Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
Alright, we're in second
Corinthians chapter thirteen.
Look down at verse number five.
Says here, examine yourselves
whether ye be in the faith.
Prove your own selves.
Know ye not your own selves how
that Jesus Christ is in you
except ye be reprobates.
But I trust that ye shall know
that we are not reprobates.
Now, I pray to God that ye do
no evil, not that we should
appear approved, but that ye
should do that which is honest
though we be as reprobates.
For we can do nothing against
the truth but for the truth.
And the title of the sermon
this morning is except ye be
reprobates.
Except ye be reprobates.
Now, here in second
Corinthians thirteen, I think
it's very clear what it's
stating here.
And what is it telling us?
It's telling Paul the apostle
is explaining to the church at
Corinth, hey, you need to
examine yourself to see if you
are in the faith because Christ
is in you except ye be
reprobates.
What does that mean?
It goes to tell us that someone
who is a reprobate cannot have
Christ in them.
They cannot be saved.
They cannot have eternal life
because the Bible is clearly
teaching us here that someone
who does not have Christ in them
is a reprobate.
Now, what is he specifically
telling the church at Corinth
here?
Well, this doesn't just apply to
any person because this afternoon
we're going to go and preach the
gospel to a bunch of people who
don't have Christ in them and
they still could be saved.
The reason he's stating this to
the church of Corinth is because
the church of Corinth has gotten
Bible preaching.
This is the second letter that
they've received, chapters and
chapters of deep doctrine,
chapters and chapters in regards
to salvation, in regards to
church discipline, in regards to
all manner of subjects, and
they're still rejecting them.
So you know what that tells me?
They're a reprobate.
Because someone who is a
reprobate, the Bible tells us,
is ever learning and never able
to come to the knowledge of the
truth.
And the reason is that because
the Bible says that now as
Janus and Jambres withstood
Moses, so do these also resist
the truth.
Men of corrupt minds reprobate
concerning the faith, the Bible
says.
So someone who is a reprobate,
someone who has resisted the
truth, they're going against the
truth, and therefore they're
ever learning and never able to
come to the knowledge of the
truth.
Okay?
Now, go through Matthew chapter
7.
Matthew chapter number 7.
Now, keep in mind that in 2
Corinthians 13, this is the
apostle Paul speaking here.
And you know what the apostle
Paul is doing in 2 Corinthians
13?
He's judging them.
He's claiming, hey, if Christ
ain't in you, I don't care if
you're a member of the church of
Corinth, Corinth Baptist Church,
you're not saved.
Oh, how dare you, Paul, say that
to them.
What right do you have?
Well, because he understands the
biblical doctrine of
reprobation, and how if someone
is constantly getting the truth,
constantly hearing about
salvation, constantly hearing
about salvation by grace
through faith, constantly
hearing about it's only by
belief only, and they're not
saved after that, you're a
reprobate.
Okay?
Look at Matthew 7.
Now, Matthew 7, verse 1, is the
most out of, scripture taken out
of context.
Judge not the, be not judged.
That's it right there.
Most people, that's the only
verse they memorize right there.
And even then, they don't even
say it correctly.
Judge not lest you be judged, is
what they say.
Judge not that ye be not judged,
for with what judgment ye judge,
ye shall be judged, and with
what measure ye meet, it shall
be measured to you again.
And why beholdest thou the mote
that is in thy brother's eye,
but consider'st not the beam
that is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy
brother, let me pull out the
mote out of thine eye, and
behold, a beam is in thine own
eye.
Thou hypocrite, first cast out
the beam out of thine own eye,
and then thou shalt see clearly
to cast out the mote out of thy
brother's eye.
Give not that which is holy
unto the dogs, neither cast
your pearls before swine, lest
they trample them under their
feet and turn again and rend
you.
So we need to keep reading.
Because people want to use this
and say, how dare you say that
this person's not saved?
How dare you judge this person
and say that they don't have
Christ in them?
You're so arrogant and prideful
to say that, but let me just
show you something in the book
of Matthew.
Matthew chapter 7 and verse
number 1 says, Judge not that
ye be not judged, but skip down
to verse 15.
Beware of false prophets.
Oh, you're judging.
Hey, you're not taking your own
advice there, Matthew.
You're not taking your own
advice here, Jesus.
Beware of false prophets which
come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly there are ravening
wolves.
Ye shall know them by their
fruits.
What does that mean?
You will judge them.
Ye shall know them by their
fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns
or figs of thistles?
Now, keep in mind that thorns
and thistles in the Bible works
in tandem with something that
has been rejected.
Even so, every good tree
bringeth forth good fruit, but a
corrupt tree bringeth forth
evil fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth
evil fruit.
Neither can a corrupt tree bring
forth good fruit.
Every tree that bringeth not
forth good fruit is hewn down
and cast into the fire.
Wherefore, by their fruits ye
shall know them.
Let me translate that for you.
Ye shall judge them.
Oh, but you can't just do that
to anybody.
Yeah, I agree that you just
can't do that to anybody out in
the streets who you're knocking
on the doors, but someone who is
teaching the Bible on a week in,
week out basis.
This is someone who is studying
the word of God on a week in,
week out basis, and guess what?
They're denying the Trinity.
They're denying that salvation
is by grace through faith.
Guess what?
They're a false prophet.
I can't believe you're judging
them.
Oh, I'm just doing what Matthew
7 tells me to do.
Ye shall know them by their
fruits.
Who's that referring to?
The false prophets.
Look, this is an area where our
church stands.
And I'm not saying you can just
call anybody a reprobate.
Look, and don't even mess around
with that.
Don't joke around and call
someone who has saved a
reprobate.
You're basically calling them a
faggot.
Some sodomite faggot is what
you're referring to your brother
in Christ when you call him a
reprobate.
That title is only designated
for people who are ever learning
and never able to come to the,
people who hate God.
And let me just make it clear.
The most wicked people in this
world are the people who stand
behind a pulpit and are
reprobates.
Now, go to Matthew 18.
Why preach on this?
Well, I'm gonna get back to that
point in just a bit regarding
judging.
But I'm gonna switch gears
momentarily right now, okay?
So just keep in mind what we
just read in 2 Corinthians 13,
Matthew chapter 7.
Keep that in mind.
And just understand, this is
where our church stands.
Matthew 18 is a famous chapter
in the book of Matthew dealing
extensively with this matter of
excommunicating people out of
the church.
Look down at verse number 15.
It says, Moreover, if thy
brother trespass against thee,
go and tell him his fault
between thee and him alone.
If he shall hear thee, thou has
gained thy brother.
But if he would not hear thee,
then take with thee one or two
more than in the mouth of two or
three witnesses, every word may
be established.
And if he shall neglect to hear
them, tell it unto the church.
But if he neglect to hear the
church, let him be unto thee as a
heathen man and as a publican.
Barely I say unto you,
whatsoever ye shall bind on
earth shall be bound in heaven,
and whatsoever ye shall loose on
earth shall be loosed in heaven.
