All right turn your Bibles to 1st Corinthians chapter 2 1st Corinthians chapter 2
1st Corinthians 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 15
But he that is spiritual judges all things yet. He himself is judged of no man. Let's pray Heavenly Father
Thank you for this awesome church God and for the time that we get to come together and hear from your word Lord
It's pray that you'd help me deliver something to your people from your word Lord. Amen
Alright so before I get into my sermon here a lot of people
Right off the bat take this verse and love to just turn it completely on its head and they try to make the second
part of the verse 15
Contradict with the first part because it says that the spiritual man judges all things yet
He himself is judged of no man, and we've all heard people say only God can judge me
I hear Remy say that all the time no
Only God can judge me that is a lie
God is not the only one that could judge you and the Bible says that he that is spiritual
judges all things so there's two interpretations of of how
People can say that both of the statements in this verse can be true
The first interpretation which I think is the correct one
We just need to look at the context all of chapter 2 Paul is preaching about how our faith and his preaching
Has to stand in the wisdom of God and not in the wisdom of man
So I believe the correct interpretation when it says that he himself is judged of no man
It's that he's not judged of the wisdom of man. He's not judged by man's, you know words of man's wisdom
He's judged by wisdom of God
Another idea people have about this is that the reason the spiritual person is not judged is
Because he's living his life in you know, such a holy way that nobody can judge him
I don't think that's correct because Jesus himself said in Marvel not if the world hate you
So if the world hates us that's even more than just you know being judged of them. So I don't think that's correct
Interpretation but getting my servant the Bible says that he that is spiritual judge in all things and we want to be spiritual Christians
Right, we don't go to Verity Baptist Church so that we can be lame watered-down Christians, right?
So how does this look practically in the life of a Christian? So number one we need to be judging ourselves
So go ahead and turn in your Bibles to 2nd Corinthians chapter 6
We need to be judging ourselves and there's two ways to judge yourself. It's not very deep but it's true
There's the right way and the wrong way and isn't that how it is with a lot of things in the Christian life
There's so many wrong ways of doing things and there's usually just one right way of doing things
So let's look what the Bible says here. You're in 2nd Corinthians 6. I'll read for you Proverbs 28
He that trusted in his own heart is a fool, but whoso walketh wisely. He shall be delivered
So here are some phrases. Here's some buzzwords that you'll hear fools say often. Well, I just think
Well, I just feel
You know when you're trusting in your heart, you're just showing that you're a fool
So 2nd Corinthians chapter 6. Let me get there myself
Verse 14
Okay, so here's some examples of this, you know, here's here's man's wisdom well
You know, I know she's not saved
But I know I feel like we're meant for each other. So I'm gonna marry her, you know, that's man's wisdom, right?
But what is God's wisdom say look down at verse 14 be ye not
Equally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion have light with darkness
You know when you're judging the actions your life, you know in that area who you're gonna marry
You said well, I don't care if she's saved because I just feel like she's great, you know, you know, you're a fool
Here's another example. Well, I just feel TV doesn't affect me spiritually, you know, that's man's wisdom
But what does God's wisdom say Psalm 101 verse 3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes
I hate the work of them that turn aside. It shall not cleave to me
Once again, just going against man's wisdom man's wisdom says I think we should just love everybody no matter what
But what does the Bible say Psalm 139 do I do not I hate them?
Oh Lord that hate thee and I might not grieve with those that rise up against thee. I hate them with perfect hatred
You know so many Christians think they're so spiritual because they love everyone but they're going against what the Bible says
How can you be spiritual when you're going directly against what the Bible says the world thinks we're disgusting for hating facts
Right. I think it's disgusting to be a fact
Imagine that you know liberal Christians say it's sinful to hate sodomites
I think it's a sin not to hate sodomites if you're a Christian and you have sodomite friends
You have a soft spot for the facts you are not right with God
Here's the right way to judge your life Psalm 119 105
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path
So this verse calls the Word of God it likens it to a light into a lamp, you know
It's something that illuminates, you know, and we could take the Bible and we can illuminate our lives, you know and see
You know our opinions and our actions and see how the Bible matches up with our wisdom
We don't want the wisdom of this world influencing our life
So number one if we want to be spiritual Christians, we need to judge our own lives the right way
Number two, we need to judge preaching turn to Acts chapter 17 verse 11
Acts chapter 17 verse 11
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica and that they received the word with all readiness of mind and search the scriptures daily
Whether those things were so so the Bible is really clear that you know
When you're hearing preaching our job is to be judging the preaching and we're not supposed to judge it according to how we feel or
What we think we're supposed to be judging it based off what we read in our Bible
So, you know, otherwise you're gonna end up like Sam Gibbs zombies, right?
