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Let us start with a word of prayer this evening
Thank you Heavenly Father for giving us this opportunity to be gathered here together in your name
I pray that you would bless all aspects of this service that we would all be motivated to keep serving you faithfully
and that we would all go home safely and in Jesus name we pray, Amen
Well go to our second song 409, 409 in your hymnals
The fight is on
409 in your hymnals, the fight is on
They're on the first
The fight is on, the trumpet sound is ringing out, the cry to arms is ever near
The Lord of hosts is marching on to victory, the triumph of the Christ will soon appear
The fight is on, O Christian soldier, and face to face and stern array
With armor gleaming and colors streaming, the right and wrong engage today
The fight is on, but be not weary, be strong and in his might all fast
If God be for us, his banner o'er us, his name the victor's song at last
The fight is on around, see soldiers brave and true, Jehovah leads and victory will assure
The battle on the armor God has given you and in his strength forever will endure
The fight is on, O Christian soldier, and face to face and stern array
With armor gleaming and colors streaming, the right and wrong engage today
The fight is on, but be not weary, be strong and in his might all fast
If God be for us, his banner o'er us, his name the victor's song at last
The fight is leading on to certain victory, the Boa from this fancy eastern sky
His glorious name in every lens of honor be the morn will break, the dawn of peace is nigh
The fight is on, O Christian soldier, and face to face and stern array
With armor gleaming and colors streaming, the right and wrong engage today
The fight is on, but be not weary, be strong and in his might all fast
If God be for us, his banner o'er us, his name the victor's song at last
Great singing. If you don't already have a bulletin and you would like one, lift up your hand nice and high, keep it up there
Our ushers will be coming by and they should be able to get you guys a bulletin, we've got some over here in the back corner as well
On the front we have our Bible memory passage, Psalm 58 verse 2 that we've been working on
And any child that's able to quote our verse of the week can get an ice cream after the service
On the inside we have our soul winning times and service times, church stats
Please continue to report that to your soul winning captains and lieutenants
Also on the right we have a list of our expecting ladies
We have several ladies there that you can be praying for
And so we're definitely very blessed by God to have so many expecting ladies
But they also need your prayers
We also have a prayer list, several of our church members are here
We usually go over this on our midweek service
We've been praying for the nageres for health
We've been praying for Miss Lucy's mother for her tumors
We've been praying for Brother Cameron for his leg
We've been praying for the Wallach's daughter who's also pregnant, Miss Haley
We've been praying for Miss Cooley's stepdad for his cancer treatment
We've been praying for Brother Goodwin for his job
We've been praying for Miss Eva, also health
We've been praying for the Redari family
They're a family at Verity Baptist Church
Unfortunately their infant was diagnosed with leukemia
And it's definitely very sick
And so we've just been having a lot of our friends pray for them and for their son
I believe it's their first son just to give you some information about the family
Also we've been praying for Miss Ginger for her friend Dawn for faith
And we've been praying for the Holden family for health
We've been praying for the Conleys for her mom who's having heart surgery and recovery
I don't know exactly when that surgery is but we'll just be praying for her
And then also pray for Brother Stewart's friend Charles who's also back in the hospital
So we've got several prayer requests you can be praying for throughout the week
We'll just say a quick word of prayer for those that were listed here
Thank you Heavenly Father for this evening
Thank you so much for all the ladies that are expecting in our church
I pray that you would please be with them
Please help them during their pregnancy
Please allow their children to have the right timing for their birth and for development
I pray that you would give them an easy delivery
I pray that you would also help several of our church family with their health issues
We know some of them have been lingering for a long time
I pray that if possible you would just please give them a miracle
And no matter what you'd please give them peace during this time of affliction
And this time of trial
I pray that you'd also please help our church family that has various needs with their job
And with their travel and with their friends
I pray that you would also help them
And continue to use us as a bright and shining light for all of our friends and family to hear the gospel
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen
On the back we have a few church reminders
Down below we have the upcoming events
Pastor Anderson preaching tonight
Obviously that's why people showed up on Wednesday
So I knew you guys could
I know you're capable alright
So we'll see what happens next week when we're going through the book of Romans
Also we have the Mighty Men's Conference
There's a sign up sheet out in our hallway
Please make sure you're signing up for that
October we have the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship
And I don't know how I did it
Somehow I conned Pastor Anderson to come back out for us
For the Fire Breathing Baptist
Yeah yeah
I have to say it in front of everybody
So then I have all these witnesses right
So he said he's going to come back out here
And we've got a lot of other great preachers that are coming out
Pastor Raja Mena is going to be coming out for us
Pastor Bruce Mejia
Pastor Aaron Thompson
Pastor David Berzins
And so we've got a great lineup of a lot of good preachers
And we'll have some cool events
So I hope you can be a participant in our fellowship in October
That's pretty much all I have as far as announcements this evening
We'll go ahead and sing our Psalm of the week
We are on Psalm 148
And if you can try to share one of these handouts with those that are near you
If you need to you could even use a Bible
It's a little bit easier though if you have the handout
We're going to be singing Psalm 148
Those of you that know this one sing it out nice and loud
You're on the first
Praise ye the Lord
From the heavens
Praise him in the heights
Praise ye him
All his angels
Praise ye him
All his hosts
Praise ye him
Sun and moon
Praise him
All ye stars alike
Praise him in the heavens
of heaven
And ye waters that be above the heavens
Let them praise the name of the Lord
For he commanded and they were created
He had also established them
forever and ever
He hath made us whole
He hath made a decree
which shall not last
Praise the Lord
from the earth
He
dragons and all heaps
firing them of snow
and vapor
stormy wind
fulfilling his work
mountains
and all his
fruitful dreams
and all cedars peace
and all cattle
creeping things in
flying clouds
kings of the earth
and all people
princes and all
judges of the earth
both young men
and
maidens old men
and children
Let them praise the name of the Lord
For his name alone is excellent
His glory is above the earth
and heaven and he also
is more than the horn
of his people
The praise of all his saints
He of the children of Israel
A people near our children
praise he the Lord
Very good singing.
