Alright, good morning everybody.
Welcome to SURE Foundation Baptist Church's morning service and I gotta say before I
get into my sermon this is a great chapter in the Bible.
The Bible is truly an amazing book and there's so much to be read and taught.
The Matthew 28 and the Gospels are the pinnacle of what the Bible is trying to
tell us. The death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Look at verse 6
it says, he is not here for he is risen as he said come and see the
place where the Lord lay. And that's not what I want to get into I'm just
saying we need to really be thankful that the Lord Jesus Christ not only
died not only was buried but that he rose again from the dead. That is the pinnacle of the whole
message of the cross of Christianity. But what I want to explain to you
guys this morning the title of this message is we are not playing church.
Let me ask you something this morning are you here for the right
reasons? You know my wife and I moved back here to Hawaii from Arizona two
months ago right and there are so many people who are playing church
today in America and around the world. We're not playing games here. We are
here to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. We are not playing games we need to take
the work of God seriously. So like I said the world today looks at
evangelical Christianity and they kind of say to themselves that it is a joke
what they are doing how they are serving the Lord and make no bones
about it. God wants us to serve them in a certain way. There is a lot of
commandments in the Bible of how we are to serve the Lord Jesus Christ how we
are to go about a church service and things like that but you know what the
world today is not patterning their churches after what God has explained
they're patterning their churches after what the world wants. They're trying
to appeal to the world to get people into their churches and let me
tell you this you know these evangelical type churches and churches like them
are known as mega churches and there's nothing wrong with having a big church a
lot of people going to church nothing wrong in the world with that but if you
compromise to get people to come to church that's where you just come into
gross error you know because what important is it really that you have
a building of over a hundred thousand million something people who aren't let
alone saved but they're not doing the real work of God. We're not playing
church here at Sure Foundation Baptist Church Hawaii. We are here to do a
real work for God and Sure Foundation churches in our movement and the NIFB
are known to be the tip of the spirit and the work of God around the world
today and of course though we are primarily currently in America Hawaii is
now the part where we can now scale into the rest of the world you know
though there are similar churches like ours in the Philippines some in other
places like Australia and in Africa things like that but you know what
we're starting to sprout ourselves all around the planet and Hawaii will
be the place that can launch ourselves all around the world we're not playing
games here at Sure Foundation Hawaii we are here to do a real work for God
let's never forget that as we continue in our service for the Lord
no matter what state we are in we can find ourselves contributing ourselves
to the church in some way shape or form and let's never compromise our
church services how we serve the Lord with patterning ourselves after how the
world does it or how these evangelical churches do it I'm gonna grab my water
really quick excuse me I'm sorry about that
I'm too excited up here we shouldn't be excited this is this is a big part
of our lives as Christians Church you know what does the Bible say this is
forsake not the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of
especially as we see the day of Christ approaching if you look out in the
world today is there no doubt that the second coming could very likely happen
in our lifetime is there no doubt that as we see technology wrapping up
and men waxing worse and worse and men becoming lovers as themselves as we
see in Revelation becoming a reality in our lifetime is it not impossible to
believe that you know it may not be in our lifetime but we need to be
ready for when the Lord Jesus Christ comes and like I said let's just start
out simply by explaining what a church is well the Bible says forsake not the
assembling of yourselves together as a matter of summons so the church simply
is the assembling of born-again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ that
is what a church is in Hebrews to the Apostle Paul arguably no one really
knows who wrote the book of Hebrews but we're gonna venture to say it was
the Apostle Paul there's a lot of evidence to prove that it was him but we
don't definitively know usually Paul starts off his epistles would say I Paul
was speaking to these people in the book of Hebrews to say God is
speaking to Hebrews and you know we know that holy men speaking as they
were moved by the Holy Ghost it's very likely that it was Paul the Holy
Spirit speaking to Paul to the Hebrews because Paul himself was a Hebrew but
in Hebrews 2 there's a passage in verse 12 it says in the midst of the
church I will sing praise to thee that is a direct quote from Psalms 22 22
where it says in the midst of the congregation will I sing praise unto
thee so we equate the congregation with the church the assembling of
ourselves together with the church we are the church believers in the Lord
Jesus Christ who are serving the Lord and doing a work for God that is what
a church is and what a church ultimately can provide you know what
does Jesus Christ say the two greatest commandments is that you love the Lord
your God and love your neighbor as yourself you know we were given right
here in Matthew the Great Commission this is what surprises me about why
these churches are not doing what is clearly emphasized by Jesus Christ
himself the last commandment given to the church to his disciples to go
out into all the world to preach the gospel baptize them in the name of the
Father the Son and Holy Ghost and to teach them to observe all things
whatsoever Christ has commanded is that what we see these churches doing
is that what we see these fun centers these giant mega churches doing
and we're gonna go into a comparing contrast between what is the right way
to serve God what a real church looks like and what a fake church looks
like what a bad church is doing we're not playing games here and let me tell
