164 164 on the promises of God
164 started out standing on the Christ my praise raised
I will shout storms of doubt and fear say shall
Priests is of God the promises of Christ though to hit
eternally cold for coming day this fear so is of God since I
Casting every moment of this fear is called resting in my Savior as my own singing ever better
Be the Rhondes you please open sup in a word prayer amen if you want to take your him knows we're going to turn to page
number
145 number
145 it is well with my soul page number
145 there's only one page page number 145 as well with my soul there's four verses
With a four four timing. I don't know if there's any other information. I can give you about that so all right
We'll sing it out on the first when peace
like a
Test so sure foundation Baptist Church everybody verse of the week is
Psalm 103 8 the verse is merciful and gracious
slow to anger and plenteous in mercy and
Excuse me. I have to read from my phone the upcoming events in
Obviously we're doing the New Testament challenge right now. I pray everybody's on track
I'm sure everybody is and I believe there will be a reward at the end of the month
I'm not sure you'll have to check with brother Remy, but I'm pretty sure that's the case
February 14th, we have our married couple's sweetheart banquet
And that's gonna be here in at the church building at 4 p.m.
There's gonna be food fellowship and we're gonna play the not so newlywed game
Which is always a blast really fun. I hope to see everybody there married couples
We have the kids memory verse
It's gonna be John 10 27 and to see miss Kylie for that and she will hand out a reward for the
children that
memorize that verse
And then we had one salvation
yesterday out at the Nespelum reservation and then today we had one salvation which brings our
total for
January to nine which is amazing. We've had a great a great month so far for salvations
So praise God for that. Um, all the information is below for tithe information and attendance
and
Brother Kyle, could you do me a favor?
mute the
Livestream and we will go on to our prayer requests
I'm really quick before that pastor Thompson's birthday is January 26th
So anybody who can remember just wish pastor Thompson and a happy birthday
Or excuse me, it's on the 24th of January not the 26th wish pastor Thompson a happy birthday
That would be good and our prayer we
Requests are down below. So we'll go ahead and go to the Lord in prayer dear heavenly father
Thank you God for everything you do here at our church. I pray God that
The folks that are gone because they're sick. I pray God that you will heal them and they can get back into church
Feeling a hundred percent again, and we just want to praise you for the
Things that you've done for the people in our lives Lord. Thank you that my mother-in-law is now attending church in Vancouver and
Thank you God for
Shanika's sister finding a place and and
and
Shanika's sister looking for a vehicle
We want to pray God that Victoria's dad's health will
improve and
also that
Your will will be done in Timothy's life and also for brother Paul's neighbor
Joan her lupus
I pray God that you will just comfort her and just be with her in this hard time and be with her family as well
and we also pray God for
justice for Shanika pray God that your will be done there and
We also pray again Lord for Shanika's friend Delmont's business
that your hand will be in that and that your will will be done there and
We also pray for brother Aaron
He's going through a really hard time with kidney stones. Pray God that his surgery will go. Well, that's coming up
And that they will be able to get rid of those kidney stones and he'll be able to be back at full health
back at church and
fellowshipping with the brethren
We also continue to pray for a brother Kyle's health and guidance
through this winter and that that you'll take care of him financially and that he won't have any
Sort of worries and and things that can come up during the slow months
We want to pray God that Kyle's
uncle
that you will just be with him and comfort him during the
cancer that has
unfortunately
caused much
concern lately Lord
And we want to continue to pray for miss Marina
that her pregnancy will go well and that you'll comfort her back pain and that
That you'll just allow her to get some rest. I know it's been kind of hard lately for her
We just want you to be there for miss Marina and we also pray for baby Paul's health
he's going through a really hard time right now and it just seems like he he got really sick this time and
Just pray God that you'll bring baby
Paul's health back up to normal and that he will be able to eat again on his on his own without
without having to be force-fed Lord
and be with the habits that we
That I have personally and that the habits that people are working on in this room to break
That you'll just be with us and help us get through those things
We want to pray for brother Jake's unspoken
Lord, you know what that is and I just pray God that you will answer that according to your will and
We also want to pray again for miss Marina's unspoken and that you will do the same for her Lord and
And also Shanika's family members unspoken
Lord, you know all these things, you know
everything that's going on in everybody's lives Lord, and I just pray God that you will take care of them and
And bless them in a special way and we also always pray for more visitors and and more members
And and I pray God that you will be with us and bless us
Doubly this year with more salvations and and baptisms and pray God that we that you will
Grow this church and we believe you will Lord and all these things we pray in Jesus name. Amen
All right, if you want to take your Bibles, we're gonna turn to Psalm number 150
Psalm number
150 Psalm number 150 Psalm number 150. We'll sing it out on the first
Praise ye the Lord
Praise God in his sanctuary
Praise him in the
Firmament of his power praise him for his mighty acts praise him according to his
Excellent greatness praise him with the
Of the trumpet praise him with the
Praise him with the Timberland dance praise him with stringed instruments
Bulls let thing that sing everybody at this time. You will have our offering
Welcome back everybody go ahead and take your Bibles and turn to
Romans chapter 16
Romans step chapter 16 will be our text for this afternoon and as always here at your foundation Baptist Church
We read the entire chapter before the preaching Romans chapter
16 the Bible reads I commend unto you Phoebe our sister
Which is a servant of the church which is that sentry a that you receive her in the Lord has become a saint and
that you assist her in whatsoever business she have need of you for she hath been a