At this time if you would turn in your Bibles to 1 Timothy chapter number 6
and we'll pass the offering plates
1 Timothy chapter number 6
1 Timothy 6 the Bible reads
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters
worthy of all honour
that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed
and they that have believing masters
let them not despise them
because they are brethren
but rather do them service
because they are faithful and beloved
partakers of the benefit these things teach and exhort
If any man teach otherwise
and consent not to wholesome words
even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ
and to the doctrine which is according to godliness
he is proud
knowing nothing
without questions and strifes of words
where have cometh envy, strife,
railings, evil surmisings,
perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds
and destitute of the truth
supposing that gain is godliness
from such withdraw thyself
but godliness with contentment is great gain
for we brought nothing into this world
and it is certain we can carry nothing out
and having food and raiment
let us be there with content
but they that will be rich
fall into temptation and a snare
and into many foolish and hurtful lusts
which drown men in destruction
and perdition
for the love of money is the root of all evil
which while some covet it after
they have erred from the faith
and pierced themselves through
with many sorrows
but thou oh man of god flee these things
and follow after righteousness
godliness, faith, love
patience, meekness
fight the good fight of faith
behold on eternal life
where unto thou art also called
and has professed a good profession
before many witnesses
I give thee charge in the sight of god
who quickeneth all things
and before Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate
witnessed a good confession
that thou keep this commandment
without spot
unrebucible until the appearing of our lord
Jesus Christ which in his times
he shall show
who is the blessed and only potentate
of all things and lord of lords
who only hath immortality
dwelling in the light which no man
can approach unto
whom no man hath seen nor can see
to whom be honor and power everlasting
amen
charge them that are rich in this world
that they be not high minded
nor trust in uncertain riches
but in the living god
who giveth us richly all things to enjoy
that they do good
that they be rich in good works
and are willing to communicate
laying up in store for themselves
a good foundation against the time to come
that they may lay hold on eternal life
oh Timothy
keep that which is committed to thy trust
avoiding profane
and vain babblings
and oppositions of science falsely so called
which some professing of
erred concerning the faith
grace be with thee amen
let's bow our heads for a word of prayer
father in heaven we thank you for pastor Anderson and his family
that you fill him with the spirit now
and enable him lord to thunder forth the message
you've laid on his heart help us to pay close attention
and apply the sermon to our lives
so we can be more complete Christians
and serve you better we love you
and in Jesus name I pray amen
amen well it's great to be here
and I just came from
Houston at Pure Words Baptist Church
and then it's good to be here in Dallas
Fort Worth after this tomorrow night
we're heading up to
Oklahoma City and I'm preaching through
the pastoral epistles tonight I'm in
1 Timothy chapter 6 and this
is a really great chapter
dealing with issues of money
and economics it starts out
talking about people that are
sort of at the bottom financially
servants that are under the
yoke and then it ends
up talking about the rich
people of this world the people at the other
end of the spectrum and
the main teaching of this chapter
is that we as God's people
should not be fixated on money
the love of money is the
root of all evil
and we should not covet other
people's money
and possessions that have more than we have
it starts out here in verse number 1
saying let as many servants as are
under the yoke count their own
masters worthy of all
honor that the name of God
and his doctrine be not blasphemed
so the Bible is saying that when we
work for other people
if we're serving other people even if
we're under the yoke
and we're doing a difficult job
and working hard
for people that are economically much better
off than we are we should not have
a bad attitude
toward people in this world who have more money
than we do or toward the
owners of the company when we're
say at the bottom of the corporate ladder
or what have you and then
it says in verse number 2 they that have believing
masters let them not
despise them because
they're brethren so the Bible says
so much the more if you have
a Christian boss at work
or if the owner of the company is a
Christian you should want to
serve him even more and do an even
better job and it would be
even less righteous for you
to get bitter and angry
that you know all must be nice
he drives this nice car he lives
in this mansion he has a lot more
than I do he's a
Christian why don't you do him
service knowing that God
loves him that he's a child of God
that he's a fellow Christian and brother
in Christ that should even make you want
to serve him even more but even
if he's not a Christian the Bible says
all servants that are under the yoke should count
their own masters worthy of all honor
how much more when they're a Christian but
even if they're not a Christian we need
to have a good attitude
toward the boss at work toward
the owner of the company and not get
a stinking communist
libtard attitude that's just
so anti business
or anti everybody
who has made it in this world
financially and I'm sure
that those weird blob
freaks out there
you know I guarantee you
that they would not agree with anything
I'm going to preach tonight
even though I'm not even talking about
sodomites even though my sermon's not about
homos and that's their
big issue that they're obsessing on out there
you know I'm pretty sure those people
with the black mass aren't they called
antifa right and
what they are is a bunch of
communists okay
and so they are not just
upset about
Christianity or preaching against
sodomites you know they
want a Marxist
socialist type
of an economic policy for our country
as well is it biblical
because a lot of people will today
try to say oh Jesus Christ
is a socialist he is a Marxist
he is a communist he would
love and he loves homos
you know that's the kind of rhetoric
that you hear but let's turn to the word of God
tonight and see what the Bible
actually teaches on these type of
economic issues
is the Bible teaching a
Marxist socialist type ideology
or not
now first of all
we see that the Bible says
that as many servants as are under the
oak should count their own masters
worthy of all honor
now whether or not
they are worthy of
all honor whether you think
that they deserve it or not because what does it
mean to be worthy it means to deserve something
isn't that another word for being worthy
to deserve whether or not you
think they deserve to be where they are
the Bible says hey if you're working
for them you should count them worthy
of all honor
it's not your job to sit around
and decide whether they deserve
to be where they're at instead you should
just count them worthy of all honor for the
Lord's sake because Christ has told you
to be a good servant to be
a good worker and to be content
with such things as you have
they that have believing masters let them not
despise them why would they
despise them because there are people that
literally just despise people who have money
simply because they're
envious and covetous
and wish that they have those things that they
don't have don't despise
them because they're brethren but rather do them
service because they're faithful
and beloved partakers of the benefit
these things teach
and exhort now here's
the thing about the world we live in
all of us have been
blessed by God
with different talents
and abilities
and we have
different physical attributes that we've been
born with we have
different levels of intelligence
that we've been blessed with or not blessed
with we've been
blessed perhaps with musical talent
or not or or linguistic
abilities or math abilities
or or just some people are
really good with their hands and they're good at things
like woodworking and blue collar jobs
and building things and construction
and things like that other people are just
really good with people they just have great people
skills we can go down the list
of all of the different
talents and abilities that people have
or don't have some people
are terrible with people
some people are terrible with their hands some people are just
uncoordinated
other people are very athletic and
and smooth
but here's the thing
about that is that all of us
are not the same
okay we're not all equal
we're never going to all be
equal because some people
are gonna be way smarter than other people
some people are gonna be way stronger than
other people way more athletic than
other people some people are gonna be way more
fun and interesting than other people
some people are gonna be way better
at working with their hands than other people
that's just the way the world works
we're all different
God has created us all to be
different not to be the same
and so different people
Have different blessings and talents and other people might lack those things and so the way that the world is
Some people are probably gonna end up just making a lot more money than other people and it doesn't necessarily
Mean that something's wrong with our country or that something's wrong with the government or there's something is wrong
With you know the economy, you know, it's just that that's the way it's always been and the way it's always gonna be
Jesus
Said the poor you have with you always
There are always gonna be poor people. They're always gonna be rich people
They're always gonna be people who go to school and everything's just easy for them and they just cruise through they put forth very little
Effort and they get straight A's the other kids just busting a hump in order to get C's
Okay, some people are gonna show up on the job and just excel and climb the ladder and other people are just gonna stay
At the bottom for year after year after year
Now maybe these are some hard truths tonight that maybe you do or don't want to accept what I'm saying tonight
But what I'm saying is true
Everybody is different. Okay, some people are better-looking than others
Okay, the people out there you can guess which end of the spectrum where they fall
But the point is that you know, everybody's different everybody has different
Abilities and talents from God and
You're never gonna just make everyone be equal
So if you're at the bottom
Maybe you're at the bottom
Financially and you've always been at the bottom financially and you always will be at the bottom financially
Don't be bitter about that and don't get mad at the guy who God has given a different path in life
We've all been given a different path and you know what we shouldn't want to change
What God has given us, you know, we don't look in the mirror and wish that God had made you look differently
You know and don't wish that you're someone else
Don't look at celebrities and stars and and maybe business people or whatever and wish that you were them
No, God has made you who you are
Be happy with who you are and serve God with your life
Now here's the thing money isn't what makes you happy anyway
People with all of those skills that you wish yet, maybe somebody who's just so good at playing basketball
Yeah, oh man. I wish I could play like that
You know that doesn't necessarily mean that that guy's living a happy or more blessed life than you, you know
Jesus Christ said blessed are ye poor and he said woe unto you that are rich and
So you might think oh man. I just wish I were rich and I wish I were talent
I wish I were good-looking and all these girls that are so beautiful
It's like they just write their own ticket in life
But here's the thing you're you God has created you for a specific purpose
Just be who you are and quit thinking that somehow you'd be happier
if you had all these things that you don't have and
That's what this chapter is getting at and it's saying look if you're under the yoke you're working a hard job
You're not making a lot of money. You're poor don't get bitter
Don't get a bad attitude toward the people that have money just realize hey
this is where God has put me and I'm gonna make the best of it and
Here's what you're gonna find. Is that the real joy in life comes from serving God anyway, and
God can greatly use the poor just as much as the rich
He can use the homely as much as he uses the good-looking he can use people that are not
talented not skillful not athletic not
Great intellect God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise
So, you know if you're one of the foolish things of this world and God's using you
Why would you want to be something different than that?
