Okay, we're in Psalm chapter 15 and we'll just reread the chapter because it's such a short chapter. It's a good chapter though
It says Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy hill
He that walketh up rightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart
He that backbiteth not with his tongue nor doeth evil to his neighbor
Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor in whose eyes a vile person is condemned
But he honoreth them that fear the Lord he that swear it to his own hurt and changeth not
He that putteth not out his money to usury nor taketh reward against the innocent
He that doeth these things shall never be moved
And the title of the sermon this evening is who shall dwell in thy holy hill who shall dwell in thy holy hill now
Psalm 15 as I mentioned is a very small chapter
but this chapter contains some very important instructions for God's people to give heed to and
Verse 1 really poses an important question
He says who shall dwell in thy excuse me abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy hill now
Automatically we know from reading this chapter that this isn't this isn't an instructional chapter on how to be saved
Okay
And you know, there's people who will take any verse any chapter in the Bible that he's even remotely talking about
Maybe even salvation or heaven and they'll automatically say well, this is referring to heaven, you know
You got to adhere to these instructions if we're gonna go to heaven if we're gonna be saved
But this is not what this is talking about. Why do we know that?
Well because of the fact that there's no mention of eternal life here. There's no mention of being saved
There's no mention of salvation just in general. What is it that's being mentioned here?
Well, he says abiding in thy tabernacle and dwelling in the holy hill now make no mistake about it
These two areas is referring to heaven so to speak. Okay, and
In fact when you think about the tabernacle
We understand that there was a physical tabernacle in the Old Testament where the presence of God was
Where the high priest would go in once a year and he was the only one who was allowed to be there
But it was figurative of the things like present of that actual tabernacle, which is in heaven and what it simply
Symbolized was the presence of God where God was where God dwelled where God God's glory was
And of course we understand that Holy Hill is the same thing and in fact go with me if you went to Psalm 24
I'm gonna read to you from Psalm 3 verse 4 says I cried into the Lord with my voice and he heard me out of his
Holy Hill
Selah Psalm 99 verse 9 says exalt the Lord our God and worship at his holy hill for the Lord our God is
Holy now the question is what is this referring to in Psalm 15?
When he says who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell in thy Holy Hill if this is not referring to who's gonna
Go to heaven or who's gonna have salvation
What is this talking about?
Well often King David will you know and some of the psalms will use this poetic language to symbolize
something else and
Let's look at example here in Psalm 24 says the earth is the Lord and the fullness thereof the world and they that dwell therein
Free have founded it upon the seas
Verse 2 and establish it upon the floods
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord who shall stand in his holy place?
He that hath clean hands and a pure heart who hath not lifted up his soul to vanity
Nor sworn deceitfully look what it says in verse 5. He shall receive
blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his
Salvation. So what is David saying here in Psalm 24?
Well, we can look at Psalm 15 Psalm 24 compare them and if we were to study those out
We would come to the conclusion that he's referring to the man
Who situates himself in such a way that he becomes the recipient of God's blessing, you know
It's almost as if he is in that Holy Temple. He's dwelling and abiding in that tabernacle
Therefore because he's in the presence of God God's favor is on him. He receives the blessings of God
You know, we don't necessarily have to be in heaven right now to be blessed right we can live here on this earth
Obey God obey his word keep his commandments follow his precepts and we become the recipients of God's blessing
We become we place ourselves in such a position that God would favor us
So Psalm 15 has that same poetic expression that describes that position of God's blessing
Now, why is this? Well because of the fact that we understand that God's blessing doesn't happen by osmosis
Right, you don't become a Christian and then everything just hunky-dory after that
No, in fact, you know, yeah, obviously there's some blessings that come with being a child of God, you know
We have eternal life. God is our Heavenly Father. We are his children
the Bible tells us that we're sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is
The the earnest of our inheritance unto the redemption of the purchase possession. There are certain blessings that we do receive automatically at salvation
But that's not the only thing we receive
There are blessings over and abundant the Bible says he came not to give just life a life more abundantly
You know, there is a list there's an instrumental list of blessings that God wants to give to us in our personal lives
But they come with conditions. Okay, they come with rules, you know
We have to obey his word in order to receive those blessings. It's not like well, I'm a Christian now
God's just gonna bless me. He's gonna favor me no matter how I live no matter what I do no matter
You know what a church I go to or what kind of preaching I listen to no matter how I live no matter how worldly
God's gonna bless me. That's not how it works
You know, we have to situate ourselves in such a way that we would receive those blessings
Okay, and we can't have this this expectation mentality where you know, why isn't God blessing me?
Well, maybe it's because you're not like obeying him
Why isn't God favoring me? Well, maybe it's because you're living in disobedience
Now look if if you examine your life when you find yourself in such a situation and you realize well
I am obeying God's Word. I am so winning. I'm reading my Bible. I'm keeping my life clean
I'm doing whatever I can to live a life that's pleasing unto the Lord. I'm still not being blessed then
You know what? It is. It's a time of purification
It's a time of sanctification where God is working on you and you know reference the sermon from this morning
That's what's happening to you, right? He's taking that hiss up and he's purging you
He's cleansing you to make you more formidable mean for the Masters use
However, sometimes people don't get blessed by God's because they are in sin
Right, or they're just living in direct disobedience to God's Word
They're not doing something they know they're supposed to be doing and therefore they're not receiving the blessings of the Lord now
here's the unfortunate thing is there's people out there who you know, maybe they're in a church that's lukewarm and
They're not being blessed, but they think they are
You know, that's that's actually a worse place to be
You know to live this delusional life
That thinks that they're right with God because they're in some church that is doing some superficial evangelism
Some fake ministry and they think they're actually being blessed by God
But that's not necessarily the case and this is the person who is ignorant of the depths of his blessings
They don't really know what blessings from the Lord are, you know, they translate the blessings of God as a financial blessing
They translate the blessing of God as being in a big building
With all this with all the glitz and glamour the high steeple few people type thing and they think yeah
This is God's blessing is on us, you know, because the church house is filled up
Yeah, but how many people of those people are actually saved, you know, are you seeing people baptized?
How many people in the church are actually going out and preaching the gospel? You see we need to be able to
Translate and interpret the blessings of God
Okay, and understand that the blessing of God is not necessarily financial blessing
It's not the building that you're located in. It's the prosperity and the success that comes from obeying God's Word, right?
