All right, Proverbs 26, verse number 1, it says here as snow and summer and as rain
and harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool, as the bird by wandering, as the swallow
by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come, a whip for the horse, a bridle
for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back, and the title of the sermon this
morning is unreasonable doctrines that Christians believe. Unreasonable
doctrines that Christians believe. You say, well what in the world does
Proverbs 26 have anything to do with unreasonable doctrines? Well, I like this
passage of Scripture right here, specifically verse number 1, because it
says, it gives you some comparisons here. It says, you know, as snow and
summer and as rain and harvest, so honor is not seemly for a fool. What
does that word seemly mean? It means it doesn't fit, okay? It's not suitable, it's
not appropriate. Now, we obviously understand that there's parts of the
world where, you know, it snows even in the summer, right? You know, you have
Antarctica that the flathearts just don't believe exists, right? And then
there's parts of the world where it rains all year round, doesn't get cold
at all. You have places in Central America, you know, in countries near the
equator where it's just the same weather all year round. But for the
most part, there are countries that have, you know, that the weather matches
up the seasons. You know, it rains, it snows, and here it's telling us that as
snow is not seemly for the summer, as the rain is not seemly for the harvest,
honor is not seemly, it's not suitable for a fool. Why is that? Because
we understand that a fool does not merit honor. A fool is someone who
hears the Word of God and they completely reject it, even though they
know it says X, Y, and Z, even though it corrects their sin, even though it tells
them, hey, thou shall not, or thou shall, they just completely do the opposite,
that's a fool. And the Bible tells us that if someone like that does not
deserve any honor, it doesn't go together, okay? Go to Proverbs, or excuse me, go
to Psalm 19, if you would, Psalm 19. I'm gonna read to you from Proverbs 19
verse 10. It says, the light is not seemly for a fool, much less for a
servant to have rule over princes. Again, we see that same concept being
reiterated right there in Proverbs chapter 19. Now, what is the
principle that we see, though? The principle is this, is that God is not
unreasonable. You know, everything that God says, everything that God does, makes
sense. It's reasonable, it makes sense, it fits together. The only time you may
think it's not fitting together is when you're reading something into the
Bible that's just not there. At that point, it creates confusion, at that point
it's unseemly. It doesn't make any sense, it's not reasonable. The Bible
tells us in 1st Corinthians 14 33 that God is not the author of confusion, but
of peace as in all churches of the saints. You see, God does not create
confusion. Now, are there things in the Bible that are hard to be understood?
Absolutely. Because it's the Word of God. This is not just a book that pretty
much anybody can understand right off the bat, right when they read it. No,
it's a complex book that requires study. It's a complex book that requires prayer.
It requires us to be spirit-filled. It requires years and years to read, to
understand, to be able to decipher and understand, comparing spiritual things
with spiritual. But here's the thing, it's not confusing. Specifically in the
areas that God wants us to know, it's not confusing. Hey, salvation is not
confusing. You know, oh no, I just think it's by, salvation is by repenting of
your sin. Well, you're confused. Because nowhere in the Bible does it
state that. Nowhere in the Bible where you find the phrase that you have to
repent of your sin in order to be saved. Well, I just believe that, you
know, it's by belief only, but you can lose your salvation. You're confused.
Because that's not fitting with the Bible. That's not reasonable. It doesn't
coincide with all the major teachings of the Word of God. The Bible
teaches us that He gives us eternal life, and the fact is that we can't lose
it. For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. Not
of yourselves means it's not of your own effort. And anybody who believes you
can lose your salvation are basically saying that they're not putting in the
effort to maintain that salvation. But the Bible is clearly telling us that
it's not of yourself. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man
should boast. So this is something that is clearly taught, and if you believe
contrary to that, you're just being unreasonable. Because the Bible's clearly
teaching something that everyone can see right off the bat. It's clear. Now, what
is confusion? Well, that's a state of perplexity is what it is, okay? It's a
state of confusion. It's when something does not make sense. And look, at the
end of the day, when we as King James only-est, or whatever you want to call
us, I'm all for it, you know, we believe that the Bible is perfect whether we
understand it or not. We believe that it's the perfect, inerrant, indestructible
Word of God. Preserved, inspired Word of God. Yeah, but you know, there's things
that are dark sayings that we can't understand, but you know what? I
accept the Bible by faith, okay? But because I accept it by faith and I have
the Holy Spirit of God living within me, he's gonna help me to understand
the Word of God as the years go by, okay? Now look at Psalm 19 verse 7. It says,
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony of
the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are
right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever. The
judgments of the Lord are true and righteous all together. You see, when we
approach the Bible, we need to approach it from a standpoint of
saying, hey, the judgments of the Lord are true and they're righteous all
together. Yeah, but I see some controversial stuff in the Bible that I
don't know if I can agree with. Hey, it's all righteous. What does righteous
mean? That it's right all the time. And the statutes, the commandments, no
matter how controversial, no matter how offensive, no matter how, you know, much
it goes against the grain of today's culture, it's righteous all together, okay?
It's perfect, it's righteous, therefore, you know, it's in harmony. This is
important because a lot of people, they want to bring up these so-called
contradictions in the Bible, okay? And unfortunately, a lot of Christians, they
capitulate to that. And they try to basically fit the world's
understanding of the Bible to get the Bible to say what they think it
means, you know? Whether it's you have this matter of evolution, trying to fit
evolution into the Bible, okay? And all these other foolish concepts that
stem from the world and because Christians are trying to adhere to and
capitulate to that, they'll misconstrue the Bible to make it say
what the world wants it to say. But you know, at the end of the day, we
just need to say, hey, the whole entire Bible is perfect no matter what it
says, okay? And it's always in harmony. It's not going to contradict
itself because God is the author. You say, well, men, men pen down the
Bible. Yeah, I know men did. But holy men of God spake as they're
removed by the Holy Ghost. So no prophecy of the scripture is given
at any private interpretation. Whereas you have the Book of Mormon, you
know, you have the Quran, you have the Jehovah's Witness Bible, and all
these Bibles are so corrupt and garbage. And it can clearly be seen
simply from the fact that they contradict themselves on so many
levels. Whereas the Word of God, because it's written by God
himself through holy men of God, you know what? It's going to be
perfect. It's going to be in harmony. There are no contradictions
found therein. Now, go to 2 Peter chapter 3. I'm just laying a
foundation here. But that's not to say that there aren't people
out there who would use the true Word of God, which we believe to
be is the King James Bible, and corrupt it. They take the King
James Bible, which is perfect. It's righteous. It's always right.
