man don't mind this all right it's a blessing to be here tonight at the Red
Hop preaching conference I want to thank pastor Roger Jimenez and of course
Verity Baptist Church for putting this together this conference holds a special
special place in my heart just because a couple years ago I made some good
decisions based off of the preaching for the men who come behind this pulpit and
it really changed in my direction in life because of it so obviously we
understand that the preaching is not in vain it's profitable but you just never
know who's listening not just here but you know out and abroad and therefore
the preaching obviously is important and I want to thank fwbc la I know some of
their scattered here my la ian's and I didn't say illegal aliens right I know
we're from LA and of course as pastor Roger Jimenez mentioned he holds a
special place in my heart as well because he's a norteño and I'm a
sureno and we both get along great so you don't see that very very often
alright look down at your Bibles at Jeremiah chapter 23 and we'll get right
into in verse 25 it says here I've heard what the prophet said that prophesy lies
in my name saying I have dreamed I have dreamed how long shall this be in the
heart of the people that prophesy lies yea they are prophets of the sea of
their own heart which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams
which they tell every man to his neighbor as their fathers have forgotten
my name for bail the prophet that hath a dream let him tell the dream and he that
hath my word let him speak my word faithfully what is the chaff to the wheat
saith the Lord and tired of the sermon this evening is what is the chaff to the
wheat what is the chaff to the wheat now when you read the book of Jeremiah and
you study the book of Jeremiah you will quickly see that the book of Jeremiah is
a good representation of today isn't it not when you observe Christians you
observe pastors and churches it's kind of like looking into a mirror of some of
the things that are taking place today in churches whether it's Baptist churches
Christian churches whatever it may be you see a lot of things are very similar
not only for the prophets that are speaking the word of God faithfully but
also because of the false prophets who are not speaking the word of God
faithfully who are lying right and the reason for that is because the Bible
teaches us that you know there's no new and new thing under the Sun things that
were said before things that are being said today false doctrines that were
taught today they're being taught today are false doctrines that were taught in
years past as well the Bible says for whatsoever things were written a four
time were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the
scriptures might have hope go with me if you would to John chapter 15 John
chapter 15 I'm gonna read to you from 1st Corinthians chapter 10 and verse 11
it says here now all these things happen unto them for examples and they were
written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come so when we
read the Bible obviously not just the book of Jeremiah you read from Genesis
to Revelation everything is relevant to today is it not but specifically when we
read this chapter in chapter 23 the modern-day application is so akin to
what we see today with pastors so akin to the false false prophets and false
pastors of today it's almost as if we're looking into an evaluation of today's
churches we see a distinction between God's man and the devil's man we see a
dichotomy of God's man Jeremiah and the false prophets and you'd be foolish to
walk away from Jeremiah 23 and say well these people are the same person you
know the false prophets and the God's man the real prophet they're just they're
very similar there's not really a distinction between the two you see a
vast distinction between the two they're very much different from one another you
know throughout the centuries the distinction between these two people
groups have been so obvious all you have to do is observe which group is loved
the most and which group is hated the most and that's how you can tell who's
the real prophet of God now look I'm not saying that you know the pastors who are
preaching the Word of God are gonna be hated by everyone obviously we have
pastors and we have people who we admire we love and there's a remnant of people
who believe right and they love the man of God but far and wide the vast
majority of the world will hate that man the vast majority of the world will hate
the person who's preaching the Word of God and guess what the vast majority of
the world will love the Joel Osteen's of this world I mean how many people have
you talked to we're just like oh yeah I'm a Christian I love Joel Osteen I
just he's so good yeah everyone the vast majority of them the Bible says in John
15 verse 18 don't let this discourage you because it says if the world hate
you ye know that it hated me before I hated you you know what that means
you're in good company amen if you were of the world the world would love his
own but because you're not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world
therefore the world hateth you so you know what when we see the slanders and
the threatenings and all these things that people want to say against the men
of God the prophets of God the Jeremiah's of today hey it's okay you