you this if we are sincere as Christians and trying to truly please the
Lord of Jesus Christ then we gotta find ourselves using the Bible to tell
us how to serve him we're not gonna take it upon ourselves to say well I
know that a God has told us to do this but I think it'd be better to do
that you are foolish to think that thought there is nothing wrong with
adding to the service of the Lord but not to subtract what is commanded of
you you know God told us for instance to sing songs hands and spiritual
songs and also to sing a new song with to the Lord in your heart but I'm
getting ahead of myself I'll get to that in just a moment I'm just trying
to clearly emphasize that the church is a congregation of born-again
believers and that Jesus Christ gave us the Great Commission it says here go
and teach all nations but that is paralleled in Matthew 16 where it
says go and preach the gospel you know our primary objective as the
church is to preach the gospel speak the words of God using the Word of God
wouldn't Paul say I became all things to all men that I by my all means
save some what does it matter if we have this huge building of people that
aren't going out and preaching the gospel how is it that here at your
foundation Baptist Hawaii we have a group of 27 some people here who are
doing more work than all our Baptist brethren around us that are filled
with 50 plus more people how is it that they are not doing the works of
God because they're not using this as their final authority they're taking
them upon themselves to think that well we are living in 2019 America so
that doesn't apply to us we can do new and contemporary ways to serve the
Lord that is bad logic bad thinking and you know the church is truly as it
says in 1st Timothy but if I tarry along that thou mayest know how thou
oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God which is the church of the
living God the pillar and ground of the truth if you want to know the truth
of any one subject you come to the church you come to the assembly we
forsake not the assembling of ourselves together as the matter of some
is but so much the more as we see the day of Christ approaching you know
we need to understand that the church of the living God the real God there is
a real God that is really judging a real world and there is a real hell
where people will really go we're not playing church here we're not such
symbolic it's not hypothetical there is a real world out there that is
going to a real hell and if we have love for our neighbor and we want
to serve the Lord Jesus Christ the fulfilling of the law is to have
love if we love the Lord our God and love our neighbors as ourselves what
are we going to do we're going to go out into all the world and preach the
gospel that is what we are commanded to do that is the Great Commission of our
Lord Jesus Christ we are ambassadors in Christ's stead you know if Jesus
Christ has bestowed upon us the ministry of reconciliation and you put
that under a bushel you're ashamed of the cause of Christ it's not that
you're not saved you are saved by grace through faith believing in the Lord
Jesus Christ is your savior his blood shed on Calvary you are saved but let
me tell you this do we end there do we stop our lives as Christians we
understand that we live from faith to faith that is is written the just shall
live by faith we trust that the Lord provide for our needs in our everyday
life if we seek him and serve him and do it he says and let me venture
to tell you this it is not the easy road it is the harder road to live
godly in Christ Jesus so we get it David we're not playing games here this
is really going on there are people who are really dying and going to hell we
are really trying to help the brothers and sisters of Christ to
better their lives we're trying to save a lost world that is what's really
happening and we need to understand what our role is as Christians but let
me show you the compare and contrast between a real church and a fake
church we are here though little in number a real church what matter is it
that you have five hundred people who are doing nothing when you can have ten
people who are doing the works of God you know the Bible says in James 2 you
know faith without works is dead not for salvation but to show the world
that you are truly a Christian what good if it doesn't matter if a brother
or sister come to you naked destitute of daily food and you say to them be
warm be filled what does it profit them we need to profit each other we
need to profit the world and serve the Lord Jesus Christ so this church is a
real church and I'm gonna have us look at a couple of examples if you
want to know what a real church looks like just open the book of Acts read
the whole book of Acts you're gonna see right things that the church does
and wrong things that the church does because there is no such thing as a
perfect church even in the book of Acts we see examples of the disciples doing
wrong things Paul trying to circumcise Timothy you know and Peter not eating
with the Gentiles and other things like that they're not perfect men and
the Bible shows us imperfect men God using to further his gospel and not
only that they were stuck on the thought of just evangelizing to the
people of Israel they were stuck on just trying to as Jesus came to his
ministry was to go to the last sheep of Israel but he left them with the
thoughts and go into the world preach the gospel unto the Gentiles
because there are sheets that are not of this fold that must come in
and that's the general they want to be saved the Jews have rejected
Jesus Christ by and large but with that being said they decided to do
their own thing preparing if you would to act 16 I'm just trying to get us
to understand this is not a joke this is not a drill this is not a game this is
real this is really happening and we need to understand the severity of what
is going on today right now someone some I forget the statistic but some
like every third of a second someone dying on the planet like not even a
full second like a third of a second one person has died and you know I
find myself in my day to day week month to month you know and maybe you
could find yourselves when you're driving to the store when you're at the
store and you're doing your grocery shopping or things like that just look
around you and ask yourself of this group of people who's going to heaven
when they die and it's probably as most people us as Christians know a very
small minority Jesus Christ at broad is the road that leads to
