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time to get started this morning. If you would grab a hymnal and turn to our
first hymn number 44 will work till Jesus comes, hymn number 44 will work
open with a word of prayer. If you'll bow your heads with me. Heavenly Father, we
thank you for this day, for the opportunity to gather together, sing
praises, and learn from your word. I pray that you would be with us, that the
service would be done decently in an order, and that you would open our ears
to the message that you've laid on Pastor's heart this morning. These things
we pray in Jesus' name, amen. Alright, for our next hymn, turn, if you would, to
hymn number fifty six five six when we all get to heaven
56 there on the first
To be, to be
Please raise your hand if you don't have a bulletin and Usher will bring you one on the front is our Bible memory passage of the week Galatians
Chapter 1 verse 13 keep working on that chapter on the inside
You'll see our service times listed Sunday morning at 10 30 Sunday evening at 4 30 and our Wednesday evening Bible study through
Proverbs at 7 o'clock PM
Below that are our soul-winning times and do make note that all those meet at the church building except for brother Eric's time
So get in contact with him if you'd like to join for that Tuesday time
Nursing home ministry is listed below that
Also, if you see below our year-to-date statistics praise the Lord we hit a hundred salvations for the month so far
And we still have today and tomorrow
And so we shattered our previous month record
for this congregation, so praise the Lord for that.
Good job to all the soul winners,
and it just goes to show that soul winning still works.
Oklahoma City is a very receptive place.
We just need the laborers to do it, to care,
and to want to go out there and preach the gospel.
So great job with that.
Upcoming events April 13th for the evening service will have a men's preaching night. There's a sign-up sheet on the back
Please note the topic of your sermon. It doesn't necessarily have to be the title of your sermon
But just whatever the topic of your sermon is, please note that and then after that we will have a potluck after the service
April 19th is going to be our Easter soul-winning marathon and as well there is a sign-up sheet back there for that
We're meeting at Frederick Douglas Park kind of in the East, okay?
See area we'll meet at 9 a.m.. For coffee and donuts and then start soul-winning at 10 o'clock
So please do sign up that way I know how much food to order for both breakfast and lunch for that day
And for that day and really at any time now you could use these Easter invites that we ordered
I ordered like I think 2,500 so feel free to use a ton
throughout until we run out because obviously after April 20th they're
worthless so use them up. April 20th we're going to have the Lord Supper for
the evening service and also we're catering barbecue for the lunch in
between services for that day and feel free to tell guests feel free to tell
people out soul winning that hey come to church have free barbecue even says it
on the invite so try to get people in church anyway I don't care if we have
16th through 18th is the King James Conference at Sher Foundation Baptist Church.
That's Pastor Aaron Thompson running that, should be a great conference.
May 31st, we are having the Durant Oklahoma soul winning marathon teaming up with Steadfast, so that's going to be a great time.
June 28th is the Tinker Air Show Fellowship Event,
and then the next day,
Brother Ben Naim from Steadfast Baptist Church
will be preaching both services for us that day.
August 27th through the 31st
is the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship
at Steadfast in Texas.
And October 6th through the 11th
is the Bahamas Mission Trip.
We do have a QR code there for visitors
or for people just wanting to update their information.
and on the back is our prayer list. Please keep all those requests in prayer this week,
and below that you'll see there's a QR code for those who'd like to give to our church,
and that's going to be it for announcements this morning. We'll go ahead and go to our third song.
All right, hymn number 66 at Calvary for our third song this morning, number 66 at Calvary.
66 at Calvary, they're on the first.
Here's our stand in vanity and pride.
Every knot by Lord was crucified.
The scene there was great and grace was free.
Pardoned there was bold to fly to me.
There by burdens so felt liberty
at Calvary.
By God's word at last my sin.
He sold it for return to Calvary.
Mercy there was great and grace plus three.
Heart in there was golden by two.
makes us dead.
Good singing this morning.
As the offering plates are being passed, turn if you would to Acts chapter number 11.
Acts chapter number 11.
Good morning Acts 11 the Bible reads and the Apostles and brethren that were in Judea
Heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God and when Peter was come up to Jerusalem
They that were of the circumcision contended contended with him saying that when it's in to men
Uncircumcised and just eat with them, but Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning and expounded it by order unto them saying I
Was in the city of Joppa praying and in a trance. I saw a vision a certain vessel descended
As it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners, and it came even to
me upon the which, when I had fastened my eyes, I considered and saw four-footed beasts
of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air, and I heard
a voice saying unto me, Arise, Peter, slay and eat.
But I said, not so, Lord, for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my
But the voice answered me again from heaven would God hath cleansed that call not thou common
And this was done three times and all were drawn up again into heaven and behold
Immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was sent
Where I was sent from Caesarea unto me and the Spirit made me go with them nothing doubting moreover
These six brethren accompanying me
We entered into the man's house and he showed us how he had seen an angel in his house
Which stood and sent to him sent him into Joppa and called for Simon whose surname is Peter
Who shall tell tell thee words whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved
And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning, then remembered
I, the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall
be baptized with the Holy Ghost, for as much then as God gave them the like gift as he
did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, what was I, that I could withstand
God.
Then hath God, also to the Gentiles, grant the repentance unto life.
Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen traveled
as far as Phoenice and Cyprus and Antioch preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
They were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians preaching the Lord Jesus, and the hand of the Lord was with them
and a great number believed and turned into the Lord.
Then tidings of these things came into the ears of the church, which was at Jerusalem, and they sent forth Barnabas
that he should go as far as Antioch.
who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should cleave unto the Lord.
For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost, and of faith, and much people was added unto the Lord.
Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus for to seek Saul,
And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch, and it came to pass that a whole
year they assembled themselves with the church and taught much people, and the disciples were
called Christians first in Antioch.
And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch, and there stood up one of them
named Agabus and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout
all the world which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto
the brethren which dwell in Judea.
Which also they did and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas in Saul. It's by our heads for a prayer
Father in heaven we thank you for this day our church and we just ask that you bless every aspect of
Amen. All right. Well, we are in Acts chapter number 11.
Let's start reading verse 19 where the Bible says,
Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution
that arose about Stephen traveled as far as
Phenus and Cyprus and Antioch preaching the word
to none but unto the Jews only.
So here we see the audience of who the Gospels being preached to, the disciples are really
focusing on those that are Jews, but then it says in verse 20, and some of them were
men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the notice
preaching the Lord Jesus.
Now, this is what they should have been doing,
is preaching just to everyone,
preaching to the Jews and to the Gentiles.
Verse 21, it says,
unto the Lord so we see a very simple concept here that when someone gets saved before they didn't
have God they didn't have the Lord and when they believe they turn unto the Lord they now have God
verse 26 says and when he had found him he brought him unto Antioch and it came to pass that a whole
year they assembled themselves with the church and taught much people and the disciples were called
And here we kind of get the history of where our title of Christian came from.
