We are in first kings chapter number 10. Let me just clear this up here
Look down at your bibles at verse number six
It says there and she said to the king it was a true report that I heard in mine own land
Of thy acts and of thy wisdom how be it?
I believe not the words until I came and mine eyes have seen it and behold the half was not told me
thy wisdom and prosperity
exceeded the fame which I
Heard and the title of the sermon this evening is the half has not been told the half has not been told now
Let me just give you an abridged version of solomon's life and how it parallels. Jesus Christ first and foremost
Who is solomon? Well, solomon is the son of david. He is the king of israel. This is before
Israel had that division between the northern and the southern kingdom and what we see in solomon's life
Is the fact that really he was very humble
In fact, we see that when he became king, he felt like he couldn't lead god's people with the wisdom that he had already
What did he need? He needed god's wisdom
And when he was asked by god to for he could basically ask for anything
He didn't ask for the life of his enemies. He didn't ask for riches. He didn't ask for honor
What did he ask for he asked for wisdom and discernment to be able to rule the people of god to be able to judge?
Righteously and the bible tells us that god basically tells him well, hey because you know, you've asked of this thing
This is a very pleasing thing, uh in the eyes of god. I'm gonna give you wisdom
I'm gonna give you discernment, but i'm also gonna give you riches. I'm gonna give you honor
I'm gonna give you peace in your days. And so we know solomon as being one of the wisest men that ever lived
He's the one who wrote the book of proverbs
He's the one who wrote the book of ecclesiastes and we see him doing great exploits
Through those things in fact, you know as a brand new christian
That's what I started off reading was the book of proverbs, you know book of proverbs and the book of john
And it's a great book to glean a lot of wisdom that solomon gained and obtained from the lord when he asked
When he asked him of it now, what are some parallels between solomon and jesus christ?
This is just by way of introduction
Well, i'm gonna give you some obvious ones then i'm gonna give you some pretty interesting ones as well
First and foremost, obviously solomon was a king just as jesus christ is the king of kings lord of lords
Solomon was literally the son of david just as they call jesus christ the son of david
Solomon was the wisest man that ever lived and jesus christ is the source of all wisdom. Amen
solomon
Spoke in dark sayings and proverbs just as jesus christ spoke in dark sayings and parables
And then go to first kings chapter two if you would first king chapter number two. Here's the interesting one
The wicked were removed from uh before solomon in order to establish his kingdom
Just as in revelation chapter 19 when jesus christ comes for the third time to establish his millennial reign
In order for him to do that the wicked are removed before him. Who are the wicked the jews?
You know who are the wicked anybody who's opposing him at that time?
He removes them. And in fact, that's why the bible tells us that all israel shall be saved
Why is that because the wicked are removed from before the king
I won't get into jeremiah chapter 6 and how the bible tells us that at that time the nation of israel became a reprobate nation
Why because the wicked were not plucked away and in fact, what does solomon tell us in the book of proverbs?
He says he says take away the dross from the silver and there shall come forth the vessel for the finer
Take away the wicked from before the king and his kingdom shall be established and righteous as the bible says now
This that proverb was literally carried out in the life of solomon, okay
now
When solomon became king his dad basically gave him a hit list
You guys remember reading that?
He's like, what do you want? What do you want dad? And he's just like I want these dudes dead
I'm, not going to do it. I want you to take care of it. Okay
And here's the thing if you've read the book for the bible for any length of time and especially the historical books
You should wonder why are these people allowed to live?
Why is joab?
Allowed to just continue to go forward and slay innocent people and just live unrighteously. Well, he wasn't, you know
He he ended up understanding his own end at the very end when benaiah came and killed him
But look at first king chapter 2 verse 24 says now therefore is the lord liveth
Which has established me and set me on the throne of david my father who hath made me in house as he promised adonai
Shall be put to death this day now, who is adonijah adonijah is basically solomon's step brother
Okay, and when king david was about to die adonijah basically took the initiative
And he basically tried to take the throne by force
Okay, not because he was chosen not because he was anointed but because he was self-willed
And so what he did was he stole the hearts of the people and just put himself out there as being
The next king in line. Well, he wasn't the one who's supposed to be chosen for that was solomon
And we see that solomon comes he takes over
Adonijah steps back and then he's kind of fearful
But you know solomon's being merciful to him solomon basically looks for a reason to kill him
He says well because you've asked this thing you're gonna get slain
Okay
And that's why he puts him to death look at verse 25
It says in king solomon sent by the hand of benaiah the son of joita and he fell upon him that he died
And to and unto abiathar the priest said the king get thee to anathoth unto thine own fields for thou are worthy of death
But I will not at this time put thee to death because thou barest the ark of the lord god before david my father
And because thou hast been afflicted and all wherein my father was afflicted now who is abiathar?
