Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Faith Award 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 role is called up yonder.
Hymn number 55.
Let's sing it out nice and strong on that first.
Hymn number 55.
the blessing on the service so let's go ahead and bow our heads together. Dear
Heavenly Father, we come before you tonight and we thank you for the
privilege that we have to be in church on this Wednesday evening. We thank you
for the safety that you've given to each and every one of us so that we're able
to be here tonight. We just ask for your blessing upon this as we sing these
praises out into you. Help us to be filled with your spirit and help us just
to have open hearts and ears to receive the message tonight. We ask Lord your
blessing upon Pastor Bruce Mejia.
Thank you for bringing him here safely to us, and we ask that you just fill him with
your Holy Spirit, give him power to preach your word unto us, and also just keep our
hearts open to receive the message tonight, and that all that's said in them would give
you the honor and the glory that deserves for it, and we'll thank you for it in Jesus'
name, amen.
They don't know
All right, let's go over the bulletin really quickly
so we can get to the preaching as soon as possible.
All right, service times on upper left-hand corner,
right below that is for someone in the baptisms
for the year.
Happy birthday to everyone who 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 already doing it sending it to faithful one
I forwarded 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 27th and May 4th from 2 30 to 4 30 p.m
And please RSVP on the event date of your choice and the church Facebook group or by email to the church at people were one
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, I want 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 as we left it, amen.
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 whirliness 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 want to 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 want to 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 turn 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 an 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
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 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 look you 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 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's like a 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,
since it reminded 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're having ready for you guys on Sunday morning.
Pray for that.
But if not, we're still coming to church, right?
All right, because 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 say
You how many oh?
See just like the song a kid tripping me up like I thought it was over and walking up here
You turn back to my seat
But anyways anybody else for Monday is that to all right got hurry up before I really start sorting and end up being a
meme on the internet
Anybody else?
What is that to?
Okay
So two anybody else from Monday the 7th? All right Tuesday
Number no 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.
Alright, you're up.
Alright, you should find the answer in front of your hymnal with the hymn entitled Brut 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.
Brut in the corner. Sing it out.
Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do.
Shrouded by a far, The name it is ever in, now is true.
Right in the corner where you are, Right in the corner where you are,
Right in the corner where you are, Someone from far, from far,
You may die as dust, but far, Right in the corner where you are,
Oh, some of our love is gathered, you may have to clear
Like the arrows of her way you are
Going to an ornament, hold your song of cheer
Right in the corner, where you are
Right in the corner
Where you are, somewhere dark, a marvel, you may die as dust, a lie.
Right in the corner, where you are.
If a lot are telling you, make sure you find the link.
Here at red, the bright and morning sun.
Even from your humble hand, the bread of life leaves me.
Right in the corner.
Right hand in the corner, where you are, right hand in the corner, where you are.
Someone thought from Harvard, you may better cross the line.
Right hand in the corner, where you are.
Victory through grace. Him number 415. Conquering now and still to conquer. Him number four, one five.
Sing it out on that verse now.
Conquering now and still to conquer. Righted the King in his mind.
The turret can then see,
But in their brilliance array,
Shouting the name of their leader,
Hear them exalt in the same.
Not to the strong is the battle,
Not to the swift is the race,
And the faithful history is promised through grace.
Ordering now and still to conquer, who is this wonderful king?
He is our Lord and we need her, Savior and on our divine.
They are the stars that forever, bright in His kingdom will shine.
To the true and the faithful,
Patriots promise true dreams.
Our worry now is still to conquer,
To just our ruler alone.
Rulers never fall shall perish,
Rounder this land.
And shall the armies now lead us, faithful and true to the last,
one with dimension's deterrent.
Thank you for watching!
All right, at 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 2, under the angel of the church of Ephesus right, these things sayeth 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 hateest the deeds of the Nicolaotans, which I also hate
He that hath in ear let him hear
What the Spirit sayeth under the churches to him that over cometh will I give to eat of the tree of life
Which is in the midst of the paradise of God and under the angel of the church in Smyrna, right?
These things say at 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 saith unto the churches.
He that over cometh shall not be heard of the second death.
And to the angel of the church in Pergamus 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 seed is,
And thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith,
Even in those days wherein Antipas was faithful.
