♪ For my soul, like the sweet mellows grow ♪
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There's some announcements before we sing our next song,
song number one, "Hideeth My Soul," song number 102.
We'd like to welcome you back to our Thursday night service.
At 7 p.m., we're going through the book of John.
Our soul winning times and teams are here below.
Please continue to pray for the expectant mothers.
And for our soul winning stats there,
we had a great October and we hit our goal of 2,000
for the year, which obviously, praise God.
And then obviously we got next year.
So next year we got 4,000, amen.
Then some announcements on the right side there.
We have our science meetup this after the PM service.
It's for children who are four years old and up.
So parents four years old and up.
Midweek service this week is normally on Thursdays,
but this, excuse me, normally on Thursdays,
but this week it's actually gonna be on Tuesday
for Thanksgiving.
So it'll be November 25th.
So no service on the 27th.
We have our Christmas fellowship
at Pastor Mejia's house Friday, December 5th.
There's a sign-up sheet in the back.
And then we have our Christmas caroling
Saturday, December 17th.
I believe there's gonna be a sign-up sheet there as well.
All right, that's it for the announcements.
Please silence your phones
to not be disturbance to the service.
And with that, please open up your hymnals
to song number 102, "He Heideth My Soul."
- Song number 102, "He Heideth My Soul."
Powerful song, 102.
- Tonight we're in 1 Timothy chapter one.
1 Timothy chapter one, the Bible reads, "Paul, an apostle
of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God,
our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope.
On a Timothy, my own son in the faith, grace, mercy,
and peace from God, our Father, and Jesus Christ, our Lord.
As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus,
when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge psalm
that they teach no other doctrine.
Now they give heed to fables and endless genealogies
which minister questions rather than godly edifying,
which is in faith, so do.
Now the end of the commandment is charity
out of a pure heart and of a good conscience
and of faith unfeigned,
from which some having swerved
have turned aside under vain jangling,
desiring to be teachers of the law,
understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm.
But we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully,
knowing this that the law is not made for a righteous man
but for the lawless and disobedient,
the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane,
for murders of fathers and murders of mothers,
for men slayers, for whoremongers,
for them that defile themselves of mankind,
for men stealers, for liars, for perjured persons,
and for any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,
according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God
which was committed to my trust.
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me,
for that he counted me faithful,
putting me into the ministry,
who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious,
but obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
The grace of our Lord was exceeding,
abundant with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all expectation
that Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners of whom I am chief.
Habeed for this cause I obtained mercy,
that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth
all longsuffering for a pattern to them
which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible,
the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever, amen.
This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy,
according to the prophecies which went before on thee,
that thou by them mightest war good warfare,
holding faith and a good conscience,
which some having put away concerning faith
have made shipwreck, of whom in Hymenaeus and Alexander,
whom I have delivered unto Satan,
that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Let's pray to God, just thank you for this time we have
this evening, Lord, to hear the preaching of your word,
Lord, just please bless pastor,
please bless the service, Lord,
and give us in the congregation ears to hear the message
that he's prepared tonight, Lord.
I pray this all in Jesus' name, amen.
- Amen, okay, we're in 1 Timothy, chapter one.
1 and 2 Timothy, as well as Titus, are great books,
and they're often referred to as the pastoral epistles.
And the reason for that is because the apostle Paul
is addressing Timothy and Titus and instructing them
on some of the qualifications of a pastor,
some of the ways that a person ought to behave himself
in the house of God.
A lot of great teachings on church administration,
the doctrines that should be taught,
and they are great books for,
especially those who are learning
or would like to be a pastor one day,
to familiarize themselves with.
And we'll start in verse number one.
It says Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
by the commandment of God, our savior,
and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope,
unto Timothy, my own son in the faith,
grace, mercy, and peace from God, our father,
and Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Now the first thing I want you to notice here
is that the apostle Paul calls Timothy his son in the faith.
And obviously what this is referring to is the fact that,
number one, Timothy is a saved person,
but number two, the apostle Paul has essentially adopted him
as a spiritual son.
Now, sometimes you'll see this particular phrase
being used by the apostle Paul,
and he will often use this to describe people
that he personally led to the Lord, right?
And that would be a very accurate way to describe someone.
If you got someone saved,
you would say that's your son in the faith,
because you've begat them through the gospel, right?
They were born again through your efforts
of giving them the gospel, getting them saved.
They essentially become like your spiritual child,
so to speak, right?
And the apostle Paul, of course,
did this with multiple people.
And he said this in, I believe it's 2 Corinthians,
he talked about the fact that he begat many
through the gospel.
But in this particular case, that wasn't necessarily,
that's not necessarily what's happening here.
Because he didn't personally get Timothy saved,
according to what we see in the book of Acts,
Timothy got saved prior to this,
and we actually see according to 2 Timothy,
that his mom is the one who possibly got him saved, right?
His mom was saved, his grandmother was also saved,
and so through the scriptures that were given to him,
his mom ended up giving him the gospel, getting him saved,
so he was probably saved at a very young age.
And so when the Apostle Paul
is going on his first missionary journey,
he ends up making it to Iconium, Lystra, Derby,
and this is actually the region where Timothy's from.
So he would go there,
he would preach the word of God in the synagogues,
and believers in the synagogues
would end up being converted to Christianity
because they believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And eventually churches were started in that manner.
So you have these congregations being started
and Timothy was one of them.
Well, apparently, as we see here,
the Apostle Paul ended up adopting Timothy
as a spiritual son in the faith.
And what I think this is referring to is the fact that
Timothy is essentially a disciple of Paul, right?
Meaning that the Apostle Paul is the one
who's teaching him, he's discipling him,
he's investing a lot of his time and energy into Timothy.
Why?
Well, because Timothy has a lot of potential.
You know, and this basically should show us that
the gospel's for everyone,
we ought to preach the gospel to everyone,
but not everyone deserves
our immediate undivided attention, right?
Obviously the people who deserve the most attention
are those who are willing to put in the work,
those who seek you out.
And I'm sure Timothy was someone
who wasn't lax regarding the Christian life,
he wasn't just apathetic towards the Christian life.
And in fact, he was very passionate
about the things of God.
The apostle Paul noticed this
and essentially took him under his wing,
discipling him, showing him the ropes.
And I think this is a great concept in the Bible
regarding discipleship.
But I think this is a concept
that's very misconstrued today, right?
Where a lot of times churches or pastors
will often claim that they do discipleship,
but it's often at the exclusion of soul winning, right?
And you know, I come from a fundamental Baptist church
and fundamental Baptists in general, promote soul winning, okay?
This is the major ministry of fundamental Baptist churches
and it's something that's promoted a lot
and I think it's great.
But let me just tell you this is that
soul winning includes discipleship,
they're one in the same.
And one of the indicators that discipleship is part of it
is because if you're doing any soul winning,
you're gonna eventually train someone
on how to preach the gospel, right?
You're not only gonna train them in Christian virtue,
in the basics of the Christian life,
you're gonna show them how to also win souls to Christ.
Soul winning and discipleship are the same,
are two sides of the same coin basically, okay?
So the point that I'm making here is that,
you know, fundamental Baptist churches
often emphasize soul winning,
but then you'll have liberal churches
that won't talk about soul winning,
they won't necessarily talk about evangelism,
they'll emphasize discipleship, okay?
