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Alright, good evening, everyone!
Let's all make our way inside and find a seat.
Welcome to First Works Baptist Church.
Let's all grab a songbook.
Open that songbook up to song number 162.
To God be the Glory.
And if you are able, let's all stand together for our first song.
Song 162, To God be the glory, everyone all together nice and strong.
To God be the glory, great things he hath done,
So loved he the world that he gave us his Son,
Who yielded his life and atonement for sin,
And opened the life gate that all may go in.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice.
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son of man,
And give him the glory, great things he hath done.
O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood,
To every believer the promise of God,
The vilest offender who truly believes,
That moment from Jesus a pardon receives.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice.
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,
And give him the glory, great things he hath done.
Great things he hath taught us, great things he hath done.
And great are rejoicing through Jesus the Son,
But purer and higher and greater will be,
For wonder our transport when Jesus we see.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice.
O come to the Father through Jesus the Son,
And give him the glory, great things he hath done.
Amen. Let's open our service with the word of prayer.
Father, thank you God, Lord, for allowing us, God, to be here tonight, Lord, and
hear your word preached unto us, God. Pray, Lord, for the service, Lord, every
aspect of it, God, that you would bless the singing, Lord, prepare our hearts and
our minds, Lord, to receive the message that
pastors prepared for us, Lord. I pray, God, that you would feel pastored with your
Holy Spirit, Lord, as he preaches to us, God, and
help us to apply that which we hear to our lives, God, and leave here differently
than when we came in, God. We love you, Lord, and it's in Jesus' name we pray.
Amen. You may be seated. Song number 364,
Standing on the Promises of God.
Song 364, Standing on the Promises of God.
Everyone all together nice and strong on that first verse.
Standing on the promises of Christ my King,
Through eternal ages let his praises ring,
Glory in the highest I will shout and sing,
Standing on the promises of God. Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God my Savior,
Standing, standing, I'm standing on the promises of God.
Standing on the promises that cannot fail,
When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail,
By the living Word of God I shall prevail, Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing, Standing on the promises of God my Savior,
Standing, standing, I'm standing on the promises of God.
Standing on the promises of Christ the Lord,
Bound to him eternally by love's strong port,
Overcoming daily with the Spirit's sword,
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing, Standing on the promises of God my Savior,
Standing, standing, I'm standing on the promises of God.
Standing on the promises I cannot fall,
Listening every moment to the Spirit's call,
Resting in my Savior as my all in all,
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing, Standing on the promises of God my Savior,
Standing, standing, I'm standing on the promises of God.
All right great singing thank you for being here this evening just a few
announcements here before we sing our next song which will
be song number 41 if you want to get that ready in your
songbook song number 41 if you did not get a bulletin go ahead
and raise your hand one of the ushers can get one for you
important information on there as well as our prayer sheet our Sunday
morning service is at 10 30 Sunday evening at 5 p.m
and then we have our Thursday night bible study at seven o'clock and then
you see there the first works family nights
summer calendar we'll go over that in just a minute
uh you see the important reminders right at the bottom please make sure you give
heed to that and just as a reminder there is a
changing table in the men's restroom here by the
kitchen and so men if you have diaper duty
please make sure you use that restroom do not use the ladies restroom in the
fellowship hall for that some of the upcoming church
events the fourth of July picnic is this coming Tuesday July 4th and
we will have a there's a shot excuse me a sign-up sheet
there in the back because it will be I think it's potluck style right
and so if you can sign up for that we'll be meeting at the park at 10 30
and that'll be at eucalyptus park now there will be a map
provided on Sunday for the picnic due to
the parade last year there was a parade that was
taking place and it kind of blocked off some of the areas where you're supposed
to enter in and so there will be a map there in the
back on Sunday to kind of give you directions on how
to get to the park without being stopped by the parade and
so just make sure you reference that on Sunday
and then the men's prayer night is coming up on Friday July 7 7 p.m at the
church building dinner will be provided and then we begin our family nights on
Sunday July 9th after the evening service and we'll start off with
uh carnival night I'm excited about this evening and so
I mean this evening yes but I'm talking about the carnival night so I hope you
would come with your family on Sunday night if you don't if you don't typically
come on a Sunday night this Sunday night as far as the
carnival night is a really good opportunity for you to get in the habit
of coming on Sunday evenings okay and so um after the Sunday
evening service we're gonna have a mechanical bowl
okay I think John you're ready for that right okay
and then we'll also have the jumper available as well for the kids
and then we'll have about I think it's about 10 booths
brother Elise is preparing 10 booths for the kids to play
games in it's gonna be a lot of fun and then also there's gonna be
food okay so we're gonna have like bacon wrap hot dogs
and hamburgers that evening and so it's gonna be a lot of fun this this
this side of the parking lot is going to be blocked off and so
everything will be out there want to encourage you to be here for that
and and stick around fellowship and create some good memories
starting July 9th at our church there hope to see you there and of course the
the 16th is the ice cream social and this is all after Sunday evening
service and then the kids olympics along with the men's preaching night is
on July 30th and then we conclude the family nights with the church bonfire
on Friday August 4th and so we'll give you more info as we
approach that day but want to encourage you to be here for that
that those are the Sunday evenings that I'm going to be preaching on the family
those weeks there and so don't miss out on that I hope to
see you then Samaria soul winning is coming up on
Monday July 10th we meet at the building at 11 30.