Because look we could be blessed by God and be poor. Amen
And we could be blessed by God and meet in a small building
You know, we could be small physically speaking, but we're big in the eyes of God, right? Because we're obeying his word and
so
the obvious thing here is that
We need to make sure that we place ourselves in such a position that God's favor would be distributed unto us
Okay, and this is something we have to work on on a daily basis that we not
You know just stray away from the paths of righteousness that would allow us to be blessed by God and look I want you
Know you should kind of examine yourself tonight and say, you know
Am I being blessed by God because look being in our churches automatically put God's blessing on your life either
You know just because you're in our church and you're singing the hymns and you know
You're associated with our church or whatever. It may be doesn't mean that you're gonna be blessed by God
The blessings come as you obey God's Word the blessings come as you adhere to his precepts
And you are doer the word and not just to hear only deceiving your own selves. Don't be delusional. Okay?
The Bible says in Psalm 15 go back to Psalm 15
So he gives his list in Psalm 15
He talked he's saying who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell in thy Holy Hill what he's saying who's gonna be
Situated in that position where they can be the recipient of God's blessing
Then he goes on to give that list of different things and qualities that this person does and verse
5 says this he that putteth not out of his money to usury nor taketh reward against the innocent
He that doeth these things shall never be moved
So what does he say? Look if you just work on keeping these things and keeping these qualities, you're not gonna be moved
What does that mean? You're not gonna be moved out of God's blessing
You're gonna be right where you need to be being blessed by God that his countenance would shine upon you
He would bless your family your wife and kids your job your vocation your soul winning your spiritual life
You shall not be moved. You know, you're thinking to yourself man. How can I make sure that I keep this momentum going?
Well, you got to obey what we see here in Psalm 15. Okay, and obviously this is not an
Exhaustive list. This is not a complete list
But you know what Psalm 15 is there for a reason and I believe
Psalm 15
Even though it's only a matter of like six or eight eleven qualities
Many of these are all encompassing to different areas of our life different principles
We see in the Bible that when we adhere to we're blessed by God now go to Psalm 16
Probably on the same page there look at verse number five
It says the Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou maintainest my lot
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places. Yea, I have a goodly heritage
I will bless the Lord who hath given me counsel. My reigns also instruct me in the night seasons
I have set the Lord always before me, but because he is at my right hand I shall not be
Moved so notice that he says I have set the Lord always before me, you know, obviously we understand that God is omnipresent
But it takes a person who to put
Purposeful effort to think upon the Lord right to wake up in the morning and say, you know, I'm gonna live unto Christ, right?
I'm gonna die to self. I'm gonna obey the Word of God. I'm gonna read the Bible. I'm gonna pray
I'm gonna set the Lord always before me
And because he is at my right hand I shall not be moved. Okay, you know, don't ever have this fear like oh, man
What if I backslide one day?
Why are you thinking that?
You know, obviously, you know, we should take heed lest we fall, you know
And we should never have had this prideful mentality that we can just you know, nothing will ever happen to us
But you know what?
What I'm saying is we should have faith that if we're placing the Lord always before us
That God is on our right hand that we're obeying him and his word. We shall not be moved. Okay. This is a promise from God
Verse 11 says that would show me the path of life in thy presence is fullness of joy at thy right hand
There are pleasures forevermore, you know, and this is this is the goal that we should have here. Okay
Why is it the people?
During the Christmas season are just going into debt to buy all types of things that they don't need to impress people
They don't even like why because they don't know joy
You know here it says in thy presence is fullness of joy not presents or rather presence of God, right?
You know, we have the joy of the Lord and there's pleasures forevermore
This is the this is the person who is content with where he's at. He is basking in the blessings of God
He's happy where he is serving the Lord so on and so forth
So so our goal should always be to place ourselves in that position where we can receive God's blessing
Okay, that we would live in such a way that we please God. All right
That we have his favor upon our lives. Hey that we can get our prayers answered
Right. I mean when's the last time you got a prayer answered think about that?
And it may not be because you're ungodly maybe just because you're just not praying
But think about this isn't it a blessing to get a prayer answered
Right when you ask God for something and he comes through and and look you you ask specifically, right?
You are importune in your prayers and you get that prayer answer. What does that call? That's called God's favor
When you're able to pray for something and God gives it to you because you've been walking uprightly you're living a life
That's pleasing unto him so on and so forth now and obviously there's different conditions to that sometimes
You know, if we don't get our prayers answered, it's not because we're ungodly. It's not because we're disobedient
Maybe it's just because it's not something that God will want to give us at that moment. You understand, you know, I remember we learned
In years past when you pray there's only a few answers you can get it's either a yes
It's a no or it's a not now, right? It's just not now
Okay, and when you receive that not now you just continue to pray without ceasing
Okay, but when doors begin to close you see that it's not something that God's gonna answer
Just understand that he has your best interest in mind. Maybe that's not something that's good for you at the moment. You understand
Go to Psalm 84 if you would
Psalm 84
We need to make sure that we're in agreement with God
You know the word that we're in agreement with him
That not that we're trying to live perfect lives, but we're trying to live a life that's pleasing to a righteous life
The Bible says in Jeremiah 5 25 your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have withholding good things from you
So it's almost in a sense that there is like a reservoir of blessings there that God wants to pour on you
But what what hinders that is the wall of sin, you know when you're involved in iniquity, you're involved in sin though
It's not that God withholds those things from you it's your sin
It's your iniquities that will hold those things from you
And look what it says in Psalm 84 verse 10 is for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand
I'd rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness
For the Lord God is the Sun and the shield the Lord will give grace and glory
No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. That's a promise from God
He says no good thing will he withhold from him that walk uprightly
Oh wait in case you do in case you have an equity though
You know, the only exception would be is if you have iniquity in your life
If you have sin between you and your God those things will be withheld from you now
I'm not sure how long the sermons gonna be because Psalm 15 is not a very extensive chapter
but I want to talk about these things because I want to I want to I read this this week and
Something popped out on me and I want to talk about it. But let's go down this list
Let's talk about these qualities that he puts forth in Psalm 15 in regards to
Situating ourself in such a way that we have God's favor number one. He says that we have to walk uprightly, right?
He says in verse number two he that walketh up rightly. Now. What does it mean to be upright?
Well upright basically means to have an a straight posture, right?
It's an up an upright person is an individual who is void of crookedness
He is absent of perversion, right?
