Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Faithful Word Baptist Church.
So good to see you all here for a Wednesday night service.
Find your seats, please, and grab a hymn.
I'll go to hymn number 55.
We'll begin tonight.
Hymn number 55.
Hymn number 55, when the roll is called up yonder.
Hymn number 55.
Let's sing it out nice and strong on that first hymn.
Hymn number 55.
[MUSIC - "WHEN THE ROLL IS CALLED UP YONDER"]
We come before this that we have to be in trust.
As Lord, your blessing upon Pastor Bruce Mejia.
Thank you for bringing him here safely to us.
And please just fill him with your Holy Spirit,
give him power to preach your word unto us.
Also just to keep our hearts open to receive
the message tonight.
And that all that's said and done
would give you the honor and the glory
that you deserve for it.
And we'll thank you for it.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Hymn number 67.
The pearly white city.
Hymn number 67.
Let's sing this out nice and strong together now.
Number 67.
[MUSIC - "WHEN THE ROLL IS CALLED UP YONDER"]
Let's go over the bulletin really quickly.
Get to the preaching as soon as possible.
All right, service times, on the upper left-hand corner,
right below that is where someone in the baptisms
for the year.
Happy birthday to everyone that had a birthday this month,
as well as an anniversary.
And below that, all ladies and teen girls,
if you missed the baby shower in honor of Shannon Betty,
you got maybe another baby coming down the road, I hope.
But that's just a rumor so far.
Anyways, on the back, ladies, please RSVP for the annual mother
tea party.
A lot of you guys are already doing it,
sending it to Faith Forward 1.
I forwarded it to Mrs. Anderson, and that's how she gets word
that you're coming.
And the schedules are right there.
It'll be Sunday, April 27, and May 4, from 2.30 to 4.30 PM.
And please RSVP on the event date of your choice
in the church Facebook group or by email
to the church at paperwork 1.
And also, in case you didn't know, Pastor Bruce Mejia,
he is preaching tonight.
Pastor Anderson is on a missions trip
with his daughter in Kenton in the Bahamas,
so we're scouting another trip
that down the road we may end up doing.
And the upcoming events are right there.
Take a look at those when you get a chance.
So just talking about a couple more announcements.
Pastor wanted everybody to know that
their team got 29 salvations for the day today,
and that is a lot of hard work.
So the Bahamas is still as receptive
to have we left today, man.
And in case you don't know,
we have a roller skate night coming up.
I believe it's Tuesday the 29th.
I'm not 100% sure, let me check the date.
And if you don't know about our skate nights, they're fun.
We have it for about three hours.
There's no music, so you don't have to worry
about worldliness creeping in your head.
And you can come and have fun
and you're all welcome to show up.
We pay for everything and in case you're wondering,
you still get your slice of pizza and your soda, amen.
And for some weird reason,
I can't pull up my calendar when you need it,
but I wanna give you guys a date.
29th, is that a Tuesday?
Can anybody tell me really quickly?
Yep, so it'll be April 29th from 6 p.m. to 3 p.m.
We'll also have it in the Sunday bulletin,
but we just wanna let you guys know as soon as possible.
And I guess that's it for announcements.
But since I have it open,
I circled my son Ace because Ace turned 17.
Nothing super special about that,
but let me just tell you a little quick story
that pretty much happened on,
believe, was it Monday, this Monday?
Okay, so we have kind of like a family tradition
that when you turn 18, or when is your birthday?
Not 18.
I decided to just take my kids to C2 Tactical.
Who knows where C2 Tactical is at?
It's a decent range, I recommend it.
I've been there maybe four or five times.
So we've had a few birthdays this year,
so I take them down there just to shoot
whatever package they have.
It's called the Master of Arms.
That includes two pistols, a shotgun, and automatic weapon.
Well, when I got there this time,
the guy that helped us last time
kind of gave me a really serious look.
So I didn't realize that in order for them
to be able to shoot automatic weapons, they have to be 16.
So I've been doing it since some of my kids were 10.
And I don't think it's my fault.
That should be their issue, you know?
But in case you're wondering,
they wanted me to let you guys know, believe it or not.
Hey, I think a lot of your church people come here.
Can you give them the word
that if they want to bring their kids,
they have to be 16 and up.
And so yeah, I had Lukey with a shotgun
just messing up his arm when he was 10 years old.
And I think Christina, you got away with it.
Christina turned 14, so she was having fun
with that MP5 and that shotgun and those two pistols.
So I don't know who got on him,
but he looked a little too serious.
Would you say Ace?
Ace doesn't remember the guy.
But last time he was really happy.
He was excited to help me out.
It was really cool.
But this time it was like,
"Age, just so you know, your kids have to be 16."
I'm like, "Oh, my bad, bro."
So just want to let you guys know,
this is reminding me of the story when I saw Ace's name.
But in that, let's get the soul winning
before I melt up here.
And in case you're wondering,
every single AC unit is on at 66 degrees.
So it's time to tell the manager
that he needs to get his people down here
and check that AC out.
So hopefully we'll have it ready for you guys
on Sunday morning.
Pray for that.
But if not, we're still coming to church, right?
All right, 'cause we don't quit for no reason, amen?
All right, let's get to the soul winning numbers.
Monday the 7th, starting on this side,
who got anybody saved?
You, how many?
Oh, see, just like the song, it kept tripping me up.
Like I thought it was over, I'm walking up here,
you turn back to my seat.
But anyways, anybody else?
For Monday, is that two?
All right, gotta hurry up before I really start sweating
and end up being a meme on the internet.
Anybody else?
What is that, two?
Okay, so two, anybody else from Monday the 7th?
All right, Tuesday, number?
Man, they like messing with me, look at these people.
Anybody else?
Five, six, anybody else?
And today, one?
All right, we got one way back there.
All right, Ramon, is that eight?
Eight, it is.
Anybody else?
One, okay.
I think that is it for announcements.
Go once, go twice.
All right, you're up.
- All right, you should find the answer
in front of your hymnal with the hymn titled
Brought in the Corner.
If you don't have an answer, you can raise your hand
and you'll receive one.
We'll sing it on that first verse together.
Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do.
Right in the corner, sing it out.
♪ Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do ♪
♪ Right in the corner ♪
♪ From afar, from harbor, you may die and thrust afar ♪
♪ Right in the corner, where you are ♪
♪ From our love in skies, where you may melt to clear ♪
♪ Let love tear you apart, alone we hold your song of cheer ♪
♪ Right in the corner, where you are ♪
♪ From afar, from harbor, you may die and thrust afar ♪
♪ Right in the corner, where you are ♪
♪ Make sure that we don't forget the present ♪
♪ Right in the corner, where you are ♪
♪ Right in the corner, from harbor, you may die and thrust afar ♪
♪ Right in ♪
- Hymnals now to hymn number 415, hymn number 415.
Victory through grace, hymn number 415.
Conquering now and still to conquer, hymn number 415.
Sing it out on that verse now.
♪ Conquering now and still to conquer ♪
♪ Riding the king in his might ♪
♪ The hosts of faith fall into the midst of the fight ♪
♪ In every turn and scene ♪
♪ Riding their friends down in the name ♪
♪ From truth to his throne ♪
♪ Now all of his glory ♪
♪ Our Lord is here ♪
♪ Strong the battle ♪
♪ And to this land ♪
♪ In which ♪
♪ And to this land ♪
♪ Y'all now ♪
- This time we're gonna pass the offering place
and as the offering place are being passed around,
please turn your Bibles to Revelation chapter number two,
Revelation chapter number two.
And really quickly, my wife told me
that during the announcements, I made a small boo-boo.
She said that I said it was from six to three.
That was a long skate night.
So I was talking about six p.m., but not to three a.m.,
so it's six to nine.
Somehow in my brain, I crossed everything all wrong.
But the skate night is six p.m. to nine p.m.,
three hours of fun, amen?
- Revelation chapter two, Revelation chapter two.
Under the angel of the church of Ephesus right,
these things saith he that holdeth the seven stars
in his right hand, who walketh in the midst
of the seven golden candlesticks.
I know thy works, and thy labor, and thy patience,
and how thou canst not bear them which are evil,
and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles
and are not, and hast found them liars,
and hast borne, and hast patience,
and for my name's sake hast labored, and hast not fainted.
Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee,
because thou hast left thy first love.
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen,
and repent, and do the first works,
or else I will come unto thee quickly,
and will remove thy candlestick out of his place,
except thou repent.
But this thou hast, that thou hatest
the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
To him that overcometh will I give to eat
of the tree of life, which is in the midst
of the paradise of God.
And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write,
these things saith the first and the last,
which was dead and is alive.