destruction and very many go there in app whereas narrow is the way to peace
and everlasting fights can very few be there that find it so we need to
understand the severity of what's going on but what does a church look like
well the first thing we know that a church really does and I'm gonna show
us a couple of examples of all three of these but every chapter that I take
you to you can find all three of these examples in every chapter but each
one emphasizes one above another and the first one is the going aspect go
you there into all the world and preach the gospel the second thing is preaching
the gospel the true message of Jesus Christ the death barrel resurrection of
Christ and putting your faith in him and the third thing is a real church
will be persecuted for this for the work of God but where I had you turn
in Acts 16 look down at your Bible the commandment is to go go you there
into all the world and preach the gospel a real church goes up to the
lots we're only sitting here standing here today because our pastor see that
the importance of going and serving the Lord and decided to come to the
furthest point it says going there into all the world from arguably
Jerusalem or Israel is Hawaii the furthest point away from it the our
pastor pastor Thompson you know he understood that going and just going to
his neighbors go to your neighbor do they know the gospel what about those
in your city your state are you giving them the gospel so many times these
fake churches are so invested in going to Africa so invested to go in South
America so invested in going to third world countries to not necessarily
preach the gospel they're preaching a false gospel in most cases but even if
they are preaching the right gospel they're also mixed up in other things
but like I said I keep getting ahead of myself and I'll get into that in
just a moment but our pastor had a dream and a vision and understood the
importance of going and if you listen to his sermons on the subject of coming
to Hawaii he's even mentioned himself he says why do I have to pray on this I
was told to go and to preach the gospel I don't need to sit here can
contemplate should I go and start a church in Hawaii it needs it there is
a necessity the where of God's Word is not as important as the what of God's
Word what did he tell us to do go we see an example of the Apostle Paul
going Paul the Apostle said the Bible logs himself you know I labored in them
all more abundantly why as we go through the book of Acts do we see
the Holy Spirit starting to leave the disciples and start following Paul
because Paul understood what was given to him the importance of preaching the
gospel to the Gentiles God commanded him of that heard the early church of
they decided to stick in Jerusalem but because of that Paul picked up the
mantle and moved forward and we see that look down at your Bible in verse
4 it says and as they went through the cities they delivered them the
decree for that keep that we ordained of apostles that and elders which were
at Jerusalem and so were the churches established in faith and increased the
number daily let's just pause there really quick notice it says and so
where the church heads you know we don't believe in the Catholic doctrine of the
universal Church we don't believe that all believers of time that have been
assembled together are the church or one church that is mentioned the Bible
uses the plural term for churches we believe in the local assembling
together of the born-again believers in Christ if I'm not assembled with them
in Washington then they're a church we are a church though we are the same
church a satellite of them you know faithful word Verity Baptist Sharmel
Baptist pillar Baptist all these other churches are that just that their
churches there is truly a bride of Christ which is made up of all
believers of all time but that's the bride and he's not the church the
church is the assembling of local believers in the Lord Jesus Christ I
just wanted to touch on that because that's a false doctrine we need to address
we do not believe in the universal Church we believe in the local
assembly but notice it says an increased in number daily you know
don't be discouraged if we don't see visitors coming weekly we don't see new
people coming regularly monthly so on and so forth you know the Bible teaches
you know one man souls and another man waters but God gives the increase
Jesus Christ told Peter upon this rock will I build my church our
commandment is to do the work and to go God will decide in his foreknowledge of
who and what churches will grow because of the hearts of the believers
that get saved they'll be sown on good ground and they will decide to
take it upon themselves to serve the Lord Jesus Christ we cannot take it
upon ourselves to grow the church God builds the church now we see the
early church growing because the Holy Spirit was upon these men and there
is a furtherance of the gospel needed but I just wanted to touch on those
points that we don't need to be discouraged if we're not seeing people
coming visiting or things like that we don't believe in the universal
Church but we do notice that they still go look at verse 6 it says now
when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia or
forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia after they were come
to Missia they decided to go into Bithynia and by the spirit suffer but
the spirit suffered them not pause there we just mentioned five different
locations Phrygia, Galatia, Asia, Missia, Bithynia this is five different
regions within two verses that Paul has himself ventured around to go
potentially preach the gospel and if you're an evangelist and you're trying
to come a great evangelist look at Paul look at what Paul is doing he is going
to these places hence the first part of the Great Commission go he's doing
the Great Commission he's going to these places but look what it
continues to say and they passed by Missia came down to Truaz and a vision
appeared to Paul in the night there stood a man of Macedonia and prayed him
saying come over into Macedonia and help us look at verse 10 after he had
seen the vision immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia
assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel
unto them so that's my next point I'm going to go into but the primary thing
I wanted us to understand and even if you look at number verse number one we
see Durbia or Derby and Lystra I mean he's literally mentioned like ten
