man it's great to be here tonight I appreciate everybody who came out I know
a lot of people drove from really far away I got to talk to a lot of people
before the service that came from three four hours away and some people even
further than that I really appreciate you driving all the way out here to come
and be with us tonight and also it's great to see a lot of people that I
already knew as well as meet some new people that yearbook is pretty cool I
got that I got to look at that over there before the service and I that
nobody told me anything about I just walked up to the table and I looked at
like two pages of it I was like this is great I was thinking I wonder if they
have an extra one that they would be willing to give me because I really
would love to take this home and then I flipped it over said to Pastor Anderson
I was like yes I really appreciate those who put that together and that you had a
copy for me Hebrews chapter 2 the part that I want to focus on is beginning in
verse number 1 where the Bible reads therefore we ought to give the more
earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at any time we should let
them slip we need to give the more earnest heed to the things that we've
heard lest at any time we should let them slip sometimes even the most
fundamental doctrines or the doctrines that we take for granted and that we
just assume that we would never be shaken on these things we need to give
the more earnest heed to those things and make sure that they don't slip the
Apostle Paul said in Philippians chapter 3 to write the same things to you to me
indeed is not grievous but for you it is safe you know it's always better to be
safe and preach a little too much on doctrine a little too much emphasis on
the fundamentals then not enough and then they begin to slip now the title of
my sermon tonight is this slipping into oneness heresy slipping into oneness
heresy we want to give the more earnest heed to the things we've heard we don't
want them to slip you say well pastor Anderson I'm saved I'm a Baptist I'm not
gonna become this oneness believer I'm not gonna deny the very Trinity well
amen to that the Holy Spirit's inside you but I'll tell you this though there
are some people that even though we know they're not going to go off the deep end
into that goofball oneness doctrine though they could still let the Trinity
slip a little bit and maybe start to get a little mixed up on it or start to
think well you know that oneness crowd they are kind of making some good points
or well I kind of see where they're coming from you know let's just tighten
it up tonight shall we why don't we just take the wrench of God's Word and let's
just tighten this thing up tonight because we don't want to slip later okay
now let's go to Hebrews chapter 5 since we're in Hebrews anyway I'm gonna make
10 points tonight 10 points tonight proving to you that the Trinity is a
Bible doctrine and that this oneness doctrine is a lie now what is the
Trinity teach the Trinity teaches that God eternally exists as three persons
Father Son and Holy Ghost meaning that he's always existed as Father Son and
Holy Ghost and he always will exist as Father Son and Holy Ghost and these
three persons make up one God and that is the traditional view on the Trinity
that's what all Baptists have always believed that's what the Bible clearly
teaches and I'm gonna prove to you tonight that that's a Bible doctrine
okay now the oneness crowd what they teach is that there's just one person
one spirit who just manifests himself in three different ways or three different
modes this is also known as the Jesus only movement because of the fact that
they say well the name of the Father is Jesus or the name of the Holy Spirit is
Jesus and it's just Jesus in another form another mode another way of talking
about the same person so let's start out in Hebrews chapter 5 and we're gonna see
is the Trinity right or is the oneness doctrine right we already know the
answer but let's confirm it in the Word of God tonight lest it slip Hebrews
chapter 5 verse 4 the Bible says and no man taketh this honor unto himself but
he that is called of God as was Aaron so also Christ glorified not himself to be
made an high priest but he that said unto him thou art my son today have I
begotten thee and what we see very clearly in this passage is that Christ
did not make himself a high priest Christ did not glorify himself to be
made in high priest the Bible says it was the one who said to him thou art my
son today have I begotten thee now anyone can see from this verse that that was
someone else that said unto him thou art my son today have I begotten thee if
that was just Jesus saying that to himself you know it was just Jesus in a
different mode or wearing a different hat then this would make no sense and
you know what it would mean it would mean Jesus glorified himself and it
would mean that he made himself a high priest that's a lie it was God the
Father who made Jesus a high priest it was God the Father who glorified Jesus
and the Father is not the same person as the son it's someone else you say
well you're teaching multiple gods no there's one God made up of three persons
father son and Holy Ghost make up one God no man taketh this honor unto
himself think about how disingenuous it would be if it was the same person what
if I got up tonight and said you know hey I didn't ordain myself I didn't make
myself the pastor I didn't invite myself to preach tonight I mean think
about did I invite myself here brother Romero who invited me you did right okay
so what if I got up and said hey I didn't invite myself but it turns out
you know Steven Anderson the husband invited Steven Anderson the pastor to
come preach it was just me operating in different modes and that's what modalism
is it's basically saying that sort of like on the Andy Griffith Show where the
guy said to Andy Griffith he said you know I want to talk to the judge I want
to talk to the mayor and you know Andy Griffith like takes off his sheriff hat
and puts on a judge or he puts on a judge's gown and says all right come
talk to the judge now or something maybe I'm remembering that wrong maybe it was
a totally different show it might not even been Andy Griffith but there's some
kind of a black-and-white show where something like that happened where some
guys like now I'm the fire chief now I'm the mayor now I'm the policeman you
know it's just the same person he manifests as the father he manifests as
the son he manifests as the Holy Ghost then this would be a fraud when he says
well yeah I didn't glorify myself yeah I didn't make myself yeah you sums a lie
the Trinity explains this go if you would to John chapter 7 we're gonna
spend most of the sermon in the book of John I love the book of John because
it's the most basic book in the Bible that's what I love about it and I never
get tired of reading it is my number one favorite book my favorite part of the
Bible before God people who like to bring a lot of glory to themselves and
brag and and you know Jesus wasn't like that he didn't glorify himself he was
being glorified by someone else God the Father look at John chapter 7 verse 16
Jesus answered them and said my doctrine is not mine but his that sent
me now what kind of sense would that make if he sent himself if he is God the
Father and he just sends himself well my doctor is not mine oh just kidding
actually it is mine my doctrines not mine but his that sent me who sent him
God the Father if any man will do his will he shall know the doctrine whether
it be of God or whether I speak of myself he that speaketh of himself
seeketh his own glory but he that seeketh his glory that sent him the same
is true and no unrighteousness is in him you see if Jesus is the truth if there's
no unrighteousness in Jesus if his doctrine is a true doctrine then he must
not have been speaking of himself he must have been speaking the doctrine
that God the Father gave him because that's what this scripture clearly
states go if you would to John chapter 8 just one page over John 8 49 Jesus
answered I have not a devil but I honor my father and ye do dishonor me and I
seek not my own glory there is one that seeketh and judges verily verily I say
unto you if a man keep my saying he shall never see death the beginning of
verse 50 is clear I seek not my own glory that's what Jesus said so let's go
to the third point flip over to John chapter 5 point 1 Jesus Christ did not
seek his own glory point number 2 Jesus Christ did not make himself a high
priest the father made him a high priest point number 3 the son can do
nothing of himself he can't do anything of himself you say what kind of a crazy
sin you know what it is it's a biblical statement and the problem is that in our
Baptist churches for the past few decades we haven't taught this stuff
enough we haven't emphasized this stuff enough we haven't made statements like
this from the pulpit enough and then this doctrine of the Trinity starts to
slip we don't want to slip on this doctrine we want to tighten it up what
does the Bible say in John chapter 5 verse 18 therefore the Jews sought the
more to kill him because he not only had broken the Sabbath but said also that
God was his father making himself equal with God now look we know that Jesus is
God tonight amen we've been hammering that from every Baptist pulpit for
decades as long as I've been alive we've been hearing that over and over again
and we know that Jesus Christ is equal with God the Bible says in Philippians
2 he thought it not robbery to be equal with God what does that mean that means
that just as much as God the Father is God Jesus is just as much God he's not
less godlike or no there's one God Jesus is God the Father is God the Holy
