all right we are in the book of 1st Corinthians chapter 14 and the title of
the sermon this morning is no more children no more children okay you say
whoa hold on a second is this like a pro-choice you know pro abortion pro
murder sermon no it's not as you can tell we just had a baby right now okay
look down at your Bibles in verse number 20 says brethren be not children in
understanding how be it in malice be children but in understanding be men and
in fact the phrase that I'm using no more children can be derived from
Ephesians chapter 4 words where it specifically says that we henceforth be
no more children tossed to and fro carried about with every wind of doctrine
by the sleight of man of cunning craft in this whereby the inliant way to the
sea you see these admonitions that we see in the Bible in Ephesians chapter 4
in 1st Corinthians chapter 14 is what Paul the Apostle specifically saying
here is this grow up right it's time to grow up it's time to mature it's time to
start maturing in the Lord getting rooted and grounded and learning to be a
mature a mature you know spiritual adult so to speak okay and look it should be
our lifelong goal to grow up right you know as it's your lifelong goal to grow
up physically you know your lifelong goal as a human being as a Christian
should be to grow up spiritually as well grow in grace and in the knowledge of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the Bible says but speaking the truth in
love may grow up into him in all things which is the head even Christ you never
want to be a Christian that once you get saved you're fine with everything and
you're not gonna go to church you're not gonna read your Bible you're not gonna
learn doctrine you're not gonna learn how to preach the gospel no you should
want to grow you should want to go forward you should want to want to press
toward the mark for getting those things which are behind pressing forward to
those things which are before learning doctrine learning principles learning
how to be a functional member of society this is important today why is that well
first and foremost because our society is filled with a lot of men who never
grew up right filled with 20 year olds 30 year olds 40 year olds who have never
grown up still playing video games still living in their mom's basement still
you know depending on someone else to support them no this ought not to be the
case for the biblical Christian the biblical Christians have a desire to say
you know what I want to be responsible I want to grow I want to mature I don't
want to be a baby anymore okay now let me say this is that all of us when we
first get saved when I talk about being saved the Bible uses that word saved in
reference to being rescued from hell how are we how are we rescued from hell
well the Bible says that we have to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ it's
not based upon how good of a person you are it's not based upon how well you can
keep God's commandments or if you were baptized in times past salvation is
solely based upon your faith in Christ because he's the one who died on the
cross for your sins he's the one who bore his our own sins on his own body on
a tree and the Bible says that when we place our faith in him he gives us his
righteousness his perfection right and that allows us entry into heaven but
let me say this when we first get saved we start off as babies okay and in fact
the Bible specifically uses this term a babe in Christ okay it's not referring
to like a babe the way people use babe today okay babe simply means like
they're an infant they're a child they are a newborn okay so this term baby in
Christ is not a term that it's not a slam on anybody okay how are you calling
me just an immature little baby well actually the Bible refers to newly saved
people as babes in Christ and look not just newly saved people sometimes people
who have been saved for decades but never really grew they never got into a
good church they never read their Bible they never learned anything they
anything spiritual so to speak they never or maybe they went to a church
where they didn't teach any doctrine you know they didn't grow those people can
still be babes in Christ and it's not an insult it's not an offensive thing to
say that because we all started off as babes in Christ okay it's not a slam
it's just a term to identify those who are newly saved or who have not grown in
the Lord okay it's a biblical word to describe this and we see this throughout
the New Testament 1st Corinthians chapter 3 Hebrews chapter 5 we see this
in 1st Peter chapter 2 all describing the person who is a babe in Christ so
just know understand this this is not a term that's used to say you know you
know a person's been in church for 30 years I'm not a babe in Christ cuz I've
been in church for 30 years that doesn't determine whether you're a babe in
Christ or not because people could be in church for decades not learn anything
not apply anything not putting anything into practice they could be a hearer of
the word and not a doer and they're a babe in Christ because of it okay you
know how long of a time you've been in church how long you've been saved for
does not determine whether you're a babe in Christ or not what determines it what
you do with what you know that's what determines it okay and look this is a
great comparison here why because a babe a physical baby shares a lot of
attributes and characteristics with the babe in Christ now I know this more than
anything today because of the fact that we just got a brand new baby in our
household as I is okay I'll spare you the the the story of how that came about
and have my wife you know went into the trunk of the car so she can go to the
hospital not because I forced her in there right we were like what in the
world she's like I can't handle it then she ended up leaving and stuff like that
we weren't fighting or anything okay we're going to the midwife and she's
like she's getting these contractions and then she's like I can't sit in the
front and so she crawls into the trunk you know of our van and I'm not gonna
fight my wife okay she's giving birth yeah two blocks down she's like I can't
do this pull over in the busiest street okay and I'm like alright so I get out
and just all four corners are filled with people in cars I open the trunk my
pregnant wife is like crawling out with contractions how does this look to
everyone when this Muslim looking guy gets out of the vehicle and they're like
this this this Muslim guy is having his wife putting his wife in the trunk it's
like she told me to do that okay but now we have a baby or she has the baby she
had the baby and you know what as I as I observe him I'm reminded of how similar
a physical baby is to a spiritual babe okay go to Galatians chapter number four
Galatians chapter four in fact the event the moment of salvation is compared to a
birth okay the Bible says in John chapter 3 verse 3 Jesus answered and
sentenced him verily verily I say unto you unto thee except a man be born again
he cannot see the kingdom of God so often the Bible references salvation to