know why because that means that we're in good company with the Lord Jesus
Christ what is the chaff to the wheat well the chaff is often the preacher
whom everyone loves and the wheat are those whom everyone hates you know
there's a lot of independent fundamental Baptists out there but the reality is
some of them are chaff and some of them are the wheat you know I hate it when
people make comments and they lump us together with Catholics all you Chris
you need your Christians and this Christian did you know these priests is
like whoa hold on a second Catholics are not Christian well you know I'm talking
about you know you and you don't believe in celebrating birthdays and
anti blood transfusion well hold on a second that's a Jehovah's Witness we're
not Jehovah's Witnesses I should correct myself we're the true
Jehovah's Witnesses amen yeah but you guys in your street preaching I'm not
Ray Comfort Ray Comfort is a wicked false prophet who uploads these fake
soul-winning videos and just tries to just demean people in the streets and
make them look stupid just so he can look good but they try to lump us in
with those with those kind of people don't they we're not Mormons we're not
Jehovah's Witnesses hey we're not victory outreach either victory outreach they're
not Christians oh you know but they have Christian on their website and these
people are wicked now look obviously there's people within the Jehovah's
Witnesses that are misled obviously there's people who maybe were taught
have parents who are Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons you know who are misled but
the vast majority of those the ones who are actually leading these groups they're
wicked okay okay okay I'm not saying just Christians I'm not just saying you
know uh you know just Christians just in general I'm just saying like you
independent fundamental Baptists you guys are like a cult you guys teach
weird stuff you guys have some strange teaching hey we're not from the
ruckman crowd you're thinking oh you're thinking of Jean Kim yeah he's weird him
in his hollow earth alien and all these strange doctrines his little you know oh
I just you know who listens to that that's not us don't let me in with these
weirdos just because they claim to be an independent fundamental Baptist doesn't
mean that they are these are the ruckman nights the hyper dipsticks who need a
washboard every time they teach the Word of God okay all right well you knew I
have be you know you guys are like liberals and stuff like that no you're
thinking of Josh Tice you're thinking of pastor polka dot and all the other soy
boys these weakling pastors where you know they they tear their jeans before
they come into church they shave off one side their wife shaves off one side of
her head they sit on a bar stool they got the purple light they get their
eyebrows done that's not us those are some flamboyant fags is what
they are but they call themselves new IP but they're not they're the chaff the
Jehovah's Witnesses they're the chaff victory outreach that's the chaff the
hyper dipsticks that's the chaff we need to draw the line you know people often
say well you guys are so critical no it's just that we're making a line is
what we're doing we're showing the difference the distinction between that
which is the chaff and that which is the wheat because we don't want people to
get confused we don't want people to be misled we want them to know what is
biblical Christianity and what is not drawing the line just shows you this is
what God says to do that's that and that shows you what God tells you not to do
there is a difference we have to explain what the chaff is to the weed
there's a vast difference between our preaching and theirs the difference is
so distinct in some in some cases it's like comparing a super soaker to ak-47
you compare the new IV you know the the the soy boys to the men the preaching
is different you know it's like 99 cent Jack tacos sorry if I offended some of
you out there who just had that last night after the red hot it's like
comparing that to filet mignon it's like tofu to real meat it's like the chaff to
the wheat go with me if you went to mark chapter 4 what is chaff well when you
thresh wheat you loosen the edible part of grain from the husks and straw you
separate it and that which is the chaff is that which is worthless that which is
refused that which is rejected that which is reprobate that's what it is so
when the Bible talks about the chaff to the wheat he's saying that which is
valuable and that which is not that which is accepted and that which is
rejected that which is of God and that which is of the devil God is drawing the
line he's saying what is the chaff to the wheat and he gives some specific
distinctions between the two now first of all what is great well grain is on
the other hand is just something that's valuable and so there's something could
be used for meal for food look at mark for verse 30 it says and he said where
unto shall we like in the kingdom of God or with what comparison shall we compare
it it is like a grain of mustard seed which when it is sown in the earth is
less than all the seeds that be in the earth you know doesn't that sound like
biblical Christianity right there because the mustard seed is the one that
no one really pays attention to it's the less it's the least of then all the
seeds that be in the earth look at the history books do you think you're gonna
