Welcome to First Works Baptist Church, if you could go and please find your seat, turn
the song number 143, Blessed Assurance.
We are going to really test everybody's singing voices tonight for anniversary Sunday.
Sing with all your heart amen
song number
143 blessed assurance on number
143 on that first verse
blessed assurance
Jesus is mine
Oh, what a poor taste of glory divine
My say
Thank you for this wonderful and beautiful day
that you've given us.
Thank you for allowing us to come
to hear your word twice in a day.
May we not take that for granted.
Thank you for this church and the anniversary Sunday
and each year that we've been winning souls to Christ.
Father, I pray that our singing glorify you
and that our hearts will be ready for the preaching,
that your Holy Spirit fill the preacher.
We love you in Jesus' name, amen.
You may be seated.
song number 65 just over in the glory land as you catch your breath amen song
number 65 song number 65 on that first verse I'm a home repair where the saints
are but just over in the glory land
And I long to be by my Savior's side
Just over in the glory land
Just for...
I will shout
Actually singing everyone good evening. Happy anniversary to you all just some announcements before we sing our next song which will be
415 victory through grace, 415 if you want to get that ready in your hymnals.
We would like to welcome you back to our Thursday night Bible study at 7 p.m.
We're currently going through the book of John.
So many times and teens are there below and then we have our expecting mothers.
Please continue to pray for them.
As I said earlier, today's our church anniversary.
We're going to have all the activities that we have after the sermon tonight.
For that, I just have a couple of announcements.
What we're gonna do after the sermon,
we're gonna make a line at the double doors
coming along the wall and kind of hugging the wall
all the way around.
And the ushers will be kind of leading all of that there.
for the food and then pass me here we preach for that amen all right it's it's
not just a random line amen to you on a mission strip will be Saturday
September 27th meeting at the building at 915 and then our homeschool field trip
will be at Legoland in October 14th and that'll be a Tuesday and if you have
questions you can talk what reach out to miss Sara Mejia
Ladies' Per Breakfast will be Saturday, October 4th,
meeting at 10 a.m.
That's it for the announcements.
Please open up your hymnals to song number 14.
Silence your phones to not be disturbance to the service.
And Brother Ron, get up here
so we can send this next song.
Amen.
Amen, brother.
Song number 415, Victory Through Grace.
Our church's theme song, amen,
on the anniversary Sunday.
Song number 415.
Sing with power, on that first.
Huggering now and still to conquer,
right at the key.
Shout in the name
As the ushers come forward for the offering, please turn your Bibles to Genesis chapter 1, Genesis chapter 1.
Good evening tonight. We're in Genesis chapter one
Genesis chapter one the Bible reads
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth the earth was out of form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters
And God said let there be light and there was light and God saw the light that it was good
And God divided the light from the darkness and God called the light day and the darkness
He called night the evening and the morning were the first day
God said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters
God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters
Which were above the firmament and it was so and God called the firmament heaven and the evening and the morning were the second
Day and God said let the waters under the heaven be gathered together under one place and let the dry land appear
And it was so and God called the dry land earth and the gathering together the waters was called the seas and God saw that it was good
God said let the earth bring forth grass and herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind whose seed is in itself
Upon the water upon the earth and it was so and the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind and the tree yielding fruit
Whose seed was in itself after his kind and God saw that it was good
the evening in the morning were the third day and God said let there be lights
in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be
for signs and for seasons and for days and years and let them be for lights in
the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth and it was so and
God's God made two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the
lesser light to rule the night he made the stars also
God set them in the firmament above the heaven to give light upon the earth and to rule over the day and over the night
And to divide the light from darkness and God saw that it was good
The evening and the morning and the evening in the morning were the fourth day and God said let the waters
Bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth and the open
Infirmament of heaven and God created great whales and every living creature that moveth
Which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind and every winged fowl of his kind and God saw that it was good
God blessed them saying be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters and the seas and let fowl multiply in the earth
In the evening and the morning were the fifth day and God said let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind
cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind and it was so and
God made the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind and
God saw that it was good
And God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness,
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea
and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle
and over all the earth and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image
and the image of God created he him,
male and female created he them.
And God blessed them and God said unto them,
be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth
and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea
and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing
that moveeth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb-bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat, and it was so.
God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Let's pray dear Lord God just thank you for this church Lord our eighth year anniversary Lord
And we just thank you for pastor Lord and I just pray you bless him right now
He's it preaches your word unto us Lord and just be with us in the congregation that we could apply the sermon to our lives
Lord we pray this all in Jesus name. Amen
Alright, we're in Genesis chapter 1 this evening and the time I sermon tonight is heaven preaching on the subject of heaven
The doctrine of heaven here in Genesis chapter 1 and verse number 1 the Bible says in the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth, and the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the
deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Tonight I want to go over some of
the specifics about heaven, what the Bible says about heaven, and help clear up some misconceptions
that Christians may have regarding this particular doctrinal subject. Now why is this important?
Well because of the fact that you know you have a lot of people out there that come up with their
what's in heaven and to some people out there heaven is just kind of painted
with a broad brush amongst a different bunch of different religions and the
inspiration for this particular sermon was the FBI director
who was paying homage to Charlie, Kirk said this.
You know, he's basically trying to honor him
and he said something to the effect of,
hey, you know, we're gonna miss you
and we're having the watch now.
I'll see you in Valhalla, okay?
Which is referring to some Norse Pagan location,
this Norse doctrine of the afterlife
according to Vikings or something like that.
Now, this was so retarded about this statement, OK?
Number one, it's an Indian guy who said that.
Yeah, I'm sure he said that.
And in fact, I think it's like Patel.
So I think it's a great judgment to say he's probably Indian.
So it's an Indian guy talking about Norse mythology
about a professing Christian, right?
I mean, talk about confusion.
Okay, and I'm sure there's a bunch of compromising Christians out there. They're like, oh, we know what he meant
You know, he just means you know heaven or whatever Valhalla is not heaven
And he's probably gonna go to Valhalla, which is simply means hell
I just translated as hell because anybody who doesn't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ goes straight to hell
Okay, and so you know we want to make sure that we know what the Bible actually says regarding this topic
Heaven is not Valhalla. It's not purgatory. It's not Abraham's bosom
It's the eternal boat of the righteous and of God and of course we're gonna get into more specifics
Regarding what the Bible says about it now first and foremost. Let's go over. Let me give you a couple points here
I'm gonna give you six points regarding heaven that we need to understand the first thing is this is that heaven was created
So, heaven has not always existed, it was actually created on the first day.
One of the misconceptions that people have regarding heaven is that it's always been.
It's always been there, it's always existed, and you can kind of see why people think that,
right?
