But not only that, we see in verse number 10, it says,
wherefore if I come, I will remember his deeds,
which he doeth,
praying against us with malicious words
and not content therewith,
neither doth he himself receive the brethren
and forbideth them that would
and casteth them out of the church.
So this guy, there's people coming to the church
to potentially listen to him preach.
You know what he's doing?
He's forbidding them to go there.
He's like, they're not allowed here.
So what does that show?
That shows that these people are insecure.
They're insecure leaders.
And often these leaders,
they're afraid of you influencing their people.
This is the diatrophies mentality.
This is very reminiscent to the old IFB.
Okay.
Was anybody thinking about that as I was saying that?
Yeah.
Because it's true.
It's like, you can't talk to anybody in their church.
You can't befriend anybody in their church
because they're afraid that you might influence them
with the post-trib pre-wrath rapture.
You're afraid that you might influence them
regarding replacement theology.
They're afraid that you might get them to hate homos
just as much as you do.
So they're like, stay away from those people.
Well, look, why don't you just let them talk
to whoever they want
and why don't you just preach doctrine?
Because here's the thing,
if you're afraid that they're going to learn heresy,
why don't you just teach them doctrine?
If you taught them doctrine,
they're not going to be tossed to and fro,
carried about with every wind of doctrine, right?
But because you're not preaching doctrine,
that's why you got to lord over God's heritage
to make sure that no one talks to them, Jim Jones.
You know, the diatrophies, Jim Jones mentality.
It's like, no one can talk to my people.
You're just insecure.
I even had people tell me like,
what if I came to your people
and started telling them about the pre-tribulation rapture?
I told them, go for it.
I'm not afraid of that.
He's like, are you serious?
You're telling me that you would be fine
with me going up to them,
try to teach them about the pre-tribulation rapture?
I'm like, yeah, go for it.
Because I teach my people.
My people are, they're learned people.
In fact, that would be good for them.
Yeah, it's practice.
You know, it would be good for a hardcore pre-tribulation
is to come talk to you, right?
To see if you're grounded in what you believe.
I'm not afraid of that.
That's stupid.
Why?
Because I'm not insecure.
Go talk to whoever you want.
I'm not the Pope.
I'm the evangelist here.
I'm the preacher here.
And Lord willing in a year, if I become the pastor,
that still doesn't change anything.
You can talk to whoever you want.
You can go talk to your old pastor if you want.
Go visit the church if you want.
I don't care.
I really could care less.
My name is not Diatrophes.
Diatrophes is an insecure leader
who doesn't want anybody influencing their people.
Well, Diatrophes, if you don't want that,
then why don't you go ahead and teach and preach hard enough
and maybe your people will stay there.
Why don't you preach and teach hard enough
and teach them good doctrine
and maybe you'll give them a reason to stay.
They don't have to sneak around
and come to our church all the time.