WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:00.900 I've never seen each other. 00:08.400 --> 00:09.900 66 00:15.000 --> 00:20.520 66 at Calvary on the first. 00:20.520 --> 00:22.700 Well, we'll get an intro first and then the first. 00:40.800 --> 00:42.300 Suspected 00:44.500 --> 00:45.100 Okay 01:17.000 --> 01:18.000 If I said I... 01:20.900 --> 01:21.900 Look at the law 01:49.600 --> 01:58.080 that drew salvation's flag. Oh, the grace that brought it down to man. Oh, the mighty 01:58.080 --> 02:02.400 gulf that God did spare at Calvow. 02:06.900 --> 02:15.080 grace was free pardon there was multiplied to me there my burden so far 02:15.080 --> 02:16.200 livered 02:30.700 --> 02:32.500 my rapture token of 02:47.600 --> 02:49.600 So for liberty and 02:56.600 --> 03:00.200 If you have a bulletin, today's September 27th. 03:00.200 --> 03:02.600 Our morning service is at 10.30 a.m. 03:02.600 --> 03:05.160 Sunday evening, 4.30 p.m. 03:05.160 --> 03:07.000 Wednesday service, 5.30 p.m. 03:07.000 --> 03:09.400 Soul winning time, 2 p.m. 03:09.400 --> 03:11.880 Then our verse of the week is Philippians 2.3. 03:11.880 --> 03:15.280 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, 03:15.280 --> 03:16.720 but in loneliness of mind, 03:16.720 --> 03:19.800 let each esteem other better than themselves. 03:20.300 --> 03:25.180 And then out soul winning, if I'm not mistaken, we had four, right? 03:25.180 --> 03:26.780 Two and two. 03:26.780 --> 03:31.180 Yeah, so we had four souls, one for the day. 03:31.180 --> 03:32.540 So we're now at 990s. 03:32.540 --> 03:35.820 We're only a few away from 1,000. 03:35.820 --> 03:38.060 And then we've got the birthdays and anniversaries 03:38.060 --> 03:39.260 right there, upcoming activities. 03:39.260 --> 03:43.500 So I'm not going to really belabor this too much, 03:43.500 --> 03:45.180 but maybe I'll send out a text. 03:45.180 --> 03:47.580 But I was thinking of doing quite a bit of. 03:48.000 --> 03:52.280 Marathons for the last quarter just so we could try to close up the year strong 03:53.480 --> 03:57.100 And I was thinking you might Lucy give me a favorite go turn off whatever 03:58.800 --> 04:03.220 Devices on over there. I can hear it. Thank you October 17th 04:04.520 --> 04:06.520 October 31st 04:07.000 --> 04:10.640 November 7th November 21st and December 12th is what I'm thinking 04:11.100 --> 04:33.100 I'm going to actually check on my calendar just to make sure I don't have any but let me know I mean obviously we're not going to hit it perfect but as long as we have a decent group at least one or two families minimum then I'll just go ahead and schedule those I know that like Jerry said they can't be here for the seventh but we can have another group come out so if you guys will let me know 04:34.200 --> 04:36.320 And if this is the only group that knows, well, then it knows. 04:36.320 --> 04:38.480 But I mean, I'm pretty sure people are listening. 04:38.480 --> 04:41.160 So the dates, again, are October. 04:41.160 --> 04:47.600 The proposed dates are October 17, October 31, November 7, 04:47.600 --> 04:50.480 November 21, and December 12. 04:50.480 --> 04:51.720 These are all Saturdays. 04:51.720 --> 04:57.480 I'd like to try to get in five so many marathons. 04:57.480 --> 05:01.920 And what we would do is October 17 would be like a college. 05:01.920 --> 05:02.100 Thanks for watching! 05:02.300 --> 05:10.820 campus and then like October 31st would be like out in the ghetto somewhere. 05:10.820 --> 05:14.420 We've never done one on like Halloween so it would be interesting to see if it's going 05:14.420 --> 05:15.420 to be receptive or not. 05:15.420 --> 05:20.660 And then we'll put on that one for sure, what we'll probably try to do is do it and then 05:20.660 --> 05:25.580 just have a fellowship because it's become a tradition for the last two years. 05:25.580 --> 05:26.800 we can do something like. 05:26.800 --> 05:31.080 We can do chili a chili cook-off or there's nobody wanting to do chili cook-off 05:31.280 --> 05:35.420 We can do hot dogs and hamburger what something and then just play games and hang out 05:36.160 --> 05:39.320 So that the kids have something to do while everybody's out 05:40.120 --> 05:42.520 Knocking doors in the it's funny, right? 05:42.520 --> 05:48.400 We'll knock doors in the day so they can knock doors at night except ours is better and then on November 7th 05:48.400 --> 05:50.400 We'll probably do another college 05:52.600 --> 05:56.680 Then November 21st like another just city one somewhere 05:56.680 --> 06:02.160 And then I don't know what we'll do for December 12th, so let me know but 06:02.760 --> 06:04.880 The the first is what? 06:06.320 --> 06:07.480 Thursday by Thursday 06:07.480 --> 06:12.480 I'll probably make the decision on these but if you guys have any idea or feedback just text it to me or call me 06:12.480 --> 06:17.400 Reach out we're on the you know what I ought to do brother Jerry if you don't mind remind me to put on the whatsapp group 06:17.800 --> 06:20.500 If you can, because then that way we can get the feedback. 06:20.500 --> 06:23.500 I mean, obviously I'm not going to sit here and just like take all of it. 06:23.500 --> 06:26.800 I just want to kind of gauge more of like the quantity of people. 06:26.800 --> 06:30.300 As long as we have like at least two families, I think it's a worthy marathon. 06:30.300 --> 06:35.300 If it's one, it's just kind of like, you know, for the marathon it just feels a little bit lonelier. 06:35.300 --> 06:39.700 And if because of the amount of marathons 06:40.300 --> 06:45.900 If like some families aren't able to go or like let's say I go to one and not the other we'll still make sure we'll coordinate a leader 06:46.240 --> 06:50.400 For like the lunches and the breakfast and all that we might not even have them all meet here at the church 06:50.400 --> 06:55.200 We might meet at those locations. I think one of the proposed locations was like out in like the baytown area 06:56.080 --> 07:00.920 Down there off of 45. There's some pretty rough spots that we could go to 07:01.600 --> 07:04.600 So that being said, those are the proposed dates. 07:04.600 --> 07:08.600 If you're listening online or if you're here, we'll send it out. 07:08.600 --> 07:14.600 And then I'll make sure we put it on the bulletin by Sunday. 07:14.600 --> 07:18.600 Let's turn our handles over to page 102. 07:18.600 --> 07:22.600 Oh, and then of course, just keep praying for the expecting mothers. 07:22.600 --> 07:24.360 Marcelle, Sierra, Cynthia. 07:24.700 --> 07:27.800 And on the back is the prayer request. 07:27.800 --> 07:30.360 And I know Sister Sylvia gave me some updates, 07:30.360 --> 07:33.240 so I'll make sure to get those removed. 07:33.240 --> 07:35.960 If there's nothing else, let's go ahead and turn our 07:35.960 --> 07:40.060 handles over to page 102. 07:40.060 --> 07:41.500 102. 11:48.900 --> 11:52.000 confident until sister so you came here this weird I 11:54.500 --> 11:55.340 It's okay. 11:58.300 --> 11:59.940 I'm tired. 11:59.940 --> 12:01.380 I don't ever admit it from the pulpit, 12:01.380 --> 12:02.940 but I've had a rough weekend. 12:02.940 --> 12:06.260 So I was really confident, too. 12:06.260 --> 12:08.780 And then Sister Soto was like, and I was like, all right, 12:08.780 --> 12:09.420 I think we messed up. 12:09.420 --> 12:11.940 Hold up, we got one more. 12:11.940 --> 12:14.900 Wait, 208. 12:14.900 --> 12:15.940 Oh, no, no, yeah, you're right. 12:15.940 --> 12:16.460 We're done. 12:16.460 --> 12:17.660 See, I'm telling you. 12:17.660 --> 12:22.900 We'll have Brother Daniel come up and read for us. 12:22.900 --> 12:25.420 In First Corinthians 5, I apologize, guys. 12:33.000 --> 12:37.320 1 Corinthians 5, verse 1, the Bible reads, 12:37.320 --> 12:41.720 it is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, 12:41.720 --> 12:45.280 and such fornication is not so much as named among the Gentiles, 12:45.280 --> 12:47.400 that one should have his father's wife. 12:47.400 --> 12:49.780 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, 12:49.780 --> 12:52.680 that he hath done this deed that might be taken away from among you. 12:53.200 --> 13:00.680 Friverely as absent body but present in spirit have judged already as though I were present concerning him that hath so done this deed 13:01.000 --> 13:06.960 And then in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ when we are gathered together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ 13:07.480 --> 13:13.960 To deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus 13:14.240 --> 13:18.360 Your glorying is not good. No you not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump 13:18.900 --> 13:23.860 Perch there out there for the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened, 13:23.860 --> 13:27.220 for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. 13:27.220 --> 13:31.940 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, 13:31.940 --> 13:34.580 but with the unleavened breath of sincerity and truth. 13:34.580 --> 13:37.860 I wrote unto you in epistle, not to company with fornicators, 13:37.860 --> 13:40.820 yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, 13:40.820 --> 13:44.100 nor to covetous or extortioners with our doubters. 13:44.100 --> 13:46.260 For then ye must needs go out of the world. 13:46.800 --> 13:51.600 But now I've written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, 13:51.600 --> 13:58.800 or a chauvinist, or an idolater, or a railler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such and one no not to eat. 13:58.800 --> 14:04.160 For what if I to do it to judge them that also that are without? Do ye not judge them that are within? 14:04.160 --> 14:09.520 But then, but them that are without God judgeth, therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person." 14:45.500 --> 14:46.000 Amen. 15:07.800 --> 15:12.680 Amen. All right, we're there in 1st Corinthians 5. 15:15.080 --> 15:24.760 And I kind of had neglected this series on church discipline and I knew we had one more 15:24.760 --> 15:33.320 and I just wanted to cover it before we got too far into the year and I didn't complete it. 15:33.800 --> 15:38.800 I do want to get done with it this year. 15:38.800 --> 15:41.560 So we're just going to wrap this up today. 