WEBVTT 00:00.300 --> 00:00.800 Amen. 00:01.300 --> 00:06.140 Okay, we're in Ecclesiastes chapter 7 look down at your Bibles in verse 16 00:06.140 --> 00:10.220 It says be not righteous over much neither make thyself over wise 00:10.700 --> 00:14.660 Why shouldest thou destroy thyself? And the title of my sermon this evening is 00:15.420 --> 00:21.220 Christians who go overboard Christians who go overboard here in Ecclesiastes chapter 7 00:21.500 --> 00:25.660 The preacher says be not righteous over much don't make yourself 00:26.220 --> 00:29.300 over wise and the result of this of course is that you 00:29.300 --> 00:32.940 would destroy yourself. Now what is this referring to? It's referring to the fact 00:32.940 --> 00:37.740 that obviously this is discouraging people from living a righteous life or 00:37.740 --> 00:42.380 augmenting righteousness in one's personal life, growing in holiness, 00:42.380 --> 00:46.860 becoming a better Christian over a long period of time. When the Bible says be 00:46.860 --> 00:50.980 not righteous over much, it's essentially saying don't bite off more than you can 00:50.980 --> 00:56.580 chew, right? Don't go overboard, don't try to overcompensate, don't try to overdo it 00:56.580 --> 00:57.300 because it very 00:57.300 --> 01:03.400 if you do end up going overboard if you kind of overcompensate you're gonna end up being a 01:03.540 --> 01:08.700 Hypocrite you're gonna do more than what's expected and people are gonna snip out that you're being a fake in a phony 01:08.700 --> 01:15.220 Okay, and I think of this particular part right here in the Bible that says not to make ourselves over wise now 01:16.260 --> 01:19.460 Obviously we cannot accumulate wisdom in a short period of time 01:19.900 --> 01:24.300 So how is it that someone can make themselves over wise in a short period of time? 01:24.300 --> 01:27.100 Well how about they just talk about things that they don't really understand? 01:27.400 --> 01:33.260 How about they try to make themselves seem smarter and more knowledgeable than what they really are, right? 01:33.260 --> 01:38.620 So a person who's making themselves over wise is often the individual who's constantly talking about 01:39.280 --> 01:43.840 wisdom and knowledge and what happens is you know in a multitude of words 01:44.060 --> 01:48.820 Their wants if not sin the more you talk the more likely it is that you're gonna say something wrong 01:49.040 --> 01:53.740 The more you talk the more likely it is that people are gonna realize this person has no idea what they're talking about 01:53.940 --> 01:55.400 They're making themselves 01:55.400 --> 02:01.720 over wise, they're making themselves over righteous, they seem to be going overboard, 02:01.720 --> 02:06.920 overcompensating, doing a little too much, being a little extra when it comes to being 02:06.920 --> 02:08.200 righteous and being wise. 02:08.200 --> 02:11.360 And look folks, at the end of the day, the Christian life is a marathon. 02:12.000 --> 02:13.520 It's not a sprint. 02:13.520 --> 02:15.200 We don't have to, we're not racing one another. 02:15.200 --> 02:16.200 What are we doing? 02:16.200 --> 02:19.280 We're simply trying to finish the course that God has set before us. 02:19.280 --> 02:20.280 And you know what? 02:20.280 --> 02:23.520 If you are a new Christian, meaning you've gotten saved within the last six months to 02:23.520 --> 02:28.320 a year, even within the last five years, it's important for you to recognize that the goal 02:28.320 --> 02:32.600 is not to be as righteous as much as possible in a short period of time. 02:32.600 --> 02:38.000 You know, give yourself some grace, give yourself enough time, pace yourself in the Christian 02:38.000 --> 02:39.000 life. 02:39.000 --> 02:40.000 Grow as much as you can. 02:40.000 --> 02:46.920 But don't bite off more than you can chew because if you do number one you might get discouraged because you're gonna realize you can't accomplish 02:46.920 --> 02:52.920 That much but or number two in your endeavor to look righteous and your endeavor to sound wise 02:53.080 --> 02:56.920 You're gonna do something that's gonna cause others to realize that you're a complete idiot 02:57.200 --> 03:01.720 Okay, you don't know what you're talking about and you're not as righteous as you portray yourself to be 03:01.720 --> 03:06.240 Let me also say this is that you know when you go over when Christians go overboard 03:07.000 --> 03:10.840 To the untrained eye, it can be viewed as zealous behavior. 03:10.840 --> 03:12.760 You know, when someone goes overboard, 03:12.760 --> 03:15.960 they're going over the top, they're doing a lot. 03:15.960 --> 03:17.560 To the untrained eye, it's like, wow, this person 03:17.560 --> 03:18.960 is just really devoted. 03:18.960 --> 03:21.640 This person is extremely passionate. 03:21.640 --> 03:23.040 They're very zealous. 03:23.040 --> 03:25.040 But at the end of the day, the underlying motive 03:25.040 --> 03:27.720 is that they're overcompensating for their lack 03:27.720 --> 03:29.200 in a particular area. 03:29.200 --> 03:31.480 And I will say that babes in Christ are often 03:31.480 --> 03:32.800 the ones guilty of this. 03:32.800 --> 03:34.960 And I would say even for myself, when I first got sick, 03:35.000 --> 03:42.280 I went over the top I went overboard and I think that's just like a common thing for those who are newly saved 03:42.440 --> 03:47.200 They're excited about the things of God. They're zealously affected in a good way 03:47.380 --> 03:53.000 But because they have a zeal without knowledge they can often delve into nonsensical things 03:53.680 --> 03:59.660 Nonsensical behavior and they have to grow out of that and so, you know, obviously we want to be gracious with novices 03:59.660 --> 04:03.000 We want to be gracious with babes in Christ. Let me say this if you're a baby 04:03.000 --> 04:05.600 Christ the goal should be to grow out of that. 04:06.100 --> 04:12.100 The goal should be that you grow in grace and in the knowledge, 04:12.100 --> 04:15.460 that you become a mature person, a humble person, 04:15.460 --> 04:19.460 and you recognize, you know what, I'm doing a little too much, 04:19.460 --> 04:23.540 I'm seeming to overcompensate here, I'm going overboard, 04:23.540 --> 04:28.180 and so I need to pace myself and grow mature in my faith. 04:28.180 --> 04:33.700 Don't be hasty in your judgments, be hasty in your growth, just pace yourself. 04:33.700 --> 04:34.100 Okay. 04:34.100 --> 04:37.860 You know on a practical level that we could talk about this is you know when it comes to Bible reading 04:38.260 --> 04:42.820 Sometimes people are like man. I love the Bible so much. I'm just gonna try to read like four times this year 04:43.540 --> 04:45.540 And then we even get through once 04:45.800 --> 04:48.840 You're going overboard. You're biting off more than you can chew. 04:48.840 --> 04:54.360 Just pace yourself. How about reading through the Bible once every year for the next five years? 04:54.360 --> 04:59.800 What's wrong with that? Right? Like, oh man, you know, I'm going to memorize so much scripture. 04:59.800 --> 05:05.720 Why don't you just start with a small portion of scripture. Get it down packed as best as you can. 05:05.720 --> 05:10.520 You have a lifetime to grow in your faith. You have a lifetime to accumulate knowledge, 05:10.520 --> 05:13.640 to memorize scripture, to read the word of God. Like, man, 05:13.800 --> 05:19.020 I want to accumulate so many salvations. Well, you want to make sure that you know as a soul winner 05:19.100 --> 05:21.940 You don't become sloppy in your gospel presentation either 05:22.940 --> 05:27.140 And this is something that I've seen for example in the old IFB 05:27.580 --> 05:33.400 Where soul winning becomes somewhat of a competition to a degree that they actually become very 05:33.780 --> 05:41.000 Sloppy in their presentation to the point where a phrase was coined for them known as one two three pray after me 05:41.400 --> 05:46.740 These churches, they literally are just not thorough in their gospel presentation. 05:46.740 --> 05:50.940 They are super sloppy, but they're just trying to get people to just pray just so they can 05:50.940 --> 05:51.940 count them. 05:51.940 --> 05:53.760 Look, folks, we care about numbers. 05:53.760 --> 05:55.380 I care about numbers. 05:55.380 --> 05:58.100 I care a lot about numbers because a number is a soul. 05:58.100 --> 05:58.460 Amen. 05:59.800 --> 06:02.200 But not at the exclusion of being thorough. 06:02.200 --> 06:03.200 Okay? 06:03.200 --> 06:05.800 Make sure that you're thorough in your Gospel presentation. 06:05.800 --> 06:10.500 Make sure that in your zeal, you're not just cutting corners 06:10.500 --> 06:12.800 just to make it look like in front of everyone else 06:12.800 --> 06:15.800 that you're some sort of great soul winner, some great Christian. 06:15.800 --> 06:16.500 Okay? 06:16.500 --> 06:18.300 Pace yourself in the Christian life. 06:18.300 --> 06:21.200 Don't be a Christian who goes overboard. 06:21.200 --> 06:22.700 Go to Judges chapter 21. 06:22.700 --> 06:24.300 Judges chapter 21, if you would. 06:24.300 --> 06:27.500 Let me read again from Ecclesiastes 7, verse 16 again, says, 06:27.500 --> 06:27.800 B. 06:27.800 --> 06:35.720 Not righteous over much neither make thyself over wise why shouldst thou destroy thyself it goes on to say be not over much 06:35.800 --> 06:41.960 Wicked neither be thou foolish. Why shouldest thou die before that time now don't misunderstand what the Bible saying here 06:42.200 --> 06:47.400 When it says, you know, in verse 17, be not over much wicked, God's not saying, hey, you 06:47.400 --> 06:51.320 could be a little wicked, you know, a little fornication never hurt anybody, you know, 06:51.320 --> 06:56.440 a little drunkenness here and there, a little, little railings, not bad. When it says be not 06:56.440 --> 07:00.840 wicked over much, God is basically being gracious with us, recognizing that we're not perfect. 07:01.500 --> 07:08.720 So obviously we're not perfect. We're gonna make mistakes, but just because we're imperfect doesn't mean we should just go all in into 07:09.620 --> 07:15.520 Imperfection right just give in to our lust our desires. Oh, yeah, I just do that because I'm just a sinner 07:15.520 --> 07:19.020 I'm just imperfect. That's just what I do. That's just how I talk. That's just how I behave 07:19.020 --> 07:21.500 I just you know I'm just I just smoke weed 07:22.020 --> 07:27.440 That's what I do. You know I just drink alcohol. No be not over much wicked either though 07:28.500 --> 07:31.060 The Bible is telling us here is to be to have moderation 07:31.380 --> 07:38.280 Okay to have a balanced life and obviously on the spectrum of righteousness and wickedness 07:38.820 --> 07:41.800 We should lean more towards righteous every single day, right? 07:42.400 --> 07:46.400 We're never going to reach the very end of righteousness until the redemption of our bodies 07:46.400 --> 07:49.280 but it should be that we're moving in that direction though. 07:49.280 --> 07:54.000 It should be that we lean more towards being a righteous person than being a wicked person. 07:54.800 --> 07:57.360 The title of the sermon is Christians Who Go Overboard. 