Amen
The part of the chapter we're gonna focus on is found in Isaiah chapter number five and verse number 20 where the Bible reads well into
Them that call evil good and good evil and that put darkness for light and light for darkness
That put bitters for sweet and sweet
For bitter well into them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own
Sight and the title my sermon this evening is a backwards Christianity a backwards
Christianity say why would you call it a backwards Christianity?
Well, if you look at this verse right here these verses in Isaiah chapter number five
We see that this is a backwards people and God is condemning
These Israelites for being backwards in the perception of how to execute the judgments of God
How is that because the Bible says there do they call evil good?
All right, and it says they call good evil
They put darkness for light light for darkness bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter
It's it's backwards is what it is
And the fact of the matter is you see throughout the whole Old Testament
The Israel was constantly going into sin. They were constantly going into idolatry
they were constantly disobeying the Lord and not keeping his commandments and God would have to rain down and
chastise them for not being obedient for being backwards and
You see constantly that God would foretell though the downfall of his people when they would get away from him and get into idolatry
Get into sin get into iniquity and you would constantly remind them of what he had originally
Commanded them to do but every single time just like in the book of Judges every man did that which is right in their own
Eyes, they would just do their own thing and completely disobey God and go their own way
What is that? That's backwards? Okay. What does it mean to have a backwards Christianity?
It's simply this to not obey God to in order to get the results that you can only get when you obey God
Okay, it's to not obey God hoping you'll get the results of what you would get if you were to obey God
God says do this and you say well, I'm gonna do it my way. I'm gonna do it this way
I'm not gonna do it your way. I'm gonna do it the way I want to do it and expecting the same results
It's not gonna happen
You see the only way we get the real results that God wants us to get is by simply just sticking to the book
Don't trust in your own heart don't trust in your own understanding and all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct I pass
Even when the commandments seem tough, they seem harsh. They seem whatever they may be. We just need to obey God if we want those results
But what do we have even in the book of Isaiah and other books in the Bible is God's people thinking that they could get
The same results doing it in a different way. That's backwards, but you know today
We see churches doing that all time
We see Christians who are backwards and their way of thinking and the way of service and the way they deal things with the things
Of God they see the commandments of God. They see what God has to say
They say well, you know, I think I have a better way of doing it
Okay, and by the way, they want the same results. They want to reach the young people
They want to be able to see souls save they want to be able to live a life
That's pleasing unto the Lord, but they do it a completely backwards way. And what is it? They suffer the consequences of disobeying God
I mean a perfect example of this is the liberal fund centers, right where a lot of these pastors
Well, maybe not even them but some of the people within the church they're well-meaning they want to see people saved
But how do they do it? They do it in a backwards way. That's not biblical, you know
They bring in the rock band to bring in the hoochie mamas dancing
They teach them the false doctrine with the swelling words why because they want to reach people but that's backwards
That's not the way you get people saved. Okay?
You see also they even within churches churches even Baptist churches, you know, they want to see people say
So what do they do? They do something called track drops. They do something called door hangers, right and
Honestly, they have the sincere desire
I believe a lot of these people have a sincere desire that people will come to church that will get saved
They'll get plugged in they'll become all in for the Lord and start living for God. And by the way, that's a good desire
That's a good goal. In fact, that's a goal that we would have amen
But it's backwards you see the way to get people in church is not through a door hanger
It's not through an invitation on the door
You say how do we get people saved by giving them the gospel?
That's how you get people saved. You say well, what if they don't come to church?
Well, look, we'll do what we can to get them into church. But if they don't come to church, we're not changing the method
You say what if no, we're not changing the method. He said well, I think this beautiful little door hanger is gonna work
We're not changing the method
It's backwards and just because it may seem right in your eyes and just because the world's doing it or those most successful
Blown up liberal churches seem to be successful at it doesn't mean we're gonna add it to our program
It's not gonna happen. That's a backwards way of thinking now go with me if you would to Proverbs chapter 28
Proverbs chapter 28
Proverbs chapter number 28 we're gonna make we're gonna make sure that we as Christians don't become backwards in our way of thinking
How does it do you can become backwards? Well, you simply think that your way of doing it is better than God's way
Okay, and look his ways are not our ways
His thoughts are not our thoughts as high as the heavens are from the earth
So great is his mercy towards them that fear him obviously, but we have to understand
Because his ways are higher than our ways. There's some things we're just not gonna be able to understand
That's why God commands us to accept these things by what faith
Right faith is the substance of things. Hope for the evidence of things not seen
So that means you take God at his word. It may not make any sense. You think you think to yourself?
How can you feed 5,000 people with two visions and some lows? You know what?
It doesn't matter what you think how it can happen. It just can happen
You just got to obey God
You know you think of well, you know, we've been toiling and and rowing all night. We've been fishing all night
We haven't caught anything and you think if I just cast my net on the other side, I'm gonna catch fish
Well, you know what? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense
But if God commands it just do it and you'll get the results Peter found that out didn't he?
Proverbs chapter 28 verse number 4 the Bible reads here they that forsake the law. This is the way it should be
They that forsake the law praised the wicked
Excuse me
Yes, the way it should be they that forsake the law praised the wicked but such as keep the law contend with them
So what is the Bible telling us that when we keep the law of God?
The natural
Byproduct of that is that we will earnestly contend for the faith. We will contend against the wicked
Not join them
Not buddy buddy with them now become unequally yoke with them not praise them. What would we do? We will contend with them
So a good way to measure whether you're keeping the law of God or not is how's your content life?
All right, you're contending life. Are you contending with those who are wicked?
So I'm just not a contentious kind of a person look
The Bible says that we're not supposed to be contentious one with another obviously
But there comes a point where the Bible actually does say earnestly contend for the faith
We have to defend doctrine. We have to make sure that we have a fighting spirit
Okay, and look don't let this culture try to spiritually castrate you into thinking the way, you know
You don't have to fight. This is a you know, it's all about peace love the sinner
Excuse me. Yeah, I love the sinner hate the sin and all these things. No
No, what we need to do is earnestly just contend for the faith
Because if we're keeping the law, that's what we're gonna do
And let me tell you why you will earnestly contend for the faith if you are keeping the law
Because when you read the law of God, you see that God is not God's opinions are not in a gray area
they're very just
Black and white yes or no with us or against us
You know, it's not like this Gandhi religion where it's just you know, anybody's welcome
No, God says I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by me I mean, that's very
That's very basic to say look he is the only way and so we're not gonna if you're keeping the law
You're gonna be reading those things. You're gonna be reading the Word of God and coming to the conclusion
Hey, it's either black or white. You're either in or out. There is no in-between
and I'm talking about clear obviously clear doctrines where the Bible is not very
The Bible is very clear on specific commandments obviously there's certain gray areas
But that has nothing to do with solid doctrine where it's just like, you know
You're in church or at a church or salvation or something like that
We're talking about things that God has clearly said within his word that we can know that we know we can follow
But if I was says here that when you forsake the law, what do you do? You actually praise the wicked?