It's always correct. And they corrupt it. They twist it to mean
something completely different. Now, look what 2 Peter 3 verse 16
says. Look what Peter says of Paul. It says, as also in all
his epistles, speaking in them of these things in which are
some things hard to be understood. So he is testifying of
Paul's writings, and he's saying that some of the things that
Paul writes, they're hard to be understood. I mean, I'm sure
you can attest to that. You read through the book of Hebrews. You
read through certain passages where it's just like, man, I
don't know. I can't really understand what he's saying
here. They're hard to be understood. But look what it
says, which they that are unlearned and unstable rest.
So people, what he's stating here is that they'll take the
hard sayings of Paul, right? The things that are hard to be
understood. And they'll use that to their advantage to twist
and to rest and corrupt what God is actually saying, okay? As
they do also the other scriptures unto their own
destruction. So don't think that this isn't commonplace.
Don't think that this isn't something that doesn't take
place at all. There are people out there that have the
agenda to take God's word and twist it to mean something
completely different that it doesn't mean, right? Now,
what is the sermon today? The sermon is simply this. You
know, we need to make sure that when we talk to people
who are, and I'm talking to safe people, I'm not talking
to wicked people out there, okay? Wicked people who use
like a who have been proven wrong and wrong again and
again. And they still want to stick to their ESV. They
still want to stick to their NIV. They want to hold
fast to their HIV. They want to hold fast to all
these other corrupt versions, even in spite of the truth
being shown them. I'm not talking about those people.
I'm talking about the safe people who are King James
Oles. Okay? We need to reason with them. And just
really, at the end of the day, say, Hey, don't be
unreasonable. You know, because there's certain
doctrines that they hold to that are not, it's not
damnable heresy, but it is heresy. And heresy is
something that's, it's a teaching that's contrary to
God's word. It's contrary to what all of the Bible
says. Okay. And just as Paul, when you would go
into a city, a town, and you would reason with them
out of the scriptures, say, look, this is reasonable.
What the Jesus Christ died for us, according to the
scriptures, that's reasonable. These things make
sense. They add together. They're not, it's not
confusion. It's reasonable. And when you hear
something like that and you reject it, you're
just being unreasonable is what you're doing.
Okay. Now go to Matthew 24. So I'm just going to
talk about two specific doctrines that the
majority of Christians hold to. They're just,
they're just unreasonable. One of them being the
pre-tribulation rapture. Okay. Now what is the
rapture? Well, the rapture simply means is
referring to the event that takes place when
Christ comes back and he raptures Christians. He
takes us, the believers, right? The Bible says
that we which are, excuse me, the dead in
Christ shall rise first and we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up with them
together in the clouds. That's referring to the
rapture. The day that Christ's second coming.
Okay. That's what that's talking about here. Now
we, our church is not a pre-trib church. That's
not a doctrine that we hold to. In fact, it's a
doctrine that we explicitly vocally reject. Okay.
So what position do you hold to? We hold to
the post-trib pre-rath rapture position, which
we believe is a biblical position. It's a
reasonable position is what it is. Now I know
safe people who love the Bible. They love the
King James Bible. They love the things that we
would love, souls. You know, they love
preaching. They love, you know, an old fashioned
church where the hymns are being sung. But
they still hold to this unreasonable doctrine.
Why? You know, at the end of the day, we
need before we're post-trib, before we are
replacement theology, before we are pro, you
know, excuse me, pro reprobate doctrine, you
know, we are actually King James only, first
and foremost, because that's our foundation. So
therefore, any doctrine that comes our way, we
filter it through the word of God to see if
these things are so. We have to be like the
Bereans who were more noble than the Thessalon
eikens because they searched the scriptures
daily to see if these things were so. And if
it, if it goes against what the Bible says
that we reject it, no matter how popular it
is, no matter if, you know, Dr. Fatbottom over
there has five volumes of books, you know,
proving it so called, you know, it doesn't
matter who tries to prove it, if the Bible
rejects it, we reject it, because at the end of
the day, our foundation is the Bible, okay?
With that being said, Matthew 24, look at
verse 34, because if you were to ask me, by
the way, I was not always post-trib pre-wrath.
That wasn't my position, you know, years ago.
Who said what? Okay, let me tell you, since
you've decided to pipe up, that was Marcos,
by the way, I remember when I became post-trib,
he was still pre-trib, and we started discussing
this, and I told him about my position, he
got mad at me. Yeah, what now? I'm just
kidding. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. It was
true, it was true. But then, you know, I
showed him, and then, you know, he watched
after the tribulation, he proved the
scriptures, and then he converted as well,
man. But that's what you get for piping
up, just kidding. So I remember, you know,
I was not always post-trib, I was definitely
pre-trib, but I was not pre-trib because
I studied the issue. I was pre-trib the way
a Catholic is a Catholic who doesn't go to
Catholic school, or Catholic school, Catholic
church, you know? They just, they go on
Easter, they go when someone dies, they go
for Christmas, and it's just like, it's
because my grandma's Catholic, or something.
That's how I was, I'm pre-trib because
that's what we believe, no one really tried
to propose something different to us, to me.
Therefore, it was just something that was
accepted, okay? But I was a King James
only-est, so if you were to ask me what
Bible to use, I would say I'm King James
only, and I stick to only that version, I
believe the other versions are corrupt, okay?
Now, if you were to ask me, when is
Christ coming back, I would say, I don't
know, because no man knoweth the day
or the hour, Christ can come at any moment.
And in fact, at my old church, I specifically
remember different pastors and different
preachers who would come, and they would
use that almost like bait to get you
right with God, you know, hey, Christ
can come at the end of this sermon.
I'm serious, you've heard that before,
but I'm telling you, it's true.
I hear it all the time, you know what I mean?
Christ can come at the end of this service,
Christ can come at any time, and they
would constantly use that, and if anybody
ever asks regarding this, we just say,
well, no man knoweth the day or the hour.
That's why we don't know when Christ
is gonna come back, it's imminent, right?
Now, if you were to ask me then,
where is that in the Bible, I would
take you to Matthew 24, verse 34.
Look what it says, verily I say unto you,
this generation shall not pass,
till all these things be fulfilled.
Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my word shall not pass away.
But of that day and hour knoweth no man,
no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
But as the days of Noah were, so shall also
the coming of the Son of Man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood,
they were eating and drinking, marrying,
and giving in marriage, until the day
that Noah entered into the ark,
and knew not until the flood came
and took them all away, so shall also
the coming of the Son of Man be.
Then shall two be in the field,
the one shall be taken, the other left.
Two women shall be granted at the mill,
the one shall be taken, the other left.
Watch ye therefore, for ye know not
what hour your Lord doth come.
But know this, that if the good man of the house
had known in what watch the thief would come,
he would have watched, and would not have
suffered his house to be broken up.
Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour
as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh.
And there you go, there's the preacher rapture,
because no man knoweth the day or the hour.
That's what I would sell you, okay?
But the chapter doesn't begin in verse 34.
Come on, Bruce.