If you have any questions you can see brother Ulises Hernandez for more
details about that and then you see the regular reminders
there at the bottom please make sure you silence your phones during the preaching
so as to not be a distraction during the service let's go ahead and go over
the prayer sheet there continue to pray for our church
corporately pray for god's favor for the sowing in our church the
sowing teams I love visiting our friends churches because it just inspires me
to just in ministry sowing and uh the the church there stronghold
baptist church in in in Georgia is doing a great job under
the leadership of pastor burzins they've seen a lot of people save over
the last five years and so they're doing a great work and it just inspires me
and so pray continue to pray for the soul winning of our of our church the
missions protection of our church spiritual
numerical growth pray for the new people that they would
get grounded in our church and assimilate
and start soul winning become faithful to all the services
and then pray for just the different individual needs of our church
family members there you see it there at the bottom
and keep this throughout the week just keep these folks in prayer
salvation for unsafe family members and friends
for the families to continue to grow and pray for the summer
because a lot of people have a tendency during the summer to just
kind of get off kilter and not come to church okay that's just the nature of
the beast sometimes you know there's vacations there's all
types of things that take people out of church
and so um pray that church members would be consistent even
throughout the summer amen and how important it is to be
consistent even during the vacation time and if you go on vacation somewhere go
to church there amen and you say what if they have a Sunday
school class go to the Sunday school class i mean
i would you know and so i don't see a problem with that and you say what if
they have a nursery well i keep i still keep my kids with me if they have a
nursery or something like that and if they have a problem with it then
we'll talk about we'll talk to them at the following service you see what i'm
saying because we were we're not going to come back
for that service and so if you're only going there for one you guys didn't
catch that if you're going for one service
just bring your kids with you and say now i'm going to keep my kids with me
and if they got beef with you then just say you know we'll discuss it at the
following service okay and then you just don't go back okay
but um pray for people to be faithful pray for people to grow
and just the different needs there and um
it was a blessing visiting as i mentioned stronghold because they've
grown a lot and so uh they're expanding and they're
building a lot of new members and from the last time that i went and it was
just exciting to see a lot of growth and then uh another thing pray to pray
for is just pray for the social media platforms that we have
because they've been really fruitful and i was i was talking to some of the guys
about this on sunday night there at the church
uh we had a family come who heard about their church through
our my instagram and so they came and then they're going to start going there
and then that evening someone contacted me from a different church
uh one of our our friends churches and they had three new visitors that came to
that service on sunday morning they got saved
and then they had a family that's been going there for about two weeks who
found out about their church to our instagram and so
hey the social media platforms work amen they not only bring people to our church
but they're sending people to different churches as well
so pray that that would continue to be fruitful that more people would would
get into church they would hear about salvation
through those social media platforms that we would not be hindered
uh in those areas and so that's pretty much it and then of course if you have
any additional prayer requests you'd like to be mentioned
you can put it at the bottom there and then put into the offering plate and
we'll make sure that it gets on there for the following week all right
brother moore is going to come on up at this time and pray over these needs
mr bauer here to send a word of prayer dear lord heavenly father thank you for
allowing us to be able to come to church and
lord we just thank you for our church and and our pastor and and our and the
and the brethren that we have here as well lord i just pray that
we have your favor on our church as we serve you and um
and do the things that you've asked us to do going soul winning reading
reading our bibles lord and lord i just pray that um that we're
that we have your favor on our church i pray for all of our soul winning efforts
the soul winning teams i pray that you uh protect them and and uh allow the the
teams to be a place where they can have a friend
and they can have someone to help train them and disciple them as well lord and
lord i just pray for the missions i pray for
um casa male and and for beliefs as we're going there
in um in november lord and i just pray that
the time is fruitful and that we're able to potentially start a church there lord
and lord i just want to also pray for protection for our church
protection for our pastor and his family and lord uh
protect us as we're going to and from church and work lord and
as there's crazy people out there lord what i just want to pray for spiritual
numerical growth lord i just specifically want to pray
for the fact that as we're going into the summer that
people are more consistent when it comes to church and that we're able to
utilize um the events that we have planned in the future to kind of help
catapult them into serving you and growing closer to you and
being more consistent and adding more uh more church services and more bible
reading to their um to the task that they're
already doing but i just pray for more laborers i pray that that you send more
people to come and and um get people saved and and learn
and have put that that uh desire in their hearts so that they can
you know fulfill the great commission lord i just also want to pray for
the salvation of unsafe family members and friends lord just pray that you
soften their hearts allow them to be able to
um receive the gospel or receive the free gift
of eternal life and and believe in the gospel lord
lord i just also want to pray for um for the unspoken requests here and and
lord i just pray that you meet those needs
i pray for pastor burson's church i pray that you continue
allowing him to do a great work for you and and uh i play
i pray that you bless his ministry and the church members that he has over
there and and we pray that you continue to allow
his church to grow uh lord i also want to pray for social
media outlets that we have lord i pray that they continue to be fruitful and
thank you for all of the fruit that we've had and
all the people that's gotten saved through these ministries and and
lord i just also want to pray that um we're able to utilize these
these um these networks as much as possible lord
uh lord i just want to say thank you for um allowing us to be able to come to
church and lord just pray that um we're able to
be uh be able to listen to uh the message that
pastor mean is prepared for us and that we're able to grow closer to you
with uh your word lord i pray the assembly name amen
open up your hymn notes to song number 41 sweet by and by
song number 41
song number 41 in your song books
sweet by and by song number 41 lift it up together nice and strong on that
first verse there's a land that is fairer than day
and by faith we can see in a farm for the father waits over the way
to prepare us a dwelling place there in the sweet by and by
we shall meet on that beautiful shore in the sweet by and by
we shall wait on that beautiful shore we shall sing on that beautiful
shore the melodious songs of the
not aside for the blessing of rest in the sweet by and by
we shall meet on that beautiful
to our bountiful father
we will offer our tribute of praise
is
and the blessings that
in the sweet by and by we shall meet on that beautiful
shore great singing at this time the ushers are going to take the offering
go ahead and take your bibles and turn to matthew chapter 12
so
good evening we're in chapter 12 of matthew
and the chapter reads at that time jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn
and his disciples were in hungered and began to pluck the ears of corn and to
eat but when the pharisees saw it they said
unto him behold that disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the
sabbath day but he said unto them have you not read
what david did when he was in hungered and they that were with him how he
entered into the house of god and did eat the showbread
which was not lawful for him to eat neither for them that were with him
but only for the priests or have you not read in the law
how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath
and are blameless but i say unto you that in this place is one greater than
the temple but if he had known what this meaneth
that will have mercy and not sacrifice he would not have condemned the guiltless
but the son of man is lord even of the sabbath day
and when he was departed thence he went into
their synagogue and behold there was a man which had his hand withered
and they asked him saying is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days
that they might accuse him and he said unto them
what man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep and if it fall into
a pit on the sabbath day will he not lay hold on it
and lift it out how much then is a man better than a sheep
wherefore is it lawful to do well on sabbath days
then saith he to the man stretched forth thine hand and he stretched forth
and was restored whole like as the other then the pharisees went out and held a