Well, he was basically helping the hand of adonijah. He was basically supporting him
And so solomon goes to him he goes like i'm not going to put you to death
But you need to obey what I would tell you to do if not, you're going to get it verse 27
So solomon thrust abiathar from being priests unto the lord that he might fulfill the word of the lord
Which he spake and turned in the house of eli and shiloh then tidings came to joab
For joab had turned after adonijah. In other words, he was supporting him. Okay
Though he turned not after absalom and joab fled into the tabernacle of the lord and caught hold of the horns of the altar
And it was told king solomon that joab was fled into the tabernacle of the lord and behold. He is by the altar
Then solomon sent benaiah the son of joita saying go fall upon him
Now when the bible says fall upon him, in other words go kill him. That's what he's saying
Okay, allow your sword to fall upon him and remember this is a commission that david gave to him
David knew how wicked joab was he knew of all his conspiracies and all these things that he was involved in
He wanted his blood to be upon him as well. That's why he sent benaiah to go kill him verse 30
He says and benaiah came to the tabernacle of the lord and sentenced him. Thus saith the king come forth
And he said nay, but I will die here
But I brought the king word again saying thus said joab and thus he answered me
I like I like the answer that solomon says right here and the king said to him do as he yet said
Fall upon him and bury him that thou may take away the innocent blood which joab shed from me
And from the house of my father. He's like, well if that's what he wants
The location doesn't matter
Just get it done is what he's saying
First look at verse 34
So benaiah the son of joita went up and fell upon him and slew him and he was buried in his own house
In the wilderness, so I mean there goes, you know the his step brother
There goes joab. Well, there's still one more guy that needs to be taken care of and that's shimmy
I of course shimmy. I was the guy who cursed david threw rocks at him, you know, just railed on him and
David was humble and he was just like leave this guy alone
Maybe the lord bade him to do those things
But then later on at the end of his life, he's like you guys remember you remember what he did to me, you know
Make sure you slay him too. Look at verse 44
The king said moreover to shimmy I thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to do
privy to that thou didst to my
To my dave and my father therefore the lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head
And king solomon shall be blessed and the throne of david shall be established before the lord forever
So the king commanded benaiah the son of joita
Which went out and fell upon him that he died and look what it says and the kingdom was established in the hand of solomon
So it wasn't until all these wicked people were removed from the kingdom that they could finally say
All right, now the kingdom can be established and this is picturesque of jesus christ and his millennial reign
This is what he's going to do when he comes back
Why is it that the bible says that you know when the times of the gentiles are fulfilled?
So all israel shall be saved. What is it referring to?
It's referring to the fact that at the end of 42 months the jews shall be taken away
Unsaved unbelieving israel shall be removed and now now the millennial ring can start
Okay, because blindness in part has to happen unto israel until the fullness of the gentiles be come in
Okay
That's a sermon for another day. So
We see that he shares that similarity in that parallel with jesus christ. Okay
But another thing is this is that people came from far and wide
To hear the wisdom of solomon
Okay, go to mark chapter number one if you would
mark chapter number one
Mark chapter number one
So we see him taking away his brother because his brother asked for abishag we see him take away
Uh joab because joab was a wicked person same thing with shimei
We see him with that or that relation that he has there with jesus christ that he's establishing the kingdom
And he's doing it by removing the wicked
And then we also see that people came from far and wide to hear the wisdom of solomon just as people came far and wide
To hear jesus christ look at mark one thirty forty three
It says and he straightly charged him and forward sent him away and saith unto him see thou say nothing to any man
But go thy way show thyself to the priests and offer for the cleansing those things which moses commanded for a testimony unto them
But he went out and began to publish it much and to blaze abroad the matter
Insomuch that jesus could no more openly enter into the city but was without in desert places and they came to him
from every quarter
So one thing we see with jesus christ is that he came into his own his own received him not but you know
Who was really open to jesus christ and hearing him were the common people and the gentiles?
The people who were not of the nation of israel were willing to come far and wide to come hear him
You know of the roman centurion who jesus christ said of him. I have not found so great faith. No, not in israel
I mean this roman centurion has more faith than the people from which salvation should come from right? Yeah
People from every quarter came to hear jesus christ
Just as people from the ends of the ends of the world came to hear the wisdom of solomon
Now one of those people who came to solomon was queen shiba the queen of shiba
Excuse me, the queen of the south go to matthew chapter 12
And this is where we got that passage of scripture from in first kings chapter number 10
And we're going to make some application to that look at matthew chapter 12
And the reason the queen of the south is so significant is because of the fact that jesus christ actually mentions her
In matthew 12 and luke chapter number 11 look at matthew 12 verse 39
But he answered and said unto them an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign
And there shall no sign be given to it
But the sign of the prophet jonas for as jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly
So shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth
The men of ninova shall rise in judgment with this generation
And shall condemn him because they repented at the preaching of jonas and behold a greater than jonas is here
The queen of the south this is referring to the queen of shiba
Shall rise up in the judgment with this generation
And shall condemn it for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of solomon and behold
A greater than solomon is here. What is he saying? He's saying look this woman had enough faith
To travel the ends of the world
To come here solomon and you know what i'm better than solomon
You know, that's why when in the resurrection man, she's going to be judging she's going to be condemning these countries
You know, she's going to be condemning israel
She's going to be condemning the jews
Why because she came from the uttermost parts of the world with the little information that she had about solomon to hear his wisdom
And here is a greater than solomon and the people who are there
Weren't even willing to listen to him go to matthew chapter 13 if you would this is significant
She was willing to step out in faith with the little information that she had about solomon to meet him and the parallel there
Is that you know?
These non-israelites esteem jesus christ more so than even the jews. Yeah
Okay
Look at matthew 13
in verse 55
Is not this the carpenter's son?
It's not his mother called mary and his brother brethren james and joseph and simon and judas and his sisters
Are they not all with us? Once then hath this man all these things?
Verse 57 and they were offended in him
But jesus said unto him a prophet is not without honor save in his own country and in his own house
Hey, don't feel bad when your family rejects you for being a christian
Don't feel reject. Don't feel bad
Don't don't get offended when the closest to you don't even esteem you as being a man of god
Don't even esteem you as being a person who loves the lord. They don't take you serious. They kind of just mock you
Hey, they did it to jesus
Why because the bible tells us that a prophet is not without honor, you know
People will honor you in other places people who are your brethren and sisters in christ
They'll often honor you but those of your own household will often mock you and ridicule you and won't even take you serious
Well, jesus christ went through the same thing
Okay, so we see there that her faith the little faith that she had or what faith she had
She was willing to cross a a vast portion of land just to hear the wisdom of solomon and he's making that parallel
Go to roman chapter number four if you would roman chapter number four
And what did she say when she got there wow the half was not told
The little information she had she used that to get to solomon and when she got there and she saw the wisdom the riches
And everything of the house of god. She says the half was not even told
But you know what? She wouldn't have seen that if she wouldn't have stepped out with the little information that she had
Okay
Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen and what's the sermon this evening?