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 Balaak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel,
to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
So as thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaotans, which thing I hate,
repent, or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
Let him hear what the Spirit saith 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 right,
These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire,
And his feet are like fine brass.
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 called herself a prophetess to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication and to eat things
Sacrifice 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 under 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 under the churches.
Our Father in Heaven, we love you. We thank you for this church you've given us, Lord.
We thank you for Pastor Mahia 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 Mahia
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 want to thank your 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,
I'm sure the attendance on Sunday, you're dying, okay?
You know, the new IV 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 2 and verse number 9. The title of my sermon this evening is the
synagogue of Satan, the synagogue of Satan. Verse number 9 of chapter 2 says,
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 3 and verse number 9.
Chapter 3, verse number 9 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 want to 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
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 believed that the Jews are God's chosen people
and we should bless Israel and this, that and the other.
You know, I let them say their peace
and, you know, let them quote Genesis 12
and let them quote all these Old Testament passages
regarding the Old Covenant.
And I just, you know, I just kind of listened
for a little bit, you know?
And just kind of make them think like,
oh, man, you got a point there, you know?
Genesis chapter 12, okay, maybe you have a point there.
And then I, and then I, this is what I answer with.
What does Jesus say though?
It's 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 book 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 want to answer that
You always want to 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 want to 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 want to 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.
But 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 in really and circumcision is that of the heart and not in the letter
But of the spirit whose praise is not a man, but of God
Now I'm not saying we should just go out these doors and start saying there were 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 2 and verse number 9 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 3, verse number 9 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 want to talk about is what is the synagogue?
What is a synagogue? Well, synagogue literally means a gathering and assembly.
So, you know, we never want to 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 war the Greek word that's being used for gathering or assembly is synagogue
You know you read James chapter 2 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 want to 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 want to 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,
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, because 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 is 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 and 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 him sprout out
As 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 man-made, 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.
You've heard a pair of church 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, you know, to talk about the God of the Bible.
But it's not necessarily something that God said, 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, you know, 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, they go into Babylon, and obviously,
at that point, they go into Babylon, and obviously, at that point, they go into Babylon,
and obviously, at that point, they go into Babylon, and obviously, at that point, they
go into Babylon, and obviously, at that point, they go into Babylon, and obviously, at that
Synagogues, though existing beforehand, became even more prominent thereafter
because 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 this kind of like the way I would compare it to today,
would be like Bible College, Sunday school classes.
You know, Bible College is not in the Bible, right?
Bible College is a pair of church ministry that was created by man and we can say that there 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 in 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 you seeing 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, you know, even in the New Testament, we read in Acts 15,
let me read it to you in verse 21, it says,
Being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day, you know, that's a positive, right?
You know all around the world because not just in Israel. There's synagogues all over the Gentile nations
their synagogues and and and
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
Cease 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.
And so, and we see that by the time of Christ, synagogues were not just widely accepted as being legitimate institutions.
You know, they were highly respected and revered to 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 the 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 are the ones responsible for heading up the rebellion against biblical religion
and causing Jesus Christ to be crucified.
That's why it's called a synagogue of Satan.
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 A.D. 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 going to talk about the synagogue of Satan,
and I got a few points tonight. You know, I'm not going to ask if this is my cup every time I do.
Someone says yes, but Brother Segura just put Pastor Mahia there now. So now I know for a fact
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
are 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 going to be in the synagogue.
Well, you said 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?
It's a good 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 in together. They have that group there, right? That nucleus. Even though it's not necessarily a group that's sanctioned my 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.
Because then you have someone who's hungry for power, they take over, and if there's not a pastor there to lead that, it can go awry.
Which is exactly what happened to the synagogues.
The temple had the Levites. 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.
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
reject, Christ-hating religion that we know today. Now as far as the the origins
of Pharisees, as 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?
Because you just read the New Testament.
They're the rulers. They're the ones with the most influence.
They're the ones who, you know, give the green light to kick someone out of the synagogue.
If someone is accepting Christ or they're believing on Christ,
you know, 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 man-made.
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 or not
Look at verse number one, then spake 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 the same verse three all therefore whatsoever. They bid you observe that observe and 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 laws are schoolmaster 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
Because 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 liar
Oh, you're not a truth, you're a liar, you're a liar is what you are.
