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All right, everyone good evening welcome to first works Baptist Church
Let's all find our seats as you find your seat. Go ahead and grab a hymnal turn to song number
147
Song number 147 leaning on the everlasting arms. Let's all stand together for this first song if you're able
Song number 147 all together nice and strong on that first verse
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Lord God Heavenly Father, thank you for giving us this day
Thank you for giving us this opportunity to come together here in your house Lord and to fellowship with brethren Lord that are like-minded
And I thank you Lord for allowing us to come here and to sing these praises unto your name
And I ask that you please just bless this service Lord bless the singing and bless the preaching of your word Lord Jesus name
I pray amen
All right turn to song number 87
Song number 87 all together on that first verse just when I need
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Just when I need
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Answering
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All right great singing thank you so much for being here this evening just a few announcements before we sing our next song
Which will be song number one?
Jesus I my cross have taken song number one if you want to get that ready in your song books
Our services are as follow Sunday morning is that 1030 Sunday evening is that 5 p.m.
And then we have our Thursday night Bible study at 7 o'clock and we are currently going through the book of 1st Thessalonians
We'll be in chapter 2 this coming Thursday. You see the fall program scheduled there and
This morning. We had the men's stake contest
Congratulations to brother Jose Gonzales on
Winning there. So I'm sure all the stakes were great, but his was just the best. Sorry
I'm just kidding now. Everyone did a great job. And then we have the team bowling activity with pastor
This coming Friday on October 29th, and
Did we say we're gonna have the you have do you have the address oh
You texted me well, I mean
Excuse me folks
All right, let's see here text messages
There's my wife right there
Nope I didn't get anything
I have I got a picture or something. Well, just see my wife after the service
She'll tell you where it's at
But we'll have it in the bulletin this coming Thursday for the bowling activity and then the ladies prayer meetings on the 29th
Also, so that same Friday, it'll be on the 29th and it'll be here dinner will be provided
So we have two things going on that evening and then that Sunday is the teen activity to cold stones on the 31st
It'll be after the Sunday evening service
So just keep that in mind and of course, we conclude the fall program with the annual Thanksgiving banquet. You have the address there
We finally got something locked down
And so I'm not gonna announce it online just because you know
We don't want it to get shut down
But the address is right there on the bulletin so you can use that please make sure you RSVP by November 14th
Okay, and so we need to make sure we get a head count so we can prepare
Accordingly and make sure we have enough food for everyone and so make sure you are as VP
Of course, you want to invite your family and friends to that, you know, if they're unsaved all the better get them there
Get them saved. We'll have a great night. And so looking forward to that and then on the 7th
There's a pie baking contest as well
And so looking forward to that you see the point sheet system there and the fall program
prizes if you did not fill this out on Sunday morning
Make sure you fill it out tonight and give it to brother Ulysses Hernandez so we can record that
This would be so if you fill this out tonight or today, this would be from last week
Okay, not from this week next week is when you fill it out for this coming Sunday
So just keep that in mind and then we'll announce all the winners
During the banquet and that's pretty much it. We're gonna take some so many numbers at this time
Let's get some salvations from Monday to Thursday any salvations from Monday to Thursday brother Maury
Two for brother Maury's team one for brother Ulysses team anybody else from Monday to Thursday Friday and Saturday
Four anybody else? Okay. How about Sunday this afternoon?
Yes, two for brother Marcos's team four for brother Maury's team anybody else?
Brother hike three for brother hikes team anybody else? Is that it? Okay. I'm gonna make a quick announcement real quick
So brother Adam, please
mute my mic
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Love you all
All right, let's sing our next song song number one. Jesus. I my cross have taken
Song number one there in your hymnals Jesus. I my cross have taken
All the other on that first verse
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Amen wonderful sing at this time
The ushers will come forth to collect the offering and you can turn in your Bibles to Titus chapter number two
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Good evening tonight, we're in Titus chapter 2 and the Bible reads
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine that the aged men be sober grave
Temperate sound in faith and charity and patience the age of women
Likewise that they be in behavior has become with holiness not false accusers not given a much wine teachers of good things
That they may teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands to love their children to be discreet chaste
Keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the Word of God be not blasphemed
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded and all things showing thyself a pattern of good works to doctrine showing
Uncorruptness gravity sincerity sound speech that cannot be condemned
That he that is of a contrary part may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters and it pleased them. Well in all things not answering again
Not purloin but showing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts
We should live soberly righteously and godly in his present world
Looking for that blessed
Hope and the glorious appearing of the great God of our Savior Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from
All iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works
These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. Let's pray dear Lord God
Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day Lord
and we thank you for this church you've given us Lord and we pray right now that you fill pastor with your Holy Spirit and
Bless him as he preaches your word Lord and bless this time
We have and bless the rest of our time together Lord and pray this all in Jesus name. Amen
Okay, man, we're in Titus chapter number two look down into Bibles at verse number nine
It says exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters
Excuse me and to please them. Well in all things not answering again
Not purloining
But showing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in
All things and the title of sermon this evening is making doctrine attractive making doctrine
Attractive hold your place there in Titus
We're gonna come back to that in just a bit and go to Psalm chapter 19 if you would Psalm chapter 19
making doctrine
Attractive now, let me say this is that
I'm not saying that doctrine in and of itself is not attractive because of the fact that when you study the Word of God
