and the Bible reads and Hannah prayed and said my heart rejoiceth in the Lord
mine horn is exalted in the Lord my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies
because I rejoice in thy salvation there is none holy as the Lord for
there's none beside thee neither is there any rock like our God talk no
more so exceedingly proudly let not arrogance e come out of your mouth the
Lord is a god of know of knowledge and by him actions are weighed the bows of the
mighty men are broken and they that stumbled are girded with strength they
that were full have hired out themselves for bread and they that were
hungry ceased so that the Baron hath born seven and she that hath many
children is wax feeble the Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to
the grave and bringeth up the Lord maketh poor and maketh rich he
bringeth low and lifteth up he raised up raised up the poor out of the dust
and lifted up the beggar from the dung hill to set them among princes and to
make them inherit the throne of glory for the pillars of the earth are
the Lord's and he that set hath set the world upon them he will keep the
feet of his Saints and the wicked shall be silent in darkness for by
strength shall no man prevail the adversaries of the Lord shall be
broken to pieces out of heaven shall be Thunder upon them the Lord shall
judge the ends of the earth and he shall give strength unto his king and
exalt the horn of his anointed and I'll Kana went to Rama to his house and
the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest now the sons of
Eli for the sons of Belial they knew not the Lord and the priest custom
with the people was that with many man offered sacrifice the priest servants
came while the flesh was in seething a flesh with a flesh hook of three
teeth in his hand and he struck it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot
all that the flesh hook brought up the priest took for himself so they did in
Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither also before they burnt
the fat the priest servants came and said to the man that sacrificed give
flesh to roast for the priest so he will not have sought in flesh for
thee of thee but raw and if any man said unto him let him not fail to
burn the fat presently and then take as much as thy soul desireth then he would
answer him nay but thou shalt give it me now and if not I will take it by
force wherefore the sin of the young man was very great before the Lord for
men abhorred the offering of the Lord but Samuel ministered before the
Lord being a child girded with a linen ephod moreover his mother made him a
little coat and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with
her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice and Eli blessed Elkhana and his wife
and said the Lord give the seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the
Lord and they went unto their own home the Lord visited Hannah so that she
conceived and bare three sons and two daughters and the child Samuel grew
before the Lord now Eli was very old and heard all that his sons did
unto all Israel and how they lay with the women that assembled at the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation and he said unto them why
do you such things for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people
nay my sons for it is no good report that I hear you make the Lord's people
to transgress if one man sin against another the judge shall judge him but
if any man sin against the Lord who shall entreat for him not
withstanding they hearken not unto the voice of their father because the
Lord would slay them and the child Samuel grew on and was in favor both
with the Lord and also with men and there came a man of God unto Eli and
sent unto him thus saith the Lord did I plainly appear unto the house of
thy father when they were in Egypt and Pharaoh's house and did I choose him
out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest to offer mine altar to burn
incense to wear an ephod before me and did I give unto the house of thy
father all the offerings made by fire with the children of Israel where
for kick ye at my sacrifice and at my offering which I have commanded in my
habitation and honors thy sons above me to make yourselves fat with the
chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people wherefore the Lord God of
Israel saith I said indeed that thy house and the house of thy father should
walk before me forever but now the Lord saith be it far from me for them that
honor me will I honor and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed
behold the days come that I will cut off thine arm and the arm of thy
father's house that shall not be an old man in thine house and thou shalt
see an enemy in my habitation and all the wealth which God shall give
Israel and there shall not be an old man in thine house forever and the man
of thine whom I shall cut not cut off from mine altar shall be to consume
thine eyes and to grieve thine heart and all the increase of thine house
shall die in the flower of their age and this shall be a sign unto thee
that shall come upon thy two sons on Hophni and Phinehas and one day they
shall both they shall die both of them and I'll raise me up a faithful
priest that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in mine
mind and I will build him a sure house and he shall walk before mine
anointed forever and it shall come to pass that everyone that is left in thine
house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread
and shall say put me I pray thee into one of thy priests office that I
may eat a piece of bread let's pray to Lord God thank you for this
wonderful church you've given us Lord and just every individual here Lord
we pray that you bless pastor right now fill him with your Holy Spirit as
he preaches unto us your word and that us in the congregation can be
edified by the preaching Lord we pray this all in Jesus name amen amen okay
we are in first Samuel chapter 2 and what I'm going to preach on this evening
is Hophni and Phinehas I'm going to talk about Eli's sons Hophni and Phinehas
if you look at first Samuel chapter 2 and verse number 12 it says now the
sons of Eli were the sons of Belial they knew not the Lord and I'm going
to go over some of the horrendous things that the sons of Eli actually
did and how we relate that to the spectrum of reprobation that we're
talking about this morning we often think about reprobates in context of
sodomites right and it definitely fits the context but there's actually a
spectrum of reprobation if you think about it the way the Bible describes a
reprobate it can range anything from being a sodomite someone who is into
vile affection someone who burns in or less one toward another someone who
the Bible will refer to as a sodomite but it can also range all the way up
into a false prophet and a false prophet can be a reprobate and not
necessarily be a homosexual not necessarily be a person who's burning
in their lust one toward another but they're just as equally as wicked as the
sodomite because of the fact that they are they don't have that moral
boundary they have a seared conscience and they're just as wicked and in fact
both of these groups are both called sons of Belial and so you look at the
sodomites and judges chapter 19 they're described as being sons of Belial but
you also look at Hophni and Phinehas and they're also called the sons of
Belial even though the Hophni and Phinehas are not recorded as committing any acts
of sodomy pedophilia bestiality of sorts they're still referred to as
sons of Belial and I'm gonna cover that in just a bit now let me
explain a little bit first regarding who Eli is now Eli is one of the last
judges if you think about the Old Testament prior to the institution of
the Kings you had the system of the judges and that is what Joshua all the
way through judges covers up until 1 Samuel and these judges aren't Kings
they basically operate as a judge a priest and a prophet and this judge is
a person who can operate as a military general or they're just someone who is