different geographics within one chapter that he has ventured to go
through I'm not an exact I don't know like the the Paul's missionary
journey travels in his first and second I'm not like a expert on knowing the
exact regions and how long it took but we do know that it took him a long
time to do this and he understood the importance but notice when it says this
man had a dream and a man of Macedonia said come to us and then Paul
understood the importance of going there and so many people in Macedonia
got saved so that's the first thing we need to understand that we need to
do as a church is to go go to your neighbor go to your city go to your
state and if your pastor can and understand the Holy Spirit decides to
bless the church to go outside of your state that's what we need to do
it's not the where that is important it is the what go these churches are going
these evangelical false phony churches they're going but what are they doing
when they go they're preaching a false doctrine this is what the Bible said
in verse 9 and there stood a man of Macedonia and prayed and saying come
over to us and in 10 it says and after he's seen the vision immediately
whomever to go to Macedonia assuredly gather that the Lord had
called us for to preach the gospel into them that's the next point I want to
go into we go we get it what do we do when we're there preach the gospel
these churches when they go to these places like South Africa South
America third world countries they're most times in most cases not preaching
the gospel they're having a movie showing they're having a rock concert
going on they're having youth services they're doing humanitarian work they're
building schools or building hospitals let me mention to say this there's
nothing wrong with building a hospital there's nothing wrong with building a
school there's nothing wrong with building homes for these places but is
that what we're called to do we're not called to build these communities
with with schools and things like that what we're called to do is to preach
them the gospel what good is it that they have a school but they don't
understand the message of Christ and dying go to hell what important is that we
understand the severity of let alone going but then also preaching to them the
gospel maybe you can understand in your life throughout your days that like
while you're talking with co-workers or family members or people who aren't
saved you know they're invested in the things of this world they don't
necessarily care or believe that there is a real hell they don't necessarily
understand the severity of what's going on so they're very invested in their
stock portfolio they're very invested in their careers they're very invested
there's children's education and things like that but they're not invested in
getting people saved and these churches follow and pattern themselves
after the world in doing that they think it's better to be seen as men to
have their righteousness than to be seen in the sight of God do I have to
please men or God as a Christian God has called us to preach the gospel
hope but it's by the foolishness of preaching that get people saved well
I need to first bring to them the understanding of there is a God we need
to have apologetics we need to show them young earth creation no that's not
important it will be for what the furtherance of their faith but to get
saved as a primary start let's preach the gospel to these people and these
churches they've missed the ball of that let alone if they're even
preaching a right gospel in most cases they're preaching a repentance of
your sin salvation you know just yesterday we went out soul winning in
and we're going around preaching the gospel to the neighborhood and Brandon
and I went around to a couple doors and we noticed an assembly of God track
on some of the doors and I'm thinking to myself you know even though we don't
they're not saved they're they're damnable heretics let's see what they
are doing that if you read their their track it's just a big joke it's a
false plan of salvation and at the very back it's like well pray this prayer
they're literally doing the one two three repeat after me concept of a
false gospel but then they're saying if you want to further your faith and
blah blah blah come to our church because that's what they really care
about you know I know that we do care that people come to church because it
is important that we go preach the gospel get a baptize and then teach
them to observe all things whatsoever Christ has commanded the only way
you're gonna know as a babe in Christ what God has commanded is by going to
the assembly hearing the elders explain to you the truths of God's Word you
then go to the scriptures yourself and study them yourself to see if these
things be true but that's their agenda we when we go out to preach the
gospel that I noticed brother Isaac does this a lot that we give the track as a
buffer or we give our church invite as a buffer kind of just to open the
door to the gospel I guess we care if people come to church but we're kind of
just trying to open them up ready to explain to them the gospel I noticed
brother Isaac comes right down the middle it's like I am I think I'm
here to tell you about the Lord Jesus Christ and what he's done for us
mentioning church so I'm just like hey right on because what if you don't
have a track or what if you don't have a church invite you know we run
out from time to time and it doesn't matter that we bring them the church
first but matters that we get them saved that's the primary objective preach to
them the gospel if we see an example of that in turn if you went to acts 8
in the Bible and like I said if you read these chapters you're gonna see
people going you're gonna see people preaching the gospel you're gonna see
persecution occurring to the church and in verse chapter 8 we start off
the chapter from a great persecution that occurs if the just are the Deacon
Stephen has just been martyred the very first martyred of the Bible the New
Testament has occurred in chapter 7 we're gonna get to that in a moment
but what was the outcome of Stephen getting martyred and Paul or at the
time Saul wreaking havoc upon the church they were spread because like I
said they wanted to stick in Jerusalem God made a miraculous event occur so
that they're forced to go into the world and it says that if you would
look down at your Bible in verse 4 it says therefore they were scattered
abroad went everywhere preaching the word that Philip went down to the city