You know God is glorified when he takes the humble things of this world, you know
He'd rather defeat Goliath with a David who's short of stature small
Looks like a youth kind of a you know, maybe from the outside people looked at him and thought he's just kind of a pretty boy
He doesn't seem like a mighty warrior. God would rather use someone like that because then God gets the glory
Because it's not by might nor by power but by my spirit sayeth the Lord and so that's what we need to understand
contentment now
Keep your finger here and flip over if you would to 2nd
Corinthians chapter number 8
Talk about this issue of equality now
in our country
Equality is one of our core values as Americans in
The sense that we believe that all people should get equal treatment under the law
Right. We don't believe that there should be different laws for different classes of people
Like we've got the nobility that are kind of above the law and commoners and if you have money you're above the law
We don't believe that right we believe that everyone should be treated equally under the law
Amen, red yellow black white rich poor we should all be treated equally under the law
that's the equality that our country has always stood for for hundreds of years and
It's biblical because the Bible says God's not a respecter of persons and it says ye shall not respect persons in judgment
Right you you don't honor the face of the poor
Or the rich don't honor the face of the rich more than of the poor right and then in the New Testament
He says, you know if a poor man comes into the church don't treat him differently than the rich man
Don't give the rich man a better seat and put the poor in another place where it's you know
They have they're in standing room only or something like that
and so Old and New Testament teach this idea of equality in the sense that
Everybody should be treated equally under the law
God deals with us equally in the sense that God is not a respecter of a certain nationality or
Demographic or economics or whatever and you know, that's a biblical equality right there
But today the left in this country has a different version of equality
What they'll sometimes call equity, which is not necessarily a bad word because the Bible used that word in a good way
But their idea is equity and what they want is they don't want an equal opportunity or equal treatment
They want an equal outcome
You know
They want us just all to have the same amount of money
Or all of us to have the same possessions all of us to live the same lifestyle and that is not biblical
It's not realistic. It doesn't make any sense and it ends up
Leading to totalitarian forms of government that forced everyone to be equal because this is not natural. It's not normal
Everybody's different different people are excelling in different ways. It's not normal. Just force this artificial equality and
force it on everyone and so the only way to make it work is to use violence and
to use force and to take money from people who have more and give it to the poor and whatever and
so
Equality is good
if it's a biblical kind of equality if it's kind of the
classical kind of equality that we've always believed in as Americans for hundreds of years where you know
We don't want to have like they had in Europe with the nobility and the commoners different classes of people
You know
We don't want white people and black people to be given different opportunities or to be treated differently
I wanted to be treated the same but here's the thing we can't guarantee
That everybody's gonna have the same amount of money have the same kind of house drive the same kind of car
You know, it's really up to you
To do with the opportunities you've been given but it's not totally up to you. Some of it's just up to God
Maybe God just didn't really give you as much intellect. Maybe God just didn't really give you as much skill or talent
Maybe you're never gonna be rich. Maybe you're never gonna make it financially
Maybe you're always gonna be a lower-class person economically. That's okay
It's okay
You might just live and die a poor person or a person of modest means that's okay
No
God has given us all a certain path to walk on and God said blessed are ye poor
Had not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom
Which he has promised to them that love him, but you've despised the poor
Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats?
Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which you're called?
He says look that rich people are usually bad people and they're all these wonderful poor people
Wonderful godly Christian poor people. Amen. If you're one of them. Amen
Look you despise the poor
He said that's wrong. But he's also saying in 1st Timothy 6 don't despise the rich either
Right. You either have believing masters. Let them not despise them
Don't despise the people at the top or the bottom. Just be happy with where you are
Do the best you can with what you got
If you work hard and serve the Lord, you're gonna have food and clothing
You're gonna make it you're gonna be okay, you can live a good life you can live a blessed life
You can serve God with your life. Maybe you're never gonna be rich
So what who cares those who want to be rich?
The Bible says fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction of perdition
now second Corinthians chapters 8 & 9
Talk a little bit about this issue of equality
Okay, and second Corinthians chapters 8 & 9 just to give you the context have to do with the Apostle Paul
wanting to raise some money for the poor Saints in Jerusalem and
So they were going through a hard time financially and there's famine or problems or whatever
And so he's trying to raise some money to help them out
So he's he's taking up an offering and he's talking to them about the benefits and the blessings of giving to the Lord's work
and and you know giving alms to the poor and and being generous and and so forth and
So that's kind of the context of chapters 8 & 9
But look at chapter 9 verse number 7 to start. I'm just gonna show you a few highlights here
Look at chapter 9 verse 7. It says every man according as he purposes in his heart
So let him give not grudgingly nor of necessity
For God loveth a cheerful giver
So the Bible is saying look when people who have money
Give to people that don't have money give to people that are poor people that are going through a bad time
It should be done willingly
They shouldn't be forced to do so
Because God loves a cheerful giver not grudgingly like oh man, you know
I got to give all my money to these poor people
It's like no it should be because you want to it should be voluntary and God loves a cheerful giver
He wants it to be done willingly
Not grudgingly out of the goodness of your heart not because the government or somebody's forcing you to give your money away
Now if you would go back to chapter 8 and
This is a reference to one of my favorite Bible stories from the Old Testament
But in chapter 8 verse 12 it talks a little bit about this issue of equality
It says in 2nd Corinthians 8 12 for if there be first a willing mind
It is accepted according to that a man hath and not according to that he hath not now again
Just to kind of catch you up in the context here
He's saying look, you know, God's not expecting you to give something that you don't have, you know
obviously people who have abundance are gonna be more able to give and
And and help other people and give offerings at church or give alms to the poor then people who don't have you know
God don't feel bad
If you don't have to give you know, God just wants you to have a willing heart
And so if you have something to be generous with then that's great
If you don't hey God's not holding it against you because you can't give as much as some other guy in the church
Who's well-healed or whatever?
