okay we're starting a new book this evening the book of 1st Timothy and
we'll go into 2nd Timothy and so we'll be studying this book for the next couple
of weeks along with 2nd Timothy and I'm excited about this book I really love
1st and 2nd Timothy I feel like it has it's just packed out with a lot of
content that's relevant to church leadership and pastoral leadership but
let me just give you an introduction in regards to this book here these two
letters 1st and 2nd Timothy are commonly referred to along with Titus are
commonly referred to as the pastoral epistles okay and the reason for this is
because the content of these letters contains basic essential instructions
for those who are pastors and bishops and those who are in leadership position
and 1st Timothy is actually written to Paul's son in the faith known as Timothy
and really it's meant to disclose counsel regarding probably the most
important subject in the Bible aside from Jesus Christ himself is sound
doctrine and you hear a lot of teaching for sound doctrine in the condemnation
of false doctrine just emphasized throughout the books of 1st and 2nd
Timothy now why is that because doctrine is important amen
doctrine is is important in the church teaching the right doctrine is important
debunking false doctrine is important emphasizing doctrine in general is
important in the church you know the Bible tells us that the church is the
pillar and ground of truth it should be that when we come to church we ought to
learn the truth which is doctrine all right so he emphasizes sound doctrine
it's where we find the qualifications of the bishops and deacons it's where we
find instructions regarding the widows and the elders and even the developing
of a proper attitude in regards to money in the church and so this book is very
very important and we can learn a lot from it not just from a standpoint of
someone who maybe wants to be a preacher a pastor but also someone who just wants
to be a good Christian you can learn a lot from the books of 1st and 2nd
Timothy now chapter 1 is basically briefing Timothy on the importance of
sound doctrine that's what he hits on first and he instructs him to basically
you know to instruct those who are at Ephesus that you know to expose the
false heretics or the heretics and those who are teaching false doctrine to
expose them and to tell those at Ephesus hey make sure no one else teaches
any other doctrine now so where do we find Timothy then we find him in Ephesus
right he's leading at Ephesus he's an evangelist he's preaching the Word of
God he's instructing he's discipling men we see that in 2nd Timothy chapter 2 and
Paul is leaving him leaving him there in order to enforce these principles and
commandments now check this out obviously this worked great okay
Timothy actually did a fantastic job at enforcing the right doctrine teaching
the right things and exposing the false teachers because you remember if you if
you read both 1st and 2nd Timothy one of the overriding themes that we
constantly see being emphasized are those who are reprobate concern in the
faith you have Hymenaeus and Alexander in chapter number one you have
Hymenaeus and Philetus you know we have 2nd Timothy chapter 3 those who
have a form of godliness we have chapter number 4 1st Timothy people who
are teaching to abstain from meats right teaching doctrines of devils I mean
chapter number 6 has that teaching as well that we ought to withdraw from
people like this so he's constantly teaching Timothy hey you need to expose
these false teachers and pastors and so-called preachers who are trying to
infiltrate the church to teach false doctrine now you know what Timothy gave
he now how do we know that how do we know that Timothy did a good job and was
capable of teaching these people and it actually just permeated the church well
because we have Revelation 2 2 and it tells us of the church at Ephesus I know
thy works and thy labor and thy patience and how thou canst not bear them which
are evil and thou has tried them which say they are apostles and are not and has
found them liars so what was the church at Ephesus known for doing exposing
false prophets and teachers where do they learn that from I think they
learned it from Timothy you know he took the bull by the horn so to speak and he
was able to teach this church hey you need to make sure that you try them
which say they're apostles and are not you need to find them liars hey don't
tolerate the doctrine of the Nicolaitans you know that the Jews don't tolerate
that you need to expose the false doctrines of that are trying to
infiltrate the church now obviously the church at Ephesus you know they left
their first love and and they were being rebuked for that in in Revelation
chapter 2 but I believe they got that right you know they got that instruction
that were proofed by Jesus and they corrected that but one glaring strength
that they had was the ability to try them which say they're apostles and are
not and I would accredit that to Timothy you know he was given a lot of
instruction throughout these chapters that we're gonna see here in these two
books and I think he did a great job okay and so look at verse number one he
says here Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our
Savior and Lord Jesus Christ which is our hope unto Timothy my own son in the
faith grace mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord now let
me just start off by saying that Timothy was not one to the Lord by the Apostle
Paul okay we know that he was saved possibly through his mom or even his
grandmother his grandmother was saved his mom was saved and then he had that
same faith alluding to the fact that the possibility of maybe his mom leading
them to the Lord so he was already saved by the time he met Paul but the reason
the Apostle Paul is calling him his son in the faith is because he adopted him
as a spiritual son and what this goes to show you here is that the Apostle Paul
is investing a lot into Timothy right I mean he's sending him out he's teaching
him he's discipling him he's instructing him he's treating him like a son and you
know obviously the Apostle Paul saw a lot of people saved right he says though
you have 10,000 instructors in Christ yet ye have not many fathers for in
Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel he's telling those at Corinth
which means that it's like I'm the one who got you guys saved right and though
they had 10,000 instructors the person who led him to the Lord was himself the
Apostle Paul but that's not to say that there weren't others you know throughout
his ministry that he didn't lead to the Lord people who are already saved or
were saved by someone else and he was able to disciple them now the reason I'm
pausing on that is because you know it's important to get people saved right
obviously that's important but it's also important to find people to disciple as
well okay it's equally important to find a Timothy in your life to invest