And it's right here in Acts chapter number 11.
I believe it's the only time the word Christian is used in the Bible.
But notice they weren't called Jews anymore.
They weren't called any other name of any other religion.
They were called Christians.
And so the title of my sermon this morning is Why We Are Not Judeo-Christians.
Why We Are Not Judeo-Christians.
Because this title is used in pop culture all the time now.
Christianity or those that believe the Bible believe in Judeo-Christian values, but really
what you see is when people who are Jews in the New Testament get saved, they turn unto
the Lord, meaning before they didn't have the Lord, now they turn unto the Lord and
now they're completely different and the apostles were called Christians kind of like as an
insult, but really it describes what we believe perfectly.
We are followers of Christ.
Christians, and I love that title, but I want to give you some usage of this phrase in pop culture,
and not necessarily any time recently, but I found one from President Ronald Reagan,
which he said a lot of good things. I'm not some hater of him, but I don't like this quote that he
said. He said, we in the West have derived our strength from a belief in the Judeo-Christian
values that emphasize the dignity of the individual, the worth of every human being,
and the importance of moral absolutes.
So some people, when they look at Christianity,
they kinda wanna blend these two religions
of Judaism and Christianity.
And even in school, I remember being taught
about all the different religions that exist.
And we were taught in school that Jews and Christians
worship the same God,
that it's basically the same religion,
that there's not really that much of a difference.
And many people believe this.
Hence the term, Judeo-Christian.
I've heard it all my life.
Here's another quote from Pope John Paul II.
That's a bad source.
He says, the Judeo-Christian vision of the human person
based on the belief that man is created
in the image and likeness of God
has profoundly shaped the moral and cultural heritage
of the West.
So he's saying, what makes the West great?
Judeo-Christian values.
Reagan says, what makes the West great?
Judeo-Christian values.
I'm gonna tell you what makes the West great
is just Christian values.
What made America great is just Christian values because Judaism is a false religion and it's just
an oxymoron to say Judeo-Christian. It's like saying a man-woman. It's like saying a Satan-Christian
religion. Like this does not make sense and I'm going to prove that from the Bible. Here's another
one, Dennis Prager. This one's more recent. I'm sure many people have heard of this guy.
He says, Judeo-Christian values are the moral foundation of the United States.
Now we're going to see, is that true?
I got a couple of statements for everyone this morning.
Number one, Jews do not believe the Bible.
You have to understand this.
Go to John chapter number five, because again, what you're taught is that, oh, Jews and Christians
both believe the Old Testament.
as God's word, but I'm going to prove to you that actually, no, Jews do not believe the
Old Testament.
Now, they may lie to people and they may lie and say, we believe the Torah.
We believe the first five books of Moses, but I'm going to prove to you that that is a lie.
It is not true whatsoever.
Notice what it says afterward, Jesus findeth him in the temple and said unto him, Behold,
thou art made whole, sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole.
because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.
So Jesus heals a guy, does this great work,
and the Jews want to kill him for it
because he had broken the Sabbath.
Then it says on verse 17,
but Jesus answered them,
my father worketh hither too,
and I work.
He's saying, look, God's working,
and I'm working too, verse 18.
Therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill him
because he had not only broken the Sabbath,
but said also that God was his father making himself equal with God.
That could be a whole sermon in and of itself, it's a really great verse,
but we're not talking about that today.
Verse 19 says, then answer Jesus and said unto them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of himself.
But what he seeeth the Father do, for what things,
soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise."
Now, I read all that kind of just as an introduction
to give us some context to prove to you that first of all,
who he's interacting with right now is the Jews.
The religious Jews, people that claim that they're of Moses,
claim that they're of Abraham,
claim to believe the Old Testament.
Then for the rest of this chapter,
he kind of goes into a sermon directed exactly at the Jews.
So skip down to verse 39.
And this is where I'm going to prove to you that Jews don't believe the Bible.
Verse 39 says,
Search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life,
and they are they which testify of me.
So keep in mind, who is his audience?
The Jews.
And he's saying, look, search the Scriptures.
What is he referring to?
He's referring to the Old Testament.
So he's saying, look, if you were actually reading the Old Testament and you actually
believed it, you would realize that the whole Old Testament testified of me, of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
So do the Jews believe the Old Testament?
Absolutely not.
Because if they believed the Old Testament, they would have seen everything that the Old
Testament was prophesying of the coming Messiah.
And they would have believed on him when he came.
But what does John 1 say?
Jesus was a Jew. Okay. He was born in that area. He was ethnically a Jew.
But guess what? He was not a Jew of the satanic religion that rejects God in the Old Testament because Jesus is God.
The Jews are the ones that rejected him and look at verse 40. He says and you will not come to me that you might have life.
I receive not honor from men, but I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you."
That's a hard sermon.
I mean, he's literally preaching to people that want to kill him for healing someone,
and he's just telling them, you don't love God.
And what's the proof of that?
Well, because they rejected the Bible.
They rejected the Old Testament.
All the stuff that was written about Christ.
I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not.
If another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive."
And see, this is where we get this idea of the fact that since the Jews rejected the true Messiah,
Jesus Christ, when the Antichrist comes and comes in his own name, the Jews are going to accept him.
Why? Because they didn't believe the Bible.
They didn't believe the Old Testament that was foretelling of Jesus Christ.
He came, they rejected him.
When the Antichrist comes, they're going to eat him up.
And thankfully the Bible teaches that those who are saved will not be deceived by the
Antichrist.
It's not even possible.
Now Jesus did say that...
If it were possible, he would deceive even the elect.
So there's going to be some things on the surface
about the Antichrist that I think everybody's
going to generally like.
It's not like the Antichrist is going
to walk around with horns on his head saying,
I love Satan at first, at least.
OK, there's going to be some things where we're like,
oh, I like what he's doing here.
This kind of seems like a good idea.
Because if it were possible, he would deceive everyone.
But of course, we know that the Messiah has already come.
We already believe that Jesus is the Christ so anyone in the future coming to claim that he's that, we know that that's not true.
We're not going to believe that.
It says verse 44, how can ye believe which receive honor, one of another, and seek not
the honor that cometh from God only?
Remember the word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
And Jesus is saying, why is it that you didn't believe me?
It's because you don't care about the honor that comes from God, you care about the honor
among yourselves in your little false religion.
And they're not sincere.
That's what he's pointing out.
If you did believe the Bible, you would believe me.
He says, do not think, in verse 45,
do not think that I will accuse you to the Father.
There is one that accuseth you, even Moses in whom ye trust.
Now, this is important.
Jesus is saying, I don't have to go to the Father and accuse you guys of being wicked
and not believing in me, because someone has already done that, Moses, which is who?
The author of the Torah, the first five books, right?
And he's saying, those all testified of me.
Those all were foretelling of the coming of Jesus Christ.
And those writings in and of themselves are accusing you because you rejected me.
