Isaiah chapter 32, let's start reading in verse 6, the Bible says,
If you notice in this verse the Bible compares someone that is a hypocrite to a vile person.
And in our culture, in our society, the word hypocrite pretty much just only has one definition.
Someone that says and does not.
But what I want to show you in this sermon is that there's a lot more to being a hypocrite
than that simple definition.
Because that is an aspect of being a hypocrite.
But a hypocrite in the Bible is a very wicked person.
Well, we're all hypocrites and look, if you just take that very simple basic definition,
there is some truth to that.
There are times that we all say and do not, right?
If we're honest with ourselves, there's times where we say that we're a certain way and
we fail because we're sinners, right?
But the person that is a hypocrite in the Bible is a vile person, this verse says.
It says, this person will speak villainy.
Notice to practice hypocrisy and to utter error against the Lord to make empty the soul of the hungry and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
The hypocrite is not just your run of the mill, average, Joe plumber, sinner.
It is someone much, much worse than that and it's one of the people that Jesus went after the hardest in his ministry.
Over and over the New Testament, you see him saying,
woe unto you hypocrites, calling people hypocrites.
We even read this morning the story
of how the Jews came to Jesus.
And they said, hey, is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or no?
And he responded to them saying that they were hypocrites.
Why? Because they were asking a question completely insincerely.
They didn't actually want to know the answer to that.
All they were doing is they were trying to practice wickedness in their heart
to trap Jesus Christ.
So that's what a hypocrite is.
Go to Isaiah 33, flip the page, Isaiah 33.
Let's get another description of a hypocrite.
Verse 14 says, the sinners in Zion are afraid.
Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites.
Now notice what happens to hypocrites.
Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Hypocrites are people that are going to hell.
Hippocrates are extremely wicked people, and hypocrites are going to hell in this verse.
Stay in Isaiah, and I'm going to read a few Proverbs 11-9.
The Bible says,
but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Notice someone that destroys their neighbor,
that's a little more extreme on the sin scale
than just, hey, we said one thing
and our life is doing another.
No, this person's actually practicing iniquity,
devising mischief, destroying his neighbor,
an extremely wicked person.
I told you to stay in Isaiah.
I'll read one more verse for you.
1 Peter 2 1 says,
wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile
and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking.
So in 1 Peter, the Bible's giving us this admonition
that we should put off hypocrisies
because though hypocrisy is an attribute
of a super, super wicked person,
even us as Christians sometimes
can have some of the attributes of a hypocrite.
So what I want to do with this sermon is help us to recognize what the attributes of a hypocrite are.
So first of all, we can stay away from those people, avoid those people,
but also so that we can just even examine our own hearts and our own lives
to see if we have any hypocrisy in our heart and of course to fix that issue.
So the attributes of a hypocrite.
Number one, hypocrites say things that they don't believe.
Hippocrates say things that they don't believe.
This is a little bit on a different level than saying and doing not.
Right? Because I could say,
hey, this is wrong and I truly believe it, right?
But I could still fail in that area.
Right? All of us do this.
But here's what the Hippocrate does. It's way more wicked than that.
The Hippocrates says something that they just don't believe at all.
That's a completely different person.
That's an insincere person. Look at
Isaiah 29 verse 13.
Wherefore, the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near me with their mouth and with their lips do honor me,
but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men.
Notice, these people are putting on a show saying, God bless, praise the Lord, hallelujah,
brother.
They're saying all these words that with their lips and with their mouth, they're honoring
God.
But inwardly, God knows our hearts and these people's hearts are far from God.
This is someone that says, but doesn't even believe what they're saying.
Now, this is called a hyper-spiritual person.
And you have to watch out for hyper-spiritual people
because it's an indication that they're trying to flatter.
It's an indication that they're saying things that they don't mean.
You know, all of us in this room, we love God.
We're trying our best to serve him.
We're serious about soul winning,
preaching the word of God.
We're serious about serving God,
but you know what's funny is when we talk to each other,
we're not like, oh, praise the Lord most high of Jehovah Jireh.
You know, praise his name on high, brother,
nice to meet you this morning in the name of the Lord.
You know, there's this one guy at church one time
that would hug dudes, which is just weird, first of all.
But he would say, you know,
my bowels are refreshed in the Lord with you, brother.
And it's just like.
Whoa, don't ever say that again
Like that's a terrible thing to say, right? We're not living in these times. Don't say that in our culture
But again, that is someone that is not sincere. That is someone that is a hypocrite
Why because they're saying things that they don't actually mean that's a weird thing to say and oftentimes people want to convince you of
How spiritual they are so they'll say things that they don't even believe
And this is a dangerous thing because sometimes people, they have a hunger or a craving for leadership.
They may have a hunger or craving to become a pastor or a preacher or something like that.
And sometimes they will literally say things and preach things that they don't even believe just to get into a position.
That is a hypocrite.
That is a scary person right there.
You know, you've got to be honest about the things that you believe.
You have to say the things that you believe.
And look, if you get an opportunity to preach behind the pulpit here,
and there's something that you disagree with me on,
some, you know, different interpretation of scripture or minor doctrine,
look, don't preach against what I'm preaching,
but also don't just repeat things that you don't actually believe.
Just, there's a lot of things to preach in this book.
Just preach something you actually believe.
You know, I want to listen to a preacher that actually believes what he's saying, where I'm not just like, is this guy putting on a show?
Like, is this guy just wasting all of our time just trying to convince us of something?
That is what a hypocrite does.
And you know what? God does not like these people.
It's like smoking his eyes. It's annoying to him.
You know, here's an example of someone that was like this.
Tyler Doka.
I understand many of you may not know who this guy is, but this guy, several years ago,
I want to say like 2018, kind of attached himself to the new IFB movement, and he proclaimed
himself to be post-trib against the sodomites, anti-Zionists, King James only, salvation
by faith, all these things that we agree on, and he's preaching all these things for years.
Well now, the guy literally claims to be Jesus Christ.
Now, here's the thing, you don't just change your mind on that doctrine.
Like, well, you know, I was reading my Bible one day and I just, I realized that Tyler
Doka is Jesus and so I have to submit myself to the Bible, right?
That's not what happened there.
The person was a liar from the beginning.
The person got up Sunday after Sunday, Wednesday after Wednesday,
and just preached things he didn't believe.
That is a wicked person.
That is a disgusting human being.
And you know what, I would rather be around someone
where maybe they're not the greatest preacher,
maybe they don't know everything in the Bible,
but at least what they're saying to you, they believe.
And I just want preachers to preach what they actually believe.
And this guy was just a piece of garbage lying to everyone.
You know, preachers do this by speaking out of both sides of their mouth.
