All right. Amen. We are in Ephesians chapter number four and look down to your Bibles at verse number 20
It says but ye have not so long in Christ
If so be the I've heard him and I've been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus
They put off concerning the former conversation the old man
Which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts and be renewed in the spirit of your mind and that you put on the new man
which after God is created in righteousness and
True holiness and what I want to preach on this morning is the topic of having a paradigm shift a paradigm
Shift now you're there in Ephesians chapter 4 hold your place there and go with me if you would to Romans chapter number 12
If you would I'm gonna read to you from Colossians chapter number 3 in verse number 1
It says if you then be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God
Set your affection on things above not on the things of the earth
Now what is a paradigm shift that you may not be familiar with that term?
but first off let me explain what a paradigm is a
Paradigm is simply an example that serves as a model or a pattern. It's a framework containing all the basic
Assumptions ways of thinking and methodology that is accepted by the majority of people
Okay, that is what's known as a paradigm
All right
And so a paradigm shift is when you challenge the way people think you challenge that which is widely accepted
you begin to challenge that which most people will assume to be true and say no, it's not true and
We actually back it up biblically speaking with the Bible to show you need a shift in this paradigm because this is wrong
We need to be people who are right regarding these specific things
Look at Romans chapter number 12, by the way in Ephesians chapter 4. That's exactly what we see
He says because we've learned Christ because we've learned the Word of God we can renew our minds. What does that mean?
We can brainwash you
Don't you hear that a lot or you're just brainwashed. I accept that readily
That's actually a good point because what are you supposed to do your brain wash it?
You clean it. How do you clean it with God's Word, you know sanctify them through thy truth
Thy word is truth. How are we clean? It's through the strainer of God's Word, you know
Especially if you got saved later on in life, you have a bunch of filth a bunch of false ideologies false
Misconceptions all these things that the world has just propagated you through television
Social media through your family through your upbringing whatever maybe even through your old church
Things that you thought to be true, but guess what you need to be brainwashed
You need a renewing of your mind and look doesn't our culture teach things that are just completely
Just anti Bible, you know, we have a lot of renewing to do especially if you live in California, man
Look at Romans 12 verse 1 says I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice
Holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service
So what is the Bible telling us here, you know, just as the sacrifices in the Old Testament were put to death
Okay, you know in like manner we're to be that living sacrifice
So that we can be that which is holy acceptable to God which God says is reasonable
but how do we do that verse 2 and be not conformed to this world, but be
Transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God see
How do we know when we're doing right? How do we know that which is good? How do we know?
What is that which is acceptable? How do we know what is the will of God by transforming your mind?
You know, we don't base whether something is of God based upon how we feel
Okay, it's like well, I feel that my emotions are telling me that XY and Z is correct
You know that this is this is God's will for my life
But you know what?
The reality is the way we determine God's will is by renewing our minds according to God's Word by conforming our minds
to the Bible and
The Bible is very much different than what we've been taught. Okay?
Throughout our lives even
There are times in the Bible when a paradigm needs to stay exactly the way it is, right?
You know, it's paradigms in the Bible. There's patterns in the Bible
There's things assumptions in the Bible and and there's ways of thinking even in the Bible
But you know what those things need to stay the same
Right these models and patterns are not to be tampered with or not to be altered for example salvation
The
Doctrine of salvation should never be tampered with that is a paradigm that stays the same throughout all ages
Amen, that's something that never changes. That is a concept. That is a doctrine
That is a way of thinking throughout from Genesis all the way to Revelation
That's supposed to stay the same and it requires no shifting
But you know what that is the paradigm that's being you know attacked even today. It was attacked in the Bible
It was attacked in the New Testament. It was attacked 50 years ago 100 years ago, and it's being attacked today
What you say what do you mean? Well, how about when people try to add works to salvation?
You know or how about the dispensationalist that basically said oh, no
There's a paradigm shift between the Old and New Testament
Where the paradigm was that salvation was by faith and works in the Old Testament, but now in the New Testament
It's by faith alone and then it goes back to works in the book of Revelation. That's a lot of shifting
But you know what the Bible doesn't teach that the Bible teaches that this paradigm of
Salvation remains the same throughout all ages and this is something that we constantly need to emphasize
Constantly need to fight for constantly need to teach because of the fact that people can be swayed either way if they're now grounded in
doctrine
Okay
How about the Trinity?
That's a paradigm. That's never supposed to change
God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit they're God, but there are three distinct people
It's been like that from Genesis and eternity past
It will be like that in the present
It's like it's like that in the present and will be like that in the future and in times to come it's never gonna change
This is a paradigm that does not need to be altered. It does not need to be changed
God has set it forth as being this is what it's gonna be forever
Okay, but that's not to say that certain things in the Christian life or even in the Bible require a radical change that
undermines current belief systems, okay
There are times when God calls people to shift their paradigm now
What go back to Ephesians chapter 4 if you would Ephesians chapter 4
The Apostle Paul's constantly working on this with it with the churches that he starts the people
He's discipling the people that he's leading is like guys. You need to renew your mind
Especially when he would win Jews to the Lord, right?
They're constantly battling or how about in the book of Galatians when you had these Judaizers come into these churches
They were in Galatia and they were trying to bring people back under the law
Hey, that was a paradigm that shifted
right
Look at Ephesians 4 verse 1. I therefore the prison of the Lord beseech you that he walk worthy of the vocation
Wherewith ye are called with all lowliness and meekness with longsuffering forbearing one another in love
Endeavoring to keep the unity in the spirit
Excuse the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace and look isn't it interesting that people who believe in?