15:41.560 --> 15:45.400 At the title of the sermon this evening is the 11 of idolatry. 15:45.400 --> 15:46.440 The 11 of idolatry. 15:46.440 --> 15:50.720 I think I named most of them something along the 11. 15:50.720 --> 15:52.160 Not all of them. 15:52.160 --> 15:55.000 But we've covered all the sins right there 15:55.000 --> 16:00.000 in 1 Corinthians 5 verse 11. 16:01.300 --> 16:08.180 And, but let's go there really quick and it says, but now I have written to you not to keep company. 16:08.180 --> 16:15.220 If any man that is called a brother, be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a 16:15.220 --> 16:21.380 railer or a drunkard or an extortion or what's interesting about the idolater is that there's a 16:21.380 --> 16:25.140 There's a lot of references to other things that... 16:25.600 --> 16:29.680 these sins could cover, that could be considered idolatry. 16:29.680 --> 16:33.760 But then it also, Paul, or you know, obviously God here, 16:33.760 --> 16:35.360 but Paul through the inspiration of God, 16:36.240 --> 16:38.400 separates out though the idolater. 16:38.400 --> 16:40.400 Because it's not just that you could be, 16:41.200 --> 16:42.480 the Bible, we're going to touch on that, 16:42.480 --> 16:45.280 that like someone who's covetous is an idolater, 16:45.280 --> 16:47.280 but also you can have idolatry of other forms. 16:47.280 --> 16:49.200 And we're going to spend some time, 16:49.200 --> 16:50.800 both in the Old and New Testament. 16:50.800 --> 16:52.480 But one of the things I want to really emphasize is, 16:53.200 --> 16:58.560 We sometimes, or I believe that oftentimes, idolatry is taught in its correct teaching, 16:58.560 --> 17:02.560 but we teach a lot of what we commonly know as like, you know, we'll pick on the Catholics. 17:02.560 --> 17:08.640 For example, they have the statues and the saints and the images and they pray to those things and, 17:08.640 --> 17:13.440 you know, the false religions make false gods and they have Buddha or, you know, 17:13.440 --> 17:17.120 these other types of gods or statues or carvings. 17:18.200 --> 17:23.600 But there's also the spiritual idolatry and this is really what it's addressing here because obviously these are not 17:24.200 --> 17:26.200 Idolatrous persons that are lost 17:26.800 --> 17:32.320 Oftentimes in the Old Testament idolatry was really frowned upon because as they were as the children of Israel were going through the wilderness 17:32.560 --> 17:36.280 They're dealing with actually idolatrous nations, right? 17:36.280 --> 17:40.860 Like so if we were to go for example to Europe, especially like the Scandinavian countries 17:40.960 --> 17:45.320 They're really into idolatry like the Vikings and they have like Thor 17:46.200 --> 17:54.040 and Freida and all these and so they have like literally they've carved wood to make images to 17:54.040 --> 17:55.880 their gods and they worship them. 17:56.100 --> 18:01.940 But as you move into the New Testament, we don't see that, like for example, in the church. 18:01.940 --> 18:08.740 But if Paul's addressing it here, that means that there is some form of worship of something where 18:08.740 --> 18:15.140 the Lord is now jealous. Because really what is the key thing to idolatry is that God is jealous. 18:15.140 --> 18:17.100 is that we're removing our 18:17.200 --> 18:23.060 time and our effort and everything that we should be dedicating to the Lord Jesus Christ and we're we're giving it to somebody else 18:23.060 --> 18:25.060 it's almost like a form of idolatry, I mean 18:25.960 --> 18:27.280 adultery and 18:27.280 --> 18:30.080 so we're gonna see that here and I want to make that point because 18:30.880 --> 18:39.100 It it's not I don't want to focus more on the idolat like the fact that it's idolatry. I'm focusing on the idolater 18:39.500 --> 18:43.740 because there is a difference. He says to the idolater, what I mean by that is the person who's 18:43.740 --> 18:51.020 actively just removing their attention from the Lord, right? Whereas sometimes you have a nation 18:51.020 --> 18:55.820 that has idolatry, but not everybody in there is an idolater. Here in the church, he's saying, 18:55.820 --> 18:57.100 hey, there's people in the church. 18:57.700 --> 19:01.780 whose their attention is not towards the things of God, 19:01.780 --> 19:05.860 and they're using it to distract. So what does that look like in church? 19:05.860 --> 19:09.380 You know, it could be they really like a certain preacher, 19:09.380 --> 19:13.380 it could be they like certain doctrines. You know, you meet those overzealous, 19:13.380 --> 19:16.580 like young Christians, and they're really like, 19:16.580 --> 19:20.900 they love all the hard preaching on like the queers and the Jews, 19:20.900 --> 19:24.260 specifically this year, right? Like where we've seen this uptick on 19:24.260 --> 19:25.620 like anti-zionism 19:25.700 --> 19:27.000 against the Jews. 19:27.100 --> 19:32.020 Maybe someone might be in here they love that but then you start to preach on other things and it's not like that interesting 19:32.020 --> 19:33.340 Well, that can be you know 19:33.340 --> 19:40.100 If you're distracting where the doctrine be it's more important than God who delivers a doctrine than that can be a form or you get 19:40.100 --> 19:41.380 caught up in like 19:41.380 --> 19:46.840 Conspiracy theories or just you know different things by the way, I'm not against conspiracy theories 19:46.840 --> 19:52.540 I'm just saying you can just make that like words. That's the most important thing like oh no 19:52.540 --> 19:55.040 Like we just need it like this you miss this 19:55.100 --> 19:59.160 part where there's a whole Bible and they're only focused on like two things there. 19:59.160 --> 20:07.240 So right here, you know, let's go over to Colossians 3, but the overall theme, obviously, 20:07.240 --> 20:11.160 First Corinthians five is that God's commanding, you know, the local church to not only. 20:12.200 --> 20:17.720 discipline these individuals that meet this criteria like run them out of the church but 20:17.720 --> 20:22.120 that we shouldn't associate with them and I know that obviously in all the sermons I've been 20:22.120 --> 20:28.360 repetitive about this but this is actually a really important point that is worth uh you know 20:28.360 --> 20:31.560 basically uh hammering down or hammering in 20:32.200 --> 20:38.980 every one of these sermons because we do have that's another type of homovidolatry right where you have like a bleeding heart 20:39.140 --> 20:41.700 Where they're almost like more compassionate than God 20:42.200 --> 20:44.600 You know, their thing is that that would distract them. 20:44.600 --> 20:49.160 They feel like, you know, maybe you should love them more than what God is. 20:49.160 --> 20:54.920 And it's interesting that on this Thursday, as Pastor Anderson was preaching, 20:54.920 --> 20:58.600 and he was talking about the devices of the haters, right? 20:58.600 --> 21:04.360 One of the things that we saw is that as some Christians can then have sympathy for like the haters, 21:04.360 --> 21:07.480 and that could be a form of a distraction from things of God. 21:07.480 --> 21:10.120 We have to be able to draw a hard line on all the... 21:10.200 --> 21:16.680 things that would keep us from being able to focus solely on the Lord Jesus Christ. 21:16.680 --> 21:21.960 And so we need to make sure that that is a thing. And if you notice, Paul specifically identifies what? 21:22.760 --> 21:29.640 An idolater who is called a brother, right? This is not someone who is coming from the 21:29.640 --> 21:33.400 Catholic Church. They're Catholic. That makes sense. Like... 21:34.600 --> 21:39.360 Obviously, we don't want that but it makes sense right if you're serving in the Catholic Church that they would pray to the same 21:39.360 --> 21:45.840 To give you all the excuses, but this is talking about someone who's in the church who saved they're called a brother 21:46.000 --> 21:51.800 But somehow they got distracted with it and they could potentially even get distracted with this type of doctrine 21:52.720 --> 21:54.500 Solomon raced up 21:54.600 --> 21:58.680 you know, alters to all the false gods of his wives and concubines. 21:58.680 --> 22:03.000 You know, he was drawn away from the because of his of the women in his life 22:03.000 --> 22:07.240 and he drew up these alters even though he was a saved individual. 22:07.800 --> 22:11.560 And you know, we get to the end of Ecclesiastes, it said the whole duty of man, 22:12.120 --> 22:15.960 right, is to do the commandments of the Lord. 22:15.960 --> 22:19.400 And so we can see that this is obviously something that can happen to any of us. 22:19.400 --> 22:20.100 I mean 22:20.200 --> 22:25.700 If Solomon being the most wise man to ever live can get caught up in this, we all are susceptible to this. 22:25.700 --> 22:30.920 We really need to be careful with stuff. So I just I'm gonna give you like a really brief. I 22:31.400 --> 22:34.460 Mean if you don't know this that's fine there in it 22:34.460 --> 22:38.320 There's obviously a lot of forms, but the basic like what is idolatry? 22:38.320 --> 22:42.780 Well, you know because I don't want to preach this whole sermon on adultery. Like I said, I want to focus on the adulter 22:43.400 --> 22:48.760 But and there's enough material in the Bible like that's like you can do a whole series on just idolatry 22:49.640 --> 22:59.480 uh but basically it's like idols images carvings that would represent like a false god or false 22:59.480 --> 23:05.160 religion something that draws you away from the lord you're going to worship it in modern day 23:05.160 --> 23:10.040 also like maybe entertainment possessions everything that would exalt 23:10.900 --> 23:13.820 that above God right in the Bible so 23:14.500 --> 23:19.520 If you're there in Colossians 3 verse 5 the Bible says mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth 23:20.260 --> 23:23.500 What does it say fornication then we preach on fornication? 23:24.340 --> 23:25.660 uncleanness 23:25.660 --> 23:28.500 inordinate affection evil concupiscence and 23:29.140 --> 23:32.580 Covetousness which is idolatry so it's interesting that fornication and 23:33.100 --> 23:37.220 Covetousness which are both named in 1st Corinthians 5 23:38.000 --> 23:39.340 are also what? 23:39.340 --> 23:40.560 Igolatry. 