And again I say unto you, that
if two of you shall agree on
earth as touching anything that
they shall ask, it shall be done
for them of my Father which is
in heaven.
For where two or three are
gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them.
So what is this talking about?
Well, if a brother trespasses
against me, for example, the
Bible tells us that we're
supposed to go to that person,
rebuke them, correct them, and
if they refuse to get it right,
you get another witness, and if
they refuse to hear that
witness, then you bring it
before the church.
You say, well, at that point,
what happens?
You excommunicate them out of
the church.
You kick them out of the church
because you're unrepentant and
unwilling to get it right.
You say, what does that have to
do with anything?
Well, this morning, Eric
Ballesteros from our church,
Eric Dr. Ballesteros from our
church is being thrown out today
for being unwilling to repent of
heresy and railing.
Go to 1 Corinthians 5.
Now, look, I know we got
visitors here today.
I know these three gentlemen
are visiting, but you know
what?
We need to take care of
business today, and guess what?
You know what today did?
Today is trash day.
And today we're taking out the
trash.
And look, not every sermon on
Sunday is like this, all right,
guys?
Come tonight, I'll probably
preach on the love of God or
something, all right?
But look, it's time to take out
the trash, and if that offends
you, you need to get some thick
skin, get into the Bible, and
recognize that the Bible tells
us that some people who are even
believers are good for nothing,
but to be cast out and to be
trotted under the foot of men.
You know what we call trash?
Well, you know, it's something
that's good for nothing.
You know, what do you do with
trash?
You cast it out because it's
good for nothing, it doesn't
work anymore.
And the Bible says of
believers, of believers, that
sometimes they're trash.
I can't believe you just said
that.
I'm just quoting what the
Bible's telling me.
That they're good for nothing.
What is that in the Greek?
Good for nothing.
Look what verse 11 says, but I
have written unto you, 1
Corinthians 5, not to keep
company if any man that is
called a brother be a
fornicator or covetous or an
impolitor or a railer or a
drunkard or an extortioner with
such and one known not to eat.
For what have I to do to judge
them that are also that are
without?
Do not ye judge them that are
within?
But them that are without, God
judgeth.
Therefore, put away from among
yourselves that wicked person.
1 Corinthians 5 is instructing
us that if someone is involved
in these particular sins found
in verse number 11 and they are
unwilling to repent from these
sins, they're to be thrown out.
We're supposed to put away from
ourselves that wicked person.
You can't call that person
wicked.
The Bible says if they're
involved in these sins and not
willing to repent, they're
wicked.
And look, let me just make it
very clear.
We are not on this trigger happy
role where we just want to throw
people out of the church.
I'd rather someone repent, get
right, get us straightened out
and come back to the fold.
Go to Romans chapter 16.
I'm going to read to you from
Titus chapter 3.
The Bible says here in Titus 3
verse 10, a man that is
inheritic after the first and
second admonition, reject,
knowing that he that is such a
subverted in sin is being
condemned of himself.
What does that mean?
Well, if someone is wrong on
something and you go to that
person and you say, hey, you're
wrong, this is what the Bible
says and they say, no.
Then you go to them and say,
okay, let me show you another
scripture and they say, no, you
know what the Bible tells us?
That person needs to be
rejected.
Oh, they just have a different
interpretation of salvation.
No, there is no different
interpretation of salvation.
Yeah, you may have a different
interpretation of obscure
doctrines in the Bible, obscure
dark sayings in the scriptures,
but when it comes to this matter
of salvation, when it comes to
this matter of the Trinity, when
it comes to the matter of things
that are just completely clear
in the Bible, you know, there is
no various interpretations of
that.
Look at Romans 16 verse 17 says,
now I beseech you, brethren,
mark them which cause divisions
and offenses contrary to the
doctrine which ye have learned
and avoid them.
For they that are such serve not
our Lord Jesus Christ but their
own belly and by good words and
fair speeches deceive the hearts
of the simple.
Now, you say, well, what did
Eric do?
You know, Eric Ballesteros, what
did he do?
Well, Eric Ballesteros put out a
video on his channel entitled
False Doctrine Infiltrating the
New IFB, Biblical Doctrine
Discernment Salvation.
That's a mouthful.
You know, someone needs to teach
him to like condense that a
little bit.
And on this video, he rails on
yours truly on Pastor Anderson
and the pastors within the New
IFB for calling false teachers
and false prophets reprobates.
You say, well, like who?
You know, like Tyler Baker?
Like the oneness crowd?
He's railing on us.
He's railing on us and lying
about us saying that we believe
in a works-based salvation
because when we look at a
heretic like Tyler Baker and
Dominique Davis, we say that
person's not saved.
And you know what he says?
Well, that's like the Calvinists
who believe in lordship
salvation.
So he's claiming that
damnable heresy, he's comparing
damnable heresy to works.
And this guy is being thrown out
today.
Now look, I went to Eric.
In fact, I talked, look, he put
out this video.
Let me just, let's just do family
time right now.
If you got a problem with yours
truly, you come talk to me.
You come talk to me if you got a
problem with the doctrine in our
church.
And look, if you just don't
agree, then just go somewhere
else.
But you know what this fool
does?
He puts out a video first.
Then he comes to church and he
said, did you watch the video?
Now, I'll be honest with you,
the video's an hour and 16
minutes long.
And it's very poor quality
video.
So when he first put it out and
he told me about that, you know,
or he told me about the video, I
watched a couple minutes of it
and I figured maybe he's
referring to Adam Fannin.
So I didn't watch and I went to
him and then he came to church
and when he asked me that, I
said, yeah, I watched a couple
minutes of it.
I didn't see the whole thing.
I said, I disagree with you on
it.
I believe Adam Fannin's not
saved.
And I explained to him why.
Well, then I talked to someone
else and this person told me, no,
you need to watch the whole
thing.
He says, it's bad.
I'm like, man, an hour and 16
minutes.
Thank God for the 1.25 speed.
Amen.
I put it on 1.25 speed, pen and
pad in hand.
And I just wrote down every
single point that he stated.
All heresy.
So when I, I've been trying to
get a hold of him for the last
couple of days.
He's been avoiding me.
And finally I called him
yesterday and he answered and I
laid into him.
I said, I don't agree with your
video and you're railing on me.
I told him, you put out a video
and I explained everything that
he said.
And he told me this.
He says, well, I wasn't talking
about you.
I said, and I gave him some
points.
They were clearly from me.
And he said, well, no, no, no,
you know, I'm sorry if you took
it that way, but I wasn't
talking about you.
Then later on in the
conversation, because I talked
to him for an hour and a half.
By the way, talk about first and
second admonition.
I gave him way more than that.
I gave him an hour and a half of
admonitions.
He said, did he accept
anything?
He rejected everything I said.
And I told him the points and he
said, well, I wasn't talking.
Later on in the conversation, he
said, well, if the shoe fits.
I said, yeah, the shoe fits.
It's a size nine and a half.
It's going to kick your butt out
tomorrow.
So he claims that the video was
not about me.
He's like, no, it's not about
you.