see a biblical Christian in the history book absolutely not why cuz they're the
mustard seeds they're the smallest ones they're the ones that don't get
recognized by the world but are recognized of God say when will we know
who those people are well let's keep and continue reading verse 32 but when it is
sown it groweth up and become a greater than all the herbs and shooteth out
great branches so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it you
know in the in the resurrection we will see these greater herbs these greater
trees right the seeds that were sown referring to the better resurrection
that we're gonna get tonight I'm gonna take the threshing instrument of God's
Word and thoroughly purge the floor and show you from Jeremiah 23 the difference
between these two oh we already know this but you know we always got to get
reminded of that which we have heard in times past should not lest we forget we
always get a preach the same sermon just give it a different title a little
different illustration because you know what we forget but you know what every
generation needs people that draw the line to show you what's what that which
is biblical and that which is not and let me say this is that in Jeremiah 23
we see a difference between these two but not based upon how they look it's
based upon how they preach and obviously we understand that there's people out
there who are saved that are mixed up in doctrine you know they believe in the
pre-tribulation rapture or they're Zionists they love the Jews and you
know they may they may not believe in the reprobate doctrine but they're saved
people right and I'm not talking about them I'm talking about these the people
who are in charge I'm talking about the people who are ardently preaching false
doctrine they're the ones who claim to be the independent fundamental Baptist
they're the ones who claim to be the true Christians but they're not even
saved that's who I'm talking to wolves and sheep's clothing now go back to
Jeremiah 23 if you would let's read the verse again
look at verse 28 it says the prophet that hath a dream let him tell the dream
and he that hath my word let him speak my word faithfully what is the chapter
the wheat saith the Lord look at verse 29 is not my word like as a fire so
what's the first thing that he says here well preaching from the wheat purges
whereas preaching from the chaff dilutes let me say that again preaching from the
wheat purges that's what fire does it purges whereas the preaching from the
chaff dilutes is what it does you see real preaching is likened unto fire why
because it comes from the Bible comes from the Word of God I mean it's called
the red hot preaching conference it's not called the cold blue preaching
conference that's at North Valley Baptist Church that's at Lancaster
Baptist Church with the leader leadership conference cold blue real
preaching is fire why is that well are you trying to say you're just trying to
scold everyone no fire purges fire cleans up your life hard preaching fire
preaching is not meant to scorch believers it's meant to purge them from
their sin you see when we get saved we don't come batteries included right we
come with baggage that's why it's important that when we get saved we get
into a hellfire damnation leather lung Baptist Church under some hard
preaching to help us clean up our lives and get that fire to clean us up get
that fire in our light in our soul to clean us up from the bad habits the bad
you know habits that we may have in our lives whatever it may be or the bad
ideologies that we learned growing up especially if you got saved later on in
life amen that's what preaching does whereas its counterpart the chaff
preaching is watered down and they water down the content of God's Word to
make it more digestible for you right hey I heard a sermon by the way you say
well you're just saying that because we preach on the love of God I heard a
sermon this morning about the love of God and it was good that was a biblical
sermon on the love of God amen whereas I heard a lot of you know preaching on the
love of God back in the day and most of it is just having to do with tolerance
of wicked people tolerance of reprobates tolerance of people who should even be
allowed to be in church that's not love red hot preaching is meant to clean us
up fire preaching it's not my word like as a fire doesn't it burn you know the
disciples on the road to Emmaus when they ran into Jesus they fellowship with
him and when he left they said this that there his word was within their hearts
as a burning fire shut up in his bar that's Jeremiah let me I can't remember
the scripture right now then that our hearts burn within us why he opened to
us the scriptures why he walked with us by the way and while he opened to us the
scriptures thank you Holy Spirit it's fire amen diluted preaching doesn't help
anybody I'm sorry let me let me correct that diluted preaching helps the pastor
you know to keep the congregation there so they can keep paying the bills and be
lazy and just kind of just kind of put it on cruise control you know that's not
God's blessing that's the pastor's blessing go with me through it to 2nd
Corinthians chapter 10 and verse number 8 oh no but you're you're preaching
that's too mean though it's far too abrasive you shouldn't preach like that
you're gonna you're gonna you know drive people you're gonna you're gonna scare
