And you know, it's funny, people can take scriptures out of context and argue and try
to make their case from scripture.
And you know what?
The Bible truly is our final authority.
But if your interpretation of the Bible doesn't line up with reality, something's wrong with
your interpretation of the Bible.
Because I am not one of these people that, you know, somebody asked a question on Facebook
the other day, and they asked a question, you know, if the Bible said that the moon
were made of cheese, would you believe in it?
If the Bible said that the moon were made of cheese, would you believe that the moon
were made of cheese?
And everybody was saying yes, but I said no, I would not.
No, I would not believe that.
It's like, whoo, you wouldn't believe the Bible?
Hey, if the Bible were filled with lies, I wouldn't believe in it.
You know why I believe in the Bible?
Because the Bible is truth.
The Bible is truth.
Look, let me ask you something.
If we could demonstrate to the Mormons that their book is filled with lies, don't we expect
them to stop believing in it?
If we can demonstrate that the Koran is filled with lies, wouldn't we expect them to stop
believing in it?
If we could show that LNG White's writings are filled with lies, wouldn't we expect them
to stop believing in it?
So why would we say, well, if the Bible had something in it that I know is not true, that
can't be true, that makes no sense, I'm just going to believe in it anyway because I'm
just so much...
Folks, it's a silly question because the very reason that we believe in the Bible is because
it's the truth.
And if the Bible were filled with goofy stuff like that, it wouldn't be true and we wouldn't
be believing in it.
So it's a hypothetical anyway because the Bible doesn't say anything like that.
The Bible doesn't say that the moon is made of cheese.
The Bible is actually scientifically correct and accurate.
It talks about the circle of the earth and the earth hangs on nothing and that he stretches
out the heaven over the empty place.
It talks about space and hanging on nothing and the circle of the earth and it all makes
perfect sense and the moon reflecting the light of the sun is totally biblical unless
you're a flat earth idiot who didn't get past Genesis chapter 1.
If you actually read the rest of the Bible, you'd actually see that the moon reflecting
the light from the sun is consistent with what the Bible actually teaches about the
sun and moon.
But let me tell you something, you know, we believe the Bible because it's truth.
What did that have to do with anything in my sermon is what I'd like to know.
Where was I going with that?
I get off on these things because it's just...
I get off on these rabbit trails because it's just, this stuff kind of gets me fired
up.
Excuse me?
Deacon run churches.
What in the world does that have to do with deacon run churches?
No, no, you guys are going back too far in the sermon.
Somebody rewind the live stream and where was I going with that?
I just, you know, I could just move on and act like nothing happened, but I was on an
important thought and so I don't want to lose it.
They're telling him what to preach and the authority is bad.
The pastor led model of the church is not deacon run.
What in the world does that have to do?
That's true.
Yeah, I said that.
Yeah.
Right.
Give that man a trophy.
He got it.
Our understanding of the Bible must line up with reality.
Am I right?
It's like the bozos from last year at that conference, right?
We walk by faith, not by facts.
That was the dumbest quote of 2020.
We walk by faith, not by facts.
Excuse me, but facts, you know what facts are?
The truth.
And what do we put our faith in?
Do we put our faith in lies?
Ignore facts and put your faith in lies.
Amen.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.
Facts are truth.
Facts are reality.
That's what facts mean.
And so here's the thing.
We don't choose between believing the Bible and believing reality.
We believe both.
Both must be consistent or we have our wires crossed somewhere.
You know, the Bible tells us to look at the natural world and learn from nature because
of the fact that what we see in nature is real.
And what we see in the Word of God is real.
And these things are consistent.
We don't have to choose between them, they're consistent.
So here's where I was going with that.
I know it seems like it has nothing to do with it, but you helped me out, all right?
Here's the thing.
Isn't it funny how people have all these arguments for why the church should not be run by one
pastor but that we should have like a board or a committee or a group of deacons or something
running things?
But isn't it funny how when we actually look at reality, every successful, soul-winning
church that's doing a lot for God has a clear leader?
You know what I mean?
So it's like, yeah, I've got all my proof texts to prove to you one leader.
I did a whole sermon, one leader, tons of evidence.
And then they'll pull out their evidence, right?
But at the end of the day, you know, isn't it funny how your house church sitting around
the coffee table is not evangelizing your city?
You know, and every successful church that I've ever seen in my whole life had a strong
leader and had a clear leader.
And then you got these board-run, deacon-run, committee-run churches that are dead as a
doornail.
So what does that tell you right there is that obviously...