And the land that is fair worth living In thy faith we can see it all
For the Father brings over the way To prepare us a dwelling He is there
In the sweet bright and bright We shall meet on that beautiful shore
For the love He has sung to the rest And our spirit shows sorrow
On the side for the blessing of rest In the sweet bright and bright
We shall meet on that beautiful shore In the sweet bright and bright
We shall meet on that beautiful shore To our bountiful Father available
We will offer our tribute of praise For the glorious gift of His will
And the blessings that our Lord has In the sweet bright and bright
We shall meet on that beautiful shore In the sweet bright and bright
We shall meet on that beautiful shore
In the sweet bright and bright We shall meet on that beautiful shore
Christ living in me Christ living in me
Oh, what a salvation it is That Christ living in me
That Christ about within us here As in the glorious dream
So praise the God of truth and praise His Spirit well in me
Christ living in me Christ living in me
Oh, what a salvation it is That Christ living in me
God be God, my heart is filled And my name I may be
As of the wondrous God I've found That Christ living in me
Christ living in me Christ living in me
Oh, what a salvation it is That Christ living in me
Hey Matt, at this time we'll be doing the announcements.
Maybe you can follow me and we'll be sitting in front of the 408.
If you'd like to turn it like that. So there's 408.
All right, thanks for everybody coming this morning.
Welcome to King's Word. We've got our service panelists there on the upper left-hand side.
You can both sit up and have a great morning.
As always, we'll be in our mimic service Thursday at 7.
We're going to be in 1 Kings Chapter 8 this week.
We've got the salvations and baptisms from month and year listed below that,
as well as a couple notes regarding the church.
So if you have any questions about where the men's restrooms are, that kind of explains that there.
I think I've kind of gone over that with our regulars.
You'll notice there's two bathroom keys back there right now.
It says E and W. One is for the east bathroom, one is for the west bathroom.
So you've got to kind of know, you've got to be one of these people who has a general sense of direction.
Which way north is is really the only thing you've got to figure out.
It's the complete opposite of that, brother. I know you knew that, though.
Here's a general tip. For people who struggle with this, I was told in the fifth grade,
when we moved to a new area in the country, my mom just said, this landmark is north.
It was the bay. The bay is north from us.
If you live in Tucson and you struggle with which way north is, just look to Mount Lemmon.
Look to the mount that is over here. That is north of you.
Unless, of course, you've gone beyond it, then it becomes south of you.
But I don't want to confuse you with that.
If you're here this morning, Mount Lemmon is north.
So just keep that in mind.
So there's two keys. Men, if you take the east bathroom key, go to the east bathroom.
That way, another brother comes along and can grab that other key and go to the west one.
He knows which one's occupied and which one isn't.
Or you guys are both going to end up in the same bathroom.
And you can have some sweet fellowship, you know?
Anyway, I better move on before I get in trouble.
Please also be sure to silence your cell phones for the remainder of the service if you haven't already done so.
There's a note about the homeschool field trip.
You need to sign up today. This is the deadline for the RSVP.
Is there anyone here that's planning, any homeschooling families that are planning on going on this?
I understand that it's a ways away, so I get that.
Also, below that, the New Testament 90 Day Challenge is still going.
This is kind of a heavier week because I didn't want to break these books up.
The plan that I'm kind of using has me breaking up the books over several days.
I try to condense the books.
So I mean, you're going to be reading Philippians in one day. You're going to read Colossians.
It's only four chapters.
First Timothy gets broken up there at the end.
I added the eighth day there, so that's actually going to be, I think, Monday or Sunday.
I don't know. I'm not going to sit here and figure it out.
But you'll notice that Day 64 has been added.
Normally, it's just seven days.
So I added the eighth day just so you can kind of see what's coming next.
Who's using the chart? Who's using the plan that I'm putting in the bulletin?
Several people. All right.
So it's a heavier week, a little bit, but don't let that intimidate you.
We're coming into the last third of this challenge, 30 more days about.
So stay strong, stay after it, and get that knocked out.
Who's going to get the challenge done this great?
All right. That's what we're looking for.
And then below that, join us next Sunday, March 6th at 10 a.m.
So come early for donuts and coffee in honor of those celebrating their birthday in the month of March.
If your birthday was not included last March, your birthday or anniversary, and you want it to be included this year, I need that information.
That's why. It's not because I don't like you.
I'm like, well, I'm not celebrating my birthday.
It's not because I don't have that information.
So you need to email the church.
You can email the church at faithfulword.
We even have it on there. We don't.
faithfulword1atgmail.com
Or just come see me. Come talk to me.
Reach out to me. Tell somebody.
Let someone know. It'll get back to me.
And we'll get your name in there if it's not already.
On the back, I'm excited about this.
Don't forget this week is the movie night.
That's this Friday, March 4th at 7 p.m.
Who's planning on coming to this?
If you have your hand up right now.
Keep it up nice and high if you're coming.
You've signed up on that sheet back there then, right?
If you're raising your hand and you haven't signed up, you need to take care of that.
You could take care of that right now, in fact, if you wanted to.
You could stand up right now and go back there and sign it.
It's important that you do that because we're going to be getting popcorn and hot dogs and refreshments.
I'm not afraid of getting too much. I'm afraid of getting too little.
Because I know how you Baptists are when the food runs out.
It's a whole other level of hangry around here.
So please sign up if you're planning to attend.
Come on out. It's going to be at 7 p.m.
If you want to come a little early and get some fellowship in, that's fine.
But the movie is going to start at 7.
There aren't going to be any coming attractions.
There aren't going to be any previews.
There's going to be a half hour of me advertising some furniture store across town.
That's what they used to do in the movie theaters when I used to go.
They would have these ads all the time.
So there's not going to be any of that.
But it will start at 7. The curtains will be drawn and we will proceed.
Below that, the weekly Bible memory passage.
This is for the children and young people.
Proverbs chapter 3.
Proverbs chapter 3 is such a great chapter for young people.
The book of Proverbs really is something, of course for all ages, it's timeless.
Especially for young people, the book of Proverbs I think is a very important book to spend time in.
We should all be in the practice of reading a Proverb a day because it kind of works out 31 Proverbs.
Most months have 31 days, give or take.
But my point is this, I'm probably going to have the people that are participating in this,
the kids and the young people and the children,
probably end up memorizing all of Proverbs chapter 3 just because it's such a great one.
There's a lot of great admonition in that.
So if you want to get ahead of the game, you can.
There's a couple other upcoming events below that.
Mexico Monday, we've got the cross country soloing marathon in San Diego.
If you have any questions about any of these other events, just come see me.
But that's going to do it for announcements.
We'll go ahead and sing one more song before we get into the preaching tonight, this morning.
Oh, what a hell of a way, I rise to sing a stream.
There's loyalty, loyalty, loyalty to Christ.
His music blows along, the hills take up the song.
But loyalty, loyalty, there's loyalty to Christ.
Come to victory, come to victory.
Christ the great will never own.
He'll rule at his command.
He'll soon possess the land.
There's loyalty, loyalty, there's loyalty to Christ.
He'll bring the sound that brings the earth around.
There's loyalty, loyalty, loyalty to Christ.
He'll rise to bear with you.
He now will watch you soon.
Oh, loyalty, loyalty, there's loyalty to Christ.
Come on to victory, come on to victory.
Rise and bring the banner long.
There's loyalty, loyalty, there's loyalty to Christ.
He'll bring the sound that brings the earth around.
He'll sing with us the plan.
There's loyalty, loyalty, there's loyalty to Christ.
He'll bring the light of hell, the spark of joy and calm.
There's loyalty, loyalty, loyalty to Christ.
Oh, loyalty, loyalty, there's loyalty to Christ.
Come on to victory, come on to victory.
Rise and bring the banner long.
He'll rule at his command.
He'll soon possess the land.
There's loyalty, loyalty, there's loyalty to Christ.
The strength of which we lay at Jesus' feet today.
There's loyalty, loyalty, loyalty to Christ.
His house will go away without the world's new name.
Oh, loyalty, loyalty, there's loyalty to Christ.
Come on to victory, come on to victory.
Rise and bring the banner long.
He'll rule at his command.
He'll soon possess the land.
There's loyalty, loyalty, there's loyalty to Christ.
First Corinthians chapter 10.
Verse 11, the Bible reads,
Moreover, brother, whether or not we should be in here,
are that all our fathers will pass through the clouds and all pass through the sea.
While that night at the notice of the clouds and in the sea,
they will all eat the same spiritual food,
and they will bring the same spiritual drink,
the drink of that spiritual rock,
and all of them in that rock of Christ.
So if many of them thought it was not well pleased,
that it would have overthrown the wilderness,
that these things were unfathomable,
and the encampments should not have left up to evil things,
then they would have also left it.
Had it be the idolatry of some of them,
as it was written, that people sat down to eat,
and drink, and go over to play.
Had it not as come the point of patience,
that some of them came to live,
and thought it would one day be three to twenty thousand.
Had it not as come Christ, that some of them also came to live,
and wanted to share the surface.
Had it not as come relief, that some of them also learned,
and were destroyed, and were destroyed.
Now all these things happen, for example,
we are raised to our own mission,
upon whom the end of the world will come.
Therefore, let him that thinketh of damage,
will keep him from fault.
Shall have no temptation taking you,
but such a recombinant man.
Without his faithfulness,
you will not suffer any contempt or love,
that you are able,
but will with the temptation also make your way to escape,
that you will be able to bear it.
Wherefore, my fellow beloved,
I speak to my daughter.
I speak as a rider,
because she was a sailor.
I felt a blessing,
with regret.
There was not a meaning in the blood of Christ.
The bread was a break.
There was not a communion of the body of Christ.
We mean many,
are born of the bread,
and one body,
we are all partakers of that one bread.
The whole vision of us is flesh.
Right off day,
you were treated for sacrificing,
by takers of the altar.
But say I then,
the idol of angels,
said I was a drop,
and sacrificed,
the idol of angels.
