WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 Traveling and those that didn't come. 00:02.000 --> 00:05.000 We ask you to bless this offering, both the gift and the giver. 00:05.000 --> 00:09.000 We can put it to work. In Jesus' name, Amen. 02:10.700 --> 02:13.500 if you turn in your Bibles to the book of Malachi, 02:15.260 --> 02:17.220 or if you're Italian, Malacci. 02:19.400 --> 02:21.000 Malachi chapter 2. 02:23.800 --> 02:26.120 Malachi chapter number two. 02:31.900 --> 02:35.340 In Malachi chapter 2, the Bible reads, 02:35.340 --> 02:38.540 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. 02:38.540 --> 02:41.180 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, 02:41.180 --> 02:44.380 To give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, 02:44.380 --> 02:49.500 I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. 02:49.500 --> 02:53.740 Yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. 02:54.300 --> 03:00.860 Behold, I will corrupt your seed and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn 03:00.860 --> 03:07.180 feasts, and one shall take you away with it. And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment 03:07.180 --> 03:14.540 unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of Hosts. My covenant was with him 03:14.540 --> 03:20.140 of life and peace, and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me. 03:20.700 --> 03:27.420 and was afraid before my name. The law of truth was found in his mouth, and iniquity was not found 03:27.420 --> 03:34.140 in his lips. He walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. 03:34.780 --> 03:40.140 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth, 03:40.140 --> 03:42.300 for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. 03:43.000 --> 03:53.000 But ye are departed out of the way. Ye have caused many to stumble at the law. Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of Hosts. 03:53.000 --> 04:04.000 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law. 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 Have we not all one father? 04:06.500 --> 04:14.420 hath not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother 04:14.420 --> 04:20.420 by profaning the covenant of our fathers? Judah hath dealt treacherously, and then 04:20.420 --> 04:27.940 abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord 04:27.940 --> 04:31.700 which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange God. 04:32.800 --> 04:38.720 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar out of the tabernacles of 04:38.720 --> 04:44.240 Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts. And this have ye done again, 04:44.880 --> 04:50.160 covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, 04:50.160 --> 04:55.440 insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand. 04:55.440 --> 04:58.300 yet you say, wherefore? 04:58.700 --> 05:03.740 because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast 05:03.740 --> 05:10.860 dealt treacherously. Yet is she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant. And did not he make one? 05:11.820 --> 05:18.060 Yet had he the residue of the Spirit, and wherefore one, that he might seek a godly seed, 05:18.780 --> 05:24.460 therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 05:25.200 --> 05:32.080 For the Lord, the God of Israel, sayeth that he hateth putting away, for one covereth violence 05:32.080 --> 05:38.320 with his garment, sayeth the Lord of hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal 05:38.320 --> 05:45.200 not treacherously. Ye have wearied the Lord with your words, yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? 05:45.700 --> 05:51.540 when ye say, Everyone that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them, 05:51.540 --> 05:57.300 or where is the God of judgment? Lord, thank you for your word, Father. Thank you. This is powerful, 05:57.300 --> 06:01.220 Lord, and I look forward to learning more. Father, I pray that you would help us to 06:01.220 --> 06:05.620 be mindful, Lord, and fill the preacher with your Spirit so he can preach boldly to us. 06:05.620 --> 06:07.000 In Jesus' name, Amen. 06:20.800 --> 06:25.020 Ampively turn it on so might not be picking this up for a little bit 06:25.020 --> 06:28.740 But it's always nice to be preaching a pastor came up to me 06:30.460 --> 06:32.280 Maybe last week about a week ago 06:32.280 --> 06:37.460 It's like hey you want to preach Thursday, and I was kind of contemplating it and he says or do you want to preach Sunday? 06:38.300 --> 06:40.300 And I chose Thursday 06:40.780 --> 06:44.660 I was like Thursday's a little bit more especially I have tomorrow off so I can 06:45.700 --> 06:49.620 kind of relax a little bit more. I don't have to worry about going to work, but it's always great 06:49.620 --> 06:56.260 preaching. I have a lot of fun kind of writing the sermon. It kind of helps me, really helps you kind 06:56.260 --> 07:02.900 of focus in on a topic. You know, you have a goal, so just kind of, I kind of need that goal to be 07:02.900 --> 07:07.940 able to like actually study the Bible. Also just follow rabbit trails everywhere. So I was like 07:07.940 --> 07:11.860 preaching because I have a objective. So it's like... 07:12.200 --> 07:17.320 Thank pastor for that one, kind of giving me that objective and opportunity to actually do it. 07:17.320 --> 07:22.600 Because if I just write a sermon just for myself, kind of half-hearted maybe, 07:22.600 --> 07:27.000 you can't really know it's like an inside joke with yourself. You can't really do anything with it. 07:27.000 --> 07:29.640 But you know, you get to preach it, you have to take it seriously. 07:31.320 --> 07:34.600 This was always fun. Thank you pastor. I'll just open up a little quick word. 07:34.600 --> 07:37.240 Lord, just fill me for your Holy Spirit. I'm going to preach a great message and 07:37.240 --> 07:39.100 out of your work. Jesus I pray, Amen. 07:39.700 --> 07:41.700 This thing is working right? 07:42.100 --> 07:47.800 Is okay. Well, we're doing it old-fashioned way. We just have to talk louder instead of 07:49.180 --> 07:51.180 And it says it's on 07:52.100 --> 07:55.700 Something will work. There's not many people here. So hopefully you can all hear me 07:56.860 --> 08:02.340 I'm preaching about the death of Anglicanism the death of Anglicanism the end of Anglicanism 08:03.180 --> 08:05.180 Some recent events have happened 08:05.600 --> 08:15.600 That kind of prompted this. First of all, they did elect a, most importantly, they did elect a woman to the office of Archbishop of Canterbury. 08:15.600 --> 08:28.600 If you know who that is, the Archbishop of Canterbury is like their head bishop. That is like the most important seat of the Anglican Church. 08:30.500 --> 08:36.200 Everyone probably knows that they kind of have the king as their head, but he really kind of rubber stamps everything. 08:36.200 --> 08:41.000 Archbishop Canterbury is much more important in operation. 