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty,
but thou art rich, and I know the blasphemy of them
which say they are Jews, and are not,
but are the synagogue of Satan.
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer.
Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison,
that you may be tried.
And you shall have tribulation ten days.
Be thou faithful unto death, and I
will give thee a crown of life.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit sayeth
unto the churches.
He that overcometh shall not be heard of the second death.
And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write,
these things saith he which hath the sharp sword
with two edges.
I know thy works, and where thou dwellest,
even where Satan's seat is.
And thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith,
even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr,
who was slain among you where Satan dwelleth.
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there
them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak
to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel,
to eat things sacrificed unto idols,
and to commit fornication.
So ask thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans,
which thing I hate.
Repent, or else I will come unto thee quickly,
and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit sayeth
unto the churches.
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna,
and will give him a white stone, and in the stone
a new name written, which no man knoweth,
saving he that receiveth it.
And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write,
these things sayeth the Son of God,
who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire,
and his feet are like fine brass.
I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith,
and thy patience, and thy works, and the last
to be more than the first.
Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee,
because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which
calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce
my servants to commit fornication,
and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication,
and she repented not.
Behold, I will cast her into a bed,
and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation,
except they repent of their deeds.
And I will kill her children with death,
and all the churches shall know that I am he which
searcheth the reins and hearts.
And I will give you unto every one of you
according to your works.
But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira,
as many as have not this doctrine,
and which have not known the depths of Satan as they speak,
I will put upon you none other burden.
But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end,
to him will I give power over the nations.
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron,
as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers,
even as I received of my father.
And I will give him the morning star.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit sayeth
unto the churches.
- Father in heaven, we love you.
We thank you for this church you've given us, Lord.
We thank you for Pastor Mejia coming to preach to us tonight.
We thank you for the great works that are being done
through First Works Baptist Church
and through his leadership, Lord.
We ask now that you would fill Pastor Mejia
with your spirit, Lord, that you would give him boldness,
Lord, to declare wondrous things from thy law,
and that we would all be very attentive to receive it.
And we ask your blessing for all these things
now in Jesus' name, amen.
- Amen, it's a blessing to be here.
Thank you so much for the invitation.
I wanna thank you, Pastor.
And the last time I came,
I preached a sermon called I Hope You Die.
And based upon the numbers that I'm hearing,
all the salvations and the attendance tonight,
and I'm sure the attendance on Sunday, you're dying, okay?
You know, the new IFB is definitely dying.
And they're like a corn of wheat
that is falling to our ground and dying,
and it's bringing forth much fruit.
And so that's exciting to see that.
I've been praying for your pastor,
praying for your church.
And I'm happy to hear that he's killing it
on the mission field right now,
getting a ton of people saved.
I just spoke to him today.
And so praise God for that.
And we praise God for Faithful Word Baptist Church.
Thank you again for the invitation tonight.
Revelation chapter two and verse number nine.
The title of my sermon this evening
is The Synagogue of Satan.
The Synagogue of Satan.
Verse number nine of chapter two says,
"I know thy works and tribulation and poverty,
"but thou art rich.
"And I know the blasphemy of them
"which say they are Jews and are not,
"but are of the Synagogue of Satan."
Now, just in case you missed it the first time,
just in case you misunderstood
verse number nine of chapter two,
just in case someone misinterpreted it for you,
just in case you read a commentary on it
that stated that it's not saying
what it clearly says that it says,
it also repeats it in chapter three and verse number nine.
Chapter three, verse number nine says,
"Behold, I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan,
"which say they are Jews and are not, but do lie.
"Behold, I will make them to come
"and worship before thy feet,
"and to know that I have loved thee."
And this evening, I wanna preach on the subject
of the Synagogue of Satan, the assembly of Satan,
this congregation of the devil
that the Lord Jesus Christ is referring to here.
Now, this is a passage that Christian Zionists
avoid at all costs, okay?
Because of the fact that it's so damning
to the subject of Zionism, dispensationalism.
And in fact, if you've gotten into a conversation
with any of these people who believe
that the Jews are God's chosen people,
who support the state of Israel,
they will never quote this passage.
They'll go to Genesis chapter 12.
They'll go to Old Testament passages regarding the covenant,
but they will avoid Revelation 2.9
and Revelation 3.9 like the plague.
Now, why is that?
Because of the fact that it says synagogue of Satan.
And here's the thing is that whenever I get
into a conversation with people like this,
who believe that the Jews are God's chosen people,
and we should bless Israel and this, that and the other,
I let them say their peace and let them quote Genesis 12
and let them quote all these Old Testament passages
regarding the Old Covenant.
And I just kind of listen for a little bit,
and just kind of make them think like,
man, you got a point there.
Genesis chapter 12, okay, maybe you have a point there.
And then this is what I answer with.
What does Jesus say though?
'Cause really that's the most important thing.
Now Genesis is still the word of God.
Galatians 3:16 is definitely the word of God.
The entire book of Romans is definitely the word of God.
But here's a great question to ask.
So, what does Jesus have to say about the Jews?
And you know what?
They just never wanna answer that.
They always wanna talk about everything else
and what everyone else is saying
and what John Nelson Darby is teaching
and what C.I. Schofield says in his footnotes
and what Clarence Larkin wrote or made in his charts.
But they never wanna address the simple question of
what about Jesus though?
What did he say about the Jews?
And I'm gonna tell you why they don't wanna address it.
It's because of the fact that he calls them
probably the most crazy thing ever,
which is the synagogue of Satan.
And they would consider that to be anti-Semitic.
And they would say, well, that's kind of blasphemous
and you're misinterpreting that.
Really, how can you misinterpret synagogue of Satan?
You know, this is a very elementary statement there.
It's not cryptic at all.
And in fact, he says they would say they are Jews
and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan.
And you know, you hear different people
giving different interpretations to this.
And probably one of the most common one that I hear is like,
well, this is referring to Christians
who call themselves Jews.
And you know, I do that look again,
and I say, you know, I don't call myself a Jew.
You know, I don't go to a synagogue either.
And when I read the New Testament,
I just don't find any Christian calling themselves Jews.
If we were to take that interpretation,
it actually would not be blasphemous
for a Christian to call himself a Jew,
according to the Bible.
Why? Because the Bible clearly says
that he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly,
neither is that circumcision outward in the flesh,
but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly,
and circumcision is out of the heart,
and not in the letter, but of the spirit,
whose praise is not of man, but of God.
Now, I'm not saying we should just go out these doors
and start saying that we're Jews.
Probably not the best idea.
I'm just saying if you did, it wouldn't be blasphemous,
as these people claim it is.
But Christian Zionists avoid this statement like the plague,
and quite frankly, it is one of the most controversial
verses in the Bible that dispensationalists
will avoid as much as possible, because it's authority.
Obviously, the entire word of God is authoritative,
but it's coming from the Lord Jesus Christ himself.
And I just find it interesting that he repeats it twice.
And I also find it interesting that it's in chapter two,
verse number nine, and in case you can't find it
where it's mentioned the second time, it's okay.
Here's a good way to remember it.
It's in chapter three, verse number nine as well.
He repeats it twice.
Now the question tonight is, why does he call them
the synagogue of Satan?
Well, before I get into that, let's go ahead
and get into some introductory statements here.
And the first thing I wanna talk about is,
what is a synagogue?
That's a good question.
What is a synagogue?
Well, synagogue literally means a gathering, an assembly.
So, you know, we never wanna think that there's something
inherently wrong with the term synagogue.
It's not like there's something wicked about it.
It's literally just a phrase or a term that's used
to describe an assembly of people or a gathering.
Now, here's the thing is that there are instances
in the New Testament where in the Greek word,
the Greek word that's being used for gathering
or assembly is synagogue.
You know, you read James chapter two
when it talks about a man coming into your assembly,
the word that's being used there is synagogue.
And that goes to show us that that's simply,
that's what it means.
It means an assembly, people who congregate.
But you know, we never wanna use it
to describe the house of God because of the fact
that it carries with it a negative connotation.
We know that when we talk about a synagogue,
it's referring to a Christ rejecting religion
that hates the Lord Jesus Christ.
And therefore, we never wanna talk about the house of God
as being a synagogue.
Let's talk about it being the house of God,
the assembly of God, the congregation of God,
the church of God, right?
But what is a synagogue?
Where do they come from?
Well, synagogues, when you think about it,
if you study this out,
they weren't assemblies, they were sanctioned by God.
You know, 'cause it's pretty interesting
when you look at it in the Bible,
you realize that it's not instituted in the Old Testament.