of Samaria and preached Christ unto them and the people with one accord
gave heed unto those things which Philip spake hearing and seeing the
miracles which he did so like I like it says when he was scattered abroad when
the persecution arose and they went to go do the work they preached the
gospel that in bill in the school that didn't try to do these these
humanitarian work or or rock concert so to say they went to go preach the
gospel that's what we're doing that's what sure foundation is doing
they're coming to start a church here to preach the gospel to the people of
Hawaii to show them that they can be saved by their sins that's what the
Bible is showing us you need to go and we need to preach the gospel but uh
the next point I want to get into is the persecution you know the Bible
teaches ye all that live godly in Christ Jesus South suffer persecution if
you are doing the works of God and you're living godly in Christ Jesus
you're gonna be persecuted it is inevitable that you might that it is
possible if you live godly in Christ Jesus you shall be persecuted that's
just a fact Jesus Christ said if they hated you they hated me before they
hated you if the world loved you the love of the Father is not in you what
good these people these churches are trying to get the love of the world
to they're trying to have their pioneered to so to say they want the
love of Christians but they also want the love of the world you know the
Bible says pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this that
you visit the fatherless in their affliction and the widows in their
affliction and then you keep yourself unspotted from the world we
need to keep ourselves unspotted you are not of this world as the Bible
teaches your ambassadors in Christ's stead we don't we're pilgrims and
soldiers as we go along in our life we are not invested in the things of
this world that we shouldn't pattern the church after the way these
businesses pattern themselves or after a rock concert or like a church service
should not pattern themselves and how the world is doing it and these
churches miss the ball on that because they're not going into the
preaching the gospel because I've heard it said and it's so true that if
you're not getting people saved or going to the church it's either that
the gospel has lost its power or you know the gospel is not being preached
so if you're not going and preaching the gospel yeah no one will be saved
that is true but we know that the gospel has not lost its power for it is
the power unto salvation that everyone believe it so we understand that these
guys aren't doing the actual work of God but what are they doing you and
I both know that these you know what we call the fun center these mega
churches these evangelical churches aren't they're I keep saying rock
concert because I've just experienced in my life throughout going to these type
of churches that they're truly not their big rock concerts and my mother
who is truly saved goes to a church in Hawaii and she tells me clearly she
loves going to this church for the music and you know and I know we've
heard so many Christians say I just love the worship I just love how they
praise look and it's like an hour have service of an hour of singing and like I
said they're singing contemporary Christian music is there something wrong
with Christian contemporary music I don't think so I don't think there's
something wrong with seeing a new song unto the Lord but then to replace that
with the hands to replace that with the songs is where you've just gone
into gross error you know seeing songs hymns and spiritual songs if a church
service decides I had a friend growing up or before when I wasn't safe I went
to a Calvary Chapel Bible College and at the time Facebook was fairly new
and he something was posted on his feed and it was a Calvary Chapel Church
service and it was cut in half one half was a Calvary Chapel Church
service and the other half was a metal rock concert a straight demonic lasers
and light shows and smokes and fire and men just whipping their heads like
doing just like demonic practices of a look even the world looks at heavy
metal or death metal as a pretty extreme example of rock and roll they
had these two side by side and on the bottom it says there's no difference
between the the rock concert and the Christian service and my friend at that
time was saying how cool that was wow look how cool that is look at how
amazing it is to see that we're so we're so acceptable we're so edgy and
we're so like able to get down to their level you know you know Jesus but
they'd love to use this example that the prostitutes and the and the tax
collectors are hanging out with Jesus but that's not necessarily the truth
then Jesus didn't go to them they came to Jesus Jesus Christ was keeping
himself unspotted from the world he was trying to be sanctified and show
them the way to serve the Lord Jesus Christ and these prostitutes and these
people who were horrible wicked sinners understood that they wanted to be more
like Christ after the fact we're not trying to pattern church services after
then why are they trying to do that because if they're not preaching the
gospel they need to reach the world somehow how oh I got it let's throw a
rock concert let's bring in new type of music that can that can appeal to
the younger generation of the younger demographic what about the older
demographic what about the older brothers and sisters in Christ that's
why they're ditching the King James Bible because the these and the
vows are so hard to understand and it's too deep we don't need to have this
this deep message they just need a pick-me-up and you know what I know in a
church like this and churches like ours we have scores of passages that we
go through we on average go through some 47 verses every church service
40 separate verses that get preached from Sunday morning to Sunday evening
to midweek services and showings and just a plethora of the teaching of
God's Word all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable
for correction for reproof that the man of God may be perfectly furnished in the
works of God you know it's it's that they need to be reproved they need to
be corrected but these churches aren't doing that they're just trying to get
people to come in by the wrong means they're going about it the wrong way
that is what a fake church does look at Joel Osteen's churches look at TD
Jake's churches look at any type of mega fun center go up to the congregants
and ask them if you were to die today you know for sure you're going to hell