07:57.360 --> 08:03.200 Number one, let me start off by saying is that Christians go overboard to compensate for past 08:03.200 --> 08:09.920 failures. Often Christians will go overboard, they will overdo it, they just kind of go all out. 08:10.400 --> 08:13.380 only because of the fact that they failed in the past, 08:13.380 --> 08:16.460 so they feel like they have to put in as much effort 08:16.460 --> 08:18.200 in order to portray to others 08:18.200 --> 08:20.920 that they're a super righteous individual, okay? 08:20.920 --> 08:22.640 Now you're in Judges chapter 21. 08:22.640 --> 08:25.520 Before we read here, let me just give you a synopsis 08:25.520 --> 08:27.260 of this particular story, okay? 08:28.000 --> 08:32.960 Keep in mind that the book of Judges is during a really dark time in the nation of Israel. 08:32.960 --> 08:33.960 Okay? 08:33.960 --> 08:37.600 You know, this is during a time, the system of the Judges, where every man is doing that 08:37.600 --> 08:39.640 which is right in their own eyes. 08:40.300 --> 08:44.300 They don't have a magistrate, they don't have a king to put them to shame. 08:44.300 --> 08:48.800 They don't, you know, the system of kings is not instituted as of yet. 08:48.800 --> 08:52.300 You have judges that are essentially delivering the children of Israel 08:52.300 --> 08:56.800 when they fall under oppression of a foreign army because of their disobedience to God. 08:56.800 --> 09:03.800 Okay? But in general, you don't really have people ruling over them, kind of telling them what to do. 09:04.000 --> 09:11.560 Other than the judges themselves when they get away from God they get involved in sin the judge comes and judges them 09:12.020 --> 09:17.340 Delivers them somewhat as a general and then the cycle continues. Okay, so during this particular time 09:17.340 --> 09:21.020 We could say that they're under a theocracy still if you remember 09:21.340 --> 09:24.160 During the wilderness the children of Israel are under a theocracy 09:24.260 --> 09:28.800 God is their King where they're still in that transitional period during the book of judges 09:29.500 --> 09:33.980 It's good and it's bad because you know it's good because God is our King. It's bad because they don't listen 09:35.100 --> 09:39.780 So now they're just doing that which is right in their own eyes. They're not obeying the laws of the Lord 09:39.820 --> 09:42.180 They're not instituting punishments for wrongdoing 09:42.740 --> 09:46.940 They're not carrying out the laws of God and so what do you have taking place in the nation of Israel? 09:47.620 --> 09:54.500 Idolatry you have a lot of idolatry taking place and when you look at what happens when you allow 09:55.380 --> 09:57.100 idolatry into a nation 09:57.200 --> 10:02.760 Just unfettered idolatry without any correction whatsoever. It eventually leads to reprobation 10:03.360 --> 10:07.800 You read that progression in Romans chapter 1 you find that people become 10:08.240 --> 10:11.320 Idolaters and then God gives them over to a reprobate mind 10:11.320 --> 10:19.300 So what happens is the result of idolatry is that they become dark in their hearts become dark in they begin to reject God and 10:19.720 --> 10:22.640 Ultimately sodomy is introduced into the picture 10:23.400 --> 10:26.840 So by the time we get to Judges chapter 19, what do you have? 10:26.840 --> 10:35.240 You have the story of those of Gibeah, those of Benjamin, who are sodomites, they're sons of Belial. 10:35.240 --> 10:37.440 And it's a horrific story, right? 10:37.440 --> 10:42.600 Judges 19 is basically what you have taking place in Genesis 19, 10:42.600 --> 10:48.480 where, you know, you have these sons of Belial, these sodomites, these homosexuals. 10:48.800 --> 10:53.800 who are seeking to rape a man who's visiting their town 10:53.800 --> 10:56.800 and instead of raping the man they take his concubine 10:56.800 --> 11:01.700 they abuse her all the night and they essentially kill her, okay? 11:02.700 --> 11:05.140 Well, you know, the guy, because he loves her so much, 11:05.140 --> 11:06.980 he sees her in the morning, he's like, up, get up, 11:06.980 --> 11:08.420 let's get going or something. 11:08.420 --> 11:10.460 Obviously he doesn't care for his concubine. 11:10.460 --> 11:13.300 But he realizes that she's dead, and he ends up 11:13.300 --> 11:16.780 desecrating her body, severing it to pieces, 11:16.780 --> 11:19.780 and sending it to the 12 tribes of Israel. 11:19.780 --> 11:21.540 Really weird, weird story. 11:21.540 --> 11:22.900 OK? 11:22.900 --> 11:26.020 He sends it off, and then the 12 tribes are looking at this 11:26.020 --> 11:28.820 and like, this is crazy, right? 11:29.200 --> 11:32.480 And obviously, you would think that once you get that letter, 11:32.480 --> 11:34.280 you're just like, well, first of all, OK, 11:34.280 --> 11:36.600 I know this is communicating that there's 11:36.600 --> 11:40.280 sodomites in the land, but can we just acknowledge the fact 11:40.280 --> 11:43.440 that I just got a leg in the mail? 11:43.440 --> 11:45.360 I just got a hand in the mail here. 11:45.360 --> 11:47.600 You say, why aren't they making a big deal about that? 11:47.600 --> 11:49.400 Because every man is doing that which is right 11:49.400 --> 11:50.400 in their own eyes. 11:50.400 --> 11:53.540 The moral compass of the nation has been removed, so to speak. 11:53.540 --> 11:55.840 There's no magistrate to put them to shame. 11:55.840 --> 11:56.340 OK? 11:57.300 --> 12:12.300 So this major crime has taken place in Israel of sodomy, of just murder, and you know, they have a major problem because now they have one of the twelve tribes who's involved in these abominations and in these murders. 12:13.300 --> 12:23.300 Now in Genesis 19, Gatza cared for it himself, right? He sent down fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah and completely destroyed those cities, right? 12:24.300 --> 12:37.700 And why is that? Well, because in Genesis chapter 19, the nation of Israel had not been established as a nation with the functioning government that can enact these laws of the death penalty on those who commit capital crimes. 12:38.100 --> 12:40.940 So God's the one who's kind of taking care of business right there. 12:40.940 --> 12:45.860 Right. But by the time we get to Judges 19, you know, God has already given the laws. 12:46.020 --> 12:51.980 He has deputized his people to carry out the death penalty to make sure this doesn't happen again. 12:52.600 --> 12:59.000 Well, if we have the story of Judges 19, a repeat of Genesis 19, what does that tell us? 12:59.000 --> 13:02.280 It tells us that they weren't taking care of business. They failed! 13:03.480 --> 13:11.800 They failed, right? So they failed to discipline the nation, they failed to discipline the tribe, 13:12.440 --> 13:16.440 they failed, and look folks, it's not like these sons of Belial just came out of nowhere. 13:17.320 --> 13:19.080 And I don't believe for a second. 13:19.600 --> 13:26.600 that nobody in the nation of Israel, nobody knew that these people were sodomites, they're reprobates, they're sons of Belial. 13:26.600 --> 13:29.100 Because idolatry is all over the land. 13:29.100 --> 13:30.100 Understand? 13:30.100 --> 13:33.100 What's happening here is they're turning a blind eye to this. 13:33.500 --> 13:36.900 It's not until it gets to this particular point, 13:36.900 --> 13:39.740 where someone is brutally raped or murdered, 13:39.740 --> 13:42.340 then they actually want to do something about it. 13:42.340 --> 13:44.580 So they band together, the 12 tribes, 13:44.580 --> 13:47.540 against the tribe of Benjamin, more specifically, 13:47.540 --> 13:51.220 against Gibeah, to essentially put the Sodomites to death. 13:51.800 --> 13:55.320 Well, the sodomites shellacked them, unfortunately. 13:55.320 --> 13:58.040 They destroyed them like three times, or two times, 13:58.040 --> 14:01.000 and then on a third time, they actually succeed against them, 14:01.000 --> 14:03.640 and they actually end up destroying the sons of Belial 14:03.640 --> 14:05.000 the sodomites. 14:05.500 --> 14:08.380 And you know we're like, well praise God, you know, that's great. 14:08.380 --> 14:10.380 You know they were able to execute justice. 14:10.380 --> 14:12.740 These people were destroyed for their crimes. 14:12.740 --> 14:15.380 And now we could just move on as a nation. 14:15.380 --> 14:18.860 But look what Judges chapter 21 talks about here. 14:18.860 --> 14:19.780 In verse 1 it says, 14:26.900 --> 14:31.220 And the people came to the house of God and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their 14:31.220 --> 14:36.820 voices and wept sore, and said, O Lord God of Israel, why has this come to pass in Israel, 14:36.820 --> 14:40.980 that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel? Well, first of all, 14:40.980 --> 14:43.380 why are you asking God? You're the reason why. 14:44.800 --> 14:49.800 First of all, you refuse to enact God's laws upon the land, 14:49.800 --> 14:54.800 and then you wonder why you're suffering the consequences of this debauchery and abomination in the land. 14:54.800 --> 14:59.800 Why are you allowing it? What do you mean? You're the one. You're the reason this is happening in the first place. 14:59.800 --> 15:03.800 Your failure allowed this. You're the reason why there's sodomites in the land. 15:03.800 --> 15:07.800 You're the reason why this woman was abused all the day long. 15:07.800 --> 15:11.800 You're the reason why this body was chopped up and sent into the twelve tribes. 15:12.800 --> 15:14.800 It's because of your failure 15:14.960 --> 15:16.960 Look what goes on in verse 4 15:17.120 --> 15:22.240 It came to pass on the morrow that the people rose up early and built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace 15:22.240 --> 15:26.320 Offerings and the children of israel said who is there among all the tribes of israel? 15:26.960 --> 15:30.400 That came not up with the congregation of the lord 15:30.880 --> 15:36.960 For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the lord to mispossess saying he shall show me put to death 15:37.600 --> 15:38.440 So what does it say? 15:38.440 --> 15:40.880 Like, all right, let's find out who didn't come up 15:40.880 --> 15:42.840 and fight with us against those of Gibby 15:42.840 --> 15:44.080 or we're gonna kill those guys. 15:44.080 --> 15:44.920 What is that? 15:44.920 --> 15:45.760 You're overdoing it. 15:46.640 --> 15:51.640 So because you didn't take care of business years ago, 15:52.000 --> 15:53.960 now you're going overboard 15:53.960 --> 15:55.880 and now you're seeking to put people to death 15:55.880 --> 15:58.680 that had no business in this situation with Gibby. 15:59.500 --> 16:01.800 What is it? It's because of their failure. 16:01.800 --> 16:04.000 They feel like they have to overcompensate 16:04.000 --> 16:06.600 because they messed up in years past. 16:06.600 --> 16:10.100 So now just like complete innocent people have to be put to death. 16:10.100 --> 16:11.100 It's wrong. 16:11.100 --> 16:12.600 They're going overboard. 16:12.800 --> 16:17.680 Okay, look what it goes on and say in verse six and the children of Israel repented them for benjamin their brother 16:17.920 --> 16:20.480 And said there is one tribe cut off from israel this day 16:20.880 --> 16:22.880 How should we do for wives for them to remain? 