Like this works based salvation of sinless perfection
They'll say well as soon as you get saved, you're not gonna want to sin
You know you won't sin for a seed abideth in him
He cannot sin and though they'll take all these scriptures out of context
Well, then explain to me why there's so many Commandments that God gives to us to say do this
You know if if we came into the Christian life batteries included
We would need no Commandments. I just know naturally what to do
But what is he saying here?
You got to endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace got to be lowly
With and meek longsuffering forbearing one another why because naturally we're not like that
Naturally the works of the flesh are made manifest and one of those works is the fact that we
Have a tendency to be different towards other people
Right. We don't like unity. Sometimes we like to do our own thing, but you know what the unity of the Spirit teaches
Hey, let's be a team
Let's be all of one mind
You know the Bible tell you not to turn there Titus 3 3 says for we ourselves also were sometimes foolish
Disobedient deceived serving diverse lust and pleasures living in malice and envy hateful and hating one another. I
Mean, I don't know about you, but back in the day in the world. You could just hate someone at the drop of a hat
Hate someone cuz they you know, they gypped you
financially
Hate your neighbor cuz he he you know plays Banda too loud or
or rap music too loud
You know
It's easy to just allow those emotions to take hold and hate is one of the works of the flesh
According to the Bible but here what is it teaching? We don't hate one another we try to keep that we try to endeavor
To keep the unity of the Spirit here
Right look at verse 11 and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers
For the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry
For the edifying of the body of Christ
Till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man
Unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ that we henceforth
Be them be no more children
Tossed to and fro carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness
Whereby they lie in wait to deceive what is he saying there? Hey, you need a shift your spiritual maturity
You shouldn't be a child anymore
Hey, how long have you been saved for? Amen?
If you've been saved for a good amount of time, it's time for you to grow up
Not good. If you've been saved for 20 30 40 years and you're still a spiritual bait
Like man, I've been saved for like 10 years how many times you read your Bible I read the New Testament
I've read the book of John I
Read a proper river once in a while. I
Got my Charles Spurgeon daily devotional
Does that count?
No, it doesn't
You know, we need to grow up
Because what happens if we don't we stay children and we're carried about with every wind of doctrine
What does that mean new doctrines that come in and they go out?
You know
People need a paradigm shift when it comes to that. Okay, and I'm getting ahead of myself look at verse 17
This I say therefore and testifying the Lord that he henceforth walk
Not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind having the understanding dark and by the way verse 18 that is the only
Commonality that Christians can have with unsaved people is that sometimes they have a darkened understanding?
Why is that because they're not growing in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?
Look what it goes on to say being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them
Because of the blindness of their heart
So the reason that these people who are unsaved have their understanding darkened is because of the blindness of their heart
The reason Christians sometimes don't understand is because they're not being doers of the word. They're just here's
That's what those people need a paradigm shift
You know coming to church is great. Amen
But doing what you what you heard is far greater
Doing
What you're listening to is far greater than just coming to church and here in the Bible
let me let me let me just
Say this real quick coming to church is not equal to serving the Lord
Yeah, that's not serving the Lord
Can I be a little harsh here I don't need your permission
Oh
Sitting on a sea for an entire hour is not serving the Lord
What does that do for you? What it does is it equips you to serve the Lord?
That's what it's for. We just read it. It's for the edifying of the body of
Christ now sure enough next week. There's gonna be like five people here now. You don't want me to go
People need a paradigm shift when it comes to that
You know and look we live in a society where pastors beg people to come to church
They beg them to come to church
You know what the door hangers and you know
They try to goldfish and all these things that they try to promote to just try to get people to come
They don't even witness them because they just want a full house
we need a paradigm shift when it comes to that and
Understand the church is for believers
Church is to edify you you benefit from coming to church and if you don't come to church, you don't hurt me you hurt yourself
Amen so the person who comes bless me I dare you
I'm
No
It's not happening and the way if you want to be blessed then you do that what you hear
Okay, this is a major paradigm shift because we have so many people today that go to church
I'm not saying here but other churches they go to church thinking that they're doing a service to God and that they're soon doing a
service to the pastor
You know like they're they're gracing
The church with their presence. You're lucky. I'm here kind of thing, right?
You're blessed because I'm here. I'm filling up a seat. No, I'm not
Because you know what the work of God continues
The church is to edify the Saints so that you can be blessed in your work and in your deeds
So
Here's the thing is we hear this phrase sometimes having a paradigm shift you hear sometimes people use it with companies
Ceos use this with their with their leadership and all these things
But here's the thing with that is that often in the secular realm when this is used
It's referring to introducing something new
That's going to replace something that is old
Now this is true in the Bible. However, the only difference is this a pair of biblical paradigm shift
Although it's often something new to you
It's actually realigning you something with something that's old
You see what you believe and I'm speaking generally is actually new
right
Bad habits false ideologies
This is actually things that are new and the paradigm shift which is taking your mind and conforming it to God's Word
It may be new to you, but it's actually something that's very old
Okay
Go with me if you would to Matthew chapter number five
So it it realigns us
With God's Word it gets us closer to God's Word
And look I I heard it all my spiritual life, you know, we shouldn't be the kind of people who change
We should not change never change never change never change never change and look they would even quote Proverbs 24
21 my son fear thou the Lord and the king and meddle not with them that are given to change
And by the way to that I say amen
Because what this is referring to is the person from Ephesians 4 who's tossed to and fro
What do we they change positions all the time?