They'll say things like,
Well, of course, salvation is by faith alone.
In Jesus Christ, it's only by grace.
But we all know that you have to have the works, too.
And I'm just like, you're a hypocrite, why don't you actually say what you believe?
One of those things you believe.
So which one is it?
Is salvation by faith or by works?
Just say what you believe, make it clear.
But people, they want, they want to put on a show, they want to be adored, they want
to be liked, they want to have numbers, they want to have money, and so they'll speak on
both sides of their mouth.
You know, recently I watched this Christmas cantana.
And overall, it's a good program.
It's a really big church.
It's a really great opportunity to preach the gospel
because there's so many visitors in the church.
And I'm watching this,
and they kind of have like this section
of the Christmas container
where they have like a family acting.
And the child kind of asks their parents
what they have to do to be saved.
And so all of a sudden the dad starts explaining,
You know, son, Jesus died for your sins and the Bible says that if you put your faith in him,
he'll forgive you of all your sins.
All you have to do is repent of your sins.
And I'm just like, what in the world?
It's like on one hand you just said what was right, now you throw in this poison.
Then the preacher gets up and he provides a crystal clear statement on salvation
and I'm just thinking, what are you guys doing as a church?
Why are you speaking out of both sides of your mouth?
Just say what you actually believe.
Is it by faith? Is it by works? Just let us know.
That's what we want. That's what I want to hear from preaching.
Go to Matthew chapter 12, Matthew chapter number 12.
And this doesn't just apply to church, it also applies just in your conversations with people.
Just say what you actually believe.
Don't pretend to believe something you don't.
Don't try to be a different person than you actually are.
Just say what you believe.
Matthew 12, 34.
The Bible says,
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things?
For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
Jesus kind of marveling here saying like,
how is it that I know you're evil,
but sometimes you're saying good things.
And this is what false prophets do.
For a while, they could kind of say good things.
For a while, they could say what's right.
For a while, they could give lip service.
I mean, that's what Isaiah is saying.
They're honoring God with their lips.
They're saying the right things,
but their heart is far from Him.
He's saying, how can you guys, being evil,
speak good things for out of the abundance of the heart,
the mouth speaketh?
And this is the truth about just being a fake person
is that the truth will always come out.
So it's not worth playing the game.
It's not worth trying to drag this thing on because eventually who you are will be made manifest.
And so you might as well just say who you are.
You might as well just say what you believe, verse 35.
And if someone just goes around preaching for year after year, preaching things that they don't believe,
you know, eventually they're going to leak their heart and they're going to be exposed for who they are.
Now this is not to say that you can't change your mind about something because we're all wrong about things, right?
But here's the thing, it's better to be wrong about something while you're fully convinced that it's true,
then you actually see the Bible on an issue and you're like, okay, the Bible's corrected me here.
I was wrong, here's what the Word of God says, and then change, that's totally normal, that's
totally fine.
But, you know, there's some people where they're kind of a chameleon, and they believe one
thing around a different group, and then the moment someone else has a different opinion,
they're just like, yeah, that's what I believe too.
And it's not that they're actually putting thought into this, or actually having a true
opinion based on any fact or scripture, it's that they just kind of want to blend in, because
they're hypocrite.
They say things that they don't believe.
You know, another example is a guy like Tyler Baker who Tyler Baker was a man that worked
for Faithward Baptist Church several years ago.
He's working with Pastor Anderson.
He's going to a great church where he's hearing great doctrine and right at the time he's
about to be ordained as a pastor, he kind of goes around the church and starts infecting
the church with this doctrine of oneness, modalism.
Now, do you really expect me to believe that you could be working for Pastor Anderson at
Faithful Word, and you just didn't know the doctrine of the Trinity, you just were ignorant
of it, and then you just picked up your Bible one day and found out that modalism is true?
That's not what happened.
What happened was that he was lying about who he was the whole time.
And now, today, he's preaching that he's not a Biblicist, that the Bible isn't the final
authority.
Look, you don't change your mind about those kind of things.
That's a saved person.
We have the Holy Spirit of God that bears witness to the truth.
There are deal breaker doctrines.
There are damnable heresies,
meaning heresies that if you believe you're not saved.
And me as a saved person,
I'm never going to change my mind about the deity of Christ.
I'm never going to change my mind about salvation.
Right? There's these major things that are just settled and clear.
And if someone, quote, changes their mind about those things,
it's that they were never saved to begin with.
It's that they were fake the entire time, they weren't persuaded of a truth, they were always a hypocrite.
Tyler Baker is a hypocrite.
Tyler Doka is a hypocrite.
These are what real hypocrites are.
Not just me and you, because sometimes we say and do not.
It's a lot more serious than that.
You know, I know of another evangelist that went to a church,
an IFB church, who was about to be ordained as a pastor.
And, you know, he's preaching sermons,
he's going to start a church,
he's this Baptist evangelist,
and today he is a Hindu.
How does that happen was he convinced of the truth of Hinduism? No, he was just a liar
He was just a fraud the whole time and you know don't let these things move you when you see this kind of stuff
These this is just someone that was a Judas. This is just someone that was an infiltrator that was never saved
Look at verse number 36. It says,
Jesus cares about the words that we speak.
We need to make sure what we're saying is true,
that we're conveying our real beliefs,
that we're not being hypocrites.
Go to Matthew 15.
While you're turning there. I'll read 1st John 2 19. They went out from us, but they were not of us
For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us
But they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us
Notice, when you're a Christian, when you believe in God, there are some things that
you just will continue to believe because you're saved.
And if you depart from those things, if you move on from those things, it just shows you
were never of us.
You were never saved to begin with.
Matthew 15 verse 1 says, then came to Jesus, scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem,
saying, Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders, for they wash not
But he answered and said unto them,
Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother,
and he that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, it is a gift by whatsoever
thou mightest be profited by me, and honor not his father or his mother, he shall be
free.
Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
Notice what he calls them, ye hypocrites.
Well did Isaiah prophesy of you saying, this people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth,
and honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
But in vain, they do worship me, teaching for doctrines, the commandments of men.
Why is it that these people here were hypocrites?
Here's why, because if you would have gone up to these Pharisees and you would have asked
them, hey, do you believe in the law of God?
What would they have said?
Yeah, of course we do.
If you would have asked them, hey, should a person honor their father and mother?
What would they have said?
Of course you should.
Now, were these people, people that believed that you should do something and they were
just struggling to obey that commandment?
No, they premeditatedly decided that they're not going to follow this commandment and any
time they had to honor their father or mother, they just said, well, that's a gift to God.
You know, oh, it's a gift by whatsoever that might just be profited by me.