So he says, you know, it's based on what you have not based on what you don't have
It's about having a willing mind and then he says in verse number 13
He says I mean not that other men be eased and ye be burdened
but by an equality
That now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want
That their abundance also may be a supply for your want that there may be
Equality as it is written he that had gathered much had nothing over and he that had gathered little had no lack
Now here's the thing if we look at the context here. What did he say in chapter 9? He said he's talking about
voluntarily giving because you want to
with a cheerful heart
Wanting to give the person who has abundance giving to the person who lacks so that there can be an equality
Right not so that basically one group could be eased and another burdened but rather
Hey today you're going through a hard time. So let me reach in my pocket and help you out
And then maybe later down the road. I'm going through a hard time
You could reach in your pocket and help me out and that there'd be an equality in the sense that
It's about the people who have more helping out the people who have less
But the context we need to understand is that this is voluntary. It's done with a cheerful heart. It's not some government mandate
Marxist socialist garbage
So here's the thing about that
It's a reference to the Old Testament story about gathering the manna
Because it says in verse 15 as it is written
That's a reference to the Old Testament in the book of Exodus as is written
He that had gathered much had nothing over and he that had gathered little had no lack now
this is a story I love they went out to gather the manna and
they all went out and gathered and
Some people gathered a lot and some people gathered a little bit
They all went out and gathered but at the end of the day when they measured it
They all had the same amount. It was a miracle and
They had one Omer that whatever that measurement is a measurement that we you know, anything but metric. I'll take it. But anyway
the Omer
We I don't know exactly how much that is
But that's how much each person ended up with so he that gathered a lot
He had nothing extra and he that had their little had no lack
But there was equality because everybody ended up with an Omer
So here's what I take from
Looking at these two chapters chapter 8 and chapter 9 and we kind of looked at the highlights kind of just put it all together
Is that
It's wonderful for there to be equality
Because the guy who has two coats gives one to the person who has no coat. That's a beautiful thing, isn't it?
And it's equality
You know, I've got two coats you have zero. Hey, I want to give you one of my coats. It's a beautiful thing
It's a loving transaction. I love you. So I'm giving you the coat. Hey, you gave me the coat
So I love you for giving me this coat. Everybody's happy. It's wonderful. It's voluntary. It's a willing thing. That's good
okay, and
Then the second situation is a supernatural
Creation of equality we're basically God
supernaturally in the Old Testament
Created a certain level of equality by making sure that everyone had that same measure after they gathered the manna
They ended up with an Omer whether they gathered little whether they gathered much they ended up with the right amount
So that's God stepping in. So here's the thing. God can step in and lift up the poor and
Bring him to a higher station help him out financially, right?
Make the poor prosper God can do that the Bible talks about in the book of Psalms our God
lifts up the poor out of the dung heap and so forth and then God can also
Take the rich and knock them off of their perch and bring them down
Anytime he wants to he can bring down the rich he can lift up the poor he can bring down the rich
So God can supernaturally lift up one and put down another and create equality there can be equality through
Voluntary giving and people helping out others out of the goodness of their heart, but you know, what we don't want though is a
forced man-made
Violent equality that basically says how dare these rich people prosper and succeed and here
I am struggling it isn't fair. That's a wicked attitude
And that's an attitude that a lot of people have I've had that attitude before
I'm sure many people in this room have felt that way at times and that's an attitude that we as human beings are prone to
Think that way sometimes like man. It's not fair
I'm working so hard and this is all I have this other guy is so easy for him folks
That is a wicked attitude
You say well, you know, it sounds like you're just kind of going to bat, you know for these rich people or
Business owners or whatever. No, you know, I'm just preaching the Bible
You know, I got my views and my opinions and the way I feel but that doesn't really matter
You know, I go to the Bible every day and get my mind renewed by the Word of God
And here's the thing, you know people who bristle at this kind of preaching and they kind of get upset at this kind of
Preaching like well, you just don't understand my you know what I'm going through
It's because the people that are upset about this kind of preaching because they're fixated on money is what it is
They're fixated on money
They're thinking too much about money
okay, because in reality what we need to do is set our affection on things above not on things on the earth and
Then even if you disagreed with what I'm preaching right now, you just be kind of like whatever
But you're just like oh man
Because you're probably you know, you could be thinking like, you know
how much you want that money that you don't have because you're covetous and
Covetousness is a big-time sin and so want to make sure that we renew our mind and get
Eternities values and view and realize that our life is just a vapor
that appearth for just a little time and then vanish of the way and
The Bible talks about the fact that the you know, the time's coming
When you know people who who who own and possess and people that are are owned and possessed by others
Slaves and free, you know
All of that stuff's gonna be gone anyway because the fashion of this world passes away
The Bible says and you know according to 1st Corinthians chapter number 7, you know, if you're in bonds on this earth
you're the Lord's Freeman and
If you're free in this world, well, then you're the Lord's bondservant. And so at the end of the day
spiritually we can all
Love God serve God be filled with the Spirit enjoy the fruit of the Spirit live a godly life
live a blessed life live a happy life will be happy if we
Hear God's commandments and do them and love God and love our neighbor
No matter what our bank account is like even if our bit, you know
There are people whose bank account is totally shot and they're happy and then there are people whose bank accounts full and they're miserable
So quit being so fixated on money quit obsessing over money
Okay, and I you know
It's not like I don't know what it's like to struggle financially because I have struggled financially and
I've done well financially. I've never been rich at all by anyone's definition
but I've done okay, and I've done really bad financially I've done both and
You know
I can just say that it really isn't the main important factor in my life and it's not gonna be in your life either because
Whether you're poor or whether you're doing well
You know life is life and it's really about spiritual things at the end of the day
So let's go back to first Timothy 6 with that in mind
He said let as many services are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor
That the name of God and his doctrine be not blaspheme because the bad testimony for Christians to be
Despising rich people are despising the company owner or despising the management
They that have believing masters let them not despise them because they're brethren
But rather do them service because they're faithful and beloved partakers of the benefit these things teach an example saying listen Timothy preach this
preach this
Right too many workers are whining
About their situation and hating and being hateful toward rich people teach this stuff
and he says in verse 3 if any man teach otherwise and
And
Could send not to wholesome words even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according to godliness
He's proud knowing nothing
That doesn't sound good
But don't think about questions and strikes of words whereof cometh envy
strife
railings evil surbisings perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and
Destitute of the truth supposing that gain is godliness from such withdrawal myself and again
You know just take an example from the people that are outside of your building right now with the megaphones and everything is that?
That wouldn't it be fair to say that they are of corrupt minds
Based on what's coming out of their mouths
They're of corrupt minds are they destitute of the truth and I guarantee you that those same people out there
Hate
Anyone who is making it financially or wealth, you know?
They want wealth to be redistributed forcibly by the government
I guarantee you that if we go out there, we're not gonna find a bunch of classical liberalism out there
We're not gonna find a bunch of Austrian economists out there
You think we are we're not gonna find a bunch of people out there that are for free market economics
You think that they love capitalism out there?
Do you think that they love?
the the type of
economics that
Conservatives would espouse, you know, do you think do you think that these are members of the Ron Paul revolution out there?
No, I guarantee if we were to talk to them, it'd be all kinds of Marxist
Socialist garbage. I mean does anybody really doubt that is that a coincidence?
Isn't it funny how the Marxist and the socialists you run into hate Jesus Christ?