And the positions that they change from is not from good to better, but it's actually from good to worse
You know someone who was originally a fundamental Baptist they held true to specific doctrines that were important
They had modesty they had the right type of music, but now they're a bunch of liberals
Singing CCM, you know and they have the whole liberal package going on
That's the person who's who's given to change
That's not something we should be meddling with
But look we are supposed to change them
Because we're supposed to change for the better
You're supposed to change for the better
Not go backwards supposed to go forward
I mean the Bible says that we're supposed to be conformed to the image of Christ. You know what that requires change
Because you don't come already Christ like when you first get saved
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature old things that pass away behold all things that become new
But this is that's referring to the spirit because guess what you still have your corruptible flesh
This still desires the things of this world still has bad habits still desires sin still desires the things the temptations of this
World and you need to change
Let's look at Matthew chapter 5 verse 27
Jesus is trying to tell give the Pharisees a paradigm shift here
You have heard that it was said by them of old time thou shalt not commit adultery
But I say unto you that whosoever
Looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart now to them. That's something new
Right because he said you have heard of it said of old time, but I say unto you
But here's the thing lust was sin in the Old Testament to
Sin is sin throughout the Bible
right doesn't change and
If thy right I offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members
Should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell
He is shifting their way of thinking he's introducing something completely new in the New Testament to them
Even though something that was actually very old. He's moving them closer to the Bible look at verse 31
It has been said whosoever shall put away his wife
Let him give her a right a writing of divorcement
But I say unto you that whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of fornication
Caused her to commit adultery and whosoever shall marry her that his divorce committed adultery
That's not new
God was against divorce even in the Old Testament
One of the phrases that is used to define divorce in the Bible is putting away
You know what the Bible says about God in that phrase putting away God hated
putting away
Well, you know in the Hebrew
Yeah, and the Hebrew hate is hate. Yeah, you can you can put the spies loathe
Something that he just abhors
Putting away. He's giving them that paradigm shift. Why because they had this loose thinking about marriage and divorce. That's why
And look, there's nothing new under the Sun. It's the same thing today
Were the religious leaders of today?
Yeah, even Baptist pastors and preachers when in time passed they were against divorce and remarriage now, they're promoting it
So yeah, did they have a paradigm shift? Yeah, but it was to the worst not to the better
Hey, why don't we get a little stricter on our doctrine? Why don't we get a little stricter?
On our standards, why don't we get a little stricter with our lifestyle and our doctrine in our church?
Why because we're supposed to change for the better not for the worse
Look at verse 33 again. I will skip down to verse 38
You have heard that have been said and I for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
But I say unto you that you resist not evil
But whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek turn to him the other also now
What is he referring to here by the way I for I is in the Bible
This was under God's theocracy
Where he deputized people to basically carry out his laws and put people to death eye for an eye tooth for a tooth
We see that in the book of Deuteronomy
But what he's saying is this go the second mile
Because this is the same problem that they had in 1st Corinthians 6 where brothers were going to law with brothers
And he said he and Paul told them why don't you just suffer yourself to be defrauded?
Right
Just suffer the loss be defrauded so what he's teaching here is this hey
Why don't you just go the second mile and allow yourself to be defrauded okay?
Turn the other cheek and by the way when they says turn the other cheek. It doesn't mean give them a spinning backfist
It's not a specific move in the Bible, okay?
Hey look if you can't take a slap to the cheek you're pretty weak all right
You know if your enemy comes and slaps you and that you just
Backslide like crazy because of it
That's weird look at verse 41
If whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile go with him twain
Give to him that asketh thee and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away
He's trying to give him a paradigm shift to say hey don't just fulfill the letter of the law fill fulfill the spirit of the law
as well
Have that paradigm shift where it's just like okay, I'm not supposed to commit adultery yeah, but try not to lust too
Well, I'm not supposed to kill yeah, but try not to hate your brother in your heart as well
No, you know you know whatever may be just keep these commandments specifically at base level
But don't try to go above that we need to keep the law letter of the law
Which is thou shall not kill, but we're also supposed to keep the spirit of the law as well, okay?
This shift was one from a false paradigm now look at verse 43 you have heard that have been said thou
Shall love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy
But I say unto you love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them
which despitefully use you and
Persecute you why that he may be the children of your father
Which is in heaven for he maketh his son to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and
On the unjust what is the same don't be partial?
by default love people
If there's someone who you don't like because he beat you up when you're in kindergarten or whatever don't hold grudges
Love your enemies your neighbor who is obnoxious
Your boss who is just wicked and gives you a hard time, but still pays you
Love
Your enemies
Why because God allows the Sun to rise on them as well
This is a paradigm shift that people need sometimes look at Luke chapter 5 if you would Luke chapter number 5
And look there is a major paradigm shift between Old and New Testament was there not
The change was so drastic and dramatic
That part of the beginning or the end of the Old Testament was dedicated to teaching
Regarding what's called the Reformation?
Jesus Christ was teaching this throughout the Gospels
look at Luke chapter 5 verse 36 and
He spake also a parable unto them. No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old if otherwise
then both the new maketh a rent and the peace that was taken out from the new agreeeth not with the old and
No man putteth new wine into old bottles else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled in the bottle shall perish
But new wine must be put into new bottles and both are preserved. So what is he saying? Look, he's basically talking about Judaism
That's what he's talking about
Because the previous to this even in and mark he's talking to the Pharisees
and you look he's saying you can't mix Judaism and
even the
Laws that were imposed upon him such as the meats drinks and diverse washings
You can't intermingle that with what Christ is going to do on the cross
Because Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of those meats drinks and divers washings
But look he understood this because these people were under this
Judaic law for so long look at verse 39. No man also having drunk old wine
Straightway desire at the new for he saith the old is better
So he's saying look he's talking about the Pharisees
He's saying look they think the old is better
They think the Reformation is nonsense. They're the greatest antagonist that the New Testament Christians have to face
Because why because the old is better?
Well, I got news for you Hebrews chapter 8 tells us that Jesus Christ is the mediator of a better covenant
Established upon better promises, you know what the Bible calls the New Testament the better covenant the better
Testament it's better
He's better than the angels he's better than Moses he's better he's Jesus
That was that was the shift and people were struggling even in the book of Acts trying to get people circumcised
Right, they were struggling with that shift. Now. How do we apply that today?
