise God, sent to prison for treason, amen. If that ain't right, just leave me alone, I'm preaching, amen. That's right. We're on Sermon Live. I say amen, I'm not backing down, praise God. They've lost their minds. People in churches are losing their minds. Pastors are losing their minds. Or it could be they're just not curbing them old fleshly passions. Listen, when God saved us, he saved us out of some things. He saved me, amen. And he saved me from some things. It's like when Ravenhill asked the question, well, he says, you have all of these people saying they're saved and they're saved. Well, what are you saved from? Guess what? God saved me from rock music. I have no intentions of going buying a ticket and going to a rock concert next week. Huh? And I'm not wearing their merchandise either, amen. But we got Baptist people that are doing that. You can't look at that crowd, and I don't care who they are. I don't care how much I love them, and I'm gonna pray for them, but it ain't right. It ain't right. And the thing about it is, what I step back and look at, is these people are setting the example for others to follow. I don't believe I could live with myself, Miss V, if I would be that stupid and go buy a ticket and try to go to a rock concert secretly, and nobody find out, and then they find out, and then, I mean, what are you gonna do with that? How can you do that and be okay? But we got people in our Baptist churches doing that now. And I'm not just talking about church members, I'm talking about Baptist preachers' wives are doing that. Well, some of you probably, I ain't gonna mention their names, but it's already out, the cat's already out of the bag. You might have even seen on Facebook, I don't know, but shame on them. I say get right with God. It ain't right. Amen, it ain't right. How do you justify that? How do you say that's okay, being a Baptist preacher? I tell you how you do that, because you're not no longer a badness preacher, you're compromising, you're going the contemporary route. Amen. We're not backing down, it's right. I'm just simply saying the end of all things ahead, do not give in. It's not time to give in. It's time to take our stand and just do right and live right, regardless of the whole church and the whole world rejects the word of God. May the Lord help us not to give in right before he comes to get us, amen. We're too close to the finish line to let the line get loose. Let's hold tight to the line, line upon line, precept upon precept. I tell you one thing, friend, them old timers, we need to get back to that. Hey, if anything the preacher needs to do, he don't need to loosen it up, he needs to tighten it down, amen. That's right. That's right, that's right. He said these verses to watch unto prayer. The end of all things is near, the end of all things is coming to us. Listen, if we were to give in now, as of these days we're seeing others do concerning the scripture, I don't think I can live with myself, amen. So you're gonna be in the minority, but don't give up. The end of all things is at hand, so don't give in. And number three, we gotta remember that we're gonna give an account to God And we must not back down. Verse number five, who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. I mean, let's just, I just need to get this out of my system. Just suppose that I would do something that's absolutely stupid. What are these people gonna tell Jesus when they stand before him? if they make it to the Beamer seat. Because there's a big question mark on their lives now whether they're even saved or not. And we need to just, we need to step back and take a deep breath, say people can do wicked stuff. They can. If you like me, you won't put her back in the lost category if they just do anything, amen. But we can't do that. I mean, if they do anything wrong, bless God, they ain't saved, amen. They just lost. That's really not true. It's really not true. I mean, David committed adultery and killed somebody, but he was saved. If the scriptures didn't tell me, and I ain't gonna get into what Lot did, we know what Lot did. If the Bible didn't tell me that man was saved, well, absolutely, he's lost, amen. But, they do anything wrong, they just lost. Everybody ain't lost, it does wrong. But, 99.9% of the public are. Might be a slither. Just a little bit. I just, that's just how we preach it. If you want to believe, amen. Verse 17 in this text down on in the chapter says, for the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. What about that? Peter said, if it first began at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? Oh my. How are people gonna justify their compromise with God's Word while they're saying they're doing God's work? I'm trying to preach this little thought tonight as we are seeing others simply not doing right and want to justify what they're doing for us to remember that we must give an account to God, not for them, amen. I know we're not to get focused in on others, okay? But when it's brought to my attention by things that post, it gets discouraging, amen. Listen, I don't want to sound like a broke wrecker, but don't put things