Instead of honoring mother and father, like the Bible says, they're saying, oh, you know,
I'm dedicating this to the Lord.
I'm doing something spiritual with it.
that they don't actually believe at all.
That is what a hypocrite does.
Go to Matthew 23, Matthew chapter 23.
And so hypocrites, it's not your average
run-of-the-mill Christian, it's really wicked people.
You know, just like Mormons, when you go out soul winning,
and I absolutely hate dealing with Mormons,
it's like the worst people to deal with.
But when you ask them what they believe,
they will lie to you.
They will just tell you that they believe something that they don't.
Why? Because they are hypocrites.
They will tell you, we believe the King James Bible.
Oh yeah, we believe in one God, even though they absolutely do not.
They believe in an infinite number of gods.
When you read Brigham Young's writings, they believe that they themselves will become gods
if you read doctrines and covenants, one of their fake, disgusting holy books or whatever,
where they teach that they will become gods and ascend someday as gods, but they will
lie to your face and say, oh, we're Christians.
Oh, we believe just like you.
No, they're hypocrites.
They're complete liars.
Matthew 23.3 says,
So there is that aspect of hypocrisy of someone that says and does not except the difference with the Pharisees and the people that he's calling hypocrites here is that they're telling people to do things.
They're preaching the word of God, but they don't believe it to begin with.
You know how I know they didn't believe it?
Because Jesus said to them,
hey, if you would have believed Moses,
then you would have believed me.
So I know for a fact they didn't believe the Bible.
They didn't believe the Word of God,
yet they're walking around preaching it.
They're walking around telling people
to follow God's commandments.
And Jesus is saying,
look, the things that they're saying
on the face is fine.
Like, do what they're saying,
because what they're saying is good.
But don't do after their works
because they say and do not.
They don't actually believe
what they're saying.
I'm sorry, verse four, for they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be born and lay them
on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
So they like to put all these extreme, over-the-top, man-made standards on other people that aren't found in the Bible
and try to make people feel beneath them, try to make people look at them thinking that they're so holy,
yet all these rules and extra-biblical things that they're imposing on other people, they don't follow any of them.
Not only do they not follow those, they don't even follow the actual rules of the Bible, like you said in verse 3.
Verse 5, but all their works they do for to be seen of men.
They make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments.
Go to Romans chapter 7. Romans chapter 7.
So, so far I hope you can see that hypocrisy is not just simply saying and doing not, it's saying you believe something when you don't.
It's saying you're going to do something when you have absolutely zero intention whatsoever on following that.
Now, of course, that does not mean that us at times are going to seem hypocritical in a sense of the word, right?
And the Apostle Paul kind of goes over this in Romans chapter 7, verse 14.
The apostle Paul said for we know that the law is spiritual but I am carnal sold under sin for that which I do
I allow not, right?
So there is an aspect of that definition.
He's saying, look, there are things that I do in my life
that I tell other people not to do.
I don't know about you.
I've been there.
I think we've all been there, right?
You know, those of you that are parents,
have you ever told your kids not to do something
and then you have even done that
or you sometimes have messed up in that area, right?
That's all of us.
Verse number 15 look at the end he says for what I would that do I not but what I hate that do I
He's saying there's some things that I want to do
That I'm telling myself like man. I really want to get this done right for some people
It's like man. I really want to go to the gym right but they just never do it or you know like hey
I really want to read the Bible
I really want to read the Bible cover to cover but they find that it's hard
They find that they struggle to do it and he says there's things that I even hate
There are sins that just piss me off, the sins that I just hate, yet sometimes I myself find myself committing those sins.
That's what he's saying, verse 16.
If then, I do that, which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Now, here's the difference between the wicked hypocrites we're talking about and Christians that struggle with sin.
When we sin, if this is your attitude, man, I sinned, I messed up, but you know what, the Bible is still right about this situation.
If you don't try to make excuses for it and be like,
no, well, it's okay for me because here's my circumstances.
Well, you know, it's okay that I'm not honoring my father and mother because I've dedicated it to God.
That's someone that's a hypocrite. They're not consenting unto the law that it's good.
Right? Paul is saying, look, I mess up. I do things I hate.
There's things I want to do that I don't. There's things that I do that I tell other people not to do.
But when I do those things, here's what I'm still saying.
The Bible's right and I'm wrong.
That is the right attitude to have is to submit yourself to the Bible and say even when I screw up
It's not the Bible's fault. It's not God's commandments fault. It's my fault. I'm the one that screwed up verse 17
Now then it is no more I that do it
But sin that dwelleth in me for I know that in me and he's gonna clarify what he's talking about that is in my flesh
Dwelleth no good thing
For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not not.
Right, so we have the new man, we have the old man.
In our old man, in our flesh, there is nothing good, right?
We cannot do good in the flesh.
We must be walking in the spirit, and when we're walking in the flesh, guess what?
We're going to do things we hate.
We're going to do things that we don't allow.
We're going to do things that we don't want to do.
That's why it's so important to walk in the spirit, but I'm just trying to explain this
to get you to realize that, hey, if you find yourself in that position,
that's not the hypocrite that Jesus is preaching about.
That's not the hypocrite Isaiah is talking about.
You know, those people, they say things they don't even believe.
You know, we are, it's called sinners.
That's what we are.
And that's what the Apostle Paul is describing.
Go to Matthew chapter 27.
You know, I heard some prideful preacher one time get up and he was talking about how he just hates
How Christians use Romans chapter 7 to talk about how we struggle with sin
He's like, you know preachers will use Romans 7 and act like this is a normal Christian experience
And it's like yeah, because it is a normal experience because if the postal Paul struggled with sin
I'm gonna struggle with sin. You're gonna struggle with sin
And this guy, you know what he's doing?
He's wanting to be seen of men.
He's wanting to puff himself up
as if he's so holy, so godly.
What that guy is, is a hypocrite.
That's what he is.
So number one, hypocrites say things they don't believe.
Number two, hypocrites condemn harshly
when they are guilty of worse.
Hypocrites condemn harshly
when they are guilty of worse.
Matthew 27, verse three.
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned,
repented himself and brought again the 30 pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.
So Judas had betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ, had sold him for 30 pieces of silver.
He was, you know, beating himself up about it. He repented, which by the way shows you're not saved by repenting of your sins,
because Judas repented and still was not saved.
So he brings the money back to them.
Verse four says, saying,
I have sinned and that I have betrayed the innocent blood.
And they said, what is that to us?
See thou to that.
Verse five, and he cast down the pieces of silver
in the temple and departed and went and hanged himself.
Verse six, and the chief priests took the silver pieces
and said, notice their mentality here.
It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury
because it is the price of blood.