Well, you know, there's something called the old IV and the new IV
But
There's a shift that needs to take place and we're not imposing that shift it's just gonna happen
because just as the Old Testament is
Waxing old and is decaying
The old IV is also waxing old and decaying and it's self-destructing we don't have to put a bomb there
They
Designed it themselves. They're gonna press their own button and it's gonna just it's just gonna self-destruct
You know what?
there needs to be a paradigm shift from the way the old IV did certain things and the way the new IV does it and
Look in the next five ten years. We will no longer be called the new IV
It'll just be the IV
Why because we are that New Testament
We are that better covenant
established upon better promises with better churches and
better soul in it
better doctrine
Why because remember we're supposed to change for the better
Not for the worse and look there's people who are transitioning out of that Old Testament. Are they not?
You know, you know the disciples they transit they were literally during that transitional period
They went from the transition of not having the Holy Spirit of God dwelling in them
While they're in the Gospels till afterwards they did have the Holy Spirit of God dwelling within them
They experienced that transition and maybe some of you for sure some of you are experiencing that transition as well
You need to allow that paradigm shift to take place
How the renewing of your mind?
So there is that shift from Old Testament to New Testament
Now, let me give you some examples of paradigm shift as far as our lives are concerned our church
Individuals, okay
Remember a paradigm shift. Excuse me. A paradigm is a are the basic assumptions the ways of thinking
Oh, we've always done it this way
Okay, but why and is it biblical? Can we improve upon it? Can we move closer to the Bible? Okay
These are basic assumptions ways of thinking that are commonly accepted by everyone
Now, let me just say this is that everyone needs to experience a shift from being unsaved to be taped
Right, like when we go so winning we go preach the gospel
We're seeking to shift the paradigm of every single person we run into
We want them to repent
None of their sin to be saved but repent means to have a change of mind
We want them to repent and to believe the gospel
look, this is why it's important everyone and
this is just a
Chasing a little bit of rabbit here when you go so when you preach the gospel
Make sure that the people you're speaking to understand
That what they believe prior to you talking to them was different than what you explained to them
And look be discreet about it though. Don't don't get jerk
Like do you realize that what you believe before was completely stupid?
You realize you're an idiot before
Say it, you know
We want to we want to be discreet
And just explain to them
Do you realize that everything I just showed you is different from what you previously believed and if they don't think so
Then you have to be a little more thorough
And say be and look this is what I do is that I'll say because when I first came you basically said that
It's by faith and works
You were half right because it is by faith, but it's not by works
Okay, do you understand that's completely different from what I just showed you?
Once they say yes, the paradigm has been shifted
That's what we want to do from unsaved to save to shift that
Paradigm the Bible says therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ
Let us go on into perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from sin
No from repentance from dead works and faith toward God look
That's why we don't have our sowing training is not like how to win a Buddhist
You
Know how to win a Hindu
How to win a Pentecostal you do it the same way all across the board?
Because the gospel is the power of God into salvation to everyone that believeth and look with the Hindu
You don't have to start with Genesis
Start with Jesus
Because of the fact that the Bible specifically tells us that every single human being has the law of God written in their hearts
Accusing or else excusing one another the Bible tells us
So when we go out there, that's exactly what we're doing. So this is not anything new
No, when we go out there, we're seeking to shift the paradigms of every single person your paradigm was shifted
You know, if you're a Catholic you gave up your Virgin Mary and whatnot and you believed on Christ
if you were
You know a Pentecostal you gave up your you believe you can lose your salvation to understand that it's eternal. It could never be lost
That's a major shift in paradigms
And that's exactly the agenda that our church has is to change the paradigm of every single person that we come in contact with
Okay, go with me if you went to first Peter chapter number four first Peter chapter four
Hey, but after salvation there needs to be a shift from living in the world to holy living
All right
Because when you're saved, you know, you can't go to hell anymore
You have eternal life. Your sins have been forgiven
You know, there's many things that accompany salvation as Hebrews chapter 6 says we have the Holy Spirit of God living within us
We have an inheritance a lot of things we can understand the Bible
However, there needs to be a shift in the way we live
Not to maintain our salvation
Okay, but rather so we can be blessed of God
Look at first Peter chapter 4 verse 1
For as much then as Christ had suffered for us in the flesh
Arm yourselves likewise with the same mind for he that had suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin
That he no longer should live at the rest of his time in the flesh to the lust of men
But to the will of God for the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles
When we walked in lasciviousness lust excess of wine
Revelings banquetings and abominable idolatries
Wherein they think it's strange that you run out with them to the same excess of riot speaking evil of you
Look, what is one of the main things that has to go?
When we get say our friends
Now look you don't have to go to your friends and say get away from me
You don't you don't have to be like, you know, you don't have to
Be mean to them. You don't have to be rude to them
All you have to do is just be a Christian
Right because what will happen is that you will begin to repel them
They will actually want to get away from you
Because they're like you ain't cool anymore
You don't drink wine anymore
You don't want to party anymore
You know, but what you could say is this yeah, but while you're hungover on Sunday morning
I'm in church
And my liver is good
I'm not risking my life for cirrhosis of the liver, you know
Associations is often a shift that needs to be made. You know, I a lot of Christians struggle in the Christian life
It's not because they're unfaithful to church
It's not because you know, they missed our Bible reading once in a while. One of the main factors is just the people they hang out with
Because we need relationships. Don't we we need friends
You know, we need friends we need associations we need fellowship and you know what we're gonna get it one way or another
But unless you have the paradigm shift to say I I need
To have the right type of friends and not have the wrong type of friends. You're never gonna go forward in your Christian life
Well, I just had this friend, you know, he's not say but you know, he's cool. We grew up. We're we're we're
BBFs and you know, we're just best friends and I just can't find it in my heart then you're never gonna go forward
Because you need the right associations
and look a
Christian cannot hang out with a non Christian and not be influenced by that person
You know what's gonna happen that unsaved person is gonna shift your paradigm
That you work so hard
to learn from the Bible
It's easier to compromise when you have a person or even a watered-down Christian, how about that?