You're like, well, I'm a truth-er.
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 gotta do works.
Oh, then you're not really a truth-er.
Because the true truth her will lead you to the foot of the cross to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
Reject all other Gospels to 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
Be or right before I knocked that it had a sticker on the window that said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and now shop
You say oh
I was like man. This is easy money here
Either I'm just gonna meet a brother in Christ
Or, I'm just not even going to open up my Bible,
just point to the verse on the window, right?
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 slag
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 say, 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 either?
Why is this on your window?
And he's just like, oh yeah, you gotta do that butt.
No, no, no, no butts.
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
You know what these Pharisees what they did and just like the the Pharisees of today the rabbinic
Judaism Pharisees of today the Jews of today they can claim they believe in the Bible
They can they can claim to believe in the God of the Bible. They're lying
Why? 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.
Do you 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,
They make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments
and love the uppermost rooms at feast 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
They're 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 not called rabbi for one is your master even Christ and all you are brethren
And call no man father upon the earth for one is your father which is in heaven, neither
be called masters for one is your master, even Christ.
So here he's telling 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.
Not because they have some intention to help people spiritually. It's because they love to have the preeminence among the Jews
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 are you calling your dad though? I?
Call him dad
I'm not I don't speak novel
father
If I called him father, it would 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 a master is a boss.
But when it comes to a spiritual leader of a spiritual institution, they are prohibited
So the Catholic priest out there who calls himself father and just is 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 that he uses father though
Yeah, but okay, then go ahead and explain to me what it means then
Thank you for showing me. Thank you 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 juice
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 ye 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 they'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.
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
Your 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 are outdoor knocking, amen?
They're preaching a false gospel, they're accursed!
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
Now, obviously, when you read the Gospels, you see that some of the Pharisees possibly
were saved.
There were 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 on 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? It's called disqualification.
You know, you just got saved yesterday.
What the heck is a baby going to do?
How's 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 finds,
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.
She's going to say the name. I don't know his name.
I don't 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.
Won't you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites
for you can pass, see, and land to make one proselyte?
And when he is made, you make him twofold more,
a child of hell than yourselves.
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 one of their converts, reprobates, two-fold more child they're held than yourselves,
is basically saying they're worse reprobates than you.
It's 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 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 come past land and sea to damn people to hell.
Yeah, it sounds like a synagogue is saying to me.
The Bible tells us you're in John chapter 12. I'm going to read to you from 2nd Corinthians 11-13 for such our 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 there's 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 do they claim to believe?
You're in John chapter 12, and we'll keep reading from some other verses here.
Romans 11, 28 says, as concerned in 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 that concerning 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 chapters in and you'll find this phrase but the Jews
It's like 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 they're like the party poopers of the book of Acts
Persecuting believers hindering them from here in the gospel here hindering people from from here in the gospel
beating up Christians, persecuting them.
It 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 as touching the election,
they are beloved for the Father's sake.
So what he's 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, this is not the Jew nor Gentile.
There's no such thing as a Judeo-Christian.
It's a made-up phrase, too long, stick with Christian.
We don't need a dash, we don't need a prefix, 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.
It's concerning the gospel. There are enemies for your sins, but it's 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 is 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 9.
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 not that 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 speak his parents because they fear the Jews
For the Jews had all agreed already that if any didn't 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?
Sin, God's could have been used in a great way
To bring people to Christ, right?
And by the way, because people will often say,
oh man, you're saying all this 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.
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,
they're 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 paratimple ministry if they confessed Christ look at John chapter 12
John chapter 12 verse 39 therefore they could not believe because that is I say
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 closed their eyes.
They closed 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 the verse 41 these things said is I is
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,
it's 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 me,
but on him that sent me.
And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me.
Go to John chapter 8.
John chapter 8.
Let me read you from John 16 verse 1.
Says, These things have I spoken unto you,
that ye should not be offended.
They shall put you out of the synagogue.
Who? They? Jews.
Yay, 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
Why? Because their ministers are wicked, their ministers are evil, the ministers hate the Gospel,
the 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, I was thinking, 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.
