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but because hey when we're dead we can't change any things that we're done under the sun look at verse number 11
suddenly upon them and he's just saying hey you don't know what's going to happen
in your in your life we all live in an evil time we all live in a world of sin in a fallen world
and you don't know when your day is coming like the fish that gets caught in the net it didn't know
that that was going to be the day for him and then we go down to verse number 13 just giving
a quick overview here this wisdom have i seen also under the sun and it seemed great unto me
there was a little city and few men within it and there came a great king against it and besieged
it and built great bulwarks against it now there was found in it a poor wise man and he by his
wisdom delivered the city yet no man remembered that same poor man then said i wisdom is better
than strength nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard and so
solomon's saying hey if we have to choose between being a strong man or being a wise man we should
choose to be a wise person even though you might be despised like the bible said there the wise
man was despised the poor man was despised and nobody remembered him but he still delivered the
city by wisdom if we had to choose between being strong or having wisdom we need to choose wisdom
in verse 17 the words of the wise are the words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry
of him that ruleth among fools and that's usually the case people who are just really loud and talk
all the time are usually the foolish ones oftentimes the quiet people are the wise ones
verse 18 wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good and the reason i
was thinking about this sermon is recently i've been working on demolition and destroying things
is really really easy it's a lot easier than building things right construction you need to
have engineers you need to have planning you need to have all these permits you need to have a good
boss you need to have all these skilled laborers but with me with just this boot right here i could
just start kicking down walls i know because i was doing it it's really fun but once sinner
destroyed much good it made me think how much easier it is for sin to destroy thing things
than righteousness to build things up it's you know it's way easier to destroy a church than it
is to start a church it's way easier to destroy someone's family than to build up a good family
right this world is in a state of decay and decay is very natural right but building things
destructing or constructing things is very hard so i'll have you go to have you go to ecclesiastes
chapter seven ecclesiastes chapter seven and speaking of destruction just on a side note
it's pretty funny that these scientists i think they're so smart think that this whole world was
created by a destructive explosion makes no sense whatsoever if i came in this room and just started
swinging around a sledgehammer or if a b24 flew over and dropped a bomb on it it wouldn't create
life wouldn't create a new church would destroy everything it's just pretty funny that they
believe destruction creates things but number one tonight i want to point out that our sin has a
extremely destructive nature i'll read for you again while you're there in ecclesiastes seven
ecclesiastes 9 18 says wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much
good one sinner ecclesiastes chapter 7 verse 20
well what you have to understand first of all is that obviously all of us are sinners so when the
bible says one sinner destroyeth much good we could also apply that to ourselves ecclesiastes
7 verse 20 says for there is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not so it's
pretty obvious we all know here that we're all sinners so we have to make sure that we're taking
our lives seriously too because our sin destroys a lot of good too it's not just always pointing
out the reprobates and pointing out the wicked people you know your personal sin in your life
can destroy a lot of good as well i'll read for you first john one eight says if we say that we
have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us so obviously we all know in here
that we're sinners if you don't believe that you're a liar you're extremely deceived and
you're insane if you believe that you're without sin but we know that we are with having sin so
here's the thing we need to make sure we take every single moment every single decision of
our life very very seriously because one sinner destroyeth much good one big mistake you make in
your life one big sin you commit in your life could have much much destruction on your life
in the future it's not like you commit a sin and it's just a little punishment for it you know
oftentimes we can really destroy our lives with our sin go to proverbs chapter one proverbs
chapter one back in your bible a few pages proverbs chapter one
proverbs 132 the bible says for the turning away of the simple shall slay them and the prosperity
of fools shall destroy them but whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from
fear of evil so when it's saying that the simple when the simple turns away it's in reference of
turning away from god's council so us as christians when we turn away from god's council
it says for the turning away of the simple shall slay them right when we decide to turn away from
god's commandments when we decide to turn away from the wisdom in god's word that's going to
slay us that's going to bring destruction in our lives personally go to psalm chapter 119 psalm 119
it's important to understand this because it's not just the reprobates that are destroying their
life it's not just the wicked people that try to creep into churches that are destroying
their lives christians today all over this country are destroying their own lives
things like drug use right it's not like a christian is exempt from the sin of drug use
there's christians today that use drugs get addicted to drugs and that destroys their whole
life you know i used to work in the city of portland and that city is just overrun with drugs
literally you could just get out of your truck and walk down just about any street and you'll find
heroin needles there you could go to just about any public park and there's heroin needles all
over the place it's like one of the biggest homelessness capitals in america there's just
homeless people everywhere and the reason why is because those people's lives have been destroyed
by drugs that's the reason drugs is the reason that their life is destroyed now am i going to
think that none of those people whatsoever are saved well here's the thing salvation has nothing
to do with how you live your life salvation is believing on the lord jesus christ can a derelict
bum drug addict believe on lord jesus christ absolutely and i guarantee you that there is
saved homeless people in this country today that do drugs that have ruined their life because of
drugs right ruining their life because when the simple turn away from god's law it shall slay
them you're there in psalm 119 look at verse 104 through thy precepts i get understanding therefore
i hate every false way thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path so the word of god
is supposed to illumine our feet picturing how the word of god should be telling us which
direction to go in our life what to avoid on the path the path that we should be going down you
know the word of god is going to tell us to avoid that path of alcohol right to avoid the path that
ends up with you walking around aimlessly in the middle of the night and getting run over by a car