I say it,
I say unto the Gentiles,
sacrifice,
he sacrificed the devil,
and I forgot,
and I will not,
he shall tell it to the devil.
He cannot drink of the cup of the Lord,
and the cup of death.
He has been partaken of the Lord's wisdom,
and has became a devil.
We need to invoke the Lord's mercy,
and shall have it with me.
All things are lost for me,
while things are not to be.
All things are lost for me,
while things edify not.
And no man seek his own,
and every man another's war.
What so ever soul is counted,
that he,
as to no flesh,
is conquered?
For the earth is a war,
and the fools are up.
That he has done it,
believe it or not,
gave it to a feast,
and would be disposed to go.
What so ever he said,
and swore he would eat?
Asking no flesh,
he was conscious of it.
But then,
I say unto you,
this is the offering of sacrifice,
and the idol,
even after this sin,
that showed it,
was conquered.
For the earth is a war,
and the fools are up.
And conscious,
I say not,
I know him,
but of the other,
who has not literally judged
another man's conscience.
For if I,
by grace,
be a partaker,
by my evil spokiness,
for that to which I give thanks,
then,
amen.
Amen.
He was thinking a sermon this morning called,
Perishing Church Ministry,
Perishing Church Ministries.
And I'm gonna put the sign,
Series been going through on hold just because there's you know, this is something I you know
I feel very compelled to preach about this morning and as we get into it, you'll see why
But let me explain that title a little bit, you know perishing, you know, who's ever heard of a para church ministry
You know a para church ministry is you know church ministries that operate outside of you know, the local church
They they often claim like oh we come alongside the church
You know, that's what it means to para you think of like to pair something with something right to put them together
They say we come alongside the church. We assist the church. We help the church and
Really? I call it perishing because it's a play on words, you know what I'm doing here, you know
We know although what the word perishing means, you know, you think about perishable foods, you know
If something perishes it rots it decays and really that's what a lot of these ministries are like these para church ministries are really
perishing church ministries and that I know it's a very strong statement, but I believe that and
You'll see why I'm so convinced of this as we get into sermon
But one of the main reasons, you know, not just besides the fact that they often embrace false doctrine that they you know
They don't take a strong stand on anything
One of the main reasons why I'm against para church ministries why I wish that they would actually perish
You know if I could push a button and end all these extracurricular ministries over I would push that button like really hard
I would make sure it was fully depressed, you know, you know what happened if they all ended overnight
It's a lot of local churches would get filled up with people
Because today we're living in a day where a lot of people today are
Dismissive of church they think all church isn't that important a lot of people come to church and they act like oh
I'm doing the church a favor by showing up. They think that they're somehow, you know above or better than you know
Fulfilling God's will for a life which is going to church
Let me just say it, you know going to church is part of God's will for your life
That's something that God wants you to do, you know people scratch their heads
But oh, what does God want me to do? There's a lot of God's revealed will in his word
You know that you abstain from fornication your sanctification all these other things and part of that
Part of God's revealed will is the fact that you would go to church
So you would attend a local New Testament Bible believing church and not just say well
I have this extracurricular this you know, this para church ministry that substitutes church and
That's a lot of what's going on today is you have a lot of people that are involved in these para church organizations
Which are nothing which which are just basically, you know Christian faith-based and I use that term loosely
Organizations that and this is the definition of the word that work outside and across denominations
Now if you can't see the danger in that already, you know, stay tuned because I'll explain it and they be often, you know
So what's the point of them? Well, they engage in social welfare and evangelism, you know, it's really about the social welfare, isn't it?
That's really what it's about for them
They have what a lot of other people would call a social gospel, you know, they're more interested in just you know
buying backpacks for local school children or opening up soup kitchens or doing all this and look I'm not against those things and
We'll see here in a minute that those are things that can be done within the local church
Now we don't need these other, you know extracurricular these para church ministries to come alongside and help us with those things
You know those peoples would just forsake those things and get involved the local church. We could do more
You know
We're just trying to scratch enough people together to actually just go out and preach the gospel to accomplish the main mission of the church
Which is to preach the gospel to every creature and as we do that as we go along as we meet
Individuals as we consider the cause of the poor then we can begin to come alongside them as a church and assist them in these
different ways
But these para church organizations, that's what they make their whole focus about just you operating outside of the church across
denominations not caring about doctrine and
and you know just
You know ministering to people's, you know needs physically
Again, I'm not against those things just against them being done outside of the local church because what happens is is people
They replace the church with that and say I don't go to church, you know, because I you know
I participate in promise keepers, you know, I don't go to church because I you know
I sent all my tithes to you know, focus on the family, you know, whatever other para church organization is out there
There's many of them
But church is important, you know, and you know, let's just take a minute and talk about what church is
You know church is the congregation of God's people together. That's what churches, you know, church is not this building
We could have church anywhere
You know if we if this building were gone if we didn't have a church building to meet it
We could still have church we could meet in my house. We could meet in your house. Ooh, right?
We could meet in the park, you know, we could meet if there was you know
Facility that could just house what the congregating of God's people together we could have church because that's what church is
The Bible says, you know, you know because again, you'll see the word church come up in the New Testament
But you don't see it come up in the Old Testament and the Old Testament uses the word congregation
That's what church is just a congregation of people. It's not a it's not a building. It's not any of those things
It's the congregation of God's people in Psalms 22
He said I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation. I will praise thee, right?
So he says congregation in Psalms, but when that same verse is quoted in Hebrews 2
He said in the midst of the church. I will sing praise unto thee. Look that's an important doctrine to understand
I'm not going to take all the time to develop that but you know
You have to understand that church is the congregating of God's people together. That's what church is
It's not it's not some other thing that that you dreamed up
It's not something, you know church isn't you going sitting in a deer stand if anyone does that here, I don't know and
And communing with God and nature and how many times I've heard that especially when I live back in Michigan
Oh going out in the woods. That's my church. Yeah, that might be your church, but that ain't God's church
You know, you've got you've got your own little thing going on, you know
But it's not what God decreed in the New Testament
God decreed that people would get together in a local assembly and have church and be a church
You're there in 1st Corinthians chapter 10 look at verse 1. Well, look at the importance of church
I really want to emphasize this when we're talking about, you know, para church ministries or perishing church ministries
It says in 1st Corinthians 10 verse 1 moreover brethren
I would not that you should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea and were
All baptized unto Moses in the sea in the cloud in the sea and did all eat the same
Spiritual meat and did all drink the same spiritual drink and for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them
That rock was Christ, but with many of them was God God was not well pleased for they were overthrown in the wilderness
So he's talking about Old Testament Israel when they came out of Egypt and notice he's saying they all experienced these things
They all went through the Passover, you know, they all came out of Egypt. They were all baptized
This is a picture of salvation is a picture of the Christian, you know
We've all experienced those things if you say if you're saved and you're you know
And if you're following the Lord you were saved right you applied the blood
Right and and and God has passed over you right? He sees the blood like that's the symbol of the Passover
You know when the death angel passed over them, that's salvation and you know, we're all baptized
Hopefully, you know if you haven't been baptized we need to get you baptized. Okay, the right way after salvation by full immersion
Okay, and that's another subject but these were all you know, they all experienced these things
But you know, there's some people that even though they went through these things. God is not well pleased with them, right?