Is that a coincidence?
why do we not just run into all of these Bible believing fundamentalist Baptists who are also Marxist and
Socialist and and you know, why is it that typically those two things don't go because it's not biblical. That's why
Because it's it's it's it's everything that the Bible is against
The perverse men with the corrupt minds. They're the ones who teach otherwise then
Hey, if you're a servant, you know count your master worthy of all honor and do service to the company
Not like, you know, and look it's so funny
When you get around these kind of ungodly people if you just say something as mild as like, you know
I don't think you should criticize the company that you work for
You know, I because I you know, I say things to people like that all the time
Like hey, I don't think it's ethical if you work for a company to say like oh, I would never shop here. I
Would never eat here I would never hire us
Who's heard people talk like that before? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I worked there, but I wouldn't go there
I would hide, you know, that's unethical. That isn't right
I don't think you should talk bad about and bite the hand that feeds you
You know it and but I guarantee if we went out there and interviewed each one of those people and said hey
you know, do you think that it's okay to to criticize and
Publicly speak against the company that you work for the owner of the company that's writing your paycheck
They would all just like blow their tops
If you told them and I know I've talked to people like that before and any time you say anything like that
They just freak out and you gotta be you gotta be able to criticize
The company and criticize the boss agree. They're obsessed with that
These people out there. What else do they have to live for?
Except the carnal things of this world
And so of course, they're fixated on money and economics and financial things
but we as God's people
We should be setting our affection on things above laying up treasure in heaven and not so fixated on money
And you know what? Why don't we and here's the thing about not criticizing the company that you work for
It's it's really just because you're trying to honor Christ by doing that which is ethical and righteous and the Bible
Teaches that we should count our masters worthy of all honor and
And so forth whether they are worthy of it or not is none of our business, you know
This is what we are doing
And you know what if you if you really hate the company that you work for then you need to get a different job
It isn't ethical to just work there and hate them and not get you know
You should be going to work every day and working as unto the Lord and not as unto men
You know your boss is Jesus
That should be your attitude and and by the way get that attitude and notice how you'll start succeeding more at work
Too when you start thinking of Jesus as your boss
But the Bible says that you know if people teach otherwise than this
They're proud. They don't know anything
They have a corrupt mind. So, of course, they're not gonna understand this kind of attitude
They're not gonna understand this kind of a doctrine of counting your own masters worthy of all honor
But look at verse number six. It says it says that also these people they think gain is godliness
From such withdraw thyself. Okay, so basically they don't have a concept of
Right and wrong that comes from the Bible godliness is what what is what is godliness?
What does it mean to be godly if I said he's godly, you know
I would say that a godly person loves the Lord with all their heart. They love their neighbor as their self
They follow the commandments of the Bible
Right, wouldn't you say that's a godly person?
Loves God loves his neighbor follows God's commandments follows the Bible has right doctrine from the Word of God
Meditates on God's Word day and night you say this is a godly person
But no, no these people gain is godliness to them so to them
What they care about is just having more money
Or just having more people in the church or just whatever gain they can you know gaining a political office gaining money gaining power
Gaining wealth gaining influence whatever they think gain is godliness
But you know what?
I would rather fail in the world's eyes whether financially or as a pastor or in any other area and be godly
before the Lord
They think gain is godliness. It's all about succeeding in this world. Whatever that means. No. No, it's about being godly
It's about doing it right. I'd rather do things right and fail
Than to succeed by doing wrong and to succeed in this world's eyes. No, that's not what life's about
But godliness with contentment is great gain gains not godliness but godliness is gain
Godliness is gain
Godliness with contentment is great gain
I feel like the new versions mess this up, but I don't remember how does anybody remember how they screw this part up?
Because they say something like they end up teaching. Maybe you working on this for me pastor Shelly
I see though the smartphone just came out of its holster
But I feel like the modern versions they make it out to where godliness isn't gain anymore
But actually godliness with contentment is great gain
It doesn't go the other way though folks, okay gains not godliness but godliness is gain
It says for we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out and
So it's really about being godly because that's the one thing I can take with me
You know whether or not I was godly in this world is gonna matter when I get to heaven
How much money in my bank account is not gonna matter at all?
Whether I dined on the lobster and filet mignon or whether I was eating bean and rice burritos every day
Either way in heaven. It's not gonna matter
But how godly I was is gonna matter was I right?
So godliness is a means of great gain
Man you could make a lot of money. No, I'm just kidding
That's not what I was thinking of. There's that maybe it's a different version or it's alright. Let's drop it. Yeah, let's move on
We brought nothing into this world, it's certain we can carry nothing out we can't carry anything physically out
but you know what we can take with us is
The works that we've done because the Bible says that when we go on to be with the Lord our works will follow us
And we can lay up treasures in heaven, but anything we lay up on this earth. We can't take it with us
Having food and raiment let us be there with content now
Here's the thing God's not expecting you to just be destitute and starving and naked and just
dying in the street or something and
Just shut up and be happy about it because blessed are you poor that's not what he's saying
God has promised us
food and raiment
God said I've never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed baking bread
God said seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you and those things are food and clothing
You will be dressed you will have food
God's gonna supply your need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus
So God's not asking you to to starve. He's not asking you to go naked
Okay, he will provide you with food and clothing but he's not necessarily gonna allow you to be rich and that's okay and
Maybe other people that you know, maybe they will make it financially
Maybe they will become rich and don't envy them or hate them or get mad at them
Because you have this attitude that says what's not fair. We should all be equal. We should all that we're not all equal
We're never all gonna be equal. We should be treated equally under the law
We should treat other people as Christians equally
We should help out the poor because we want to and create a little bit of equality through voluntary
charitable giving
But it's never gonna be the kind of equality that Karl Marx and and his ilk are interested in
It's always been a failure
Everywhere has been tried. It's always been a disaster. It doesn't work because it's against nature
The Bible says in verse 8 having food and Raymond let us be there with content, you know
Let's just be happy that God has promised to provide our needs. We're gonna be okay
We're gonna make it and you know what?
I've I say that I've gone through bad times financially and that I've struggled financially because I have but you know
I always made it
You know, I never went days without eating or something. I never had to go naked
I always had clothing to wear and I bet there's no one in this room who is ever going to die
I've never just not had access to clothing. I
Mean clothing is pretty easy to come by in America. Okay
And I bet you that most people in this room don't really know what it is to starve for days
You know we I mean we think we're starving just because we you know, we eat like two hours later than usual
We're starving, you know, but I mean I'm talking like none of us is starving
Okay, if you're starving, you know see me after the service, you know, and I'll you know, I'll help you out man
I don't want you to don't go dying on me, you know
but he says
Having food and Raven let us be there with content
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts
Which drown man in destruction and perdition for the love of money is the root of all evil
Which while some coveted after they've erred from the faith and pierce themselves through with many sorrows
But thou o man of God flee these things
Right, just go running screaming in the other direction from the love of money the get-rich-quick schemes
all of the books telling you how to be wealthy and how to be rich and and all of these
Foolish lusts where you just want to live in some gigantic
Manchiners I mean look
Celebrities live in these mansions these these multi-million dollar mansions that celebrities live in. What's the point?
It's too big
Why do you even need that much space?