Sucker of many and of myself also greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ
Jesus who have for my life laid down their own necks
Unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles
Likewise greet the church that is in their house
Salute my well-beloved
Epinetus who is the firstfruits of Achaea unto Christ. Greet Mary who bestowed much labor on us
salute
Andronicus and
Junia my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners who are of note among the apostles
Who also were in Christ before me greet Amplius my beloved in the Lord
Salute Urbani our helper in Christ and Stocky's my beloved
Salute Appellis approved in Christ salute them which are of
Aristobulus's household salute Herodian my kinsmen greet them that be of the household of
Narcissus which are in the Lord salute
Trifina and Trifosa who labor in the Lord salute the beloved Persis
Which labored much in the Lord salute Rufus chosen in the Lord and his mother and mine
salute as syncretists
Flagon Hermes
Petrobus Hermes and the brethren which are with them salute
Philologus and Julia
Nereus and his sister and Olympus and all the saints which are with them
Salute one another with an holy kiss the churches of Christ salute you now
I beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions and offenses
Contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid them for they that are such serve not our Lord
Jesus Christ
But their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple for your obedience
Is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf
But yet I would have you wise unto that which is good and simple
Concerning evil and the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen Timotheus my fellow my work fellow and
Lucius and Jason and
Sossipator my kinsman salute you I
Tertius who wrote this epistle salute you and the Lord Gaius mine host and of the whole church saluted you
Erastus the Chamberlain of the city saluted you and
Quartus a brother the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all amen now to him
That is power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ
According to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began
But now is made manifest and by the scriptures of the prophets
According to the commandment of the everlasting God made known on made known to all nations for the obedience of faith
To God only wise be glory through Jesus Christ forever
Amen
Brother Jake, could you please pray for the service?
Amen. All right, so we're in Romans chapter number 16 and we're gonna get back there later in the sermon
But if you would turn to 2nd Thessalonians
Chapter number three. We're gonna kind of start the sermon off here
2nd Thessalonians chapter number three verse number six the Bible reads now we command you brother in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
That you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walk a disorderly and not after the tradition
Which he received of us and the Bible here is basically saying that there are certain
People that we should withdraw ourselves from and it tells us what types of people we're supposed to withdraw ourselves from
And the type of people is that those who are who walk not after the traditions, which he received
of us and you know here in
2026 reading in second Thessalonians, you know, what would be the tradition, you know that they would have received of us
well, that would be basically the Bible right and
So there are certain people that if they're not walking after certain basically traditions and certain doctrines
the Bible says that we should withdraw ourselves from them and there's there's certain people but there's also certain groups and
certain ideas that we should withdraw ourselves from because there's there needs to be a distinction or a
division made between you know that which is good and and that which is wrong and that which is evil and
You know a God of course is a God of division, right?
You know, we see, you know straight from the beginning of the Bible, you know
He's dividing the light from the darkness.
He's dividing the water from the land.
And there's all kinds of different divisions
that are going on.
And I thought it was kind of interesting
when we were singing the song earlier,
it is well with my soul,
that there was a division that was made clear,
because no man tried to sing the ladies part of the song.
Why? Because we believe in division at this church.
(laughing)
And there's some jobs that are for men,
and there's some jobs that are for women.
And if the men don't do their job,
it's just not gonna get done.
And if there are certain jobs
where if the women don't do it,
it's just not gonna get done.
And, you know, I thought that was kind of funny,
that part of that song, you know?
If the women didn't do that part of the song,
well, that part of the song just wasn't gonna get sung.
(laughing)
So, you know, it might've been a little bit awkward,
but little did you know it was gonna be
a great sermon illustration.
(laughing)
So anyways, but anyway,
so God is a God of division, right?
So, and obviously there's different types of division.
You know, we would think of like, you know,
division between good and evil,
but of course there's different types of division
where it's not necessarily good and evil at all.
And the division between men and women
would be one of those, right?
And you know, men aren't evil,
women aren't evil in and of themselves.
They're just different.
You know, it's not like men are inherently better
or women are inherently better.
It's just they're different.
You know, they're just different.
There's a division, right?
But, and that goes along with it as well with my soul.
But let's move on.
Go ahead and turn to Matthew chapter number 10,
Matthew chapter number 10.
Let's see here.
And I apologize, the printer does not work.
So we manually going to every single verse
in my entire sermon.
Matthew chapter number 10, look at verse number 34.
It says, "Think not that I'm come to send peace on earth,
but I came not to send peace, but a sword,
for I'm come to set a man at variance against his father,
and the daughter against her mother,
and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household."
And so, you know, Jesus,
a lot of times people have the idea that, you know,
Jesus, he's just kind of all about unity
and just kind of about getting along with everybody.
But in reality, you know, he said he came not to send peace,
but a sword.
And, you know, what is it that swords do?
Well, if you get down to it,
what do swords do?
They divide, right?
'Cause if you hack somebody with a sword,
what did you do to them?
You divided them, right?