Well, that's funny because at
the end of the video, you know
what he tells me at the end of
the conversation, excuse me, he
says this, well, look, brother,
let me just say this.
He says, you've said from the
pulpit that if we believe
differently than you, then just
keep our mouths shut.
That's what you said, he said.
So therefore, I didn't want to
come to you, so instead I just
made a video.
Oh, so you did make the video
about me.
Fool.
He said, I didn't want to come to
you, so instead I made a, oh, so
noble.
The nobility is just spewing out
of your ears.
So instead of coming to talk to
me, you make a video for 400
people to watch, then you come
to church and you say, did you
watch the video?
I've never met a more noble
person than you.
That's called being a coward.
Look, not just in church.
In the streets, out there in the
world, you confront people to
the face.
You don't talk to them, talk
about them behind their back.
So he just completely lied.
I'm like, okay, so you did make
the video about me.
Well, yeah, because you said
that we need to keep our mouths
shut.
You know what?
Only people who are wicked, who
have something to hide, thinks
they can't come to me.
Because I've talked to people in
our church who are extremely
sensitive, and every once in a
while, they get offended at my
preaching.
And even those people, they
always come talk to me.
They're not afraid to come talk
to me, to ask me hard questions.
And at the end of the
conversation, they always tell
me, I know you're always going
to tell me the truth.
You know why?
Because these people are
righteous people.
Not bad to be sensitive.
As long as you're a saved,
righteous person, you have
nothing to hide, why are you
afraid?
But the wicked flee when no man
pursueth.
The wicked flee when no man
pursueth.
So before you back, oh, you
know, maybe we look at all the
evidence.
I'm going to show you the
evidence today.
Okay?
I'm going to show you that this
fool's worthy to be kicked out.
And let me just be clear.
I do not believe that Eric
Ballesteros is saved at all.
I can't believe he just said
that.
Yeah.
Because anybody who says that
you can stop believing is not
saved.
You can't stop believing.
He says in his video that the
apostle Paul didn't even know if
he can stop believing.
What?
And he's all, I don't know,
maybe me too.
Yeah, because you're not saved.
Anybody who's saved will never
stop believing.
Never.
And I will get into that in just
a little bit.
So at the end of his video,
towards the end, he says,
anybody who believes this
doctrine is arrogant, you're
prideful.
And then he says, I just
annihilated this doctrine.
I'm like, when?
I'm like rewinding back.
I was like, did he make a good
point?
What did he say?
He was like, where?
He goes, I just completely
destroyed it.
And he goes, and I challenge
anybody.
I challenge anybody to try to
refute what I just said.
Well, challenge is accepted,
Eric.
Amen.
You know, but the difference is
I'm not trying to convince you
because you're ever learning,
never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth,
apparently.
I just want to warn my church
about this stupid doctrine.
Okay.
Now, go to 2 John.
And by the way, when I talk to
him, he's like, you're just
being so, you're being so
difficult, brother Mejia.
I just can't take this.
Well, you know what?
Go to another Baptist church
where you can take it then.
That's right.
Amen.
You know, no one's forcing you
to stay.
Okay.
And look, just to show you this
man's heart, he tells me this
at the end of the conversation,
he said this.
Well, when I put up the video,
I already knew I was going to
get thrown out.
So he knew.
He knew that what he was
teaching is completely contrary
to what we believe at this
church.
He knew that I was going to get
on him.
He already knew that he said I
knew I was going to get thrown
out.
So before you start sympathizing
with him, before you start, oh,
I just, you know, we just need
to hear him out.
I heard him out for an hour and
a half and it's all heresy.
Now look, and don't come at me
with this, well, we could just
reach more people if you're just
nicer, brother Mejia.
If you're just a little nicer, we
can reach more people.
Let me explain something to you
about that.
Okay.
Let's say after this sermon, you
know, when we go sowing, this is
going to, this is a really hard
sermon right here.
All right.
And it might offend some people
in our church.
Let me ask you this, how will
that affect my gospel
presentation in the afternoon?
Will this sermon affect me
talking to the unsafe people out
there at all?
Will it affect your gospel
presentation when you go out
there?
So how will me being nicer in
this sermon impede anybody from
anybody getting saved out there
when we go out sowing?
Well, you know, on the internet,
but here's the thing, the
internet is not our main means of
seeing people saved.
Our feet take us to knock on
people's doors, and we do
something called door-to-door
soul winning.
That does not impede us at all.
And look, if it impedes someone
in our church from ever coming
back, you know, I got to go with
God.
I got to obey the Lord.
Yeah, but what if, like, your
church doesn't fill up?
My goal here is not to fill up
the church.
My goal here is not to burst out
the seams.
My goal is to preach the Bible,
to honor and glorify God, because
I want God's favor in our
church.
That's my goal.
If I wanted to build the church
and have it burst out the seams,
I'd be flattering you all day,
but this is not a sermon on
flattery, as you can tell.
So look, if you get offended,
listen to the whole sermon first.
Don't reject the truth.
Don't resist it.
And look, I don't think anybody
in here is going to be like that,
where it's just like, I don't
agree with you.
Well, if after I quote you all
these scriptures, you just
completely don't agree, then
there's a problem.
There's a 2 Corinthians 13
problem.
Look at 2 John 9.
So, Eric, in this video, claims
that as a saved person, you can
get into damnable heresy.
Yeah, you heard, right?
He claims that as a saved person,
you can get into damnable
heresy.
Now, what damnable heresy are
we specifically referring to,
and in the context of our
conversation, we're talking
about oneness, the false
doctrine of oneness, or
modalism, which, by the way,
he claims that modalism and
oneness are two different
things.
And look, when Jeff Utzler put
out his response video to
Tyler Baker, when he's in the
snow, you know, I looked at that
thumbnail, and I was like,
amen.
But then I felt like something
was telling me, go check the
comments section.
Click on it, check the comments
section.
Who do we see?
Dr. B, KJV.
Protecting and defending Tyler
Baker.
By the way, if someone in here
even believes that Tyler Baker
is saved, or even if he's
thinking like the guy, why in
the world, knowing where we
stand as a church, why in the
world would you befriend the
enemies of our church?
Why would you even want to go on
a public forum?
Oh, I know why, because you
know you're going to get kicked
out, that's why.
So he says this, that oneness
people, yeah, they're still
saved.
And he uses this stupid
analogy, using King Solomon in
the Old Testament, and how he
got away from God and was
burning incense because his
wives drove away his heart, he
uses him as an example, and in
fact, he said this, that's
worse than oneness.
So he claims that Solomon was
in worse than oneness false
doctrine.
Here's the difference, Solomon
was not going to the God of
Asheroth and saying that that is
the God of the Bible.
Tyler Baker is going and saying
that Jesus Christ is not the
eternal son of God, that he was
begotten in Bethlehem's manger,
and that he's the father, and
he said that that's the God of
the Bible.
That's false.
He's rejecting the eternal
sonship of Christ and claiming
that that is the God of the
Bible.
That's heresy.