Then it says verse 46 very important verse for had ye believed Moses you would have believed me
For he wrote of me, but if you believe not his writings
How shall ye believe my words the Jews do not believe the Bible and to claim
That Jews believe the Bible is to call Jesus Christ a liar
And what's so sick is like, I understand unsaved random professors in school not understanding this
and just saying, well, do you say they believe the books of Moses, so just taking them at face value?
But what a shame when Baptist pastors get up and say, oh, they have the same God that we do.
Oh, they believe the same scriptures that we do when what they're really doing is they're standing up and saying, oh, Jesus lied in John chapter 5.
Oh, Jesus actually was not telling the truth here.
No, the Jews really do believe the Bible.
No, actually we're going to believe Jesus Christ.
We're going to take Him at His words and realize that,
hey, if the Jews believed the Bible,
you know what they would have done?
They would have believed in Jesus Christ.
And this gets to what we always talk about.
Why is it that someone rejects God because they want to?
It's not that they didn't have the Bible.
It's not that the truth wasn't there.
It's that they weren't sincere.
They didn't want the truth, they didn't love the truth, they loved lies and so they rejected Jesus Christ.
And you know what, go to 2 Thessalonians 2, 2 Thessalonians 2, kind of talks about this idea of why people are going to hell,
especially during the end times when the Antichrist reveals himself.
You know, are these all just poor little innocent victims, these poor little Jews that didn't
know any better, or are they going to hell for a specific reason?
Talking of the Antichrist, it says in verse 8, and then shall that wicked be revealed.
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness
of his coming, even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs
and lying wonder." So the Antichrist, he's going to come, he's going to declare himself God,
he's going to stand in the temple of God, the rebuilt third temple, he's going to declare
he's going to have all these signs and all these powers given to him from the devil
and lying wonders. And what's the point of all of these things?
Look what it says in verse 10, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish, because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved.
It's not that they didn't receive the truth.
It's that they chose to not love the truth.
And that's exactly what happened to the Jews
that were alive during Jesus's time.
The truth incarnate came to them.
The truth incarnate did miracles before them,
preached the word of God,
healed a man on the Sabbath day.
But even though the truth came to them,
they chose not to love the truth.
In fact, they chose to hate the truth.
Then it says in verse 11,
and for this cause,
God shall send them strong delusion
that they should believe a lie.
See, people who want to believe lies,
God will punish them with more lies.
He'll say, oh, you want to hate the truth, you want to reject the truth.
Well here's some more lies that you could believe.
Why?
Verse 12, that they all might be damned who believed not the truth but had pleasure in
unrighteousness.
What's the point of all these deceptions going out is so that God could give people exactly
what they want.
Exactly what they're asking for.
They have the truth.
They hate it.
They reject it.
He says, oh, okay, here's some more lies for you to believe so that you could be damned
That's what God says. That's what the Bible says right there.
That's the point of it.
And even Jesus, when he was on this earth, he spoke in parables.
Why? So that people who chose to reject him would not believe in him.
Because they already made that decision.
And so that they could not understand.
Go to, if you would, 2 Timothy chapter number 3.
2 Timothy chapter 3.
So we saw Jesus, he's saying, look, if you believed Moses, you would have believed me.
What does that tell us?
That tells us that the entire Old Testament is about Jesus Christ.
You know, you have people who aren't necessarily Jews, but they certainly are worshippers of
Jews, and that's called Ruckmanites.
Now, Ruckmanites, I unfortunately had been to one of these churches for like three years
when I first got saved, and it was a nightmare, it was very annoying, but they kind of teach
that there's like seven different dispensations and that people were saved in different methods
through different times in history, and many of them would say like, oh, the Old Testament
They didn't know about Jesus.
They didn't know about the Messiah.
They had to be saved by doing sacrifices, by doing works.
But I want to disprove that.
It says in 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 15.
This is Paul speaking to Timothy it says and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures
Notice what of the holy scriptures here? It's the Old Testament. Why their New Testament is being written right here, right?
So Timothy as a child he had access to what the holy scriptures the Old Testament and what do these things do?
It says which are able to make the wise unto salvation
How?
Through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
So the Apostle Paul is saying, hey, the Old Testament wasn't some different system of salvation
by works, by animal sacrifices, he's saying, hey Timothy, from a child you've known the
Scriptures which is able to get someone wise according to faith in Jesus Christ.
Which that's what brings salvation in the Old Testament.
Today, in the future, it's always been by faith in Jesus Christ.
Now, in the Old Testament, granted, of course, it was faith in the promise of Him to come.
Right?
They're looking forward to the coming of the Messiah, and I'm going to show you that many
people in the New Testament, when they saw Jesus, they're like, we found Him.
The Messiah that we've been looking for, that we've been waiting for.
How do they know that?
Because of the Old Testament that wrote of Him.
We'll go to Luke chapter number two.
I'll show you one of those.
An example from a man named Simeon.
Now, Simeon is kind of focused on a little bit less than other characters in the Christmas story,
but I really love this man and his story. I think it's very powerful.
Verse 22, notice what it says in Luke chapter 2. I'm sorry, 25 in Luke chapter 2.
It says, and behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon,
and the same man was just and devout. Notice this phrase, waiting for the consolation of Israel.
and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
This is a man who was reading the Bible,
studying the Old Testament,
and he was expecting something.
He was waiting for something,
and where did he get this idea?
Was it just implanted into his head from God?
No, he was reading the Bible,
and he realized there's a Savior coming.
There's a Messiah coming,
and he was waiting for that consolation of Israel.
In verse 26 says,
and it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost.
that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
So now he does get a special message from the Holy Ghost saying like, hey, obviously he already knew the Messiah was coming,
but God's telling him you're not even gonna die until you see the Messiah, until you see the Lord that's coming.
Verse 27, And he came by the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents, Mary and Joseph,
brought in the child Jesus to do for him after the custom of the law, then took he him up
in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now let us thou thy servant depart in peace
according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.
What a powerful, beautiful story.
He knows the Messiah's coming.
God tells him, hey, you're not even going to die
before you see this Messiah.
And then the parents of Jesus are there
and he takes the incarnate word of God in his hands
and says, wow, I could depart in peace now.
I could die now because I've seen God.
I've seen the Messiah.
I've seen thy salvation.
And notice what it says in verse 31,
which thou hast prepared before the face of all people.
How did he know that from the book of Isaiah?
a light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of thy people, Israel.
Hey, the book of Isaiah talks about how the Messiah is going to come and be a light for the Jews and for the Gentiles, for the whole world.
So it sounds like Simeon knew that the promise of the Messiah was fulfilled in this baby, Lord Jesus Christ.
He knew that from the Word of God. Let me show you some other examples in John chapter number one.
John chapter number one.
Look at verse 40 one of the two which heard John speak and followed him was Andrew Simon Peter's brother
He first findeth his own brother with and sayeth unto him. We have found the Messiah
which is being interpreted, the Christ.