It's simply this hey in the christian life
The half has not been told yet
You know you hear about the blessings that you get when you obey god and you're like man, that sounds great
Well, you know what the half is not yet told
The half has not been told, you know, once you hear the word of god
Yeah, it's a blessing to hear good preaching, but it's even better to obey good preaching. Amen
You know to read the word of god is delicious, but you know, it's even better to put it into practice
Why because the half is not yet been told
You don't even know the blessings you can get when you actually obey god's word
You do the will of god you serve god the half has not been told look at romans 4 verse 18 says
Who against hope speaking of abraham believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken
So shall thy seed be hey abraham
God, god promised him a son
But you know the half was not yet told
He wasn't even going to see the millions and millions of people that are going to be saved
Because of him right to become his spiritual children so to speak
It says and being not weak in faith
He considered not his own body now dead
When he was about 100 years old neither yet the deadness of sarah's womb
He staggered not at the promises of god through unbelief but was strong in faith giving glory to god
And being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform you see
When it comes to the things of god god only gives us sometimes just a little bit of information
Why because we need faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of god?
And often, you know when we start living for god we start serving god
We don't necessarily know what the outcome is going to be, right?
Why because of the fact that you know, we need to step out in faith
We need to take risks
We just need to obey god and trust him with the outcome
But you know, we can know for sure the half has not been told
Why is that because god short changes no man
The blessing of the lord and maketh rich and he addeth no sorrow to it the bible says
The half is not yet told go to ephesians chapter number three if you would
Ephesians chapter number three and look just like with the queen of sheba
You know what? She's basically saying about solomon you exceeded my expectations
She came with a train and with all these riches and she came to hear the wisdom of solomon
The half was not told there was no more spirit in her the bible says she was just speechless in other words
You know, he exceeded the expectations how much more jesus christ
And the things of god he exceeds our expectations
And in fact look at ephesians 3 verse 17 that christ may dwell in your hearts by faith
That ye being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all saints
What is that breath and length and depth and height and to know the love of christ, which what passeth knowledge?
That you might be filled with all the fullness of god
Now unto him that is able to do
Exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us. What is he saying?
The half is not yet been told
You know, you think you experienced the love of god when you first got saved
Hey
The half has not been told I hath not seen nor ear of hurt
Neither have entered into the heart of men the things that god has prepared to them that love him
You know, but we have seen it why because we have the spirit of god
You know when you first get saved it's just like man this is exciting this is great man it gets better
It gets better
You say how much better can this get? This is salvation. Yeah now you get the word for god
Now you not only get everlasting life you actually get to get paid for the things you do here for the lord
And he's a generous boss. Amen. He's a generous lord
He's willing to recompense you that which you're laboring for here in this world
Would you say what in the world is that true? Yeah, because the half is not yet been told yet
You don't even know the half of it of how good god is
Okay
You know the bible says be careful for nothing but in all things by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving
Let your requests be made known unto god and the peace of god that passeth understanding
Shall keep your hearts and minds through jesus christ our lord
He said man, I hear that we have to pray when we're when we're going through a hard time
You know, I I get that and I just don't see how it's gonna work the half is not yet been told
The fact that you would pray and ask god for his blessing ask god for his protection his provision
You'd be you'd be surprised what god can do
Because the half is not told, you know, and it's good that the half is not told because then it wouldn't require faith
If he told you well, you know, this is what you're gonna get
Then it doesn't require any faith. It requires faith when we only have a little bit of information to go off of
You know
But hey, we can rest assured that he does exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or think
But it requires faith for us to believe that obviously go to john chapter number, uh, two if you would
John chapter number two the half has not been told
You know, she comes there and she sees
Uh the ascent that they have when they go into the house of god they see she sees that the servants are happy
She sees all like the people just godly and they're just worshiping god and she's just like whoa
Man, I heard I heard it was good, but I didn't know it was this good
You ever go you ever go to a restaurant?
You know fogo de chao, okay
You know mark was just telling me like hey, you're right about that place
He went there this afternoon. He was inspired
And the half is not yet told
Yeah
You know you hear about a good restaurant. You're like people are like, yeah, it's really good and then you go there like wow
That was better than I look at bro police. He's bitter right now. Hey
Lest any bitterness spring enough trouble your brother may be defiled, right?
You ever I mean have you ever been to a restaurant like that it's just like man this is actually better than I thought
You said no i've only been to restaurants where it was worse than people were saying, right?
The worst has not been told okay
Look at john chapter number two if you would let me turn to myself actually
Look at john chapter number two and verse number one
It says the third and the third day there was a marriage in cana of galilee
The mother of jesus was there and both jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage
And when they wanted wine the mother of jesus saith unto him they have no wine jesus saith unto her woman
What am I to do with thee mine hour has not yet come
His mother saith unto his servants whatsoever he saith unto you do it and there were set there six water pots of stone after the manner
Of the purifying of the jews containing two or three firkins apiece
Jesus saith unto him fill the water pots with water and they filled them up to the brim
And he saith unto them draw out now and bear into the governor of the feast and they bear it
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine and knew not whence it was
But the servants which drew the water knew the governor nor of the feast called the bridegroom
Excuse me
The governor of the feast called the bridegroom and saith unto him every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine
And when men have well drunk then that which is worse, but that was kept a good wine until now
What is he telling them the best is yet to come?
You think you're having some good wine now? Well wait till jesus comes and he gives you better wine
Okay, what he's saying is like when you're at a party, you know, they they have the sparkling cider
Right and then once their sparkling cider starts running now, then they bring the coke out
And then they start bringing in the squirt
And then it's and then it's shasta
And then it's some lame off-brand, dr. Pepper or whatever
Dr. What
dr. K
some cheap soda because it's like
You know the the more you go into the night the worse that the the drinks get the quality gets right?
Well, he saved the best for last
Okay is what he's saying
And this is a principle for us to remember that hey in the christian life
These don't get worse they get better
It's always getting pretty bad for me now. Well, you know, maybe you're being disobedient to god's work
You ever thought you ever think about that or how about maybe you're just going through a season?