08:41.000 --> 08:43.900 So they elected a woman, and I was like, well, I got to preach about that. 08:43.900 --> 08:51.800 And then recently, Charles III, if you read the introduction to the King James Bible, 08:51.800 --> 08:54.200 You know, when it says dread sovereign. 08:54.500 --> 09:00.500 One of the titles of the King of England for the longest time was Defender of the Faith. 09:00.500 --> 09:05.500 You've probably heard that title mentioned around. If you read the intro, it's in there. 09:05.500 --> 09:10.500 He recently changed it to His Majesty, the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, 09:10.500 --> 09:14.500 and protects the space for faith within the multi-faith nation. 09:14.500 --> 09:20.500 So upon seeing that, I was like, well, I guess it's decided. 09:20.500 --> 09:21.900 I kind of like... 09:22.500 --> 09:27.500 A little bit of history too, the Church of England is important to our history in many ways. 09:27.500 --> 09:32.500 But just as a general intro to Anglicanism, if you don't know, it's the Church of England. 09:32.500 --> 09:38.500 You'll see it as COE abbreviated, Church of England, the English Church, Anglicans. 09:38.500 --> 09:45.500 In America, we don't really have them, but Episcopalians stay separated from the Church of England. 09:46.700 --> 09:52.780 Because they didn't like having a one of the reasons we didn't like having a foreign king being ruling over them 09:53.300 --> 09:57.260 So I guess they're way back in the day the Episcopalians were just Patri-Anglicans 09:57.800 --> 10:04.140 But now they're kind of not really that anymore. They're more. They're very liberal one of the worst branches out there 10:05.180 --> 10:08.220 in English Protestant the English Protestant sphere 10:10.380 --> 10:11.300 So 10:11.500 --> 10:18.700 History of the Anglicans, I'm preaching so you're getting history lesson in here. I love history. I love English history, so this is right in there 10:20.700 --> 10:27.440 Christianity in England is old. If you didn't know, a large portion of Britain 10:27.440 --> 10:33.820 was ruled by the Romans for a long time and so that's right around when 10:33.820 --> 10:41.400 Christianity was introduced into the, at that time, the British Isles or Britannia. 10:42.000 --> 10:48.000 Legend has it a biblical figure introduced Christianity to the British Isles. 10:48.000 --> 10:52.000 He's in the New Testament. He has a pretty important role. 10:52.000 --> 10:56.000 He's not one of the Twelve Apostles and if you can guess it, I'd be really surprised. 10:56.000 --> 11:03.000 He does make it a very important appearance, but that's probably when Christianity was introduced to the British Isles. 11:03.000 --> 11:07.000 It was through the Roman Empire. Someone probably made it up there. 11:07.000 --> 11:09.240 But that would be to the British. 11:09.700 --> 11:20.600 Later on, of course, the pagan Saxons would invade and they would be not, according to the book I'm reading right now, 11:20.600 --> 11:26.940 they would not be reached by the Celtic, what's called the Celtic Church or Celtic Christianity. 11:26.940 --> 11:33.740 St. Patrick was a famous member of that because they had just taken over all of the British land, 11:33.740 --> 11:36.700 so there's a little bit of hatred for them, so they didn't really... 11:36.900 --> 11:38.900 talk to each other that well. 11:38.900 --> 11:41.900 But there are some interesting things about Celtic Christianity like 11:41.900 --> 11:45.900 Augustine, different Augustine, very common name. 11:45.900 --> 11:48.900 He called them Judaizers because they 11:48.900 --> 11:52.900 celebrated, they took Easter off of the Jewish 11:52.900 --> 11:54.900 calculations for Passover. 11:54.900 --> 11:57.900 And he called them a Judaizer for that, which is kind of interesting. 11:57.900 --> 12:00.600 But then you have the Saxon Christians. 12:00.700 --> 12:08.040 This goes on with the introduction of the Danes invaded up north in Northumbria and the converted. 12:08.040 --> 12:17.440 Then in 1066, of course, you have William the Bastard and the Normans bring Roman Catholicism proper into England. 12:17.440 --> 12:24.840 Then you mix that around for a few hundred years and you have this weird Church of England, English Church. 12:25.700 --> 12:31.700 You have the Lowelards mixed in with them. That's not what Whitecliff was a part of. 12:31.700 --> 12:37.700 I think he never officially joined, but he was around that time. They're very interesting. 12:37.700 --> 12:44.700 English Christianity is old. It's not something that happened in 15- 12:46.000 --> 12:51.440 30s when Henry separated the Church of England has always had a more independent role and 12:51.960 --> 12:56.480 Within itself with his governance because of the English Channel. It's really hard to enforce your laws 12:57.520 --> 13:01.640 Upon a nation when they have a built-in moat on their island, you know 13:01.640 --> 13:04.020 It's a lot easier for the king to say enforce your law 13:04.680 --> 13:10.320 In the church to do the same so at least this really interesting spot where they're a little bit more 13:11.000 --> 13:12.900 separatist in in nature 13:13.100 --> 13:15.100 The role of the king, it's pretty important. 13:15.100 --> 13:18.620 He's the defender of the faith, or at least was. 13:18.620 --> 13:22.860 What that means is he rubber stamps bishop appointments. 13:22.860 --> 13:25.460 They give him a bishop and he'd basically approve it. 13:25.460 --> 13:30.260 With the Hanovering government that they have right now, it really is rubber stamped. 13:30.260 --> 13:36.060 But in the past, I think they did a little bit more care, practices, rules. 13:36.300 --> 13:40.860 He basically approves and denies them. I guess he can exert influence to do stuff. 13:40.860 --> 13:45.900 But as a spiritual thing, he's not really like the equivalent to the Pope, 13:45.900 --> 13:49.820 who I think plays a much more spiritual role within Roman Catholicism. 13:50.200 --> 13:57.000 Rites and practices, if you've seen the Anglican Church, you might confuse it for a Roman Catholic 13:57.000 --> 13:58.000 church. 13:58.000 --> 14:02.800 They're very papist in their practices and that was a big criticism from the Puritans 14:02.800 --> 14:09.400 and Baptists and Presbyterians and Methodists and everyone else who wasn't Anglican dogged 14:09.400 --> 14:12.560 on them for that one. 14:12.560 --> 14:13.960 But why am I talking about Anglicanism? 14:13.960 --> 14:16.280 I think they're interesting because... 14:16.600 --> 14:20.200 There's a lot of these kind of splinter groups. 14:20.200 --> 14:23.720 If you've seen the film Being Baptist, 14:23.720 --> 14:27.200 you might hear of these groups, the Donathists in North Africa, 14:27.200 --> 14:29.800 the Poletians, I think, were Anatolia, 14:29.800 --> 14:35.040 the Waldensians in Switzerland, the Hussites, and what's now 14:35.040 --> 14:37.040 the Czech Republic, but at that time, Bohemia. 14:37.300 --> 14:41.700 We have all these splinter groups, but the problem is you don't speak their language. 