In fact, that's damnable
heresy.
That's not the same as Solomon.
Don't compare the two and say,
well, you know, I can see that.
No, it's not the same.
And look, I know people have
gotten mixed up a little bit on
the Trinity, but here's the
difference.
When someone gets a little
mixed up and someone comes to
them and says, look, this is
what the Bible actually says,
and they say, okay, I was wrong.
I'm switching.
They fixed it.
Oh, we should just do that to
Dominic.
We have.
We should do that to Tyler
Baker.
We have.
And they just completely resist
and resist and resist and
resist and resist and reject and
reject and reject.
You know what that means?
They're reprobates.
Get it through your head.
They're not going to be saved.
They hate the God of the
Bible.
They're perverting who Christ
is.
And he claims, he wants to take
this position in his videos.
Look, I believe in the
fundamental doctrine of eternal
security.
So for you to say that these
people are not saved, you're
saying that they, you know,
that basically they lost their
salvation.
No, I'm not saying that.
Because the fundamental doctrine
of eternal security teaches us
that when you believe in the
right Jesus, you're saved and
you can never lose your
salvation.
What you're saying is that they
can believe in any kind of
Jesus.
As long as they believe, they're
good to go.
Well, you know, shut my mouth.
I guess the Mormons are saved
too then, huh?
Well, shut my Guatemalan mouth.
I guess the Jehovah's Witnesses
are saved too.
Because it's a different Jesus.
Don't give me the fundamental
doctrine.
If you so believe in this
fundamental doctrine of eternal
security, why do you say it's
possible for you to stop
believing?
Hello?
Anybody home?
I stand on the fundamental
doctrine of eternal security,
but you could still stop
believing at some point.
What?
What are you, like a
Pentecostal?
By the way, how many of you have
heard Pentecostal say that?
I have.
I've talked to Pentecostals at
the door and they'll tell me,
I'm saved because I trusted
Jesus Christ as my personal
Savior.
And I say, well, great.
Can you do anything to lose
your salvation?
Absolutely not.
Nothing, huh?
No.
Okay, so what if like later on
down the road I get involved in
sin and I die?
Oh, yeah, you lost it.
What in the world?
Didn't you just tell me you
can't lose your salvation?
It's like this.
I believe in eternal security of
salvation, but you can stop
believing at some point.
And let me just explain to you
why this is so stupid.
Okay?
Because he's claiming, please
understand this, that in order
to stay saved, you have to
perpetually keep believing.
You understand that?
So on your part, you have to
keep believing.
But it's funny, in this video,
when he talks about, he says
that the apostle Paul, hey, the
apostle Paul said that he could
become a castaway.
That means he stopped believing.
Oh, really?
You know, why don't you quote
the apostle Paul in Romans
chapter eight when he says that
the spirit bears witness with
our spirit, and we're the
children of God.
Amen.
Why don't you quote the clear
scriptures of the Bible?
Instead, you just
pervert scriptures.
Now, he used this verse right
here that we're about to read,
and it's almost as if he read it
and he understood, oh, man, this
is actually teaching contrary to
what I believe.
And in the video, he doesn't
even expound upon it.
He's like, I'm not gonna even
get into this.
Yeah, because it's proving you
wrong.
Look at verse nine.
Whosoever transgresseth and
abideth not in the doctrine of
Christ hath not God.
He that abideth in the doctrine
of Christ, he hath both the
Father and the Son.
If there come any unto you and
bring not this doctrine, receive
him not into your house, neither
bid him God speed.
For he that biddeth him God
speed is partaker of his evil
deeds.
He reads that and says, I'm just
not gonna get into that.
I already said, I said enough.
Yeah, because God just shut your
mouth, that's why.
Amen.
It's like the time that I went
so in with Paul, and we're by
this trailer park, do you
remember this?
This guy comes up, and he was
kinda jittery, you know, this is
Los Angeles, and he was like on
one a little bit, and we tried
witnessing to him, and he was
just staunch on losing your
salvation.
He's like, it's not by belief
only, but you can lose it, blah,
blah, blah.
And I said, can you show me that
from the Bible?
He goes, he's all, takes my
Bible.
I'm not kidding you, right?
And he's just like, and he goes,
God, just please show me this is
your word.
He said, show me, just show me
real quick, and he opens it, and
he reads, he goes, for God so
loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son that whosoever
believeth in him should not
perish but have everlasting
life.
I said, yeah, that's it.
You got it.
Oh, is that with you?
Oh, I thought it was with Paul.
You'll get credit, don't worry.
I'll give honor to what our
owners do, right?
He reads John 3.16 to disprove
that it's not by belief only.
And I said, yeah, you got it,
man.
Hey, you prayed?
You open up the Bible, and you
read that verse, bada, bada
boom, bada bang, there it is.
Well, that's the same thing that
this guy did.
He went to the scripture to
disprove, and then he read it and
just didn't expound upon it at
all.
Go with me, if you would, to
2 Timothy chapter 3.
And this is the, this is what he
brings up in his video, but he
also brings it up in our
conversation.
Because remember, he believes
that you can stop believing.
And if he really believes that,
which he claims that he does, he
says I'm not going back on it,
then he's not saved.
Does anybody, do we have a
problem with that?
Does anybody have a problem with
that with me stating that?
That if someone says that they
can stop believing that they're
not saved, does anybody have a
problem with that?
Raise your hand if you have a
problem with that.
Yeah.
It's pretty clear.
Right?
He says there, he's looking for
a 13.
He's looking for a 13.
If we believe not, yet he abideth
faithful, he cannot deny himself.
You see, that's the apostle Paul,
Brother Mejia.
He says if we believe not.
Let me explain something to you.
He says if we believe not.
He doesn't say when you believe
not.
You guys understand that?
And when I told him that over the
phone, he was just quiet.
And I said let me give you an
example of what this means.
In Matthew 24, verse 24, it says
this, for there shall arise false
Christs and false prophets and
shall show great signs and
wonders insomuch that if it were
possible, they shall deceive the
very elect.
Now, you know what we know about
that?
Is that the elect are not going
to get deceived.
It's just saying if it were
possible.
So that's exactly what 2 Timothy
chapter 3 is saying, if.
Not when.
Because someone, no one ever
stops believing.
And it's funny that he starts
off his video with like 20
different books.
Twenty different books by
different theologians.
Doesn't start off with the Bible.
False prophets and he goes like
this.
He says look, this one is called
Alzheimer's disease.
Because you could forget.
I'm not joking.
He said that.
He says you can get Alzheimer's
and forget that you're saved.
What in the world?
Look, I know it's funny, but he
really believes that.
And that was his premise to the
entire thing that you can just
forget salvation.
One day you're like whoa, hold on
a second.
Did I?
Did I trust Christ?
I think I did.
I forgot I do so many things last
week, you know.
I just forgot what I did.
I had such a long task list.
Maybe I might have done it.
That's not the way it works.
The Bible says that we have the
witness and ourselves.
And you can't forget that.
You can forget God's blessing.