being born again all right it me it compares it to a birth 1st Peter 1 22
says seeing yet purified your souls and obeying the truth of the Spirit unto
unfeigned love of the brethren see that you love one another with a pure heart
fervently being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by
the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever how are we born again we hear
the Word of God faith cometh by hearing hearing by the Word of God we believe it
we believe on Christ and that's how we get saved look at Galatians 4 verse 19
now we're in the book of Galatians on Sunday nights and I'm actually teaching
through Galatians chapter 4 tonight and so I don't want to steal the thunder
from this verse but it's a great verse Paul the Apostles speaking to those whom
he led to Christ and he says my little children he's not referring to the
physical children he's referring to his spiritual children verse 19 my little
children of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you what
is he saying there well to travail you know if you ladies know what I'm talking
about what it means to travail in birth you know the screaming the weeping and
wailing and gnashing of teeth when you're when the baby's coming the
contractions that's travailing okay so what is what is the Apostle Paul saying
here he's travailing in birth until they get saved basically okay because what
he's doing is he's trying to be as thorough as possible to push the gospel
unto them just as a woman pushes out right so they could understand have a
clear understanding of the gospel so he knows hey these people are saved that's
what he's talking about there this is not referring to you know helping them
grow in Christ he's like I'm travailing in birth until you are born again until
you can come out right of the matrix as the Bible puts it and you are a born
again Christian okay I desire to be present with you and to change my voice
for I stand in doubt of you so much of the time the Bible refers to a newborn
Christian as a baby a physical baby because of the way they get saved the
way they come into this world so to speak you know they're a new creature in
Christ as the Bible puts it but you know another reason why is because they're
very dependent a baby is dependent okay they can do nothing for themselves they
don't know how to do much okay the Bible says in 1st Thessalonians 2 7 but we
were gentle among you even as a nurse cherishes her children you know what
babes in Christ need cherishing they need someone to take care of them babies
need someone to feed them right you know my son Isaiah's he is eating from his
mother's milk and she needs to he can cry but he you know he can cry and weep
and gnash his gums together but he can't feed himself he can just open his mouth
right he needs my wife to come and feed him and regularly feed him well in like
manner when someone gets saved they need someone to feed him he said well who's
that the pastor they need to get into a Bible believing church where they're
preaching the Word of God they're not just giving you some motivational speech
they're not giving you some just encouragement they're giving you doctrine
they're giving you the Word of God they're teaching you doctrine they're
feeding you because if you think about it you know there's a difference between
milk and meat right meat is when someone can pull out a fork and knife cut it and
put it to their mouth and eat it milk is when you are actually having someone
else feed you okay now obviously there's times in the Bible where milk is also
referred to just the basic doctrines and the meat of the word is are those deep
doctrines but it's also symbolic of how we feed how we eat when we have milk is
when someone is actually feeding you when you're having me is when you're
doing your own Bible reading at home and you're feeding yourself okay but they
need someone to feed them they need to come Sunday morning Sunday night Thursday
night to hear the Word of God to be fed you know they may not understand the
Word of God right away you know they may not understand the deep doctrines of the
Bible but that's why the Bible says that God has given pastors evangelists for
the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry that we henceforth
be no more children so in order for our children to grow they need two essential
things food and sleep right they need food they need to constantly be fed and
they need to sleep a lot so their brains can develop well in like manner
Christians when they're when they're born again they need to be in church so
they can be fed okay so they can grow spiritually but they also need someone
to help them to regulate their body temperature okay until they can get that
brown fat I'm talking about babies okay you know you ever see a baby and they're
just super chunky you know their thighs are really chunky their arms it there
you got these cheeks you know and I love it when my children are like that okay
that's brown fat why because they are incapable of shivering when it's cold
therefore they have brown fat to warm them up they need someone to help them
get warm well in like manner it's the same thing with a new believer you know
new believers need someone to light a fire under their rear end to get them on
fire for God right they need to be around other Christians who are zealous
for the things of God they're excited about the things of God they love the
Lord their God with all their heart soul mind and strength you know what that
does that rubs off on people hey but you know what when you're around a bunch of
lukewarm lame Christians that rubs off too you become lax you become lazy
spiritually speaking you become just disinterested and dull of hearing when
it comes to the Word of God and that rubs off but you know in like manner
when you're around zealous people that helps you to regulate your body
temperature spiritually speaking that gets you on fire for God okay you know
they need someone to change them right you know why cuz babies make messes
learning that again this week okay they can make some pretty big messes now we
want them to make messes because they have to make messes right but you know
what Christians brand-new Christians they make a lot of messes to say things
they shouldn't say do things they shouldn't do so what do they need they
need someone to change them right you know how you put a diaper on you know a
baby I'm not saying we're putting diapers on adults what I'm saying is hey
they need someone to come to them and correct them and say hey you shouldn't
be doing that you know you shouldn't be watching this you shouldn't be listening
to that you shouldn't be hanging around these kind of people these are bad
influences in your life they need someone to help them to change is what
I'm saying to be renewed all right hey they need someone to teach them how to
communicate you know as children grow you want to teach them how to verbalize
their needs how to communicate talk about when they're hungry when they need
to use the restroom when they have a specific need well we need to teach
Christians Christian ease right how to use biblical language and how to use
