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Good morning. We'll go ahead and get started welcome to pure words baptist church
We'll go ahead and pull out our hymnals and open to our first song
The song number 66 number 66 at Calvary
66 at Calvary sing nice and loud
Yes, I spent vanity and pride
Caring not, my Lord was crucified
Knowing not, it was for me. He died on Calvary
Mercy there was great and grace was free
Pardon, there was multiply to me
There my burden soul found liberty
at Calvary
By
God's Word at last my sin I learned then I trembled at the law
Till my guilt and soul glory turn to Calvary
Mercy there was great and grace was free
Pardon, there was multiply to me
There my burden soul found liberty
at Calvary
Oh
The love that drew salvation's plan. Oh
The grace that brought it down to man. Oh
the mighty god that God did spend at
Calvary
Mercy there was great and grace was free
Pardon, there was multiply to me
there
my burden soul found liberty
at Calvary
Calvary
Now
Jesus everything
Now I gladly owe him as my king
Now my raptured soul can only sing of Calvary
Mercy there was great and grace was free
Pardon, there was multiply to me
There my burden soul found liberty
at Calvary
Man great singing. Oh Jeff
You
Then all right, so go ahead and turn to song number
167
number
167 all hail the power of Jesus name
167
All hail the power of Jesus name
First all hail the power of Jesus name
angels prostrate
All bring forth the royal diadem and crown him
Bring forth the royal diadem and crown him
He chose and seed of Israel's race he ransomed
from the
Hail him who saves you by his grace and crown him
Hail him who saves you by his grace and crown
Him
Let every kindred every tribe on this
terrestrial ball
To him all majestiest pride and crown him
To him all majestiest pride
To him all majestiest pride and crown him
That with yonder sacred
We add his feet may fall
We'll join the
Everlasting song and crown him Lord
Oh
Well join the everlasting song and crown him Lord
And great singing this morning
so this time we'll go ahead and
Go over the announcements. I'm going to pull out your bulletins
If you didn't receive one just raise your hand brother Samson will bring them around to you and they're on the front page
We do have our Bible memory passage and verse we are memorizing Psalm chapter 47
Really short chapter. We should all get this one nailed down. All right, it's only nine verses
We are going one verse per week
All right, so we are in week three verse three, but definitely keep working on that
If you quote a word perfect, there will be a special prize received there for you
But on the inside we have our service times listed Sunday morning 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening 5 30 p.m
in that midweek Bible study
Thursday at 7 p.m. We have our churchwide soul winning times with respective leaders and our
Praise report and our stats and I'm gonna go ahead and get a count. Does anybody have any salvations to report?
For Friday Saturday. Did you have any Saturday?
No, brother James had four report
Climb into that and it will be going out at 2 p.m. This afternoon
We increase that number so good job soul winning we do have
Expecting lady in the church. So definitely keep her in your prayers sister friend Darnell expecting a little girl in June
Keep them in your prayers and then our upcoming guest preachers today May 1st
We have brother David Kiefer came out from faithful word Baptist Church had brought his wife with them
So definitely shake their hands meet them after the service. Thanks for coming out. I'm preaching both services to
Definitely a great blessing May 15th
We'll have brother Ben Naim coming down from steadfast Baptist Church and then July 7th
Which is a Thursday that midweek service while pastor Anderson from faithful word Baptist Church coming to preach for us
So definitely a blessing having all these guys preach for us. Definitely. Thank them for coming down
Some upcoming events here right around the corner May 7th. We do have the Mother's Day tea
From 5 p.m. To 6 30 p.m. At the four friends tea room in Paraland, Texas
All ladies are invited
No boys allowed. All right, the only boys are the nurselings could definitely come
But guys watch the kids let the ladies enjoy their Mother's Day tea
And the RSVP was last Sunday
So kind of past that dead land if you didn't sign up
Go ahead and just kind of send a message in any ways through via Facebook text miss Shelley
And I'm sure they could probably get you guys in there, but that is taking place May 7th
May 21st is the soul winning marathon in Austin, Texas. So write that on your calendar
I'm sure it's going to be the same
It's gonna take place the same way all going marathons do meet up for refreshments and fellowship
Go out for a round of soul winning meet back back up
Meet back up for for lunch and then go out for another round of soul winning
So May 21st, and then we do have prayer requests listed under the under underneath that
Steadfast Baptist Church is be in prayer for pastor Shelley and the congregation
I'm definitely the Goodwin family for healing and comfort for brother Edward. I know there is an update with his situation
With we're praying for his health overall and he and his feet in be in particular
He did it to get a couple toes amputated. They didn't have to take his whole foot, which is good news
But just be in prayer for him that is that his feet heal up
Miss Liberty's
Family member Catherine battling cancer brother Joel
Unspoken just favor and blessings and then faithful word Baptist Church. Let's keep them in your prayers
But that is the announcements for the morning
Let's go ahead and pull our hymnals back out
And we'll turn to song number 65
Song number 65 just over in the glory land
Number 65 just over in the glory land
Oh
First I have a home prepared where the saints of God just over in the glory
land
And I long to be by my Savior's side
Just over in the glory
land
just
Over in the glory land
I'll join
the happy angel
Just over in the glory
land
just
Over in the glory
land there with
The mighty host I'll stand just over in the glory
land
I am on my way to those mansions
They're just over in the glory
They're to sing God's praise and his glory share just over in the glory