people from Christ I see a lot of people here who have not been scared from
Christ because when you preach fire and you show it from the Bible guess what
people like that 2nd Corinthians 10 8 says for though I should boast someone
more of our authority which the Lord hath given us for edification and not
for your not for your destruction I should not be ashamed our goal is not to
destroy our congregation it's not to destroy the people that are within our
congregation it's to edify them but you know edification requires the fire of
God's Word set my soul of fire Lord for thy holy word that's what we need and
look if hard fire preaching bothers you it's because you probably have sin in
your heart that's probably what it is if it bothers you if it feels like the
pastor stepping on your toes if you feel like the pastor's talking about you well
he probably is so what you probably inspired his sermon you did something in
the service prior that said I'm gonna preach on that on Sunday he's preaching
on me yeah he probably is I just did that last Sunday yeah it's probably why
he's doing it so fix it correct it and then we can remain a happy family amen
go back to Jeremiah 23 if you would you see fire preaching turns you from your
evil ways right and if someone doesn't have fiery preaching look into the
church if a church is just filled with sin filled with fornication there's
drunkards there's people who smoke pot there's all kinds of looseness in that
church just mark it down even though you haven't heard the preaching of God's Word
from that pulpit mark it down there's no fire coming from that pulpit why is that
look at verse 21 I have not sent these prophets yet they ran I have not spoken
to them yet they prophesied don't we hear that God's called me verse 22 but
if they had stood in my counsel and it caused my people to hear my words then
they should have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their
doings he's saying look if these guys were really sent by me then they would
have stood in my counsel they would have had the people harken into my words and
guess what the byproduct of that is that people turn from their wicked ways but
that's not the case here therefore I didn't send them you know how you know
that a man of God has been sent to a people when the people start turning
from their wicked ways due to the preaching go to Jeremiah 26 if you would
hold your place there in Jeremiah 23 we need a generation of men to rise up to
preach the Word of God to quench not the Spirit to despise not prophesying as the
Bible says to prove all things hold fast that which is good to preach the Word
begins to in season out of season to reprove rebuke and exhort with all long
suffering and doctrine so you know what that means that the Bible tells us we're
supposed to preach hard but so we're supposed to be patient says long
suffering and doctrine why because people in the church are not all at the
same spiritual level you know what that's not just the command for the
pastor that's the command for the mature Christian within the congregation when
you get impatient with some of the babes in Christ in your church hey be
long suffering you know if they don't get the replacement theology right off
the bat don't chew their head off because of it if they don't get the
right reprobate doctrine right right off the bat don't just jump all over them
love them disciple them the fire of God's Word will teach them it'll burn
away all those false ideologies it'll burn away all the false doctrine but you
know what speak the truth in love obviously right we need fire preaching
because it purges it's like stripes to the inward parts of the books if it
doesn't hurt it's probably because the preaching you've been listening to is
making you callous and you can no longer feel look at Jeremiah 26 verse 2 thus
saith the Lord stand in the court of the Lord's house and speak unto all the
cities of Judah which come to worship in the Lord's house all the words that I
command thee to speak unto them diminish not a word what is he saying
say it all say it all can I use Leviticus say it all can I use like
Deuteronomy all of it diminish not a word why because the words of the Lord
are pure words amen you know and we need to make sure that we always draw
that line they're real preaching from the wheat is fire it purges Christians
it purges churches from sin you know people like well you know my pastor he
preaches pretty hard you know James White he's a hard preacher heard that
sermon on adultery fire they're like fire this is James White's preaching
right here how do you mean blowing it already blow out that's James White's
preaching right here this is new IFB preaching yeah
Jane this is John MacArthur preaching right around let me get away from the
kids your kids are gonna come home with no eyebrows this is John MacArthur this
is pastor Anderson all right this is Jeff Durbin all right this is pastor
Jimenez
he's not here is he there you go yeah that's right this is Josh Tice it's
queer little flamer this is brother me here one more there we go I can't I was
gonna I was gonna do pastor Perry but it was gonna be bad it was just not gonna
turn on at all but don't they say oh no my pastor's pretty he's he's a hard
preacher hard this abyss burns it's just fire and then you come and then you hit
him with some doctrine it's just like