You know how you find something?
It's because you knew something was missing
and you were looking for it and you found it, right?
So they're living in the Old Testament.
They're reading the Old Testament scriptures.
When Jesus comes on the scene,
they're like, wow, we found the messiahs.
How does that happen?
Because the Bible foretold of it, that's how.
So, the Jews are without excuse because notice all these other people, they're seeing Jesus
come and they're saying, wow, this is fulfilling the Old Testament Scriptures.
And this is why it's so silly for the Rachmanites to act like the Old Testament spoke nothing
of Jesus because the people who actually knew Jesus and saw him in person realized that
Scripture was being fulfilled before their eyes.
And he brought him to Jesus, and when Jesus beheld him, he said,
Thou art Simon, the son of Jonah, thou shalt be called Cephas,
which is by interpretation a stone.
The day following, Jesus would go forth into Galilee
and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, follow me.
Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him,
notice, we have found him, of whom Moses in the law.
And the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
So Philip goes even farther here where it's not just kind of vague like, oh, we read it
in the Old Testament.
He's saying Moses specifically in the law, which is the books that the Jews claim to
believe, right?
The first five books of the Bible, they claim to believe in the law.
He's saying, look, we found him of whom Moses in the law
and the prophets did right. Jesus
of Nazareth. So the entire Old Testament,
you know what it's about? It's about the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's
the proper way to read the Old Testament, by the way, is to be looking for
pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because a lot of the actual
physical rituals, the carnal washings, the animal sacrifices, those things have been
done away in the New Testament from a carnal action perspective. But you know, those scriptures
are still really beneficial for us today because they're picturing Jesus Christ, right? In Leviticus
chapter number two, I believe, you have the sin offerings. And it's just...
packed full of pictures of Jesus and his sacrifice,
talking about how like, you know,
you had to put your hand on the head of the animal,
picturing how it's like our sin
that was transferred to Jesus Christ.
It's our hands that put him on the cross.
And of course, the fact that it had to be a spotless lamb,
you know, it had to be a perfect sacrifice, picturing,
Jesus having never sinned, right?
So there's all these pictures of Christ.
It's not like you're just reading that saying like,
oh, cool, they killed an animal.
No, it was all foretelling of Jesus Christ.
And again, if the Jews were sincere,
They would have believed Jesus, because if they believed Moses, they would have believed him.
Go to Acts chapter number three.
Let's prove further that the Jews do not believe the Bible.
Zero parts of the Bible.
Acts chapter number three, verse 14.
This is Peter preaching to the Jews notice what it says but ye denied the holy one and the just and desired a murderer
To be granted unto you and killed the prince of life whom God hath raised from the dead
Whereof we are witnesses and his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong whom you see and know
Ye the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all and now brethren
I want that through ignorance he did it
as did also your rulers, but those things notice which God before had shown by the mouth of all.
His prophets that Christ should suffer. He hath so fulfilled see I'm not just making this up this morning
Every single prophet of the Old Testament was for telling of Christ his coming and his suffering every single one the book of Jonah
Yep, the book of Jonah being in hell right out the belly of hell cried
I that's a picture of Jesus Christ dying and going to hell for us and it's all over the Bible every single prophet
Verse 19, the call to action,
Repente, therefore, and be converted,
that your sins may be blotted out,
when the times of refreshing shall come
from the presence of the Lord.
Hey, you guys don't believe God, you're not saved,
you didn't believe all the prophets,
now what you need to do is repent.
What is he calling them to do?
Is he telling them to clean up their lives,
to stop smoking?
to stop cussing.
No, he's saying you guys didn't believe the Bible.
Now you need to turn and believe the Bible.
You need to believe the prophets.
That's what's going to get you saved, it says in verse 20.
And he shall send Jesus Christ,
which before was preached unto you
through the Old Testament.
Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has
spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.
He's like, hey, Christ has gone into heaven for now, but He's coming back someday.
And those who do not believe in Him are going to experience a rude awakening.
Verse 22.
For Moses truly said unto the fathers.
Now, here's a specific example,
because so far I've just kind of told you,
like, hey, the Old Testament talks about Jesus Christ.
But I want you to notice this is a specific example.
For Moses truly said unto the fathers,
a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you
of your brethren, like unto me,
him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever
he shall say unto you.
So here, the New Testament provides commentary on the old.
If you just read this verse in the Old Testament where Moses is talking about a prophet being
raised up like unto him, you could have your own interpretations.
What is that talking about?
Is that just talking about Joshua coming up in the future or something like that?
But the New Testament says that that was about Jesus Christ.
And so that's a specific example where someone was supposed to read that in the Old Testament
And those who were sincere, those who loved God, those who believed the Bible,
when Jesus came, they realized that that was the truth.
But those who hated the truth, like the Jews, rejected him.
Go to Matthew 27.
So number one, the Jews do not believe the Bible.
Don't listen to their lies. We don't have the same God.
We don't have the same Bible.
They reject the Word of God. They believe in all these oral traditions of Judaism called the Talmud.
where it's just oral, man-made traditions, passed on through the centuries,
written in the Talmud, and it's a wicked blasphemous book,
teaches that Jesus Christ is burning and boiling hot excrement,
that He was the son of a whore, says all these blasphemous things about Jesus,
that's not the same religion, folks. That's a completely different religion, and they don't believe the Bible.
But number two,
The obvious, the Jews rejected and murdered the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now there's countries and legislation today trying to make it illegal to say what I just
said.
That the Jews murdered Jesus Christ.
But let's look at it from the Bible, Matthew 27 verse 13, then said Pilate unto him, Here
is thou not how many things they witness against thee, and he answered him to never a word,
Now, at that feast, the governor was want to release unto the people a prisoner whom they would and they had then a notable prisoner called Barabbas.
Now, Barabbas elsewhere in the scripture, the Bible tells us that he was someone who had committed murder in an insurrection.
So this guy is an actual criminal, someone who committed first degree murder, someone who's actually worthy of death.
That's who it's referring to there in verse 17.
Therefore, when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you?
Barabbas or Jesus, which is called Christ.
So get the picture of the offer that the Jews have been given here.
Would you like to have this first degree murderer,
this criminal, this person who is guilty,
or Jesus, who's been doing nothing but healing people,
loving people, ministering to people,
preaching the word of God, and preaching the truth?
Those are the options that the Jews were given.
The precious Jews that everyone loves to worship today and speak so highly of and talk about how they're such a great people, such a great culture, such a great religion.
Okay, this was the great choice that these wonderful people made when presented with these two.
Verse 18, for he knew that for envy he had delivered him.
When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man?
For I've suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
So notice the wife here, she actually knows what's going on, that Jesus is just, that
he is righteous, that he is not guilty of anything.
But the chief priests, that's the Jews and elders, persuaded the multitude that they
should ask Barabbas and destroy Jesus.