You know the Bible says when you actually don't have the law of God and you you stop reading the Word of God
You stop studying it. What do you begin doing uplifting those who are wicked?
That's why the Bible says that those who are highly esteemed among men are an abomination in the sight of God
So if that's someone who you're highly esteeming and you think they're great. It probably just shows that you're not keeping the law of God
But when you're keeping it the Bible says, you know, we can't even love Christ if we don't keep the law of God obviously, right?
But such as keep the law contend with them now go with me if you went to Proverbs chapter 17
Look Jesus said if you continue my word, then are you my disciples indeed?
Okay
We got to keep the law of God and as we keep it that's a good measuring point to recognize
Okay, I'm content if I'm if I'm contending for the faith that just goes to show that I'm in the book
Okay, Proverbs 17 in verse number 15
So that's the way it should be shouldn't it shouldn't it be that
God's people are constantly contending for the faith because we're keeping the law of God that the pastor who's behind the pulpit is
Constantly making sure that the doctrine stays right. He's preaching against sin
He's preaching against things that are culturally popular, but on but that are unbiblical. That's the way it should be
But how is it actually well Proverbs 17 15?
Look what it says he that justify at the wicked and he that condemneth to just even they both are an abomination
To the Lord so, you know what we have today we have a bunch of churches and Christians who are justifying the wicked
You know, they come to the aid of wicked people
They come to the aid of those who are wicked
They're away from God or they're not in the law of God or they're not even saved
And they would come to their aid perfect examples of this is is Sam Gipp
You know who this guy is a heretic. He's a devil
Okay, but yeah, who do you have you have saved people come into his aid?
Trying to justify the wicked that's wicked
But what does the Bible say he that condemneth the just also?
So, you know what? God also looks down upon when someone is condemning someone who is just righteous
Someone who is pleasing in the eyes of God and when we went went a perfect example
This is just what our independent Baptist brethren do to us
They condemn us all you guys are a hate group. You know, the Bible says that's an abomination to the Lord
Because you're condemning the just or your self-proclaimed just no
I'm just saying that what we're doing is according to God's Word and we can prove it
It's not like we're just on the fly saying things talking out of our necks. No, we're talking out of the Word of God
And if you condemn that the Bible says that's an abomination unto the Lord
So the wicked thing is when you when there are those who justify the wicked and they would come to an aid like a Sam Gipp
But they would condemn those who are righteous and just that's an abomination
Okay, what is it it's backwards
Backwards who should what should we be doing? We should be condemning the wicked right and justifying the just
Even if you don't agree with them
On everything they're doing right. They're using the King James Bible. They're in a soul winning church. They're Baptist
They're I mean look do we have a rock band up here? No
Okay, we don't have drums. We don't have a rock band. We don't have the hoochie mamas dancing up here
We don't have any of that garbage
You can't condemn us for saying look we use the King James Bible and this is what we believe now
It feels like an obscure doctrine
You know what? I mean, and we're just like staunch on it, you know, that's a different story, but we're not doing that
We don't just speak what we don't know. Okay, we speak what we do know
All right, and I'm not saying that we know everything
But what we do we know what we know though and we can show what we know
Okay, but the Bible says here that he that justify at the wicked and he that condemneth to just even they both are an
Abomination to the Lord. So and look that's one in the same the same person who's justifying
The wicked is the same person who's condemning the just
I'm talking about today
Okay, when they look at someone like us or our church type of churches and they say man
Those guys are wicked over there. These guys are a cult
These guys are X Y & Z you're condemning just people
Tell me what's wicked about going out there on a Sunday afternoon, you know soul-winning and seeing ten people saved. What's wicked about that?
Absolutely, nothing. I'll tell you what's wicked is the fact that you would make that railing accusation. That's what's wicked
Now go with me forward to Jeremiah chapter number seven
It's a backwards type of way of thinking, you know, and who knows maybe it's too much Fox News or?
Books or I don't know what it is
But something has infiltrated the minds of Bible believing Christians to have this perception
Where they call evil good and good evil
Well, they rather take the the bitter and rip or they rather take the sweet and replace it with the bitter
I'm gonna read to you from Matthew chapter 15 verse number 8
The Bible says this people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me
What is he saying you guys are backwards
Are you saying you're honoring me? I hear what you're saying out of your lips, but your heart is not even in it
And obviously he's talking to the Pharisees. They weren't even saved, right?
Jeremiah chapter 7 in verse number 1 the Bible says the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying stand in the gate of
The Lord's house and proclaim there this word and say hear the word of the Lord
Are you of Judah that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord?
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel
Amend your ways and your doings and I will cause you to dwell in this place
Trust he not in lying words saying the temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord are these
For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor so on and so forth
What is he saying? We got a bunch of people talking about the temple of the Lord, but they they haven't even amended their ways
Right, you know, this is the most common
Member of the independent Baptist churches who they're living in fornication. They're drunk. They're smoking pot
They're involved in all kinds of wickedness, but they love going to church on Sunday
They'll sit there with their divorce, you know
Pareha, I couldn't think of this English word right now partner, you know right there and they're in church the temple of the Lord
We got to be in church. It's time to go to church time to go to Sunday school class
But they haven't even amended their ways
Well, it shouldn't even be there in the first place you don't agree with that listen to this morning sermon, okay
But it's a backwards way of thinking, you know
And unfortunately the reason a lot of these people are allowed into the church to do these type of things
What are you talking about living in fornication?
Being a drunk smoking pot doing all kinds of wickedness
With the reason they're allowed to is simple for the fact that the pastor is not getting up and ripping face on it
And calling it out the way it's supposed to be called out because to be honest if someone was up there preaching on it
Some guilt would come to that person
Look I believe in conviction. Amen
They would be like, oh man, I'm and you know what the pastor doesn't need to just preach on it
They just need to go confront them about it
And say hey, are you involved in drunkenness? I heard some things that you're involved in drunken
Have you been drinking?