You can forget what you did last
week, but you'll never forget the
fact that you're saved.
Go to 1 Corinthians 9.
And keep in mind, he said this in
the video.
I don't even know.
That's what he said.
I would tell you to go watch the
video, but it probably bore you to
death.
I'm not joking.
It has like 400 views on his
channel only because he's saying a
lot of stupid stuff.
But I'm pretty sure it has more
dislikes than likes.
Why?
Because people who are watching
us who are saved have brains in
their head and they understand
this is stupid.
1 Corinthians 9.
This is another verse he used.
Verse 24 says, knowing not that
they which run in a race run all,
but one receiveth the prize, so
run that ye may obtain.
The one that striveth for the
mastery is tempered in all
things.
Now they do it to obtain a
corruptible crown, but we an
incorruptible.
I therefore so run not as in
certainty, but so fight I, not as
one that beateth the air.
But I keep under my body and
bring it into subjection lest
that by any means when I preach
to others, I myself should be a
castaway.
So he claims that 1 Corinthians
9.
27 is in reference to being a
castaway like you basically stop
believing.
And he's insinuating that the
castaway is referring to the you
losing your salvation.
Now we don't keep under our
bodies to stay saved.
This is in reference to what
verse 24 all the way to 27 is
talking about, that we
discipline ourselves, we have
character in ourselves, we are
faithful and consistent so that
God can continue to use us.
So we're not cast forth as a
branch wither and die.
In other words, you become
useless.
Now here's how cunningly wicked
this guy is, that he quotes this
and then he goes, by the way, let
me read to you what it says in
the Spanish Bible.
And let me just tell you this,
I'm the one who showed him what
he's about, what I'm about to
tell you.
So he didn't even know about this
until I showed him.
And he reads it and it talks
about the word for castaway in
Spanish is reprobado, which
means reprobate.
Now, I'm the one who showed him
that.
And he says that and he goes,
reprobado.
Why?
I don't know.
He's like, I'm just saying that
that's what it says in the
Spanish Bible.
What is he trying to do?
He's trying to cause you and the
viewer to doubt.
Say, wow, why does it say
reprobate?
Let me just do a commercial
break and explain to you what
that means.
Because this is a correct
translation.
It's correct.
Okay.
For Spanish, it is correct.
Because reprobado simply means
rejected.
Oh, I thought reprobate means
someone who's beyond the hope of
salvation.
Yeah, if you're reprobate
concerning the faith.
Because in Acts chapter 4 in the
Spanish Bible, in English it
states that Christ, who is the
chief cornerstone, was
disallowed, right?
In the Spanish Bible, it says
that he was reprobated.
In other words, he was
rejected.
So what do we have to do when we
read the Spanish Bible?
We got to understand the
context.
Because reprobate simply means
rejected.
Well, how do we know if it's
talking about a false teacher,
false prophet if the Bible tells
us that they're reprobate
concerning the faith?
Because they're rejected
concerning the faith.
What is faith?
The faith to believe.
They can no longer believe.
So what is he referring to here
in 1 Corinthians chapter 9?
He's stating that he doesn't
want to be rejected of God to be
used of God.
That's what he's stating there.
To be cast away, to be rejected
is what he's stating.
But Eric wants to take this
verse and leave doubt, cast
doubt in the mind of the reader
and the viewer and say, wow, why
does it say that?
Does that mean that he can
become a reprobate?
Because he stopped believing?
This is heresy.
And I told him, I said, that's
interesting that you wanted to
read that in the Spanish Bible
after I showed you, but you
didn't want to expound, you had
an hour and 16 minutes worth of
your video, but you didn't take
any of that time to explain what
1 Corinthians 9 said?
What it really means in the
Spanish Bible?
You just want to throw that out
there, huh?
That's wicked.
Go to Romans chapter 8.
Look, you better get used to
this.
Throughout the years, people are
going to be infiltrating our
church all the time.
Oh, man, it's just my old IFP
church is way better than this.
We never cast anybody out.
Yeah, because they just let them
stay in there.
Sorry to break it to you.
They just stay in there.
They don't kick anybody out.
Yeah, that guy believes you can
lose yourself, but he's just a
little off on salvation.
The only difference between us
and them is that we actually
kick them out.
The pastor gets up, slobbers all
over the crowd, rips face and
says, hey, we're excommunicating
this fool, and then we post it
on YouTube so that pastors in
our movement know about these
heretics so they don't go to
their church.
You better get used to it.
There's a reason why these
instructions are in the Bible to
tell us about these things.
Look at Romans 8, verse 15.
For ye have not received the
spirit of bondage again to fear,
but ye have received the spirit
of adoption whereby we cry
Abba, Father.
The spirit itself beareth
witness with our spirit that we
are the children of God.
And if children are heirs of God
and joint heirs with Christ, if
so be that we suffer with him,
that we may be also glorified
together.
You know why the spirit bears
witness?
Because we're the children of
God.
John 1-12 explains that to us.
Now let me ask you, have you
ever forgotten that you had a
dad?
Like, how's your dad doing?
Oh, man, that's crazy you said
that.
I do have a dad.
That's right.
I thought I just came into
being.
That's a stupid, silly thing to
think about, right?
But that's exactly what he's
saying.
You see, when the Bible teaches
salvation, it teaches it from
different facets of the same
diamond to help us to understand
our position in Christ.
It says we have eternal
salvation.
We have everlasting life.
We're children of God.
We have received the spirit of
adoption.
We're sealed with the Holy
Spirit of promise.
It hits it from different angles
to just solidify the fact that
we're saved.
So many examples in the Bible to
teach us this concept.
And the father-son example is a
great illustration to use.
Because no son ever says that
they don't have a dad.
They may say that out of
bitterness because their dad
left them or something.
But at the end of the day, it
took a person to make you.
It took two people to make you.
A dad and a mom.
Right?
It's not like they're just born
and you're like, oh, I'm a
clone.
And I was made in a lab.
No.
They don't understand that they
have a mom and a dad.
Okay?
Look at Ephesians 1 says.
We're gonna go over some basic
scriptures, but sometimes it's
the basic that refutes the most
stupidest doctrines.
Ephesians 1 verse 13.
In whom ye also trusted, after
that ye heard the word of truth,
the gospel of your salvation,
in whom also after that ye
believed, ye were sealed with
that Holy Spirit of promise,
which is the earnest of our
inheritance until the
redemption of the purchased
possession unto the praise of
his glory.
So the Bible tells us here that
the Spirit is sealed within us
until the day of redemption.
And in Romans chapter 8, it says
that we're waiting to wit the
redemption of our bodies because
we're saved.
The Bible tells us that because
we're saved, we have the Spirit
of God, our Spirit, and the
Spirit lusts against the flesh,
the flesh lusts against the
Spirit.
These are contrary one to the
other so that you cannot do the
things that you would.
So what does that cause you to
do?
It causes you to groan within
yourself to wait the redemption
of your body because you want to
do right but you can't always do
right.
We're sinners.