You know, maybe god is just trying to mature you
Maybe he's trying to add to your faith virtue
Maybe he's trying to mold you into something and you're not learning and that's why you're staying in that season
Because the bible tells us it shows us throughout the word of god that the best is yet to come sweeter as the years go by
amen
I just keep falling in love with him over and over and over and over again
I keep falling in love with them over and over and over and over again
He gets sweeter and sweeter as the days go by
Oh what a love between my lord and I I just keep falling in love with him over and over and over and over again
Again, I don't feel that way. Well, you know what you need to grow
You need to grow, you know, we need to make sure that we keep that first love a man
It should get sweeter as the days go by
You know even in marriage, you know, obviously the love between your your wife you and your wife. It changes it evolves
You don't have that same puppy love but you know what it matures is what it is
And that's exactly how it ought to be with us in the Lord because the best is always yet to come
Why because we learn more we step out in faith more we obey more and we
See the blessings that come because of that. Okay
The best is yet to come and the half has not yet been told now
Go back to first Kings chapter number 10. If you would first Kings chapter number 10
And look she came the Queen came look what it says in verse number
1 it says when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord
She came to prove him with hard questions
You know what this shows us is that Solomon had the answers and what does this tell us about Jesus?
Jesus has all the answers
The Word of God has all the answers and we obviously we don't come to God proving him with hard questions
But we have hard questions for ourselves and he's the source of the answers. Okay, we see that there
We see that she doesn't hold anything back
She brings an entire train of all these goods and resources to bring to him
She steps out in faith based upon the words that she heard and verse 7 will read it again
It says how be it I believe not the words until I came
And mine eyes have seen it and behold the half was not told me thy wisdom and prosperity exceeded the fame which I heard
Happy are thy men
Happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee and that hear thy wisdom by the way
This is how people should feel when they come to our church
Amen
Where they hear about us and they hear about us and like wow they get here and like the half was not yet told
You know or the half that I did hear they're lying about
The people say those people are so wicked and hateful their heretics out there, you know that brother me
Yeah, he's he's he's a church splitter and all these things and they come here and they're like man. That's not true, you know
This is a great church
How can we make sure it's a great church happy are thy men it says put a smile on your face
Grin or something
Twitch your lip or something
I'm just kidding. What I'm saying is look. Hey that makes an impression on people
You know, don't be so stoic and so just mature and just you know, you just I'm here for the Word of God, you know
You know and it's just everything is just sober I'm all for being sober the Bible tells us to be sober
But you know, I'm Mary Hart. That's good. Like a medicine
You know and we come to church to hear God's Word we come for the fellowship and we come to laugh
Amen come to have a merry heart
There's nothing wrong with that because why when people come they see that hey you can be happy without drinking alcohol
You can be happy without fornicating you can be happy without Kanye West
with the stupid little cult meetings on Sunday where they're just
You don't have to do that here
You don't need a one-hour sumba class here to be happy
You could be happy because of the fact that you're here here in God's Word. Your spirit is resonating with the Word of God
You're being fed the Bible. You're getting good fellowship in
Be happy. Amen
Happy are thy men
Happy are these thy servants. Hey when you're serving the Lord do it with gladness
You're sweeping if you're if you're cleaning something for throwing out the trash if you're sowing do it with some joy
No, we're gonna go so any bless God and we've got to do what we got to do, man
You know, we're not here to have fun. Go do your own little soul winning somewhere else then
I don't we don't want that kind of testimony
Okay, we want because look there's so owners they are up and coming and you know what you're the examples and
If they see that you're some grouch miser
Who just like is miserable going out sowing. They're like, I don't want to be I'm already happy
I don't want to become miserable like this person
You know I'm saying so you got to make sure hey happy are thy men happy are thy servants which stand
Continually before thee and that here thy wisdom verse number eight. Where are we out here? I want to keep reading
Says blessed be the Lord thy God which delighteth in need to set thee on the throne of Israel because the Lord loved
Israel forever therefore made he the king to do judgment and justice
Look what it says in verse number five
It says in our verse four
Excuse me
And when the Queen of Sheba had seen all of Solomon's wisdom and the house that he had built and the meat at his table
Yeah, we got that covered
I was gonna preach in that but here we have that amen
The meat at his table and the sitting of his servants no slouching
Sitting over servant. I'm kidding about that that went over like a screen door in a submarine. Okay, and the attendance of his ministers
What does that mean paying attention? Amen?
Be swift to hear slow to speak ready to hear the Word of God, you know, not like
Like
You look like a heroin addict
You look like you're recovering from heroin or opium or something
Go take a nap go drink a cup go do something give attendance amen to reading to exhortation to doctrine
Okay, he says the attendance of his ministers and their apparel
Wow
You know what that means dressing like a Christian amen and look, here's the thing
You don't have a suit shirt and tie doesn't mean you're not right with God, but you should wear your Sunday's best to church
If that means you're if your Sunday's best is your Dickie's with a button-up shirt and your brand-new Cortez then bring it on down
That's what you got to do. Well, you know if you have something better than that, that's what you should bring to church
This is God's house. Amen. Why not?
and
The attendance of his ministers in their apparel and his cup bearers and
His ascent by which he went on to the house of the Lord. There was no more spirit
What's the ascent is just like the singing is powerful
The the the hymns are powerful. They they come in here and they're like man these people actually believe what they're singing
It's powerful, you know, we want to make sure that we have this testimony
So that when people come in like wow the half is not even so this is a great place
Okay, and we're not a perfect church, but we need to constantly work on this amen
So we want people to feel like that when they come, you know
Whether they hear the bad and look if they say well, I heard your you preach on hate and stuff
Yeah, the half is not you've been told buddy. I
Heard you don't like gay people. Yeah the half
75% has not been told I
Heard you use the word faggot when you preach a hundred percent has not yet been told
Okay
Want to confirm that?