Ghost is God he's a lot three got no no because these three are one right
there's one God existing in three persons and the Bible says in verse 19
right after it said that he made himself equal with God and we can go to
Philippians 2 to confirm that that he's equal with God the Bible says in verse
19 then answered Jesus and said unto them verily verily I say unto you the
Son can do nothing of himself he said he could do nothing himself but what he
seeth the Father do for what things so ever he do it these also do it the Son
likewise look at verse 30 I can of mine own self do nothing just in case you
didn't get it the first time I can of mine own self do nothing as I hear I
judge and my judgment is just because I seek not my own will but the will of the
Father which had sent me now if he is God the Father then he's doing what he's
seeking his own will but he said no I'm not seeking my own will I'm seeking the
will of the Father now the guy that we threw out of our church the ringleader
of this oneness heresy that was creeping in Tyler Baker you all know him if not
open the yearbook and check it out but anyway he flat-out said well I reject
the three persons because persons implies different wills you got it right
buddy it does imply different wills like when Jesus said not my will but thine be
done like when he said nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt like when he
said right here in front of your very eyes in John 5 30 I seek not my own will
but the will of the Father which had sent me that's different wills there
there's the will of the Son and there's the will of the Father so number three
the Son can do nothing of himself but point number four Christ did not bear
witness of himself look at verse 31 if I bear witness of myself my witness is not
true another way of saying that is that if oneness or modalism is the truth then
Jesus is a liar they're making Jesus into a liar why because if he bears
witness of himself his witness is not true and these modalists what do they
say he's seated at the right hand of himself he's praying to himself he sent
himself and he bears witness of himself okay well he's not true then he lied and
you know what God can't lie Jesus Christ can't lie everything he said was the
truth he said I'm the way the truth in the light and so if he bears witness of
himself it's not true there's another the beareth witness of me and I know
that the witness which he witnesses of me is true who's he talking about God
the Father look at verse 36 but I have greater witness than that of John for
the works which the Father hath given me to finish the same works that I do bear
witness of me that the Father had sent me and the Father himself which had sent
me hath borne witness of me you've neither heard his voice at any time nor
seen his shape now look Jesus Christ is standing there talking to them oh you've
never heard the voice of the Father then how can he be the Father he's saying
you've never heard it all right well you've never seen his shape they're
looking at his shape right it doesn't make any sense folks to believe in this
oneness thing number four was that Christ did not bear witness of himself
if he did he said my witness is not true look at John chapter 7 verse 28 let's
look at the fifth point Jesus did not send himself he did not send himself you
say this is a basic sermon this is too basic but you know what let's tighten it
up John 7 verse 28 then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught saying you both
know me and me is that what he said you know both of me that wouldn't make any
sense what it he said you both know me and you know whence I am and I'm not
come of myself but he that sent me is true whom ye know not but I know him for
I am from him and he hath sent me so did he send himself no he's a he sent me the
father look at chapter 8 verse 16 John chapter 8 16 we're on point 5 you're
like we're making good time yeah but I'm gonna go through some stuff after I'm
done with these ten points okay too you're like well we're trucking along
that desserts gonna be coming soon all right we're on point five Jesus didn't
send himself chapter 8 verse 16 and yet if I judge my judgments true for I'm not
alone cuz it's me myself and I is that what he said is that the Trinity me
myself and I know he said I'm not alone but I am the father that sent me verse
17 it's also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true you
say I don't I don't think two persons is biblical he said two men is it man
another word for you know and you say well that's not about God that's the
illustration yeah the illustrations of two men and he's comparing him and the
father to what just two men that's the comparison why is that comparison being
made well because if just one person testifies to something we might just
think he's making it up one guy comes at us with an accusation and we say come on
is there any other evidence is there any other witness how do I know that this
guy isn't just making things up because he's got a bone to pick with that guy
so in the law we need two witnesses you know it's funny my brother had jury
duty so my brother goes into jury duty and when you get called in for jury do
they have this process called vore dyer and this is where they pick who's gonna
be on the jury and they want to weed out jurors who've been tainted maybe they've
seen stuff on the news that could influence them or maybe they're just an
incompetent juror they don't understand justice you don't want to just put a
bunch of bozos in the in the jury yeah box and just you know somebody's life is
on the line or somebody's freedom is on the line you want to make sure that
these people understand what they're doing right so my brother goes into the
vore dyer process and the attorneys begin to ask the potential jurors
questions to figure out whether they are a competent juror and the guy asked my
brother he said are you willing to convict someone on just the testimony
of one person alone you know if there's no other evidence and there's just one
person's testimony and it's a really believable testimony and I mean this
guy's a very credible witness would you be able to convict based on that one
witness this is what the prosecutor asked and you know what he said no
because he said the Bible says in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall
every word be established and he was immediately sent home he was
immediately deleted from the jury for standing on the biblical principle no
I'm not just gonna take one person's word for it and he even said he said you
know if there was another piece of physical evidence I would take that as a
second witness if there was you know a video recording or a photograph or audio
you know that could be a second witness but he said there there's gonna have to
be two witnesses because that's what the Bible says and that just kind of shows
you what our justice system is like amen that's why we shouldn't go to law
with our brothers before the unjust we should go before the Saints because even
somebody with just a basic knowledge of the Bible knows two or three witnesses
right so he says well it's written in your law he's not talking to Sacramento
California because apparently it's not written in their law they'll send you
home if you believe that but he's saying to the Jews talking about the Old
Testament it's written in your law that the testimony of two men is true I'm one
that bear witness of myself and the father that sent me beareth witness of
me then said they unto him where is thy father Jesus answered ye neither know me
nor my father if you'd known me you should have known my father also now
imagine my brother going into that courtroom and let's say they'd not
eliminated him let's say he made it into the jury right and the prosecutor says
well you know I remember in the vore dyer this guy said he wants two
witnesses so here's what we're gonna do and it was one lady's testimony that
they wanted him to believe what we're gonna do is we're gonna bring this lady
in on two different days she's gonna wear different clothes and she's gonna
be in two different modes right so she you know we're gonna bring her in once
as a friend of the family and we're gonna bring her in once as the cousin so
we got the cousin and the relative or the cousin and the friend right and
she's gonna test you think my brother would have said well that's two
witnesses I mean you think any courtroom in the world would say oh well pastor
Anderson the father you know because I'm a father right I've got ten children
I'll say I'm a father so pastor Anderson the father and then the next day we're
gonna have pastor Anderson the son because I'm the son of Raymond Anderson
you think any courtroom that would be laughed out of any courtroom they'd say
that's your honor I object they'd say objection your honor we've already heard
from this witness he's already been cross-examined no no no it's a new
witness different mode it would be laughed out of the courtroom and this
ought to be laughed out of every church in America this nonsense go to verse 53
and let's get on to point six Jesus did not honor himself Jesus did not honor
himself look at John 853 art thou greater than our father Abraham which is
dead and the prophets are dead who makest thou thyself
Jesus answered if I honor myself my honor is nothing let me ask you
something do you believe that the honor of Jesus is something I do I mean to him
be all honor right honor and glory and majesty and praise belong unto him amen
but you know he said it well if I honor myself my honors nothing it is my father
that honored me of whom you say that he's your God you know how disingenuous