right oh no no he's fire oh no John MacArthur man he's fire come again real
preaching is fire this is how you know it's real fire preaching when the
pastor's preaching on sin and you're and he you see you feel like he's talking to
you and your face it just gets red little beads of sweat start showing up
on your forehead and you're mad at your wife because you think that she probably
said something to the pastor right it's called the Holy Spirit it's called fire
this is the difference here watered-down preaching helps no one it's watered-down
it dilutes the contents of God's Word number two preaching from the wheat
unifies believers around the truth preaching from the chaff drives people
away from the truth but don't we hear about that don't we hear that today
about us the way you guys preach and scream and slobber and foam out the
mouth and stuff the language you guys use like the kjv language and stuff you
know that's gonna drive people away that's really gonna drive people away
you know you're gonna offend some people and you're gonna drive well first of all
we're driving the right people who need to get away from us that's the it drives
the wrong people away should I say the wicked people the reprobates those are
the people who we should drive away but it actually unifies believers around the
truth does it not oh no but you guys are just mean though your spirit you're just
too zealous you're just too like biblical thank you by the way this is
why the second generation this is why they're leaving the old IP and it's
unfortunate you know there's two ways they're gonna go they're either gonna go
to the to the liberal the Trendy's as Pastor McMurtry calls them right or
they're gonna come our way but the reality is is that a lot of the second
generation the younger people they're leaving the old IFP and not just the old
IFP other churches as well by the droves they're driving their people away why
because they're preaching like the chaff that's why look at Jeremiah 23 and verse
number one nah it's your preaching that drives people away you're rude hey
though I'd be rude in speech yet not in knowledge Jeremiah 23 verse 1 says woe
be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture say the
Lord now he's not talking about Jeremiah now is he verse 2 therefore thus saith
the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people ye have
scattered my flock and driven them away and have not visited them behold I will
visit upon you the evil of your doings saith the Lord you see he's not talking
about Jeremiah and look read the book of Jeremiah most of his sermons are
negative yet God comes and says that the other prophets they're the ones who are
driving people away well you know yeah but if we become too negative we're
gonna offend people you know they're gonna they're just they're just not
gonna like it's just not logical brother Mahia yeah but we're not supposed to do
that which is logical we do that which is biblical and if it's biblical then
we figure out the methods do we do it is it logical is it feasible is it
practical can we do it but if it's in the Bible we do it no you're gonna
scatter the flock the way you preach you know the way you foam out the mouth the
the language that you use no in fact people are gonna stick around because
they know that you're real and they need the Word of God to be real to them they
need the man of God to get up and slam the pulpit and yell and get mad to
preach hard on sin to talk about divorce to talk about fornication to rip on the
homos so that when they see that why I think this guy means business I think he
believes what he's saying they're not just like falling asleep in church just
like bored with the same sermon on Psalm 23 they're still stuck on verse
number one for the last four weeks they want to hear it all they're the ones who
are scattering the sheep away and most of it is because they have a double
standard they preach one thing but do another they're called it's what you
called hypocrisy they preach one thing and they do another and they're not a
shame to show that before their people because they don't care they're acting
like a bunch of hirelings is what they're doing they're acting like the
chaff this is the difference between the chaff and the we go down to verse 16
thus saith the Lord of hosts hearken not into the words of the prophet that
prophesy unto you that make you vain they speak a vision of their own heart
and not out of the mouth of the Lord so this kind of preaching that they're
doing it makes you vain makes you puffed up makes you empty preaching that
makes you vain go to 2nd Timothy hold your place there Jeremiah Jeremiah 23 go
to 2nd Timothy chapter 3 this is the the believe in yourself type sermons right
this is the look I'm on four sermons on you know getting over anxiety and
depression these things are good topics amen these are some of the issues that
people struggle with but it gets to a point where it's just like they're just
trying to get their people to survive the week survive just that Sunday but
you know we need to get to a point where we're not just surviving we're thriving
we're not just surviving we're thriving we're making plans to to become
successful in life but they have this Oprah Oprah Winfrey you know type of
ministry look at 2nd Timothy chapter 3 and verse number 1 it says this know
also that in the last days perilous time shall come for men shall be lovers of