on internet and Facebook and all that stuff if it's not right and you claim to be a Christian. Don't say things off colored. Don't cuss. You'll not be cussing anyhow, amen. If you're not dressed right, don't parade that around for everybody to see. What do you think that does to other Bible believers? Well, I don't have none of that, but sometimes it's just brought to my attention. I tell you what it does to me, it aggravates me and makes me about half mad. And then I have to step back and the Lord will say, boy, you better pray for that crowd instead of being mad at them, because they need God. Amen. Listen, I know I'm not gonna give account for everybody, I gotta give account for myself, amen? But it's not that. It's not that at all. To me, it's knowing that people I pastor get discouraged and face the temptation to let their standards down because they're seeing others who are supposed to be of like faith doing it. Am I making any sense tonight? Listen, don't, don't, don't, we ain't backing down. I done said if everybody, if it's wrong and everybody does it, don't mean I'm gonna follow suit. There's a temptation to want to. I mean, they got more people they can handle and I'm just struggling to fill a little, fill up 20 pews, amen. But I gotta step back and remember how they're doing it and what I'm doing. That's a big difference. We can stand for what's right without being Pharisees. And I'm not really, honestly, I'm really not trying to be judgmental towards others, but it just breaks my heart to see and know that these things have a way of affecting others in a bad way. Well, they're doing it. How come I can't do it? Are you listening to me? Well, they're not doing that. How come I can't do it? You kids listening? Do young people listen? Just because them other kids doing it, don't mean it ain't right for you. Just because this one and the church ain't lining up, don't mean you don't have to. We gotta realize, step back and realize that our actions are being watched and they're being seen and people are looking at us. I'll be honest, I know all this social media has its place. There's been more people hurt by all this garbage and junk they put on there. It hurts their testimony. It really does. I'm glad I don't have it because I'd probably always been out of the ministry probably with all the junk I'd want to put on there, amen. It just ain't right. I'm just saying, just be careful, don't do that stuff. Bible says, let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear God and keep his commandments. For this is the whole duty of man, for God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. Folks, may God help us not to pick and choose verses in the Bible that we're gonna do and the ones we're not gonna do. Let's don't do that to the Bible. Let's don't pick and choose. I preached to Brother Greens on look out for engineers, and I see preachers and pastors in churches, they're picking and choosing what they're gonna believe in the Bible, and what they're not gonna believe. Well, we're not gonna practice that. Well, that's in the Old Testament, it don't matter. If it's in the Old Testament. I got New Testament scripture for everything we preach. Or practice what's in the Old Testament. By the way, it would do us good to keep the Ten Commandments. Do you not think that would help? They're there for us to be. We don't do them to be saved. We do them to keep us safe and keep us sound and right, amen. The rules are not to keep you saved. The rules are to keep you straight. And they're good for you. All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for proof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. Let me tell you a little something about a king by the name of Jehoiakim. Anybody remember him? You may, if you read your Bible, he's in the book of Jeremiah. And this is going on right before our very eyes. This same stuff is going right on before our very eyes. Maybe not literally, but it is. Now the king, Jehoiakim, sat in the winter house in the ninth month and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him. And it came to pass that when Jehudi, Jehuda, I don't know how to pronounce that, J-E-H-U-D-I, Jehuda, that's how I'd say it, might not be right. But anyhow, Jehuda had read three or four leaves, he's talking about the Bible, the word of God, the scriptures. Jehoiakim, he cut it with a pen knife and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth. This is what amazes me, and this is what we see going on, verse 24, Jeremiah 36, 24. Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king nor any of his servants that heard all these words. What's alarming to me is the fact that the king was not afraid to cut up the Word of God. In reality, I do not think I'm stretching this, but that's basically what a lot of people are doing in our day. They're cutting it up. Preachers are scared to death of Deuteronomy 22 five. It's in the Bible. It's still there. But they ain't gonna preach it. Because the wise won't submit to it. But I got more than Deuteronomy 22 five. I believe it was Paul said, talk about that modest apparel. If you do a little study on that, don't have to go deep, don't have to go far, you'll find out that it's a long flowing garment. But preachers, that's the issue they're not dealing with today. Do you not believe that's still right? God said it's an abomination. That's pretty strong. I didn't say that. God said it was an abomination for a man to wear a woman's clothing and for a woman to wear a man's clothing. And just because it's the women's section and they got all that hanging there don't make it right. I had a... It wasn't a big argument, it wasn't really even an argument, but I had a little bit of a debate with an elderly lady when I first come here about her pantsuits. I said, lady, I don't care what you call that. It ain't right. You look like a man. Pantsuits. Can you believe that now? Well, dear God, at least they had some clothes on these days. I mean, these days, they don't have pantsuits on. Let's don't practice that. We don't like that. Well, why not? It's in the Bible. Why don't you want to do it? You say you're saved. What's the problem? Why don't you just bite the bullet, line up to it, amen. And say, here's where you get in trouble now. Here's where you get in trouble. Not just here at the church. Man, when I first come here, boy, that hit the fan hard, buddy. I said, well, not just dress right at church. I said, why can't you dress right at home? And everywhere else you go. To me, it's a little hypocritical, don't you think? Well, I'm gonna dress right at church, but I'm gonna do what I want to when I'm off and away. My wife just come up and said, let's memorize some scripture. I ain't got time for that right now. We're not backing down. Don't get mad at the preacher. The Holy Spirit tells me to get on it. I can't help it. I got Bible. What do you got? What a lot of people got is that rebellion. That rebellion's in them. I ain't quitting that, and I ain't giving that up. Well, why not? Why do you have that attitude about it? Best thing to do is not make an issue out of it. When you make an issue out of it, that's when you really get in trouble. I believe the Bible. Well, do you really? Why don't we live it, amen? I'm telling you, I'm right here with this stuff. I'm not talking about our church. I'm talking about just things I see and hear, people. I'm glad I was tired, because I'd have probably gotten a bad spirit preaching on all that. Number four, payday's coming, so don't sell out. Payday's coming, church. Ain't no need to sell out. I need to bring my old not for sale message out sometime soon. Anybody ready for that again? I ain't preached about four or five times here. Let me preach it again, amen. Not for sale. So what's it really for? Why is my preacher friends doing this? Why can't they just stay with the Bible? They're what? They're under pressure from their peers. I was telling the guys in the program, I said, after that message, I preached at Brother Green, I said, man, I thought I'd have at least 15 revivals lined up. They ain't got nobody to call me yet. Kind of disappointed, amen. Why? Popularity, pressure, money, fitting with the crowd, fear of the people. I mean, who called these fellas? Was it God or somebody else? Mama? Right. Mama didn't call this old fellow to preach. God called me to preach. I told them, ordination council, and they ordained me to preach. They said, tell me something about your call. I said, well, I said, I don't know if this will be acceptable to you guys, but I said, this is how I feel about it. I said, I believe I was born into this world to get saved and be a preacher. I said, I believe God called me before I was even born. Before I was even saved, God called me to preach. It must've been all right with them, they signed the papers for me. We should not and do not ever have to drop our standards in order to win the lost. The world will not be doing any better for themselves if they can go to a church that's like them, that looks like them, that dresses like them, that acts like them. A.W. Tozer, Aiden. Aiden Wilson Tozer said, unsaintly saints are the tragedy to Christianity. Unsaintly saints. The world, I'm talking about lost humanity, is not supposed to fit in a Bible-principled church anyway. Why are so many people going out of the way to make sure the old seer man gets here and he's comfortable? He's not supposed to be comfortable. No, he's supposed to know that we love them and we go out of our way to be their friend, amen. but as far as them being hip, hip, hooray, I'm at church today on my way to hell, no, it'll not be that way. We're not running a circus around here, amen. Amen. We're gonna do our best to win the loss and have compassion and love them regardless of who they are, but listen, we're not to drop our standards in order to reach lost people. I don't believe anybody's having true compassion on lost people if you sell out your standards and your Bible beliefs to reach them. Listen, I'm trying not to be ugly or judgy tonight, but I'm literally watching pastors in churches sell out the old time religion and its practice and its beliefs to build the churches. I thought and was told you build a church upon God's word, not a part of it, but all of