So because you understand that
your flesh is unsaved and your
Spirit is saved, you can't wait
for that redemption of your
body.
I can't wait to be redeemed.
You know, there's things that we
struggle with on this earth, in
this world, and we're going to
struggle with for the rest of
our lives.
But just because we struggle
with them doesn't mean like,
hmm, maybe I didn't believe.
Because at that point, you're
correlating believing to
maintaining good works.
Yeah, but we, you know, have to
get involved in sin.
Yeah, but sin is the
transgression of the law.
So what you're stating is that
if you believe you have to keep
the law to confirm your
salvation, that's on your part.
You're putting in effort to
keep yourself safe.
Whereas the Bible teaches us,
not of yourselves.
It is the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast.
Go to 1 John 5.
Verse 10, it says here,
he that believeth of the Son
hath a witness in himself.
Now, brace yourselves.
He that believeth not God,
hath made him a liar.
Because he believeth not the
record that God gave of his son.
Bam!
It says if you stop believing,
you may got a liar.
This is referring to someone
who does not believe at all.
They reject the son,
therefore they reject God.
And the Bible says here that
you've made God a liar.
So this doctrine of, oh, you
know, you can just stop
believing at any time.
You're basically saying to you
that you're just calling God a
liar.
This is eternal security
packaged very nicely for us in
1 John 5.
Telling us, hey, we're always
gonna believe.
Why?
Because if you don't, you're
calling God a liar.
And this is the record that God
hath given to us eternal life
and this life is in his son.
Now, go to Hebrews 10.
What if you get involved in
like some big time sin?
And by the way, I'm not
talking about heresy like the
flat earth.
I'm friends with people on
social media who are flat
earthers, but we don't talk
about that stuff.
Because they know I don't,
I think it's a stupid doctrine.
And look, if you're a flat
earther here, I got a message
for you.
Just keep your mouth shut.
I can't believe it.
Just keep your mouth shut.
That's so mean.
Yeah, yeah it is.
Just keep your mouth shut.
You know, if you believe in
the pre-tribulation rapture,
that's heresy.
But it's not damn to what
heresy.
But if you believe that on your
own, hey, I'm not against you.
If you try to recruit people to
believe like you, I would say
keep your mouth shut.
If you love the Christ-rejected
Zionist propaganda, you can do
whatever you want.
I don't care.
But if you try to propagate
that in our church, here's my
message to you.
Keep your mouth shut.
So this isn't keep your mouth
shut for everything.
Don't ever come talk to me.
Don't try to misconstrue my
words.
I'm talking about if you
believe a doctrine that the
church does not adhere to,
keep your mouth shut.
In regards to that doctrine.
Not just like, hey, how's it
going, Paul?
Like, you okay, man?
He told me to keep my mouth
shut.
I can't even talk.
You're an idiot.
You're a stupid fool.
Look at Hebrews 10, verse 37.
For yet a little while, and he
that shall come will come and
will not tarry.
Now the just shall live by
faith.
But if any man draw back, my
soul shall have no pleasure in
him.
So here it's stating that if we
draw back, what does that mean?
We backslide.
We stop believing.
God's soul shall have no
pleasure in us.
But look what he finishes off
saying in verse 39.
But we are not of them who draw
back into perdition, but of them
that believe to the saving of
the soul.
You know when we backslide,
we'll never go to hell.
He's like we're not Pentecostals
here.
They believe you can lose your
salvation.
We believe to the saving of the
soul.
And look, the reason I say Eric
Ballesteros is not saved is
because he made a video claiming
that you can stop believing and
any person who's always
wondering, man, can I stop
believing?
They're typically not saved.
And if you are joining the
enemies of our church and
claiming that oneness people are
saved, you've lost your marbles.
You're one of them.
And let me just say this.
If you don't like me as a
leader, you might as well just
come out and say it already and
go somewhere else.
Because if all goes according to
plan, I'm going to end up being
the pastor here in August.
Then you're really screwed.
I'm not going to tell Pastor
Anderson he agrees with me.
He's the one who's going to
ordain me.
So if you don't like me as a
pastor, if you don't like my
personality, if you think I'm a
little too rough, then you know
what?
There's a lot of other churches
you can go to.
Don't let the door hit you or
the Lord split you.
I want, look, I'm not, again, I
don't want just people to just
leave.
But I don't want people to stay
if they hate me.
If you hate me, take a hike.
I'm just kidding.
His name is Hike.
Go to 2 Peter chapter 2.
I had to do it.
His name is Hike for the
visitors.
His name is Hike.
And they just got married
yesterday, so she took a hike.
It's a bad joke.
2 Peter chapter 2.
When I was talking to Eric
yesterday, I said, you know,
it's funny, you went through all
these scriptures, but you never
talked about 2 Peter chapter 2.
Well, the Bible actually talks
about damnable heresy.
Why didn't you mention that,
Eric?
Well, you know, I understand
what you're saying, but answer
my question.
Why didn't you talk about 2
Peter chapter 2, Eric?
Why didn't you talk about the
verses that are clearly
explaining that we cannot stop,
no one can stop believing if
they're really saying?
Why didn't you talk about the
verses in the Bible where it
talks about damnable heresy and
how it correlates that with a
false teacher who's not saved?
Why didn't you talk about that,
Eric?
Look at 2 Peter 2 verse 1.
But there were false prophets
also among the people, even as
there shall be false teachers
among you, who privately shall
bring in damnable heresies, even
denying the Lord God that bought
them.
So these are people who are
teaching false doctrine and how
do we know?
Because they've denied the Lord
God that bought them.
Now let me just explain
something very basic to you when
it comes to false prophets.
The Bible says in Matthew 7 that
they're wolves in sheep's
clothing.
This does not mean that they
literally carry sheep's clothing
upon themselves.
This means that they look like
us and they talk like us.
Because he told me, he said,
yeah, but he says that he
believes.
I'm like, Eric, of course he
has to say that.
How else is he going to
infiltrate?
What do you think he's going to
say?
Hey, I believe in the worship of
salvation.
I'm oneness.
No, every person who's an
infiltrator has to say the right
things to deceive people.
Yeah, but he said it.
He's lying.
Hello?
He's lying.
No, but if they say that they
believe, look, a characteristic
of a false prophet is that they
are liars.
They have to study us, know what
we believe so they can repeat
what we say.
That's what happened with
Garrett Kirschway.
Yeah, but Tyler Baker says he
believes.
He says he believes.
Dominique Davis, I believe he's
a brother.
He says he believes.
You know, Adam Fannin says he
believes.
Okay, I got something for you.
I said, let me ask you this.
Do you believe that Judas was
saved?
He said, no, I don't.
Yeah, he's a false prophet,
right?
Right.
Okay, can you tell me something
that he said in the Bible that
was false doctrine?
Can you quote me a verse from
Judas that just completely
condemned him as being a false
prophet?
Well, no.
Yeah, you can't.
You know why?
Because for three entire years
when he was with the disciples,
he was probably saying the right
thing.
And you would confirm that he
was a false prophet is when he
turned in the Lord and he was
stealing the money.