It doesn't begin at verse 34.
Look at, go to verse 21.
It says, for then shall be great tribulation,
such as was not since the beginning of the world
to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
By the way, when you would read that passage
of scripture in churches, hey brother, that's right.
Come on, that's right brother, come on, amen.
Preach it, park it, shake that bush,
burn that chicken, cook that rice.
I mean, the list goes on and on and on and on and on.
And you know what, everyone was in unity
in regards to that doctrine, so you know what we would do?
We'd move on.
Just move on.
Because everyone was in agreement,
which by the way, I'm in agreement
that this is the rapture, amen?
This is a good passage to use
to prove what the rapture's gonna be like, right?
This is the rapture, okay?
But they would use this to prove
the pre-tribulation rapture.
So they use a concept of the rapture
to prove the pre-tribulation rapture.
Now this is still being done today.
Why, because when we talk about
the posture pre-rapture position,
and we talk about how the pre-trib rapture
was not taught before John Nelson Darby in the 1830s,
they'll say no, there's documents of,
there's evidence of people preaching this,
the pre-tribulation rapture before Darby,
but what they're not telling you
is that when you actually research those papers,
it's not someone preaching the pre-trib rapture,
it's just someone preaching the rapture.
Yeah.
And they take that as, oh yeah,
it must have been pre-tribbed, you know?
So, which is exactly what we see people doing here.
They'll take Matthew 24, right,
and the latter part of Matthew 24 and say,
see, there you go, there's the pre-trib rapture.
Well, actually, it just proves a rapture.
Not necessarily a pre-trib rapture.
Look at verse 21, for then shall be great tribulations,
such as was not since the beginning of the world
to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
And except those days should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved,
but for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened.
Then if any man shall say unto you,
lo, here is Christ, or there, believe it not,
for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets,
and shall show great signs and wonders
insomuch that if it were possible,
they shall deceive the very elect,
behold, I have told you before.
Wherefore, if they shall say unto you,
behold, he is in the desert, go not forth,
behold, he is in the secret chambers, believe it not,
for as the lightning cometh out of the east,
and shineth even unto the west,
so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
Now, think about this,
because the imminent return of Christ,
what they refer to as imminent return,
it's like, it's a coming that you don't see him coming.
It's like he blindsides you is what he does,
because you don't really see him,
according to what they say,
he's just kind of invisible,
and then we just, our clothes drop,
you know, and then you just disappear.
But the Bible here, in Matthew 24,
which is the same exact chapter
that they used to prove the rapture,
is giving us an example of what it's gonna look like.
Lightning coming from out of the east,
what does that mean?
When you see lightning, everyone sees it.
Even if you miss it, you still see it.
It's like, you have like a late reaction, right?
You know it's there.
Verse 28, for whosoever the carcass is,
there will the eagles be gathered together.
Immediately after the tribulation,
of those days shall the sun be darkened,
and the moon shall not give her light,
and the stars shall fall from heaven,
and the powers of the heaven shall be shaken,
and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man
in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth
mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man
coming in the clouds of heaven
with power and great glory,
and he shall send his angels
with the great sound of a trumpet,
and they shall gather together his elect
from the four winds from one end of heaven
to the other.
This is in context of what they're reading, right?
Of the rapture.
And it says that it happens after the tribulation,
it says that people will see him,
he's gonna be coming in the clouds,
and what they'll do is they'll take this,
and they'll say, well, this is referring
to Revelation 19, where he comes,
what they would refer to as the second coming,
but technically it would be called the third coming, right?
Well, that's funny, because why would he put that first,
and then put the rapture after in Matthew 24?
You know, that's not sequential order.
Well, the reason he's doing it like this
is to show us what it's actually looking like,
what the rapture, when does it actually take place?
It's after the tribulation.
To say anything different would be unreasonable.
You're being unreasonable.
You need to take the Bible, and if that's what it says,
and that's what we need to believe,
because that's a reasonable thing,
when you look at it, you say,
well, you know, that's not reasonable,
no one's ever believed that.
Well, put aside the whatever you believe
people thought back in the day,
what should we believe today?
Okay, because at the end of the day,
everyone in heaven believes
in the post-trib pre-rath rapture, okay?
But if you compare Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21,
first and second Thessalonians,
if you compare with Revelation chapter six,
the rapture takes place after the tribulation.
Amen.
You know, go with me if you want
to first Thessalonians chapter number four.
And the pre-trib rapture crowd
has to do these mental acrobats
in order to get to their conclusion.
I mean, you ask the most hardcore pre-tribulationists,
they'll tell you there's not a verse in the Bible
that proves the pre-tribulation rapture.
They know that to be fact.
Whereas we have scores of verses,
scores of passages that prove
that it is after the tribulation.
You know, it's unreasonable to say
that the tribulation lasts for seven years.
We believe in Daniel seven news week,
you don't believe in Daniel,
I believe in Daniel seven news week.
The difference is is that the pre-trib crowd
claims that all seven years are tribulation.
Well, we're not gonna be suffering wrath.
Well, don't play word games
because we're not talking about wrath.
Talk about tribulation.
We're not gonna be going through tribulation.
In the world ye shall have tribulation.
But be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
You're being unreasonable.
Don't be unreasonable.
In the world ye shall have tribulation.
Jesus speaking.
In the world ye shall have tribulation
but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
That's reasonable.
Well, how do you explain the wrath in the tribulation?
Well, here's how you explain the wrath.
You know, he that believeth of the Son
hath everlasting life.
He that believeth not the Son shall not see life
but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Okay, it's pretty simple.
Tribulation is what other people do unto us.
Wrath is what God does to people.
Don't be unreasonable.
If that's what it says,
if that's what it clearly teaches,
just accept it.
And look, I've read through the Bible many times.
I can't tell you exactly how many times I've read it.
It's more than 15.
But I've read it scores of times,
and you know what?
Before I was post-trib,
the book of Revelation was a very difficult book
for me to read.
You know why?
Because I approached it with a preconceived idea
of the pre-tribulation rapture,
and it was just like hieroglyphics to me.
But once you get on the program,
God's program of doctrine,
man, it's so enjoyable to read the book of Revelation.
Even to the point where,
all right, you need to move on to another book.
Go read something else.
Because it makes a lot of sense.
Look at 1 Thessalonians chapter four.
This is a passage that both pre-trib and post-trib crowd
would use to prove the rapture.
And we're in agreement with this, amen?
Verse 13 says,
but I would not have you ignorant, brethren,
concerning them which are asleep,
that you sorrow not,
even as others which have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so them also which sleep in Jesus
will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord,
that we which are alive and remain unto the coming
of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God,
and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up together with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air,
and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore come for one another with these words.
And amen, and amen to that.
I've been a part of a lot of funerals.
Now, since we started this church,
I've been a part of a lot of weddings.