council against them how they might destroy him
but when jesus knew it he withdrew himself from thence and great multitudes
followed him and he healed them all and charged them that they should not
make him known that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by his eyes the prophet saying behold my servant whom i have chosen my
beloved in whom my soul is well pleased i will
put my spirit upon him and he will show judgment to the
gentiles he shall not strive nor cry neither shall any man hear his voice in
the streets the bruised reach shall he not break
and smoking flax shall he not quench till he sent forth judgment
unto victory and in his name shall the gentiles trust
then was brought onto him one possessed with the devil blind and dumb
and he healed him in so much that the blind and dumb both speak and saw
and all the people were amazed and said is not this the son of david
but when the pharisees heard it they said this fellow did not cast out devils but
by beelzebub the prince of the devils and jesus knew their thoughts and said
unto them every kingdom divided against itself
is brought to desolation and every city or house divided against
itself shall not stand and if satan casts out satan he is divided
against himself how shall then his kingdom stand
and if i by beelzebub cast out devils by whom do your children cast them out
therefore they shall be your judges but if i cast out devils by the spirit of
god then the kingdom of god is coming onto
you or else how can one enter into a strong
man's house accepts and spoil his goods except he first
bind a strong man and then he will spoil his house
he that is not with me is against me and he that gathers not with me
scattereth abroad wherefore i say unto you all manner of sin and blasphemy
shall be forgiven unto men but the blasphemy against the holy ghost
shall not be forgiven unto men and whosoever speaketh the word against
the son of man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever speaketh against the holy
ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world neither in the
world to come either make the tree good and his fruit
good or else make the tree corrupt and his
fruit corrupt for the tree is known by his fruit
oh generation of vipers how can ye being evil speak good things
for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh
the good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things
and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things
but i say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak
they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment for by thy worst thou
shall be justified by thy worst thou shall be condemned
then certain of the scribes and of the pharisees answered saying master
we would see a sign from thee when he answered and said unto them
an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign and there shall no
sign be given to it but the sign of the prophet jonas for as jonas was
three days and three nights in the whale's belly
so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the
earth the men of Nineveh shall rise in
judgment with this generation and shall condemn it because they
repented at the preaching of jonas and behold the greater than jonas is here
the queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and
shall condemn it for she came from the uttermost parts of
the earth to hear the wisdom of solomon and behold the greater than solomon is
here when the unclean spirit has gone out of
a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest
and findeth none then he saith i will return into my house from whence i came
out and when it's come he findeth it empty
swept and garnished then goeth he and taketh with himself
seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter in
and dwell there and the last date of that man is worse than the first
even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation
while he had talked to the people behold his mother and his brother and
stood without desiring to speak with him then one
said unto him behold thy mother and thy brother and stand without desiring to
speak with thee but he answered and said unto him that
told him who is my mother and who are my brethren
and he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples and said behold
my mother and my brethren for whosoever shall do the will of my father which is
in heaven the same as my brother and sister and
mother let's pray we thank you heavenly father for such a wonderful church you
have given us dear god full of brothers and sisters and
mothers dear lord and you are our heavenly father we thank you for our
pastor please bless him with your holy spirit tonight as he
preaches your word on to us in jesus name we pray amen
amen okay we continue this evening with matthew chapter 12
and matthew 12 essentially starts off with the pharisees confronting jesus and
really falsely accusing him and his disciples
of profaning the sabbath basically saying that
he's violating the laws of god he's violating the sabbath
he's not remembering the sabbath to keep it holy only because of the fact that
they're plucking the ears of corn and they're eating it and so according
to their standard they are violating the scriptures
there they're violating the old testament
and they're not observing the sabbath now look at verse number one here it
says at that time jesus went on the sabbath day
through the corn and his disciples were in hungered and began to pluck the ears
of corn and to eat but when the pharisee saw it they said
unto him behold thy disciples do not do that which is not lawful to do upon
the sabbath day but he said unto them have you not read
what david did when he was in hungered and they that
were with him how he entered into the house of god
and did eat the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat
neither for them which were with him but only for the priest so we see here
that the pharisees are obviously confronting jesus and
at a first glance if you don't really know too much about the old testament
laws regarding the sabbath it would almost seem as though yeah
you know they weren't supposed to be doing that during the sabbath
it sounds like this is a violation of the old testament laws
but here's the thing that in the old testament there's nothing that the
bible says about not being able to eat on the sabbath
okay and when you look at the pharisees and the
scribes and the sadducees particularly the pharisees you see that
they essentially were promoting the laws of moses but really
they weren't even adhering to the laws of moses and in fact
they were teaching for doctrines the commandments of men they were adding to
the commandments of god standards that essentially god was not
imposing upon his people but that they were okay because again
when you look at the old testament laws regarding the sabbath the bible tells us
to remember the sabbath to keep a holy and really what that meant was that men
were supposed to cease from their labors on the sabbath day right they weren't
supposed to work during that time during that day and to
do so in the old testament merited the death penalty you know we
have an example in the old testament of a man
picking up sticks on the sabbath implying basically because he was put to
death that that was part of his job his
employment was to pick up sticks of some sort or to do something with them
and because of that he was killed he was he was he was uh punished
by death and the reason for that is because of the fact that
the sabbath is a picture of jesus christ
okay you know god labored for six days and on the seventh day he rested
and so the commandment there was that man was supposed to rest on the seventh
day to signify that they were observing and
respecting the six days that god worked okay and then the new testament the way
that would work for us is the fact that you know we don't observe the physical
sabbath that's saturday but what we do do is believe on the
lord jesus christ and we are resting in the finished work of jesus right
now the person who decides to not rest in jesus christ
to essentially work for their salvation work in spite of the fact that god
already labored for them you know they suffered the second
death okay because they are working for their salvation
in a spiritual way you know that's the spiritual application to that
and so the command was that they weren't supposed to labor
they were not supposed to continue in their employment on
that day but here's the thing is that the disciples and jesus are not working
right now okay plucking the ears of corn is not
the same and eating them is not the same as laboring
okay they're viewing it as oh they're threshing they're harvesting right
but just grabbing food doesn't it isn't considered labor
in god's word just to grab it and eat it but according to the pharisees it was
because they were adding that standard to god's commands
and it wasn't biblical for them to do so now here's what's really silly about
this because if you think about it you know just as the working on the
sabbath day was considered a work in the new testament someone working for
their salvation and that's definitely true because
they're they're laboring for their salvation they're not resting in the
finished work of god you know there's people out there like
the pharisees there's people out there today
they would say oh calling upon the name of the lord is a work
right you know asking jesus christ to save you
is a work well you know you're plucking the ears of corn
and eating them hey that's a work but not according to biblical standards
though understand so just as plugging the ears
of corn and eating them here in verse number one
is not considered a work in god's eyes working on the sabbath
okay jesus christ is right there with them and they're consuming it
justice is not considered a work when like men are calling upon the name of
the lord to consume the son of god spiritually
