Lord and give us ears to hear and understand the preaching Lord and also
fail path from here with your spirit Lord we love you and as you say we pray
Amen. Okay we're in Romans chapter number 11 look down at your Bibles in verse 16
it says forth the first fruit be holy the lump is also holy and if the root be
holy so are the branches and if some of the branches be broken off and thou be in
a wild olive tree we're grafted in among them and with them partake it's of the
root and fadness of the olive tree boast not against the branches but if thou
boast thou bearest not the root but the root thee that will say then the branches
were broken off that I might be grafted in the title determine this evening is
Christianity by osmosis Christianity by osmosis now osmosis is obviously a
scientific term and I'm going to give you the definition of what it means
scientifically okay it says osmosis is a process by which the molecules of a
solvent pass from a solution of low concentration to a solution of high
concentration through a semi permeable membrane you're like how are you gonna
preach from that look let me give you a the smart ones in here okay or the ones
who think they're smarter or something understand that looking at you John I'm
just kidding I'm kidding let me give you just a really basic example of what this
looks like okay maybe some of the ladies have done this in times past you know
so here's an example of osmosis when you get a cucumber for example all right
which is a soluble object a cucumber and you place it into a jar that has water
vinegar and salt okay well when you place that cucumber within that jar the
process of osmosis begins to take place and in other words after a certain
period of time that water and the the cucumber will begin to share the same
properties and eventually what happens is you get yourself a pickle okay so
that cucumber becomes a pickle and that water that liquid along with that
cucumber begin to share the same properties without any effort whatsoever
all it takes is for you to take that pickle or excuse me that cucumber place
it into a jar and over a period of time with no effort whatsoever the process of
osmosis takes place and then you got yourself a pickle that's basically
osmosis in the most simplest form okay now there is a form of osmosis in the
Bible in the sense that there is zero effort required in order to receive a
certain product okay what am I talking about well how about salvation right
salvation could be described as a the osmosis the only difference is that
there's no process it happens instantaneously when you believe on
Jesus Christ you see once a human being is placed in Christ what happens they
are a new creature the Bible tells us therefore if any man be in Christ he is
a new creature all things have passed away behold all things have become new
the properties the spiritual properties of that individual has been completely
altered forever the Bible tells us okay and so that would be like a an example
of spiritual osmosis and in fact look at Romans 11 and verse number 16 here in
Romans 11 we see that the Apostle Paul is using the example of branches being
grafted into a tree and the branches of course picture believers the tree or the
root is representative of Jesus Christ and what the Bible is specifically
teaching us here is that in the New Testament God's chosen people is made up
of all believers no longer Jews okay now people who were Jews in times past who
are believers they are still part of that tree because of the fact that they
believed on the Lord but those who are just Jews according to the flesh and
have rejected Jesus Christ the Bible tells us they were actually broken off
okay look what the Bible says in Romans 11 16 for if the first for be holy the
lump is also holy and if the root be holy so are the branches what is it
saying here we have the same properties osmosis has taken place no effort
required only our faith in Christ verse 17 and if some of the branches be broken
off and thou be in a wild olive tree I've heard that term somewhere used
we're grafted in among them and with them partake us of the root and fatness
of the olive tree so on and so forth so what is it telling us it's basically
saying that when we get saved we're actually grafted into the root we're
grafted into the tree and there's zero effort required for that you know
there's a lot of teaching out there that says well no you have to do your part
well that's false you know people say well you got to make sure that you
repent of your sins in order to be saved you got to make sure you keep God's
commandments live a holy life you have to make sure that you do the works but
according to the Bible that's not the right type of osmosis that God is
talking about osmosis spiritual osmosis so to speak is something that happens
instantaneously and all we have to do is be placed into the body of Christ now go
to Hebrew chapter number six if you would Hebrew chapter number six so the
thought that is being presented here is that when we get saved we are integrated
into the people of God we become God's chosen people okay and look as I
mentioned this morning when we get saved automatically think well we have eternal
life we're going to heaven but that's not the only thing that happens there
there are various things that takes place as soon as we get saved and
obviously as you grow in your faith you begin to learn of those things but then
you realize oh man that happened when I got saved okay look what it says in
Hebrew chapter six in verse number six it says in verse number six if they
shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance see they crucify to
themselves the Son of God afresh and put them to put him to an open shame for the
earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh off upon it and bringeth forth
herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed receive its blessings from God
but that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected and is nigh unto cursing
whose end is to be burned what this is describing here is an individual who has
heard the gospel knows what the plan of salvation is the Bible tells us that
they've tasted of that heavenly gift they're right on the brink of being
saved and they just completely reject the Word of God they reject Jesus Christ
they don't want to get saved they hate God and the Bible says that they this
person actually becomes what the Bible describes as a reprobate okay they
become rejected of God because they've rejected Jesus Christ so much God
actually begins to reject them and they can no longer be saved because they
don't want to be saved okay and what is there in verse 8 says but that which
beareth thorns and briars is rejected which reprobate is defined as rejection
and nigh unto cursing that means they're gonna be cursed they're gonna go to hell
according to the Bible look what it says whose end is to be burnt so here in
Hebrew 6 we have a contrast of two people that are being described here the
one being the reprobate who's eternally damned but then look what it says in
verse 9 but beloved we are persuaded better things of you and things that
accompany salvation though we thus speak so when we look at the reprobate
according to Hebrew 6 it's a couple of factors that accompany a reprobate is
that they bear thorns and briars they're rejected they're nigh unto cursing and
their end is to be burned right one like man or a safe person when they get saved
there's certain things that accompany salvation eternal life we have the Holy
Spirit sealed within us until the day of redemption we become the sons of God we
receive that adoption we now have the spirit of truth well in within us so we
can understand the Word of God hey we can pray now and enter into you know
the throne of God with all boldness in order to to petition for our needs God
will listen to us hey we inherit the millennial reign we inherit the new
heaven and the new earth and the list goes on and on and on of things that
accompany salvation with no effort on our part right all we did was be placed
in Christ we got saved the cucumber was thrown into the pickle jar and we became
pickles so to speak right we became a new creature and it accompanies there's
things that accompany salvation that happen automatically right off the bat