Well, yeah, I've been drinking. Okay, we got one of two choices. Stop drinking or you got to get out
Bottom line, you know, but what is what is what is what are today's churches doing? They're backwards
I don't want to offend them. So I just won't say nothing
You know, I'll preach on the love of God. I'll preach on the grace of God and you'll leave out the judgment of God
Okay, it's backwards. It's not what God wants go to James chapter number four
James chapter number four
We don't want to be backwards Christians
Okay
We don't want to be the kind of Christians that in our in our latter years of our church
Life or even in our personal lives that we would be those who would justify the wicked and condemn the just we never want to
Be those kind of people that call evil good and good evil. We never want to be the people would be like yeah Trump
Oh
You know, he kind of stands for the Bible right didn't he say he likes the Bible
To Corinthians
You know, that's your uplifting the just you're justifying or excuse me, you're you're justifying the wicked
Okay. Oh, but you know, he stands for biblical principles this stands for biblical principles
Okay, this
Stands for biblical principles
But what do we have today?
They we have people who are taking their faith off of the church house off of the pulpit off of the Bible off of the preacher
And they're placing their faith in Congress. They're placing their faith in the White House
Okay on a wicked president who's not even saved
James chapter 4 in verse number 7 says submit yourselves therefore to God resist the devil and he will flee from you
Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you
Cleanse your hands he sinners and purify your hearts he double-minded be afflicted and mourn and weep
Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness
So here we see that God puts a mournful heart and in in he puts it together with withdrawing nyan to God
You know, what? What does that mean? That means being humble?
Because when you go to God and you have sin in your life, you got to go to God on a humble status
You got a humble yourself before the Lord and you say you need a weep you need to mourn why for the sin
But what do we have today all kinds of churches talk about you can draw nigh to God
Don't stay as you are go ahead and stay in your sin come as you are leave as you were
Right, and they're not mourning for their sin. They don't care that they're involved in fornication. They don't care
They're involved in adultery. They don't care that they're that they're justifying their divorce
They just want to make sure they draw nigh to God and when what do they mean by drawing nigh to God?
That their money draws nigh to God
Okay, that's what they want
It's backwards Galatians chapter 5 verse number 13 says for brethren
You have been called unto Liberty only use not Liberty for an occasion to the flesh
But by love serve one another so the Bible tells us that we have Liberty. Amen. Praise the Lord
We got Liberty and it says don't use Liberty for an occasion to the flesh
But what do we have today Christians using the fact that they're saved and the fact that they had they're justified
They're going to heaven to just do whatever the hell they want
Go out there and go to the strip clubs go to the bars go do whatever they want
And there's no there's no there's no condemnation. There's no chastisement. There's no judgment. God loves you
That's not the way it works. It's backwards
We shouldn't use our Liberty for an occasion to the flesh
He said what do we use our Liberty for it to love one another?
Okay to serve when are you see you don't sound very loving well open rebuke is better than secret love
beat that
Go to 1st John chapter 3
1st John chapter number 3
It's backwards today
You know and I hear some things and I'm just like that is so backwards, you know, you guys remember crisscross
How many remember know what I'm talking about
I mean if your child in the 90s 80s, you know what I'm talking about crisscross had this thing
It was two brothers. I think right two brothers and they came up with this this dress style
Okay, where they would literally put their clothes on backwards
Pants, you know, everything was on backwards and it was like the thing to do
Now if you didn't watch MTV and you had some sense, you know, that's stupid
You're wearing your clothes. I mean, I hate even the tag behind my shirt
I could just imagine right here, you know, and they wear everything backwards. I mean and here's the funny thing they would wear these overalls
Well, you guys you guys ever that anybody ever wear overalls back in the day. Okay, I'm a child of the 80s
All right, so I this is this is this is back in my day
But the overalls will go over and you would basically, you know, you button them up right here
So they would wear that so they would have to do it backwards
and here's the thing you would have to pick up the front right and
Then buckle it up. I'm
Because that's that's back there, you know, I mean it's backwards and here's the thing those who I mean
It became very popular people were doing it all
I mean all over the place and you would look and say what in the world
These people are literally backwards. They think that something so stupid is so cool, right?
And here's the thing today. We have the same thing in Christianity and those who haven't been you know
infiltrated by the Fox News and all this the Joyce Meyers and the Rick Warrens and the Joel Steens and the
you
Know the Lancaster Baptist churches of this world and they haven't been influenced by these things people look at that and say hey you're backwards
That looks stupid
Doesn't the tag bug you doesn't doesn't the fag bug you when they come into church?
You know does it I mean can't you see this guy is drunk. He's coming into church. Hey, I saw him on Facebook
I saw him in Instagram is posting pictures with alcohol and he's drinking he's smoking weed and he's in church on Sunday
Isn't there something wrong with that? This thing is backwards
And whatever said no, it's cool. It's a cool thing to do
You know just you know put the shirt on when you hit back everything's backwards and no one even bats an eye at it
You know, what I have a turn first John chapter 3. So first of all, we see nowadays
That was all introduction
First of all, we see that people are backwards in biblical love
Backwards in their biblical love first John chapter 3 verse 16 says hereby perceive we the love of God
Verse 16 because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren
But who so hath this world's good and see if his brother have need and shut up his bowels of compassion for him
How dwelleth the love of God in him my little children?
Let us not love in word neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth
So the Bible is telling us that true love really expresses itself indeed and in truth, right?
So deed would be a physical thing that I do for you to express my love
All right truth would be the fact that I'm just telling you the truth
Not hiding it, but it's backwards today today people want to hold the truth
Not say the entire truth of God's Word and they say it because I want to be loving towards the people
You have to be loving and their definition of loving is the fact that they would withhold truth from you
Okay, whereas the Bible says here my little children
Let us not love in word neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth now go to Psalms 97
Psalms 97
Christians have just been influenced by just so many books and most of the books of these so-called Christian pastors are not even saved
You know and and they have these libraries full of books you say well, I don't I think you're exaggerating on that
You know, I don't think they get influenced by the books, you know, look I remember heard a great quote was they said
I know who you become in five years depending upon the people you're around with and the books that you read
You know as you're reading the books you're you're getting the content
Okay, you know the Bible says that as we read the Word of God it begins to clean us it begins to renew our mind
But he uses a book to do that. That doesn't mean that other books can't do that
Okay, but the the difference is is the Bible renews your mind
Other books written by false prophets and false teachers unsaved people they destroy your mind
Okay, they begin to infiltrate your mind with things ideologies philosophies that are not of God and as we mentioned last week in Colossians
It says that people are spoiled by philosophy in vain to see
Psalms 97 verse 10. Look what the Bible says he that loved the Lord. What does it say hate evil?