When you read the Old Testament,
God never told Moses, He never told any of the prophets,
hey, create this assembly known as the synagogue
that will be an alternative to the temple.
If people aren't able to go to the temple,
they can just meet in synagogues.
It was never a thing, okay?
You know, and aside from the fact
that it's briefly mentioned in Psalm 74,
and it doesn't really give a whole lot of context,
we can come to the conclusion
that synagogues were man-made, they were not God-made.
God did not sanction this, He didn't institute synagogues.
This is something that the nation of Israel,
Jews came up with in order to meet in for prayer,
worship, to be reading the scriptures,
things of that nature.
And then, you know, all of a sudden in the New Testament,
you just see them sprout out.
You know, you see synagogues mentioned everywhere,
you just, verse after verse,
chapter after chapter in the gospels,
synagogues is very much a prominent location
in the New Testament, and it's very prominent
when it comes to the religion of Judaism.
And when you really study this out,
you realize, well, if synagogues were not sanctioned
by God, if they were manmade, the purpose of them
was really, essentially, if someone couldn't make it
to the temple, they would just assemble together
with other Jews to read the scriptures,
to pray together, to worship.
So essentially, they were like paratemple ministries.
We've heard of parachurch ministries.
This is kind of like a paratemple ministry, right?
Where it's not necessarily a bad thing
because they're gathering together to meet,
to read the law of Moses, to pray together,
to worship together, to talk about the God of the Bible,
but it's not necessarily something that God say,
hey, this is what you should do, okay?
Well, later on, you have the destruction of the temple
around 586 BC through the Babylonian conquest there.
And at that point, the destruction of the temple,
there's no centralized place for the Jews to worship.
So they go into Babylon and obviously at that point,
synagogues though existing beforehand
became even more prominent thereafter
'cause they really don't have a place of worship.
So they're meeting in different places,
reading the scriptures, so on and so forth.
Well then obviously we know that the Jews
end up coming back to the land
and they were able to reconstruct the temple once again.
But here's the thing, so much time had passed
between the destruction of the temple and then coming back
that those places of worship, those assemblies,
those synagogues just became a permanent thing
in their Jewish culture.
You just have synagogues everywhere.
And obviously if they're not doing anything
that's anti-biblical, if they're not teaching anything
that's wrong or heretical,
they're just meeting to read the scriptures.
They're just meeting to worship together.
You know, what's the harm in it, right?
And you can think of it as kind of like,
the way I would compare it to today
would be like Bible college, Sunday school classes.
No, Bible college is not in the Bible, right?
Bible college is a parachurch ministry
that was created by man.
And we can say that they were started
with the best of intentions.
They were started to teach the Bible,
to prepare people for the work of the ministry.
You know, they're preaching the word of God.
They're trying to prepare pastors,
and missionaries, and evangelists.
It's not necessarily the way that God sanctioned it to be,
but you know, they exist for that purpose, right?
Same thing with Sunday School class.
You know, if you've ever been to a Sunday School class,
you know that they're teaching the Bible.
It's probably not the best environment for it.
You sing a bunch of stupid songs as a kid,
you know, along with it.
But in general, they're teaching the Bible.
They teach about David and Goliath, about Noah's flood,
various stories in the Bible, and it kind of works.
You know, it's a good alternative, right?
You know, if you have a child,
you don't really know what to teach the child,
people think, well, we'll just take them
to a Sunday school class,
and they'll learn a lot of Bible stories,
and they do learn a lot of Bible stories.
So there's some positives to these institutions.
But let me just say this, like with any other institution
that's not sanctioned by God, it can be corrupted.
You know what, the synagogue, though it started off
as a good thing, became corrupted, severely corrupted.
It was a legitimate solution to a problem,
but then we see that it became corrupted.
And even in the New Testament, we read in Acts chapter 15,
let me read it to you, verse number 21 says,
"For Moses of old time hath in every city
"them that preach him, being read in the synagogues
"every Sabbath day."
You know, that's a positive, right?
All around the world, 'cause not just in Israel,
there's synagogues all over the Gentile nations,
there's synagogues in converse to Judaism,
and they're assembling together in these synagogues,
and they're reading the law of Moses.
So people are hearing Moses being preached,
people are talking about it,
so that's a good thing, right?
However, as we know, they ceased being an institution
where they would just meet and hear the word of God,
and they became permanent institutions
with very powerful and influential leadership
that ended up corrupting the nation of Israel, okay?
And so, and we see that by the time of Christ,
synagogues were not just widely accepted
as being legitimate institutions,
they were highly respected and revered of the Jews,
and there were centers of religion,
but the Pharisees took over,
and the Pharisees obviously, by and large,
were false prophets who ended up corrupting
that Old Testament religion through their oral traditions.
You say, really, are synagogues that bad?
Well, put it this way, the rulers of the synagogues
were the ones responsible for spearheading
the crucifixion of Christ, right?
They're the ones responsible for heading up the rebellion
against biblical religion
and causing Jesus Christ to be crucified.
And that's why it's called a synagogue of Satan.
And then especially after 70 AD,
the destruction of the temple, you know,
because of their rejection of Jesus Christ,
Jesus Christ prophesied of this in Luke chapter 21,
that Israel would be destroyed,
the temple would be destroyed.
We know that in 70 AD, the Roman emperor Titus came
and just completely demolished Israel and the temple.
And then you have the Jews being dispersed
into all nations.
Well, at that point, more synagogues are created
and the Pharisees still have a foothold
on the Jews of that day, on Jewish worship.
And that essentially is the foundation,
the fundamental foundation for rabbinic Judaism of today,
which by the way is obviously a Christ rejecting,
Christ hating religion.
Go to Matthew chapter 23 if you would,
Matthew chapter 23, Matthew chapter 23.
Today we're gonna talk about the synagogue of Satan.
And I got a few points tonight.
You know, I'm not gonna ask if this is my cup.
Every time I do, someone says yes,
but Brother Segura just put Pastor Mejia there now.
So now I know for a fact he's in my cup, so.
We're gonna go to about nine tonight.
I'm just kidding.
Why did Jesus call them the synagogue of Satan?
Point number one of why he called them
the synagogue of Satan is because of the fact
that their ministers are agents of Satan.
And when I talk about the synagogue of Satan,
I'm not just referring to those in the first century AD.
I'm talking about the ministers today.
Our ministers, they're agents of Satan.
There's nothing godly about them.
There's nothing biblical about them.
There's nothing Jewish about them.
Folks, let me just tell you right now.
They are agents and ministers of Satan himself.
Why?
Well, let's talk about the leadership
even in the first century AD.
Synagogues weren't instituted by God.
Therefore, they didn't have sanctioned leaders.
Anything that God institutes as being a sanctioned place
for people to meet, for his people to meet,
he always places what?
Leaders in those areas, right?
When you have the temple that is sanctioned by God,
you have the Levites who are leading,
you have leadership there
in order to keep checks and balances,
to teach the word of God,
God ordains leadership for his institutions.
Even in the New Testament,
the local New Testament church is not a free for all.
There's leadership there, right?
The Bible tells us that 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.
There is church sanctioned leadership in a local assembly
that's sanctioned by God.
Folks, a synagogue doesn't have that.
Find me a verse in the Old Testament where God said,
hey, you got a synagogue?
All right, this is the leadership
that's gonna be in the synagogue.
Well, you say, then what's the point
of even making a synagogue
or creating a synagogue in the Old Testament?
Well, it's just like having a soul winning group
out somewhere where they don't have a church.
Put it that way, right?
That's a good comparison.
If you have places, you know, in the United States
or abroad that don't have a local New Testament church,
but you have a group of believers there,
they can kind of meet together,
read the Bible together, soul win together.
They have that group there, right?
That nucleus.
Even though it's not necessarily a group
that's sanctioned by God to be a church,
they're assembling together.
They're synagoguing together
in order to worship together, right?
But here's the thing is that sometimes
even groups like that can go bad.
And then you have someone who's hungry for power.
They take over.
And if there's not a pastor in there to lead that,
it can go awry,
which is exactly what happened to the synagogues.
The temple had the Levi's.
Local New Testament churches have leadership.
But notice that none of the leadership
that's mentioned in the Bible
for the temple, for the church,
includes rabbis, masters, lawyers,
and definitely doesn't include Pharisees.
These were made up titles for these men
who ended up taking over these synagogues
and creating this Christ-hating religion
that we know today.
Now, as far as the origins of Pharisees,
people say various things.
I believe that they originated
after the Maccabean Revolt, circa 165, 150.
It's not necessarily clear.
I'm not staunch on that,
but I believe that's possibly when they came about.