23:40.560 --> 23:41.940 So this is something, 23:41.940 --> 23:44.000 so that's why I'm saying it's a spiritual matter 23:44.000 --> 23:46.500 and I believe that that's maybe why Paul also put it in there. 23:46.500 --> 23:47.940 You know, obviously, 23:47.940 --> 23:50.000 I'm just kind of drawing from the text 23:50.000 --> 23:52.000 because that is, you know, 23:52.000 --> 23:54.880 obviously someone who's committing fornication 23:54.880 --> 23:57.720 loves the flesh more and the lust of the eyes 23:57.720 --> 23:59.920 and the lust of the flesh more than things of God. 24:00.200 --> 24:04.600 if they're in the church or someone whose covetous is loving whatever it is that they're 24:04.600 --> 24:10.520 the that they want right whether it's money or possessions or material things they're exalting 24:10.520 --> 24:20.040 that above god right and so what does that look like uh so we see that covetousness can become 24:20.040 --> 24:24.300 come idolatry and Paul talks about it here but 24:24.400 --> 24:30.880 that like a very basic level idolatries is giving some something or someone else the worship, 24:31.600 --> 24:40.000 service, sacrifice, trust, fear, allegiance, or religious devotion that really what it belongs to 24:40.000 --> 24:45.200 God. And that could be, I mean it's real easy to just get caught up in something. You know, 24:46.480 --> 24:48.320 we were at lunch. 24:49.000 --> 24:53.000 And I was with Pastor Anderson, Mrs. Anderson, I was talking to my wife. 24:53.000 --> 24:57.240 My wife was there and I was like trying to get her to back me but she threw me under the bus. 24:57.240 --> 25:03.560 I mean I say this is just and I was just making an example of how like Hispanics can have like some 25:04.520 --> 25:07.800 first generation Hispanics, at least that's been my experience. They're very like 25:08.360 --> 25:13.240 fearful of things in the U.S. They have kind of like a paranoia not just like danger of like 25:13.800 --> 25:16.560 Someone stealing or coming here home. Oh, that's real 25:17.040 --> 25:21.060 It looks like we live in a in a moat like in my parents house 25:21.120 --> 25:26.280 My dad has like a lock in the top and a lock in the middle and the lock in the bottom and like a you know 25:26.280 --> 25:28.120 Tube and I mean it's like it's insane 25:28.120 --> 25:31.760 I'm like we live in the same the safest neighborhood in America or they do and 25:32.000 --> 25:37.140 It's you would you think we're gonna get attacked by like, you know the mob or something, right? 25:37.140 --> 25:41.720 But they're also like, you know that they get uncomfortable with my preaching because they're like, you know, what if someone had hurt? 25:41.800 --> 25:45.320 you or what if you break the law or what if somebody comes after you. 25:45.320 --> 25:49.080 You know, so I was just kind of mentioning that and then I turned to my wife and I was 25:49.080 --> 25:50.440 like, hey, you know, I'm not paranoid. 25:50.440 --> 25:51.640 Because they were like, are you paranoid? 25:51.640 --> 25:53.080 I was like, no, I'm not paranoid. 25:53.080 --> 25:55.440 Because in my eyes, compared to my parents, I'm not. 25:55.440 --> 25:57.400 And I was like, Mary Sarah, do you think I'm paranoid? 25:57.400 --> 26:00.200 She's like, well, you know, it's like great. 26:00.200 --> 26:03.080 But, you know, but that can be a form of idolatry, right? 26:03.080 --> 26:07.160 The fact that you're always like putting your trust in trying to figure out how to protect 26:07.160 --> 26:08.920 yourself instead of just believing in the Lord. 26:09.500 --> 26:14.380 I will say this, she might not be wrong. When we first got married, I mean this is within the first 26:14.380 --> 26:18.620 month, I think it was the first or second month of being married, we were in our apartment down in 26:18.620 --> 26:24.140 the valley and the neighbors got in a fight. Like you know how they, you know if you've ever lived 26:24.140 --> 26:28.460 in apartments they get in fights and they're screaming like right, I mean I can see them out 26:28.460 --> 26:32.540 my window they're like 20 feet from me. The why, I don't know if it's the why for the boyfriend. 26:32.540 --> 26:35.420 Anyway they're fighting, I don't know, I don't remember, I don't think it was violent but there's 26:35.420 --> 26:37.400 There's like a lot of screaming and stuff like that. 26:37.500 --> 26:42.700 I remember grabbing the machete and I'm like Mary Sarah, Mary Sarah, they're fighting, 26:42.700 --> 26:43.700 I don't know what's going on. 26:43.700 --> 26:46.860 And she just, she looked, she turns to me and she goes, oh, okay. 26:46.860 --> 26:48.660 And then she just went back to bed. 26:48.660 --> 26:51.420 I was like, something goes on. 26:51.420 --> 26:52.780 She's like, she didn't even care. 26:52.780 --> 26:53.940 But you know, she grew up. 26:54.500 --> 26:57.500 She was saved as a young girl, like her trust is in the Lord. 26:57.500 --> 26:59.700 It's been like that all her life. 26:59.700 --> 27:03.500 Whereas I do have more of a paranoia thing to break. 27:03.500 --> 27:06.900 But these things can, you can take it a step too far, right? 27:06.900 --> 27:09.140 Like you can become obsessed with this stuff. 27:09.140 --> 27:09.640 I mean... 27:10.100 --> 27:16.180 There's plenty of like even shows and documentaries of people that just over exaggerate on you. 27:16.180 --> 27:20.020 There's all these diseases, right, of people that won't go outdoors or they won't touch 27:20.020 --> 27:22.460 anything or they have to tap stuff certain times. 27:22.460 --> 27:27.460 You know, so these things can take not only away from God, but other people can notice 27:27.460 --> 27:28.460 them. 27:28.460 --> 27:32.220 And then it becomes a thing where, you know, if they're influenced or they have some influence, 27:32.220 --> 27:34.220 it could distract them from the things of God. 27:34.220 --> 27:35.220 So we have to be really careful. 27:35.220 --> 27:36.220 Go to 1 Corinthians 10. 27:36.220 --> 27:36.720 10. 27:37.900 --> 27:43.980 Go to 1 Corinthians 10. So what's the solution to an adulterer or to getting in trouble with this? 27:43.980 --> 27:50.220 It's just keeping it really simple. And like I said, this sermon is actually really practical, 27:50.220 --> 27:55.820 but I think it would be, it's very helpful to just keep a reminder. One of the dangers, 27:55.820 --> 28:00.860 one of the things that happens is that we have a tendency as humans to overcomplicate things. 28:01.400 --> 28:07.000 And when we do, we become obsessed with the processes or the systems that we create in our lives to 28:07.000 --> 28:11.880 create basically this perfect environment where really it should just be much more simple than that 28:11.880 --> 28:17.000 where we should just allow God to direct our lives. We should make plans, but the Bible says 28:17.000 --> 28:20.920 that even though we make our plans, it's the Lord who creates the paths, right? He's the one that's 28:20.920 --> 28:26.520 going to guide it. And not be so obsessed or concerned as to what, like if things didn't work 28:26.520 --> 28:28.880 out a certain way or they don't do this. 28:30.100 --> 28:32.900 The only way to do that is to really just be really simple about it. 28:32.900 --> 28:35.500 Go to 1 Corinthians 10 right there, verse number 6 says, 28:35.500 --> 28:39.700 remember the first few verses is talking about all these experiences in the Old Testament, 28:39.700 --> 28:45.500 and then he says, now these things were our examples to the intent that we should what? 28:45.500 --> 28:50.300 Not lust after evil things as they also lust. 28:50.300 --> 28:52.900 So one of the things that can lead to idolatry is lust. 28:53.100 --> 28:58.460 And oftentimes we think of lust just in a very like sensual or very physical manner, right? 28:58.460 --> 29:01.420 Because the Bible talks about the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh. 29:01.420 --> 29:06.860 And because of modern, because that term is still used, but modern and modern television, 29:06.860 --> 29:12.220 entertainment, it's usually associated with like a very intimate nature. 29:12.220 --> 29:16.940 But actually lust is just anything that your eye just wants, like it's drawn to. 29:16.940 --> 29:21.020 So it doesn't have to always be physical in nature or, you know, if a 29:21.100 --> 29:26.140 man commits adultery in their heart with another woman. It can just be that you're drawn away. 29:26.140 --> 29:32.320 What is it in James 2 says that you are drawn away from your own like out of your you sin 29:32.320 --> 29:36.900 out of and I think that statement's really stuck with me lately out of your own lusts. 29:36.900 --> 29:42.880 Right. Like so we all have these things that are really easy for us to just see and then 29:42.880 --> 29:47.340 we get drawn away with. Right. And he's saying hey these are the lusts that you have to watch 29:47.340 --> 29:48.900 out for right so 29:49.000 --> 29:51.000 Let's just start there again. 29:51.000 --> 29:56.000 It says, now these things were examples to the intent that we should not. 29:56.000 --> 29:59.000 So the intent was, why do we have the Old Testament? 29:59.000 --> 30:04.000 The purpose or one of the purposes, one of the intents was that we should not lust 30:04.000 --> 30:09.000 after evil things as they also lusted. 30:09.000 --> 30:11.000 And what was the thing that they lusted after? 30:11.000 --> 30:12.800 The gods. 30:13.000 --> 30:19.480 the fornication, right? The nakedness, just the lewdness. I mean, Aaron, they were throwing 30:19.480 --> 30:25.080 a basically a wild crazy party just for the sake of not going too deep. Like, I don't want to defile 30:25.080 --> 30:30.120 mine, but the Bible is very clear, right? I mean, like Moses was pretty PO'd because they 30:30.120 --> 30:32.840 they didn't they took it way further than they should have. 30:33.200 --> 30:40.320 Verse 7 says, neither be ye idolaters, there's that word again, as were some of them, as it is 30:40.320 --> 30:47.040 written the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. So we can draw all like the Bible 30:47.040 --> 30:53.520 is giving us the definitions, the people that just always want to just like live life. You only live 30:53.520 --> 30:55.200 once this YOLO mentality. 30:55.400 --> 31:00.720 You know, if you turn on social media right now in any capacity, one of the things that 31:00.720 --> 31:02.280 you'll see, and I think that this is pretty... 