It's a person who walks a straight and he adheres to rectitude is what it is
Now this is important because you know often we think well, I just got to go so when he forgot to bless me
Well, you know that's half way true
Okay, because that is important. But what's also important to the Lord is what you do behind closed doors
What's also important to the Lord is how upright you are in your heart if you are a man or a woman of upright
Character and a disposition of uprightness. God is pleased with that, you know people often want to say well, you know
Don't judge God look at the pond the harbor man look at on the outward appearance or whatever, you know
And it's just like well, yeah
You know what the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who could know it
You know and often God looks upon the heart and he sees that it's not upright
So that should actually scare you to think that God looks upon the heart because he sees what your true motives are
He sees what's in your heart. He sees what you've been feeding your flesh, right?
We need to be upright go to Isaiah chapter 33
If you would hold your place there in Psalm 15 Proverbs 10 9 says he that walketh uprightly walketh Shirley
But he that is that perverted his ways shall be known. You see a person who just lives an upright life
Isn't afraid of anybody knowing anything about them
Right. They have nothing to hide in other words. He that walketh uprightly
Walketh Shirley they walk confidently they don't they're not worried. Oh man someone gonna catch me
You know the wicked flee when no man pursue it, but the righteous are as bold as a lion
You know a wicked person who has something to hide will say well, you know, why are you asking that question?
You know if you got something to hide
Okay, we need to make sure that we're upright not just in our outward dealings, but even in our hearts
Proverbs 28 18 says who so walketh uprightly shall be saved
But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once now. What is this referring to?
It's referring to the fact that God's gonna save you from falling, right?
He's gonna save you from falling from failing from mischief from evil that can befall you
He will save you from those things if you're a person who is upright
That's why you know, I think to myself, you know, the Christian really who's living for the Lord is invincible
right
We're invincible
We don't have to worry about some rapper trying to kill us or take our lives
You know because if God allows that then you know at that point it's time to go home, man
But we know that if we're walking uprightly we shall be saved if we walk uprightly
God will bless us for us and we can walk surely we can walk with confidence and boldness
Because of the fact that we know we're doing that which is right. Okay. Now look at Isaiah 33 verse number 10
It says now will I rise saith the Lord now will I be exalted now will I lift up myself
Ye shall conceive chaff ye shall bring forth stubble your breath as fire shall devour you
The people shall be as the burnings of lime as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire
Here ye that are far off what I have done and ye that are near acknowledge my might the sinners in Zion are afraid
Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites
Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire who among us shall dwell with the everlasting
Burnings he that walketh
Righteously and speaketh uprightly he that despiseth the gain of oppressions that
Shaketh his hands from holding up bribes that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood and shut his eyes from seeing evil
He shall dwell on high his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks bread shall be given him
His waters shall be sure. I like what he says there in verse number 14 who among us shall dwell
With everlasting burnings. Why is it saying that because God is a consuming fire
And he's saying who's gonna be the one who sides with the Lord when God is judging, right? I
Thought I heard Christmas music
I'm just hearing Christmas. I got Christmas music on the mind right now. I heard like pianos like is that someone's phone?
Is that my computer?
Sorry
you know who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire and what he's saying there is like is this who is on the
Lord Lord side and then he begins to say hey the ones who walk righteously and speaketh uprightly
You know when God begins to judge a nation he begins to judge a people who is God looking for to spare
The ones who stand with him, right?
when God
Allows
Sodomites to die and you know these homos at Orlando perish
You know who he's gonna spare from his judgment are the ones who actually side with God and say God you're righteous to do this
Okay, you are righteous to do this
You're righteous to to pour out your wrath upon this people
But you know it so this basically means that those who don't
Those who condemn the works of God are those who are gonna perish with the unrighteous as well
Okay, because at that point what they're doing is they're perverting judgment
They're saying that well, you know, God is unrighteous for doing this or God didn't do this. Yes, he did
You know anything any natural disaster any you know?
Event that takes place where you where you can see a mass destruction of a people
God is responsible for that God allows that to happen and
We may be a remnant
We may be a small people but you know as a small remnant and people who hold to the Word of God
We need to side with the Lord on that part. That's what it means to be upright
It means in a culture that is crooked and perverse we shine forth as lights in this world
Okay
Go back to Psalm 15. So how are we gonna situate ourselves in the blessing of God?
And what is the blessing about? Well, the blessing of God is when God spares you right?
It's when he spares you from the judgment to come
You know and by the way, you know, you can be coming to our church, but that doesn't mean you're gonna be spared
You can be listening to my preaching but doesn't mean you're gonna be spared
It's the person who is upright in heart because I'm sure there's people in church
Who come to church to listen to me and they don't agree with what I'm saying
They may not they they listen to me
They listen to the Word of God and they say well, I don't really agree with that. Okay, that's fine
But you're just not agreeing with God
and at that point
You know you basically forfeited
Situating yourself in that place of blessing where God can spare you when he pours out his wrath in his in his his judgment
Okay, so he says he that walketh uprightly and then he goes on to say he that worketh righteousness
Now, what does it mean to work righteousness? Well, this is the person that puts in the effort to do right
Okay, you know we think of a righteous person
What that really means is a person who basically disciplines themselves and maybe even the minuscule task
Of everyday living to become righteous. Okay. This is the person who gets up in the morning reads their Bible
Right. Why cuz it takes work
Does it not it's a person who gets up he prays he thinks upon the Lord. He meditates upon the Word of God
He's putting in the effort. He's putting in the work to live righteously
Okay, the Bible says to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and these things shall be added unto you
What does that mean you will dwell in his tabernacle?
You shall abide in the Holy Hill if you live
Righteously you pursue after righteousness and let me say this is that you know coming to church obviously is a blessing
But it's what you do when no one else is around
It's really important, right?
It's what you do when God when when when the pastor can't see you
When your team when your team can't see you when those who esteem you look up to you can't see you and it's just God
Watching you, you know a righteous person is a person who acts the same way at church as he does at home
Right, isn't that important? It's a person of integrity in other words
Okay, where they behave as a Christian not just when they're at church. They don't have the Christian ease
Not just that church, but they also have it at home as well
Right. They talk like a Christian act like a Christian not just when they're at church. They do it at their jobs
Okay, they're a person of integrity even when they're working when they're with their children
You know a lot of the times in times past many Christian parents lose their children to the world
Why is that because their children grow up and they view the hypocrisy of their parents?
What hypocrisy is that that their parents behave one way at church and they behave another way when they go home?
They're all amen and praising the Lord and we got it
You know, they adhere to all the Christian ease of the church, but when they go home, it's a double life
It's a double standard that they live
You know if you want to save your child
From strain from the paths of the Lord. You need to be the same person everywhere and let me know
Let me correct that you need to be the same Christian that is righteous
everywhere
You know or else ten years from now your child's gonna grow up go to the world. You know, what happened?