I mean wedding after wedding after,
I mean that's like soul winning to us right there.
Every week, not that often,
but we've had a lot of weddings.
I think like seven or eight since we started, okay?
But I remember at my old church
we just had a lot of funerals.
That's because the church has been around
for a long time though.
You know, people die, you guys understand that?
You know, people pass away, they die,
and so I've been a part of a lot of funerals,
and we always use First Thessalonians chapter four
as a means to comfort those who are struggling.
Just to give them a reminder,
hey, one day the rapture's gonna take place,
and the rapture's equal to the resurrection.
So you're gonna see your loved one one day.
That's what it's being emphasized there.
And we can both agree with that, amen?
If I talk to a preacher, we talk about the rapture,
we'll be like, yeah, First Thessalonians,
I mean we have common ground.
Go to chapter five.
So this is the rapture.
Now chapter five is not like the Apostle Paul,
by the way, the divisions in the Bible
were not made by the apostles.
Like chapters and verses.
You know, they didn't put, all right,
right here we're gonna put chapter five.
They just wrote it out, you know?
It was later where these divisions were created
in order to help us to, you know,
more quickly identify certain passages
for memorization's sake, for the ability to study it
in a more efficient way, okay?
And it's helpful, amen?
So keeping that in mind, chapter four and chapter five,
there's not necessarily a dividing idea here.
You know, Paul just wrote it all the way through.
So chapter five has to do with chapter four.
Look at verse one.
But of the times and of the seasons, brethren,
ye have no need that I write unto you,
for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord,
which is, in context, the coming of the Lord,
so cometh as a thief in the night.
Now by the way, the preacher crowd loves that phrase too.
He cometh as a thief in the night.
I mean, there's even a movie, The Thief in the Night,
right, which The Thief in the Night has the concept of,
the phrase has the concept of,
you just don't know when he's gonna come, right?
And so the preacher crowd will take this verse
and apply it to themselves.
You know, he's gonna come as a thief in the night to us.
Look at verse three.
For when they shall say peace and safety,
then sudden destruction cometh upon them,
as travail upon a woman with child,
and they shall not escape, but ye, brethren,
are not in darkness that that day, what day?
The thief in the night, the day of the Lord?
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness
that that day should overtake you as a thief.
So he's saying, look, it's like saying,
hey, I heard there's a conspiracy amongst these guys,
and they said they're gonna come rob you,
and they're gonna come break into your house on Saturday.
What time?
I don't know.
We just know that it's, or it's sometime after Friday,
so you can rest assured it's gonna be in the weekend.
When, though?
I don't know.
He didn't say what time.
We just know it's gonna be Saturday or Sunday.
Now, even though you don't know
what time they're gonna come,
whether it's midnight, two o'clock,
three o'clock in the morning,
you're gonna be ready, aren't you?
Because you know it's still coming.
Right?
So it's not like you're just gonna fall asleep
and just be like, well, hey, no man, no,
it's the day or the hour.
You know?
You're gonna be alert, you're gonna be vigilant,
because you at least know somewhat of the time frame
that it's after Friday, maybe it's on Sunday,
maybe it's on Saturday,
but you're not gonna be careless because of it.
So that's what it's telling us here,
it's like, it's gonna come as a thief in the night
to them because they don't know Christ coming,
they don't know the Bible.
Whereas we, because we're not children of the dark,
and we're children of the light,
we know when he's gonna come.
Now, people will misconstrue that to say,
well, you're putting dates to the rapture, okay?
Well, first of all, you know,
no one's ever claimed any date.
Specific date, okay?
We know the season and some of the events
that take place prior to him coming.
You know, we know those events,
and by those markers, we can analyze and say,
okay, it's gonna be around this time,
but we don't know the day or the hour.
We just know of the events that are gonna take place
prior to that, and guess what?
When he comes, you do know the day or the hour.
Right?
Because when he comes in the class, it's like,
okay, you know, it's Tuesday, or I don't know,
this time, you're gonna know that.
I mean, when you're in heaven,
you know the day or the hour.
Right?
So it's not like we'll never know.
Now look what it says here.
Year of the children of light and the children of the day,
we are not of the night nor of darkness.
Therefore, let us not sleep as do others,
but let us watch and be sober,
for they that sleep, sleep in the night,
and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
Go to 2 Thessalonians chapter two.
I mean, chapter four and chapter five
are pretty reasonable.
Kinda adds up.
It kinda gives you a sense of accomplishment
that you understand what these passages mean.
You know why?
Because God's a reasonable God.
And the thing is, you know,
there's things that are cryptic in the Bible,
but through years of study,
when you actually read it,
doesn't it feel good?
Like, oh, I understand it now.
I understand this passage.
That's a great feeling.
Because then you come to the conclusion,
you come to the conclusion even more so
that God is reasonable.
But if when you read chapter four and chapter five,
and we just look at it,
and then you just completely walk away
still believing contrary to what it's actually teaching,
you're just being unreasonable.
Don't be unreasonable.
It doesn't help you to just be unreasonable.
You know, God's like, come, let us reason together.
This is what makes sense.
This is what the Bible's teaching.
You know, forget what everybody else said.
Forget what your old pastor said.
Forget what books say.
Especially forget what books say.
You know, go with what the Bible says.
And if this is what it says, it's reasonable,
just believe it.
Look at 2 Thessalonians chapter two, verse number one.
Now we beseech your brethren by the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and by our gathering together unto him,
that ye be not soon shaken in mind
or be troubled, neither by spirit nor by word,
nor by letter as from us,
as that the day of Christ is at hand.
So it says, look, if anybody tells you
that the day of Christ is at hand means it's imminent,
it can happen at any moment,
don't be shaken by that.
Don't be troubled by that, because it's not true.
Verse three says, let no man deceive you.
About what?
About the fact that the day of Christ is at hand.
For that day, the day of Christ,
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
our gathering together unto him,
for that day shall not come,
except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition.
Who opposeth and exalted himself
above all that is called God,
or that is worshiped so that he as God
sitteth in the temple of God,
showing himself that he is God.
Now, here's the thing, okay?
That's pretty clear what it said right there.
That day shall not come,
except there come a falling away first.
A lot of people will take that and say
the falling away means a rapture.
You know, you fall up, it's strange.
You know what that is?
You're being unreasonable.
You're just being unreasonable.
Because falling away, even if you're looking back
in the original language, is apostasia,
which we use the word apostate, right?
Apostasize.
Now, here's the thing is the verse there,
in verse two it says, you know,
the day of Christ is at hand, right?
Now, let me read it to you from the NIV.
Because remember, I'm talking to people
who are King James Only's, right?
The NIV says this, concerning,
excuse me if I chop this up,
because it just sounds weird already.
Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
and our being gathered to him,
we ask you, brothers and sisters,
not to become easily unsettled or alarmed
by the teaching allegedly from us,
whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth
or by letter, asserting that the day of the Lord
has already come.
What?
Here's the thing is, I heard recently
that this pastor, that I'm gonna reference later on,
this pastor was saying, oh, what the apostle Paul
was saying here is that there's people in these days
that were claiming that Jesus Christ had already come.
Jesus Christ had already come.
You know, the Lord has already come.
Whereas here it's in, excuse me,
in the King James Version, it says, is at hand.
Which means it hasn't come, but it's imminent.
It can happen at any time, right?
So what, you say, what are you trying to get at,
Brother Mejia?
That a lot of King James Onlyists
will use an NIV rendition of this passage.
That's what they do.
You know why, because you're just being unreasonable.
Don't be unreasonable.
I mean, that's what it says right here in the NIV.
Don't let anyone deceive you in any way,
for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs.
And the man of lawlessness is revealed,
the man doomed to destruction.
By the way, I believe that in the end times
they're probably gonna use this
and claim that Christians who are going through
that great tribulation are the rebellion, right?
Go to Revelation, let's see, yeah, go to Revelation 6.
You know, these same people who are King James Onlyists,
they're like, King James, we believe
the King James Bible is the inspired,
preserved Word of God, you know,
we're gonna stick to the old-fashioned King James Bible,
but we're gonna quote from the NIV, amen?
It's like, we're gonna get our doctrine from the NIV.
I mean, that's a slam to you, if that's what you're doing.
That's a slam to you if you claim to be King James Only
but your beliefs match up
with the other versions of the Bible.
That's a major slam, okay?
Because anybody who's saved knows that the NIV is corrupt.
It's a garbage Bible.
It omits verses, it changes the plan of salvation.
These verses, these Bibles are the devil's Bibles.
And any saved King James Onlyists knows that.
Even if they have like a shallow understanding of that,
they know that to be true.
So what makes you think
that they're gonna give you right teaching
in regards to eschatology, to end times?
If they can't even get something
as simple as salvation down pat in the NIV,
what makes you think that they'll clear up
something as complex as end times doctrine, right?
Now, Revelation 6, verse one says,
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals,
and I heard as it were the noise of thunder,
one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
And I saw and behold a white horse,
and he that sat on him had a bow,
and a crown was given unto him,
and he went forth conquering and to conquer.
So what do we see here?
Well, we see what 2 Thessalonians is referring to,
the man of sin being revealed.
So at the opening of the first seal,
you see the antichrist stepping on the scene,
going forth to conquer, okay?
Skip down to, or let's see here,
skip down to verse number nine.
And by the way, the parallel passage is Revelation 13
where we see that the antichrist
is making war with the saints.
And Revelation 13 is not talking
about Jesus either, by the way.
Some people will say, Oh, this is Jesus.
No, it's not Jesus, it's talking about the antichrist.
Look at verse nine of Revelation six.
And when he had opened the fifth seal,
I saw under the altar the souls of them
that were slain for the word of God,
and for the testimony which they held.
And they cried with a loud voice saying,
How long, O Lord, holy and true,
dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them
that dwell on the earth?
Now, what does it mean to judge and avenge their blood?
It means God has not yet poured his wrath.
So if we're in Revelation chapter six,
and most Christians, even pre-trippers,
would agree that Revelation six
is highlighting the tribulation, right?
But here in Revelation six,
we see souls that are under the altar
who were beheaded, who were killed
for the testimony that they had,
and they said, How long, O Lord,
are you going to wait, right,
before you judge and avenge our blood?
What does that mean?
It means that the wrath has not yet taken place.
It has not yet taken place.
So you cannot claim that the tribulation
is the wrath of God, because God specifically says here,
at the fifth seal, which if there's six seals, right,
and you're at the fifth one,
and still the wrath of God has not yet been poured out,
that means the vast majority of what we see
in the seals are all tribulation, okay?
And it says here in verse number 11,
the white robes were given unto every one of them,
and it was said unto them
that they should rest yet for a while,
a little season, until their fellow servants,
also, and their brethren, that should be killed
as they were, should be filled.
Skip down to verse number,
let's go to verse 12.
And I behold, when he had opened the sixth seal,
and lo, there was a great earthquake,
and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair,
and the moon became as blood,
and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth,
even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs,
when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
And the heaven departed as a scroll,
when it is rolled together,
and every mountain and island
were moved out of their places,
and the kings of the earth,
and the great men, and the rich men,
and the chief captains, and the mighty men,
and every bondman, and every free man,
hid themselves in the dens,
and in the rocks of the mountains,
and said to the mountains and rocks,
fall on us, and hide us from the face of him
that sitteth on the throne,
and from the wrath of the Lamb,
for the great day of his wrath is come,
and who shall be able to stand?
You say, well, that's not the rapture.
I don't see anybody getting raptured here.
Well, here's the thing.
The day of the Lord is both rapture and wrath.
I mean, is that impossible for God to do?
No, it's not.
It's not impossible for God to have
both rapture and wrath.
Well, where's the rapture?
Well, actually, he spends an entire chapter seven
talking about the rapture.
The great multitude that's in heaven,
which no man could number,
how many people could we number
in what they refer to as the pre-tribulation rapture?
Easy, one, which is John,
because they claim the rapture takes place
in Revelation chapter four,
but it's just John, and he ends up coming back, right?
He ends up coming back,
whereas the rapture,
both pre-trib and post-trib crowd would agree
that the rapture is all believers.
You know, a number which,
a group of people which no man could number,
because there's so many people
from the beginning of time up until now,
or until the end of the world, right?
So here we see that the thing
that's being highlighted is the wrath of God,
and that works in tandem with Matthew chapter 24.
He gathers together his elect,
and you see the sun being darkened.
The stars shall not give their light.
The stars shall fall from heaven,
and the moon shall not give her light.
All these things, the events that take place,
they match up.
You know what it is?
It's called being reasonable.
And if after you read these things,
you still don't believe
that the rapture is after the tribulation,
you're just being unreasonable.
Just be reasonable.
That's what it says, and just believe it.
I just can't believe it.
Why?
You're just being unreasonable is what you're doing.
Take it at face value, if that's what it says,
and if it makes sense,
which, hey, does it not make sense?
It makes perfect sense, okay?
Now go to 2 Thessalonians chapter three.
Now look, this is not a damnable heresy.
You're not a damnable heretic
if you believe in the pre-tribulation rapture.
You know?
But you know what you are?
You're just unreasonable.
Now there are heretics who are damnable heretics
that teach the pre-tribulation rapture.
Okay, you have a haggy or these other weirdos and stuff,
these dispensationalists.
That's why you have someone like Gene Kim
who literally teaches, there's like five raptures.