Because it's the abode of God, because God dwells in heaven, and because God is eternal,
Heaven must have existed forever,
it must have always been there,
because that's where God is.
But according to Genesis chapter one,
in verse number one,
heaven was created on the first day, okay?
Now look what it says in verse number six, if you would.
Verse number six, it says in verse six,
and God said, let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters,
and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament and divided the waters
which were under the firmament,
from the waters which were above the firmament,
and it was so.
Now, why go over these verses?
Well, first and foremost is because of the fact
that most people will interpret Genesis chapter one
and verse number one as not referring to heaven
where God is, but rather just the atmosphere or space.
And the reason they think that is because the modern versions of the Bible says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Okay? Well that is a mistranslation.
Our King James Bible says that God created the heaven and the earth and it's not referring to the atmosphere the stratosphere space
It's referring to where God is dwelling at. It's referring to where believers go. That's what it's talking about
Now, how do we know that it's not talking about the sky the atmosphere the stratosphere space?
Well because of the fact that the next couple verses
Explains to us that those particular areas were created on the second day
So we just read verses six and seven,
look at verse eight calls those firmaments.
It says in verse eight,
and God called the firmament, what?
Heaven.
and the evening and the morning were the second day.
So we see on the second day that the sky, the atmosphere,
that's when those particular areas were created,
not referring to where God is currently dwelling in.
Now let's give further proof to this.
Look at verse number 20.
Verse number 20 says,
and God said, let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature that hath life.
and the fowl. What is the fowl?
Fowl is just another way of saying bird.
We don't use that term anymore to refer to birds,
but that's what it's talking about.
It says the fowl that may fly above the earth
in the open firmament of what?
Of heaven.
So, you know, oh, no, it's referring to that glass dome, you know, the ice dome is the flat earth
No, this is just referring to the sky that they're flying in, okay?
And so this is obviously showing us here that the sky the atmosphere the stratosphere space was created on the second day
apart from
The spiritual location that we refer to as heaven where God is was created on the first day, okay?
Now why was heaven created in the first place?
Because you think to yourself, man, I've always thought that like heaven has always existed.
Why did God create it?
Well, obviously God made heaven with the foreknowledge that the righteous would eventually inhabit heaven, right?
Because if you look at the counterpart of heaven, it's what? It's earth.
God created the heaven and the earth. Why did he create the earth to be inhabited by man?
God created heaven with the foreknowledge that that man would sin against God that they would die and that they would need
Salvation that Jesus Christ would die for them that would believe on him and then they would be eternally with God in heaven
That's why heaven was created now
There's other reasons why but that's one of the main reasons and just to further prove that Genesis 1 1
is referring to that spiritual place is not referring to the sky the atmosphere
that was created on day two the Bible talks about in Psalm 19 that the heavens
declare the glory of God right it says that the firmament show with his
handiwork what does that mean it means that when we look at the sky we can
visibly see with the naked eye the sky the stars the atmosphere and viewing the
handiwork of God we glorify God on that behalf right well we can't see where God
So when it says that the heavens declare the glory of God,
it's not referring to the eternal boat of God.
It's referring to what physically can be seen with our eyes.
This is proof here that when we look at the sky,
we look at the stars and the moon and the celestial bodies,
we end up glorifying God because of it,
because it's such a wonderful, magnificent work, right?
Now, the second thing I want to mention here
is that when it talks about God creating the heaven
and the earth, go with it if you went to 2 Corinthians,
Obviously, when we talk about heaven or heavens we're not referring to multiple levels of
that celestial place we're God abides, okay?
Heavens, when it talks about heavens, plural, obviously it's referring to, as I mentioned,
the atmosphere, stratosphere, space and so forth.
This is not talking about various levels of that spiritual location known as heaven.
Now why even mention that?
Okay, I don't know if you've heard of it, but in this particular book in second Enoch and third Enoch
Which most of the time you know when I'm debunking the book of Enoch
I'm focusing on first Enoch and even advocates of the book of Enoch don't even know there's a second or third one
Okay, they mainly focused on that first one because it's the first one that has the the 450 foot giants and all the
nonsensical teachings that they love to embrace all the fables
I mean all three of them are fables, but that's the bulk of the fables are in first Enoch
Well, second and third Enoch, particularly second Enoch,
focuses a lot on the levels of heaven, okay?
And in fact, it primarily focuses
on seven specific compartments of heaven.
And there's a story in Second Enoch where Enoch is taken up
into heaven because he's not forgot, took him, and he's up
there, and he's visiting all the different seven levels of
heaven, seven, kind of one of those, if you guys remember
that from the 90s, that's where they got it from.
So he's visiting all these compartments, but that doesn't
exist.
There's only one level of heaven.
The reason the Bible talks about various heavens is because it's addressing not just the spiritual location
But also the physical location that we can see with our eyes look at second Corinthians 12 verse 1
This is often the passage that they'll use to try to validate that teaching
It says it is it is not expedient for me Dallas to glory
I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord
I knew a man in Christ above 14 years ago whether in the body I cannot tell whether out of the body
I cannot tell God know it such in one caught up to the third heaven
Now, I personally believe that he's referring to himself, okay?
He's kind of talking about himself in the second person here,
where he's essentially saying, hey, you know, I knew a man,
but the man that he's referring to is himself.
And I personally think that he's actually talking about
the first missionary journey that he took where he was stoned
and they dragged him out of the city,
supposing that he had been dead.
It's possible that he was dead and he went to heaven.
And of course, God allowed him to miraculously come back.
But it says here that he was caught up to the third heaven.
Now, this is not an admission of different levels of heaven,
it's just referring to that spiritual location,
that abode of God, okay?
So we can say like the atmosphere is the first,
space is the second, the third one is the one
that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
This is what the Bible also calls paradise.
He says here in verse number three and I knew such a man whether in the body or out of the body
I cannot tell God know it how that he was caught up into
Paradise and heard unspeakable words, which is not lawful for a man to utter
Now I want you to notice that God calls heaven
Synonymously with what paradise now why is that important because there's a lot of dipsticks out there
who embrace dispensational theology that believe
that Abraham's bosom is a specific look,
it's like a second compartment of hell
in the center of the earth,
and it's referred to as paradise.
So they have this weird doctrine
that what the Old Testament says when they died,
their souls descended into Abraham's bosom.
This is like a motel, okay?
And they're just kind of like sin,
they're waiting for Christ to come die
and get him out of there, kind of thing.
Abraham's bosom is referring to the chest cavity of Abraham.
I don't know how they get like, oh, Abraham's bosom is a room.
Of course.
It's a lounge or something, right?
And they'll call it, they'll say, well, it's paradise.
But on the same token, they'll also call it prison.
Now, unless we're dealing with some really shabby motel,
you know what I mean?