Meaning like, you know,
we don't wanna do like confrontational soul winning,
we're about making disciples.
And what they get that from
is actually the modern versions
of the Bible's rendition of Matthew 28.
Because in Matthew 28, the Bible says,
"Go therefore and teach all nations,
"baptizing them in the name of the Father
"and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost."
And we accurately interpret that to mean
that you're going out there
to teach people about the gospel.
How do we know that?
Because the preceding verses is that they get baptized.
And we know that according to the biblical model,
people get baptized after they get saved, okay?
So we can say that teaching all nations
accurately interpreted is to teach them
about the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, right?
Giving them the gospel, right?
Whereas the modern versions of the Bible
actually render this as go ye therefore
and make disciples of all nations.
So then, you know, they have to undermine
the importance of evangelism and solveny.
And they'll say, well, you know,
what the Bible actually commands us to do
is to do discipleship.
Now, let the liberal churches uphold that philosophy.
That shouldn't be philosophies
that fundamental Baptists should be embracing, right?
Why?
Because of the fact that the Bible
emphasizes the importance of preaching the gospel
to every creature.
He that win its souls is wise.
Now, look, I'm not against discipleship.
I think discipleship is very much important.
It's a biblical concept.
But I just believe that you can't do true discipleship
without showing someone how to go somewhere.
That's just a fact, okay?
Because here's the thing, folks.
If you are doing, if you claim to do discipleship,
but you're undermining soul winning,
and you're not producing soul winning numbers,
then you're failing at discipleship.
A person who says we're doing discipleship,
but gets no one saved isn't doing discipleship at all.
What are you teaching them?
What is it that you're teaching people
when it comes to discipleship,
if people aren't getting saved,
or new soul winners aren't being produced, right?
Because the part of discipleship is to teach them
how to be soul winners themselves,
to go out there and preach the gospel.
I believe that a growing church
has both sides of the same coin,
which is soul winning and discipleship.
They're teaching people not just Christian virtue,
but they're also showing them how to get people saved.
If a church tells you,
well, we don't really emphasize soul winning a whole lot.
We're about discipleship, just mark it down.
They don't even do discipleship.
First of all, they're hating on soul winning.
But secondly, they're not doing any discipleship.
And if they are discipling them,
they're not discipling them according to the Bible.
They're not teaching them biblical concepts,
because at the end of the day, the Bible teaches us,
Jesus said that if you follow him,
he'll make you a fisher of men.
What is discipleship?
Teaching people how to follow Jesus Christ, right?
Well, what is the result of following Jesus Christ?
You become a fisher of men.
And so a growing church will show their people
how to preach the gospel, how to go soul winning.
You know, I'm not of this philosophy, of this persuasion
that we don't emphasize soul winning.
We only emphasize discipleship.
And in fact, I'm a major advocate of discipleship.
But you more often than not will hear
me advocate more for soul winning
because it's the same exact thing.
And so that's important to know because that stuff can
infiltrate churches all the time.
And people can claim that they're doing discipleship
and undermining soul winning.
But at the end of the day, honestly,
they're just masquerading as what they're doing.
Either they're masquerading because they're not
doing any soul winning themselves.
And by the way, this comes under the same canopy
as a pastor who says, well, we don't count soul winning numbers.
Why?
Why not?
What do you mean you don't count soul winning numbers?
Is it because you're not doing it?
Well, we just feel it's more important.
What's more important?
What gets measured gets done, hey, man.
If you want to measure success, you've got to like--
you know, I don't really--
you know, I'm not really about--
I'm about fitness, but I'm not about like getting
on the scale, though.
I want to lose weight, but I'm not about numbers.
Now how do you know you're losing weight?
Well, just the way I feel.
Look, if you want to lose 100 pounds,
if you want to lose 50 pounds, you've got to measure it.
You've got to actually step on--
you've got to be real with yourself, you know?
And in the morning, before you purge yourself,
step on that scale and let's just be realistic here, right?
Not live in a fantasy world where it's just like, well,
I'm just going to make believe that I'm actually
the weight that I want to be, and I'm just
going to live generally healthy or something like that,
and then I'll leave it up to chance.
Wrong.
What gets measured gets done.
Or someone who says, well, I'm going to read through the Bible,
but I'm not really going to have a plan.
It's just, you know, I'm going to open up the Bible--
all right, this is where I'm going to start,
and I'm going to end up finishing the Bible somehow.
Doesn't work that way.
You got to be systematic in your approach to success.
If you're not systematic in your approach to success,
you're not going to see any numbers.
You're not going to see any results.
If you want to lift a certain amount of weight,
you've got to be systematic about it, right?
If you want to get stronger, you've
got to be systematic about it.
If you want to lose weight, you've
got to be systematic about it.
If you want to see people saved,
you've got to be systematic about it.
And let me just tell you something, folks.
When a church does not want to count soul-winning numbers,
it's because they're not producing soul-winning numbers.
And you know what that's going to produce even more?
A church that doesn't want to do any soul-winning.
Why?
Because church members are inspired by numbers.
When they see that a church is producing the numbers,
they want to get a part of that.
They want a piece of the pie.
They see that a great work is being done.
But if I got up here and said, well, we're about soul-winning.
We're just not going to count numbers,
because that's vain or something like that.
Wrong.
You know, what that shows is that I'm not
doing any soul-winning.
You're not doing any soul-winning.
And this is just code four.
We're not soul-winning.
But when we're counting the numbers on a weekly basis,
when we're posting the numbers, we're
emphasizing the importance of going soul-winning.
It's an indicator that we're putting forth the effort
to do so, OK?
Point that I'm making here is that--
and let me just say this regarding discipleship,
because I went down that rabbit hole years ago.
You know, when I was in my old fundamental Baptist church,
that liberal type of theology had infiltrated.
And I got really into it.
But then I realized, like, my soul-winning is dying.
And I'm thinking to myself, like, this is actually
negatively affecting my soul-winning.
And then I had to just get back to my roots
of just being a hellfire and damnation preaching soul-winner.
And you know what?
I've seen success ever since then.
You know, the church that only emphasizes discipleship--
just mark it down-- they don't do any discipleship at all.
OK?
Because folks, look, just look at the reflection
of whatever church is emphasizing soul-winning.
Is it characterized by biblical doctrine?
Is it characterized by rebellion?
Is it characterized by feminism?
Is it characterized-- what is it characterized by?
What is the reflection of that church
and what they're putting forth?
Because discipleship is teaching others
how to live like the Bible, right?
So we should see that.
And I know I chased that rabbit, but it's
important to talk about.
And look, I'm for-- by the way, let me just make it clear.
I'm for follow-up, OK?
I'm definitely for follow-up.
I know Pastor Anderson got up on Sunday,
and we talked about this.
And he was talking about how he's now for follow-up.
And I ended up talking to him.
And then I told him, I said, well, I'm actually
for follow-up.
And I said, you know, our church does follow-up.
And I explained the follow-up we do.
And he said, well, actually, I am for that follow-up.
I should have clarified that in my sermon.
But I understand where he's coming from, though.
Because, you know, there's liberal churches
that claim to do follow-up.
They claim to do follow-up with the people
they invite to church, or they're
knocking on doors, or whatever.
They don't do none of that.
Because if you go to these liberal fund centers,
a lot of the people aren't saved.
What kind of follow-up is that?
I mean, isn't it follow-up to make sure that they're saved?