And I want to go to Exodus chapter 33 Exodus chapter 33
Look just because you're saved just because you're baptized that doesn't mean that God's just you know
You don't have to do anything else for the Lord in order for him to be pleased with you
You know
You need to if you want you need to walk in the works that God has foreordained for you to walk in
You should do the works. Okay, obviously you don't have to to keep your salvation or earn salvation
But once you're saved, you know, God has a will for you and he wants you to work for him
And that work is accomplished through the church. Okay, so
first Corinthians 10 he's he's referring back to
You know Old Testament Israel under Moses when they came out and that's so let's look at that in Exodus chapter 33 verse 1
It said the Lord said unto Moses. This is of course after they made the golden calf. He said depart thou and go up the hence
Thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt unto the land that I swear unto Abraham to Isaac
And to Jacob saying unto thy seed I will give it and I will send an angel for thee now will drive out the Canaanite
The Amorite the Hittite the Perizzite the Hivite the Jebusite unto a land flowing with milk and honey
For I will not go up in the midst of thee for thou were to stiffneck people lest I consume thee in the way
so God's very upset with them and
He went and the people heard these evil things they mourned and no man did put on his ornaments
Which is the right thing for them to have done the Lord said unto Moses say unto the children of Israel
You are a stiffneck people
I will come up in the midst of thee in the moment and consume thee therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee that I
May know what to do unto thee and the children of Israel stripped themselves the Romans by the Mount of Orib and Moses took the
Now notice this in verse 7 this when I'm driving home and Moses took the tabernacle
Right, which is where people would go and worship God where the sacrifices were made
Okay, they took the tabernacle and pitched it without the camp
outside of the the mass of people that had what that
Experienced all these things that we just read about first Corinthians 10 that had gone through the sea that had drank of that rock
That had been saved been baptized. That's the picture there. Okay, so he pitches this this
Tabernacle where God has to be worshiped without the camp now notice
he drives this home are far off from the camp meaning it wasn't conveniently located and
Called it the tabernacle of the congregation and it came to pass that everyone which sought the Lord went on to the
Tabernacle, you know, they didn't stay home and tune in online. They didn't turn to their favorite televangelist
They didn't click on the radio. They didn't read some newsletter and say they went to church
No those that wanted to you know, love the Lord and get right with God. They had to go without the camp
They had to go a great way off. They had to inconvenience themselves to show up where at the tabernacle at church
It's a picture of what we need to do today as Christians, you know
If you want to be right with God you need to get in church say it's inconvenient too bad
You know, he could have made it close
He could have said it right in the middle of the camp and said oh, you know
This is real close access for everybody and look we thought about that when we planted the church here in Tucson
They said let's stay close to the ten somewhere, you know
Midway halfway between the north and south of Tucson
Tucson's kind of a hard city to to plant a church that's going to be you know
logistically perfect for everybody because there's just a you know
Complete lack of a freeway system here and it's a city of a million people or whatever it is
But you know, don't get me going about that. All right, you got your small-town feel or whatever
Well, you know that all comes at a price, you know
If you live on the Far East Side getting a church might take you a half hour of stop-and-go traffic
But you know what tough this is where we are
So again, we see that, you know, the picture is this is that you know, God, you know wants us to be in church
What's not enough just to be saved and baptized God wants you in the church and the church is the congregation
And those that seek the Lord have to go to the tabernacle
They have to go to that place now if you would go over to Hebrews chapter 13 Hebrews chapter 13
See well, of course you're gonna say church is important you're the preacher here, you know
You have a vested interest in getting people to church
Yeah, you know my vested interest it is your spiritual growth
You know
I can't come to all your houses individually and say well
Let me preach the sermon to you and then come over to your house and preach a sermon to you and then I'm gonna come
Over to your house over here, you know that would take up my entire and you probably don't want me over there
Anyway, it's hard enough to get you to stare at my mug for it for 45 minutes once a week
You know, you probably only showing up at your door, you know
And and you know, it just makes more sense to get everybody in the same place
And I'll just preach to everybody all at once
You know, and why do we do that because I like the sound of my own voice. No
Fact I can't stand it. You know, I have a hard time
Even I have to force myself sometimes to listen to sermons online. It's like oh man, I sound like that
We all go through that right you're your own voice. You're like, oh, that's me
No, it's not because I like the sound of my own voice
It's because I care about you know
The Word of God God's people and I want to see people grow in the Lord and praise God we have seen that
Look at Hebrews chapter 13 verse 7
He said in verse 7 remember them that have the rule over you who have spoken unto you the Word of God whose faith follow
Considering the end of conversation now, what's he talking about? Look he's talking about church here
He's talking about people who rule over you. He's talking about leadership in the local church
You're not talking, you know, and we don't we don't have this cultish mentality where I'm gonna come and like, you know
Approve or disapprove or whatever you're doing, you know in your life
I'm gonna like watch every move you make outside of the church
But the fact is is that a local church there are people that rule
There are people that have been ordained as the leaders at the church because somebody's got a lead
Somebody has to do it. Someone has to say this is gonna fly this isn't
You know and and I I don't want to go on and on about that
But notice here, you know that is like one bookend of this chapter go down to verse 17
He repeats this obey them which had the rule over you and submit yourselves for they watch for your souls as they that again
Must give it account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for that isn't profitable for you. All right
now notice there in in verse
Verse 8 let's pick it back up there
Okay
So you have these two bookends where he's drawing attention in verses 7 and verses 17 about, you know
Remembering and obeying those which rule he's talking about in the local church
Okay
And he's saying verse 8 Jesus Christ Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and forever
Be not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines
You know why it's important for you to get in church
It's so you're not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines when you start saying Oh YouTube is my church
You know what's gonna happen you're gonna get carried about with diverse and strange doctrines
You know and I see it all the time people who have been unchurched for a very long time. They're born again
They're saved, you know, they passed through the cloud
They experienced some of those things like that like we saw back in Exodus, you know
But then they show up at church after having never been in a church or maybe it's some lame church
You know what and they have a lot of strange and diverse doctrines that they've been carried about with
They have a lot of superstitious beliefs, you know
And it's important to get in a church where people that there are people that obey they're there or excuse me
There are people that rule so that they can teach you the Word of God so that they can watch from your soul
So they could say actually this is what the Bible teaches
this is where you wrong and this is where you need to get it right and
Not like not in some chest-dumping way, but to help you to not be what carried about with diverse and strange doctrines
That's why you have to have people that rule and that's the problem with these parachurch ministries. Is that nobody rules
You know, there might be somebody who's organizing but there's nobody saying hey this is allowed and this isn't that's false doctrine this isn't
You know, that's why it's important to be in a local church. We have somebody who can draw the line and again
It's not me. Just you know my own opinion. It's the Word of God. That's the ultimate authority
You know the head of the church is Christ right ultimately and I'm held accountable by the congregation
You know if I start preaching strange and diverse, you know doctrines, you know that are contrary to the Word of God
You know get out of here go find a good church, you know or whatever, you know
We'll cross that bridge if and we ever come to it and God willing. We never will. Okay?
But notice, you know
He's talking about not being carried about with diverse and strange doctrines for it's a good thing that the heart be established with grace
You know what Church does is it establishes you it gets you rooted it gets you grounded. Okay?
Be established with grace not with meats which have not profit and that have been occupied there and we have an altar where they
Have no right to each which serve the tabernacle
For those bodies the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into sanctuary by the high priest for sin are burned without the camp
So again, he's talking about be going without the camp
Wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered without the gate verse 13
Let us go forth unto him without the camp bearing his reproach
No, we need to go outside the camp. We can't just stay in our little bubbles
You know, we have to go without the camp. We have to go unto the tabernacle
We have to go out and be a part of a local assembly. It's that important
You have to go out of the camp to be part of the church
You know, it's not enough to just have experienced all these other things
Salvation maybe even baptism maybe even do a little ministering here and there, you know
It's not enough if you want God to bless your life if you want to be established
If you don't want to be carried about with diverse and strong strange doctrines, you know
You have to have people that rule you have to have people to obey
You have to have somebody teaching the Word of God that happens in the local church
Where somebody is an authority you have to go to church to be in the will of God
If you would just go back to Hebrews chapter 10 a future of just a few pages
first Corinthians chapter number 10
First Corinthians chapter number 10
Excuse me Hebrews chapter 10
He said in verse 25, we all know this verse people can quote this verse but sometimes I wonder if it really sinks in with them
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together
hmm assembling of ourselves together
Congregating what I wonder what in the world he could be talking about here. He's talking about church folks
Not forsaking the assembling the congregation the church
Not forsaking it as the manner of some is, you know, there's a lot of people today that's their manner
You know what manners is custom habit, right?
These are words that are synonymous with that, you know, some people have a custom some people have a habit of forsaking church
I'm just not being in church. I'm just not thinking well, it's not that important or they think it's important
But it's just too inconvenient. You know, it's too far
You don't wonder how many you know, but you know Moses said it
You know a great way off from that from the comp from the from the group didn't he and
Those that sought the Lord they didn't care about the distance. They didn't care about the comedians
I said, you know, I just want to be in the will of God
I want to go worship God where God decrees that we need to worship him and look I understand that
We know wherever two or three together my name there I am in the midst of them, but that's not talking about church
You know if you want to get together, you know
It's some coffee shop somewhere with a couple Christian brethren to crack open a Bible and have Bible study. Go ahead
Just don't call it church because it ain't it's not church
Church is you know assembling ourselves together and we should not forsake that as the manner of some is but exhorting one another
You know exhorting one another what to go to church and to live the Christian life
I'm sorry. Are you getting a lot of exhortation from the world today to live for Christ?
Is there a lot of people in your life that are saying hey, you know
I'm glad you're reading your Bible and you're praying your soul winning. Glad you're cleaning up your life
I'm glad you're you know working on your marriage. I'm glad you're raised trying to raise your kids for Christ
I'm trying you know, is he are you getting a lot of that from the world today?
No, you're not
Fact you're getting the complete opposite from the world today
They say oh you're a Christian. I need to knock all that old book
You know, they're just attacking it and all these different ways
Look you need to not forsake why so that you can be exhorted
To live for God and live the Christian life and people who are not in church. Do not go very far in the Christian life
They don't go very far in Christian life. It's true
So I can still I you know, I can still serve God outside of the church
Yeah, but not to the same degrees you could if you were in church and you know, it's possible
But you know, it's highly unlikely that you will I
Mean the why is God putting such an emphasis on it here in Hebrews?
He says, you know not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together
It's a manner of some is but exhorting one another so much the more. Oh you guys have Church three times a week
You know what? It's not enough
You know in the early days they met daily in the temple. They met daily in every house. They've got together every day
Now I'm not saying we're gonna start doing that, you know, obviously there was a great deal degree of persecution
It was it was a different time and I understand we all have lives to live but I you know
Three days a week really it there's there's seven days in the week
Folks you knock out two of those services in one day
You know to me it's that important so much the more as
You see the day approaching what day the day of Christ
You know as you see the return of Christ approaching and I'm not saying you need to be in church
Just because perilous times shall come look that's another reason
Here's why here's the day that's approaching the day that you are going to stand before God and give an account for what you did in
this life
You not me. I'm not gonna stand in for Christ and give an account for you. You're gonna do that
You know, I'm gonna give an account, you know for I will hold, you know
As the as the you know, the leader of this church this local here in Tucson, you know, there will be like hey
Did you did you minister these people correctly obviously I get that but the decisions that you make for Christ that did how you decide
To live your life or not live your life for Christ that's on you
You know, we read it just there a minute ago in Hebrews
You know that you that they may give an account with joy and not with grief for that as unprofitable for you
You get out of church. It's not unprofitable for me. It's unprofitable for you
That's who's gonna have
The the account to give you not me as you see the day approaching the day of Christ
His return the day you're gonna stand before God
That's why a church is important and that's why I get so fired up about these parachurch ministries
and not just because you know, that's one of the main reasons but another reason is the fact that you know
They preach a lot of false things
It's a lot of times it's the things that they don't say a lot of things that they're tolerant of
You know, but before we move on to that let me just make another point about church because some people just say oh
Well, you know, you're just ranting raving. Yeah Hebrews 10. We've all heard it a million times before
Let me just explain to you again how important churches church is the ministry that God uses to reach the world with the gospel
It's the church. It's not some Billy Graham crusade
You know that guy's a raging heretic
When he says that oh, you know, the Muslims are just following the light that they have
And all even we could just go down the list
These false prophets that are loved by the world. You see some guy being lifted up and loved by the world
Just mark it down false prophet
You know, they hated the false prophet or they hated the real prophets. They always have
You know, they loved the false prophets they're the ones that get lifted up but again another another sermon
If you would go over to 1st Corinthians chapter number 12 1st Corinthians chapter number 12
Look church is the ministry that God has used or ordained to reach the world with the gospel
Not campus crusade for Christ
not promise keepers
Not you know
Whatever else you you tell me the parachurch minister. I'll say no, that's not it. It's the New Testament Church
1st Corinthians chapter 12
I'll try to get through this quickly, but if beginning of verse 4 it says now there are diversities of gifts
But the same spirit, of course
This is a great chapter about the body of Christ and how there are different members within the body
And they got us put different members in the body for different purposes
Look, he said he says that there are diversity of gifts, but the same spirit there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord
Look all the things that we can accomplish for Christ are done within the local church
You know the more people that were here the more that we could do the more we could accomplish the more outreach we could have
There would be more diversity there would be more administrations
But you know people we don't can't do all that because so many people today are just like well church isn't that important
I have this other parachurch ministry that I'm part of you know, I just give them my money, you know
And and and I've done my part wrong
And there are diversities of operations, but it's the same God which worketh all in all
And he goes through here and talks about you know, these different gifts and things like that
But look at verse 12
He said for as the body is one and hath many members and all members of that one body being many are one body
So also is Christ
So saying look, you know as the body is one, you know, I'm one body up here, right?