used to expound the Word of God to the children of Israel to put them to shame
whenever they're involved in things that are not according to God's Word
and so you have multiple judges throughout the Old Testament and the
second to last is Eli of course after Eli is you have Samuel and then after
Samuel the children of Israel are crying out for a king a physical king
so that it can be like all the other nations well Eli you know we know that
Samuel was a man of God he was he was a man who loved the Lord he was used
greatly of God but Eli was just a poor testimony and he was a poor judge and
towards the latter end of his life he became very relaxed and lax with his
sons he did not restrain them and he ended up suffering the consequences
because of it severely now we know that Eli was obviously of the lineage
of Levi and so were his sons because of the fact that they're fulfilling the
office of a priest now what's interesting about his sons though if
you think about this he has two sons Hophni and Phinehas and Phinehas should
ring a bell to you right because previous to them you had Aaron who had
sons and one of them was named Phinehas okay now the difference between
Phinehas of first Samuel chapter 1 and Phinehas of Eliezer is that
Phinehas of Eliezer was actually a righteous priest who executed the
judgments of the Lord extensively and is very inspirational if you've read his
story you know just to give you just a little condensed version of what he
did you had essentially an Israelite seeking to fornicate with the
medianitish woman inside of Israel and God okay just being very brazen about
his sin he takes a medianitish woman he takes her into a tent in order
to fornicate with her and you know you have this entire nation looking at
this and they just do nothing about it you know kind of like the way churches
are today right you have all the leaders there everyone's there no one's
doing anything about it but then you have Phinehas. Phinehas is a priest he's a
man of God and he's so ticked off over just this brazen sin that he takes a
javelin and you know he's just like excuse me excuse me you know he's
just kind of walking through the crowd he goes into the tent and just
basically makes shish kebab of them both okay he essentially pierces the
man and through her stomach and basically kills both of them and the
Bible actually says that God honors that you know God wasn't like hey you
could have gone about that a different way you know I don't think it was right
that you did it like that it's kind of you know not politically correct
your heart's in the right place but you have dirty hands or something
right and you know there's probably some Israelites there that are probably like
hey you know you should have talked to them first or you should have let them
finish and then you could have talked to them afterwards or whatever but you
know what God said that Phinehas was zealous for my sake and in fact the
plague was saved from Israel because of Phinehas okay now whether you want
to pronounce it Phinehas or Phinehas doesn't matter I'll probably use both
interchangeably you know I think I use both all the time but you know he
was a very much a zealous priest to the point where sin and that which is
against God's laws infuriated him to the point where he took action okay
these people are fornicating he kills them God honors him says that he's
zealous for the Lord's sake and blesses them tremendously because of that now
compare that with Phinehas of Eli right who's committing fornication with
the women at the house of God he's doing all types of wicked things you
know this is obviously a very much a major contrast now why even bring that
up what kind of goes to show you that sometimes kids can grow up in church
have the right training or the right bringing upbringing when it comes to a
Christian upbringing and then you get two different types of results sometimes
okay now you know the Bible teaches us that if you train up a child in the
way that should go he will not depart from it and that's God's
promise to us right and so you know we can't exclude the fact that
sometimes kids have their own volition they have their own will and they can
choose to serve God or not choose to reject the gospel or not but at the
end of the day we need to make sure that we are like Eliezer and not like
Eli because we can point to both of their parentings and see where Eli you
know veered off greatly right Eli was not zealous for the Lord he was
essentially someone who did not restrain his children he didn't discipline his
sons and they ended up becoming these wicked reprobates who are defiling the
house of God whereas you have Phinehas who's the son of Eliezer who
honored not only God but he honored his father and his lineage as well okay and
so just keep in mind you know just being in church doesn't make you a
godly person it's what you do with what you have okay and I'll get a little
bit into that later but you see there that there are they are of the
lineage of Levi therefore they are priests let me give you some points
regarding Hophni and Phinehas that we can learn from number one let me just
say right off the bat this is very obvious they are not saved now that
should be obvious right how do you know look at verse 12 now the sons of
Eli were sons of Belial they knew not the Lord okay now you say why even
bother to make that point well for two reasons one if you actually go to
the modern versions of the Bible it doesn't say that it doesn't say now
the sons of Eli were sons of Belial it'll say like for example in the NIV
it'll say now the sons of Eli were scoundrels little meanies or something
you know or the ESV says you know now the sons of Eli were worthless men
what is that and I forgot what the message says but the message says
something really stupid you know the sons of Eli were not cool dudes or you
know some some stupid you know worthless men scoundrels meanie poopy
face whatever you want to go is nothing comparison to sons of Belial
because sons of Belial you say well what is the son of Belial Belial is a
false god okay he's a false god it's a devil and in fact for all we
know it could be Satan himself in either case it's a devil so what does
it say they're sons of Devils they are essentially sons of Satan is what it's
referring to so it's important for us to understand and this is why it's
important for us to use a King James Bible because the King James Bible does
not tiptoe around the tulips and say that they're scoundrels or worthless
men it calls it the way it is and it's important for us to have that
phrase sons of Belial so in our minds we automatically know these are not
the sons of God these are not Christians these are not believers these
are not people who fear the Lord these aren't backslidden priests
you understand these are sons of Satan children of the devil people
automatically assume and this is why it's important people automatically
assume that just because a person is in spiritual leadership that means they're
automatically a good Christian right or a safe Christian at that and so a lot
of churches will think well he's a pastor well he's a deacon well he's on
staff or something that means that person is 100% legitimate they love the
Lord they're Christian you know Joel's thing I mean look how big his church
is he talks about God sometimes you know he holds up the Bible or whatever it
is I mean that is that he's a Christian he claims to be a Christian no
he's a son of Belial he's not saved and so just because someone holds a
position of spiritual authority whether a pastor evangelist deacon or just on
staff or they just uphold some sort of position in the church doesn't
necessarily mean that they're good people obviously we don't want to walk
around going through a witch hunt looking for people to see if they're
really saved or not if they're false prophets or infiltrators but folks when
you have pastors quote-unquote heading a church and they're involved in very
very questionable suspicious things criminal activity that should let you