because he is the bread of life it's not a work either but you know what the
pharisees of yesteryear in the bible and the
pharisees of today will say that yeah it is a work you know oh
it's only by believing on jesus christ but you don't actually have to ask for
salvation wrong the bible specifically tells us
that if thou should confess with thy mouth
the lord jesus and believe in thine heart that god has raised him from the
dead thou shalt be saved you do have to call
upon the name of the lord for salvation and no according to biblical standards
it's not considered a work okay just because you're plucking the
ears of corn and consuming them does not equal a workspace salvation
you understand this is obviously something that people
today are adding to god's word by saying that calling upon the name of
the lord is works just as the pharisees are saying that
plucking the ears of corn was a work on the sabbath day and so
there's no law in the old testament that says you can't pluck ears of corn and
eat them because it's obviously a necessity to
them they need to eat and therefore it's very much lawful for
them to do so but but again you know the pharisees
they're a bunch of hypocrites and the bible even tells us that you
know the scribes and pharisees sit in moses seat right and then he
says whatsoever they abid you to observe that observe and do
but do not eat after their works for they say and do not
okay they lay heavy burdens on men's shoulders but they themselves are not
lifted with one finger essentially saying that they claim to
come in the name of moses and tell you about the laws of god but
in actuality they don't even observe it themselves
they don't believe in the law of moses and they're adding to the law of moses a
standard that's not biblical that's imposed upon the people based
upon pharisaical law and not based upon the
word of god okay so they're teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men and that's what we see here it's like why
you know why are they doing this it's not lawful to do upon the sabbath day
they're adding a bunch of rules to what you can and can't do on
the sabbath day that wasn't imposed upon them by god's work
and then jesus christ he gives them this example of david here
and i'll explain what this means in just a bit but let me also say this regarding
the regarding the pharisees is the fact that you know a lot of the
pharisees were really centered around the letter of the law but
they're really missing the spirit of the law
now when i say that they're they're focusing on the letter of the law
obviously they didn't even do that right because they weren't even observing that
they claim to be observing the letter of the law by being so strict
but they're hypocrites and they're not really doing that right but what i mean
by that is the fact that they want to impose the letter of the
law but they're really forgetting the spirit of the law
because the letter of the law basically tells us that if you work on the sabbath
day you should be put to death however the
spirit of the law is what that the sabbath was made for man to
rest it's made for the benefit of man so they're completely negating and
forgetting the fact ignoring the fact that the sabbath is
made for man to rest as an observance of future events where jesus christ is
going to be slain he's going to be slain physically here in this world and that
we're to rest in the finished work of christ
that's what it's supposed to signify but they're forgetting the entire spirit of
the law they just want people to be condemned
they want to pronounce people guilty for not observing the sabbath as they
would but they're completely ignoring the
spirit of the law that the sabbath is made for man
okay the person who's supposed to benefit from observing the sabbath is
man you understand and so they're
completely ignoring that the fact that the disciples are hungry
that they're eating and there's nothing wrong about that and of course he gives
this example of david that you know david was in hungered and
his men were as well and they go into the temple this is
from first samuel chapter 21 where they go into the temple and abiathar
ahimelech as he's also referred to as is there
and david says you know he wants food he's hungry
and what abiathar does is he gives him the showbread
which is only lawful for the priest to eat okay the showbread being
the holy bread it's not common bread it's bread that was supposed to be
perpetually in the temple you know that the priests were supposed to eat off of
and it was designated only for them to eat now of course abiathar
understood the laws of god that even though it's designated only for the
priest to eat they had the liberty to impart that into
someone who is needy okay so when david showed up with his men
and they're hungry he had every right to give him
the bread for david and his men to eat because he's being kind to his neighbor
you understand and so what we see that jesus christ is talking about here
is he's showing him that they're completely forgetting what the spirit of
the law is all about and that is to love your neighbor as
yourself which is why in verse number look at verse number seven
it says but if you had known what this meaneth i will have mercy and not
sacrifice you would not have condemned the guiltless
now what he's quoting there is actually hosea chapter 6 and verse number 6
where it says you know i will have mercy
and not sacrifice meaning sacrifice in the old
sacrifices in the old testament were very important obviously
but so is mercy however if you were to look at the spectrum of god's laws
mercy is actually more important than sacrifice now they're not mutually
exclusive they're both important at that time especially when the old
testament rituals and and all those things were being imposed
upon the people they're both very much important but however
you know mercy is a weightier matter of the law more than sacrifice
understand and of course we know that the pharisees
they would tithe of men anise and cumin but then they would also omit the weight
of your matters of the law judgment mercy and faith they would
undermine the important aspects of the law of being merciful to others they
had no love in their heart for people is basically what it's saying there and
so what the lord is teaching here is that
the greatest of all the commandments obviously is what
to love the lord thy god with all thy heart soul mind and strength and to love
thy neighbor as thyself so if you're loving your neighbor as
yourself you know that supersedes
whatever other law there is because of the and again you don't have to violate
the law to fulfill the law and in fact when you
fulfill the law by loving your neighbor you fulfill all the law you understand
and so giving food to someone who is needy
giving and helping someone as we're going to see a man with a withered hand
that's lawful to do because you're loving your neighbor you're helping them
you're being a blessing to them and these guys are just being a bunch of
pharisees they're straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel they're making a
mountain out of a molehill and folks let me just say this is that
we need to make sure that we uphold the laws of god right
we need to talk about and uphold the laws of god but don't become a
cold-hearted christian where it's just like
i want to adhere to the law to the letter of the law but you just
completely negate the spirit of the law which is to love people okay you know a
great example of this would be you know soul winning for example soul
winning is very much an important aspect of the christian life
it's commanded by god for us to do to preach the gospel to every creature to
get people saved and and to open our mouths boldly to make
known the mysteries of the gospel but don't become so enamored with soul
winning with the numbers of soul winning that you just don't really care about
the people you're actually preaching to you just kind of view them as a number
you just view them as you know someone that you can raise your hand and say i
got them saved or a story that you can tell you know
these are people that actually have souls you know
these are people that actually like we're gonna go to hell and now they're
going to heaven and don't become so cold-hearted towards
people that so many even becomes just a chore
whereby you know it's it's an avenue by which you can receive rewards or
something like that obviously we know we're rewarded for
soul winning but we should do it out of love for god we should do it out of love
for people as well and this is a temptation for christians
to allow their hearts to become cold towards
people whereas god constantly reminds us love your neighbor make sure you love
them and don't just view them as some
expendable or a stepping stone to your success you
should actually love the people that you're talking to
okay and don't think yourself that don't think to yourself that you're better
than them that you know uh you're more holy than
them you just end up developing this prideful
arrogant attitude and you just completely forget that
these are people who are lost on their way to hell we
need to get them saved you know it could be a temptation for
any of us to think that way right especially if you consistently sow in
you're you're always talking about the bible if this is something that you
consistently do if you're not careful you can view a door
as like i just want to get this over with
kind of thing you know whereas what god wants you to do is when you knock on
that door you know look upon that person with
compassion and love and put yourself in a state of mind
that says you know i need to make sure i'm
spirit-filled and that i love this person
and not just kind of write them off as just being another number
understand and so have compassion have mercy
because the bible says i will have mercy and not sacrifice if you can choose one