It's not very clear.
But what is clear is that the Pharisees
eventually seized leadership within synagogues
and created a hierarchy of sorts
with themselves at the top.
So, well, how do you know that?
'Cause you just read the New Testament.
They're the rulers.
They're the ones with the most influence.
They're the ones who give the green light
to kick someone out of the synagogue.
If someone is accepting Christ
or they're believing on Christ,
the Pharisees had the power
to boot them out of the synagogue.
That's a lot of power.
You say, really, did they have that much power?
They had the power to influence the masses
to agree with them in crucifying Jesus Christ.
Think about that.
So somewhere along the line,
these Pharisees ended up seizing power.
There's a vacuum of leadership within synagogues.
They were manmade.
They took over and what did they do?
They seized power and they uplifted their oral traditions
over the word of God.
And that's how we have modern day rabbinic Judaism.
Look at Matthew chapter 23, if you would.
Matthew chapter 23, when it comes to the Pharisees
who are essentially are the architects of rabbinic Judaism
of today, they promoted Moses with no intention
to actually obey it themselves.
So when they say, oh yeah, we're of Moses,
we're of Abraham, liars, they're not.
Look at verse number one.
Then speak Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples
saying the scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
Now some would say that Moses' seat was referring
to an actual position in a synagogue, a place of authority.
We can also interpret this to mean that they're coming
in the authority of Moses.
They're coming in the power and the authority of Moses
because they're using the scriptures.
They're sitting in Moses' seat, coming with his authority.
So he goes on to say in verse three,
all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe,
that observer do.
So Jesus say, hey, the Pharisees and the scribes,
they come in the authority of Moses.
They're reading from the Torah.
They're reading from the first five books of the Bible.
They're quoting Moses.
And so whatever you're hearing them talk about Moses,
do as they say because they're quoting Moses.
Sounds reasonable.
But, it says, "Do not ye after their works,
for they say and do not."
Now, there's a word in the English language
that describes what this is referring to.
It's called a hypocrite.
And that's exactly what this entire chapter talks about,
how hypocritical they are in their so-called service.
Because they're telling people, obey Moses, we're of Moses.
You need to listen to Moses, but they don't obey Moses.
They don't even believe in Moses.
They don't believe any of his writings,
as we're going to see later on.
He says in verse number four, "For they bind heavy burdens
and grievous to be born, and lay them on men's shoulders,
but they themselves would not move them
with one of their fingers."
This is referring to the fact that they promote Moses,
but in all actuality, they don't believe Moses.
They're promoting him in order to defect
from what they truly believe,
which is their oral traditions.
Because folks, if someone in the Old Testament
believed Moses, believing Moses would lead them to Christ.
You know, reading about Moses would condition them
to accept the coming Christ,
would point them to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Why?
Because the law is our school master
to bring us unto Christ, the Bible says.
And so if someone claims to believe in Moses,
but it doesn't lead them to Christ, then they're lying.
'Cause that's the intention of reading the law of Moses.
That's the intention of reading the Old Testament, right?
It's like someone says, "Well, I'm a truther.
"Are you saved?
"No, I don't even believe in God."
You're a liar.
Oh, you're not a truther, you're a liar.
You're a liar is what you are.
They're like, "Well, I'm a truther.
Okay, what do you believe about salvation?
Well, I think you have to repent of your sins."
Well, this is what the Bible says about salvation, that it's not by works, it's not by repenting
of your sin.
You know, it's by your faith alone in Jesus Christ.
The Bible literally says, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved."
You give them all the verses and they're like, "No, I still think it's about repenting of
your sins and you got to do works," although you're not really a truther.
Because a true truther will lead you to the foot of the cross to believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and reject all other gospels that teach a false way of salvation.
You know, it reminds me, yesterday we went out soul winning with our church, and one
of the last doors that I knocked on, or right before I knocked, it had a sticker on the
window that said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved."
I was like, "Man, this is easy money here."
Either I'm just going to meet a brother in Christ, or I'm just not even going to open
them by Bible, just point to the verse on the window.
So the guy opens the door and I start talking to him, and it just realized very soon that
the guy's not even saved.
I was like, "What do you have to do to be saved?"
He's like, "Oh, you have to follow Jesus Christ."
And you know, you try to cut people some slack and I'm just like, "What do you mean by that
exactly?
Well, you have to keep the commandments.
You got to do this and that."
And I said, "Well, your window says," I said, "Your window says you have to believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved."
Why you got that on your window if you don't believe that?
Why is this on your window?
And he's just like, "Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you got to do that, but," no, no, no, buts.
That's it.
You put it on your window.
I didn't put that there.
You put it on your window.
Let me tell you something.
He didn't get saved.
Let me just tell you something right now, he could claim he believes the Bible, but
obviously he clearly doesn't.
Hey, he could put that sticker on his window all he wants.
Doesn't mean anything.
Doesn't mean he believes in Acts chapter 16, verse 31.
I'll tell you why, because he didn't believe the truth.
And you know what?
These Pharisees, what they did, and just like the Pharisees of today, the rabbinic Judaism
Pharisees of today, the Jews of today, they can claim they believe in the Bible.
They can claim to believe in the God of the Bible.
They're lying.
Right, because believing in the God of the Bible will lead you to Christ, who is the
God of the Bible.
You know, Jehovah's Witnesses are like, "Well, you know, we just believe in Jehovah.
We just don't think that Jesus Christ is God."
You don't believe in Jehovah.
Jesus is Jehovah.
They're promoting Moses with no intention to actually believe it themselves, not only
that.
But we see what the Pharisees, the leadership of the synagogues here is that they love having
the preeminence amongst the Jews.
It says in verse number five, "But all their works they do for to be seen of men, they
make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the
uppermost rooms at feasts and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets,
and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi."
So what do we see?
We see that the reason they're taking leadership in these synagogues is not for the benefit
of those who want the truth.
They want the preeminence among the Jewish people, not with the intention to actually
help someone spiritually.
No, they have this intention, this motive to just be important before the people, false
prophets.
Look what it goes on to say in verse number, let's read verse number seven again, Jesus
rebuking them says, "And greetings in the markets to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi,
but be ye not called Rabbi, for one is your master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren.
And call no man father upon the earth, for one is your father, which is in heaven, neither
be ye called masters, for one is your master, even Christ."
So here he's telling us that Jesus Christ is showing us that the Pharisees are taking
this leadership, they're leading the Jewish people, not because they have the intention
to help them spiritually, they want to be called Rabbi, Rabbi, they want to be called
master, they want to be called father, they want these lofty titles, not because they
have some intention to help people spiritually, it's because they love to have the preeminence
among the Jews.
And by the way, this is a good verse for the Catholics to memorize too, by the way.
Let's just repeat it, verse number nine, "Call no man father upon the earth."
Who would you call your dad, though?
I call him dad.
I'm not, I don't speak novel.
Father?
Well, you know what?
If I called him father, it'd be completely biblical to do so because he is literally
my father.
Who is Jesus Christ addressing?
He's addressing spiritual leadership and he's prohibiting them from using these titles.
Oh, there's so many times in the New Testament, though, that fathers being used and masters
being used.
Yeah, because the master is the boss.
But when it comes to a spiritual leader of a spiritual institution, they are prohibited
by God to use these titles.
So the Catholic priest out there who calls himself father and just like mama has no business
with that title.
According to Jesus, you know, Catholics all day long will tell you, well, you know, look
at all these verses to use his father, though.
Yeah.
But OK, then go ahead and explain to me what it means then.
Thank you for showing me.
Thank you for for Googling father in the New Testament and just giving me all the verses
on father.
Why don't you go ahead and actually tell me exactly what it means then?
I'll tell you what it means.
Spiritual leaders shouldn't be called master, father, rabbi, but let's get back to the Jews.
What is Jesus telling him?
He's saying, look, you guys want the preeminence among the Jewish people.
You guys, all you want to do is have these lofty titles.
You love the high places.
You love to be admired of the masses and you have no intention of actually leading people
to Jesus Christ.
Not only that, but many of them weren't even saved.
Look at verse 13, "But woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you shut up
the kingdom of heaven against men, for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye
them that are entering to go in."
So here's something that's really bad about the Pharisees.
Aside from the fact that you're just not even saved, because they're not going into the
kingdom of heaven, they're actually stopping people from getting saved.
Now let me explain something to you.
It's bad if you're not saved, right?
If you believe a false gospel, not good.
But it's even worse if you're dragging people with you to hell, though.
If you're intentionally going out there, preaching a false gospel according to the Lord Jesus
Christ, you're trash.