16:23.040 --> 16:27.280 Seeing we have sworn by the lord that we will not give them of our daughters to wives 16:27.520 --> 16:32.320 And they said what one is there of the tribes of israel that came not to misput to the lord 16:32.640 --> 16:38.720 And behold there came none to the camp from jabesh gilead to the assembly for the people were numbered and behold 16:38.960 --> 16:40.800 There were none of the inhabitants of jay 16:40.800 --> 16:42.800 J. Bish Gilead there. 16:42.800 --> 16:45.960 And the congregation sent thither 12,000 men 16:45.960 --> 16:48.520 of the valiantist and commanded them saying, 16:48.520 --> 16:52.340 go and smite the inhabitants of J. Bish Gilead 16:52.340 --> 16:53.380 with the edge of the sword, 16:53.380 --> 16:56.480 notice this, with the women and the children. 16:56.480 --> 16:59.040 What did J. Bish Gilead have to do with this? 16:59.040 --> 17:01.120 They didn't get involved in this? 17:01.120 --> 17:03.200 Okay, yeah, they're wimps, they didn't want to go fight. 17:04.100 --> 17:06.740 They didn't get involved when you were fighting against Ghibia. 17:06.740 --> 17:13.300 That doesn't give you the right to just completely go overboard and kill the women and the children 17:13.300 --> 17:16.020 just because the males didn't get involved in the war. 17:16.020 --> 17:18.180 What is that called? That's called going overboard. 17:19.460 --> 17:21.620 You know what? Sometimes Christians can do the same. 17:22.100 --> 17:26.920 Because they're guilty of sins of the past things they did in the past 17:27.120 --> 17:34.480 They often have this complex about themselves that they have to go way overboard later on and have this 17:35.260 --> 17:37.260 unrealistic standard for everyone else 17:37.860 --> 17:39.860 Just because they failed in the past 17:40.100 --> 17:44.980 Okay, and look folks, let me just say this that obviously, you know, it's good to have preferences 17:45.140 --> 17:46.740 It's good to have standards 17:46.740 --> 17:52.820 But never impose preferences and standards upon other people and communicate it as though this is what god requires of you 17:53.300 --> 17:57.800 Okay, and look, you know if you lived if you got saved later on in life 17:58.500 --> 18:07.200 You know, you got saved as an adult and you came to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ as a 20 year old, 25, 30 year old or whatever may be. 18:07.200 --> 18:09.700 You know, you probably made some mistakes in the past. 18:09.700 --> 18:12.700 You might have some baggage with you, for sure. 18:13.000 --> 18:18.000 And you know what, you might even set some guidelines, standards, and convictions for your personal life 18:18.000 --> 18:23.500 because you have more temptations that are available to you because of how long you've been in the world. 18:23.500 --> 18:29.000 Right? There's nothing wrong with that, but what's wrong is that when you start condemning others for not following that standard. 18:29.000 --> 18:32.500 Okay? You know, that's important to know. 18:33.100 --> 18:39.020 Don't be an over righteous person a self righteous person. What's a self righteous person? 18:39.020 --> 18:42.720 It's a person who thinks that they're better than someone else okay, and 18:43.380 --> 18:50.020 Look, it's good to go overboard for yourself. You know it's good. I think it's great to go overboard for yourself 18:50.020 --> 18:57.060 I think it's wrong to go overboard though in order to make other people feel guilty that they're not at the same standard that you're at 18:57.220 --> 19:00.020 They're not at the same level that you're at okay 19:00.500 --> 19:10.000 You know, we have an example here of the innocent of Jabesh Gilead suffering the consequences of the people who are killing them. 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 They're the ones who failed. 19:12.000 --> 19:16.000 You know, if you would have just enacted the laws of God years prior to this, none of this would have happened. 19:17.800 --> 19:23.560 But this is an example of someone or of a nation that just completely goes overboard 19:23.560 --> 19:25.240 Look verse 11, and this is the thing that you should do 19:25.240 --> 19:28.920 You shall utterly destroy every male every woman that hath lain by man 19:29.480 --> 19:32.760 And they found among the inhabitants of jaybish gilley had 400 young virgins 19:33.160 --> 19:38.360 That had not known man by lying with any male and they brought them onto the camp of shiloh, which is in the land of caitlyn 19:38.360 --> 19:40.360 Oh how convenient 19:40.520 --> 19:44.840 You just kill them all but save the virgins though. That's the right thing to do, you know 19:45.900 --> 19:50.540 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock rimmond 19:50.540 --> 19:55.820 and to call peaceably unto them. And Benjamin came out again at that time and they gave them wives 19:55.820 --> 20:00.860 which they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead. And yet so they suffice them not. 20:00.860 --> 20:05.500 And the people repented for Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach and the tribes of Israel, 20:05.500 --> 20:10.140 no you made a breach Israel. You're the one who failed in the past. 20:10.140 --> 20:13.500 And look folks, I'm not here to hang your past over your head. 20:13.500 --> 20:13.900 We've all. 20:13.900 --> 20:16.140 We've all made mistakes in the past. 20:16.140 --> 20:18.580 We've all had failures of the past. 20:18.580 --> 20:20.940 And you know, our failures should motivate us 20:20.940 --> 20:22.620 to do better, right? 20:22.620 --> 20:23.860 We should have lived in the past. 20:23.860 --> 20:25.820 You know, we've been forgiven of that. 20:25.820 --> 20:27.220 It's under the blood. 20:27.220 --> 20:29.380 You know, we've confessed it before the Lord. 20:29.380 --> 20:31.100 We've corrected our ways. 20:31.100 --> 20:32.980 If that's you, that's great. 20:32.980 --> 20:34.220 But hold on a second. 20:34.220 --> 20:37.780 Don't go on and be a Pharisee, a self-righteous individual, 20:37.780 --> 20:39.220 asserting that someone else has to hold 20:39.220 --> 20:40.820 to that same standard just because you made 20:40.820 --> 20:41.800 that mistake in the past. 20:42.200 --> 20:46.360 Okay, because here's the thing folks your temptation may not be someone else's temptation 20:47.320 --> 20:49.240 That's just the bottom line 20:49.240 --> 20:50.840 You know 20:50.840 --> 20:56.760 Whatever doors you open in the past, you know someone else i'm not saying that it's right for someone to do the same thing 20:56.840 --> 20:58.840 I'm just saying they may not be tempted with that 20:59.400 --> 21:01.400 They may not be tempted with the sins that you're tempted with 21:01.960 --> 21:07.880 Okay kids who grew up in church are probably not going to have the same temptations of those of us who got saved later on in life 21:08.400 --> 21:11.600 Their temptation is to steal cookies from the cookie truck. I don't know you know and 21:13.480 --> 21:18.320 So we need to recognize that people overcompensate over past failures 21:18.320 --> 21:24.620 And this is dangerous because you know I think of like being in the old IFB church and obviously like in the old IFB 21:24.760 --> 21:26.760 They would have this practice 21:27.880 --> 21:30.380 You know sometimes on Sunday morning mostly Sunday night 21:30.900 --> 21:35.240 Where it's ordering conferences for example where like a pastor would preach 21:35.540 --> 21:40.420 You know just some sermon on getting right with God or surrendering your life to the Lord 21:40.420 --> 21:45.140 And you know they would they would have people come down to the altar after the service 21:45.140 --> 21:47.140 How many know what I'm talking about? Okay? I mean you've seen that 21:48.300 --> 21:54.640 And what they do is like, you know, at the end of the service is like, you know, oh if you have made a decision 21:54.640 --> 22:00.880 If God's talking to you, you know, come down to this old-fashioned altar and make that decision 22:00.880 --> 22:05.180 So like, you know, the people would come and they would kneel like if this were to happen here 22:05.800 --> 22:10.360 Like, you know, Adrian would kneel like right here, you know, Kelly right here. 22:10.360 --> 22:15.040 And then they'd just be like, you know, repenting of their sin and surrendering their life or 22:15.040 --> 22:16.040 whatever. 22:16.040 --> 22:18.960 And obviously, you know, it's not a biblical practice. 22:18.960 --> 22:19.960 I did it. 22:19.960 --> 22:21.320 I know it's crazy. 22:21.320 --> 22:25.400 Before I became new IFP, it was just a practice of the old IFP. 22:25.400 --> 22:30.120 You know, I there's many times that I got right with God during those instances, those 22:30.120 --> 22:31.120 events or whatever. 22:31.120 --> 22:32.720 But let me just say this though. 22:32.720 --> 22:33.300 You know? 22:34.000 --> 22:37.800 There's people who go down to the altar and they just go overboard. 22:37.800 --> 22:39.300 Why? Because of past failures. 22:39.300 --> 22:40.100 You say, what do you mean? 22:40.100 --> 22:42.800 Well, sometimes, you know, you have a pastor just preach hard on sin. 22:42.800 --> 22:45.100 And I remember this, you know, just preaching hard on sin. 22:45.100 --> 22:47.800 They're preaching hard against pornography, right? 22:47.800 --> 22:49.500 They're preaching hard against fornication. 22:49.500 --> 22:50.800 Kyla, don't get up anymore. 22:50.800 --> 22:52.900 Sit down and don't move again. 22:52.900 --> 22:54.100 This is my daughter, so don't worry about it. 22:54.100 --> 22:54.600 I got to... 22:54.600 --> 22:56.300 Mom's not here, so I got to watch over the kids. 22:56.300 --> 22:57.100 You know? 22:57.600 --> 22:59.160 Preach hard against fornication. 22:59.160 --> 23:00.860 You know, preach hard against pornography. 23:00.860 --> 23:03.200 And then, you know, you'll have these guys, 23:03.200 --> 23:05.440 and praise God that they're getting that right. 23:05.440 --> 23:07.640 Because you shouldn't be watching pornography. 23:07.640 --> 23:09.640 Shouldn't be a gooner, okay? 23:09.640 --> 23:11.840 It's embarrassing. 23:11.840 --> 23:13.440 You know? 23:13.440 --> 23:15.440 If you're a gooner, you ought to be embarrassed. 23:15.440 --> 23:17.280 You ought to be ashamed of yourself. 23:17.280 --> 23:18.920 Okay? Because you're a Christian, 23:18.920 --> 23:21.480 and you know, you have the Holy Spirit of God dwelling within you. 23:21.480 --> 23:23.080 You're a grown man. 23:23.900 --> 23:29.540 participating in those acts you know you ought to know how to possess your vessel in sanctification and honor amen 23:29.860 --> 23:31.780 That's that's a sermon for another day 23:31.780 --> 23:38.380 But you know they would preach against that and then they would come and because you know they failed horribly in that area 23:38.900 --> 23:44.500 Right it failed horribly in that area. They would come to the altar and be like I'm gonna surrender to go to the mission field 23:45.500 --> 23:49.080 I'm gonna be a pastor and in your mind. You're like well listen that 23:50.900 --> 23:53.900 No, it's not because they're not going to the mission field. 