Make sure they're getting baptized or whatever?
Obviously, the follow-up that we do
is that when people come to this church,
we try to get them baptized.
And here's the follow-up.
We invite them out soul-winding.
That's one of the major things that we do at our church,
is that when a new person comes to our church,
the main goal that we have is to get them on a team
so we can get them out there learning
how to preach the gospel and getting people saved.
The follow-up that we do is not like, well,
let me take you through this 10-week discipleship
course of where to park in the parking lot or whatever,
and how to be an usher or whatever.
You know, these nonsense, these weird things
that just don't matter.
What we teach them is how to win people to Christ
and how to live a godly life.
How to succeed in your marriage.
How to succeed as a single person.
And so that's important.
The apostle Paul here is calling Timothy his own son
of the faith because it's someone he's discipling.
And obviously Timothy became a very successful Christian.
And a lot of what he says here in 1 and 2 Timothy
does have to do with evangelism.
But it also just has to do with just Christianity
in general, Christian behavior in general.
So he calls him his son of the faith.
Verse 3 says, "as I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus
when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some
that they teach no other doctrine."
So apparently Timothy is somewhat of an evangelist.
We see this in 1 and 2 Timothy.
He's an evangelist, which is kind of synonymous
with a church planner, we would say as a church planner.
He's an evangelist, and he's being commissioned.
He's being ordained and sent forth to the church at Ephesus,
which based upon some of the evidence
that we see in the Bible, is a very large church.
How do we know that?
Well, because in Acts chapter 20,
the Apostle Paul calls forth what?
The elders, plural.
And what is an elder as a pastor?
Well, you only need one pastor if the church
is 300, 400 maybe, even maybe even 500.
I mean, there's churches that have one elder
for about 1,000 people.
But once it starts getting to a certain size,
you need multiple elders in order to keep track
of what's going on.
So the church at Ephesus had multiple elders.
And this is the way it works.
The larger a church gets,
the more problems you're gonna have, right?
The larger church gets more fornication.
Larger church gets more likelihood of drunkards,
more divorce, more adultery, unfortunately.
You know, more railing, and guess what?
More false doctrine.
So, you know, that's why it's important
that as a church grows, we tighten up the screws.
We become far more stricter as we grow, not more lenient.
Why?
Because of the fact that, you know,
we want the church to grow numerically,
but the law of number says that the bigger a church gets,
the more problems you are going to have.
And we can't avoid problems,
but we need to make sure we set forth policies
and standards and protocols of what to do
when the problems come.
We don't turn a blind eye to problems.
Well, it seems as though this church at Ephesus,
who had multiple elders,
and obviously these elders are preaching the word of God,
you know, some of these people are either influenced
by Judaizers or they themselves are Judaizers
or false prophets of some sort.
Because the apostle Paul says in Acts chapter 20,
even of your own selves shall men arise,
speaking perverse things,
to draw away disciples after them, right?
Now, obviously, you know,
before I get into the rest of the verses here,
the church at Ephesus ended up recovering
of whatever problems they were having.
You say, well, how do you know?
Revelation two.
You read the letter to Revelation two,
Jesus Christ had a lot of good things to say
about the church at Ephesus.
They were doctrinally strict.
They, you know, they were against those,
they were trying those,
who were saying they were apostles and are not.
They were basically very strict on their doctrine.
The only thing that became lenient on
that they needed to correct
was the fact that they left their first love,
which is this matter of evangelizing.
But in general, they were pretty spot on.
So it seems as though Timothy did a good job
vetting these elders that were in Ephesus,
and the church ended up recovering.
You say, why did you say that, you know,
some of these might've been Judaized?
Well, look what it goes on to say here.
He says, "I besought thee to a bystander at Ephesus
when I went into Macedonia,
that thou mightest charge some
that they teach no other doctrine,
neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies,
which minister questions,
rather than Godly edifying, which is in faith, so do."
So picture this.
The Apostle Paul is hearing rumors,
or he knows about problems
that are taking place at Ephesus,
and apparently those who are teaching the word of God
are getting involved in fables and endless genealogies, okay?
You say, "Well, I don't see anything
about Jewish people there,
or anything about Judaizing there."
Well, let's go to Titus, if you would,
Titus chapter one,
because Timothy and Titus are very similar, okay?
A lot of similar content.
It's almost as if the apostle Paul wrote Timothy,
and then he just, you know,
consolidated some of the information
in 1st and 2nd Timothy and put it into Titus.
And obviously it's all the same information.
He's given them the same instructions,
and they're dealing with the same enemies, okay?
So we're in Titus chapter one,
and look down at, let's see here,
look at verse four, it says,
"To Titus, my own son, after the common faith,
grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ."
Actually skip down to verse 14.
It says here, "Not giving heed to Jewish fables."
So first Timothy chapter one says,
"Don't give heed to fables."
Titus clarifies that and he says,
"Not giving heed to Jewish fables."
He says, "And commandments of men that turn from the truth."
And obviously based upon the context,
we know that it is talking about the Pharisees,
the Judaizers, and so what are some of the problems
that the church at Ephesus is facing?
I'll tell you what they're facing.
They're facing Judaizers.
They're facing Judaizers that are either
misleading the elders at Ephesus
through fables and endless genealogies,
and it says there which minister questions
rather than God the edifying, which is in faith so do.
So what is the charge that Paul's giving to Timothy?
You need to go there and just as he told Titus
and set in order the things that are wanting.
Now this shows us a couple of things
regarding the church at Ephesus
and all churches in the first century AD.
It shows us that in the first century AD,
a lot of churches were just disorganized, right?
It's not really, you know, the church that we got going on
right now was far more superior
than what was going on then.
Because it was very primitive back then.
They're just getting started.
You know, they have elders, but they're being deceived.
They're talking, they're preaching fables.
What's a fable?
It's a fictional story, right?
They're talking about endless genealogies.
They got heretical problems.
And it seems as though some of the women
in the church at Ephesus were either teaching
or speaking out.
So how do you know?
This chapter two is a chapter directed towards that.
All this stuff is intentional, my friends.
Whatever the Apostle Paul is addressing
in 1 and 2 Timothy, just mark it down.
He's not making it up.
It's not like he's looking for content.
He's addressing things that are going
on in this particular church.
It's like when I preach, right?
I'll preach something.
And you think I'm just making stuff up?
No, it's because I'm addressing your problem.
I'm addressing whatever issue you got going on.
I'm addressing whatever issue is going on in the church
or in churches.
So the apostle Paul is addressing the fact
that this church has a lot of issues.
And there were doctrinal issues that
were put forth by Judaizers, as noted by the fact
that the elders, or whoever is influencing the elders,
are teaching fables and endless genealogies.
Now, why do we know for a fact that this is referring to Jews?
Well, because of the fact that Jews are obsessed
with genealogies.
They think they're of Abraham.
And look, we have genealogies in the Old Testament.
That's a thing in the Old Testament, in order to confirm
the priesthood, in order to identify what tribe they're
from.
They were very much a necessity in those days, right?
But in the New Testament, that stuff
doesn't even matter anymore.
Why?
Because the priesthood has changed.
Now we're the royal priesthood.
Furthermore, it doesn't really matter what tribe you're from.
It doesn't matter what race you are,
regardless of what people put forth out there.
What matters is if you're in Christ.
What matters is if you're saved, OK?
But just as the Jews were seeking
to put forth the importance of these genealogies,
people are like that today.