And they took counsel and brought and bought with them the potter's field to bury strangers in.
Wherefore, that field was called the field of blood unto this day.
Don't, don't miss this story.
What are these chief priests and elders doing?
They're conspiring to kill Jesus.
You want to talk about a big sin?
You want to talk about an extremely wicked action?
These guys are covenanting with Judas to betray him,
to deliver Jesus Christ to the Romans.
But what are they worried about?
They're worried about Judas bringing back the blood money.
And they're saying, oh, we can't take this blood money.
I mean, that's too far.
That's drawing the, we got to draw the line somewhere.
Yeah, we'll betray Jesus.
We'll kill him. We'll murder him. No problem.
Oh, but don't give me that dirty money.
That's not lawful for us to take.
You know, that's a hypocrite right there.
That's someone who's condemning other people harshly, and they're not even realizing how big of a sin that they are involved in.
Go to Matthew chapter 7, Matthew chapter 7.
I mean, hypocrites are so blind.
I mean, it is amazing to watch.
I mean, people with like the least self-awareness in this world are true hypocrites.
The hypocrites in the sense of the definition the Bible's giving here, these people are blind.
Matthew chapter 7, notice, Matthew 7 verse 1 says,
judge not that ye be not judged.
Now, if this was a liberal church, that's all we read.
We'd close our Bibles and go home right there.
But believe it or not, there's actually more to the chapter.
Verse 2 says, for, meaning because, with what judgment ye judge,
ye shall be judged.
And with what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you again.
So, notice, when you judge someone in a certain area...
you will be judged in that exact same area, right?
So it wouldn't make sense for someone who is lazy,
who's always late at their job,
who gets poor performance reviews,
who just is a terrible worker.
It wouldn't make sense for that person to judge their co-worker,
who also gets a poor performance review.
I mean, how much sense would it make if a crappy worker
went to his other crappy worker and said,
let me give you some tips on how to improve your career?
Jesus is saying, that makes no sense, don't judge someone in that area.
With what measure you meet, it will be measured to you again.
That's talking about standards.
What is a ruler?
It's a standard.
And if you have a standard in your life and you are not meeting that standard, you can't
judge someone else who's not meeting that standard in their life too.
That doesn't make any sense.
You don't have any right to judge in that situation.
Verse three, you used a different metaphor here.
And why, behold us thou, the moat that is in thy brother's eye,
but consider us not the beam that is in thine own eye?
You know, why would you look at someone who's got like a little speck of dust
while you have this giant log coming out of your face?
Right? I mean, that doesn't make any sense.
It's a ridiculous picture to prove how ridiculous hypocrites are
and how ridiculous they are in their judgment.
Verse four.
Or, how wilt thou say to thy brother, let me pull out the moat out of thine eye, and
behold, a beam is in thine own eye."
So what is this person doing?
This person is going to condemn you.
and point out your problems, your moat.
Meanwhile, they have this gigantic issue in their life.
This huge, major sin issue.
They're condemning you harshly for that
while being ignorant or just not paying attention to
or not caring about their own issue.
And notice what Jesus calls this person in verse 5.
Thou, hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye
and then shout thou see clearly to cast out the moat
out of thy brother's eye.
So notice, it's not a sin to judge, it's not wrong to judge your brother and say,
hey, you've got this issue here, let me help you get the moat out of your eye,
if you yourself don't have a beam in yours,
if you yourself are not guilty of the same thing,
that would be a proper way to judge.
This is why we have standards for pastors,
this is why we have qualifications for judges and things like this in the Bible,
because these people are going to be correcting issues.
are gonna be correcting problems and it doesn't make any sense if he himself has some giant
beam in his eye, right? I mean would you really want to listen to a pastor who's been divorced
and remarried to teach you about marriage? Would you really want to listen to a pastor
preach about childrearing who's never raised children, right? That doesn't make any sense.
We want to make sure that you're judging properly. Now
What are some ways that people do this?
Well, here's a big one that I've seen for over a decade,
and it's a hatred or just criticism against the new IFB
from old IFB churches or new evangelical type churches,
that they look at guys like Pastor Anderson, they look at our preaching,
and they'll say, man, these guys are so hateful.
Oh, these guys are so mean, they have such a bad spirit.
And some people like to get mad about this point being like,
oh, the new IFB, they just say that they could overlook anything because you're not going soul-winning.
Look, if you're not going soul-winning, you don't love people.
You don't love souls. You don't love God.
That's what the Bible teaches.
And how dare you look at us?
How dare you criticize us?
You say we have a mean spirit.
You say we're hateful.
You're walking around with this giant ponderosa pine in your eyes covered in the blood of souls.
and you don't even care, you don't even realize how stupid and foolish and hypocritical you look.
That's right, man.
I would never give any credence to any pastor that wants to correct us who doesn't even go soul-winning.
You think I'm going to listen to criticism or advice from someone that doesn't do the first works?
Nuts to you.
Get lost.
I'm not listening to any of it.
You are a hypocrite.
How about this? You got people that live in the online only world.
Their whole life is online. It's just video games.
It's just watching services online. They don't even go to church.
They don't even do anything. But back in 2020,
when some churches closed down for a couple weeks
during what was an unknown period of pandemic,
where we didn't know how bad the situation was,
they want to sit there and criticize pastors,
that have sacrificed their lives for the Lord Jesus Christ
and serving Him and feeding God's people,
these idiots and losers and do-nothings want to criticize.
People are criticizing Pastor Menez, Pastor Thompson, Pastor Anderson
because some of these churches either lowered the capacity that they were allowing per service.
Or they were spacing people out, or maybe they did a few weeks of where it was like a live stream only type thing.
And it's like, here you have these great men that have literally read the Bible scores of times.
that have literally gotten thousands of people saved,
that have literally changed thousands of people's lives.
But you, Mr. Dungeons and Dragons,
retard, want to sit here and criticize pastors and churches
over something you have no idea what you're even talking about.
Are you a virologist?
Do you know what this pandemic was?
Did you have all the answers in 2020?
No, you're just some blowhard that wants to run his mouth.
You're a hypocrite is what you are.
How about this, liberal Christians, I hear this all the time, liberal Christians condemning
you, criticizing you, calling you names for spanking your children.
This is a gigantic beam in their eye.
You know why?
Because the Bible says in Proverbs 13 and 24, he that spareeth his rod, hatheth his son.
But he that loveth him, chaseneth him, be times.
Here you've got this giant beam in your eye called literally hating your own children.
And you want to criticize me for spanking mine.
You want to criticize Christians for actually spanking and disciplining their kids.
Meanwhile, the Bible says you hate your kids.