31:03.800 --> 31:07.960 pretty consistent across the board, even if you have very specific things you're looking at, 31:07.960 --> 31:11.720 is you're going to find the food influence. Who's seen stuff like this pops up, like 31:11.720 --> 31:16.600 people are just eating and giving you feedback on like the best places to eat and the best places 31:16.600 --> 31:23.480 to visit. Like it's full of all of a sudden, like we, the world is at our hands as to experience 31:23.480 --> 31:28.520 everything we want to, you know, we can experience an entire world in our own local community. 31:28.520 --> 31:30.200 You know, when I grew up... 31:30.500 --> 31:33.540 We were excited about Chili's and Applebee's. 31:33.540 --> 31:36.540 In the 90's, we didn't have cool restaurants. 31:36.540 --> 31:40.580 I remember when they opened up the Chili's and the Applebee's in McAllen, I was like, 31:40.580 --> 31:41.580 we've arrived. 31:41.900 --> 31:46.820 And now our children, they're not even 10 years old. 31:46.820 --> 31:52.780 My daughter's 10 years old, so all my children have eaten Korean food, Chinese food, and 31:52.780 --> 31:53.780 Italian food. 31:53.780 --> 31:55.400 And that wasn't available to us. 31:55.400 --> 31:58.260 We didn't even know that that was available to us. 31:58.260 --> 32:01.380 And now everybody's just eating and drinking and playing. 32:01.380 --> 32:05.660 There's literally, there's a guy, oh, I forget his name. 32:06.000 --> 32:09.920 He's this black guy who started just doing this when it first became popular in 2020. 32:10.720 --> 32:17.280 And the guy's a, he's like a multimillionaire. And literally the way that he got famous is he 32:17.280 --> 32:21.040 would sit in his video. He's a black guy with dreadlocks. This is the only reason I can envision 32:21.040 --> 32:26.880 him. And he would sit in his car. He still does it. And he'd just go to restaurants and eat the 32:26.880 --> 32:30.880 food and then rate it. He got so popular. 32:32.500 --> 32:35.220 that people were begging him to come to the restaurant 32:35.220 --> 32:37.700 because the minute he would do a video on that restaurant, 32:37.700 --> 32:39.700 that restaurant would spike up in business. 32:40.420 --> 32:42.100 Or if he talked bad about it, 32:42.100 --> 32:45.780 he actually caused like the demise of some restaurants 32:45.780 --> 32:47.300 just by his influence. 32:47.300 --> 32:47.940 But what is it? 32:47.940 --> 32:48.980 They're eating. 32:49.200 --> 32:53.440 They're drinking and they're just playing and it's all just like everything is fun. 32:53.440 --> 32:58.480 They you think about the the the younger generation. I saw this other thing. 32:59.040 --> 33:03.360 So I used to have a I have a mutual friend from a like a previous business. 33:04.080 --> 33:08.880 He's about 34 years old and so I guess some of his stuff pops up on my Facebook 33:08.880 --> 33:14.000 and this little clip popped up and it was of a young lady like in her mid 30s. 33:14.700 --> 33:17.600 And she was like, oh, I left the corporate job. 33:17.600 --> 33:23.400 Basically, long story short, she's like, sometimes life is hard because I'm almost in my 40s 33:23.400 --> 33:27.240 and I'm not married and I don't have kids and I didn't want to work a corporate job 33:27.240 --> 33:29.720 because they were weighing me down and blah, blah, blah. 33:29.720 --> 33:33.840 So now I just live life happy, traveling and she's like, and the whole thing is she's 33:33.840 --> 33:34.680 like camping. 33:35.000 --> 33:37.480 and eating like her food by herself. 33:37.480 --> 33:39.720 And she's like, but I get to experience life 33:39.720 --> 33:40.880 and the simple things of life. 33:40.880 --> 33:42.160 And they make it sound really cool. 33:42.160 --> 33:43.800 And I heard, all I heard was like, 33:43.800 --> 33:47.320 how sad and pathetic that your life has become, right? 33:47.320 --> 33:50.920 Because they're all they're focused on is the experience. 33:50.920 --> 33:52.360 And I'm all for experience, 33:52.360 --> 33:56.040 but sometimes life is just the monotony of doing 33:56.040 --> 33:58.100 the things that God's asked you to do daily. 33:58.100 --> 34:01.140 You know, it's fun to pray in a group setting. 34:01.140 --> 34:02.340 It's fun to read the Bible. 34:02.340 --> 34:04.820 It's, you know, I love preaching the word of God, 34:04.820 --> 34:08.660 but oftentimes, you know, all this comes to, 34:08.660 --> 34:10.180 bubbles up to the surface. 34:10.700 --> 34:13.900 when you're putting in the hours when you don't want to be reading the Bible. 34:13.900 --> 34:18.300 You know, when you wake up early or you stay up late and you're just reading the Bible and you're 34:18.300 --> 34:22.220 praying and it's not about the experience, it's about just obeying the Lord Jesus Christ, right? 34:22.940 --> 34:29.420 Not everything has to be like this, you know, just TikTok moment or social media moment or video 34:29.420 --> 34:33.900 short or whatever. You know, we were watching, uh, because I was trying to explain to brother 34:33.900 --> 34:38.620 Jerry and some of the guys back there earlier today, I was trying to show them who I was referring. 34:38.700 --> 34:42.740 to like this Howerton guy and this Phillips guy and it was like it's exactly what I'm 34:42.740 --> 34:48.780 talking about right here it's become a form of idolatry like the the the the 34:48.780 --> 34:53.340 interaction was like the that guy Phillips or whatever he's like oh you know I think 34:53.340 --> 34:54.740 I'm about to start crying right now. 34:55.200 --> 34:58.080 And then the other guy's like, come on, come on, brother. 34:58.080 --> 34:59.840 Like, no, not come on. 34:59.840 --> 35:03.360 Like, it doesn't have to always be this emotional thing. 35:03.360 --> 35:05.440 It's just sometimes it's just a matter of fact. 35:05.440 --> 35:06.240 Let's go to verse eight. 35:06.240 --> 35:07.440 It says, neither. 35:08.800 --> 35:10.640 So now we see that they sat up. 35:12.000 --> 35:15.360 They sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. 35:15.360 --> 35:17.040 But then he says, neither let us what? 35:17.040 --> 35:20.160 Commit fornication as some of them committed. 35:20.600 --> 35:26.760 and fell in one day three in twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also 35:26.760 --> 35:32.840 tempted and were destroyed of the serpent. What's another form? Neither murmur ye as some of them 35:32.840 --> 35:38.920 also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happen unto them for what? 35:38.920 --> 35:45.640 For our in samples or our examples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of 35:45.640 --> 35:47.640 of the world are come. Wherefore... 35:48.100 --> 35:53.100 Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 35:53.100 --> 35:54.600 There hath no temptation taking you, 35:54.600 --> 35:56.540 but such is his common a man. 35:56.540 --> 36:00.000 And I love this, but God is faithful. 36:00.000 --> 36:02.900 It will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able, 36:02.900 --> 36:06.140 but will with the temptation also make a way to escape 36:06.140 --> 36:08.100 that you may be able to bear it. 36:08.100 --> 36:11.080 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, what does it say? 36:11.080 --> 36:13.740 Flee from idolatry. 36:14.000 --> 36:20.000 So all of these examples of things where it becomes to the, it gets to the point where you're now an idolater. 36:20.640 --> 36:24.960 You're now drawn away from serving the Lord Jesus Christ. See our whole 36:25.840 --> 36:27.840 being should be to worship God. 36:28.720 --> 36:33.280 Now I'm not saying, I mean of course nobody, we're not all perfect. Like I'm not like, I don't wake up in the morning 36:33.280 --> 36:39.120 I'm like zip bidi da doo da zip bidi day Lord you're the greatest that's ever, you know, like nobody's doing that. 36:39.120 --> 36:41.440 But what I think it's referencing here is that, you know, 36:42.300 --> 36:45.980 We are here three times a week or you're here as many times as you can be. 36:45.980 --> 36:49.980 And if you're not here, I know a lot of the families in our church, like they're either 36:49.980 --> 36:54.060 really interested, they're watching sermons, I'm getting clips all the time, or they're reading 36:54.060 --> 36:58.300 Bible. You know, I get calls, like Matt calls me with Bible questions all the time, like him and I 36:58.300 --> 37:03.180 go back and forth. I know you guys, the Capriards are like going soul-wending all the time, or 37:03.180 --> 37:06.780 people are joining, or they're going to some conference, like this year we went to the 37:06.780 --> 37:10.220 the anti-Israel conference. It's like our entire being... 37:10.300 --> 37:14.060 is to want to always do more for the Lord, not less. 37:14.060 --> 37:15.540 Right, we're not just getting drawn away 37:15.540 --> 37:17.700 with the other things of the world. 37:17.700 --> 37:19.340 It's, I don't think that. 37:21.100 --> 37:22.900 God knows humanity is what I'm trying to say. 37:22.900 --> 37:27.900 I don't think that our goal should be to be as much as we can into the Lord, 37:27.900 --> 37:31.300 but he doesn't want it to be so exaggerated where now it feels fake. 37:31.300 --> 37:33.600 We don't want a holier than thou attitude. 37:33.600 --> 37:35.400 Oh, you come to church and I'm like, 37:35.400 --> 37:38.100 I'm home, I can feel the presence of the Lord. 37:38.100 --> 37:39.700 None of that weird stuff. 37:39.700 --> 37:42.100 We just got to praise the Lord. 37:43.500 --> 37:47.900 If we feel like there's something that's going to make us fall, we need to flee from it. 37:47.900 --> 37:49.460 The Bible is very clear. 37:49.460 --> 37:52.060 Fleeing means that you got to run quickly, right? 37:52.060 --> 37:55.260 If there was a fire, if there was a shooting here, none of us would be like here, like 37:55.260 --> 37:56.260 trying to figure it out. 37:56.260 --> 37:57.260 We'd be running. 37:57.260 --> 38:02.740 That's how we need to treat anything that would tempt us where we would fall, right? 38:02.740 --> 38:07.100 And so we need to always remember, number one, and it's common to man. 38:07.100 --> 38:10.860 These are common temptations. 