your time into to spend time with to instruct them in the ways of the Lord and
Apollo's right Apollo's was already saved but you know he was shown the way
of the Lord more perfectly the Bible says and we ought to desire to do both
you know on one hand we're getting people saved we are teaching them the
way of salvation that you know of Jesus Christ he's the way the truth and the
life that it's by faith alone but on the other hand we're seeking to disciple
those we've saved or even those who have already been saved right instructing them
in the ways of the Lord and that's important so he says my own son in the
faith grace mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord look at
verse number three as I was sought thee to abide still at Ephesus when I went
into Macedonia that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine
so right off the bat what do we know there's people there that are teaching
other doctrines and look folks this is a problem that has been in churches from
the the inception all the way up until now you're always gonna have people
seeking to come in and try to permeate false doctrine and influence God's
people you know wolves and sheep's clothing who are coming to draw away
disciples after them the Bible says and the pastor yay even the members the
mature members of the church you know we have a responsibility to make sure
that we expose that and don't let that just go unfettered in the church right
you know there's churches that don't care about these things they're fine
with having people who believe in a false gospel their Calvinist repent of
your sins they are Pentecostal in their beliefs they believe it's my faith alone
but you could lose your salvation I mean they're okay with having just a smorgasbord
of different people who believe different doctrines or as God says
that's not acceptable it's not acceptable because a little leaven
leaven at the whole lump and if you allow and tolerate a little bit of false
doctrine into the church you know what in ten years your church will cease to
exist okay and so he's like hey I'm charging you to charge them that they
teach no other doctrine okay what other doctrines he said no other doctrine than
the doctrines that we see in the Bible right he says in verse number four
neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies which minister questions
rather than God the edifying which is in faith so do now I'm gonna go out on a
limb here I'm just gonna go out on a limb and and just say the fables that
he's referring to are the Jewish fables because this is the Apostle Paul's
constantly talking about you know oh you're just all you obsess about the
Jews that's that's he that's one of the biggest themes in the Bible is false
doctrine is taught by Jews okay and in fact we see that term being used as
Jewish fables right in the book of Titus Jewish fables and to prove that even
further he says fables and what endless genealogies well there's only one group
of people who emphasizes endless genealogies you know as the day is long
and those are the Jews you know because they think they're of Abraham they think
they're they're of the physical seat of Abraham and you know that's what's
important to them and he's telling them hey don't let these Judaizers come into
your church and just bring these these fables these Jewish fables you know the
fable being that they're still God's chosen people the fable being that
salvation is by works the fable being that you have to be circumcised in order
according to the law of Moses in order to be saved that's the fable and these
endless genealogies look what it says which minister questions the word
minister simply means like you know you've heard of the word administer it
causes people to it fuels speculation and questions right you know when we
come to church we should not leave questioning what was just said when you
come to church it should be crystal clear what it said you know you
shouldn't go to church and be like I don't know if that guy is against
Judaism or if he's for it or what he believes about the Jews being God's
chosen people or not or what it believes about salvation that is if I faith alone
does he believe he can lose it you know if the preaching fuels speculation and
questions it's not clear preaching the preaching of God's Word needs to be
crystal clear and not give an uncertain sound the Bible says right you know we
need to preach the word be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke
exhort with all along suffering and doctrine and it needs to be crystal
clear we're not going to use the words of man's wisdom because often the words
of man's wisdom seeks to basically elevate themselves and confuse the
masses whereas the preaching of God's Word you think of Jesus the common
people hurt him gladly you know we're not talking about scholars we're not
talking about necessarily the most educated people in the world just common
people heard Jesus gladly because his preaching was crystal clear he said well
not all the time yeah it wasn't crystal clear to the people that he didn't want
it to be crystal clear too that's why he spoke to them in parables the Bible says
right because he wanted them to be confused about what he was saying he
didn't want them to learn it but you know what he did with his disciples he
took them apart and he actually expounded unto them the actual parables
in the meaning and he expound them to them those truths but we see there in
verse number four that these people were coming in with fables endless
genealogies and it was fueling questions it was causing people to be to be to
doubt and to question and then it says rather than God the edifying which is in
faith so do now look I'm not saying that you know if we're going through Bible
prophecy we're going to the book of Revelation for example on Thursdays you
know there's sometimes there's passages in the book of Revelation that can cause
you to just wonder about specific topics or specific passages things that are
just very deep right but there's certain things in the Bible that should
be just crystal clear and it should be crystal clear from the mouth of the
pastor okay you know things that are just basic and foundational should be
crystal clear to you okay he says rather than the godly edifying so what do we
see we see the teaching and preaching should edify you you should not only
leave challenge but you should leave edify hey when we preach on the
reprobate doctrine you should be edified amen learning something when
we're preaching through the book of Revelation guess what you should be
edified not bored to death when we preach on doctrine on marriage on
finances on soul winning on you know whatever the case may be whatever
subject from the Bible you should be edified and you're like well I get bored
at my church well it's probably because the pastor there is as boring as the day
as long and has no belly fire you know there's two elements that are needed
when you preach you need to be able to teach the word be apt to teach right but