We see over and over again that the men of God of the Bible
Saw a delight to read God's Word to study God's Word to proclaim God's Word
The commandments of God are naturally beautiful. Amen. They're they're comely. They're beautiful
They're they are delights um, and especially to the believer. Okay, even unsaved people out there
They love reading the King James Bible because it's a literary masterpiece
But even more so than that save people love to read the Word of God the commandments of God are not grievous unto them
They delight to read it. It's like honey to them. They're like rubies and gold. It's a precious thing
It's beautiful spiritually speaking in our sight
And so obviously what I'm saying here is not that we're gonna beautify the Word of God because the Word of God is already beautiful
Amen, but look what it says here in Psalm 19 verse number 7
It says here the law of the Lord is perfect
Converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is sure
Making wise the simple the statutes of the Lord are right rejoice in the heart. The commandment of the Lord is pure
Enlightening the eyes the fear of the Lord is clean and during forever
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous all together more to be desired a day than gold
Yet in much fine gold sweeter also than honey in the honeycomb
Moreover by them as thy servant warn and in keeping of them there is great reward so over and over again
We see that God compares his word to gold to fine gold to honey
More than the honeycomb more than rubies and jewels and all the treasures of this world
You know the Word of God is far more beautiful than those things
I mean you think of some of the most expensive jewelry that exists out there
Okay, some of the things that you would look at and say wow, that's a beautiful diamond. That's a beautiful Ruby
That is a a beautiful looking piece of jewelry, you know, we as Christians could look at the Word of God and say wow
That's even more beautiful than the most beautiful diamond, you know
The commandments of God are far more sweeter than all the sweetest sweetness of the honey that exists out in this world
The Word of God is perfect
It says in Proverbs 8 verse 8 all the words of my mouth are in righteousness wisdom speaking here
There is nothing forward or perverse in them
So when we think of the Word of God as being beautiful, we're saying that it is it's it's it's deficient of any ugliness
Okay, there's nothing perverse about the Word of God. It's pure. It's clean
This is why we should never be ashamed of what God's Word says. Amen
We should never be ashamed of its concepts of its doctrines of the words that it uses
Even words that the world would consider today as being cuss words or something
You know, you say the word ass and then I can't believe he said that, you know
But the Word of God uses that word, you know
We talk about the concept of hell and people think that that's like a cuss word or something folks
The Bible uses that word the Bible talks about bastards
And people often say well, you know, you shouldn't be so crude crude and and use those words
But the Word of God uses those words and the words of the Lord are pure words
They're clean words. And in fact, I would even go as far as to say that it is a sinful thing
It's simple to say that those words are unclean
It's actually sinful to say oh, you know, yeah
I know the Word of God uses the word bastard or I know the Word of God uses the word pisseth and all these other
Words, but you know what today in modern society, those are unclean words
Who cares what modern society says modern society is wrong the majority of the time
Modern society always goes against the grain of what God's Word says so we don't need to go to the world to help us
You know define what beauty is
According to God's Word, you know if the Word of God is beautiful or not. No, you know, we need the Holy Spirit
We need God we need his word and all we need is to know that because the Word of God is perfect because it's complete
It's without error. It's inerrant. Therefore. It's beautiful. Okay?
It's not deficient of anything verse 11 of Proverbs 8 says for wisdom is better than rubies
And all the things that they that may be desired are not to be compared to it and in Proverbs 8
God is basically saying hey, you should search for the knowledge of God
The way you would search for hidden treasure
You know if I were to tell you hey, there's a million dollars buried
I don't know how deep but pretty deep in your backyard
You would spend hours and hours
Trying to excavate and dig and dig and dig until you found that million dollars or whatever
Well, what if I told you there's just an insurmountable amount of gold in your backyard
I don't know how deep it is, but it's pretty deep and if you just come keep digging you will find it
Well God's saying here you should have a greater fervor
for
excavating the treasures of the Word of God
more than any physical treasure
Why because wisdom is better than rubies and
All things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. You can't compare gold to it
You can't compare diamonds to it. You can't compare. I don't know whatever precious stones there are out there
You can't compare any of it to it because the Word of God is priceless
Okay, the Bible says in Psalm 119 verse 18 open down mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law
so if someone's out there if there's a Christian out there that doesn't
Esteem the Word of God as being beautiful. It's not the Bible's fault
If there's someone out there who says well, I don't view it like you do that's a little too excessive
You know, I don't really like the Word of God that much or I don't think it to be that interesting
Well, it's not the you know, the problem is not that the Word of God is not wondrous
It's not wonderful is is that their eyes aren't open
Because there's a specific prayer that God says open down mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law
And a side point here is that if you ever feel like you're getting apathetic towards the Word of God
You need to pray Lord open my eyes
Then I may behold wondrous things out of thy law
If you ever get to a point where you're reading the Word of God, and it just seems monotonous
It just seems like you know
Drudgery or you're just doing out of a chore and you're not as into it as you used to be you need to pray Lord
Open my eyes
Then I may behold wondrous things out of thy law because the Word of God is not lost its value
It's not lost its beauty. It's just that our eyes are not open. Okay to behold it
Now here's the thing though. So obviously the Word of God is beautiful. It's attractive you read it. It's perfect
It's inerrant. I mean everything is in its place
But as beautiful as God's Word is God actually wants us to accentuate
The Word of God. Okay. He wants us to make it attractive go back to Titus if you would Titus chapter 2
It says in verse number 10 not purloin, but showing all good fidelity
That they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things
so
Paul is telling Titus. Hey, you need to make sure you do all these things from verses 1 or
Command that the people in the church do from verses 1 up and through 10 why because by doing so they're actually adorning
The doctrine of Christ they are
Accentuating the beauty that already exists there. They're basically bringing it out for people to see that. Okay now
Let me give you a couple ways that people you know, some things that people do to try to make the Bible attractive