14:41.700 --> 14:46.820 None of the records are preserved. How much do you know about the Donathists? 14:46.820 --> 14:52.580 They're from North Africa. Whatever was written down for them was destroyed by the Muslim Arabs when they came through. 14:53.400 --> 14:55.560 These other groups, how much do you know about them? 14:55.560 --> 15:00.840 A lot of what we learn is from what accusations the Catholic Church made against them. 15:01.560 --> 15:07.400 So if you see people calling the Waldensians Gnostics, that was a pretty common catch-all, 15:07.400 --> 15:10.840 like don't argue if this, like that's just a heretic, trust me bro. 15:11.960 --> 15:14.920 But we don't really know that much about them, and the sources that are translated, 15:16.120 --> 15:19.640 often sometimes not even into English, because at the time... 15:20.200 --> 15:24.600 anyone who cared about studying about this knew Latin and knew the original language. So 15:24.600 --> 15:29.240 English translation is a little bit more rare and then, you know, do we have the original documents? 15:29.240 --> 15:36.840 Not really. But with the Anglicans, that's 16th century England. We speak English. We can read 15:37.400 --> 15:41.240 their original founding documents. We can read everything they wrote about, 15:41.800 --> 15:47.240 their faith, their practices. And since all of the important people were 15:48.200 --> 15:53.400 professors and associated with the various prestigious English universities, 15:55.560 --> 16:00.600 they had really good records is what I'm saying. They put that stuff in records. It's all, you can 16:00.600 --> 16:06.040 see the originals, they've scanned it. You can go read it. It's early modern English. A little bit 16:06.040 --> 16:10.600 shaky if you read the attendale Bible. It's very close to middle English still, but you could still 16:10.600 --> 16:14.800 read it. It's also very recent and 16:15.200 --> 16:21.360 So combine that, it's like we can know a lot more about them. Also, for a brief period of time, 16:21.360 --> 16:25.360 I believe that they, unlike some of these other like false groups, like blatantly false groups, 16:25.360 --> 16:28.400 like Eastern Orthodox, you know. 16:29.000 --> 16:36.980 More modern ones like Pentecostals Mormons like did they ever like could these actually say within a reasonable doubt say that they bore 16:36.980 --> 16:40.080 The Christian torch at any time no, okay 16:40.560 --> 16:45.120 but the Anglicans I believe it's a lot more not as clear-cut because 16:45.640 --> 16:51.100 How loose Anglicanism was during the 16th and early 17th century? 16:52.900 --> 16:56.700 what they preach is, you know, on the surface good. 16:56.700 --> 16:59.200 Some of them were a little bit shaky, 16:59.200 --> 17:01.400 but that's the thing, it's like they're all over the place, 17:01.400 --> 17:05.100 it's a wide umbrella, it took a while for them to get all evened out 17:05.100 --> 17:07.600 on a lot of these doctrines, so like, you know, some 17:07.600 --> 17:09.900 Anglican up in like Northumbria 17:09.900 --> 17:13.000 could be preaching the right salvation, we don't know, right? 17:13.100 --> 17:21.100 So it could be said that they did bear the torch, it allowed for a lot of other dissenting groups to kind of flourish within them. 17:21.100 --> 17:30.100 Like some of these, you know, what we identify as Baptists, Rebaptizers, were allowed to kind of take the heat off of them for a while, 17:30.100 --> 17:38.100 kind of grow a little bit before, you know, the Anglicans figured out that you could also just pick on Baptists and then they all went to America and then we're here now. 17:38.100 --> 17:39.100 out. 17:40.200 --> 17:44.680 They're pretty important. As I said, we actually came out of the Baptist by name, maybe if not by 17:44.680 --> 17:50.040 belief, did come out of the Anglican Church. A lot of the early Baptist ministers in America were 17:50.680 --> 17:59.080 ordained as Anglican and or Puritan. So they kind of play an important role in kind of how we do 17:59.080 --> 18:05.080 stuff. Some of them, they do have some martyrs who we'd recognize. They recognize William Tindale as 18:05.080 --> 18:06.080 the Incan Martyr. 18:06.500 --> 18:14.340 John Rogers, you know who he is, he helped write the Matthew Bible. 18:14.340 --> 18:17.900 There's a bunch of English martyrs, if you look up the Fox Book of Martyrs, there's a 18:17.900 --> 18:21.620 lot of them that you might recognize the names of that they consider that we might consider 18:21.620 --> 18:24.780 as martyrs for the faith. 18:24.780 --> 18:30.180 So they aren't just like a group, like they do have some reputable history, I'd consider 18:30.180 --> 18:31.180 reputable history. 18:31.700 --> 18:35.540 So it's not just like preaching like, oh, it's the Pentecostals. 18:35.540 --> 18:37.860 They never been, never were, never have been. 18:37.860 --> 18:40.340 The Anglicans, I'd say they're has-beens, right? 18:41.220 --> 18:45.060 They kind of died out right around Charles II, I can say. 18:45.780 --> 18:46.900 They never recovered that. 18:48.580 --> 18:49.700 How did they die, right? 18:50.500 --> 18:52.660 Unfortunately, it's kind of, you know, stupid. 18:52.660 --> 18:53.780 It's kind of a stupid death. 18:53.780 --> 18:55.780 Like they ordained a woman who... 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 met with the Pope, I mean, come on. 18:59.000 --> 19:01.000 That's like, that should be... 19:01.000 --> 19:03.000 Okay, well, they ordained a woman, that's like, 19:03.000 --> 19:05.000 shouldn't, not qualified, 19:05.000 --> 19:07.000 you're Anglican 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 bishop meeting with the Pope, automatic 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 disqualification, like, come on. 19:11.000 --> 19:13.000 That's the whole point, 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 is like, not meeting with the Pope. 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 And then, you know, just a bunch of boring liberal 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 stuff, you know, it's kind of 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 like, kind of sad how like, 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 normal his death was. 19:23.800 --> 19:28.920 that you know it's just every like everything just turned into like liberal stuff ordaining women like 19:29.720 --> 19:34.920 nothing interesting there i don't i think her name is like sarah something or other 19:34.920 --> 19:42.600 and of course then charles renounced his uh full title of defender of the anglican faith so 19:43.300 --> 19:48.300 So what did they do? One of the big things they did was the King James Bible. 19:48.300 --> 19:55.300 That was of course commissioned by King James VI and I of the House of Stewards. 19:55.300 --> 19:59.300 A lot of the translators were Anglicans on that one. 19:59.300 --> 20:04.300 So I guess they get partial credit there. They did use the King James for a long time. 20:04.300 --> 20:10.100 They did a lot of missions work, if you think about the British Empire. 