You're a false prophet, because you are hindering people from actually hearing the gospel and
believing the right salvation.
That's why no mercy for Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons who are outdoor knocking, amen?
They're preaching a false gospel, they're cursed.
They're making it their livelihood, they're investing their time and effort and talents
into going out there preaching their false gospel, damning people to hell.
They're not going in themselves, but they're also not suffering others to go in because
they're preaching a false gospel.
Now, obviously, when you read the gospels, you see that some of the Pharisees possibly
were saved.
There are some rulers that had good intentions.
Think of Jairus, for example, right, who actually sought out the Lord.
And one of the most famous Pharisees that ended up being used greatly of God is the
Apostle Paul.
So obviously, you know, there were Pharisees that did believe in the Lord.
But in general, though, the Pharisees were false prophets.
And look, just like I'm sure there's Pentecostals out there who eventually get saved.
But let me just say this.
If a Pentecostal pastor gets saved, he should no longer be a pastor, especially of a fundamental
Baptist church.
You say why?
That's called disqualification.
You're not.
You just got saved yesterday.
What the heck is a baby going to do?
How is a baby going to teach me about spiritual matters when you just got saved?
Oh, but he has so much experience.
Yeah, he has the experience of an unsafe person, folks, people who belong behind the
pulpit, pastoring a church, are those who have been saved for quite some time, not
just finding out about salvation as a pastor.
And I'm not knocking anybody who if there's a pastor out there that finds out
about salvation, they believe the wrong salvation and then they believe the right
salvation. Praise God.
But have the humility to step down and say, you know what?
I can't be a pastor because I wasn't even saved, especially if they're not even
using the right Bible to say the name.
I don't know his name. Remember, remember, many of these Pharisees weren't even
saved. And we're thankful for those who did get saved.
But in general, these Pharisees were not saved.
And let's read on here. Look at verse 15.
So this speaks to the severity of how much, how big of a false prophet these people were.
Why? Because we see that they are putting in all this effort, all of this work.
They're compassing land and sea.
They're going to Crete.
They're going to Thessalonica.
They're going to Greece.
They're going to all these areas in order to preach their false gospel.
And what are their converts? Reprobates.
Twofold more child than your son is basically saying they're worse
reprobates than you. Pretty, pretty powerful words that the Lord Jesus Christ is
using here, you know, and we can see why he would call them the synagogue of Satan.
You're an assembly of ministers of Satan is basically what he's saying.
Why? They're not saved.
Their converts are not saved.
Go to John Chapter 12, if you would.
John Chapter 12. Hold your place there in Matthew 23.
We might come back to that.
They promote Moses with no intention to actually obey Moses.
They love having the preeminence among the Jews.
Many of them weren't even saved.
They're preaching a false gospel.
They're going out of their way to
compass land and sea to damn people to hell.
Yeah, it sounds like a synagogue of Satan to me.
The Bible tells us you're in John Chapter 12.
I'm going to read to you from Second Corinthians 1113.
For such are false apostles,
deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
And no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Therefore, it is no great thing if his
ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness,
whose end shall be according to their works.
Yeah, but they sound Christian.
But what do they believe, though?
Just because a church says Christian,
just because it says Baptist, just because they claim to believe in
the Bible doesn't really mean anything.
What what do they claim to believe?
You're in John Chapter 12.
I'm going to keep reading from some other verses here.
Romans 1128 says as concern of the gospel, there are enemies for your sakes.
Now, Romans 11 is dealing with two groups
of people, namely the Jews who are not saved and those who are saved.
The Jews who are not saved are referred to as Jews, Israelites.
Whereas those who are saved,
according to Romans 11 are referred to as the election.
And he's saying here the concern of the gospel, there are enemies for it says
there are enemies for your sakes.
Now, you don't have to read very far to see this.
When you read throughout the Book of Acts,
the New Testament, the number one antagonist of Christians were Jews.
That's not anti-Semitic.
That's not controversial at all.
You just have to, like, read a couple of chapters in and you'll find this phrase,
but the Jews is that Christians are doing really well and they're winning souls to
Christ, but the Jews, as you just see that over and over again.
But the Jews are like the party poopers of the Book of Acts, persecuting
believers, hindering them from hearing the gospel, hindering people from from hearing
the gospel, beating up Christians, persecuting them.
Sounds to me like they're the enemies of the gospel.
He goes on to say as concerned in the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes,
but it's touching the election.
They are beloved for the Father's sake.
So what is he saying?
You know, we don't we need to make sure
that we have a balanced view of Jews and realize that the enemies of the gospel
are Jews who hate the gospel, who hate the Lord Jesus Christ.
If there's Jews out there that are saved, though, they're the election.
They're beloved.
But at that point, you know, they shouldn't be calling themselves Jews
anyways, because in Christ Jesus, it's not a Jew nor gentile.
There's no such thing as a Judeo Christian made up phrase too long.
Stick with Christian.
We don't need a dash.
We don't need a prefix. Just put just call yourself a Christian.
You don't get brownie points for putting Judeo in front of Christian.
You know, by the way, along with that,
there's no such thing as a Masianic Jew.
The only Messiah that I know is the Lord Jesus Christ.
As concerned to the gospel, they are enemies for your sake,
but as touching the election, they are beloved for the Father's sake.
You know, and here's the thing when it comes to these Pharisees,
the reason they're the synagogue of Satan,
it's because of the fact that, you know,
if they're leading these synagogues in prayer and worship and Bible study,
then why are they surpassing the boundaries of their leadership,
their influence and excommunicating people who actually love the truth?
We see this, you don't have to turn there in John chapter nine.
When the young man who's born blind, when Jesus heals him,
you know, the Pharisees go to his parents and it says his parents answered them
and said, we know that this is our son, excuse me, and that he was born blind.
But by what means he now see if we know
not or who has opened his eyes, we know not he is of age.
Ask him. He shall speak for himself.
These words fake his parents because they fear the Jews for the Jews had agreed
already that if any man did not confess, excuse me, that if any man did confess
that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
What business is that of yours to kick
people out of the synagogue for confessing Christ?
Synagogues could have been used in a great way to bring people to Christ.
Right.
And by the way, because people often say,
oh, man, you're saying all the stuff about the synagogues.
Don't you know that the Apostle Paul and the apostles, they all went to synagogues.
They all kept Sabbath.
No, they didn't keep Sabbath just because they go on the Sabbath day to a synagogue.
Folks, they're going there to evangelize because they know there's a bunch of Jews
there who are looking for the truth or observing the Sabbath.
You know, that's what they're doing.
But it says here that they had already agreed together that they would
excommunicate people from the synagogue, this paratemporal ministry.
If they confess Christ, look at John chapter 12, John chapter 12, verse 39.
Therefore, they could not believe
because that Isaiah had said he had blinded their eyes and hardened their heart
that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart and be
converted and I should heal them.
Now, that is a very powerful passage there that teaches the reprobate doctrine.
What's interesting about this is that it's also quoted in Matthew chapter 13.
However, in Matthew chapter 13, it says that they actually close their eyes.
They close their ears.
They didn't want to hear the truth.
Whereas in John chapter 12, it says that God did it.
What is that teaching us?
It's teaching us that this is how being a reprobate happens.
You first close your ears.
You first close your eyes.
You first reject the truth.
You know what God does eventually?
He aids you in that process and just closes it permanently.
And this is in context of the Jews.
He says in verse 41, these things said
Matthias when he saw his glory and spake of him.
Nevertheless, among the chief rulers, also many believed on him.
So we see here that a lot of the Pharisees did get saved.
They believed on Jesus Christ.
These were probably people who actually wanted the truth.
They were reading about Moses.
They're reading the scriptures.
These are actual truthers.
But obviously they're kind of weenies, though,
because it says, but because of the Pharisees, they did not confess him,
lest they should be put out of the synagogue.
And let me just clarify something here in verse 42.
When it says that they did not confess him, it doesn't mean that they didn't
call upon the name of the Lord to be saved, as people erroneously like to say.
This is referring to the fact that they're ashamed.
They're not openly telling people that they're believers.
Basically, they're not openly telling Pharisees, hey, I believe in Jesus Christ.
They obviously called upon the name of the Lord because that is the biblical model
of how you get saved. It goes on to say verse 43, for they love
the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Jesus cried and said, he that believeth on me, believeth not on on me,
but on him that sent me, and he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me.
Go to John, chapter eight, John, chapter eight.
Let me read you from John 16, verse one says,
These things have I spoken unto you that you should not be offended.
They shall put you out of the synagogue.
Who? They? Jews.
Yea, the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God's
service, the Bible says. So what do we see here?