Like I can understand being a little cramped in a tiny dwelling
Right. I know what that's like. Hey, I lived in a house. There was about 1,300 square feet with 13 people
For
About 15 years. Okay, it didn't have 13 people the whole 15 years
Because when I first moved in the house
There were only five of us and then it was six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen
And then there were 13 of us in that house
You know, so toward the end. Yeah, it was like 11 12 13 people for years. I mean that was you know
You know, I can understand wanting a little more space, right? So finally a couple years ago
We actually were able to move into a house with a little more space instead of being
1300 square feet now our house like 2,500 square feet so, you know now it's like, okay
Yeah, and I mean I feel like it's just like a dream come true
It's so much space
And here's the thing you might say like and you know, my daughter's back there thing like well
We can use a little more space, you know
There are 12 of us
But here's the thing about that, yeah, okay, but here's the thing that's because we have 12 people living at home
but think about if you just have like two people or
Even three or four people and you've got like a five-bedroom house with like three bathrooms or four bathrooms. I mean like
That's pretty comfortable
No, no, I need 17 bedrooms
For the three of us like that this doesn't even makes it at some point. It just stops even making any sense
It's just kind of like, you know, like somebody somebody show I don't remember
I saw it on Facebook a picture of you know, some so-and-so the celebrity selling his so-and-so million-dollar home
And then somebody left a comment
I said, you know bro lives in a community college because it literally it looked like a college building
It was like who saw that me
Come on. God bless you. I see that hand and it was like it was like this glass front thing
It was just like at one point is stupid or like didn't Kanye West like live in a baseball stadium for a while
Who knows what I'm talking about?
Nobody knows what I'm talking about. Yes
It's real. I didn't imagine it. He lived in like a sports or he like was renting some sports arena
For just like I don't know some insane amount per day. I'm just gonna throw out numbers
It's like I don't know if it was like $50,000 a day or so
I'm just making that number up, but it was just some absurd number and he's literally living in like a room
That was like say 10 by 10
Like his little bedroom his bedrooms like 10 by 10, but he's just living in a sports arena for months
Just spending millions of dollars to just live in a sports arena
But but here's the thing like like no matter how much money you have and no matter how big your house is
Like your body can only occupy a certain amount of space
If you think about it, like like if you're all you're if you're only like six feet tall and you you know
You have certain dimensions
Like like how like think about like how big of a bed
Before it just stops mattering, you know, like I can understand all this twin beds a little small for me and my wife to share
We did that for the first like several months of being married, by the way
We shared a twin bed twin mattress because we didn't have a bed. We just had a mattress
You know, I can see saying hey twin mattress is a little tight for two people or even saying hey
Twin mattress is a little tight for one person. You know, I want the queen size bed
But then it's I will give me the king size bed
Okay, but here's the thing you could do snow angels and and somersault and whatever on that key. It's so big
How many times can you flip over without falling off the king size bed several?
Right, you could just you can like start the night on one side just be like
Just kind of back and forth you're flipping around
You can get up in the middle of the night and just do a cartwheel in your bed or something
But here's the thing like the king size bed. It doesn't really get any bigger than that
Because you're just one person like like well, I'm gonna have a bed. That's a hundred feet long
What would be the point
I'm gonna live in house with 25 bedrooms. It's like why though?
Like there's only so much food you can eat there's only so much
Car you can drive. There's only you know, you got these rich people just have like 20 cars. It's like why?
But here's the point that I made you say where are you going with this?
Here's the point that I'm making foolish and hurtful. Lots. Here's a foolish lust. Here's a foolish desire
I want to live in that community college looking thing
Here's a foolish lust. I want to I want to live in a sports stadium like Kanye West. It's just like what I
Want to have 18 bedrooms
You know, I want to drive a car that goes 200 miles an hour. Everybody has the same speed limit
and and the
Most piece of junk car in that parking lot can't hit the speed limit on the fastest freeway in Texas
There's probably not a vehicle in that parking lot that won't hit 80
Right, I mean they all go 80 folks. Well, this one goes 160
Why though like you're never gonna have an opportunity
Like when do you ever have a chance to even use it, you know speedometer goes up to 175
You know who's who's like honey, how fast are we going Oh 173
Like
Nobody goes that fast. You can't even go that fast. It wouldn't work
But the foolish lust is just like oh man
I need a car that goes from zero to sixty, you know and
Three seconds or something. I you know, I want to go I want a car that goes
175 I need a car that you know, whatever. It's just like you don't need that stuff
Is that really gonna make you happy because you know the people who sit around dreaming about 17-bedroom houses and
fancy cars and fancy suits and fancy meals and sprinkling gold dust on their
Wagyu beef whatever. I don't even know how to pronounce that word
Wagyu wagyu
How do you say it?
Just wagyu. That's it. No mystery there. Okay
You got your wagyu
With gold poo-poo dust sprinkled on it or something just to make it more expensive
Just good because at some point you just can't figure out how to make the food any more expensive start putting literal gold in it. I
Don't know maybe you could have like fast food for rich people where you just like, you know
You just wrap the paper is just $100 bills or something
But they're they're sanitized and then they could just like unwrap a Big Mac from hundred dollar bills and just eat it or something
You know, it's just stupid
You know
It's stupid for you to sit there and just wish and long for all the riches so you could be like these
Celebrities or wealthy people or whatever look what we should want is the things that money cannot buy what the Bible calls the true
Riches and the Bible says, you know
If you're faithful with the unrighteous mammon of this world if you're faithful
With the with the money the carnal money of this world the lucre of this world
He says that he'll commit unto you the true riches
That's what I want
I'd rather eat rice and beans
I'd rather eat vegetarian meals half the week or you know
Six days a week or you know, I want to have a little bit of meat in my life
but you know, hey, I'd rather eat a bunch of vegetarian meals and
Have my clothes be a little tattered
Everything's used everything from goodwill and I've got love and joy and peace in my heart
Because I'm serving the Lord Jesus Christ
Then well this house has 14 bedrooms
like I don't need that you know what I need food and Raymond and
Godliness with contentment is great game
Okay
It's a foolish lust when you desire to be rich and those that will be rich fall into temptation
And so it's a dangerous place to be in your heart when you are sitting around
Fantasizing about being rich. This is a wicked thought to sit around and fantasize about
Having fancy cars fancy houses fancy clothes. It's a wicked thought
Going online and and you know
Looking at I don't know what the equivalent when I was a kid. It was like
Lifestyles of the rich and famous who knows what I'm talking about all you old people out there
There was a show that was called
Lifestyles of the rich and famous and you watch this guy just show you their yard and their house and their car
That's a wicked TV show
It's a wicked show why because it's just people sitting around like craving stupid stuff that they don't need
Now look I don't despise rich people I don't despise them for having a lot and especially if I'm working for them
I'm gonna count them worthy of all honor
And I'm gonna honor them and treat them as if I'm working for Christ and look
I'm not against people that are smarter than me and more talented than me having success and whatever but here's the thing
I'm not sitting there craving
The unnecessary things that they're buying because they can't even figure out what to spend all their money on I
Don't need to watch some show
To show me all the yachts and houses and cars that I don't have so that I can you know think that my life
Isn't what it's supposed to be
How about lifestyles of the Christian and godly
That's what we need right right here
We have this Bible that he's been reading every morning for two hours look at this Bible folks. You know
And here he is our soul
And he's been out soul winning every week for the further last 15 years and look at these ghettos
He's choosing to go soul winning in because they're more receptive
You know
Here's the big giant van that he drives to put all of his children because he's being fruitful and multiplying you know
Like you know
Isn't that that'd be more biblical goals right reading your Bible going soul winning
Having a family right being faithful to your spouse raising children right. That's that's the lifestyle. I'm interested in
Not the lifestyles of the rich and famous okay, and so don't get these foolish and
Hurtful lusts they're foolish because of the fact that these things aren't even gonna make you happy
And they're kind of dumb anyway like when you stop and think about
The excesses that people spend their money on and then the reason that they're hurtful is
Because they end up making you miserable because you're never satisfied with what you have because you don't have what you saw on
Lifestyles of rich and famous or whatever
And
It says in verse 11, but thou old man of God flee these things you know run away from this stuff
But follow after righteousness godliness faith love patience meekness
Fight the good fight of faith lay hold on eternal life where unto thou it also called and has professed a good profession
before many witnesses
right think about eternity not the nasty here and now I