But I have different members. So is Christ. So is the body of Christ the church, you know
We're all one body
But you know some some of us are going to be the head
Some of us are going to be the foot some of us are going to be the arm
Some of us are going to be all these different members. We're going to have what diversities of operations diversities of administrations
There's going to be different things that different people can do within the same body
So what I'm saying is that all these things can be accomplished within the local church. That's what God has decreed
But the problem with a lot of these, you know, these parachurch ministries is that you know, they're just one member
That's it. There's about one thing
You think about you know, focus on the family. I mean it's in the name. What are they focusing on the family?
Oh, what are you against you against about me? Are you against ministering to the family? No, we do that here in the local church
As well as all the other things we have to talk about about doctrine about end times, you know
I mean it just the little about sin
I'm just all the many things that the Word of God addresses, you know, the family is just one of those things
But these parachurch ministries what they do is they just focus in on one thing and they're imbalanced
And they you know, and they're not off often. They're not accountable to any local church at all. They can teach whatever they want
They're they're specialized
You know, but that's now we see in 1st Corinthians chapter 12
If you look there in verse 18, he says but now God has set members any one of them in the body as it hath
pleased him
You know God wants different members in this body to accomplish different things
You know, there might you might be able to minister to somebody in a way that I can't you know
I think about you know, the ladies in this church
You know, I can't have all the conversations with the lady that other that ladies can have, you know, it's girl talk, right?
You know that they they can't come to me with all their problems, you know
But they can go to another lady in the church, you know, and not just my wife by the way
They can minister to other people. I mean they can they could speak with other ladies
Right or or young people there. I mean, it's just we could go on and on
You know, but if you're not here, you know
If you've been sucked out of local church one because you just don't want to be there or two because you've been caught up in
Some, you know para church ministry where you think that's the end-all be-all of you know of God's mission on earth
You know, then then you're not here. You're not set in the body. You're not there, you know
And we're still up we're still operating over here, but we're missing a foot. It's like boy
I wish that foot were here would make getting around a lot easier
You know, we're we're missing an arm. I can still turn to the Bible
I can still write these sir, you know, I could still operate as a body, but it'd be a lot easier if I had my arm
But you know my arms over here flopping around somewhere else
Thinking that's all it's only about what it does. It's only about focusing on the family
The local church is where God ordains that the accompli mission is accomplished and again, you know, we read it in Hebrews
Earlier to obey them that have the rule remember them which have the rule look they port
The reason why the local church is important is because it's an authority
It's an authority, you know, dr. James Dobson isn't gonna hold you accountable over there at hocus-pocus on the family
Well, I mean a focus on the family
You know these parachurch, you know ministries aren't gonna hold you accountable
You know if you get into sin, they're not gonna they're not gonna you know, admonish you they're not gonna rebuke you
They're not gonna exhort you which right there is why a lot of people don't want to go to church
Because they're not right with God
They know it and they don't want to go to church where they're gonna get their face ripped off
But you know what? That's what you need
That's what you need to get right with God
You need to show up somewhere where somebody's gonna hold you accountable where there's an authority
Spiritually within the you know, the context of the church, you know
You don't need to call me and ask me if you should buy this used car or not. What color to paint your house
Because it and you say that sounds crazy. Look it gets like that. Sometimes it's cultish. Okay
But that's not just you just throw the baby out with the bathwater here, you know
You still need to have somebody looking out for it watching for your soul
You know the local church and authority if you would go to Matthew chapter 16 Matthew chapter number 16
Parachurch ministries are not an authority
They don't even claim to be an authority
So when people want to replace church with a parachurch ministry
They they're they're making authority out of somebody that has no authority or they just don't have an authority
It's like well, I just don't have an authority in my life
But the church the local church this is why important is because it is an authority say where do you get that?
Matthew 16 verse 18 I
Say unto thee thou art Peter upon this rock
I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it and
I will give unto thee keys the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be loosed in heaven and whatsoever
Shall be loosed on earth shall be loosed in heaven
You know where he's Baptist we could sometimes I think get afraid of this verse because we think we always read that thing
Oh, that's about the Catholic Church uses that teach how Peter's the Pope. Yeah read on a few verses later
Jesus calls the first Pope apparently Satan
You know so so much for that says get thee behind me Satan, you know
But what this is really about is the fact that God acknowledges the local church the authority of the local church
He says look what you bind in heaven I'll bound in what you bind on earth
I'll bind in heaven what you loosen in earth. I'll loosen heaven
You know not that we get to just make up whatever rules
You know
But when that the church has authority for example 1st Corinthians 5 gives a list of sins
That people are to be kicked out of expelled from the local church over it's not every sin
You know fornication drunkenness idolatry, you know covetousness extortion. It's a very specific list
And it says and Paul said look, you know deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh
You know if a person's caught in certain sins the church has what authority to kick them out
You know if they trespass against their brother, you know, it like we're gonna go to Matthew 18, right and they won't hear the church
You know the Bible says treat that man as a publican as a heathen
You know and again, it's not every single little thing that you know
Somebody does but it's a you know, it's a very specific set of circumstances
But what he's saying is is that if you bind somebody in heaven, I'll but you know on earth
I'll bind that in heaven God acknowledges to what the local of the the authority of the local church
Not some parachurch ministry
That's why I said first Corinthians 14. Let all things be done decently and in order, you know
There should be things to be done decently and in order in church
There should have to be something that rules there has to be an authority
Matthew 18 verse 15 moreover if thy brother trespassed against thee go and tell him his fault between him and him alone
So there's a process here
Okay, and look I don't want to go on about this
But people have people read Matthew 18 and it's like they go looking for an ex people have a bone to pick with somebody
Sometimes people don't get along with one another, you know
and then they just it's like they take this and they try to just
catch people in their words and I don't want to go on about it, but
When I have to put that in there, I have to put that clause in there
Okay, because I don't want people to get carried away with this
He said but if he will not hear thee and then take with thee one or two more
That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established, you know, this is probably a pretty you know
I would apply some very serious
Offenses, you know not because so-and-so called me in a name or whatever, you know
This is this is like, you know
You had a business dealing or something and somebody robbed you some money in the local church or something like that
And even then the Bible says, you know, you should stuff yourself to be defrauded, you know, it'd be better to do that
But notice he's saying look if you if there's a serious trespass, you know
Take two or three people and if they should neglect to hear them verse 17 tell it under the church
Why because the church is an authority?
You know, we are an authority here
But if you neglect to hear the church, let him be under the isn't he the man in a publican
Very I very I say unto you and here it is in the context
Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven
He's saying I'm going to acknowledge the authority of the local church
Not some parachurch ministry because they don't have an authority
Go to Acts chapter 20 Acts chapter 20
Acts chapter 20, you know the Bible says in first Timothy if I Terry long
That thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, you know
There's a way to behave things need to be done decently in order
There's a way to behave in the local church in the house of God
Which is the Church of the Living God the pillar in the ground of truth
It's not just a free-for-all in here, you know, the church has authority we're not interdenominational
I mean you ever you ever I mean, we're not a denomination. We're you know Baptist is a denomination
I get that but you know when I say we're not we're not we're not
Denominational we're not part of a denomination. We're not part of a bigger organization
You know, we don't have some Pope somewhere telling us what what's allowed and what isn't as a local church, you know
This is our authority. I understand we know we're a plant of faith. We're Baptist Church a pastor Steven Anderson
Is the you know has veto power down here, you know, I understand that well, but we're a part of that body so to speak
Okay
We get that. All right, but a local church, you know that you know, we as Baptist
Did you notice how we take great go to great lengths to describe ourselves?
You know, we're Baptist no, we say no what we're independent right meaning we're separated we're not part of a denomination
We're fundamental, you know, we believe the the fundamentals of the faith. We emphasize those
Well, you know, we're independent. We're fundamental. We're what what's another one King James only and by the way, not King James preferred King
James only folks
Meaning that's the only version we use. It's the only version we endorse
We're we're King James only we're soul-winning, you know, that's what we're about, you know, we take time to tell people we're all these things
Now if you would look at Acts chapter 20 verse 28
Say well, is it really that big a deal to go to church? Well, I don't know. It seems like it is to me
Seems to me like God acknowledges the authority the local church
You know, it seems to me that God wants people in church
He says there in Acts 20 verse 20 take heed heed therefore unto yourselves and this is of course Paul speaking
To the elders, you know the bishops
He said take heed therefore unto yourselves into all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers now
What's an overseer somebody's overseeing right someone who's supervising somebody who's managing somebody who is an authority in that church?