He says in like one video, he talks about how
Paul didn't even know of the rapture,
and then he completely contradicts himself
in a different video, saying, well, yeah,
that Matthew 24 is the rapture,
but it's just a different rapture.
That's called unreasonable and wicked.
You know, it doesn't, you don't have to do
these mental acrobats and backflips and parkour.
You don't have to do mental parkour
in order to come to this reasonable conclusion.
A lot of times the reason why people are unreasonable
is because it goes against the grain
of what they've always been taught.
What they're in their church
have always been unified around.
But our loyalty is to the Bible.
Amen.
You know, I'm loyal to my church.
I'm loyal to the people within my church,
but above them is the Bible.
Amen.
So if the Bible says something completely different,
you know, I can't be unreasonable.
I need to go with what the word of God says.
So that's number one doctrine that's unreasonable, right?
And I think you would agree with that.
The second one is the anti-reperbate doctrine.
I don't even know what to call it.
Because we believe in the reprobate doctrine,
so if I guess you don't believe it,
it's your anti-reperbate doctrine, okay?
This is an unreasonable stance here, okay?
If you're a King James only and you're saved,
this is unreasonable.
I'm gonna read to you from Psalm five verse four.
Because part of believing the reprobate doctrine
is believing that God does hate certain people.
I can't believe you just said that.
You don't be unreasonable.
Because the Bible clearly says in Psalm five, verse five,
the foolish shall not stand in thy sight.
Thou, referring to God, hatest all workers of iniquity.
Well, when it says hate there in the Hebrew,
it means hate in the Hebrew.
Well, it means abhor, that means hate.
You're being unreasonable.
If that's what it says, then that's what it says.
I've always been taught that God loves everyone.
God loves sinners, absolutely.
He definitely loves sinners, but can we do,
so now that we believe that God loves sinners,
do we just completely throw out Psalm five five
and just say that just doesn't apply to us?
Do we say that God was wrong,
that David just spoke in the flesh?
Do you think God is so, is the author of confusion
that even if David spoke in the flesh,
that God would have that to be recorded?
It's there for a reason.
Look, David spoke by the Holy Ghost.
Inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Said, thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
And it wasn't like God saying, whoa, David,
you took it a little too far there.
No.
When we talk about inspired,
it means the Holy Spirit said, write this down.
Okay, look at Second Thessalonians three, verse two.
Now, part of this anti-reperbate doctrine
is that people wanna believe that people have
all the time in the world to be saved,
that anybody can be saved.
If the reprobate, if the pervert, the child molester
lives until he's like 100, he can still be saved.
As long as there's breath in his lungs
and all these things, there's still an opportunity
for him to be saved.
Now, an equivalent word to believe is faith.
When we say place your faith in Christ,
we're talking about believing on Jesus Christ.
Look at Second Thessalonians three, verse one.
Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord
may have free course and be glorified
even as it is with you, and that we may be delivered
from unreasonable and wicked men.
Look what it says.
For all men have not faith.
No, everyone has the ability to believe.
It says not everyone has faith.
Yeah, but I still believe you're being unreasonable.
Don't be unreasonable.
If it says here that all men have not faith,
it doesn't mean everyone, right?
It just means that there's certain people
in this world that we need to pray
that God would deliver us from them
because they're wicked, they're unreasonable,
and they don't have faith.
Okay, not hard to understand.
Go to First Corinthians, chapter nine.
Now, one of the reasons I'm bringing this up
is because it's gonna be a little hot right now, okay?
So there's this local pastor, all right?
And I'm not gonna say his name because the fact is
I don't wanna make him famous, you know?
And I don't want him to get any attention from this, okay?
And by the way, I'm not talking about my old pastor.
My old pastor, Pastor Steve Myers, is a saved man.
I don't agree with him on a lot of things,
but he's saved, and by the way,
he may agree with what this guy is saying,
but I still won't say anything about him
because of the fact that he's a saved man,
and this local pastor's not saved, though.
He's not saved, okay?
And one of the, and I can give you multitudes
of reasons of why I know that he's not saved.
I worked with him for many years.
I remember one time he got up and he preached,
and he talked about how the sacrifices
in the Old Testament saved people.
And I met with him privately.
He was older than me, and I met with him privately.
I said, hey, you said that the sacrifices
saved the saints of the Old Testament?
That's actually wrong.
The Bible actually says that it's impossible
that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
And actually, the sacrifices were a shadow
of things to come, and they were a shadow
of Jesus Christ, who's the Lamb of God,
who should take away the sins of the world.
Those people look forward to the cross.
We look back to the cross.
It's always been by faith, and Abraham,
I give him all the examples, and he said,
oh, man, yeah, thanks for telling me.
I didn't know that.
Come on in, come on in.
Guys, you wanna help out, help usher them in?
So, you know, I told him, I was just like,
and he's like, oh, he apologizes,
and he goes, oh, man, I'm sorry, I didn't know that.
Okay, well, great, you know.
I said, okay, you know, I just moved on.
And you know what he did?
He preached it again.
And again, and again, and again.
You know, that's wicked.
Okay, and in fact, he even preached from the pulpit
and said, don't study your Bibles.
That's crazy.
He says, just know Jesus, but don't study the Bible.
What?
Search the scriptures for in them,
you think you have eternal life,
and they are which testify of me.
The only way you can know Jesus
is by studying the Bible.
Okay, but the reason I say this
is because he's preaching through Romans,
and he, you know, someone sent me a clip from him
preaching through Romans one.
And he's, I knew him before that he was anti-reperbate.
Okay, I already knew that already.
But I'm curious to know what people will say
who don't believe in the reprobate doctrine,
how are they gonna teach through Romans one?
Like, what are you gonna, what kind of parkour?
What kind of mental parkour are you gonna do?
And you know what he did?
He did the parkour where the people,
they jump from one building to the next,
and then they just die because they just,
because I was like, that was an unreasonable distance
for you to try to think that you can clear, okay?
And he, you know, he talks about,
oh, you know, these are, and he claims,
here's the thing, he says himself,
he's sodomized their reprobates.
He says, yeah, they're reprobates.
They have a depraved mind,
which is interesting that he said that
because all the new versions don't say reprobate mind,
they say depraved mind.
Okay, just keep that in mind.
So he says, you know, they have a depraved mind,
and you know, every week, every year,
they have a gay pride parade,
and you know, it's right in front of my house,
and I watch it, and we gotta like go.
Oh, he said, well, I don't watch it.
I mean, I don't sit there and watch it,
but we gotta, you know, we try to like avoid it,
and all these things.
And he tries to basically soften the blow, right?
He tries to make it seem as though
he's taking a hard stance against the sodomites.
It's disgusting, you know, and all these things,
and blah, blah, blah, and he says,
but they can be saved still, you know?