You literally loathe your children and you're sitting here criticizing us.
You know what? You are. You are a hypocrite.
Because you want to condemn other people harshly when you yourself are guilty of worst.
Let me tell you about one of the biggest hypocrites I've ever met in my entire life.
His name is Cassidy Campbell.
And you want to know why I'm bringing this guy up,
because I wouldn't just go after some random layman church member,
which he's not even a church member anymore.
This guy's a public figure.
This guy's fair game.
This guy's got millions of subscribers, 1.8 million subscribers.
And quite honestly, I wrote a sermon about this loser months ago,
and I didn't preach it for one reason, and it was out of respect for Pastor Shelley,
who asked me not to.
So if anyone wants to get mad about this preaching, don't get mad at Pastor Shelley.
He was the one that was more gracious.
You can get mad at me if you want.
But let me tell you, Cassidy Campbell is one of the biggest hypocrites I've ever met in my entire life.
You want to talk about someone who criticizes other people harshly when they themselves are guilty of worse, it's Cassidy Campbell.
Now I realize many of you guys don't know who this guy is because he was a member at Steadfast,
and you probably don't go around on YouTube watching the dumbest videos ever created.
And if you do, shame on you.
You know, shame on you if you like this guy's videos and his YouTube account because it's absolutely terrible.
You know, this guy came to Steadfast Baptist Church and I'm going to get into some of his issues in a minute.
But this guy was given so much love and so much grace, it's not even funny.
Brother Ben specifically took this guy under his wing and loved him and taught him to go soul-winning and was a friend under him.
And Pastor Shelley did good under him and we all, you know, counseled him and helped him in church and overlooked some major issues that were really annoying
because we want people to grow, we want people to get things right, and we're willing to love people with issues because we have sinned too in our lives, right?
We want to have that attitude.
But now he's going on and attacking steadfast Baptist Church.
He's attacking the new IFB, he's saying that we're all a cult,
he's saying that none of us think for ourselves that we can't, you know,
nothing that we say we believe, you know, attacking everybody.
This is what he said. He said, they don't believe anything that they say.
So according to him, we're the hypocrites.
According to him, we say a bunch of things that we don't believe.
He says the key thing is that they say salvation is by faith alone and rip on anyone preaching works for salvation.
But as soon as someone leaves the cult, they say that person isn't saved.
So he's guilty of a couple things here.
Railing is one of them and being a hypocrite is another.
I've never heard someone say that he isn't saved.
I've been around hundreds of people that know him.
Never have I heard anyone say that he's unsaved and I'm not saying that he's unsaved
But what I am saying is he's a hypocrite
What I am saying is that he is wicked. Why? Well, let me tell you what bro does for a living
Let me tell you what Cassidy Campbell does to support his family and to make money
One of the things that he does is he dresses like a sonomite for a living
You want to criticize me as you dress like a filthy faggot for a camera as you dress like a tranny
You really think I'm gonna listen anything that you have to say go to Deuteronomy 22 5 Deuteronomy 22 5
Putting on makeup putting on weird gross disgusting clothing that I don't even want to describe Deuteronomy 22 5 says
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment,
for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God."
You know, when our church was going through one of the biggest battles in our history,
one of the biggest battles I've ever seen in my life,
We went to the city council meeting and we were presenting to the city council things that were happening to us.
All the sodomites were there with us.
They were throwing lies and false accusations against us and trying to turn the city against us.
That was the same very night that sodomites first started coming to my house, following me.
So we're going through a serious battle here.
And what does this idiot Cassidy Campbell do?
He shows up to our city council meeting dressed like a sodomite.
Wearing makeup, dressed like a tranny, and he gets up on the mic and starts pretending like he's some faggot making a big joke out of everything that we're doing.
You know, we're here to be doing something serious, fighting for the Lord, fighting for the Word of God, in a battle, and here comes this idiot dressed up as a sodomite.
And you know what I saw? I saw some Christians laughing at that idiot, and you know what, shame on those people that did that.
You need to repent of that crap, because when you dress up like a woman as a man, you are an abomination to God.
Yet this idiot wants to sit here and condemn us.
Guess what? I've never put on a dress.
I've never acted like a tranny. How dare you criticize anything?
You piece of crap. You piece of garbage.
Here's another thing he does. He flirts with other women for a living.
He literally sets up adultery stings using his own wife.
What am I talking about?
He has this video where he's like hiding in a closet or something, and his wife had
been online trying to hook up with some dude.
And this dude literally comes into his house and starts meeting with his wife, and they
start talking, and then he jumps out of a closet and scares the guy.
Ha ha!
How funny that you're making light of sin.
How funny that you're making fun of adultery.
How funny that you're even putting the seed into your wife's head of committing adultery.
Why would you even plant that in your wife's mind?
Because you know what your wife just saw?
Wow, that was pretty easy.
Oh wow, I could just message some guy and he could actually come over to my house.
You think that's a good idea to be putting in your wife's head or anyone's head?
You think it's a good idea to play with fire like that?
You sick piece of garbage?
And to stand up as a Christian?
Because here's the thing, this would be despicable if it was an atheist.
This would be despicable if this was a sodomite making these videos.
But this guy is a Christian?
This guy got up and said, oh, I'm new IFB, and you're making videos like this?
Shame on you.
Someone ought to slap you across the face, man.
Wake you up.
And you're going to sit here and criticize us?
Wow.
Criticize Pastor Anderson.
Criticize Pastor Anderson's family.
Pastor Anderson's marriage.
Last time I checked, Pastor Anderson didn't ask for some guy to meet up with his wife
in his own house.
You idiot.
Trying to do pedophile stings in his own home where his children live, in his own home.
Bringing pedophiles into his house for clicks, for views, for money.
You want to talk about filthy lucre?
Maybe it's making money by doing adultery sting videos.
Maybe it's making money by going to the grocery store and the gym and the street
and everywhere in the world just making videos flirting with other women as a married man.
First Thessalonians 522 says abstain from all appearance of evil.
Not only should we just stay away from adultery,
but can we please not make videos where we're pretending like we want to?
Where we're hitting on women, where we're getting their phone numbers?
Again, why would you play with fire like that?
Why would you put that seed into someone's mind?
Like what if some guy's like, oh man, it really was that easy
to get that pretty girl's number?
You don't think that some guys would do something wicked in that situation?
Why are we putting these seeds into people's minds?
Why would you stand up as a Christian promoting this?
It's unbelievable to me.
And it's so funny how the haters of the new IFB,
they want to criticize Pastor Anderson.
They want to criticize his family, criticize his marriage.
But they have no problem teaming up with this guy.
They've got no problem defending him.
And it's like, you want to know what the difference is?