know oh he's probably not a son of guys probably a son of Belial because
you know the world will say you see that's why I don't go to church I
don't go to church because people like that are in churches but people like
that aren't Christians they infiltrate churches parading and masquerading as a
spiritual leader as a pastor they're masquerading as a son of God but in
actuality their reprobates their sons of Satan they've infiltrated now
the fact that it says that their sons of Belial you know it's very
telling it's a very telling piece of information because it's basically
telling us that even though they're they are fulfilling the office of a
priest they're actually faking it okay they're not really priests like God did
not sanction for them to be in that position God is not pleased with them
so well how do you know because later on we're gonna say that God wants
to kill them God doesn't just want to kill you okay that's like that's
designated for people that the Lord hates and it says later on in
chapter 4 that God would kill okay like he wants to kill Hophni and
because they're children of Satan they're not children of God so they're
masquerading as sons of God but they're actually sons of Belial they're not
saved now hold your place or go to Acts chapter 13 Acts chapter 13 now this
should come as no surprise because of the fact that Jesus warned us if
you've read the Bible beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's
clothing but inwardly are ravening wolves the Bible says so God is
specifically warning us he's already told us to be aware of this he's saying
hey you got to be aware because there's certain prophets who claim to be sent
from God but there are false prophets they're masquerading as sheep
but they're actually wolves in sheep's clothing they're there to
devour the congregation they are there to bring corruption false doctrine
to take advantage of the innocent you need to make sure you pay
attention to this now I remember when I first got saved I didn't really learn
about stuff like this you know the the doctrines of false prophets and
reprobation and one particular person that I think about now is actually
thinking about this last night regarding a false prophet that had
infiltrated the independent fundamental Baptist movement was a
pastor by the name of Jack Scott okay who was the pastor of the first
Baptist Church of Hammond the largest independent fundamental Baptist Church in
America and he essentially took over from his father-in-law who was the
pastor there Dr. Jack Hiles and he took over after him but this guy obviously
now we know is an extremely wicked person I mean the man fulfills the
office of being a son of Belial to its fullest extent now when I first got
saved we didn't know about this stuff they didn't teach this at my old
church most fundamental Baptist don't talk about this and if we ever talk
about false prophets the only thing that comes to mind is like Mormons
right you think about Jehovah's Witnesses those are false prophets right but
never really in context of those same sons of Belial false prophets
infiltrating your church or masquerading as a Baptist and in fact
they often had this philosophy that we don't want to call out other
independent fundamental Baptists even if they're preaching like false
doctrine false gospel because they're a fundamental Baptist that was like the
philosophy in those days but I remember Jack Scott being really popular and you
know back in those days they had CDs you guys know what that is CDs they
would have CDs of preaching and we would listen to those those sermons and
I remember for a long time I just listened to a lot of Jack Scott he was
a very dynamic preacher he was very like his he had a powerful voice and he
was just a really dynamic powerful preacher in our eyes at that time and I was
telling my wife this that I remember just listening to sermon after sermon
after sermon and one of the sermons was like in a chapel service or
something and I remember just sitting there in my room just listening to the
preaching and he started talking about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and he
started going off on how the crucifixion the way he viewed the
crucifixion he was saying you know when Jesus was crucified on the cross you
belong there he said and he said God looks at you and he's saying he hates
you he's like you know God hates you he's saying I wish that was you I hate
you and he was saying that and again I didn't know anything about false
prophets I don't know what I'm what I'm teaching today I was a babe in
Christ I was very young in the Lord but man I was grieved to my core my
friends and I'd even wasn't able to even to say like oh man this is
heresy or this is a false prophet just the spirit that dwelled in me was
grieved exceedingly and it was to the point where I just like I remember
thinking myself like I need to turn this off like I can't hear this and it
wasn't like oh man Jack Scott's wicked or he's evil for saying that
because I didn't really know because I don't think I even finished reading
through the Bible at that point at least once but the spirit that
dwelled in me was so grieved at what he was saying that I was just like I
can't listen to this I feel horrible listening to this like it's it's vexing
my righteous soul and I turned it off I just never listened to him again and
really what it is is that you know the Holy Spirit essentially in me is
telling me like this is not the voice of the Shepherd this is a
stranger and even with minimal knowledge of the Bible just the fact that I'm
saved I was able to get that and stay away from that and I remember being in
the car with other Bible college students and they would pop on you
Jack Scott and I'm like I don't listen to Jack Scott anymore they're like oh
you shouldn't listen what people say about him he's a man of God he's
righteous or whatever and I'm just thinking like all I can think about was
that sermon and how he made me feel throughout that sermon and it wasn't like
oh you know go here let me show you where it says that God hates you as a
Christian or something and how that's pictured in the cross or something
like that he's just his opinion right he's just espousing this false doctrine
this heresy well then later on he starts attacking the King James he holds
what's called the King James summit where he seeks to highlight all of the
so-called errors of the King James Bible out of fundamental Baptist
Church and let me just say this anytime a pastor gets up and starts
criticizing the King James Bible just mark it down they're probably a false
prophet reprobate because that is a mark of what the devil does yay have
God said when they go out of their way to try to just say oh the King James
Bible is not the Word of God look at all these errors folks you got to be
a certain level of wicked to question God's Word like that so he held this
summit and I'm just thinking myself well this is really bad and I'm not
educated enough in the King James controversy at that time for me to
defend this I just know that this is the Word of God and you know what I
just don't know enough to go toe-to-toe with someone like that so I'm just not
gonna listen to what he's saying because I don't want to be like
deterred I don't want my faith to be shaken you know what I mean so I'm
just gonna keep reading the Bible by faith that this is God's Word well
then a couple years down the road after that turns out this guy was
grooming some some 16 year old girl committing some of the most wicked
acts with this woman okay and he ended up getting caught because he left
his phone on the pulpit at a youth conference one of the staff members
found it and they found all these wicked pictures in there and all these
things that he was doing and they ended up arresting him and he's a
pedophile you know and it wasn't like oh he just fell into sin the man
was basking in sin my friends it wasn't like oh he just had this
affair so it's a 16 year old girl and in fact he took her to another state
because of her age because he knew in a particular state he couldn't get