Oh, if you ain't right, you ain't right.
You know, if you look at this particular culture,
they have all these issues.
And they almost put a stigma on individuals in this world,
almost at the exclusion of what God can do in that person's
life if they get saved, right?
And you know, you have your--
you know, what's that guy's name again?
Nick Fuentes, who is-- you know, a lot of the young guys
pursue and they follow his nonsense.
And let me just remind you that Nick Fuentes
is a Roman Catholic who's going to split hell wide open.
Bro is an incel, and no fundamental Baptist
should ever follow Nick Fuentes, because he sounds
like such a faggot when he talks.
He's completely against marriage,
which is freaking weird, OK?
And so stop liking his posts.
I'm sick and tired of seeing your hearting his videos
on Instagram.
Stop liking fag content that is against marriage.
You know, be a good Christian and stop following Catholics.
Is that so hard?
Oh, he says the right-- the Bible says the right thing.
People act like it's just like, well,
I have to follow him because he just says such good things
about the Jews.
Jesus said good things about the Jews.
Just follow the Lord Jesus Christ.
Yeah, but I like what he says about black people, though.
I like the fact that he says the N-word.
You say it.
Why you got to like what he says?
You can say it.
They're just words.
Who cares?
It's like recently someone was just like, oh, man,
I feel bad because I said beaner.
Say beaner.
You think I get offended when people say beaner to me?
If you get offended at that, you're a thin skinned,
you're a weakling, you're part of that Zoomer generation
that gets offended at everything.
I don't care if you call me a-- because I don't even
like beans.
Yeah, but you're a wet bag.
My bag is dry.
And we live in a society that is just over-fixated
on genealogies.
And make no mistake about it, racism is funny, hilarious.
I like to watch racist reels 'cause they're funny.
I like when Mexicans are made fun of 'cause it's funny.
I like when black people are made fun of 'cause it's funny.
You know why?
Because I actually love people and I care for their souls
and I don't care what color skin you have, you know?
And I would rather hang out with some black person
or some Indian or some Asian who actually believes
on the Lord Jesus Christ than some white dude
who actually rejects the Lord Jesus Christ
'cause he's a Catholic.
I don't care how conservative he is.
Give me the black guy from South Central
who is ghetto as the day is long, but the boy's saved.
Then some conservative dude who's just completely Catholic.
Bro, praise to Mary.
He worships idols.
But you're gonna tell me that I should side with that guy?
Oh, wait, 'cause he voted for Trump or something like that?
Get outta here with that nonsense.
These are endless genealogies.
People were hyper-fixated, the Jews were hyper-fixated
on genealogies during his times.
They were infiltrating, trying to make it seem
as though it was important for them
to trace their genealogies.
That's why they're more important than the Gentile believers
'cause they actually have the records of their genealogies.
No, you're going to hell
'cause you haven't believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
God is able to have these stones
to raise up children unto Abraham.
It doesn't matter what genealogies,
just throw that in the trash, it doesn't matter.
Which was born not of blood,
nor of the will of flesh, nor of man, the Bible says.
In the New Testament, it does not matter what race you are,
because we're all of one blood.
I just like the fact that Nick Fuentes
just boldly says the N word, or whatever.
He just boldly talks about, why don't you get bold?
Why are you living vicariously through Nick Fuentes?
That's really what it is.
He's like, I like it, 'cause I wanna say it, but I can't.
'Cause you are a wimp, 'cause you're a coward.
That's why, you know?
And so the point that I'm making here,
I don't know what verse I'm on here,
is that the Apostle Paul is telling Timothy,
hey, you need to make sure that these groipers,
these people who are focusing on genealogies and stuff,
you need to tell them not to teach any other doctrine.
Don't let them teach you any other doctrine.
Don't let them get up there and hyperfixate on genealogies
just because they saw something on X
that somehow statistically showed
that there's a group of people.
Okay, then why don't you witness to that group of people
so they can get saved
and allow the new man to transcend the old?
Why not?
But you know, it's an issue we have today.
It's an issue we have today.
And again, you know, I'm not a softy.
I'm not easily offended at that stuff.
I think racism is hilarious.
I think stereotypes are hilarious, you know?
And if you've hung around with our church
for any length of time after service,
you know that's true, okay?
And I think we've raised a generation
who's just extremely sensitive about that stuff.
You know, they're probably seeing this
and they're just like,
I can't believe you just said that.
Who cares?
It's like this one time, you know,
Pastor Anderson was reading some of the lyrics
from Kanye West.
And then I had someone contact me
and they're just like, he shouldn't say that.
I'm like, he's reading the lyrics.
What are you talking about?
I'm like, so the white people that buy tickets
to go see him live can't repeat the lyrics or something?
What kind of world do we live in?
Nonsense, my friends.
But he's telling them here,
look, I want you to abide at Ephesus,
charge them, command them not to teach any other doctrine.
And the doctrine that he's referring to is what?
Fables, endless genealogies.
And what he summarizes this in verse six when he says,
he calls it vain jangling, okay?
And look, we have to avoid vain jangling
in our church as well, okay?
Now what is vain jangling?
It's speculative talk that has no conclusion, okay?
It's always fun to speculate.
It's always fun to surmise.
But once dudes start fist fighting or something like that,
'cause they can't seem to come to a reasonable conclusion,
you're vein jangling, all right?
If you can handle a good conversation
and without being told you're wrong or something
or moving on to something more interesting,
you're vein jangling.
And he's telling them here, you know what?
You guys are putting these things forth.
It's not edifying anybody.
And obviously you're being influenced by these Judaizers.
Look at verse five.
It says, "Now the end of the commandment
is charity out of a pure heart
and of good conscience and of faith and fame,
from which some having swerve have turned aside
unto vain jangling."
He's saying that, you know, the end of the commandment,
the reason you should be teaching these things
is because you have charity in your heart.
In other words, the reason we give you the truth
is because we love you.
That's what charity is, right?
Charity out of a pure heart
because we want what's best for you.
He says faith on fame, meaning it's a sincere faith, okay?
And he says a good conscience, meaning we're not guilty
of whatever sin that we're condemning.
So these are the major markers.
He's saying this is the kind of preaching that's needed.
It's preaching that comes from a heart of love.
It's preaching that comes from a good conscience
that is clear of offense.
And it comes from a legitimate faith,
someone who actually believes the doctrines of the Bible
and wants what's best for the congregation.
And he says in verse six, for some,
from which some, referring to the Judaizers,
have swerved and turned aside into vain jangling,
desiring to be teachers of the law.
Now, that's a major indicator that is referred to the Judaizers,
because they're the ones who are the teachers of the law.
They're the ones who claim to be the light unto the babes
in Christ.
They're the ones who are the masters of Israel.
They desire to be teachers of the law,
but it says, understanding neither what they say,
nor whereof they affirm.
You know why they don't understand what they're talking
about?
Because they're not saved.
And we need to get back to reading the word of God
to understand the Bible, but also listening
to save people to understand the Bible.
Listening to people who actually have the spirit of God
dwelling within them, not to people
who have turned aside unto vain jangling.
And we do have a season of apostasy going on right now.
And it's unfortunate because of what the younger generation,
becoming Catholic, becoming Orthodox,
they're apostatizing.
And they're listening to people who are desiring
to be teachers of the law.
But they have no idea what they're talking about.