Bible terms and not use terms of the world in relation to the Word of God
okay well I just want a relationship with God that's not a biblical term okay
you know we need to teach them biblical words how to communicate you know the
Bible says that the righteous teacheth his lips right they need to be ready to
give an answer to every man that asketh them of the reason of the faith that is
in them with meekness and fear so we want to teach them how to preach the
gospel right when a Christian comes they're just you know being a Christian
is not just coming to church it's learning how to be a gospel preacher how
to go soul winning well they need someone to teach them that okay they
need someone to love them you know my son right now even my son Bruce and
Kyla and his eyes they all need love they all need someone to come gently and
nourish them and love them and care for them you know because of the fact that
maybe they're getting rid of some other bad influences in their lives and they
don't have the friends that they used to have well here's some friends right here
you know they need someone to take them to go get a coffee a burger to go
fellowship with to have friends they need someone to love them okay
hey they're emotionally emotionally unstable how many know that those of you
have toddlers don't toddlers have like a breakdown at least once a day or two
times or three times or four times or five sometimes they're just like you
know right now my kids are a little jealous of the newborn so their
breakdowns are more frequent they're just like crying they don't want anything
they're just emotionally unstable okay and you know what new Christians are the
same way because they bring baggage with them okay and sometimes I don't
want to go to church and you know I'm going through all these things you know
we need to teach them how to rule their spirit right to be strong in the Lord
and in the power of his might to have rule over their own spirit to do things
because they should do it not because they feel like doing it you know that
marks maturity when you say well I'm gonna go to work not because I feel like
going to work but because I have to go to work I'm gonna go to church not
because I feel like it not because they're giving caramel apples but
because the Bible says forsake not the assembling of ourselves together as the
manner of some is right they need someone to teach them to be emotionally
stable all right hey newborns can't control their urges they cry they just
use the restroom whenever you know they don't know how to control themselves we
need to teach them how to control themselves right well the same thing
with Christians you know some Christians they just give in to sin very easily you
know they make provision for the flesh to fulfill the luster of they're very
susceptible to just you know you got a guy who used to drink alcohol in times
past he's in church he's getting the alcohol out of his life but he's still
hanging out with his buddies who drink 40s right that's not very wise or he
used to smoke weed and I'm not gonna smoke weed one because I know that's
that's dishonoring to God but you're still hanging around your cousins who
smoke weed you know still hanging around the same old friends who use drugs you
know this is not a wise thing to do we need to teach newborns hey he that
walketh with wise men shall be wise but a companion of fools shall be destroyed
okay and often they're destroyed without remedy you need to get away from these
people these bad influences they're gonna make you a loser in life control
this they and look babies often don't know what they need all right you know
kids are crying is like you need a nap just like you need to go to sleep you
can tell it's just like okay nothing is satisfying him he's not hungry you know
they're not whatever they're just tired they just need to go to sleep and then
they may protest that all day but as soon as you lay them down they just knock
out because we know what they need well in like manner newborn Christians often
don't know exactly what they need okay you say how do they learn in church
that's why it's important that people are rebuked reproved right the Bible
says to preach the word be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke
exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine you know we need to preach on
sin we need to preach not just on your sins we need to preach on the sins of
our nation some people just need to change their minds in regards to what's
been they've been influenced by by the culture they sometimes don't know what
they need but the Bible does God does the pastor does and look we're not a
church where it's just like well just take my word for it hey prove all things
hope that's that which is good you open up the Bible and see if that's true what
I'm saying or not okay so these are some similarities between physical babies and
spiritual babies and look we all started off as a spiritual babe in Christ you
may be a spiritual babe now you may have been in times past but no matter what we
all started that way but here's the thing you shouldn't stay like that you
should have remained a baby you should have a goal I want to grow up don't be
a Toys R Us kid right I don't wanna grow up I'm a Toys R Us kid I don't know how
it's not don't be Peter Pan please don't be Peter Pan Neverland like you never
want to grow up you just want to stay a kid forever no grow up mature in the
Lord be strong in the Lord and the power is might to the point where people are
now dependent on you to help them to grow that should be the goal not you
depending on someone else but someone depending on you okay and look I'm gonna
give you just three basic points today very simple but this is very necessary
and let me just illustrate it this in this way okay when you are first saved
or maybe you've been saved for a while but you understand that you're a babe in
Christ you have some choices you need to make okay you're gonna travel down a
spiritual road and you're gonna come in a fork in the road and this is gonna
determine whether you're gonna stay a babe in Christ or you're gonna grow up
okay and these are the these are the forks and the roads that I'm gonna talk
about this morning so if you want to grow if you want to grow up you don't
want to be a Toys R Us kid you don't want to live in Neverland you want to
grow up this is what you need to do number one you have one of two choices
with this fork in the road remain unstable or become teachable you could
either remain unstable or you could be teachable and there is no third option
well I'll just take this path there is no other path there's one or two choices
you could either be unstable like water thou shalt not excel or you can be
teachable okay go with me if you would to go to James chapter number one if you
would look babies are naturally unstable they're not firm I mean have you ever
carried a newborn you carry them like you have to like be careful with their
neck because they're just like neck falls back and stuff they have no