38:11.900 --> 38:37.180 Another thing that we need to understand, I know I'm just in the show, but I've only got five really quick points, is this is actually really important today to understand, because that's what helps us also differentiate like the reprobate doctrine, and why we can have certain doctrines that are very dogmatic, that would help people get pulled out of the fire, right? Because we're not of the belief that this could happen to a reprobate. 38:38.200 --> 38:41.440 Because the reprobate is someone who does something uncommon. 38:41.440 --> 38:46.920 They're not only idolaters, they're filled with all unrighteousness, the Bible says. 38:46.920 --> 38:51.960 The Bible says that they left the natural use for that which was not natural. 38:51.960 --> 38:55.480 They became unnatural in their... 38:55.480 --> 39:00.120 And we need more hard preaching like this because unfortunately we're living in a time 39:00.120 --> 39:05.640 where the modern church isn't actually protecting the flock. 39:06.400 --> 39:12.300 My wife made a like a profound I don't even think she realized it she came in she's like have you been following the 39:12.820 --> 39:15.200 What did she say the something Flynn? 39:15.800 --> 39:18.200 Who knows what she's talking about does somebody know the first name? 39:18.280 --> 39:22.720 She just gave me the name but Carol Flynn. I think now I guess this guy was a 39:23.840 --> 39:28.900 he was an American Idol contestant at one point and that and then he was like a like a 39:30.000 --> 39:31.000 What is it? 39:31.600 --> 39:35.840 not a choir director, but like whatever entertainment director for the church where they call him the 39:36.720 --> 39:41.220 Whatever he was a singer at the church and he started dating like this other lady at the church 39:41.220 --> 39:46.600 And they like texted back and forth on plotting the murder of his wife so they could be together 39:47.440 --> 39:49.400 And you know what she's like 39:49.400 --> 39:55.080 She's like it's funny because she's like pastor Anderson's getting a bunch of flack for saying that you know if you call the cops 39:55.700 --> 40:00.020 on your husband if he smacks you around, you're evil. 40:00.020 --> 40:01.500 You know what's more evil? 40:01.500 --> 40:05.380 Plotting the murder of your wife over texting 40:05.380 --> 40:07.460 because the doctrines are so weak 40:07.460 --> 40:10.420 that nobody's able to recognize someone who's unnatural. 40:11.580 --> 40:13.540 You know, Pastor Ka pulled me over, 40:13.540 --> 40:15.580 I mean, pulled me to the site this morning 40:15.580 --> 40:18.380 and he said, hey, one of the young men that we talked to 40:18.380 --> 40:20.780 said that he wasn't able to be around children. 40:21.980 --> 40:23.580 He's like, we need to keep an eye on that. 40:24.800 --> 40:27.840 That's the kind of stuff, that's the conversation I want to hear. 40:27.840 --> 40:31.280 Because that's not idolatry, that's just unnatural. 40:31.280 --> 40:35.360 Right, but the modern church doesn't even want to touch stuff like this because they don't want to offend anybody. 40:35.360 --> 40:39.920 So then everybody's like a sinner and everybody can be redeemed and everybody can be fixed. 40:39.920 --> 40:45.840 No, you can be fixed, you can be saved and fall into this and we can fix you by preaching on it 40:45.840 --> 40:49.120 and by calling you out, by kicking you out of the church, by not hanging out with you. 40:49.120 --> 40:51.920 But someone who's not in a natural state... 40:52.500 --> 40:59.140 There's no fixing them. We we not even we're not only will we kick them out. There's no redemption like they can never be forgiven 40:59.140 --> 41:03.060 There's no repentance. We'll never let them back in the church period 41:03.300 --> 41:06.420 And I didn't mean to get off on that but we need to flee from it 41:06.580 --> 41:10.980 We need to stay away from it, but there is a difference between like restoring a brother 41:11.540 --> 41:15.060 And rejecting a brother. I mean, i'm sorry not a brother. We're just rejecting the devil 41:15.620 --> 41:18.680 But let me give you the points today. I've only got five simple points for you today 41:19.400 --> 41:25.360 First thing we want to address is this thing of the idolater in the church in 1st Corinthians 5 right there verse 9 41:25.640 --> 41:30.880 9 he says I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators now here. He's generalizing 41:31.920 --> 41:37.240 He does not altogether with fornicators of this world. So this is general right of the world or with 41:38.120 --> 41:43.720 Covich's or with extortioners or with idolaters for then must he needs go out of the world 41:45.600 --> 41:50.560 But now I have written unto you not to keep company of any man that is called a brother, 41:51.200 --> 41:56.960 be a fornicator, or a covetous, or a adulterer, or a railler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, 41:56.960 --> 42:04.480 with such and one no not eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? 42:05.040 --> 42:06.960 Do not ye judge them that are within? 42:07.600 --> 42:09.840 But them that are without God judgeth, 42:09.840 --> 42:12.480 therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person." 42:12.480 --> 42:15.120 And he's saying, by the way, the other reason you want to kick people out is because 42:16.480 --> 42:17.920 it's not your duty to deal with it. 42:18.720 --> 42:23.280 You know, and that lines up perfectly with the Word of God because God says also that 42:23.280 --> 42:27.120 as a pastor and as a church, it's not my duty to rule your home, 42:27.120 --> 42:28.880 like to be the overlord of your home. 42:29.520 --> 42:30.080 Right? 42:30.080 --> 42:31.520 I'm preaching what I need to preach. 42:32.300 --> 42:34.300 And at times it might step on your toes, 42:34.300 --> 42:36.300 that might, sometimes you agree. 42:36.300 --> 42:38.300 But then once I get off this pulpit, 42:38.300 --> 42:40.300 like we just go back to being 42:40.300 --> 42:42.300 brothers and sisters in Christ, 42:42.300 --> 42:44.300 like you have to run your home 42:44.300 --> 42:45.700 and answer to God. 42:45.900 --> 42:50.900 God willing, you're not like a single lady and I know we have exceptions, but if you're a single lady, 42:50.900 --> 42:54.400 then you need to answer to God and be in submission to some kind of authority. 42:54.400 --> 42:59.900 And that's why it's probably good for like ladies who are, you know, divorced or single. 42:59.900 --> 43:04.800 Like it's my belief that they should be in a church because at least they're getting that male leadership from the pulpit. 43:04.800 --> 43:09.760 And if you have single ladies, they should at least be in authority of their parents 43:09.760 --> 43:11.680 and then eventually to their husbands. 43:11.680 --> 43:14.680 Because you can just get in all kinds of trouble there. 43:14.680 --> 43:17.360 But we see there, what does he say in verse 10? 43:17.360 --> 43:21.200 He first mentions the adulterers of the world, then he mentions the adulterer that's called 43:21.200 --> 43:21.600 her brother. 43:24.500 --> 43:27.620 So this means that you're obviously going to encounter what? 43:27.620 --> 43:28.340 Idolaters. 43:30.020 --> 43:32.740 And you know, sometimes in the world you're going to work with them. 43:34.180 --> 43:39.060 You might, you know, hang out with people, family members and stuff like that. 43:39.060 --> 43:42.500 But then you should never have to come to church and be around them, right? 43:42.500 --> 43:44.740 It's bad enough that we have to deal with it in the world. 43:44.900 --> 43:47.940 But then you come to the church and then you're dealing with the same type of individual, 43:47.940 --> 43:52.340 well what's the difference? If the church looks like the world, what's the purpose of the church? 43:53.220 --> 43:57.780 Right? Like that's why I've never, even as a young kid, I never liked Christian music. 43:58.420 --> 43:59.860 Contemporary Christian music. 44:00.100 --> 44:04.100 Because I'm like, it sounds like when it first came out, it was even worse, right? 44:04.100 --> 44:09.460 Because they were trying too hard to sound like Vanilla Ice or some rapper that I grew up listening. 44:09.460 --> 44:14.020 I'm like, if I'm going to do that, I'd just rather listen to the real thing, right? 44:14.020 --> 44:15.940 We should sound like what we sound today. 44:17.060 --> 44:20.340 Our hymns don't sound like anything like the world does. 44:20.340 --> 44:23.300 Actually, it doesn't even sound like anything the modern church does. 44:23.700 --> 44:27.220 When someone comes in, they should at least, you know, we talk about that, right? 44:27.220 --> 44:32.340 They should see the works of our faith by the way that we comport ourselves in the church. 44:35.300 --> 44:37.700 Go to first, right there, where was I? 44:40.140 --> 44:42.580 Oh yeah, go to first Corinthians six, just one over. 44:42.580 --> 44:44.000 Go to first Corinthians six. 44:49.800 --> 44:53.880 And the church's duty is not to worry about the world other than to lead them to Christ. 44:54.600 --> 44:58.040 The church's duty is to what? To deal with those that are within. 45:00.120 --> 45:07.160 It's our duty to keep an eye on the flock, right? My duty is to feed the flock. God willing to 45:07.160 --> 45:11.080 set up, you know, standards to protect the flock. But we have other men in the church. 45:11.080 --> 45:15.320 Our duty is to protect the flock. And the first thing we need to be aware of is 45:16.200 --> 45:20.200 I would say, and this is my opinion, I'm just giving you an opinion right now, 45:20.200 --> 45:24.200 but I would say the first thing we would want is to scrutinize the men. 45:24.200 --> 45:28.200 Other men scrutinizing men, because the men are going to be the ones that are leaders, 45:28.200 --> 45:31.200 even if it's a single guy, and if they're in bad shape, 45:31.200 --> 45:34.200 if they're not meeting this criteria, they need to be removed. 45:34.800 --> 45:42.600 And then that way we have good men who can then scrutinize their own families or even pinpoint other things in other families 45:42.600 --> 45:45.120 But only within the context of the Bible 45:45.900 --> 45:48.340 So it doesn't become this gossip thing. 