To get started would our first song this morning will be another handout
So if you need a handout for Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel, just raise your hand brother Eric has those in you
Well handout Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel
Handout that you've got there. We'll start right there on the first. Oh
Heavenly father we thank you for this day for another opportunity to gather together
Praises Florida just pray that you'd be with those that are not feeling well this morning that you would strengthen them
Heal them also pray for those that are traveling that you'd have your hand of protection on them
Keep them safe and safe and expeditious return for them
And lastly Lord that you would just have your hand of protection on us here
Also that you would open our ears to your word that you would fill pastor with your spirit
These things we pray in Jesus name. Amen for our next him number
420 in your hymnal him
420 420 there's a song in the air
420 they're on the first
Yeah, 430 Wednesday Bible study through Romans at 7 below that we have all of our soul winning times
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Our upcoming events we're going to have December 20th. That is a Saturday evening our Christmas caroling at 7 o'clock p.m
It's gonna be in Yukon
We're gonna go to the same neighborhood that we always go to it's usually very receptive place as far as Christmas
Joy goes so we go to the ghetto for soul winning and we go to the richer areas for Christmas caroling
It's how it works December 24th will be the kids choir before the service practices have been going really well
I'm excited to see the kids perform for us that day and then as a treat for the kiddos and for us
We got a cookie bake off after the service. So we're looking forward to that. December 31st will be our New Year's Eve party
We'll have a men's preaching night followed by food and games
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That should be it for announcements. We'll go ahead and go to our third song this morning
Our third song will be four hundred twenty-one the first noel
421 421 the first noel four hundred twenty one there on the first
Being packed you would to turn number together an innumerable multiple and so much that they trove one upon another
He began to say unto his disciples first of all beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy
But there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed neither hid that shall not be known
Therefore whatsoever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light that which you have spoken in the ear
And the clock in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops and I say unto you my friends
Be not afraid of them that kill the body and after that have no more that they can do
But I will forewarn you to whom he shall fear fear him which after he has killed power to cast into hell
Yeah, I say into you fear him are not five sparrows soul for two farthings and not one of them is forgotten before God
But every but even the hair very hairs of your head are not all numbered fear not
Therefore he are more value of more value than many sparrows
Also, I say into you whosoever shall confess me before men him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God
But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God and whosoever shall speak a word
Against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him
But unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven
And when they bring you under the synagogues and under the magistrates and powers
Take ye no thought how or what things ye shall answer or what ye shall say
For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the very in the same hour
What ye ought to say and one of the companies said unto him master speak to my brother
That he divide the inheritance with me and he said unto him man
Who made me a judge or divider over you and he said unto them take heath and beware of covetousness
for a man's life consisted not of the in the abundance of the things which he possesses and he spake a parable unto them saying
the ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully and he thought within himself saying
What shall I do because I have no room where to bestow my fruits and he said this will I do
I will put I will pull down my barns and build greater and there and there will I bestow all my fruits
And my goods and I will say to my soul soul thou has much goods laid up for many years
Take thine ease eat drink and be merry god said unto him thou fool
This night shall thy soul be required of thee then who shall those things be which thou has provided
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich toward god and he said unto his disciples
Therefore I say unto you take no thought for your life what you shall eat neither for the for the body
What you shall put on the life is more than meat and the body is more than raiment
Consider the ravens for they neither sow nor reap which neither have storehouse nor barn
And god feedeth them how much more are ye better than the fowls and which of you with taking thought
can add to his stature one cubit if then if ye then be not able to do that thing which is least
why take ye thought for the rest consider the lilies how they grow they toil not they spin not
and yet i say unto you that solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these if then
god so close the grass which is today in the field and tomorrow is cast into the oven how much more
will he clothe you oh you have little faith and seek not ye what you shall eat or what you shall
drink neither be ye of doubtful mind for all these things do the nations of the world seek after and
your father knoweth that ye have need of these things but rather seek ye the kingdom of god
and all these things shall be added unto you fear not little flocks for it is your father's good
pleasure to give you the kingdom sell that ye have give and give alms provide yourself bags which
wax not old a treasure in the heavens that faileth not where no thief approacheth neither moth
corrupted for where your treasure is there will your heart be also let your loins be girded about
and your lights burning and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord and when he
return from the wedding that when he cometh and knocketh they may open unto him immediately
blessed are those servants whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching verily i say unto you
that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to meet and will come forth and serve them
and if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so blessed are
those servants and this know that if the good man of the house had known what hour the thief would
come he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be broken through be therefore ready
also for the son of man cometh at an hour when you think not then peter said unto him lord speakest
about this parable unto us or even to all and the lord said who then is that faithful and wise steward
whom his lord shall make ruler over his household to give them their portion of meat in due season
blessed is that servant whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing of a truth i say unto
you that he will make him ruler over all that he hath but and if that servant say in his heart
my lord delayeth his coming and shall begin to beat the men servants and maidens and to eat and
drink and to be drunken the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him
and at an hour when he is not aware and will cut him in thunder and will appoint him his portion
with the unbelievers and that servant which knew his lord's will and prepared not himself neither
did according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes and he but he that knew not and did
commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes unto whomsoever much is given of
him shall much be required be much required and to whom men have committed much of him they will
ask the more i am come to send fire on the earth and what will i to be already kindled but i have
a baptism to be baptized with and how i am straightened how am i straightened till it be
accomplished suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth I tell you nay
but rather division for from henceforth shall be five in one household divided
three against two and two against three the father shall be divided against the
son and the son against the father and the mother the mother against the
daughter and the daughter against the mother the mother-in-law against her
daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law and he said
also to the people we need so when you see a cloud rise out of the west
straightway you say there cometh a shower and so it is and when you see the
south wind blow you say there will be heat and it cometh the past ye
hypocrites ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth but how is it
that ye do not discern this time yea and why even of yourselves judge ye not
what is right when thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate as thou
art in the way give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him lest he
hail thee to the judge and the judge deliver thee to the officer and the
officer cast thee into prison I tell thee that thou shalt not depart then so
that has paid the very last might pray gracious Lord thank you to be gathering
your house
men well we're in Luke chapter 12 and I want to start reading in verse number
51 Jesus said suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth I tell you nay
but rather division now this is a pretty striking statement for people who are
not really familiar with the Bible because they kind of have this view of
God as that he's kind of kumbaya and everyone's needs to get along and come
together but out of Jesus's own mouth he came to bring division then he gets
a little more specific it says in verse 52 for from henceforth there shall be
five in one house divided three against two and two against three the father
shall be divided against the son and the son against the father the mother against
the daughter and the daughter against the mother the mother-in-law against her
daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law now look this
is not saying that Jesus wants there to be division between father and son mother
and daughter and all these things but this is just the reality of the world
and here's the thing while unity is desirable and while unity is preferable
the Bible talks about as much as is possible as much as life in you live
peaceably with all men you know it's desirable to have unity but here's the
only way you could have unity with absolutely everyone is if you just have
no beliefs if you care about nothing if you have zero sincerity in your heart
and just don't care about doctrine don't care about the Bible then yeah you could
get along with literally everyone and that's why you know megachurches the the
new evangelical type churches they don't preach anything hard they don't say
anything controversial because they don't want to alienate anyone they want
to have unity with absolutely everyone why would a preacher be that way because
they have no sincere beliefs and so look I want to be unified with people but I'm
here to tell you that Jesus came to bring division and if you are a person
that is sincere if you are a person that loves God that loves doctrine you will
experience division in your life and oftentimes people who are not spiritual
who are backslidden who don't care about doctrine will whine and complain about
all the division right oh there's so much division in the new IFB and oh
there's so much drama and why is why are you guys always fighting why are you
always contending for the faith maybe because we actually care about what the
Bible says maybe because we actually have sincere beliefs and look I've been
listening to new IFB preaching since 2013 who's been listening since 2013 or
longer awesome okay we got we got one person that has but here's the thing
since 2013 to 2025 do you realize that there's been like 20 25 pastors who have
said that their new IFB that are no longer new IFB and I'm here to tell you
that division has happened and division will happen in the future and so you
just need to get comfortable with this you just need to get used to this and
look it's not that we necessarily want this I wish everyone would just believe
the Bible would just submit to what the Bible says but I'm here to tell you
there's someone out there that you like right now that will someday turn into a
complete bozo and we've seen that happen right where it's just like oh man I
really like this pastor oh he's not even a Baptist anymore I'm just here to tell
you that will continue to happen there will be more ex new IFB losers there
will be more people to divide from and that's just because of the things that
I'm gonna talk about this morning the title of my sermon is this why there is
division why there is division because let me tell you division does not happen
just because we want to fight people just to fight just because we want to
cut ties with people just to cut ties I want to say this number one division
happens because of bad preaching and false doctrine go to Romans chapter 16
Romans chapter 16 bad preaching and false doctrine now the only way you
could never divide someone divide with someone over false doctrine is if you
just don't care about doctrine it's really easy to just not care about false
doctrine if you just do not care about what people are preaching if you don't
care about false doctrine let me get there myself to Romans 16 now this is
not just my opinion notice what the Bible says here in verse 17 Paul said
now I beseech you brethren mark them which pause divisions you see that
they're causing the divisions and offenses contrary to the what doctrine
which you have learned and avoid them you see what causes division amongst
God's people is people teaching false doctrine is people having horrible
preaching and people get so offended like how dare you preach against this
person how dare you correct this false doctrine was that sermon about me how
dare you do this and it's like hey I have a solution for you stop preaching
false doctrine stop being a terrible preacher and there wouldn't be this
division because it's not the people correcting false doctrine it's not the
people getting up and exposing error exposing lies exposing heresy that are
causing the division it's the person preaching lies you know you got Kirk
Cameron for example who that guy is an unsaved false prophet he always has
believed Lordship salvation but you know what there's a lot of division right now
among nominal Christians over the idea of is hell eternal conscious torment or
do you just die and burn up and cease to exist right that's what Kirk Cameron
teaches that you just die and you just burn up you cease to exist this
annihilation ism doctrine and people are constantly in the comment threads on my
YouTube and acting like man you guys eat your own you guys go after fellow
Christians you guys have all this division it's like hear me out there
wouldn't be this division if people weren't teaching damnable heresy we're
supposed to mark those that cause division that that preach things
contrary to the doctrine which we have heard go to Ezekiel 13 Ezekiel chapter
13 so look it's not like it's just a hobby it's just my personal preference
to preach against false doctrine the Bible literally commands to mark and
avoid people to do this okay look at Ezekiel chapter 13 I was just reading
this last night notice what it says in verse 1 of Ezekiel 13 it says in the
word of the Lord came unto me saying son of man prophesy against the prophets
of Israel that prophesy and say thou unto them that prophesy notice out of
their own hearts hear ye the word of the Lord thus sayeth the Lord God woe unto
the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit and have seen nothing right
so Ezekiel's commanded hey go prophesy or preach against other preachers that
are just preaching things out of their own hearts these foolish prophets that
are preaching out of their own spirit their own ideas what is this this is
opinion Baptist Church hey go and preach against opinion Baptist Church
right and haven't we seen a lot of that in last year of pastors getting up and
just completely teaching the opposite of what the Bible says and just preaching
their opinion she could leave oh that's another thing first Corinthians 7 is
saying the wife could just leave hey husbands you better walk on eggshells
you better you know buy her wine her and dine her otherwise she could just leave
right what is that that's just opinion Baptist Church that's pastors just
preaching out of their own heart their own spirit and so hey Ezekiel's commanded
go preach against those people right because people get led astray by false
doctrine and if you actually care about what's right you're gonna expose those
errors right pastors getting up and just dogmatically saying if you have ever you
know if you ever have to spank your teenager well you've just failed buddy
there's just something wrong with you okay chapter and verse on that please
what are you doing just opinion Baptist Church and by the way you got to just
love this really helpful preaching from the ex new IV where it's just be awesome
as I am awesome and then you won't have any problems right you know this this
stupid marital rape crap that's being preached where it's just like oh yeah
you know if you have to you know ever get down on your wife you have to have
to make her lie with you physically you're just a beta male there's just
something wrong with you you know I've never struggled with that well
congratulations you're awesome be awesome as I am awesome I'm sure that
really helps people in the congregation that are actually dealing with problems
you know meanwhile it's like what is the Bible actually saying is render due
benevolence and so like what should pastors and preachers be getting on and
and chastening people for is if there's people in the marriage relationship that
are withholding the physical relationship that's who the pastor
should actually be preaching against anything else is opinion Baptist Church
right just getting on people again and let's just go there let's go to 1st
Corinthians chapter number seven this ex new ife doctrine is unbelievably stupid
and it's the exact opposite of what the Bible teaches verse one says now
concerning the things where have you wrote unto me it is good for a man not
to touch a woman nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his own
wife and let every woman have her own husband why is it that people get
married it's to avoid fornication the physical relationship between husband
and wife is literally the foundation of marriage what makes you and your spouse
different from you and your friends from you and your colleagues from you and
other people it's the physical relationship this is the foundation of
marriage this is when you get up to the wedding altar and you say to have and to
hold from this day forward till death do us part you that's why you get married
and so imagine you get married to someone and then some feminist woman or
some weird guy is just withholding the physical relationship from their spouse
that is fraud that is wicked that is evil that's why it says in verse 3 let
the husband render unto the wife do benevolence you know that means it's due
it's a bill you have to it's not optional it's a command of God it says
and likewise also the wife unto the husband here's verse 4 the wife hath not
power of her own body but the husband and likewise also the husband have not
power of his own body but the wife I mean this is like one of the most equal
passages in the whole Bible saying like hey the wife's body is not her own she
does not own her body the husband does and guess what vice versa the man does
not own his own body the wife does and any time that husband wants the physical
relationship she has to give it to him and vice versa anytime the wife wants it
he has to give it to her this is what the Bible teaches look verse 5 defraud
ye not one the other except it be with consent for a time that you may give
yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again that Satan tempt you
not for your incontinency if you are withholding the physical relationship