you also need to lift up your voice like a trumpet cry out loud and spare not and
show my people their transgression there needs to be some dynamic words and
mannerisms that come out of you to keep the people's attention God's prophets
are always excited to listen to you they're fools for Christ's sake right so
we see that preaching should edify okay and obviously we want to learn we need
to gather knowledge we need to be able to gather wisdom from God's Word we want
to be edified and that's what God's words that's what his preaching should
do the Bible says in Galatians 5 6 for in Jesus Christ neither circumcision
availeth anything nor uncircumcision but faith which worketh by love it says also
in 1st Timothy 2 8 I will therefore the men pray everywhere lifting up holy
hands without wrath and doubting so what does this tell us this is in 1st
Timothy chapter 2 he's saying look men should be able to lift up holy hands
without wrath in other words with no contention and doubting so what does
this tell us this tells us that these teachers who are coming in teaching here
in Ephesus they were being contentious they were striving about words to no
profit right and they were causing people to doubt that's why it says that
they were questioning okay look at 2nd Timothy chapter 2 hold your place there
go to 2nd Timothy chapter 2 look at verse number 23 but foolish and unlearned
questions avoid now let me explain what that means in the Greek okay the Greek
word is for foolish is stupid so there are stupid questions out there amen he
says foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender
stripes what does gender means it produces that you know when we get into
conversations in church about doctrine it should not produce stripe amongst
ourselves it should produce edification it should produce more knowledge and
wisdom inspiration right encouragement and he says there look we need to avoid
these things because they gender strife and the servant of the Lord must not
strive but be gentle unto all men apt to teach patient so on and so forth go back
to 1st Timothy chapter number 1 so we see why we see right off the bat he's
like this is on his heart he's like hey you got to make sure you charge them
that they teach no other doctrine make sure they're not talking about you know
fables and endless genealogies or causing strife you know they're not
edifying people this is a big problem that they're dealing with and he's
sending Timothy to fix it look at verse number five it says in verse number five
now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a
good conscience and of faith unfeigned so he's saying look when you're when
you're preaching the Word of God obviously we're giving the commandments
of God right we're giving his commandments we're giving his
instructions but what is the byproduct of when we give those commandments well
the byproduct should be charity right so when we're command when we're when you
are receiving the preaching of God's Word and you're hearing it it should
cause you afterwards to have a little more love in your heart right you're
like well how do we have a whole lot of love in our heart if you're preaching on
the reprobate doctrine how does that work well it should cause you to love
those who are not reprobate yet right it should cause you to love people and want
to win people to Christ so much the more because of the fact that there is a
potential for every person to become a reprobate at one point in this lifetime
right so it should increase charity it should give us a good conscience you
know when we're ripping face what happens you know if you are involved in
sin if you have some wicked thing in your life it's gonna cause you to it's
your conscience is gonna be pricked and you're gonna be like man you know he's
talking about me pastor you're talking about me yes I'm talking to all of you
okay and if you come to me you say you're talking to me huh me like yeah
you come to church I'm talking to you you know cuz I want you to have a good
conscience and the way you have a good conscience as you get right you repent
of that sin you you get right with the Lord and you have a good conscience
because of it you know preaching should clean lives amen not you know I people
said you know come as you are and I'm all for that but you should never leave
as you were right come as you are but don't leave as you were most churches
like come as you are leave as you were and keep living that way and God's
pleased with you he's not mad at you go ahead and fornicate and smoke weed and
drink and listen to stupid rap music and all these things and nothing will ever
happen to you you'll be you'll be just fine God is not mad at you that's a lie
God gets mad folks and he wants to preach in of God's Word you know the
Bible says that the Word of God is quick and powerful sharper than any two-edged
sword and it pierces even to the dividing of center of soul and spirit
joints in the marrow and as a discern of the thoughts and the intents of the
heart there's nothing naked before there are everything is naked excuse me before
the Word of God before the eyes of God when the Word of God hits it just
exposes who we are and when it does that it should clean up our lives no one has
wanted to change their life or turn over a new leap under some soft limp
wrist and preaching no one goes to a Joe Osteen service and just becomes this
fire-breathing just on fire soul and air Christian they leave as wet as the day
is long they leave as watered down as soft as cotton candy as the day is long
because that kind of preaching changes nothing what that kind of preaching does
is just you know scratches your ears heat to themselves teachers having
itching ears the Bible says you know hard preaching is uncomfortable but it
changes your life and I could look back over years where I was under a hot
preacher and and and you know my father-in-law and he would just preach
on sin and and man I can think of multiple services where I got right with
God because of him you know the preaching bothered me he stepped on my
toes but I wanted to be right with God and so I got right but it was through
hard preaching I'm talking about the hard preaching where we talk about
specific sins and you're sitting there and you're involved in those sins and
you just start blushing a little bit you know what I'm talking about
we're like oh and then you're like your wife is like nudging you like you know
that's the kind of preaching that we need because sin should cause us to be
ashamed right but churches are not trying to shame you today they're not
trying to give you preaching that will cause you to be ashamed they're trying
to cause you to be proud of your sin and tolerant of your sin and it's okay
nothing's gonna happen to you a life without consequence no there's
consequences okay the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure
heart and of a good conscience and a faith unfeigned you know what preaching