You know
But at the same time, you know to say I heard the Sony is great, but you know, I heard your people are jerks
You know, we don't want people to think that of us. Okay
Preaching is hard. But you know, it's just it's not what I'm looking for
You know, I just feel like I'm not getting along with the brothers and sisters in Christ
They're not very kind and friendly and look if they get offended at the preaching let them get offended at the preaching
But don't let them get offended at you just because you're not kind to them
Okay
Now go to Romans chapter number seven if you would
Romans chapter number seven
The half has not been told so let me give you a couple points here in regards to this principle of
Of
The half not being told okay, you know when it comes to sin the half has not been told yet
Okay, and sometimes people play with sin they get involved in sin and it's just like they only know half of it
But they don't even know the other half of what sin can do to your life
You know and we need to always make sure that we confirm that that we proclaim that that we declare that that we make sin look
Exceeding sinful look at Romans 7 verse 13 was then that which is good made death unto me
God forbid but sin that it might appear sin working death in me by that which is good that sin by the commandment might become
Exceeding sinful look the commandments make sin look exceeding sinful and we ought to do the same
We live in a society that
Desensitizes sin we live in a society that accepts it that propagates it and you know
It doesn't help to have these watered-down limp-wristed churches
Sissified churches that also glaze over it
Where it's just like oh, you know they when they talk about preaching on sin. They're they're just kind of like glazing over it
They don't they circumvent it and they're preaching they don't like talking about it
And this is the reason why people get involved in sin
Okay, but we need to tell people hey sin is exceeding sinful and let me be specific of what sins I'm talking about
Let me tell you not only the specific sin, but what is the repercussion of that sin?
Okay, the Bible tells us in James 1 14
But every man is tempted when he's drawn away of his own lust and enticed
Then when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death
Hey fornication is bad, but you know what the half is now you've been told
What it does the guilt that comes to you because of it. Okay. How about the STDs?
What is that sexually transmitted disease? That's the other half you don't hear about
The half is not told when it comes to fornication when it comes to living in a moral wicked lifestyle. How about getting AIDS?
From some tramp or some dude who didn't tell you he has full-blown AIDS
And your life is destroyed after that. Okay. How about having bastard children?
right
Having bastard children when you fornicate. Yeah, the half has not been told now, huh? Well, I knew fornication was bad
Well, you know what the half has not been told
Okay, you could potentially have a bastard children you can you know, if you fornicate with someone who's not a Christian
I mean, it's just over complicates things in the line in your Christian life. The half is not yet told. Okay
You know you think alcohol is bad. Yeah, that's simple, but the half is not even told. How about cirrhosis of the liver?
How about alcohol poison? Hey, how about this? How about rape?
Right the half is not yet told and look we need not only to talk about how wicked
These acts are and these sinful things are we need to talk about the repercussions of it. So people know the other half
right
Scare the fire out of the young people in our church
Scare the fire out of anybody who would even think about committing such a thing
Hey kids, if you grow up and you fornicate you might have a sexually transmitted disease that'll ruin your life for the rest of your
life
You might get AIDS you die young
ruin your life
That'll be you if you want to fornicate
That'll be you if you want to commit adultery
Why cuz that's that that's the other half that no one ever tells you about
Okay, you know you want to drink alcohol and smoke weed. I want to smoke a little bit of weed
Well, you know what be stupid for the rest of your life because that's the other half
Be an idiot your entire life if that's what you're gonna do. Okay, how about molestation?
Right when people drink alcohol people get raped they get molested all but they don't show you that on the billboards
They show you this dude with an eight-pack
You know, by the way, it's photoshopped
He's got an eight-pack
Smiling having a good time drinking a Bud Light, but they don't show you the aftermath
They don't show you the vomiting they don't show you the rape and the molestation that takes place people get sodomized
It happens. That's the other half
The half is not yet told like oh man. This is uncomfortable. Yeah. Well, you know what? This is what we got to do
This is what we got to talk about to give you the other half of the repercussions of sin
You know, you want to keep drinking beer then guess what guys you'll become a woman
Exactly
Raise up that estrogen make you look like a woman
What do you mean by that? You will have the physical features of a woman
You will have the chest of a woman
You know and look I know people who are alcoholics
I know people who drink alcohol and you know their life is just destroyed just eyes are just constantly bloodshot
They're getting yellow
They got this this thing called a beer belly
Where they can't even tie their own shoes
It's true
Destroying their liver
Say something funny pastor you made it so awkward. Hey the half is not yet been told that's why
Okay, you know when we talk about sin
We need to be specific and we need to talk about the repercussions of that sin and what it'll do to you
Okay, you know hey, you know there's sins that you commit in this church and you're getting the boot
You know, hey look that this is the first half
I just gave you the first half the second half is that you get the nine and a half shoe
Up your rear end and outside the church
And you're giving over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh
That's what happens
Okay, if you get involved in certain things, you know
The Bible talks about in 1st Corinthians chapter number 5 go to 1st Peter chapter 2 1st Peter chapter 2
That half is not yet been told but you know what what the first half that you do have step out in faith and don't do
it
right
Take the little information that you do have
Like the Queen of Sheba did and just have faith that yeah, the Bible's right about that
You know and look I don't believe everyone who fornicates who's a Christian will just be destroyed on the spot
Like God is just gonna strike them down. They're just gonna die, but you know what?
Don't take that risk. I
Don't know what I don't know what the ratio is
If God kills like one in every hundred or one in every thousand or something, but you might be that one
Okay
All right, that's we got the negative side out of the way. All right, let's get into some
Exhortation here. All right, I was exhortation though 1st Peter chapter 2 so the half has not been told
Hey the you know when we talk about the delight the lighting in God's Word
The delight that God's Word brings to our lives, you know, the half has not been told
I'll get up here and I'll talk about this and you might just glaze over it and be like, yeah
I know you know, the Bible's good and stuff like that. Yeah, but the half has not been told
It's not actually until you get into the Word of God
You're reading from cover to cover you spend time in the Bible on a daily basis
You will see what we're talking about. Okay. Look at the Bible says in 1st Peter chapter 2
Verse number one
It says wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings as newborn
Babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow there by if so be you have tasted that the Lord is gracious
You know what you come to find out when you know your taste buds your spiritual taste buds come to find out when you read
The Bible and the Lord is gracious
This is great
He said well, I gotta get all my doctrine from YouTube
If I if I needed to help on some doctrine, I just type it in on YouTube
No, why don't you type it in your Bible?