right the turning away of the simple shall slay them you don't think that there's been people that
have literally died from sin that's what sin does the wages of sin is death right and that's
obviously the most important aspect of that is the spiritual application that our sin causes us
to deserve that second death but you know the wages of sin often result in a physical
death in this life i wonder how many drunk people have gotten in a fight police get called on them
they bow up on the police officer and the police officer shoots them right there's all sorts of
scenarios in this world where your sin can lead to your literal destruction your literal death
it happens all the time disease right often disease can be a punishment from god if you're
fornicating if you're committing adultery god can give you a disease that could literally end your
life right the turning away of the simple will slay them i'll read for you or you can turn there
proverbs chapter three proverbs chapter three verse number five the bible says trust in the
lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him
and he shall direct thy paths be not wise in thine own eyes fear the lord and depart from evil
it shall be health to thy navel and marrow to thy bones so when you fear god you walk in his
commandments the bible says that that brings you health god didn't give you his commandments just
as a drudge on your life just so it could be a net negative on your life and you're thinking man i'd
have such a happy life if it just wasn't for the commandments of god no that's not how it works
god gives you all of his commandments because it brings health to thy navel and marrow to thy bones
every single promise in the bible and every single commandment in the bible enriches your life there's
not a single commandment that causes a negative or a detriment to your life every single commandment
is positive and here's what i love about this passage if you don't understand that let's say
you come across a commandment you're reading the bible and you're saying god i don't understand
how this commandment is going to help me i'm this commandment seems like it's going to hurt me
right i love the beginning of this because it says trust in the lord with all thine heart and
lean not unto thine own understanding you know if we can just understand that concept it's going to
help us out a lot in life when you come across a verse you don't understand hey trust in the lord
with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding right when you don't understand
something that's okay you know the longer you're a christian the more you read the bible the more
wisdom you get just from living your life someday you're going to understand those things but what's
going to mess you up is if when you don't understand something and you say well i'm just
going to lean on my own understanding then you ruin your life then when you're a fool and you
turn away from the counsel of god then you get slayed literally sometimes but god promises us
when we trust in him with all of our heart it's going to be health to us it's going to be positive
to us and i want to point out how a little bit of sin has a lot of consequences go to
romans chapter 5 a little bit of sin has a lot of consequences
the reason for that is because one sinner destroyeth much good look at romans 5
verse 17 for if by one man's offense death reigned by one much more they which received
abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one
jesus christ therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation even
so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life
for as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners so by the disobedient for by the obedience
of one shall many be made righteous that's kind of a tongue twister but it's talking about adam and
eve when adam sinned he sinned one time he committed one offense and guess what it damned us
all it damned all of mankind for all of eternity one man's sin and that's because the nature of
sin is extremely destructive we don't even realize how destructive the nature of sin is and the thing
is obviously if you commit a sin you're not going to go damn the entire human race right that's
already been done but what you do need to understand is that your personal sin can damn
your children in a sense like if you raise them your whole life you're a drunk you're a drug user
you don't raise them right well you know what maybe you know because of your sin you could ruin
your entire children's future you could ruin your children's chance of serving god and of living a
good godly life because you yourself sin and that's the thing our sin often has a way more
far-reaching effect than we think we think that oh my sin just affects me no one even knows that
i commit the sin it's never true it's never ever true even if literally no other person in this
world knows that you have this sin guess what it will affect them because sin's nature is extremely
destructive you think about divorce now that's a sin that affects other people isn't it right you
know i grew up my whole life with my parents in the home and they're getting divorced right now
after i'm already out of the home so at least at least it didn't happen when i was young but
here's the thing some people they grow up and their parents get divorced when they're three
four or five years old and that's all they ever know and they think that that's normal
and then they get married and they have their first fight and they're like okay time to get
divorced right and then their kids do the same thing and then their kids do the same thing right
because of one man's offense so we got to take our lives seriously and think hey this sin that
i want to commit it will not just affect me it'll affect my wife it'll affect my kids it'll affect
everybody that i love you know when you sin in this church it could affect this church right
you ought to think about your personal testimony you ought to think about the testimony of this
church what do you want the members of pure words baptist church to be known for you know i want
them to be known for being zealous of good works for being godly for being righteous christians
that love him that go out and soul win i don't want pure words baptist church to be known as
you know the adultery scandal church where half the church is in adultery with each other right
it'd be a horrible testimony and you know what would happen if that was the case well it would
have far-reaching consequences on other people right it wouldn't just affect you it would affect
the people that could have gotten saved if people were still in this church serving god it would
affect your pastor who would obviously be heard by that it would affect a lot of people pretty
pretty much you know you may not be able like like that verse said trust in the lord of all
unheartly not unto thine own understanding you may commit the sin you say you know lord i don't
understand how this affects anyone else i think this just affects me you just got to lean on god's
word and not on your own understanding and just trust that it will affect other people and take
your sin very seriously we can go on and on about listing every sin and how it can affect people
but you just need to know that whatever the sin it doesn't matter if it's pride it doesn't matter
what the sin is it will affect other people i'll read for you quickly go ahead and turn to first
corinthians five and i'll read for you james one it says let no man say when he is tempted
i am tempted of god for god cannot be tempted with evil neither tempted he any man but every man is
tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed then when lust hath conceived to bring
forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death and that's all you need to know about
every sin doesn't matter what sin it is just realize that the end of every sin is just death
because that's how destructive sin is that is how destructive it is first corinthians five
so number one we have to understand the extremely destructive nature of sin number two because one
sinner destroys much good we must execute church discipline because we know the destructive nature
of sin we must be a church that executes church discipline you're there in first corinthians five
let's start reading in verse six the apostle paul is writing to the church of quernth and he says
your glorying is not good no ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump now doesn't this
jive with what we've been talking about how a little bit of sin has a huge consequence right
and he's saying hey a little bit of leaven in your church a little bit of unchecked fornication
a little bit of unchecked railing a little bit of the sins that the bible says are worthy of being
kicked out of church a little bit of that just left unchecked just festering in the church it
will leaven the whole lump how do you think churches are destroyed today you think churches
just destroy because god chooses he picks and chooses churches like a calvinist that oh i want
this church to be good because no reason and i want this church to fail because no reason no
the bible gives us instructions on how to live the christian life the bible gives us instructions on
how to be a good church and how to follow god's will for the church and he he very strongly
instructs the church to practice church discipline right and when we don't do that expect your
church to get destroyed because paul said a little leaven leaven at the whole one let's keep reading
says purge out therefore the old leaven that you may be a new lump as ye are unleavened or even
christ our passover is sacrificed for us let us keep the feast not with old leaven neither with
the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth i wrote
unto you in a pistol not to company with fornicators yet not all together with the
fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with idolaters for then must
he needs go out of the world 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
extortioner with such in one no not to eat now in this church we all believe church discipline but
you know for a lot of churches this is a really hard saying in the bible to say that certain
people that commit certain sins that are unrepentant of those sins should not be allowed
to attend church and people make fun of churches like ours oh they shun people they're a cult
because they shun people you know a cult makes up their own rules they follow a man that makes up
his own man-made rules i just read to you from the word of god all right and the bible says
paul's saying hey i've commanded you not to keep company with fornicators he says not all together
with the fornicators of this world so he's saying he's saying hey i'm not telling you you can't talk
to a fornicator that's unsaved it's not like you can't go to the grocery store and you have to ask
your clerk do you drink are you covetous are you an idolater are you a railer are you a fornicator
you know that's ridiculous right but here's the thing a man that is called a brother if a man
comes in this church or a woman comes in this church and they're coming week after week after
week and they're a brother in christ and they just mention oh yeah you know i just i live with
my girlfriend you know i'm an open fornication and no one says anything about that you know no
one does anything about that the bible says a little leaven leaven at the whole lump and people
accuse us of being hateful for this but this is actually a really loving thing to do it's a loving
thing to do to kick someone out for everybody involved it's a loving thing to do for your church
because here's the thing the kids growing up in church if they see that fornication is just
tolerated then they're not going to take that commandment seriously they say oh you know
fornication is no big deal you know he was still able to come to church he was still able to serve
god no consequences happen for him he's just not going to take that sin seriously and he's going
to just go be a whoremonger or she's just going to go be a whore because the church did not show
from the word of god the commandments of god and did not execute church discipline number two it's
loving for the person that's in fornication it's loving for the person that's living in that sin
because here's the thing maybe they just don't know you know maybe they're in fornication and
they just don't know that that was wrong you know i i grew up not in a christian home not in a
religious home whatsoever i was not taught what the bible teaches about fornication i was not
taught how god sees it as an extremely wicked sin i was not taught that god killed people in the old
testament for it and that it's something that's worthy of being kicked out of church you know i
was just taught well you know don't do it unless you're gonna marry her someday don't do it unless
you really love her right that's what the world is teaching nowadays that's what the world is
teaching but you know what's loving is to tell a person hey we want you to come here but the bible
says that if you're unrepentant and you're living in fornication we have to kick you out that's
actually loving because here's the thing no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous
right if you're getting rebuked if you're if the pastor's coming to you and confronting you with a
sin you're not going to be happy about that at the moment but you know what if you change that
in your life it's going to bring blessings in your life when you don't turn away from the the law of
god then you're not going to be slayed like the fool in in uh the book of psalms we were talking
about you know what it's really sad today that churches are just too cowardly to do what the
bible says to do pastors today are just too cowardly to clear i mean this is so clear let's
read this again he says 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 extortioner
with such and one no not to eat it's so clear right he's and here's what churches do they'll
they'll have person that's that's in one of these sins and instead of confronting them and kicking
them out they'll just say well that person can still come here they just can't be a church member
we'll do well i mean we'll still take their tithe we'll still let them put money in the plate
we'll still let them come to church but they're just not a church member the bible says not to
company with them the bible says no not to eat with them no fellowship with them whatsoever and
the reason for that is because you want to incentivize the person to get their life right
and come back to church it's a loving thing to do because we're not just kicking them out in the
curb and saying you know what just you know go to hell have a horrible life you're a fornicator
you know that's not the attitude the attitude is hey you're in grievous sin you've sinned against
god and you need to get it right so that you can come back and be in fellowship every single person
that pastor shelley i'm sure has kicked out for one of these reasons in his heart he wants them
to be repentant and to come back right but if they're not repentant they're not going to come
back in churches today they let a little unchecked fornication a little unchecked heresy damnable