And then he starts to go into what the law is for.
He says in verse 8, "But we know that the law is good
if a man use it lawfully."
So he's not condemning the law that these Pharisees
and these Jews are talking about.
Because we know at the end of the day,
the law that they're putting forth,
the actual content of the law is good.
But a man has to use it lawfully, right?
He says, "Knowing this, that the law is not made
for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient."
In other words, these people are coming in
teaching the law, condemning those of the church,
but the people he's talking to are righteous people.
Whereas the law is for the lawless and disobedient,
for ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane,
for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers,
for manslayers, for whoremongers,
for them that defile themselves with mankind,
for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons,
and if there be any other thing
that is contrary to sound doctrine.
Now, you'll notice that verses nine through 10
gives these descriptions,
and it kind of gives like a synonym of each category, right?
Because he says lawless,
and what's another way of saying lawless?
Disobedient.
He says for ungodly.
What's the synonym for the ungodly?
Sinners, okay?
He says unholy.
What's the synonym for unholy?
Profane.
He says murderers of fathers, murderers of mothers,
and then he describes it once again
by just saying for manslayers.
Murders of fathers, murders of mothers is more specific.
Manslayers is more of a general term
to describe just murder, right?
He says for whoremongers.
Now, what's a whoremonger?
It is the Andrew Tate types, right?
It's the people who, it's the dudes who glory
in fornicating with multiple women.
They go around sleeping around.
They're basically male whores is what they are.
That's what a whoremonger is.
It's basically a male fornicator
is what this is talking about.
He said, why doesn't it just say fornicator?
Well, because he says for whoremongers,
for them that defile themselves with mankind.
So if we're to follow the pattern of verse nine and 10,
we would say that them that defile themselves with mankind
is describing the whoremonger,
but essentially it's somewhat, it's opposite, right?
How do we know that?
Well, because of the fact that if a whoremonger
is a man who's committing fornication,
we can safely surmise
that them that defile themselves with mankind
is referring to a woman who's committing fornication, okay?
It's just another way of saying it,
but it's making the distinction between the male
and the female who are committing such things.
And the reason I'm making that point
is because of the fact that
them that defile themselves with mankind
in the original Greek
is a word that's only used twice in the New Testament, okay?
This is one of them.
The second one is used in 1 Corinthians chapter six
in verse number nine,
using the word abusers of themselves with mankind, okay?
And so this is a word that's commonly used,
and people will often interpret
that Greek word to mean facts, okay?
But it's not referring to sodomites.
It's not referring to them who sleep in bed with other men,
referring to males sleeping in bed with other men.
This is simply referring to a whore or a whoremonger.
I think it's just another way of saying it, okay?
And obviously, can we not be on a shadow of a doubt
that that's what it's referring to?
No, because there's no other Greek literature
where that word is being used.
This is the only time.
And I don't know if it's because
the Apostle Paul just made up this word.
You know, it's possible.
Every generation comes up with its own words.
Six, uh, you know, it's like,
someone's gonna look at it later on and be like,
what is that?
I was like, I don't know,
we're trying to figure out what that meant or whatever.
I just don't know what that meant.
Because every generation,
so it might've been a word that he just came up with,
but I think we can decipher what it means
based upon the context.
Because 1 Corinthians 6, 9,
when it talks about the abuser of themselves with mankind,
in its context, it talks about those
who are sleeping around,
those who are committing fornication, okay?
And so in like manner here in verse 10,
based upon the previous word, whoremonger,
and the comparison that it's making,
it's referring to a whore,
or as the apostle Paul put it,
someone who defiles themselves with mankind, okay?
He says, "For men stealers,
for liars, for perjured persons," and so forth.
Look at verse 11.
"According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God,
which is committed to my trust.
And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord,
who hath enabled me
for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry."
Now, this is important
because the apostle Paul just got finished talking
about all these really bad sins.
But he's not necessarily excusing himself
from being a sinner
because he did wrong in times past as well, right?
And he said that the Lord is the one who enabled him
and put him into the ministry,
which is the ministry that he has for the Gentiles.
It's a really big position if you think about it, right?
And why did the Lord Jesus Christ select him?
Is it because he was gifted?
Is it because he was trained at the feet of the Pharisees?
Is it because he knew the Old Testament?
Is it because he was talented?
What was the determining factor
of why the Lord selected the apostle Paul?
I'll tell you why, it's because he was faithful.
'Cause he says, "He counted me faithful," the Bible says.
You know what that tells me?
God can use you as long as you're consistent.
It doesn't matter if you lack giftedness, talent,
treasures, anything that you are deficient of,
God can make up the difference as long as you're faithful.
What does it mean to be faithful?
Consistent.
And look, faithfulness is a major virtue
that lacks in Christianity today.
It's always lacked, right?
Faithful Christians, a faithful man,
who shall find, the Bible says.
How will God seek out a faithful man?
It's showing us that it's a rarity
when people are faithfully serving God in their place
when they're supposed to be,
doing what they're supposed to do at a consistent time.
And let's just be honest,
when you look at the Apostle Paul,
Bro was faithful.
Even prior to salvation, the man was faithful.
So what do you mean?
Bro was arresting Christians like left and right.
I mean, he was taking care of business.
He was probably arresting more Christians
than the apostles were getting people saved, right?
'Cause they weren't going on into all the world.
Remember that.
They were sticking around in Jerusalem,
having their little bar mitzvahs there or whatever,
just hanging out with one another, appeasing the Jews.
The ones who were actually going out
was the apostle Paul prior to salvation.
He was going into different cities.
I mean, his last mission was Damascus.
And of course the Lord stopped him there.
But he was obviously consistent.
He was zealous over the things
of what he thought was the service of God.
But he was faithful.
So that obviously transferred over
to his Christian life, right?
Let me just say this.
Whatever strength you had prior to salvation,
you better use that as a Christian, okay?
Don't get all lazy now that you're a Christian
or something like that.
Whatever strength, giftedness,
or whatever virtue or character do you had
that was beneficial prior to Christ,
you should be using for the Lord as well, okay?
So the Lord counted him faithful.
He put him into the ministry.
And then he says in verse 13,
"Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor,
"and injurious, and a murderer, and a serial killer,
"and a cannibal, and a fag."
No, is that what it says?
Or did I miss that or what?
But that's what every liberal says about the Apostle Paul.
The Apostle Paul was a serial killer.
Like, what are you talking about?
Bro, they're just like railing against the Apostle Paul.
Just calling him like a serial killer.
You know, anytime you say that Jeffrey Dahmer
is burning in hell, or Ted Bundy is burning in hell,
it's just like, oh man, this guy would say
the Apostle Paul is burning in hell too.
I'm sorry, the last time I checked,
the Apostle Paul was in some homo, eating homos.
What in the world?
How many know what I'm talking about?
They always make Paul look exceeding evil or something.
Hey look, the Apostle Paul is bad.
I'm not saying that he wasn't bad, he was injurious.
Meaning when he's arresting some people,
he's probably like tripping them up
and smacking them around or whatever.
People get hurt when they get arrested, amen.
I wouldn't know I've never been arrested.
But some of you may know, okay.
I'm not trying to look at anybody right now.
But he's a, when it says that he's a blasphemer,
what is this talking about?
It's not referring to, you know,
he wasn't blaspheming against the Holy Ghost.
A blasphemer is someone who's speaking evil
of that way.