90 some percent of them don't even know the clear plan of salvation so
are they reaching people they're reaching people to come to church but
that's what they're after the love of money is the root of all evil which
will some coveted after they've earned from the faith and pierced
themselves through with many sorrows they've come to see and land and made
one cross the light twofold more to child a bill than themselves they're
going to South Africa they're going to South America they're going to the
highways into the hedges to preach him a false gospel to make them
become twofold more a child of hell than themselves these are horrible
wicked people some knowingly some ignorantly and that's the job of
these pastors that's the job of our pastor is to keep vigilance in the
church we believe in a pastorally led church this church is not ran by me it's
not ran by Ryan Gallagher it's not ran by Richard it's ran by our pastor
pastor Thompson he is the under Shepherd of Christ Christ is the one he
was in charge every one of us here follow Christ but you know what Paul
said follow me as I follow Christ we follow our pastor to serve the Lord
Jesus Christ and I agree with his vision to go preach the gospel and then teach
them to observe all things whatsoever Christ has commanded he got that from
the Bible and we're just doing the same thing these churches aren't doing
that these churches are deacon board they're ran like a democracy they had
the congregants they give them like little it like little cards and tell
them what do you want to see us talk about what would you like us to
see how would you how would you like the church service to go not in this
church not in a real church but we allow the congregants to run how the
church service go me included I may disagree with all some things but go
but you know it doesn't matter what I think I need to get on board with
what our pastor says and that is how you know you know the I've said once
before in a sermon of mine if you're not willing to be corrected in the
things of God by a man of God then you're not right with God you know I
understand that I am a babe in Christ so to say oh I am up here preaching and
expounding the truths of God's Word I can always learn you can always learn
we can always learn our pastor can always learn but you know what they
have studied to show themselves approved the workmen that need a knock that
anyone show them but these other churches are trying to like I said have
their pie needed to they're trying to appeal to the congregants well you
want more worldly music hey guys let's let's bring in more worldly music some
churches let alone do they sing Christian contemporary music they're
also literally bringing in rock and roll music and just switching words
like to Jesus or to God Kanye West that stupid false wicked prophet that
made no bones about it Kanye West is a false wicked profit no one in here I
better be convinced that that is a true man of God it's going out and
starting his stupid Sunday service ministry that he's doing where he brings
elite elitist I wasn't even gonna speak on this matter but you know what
I think the Holy Spirit is starting to steer me and to tell you that this is a
fake church this isn't real they're convincing the world and you and I
know look like I said I didn't even want to speak on this subject truly was
like I'm gonna avoid this like I don't want to speak on this and it's such a
joke but yet people are convinced that he is a Christian if you go on YouTube
and like I don't know I guess because pastor Anderson preached on the
subject all of a sudden on my feed it's all about Christians opinions on
Kanye West is you a Christian is he sincere it's like are you that dense
aren't you that naive to understand that some son of the devil that a man
confess himself to be God who is openly explaining that he's in it for the
money he's sincerely doing the work of God this is a joke that is not a real
church real church does what Jesus Christ has said and we ought to get
zealous on this subject because I don't want people deceived by this I don't
want even a babe in Christ a Christian who is truly saved to be stirred up in
their heart to be like no you need to just realize that this guy is a wolf in
sheep's clothing and like I said I didn't want to go into that but I
ended up there so one last point that I want to get into on the the
understanding of what a real church looks like and what a false church
look like I know I went through like you know mainly a church a real church
goes and preaches the gospel a false church will go but preach a false
gospel or do humanitarian work a real church look Jack Hiles his church you
know the the saint that he was and the Saints that were going to his church
were filled with thousands of people you know First Baptist Church of
Indiana was was a huge church was it the size that was the problem no he
was a true man of God truly serving his community it's not the size that's the
problem it's if they compromise on message these churches are
compromising and trying to pattern themselves after the world let's not do
that if a Baptist Church and I have be Baptist Church decides to bring in
contemporary music fine don't forsake singing the hymns and I really
appreciate our church in the commas to be able to create the songs into
music that's something that the old I have been other generations of
Christians have lost they stopped singing the hymn or the songs you know
it's a true blessing to take the songs that were given and instructed to us to
sing and to create them in a melody and a view I love singing the songs I mean
it was Isaiah 6 what's that one that your view and your your parents have
made it's honey as that is one of my favorite songs personally and it's not a
song but it is one of God all in Psalm 19 and I just I love to hear
sure foundation churches in our movement are starting to get that they're
like we need to get back to singing the songs because there's so much
doctrine in them you know the hymns do quote some passages the hymns take some
verses sometimes and make songs around them and that's great holy men created
these songs and if a Christian today decides to make a completely new song
that's fine that's cool right on don't forsake the singing of Psalms hymns and
spiritual song what if a new IFB church or an old IFB church or a Christian
genuine bona fide house of God Church service does an altar call something
wrong with doing an altar call I don't think so what's wrong with at the end