it. Can I remind you tonight that every building with a steeple on it is not a church? And I don't care if they have 500. I'm not against having 500 people in the church. It'd be tight for us. I'm not against that. What I'm against is how you get them here and how you're going to do it to grow your church. I'll just be honest with you. I like the old time way. But brother Daniel, I like the old fashioned way. I don't think anybody would like for me, I would be shocked probably really if anybody would like to entertain the idea that we got rid of our pews and we put some theater seats in here. Well, that's how they're building their churches now. That's how they're building their churches. All the contemporary churches are doing that. And I love coffee, but we're probably not going to have a coffee stand out here at the side. I'll go home and drink my coffee. I may bring a cup in here, don't tell nobody. But if you're going to build a church, why not do it right? Instead of just compromising with this standard, and that verse, and this verse, and that chapter, and, well, we can't practice this because if we do that, nobody won't come. It ain't up to me to get them to come. Old preacher Dates, if God helps me, I'm just gonna stay right here. I'm gonna be faithful preaching the Bible. We're gonna have visitation. We're gonna invite them to come to church like we did this morning. Hey, I think we had seven to 10 visitors this morning. That was great. And praise God, I hope they get saved. If they ain't saved, I hope they get saved. And I hope they come to Temple and join our church, amen. But I'm not bringing Bozo in here. If I do get a ladder out and attempt to get on top of the church and swallow a goldfish, please somebody stop me. I'm too old for that. And you try to climb on that roof better, you'll be on your back before you know it, amen. It's a bunch of nonsense and foolishness. But see, they're not really doing that, Dustin. They're just doing enough. Like Kev said in a prayer, just enough truth and leave the rest out. I'm not interested in preaching half the Bible. Let's preach it all. Let's do our best to try to line ourselves up to it. Hey, I get it. You may not have all that worked out and figured out in your life. Hey, I understand. But you ought to be working toward that goal. Sanctification is progressive. You don't do all that overnight. But what your goal is, is your life to be going in that direction where you're lining up to the Bible. Everybody don't do it overnight, but you should have in your goal, Lord, I want to get closer to you. I want my life to be more pleasing to you. I want to look more like a Christian. I want to behave more like a Christian. I want to talk more like a Christian. I want to do things that Christian people do and try to get yourself away from all that worldly stuff that don't help you. I don't think that's too hard to understand. Old preacher said this years ago, when you go down the path of least resistance, it makes for a crooked path and a crooked preacher. That's what these guys are doing, some of them. They're going down the path, Brother Steve, of least resistance. If I go down this way, nobody will oppose me. Nobody will be against me. Well, I don't want nobody to be against me. I don't want nobody to oppose me. I don't want that. But we're gonna go by the Bible. And I'm not gonna dodge this and dodge that in the Bible so I won't get no flack. I'm used to all that, getting flack. Thank God I ain't got none in a good long time. I used to get it all the time, flack. I don't even know what that is, but it's horrible. Moaning and groaning, whining and complaining. Well, the preacher don't think we can do nothing. They're missing a country mile. The preacher just wants to put us in bondage. No, I'm trying to get you free. The preacher just wants to tie us down and we can't do anything. No, he's not. But I don't have that problem now. I used to have it a lot, but thank God you people don't treat me that way. And I thank God for that. Amen. So don't start. See, God's keeping record. He sees it all. Now, I'm afraid that what a lot of people thought was a good work, and they were serving Jesus, and they were serving God, and they were having compassion, and they were doing this, it's gonna be burn up in ashes, because they didn't go by the Word of God. What'd they do? They sold out their call. and their convictions and their standards and their holiness. And what for? A brief time of popularity and prestige. I'm just saying if they truly knew better and they went the other way, they're not going to hear well done no matter what they may appear to get done for God. Folks, let's don't bow down to the pressures of men and women and the world and just think we have to get along with everything and everybody. I want to, but I'm not gonna do it if I have to compromise the Bible. I gave you this a couple of weeks ago. I'm gonna read to you again by one of the greatest preachers who probably ever lived. His name was Dr. Hal Sattler. He said, I will not compromise the Scriptures in order to find fellowship with anybody. That's what Harold Sattler said. I'm