Someone who's watching right someone who's ruling
Now notice he's saying you need to take heat unto yourselves into all the flock
Over which the Holy Ghost hath made the over fear overseers to feed the Church of God, you know, that's the job of the minister
Minister literally means servant
Feed the Church of God, you know, I'm not up here to boost my own ego now
I'm here to try to take the Word of God study the Word of God
Prepare the work of the sermons to feed people to admonish one another. Okay, you think that's what you're up here to do
That's what your job to feed the Church of God, which really isn't that important
You know if people happen to show up, you know, make sure you take the time to feed them
Make sure you watch for yourselves and for over all the flock
You know in case somebody happens to show up because Church after all isn't that important is that how the verse ends?
You know how important the church is it says there that we need to feed the Church of God
Which he hath purchased with his own blood say how valuable is the church? Oh, I don't know it cost the blood of Christ
Seems pretty valuable to me seems pretty important to me the local church
And when I see these parachurch ministries that operate under their own authority they don't have you know any any just you know
Distinctions they don't draw a line anywhere. They just want to get along with everybody
You know what? They're diluting the you know, the the local church
They're robbing from the the the church for which Christ died and shed his own blood
You know these parachurch ministries they operate under their own authority
And you know what as a result they offer no protection
You ever think about the protection that you have in the local church. I
Mean from the wolves and things like that. So I don't like that the pastor, you know
You know that the he gets up and say it's gonna be this way or the highway
I don't like that if he just says well if it's not in the Bible, we're not gonna do it
You should be grateful that you have a church like that
What's not like oh, let's just invite the trannies in here. We'll just sit him down in the front row
We'll just treat him with love and respect and dignity
But that's going on in Baptist churches today
Well, just let him be a part of the children's ministry and love on them
Not in this church never over my dead body. I'll resign before I ever let that happen in this church. Aren't you glad?
Aren't you glad there's an authority here?
It's gonna protect you and your children from letting some pervert come in here and try to look they're trying to get in folks
They want in the local churches. They want to corrupt them
It ain't gonna happen here the authority offers protection that's the danger of these parachurch ministries. There's no protection there
You show up at one of their functions one of their events. You don't know what heretics gonna show up
What perverts gonna show up what what you know?
You know unbiblical thing is going to be taught and no one's gonna say anything about it
Parachurch ministries they operate as their own authority. This is from the focus on the family's own website
The statement of faith does not exhaust the extent of our beliefs and by the way, their statements of faith are like one-liners
Just one-liners. Oh, yeah, we believe that salvation is by grace through faith
It sounds good, but if you actually try to nail them down
It's like they don't want to talk about, you know, the controversial subjects that come to that
Well, do you think it's that people are ordained? It's the salvation. Are you Calvinist?
Are you are you do you believe in repenting your sins?
They don't want to clarify any of that because they want as many people to come in because they're
Interdenominational because they just want the money to roll in because they're just so concerned about focusing on the family
Which is apparent because apparently the local church is just doing such a poor job at that
Apparently the local church is just so we can frail and feeble that we can't help families
It's an insult to the local church to think that we need some other organization to come along and help us with the ministry
And they're then they're you know, and what they're really doing is they're a detriment to the local body of Christ
He's saying look that this is what their statement that what they say in the website
The statement of faith does not exhaust the extent of our beliefs. Well, what are they? Oh, we're not gonna discuss that
The Bible itself as the inspired infallible Word of God that speaks with final authority concerning truth morality the power of
Proper conduct of mankind is the soul and final authority of all that we believe well, that sounds good
For purposes of focuses faith doctrine practice of policy and discipline our board of directors is the final
Interpretative authority on the Bible's meaning and application. Oh, yeah, the Bible's the authority but you know, it's how our local board
It's not not how not how the church that we're operating under it's not the local church that you know
It's not the pastor of that church. It's not that's not our authority. It's no it's our board of directors
We decide how to interpret that authority
You know, that's what are they saying? They say we're our own authority. We have no authority. You know what that means? No protection
Para church ministries offer no protection at it should are you still in acts 20?
Look at verse 29, why did he admonish them these elders to take heed and to watch of their under themselves into the flock?
Verse 29 for I know this that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock
He's saying look I know for a fact
That grievous wolves are gonna try to come into the body of Christ and devour
Verse 30 also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them. I mean, that's like
parachurch ministry to a tee
They just want to drain the local news. They just want to draw people away from the local New Testament Church
So that they can get you know a disciples to follow them
To be all about their per parachurch ministry and you know, and if they and if it's convenient
You know if they can make it happen every now and then maybe maybe throw the local church a bone
Parature, you know, the truth is this is that parachurch ministries, you know
I have found in my experience are more of a threat than a help
Which ties in with Acts chapter 20 where we just read?
Why do you say why would I say that why would I say they're more of a threat than a help
So, how could you say that? Well one because they're ecumenical
They and they let anything go doctrinally because they don't want to upset anybody
They just want every everyone from every denomination to come on in, you know
And I'm gonna focus on a specific parachurch ministry this morning
I'm gonna I'm gonna close on this and that's this this parachurch ministry called fellowship of the sword
fellowship of the sword and
They they're this parachurch ministry and they focus on they have this this activity that they do
Under the umbrella of fellowship of the sword called the quest life
The quest life then what is this about? Well, let me just read to you a little bit about the quest life a ministry of
Fellowship of the sword, you know, you thought I'm talking about a fantasy novel, you know your favorite, you know Tolkien or whatever
The fellowship of the sword right? No, I'm talking about a parachurch ministry
And I'm trying not to just go off right now, you know, we'll get there
Fellowship of the sword is not directly affiliated with any specific church congregation or denomination
This is on their website
The staff is comprised of several of members of several different denominational backgrounds quest is a non-denominational event
Now people like oh that sounds that that just sounds so super friendly
You know what the problem with that is any heretic can show up people go to this, you know
They want to go quest they want to go on their little quest. Let me tell you what the quest is
It's it's that it's you walking around on some rich guys ranch somewhere
Okay, that that's I looked into it
It's like they just they have some ranch somewhere and they just go walk around the woods and meet Jesus
In a tree, you know go talk and go have an experience with Jesus
It's like what do I need that for? You know, I could do that on my own
Pay us seven hundred dollars ahead and we'll take you out to this this ranch with with cows on it and you can go walk
A cow path and meet Jesus. Just don't step any cow pies in the way
That's their ministry. Okay, and look thousands of people go to it
Thousands of people they've been going on it's been going on for years. It's a joke
And it's dangerous because of statements like that Oh interdenominational means you show up at one of these events
You know, you got some tongue-talking Pentecostal over here
You got some Roman Catholic trying to pray the rosary over there and no one's there to say well that no
We don't believe that no, you can't do that here. They're like, oh, well, you know, we're just all trying to meet Jesus
You know and and and it's usually and what just really irks me about these things is just it's just this hokey Christianity
That just you know before I got saved. It's these kind of ministries to just turn me off
You know, they all want to show up and they're nice little knit sweaters and just talk with them
You know, there's another voice just be so friendly to everybody
You know, we might we might be a little rough around the edges around here
But at least you know, at least it's a man of God getting up and talking like a man and walking like a man
Not mr. Rogers
Do I went looked I'm telling you I went and looked at this guy's Facebook page he literally impersonates. Mr. Rogers
It's got his little fireplace go in he comes in. Hi boys and girls
He puts his little red sweater on he sits down
And he has his wife come over and she's looking at me. He's like, oh, we've been having such a great time
Just just baking and decorating and his wife goes that's enough and taps him on the leg
It's like good grief
Who would want anything to do with that bunch of Nancy's
Well could be you could come out to our ranch and have a quest with Jesus
It's only gonna cost you 600
$1,400 if you're a couple
And you could just go walk around our ranch
You know, just don't step any cow pies and you can have a catalytic encounter with Jesus
I'm getting ahead of myself, but this is the problem with these guys you say well who started this this this
You know
Nondenominational that's not affiliated with any specific church that has no authority in other words
That operates outside the bounds of the church for which Christ died
Like we need them to help us have people have you know, put it put get put in the presence of God
You know you do that in your prayer closet
With the Word of God, you don't need to pay some, you know, mr. Rogers over there 600 bucks to do it
We've been questing since 2001 when God called Richard Henderson to a mountainside in New Mexico
At the time Richard was serving so notice, you know, then these must be riches own words. You'll see here in a minute why I believe that
Richard was serving as as a worship pastor
So they all he was serving in a church, but then God called them out of it to start quest
And no anyone that sought the Lord went out to the tabernacle hello
And he was serving as a worship pastor, you know, I hate these stupid terms these unbiblical term pastors biblical but worship pastor
Let me pastor your worship
Like what does that even mean?
What does that even mean? I'm a worship pastor
So you're pastoring worship. I
Don't know maybe they can explain it he was
Richard was serving as a worship pastor in a thriving church in Fort Worth, Texas. See where I'm going Fort Worth ring any bells
While his career in ministry was going exceptionally. Well, that's why I'm like, I think you wrote this Richard
Well, his career ministry was going exceptionally. Well, God was about to show Richard more
More is in quotations. He's gonna show him more by calling him out to some mountain, right?
You know, this isn't in the bio here, but I'm just gonna add this 21 years later
You know after 2001 when they started questing when God called Richard Henderson aka. Mr. Rogers
You know out to some mountainside and called them out of a local church
21 years later Richard stood with the sodomites and Satanists against the real man of God called pastor Jonathan Shelley in steadfast Baptist Church
That's who Richard Henderson is
He's the guy who's on the board of directors owners, whatever. I don't care. It's associated with with
fellowship the sword who's the people who wrote the lease to steadfast Baptist Church in Hearst, Texas and
Pulled the rug out under him to side with a bunch of sodomites
You say why would he do that because he has no authority
Because he operates outside a local New Testament Church and I'm gonna give this all the reasons why I think he would do that
Probably cuz he's a reprobate false prophet himself who cares only about one thing money
That's who he is that's Richard Henderson for you a
Short time later a woman's quest was birthed as well as other events including the quest for oneness
That's talking about that's not the oneness
We know of that's the couple's retreat where you can you can have oneness quest with your wife and or your spouse
Along the way the vision mission and purpose of how and where these events fit within the context of the kingdom of God
Not the local church
Has become increasingly clear. I
Want to read a little bit more from the website questers, you know, if you participate you're a quest er
Those who have attended an event and begun their lifelong pursuit of more come from every imaginable walk of life every
fathomable circumstance
Some are senior pastors and mature Christ followers
Others are unchurched doubters or skeptics spelled with a C whose circumstance may have led them now to consider an alternative
Some come for a spite from turmoil despair. Some are simply curious
Now I want you paying a close attention. That's age race
nationality denomination and any other distinction and other
Distinctions are neither qualifiers nor disqualifiers
Hmm. I wonder what he means by other
Distinctions, I mean he's made it abundantly clear that they're not denominational
You know, they have people from all the nominations coming. So does he is he requalifying that statement?