Is that when he was in our church, we were trying to teach him what's right.
We are trying to say, hey, here's how you go soul-winning.
Pastor Shelley's preaching sermon after sermon, hard preaching, trying to get people to change their lives.
Where's that on the other side now?
Oh, or is it just crickets?
Or is it that they're just fine with it because he hates Pastor Anderson and Pastor Shelley now?
Cassidy Campbell, you are a coward and a piece of crap.
And you are a traitor.
to sit there and be in our church and accept our love and our grace and our
friendship for that long and just to turn on us that in that way is so
unbelievably sick and he is the worst hypocrite I've ever seen. Go to Proverbs
14, Proverbs chapter 14. Hey, maybe before you criticize another grown man,
before you criticize a pastor, maybe you should start with getting a real job.
Maybe like the threshold to criticize a church and a pastor should be that you at least have a real job.
You know, maybe the threshold should be that you have the maturity level above a 12-year-old.
Quite honestly, I know 12-year-olds that are way more mature than this guy.
I wasn't this stupid when I was 12. I don't think you guys were this stupid when you were 12.
Unbelievable.
Proverbs 14-9.
Fools make a mock at sin.
But among the righteous, there is favor.
This guy is a fool, this guy is a hypocrite.
Why? Because he condemns harshly when he himself is guilty of much more.
You know, keep your mouth shut and this wouldn't be being preached right now.
I'm not just blasting people because they have issues,
but when you have gigantic issues and you're going to start talking about moats and other people's eyes,
get prepared to be destroyed.
Go to Matthew 6, Matthew 6.
What's another attribute of a hypocrite?
Number three, hypocrites put on a show.
Hypocrites put on a show.
And again, this all kind of ties into just not being sincere.
Not being a sincere person.
Matthew 6-1 says,
Take heed that you do not your alms before men to be seen of them.
Otherwise, you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Therefore, when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee,
as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets,
that they may have glory of men.
Verily, I say unto you, they have their reward.
But when thou doest thine alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
That thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father would see it in secret himself,
shall reward thee openly."
So, you know, there's some things in life that God has called for us to have a public ministry in, right?
Soul winning is one of those things. That's a public ministry. We should shout it from the housetops.
We should get the gospel out to everyone.
You know, I make soul winning videos to try to train soul winners to help them become better soul winners.
We want that to be public, right? We want the preaching of God's Word to be public, to be blasted out to everyone, to share God's Word.
But, you know, private acts of kindness
private acts of charity, alms,
these are things that should be done quietly.
These are things that should be done
where no one knows about it,
where you're not doing something nice for someone
in the hopes of, oh man, I hope my boss sees this,
I hope the pastor sees this,
hope my friends see this so they could realize
what a great, wonderful person I am.
No, actually you should realize that, hey, God is watching
and God knows that I'm trying to do good right now
and so no one else needs to know about this
except God, then you have a reward from God.
But when someone else knows about it, your reward is that other person knows about it.
That's a pretty shallow reward.
You know, who cares what other people think?
Who cares what other people think about how spiritual you are?
Who actually matters is God.
He's the one that you need to be worried about, impressing.
Go to verse number five.
It says,
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are,
for they love to pray standing in the synagogues
and in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men.
Verily, I say unto you, they have their reward.
But thou when thou prayest enter into thy closet, and when thou shalt thy door, pray to thy father which is in secret, and thy father which seeeth in secret shall reward thee openly."
So notice what hypocrites do. They pray, and are they praying in a way where they're having a sincere communication with God? They're actually asking God for something? They're in fellowship with Him? No, they just want to be seen of men.
They just want to be heard, right?
And so when we're praying in a public setting,
we shouldn't be trying to put on some sort of show, right?
We shouldn't be sitting here when we pray corporately
as a church and just be spending 30 minutes praying to God,
acting like we're dedicating the temple
in 1 Kings 8 or something like that.
No, we're just praying together.
We're not trying to put on a show.
We're just trying to invoke God's ear,
invoke His blessings upon us,
make sure that we're in the right mindset.
We're not trying to put on a show.
I visited a old IFB church once and the church was great.
The pastor was great.
He preached a really good sermon.
But before the sermon on their Wednesday night, you know, we pray together and I usually
lead the prayer.
But at this church, he just asked some guy in the congregation to lead the prayer.
And I am not kidding.
If you were in the Bahamas, you know what I'm talking about.
At least I was seeing people fall asleep. I was seeing people drop
I mean it was just like God, please this and Heavenly Father this and low. Oh Lord, please this and oh Lord plays this
And we're just like bro
Like come on man
This is not what prayer is supposed to be about and the guy he's just putting on a little bit of a show
Not saying the guy's some terrible person or they's not saved
But in this instance he was acting pretty hypocritical
Because when we're praying as a church, we don't need to spend 30 minutes doing it
You know, I went out to dinner last night with someone and I don't think they would have liked as our nice
Steaming hot food is on the table. I'm like, all right, 45 minute prayer session right now
We'd be like, man, I want to eat. She's like, Lord, we thank you for this food. Please bless it now
Be with us. Amen. All right. Oh, you're not that spiritual. Don't really care what you think care what God thinks
So I'm just gonna pray like that and call it good. That's what the Bible says good a Matthew 23 Matthew chapter 23
Hippocrates put on a show.
Matthew 23 verse 13 says,
but woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees.
Hippocrates, for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven
against men, for ye neither go in yourselves,
neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
So notice these Pharisees, these hypocrites, how are they putting on a show?
Well, because they're putting themselves forth as spiritual leaders.
They're standing in Moses' seat, Jesus says.
They're, you know, standing as the ministers of God, and yet they themselves are not even saved.
Not only are they not even saved, they're actually hindering people from being saved.
Yet they're putting on a show.
You know who's like this? Every Catholic priest on earth.
Every single false teacher on earth is a hypocrite.
Why? Because they're standing there acting like they love God,
acting like they're spiritual, yet they're not even saved,
and not only are they not saved, they're actually harming other people
and prohibiting them from getting saved by the false doctrine that they preach.
Look at verse 14.
Well unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer,
therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation."
When you notice that someone is a hypocrite,
when you notice that someone is doing things
to be seen of men, when they're trying to put on a show,
here's a truth about a lot of them,
is they're often guilty of very dark, wicked sins.
How about, like, devouring widows' houses?
I mean, how sick and gross is it
when we hear about, you know, crimes
where people prey on old people, right?
You know, credit card fraud, wire fraud,
property fraud, all the time against old people, and we as just normal decent human beings,
we hear about that where it's like, how sick and disgusting.
How could you sit here and take advantage of an old person, a defenseless widow, something
like that?