without consent you are committing marital fraud and you are tempting your
spouse with sin I mean think about it obviously human beings very driven in
this area men are very driven in this area if you had a wife that's just
withholding this from her husband for weeks months years it's like you're
begging him to go commit sin and look that would obviously be wicked in any
circumstance to do that but it's like what do God's people actually need
today what is actually helpful and edifying to the congregation getting up
and preaching gets marital rape which does not exist folks there is no such
thing as marital rape which is why it never existed in our laws until the
feminist revolution of the 1960s and 70s you want to know why because rape is a
violent wicked horrific act and saying that anything done in marriage is rape
is honestly a slap in the face to actual rape victims because people who are
victims of rape are usually snatched up drugged beaten violently and then
defiled by dirty gross strangers who have been with prostitutes and have all
sorts of diseases like that is horrific and by the way it's a crime worthy of
death okay so like this this idea that there's men in marriages that are just
pummeling their wives and pinning them down while she's kicking and screaming
that doesn't exist but you know what does exist in churches is spouses
withholding sex from each other that actually exists and that actually is
harming people and so like what if I actually cared about people what would I
be preaching against I'd be preaching what the Bible is talking about here of
spouses withholding the physical relationship that is actually happening
and look I'm not just preaching this for my health because quite honestly I'm
just fine my wife isn't some feminist I've never struggled with this either
but you know what there actually are people that are struggling with it and
if you actually cared about those people you wouldn't just say be awesome as I am
awesome and you won't have any problems you'll preach what the Bible says but
what do we got today a bunch of prophets prophesying out of their own hearts
prophesying their own spirits opinion Baptist Church and you want to know why
there's division is because of bad preaching that's why because of false
doctrine I don't like that you would say this I don't like that there's division
stop preaching terrible sermons stop preaching false doctrine the situation
would be solved but people can't do that they can't just take the correction
they can't just humble themselves they can't just realize they're wrong they
just want to dig in to their feminist garbage why does the X new life be
exist because they were preached against because people corrected their false
doctrine and they didn't just change they didn't just accept the correction
where it's like I don't understand that because I've been preached against and
I've told the story I've had a preacher literally tell me come to church
tomorrow the sermon is against you and I didn't become X new IFB I just changed
because guess what you're gonna be wrong at times in life and we need some
preachers we need some pastors that are gonna correct false doctrine and lies
and you know what I am more concerned with what the Bible says than unity at
all costs I would love to have unity I would love you know for the new IFB just
to have a thousand pastors but let me just tell you something the new IFB will
continue to split year after year it will continue to split why because of
bad preaching and false doctrine go to Proverbs chapter 6 Proverbs chapter
number 6 I mean think about proving that in the court of law by the way you
want to know why that was never a law because like how do you prove in the
court of law that this happened it's like oh your husband and wife so you
guys are physical with each other all the time okay but this one time it was
non-consensual well let's just lock this guy up how do you prove that but see
actual rape victims there's proof there's you know marks on their neck
there's all sorts of violence done to their body there's she's kidnapped or
all sorts of bad stuff STDs pregnancy like there's all sorts of proof when
actual rape occurs and I've had people in my lot close to me in my life who
have actually been victims of rape and to act like this idea of husband wife
being together could ever be called rape is insulting it's crazy it's not true
and it's like look not every single time in marriage are you just gonna be
1,000 percent jazzed up about it and that's okay that's not rape all right
just sometimes you just need to render that due benevolence sometimes it's
like hey I don't want my husband or wife to be tempted for their incontinence
and you just do it it's a bill that's due sometimes that's just how it is okay
I'm just giving you the reality. Proverbs 6 verse 16 it says these six things
that the Lord hate yea seven are an abomination unto him a proud look a
lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood and heart that diviseth
wicked imaginations feet that be swift and running to mischief a false witness
that speaketh lies notice and he that soweth discord among brethren the Bible
says that it's an abomination to God and he hates it when people sow discord
amongst brethren and sometimes people will throw this in our face
why are you preaching against this why are you talking about this why are you
calling this person out by name
you know you're causing division no no no no they're causing division and I
will never accept that accusation because this is constantly the
accusation that comes like why are you guys preaching against them why are you
talking about them the question you should be asking is why are people
preaching false doctrine and you know it's an abomination to God and God hates
it when preachers get up and sow division by teaching lies because again
the only way that we can have unity with false doctrine is if we just don't care
if you just don't care about doctrine then you know what you'll never divide
from anyone if you don't care about righteousness you'll never divide from
family members who are drunks who are railers who are extortioners hey if you
just don't care about Jesus if you just don't care about God you could have
unity with Muslims you could have unity with Mormons you could have unity with
Catholics hey why don't we all just have unity and care about nothing that's how
you can have unity at all costs go to first Corinthians 11 I'm telling you it
is literally the job of a pastor to warn against bad teaching to lead this church
to guide the flock to warn against bad ideologies bad doctrines bad ideas it is
my job my job is not to please everyone my job is not to have friends with
everyone my job is not to be your friend first my job is to be your pastor first
and your friend second and if I have to you know have division with someone by
actually teaching you the truth then so be it
1st Corinthians 11 verse 18 notice it says for first of all when you come
together in the church I hear that there be divisions among you and I partly
believe it for there must be also heresies among you that they which are
approved may be made manifest among you he's saying look I see that there's all
this division amongst you well here's one thing that I know if there's a lot
of division amongst you right now I know for a fact that there's a lot of
heresy because otherwise there wouldn't be division I mean if we're in lockstep
about the Trinity about soul winning about the divinity of Christ about the
King James Bible hey we're gonna be unified and I thank God that our church
is unified but man we never want that to change and if people creep in here and
try to you know heap to themselves teachers having issue itching ears they
try to teach little false doctrines to their secret clique of friends hey we're
gonna start having division because I'm gonna get up and preach against it and
I will be the preacher I will be the pastor I will be the bad guy that goes
out and calls out the bad ideas and the bad doctrine other preachers other
pastors are probably scared to do that because they want to play politics I am
not interested in being a politician I am interested in being a pastor which
means if there's division if there's heresies I'm gonna make it clear where
we should stand I'm gonna make it very clear you know I'm glad that our church
doesn't have like half X new IFB and half new IFB I'm glad that there's not
all this division inside of our church why cuz I've made it very clear where I
stand and guess what we had some people leave and that's okay because we care
about the truth go to Galatians chapter 2 Galatians chapter number 2 I don't want
to pastor feminists anyways Galatians chapter number 2 verse 9 the Bible says
that when James Cephas and John who seemed to be pillars perceived the grace
that was given unto me they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of
fellowship that we should go unto the heathen and they unto the circumcision
only they would that we should remember the poor the same which I also was
forward to do but when Peter was come to Antioch I withstood him to the face
because he was to be blamed so notice there's a conflict here between Peter
and Paul now here's the thing Peter and Paul are both saved Peter Paul are both
good people but here's the thing heresy is a work of the flesh and even saved
people can preach false doctrine even saved pastors even good people who you
may like them personally may not even have any issues with them personally but
they themselves can preach false doctrine and so what does Paul have to
do he has to confront that issue he has to make this clear what was the issue
verse 12 for before that certain came from James he did eat with the Gentiles
but when they were come he withdrew and separated himself fearing them which
were of the circumcision so Peter is getting Judaized he used to fellowship
with the Gentiles he used to have no problem but now he's fearing the Jews
now he's worried about what other people think of him by hanging out with the
Gentiles and you know what this is causing a stumbling block to people and
look if you put yourself in the public arena if you are a preacher if you are