I mean, if you do a thrust or whatever into their stomach,
well, you divided parts of their flesh from another part,
which, you know, it's gonna cause them to die, right?
And so, you know, he came not to bring peace but a sword.
Why is he saying that?
He's like, hey, there's gonna be division, right?
He's not necessarily literally saying,
I'm just gonna like, you know,
start stabbing people with swords,
but it's a metaphor for division, right?
He's come to bring division.
He's dividing one group from another.
And he says, look, you know,
the division is gonna go as far
as that a son is gonna be at variance.
He's gonna be divided against his father
and the daughter against her mother
and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
And of course, you know, the last one,
it wasn't that hard to do.
It's kind of like a mousetrap.
You know, you just kind of touch it.
So not a lot of effort there.
But the division is, you know,
it can even break down those bonds, right?
Which is very sad, but there needs to be,
sometimes there just needs to be division.
Now, this isn't something
that's just happening all the time, right?
It's not like every single father
is gonna be at variance with every single son,
and every single mother is gonna be at variance
with every single daughter.
That's not what he's saying here,
but those things will happen.
There will be some daughters
that are gonna be at variance against their mothers.
There will be some sons
that are gonna be at variance against their fathers.
And why? It's because of Jesus Christ.
Because Jesus Christ is bringing this division.
Because look, some people are going to look to Jesus Christ
and they're gonna believe his doctrine
and they're gonna follow him.
And other people are not gonna like it.
They're gonna resist that.
They're gonna oppose that.
So there has to be a division that occurs there.
And this happens quite a few times in the New Testament
where there's a division that is caused
basically by Jesus and his doctrine.
Go to John chapter number seven.
We're gonna look at verse number 43.
It says, "So there was a division among the people
"because of him."
So again, here's Jesus Christ pausing, bringing division.
John chapter number nine, verse number 16 says,
"Therefore, says some of the Pharisees,
"This man is not of God
"because he keepeth not the Sabbath day.
"Others said, how can a man that is a sinner
"do such miracles?
"There was a division among them."
So, due to Jesus Christ showing up on the scene,
preaching the truth and doing miracles,
there's a division, right?
And so, the Bible, everywhere it goes,
it's going to bring division.
And if you think of any culture around the world
that has had the Bible brought to them for the first time
and has had the gospel brought to that group of people
for the first time,
there's going to be a division that happens there.
Why?
Because there's going to be people
that do believe on Jesus Christ,
but there's also going to be a large group of people
that don't, that reject Him.
And so there's going to be a division that occurs there
because of Jesus Christ.
John chapter number 10, look at verse number 19,
it says, "There was a division, therefore again,
among the Jews for these sayings."
And you know, of course, what are these sayings?
Well, these are the sayings of Jesus Christ.
These are the teachings of Jesus Christ,
which are gonna come in and they're gonna cause a divide.
And of course, you know, a very famous verse,
Hebrews 412 says, "For the word of God is quick and powerful
and sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even the dividing of the son
of a soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow
and is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart."
So even the Bible itself is described as a sword,
which divides.
The doctors of the Bible are going to divide
and they're going to create a separation.
They're going to divide people.
This is just the reality of the world that we live in.
Go ahead and turn to 1 Corinthians chapter number 11,
1 Corinthians chapter number 11.
And so, you know, division, it was interesting.
I listened to a podcast that Pastor Bruce Mahia was on,
I think it was several months ago,
and the two hosts of the program,
one of them was kind of complaining about the fact that,
you know, there isn't a lot of unity,
you know, within kind of the Christian faith,
you know, that he should be able to go to
basically any church and be able to hear
kind of the same doctrine, right?
And, you know, he has this kind of idea
that all Christians should be kind of united,
which, you know, to be fair, that would be nice.
But here's the thing, what are we united around, right?
We have to be united around the truth.
And the reality is, though, that the vast majority
of so-called Christians are not united.
They don't have the same doctrine.
They don't have the same truth.
And so we can't be united with them.
That's why there's a division.
And that's why God creates division.
That's why, you know, that's why there was a division
amongst the Jews, and that's why there's a division today.
You know, that's why we're not a universal church.
That's why we're not in a denomination.
Why? Because we're not just going to be unified
with every single church in Spokane.
We're not going to be unified
with every single church in Washington.
We're not unified with every single believer.
We're not.
We're just simply not.
There's a separation.
That's why we're independent.
That's why this is an independent Baptist church,
because we're not united with the Catholics.
We're not united with the Methodists.
We're not united with the Pentecostals.
We're not united with the Presbyterians.
We're just not.
We don't have the same doctrine.
There's a divide there.
There's a division that has happened.
And the Word of God is creating this division.
It's separating the wheat from the chaff.
So the idea of having division is a biblical idea.
We are not to just unite and yoke up ourselves
with just everybody in the world,
because we have to stick with biblical standards
and biblical doctrines.
Otherwise, what's the difference between us and the world?
There's a reason why there's different denominations,
and there's a reason why there's different restaurants.
It's not just all like one,
there isn't just like one type of food, right?
You don't go to a restaurant
and they all have the same food, right?
And obviously, one type of food is not sinful
and this one's superior or whatever,
but you get the illustration.
There's different types of restaurants
with different types of food, right?