20:10.300 --> 20:13.740 that spanned most of the world. 20:13.740 --> 20:18.460 A lot of the English soldiers were Anglicans, so there'd be Anglican churches. 20:18.460 --> 20:23.380 So it did prime a lot of the world for this concept of like, if an English speaker of 20:23.380 --> 20:26.860 the King James Bible comes up to you, you should listen to him, right? 20:26.860 --> 20:31.860 It's kind of imprinted that memory on a lot of large portions of the world. 20:31.860 --> 20:37.200 Then the converse one of, if you harm that guy, he has friends of guns, right? 20:37.200 --> 20:38.200 There are cases of. 20:38.300 --> 20:45.460 in India where these hardcore Hindus would attack missionaries and what happened next, 20:45.460 --> 20:50.740 the East India Company would show up and they fixed that problem. 20:50.740 --> 20:53.980 So it kind of gives you reading Acts, right? 20:53.980 --> 20:59.180 The kind of negative responses a lot of the pagans had to Christianity. 20:59.180 --> 21:00.540 This one wiped it out. 21:00.540 --> 21:03.340 Kind of did that. 21:03.340 --> 21:04.940 So it goes, what went wrong? 21:04.940 --> 21:05.700 Weakness within. 21:06.000 --> 21:09.760 I actually texted Sean last night, I was like, I kind of have writer's block on this one, 21:09.760 --> 21:14.760 he replied, uh, woman, homos, bad Bible. 21:14.760 --> 21:18.480 Very simple and succinct, and yeah, that'll pretty much kill anything right there. 21:18.480 --> 21:23.840 And in weakness without one of the, of course, the downsides, you notice this with British 21:23.840 --> 21:26.760 Empire is Queen Elizabeth II was a bad queen. 21:26.760 --> 21:31.520 Gotta say it, she did nothing, kind of just let everything, everything decay. 21:31.520 --> 21:32.720 If you look at the British Empire. 21:33.100 --> 21:37.820 It's going and now the sun has set in English Empire. Did you guys know that? 21:37.820 --> 21:42.620 The faithful saying sun never sets in English Empire? It did I think earlier this year 21:42.620 --> 21:48.380 when they released some island nation and then a little bit for the seasons actually changed. 21:49.020 --> 21:52.940 So yeah the handovers were a mistake. 21:56.200 --> 21:59.760 But the Jacobites were wrong because they kept on propping up Catholic Kings 22:03.000 --> 22:04.640 Look 22:04.640 --> 22:11.560 House of Stuart was great King James House of Stuart Elizabeth the first House of Stuart Charles 22:13.480 --> 22:16.000 James second converted to Roman Catholicism and 22:16.960 --> 22:19.520 The Jacobites wanted him in charge. So I 22:20.680 --> 22:22.680 Think I think they were right to bring in 22:23.400 --> 22:27.400 William and Mary on that one, but maybe not the Germans. 22:27.400 --> 22:31.400 Whatever. That's in the past. 22:31.400 --> 22:35.400 This is now. They're stuck with them. Ezekiel 3410. 22:35.400 --> 22:39.400 Let's go there. Let's start getting into some actual Bibles. 22:39.400 --> 22:43.400 Use this tool here. 22:43.400 --> 22:47.300 What am I turning it for? I have it all printed out. I forgot the technology. 22:49.100 --> 22:55.720 Weakness of him right we have the story a lot, you know, it's this theme in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament this with the Levites 22:56.300 --> 23:01.540 Where they had they had the truth at points in the Bible 23:02.500 --> 23:08.540 Different points kind of up and down usually down but hey, they're up at some points and they're on top of the game 23:09.140 --> 23:11.260 So there's a lot of great stuff about you know 23:11.800 --> 23:17.940 Them not being on top of their game what we can take that with the Anglicans with weakness within right? 23:18.540 --> 23:23.060 the most important part to a healthy church or healthy churches is 23:23.700 --> 23:25.980 the clergy the ordained people right 23:27.540 --> 23:32.320 That's pretty important if they're if they're not doing so well church is gonna fail 23:33.160 --> 23:38.700 We see that all the time even in modern churches where they could have the people all the people they want 23:39.400 --> 23:42.680 Everything else, but if your pastor or bishop isn't great 23:44.080 --> 23:46.080 Doesn't work 23:46.080 --> 23:51.760 So of course you have this wonderful passage. I'm gonna have pictures of what went wrong the Anglicans is 23:54.320 --> 23:56.320 You know should not 23:57.560 --> 23:59.560 Where the sea 24:00.400 --> 24:05.440 Eat the fat and clothe you with the wool, you kill them that are fed, but you feed not the flock. 24:05.440 --> 24:10.320 Right? It was one of the big things where the Anglicans just failed is they didn't actually 24:10.320 --> 24:16.400 do anything. You think about the... like when was the last time you heard of the like Anglicans 24:16.400 --> 24:22.480 leaving preaching outside of their church? At all. Like not really. In my mind when you see like 24:22.480 --> 24:23.440 Anglican it's like... 24:25.000 --> 24:29.160 old vicar who like preaches and people kind of humor him 24:29.160 --> 24:33.160 but he doesn't do anything else right the only time he goes out to 24:33.160 --> 24:37.280 outside is like get a free meal from somebody's house hosting the 24:37.280 --> 24:38.280 local vicar 24:39.300 --> 24:42.660 But yeah, this is something we have to actively do is actively, you know, 24:42.660 --> 24:47.300 bishops should actively feed the flock. Pastors should actively do this, not just 24:47.300 --> 24:51.620 worry about themselves and build up their wealth like the Church of England did. 24:51.620 --> 24:55.220 They built up their themselves. They do have some really nice churches. 24:55.220 --> 25:00.100 They're selling them because their membership is plummeting. But at one point, yeah, they 25:00.100 --> 25:05.060 they did have some nice stuff, but that doesn't matter if you can't build them or do anything. 25:09.000 --> 25:14.000 disease have you not strengthened, neither have you healed that which was sick, right? 25:14.000 --> 25:21.160 Now I think the great thing that the pastors are supposed to do is not physically heal 25:21.160 --> 25:29.120 or strengthen the disease, but this is a spiritual thing where we can see the sick or maybe people 25:29.120 --> 25:33.320 with severe questions about their faith. 25:33.700 --> 25:41.860 or unsaved or any number of like spiritual issues is the pastor supposed to fix those, right? 25:41.860 --> 25:48.660 And the Anglicans never do that. Like, I don't know, I'm not English. I imagine Pastor Taverner 25:48.660 --> 25:54.100 would probably be a lot better person to like ask about this kind of stuff, but I don't think they 25:54.100 --> 25:58.660 do that, right? I haven't heard the Anglican sermon. They might have done that in the past, 25:58.660 --> 26:01.140 but they don't do that now. It's just kind of lame. 26:02.600 --> 26:09.480 Oh, before I forget, the per- the woman there, Dane, is like the most English woman out there. 