a pastor let me just tell you something you are opening yourself up to
criticism and let me just warn any of you men that would like to be a preacher
someday or pastor or whatever or even if just getting behind this pulpit and
preaching a sermon you are opening yourself up to criticism from the world
be ready for that and if you become a pastor let me tell you it's gonna be
cranked up to ten and so hey Peter you like Peter you love Peter Peter's a good
guy but he deserves to be called out here he deserves it verse number 13 and
other Jews dissembled likewise with him in so much that Barnabas also was
carried away with their dissimulation why is it important to preach against
false doctrine because people get carried away with it because real
people's lives get affected and you know what things like like bad teaching on
marriage bad teaching on child rearing that's gonna affect people's lives that's
gonna harm real people and so look that needs to be preached against that needs
to be pointed out verse 14 but when I saw that they walk not up rightly
according to the truth of the gospel I said unto Peter before them all if thou
being a Jew livest after the manner of the Gentiles and not as do the Jews why
compel us thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews right so there's this
conflict between Peter and Paul but let me ask you something who is causing the
division in this story who's causing the division is it the preacher Paul that
gets up and corrects the false doctrine is this Paul's fault is Paul sowing
discord amongst brethren who's causing the division Peter is Peter is causing
the division so you know what don't get mad at the preachers and the pastors
that call out the false doctrine right our haters like to call these damage
control sermons okay I guess Paul's doing damage control here yeah he is
doing damage control because people are being carried away with their
dissimulation even Barnabas is getting affected by this so hey Paul is not the
one to blame in this situation and let me say this also if a preacher preaches
something wrong they preach a bad sermon they teach some false doctrine that does
not mean they're a terrible person that does not mean there's some sort of
reprobate okay that does not mean that they can't have fellowship and get
right look just take the correction and you'll be good I mean Peter Peter went
on to be great I mean he's Peter for crying out loud and I just think that
people will get this this sting in their pride that they preach something and it
gets corrected and they're like you know what I'm taking my ball and I'm going
home I'm just gonna be ex new IFB now but no no don't do that because here's
the thing Peter and Paul I don't even think there was any personal issues
between them I don't think Paul's like I just don't like Peter and I just want to
attack Peter no no I'm sure Paul loves Peter and look there's a lot of these
preachers that preach weird stuff and it's like on a personal level I have zero
issues whatsoever I like them I'm for them but it's like I have to do my job
and if you cannot detach from your emotion and understand that then you're
just gonna become one of these bitter ex new IP people you just have to take the
correction and move on and be used greatly I just want to rapid fire some
verses for you 2nd Timothy 2 for preach the word be instant in season out of
season reprove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine that is my
job Titus 1 9 holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught that he may
be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers
Titus 2 15 these things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority let no
man despise thee I will be the person that calls out false doctrine I will be
the guy that is willing to correct bad ideas and look if people want to
separate because of that because they can't take correction that's on them
but you know what the truth matters the truth matters go to John chapter number
7 let's look at the ministry of Jesus Christ because people say oh you guys
aren't Christ like you're not being like Jesus hey Jesus came to bring division
let's see how much division Jesus caused let's look at how divisive he was John
3 verse 38 he that believed or John 7 excuse me verse 38 he that believeth on
me as the scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water
but this spake he of the spirit which they that believe on him should receive
for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified
many of the people therefore when they heard this saying said of a truth this
is the prophet others said this is the Christ but some said shall Christ come
out of Galilee so notice there they're debating of whether or not Jesus is the
Messiah whether or not he is the Christ have not the scripture said that Christ
cometh of the seed of David and out of the town of Bethlehem where David was so
there was a division among the people because of him why is there a division
because some people are gonna believe on Jesus and some people aren't some people
are accepting what he says hey he that believeth on me out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water and some people are like yeah that's right that's
the Messiah this is the Christ other people are doubting that and so there is
a division what am I saying hey there's division that exists because of bad
doctrine that's what they're dividing over here is the doctrine the teaching
of whether or not Jesus is the Christ that's gonna cause division flip the
page to John 9 John chapter 9 verse 15 then again the Pharisees also asked him
how he had received his sight he said unto them he put clay upon mine eyes and
I washed and do see therefore said some of the Pharisees this man is not of God
because he keepeth not the Sabbath day others said how can a man that is a
sinner do such miracles and there was a what division among them what are they
dividing over whether or not Jesus is righteous oh this guy has broken the
Sabbath right Pharisees are debating other people are debating this man's not
of God because he keepeth not the Sabbath day go to John 10 again dividing
over what doctrine John 10 verse 14 I am the good shepherd and know my sheep and
am known of mine as the father knoweth me even so know I the father and I lay
down my life for the sheep and other sheep have I which are not of this fold
them also must I bring and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one
fold and one shepherd therefore doth 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 and there was a division therefore
again among the Jews for these sayings and many of them said he have a devil
and is mad why hear ye him notice all the division that is surrounding Jesus's
ministry right so this idea that oh there has to be something wrong with the
new IFB there has to be something wrong with you because you guys are always
fighting some doctrinal battle you guys are always calling someone out there's
always some drama going on okay so are you gonna say there's something wrong
with Jesus's ministry because we're just turning the page in the book of John and
Jesus is just preaching he's doing works and it's just division oh he's causing
division oh there's a division among them why because of doctrine because of
the truth and if you care about the truth you will have division so look
just get buckle up buckle up and get comfortable with it there will be
division in the future and if you just think that the Christian life is just
gonna be singing kumbaya there's gonna be no fights there's gonna be no hard
feelings there's gonna be no sermons against people it's like you need to
read the Bible there is gonna be fights hey we need to earnestly contend for the
faith that's our job go to Proverbs 16 so look number one bad preaching and
false doctrine causes division it is not the people responding to it it is not
the people correcting it it is not the people calling it out it is the people
preaching false doctrine and lies that cause division number two people who
gossip and slander are causing division Proverbs 16 verse 27 an ungodly man
diggeth up evil and in his lips there is as a burning fire a foward man soweth
strife notice in a whisperer separateth chief friends right people who go around
and they're whispering why are they whispering because they don't want to
hear what they don't want other people to hear what they're saying right so
these little whisper campaigns of pulling pulling people aside having
these little groups of friends where you go around and you whisper about other
people right girls will get together and they'll whisper gossip about other
ladies stop doing that stop being one that sows
stripe people who go around gossiping slandering whispering you're causing
division just stop talking about other people unless it's positive and I'm not
talking about calling out bad preaching because they're public people people that
get up and preach you open yourself up to criticism things that are done
publicly things that you would say to someone's face that's fine but going
around and just whispering about people knock it off stop gossiping about people
stop talking about people unless it's positive just keep your mouth shut you
don't have to let everyone know every little problem that you have with
someone and here's the thing if you do have a problem with someone and you you
patch things up right you know me and brother so-and-so we have an issue
we're fighting and then we we get right with each other you know it'd be super
weird and insincere is if I went to someone else and said like yeah you know
this person did all these things to me they did X Y & Z to me but you know we
worked it out like what why why are you whispering why are you telling people
that it just seems like your apology or you're making up with that person was
just completely insincere when you get things right with someone and then you
go around whispering to everyone else about your issue don't be a whisperer go
to Proverbs 11 Proverbs chapter number 11 verse 13 the Bible says a tale bearer
revealeth secrets but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter
sometimes in life you're gonna find things out about people that are