Well, it's because you had loved that they had the simulation with it. You were a hypocrite
Okay, you know it needs to be real to you but in order for it to be real for your child
You need to work righteousness
Okay, the Bible says in Proverbs 15 9 the way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord
But he that he loveth him that followeth after
Righteousness Proverbs 21 21 says he that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life righteousness and honor turn with me
If you went to 1st Timothy chapter number 6 hold your place there in Psalm
Psalm 15
So exerting yourself working means to exert yourself, right?
It means that you do that which is right, even if you don't feel like it
Because look we have both flesh and spirit
We're not always gonna want to do the things that we want to do and look it's not always in regards to even spiritual matters
It's being the man that you need to be right?
It's going to work even when you don't feel like going to work
Right
It's doing what your boss tells you to do
Even if you don't feel like it. Okay, it's working. It's providing for your family. You understand
It's supporting your wife and your children. It's fulfilling your role. That's living righteously
There should be no compartmentalization when it comes to the things of God or it's like well
You know, we got to be good Christians and when it comes to the things of God when we're in church
But you know my secular job my secular life, that's something separate. No, it's not
It's all the same thing. God wants you to be righteous in all things
Okay, and you want you to work righteousness in all areas of life in all of your dealings? Okay
Looking for Timothy 6 and verse 9 says but they that will be rich fall into temptation
And a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men into destruction and perdition
For the love of money is the root of all evil
Which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows
But thou O man of God flee these things and follow after righteousness
godliness faith love patience meekness
Fight the good fight of faith lay hold on eternal life
We're unto thou are also called and has professed a good profession before many witnesses, you know godliness doesn't mean you can preach
Right, if that's the case Jack Scott was one of the godliest people in the world
Because that guy can preach
Yeah, what in the world Jackson did you say just how can preach yes he could preach
He was a great orator, but that guy was wicked as hell
That guy's a reprobate. He's a false prophet false teacher
You know, I prefer a person who may not have all the preaching abilities, but what do they do?
They follow after righteousness. They're characterized by godliness faith love patience meekness and
Often this takes some effort on your part to live in such a way. Okay?
Hey, it takes effort to repent of sin
You know, it takes effort. It takes you exerting yourself to live a godly life. And in fact the Bible says
exercise thyself
rather unto godliness
Exercise means you're exerting yourself to do so. Okay, because you know what spiritual things and spiritual habits don't come naturally to us
Right. Let's just be honest. We have to learn to do well, right? We have to learn how to live righteously
We have to
Adopt our spiritual appetites to desire those things which are right
Okay, but it takes effort for us to do so and look dads. This is more so for you than anybody else
Obviously the moms need to adhere to this obviously the children need to adhere to this but as the leader of the home
You lead the pack. Amen
You set the spiritual temperature. You are the thermostat. You are the leader
You're the one who's supposed to be leading spiritually in your home. And if that's not the case, okay
But you know what exercise thyself rather unto godliness
put in that effort to be the man that you need to be so you can situate your family in such a way that you
Become the recipient of God's blessing by following after righteousness
Okay, by the way, this is later reiterated in Psalm 15 as swearing to his own hurt and changing not right go with me
If you would see Ecclesiastes chapter number 5 Ecclesiastes chapter number 5
I'm gonna reach you from Matthew chapter 5 verse 37 says belay your communication be yay. Yay
Nay, nay for what's over is more than these cometh of evil. So what is the Bible telling us in Psalm 15?
He's saying this
He that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not, you know
If you make a promise and you cannot fulfill that promise fulfill that promise even if it hurts you
Even if it costs you your resources your time
Even if you come out losing at the end, you know
The righteous person the upright person
sweareth to his own hurt, right
You know, we need to be people of integrity
Okay, if you promise to do something you should do it if you're gonna be somewhere at a specific time be there
Right, don't just be the person who well, you know, this is just me. This is my character flaw
Everyone knows it. I'm just gonna be late anyways, no matter where I go. No
You know if you say you're gonna be somewhere at a specific time be there don't change
Swear to your own hurt, right?
This is a person this will we would refer to as being a person a person of integrity. Okay, you know if you have debt
You have to pay off, you know it I can't say that you are an ungodly person for having debt
You just become ungodly if you choose not to pay off your debt
We should pay it off. Amen
If we owe someone something we ought to give it to them even if it hurts us when we give it
Okay, why because it's better it's it's it's better to be right with God and to be a person of integrity uprightness
Righteousness to swear to our own hurt than to be a person who just can't be dependable
Okay, it's not reliable. All right, these are important qualities, you know
And these aren't qualities that people like to talk about very often, you know
They want to talk about how great of a soul winner people are and all the Bible knowledge that they have
Well, why don't we talk about these little qualities that actually make make a big deal to God, okay
the God makes a big deal of that really makes you a righteous person is
When you vow even to your own hurt look what Ecclesiastes 5 4 says when thou vows to bow unto God
Deferred not to pay it for he hath no pleasure in fools
Pay that which thou hast vowed the Bible says so what is it saying here? It's telling us look obviously we should not bow
Obviously we shouldn't just flippantly make
Promises, but if you do you better make sure you pay it
You better make sure you fulfill that vow that promise do what you said you were going to do
Okay, be a person of integrity and look
The greatest ability is dependability
Is it not when you're able to depend on someone if they say they're gonna be somewhere?
They say they're gonna do something you can mark it down, you know, cuz a lot of times
Today, you know people's word is not worth much anymore to be quite honest with you
You know, it's just and they know that their word is not worth much
Okay
You know, they know that if they say something that they're gonna do something they can just be you know
I'm just I'm just not gonna hopefully that person forgets
No, well, you know even if they forget you should still fulfill it
Because at the end of the day you made a promise even before God and God heard that promise
You should fulfill that be a person of integrity. Okay?
Pay your bills pay off your debts. Keep your promises do what you know, you're supposed to do, you know
I'm thankful like for example
You know
We had a piano we gave it to brother John and or I let him use it and I said I'll let you use it
But you got to practice the piano because he said he wanted to practice the piano. Okay, and I'll say I'll let he's like
I'll practice I say I want you to know how to play the piano
You know this dude started playing like a month after in church, I
don't know if it's cuz he's a Syrian or
Or he got he already knew how to play or something. I don't know, you know, maybe he's just trying to I don't know what it
Is but he but you know what? He kept his promise. I
Said I want you to be I want you to be playing Christmas songs
And this was a couple months ago. He's playing silent night
You know, I would I would esteem that as being a person of uprightness and a person who who swore to his own hurt
You know, I'm sure he's just like my fingers are hurting, you know
Well, you know, he told me I got to play a Christmas song. I told him I would do it
I don't know why I said I would do it by Christmas time, but I need to do it
And you know what? He made it happen. Okay, this is integrity. This is dependability. This is important to the Lord
He says he that putteth not out his money for usury
This is a person who lends money and then expects interest in return now
I don't I never really met a Christian who's ever who's ever done that you gotta be pretty wicked to do something like that
You know, you know don't be acting like a Jews basically, let me just give you the condensed version don't don't you people around?