control you need to hold their head you need to be very gentle you know they
can't control themselves okay well that's a perfect picture of a brand new
Christian they're just very unstable okay they're not firmly fixed on the
Word of God why because our stability comes when we know what the Bible says
and we don't change on it you know we have our loins girt about with truth our
core values is who we are and we're not going to change you understand this is
important they don't have core values they can often waiver you know they're
strong in the Lord in one day and then the next day is just falling apart you
know they're reading their Bible ten chapters a day one day and then the
next day just forsake the Word of God completely they're praying and they're
just on fire and then the next day to just sizzle out this is in this is an
unstable person okay we want to be the kind of Christians not that are always
up here you don't want to always be down here you want to be just right here just
stable well you know I just feel you gotta read 20 chapters just start with
three right you know especially if you've never read in your life you know
if you didn't have the habit the discipline of reading reading the Bible
can be very difficult you need to be able to develop the habit and the
appetite to read okay and don't give yourself this insurmountable goal of 10
chapters a day if you've never even read a book in your life and I'm not talking
about dr. Seuss that does not count okay you know they can often waiver and look
the element of success for the Christian life is stability that's what it is
what's the key to succeed in the Christian life well first be stable be
stable in church be stable in your in your spiritual disciplines be stable in
soul be stable as a husband be stable as a wife be stable as a son and as a
daughter as an employee just be stable start off with that well but teach me
about the timeline of the posture pre-wrath rapture now let's talk about
being stable first let's talk about your stability first in your discipline first
your character first that's what's important all those other things come
later okay because in order to grow and succeed you need to be grounded the
Bible says I'm gonna reach you from Colossians 1 23 if you continue in the
faith grounded and settled and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel
which you have heard and which was preached to every creature which is
under heaven whereof I Paul and made a minister 1st Peter 5 10 says but the God
of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Christ Jesus after that
ye have suffered a while make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you
settle down okay don't be a wavering type of a Christian hey how about the
admonition the the prophecy that came to Reuben in the book of Genesis from his
father Jacob what did he tell his son unstable as water thou shalt not excel
because you're so unstable you're just wishy-washy you wave
everywhere you go you will not excel you are not going to succeed in life you
will not succeed as a Christian wife because you're unstable Reuben thou
shalt not excel you know water can be unstable it just conforms to everything
you can't just pour it out and then it just stays in its original form it's
gonna make a mess is gonna spread and Christians are like that they need
structure to keep them where they need to be they need the structure of the cup
in order for the water not to get all over the place if not they won't excel
okay look at James 1 verse 6 it says but let him ask in faith nothing wavering
for he that waver it is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed
for let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord a
double-minded man is unstable in all his ways what is a synonym for someone who
is unstable they're double-minded you know I'm all in for God and then they're
they're not you're wavering and you know what God is saying don't think I'm gonna
give you anything if you ask for it now look ask and you shall receive you have
not because he asked now but if you ask and you're wavering God says you're not
getting nothing I'm not getting anything hey you want your prayers answered don't
be wavering be settled established don't be unstable if you're gonna succeed in
your prayer life you need to make sure that you're not wavering that you're not
double-minded well I'm gonna try this Christian thing out I'm gonna try this
church out I'm gonna try soul winning out and if I don't like it doesn't work
that way nothing wavering just be fixed be settled on the things of God babes and
Christ are often unstable and look this could be applied to all types of areas
in our life go to Hebrews chapter number five if you would Hebrews chapter number
five hey for those of you who have jobs be stable you know unless obviously you
get a raise or you get a better offer but don't always look to find that
perfect job the perfect job is the job that pays you that's the perfect job the
perfect job is the job where you can work and you earn a paycheck to pay your
bills oh yeah but I want this amount of money well why don't you stay there be
stable and then you'll get a raise to earn extra money all right hey ladies
those of you who are not married yet be stable as a Christian girl so that
before when you get married this is what the kind of wife you're gonna be when
you when you're actually married when you have a husband not an emotionally
unstable wife where you know you're in for God at one point and you're out
you're having trouble teaching your children you're having you're having
trouble serving your husband that's unstable we want to make sure that
whether female or male whatever role we are fulfilling that we're fulfilling it
as a stable person okay hey you know don't be the kind of Christian that goes
from church to church to church to church to church to church to church to
church now if you are in a lame church then yeah it's time to move on if you
like you're not growing in your church that's not your fault this is not a
slam on you you know what maybe it's just time for you to move on to a church
where you can actually grow but you know some Christians they're not happy no
matter where they go you know what that is an unstable Christian they find you
know the littlest flaw in the pastor or in the church or in the people and they
just you they want to use any excuse not to be in that congregation they're just
unstable is what it is okay but you know sometimes unstable Christians can
often even misinterpret the Bible that's why it's important to get in church let
me read to you from 2nd Peter 3 16 as also in all his epistles speaking in
them and them of these things and which are some things hard to be understood
which they that are unlearned and unstable rest as they do also the other
scriptures unto their own destruction so who are the people who are responsible
for twisting the scriptures the most obviously false prophets do but they do
that willingly but you know who also twists the scriptures people who are
unlearned and unstable you know you got a guy who's been saved for like six