It's kind of nonsensical to call paradise prison. They're not the same thing
Okay, obviously what they're trying to do is just kind of fit in their dispensational theology
Then no one went to heaven in the Old Testament because salvation was different back then folks
Enoch went to heaven Elijah went to heaven the sons of God presented themselves before the Lord in Job chapter 1
Various times throughout the Old Testament scriptures. We find people go into heaven. Okay
The reason it's referred to paradise because that's exactly what heaven is. It is paradise and so the apostle Paul is referring to that third heaven
It's not different compartments as the book of Enoch likes to capitalize on regarding this phrase
You know that does not exist. That's a fairytale. That is Christian science fiction. It doesn't exist now
I will say this though heaven although not having various levels hell does have various levels
There are various levels of hell and we know that because of the fact that Jesus Christ talked about the greater damnation
The Bible talks about in the Old Testament the lowest hell and the Bible seems to indicate that people who obviously who died without Christ go to hell
But then there are like different levels of hell for different levels of punishment
Regarding the people who go there. So, you know, you have false prophets like the Pharisees who the Bible says will receive the greater damnation
Okay, you know they received the greater punishment because they have a greater sin and so God obviously
Imposes a far more harsh punishment upon false prophets upon pedophiles and reprobates
Then just your regular Joe Schmo who dies without Christ now they all go to hell and it's all hot
But obviously there's certain levels of hell that are hotter than others because God is punishing them far worse
So let me just give you this example. You know like Judas the scary is probably like in the core
Right because he's a son of perdition. Okay, and
Your your favorite false prophet like John MacArthur's priority like right there with him too
Because that's where false prophets go people who spend their lives preaching a false gospel
Damning souls to hell they receive the greater damnation. How do we know that because he's literally talking to false prophets in Matthew 23 about that?
Okay, oh, you shouldn't judge people. I mean the Bible judges all the time
The entire Bible is about does a book in the Bible call the book of judges
So, hell does have different levels based upon, you know, the sins, based upon their
false gospel, you know, based upon how wicked they were.
We obviously don't know exactly who's going to be designated what, you know.
It doesn't really matter.
We just know that God institutes a punishment of severity based upon the level of their
sin or their false doctrine.
And you're in Genesis chapter one.
Turn with me if you would.
Colossians chapter one. So we see that heaven was created. It hasn't always been
It was created with a specific purpose and I'm gonna go over some of those purposes right at this moment
Now, let me also say this is that you know, there's a really popular
YouTube channel that focuses a lot on biblical animation tells like a lot of stories. I think it's called
Someone what is it the Bible project? How many know what I'm talking about? Okay?
The animation is great, it's very professionally done,
it just has a lot of dandable heresy though.
So if you could just watch it on mute,
you would like it a lot, you know?
Oh, this is great.
But they teach a lot of dandable heresy,
and you know, they have a lot of false doctrine,
and I believe the creators of this
are false prophets for sure, okay?
Cause they teach a lot of heresy.
Well, one of the creators of this,
you know, doesn't really believe in hell.
And he basically says like oh hell's not a real thing in the Bible and
If you've read the Bible you like what?
The smoke of their torment ascended up forever and ever what do you mean or the worm died not and the fire is not quenched and
He's like hell and here's the proof that hell is not a real thing in the Bible
Where was it created in the creation period? Oh, man, you got me
You know, oh, man, I never really thought about you because because having is mentioned
You know therefore if hell is not mentioned in the creation period then obviously it could not exist
But that's a that's an unsaved way to try to interpret the Bible
That's his way to try to justify or excuse
This the subject of hell, but here's the thing hell is mentioned in the creation period because hell is in the center of the earth
So when the Bible says that God created the heaven and the earth guess what's included with the earth is hell
So you know God doesn't have to give you the full details of everything that was on the earth at that time
It's just everything that was included is when he says earth just like this when the Bible says that God created the heaven
Guess what's included in that all the celestial bodies that were in heaven all the angels
That he had to tell you every single seraphim and cherubim that was created. No, it's obviously mentioned
It's obviously implied if that's what's in heaven. Okay, which leads me into my second point
Which is that heaven was created with the purpose to house celestial bodies angels seraphim and
Cherrybim now I've already preached on the subject of seraphim and cherrybim in previous sermons
But I'm obviously referring to these angelic beings
that look, they have this anthropomorphic body,
foreheads, just look like a complete nightmare.
And so he created them, and this is where he placed them.
Look at Colossians 1.16.
It says, for by him, were all things created.
that are in heaven and that are in earth visible and invisible whether they be
thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created by him
and for him. So the Bible specifically says here that he created principalities
and powers and I do believe he is referring to these angelic beings.
Now, think about this.
Why did God have to create heaven for these angelic beings?
What's the purpose of that?
Why would he create it to house these angelic beings?
Well, let me explain to you.
God is eternal, right?
And one of the divine qualities of God
is that he is omnipresent.
Now, what does it mean to be omnipresent?
It means he's everywhere at all times, right?
He can see all things at all times he's everywhere,
So whatever God creates needs a specific location to be in at one point
Now obviously we know when we study cherry-bim and seraphim they're able to move at a lightning speed with very fast
Rapidity, but they still have to be at one place at one time
Like for example Satan himself the Bible says that he walks to and fro throughout the earth
Meaning that he can't be in two places at one time
He could only be at one designated place at one time. That's how all things are created
We're created the same way.
We have to travel to go to a specific location.
Well, if he creates these angels who are these messengers,
he creates the cherubs and the seraphims to praise him
and to carry out a specific work.
Well, they need a specific place to dwell in
because they're not omni-present.
They can only be in one location at one time,
which is why heaven is there to house them.
Turn with, you're in Colossians chapter one.
Go to Hebrews chapter nine, if you would.
Heaven is created to house the celestial bodies,
angels, seraphim, cherubim.
We see that in Colossians chapter one.
Let me also say this,
before I get into my third point here,
another reason why I'm preaching this
is because I was out souling a couple of weeks ago
and I was talking to this Mexican Muslim.
You heard right, yeah, Mexican Muslim.
I know what I said, this is the real thing, okay?
And, you know, I knocked on the door and he's just like,
oh, I'm Muslim and I'm just like, you're dark,
but I don't know, and then he's just like, yeah,
I converted to Islam and blah, blah, blah.
And, you know, obviously I'm not.
or anything like that, I'm not going to be like,
oh, see you then, you know,
I'm trying to win this guy to the Lord, right?
I want to preach the gospel to him,
try to win him to Christ.
But in my experience, I know how unreceptive
they are to the gospel.
I will say this, like, he's probably more receptive
than the Jews though, right?
The Jews are very close to it,
but quite frankly, you know,
Muslims are also unreceptive.
to the gospel, as I'm going to prove to you in this illustration.