Stick that in your pipe and smoke
it.
You don't record, the Bible
doesn't record him teaching any
false doctrine.
But everyone knows he's the son
of perdition.
How do you know?
Because he was stealing the
money.
Because he turned in the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, but you know, Tyler
Baker's not stealing the money,
but guess what he's doing?
He's perverting Christ.
And no man by the spirit of God
calls Christ a cursed.
No man is going to say that
Jesus Christ did not exist.
That he was only in one mode.
It was only one God.
Apart from Jesus Christ.
Apart that these people did not
exist in the Old Testament in
eternity past.
That's false doctrine.
Because think about it.
They literally, the witness
crowd believes that Jesus
Christ became the begotten son
in Bethlehem's manger.
Get this.
Don't let me lose you on this.
It's not very difficult to
understand.
They believe that he became the
son of God when he was born in
Bethlehem's manger.
Well, you got a problem there
because in Daniel, which is in
the Old Testament, Nebuchadnezzar
said, he looked into the fiery
furnace and said, the fourth is
like unto the son of God.
Before he was born.
Before he was born in Bethlehem's
manger.
So don't give me this just
because they believe a little
differently.
And by the way, in this
conversation, with me, he began
to rail on Pastor Roger Jimenez.
He began to rail on Manly Perry
by name.
And he said, keep this between
me and you.
No, we're not keeping this
between me and you because I
just said it.
I'm about to post it on YouTube,
buddy.
He begins to rail on them and
say that they don't understand
the Trinity.
And he had the gall to say,
yeah, if I went up to Pastor
Jimenez, I'd say, Pastor Jimenez,
I love you, brother, but you're
wrong on the Trinity.
When this fool hasn't even been
in church for more than three
and four months, and all of a
sudden he thinks he has the
aptitude to even know the deep
doctrines of the Bible?
Railing on Pastor Roger Jimenez.
And I said this.
I said, you're ridiculous.
So you're going to pull out one
video that Pastor Roger Jimenez
came out with and just
completely negate every other
video that he's made saying that
he believes the Trinity like we
do, where he's corrected it.
He states what he believes in
regards to the Trinity.
He holds to the Trinity, but you
want to get this one little
video that he made.
I said, let me ask you this,
Eric, if someone mocks Jesus
Christ dying for us, is that
person saved?
No, absolutely not.
I said Tyler Baker mocked Jesus
Christ coming and dying for us,
that God sent his son to come
and die for us, and he mocked
that.
I said, is he saved?
Well, I don't know.
I've never seen that video
before.
I don't know.
I can't say.
So you're going to strain in a
gnat and swallow a camel with
Pastor Roger Jimenez?
Why don't you scrutinize Tyler
Baker the same way?
How do you not know about that
video?
That video is known all across
the new IFB.
You know why?
Because you're not interested in
scrutinizing the actual
heretics.
You're interested in
scrutinizing the men of God and
nitpicking every little thing
that they say when he's already
corrected it.
And then you want to say, yeah,
Tyler Baker, you know, I don't
know.
What do you mean you don't know?
Go watch the video, idiot.
He's mocking Jesus Christ.
He's mocking the fact that God
gave his son.
How many have seen that video?
Eric, you can talk to any of
these people here that'll tell
you the same thing.
Amen.
Oh, I don't know about that.
Oh, but you know all about
Pastor Roger Jimenez.
You know all about Manly Perry.
You know what that's called?
It's called a railer.
Go to Luke chapter 8.
Here's another verse he picks up
here.
You say you sound pretty mad.
Yeah, I'm glad you see that.
And over the phone he said this,
look, I know you're mad.
You sound really upset right
now, but I just want to talk to
you normally.
I'm not going to talk to you
normally.
I ripped his face off.
I ripped into him because he's
got to own up to it.
You know, you're so bold behind
a camera.
You're so bold and want to say
we're arrogant and we're prideful.
Stop condemning them.
Stop damning them.
I just annihilated this.
Let's see you talk now, Eric.
Look at Luke 8.
This is a verse he used to show
that people can fall into
heresy, damnable heresy.
They on the rock, verse 13,
they on the rock are they which
when they hear receive the word
with joy and these have no root
which for a while believe and in
time of temptation fall away.
There you go.
Let's pray.
Let's go home.
And he says there you go.
See, in the time of temptation
they fall away.
They fall away into false
doctrine like oneness.
They just, you know, you just
you fall away and just stop
start believing that Jesus
Christ is not the eternal son of
God.
It happens.
No, it doesn't happen.
The Bible says in Matthew 13,
21, yet hath he not rooted
himself but deareth for a while
for when tribulation or
persecution arises because of
the word, by and by he is
offended.
So this is not talking about
someone who just gets saved and
then they just stop believing
just because, you know, someone
fed them false doctrine.
This is someone who because of
the way, because of
persecution, because of
difficulties in trials and
tribulations, they get out of
church.
They stop reading their Bibles.
They stop soul winning.
It doesn't say they just no
longer believe.
When it says that for a while
they believe, it means they were
saved and all of a sudden they
just get out of church.
You understand that?
It doesn't mean they just stop
believing.
Nowhere here does it say that.
Persecution, tribulation,
arises because of the word and
by and by he is offended.
Okay.
Go with me if you would to 1
John chapter 2.
1 John chapter 2.
Look folks, I think it's pretty
clear.
And I'm not trying to convince
you of this doctrine because
this is basic.
What I'm trying to convince you
of, and I don't even think I
need to convince you of it, is
that this guy's worded to get
his rear end kicked out of our
church.
Don't come at me with judge not.
Don't come at me with just be a
little nicer.
I was nice.
I prayed before I even called
him.
I said, God, I don't enjoy doing
this.
I don't enjoy excommunicating
people out of the church.
Help me.
You know, if this guy's innocent,
if he's innocent, if he's just
an idiot, you know, help me to
see that.
Help him to repent.
Take down the video.
And when he comes to church
tomorrow, everything could just
be fine and dandy.
Good to go.
I said, Lord, but if not, help
me to just rip his face off.
Amen.
Because this is what's right to
do.
Right.
You know, so don't come at me
with, oh, you just, maybe you
should have taken care of,
maybe there's a different way I
could have done it.
Yeah, I could have screamed
louder.
That's about it.
Look at verse three.
Wherefore I give you to
understand, excuse me, first
John chapter two, verse 18.
Here's another verse he uses.
Against us, by the way.
Verse 19 says, they went out
from us, but they were not of
us, for if they had been of us,
they would have no doubt have
continued with us, but they went
out that they might be made
manifest, that they were not all
of us.
So he uses this and he says,
this is what a lot of people
believe.
You know, if they go out, you
know, they're saying that's a
wicked person, that's a false
prophet because they were not
all of us.
No, that's lordship of
salvation.
That's what he states.
So now he's gonna clarify in
verse number 18 what is really
being said here.
Little children, it is the last
time as ye have heard that the
antichrist shall come.
And he says, see, there you go.
This is talking about the
antichrist.