heresy a little unchecked leaven and it ends up leavening their whole lump because of the
destruction destructive nature of sin because sin destroys so much it destroys churches some
churches won't even kick out pedophiles you know i know people personally that have had to quit
a church because their pastor lets the pedophile be the song leader right and it's like hey here's
this person's online profile here's what he's done to all these kids here's his conviction
and they're like oh you know it's fine we'll just keep him away from the kids he can still
sit in the front row he can still leave the songs you know a lot of pastors are extremely
weak today and a lot of churches are extremely weak and and it's not because of their personality
or anything like that it's just because they're too afraid to follow what god says to do they're
too afraid to follow what the bible says to do but obviously pastor shelley is the one that makes
those decisions of church discipline he's the one that makes the decision of if a person needs to be
kicked out or not so what is our job as a church when this happens go to matthew chapter 18
our job is to back up the pastor and to not fellowship with a person that's been kicked
out of church the loving thing to do if you love the person that was kicked out if it was
your best friend the loving thing to do for that person is to not fellowship with them until they
get their life right and god backs up church discipline that's what we're going to read here
in matthew 18 look at verse 18 jesus is speaking he says verily i say unto you who so whatsoever
you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be
loosed in heaven and if you read the context of this chapter he's talking about church discipline
right he's talking about people coming before the church with their issues and about how if the
brother doesn't hear the church that he's supposed to be unto you a heathen and a publican right
and he's saying hey whatever the church bounds on earth jesus is saying that god binds in heaven so
when pastor shelley makes a decision to kick someone out it's not up to you whether you think
that it was right or wrong it's up to god and god says that he backs up what the church does
he binds in heaven what we do in the church so when you're when you're bucking the authority
you're not just bucking pastor shelley's authority you're bucking god's authority as well
we need to make sure that we enact church discipline by the way you know personally if
someone's kicked out of another church not pure words baptist church not steadfast baptist church
they're kicked out of another bible believing good biblical church and they're unrepentant
with that church i'm not going to fellowship with that person either you know my old church
sure foundation baptist church if pastor thompson kicked someone out and he was a
railer let's let's just use this example he's a railer he's making all these wicked lies about
pastor thompson and about people in the church and he gets kicked out and he's unrepentant he
doesn't say sorry he doesn't change his actions and he walks through the door i'm not going to
shake his hand i'm not going to be cool with that person i'm not going to allow that person to have
fellowship with me because god backs up church discipline and even though that sure foundation
baptist church is not pure words baptist church faithful words baptist church is not pure words
baptist church you know if god backed up that decision then i back it up too and i'm not going
to have fellowship with someone that was harming people harming churches a little 11 11 at the
whole lump the person that's kicked out of a church is a person that's doing harm to other
christians and doing harm to a church and you know i'm not going to be cool with people like that
i'm not going to love people like that until they get things right i'm not going to welcome in
people like that you know i'm not going to let people like adam fannin come in to my church and
say so great to have you and you know we're gonna have an ice cream special for you can you please
close us out in a word of prayer and then all the church members calling him pastor fannin so great
to have pastor fannin you know what i would never do something like that someone who's harmed so
many people's lives someone who's harmed churches literally split independent fundamental baptist
churches that are serving god and you want to have fellowship with someone like that it's
inexcusable it's inexcusable if someone was a railer to pastor thompson i would not bless that
person i would not praise that person i certainly wouldn't call that person a pastor when he ordained
himself when he was congregationally ordained let me read for you proverbs 28 4 says they that
forsake the law praise the wicked but such as keep the law contend with them you know what did
the bible say at the end of first corinthians chapter five about the person that's kicked out
of church go ahead and go back there if you don't mind let's look at what the bible says
first corinthians chapter five the bible calls these people that are kicked out of church
that leaven churches that harm churches the bible calls them something
it says but them that are without god judge it therefore put away from among yourselves that
wicked person what does the bible say that a person that is kicked out of church is called
a wicked person right now if they repent if they get right with god are they a wicked person no
right everybody's a sinner everybody makes a mistake but someone that's destroyed a church
split a church is unrepentant for the things that they've done has harmed people that's a
wicked person and the bible says they that forsake the law praise the wicked but such
as keep the law contend with them you know what if you're if you're praising a guy like adam fannin
and calling him a pastor after all he's done you forsaken the law you've drank the kool-aid is what
you've done he's a wicked man you know what how much damage do you think could be done
when a church does not execute church discipline it destroys a church this is how churches are
destroyed it doesn't just happen by osmosis it happens by churches not following the bible
and not getting the leaven out of the church that's what we must do as a church we must back
up our pastor in this and obviously church discipline should never be the focus of a church
right but you know what if you don't execute church discipline it destroys everything else
that you're focusing on it makes it makes void everything else you're focusing on because if
you're if a pastor is focusing on feeding his flock preaching them good doctrine preaching
hard against sin and then he just makes a joke out of it by not taking care of business when it
needs to be taken care of right so it should not be our main focus but if we don't execute church
discipline then it just it makes everything else we do a joke it doesn't give any credence to the
rest that we do number three number three tonight turn to roman 16 roman 16
number three because one sinner destroyeth much good we must preach against wicked people
now if you if you watch pastor shelley's sermons on youtube and if you ever look at the comments
people don't like this people don't like us preaching against wicked people you know and
i just wish like these people could understand preachers pastors we don't care what you think
we don't care what people on youtube think we only care what the bible says we only care what
god thinks that's all we care about okay and all these people leaving all their comments about how