of the over the other it's mercy over sacrifice okay
and he says there you know he gives the example of david and of course
we can talk on and on about the the the symbolism of david and the
showbread because the showbread can be a picture of jesus christ
it could be a picture of the gospel how abiathar
imparted that bread to david someone who was hungry
even though it was designated for him to eat it's for him
he wanted to give it to someone else and in like manner we as god's people
should view the showbread that's been given to us
the gospel as something that we should be imparting unto others
to fill them up the hungry souls that are out there
those who are hungry for salvation we should view it as such
and not say well i only want to give the gospel to a select few the only people
who are my race or something you know or you know
because there's churches like that who only want to reach a particular
demographic or something like that and and they only want a particular
demographic in their church or the only one that
they don't really like a certain segment of the population or something like that
because of their skin color so it's like i only want to preach to a particular
group i mean we had a guy one time a couple
years ago who anytime we would go to like south
central compton area he hated it
in fact he didn't want to go there and in fact i don't think he ever did go
there and we would announce that we're going
to south central compton area where you know it's predominantly
black people okay and you know he was
scared going there and he didn't like black people
and of course we end up finding out this guy's a complete idiot he's a flat
tard for one
and number two he is who's a complete racist
where he he just hated black people and in fact he hated mori okay and
you know look i like mori i don't care what anybody says about him
i think mori's a great guy okay he's a faithful man
but he it's not it's not like he didn't like mori because of his character
or because of his his his you know because he had bad soul winning or bad
doctrine or anything of that nature it was
literally because he was black okay such a ridiculous thing to even bring
up such a carnal unchristian thing and this guy claims to be saved i mean
i think he's saved but i don't know you know when once a person
tells me that they're flat hard you know i start questioning stuff because
i'm not saying you have to be smart to get saved but you know there has to be
some level of understanding of the truth you have to
accept the truth you understand and so you know he he said some pretty
horrific things about mori and and you know the truth finally came out of what
kind of person he really was afterwards you understand and so you know
we should never have that attitude it's just like oh i'm not gonna go to
south central there's all kinds of black people there so what
you know jesus christ died for them too they need salvation as well
it's like oh i'm not gonna go to this particular group of people because
i have beef with them growing up or something like that and i don't i don't
really like that who cares we're christians and christ there's
neither jew nor gentile now obviously you know there's certain
groups of people that are less receptive than others
okay and no i'm not talking about black people either
okay talk about those who say they're jews and are not but are in the
synagogue of satan but even then folks you know if i run
into a jew i'm going to preach the gospel to them
so what now i'm i don't know if i'm going to get them saved or not and
in my experience of preaching the gospel to jews
not only are they not receptive they're disrespectful
haughty proud arrogant and end up being what the bible says children of the
devil okay because they hate the lord jesus
and so you know that's not necessarily a demographic that i'm
excited about going to you say well didn't you just say you should go
anywhere well here's the thing folks south central and compton are fruitful
areas and they're way more fruitful than
hollywood
you say are you ever going to go to hollywood to go preach the gospel it's
at the bottom of the list it's at the it's next to israel
i'm not saying we're never going to go to hollywood to go preach the gospel but
i'm just saying you know um what did jesus say you know a couple
of chapters ago you know basically you know this is
like it's like sodom you know what i mean
and so you know we need to go to every city but there's a lot more cities out
there that are more receptive than hollywood
and so we need to go i'm not going to cast my pearls before swine
and and just preach the gospel to knowingly
that these people are just haters of god and and it's more likely that you're
going to run into reprobates in hollywood
right whether it be jews or whether they be sodomites or
both because a lot of times it's just both they're one and the same sometimes
and they love each other
the jews are the greatest uh supporters of sodomites
so but we've had jews in our church come to our church we give them the
gospel and so you know don't take that view so
far that it's just like you demonize every single one of them
in fact hey let me just say this there's a jew in our church now
he's ethnically a jew but you know what if you're to talk to him he's like no
i'm a christian now everyone in here is like wait what
who you know folks who cares who cares don't bring that nonsense
here don't bring your hitler loving theology
here okay that's stupid theology we're
christians here we believe the bible take that crap
somewhere else where it belongs take that to um you know
to uh what's that stupid thing called online that people go to
you know discord go take that to your discord group where you guys can all
pow wow together about how much you love hitler and and
you know hate the jews or whatever this is a fundamental baptist church
where we believe the gospel we believe the word of god
and you know i'm not going to favor one race over the other
and in fact the only race that i favor is the human race amen
and so you know and look i grew up with all types of people of different
shades and colors and um you know in california a lot of people
are shocked about this but it's just the way it is you know it's
just we're so comfortable around different races we we make fun of each
other
and even in this church you know what i mean because we don't take those things
serious we make fun of each other's races all
the time because we don't care about those things
in fact we find it funny okay because we don't care about those things we don't
i don't identify as a guatemalan or something you know i've had people who
reach out to me who are guatemalans and they're just like yeah you know
you're guatemala i'm just like dude i would never move to guatemala
i'm like i would never move to central america guatemala
ever and you know my family hears that they're just like
you know they're just all offended by it but it's just like i was born here
yeah my skin's brown and maybe some part of my blood is guatemala
but i would never go there and it just shocks me it surprised me when people
are just like mexican pride you know guatemalan prize
but they're here
you know your mouth and your heart are saying two different things
because if you really love if you have so much pride
in your country then why are you even here
you're here because you know that this is better
than what you got going on or what you had going on over there
and people always tell me like oh don't you ever want to go visit guatemala
or go back to guatemala i was like well you're implying that i was born there
so and i've and i visited guatemala and let me just say this it's just not
necessarily a great place that i think to live
okay and especially from a spiritual perspective
the areas that i've heard of is just close to the gospel not only that but
they're very strong supporters of israel i got enough to deal with that here my
country here already supports israel i don't need to go to a country where
they do the same you know and they're you know it's just um no
thank you okay and so you know i don't identify
as being a guatemalan or and sometimes you know if a guatemalan
says oh man you're guatemalan i'll just kind of rub it in their face
and be like you know i'm mexican too because sometimes they don't get along i
was like i'm salvadorian too i'm in fact i'm more mexican today i'm
guatemala just to kind of get under their skin because i know it bothers them
because at the end of the day who cares the thing that matters
is the fact that i'm part of uh the royal priesthood
that i'm part of a spiritual house that you know i'm of that chosen generation
and and here's the thing my citizenship is not here it's in heaven
okay i'm a part of a better country better than the united states better
than guatemala better for sure better than israel okay
but you know what these same people they're pharisees too because the
pharisees were very much racist you know they didn't like the samaritans
or anybody who was not of israel and and so you know it's a wrong idea
it's a wrong ideology and if you have that ideology you need to clean up your
mind and stop you know watching whatever
youtube channel uh that cause you need to think that way
read the word of god okay let that mold your mind into
the image of christ and so he tells him that in verse number i don't even know
how it got off on that but it's you know it's applicable
he says in verse four how he entered into the house of god or skip down to
verse five or have you not read in the law how that
on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profaned the sabbath
and are blameless you're like what did they really profane
the temple well he's obviously being facetious here
okay because they're not profaning the temple according to god's law
they're profaning the temple according to the standard of the pharisees
say why because according to the pharisees you're not supposed to do