Why don't you learn it from God's Word first
Did you know you can learn the Bible on your own?
I know that's a profound statement, but you have someone in you that's known as the Holy Ghost
Who leads you into all truths?
You can learn the Bible on your own and thank God for YouTube. I'm not downplaying YouTube
I'm this term is gonna be on YouTube a man
But what I'm saying is this is that hey your number one go-to should always be the Bible
Your number one go-to should be opened down my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law
Right for the Holy Ghost to teach you things out of the Word of God because the half is not yet been told
Well, I just don't think I could just understand it just by myself
Well, you know what? You'll never know until you actually try it. Okay, read the Bible
Well, you know I get inspired in the New Testament. I just have a hard time in Leviticus
I have a hard time in the historical books. Yeah, but you know, the half is not even told. How do you know that?
If you haven't actually jumped into and actually read it through, you know, you've got to do it
the Bible says in
Psalm 1 but his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night he shall be
Like the tree planted by the rivers of water that bringing forth his fruit in his season. That is the other half
You know a lot of times people think well, I just got to read the Bible because that's just what we're supposed to do
Yeah, but the half is not yet been told
You don't know the richness of his goodness and the knowledge that he can impart it to you when you actually start reading the Word
Of God making you fruitful and in the Christian Christian life. Look at Psalm 19 if you would go to Psalm 19
and look
That's the first half is reading it to benefit yourself. You know, what the other half is reading it to benefit someone else
You
Know become so knowledgeable in the Bible that you're actually able to be a blessing
To someone else. Well, I just sent him a Charles Spurgeon quote
You better not be doing that. I
Just sent him the the devotion of the day or something, you know
Why don't you send them your devotion of the day?
You know you read the Word of God to the point where you could actually benefit someone else and
Look this needs to be the goal for every Christian in our church
Then we read the Word of God to eat to sustain ourselves to grow but we're also eating to benefit someone else
Well, I'm not the pastor. I'm not preaching, you know, I'm not behind the pulpit. So I don't have to do that have wrong wrong
bad attitude
Because everyone in our church has influence over one per at least one person in our church
If you're a father you have influence over your family
Or at least you are at least I hope you do
Okay, you should have influence over your wife
You should have influence over your children, but look even in that even in that case if you're not married
Well, you know, you still have influence over someone someone looks up to you here
Okay, and if you're gonna be a godly influence on that person, you better be reading the Word of God
Why because what goes in
Always comes out
Well, you're putting into your body spiritually speaking is gonna come out of your mouth
You know who people want to talk to you?
They want to talk to people who are actually growing in their faith who have something to say they're learning they're gaining knowledge
Like no one talks to me in this church
well
You know, is there a reason for that do you have something to say, you know
Or you could just go out of your way and go talk to someone as well
But what I'm saying is this is that we need to make sure that we're taking in the Word of God so we can give
It out as well. Okay. Look at Psalm 19 verse 7
The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul
The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple the statutes of the Lord are right
Rejoicing the heart the commandment of the Lord is pure and lining the eyes
The fear of the Lord is clean and during forever
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether more to be desired today than gold yet and much fine gold
sweeter also than the honey in the honeycomb
Moreover by them is thy servant worn and in keeping of them
There is great reward who can understand his errors cleansed down me from secret faults, you know
We got to get to a point where we're actually able to lead people not just to Christ but lead them in the way of righteousness
We want to help be people be righteous to clean up their lives right and look
Things listen to this things are often caught
than taught
Just remember that
Things are rather cop than top. What am I saying, you know?
people will often
Look at what you're doing
Before they actually obey what you tell them to do
understand so
People will look at your example. They'll look at your life
They'll look at your level of godliness and that's what they will try to imitate
Understand things are rather caught than taught and look this is in its truest form when it comes to a family
Your children are a reflection of who you are
So that either you're like cool right on or you're like, oh man
That's not good. You know, I got to change my ways
But at the end of the day, that's what we got to realize
And if you want to be the right type of father the right type of mother the right type of church member
You need to make sure you get it into the Bible
You got to make sure that you're growing in your knowledge of the Word of God. Oh
You know, I hear about all that but I just don't know look the half has not been told of how God can use you
Okay
Go to 1st Thessalonians chapter 2 if you would hey, how about the joy of saving the lost?
Amen, the half is not told it's not just about seeing people save, you know, Jacob. Hey the half was not told. I
Just woke him up
This guy we went soul winning that someone saved
Ford was it a year a year afterwards. He married her. Amen
The half was not told
You know, he didn't he didn't maybe he did plan down
But I'm what I'm saying is this is that you just never know what comes about from winning some of the Christ
Don't take it lightly
You know
Every soul obviously is important to your winning
But you just never know what God might do in that person's life when they get it planted into church
They start growing in their faith and you know, they just God begins to use them
I think of Damian for example, you know Damian I remember he came
What was it like when we first started the church, you know, got him saved never saw him after that
Just like see ya
But you know, God was working on his heart and man. How long has he been here now?
Does anyone do you know how one?
Six five months five to six months, you know faithful growing and not just growing as a Christian growing as a man
What do you mean by that, you know getting a job?
Right, you know making a priority to come to church
Taking responsibility
You know not behaving like a child
Maybe I should switch my sermon here
You know just growing up
You know the half was not told what God was gonna do in that young man's life
Okay, and that's how we got to see it
Sometimes when we leave people to Christ is like man the half is not told what God can do in this person's life
Okay, don't take it lightly. You just never know what God might do and that person's like well, you know
It's just they got saved and they left
Yeah
But you just never know
Because the half is not yet told what can really happen in that person's life look at first Thessalonians 2 19 for what is our?