their own selves this is that way this is what that vain preaching does
covetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy
without natural affection truce breakers false accusers incontinent fierce
despisers of those that are good traitors heady high-minded love is a
pleasure more than lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying the
power thereof from such turn away you say well how do you know that that's a
byproduct of the preaching look at 2nd Timothy chapter 4 and look when I read
2nd Timothy chapter 3 I think Christian school I think Christian school and I'm
not saying that everyone who comes out of a Christian school is a reprobate but
I've met a lot of reprobates who come out of the Christian school because they
get the truth so much and they're there because mom sent them because dad sent
them and they get all this truth and they reject the gospel and what happens
their heart becomes hardened they become reprobates they become lovers of their
own selves but why is that look at 2nd Timothy chapter 4 verse 1 I charge thee
therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the
dead at his appearing in his kingdom preach the word be instant in season out
of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine for the time
will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts
shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears and they shall turn
away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables notice that also in
chapter 3 it says that they have a form of godliness where do you think they
learn it from being in church learning how to play church being in the
Christian school learning how to look like a Christian but but eventually just
denying the faith from search turn away the Bible tells us there go back to
Jeremiah 23 you know what I hear a lot why people are just leaving these
churches it's because their pastor has taken a strong stance strong stance on
the King James no on soul winning no on right living no they're taking a strong
stance and supporting the fault of the facts I was gonna say the FOMOs trying
to blend both words together and you know that disgust people that disgust
the members of those churches look what it says in verse 17 they say still unto
them that despise me the Lord had said he shall have peace you know they want
to who's that uh click what's his name the new guy the the dipstick who just
got found out recently Charles Lawson thank you
Charles Lawson with his red carpet bring them all in ministry right what is he
saying to them ye shall have peace and they say unto everyone that walk it up
after the imagination of his own heart no evil shall be upon you
no evil shall come upon you homo we love you God loves you you know we're
we're by faith alone we believe in faith alone and everything but you know what I
know but with you it's you know you just got to stop becoming homo even though I
believe it's my faith alone peace you know what that drives people away
because they're ministry into people that despise God and it irks the hearts
of those believers within those churches to say why would you allow that you I
have children here I thought you loved us I thought you loved the children here
I thought you loved the next generation and you're gonna bring in these filthy
pedophiles these wicked people here even though you say that you love us you say
peace upon them why and then what happens they're scattered but you know
what you get a pastor Anderson you get a pastor Jimenez pastor Perry pastor
McMurtry preaching on the sodomites I guarantee the people in those churches
know that their pastor loves them because they're willing to put it all on
the line to receive the most criticism persecutions and attacks for that
because they love their people so in spite of the criticism in spite of the
persecutions despite of the afflictions the threatenings and all the voicemails
and emails they do it anyways because they love their people and therefore the
people are not scattered in fact they unify around the truth point number
three point number one you know preaching from the chav is diluted
preaching from the wheat is fire right preaching from the chav drives people
away preaching from the wheat actually unifies people around the truth number
three preaching from the wheat is hard preaching from the chav is soft this is
I'm telling you I'm drawing the line right here I'm just saying look this is
this is the difference between the two well I know you know this is hard but of
course it's hard but well why is it hard preaching though what does it mean to be
well what is hard me means firm to the touch unyielding to pressure and
penetrable look at Jeremiah 23 verse 29 is not my word like as a fire saith the
Lord and like a hammer the breaketh the rock in pieces there's times that people
come to the church and their hearts are hardened are they not they've been hurt
you know they've been defrauded they've been delusion they've been discouraged
and their heart sometimes gets hard you know what fixes that the hammer of God's
Word and look I'm not saying look I'm talking about hard preaching that has
content from the Bible itself you know I've heard some hard preaching with zero
Bible right haven't you haven't you a bunch of ripping but it's just like no
scripture or they go to one scripture you know and then the rest of it is just