months to a year and they want to come and correct me on doctrine and they
haven't even surpassed the New Testament they haven't gotten into the Old
Testament yet they want to talk about end times Bible prophecy they want to
talk about you know replacement theology all the intricacies of deep doctrine but
they didn't even know the basics they're unlearned unstable rest means
they twist it on a I'm different though I you know I I've watched all the
sermons on YouTube I got them all memorized yeah but did you read all the
Bible that's different okay you know we learn from other people but you know
a person who is unlearned and unstable is a person who has not developed the
disciplines to learn on their own you need to learn how to learn on your own
not Google something everything every time you don't understand something why
don't you actually just open up the Bible and actually try to learn it
yourself okay or do you need the bottle you need someone to warm up the bottle
put the cap put it into your mouth and feed it to you and act like you ate
stink no you know we need to make sure that we as Christians yes we're learning
from pastors yes we're learning from church but you know what you're learning
on your own you have to learn on your own and newborns often have this
attitude that this know-it-all attitude this prideful know-it-all attitude when
the Bible says that they're desiring to be teachers of the law understanding
neither what they say neither whereof they affirm okay look at Hebrews chapter
5 verse 11 this is often an attribute of a babe in Christ and you know what does
it stem from pride pride because you know what pride does it doesn't want you
to admit that you're wrong and it doesn't want to admit that someone else
knows more than you you know the prideful person knows everything the
prideful person you can't teach that person anything you can't even catch
them off guard because they already know like are you I already know that you
did not teach me anything I already know all these things well you know the
Bible says if you think you know something you don't know anything at all
actually whereas the person who's growing understands I don't know
and if you can teach me something all the better look at Hebrews 5 11 of whom
we have many things to say and hard to be uttered senior dull of hearing for
one for the time you ought to be teachers you have need that one teach
you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God and are become
such as have need of milk and not of strong meat for everyone that useth milk
is unskillful in the word of righteousness for he is a babe but
strong meat belonging to them that are a full age even those who by reason of
use have their senses exercise to discern both good and evil just
understand this knowing doctrine is great practicing doctrine is greater
because you're actually exercising your senses to discern both good and evil and
look if you only have the knowledge but you don't you're not a doer of the word
you're gonna forget so the nausea you're taking in it's gonna go out
because you're not putting it into practice you're not discerning between
good and evil okay so baby in Christ look this is one of the reasons why
we're not I'm never gonna send out anybody who doesn't know the Bible who
is a brand new Christian look I won't even consider you I won't even consider
you to be a pastor if you've only been saved for like a year or two years why
because you're a novice a novice is a newborn and the Bible specifically tells
us not a novice less being lifted up with pride he fall into condemnation of
the devil okay oh don't call me a novice that just showing you that you're a
novice if you get offended at that it shows your novice when you actually get
offended at that because great peace have they which love thy law and nothing
shall offend them if you actually love the Word of God and you're like well I
guess I'm not ready then but Justin I should just enjoy growing enjoy being in
church enjoy soul winning enjoy learning how to be a leader and enjoying how to
communicate enjoying learning how to mature but if you get offended I said
no I'm already ready you're not ready don't ask me you know if you haven't
even done the basics this is important because you can't be a novice according
to the Bible and look this is why newborn Christians you guys got to be
careful what you look who you listen to on the internet because there's a lot of
false prophets out there that beguile unstable souls the Bible says well I you
know I heard this dispensationalism you know I don't agree with them on the
other stuff but he got some pretty good stuff on the on the reptilians and then
the hollow earth or whatever you know he's he's got some pretty interesting
things on the on the give me one of those stupid conspiracies what please
you know I didn't I didn't say retarded I said stupid okay flat earth is
retarded okay no you know the skinwalkers I just he provides good
evidence for these skinwalkers you know if you are into that stuff you're a babe
in Christ if you even consider those things you are a baby in Christ I find
that offensive point proven thanks for proving my point you know well you know
there is some strong evidence oh you mean the pixelated video on YouTube is
that what you're talking about you mean that the heavily pixelated video of some
dog that's walking in South America at one o'clock in the morning or something
is that what you're talking about this is stupid don't expect me to respect
your intelligence if you even consider those things you know I don't I agree
with pastor me healing everything else but just the skinwalkers not the
skinwalkers I just don't agree on the flat earth there's so much overwhelming
evidence where like on social media did you know that that's not how you study
to see if a thing is true or not you don't go to Instagram you don't go to
the biggest account on social media to find out that's true or not
that's a babe in Christ okay you said why do they believe that because they're
unstable and they've been beguiled because of that okay this is why you
know and look I'm not saying stay off the internet we're on the internet amen
but at least you can prove what I'm saying is true or not based upon the
Bible you know I'm not giving you a pixelated video I'm not talking about
weird stuff on the internet you know oh whatever what your thoughts on on area
51 in the UFOs I don't think about it and if end of discussion I just think
they're they're hiding something there who cares okay and look it'd be wise for
you to not open up your mouth and even entertain that thought or even just
about it as though you believe it cuz by the way most people who do that they're
testing the wires to see if you actually you know you believe the same thing and
then once you mock them you like oh yeah yeah that's stupid yeah that's what they
do no conversations about no skinwalkers you do you will be mocked
severely by the pastor this is foolishness and folly this is this is for
children go to Ephesians chapter 4 Ephesians chapter 4 this is someone who
is unskillful in the word of righteousness look we have people in