Over and over again, the antagonists,
the enemy of the gospel are Jews, according to the Bible.
And more specifically, the ruler of the synagogues,
which is why Jesus Christ said in Revelation two nine and three nine.
They are of the synagogue of Satan. Why? Because their ministers are wicked.
Their ministers are evil. The ministers hate the gospel.
Ministers hate the truth. Why did he call them that?
Because their ministers are agents of Satan. But not only that,
he called them the synagogue of Satan because they worship a false God.
Oh, second, they believe in God the Father. No, they don't.
They believe in a false God and they can claim all day long.
Oh, no, we believe in God the Father.
We just don't uphold Jesus Christ as being God the Son.
You know, we actually believe in the God of the Old Testament.
No, you don't.
Now, it's funny that they make this argument today because this is literally
a conversation that Jesus Christ had with the Jews in John chapter eight.
Now, when you read Revelation two, nine and three, nine, it's just like, man,
that line was just ha synagogue of Satan is just like,
he cooked them hard. Then you read John chapter eight, though.
It's just like, oh, man. Look at verse thirty nine.
They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father.
Jesus sayeth unto him, if you were Abraham's children,
you would do the works of Abraham. Now you seek to kill me.
Men that have told you the truth, which I've heard of God.
This did not Abraham. Ye do the deeds of your father.
Then say they to him, we be not born of fornication.
We have one father, even God.
Now, what's interesting is that sometimes you'll talk to Christians,
even Baptists who believe that the Jews are God's chosen people,
and they'll say the same exact thing.
So like, don't say, well, they believe in God the Father.
The Jews don't believe in God the Son.
But are you literally going to contradict what Jesus literally said in verse 41?
Ye do the deeds of your father out of the mouth of Jesus Christ himself.
He said, you do the deeds of your father,
referring to someone who is not his father, a different God.
And of course, they're insulting him.
They're blaspheming him.
We be not born of fornication.
We have one father, even God.
Obviously, what they're implying is that Mary committed fornication.
Right. They're insulting him.
They're blaspheming him.
And they're claiming to have one father, even God.
Verse 42, Jesus said to them, if God were your father, you would love me.
For I proceeded forth and came from God.
Neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Why do you not understand my speech?
Even because he cannot hear my word.
And here's the kicker.
Ye are of your father, the devil.
That sounds like synagogue of Satan.
But it's a little more personal, though, is your father.
First of all, your your church, your assembly is of Satan.
But take it a step further.
Your father is of Satan.
Your father is Satan, meaning they're begotten of Satan.
That's what that's what he's saying.
And the lust of your father, will you do?
He was a murderer from the beginning
and abode none of the truth because there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh the lie, speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it.
I want to hear people quote John eight forty four.
When we talk about who are God's chosen people,
why don't you go ahead and quote John eight forty four for me?
Why don't you go and cite that scripture
for me real quick and explain to me what does that mean?
Why does he say that?
You like what he said? I like what he said.
I like John eight forty four.
Great portion of scripture, some hard preaching there.
Who can hear it?
It's a hard saying for those who don't like the truth.
But, you know, Hobby Lobby needs to get this on a canvas.
You know, you are your father, the devil in cursive.
You know, that farmhouse style.
Soon as you go into your house,
it's like the first thing you see and you just clarify.
Like, I'm not talking about you.
I'm just I just like the verse.
And why is he saying this?
Well, obviously, he's not addressing all Jews.
You know, we never want to take this interpretation that this is just,
you know, for every single Jew that exists.
Obviously, this is referring to Christ rejecting Christ hating Jews who follow
the religion of the Pharisees.
And you know what?
If a Jew comes to me and he says
that Jesus Christ is burning in hell in his own excrement, that he was a sorcerer,
that he was a bastard son of a son of Pantera.
Oh, yeah. Mark it down.
That's a child of Satan right there.
Oh, you're you're a child of the devil.
Why don't you say so?
You don't have to tell me everything you believe.
Just call yourself a child of the devil.
And I know what you believe.
And again, not all Jews believe this.
I have yet to personally run into one that doesn't.
But I do know that there's Jews out there that don't believe this
because there's Jews out there that don't practice Judaism.
They just you know, they're like Catholics who don't go to mass or whatever.
But he says that they're of the father, the devil.
Go to Mark, chapter seven, Mark, chapter seven.
They're begotten of Satan.
Satan is using them as agents to disrupt the gospel.
Damn people to hell.
So we need to make sure that we correct people when they claim
that Jews believe in God, the Father, because they don't.
It goes completely against scripture.
It doesn't fit the narrative of the Bible.
And it completely flies in the face of what Jesus Christ clearly said.
Now, you're in Mark, chapter seven.
I'm going to read to you from first John, chapter two, verse 20.
It says here, but you have an unction from the Holy One.
And you know all things.
I have not written unto you because you know not the truth,
but because you know it and that no lies of the truth.
Who is a liar?
But he that denied that Jesus is the Christ, he is antichrist,
that denied the father and the son.
Who served the night, the son, the same hath not the father.
He that acknowledges the son hath the father also.
And look, folks, it's clearly telling us that if Jews say, well,
we believe in God, the father, we just don't believe in God, the son.
They're lying, according to the biblical
standard, because the Bible tells us that if they don't have the son,
they don't have the father, they can claim to believe in the Old
Testament, the first five books of the Bible, they can claim to believe in Moses.
Folks, the key is Jesus.
And if they reject Jesus,
then you know what? They reject God, the father as well.
What if they sincerely believe that they're serving God, the father?
It doesn't matter. They're liars.
Still, this is what the Bible says.
Joe's witnesses, liars, Mormons, liars.
Because if you reject the son, you don't have the father.
And, you know, a fundamental Baptist,
dispensational fundamental Baptist need to swallow this pill.
You just need to do that jerking motion when they take a pill.
Just get it down and just accept the truth.
Stop reading the Bible through the lens of dispensationalism.
Get all that garbage out of your mind.
You need to be brainwashed by the Word of God.
Have your mind renewed by the Word of God and start believing that nonsense
that they supposedly believe in God the Father when they clearly blaspheme the
Lord Jesus Christ, who is God.
All in the synagogue of Satan. Why?
Because their ministers are agents of Satan because they don't worship God the Father.
Here's another reason they uphold the oral traditions over the Bible.
Not just in the New Testament, you know, in the first century.
I'm talking about I'm talking about right now.
They uphold oral traditions over the Bible.
Now, obviously you don't find the word Talmud in the New Testament, but that's
exactly what that's what it is when you see oral traditions, when you see the
traditions of the Pharisees, we would say today it's referring to the Talmud.
And that's what Jews claim it is.
Well, no, but they do believe in the Torah.
First of all, let's just call it the Bible.
I know Torah sounds nice and everything like that, but, you know, I don't just
believe in the first five books of the Bible. And if all you believe is in the
first five books of the Bible, you know, you're missing a lot here, plain and
simple, because there's a lot of other Bible in the Bible than just those first
five books. But secondly, let me just be honest with you that they don't even
believe in those first five books of the Bible.
And they use that as a smokescreen to try to deter you from the fact of what they
truly believe about the Talmud.
And once you call them out in their nonsense, they'll admit it.
You know, I knocked on the door one time and, you know, a Jew came out.
He said, how do you know the Jerry Curl?
He had the uniform, you know.
The only thing that wasn't there was the music, the Jewish music that plays.
But when he came out, I was like, oh, man, this guy's a Jew.
And he didn't want to talk to me until I put on the yarmulke.
And I never put it on the little skull cap.
But he's just like, all right, just give me a second.
He came out with his little cardboard yarmulke.
What is this?
But, you know, I'm I preach the gospel to anybody.
I don't believe homos can be saved, but I'll preach the gospel to a fag.
Not because I believe they'll get saved,
but just because I'm just out there doing the work.
But you know what? Like this this this rabbi, dude, you know, I'm preaching.
I preach the gospel to him.
And he's like, we believe in the first five books.
We believe in the Torah. We believe in Torah, he says.
So then I started quoting more scripture from the Old Testament.
And then when he realized that actually,
like, knew my Bible and stuff, that actually knew what the Bible says.
Then he's like, you know what?
He's like, you need to stop studying that.
You need to you need to read the Talbot.
And I thought to myself, like, I know what the Talbot says.
But isn't it funny?
You know, he wants to claim that he believes in the Bible.
But once you start quoting the Bible, then he's just like, well, actually,
what you should be reading is the Talbot, is what you should be reading.
And this is what he told me, this is literally what he said to me.
He goes, I'll just be honest with you, we like Christians.