Okay, that's what it is
Psalm 112 5 says a good man showeth favor and lendeth. He will guide his affairs with discretion
Okay, you know Proverbs 28 8 says he that by usury and unjust gain increase it to substance the Jews
He shall gather it for him that will pity the poor, you know, and look here's the thing if you're gonna lend someone money
and let's say they're the ones who vow the vow, right and
They don't do it to their own hurt. They just never give you back the money. This is what I've learned from my previous pastor
Previous to Pastor Anderson. I learned this that when you lend someone money just kiss it. Goodbye
I'll never see it again. Just act like you'd never see it again because there's a big possibility that you may not
Ever see it again
And the reason you got to kiss it goodbye is because of the fact that if they promise to pay you back
But they don't you never want to hold a grudge against someone
You know, I'm just like where's my money? I
Want my money, you know because then at that point then you're gonna be guilty of extortion
Because you're like bullying a person because they haven't paid you, you know, just suffer yourself to be defrauded
Okay, but here's the thing if you lend someone money in our church
Okay, if they ask you hey, can I can can I give you can I get a hundred bucks, you know?
I'm low on this whatever
I'll pay you back if you are willing to impart that $100 into that person just say this don't pay me back
Just keep it if you want to pay me back. That's fine. But if you never pay me back, I'm fine with it
Here's the hundred dollars. Just kiss it. Goodbye
Cuz better to keep your relationship right with your brethren, you know what I mean? And you get to be a blessing to someone
Okay
God will bless you for it. You want to make sure that you're never trying to be a Jew when it comes to money
Understand I know that's funny, but it's the truth
We never want to have a Jew mentality when it comes to money that we're trying to make money off of people and you know
We're so tightly knit to money that even to the point where our relationships become affected because of it
Okay, you know he that putteth not out his money to usury and just keep in mind
It is God that giveth you the power to gain wealth the Bible says so even the money that you have that you're lending out
God is the one who gave it to you
So we ought to have the attitude not the hoarding attitude
We need to have the attitude when God gives to us
We use that those resources to give out as much as we possibly can to others to be a blessing
He says nor taketh reward
Against the innocent. Okay. This is dealing with a very wicked person
Who is seeking mischief in order to gain something out of it, okay
now
later on in verse number four or excuse me verse number three says
I'm sorry verse two. It says he that walketh uprightly work its righteousness and speak at the truth in his heart
This is an important quality as well. What is that a person of honesty? Okay?
Don't be a person characterized by lying
Don't be a liar and I understand some cultures, you know, they just teach that lion is always okay
As long as you come out winning or something. No, it's not okay
Lying lips are an abomination unto the Lord the Bible says okay, and I'll give you an example of this
You know, I have a Chinese
sister-in-law and
And she specifically taught us that the Chinese culture that in China lying is actually not looked down upon at all
It's actually seen as a pretty strong quality
Like a good quality in other words, like if you lie to someone it's only no I'm sorry. It's only bad if you get caught
Lying it crazy. I know but they basically say look if you lie in order to advance your career
You know to get gain or whatever it is good for you
That's basically how they see it. The only time it becomes bad is that if you get caught for lying?
Okay, and at that point shame on you because you're not a good liar
Okay, this is wrong. This is wicked. You know, God is themes the person who speaks not just the truth with his mouth
He speaks it in his heart as well. In other words. He has an honest heart. Okay, and
This is a great quality to have because of the fact that if you're not a liar, you don't have to keep lying
To cover up for yourself, right?
You know when you lie once you need a multitude a web of lies to cover up for your other life
How many you've ever met like a chronic liar?
How many you are a chronic liar?
I'm just kidding
everyone though
You know chronic liars
I've I've had like chronic liars even in my family and
Some people would just lie just to lie
Not even to save themselves from anything or to advance and so they're just such liars
They just lie because that's just part of their nature
They are perpetual liars and I remember I've talked to people like this and it's just like
You're lying. You told me something different
And they're like did I tell you about that?
I'm like, yeah, you did, you know because when someone lies it's like they forget who they told the lie to
How many know what I'm talking about?
You know you talk to people and they lie and then they they try to cover up and they forget that they told you the lie
They said it to someone else. That's the problem of being liars. Just not very dependable, right?
Better to just be honest and you don't have to worry about covering up. You just speak the truth at all times
Speak the truth with your mouth speak the truth with your heart. Okay, and
You know and don't don't give me this this stupid illustration
Well, you know what if you know you you're you're giving a white lie to help someone out, you know
My wife asked me do I look fat in this dress or something?
You know and you see I say no not to hurt her feelings or something, you know, no don't lie
Don't lie, okay, just say this look if she says I just say you know what?
Don't ask me that
No, I'm just kidding
By the way, if you can't be honest with your spouse, there's something wrong with that, too
You know, I mean if you guys can't be honest with yourselves and actually like, you know
Kind of like joke around like there's something wrong with that. Okay, don't lie to your spouse either
That should be the person you're honest with the most in a sense. Okay, and
Because of the fact that you are one
But the Bible tells us in Psalm 51 verse 6 behold thou desire is truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part
Thou shalt make me to know wisdom
So why is God interested in us being honest in our hearts because eventually with what's in our hearts comes out
You know out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speak it
The Bible says keep thine heart with all of diligence for out of it are the issues of life
You eventually flesh out what is literally in your heart
That's what's important to have a clean heart to clean your heart to be upright in your heart to speak the truth in your heart
Okay, he goes on to say in verse number five
Three, excuse me. He that backbiteth not with his tongue. What is this? This is a slanderous person
So the person who speaketh the truth in his heart is abstaining from lying
The person that backbiteth with his tongue is the one who takes those lies and uses it to to hurt people
To slander people and look don't mix this up with criticizing people either I
Criticize people all the time, but it's true
If I give facts, that's not slander
Slander is when you lie about someone when you make something up when you rail against someone and it's not true
Right. That's where we got to make sure there we get our facts straight
But this person is a person who backbites with his tongue he seeks
Opportunity to slander people maybe it's for them to advance or maybe it's it's to
Basically make themselves look better than the people that they're slandering. Okay
He says nor doeth evil to his neighbor or taketh up a reproach
against him
Now look, this is really important too because look
You know the backbiter is the one who slanders
But it says nor doeth evil to his neighbor or taketh up a reproach against him, you know
In other words, you should be a person who gives people the benefit of the doubt
You're not just seeking to take up a reproach against your neighbor
You know, I mean you live again next to someone who looks like a gang banger. They look like an unsavory person
You shouldn't automatically label that person a rapper. Oh, this person is just far from the hope of salvation
He's beyond the hope of salvation, you know
Don't take up a reproach against your neighbor until you get the facts that that person is right a wicked person
You know
We should always give everyone the benefit of the doubt and like I talked about on Thursday unto the pure
All things are pure but into them which are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure
but even their mind and their conscience is the file and that is in reference to the Pharisees who when they looked at the
Cretans they saw them as always liars
Evil beasts slow bellies when Paul and Titus saw the Cretans. They saw them as potential pastors
They saw them as potential laborers for the Lord
They saw a great work that can be accomplished there when the Pharisees saw it
They saw something different why because they were unpure. These are the people they were backbiting with their tongue, right?