45:48.340 --> 45:52.780 I don't mind having a conversation with someone that says, hey, so and so, I think that I 45:52.780 --> 45:57.100 smelled alcohol on them, or I heard this, or I heard that, and we can confront it. 45:57.100 --> 46:01.860 Versus just like it becomes this gossip thing where people are just generalizing, oh, I 46:01.860 --> 46:03.180 don't like so and so. 46:03.180 --> 46:04.180 And women tend to do that, right? 46:04.500 --> 46:09.140 Like, and I'm not picking, well no, I'm picking on women, but not in the, in the bat says like just women 46:09.140 --> 46:13.300 do have a tendency to be like, well, I don't like someone. Why? I can't really tell you, but I just 46:13.300 --> 46:17.700 don't like them. You know, whereas you, usually if I don't like someone and I can't really pinpoint 46:17.700 --> 46:22.580 it, I just like tell my wife about it. Most people won't ever hear it because I don't have any like 46:22.580 --> 46:26.500 proof, you know, but if I have proof, you're going to hear about it. But right there in first 46:26.500 --> 46:30.020 Corinthians six verse nine, the Bible says, no, you not that the unrighteous 46:30.600 --> 46:32.600 Shalt not inherit the kingdom of God 46:33.120 --> 46:39.920 He says be not deceived in other words don't lie to yourself neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers 46:40.160 --> 46:43.200 Nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind 46:44.040 --> 46:52.320 Nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God and such were some of you 46:53.920 --> 46:56.800 But you're washed but you're sanctified 46:58.000 --> 47:02.400 but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 47:04.900 --> 47:08.300 So this is a high expectation because God said, 47:08.300 --> 47:09.800 well, you're already washed. 47:09.800 --> 47:12.440 There's no reason why you should be falling back into that. 47:12.440 --> 47:13.800 But we know that this is actually real 47:13.800 --> 47:16.500 because we just finished doing a study on Galatians 47:16.500 --> 47:19.080 and Paul constantly deal with like, 47:19.080 --> 47:21.280 I can't believe you're so quickly like, 47:21.280 --> 47:23.620 I marvel how quickly you're removed from the gospel 47:23.620 --> 47:26.620 which was once preached unto you. 47:26.620 --> 47:29.120 So first you water down the gospel, 47:29.120 --> 47:30.820 then you start doing all those things 47:30.820 --> 47:32.220 and you look like the world. 47:33.900 --> 47:36.900 And I mean, isn't that what the modern church looks like? 47:36.900 --> 47:38.740 It's full of idolatry. 47:38.740 --> 47:43.940 It's full of vain preachers who would prefer to wear tight 47:43.940 --> 47:46.260 shirts with all the tattoos. 47:46.260 --> 47:49.900 They just look like everybody else. 47:49.900 --> 47:53.940 And then they'll justify all the bad stuff in them. 47:53.940 --> 47:56.140 You call out all the sin that's in the church, and they're 47:56.140 --> 47:57.660 like, well, everybody's a sinner. 47:57.660 --> 47:58.900 God's grace. 47:59.100 --> 48:03.260 And I'm not talking like liars. I'm talking like, oh, there's people that are committing adultery. 48:03.820 --> 48:07.740 This one was married to this one, but now they're married to that one. And everybody's, you know, 48:07.740 --> 48:12.860 you got the modern families and people know that there's drugs and there's fornication and there's 48:12.860 --> 48:19.900 cohabitation and everybody just turns a blind eye. It's just like, who cares? But here it says, 48:19.900 --> 48:24.540 and such were some of you, like we should constantly be moving the ball forward. 48:25.700 --> 48:28.600 What does that look like? You know, I mean obviously people are in church 48:28.820 --> 48:35.860 I'm not just going around checking on everybody's like life and what they're into or what they're not into but you can actually tell 48:36.840 --> 48:40.440 When you meet someone especially when they start doing it like they join a church or something 48:41.020 --> 48:43.020 Where where their life is headed? 48:43.260 --> 48:48.680 Usually the people whose direction is going away from the Lord eventually just leave the church or get kicked out of the church 48:48.940 --> 48:52.180 If their direction is moving towards the Lord, they're learning things. So 48:52.700 --> 48:55.020 Maybe I would notice something or you'll notice something 48:55.020 --> 49:00.060 I just usually try to keep it to myself based on the fact that time will fix those things, right? 49:00.060 --> 49:02.720 Time fixes all either actually painted 49:02.720 --> 49:08.660 I know the other thing I can always tell is like when people come and ask me these questions like sometimes they I get these 49:08.660 --> 49:09.900 Doctoral questions 49:10.000 --> 49:13.840 And I was like, I'm pretty sure you were in that sermon when I preached it. 49:13.840 --> 49:18.800 Like then I know that there, those are the things that tell me, okay, maybe this is a red flag that 49:18.800 --> 49:22.560 they either need to tighten that up or we need to address it versus moving forward. 49:22.560 --> 49:26.240 Those are forms of idolatry because if you really are in church and you're paying attention, 49:26.240 --> 49:29.680 then you know, you know, I mean, obviously you're not going to remember everything that 49:29.680 --> 49:34.400 everybody preaches. I don't either. But if you're really into the word, things will make an impact. 49:34.800 --> 49:39.120 You're not going to remember even everything I preach today, but the goal of preaching 49:39.120 --> 49:45.520 is to leave you with one thing or one truth or one idea that you can take home and just 49:45.520 --> 49:50.260 meditate and think about and then you just add it to the next list and the next list 49:50.260 --> 49:53.120 and that just makes your life better. 49:53.120 --> 49:54.400 Go to 2 Corinthians 6. 49:54.400 --> 49:55.600 Go to 2 Corinthians 6. 50:02.600 --> 50:09.520 Right, and the church is not like this sanctuary where wickedness is just protected. 50:09.520 --> 50:15.480 This is a safe place for hard preaching, which is kind of, I know, this is like the, this 50:15.480 --> 50:20.400 is where you want to come so nobody gets all like, oh, I can't believe you said that. 50:21.200 --> 50:27.700 Right? You know, I should be comfortable enough up here, and I am, but I shouldn't worry about the congregation. 50:27.700 --> 50:31.900 You know, when I get up here and I'm like, hey, these queers and these fags, nobody should be like, 50:31.900 --> 50:36.200 oh, I can't believe you said that. You shouldn't say that, right? 50:36.200 --> 50:37.700 That, this is not... 50:38.900 --> 50:43.220 Because that's the modern church. It's so weird. People get all offended if you say queer. 50:43.220 --> 50:49.780 But it's the same people that'll go and just watch all kinds of filth on TV and think that 50:50.580 --> 50:57.540 The Chosen is good doctrine when it's a series made by Mormons. Who's ever talked to so-called 50:57.540 --> 51:02.020 Christians who believe? They're like, have you seen The Chosen? I can't tell you how many 51:02.020 --> 51:03.700 conversations have started like that. 51:04.100 --> 51:07.380 when it was more popular. I don't even know how long it's been on TV, but 51:07.380 --> 51:10.980 you know where like you're just out and about and people are like, oh you're Christian? Yeah. 51:10.980 --> 51:14.340 Oh have you ever seen The Chosen? And I'm just like I don't even know where to, 51:14.340 --> 51:18.340 I just like stay quiet and then I'm just kind of like you know like that meme you know where 51:18.340 --> 51:22.500 they hide in the bushes like because it's either that or I'm going to say something that's going to 51:22.500 --> 51:23.400 piss them off. 51:23.800 --> 51:28.520 more likely than not. I just either need to remove myself or just go for the jugular because I just 51:28.520 --> 51:32.440 like come on man what are we doing here but go to second Corinthians 6 right there verse 14 the Bible 51:32.440 --> 51:38.840 says be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers and by the way for the young people here in the 51:38.840 --> 51:46.440 room this is why it's so important to choose the right spouse because look if you choose the wrong 51:46.440 --> 51:47.320 spouse. 51:47.900 --> 51:50.460 I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna talk to the kids over here right now, 51:50.460 --> 51:54.380 because I mean, I really care about it. For the girls, if you choose the wrong husband, 51:55.260 --> 52:00.300 nobody's coming to save you. That's your husband, and you need to stay with them 52:00.300 --> 52:05.820 for the rest of your life, and it's gonna suck. So don't do it. I'm not trying to scare them, 52:05.820 --> 52:08.300 just saying that is a possibility if you don't listen to your parents. 52:09.500 --> 52:13.420 The men, because there is a double standard, they have a little bit more like... 52:14.500 --> 52:19.380 they're going to be leading. So for them, they have to look for a wife they're going to lead. 52:20.260 --> 52:25.220 So what ends up happening with men though, is they get caught up sometimes with physical. 52:25.220 --> 52:28.660 They look at the physical and they're attracted to the physical. And oftentimes, 52:29.780 --> 52:34.820 really, really top notch physical comes with really, really top notch craziness. 52:35.940 --> 52:40.180 I see only way I can describe it. And I'm not talking like a little crazy. I'm talking nuts. 52:40.180 --> 52:42.020 like they'll slash your tires. 52:42.300 --> 52:48.220 and waste your money and cheat on you and commit adultery and tell you that everything's okay 52:48.860 --> 52:54.940 and they'll make your life a living hell. So boys don't get all confident just because you're the 52:54.940 --> 53:00.540 guy like when you become a man you better be able to discern like a chaste woman from a slut 53:01.100 --> 53:04.380 because the slut will draw you in and she will ruin your life. 53:04.900 --> 53:09.080 Thank God I've never had that experience, but I just I've seen it amongst my friends 53:09.080 --> 53:15.140 I pretty sure brother Jerry beat in the especially you know in the from where you came in like in the law enforcement 53:15.940 --> 53:17.940 because it's just so like 53:18.140 --> 53:23.700 It's kind of a crap shoot of people you got some good people, but you also got some crazies in there man 53:23.700 --> 53:25.000 I can only imagine 53:25.300 --> 53:28.140 Because I knew I had a cousin who was in the Milan Forth and he was nuts. 53:28.140 --> 53:32.500 I was like, this guy, I cannot believe that this guy is the authority arresting me. 53:32.500 --> 53:34.500 He was like on a whole other level. 