with zero effort on your part okay now to a certain extent if you think about
it there are certain things that happen by osmosis in the life of a Christian
even after salvation you know a Christian when they're placed into a
Baptist Church there's certain things that you're gonna pick up on right
there's certain things you're gonna learn whether it's the hymns you're
gonna learn about the King James Bible you're gonna learn about sowing you're
gonna learn about the essentials of the faith because you're in a Baptist Church
it's just kind of naturally happens that you begin to pick up on the vibe of the
church you understand how about a child being born into a Christian home when a
child is born into a Christian home there's certain things that happen by
osmosis what does that mean they just end up getting certain things because of
their parents you know their parents live godly lives their churchgoers
they read the Bible they win souls to Christ and so they begin to build by
osmosis certain disciplines within that within that child's life now obviously
that's not to say that a child who didn't grow up in a Christian home can't
have those things but optimal environment would help a child to have
those things integrated into their life if the if a mom and dad create an
environment where Christianity is prevalent where Christ is preeminent
okay so a child that is born into a Christian home you know they have a
good chance of making it as a Christian because of the environment that they are
in hey how about this just Christians in America in general Christians in America
look America is Babylon America is super wicked and America is going to hell in a
handbasket but still it's like the best country to live it as a Christian in
comparison to other countries out there in the world okay obviously America
it's the Babylon the whore of Babylon but you know what it's still a lot
better than Iraq for a Christian it's still better than Southeast Asia where
idolatry is just rampant now there's idolatry here but you know what we have
the liberty and the freedom to go out and preach the gospel there's still
people out there that are getting saved there's still people out there that I
hear to the Word of God and they've grown up hearing about Jesus about the
Bible and that's why it's good ground so when you're born in America you know
you have a good chance of getting saved whereas if someone's born in Southeast
Asia yeah they're gonna hear the name of Christ they might hear the gospel
presentation but they're not gonna have a gospel preacher every week knocking on
their door if they grow up in whatever Timbuktu in the middle of nowhere not
saying that if they don't respond to you know if they respond to light that God
gives them God's gonna send a soul to them but you know what they're probably
not gonna have a soul or a missionary come every single week okay so there's
certain things that happen by osmosis when you're born in America growing up
in certain environments helps us or is actually can work against us now being
placed in the right environment is essential to Christian success okay so I
want to make that disclaimer before I preach the rest of the sermon I'm not
saying that hey we don't need the right environment we need the right
environment because look if environments didn't matter then why do we even call
ourselves an independent fundamental Baptist Church you know why because we
reject the liberal fund centers because that type of environment is not
conducive to spiritual growth and biblical knowledge and separation
whereas an independent fundamental Baptist Church is okay for the most part
I know you have your liberal independent fundamental Baptists out there who have
the name baptism they need to just need to remove that you know you got Liberty
Baptist Church over in Newport Beach they claim to be an independent
fundamental Baptist Church but they're as liberals the days long okay but what
I'm saying is that you need to be in the right environment and that's essential
for Christian success but here's the thing though ladies if you have the
right ingredients in your cupboard it doesn't mean you're gonna cook the best
meal right you can have optimal ingredients everything I don't even
know how to name all the spices and Costco this and all this is just I got
everything I need but it doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna cook the
best meal right but wouldn't you say in order to cook a good meal you need
pretty decent ingredients so that's foundational okay so I'm not saying that
that's not what we need we definitely need that but not at the exclusion of
knowing how to cook okay it's like well I got the ingredients let me just throw
them into a bowl and then make filet mignon obviously that doesn't happen
okay anybody hungry but you know there is an assumption gap where people think
that all they need to succeed in the Christian life is just the right
environment I just needed me in the right church with the right pastor with
the right people with the right job and the right boss and the right wife and
the right husband the right children and everything would just I would just
succeed if everyone just did what I told them to do or was what I wanted them to
be I just need the perfect environment the perfect environment doesn't exist
the perfect church doesn't exist now I believe their first words is pretty good
okay best churches around it's not perfect but it's kind of close okay but
here's the thing the wrong way to think is like well if I just have all these
things right then I'm just gonna turn out right well no that doesn't that's
not true it's false okay and I want to talk to you this evening about things
that don't happen by osmosis all right now go with me if you went to Proverbs
chapter number one Proverbs chapter number one let me start really basic
here number one knowledge of the Bible does not happen by osmosis knowledge of
God's Word does not happen by osmosis the fallacy is well because I go to
church where they teach the Bible therefore I'm gonna automatically know
the Bible or just because I told around a King James Bible I'm just gonna
automatically know all the contents of that book false doesn't work that way
because over and over again we see that not only are we supposed to be in church
where which is the pillar and ground of truth not only are we supposed to have
the Word of God but you know what we need to read the Word of God we need to
study the Word of God we need to not despise prophesying but we need to make
sure we adhere to God's preaching and apply it to our lives in order to have
knowledge of God's Word the Bible says study to show thyself approved unto God
a what workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the Word of
truth so that is not just a command for a young preacher that's a command for
every Christian because it's the responsibility of every Christian to
search the scriptures to see if these things are so okay we never want to have
a Catholic type of service or it's just like only the preacher or only the
priest reads the Word of God you trust me you don't have to study these things
no we need to be like Bereans who search the scriptures day to see if these
things are so and make sure that you are studying the Word of God on your own
that's why you should bring a Bible when you come to church amen and that's why
when you bring the Bible you should open up the Bible go to the references and
not just stare at the preacher you know it's just like sometimes I'm reading I'm
looking at people they're just like
they just give me this look and I'm looking at them cuz I'm saying like
you're supposed to be reading the scriptures yeah just throw that out
there so what's the fallacy well I'm going to an independent fundamental
Baptist Church I should be learning the Bible well yeah to a certain extent that
is true because of the fact that the pastor should be preaching the Bible and
teaching things right but you know what that's not where it stops you need to
make sure that you yourself are learning the Bible on your own because here's the
thing you know I'm feeding the flock Sunday morning Sunday night Thursday
evening but what about the rest of the week you have to feed yourself you have
to be reading the Word of God and ruminating on his word meditating upon