They were slanderously reporting against the Cretans things that were not true
They were doing evil to their neighbor and taking up a reproach against them, you know
Don't look for a reason to get on your neighbors. Don't look for a reason to to, you know criticize
You know a person you meet out so winning we should go in with the default setting that we love people
Unless they give us another reason
Otherwise reason to do so, okay
This is the person look and if you do these things
You will situate yourself in such a way that you will be the recipient of God's blessing
This is who God looks to to bless. Okay
He says he that walketh uprightly worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart
He that backbiteth not with his tongue nor doeth evil to his neighbor nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor now
Keep in mind where we're talking about
Okay, we're talking about people who are gonna be God. This is what God is saying the people who do these things
Will situate themselves to be the recipients of my blessing. I'm gonna bless the people who do these things
Now, can we subtract anything from this list?
Should we ever subtract it? Can we say well, you know except for this part right here. No every single part of this list is
Necessary to receive God's blessing, right?
let's read verse 4 in
Whose eyes a
vile
Person is content
Think about that
Now, what is that referring to there?
What is content mean? Well, let me just read you the dictionary definition the feeling with which a person regards anything
Considered mean vile or worthless to disdain to scorn the state of despising
disgracing
Okay, this is someone who actually
Disrespects other people
You know when you contempt someone it means you disrespect them you hate them
You abhor them
You despise them. That's what he's saying
So he's saying here in Psalm 15
Who am I gonna bless who who shall dwell in the tabernacle?
Who shall abide in the holy hill who shall not be moved from the position of God's blessing?
Oh, oh just the guy who in his eyes a vile person is content
What does that mean? Oh, you know the guy who hates
vile
wicked people
We love everyone that's not what Psalm 15 tells me in
Fact according to that type of theology
You actually remove yourself
From the position of being blessed by God
You know you want to remove yourself from God's blessing you want God not to favor you your family your job
Then go ahead and favor the vile person
Favor the wicked people. Let me just say oh, you know favor the reprobates
Those are vile people right?
Because he's referring to reprobates here. That's what he's referring to because those are the only people that God tells us we should hate, right?
Because the Bible says to love our enemies that we should be characterized by love and charity towards sinners
So the exception to that rule would be a
Vile person which is known as a hater of God a worker of iniquity a reprobate
Okay, you know try to exit Jesus that
People who well you know it's funny because I look this up on the internet
See what people said about it like the commentary. They just completely ignore it they give all these paragraphs of
Every other quality walking uprightly work. It's righteousness back by does not
You know, but when it comes to this they just label it and then just skip it
That doesn't fit my theology, I don't know what it means to
Contempt someone who is vile. What does that mean? Well, I'll tell you what it means
I'll tell you what it means in the Hebrew means to hate someone it means to hate vile people
Don't deny it. It's right there and more specifically. This is important because in order for us to be blessed by God
Right in order for us to dwell in his holy hill
We need to despise them even with our eyes
or then he's just like
Hate these people I hate them with perfect hatred. Okay?
You know the Bible tells us
That we should not love those who hate the Lord
Go to Psalm 139
and
Look the the dictionary definition of this is to show disrespect
To contempt someone is to despise them in such a way that you would actually disrespect them
and
amen to that
Okay, you know, what do you think God meant in Isaiah when he said who shall stand with the burning fire
Right
Who's standing with the consuming fire when God is judging wicked people God is saying who shall abide
With the burning fire in other words just saying I'm with him
Burn him God
Let God burn them quickly
right
The Bible says
Jehu talking to Jehoshaphat when he teamed up with a wicked King by the name of
Ahab said this shouldest thou help thee ungodly and love them. They hate the Lord
Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord. What is he saying? He's basically saying hey, you've removed yourself from the holy hill
You have removed your you've you've deviated from the tabernacle
You know, the Bible says you shall not be moved you were moved
Why because you did not hate the person you do not despise the person you did not contend the wicked King
Who hated God?
Therefore what wrath is upon thee. So what do we see here? We see that when we do not hate vile people
Not only do we not get God's blessing. We actually incur the wrath of God upon our own lives
So it's not like God's saying. Okay. Well, I'm just not gonna bless you
You know, if you want to take that route, that's fine. You just I'm gonna remove my blessings from you
No, God's basically saying no now you've become my enemy
Now you shall suffer with the unrighteous as well because God is no respecter of people
Okay, look at Psalm 139 verse 21
Well, this is a great song to sing
Amen, brother, Eric
This is this originated here. Amen. I don't know. It wasn't this pianos the other piano
This is David speaking here verse 21 says do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee and
Not I grieve with those that rise up against thee and I want you to notice verse number 22 says I hate them with
Perfect hatred. I count them mine enemies. Now. What does it mean by hating them with perfect hatred? Well perfect in the Bible is
associated with completeness
You understand like the perfect man is the complete man. Okay, let wisdom have a perfect work
That means the complete work. So when David says that he hates them with perfect hatred. He's basically the same. I have a complete hatred
So, how can we apply that to 2019? Well, you know the pastors who say well we should hate the sin
But we should love the sinner
You know, oh no, that's incomplete
You're lacking something buddy. I
Agree hate the sin. Absolutely. But according to the Bible we have to hate the reprobates. That's complete
We have to hate sin
We have to hate the reprobate we have to hate false religion we have to hate false prophets. It's got to be complete
It can't be wanting. It can't be lacking anything
And look we use this in tandem with the book of Matthew where it tells us to love our enemies
This is not contradicting itself and I hate it when people bring that up
Well, I love your enemies like seriously
Is that the only verse you've ever memorized in your entire life that along with John 3 16, is that all you know?