Now when you read Revelation 2 9 and 3 9, it's just like man that line was just hot
synagogue of Satan is just like
He cooked them hard on
But then you read John chapter 8 though
It's just like oh man
Look at verse 39
They answered and sentenced him Abraham is our father
Jesus said to him, if you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
But now you seek to kill me.
A man that had 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.
They'll say, well, they believe in God the Father, they just don't believe in God the Son.
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.
They're insulting him, they're blaspheming him,
and they're claiming to have one father, even God,
verse 42, Jesus said unto 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 you cannot hear my word?
And here's the kicker, ye are of your father, the devil.
synagogue of Satan but it's a little more personal though says 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 he that's what he's saying
And the lust of your father, will you do?
He was a murderer from the beginning
and a bodenon of the truth because there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh the lie, speaketh of his own free,
he is a liar and the father of it.
I wanna hear people quote John 844.
When we talk about who are God's chosen people,
why don't you go ahead and quote John 844 for me?
Why don't you go ahead 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 A-44.
It's a 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 know that farmhouse style as 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
Now 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 Pantera,
oh yeah, mark it down, that's the child of Satan right there.
Oh, 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 7 mark chapter 7
There be gotten 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 7 number 2 from 1 John chapter 2 verse 20 it says here
But ye 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 anti Christ that denied the father and the son
Who served the night the son the same hath not the father
He then acknowledged 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 keys 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. Mormon's liars.
Because if you reject the Son, you don't have the Father.
And you know that fundamental Baptist, dispensational fundamental Baptist need to swallow this pill.
They just needed 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
Call it 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 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 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 smoke screen 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
He had the uniform
You know the only thing that wasn't there was the music the Jewish music that plays but when he 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 a yarmulke
I never put it on the little skull cap, but he's just like I just give me a second
He came out with his little cardboard yarmulke
But you know, I'm I preach the gospel to anybody
You know, 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 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, that's what he says.
So then I started courting 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 needed you need to read the Talmud
And I thought to myself like I know what the Talmud says
Isn't it funny, you know, he wants to claim that he believes in the Bible, but once you start courting the Bible
Then he's just like, well, actually what you should be reading is the Talmud, is what you should be reading.
And this is what he told, this is literally what he said to me.
He goes, I'll just be honest with you, we like Christians.
You know why he's like, 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 need 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 say 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
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 the same from hell
When he's asked hey, you know what 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!
It's wicked!
It's evil!
And you know what's crazy?
Is that we have fundamental Baptists who get mad at us
for teaching that Jesus wants to help for three days and three nights.
It says in Acts chapter 2,
But why don't you take that same energy to your Christ rejecting Jews who teased that Jesus is currently in hell?
burning in his own experiment
Right
They get mad at us for teaching that Jesus went to hell for three days and three nights
But they just completely turn to blind eyes of 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.
No, no, no, that's not what Scofield says, though.
descendants 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'd I have you turn?
All right, stay there mark 7 I'm a retreat from John chapter 5 verse 45 says do not think that I will accuse you to my father
There is one that accused with you even Moses in whom he trusts
For had you believed 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 them to them and all the scriptures, the things concerning himself.
Bible's about Jesus, my friends.
He said he wrote of me, but if you believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Look at Mark chapter 7.
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 eat bread with unwashed hands?
He answered and said unto them, Well hath the psalmist prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written,
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 doctrine as 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. The ye may keep your own tradition
From Moses said honor thy father and thy mother and whosoever cursed at father or mother let him die the death
But ye say, if a man shall say to his father or mother in his Corbin that is to say a gift by what's over that might be profited by me, he shall be free.
Go to 1st Thessalonians chapter 2.
So he's 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 they're the synagogue of Satan. Why because they have a satanic Bible. That's why
The Talmud and Talmud is not like this by the way. It's not like an actual book. It's an encyclopedia. That's what it is
Teaching all types of blasphemous things, you know and by the way God, you know God
According to them and Baptist unfortunately have bitten into this, you know has a female part too
To them, God is a female, there's like a female aspect of God, this one is known as the shakana glory.
I need that shakana glory!
Shakana is referring to the female aspect of God according to them.
And you know fundamental Baptists love talking about that, the shakana 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.
Okay.