Now, look at 1 Corinthians 9, 27,
because, you know, he's a scholar.
The man is a scholar.
And he explains how 1 Corinthians 9, 27,
where it says cast away means reprobate in the Greek.
Now, shut my mouth.
I had no idea this guy knew Greek.
I've known him for years.
He never like said,
cata la veneta, ele nica, right?
She had a thing.
He never spoke Greek to me,
but apparently, this guy knows Greek.
Now, look at verse number 27.
It says, but I keep under my body,
and bring it into subjection,
lest by any means, when I have preached to others,
I myself should be a castaway.
And he says, see, Paul's not a reprobate.
He's not beyond the hope of salvation.
He's not beyond the hope of,
castaway means abandoned, it means rejected.
The word that's being used is reprobate.
And you know what?
He's right.
The word in Greek, right there in verse 27 for castaway,
is reprobate, okay?
Now, I'm gonna get into what the rest of,
what he said before I get into this.
So, he goes to Matthew, chapter 13,
where it talks about blaspheming the Holy Ghost.
He goes, no sin, you know, all sin shall be forgiven.
See, all sin, including homosexual,
all sin can be forgiven.
And he goes, except for the blaspheming of the Holy Ghost.
That's the only thing that can cause someone
not to be saved.
So, he's using that to say that the homeless
can still be saved, right?
But then he rolls into the blaspheming of the Holy Ghost,
and he says, this is referring to people
who just reject God, they reject Christ.
It's like, you just proved my point.
And then he made this statement.
He goes, but if those people change their ways,
they can still be saved.
Oh, whoa, hold on a second here.
Do we change our ways to be saved?
No one can change their ways.
There's none that doeth good, no, not one.
There's not a just man upon earth
that doeth good and sinneth not.
There is none righteous, no, not one.
No one's perfect.
We're gonna sin today.
Our bodies are corrupt.
When we get saved, the only thing that's perfect
within us is our spirit, okay?
Now, he wants to say that basically,
when it talks about reprobate, cast away,
in 1 Corinthians 9, 27, you know,
cast away means just that, means to be cast away, right?
Now, what is the Apostle Paul referring to here, though?
Look at verse number 24,
I know you not that they which run in a race run all,
but one receiveth the prize, so run, that ye may obtain.
And every man that striveth for the mastery
is tempered in all things.
Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown,
but we an incorruptible.
I therefore so run, not as an uncertainty,
so fight I, not as one that beateth the air.
So what is he talking about?
A race is what he's referring to.
So he keeps under his body, why?
Because a runner has to be physically disciplined,
or what happens?
They get out of the race, right?
They're cast out of the race.
Now go to 2 Corinthians 13.
So I agree with what he said there,
because he's right.
Now he didn't explain the previous verses,
he just read this one verse and said,
that says reprobate, just believe me, okay?
And look, if you don't believe me,
then that's what it says,
there's a Greek guy right there,
raise your hand, brother Paulides.
He'll tell you, that's what it says.
Check it with him.
2 Corinthians 13, verse five.
Now, 2 Corinthians 13, verse five,
is the coup de grace, okay?
To prove our doctrine of what the Bible teaches.
There's no way around what we're gonna read right now.
Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith,
prove your own selves, know you're not your own selves,
how that Jesus Christ is in you,
except you be reprobates.
Okay, so let's break this down here, okay?
Because here the apostle Paul is saying,
hey, you're a reprobate because except means unless, right?
Another word for except means unless.
And he says, you're a reprobate unless, unless what?
You be in the faith.
Well, what does it mean to be in the faith?
Well, it says there, that Jesus Christ is in you.
I mean, that's pretty clear, right?
So he says, if you're in the faith,
if you have Jesus Christ in you,
then you're not a reprobate.
That's how basically we could read this.
But if they're not in the faith,
and Jesus Christ is not in them,
then the Bible says they're reprobates.
So explain that to me.
Now here's the thing, you say, well,
not everyone has Jesus Christ living within them,
not everyone's in the faith.
Yeah, so there's a reason, God's not unreasonable,
so we just gotta figure out what that means, right?
Now,
let me read to you from the NIV, okay?
Because remember, so he's taking the definition
that we find in 1 Corinthians 9, 27,
and he's using that same definition in 2 Corinthians 13.
You know, someone who is cast away, cast out.
Look at, let me read to you from the NIV.
It says, examine yourselves to see whether
you are in the faith, test yourselves.
Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you?
Unless, of course, you failed the test.
F, you failed the test.
Not reprobates, failed the test.
Now let me just say this, failing the test
and reprobate are not the same thing.
So let me get this straight,
so when we go out and witness to people today,
you know, we give them the gospel
and they reject the gospel, it's like, how'd that go?
They failed the test, man.
Christ is not in them, they failed the test.
How many did they get right?
Five out of 10.
They needed at least eight out of 10
in order to get a passing grade,
but they didn't answer it all correctly.
That's not what it's talking about.
Let me read to you from the ESV.
Always learning and never able to arrive,
oh, I'm sorry, this is from,
I put it in there, 2 Timothy chapter three.
So go to 2 Timothy chapter three.
Now let me explain to you why it says,
specifically to the Corinthians, who are in church.
What does that mean?
They go to church weekly.
They're hearing the word of God weekly,
and he's telling them, examine yourselves,
prove your own selves to see if you be in the faith,
know you're not your own selves,
how that Christ is in you, except you be reprobates.
That's a pretty strong statement
that the apostle Paul is stating.
Now why is he saying that?
Well, 2 Timothy chapter three and verse number seven
explains why.
Ever learning and never able to come
to the knowledge of the truth.
Now as Janus and Jamborees withstood Moses,
so do these, also what?
Resist the truth.
What does it mean to resist the truth?
It means I give you the truth,
and you say, nope, I don't want it.
No, that's not what the Bible says.
No, that's resisting the truth.
Men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
So what does concerning the faith mean?
It means rejected, concerning, believing.
That's why he's telling the Corinthians
in 2 Corinthians chapter 13,
hey, you're in church,
you're listening to preaching every single day.
The truth is being given to you.
You need to examine yourselves if you be in the faith,
knowing that you're own selves,
how that Christ is in you,
except you're a reprobate.
That's why, because it seems as though
you're resisting the truth.
Now let me read to you from the ESV.
Always learning, never able to arrive
at a knowledge of the truth,
just as Janus and Jamborees opposed Moses,
so do these men also oppose the truth.
Men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
You're disqualified.
That's not what it says.
Now it's true, reprobate means rejected,
and you need to know the context
of whatever it's talking about,
because in Acts chapter four in the Spanish Bible,
it says, reprobado in regards to Christ.
You know why?
Because he is the stone which the builders rejected.
So we could look at that context and say,
okay, that's referring to the fact
that he's rejected by the Jews.
He's rejected by Israel.