They chose Barabbas over the Lord Jesus Christ the perfect spotless Son of God who came to die for them by the way
They chose the murderer. It's like is it any wonder today? Why the Jews hate us?
Why do the Jews persecute us?
When, hey, they were offered Jesus in Barabbas and they chose Barabbas,
how much more are they going to persecute and hate us?
Because, you know, sometimes we actually have things that people could look at and criticize us for,
but Jesus had none of those things.
He was perfect. He was spotless.
But yet, they still hated him.
They still wanted to kill him.
So, of course, as a result, you know who they hate today?
They hate the Christians.
Christians. Don't let the United States Israeli Alliance fool you. Let me tell you, all of that is
about one thing, money. Another thing that the Jews love. But you know what? The Jews hate
Christianity. They hate Christians. They hate Jesus Christ. They wanted Barabbas. Then it says in
What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?
They all say unto him, let him be crucified.
I mean, think about that. Jesus,
sinless, perfect, not guilty. They don't even want him killed. They want him
crucified.
Don't skip over that word in your Bible. What's crucifixion?
When they're going to nail him to a cross while he's alive.
They're going to shove nails into his hands and to his feet and hang him up on a cross in humiliation
Strip him of his clothes spit in his face mock him. That's what they wanted done to Jesus Christ
Is it any surprise what they want done to Christians too today?
Notice what it says the response in verse 23 and the governor said why what evil hath he done?
But they cried out the more saying let him be crucified
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing because he's a weak leader but rather a tumult was made
He took water and washed his hands before the multitude saying I am innocent of the blood of this just person
See to it now. You know what? That wasn't true
He was not innocent of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ
The Romans did have some responsibility in the murder of Jesus Christ
But they were not the chief perpetrators of the murder
They were not the ones who came up with the idea.
The Jews were the ones that wanted it carried out.
Now, of course, this was terrible weak leadership
where he knows it's wrong, his wife knows it's wrong,
he's the governor, and yet he kind of just washes
his hands of that responsibility.
Obviously, what he should have done was told the wicked Jews
to shut up and that he was not going to have
the Lord Jesus Christ murdered.
And then this chilling statement, one of the most chilling verses in the Bible to me is verse 25.
Then answered all the people and said,
His blood be on us and on our children.
I mean, let that sink in what a disgusting, wicked thing that is to say.
to wish a curse upon yourself and all your posterity.
And this is what you want your legacy to be,
is that you killed Jesus Christ.
And they're not ashamed of it.
They're not sad about it.
They're saying, oh, okay, yeah,
you're washing your hands of it.
You're saying it's not a big deal.
Well, let his blood be on us and on our children.
Saying like, we are so gung-ho about hating Jesus
that we're gonna make sure our kids hate him too.
The posterity of Jews hate Jesus Christ, and here we are in 2025, and many Jews spit on the ground when they hear His name.
When they hear the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I can't tell you how many times I've gone soul-winning, and a Jew answered the door, and they mock and ridicule us,
and just mock the fact that we believe in Jesus Christ, and truly His blood has been on them and on their children.
And truly today, the Jews, those who practice this religion, they just embrace the hatred
of Jesus.
They embrace the murder of Jesus Christ.
I've seen them making jokes about how if he came back, they would do it again.
They would love to do it again.
What's that stupid woman, Sarah Silverman?
Right, she's the one that said, yeah, if Jesus came back, I'd like to kill him again.
That's the Jews today.
That's all the Jews that Baptists will get up and say, God bless Israel.
Pray for Israel pray for the Jews. Let's give money to Israel in their war that's happening over there
Look that nation is damned of God
It's cursed. It's wicked God hates the nation of Israel. It's a fake nation
It's not the children of God. They're not people that believe the Bible
They're the children of those that hate and killed Jesus. They're not my friends. They're not our brothers
They should be enemies of the United States
It's such a shame today that we live in a nation that is predominantly Christian, where
people claim to believe the Bible, yet we're the nation that helps Jews the most.
How wicked.
I'm not saying that we should go blow up Israel or something like that, but can we just leave
those freaks alone?
Can we just point out this is a godless nation that hates God and hates Jesus Christ?
Why would we give them our money?
Why would we give them our support?
Why would we fly their flag in our churches?
Why would we bring Jewish rabbis into Christian churches and teach people things?
Why would we have Messianic Christian churches, which is just basically Judeo-Christian?
Why would we call ourselves Judeo-Christian?
It's like people who killed Christ Christians?
People who hate Jesus, Christians, this is retarded, folks.
And beyond just being retarded, it's wicked as hell.
It needs to be shamed.
It needs to be changed in our culture.
And you know what?
Thank God, some of my generation are really waking up to this idea and the old boomers
are losing their mind.
Oh, the new generation is so anti-Semitic, blah, blah, blah.
And it's like, look, if anti-Semitic means hating the wicked religion of Judaism, then
Okay, now obviously I don't just hate someone because of where they were born or their ethnicity like that is stupidity folks
You know what? I want for the Jews the exact thing that the Apostle Paul wanted for them in Romans chapter 10
Brethren my heart's desire and prayer for Israel is that they might be saved
That's what Romans chapter 10 verse 1 says.
That's my heart's desire for them as well.
But you know what?
People who have already crossed the line into this just rabid foaming at the mouth, hatred
of Jesus Christ, those are enemies of God.
And they need to be treated as such.
Go to John chapter number 19, John chapter number 19.
Oh, what a wonderful religion that says, let his blood be on us and on our children.
Yeah, that's who we should be blessing, right?
Verse number 10 of John 19
He's saying, look, yes, the Romans are sinful, yes, the Romans are guilty, yes, the Roman
soldier physically pierced the side of the Lord Jesus Christ, but he says, you know who
has the greater sin, or is the person that delivered me up unto you?
And so, yes, it's accurate to say that the Jews killed the Lord Jesus Christ.
And yes, it is accurate to say that God is angry at them for that.
Look, I'm telling you, hell is hotter for the Jews that delivered Jesus Christ up than for the Romans that pierced his side.
You hear what I'm saying right now?
Hell is hotter and they are being tormented worse the Jews that delivered Jesus Christ than the Romans who physically nailed the nails into his hands.
That's what Jesus is saying.
He who delivered me up has the greater sin.
Now look at Jesus's attitude towards the Roman soldiers, 23 verse 34,
then said Jesus, Father forgive them, for they know not what they do,
and they parted his raiment and cast lots.
Notice Jesus actually had mercy and forgiveness and an extreme amount of grace
towards the Romans that were there.
And look, the Romans are guilty.
The Romans were wicked, but notice Jesus is like saying,
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
I mean, that's an amazing amount of grace
that Jesus is showing, but did the Jews know what they did?
Well, yeah, they said, let his blood be on us
and on our children.
Pilate's washing his hands of it.
I don't know how much the Roman soldiers knew
of what was going on, but Jesus is asking
for forgiveness for them, okay?