our church who are formerly Flat Earthers formerly for you see former to
what being saved or maybe they just got saved and they got sucked into that but
then they realize this is stupid you know why cuz they grew up they grew up
and anytime we mention the Flat Earth YouTube Baptist Church gets so offended
at this because there's so many people out there and they're just like I can't
believe you said this you're wrong you know the earth is not round it's flat
there's so much evidence it's like you're a babe in Christ you're either
not saved or you're just a babe in Christ okay come out from among them and
be separate Ephesians 4 11 look what look what the Bible says and he gave
some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and
teachers for the perfecting of the Saints when it talks about perfecting it
doesn't mean to make them sinless it's talking perfecting means to complete
them okay for the perfecting of the Saints why so they can just be smart no
for the work of the ministry see knowledge in and we work these things
out right for the edifying of the body of Christ so we can have intelligent
laborers in this local body of believers till we all come in the unity of the
faith and the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure
of the stature of the fullness of Christ that we henceforth be no more
children tossed to and fro carried about with every wind of flat earth doctrine
by the sleight of men and cutting craft in this whereby the in line way to
deceive you know these people who believe these stupid controversies or
these these conspiracies the people are teaching them don't even believe it
they're like laughing at you like I can't believe we got that got to believe
that we got him to subscribe to the channel okay so what am I saying what
I'm saying is this you know if you got offended at any of that you're still
babing Christ but here's your choice you could either be unstable and remain in
that way or be teachable allow someone to teach you and look specifically to
teach you that you're wrong you know we don't become better by always succeeding
did you know that we only become better by failing and by evaluating that
failure and learning from it so we need someone to teach us you know the
greatest lessons that I learned were from people who told me that I was wrong
and look I want to be right don't you but you're not you don't learn to be
right all being right all the time or acting like you're right all the time
you learn to be right when you recognize I'm wrong sometimes and I can learn from
that okay you know the Bible says go with me if you would to Proverbs chapter
17 Proverbs 17 Bible says in 1st Corinthians 8 1 now it's touching things
offered unto idols we know that we all have knowledge knowledge puffeth up but
charity edify Proverbs 1 5 says a wise man will hear and will increase in
learning and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsel but
look at Proverbs 17 verse 27 because what are we talking about we're talking about
succeeding as a baby in Christ like moving on from that not being unstable
but being teachable look what it says in Proverbs 17 verse 27 he that hath
knowledge spareth his words yet that means typically those who know the most
don't have to say that they know the most people kind of know that about them
okay spare with his words look what it says and a man of understanding is of an
excellent spirit what does excellent mean well remember to excel this is a
successful person here an excellent person is someone who excels excelent
right so why is he a person who excels because he understands he spares his
words when he gets the knowledge we want to be excellent people people who excel
but if you're unstable you shall not excel be a person who's willing to learn
okay and there's nothing wrong with getting into a conversation after church
and you don't know what's being taught or you don't know what's being talked
about there's nothing wrong with you saying yeah no idea about that but I'm
willing to learn about that teach me about that you know I love talking to
some of some of the people in our church I really love I gravitate towards like
brother Eddie is one of them you know why because he knows a lot and he knows
more than me in regards to history ancient history these things intrigued
me but you know I know that he knows more than me look he knows a lot about
Spanish history I don't know those things nor will I act like I learned
those like I know those things okay when I when I talk to him I listen I learn
same thing everyone has strengths in this church where you can learn from Dr.
Reed is one of them right everyone has someone that they something or someone
that they know that they can learn from look I'm learning Greek but there's
people out there who know Greek far greater than I do when I talk to Pastor
Anderson I don't act like I'm at his level like I understand everything that
he's talking about I sit there as a pupil as a student to learn from him
because I know that he has excelled in that area and I'm not gonna be so
foolish as to think yeah yeah I already know all that don't teach me that
Pastor Anderson I know that you treat me like a contemporary when it comes to
Greek no no that's a babe mentality the right mentality is he knows more than I
do that's why when we do the Greek live streams I just keep my mouth shut you
know I'll pipe in every once in a while if I if I have a thought but for the
most part I keep it shut you know why because he knows more than me so why act
like I know more than him or as much as him I'm there to learn not to prove
something and someone who thinks like they know it all they're not trying to
teach you they're trying to prove something they want you to have this
you know this perspective of them as if they know everything this is a babe in
Christ so what's what's your options your option is this continue to be
unstable or just be a teachable person he said how do I know which one I am
well when you get corrected does that person ever come back to you to correct
you if they do you're a teachable person if they don't you're not a
teachable person you know why because that person probably realized this
person got offended I don't want to correct that person again because they
can't take it you know the Christian life is not all not all exhortation
sometimes it's a lot of correction okay go with me if you would to 1st
Corinthians chapter 3 the Bible says in 1st Corinthians 8 verse 2 and if any man
think that he knoweth anything he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know
don't be a know-it-all okay no more children guys no more children ladies
right now keep having you know children physically but as far as spiritually
speaking you know it's time to move on from that and to grow up okay so the
fork in the road for new for newborns is hey you could either remain unstable or
become teachable number two here's a big one now listen misplaced loyalty or
following leaders as they follow Christ this is a problem that the old IFB had
immensely why is that because of the fact there's a man by the name of dr.