They're not all exactly the same.
So there's, I mean, if you really think about it,
there's division all over the place in life.
There's division everywhere.
And so, you know, division is,
we should view division as a good thing, okay?
It should be, we should view the fact
that we are divided from the rest of the world.
It's a good and proper thing.
We should be divided from the world.
We should be separated from the world
and all the false doctrine that is out there.
Let's see here, go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 11.
Look at verse number 19, excuse me, verse number 17.
The Bible reads, now in this that I declare unto you,
I praise you not that you have come together,
not for the better, but for the worse.
For first of all, when you come together in the church,
I hear that there be divisions among you,
and I partly believe it, for there must also, excuse me,
for there must be also heresies among you,
that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
So Paul here, he's writing, you know,
obviously to the Corinthian church,
and it says that there's a division within the church.
And now, you know, division being divided from the world
and from false doctrine,
that is a good and positive thing.
But if there is a division, you know, within the church,
especially about doctrine, that is not a good thing, okay?
And we see here, Paul, he's writing,
and he's basically telling them that this is a problem.
But, and we see that the reason for the division,
he says, "For there must also, excuse me,
there must also be heresies among you,
that they which are approved may be made manifest."
So basically, what's going on in the Corinthian church
is that there's heresies,
there are people that are believing heresies
that are causing the division.
They're not believing the correct proper doctrine
from the Bible,
and they are the ones that are causing the division.
Now, go ahead and turn to Romans chapter number 16 again,
back to our chapter that we had read.
Romans chapter number 16, verse number 17.
It says, "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them,"
notice this, "which cause divisions and offenses
contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned,
and avoid them.
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ,
but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches
deceive the hearts of the simple."
And so, you know, the Bible is clear here
that, you know, the people that are believing
the right doctrine, the people that are,
they just believe the Bible, they're right on our doctrine,
they are not the ones that are actually causing
the divisions, okay?
According to Romans chapter 16, it says,
"I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause division."
So we are supposed to mark the people that are causing
the division, because the people that are causing
the division out there are the people that are preaching
and teaching false doctrine, okay?
It's not the people that are teaching the correct doctrine,
it's the people that are teaching false doctrine
that are causing division in churches, okay?
They are the problem, it's not the people that are just
preaching the Bible and teaching correct doctrine
from the Bible that are causing the division,
it's people that are teaching false doctrine.
And the Bible says that, hey, you know,
and you know, I just want to emphasize,
when we're marking people and avoiding them
because they're causing divisions,
this isn't small doctrine, this isn't like minor doctrine,
this is like big major doctrine.
You know, doctrines like the Trinity,
this is talking about doctrines like the,
and we'll get into more examples later,
but this isn't stuff that's just like
minor detail type stuff.
I mean, people obviously can disagree
on lots of different things, you know,
lots of different people, you know,
they have their opinions, I preach a sermon about,
you know, Melchizedek.
People can have their opinions about Melchizedek.
You know, people can have their opinions on,
you know, End Times Bible Prophecy.
People can have their opinions
on lots of different things in the Bible.
But there's certain things
that are just completely non-negotiable.
It's like, you either get it right,
or you're causing division and we're gonna mark you, right?
And so, you know, there are certain people out there
that are causing division,
and we ought to mark them and avoid them.
And let's get into some examples of things
that we should mark and avoid people over.
And go and turn to Galatians chapter number one,
Galatians chapter number one.
Galatians chapter number one, verse number six,
it says, "I marveled the year so soon removed
"from him that called you into the grace of Christ
"unto another gospel, which is not another,
"but there be some that trouble you
"and would pervert the gospel of Christ,
"but though we, or an angel from heaven,
"preach any other gospel unto you,
"than that which we have preached unto you,
"let him be accursed.
"As we said before, so say I now again,
"if any man preach any other gospel unto you
"than that you have received, let him be accursed."
So according to these scriptures,
I believe that it's making it clear
that if somebody is teaching a false gospel,
a foreign gospel to scripture,
then it's clear that that person
should be marked and avoided,
because that is a major division.
I mean, if we're gonna divide over anything,
we should be dividing over the gospel of Jesus Christ.
If people are preaching a false gospel,
they're preaching a workspace salvation,
or if they're believing in damnable heresy,
like denying the deity of Jesus Christ,
we are to divide from those people
and not associate with them.
Why?
Because they are causing a division,
and they are preaching false doctrine
that is actually damning people to hell.
And so, you know, I think this is very clear.
I mean, the Bible is so, you know,
it's very clear that salvation is by grace or faith.
You know, Ephesians 2, 8, 9 says,
"For by grace are you saved through faith,
"and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,
"not of works, lest any man should boast."
It's very easy.
Salvation is through Jesus Christ.
He paid for it, and we don't work our way to heaven.
We just believe on him, and we get to go for free.
And anybody that's preaching anything against that,
we should mark them.
This is why we call out these different heretics,
like, what's his name?
Like, Stacey Shifflett is a good example of this,
'cause he preaches a reprint of your sins
for salvation gospel, which is not the gospel
that we receive from the Apostle Paul.
That's not the gospel that we receive
from Jesus Christ himself.
I mean, what is it that Jesus Christ said
in order to do for somebody to get to heaven?