would it be if all along Jesus really is the father right Jesus is God the father
come down in another manifestation or another form how disingenuous to me well
I didn't send myself have you ever seen where somebody says that they didn't do
something and you didn't even accuse them of it like you walk into a house
and a kids like I didn't take the cookies right and they read it's like
whoa you know I didn't even know that any cookies have been taken okay so now
imagine Jesus in the book of John just going around it's like he just keeps
saying over and over again I didn't send myself I'm not honoring myself I'm not
glorifying myself and then he really did can you imagine how weird that would be
to just go around saying that when he didn't I didn't do that I didn't do it I
didn't do it what kind of a weird thing would that be no the truth of the matter
is he's being accused of if you read the story the Pharisees are saying you're
bearing record of yourself and he's saying no I'm not he's telling the truth
if modalism were true Jesus would be like a kid with his hand in the cookie
jar just lie in every chapter and they make a liar out of Jesus Christ with
this false doctrine look the Bible is true and he waved if he says I didn't do
it he didn't do it if he says I didn't honor myself I'm not glorifying myself I
didn't send myself look you either believe that or you don't friend what
does the Bible say in verse number 55 ye yet ye have not known him but I know him
and if I should say I know him not I shall be a liar like unto you you say
well I think your preachings too abrasive well you know Jesus got a little
abrasive with these false teachers he said well you know what if I said I
don't know him I'll be a liar like you isn't that what he said but I know him
and keep his saying your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and
I and was glad then said the Jews unto him thou are not yet 50 years old and
hast thou seen Abraham Jesus said unto them verily verily I say unto you before
Abraham was I am then they took up stones to cast them but Jesus hid
himself and went out of the temple going through the midst of them and so passed
by now what did Jesus mean by that when he said before Abraham was I am he's
saying I didn't come into existence in Bethlehem's manger it doesn't matter
that I'm only 33 years old because before Abraham was I am it would make
sense from a human perspective to say before Abraham was I was but he switches
verb tenses before Abraham was I am what that I am is showing his eternal nature
of having no beginning no ending just dwelling in eternity and he's applying
that to himself he's saying I am now we also know that that term I am is
synonymous with Jehovah because in the Old Testament when he's told at the
burning bush the name of the Lord it is I am that I am tell them that I am hath
sent you and he reveals the name of Jehovah which is equivalent to I am that
I am now you say well wait a minute Jesus is Jehovah absolutely amen why
because the name Jehovah is applied to God in general the Father is Jehovah the
Son is Jehovah the Holy Spirit is out why because Jehovah is an all-encompassing
term for the entire Godhead the Lord there are a lot of names that are shared
between the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost let me give an example my dad
and I we share a name that name is Anderson his name is Anderson and my
name is Anderson and if somebody said of my dad this is brother Anderson
they'd be telling the truth if someone said that I'm brother Anderson they're
telling the truth my daughter Anna here tonight she has that same name Anderson
now does that make us the same person no now what about the name Stephen my dad
doesn't have that name Stephen is a name that I do not share with my dad I
do not share with my daughter Anna although we do share the name Anderson
what's the same thing with the Father of the Son the Holy Ghost there are certain
names that are shared they can all be called God I would answer to Anderson
she would answer to Anderson my dad would answer Anderson you know and all
the members of the Godhead are called God you know unto the Son he said thy
throne Oh God is forever and ever that name Lord is applied to all of the three
but here's a name that is not shared Jesus see the name Jesus is exclusively
for the Son and that's why if you actually look up the term God the Father
in the Bible it occurs 12 times and I went into detail on this last night so
I'm not gonna reap or I'm sorry Wednesday night I'm not gonna re-preach
Wednesday night sermon that I did back home but if you look up all 12 mentions
of God the Father it's a contrast being made between God the Father and Jesus
Christ so the Bible says for example I'll just give you one example you know
from God the Father it says in 2nd John chapter 1 the only chapter there is
verse 3 he said grace be with you and mercy and peace from God the Father and
from our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the Father the Son of the Father okay so
Jesus is always in contrast with God the Father there's God the Father and
then there's Jesus you know that wouldn't make any sense if the Father's
name were Jesus it'd be like if you said well there's brother Anderson now brother
isn't brother Anderson a term that could go for either me or my dad my dad goes
to Verity Baptist Church so people know him there and he's brother Anderson over
there so if they said greetings unto you from brother Anderson and from Stephen
now that right there makes sense and what if somebody said that 12 different
times greetings from brother Anderson and from Stephen Anderson or greetings
from brother Anderson and from brother Stephen okay what kind of a person would
walk away and say oh well they're both named Stephen and they're both named
Anderson you'd be so confused you'd be like well who's who what would even be
the point you just say well just greetings from both of the Anderson's no
but you're making a point hey there's brother Anderson and then there's Stephen
who's the son of brother Anderson brother Anderson's son Stephen you see
how that works but that would make absolutely no sense if my dad's name
were Stephen to make that distinction 12 times would be meaningless at that point
so yeah there are some shared names for the Godhead God Almighty the Lord Jehovah
that could be applied to the Father the Son or the Holy Ghost but the name of
Jesus is the name of the Son that's the name of the Son of God and you got to
believe on that name of the Son of God in order to be saved according to the
Bible because those who are not saved have not believed in the name of the
only begotten Son of God that names Jesus okay so let's go to the seventh
point go to John chapter 3 point number 7 is that the Father loves the Son now
this is not self love this isn't him man I really love myself when I'm in that
mode you know you know when I get into preaching mode I love myself man I love
myself as a husband I love myself as a father you'd say what is wrong with this
guy what kind of a narcissistic right what kind of a self-absorbed kind of a
guy you know no no the Father loves the Son and in fact this is the model for
love because God is love God is the source of love God is love and everyone
that loveth is born of God and knoweth God right so God is our perfect example
of love so the way that God the Father loves God the Son it's a example of
great love isn't it what does it say in John 3 34 for he whom God had sent and
if you get the context it's talking about Jesus he whom God has sent speak
at the words of God for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him so Jesus
was given the Spirit without measure that's all three persons of the Godhead
by the way you have the Father giving the Spirit to the Son without measure
look at verse 35 the Father loveth the Son and have given all things into his
hand he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life and he that believeth
not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him flip over to
chapter 5 verse 20 we're gonna look at chapters 5 10 and 15 back-to-back look
at chapter 5 verse 20 for the Father loveth the Son and showeth him all
things that himself doeth and he will show him greater works than these that
ye may marvel you can go straight to John 15 if you need to verse 9 but I'm
gonna read John 10 17 therefore does my father love me I mean what if I stood up
here and said you know what Steven Anderson loves me I'm talking about
Steven the pastor now not talking about Steven the father now are you what why
would you what kind of sense would that make for brother Fannin to get up here
and say Adam Fannin loves me so wow that's a great love let me learn about
that example of love but if the father is someone else if there's a distinction
of father and son and Holy Ghost three persons one God it makes perfect sense
at that point that it's the father loving the son chapter 10 verse 17
therefore did my father love me because I lay down my life that I might take it
again no man taketh it from me but I lay it down of myself I have power to lay it
down and I have power to take it again this commandment have I received of my
father look at chapter 15 verse 9 as the father had loved me so have I loved
you continue ye in my love if you keep my commandments you shall abide in my
love even as I kept my own Commandments is that what it says in the modalist
version it says that right even as I've kept my father's Commandments and abide
in his love let's go to point 8 John 12 John chapter 12 verse 49 this is going
to be 0.8 here Jesus did not speak of himself now let me just stop here for a
moment and help you understand the preposition of here because sometimes in