embarrassing and you know what you should not go around revealing secrets
to people now here's the thing people misunderstand what this is saying you
know if I'm with someone and this person just starts talking mad crap on brother
Cameron all right someone's just talking mad crap on him just all sorts of gossip
here here is not me revealing a secret hey Cameron this person is talking bad
about you that's not me revealing a secret that's me telling you hey
someone is doing this against you now here's what would be revealing secrets
is if someone confided in me things about their personal life things that
they're struggling with things that they've had issues with in the past and
then I go and blab that to other people that's being someone that reveals
secrets and you know what I would like a culture where people are afraid to
gossip and rail against people because I might just walk up the person and say
hey this person's talking crap about you there's nothing wrong with that you
should do that because I want people to be terrified to gossip and rail it is so
destructive to a church I mean it says that it separates chief friends people
who are great friends chief friends you know a lot of times there's all this
strife and division between two people not even because of those two people
but because of someone else right and so we need to make sure that we get mad at
the whisperer we get mad at the gossiper we need to get mad at the
railer and not allow our opinions to be changed about people based on hearsay
it's not a good idea go to Proverbs 17 why is there division because people
gossip and slander and rail and lie Proverbs 17 verse 9 he that covereth a
transgression seeketh love but he that repeateth a matter separated very
friends you don't understand this person actually did me wrong this person
actually sinned against me okay well have you ever tried covering a
transgression it's so funny to me how unmerciful and uncharitable and
unloving some people could be where they just think like I'm gonna have all
these friendships I'm gonna have these church relationships I'm gonna have
these family relationships but the first time that they actually do me wrong when
they actually do something bad against me you know what I'm just done we're
just not gonna talk I'm gonna go gossip about you hey why don't you just cover
a transgression you know I just I don't have these unrealistic expectations of
human beings to think that my friends will never do me wrong I don't I don't
think that about them I expect that my friends will do me wrong at some point
in their life I expect that my friends probably will say something bad about me
they probably will gossip about me and I'm not encouraging that I'm not saying
go do that and if you do that you should repent you should apologize but I'm just
saying I know that that's gonna happen but I just choose to love people anyways
and so someone transgresses against you you have this option called cover it hey
he that's covered a transgression seeketh love but he that repeateth a
matter separated very friends right someone does you wrong and you have to
go tell everyone that that person has done you wrong instead of going to that
person and trying to fix it instead of forgiving and forgetting instead of
covering a transgression you just go tell everyone about it stop doing that
go to Proverbs 26 Proverbs chapter number 26 why is there division because
people gossip and slander Proverbs 26 verse 20 where no wood is there the fire
goeth out hey why is there a fire because it has fuel why is this fire
burning because you're putting wood on it because you're putting coals on it
that's why it's burning as coal or sorry so where there is no tail bearer the
strife cease it isn't that amazing oh there's so much strife in your life stop
tail bearing it's just crazy how people just constantly have this strife and
then and let's just be honest it's usually women they usually struggle in
this area more than guys do and I could just have guy friends for years and
years and years and it's like we've never screamed at each other we've never
fought we never had all these issues because we're not going around talking
crap about each other if we you know have an issue we just say like stop
being a retard like you're dumb what you just said was bad you know stop doing
that that's what you should do verse 21 as coals are to burning coals and wood
to fire so is a contentious man to kindle strife the words of a tail bearer
are as wounds they go down into the innermost parts of the belly you go
around talking crap about people just realize you could hurt harm your
relationships and people should be forgiving and they should cover a
transgression and they should let things go and I implore you to be that type of
person but let me just warn you that if you go around being a tail bearer it's
as wounds towards a person it goes down into the innermost part of the belly it
harms them you could permanently harm your relationships just don't be the
type of person going around gossiping let me just read this verse for you Psalm
101 verse 5 says who so privily slandereth his neighbor him will I cut
off why is their division because people are slandering that's why and the
psalmist is like hey someone that goes around slandering other people I'm gonna
cut off that person because people just don't get this that if you if people
will gossip to you they will gossip about you if you just catch someone just
in a blatant lie about someone else they're just completely slandering
another person completely railing against another person just realize that
that's a bad friend that is a bad person that is willing to just slander
someone like that and so the psalmist is like him will I cut off you know I find
out someone just going around railing against other people false accusations
that's something worthy of being kicked out of church for being a railer and so
like you get these fools today that you get these girls that they themselves
are gossip so they want to be friends with a bunch of gossips and they think
like well I gossip to her and she gossips to me but we'll never gossip to
other people about each other you're kidding yourself you are fooling
yourself and you should not be friends with those types of people you should
correct your friends and say I don't want to gossip I don't want to rail why
would you have a friendship based on gossip it's so toxic that that's not
love that's not Christian unity you want to be friends with someone that is going
to drive you to be a better person you want to be friends with people who are
better than you you want to be friends with people who are more spiritual than
you you want to be friends with people who want to encourage you to go soul
winning not people who make fun of you when you go soul winning you want to be
friends with people that are not gonna listen to lies and gossip but are gonna
shut you down if you try to lie or gossip to them and look usually just
takes one time it usually just takes one time and you're like but here's the
thing I'm a people pleaser and if I don't gossip with this person then
they're not gonna want to be my friend anymore sounds like you need a better
friend anyways you know go to if you will first Corinthians 5 why is there
division bad preaching false doctrine why is there division slander gossip why
is there division backslidden and carnal Christians cause division backslidden
and carnal Christians cause division you have the letter to the Corinthians and
it's a very carnal church they've got tons of issues and in chapter 5 the
Apostle Paul is dealing with this situation where a man in the church is
in open fornication he's in open fornication and not only that they're
like proud of it they're like boasting about it how they're receiving him and
they're so gracious look at verse number 9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to
company with fornicators why is there division because you're a fornicator oh
man I don't want all this division in my life who's causing the division the
fornicator or the one who separates from the fornicator someone who's fornicating
they are causing the division they are causing the stripe and why would someone
be a fornicator because they're super backslidden and super carnal verse number
10 yet not all together with the fornicators of this world or with the
covetous or extortioners or with idolaters for then musty needs go out
of the world he's not saying you have to divide or separate from someone who's
not saved who's involved in these sins because unsaved people are gonna do
unsafe stuff unsafe people they can't even walk in the spirit because they
don't have the spirit they're only gonna walk in the flesh so it's not like you
go to work and you know someone's in fornication and you just can't speak to
them you can't be nice to them you can't preach the gospel to them you can't you
know share a meal with them that's not what this is teaching but backslid and
carnal Christians look what it says in verse 11 but now I've written unto you
not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or
covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such
and one no not to eat so those that are Christians who are not just sinning
because we all sin but who are in these grievous major sins he says don't be
with this person don't even eat with this person so what is he doing he's
literally commanding division he's commanding you to separate he's
commanding there to be division in this situation but why because people are
carnal and backslidden and involved in these wicked sins it's not the people
separating that are causing the division it's the people that are caught
up in these sins for what have I to do to judge them that are also them also
that are without do ye not judge them that are within but them that are
without God judgeth therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked
person right so this is where the idea of church discipline comes from where if
someone in the church is committing one of these sins they're confronted they're
doubling down they're not repentant they're just going to keep living in
fornication they're caught in a railing accusation against someone they don't