His zombies they're real
They're sitting in the pews of his churches
Because I was there for three years and I listened to Sam Gibb blaspheme Jesus Christ
I listened to Sam Gibb preach the most heretical things possible and you have a bunch of stupid Christian zombies in the pews
You know, he's sitting there making up a story, oh Jesus. Oh, let's go down there to that major
I'm gonna be born in that major. Everyone's just like
Those are the zombies, you know those people they're not judging the preaching of God's Word because they're not in God's Word
That's their problem
Second Timothy chapter 2 says and I love this because Sam Gibb has quoted this verse so many times to try to prove dispensationalism
It's just it makes me laugh so much
Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed
rightly dividing the word of truth
But shun profane and vain babblings for they will increase unto more ungodliness
You know, he always points to but rightly dividing the word of truth. That's the seven gospel. That's the eight Gospels. Whatever it is
But if you look at that verse, you know
There's three things that are gonna happen to you when you don't study yourself yourself to be approved unto God number one
You're gonna be ashamed
Number two, you're gonna be prof you're gonna be fooled by profane and vain babblings. That's dispensationalist preaching
you're gonna be deceived by their idiotic preaching and
You're gonna increase unto more ungodliness. You know what? I saw all of these things in the old IFP Church
I saw girls who outside of church were wearing the short shorts. I saw guys that did no soul-winning
I went up to the pastor himself asked him to go soul-winning. No, the weather's too bad
I go around the church trying to find men to go soul-winning
No one wants to go, you know, they're not in their Bibles and you know what they should be ashamed
Because it's a shame to be deceived by the profane and vain babbling of the pre tribulation rapture something. That's just so
Unbelievably contrary to what God's Word says, you know, it's a shame to be a Zionist
It is a complete shame, you know, it's a shame to believe that eunuchs are
Homosexuals and we need to bring them into the church
It's a shame to let your children be exposed by faggots in your church. What is wrong with you?
Why do you want that in your church?
Unbelievable, you know, it's a shame to be deceived by the profane and vain babbling that divorce and remarriage is okay
You know when when pastors go soft on sin
It's a shame to be deceived by these things and it's gonna cause you to increase unto more ungodliness
You know, I heard a preacher one time say that the Holy Spirit told him to preach to homosexual
The same Holy Spirit, you know that that inspired the Bible that said that they should be put to death
Old Testament said they're worthy of death in the New Testament
Says that Sodom and Gomorrah is an example to those who afterwards should live ungodly how God feels about the homos
Today in 2017 is the same way he felt about him when he burned him with fire and Sodom and Gomorrah
And that's exactly what's gonna happen in the future
Rainbows ours rainbows ours
You know if we want to be spiritual we need to be ready to hear God's Word
Yes, but we should be judging and judging and preaching as we hear it
Last area in life
Well, obviously he he that spiritual judges all things but last I'm focusing on is, you know
We need to be judging our brothers and sisters in Christ in the church go to Matthew chapter 7
Matthew chapter 7
First want to judge not that you be not judged for with what?
Judgment you judge you shall be judged and with what measure you mean it shall be measured to you again
And why beholdest thou the moat that is in thy brother's eye
But consider is not the beam that is in thine own eye or how about thou say to thy brother?
Let me pull out the moat out of thine eye and behold a beam is in thine own eye thou hypocrite
First cast out the beam out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the moat out of his brother's eye
One reason we need to be judging our brothers and sisters in Christ is to help them remove that moat when it's there as long as
We're not judging hypocritically, of course
But you know
I hope that if I was in some sin that some man in this church would care for me enough and have the guts enough
To reprove me or rebuke me if necessary, you know, we need to be doing that and it's not you know
A hateful thing to do it's a loving thing to do to judge your brothers and sisters in Christ
I know that's not popular, but that's true first Corinthians chapter 5 if you want to turn there you can
first Corinthians chapter 5 verse 11
But now I have written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or
An idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such in one
No not to eat for what have I to do to judge them that are without
Do not ye judge them that are within but them that are without God judgeth
Therefore put away from your from among yourselves that wicked person
Another reason we need to be judging our brothers and sisters in Christ is because the Bible teaches that there's a time
Where people need to be kicked out of church and you know
We do that out of love for the people who are at risk of being corrupted by that person
The young people or just the people that are young in the faith. We do that to protect them
It's out of love for them and also out of love for the person themselves because we want them to get right with God, too
So, you know in conclusion here if we're gonna be spiritual Christians we need to have this word in our life
Judgments we need to be judgmental if we're gonna be spiritual Christians
We you know, we need to use the Bible as a standard in our life to match up with our own actions and beliefs
We need to judge ourselves correctly
You know
We need to be judging the preaching we're hearing and actually be in your Bible so that you can rightly judge the preaching you're hearing
And lastly, you know
We need to be making sure that we're loving our brothers and sisters in Christ enough to be judging them as well
Just to keep them from making mistakes in their own lives that will hurt them or the lives of others
Let's pray Heavenly Father. Thank you Lord for this day
Thank you again for this church God. I just pray that something I said was edifying to your people tonight Lord and in Jesus name
Amen