the Bible and sometimes in our vernacular of means about right so if we
talked about someone speaking of themselves we could mean they're talking
about themselves right but this is not what is meant here a lot of times the
word of is referring to the source of something okay where they're from that's
what it means of is where it's coming from okay so what does the Bible say
here in John 12 49 for I have not spoken of myself but the father which sent me
he gave me a commandment what I should say and what I should speak so what if I
got up here tonight and I said you know I'm not preaching this sermon of myself
brother Romero you know wrote my whole outline and he gave me a commandment of
what I should say and what I should speak right that would mean what I'm not
speaking of myself it would mean that I'm basically just getting up here and
executing a sermon that was written for me from brother Romero and I'm just
getting up here and just executing it now that's not the case all right I
wrote this sermon all by myself all right and brother Romero didn't even
tell me to preach on the Trinity you know what's funny is that I was already
scheduled to come preach on this day several months ago and I was gonna
preach on something different most likely but in light of the last few
weeks you know this became the obvious subject that needed to be covered and
needed to be preached and needed to be hammered down but that's what it means
to speak up but what if I got up and said I'm not speaking of myself and I
wrote the sermon it's like what yeah of course you're speaking of yourself the
father had sent me verse 49 he gave me a commandment what I should say and what I
should speak and I know that his commandment is life everlasting
whatsoever I speak therefore even as the father said unto me so I speak look at
John 14 John 14 verse 10 believe us thou not that I am in the Father and the
Father in me the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself but the Father
that dwelleth in me he doeth the works he doeth the works look at verse 13 of
chapter 16 go to John 16 verse 13 and we'll be in point 9 the Holy Spirit does
not speak of himself now we've spent most of the night tonight talking about
the Father and the Son you say hey let's talk about the Holy Ghost let's bring
him into the equation right well the Holy Ghost point 9 the Holy Ghost does
not speak of himself look at verse number 13 how be it when he the Spirit
of truth has come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of
himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will show you
things to come he shall glorify me for he shall receive of mine and shall show
it unto you all things that the Father hath are mine therefore said I that he
shall take of mine and shall show it unto you just yet another scripture
talking about the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost how they work together how
they operate together how they are a team they work together as a team the
Father Son and Holy Ghost okay these three are one and the last point here
on these ten points is also in chapter 16 verse 27 the point is that Jesus came
from the Father Jesus came from the Father John 16 27 for the Father himself
loveth you because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from God
that's a great statement isn't it I came out from God I came forth from the
Father and I'm come into the world again I leave the world and go to the Father
so are you getting the picture here Christ didn't seek his own glory Christ
didn't make himself a high priest the son can do nothing of himself Christ
did not bear witness of himself Jesus did not send himself Jesus did not honor
himself the Father loves the Son Jesus did not speak of himself the Holy Ghost
does not speak of himself Jesus came from the Father Jesus is going to the
Father he always does the things that please the Father he received a
commandment from the Father what he should say and what he should speak he
had his own will distinct from that of the fathers and he submitted his will
unto the Father's will he didn't pray to himself he prayed to the Father he
didn't forsake himself the Father forsook the Son and we could go on and
on and on this is not some obscure doctrine where we have to go to some
obscure book of the Bible that I have to tell you how to find it because it's
buried deep with you know Micah and Jonah and Amos and you know we don't
have to go to the minor prophet we don't have to sit there and search for this we
don't have to pull a few proof texts out of context I mean we can just read the
book of John and it's from verse 1 it's jumping off the page at us I mean verse
1 there verse 2 there it is again verse 3 it's like you know this modalism
doctrine is just getting nailed verse 1 verse 2 verse 3 you know verse
14 and it's just it's everywhere and then it's just like every chat I mean
how look how much scripture we just looked at verse after verse at birth you
know what none of these verses are true if oneness is true none of them make any
sense if one is true but they're all fit like a glove with the Trinity which
proves that the Trinity is biblical now let's dig into what exactly does this
oneness Pentecostalism teach what does it teach what what do they teach what's
their doctrine and let's see if it jives what we've learned from the Bible now
these heretics that are starting this church here in Jacksonville and this is
right in your backyard folks for those of you who don't know the story but
there's a guy named Tyler Baker he was thrown out of his church fired for being
a heretic rejected of his church rejected of this congregation here that
now makes up Steadfast Baptist Jacksonville and he was the only person
he could find to ordain him was his dad so I guess you know he ordained himself
right because you know him and the father I guess are the same person so
you know he goes back to Kentucky and goes to a church that's just filled with
all his relatives oh poor baby you got fired you're called a heretic will
ordain you the same church that he himself out of his own mouth called
quote a bunch of stinking losers but then he used them even though he finds
them to be losers which is a mean thing to say about the people who raised you
and supposedly won you to Christ and supposedly taught you the Bible but he
said that thing about them and then he goes and uses them and so now he's
coming to Jacksonville to start a church and you say well I don't think you
should call out other preachers and everything well you know what all
throughout the Bible that's what they did you read the New Testament he's
calling out Hymenaeus, Hermogenes, Phygelus, Alexander, Diotrephes I mean all
kinds of people that they're warning about and the Apostle Paul said that
these enemies of the cross of Christ in Philippians 3 he said I've told you
about them often so it wasn't like once a year he preached against a false
prophet he said I've told you about them often and now tell you even weeping that
they are the enemies of the cross of Christ and so this guy that's coming to
start this church he was fired and thrown out of his local church for
believing in this oneness doctrine he was going around secretly teaching
people that the name of God the Father is Jesus and he was telling them how
when I baptized people you know and he explained a Jesus only type baptism
where he said well I'm gonna say Father Son Holy Ghost cuz he didn't want freak
people out so he was gonna say the name of the Father of Son and Holy Ghost and
that name is Jesus and that name is not Jesus okay so anyway that's what he is
going to be doing later this month but now all of a sudden he's saying well
it's not oneness what I believe in it's not modalism so he rejects the Trinity
but it's supposedly not oneness so my question was well then what is it is it
a brand new doctrine so I guess for the last couple thousand years we didn't
know who God was we didn't know who Jesus was until Tyler came along to
bring in the true doctrine of Tyler Tarianism I'm gonna stick with
Trinitarianism I'm not gonna mess with Tyler Tarianism now let's look at what
the oneness Pentecostals believe let's look at what Tyler believes and then
let's look at what the Trinity teaches and let's just see what the facts are we
already saw what the Bible says and it's a case closed but what does oneness
Pentecostalism teach well with the advent of the internet it's pretty easy
to answer this question you know the internet just makes so much information
available thankfully we didn't have to go knock on the door of a church that's
called like acts 238 miracle Church to try to figure out we didn't have to
preach you know we didn't have to go to like cloven tongues of fire
Pentecostal assembly of Yahweh to figure out what they believe we were able to
just go online and there's all kinds of videos there's all kinds of information
they're even whole books people sent me whole books of PDFs written by these
oneness Pentecostals so it's no mystery what they believe and since there are
25 million of them since since 25% of Pentecostals in America are oneness 75%
are Trinitarian it's not hard to figure out what a oneness Pentecostal believes
now I personally have spoken to many of them at the door and when you knock on
their door because I ran into this a lot in Sacramento and a lot in Phoenix when
you knock on the door you can identify them right away because all they want to
talk about is either they'll take you to acts 238 and they want to be there or
they want to be in Matthew 28 19 baptizing them in the name of the Father
the Son and the Holy Ghost and they have like a grammatical English failure where
they say like what's that name you know they understand that in the name of