it memorizing the scriptures reading through the Word of God to learn it on
your own and I guarantee you your Bible reading and your Bible studies will be
so much more rich when you actually study the Bible on your own you come to
church and you hear something from the pulpit that matches up with what you
read is it whoa I just read that I mean that's an amazing feeling
look what the Bible says in Proverbs 1 verse 5 a wise man will hear and will
increase in learning and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise
counsel to understand a proverb and the interpretation the words of the wise and
their dark sayings hey I want to challenge you this evening to be a wise
man you know is it any coincidence that the wise men who came to Jesus they
understood the dark saying of where the Star of Bethlehem would be you know in
order for you to understand the deep things of God to be able to decipher the
cryptic passages of Scripture you need to be wise well how are you wise by
reading the Word of God by turning off the music turning off the distractions
turning off the wife turn it I'm just kidding you know turning off the
children turn it off whatever you got to turn off in order to listen to the
ministry of the Holy Spirit teaching you the Word of God as you read it okay
look at Proverbs chapter 2 because that's what we should all aspire to do
right to be able to understand a proverb the interpretation the words of the wise
and their dark sayings you know you ever had that moment where you're reading the
Word of God and you're reading a passage that you really didn't understand in
times past and you come across and you like I get it now I know what this means
that's an awesome feeling but you know you're not gonna get that feeling if all
you do is listen to the Word of God when you come to church but you're not
reading it on your own and look let me just put a plug in hey you should have a
goal of reading through the Bible that's coming here if you haven't already 2021
is coming up January 1st Genesis chapter 1 or Matthew chapter 1 verse number 1
start there and have the goal to read your Bible every single day to grow in
your knowledge of God's Word look at Proverbs 2 verse 1 says my son if thou
will receive my words and hide my commandments with thee so that thou
incline thine ear into wisdom and apply thine heart to understanding look what
it says yay if thou Christ after knowledge and liftest up thy voice for
understanding if thou seekest her as silver and searches for her as for hid
treasures then thou shall understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge
of God for the Lord giveth wisdom out of his mouth cometh knowledge and
understanding think about that so how do I get knowledge cry out for it how do I
get knowledge search for it like you're searching for gold and silver and rubies
diligently seeking it out that's how you gain knowledge now what is that picture
well how about praying Lord opened down my eyes that I may behold wondrous
things out of thy law Lord please reveal to me the deep things of God help
me to understand the dark sayings and the interpretations thereof you know if
you have a passage of scripture that is stumping you there's nothing wrong with
praying and saying God can you please reveal the answer to this help me to
understand what this means how many compare scripture with scripture may the
Holy Spirit bring into mind other portions of scriptures to enlighten what
this means here that's a good thing to do what are you doing you're crying out
for knowledge you're seeking out gold and silver and precious stones from
God's Word but you know people do they don't something the vast majority of
people they don't cry out for knowledge they're just like too casual about their
Bible reading or they don't seek the truth like it's gold and silver they
seek after the actual gold and silver they put more effort into making money
or entertaining themselves to death rather than putting in the effort to
search for the scriptures and search for the gold and the pieces of the gold
nuggets within the Word of God okay look at Proverbs chapter 4 but he's telling
us look if you do these things you will find the knowledge of God look at
Proverbs 4 verse 1 hear ye children in the instruction of a father and attend
to no understanding for I give you good doctrine forsake ye not my law
for I was my father's son tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother
he taught me also and said unto me let thine heart retain my words keep my
commandments and live get wisdom get understanding forget it not neither
decline from the words of my mouth forsake her not and she shall preserve
thee love her and she shall keep thee wisdom is the principal thing therefore
get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding now we want to have an
environment that is optimal for you to learn the Bible that's why we don't have
Sunday school class right we don't have Sunday school class because we could
just use those extra 30 minutes to actually teach more Bible we don't have
all these other classes where you can just learn the Bible rather you just
learn the Word of God in a single service in a Bible study and enhance
your learning but you're not that needs to be coupled with you reading the Bible
on your own because knowledge of the Bible does not happen by osmosis don't
think well I go to first works Baptist Church why listen to preachers on
YouTube and I listen to doctrine here I can learn the Word of God well how about
you yourself what if those things are just gone and let me just say this one
day all our YouTube channels shall be shut down what shall you do in that day
if that's what you do and they're in a green tree what shall be done in the
dry if you are not willing to read the Word of God when there's many green
trees of YouTube channels what shall you do when there are no YouTube channels
with biblical teaching and it's just completely dry well hopefully you're
still reading the Word of God right hopefully you're still coming to church
hopefully you still have the discipline the consistency of reading the Bible not
thinking well it's just gonna happen by osmosis because it doesn't go to judges
17 if you were judges 17 so knowledge of the Bible does not happen by osmosis
but not only that godly living does not happen by osmosis in spite of what the
repent of your sins preachers want to teach right right because don't they say
well as soon as you get saved you're just gonna live a right life and a
righteous life you're not gonna sin you're gonna be holy you know you
shouldn't sin anymore because Christians don't sin that's a false doctrine folks
you are a liar sir because no one is perfect we all sin and fall short of the
glory of God for in me that is in my flesh dwells no good thing the Bible
says and that was Paul speaking Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver
me from this body of death what is this what is this thing he's
struggling over the fact that his members sin okay oh but you got
preachers today they're more holy than the Apostle Paul apparently because they
don't sin wrong folks because when we get saved holiness does not happen by
osmosis holiness happens as we serve God we seek to get the sin out of our lives
we clean up our lives we clean our hearts and our hands and we seek to live
a life that's pleasing unto him okay and even then we still fall short but
there's people who think well you know because I go to a church where they
preach the Bible I'm just gonna automatically live a holy life or
because you know I'm saved I should have no desire to do any sin wrong folks the
only time that would happen is if you get saved you just die right away at
that point yeah you're right preach on brother cuz you're right cuz you dead
but that does not happen folks because once we get saved we still have the
flesh dwelling with us and the flesh lusts against the spirit the spirit
against the flesh these are contrary one to the other so that you cannot do
the things that ye would and this is why the Bible consistent consistently tells
us walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh put on
the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh look folks if
when we got saved we didn't want to sin anymore why does God have so many