He preserved the souls of the Saints and he delivered them out of the hand of the wicked
So according to the Bible the way God measures our love obviously if we really love him is we got to hate evil
Okay
That's important see love is not the absence of hate
Okay, love means that we do have hate because you can't have one without the other
How do you show siren when I was explaining this matter of health to someone and that you know?
Or excuse me explain this matter of hatred God's hatred to someone I simply said this look
Obviously hell is like the highest form of God's hatred and wrath, right?
I say obviously you wouldn't send someone to hell whom you love
Hell's a terrible place. It's when you burn a fire and brimstone
You're tormented day and night, you know at the bottom is just it's a terrible place to go
You wouldn't send someone you love to go there
But here's the thing and this person was saved I said, but you're saved, you know, you've trusted Christ you're going to heaven
Don't you appreciate salvation so much the more?
Because you've seen the love of God in contrast to the wrath of God
His hatred where you could have gone if you were not saved you see it's the very love of God
There excuse me. It's the very hatred of God that really exposes God's love for us
You know, it's the concept of hell that helps us to realize. Wow. God did love me a lot
Because I'm not going there anymore
I'm not gonna burn forever. That's a very high love. God commended his love toward us the Bible says, okay
It's a very elevated love. It's a love that simply exposes how deep his hatred really is though
Because anybody who goes to heaven, you know who has everlasting life will never have to experience eternal damnation forever
Okay
So love and hate they go hand in hand. You've got to have both
Not just for God. He said well God is perfect and it's a guy calling. Hey, we're made in the image of God
Okay, he's placed these emotions. Look we have so we have every single emotion that God has except for hate
We can have judgment we can have righteousness we can have wisdom
Prudence knowledge all these things all these virtues, but we can't have hate. It doesn't make any sense
Okay, we can have wrath we can have anger, you know
And so he that loved the Lord hate evil
But what do we see today a backwards way of thinking about this?
No, if you love if you love the Lord, you'll love the evil
It's backwards. We know the verse here in 2nd Chronicles 19 to you don't have to turn there
You can write it down if you'd like
2nd Chronicles 19 to says in Jehu the son of Hananiah the seer went out to meet him and said to the King
Jehoshaphat shouldest thou help thee ungodly and love them to hate the Lord
Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord and
We see today that a lot of people are loving those who hate the Lord. And yes, God's wrath is on them. You say well
Prove it. How do you know God's wrath is on those people?
Well, if you remember a lot of times a lot of the ways that God would chastise those in the Old Testament
Was he would allow a foreign country to come and take them over right in other words era they were allowed to be taken over
Even to the point where they would take them to Babylon and they would infiltrate their children teach them Babylonian ideologies
Etc. Well, I believe one of the ways that that's happening today is that these churches are losing the next generation
they're being infiltrated by
worldly and ungodly
Wicked philosophies being turned into a bunch of Babylonians
You know and it's sad
Because here's what's gonna happen is maybe even their children are saved but the children that come after them they're not gonna get saved
Because once you get past that and you water down the gospel the gospels already watered down on the second generation the third generation
There is gonna be no gospel
He said well, they're a little wrong. Maybe they're a little worldly
They got the contemporary Christian music and you know, the women dress like whores I get that but yeah, okay
You want to tolerate that that's fine. But the following generation. They're not even gonna have the gospel
case in point my wife
Spoke to someone who was telling him about or she was talking to a kid who?
Whose parents used to go to our old church and they stopped going a long long long time ago
I mean they've been at church for a long time
But I remember my wife trying to trying to talk to the kid about the Lord and he was just like he didn't know who
Jesus was I
Mean that's scary
You know, God forbid that something could ever happen that my son would never know who the Lord is
You know, I met people who know the Lord. They know who Jesus is. They're not saved, but they know Jesus
He was just like I don't even know who Jesus is
He's never even heard of
scary
But the fact remains it happens when you begin to you begin to change your perception when things get backwards
You see you got to keep keep the biblical perspective, right when it comes to hatred
But a lot of people are backwards now go to James chapter number two
Here's what we see today
We see a lot of churches and leaders
loving the wicked and hating the just
Look at James 2 14 says what that the prophet my brother and though a man say he have faith and have not works
Can faith save him if a brother or sister be naked and destitute daily food and one of you saying to them depart in peace
Be warmed and filled not withstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body
What does it profit even so faith if it hath not works is dead being alone
So, you know what one thing that I see a lot and when I got to preach on this on these gypsies, okay?
these stinking bums
lose their fathers
Who stand on the corner with their 13 year old son?
Begging for food actually, I'm sorry begging for money
You
Know an ignorant Christians are willing to just give them 20s and tens and fives and then they treat God's people like trash
That's not the way it's supposed to be by the way, there's no such thing as poor people in America
No such thing
Now, I mean there might be someone who's like disabled or something
But the fact is I've met disabled people and even they get a job or they do something to work
You know what I mean, I mean my dad is disabled right now
He has something wrong with his elbow that he was working and he got disabled his arm. He still works
I'm talking about his arms messed up, but he's making it happen. He's not out there begging for food
In fact, he has enough money to even bless others
But what do we see today we see people these these gypsies who are out there on corners with no shame
No, she
Standing out there in the middle of the streets
with their ten-year-old son
Begging for money and for food and whatever you can give them that's wicked
And shame on that man for for being a such a horrible example to a son
what is the Sun gonna become a
derelict just like his father
and
Look, they have this victim mentality and you're against us and you're racist. No, you're just lazy
It's
Wicked
Okay, and look there's a book that came out of Christian book long ago called the hole in our gospel
Okay, and what was the hole in the gospel? We need we need to provide for the poor
We need to give money to the poor that was the hole in the gospel by written by some liberal out there
You know, he may have a hole in his gospel. My hope my gospel is like foolproof. It's good. It's good to go
But there his whole thing was you need to give to the here's the problem there is no poor people here
Okay, if a man did not work neither should he eat
That's what you take care of that
And look you get a man starving and he's hungry. He'll get he'll start working
collect cans or something I
Mean, I remember when I used to live in Long Beach my wife and I when we were coming over here
We saw a guy he had like a bike and I think he had a bike
He was on that bike, but it was like filled to the brim all the way to the top with a huge bag of cans
I think there was a bike in there
It was just moving. He was just like
Like I'm about to cash this in you know, you get a lot of money for that
But you know he was out there I get you know collecting cans. I think he was doing something
Right. He's putting in some work. It's a dirty job, but he's doing it. I'm sure he's getting some food now
I don't know. Maybe he's buying drugs or something. But the fact remains is they hate he was willing to work for that
Shame on the person who's who's begging for with his 15 year old son there
Shame and shame on the Christian that would think no you see you're not loving
You need to love poor people and give to those people. They're not poor. Look a guy came up to me
I mean this this guy was like built. He was a man in
Spanish and he was asking for money and I was with my wife and I was with my son
And he said, uh, he goes hey, you know in Spanish. Can you spare some change? I said, you know what?