does it increases your faith right faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the
word of God you know when you hear the preacher get up and talk about how God's
gonna provide for you you believe it show you from the scripture and it's
just like man I can I can make it through this week I can make it through
this month because that's what God's Word says I'm reminded that the you know
I've never seen the righteous forsaken nor seed begging bread and you're like
alright that's right that scripture exists and it increases your faith right
it makes you more bold in the Lord it gives you the confidence necessary to
continue to go forward this is what giving the commandment should do okay
you know give charity increase our charity give us a good conscience and
give us faith unfeigned look at verse 6 from which some having swerved have
turned aside unto vain jangling so what does it mean to swerve well it defines
it someone who turns aside so you know the Bible tells us not to turn to the
right hand or to the left these people who are supposedly given these
commandments you know they swerve they turn to the side and they get involved
in vain jangling look at chapter 6 of 1st Timothy if you would chapter 6 you
know I think of when I hear people you know when I see this verse people who
are filled with vain jangling I think of like Calvinists what they're just so
eloquent speech and all their dictionary and thesaurus and they're
just they're just a storehouse of different vocabulary you know and they
have the words of man's wisdom their power is in themselves and they like to
just sound smart they want to sound intelligent and spiritual but at the end
of the day when you walk away from one of their seminars you just think to
yourself like that was a lot of just vain jangling it just sounded like keys
that were just jangling it just making noise but really didn't make any sense
whatsoever okay vain jangling empty jangling look at
first Timothy 6 verse 3 if any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome
words you know words that are complete they're sound they're wholesome even the
words of our Lord Jesus Christ I like that you know Jesus Christ is not
cryptic he's wholesome just gives you complete it's just sound and to the
doctrine which is according to Godliness he is proud knowing nothing the Bible
says but doting about questions and strives of words where have cometh envy
strife railings evil surmises I mean is it any coincidence that Calvinists love
to debate you know they debate they strive they fight one another and then
they walk away and they're like yeah I won no you didn't you didn't win he
didn't win nobody got anything from that conversation evil surmises perverse
disputings of men of corrupt minds and look what it says and destitute of the
truth supposing that gain is godliness from such withdraw thyself what is he
saying he said you need to get away from people who think gain is godliness
you know these prosperity preachers who you know they get up on stage and they
just make this big ol show they try to make it seem as though they're just the
anointed of the Lord but they're filled with covetousness their destitute of the
truth and the Bible is telling us here we need to withdraw ourselves from them
okay go back to chapter number one you know I don't like it when someone just
doesn't tell me what they really believe you know I don't like it when people
just kind of skirt around the issue and they're just not honest with you I'd
rather have someone be honest with me who might disagree with right then
someone claiming to agree with me but I can't I don't really know if that's true
based upon the conversation that we had you know I've had people tell me like I
don't like you and I don't like your preaching but I but I could respect it
because at least I know you'll tell me the truth at least I know you'll say
the truth at least I know that you're not gonna lie to my face amen to that
and that's the kind of big and I'm not saying we need to be abrasive or
aggressive just to kind of prove a point what I'm saying is we should be people
of truth and not seek to sugarcoat everything be discreet but not sugarcoat
everything you know the person who does that they're a liar okay they're proud
they know nothing look at verse 7 it says desiring to be teachers of the law
understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm now what does this
remind me of remind you of Bible College man because in back and I was in Bible
College and and you know I would you know I was I sincerely wanted to be a
pastor and I wanted to be a preacher and I wanted to learn and I remember you
know they found out that I wanted to be a preacher they said well you need to go
to Bible College and I thought to myself okay well if that's what you have to do
to learn how to preach and that's what I'm gonna do I didn't know any better
but I remember being there in college with other students and they were as
eloquent as the day is long but some of the stuff they were preaching was just
garbage they were desiring to be teachers of the law but they understood
what they didn't understand what they were talking about nowhere of they
affirmed you know you say well what were they preaching
vain jingling it was just a lot of show is what it was right just a lot of show
a lot of just yelling and no substance to the preaching now I'm for yelling
when you preach in fact it's important to yell when you preach but there needs
to be substance there needs to be doctrine there needs to be instruction
right and he's saying here look the people who are there these guys desire
to be teachers of the law they're going about talking about endless genealogies
and fables they're talking about the commandments of the Lord but you know
what they didn't know what they're talking about these people have no idea
what they're talking about and another person that comes to mind I can't
remember his name right now that's amazing what's that guy's name
Jesse Lee Peterson is a perfect example of that he claims to know all this
doctrine he claims to just be the spiritual leader but when you actually
listen to him it's like this guy does not know what he's talking about when
you thought when you're comparing no man can serve two masters and he says no man
can ride two horses this man understands neither what he says
nowhere of your firms you've grown senile my friend you you're you're out
of your mind okay these people desire to be teachers of the law but they don't
even know what they're talking about he says a verse number eight but we know
that the law is good so we say we're not criticizing the law we're not even
criticizing the law and the commandments that they're preaching but here's the
thing if a man use it lawfully so these people were using the Bible but you know
what they were not using it lawfully it's like when Pete it's like when
dispensational is hyper dipsticks use the King James Bible we're not against
the Bible they're using we're just against the way they're using it right