oh man you talk so much about adam fan and pastor shelley you man we're getting tired of hearing
about adam pan and i saw this one comment he was like i agree with everything you're preaching but
man i'm getting really tired of hearing about adam panin you know because one sinner destroys
a lot it's important to keep calling out wicked people you're there in roman 16 remember we don't
care what people say we care what the bible says let's look at the bible says roman 16 verse 17
now i beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine
which you have learned and avoid them for they that are such serve not our lord jesus christ but
their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple
so bible says people that teach false doctrines contrary to what we've learned the bible says to
mark them so how do we mark them do we go write some permanent marker on their face like how do
these youtube commenters expect us to mark them we mark them by preaching against them we mark them
by exposing them by making the youtube clips against them and by talking about the things
that they've done and not letting people forget the things that these people have done to harm
people because it says there by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple
you know why we constantly remind people of these wicked people is because these people by their
good words their fair speeches these false prophets like adam fannin they deceive the hearts of the
simple and it's the love of the people that are going to be deceived by these false prophets
that constrains us to call out evil people and wicked people we're not just willy nilly calling
out everybody we're calling out people that are false prophets that are reprobates that are
actively trying to harm the work of god that are actively trying to harm good churches why because
they they deceive the hearts of the simple right and we don't want those simple people to be
deceived you know what sometimes they even deceive good people too right people just dig into whatever
church they're in and then their pastor endorses adam fannin they just have to drink that kool-aid
too right it's really sad well you know part of the job of a pastor is to yes preach good
doctrine people are people but it's also to protect the flock let's have you turn to acts
chapter 20 acts chapter 20 you know next next time you say man i'm getting tired of pastor
shelly talking about this one person maybe you should think about the simple people that are
hurting and that have been affected by this person that's harmed real people real people that have
been harmed and hurt because of false prophets you know maybe you should love them a little bit
more instead of just worried oh i want to hear a different sermon care about people and care about
fighting the good fight acts chapter 20 let me get through myself acts chapter 20
look at verse number 28 verse 28 apostle paul is preaching to the elders in ephesus and he says
take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over the witch the holy ghost
made you overseers to feed the church of god which he hath purchased with his own blood so remember
the first job is to feed the church of god to give them good doctrine good sermons preach from
the word of god but then it says this for i know this that after my departing shall grievous wolves
enter in among you not sparing the flock also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse
things to draw away disciples after them therefore watch and remember that by the space of three
years i cease not to warn everyone night and day with tears so people are upset because pastor
shelly has mentioned adam fan in the last couple weeks and has made a couple youtube videos about
him the apostle paul was preaching against false prophets day and night for three years with tears
why did he have those tears because he cares about the people that the false prophets harm
because he genuinely cares about the churches that are being destroyed by these grievous wolves
right and a good pastor a good shepherd you know if you're thinking in a physical sense you're a
shepherd over a flock of sheep you know what are you doing you're feeding them you're feeding them
you're feeding them but when the wolf comes and you just let them be destroyed did you really
love those sheep absolutely not you get out the ar-15 you smoke the wolf and you move on
right well adam fan is not dead yet right he hasn't been smoked yet so pastor shelly just has
to keep smoking them and smoking them and smoking them right because he loves the flock he loves the
sheep and he loves the people that adam fanon is hurting and adam fan is destroying and you know
if you don't know who he is count yourself blessed but he's a really wicked person if you're in
church long enough you're going to see a wolf you know even there in in verse number verse number
30 he said also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away
disciples after them you know if you stay in this church your whole life it's a guaranteed fact
that there's going to be a judas that comes in here and that is a wolf in sheep's clothing that
looks just like a normal member of pure words baptist church pretends like they love god pretend
like they're out winning souls but someday they'll show their fangs and someday they'll show that
they want to take away people unto themselves and then you'll have a new person that you'll
hear preached about all the time all right it's always changing let's just think about this like
these people on youtube they're constantly complaining oh he talks about it too much
paul did it every day every night for three years right what does the bible say pastor
shelly's just trying to catch up he can't even catch up it's impossible to catch up right so
people need to read the bible look at uh second peter chapter two second peter two
why should we be calling these people out why should we care why should we care about preaching
against evil people second peter chapter two verse one but there were false prophets also
among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you who privately shall bring in
damnable heresies even denying the lord that bought them bring upon themselves swift destruction
many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the truth shall be evil spoken of and
through covetousness shall they with fainted words make merchandise of you whose judgment
now of a long time lingereth not and their damnation slumbereth not why should we keep
preaching as these people why should we preach against evil people notice there how it's said
and many shall follow their pernicious ways right and that's what we want to avoid if someone's
preaching damnable heresy if someone's preaching that you have to be baptized to be saved or you
have to have good works to be saved or they're denying the trinity or they're denying the deity
of christ or they're preaching some sort of damnable heresy you know sadly the bible says
many shall follow their pernicious ways hey joel osteen's church is just down the road how many
people does he fill up on his service a lot because many follow their pernicious ways you
know the disciples ask jesus are there many that be saved and i can't quote it verbatim but he's
just saying that straight is the gate narrow is the way that leadeth unto life and few there be
that find it right there's very few people sadly in this world that are saved many people follow
the false prophets many people want to have their ears tickled many people want to hear lies but not
very many people today want to hear the truth that's why if you were to go to to joel osteen's