I got a job because I got to feed this guy right here
And I said and my wife I got paid the bills. I gotta buy the groceries gas
Everything that my family needs I have to buy for it. So I don't have nothing to give you
Okay, okay. Okay, okay
Take me off
You're gonna come ask me for money when I work hard for my money to provide for my son
And by the way, I got a second one on the way
I mean he saw her that she's pregnant and he has the goal as a man to come up and ask me for money
You're wicked you're lazy you're slothful
Get your butt into it into the unemployment line go find a job or something
Go do something, but don't beg for money and he was an able-bodied
You know, this guy is like and look you don't even have to be buff to get a job
Go work at McDonald's
Go work at Domino's
Do something look if I
Did concrete for a little while and it's not the best job, but I did it
But if I never even had to do concrete ever again, and I had I could get any kind of job
I would do anything to
provide for my family
Shame on the guy who would not get a job any kind of job. Well, you know
There's just not any good jobs out there. Shut your mouth. You're just lazy. I
Spent far too long on that, but the fact is is that churches they say well you got to provide for those people
You know and they treat God's people like trash
While they're willing to get to these derelicts. Okay now go to first Corinthians chapter number five
backwards in their love
You know Bible says as we therefore have opportunity let us do good unto all men, but especially to them of the household of faith
Okay, no, but I would say we had a favor God's people right, you know, why cuz we're brothers and sisters in Christ
You know, we're family here. Okay, and
Doesn't matter what Rasa you are. We're family. We're one blood. I
Love lost people. We want to win lost people to the to the Lord
But the fact that matter remains is that this is God's people. These are my family
These are the people who I favor first Corinthians chapter number five now
We talked we hit on this subject this morning, but I want to hit it from a different angle
A lot of people are just backwards in their church discipline
Brother Jose and I were out we're talking about Phil Kidd and how he used to you know, he used to do church discipline
He's to call it being churched. I kind of like that term
We got church that person, you know, and he used to actually believe what the Bible said about
Discipline, you know kicking people out of the church. He introduced that concept to my old church
You know and it was something that was believed back in the day, but something has changed where people yeah, they still believe in church discipline
But they're backwards
It's not Church discipline. It's a different kind of discipline
It's not biblical look what the Bible says and first Corinthians chapter number five verse number six
We read this earlier, but we're gonna read it again. Your glory is not good
No
You're not that a little leaven at leaven at the whole lump
Purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump as ye are unleavened for even Christ our Passover sacrificed for us
Therefore let us keep the feast not with old leaven neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness
But with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth
I wrote into you in an epistle not to company with fornicators yet not all together with the
fornicators of this world or with the covetous or
Extortioners or with idolaters for then must he needs go out of the world
But now I have written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or
Covetous or idolator or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner such and one know not to eat
So the Bible is teaching is very clearly and I'm not gonna belabor the point because we talked about it this morning
The Bible teaches us that if anybody's an extortioner
Okay, someone who's threatening someone for money in the church if anybody's a drunkard a fornicator an idolater someone who's covetous
Okay, someone who's a railer someone who have falsely accuses people if they're not willing to repent of those things
They need to be booted out
That is a biblical teaching
Okay, and there's nothing backwards about it the Bible commands us to do it
God is wiser than us and we ought not to lean on our own understanding. Just say hey, that's what the Bible says
We need to execute that Lord gave me wisdom help me to be discreet help me to be loving
But help me not to compromise this because when it happens it needs to go down. Okay now go to 3rd John
3rd John
3rd John so the Bible teaches us Church discipline it needs to happen
Well, what do we see today? We see Church discipline happening, but not in the biblical way
They keep the fornicators and they cast out those who are just
Backwards
You got it backwards
You're doing the crisscross thing
It's backwards
He said prove it. Look at 3rd John verse number 9. I
Wrote into I wrote unto the church but diatrophies who love it to have the preeminence among them receive it does not
Wherefore if I come I will remember his deeds which he did what you do with
Pradding against us with malicious words and not content with therewith neither that he himself received the brethren and
forbideth them that would and
casteth them out of the church
Beloved follow not that which is evil, but that which is good
He that doeth good is of God, but he that doeth evil hath not seen God
So, you know what God calls casting someone out of the church for an unbiblical reason evil
It's wicked
It's backwards
You see a church that would will be willing to keep the faggot the transvestite the fornicator
But cast out the people who want to just congregate and be there and just so and be a blessing Bible calls that evil
It's what the Bible and you said well that you said no, no, that's not evil that's loving
Yeah, you're calling good evil evil good
You see where the concept it lies here
See it's biblical to cast someone out of the church it's even biblical cast someone out of the church for being a heretic
You know if someone's in here teaching a works-based salvation you're getting the boot
If you're trying to go around teach people the sodomites can be saved and you want to influence people in the church
You're getting the boot
you're not staying if you're coming in here trying to
Debunk the Trinity you're getting the boot
Anything that would be a dandable heresies you're getting the boot because it's a biblical reason
But let me say this if you're pre tribulation. You're not getting the boot
You're not getting it I wouldn't I'm not gonna boot you out. I don't pastor Anderson would even boot you out
Let's say you even believe that Jews are God's chosen people
You're not getting booted booted out you're just getting laughed at I'm just kidding
Okay, you won't get laughed at well. You just got laughed at I'm just kidding
If you believe Jews are God's chosen people
Believe that that's not a damnable heresy
Now people would question whether you really know the Bible you know because I've had people people ask me. They're like you know
They've even said well you would kick people out who believe in pre-tribulation to us it
You know and look I wouldn't send someone out if they're a pre-tribulation doctrine you see ah there you go
but here's the thing if
The reason I wouldn't send you out is because I would just think this guy doesn't know the Bible
Because there's way too much evidence to prove that is not pre tribulation
I mean, it's just even the even the babe in Christ in our church can prove that I mean, that's like basic stuff, right?