Hope or joy or crown of rejoicing are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming
You know, I think of I think of me for example, okay, I know that sounds weird
But I think of me like I think of the person who got me saved
you know, I came to church and I wanted to get saved and
You know, I think of the person who taught me eternal security and look
I remember I was at the church and I was trying to understand this thing of eternal security and I had volunteered to go paint
The church and I was painting with this guy and I was like, hey, so you can't it's impossible to like lose your salvation
He's like, yeah, it's impossible
You know and he was just kind of he would even look at me. He was just kind of like painting
I was like, how do you know and he says for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves?
It is the gift of God not of works. He looked at me. He's like that's the image of both
And he just kept going right and I was literally like George. I was like I was cuz I never heard that before
And it just clicked
It's like I immediately understood at that point
He just gave closure to that and I ran thinking to myself Wow, but you know what? He the half was not told
Then one day one day that guy that he taught eternal security to would be a hate preacher, you know
You
Just never know how people how God might use people there after you know, and don't undermine the potential that people might have
After their salvation, you just never know. Okay
Go with me if you would
to
first Corinthians chapter 7
Hey single people out there. I
Just heard someone go
Yeah
Hey the blessing of getting married God's way
The half has not been told and look I wouldn't even do Joe
I won't do justice to this in any sermon if I took when I talk about marriage because the half is not told
Oh, you know, I just I struggle so much. I just well, you know what get married the right way
I'm telling you it's gonna be it's gonna be great and I'm not even giving you the half of it
What a blessing it is to be in a godly marriage
The half is not told the Bible tells us you're in 1st Corinthians 7. I'm gonna reach you from Proverbs 18 22
Who so findeth the wife?
Find it the good thing. Amen
And obtain the favor of the Lord
It's this thing there by the way
God's the one who said it and I'm just kidding, you know who so find it the wife
Thank you for that one. Amen back there that bold man over there
Marriage
Is a blessing okay and
Don't let don't ever let anybody
Undermine and cut marriage make it seem as though it's just miserable. No, they just stopped working on their marriage is what it is
Okay, they're the miserable person, you know, they're the ones who stopped growing
They're the ones that are not doing something to to make their marriage better
Marriage
Is a blessing look at 1st Corinthians 7 verse 1 now concerning the things were you wrote unto me
It is good for a man not to touch a woman
Amen to that
Nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband
Let the husband render unto the wife do benevolence and likewise also the wife unto the husband the wife hath not power
Of her own body, but the husband and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body
But the wife defraud you not one one the other
Except to be with consent for a time that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again
That Satan tempt you not for your incontinence
So look, I mean it goes without saying the physical relationship is that is a blessing in marriage
And the reason this is being spoken about right now is because of the fact that teenagers or people who are single
Do have a temptation to fornicate?
You're like, oh, yeah, I'm just struggling right now this person this this unsafe person is
Giving me attention or whatever and I'm talking to this person. I'm just tempted. No do it God's way
Do it God's way have some self-control
Have some temperance do it the right way because the half has not been told by the way if you so desire and you end up
fornicating out there
See the first point the half has not been told about that fornication
And the destruction that comes from that but you know what the half is not told even of a godly marriage and how what a blessing
It is
Okay, I can't do justice to it
You have to find out for yourself when you get yourself a wife or you get yourself a husband
It is a blessing and look the half has not been told when it comes to getting a bad spouse
Cuz that happens too
You know what?
Like my father-in-law used to say, you know, oh she's not she's not God's will she is now
She wasn't God's will he used to be like she is now
Okay, you know the Bible says it is better to dwell in the corner of a housetop
Then with the brawling woman in a wide house
What is a wide house like a mansion
and the guys like I read and look I've
Personally seen this not in my personal life
I
Have my wife sleep on the couch. Thank you. No, I'm just kidding. I've seen other people
I've seen I'm not gonna say who is not anybody here. Okay. It's someone in the city of Montebello where I live and
You know, there's a there's a there's a man that I know and he never spends time in his house
Even my son knows this
I'm not joking. He literally spends the entire day in his car
And you know what at first I was like, why does he do that? But you know what after listening I
Understand
Proceed
Carry on
He's got a brawling woman
You know boisterous brawling
nagging
This the decibels are always up
You know that guy he hates his marriage. I'll just be honest. I can tell he does
He that's his that's his that's his corner
That's his corner of a housetop. That's his wilderness
He'd rather be there
You know and look I'm saying this with tongue-in-cheek, but it's it's it is reality for some people
So guys choose wisely
Amen
Ladies like oh, why are you saying that for you know, that's not fair because it's true
choose wisely
Why cuz once you're married she's God's will now
You know, you know you marry her and it's like wow the half was not told
The half was not told, you know, and you know what same goes for the guys
Hey ladies, you better make sure that you have a godly authority who's guiding you
Obviously your dad should be preferably the person to do it
You know to guide you to make sure that you're filtering the people that you're dating
The guy that you're dating cuz look girls, let's just be honest, sometimes they're naive
Can I get an amen?
All right. Come on guys, man. Good night
Look sometimes they're naive and you know what guys can pull the wool over a girl's, you know
Puts his best foot forward actually brushes his teeth combs his hair looks halfway decent. They're like, wow, he's a godly man
And then they get married and she's like, whoa
He smells
Do you believe in showers?
No
and you know
The half is just not told
And look when you're dating the half is never told
Why would you tell the half?