I don't think so because he's made that abundantly clear and he's saying here
Well, it's not about it, you know, no matter what your age is no matter what your race is no matter what your
nationality or denomination
Well, what other distinction I wonder he could be talking about
It doesn't have you know, the guts to actually just come out and say it
He's talking about the homos folks. Oh, you're a fag. Come on over and you could come quest with us
You know, you could come out and just walk around the woods while everybody else is by themselves, too
These are neither disqualifiers nor disqualifiers. No, you know, so it's easy to see how this you know this spineless weakling
Richard Benson, am I getting his name right Henderson?
sided with a bunch of sodomites
And even expressed his love for these people over a real man of God not not just alongside not alongside a church
Not outside of a church against a church
But para church ministries are there to help right? No now they're attacking
bona fide
legitimate valid
Bible churches
Local New Testament churches he's siding against them with the most vile
Filthy disgusting people there are on the face of this earth some Christian
We believe the Bible is the Word of God and the ultimate written authority
It is divinely inspired and inherent in its original autographs
And we already talked about that in our series. I've been going through right
They don't believe that they believe that there's errors in the English versions
And it you what there aren't a lot of them but not this one not in the King James
So, I don't know. I don't know about that. Well, you know what you need to go back and watch the sermons. I've been preaching
That's always a red flag folks and you see that somewhere
Oh, it's preside if it's preserved and inspired in its original autographs, which nobody has
While an event an attendee a quest or right will participate in guided self-study with independent time outside
It's a glorified hike
That's what this is. It's you know, it's time outside. It's playing outdoors
Just yeah 600 bucks 700 bucks 699 ahead five and a half days for you to go play outside at someone's house
I'm in the wrong business
Actually, I'm not he's saying look he intended a group study biblical teachings. Yeah, I wonder how biblical they are
Worship and praise and a day of fasting
I know I know it's not Baptist
Right a day of fasting. Oh, I thought we were spoke. We were supposed to fast
We weren't supposed to let other people we were know that we're fasting
You know, it's this is hyper spiritual garbage
He ends this little state where I'm gonna end it, you know, this is on their their LinkedIn Facebook, whatever we serve the church
Oh, really? How do you do that rich?
By facilitating a catalytic encounter with Jesus Christ that uncovers truth
Unlocks identally and unleashes passion
That's how they that's you wonder wonder what what purpose are they serving? Well, there it is folks they serve by by facilitating
catalytic encounters
That uncover truth that unlock identity and that unleash passion
That is so vague. That is just so I
Mean, I thought I thought the church was the pillar that the house of God the Church of the Living God was the pillar and
Ground of truth. I thought you know the entrance of thy word giveth light
Well, we can't unlock truth here. We can't ignite passion in a local church. That's we need you to serve us in that way
It's a bunch of garbage
Catalytic converter, what does it even mean?
Catalytic, you know, I'm familiar with the term catalytic because we have people constantly cut them off our vans
I tried again earlier this week. They got busted halfway through and left their saws all you know in the pipe over the church van
Again
Right, I sound like catalytic. I mean is he talking about, you know rare metals and the underside of a exhaust system
You know catalytic is a person, you know, what does it mean to be catalytic?
I guess I had to look this up a person whose talk enthusiasm or energy causes others to be more friendly
To be more like mr. Rogers, I guess I guess that's what he's out there to do just to make you a more
We're just trying to you know, have you you have a catalytic encounter with Jesus so you'll just be a more
enthusiastic and energetic and friendly person
Well, I have you know the fruits of the Spirit love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance, you know
I don't need your catalytic, you know, I have the Holy Spirit to facilitate that but thanks for trying to come alongside
And serve the local church
You perishing church ministry
You
Know somebody who's actually not coming alongside
But it's literally attacking has attacked and and by the way, if you don't know what's been going on with steadfast Baptist Church
I re-uploaded the pastor Shelley's video last night to our channel so you can find it very easily
You know if you happen to be subbed to your own churches YouTube channel
The counts gonna go up by like 10 now
Right, hopefully you're you know, if you're missing the service you're catching up I don't know maybe not whatever
But if you want to know what I'm talking about, it's all there. He lays it all out
How he was just preaching through the Word of God
You know in the summer of 2021 just came into Genesis chapter 19, which is just you know, a very eye-opening
Chapter, you know Sodom Gomorrah and tells us all about you know
These homos and what they're really like just preaching the Word of God just preaching directly from the Word of God
You know and it incites these these protesters and look that's not what frustrates me so much as the protesters
I get that I'd be shocked if they didn't get upset
You know, I expect that I
Expect them to go out there, you know with their face looking like they just fell into a tackle box and you know
shaving their hair and dying at every every other color that there is and
Waving their blasphemous signs and flipping people off and saying disgusting things to your children when you try to walk in I expect all that
It's part for the course. It's what they do. I've seen it time and time again
You know, what really frustrates me is when you have these so-called Christians like Richard Henderson
Who decides that you know, he's gonna side with them?
Who claims the name of Christ is gonna it's gonna say that pastor Jonathan Shelley is you know
It's some kind of wicked devil is gonna slander him online go watch the video folks
If there's just too much to cover in one sermon, I'm going long already
If
You would go over to Jude chapter 1
You know, I'm gonna describe for you Richard Henderson a little bit in Jude because this is why I believe this guy is
Jude chapter 1 verse 5
He says I will therefore put your remembrance though
You once knew this how that the Lord having saved the people out of land of Egypt. So there we are again that same story
About how God saved the people out of the land of Egypt brought them out across the Red Sea
He saved them out of land of Egypt afterward destroyed them that believed not meaning there was people that joined themselves to the congregation
That came out of land of Egypt that believed not
But they weren't there to serve God they weren't saved
You know and that's it's no different today. We had the same thing going on today
There's people that claim the name of Christ claim to be God's people. They believe not they don't believe the Word of God
They don't believe Genesis 19. They don't believe Judges 19. They don't believe Romans 1 they don't believe the book of Jude
They just know God is love, you know, yeah God is love but you know what God is also hate God hates I
Mean can you really love something in love if you don't hate anything? Oh, I love kids. Oh, you must hate pedophiles that no
Don't approve of it sinful. It's it's wicked. It's abomination. It's an abomination
But notice he's saying there look it's same. It's the same story
He saved the people our land of Egypt after to destroy them that believed not
And the angels were kept out there first to take but left their own habitation yet reserve and everlasting chains under darkness under the judgment
of the great day
And God's is gonna judge people. Okay?
Even as Sodom Gomorrah and the city's about them in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh
He's not talking about the goth girl. He's talking about flesh that is inconvenient
He's talking about flesh that it would be strange for you to lust after a man lusting after another man is strange
It's foreign. It's not it's not natural
It's inconvenient is what the Bible says
Strange flesh they are set forth for an example
Say well that that's a god of the Old Testament, but here we are in Jude
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we're pretty deep into the New Testament at this point right we were Jude
And he's saying look you want to know what God thinks about these these these homos in the in the New Testament
He just says look. I already told you I told you in Genesis 19 the first book
You didn't have to even read that far before he found out what God thought about these people
He's saying do I have to reiterate everything I just said
He's saying he's look he set these people forth at his example
He said you want to know what God thinks of them. Just go read Genesis 19
He set them forth example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire
God says I'm going to punish them with eternal fire. They're damned. They're reprobate concerning the faith
Look at verse 8 likewise these filthy dreamers defile the flesh they despise dominion they hate authority
Oh, we're gonna operate outside the local church. You're no man of God. You can't tell us what the Bible says
They despise to many you know what and you'll hear these people and and and you hear you know these people that hate hate God
They hate this book. They all we hate Jonathan Shelley. We hate steadfast Baptist Church. We hate pastor Bruce Messia
We hate pastor Dave Burzins. We hate pastor Aaron Thompson. We hate pastor Steven Anderson. No what you hate is this book
You hate it that there's an authority you hate God who's the ultimate authority you despise dominion?
That there's somebody that's telling you you're wrong
You know and people hate that in all different degrees, don't they?
They don't want it. They don't want to come to church to get their their toe stepped on
And look and if you come to church where they're gonna preach the word of God
You're gonna get your toe stepped on but look when it comes to this subject
God's not just stepping until God's jumping on their lap
He's saying they're gonna suffer eternal vengeance hellfire. They're damned
Reprobate silver shall men call them for the Lord hath rejected them
That's what it means to be reprobate needs to be rejected by God
That's what these people are
Verse 10 these speak evil of those things which they know not
But what they know naturally is brute beasts and those things which they corrupt themselves war unto them
war unto them
You know they can go ahead and they can have their little party and you know, and that's and that's what that guy said
That's what Richard Henderson said said once we get the hope we got them out
The appeal didn't go through steadfast Baptist Church is being evicted
They've got however many weeks to get out and when they're gone, we're all good
I'm gonna bring you in here you open and Satanists who are drawing pentagrams on the church sidewalk
We're throwing rocks through the window. Yeah, when you when they're gone you come on in and we'll have a party
that's what he said a
Christian so-called this leader of a parachurch ministry
It's gonna bring haters of God into what was once an independent
Fundamental Bible believing fire and brimstone Baptist Church and have a little party
Woe unto them
Live it up. Live it up
Enjoy it while you can
You filthy reprobates your days coming
You know, and that's why I don't have to take vengeance in my own hands. That's why you know, that's why we don't
Said vengeance is mine. I will pray say it the Lord
Look, I can't cast anybody to hell
Believe me if I could I would
I'd open I'd wait for they were all in that little beer on the intended a party
I just split that and I just split the earth wide open just live down the pit
You were I can't believe you'd say that God did it. I'm just saying it God did it
You know, I can't do that. You know what God can
Vengeance is his I'll let him take care of it because he's gonna do a whole lot better job than I can
You know and well and we'll let them persecute and let them have their little party and their little hey-nay
And you know what God will repay
He says war into them verse 11 for they have gone in the way of Cain
What's the way of Cain?