commandments in the Bible that tells us not to sin if it just came naturally
batteries included by osmosis doesn't happen okay well you know I go to a
church where there's hard preaching I listen to hard preachers therefore I'm
gonna live a holy life false now there's someone in the Bible who thought that
they can have God's blessing in God's favor simply by osmosis let me give you
an example look at Judges 17 and verse number 6 of course this is a really bad
time in the history of Israel there are no kings magistrates there are judges
and some of them were really bad it says in verse number 6 in those days there
was no king in Israel but every man did that which is right in his own eyes
that's just not a good way to start off the sentence right and there was a young
man of Bethlehem Judah the family of Judah who was a Levite and he sojourned
there so who are the Levites they're the ones who are designated for the
priesthood these are the spiritual leaders right and the man departed out
of the city of Bethlehem from Bethlehem Judah to sojourn where he could find a
place and he came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah as he journeyed and
Micah said it to him whence comest thou and he said unto him I am a Levite of
Bethlehem Judah and I go to sojourn where I might find a place and Micah
said unto him dwell with me and be unto me a father and a priest and I will give
thee ten shekels of silver by a year and a suit of apparel and thy vittles so the
Levite went in so he's basically saying look I'll hire you to be my priest I'll
give you ten shekels of silver by a year I'll get you I'll get you a fly little
suit pinstripe I'll give you food and the Levi's like you had me at hello so
the Levi went in and the Levi was content to dwell with the man and the
young man was unto him as one of his sons now keep in mind this is not good
at all the Levites were not supposed to do something like this they're
designated for the house of God the tabernacle of God not for some dude's
house this is your first house church right here right Oh verse 12 and Micah
consecrated the Levite oh wow who gave you he basically ordained the
Levi right I hereby declare you my Levi and priest and the young man became his
priest and was in the house of Micah look what verse 13 says then said Micah
now know I that the Lord will do me good seeing I have a Levite to my priest so
what is it saying it's in the bag osmosis all I need is for the cucumber
known as the Levi to be placed into the jar known as my house by the being by
the boom God's with me God's gonna do me good why because it's by osmosis no
Micah it's not just because you have a Levi in your house doesn't mean that
automatically you get the blessing of God with you because you're doing the
right thing in the wrong way okay now what's the right thing he's trying to do
he's trying to please God or he's trying to learn the Word of God from the
priest because the priests were designated to teach the Word of God but
he's doing it in a complete wrong way okay he thought he can get it by
osmosis it's like these pastors today who are not qualified to be a pastor
right and they're like well I'm just gonna go ahead and ordain myself start
my own church not be sent out by anybody but God will do me good because I'm
preaching the Word of God you know I'm soul winning I love the Lord so
therefore he shall do me good wrong wrong because you're not doing it God's
way right you understand so look in like manner you know godly living doesn't
happen by osmosis God's blessing doesn't happen by osmosis you know it requires
your effort it requires your effort to put in to clean up your life to live a
life that's pleasing unto God in order for you to get God's favor on your life
okay go to 2nd Peter chapter 1 I'm sorry go to James chapter 1 2nd Peter chapter
1 verse 4 you're in James chapter 1 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 4 says whereby are
given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these you
might be partakers of the divine nature haven't escaped the corruption that is
in the world through lust so the Bible tells us that we're given exceeding
great and precious promises that by these we might be partakers of the
divine nature what is he saying he's giving us an optimal environment for us
to succeed in the Christian life to partake of his divine nature and then he
goes on to say verse 5 and beside this giving all diligence add to your faith
virtue and to virtue knowledge so he says look I'm giving you the promises
whereby you can succeed I'm giving you the basics and that what you need to
succeed but you need to put in all diligence and add to your faith don't
think that virtue and knowledge and temperance and brotherly kindness and
all these other virtues are just gonna be added by osmosis it doesn't happen
that way don't think that just because you come to church you're just gonna be
the right kind of husband the right kind of father the right kind of wife the
right time kind of employee it doesn't happen that way you don't have it
doesn't happen by osmosis you need to put the diligence in the in the the
effort into changing your life and applying those principles that you see
in the Word of God look at James chapter 1 and verse 21 wherefore lay apart all
filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness and receive with meekness
the engrafted word which is able to save your souls yeah interesting that it
calls it or excuse me that it says receive with meekness the engrafted word
so the word has already been engrafted within us but even then we still have to
receive it and even then we still have to lay apart all filthiness and
superfluity of naughtiness so it's like well I'm saved that was easy I'm done
now I'm gonna be holy now I'm gonna be righteous now I'm just not gonna desire
to do any of those sins and go party or go do XY and Z you know I'm gonna be
just fine and dandy doesn't work that way look what it goes on and say verse
22 but be doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving your own selves
so who are you who are you deceiving when you hear the word but you're not
doing it you're not deceiving me you're not deceiving your brethren you're
deceiving yourself for if any of you hear of the word and not a doer he is
like into a man beholden his natural face in a glass for he beholded
himself and go with his way and straightway forget it with manner of man
he was but who so looketh into the perfect law of Liberty and continue
with therein he be not a forgetful here but a doer of the work this man shall be
blessed in his deed what is it telling us hey in order for us to live a life
that's pleasing unto him it doesn't happen by osmosis we need to be doers of
the word okay can someone turn on the AC back there please it's getting kind of
warm turn with if you would to Ephesians chapter 5 Ephesians chapter 5 let me go
through some of these points here let me just breeze through some some of these
points we're talking about Christianity by osmosis some things just don't happen
by osmosis it requires our effort fruitful sowing does not happen by
osmosis hey you can be placed on the team at our church and look wouldn't you
say that we try to optimize our church in such a way and structure it and
standardize it in such a way that it makes it makes a conducive you know
environment for you to grow as a soul winner we create teams the leaders train
you they go over verses with you they take you out every single week they help
you with your introductions they help you to answer questions I mean they
try the best they can to try to train to be the best one you can be but you
know what if you don't put in the effort you're not gonna be fruitful doesn't
matter what leader you get well I don't like this leader I'm gonna go with
another leader I don't like this team I'm gonna go with another team well you
know what if you didn't put in the effort in the first team you're
probably not gonna put it in the second one so it's probably nothing the team is
part of you he that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall
doubtless come again with rejoicing bringing his sheaves with him you could
be in a sowing church where many people are getting saved like ours and you're