means on account of representing by the authority of they think it's like a name
singular because they fail grammatically there or what you'll have them say is
well how were you baptized they'll they'll quiz you you know you're trying
to talk to them about salvation and where I have a question how were you
baptized father son and Holy Ghost or in the name of Jesus and you're like
well if I was baptized in the father the son the Holy Ghost it sounds like Jesus
is covered amen Jesus is the son covered it have you been baptized in Jesus name
yes I have because I was baptized in the name of the father the son and the Holy
Ghost plus I got two other name of that you didn't get when you got back but
who's run into a mouth soul when he put up your hand if you've run into a mouth
so winning the oneness Pentecostals yeah and I know that a lot of the people who
came back from the Jamaica trip they said oh man it's big over there we were
talking to a lot of oneness Pentecostals I said did any of them get saved they
said none of them they said none I remember that Jamaica was like the most
receptive place to go sowing on the planet but they didn't get any oneness
Pentecostal saved what because these are usually some of the hardest people to
reach with the gospel they're super into work salvation they're super into losing
your salvation baptismal regeneration if you don't speak in tongues you're not
even saved I mean they're real big on that stuff and so it's super hard to get
them to even listen to the plan of salvation let alone to get saved it's a
wicked religion folks it's far far from the kingdom of God now we're not saying
that Tyler Baker is a Pentecostal you know as far as I know he's not rolling
in the aisles or anything like that that's not what we're saying but we're
saying that his view of God and the Godhead and who Christ is is identical
to that of the oneness Pentecostal view of who God is and our point is well if
no one saved believes in this it's only these demoniacs that you're gonna see in
that DVD that was handed out earlier and some of these oneness Pentecostals
appear in that DVD flopping around at one point then you have to ask yourself
why do all these demoniacs believe in it and nobody else who said nobody who's
got the Holy Spirit in them believes in this junk so what are the oneness
Pentecostals teach because they're saying oh we're not one this we're not
modalists quit calling us that okay we're Tyler Tarian but listen this
here's from Wikipedia and don't talk trash about Wikipedia okay you know what
you know what's at the bottom of Wikipedia you know what's at the bottom
all the footnotes and all the sources and you can verify everything that's
there okay and plus this jives with everything on YouTube and all the PDFs
and and websites that I've seen on oneness Pentecostalism this is accurate
this is the second paragraph from the oneness Pentecostals and Wikipedia page
oneness Pentecostalism derives its distinctive name from its teaching on
the godhead which is popularly referred to as the oneness doctrine this doctrine
states that there's one God amen we believe that part right a singular
divine spirit who manifests himself in many ways including as father son and
holy go so one singular spirit who just manifests in different ways father son
holy ghost this stands in sharp contrast to the doctrine of three distinct and
eternal persons posited by the Trinity Wikipedia saying here is a pretty big
difference between the oneness view of God and the Trinity view of God you say
isn't it just a small difference isn't it just a semantic well Wikipedia said
it's a sharp contrast and I agree it's pretty different he said it's real
different than the Trinitarian position of three distinct and eternal persons
oneness believers baptized in the name of Jesus Christ commonly referred to as
Jesus name baptism rather than using the Trinitarian formula so when this article
is just trying to give us a brief synopsis what are the two things they
bring up they say hey look you want to just know what oneness is in a nutshell
here's what it is it's rejecting the Trinity and baptizing in Jesus name only
those are like the two things that they brought out did we hear what I read I
mean it's right isn't it did I did I read something other than that those are
the two big things it's like hey they don't believe in the three persons they
believe in a singular spirit and they believe that you know it's a oneness
baptism of a Jesus only baptism okay so now let's type in the word modalism
because they're like don't call us modalist here's modalism Wikipedia
paragraph number one modalism is the non Trinitarian or anti Trinitarian belief
that the Heavenly Father resurrected Son and Holy Spirit are three different
modes or aspects of one monadic God as perceived by the believer rather than
three distinct persons within the Godhead and that no real or substantial
differences among the three so that there's no substantial identity for the
Spirit or the Son meaning that the the Father has the same identity as the
Spirit and the Son they're the same person that's what they believe now the
difference between the ancient modalism because modalism was an ancient heresy
from around the third fourth century AD the ancient heresy of modalism said that
these three modes were consecutive so it was like he was the father in the Old
Testament he was the son in the Gospels and then he's the Holy Spirit from the
book of Acts until now so it was like a consecutive modes like father then son
then Holy Spirit the difference with the modern oneness Pentecostal view is that
according to the oneness Pentecostalism which began in 1913 a lot of bad things
started in 1913 but that's another story the Federal Reserve anyone but anyway
you know they said hey it's simultaneous he's all three modes at the same time
now Tyler Baker and friends get up and say well we believe he's all three modes
at the same time so we're not modalist that's the modern form of modalism that's
that you know we're not talking about 1700 years ago we're talking about the
current oneness view of Pentecostals okay listen to this this is from the
Wikipedia page for oneness Pentecostalism advocating a non-traditional
view of God oneness Pentecostals find in modalistic
monarchianism of the fourth century a historical predecessor so basically when
the oneness Pentecostals want to say hey we didn't make this up in 1913 what do
they point to for a predecessor they say hey there were people who believed
it back in the fourth century and they point to the old modalism why because
the old modalism it says in this article affirmed the two central aspects of
their own convictions number one that there's one indivisible God with no
distinction of persons in God's eternal essence and to Jesus Christ is the
manifestation human personification or incarnation of the one God the oneness
doctrine differs from Sibelionism which is the old version and that they
conceive of the tri manifestation of God as simultaneous instead of successive as
is the case with classical modalism that is not what I just said okay so what is
Tyler teaching well if we just get the teachings from Tyler's own mouth in the
video that he uploaded to YouTube and I even just condensed the the worst of it
into a four-minute clip on YouTube called oneness heresy from Tyler's own
mouth so you don't have to watch the whole 75 minutes although you can of his
video and I didn't include all the crying and stuff so you'll miss that
part but but I put a four-minute video that boils it down you know to hey
here's the proof here's what you'll find even in the four-minute you know
greatest hits real or the the highlights real you'll find him saying that the son
is the father the Holy Ghost is the son the father is the son they all are each
other that's what oneness Pentecostals be where's that shirt I put mine in the
car too all right we're not gonna be able to I was gonna hold up the shirt
but anyway so he clearly states that well no the son is God the Father and
God the Father is the Holy Spirit so well they're all the same person he says
that in the video number one number two he says in that video God was praying to
himself and then he said Jesus is up in heaven seated at the right hand of Jesus
and he said Jesus is seated next to himself number three he says that the
name of God the Father is Jesus and number four he talks about Jesus only
baptism he says that you know the name of the Father the Son who this it's all
Jesus so I'm gonna baptize in the name of Jesus because that's what that name
is of all three so he has all of the central components now I'm sure he can
find some oneness Pentecostal that disagrees with his view because of the
fact that there are hundreds of oneness Pentecostal denominations I mean there
are more varieties of oneness Pentecostals than there are varieties of
Baptists I mean think about Baptist we got independent Baptist we got General
Association of regular Baptist we got North American Baptist we got Southern
Baptist we got independent Baptist so we have all these different types of
Baptists right but don't they all have certain things in common here's one
thing they have in common they all believe in the Trinity every one of
those types of Baptists I just mentioned they all believe in the Trinity 18,000
Southern Baptist churches all believe in the Trinity 9,000 independent Baptist
churches in America all believe in the Trinity G a RB the Trinity North
American Baptist Convention the Trinity right they all believe in the Trinity
they all would say that the scripture is the final authority in all matters of
faith and practice they're all gonna baptized by immersion right even the