apologize they don't back down they keep going you know other things like
dollotry that's not really something in our culture very often but fornication
is being a drunkard is right all these things these issues need to be
confronted and if people don't repent they will be kicked out of church there
will be division why is the division happening because people are carnal and
backslidden that's why go to Galatians 5 Galatians chapter number 5 so you can
it is possible to have unity in a church when people are walking in the spirit
when people are not fulfilling the lust of the flesh verse 19 but if you are in
the flesh this is what you're gonna look like now the works of the flesh are
manifest which are these adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness
idolatry witchcraft hatred right don't we often see that from people that
separate from us they just get consumed with bitterness and hatred for their
brother in Christ why is that because they're backslidden and carnal variance
boy you see this from people that are backslidden and carnal and prideful and
it oftentimes you see this with preachers where they just have to show
how they're better than pastor Anderson I'm just smarter than pastor Anderson
I'm better than pastor Anderson so I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna be real
variant about that what is that it's a work of the flesh right people being
contrarian people being throw word people just always having a bad take
people just always on the wrong side of every issue why are they like that
because they're carnal that's why because they're backslidden they want
to have these variant takes you know it's just like the new IFB is filled
with what I believe to be the best pastors on this earth and if you just
have all I just have I just have a long list of all these things that I differ
it's like you're wrong I'm sorry to tell you that you're not smarter than pastor
Anderson and pastor Shelley and all these people sorry you're just not and
look that's not to say that men can't be wrong in certain areas or we can't have
differences of opinion on secondary tertiary doctrines but it's like if you
just in your mind are sitting in church and it's just all the time just like I
just constantly disagree with everything I'm just here to tell you that you're
the one that's wrong not me not the passage that you listen to it's you
you're the one variant emulations wrath strife why is there strife because people
are in the flesh seditions right inciting people to rebel why would
someone split a church why would people incite people to rebel against the
pastor go on a whisper campaign against the pastor teach all this doctrine
contrary to the pastor because they're in the flesh when someone's doing that
you should just say wow Galatians 5 tells me that you're in the flesh right
now that you're not in the spirit envying her sorry look at the next one
heresies see save people can teach heresy envying murders drunkenness
revelings and such like of the which I tell you before as I have also told you
in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of
God I'll read for you as you turn to Matthew 18 James 3 verse 14 says but if
you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lie not
against the truth this wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual
devilish for where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work
why is there all this division because people are earthly sensual carnal in the
flesh teaching heresy being variant being a gossip being a busybody that's
why there's division not just because oh the new IFB just loves all the strife
and we're just constantly looking for people to fight with and we're just on
all these witch hunts to go and get after people it's like the people who
fear that kind of stuff are the ones constantly teaching false doctrine it's
like I don't you know I see one of these ex new IP losers saying like all being
friends with pastor anderson is so terrifying and it's so anxiety inducing you're always walking on
eggshells just afraid and it's like no that's not true i i love being friends with pastor anderson
me and pastor anderson talk all the time we text back and forth and it's like i'm not walking on
eggshells he's my friend you know people who are afraid that pastor anderson is going to preach
against them are people preaching false doctrine are people who are variant are people who are
walking in the flesh are people who are teaching bad sermons that's the only reason you need to be
on eggshells boy oh boy matthew chapter 18 and by the way that goes the same for any pastor
because i told you i will be the pastor that preaches against bad ideas i will be the pastor
that preaches against false doctrine it's like oh i'm afraid you know the pastor i was going to
preach against me well are you preaching false doctrine you wouldn't need to be afraid unless
you're preaching false doctrine number four people who refuse to apologize and people who
are unforgiving cause division these things go together people who constantly will not apologize
for the things that they do the things that they say that are wrong or people who when they receive
apologies are not forgiving are not long suffering these people cause division matthew 18 verse 15
moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between thee and
him alone if he shall hear thee thou has gained thy brother so this is when someone has a personal
offense against you right and when someone has a personal offense against you what you should do is
you should go to that person and tell them the fault and guess what if you tell that person
and they hear you meaning they're receptive to your correction receptive to your grievances
and they you know apologize they want to get things right with you then it just ends right there
boom you've gained your brother right and what this is not saying is like oh you know before
you preach against Kirk Cameron you got to call him and and you know try to work things out with
him before you preach against Pope Francis you got to call the guy you know no folks this is
talking about when someone has a personal grievance against you you go to him alone right when people
are preaching bad doctrines bad doctrine publicly correction publicly you know bad teaching public
correction public verse 16 but if you will not hear thee then take with the one or two more
that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established now look this is for
pretty severe situation this is not like hey I didn't like you know I didn't like your attitude
in this situation like you know what you should do is you should let things go you should be long
suffering you should be slow to wrath it's not like you know this person said something mean to
me I'm gonna go get witnesses I'm gonna start gathering witnesses it's like come on man and
people really try to do this people really try to get me involved for the most petty ridiculous
fights between people that I have nothing to do with and it's like this is about a pretty serious
issue okay you know someone ripped you off someone you know accidentally hurt your property or your
child or like something big is when you're like okay I'm gonna go get evidences you know big
railing accusations stuff like that verse 17 and if he shall neglect to hear them tell it unto the
church but if you neglect to hear the church let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican
so look this is a an extreme situation an extreme conflict between each other when they cannot get
resolved because people won't apologize or because people won't be forgiving they can escalate to the
point of church discipline to where you would have to treat this person as an heathen and a publican
why was there why is there division why would you have to separate from someone like that
because people don't apologize and because people are not forgiving those things go hand in hand
let's look at some more verses on this first corinthians 13 first corinthians chapter number
13 now while there is a process to right wrongs with people i think that you'd be wise to balance
the technical letter of the law of what you have the right to do versus having as much charity and
long-suffering as possible and that the matthew 18 process should not be used on the drop of a hat
it should not be used for petty little things why look at first corinthians 13 verse 1 though i
speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity i am become a sounding brass or
a tinkling symbol and though i have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all
knowledge and though i have all faith so that i could remove mountains and have not charity
i am nothing and though i bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though i give my body to be
burnt and have not charity it profiteth me nothing so right off the bat we see how important charity
is in the eyes of god that even if you're a great preacher and even if you understand all mysteries
you're giving your body to be burned you're giving all your goods to the poor bestowing that on
someone yet if you don't have charity you're nothing you're nobody you're nothing i mean that's
some intense language then it describes what charity is like verse four charity suffereth long
you know what that means it means you put up with stuff that you don't like that you don't agree with
you put up with grievances done against you for a really long time why because you actually value
unity because you actually have charity in your heart so you're willing to put up with stuff
happening to you and again having the right expectation of human beings will help you do
this realize that your best friend is a sinner realize that i am a sinner that you are a sinner
and so you know what you should expect sinners to sin and when they sin it shouldn't just like
absolutely blow your mind i'm cutting this person off they sin they did something wrong no charity
suffereth long charity puts up with stuff done that was wrong to you for a long time then it says and
is kind charity envyeth not charity vaunteth not itself being prideful is not puffed up does not