not gonna be fruitful yourself if you're not putting in the effort to go out and
preach the gospel yourself rewards don't happen by osmosis the Bible says in
Romans 8 16 the spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the
children of God and if children then heirs heirs of God so what when we get
saved we become heirs of God we inherit eternal life right but then it says in
joint heirs with Christ if so be that we suffer with him that we may be also
glorified together so the effort needs to be placed into us suffering for
Christ's sake suffering for his name's sake serving him winning souls putting
in the effort to serve God and then we can earn those rewards those rewards
don't come by osmosis there's gonna be people in the millennial rain that
coming so what I get I went to church I sat down I went to church I'm a
Christian I carried a Bible I went to church and they're not gonna be rewarded
why because the millennial rain is inherited by osmosis as soon as we get
saved we're gonna be in the millennial rain now you know as far as authority is
concerned that's that that's by that's not by osmosis you got to put in the
effort if you want authority in the millennial rain in order for you to be
rewarded at the millennial rain with different authorities and and those
those types of things or even a better resurrection it requires effort on your
part okay how about this a successful marriage does not happen by osmosis okay
and I'm gonna spend my time in these last two points for the remainder of the
sermon we all want a successful marriage okay amen you know we want to be able to
have a marriage where we enjoy our spouse where we can serve God together
and we're on the same page and you know what we win souls together we serve God
together we love the Lord we have a house that serves God and it's it's just
it's it's the vision of every sincere genuine Christian that's what they would
want to have but it doesn't happen by osmosis well I go to a church where they
preach about marriage so that should just take care of it right there right
well I pay the bills she should love me already well I do this for him so he
should already you know care for me and love me and so it should just happen no
it has to happen on purpose in order for us to have a successful marriage a
considerable amount of effort has to be put into that it doesn't happen by
accident it requires the effort of each individual in that marriage to put in
the effort necessary in order to be successful in their marriage and when we
say successful what are we talking about like making lots of money and having all
kinds of toys no successful means this she references him and he loves her and
they both are fulfilling each other's needs emotional needs physical needs
financial needs I mean he's fulfilling his her financial needs you understand
so they're both basically fulfilling their god-given roles for each other and
they're on the same page and look folks a successful marriage can be summed up
in this on this point right here they're both on the same page and that page is
Christ we're not talking about the same page about backsliding it's like are you
done with this church yup me too right let's get out of here like are you done
serving now I'm done I let's get out let's go live a worldly life you know
obviously that's not what I refer to I'm referring to the fact that you're both
serving God together okay and look when I talk about a perfect marriage we're
not talking about a marriage where you guys discuss things loudly or as or as
you know people like the arguing or something you know we're talking about a
successful marriage that even when you argue you're able to apologize and
humble yourselves before one another and say hey I'm sorry I was a jerk you know
and I messed up and and will you please forgive me I forgive you well thank you
you know and you can move on that's a successful marriage or how about this a
successful marriage is when a wife follows her husband I know that's like
taboo in 2020 but you know what the Bible is timeless folks and this is what
the Word of God teaches that the that the man is the head of the household
he's the head of the household and if you're saying he's not the head of the
household then you also have to say that Christ is not the head of the
church because that's what he compares it to look what it says in verse 21
submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God wives this is the live
verse right here amen I'm just kidding submit yourselves into your own husbands
own husbands by the way oh you don't know my husband though well that's why
there's a comma as unto the Lord yeah but my husband doesn't deserve it yeah
but Jesus does so if you have a rotten husband who's just like lazy he's mean
to you he's just you know he's not Abraham well you know what first and
foremost let me just say this and I'm gonna be a little rough right now but
this is reality and this is to teach you young people before you get married make
sure you marry right I'm not preaching against those who have already made the
mistake you know first and foremost you married him or you married her so before
you start complaining about your spouse and how much you don't like your spouse
and they're so this and okay but you chose him you chose her you said I want
to marry this individual be with them for the rest of my life so before you
start bad-mouthing your spouse just remember you chose them you chose her
so when that happens and undoubtedly sometimes it does and this is what you
do wives you submit yourselves unto your husband as unto the Lord you think oh he
doesn't deserve it but you know what the Lord does and therefore I'm gonna love
my husband submit to his needs to what he tells me to do obviously not
overstepping the boundaries of doing something sinful we're talking about
just basic things submit yourselves unto him as unto the Lord and you know what
the Bible says that God will recompense you for that that's successful if you
could get your wife to submit to you without you forcing her to submit woman
Ephesians 5 verse 23 for the husband is the head of the wife there you go even
as Christ is the head of the church and he is the Savior of the body therefore
as the church is subject unto Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands
in everything all right now for the husbands verse 25 husbands love your
wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for how much
should I love my wife well the Bible says as Christ loved the church and
let's just be honest none of us have ever loved our wives as Christ loved the
church because that's an exceeding love and you know what kind of love it is
well think about this there's no perfect church out there and there's churches
including ours where we fall short of God's standard of perfection you know
what God still loves us in spite of our flaws in spite of our shortcomings and
when we fail him when we stumble or we don't do things the way he wants us to
he gives us a second chance and when we come to him and ask him to forgive us
and we repent you know what God does he forgives us so what's that a picture of
well when your wife falls short of your standard of perfection you forgive her
for that right you know blow up in her face and and you know be bitter against
her that's what the Bible literally says be not bitter against your wives love
her forgive her care for her nourish her you know she is the weaker vessel and so
they're gonna make emotional mistakes or have emotional times in their life where
they're just off-kilter and you know what you can't say hey don't don't act
like that don't do that around okay you're not allowed to do that or hey
maybe they might say something to you that's maybe semi disrespectful and you
know if they come to you and say I'm really sorry for doing that no sales I
don't know you said I was fat I thought you'd like my chunkiness you know it's
just like you just get offended what you need to do is just say this I forgive
you and I love you and let's just move on that's what Jesus does to us but look
it all starts I mean there's a reason why God addressed the women first wives
submit yourselves unto your husbands and then men love your wives even as Christ
also loved the church this is a successful marriage right here when you
