So this is where this is taking place it's at Ephesus and the reason that's
important is because of the fact that you know in every church not just
Ephesus there's always going to be doctrinal issues people who come in and
try to teach weird stuff but even in the age in which we live it may not
necessarily happen here but there's tons of it on the internet where you have
these guys who are like self-ordained you know you have the the the Brian
Dunlingers of this world the Robert Breakers you know these these these
weirdos who are self-ordained they have these online church ministry or
something the the church in the clouds or whatever you know where where they're
teaching God's Word the perverting judgment and you know they give
themselves credibility and let me just say this is that look folks I'm thankful
for the internet we have a YouTube channel there's tons of people who
listen to our preaching online and thank God for it but if all that was removed
guess what I don't get my credibility from a YouTube channel in fact I already
got my credibility when I was ordained by another pastor of an actual church
you know you know like the biblical model which is that pastors are supposed
to send out pastors churches beget churches so another one approves you as
being the man fit for the job lays hands on you and send you out to do the work
of the Lord we don't get ordained online and I'm for YouTube I think it's great
I think social media is great we could reach a lot of people but that doesn't
necessarily give us the credibility what gives us the credibility is the man of
God who is ordaining you for that job understand and so what we see here
though is the fact that he's telling them these things he's saying look stay
at Ephesus charge them that they teach no other doctrines verse 4 neither give
heed to fables and endless genealogies which minister questions rather than
God the edifying which is in faith so do he's basically telling them hey make
sure you're preaching this you're charging them and then he says in verse
6 from which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain janglings okay
now what is vain janglings well later on we'll see in the book of 1st Timothy in
chapter 5 he talks about vain babblings so janglings is the same thing as
babbling you know you ever met someone they just say a lot but they're not
really saying anything at all they have a whole lot of a whole lot to say but
not a whole lot of substance to what they're saying they say a whole lot of
content or they have a lot of words but the reality is it's just a bunch of vain
jangle okay just mark it down when you see someone like that what are they
doing they're swerving okay why well because of the fact that when we preach
God's Word it's supposed to be plain not jangling not a bunch of noise it's
made plain we preach the word we're instant in season out of season we
reprove rebuke exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine all scripture
is given by inspiration of God it's profitable for doctrine for proof of
correction for instruction in righteousness so if these things are
important to us we're to put the cookie on the bottom shelf for everyone but
when you have someone just saying all types of things and you kind of walk
away wondering was it by calling upon the name of Lord or is it not just mark
it down that person's trying to confuse you that person's filled with vain
jangling vain babbling