Just some safe person who's just worldly. They don't read their Bibles, but they're saved
Isn't it easier to hang out with them because you know that they're saved
Isn't it easier to just tolerate that because well, he's a Christian
You know, they're Christians and stuff. So, you know, I you know, I'm trying to get him into church and stuff
Yeah, like for how many years though? I?
I
Mean I know you believe in follow-up a good night
For that long
You know, we need to have a shift in that paradigm and look maybe you love your family
Maybe you love your friends, but if you love them give them the gospel if they're not safe
And if you really love them compel them to come to church
That way you have the whole gang here. Amen
Not
To jump them or anything like that
The Bible says in Ephesians chapter 2 and you have to be quick and who were dead and trespasses and sin
Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world
According to the prince of the power of the air the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience
Among whom also we all had our conversation in time past in the lust of our flesh
fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath even as
Others go with me if you would to 1st Corinthians chapter 13 1st Corinthians chapter 13
Holy living. Hey, the shit that needs to take place in that paradigm is that if you continue in that sin, God will destroy you
Then who so ever defiled the temple him shall God destroy
Holy living living a just a clean life free of marijuana
free of alcohol free of fornication
free of vaccinations
That's holy, you know, holy is that means that you're whole
right
And look, it's important to be whole spiritually and physically as well
Because we're supposed to be we're mind body and spirit. Okay?
Now there's a shift also from being a child to becoming an adult
And I'm not talking about physically. I'm talking about spiritually. I'm talking about emotionally
I'm talking about mentally
Where the young men in our generation are too childish?
They're not willing to grow up
look at first Corinthians 13 11 says when I was a child, I spake as a child, I
Understood as a child. I thought as a child, but when I became a man I put away childish things
What does that mean? I'm a man
Therefore don't associate me with childish things
Video games
Video games we have grown men
Look and if you if this is your vice if this is your stumbling block, this is your sin, okay
It's not a sin. But here's the thing. I will say it's a sin if you playing some violent
video game where people are being raped and murdered and you shoot people and
You know, you're doing drugs on there, you know grand theft auto or whatever it may be, right? Oh
No, I'm actually you know, I'm like a soldier and I'm going around, you know protecting America
From like zombies
You know, you know why that's sinful because it's stupid and the thought of foolishness is sin the Bible says
You know why it's a sin because you're not redeeming the time
What reward do you gain?
From passing
Is there any reward your brain is turning to mush
Leave those things if you are each if you're a man, you're still behaving as a child grow up
Take responsibility
Get a job
Learn how to work
Get yourself a wife
To learn how to provide have children raise them for the Lord be a leader
Be promoted and succeed at your job be a man
This is important today
The shift from being a child to becoming an adult we have this Peter Pan generation when they just never want to grow up
20 year olds 30 year olds that never want to grow up
Have this childish way of thinking and look it's the it's the fault of the parents obviously
You know, it's the fault of the parents
For not nourishing them and
Teaching them you're a man
you need to grow up take responsibility teach them these things are essential to being an
Adult because here's the thing
The worst thing is this when they're in their 30s or yea even 40s and they're still hanging out with like 19 year olds or something
Think about that
Now look if you hang out if you're older and you're hanging out with people who are younger than you it's to influence them
Is it not?
It's to teach them. It's because maybe they look up to you
You're ahead of them in certain light areas of life that you can teach them in but if it's like
You know to go to the movies or something
You're a loser
Fact we need the young men of this generation to grow up leave Neverland
Peter Pan's queer anyways, okay
With his pointy ears and his tights, I don't know as a kid I could not tell whether he was male or female
But then I really like it was names Peter so it must be a male
You know, there needs to be a shift when it comes to that in that paradigm, okay and look
Maybe there's people here. It's just like well my parents didn't teach me. Okay. Well, you have the Bible now, though
Okay, well you have a church now, okay
Well, you have a bunch of men in this church that you can copy
They could be a pattern that you can learn from and learn to be that man
Go to first Timothy chapter 5
There needs to be a shift from being lazy to being disciplined
That's a major shift that is required
Okay, what I mean by being lazy sleeping in till 10 11
in the morning
And the reason why is because you don't have a job or something, you know
This is laziness
Okay, this is slothfulness. This is sin
You say well, why should we be disciplined because we're Christians and it required to lead a successful Christian life
We need to be disciplined. It requires consistency and faithfulness
Okay, not in tasks that are difficult to obtain and things that God tells us to do that
We can do because the Spirit of God dwells within us
Be disciplined. Hey be disciplined in your eating habits. Oh
Man I got a couple of I thought I wasn't gonna get nothing
Hey and look I'm leading the way and I'm trying to be an example that's why I'm telling this right now
You know
Making sure that we minimize how much sugar we intake
a
Sugar raises the estrogen a man
By the way, you know the point that I said become, you know, stop being a child and become a man
Well part of that has stopped consuming so much sugar
Because it raises the estrogen and then you become woman like
Start becoming like a female that's a great motive like I don't look like a girl
No minimize the sugar
You know, make sure that you have healthy eating habits healthy exercise habits so you can become more effective for the Lord
Well, you're just saying that cuz you're on this that well, yeah
Sherlock right here. Yeah, you got it
Cuz then I'll be I'll be hypocritical if I did it and I said this to you, right?