land
just
Over in the glory land I'll join
the happy angel
just
Over
Just
Over in the glory
land there with
The mighty host I'll stand just over in the glory
land
What a joyful thought that my Lord I'll see just over in the glory
land
and with kindred
saved there forever
just
Just over in the glory
The happy angel
Just
Over in the glory
land there with
the mighty host
Just
With the blood wash throng I will shout and sing just over in the glory
Glad hosannas to Christ the Lord and just over in the glory
Just over in the glory
The happy angel
Just
Over in the glory
The mighty host I'll stand just over in the glory
Land
All right, so at this time let's go ahead and pull out our Bibles and turn in your Bibles to mark chapter 7
Mark chapter 7 will have brother Sampson come read for us and we'll go ahead and pass the offering place
Okay mark chapter 7 let's all find a place there's always gonna read this chapter together
Would start with me right here with a Bible starts to read mark chapter 7 verse number 1 then came together and to him the Pharisees and
certain of the scribes which came from Jerusalem and when they saw some of his
Disciples eat bread with the foul that is to say with unwashed hands
They found fault the Pharisees and all the Jews except they wash their hands off eaten up
holding the tradition of the elders and when they came from
The market except they wash they eat not and many other things there be which they have received to hold as
washing of cups and pots
facing vessels and tables
And the Pharisees and scribes asked him why walk not the disciples by disciples according to the tradition of the elders
But eat bread with unwashed hands
He answered and said unto them
Well as I say is prophesied of you hypocrites as it is written this people honors me with their lips
But their heart is far from me. I'll be it in vain
Do they worship me teach them for doctrines the commandments of men for lying aside the commandment of God?
He holds the tradition of men as the washing of pots and cups many other such like things you do
He said unto them full will you reject the commandment of God that you make keep your own tradition
Moses said honor thy father and mother and whosoever cursed father a mother let him die the death
But he's but ye say if a man shall say his father or mother it is Corbin that is to say a gift
Whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me?
He shall be free and you suffer him no more to do ought for his father or mother
Making the Word of God of none effect through your tradition, which he have delivered and many such like things you do
And when he had called to all the people unto him
He said unto them hearken unto me every one of you and understand
There is nothing from without a man that entered into him can defile him for the things which come out of him
those are they that defile the man if a man have ears to hear let him hear and
When he was entered into the house from the people his disciples asked him concerning the parable and he says unto them
Are ye so without understanding also?
Do you not perceive that what sort of thing from without enter into a man it cannot defile him
But it enter is not into his heart
But into the belly and go it out into the draw
Purging all meat and he said that which cometh out of a man that defile the man
Or from within out of the heart of a man proceed evil thoughts adultery fornications
murders thefts covetousness wickedness deceit
Pasciviousness and and the evil eye blasphemy pride foolish
all these evil things come from within and defile the man and
From thence he arose and went into the board of the Tyrian sedan and entered into a house and would have no man know it
But he could not be hid for a certain woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell at
his feet
Woman was a Greek
Phoenician by nation and she besought him that he would that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter and Jesus said
unto her that the
Children first be filled for it is not meet to take the children's bread and to cast it unto dogs
And he and she answered and said unto him. Yes, Lord
Yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumb
He said unto her for this saying go thy way the devil is gone out of thy daughter
And when she was come to her house
She found the devil gone out and her daughter laid upon the bed and again departing from the coast of Tyrian sedan
He came into the Sea of Galilee
so the midst of the coast of through the midst of the coast of the capitalist and they
Bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impotent
impediment in his feet and they besieged him to put his hand upon him and
He took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers into his ears and he spit and touched his tongue
And looking up to heaven he sighed and says unto him he fought father
And that is he open and straight way his eyes were open and the string of his tongue was loose and he's fake plain
He charged him that they should tell no man
But the more he charged him so much more a great deal they published it and they were beyond measure
Astonished saying he had done all these things. Well, he make it both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak
by head for a quick word of prayer
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Alrighty good morning everybody. Thank you so much for having me
Thank you so much for giving us my wife and I a great Texas. Welcome. This is our first time here in Texas and
How to say it's been a lot
Pleasing to us. It's been really nice. The weather is great better than it is in Phoenix at the moment, but you know
That's neither here nor there
Let's go ahead and start with this message the title of this message this morning is see no evil hear no evil
Speak no evil
Raise your hands if you've seen that image of the three wise monkeys that close their eyes close their ears and close their mouth
You've seen that image before right? This is a old
proverb found in Shinto Japanese religion
Look, we got to understand as Bible believing Christians right that even a broken clock is right twice a day
Right when the hands of a clock are stuck in place inevitably the time will get to that clock twice or that time twice, right?