But if you believe in one of those things
You know look let's just say you believe that maybe sodomites can be saved. I'll even take it to that extent I
Wouldn't cast you out
And I don't think pastor Anderson would either
As long as you're not spreading it in the church
Okay, and look if you want to believe that sodomites can be saved. That's fine, but don't bring them here
If you want to win them to the Lord that's fine. Just don't bring them in here
How many saw the Instagram story that I posted anybody saw that I wish I had I?
Photoshopped no sodomites allowed it was great. It looked like a real sign
We had to get one of those signs and that that's the honest truth. They're not allowed
So if you want to believe they can be saved all right whatever
That's I mean that's dumb, but I I mean I guess if you want that that's what you want to believe. That's fine
But just don't bring them, but you're not gonna get cast out of the church for that
Okay, that's not a biblical reason to cast someone out of the church now
you know we went through a bunch of reasons why people could get cast out of the church and
Those are biblical reasons why to get cast out, but to get cast out because you're a post trip
Because your replacement theology
Because you hate homos
You know not a biblical reason
Right
Well, no you're backwards
You're crisscrossing your Christianity
Okay, see see see
You're crisscrossing your Christianity. Why is that because you're leaning onto your own understanding?
Okay, you're casting out the just man, and you're keeping the fornicators in your church
That's not right. It's not right, and it will never ever happen here
Never
Okay, even if a pre-trib guy walks in here
He's like pre-trib all the way look if he's preaching all the way, but that guy is a major soul winner. Amen
I
Rather have a guy who's pre-trib all the way
But he's a major soul winner than someone who's post-trib all the way, but he don't soul win for squat
Amen
Now we just rather just have post-trib and soul winners, and we'll just keep it at that amen
But if you're if you're pre-trib and you're in here, but you're so any we're not gonna like
We I mean we'll even invite you out to eat
We'll be friends with you right. I mean. I don't think anyone is in here is against that you know
I don't think it. I don't even think people in here would talk bad behind your back
He's a pre me I
Honestly don't think that I think people here love people honestly you know and because they love people they would want to help them obviously
Right obviously, I don't I don't think if you're if you're pre-trib, and you're in our church
I don't think you'll be preaching for long
You hear enough preaching. There's enough DVDs. There's enough people around here the party would be like okay, never mind
I'm not pre-trib anymore. I'm post-trib. I believe it okay, but today
We have a backwards Christianity where church discipline is being executed upon a just man. They're booting just people out
Not for biblical reasons, and that's wicked
That's very wicked, but you know what sometimes. It just works out together for good. Hey, man. Go to 2nd Timothy chapter 4
Go to 2nd Timothy chapter number 4
Look even if those who don't agree with us and in the independent Baptist circle
They boot someone out for a biblical reason those people aren't working. They're welcome here
Even the people who don't agree with us
You know if Monterey Park
boots someone out for a biblical reason
They're not welcomed here
Then don't think that you can come here and say well brother Bruce is part of that new IFB
I know he'll back me up against these guys if you're a fornicator. You're not allowed
And they booted you out for biblical reasons. You're not welcome here
And I don't even agree with the pastor there
But he's the pastor he has the authority there if he boots you out for a biblical reason. You're not welcome here either
That's just the bottom line. I believe that's biblical amen
Now if it's like for something like you got booted out for listen for being with brother Bruce come on in man
Let's go eat some tacos. Let's go sowing it. It's all good that you can have some kombucha
Kombucha
2nd Timothy chapter 4 so we see that
The church discipline has become backwards
You know it's like they understand the concept that people got to leave the church. They just don't understand who needs to leave the church
It's like that. No you got the wrong guy, man
It's the homo that guy needs to leave you know
It's backwards now 2nd Timothy chapter 4 now not only that I got I got to hurry up. We're almost out of time
There's we're backwards in our preaching
Look at some 2nd Timothy chapter 4 verse 2 says preach the word be instant in season out of season
Reprove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine you know what we have today doctrine long-suffering and exhorting
Before the other things is backwards
We have a lot of teaching on exhortation on the love of God all the positive stuff. I love the positive stuff, man
That's good stuff, man
I love the mercy of God I need to be reminded of the mercies of God and his long-suffering his
Forbearance and those are his attributes those are his qualities that we need to comprehend and have an understanding of amen to that
But it's backwards when it comes to the preaching because the Bible says there reprove
rebuke and exhort
Okay, you see when you only have exhortation, and you're building people up, but you're not tearing them down
Oh, you shouldn't tear people down reprove
rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine
The Bible says to lift up our voice like a trumpet cry out loud and spare not and show my people their transgression
That's what the Bible says
Okay, because here's the thing in order for someone to really appreciate the exhortation of God you have to be humble
But to be humble you have to be shown that you're wrong
You have to be corrected and when you're wrong you're corrected you recognize. I'm wrong guess what the exhortation is just that much better
Then you receive the teaching you receive the grace of God and guess what you you understand that the grace of God doesn't teach you
To be lascivious it teaches you to deny ungodliness and worldly lust
But what do we see today that Christians and churches are turning the grace of God into lasciviousness?
Because all they get is exhortation and exhortation and exhortation and building up and building up and occasion to the flesh all these things
And what happens they just get in the most grossest of sins because all I hear about is the grace of God
Whereas if you reprove and rebuke the grace of God teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lust
You know sometimes you just got to get up and rip face
Show my people their transgression we can't live in this candy land world where it's just like no one sins everyone's good
You know good God good devil good sin. Everything's good
There's a reality check
You know the reality is people sin
The reality is if we're not if we don't if we don't keep a thermometer in here
And we don't have vigilance in here sin can just run rampant
Okay
Go to Proverbs or excuse me go to Jeremiah chapter number six. I'm gonna read to you from
Proverbs chapter 27 verse number five I already quoted it, but I'll read it against his open rebuke is better than secret
Love, but we got a backwards today. It's all about secret. Love. It's actually all about open love and secret rebuke
Right
Yeah, what does that mean you openly love everyone and then you secretly rebuke, but not really calling out the same
You're generalizing everything
Sin is bad. You know
We're preaching where it's just like not specific about any sin. It's not specific about something that's going on in the church
It's very indiscreet. You're not very specific
So guess what the person who's actually involved in that sin is like well. I guess he's not talking to me
You know and they'll say well, I'm not talking about anyone in here, you know, even though these four people are involved in that
No
Open rebuke is better than secret love. Okay
Jeremiah 6 14 says they have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly
Saying peace peace when there is no peace
scary
Slightly means sleight of hand and means deceitfully and he says look there's peace peace and God saying hey
Well, hold on a second. There is no peace
You're gonna get it, you know people were involved in fornication. They're good. They're about to marry a divorced person. Peace. Peace
And what does God say? No, no, there is no peace with that
That's not good, you know and again he says it you don't have to turn there Jeremiah 8 11
He says for they have healed the hurt of my daughter of the daughter of my people slightly saying peace peace when there is no
Peace, here's the thing. We would think peace would heal
The daughter who is hurt
But you know, God says no no, no, you have to rebuke it you have to tear down
Okay, then you can build it up. That's God's equation
No, that's your equation. No, that's God's equation and look sometimes I don't understand it, but you just gotta obey it
Okay, don't be a backwards Christian. And what is a backwards Christian simply a person who believes they know how to do it better than God
Okay, they see what God does and say
No, I'll do it another way. Okay, for instance backwards
Christianity can it could just be involved in so many at
Facets of life we talked about it this morning. But what about the wife submitting to her husband?