anything on the sabbath okay and they consider plucking an ear of corn
as work but here's the thing folks is that
obviously there's exceptions to the rule what is the exception to the rule well
how about the priests they have to do animal sacrifices
on the sabbath day that's their job so it's just like that's what they have to
do so according to your standard pharisee
they're profaning the temple even though they're doing what god commanded them to
do you understand and when i think of that
i think of the fact that you know the workspace salvation crowd
always points to us and they they mock us or whatever
and then they you know for believing once they've always saved
and that you don't have to do works for salvation
and then they're just like so why do you do works then you know
it's like well we do works because we're as workmanship created in christ jesus
unto good works which god has before ordained that we
should walk in them it's not for my salvation it's because
god has commanded me to do works and i'm not working for my salvation i'm
working for reward i'm laboring and this is what god's
commanding me to do so me working doesn't mean that i
believe you have to do works for salvation
me laboring is because i'm obedient to god and i want to earn a reward
just as the priests in the old testament when they labored on the sabbath
it's not that they're trying to violate the laws of god they're actually obeying
god by doing those animal sacrifices and
doing you know keeping up with the temple
and all the accoutrements and everything that goes into that that's the
responsibility and so the pharisees you know their
their theology is all messed up and jesus is kind of mocking them saying
you know according to you the priests of the old testament
are profaning the temple because they're laboring in the temple
on the sabbath day but in the eyes of god they are blameless
because they're actually doing what god told them to do you know you look at the
laws of god and they're very simple right just black and white this is what
you do this is what you don't do it's when the pharisee gets involved
that it becomes complicated right laws of god are very simple
they're just laid out this is what you're supposed to do
thou shalt this thou shalt not this it's when these
unsafe heretics who don't know the bible who are natural men
get involved that they begin to pervert god's word and rest the scriptures
to their own destruction and then begin to complicate things
folks the word of god is very much a simple book
and when i say simple i mean in the sense of the basic doctrines of the
bible are simply understood i mean the bible
talks about the simplicity which is in christ jesus it's often
heretics holier than nouns that make it more
complicated than whatever it really is you understand and going back to this
whole thing about calling on the name of the lord
it's not complicated why do you have to complicate it
it's like what if they're deaf or something like that or what if they're
mute it's like good night the more you know if
they're dead you know if faith comes by hearing hearing by the word of god
that must mean that all deaf people just don't have faith or they can't get faith
or something it's just like you're complicating things by your
stupidity
if the bible says faith cometh by hearing hearing by the word of god it's
not a complicated thing to learn and to understand don't overly complicate
the christian life take it for what it says that's what it
means and you say well so how do you explain the deaf person then
well obviously they're they're the exception to that rule now aren't they
because they can't hear and god made the deaf the blind
the lame so if he allowed that person to be deaf
then yeah they can still increase their faith by reading god's word
even though they can't hear you understand and so
you know these pharisee type christians because
you know there's christians that can they can be that way save people they
can be this way and they're often babes in christ who
overly complicate the laws of god the commandments of god
and you know it's just it's unnecessary so he shows them that there he explains
that and then he says in verse number eight
for the son of man is lord even of the sabbath day and of course
they're forgetting the fact that this is god in the flesh
and the fact that he supersedes the laws of god
not necessarily because of the fact he that doesn't mean that he gets to
violate them it just means that he's fulfilled them and so he is the
lord of the sabbath because he's the one who instituted the sabbath
he's the one who commanded the sabbath to be kept therefore
it's at his discretion if he's allowing people to eat on the sabbath
he's the boss
it's like someone going to an an establishment
and going to the ceo of that establishment and telling them what they
can and can't do in their own establishment their own
restaurant or business or whatever it's like this is the boss
he can do whatever he wants he makes the rules he cuts the checks
he says in verse number nine and when he was departed thence he went into their
synagogue and behold there was a man which had
his hand withered and they asked him saying is it lawful to
heal on the sabbath days that they might accuse him so obviously
they didn't catch it the first time they're not understanding the spirit of
the law they keep going back to the letter of the law
and they're like well is it lawful to heal in the sabbath you're missing the
point buddy the point is it's always good good and
permissible to do good he says in verse 11 and he said unto
them what man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep and if it
fall into a pit on the sabbath day will he not lay hold on it
and lift it out how much better than is a man better than a sheep
excuse me how much then is a man better than a sheep wherefore
it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days and of course
he heals the man in his hand there so he's saying look you bunch of hypocrites
if a man's sheep were to fall into a ditch you would immediately pull it out
even if it was on the sabbath day so are you esteeming an
animal more than a human being you know this is your first like uh pita
people and and look this is i mean people are
notorious for stuff like this now where they're so in love with their
animals and i'm gonna get off the cats and just
get on the dogs for a minute you know what i mean i've got enough on
the cats already and i'm getting nowhere with the cat
owners because of the toxoplasma it's just it's already taken them over
and and but i have hope for the dog lovers okay
but hey hey dog lovers at least the cats have the cat lovers have an excuse and
that's the parasite what's your excuse for putting booties
on the feet of your dog and treating them like a human being or
something like that you know
you guys even know what booties are the shoes right like the little
but you know you have people today that esteem animals more than they would
esteem the life of a human being and you know you you see like some video
of a moose getting hit by a car or something like that
okay pretty cool video you know it's not every day you see a moose just
because mooses are huge you know not every day you see a moose just
fly 100 feet in the air or whatever just like and just
die or something like that let me rewind that real quick
that's that thing flew you know and then you go to the comments section and
everyone's like condemning the man who hit the
the moose they're like this idiot he's driving too fast
it's like dude the roads are made for vehicles
it's the moose's fault
and it's not like i mean it was like an icy road or something like that
and it's not like the car has even that much time to like slow down
and let me just say this is that what if the person that died because you know a
moose you hit a moose it can go right through
that windshield and just just destroy just completely destroy the
person who's in there and you know a lot of people were like
man i hope that guy died or something like that and they just
don't esteem life anymore they esteem the life of the sheep
more than the life of a human being okay you know god forbid that you know
someone told me in this church i don't remember who told me they said they say
for some reason it's socially acceptable to hate cats
but it's not socially acceptable to hate dogs
you know does anybody know what i'm talking about and when that who was that
i think it was louisa who told me that when she told me i was just like oh you
know what maybe you're right about that actually
you know and but but here's the thing is that from a spiritual perspective that's
also true you know because if you think about it
you know the dogs who are the sodomites of this world
it's it seems like it's not socially acceptable to hate sodomy anymore
right it's just it's it's socially acceptable
and i would hate to like compare us to cats but like cats christians yeah
you know to hate christians but it's like
not socially acceptable to hate sodomites or something
but anyways you know they are completely mixed up in this area
and they're completely being hypocritical about it
um they're not even following the letter of the law that they're proposing
or even the extra standards and preferences that they're imposing upon
the people they're not even adhering to that because
obviously they're false prophets they're not even saved and uh they hate
the lord jesus christ so of course he ignores them and heals
the man anyways because it's always good to do well on the sabbath day
okay to restore the man's hand and he stretches it forth he heals him
and he has a functioning hand look at verse 14 says then the pharisees went
out and held the council against him how
they might destroy him so it's just like he does a miracle he
performs a miracle here he has sound doctrine he's obviously a
man sent from god and they're just like oh we gotta kill