26:09.480 --> 26:17.560 It's like this old woman with like, peak British dental. When she- she has a smiling, and this is like, 26:17.560 --> 26:21.080 you could look at just the mouth and like, oh yeah, of course she's English. Like, 26:22.920 --> 26:28.920 straight out of central casting on that one, but I thought that- that was funny. 26:29.500 --> 26:36.140 But yeah, they don't do anything. That's the big thing is they don't do anything. They just have 26:36.140 --> 26:42.540 their buildings. They just preach once a Sunday to a dwindling flock of old pensioners and kind 26:42.540 --> 26:50.300 of preside over their buildings. Neither have you bound up which was broken. 26:50.800 --> 26:56.120 Of course, these are all just like spiritual things of like go out and do stuff, fix your problems, right? 26:56.120 --> 27:01.360 Mend your gates. The Bible says the devil is a roaring lion, seeking whom he can devour. 27:01.360 --> 27:05.960 Not waiting for him to devour, seeking. He's actively hunting, right? 27:05.960 --> 27:09.200 He's actively trying to break into things, right? You have to bound up. 27:09.500 --> 27:16.540 fix these breaches in your community, in your churches, you can't just wait and hope it gets better. 27:16.540 --> 27:21.980 You have to go out and do things. Neither brought again, which was driven away, right? People just 27:21.980 --> 27:25.900 leaving the Inland Church and they're not making any attempts to do it. Well actually, they are 27:25.900 --> 27:31.020 making attempts to do it, but just in the wrong way. You might guess what they're doing. They're 27:31.020 --> 27:33.820 trying to like, they're just accepting homeless, okay? 27:34.900 --> 27:39.780 And kind of like thinking that's the way forward. So yeah, not seeking what which was lost 27:40.660 --> 27:42.660 People that were driven away 27:44.180 --> 27:49.860 Yeah, but with force and cruelty have you ruled them right the little vicar coming around doing a house inspections 27:50.340 --> 27:53.060 Taking taking tides and stuff. I think 27:53.800 --> 28:00.800 They went through a period of disestablishmentarianism, so not fully integrated with the English government anymore, 28:00.800 --> 28:06.800 but they used to receive a lot of money from the English government to do nothing. 28:06.800 --> 28:15.800 So with cruelty and force after the rule, they oppressed a lot of, as I mentioned, they oppressed a lot of Baptists. 28:16.100 --> 28:19.440 Actually a few months ago. I got an email from my mom 28:19.440 --> 28:24.920 It does a lot of genealogy and I have family who were Baptist in England and they were labeled as like 28:25.560 --> 28:26.900 dissenters 28:26.900 --> 28:28.900 even into 1800s I 28:29.820 --> 28:36.320 Think at some point like Catholic I think in 1826 the Catholics were made legal before that is like illegal 28:36.740 --> 28:42.260 pretty much illegal to be Catholic, but the centers were still oppressed very hard to do stuff, but 28:42.900 --> 28:46.020 Not a great thing to do, right? Because there's no shepherd. 28:47.060 --> 28:49.940 Everyone's scattered because there's no shepherd, right? You can have a shepherd, 28:50.500 --> 28:56.740 right? If you're... Has anyone watched animals? You can have that title and it just not be there 28:56.740 --> 29:00.180 and the animals are gone, right? Because you actually have to be doing stuff. Again, the whole 29:00.180 --> 29:05.700 point of this passage is you have to be doing stuff and actively contending for stuff strongly. 29:05.700 --> 29:07.140 You can't just exist. 29:07.800 --> 29:11.400 Anything about fishing, hopefully everyone's fished it before. 29:11.400 --> 29:16.200 If you just cast your line in with no bait, right, you're in for a nice day on the lake, 29:16.200 --> 29:20.000 but you're not actually going to do anything profitable, unless you really catch a really 29:20.000 --> 29:21.880 dumb fish. 29:21.880 --> 29:27.360 But most of the time, you're in for a good day on the lake, which might be fine, might 29:27.360 --> 29:30.240 be your thing. 29:30.240 --> 29:32.600 My dad always said that was his thing, but I think that's just... 29:33.400 --> 29:40.680 I think let's just cope for not being a good fisherman because he did bait his hook. Sorry, Dad. 29:42.520 --> 29:50.040 So of course then we end up with the curse from God. God curses inactivity, especially hard on 29:50.040 --> 29:56.680 people who once had access to truth. They used to use the King James Bible and they don't anymore. 29:57.300 --> 30:03.300 So they've had the best Bible in their service, not like some new evangelical church, which has 30:03.300 --> 30:07.700 always used some new version. They had the King James Bible for the longest time. It was the 30:07.700 --> 30:13.700 authorized Bible of the King. Of course they used it. Now they don't, except for apparently on 30:13.700 --> 30:20.100 special devotionals, as I found out. But again, this goes back to the shepherds fed themselves 30:20.100 --> 30:24.740 and fed not the flock. And then, of course, then God curses them. 30:26.200 --> 30:30.200 It's a great pass, it's kind of describing what they're going through, right? 30:30.200 --> 30:33.200 The big thing they're going through is not doing anything and they got... 30:33.200 --> 30:36.200 They kind of just faded into... 30:37.200 --> 30:38.200 Nothing. 30:38.200 --> 30:41.200 And died a very embarrassing death. 30:44.600 --> 30:49.720 So what did Sean say? Really great points too. Women Homo is a bad Bible. 30:50.280 --> 30:55.080 I kind of saved my sermon. I was kind of going through writer's block yesterday, 30:55.080 --> 31:05.000 as well as severe procrastination. So yeah, women. Yeah, you can't ordain women. Obviously, 31:05.640 --> 31:09.000 there's nothing like dog on women. There's a lot of great ones in the Bible, right? 31:09.960 --> 31:11.560 None of them are in leadership positions. 31:12.200 --> 31:20.960 famously the famous in Revelation Jezebel was it actually her name who knows I think it's more I 31:21.920 --> 31:24.800 Think it was not like her actual name 31:25.680 --> 31:27.740 It's like naming your kid Hitler nowadays 31:29.080 --> 31:31.080 Probably shouldn't do it or Adolf 31:31.640 --> 31:36.760 Had a bad blood. I guess yeah, Jezebel isn't a great character in the Bible. You shouldn't name your kid Jezebel 31:37.300 --> 31:41.360 But yeah, Revelation 2 20, notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because 31:41.360 --> 31:45.500 thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, who called herself a prophetess, to teach and to do so 31:45.500 --> 31:49.540 to my servants, to commit fornication, to eat things, sacrifice unto idols. 31:49.540 --> 31:55.340 That's a great, like, if you want to point to, a lot of people argue about, I think it's, 31:55.340 --> 32:01.140 I don't know where in the Bible, but the argument of deaconesses. 32:01.140 --> 32:01.500 Thanks for watching! 32:02.300 --> 32:05.340 Has anyone heard that argument with Deaconesses? 32:05.340 --> 32:08.060 A few of you was at Deaconess or something. 32:08.060 --> 32:08.860 It's out there. 