Jack Hiles great preacher great man of God but some people follow him blindly
even to the point that if you disagreed with anything that brother house head
you're like a heretic okay this is not a characteristic of a mature person
what's the characteristic of a mature person someone who says I follow anybody
who follows Christ and the power of God is not subject just to one person okay
now to prove to you that this is a mentality that babes in Christ have
looking for strength in three verse one and I brethren could not speak unto you
as into spiritual but as into carnal even as it's a braves of Christ I have
fed you with milk and not with strong meat for hitherto you are not able to
bear it neither yet now are you able for yet for year yet carnal for whereas
there is among you and beings and strife and divisions are you not carnal and
walk as men for while one sayeth I am of Paul and another I am of Apollo's are
you not carnal who is in who then is Paul and who is a pulse but ministers by
whom he believed even as the Lord gave to every man I have planted Apollo's
watered but God gave the increase so then neither is he that plants at
anything neither is he that water is but God to give it the increase what he's
saying I'm nobody because he's talking about himself now he that planted than
he that water they're one and every man shall receive his own reward according
to his own labor for we are laborers together with God year God's husbandry
ye are God's building now what am I saying specifically well there's often
not just a new old IP but even with us okay we're babes in Christ have this
undying loyalty to one person to one leader whether that's myself whether
it's pastor Anderson whether it's pastor a menace and let me say this
that's not right it's not right to pin leaders against one another as if one's
better than the other let me give you an example of this okay are you
criticizing pastor Anderson pastor is like a father and he agrees with what
I'm saying right now and by the way this is my church so I can say whatever
I want for the pulpit now look but he agrees with me and this is a true saying
worthy of all acceptation let me give you an example okay because if you're
not careful babes in Christ could often have this mentality where for example
Tyler Doka okay you know the Apostle of the flat earth this when he was found
out to be a false prophet or whatever I heard many people say well you know
that's why I'm only gonna listen to pastor Anderson and pastor a menace
it's just like you think God is only working through those two what about
pastor McMurtry what about how you know pastor Jonathan Shelley what about
pastor Dave persons not only only Apollo's and Paul I am of Apollo's and
I'm a Paul you know and I can only trust these two that is a babing price
mentality okay that shows me that shows everyone that you don't understand what
he's specifically saying here he's like I'm nothing and look I remember when I
first went to faith forward Baptist Church and whoever went there as well
can attest to this you're a little soft starstruck okay right
oh snap he's right there that's him right there he's walking he's walking
he's walking you know and then you're there it's just like Disneyland for the
Christian and honestly I was like that but I remember having conversations with
pastor Anderson and he said this he told me this he goes you know what there's
nothing wrong with having that attitude in that mentality but if you stay like
that that's weird that's weird he go he's he just calls me Bruce and he's
like Bruce it shouldn't be like that between you and I wasn't doing that like
continuously like oh that's right you know but he was just like now we're
friends we're contemporaries you're my friend I'm your friend you teach me I
teach you you know we have to move on from that and it's like stalker status
if you don't because he even specifically said at the end of the day
I'm just a man you know and look I'm no one popular but we've had people even
start trouble at other churches because their church is not operating like us
not believing like I do that's foolishness and folly you follow your
pastor you make sure that you honor him you respect him that's your man of God
amen and don't think that God can only work through me or through pastor
Anderson or through just past three minutes no God there's seven thousand
prophets who have not bowed the need to bail and look there's seven thousand
more who are coming afterwards to you understand look there was seven thousand
prior to any of us because guess what I think it was a brother Milan he preached
a sermon one time called different prophet same God this is always gonna be
a different prophet but the same God so we need to make sure that our load we
don't have just this undying loyalty because here's the thing what if I fall
into sin for example you know at that point you know you can't have this
respect our person's mentality you know God forbid what if that happened to one
of our pastor friends we can't have that respect our person mentality it's not
bad to honor to admire to love but there has to come a point where we say well
we follow anybody who follows the Bible we respect and honor anybody who follows
the Bible oh no no no I only only one guy I just want one guy on my list
you're a babe and basically what you're saying is that God is only limited to
only using one person that's what you're saying right that God could only use one
person no you know what this may even surprise you but God could even use you
God could even use a person like you you know because at the end of the day
it's really dependent on the person who submits themselves to God now look
there'll always be a special place in our hearts for those who change our
lives there will always be a special place in our heart for those who led us
to the Lord or even for people who helped us who helped us to grow in
Christ Pastor Anderson will always have a special place in my heart I didn't get
saved through him but you know I learned a lot from him he's like my mentor I
will oh and look there's a special place in my heart for my old pastor yay
even for Bob Gray jr. not senior I have to clarify that okay why because it was
through Bob Gray jr. that I got saved but you know what if any of those guys
make a left turn well guess what I don't mind I don't have this this undying
loyalty to them I don't care if he's gonna repent of your sins that he's
teaching the flat earth I love that man no it's just like well like I'm
following Christ there's look it's not like this but there's an extreme that I
saw in the old IFB where when Jack Scott was found out you know that wicked
false prophet when he was having these these physical relations with this
teenage girl you know there's people from that church they were like well I
love Jack Scott no matter what he's innocent it's like the evidence is right
here ah they're lying and all this he said it out of his own mouth hello but
it's just this unbiblical loyalty that people have towards a person the person
and not towards Christ you know there's gonna be new pastors who come into our
movement that I've never even heard I'll follow them as long as they stick to the
Bible I'll look up to them I'll learn from them because it's God working in
them now look let me give you an example this go to 1st Corinthians chapter 9
look Barnabas had to do this for Paul because everyone was like oh no you
know who's Paul and then Barnabas is like hey he got saved God's using him to
preach the gospel to the Gentiles yeah but Peter you know Cephas and John these
guys are pillars and these guys have been there since the beginning yeah but
God is using Paul though too look at 1st Corinthians 9 verse 1 Paul the
Apostles saying this about himself now remember he established the church at
Corinth right he's saying verse 1 am I not an apostle am I not free have I have
I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord are not ye my work in the Lord if I be not an
apostle unto others yea doubtless I am to you for the seal of mine apostleship