convicted or whatever if she was 16 because the age of consent was
different in that state so he did this plot he and he did these things
while he was a pastor and unfortunately you have fundamental
Baptist that are just like oh he just like fell into sin he's like David
you know was bad she was like 14 15 16 years old or what no of course not
and you know what what David did was wicked but it's not what Jack Scott is
doing holding the position of a pastor using his position to satiate his his
godly desires and lust he said well what's the point the point is the man
is the son of Belial no he's a man of God no he's a man of Belial he's
not saved he's a false prophet he's a spawn of Satan the Bible says but as
many as received unto them gave you power to become the sons of God even
unto them that believe on his name there's never an instance where God
refers to a son of a son of God as a son of Belial in the same context of
that person you know oh that he's a son of God but then he backslides he
becomes a son of Belial doesn't exist the fact that he's calling him a son
of Belial is referring to the fact that he's begotten of Satan the reason
we're called sons of God is because we're begotten through the gospel in our
faith in Jesus Christ so just as we are eternally secure in the hand of
God through our faith in Jesus Christ there's certain people in this
world listen to me who are eternally damned because they are legitimately
permanently sons of Belial okay that's what that's referring to the Bible
talks about Cain in 1st John chapter 3 who is of that wicked one okay look
at Acts chapter 13 and verse number 9 verse number 8 actually it says in Acts
13 verse 8 but Eli miss the sorcerer for so is his name by interpretation
withstood them seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith now what's
going on here well the Apostle Paul is trying to preach to the governor
here and he's trying to get this guy saved and then this Eli miss shows up
who's a sorcerer and what is he doing he's withstanding Moses and Barnabas
what does that mean he's trying to turn away the deputy from the faith so this
requires like a certain level of evil and wickedness when you kind of go out
of your way to try to stop someone from getting saved you understand what
I'm saying so he's just like don't listen to them he's trying to stop
them they don't know what they're talking about they're trying to turn
away their ears from here in the gospel verse 9 then saw who also is
called Paul filled with the Holy Ghost set his eyes on him and said all full
of all subtlety and all mischief thou child of the devil thou enemy of all
righteousness wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord and
then he strikes him a blindness and the story's really cool okay and you
kind of wish like man I wish I had that you know you're just preaching and
some Jehovah's Witness shows up you like ah and they're just like blind or
whatever but obviously they're spiritually blind so it's God already
took care of that right but what do we see here we see that this guy is
actually not just a sorcerer he's actually a Jew okay
he limus is actually a Jew and it says that he's filled with subtlety and
mischief and then the Apostle Paul says you're also a child of the devil
what's another way of saying that a son of Belial someone who's a
reprobate because a quality of a son of Belial is that they don't want
people to be saved you understand what I'm saying like they purposely go out of
their way to try to stop people from hearing the truth and getting saved
okay there is a there's a good parallel to this today it's called the
ADL okay also known as the limus who literally stopped men like myself
pastors like myself in churches like myself from getting the word out there
they pervert the ways of righteousness children of the devil they are enemies
of righteousness and they pervert the right ways of the Lord by trying
to stop the mouths of the men of God look go to Matthew chapter 23
Matthew chapter 23 now this is important because of the fact that you
know if these guys are growing up in a godly home you kind of wonder like
how did they get that way how is it that Hovde and Phinehas became sons of the
devil even though they're sons of Eli a man of God who even though he's
backslidden he's still like a safe person how does that happen well let me
explain to you how it happens it happens when parents are negligent with
the salvation of their children and listen to me parents you better be
praying for the salvation of your of your children but you also be better be
going out of your way to also give them the gospel as well and don't assume
that just because your children come to first works Baptist Church that
somehow that's gonna happen by osmosis because it's not I'm not
responsible for getting your children safe no one else here is responsible
for getting your children safe you need to make sure that you're getting
your children safe and will we will supplement that message we will aid
you in that message I will aid you by preaching the gospel in church but
don't assume that just because they come here week in week out that somehow
that's gonna happen you have to make sure that when you go home you're
preaching the gospel to them making sure they're getting safe and I hope
that every parent here has a burden for their children I hope you think
about that I hope you think about your children your daughters and your sons
and you are conscious of the fact that they need to come to the saving
knowledge of Jesus Christ and you can't just assume that it's just gonna happen
one day because it doesn't work that way listen Eli it doesn't work that way
oh but I'm a I'm a priest doesn't matter it doesn't work that way we have
an example of Eli bearing two sons who ended up becoming extremely wicked
then it all started off with the fact that they were not sons of God
sons of Bela means they rejected the Word of God they rejected the gospel
they converted to being wicked individuals but it all started they
grew up in a household a Christian home and they didn't get saved you know
your greatest fear should be that your children would not get saved I
pray daily for the salvation of my children but you know what I also
want to make sure that I'm going out of my way to talk to my children about
salvation sowing seeds of righteousness explaining to them the gospel and by
the way let me just say this and also coupling that with the good
testimony at home let me tell you how reprobates are made one is they reject
the gospel but two that often comes coupled with parents who are hypocrites
at home you know they leak they seek to live a righteous life when
they're before the congregation before the Christians when they're in church
hey brother hey sister god bless you but at home you're just living in a
godless life you uphold a particular standard at here at church but then the
standard is different when you go home and let me just say this children just
see through the hypocrisy they can see through the hypocrisy they can see
when you're faking it be real be a real Christian and you know what you
don't have to be perfect for your children either because I'm not saying
you have to have perfection but at least be real like well you know like
talk about your walk with God to your children or talk about your walk with
God to your wife in front of your children you know it should be that your
children listen to you talk about the things the Lord it should be that your
children listen to you exalt the Lord Jesus Christ even when you're not in
front of the church how about on the drive home you're driving home and you
know instead of talking about I don't know whatever movies out right now what
movies out someone tell me oh oh man you fell for that it's hook line and
sinker which one a movie ape movie Oh Planet of the Apes you know you know
instead of talking about Planet of the Apes talk about how the planet belongs
to the Lord Jesus how the planet is God's footstool you like you know