32:08.860 --> 32:10.900 I've seen people drop it. 32:10.900 --> 32:12.500 Counterpoint, Jezebel. 32:15.620 --> 32:16.340 Not great. 32:16.340 --> 32:17.620 Not great. 32:17.620 --> 32:19.860 Nothing good said about it, right? 32:19.860 --> 32:22.220 There's not an example in the Bible. 32:22.220 --> 32:23.580 And usually folks, if there's not 32:23.580 --> 32:26.020 an example of it in the Bible being a good thing, 32:26.020 --> 32:28.380 probably not a good thing. 32:28.380 --> 32:29.740 We have a little bit of leeway. 32:30.200 --> 32:36.680 on things but you know come on. And then homos like I don't think they've officially ordained one 32:37.400 --> 32:44.040 it's not like the Methodists or the Episcopalians which have flagrant that stuff is flagrant and 32:44.040 --> 32:48.360 they've actually actively ordained them or the Roman Catholic Church where they actually preach 32:48.360 --> 32:52.280 this I don't think they've actually ordained one but they have ordained reprobates. 32:52.900 --> 32:58.040 Kind of the same thing, you know, effectively, if you're put a homo or reprobate in charge 32:58.040 --> 32:59.040 of your tricks. 32:59.040 --> 33:03.360 A little difference in outcome. 33:03.360 --> 33:11.120 We just read in Samuel, the sons of Eli, now the sons of Eli were of Belial and they knew 33:11.120 --> 33:12.120 not the Lord. 33:12.120 --> 33:13.120 They're full on reprobates. 33:13.120 --> 33:17.320 I don't think Samuel's sons turned out well too. 33:17.320 --> 33:18.320 That's also in Samuel. 33:18.320 --> 33:18.700 Thanks for watching! 33:18.900 --> 33:21.940 Didn't go well, right? What happened to the church? 33:22.700 --> 33:24.340 the I 33:24.340 --> 33:29.660 Guess would be the church under Eli. They lost the ark folks. They lost the ark 33:31.300 --> 33:38.500 Not a great thing. They got cursed from that one. Well, you guys everyone you guys family died. Okay, and 33:40.180 --> 33:45.720 Yep, what happened you put reparates in charge these things happen all throughout the Old Testament. You have the 33:47.000 --> 33:53.880 the order of the Levites, you know, when they're bad, I think a lot of them were reprobates in that. 33:53.880 --> 34:00.600 No definitive proof, but just a feeling that you don't get that high in the Levitical order unless 34:00.600 --> 34:08.600 you're saved or reprobate, depending on the time. Bad Bible, right? The Bible says in Luke 6.48, 34:10.100 --> 34:14.500 is like a man which built a house and dig deep and laid foundations on a rock 34:14.500 --> 34:18.660 and when the flood arose the stream beat vehemently upon the house and could not shake it 34:18.660 --> 34:20.820 for it was founded upon a rock." And of course this is talking about 34:21.780 --> 34:28.660 basing your faith on the rock which is Jesus, but what's another title for Christ? Word of God, 34:28.660 --> 34:33.220 right? It works, right? If you base your foundations of a lot of things on the 34:34.300 --> 34:39.420 a modern version. It's kind of sound weak and they're kind of iffy on some very key doctrine, 34:39.420 --> 34:46.860 a little iffy on. You don't want to base like what you daily teach upon some one of these bad Bible 34:46.860 --> 34:51.900 versions, especially when you had the good one. It's not, it's like come on, like you had the good 34:51.900 --> 34:57.100 one and you stopped using it. What are you doing, man? 34:58.800 --> 35:02.140 So of course, yeah, that's weakness within, right? 35:03.780 --> 35:08.580 If you think about the combination as like a body, 35:08.580 --> 35:12.300 you have the bones, and if the bones aren't working, 35:12.300 --> 35:16.380 what's a disease, brittle bone syndrome? 35:16.380 --> 35:17.900 You're not gonna do great, right? 35:17.900 --> 35:19.540 You need your bones to be strong. 35:20.500 --> 35:22.160 And then weakness without. 35:23.800 --> 35:29.700 We don't have the benefit of having a defender of the faith in name. 35:29.700 --> 35:38.900 You can kind of see the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights to be an executive branch to act as the defender of the faith. 35:38.900 --> 35:43.100 But it's kind of loose. This isn't a concept in America. 35:43.400 --> 35:49.200 You can argue that making the king swear an oath is questionable. 35:49.200 --> 35:56.000 If you're that far down the absolute monarch divine right of rule, that's definitely an argument. 35:56.000 --> 36:03.400 But the thing is, England does have a defender of the faith, and the king is required to take an oath, and he did take that oath as defender of the faith. 36:03.400 --> 36:06.400 So working with that, it's now his problem. 36:06.400 --> 36:08.400 It's not only your like 36:09.100 --> 36:14.100 You sign the W-2 when you joined your job. 36:14.100 --> 36:16.100 It listed requirements. 36:16.100 --> 36:19.100 You sign, maybe sign the employee handbook like I did. 36:19.100 --> 36:21.100 And it lists all the rules for the job. 36:21.100 --> 36:27.100 And one of the rules, like you did it, you can argue if it's not right, but you did it. 36:27.100 --> 36:29.100 So now he's now the defender of the faith. 36:29.100 --> 36:32.100 If he fails that duty, it's an oath before God. 36:33.500 --> 36:39.100 especially a king. And this is a concept you do see in the Bible is the kings acting as 36:41.180 --> 36:43.900 very active. You don't see in the New Testament, 36:44.940 --> 36:50.700 there's not many Christian kings in the New Testament. I don't think there's any. But in 36:50.700 --> 36:55.700 In 2 Kings 22, you have Josiah, right? 36:58.100 --> 36:59.940 If you'll read it, I'll read it. 36:59.940 --> 37:03.180 It came to pass in the eighteenth year of King Jehiat to Ziah. 37:03.180 --> 37:05.460 The king sent Shefim the son. 37:05.460 --> 37:08.420 I'm going to skip down here. 37:08.420 --> 37:12.500 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, and have me sum the silver which is brought up to the 37:12.500 --> 37:15.980 house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people, and let 37:15.980 --> 37:18.980 them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work. 37:19.300 --> 37:24.400 and to have the oversight of the house of the Lord and let them give it to the doers of the work 37:24.520 --> 37:31.300 which is in house of the Lord to repair the breaches of the house unto the carpenters and builders and masons and to buy timber and 37:31.300 --> 37:38.400 heathstone to repair the house. You can get the point is the king's taking an active role in the oversight of the church, right? 37:38.400 --> 37:40.300 And he's taking a very physical 37:40.400 --> 37:48.800 approach to this literally repairing the temple, but you can look at this more spiritually as these breaches being, you know, 37:49.160 --> 37:51.160 false doctrine or 37:51.160 --> 37:54.800 all these other stuff. You could probably use your imagination on that. 37:55.400 --> 37:57.200 This is, so this is, 37:57.200 --> 38:00.680 he probably, I think he actually did that when he went through the priests. 