Well Cain's he offered his own sacrifice. Just did thinks his own way. He despised dominion
They have ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward
One of these people that they love money. All they care about is money. That's Richard Henderson
Loves money more than God's people more than the Bible Richard Henderson loves money
He runs greedily and I'm gonna get to I'm gonna prove it to you out of his own mouth
He ran they ran greedily after the error of Balaam and perished
That's the kind of para church ministry. This is it's a perishing one
He's perishing and a gainsaying of quarry
And what was the gainsaying of quarry
You take too much upon you Moses and Aaron for all the congregation are holy. That's all he said. That's the gainsaying quarry
despising Dominion
attacking the man of God
Attacking the authority attacking those that rule
That's it for what for the love of money. That's exactly what Richard Henderson has done. He's attacked a man of God
He's gone greedily after the the Balaam the the error of Balaam for reward and he's he's going to perish in the gainsaying of quarry
And you can go read that number 16
These are spots in your feast of charity when they feast with you
Feeding themselves without fear clouds. They are without water carried about of winds twit trees without fruit whose fruit wither
Excuse me without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots raging waves of the sea
Foaming out their own shame. I love how the Bible describes them
That they are raging waves of the sea
You don't have to wonder who these people are they'll tell you they'll foam it out for you to see you ever been around a
raging wave
Where the waves are just crashing you get that that air mixes in with the wave and it just creates this foam
It's sprays. You're not said they're going on wonder what that was
You get hit by it. You know, it's this raging wave over here
It's splashing and just foaming out its own shame and that's what this guy did
He went on there and he just foamed out his own shame like the raging wave that he is
this wandering star
Richard Henderson's message to the protesters. This is what he said. We love you guys
He said these are his words we love you guys was he talking to pastor Jonathan Shelley step that's Baptist Church. We said that
Was he talking to a man of God was he talking to the local New Testament Church when he said that here with his para
Church ministry
Which is there to serve alongside the local church and to help and assist the church
I mean, that's what you would think he was saying that to we love you guys
No, I'll tell you who he's saying that to he was saying that to the god-hating reprobates across the street
They've been protesting for months
That's he's been saying it to
And look people need to understand what a precedent this is
This is a precedent that when you could be evicted you have a be invite found in violation of a commercial lease
for something you said
For something you said oh, no, he was he was inciting, you know a crowd
No, he wasn't but last, you know, what I heard it was that was Richard Henderson
That was opening up the facilities the bathrooms the protesters
It was his own, you know maintenance guy that was interacting with them and siding with them
You know go watch the go watch the video. It's there
We love you guys because we love all people because Jesus is love
You know that might sound that you know, that's a mr. Rogers answer right there
You know, and it's just a beautiful date in the neighborhood with your big old bank account
You know, apparently Richard Henderson is more loving than God
He's more loving than God folks. I
Mean the Bible said I mean doesn't the Bible condemn us loving people that hate the Lord
Repeatedly. Oh, you just you know, Jesus love you shouldn't hate anybody
Well, I that you more loving in God because God hates people let me just you know, go to Psalms 139 go to Psalms 139
Bible says in 2nd Chronicles chapter 19 verse 2 and Jehu
the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him the king and said to King Jehoshaphat shouldest thou help the ungodly and
Love them that hate the Lord
He's rebuking him saying why are you why are you loving the ungodly?
Why are you you know, why do you love them that hate the Lord Richard Henderson
His words we love you guys wait you love God hating reprobates
You love literal witches in Satan the Bible says suffer not a witch to live
rich
And you love them
Well, I mean, it's not that good. Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord
Not not it's not it's not uh, you know, it's not Hanani the seer's wrath
He's just delivering the message is saying look if you're gonna love them that hate the Lord. God's wrath is upon you from before the Lord
It's God's right. It's not in the wrath of man
You're gonna incite God's wrath. I
Wouldn't want to be anywhere near Richard Henderson at this point
Anvils like I mean the lightning bolt something's gonna fall out of the sky
The
Bible says in Psalm 97 here in Psalm 139 he that loved the Lord hate evil
That's not a suggestion folks. That's a command. He said he that loved the Lord hate evil
And he's not saying like that's not an observation. You know, I've noticed he that loved the Lord hate evil
It's a command he that loved the Lord hate evil
You know, we need to hate evil you need to hate sin not be these these these limp-wristed
You know, just just these pansy weak Christians that just don't want to upset anybody ever
Look how far that's gotten us
You know when you're dealing with what the Bible calls a bunch of implacable reprobates. You can't love them enough
So let's just compromise that they don't want to compromise they want to take over
You have to stand against them. You can't give them an inch. They'll take a foot
That's why you have to hate evil hate it
Let's command to hate something to hate evil
But Richard Henderson, he's just so much more loving than God because he doesn't hate evil
He loves those guys and those guys are evil friend
Mark it down. They're evil
You know, the Bible doesn't paint them in the in the nicest picture
It tells the truth of what they're really like a bunch of predators
rapists deviant
Pedophiles and perverts is what they are. That's what the Bible says
And we should hate them and I do by the way
Look, if you want to come to church here and say well, I don't agree about that's fine
You know when they show up at our door when they show up out on our sidewalk and they show up at their signs
Don't come in here. Don't come to me and say oh you want to reconsider of what you said?
Because then I will be mad
You know if you got to skip church that Sunday, whatever, you know, go ahead go do what you got to do
But I'll be here hating evil and preaching the Word of God and loving God
Bible says Psalm 139. I mean we sing this a faith word surely thou will slay the wicked
Sure that will slay the wicked Oh God depart for me therefore you bloody men for they speak against thee wickedly
Look, and that's what these people do these people that Richard Henderson loves they speak against him the Lord wickedly. I
Can't even repeat some of the things that they say
Some of the things that they paint on their signs for your children to read
And it's not the first time I've seen I see when I protest a faithful word Baptist Church up in Tempe
That's the exact same thing that they did and I went out there and I told those protesters
I said, thank you for coming down here and and spewing all your faith and your violets and showing us that you're exactly
Who we told our children you are
That's what I told them and they had nothing to say to that
Verse 20 verse 20. Let's finish. That's first fish 20 here where they speak against thee wickedly and thine enemies take thy name in vain
They mean they just blaspheme God
Jesus had two dads
That's the most blasphemous wicked thing. Oh
We love you guys
But Richard Henderson loves them
Do not I say that you're exactly who we told our children you are
That's what I told them and they had nothing to say to that
I hate them. Oh Lord that hate thee
Look, they're not a hateful person. I
Know I'm kind of going off this morning, but this is not how it is in my house
You know, I'm not driving down the road
You know and every time some fag comes to me at some restaurant with this painted man
That's a little lift and a stupid little walk and sets down my plate in front of me
Would that be all yeah, that's it
You
Know I don't live my life that I'm in the house of God tonight with God's people this morning preaching God's Word
Yeah, I'm gonna get a little I'm a little fired up. I'm a little frustrated. What's been going on
You know and I hope that there's some hope there's some Baptist preachers and not even not in this new IFP
I hope there's some Baptist preachers
It still has some hair in their legs in the Dallas Fort Worth area that it sees what's going on at steadfast Baptist Church in
Hearst, Texas and had the had the stones to get up and actually preach what the Word of God says
But you know what? I doubt they're few and far up there better few and far between
But there's none of them are doing it this morning the pastor Jonathan Shelley is all alone in this regard
I hope that's not the case. But you know what it wouldn't surprise me if he was
Do not I hate them a Lord verse one when they hate thee am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee it
grieves me
It grieves me to see this and you know, what grieves me the most is when people like Richard Henderson
Who claim the name of Christ?
With their little parachurch ministry side against the man of God, I mean I'm watching that video last night just
Like time to calm down I've got a paper bag out just
Adrenaline's pumping. I'm ready. Just you know, I'm going on Facebook. I'm ready. I'm right now, you know, and I didn't send too much. I
Message this little parachurch organization said you should change your name from fellowship of the sword to fellowship the limp noodle
For that compromising leader and you have in Richard Henderson
Tell him I said it not anonymous account Corbin wrestle. I
Hate them verse 22 with perfect hatred and perfect we know in the Bible means complete
Total hatred. I hate them with total I have I don't have a shred of love for these people not one tiny little
drop
How much love do you have for those that hate God how much love you have for those that speak against them with?
Wickedly how much love do you have for those that rise up that that that take his name in vain how much love you?
Have for him brother coming none. I
Have perfect hatred complete. There's no room for love for these people with me because I hate them
Completely because they hate God
Not Richard bent not Richard Henderson, we love you guys
Search me Oh God David praises praises. You know what search me. I
Can't believe David would pray that and he says, you know what search me Oh God try me and know my thoughts
He's an open book. He's just saying you see know what I know I'm right. I
Know I'm right to say that. I mean, he's praying this prayer. He's making these statements
He said you know what and search me Oh God and know my heart and try me and know my thoughts and see if there be
Any wicked way in me and lead me in the way of everlasting?
You know God looked down and when David prayed that he searched his heart. He knew his thoughts said you know what?