I'm telling you by I'm telling you this from experience
Eating habits are very much important. Okay, and the reason people are so tired
They're so just lazy and slothful. They don't sleep. They can't wake up
They can't seem to just they don't have any ambition
The men in our generation need to accomplish great things for God
And we need to utilize the energy that God is giving to us through the nutrition in foods
Vitamins or whatever maybe through exercise to be able to fulfill these tasks
Okay, and look one of the most important muscles is not here. It's right here
You need to make sure this muscles working good, you know what this muscles made out of that
You know, thank you for that one a
I'm serious. Good. Look, don't you intake the Bible? Don't you use this to memorize the Bible?
Don't you isn't this what's supposed to be renewed?
Don't you use this to remember and to preach the gospel to read the Word of God to pray to fulfill your daily task
This is valuable. Look if your body goes to mush. Okay, but don't let your brain go to mush though
That's more valuable than anything else other than your heart obviously
Make sure you're exercising your brain not with left right down up be you know twice trigger trigger or whatever
You're just you're just exercising your fingers
You're gonna be throwing up gang signs for the rest of your life because you play so much
Exercise the brain there needs to be a shift and what we place the emphasis on, okay
But there also needs to be a shift from being independent to fulfilling the biblical roles at the home
And look, this is a major shift change
Paradigm shift that needs to take place
Because our society says women go work in the world
Be on birth control
Kill your babies. They won't say kill your babies, but that's exactly what they're doing
Take birth control work outside the home man. You can be a mom dad
Stay at home. No, there needs to be a dramatic paradigm shift when it comes to the home
Okay, you're like well, I'm not in that situation. Well, you know, I'm speaking to those who still have a choice
And maybe you made some mistakes in times past I'm not preaching to you
I'm talking about people who do have a choice and look this is the paradigm shift
The man is supposed to work bring home the bacon
The woman is supposed to be a keeper of the home
That is Bible. I don't care what the society says
It doesn't matter what what the magazines or television or the radio station says it doesn't matter. What matters is the Bible
This is the look this isn't new
It's new to the world
But it's actually something that's very old
first Timothy 5 8, but if any provide not for his own and
Especially for those of his own house. He had denied the faith and is worse than an infidel
Infidel is a person who's a non-believer and the Bible's not saying that you're just like the unbeliever
He's caking it on he's saying you're worse than an unbeliever
Worse
Than an unbeliever, you know why I think he's writing this to prick the heart of a man because you know what man has ego
Does he not and when you call out the manhood the man should step up and say you know what?
I'm not gonna be worse than an infidel. I
Need to get a job
Okay, and look
Go work at Little Caesars
Oh
Damien was working digging graves. That's a weird job
Well good night he did it
Yeah, great like you'd be digging your grave
You know this needs to change
And look this is the way it's gonna change. We need to impart this knowledge to our children and may be normal to our children
This is why we don't promote the public school
The public fool system that teaches everything that's against God
Everything that's against the Bible tries to teach your young girls to be loose to be whorish to be independent
Not to get married not to bear children
Just can be completely independent
Whereas the church house is supposed to teach the exact opposite of that
But unfortunately independent fundamental Baptists are actually going along with the culture
They're allowing the shift to happen to the other side
You know where they're promoting birth control now birth control is wicked it is of the devil
Okay
Babies and children are important to us. They're a heritage of the Lord the Bible says
Okay, and they're precious to us. They're important to God. They're they're mighty arrows in the hand of God
This needs to be emphasized and we should never have this attitude this paradigm that the world teaches that all children are a burden
Don't have too many children because that's gonna burden you
Well, you know what if I don't get enough sleep, but I can have a bunch of children. Amen
Sleep I'll sleep when I the resurrection
And even then I'm we're not gonna sleep we shall not all sleep
You
Know we need to value children
And look two ways that the church is gonna grow
soul-winding and having children
Why do you want so many children in case I offend all of you guys
I'll at least have my little tribe here who's gonna have to listen to me. Amen
But we need this we need to have that paradigm shift
Where we recognize and look it should not be an offensive thing to say that women should not be independent
Look if you like knee-jerk at that that means you need to have a paradigm shift. Yeah, you need to you need to wash your brain
How about the paradigm shift of hey life is not all about making money
How about that?
Where people have this paradigm was just like well, I just want to make tons of money
I just want to have you know, all the nice possessions. I just want to live a normal life
I want to give my children what I didn't have when I was in Mexico
You
Need a paradigm shift because the man's life consists of nine of the things in which he possess it
You know
This is important that we that we switch this up and we learn now go to Deuteronomy 22 Deuteronomy 22
This is what the church house is for is to give you a shift in that paradigm that you have, okay
There needs to be a shift in the paradigm when it comes to the appearing the appearance for gender distinction and modesty
He said what do you mean by that a man should look like a man?
And women should look like women. Is that too much to ask?
Is that just too much to ask this is biblical
You know, we're living in a society in the culture today where they want to blend the lines, don't they?
Where sometimes I'm driving down the street. I'm like, I don't know what that is
Excuse me it
What are you look at Deuteronomy 22 5 the woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man
neither shall a man put on a woman's garment for all that do so our
abomination unto the Lord thy God
You know what that tells me?
I want to stay as far away as I possibly can from even resembling a female because I don't want to be an abomination
So where do I start cut your hair
Make sure that your hair is the length of a man's hair. Well, what length is that if I have to question
Then it's too long
Because there's no measurement the Bible doesn't give us like a you know, measuring tape and you know qubits or whatever
The Bible just tells us doth not nature even teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him
Okay, and women should have long hair because that is a covering for them the Bible says
Are you picking on me I'm preaching the Bible and this is a shift that needs to take place
Men should not be effeminate looking
And I'm not talking about looking like a fag, okay, I'm just talking about sometimes well men who just look soft
You need to make up for that and change that and that's not just in the appearance but just in your mannerisms as well
Hey, these are important. Amen
Let me give you a basic one. You may not even like this, but you're not preaching
How about just the way you eat?