most liberal Baptist Church is still gonna dunk people underwater I mean
there's certain things that kind of just go for all Baptists right and then there
are other things like King James Version only that would only be specific to
certain types of Baptist Church well look oneness Pentecostalism is the same
way some of them bark like a dog and others go bark bark like a chicken but the
point is they're all speaking in tongues they all believe in baptismal
regeneration they all believe in the same oneness doctrine and if they don't
believe in the oneness doctrine then they're not a oneness Pentecostal so the
point is that oneness Pentecostals agree on certain things Jesus only baptism and
the oneness of God okay well guess what I just read for you from the Wikipedia
pages articulating these views and they're exactly what Tyler said you can
see him say it in even four minutes he has the hallmark you know brother Joe
mentioned that his wife grew up oneness Pentecostal and when she heard about
this Joe was a little bit confused but she was like whoa I know what this is
I've heard about this and she said call him back she said call Tyler on the
phone and just ask him one thing how's he gonna baptize because you know what
that is the trademark of oneness Pentecostalism that's how you identify it
then if you go to the statement of faith of this new church that doesn't exist
yet but hopefully it never exists hopefully it's like an untimely birth of
a woman that doesn't see the Sun okay but anyway if you go to the statement of
faith of Valley and Baptist Church it says we believe God has a triune nature
the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost we reject the teaching that God is three
persons one essence so right in his statement of faith he says we reject the
teaching that God is three persons one essence well you know what that's what
the Trinity is so he's saying we reject the Trinity but he words it in a way to
where some people it might go over their head if they're not really up on this
doctrine if they are just kind of stumbling upon his website looking for a
fundamental Baptist Church so in his video he said Jesus only baptism on the
statement of faith he said we reject three persons one essence he has both of
the central tenants both of the two pillars of oneness Pentecostalism also
and this is not in his video but this was stated by him and Rick Martinez one
of his motorless buddies that they believe that in the Old Testament that
there was a time in the past when Jesus was not the Son of God that he didn't
used to be the Son of God and that in the future he will someday stop being
the Son of God again okay whereas what do we believe as
Trinitarians we believe that God eternally exists as Father Son and Holy
Ghost in the beginning he was Father Son Holy Ghost at the end of the world he's
still gonna be Father Son Holy Ghost because Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday and today and forever and we have proof that he was the son in the
Old Testament in Daniel 325 but only if you're reading a King James Bible
because in the King James Bible Shadrach Meshach and Abednego are in that fiery
furnace and Nebuchadnezzar says we only threw three men in there but I see four
men in the fire and they're loose and they have no hurt and the form of the
fourth is like the Son of God Jesus was the fourth man in the fire Jesus was the
fourth man in the fire with Shadrach Meshach and Abednego he said it's the
Son of God you know what the new versions change that to a son of the
gods plural a son of the gods that's a pretty big difference huh and of course
there's plenty of other proof that Jesus was the Son of God even in the Old
Testament there are other scriptures that reference him as the son Proverbs
30 verse 4 is a good one you know what is his name and what is his son's name
talking about who is the creator and so forth and I'm not gonna go into all that
right now because I want to stop and explain to you that this word three
persons is biblical this term three persons go to Hebrews chapter 1 Hebrews
chapter 1 now a lot of this debate comes down to this word three persons did you
notice that all the articles on oneness Pentecostalism they brought that out hey
we reject three persons Tyler statement of faith says we reject three persons
this is a major point here that we need to cover now what does the Trinity teach
if you look up Trinity in Wikipedia here's what it says the Trinity is the
Christian doctrine that holds that God is three co-substantial persons the
Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and it started out right away saying what the
Trinity teaches that God's three persons one God in three divine persons the
three persons are distinct yet are one essence in this context a nature is what
one is whereas a person is who one is now what was the word that Tyler used oh
we believe have a triune nature but we don't believe in three persons one
essence well this right here says that the Trinity is three persons that are
distinct yet one essence and it's it's not the nature it's not what one is it's
a person is who one is right meaning that these are three different who's the
father is a who who sent Jesus who who loves Jesus the father you know I'm not
gonna rego through my ten points but anyway the opposing view is referred to
as non Trinitarianism right okay you say well that's Wikipedia I don't trust it
okay how about Merriam Webster's dictionary Trinity now the unity of
father son and Holy Ghost as three persons in one Godhead according to
Christian dogma okay Random House dictionary also called the Blessed
Trinity or Holy Trinity the union of three persons father son and Holy Ghost
in one Godhead Collins English Dictionary also called Holy Trinity
blessed Trinity the union of three persons the father the son and Holy
Ghost in one Godhead the new dictionary of cultural literacy a doctrine of
Christianity that there's one God and three divine persons in the one God the
father the son Jesus and the Holy Ghost on and on so I mean that's what the
dictionary says it's what the encyclopedia says that's what the
commonly accepted view of what the Trinity means so saying well I believe
in the Trinity but I reject three persons that's like saying well I
believe in the Bible I just reject Genesis to Revelation it's like saying
well I believe in America I just reject the 50 states and how many times have you
had people say I believe the Bible and then you show them stuff in the Bible
like well I don't believe that what do you believe the Bible yeah okay well
here's what I don't believe that I can't even count how many times right
something we believe in the Trinity they want to redefine the Trinity they want
to completely turn this doctrine on its head and lie and say oh it's just a
different take on the Trinity no it's a rejection of the Trinity is what it is
now here's the thing in the past I sometimes shied away from the term three
persons and the reason why is because when I would bring that up to Muslims
and people like that they kind of freak out when they heard three persons and
they'd say oh it's three different gods and I'm like well no they'd say it's
like three separate gods I'm like no no no you know and I'd explain it so
sometimes I would avoid that terminology when I was dealing with Muslims and so
forth sort of like when you knock on a Jehovah's Witness door and you know
they're a Jehovah's Witness I don't say do you know for sure if you die today
you go to heaven because it just derails the conversation because right away
they're just like well I don't want to go to heaven that's for the 144,000 you
know and then it's like so that's why when I knock on a door if I know they're
a Jehovah's Witness I say if you died today do you know for sure you have
eternal life do you know for sure you're safe that way I can get into the gospel
without just them getting me derailed so for the same reason I sometimes shied
away from the three person serve because I didn't think that three persons was
actually like a biblical term I believed in the concept I agreed with the concept
of three persons of course but I didn't always use that wording to explain it
but what's interesting is that I've since realized that actually that term
three persons is actually a perfect description because it's actually
biblical like not only does it express what we want to express it's actually
even biblical because some words are good words to express but it doesn't
make them biblical right like for example the word faggot you know like I
sorry I just had to get that out there anyway because I know some people they
come to hear me preach I've had people come up to me and be like pastor are you
going soft because you haven't said the word faggot like three months and I'm
just like like what are you talking about I said it like a month ago give me
a break with the yeah but here's the thing like a lot of people say don't use
that word because it's not in the Bible they say just use the Bible's word
sodomite but the problem is I knew a guy who sat through an entire sermon against
the sodomites and at the end of an hour of preaching he walked up and he asked
my dad what's a sodomite so he was he missed the whole sermon the whole song
was like so he didn't even know what a sodomite was so so here's the thing
about it you know if we use words that are easy to be understood then we're not
speaking into the air right you know except we utter by the tongue words easy
to be understood we speak in the air so sometimes we use words that are not in
the Bible because they help us understand it now we shouldn't use like
big words that are confusing because that doesn't help anybody understand