we're not against the law because the law is good if a man use it lawfully and
not try to pervert the scriptures and teach that the sons of God are like
angels understand you know try to teach them when the Bible says to rightly
divide the word of truth and means divided into seven different
dispensations okay oh you're just against the King James Bible no I'm not
the law is good the Word of God is good it's you my friend who are perverting
the ways of the Lord you're misconstruing the scriptures you
understand neither what you say no where of you affirm so the law is good if a
man use it lawfully verse number nine says knowing this that the law is not
made for a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient so he's saying
look don't just priest the commandments in here the law of God referring to the
law of Moses you know you got to understand that this law is not made for
safe people necessarily it's made for those who are not safe he's and he gives
a list here and he gives their counterparts he says the lawless and
disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners so many of these are just
synonyms of another what's another way of saying lawless someone who's
disobedient what's in the way say a godly sinners for unholy and profane
synonyms for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers for man slayers
these mean the same thing murderers right verse 10 for whoremongers and for
them that defile themselves with mankind by the way it's still following that so
then that the file themselves with mankind is the counterpart to whoremonger
now what is a whoremonger a whoremonger is a man who sleeps around he's just a
fornicator okay a whore is a woman who is you know promiscuous she sleeps
around she fornicates a whoremonger a monger of whores is a man who basically
sleeps around with them okay he's a playa that's what they want to call it
today but what the Bible calls it is a fornicator and a whoremonger all right
and so the counterpart to that would be what then that the file themselves with
mankind so if we know that the whoremonger is the man who sleeps around
with women then the counterpart to that would be a woman a woman who sleeps
around with a bunch of men that's why it says them to defile themselves with
mankind and I'll get into that just a bit for men stealers for liars for
perjured persons and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound
doctrine according to the glorious gospel of the Blessed God which was
committed to my trust now hold your place there and go to 1st Corinthians
chapter number 6 I love using 1st Timothy chapter 1 in verse number 10 to
prove what I believe about 1st Corinthians chapter number 6 because
here in chapter excuse me here in chapter 1 of in verse 10 at 1st Timothy
it says them that the file themselves with mankind and this phrase is only
used twice in the Bible okay and this definition that we see in verse 10 of
1st Timothy 1 helps to clarify what the other phrase is saying in 1st
Corinthians chapter number 6 look at verse number 9 of 1st Corinthians 6 it
says knowing not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God be
not deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate
nor abusers of themselves with mankind now what is an abuser of themselves with
mankind that's a person who defiles themselves with mankind this isn't a
Greek class but literally if you're to look at the Greek both in verse number
9 of the latter end referring to abuses themselves with mankind and verse 10 of
1st Timothy chapter 1 it uses the same exact word and it's a word that
potentially the Apostle Paul made himself you know it's not found
anywhere else in the New Testament but here's two examples right here and these
two examples right here define one another and you say well are you saying
that the abuser of themselves with mankind is a woman who commits
fornication is involved in whoredom yes because if we were to use 1st Timothy
1 10 as its counterpart to define it that's what we see in 1st
Timothy chapter 1 verse number 10 because the counterpart of the
whoremonger is the woman who defiles herself with mankind therefore because
the same wording is being used there in 1st Corinthians chapter 6 they're
referring to the same thing now the reason I'm making a big deal about that
is because people want to say this is their proof text to say the homos can be
saved okay you know we've all heard that right
well 1st Corinthians 6 says you know you know homos can be saved and
homosexuals can be saved it says you know abuse of themselves with mankind
what about this and it's just like well hold on a second before we even get into
1st Corinthians 6 can we just go to Romans 1 can we study 1st Genesis
chapter 19 can we study Judges chapter 19 can we go to the most clearest
scriptures where the Bible clearly states that they are given over to a
reprobate mind and define 1st Corinthians 6 in light of those other
scriptures it's like when people you know they want to say you know that
salvation is by works right they'll try to use James chapter 2 Matthew chapter
7 you've had those people right and just they want to ignore the entire book of
John they want to ignore Ephesians they want to know ignore Galatians and they
just want to stick to these two portions of Scripture no folks that's it a
terrible way to interpret Scripture we need to go with the clear scriptures and
use those to filter those that are obscure okay and I don't think this is
obscure I think this is pretty clear what it's referring to because later on
in the chapter let me go there myself look what it says in 1st Corinthians 6
it says in verse number 15 knowing not that your bodies are the members of
Christ shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an
harlot huh God forbid what know you not that he which is joined to in harlot is
one body for to say it he shall be one flesh but he that is joined into the
Lord is one spirit flee fornication every sin that a man doeth is without
the body but he that committed fornication sin it against his own body
okay now that's it's no coincidence that this is here in 1st Corinthians 6
actors referring to the abuses themselves with mankind now you go to
the new versions and this really makes me mad okay because you go to the new
versions if you look there in verse number 9 of 1st Corinthians 6 it says
nor effeminate now what is someone what does it mean to be effeminate it's it's
a guy who acts like a girl you know what I mean it's it's it's a skinny jean you
know limp-wristed they have a high-pitched voice or they have like a
lisp when they talk or something and they're just kind of like girly like
you give them a slap on the back is your problem they're like they can't even
take it you know or you punch them just like you know the guys kind of like
punch each other in the arms it's like well you just your mouth just called
for more strokes after that buddy you need to catch yourself a whooping but he