You know why? He said, because you're helping us.
I said, who's we? I'm not you.
I'm not helping.
I don't send my money over to the third temple for the Antichrist to take over.
I'm not trying to fulfill Bible prophecy here.
What are you talking about?
Don't let me in with these evangelicals, you know, who are sipping after the Jews.
I'm not about that life.
You know, don't let me in with John Hegge,
you know, and all these other false prophets out there who are agents of Satan as well.
But he said he literally said, he goes,
you guys are helping us rebuild the temple, get that third temple.
And I just kind of thought to myself, like, wow, you know,
this guy is just mocking Christians right now.
But they do uphold the traditions over the Bible.
And you know what? The Talmud is a blasphemous book.
It's extremely wicked.
And, you know, Christians who think that the Jews are God's chosen people need to
stop turning a blind eye to the Talmud, just face the facts.
Just just Google it.
What does the Talmud say about Jesus?
You don't even have to do a whole lot of work.
It's translated for you.
It's out in the open. It's out in the open.
Jesus was a sorcerer, a bastard child.
He's burning in hell in his own excrement.
And that's something that supposedly, according to the Talmud,
Jesus is saying from hell when he's asked, hey, you know, what's your message?
It's like a Luke, Chapter 16 moment.
And he's like, what do you have to say to people who oppose the Jews?
And he's like, they'll be burning in hot excrement for all of eternity.
Blasphemous, wicked, evil.
And you know what's crazy is that we
have fundamental Baptists who get mad at us for teaching that Jesus went to hell
for three days and three nights, it says in Acts, Chapter two.
The Bible clearly teaches it.
But why don't you take that same energy
to your Christ rejecting Jews who teach that Jesus is currently in hell burning
in his own excrement, right?
They get mad at us for teaching that Jesus
went to hell for three days and three nights.
But they just completely turn a blind eye to the fact that their beloved Jews
teach that Jesus is currently in hell.
I mean, where's the loyalty?
Where's the loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ?
Oh, but we just don't want to curse
Israel because, you know, I want to be blessed of God or something.
You know, serve Jesus and you'll be blessed.
What are you talking about?
Since when is a blessing attached to blessing a nation?
Folks, the Bible clearly teaches that
the promises made to Abraham were for Christ and his seed.
And if you be Christ, then are you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.
That's not what Schofield says, though.
Descendants.
Yeah. And your false modern version of the Bible.
Yeah, that's what it says.
But in my King James, it doesn't say that.
They uphold the traditions over the Bible.
Where do I have you turn?
I stay there in Mark seven.
I'm ready to you from John, chapter five, verse forty five says,
Do not think that I will accuse you to my father.
There is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom he trusts.
For had you believe Moses, you would have believed me, for he wrote of me.
Oh, another cold line.
Oh, you like Moses? Yeah, he wrote about me.
You know, beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded into them and all
the scriptures, the things concerning himself.
I was about Jesus, my friends, because he wrote of me.
But if you believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Look at Mark, Chapter seven and verse number eight, it says,
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked them,
why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders?
But he bred with unwashed hands.
He answered and said to them, well,
hath the Zias prophesied of you hypocrites as it is written, this people,
this people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
How be it in vain do they worship me,
teach him for doctrines the commandments of men, for laying aside the commandment
of God, ye hold the tradition of men as the washing of pots and cups and many
other such like things you do.
And he said unto them, full well,
you reject the commandment of God that ye may keep your own tradition.
For Moses said, honor thy father and thy mother,
and whosoever curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
But ye say, if a man shall say to his father or mother, it is Corbin,
that is to say a gift by whatsoever that might be profited by me, he shall be free.
Go to First Thessalonians, Chapter two.
So he specifically saying here, you don't care about the word of God.
You care about your traditions.
You don't care about the clear teachings
of scripture because they point to the Lord Jesus Christ.
You care about your oral traditions.
You care about something that's not the word of God.
And in fact, the oral traditions contradict the word of God.
This is why there are the synagogue of Satan.
Why? Because they have a satanic Bible.
That's why the Talmud and the Talmud is not like this, by the way.
It's not like an actual book.
It's an encyclopedia is what it is.
Teaching all types of blasphemous things, you know.
And by the way, God, you know, God, according to them and Baptists,
unfortunately, have bitten into this, you know, has a female part, too.
To them, God is a few.
There's like a female aspect of God.
This is what is known as the Shekinah glory, that Shekinah glory.
Shekinah is referring to the female aspect of God, according to them.
And you know, fundamental Baptist love talking about that, the Shekinah glory.
But folks, God is a man.
God is a man.
Jesus Christ is a man and the Holy Spirit is a man.
There's nothing female about the Godhead.
OK, first Thessalonians, chapter two.
Why did Jesus call them the synagogue of Satan?
Because their ministers were agents of Satan.
They don't worship God the father because they don't have the son.
They uphold the blasphemous book of the Talmud over the word of God.
You know, I'm just I'm just be honest with you.
I'm sick and tired of Christians defending this stuff.
I grow weary of it because I believe in loyalty.
I believe in loyalty just in general, but especially towards Jesus.
It makes me sick.
Oh, they're the apple of his eye, the rotten apple of his eye.
Here's another reason why he called them the synagogue of Satan.
This is pretty obvious. They crucified the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, this is what people say in my
comments section when I upload a video against Jews or Zionism and all this stuff.
Brother, we all crucified him.
Yeah, that sounds real sweet.
Yeah, real poetic there, Samantha.
Well said. It's not in the Bible, though.
I didn't crucify Jesus.
Was Jesus crucified for my sins?
Absolutely. But you know what?
I did not promote the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
And I'm not standing here 2000 years
later rejoicing over the fact that Jesus Christ is a criminal and he deserved to
be punished. There's a big difference.
Brother, we all crucified him.
You know, it's almost as nonsensical as this video that I keep seeing
circulating around and it boils my blood to no end.
And this is this is Jew and he's mocking Christians.
He's like, you know, all these Christians who are worshiping a Jew.
He's talking about Jesus. And this is what he says.
OK, he's like, oh, are you Christians worshiping a Jew?
You know, you should be worshiping all of us.
And he says, because we all died for your sins.
What he said, you send that video to Christians and like, yeah, you know,
Dad, but you know, they're still God's chosen people.
Did you hear what he said or did you did you watch it on mute?
He says you should worship him, which apparently you already doing.
But he's also saying that he died for your sins.
Don't you think that's just the most blasphemous thing a person could ever say?
Why do you just excuse that as just nothing?
Where's your loyalty to the truth?
Where's your loyalty to Jesus?
Folks, let him be a curse, anathema with that man.
Oh, you're not going to be blessed.
Yeah, I'm not going to be blessed with the Jews.
Oh, no. Folks, they crucified the Lord Jesus Christ.
And, you know, when they when they bring up this, oh, we all crucified him.
You know, let's let's quote Bible. How about that?
We just go with the Bible says, you know, I know you like to, you know,
do your little ex post and we all crucified him.
But you know what? The Bible trumps your your post, though.
Look what the Bible says in First Thessalonians 2, 14.
For ye brethren, by the way, who's he talking to?
Gentile believers, Thessalonica became
followers of the churches of God, which in Judea are in Christ Jesus.
For you also have suffered like things of your own countrymen,
even as they have of the Jews.
And I want you to notice this in verse 15, who both killed the Lord Jesus.
This is the Apostle Paul saying this is one of their own, apparently,
who both killed the Lord Jesus.
And by the way, I like this verse because he just kind of goes on a rant here.
Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their
own prophets and have persecuted us and they please that God and are contrary to
all men. Paul, tell us how you really feel.
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their
sin always for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
Uh, it sounds like Jews killed Jesus, actually.
And, you know, they're trying to make that illegal now to say the Jews killed
Jesus. They're like, oh, you know, we can't be saying that because that just sounds
anti-Semitic. Then make me they call me anti-Semitic.
If that's what it's that's what you're going to pass in the law.
Quoting the Bible, if quoting the Bible is anti-Semitic, I'm anti-Semitic because
that's literally what the Bible says. They killed Lord Jesus.
They said his blood would be on us and on our children.
Now, obviously, we know that the Jews of today aren't necessarily responsible for
killing Jesus. But let me just say this.
You know, if they embrace that, what their ancestors did,
if they like that, you know what? His blood be on them too, then.
This is why Jesus said that the righteous
blood of Abel all the way to Zechariah shall be upon them.
They're going to pay for all that because if they're taking credit for what their
ancestors did, then there you go. No, we didn't all crucify Jesus Christ.
No, I'm thankful he was crucified to pay for my sins.