Give thee charge in the sight of God who quickeneth all things and before Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good
Confession that thou keep this commandment without spot and rebukable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ
Which in his times he shall show we're on verse 15 who is the blessed and only
Potented the king of kings and Lord of Lords who only hath immortality
dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man had seen nor can see to be honor and
Power of a lasting amen and you say what's that got to do with money nothing. That's the whole point. This is the stuff that matters
He said look man get get all that money and
Lusting after riches and fancy things puts it out of your mind
Here's what you need to be focused on the Lord Jesus Christ the second coming godliness
You know the Lord you know you want to talk about
approaching
Some kind of a crib or some you know it's it's heaven
You know that it's the mansion in heaven. That's the only episode of cribs that I'm interested in
And
So he says in verse 17 to come back to the subject of the rich
He says charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high-minded
You know that they don't get all prideful and puffed up
Nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who giveth us richly all things to enjoy
So he started out by talking to the poor and saying look don't despise the rich don't despise the boss at work
Don't despise the master don't envy him and covet his stuff, and then he turns around and says to the rich
You know what you rich people don't get all proud and prideful and puffed up you see
I started out the sermon by talking about how we're all
different and we're not equal
No one in this room is really totally equal to anyone else in the room
We all have different strengths and weaknesses, and it's not that we're better than one another or worse than one other because because
You know I'm better than you in one area, and you're better than me in another area
You know I guarantee that every single person in this room is better than me at something
period and I'm probably better at something than everyone in this room and
Everyone in this room is better than everyone else at something we all have different strengths and weaknesses
None of us are equal at all and some people are better at more things or whatever who cares right be who you are
God made you who you are so if you're rich
Guess what you're not just rich because you're so wonderful, and you're so awesome
You know it's because God blessed you with the brains and the talent to get where you're at
If you're rich you know if you're rich you didn't do that on your own
God is the one who gives you the power to get wealth that says in Deuteronomy
Okay, so if you're poor don't be mad that God put you where you're at and if you're rich
Acknowledge that God is the one who put you where you're at and he can take you out of that position anytime he wants to
So don't get high minded
And don't trust in uncertain riches
Because you know what riches can't save you in the day of your death the Bible says and you know what the richest person
With all the doctors and all of the best drugs and medicines and and
Practitioners and the best diet and the best health and the best workout program
God can just go like that and they can just fall over dead for absolutely no reason and nobody can even figure out why
Just he holds our breath in his hand and he can just
End your life like that
No matter how much money you have and then all your money's gone because you can't take any of it with you
So don't trust in uncertain riches, but trust in the living God who's the one who richly giveth us all things to enjoy
Charge them that they do good. It says in verse 18
That they be rich and good works
Ready to distribute willing to communicate
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life
He's saying look focus on the future
Eternity in heaven laying up treasures in heaven use the money that you have if you're wealthy to do good
To give alms to be a blessing to the poor to bless other people to bless the work of God
Use your money to do something that will lay up treasures in heaven because you can't take it with you anyway
So be rich in good works be ready to distribute
Be generous be willing to communicate communicate in this context is talking about
Financially, you know being willing to
Give and and be generous and help people and give toward the work of the Lord and give to your fellow man
and so forth not because you're being forced to but willingly because God loves a cheerful giver and
Then he says every once in a while
I hear that noise coming from outside and I wonder like is somebody's phone going off
I felt like somebody did somebody push the wrong button on their phone and then I remember that they're out there
chanting and carrying on out there Oh
Timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust
Avoiding profane and vain babblings and
oppositions of science falsely so called which some professing have heard concerning the faith grace be with the amen now, you know, I
Kind of like to try to find connections in these chapters
Where sometimes?
Verses might feel a bit random
now a lot of these verses are very useful out of context and
Taking something out of context is not always bad
Because the Bible is so deep and and and so many verses have so many wonderful
meanings and uses and taking them out of context is not necessarily a problem because you know
The New Testament quotes the Old Testament out of context all the time
You know because the Bible has more than one meaning it has the main meaning in the context and then it has other useful meanings
Because each verse stands alone as a powerful truth in and of itself in many cases
So, you know, obviously we don't want to take something out of context to teach lies
We don't want to take something out of context to contradict something that's in context
We don't want to take some out of context and and and you know confuse someone but you know
This is one of those verses that you just kind of use it as a standalone without context you just say
avoid
oppositions of science falsely so-called
which some professing of earth concerning the faith and just just just you can just kind of pull that out of context and it's
Just kind of a standalone maxim of a avoid
science falsely so-called and
the big one for us living in the
21st century would be
Scientific theories about the origin of life and really there are no scientific theories about the origin of life. There aren't even scientific
Really hypotheses about the origin of life because honestly scientists have no idea
Where life originally came from and and anyone who's an honest?
Scientists or biologists would tell you that they would just say we don't know where the first life forms came from and they'll make guesses
And say you know well, maybe this up
Maybe it's up, but there's not even a detailed hypothesis on where life came from let alone a theory there
Just isn't but yet people will come at you and say well science has shown you know that
Life came from nothing or life came from non life no because everything we know about science shows that only life can beget life
And so to the non-believer the origin of life is a mystery any any
Honest scientists would say it's a mystery
Even if they're an atheist if they're being honest they'd say it's a mystery
No, it's not a mystery to us because we know that God created life
So we would say that this idea that life originated from non-living material is science falsely so-called if
Somebody comes at you and says here's the science of the origin of life
It's it's total baloney any real scientists would even tell you that no matter what their belief
Or you know what about this idea that every
Living organism on this planet all comes from a common ancestor
whether it's a banana or an orangutan or a or a human or
A duck-billed platypus, you know it's it's all from the same ancestor right. I mean that's that's not true
That is false
You know we believe the Word of God that God created each
Animal and it brings forth after its own kind and that no every creature on the earth
It's not share a common ancestor. That is false. That is wrong, but yet science
Will say that that is the truth won't they?
But I would say that science falsely so-called because you can't prove that you can't test that you can't actually know that and
Of course they're never gonna be able to know that because it isn't true
Because we know that God created the creatures of this world and that they did not
Come into or come into existence on their own
So that's kind of the big one today is people would look at these kind of ideas about
You know
The world
Being created you know from nothing and the universe being created from nothing and all of this
You know
evolution across
Just gulfs of kinds of animals because obviously we know that micro evolution is real. It's happening every day, right?
But I'm talking about the macro evolution of hey
We all came from the same ancestor and whatever bologna that's science mostly so-called
And so that's probably the most popular use of this verse wouldn't you agree?
That probably this is kind of a go-to verse of like hey avoid that science
Falsely so-called that tries to negate the Bible and tell you that the Bible is not true cuz science
Right. I'm sure all those people out there. They all believe that the Bible is not true cuz science
of course, they don't believe the science of
Gender, you know that that that they're male and female and you know, they don't want to hear about X and Y chromosomes out there
Okay, but they got their science falsely so-called
Where they'll tell you. Oh, you know homos are born that way. That's that's false
But you know
One thing I'd like to do though besides that obvious
Interpretation that we've all used this verse for that and we're all gonna continue to use it for that and that's a great
Application for this verse when when you know people are coming at with science falsely so-called but you know
We could actually also apply this to
The actual chapter that we're reading because the chapter that we've been reading has really been all about money
Because it really started out talking about the servants that are under the yoke not
Despising the people at the top and then it just came back to that over and over again about the rich people
People desiring to be rich people that are rich the love of money envy covetousness
I mean this chapters been pretty consistent on that theme, hasn't it?