He said, you know, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved, right?
Well, that's Paul said that,
but that's Acts chapter number 16.
But what did Jesus Christ say?
He said in John 6, 47, he said,
"Verily, verily, I say unto you,
he that believeth on me hath everlasting life."
He didn't say, "He that repenteth of all his sins
hath everlasting life."
He said, "No, whosoever believeth in me hath everlasting life."
And everlasting is everlasting, my friend.
And so, we're not gonna yoke up with people
that are preaching a false gospel.
We're not gonna be buddy buddies with people
that are preaching a false gospel
and go and work with them and go soul-winning with them
and have conferences with them or anything like that.
No, we're separate.
There's a division that's happening.
Just like there was a division amongst the Jews
when Jesus Christ was preaching the truth,
there's going to be a division amongst Christians in 2026
when people are preaching false doctrine
and a false salvation.
There's going to be a divide that happens.
We're going to separate from them, right?
And why?
Because you know what?
There's a difference between light and darkness.
And so we're going to turn on the light
and the darkness is going to leave the room, okay?
And the false gospel is not going to be in this room.
It's going to be preached out of the room
when we turn on the light of God's word
and the false doctrine and the false salvation are thrown out.
Okay, there's going to be a division.
Well, let's see here.
Go ahead and turn to Matthew chapter number 24.
Matthew chapter number 24.
And so, you know, separating from people
that have a false gospel, that's kind of like,
I guess that would kind of be like the main,
the biggest one that we would,
the biggest one, kind of the most important one
that we would separate from people over.
But that is not the only one that we would separate over.
Go ahead and turn to Matthew 24.
We're gonna look at verse number 35.
It says, heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away.
Now, this is a promise from Jesus Christ,
basically that God's word is going to be preserved.
And so, you know, this is something that I believe
is an extremely important doctrine,
is the fact that God is going to preserve his word.
Because, I mean, how do we even get the doctrine of salvation?
How do we know that salvation is by grace or faith?
How do we know that it's eternal life?
How do we know that it's for free?
How do we know that Jesus paid for it?
How do we know any of those things?
Because of the fact that God preserved his word,
and we can actually trust the words that we have.
And so, you know, that's why,
that's one of the reasons why this church
is King James only, right?
That means we're not using any of these other versions
of the Bible.
We're only using the King James Bible.
And guess what?
We're not gonna fellowship with other groups of Christians.
Any other churches out there,
they're not using the King James Bible.
We're simply not gonna fellowship with them.
We're simply not going to yoke up with them.
We're not gonna work with them.
It's not gonna happen.
Why?
Because there's a division that needs to be happened
between light and dark, my friend.
There's people that believe God's promises
and there's people that don't.
And guess what?
The people that don't believe in the King James Bible,
that don't hold the King James Bible,
they don't believe this promise that God
would preserve his word.
Why?
Because they're saying that, well,
we're using the NIV because we think this is more accurate.
Now, why is it more accurate?
Well, because we duck up this manuscript
that was lost for thousands and thousands of years
and we translated it and we trust it more
because God somehow lost, the word of God was lost
just for thousands of years
until we finally dug it up in the 1800s.
Okay?
And so, we're separating from that garbage though.
We're not linked up, we're not yoked up
with that kind of doctrine.
We actually do believe that God preserved His word
to every generation.
Every generation has had God's word available to them.
And that's what the Bible says and that's what we believe.
And you know, another reason why we don't,
we're not gonna accept any of these other Bible versions
is because, I mean, just look at the fruit
of what these new Bible versions have brought.
Extreme liberalism, and why does that happen?
Well, I mean, if you just take a look
at what's in these new versions,
you know, it kind of becomes obvious.
Go ahead and turn to Proverbs chapter number 26.
Proverbs chapter number 26.
Look at verse number 10.
And I think I used this verse as an illustration
probably several months ago, but it's just,
I don't know, I just can't get over how crazy
the new versions are in this verse.
So I'm just gonna show it again, even if I did.
But it says, verse number 10, it says the great God
that formed all things both rewardeth the fool
and rewardeth the transgressor.
Now, let's see here.
Had it pulled up in the NIV in my phone,
if I could get my phone here real quick.
Here it is, got it.
The new versions absolutely destroy this verse.
And again, this is just another reason
why we're King James only because otherwise
you're gonna get stuff like this.
It says in verse number 10, this is the NIV,
Proverbs 26 10, it says, "Like an archer who wounds at random
is one who hires a fool or any passerby."
So, I mean, if you read the NIV, you know,
you come across this verse, you know,
this might make you doubt the inspiration of God's word.
Like, I mean, it's just, it's a bizarre verse.
It doesn't make any sense.
I mean, like, okay, like an archer who wounds at random.
I mean, first of all, that's a weird statement.
What archer wounds at random?
Like, is there just like some weirdo archer
just in a field just like whoops, you know,
and it accidentally wounds somebody?
Like, you know, this guy needs some archer, you know,
he needs to take a hunter safety course or something.
It's like, you know, so that doesn't make any sense.
But then that's an archer that wounds at random,
which is something that doesn't exist as far as I know.
I mean, have you ever, has anybody ever heard
of somebody being wounded at random by an archer?