of every service preaching the gospel to a visitor that may be there or some
of the young people that don't understand the plan of salvation they
just don't know they're there they're still they're too young they don't
understand it I'm not imposed to a church doing altar calls unless they
replace it for going out and preaching the gospel that's where they come into
gross error they need to the man of God needs to go and preach the gospel
that one of the qualifications of a deacon or a pastor is to do the work of an
evangelist if they're stopping that and then doing altar calls that's where
they're wrong but if they add that to the Arsenal hey you just did more
right that's good but nevertheless even though we're not big at altar calls I
know you don't do altar calls if a church did that as long as they're still
going out and still winning then I have no bones I have no beef with them
that matter but we go preach the gospel and we will be persecuted the
Charlie the early church is gonna be persecuted I've heard it said before
and you know brother Isaac I know I kept mentioning here but it's because
when we talk you bring this up and they're good points you know brother
Isaac was kind of newer to the movement right that long ago and he'd been saved
a lot of his life raised in the IFB Church and when found out about you
know the new IFB movement he said to himself he's watching these videos and
hearing about the persecution of like you know pastor Anderson and border
patrol thing and sodomites you know trying to protest against Verity Baptist
pastor Fritz being called out by the sodomites and things like that you
know he says I'm seeing what it looks like in the early book the early church
in the book of Acts these are the people who are getting persecuted you
know if you're not being persecuted guess what you're not doing the works
of God do you think you're above the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus Christ says
you're not above me says you should be sufficient to be equal as me if you
think as a Christian you're gonna live godly in Christ Jesus and not be
persecuted you're ultimately saying you're better than Christ that you're
able to crack the code and figure out how to have your pie and eat it to to
serve the Lord Jesus Christ to truly get people saved and do real work for
God God call out sins and do these things and have the world like you
have the world bless you have the world accept you look down at your
Bible that vert act 7 verse 51 and this is another point that I'm going all
over the place but here's another point real church preaches hard against
sin we're not preaching five minute sermon ends ten minute sermon ends but
two verses we are preaching the whole counsel of God and preaching hard
against sin as it says in 51 Stephen the deacon calling out the Pharisees
Pharisees he says he's stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears he
you always resist the Holy Ghost has your father said so do ye which of the
prophets of your father's purse which of the prop which of the prophets have
not your father's persecuted and they have slain which have showed before
the coming of the just one of whom you have been now betrayers and
murderers who have received the law by the dispensation of angels and have
not kept it when they when they heard these things the Pharisees they
were cut to their heart and they mashed on them with their teeth and
I'm not going to go into the rest of the story but we know what
happens they stone and they kill him do you think that like I said we're not
playing games here are you ready to die for the cause of Christ I know I
am I know that as Stephen the deacon understood that he's not going to
compromise on the message on sin neither should we we don't need to be as
these churches are all-inclusive the church is not for everyone the church
is for the saves the believers in Christ will unsaved people make their
way in here yes and we want them to know that they're welcome here who do
do unsaved people visitors make their way here yes there are children
who are raised in this church that aren't saved that will eventually get
saved but we're not all-inclusive we don't allow pedophiles here we
don't allow you know like serial murderers we don't allow sodomites into
these churches why because they are the children of the devil we are not
all-inclusive these churches are all-inclusive and because of that
they're not getting persecuted they are willing to sacrifice the message of
the gospel to just like anyone anyone's allowed into church not here
not anyone is allowed here and you better understand that if a sodomite a
son of the devil ever tries to step their foot in here they're getting
the boot faster than you can ever know physically hands-on thrown out and that
is our stance we are not all-inclusive and neither should these
churches because of that you give them an inch they will steal the mile
you know the Bible teaches that they're in placable unmerciful why
Bible teaches that shouldest thou help the ungodly therefore his wrath is
upon you I don't want God's wrath on this church do you want God's wrath on
you do you want God's wrath on us what about the children we're gonna allow a
known pedophile to come and sit down in the congregation with children around
that is a joke that is that is the stupidest logic follow but
nevertheless that's what these we will be persecuted because we're not
all-inclusive and too much today we're all look to us and say you're a hate
preacher you better know I hate the sons of the devil you better know that if
you are a wolf in sheep's clothing that you better be afraid to come to a church
like this he had to fear the man of God the people of God calling you out
for who and what you are you know and this is a subject that needs its
own sermon in and of itself but when in the realm of we're not playing
Church Pastor Thompson's job is to be vigilant and to keep out for the
sheep he is the under Shepherd and we're not out on a witch hunt we're not
trying to look we're not assuming everyone is guilty until proven innocent
everyone is innocent until proven guilty if you come to church and you
professing the aren't a believer in Christ you're not allowed here we
hope you eventually get saved but we want you to understand that the Lord's
house is a house of prayer that you can come hear God's words preach and at
least you're getting the truth somewhere you may not be getting it at home and
things like that but eventually we're hoping you get saved but what about a