23:53.900 --> 23:55.700 Revisit that same person a year later, 23:55.700 --> 23:57.940 you'll realize that they didn't really mean that. 23:57.940 --> 23:59.020 You say, what are they doing? 23:59.020 --> 24:01.340 They're going overboard. 24:01.340 --> 24:05.520 They feel so guilty over their sin that they feel like, oh, man, 24:05.520 --> 24:08.780 I just have to do the most crazy spiritual thing ever 24:08.780 --> 24:10.500 and go start a church or something. 24:10.500 --> 24:12.620 First of all, it's not going to happen. 24:12.620 --> 24:13.740 You're not fooling God. 24:14.100 --> 24:17.500 Yeah, you may be given a testimony also and so surrendered to be a pastor 24:17.660 --> 24:21.180 You know and yeah, but it's because they you know 24:21.180 --> 24:23.260 They have some sin some failure in their life 24:23.260 --> 24:29.320 And they feel like the pendulum has to swing extremely to the opposite direction in order to compensate for that failure 24:29.940 --> 24:36.220 You know that's going overboard. You don't have to be a pastor. You don't have to be a missionary. Just repent of your sin 24:36.220 --> 24:37.200 That's good enough 24:39.600 --> 24:41.600 Just clean up your life. Good enough. 24:41.600 --> 24:44.600 You know, and obviously we don't have an altar here, but you know, 24:44.600 --> 24:47.600 when we pray, or you pray, and you're getting right with God, 24:47.600 --> 24:51.600 just get it right. Don't say, Lord, I'm just, I'm going to be a pastor now. 24:51.600 --> 24:54.600 I know who my calling is. I'm going to be a pastor. 24:54.600 --> 24:56.600 I'm going to be an event. I'm going to be a missionary. 24:56.600 --> 24:59.600 How about you just take care of that sin first? 24:59.600 --> 25:03.600 How about we just like clean that up first, get right with God in that area first, 25:03.600 --> 25:06.600 be conformed to the image of Christ first. 25:07.100 --> 25:09.740 Don't go overboard, don't try to overcompensate, 25:09.740 --> 25:12.260 don't try to be over righteous much 25:12.260 --> 25:14.380 just because you failed in the past. 25:14.600 --> 25:21.480 Okay, and look folks, I'm not rubbing anybody's failures in your face. If you were a drunkard, if you were a 25:22.200 --> 25:24.640 Vapor or I don't know what they call them now 25:24.640 --> 25:27.920 you know someone who vapes someone who smokes if you're a 25:28.520 --> 25:33.600 Coke addict or something and you're like, oh man now I'm just gonna go all in well go all in 25:33.800 --> 25:36.720 To the Christian life over an extended period of time 25:38.720 --> 25:40.000 Pace yourself 25:41.000 --> 25:42.000 Right? 25:42.000 --> 25:44.760 Well, no, no, no, I'm going to like read 10 chapters a day. 25:44.760 --> 25:46.000 I'm just going to go all in. 25:46.000 --> 25:48.720 Yeah, but you might end up just burning out. 25:48.720 --> 25:49.720 And it might not even work. 25:49.720 --> 25:53.520 So it's better to just pace yourself, you know, if you're trying to be in this thing 25:53.520 --> 25:54.520 for the long haul. 25:56.700 --> 26:02.140 People overcompensate over past failures. The Bible tells us in Proverbs 20 and verse 25 26:02.140 --> 26:04.220 You don't have to turn there go to first Corinthians chapter 5 26:04.620 --> 26:09.900 It is a snare to the man who devoured that which is holy and after vows to make inquiry 26:10.620 --> 26:13.660 Ecclesiastes 5 2 says be not rash with thy mouth 26:14.060 --> 26:20.380 And let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before god for god is in heaven and thou upon the earth 26:20.620 --> 26:24.300 Therefore let thy words be few the bible says 26:25.000 --> 26:30.360 You know if God is moving you to get right about a particular sin just get right about that particular sin and that's it 26:31.320 --> 26:35.000 Don't make a vow that you're going to do some crazy spiritual exploit 26:35.160 --> 26:40.520 That you're going to win 20 people to the lord this week in order to you know compensate for that particular sin 26:40.520 --> 26:42.520 That you've committed just get that right 26:44.040 --> 26:46.540 And just do what's required of you in moderation 26:47.500 --> 26:53.500 Because look folks, the volume of work that you do for the Lord is not going to make God love you more or something like that. 26:53.500 --> 26:58.500 It's just like I got to earn the love of God. I got to earn the favor of the Lord. 26:58.500 --> 27:03.500 Well first of all, the Bible says that we're accepted in the beloved. So that's already taken care of. 27:03.500 --> 27:09.500 My kids don't have to worry about me loving them more or loving them less because of what they do. 27:09.500 --> 27:11.500 I'm always going to love them, my children. 27:12.400 --> 27:17.520 Even if they disappoint me or whether they do something extraordinary, you know, my love will always be there 27:17.840 --> 27:22.660 You know the Lord as a safe person, you know, the Lord will always love you 27:22.660 --> 27:25.980 You will always be accepted in the Lord Jesus Christ 27:26.700 --> 27:30.780 Nothing can separate you from the love of God and so don't try to be like well 27:30.780 --> 27:36.200 I just got to make sure that I do all types of works and obey all kinds of commands and win all kinds of souls and 27:36.200 --> 27:41.480 Read you know tons of chapters in order to gain the favor of God. You've already gained it through Christ 27:42.660 --> 27:47.180 But if you want to start somewhere start here just just get right get that sin, right? 27:48.180 --> 27:53.620 And look folks. I can't emphasize enough how important it is just to be transparent with God 27:55.600 --> 28:01.000 Like, Lord, you know, I want to smoke weed. 28:01.000 --> 28:01.920 I don't want to smoke weed. 28:01.920 --> 28:03.560 I'm just giving that example. 28:03.560 --> 28:05.440 I have no desire to smoke weed. 28:05.440 --> 28:06.440 OK? 28:06.440 --> 28:07.840 Got to make that clear. 28:07.840 --> 28:09.960 Don't clip that. 28:09.960 --> 28:12.680 Not trying to clip for him there. 28:12.680 --> 28:17.000 But it would be funny if someone clipped that, though. 28:17.000 --> 28:19.400 Let's say weed is your temptation, right? 28:19.700 --> 28:24.220 Which I don't even know if weed is even a thing for people, maybe it still is, I'm just using it as an illustration. 28:24.220 --> 28:31.340 Like, it's not sacrilegious to just tell the Lord, like, I'm tempted by marijuana, I want to smoke weed, 28:31.340 --> 28:38.100 and I'm extremely tempted, and I want to do it, and I know that it's wrong, and I need you to help me to overcome that sin. 28:38.100 --> 28:43.620 Okay? And you don't have to tag at the end of that PS, I'll be a missionary if you help me to. 28:43.620 --> 28:45.060 Doesn't work that way. 28:45.060 --> 28:46.900 Just, Lord, just help me overcome it. 28:47.700 --> 28:49.940 Because I'm a pothead. 28:49.940 --> 28:51.100 I'm a weed head. 28:51.100 --> 28:53.620 I like to get high, but I know that it's wrong because I'm 28:53.620 --> 28:54.660 a child of God. 28:54.660 --> 28:59.580 And I need you to help me control that appetite and get 28:59.580 --> 29:00.300 right in that area. 29:00.300 --> 29:03.460 Just be sincere and transparent with the Lord. 29:03.460 --> 29:06.300 I'm not saying be irreverent, but just be transparent. 29:08.780 --> 29:11.740 The point being here is that sometimes people go overboard 29:11.740 --> 29:13.660 just because they failed in the past. 29:13.660 --> 29:15.260 And again, you know... 29:16.000 --> 29:21.000 I got saved when I was 21 years old. 29:21.000 --> 29:25.120 And good and bad, it doesn't really matter. 29:25.120 --> 29:28.640 But me raising six kids, Lord willing, later on, seven, eight, 29:28.640 --> 29:30.280 nine, or whatever, as they grow up, 29:30.280 --> 29:33.160 I'm going to have certain standards for my kids 29:33.160 --> 29:35.680 when it comes to dating or whatever it may be, 29:35.680 --> 29:37.720 because I remember me. 29:39.200 --> 29:40.480 You know what I mean? 29:40.480 --> 29:44.840 I remember, like I got the street smarts right here. 29:44.840 --> 29:46.640 So I remember I'm going to be like, OK, 29:46.640 --> 29:49.440 I'm going to set certain standards for my kids, 29:49.440 --> 29:52.000 knowing full well what's out there. 29:52.000 --> 29:52.700 OK? 29:52.700 --> 29:54.140 There's nothing wrong with that. 29:54.140 --> 29:56.780 What would be wrong is if I start imposing that upon you 29:56.780 --> 29:59.900 or looking down on others because they don't have those same standards. 29:59.900 --> 30:04.140 Do I think it's wise to enact those principles and those standards? Of course. 30:04.140 --> 30:06.700 But do I think you're just a godless person if you don't? Absolutely not. 30:06.700 --> 30:08.780 And it would be wrong for you to think the same thing. 30:08.780 --> 30:09.600 Okay. 30:09.700 --> 30:15.240 Don't go overboard just because you failed in the past look at first Corinthians chapter 5 30:15.240 --> 30:21.980 Let's look at another example here and verse 1 it says it is reported commonly that there's fornication among you and such fornication 30:22.200 --> 30:27.140 As is not so much as named among the Gentiles did once you have his father's wife man 30:27.720 --> 30:30.500 Talk about drama. This is gross 30:32.000 --> 30:36.820 There's fornication at the church of Corinth. It's a guy basically committing fornication 30:37.900 --> 30:39.900 with his stepmom. 30:39.900 --> 30:40.400 Okay? 30:40.400 --> 30:45.900 And the reason it's called fornication and not adultery is because the implication here is that dad, the father has passed away. 30:45.900 --> 30:50.900 So she's been loosed from the law of her husband, which is why it's referring to it as fornication. 30:50.900 --> 30:52.900 But it's weird! 30:52.900 --> 30:53.900 Okay? 30:53.900 --> 30:56.900 First of all, it's wrong because that's his stepmom. 30:56.900 --> 31:00.900 Second of all, it's wrong because it's just fornication, and fornication is a sin, 31:00.900 --> 31:03.900 that according to the Bible merits excommunication from a church. 31:04.400 --> 31:08.400 And here's the weird thing is that it's commonly reported. 31:08.400 --> 31:09.960 What does it mean that it's commonly reported? 31:09.960 --> 31:11.800 It means this section knows about it, 31:11.800 --> 31:14.000 this section knows about it, and that section knows about it 31:14.000 --> 31:14.800 as well. 31:14.800 --> 31:16.080 It's not a secret. 31:16.080 --> 31:18.440 Everyone just kind of knows that's what they're doing. 