But you know what?
These people do.
Not only do they do that, they do that while acting spiritual.
How disgusting.
What utter scumbags.
These are the TV evangelists that pray on little old grandma who just loves Jesus and just doesn't know the Bible that well.
And he tells her, hey, you know, if you just give me all your money, God's gonna, you know, restore everything to Israel.
Israel's gonna come back to his glory if you just give me all your money.
And they're just like, okay, let's give all my money to Kenneth Copeland.
What are those people devouring widow's houses for a pretense making long prayer, acting spiritual while actually harming individuals?
I can't think of anything worse than that.
Verse 15.
Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you compass sea and land, to make one
proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
These are your Mormon missionaries walking around over every square inch of this planet, it seems like.
Yet they themselves are not saved.
They're not suffering people who want to be saved to be saved.
They're compassing sea and land to make another proselyte,
and they just turn into worse people than they are themselves.
That is what a hypocrite does. They harm individuals.
Look at verse 25.
Low unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites, for you may clean the outside of the cup and of the platter,
but within they are full of extortion and excess.
The outside is very important to them.
They want to put on a show. They want to put on a facade.
See here, at our church, we do care about the outside,
but we want to clean up the inside first.
And you know, I would love some day to have a nice building and a nice facility,
but I will never sacrifice the truth for a nice building.
I would rather meet in a strip mall until Jesus comes,
hearing the truth than to have something that looks real nice on the outside.
I mean, it really doesn't look nice today
when some truck ran into the side of it and ripped half the brick siding off.
But at least you're hearing the truth!
I'd rather be in a church hearing the truth
in a jacked up building than the nicest Catholic church.
As they speak sweet lies and send people to hell.
Sitting in a nice Mormon tabernacle,
a nice Mormon temple, as they sit there
and tell you you're going to become a God someday.
Make sure you wear your stupid underwear.
No thanks. I'll stay away from that.
Give me the strip mall. Give me the Baptist strip mall.
Verse 26, Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you're likened to whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
And of all uncleanness, even so ye outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within they are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
So, you can see the ire of the Lord Jesus Christ here and one of his hardest sermons
that he ever preached.
Who is he going after?
He's going after hypocrites.
And again, these aren't just people that are trying to do right.
The best they can.
But their flesh gets the best of them every once in a while,
and they sin.
That's not what these people are.
They don't believe what they say.
They're harming individuals.
They're putting on a show.
They're guilty of super wicked sins while projecting that they're clean and holy
and condemning other people for their minor issues.
Lastly, an attribute of a hypocrite.
Number four, hypocrites do not care about the truth.
Hippocrates do not care about the truth.
And again, the thing that these have in common is just insincerity.
Being insincere is the common trait with a hypocrite.
Matthew chapter 22 verse 15.
The Bible says, then went the Pharisees and took counsel how, notice, they might entangle
him in his talk.
So the narrator of the Bible gives us a glimpse into the hearts of these people.
And these people are not interested in truth.
They're not interested in discovering what Jesus has to say.
They show up with one mission in mind, to entangle Jesus in his talk, verse 16.
And they sent out unto their disciples with the Rhodians saying,
Master, we know that thou art true and teaches the way of God and truth.
Neither cares thou for any man, for thou regardest not the person of men.
Tell us, therefore, what thinkest thou?
Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar or not?
Now, this is an insincere question.
Because we already read that they are just here to entangle him in his talk.
They're not actually wondering, oh, I wonder if this, you know,
I wonder if we really need to pay Caesar tax or not, right?
But Jesus perceived their wickedness and said,
Why tempt ye me ye hypocrites?
See, if you only have our culture's definition of the word hypocrite,
this would be kind of a weird verse.
This would be kind of a hard verse to understand.
Verse 19,
Show me the tribute money,
And they brought unto him a penny,
And he saith unto them,
Whose is this image in superscription?
They say unto him Caesar's,
Then saith he unto them,
Render therefore unto Caesar,
The things which are Caesar's,
And unto God the things that are God's.
Now, this story is very applicable to us as a church, especially if you are a soul winner.
Because what you'll find if you go soul winning enough is that you will run into people called
trolls.
And another word for trolls are hypocrites.
You want to know why?
Because they're asking you questions that are not sincere.
Right? They want to just use your time, waste your time.
Oh yeah, what do you think about that? Oh, explain to me more about how you think Jesus is the Son of God.
Oh, explain to me a little bit more about how you think Jesus can be God at the same time.
And oftentimes you could gauge that a person's not genuine in wanting to know the answers.
They're there to troll you. They're there to waste your time.
They're there to entangle you in your talk.
And even recently I ran into one of these guys.
who was just some homeless dude sleeping on a doorstep.
I called him a doorstep theologian.
And he wanted to sit here and just argue doctrine with me.
And I just said straight to him.
I just said, hey, man, I'm just getting the impression
that you're trying to troll me and that you're not
a sincere person.
These aren't sincere questions.
So we're going to go talk to someone else.
Oh, no, bro.
No, I really want to know.
Yeah, I really want to know.
No, he didn't.
He was sitting there trying to waste our time.
He was sitting there trying to get us in an argument.
And you know how I know this as a fact?
Because I saw this.
And I saw his camera go open up and I saw him start recording me.
You really think a person that really wants to get saved is going to start randomly recording you?
No, he wanted to make some funny video to send to his friends.
Ha ha, look at the Christian at my door, or by step I guess.
Ha ha, look at the Christian telling me that Jesus is God.
This guy was not sincere.
He was a hypocrite.
And I just said, I feel like you're trolling me.
I don't think you're being very sincere right now.
Have a good day, you know?
That's what you got to do with these people
because they will waste your time.
Go to Titus chapter number three, Titus chapter number three.
When you realize that someone is a hypocrite,
that tells you this person does not have an interest in the truth.
And when you realize that someone has no interest in the truth,
don't waste your time with them.
Don't waste your breath.
We're out there to get people saved.
Verse number 9 of Titus 3 says,
But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions
and strivings about the law for they are unprofitable and vain.
A man that is in heretic after the first and second admonition,
reject knowing that he that is such is subverted
and Senneth being condemned of himself.
So the Bible says when you run into someone,
that is a heretic.
reject him after the first and second admonition.
Now, this comes with some discernment to realize the difference between someone who is sincere,
but struggling with concepts, versus someone who wants to teach you why you're wrong.
Look, I will spend all day with someone that is sincere, but struggling.
But the moment someone wants to tell me, well, here's why you do after a penny of your sins.
Well, no, have you ever heard of faith without works is dead?
Where's that in the Bible?
Oh, I don't know.
But it's there, right?
I'm done with those people.