Blaspheming means to speak evil of, that's what it means.
And he did speak evil of Christianity
because he thought what he was doing was right.
So he's a blasphemer, he was a persecutor,
and he was injurious.
Roe was obviously a false prophet to a certain degree,
right, because he's fighting against Christianity.
But here's the difference between the Apostle Paul
being a false prophet and every other false prophet.
When Jesus came to the Apostle Paul, he changed.
He believed on the Lord and then he started serving God.
The false prophet who's teaching a repent of your sins
false gospel, and you show him what the Bible says,
and he refuses to believe it, oh, now you're just
a legitimate apostate false prophet, okay?
Because you've been shown the truth,
you resisted the truth, and you continue to spread lies,
now you are a legitimate false prophet reprobate, okay?
Look what it goes on to say, it goes,
"I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief."
That's a major factor right there.
This is showing us that the Apostle Paul,
though becoming, you know, though he was a persecutor
and jurious, though he was a blasphemer,
he did it in unbelief, meaning that he thought
what he was doing was right, okay?
And so that's why he obtained mercy.
It says in verse 14, "And the grace of our Lord
was exceeding abundant with faith and love,
which is in Christ Jesus."
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all expectation
that Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners of whom I am chief.
Now, why is he saying this?
Well, keep in mind, he's writing this to Timothy.
And he doesn't want Timothy to have like
this self-righteous attitude towards people who get saved.
So obviously he's condemning these Judaizers,
but he's likewise reminding them, like, hey, by the way,
I was like a Judaizer at one time too.
'Cause he was, right?
He was a Pharisee of the Pharisee.
He was zealous of the law.
Bro was a circumcised the eighth day.
He was of the tribe of Benjamin.
He was all about the genealogies, but yet he got saved.
And so he's saying like, God came to save sinners
of whom I am chief.
So therefore make sure you extend that same grace
to others because just because they're a gang member,
just because they're a particular race,
just because they're of poverty,
just because they got tattoos,
just because they got piercings,
just because they look a little different,
don't just have this prejudice attitude against them
and may not impede you from extending grace to them,
getting them saved and training them as well, right?
That's what he's basically saying.
And look, this was a major issue
because if you read the book of James, for example,
what was James telling the congregations?
It's like, oh, you're being a respecter of people.
You have respect into them to wear the gay clothing.
He wasn't talking about like rainbow clothing.
He's saying like, you have a bias
towards those who are of wealth.
Those who have expensive clothing on, who have riches,
you're kind of showing them favor,
but you're despising the poor, okay?
And so this can often be a temptation for certain churches,
not for this church,
but there's churches out there that are like that,
where the pastor will literally favor certain individuals
in the church because of this.
I mean, I've said this before and I'll say it again,
at the church that we helped start in Monterey Park,
I remember people would come to church
and the guy, the church planner,
who was over the entire work,
there was a particular family that came to the church.
It was a wife, husband, and I think they had a couple kids.
And it was exciting to see them come to church.
They were coming to every service.
And I remember I went to meet with the church planner
just to kind of give them an update
on some of the things that I'd done
and some of the tasks that I'd completed.
And he told me, he said, "Hey, pray for that family."
And I'm just like, "Yeah."
And then he's just like, "Cause they got money."
He's like, "Pray for that family, 'cause they got money."
I'm like, and I'm thinking to myself like,
what, are they saved?
Like, what do you mean, 'cause they got money?
Should we pray that they get saved,
they get plugged in, they get rooted in the Lord?
But obviously this guy was the James Two guy.
He's a respecter of people.
He doesn't care about their salvation.
He's a false prophet, but the point that I'm making here
is that, you know, there's individuals out there
who are like this, who will show favoritism
towards those who may be more well-to-do than others.
And the apostle Paul is telling Timothy,
you gotta understand that this is a faithful saying,
worthy of all expectation.
You gotta get people saved, and you gotta realize that
just because someone comes from a rough background
doesn't mean they can't make it for God.
Because this guy, the apostle Paul is really rough,
and now he's being used of God greatly.
Skip down here to verse number 18.
He says, "This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy,
"according to the prophecies which went before on thee,
"that thou by them mightest war a good warfare,
"holding faith and a good conscience,
"which some having put away concerning faith
"have made shipwrecked."
So he's telling him, hey, when you go to Ephesus,
you're gonna have some problems.
There's gonna be warfare.
But I've given you some prophecies, meaning preaching.
You need to take what I've given to you
through the preaching, through the sermons,
holding faith and a good conscience,
because some of these guys have made shipwrecked
'cause they didn't do that.
And I don't know if he's referring to
some of the elders that were there at Ephesus.
It's a possibility, 'cause we don't even know
how many elders were there at the church at Ephesus.
But it's possible that he's referring to elders
who made shipwreck.
They were persuaded, they got into vain jangling.
They were converted to Catholicism, to orthodoxy,
to Judaism or whatever it may be.
And I know orthodoxy and Catholicism
didn't exist at this point.
But they were converted to the wrong way of doctrine.
And he says in verse 20, of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander,
whom I have delivered unto Satan,
that they may learn not to blaspheme.
So what is he talking about there?
He's referring to the fact that Hymenaeus and Alexander
were obviously teaching false doctrine.
They were unrepentant of false doctrine.
And therefore, they were excommunicated
from the congregation.
This is what it means when he says,
I've delivered unto Satan,
that they may learn not to blaspheme.
It's another way of saying, I've excommunicated them.
Because once a person is excommunicated
from the congregation,
they're being given over unto Satan, okay?
With the authority of the church to be destroyed by Satan,
the destruction of the flesh,
so that they can repent and not blaspheme, okay?
So the chapter one here,
the apostle Paul is charging Timothy to be strict
when it comes to what is being taught
and what shouldn't be taught, right?
He's saying, hey, you need to make sure you tell them
not to teach any other doctrine,
don't get involved in endless genealogies and fables,
don't allow people to bring the book of Enoch
into the congregation
and teach about Nephilim blood and all this.
Look, we had someone in our church who believed that crap.
There was someone in our church who believed
in the Nephilim blood,
who literally believed that one of Noah's sons
had Nephilim blood.
He wrote an article about it and everything, okay?
Maybe some of you got that article,
but you didn't open it because it just looked stupid.
And it was.
You said, "Did you read it?"
Why would I read it?
I don't read stupid stuff.
But it was the guy who came to our church,
and by the way, you know, lo and behold,
he gets thrown out of this church too.
Guy ended up getting excommunicated from our church.
But he had other issues.
He believed in the Nephilim blood
and he claimed to have rejected the book of Enoch
all the while teaching Nephilim blood.
You know, you kind of, how did those go?
You probably believe in the book of Enoch.
And so we need to make sure that we reject fables as well.
Don't allow people to come to church
and put forth fables and fake stories
with the intention to kind of connect it
to the Bible or something like that.
Or I think this is what the Bible is telling us.
And look, folks, you know, people are always tempted
to believe exotic doctrines.
That's just the thing.
People, they like sci-fi stuff.
They like exotic doctrines.
But you know, you just need to be content
with what the Bible actually teaches.
And you know what I like better than fiction, reality.
Okay, and so should you.
Look at chapter two, verse one.
I'm teaching through both of these books tonight,
by the way.
I'm just kidding.
Oh, well maybe I should actually.
I didn't get the amens that I wanted, oh man.