It's not talking about just
like people who get into
damnable heresy.
This is talking about end times
the antichrist.
There's a comma.
Even now, are there many
antichrists whereby we know that
it is the last time?
So yeah, Eric, there's gonna be
an antichrist in the end times
but guess what?
Even now, there are many
antichrists and they went out
from us, you went out from us,
Eric, because you were not of
us.
Go to chapter four.
Yeah, but we can't really apply
that to like the oneness people.
I mean, that's harsh.
You know, we won't apply it but
the Bible's about to right now.
Look at verse number one of
first John chapter four.
Beloved, believe not every
spirit but try the spirits
whether they are of God because
many false prophets are gone
out into the world.
Hereby know ye the spirit of God.
Every spirit that confesseth that
Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh is of God.
And every spirit that confesseth
not that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh is not of God.
And this is that spirit of
antichrist, whereof ye have
heard that it should come and
even now already is in the
world.
You see, that's not what they
believe.
They claim that Jesus Christ is
the father.
And it's the father who came.
That's what they claim.
And here it says, if you don't
believe that Jesus Christ came
in the flesh, you're not of God.
And he took it a step further.
You're antichrist.
Just like what we saw in first
John chapter 2.
Go to John chapter 10.
John chapter 10.
By the way, if there's any
remaining oneness people in here,
modalist, I'm not going to beat
you up.
I'm not going to fist fight you.
You know, if you leave quickly.
But don't think you can just
come and just infiltrate the
church.
Look, I'm thankful for social
media.
I'm thankful for YouTube because
it helps us.
It does a lot of work for us.
We see people's true colors on
YouTube, don't we?
So if that's something you
believe, look, if you want to
sympathize with them, get out.
I want nothing to do with you.
I want zero to do with you.
If you sympathize with Christ
haters, these are people who
hate Jesus Christ.
Well, I'm just going to wait it
out a little bit.
Maybe no one will know.
Okay, that's fine.
You know, the Bible says that
their follies shall be made
manifest.
Happened with Eric.
Hey, thank God.
Are you a little stressed,
brother?
Not really.
I'm having a good time.
Probably going to go eat a
double-double after this.
Mario woke up right there in the
back.
You know, we're going to have
church tonight.
It's going to be good.
Look at John 10.
This is another verse that he
used to basically debunk what we
believe.
He states in verse number 3, he
says, to him the porter openeth
and the sheep hear his voice and
he calls his own sheep by name
and leadeth them out.
And when he putteth forth his
own sheep, he goes before them
and the sheep follow him for
they know his voice.
Oh, you see, they know his
voice.
That's what he said.
And they're claiming, this is
him saying this, that when
someone knows his voice, they're
not going to get into damnable
heresy because they know his
voice.
He's mocking this, by the way.
And he says, but you've got to
read it.
What does it say before?
They follow him.
Oh, see, that's works right
there.
They follow him for they know
his voice.
That's works, that's lordship
salvation.
You've got to understand something
about John chapter 10.
He's using sheep like animals.
And the way animals and human
beings communicate is not
verbally.
Like the sheep can't talk to the
shepherd.
So the way they communicate that
they understand the voice of the
shepherd is that they follow him.
That's the way the shepherd is
able to discern if the sheep are
not deaf or something, you know?
Yeah, understanding.
He calls them and they come to
him.
We're not sheep.
And the principle, the doctrine
that's being taught here is that
we know the voice of God.
You know why?
Because when the word of God is
being spoken, when it's being
preached, the message of the
Bible, the words of the Holy
Spirit resonates with our
spirit.
It speaks to us.
We know that it's the word of
God.
We know that it comes from the
Bible.
When we hear about the deity of
Jesus Christ, it resonates.
Why?
Because the one who wrote the
Bible, the Holy Spirit, lives
within us.
He resides within us, and the
Bible tells us in John 14, John
16, that he's going to lead us
into all truths.
So he's not going to lead you
into damnable heresy like, hey,
man, I was telling you about
salvation, but that, you're on
your own.
One is, I don't know, man, you're
on your own on that.
You can discern if that's true
or not.
He's going to lead you into all
truth.
When you hear something that's
damnable, you may not even know
the entire Bible, but you know
there's something wrong with
that.
There's something wrong with
that.
You know why?
Because the Holy Spirit of God
lives within you.
That's why.
So it's not like, you know,
look, when you hear Christians
can stop believing, that's a red
flag.
Because you know, I may not
have memorized the entire Bible,
but I know there's something
wrong with that.
There's something wrong with
that.
Now, that's pretty much it.
So, Eric Ballesteros is never
welcome to come to our church
ever again.
Okay?
Ever again.
And look, if you're friends with
Eric Ballesteros, let me just
talk about this for a minute,
okay?
If you're friends with him, you
know, I'm not the Baptist police,
and I don't go around checking to
see if people hang out with other
people, you know?
But I will say this.
If you, after the sermon,
continue to fellowship with that
guy, you're violating 1
Corinthians chapter 5.
Because it says, but know not to
eat.
And I'm not gonna go, I'm not
gonna like, you know, text you
and say, you're not doing it,
are you?
That's on you.
That's God's judgment on you.
I will say this.
If I find out that you are, I
probably will come in front of
you and say, why are you doing
that?
Why are you hanging out with
people who hate what we believe?
Why are you hanging out with
someone who's usurping the
authority of the potential
pastor of this church?
Why are you hanging out with
people that hate us?
He doesn't hate you, he hates
us.
He hates me.
I heard him say he loves you.
People lie.
You understand that?
His actions are not saying that.
Why are you hanging out with
people that post videos against
our church?
Against them.
That's what I want to ask.
Look, I don't know if anybody's
hanging out.
If that's you, then you know,
yesterday was passed, okay?
And look, he knew that he was
gonna get kicked out.
He told me, yeah, I already knew
I was gonna get kicked out.
And yet he still went to Hikes
reception where all of us were
at, including myself.
Knowing that he was gonna get
kicked out.
He went, and I don't know how it
happened, maybe it was the Lord
or maybe it was just him.
As soon as I left, he came.
Like, people were telling me,
like, almost at the minute.
As soon as I left, he walked
right in there.
Knowing that he was gonna get
kicked out of Faith Ward Baptist
Church.
That is a very wicked person.
The gall to do that.
So don't misconstrue my words.
I think it's very clear.
Now, let me talk to the men.
All in favor of kicking out Eric
Ballesteros out of Faith Ward
Baptist Church, say amen.
Amen.
All right.
Look, that's the way we're gonna
do it.
That's the way it's gonna be
done.
And it's for the sake of
protecting the sheep.
Right.
And protecting the integrity of
the local New Testament church
that God tells us to do this.
I want God's blessing to
continue to be on our church.
Amen.
But that does not happen if we
tolerate people who defend the
enemies of God, who defend the
enemies of our church, and teach
false doctrine openly.
Hey, then sin will rebuke before
all that others may fear.
Amen.
Let's bow our heads and have a
word of prayer.
Father.
Amen.