So I'm talking to this guy, and he's just like,
oh, I found the light, and blah, blah, blah, this,
and just all this nonsense.
And so I'm trying to give him the gospel,
and I'm giving him verses.
And he's like, well, let me stop you there.
So because he was trying to checkmate me.
And he's like, so you're saying, do you
believe that God created that God lives in heaven?
I said, yeah, that's what the Bible says, that he's in heaven.
He's like well, that's that's nonsense. I was like why would that be nonsense?
He's like how can he create heaven if so if heavens containing him your God is weak?
Because how can he create something and be contained by it and I said that's kind of like a weird question
I say he's not restricted by heaven
He chose he chooses to be there, but he's not restricted. No. He goes don't know he is
He's restricted by his creation.
He's controlled by heaven because he's the one who created it.
You said he lives in heaven.
And he's just like, he just keeps going on with this.
And I'm like, is this even like a Muslim point?
Like, I've never even heard this.
And I'm like just because he created heaven doesn't mean that he is like hindered by heaven or that he's he's like
Restricted to only heaven. I said God is on my present. He's omniscient. He's like no no
He created it if he lives there that means he's restricted by heaven
And I'm just like it's so retarded. This is just like this is one of those days
And so I was just like all right this guy's not gonna listen so I just kind of left him with this
I said well did God create you?
He says yeah
Are you restricted are you restricting God? No, that's different
I'm not restricting God although you're saying that God's if God creates something. He's restricted by it
Well, he created you as he restricted by you
No, you're twisting what I'm saying. I'm like I'm just using your logic here
I said, it just doesn't make any sense.
And then he got a little disrespectful.
And so I was walking away.
I said, well, you worship a guy who's a pedophile.
And then he's just like.
I can't remember what he said, but I said,
I said, you don't support pedophilia.
You know, you're OK with that?
He's like, yeah, well, you know, it's according to the Bible.
And so I kind of stepped back.
I was with my son.
I stepped back, and I looked at the people,
because there's people walking.
I was like, so you support pedophilia?
Other, you're good with marrying a six-year-old?
That's gross.
And he's just like, pfft.
I was like, weird.
Roe shed had just never said anything at all.
He should have just took in the invite,
said he had something on the stove
and just got his rear end back in the house.
But folks, God isn't hindered
just because he created heaven.
God, and I'm gonna explain to you why specific,
what heaven has to do with him abiding there.
He created it to house the celestial bodies,
angels, seraphims, and cherry-bims,
but he also created it to house the heavenly tabernacle.
You see, the current heaven was necessary to establish the Old Testament.
Well, how so?
Well, the tabernacle that was constructed in the Old Testament wasn't the first tabernacle.
And in fact, it was a copy of the celestial heavenly tabernacle that was in heaven.
The mercy seat that was here on this earth was in heaven first, you understand?
And so, you know, God's not just like, you know, I'm just gonna create heaven real quick
and we'll figure out what to do with it later.
No, and there's an intent behind it, there's purposes behind it.
He created it to house these celestial bodies, but he also created it to house the heavenly
tabernacle that is still there, okay?
It says, then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service and the
worldly sanctuary, for there was a tabernacle made the first, wherein was the candlestick
and the table and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary.
And after the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called the holiest of all, which
had the golden censor and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein
was the golden pot that had man and Aaron's rod that butted in the tables of the covenant.
It says the Holy Ghost, this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet
made manifest, while as yet the first tabernacle was yet standing, which was a figure for the
time then present.
Meaning that the tabernacle that Moses constructed in the Old Testament symbolically represented
a real tabernacle that was in heaven.
When Moses went up to Mount Sinai and he's getting all the blueprints. He's getting it from the current tabernacle that was there
Okay, so everything that he constructed the show bread
He had the cherry you bims that overlaid the Ark of the Covenant
Everything all of the accoutrements was literally patterned after
The literal tabernacle that was in heaven God constructed it to work as a pattern for something that was going to be temporarily
instituted on earth thereafter
Look at verse number 10, not only that, but folks, listen to this, God created heaven to place the tabernacle there, but also to place the mercy seat in there where the blood of Jesus Christ would be put upon.
Now that's important.
Look at verse 10 of Hebrews 9, which stood only in meats and in drinks and diverse washings and carnal ordinances and posed on them until the time of Reformation.
But Christ being come and high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle
Not made with hands that is to say not of this building
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
He entered in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us
Let me explain something when Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross
He died and he went to hell for three days and three nights. Yes. He went to hell for three days and three nights
And the Bible says that his soul was not left in hell, neither did his flesh sheet corruption.
So on the third day, he resurrected.
Now if you've read the Gospels, you see that there's instances where when he addresses his disciples, he tells them what?
Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father.
But then shortly thereafter he's telling Thomas. Oh, you can feel my sides my hands
And so why is he telling him at one point not to touch him?
And then the other point that it's okay to touch him
Well the first time he tells him not to touch him is because he says I have not yet ascended into my father
Showing us that after his resurrection
Jesus Christ went to heaven to put his blood on the mercy seat and then he returned and that's why they were able to touch him thereafter
So this is important. So one of the reasons heaven was created was to place the tabernacle there place the mercy seat there
So that Jesus Christ can put put his blood on the mercy seat in heaven. Look at verse 23
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things and the heavens should be purified with these
But the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these for Christ is not entered into the holy places
Made with hands which are the figures of the true
but into heaven itself,
now to appear in the presence of God for us.
So we see here, you know,
the creation of this celestial location on his heaven
was very much important
because it houses all of the angels that praise him.
His train that the Bible talks about in Isaiah chapter six.
The angels that are praising him that picture the four Gospels
It also houses the tabernacle and it works as a pattern and it has
The mercy seat where Jesus Christ two or thousands of years later would end up what?
Putting his blood on that sea in order to bring about that New Testament
Okay, so it's essentially vital for the introduction of the New Covenant the New Testament go to Hebrew chapter 12
Hebrew chapter 12
Point number four is that heaven was created as I mentioned in the beginning to inhabit the redeemed, right?
You know, it's just crazy the thing like oh, no, you know for thousands of years
Everyone who died
Went to the center of the earth. No one's in heaven didn't exist
Okay, well, let me ask you this, you know, if it's called Abraham's bosom where did everyone go before Abraham?
You know it's just like well, we didn't think that far ahead or something
You know now if you read Jewish encyclopedias they say well, it's called Adams bosom before but obviously he messed he messed that up
And so you know then it was the rights were given the copyrights were given to Abraham thereafter
But this is nonsense folks, you know, it's crazy to think like oh, yeah
No one can go into heaven in the Old Testament ever went a went to Abraham's bosom
Heaven was made to be inhabited by the Redeem look at Hebrews 12 verse 22, but you're coming to Mount Zion
unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
to the general assembly and church of the firstborn which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all,
and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,
and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Heaven can be referred to as Mount Zion.