anything right but sometimes that clear word like hey you know the facts you
know then it's like oh okay now I know what you're talking about
whereas sodomite could go over somebody's head see what I'm saying so
look even though the word Trinity is not used in the Bible as such it's still a
good word because you say it and it's like okay it gets my point across right
away people know what I'm talking about well that's how I kind of used to feel
about three persons like three persons gets the point across and it's correct
but it's not really the way the Bible words it so therefore if I'm talking to
a Muslim I would avoid it sometimes I kind of you know but here's the thing
about that I've since realized that actually three persons is biblical and
it's right here in Hebrews chapter 1 look at Hebrews chapter 1 verse 1 it
says in Hebrews 1 on God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake and
time passed under the fathers by the prophets had then these last days spoken
unto us by his son whom he had the pointed heir of all things by whom also
he made the world who being the brightness of his glory watch this and
the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his
power when he had by himself purged our sins sat down on the right hand of the
majesty on high so what is the Bible saying here the Bible is saying here
that the that the Son of God Jesus Christ is the express image of the
Father's person now if the Father has a person distinct from the Son who is not
the same person but is the express image of his person then right there what do
you have three persons right because there's the person of the Father the
person of the Son and the first of all it goes and then there's another verse
that talks about Paul forgiving someone in the person of Jesus Christ so Jesus
Christ is a person the Father is a person and Jesus is the image of his
person meaning his is what third person pronoun you know that's that third
person God the Father and then you have Jesus and obviously we know from other
scriptures that the Holy Ghost is God he's a person too we get that personal
pronouns on and on so the word persons is biblical we shouldn't shy away from
that term we need to embrace that term we need to speak in words that are clear
now in the past we may not have known what a threat this was because we
thought this was just for the holy rollers so we were more focusing on
debunking the Muslims all 1.6 billion of them and we were focused on debunking
the Mormons of the Jehovah's Witnesses because we know that when we knock that
door out soul winning there's a pretty good chance that the Mormons and
Jehovah's Witnesses have already been by so we got so focused on debunking that
this Pentecostal oneness kind of creeped in through the back door but you know
what as soon as we looked over and saw it we went no I find out that somebody's
believing or teaching this junk in my church they're gone they're gone just as
much as if I had a Mormon or a Jehovah's Witness creeping into the church and
spreading that and you know what that's why I fired Tyler Baker immediately when
I found out that he believed in this I didn't have to think about it as soon as
I found as soon as it at first somebody started to explain to me and the first
couple sentences I was you know I'm trying to like make excuses for him in
my mind you know it is I mean if somebody tells him bad about one of your
friends so the first couple sentences out of this person's mouth I'm like
making excuses for him in my mind maybe that's not what he meant maybe that's
not what he's really saying you know maybe he's just a little off on the
Trinity maybe we can just shore him up a little bit and then it's like oh by the
way he's gonna be doing a baptism and they told me his baptism formula and
that's when I knew that's when it clicked like this is real he actually is
a oneness heretic he was fired that day never even we never even regretted it or
thought about it or revisited it it's just it's just like a no-brainer yes
that this is a damnable heresy that this is a denial of who God and crisis he
says no big deal it's a huge deal who Jesus is who God is it's a big deal now
let me give you a list how am I doing on time what time is it somebody help me
out because I don't have a clock it's just what's that I've only been preaching
for 15 minutes all right nice what what time is it 830 all right I'm getting
real close to the end all right give me like 15 minutes all right I've got a
list here from Wikipedia I clicked on that link that said non Trinitarian
I got a list here of every single denomination that rejects the Trinity
okay I want you to listen to this list very closely and tell me which of these
groups you think is even close to being saved okay everybody listening here's
the list of non Trinitarian churches according to Wikipedia in alphabetical
the American Unitarian Conference Arianism Assemblies of Yahweh a Jehovah's
Witness spin-off called the Bible students started by Charles Taze
Russell Christadelphians Christian Science Latter-day Saints or Mormons
Church of God of the Abrahamic faith ducabores friends of man
Iglesia Ni Cristo Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ Jehovah's Witnesses
members Church of God International mollicon monarchianism muggletonianism
new church many members of the non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of
Ireland oneness Pentecostals the Polish brethren the Hicksite Quakers the
Samaritan Christians okay yeah and you know what art thou not a Samaritan and
hath a devil they said of Jesus right that when they lied about him the
Samaritan and then how about this one the Shakers the Shakers I don't know
about you but I don't know anything about the doctrine of the Shakers but I
can already tell there's something wrong with this religion this is what they
mean by Shakers that's what they mean by Shakers it's everything you're gonna see
in that DVD on demon possessed that was just handed out by brother Romero brother
fan it the Shakers it's up the devil did you know that the Jehovah's Witnesses are
of the devil did you know what the Mormons are of the devil did you know
that Christian science is of the devil did you know that the Hicksites and the
Shakers and Sweden borgianism and the kunyites and the Unification Church and
the Unitarian Church and the Unitarian Universalist Church and the United
Church of God and the Yahweh's Assembly and Messiah and the Yahweh's Assembly and
Yeshua they're all of the devil every single church on this list is of the
devil and none of them are even close to being saved who believes in the Trinity
back all back I was asked to raise your hands but all Baptists Baptists
independent Baptist and look I know that the Southern Baptists are screwed up but
I've run into a ton of saved Southern Baptists there are a lot of saved people
who go to submit you know what when I was a teenager I spent a few months go
into a Southern Baptist Church and I was saved okay look there are saved people
who go there friend there are saved people in all these Baptists
denominations even if they're watered down even if their doctrines are a
little off on things okay and you know what Calvary Chapel I've run into a lot
of saved people who go to Calvary Chapel you know now it kind of varies from
because we have a Calvary Chapel in Tempe I don't think anybody's saved over
there because we've knocked the doors all around there and when we run into
people from there they tell us it's all the wrong answers they don't tell us it's
by faith they don't know for sure they've got all the wrong answers of a
workspace or you can lose it or whatever but then there's another Calvary Chapel
like four or five miles south of us where everybody I've ever run into from
that Calvary Chapel they're all saved I read the deacon from there I talked to
him for a few hours and he was saying he in fact I talked to a guy from Calvary
Chapel who was a deacon and he enjoyed my preaching he said hey I know you I've
seen you I love your preaching and he said our Calvary Chapel's King James no
look I'm not promoting Calvary Chapel I'm not promoting the Southern Baptist
you know what even at the liberal fun center there are a lot of saved people
down at these non to non fun centers you know that independent Baptists are
not the only ones that are saved independent Baptists are the ones who
are doing the work of God in and knocking doors hardcore and preaching
hard and and you know the tip of the spear but there are people that are in
these other denominations that are saved you know I've run into people that were
Presbyterians that were saved you know a lot of these churches they don't even
teach a lot of doctrine a lot of their members don't even know what their
denomination even believes there are people sitting in Presbyterian churches
Baptist churches Calvary Chapel's non to non churches that are saved and you run
into them when you're out soloing don't you where they give you the right
answers and you can tell that they're genuine they're quoting verses from the
King James they're quoting John 3 they know they're safe they're happy to see
you you can have that kindred spirit with them right away I mean who's
experienced that out soloing right okay but you know what you're not gonna find
that down at the Christian Science reading room you're not gonna find that
in any of these other places you go down to the oneness Pentecostal Church you
will not find one person that's saved in that building not even one zilch zero
nada nobody on this list is even close to being an evangelical Christian none
and all of evangelical Christianity confesses the Trinity so I forgot one I
forgot one because I was reading them in alphabetical order so let me back up a