Christian a professed believer in Christ who is a fornicator who is a
drunk who is an idolater who is a an extortioner with such in one no not to
eat expel that person out of the church and that's another sermon in
and of itself Church discipline but we practice Church discipline here in this
church other churches aren't doing this I don't went through a lot of
points but it goes like this we need to go preach the gospel to the
lost and we will be persecuted in the midst that is a real church fake
churches aren't going and if they are going they're not preaching the right
plan of salvation they're doing humanitarian work having rock concerts
and watering down their messages and they will not be persecuted because
they're not going to touch on the depths of God's Word they're not going
to touch Leviticus with a 10-foot pole they're not even gonna mention it
they're not in their name they're not nothing like that so we get it David
what a real church looks like what a fake church looks like what is the
conclusion of the matter this is the conclusion of the matter take church
seriously if we understand that this is not a game we need to take it
seriously there is a real world of real people who are really going to a
real hell but that's taken to your hearts and understand we're not playing
games here when you go up so many are you just following emotion and trying
to appeal to the church and be like I'm contributing you know but like do you
care about that person at the door do you as it says in Jude and of some
have compassion making a difference pulling the man of the fire hating
even the garment spotted by the flesh I do you love the Lord your love
the Lord your God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself
if you have love you will fulfill you will walk in the spirit and you will go
and preach the gospel to these people so take church seriously when you're
singing in the morning so you just kind of like you know sing make a
melody in your Jesus loves a little children I don't have a great voice I'm
just saying you know we can get better as Christians in our music in
our soul winning in in our in our severity of the work of God let's take
this seriously this is not a joke this is not a drill this is not a game this
is really happening we are part of a real work it's a matter of fact we
are the tip of the spear and the souls of men we are standing in the
head between life and death we are the ambassadors of Christ take that
seriously and the last part I want us to understand is joined into the work
joining the work Jesus Christ says the harvest truly is plenty us but the
laborers are few you know praise the Lord that we here have like a 90%
participation in our evangelizing and preaching of the gospel and we have
already with 27 regular congregates three four now four soul winning times you
know like we are doing the works I'm just saying like join in in the work
you know if people hear this message outside of our church or in other places
join in contribute to your church even if you're a silent partner people down
themselves for being a silent partner hey you're furthering the
efforts to do more you have now another talker and you can go to
another place more people can be saved just go that's the commandment go
in time with studying your Bible and praying the love of the Lord will
come into your heart you will want to open your mouth to make known the
mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but just go that's the first thing just go
and in time you'll learn to serve the Lord in other ways shape the fashion
contribute in the music program contribute in the cleaning of the
church contribute in the taking of author the offering the ties to
contribute in whatever way shape and form you can contribute to your to your
church help out where you can but the last thing is this turn if you
to Revelation 2 I know I said that a second ago but this is really the last
thing says in Revelation 2 in verse 1 this is the church of Ephesus it writes
under the angel of the church of Ephesus right these things saith he that
holdeth the seven stars in his right hand who walked in the midst of the
seven golden candlesticks I know thy words and thy labor and thy patience
how thou canst not bear them which are evil and thou hast tried them which say
they are apostles and are not and has found them liars and has borne and
has patience and for my name's sake hath labored and has not fainted
nevertheless I have someone against thee because thou has left thy first love
remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first
works or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy candlestick
out of his place except thou repent this is the flipside to this point we
need to understand if we're not taking this seriously if we're not
doing the first works as Jesus Christ told Ephesus God will remove the
candlestick out of even this church if we're not serious if this is not a
game then we're gonna be blessed by the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus Christ will
build his church Jesus Christ will not take the candlestick from us that just
is not saying that we're gonna lose our salvation that's just saying that
he'll take it and give it to someone who's willing to do the works
thereof and we need to understand that if we lose the first love in going to
the lost and preaching the gospel then Christ is going to abort mission he's
gonna say these guys are they don't care they're just playing games I want
someone I want people who are serious and serving God and they're the ones
who are gonna do the works of God he's not going to use people who don't take
him seriously let's take the work of God seriously let's not play Church
let's understand the severity of what's really going on fire heads and
have a word of prayer dear Heavenly Father thank you so much for your
word thank you so much for this church thank you so much for giving
our pastor a vision to be able to come to Hawaii to start you know a movement
to get people saved help us to never leave the first works and the preach
the gospel help us to never you know lose that and to understand the
severity of what we're really doing here to actually pull people out of
the fire and get people to change their lives to serve you and help us
throughout our weeks to continue to seek you above everything and to be
pleasing in your sight please be there for both Ben Kamas family and Ryan
Gallagher's family that they physically feel better and help us just
to continue in your love and in Jesus name we pray amen