behave itself unseemly seeketh not her own notice this is not easily provoked right so when people
do wrong when people say something you don't like when people do gossip when people do whatever
you're not easily provoked it's not you you have thick skin you're not going to just blow up your
friendships and start hating people and start separating from people because they did something
wrong because you're just not the type of person that's easily provoked you just let things go
thinketh no evil rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth beareth all things you put
up with things believeeth all things hope with all things endure of all things you don't believe
with all things is important there i believe this means like giving people the benefit of the doubt
you should give people the benefit of the doubt and you know what when you should actually you
know maybe deal with an issue or have to be forced to change your opinion on someone or have to be
forced to separate from someone is when there's this thing called evidence otherwise you're gonna
believe all things you're gonna hope for the best you're gonna give people the benefit of the doubt
when people do gossip to you when people do say she said this when people do say he said that
you know what is there evidence was there two or three witnesses to even start the inquiry
you got a video you got some sort of evidence that you could show me well then i'm not listening to
it i'm not changing my opinion of that person and look people have done this to me people have
brought things that supposedly supposedly people have said about me i don't even know if it's true
and guess what i don't even believe it's true until there's evidence and i'm not going to ever
change my opinion about someone until there's actually evidence of wrongdoing why because i
want to strive to be the person that has charity go to aphesians 4 aphesians chapter number four
verse 31 once you get there aphesians chapter number four the bible says let all bitterness
and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice and be ye kind
one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as god for christ's sake hath forgiven you
you know you should look at yourself and just think about all the rotten things that you've done
and all the lies you've told and all the times you've gossiped and all the times you've done
something wrong to someone and just think about how christ has just forgiven you of all of it
he hasn't changed his opinion towards you he hasn't changed his actions towards you
he loves you nothing will separate you from the love of christ right and you know what you should
extend that same courtesy to other people and you know i think it's in ecclesiastes it talks about
you know don't don't give heed to all words that are spoken because thou thyself knowest that thou
has cursed others also right oh someone actually did say something bad about you oh but they
actually did gossip about me cool i don't care i'm just letting it go because you know what i've done
it to other people too and if you're honest though of you and so you know what you should do is you
should just be as long-suffering and as merciful as possible and what you'll notice if you're this
type of person is you're going to have way more peace in your life you're going to have way less
division in your life i'm not saying there's never a time to confront issues i'm not saying
you can never stand up for yourself but i'm saying your default position should be long-suffering
merciful forgiving tender-hearted kind this is who you should be as a person and you know what if
you're the person who has offended someone else and they decided to show you mercy they decided
to be long-suffering to you they decided to let things go you should not abuse that person's
kindness you should not sit here and think like okay this is the type of person that i could walk
all over because eventually you might push that person too far where they kind of have to confront
issues and look i want to be slow to have to deal with issues with people but don't push me there
because i will do it if i have to i want to be tender-hearted forgiving long-suffering all these
things but don't take advantage of someone that's like that i'll read for you proverbs 10 12 the
bible says hatred stirreth up strifes but love covereth all sins don't tell me you're a loving
person when you're always stirring up strife you're not a loving person you're being hateful in that
moment you need to get some love which is what charity and be long-suffering be forgiving and
here's the thing when you're wrong apologize be the person that apologizes don't be stiff-necked
and stubborn and prideful just apologize when you've done wrong hey you preached wrong you
got your doctrine corrected just correct it just move on and it's like the reason people end up
looking more embarrassed and more shameful in the future and lose their credibility is because they
dig into wrong ideas and it's the same thing in your personal life people who just continue to
dig into being bitter it's like you're looking like a fool go to third john number five why is
there division because people are prideful that's why there's division because people are prideful
let's look at an example of this in third john verse 9 third john verse 9 i wrote unto the church
but diatrophes who loveth to have the preeminence among them receiveth us not why is there division
between this church between diatrophes and between the apostle john because diatrophes is a prideful
jerk because diatrophes has to be the preeminent one right and some people in ministry are not in
ministry out of sincerity not in ministry to serve others they're there to be served to be liked to be
lauded to be exalted to be number one so in their mind you know if their church members listen to
another pastor that really gets under their skin boy oh boy is this how it is in the old ifb where
when they find out you're listening to pastor anderson they'll literally drag you into their
office that happened to me when i was going to an old ifb church i was going to an old ifb
church for three years and i was a blessing to that church i liked a lot of things about that
church i went soul winning by myself even though the church didn't have a soul winning program
and i remember one time this girl who i was friends with called me and she's like hey this
guy's telling me that the rapture happens after the tribulation you know i i know you read a lot
of bible can you help me debunk what this person's saying like actually it is after the tribulation
next thing i know i get a call from the pastor in a church of like 800 people i'm like well this
can't be good and he wants me to meet with sam gip you know sam gibbs the expert on this you
know you need to meet with sam gibb i'm like i don't you know i've heard a lot of sam gibb i'd
rather just take correction if i need correction i want it for my pastor the pastor took me in the
office and he's like you know i hear you've been listening to this guy in arizona and these pastors
in the new ifb i'm like yeah they're great you know it got saved as a result of the new ifb preaching
i listen to them i really like them and you know he just went on talk about how bad they are and
how horrible they are what is that it's like a diatrophies mentality it's like they can't handle
that someone in their church is listening to another pastor you know instead of getting better
they get bitter right instead of saying like wow i was wrong about the tribulation let me fix it
and preach what's right wow i was wrong about zionism let's kick sam gip the hell out of our
church who says jesus isn't the messiah that he's only the messiah for the jews why don't we actually
just teach right no that doesn't happen why because people are prideful because diatrophies
is prideful because some preachers they have to be the number one they have to be your favorite
they have to be the guy with the most views they have to be the guy with the most likes
and you know what to get attention because they have to be number one they often preach
crazy things to get attention and they end up being like diatrophies not accepting john verse
10 wherefore if i come notice this i will remember his deeds which he doeth trading against us with
malicious words and not content therewith neither doth he himself receive the brethren and forbiddeth
them that would and casteth them out of the church hey he's like i'm not going to forget what you're
doing here i'm not going to forget the division that you're causing amongst god's people i'm going
to remember it beloved follow not that which is evil but that which is good he that doeth good is
of god he that doeth evil hath not seen god you know these diatrophies type pastors you don't
want to follow these types of people because in their pride not only are they going to cut off
the apostle john it's not just the apostle john that they have issues with in their pride they're
going to constantly be preaching lies they're going to be constantly preaching things that are
contrary to the bible just like ezekiel 13 said why because they're preaching at their own heart
what is a prideful person a person whose opinion supersedes what the bible says and you see these
diatrophies type pastors they come to a text they preach the exact opposite of what the text says
why because they're a prideful person and you know what you should not follow a person like that
life is too short to go to ex new ife baptist church life is too short to go to a bad church
to be under a prideful pastor to be under someone constantly preaching false doctrine to be under
diatrophies who doesn't want to have any fellowship with john life's too short for that and look if
you actually had some wisdom about you and if you actually looked into the history of the new ife
where like i said there's been like 25 pastors who used to be new ife and are now not i would
just warn you i would just tell you that if you are in a good church you should stay in a good
church and let me just tell you not all churches are created equal not all preachers are created
equal not all pastors are created equal and i think some people in their naivety think