the pastor speaking no comparison of scriptures right true preaching is like
a hammer that breaketh the rock and pieces it softens the heart of the
people who have been hardened by the things of this world look at verse 30
says therefore behold I am against the prophets saith the Lord that steal my
words everyone from his neighbor so what does this mean well here it's shown us
that the false prophet because he's not saved has to get his Christian ease from
someone else they have to get their biblical lingo and biblical truths from
someone else in order to pass off as a sheep even though they're a wolf they
have to steal the words from their neighbor they said what about the wheat
well the wheat buys the truth and sells a not the wheat puts into work he pays
the price to study the Word of God and he takes full advantage of the Holy
Spirit that dwells within him to learn the Bible regardless of how many decades
it may take to learn it that's the difference you know these like you know
you have these hyper dipsticks like gene Kim robber breaker there's a movie about
that out there somewhere about that and these guys they don't think more than
referencing the Bible what do they do they reference Clarence Larkin they
reference you know Peter Ruckman they reference all these hyper dipsticks
throughout all the ages or whatever that have taught this false doctrine because
they can't get anything from the Bible themselves they need to steal the words
from their neighbors is what they need to do whereas you know the the the wheat
labors the wheat rightly devised the Word of Truth they studied to show
themselves approve them to God in order that their hammocks should be hard
enough to penetrate to break in pieces the rock the Bible says go to Psalm 29
if you would I'm sorry stay right there let's keep reading here verse 31 it says
behold I am against the prophets say it the Lord that use their tongues and say
and say he saith behold I am against them that prophesied false dreams by the
way verse 31 I hate when people do that well you know God says it's like where
well I don't know exactly where but he's it's somewhere in there where he saith
verse 32 behold I am against them to prophesy false dreams saith the Lord and
do tell them and cause my people to err by their lies and by their lightness yet
I sent them not nor commanded them be therefore they shall not profit this
people at all saith the Lord these are the pastors that want to make it look
like they preach hard on sin but it's actually a really light touch don't do
it sin is bad don't do that and then when someone's just like and they're
like but you know if you do it you know I understand lightness don't do it it's
gonna destroy your life those of you who were sleeping just woke up did you not
but it wasn't lightness that woke you up it was the hammer look at Psalm 29 in
verse number 4 if you would Psalm 29 in verse number 4 you say well why do you
guys preach so hard is because we won't we don't want people to destroy their
lives we've seen what sin does to people oh you guys are just happy to just throw
people out at their fornicators I'm not happy about that if we got to do it we
got to do it but when I go home I'm heartbroken when I go home I got a lump
in my throat cuz I'm gonna miss the brother I'm gonna miss that person and I
know what's what's lying ahead for that person in the future I know they're
gonna be destroyed by Satan that hurts but does that mean we don't use the
hammer look at Psalm 29 verse 4 the voice of the Lord is powerful the voice
of the Lord is full of majesty the voice of the Lord break at the cedars yay the
Lord break at the cedars of Lebanon he maketh them also to skip like a calf
Lebanon and Syrian like a young unicorn the voice of the Lord divided the flames
of fire you know what the Word of God does you know what the hammer does it
breaks those those dividing walls of false ideologies it breaks those
dividing walls of discouragement and fear oh man I don't know if I can go out
there and preach the gospel you hear a fiery sermon on soul winning and you
know what does I can do it I believe I can do it I don't know if I should
homeschool I'm just so scared of doing that and the fire the hammer of God's
Word breaks that fear breaks that fear and it caused you to recognize you know
maybe we can't do this you know I don't know if I can show up to church that you
know Sunday morning Sunday night Wednesday night I mean that's that's a
lot what am I gonna do the hammer of God's Word comes and it breaks that and
it says you know what God will take care of us we can do it it tears down the
partitions of walls of discouragement of fear and it uses God's Word to just
diminish that and it allows you to see hey I guess I can do it I believe I can
do it go back to Jeremiah 23 if you wouldn't preaching from the chaff is
very soft preaching from the wheat it's very hard regardless of what you're
talking about even if it's on the love of God it's hard even if it's on the
grace of God it's hard and look I'm not talking about the decibels of your voice
hard I'm talking about the fact that you're using the Word of God look at
number verse 32 number four preaching from the wheat profits the people
preaching from the chaff is worthless the Bible says in verse 32 behold I am
against them to prophesy false dreams say it the Lord and do tell them and
cause my people to err by their lies and by their likeness yet I sent them not