But look at the attitude towards the Jews though,
in 1 Thessalonians chapter two.
1 Thessalonians 2. So they're both guilty. The Jews are more guilty. They have a greater punishment.
Jesus is saying, hey, Father, forgive them the Romans, for they know not what they do.
But look at the attitude towards the Jews in 1 Thessalonians 2 verse 14.
For ye brethren became followers of the churches of God, which in Judea are in Christ Jesus.
For ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews."
So we're talking about the Jews here, verse 15, who both killed the Lord Jesus and their
own prophets and have persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary to all men.
It sounds really positive, right?
It sounds like they're God's chosen people.
It sounds like they have a special covenant with God
that makes them different with anyone else.
No, it actually sounds like God's not pleased with them.
They're contrary to everyone.
They killed Jesus.
What are they doing now?
Verse 16,
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles
that they might be saved,
to fill up their sins all the way,
for the wrath has come upon them
to the uttermost.
What was it? Forgiveness upon them or wrath upon them is what the Bible's teaching and it's interesting that their tactic the tactic of
The Jews all throughout the New Testament is to try to censor and silence men of God
Commanding people not to speak anymore in the name of Jesus Christ
Threatening them with jail threatening them with getting beaten all that stuff
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles and you know who's behind all the censor
Censorship issues today is Jews
the people behind wanting to get rid of free speech in America,
wanting to have all these insane rules all over social media
to where Christians cannot put their doctrine out there. This idea of
hate speech. Let me tell you who's behind that. The Jews are behind that.
I wonder who's behind proposing legislation
that would make it illegal to say that the Jews
killed Jesus Christ. I'm sure it's Hindus, right? I'm sure it's Australians.
No, it's the Jews, folks, and the Jews today are doing the same thing that they've always
done, trying to forbid people to speak the Word of God.
Oh, but I thought they believed the Word of God.
No, you've been lied to.
They hate the Word of God.
They hate Jesus and they want to shut people up.
Go to Romans chapter 8.
Number three, what you have to understand about Jews is that the religion of Judaism
is of the devil.
Number two, they rejected Jesus Christ.
Number three, their religion is of Satan.
It is a satanic religion.
So this is why we're not Judeo-Christians.
Because I would not like to say,
oh yeah, I'm a satanic Christian.
Oh, I'm a devil worshipping Christian.
What?
That makes no sense, folks.
Romans chapter 8, verse 31.
I'm sorry, did I say Romans 8?
I think I meant to put John chapter 8 in my notes here.
John chapter number 8.
John chapter number eight, yeah, verse 31 says,
then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him.
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples, indeed.
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
They answered him, we be Abraham's seed,
and we're never in bondage to any man.
How sayest thou, ye shall be made free.
Jesus answered them verily, verily I say unto you,
Whosoever committed sin is the servant of sin.
And the servant abideth not in the house forever, but the Son abideth forever.
If the Son, therefore, shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
I know that you are Abraham's seed, but you seek to kill me because my word hath no place in you."
So, where are we at so far in the story?
The Jews are saying, we are Abraham's seed.
What do they mean by that?
We are the physical descendants of Abraham.
And they kind of have confidence in this.
They kind of think we're set apart, we're special, we're different because we're the physical descendants of Abraham.
Jesus even acknowledges that it's true that they are the seed of Abraham.
Notice what he said there. He says,
I know that you are Abraham's seed. He points that out.
But does that mean that they're okay? Does that mean that they're saved?
Does that mean that they're special?
Well, verse 38,
I speak that which I have seen with my Father. That's God.
and ye do that which ye have seen with your father."
So now, the sermon here is kind of getting a little ominous.
He's kind of using some foreshadowing here
where the listeners would hear this and they'd be perplexed.
Why is he differentiating between his father and our father?
Right? Because they would want to think,
oh yeah, we have God. We believe in God.
Why? Because we're the children of Abraham.
Then he says in verse 39,
then answered and said unto him,
Abraham is our father.
Jesus saith unto them,
If ye were Abraham's children,
ye would do the works of Abraham.
Now this is a distinction many Christians miss today.
Notice at first, if you just read this surface level,
this would be kind of confusing.
Because he's saying,
I know you are the children of Abraham.
then few verses later he's saying,
well, if you were the children of Abraham,
almost implying that they're not.
Why? Because there's a difference between
physical children of Abraham
and spiritual children of Abraham.
And just because you are of the physical lineage of Abraham
does not make you special,
does not make you saved,
does not mean you're on God's team.
And he's pointing out if you were actually truly
the sons of Abraham from a spiritual perspective,
you would do the works of Abraham.
What would that be?
following Jesus Christ, worshiping God,
believing the Bible.
But what are they doing instead?
Verse 40.
But now,
you seek to kill me.
A man that have told you the truth,
which I have heard of God,
this did not Abraham.
He's saying, actually,
you hate the truth.
And Abraham didn't hate the truth.
He believed the truth.
Ye do the deeds of your father. So there's that ominous father again. What is he talking about then said they to him
We be not born of fornication. We have one father even God. So getting defensive saying yeah, God's our father, too
verse 42
Jesus said unto them if God were your father, ye would love me for I proceeded forth and came from God
Neither came I of myself
But he sent me so again Jesus is just
Pampering in this idea that if these people really love God, who would they love?
Jesus Christ. Why do you not understand my speech?
Even because you cannot hear my word.
And here's where he really reveals what he's talking about verse 44.
Ye are of your father the devil
and the lusts of your father ye will do.
He was a murderer from the beginning and a boat not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speak of the lie
He speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it
So now Jesus gave this big description of the attributes of Satan of the devil
After he had just got done telling them that you Jews do the works of your father
You know what he's saying first of all he's saying you guys worship Satan
and you guys are the children of Satan,
and your religion is satanic.
That's one thing that he's saying.
You know what else he's saying?
He's calling them murderers, which they are.
They're trying to kill the Lord Jesus,
and they end up doing it.
He calls them murderers.
He says that they don't abide in the truth.
He says that there's no truth in them.
He says that they speak lies.
And why is that?
Because they're children of their father,
the father of lies, Satan.
So, let me tell you about something about Jews, and I'm speaking generally as far as
the religion goes.
Jews love Satan, Jews love lies, Jews love murder, Jews have no truth in them, Jews
hate God.
You say well people that just were born a certain way the long nose. No, I'm talking about people religiously
People that are the children of these people that hold to the religion of Judaism that still reject Jesus Christ
It is a not just a false religion. It's a satanic religion
It's above and beyond where they're not just lost individuals just like regular Joe bro Joe blow unsaved child of Adam
He's saying no, you're of your father the devil. You guys are actually worshiping Satan
That is Judaism. Let's look at some more first John chapter number two first John chapter number two
First John chapter number two verse 22 notice what it says who is a liar, but he that denyeth that Jesus is the Christ
He is Antichrist that denies the Father and the Son.