church on sunday there would literally be thousands of people maybe even tens of thousands
of people i've never been there but it's because many follow their pernicious ways and it's for
love of people love of real souls that have an eternal destiny that we preach against these
people and that we expose them it says with fainted words they shall make merchandise of you
like joel osteen in houston who charges tickets to attend his church i don't know if he's always
done that but i've seen on his website in the last couple months charging tickets to attend
a church service that's called making merchandise of you you know some wolves are in sheep's
clothing and some wolves are in wolves clothing and people must just be drinking too much fluoride
today not to see that joel osteen is a false prophet that's sending people to hell it's sad
that we even have to explain that to people today but it's true paul cared about people paul cared
about real people that were being hurt by false prophets you know what your pastor pastor shelley
he cares about people too he cares about the people over in jacksonville that have been hurt
and that are still hurting and that thought that they were in a good like-minded church
and turns out they're not it's really sad go to go to matthew chapter 15 i just want to bring
up an objection to this because there's a lot of objections that oh you shouldn't always be
talking about false prophets you shouldn't always be calling out bad people and they use this little
phrase you're there in matthew 15 they go to matthew 15 verse 14 where it says let them alone
they be blind leaders of the blind and if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the
ditch see jesus said let them alone okay let's see if in context that that's actually what they're
what jesus is teaching because they say right here jesus is teaching let the false prophets be alone
don't call them out don't constantly talk about them let them alone we'll go back to verse number
eight verse number eight jesus says this people draw nigh unto me with their mouth and honoreth
me with their lips but their heart is far from me but in vain they do worship me teaching for
doctrines the commandments of men and he called the multitude notice the audience he's speaking to
and he called the multitude and said unto them hear and understand not that which goeth into
the mouth defileth a man but that which cometh out of the mouth this defileth a man so here's the
thing remember the audience he's talking to the multitude he's calling out the pharisees in front
of the multitude then look down says then came his disciples so the audience has changed right
and said unto him knowest thou that the pharisees were offended after they heard this saying so now
after he's rebuked the pharisees publicly he's alone with his disciples and he's saying jesus
you just offended these people aren't you worried about how you're going to reach them how are you
going to reach the pharisees jesus you just offended them let's see what he says but he
answered and said remember he's responding to his disciples privately every plant which my
heavenly father hath not planted shall be rooted up let them alone they be blind leaders of the
blind and if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch so here's the thing he's
saying i'm not trying to reach these people they can't be reached they're blind right this actually
teaches the exact opposite of what people try to twist it's funny what happens when you read the
bible in context right they say oh jesus says leave them alone no he's saying hey i'm not
worried about offending them i'm not worried about reaching them because they're blind leading the
blind and the blind that leaves the line they're both going to fall into the ditch go to john
chapter eight john chapter eight no pastor shelly isn't trying to reach adam bannon he's not trying
to convince him he's wrong he's not trying to win him over to our side hey we're leaving him alone
because he's the blind leading the blind right they're both going to fall into the ditch
john chapter eight we verse 43
he says why do you not understand my speech jesus calling out the pharisees again even because you
cannot hear my word it's not that they don't want to it's that they cannot hear jesus's word he
says you are of your father the devil and the lust of your father you will do he was a murderer from
the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speaketh a lie he
speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it and because i tell you the truth
ye believe me not which of you convinced me of sin and if i say the truth why do you not believe me
he that is of god heareth god's words ye therefore hear them not because you are not of god and you
know the modern day false prophets people that are reprobates today they have the same exact
attributes as these people right here when we say the truth they cannot hear it they have the spirit
of air they cannot hear the truth and when we speak god's words to them they cannot hear it
because they're not of god right so when it says let them alone hey let them alone they can't hear
god's word you know when a person crosses the line where they become a reprobate or false
prophet they're no longer interested in truth their father is the devil the bible just said
he said you're of your father the devil and the works of your father will you do you're not going
to win over a child of the devil right joe smo who's unsaved hey we want to go reach that person
we want to go give that person the gospel we want to give them the truth and here's the thing if
they're a person that's seeking truth they're going to receive the truth these people cannot
receive the truth because they're not of god they are of the devil so it's really it's just
a really silly argument how they take this one verse that says let them alone and just run with
that to say oh see stop talking about false prophets like have you ever read the new testament
have you ever read jesus's ministry you ever read matthew chapter 23 he's constantly warning people
about the leaven of the pharisees he's constantly warning you hey watch out for the guys that go in
long robes who make long prayers who you know shout out their alms that they do to be seen of
men jesus is constantly warning people about evil wicked people you read through the new testament
the apostles the disciples they're constantly calling people out by name and warning you of
evil people don't let people just take scriptures out of context and just convince you of a doctrine
that's not true that's why it's important to read the whole bible for yourself and not just trust
the preacher that he's giving you the truth read the whole council of god and believe the whole
council of god yourself go to second timothy four
second timothy four number four tonight the last point because one sinner destroyeth much good
we must endure hard preaching against our own personal sins remember one sinner destroyed much
good hey we're sinners too and our personal sin like we touched on earlier can also destroy our
lives the reason we need hard preaching is because it's the only thing that works you know if i were
to ask i'm not going to raise for ask for raise a hand but if i were to ask you you know who in here
has cleaned up their life as a result of hard preaching from the word of god i'm sure every
single person's hand would go up that they've gotten something right because of hard preaching
they've learned something they've become better people as a result of hard preaching right you're
there in second timothy four before we read there i'll read for you first thessalonians 5 20.