Okay, and I remember reading this and I would discuss this with the pastor friend of mine
This is years ago before I was in a new IFP
This is when I was like in Bible college, and I remember, you know, we would talk about this and he would tell me
Well when the Bible says adorn the doctrine of Christ that's referring to like your delivery of your sermon
You know, you got to have all these bells and whistles and you got to you know, use all these types of illustrations
It's got to be like story time. You got to be very interesting. That's how you adorn the doctrine of Christ, but that's actually false
Okay
Because here's the thing is that a preacher can get up who's not necessarily as exciting or as bombastic
But if they're preaching God's Word, it's still very much attractive
Because God's Word is beautiful. No matter what if someone's preaching it. It's always gonna be attractive
It's always gonna be beautiful, but there are ways there are unbiblical ways that people try to make the Bible attractive
Let me give you some number one by leaving out the negative aspects of the Bible
People tried there's churches and pastors out there
They will try to make the Bible attractive by literally leaving out negative aspects of the Bible
They want to make it palatable for their church palatable for the world
Palatable for their friends. So in order to do that they think well, I can't show them Leviticus 2013. I
Can't read through Romans 1 Oh God forbid that you would read through Psalm 139
You know cuz that would make the Bible unattractive. No false you fool
Don't leave things out of the Bible. Hey the negative things there
You're basically saying that God made a mistake by putting those negative things there
You're basically telling God, you know what you don't really know what beauty is you don't know what people really want
Let me just show people the palatable aspects of the Bible because that's the only way that people are gonna like
What you say God, that's basically what they're saying and you know what liberal churches are notorious for this
They subtract from the Word of God all the time. Okay, they don't like going through the negative aspects of the Bible
Why because in their mind they're like, well, we got to make it attractive and palatable
To the audience, you know if they find out what God really thinks
If they found out about Genesis 19
If they found out about judges 19
Not just Psalm 23, oh
Man, people would lose it. They would lose interest in the Word of God
That's what they think
So they think the way they can make the Bible palatable and attractive to the masses is by removing the negative
Aspects of the Bible but the Bible says this in Jeremiah 26 verse 2 you don't have to turn there
Go to go with me if you would to
Go to Matthew chapter 5 if you would Matthew chapter 5 Jeremiah 26 verse 2 says thus saith the Lord
Stand in the court of the Lord's house and speak unto all the cities of Judah
Which come to worship in the Lord's house all the words that I command thee to speak unto them
diminish not a word
So
God tells Jeremiah I want you to preach this sermon
I want you to preach the Word of God and make sure you don't diminish anything from that message
What does it mean to diminish, you know, take away a little piece here a little piece there
Jeremiah coming to the it's like Jeremiah coming to you know, Judah and just removing the judgments the fact that wrath was gonna fall upon Judah
God saying don't diminish anything and let me say this this commandment still stands today folks
Or God says preach the word be instant in season and out of season
reprove
rebuke
Exhort with all long-suffering in doctrine. Oh wait, but you know what today you have pastors who only exhort with all long-suffering in doctrine
And what do they do they diminish the reproving and the rebuking of God's Word, but you need both
Well, how are we supposed to reach people like that? Well, where did it say in order to reach people?
How are we gonna how are people gonna be reached does God say, you know, hey
Preach this because it's gonna reach a bunch of people
No, we should preach it because it honors God and that's what God commands us to do
By the way, we reach people by preaching the gospel
That's our reach people by getting people safe
Okay
And whether that person wants to come to church or not and hear God's Word and actually delve into the negative things of the Bible
That's up to them, but we don't diminish a word to try to make the Bible look more attractive. Okay, what's another way?
Well, another way is this by downplaying the commandments of God. Oh, that's not you know
Leviticus 20 13 it's not really what he meant
He didn't really mean like stone them with stones
You know their blood should be upon me. He didn't really mean that
You know the death penalty in the Old Testament that's not really what he meant by that. What do they do?
They're trying to make the Bible palatable for people. And so what they'll do is they'll try to change the meaning of verses
You know
And I've had a ton of people approach me online and say hey you're taking that verse out of context
When it says that they shall be put to death, it doesn't really mean be put to death
It's like well define for me then what does it mean to be put to death?
Did death spiritually
You know, like how do you do, you know, I uploaded this
This reel. Okay, because you know, we live in a society where everyone just gets offended for every single thing
You just breathe and people get offended
Literally because without a mask, you know, he's like how dare you breathe without a mask
But I uploaded this this this reel
And the reel was simply it's it's like no words. Like I'm not saying anything
I'm, literally not saying anything. I'm just looking into the camera and the caption read
verses that your pastor will probably never preach from
Part one
Because i'm gonna make a series of it
you know
And it got like 26 000 views or something like that and it's literally like four or five verses from the book of psalms
And it's like, you know, it's psalm 5 psalm 139, but literally all I did was post the verses. That was it
So I put psalm 5
I put psalm 139. I put all these negative verses from the book of psalms
It was literally it was like four or five verses and then the video ends. It's only a couple seconds long
So no audio for me. I'm not speaking. I literally just walk up to the phone
I look at it. I cover it up and then the verses pop up, you know, because I'm, you know
Trying to make it like theatrical or something
And literally people were like you're taking those out of context
And I told him I didn't say anything
How could I be taking something out of context if I didn't say anything
I said I literally didn't even interpret the verses
I literally there's no commentary on the verses
There's no hey, this means this it's just the verses and the guy got on there. Just like oh, yeah
You're you're saying that out of context
Uh, it's literally only the text
Because context means with
text
Con you know like in spanish so it's like it's only the text but this guy is such a sissy
The guy is so offended the guy is so such a weakling that the word have got offensive
Just the words on the screen offended him so much that he just had to attack me and say oh you're taking this out of context
Oh, i'm sorry for just posting verses
I literally just posted a verse and that's what's causing you to stumble. Okay, but why is that?