So even though we do not adhere to Japanese religion or any Eastern mysticism like that
We can find universal truths have found other amongst other religions and you got to understand as Bible believing Christians
We acknowledge and understand salvation is by faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ plus nothing and minus nothing, right?
We do not need to work our way to heaven
But understand the rest of the world they are all trying to work their way to heaven
They're all trying to live a good life to be pleasing unto God, but their works will not save them
It is very clear that we are saved by faith through grace
Right for you're saved by grace through faith and not of works with any man should boast, right?
So look down at your Bible if you would at mark 7
I just wanted to start with that by way of introduction because don't you notice that people of other religions are?
Barely normal decent people a society you may meet someone who's a Muslim you may meet someone who is a
Hindu you may meet somebody who's even atheist and they're not
Necessarily morally just this degenerate horrible wicked person
So the Bible does make clear that any and all of our sins will condemn us to help
Even I standing here today, right?
The Bible says there's not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sin is not
But when we go around and evangelize to a lost and dying world
We want to make sure that they understand that their works
Will not save them and the image of those three monkeys are known as the wise monkeys are
Trying to adhere to a universal truth of not looking at anything bad
Not listening to anything bad and saying nothing bad and we can see an example of Jesus Christ
Explaining that right here in this passage notice what it says in verse
18 and he sayeth unto them are ye so without understanding also
Do you not what perceive that whatsoever thing from without an earth into the man? It cannot defile him
Because it enters into his heart but into but into the belly and goeth out into the drought
Purging all meats and he said that which cometh out of the man that defileth the man for from within
Out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts adulteries fornications murder theft covetousness
Wickedness deceit
lasciviousness and evil eye
blasphemy pride
Foolishness all these evil things come from within and defile the man the Lord Jesus Christ is explaining to us simply
We consume more than just with our mouth
See a lot of times people think that the only thing or the only way we can consume things is by eating and that is
True eating food is the only physical way we consume
But we can consume things through what we see and what we hear and Jesus Christ is saying it's not what goes in
Physically that defiles him. It's what comes out of him
Spiritually because out of the heart of men as the Bible clearly teaches, right?
The heart is desperately wicked and who can know it
We acknowledge as Bible believing Christians that once you are born again
Once you have been given the Spirit of God and your dead spirit is brought to life
That the old man or the flesh cannot be pleasing unto God and it cannot be brought to the conformity of the laws of God
But the new man has the ability to walk in the spirit
That's not to say people don't do and are fairly good people
Can an unsafe person go help an old lady across the street and do something nice?
Can an unsafe person go and watch wholesome things or listen to wholesome things?
I mean the Bible is making it very clear those things will not save you but understand that inevitably
You will because what's inside of us is
Desperately wicked and you know, we can't acknowledge that or we have to acknowledge that as you know
humankind as a society
But that's the first point. I wanted to go into see no evil
I would like to propose a challenge to those who are willing to but
Understand Jesus is talking to Pharisees and Sadducees people as he says elsewhere in the Bible seeing that you cannot see
Hearing that you cannot perceive
Anyone who is willing today for this sermon go ahead and cover your eyes for the whole sermon
Be as that monkey who sits there and covers his eyes
You can acknowledge that even while standing there anyone who's interested can I'm just kind of throwing that out as a challenge
It goes to show that the Pharisees were willingly ignorant that even though the Son of God Jesus Christ
I'm standing in front of them proclaiming the truth the Word of God
Manifested in the flesh. They were just willing to just not see the miracles that were very
Clearly presented to them the bringing of life to Lazarus after three days in the tomb
Was a very clear thing that you could see was a miracle
Healing the blind healing the lame passing out demons out of people people saw this
The unsaved looked at this and said this guy we better listen to what he has to say
But the Pharisees when they saw these things they closed their eyes and they're just like not gonna see it
Don't want to see it not interested
So like I said if those want to try it try see how long you can cover your eyes for
Even for this whole message do you think Christ spoke for five minutes?
Do you think Christ spoke for ten minutes as I'd imagine he spoke for hours and he sat there and proclaimed the truth
To whoever had eyes to see and ears to hear
But turn to your Bibles if you went to Proverbs
Proverbs is an example in the Bible where we can see
God explaining to us that there are some things that we should not see do not look at and it should be pretty common to
understand right that there are things that we shouldn't look at and
Even the unsaved get this here's an example in Proverbs chapter 23 turn to Proverbs chapter 23
Verse 26
Proverbs 23 verse 26 the Bible reads my son
Give me thine heart and let thine eyes observe my way. So pause right there
Right off the bat
this is Solomon right speaking to if not his physical son at least a son in the faith or someone who is willing to listen and
notice he says give me thine heart and
Let thine eyes observe my way. So right off the bat
He's showing them look at what I do do what I do
Watch what I'm doing and open your heart unto it and do what I do monkey see monkey do right
But it says for a whore is a deep ditch and a strange woman is a narrow pit
She also lieth in weight as for a prey and increases the transgressors among men who hath woe
Who hath sorrow who hath contentions?
Who hath babbling or babbling who hath wounds without cause who hath what redness of eyes?