But here we see that people who are rejected by God
are rejected because they have resisted the truth.
Yeah, but they can still be saved.
Hold on a second, can you force someone to believe?
So if they're resisting the truth,
resisting the truth, resisting the truth,
how are you gonna get them saved
if they have to, by their own will, choose to believe?
Withstood Moses, resisted the truth.
By the way, men of corrupt minds means reprobate mind.
Okay?
Now go to John 12.
If that doesn't suffice you,
you're like, I'm not content with that,
don't be unreasonable.
You're being unreasonable.
If you don't agree with what we just looked at,
because it's pretty clear.
So the reprobate doctrine is teaching
that there comes a point when a person
can reject Christ so much, right?
To the point where God says, okay,
you don't want me, then I don't want you.
And the Bible says that he gives them
over to a reprobate mind.
Now, reprobate mind is referring to the fact
that God removes their moral compass
and that's why they do things that are not convenient.
Sodomy, bestiality, rape, chamalestation.
These are disgusting, wicked things
that are not convenient, that are wicked as hell.
And the Bible tells us here
that that's what a reprobate mind does.
Okay?
So it's not like they became a reprobate
because of the fact that they're into sodomy.
No, they got into sodomy because they were given over
to a reprobate mind.
Now, look what the Bible says in verse 34.
Because people say, well, you know,
God can still help, he can still save them,
and all these things.
Okay, well, let's look at verse 34 of the book of John,
one of the most loving books.
The people answered him, we have heard out of the law
that Christ abideth forever,
and now sayest thou the Son of Man must be lifted up.
Who is the Son of Man?
Then Jesus said unto him,
yet a little while is the light with you,
walk while ye have the light,
lest darkness come upon you.
For he that walketh in darkness
knoweth not whither he goeth.
While ye have light, believe in the light,
that ye may be the children of light.
These things spake Jesus and departed
and did hide himself from them.
But though he had done so many miracles before them,
yet they believed not on him,
that the saying of his,
Isaiah is the prophet might be fulfilled.
Okay, so what he's about to quote from Isaiah
coincides with verse 37 where it says,
yet they believe not on him.
You guys get that?
That the saying of Isaiah's,
the prophet might be fulfilled,
which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report,
to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
Therefore they could not believe,
because that Isaiah saith again,
he hath blinded their eyes.
Who?
God?
I don't believe it's referring to,
you're being unreasonable.
He hath blinded their eyes,
and hardened their heart.
Why?
God, why would you do such a thing?
That they should not see with their eyes,
nor understand with their heart,
and be converted, and I should heal them.
The most loving book of the gospels,
the book of John,
records God saying, I blinded them.
I hardened their hearts.
Why?
So that they don't understand.
So they can be blind,
have their hearts hardened,
because they rejected me.
I just still, you're just being unreasonable.
Don't be unreasonable.
Go to Revelation 22.
I'm almost done.
So throughout this whole dissertation
that this guy gives,
his name is Pastor Idiot.
Because throughout this whole dissertation,
you literally listen to what he's saying,
he's proving everything that we're saying.
He's just being unreasonable and wicked.
Okay.
Look at Revelation 22.
I just don't believe that,
God can just damn someone while they're on this earth.
That's what you're saying.
You're saying the reverends can never be saved,
they're damned.
How about this?
Twice dead, plucked up by the roots.
Hello?
I mean, we understand that someone who is once dead
means they died and go to hell.
And if you know any aspect of the concept
of the lake of fire,
you know the lake of fire is referred to
as the second death.
So if God says that you're twice dead,
you're plucked up by the roots,
it means you're done.
You have no hope of salvation.
Look at Revelation 22 verse 19.
In the King James Bible,
and if any man shall take away from the words
of the book of this prophecy,
God shall take away his part
out of the book of life,
out of the holy city
and from the things that are written in this book.
So let's say you don't believe what we're telling you
in regards to what the Bible's saying here.
How do you explain that?
He says if you remove anything from my book,
I will remove from you your name
out of the book of life.
I will take it out.
And look, I don't think we need to,
I need to spend a lot of time on this
for you to understand that in order
to remove something out of God's book,
you have to be alive.
So this is not something that happens after death, okay?
So while you're alive,
if you remove something,
God says I'm gonna take your name
out of the book of life.
And by the way,
he never puts in there,
but don't worry,
I'll put it back some other,
this is just a timeout.
I'll put it in later.
It's removed.
Amen.
Now we're King James only,
is it amen?
Amen.
Let me read to you from the ESV.
And if anyone takes away from the words
of the book of this prophecy,
God will take away his share
in the tree of life and in the holy city.
It's like a stock market.
You're just not gonna get a whole lot.
I'm gonna take away your share
from the tree of life.
You better be a good boy
or I'm gonna take that away from you, okay?
Tree of life and in the holy city
which are described in this book,
and if anyone takes words away
from this scroll of prophecy,
God will take away from that person
any share in the tree of life.
See, the NIV is a little more strict.
The ESV says I'll take away your share,
NIV is like any share that you have.
You're just not gonna get anything, okay?
That's not what it's saying.
It says he's gonna take your name
out of the book of life.
That's someone who's alive today.
So how do you explain that to me?
You're just being unreasonable
if you read something like that
and you don't understand
that that's what the Bible teaches.
It's pretty clear, okay?
I'm out of time.
I was gonna get into the abuses
of themselves with the mankind,
but I'm way, way, way over time.
So what's the message today?
The message is simply this,
is hey, let's not be unreasonable,
and if you're listening to the sermon
and this is something foreign to you,
I don't think you could walk away
out of this service, out of this sermon,
and say he didn't use any Bible
to prove any of that.
He didn't explain it.
He just twisted the scriptures.
No, to twist the scriptures
is to read one verse out of context.
What did we do today?
We looked at multitudes of verses.
And then to just further put salt in the womb,
I proved what you believe
out of the false versions of the Bible.
That's bad.
Just to kind of wake you up
and show you that what you believe
actually agrees more with the modern versions
than with the actual word of God,
which is the King James Bible.
Hey, don't be unreasonable.
Just believe it.
And everything will just feel like a glove.
Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much for your word.
Thank you for the fact that it's perfect,
it's inerrant, indestructible.
We can depend on it.
And even if we come across a dark saying,
a parable, something that is very deep,
Lord, you've even, you still,
even then you've promised us
that the Spirit searches all things,
yea, the deep things of God.
And we just need to submit ourselves
to the Holy Spirit's ministry,
grow, take time to read, memorize, study the Bible,
and put away preconceived ideas,
and put away wicked people
who are teaching us the word of God,
because they're gonna lead us astray.
And I pray, God, that you'd help us to do so.
Thank you so much for the perfection of your word.
Bless the remainder of our day,
and in Jesus' name we pray, amen.