See, I'm not just making that up, saying that they are liars, that they love lies.
The Bible is defining someone who is a liar as being someone that is denied that Jesus
is the Christ.
And see, Jews often times, they won't say like,
oh, Jesus wasn't a real person.
Very few people actually believe that.
That's like extreme stupidity.
Almost no one believes that.
Jews will acknowledge that Jesus was a real person.
But you know what they deny is that he was the Christ.
Is that he was the Messiah.
And so what does that make them?
It makes them liars.
Beyond that, you know what else it makes them?
Antichrist.
You know, this is the most wicked, false religion
that exists in the world.
It's worse than all other false religions.
And look, all false religions are of the devil to some extent,
and all false religions will take someone to hell.
But Judaism is the worst false religion that exists.
It just is.
It's anti-Christ.
Verse 23.
Whosoever.
That's a word that the old IFB should underline.
Whosoever denyeth the Son.
The same hath not the Father.
He that acknowledged it the son hath the father also oh the Jews
They have a special covenant with God and God the father loves them and they have their own program
No, no, no, whosoever denies the son does not have the father
You know you got John Hagee down in Texas and he's saying you know how could the Jews?
Reject that which was never offered unto them. It's like you're an idiot
It was offered to them.
He came unto his own and his own received him not.
They rejected him.
They are anti-Christ.
They are liars.
Go to Romans chapter number two while I read Revelation 2.
Verse 9, it says,
I know thy works and tribulation and poverty,
but thou art rich.
And I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews
and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
See, there's a group in this world today
that calls themselves Jews.
Now let me see, what group of people call themselves Jews?
Oh yeah, people who practice Judaism.
They're the only people who call themselves Jews.
There's a group out there that calls themselves Jews,
but they're not real Jews.
They're lying what they are actually
or the synagogue of Satan.
So when someone says,
I'm a Judeo-Christian,
that's like saying,
I'm a synagogue of Satan worshiping Christian.
I'm a child of Satan loving Christian.
I'm a liar Christian.
I'm an anti-Christ Christian.
It doesn't make any sense, guys.
It's so stupid to get up here and say,
are Judeo-Christian values?
It's moronic.
It's a lie.
It's a wicked, satanic, false religion.
Now, in Revelation 2, it said,
there's people who say they're Jews, but are not.
So who are the true Jews?
Verse 28 of Romans 2.
Neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh.
So who would be a Jew that's a Jew outwardly?
Probably people who say, I'm a Jew.
Probably people who wear a little hat on their head.
Probably people who have little curls.
Probably people that say that they're Jews
that are noticing outward manifestation of that,
circumcised, because they believe that circumcision
is something you have to do.
But what's the truth?
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the
spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Notice there's the letter of the law, and there's the spirit of the law.
The letter of the law in the Old Testament was fulfilled by Jesus Christ.
But the spirit of those things are still alive and well,
and how you fulfill things like circumcision spiritually,
or things like the animal sacrifices, or things like the Sabbath.
How do we fulfill those things?
How do we be Jews spiritually by believing on Jesus Christ?
That's who the true Jews are.
Not a Jew, people who are Jews outwardly.
Real Jews, ones who are ones inwardly.
See, the truth is that true Jews from God's perspective are people who believe in Jesus Christ.
Those are true Jews.
That brings me to my last point.
Number four, the nation of Israel today is a spiritual nation made up of all believers in Christ.
So today, there's a spiritual nation of Israel, there's a fake Israel in the Middle East,
a carnal nation, a nation of people that reject Jesus Christ.
There's a spiritual nation that exists today, and it's full of Jews, Gentiles, all people
of the earth, but they have one thing in common, they believe in Jesus Christ.
So, it's not like replacement theology is this idea that Gentiles have replaced Jews.
That's not necessarily what it is.
The truth is that there was a physical nation that's been replaced by spiritual nation full
of both Jews and Gentiles that believe in Jesus.
Hey, it's not like the Jews can't be God's chosen people today.
They can.
All they have to do is repent and believe in Jesus Christ.
That's how they become true Jews.
That's how they become part of the true nation of Israel.
But those that reject him, though they live in a place called Israel,
a fraudulent nation, taken over with genocide, okay?
That doesn't make them true Jews.
That doesn't make them true Israel.
Matthew chapter 21, are you there?
Matthew 21 verse 42.
Matthew 21, verse 42, Jesus saith unto them,
Did ye never read in the Scriptures the stone which the builders rejected?
The same has become the head of the corner.
This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.
Therefore, say I unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you.
And given to a nation, bringing forth the fruits thereof.
See, even in the Old Testament, God was constantly ready to just wipe Israel out and start new
because they were constantly rebelling against him, constantly not keeping his commandments,
constantly not bringing forth fruit like he wanted.
And Jesus is saying, look, the kingdom of God is going to be taken from you guys, you
Jews, and it's going to be given to a different nation, bringing forth the fruits thereof.
It's not talking about a physical nation.
I've seen all over the internet, this is talking about the U.S.
No, okay, the U.S. I believe is the greatest nation on earth,
but it's not a spiritual nation of believers.
That's just a fact.
This nation's going down the trash someday.
It's going to be gone.
It's going to be in the ashes of history.
But the true nation of Israel will last for forever.
The spiritual nation will last for forever.
And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken.
But on whosoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables notice this they perceived that he spake of them
That was some good perceptive skills there guys because he was talking about you
He was talking about replacing you and what's their reaction to change to repent to get right with God?
Nope verse 46, but when they sought to lay hands on him
They feared the multitude because they took him for a profit.
You know, that's the sad thing about Jews today,
is they're probably the most unreceptive religion on planet Earth.
And it's like, it doesn't matter what truth is given to them often times, it doesn't matter
if the message is in love, it doesn't matter if you're showing them from the Old Testament
Jesus or showing them from the New Testament, often times when the truth is given to them
they just get mad, they just reject it, they just make fun of you, mock you, mock Jesus
Christ, the reaction should be repentance.
But again, people who don't love the truth, you know what they're going to do?
They're going to love to believe lies.
They're going to choose to believe lies, they're going to choose to reject God.
Let me show you another couple of examples of this. Ephesians chapter number two, Ephesians chapter two, we're almost done this morning.
We're talking about how now the nation of Israel is a spiritual nation of believers.
Ephesians chapter two verse 11.
Therefore, remember that ye, being in time past, gentiles in the flesh, who are called
uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision, in the flesh made by hands."
So he's speaking to a saved audience here, and he's saying, before you were saved, you
were called gentiles, and you were called uncircumcision by people who are called circumcision.
You were without Christ, before you're saved, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel,
and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
When someone is saved, they're an alien of the nation of Israel, they're not a citizen,
they don't have the promises and covenants of God, and they're without hope.
The only hope for this world is the Lord Jesus Christ, then it says,
But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints.
and of the household of God, and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone.
I don't know what's so hard to understand about this doctrine.