both can fulfill your god-given roles and look a lot of reasons why women
sometimes don't want to submit to their husbands because they think they know
more than him well I know better than him he's not very wise he doesn't he's
gonna make a mistake he's gonna be okay then let him make the mistake and let
God deal with him let me say this if you usurp his authority to do something a
better way God will chastise your marriage because of that but you know
what God will often do when when the man makes a mistake he will still bless your
marriage because of it because of the fact that you submitted unto his will
we're not again we're not talking about sinful things I'm a basic things that
happen in life well you know my husband wanted to do this and and go here or do
this and that and and he made a huge mistake yeah but you know what as long
as you submit to him God can bless your life God cannot bless your life if you
usurp your husband's authority even if you're right stepping on toes tonight it
says verse 26 that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by
the word the him I presented to himself a glorious church not having spot or
wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish so I
meant to love their wives as their own bodies he that loveth his wife loveth
himself so think about this he said do I love my wife well I mean do you love
yourself you feed yourself you clothe yourself you need to treat your wife the
way you would treat yourself the way you pamper yourself is how you ought to
pamper your wife right so what's the lesson there hey mayor a good marriage
doesn't happen by osmosis it requires the effort of both parties to put into
considerable effort in order to have a successful marriage okay go to go to
Proverbs chapter 13 if you would promise up to 13
I will say this is that you know men if you have a propensity to be not very
strong in your leadership and your wife has the tendency to be maybe a little
more stronger than area then I would strongly recommend for the man to man up
a little more and to learn leadership you can't say well you know my parents
were like this though my dad was like this and that's why I'm like this okay
then change yeah you got that by osmosis I get it but change that throw yourself
into a different jar which is the Bible I make a pickle out of yourself and stop
acting like a cucumber you know you need to be different because as husbands we
don't have we have the responsibility to be strong leaders for our wives and you
know you might have a wife who's a little strong-willed and there's nothing
wrong with that there's nothing wrong with having a wife who strong-willed as
long as you're a little stronger let me say well you know I'm just a little shy
okay then she's gonna walk all over you for the rest of your life you're not
gonna be able to make the proper decisions godly decisions to do what God
wants you to do what God wants your family to do because your wife walks all
over you you need a man up learn some leadership skills and look this doesn't
mean be mean to your wife you need to listen to me you need to submit to me no
you need to be a good leader a leader that inspires her to follow you right
you don't want to force someone to follow you you want people to be
inspired and want to follow okay and here's my last point we're talking about
osmosis Christianity by osmosis some things happen without our effort as soon
as we get saved we're in the body of Christ we get certain things
automatically but other things do not what is the last thing godly children
does not happen by osmosis okay well I mean this is a family integrated church
though no nurseries no Sunday school class therefore we should be able to
produce great children just letting them run amok in the church wrong wrong wrong
wrong wrong it's a fallacy why I go to a family integrated church therefore my
children will automatically love the Lord be obedient be godly this is wrong
because child rearing does not happen by osmosis okay let me read to you from
Deuteronomy 6 verse 5 it says thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart
with all thy soul with all thy might and these words which I commanded this day
shall be in thine heart and thou shalt teach them diligently into thy children
and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by
the way and when thou lies down and when thou risest up now I'm not speaking from
experience because I have little ones still so where am I speaking from what
I'm speaking from first and foremost the knowledge of God's Word but I'm also
speaking from the example of men who did raise godly children and succeeded at
doing that because they follow these specific principles and therefore they
produce godly children and they'll tell you it wasn't by accident it wasn't by
osmosis a considerable amount of effort needs to be placed into training
children in order for them to be godly okay it will not happen by accident now
if I were to break down what are the three major things that are needed to
raise godly children obviously there's many in the Bible right but if we're if
I were to categorize them into three categories I would say this number one
you need to love your children and by loving your children I mean showing them
affection attention and time right that's loving your children you know
being genuine around them loving them with affection attention and time number
two is being a good example so in order for us to raise godly children we need
to love them but we also need to exemplify the type of adults that we
want them to be right we need to be what we want to produce because everything
brings forth after its own kind and here's number three let me just say this
if this is not implemented doesn't matter how much you do the first and the
second you will not produce godly children what is it discipline
disciplining your children is necessary in order to produce godly children now
what do I mean by that well obviously I mean structure a disciplined household
but more than that I mean chastisement I mean physically punishing your children
and chastising them when they do wrong right and look you could love your
children all you want and do all those things and exemplify and all this but if
you do not discipline your children you will not produce godly children and I
need to talk to the church tonight about this okay and we're gonna we're gonna
get personal tonight okay listen to me folks I love our church and I love our
church family but you have to understand something you me we need to make sure we
are on top of disciplining our children thank God for a family integrated church
thank God for all the children we have in our church and everything and look
I'm what I'm not saying is this our children need to be perfect that's not
true I don't require that God doesn't require that you shouldn't require that
because there are no such thing as perfect anything but let me say this
foolishness is bound in the heart of a child is it not you can turn off the AC
brother brother Glenn his French is about to get frostbite right now
endure
we need to chastise our children folks and look just because you're in a church
that teaches you how to raise your children and it's family integrated
doesn't mean you're gonna produce children by osmosis that love the Lord
you need to make sure you discipline your children and you know what we don't
need in our church is this philosophy that oh well I'll just I'll negotiate
with them oh I'll give them a timeout I'll make them apologize to that
individual or whatever that doesn't work and look we can prove this scripturally
look at Proverbs 13 verse 4 he that spareth is rod hated his son so look if
you say well I love my son I love my daughter hold on a second but you're not
disciplining them then according to the Bible you actually hate them I mean is
God lying he hated his son but he that loveth him chasteneth him be times the
Bible says look at the Proverbs 19 Proverbs chapter 19 Proverbs chapter 19
verse 18 says chasing thy son while there is hope and let not thy soul spare
for his crying so what is the Bible telling us there's gonna come a time
when there's no longer hope for your child when they grow up if you don't
chastise them so if you don't chastise your children while they're young
there's gonna come a point where they reach a certain age where they start