Right
It's just reality
You know, obviously you're gonna put your best foot forward when you're dating and stuff like that
But what I'm saying is, you know
You need to use some wisdom and let me just let me just throw this out here by the way
Okay, if anybody in our church is divorced we I completely discourage any divorced person
First of all, we don't believe divorce people should remarry amen
But I discourage any divorced person whether visiting our church attending our church to talk to any girl in our church
Any girl well, they're in the same situation as I am any girl
If you've been divorced that's a no-no
Amen
You know and look young ladies out there
You need to make sure that you're that you have a godly authority. Look. I'm not that godly authority
My godly authority counsel is coming from the pulpit right now. So I'm not gonna be like your your your spiritual father or whatever
You know, you know, can you help me? Can I call you dad? No get away from me
I got a daughter. She's over there. Her name is Kyle. I gotta take care of her
Okay, I'm not your spiritual daddy. I'm not your spiritual father. I'm your pastor and the council you're gonna guess from the pulpit
Okay, what you need to do is go go to mom
Go to dad or if you don't even have that type of godly counsel, then just listen to me now
There you go, okay
Don't come to me after the service and ask me a question of something that I already answered when I was behind the pulpit
You just listen a man
So I know that was a rabbit that I was chasing skinned it killed it made stew but this is important
Because look sometimes people get involved in relationships and then you know
It's a disaster afterwards because the half was not told you need to make sure that you're choosing
Wisely be smart think about the decisions you're gonna make this is gonna be the person you're gonna stay with for the rest of your life
Okay, look you got people who dodged shotgun shells man
Dodging bullets and shotgun shells they're busting matrix when they're like
They break up with a girl or break up with a guy. It's just like man. You're like neo or something
You just dodged a bullet
Okay
Yeah, anyways go with me if you would to first Corinthians chapter 13
First Corinthians chapter 13
Look, it's not bad to want to be in a relationship. And I'm not saying look
We will never be a church where it's just like guys should be afraid to talk to the girls and girls should be afraid to
Talk to the guys. That's weird
It was like are we Amish or something, you know?
You can't talk cuz then people might think you might think what like you're you're talking they might think you're not mute
Talk to one another that's nothing wrong with that
What I'm saying is if you decide to you know
Pursue that you need to make sure that you have the right authority structures
Okay, and they need to be set in place and look guys. I'm not gonna make any exception for any guy
You know if their parents if that girl's parents comes to me and says hey, I don't approve of this
So I don't want you to do the marriage. I'll be like aye aye captain
You're the authority
You know, if you don't want me to marry your people then you're the dad. You're the mom. You're the authority
I'm with you because I'm for authority structure. Amen
So here's the last point that I want to make is this is in regards to
The half has not been told is the rewards for serving God
okay, the rewards for serving God the half has not been told and
This requires a large level of faith, you know, because you know, the Bible does tells we do get rewarded here for serving God
But there's times when you're not gonna see a reward
And look at the Bible says in 1st Corinthians 13 12 for now we see through a glass
darkly
But then face to face now, I know in part but then shall I know even also as also I am known
you know the subject of rewards in the Bible is very intriguing to me and
It's something I think about often and I think it's because sometimes it's very obscure in the Bible
So you can't really pinpoint
Like if you just do this or just do all three of these things or all these four things. This is what you'll get
And it kind of causes you to put a fishing pole in every pond of the service of God, right?
Like which were the fish biting, you know, where the fish biting, you know, well, here's the thing
There's fish in all these ponds. You just got to get five fishing poles and put them in each one and we'll see what happens
Okay, right now but here's the thing. There's fish in the pot
And here's the thing if you put the fishing pole in the pond, you're gonna catch fish
the half has not yet been told and
this should be a
An admonishment encouragement to be steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord
For as much as you know that your labor is not vain in the Lord, you know, you may not see it now
You're seeing through a glass darkly
You may be going through persecution you're going through a trial and it seems sometimes as though you're serving the Lord in vain
You may feel that way every once in a while
But just remember this is that hey the half has not been told and look God will exceedingly reward his servants
I
Will say this he'll probably give us more than what we deserve
Generous Lord
Okay, he'll give us obviously according to our work shall be but you know that minimum wage is way up though
Okay, you know he's not gonna give you 12 bucks an hour basically, okay
It's gonna be a lot more than that
The Bible says in first John 3 to beloved now are we the sons of God and it doth not yet appear where we shall
Be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is
I mean think about your resurrected body. We don't know what that's gonna look like
You know, you know, I know you have this thing in your mind. You're like, okay, it's a pack
It's like, you know beautiful hair and I'll have chiseled features and you know, I won't have a gut anymore or whatever
You know, I'm just gonna let loose cuz I got the resurrection coming a man
You know, we don't necessarily know
We don't necessarily know what that's gonna be like, okay
The only comparison that we have is the fact that Paul the Apostle tells us in 1st Corinthians 15
That just as you sow a seed into the ground and something something completely different comes out
That's that's how it's gonna be but that's all we get
So we just got to have faith that God will reward us
You know that the best is yet to come
The half is not yet been told and let that be a motivation to you to just stick it out no matter what
You know, and so what's the sermon for this evening? Well, let's learn from the Queen of Sheba a man
She with the little information that she had she heard the rumors and she was like we're taking the whole train over there
taking the whole train all the camels were taking all the food and
That little information was enough. She came she's like wow the half was not told you exceeded my expectations
Let's take that train. Amen. Let's just step out in faith. Keep serving God and
Recognize that
You know, whatever half you do know, there's a lot more that comes with that information
There's a lot more that comes with that blessing and guess what? There's a lot that comes with that cursing as well
Amen fire heads and have a word of prayer father. We thank you so much for your word
thank you for the promises founder in and
Lord, we need encouragement every single week. We need to be reminded of these things
sometimes I feel like we just need to be reminded of the eternal and
we talk about the millennial reign we talk about heaven and
Those days are coming they're coming in it, but sometimes they seem so far away that we forget and I pray God that you'd help
us to remember that the best is still yet to come and that the half is not yet been told you've placed
Symbolic things and and details and information even regarding the millennial reign and we read through the book of Isaiah
We read through the book of Revelation
We read through just different portions of Scripture and we can kind of put the pieces of the puzzle together
And just just enough to motivate us to keep serving you but we need to be reminded
We know for a fact that the half is not yet been told and I pray God that that would continue to motivate us
Thank you so much for being good to our church bless us as we go on our way in Jesus name we pray. Amen