31:18.440 --> 31:19.720 OK? 31:19.720 --> 31:21.520 And it says in verse 2, and ye are puffed up 31:21.520 --> 31:25.040 and have not rather mourned, that he that have done this deed 31:25.040 --> 31:28.480 might be taken away from among you. 31:29.100 --> 31:33.340 Okay, now it could be that you know the stepmom is not part of the church 31:33.660 --> 31:37.940 It's just the guy who's a part of the church, but it's just commonly reported that this is taking place 31:38.260 --> 31:42.360 But according to this verse you know the church is so arrogant and prideful about it 31:42.700 --> 31:45.620 They're not like sad and they're like I can't believe this is taking place in church 31:45.620 --> 31:48.540 I can't believe we were just allowing this and not 31:49.100 --> 31:54.320 Disciplining this person they're prideful puffed up means that they're privately like that's the kind of church we are though 31:54.380 --> 31:56.100 We actually love people here 31:57.200 --> 32:02.800 We actually care for people here. We're not like the First Works and all these other new empty churches that are just so hateful 32:03.440 --> 32:09.800 You know we actually love you. How you know what would Jesus do? You know these types of people that are just puffed up 32:09.800 --> 32:15.640 They're arrogant. They're prideful the hyper spiritual, and they don't really it's you know revisit the sermon from this morning 32:15.640 --> 32:21.800 They don't have genuine love okay, and the apostle Paul saying like this person needs to be taken away from among you 32:21.800 --> 32:23.800 He's not saying like like kill him 32:24.200 --> 32:26.200 He's saying he needs to be removed, okay? 32:27.720 --> 32:28.920 And you know the verse 3 says, 32:28.920 --> 32:33.480 for I verily as absent in the body, in body, but present in spirit have judged already. 32:34.040 --> 32:37.160 You know what this means? There's certain situations we don't need to be present for 32:38.360 --> 32:39.720 to know the conclusion of the matter. 32:40.440 --> 32:43.080 Because the apostle Paul is like, I don't even need to be there. 32:43.080 --> 32:45.560 I've already judged. The guy just needs to be thrown out. 32:45.560 --> 32:46.680 The guy needs to be removed. 32:48.200 --> 32:50.280 And you know, of course, he talks about the destruction of the flesh. 32:50.280 --> 32:51.720 Skip down to verse 11 if you would. 32:52.600 --> 32:57.960 Course he goes through the list of various sins that can get you thrown out of churches is but now I've written unto you not to keep company 32:58.280 --> 33:02.280 If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railler 33:02.520 --> 33:06.120 Or a drunkard or extortioner with such in one no not to eat 33:06.440 --> 33:11.240 For what have I to do that to judge them that are without do not you judge them that are within 33:11.480 --> 33:18.040 But them that are without god judges therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person now go to second corinthians chapter seven 33:18.500 --> 33:25.500 So what do we have here? The Apostle Paul is saying like, you guys are so arrogant and prideful, you're not removing this person, you're thinking like you're doing God a service. 33:25.500 --> 33:32.000 You're thinking you're just so spiritual, you're thinking you're so righteous by keeping this person here, God's not pleased with this. 33:32.000 --> 33:36.000 You're allowing leaven into the church and a little leaven, leaven it the whole lump. 33:36.000 --> 33:40.500 You're destroying the church by allowing this unrepentant sinner to remain in the house of God. 33:40.500 --> 33:43.000 And he's coming down on them hard. 33:43.300 --> 33:47.300 And based upon this passage in the previous chapter, 33:47.300 --> 33:49.340 in chapter four, it sounds like the Church of Corinth, 33:49.340 --> 33:51.600 they're just filled with arrogant, prideful people. 33:51.600 --> 33:53.780 Because he talks about, he's like, you're puffed up, 33:53.780 --> 33:55.740 and you're acting like if I come here, 33:55.740 --> 33:57.440 you're not gonna do anything about it. 33:57.440 --> 33:59.560 Because they're just kind of like, yeah, come down here, 33:59.560 --> 34:02.020 see what are you gonna do? 34:02.020 --> 34:03.340 That's like prideful, arrogant, 34:03.340 --> 34:04.860 because the Apostle Paul was the one responsible 34:04.860 --> 34:06.420 for starting that church. 34:06.420 --> 34:08.000 He's the leader, okay? 34:09.120 --> 34:11.200 So you have this problem with this guy, right? 34:11.900 --> 34:21.900 Apostle Paul brings down the hammer, he rips them up, he's preaching against them, he is verbally chastising them so to speak. 34:21.900 --> 34:25.900 Well by the time we get to 2 Corinthians, it sounds like the guy has been removed. 34:26.600 --> 34:29.600 So they came to their senses, they're like, you know what, this is wrong. 34:29.600 --> 34:32.200 It is kind of weird actually, now that I think about it. 34:32.200 --> 34:34.500 You know, it's wrong because it's a fornication. 34:34.500 --> 34:35.700 This is not right. 34:35.700 --> 34:37.100 We need to throw this guy out. 34:37.100 --> 34:39.500 And they end up excommunicating the guy out of the church. 34:39.500 --> 34:40.900 Okay? 34:40.900 --> 34:43.800 So they throw him out, but 34:43.800 --> 34:49.200 the tone of 2 Corinthians seems to indicate that he got right. 34:49.200 --> 34:51.900 Meaning that he repented of that sin. 34:52.200 --> 34:57.640 Okay, he broke up with his stepmother, you know, ah, you know, it's just like weird 34:58.840 --> 35:03.000 But he got right. Okay, he got right. The problem is 35:03.880 --> 35:06.320 The Corinthian Church they weren't bringing him back into the fold 35:07.040 --> 35:14.160 So it seems as though he not only repented of that sin, but wanted to be reinstated into his local New Testament church 35:14.900 --> 35:20.920 Which is the Corinthian church and they would not allow him to come in. Why because they're overdoing it 35:21.860 --> 35:28.300 They're going overboard in their judgment because of their past failure of not throwing the guy out 35:28.380 --> 35:33.100 Okay, look at 2nd Corinthians 7 verse 10 for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation 35:33.740 --> 35:39.500 Not to be repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh death for behold this else same thing 35:39.700 --> 35:42.300 They he sorrowed after a godly sort 35:42.700 --> 35:49.060 What carefulness it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, 35:49.060 --> 35:55.180 yea what fear, yea what vehement desire, yea what zeal, yea what revenge, and all these 35:55.180 --> 35:57.800 things you have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter." 35:57.800 --> 36:02.300 So the apostle Paul is praising him, he's like, man, you guys repented hardcore about 36:02.300 --> 36:02.580 this. 36:03.000 --> 36:08.760 Like you got it right, it made you zealous, you cleared yourself, you threw the guy out, 36:08.760 --> 36:13.160 you did the right thing, and now you are clear in this matter. 36:13.160 --> 36:19.160 You're no longer guilty of housing an unrepentant fornicator in the church. Good job. 36:19.600 --> 36:24.700 Wherefore though I wrote unto you verse 12 I did it not for his cause that had done this wrong 36:24.880 --> 36:31.060 Nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you go back to chapter 36:31.060 --> 36:33.480 2 of 2nd Corinthians chapter 2 36:34.760 --> 36:37.640 So he's like you know you get brownie points 36:38.360 --> 36:40.120 great job 36:40.120 --> 36:42.120 But they're going overboard 36:42.600 --> 36:49.400 Because they're not welcoming him back into the fold, even though he's repentant. 36:49.400 --> 36:50.900 So what should have they have done? 36:50.900 --> 36:54.700 They should have forgiven him and reinstate him back into the fold. 36:54.700 --> 36:57.500 And in fact, Luke says in verse 5 of 2 Corinthians 2, 36:57.500 --> 37:03.100 But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part that I may not overcharge you all. 37:03.100 --> 37:08.100 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. 37:08.600 --> 37:11.800 So it seems to indicate that like a lot of people are just getting on this guy. 37:12.520 --> 37:17.320 He's a fornicator, he's unwilling to repent, and I don't think they're like afflicting him. 37:17.320 --> 37:20.680 I think they're just afflicting him, like they're separating him from their company. 37:21.240 --> 37:24.200 They are condemning what he's doing to do what they're supposed to do, right? 37:24.200 --> 37:26.680 They're shaming that sin, which is good. 37:27.500 --> 37:33.580 He says in verse 7 so that contrary wise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him 37:34.060 --> 37:40.140 Lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up over with over excuse me swallowed up with over much sorrow 37:40.540 --> 37:43.340 Wherefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him 37:43.900 --> 37:50.540 For to this end also did I write that I might know the proof of you whether you be obedient in all things 37:50.860 --> 37:54.140 So it's like you're obedient in that first part. I want to see if you're obedient in the second part 37:54.600 --> 37:56.480 You should forgive this guy 37:56.480 --> 37:59.080 Okay verse 10 to whom you forgive anything 37:59.080 --> 38:04.580 I forgive also for if I forgive anything to whom I forgave it for your six forgave I am the person of Christ 38:05.040 --> 38:10.920 Less Satan should get an advantage of us for we're not ignorant of his devices meaning that Satan 38:11.000 --> 38:15.480 He's very cunning so he's gonna try to get you to keep the fornicator in church 38:16.840 --> 38:19.920 Unrepentant, but once you've thrown him out. He's gonna try to 38:20.400 --> 38:23.520 keep him from coming back in even though he repented. 38:23.520 --> 38:26.080 He's always seeking to do the complete opposite 38:26.080 --> 38:29.680 and try to manipulate the church to do the complete opposite. 38:29.680 --> 38:30.480 Okay. 38:31.300 --> 38:34.900 The church of Corinth is going overboard, they're overcompensating for their past failure. 38:34.900 --> 38:39.220 Now let me just say this, we've thrown the people out of our church because of unrepentant sin. 38:39.220 --> 38:43.140 If you don't like that, then there's other churches you can visit where they just keep everybody. 38:44.100 --> 38:47.140 And you can allow the leaven to come into the church and just destroy the church, 38:47.140 --> 38:50.820 that's not this church. I will say this though, you know, and obviously there's people who've 38:50.820 --> 38:55.620 come back, they've repented, they've come back to the fold, and we live happily ever after. 38:56.900 --> 39:02.700 However, I will say that there are instances where a person has created such an offense in the church 39:03.380 --> 39:05.380 you know the get excommunicated and 39:05.700 --> 39:10.320 Then you know they wanted they they want to get right and I'll forgive them 39:10.320 --> 39:15.000 I'll say yeah, you're forgiven, but I do not want you to come back to this church 39:16.260 --> 39:19.140 Because I feel like people have burned their bridges so bad 39:19.900 --> 39:24.660 They've completely destroyed relationships that they should not be coming to this church now 39:24.660 --> 39:28.660 I'm not saying they can't go to any church because they can go to any church they want except for this one 39:28.980 --> 39:33.980 Now that doesn't happen very often, but I do believe pastors have the right to make that decision 39:33.980 --> 39:39.600 I believe that there are instances where people have just destroyed the relationships in the church to such a degree 39:39.780 --> 39:43.700 It would be unwise to allow them to come back to our church. We said well 39:43.700 --> 39:47.220 How do you fit that with 2nd Corinthians 7? Here's how I fit it go to the church of Galatia 39:48.700 --> 39:50.540 Go to the church at Ephesus. 