53:34.500 --> 53:36.380 And I think that's why he died young. 53:36.380 --> 53:38.220 I think he just did too many drugs and all that stuff. 53:38.220 --> 53:39.500 But that's a whole other thing. 53:39.500 --> 53:42.620 But right there it says, be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. 53:42.620 --> 53:44.700 But this also applies to the church. 53:46.000 --> 53:49.200 Like one thing is, I know you don't have to agree with me on every doctrine, 53:49.200 --> 53:51.520 you might not even agree with every opinion of mine, 53:51.520 --> 53:54.800 but we have to agree on the main doctrines. 53:54.800 --> 53:57.040 Otherwise, we cannot move forward as a church. 53:57.920 --> 54:03.760 You know, you might not agree with me on what I think chastisement means, 54:03.760 --> 54:07.840 but we have to agree that sparing the rod is not a good thing, right? 54:08.200 --> 54:11.560 You might be like, well, I only use a spanking spoon. 54:11.560 --> 54:13.000 I know you like to use a paddle. 54:13.000 --> 54:14.120 OK, that's fine. 54:14.120 --> 54:15.320 We can disagree on that. 54:15.320 --> 54:18.120 But we have to agree on the fact that discipline is needed, right? 54:18.120 --> 54:23.480 Or those, or, you know, well, you married a nutty wife, 54:23.480 --> 54:26.680 or you have a crazy husband, but we all agree that you can't get divorced. 54:26.680 --> 54:28.120 Like, these are things that are important. 54:28.800 --> 54:34.880 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness, 54:34.880 --> 54:40.640 and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? 54:40.640 --> 54:43.440 For what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 54:44.080 --> 54:46.400 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? 54:46.700 --> 54:48.780 For ye are the temple of the living God. 54:48.780 --> 54:51.820 As God has said, I will dwell in them and walk in them, 54:51.820 --> 54:54.620 and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 54:54.620 --> 54:57.740 When notice what he said, for ye are the temple of the living God. 54:58.700 --> 55:04.140 Wherefore, come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, 55:04.140 --> 55:06.940 and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you. 55:06.940 --> 55:07.580 And by the way, 55:08.100 --> 55:15.700 We believe in separation. We are separatists. We are not ultra-separatists. 55:15.700 --> 55:21.140 There is a difference. You know what's an ultra-separatist? The Amish. 55:21.140 --> 55:24.420 Right? I mean, they just like, they don't hang out with anybody. 55:24.420 --> 55:29.700 But we just don't need to look like the world. We don't need to act like the world or talk like the world. 55:29.700 --> 55:34.580 And it's funny how easily offended the world is by some of the language we use. 55:35.000 --> 55:37.240 when that language is just Biblical, 55:37.240 --> 55:39.400 where they would use worse language, right? 55:39.400 --> 55:40.600 It's kind of a weird thing. 55:40.600 --> 55:41.280 You don't have to turn there. 55:41.280 --> 55:42.240 Go to Exodus 20, 55:42.240 --> 55:44.680 but in 2 Thessalonians 3 verse 6, 55:44.680 --> 55:45.680 the Bible says, 55:45.680 --> 55:47.200 now we command you, brethren, 55:47.200 --> 55:48.360 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 55:48.360 --> 55:50.800 that you withdraw yourselves from every brother 55:50.800 --> 55:52.400 that walketh disorderly, 55:52.400 --> 55:56.000 and not after the tradition which he received of us. 55:56.300 --> 55:58.380 Now, everybody has strength and weakness. 55:58.380 --> 56:02.980 One of my strengths is this, even before I knew all of this, is I'm just really good 56:02.980 --> 56:05.340 at cutting people off. 56:05.340 --> 56:09.420 You know, it saved me a lot of anguish and trouble in my life. 56:09.420 --> 56:11.740 So that's just the way that I also think about church. 56:11.740 --> 56:12.740 Like, I love everybody. 56:12.740 --> 56:14.980 I wish that you were my friends till the day we die. 56:14.980 --> 56:19.180 But I just don't live under the false pretense that I might never see you again. 56:19.600 --> 56:22.400 You know, that's just the way it is. 56:22.400 --> 56:25.120 But this is the attitude that you need to have also as a church member. 56:25.120 --> 56:29.880 Like, you need to be willing to just cut anybody off, no matter how good of a friend they are, 56:29.880 --> 56:33.240 no matter how wonderful they seem. 56:33.240 --> 56:36.640 If they're not doing things that are godly, if they're not following these things, you 56:36.640 --> 56:38.360 need to remove yourself from them. 56:38.360 --> 56:40.240 Because you know what sin does? 56:40.240 --> 56:43.960 Sin will win if you're not focused on God. 56:43.960 --> 56:46.040 You are not that powerful. 56:46.040 --> 56:47.040 You are that weak. 56:47.040 --> 56:47.100 you 56:47.400 --> 56:50.840 That's why the Bible says the flesh is willing, but the spirit is weak. 56:51.800 --> 56:56.520 The only way that we win, it says when we are weak, who is strong? He is strong. 56:56.520 --> 57:01.400 Then we got to be focused on Christ. Point number two is, so like I said, 57:01.400 --> 57:04.760 these points will go faster and faster as we get through this, but the idolatry in the church. 57:04.760 --> 57:12.520 Point number two, idolatry gives God, uh, uh, God's place to another, sorry, I wrote it weird here. 57:12.520 --> 57:14.520 idolatry gives basically 57:14.800 --> 57:19.800 God's place to another thing, to another example. 57:19.800 --> 57:22.800 And the way we know this is in the commandment. 57:22.800 --> 57:24.800 In Exodus 20 verse 3, the Bible says, 57:41.000 --> 57:46.120 For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children 57:46.120 --> 57:53.320 unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and showing mercy unto thousands 57:53.320 --> 58:00.680 of them that love me and keep my commandments. And by the way we do have to be even way more 58:00.680 --> 58:02.680 I mean, I just saw this thing, 58:02.680 --> 58:05.680 and it's the number one downloaded app. 58:06.100 --> 58:12.900 Who's heard of this bot, this AI bot called Muse by Facebook? 58:12.900 --> 58:18.580 And now Mark Zuckerberg rolled it out where it's like a little key chain and 58:18.580 --> 58:22.740 it's like a little robot that you can talk to and it'll do all your stuff. 58:22.740 --> 58:27.700 It'll log in and do all this and it'll pay for you and make book. 58:27.700 --> 58:29.740 It's cool, right? 58:30.200 --> 58:34.480 But if this thing takes place of God, 58:34.480 --> 58:37.520 where you're leaning on that more than you are a church 58:37.520 --> 58:39.280 or your doctor or your Bible reading, 58:39.280 --> 58:40.760 well, that's a form of idolatry. 58:40.760 --> 58:42.240 You say, oh, that sounds a little bit exaggerated. 58:42.240 --> 58:43.480 I'm not. 58:43.480 --> 58:45.760 This is actually the best iteration. 58:45.760 --> 58:48.160 Chatsy P.T.'s been around since like 2022, 58:48.160 --> 58:49.480 and people are like, I mean, 58:49.480 --> 58:51.080 this started even when it first started. 58:51.080 --> 58:52.600 Now it's just gotten way better. 58:52.600 --> 58:55.680 Where people are like, oh, I replaced my therapist. 58:56.700 --> 59:02.300 and all my people that are influenced, I just talk to my AI, and it's helped me so much in my life. 59:03.600 --> 59:06.200 Like this form of idolatries is coming down. 59:06.200 --> 59:09.440 I mean, our children, we need to preach harder, 59:09.440 --> 59:11.280 not softer than ever before. 59:11.280 --> 59:13.840 Like we talk about the old school guys, 59:13.840 --> 59:17.680 we need to be tougher and more direct and more crass 59:17.680 --> 59:21.480 and more root of speech than any other preacher in history 59:21.480 --> 59:23.440 because the generation that's coming behind us 59:23.440 --> 59:25.760 has way more darts being flung at them. 59:26.640 --> 59:29.600 At every direction, it's just like an easy way 59:29.600 --> 59:31.000 to just get them distracted. 59:31.400 --> 59:32.680 To bow down and serve. 59:32.680 --> 59:34.200 And isn't that literally what we need? 59:34.200 --> 59:36.200 I mean, isn't that what the Bible is leading up to? 59:36.200 --> 59:37.400 What is Revelation? 59:38.280 --> 59:41.160 Revelation is like, hey, there's going to come a man 59:41.160 --> 59:43.400 who's going to say, I got all the solution of the world. 59:43.400 --> 59:45.400 And the only way that you can buy or eat 59:45.400 --> 59:48.120 is if you'll take this mark and you'll serve me. 59:48.120 --> 59:49.000 Which is what? 59:49.000 --> 59:49.800 Idolatry. 59:51.500 --> 59:57.260 And by then, if that person, if it's our family, if they take that mark, they're no longer an 59:57.260 --> 01:00:02.380 idolater as a brother, they're an idolater in the world, and there's no more hope for them. 01:00:02.940 --> 01:00:08.460 They are lost to eternity, to hell and eternity forever. So these are the things that we got to 01:00:08.460 --> 01:00:13.580 learn now, because we don't know what's coming down the pipe. And by the way, this is more 01:00:13.580 --> 01:00:18.380 important now than ever, because that pipe that we keep, proverbial pipe we keep talking about, 01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:21.200 It keeps getting shorter and shorter and shorter. 01:00:21.200 --> 01:00:24.800 We could wake up tomorrow, and I'm not one of those, 01:00:24.800 --> 01:00:27.280 the Lord is eminent, like I know there's still a ton of stuff, 01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:28.960 but you know what I can say? 01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:35.200 We could wake up tomorrow to like the ushering of the Antichrist pretty easily. 