38:03.040 --> 38:05.800 And if he didn't, the next guy did. 38:07.000 --> 38:09.000 Maybe not the next guy. 38:10.360 --> 38:12.360 I forgot to see who this was. 38:14.360 --> 38:16.360 Well, in 2 Chronicles 29, 38:16.360 --> 38:18.360 the king, 38:18.360 --> 38:23.160 I forgot to select all the verses that had his name in it, so I can't say who he is. 38:23.160 --> 38:25.160 Unless someone wants to shout it out. 38:25.160 --> 38:29.640 Who is the king in 2 Chronicles 29? 38:29.640 --> 38:30.800 Is it Kaya? 38:31.100 --> 38:34.100 Thank you brother Eli, saving the night. 38:34.100 --> 38:37.100 Hezekiah takes a more direct role. 38:37.100 --> 38:46.100 He repairs the house of the Lord and brought the priests and Levites together in the East Street and said unto them, 38:46.100 --> 38:51.100 Hear me, you Levites, sanctify now yourselves and sanctify the house. 38:52.400 --> 38:57.700 Sanctify the house the Lord God of your fathers and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place 38:57.840 --> 39:01.800 Right. So now he's taking an active role in the ecclesiastical 39:04.100 --> 39:07.840 Condition of the temple right he's not just 39:08.720 --> 39:10.720 spiritual spiritually repairing that he's 39:12.080 --> 39:15.760 Physically spiritually repairing the spiritual condition something like that 39:17.400 --> 39:19.400 He's taking measures, right? 39:19.400 --> 39:24.400 And this is actually something, as I mentioned, both of these are something that King Charles III has power to do. 39:24.400 --> 39:29.400 While he rubber stamps things, he cannot rubber stamp appointments. 39:29.400 --> 39:33.400 He has that little power left to do stuff. 39:33.400 --> 39:34.400 Is he going to do it? 39:34.400 --> 39:36.400 Yeah, probably not. 39:36.400 --> 39:44.400 Seeing he's kind of old and not really active, he doesn't seem like he'll fix anything in England. 39:45.300 --> 39:52.260 So yeah, but so what's my point with weakness without? How does that affect us? Right? Weakness 39:52.260 --> 39:58.260 within we can kind of see, right? If the if the pastor is bad, the church is pretty much going to 39:58.260 --> 40:04.900 follow. If people aren't vigilant, you know, the devil can break in in places. You're actively 40:05.700 --> 40:10.500 preaching against heresies and stuff, it's going to creep in. But how does weakness without? Well, 40:11.100 --> 40:18.780 There's not really a message to the people here since none of, I don't think anyone's here in government work, law enforcement. 40:18.780 --> 40:24.940 But we kind of saw that, I was thinking about that with the protest where you had the cops just sitting out. 40:24.940 --> 40:31.340 Was it the cops or the security? The cops? Yeah, they were just doing nothing in their car. 40:31.340 --> 40:33.340 No, they weren't even there. They had a drone. 40:33.340 --> 40:34.540 Oh, they had a drone. 40:34.700 --> 40:38.920 Right even worse. What are you gonna do if something happens with your drone? 40:45.500 --> 40:47.500 They're right, they were on top of it. 40:50.100 --> 40:55.300 But it's this weakness of the thought they do have a duty to defend people who 40:56.420 --> 40:57.900 I mean 40:57.900 --> 41:00.860 the government does have a monopoly on violence 41:01.420 --> 41:02.780 with the 41:02.780 --> 41:04.780 condition that they exercise that 41:05.380 --> 41:11.100 moderately and if you so if you take away that from the people you have to do that and if you don't do that 41:11.100 --> 41:12.200 you have anarchy. 41:12.300 --> 41:16.420 And so they didn't do that and that's weakness without right? 41:16.980 --> 41:18.980 I mean come on like 41:18.980 --> 41:25.000 Like we like women and children like for braver than the cops that day like that's embarrassing 41:25.780 --> 41:27.620 Come on, man 41:27.620 --> 41:30.140 So that's a real issue that we might face 41:30.980 --> 41:35.020 Today like anything about the apartment manager Karen, you know 41:36.100 --> 41:38.640 Overpowering the cop with a verbal tirade 41:39.200 --> 41:42.080 Like, and kind of like, oh you guys have to go. It's like, dude, 41:43.600 --> 41:48.000 I'm sorry, like you're like a tatted up 6'2 guy who goes to the gym and you're letting like 41:48.260 --> 41:51.000 some scrawny old woman like tell you what to do, like 41:51.640 --> 41:53.640 girl. 41:53.840 --> 41:57.760 Okay, but that's an example of how weakness without affects us. 41:59.320 --> 42:03.040 It's not really as easy for us to fix this weakness within. 42:04.080 --> 42:06.080 It's a little short sermon because... 42:06.600 --> 42:12.600 As I said, I was going through Reiter's block and procrastination, really bringing back high school memories sometimes here. 42:14.520 --> 42:21.480 But what is my point with all this? What can we learn from the death of the Anglicans is don't rest upon your laurels. 42:22.600 --> 42:27.480 just because you are like the the church like they were the church of England 42:28.120 --> 42:34.680 you can't just sit back and relax and just wait it out that worked for about 100 years but then 42:34.680 --> 42:43.800 it just stopped working all of a sudden um about the 1940s maybe 50s just stopped working as well 42:44.600 --> 42:48.440 you actually have to actively actively put out fires actively 42:49.100 --> 42:58.140 Fix things. My whole theme is be active, right? I was thinking in my head earlier, like, a doctor 42:58.140 --> 43:06.540 may say the cause of death of a patient is like a heart attack, right? That's a common cause of 43:06.540 --> 43:10.620 of death nowadays? What's the actual cause of death? 43:12.500 --> 43:18.540 inactivity, right? You don't see a lot of very healthy people getting heart 43:18.540 --> 43:24.500 attacks, very active people. It's usually, you know, well, stressed out people get 43:24.500 --> 43:29.060 them a lot too. They might be really active. But it's a cause of death 43:29.060 --> 43:35.780 that has other conditions and you kind of see that with the Anglicans is 43:35.780 --> 43:39.600 they're inactive and that really caused their... 43:39.900 --> 43:45.400 cause your death. They had opportunities, every opportunity, they had opportunities to stop it. 43:45.400 --> 43:49.900 They could have not ordained women. They could have not like capitulated to liberalism. 43:49.900 --> 43:57.900 They could have done this and they just didn't. They kind of just sat back and I can't really do a British accent. 43:57.900 --> 44:03.900 But if you imagine like a British guy just going, oh well, you know, that's what the kids are into nowadays. 44:05.400 --> 44:11.000 That's my point. They could have done all these things. They chose not to and they suffer for it. 44:12.440 --> 44:15.880 Fortunately, like yeah, a lot of the Baptists were persecuted in England. 44:16.600 --> 44:20.040 Like as I said, they got a lot of them got kicked out over to America. 44:20.680 --> 44:25.400 Hey, and guess what? We're back back in England. You guys don't have the power of the state to 44:25.400 --> 44:29.320 oppress us anymore. So, uh, or oppress us for being 44:30.400 --> 44:35.920 Re-baptizers. I imagine they still have tools to do it, but you have to 44:35.920 --> 44:38.720 find out new tools to do it. They can't just call us 44:38.720 --> 44:42.480 anabaptists and round us up. They have to find stuff. 