I mean, you know, maybe it's talking about the guy
that killed, the guy that went out with King Jehoshaphat
when they went up to Ramoth Gilead, King Ahab, right?
Maybe they're talking about King Ahab getting killed by,
you know, I mean, maybe, I don't know.
It's like, I don't know where else you come up with this,
though, it's like, it's a bizarre statement,
like an archer that wounds at random, okay?
You know, and obviously in that story,
it's like, that was God's providence.
That was God influencing the situation
to make sure King Ahab died, you know?
So, you know, I don't think that applies.
Doesn't apply, all right, NA, not applicable.
All right, so like an archer who wounds at random
is one who hires a fool or any passerby.
So basically, if you, let's say you own a business, right?
And you hire, let's say you hired a homeless guy
or something like that.
You're basically just like a dude shooting people
with arrows at random.
What?
So if you hire a fool and he works for a couple hours
or something, and he just doesn't work out,
and he runs off in the middle of the shift,
basically, you're equivalent to negligent homicide
or whatever.
It's like, what?
I don't know, it's just bizarre.
Or any passerby.
So if you own a business and you hire somebody who just walked
by, you're just desperate for workers, right?
You're just like, I got to get this job done.
I need somebody to help.
Hey, I'll give you $300 if you come help me finish this job
for the rest of the day.
I'm like, oh, yeah, OK, sure.
If you do that, you're basically--
you're like an archer wounding at random.
I mean, you may as well just go to a parade somewhere
with a bow and just not even aim, just blindfold
and wound somebody at random.
It's like, what in the world?
But this is what you get with the new versions.
You get this insanity.
And I wonder how many people have been reading the NIV,
and they come to this verse, and they look at it.
But honestly, though, people that read the NIV,
they're probably not highly analytical.
They don't have a great respect for God's word,
so they're probably not hanging on every word.
But if somebody were, you know, they're just like,
they're actually trying to believe the Bible.
They're hanging on every word, they're trying to analyze it
and understand what God is trying to say,
and they think the NIV is a good Bible translation.
They come to this verse.
I wonder how many people have just kind of lost their faith
in the Bible after reading that.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a lot of people,
you know, which is really unfortunate,
because it's like, you know, when you read God's word,
you know, it's powerful.
I mean, what did the Bible actually say?
It says, "The great God that formed all things,
both rewardeth the fool and rewardeth the transgressors."
And I don't know, you know, I tried to look up,
we were talking about this verse a few months ago,
and you know, we looked up why, and there's no good reason.
It's just insanity.
It's, I don't know, it's bizarre.
And so that's why there's a division, though.
That's why there's one Bible that's just above the rest.
That's why there's one version of the English Bible
that is used in actual fire-breathing Baptist churches
that are soul-winning all over America.
That's why none of them are using the NIV,
because if you read the NIV,
you're gonna get like the sickness of liberalism.
You're gonna become liberalized,
and you're gonna be like one of these weakling preachers
that can't preach the way of a wet paper bag,
and they're not preaching hard truths from the word of God.
I mean, you're never gonna find that
in one of these liberal churches.
And look, we meet saved people at these liberal churches.
I've met multiple people that are going to these,
that are like fun centers.
Like I went to, like a couple months ago,
I met somebody that went
to one of these mega fun center churches,
and the guy gave the right answers for salvation, right?
And praise God for that.
But at the end of the day though,
we're not gonna link up and be buddy buddies
with the people at the fun centers, okay?
If they wanna have fellowship with us,
they're gonna have to cross over the divide
and get their doctrine right, right?
They're gonna have to cross over the divide
and start cleaning up all their messed up doctrine
and all their, you know, everything they have screwed up.
They're gonna have to fix that stuff
before we are gonna fellowship with them.
Why?
Because there needs to be a divide.
Jesus, again, He's bringing division.
and we're not gonna link up with this crazy amount
of heresy that's in these new Bible versions, right?
And here's the thing, again, especially when it comes
to this subject of the King James Bible,
people always like to accuse us of bringing division.
No, my friend, we are not bringing the division.
They have brought the division.
They have caused the division over the belief of the Bible
because, look, we're unified around one book.
And, you know, Christianity has been unified
around this book for 400 years.
Basically, since the beginning of the English language,
we've been unified around one book.
But these Johnny-come-latelys
that have brought this mountain of new biversions,
they are the ones that are causing the division, my friend.
It's not us.
We're not being divisive.
They have brought the division.
Why?
Because what have they been trying to do
over the last hundred years?
They've been trying to divide people
from their King James Bible
and put a different Bible in their hands.
That's what they've been trying to do.
They have been trying to cause division in Christianity.
And unfortunately, they've been successful
because they've duped millions of people
into picking up these new versions
that are not inspired, that are not preserved,
that are fake.
And that's why there has to be divide
because we're not gonna have a fake version of the Bible
that we're gonna read from.
And we don't respect these new versions of the Bible.
The only reason why we're interested in anything
they have to say is to expose and make fun of them.
That's why we have the new, I mean that's,
I'm kind of glad that I can just look up the NIV
on my phone 'cause why?
'Cause then I can look up these verses and make fun of it
and illustrate how dumb and stupid it is
and why we are never gonna use it
and why we're never gonna use the New King James either.