It's the city of the living God,
and it's the heavenly Jerusalem.
Now this is important because too many Christians
esteem the current Jerusalem
as being some special location or something like that.
Spiritual Sodom and Egypt,
according to the Bible.
Don't waste your money buying a plane ticket to Jerusalem.
The current Jerusalem.
There's a ticket that's already been paid for and it's free.
And it's to a heavenly Jerusalem.
It looks way better than the current Jerusalem.
And you won't be spit upon if you say Jesus.
I saw a video recently of this guy online.
His name is Tatum, Officer Tatum.
And he's like a major influencer.
And he was criticizing me online because I make all these
videos against the Jews or whatever.
And he's kowtowing to the Jews.
And then he was interviewing Netanyahu, OK?
And if you ever wondered if he was bought,
there's your answer right there, right?
And he's interviewing me, and Nen Yahu's lying to him
and he's telling him, oh, Israel's like the safest place
for Christians, and it's just like a haven for Christians.
I'm like, what, are they crucified?
Jesus, they're already talking about it.
I'm like, how in the world is that the safest place?
And then, you know, Tatum was just like,
oh, yeah, I agree, I went there,
and we only got spit on once.
No kidding!
Only once.
Wow, he's just like, yeah, they only spit on us once.
Wow, what a great marker to tell if that's a great,
you know, I lived in the United States of America
where we have fags and liberals, bunch of Democrats,
and I've just never been spat on, you know?
But yeah, in Israel, they will spit on you
if you say the name of Jesus.
But yeah, he's just like, oh, it's great, yeah,
it's so safe, we only got spit on once, great.
It's a joke.
Folks, let's focus on the heavenly Jerusalem
Why because that's that was the original intent for heaven is for to be inhabited by us by the a general general
Sam of the spirits of just men made
Perfect go to go with me for what the second Corinthians chapter 5 second Corinthians chapter 5 if you wouldn't
second Corinthians chapter 5
Second Corinthians chapter five verse number one says,
for we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle
were dissolved, we have a building of God
and house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.
He says, for in this we groan, 2 Corinthians 5 verse 2,
for in this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon
with our house which is from heaven.
If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened.
Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon.
That mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Now what is this referring to?
When it talks about this tabernacle is referring to the body right and a tabernacle is a tent
But it's more specifically referring to like the house and this body houses the spirit right and in fact in the New Testament
It calls this particular body a tabernacle or temple of the Holy Ghost
And it's saying here that, you know, this tabernacle,
this temple will dissolve one day.
Just like we talked about in the sermon this morning,
it's gonna fade away, it's gonna die, right?
But we should look forward to the fact
that we have a house of God in the future.
And I don't think this is referring to heaven,
just in general, I think it's referring
to our resurrected bodies that are in heaven
that we will see one day, right?
That's what it's talking about.
We will be clothed upon with a sinless,
resurrected, glorified body.
And what is the apostle Paul trying to get out of here?
He's trying to say like, hey, you know,
obviously we should take care of the temple, the Holy Ghost.
We should be good stewards of this body
so we can serve God longer.
But you know, don't focus so much on the body though,
because this body will dissolve.
We need to make sure that we're constructing
a resurrected body through our works, right?
When we get to heaven.
Obviously, we're going to get a resurrected body when you get saved, but the level of
the resurrected body kind of changes based upon 1 Corinthians chapter 15.
Some will shine brighter than others, right?
And this is why he says this.
Look at verse number six, therefore, we are always confident knowing that whilst we are
at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight.
We are confident, I say, willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present
Now annihilationist people who don't believe in hell people who believe that when you die
You know people who just kind of dissolve or they sleep or whatever
They often criticize us when we quote this verse right here verse and Murray
And I will admit that we do miss quote this a lot because we often say to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord
But what the verse is saying we are confident I say willing rather to be absent for the body and to be present with the Lord
And they'll say well it doesn't say to be absent for the body is to be present with the Lord
He's just saying that he's willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. It's the same thing
If he's saying I rather be absent from the body, what is the alternative to be present with the Lord?
Notice I say well to be absent from the body is to wait in the ground for a while
And to sleep for a little bit and then let no he's saying we will be present with the Lord and every single
Passage that we see in the Bible talking about this particular subject records people just go in heaven. Okay
Point that I'm making here is that heaven also houses our resurrected bodies
And it refers to our physical bodies now as tabernacles or temples, but did not Jesus say, you know, in my father's house are many mansions?
I go to prepare a place for you, right?
Now, people often think that, oh, I think that's just referring to a literal mansion.
You know, they're just like, isn't it a literal mansion?
But let me ask you, why do we need mansions in heaven?
Is it just like, oh man, I'm tired of worshiping God.
Hey, I'm going to go hang out in my mansion and we'll kick him out of jacuzzi.
And you just close the door like lock it or whatever and just hang out on the couch, you know
Houses literal physical houses are for shelter
It's to sleep in it's a shelter
The language is being given here is that we have a house in the eternal and is referring to the house of the spirit
Okay, and so we see here that it houses the resurrected it's a house for the
just men made perfect go with me if you would turn to Psalm 139 Psalm 139 so it
houses the celestial bodies it was created for the tabernacle the literal
one the mercy seat it was meant to be a place of the redeemed
Let me also say this heaven was created as a reference point for the presence of God. Now, this is important
Because here's the thing that you know, we can't really describe eternal that which is eternal, right?
Like God is in the eternal, but we don't know how to describe that because it's a foreign concept to us to be able to grasp
forever, right like
Even when we try to describe that which is prior to Genesis 1 1 we just call it eternity past
Even though even though it's kind of like a it's kind of an oxymoron right because there is no past
President or future in the eternal is just is
Jesus said I the I am that I am
So from our perspective, it's very difficult to describe the eternal as far as we know that it's forever
But we don't know how to describe it in terms of location
So what God does he gives us a location in order to help us to kind of reference the eternal
And what is that location heaven?
This is why when we pray, we look up into heaven, right?
We look up to the sky, we look up to heaven.
That is our reference point for the presence of God.
Now we know that God is everywhere.
He's omnipresent, He's omniscient,
but God also knows that we're limited
and our ability to understand that and describe that,
therefore He gives us a specific location known as heaven.
And look folks, that helps us too
when we are thinking about our loved ones
who have died or gone to heaven.
You know, we will see them one day again in heaven.
You know, we need that particular reference point
to describe those loved ones who have died and have passed on.
The Bible says in Isaiah 57 verse 15,
for thus sayeth the high and lofty one
that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is holy.
So we can't really measure eternity,
but heaven, although a spiritual location can be referenced,
it gives us somewhat of a reference point for his presence.