feminine is just a guy who's just like you know you just grew up with his
sisters or something it doesn't mean that he's like a sodomite it just means
he's just spent too much time with his mama spend too much time with his mom
with his sisters you know he needs to get around some some some men to kind of
rough them up a little bit you know and so by the way being effeminate is a sin
folks let me just say that oh you're being insensitive you're effeminate oh
that's not very nice you're effeminate stop being effeminate and look being
effeminate is a sin because of the fact that when a man is effeminate that means
he is sensitive even in his emotions and the Bible says he that hath no rule or
his own spirit is like a city that is broken down without walls okay so God
expects man to be emotionally strong spiritually strong that's how he made
man why because we are made to withstand pressure and to fight against the forces
of darkness you can't have some limp-wristed sissy effeminate guy
fighting against Satan and his minions you know he's gonna he's gonna tuck his
tail and run is what he's gonna do men are meant to look I'm not saying
we don't want to be machistas okay where we're just like well I'm the man
here and you know no obviously we need to have meekness right but being
effeminate is a sinful trait that men should not seek to like have and if you
do have it you need to get right with God get around some men and look if
you're effeminate here's here's the cure to being effeminate okay number one you
need to get in the Word of God and study Jesus who's the manliest man that ever
lived and and don't read Jesus from the NIV because that guy's a faggot okay
don't read it from any other don't watch any of the movies of Jesus where he's
just like Anglo-Saxon white guy with long hair you're not he's wearing a
dress you need to go to the King James Bible and get this Jesus well I don't
know what he looks like you don't need to know just learn about his attributes
his characteristics his exploits it's a man's man and then on a practical level
you need you just need to get around some men in the church right you know
that's why I encourage people you know men to come hang out with the men at our
church obviously we got the COVID virus going around and stuff like that it's a
little difficult right now but just come to the meeting that we were talking
about you know you need to be around the men especially if you have a tendency to
be a little effeminate you got to get around a lot of men and learn some manly
traits and characteristics you know and look when you hang around the men here
you know you're gonna get you're gonna get a little ragged on a little bit you
know and it's just like that's so mean can we just be like nice and have like a
Bible study no this is your Bible study when you're around the man you learn to
be spiritually strong you learn to be a man and look I know some guys even in
our church who first came and they're a little effeminate you know what they
manned up because they hung around the man they learned to take it and they
manned up and now they're they're strong emotionally speaking okay where do I get
off on that Oh 1st Corinthians 6 so being effeminate is a sin okay so but I
just want to make it clear that that's what it means it doesn't mean someone
who's a homo okay so notice that it says effeminate comma abuses themselves with
mankind so these are two different people the abuser themselves with
mankind as we defined earlier is referring to the woman who sleeps around
who's being a whore the feminine is the man who has girly characteristics
whereas in the new versions of the Bible they'll just take out effeminate and
abusing themselves with mankind just put homosexual men who sleep with men
folks there's a comma after effeminate right indicating that now we're talking
about someone different okay it's like effeminate comma abuse
themselves with mankind whereas the new versions will say men who sleep with men
homosexuals sodomites right and these little liars will put a footnote at the
bottom is like oh you can click on this and you'll see the Greek and they'll
just completely lie about what it says in the Greek okay that's not what it's
talking about so don't that's a good reason not to use these modern versions
of the Bible because they're trying to make you effeminate okay they're trying
to make they're trying to get you to tolerate sodomites and say well they
could be saved no they're giving over to a reprobate mind it can't be saved look
and if you don't agree I can show you from Romans 1 after church look it's
right there no you gotta believe the byway man go back to 1st Timothy because
I need to hurry up so I just want to show that there because 1st Timothy 1 10
is a great scripture to prove and to reinforce what 1st Corinthians 6 is
teaching look at verse 12 it says and I think Jesus I think Christ Jesus our
Lord who hath enabled me for that he counted me faithful putting me into the
ministry who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious but I
obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief now there's two
things I want you to notice here first and foremost I want you to notice the
two factors that were essential into allowing Paul to be in the ministry okay
one of them was God's enabling the other one was him being faithful now when it
talks about being put into the ministry just referring to serving God now for
him it meant being an apostle right it meant him you know being able to do the
exploits that he's doing but this is also for us not to be an apostle or to
do the same things that he did but what I'm saying is to be in the ministry in
order for God to use you here's the element that you need faithfulness
right and then what happened what happens God enables you this is why
Jesus said follow me and I will make you fishers of men okay you know the
Bible tells us that you know Jesus said all power is given unto me and in heaven
and in earth and then he gives them the Great Commission then he says and lo I
am with you all way even unto the end of the world amen why does he tell that
because he's saying I have the authority so God enables those who just are
faithful they're plugging away but you know there is a dearth of just faithful
people sometimes in this world okay whereas the Bible tells us you know most
men will proclaim everyone his own goodness but a faithful man who can find
consistency faithfulness will help you to cause God's favor to be on you in
order for you to be enabled to do the work of the Lord you know there's the
ministry of reconciliation you could be an evangelist you could be a deacon if
you have not disqualified yourself or how about just making so winning your
ministry right producing through some 30 some 60 some 100 fold you can serve God
at a great capacity but no matter which way you cut it you need to be faithful
okay look at verse 12 it says and I thank Jesus Christ Jesus our Lord who
hath enabled me for the economy faithful putting me into the ministry and it says