So here's another application and I'm not trying to replace the original one because you know
The Bible has a lot of great interpretations, but you know another application you could do with this, you know
Avoiding profane and vain babbling is an opposition of science falsely
so-called is that you know, you could say that Marxism itself is
science falsely so-called
Economic theories
That teach that someday we can achieve
true equality
and that we're all you know, and then we're gonna eliminate poverty and that we're gonna all have this
communist utopia and
Socialist Marxist theories that teach that that is actually gonna make things better economically
Those are just as much of a fairy tale as the original life form just coming from nothing
That's a science falsely so-called, you know, they could be an economic science or a political science
That is just as fraudulent as whatever foolish thing that scientists have taught
and
So those could be oppositions of science falsely so-called when somebody comes at you with some political theory or some economic
Theory that goes against the Word of God and that you know, they've got the science or whatever
It's garbage my friend
Because there is no counsel or wisdom or understanding against the Lord
God's right about everything all the time. You're never gonna prove God wrong
you're never gonna prove the Bible wrong because the Bible is always right and God's always right and
So if we take that interpretation, which is not the only interpretation, but it's an interpretation
Keep that which is committed that I trust
Avoiding profane and vain babblings, you know
these could be the same kind of profane and vain babblings as these guys in verse 4 who are proud and knowing nothing and they
You know, they're they won't they're teaching other than this monetary doctrine that he's giving in this chapter
He's saying, you know
They have how this profane and vain babbling and they say a bunch of stupid things. They've got all their
Marxist ideology and they've got their you know economics or whatever to back it up and
He says, you know some people
professing that have erred concerning the faith because some people have gotten away from the true gospel of Jesus Christ
Which is about getting people out of hell and getting people saved and they've gone to a social gospel
They've erred concerning the faith because they've gone to a social gospel
that's just all about eliminating poverty and it's just all about bringing in social justice and
Economic justice see, you know justice in the Bible is about right and wrong according to the Word of God
But to those people out there they believe in a so-called justice. Don't they aren't they known as social justice warriors?
Okay. Well, let me explain some to you. Did you know that the word justice and the word righteousness are the exact same word?
Did you know that in almost every language in fact every I've never seen a language other than English
That separates these two words
Like anybody in here who knows a foreign language
Think about that foreign language and think about the word for righteousness and the word for justice is the same word
It's the same word in Hebrew. It's the same word in Greek and same word in Latin same word in Spanish
It's the same word in German. I mean every language that I've studied. It's the same word and
The Bible uses in the King James Version righteous and just
Interchangeably talks about a lot being a just man and being a righteous man
So justice another word for justice is righteousness in virtually every language
I've never seen one where it's not except English. I love English though. English is the best language, but I'm just saying
I'm
Not down on English so I'm just saying like we need to understand that righteousness and justice are synonyms
Okay, so imagine this
Imagine somebody being a social righteousness warrior
Okay, like think about that like think about you know, you can go to a liberal university and get a degree in justice studies
So you're studying righteousness?
Now the reason that that kind of makes you laugh and seems kind of silly is because you know that those people out there don't
Care about righteousness at all
But they claim to care about justice
But here's the thing if your definition of justice doesn't match with the word righteousness
Like if those two things aren't like like for me like Oh rights this injustice is justice that justice this good night
If somebody said to me, you know righteousness and justice are are the same thing. I'm just like well, yeah
Right. I mean like does that it that's not a tough sell to a born-again Christian
Because we're just like well, of course righteousness and justice are the same thing
If someone is just they're righteous if someone is righteous, they're just I mean, right doesn't that make sense?
But then imagine going to a liberal university and studying righteousness
and
It sounds silly why because they have a perverted view of justice
that's unrighteous if
Your justice is unrighteous and who decides what's righteous God
the Lord the Bible and
So what I'm saying is that people have erred from the faith because they've gotten more interested in this
World's version of justice than in God's version of righteousness or justice same thing doesn't matter
They're more interested in a social gospel
Social justice, that's all about making everybody equal in some Marxist mentality
Instead of following the Word of God and saying like, you know, Peter and John will silver and gold have I none
But such as I have I give unto thee in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
Take up thy bed and walk. I don't know if I'm quoting that right? I'm in fact, I know I'm not
But that's the essence of what happened in that story
Right the guys that he said look I'm here to give you something better than money
I'm here to give you
salvation
You know, I'd rather spend my life going into poor neighborhoods getting people out of hell and getting people into heaven
Then getting people out of the poor neighborhood
Because what if I get them out of the poor neighborhood and they still go to hell
Right or what if they stay in that poor neighborhood the rest of their life?
What if they're always poor and they never make it financially well, you know what they're gonna walk on streets of gold someday. So who cares?
But there are many people who've erred from the faith because of some babblings about social justice
Economic justice or whatever this new kind of justice that's foreign to the Word of God
It's not the Bible's version and look I realize that there's some truth in what they're saying not these idiots out there
I'm just pointing randomly. There's nothing true about what they're saying
But I'm saying obviously there is some truth that things aren't necessarily economically fair in this world
Because obviously we live in a sinful world and people take advantage of other people and maybe your boss at work
Isn't worthy of all honor
It doesn't matter you count him worthy of all honor because God said to and because this world's gonna pass away anyway
But what I'm saying is that in general
They have a corrupt view of right and wrong
because they're not studying the Word of God to figure out what's right and wrong and
Many people have erred from the faith and gone to a social gospel. That's fixated on money
fixated on economics instead of
fixating on Christ
heaven hell the gospel
salvation
Don't make that mistake
Don't just have your money on your mind and your mind on your money
All right, you need to have the Word of God in your heart
Let's buy rides and have a word of prayer father. We thank you so much for your word Lord
And we thank you for this great chapter and Lord
I pray that you would just help us all to have a healthy view toward money a
healthy view toward the poor a healthy view toward the rich and
Lord God help us not to get sucked into a social gospel and err from the faith
Listening to a bunch of communist ideologies Lord help us rather
to study your word and
Understand that poverty and riches are always going to exist
Because you've given us all
different gifts
Lord help us not to envy people who have different gifts than us
Help us rather to just do the best we can with what we have
Love you and focus on that which is spiritual and in Jesus name we pray amen
Well, that was a great sermon and we had a lot of people show up this evening
So we broke our attendance for Wednesday night. We had
206 for this evening and so we're gonna have ice cream and treats for everybody
So it used to be a capitalistic system where if you quoted the verse of the week
You would get a special treat
But we went in honor of the sermon into communism where everyone gets one no matter what just for showing up
So I figured Sunday night will go back to capitalism so if you
If you got the verse for tonight
Remember, it's Sunday night and you can get the treat Sunday night as well. So there's the capitalism spin
We brought it back. All right, we're gonna sing our final song of the evening song 24 and our hymnals song 24
And
Can it be that I should gain song 24
Oh
My
We have ice cream and treats in this fellowship hall out here god bless you are dismissed
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