I love the fact that he, you know, God
commended his love toward us and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
I'm thankful for that. I'm thankful for the resurrection.
I'm thankful that he was delivered for our
offenses and raised again for our justification.
And you know what?
Every once in a while I shed a tear out of gratitude over the fact that Jesus Christ
sacrificed himself for me and for the entire world.
And I rejoice that my sins were paid for by the blood of Jesus Christ.
But I don't rejoice and say, oh, yeah, well, he was a criminal.
He deserved it. That's wicked.
That's what they're talking about, brother.
Don't call me brother.
And look, this is one of the reasons I
personally believe and, you know, your pastor might disagree with me.
But I believe he agrees with this to a certain degree.
I believe that the nation of Israel is a cursed nation, cursed nation.
We're all cursed. Yeah, yeah, OK.
They're really cursed, though.
Let's play a little game.
Who can tell me who's been kicked out of 109 countries for their predatory
lending practices, clipping coins, blasphemy and hatred towards the Lord Jesus Christ?
It wasn't Mexicans, not Brazilians, not Russians, Jews.
Go with me, if you would, to Deuteronomy, Chapter four, Deuteronomy, Chapter four.
Let me say this. This is why 1948 is a complete fraud.
It's nonsense. It's a fairy tale.
No, brother, that's a fulfillment of Bible prophecy.
But God brought them back into the land.
Sit down. Shut up.
We didn't know the double cheeseburger
brought them back into land 1948.
Ben Gurion, Satan, not God, the Rothschilds, not God.
This is what I've been hearing lately.
Yeah, but you know, God can use people like that.
You just stop at nothing to just justify your Christ rejecting Jews.
And look, don't misunderstand what I'm saying.
I don't hate Jews. I don't.
And in fact, I just found out today
that there's a Jew coming to our church on Sunday who, you know,
I'm going to be giving the gospel to, just coming as a visitor.
And, you know, hopefully they don't hear the sermon first.
They want Jews to be saved.
I want them to be saved and I want them to submit to the Lord Jesus Christ.
I want to I want them to honor the Lord Jesus Christ and forsake their Christ
by rejecting religion of Judaism and join this side.
You know, you're like, oh, yeah, but, you know,
Israel's from where which salvation comes from.
Yeah, but here's the thing is that, you know, my brothers and sisters in Christ
are not just Gentile, you know, the Apostle Peter is my brother in Christ, too.
And you know what? I'm preaching what he said.
The Apostle Paul is my brother in Christ, too.
And I'm just preaching what he said.
We all we both agree as the election.
But Israel, in my opinion, is a cursed nation.
And we see that over the last 2000 years.
No, it's because they're being persecuted
for, you know, being God's chosen people.
No, they're being persecuted because they're wicked.
Let's call a spade a spade.
Why don't you go ahead and look at the history, folks?
I mean, Pastor Anderson has been kicked out.
I don't know how many countries have been kicked out of.
Who knows? Is it still rolling? Still going?
He's been kicked out of a lot of countries.
He's banned from a lot of countries.
But why? I'll tell you why.
Because he preaches the gospel, because he preaches the word of God.
You know, are they being kicked out because they're preaching the word of God?
Are they being excommunicated from nations over the last 2000 years
because they exalt Christ, because they exalt the word of God?
Because they're winning people to Christ?
Uh-uh. I'll tell you why.
It's because they hate Jesus Christ. It's a curse upon them.
Look at Deuteronomy 426.
"I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day,
that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over
Jordan to possess it, ye shall not prolong your days upon it,
but shall utterly be destroyed and the Lord shall scatter you among the nations.
And ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whether the Lord shall lead
you, and there ye shall serve God's the work of men's hands.
You know, Remfan wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.
The Bible says, and I have a lot of other
verses I want to go over, but I'm completely out of time.
Point that I'm making here is that the
reason that the synagogue of Satan is because they are a cursed nation who takes
credit for the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ.
You know, I'm not interested in talking
to people who, when I mentioned Jesus Christ, they spit on the floor.
And here's my last point.
I'm done. Why did he call in the synagogue of Satan?
He was faster. Why would he use such language?
I'll tell you why, because their ministers are the agents of Satan.
Check. They don't worship the same God as we do.
Check. They uphold the Talmud over the Word of God.
Check. They crucified the Lord Jesus Christ and take credit for it.
Check. And lastly, they have a different Messiah.
Go with even with the John, chapter five, John, chapter five.
Now, people differ on this.
And if you differ on this, it's all good.
We still believe the same thing when it
comes to our position of replacement theology.
But I do believe that the Antichrist will be a Jew.
That's my position.
That's what I believe.
I believe the Bible is pretty consistent when it talks about that.
And some people believe that maybe he's not a Jew, but he's going to use the Jews.
Let's just let's just all collectively agree that Jews are somehow involved,
though, but I personally believe that he will be a Jew because it says in John,
chapter five, verse 42, but I know you.
They have not love.
You have not the love of God in you.
I am come in my father's name, and he received my receive me not.
If another shall come in his own name, him, he will receive.
And obviously, the ye can be applied to just anybody all around the world.
But he's talking to Jews and he's saying
that there's going to come someone in the future who the nation of Israel,
the Jews are going to receive if he comes in his own name.
You know, there's no coincidence why
the Pre-Tribulation Rapture is so popular, although I think now it's losing
momentum, but it's been popular for a long time because the Pre-Trib Rapture
teaches that Jesus Christ will come first and the Antichrist come second.
Whereas the chronology of the Bible teaches that the Antichrist comes first.
The only immanency in End Times Bible prophecy is the coming of the Antichrist,
not Jesus Christ, which is why Jesus had to say in Matthew 24 verse number five
that people are going to come saying I am Christ and shall deceive many.
And what does what does Christ mean? Messiah.
No one else uses that terminology other than Christians and Jews.
It's an Antichrist religion.
It's a synagogue of Satan because they don't want Jesus.
They have their false Jesus.
They have their Antichrist Jesus.
They have their Antichrist Messiah.
What is the point that I'm making this evening?
I'm just reminding you why Jesus called them the synagogue of Satan.
And obviously we want to have a balanced view and not harbor hatred towards them.
If there's people out there that are lost, who genuinely want to be safe.
I have former Jews in my church who got saved.
Thank God for that. Amen.
And I remember when he first came to our church and he got saved and he came to our
church, he didn't tell us he was a Jew for a long time because he had heard my
preaching beforehand and he was just like, man, I wonder what he's going to say when
he finds out. You know, he said, what did you do?
We threw him out. No, I'm just kidding.
We didn't throw him out. How does it feel now?
No, I mean, he's he believes the Bible and he's a great Christian.
He's a great man of God.
And you know what? He's a Christian.
He's a believer.
We don't we don't give him a shofar when he comes in and a shawl and,
you know, and say shalom to him, call him brother.
We need to win him to Christ.
But not at the exclusion of recognizing what the Bible actually says, though.
You know, thankfully, a lot of people,
you know, in this world are starting to like wake up about this stuff.
And quite frankly, even if people are wrong on this,
if we could just get them to the gospel, though, you just get them saved,
get them to understand what biblical salvation is.
You know, maybe we can bring them all the way to this side.
But it's important to know, though, because these are the words of Jesus.
And we don't ever want to just skip over Revelation 2, 9 to Revelation 3, 9.
We don't want to skip over John Chapter 8, verse 44.
We need to put that in your phylactery.
Put John 8, 44, Revelation 2, 9, Revelation 3, 9, the little box in your forehead.
How about that?
Put that on the borders of your garments.
Put that in your household.
Why? Because it's Jesus' words.
Synagogue of Satan.
Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word.
And God, I'm thankful for the house of God.
I'm thankful for the assembly of God Church of Jesus Christ,
where we assemble together to hear the preaching of your word,
to sing praises unto the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I'm thankful for believers who are loyal to Jesus Christ.
Pray, Lord, that you'd help us as your people to not be biased, Lord,
that we would run into people who are Jews, that we would witness to them and win them to Christ.
They need to be saved.
And I know that you want them to be saved.
We want them to be saved, too, just as much as we want Catholics to be saved,
just as much as we want Muslims to be saved.
We want Mormons to be saved.
But, Lord, it doesn't take away the fact that Mormonism is still wicked,
that Islam is still wicked, that Judaism is still wicked, Lord.
And it's still the synagogue of Satan.
Pray you bless us as we go on our way.
We love you. We thank you.
Pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Lastly, let's turn in our hymnals to song number three hundred and sixteen.
Song number three hundred and sixteen.
I have decided to follow Jesus.
I have decided to follow.
I have decided to follow Jesus.