There's Baptist churches out there
that are kind of soft on the King James Bible
and where they're only King James,
but they're not King James only.
Meaning they like the King James,
they use the King James for their preaching and whatnot,
but they don't really mind if people in the pew
are using the New King James.
Now, I say that's too soft.
You're not, I would divide from a church like that.
There's a separation from a church like that
that's not gonna be actually King James only.
I mean, if a Baptist church is kind of okay
with people using a New King James in the pew,
that's a problem, my friend.
The New King James is not a good Bible.
It is not okay for people to be just using
the New King James Bible.
It's filled with heresy, it's filled with lies.
And you know, just 'cause they call it the New King James,
and oh, it's just like the King James,
it just updates the language.
No, my friend, it doesn't just update the language.
It perverts many, many, many verses
in the Bible, unfortunately.
And so, yeah, no, there's,
even independent Baptist churches are getting this idea
where they think that it's okay for church members
to use the New King James.
And I'm sorry, my friend,
there's a divide that's gonna happen,
'cause you know, this church will not put up with that.
Do you wanna have a New King James?
No.
You gotta throw that New King, you know,
I saw there's a tutorial on how to read
the New King James Bible that I saw recently.
It says you get your New King James,
you pick it up, you put it in the trash,
and then you read the King James, right?
That's your guide on reading the New King James.
Right there, all the steps you need to know.
And so again, you know, we're not gonna fellowship
with people that don't believe in the King James Bible.
It's just simply not gonna happen.
There's a divide that's gonna happen.
Go ahead and turn to Romans chapter number six,
Romans chapter number six,
and this will be kind of my last point here.
And the last example of things
that we are gonna divide over is over baptism.
And you know, the Bible is very clear about baptism.
You know, baptism is by immersion
and it's after salvation, right?
Very simple, very easy.
But there's a lot of people out there,
there's a lot of groups out there
that are teaching, you know, baby baptism.
And they're teaching sprinkling, you know,
which are both false.
And, you know, let's look at what the Bible says about it.
It says here, it says, "Know ye not that so many of us
"as were baptized into Jesus Christ
"were baptized into his death?
"Therefore, we are buried with him by baptism into death,
"that like as Christ was raised up from the dead
"by the glory of the Father,
"even so we also should walk in newness of life,
"for if we have been planted together
"in the likeness of his death,
"we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection."
And so, you know, the Bible is clear here
that baptism is a picture of the death,
burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Now, when somebody gets baptized,
they're basically, it's a declaration that they believe
in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ,
and they believe that they themselves
also are gonna die and they're gonna be raised again
at the resurrection, amen?
And so it's a picture of these two things,
but how can a baby, though, identify with that?
It doesn't make any sense.
And that also violates very clear scripture.
I mean, you say, okay, well, Romans chapter number six
isn't all that clear on when somebody should get baptized.
It's like, okay, yeah, but there's other verses
that are extremely clear on when people should get baptized.
How about Acts chapter number eight,
where the Ethiopian eunuch says,
what doth hinder me to be baptized?
And he gets the answer.
He says, if thou believest that Jesus Christ
is the son of God, thou mayest.
So what is it that hinders people from getting baptized?
Do they believe in Jesus Christ?
Do they believe he's the son of God?
Do they believe in the death,
burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ?
'Cause if they don't, then they can't get baptized.
That's what's hindering you from getting baptized.
Very clear from the Bible.
And guess what?
Babies, they don't believe in the death,
burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Why?
'Cause they don't even know what the number four is, okay?
That's why.
They have no clue, okay?
And also, it goes along, you know,
this baptismal regeneration.
Oh, not that specifically.
The, yeah, original sin.
That's also another major false doctrine.
Because guess what?
Babies, I mean, what do they need to be baptized for?
Well, they have to wash away their original sin.
Okay, you know, maybe you needed to be washed away
of your original sin, you know?
But all these other babies, they're fine.
They don't have original sin.
Only you have it for some reason.
We don't know how you got it, because it's not even real.
But, you know, somehow you contracted it.
And so, you know, but everybody else didn't.
And so, no, no babies need to be washed
of their original sin.
You know, I don't know if they use
like really special baptismal water or something.
Maybe they got like Dawn soap in there.
They got, you know, they really scrub the skin
or something like, you know,
where did they get this idea from?
It's really bizarre.
But no, babies do not need to be baptized.
Why?
'Cause they don't have original sin.
That's a lie, that's a farce.
Okay, the Bible is actually clear that when babies die,
they go to heaven.
And the proof of that is when David,
when his son died as a baby, he said,
"Hey, I will not go to, he will not come to me,
but I will go to him."
And where did David go when he died?
Oh, was he in hell?
Was he in Purgatory Catholics?
Really, King David was in Purgatory?
You know, another thing that is completely,
also another thing that we'll separate over.
Do you believe in Purgatory?
We're separating from you.
That's a lie, that's fake,
that's literally nowhere in the Bible.
The only place that you're ever gonna find that
is probably in like the Apocrypha,
which is not scripture,
which is why we separate over that as well, right?
And so the Apocrypha's not scripture,
baby baptism is fake news,
and nobody has original sin, okay?
We have our own sin.
You know why people die and go to hell?