Right and the wife says well you just don't know my husband you're backwards
That's backwards and sometimes you have wives, you know who preach at their husbands
You know
They might preach at their husbands and they start getting on their husbands and all these things about their husbands
It's like that's not your place
Yeah, but I know more Bible than him and he needs to be told not by you
You got it backwards
You see you need to let God deal with your husband
You need to let God humble your husband and you just follow your husband
Love your husband reverence your husband respect your husband
It'll turn out great for you promise
You see that this doesn't make sense to you or to me. Well, you know why because you backwards
It's backwards and here's the thing is
Men, oh man, you know what he wants from his wife is the respect
Want to be respected because we got an ego
It's huge ego
you know and then a wife needs a husband to just just
Lord
Amen calling him Lord. He's the boss
But you know what? That's God's order like oh you're chauvinist. That's just God's order
Okay, and it's worked for thousands of years it's God's never had to read to to just change it up
No
That's how the order has always been just keep it that way when if you don't understand it obey it by faith and you'll see
In the in the end results that it's just the way you wanted it to be
But it's when you lean into your own understanding you become backwards that you don't get the results that you've desired
And many a wife in Baptist churches have just turned their husband away
They're not involved in the things of God why cuz your ways not working
Do it God's way and it'll work
Go to Galatians chapter 1
So another thing that we're Christianity's backwards in is their service for God
You say what does that mean? You know when we serve God who are we serving?
God right, it's not that hard right serving God. Amen. So when we serve God who we're trying to please
God
Are we trying to please man?
No, but you know what we have today is Christians trying to please man
They got it backwards. It's in a serving God, but they're doing it by pleasing man
And look at the Bible says in Galatians 1 verse 10 for do I now persuade men or God?
Or do I seek to please men for if I yet please men I should not be the servant of Christ
Here the Bible's telling us here is in order to be a servant of Christ you got to have the motive of pleasing God
That's why Jesus Christ was the servant of God. You know why because he did always those things that please him
Amen, and if we're gonna please God we need to make sure that we're trying to please God and not man
We're not compromising in different areas of service or ministry in order to please God. No, it doesn't work that way
You don't you don't scale back to sermon. You don't change anything. You don't compromise
You don't change the way the church is supposed to be done just to please man
You see churches today. They change everything to try to keep the members in the church
Okay, I mean I even heard about people casting people out of the church
Not in my old church people casting people out of the church just for the sake of keeping a tithing member in their church
And look there's people who got money in churches
And you what that means they got power
They got influence over the pastor
Because they got money not here. I don't need your money
Mike my God holds a cattle on a thousand hill
Okay, and his money's green, too
Amen
But there's there's there's members out there
They're just like they know they got the influence over the pastor and they can ask whatever they want
Because their pastor will brown nose them to death
to get it
You're pleasing man, but you know what if that's you you're not pleasing God
You're gonna compromise the message you're gonna scale it back
You're not gonna say the things that need to be said
You're not gonna do the things you need to be doing why because you just want to please man
It's not the way it's supposed to work. I'm gonna skip a couple points here because we're out of time go to uh, let's see
Go to Proverbs chapter 1
Now go to Proverbs chapter 29 same book, right
So
Now we also see that a lot of Christians are backwards in their fear
See fear is a good thing
Fear is a healthy thing
Okay, but it depends on who you're fearing
Because the Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and instruction
See when you fear God and you're afraid of God, that's a good thing
Why because it helps you to stay in line with what God's telling you to do if you have a fear towards God
You're afraid of God. You're afraid of his judgment. It'll keep you right
Okay, because you know that God can judge you God can chastise you and there's a fear there that something bad is gonna happen
That's a good kind of fear. But what is the bad kind of fear? Proverbs 29 25 says the fear of man
Bring it the snare but who's gonna put it this trust in the Lord shall be safe
So God says that when you fear man, you're gonna have a snare a snare something that caused that captures an animal, right?
Well, it's a trap. So what is God saying when you fear man?
You're getting trapped
You know why because you're at the subjection of whoever
When you fear someone you fear their opinions what they're saying about you what they're opinionated about you
But you know what? Well, you don't care what anyone says you can say whatever you want that God wants you to say
But when you're afraid and you're not afraid of God, you're afraid of man. You want to tailor the message to the congregate?
But
When you fear God, you're like no we got to go ahead and just say everything that needs to be said here
God hates faggots God hates people, you know all these things you got to say them
Why because you're afraid of God?
You see, but what do we have today? We have a backwards Christianity where people fear man more than they fear God
Okay, and you see it in their ministry you see it in their churches
The Bible says be not wise in thine own eyes fear the Lord and depart from evil
You see the one who's wise in his own eyes says well we can't we can't we can't say things like that from the pulpit
You know, you can't tell people that you can't kick people out of the church. You can't do that
That's not very wise you hear that a lot. That's not a very wise thing to do
Well, you know what be not wise in thine own eyes
Why don't you fear the Lord and depart from evil and just do what God told you to do
John 12 42 says nevertheless among the chief rule is also many believed on him
But because of the Pharisees they did not confess him lest they should be put out of the synagogues for they loved the praises
Of men more than the praise of God
Jesus cried and said he that believeth on me believeth not on me
But on him that sent me so we see here even the Pharisees who believed they didn't want to confess him openly
Why because they were afraid of?
Man, okay go to John chapter number eight. This is our last point
I'm out of time
We're talking what are we talking about today? We're talking about Christians who are backwards they call an evil good and good evil
Okay, and the last one is this backwards in our perception of the man of God
Backwards on our perception of the man of God you see the man of God in God's eyes is an important man
okay is a man who's esteemed as a man who me who's important in the eyes of God and
He's a person who God says that God's people should esteem, right?