not compromising the scriptures to find fellowship with anybody. So what was Harold Sattler saying? He said, I'm going to stay with the Word of God. If we're going to get along, we're going to get along with the Bible. We're going to do it by the book. So let's not be like Jehoiakim and pick our Bibles apart. We don't like this and don't like that. Well, I just don't see it that way. Well, why not? It's darn black and white. You can argue with it, debate it, and come up with all the reasoning you want to, honey. One day, and you may never change, that's okay. I'm gonna love people regardless of what people do or don't do. I love people regardless. People love me from all of my faults and failures they see in my life, they love me regardless, so I do that in return, amen. But I'm just saying, one day, it ain't gonna be the preacher you're gonna have to stand for. It'll be the Lord Jesus. We're gonna, you probably wish, man, I wish this was Brother Dase instead of Jesus. But it won't be. I just wish you could see my heart, how I want to help you to do better, be better, get better, amen. And let's go toward that direction of becoming more like Jesus every day. We may not realize it, but Jesus has a big problem with sin. And all through the gospels, he preached against it, amen. Matter of fact, he brought the old bread message out one day and lost a bunch of people, didn't he, Brother Dusty? I mean, Brother Dusty, we talked about that for years. Got the old bread message out, made everybody mad. John chapter six, said, from that time, many of his disciples went back. His disciples, can you believe that? They walked away from Jesus, the perfect man. So, Mr. Tony, if they're gonna walk away from Jesus, oh yeah, they've walked away from preacher Deets, amen. Hope nobody else will. But if they walk away from Jesus, you know what they're saying? They said, that's a hard saying. Matter of fact, I preached on it about, probably it's been about 10 years ago. Nobody won't remember, I'll get back out and preach it again, amen. That's what I love about people, they don't remember nothing I preached, so I can preach it again, amen. Man, some of you got those notes in your Bible, you keep your Bible 10 years. Hey, you just preached that last year, amen. I said, yeah, that's right. That means I preached it. Dust said, you preached that last year. I said, yeah, I did. I preached my song. What are you going to do when the preaching gets hard? I'll tell you what you're doing when the preaching gets hard. If it's in your lap, you ought to humble yourself down to it. Say, amen, Lord. That ain't my preacher talking to me, that's you. And that's your Word talking to me. And always remember, my preacher loves me. And he's just trying to help me. Now the way he said it, in his facial expression, might not look like love. And I've been accused of that. He looked so mad when he was preaching. Well, I can't help it. Maybe I was. I hope I wasn't. doing right while the multitudes are doing wrong. And listen, I'm quitting now. I'm going to try to quit. Amen. I preached to Ira this morning. I said, you preach. I didn't preach to him all this morning. I just did what God said to do. Amen. But I'm just telling you, we're going to see more and more of this. People are going to keep walking away from the Word. There are going to be more pastors and more preachers who are cutting it out and cutting it up. We're not dealing with that. We're not dealing with that issue. We're not dealing with that issue. We're not preaching that verse. We're not going to do it. And some of them can't. You know why? Because they've waited too late now. They should have done it when they took the church. Just went there like a wild man, preached everything. They said, this is it. This is how it's going to be. And if you've got anything left, shout the victory, amen. But you know what? When you have good, straight, strong Bible preaching, guess what that produces? It'll produce a straight, strong church. Hey, this church right here, you people, I can tell, you like preaching. And I'm glad you do, because I'd be in a heap of trouble if you didn't. You don't mind preaching. Amen. Thank God for that. I don't preach in many churches, but I've been in some. Now, I'm just going to be frank with you. I didn't have a lot of liberty and he could have been, but I'm thinking this guy ain't preaching too much. I don't think. I could be wrong. But there ain't too many churches where I go that I got perfect liberty. Temple Baptist Church got perfectly, I love it, man. You know what I've made up my mind? I've struggled and battled that thing for so long now that when God opens the door for me, I've just started in the last several months, when God opens the door for me, it don't matter who I'm preaching for, if whatever God tells me to preach, I'm just gonna go in there and I'm gonna lay it down. I'm tired of tiptoeing through the tubes with this crowd. I'm just gonna go tell them the truth. I hope I don't make no enemies. It's not my intention to make enemies, but people need to hear truth. And there's a burden on my heart to tell it. We gotta have truth, don't we?