They that tarry long at the wine they that go to seek mix wine
Look not thou upon the wine when it when it is red when it giveth its color in the cup when it moveth
It's itself a right at the last it bite it like a serpent and sting it like an adder and notice this verse 33
Thine eyes shall behold strange women and thy heart shall utter perverse things
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea or as he that lieth upon the top of a mass
they that
They have stricken me shout thou say and I was not sick
They have beaten me and I felt it not when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again
So what is this passage saying? There's a lot to you know unravel here
But first things first it points out what's known as the whore or the strange woman
You know understand that there is a sin that is common among men
Specifically young men and that is looking with lust with your eye
Looking upon something being covetous. Haven't you ever heard the saying you're eating with your eyes. I just went out last night to a
Kelly's Steakhouse
I think is what it was called and I wanted to make sure I got a steak while I was here in Texas
So I ate with my eyes. I went I looked at a menu and I said, where's the biggest baddest meanest, Texas steak
That's what I'm looking for
But nevertheless that saying is just saying that like when you look on things, right?
We consume what we look at through just vision and the Bible is saying there is a type of woman
That we should not even look at and it's known as the Horus woman for a strange woman a woman
That does not belong to you because understand you are married
You have made a promise to your wife that you're gonna honor and respect her and be faithful to her and her alone
You would want that mutual respect of your wife doing the same to you and not looking upon men to lust after them
less is just this desire to have something and I
You know it less is tentatively used in a negative term, but you could I'm you know back to the steak
You know lusting after steak. Could that be good? Probably not, you know
You should desire a steak or want a steak, but I guess covetousness would be that next kind of it goes into covetousness
But the Bible is pointing out that you should not even look at the horse
Don't even look in that direction have she can offer you nothing ladies that are here young ladies that are single
Understand this is a stereotype of a woman. You don't want to be seen at at all
You want to be attracting a right good godly man?
You want to attract someone who is following the Lord and seeking to please him in all his ways then look like act like a
Proverbs 31 woman be virtuous be willing to stand on the principles of God be modest
The Bible makes very clear that for young ladies modesty is the thing you are trying to desire. So
If you continue to read notice what it says in verse 29
Who hath woe who hath sorrow who hath?
Contentions who hath babbling all those things seem pretty messed up, right?
Whoa, sorrow contentions babbling who hath wounds without cause who hath redness of eyes
They that carry long at the wine they that go to seek mix wine now
Understand this the word wine in the Bible does not mean what we kind of use it as today in 21st century America as
Alcoholic beverage the matter of fact back in you know, our older form of English wine was a universal term for just juice
They didn't have the word juice used as a common language back then
But you would understand what type of wine we are talking about through its context and you we know that for a fact because it says
Right here verse 30 they that Terry long at the wine they that go to seek mixed wine
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red
When it giveth its color in the cup when it moveth itself, right?
So there's a type of wine that we do not look at so it's okay to look at the apple juice
It's okay to look at the orange juice
It's okay to look at juice in which is good for you
But once it is fermented once it turns alcoholic in nature
It's saying do not even look at it because there is temptation built within
People to want to get inebriated
And I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like there is no form of desire for people to go out and get drunk
For people to go out and party as they so to say, you know
The Bible says there is no temptation taking you but such as is common to man
It is common for people to want to have a good time through getting drunk with their friends
But understand it is a false type of good time
It is as the prodigal son, right?
He enjoyed his wealth for a season and then destroyed his life and it says that right here in verse 33
Thine eye shall behold strange women
Look not at the horse woman. Look not at the wine. Do not look at these things
There are people who are unsaved who know this truth. They're not Christians and a Bible believing Christians. They've never read the Bible
They don't know these things
Intuitively or they don't know these things from the Word of God
They just know that it is wrong that it is bad to look at certain things
And I don't want to go deep into the subject of like pornography and stuff like that
But understand there are three major destroying factors of a nation one of which is pornography
One of which is their military or the military industrial complex and one of which is drug abuse
These three things put them together they will destroy nations and understand pornography is not necessarily
You know, it's probably worse
I can't point to any specific fact
But you know, it's probably worse today than it's ever been in the history of mankind
And we need to remember as Bible believing Christians to avoid this thing and to call it out for what it is
If you know a brother or sister who is looking at wrong or bad things think about even Hollywood and television
You know the
Degeneracy that they're putting on TV. I mean for crying out loud. I don't necessarily watch TV
I do watch some entertaining things on like discovery and stuff like that
But once again, there is a wholesome thing to watch that I would you know
Not defile my eye with and I don't want you guys to defile your eye with and even our news
Unfortunately today you go to the news whether it be CNN Fox or whatever
The news station is to put a tranny up there for you to interview and it's like I don't even want to look at this
Person why are you putting this in front of my eyes? It's defiling even unto the average person
But you know like I was mentioning right
See no evil should be pretty self-explanatory that is one of the major
senses
That we take in the most is our sight, you know, we we see a lot
we go around in our day to day go to work go to school and
You know, you got to remember that it's very easy to
fall under looking at something that's bad when you're driving down the road and you see a
Scantily clad woman or you see a bunch of you know, drunks hanging out, you know
Jesus says in Matthew chapter 5 the famous Sermon on the Mount, right?