First Thessalonians chapter 2, 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 just pretty obvious they crucified the Lord Jesus Christ
Now
This is what people say in my comment section when I upload a video against Jews or you know Zionism all this stuff
Brother, we all crucified him
Yeah, that sounds real sweet, yeah real poetic there Samantha
Yeah, 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 it's this is this 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
Okay, he's like all you Christians worshiping a Jew, you know, you should be worshiping all of us
And he says because we all died for your sins
That's what he said
And then you send that video to Christians and they're like, yeah, you know
Sad, but you know, there's still God's chosen people
Did you hear what he said or did you look 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 accursed. I'm not the man with that man. Oh
You're not gonna be blood yeah, I'm not gonna be blessed to the Jews. Oh, no
Folks they crucified the Lord Jesus Christ and you know what when they when they bring up this oh, we all crucified him
You know, let's let's quote Bible. How about that?
Why don't 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 at the Bible says in 1st, 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.
This is one of their own, apparently.
Who both killed the Lord Jesus and then 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 it persecuted us and they please not God and our 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
It sounds like Jews killed Jesus actually
And you know, they're trying to make that illegal now
to say that 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 you're gonna pass in 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 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 you know ancestors did if they like that you know what?
His blood beyond them too then
This is why Jesus said that the righteous blood of able all the way to Zechariah shall be upon them
They're gonna 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 could you know God commanded his love toward us in 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
It's cursed nation.
We're all cursed.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
OK.
But 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. It's not
Brazilians. It's not Russians. It's the Jews. Go with me if you would to Deuteronomy
chapter 4. Deuteronomy chapter 4. 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 and shut up wait another double cheeseburger
Brought them back into land 1948
Ben Gurion
Satan
Not God
They're Rothschilds, not God.
This is what I've been hearing lately.
Yeah, but you know God can use people like that.
Man, 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 gonna be giving the gospel to just coming as a visitor and
You know hopefully they don't hear this sermon first. Hey, man
I 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-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 curse 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 look at the history folks? I mean Pastor Anderson has been kicked. I don't know how many countries has been kicked out of
Who knows still is it still rolling still going?
He's been kicked out 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 2,000 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.
The ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land where unto 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 gods, the work of men's hands." You know, REM fan.
Wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell the Bible says and I have a lot of other verses
I don't want to go over but I'm completely out of time
The point that I'm making here is that the reason there's a 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? Pastor, 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 crucify the Lord Jesus Christ and take credit for it. Check. And lastly, they have a different Messiah.
Go with me if you would to John chapter 5. John chapter 5.
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
You know, some people believe that maybe he's not a Jew, but he's gonna 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 5 verse 42
But I know you the you 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 ye will receive and
Obviously the ye can be applied to just anybody all around the world
But he's talking to Jews though
And he's saying that there's gonna come someone in the future who the nation of Israel the Jews
Are gonna 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 comes second, whereas the chronology of the Bible teaches that the Antichrist comes first.
The only imminency in the Antichrist's Bible prophecy is the coming of the Antichrist, not Jesus Christ,
which is why Jesus had to say in Matthew 24, verse number 5, that people are going to come saying,
I am Christ and shall deceive many.
And what does Christ mean? Messiah.
No one else uses that terminology.
Other than Christians and Jews
It's an anti-christ religion. It's a synagogue of Satan because they don't want Jesus they have their false Jesus
They have their anti-christ Jesus. They have their anti-christ Messiah
What's the point that I'm making this evening? I'm just reminding you why Jesus called him 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 saved, 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 gonna say when he finds out, you know, he said what'd you do? We threw him out. No, I'm just kidding
How does it feel now?
No, I mean he 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
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.
Thankfully a lot of people in this world are starting to 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.
We could 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 and Revelation 3 9
We don't want to skip over John chapter 8 verse 44
We need to you know, put that in your phylactery
You know put John 844 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
The 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 when we 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 him 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
I pray you bless us as we go on our way. We love you. We thank you pray this things in Jesus name amen
And then lastly, let's turn on our hymnals to song number
316
song number
316 I have decided to follow
Sing out on the first.
I have decided to follow Jesus.
No one will go with me, still I will follow No one will go with me, still I will follow
No turning back, no turning back No world behind me, the cross before me
No world behind me, no cross before me, no turning back, no turning back.