who is before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious so people
always use this okay and in particular I'm thinking about Kanye West I'm not
saying he uses this but people who defend Kanye West they always use the
Apostle Paul as like well if God can use the Apostle Paul he can use Kanye West
too you know Apostle Paul was was a blasphemer and they're the reason they
says because Kanye West blaspheme the name of God when he said that he was God
okay so let me just debunk what they're saying okay now what does it mean to
be a blasphemer to blaspheme is basically to speak irreverently of God
right impiously or irreverently of God now here's the thing we don't have
record of the Apostle Paul blaspheming the name of God or blaspheming Jesus
what we do have is the Apostle Paul you know blaspheming the way speaking evil
of the way which is what he called Christianity okay now it says in Acts 9
verse 1 and saw yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the
disciples of the Lord went into the high priest and desired of him letters to
Damascus to the synagogues that if he found any of this way whether they were
men or women he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem now what is the
difference between Paul and Kanye well the same difference between Paul and any
other reprobate you see reprobates don't just blaspheme the way they blaspheme
the Holy Ghost now go to Mark chapter 3 if you would Mark chapter number 3 Mark
chapter number 3 let's look at this it says in Mark 3 verse 28 why was Paul
forgiven of being a blasphemer a persecutor and injurious well look what
it says in Mark 3 28 barely I say to you all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons
of men and blasphemies wherewithsoever they shall blaspheme well thank God for
that I'm sure there are Christians out there who just said stupid stuff and let
their tongues fly and said things because someone else said are just
repeating a song or whatever may be and they were blaspheming right but the
Bible says here that they can be forgiven of that but but he that shall
blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness but is in danger of
eternal damnation but he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath
never forgiveness but is in danger of eternal damnation verse 30 because they
said he hath what an unclean spirit so here's the difference between the
Apostle Paul and these people who have never forgiveness the Apostle Paul
first Timothy chapter 1 did it what ignorantly in unbelief what does that
mean he didn't even know what he was saying whereas the Pharisees if they say
that Jesus had an unclean spirit you know what that means they tasted of that
heavenly gift and they knew who the Holy Spirit was because the Word of God came
nigh unto them understand so there's a difference between someone who doesn't
ignorant ignorantly and unbelief and those who actually taste of the heavenly
gift it comes to them they know what the truth is and they say no you have an
unclean spirit they see the mighty works that Jesus did they see the miracles
they can see that he's the Christ and even in spite of that I say well you are
doing it by the Prince of Devils you're Beelzebub you have an unclean spirit at
that point they seal their fate they become what the Bible calls a reprobate
because they have blasphemed the name of their blaspheme the Holy Ghost excuse
me okay and look no one who's a safe person will ever blaspheme that will
never say that they have an unclean spirit or they joke around that someone
else has who save has an unclean spirit it's not gonna happen because no one's
speaking about the Spirit calleth Jesus a curse I'm gonna joke like that
whereas Kanye West has said you know what do you mean what do you mean you're
God I'm saying I am God you know he's talking about how God recognizes God's
right oh he has this conversation with Jesus and he gets along with it because
God recognizes God that's blasphemy that means he knows that Jesus Christ is God
but he can care less he's saying he's God okay and look folks go back to 1st
Timothy chapter 1 you know if there's no difference if anybody who just blasphemed
if the Apostle Paul blasphemed the Holy Ghost and explained the last verse of
chapter 1 look at 20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander whom I've
delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme was the Apostle Paul
delivered unto Satan for blasphemy no he wasn't why because he did it
ignorantly in unbelief now what's the difference between Hymenaeus Alexander
and the Apostle Paul look at verse 19 holding faith in a good conscience which
some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck what is this
referring to the fact that they are reprobate concerning the faith therefore
they're delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme okay that's
this is what that's referring to there so you know when people try to use you
know the Apostle Paul and Kanye West and they'll say this this is this irks me
like crazy when they say this well the Apostle Paul murdered
Christians how many you've ever heard that he killed Christians murdered
Christians it's like what are you even talking about nowhere in the Bible nor
in the ministry in the life of the Apostle Paul do you ever see him killing
anybody you see him being injurious you see him hauling men and women right to
be arrested what does injurious mean it means he's just harming them I mean you
can't arrest someone without harming them right you're hauling them to the to
be arrested to bring him before the authorities it says nothing that he is
but this is what happens when mainstream Christianity goes to commentaries rather
than the Bible itself this is the same reason why they say the Apostle Paul
would have got his head chopped off it's like what is that a dirt Timothy where
is that a Roman Roman Romans part two like where do you get the he got his
head chopped off that he was a murderer of Christians and I've asked multiple
people who back up Kanye West because they make that claim and I just said
where does it say that they never answered because it's not in the Bible
they just speak you know they're they desire to be teachers of the law
understanding neither what they say nowhere of they affirm and they're like
oh snap he actually asked me where my resources are out I'm just gonna delete
my comment you know he's telling him here that he did he did this ignorantly
in unbelief okay he's a persecutor he was injurious and look maybe there's you
at one point maybe you weren't about Christianity maybe you mocked those who
were Christians maybe you're like oh this guy's a church boy there's a church
girl they just go to church but you know what then you got saved and you know
what you maybe you blast him you spoke irreverently of God's religion
ignorantly you just did it because you're just being dumb okay but now you
know well that was stupid what I thought and what I said thank God that he had