If your eye offend the pluck it out and cast it from thee or it is profitable for thee that one of thy membership perish
And not that the whole body should be cast into hell not speaking to save people there
He's speaking to the unsafe saying if you have a problem with this looking at something
You're not supposed to look at pull your eye on throw it from you because it's profitable for you
He's not saying it literally but at the same time it would behoove you to throw your eye out rather than to
fall under this trap of the sin
Elsewhere he goes on to say, you know, for instance
He says you've heard it said of them of all time that whosoever committed adult or whosoever
Committed adultery, you know, it's wrong
But who so but he's basically saying that whosoever looketh upon a woman has committed adultery with already in his heart
so once again and even back in mark 7 it clearly says that
There are things in which we are not supposed to look at. We have an evil eye
Elsewhere it talks about you know, the light of the body is the eye if thine eye be single
Thy whole body shall be full of light
but if thine eye be evil thy whole body shall be full of darkness and the light that be in thee be darkness, how
Great is that darkness? So let's remember not to look on evil things
Let's not look at alcohol and I'm not gonna go through a list of things what not to look at
Talk to your parents, you know as time progresses we will know for sure
Inevitably the things that we are not supposed to look at but what about here? No evil. Yeah, we get it
Don't look at bad things. It seems pretty simple, right? What about listening to bad things?
Turn to your Bibles if you would to Deuteronomy 13
Deuteronomy 13 is a very
Important passage in the Bible it talks about false prophets
People who are going around preaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre say
Did you know and I'm sure you do know that there's a group of people?
False prophets that are going around proclaiming false truths for their own financial gain for their own
pleasure to deceive a people
Bible makes very clearly that there will be wolves among us and there will be people that are tried to deceive
To destroy people's lives and the Bible shows us an example in the law of God what we should do in light of
The false prophet look down at your Bible if you would at Deuteronomy 13
Verse 1 Deuteronomy 13
verse 1 if there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and
Giveth thee a sign or a wonder and
The sign or the wonder come to pass whereof he spake unto thee saying let us go after other gods
Which thou hast not known and let us serve them thou shalt not
Harken unto the words of that prophet nor that dreamer of dreams
For the Lord your God proveth you to know
Whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul pause there really quickly
Notice it says in the beginning of verse 3 thou shalt what not harken unto the words of that prophet now
We understand that all Christians are in different levels of their faith, right? There are babes in Christ
I just got saved days ago
There are people who've been saved for
Years and have been studying their Bible and you got to realize that unless you're in the Word of God
Studying the Word of God and going to a great church like your words Baptist Church
Then you may be easily tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine
But if you are going to a good godly Church following the commandments God and you are daily reading your Bible
It is less likely that you will be swayed by the errors of the wicked and the false prophet that goes in and creeps in
And tries to tell you like hey, did you know that the NIV is actually a better translation of the Bible
Hey, did you know that there's actually only one person of the Trinity and Jesus is the Father
Hey, did you know and whatever the blasphemous statement there is there will be people that go around trying to deceive you
and they are trying to get you to go away from the true service of the Lord and
You as the Bible will say here clearly do not even harken unto them
Do not even acknowledge that and if any time anyone ever comes to you and tries to propose to you some strange or
Weird doctrine and you don't know which mind you
You know, not everyone knows everything
I don't know everything and if no one tries to present something strange to you go to your pastor
Go to your spiritual leader ask them. Is this sound accurate? You're not necessarily ratting the person out
You're just questioning whether these things be so as the Bereans right the Bible clearly teaches
They heard the preaching with all readiness of mind and then they searched the scriptures whether these things be so and we should do
The same so I standing here today. Don't take my word as gospel
You know, I could make a mistake and I could be in error. It is your job as the congregation to judge
I'm preaching our preaching any spiritual leaders preaching why so that you guys can stay right with God
The Bible says very clearly to fulfill the law
We need to love the Lord our God with all our heart soul and mind and love our neighbors as ourselves
Do not assume your spiritual leader is leading you astray
But when something sounds unique go ahead and ask them like it's not like, you know hard to imagine that
you know someone may understand something differently than you do and
You know
The Bible also clearly talks about when you have a fault with your brother for instance
Right go to him and him alone and see if you can gain your brother
Because it's that context of that passage is usually talking about
fault meaning like
Things that are not spiritual in nature. It's kind of like, you know, he does you dirty, you know
But it could also apply to this spiritual matter of like a brother coming to you and trying to present a false doctrine to you
Go to him and him alone and be like, are you sure about what you're saying about?
You know the NIFB is a better translation of the Bible. Are you sure you know, you're talking about with Jesus?
Are you sure you know about fill in whatever the false doctrine may be?