there's a stupid movie out there called Planet of the Apes the earth is
the Lord's in the fullness thereof I'm just saying you know instead of
talking about whatever why don't you bring up the Bible oh man that's like
that's a little excessive well you know it's not it if you're real it's
only excessive if you don't do it it only seems excessive if that's not
how you talk right it's like oh man that seems a little extreme only to
those who don't do it you know like like people are like oh you go to
church three times a week that's a little excessive only to those who
don't do it because those of us who go to church three times a week it's just
like that's like just another day in the office so when you're driving home
you're talking to your wife say you know I read in my Bible you know it's
interesting the pastor said that because actually read in my Bible this
week about this particular subject and it made me think about you know but
but obviously it's gonna require for you to actually meditate and read the
Bible though and I listen to me that will impact your children more than my
preaching will my preaching is here to supplement the growth of your children
and the spiritual you know growth of your kids but at the end of the day
the main meat of it is when they're with you they live they're like wow
dad actually reads the Bible he's getting things out of God's Word mom
reads the Bible they're exalting the Lord Jesus Christ they're honoring the
Lord and you know what that's how you pass your faith on to your children
don't be a fake don't be a phony you know and one thing is is that sometimes
people are fakes and phonies because they're more concerned about what people
think about them than who they really are at home you know some of you
got to stop caring about what people think about you I'm not saying be like
you know super careless where you just don't even take care of yourself
anymore I'm just saying sometimes Christians they care too much about
what people think about them and it almost makes them fake because they have
to put up a front in front of other people folks this is a real Baptist
Church you can be yourself and if yourself is weird don't worry we'll
fix that we'll tell you bro that's weird don't do that don't say stuff
like that and we'll kind of stabilize you a little bit but you can be real
and it's important to be real here it's important to the same reality to you
express here it's the same one at home as well and here here's here's a good
one folks listen to me and I know this is point number one but this is
important amen listen to me apologize to your children if you if you've done
wrong and mid-fall when you when you wrong why because we're not perfect
and sometimes we make mistakes I've had to apologize to my children when I
got them in trouble maybe I spanked them unjustly and I thought they were
at fault I've had to apologize and say you know I was wrong about that I'm
sorry and I'll tell them dad's not perfect sometimes I make a bad judgment
call that's important for you to express that to your children as well
and not not try to portray this you know this persona that you just never
make mistakes dad's always perfect mom's always perfect everything is
always just roses and daisies no you know what we need to express to our
children that we need to pray unto the Lord for our needs that we love
the Lord Jesus Christ that our home exalts Christ that it's Christ centered
not us centered it's all about the Lord Jesus Christ the point that I'm
making here is that Eli dropped the ball somewhere here or he didn't pass
on his faith to Hoffman from a house and then they have grown grown up to
being some of the most wicked people and causing others to stumble and just
being exceedingly sinful to the point where God even hated them powerful
right look at Matthew 23 on the same topic of being a son or a child of the
devil it says in verse 15 woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites
for you can pass sea and land to make one proselyte and when he is made
you make them twofold more the child of hell than yourselves verse 33 says
ye serpents a generation of vipers how can you escape the damnation of
hell we don't want to spawn children of hell and this is why the Bible says to
chastise your children to beat your children and now shall deliver his soul
from hell and you know what we need to talk about this that's important
parents you better make sure that you're chastising your children you
don't raise spoiled little brats who are disrespectful disregarding others
you know property or persons you didn't make sure that you will be children
you're like why wasn't whooping I was a kid we know that's what I'm
telling you you know what I mean you know when someone wasn't whoop with
their kids you see you're just like this person was not spanked you know
and I've said it before and I'll say it again I'm thankful that my mom
whooped me okay I'm thankful and though it was at times unorthodox the manners
in which she did whoop me you know what I'll take that over nothing now
obviously like it's not like when I was a kid I was just like yeah you
know it was grievous it was not nice at all and you know and I was like
every other kid you know you go to your room you yell in your pillow and
you're all mad but now you know I'm gonna say a person and I'm like man I'm
thankful that she did that because maybe I could have been maybe I could
have died or something poor decision-making because she would have
raised some spoiled little brats now if you're here and you weren't spanked as
a child it's by the grace of God and salvation can do a lot amen and but
even then listen to me if you weren't spanked as a child it doesn't mean you
should be lax on your kids and just like well I wasn't spanked and so how am
I gonna do that to my kids because it would you know well you have a
responsibility because God has commanded you to do it and you know
what you were spared in spite of the fact that you were not spanked but you
know what the same will not be said for your children if you do not
discipline them and obviously we're talking about an orthodox way of
spanking your children we're not talking about abuse here don't smack your
kids across the mouth or you know pull them by their hair or whatever and you
know the way these Mexicans do sometimes you know yeah I said it you
know throwing a hanger at them or something or a cord or whatever
chancla or what you know get our old-fashioned rod or your hand and
apply it to the seed of education the hanger parts it's necessary my friends I
guarantee you Eli did not spank his sons prove it they're sons of Belial
number one but then later on it also says that he did not restrain
them don't do that you know as their adults doing these things and he's like
I hear about what you guys are doing don't do that that's God's not happy
with that kind of kind of discipline is that so if he's talking like that to
them when they're adults you could only imagine what they did when they
were kids timeout take away their Xbox you know stop that don't do that
that's probably the discipline that Eli had no no no no no stop stop
please please Eli was probably a negotiator there's no negotiations as a
parent children need to obey their parents so the Bible says you know you
know you're not supposed to do that no no no no no no no how many time
and he kids are smart they'll call your bluff all the time just ask them
ones in here who were never spanked who are adults now you called your
parents bluff all the time because you knew your parents weren't gonna spank
you oh if you do it again I'm gonna and then they do it it's just like
the parents don't spank them and now the kid knows oh they're not
really serious about that that's why they keep doing it it's getting quiet
in here don't get mad trying to help you be a better parent trying to help
you not to raise a hofni and fanahas teach you to not be like Eli who
refused to restrain his sons and now they're in hell they're burning for
all of eternity don't let that be your kids well I just you know I just