But what do we see today? We see churches who are not esteem in the man of God
They're not esteem in the servant of God, they're not a steaming those who are righteous
They're condemning those people look what the Bible says in John chapter 8 verse 37 reminds me of the Pharisees look what it says
I know that you are Abraham's seed
But you seek to kill me because my word hath no place in you
I speak that which I have seen with my father and you do that which you have seen with your father
They answered and said to him Abraham is our father
Jesus said them to him if you're Abraham's children you would do the works of Abraham
But now you seek to kill me a man that hath told you the truth which I have heard of God
This did not Abraham he do the deeds of your father then said they to him we be not born of fornication
We have one father even God so the Pharisees over here trying to kill Jesus. Who's the man of God right?
He's got himself, and they're over here trying to use the fact that they come from Abraham as their reputation
Well, you don't understand we knew jack house
Then why are you tearing down the person who preaches like Jack house?
You're backwards
You know they're over here talking about will we be Abraham see well Abraham rejoiced to see my day
Abraham knows exactly who Jesus Christ was
Okay, so did Moses so did all the prophets in fact when Jesus Christ reprimanded the the the the
Christians on the road to Emmaus what he say or he fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken and
Beginning that Moses and all the prophets he expound them into them and all the scriptures the things concerning himself
They all knew about him
You know if you would have believed Moses you would have believed me for he wrote of me
They said right and what do we have today today?
We have people who supposedly lift up the old prophets of the past they talk very highly of them
I'm talking about the godly problems not not in Rockman Rockman is the devil okay?
That guy is out. I'm talking about the godly men who preached hard and yet they condemn the modern prophets
Right it's funny. They want to raise up a new generation of preachers
Who do something great for God and then finally when they're raised up? It's like they condemn us
You say you're a great prophet. You know what I don't consider myself to be a great prophet, but I must think in profit
Okay, why cuz I'm preaching the Word of God. I'm proclaiming what the Word of God says and I'm not the only one
There's a bunch of us out here
You say you're trying to isolate no no no there's a bunch of it
There's more to come so you better get used to it because there's more to come and more men are being raised up
But what do we see today in Christianity people these prophets are being condemned and the Pharisees are coming along and say oh?
We be Abraham see we're we're house energy graduates
You know we came from first Baptist Church of heaven
You know I know dr. J Frank Norris. I know but you're condemning the people who would preach like them
Yeah
We're just like the prophets of all look. There's always been a prophet
This isn't new there's always been a prophet right always. We just happen to be the ones of this generation amen
But what do you see a backwards attitude?
Where they want to say like they're a part of the prophets of old, but they're condemning the prophets of the modern Christian world
It's not right
Okay the Bible says in Matthew 23 37 Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that kill us the prophets and
Stone and stem that are sent unto thee how often would I have gathered thy children together?
Even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and you would not you know it's funny, but it's true
You know people say that they praying for revival and then pastor Anderson showed up, right?
But you know what I mean not just him
There's a lot of people showing up
What they prayed for is coming to flourish in?
Because here's the thing the old IFP they want to reach the next generation, but they're backwards about it
They think if we scale back to sermon preach soft sermons. It's gonna happen. It's not happening
But look hey the next generation is being reached here
Amen, that's a great thing and guess what their prayers being answered. Maybe not the way they wanted it to
But it's happening man. Where are the answers to the prayer?
They've been praying it like send us a revival you know
Please Lord send us a revival God's like there you go
You know
He has a beard
But he looks like a Muslim you know
It's like God the people are never content with the way God just presents things right
He's like well. That's not exactly how I wanted it
It's just like God's like I gave it's like you know he they wanted meat right and he they gave him God gives him quail
Right or they wanted me or that he gives a manna from heaven, and they're just not content with it
You know
But it's backwards their perception of the man of God has become backwards now
I'm to go to Isaiah chapter 30 is the last verse
You know you say how do we avoid being backwards how do we avoid that?
By not crisscrossing your Christianity
Okay, you got to make sure we just got to make sure we stay right on point
You know and one thing that that struck me that brother Matt Stuckey. You know he told me when he was here
He said you know it seems that
the older
Preachers get they just don't want to fight anymore
You know and it's true. I don't know what I don't know what it is
But we just got to make sure we as preachers the older we get we don't stop fighting
You know and I know how it's like I mean when you're in the ring fighting kickboxing or whatever
Towards the last rounds you start to slow down a little bit because you're tired
You know what I mean, but you know I appreciate the fighters that though. They're tired. They're still swinging
And we I guess we just got to make sure that towards the end of our lives. We're still swinging amen
We're still fighting. We're preaching the right doctrines and no matter what takes place
We're just holding down the fort raising up the next generation and look. Thank God that these children
They're gonna be raised in this kind of a church
Amen
Isaiah 30 verse 8 says now go write it before them in a table and note it in a book
That it may be for the time to come forever and ever that this is a rebellious people lying children
Children that will not hear the law of the Lord which say to the seers see not and to the prophets
Prophesied not unto us right things speaking to us smooth things
prophesy deceits
That's backwards see prophecy in its very nature is rough
Always saying prophesy unto us smooth things
It's backwards we need to get back to knowing and just being
Straightforward in our biblical Christianity and say let's not do things that are backwards
Let's make sure we keep the definition the way it's expanding the Word of God preaching is hard
You know Church discipline the way it needs to be done the love of God along with the hatred of God and everything in between
Okay, and look who knows when the the second coming of Christ is obviously we know it's after the tribulation, but until that day
Let's do our best to not be backwards backwards Christians. Amen. Let's bow your heads have a word of prayer father
We thank you so much for your word and thank you for
Men within your word that were zealous that left us an example
And these are men we read about throughout the year throughout the weeks throughout the months and that create within us a zeal
To not be backwards in our Christianity. We're thankful for the Apostle Paul who we learned much about Lord
And I pray that you'd help us Lord and and one thing
Of course that we need to make sure that we keep in line is just being humble and may no one confuse
hard preaching for pride
Hard preaching is something that's commanded in the Word of God
but at the same time help us to remain humble help us to recognize that
Lord we're nothing without you and if we ever break your commandments if we if we if we decide to veer off the road of
A biblical Christianity we're gonna suffer those consequences as well and we'll become backwards
We'll begin praising the wicked and condemning the just help us never to be that people Lord
We thank you so much. We pray these things in Jesus name. Amen