This is why David said, look at Psalm 139 verse 8.
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there.
If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
He's actually describing the omnipresence of God,
but he's using reference points to do so, right?
Jesus said in John 3.13,
no man had to send it up to heaven,
but he that came down from heaven,
even the Son of Man, which is in heaven.
Philippians chapter two, go back to Hebrews if you would.
Hebrews chapter 11
It's used as a reference point. We need something to look forward to we need to talk about and you know
Obviously, there's nothing wrong with saying you know, are you 100% sure that if you die today that you'd go to heaven?
But really what we're saying is like are you 100% sure that you will live eternally?
Because if we really want to be specific about it, you and I both know that we're not gonna be in heaven forever
We're actually gonna inhabit the earth forever right, but we ain't trying to sound like Job's witnesses when we're out there
You know I mean because Job's witnesses hijacked that doctrine and you know talking about they're gonna be on this earth
They know they're gonna help every single one of them
Okay, you know, but we say this because of the fact that the world
Associates heaven with eternity with salvation with living forever. So that's why we say Bible way to heaven
Are you 100% sure that if you die today, you go to heaven?
The Bible says in Philippians, chapter 2, you're in Hebrews.
2 verse 8 says,
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself
and became obedient unto death, even to death of the cross.
Wherefore, God also hath highly exalted him
and given him a name which is above every name.
That at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow of things in heaven, things in earth,
and things under the earth, that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to
the glory of God the Father.
So in order to communicate the supreme authority of God, he has to address, you know, everything
is going to bow to him in heaven, things in earth, and things under the earth.
It's giving us reference point to his supreme authority, to his dominion.
Okay?
That's important. The second thing the next thing I want to mention here is that heaven was created
To help us to live by a different set of laws and principles
When Jesus came to this earth, he started preaching what?
Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand and then he would get forth these parables
And he says the kingdom of God is like and then he would espouse a
particular teaching a spiritual teaching that he wanted his disciples to live by right
Now this is important because I think out of all of these points, Christians have the hardest time with this right here.
Living by a different set of rules.
You know, kind of what I mentioned this morning, right?
Some people are so tied into this world, what this world espouses, the ideologies of this world, they actually become ineffective at the Kingdom of Heaven.
They want to they want to be citizens of this world so bad
They often forget about the fact that they are fellow citizens of the household of God in heaven
But folks don't let Jesus teachings go to waste
He gave these parables to kind of help you and help me recognize that we're supposed to live by a different set of principles
Not according to the principles of the Gentiles not according to the principles of the unsaved
Not according to the laws of this world that contradict the Bible. We need to go according to the kingdom of God
Look at Hebrews 11 verse 13. These all died in faith
Not haven't received the promises, but haven't seen them afar off and were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were
Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Oh, they didn't I think we talked about that earlier, right?
you're saved I got my citizenship already and you know in America and we'll see
how that works for you in heaven you know they're gonna be like where never heard
Look at verse 14 for a day that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. I know brothers. God's country man
So for America. No, this is referring to like the heavenly country
Now I know a lot of you not gonna like this, but that's what I'm saying
Cuz I like to make you mad
Verse 15, truly, if they had been mindful of that country
from once they came out,
they might have had opportunity to return.
But now they desire, oh, get this, a better country.
How can there be anything better than this, brother?
That is, in heavenly,
where if God is not ashamed to be called their God
for he has prepared for them a city.
Let me just tell you, the nation in which you live
are ashamed of you and of your Christian beliefs.
Not because it's America, but because it's the world.
That's why
Don't try to fit in with the world
But hold on a second heaven is it they love what we believe
They like what we preach. They like our doctrine
God's not ashamed to be called our God
What's the point that I'm making here? God wants us to put our stakes down deep in New Jerusalem
In the heavenly and not so be tied down to what's going on here. Okay?
The kingdom of heaven, you know, I'm sick and tired of Christians trying to use the Bible to justify their patriotism
It's not in the Bible
That's a fact and I know a lot of you got mad when brother Cody came up here and he was preaching against Republicans in this day
And the other well that message was brought to you in part by Pastor Bruce Mejia, and I and I endorse that message
Because this is a fundamental Baptist church where we preach the Bible
And you know what, you can be patriotic if you want.
You can wear red, white, and blue.
That's all good.
I'm good with that.
I'm not for treason.
I'm not for you waving around a Mexican flag either,
or any other flags for that matter.
If you're going to wave a flag, at least wave
the Babylonian flag, for goodness sake,
because you're here.
But you know what, let me just tell you right now
is that we need to be more patriotic regarding heaven,
though.
If you want to be patriotic in America, it's all good.
But may you be characterized, though,
by being more patriotic about heaven.
Why?
Because it is a better country.
It's a better country.
I said it.
And I am sick and tired of people twisting the Bible
and trying to pull out verses from the Bible.
Well, Paul used his citizenship of being a Roman.
And so that's why I vote.
Like, what?
Pro what and you know, I'm not gonna spend the whole sermon talking about this, but I might but you know like
You notice like Jesus wasn't on this political
Kick either
Right like you there was politicians in his day
He's like he like never wants to see sir
right
He's like let's reform the land
You know, let me try to win Caesar over. No, he said my kingdom is not of this world
That's what he said and let me also say this
You know because I've literally had a ton of people message me this online
They're just like and this this goes to show you how far removed Christians are from the Bible
Okay, and these are people who are this they're sincere, but they're sincerely wrong
You know because everything that's going on with the whole Charlie Kirk thing people were like, you know
When do you think it's appropriate to just start like bearing arms against these people and just kind of taking vengeance and you know
Can you tell me what the Bible says? Yeah, it doesn't say anything about that
What are you talking about like you don't think it's what about like the crusades and stuff bro, what?
Huh
What is a right to just like, you know, just start, you know, banding together and start hunting these people down?
I'm just like what and this is where it's one of I said
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood
But against principalities powers against the rules of the darkness of this world, and this is what there's fun
Oh, man. I never seen that
Yeah, I know
Cuz you're so far removed from the Bible
Do you think they it's okay to exact violence now? Let me say this the death penalty should be instituted on
Murderers assassins that should be a thing. I think the government should put that guy to death. I don't care by what means they do it
It just needs to be done speedily
Okay, and that's different from us taking vengeance us taking matters into our own hands because that's not our position
Jesus Christ never put anybody to death while he was here on this earth
He wasn't about that because of the fact that he is here establishing a spiritual kingdom through the gospel
But you know he also paid taxes though, too
Now I you know, I don't have a fish that can pull money out of whatever pay my taxes
But you know, I'm he I'm going by his example to pay taxes
But he was here and he's like and you know what? I think this is something that Christians will always struggle with
Think they will always struggle with this
Because the disciples struggle with this. They're like, so when you're gonna like, you know, establish the kingdom, you know
Even after the resurrection
Like oh, sorry, you're gonna establish the kingdom now. It's just like it's not in your power to know the times and seasons
It's like this is not what it's about and they're like, oh man, you know they're kind of like disappointed
But you know Christians are like that today
They're like that today because they have this desire to want to bring heaven on earth
But it's not going to happen through our through these means it only happens through spiritual means
And you know, I'm sorry. It's not as glorious
as what mainstream Republicans and Christians
make it out to be, as glorious as they are,
with what they're able to do,
but you know what, this is what God's pattern is,
this is what his will is,
is for us to preach the gospel,
and you will never be esteemed by the world
as being some great Christian
for winning a ton of people to Christ,
it's never gonna happen.