the bible says despise not prophesying despise not prophesying a lot of people today they despise
the preaching of god's word they want to come to a church where they'll they'll have their feelings
coddled where they'll be told that hey everything you're doing is right you're great you're wonderful
can you pass the plate with more money i mean you're great you're wonderful right that's what
most people want they want to be told lies today the bible says despise not prophesying
why would you have the temptation to despise something that was always positive
it doesn't make no sense right but i was saying don't despise prophesying because it's going to
be natural for people to despise hard preaching and they're going to say oh that guy has a bad
spirit oh that guy he is too hateful they despise prophesying that's why it's a commandment of god
not to despise prophesying and the people that actually read their bible
don't despise prophesying because if they're in a good church where their pastor or preacher is
preaching out of the word of god then they're going to know that what's being said is true
second timothy i'm sorry first timothy first timothy chapter four
why do we need hard preaching today first timothy chapter four this is a charge to a pastor it says
charge thee therefore before god and the lord jesus christ who shall judge the quick and the
dead at his appearing and his kingdom now right off the bat that sounds like a pretty serious
charge i mean what if someone came up to you and says i charge you before god and before the lord
jesus christ that's i mean that's an intense charge right and the thing is people don't
realize how much is on a pastor's shoulder people don't realize how much that they have to be
accountable to god for what they say for what they do and people want to always just pick them apart
for everything that they say right but here's the thing pastors and preachers they're charged
before god and before the lord jesus christ you know it's an important thing if you get the
opportunity to preach you should take it very seriously and you should every word that comes
out of your mouth should you should have considered and take seriously and not be flippant with it
right look at verse number two his first exhortation it says preach the word now notice it does not say
preach your opinion it does not say preach fox news articles it does not say preach what you
learned in college it says preach the word of god right and the reason that so many churches today
are just full of sin and full of people that don't love god is because their pastor preacher is not
preaching the word the word of god cleanses us and causes us to have zeal and fire for god and
if a pastor's just up reading fox news articles he can't really be shocked when his church isn't
fired up for god right i don't want to be fired up for fox news i don't want to be a fox news
baptist constantly talking about politics constantly talking about what's going on in the
government you know the bible says trust not in princes my trust is in god so i'm not really
worried what all the princes of this world are doing i know they're all wicked that's all i need
to know you know politicians are evil people i really don't care i don't like any of them
let's keep reading there it says be instant in season out of season so being instant means to be
ready right to be ready to do something it says be ready to preach the word in season and out of
season so we need to be ready if you're if you're a preacher you need to be ready to preach things
that you may not think your church needs you know hey preach the deity of christ whether it's in
season or out of season if every single person in your church believes that jesus is god hey
be ready to be instant and preach the deity of christ you know be ready to teach on the trinity
be ready to teach about going soul winning be ready to teach and preach the word of god every
single subject whether you think your church needs it or not whether it's out of season something that
you don't normally talk about be ready to preach those things too but also you know there's things
that are in season in the sense that they're popular and then there's things that are out
of season in the sense that they're not popular the bible says hey i charge you before god and
lord jesus christ to preach the word be instant in season hey it doesn't matter what people's
opinions are it doesn't matter if the whole country thinks that pedophilia is okay the
bible says they should be put to death right and if you're a preacher you don't need to consider
should i take i'm gonna take a gallop poll to see what people's opinion is about this subject
before i preach on it nope it's hey divorce the bible says adultery is wicked and punishable by
death hey the bible says that sodomy is wicked punishable by death i don't care what any state
government city government federal government says about it we don't need to take into consideration
people's opinions before we preach we need to preach just what the bible says not our own
opinion when it says reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering in doctrine for the time will
come where they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lust shall they heap to
themselves teachers having itching ears and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and
shall be turned into fables but watch thou in all things endure afflictions do the work of an
evangelist make full proof of thy ministry now he gave him he said three things there he said
reprove rebuke exhort now two two out of the three of those are negative right reproving someone is
telling some someone that they did something wrong rebuking someone is telling them very
very sharply very strongly hey you did seriously wrong here you need to fix this now that's a
rebuke right an exhortation is pushing someone to do something or encouraging someone but you know
people often say oh this is two negative you know one positive exhortation could actually
be negative sometimes because sometimes when you're exhorting people to do right they could
be offended by that you know if someone's not winning souls if someone is a christian that's
not preaching the gospel and you say you know hey jesus said if you follow me be fishers of men
right and if you're not a fisher of men if you're not winning souls to christ you're not following
jesus that's what the bible says and exhort them hey go soul winning and they're like ouch that
hurt my feelings right and they get offended because you know sometimes even exhortation can
be negative and the thing is you ought not care whether it's positive or negative when you're
listening to preaching you ought to care is it true is it what the bible says go to luke chapter
number three i want to show you an exhortation in the bible that was pretty negative because
sometimes people say that exhortation is always positive which often exhortation can be very
positive but sometimes it's negative we're gonna read john the baptist preaching look at verse
number seven he's saying then said he to the multitudes that came forth to be baptized of him
oh generation of vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come does this sound
positive so far no it says bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance and begin not to say
within yourselves we have abraham to our father excuse me for i say unto you that god is able of
these stones to raise up children unto abraham and now also the axe is laid onto the root of
the trees every tree therefore it's bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the
fire and the people asked him saying what shall we do then he answered and said unto them he that
hath two coats let him impart to him that hath none and he that hath meat let him do likewise
then came also the publicans to be baptized and said unto him master what shall we do
and he said unto them exact no more than that which is appointed you and the soldiers likewise
demanded of him saying what shall we do and he said unto them do violence to no man neither
accuse any falsely and be content with your wages and as the people were in expectation and all men
mused in their hearts of john whether he were the christ or not john answered saying unto them all
i indeed baptize you with water but one mightier than i cometh the latchet of whose shoes i am not