Well because of the fact that
the culture in mainstream christianity today
Is that well whenever you see something negative in the bible it has to mean something else
You know when when it says thou hatest all workers of iniquity it can't mean
That he hates all workers of iniquity
How would you even think that it has to mean something else
And in their minds they're thinking oh man if I bring that verse to people and show them psalm five five
They're not going to want the word of god. It's not going to be attractive to them
No, we need to make it attractive. So let's go ahead and change the meaning of psalm five five
Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. It means like he hates the devil or something like that
You know psalm 139, you know, it's only david speaking of his heart
You know, that's that's another thing that someone said you're taking out of context because this is actually david just pouring out his heart
Unto the lord. Yeah by the inspiration of the holy ghost
You know if this was an imagination out of david's own heart then the holy spirit probably wouldn't have put it in there
But he did
So yeah, david was used to pen those words, but guess who approved it the holy ghost approved it
Because holy men of god spake as they were moved by the holy ghost
You don't think the holy ghost would have impeded him from writing that and said don't write that that's not my word
No, he inspired him
David was inspired by god to pen down psalm 139
But people today well, that's that's gonna offend people. Yeah. Well, duh. I mean
Yeah, the bible's offensive sometimes. Okay. What are the wrong ways that people try to make?
Uh how they try to make the bible attractive they leave out negative aspects of the bible, you know, they subtract from it
They downplay the commandments of god
You know, oh it doesn't mean like to death it means like die spiritually or something well that too you could apply that too
But you know, the devil is the first one to actually downplay the commandments of god. Yea hath got set
He should not surely die
He didn't really mean that you're gonna die die
But it didn't mean that they were gonna die die
They're gonna die physically and spiritually, okay
But what are what are some other ways that people will try to make the bible
How people try to make the bible attractive number three by just not quoting it
He said what do you mean by that well often people will quote other people and ascribe it to god's word
Because the bible sometimes is just too offensive. So, you know who they have to quote gandhi
Love the sinner hate the sin. I mean that that verse
Is more memorized
By christians, unfortunately, then maybe even romans 5 8 is
Find me 10 christians who can quote psalm 5 8 outside of this church in other denominations or something
You know, but I guarantee you I can go to probably any christian and just say love the sinner finish that
And they'll say hate the sin
Even though it was quoted by gandhi who is burning it out today
So
And so, you know, but you know, why do they use that because here's the thing
I've quoted verses where the bible talks about hatred and ye that love the lord hate evil
And people christians will actually quote gandhi
And then you show them that was gandhi sign the bible
You know and have you even had people say the bible teaches to love the sinner hate the sin
You know and I was like the bible does not teach that
You're getting that from somewhere else. You're getting that from actually a pervert
Because gandhi was a pervert
Sorry folks, but not sorry
The guy was a stinking filthy pervert who took showers with girls
multiple
In order to cause himself to abstain from the fleshly lusts or whatever and that's and that's who christians are quoting
Me
As in ascribing that concept to god's word, why did they do that because they want the bible to be attractive
And if they really showed what the bible actually said, you know, that would offend a lot of people. Well, you know, we're here
Not necessarily to offend people but you know
We're here to preach god's word and if it offends people if they stumble at the stumbling stone, that's not our fault
Okay
Look at matthew 5 verse 43. Ye have heard that have been said thou shall love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy
Now who is jesus actually quoting? Well, he's not quoting the bible
Hate thine enemies not something that god instituted in the old testament. This is something that the pharisees were pushing forth
To hate their enemies and hate the goyems and treat them like trash and their cattle and all these things, you know
That's where they got it from
So he's saying ye have heard that has been said thou shall love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy
But I say unto you I being the word of god
Jesus speaking love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you
And persecute you go to second timothy chapter two and verse 15 second timothy chapter two
So people will try to make the bible palatable
by
You know subtracting from it
They would do it by not quoting it. They'll do it. They'll do it by downplaying the commandments of god because they're like embarrassed of god's word
But number four they'll also do it by misapplying it, okay
What do I mean by that? Well, what they'll do is they'll take verses. They'll just pick random verses from the bible sometimes
And apply it to things that it just has nothing to do with
Okay, i'll give you an example like deuteronomy 22 4 i'm talking about
You know the bird and taking the egg and releasing the bird and all these things people try to use that for like animal rights
Or something
Oh god, you know, he cares for the oxen
No, he doesn't care for the oxen. And the only reason he would tell us to care for the oxen is because for our sakes
Not for the animal's sake
Now we obviously understand that god doesn't want us to be cruel to animals or anything like that
I don't think that's corrected to be cruel to animals, but when people try to put animals on a pedestal
Okay, almost as the same importance as human beings and they try to use the bible to back that up that's sinful that's wrong
You're misapplying it. Okay
I saw someone post, uh, it was a calendar and and it had a verse but it was quoting satan
It's like all I will give thee if that will bow down and worship me or something
But this is what happens when people
Will take just random verses like
Oh, that's inspirational
You know, hey quote judas that did that or quote jesus talking to judas that did that do us do us quickly
That's motivating, isn't it?
Well, let's talk about him going to go hang himself and kill himself
Okay, and and betray the son of god, of course
You know
But people will try to make the bible palatable by just misapplying it. They'll just take some inspirational verse from the bible
Not even read it in context
Right and apply it to something that just has nothing to do with what the word of god says now
Let me say this the bible does have a lot of inspirational verses in there
Beautiful inspirational verses the book of psalms has beautiful inspirational verses all the bible has it but sometimes people don't even go to those
They go to something that they think, you know, but his arm is stretched out still
Still
From isaiah, you know, if you read that in isaiah, it's like his arm is stretched out still
It's almost like this picture of god's always willing to give you a second chance
But when you read it in context his arm is stretched out stills means he's like he's whooping
He's like you think i'm done with you. My arm is stretched out still
I'm still spanking you i'm still chastising you but people always his arm is stretched out still
Ours is like his arm is stretched out still and then bam
So
Misapplying verses happens all the time
Why because they're trying to make the bible palatable for people?