39:50.540 --> 39:51.840 Go to the Colossian church. 39:51.840 --> 39:53.840 Go start over at a different church. 39:53.840 --> 39:56.680 Because let me remind you, when someone gets excommunicated from a church, 39:56.680 --> 39:59.440 they're not allowed to go to any church. 39:59.440 --> 40:02.880 I mean, that's how it should be. 40:02.880 --> 40:05.720 And we've had people who have been excommunicated from our church, 40:05.720 --> 40:07.760 they've been thrown out from our church, 40:07.760 --> 40:09.120 and then they want to get reinstated. 40:09.120 --> 40:10.420 But hold on a second. 40:10.420 --> 40:12.920 While in excommunication, they were going to different churches. 40:13.600 --> 40:17.200 You know what that tells me? They're completely undermining the authority of this church. 40:17.200 --> 40:24.100 So they're fine going to other fundamental Baptist churches and just being there and being part of that fold. 40:24.100 --> 40:28.700 And then once they get tired of that preaching, once they get tired of the sermons, 40:28.700 --> 40:32.200 they're like, okay, now I can repent because I want the good preaching now or whatever. 40:32.200 --> 40:35.600 No, you can't come back because you don't even respect the authority here. 40:36.200 --> 40:42.200 You didn't respect the excommunication, you didn't respect the discipline, so no you can't come back, go back to the other church. 40:42.200 --> 40:46.200 Point being here is that people will sometimes overcompensate. 40:46.200 --> 40:56.200 Now let me just say this is that, you know, if you failed in the past, you know, prior, BC, prior to Christ, or even as a Christian, 40:56.800 --> 40:59.680 There's nothing wrong with kind of overdoing it to a certain degree 40:59.680 --> 41:04.960 You know God wants you to become zealous for the things of God just as you were zealous for the things of the world 41:05.360 --> 41:08.960 Right. I speak after the manner of man because of the infirmity of your flesh 41:08.960 --> 41:13.840 The bible says for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness into uncleanness 41:14.160 --> 41:19.680 Even even so now you yourself servants to righteousness unto holiness basically saying like hey 41:20.080 --> 41:24.560 Just as you were all in for the world now that you're a christian now that you're 41:24.800 --> 41:28.840 Be all in for the things of God for sure go all in you should be 41:29.400 --> 41:33.040 Excited about the things of God like you're excited about the things of the world in other words, okay? 41:33.860 --> 41:36.520 Go to Genesis chapter 38 Genesis chapter 38 41:38.600 --> 41:42.340 So Christians go overboard because of past failures 41:43.000 --> 41:46.140 What you need to do is just get that right 41:46.840 --> 41:53.960 Confess it before the Lord and not hold some unreasonable standard for other people if you want to keep that standard for yourself 41:53.960 --> 41:55.900 So be it okay 41:59.000 --> 42:01.800 But don't necessarily impose it upon others, okay? 42:03.320 --> 42:08.040 Point number two is that Christians go overboard when covering their current sin. 42:09.160 --> 42:12.360 Now in the previous point, it was past failures, 42:12.760 --> 42:15.480 which is why people overcompensate, they kind of go overboard. 42:15.720 --> 42:19.160 But there are also instances where people go overboard 42:19.160 --> 42:22.680 because they're trying to deter attention from the fact that they're currently committing some sort of sin. 42:23.320 --> 42:24.520 And this happens as well. 42:24.800 --> 42:29.800 They're just super righteous, super holy, very condemning. 42:29.800 --> 42:34.100 They're just hyper spiritual, but it's only because they're committing some 42:34.100 --> 42:37.100 crevice sins in the current moment. 42:37.100 --> 42:38.100 And that is a major thing. 42:38.700 --> 42:43.580 It's like they just become these major Pharisees, just holier than nows. 42:43.580 --> 42:47.100 Why? Is it because they really just love holiness and righteousness? 42:47.100 --> 42:50.540 No, it's probably because they're committing a sin themselves in this particular time, 42:50.540 --> 42:54.220 and they're trying to deter attention from that sin that they're committing. 42:54.220 --> 42:55.740 Now, let me give you an example here. 42:55.740 --> 42:59.580 Genesis 38 is one of the most random stories in the Bible, okay? 43:00.700 --> 43:02.540 Now, we're not going to read the entire story. 43:03.340 --> 43:05.740 You could read it as a bedtime story for yourself, if you'd like. 43:06.600 --> 43:08.200 Just because I don't have that much time. 43:08.200 --> 43:10.840 I'll give you a synopsis, okay? 43:10.840 --> 43:13.440 You know, you basically have Er and Onan. 43:14.780 --> 43:15.620 All right? 43:15.620 --> 43:17.820 If you've read the Bible, you know, all right? 43:18.680 --> 43:22.000 You know, these guys were wicked before the Lord, 43:22.000 --> 43:23.440 they were smitten before the Lord, 43:23.440 --> 43:26.280 and of course, one of them spilled their seed on the ground 43:26.280 --> 43:27.560 because they didn't want to raise up, 43:27.560 --> 43:29.840 you know, children unto his brother, okay? 43:29.840 --> 43:31.240 It's really weird, right? 43:32.200 --> 43:34.040 Well, look at verse 11. It says, 43:34.040 --> 43:37.040 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law. 43:37.800 --> 43:44.040 Remain a widow at thy father's house till she love my son be grown for he said let's per adventure 43:44.040 --> 43:48.440 He die also as his brethren did and Tamar went and dwells in her father's house 43:48.440 --> 43:52.680 So he's basically saying like hey, you know, I know my sons were wicked and they died 43:52.680 --> 43:56.720 But you know just just stay a widow and once my other son grows up 43:56.720 --> 44:01.360 He's of age he can marry you raise a seed unto his brother and so forth 44:02.100 --> 44:07.020 So she obeys Tamar obeys verse 12 says in the process of time the daughter of Shuah 44:07.020 --> 44:12.700 Judah's wife died and Judah was comforted and went up unto his sheep shears and Timnath 44:12.980 --> 44:17.900 He and his friends Hira the Adulamite and it was told Tamar saying behold thy father-in-law 44:18.180 --> 44:20.740 Goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep 44:21.300 --> 44:24.900 and she put her widow's garment off from her and covered her with the veil 44:24.900 --> 44:27.620 and wrapped herself and sat in an open place 44:27.620 --> 44:29.780 which is by the way of Timnath, to Timnath 44:29.780 --> 44:34.020 for she saw that Shelah was grown and she was not given unto him to wife 44:34.020 --> 44:35.540 now this is weird okay 44:35.540 --> 44:38.500 so basically it's just like hey I've waited 44:38.500 --> 44:42.180 Shelah's grown now and Judah is like refusing 44:43.000 --> 44:46.040 He's not giving me to be his wife, why is this? 44:46.040 --> 44:48.800 Like why is he like procrastinating? 44:48.800 --> 44:50.960 Why isn't he following through on his promise? 44:50.960 --> 44:55.280 So she conspires to do this really weird thing, okay? 44:55.280 --> 44:57.680 You know, basically, the garments that she's putting on 44:57.680 --> 45:00.120 is basically the garment of a prostitute. 45:00.120 --> 45:02.280 She's acting like a whore, okay? 45:02.280 --> 45:03.480 This is how they dress. 45:04.440 --> 45:06.640 Verse 15 says, when Judah saw her, 45:06.640 --> 45:08.440 he thought her to be a harlot. 45:09.100 --> 45:10.860 because she had covered her face. 45:10.860 --> 45:13.420 It's crazy how culture has shifted now, huh? 45:13.420 --> 45:16.060 It's like being a Harlan, it was like covering the face, 45:16.060 --> 45:17.820 now being a Harlan today, you don't cover anything. 45:20.800 --> 45:24.440 It says in verse 16, and he turned unto her by the way and said, 45:24.440 --> 45:30.440 Go to her, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee, for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law. 45:30.800 --> 45:35.840 She said what without giving me that I may is coming unto me and he said I will send thee a kid from the flock 45:35.840 --> 45:39.840 And she said will not give me a pledge that till thou send it 45:39.920 --> 45:45.120 He said what pledge shall I give thee she said thy signet and thy bracelets and nice staff 45:45.120 --> 45:49.000 Is that is in thine hand and he gave it her and came in unto her and she conceived by him 45:49.000 --> 45:51.000 So basically he hires 45:51.080 --> 45:52.900 her as a prostitute 45:53.000 --> 45:58.700 So he basically commits fornication with his daughter-in-law and extremely wicked sin. 45:58.700 --> 46:04.700 Obviously, she's wicked for even conspiring to do this, but he's also wicked for just going around with prostitutes. 46:05.900 --> 46:11.660 Look at verse 19 and she arose went away laid by her veil from her and put on the garments of a 46:11.660 --> 46:16.860 widowhood and judas sent the kid by the hand of his friend the adulamite to receive his pledge from 46:16.860 --> 46:21.660 the woman's hand and he found her not so it was just like hey i need you to find this prostitute 46:21.660 --> 46:25.820 that i offer you know she gave me her services take this cattle and you know give it to her 46:25.820 --> 46:29.420 because that's that's her payment or whatever but he's like well i don't i don't see her okay she's 46:29.420 --> 46:30.420 She's not there. 46:30.700 --> 46:34.700 verse 20 says, and Judah sent the kid by the hand of the friend, or verse 21, excuse me, 46:34.700 --> 46:40.140 then he asked the men of that place saying, where is the harlot that was openly by the wayside? 46:40.140 --> 46:44.220 And they said there was no harlot in this place. Kind of an embarrassing question there. They're 46:44.220 --> 46:47.180 like, uh, there is no harlot here. Why are you looking for a harlot? 46:49.180 --> 46:51.980 And he's just like, oh, just kidding. I'm just seeing, I'm just checking on you guys. 46:51.980 --> 46:54.140 You know, it was a test. It was a test. 46:55.600 --> 46:57.880 And he returned to Judah and said, I cannot find her. 46:57.880 --> 46:59.480 And also the men of the place said 46:59.480 --> 47:01.640 that there was no harlot in this place. 47:01.640 --> 47:05.440 And Judah said, let her take it to her, lest we be shamed. 47:05.440 --> 47:08.040 Behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. 47:08.040 --> 47:10.600 And it came to pass about three months after that it 47:10.600 --> 47:13.680 was told Judah, saying, Tamar, thy daughter-in-law, 47:13.680 --> 47:15.700 hath played the harlot. 47:15.700 --> 47:19.400 And also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. 47:19.400 --> 47:21.880 And Judah said, bring her forth and let her be burnt. 47:23.500 --> 47:27.300 So it's just like, hey, I just want to let you know your daughter-in-law is pregnant. 47:27.300 --> 47:30.500 And she's not married, so she's obviously playing the whore. 47:30.500 --> 47:35.700 She's, you know, being a whore, she got pregnant, and he's just like, 47:35.700 --> 47:37.400 BURN HER! 47:37.400 --> 47:38.500 What is he doing? 47:38.500 --> 47:40.900 He's going overboard, he's overcompensating. 47:40.900 --> 47:43.600 Bro, you're the dad! 47:43.600 --> 47:46.400 Put him on more po-bitch! 