worthy to unloose he shall baptize you with the holy ghost and with fire whose fan is in his hand
and he will thoroughly purge his floor and will gather his wheat into the garner but the chaff he
will burn with fire unquenchable and many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the
people wow john the baptist was a hard preacher i'd hate to see what his rebuke and reproof looked
like if that's his exhortation he's talking about hell he's saying hey you bunch of thieves not stop
stealing be content with your wages stop doing violence to people he's preaching hard and you
say hey just so you know jesus is going to come and purge his floor the chaff he's going to burn
with fire unquenchable preaching about hell the bible says that that is his exhortation right
so you should never get tired of hard preaching never get tired of the man of god screaming and
yelling to you what the bible says the bible says despise not prophesies because it's good for us
it's good for us to hear what we're doing wrong for someone to just shoot us straight and tell us
from the bible because the thing is it's not the preacher rebuking you it's not the preacher that's
upset with you it's the word of god rebuking you right you're doing something wrong in your life
hey the preacher didn't write the bible the preacher didn't make up the rules he's just
reading the word of god and you know if a pastor is doing his job that's exactly what he's going
to do he's not going to spare he's going to be instant in season and out of season i'll read for
you isaiah 51 verse or 58 verse 1 it says cry aloud spare not lift up thy voice like a trumpet
and show my people their transgression in the house of jacob their sins you know people like
to criticize oh i don't like churches where the preacher yells what does the bible say the bible
says cry aloud spare not lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgression
so what should we go with should i go to a church that fits my opinion of what i believe a preacher
should be like or should i look at what god's perfect inerrant word says a preacher should be
like and go to church that matches that right we ought not trust in our own understanding right
trust in the lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding doesn't matter
if you don't like hard preaching it doesn't matter if you're not used to a church where the preacher
yells you ought to go with what god's word says jeremiah 5 14 says wherefore thus say the lord
of god of hosts god's talking to jeremiah and he says because you speak this word behold i will
make my words in thy mouth fire and this people would and it shall devour them you know when i
think of famous preachers you know like joel osteen we're going to pick on him tonight since
this is my first time in houston okay when he preaches fire is not exactly how i would describe
his preaching right it's extremely weak it's extremely effeminate he might as well just be
holding his wrist all limped the whole time with his hips kicked out to the side because it's how
weak his preaching is right it's just you're great you're wonderful this is my bible i am what
i what it says i am it says you're a false prophet joel osteen that's what it says you are
and you are what it says it is and you're going to split hell wide open
you know we ought to despise not prophesying another way we could despise
prophesying when you're in church you need to be paying attention you need to be giving
church your full undivided attention and obviously hey we all got kids to train we all
got kids to raise sometimes the kids are acting crazy in church and you got to go give them the
rod of correction amen you got to do that right sometimes mama's got to feed the baby i understand
but here's the thing you should do everything in your power to give church all of your attention
all of your focus because it's important god is worth it god is worth us to give him a couple
hours on a wednesday night to give all of our attention right it means put away the phone
don't be don't be scrolling on ebay and craigslist and facebook and youtube while you're in the house
of god there's nothing that's more important in this hour that you're here than the word of god
than singing praise to the one that saved you from eternal hell there's nothing more important than
that your stupid text messages can wait your stupid facebook posts can wait right i understand
there's exceptions sometimes this rule but you know what you ought to not despise prophesying
that's why personally i believe in having a physical bible in church right i don't think
it's a good idea to have your phone as your bible in church now you know maybe you're a mom that's
got three little ones and i i get it maybe you got to scroll on your phone right there's exceptions
to this but as a general rule the bible says to avoid the appearance of evil right so if you can
have a physical bible why are you going to sit there and have the appearance of evil and look
like you don't care on your phone right a visitor might come in and say oh wow everyone in this
church is just texting while the preacher's preaching right it could look bad and i'm not
saying that if you've done that that you're bad or you're evil or anything like that because
maybe you thought you were doing okay hey i'm still reading the bible i get it it's not a sin
to use your phone okay i'm just saying me personally i like to show up to church with a
physical bible to let other people know to be a good testimony to other people that hey i'm taking
this seriously you know it's contagious when people in church have zeal when they care about
the things that's being done you know that's going to be contagious and rub off on other
people go to proverbs chapter five almost done here you know we might just need to skip some of
this for sake of time yeah we'll skip some of this go to romans chapter 7 last scripture i'll
have you turn to romans chapter 7 romans chapter 7 verse 11 the bible says for sin
taking occasion by the commandment deceived me and by it slew me wherefore the law is holy
and the commandment holy and just and good was then that which is good made death unto me god
forbid but sin that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good that sin by the
commandment might become exceeding sinful and what i wanted us to take away from this sermon
tonight is that sin is exceeding sinful and a little bit of sin will destroy a lot the bible
says one sinner destroyeth much good we must realize tonight how destructive sin is and how
much damage it could bring to our lives you go out and commit fornication anything is no big deal
you think it's no problem and you wake up the next day with a disease you have for the rest
of your life because sin is serious and its effects are serious right you get divorced
you think it's no big deal well little did you know that your children and their children and
their children and their children are going to do the same thing right take your sins seriously and
realize we need to make sin exceeding sinful in our lives in our homes when we teach our family
hey we need to make sure that our kids know sin is extremely extremely sinful right when even
things that we think are little like lying or being prideful you know the end of all of all sin
is destruction all sin whether you understand it or not you just need to trust god that's what the
bible says so remember we have to realize that sin is extremely destructive because we know how
destructive sin is we have to be a church that executes church discipline we cannot just let a
little leaven leaven the lump of pure words baptist church and because we know that one sinner
destroyeth much good we have to continually preach against wicked people and false prophets i don't
care what the people on youtube say about it that's what the bible says to do it's what we
need to keep doing and because we know that one sinner destroyeth much good we must endure hard
preaching against our own personal sin let's pray lord thank you so much for this day and thank you
so much for your word lord i just pray that we would respect it and cherish it like we should
lord we know that all your commandments are for our benefit that you love us god just thank you
so much for the perfect word of god i pray that we would all read it every day and not just trust
what a preacher says but we'd verify everything with your words in jesus name we pray amen
so
you