You know women have a tendency to kind of like, you know break the wrist a little bit when they eat men should not do
that
or like this
Let me show you how to eat the foods right here
You just hoard over your food, okay
I'm kidding. But what I'm saying is hey, even in our mannerisms, there should be a distinction
Hey, how about just the way you shake a hand
Hey young man, when you shake a hand look men in the eyes
Come here brother John
This is basic, but we need a shift look this should not be the handshake. Oh, how's it going?
That's not a good handshake
Why cuz it shows you got something to hide
This is a good handshake brother John. How's it going? Good two pumps. Let go. This is not a good handshake
The fish handshake
Or you feel like you're squeezing a beanbag
Right and this is not how you should shake hands either how's it going just
Two pumps and that's it
So look I'm not against look I'm not against hugs either. Okay. Now that should not be common with men
but if you do a hug just
Pat on the back or something
This is the day and age in which we live. I know it sounds silly
But you know, I sound silly because do you have a certain paradigm
That needs to be shifted. Okay, you can sit down. Thank Thank You brother John
Young men shake him look people in the eyes if you got nothing to hide. Why not?
right
There needs to be a distinction women should be modest
Modesty is still important go to first Timothy
First Timothy chapter 2
What I mean
Pants should not be worn on women
Hey, this is not a Sunday morning survey or a sermon that you should be preaching. This is church. Amen
And look if you're wearing pants
Well, I'm gonna teach you why you shouldn't be wearing pants. First of all Deuteronomy 22 should put that to bed
Because pants do pertain into men and you could leave and look at it. Look look at that historically
Call it breeches or britches or pants whatever may be it's always been worn by men
Okay, it's during the industrial area era that women started putting these things on when they started working
Look at first Timothy chapter 2 it says I will therefore that men pray everywhere lifted up holding hands without wrath and doubting now
And the issue of modesty
Modesty means you're supposed to be modest
everywhere
That means that you should not wear clothing that attracts people's attention to you
It should attract your clothing should attract the attention to your face
right
Not wear tight clothing
Form-fitting clothing where you can basically you don't leave much to the imagination you understand
And look modesty is not just for church
Right
That means like you were skirts here, but then you would go or pants somewhere else. No, let me prove that to you
Because he says here I will therefore them and pray
everywhere
right
Verse 9 ain't like men are also
What does that like men are also mean means?
everywhere
So just as the men are supposed to do this everywhere
What he's gonna give to the women is things things that are to be done everywhere as well that women adorn themselves in
modest
Apparel with shame face and it's in sobriety not with broided hair gold or pearls or costly array
But which become as women professing godliness with good works. So I want people to get my I want to get people's attention
Well, let me tell you let me say this. Let me tell you what my old pastor used to tell me
Well, the old pastor used to tell us
If you want attention, you're gonna get the attention from the wrong person
Bottom line
If you dress like that to get the attention of a man you're gonna get the attention of the wrong guy
You're gonna get some loser pervert
Cuz he's got kid the Bible says here that the attention should be with your good works
We see one was like man. She's godly. She loves the Lord. She's so winning, you know, she's just she's characterized by good works
This is what catches the attention
Okay, go to 1st Corinthians chapter 12 and this will be my last point here
Talk about paradigm shifts and I'm trying to squeeze as much as I can into this because every once in a while
We just need to talk about modesty
We need to talk about dress standards and look, let me just help you out ladies if you're wearing a dress
I'm the pastor here so I can say this. All right, if you're wearing a dress and you're like, well, I'm trying to like be right at
You know
Just as best as I can as high as I can but as low as I possibly can if you sit down and the dress
goes
That's probably not the best thing
Okay
Amen
If you don't agree with that too bad, you know
This is what I believe that the Bible's teaching us here and the Bible teaches that the thigh is the nakedness
Look, why not? Let's just be further to the right
Yeah
You know, I'm not gonna wear a pink tie
anytime soon
And look in India pink is fine on men. That's just the culture there. But guess what? I'm not an Indian
So I want to stay as far to the right as I possibly can and not wear specific colors that would be like
flamboyant
You understand one like manner ladies do the same
Are you criticizing me? No, actually I say this because I love our church
You know I say this because I love our children and I'm saying this because I'm trying to shift your paradigm. Okay?
But lastly church operations look at first Corinthians 12 5 and there are differences of administration, but the same Lord
There are diversities of operation, but it's the same God which worketh all in all
Shift the paradigm. There's a paradigm that needs to be shifted in churches just in general because there's a way that people do church
That is accepted widely, but it's not biblical
Most commonly would be this soft watered-down preaching is the paradigm of today
Right. Well, let's say we don't have any anybody, you know want to put the cookie in the bottom shelf
want people to come back we want to make sure that it's a loving environment and
Just marshmallows and cookies and just everything is just beautiful and just water down
Okay
Well that paradigm needs to shift their hard preaching
Because hard preaching changes lives
Hard preaching you will not find a watered-down sermon in the Bible
Prove it to me you're not gonna find it
Some weak watered-down preaching look I take that back. I'm wrong. There is watered-down preaching in the Bible, but it's always done by false prophets
It is
But you never see the man of God preaching and watered-down sermon what I mean by hard preaching I'm talking about screaming and yelling
No, that is an important element of hard preaching
Well, why don't you just say biblical preaching because biblical preaching is hard preaching
They're both one in the same
We need hard preaching why because you need to know that I'm serious about what I'm talking to you about
You
Need someone to shake you up to wake you up and say this is wrong
Fornication is wrong smoking weed is wrong
Adultery is wrong divorce is wrong abortion is wrong vaccines are wrong
Why are you let your eyes bulge out like that because it's called hard preaching
Or else you're not gonna take me serious
So let me let me repeat everything I just said watered-down. Hey fornication is wrong, but you know no one's perfect
Adultery is wrong, but you know people do it
You'd be like this is a joke
This is a joke no we're to we're to give
the French pressed version of preaching and
Or the beans are just squeezed to the bitter end and all the oils and everything that comes with God's Word is
Squeezed into that cup and you just get everything
There needs to be a shift in that paradigm and I almost you're gonna offend people
It looks like there's a bunch of people in here
That have not been I've been preaching here for two years
Hard preaching and look I see some of the same faces that I saw two years ago, and new people are constantly coming in
And even then if we did offend everybody so be it
Lift up thy voice like a trumpet cry out loud and spare not the Bible says
That's God saying that he's a don't you spare?