Look at verse 15 study to show thyself approved unto god. Hey, you know read the context of those verses
Before you put your your your inspirational quote of the month
A workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth, but shun profane and vain babblings
For they will increase into more ungodliness
And their word will eat as doth a canker of whom is hymenaeus and philitis who concerning the truth have aired
Saying that the resurrection is passed already and overthrow the faith of some so these guys were not
These guys are like the first preterists of the new testament
They were teaching that the resurrection was passed already, which is exactly what preterists teach
Why because they did not rightly divide the word of truth. They were misapplying the scriptures
And so they messed up go to second corinthians chapter three
Second corinthians chapter three and then we're going to go back to titus chapter two
second corinthians chapter three
Title of the sermon is making doctrine attractive. We don't have to do all these gimmicks and apologize for god's word
And and try to misapply it or diminish from it or you know, try to excuse the commandments of god
We should just stand on god's word and say every single one of the commandments of god is beautiful
The word is beautiful we delight in it it's wonderful it's pure it's clean it's perfect
It's an errant. It's beautiful
And i'd say yeah, it's beautiful, but there's some ugly parts
There's some there, you know, there's some dysmorphia and within the the bible some defects
You know, there's some things in there that just uh, no, it's all good
All of god's good. All of his judgments are great
You notice that when god talks about his word, he talks about it like his statutes his precepts his testimonies and his what judgments
He's not just trying to use fillers to explain what god's word is. What is a judgment? It's like his punishments
Right when he judge when you judge something
Well, the bible is filled with god's judgments
Where he judges and destroys people and lands and cities
God says the judgments are beautiful
They're wonderful
I mean read revelation chapter 16
Where the angels are just singing the praise of god's judgment because pouring blood upon the entire world. He's shedding blood
He's like, this is great. This is wonderful
Because god makes no mistakes folks
And if he judges something
Who's to say that wasn't right? He shouldn't have done that. No, our reaction should be god. That judgment is perfect
Right you have equity
You have righteousness you you're you're you're perfectly balanced and everything you do the judge of all the earth will do right
Look at second corinthians chapter three
Verse number one says do we begin again to commend ourselves or need we have some other epistles?
Of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you look what it says here in verse two. Ye are our epistle
written in our hearts
Known and read of all men now, we obviously understand an epistle is a letter but more specifically
An epistle can be considered god's word, right?
So when he says he are our epistles, he's basically telling the church of corinth. You are the representation of god's word
Known and read of all men. That's what he's telling him go back to go to titus
if you would
Now the epistles of paul the epistles of peter none of these are defective they're perfect they're beautiful right because it's god's word
but here's the thing sometimes the
messenger of that epistle does have some defects
And this is why god tells uh, or the apostle paul under the inspiration of the holy ghost tells titus to adorn
the doctrine of god
Okay, how do you do that?
Well, look at titus chapter 2
In titus chapter chapter 1 2 and 3 what we see is the apostle paul leaving titus on the island of crete to ordain pastors
and
They're meant to go there
He's meant to go there and teach and preach and train the people in the church how to be functioning members of society
How to live civilly and how to behave themselves in the house of god. It's very similar to what we see in first and second timothy
But in titus chapter 2 he begins to address specific people groups in the church and he tells them how to behave themselves
Now, why does he do that? Well because of the fact that
They're going to be the epistles
Known in red of all men in the island of crete
You say where are you going with this?
Well, here's the thing, you know, our doctrine is beautiful because it's god's word, right? It's perfect
And you know, I'm very much proud of the reparative doctrine I love the end times bible prophecy
I love once saved always saved. I love all these doctrines and none of them are deficient of anything, right?
But I want other people to like them too though
You get what i'm saying like we never want to be this kind of church it's like it's us for no more
We want other people to like these doctrines
We want other people to embrace these doctrines we want them to love them and to behold
The wondrous things out of god's law
We want them to appreciate the doctrine the way we appreciate them to not be ashamed of these doctrines the way we're not ashamed
You know, we can be in public and just talk about the reparative doctrine. Like it's nothing it's not like, you know
Just faggots, you know, like they're going to hell, you know, it's not something we're ashamed of we talk about it freely
And we want people to view the word of god in such a way where they're not ashamed of god's word either, okay
But here's the thing, you know right off the bat. Sometimes people don't really
Understand or behold the beauty of god's word right off the bat
You know because their mind is filled with junk. It's filled with all this nonsense and philosophy of this world
They need their minds to be renewed
So what god says here is that a way that we can help people
Or, you know to to love the word of god and to behold the beauty is by adorning the word of god
Okay, and i'll give you a rough example of this. Okay
This is not the best example
But this it's it's a decent example and it kind of illustrates what i'm trying to say here, you know, for example, let's say
A a a wife, okay
You know if she doesn't have any makeup
To her husband. She's beautiful still
Right like she doesn't need makeup to be beautiful. She's beautiful the way she is
right
Now if she were to add a little bit of makeup on it would just probably accentuate her beauty a little more
But if you remove that makeup, she's still beautiful
right
But adding a little bit of makeup probably accentuates that you understand
You say I don't like that illustration. Well, I mean i'm just
You can see the parallel though, can't you?
Because the word of god is beautiful
But yet god is still saying adorn the doctrine of god though
It's not because it's deficient of anything it's not because it's ugly
It's because he wants it to be palatable for those who are new to god's word. You understand
Now the way we make it palatable is not the way these idiots do it
By diminishing from it and taking away from it
And you know keeping your wife in the house and never making making sure no one in this world ever sees your wife ever again
You know just doing all these plastic surgery adding to it
Right, you know because isn't there people out there who like do their nose or something like that or you know
They'll uh, I was gonna say they tattooed their eyebrows, but that was like in the 90s, you know, they'll do all these crazy things
To try to make themselves beautiful when they're already beautiful, right?