Propose it to him and see if you can gain your brother
If not bring two or three witnesses, let every word be established and if at that point
Spiritual elders are trying to convince this person to understand the truth of the Word of God
Then at that point if they're not going to hear them take it to the church and the church will pass judgment on what it
Is we're talking about but now let's go on to read it says
What's the penalty for someone who's a false prophet someone going around trying to deceive people in verse 4?
it says ye shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice and
Ye shall serve him and cleave unto him and that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death
because he has spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt and
Redeemed you out of the house of bondage to thrust thee out of the way
Which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in
so shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee if thy brother now notice what we're about to go into a
physical biological sibling if thy brother
The son of thy mother or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosom or thy friend
Which is as thine own soul entice thee secretly saying let us go and serve other gods
Which thou has not know thou nor thy fathers namely of the gods of the people which are round about you nigh unto thee
Or far off from thee from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth thou shalt
Not consent unto him nor hearken unto him neither shall thine eye what?
Pity him neither shalt thou spare neither shalt thou
conceal him
But thou shalt surely kill him thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death and afterwards
the hand of all the people and thou shalt stone him with stones that he died because
he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of
bondage and all Israel shall what here and
Fear and shall do no more any such wickedness as is among you so
here no evil a
Brother a wife a mother a child tries to do this
We don't have respect of persons and that's why I'm saying we're not out on a witch hunt looking for people with issues and problems
But at the same time understand as the Bible clearly teaches
There will be wolves among you if Judas was hanging around the eleven disciples and the Lord Jesus Christ
which he knew he was the devil from the beginning and at the you know, the Last Supper when
Everything was going down and Jesus says one of you will betray me all the eleven were assuming it was them that I
so if
Judas was that subtle then why would we not assume that there could even be a wolf among us today?
Like I said, don't go on a witch hunt. I'm not saying look turn to your left
And then turn to your right there may be one sitting among you. I'm not saying that I'm just pointing out that
Do not be surprised if this happens if someone comes and says something unique go to him ask him
What do you mean by that? I don't understand you and
Then bring two or three other with you. Well, actually we're gonna establish this truth
I don't want to hear it or we're gonna take it to the church and let that be the way we
Deal with these matters
So here no evil. This is another way we can consume things
It's through what we listen to and that's just in reference to preaching
Don't even get me started on music and other things, you know
And I know that music today is not singing songs that are praising unto God
They are seeing some of the most horrible degeneracy unto mankind
They are purposely doing this Satan is the little G God of this world, right?
And he's known as an angel of musical ability who actually sways people through his music and
We need to realize that
Music is a strong tool to deceive people. There are so many people even Christian music, dude
I don't I don't know the like
Christian contemporary bands, but
There are some that like, you know, I
Don't know their names because I don't listen to them
So, I don't know what they're called or the words to their song, but I've heard and I've seen I like YouTube feeds of like
Christian contemporary bands being found in scandals and like preaching and teaching horrible doctrine and it's just like it's a good thing
I wasn't listening to them. Anyways seemed pretty, you know soft anyways, but
In that same sense as we do not look upon things that we shouldn't be looking on
Try see if you could go throughout the whole entire congregation covering your ears
Because it's easy to just you know
Not listen to things it I mean right like isn't that secret? Oh, you start hearing a bad song on the radio
It's like up change it done, right? But what about when you are hearing something that you don't know to be bad?
And this is why as we grow in our faith
We will be able to discern what is good to the heart and over time
We'll be able to know what we're looking at and things like that, but Proverbs
17 for says a wicked doer giveth he to false lips and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue
Haven't your mother's ever taught you that you have two eyes and two ears and one mouth
Right, and if that's a physiological truth, I mean unless you only have one eye but like normally most people have two eyes and two ears
right and
It is true you consume more through your sight it is true
You can consume more through what you hear
But that does not mean you do not consume through your mouth and the principle that your mother is trying to teach you
You have you know, two eyes and two ears and one mouth is to be willing to listen first and then speak after
We should double the chance listen to people then speak on matters and this has to do with the member of our body
That is hardest to healed the tongue the mouth
But we say this is that member that is truly the hardest to control turn if you went to James chapter 3
James
Chapter 3 the Bible says in Ephesians 4 29 let no corrupt
communication proceed out of your mouth
But that which is good to the use of edifying that I may minister grace unto the hearers so it is easier for us
To slip up in our terminology
I want to preach the message in Hawaii called that is not a bad word
And the Bible clearly teaches that we use the words that the Holy Ghost uses, right?
So any word that you find in the King James Bible?