Well, God so loved the world
Then he gave his only begotten Son. Is that the only thing you've ever memorized?
Do you?
believe John 3 16 in
Spite of what we see here in Psalm 139 at the exclusion of one Psalm 139. Absolutely
We need to both of them and they work in tandem
Amen, and in fact, this one is associated with having God's blessing upon our lives. So in order for a person to be righteous
In order for a person to be truly upright
They contempt they abhor the vile person. Okay, and
You know, this is uncomfortable for some people it's just like man to hate someone but you know
The the reason why they kind of like flinch at that and they just started like seizure eating and like
Why is it because they're just been inoculated with such a weak Christianity?
they've been given this
vaccination the spiritual vaccination of
wussiness and
sissiness and this Gandhi Christianity
That has infiltrated churches and has completely negated what the Bible really says
About certain things it's Jedi Christianity is what it is, right?
Someone called me what is what is that little green freak say?
Hey leads to suffering
Fear leads to hate
to the dark side
Doesn't he say something like that? He gives like a long list of things
Well, you Star Wars fanatics. Come on Marcos
Yeah, yeah, don't make me call you up here bro, okay
I just quote that thing verbatim
You know, you've met that was like that. You know, that's your verse. Okay
You know that that comes from like Jedi ism
What they teach like hate is wrong. No ye that love the Lord hate evil
Okay, and to say well God doesn't hate anyone then you know what you don't believe in hell
Okay
Go to Proverbs 28
Did I have you turn somewhere else that was it right? Yeah go to Proverbs 28
So
You know, can we look at this and say okay. Well that church is not being blessed then
That pastor is not being blessed
Yes, we can
Because he says in whose eyes a vile person is contend, right?
So I can look at someone like Alan Dommely
And say this person is wicked
This person is not upright. He's not a righteous person
He's just as wicked as the people who are he's defending
And look, I know Alan Dommely. Okay, I come from the old IFP. He came to our church. We went out to eat
He was just this Jack House wannabe
And I'm I'm like dead serious about that. Okay, I
Remember he when I was in Bible college
He came to preach for us and everyone made this big deal about because he's he has this what this organization called the old
Paths Journal, you know, he's like known as like the fundamentalist guy, you know
The old paths because he he was just like brother house. He wouldn't even preach like brother house
And I remember he came to our chapel service and he was preaching and he preached on beware of dogs
right
from Philippians chapter 3 and
From Philippians chapter 3 and
I remember being a biker. I was like, oh, yeah, I wonder what that me cuz I didn't know what that meant
I was like, I'm glad he's saying that cuz I want to know what that means and
he literally
Preached the sermon about beware of dogs and they were like literally dogs that he was listening
Like different dogs were like different points like the poodle the pit bull
I'm not joking. I remember like
I'm thinking like the poodles even exist back then
Isn't that like a made-up dog? I
Mean, didn't they like recently make that dog within the last whatever hundred or fifty sixty years or something like that
And he literally preached that and I was like, I'm not getting anything from this sermon
And I don't think of myself like well, I guess I got to be where like when I go soul winning
Good. I don't get bit by dogs or something
But
I guarantee you that guy has never touched Psalm 139. He can't even touch Philippians 3. I
Mean that that kind of stuff should make you mad
When they just just destroy the Word of God in such a way with their with their exposition of foolishness
but is it any surprise that this same guy is
Defending Cameron Gio Vannelli that wicked vile faggot
That filthy
reprobate that
Disgusting vile person who should just you know, what's that guy's name who hung himself or supposedly hung himself?
Yeah, he should FC himself or someone should FC him
Epstein
Someone should Epstein him. Oh
No, you know we should we should pray for those but we do pray for them
Pray that they would just die a horrible death and look anybody who backs up
faggots like that who molest children
Who take advantage of the innocent?
These are the same people who are not dwelling in a tabernacle. They're not abiding in the Holy Hill. In fact, they've been moved
they're
unrighteous people and
Alan Dommely
Alan dummy
Is backing these people up openly
Look if there's people who like believe like him, but they don't say anything about it. I prefer that just shut your mouth
If you think Cameron Gio Vannelli is not a reprobate he's like righteous person you better keep your mouth shut
You better shut your mouth
But he and him he uses his platform
To openly defend these people. Well, he didn't say in my name everyone knows who he's talking about
There's no one faggot
Popular fag right now in fundamentalism is Cameron Gio Vannelli
Who is only gonna spend 90 days in jail for committing this wicked vile act?
But it's okay because he's gonna spend all of eternity in a place called hell
He's gonna burn in the lowest hell and I prayed to God that that would even happen today
If you would go quick down into hell wife because we need to hate these people with perfect hatred
Why because we want our church we want us as individuals to abide in the tabernacle and to dwell on the Holy Hill
He said where is Alan Dommely? He's in the unholy Hill
He's in the tabernacle of Moloch
That's where he is
He's been moved and look if people said well, I think he's saying, you know, he's not doing a good job
Trying to convince us of that though
Let me just say that I don't know about you man when you start when you start defending perverts
Faggots and transvestites and you start siding with the sodomites. You're either just a little pussyfooter
Or you're just as wicked as they are
You know and these people who come up and they try to defend them
You know why they're defending them because they don't want to get caught themselves. That's why
He's wicked people, you know, Bob Gray senior
this senile
wicked old prophet
You
Know he's he's an example of this
He's about person as well. And look I know Christians can become pretty bad, right?
Christians can can beer off the road pretty bad and they can do some pretty stupid stuff, but never never perversion
Never pedophilia never faggotry and the person who says oh, you know less we should fall to
Oh, you just expose yourself. You little faggot
You just expose yourself you little pedophile. Are you saying you don't want people to find what you have on your computer?
The pride the child pornography that you have on your computer little faggot
And look if you don't like that kind of speech then you're denying Psalm 15 where it says in whose eyes a vile person is
contempt
disrespected
So it's not just a matter of hating them in our hearts the Bible says we just let it fly out the mouth as well
We
Let it fly out the mouth to expose these wicked faggots and that's exactly what they are
They're a bunch of dogs who need to put a bullet in their head
Somebody needs to put a bullet in their head and just destroy these wicked people. Oh
You're inciting violence. Well, I'm sorry. Why don't you say that against him who's actually inciting violence in against the innocent?