mercy on me because I did it ignorantly in unbelief and God a week that that
ignorance right but now command with all men everywhere to repent the Bible says
okay go to verse 14 it says in the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with
faith and love which is in Christ Jesus this is a faithful saying worthy of all
expectation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am
chief so what does this tell us about the Apostle Paul well you know Luke 7
has the woman who was forgiven much and because she was forgiven much the Bible
says she loved much you know it's a common theme of those who maybe were
persecutors or injurious or blasphemers or fornicators or they're abusers of
themselves with mankind they defile themselves with mankind is that when
they get saved they just love the Lord sometimes a little bit more than others
why because they were forgiven much and that's not to say that someone who grew
up in a Christian home can't love the Lord and can't have the capacity it's
just the Bible teaches us Jesus actually one who teaches us that often the people
who love much are those who are forgiven much okay and you say well man I wasn't
involved in the life of sin how can that apply to me well you know you were still
forgiven much right and if you were to actually roll up roll out the carpet of
all the sins that you've committed if you were to compare yourself to the
perfect law of liberty and see how short you really fell then you know what you
were also forgiven much as well and therefore you can love much verse 16
says I'll be it for this cause I obtain mercy that in me first Jesus Christ
might show forth all longsuffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter
believe on him to life everlasting what he's saying is like I should be an
example to you that God can change your life too you know God changes lives
amen he made someone who was injurious he made a lot of mistakes and he just
used them I mean he used them greater than most of the Apostles he says I
labored more abundantly than they all the New Testament mostly is about the
Apostle Paul that's awesome and he's basically saying hey let this be an
example to you don't cut yourself yourself short and think that you can't
do anything for God because you live some sort of sinful life you know you
can still do something big you can still do something great God can still use you
as long as you're a vessel and to honor me for the Masters use says now unto the
king eternal immortal invisible the only wise God be honor and glory forever and
ever amen this charge I committed to the son Timothy according to the prophecies
which went before on thee that thou by them mightest war a good warfare so what
is he saying hey man Timothy you're gonna do a good job just make sure you
tell you take Paul Chapel Sunday School lessons you're gonna do something great
man take these commentaries and you're just you're gonna war a good warfare
with this what this ten week lessons on grace grace and more grace by Paul
Chapel you're gonna do a great job with this is that what he said is that the
tool that he gave him to war a good warfare no he said he tells them
according to the prophecies which went before on thee that by them that might
as war a good warfare he says you need to use the Word of God to war a good
warfare you don't need commentaries or Sunday School lessons and all this
nonsense you don't need Jewish encyclopedias and all these Jewish
fables and endless genealogies you need the prophecies that went before on thee
because the powers in the Word of God use that that's your authority give
attendance to doctrine get give attendance to doctrine to read it to
exhortation into doctrine the Bible says right and it's by these that you're
gonna war a good warfare how are we gonna win this spiritual battle well
with the sword of the Lord right you know you can't win a war with just was
with just a shield a helmet you know what their loins good about with truth
and with the breastplate of righteousness we also need the sword of
the Spirit because all these other weapons there for defense this one is
for to be on the offense because we're not supposed to take these things lying
down you know what we do is we block so we can counter with the right hook call
the Word of God slice them in the throat spiritually speaking and when God
doesn't want us to be pacifist when it comes to the spiritual battle he wants
us to be the aggressors you know the Bible tells us upon this rock I will
build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against the gates are
a defensive weapon you know it's like it's like Satan is trying to keep us
from getting the souls who are potentially going to hell well we're
going you know we're gonna burst through those gates and pull people out of the
fire in an aggressive way confrontational soul and preaching the
gospel preaching the Word of God making a good warfare through the prophecies
which went before holding faith in a good conscience with some having put
away concerning faith have made shipwreck we'll deal with more of that
in the coming chapters of whom is hominids and Alexander whom I've
delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme oh man oh hey man that's
you shouldn't like name the names like that that's very embarrassing now that's
gonna be there for the rest of eternity well what that teaches us is that we
ought to name the names he's not gonna say yeah this is one guy and Timothy's
like oh I can't say but he's in your church right now though you know I can't
say that he's a dangerous person he blasphemes the name of God you know he's
teaching that the resurrection has already passed us like what in the world
who I can't I don't embarrass anybody he's like it's hymenaeus it's that guy
right there it's Alexander get those guys drop the name so people know who
you're talking about you know point out the wolves so that God so that we know
you know who he's referring to as a great book a man great chapter and we're
gonna learn a lot in the coming chapters I hope you learned something this
evening but just take this is that hey we need to make sure that we're as we're
doing warfare spiritual warfare that we're doing it lawfully and that we're
doing it according to the Word of God amen
inspire heads in our board of prayer father we thank you so much for your
word and thank you for 1st Timothy 1st and 2nd Timothy even Titus Lord so much
that we can learn from it and Lord I'm sure Timothy was a young man and just
thankful that the Apostle Paul mentored him and taught him and just was there
for him and gave him some great instruction and it's instructions that
we need to give he to today and I pray father God that we'd never lose that
fighting spirit please continue to help us Lord as a church to go forward may
you protect us from the current events Lord protect us from even the virus
itself I pray God that you would continue to use our church to see more
people saved in Jesus name we pray amen