All right, I'm just kidding.
I'll just go up to like chapter five.
It says, "I exhort therefore that first of all,
"supplications, prayers, intercessions,
"and giving of thanks be made for all men,
"for kings and for all that are in authority,
"that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life
"in all Godliness and honesty."
And what the apostle Paul is telling Timothy here
is that obviously churches should be characterized by prayer.
That we should pray for kings.
Obviously we don't have kings,
but just referring to people in authority.
And not pray for someone to come into authority.
He's not saying to pray for elections
or something like that.
He's saying pray that we may lead
a quiet and peaceable life.
Basically pray that they would be moved
not to put institute laws
that are contrary to the Bible,
whereby we would not be able to serve God
in all quietness and honesty, right?
Godliness and honesty.
And so he says, this is good and acceptable
on the side of God and our savior.
I'm gonna skip a couple parts here.
Skip down to verse number eight.
He says, I will therefore that men pray everywhere,
lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.
And he's basically saying,
men should be characterized by prayer, okay?
Pray in the morning, but you should pray throughout the day.
He says in verse nine, in like manner also,
that women adorn themselves in modest apparel.
Now, what does modest apparel mean?
It means apparel that's not horish, okay?
I don't even know if that's what it says in the Greek,
but that's my way of describing it for 2025.
Modest means something that is humble, right?
Not lavish and proud and calling attention to your body, okay?
And obviously, you know, this has the connotation
that a woman should not be showing off her body, okay?
And so, you know, and I don't think the apostle Paul
has to give us a list of what he's referring to,
because men know what, men and women
know what he's referring to, okay?
If you look at a woman with a mini skirt,
you wouldn't walk away saying, "That's pretty modest."
'Cause I can't see her underwear or something like that.
You know?
No, modest means you're not calling attention to yourself.
Okay?
And you know, we've had issues like this in our church
in times past, even in this year,
where just, you know, women are just not willing
to understand that God wants them to dress modestly.
And you know, you would think out of all places,
the house of God would be like the most obvious one.
Right?
I mean, come on!
The place you should be the most modest in,
if you're gonna practice modesty,
if you're struggling with modesty,
if you're struggling with, you know,
you just love your mini skirts,
you love your ho outfits so much,
and you just can't bring yourself
to get rid of your ho outfit.
And I'm not saying your ho outfit,
I'm saying yo ho outfit, okay?
H-O-E, okay?
Ho outfit.
Okay, baby steps.
At least dress modestly when you come to church, right?
Because this is the house of God.
And who are you trying to attract
at the house of God with that clothing?
Hello?
Not only that, but we have children in this church.
What the heck's wrong with you?
Have some sense.
We have teenagers, my kids go here, your kids go here.
Do you really want my kids to grow up
looking at you in your ho outfit?
Not ho outfit, because there's not a ho outfit,
a whole lot going on there.
Should be modest.
And look folks, obviously when it comes to clothing,
let's say specifically on women,
'cause this isn't really a thing with men.
You know, dudes aren't coming in here with ho outfits.
If you are, then you're getting your rear end kicked
and thrown out.
There's other issues, 'cause fags aren't allowed to be here.
And you know what, if you don't wanna get thrown out,
then don't dress like one then, okay?
But this is mostly dealing with men, I mean with women, okay?
Because you know, there's certain rules in the Bible
when it comes to that gender distinction is one of them,
okay?
And modesty is an issue, okay?
Those are two things that people need to focus on.
And women need to focus on because of the fact that,
you know, that which is someone can wear modest clothing,
but it's not gender distinctive though.
You understand what I'm saying?
Like today, the big popular thing amongst young people
is for girls to wear like baggy jeans, right?
And you can say, according to the standards,
that that's modest because it's not really
showing off their body.
But it's not a gender distinction though,
'cause you're wearing a man's garment though.
So the issue is not whether you're modest or not.
'Cause quite frankly, you know, the jeans on the girl
that's baggy is more modest, okay,
than the one who's wearing a dress,
but it's like skin tight,
it looks like it was painted on or something.
You understand what I'm saying, you gotta have both.
It's not just one, you gotta have both, okay.
So one is that you can't dress like a man,
so the jeans gotta go.
And I'm not gonna go into your closet and take out,
you do it, you get rid of your jeans,
you get rid of your pants.
And you know what, don't get mad at your husbands
when they want you to get rid of your pants, just do it.
Just obey, why?
Because that's a man's garment.
But number two, you know, aside from the gender distinction,
there's also has to be modesty though.
So basically clothing that doesn't expose
and reveal your body parts.
You're like, oh yeah, but I think certain men like that.
That, you know, that's not a good thing
if that's what you're doing it for.
And who are the certain men that are creeping in
unawares that are trying to, that like that?
You know, and I understand some women just didn't grow up
with the father or something like that.
And then, or maybe they don't have a husband to tell them.
But you know what?
This is what the Bible says.
And you know what?
If no one here agrees with me,
I'm cool with it because you can't do anything about it
when I say it and I'm gonna do it for my sake and I want to do it for my kids
sake but I know men in here agree with me don't be don't be afraid to say amen
men okay you know if you get your butt whooped at home you come you call me
right better not begin your butt whooped at home if you get your butt whooped at
home I'm whooping your boat when you come to church point that I'm making is
the Bible talks about modest apparel and there's no way to cut it you have to
interpret this as as meaning we don't see your rear end we don't see your legs
you don't see your thighs we don't see cleavage right cover up the cleavage
look the way you dress at home that's your business you should dress modestly
at home because modesty is not just for the sake of others guess what it's also
because of the fact that God is always watching as well because I know look I'm
not stupid I wasn't born yesterday I know that women probably come to church
dressed in modest apparel but then well on the weekends when they go to Target
they're wearing their ho outfit they're wearing the jeans they're wearing the
whatever because it's not church folks this is this is applicable for all of
Christian life right though are you trying to tell me your
daughters don't wear you know jeans at home when they go you know or sweats
when they go to bed they wear skirts when they go to bed yeah my daughters
have never worn pants they never will wear pants they don't own pants my wife
has never owned a pair of pants in her life! So what did she go to sleep in? In a skirt!
Was that shocking to you or something? You know, and people, like, women hate to hear
stuff like this. They hate it when there's a good example out there. 'Cause women are
always just like, "Oh, man, you know, I just don't, it's just so impossible to do all these
things and just be modest." Well, she does it. They do it. What about that? They're just
like, "Well, I can't really, I don't know, you know, I just don't, I don't really agree
with that. I just, I don't, I can't find that or something." What do you, wear a curtain
then or something? What the heck do you need? Wear a curtain, do something. Where there's
a will, there's a way. And look, that's why I have, I have zero patience with that, because
my wife does it. Her sisters do it. Her sisters have always done it. Her mother does it. And
you know what? They've never complained or murmured about it. They go to bed that way.
They wake up that way. That's how they always been. It's modest apparel. And I'm not saying
you have to be modest in the bedroom. Don't, don't misconstrue what I'm saying, okay?
You know, what you do with your husband, whatever, you know, that's on you guys. You know, I'm
not talking about, I'm talking about just modesty in general. Okay. Well, how am I supposed
to do backflips? How am I supposed to do this? That, you know, look, you can't do a backflip.
You do not know how to do a backflip. He says adorn themselves in modest apparel. Okay.