47:46.400 --> 47:47.300 You know what I mean? 47:47.300 --> 47:49.200 And he would be 100% guilty! 47:50.600 --> 47:53.480 You are, Judah, you are the father! 47:53.480 --> 47:54.480 Ahhhhh! 47:54.480 --> 47:56.280 You know, the camera's like following him and everything. 47:59.100 --> 48:02.780 When she was brought forth, she sent her father-in-law saying, 48:02.780 --> 48:05.940 you know, okay, so, you know, we don't agree with Tamar. 48:05.940 --> 48:09.660 Tamar is wicked for doing this, but she got him really good though. 48:09.660 --> 48:10.620 Because what did she say? 48:10.620 --> 48:14.620 She says, you know, okay, I'll take the kid, but, you know, give me a down payment. 48:14.620 --> 48:15.500 What do you want? 48:15.500 --> 48:18.340 Your rings and your staff, okay? 48:18.340 --> 48:21.060 So she disappears, but she keeps those possessions. 48:21.900 --> 48:24.340 So he's like, bring her forth, and she comes forth, 48:24.340 --> 48:25.300 and she's confident. 48:25.300 --> 48:27.900 She's not worried about it at all, right? 48:27.900 --> 48:29.820 And verse 25 says, when she was brought forth, 48:29.820 --> 48:31.580 she sent her father-in-law saying, 48:31.580 --> 48:35.220 by the man whose these are, am I with child? 48:35.220 --> 48:37.660 And she said, discern, I pray thee, 48:37.660 --> 48:41.580 whose are these, the signet, bracelets, and staff? 48:41.580 --> 48:45.140 Now imagine how flush Judah was at that point. 48:45.140 --> 48:46.780 When he saw, he was like, oh, crap. 48:49.000 --> 48:52.560 Judah acknowledged him and said she had been more righteous than I yeah you think 48:53.840 --> 49:00.020 You know what anymore anybody at this point is more righteous than you row you you're like hiding the sin you're fornicating 49:00.020 --> 49:02.820 And then you're trying to burn your daughter-in-law 49:03.460 --> 49:05.460 for playing the whore 49:05.940 --> 49:08.780 Because she's caught, but you were also a whore 49:10.220 --> 49:12.500 You're a whore monger according to the Bible 49:13.000 --> 49:19.320 Okay, because then I gave her not to sheila my son and he knew her again no more. Yeah good for you juda 49:19.960 --> 49:25.560 You know, what do we see here? We see that sometimes people go overboard because they have some sin in their life 49:26.040 --> 49:29.320 Okay, and this is what we see in matthew chapter 7, right? 49:29.880 --> 49:33.800 Matthew chapter 7 people who are trying to take the moat as some uh, 49:34.360 --> 49:38.840 Out of their brother's eye all the while having a beam in their own eye 49:39.100 --> 49:40.940 That's what's called hypocritical judging. 49:40.940 --> 49:43.820 When you're just like, oh, you need to get this right, 49:43.820 --> 49:45.460 you need to correct this area, 49:45.460 --> 49:49.420 why they got a redwood tree sticking out of their own eye. 49:49.420 --> 49:51.940 And look, the Bible doesn't condemn judging. 49:51.940 --> 49:53.420 The Bible says to judge righteous judgment. 49:53.420 --> 49:54.820 And what is righteous judgment? 49:54.820 --> 49:58.380 Judging others for sins that you yourself are not committing. 49:58.380 --> 50:00.500 It's not that hard too, by the way. 50:00.500 --> 50:02.220 Just don't do the stuff that people are doing 50:02.220 --> 50:03.060 and you know what? 50:03.060 --> 50:04.700 You can judge that sin according to the Bible. 50:04.900 --> 50:09.060 But if you're judging someone for a particular sin while you yourself are committing that sin 50:09.060 --> 50:13.620 or you're just living a godless life, you're obviously overcompensating, you're a wicked person 50:13.620 --> 50:17.700 according to the Bible, it's not right for you to do. Now what's another example of this? Well, 50:17.700 --> 50:25.380 probably one of the most famous examples is David. David murdering Uriah, you know, committing 50:25.380 --> 50:29.000 adultery with Bathsheba, Nathan comes to David. 50:29.200 --> 50:33.840 And he like tells him this little illustration, gives him this little Israeli proverb 50:35.040 --> 50:41.340 Right? This little this little Judah-Judean proverb here of a man with this yulem 50:41.340 --> 50:45.020 And then you know the guy takes the yulem and they eat it 50:45.120 --> 50:49.740 The guy who's rich takes it and then the guys are they say you know it grew up with them as a daughter 50:49.740 --> 50:52.520 And then and then David's just like that guy needs to be killed 50:53.200 --> 50:55.100 He needs to be put to death 50:55.300 --> 51:00.740 And he's just like, well, first of all, people aren't put to death for stealing animals. 51:01.700 --> 51:07.220 That's not part of the Mosaic law. Okay. He's to restore that back unto him, right? 51:07.780 --> 51:11.060 But the death penalty is not instituted. Oh, and by the way, thou art the man. 51:12.340 --> 51:17.300 Obviously, the illustration was given to him in order to demonstrate the fact that 51:18.100 --> 51:21.380 King David was the one who took the Yulam, which is Bathsheba. 51:22.100 --> 51:24.560 But what do we see with David? He's just overcompensating. 51:24.560 --> 51:26.560 Because he's guilty of a particular sin. 51:26.560 --> 51:27.560 Okay? 51:27.560 --> 51:30.900 Now look, don't think that because people are judging sins in our church or something, 51:30.900 --> 51:32.400 oh they must have some sinned. 51:32.400 --> 51:33.400 You know? 51:33.400 --> 51:37.360 That's not necessarily the case. I'm just saying, that is the case sometimes. 51:37.360 --> 51:42.600 Where you have people, and you know, and I remember just a couple years ago, 51:42.600 --> 51:44.100 guys coming to me like, 51:44.100 --> 51:47.100 what do you think about parents having TVs in their houses? 51:47.100 --> 51:49.000 I mean, I just feel like it wouldn't be right. 51:49.100 --> 51:51.260 to have TVs in the house and all that 51:51.260 --> 51:54.540 but then these same guys were like guilty of greater sins 51:54.540 --> 51:56.820 what are they doing? They're overcompensating 51:58.140 --> 52:01.020 they are overdoing it, going overboard 52:01.020 --> 52:03.420 and just trying to deter attention 52:03.420 --> 52:07.020 away from the fact that they're committing a grievous sin 52:07.020 --> 52:08.300 according to the Bible 52:08.300 --> 52:08.800 okay? 52:10.060 --> 52:11.580 go to 2 Samuel 52:13.900 --> 52:16.500 Actually go to John chapter 12, John chapter 12. 52:18.300 --> 52:21.400 Here's my two last points, I'm gonna breeze over my third one. 52:21.700 --> 52:25.700 And this is that Christians go overboard because they have an inferiority complex. 52:26.200 --> 52:28.200 Sometimes people just go overboard just because 52:28.800 --> 52:31.900 they feel like they need to portray themselves to be something that they're not. 52:32.200 --> 52:35.200 And I feel like, you know, this was very common 52:35.600 --> 52:38.500 back in the day, you know, when I was growing up with my friends, 52:38.700 --> 52:40.900 they used to talk about like the short man syndrome. 52:41.400 --> 52:42.400 Right? 52:42.400 --> 52:49.640 Where if you had like a really small guy, you know, and he was tiny, he was short, and 52:49.640 --> 52:50.640 I'm not against short people. 52:50.640 --> 52:51.640 Hey, I'm not short. 52:51.640 --> 52:52.640 I mean, I'm not tall. 52:52.640 --> 52:53.640 I'm very short. 52:53.640 --> 52:58.000 You know, I'm average height, but most, you know, I'm not six foot one or whatever, six 52:58.000 --> 52:59.000 foot two, you know? 52:59.000 --> 53:02.240 And when I grew up with my friends, I was the shortest one out of all my friends. 53:02.700 --> 53:04.020 They were all taller than me. 53:04.020 --> 53:06.700 But I remember when there would be these guys who were just 53:06.700 --> 53:09.300 really skinny or just really short, 53:09.300 --> 53:14.140 they would overcompensate by purchasing very large things. 53:14.140 --> 53:15.660 You had this really small guy, you just 53:15.660 --> 53:18.780 buy this massive truck or something. 53:18.780 --> 53:22.420 Or just everything that they had was just very large. 53:22.420 --> 53:24.460 And it's just like, it sounds like you're 53:24.460 --> 53:25.700 overcompensating there. 53:25.700 --> 53:27.500 And here's the thing, folks, is that we 53:27.500 --> 53:28.860 need to make sure that as Christians, 53:29.100 --> 53:32.140 You know, we don't develop this inferiority complex. 53:32.140 --> 53:33.340 We're accepted and beloved. 53:33.340 --> 53:35.340 We're fearfully and wonderfully made. 53:35.340 --> 53:36.820 And if you feel like you're lacking 53:36.820 --> 53:39.100 in a certain area in your Christian life, 53:39.100 --> 53:42.140 just allow God to make up the difference. 53:42.140 --> 53:42.660 All right? 53:42.660 --> 53:44.400 Allow God to make up the difference. 53:44.400 --> 53:45.820 You're like, I'm not good looking. 53:45.820 --> 53:48.900 We know, but hey, it's OK, though. 53:49.100 --> 54:00.100 It's okay, you know, if you are an ugly person, if you are, you know, if you have certain deficiencies in your life, you're not gifted, if you feel like you don't have the talents, that's okay. 54:00.100 --> 54:06.600 Then why don't you go ahead and cry out to God and have Him use you and to make up the difference, because you know what? 54:06.600 --> 54:11.600 Your deficiencies make you a candidate for giving more glory to God. 54:11.600 --> 54:12.100 Amen. 54:12.100 --> 54:14.500 Okay? That's how it needs to be viewed. 54:14.700 --> 54:20.580 I'm like, oh man, I just need to make up for this in other ways and just be just be super rich or something 54:20.580 --> 54:26.460 Just to make up because I just you know, I'm chopped or something or I'm just so ugly 54:26.460 --> 54:32.180 Or I just lack in these areas, you know, we're Christians. We're believers. We believe in the Word of God 54:32.220 --> 54:36.660 We're not into vanity. We're not into things that are temporal of this world 54:36.660 --> 54:40.940 We need to recognize that the greatest thing that we possess is God in us the hope of glory 54:41.400 --> 54:47.460 Christ in us the hope of glory right and look at the Apostle Paul according to the Bible it seems as though the Apostle Paul 54:47.860 --> 54:49.860 was just kind of like a 54:50.060 --> 54:55.880 Regular guy he wasn't necessarily you know the most visibly impressive person 54:56.580 --> 55:02.080 Yet he did more than all the Apostles yet not I but the grace of God that was with him, right? 55:02.800 --> 55:07.680 So Christians can often go overboard because they have an inferiority complex 55:07.680 --> 55:12.540 But what they need to do is do this I must think decrease that he may increase right 55:13.200 --> 55:15.200 glorify God and recognize 55:15.480 --> 55:20.400 That you know, it's good to have certain deficiencies because it humbles you 55:21.320 --> 55:22.300 right 55:22.500 --> 55:26.660 So that you're not proud and arrogant and you would rely upon the Lord that much the more. 55:26.660 --> 55:31.060 Lastly is that Christians can go overboard just because they're wicked. 