are ye in the Lord mine answer to them that do examine me is this have we not
power to eat and drink have we not power to lead about a sister a wife as
well as other Apostles and as the brethren of the Lord and Cephas what is
he saying just because I came later don't you think I could even leave Peter
don't I have the authority and the power to do that of course he does you know
what cuz God is using him to okay so what I'm saying is it and look what it
goes on to say verse 6 or I only am Barnabas have now we power to forbear
working so he's defending himself saying look I know I came later on you
guys don't respect me but you know what God can still use me as he can use you
as he's you Cephas and look Galatians chapter 2 God used Paul to rebuke Peter
even though he came later on in the game okay what's the solution we need to make
sure that as if you're a babe in Christ do you make the decision to say you know
what I want to follow Christ and follow the men who follow Christ no matter who
they are right no matter who they are if they're following Christ if they're
preaching the Word of God if they are being used of God then you know what I
want to be associated with that person okay and look we all have a right to be
associated with anybody all right look pastor Aaron Thompson doing a great work
was a blessing on Friday I'm thankful to be associated with him you say well why
because God's using him and look we disagree on some things you know we've
talked about it we disagree it on it but you know I still had him come down and
preach for us he thought that I was gonna disagree with him on something
that he set up here that's all I agree I agree with you on that there's other
things that we disagree about but you know why at the end of the day God is
using him and I can learn from that man and I have learned from him you know why
because he has older children he's been around the block longer than I have and
I'm not gonna be so foolish as to think well you know I'm new I have v2 you know
haven't you seen my youtube channel haven't you heard my sermons you know
no for me it's just like I could learn from pastor Thompson he has something
that I could learn and I can I could learn from I can glean wisdom from so be
followers of Christ follow the man who is following Christ though okay don't
take it to the other extreme here's my last point go with me if you would to
first Peter chapter 2 no more children you know you children and this is good
obviously but this is just a really raw example you have children were like you
take them to their cousins and they just or their family you know and they just
don't want to go with anybody just want to stick with mom and dad which by the
way is good because sometimes children actually can feel the vibes of some
wicked person but sometimes they're just being weird like that or they're just
like no I don't want to go with anybody you know and after a while they start
lining up they start having fun and then they get away from mom and dad and go
play with their cousins or whatever okay well a babe in Christ has to do the same
thing okay you need to learn how to listen to others and follow others as
they follow Christ no more children so you you can either remain unstable or
become teachable have misplaced authority or follow leaders as they
follow Christ and here's the third one you could either stay carnal or you
could lay aside your sin on a daily weekly basis or whatever okay look at
look at first Peter first Peter chapter 2 what I mean by that I'm working on you
right now right but when you leave you need to work on yourself you need to
work on yourself you know you look don't come to churches just wait for that one
sermon that's gonna change your life why don't you just read your Bible and
change your life you know look at first Peter 2 verse 1 wherefore laying aside
all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and evil speakings as newborn
babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby so what
he's saying look just as newborn babes desire the milk so they can grow that's
what you need to do but how does that happen by laying aside you know sins and
look at verse 3 says if so be you have tasted that the Lord is gracious you
see when someone first gets saved they don't have this is unjust I mean I'm
just gonna read the entire Bible cover to cover and I just have this strong
desire to do so that that appetite that desire comes as they taste right so it's
like desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby if so be the
have tasted you know start eating vegetables and start liking it unless
you haven't tasted vegetables at all you can't desire something you haven't
tasted right so what does that mean that means you have to go home open up your
Bible and start reading it on your own and then you start I was actually pretty
good I think I'm gonna do this every day and then guess what here's a really cool
thing you start reading the Bible on your own then I'm preaching you're gonna
hear something from the sermon that you got from your Bible you're like man I
just read that I was just thinking the same thing I just learned that today I
learned that last week see you don't only want to be learning things when you
come to church when you come to church what's going on the principles are being
reinforced of things that you already learned in your own time okay we're not
a Catholic Church or it's like just believe me take my word for it and you
know close your Bibles look up here that's not the way it works you open up
the Bible and if I'm wrong come tell me after the service that I'm wrong and
show me I'm not afraid of you that's what we tell everyone to open up their
Bibles and go to the scripture so you can see it for yourself but you know
what you have to be able to taste it and work on yourself on your own okay you
need to make sure that when throughout the week you're applying that what
you're learning now look if you want to be a babe in Christ okay then stay
carnal stay fleshly stay carnal stunt your growth and stay where you're at but
you know I don't want to do that I want to get stable I want to still be
teachable I want to make sure that I'm still following Christ I want to make
sure that I'm learning that I'm continuously reading the Bible you know
I want to make sure that I'm stable even though there's there's times in
life where you can become unstable I want to make sure that my life is
characterized of stability you know I want to make sure that even though my
love for certain leaders has exceeded my love for other leaders in times past
then my loyalty is still to Christ you know look I the men in the new IFB the
pastors of the new IFB have helped me grow even more so than some leaders in
the past exceedingly very grateful for them but you know what at the end of the
day I have to recognize God has used these people to help me to grow it's God
who's done it and lastly I got to make sure that I stay in the Word of God that
I'm them continuously learning hey no more children guys no more children
don't call me a child don't call me a baby you're just proving the point it's
time to grow up no more children learn these things and when you come to the
fork in the road take the right side be teachable follow the Lord and make sure
that you're you're cleaning up your own lives and then inspire heads and have a
word of prayer father we thank you so much for your word God I pray God that
you'd help us Lord to continue to grow in grace I'm thankful for the men of God
in my life whether in present time or even in times past who taught me these
things and Lord because of that I can say I'm not a baby in Christ and if I
was a baby in Christ I shouldn't be the pastor here and God I pray that each and
every person under the sound of my voice who are babes in Christ that they would
make that decision to be teachable to follow the Lord and to work on
themselves that they would be no more children tossed to and fro carried about
with every wind of doctrine and help us to do so Lord we love you so much we
thank you pray these things in Jesus name amen