What i'm saying is god specifically says the way you accentuate the beauty of god's word is by your behavior
Because what he's addressing in titus chapter two is the behavior
There's no deficiency in god's word, there's only a deficiency in your behavior
So sometimes you know you go to your family you're trying to tell them about the reprobate doctrine or something
Your safe family and they're just like oh you're a cult
You gotta go to a cult or something like that. But here's the thing though. It's probably not the doctrine that they have a problem with
It's probably your just your your prideful arrogant attitude
Right
Amen
Hey, I mean I was guilty of that too
You know when I was a young babe in christ, you know, sometimes it's the behavior of the messenger
That puts off people from god's doctrine
So he's saying adorn the doctrine of god make sure you you dress it up a little bit
You know don't take away from it. Don't don't make that girl get a plastic surgery or something like that
She doesn't need a tummy tuck
She doesn't need for you to remove, you know, the the other chin or whatever
She doesn't need for you to like mess with the body. It's it's it's great as it is the woman is beautiful as this
You
Need to fix you
You need to change your behavior
This is how you adorn the doctrine of god
Okay
Let's look at it. Titus chapter 2
Talk about making doctrine attractive
He says in verse number one, but speak thou the things which become sound doctrine
Look what it says here that the aged men be sober
grave temperate sound in faith and charity in
Patience so he addresses the aged men. Those are the older guys in the church. Okay, not me
Agent man is like brother albert, you know what I mean? Got you
Brother will all right, who else is an aged man? Hey, don't be ashamed of your age
Okay, yeah brother eddie, right? These are the aged men. All right, anybody else want to volunteer another person?
Hey
I'm gonna be 36 this year. That means i'm four years away from 40. Yeah, and I don't look it
But i'm about to be aged soon
But imagine this, you know that this young guy titus
He has to preach to the aged men and say sir. You have to be sober
You need to be grave and temperate
Be sound in faith in charity and impatience. Hey be temperate don't be wrestling in church
Can you be a temper person and not be not like armbar someone in church and hurt someone in the church aged man
Hey aged man, can you act your age?
Be grave be sober be temperate be sound in faith have love in your heart. Okay have charity and be patient
So these are all behavioral things, right
When he says be sober be grave in other words be serious take the christian life serious
You know, the christian life shouldn't be a joke to you. Whereas sometimes you're in church. Sometimes you're not sometimes you read the word of god
sometimes you don't it's just the kind of
The the christian life becomes like a jesting festival for you
Where it's just you don't really take it very serious. God wants us to take the christian life serious folks
Soul winning is serious reading your bible and praying is serious leading your family is serious
Church is serious. Amen
Now this is not to say that we can't laugh because the bible encourages laughing. I mean god laughs
Okay
But he's saying the age of men should be temperate. They should be sound in faith
You know
There shouldn't be men in the church who are just tossed to and fro carried about with every wind of doctrine
By the sleight of men and cutting craft in this whereby they lie awake to deceive
You know age and men should be established in the faith
They should have charity and they should be patient they should be losing their temper
Amen
I mean, why don't you say like we as young men, you know, we as young men
We tend to lose our we can lose our temper very easily sometimes, right?
We just let it fly and just like just go off on someone. Well, god actually expects that as you grow older
That you're a little more patient. You're slow to anger
You know your fuse gets a little longer
You ever met someone with a short fuse
Okay. Well god expects you as you grow older to grow that fuse a little longer
Why because that way you that's how you adorn the doctrine of god
But if your family and your friends constantly see you just losing your temper you have no charity you're tossed to and fro
You're not sober-minded. You're constantly in church out of church. You're not really taking the things that got serious
You're not really adorning that doctrine that you're putting forth, you know
The doctrine of forsaking not the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is
You're not really practicing what your priest now are you
So he tells the aged men hey make sure you have these things together be sound in faith
charity patience verse three
The aged women likewise. I wonder how he actually did this. I want to talk to the aged women right now like
You know, like how did that work?
aged women older women likewise
By the way, I want you to notice that the aged women have more instructions than the men
Did you guys notice that
Three verse three four and five
I mean we only got one verse
I'm just i'm just putting that out there. I'm just saying
Aged women likewise that they be in behavior as become as holiness
Not false accusers in spanish we would say chismosas
What's a false accuser someone was just accusing people falsely just flip it around
What was that
You aged men
False accusers
So, you know older women should not be going around gossiping to other people in the church about other people in the church
Accusing other pastors
Accusing other churches getting becoming busybodies tattlers, right? That's not what they should be involved in
Not false accusers he says so if they're not a false accuser, what are they supposed to be doing bearing witness to the truth?
Shutting people down who are false accusers
Not giving too much wine, this is not referring to alcohol by the way, okay wine here is referring to juice
And he said not giving too much wine. You shouldn't be just living in luxury lavishly
He says teacher of good teachers of good things. Oh
That's why we can have sunday school teachers and women preachers it says teachers of good things you can have yourself a podcast
Right
Well, they teach good things
You know give them a platform is that what it's referring to no
Verse four that they may teach the young women to be sober
by the way, look
When it says teachers of good things, it's referring to
sitting next to a sister in church
And we'll see here and teaching her to love her husband
You need to love your husband
Make sure you love him cook his favorite meal
Do the things that please him
Let me show you how to have a happy marriage
That's teaching the younger women
Not like okay
This dj, you know, we're just gonna bring some woman up here
Some prophetess
And start preaching a five-point sermon
On how to be a good wife
No, this is referring to like discipleship
You understand
Hey women are able to disciple other ladies in the church. We encourage that. That's a good thing. Amen
And and what do they do? They sit next to each other?
You know when when the guys are wrestling on the foyer, you know the ladies they all
They all kind of get together and they talk
And they kind of encourage one another
I'm gonna be saying it like the whole sermon
Yeah
He says that they may teach the younger women to be sober look what it says to love their husbands
That's a good thing to teach. Amen
Why is it saying?
Why is he telling tytus?