55:31.900 --> 55:36.220 Sometimes there's just people who are just evil and wicked. I'll just be honest with you and when I say Christians 55:36.220 --> 55:42.940 I'm using that term very loosely in this point because this often applies to people who are false prophets 55:42.940 --> 55:44.780 It applies to unsafe people 55:44.780 --> 55:51.460 They will often go overboard in order to deter attention away from the fact that they're actually evil wicked people 55:51.460 --> 55:54.160 Look at John chapter 12 in verse 1 55:55.100 --> 56:01.500 Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he had raised from the dead. 56:02.100 --> 56:04.300 There they made him a supper and Martha served. 56:04.660 --> 56:16.380 But Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him, then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard very costly and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. 56:16.580 --> 56:18.620 And the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. 56:19.220 --> 56:22.180 Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot. 56:22.600 --> 56:26.120 Simon's son which should betray him in case you guys didn't know who that was 56:26.840 --> 56:30.480 Why was not this ointment soul for 300 pence and given to the poor? 56:31.160 --> 56:33.900 It's like wow. That's I didn't think about that 56:35.440 --> 56:37.500 Such a spiritual thing to say 56:38.120 --> 56:44.840 Right. He's just like hey, what are we doing? We could have this could have been given we could have built the well with this 56:46.200 --> 56:49.960 We could have done something for the poor in this regard, just wasted here. 56:49.960 --> 56:58.440 Oh man, so spiritual, right? You're just so spiritual. Why wasn't this sold to feed the poor 56:58.440 --> 57:03.960 and clothe the poor? Instead of putting all this money in to doing all this and wasting away, 57:03.960 --> 57:06.760 we could have done something significant with this for the poor. 57:10.900 --> 57:14.600 Verse 6, this he said not that he cared for the poor, 57:14.600 --> 57:17.980 bro did not care for the poor. 57:17.980 --> 57:20.780 He does not care for the poor. 57:20.780 --> 57:24.480 But because he was a thief and had the bag, 57:24.480 --> 57:27.320 and Barrow was put therein. 57:27.320 --> 57:32.020 So it's not like he just was so genuine and sincere. 57:32.020 --> 57:33.780 He's just so genuine and sincere. 57:33.780 --> 57:35.860 Why are you guys wasting this? 57:36.600 --> 57:39.300 I look at the poor person out there and I just wonder, 57:39.300 --> 57:40.360 we could have bought so many meals, 57:40.360 --> 57:42.000 so many fishes and loaves. 57:43.300 --> 57:44.400 Bro, you're a thief. 57:45.480 --> 57:47.840 You're just saying that because you want to keep the money. 57:47.840 --> 57:51.920 It's like, you know, when we threw out the transformer, 57:51.920 --> 57:53.680 the tranny from our church, 57:53.680 --> 57:56.760 a lot of people were like, why didn't you invite him in? 57:56.760 --> 57:58.520 Why didn't you like welcome him? 57:58.520 --> 58:00.160 Why didn't you teach him? 58:00.160 --> 58:01.000 And this is what I said, 58:01.000 --> 58:02.480 why don't you give me the address to your church 58:02.480 --> 58:03.600 and I'll send them over there. 58:04.900 --> 58:11.140 I even made a video, I even said hey, if you're condemning me for what I did, I got a great idea 58:11.140 --> 58:15.740 Send me your address and I'll make a video promoting your church 58:15.740 --> 58:19.480 to send all the Transformers right over there because you're so loving 58:19.480 --> 58:21.480 Not a single bite 58:21.480 --> 58:23.480 That's interesting 58:23.480 --> 58:26.320 So many people condemning me for this 58:26.320 --> 58:28.960 So many, oh I just don't understand why you would do something like that 58:28.960 --> 58:31.760 We need to show them the love of God, yeah show me how it's done then 58:32.200 --> 58:33.200 Show me. 58:33.200 --> 58:36.200 Send me the address. 58:36.200 --> 58:37.200 That's not the point. 58:37.200 --> 58:38.200 No, that is the point. 58:38.200 --> 58:39.200 And that's literally what I'm saying. 58:39.200 --> 58:40.760 That's like, you're missing the point. 58:40.760 --> 58:42.440 Oh, I'm not missing the point. 58:42.440 --> 58:47.380 If you're a better Christian than me, if you're just more loving than me, if you're just more 58:47.380 --> 58:51.200 gracious than me, then why should I bring them to my church? 58:51.200 --> 58:52.440 I could just send them right over to you. 58:52.440 --> 58:56.320 And in fact, I have such a large following, I could just make a video. 58:56.600 --> 59:00.600 Get hundreds of thousands of views to promote all the trannies to go there! 59:00.600 --> 59:04.600 Not a single one. 59:04.600 --> 59:08.600 No one. No one DN me. No one put an address in the comment section. 59:08.600 --> 59:12.600 You know why? Because they're disgusted with trannies too. That's why. They're like, dang. 59:12.600 --> 59:14.600 I don't want that. 59:17.700 --> 59:20.040 You know why they were saying that? 59:20.040 --> 59:22.040 Because they themselves are probably trannies. 59:24.040 --> 59:26.040 They are spiritual trannies. 59:28.040 --> 59:33.380 They're just wicked people who are trying to do too much. 59:33.380 --> 59:37.560 They're going overboard because they want people to think that they're just so loving, 59:37.560 --> 59:40.280 so spiritual, so godly. 59:40.280 --> 59:42.840 No, you are a hypocrite. 59:42.840 --> 59:44.800 At least I'm real about it though. 59:44.900 --> 59:49.100 At least I'm real about what I say when I tell you they're not welcome here. 59:49.100 --> 59:51.500 Guess what? And they will never be welcome here. 59:51.500 --> 59:53.500 At least I'm being genuine about it. 59:53.500 --> 59:56.000 I'm not saying, well, I love them, but they're just not welcome. 59:56.000 --> 59:57.600 No, I don't love them. 59:57.600 --> 01:00:00.700 Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. 01:00:00.700 --> 01:00:06.400 I'm not like, well, I love them, but we just can't really have them here, you know? 01:00:06.400 --> 01:00:09.800 No! They can't be here at all! 01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:11.500 I got no love for them! 01:00:12.200 --> 01:00:14.200 At least I'm being genuine with you though. 01:00:14.200 --> 01:00:16.200 Not like these other guys are like, 01:00:16.200 --> 01:00:18.200 oh we should show them the love of God, 01:00:18.200 --> 01:00:20.200 but then they don't show them the love of God. 01:00:20.200 --> 01:00:22.200 At least damage, 01:00:22.200 --> 01:00:24.200 you know, if you're going to walk the walk, 01:00:24.200 --> 01:00:26.200 if you're going to talk the talk, walk the walk. 01:00:26.200 --> 01:00:28.200 I'm talking the talk and I'm walking the walk. 01:00:30.700 --> 01:00:34.620 But what is this? It's showing you people go overboard because they're actually wicked. 01:00:35.500 --> 01:00:40.300 They speak the spiritual talk only because of the fact that they're actually evil, wicked people. 01:00:40.300 --> 01:00:45.980 They are like Judas Iscariot. They're the thief. They hold the bag. They don't care for the poor. 01:00:46.780 --> 01:00:49.820 Oh, you know, instead of these churches are spending all this money, 01:00:50.540 --> 01:00:55.340 and why don't you actually do something with it? Oh, send me your paycheck and I'll utilize that 01:00:55.340 --> 01:00:56.180 that to go by well. 01:00:57.300 --> 01:01:04.280 Guarantee you no one will do anything about that. It's only people who are these hyper spiritual individuals who are super evil 01:01:04.780 --> 01:01:10.280 Super wicked they want to condemn the righteous, but at the end of the day they themselves are evil individuals 01:01:10.360 --> 01:01:15.400 Okay, while they promised them Liberty the Bible says they themselves are the servants of corruption 01:01:16.460 --> 01:01:21.420 2nd Peter chapter 2 verse 19. What's the point here? The point is this folks moderation? 01:01:23.240 --> 01:01:24.100 Moderation 01:01:24.500 --> 01:01:27.980 Be a righteous person, but you don't gotta go overboard. 01:01:27.980 --> 01:01:30.900 Just incrementally become a righteous individual. 01:01:30.900 --> 01:01:33.740 You don't have to tell me you're righteous. 01:01:33.740 --> 01:01:35.660 You don't gotta act righteous around me. 01:01:35.660 --> 01:01:36.540 Just be yourself. 01:01:36.540 --> 01:01:39.300 And if yourself is a little righteous and a little carnal, 01:01:39.300 --> 01:01:42.260 I'd rather take that than the person who's acting righteous, 01:01:42.260 --> 01:01:44.220 but they're all carnal. 01:01:44.220 --> 01:01:46.300 They're just a fake, they're just a phony. 01:01:46.300 --> 01:01:48.060 They're just playing the part. 01:01:48.060 --> 01:01:49.700 Just be real with me. 01:01:50.100 --> 01:01:52.100 You don't have to act like you're super righteous. 01:01:52.100 --> 01:01:54.100 Hey, if you grew up in a Christian home, 01:01:54.100 --> 01:01:57.100 you don't gotta be a fake around me if you are a little carnal. 01:01:57.100 --> 01:01:59.100 Just be genuine. 01:01:59.100 --> 01:02:02.100 You know, go in the right direction. 01:02:02.100 --> 01:02:04.100 Be a sanctified person. 01:02:04.100 --> 01:02:06.100 Go in the, you know, 01:02:06.100 --> 01:02:09.100 make sure that you are conforming to the image of Christ. 01:02:09.100 --> 01:02:11.100 But don't be a fake and a phony. Be genuine. 01:02:11.100 --> 01:02:13.100 Don't go overboard. Have a balance. 01:02:13.100 --> 01:02:15.100 Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word. 01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:22.440 I pray that Lord you'd bless us as your people help us to be sincere. That is basically the theme of today's sermons is 01:02:23.160 --> 01:02:27.040 sincerity being genuine help us Lord as your people 01:02:28.040 --> 01:02:33.820 To be pure in that area Lord to have genuine love not the simulated love and 01:02:34.520 --> 01:02:38.960 Help us not to go overboard on some things Lord. It's good to be righteous and on the scale of righteousness 01:02:39.480 --> 01:02:43.300 May we lean more towards being righteous than wicked. Of course, that's the goal 01:02:44.100 --> 01:02:51.700 But I pray that you'd help us to just avoid being a hypocrite, avoid just being a fake 01:02:51.700 --> 01:02:56.340 and a phony Lord, just because we want to impress others, help us to be real Lord. 01:02:56.340 --> 01:03:00.320 And I pray that you would conform us to the image of Christ. 01:03:00.320 --> 01:03:02.140 Lord help us to forget those things which are behind. 01:03:02.140 --> 01:03:08.420 If we've had failures in the past, it's good that maybe we, you know, integrate standards 01:03:08.420 --> 01:03:10.420 into our personal lives so that we don't. 01:03:10.900 --> 01:03:12.500 Give in to pass sins 01:03:12.500 --> 01:03:17.380 But we not impose it upon others and think that we're better than someone else just because they don't have that same standard 01:03:17.540 --> 01:03:22.200 And I pray that Lord that there's someone here who has unrepentant sin to having gotten right with God 01:03:22.200 --> 01:03:26.480 May you help them to get right and work in their hearts Lord to repent of that sin 01:03:26.780 --> 01:03:31.300 So they can be vessels unto honor meet for the master's use and I pray you bless us as we go on our way 01:03:31.300 --> 01:03:33.300 We love you. We thank you pray these things in Jesus name