I feel so bad though the Bible says spare not first crying you got to look
at the long-term effects of that you know you're gonna keep your kids from
a lot of trouble you're gonna give them you're gonna instill the fear of
God in their hearts my mom was not even saved and she instilled the fear
of God in my heart when I was a kid I prayed until the Lord and let me just
say this I feared my mom like I was scared if I disobeyed or if I didn't
have the trash taken out and she came home and it wasn't I knew I was toast
and I was afraid and all she had to do was just give me that one look that
one eyebrow and I was toast I knew it but you know that's why I didn't join
gangs that's why I didn't do heroin that's why I'm not a spoiled little brat
because of my mom the point that I'm making here is the fact that you
don't want to raise a child of hell okay don't be like them now going
back to this this subject of leaders though you know sometimes people say well
you're being a little excessive some pastors are just misled they're just
misled you know pray for them or something but let me say this you know
there are pastors out there that are misled in certain areas certain
doctrines but if they are you know taking off the top financially if
they're committing lewd acts if they are teaching heresy after they've been
corrected that's a son of Belial that's a straight-up reprobate okay you know
Rick Warren son of Belial I told that someone who came to visit our church
and they're like why would you say that and they'd like like they're
preaching they're saved and they just could not fathom why I would say
that Rick Warren because the guy is a freaking false prophet who teaches a
false gospel and he does that for a living he doesn't teach the Word of God
plain and simple he's a son of Belial now the Bible says that we shouldn't
marvel at this because false prophets always masquerade as being the apostles
of Christ right and so Satan is always trying to infiltrate by doing so
you know this is why go to Acts chapter 20 Acts chapter 20 now the
question that you know I asked myself regarding Hoffman a house in times past
is like how do they even become priests if they're so wicked like how
do they make it up to that position of leadership well the same way Jack
Scott did the same way Peter Ruckman did the same way you know Phil Kidd
did you know you don't know who those guys are those are guys who have
infiltrated independent fundamental Baptist churches teaching a false gospel doing
wicked things but yet they're esteemed amongst the independent independent
fundamental Baptist though now how do they do it look at acts 20 verse 29
for I know this that after my departing this is Paul speaking shall
grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock also of your own
selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples
after them that's how they do it they actually come up through the ranks
of a church I mean Jack Scott went to Bible College at house Anderson he was
there since he was like a teenager just kind of dormant until he can you
know have his opportunity to strike or whatever but you talk to anybody who
knew Jack Scott they always thought he was a compromiser there's something off
about him but you know this doctrine of false prophets was never taught
explicitly in the old IP so no one really saw it I mean I I don't even
want to tell you to do it but there's a clip of Jack Scott on YouTube preaching
at a youth conference and you're listening is like it just sounds
pornographic what do you say it's like hot and then there's like a role
of men behind him and they're just kind of like at a youth conference like
the most filthy disgusting illustrations that a man can give and it's just like
how do you guys not see through this pervert of your own self shall men arise
speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them you know you have
Jack house who was like finay ha son of a Eliezer but then you have finay
ha as Jack Scott almost Jack and Jack right one righteous one not the Bible
tells us but there are false prophets also among the people even as there
should be false teachers among you who privilege shall bring in damnable
heresies denying even the Lord God that bought them and so when it comes
to our children we got to make sure that we get them saved you couple the
negligence of your children's salvation with the hypocritical
lifestyle outside of these walls you will end up with the child that hates
the things of God and could potentially become a reprobate and let me just say
one last thing about this point and if all I go over this this sermon is
this one point it's worth it and as this is one of the reasons why we
will never have a Christian school okay I'm not an advocate of Christian
schools I don't like Christian schools you know God bless those who
are in Christian schools and are doing it for the right reasons or
whatever but I'm not an advocate of a Christian school you say who what
gives you the right to even just because I was a teacher at a Christian
school I saw it firsthand how about that I was a junior high I was an
elementary and junior high Christian school teacher and a Bible college
instructor but the Christian school was just essentially breeding grounds for
reprobates I know this for a fact you know how do you know because I
literally saw someone get into a Christian school deteriorate
spiritually and then come leave Christian school and become a faggot
marry some dude and just become a full-blown atheist reprobate and
that's not the only story that happens all the time you say how pastor how does
that happen I'll tell you how you put a kid into a Christian school
against their will they don't want to be there and then they're constantly
getting saturated knowledge of the Bible every single day against their will it
hardens the heart then they go home and their parents are living worldly
lifestyles they're criticizing the pastor they're criticizing the ministry
they're criticizing people in the church they're a bunch of hypocrites
they see what their parents are doing here they're getting this message here
and it's causing them to become bitter towards the things of God you
know why no someone who went to Christian school came out good yeah
they're the exception to the rule and you know what they were probably
good going in you know I was good going into the Bible College which is
why I survived Bible College Marcos was good going in and he didn't you know
you got kicked out for coming to our church but that's a different story
brother Hernandez was good going in and that's why he's still serving the Lord
brother Ron I'm sure he was good going in and that's why he's still
serving God any testimony you hear about people oh they win and they turn
off mine it's because they actually went in with the right intentions and
they were right with God prior to that they were good in spite of it when I
say good I mean they're godly they love the Lord but folks there's there's
teenagers that are put into the Christian school they don't want to be
there they're listening to chapel sermons all the time they have these
excessive rules that they impose upon them almost to the same standard
as God's Word and then they leave they graduate and they just become some
of the most rotten people you ever meet you know obviously your kids are
forced to come with you to church but that's a lot different from eight
hours a day chapel sermons memorizing Bible all the while they're not even
saved they're memorizing large portions of scripture I'm talking about
chapters because they have you know their Bible memorization competitions
they have to memorize Bible for their studies they have all these
they're just surrounded with the Bible and they're not even saved so they're
constantly being saturated in their heart they hate the Lord Jesus Christ
they become reprobate and then you get a Hophni and Phinehas you know the word
can harden the hearts of people and this is why we will never have a
Christian school I'm not interested in teaching your kids I did it for a