Hey teach the women the older women the aged women to love their husbands because he's teaching them how to have a good marriage
Wants them to have a good marriage
He says love your husbands
Be there for your husband be your husband's cheerleader. Love them
to love their children
Right
Teach them how to love the lord how to love the word of god so the responsibility the behavior of the aged women
Is not to go on youtube
some youtube comment section
And just blast pastors
I I miss that ministry in the bible folks
I can anybody point out the ministry of correcting pastors in the bible for women
I mean you won't even find that for men
Let alone women, but you know, there's women out there in youtube land that feels their responsibility
to defend their husbands
Right
folks
Go on all my I have
Thousands of videos you can go on all my videos. You'll never find sarah mahia on that comment section
Me
Defending me get him sarah
What is that
You'll never find my wife
Defending me online
Why because it's because i'm a dude i'm like i'm a man
Yeah
He said why isn't she doing that because she's making my meals
She's ironing my shirts
She's you know, washing my clothes
You know, she's taking care of our four kids
She's homeschooling
She's she's doing my keto numbers
She's doing all that other stuff so that I could respond on youtube
Amen
I'm talking about as a pastor, by the way
Look as a pastor. I should be able to fight my battles
Now if my pastor friends want to jump in with me and fight with me
Amen, but you know what? I fight my own battles folks. Someone falsely accuses me i'll answer for myself. Thank you
I don't need you know, some some some or I don't need my wife to get online leave my husband alone
That's embarrassing
I'd be like you delete that comment now
Delete it now. I will not let everyone know that i'm a sissy like that
That's some sissy stuff
Man fight your battles and by the way, isn't it like the men supposed to defend the women
Kind of crazy where we live in
Oh look at verse five to be discreet, would you look at that?
Chased keepers on youtube and facebook. No, it says keepers at home. Yeah
Good
Obedient to their own husbands
That the word of god be not blasphemed
So what is this telling us if a woman's not doing these things? She's actually blaspheming the word of god. So instead of adorning
The doctrine of god
She's actually blaspheming the word of god
Because in order to adorn the doctrine of god, she has to do all these things be discreet be chased be a keeper at home
Obey their own husbands love their husbands love their children not be false accusers. That's her adorning the doctrine of god
So when people look at the doctrine about being a keeper at home, they're like wow
This is a great example of someone who's a keeper at home
This is great. Look how she loves her children. Look how she loves her husband. They look so happy together
Look how she just obeys her husband. I don't like that because i'm like a feminist but they look happy though
Folks people say that
I go when I go to the store or something or or or like to restaurants with my wife and my kids
I mean now we get the looks
You know because we look different we got four kids five and under and it's just like
Like they look at my wife and then they look at me and i'm thinking myself are they are they thinking like
this stinking mexican
I can't believe you did this this poor white girl
And I kind of I look at that I kind of want to say like yeah, we got other ones coming he's not coming yet
She's not expecting or anything but we got others coming because the plan is to have more children
But I don't say anything I just kind of just let it you know, but we get the looks all the time
But you know what at the end of the restaurant visit, you know what they say you have a beautiful family
You have a beautiful wife
You have beautiful children
And I always say thank you very much, you know, because they see how my children behave they see that my wife tends to me
You know, she brings me my drink, you know, she she she you know, she serves me
And they may not like that but they see harmony there
And then to them it's just like this is great. This is beautiful and they always say you have a beautiful family
You know that I say thank you
You know what we're doing we're adorning the doctrine of god because they know we're christians only christians
I mean the way we look and everything, you know a bunch of kids and
But when a wife chooses not to do that, she's actually blaspheming god's word. She's actually making the word of god ugly
When she's like yelling at her husband she's nagging her husband
You know, she's not a keeper at home she's not changed she's not discreet she's a loudmouth
She's not obedient to her own husband she speaks more than a husband does in a public setting
In a public setting she kind of bosses her husband around
She kind of is like who's the husband here who's the one in charge
That causes people to say like see this christianity stuff is weird that puts men off to christianity by the way
That's why men a lot of men think that christianity is just like church is just for women and children
Because the wife is constantly bossing around her husband
She's bossing him around she's the one who's spiritually in charge. She tells him what to do. She runs the show
She's wearing the pants in the family, even though she has a skirt on
Amen
And so that actually causes the word of god to be blasphemed
God says if you really want to adorn the doctrine of god know your place
Hey men, know your place
Hey women, know your place and your place is at home
Your place is at the side of your of your of your husband
Your place is to be obedient to your husband to love your children to be a keeper at home to be discreet to be chased
To teach the younger women, uh good things to love their husbands
That's how you adorn the doctrine of god
Don't be a rebellious woman
Don't be an odious clamorous rebellious woman
Right, right
Why because you know what because if you do if you do do that you're blaspheming god's word
You're making god's world look bad. You're making it look ugly
Look at verse six
By the way, you know you think of for example, you know, you think of makeup, let's go back to the makeup illustration, okay?