Don't you spare any anger don't you spare any yelling don't you spare any doctrine?
I want you to get it all out there because that is what changes lives
That is what shifts the paradigm
How about shallow teaching?
Needs to shift to sound doctrine
You know we're preachers they like they'll spend like five months on Psalm 23
verse 1
right
That's shallow. It's like how much more can we get from this one verse?
You
Know and I'm not saying the Bible is not deep absolutely, but you know what this this is why you preach for 50 minutes
We preach for 50 I preach for 50 minutes on Thursdays
And I'll teach through an entire chapter, and there's still a whole lot of meat in there
We need sound doctrine
You know why people are bored of church because they think the Bible is boring because the preacher preachers boring
He's just a boring he needs some coffee he needs some B vitamins
He needs to put away his commentaries. He needs something to just wake him up
He needs to hit the gym
He needs to do something to just liven him up go do some deadlifts or something
Because that teaching is boring okay teaching out of Paul Chappell's book
That's not teaching
shallow
People don't learn anything from that
What we need is expository
hard preaching sound doctrine look doctrine is very interesting is it not
When you get yourself a good meal, it's like no it's really interesting. I've always wondered about that, but my pastor never talked about that
Well, we will
We will why because we're to preach the whole counsel of God. Hey, there's needs to be a paradigm shift between
from
evangelistic campaigns to soul winning door-to-door
Right
Instead of you know ding-dong ditching and putting a tracker just you're out of there
Let's open our mouths boldly to make known the mysteries of the gospel learn how to preach the gospel, okay?
from nurseries and Sunday school class to family integrated church
Remember what I said in the beginning. We're only trying to change for the better and
Shame on the pastor how wicked does the pastor have to be?
To be against family integrated I
Mean look
If a person if a pastor is like well, that's not what we do, but to say like that's like really bad
They're out of their mind
You think it's bad for me to have my son in the service with me listening to preaching
Well, yeah, cuz then he's gonna miss the Sunday school lesson about you know, Noah's flood
But yeah, and Noah's flood you only talk about the ark never talk about the people who die
You've seen these silly songs you sugar them up and
You wonder why they go to these liberal churches with CCM when they grow up there needs to be a shift in that paradigm
Or recognize hey all children are welcome in the service
And look some of you may need a paradigm shift even now in regards to that because the kids annoy you sometimes when they're like
They're babies that's what they do they make noise
Tolerated
They're gonna grow up
Why do we why do we permit that because we want them to get everything and look kids actually pay more attention
Better attention sometimes than you do, you know you you zone in and out wondering what's for lunch and stuff like that
You just allow your imagination to be carried away sometimes kids
They're just soaking it all up and they retain a lot more than you think. I
I learned that I was gonna say the hard way, but not in the hard way because I learned that from my son
My son retains a lot of what's going on in the service
Every week we have church at home because of him
Where he's like he sets up his pulpit he gets his mind he song leads he prays he preaches against the dispensationalism
Right
This whole week, by the way, I wonder where he got this from he's telling everyone vaccines are wicked
He's all he's all the devil loves vaccines I
Wonder where he got that from you know, why because he's paying attention
And I'm talking about the whole week. He's talking about it where it's like. All right, son. Yes, we know
Family integrated is important
It's helping the next generation
It's helping us to pass on our faith to the next generation
There's so many parents out there who are just heartbroken because they lost their children, but it's their fault
and
It's also the church's fault
You know
There needs to be a shift in that paradigm. Okay from tolerance of leaven sin in the church to church discipline
From a deacon run church to a pastor led church
From fancy buildings to healthy congregations I
Wouldn't mind a nice building, but you know what more important than a nice building is a healthy congregation
You know
What good is it? What good is a whited sepulcher if they're full of dead man's bones?
Right
Where you have these fancy buildings high high steeple few people and everyone just like not say it or if they are they're just a
Bunch of heretics or they just could care less about the things of God. I want a healthy congregation
This is the church right here. Amen
You say okay, here's the last point so what do we do how do we how do we have that paradigm shift?
You just need to renew your mind
And look if you disagree with anything I said then prove me wrong from the Bible
That's it
Right, you know the paradigm shift between Bible college and training here
That's
a big paradigm shift
But if you disagree you're anyone's welcome to disagree, but come show me some proof, man
Come show me that I'm wrong
But if you can't it probably means that you have a paradigm that needs shifting
If you were rubbed the wrong way during the sermon, it's probably because you need a paradigm shift
And this is the way you do it just change. I
Showed you from the Bible do your own study if you have to but allow your mind to be renewed. Amen
Spire hasn't a word of prayer father. We thank you so much for your word
We're thankful for the soul winner that came to us and shifted our paradigm in regards to what we were trusted
I'm thankful for the men who were influenced who influenced my life who helped change my paradigm throughout my life in many aspects
I pray you continue to do so through the Holy Spirit through your word to the preaching of your word and
Help us to continue to change but always change for the better in Jesus name we pray. Amen