Look for the better country.
Because you're gonna be in that country
far longer than you're in this country.
That's a fact.
I know I offended a lot of you, but that's okay.
You know, you need to get offended every once in a while.
And maybe your pastor needs to preach on this a little longer,
a little more, if this is your first time hearing this,
you don't belong to our church.
Maybe you need this a little more.
Why don't you go back home and tell your pastor
to preach against Republicans and conservatives
and actually preach what the Bible says.
How about that?
The Bible says in Ephesians 2 18 for through him we both have access by one spirit into the father now therefore you're no more
Strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God referring to
Heaven okay
Here's my last point because we got bull riding to do and burgers to eat
There's a lot more I can say, you know, the current heaven is obviously temporary
the Bible talks about new heaven and new earth and there's a lot of symbolism with the resurrection and
The resurrected body, but let me just get on this last point real quick
And that is that heaven was created to hold the rewards of the righteous go to Matthew chapter 5 if you wouldn't
Now here's here's a great motivation for you to focus on heaven you got a bank account there
and you're accumulating spiritual funds in heaven.
How much money you got in heaven?
Because we accumulate funds in heaven
by winning souls to Christ and by serving God,
not just through soul winning, but by serving your husband,
serving your wife, serving your kids,
serving in your church, just putting your polls
in different aspects of the walk of God, the work of God.
But you also get it by being persecuted.
Look at Matthew 5 verse 10.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for Republican sake.
Oh, dang, that's a different R.
For righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when men shall revalue and persecute you
and shall say all manner against you falsely
for being a conservative.
No, it says for my sake.
Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecutively the prophets which were before you
The Bible is telling us here that we receive great rewards
When we live godly in Christ Jesus in Christ Jesus
We receive great rewards
Now let me just be frank with you is that a lot of Christians are just gonna be broke in heaven
They're not gonna get food stamps
They're not gonna get, they're not on EBT there,
no food stamps, they get nothing.
You know why?
Because they didn't do nothing.
And you know what?
You know, if there's pastors out there
and churches out there that only win souls to Christ
and that's it, praise God for that.
Praise God.
I'm for fundamental Baptist churches
that win souls to Christ and get a lot of people saved.
Keep it up.
But we also gotta get persecuted too though.
And you know you get persecuted when you preach the hard truths
You put our hard truths biblical truths that no one else wants to preach
Okay, and let me just let me just explain to you what a hard preaching hard truth is. It's not you know calling out the gays I
Called my church members gay when they act a little zesty. That's not that's not hard
If they say something dumb like that I was gay
I'm talking about preaching against faggots.
And by the way, don't call them transgender either.
They're called transvestites.
Well, you know, we don't want to be very,
oh, you don't want to be very godly, you know?
Because the other side, mainstream Christianity,
has pushed a different form of preaching
that isn't really hard, right?
Hard for them is just like if you call out
Hard for us is when we pray Barack Obama dies
Hard for them is just like calling Kamala liberal hard for us when we call Kamala whore
And I honestly that's not even that hard that's easy that's like in passing
We're just talking about something like Kamala's a whore
And if you want to get more it's just like the whore of Babylon ah
Hard preaching is when we actually name the sins
We don't just say sin is bad
You don't say
Hard preaching is when we preach against fornication drunkenness extortion. How about supporting Israel?
Right hey, how about you you say the J word
The Zajouz
We never want to, you know, just kind of like change the goalpost here, what
heart-preaching is, because it will affect our rewards in heaven. You know,
you're not gonna get to heaven and then, you know, G, who's gonna be like, oh wait,
what did you do? He's like, oh man, I call out Democrats. The who? The Democrats, you
know? I don't know. What did you do? I put false prophets to death. G was like, I
I call them gay.
It's just like, what did you do?
Oh, I preached against Herod.
I preached against the kings.
I called out their sin.
I was persecuted for righteousness's sake.
What did you do?
I voted Trump.
And man, that was the hardest thing ever.
Oh
No, you're not a martyr. Sorry
It's like what what did you do, you know, I I call down fire from heaven and burn a bunch of false prophets. I
Didn't burn a bunch of false prophets. I had a bunch of false prophets killed after I showed myself
I showed that God was on my side burn the altar the sacrifices and I had all these false prophets killed. What did you do? I?
I put Christian on my bio
And say no and said no gay stuff allowed
Put it this way, okay, let's just use gay no gays allowed in the church. How about that?
No fags allowed in the church. Let's hear an old IFB preacher
Say no faggots are allowed in this church. It won't happen
You know why because they probably have bags in their church already
If you knew here this offends you well now you're getting an actual dose of what heart preaching actually is
You know hard preaching is when you actually talk about Leviticus 2013 and said the homeless should be put to death
That's what the Bible says
And here here's the thing folks. Let me just say this
You know what's a marker that determines whether you're preaching hard or not? I'll tell you what it is
Do you get persecuted for it? Well pastor you get persecuted for it. Yeah, we got bombed
What did you get an email
Oh man, I got persecuted by these gay people
and they call me hateful and bro, that's like every week.
I've had people mail me stuff.
I remember for the longest time,
I would just consistently mail every single week by homos.
And I remember one time, there was someone who mailed us
a gift card or money for my wife to get away from me.
They're like, here's money to you, Mrs. Mejia.
Get away from your hateful husband.
I know you're trying to escape.
You say, what did you do?
I used it for Starbucks.
That's what I did.
You say, aren't you afraid if you preach like that?
I mean, no.
Because here's the thing folks, we want to make sure that obviously look we don't want to just be obnoxious
But this is the house of God and we should be able to preach with the house
What the Bible actually says and you know what it's it's high time that?
Fundamental Baptist pastors just completely convert to replacement theology
Take down their star of rent fan flag from down from their church
Stop sending their money to Israel stop praying for Jerusalem stop making excuses and kissing Jew rear end
And actually say what the Bible says that's hard preaching
Preaching against the Jews preaching against Israel preaching against Netanyahu
The wicked of this world. That's what needs to be done
No, no, no hard preaching is preaching against the Liberals. That's like entrance level
That's like we're just we'd say that I'm like passing
That's like the milk. That's not even the milk of the word
That's just like basic stuff
You know, hey, can you pass it just a fag at least once and not like
Say faggot
You shouldn't talk about that in the house of God. Why there's none of them here
And most of them already know how I feel about that. I've called it that to their face
You know you say what does this have to do with heaven?