couple years and it was just hell we have another Christian school teacher
here I'm sure she could attest to that too Miss Sullen was a Christian
schoolteacher you know and I'm telling you you do I've done it for I did it for
a couple years and I'm thinking to myself this child hates the Lord this
child hates being here and they end up hating you they hate the road they
just can't wait to leave and then they become worse and let me say this
like I hate the public school system I hate it okay and I'm just putting
this disclaimer out there to let you know that I don't like the public
school system but I would say this they would more readily survive going to
a public school than a Christian school and I know a lot of people don't agree
with that but you know what at a public school you're not getting Bible
crammed down your throat against your will you're getting yeah evolution but
you know what the Word of God is actually more dangerous to a person who
doesn't believe though just takes common sense what the evolution is like that's
stupid I'm not a monkey you know I didn't come from monkeys or whatever but
when you're being forced the Bible against your will it can harden your
heart and you could actually end up hating the Lord I I went to a public
school and I experienced some of the worst things in a public school at a
high school and but you know what I didn't hate the Lord during that time
it's not like all this place makes me hate the Lord and in fact a lot
of it made me seek the Lord go back to first Sammy chapter 2 and you know
I said that I don't know like two years ago and then you know the the Jack
Treiber's wife was so I think brother Ron posted the sermon then she
was just livid I can't believe you would say something how can you dare
you say it to send kids to a public school because your school is full of
freaking rapper beats that's why and the last time I checked your music
piano teacher is a fag and that's why you guys have to move them like a
priest in the Catholic Church that's literally what happened it's called his
name is Mike Zachary he works on staff with Doug Fisher got my old got my old
IV sources here Doug Fisher he's working on staff as a couple's teacher
even though the guy is a flaming reprobate he's a pedophile oh yeah but
it's better to put someone in school with that dude with with Hoffney and
Phinehas over there than a public school and look I I get it you know
public schools bad and there's homos there too but you know the homos at a
public school have purple hair and you know that they're homos like oh
stay away from them Mike Zachary didn't come with purple hair he comes
masquerading as someone who's a man of God who's a Christian I mean folks
it's common sense and I'm not for public school okay you know we got a graduate
right here brother Christian just gradually I'm sure he could tell you
the horrors of all the disgusting stuff that takes place there but you
know what he knows that that's who they are though better the devil you
know than the devil you don't know all right next thing about Hoffney
and Phinehas they were incontinent okay now what does that word incontinent
because it's not that's not a common word that we would use today well a good
way to learn particular words in the English language is by learning the
concept of absorbed prefixes okay meaning that there's certain words in
the English language that you actually end up learning more words just from
learning that particular word let me give you an example like the word
mortal okay means what it means you're gonna die you're not gonna live
forever right but immortal means that you do live forever the difference is
and you ever wonder like why do they put two M's anymore why don't they just
put like you know I am OR TAL but they actually add an extra M well this
is because of the fact that when these words are created to create their
its antonym they often put the word in in front of that word and in means
not so someone's more someone's who who's who will die but in in mortal as
someone who will not die well over time you know it gets kind of hard to
say in mortal so then the prefix ends up getting absorbed into the word
and changes into him you see that with immortal immoral immodest and even
other words like irresponsible okay I mean what's another eerie irrelevant see
how they have two R's it's because of the fact that previously they had this
prefix in and then that prefix gets absorbed in it ends up taking the first
letter of the target word there and then that's why it's it's called that
now the only time that really doesn't apply is when you have words like in
continent so someone who's continent is referring to someone who restrains
themselves or you think of a continent is a group of countries with boundaries
right so a continent something something with boundaries in continent something
without boundaries now the reason that that prefix did not get absorbed into
continent is because it would sound weird to say a continent so it doesn't
sound as good so it just kept it as incontinent so what is incontinent it's
a person who does not have self-restraint there's no boundaries
understand does that make sense to everyone little English lesson there
excessively lascivious now look at first Samuel chapter 2 verse 13 it
says the priest custom keep in mind hoffman a house our priests the priest
custom with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice the priest
servant came while the flesh was in seething with the flesh hook of three
teeth in his hand and he struck it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or
pot all that the flesh had brought up the priest took for himself so they
did in Shiloh until all the Israelites that came thither so what is going
on here well the custom according to the Old Testament is that anytime
someone brought an animal sacrifice a part of that animal sacrifice was
supposed to be given to the priest for food okay in particular it was the
shoulder and or the breast that was like their food and Aaron would have to
eat it he could eat it his sons could eat it their fam that's what that was
like their sustenance is from the animal sacrifices that the children of
Israel brought but here's the thing is that when they brought that animal
sacrifice they were supposed to remove the fat from the sacrifice and the
fat was supposed to be burned on the altar they were not to eat the fat
only the shoulder and or the breast does that make sense to everyone so in
order to separate the fat from the meat the brass shoulder they would see that
because when you see that it separates the fat from the meat well you have
these guys coming in and as it's seating they're just kind of digging in
there and pulling out whatever and just kind of taking it for themselves
now look what it says in verse number 15 and also be before they burn the
fat the priests servants came and said to the man that sacrifice give flesh
to roast for the priests because remember they're supposed to take meat
out of the cauldron like the breast or the shoulder and then they roast it and
then they eat it right he says give flesh to roast for the priests for he
will not have sodden now the word for sodden is seed or to boil right
boiled flesh of thee but raw if any man sentence him let them not fail
to burn the fat presently and then take as much as thy soul desireth then
you would answer him nay but thou shalt give it me now and if not I will take
it by force so basically the the meat is inside the the pot the cauldron and
then halfening finale houses guys his servants coming in they're like hey
give us me right now they're like okay but can you wait until the flesh
is the the fat is separated and he's like no I don't want it boiled we
want it raw and if you refuse it I'm gonna I'm gonna take it by force so
what is this what is this referring to is referring to their incontinency their
incapability of restraining themselves from the sacrifices of the Lord okay
now go to Philippians chapter 3 Philippians chapter 3 now that's