You know makeup should should accentuate beauty
But you think about clothing as well when a woman is modest
In her clothing true modesty actually attracts the eyes
to the face
When a woman is
Immodest it attracts men's eyes to other parts of their body. Oh, you shouldn't be looking there
Well, duh, I mean obviously we shouldn't be looking there. But I mean
Can you get on them too though? Like isn't this like a two-way street, you know
But a woman who is modest
Eyes go directly to the face. Well in like manner, you know what when we are modest in our behavior
You know what we do we attract everyone's eyes to god's word
Not to our body
Not to all not to us
Not to who we are. No when we're modest when we are chaste we're sober
Obedient when we're living according to god's word
We actually take the eyes of the beholder and they behold the word of god for the beauty that is actually there
Okay, amen. Look at verse six young men. Likewise exhort to be sober minded and all things showing thyself a pattern of good works
This means that young men, you know what you should be doing in these younger years bearing the yoke in your youth
Laboring being a blessing in the church taking out the trash
Vacuuming serving giving your life to tend to the things of the lord. I'm thankful we have young men like that in our church
Constantly working constantly doing things projects and getting involved in church. That's what young men should be doing. They should have a pattern of good works
Have a reputation for serving. Amen
In doctrine showing uncorruptness
Gravity sincerity. What does that mean? You know a young man's teaching should not have false doctrine
They should know what they're talking about
It should not be deficient of the truth. They should know what they're talking about. And if they preach or they teach, you know
And and they don't know what they're talking about. They shouldn't be talking about those things
Don't talk about things that are beyond you you understand talk about practical things talk about disney. Amen
That was a good series part one and part two
All right
The only thing he didn't know about was aladdin though, I will say that
And I can't believe adan is still in our church and even to this day. Where's adan? Is he here? No, he's not here
Oh, he's over there
Get out
Remember, he said adan instead of aladdin
Showing uncorruptness gravity sincerity young men be sincere. Don't be a fake. Don't don't try to impress people
Don't try to
Be a person where you just want to want everyone to to behold you. No, you should be
Sincere you should be grave. You should love the lord
Look what it says in verse eight sound speech
That cannot be condemned don't sound like an idiot
Hey, uh revisit this morning sermon
Have a filter in your mouth
Don't just let it fly and say whatever comes to your mind. Don't just utter all your mind
Have sound speech that cannot be condemned
That he that is at the contrary part may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you
So the person who is listening the person who's on the contrary
They'll see the word of god for how beautiful it really is if you fulfill these responsibilities
Exhort servants. These are referring to employees
To be obedient unto their own masters. Hey, we want the men in our church to be good workers. Amen
good employees
Unto their own masters to please them. Well in all things not answering again. What does that mean?
Don't talk back
Don't talk back to your boss
Especially if they found out that you're a christian
That's even worse when you're mouthing off to your boss. Yeah, but you don't know my boss. I think he's a reprobate
Folks come on
They're you know, your doctrine is showing a corruption
Because we don't just throw that out there to any person
Okay
You know, please them on all things not answering again. Don't be an individual who's constantly talking back to your boss
constantly giving him problems
Not purloining. In other words not stealing from your boss. Don't steal time. Don't steal material
Don't be a thief
But showing all look what it says here
Good fidelity
What is fidelity faithfulness loyalty?
So if god is interested is if he's commanding employees to be faithful or loyal
To their bosses how much more is he expecting for us to just be loyal in all things?
loyal to friends loyal to
Leaders loyal to you know, pastors loyal to doctrine, right? He wants us to have good fidelity
But he's telling him here, you know show all good fidelity
To your boss so that your boss when he sees that you're a christian
He might be open to what you have to say because you're such a good worker
He says that they may adorn the doctrine of god our savior in all things. And so what's what's the purpose of the sermon tonight?
Just to address all the different categories in our church, of course and just to remind us. Hey, you know if you are having a
tough time
Teaching these doctrines to your family
You might want to put a little bit of makeup on
Not literally by the way
Talk about spiritually, you know, you know dress modestly
Throw a little bit of makeup. Hey guys, brush your teeth
Comb your hair take a shower
Have good hygiene spirit. I'm talking about spiritually here. Okay, because you're adorning the doctrine have a good testimony is what i'm saying
Now this is not something that i'm that i'm relating to soul winning by the way, right
So i'm saying you have to do all these things to be a good soul winner
You know
There's a really stupid teaching out there that says that
Where you have to like repent of all your sins and you got to clean up your life before you go out there and preach
The gospel folks the people at the door will only meet you for about 15 minutes. You probably will never see them again
15 minutes or not. It's not enough for you to give them the gospel and tell them tell them your whole life story either
I just want to let you know I don't drink anymore or something, you know
I don't smoke pot anymore. I repented of all my sins before I came to this door to give you the gospel or something
Soul winning doesn't require for you to clean up your life
So when he actually cleans up your life
because the more you go soul winning the more you recognize your
Massive responsibility and you want to be an effective soul winner and it causes you to to really think about eternal things
When you go out there and win someone to christ you pull someone out of the fire it makes eternity far more realistic
It's like, you know what? I need to get more serious about the things of god. I need to start cleaning up my life
I need to get right with god
People are they have it backwards
That one guy out there who's preaching out there in the south. He has it backwards
This is self-righteous holier than now that says oh, you know you guys go out there and you have a dirty heart
How do you know you do you don't see any who's harder? Are you looking at?
You can't see anybody's heart. How do you know what because they're not up to your standard
So are they supposed to repent of the sins that you've repented of?
I guarantee hey, what about all the bitterness that you have in your heart?
You shouldn't be getting up and preaching god's word
All this venomous maliciousness and all this other nonsense that he's guilty of yeah, he's getting up on sunday morning preaching god's word
At that point. Yeah, you should get right with god before you get up and preach god's word
Yeah
How about that?
But to go sowing
No, but you know what to teach the word of god to other people or to teach the word of god to christians
To help them to accept
And behold the beauty of god's word. Yeah, we should adorn ourselves
By our behavior you understand
That's pretty much the sermon for tonight
You know making doctrine attractive does not require for us to take away or add to god's word
Diminish god's word misinterpret god's word. It doesn't require anything from god's word other than our behavior in light of god's word. Amen
This is my husband our word of prayer father. We thank you so much for your word
And lord, thank you for the practical teaching of the book of titus and what a wonderful book it is
And i'm so thankful that the word of god is so deep in other areas
But sometimes just so practical and just everyday living and I pray that lord you help us give heed to this lord
And help us to adorn
The doctrine help us to uh, dress up spiritually
To be good representatives of god's word lord, and I pray that you'd bless us as we fellowship tonight
And give us a great week to follow in jesus name. Amen
Please turn in your song books a song number 397
397
Song number 397 little as much when god is in it
Song number 397 all together nice and strong on that first verse
in the
harvest field now ripen
There's a word
Little as much when god is hidden
Seems so small
Is
Are you
In the same place
If you'll go in jesus
Is
Amen wonderful singing yard is missed
So