giving you that look and it's basically like too late you can no longer chastise
them they either leave your home they become just a complete rebel and you
know what the Bible says chastise him or her while there is hope oh but you know
it just kills me when they cry let not thy soul spare for his crying let not
thy soul spare for his crying this doesn't mean be unmerciful it means
discipline them and have strong character and the strong leadership and
the love for your child to chastise them and say look this is gonna actually hurt
me more than it hurts you it's not pleasant to spank your children we love
our kids it's not pleasant at all but you know what if we don't want them to
be to grow up to be these wicked people like you see on the streets these wicked
individuals who don't respect authority they disrespect their elders they're
they're walking around with their skinny jeans and their faggoty clothing or the
women who look like hoochie mamas if you don't want to produce that then take
care of it now the prison system is filled with people children who were not
spanked when there were kids folks you know why I'm not involved in gangs you
know why I'm not some sort of drug abuser you know why I'm not addicted to
coke or heroin and involved in all kinds of manner of evil because my mom whooped
my behind that's why consistently she did more than just whooped my behind she
whooped me all over the place and look that's not good obviously you the Bible
specifically you know God specifically has made an area for a child to be
spanked in that's the rear end you know we don't abuse your children don't smack
them across the mouth or do all that that's that's bad that's wicked okay you
need to be able to control yourself but look you know what with my mom I'm glad
she did all that it saved me from a world of hurt and it caused me to fear
her and you know what it caused me to fear God and that's why I got saved
look what it says in Proverbs 23 go to Proverbs 23 Proverbs chapter 23 verse 13
it says withhold not correction from the child for if thou beatest him with the
rod he shall not die oh you're gonna damage the child not if you do it in the
behind thou shalt beat him with the rod and look what it says and shall deliver
his soul from hell now this isn't saying beat the hell out of your kids it's just
saying that you kind of do kind of beat the hell out of them in other words they
grow up recognizing the actions have consequences chastising children teaches
them the actions have consequences when they grow up and they get they're given
the gospel they're told about the wages of sin they're like I know this because
I'm always get spanked when I did wrong right and so it makes the heart fertile
to receive salvation when they're older okay
God doesn't expect perfect children because foolishness is bound in the
heart of a child but let me say this he expects parents to restrain their
children who behave foolishly and let me just say this folks look there's
children in our church that act very malicious towards other children and you
know what it's not their fault let me just say this it's your fault parents
and you need to deal with that and let me say this I'm tired of making these
announcements every single Sunday every single Thursday telling you to control
your kids and it's gonna get to a point folks where it's gonna happen again and
you know what I'm gonna do I'm just gonna openly rebuke you before the
entire church okay because there's it's been happening multiple times when
there's children who are literally malicious towards other children the
child or the mom goes to that parent and says hey your child did this and they're
like oh apologize or come over here that's not the way to deal with it folks
and look if my son does something malicious towards your child come tell
my wife or come tell me and we'll deal with it immediately and when I say deal
with that I'm saying he's getting a spank and he knows he's getting a spank
it's not because I hate him it's not because I'm trying to overcompensate
it's because of the fact that the Bible commands it I don't want my son to grow
up to be some malicious person and he needs to learn that being behaving
maliciously requires discipline being malicious requires a parent to teach them
don't behave that way you're getting a spank I know it's getting a little
serious tonight but I need to talk about this let me say this if it happens again
listen up parents if it happens again I'm not gonna preach about it again I'm
just gonna openly rebuke you in front of the whole church because we got we
have a lot of like fellowship before and after and look and if you have the type
of children that's just like they just can't hang you know they can't handle
all the fellowship they just are too crazy you know what it is it's time to
go home and put them to bed okay if they can't handle it if they if they're doing
WWE style ECW and throwing chairs and hitting children it's time to go home
and spank them don't get quiet on me now
folks and I'm not saying this from a heart that just I'm not I'm not angry
towards you I'm not upset at the church family but I'm trying to correct this
before it gets out of hand because I've had multiple parents come to me and say
they're not doing anything about this so look this is what you need to do
parents who have your children beam who have other children that are being
malicious towards them you either need to go tell the dad by the way go tell
the father and let me say this if my wife is not doing anything about
chastising my son then come to me I will do something about it no I'll do
something about myself about my wife obviously that's not gonna happen but
what I'm saying is this at the end of the day we're the ones responsible here
right so our family is a reflection of who we are now look I'm not saying that
you're as malicious as your kids but I'm saying is this is that if your children
are not being disciplined you're not correcting it multiple parents are
saying you're not dealing with this and look we all know as parents that it's
not the kids fault it's not their fault they're behaving in a manner in which
their parents have allowed them to behave folks look when you go to the
grocery store and there's some kid throwing himself on the floor because he
wants a candy bar he's just like that's not the kids fault when I go to the
store and I see that you know why I look at the parent oh my dude you're wicked
you must hate your child to let him to get to that point folks I remember being
a little kid and if I ever even like misbehaved in public my mom would just
kind of give me the pinch and it's called a reminder you know what we knew
I'm stopping right there because the next one's not gonna be a pinch once we
get in that car I'm done and I remember being a little kid seeing kids do that
I'm like wow that kid's not getting spanked if I did that my mom would kill
me I'd be dead or if I did that that'll be the last time I ever did that parents
you need to discipline and chastise your children and let me just give you some
practical advice here okay because look my son is gonna sock your son too okay
and when that happens come to me my wife and we'll take care of it but look this
is what I don't want want my wife to do my son comes and just drop-kick some
other kid and the parent is evidently upset because my son just just did a
sidekick and knock your kid down and then the parent comes to you concern
because of the fact that my son did this and she comes he or she comes to my wife
and says hey your son did this and my wife just says hey don't do that that's
not correct in the issue or hey come over here and just stand over here
that's not correct in the issue I'm sorry we have to get this elementary but
I have to get this elementary this is what you do there's a podcast room right
there you're free to use it that's that's our woodshed and you chastise
the child and let me just say this US parents will lose the respect of your
brothers and sisters in Christ if you're not disciplining your children you will
lose credibility you will lose the respect and in fact let me just say this
people will become bitter towards you because you're not correcting the
problem you do not want that to happen and I'm hoping that it doesn't happen