interesting isn't it like you know how come halfening finale house are so
incontinent why can't they restrain their eating habits oh could it
because Eli is the same exact way and in fact the way Eli died is probably one
of the most embarrassing ways to die read the story you know some people
dies just like well it's kind of honorable that was kind of crazy you
know how did Eli die he got some bad news fell off his seat and broke his
neck and it says because he was heavy now let me explain something to you
regarding the Bible okay well when God describes the certain thing if God has
to say that you're heavy like according to my standards like I'm heavy okay but
I would not be considered heavy in the eyes of God like you would have
to be extremely obese and overweight for God to say that you say how do you
know well because there's another guy in the Bible named Eglon okay and the
Bible says of Eglon he was a very fat man and you know he's just kind of like
putting it out there because he doesn't really describe people in such
a manner so in order for him to do so he it must be like the person was
morbidly obese he said well how do you know that like Eli was that big
though because when he fell he broke his neck how many you've ever fallen
back from a chair on a chair right when you just you know you kind of tip
your chair you just and then you just fall now how many have ever broken your
neck falling off it nobody because you ain't that heavy okay and so the weight
of his stomach or you know he was in that perpetual bulk he never Eli never
got off the bulk the weight of that on his neck ended up snapping his neck
this is not a fairy tale this literally happened is why some of you need to
stop eating so much okay I'm just kidding you know I got up to 243 on the
bulk and it was just like enough's enough all right and sometimes we got
to learn to take that three-pronged fork and just put it down amen just I'm
gonna go through a season of just not eating as much so I don't become
like Eli unrestrained no we need to teach ourselves how to restrain
ourselves right now next week I'm not restraining myself okay because I've
been restraining myself for 23 weeks and so next week banana bread pizza and
all and even Taco Bell believe it or not I'm gonna become incontinent for
that little period of time well where where did Hoffman a house get it
from their dad but you know what Eli did in moderation
Hoffman a house did in excess because now they're just like either give it to
me raw meaning they want to eat it raw for you carnivores out there you
know for the liver King out there you know you guys remember when that
phase went through our church where people are just eat meat raw it was
like so cool to eat meat raw or whatever they would even chew it they
just swallow it or something eating raw liver or whatever don't be a Hoffney
Infinahas I will not have it see they're sodding give it to me raw
that's what they're doing they're so filled with you know just insatiable
physical hunger they can't even wait for it to be boiled so it could be you
know placed to fry it and get it ready they just want it right then and
I just want it raw with the fat which is very sinful in the Old Testament they
were not supposed to eat it with the fat God specifically commanded them in
Leviticus chapter 6 and 7 and you see it also in Numbers chapter 6 that
they were not supposed to eat it with the fat they're supposed to
separate it the fat pictures the sin that is laid on the altar to be
burned but they didn't care why well look at Philippians did I have you turn
to Philippians look at Philippians chapter 3 verse 17 brethren be followers
together of me and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an example for
many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping
that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ whose end is
destruction listen to this whose God is their belly those are for those
mukbang people out there right whose glory is in their shame who mind
earthly things this is what the Bible says in Jude these are spots in your
feast of charity when they feast with you feeding themselves without fear and
so you know they're an incontinent group of brothers not only are they
eating raw food because they just can't restrain themselves but they're
also laying with the women who are assembling at the house of God
committing fornication very wicked indeed let me skip some things here
because I'm out of time I'm gonna I'm gonna hold off till next week because
I got a lot more to cover you know so what can we learn from this first
half this is gonna be a two-parter okay what can we learn from this
first half well if you take anything from the sermon take this get your
children saved get them saved pray for them think about them think about your
kids hey have a burden for your kids allow that to keep you up at night
sometimes you know thinking about Lord please save my children or please work
in my children's hearts help them to be saved and look for opportunities to
get them saved you know I'm thankful that my son Bruce got saved amen and you
know and he gives a very clear presentation of the gospel he wants to
go soul winning he's learning you know that was a major burden on my
heart my son to be saved and don't take it lightly don't assume just
because they come to first works Baptist Church with all these soul
winners here that someone else will talk to them someone else will witness
to them know that you need to be that someone else pray for them and let me
just give one last tip in this regard and I'm done I've already closed the
Bible and that is if your child gets saved or they make a profession of
faith they call upon the name of the Lord and then later they come to
you and they kind of give you a testimony that kind of shows that
they're not saved do not do this listen to me do not to do this don't
say oh no you already did that oh no no you did that remember you've
already gotten saved don't do that you say why because number one you're gonna
make them feel as though it's a shameful thing to be an unsafe person
what you want to do is leave the doors open and explain the gospel to
them and then get them saved you like oh man but they got baptized so
what oh man then people are gonna know that they weren't really safe so what
who cares who cares what people think if they didn't get saved they didn't get
saved get them saved you know legitimately and then get them and if
they get baptized again be like yeah they weren't saved now they got saved
and you have they come to you again and it doesn't happen very often but if
they come to you again they're still unsure get them saved don't be
despair is just like oh no you already did that don't bring it up you
know what the Bible says about that don't you remember that you said don't
do that because you got to understand that children progressively learn these
things and like adults sometimes they go along to get along understand and so
you know get your children safe pray for them and don't be surprised if they
come to you later saying like hey you know I don't know if I'm saved
don't make them don't shame them for it don't rebuke them for it love them
and say okay well let's see what the Bible says that's how you call it but
you can get saved today though you know cuz folks it would be a devastating
thing for you to shame them and then they die and they go to hell because
you're because you're too embarrassed you understand what I'm
saying but the main thing is this don't be like Eli let's not be parents
like Eli Eli dropped the ball majorly you know Eli's in heaven without his
sons let's pray father we thank you so much for your word Lord and thank you
for the example that we have in the Bible obviously of what to do but also
of what not to do and I pray that you'd help us Lord to avoid the
mistakes of Eli and that we would raise godly children like Phinehas the
son of Eliezer not Phinehas the son of Eli if you bless us as we go on
our way we love you we thank you pray these things in Jesus name
Psalm number 401, 401 set my soul afire