I don't know if the old IV just doesn't want to see it,
but this is the truth, folks.
This is what the Bible teaches,
that hey, people who are unsaved, they were Gentiles.
They used to not be a part of the nation of Israel.
They were aliens.
They had none of the promises, none of the covenants.
But now, through the blood of Jesus Christ,
we're fellow citizens with the saints.
We're a part of the spiritual nation of Israel.
We have been grafted in.
Go to 1 Peter chapter two.
1 Peter chapter number two.
I mean, this idea is just all over the New Testament.
And I don't know if it just comes from people in the pews
not reading the Bible
or if these pastors are just evil and deceiving people or what,
but this is not hard, folks.
I mean, this is not hard doctrine. This is not deep doctrine.
This is very clear scripture.
1 Peter chapter number two.
Verse 6,
Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture,
Behold, I lay in sigh on a chief cornerstone,
Elect, that means chosen, precious,
And he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
Very similar to what Jesus was quoting in Matthew 21, right?
Which he was speaking to the Jews.
Verse 7,
Unto you, therefore, which believe,
He is precious, but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed,
the same is made the head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense,
even to them which stumble at the word.
Being disobedient, where unto also they were appointed.
But ye, who is he talking to, people who believe, are a chosen generation.
A royal priesthood and holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises
of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
See those who believe are the chosen people of God.
God did not just choose that people who have a certain type of DNA are going to be special
just by virtue of their skin color.
Remember what the Bible says in Romans 2, God is not a respecter of persons, right?
How is it someone gets saved?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why is it someone goes to hell?
Because they chose not to believe in Jesus Christ.
We're a royal priesthood, right? We don't have the vertical priesthood anymore.
You could go directly to God through the ultimate high priest, the Lord Jesus Christ.
You don't have to have a high priest go into the holiest of holies
and sprinkle blood on the altar. Jesus put His blood on the altar for us.
We have that access through faith in Him.
We're a peculiar people, meaning that we're set apart.
We're different than this world.
And what's funny, physically, how are we different than this world?
Christians are made up of white people, black people, Jews, Russians, Australians.
Like, we're not different from the world.
But you know how we are?
Is that we're spiritually set apart.
And what are we supposed to do now that we're God's people?
We're supposed to show forth the praises of Him
who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Now, what are we supposed to do?
We're supposed to preach Jesus Christ.
We're supposed to go out into the highways and hedges and compel people to come in.
We're supposed to tell people, hey, Genesis through Revelation, you know what it's about?
Jesus.
Hey Jews, you know what you need to do?
Believe in Jesus.
No, you're not special.
You're not chosen.
You actually have your father, the devil.
You need to get rid of that religion.
That nation needs to reject that wicked religion.
Galatians chapter number six
But look, I just wanted to preach the sermon because I just hate this phrase Judeo Christian
Don't ever call yourself a Judeo Christian, please
Don't ever say that you believe in Judeo Christian values. You know what you just believe in you believe in Christian values
You believe the word of God you believe in Jesus Christ. It's an oxymoron
We need to get rid of this phrase and I also want you to understand that Judaism is not a
continuation of Old Testament religion
Don't have this idea that it's like, oh, Old Testament Jews, and then today people who are of the religion of Judaism,
those are just a continuation of the Old Testament.
No, it's a completely new religion.
And you want to know when this religion started?
It started by rejecting Jesus Christ.
That's the cornerstone of this religion.
That's the inception of this new version of Judaism.
All it is, is a rejection that Jesus is the Messiah.
And you know what they're doing?
They're waiting for the Messiah still today.
2025, they're waiting for him to come.
The next one who's coming, it's not the pre-trib rapture, folks.
It's not Jesus Christ that's coming next.
It's the Antichrist that's coming next.
And you know what, the old IFB needs to actually get in their Bible and stop with their stupid
sayings that they just repeat, well, you could look for the undertaker, but I'm looking
for the uppertaker.
Shut up and just read the Bible.
Your little cute sayings, your little Southern charm that you think is so wonderful, doesn't
And what the Bible says is that the Jews are going to receive him that comes in his own name.
That's what Jesus said.
Who's that?
The Antichrist.
He's who's coming next.
And we need to preach against this garbage.
Look at Galatians chapter number six verse 13.
Save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world."
Look, if you're going to glory in a title,
let it not be those who just want the praise of man
and the praise of just glorying in the flesh.
If we're going to glory in anything,
let it be that we're Christians.
Let us glory in the cross of Jesus Christ.
It says in verse 15,
for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything
nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Notice this in verse 16. I want to close with this thought and as many as walk according to this rule the word of God
peace beyond them and
mercy and upon the Israel
qualifier of God
Hey, peace be to those who love Jesus Christ
Peace be to the nations that are Christian
Peace be to the true Jews, those who have believed in Jesus Christ.
But you know what?
Cursed be all practitioners of people that hate Jesus Christ.
Cursed be the religion of Judaism.
Cursed be the fake nation of Israel.
Let us not bless those people.
Let us not bless a fake religion that hates Christ.
You know what? Those who actually love Jews, you know what we're going to do?
We're actually going to preach them the gospel.
And we're going to say, hey, you know what, I do love you and I do want you to be saved.
I don't want you to go to hell.
Let me tell you about your Messiah.
Let me tell you about the true Messiah that came to save you.
And look, not many Jews are going to believe it.
I don't think I've ever gotten a Jew saved in my life, unfortunately.
But you know what?
I'm going to keep trying.
I'm not going to be like the old IVB who actually hates Jews by saying, oh, they're special.
They're good.
They're good to go.
No, no, no, no, no.
And every Jew that dies without believing in Christ will spend eternity in hell
You know what the hateful thing would be is to just ignore that and just let them die and go to hell
I'm actually the loving one today telling you that their religion is false and that they need to change
That we need to preach the gospel to them. We need to make it clear that they're not the people of God
They need to believe on Jesus Christ. Let's pray Lord. We thank you for your word
We thank you for the warnings they're in.
And I just pray that us as a people,
that we would want to preach the gospel
to the whole world,
that we wouldn't discriminate who we preach to.
And I just pray that if it's possible,
if we run into Jews in this community,
that their hearts would be softened,
that you'd fill us with boldness
to preach them the truth,
and help us to call these Jews to repentance,
to change their mind and believe in Jesus,
and help us just to identify as Christians only,
and not Judeo-Christians.
We love you in Jesus' name, we pray.
Amen.
our last hymn this morning is number 77. Behold, he comes. Hymn number 77. It's kind of short,
so I do want to sing it twice through. Hymn number 77. Behold, he comes.
I know that we've done it in parts before, but I do kind of want everybody to sing just all together, all four parts of that
Behold He Comes, and if you don't know what I mean, just follow 77, Behold He Comes, we'll sing their starting on the first.
Behold He Comes, Behold He Comes, Behold He Comes, Behold He Comes
And every eye shall see him, friend.