little Unitarian Universalism United Church of God in Christ valiant Baptist
Church Yahweh's assembly in Messiah Yahweh's assembly in Yeshua that's the
new list somebody update Wikipedia somebody sign in so let me close by
saying this do not end up at the trash can of steadfast Baptist Church now let
me explain what I mean by this valiant Baptist Church I'm predicting this I can
already see it now this Tyler Baker Church this this valiant Baptist Church
is going to become your very own personal trash can now here's the thing
every great church has a trash can I mean think about your house has a trash
can businesses have a trash can right what do I mean by the trash can well you
know what sometimes in church we have to take out the trash what do we mean by
that there are people that are reprobate there are people that are
rejected there are people that are cast out of the church there are people who
are excommunicated or disciplined out of the church thrown out of the church
right and these people who are rejected of their local church these heretics in
many cases they're thrown out for being a heretic like the people that we're
talking about tonight that we threw out some people are thrown out for being a
pervert some people are thrown out for you know any other number of reasons
drunkenness fornicate it doesn't mean necessarily that they're not saved many
of them are unsaved though they're thrown out for being a homo they're not
saved you know they're thrown out for being a modalist heretic they're
obviously not saved you know if they're all the way into this doctrine and look
I understand that good people can get a little mixed up on the Trinity or they
can get a little bit enticed by this but when you've had eight months to repent
of it and you've heard all the preaching and you've heard all the
doctrine you still believe in it that's proof that you're not saved you say well
that's me tonight well then I'm talking to you if you can sit through this
sermon and still believe in it you're not saved there I said it but here's the
thing we have a trash can in Phoenix Arizona for faithful word Baptist Church
what I mean by that is every time we throw someone out every time someone's
kicked out of church or every time somebody gets really mad and disgruntled
and pastor Anderson you know is mean and he's a jerk and we don't like him they
all go to this church called 35th Avenue Baptist Church now you know we throw
somebody out for being a pervert that's where they ended up throw out the
modalist heretics that's where they ended up people get disgruntled because
they were trying to tell me about the flat earth and I tell them to shut up
I'm sick of the flat earth I don't I don't believe in it it's dumb that's
where they end up so it's like this trash can for faithful word Baptist
Church well here's the thing I guarantee you that's what this new church is gonna
be right here every time somebody gets mad at Adam Fannin and gets mad at Donny
Romero or gets mad about you know pastor answer came to preach and you know he's
too mean and what he made fun of me well you know what that's where they're gonna
go to the track and then you know whenever you guys throw somebody out
they need to be actually disciplined from the church or cut off from the
church or cast out of the church that's where they're gonna go to the trash can
valiant trash can now look why don't you just decide right now that if that God
forbid if that day ever comes that brother Fannin steps on your toes or or
you get disgruntled and you get a root of bitterness and you're just like I
don't want to go to steadfast anymore listen why just decide right now that if
you get thrown out of the church or if you end up quitting the church and
getting all upset and a burr under yourself why don't you just decide that
you're gonna go to another Bible believing independent Baptist Church
instead but don't go to the trash can why can't you just go to one of the
other independent Baptist churches in this town I mean look there are other
soul-winning churches in this town
don't get this weird attitude like we're the only one soul-winning there are
other church are am I right for the fan are there any other fundamental
baptists in this city that goes only yes there are brother Romero are there any
other soul-winning churches in the Dallas Fort Worth area yeah well I can
tell you right now I can think of ten in the Phoenix area independent fundamental
Baptist Church soul-winning church now look I'm not saying I want to go there I
want to go to faithful word amen you want to go to steadfast amen but here's
the thing if you get all mad why don't you at least go to a church that's
doctrinally sound on the fundamentals and you know what I'd rather go to a
church that's wrong on the Rapture than wrong on who God is I'd rather go to a
church that's wrong on the Jews I'd rather go to a church that has a star
of rim fan flag then a church that doesn't even know who Jesus is denying
the Son of God you know what I mean I'd rather they're wrong on the Jews I'd
rather that they're wrong on Bible prophecy you know what but they better
be sound on the fundamentals of the faith they better at least be a Baptist
they better not be on this list this is like the list of the damned it's a
damnable Hall of Shame here everything from the American Unitarian Conference
to the Yahweh's assemblies of Yeshua it's all garbage just go to another
independent fundamental Baptist Church don't throw yourself in the trash don't
go to the track don't be a garbage pail kid don't be a dumpster diver don't end
up there and you know what you know why you know why some people will be tempted
to dive into that dumpster is because they're gonna think of itself well when
I go there to the dumpster they're gonna kind of understand what I'm going
through because they're the same way as me a bitter disgruntled former member
so we can all go there and talk about yeah you got you got accused of being a
heretic because you said everything on the oneness Pentecostalism page and you
know well I gotta be I got accused of being a sexual pervert because there
were you know four witnesses and hard evidence you know yeah you know it's too
bad huh and you know I I heard I even heard this that you guys threw out
somebody for being a sodomite a few months ago somebody get Tyler Baker a
contact card that's his first member Tyler Baker needs to follow up he's get
you know we throw out the trash we throw that and then he says come on in for
thou art a valiant man
come on in heretic oh you're flat earther come on in and look by the way if
you're a flat earther you're welcome to come here just to just shut up about it
yeah shut up right you got sorry maybe I'm out of place for saying that you
agree with that okay yes shut it yeah you started it that's right man these
these guys I gotta say this I'm done preaching tonight this is I'm
fellowshipping in the wrong place for a little I'm supposed to be a few doors
down you know I love these guys pastor Donnie Romero brother Adam Fannin and
they're always like a little head of the curve on things these guys are ahead of
the game I remember when brother Romero first preached against the Flat Earth
thing and I remember thinking what is he talking like why are you preaching
about this it was kind of weird right but that he was just ahead of his time
because like six months later it was everywhere and it's like whoa brother
Romero got Adam Fannin man he jumped in there and he caught that Johnny Nixon
thing remember that he was the one he tried to tell me about I'm like nobody
believes in that what are you guys talking about down there at steadfast
you know where do you guys find this stuff and then three months later Bob
Gray's promoted as I'm Davis is promoting it I was like well these guys
are ahead of the game they're ahead on they're ahead of the curve it's so funny
today you know I went and bought some of that Trinity ice cream that Jersey Joe
was or I guess now he's Jacksonville Joe but that Jersey Joe was showing the
Trinity I went down there and brought I brought it to Adam Fannin's house you
open his freezer it's already there he's always he's always one step ahead of me
look we know what the Bible says let's not move the ancient landmark that our
fathers have said let's not move the goalpost let's not move the landmark now
look the Bible's our final authority but we shouldn't just be hasty or quick to
thrown out to throw out established doctrine believed by all Baptists and
all evangelical Christians you know I mean good night that's a pretty serious
thing I mean you better have concrete proof in the Bible and what you actually
find is the opposite you find a mountain of evidence for the Trinity stay with
steadfast stay with the Trinity and if you do end up having to part ways with
brother Fannin for whatever reason or part ways with brother Romero for
whatever reason if you have to part ways with us or our friends or other brothers
and sisters in Christ just don't ever part ways with the Trinity just stay
with the Trinity don't slip into that oneness crowd let's fire it's never word
of prayer father we thank you so much for your word Lord and we thank you so
much for making it clear especially in the book of John Lord that the beloved
book that we give to every babe in Christ to root them and establish them
in the faith Lord thank you for your word thank you for all these people God
bless them for driving three four five hours to be here and and those who are
local Lord thank you so much for raising up a local assembly here to stand with
this great group of soul winning Christians Lord bless our time of
fellowship Lord and give us all safety as we go our separate ways in Jesus name
we pray amen