again now again I'm not saying I'm the kids are gonna fight they're gonna do
things and you know mess everything up and throw chairs at each other and all
these things when I'm that's not the problem the problem is this you doing
something about it when it happens and don't just turn a blind eye to it or
look I was even told that there's times when the child would do something and
the parent is just staring at him the whole time as they're doing it folks
that's wrong do something about it okay sorry I gotta get awkward but I mean
gotta do what I got to do for your sake too for my sake for your sake and let me
just say I have no ill will towards any parent in our church I love every single
individual in this church I love your children I want you guys to succeed but
I will bring down the hammer publicly if it ever comes up again in love
Proverbs 17 25 says a foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to
him that bear him go to 1st Samuel chapter 3 and that's we'll finish here
1st Samuel chapter 3 your children are not gonna be good by osmosis okay now
look I think I said this the other day you know the kids were like in the in
the mother and you got WWF all over you know everyone's just throwing things
around and my son was there and look I'm not we should obviously be merciful to
our kids and not just flip out on them for every little thing that they do they
obviously need warning sometimes they just don't know okay and if something
is just being kids you understand but my son he was doing something and there's
a lot of kids in there and they're all doing something and I'm not gonna
correct your kids okay so what I did is I vicariously corrected your kids
through my son and I was just like rebuking my son and obviously he's
afraid because he knows he's about to get a spank but then all the other kids
are like they're like helping put this stuff back and everything but you know
that could only go so far you need to do something about it okay and let me say
this parents let me just tell the whole thing okay don't let your children
disrespect you in public like this what I mean by that is like hey if you have a
child like if my son you know let's give an example let's say my son I tell him
to do something he's just like
that's I mean do it need I say more do I neither use my mom as an example when
they give the evil eye and look the Bible specifically tells us in Proverbs
30 verse 11 there is a generation that cursed their father and doth not bless
their mother there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes and yet is
not washed from their filthiness there is a generation oh how lofty are their
eyes and their eyelids are lifted there is a generation whose teeth are as
swords and their jaw teeth as knives to devour the poor from off the earth and
needy from among men verse number 17 the eye that mocketh at his father and
despise it to obey his mother the ravens of the valley shall pick it out
and the young eagle shall eat it so this it was that really happened I don't want
to find out I'm just gonna believe it you should not have children who mock
you right you should not have children who openly mock you or another adult in
our church right if a child ever mocks and I'll give you an example my son was
in the office with me and I don't know if Marcos or someone I don't remember
who it was he imitated one of the guys in there and the guys thought it was
funny not dad he got a whooping and we told them we do not mock adults we do
not mock adults that's disrespectful you need to teach your children not to
mock adults and especially not mock you to give you the evil eye what is that
come on folks let's wake up when the children begin to mock their father and
despise to obey their mother that's a huge problem and it needs to be taken
care of swiftly do it be times early in life so they don't become a grief to you
later on and look if they're already becoming a grief now the worst is yet to
come look at first Samuel chapter 3 in verse 10 and the Lord came and stood and
called as at other times Samuel Samuel then Samuel answers speak for thy
servant heareth so what's going on here God is speaking to Samuel Samuel is
about to be a prophet of the Lord a judge of Israel he's about to replace
Eli okay and God is coming to Samuel to explain to Samuel the judgment that he's
gonna bring upon Eli which is another prophet by the way I mean Sam is a young
man at this time so it kind of shows you that God like is revealing this stuff to
you like a young child and the Lord said to Samuel behold I would do a thing
in Israel I which both the ears of everyone that heareth it shall tingle
you ever hear something so bad it's like that's what he's saying in that day I
will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house
when I begin I will also make an end for I have told him that I would judge his
house forever for the iniquity which he knoweth so is this something that Eli
was ignorant of I was says that he knew about this look what it says because his
sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not he said you know I'm
I'm really mad at Eli is because his sons made themselves vile and he didn't
discipline them he didn't restrain them he didn't stop them and look Eli's sons
were sons of Belial they're already adults there are reprobates but that
started somewhere that started when there were children and he did not
restrain them when there were children and therefore I have sworn into sworn
into the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with
sacrifice nor offering forever now obviously this is an extreme case but
let me say this we all need to restrain our children now look please don't go
overboard on this too don't take my commandment or my preaching and just
completely go over the top and then like the rest of the night tonight you're
just smacking your children all over the place and spanking them and just trying
to overcompensate I don't expect that from you God doesn't expect that for me
and look if you overcompensate is just showing you you're not doing it enough
at home okay and don't think that your children are not gonna misbehave after
church tonight because they are my kids are your kids are it's part of the
training that when they do it we restrain them we restrain them we spank
them we discipline them because we love them okay but let me just finish on this
I'm done I'm closing the Bible and putting my notes in here we're done let
me just say this is that if it happens again I will bring the hammer down
publicly and I'm not referring from the pulpit I'm talking about I will openly
rebuke you before the church in an open setting because you're not taking care
of it and this doesn't mean I'm angry you doesn't mean I'm upset at you doesn't
mean that I hate you it doesn't mean I have you know ill ill will towards you
it means that as the as the bishop of this church as the overseer of this
church I need to make sure that I take care of this because of the fact that
now it's it's commonly reported amongst various people that this is taking place
take care of it because it doesn't happen by osmosis
amen inspire heads on our board of prayer father we thank you so much for
your word for the engrafted word help us to continue to receive it and I pray
that all of us receive the teaching that we heard tonight and not just think that
this is for someone else may we all take heed to the instructions tonight Lord
and God we all fall short I know I fall short as a parent I fall short as a
husband and I make mistakes Lord and but Lord I want to be able to have a track
record where I am loving my children and spending time with them and training them
loving them chastising them when needed and obviously the chastisement is is
doesn't play a major role but it played it does play an important aspect of the
of the training of a child when you do other things with them but one of the
most important things is that we need to chastise them help us not to help us to
reject this fallacy that some of these things just happen by osmosis we need to
recognize that we need to put in the effort in order to make these changes in
our lives we love you so much Lord and we thank you pray these things in Jesus
name amen
please turn to your song books to song number 425