nor commanded them therefore they shall not profit this people at all saith the
Lord you know you work all week you save them money to put in your gas tank you
buy a Bible you get all dressed up you do everything I bring Pastor Shelley
talked about this and you come to church you want to profit from it and that's
what the preaching of the wheat does it actually profits the people why because
it's using the scriptures it's using the Word of God and it's profitable for
doctrine for reproof for correction and instruction in righteousness chaff
preaching is just worthless just doesn't do anything for you you hear the same
thing over and over again you got Paul Chappell's Sunday school lesson on the
grace of God 32 lessons repeating the same exact thing three different you
know 32 different ways and by the animators just like we didn't even go
that deep into that hey I'm thankful for the pastors in our movement they go
deep on some subjects they go down deep and they don't come up dry they come up
soaking wet they go deep on some subjects amen
pastor a minute preach through the book of Leviticus not boring preaching
through the book of Ezekiel not boring pastor Anderson preached to the book of
Jeremiah preaching through the book of Exodus not boring oh that's like Old
Testament you know most people when they come to church when they come to a
new IP Church we haven't turned to the Old Testament book they'll be like flip
over and they go hey there's words on this page and praise the Lord for that
I'm thankful for the pastors in our movement that are not afraid to touch
the books of the Old Testament because haven't you read the Bible you're just
like man I wonder what this means in the Old Testament you know I wonder what a
sermon or a series would be like on this book and once you hear it's like wow
that was profitable that was profitable I'm gonna skip some things here cuz I'm
out of time here's the last one go to Matthew 13 what is the shaft to the
wheat
and look there's people out there who still don't know the difference for some
reason as you know he that is ignorant let him be ignorant still right but one
day people will know the difference they may not know the difference now but one
day they will know the difference why because the wheat will be gathered into
the barns to shine forever whereas the chaff will be gathered into bundles to
be burdened and at that point there's no question who's the chaff and who's the
wheat look at Matthew 13 verse 24 says another parable putting forth unto them
saying the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his
field but while men slept his enemy came and so tears among the wheat and went
his way but when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit then appeared
the tears also so the servant of the householder came and said unto him sir
this that does not thou sow good seed in thy field from whence then hath it
tears he said unto them an enemy hath done this the servant said unto him
would thou then that we go and gather them up but he said nay lest while ye
gather up the tears ye root up also the wheat with them let them both grow
together until the harvest and in the time of harvest I will say to the
reapers gather ye together first the tears and bind them in bundles to burn
them but gather the wheat into my barn and at that point we'll know who's who
so how am I supposed to apply this sermon though brother me here you know I
know the difference I know what the difference is I've heard sermons like
this before how do I apply this to my life well this is how you apply it
remember this that every generation needs to do their part and clarifying
that line you know you may be parents you have children you make sure you make
that distinction very clear to the next generation you're not going to be here
forever once you're gone you're gone and whatever they learn from you they will
carry for the rest of their lives clarify that line to them show them the
distinction of that line well I just don't want to come off too radical too
zealous what you do in moderation your children will do in excess if you're
ignorant in moderation your children will be ignorant and excess we need to
make sure that we teach the next generation where to draw the line that's
how you apply it well I'm not married yet well good you have more time to
learn how to draw so when the time comes you say son here's where we draw the
line here's where the Bible draws the line and dad's not gonna be here dad's
not always gonna be here so you need to learn this and get it ingrained in your
heart and know the difference between the chaff and the wheat let's pray
father we thank you so much for your word I'm thankful for the wheats in my
life the man who preached to me and even the men in this room who have helped me
Lord and they've helped me make that distinction they've helped me clarify
that line so thankful for them God I pray that you'd help us as your people
to think upon the next generation it's great to hear sermons like these but we
need to listen to them through the filter of the next generation as well
and recognize that they're the ones who come after us and they're gonna have a
new battle to fight a new war and I pray God that you'd help us to do our due
diligence to train them in the ways of the Lord and we thank you so much we
love you praise things in Jesus name amen