What it has to do with heaven
is that um
We just have what I'm saying we have to stand on the Bible
Right and not be ashamed with the Bible says
You know, and it's just like well the Bible doesn't say fact well the Bible doesn't say gay people about homos and you use that all the time
Look, I'd be happy if you just use reprobate, but you know what you won't even use that
You won't even cold Leviticus 2013
You wouldn't even talk about Romans one
Good night in the morning. If you could just do the basics that'd be great
But that's not happening the point that I'm making here is that in order for us to accumulate rewards
It's not just winning souls to Christ
It's living a godly life, and you know what it's standing for what the Bible actually says
You know, I'm not criticizing old IFB. I am actually you know, you know because there are there good churches out there
But some of them need to you know get a backbone
And start growing some stones and stop being afraid of preaching what the Bible actually says
You know, yeah, you might lose your 501c3. Oh, no. Oh, no, they might come after you. Yeah, they might bomb your church
Yeah, they might steal your car. Yeah, they might actually surround you and your pregnant wife with your kids out in public where you're out
So many yeah, but you know what that's the price we pray
And you know what great is my reward in heaven I'm just right just racking it up racking it up
Last verse here, Matthew 6, verse 19,
says, Lay not up for your sisters' treasures upon earth,
where moth and rust doth corrupt,
and where thieves break through and steal,
belay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt,
and where thieves do not break through nor steal,
for where your treasure is there, your heart be also.
You say, look, you need to make sure
that you focus on the eternal reward.
And I'm not saying you have to go out there
and start calling everyone a faggot or something like that.
But don't be ashamed of the Bible.
Like when someone comes to you and says hey, you claim to believe in the Bible does that mean you believe in Leviticus 2013? Yes
Yeah, I do don't be like well, you know, uh
historically
culturally I
Say historically culturally yes
But more important biblically. Yes. Oh
You believe they're like homeless if we put to that you don't I
Just I just switch it on. You don't believe that's weird. You're weird
Oh, you believe, you know, what about slavery in the Bible?
Yeah, it existed.
What?
Scott's punishment on people for being wicked sometimes.
You know, God killed people.
I prefer slavery over dying.
I don't make apologies for the Bible.
Oh, you know, you know that God sent,
like she bears upon a bunch of kids.
Yeah, for mocking the prophets,
you better not mock me.
Well, you know, it wasn't really kids. No, there are kids
The God did it
We need to stop apologizing for what the Bible says and just say I believe it all it's perfect
Whatever God does is good. It's righteous is just why because I don't want to be ashamed of him in his words
Because if I am he will be ashamed of me when he comes in his glory with his holy angels. That's what the Bible says
So, you know, put away the commentary that excuses the controversial verses of the Bible,
you know, that God hates people, yeah, and I do too.
You know, the Bible is talking about, you know, that God hates, you know, the workers of iniquity, yeah.
Yeah, it does. That's what the Bible actually says.
So, you believe that God will send people to an eternity, and hell, what kind of God is that?
A righteous God.
I don't believe that. You will one day.
It's it's high time to Christian stuff. Well, what you have to understand, you know, what do you mean by Christian?
What do you mean by believe?
You know, it's just like so you think that like if someone doesn't believe exactly how you believe that they're gonna go to hell
Don't be a Jordan Peterson. Yeah, and just below or don't be a
West Huff and just kind of tiptoe around the tulips a little bit to try to appease both sides. This is what you say. Yes
If someone doesn't believe exactly what I believe about salvation, they will go to hell.
Any further questions?
Oh, so you're saying that you're right? Yes.
I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.
What's the next question?
Well, how are you going to win a bunch of people to Christ?
I'm going to tell you right now, the people who are attracted to the truth are those who listen to the truth from people who are sold on the truth.
Who are bold about the truth not these people who just kind of you know
Compromise and go in which way or the other well
You know I don't think you know if they believe in their hearts some form of God and you know
Even if they're a little off. No, it's just like bro. If they're really even works. They're going to hell
Plain and simple
What about the African kid, especially the African kid will go to hell
What about the Indian kid? He's he's also gonna go to hell if he doesn't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
Pick the most remote place in this world.
Give me the craziest situation.
That person will split hell wide open.
Know if, answer, buts about it.
And if you don't believe it, you will one day.
Don't apologize for the Bible.
That's what heaven is.
If you don't get anything,
get that last part of the sermon.
Live righteously, live godly,
don't apologize for the Bible,
win souls to Christ, we can do it all.
Why, because we are racking up the rewards in heaven
and knowing that that is in heaven waiting for us,
it motivates us to keep working and laboring.
So when you're discouraged, you're tired,
you're just like, man, I just don't wanna do this anymore.
Hey, be not weary and well-doing for induced season,
we shall reap if we feign not.
So keep winning souls to Christ.
Keep winning your friends to Christ.
Keep bringing people to church.
Keep working on your marriage.
Keep working with your kids.
Keep standing on the truth.
Why? Because God will reward you.
He's coming and He's bringing His reward with Him.
Let's pray father. We thank you so much for your word
Thank you for the promise of heaven and all that it entails
Help us as your people to be motivated by these eternal truths to keep serving you and
Stand on the word of God and not be ashamed of a single jot or tittle and may you bless this as we go on our way
We love you. We thank you pray the sins in Jesus name amen
So number 100 day by day song number 100
song number 100 day by day on that first verse day by day
and with these passing moments strayed by flying to meet my trials here
trusting in my father's wise bestowments I've no call
whose heart is guide beyond all men.
Promise land, amen.
So a couple of instructions here.
Parents, if you could help us out,
there's a jumper out there.
Make sure the kids take off their shoes when they go in,
and no food in the jumpers, okay?
So parents, please make sure you supervise your children
with that, please give heat to that.
And then secondly, there's like a play place
for the little ones with little balls.
If you can keep that, make sure it stays in the pen
and not be scattered.
And is there another announcement?
One burger. Yeah, this is not the feeding of the $5,000. I can't multiply. So you just got to make sure you get one by one
And then if you want seconds you can get back in line and get another one
All right, let's pray for the food and we'll be dismissed father. We thank you so much for a great day
Thank you for our anniversary Lord and allowing us another year of church life to serve you
Winsols to Christ preach the word of God and to fellowship one with another. I pray that you bless us as we celebrate that as we
Spend time together Lord and help us now and soothe from get the biblical truths. We heard today in Jesus name. We pray and