Understand it's not a bad word. It is a word that is wholesome. It is pure words of the Lord
You know, this is what we stand on the Word of God
And if the Bible says no that the dumbass fake don't bristle don't get flat-footed
Oh dumbass, what are you talking about? That's the Word of God. It's a muted donkey. That's what it's basically trying to say
But he spake so it's actually kind of unique that that happened but in James chapter 3 it explains to us
the importance of yielding our
Let's go ahead and start in verse 1 it says my
Brethren be not many masters knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation
For in many things we offend all if any man offend not in word
The same is a perfect man enable also to bridle the whole body
Now notice this it says in verse 3 behold
We put bits in the horses mouths that they may obey us and we turn about their whole body cause
My wife has trained horses for a long time for a living and she'll tell you that you know
There was a time where you didn't have bits in the horse mouth that you would tug on its hair and do bareback horse riding
I'm raise your hand if you've trained horses or do any form of horseback riding
I'd expect there'd be more horseback riders here some more cowboys the Hawaiian word. We say is Polly. Oh, no, but you know
it is true that inevitably as you learn to tug on the
Bridal of that horse you can control where that horse goes the same is a member of our mouth the tongue
And it goes on to read in verse 4
behold also the ships
Which though they be it so great and are driven of fierce winds yet are they turned about with a very small helm
whithersoever the governor listeth
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasted great things behold
How great a matter a little fire kindle it buzz
Your mouth what you say really determines who and what you are
You will as the Bible says out of the abundance of the heart the proud abundance of the heart the mouth will speak
we cannot but help but speak those things which we have seen and heard as the apostle said and
Be willing and ready and even you kids need to hear this that like slow to speak quick to listen when adults
coaches
pastors
teachers
Talk to you be willing to listen. They're not telling you something just to be like Charlie Brown's parents and
A bunch of nothing don't listen and none of this is important
They're speaking to you so that you can understand something elsewhere in the book of Proverb is you know?
Solomon says bow your ear into my understanding. You know we're doing this to help you guys
This is for you the church as a whole right the least esteemed member is most necessary
You guys are the future and we need to remember as we're up here proclaiming the truth
singing songs reading the Bible and going to the loss and preaching the gospel that the
Children as the Bible says suffer the children to come unto me
but they listen to these truths and one day can use their mouths greatly and boldly to proclaim the truth and
Just kids understand it is easy us adults have the same problem sometimes we say things
We're not supposed to be saying but in all our ways remember acknowledge him
He'll direct our paths will teach us and put inside of us the right words to say, but it says in verse 5
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things behold
How great a matter a little fire kindleth and the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity
So is the tongue among our members that it defileth of the whole body and set it on fire the course of nature
and it is set on fire of hell for every kind of beast and of
Bird and of serpent and of things in the sea is tamed and hath been tamed of mankind
But the tongue can no man came it is an unruly evil
full of deadly poison
Therewith bless we God even the Father and therewith curse we men which are made after the similitude of God
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing my brethren these things ought not so to be
so
The same mouth that we sing songs into God and proclaim the truth of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven unto the lost
The same mouth that we curse, you know
Precatorial prayers upon the wicked and it's the same mouth. We call out wickedness is and things like that
So there is a time and a place for everything and understand as you grow in your faith
You will know the time and the place in which to use the member of your mouth correctly
The Bible says and go back if you went to mark 7 I should add you keep a finger there
I fully forgot to tell you that because I'd like to end in mark 7 if you can when you get back to mark 7
Maybe just keep something there
You
Mark chapter 7 notice what it says in verse 18
Are ye so without understanding also do you not perceive that whatsoever thing from without enter it into the manic cannot defile him?
Because it enter it not into his heart but into his bet into the belly and goeth out into the drought
purging all meats and he said
That which cometh out of the man that defileeth the man for from within
Out of the heart of man proceed evil thoughts adulteries fornication murders theft wickedness
Covetousness wickedness deceitfulness lasciviousness and evil eye blasphemy pride foolishness all these evil things come from
within and defile the man now
Understand this David. You just said you know
That you are what you see and you are what you hear
But you are also what you eat. Can you ever hear that thing before it?
You are what you eat right you eat a lot of chicken. You're a chicken
You eat a lot of beef you're tough
No, I'm just playing but I mean to some physiological sense you are what you eat
But notice Jesus is separating a spiritual matter and a physical matter because when you eat physical food
Yes, it truly makes up who and what you are if you eat a lot of proteins
You can be strong as men if you eat a lot of greens you can you know
Those are the things that God made for us and I do want to just pause on this note about though
I am talking about it's what comes out of us that defines us and we consume with our eyes
We consume with our ears, but we physically consume with our mouth
We got to remember to have good clean wholesome diets
You know, I'm from Hawaii we eat a lot and it is easy to fall under the sin of gluttony
I don't think I got to say that to you guys here in Texas. It isn't it's the thing. Everything's bigger in, Texas
It is possible that we as a congregation and as a people can fall under the sin of gluttony
But let's remember the importance of watching what we eat
So you children when your parents are saying eat your greens eat your peas. They're saying this for your benefit
You are what you eat. If you just eat cake and ice cream all day long
You're not gonna live a happy prosperous healthy life and you don't need to be like I
Guess like one of those clean healthy overly hippie eaters, you know that just everything is evil and you can't you know
Have a little splurging of like even fast food for crying out loud
Like I'm not gonna sit here and say like oh that's good spine, but I'm saying in this passage, right? What was the problem?