And look, which shame faced in his sobriety. That means humility. Okay. Now with brooded
hair gold or pearls or costly array, but which become with women professing godliness with
their whole outfit. No, with good works. Meaning that, and here's a good, here's a good way
to kind of describe the clothing. You know, my wife has always said that like clothing
should accentuate the face. All attention to the face, right? You're not just like,
you know, you know, the clothing basically cause your attention to the person's face.
Isn't that what it should do? Well, men need to control their lust. Well, why don't you
help us out? And not dress in the whole outfit. And look, there's people who wear whole outfits
is not, you're not causing anybody to the lust. What? Is that true? It's not really
a, it's not a struggle there. It's just wrong. Sometimes it's not a struggle, but it's principle.
And I'm not saying that all of it's like that. Cause there's outfits out there that, yeah,
you know what? You would cause men to lust in church, you know? So here's the thing.
Why don't you become a good, godly woman and favoring your brother in Christ and not dress
like that? Because the man is trying to do right. The man is not trying to come to church
to look at boobs. He's not trying to come to church to just look at some immodest person.
He's expecting to come to the house of God to see holiness. Amen? Not holiness, right?
But you know, stop trying to blame us. Oh, you just got a dirty mind. Well, why are you
helping the dirty mind if that's true? It's not that men have dirty minds. It's that men
aren't gay. What are you talking about? God made us to be attracted to women. That's a
fact. If you, if there's a man in here who doesn't agree with that, you're a homo, get
out of my church. I never want to see your face again. Can we be honest here? Men are
attracted to women. Men are attracted to the body of the bodies of women. That's just a
fact. So therefore we have to intentionally do everything that we can to restrain ourselves,
to practice godliness, to walk in the spirit, not fulfill the lust of the flesh. But can
you help a brother out though? Can you help us out too? Or are you part of the problem?
And so help a brother out. Don't dress that way. Be modest. Have shame facing this. Attract
us to your face. May we focus on your face, not on everything else. And look, if you're
not married, you for sure shouldn't be dressing like that. Or if you are married, you shouldn't
be dressing like that, whether you're married or not. Because that body is for your future
husband. Or that body is for your husband. And so, whole outfit. Get rid of it. Get rid
of the whole outfit. Get rid of the whole, whole outfit. You know, get yourself some
skirts, some modest apparel. And I know the culture is against that, but who cares what
the culture says? The culture is gay. It's feminist. It's gay. You know, it should have
no bearing on us as Christians. It's not the standard. You know, other liberal churches
are not the standard either. They have these issues. And you know what? It's important
for us to preach this and raise our daughters to be modest, to have gender because the
gender distinction clothing is pretty much set, right? Like we know that it's the other
side. It's the modest apparel where we have to fight the battle on right now. Okay. Anyways.
All right, let's move on here. I'm almost done. And then he, you know, tells them in
verse 11 through 15, that women shouldn't preach in church to be silent. He says, let
the woman learn in silence with all subjection. Notice there's no parentheses that says because
it's culturally acceptable during this time. You know why? Because it's always culturally
acceptable from Christian culture for women to keep silence in church. And obviously the
context is preaching because first Timothy chapter three gets into the office of a bishop.
Okay. So he tells that the woman learned in silence with all subjection, but I suffer
not a woman to teach nor to use self-authority over the man, but to be in silence. Now obviously
this is specifically referring to women preaching in church, but we can compare this to first
Corinthians 14 to know that it just applies to women just speaking out during service
period. And this is why we discourage women from saying amen in church. Not because they
shouldn't agree with the preaching, because they should agree with the preaching. And
you know I don't get mad when new visitors come and they're women and they're saying
amen, especially to someone like hard preaching, they kind of outdo some of you guys. So before
you start gaining on some of the women who come here saying amen, why don't you go ahead
and make up the difference then buddy? Start saying amen yourself. Some of the women are
putting you to shame. We've got Debra over here because Bayrag ain't willing to step
up. Don't like that, huh? Looking around here. Yeah, where's that mouth now? You know, say
amen. Amen. All right. But you know, sometimes they come and I don't agree with it. Like
I'm not for women. This is not a Southern Baptist Church from the South where people
are just allowed to wave their hanky and just go all crazy or whatever and woo, you know,
where women are just running up and down the aisles. That's a real thing. Ask Brother
Tim, okay? That's a legitimate thing. You know, this is not that kind of church. This
is a Bible-believing church where women ought to keep silence in the church, meaning that,
"Hey, lady, I'm glad you agree with the preaching, but just say amen in here." You know, I don't
care if someone on the internet gets mad about that. "Oh, I'm going to go to your church
and say amen and I'll call you out." Plain and simple. I'm talking about people who come,
they don't know any better, they agree with the preaching. That's great. Eventually they
learn not to say amen though. Why? Because the Bible is telling us here, "Let the women
learn in silence with all subjections." So that's not even about preaching actually.
He's saying, "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjections." What are you guys doing
right now? You're learning. What is he saying? To learn in silence. And what does God view
that as? Subjection. Submitting to the word of God. Okay. Oh, this sounds like a male
oriented church. Yeah, it is. He says, "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor do you
serve authority over the man, but to be in silence." And this isn't saying that women
can't teach their children. This is talking about the context of the actual preaching
itself. This is not saying that women can't talk before and after service. This isn't
saying that Louisa can't teach the kids how to sing in the choir, because that's not
the preaching. This is not referring to any of that. This is strictly referring to the
preaching of God's word. Okay. And ladies, if you agree with what I'm saying, just nod
your hat, you know, nod your hat. But don't say amen. Adam was not deceived, or he says
verse 13, for Adam was first formed, then Eve, and Adam was not deceived, but the woman
being deceived was in the transgression, implying that the reason God doesn't allow women to
preach the word of God in church is because women are more susceptible to deception, because
he uses Eve as an example. Adam wasn't deceived, Eve was deceived. Okay. So it's just like,
oh man, you know, I know one lady, yes, it's wrong, but this one lady can preach. No, she
can't. No, she can't. Women preachers suck. They all suck. They're all horrible. They
don't wax eloquent. They're just loud and stubborn and I don't want to hear it. You
know what? Dudes who sit under women female preaching are a bunch of softies and they
lack the stones. I almost said the other word, you know, they lack the stones because you
know what? That's an embarrassment. You're going against what the Bible actually says
and you need to leave Joyce Myers church and go grow some stones and stop being a little
eunuch. That's it. So, you know, first Timothy, you know, just the first two chapters are
great because the apostle Paul is just telling Timothy, Hey, get strict on the doctrine.
Make sure people aren't teaching weird stuff, especially don't allow Judaism into the,
into the church. Don't allow people to get into endless genealogies, teaching fables,
but also, you know, be patient with people because people are going to come in who are
guilty of sins and they need to be taught. You know, the grace of God should extend to
them, use this to war good warfare, and don't let women preachers in the church.
Pretty good stuff. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word. Thank you
for first and second Timothy, Lord, and so much that we can learn from both. Pray that
you'd help us as your people to adhere to the principles thereof, Lord. And it doesn't
matter what year we're in, this is always relevant to us as a church. And we're not
looking for cultural context because we want Christian culture. That's what we're pursuing.
That's what the Bible has and the principles and the doctrines of the Bible transcend every
generation. It's applicable for every generation. Help us as your people to embrace them, to
love it, and to propagate it. We love you. We thank you. Pray this in Jesus name. Amen.