44:42.480 --> 44:46.320 So that's kind of the whole gist. What can we learn from the Anglicans? 44:46.320 --> 44:49.840 Stick with the King James Bible. It's a great Bible. 44:49.840 --> 44:52.800 I was actually thinking in my head another thing is 44:53.200 --> 44:55.600 an argument to use for the Kingdom's Bible. 44:55.600 --> 44:59.600 Just a little bit of a post-script to the sermon is, 44:59.600 --> 45:01.060 you know, everyone has their favorite argument. 45:01.060 --> 45:03.480 Someone says, hey, why should I use the Kingdom's Bible? 45:03.480 --> 45:05.720 You guys probably have your favorite argument. 45:05.720 --> 45:08.760 Mine, my favorite one, I get is, you know, 45:08.760 --> 45:10.480 the appeal to cool. 45:10.480 --> 45:12.360 I end up talking to a lot of like 20. 45:13.000 --> 45:18.160 old guys at work, 30 year old guys, and they'll ask me about these things and I'll always 45:18.160 --> 45:22.040 will say, hey, you should read the, if they say like they're kind of like a borderline 45:22.040 --> 45:26.680 Christian I'll ask them what Bible they're reading and well you should give varied answers 45:26.680 --> 45:30.460 but I should like, hey, she just came to the Bible and ask why. 45:30.460 --> 45:34.920 I know like this dude's not interested in like anything academic. 45:34.920 --> 45:39.360 I don't really at work at a really don't have the time to go through the whole, the whole 45:39.360 --> 45:40.560 presentation about... 45:41.000 --> 45:46.000 you know, the Texas Receptus and all that kind of stuff. 45:46.000 --> 45:47.300 I'll just go with the argument. 45:47.300 --> 45:49.500 It sounds the coolest. 45:49.500 --> 45:51.700 Everyone knows it sounds the coolest. 45:51.700 --> 45:55.300 And you can cite a few verses, and it does sound the coolest. 45:55.300 --> 45:56.900 Sounds better than anywhere in the Bible. 45:56.900 --> 46:00.500 It's an argument that works, especially on 20-year-old guys. 46:00.500 --> 46:02.700 You just say, hey, like, which one sounds cool? 46:02.700 --> 46:05.100 Are Kings and His Bible or a newer version? 46:05.100 --> 46:06.000 Like... 46:06.100 --> 46:13.660 And yeah, they all agree King James Bible works better. My co-worker, I think already reads the King James Bible. His name is 46:14.860 --> 46:19.680 His name is James Thompson, and he loves everything to do with his name 46:20.900 --> 46:24.340 So he reads the King James Bible because it's the James Bible 46:25.620 --> 46:27.620 Amen 46:27.740 --> 46:33.140 To each their own. Hey, he's right, you know, his path to get there might be a little weird but 46:33.800 --> 46:37.640 I know he watches a lot of our sermons because I told him he's like, oh, what's your pastor's name? 46:37.640 --> 46:39.720 It's like pastor thompson. He's like, that's my name 46:40.440 --> 46:42.920 That he wanted to listen to sermons. Um 46:43.800 --> 46:44.680 Hey 46:44.680 --> 46:46.040 you know 46:46.040 --> 46:49.720 He does it that's I guess that's a good reason for any but again 46:51.240 --> 46:55.560 Yeah, stick with the can change bible. It's just it sounds the best. It's most correct 46:55.960 --> 46:59.640 Uh, it's a little bit a dire mistake to leave it even for some of these 47:00.100 --> 47:03.540 every now and then they come out with like some updated king james version i don't know if you're 47:03.540 --> 47:09.940 on top of it not just the new king james but like kjv like 2021 they're all weird just use the 47:09.940 --> 47:17.540 1769 or if you're i guess bespoke you can use the 1611 if you really like that if you're really 47:17.540 --> 47:21.100 weird you can use the bishop's bible i guess um 47:21.600 --> 47:27.700 If you really want to go all the way like I don't know you keep bringing it back to all the Texas Receptors English Bibles 47:30.020 --> 47:35.600 Keep going it but you know King James works. It's modern English. You don't have to worry about people not understanding it 47:36.120 --> 47:38.120 Don't ordain women 47:39.160 --> 47:43.040 It's obvious, but people still are arguing about it every now and then 47:44.720 --> 47:46.940 Yeah, don't ordain reprobates 47:49.000 --> 47:55.560 That's a little harder with the uh with women it's pretty easy to tell but with reprobates 47:57.320 --> 48:01.000 accidents happen but if it does happen you know get them out of there um 48:02.840 --> 48:08.680 yeah and um I think that's pretty much it for for my sermon it's a little short sermon because I was 48:08.680 --> 48:12.920 kind of busy this week but hopefully came out like learning something new if nothing else 48:13.500 --> 48:19.740 You learn English history. It's really cool. Talk to me about the Lawlords. Talk to me about Celtic Christianity. 48:20.580 --> 48:27.440 A lot of people think it's a coincidence that the Presbyterians just popped up in Scotland, a Celtic stronghold. 48:27.660 --> 48:30.020 You think the Hussites just came out of nowhere? 48:30.620 --> 48:36.500 I got news Bohemia was a Celtic stronghold during the Roman Empire. So yeah, Celtic history is weird. 48:36.500 --> 48:38.500 I still want to learn more. 48:40.500 --> 48:41.400 Yeah. 48:42.500 --> 48:44.000 You looked it up. 48:44.400 --> 48:50.360 That's cheating. 48:50.360 --> 48:56.600 But now that the cat's out of bag, yes, according to English and British church history, Joseph 48:56.600 --> 49:02.160 of Arimathea did found Christianity in England. 49:02.160 --> 49:06.760 They had a pilgrimage site to his staff that he put in the ground and sprouted. 49:06.760 --> 49:09.440 It was a recognized pilgrimage site. 49:09.440 --> 49:12.320 So if you're arguing with Roman Catholics about who's 49:12.400 --> 49:20.560 If the church is older, you can pull that one on them because they did recognize it as an official pilgrimage site, which means according to their own lore, it is canon. 49:20.560 --> 49:22.160 You might not believe it, but they have to. 49:24.000 --> 49:26.440 So yeah, Joseph and Amethia founded it. 49:28.720 --> 49:31.360 Yeah, but that's cheating. 49:31.360 --> 49:34.400 Would anyone have guessed that otherwise? 49:35.200 --> 49:37.680 Yeah, I mean come on, it's kind of out of nowhere. 49:38.960 --> 49:44.720 Yeah, that, yeah, don't ask me about English churches. You're gonna end up for a lecture. 49:45.520 --> 49:50.160 Lord, thank you for letting me preach. Thank you for filling me with your spirit. 49:50.160 --> 49:52.720 So I see you bless everyone as you go about their week. 49:52.720 --> 49:55.520 Bless the singing too. Jesus, have a great day. Come on. 50:04.500 --> 50:09.500 All right, let's turn to 155 to close the sermon. 50:09.860 --> 50:13.380 Doxology, 155. 50:13.380 --> 50:15.900 A word of glory, doxology. 50:17.260 --> 50:18.100 155. 50:19.520 --> 50:20.860 We'll sing it through twice. 50:23.800 --> 50:34.600 together now. 51:34.700 --> 51:36.700 And Brother Sean, you open, we close this.