Jesus was pointing out that the Pharisees were calling out the disciples for eating without unwashed hands
They didn't your parents also say a little dirt never hurts
That's what this passage is getting at they're so worried about the disciples washing their hands physically because they're defiling their physical body
And that brings dishonor to God, but they're teaching it as a commandment of God. This is why Jesus is rebuking them
He's saying look it's not what goes into them that defiles them
It's what comes out of them that defiles them. So if you get a little dirt on your food
Okay, like don't worry about it. You'll be fine
It's gonna pass through you but we need to remember that though a little dirt doesn't hurt a little dirt doesn't hurt
Don't just be eating junk food all day long and just consuming
you know cake and ice cream all day longer cookies and I could go down a list of junk food, but
Just understand clean eating is gonna be better for you in the long haul to serve God to be strong to
You know take care of this tabernacle, which was given us
The conclusion of the matter turn if you would or actually stay here
It says in Proverbs 11 12 he that is void of wisdom despises his neighbor
but a man of understanding holdeth his peace a
Tail barrel reveal its secrets
But he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter where no counsel is the people fall
But in the multitude of counselor, there is safety
basically
Praise God for this church and churches like ours because it is a jungle out there you guys there is truly a world of
People trying to destroy your lives in subtle ways more than you know and
praise God for people who are willing to stand on the truth and
Show and proclaim us these things but things such as don't look upon the wine when it turns itself around a right
Don't look at the whorish woman. Do not listen to bad music. Don't listen to the false preacher
Watch what you say be eat good foods, but don't understand that's not gonna destroy your your heart
It's gonna comes out of you that will destroy you because the world out there is gonna give you a positive
only message I
mean
We're in generation snowflake. Okay, let's just admit it
There are people out there who just can never be called out for what they do
Or corrected and when they make a mistake and they're always trying to be victimized and villainized in their issues
And we need to remember that as Bible believing Christians. We need to surround ourselves with good
Counseling as it says in Proverbs 11 where no counsel is the people fall but in the multitude of counselor
There is safety
So
make a covenant with your eyes as
Job did right make a covenant with your eyes that you will not look upon a maid and and as
If you're single, you know it once again
It's like the story of the Garden of Eden of all the trees all may is freely eat
But on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that may it's not eat when you're single
Wait a second David. You're saying I can't look for a spouse that I feel is good-looking. No, no
Go look for something you're attracted to but don't look at another man's wife. Don't look at someone who's already been married
It's just simply go around and find a spouse that you're trying to you know
Be with and be with them alone because the wife of your youth is a blessing
Listen to good things
Listen to good preaching listen to good
Also music listen to the hymns listen to you know, we make music the Psalms you guys make music the Psalms
here's as well if I
remember correctly and
Just find yourself being around people good counselors and listen to them
And the last thing is speaking good things
Colossians 3 8 says but now ye also put off all these anger malice rasp blasphemy filthy
Communication out of your mouth just in your day
Especially us man, I guess when we go to work. We hear a lot of foul mouthing at the job site
It's just part of that territory. Don't take it home with you. Don't go out to the workforce. Here are all this crude bad
horrible
Degeneracy and then go home and then share with your family. Look man. We are supposed to take care of our family
We're supposed to show them lead through example of I mean, I remember a lot while I'm at work
You've heard people blaspheme the Lord Jesus Christ
So blaspheme the Lord and you should take it upon yourself to say hey, you know
What can you not use that type of language around me and they may not listen to you?
They may laugh at you
But you know what lest are you and men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely
For my name's sake rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven
So persecuted they the prophet there's nothing wrong with explaining to someone like hey, I
Don't want to hear that while I'm at work and I've done it before to where guys heard that and they give me more respect
Like oh, yeah, no worries. I got you my bad, dude, like I
Watched my P's and Q's around you, but then they go and kind of speak ill amongst other people
But let's be the example. Let's truly see no evil. Let's truly hear no evil and let's speak no evil
It doesn't look like anyone took me up on the challenge
everyone had their eyes and ears and
Open the whole time but understand the Pharisees
While listening to the proclaiming of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and their ears shut and their eyes shut the whole time
So with all that being said, let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer
Heavenly Father, thank you so much for allowing me this opportunity and help us in our day and week and
Remember to put into a front of our eyes good godly things into our ears good godly things and
Speak the truth and to speak the godly things and in all our ways help us to acknowledge you and direct our path
In Jesus name we pray. Amen
You
Let's go ahead and pull out our hymnals we'll sing our final song for the morning number four hundred and forty one
Four hundred and forty one great is thy faithfulness
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The first great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father. There is no shadow of turning with Thee. Thou changest not Thy compassion's they fail not.
As thou hast been, thou forever will be.
Great is thy faithfulness, great is thy faithfulness. Morning by morning new mercies I see.
All I have needed thy hand hath provided. Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.
Summer and winter and springtime and harvest, sun, moon and stars in their courses above, join with all nature in manifold witness.
Great is thy faithfulness, great is thy faithfulness. Morning by morning new mercies I see.
All I have needed thy hand hath provided. Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.
Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth. Thy own dear presence to cheer and to guide. Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.
Blessings all mine with ten thousand beside. Great is thy faithfulness, great is thy faithfulness.
Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have needed thy hand hath provided. Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.
And with that you are dismissed.