After the first and second ammunition, I'm rejecting those people because they will waste your time.
They love to hear themselves talk.
They are puffed up in their vain mind.
They think they are so smart and they have a fun time showcasing their stupidity, really, to you.
Thinking that they are smart.
I'll read for you Proverbs 26-4.
Pretty interesting passage here because it seems like it's giving contradictory advice one verse. It's saying don't answer a fool
And the other by verse it's saying answer a fool
This is how I decide which of these is appropriate for the situation if I'm alone with someone
If it's just me and my soul and partner, and the fool here, and he starts being a fool and he starts preaching me the false doctrine.
He's not listening to the word of God.
I am not, after the first and second admonition, going to continue with that person, I am not going to rebuke the fool.
I'm not going to answer a fool according to his folly because there's no benefit to it.
He is not going to be reproved by words.
You know, I could sit here and bray him like pestle and a mortar,
and it's not going to change him.
So at that point, we just have a nice day, we leave.
Now here's where I would take the second versus advice,
where I would answer a fool according to his following,
is if it's in the audience of people who potentially could be interested.
If it's in the audience of people who are not the fool, who are not the scornor, who are not the hypocrite,
in that case it might be beneficial to rebuke that person, to correct that person.
Not for that person's benefit. That person's not going to change.
But for the benefit of those that are listening.
And that's what Jesus did.
He knew their wickedness. He knew they were hypocrites.
He knew they were tempting him.
And so the only reason he responded to them was because he had an audience, right?
That was why he did it.
You know, at one point the Pharisees came up to him
and asked him, you know,
tell us about the baptism of John.
Was it, or they might have asked him,
no, they asked him a question about marriage, I'm sorry.
And Jesus responded and said, like,
I'm gonna ask you a question first.
And when they didn't answer the question,
he said, I'm not gonna answer your question, right?
So he kind of addressed their issues in a public setting
because there was an audience there.
And again, I taught you guys the good questions to ask a person in this situation.
The first question to ask them is, what do you mean by that?
When someone makes a claim, make them back it up.
Let them sit in whatever they just made for themselves.
Oh, you make a claim?
What do you mean by that?
Answer.
What do you mean by that?
And when they answer, say, how did you come to that conclusion?
And you know what you'll find is that they will never, ever, ever be able to beat you
with those two questions.
Let me tell you exactly why.
Go to 1st Timothy, chapter number one, 1st Timothy, chapter one.
Here's why this question works with a hypocrite, with a fool.
Now, these questions would not work for me or for you
because we know what we believe and we believe the truth.
And if someone said, oh, what do you mean that salvation is by grace?
Hey, I could answer that very easily.
How did you come to that conclusion? How many Bible verses do you want?
And you know, I don't have to just say faith without works and not even know where it is in the Bible.
Let's open up a Bible right now and I'll show you everything.
But here's what the hypocrite does, they don't know those things, they don't back those things up, look at 1st Timothy 1.5.
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfaigned.
From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling, verse 7 is the key verse,
desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm.
They don't know what they're saying, and they don't know how they came to that conclusion.
That's what it means to affirm something like, from where do you affirm this belief?
They don't know. That's what the Bible says.
They want to be teachers, they want to teach the law, but they don't even know what they're saying, nor whereof they affirm.
And that's why it's so easy to beat these people.
You just ask them those two questions. What do you mean by that?
How did you come to that conclusion and look you again?
I would only do that if it's in the audience of people that are going to be benefited by the conversation
And sometimes you're dealing with a fool who's very toxic, who's very loud,
and maybe there's an audience, but you can kind of discern like hey,
even if I do deal with this guy, I'm not going to be able to necessarily preach the gospel to all of his friends right now.
You could at least ask those two questions and let it be known in the ears of the friends listening,
that you have the truth on your side, that you're right, and then you could at least leave that conversation
with less damage being done than if you had not answered the fool.
because if he had not answered the fool, then all of his friends would be like,
yeah, buddy, you really showed him on the Flat Earth, you know?
You really showed him about the Nephilim in the Bible.
Yeah, you really showed him on these doctrines.
No, you got to ask him, oh, okay, what do you mean?
Okay, where'd you get that?
Where'd you come to that conclusion?
And then all of his friends would be like,
oh, man, watch him stutter.
Oh, watch him stammer.
He doesn't know what's going on.
Then you actually build credibility in yourself in the eyes of people.
Last verse we'll go to here.
Or, second to last verse we'll go to is in Job 27, Job chapter number 27.
We do not want to be around hypocrites. We do not want to be hypocrites.
We don't want to have any of the attributes of hypocrites. Why? Look at Job 27 verse 6.
Job said, My righteousness, I hold fast and will not let it go.
My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous,
for what is the hope of the hypocrite?
Though he hath gained when God taketh away his soul.
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh unto him?
Will he delight himself in the Almighty?
Will he always call upon God?
Job's asking this question, what is the hope of the hypocrite?
Though he hath gained.
And here's the thing, if you live a fake life, if you put on a show, if you say things that
you don't believe, if you pretend to be someone that you're not, that you're actually not,
you may get some rewards from that fake life for a while, right?
You could lie on your resume, like here's a good example, you could lie on your resume,
you could give fake cover, do a fake cover letter written by chat GPT, you could get
But guess what, you're actually going to have to do the job.
And what is it going to profit you, you being a hypocrite,
when the day is going to come where you actually have to reckon
with what you've done.
And it's the same thing with being a hypocrite spiritually.
There's no point of putting on a show.
There's no point of being fake, saying things you don't believe.
It doesn't matter because even if you gain something from that,
let's say you gain a position.
Oh, you become a pastor.
You become a preacher.
You become someone that people look to as thinking, oh,
this guy is smart.
This guy is great.
But when you're not, guess what?
That eventually is going to be found out.
And you're going to have to pay the piper.
And so you know what's better?
Just don't do that to begin with.
Just don't be fake.
Just be who you are.
Be real as a person.
Don't be a hypocrite because God knows
who the real deal is.
I'll finish on this verse.
Psalm 79 says,
Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the just for the righteous God
trieth the hearts and reigns.
God knows who you are.
God knows who I am we need to be honest with ourselves with God with other
people who we are because God knows and God is willing to help someone and God
is willing to give wisdom to someone that is humble and asks for it rather
than the person that puts on the show like they're already wise right so we
don't want to be hypocrites because God knows what are some things we could do
say only what you believe don't be hypocrite say only what you believe
Take the beam out of your eye before taking the moat out of other people's eyes, right?
Don't sit here and condemn people harshly for things much less serious than the things that you are guilty of.
Don't put on a show and sincerely desire the truth. Let's pray.