It's 'cause of their own sin.
You know what sin Jesus died for?
The sin that I committed.
He died for Adam's sin that was his problem, right?
And guess what?
Everybody has a sin nature.
Everybody will sin eventually.
If they live long enough, why?
'Cause everybody is a sinner.
But guess what?
Babies have no sin to wash away.
And so we're separating from that damnable heresy.
And it's also a heresy because it's saying
that the physical baptism is washing away a sin,
which physical baptism washes away no sin ever.
Why?
Because what's the point of that?
It's just to represent the death, burial,
and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And what does actually wash away sin?
Jesus and His death, the burial, and resurrection,
and His blood.
That's what is gonna wash away people's sins.
Okay, not physical baptism.
Then what's the point of baptism?
Well, first of all, it's commanded.
You're supposed to do it.
And again, it's a representation of what you believe.
It's like, "Hey, I believe that Jesus died,
was buried and rose again.
And I believe that I'm gonna die,
and I'm gonna be buried,
and I'm gonna rise again at the resurrection."
So, that's the whole point of baptism.
And so, there's all kinds of different groups
like the Presbyterians, they're baptizing babies.
The Catholics are baptizing babies.
That's false doctrine.
And then there's people that believe
in baptismal regeneration.
You know, and that's false doctrine too.
You know, that goes to our first example of Galatians 1,
where if you're preaching a false gospel,
we're gonna separate from you.
'Cause baptismal regeneration, my friend,
is a false gospel.
You know, the Duck Dynasty people,
they're preaching a false gospel.
What's his name?
Phil, does anybody know his name?
Phil Robertson.
Yeah, he believes in baptismal regeneration,
which is a false damnable heresy.
Didn't the old guy die recently?
Was that Phil Robertson?
That's Phil Robertson, okay.
But then there's his son or something that took over.
Robert Robertson.
Yeah, that's not confusing.
But Phil Robertson, where is he at right now?
Is he singing kumbaya in heaven with the angels?
No, why?
'Cause he believed in baptismal regeneration, my friend.
Sorry to pop people's bubbles,
but people that are preaching a damnable heresy
are not in heaven right now, why?
'Cause he didn't trust in Jesus Christ.
He trusted in his work of baptism instead.
How dumb.
You know, how lame of a thing to go to hell over was,
well, I believe in this,
I believe in baptismal regeneration.
I got baptized and that's what saved me.
I mean, talk about a slap in the face to Jesus Christ.
I mean, Jesus Christ was literally up on the cross,
bleeding, some guy stabs him with a spear, he dies,
he descends into hell for three days and three nights
to pay for your sin, and then some moron comes along
and is like, "Well, I'm saved as I was baptized.
This water is my savior."
Like, if you think about it, that's evil.
It is super evil.
You know, I don't, you know, yeah, yeah,
the death, the resurrection, but you gotta be baptized.
Are you physically baptized in physical water?
'Cause that physical water's gotta wash away your sins,
otherwise you're going to hell.
It's like, oh, okay, yeah.
You know, just slap Jesus in the face.
You know, all that work Jesus did, and you took a bath.
I mean, you know, I don't know, if you think about it,
it just, I don't know, it makes me mad.
But that's why we separate from those people.
And you know what?
There's an eternal separation from Phil Robertson today.
Why?
'Cause he's gonna be eternally separated from,
he's not gonna be separated from God.
(laughing)
He won't be separated from God because the Bible says
that they're in the presence of the angels
and in the presence of the lamb.
But he is eternally separated from us who are in heaven,
'cause guess what?
You know, there's a gulf between us
that no man can pass, right?
We know that from Luke 16.
But, you know, there's gonna be separation
in the world today, but you know,
we're separated from false doctrine in the world.
We're separated from the evil people of this world,
but guess what?
There's also unity though.
So let not, you know, I don't want this sermon
to be like a complete downer or whatever,
although the separation is good, right?
But we are united with the body of Christ, right?
We're united with the body of Christ,
with believers who are coming to church
who actually believe the Bible.
We should be unified with them.
Let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for this day, Lord.
I thank you for everything you've done for us, Lord.
We thank you that we can be unified
with our brothers and sisters of Christ
around correct and right doctrine,
and that we can be separated from people
that are preaching false doctrines
and damnable heresies, Lord.
We just pray that you would help us to know
all the things that we should separate over
and all the things that we should unify over.
In dear Jesus' name, amen.
Turn to page number 142.
Number 142, the old time religion.
Number 142, sing it out on the first.
♪ Is the old time religion, 'tis the old time religion ♪
♪ 'Tis the old time religion and it's good enough for me ♪
♪ It was good for our mothers, it was good for our mothers ♪
It was good for our mothers, and it's good enough for me.
It has saved our fathers, it has saved our fathers,
it has saved our fathers, and it's good enough for me.
Makes me love everybody, makes me love everybody,
Makes me love everybody and it's good enough for me.
It will do when I am dying.
It will do when I am dying and it's good enough for me.
It will take us all to heaven.
Take us all to heaven.
It will take us all to heaven and it's good enough for me.
'Tis the old time religion.
'Tis the old time religion and it's good enough for me.
Let's sing everybody with a ranch please close in a word of prayer.