I love what I'm seeing
Would to God there are more people that would learn to hate these people that hate God
So they can't just run roughshod over everybody
Hey, you know what?
It's it's steadfast Baptist Church in Hearst, Texas today
But you know what what up what organization that they disapprove of is next
Now that this precedent has been set where they can just go. Well, we don't like what he said. So a victim
Put him out on the street
You know, it's probably gonna be that anti-abortion clinic right down the street right down the few sweets down who's been harboring these people
What was it grace?
Grace about well who saw the videos the name of this ministry was next door to church
I don't know the place of grace or something like that
Embrace grace
Right, and and it's got the video of you know, one of their employees just out there noodle-necking pastor
Shelly when he's trying to give the gospel to somebody on more than one occasion
They're just stopping it because they're so they're just so graceful a bunch of virtual signaling
Loudmouth women is what they are
There I said it
You know what you're next embrace grace
When they're done with pastor Shelley go. Oh, oh, you're you're you're against abortion. We don't like that either. They'll turn on you
They just they're just busy going after this guy. You're next
Where you know, it's gonna be some other church. It's gonna be some other organization. Who knows?
Well, I don't think we should hate anybody we just all need to be like Richard and just love everyone
Bible says the fear of the Lord is to hate evil. Oh
I fear God good. Oh, I'm glad to hear you hate evil
You love God so much that you hate evil
You know, you know
I'd be fearing God and hating evil go hand in hand because God you should be afraid to not hate evil when God sees you
Down and not he looks down and sees you not hating evil heat that makes him mad
Isn't that what hen a night the the spear told Jehoshaphat therefore wrath is on the pond as upon me from before the Lord
Why because thou loveth them that hate the Lord because you love evil
Look, if you fear God you better hate evil and if you don't hate evil, you know what?
You should you should be afraid of what God's gonna do
Because God wants us to hate evil because God hates he goes on says pride
Arrogancy and the evil way boy, that's a broad term the evil way and
The forward-mouth do I hate of course Proverbs 8 is the personification of wisdom. It's it's it's God
And he's saying look I hate these things
There's you know, seven things that the Lord doth hate ye seven or six things that the Lord hate ye seven or abomination unto him
you know, I just want as Richard Henderson ever read his Bible because
He's saying he loves all these people and yet I find God in Jesus's love and yet I and Jesus is love I get that
You know God forgot so loved past tense the world
And yet I see all these places where God hates evil where he's admonishing people to hate
Evil where God hates this and God hates that and David and people that God approves of and you know
The sweet psalmist of Israel the man after God's own heart says I hate them with perfect hatred
Then you have to scratch your head is well, what Bible is he reading then?
What's going on here, I'll tell you what's going on here with Richard Henderson and people like him
His real love is not God
He doesn't love those people. His real motive is his money and
I'll prove this from his own mouth. He was recorded in this video. If you haven't seen it already this quote
This is from Richard Henderson's own mouth
With Pastor Shelley, you know try to say hey, why did you why did you you know?
Why did you have your lackey you delivered this? Did you have your lackey your little janitorial?
Did you have your lackey your little janitorial, you know, your your your lewd fellow of the base or sort
Deliver your message to these protesters. Did you do that? He wouldn't answer the question
He said, you know, I did deliver a message. Here's what I told him. I'm gonna answer your question. Here's what I told him
We don't have to agree on everything, but we love you guys. This is Richard Henderson's message to the protesters
He said this is what I told him. We don't have to agree on everything. Well
That's not how they see it Richard
That's not how they take it no you have to agree with everything they don't share that sentiment with you give it time you'll find out
We don't have to agree. I think that might be your take. That's not their take. They're implacable
You have to agree with everything. They believe you can't call it a sin what they do
He said we don't agree with anything but we love you guys and
Then this and then it all just comes out. Please don't burn down my building
We love you guys, please don't ruin my building
We love you guys, please don't spray the building with bullets I
mean
It wasn't we love you guys. Please don't hurt the people at steadfast Baptist Church
Please don't don't incite any violence to get pastor Jonathan Shelley. Please don't harm these people. No, don't burn my building down
You know why he doesn't want his building burned out because when pastor Shelley took over it it was in disrepair
It was a distressed building that pastor Shelley spent tens of thousands of dollars on improving
And he got a nice low rental rate that was the deal
Hey, I'll come in and I'll spend tens of thousand dollars improving the the the the the property that you own
So we can sign a five-year lease and in exchange you'll give me a nice rental rate
So it all kind of works out you get a nice improved space we get you know
We don't end up paying through the nose for it. Well, I mean they did up front
They paid a lot of money but on the back end, you know, they got a lower rate than the market value
But now has everyone noticed the inflation is going on in this country for the last few couple years
How everything's just gotten more expensive. I mean period right from a bucket, you know
The the the mineral water that we love went from a buck 89 to 289 if that ain't inflation. I don't know what is
right
So here's what's going on and this is all speculation
But do you think I'm that far off the mark when I when I sit here and say that Richard Bennett's and Ben Henderson thought hmm
Well, here's an opportunity to get that preacher out and get somebody else here at the market rate in this improved building that I didn't
pay for I
Could charge three times the amount of rent
I'm charging these guys if I could just find a way to get him out of there
How convenient these people come along and this man that says he loves God and loves the Bible instantly sides with them
No, because what he really loves is money
He loves the reward of Balaam
That's what he loves
We love you guys don't spray the building with bullets I did that and I would absolutely do it again
Because all you love is money Richard Henderson
Well, no, he loves this guy's I really I wonder how much love he expressed to those people before this all happened. I
Really wonder how many times he went to the
LGBT HIV community and expressed his love towards them with such fervor
Before they were you know, there was the potential of them burning down his building. Oh, they would never do that, right?
They would never you know, you can't really blame him for being upset because they were obviously they would never bomb a building
Right that would never happen
They'd never bomb a Baptist Church one day these loving people
I'm almost done, but go to
Go to Titus chapter 1
Titus chapter 1 will in there
You know, that's a problem with these parish, you know, these these perishing church ministries
They don't they operate site outside the authority the local church and
They're they're willing to just blur the lines between dominant domination
They're willing to just you know cast out doctrine and at the end of the day what it's all about is about their self-anggrandizement
It's about their money. It's about lining their pockets. That's what it's about. They're not there to help the church
They're there to help themselves. What's a parachurch ministry doing leasing real estate anyway?
It's ridiculous we help the church by running a real estate firm or something. I mean what?
It's nuts
Look at Titus chapter 1 verse 7 for a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God not self-willed not soon angry not given
A wine no striker not given to filthy lucre, but a lover of hospitality a lover of good men
Yeah, oh, you're just so filled with hate. No, I love good men. I
Love men like pastor Jonathan Shelley and the men that stand behind him at his church
I love men of God that stand up for the Word of God and don't back down
You know what? You know, it's so encouraging about pastor Shelley's video is I didn't hear him one time apologize for anything. He said
Now one time it's that's a good man
Love them sober just holy temperate holding fast
The faithful word as he hath been taught that he may be able by sound document to exhort to convince the gainsayers
Why is it so important that he has all these things verse 10 for there are many unruly and vain talkers like Richard Henderson
Hey, we love you guys. Jesus is love. There's a very much of vain talk
Deceivers who aren't going to draw any hard lines on doctrine with their interdenominational
Perishing church ministry
Especially they had the circumcision of course of Paul's day. It was the Jews
Whose mouths must be stopped look someone's got to call it out
Someone's got to say it like it is
Who subvert whole houses teaching things which they ought not?
That God doesn't hate anybody you shouldn't teach that
So doctrine is not important, you know, I remember when I first got saved I went I didn't even know what it was
I went to some prayer, you know some youth prayer meeting at somebody's house and I found out later man
There was Pentecostals. They were a piscopale. It was just this it was just this, you know mixing pot of all these did
No, and no one wanted to talk doctrine
They all just wanted to wave their arms and and and sing Kumbaya
Where they're little knit sweaters
You know, they teach things which they ought not Oh
Doctrine doesn't matter. It's not important. Just the love of Jesus that we focus on don't teach that
you know, we were here to reprove to rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and
doctrine
And why do they do all that for filthy lucres sake that's why they do it because the love of money is the root of all
Evil, that's why he says the thing he says that's why he takes the course of action that he took Richard Henderson
For filthy lucre sake because he loves money because he loves lining his pockets
You
Know I say no these parachurch ministries they but they do so much good
You know what?
Jesus said Matthew 7 many shall come to me that day and say Lord Lord
Have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name done many wonderful works and in thy name cast out devils
And he went and he says and then I will profess unto them
Depart for me you that work iniquity. I never knew you
And look and it's good thing there they list the same things
Jesus did while he was ministering on earth the cast out devils many wonderful works
Prophesying his name and he's saying look I never knew you
Why because you know these people that want to do all these works in Jesus name, you know what?
They're they're preaching a false gospel. They're not gonna tell anybody that they're wrong
They're gonna teach things that are complete opposite of what God teaches
And he's gonna say I never knew you
The part for me that work iniquity. That's where a lot of these parish church ministerings are gonna head
That's why I call them perishing church ministries because they're in the process of perishing because they're all about their wonderful works
They're all about the things that they do. They're not about doctrine. They're not about, you know, drawing a line. I said there's no authority
You know and and they're perishing
That's my message this morning. You know, we should we should you know, hopefully, you know say that boy you really went off on a rant
I'm glad you got some therapy this morning brother Corbin. They got that off your chest
So I don't have to hear about it, you know here and there for the next three months
You know just unloaded the truck, okay
That needed to be said but here's the practical application for you is that God puts an emphasis on the local church
This is the takeaway from you. Okay for you
God puts an emphasis a premium on the local church
It's for which Christ shed his blood. That's how much he cares about it. And and you know what?
Inconvenience yourself to be a part of it. And you know what don't let something else take the place of it
Especially when it's people like Richard Henderson at Fellowship of the Sword
Who are complete Antichrists at the end of the day teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake
Let's go and pray dear Lord again. Thank you for the local church
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