that every single person who claims to be new ife or has a new ife church that you're just
going to be thriving and just have an awesome time there i just like man that is not true let
me just tell you that right now that is not true you know you don't want to have moved to boise
pre 2024 oh yeah every new ife church is the same man i want to live in this certain place
because it's so cool okay how would that have worked out moving to boise before 2024 i'm just
telling you it doesn't have to be me but if you are under the sound of my voice even in internet
land you know if you're at a good church stay there and i've even had some people tell me
from other great new ife churches hey you know i'm thinking of moving to anchor when you start
things and i do not encourage that i don't because you're already under a great pastor
you're already at a great church and while of course i know i'm a sincere person of course i
know that i love god it's like you are under a great person you should just stay there and some
people have this idea where like they want to just constantly jump from church to church like
they want to go in this this circuit and just like continuously be members of all these different
churches that's a bad idea you should find someone that is good you should find someone who is real
you should find a church that is the real deal and you should stay there you should be a blessing
to that church you should support support that church you should get rooted and grounded there
because you're really rolling the dice and look you know i think the last couple the last year
has proven who the real ones are and to be clear all the people who are new ify right now i love
all of them i do think they are the real deal but i'm just saying the 25 plus that have moved away
though are not and so you should be aware of that go to philippians 1 proverbs 28 verse 25 says he
that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife but he that put it his trust in the lord shall be made
fat last point number six people who cause division do not care about serving god you say is that your
opinion okay while you're turning to philippians 1 roman 16 17 says now i beseech you brethren
mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned
and avoid them for they that are such serve not our lord jesus christ but their own belly and by
good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple do not think that just because
someone is a pastor or someone is a preacher that they have sincere intentions that they are a
sincere person that they really just care about the truth there are people that go into ministry
because they love power because they love a title before their name because they love attention
because they want all the accolades because they want to have some sort of control right there's
or money a lot of times they want money they want this they want that but here's the thing
if someone's causing divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which we have learned
that person's not serving God that person is serving themselves Philippians 1 verse 15
some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife and some also of goodwill you know some people
get up and they write a sermon because they're envious against another pastor some people they're
envy they they're envious they're bitter they have all these personal issues with a preacher
and they get up and they write a sermon not to bless their people not to edify the congregation
not because the bible said some spoke something to them as they're reading the bible not because
they're they're trying to preach the word but because they have envy and strife that is sad
that is a shame you know by the way you know when you get an opportunity to preach that is not your
time to just have your whipping post of your personal beefs with people in the church to
preach like the weirdest personal opinions that you have preach the word there is nothing that
you can say that is more interesting than what the bible has already said your sermons will be good
if you preach the word if you get up and you're envious and you're bitter and you're one little
pet doctrine you don't like and you want to get up and preach against that you're going to sound
like an idiot, you're going to sound like a jerk, no one's going to follow you except losers, except
ex-new IV losers. Notice it says, "And some also of goodwill." There's some preachers, they do have
goodwill. Verse 16, "The one preach Christ of contention not sincerely, supposing to add
affliction to my bonds." There's people that get up, they do not sincerely love God. They are not
sincere about the things that they are preaching. They do not sincerely want to see you grow. They
do not sincerely want your marriage to be blessed. They do not sincerely want your childbearing to be
blessed. They want money. They want a big church. They want people following them. They want the
title. They want all these things. Verse 17, "But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the
defense of the gospel, what then? Notwithstanding every way, whether in pretense or in truth,
Christ is preached, and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice." How should we respond to that?
Look, whether or not someone is preaching the Bible out of sincerity and love or of envy and
strife, if the Bible is being preached, if Christ is being preached, I'm happy for that, right?
So whether someone has some, like, secondary ulterior motives or something like that,
as long as the Bible is being preached, I'm at least happy that the Bible is being preached.
But, you know, me, if I'm going to spend my life in a church, I'm going to follow someone who's
sincere. And you know what? People who want to preach, I'm going to be sincere. Even though,
hey, you know, I'm happy when Christ is preached in any way, I don't want to be the person preaching
out of envy and strife. I don't want to be the person who gets up and has all this bitterness
and is trying to just, you know, preach my personal opinion. Go to second Timothy chapter
three, second Timothy chapter number three. Why is there division? Some people just don't care
about serving God. That's why there's division. Some people are insincere. That's why there's
division. Some people just want to preach their own opinions. That's why there's division.
Second Timothy chapter three, verse one, this know also that in the last days perilous times shall
come for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure, more than
lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, notice this, from such
turn away, right? So in the last times these people are not sincere, they're not serving God,
they're covetous, they're boasters, they're lovers of their own selves, and when you identify a
person like that, the Bible says, from such, turn away. What does that mean? Division. You know,
oh, I get so tired of the division. Okay, well then you just have to care about nothing. Oh,
I'm just so tired of the fighting. Well, just don't care about doctrine. Oh, I just, I'm so
sick of the division. Well, just don't care when people gossip and lie and rail. We'll just have
a church full of gossiping and lying and railers. Is that going to bring unity? No. Oh, you know,
I'm so sick of the division. Well, stop being prideful. Oh, I'm so tired of all the division.
Why don't you then just apologize when you've done wrong? I'm so tired of all the division.
Why don't you accept someone's apology when they've done wrong? Why don't you stop being
prideful? Why don't you stop being carnal? Why don't you stop being fleshly? Why don't you
actually sincerely care about God? Why don't you actually sincerely care about serving God? You
know what? Then you can have unity. And look, I thank God that our church does have a lot of unity.
It's been that way for about a year. And I hope that continues. But I'm just telling you that it
will not always be that way. There will be people that creep in and try to bring in heresies. There
will be people that go and whisper campaigns. There will be that loud-mouthed woman someday
who's a railer and a gossip. And you know what, I thank God for the ladies in our church
that I actually believe the ladies in our church are a good example. But you know what,
don't let that change. Don't become a gossip. Don't become a railer. Don't become a whisper.
Why? Because unity is important and unity is desirable. But I'm just here to tell you that
there will be division in the future. You got to be ready for that. Hey, unity amongst our new IFB
friends. I want that super bad. I want to be friends with all these people. I think they want
to be friends with me, but I'm just telling you someday there'll be another ex-new IFB bozo there
that will happen. Last verse I want to read Psalm 133 verse one. "Behold how good and how pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in unity." Hey, even though we know division will take place,
obviously what we want is unity. And if you actually want that, then you know what? You have
to go through the points I talked about this morning and actually care about those things.
Actually not be a gossip. Actually care about doctrine. That's how we're going to have unity
in a good way. Let's pray. Lord, thank you so much for your word. I just pray that our church
would stay unified, that you'd help us all to care very much about what the Bible says. I pray that
you'd lead me as a pastor to preach that which is right. I pray that you would give me wisdom.
I pray that you would make me aware of any blind spots that I have. And if I'm wrong about anything,
I pray that that would be brought to my attention so that I could fix it. I pray that we would all
have that same attitude, that we'd be very long suffering toward one another, that we would
apologize when we've offended, when we've done wrong, and that we'd be gracious and forgiving
of our brothers in Christ when they've done wrong to us. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Last hymn this morning will be number 422. Number 422. Thou didst leave thy throne.
Hymn 422. 422 there on the 1st. Thou didst leave thy throne, and thy kingdom come,
and thy birth street was so gallant.