him we gotta destroy him it's like what in the world this is how
you know these people are wicked and it's not a man obviously i'm
generalizing the pharisees here because there were some pharisees that actually
believed on the lord okay there were some that believed on him
they didn't confess him openly because they were fearful they were being
weenies about it but they still got saved and there are
many pharisees who still got saved but the vast majority of the sect of the
pharisees who adhere to the religion of the
pharisees were not saved they're children of the devil
and so um this is this group right here verse 15 says
but when jesus knew it he withdrew himself from thence
and great multitudes followed him and he healed them all
and charged them that they should not make him known
now one of the reasons why he doesn't want to make him known that he's doing
all these miracles is because he knows that the tendency
of israel is that if they find out that he's
the messiah they're automatically going to think oh
it's time to establish the physical kingdom because again like i mentioned
last week the prophecies in the book of isaiah
the prophecies in the book of jeremiah regarding jesus christ and the messiah
will often lump up his first coming with the second coming
and even his second coming with the millennial reign and even the millennial
reign with the new heaven and new earth so they kind of all lump them together
there's not like a designated amount of time allotted in those old testament
prophecies to kind of teach and instruct the people
of israel that these events are spaced out by thousands of years
you understand so you hear you hear about the birth of christ
but then you hear about that the government shall be upon his shoulders
so obviously those are events that are separated between
you know with with thousands of years in between them we look at it and we
understand that okay that's referring to his first coming
the government being on his shoulders referring to the millennial reign
and so there's a lot of space in between but when the israelites would
read this they think to themselves oh it's all one event that's going to take
place which is why they confused why jesus
christ was uh you know crucified and that he they
thought he was going to establish the kingdom so on and so forth
so in order to prevent or avoid that in the initial
initial stages of his ministry he would tell people hey don't spread this around
that i'm doing these things because it's going to spread like
wildfire and then everyone's going to want to make them king
he says in verse 17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by zaias the
prophet saying behold my servant whom i have chosen
my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased i will put my spirit upon him
and he shall show judgment to the gentiles
and of course later on we'll see that in his name shall the gentiles trust
so notice that the gentiles are not a plan b
he's preaching to israel to the jew first and also to the greek
but this is an old testament prophecy indicating that he wants the gentiles to
be saved and gentile just simply means nations by
the way okay it just means nations so all the
nations okay that's what he's referring to is all
the nations shall trust in his name i like verse 19 here because of the fact
that it's a good verse to use against these
street preachers he says he shall not strive nor cry
neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets
that's a good verse for these people who want to use street preaching
as oh you know jesus christ was a street preacher how he didn't cry or strive
nor was his voice heard in the streets now let me just stop right here and say
that that one dude israel who's a street preacher died recently
and if you don't know what i'm talking about a couple years ago they made a
documentary bbc made a documentary on hate
preachers and they included pastor anderson but
they also included as these heretical street preachers one of them
his name is israel i don't remember his last name but he recently passed away
in june okay and he was a major repent of your sins
false prophet and no he wasn't just a little mixed up on it
okay he was corrected many times and he would constantly preach you have to
repent of your sins and he would go to these fag pride
movements or whatever and like preach against the sodomites
and people are like oh he's so bold it's just like what a waste of a life
to just molest your eyes for years on end
and then you die in june
define irony you're preaching against the sodomites
to their face telling them they have to repent of their sins
and then lo and behold god allows you to die
in june and i don't think that's on accident my friends
i think god allowed him to die in june as as a way to mock him for preaching a
false gospel for so many years okay and of course the sodomites are
capitalizing on it and they're just like pride month you know um i don't know
what they said they're taking credit for his death basically
in june you know pride month you know claims another
false or another pastor or something who's preaching against the lgbtq or
whatever but i'm not going to mourn over that
guy's death the guy was a false prophet and look when he died he lifted up his
eyes in hell being in torments and you know he's
thinking man i guess that that guy who i was on a documentary with was right
because he's preaching a false gospel throughout this whole time
so you know i'm not forestry preachers i think it's this it's a
dumbest thing and i believe it's unbiblical
to be a street preacher and you know yeah you know theoretically can there be
a saved street preacher out there preaching the right gospel
yes okay i've heard of a few but the exception proves the rule
and the reality is this is that even if they have a right gospel
they are extremely ineffective at getting people saved
they're actually very effective looking like a complete idiot
and turning people away from the gospel why
because no one likes someone standing on the corner
sounding like a drive-through blaring their voice through a whatever
uh what are those called megaphone just yelling at them
that's intended for the pulpit for church
with believers not with unbelievers and a prime example that we have here is
jesus christ he's not striving with people
he's not crying out in the streets he's not just like standing on the corner
with a sign that says turn or burn
you know and i have people who contact me on instagram and they're like oh we
love your preaching pray for us we're gonna do some street
preaching i just never respond because they're not ready for that
truth and you know i think most of them do it because they know i hate street
preaching you know and you know i'm just like
whatever you know it's a stupid thing to do
and look i'm not saying that again i'm not saying that all of them are unsafe
but the it's associated with the repent of
your sins gospel okay you know i was going to a
chiropractor i had my kids with me and lo and behold
there's like some street preachers on the corner
uh and the spanish ones they're the spanish ones
which in my opinion are the worst
they sound like they're i mean you put a beat behind it you would think it's
reggaeton or something you know and he's like
gasoline they're just like saying you know and you don't even know what
they're saying you can pick out a word here and there
it was like this guy is like trying to be like the christian daddy yankee
but it's all a show my friends it's not an effective way to preach the gospel or
to get people saved you're showboating or you're trying to
show off that you're so bold to stand in a corner
and annoy everyone okay it's not effective
the biblical model is to go from door to door preaching the gospel
that's not to say that you're not going to run into someone in the street but
let me say this is that the servant of the lord must not strive
so the bible says and street preachers that's all they do
is fight with people on the street they're just arguing people
debating people it's a complete waste of time
you know it's just a prideful thing to do whereas the biblical model is that
when we go out even if we run into someone in the street
and we start preaching the gospel to them if they reject what we're saying
we wipe off the dust of our feet and we move on
we're supposed to be gentle toward all men the bible tells us okay
and so i like that verse there in verse 19
it says in verse 20 a bruised reed shall he not break and a smoking flax
shall he not quench till he sent forth judgment unto victory and in his name
shall the gentiles trust now what i believe verse 20 is saying
here is that jesus christ obviously is a well
balanced man okay he's obviously god but he's also 100
man because what it's stating here is that
when it says a bruised reed shall he not break you think of a bruised reed
it's referring obviously to an individual it's symbolic of a person
who's been bruised by sin right they are damaged to a certain extent
either by sin or by the will of others who have
damaged them or violated them in some way
and he's like he's not coming to condemn the sinners because they're already
condemned right he came not into the world to
condemn sinners but that the world through him might be saved
so those who were bruised by sin the harlots and the publicans
those who were involved in sin he's not coming to just snap them in half or
something like that he's coming to save them okay now this
is not at the exclusion of preaching against sin though because we see the
chapter prior to this he's preaching against entire cities
he's calling them out he's going to call out the pharisees
and those who are what unrepentant you see the attitude that we as
christians should have is that we preach against sin generally
and let's say in the church setting we preach against a particular sin