Why are you backing up the violator and not protecting the innocent whom that person violated?
Something wrong with you
Well, you know, I don't know. I just don't see it like that
They look what Proverbs 28 4 says they that forsake the law praise the wicked. What does it mean to forsake the law?
They've removed themselves from that tabernacle
They're not dwelling in the holy hill. They've been moved right they have forsaken the law
They're praising the wicked but such as keep the law contend with them. What does it mean? They fight against them?
The Bible says in Psalm a proper seven to go go to Proverbs 17
Proverbs 29 27 says an unjust man is an abomination to the just and he that is upright in his ways an
Abomination to the wicked. So what is the Bible telling us here?
You know those who are unjust those who are vile should be an abomination unto us
We should not try to cater to them
Or try to back them up
You know, and maybe they're safe people who are getting duped by this
You're a little pussyfooter
That's what you are. You need to get right with God. You need to get some stones
You need to get some fortitude. You need to get some boldness in you and actually, you know having your core values
the Bible
So you actually live what you preach? I mean you claim to represent God
God is a valiant God
He hates all workers of iniquity
You know, why aren't you like Jesus? I'm trying to be like Jesus
Because Jesus hates all workers of iniquity
I'm working on that
Would help me to be more of a hateful person towards these reprobates
Help me to have more
Hatred to abhor them to that they in my eyes. There would be more vile and wicked that they would be condemned in my eyes
That's what it means to be like Jesus
No, we're talking about like the Jesus
The you know, the Pantene Pro V light-skinned Caucasian six-foot-five
dress wearing Jesus
That's not my Jesus
In fact, I don't even know what Jesus actually looks like
As far as physically a person is concerned. I just know what he looks like based off of this
Because what he looks like really doesn't matter to me what he said matters more
Okay, see most of these people are concerned with what he looks like but they don't they can care less what he said
They can care less
What he actually said
You know, well, you know, what would Jesus do take your stupid brace thing go thorn in the trash
I'll tell you what would Jesus do you would burn them?
That's what Jesus would do
I'll tell you what Jesus would do. He would tie a millstone about their neck and lounge and just just mafia style
Cast them into the depths of the sea
That's mafia style right there
You know, he doesn't put the cement on the feet. He just ties it about their neck and just
Look at Proverbs 17 15 he that justifieth the wicked and
Condemmit the just even they both are abomination to the Lord put in parentheses al-indomilee
Put in parentheses Bob Gray senior
No put in parentheses, Greg Neal
Put in parentheses Jack Treiber
Cuz you know this the West Coast doesn't really know anything about those weirdos over there other than camera Gio Vannelli
But you know the weirdos over here come from North Valley Baptist Church
and
Yes, Golden State Baptist College
Golden Gabe Baptist College Golden Calf Baptist College, you know and North Valley Baptist Church
Run by pastor Jack Treiber
Mr. Burns himself
Right
Who produces these weirdos and freaks transvestites and faggots
Look folks fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me
You know Mike Zachary was the first faggot that came out of that place
Well, at least that was exposed
I'm sure there's plenty more where that came from and then after him lo and behold Cameron Gio Vannelli
You know comes out of that place as well. What happened with Mike Zachary? Well, he was discovered to having these these pervert
relationships with the song leader son
They moved to Lancaster Baptist Church another cesspool of sin type Church
Another place that is departed from the tabernacle and from the Holy Hill they find out about it and they just move them to
Lemon Grove, California
With what's his name Doug Fisher?
And you know, he's teaching a couple's class now because he's so knowledgeable about that, you know
And then what happened? I mean North Valley's just just pumping those fags out like crazy
Cameron Gio Vannelli, you know
We need to be reminded this evening that these people should be vile in our eyes and they should be content
We yeah, we ought to disrespect these people
open
Call them for the filth that they are
The language though
Do you have to use the word bag? I mean, what do you want me to use dog piece of crap?
Vomit it's all the same thing
There's no words that can express how wicked these people are
I'm trying my best to live out in whose eyes a vile person is condemned without like cussing or something
But
Look you say well, you know, I don't really agree with that
Okay, then remove yourself from the tabernacle and from the Holy Hill because if you're not gonna live that way
You're not gonna get God's blessing
God favors those who feel the same way he feels about these issues
And look if you don't agree with me then after service come to me with Bible in hand and say well actually in my lexicon
It says this
And this is what I'll do I'll grab your lexicon and just Kobe right into the trash
Or interpret this what's a different way to interpret this well, you know, it's not a vile person is what the vile person does
That's not what it says it says the person
The human being is
The person who merits it is hatred right here
And look I get it if you've never like believed this before and this is something that's new to you
Yeah, we just need to grow in our hatred for the things that God hates. I
Was in that same boat before where I didn't believe this before. Okay, you know people always tell me you didn't believe that before
Yeah, it's called growing
It's called learning new things
Right. It's called following the way of righteousness
You know and I just want to you know as a church to remind ourselves and look
This is not all you're just hopping on this bandwagon because this is what the new IP always talks about
well, not necessarily what I'm doing is
Teaching my church because as a church if we're gonna dwell in the tabernacle and abide in the holy hill
This is what God requires of us
Okay, and we live in a day and age where there's the internet where these things are exposed and you know what when these things
Are exposed we need to call it out and not be silent about oh, I'm just gonna take this neutral position
Then you basically forfeiting you're basically throwing in the towel
The Bible says contend with them. They they keep the law
Contend with them. You can't take a neutral position when it comes to this
Well, I'll let everyone else fight but not me then you forsaken the law
You need to contend with them and let me say this dads. We need to lead that fight
Because we need to fight hard because when we pass off the scene our children are inheriting that wicked perverse generation
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Understand and if they inherit that generation and we don't teach them
We don't teach them how to despise them
They're gonna compromise and guess what? They're gonna be removed from that holy hill and that tabernacle
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I call my family my marriage on my children on our church here
I pray that you do so help us to to think upon these things and often we think to be righteous
We need to believe righteously the right doctrine, which is true
But sometimes it's just the little things that matter as well being upright
working righteousness speaking the truth in our hearts and even as something as uncomfortable as you know,
Hating someone who is a reprobate, you know, if someone's not used to that that can be uncomfortable for them
But I pray that you'd help us to as David and have that complete hatred that perfect hatred towards them
That hates you and in order for us to remain in that holy hill. We love you so much Lord
And we thank you and pray these things in Jesus name. Amen
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