and if a person is repentant then we have to we show them mercy right
like if a person's involved in a particular sin that merits
excommunication for example involved in fornication they are
drunkards we give them time space to repent
it's not like we just you know right off the bat you can't come through
those doors if you're involved in these particular sins or whatever
you need to give people time to grow and so
if a person walks through those doors and a couple weeks in
they're just like yeah i just really like the fact that jesus turned the
water into wine you know so i can have a little wine
for my stomach sake and it's like do you drink it's like yeah i drink you know i
have some alcohol here every now and then then you we
you teach them about it they hear preaching on it
they repent what do we do we're not trying to snap that read
we want them to clean up their life now if that same person is just like hey
pastor mijia you know i like what you said in that
sermon but i'm just not gonna let go of my you know
jack daniels or whatever i'm still gonna have it it's like okay well then you
can't come to our church then because you're not repentant of that sin
you know if a couple comes in and they're not married and they're living
together the bible considers that fornication
and according to first corinthians chapter 5 merits excommunication
if number one they don't get married or number two
you know they essentially are unrepentant of it and they're just like
we're going to continue to live together and fornicate
and you know this is just who we are it's just like okay then you got to do
it somewhere else you can't be here because the little 11 at the whole lump
or they can just completely separate and not be together until they're they're
willing to get married but the point that i'm trying to make
here is the fact that we're not trying to just snap a bruised
reed we want to obviously help people and
help people to clean up their lives and if they're unwilling to they always
snap the reed kind of a thing they're just like well
we're not going to compromise in this area
because you know a lot of churches get this mixed up they don't want to bruise
the reed and so what do they do they just
tolerate sin they just allow it to go unfettered
fornication in the church you know railing in the church
drunkards in the church people smoking weed in the church
not in the church but i'm saying like they're like that's what they do and
it's just like well you know we got to disciple them
and you know help them to you know and then like years down the road they're
still involved in it it's just like well you know pray for them did they just
get that right or whatever it's just like man you're like nicer
than god because god told us to address that issue
and if they're not willing to get that right then they need to go
so he says they're a bruised reed shall he not break and a smoking
flax shall he not quench now when i think of the smoking flax
and he says quench it's obviously a flax that's on fire
and when i think of something that's on fire think of john the baptist because
he was a burning and shining light and john the baptist was just like
preaching against everyone he's preaching against harrod he's
ripping the Pharisees telling them they're vipers
you know what jesus is not doing he's not going hey john
what would jesus do john i don't like the spirit you know your spirit is a
little condemning john because he's not going to quench a
smoking flax either so he's not going to bruise the reed but
he's also not going to get on the providence and say hey you guys
you guys are just a little too zealous there you know you're out of line there
john you know now you're in prison well that's
what you get you know no he's actually going to honor them he's
going to speak well of them because at the end of the day jesus is
the hardest preacher that ever lived okay and we're preaching what he
preaches and so he's not going to just squelch
their fire and tell them to turn it down and not
say those words and not preach against this and not
talk about these particular sins he's not going to quench a smoking flax
he's going to let it burn okay and of course in his name shall the
gentiles trust i'm out of time so
verses 22 or excuse me verses 23 through 37
i'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on and i'm going to go over the
the next half of the chapter next week but the reason i'm not going to go over
chapters 20 or verses 23 through 37 is because i've already talked about
this a lot which is it's talking about the blasphemy of the holy ghost
and this is basically where the pharisees have completely sealed their
fate
okay and the reason why is because of the fact that
they're claiming that jesus was possessed
with the devil they're saying oh he's only able to do these works
by the power of beelzebub and so he says let's just look at one verse here
verse 32 says whosoever speaketh the word against the son of man it shall be
forgiven him but whosoever speaketh against the holy
ghost it shall not be forgiven him listen to this
neither in this world neither in the world to come
so people who don't believe in the reprobate doctrine you need to explain
this verse to me then because the reprobate doctrine teaches
that there's certain people that are beyond the hope of salvation
even in this world and they're like anybody can be saved
well here's the thing is that jesus said they don't have forgiveness
in this world neither in the world to come
and we all know according to the bible believing on jesus christ gives us
the forgiveness of all sins past present and future so when he says they don't
get forgiveness in this world neither in the world to come
what he's saying is they can't be saved so you got to explain that to me if you
don't believe in the reprobate doctrine and so uh a lot of the pharisees who
believe that he was possessed with the devil
they seal their fate they're they're they're doomed
eternally and that's still happening today my friends
now people always ask me like well what do you think the blasphemy of the holy
ghost is you know is it to actually say it or to believe
this and i would say yes
someone who is willing willingly mocks god
and says i blaspheme the holy ghost because they want to mock god well let
me just say this is that person was probably already reprobate
because unsafe people even if they're not christians
and you know they're they're they're worldly maybe they're a little ungodly
they have enough respect to say you know what or should i say they have enough
superstition in themselves to say you know i don't
want to mess with that i don't want to mess with that because
who knows i don't want to damn myself to hell
i mean they have more common sense than to just flippantly
just talk about those things before i got saved i wasn't religious or
anything like that there are certain things you just don't
mess with right you just don't mock about you don't mock you don't mess
around with and so it takes a a special group of
people to be willing to do something like that
understand and so um you know you're like well
what if i did it you know i did years ago
and i was messing around or something like that
well here's the thing you know reprobates don't care if they're
reprobates
you understand what i'm saying reprobates do not care if they're
reprobates so a reprobate is not going around wondering oh man am i a reprobate
reprobates don't want to retain god or their knowledge they
don't care if they're reprobate or not so if you're worried
am i a reprobate it probably means that you're not a reprobate
and one of the key questions i ask is like well do you hate the lord
it's like no okay then don't worry about it
have you believed on jesus christ yes do you hate the lord
no you know and so that's that i'm gonna stop right there the
main thing that you should get from this particular sherman
is we need to uphold the letter of the law because it's important
but not at the expense of the spirit of the law
okay the letter of the law is what god tells us to do
and it's almost as if the spirit of the law is like how we should view it as
well how we should view the person we're
talking to so they're not mutually exclusive because
we need both we need the laws of god but at the same time not at the exclusion
of compassion and mercy i think we can have both you know we can
be merciful loving and compassionate towards people
as we uphold and exalt the laws of god as well
okay don't be a pharisee let's pray father we thank you so much for your
word thank you for this chapter lord i pray
that you'd help us as your people not to develop a pharisaical attitude
that we continue to love people lord and win them to christ
and help us to continue to be a people who
who hate sin and we don't want to bear with them which are evil lord
and so i pray that you'd help us to to continue to be a smoking flax of a
church and but also heal those who are bruised
and those who are broken and lord may you may continue to work in our church
lord and the lives of the people in our church to do the will
of the lord we love you we thank you pray the scenes in jesus name amen
all right we have one last song it's on 248
now i belong to jesus
song 248 now i belong to jesus everyone all together
nice and strong jesus my lord will love me forever
from him no power of evil can sever he gave his life to
ransom my soul now i belong to him
now i belong to jesus jesus belongs to me
not for the years of time alone
but for eternity
once i was lost in sin's degradation jesus came down
to bring me salvation lifted me up from sorrow
and shame now i belong to him
now i belong to jesus jesus belongs to me
not for the years of time alone
but for eternity
joy floods my soul for jesus has saved me
his precious blood he gave to redeem
now i belong to him
now i belong to jesus jesus belongs to me
not for the years of time alone
but for eternity
amen wonderful singing you are dismissed