01:00:35.900 --> 01:00:42.820 It's not we're not that we already have all the data centers. We have the tech the AI. I mean we have wearables 01:00:43.340 --> 01:00:46.260 They already have the technology to put it in your in your brain 01:00:46.780 --> 01:00:50.780 They already the chips have been around for decades like it's only a matter of time 01:00:51.780 --> 01:00:55.800 Like this stuff is actually mass-produced and ready to roll out at any time 01:00:57.100 --> 01:01:02.580 Yeah, maybe nobody's adopted the technology, but that and people get caught up in this and and so we need to just be careful 01:01:02.580 --> 01:01:04.540 Deuteronomy, sorry, I didn't want to get off on that 01:01:04.540 --> 01:01:10.380 But you know what like that is actually really important because I don't think people realize I love AI I use all the time 01:01:10.380 --> 01:01:18.140 You can ask brother Heath, but I also recognize the danger of like depending on this like if it's if it's your God 01:01:18.860 --> 01:01:20.600 It's the all-knowing 01:01:21.300 --> 01:01:25.200 It's the all-knowing replacement and that's what idolatry is. 01:01:25.200 --> 01:01:28.300 It replaces your worship of God for the worship of something else. 01:01:28.300 --> 01:01:32.300 Deuteronomy 6. Go to Deuteronomy 6. 01:01:32.900 --> 01:01:35.380 And right there in verse 13, but the Bible 01:01:36.100 --> 01:01:41.320 Describes what the religious devotions that they're bowing they're serving they're sacrificing 01:01:42.140 --> 01:01:48.820 They're praying they're trusting they're worshiping some form of this to this thing. That's not the Creator. That's not God Almighty 01:01:50.600 --> 01:01:52.020 Deuteronomy 6 verse 13 says, 01:01:52.020 --> 01:01:54.060 Thou shall fear the Lord thy God and serve him, 01:01:54.060 --> 01:01:56.300 and shalt swear by his name. 01:01:56.300 --> 01:01:58.540 You shall not go after other gods, 01:01:58.540 --> 01:02:01.020 and the gods of the people which are round about you. 01:02:01.020 --> 01:02:03.300 For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you. 01:02:03.300 --> 01:02:05.900 Lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, 01:02:05.900 --> 01:02:08.340 and destroy thee from off the face of the earth. 01:02:08.340 --> 01:02:13.020 You know, we had a, I think, obviously I would. 01:02:15.400 --> 01:02:19.480 I would talk to the leadership or the men in the church, but like we had a hardcore 01:02:20.600 --> 01:02:24.760 and by there's a difference right because I obviously preached for like a young politician 01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:28.920 in Connecticut, but he was preaching like there were young right things, but we had like a hardcore 01:02:29.880 --> 01:02:37.000 like Republican like Trump, Trump's America stuff like that. You know if we couldn't get 01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:39.760 get them on the right track, the gods, before that. 01:02:40.300 --> 01:02:45.480 Like that's a form of adultery that'd be a conversation I'd be willing to have like bro like at some point which one 01:02:46.180 --> 01:02:50.180 These like right-wing Republicans. They think Trump is 01:02:51.100 --> 01:02:57.500 The Messiah I mean they don't have to say it their actions tell it all like they think that Trump's gonna save America 01:02:57.500 --> 01:02:59.500 They've forgiven him everything 01:03:00.060 --> 01:03:01.000 right 01:03:01.100 --> 01:03:05.800 I mean I was talking about Jerry we're supposed to have like fifteen thousand dollars in our bank account from all the 01:03:06.240 --> 01:03:13.040 Promises of we were supposed to get the doge money and I forgot what else and then recently what was the one offer? 01:03:13.520 --> 01:03:17.840 You know stay-at-home parents, which that's weird stay-at-home parents. I don't get that one 01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:20.360 But anyways, that's a whole other thing go to Psalm 115 01:03:20.560 --> 01:03:27.120 Like these are the things that we have to watch out for and aren't there and in churches in America or independent fundamental churches 01:03:27.120 --> 01:03:28.800 Where people love? 01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:37.560 you know their politics and they love their moral grandstanding and they love you know 01:03:37.560 --> 01:03:41.480 nitpicking the two or three verses they really care about and then ignoring the rest of the Bible. 01:03:42.040 --> 01:03:45.800 It's a form of idolatry because you're not you don't care about the Bible you care about what you think. 01:03:47.160 --> 01:03:53.560 Psalm 115 right there verse four the Bible says their idols are silver and gold the work of men's hands. 01:03:54.300 --> 01:03:58.300 They have mouths, but they speak not. Eyes have they, but they see not. 01:03:58.300 --> 01:04:01.340 They have ears, but they hear not. Noses have they, but they smell not. 01:04:01.980 --> 01:04:06.540 They have hands, but they handle not. Feet have they, but they walk not. 01:04:06.540 --> 01:04:10.780 Neither speak they through their throat. 01:04:14.100 --> 01:04:17.220 says they that make them are like unto them, 01:04:17.220 --> 01:04:20.380 so is everyone that trusteth in them. 01:04:22.440 --> 01:04:25.280 You know, they're putting their trust in other things. 01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:27.940 These people that like save all their money, 01:04:27.940 --> 01:04:29.620 they have all their real estate, 01:04:29.620 --> 01:04:31.500 and I'm not, by the way, 01:04:31.500 --> 01:04:33.740 it's people who this is what they depend on. 01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:42.000 If you have savings, if you have retirement, if you have real estate, if you have things and you've done it and it serves your purpose and you're able to serve the Lord, go for it. 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:46.000 You know, I'm constantly building a business and I want to do better every month, not worse. 01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:53.000 Like, I want to pay bills and take care of my family and if we can maybe enjoy a nice vacation or a nice dinner. 01:04:54.500 --> 01:04:56.100 It's not at the expense of the church. 01:04:56.100 --> 01:04:58.500 As a matter of fact, the reason we're not bigger, 01:04:58.500 --> 01:04:59.820 the reason I don't make more money, 01:04:59.820 --> 01:05:02.940 the reason that I'm not more successful in the world's eyes 01:05:02.940 --> 01:05:05.620 is because a lot of my time is here at the church. 01:05:05.620 --> 01:05:08.420 But this is where the time needs to be spent. 01:05:08.420 --> 01:05:09.860 That's the balance. 01:05:09.860 --> 01:05:12.220 In Isaiah 44, go to Isaiah 44. 01:05:15.700 --> 01:05:18.100 Isaiah 44, the Bible says there in verse 13, 01:05:18.100 --> 01:05:19.780 the carpenter stretches out his rule, 01:05:19.780 --> 01:05:21.740 he marketh it out with a line, 01:05:21.740 --> 01:05:23.140 he fitted it with the plains, 01:05:23.140 --> 01:05:24.820 and he marketh it out with the compass, 01:05:24.820 --> 01:05:27.300 and maketh it after the figure of a man, 01:05:27.300 --> 01:05:29.060 according to the beauty of man, 01:05:29.060 --> 01:05:30.860 that it may remain in his house. 01:05:30.860 --> 01:05:32.540 He heweth him down cedars, 01:05:32.540 --> 01:05:34.060 and taketh the cypress of the oak, 01:05:34.060 --> 01:05:35.340 which he strengthened for himself 01:05:35.340 --> 01:05:36.860 among the trees of the forest. 01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:40.440 He planteth in ash and the rain doth nourish it. 01:05:40.440 --> 01:05:44.680 Then shall it be for a man to burn, for he will take thereof and warm himself. 01:05:44.680 --> 01:05:50.600 Yea, he kindledeth it and baketh bread, yea, he maketh a god and worshipeth it. 01:05:50.600 --> 01:05:54.240 He maketh it a graven image and falleth down there too. 01:05:54.240 --> 01:05:58.240 He burneth part thereof in the fire, with part thereof he eateth flesh. 01:05:58.240 --> 01:06:02.200 He roasteth, roasteth, and is satisfied, yea, he warmeth himself and sayeth, Ah! 01:06:03.000 --> 01:06:05.560 I am warm, I have seen the fire. 01:06:05.560 --> 01:06:09.320 And the residue thereof, he maketh a God even as great an image. 01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:12.920 He falleth down unto it and worshiped it and prayeth unto it and sayeth, 01:06:12.920 --> 01:06:15.400 Deliver me for thou art my God. 01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:19.240 And the reality is that, you know, what is it? 01:06:19.240 --> 01:06:20.600 It's all about the comfort. 01:06:20.600 --> 01:06:23.240 They're thanking the comfort. 01:06:23.240 --> 01:06:27.240 I was, I don't remember the conversation exactly. 01:06:27.900 --> 01:06:32.600 But I think something like, you know, it was one of these like very liberal, I don't remember 01:06:32.600 --> 01:06:38.240 who I was having this with, but basically it was about how the whites, you know, stole 01:06:38.240 --> 01:06:41.740 the land from the Indians or whatever, the reservations and all that stuff. 01:06:41.740 --> 01:06:44.820 And I was like, I'm glad that... 01:06:45.500 --> 01:06:48.940 the Christian Anglo-Saxon, I don't know if they weren't perfect, 01:06:48.940 --> 01:06:52.140 is the dominant culture in America, 01:06:52.140 --> 01:06:56.740 and not the savage Indian who would scalp the people and kill them. 01:06:56.740 --> 01:06:59.500 And they're the ones, you know, portrayed in movies 01:06:59.500 --> 01:07:01.540 as in like, they'll kill a deer and they're like, 01:07:01.540 --> 01:07:04.100 oh, thank you, deer. 01:07:04.600 --> 01:07:07.040 Thank you nature for providing for me. 01:07:07.040 --> 01:07:08.760 Who's ever seen stuff like that? 01:07:08.760 --> 01:07:11.440 Oh, before we cut into this deer, 01:07:11.440 --> 01:07:14.120 let's just take a moment to say thank you, deer. 01:07:14.120 --> 01:07:15.320 Thank you for the mer- 01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:16.400 Stupid. 01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:19.480 Cause they're not thankful for it at all. 01:07:19.480 --> 01:07:21.320 That's where they're putting their comfort, 01:07:21.320 --> 01:07:22.520 but then they're savages. 01:07:22.520 --> 01:07:24.680 I'd rather be like, thank you, Lord. 01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:30.600 that I could kill this soulless animal and not have to kill another human being that has a soul 01:07:30.600 --> 01:07:35.400 so that I can just nourish my family and eat and know that I'm not affecting anything because 01:07:35.400 --> 01:07:40.920 that's what you created the animals for, for the dominion of man. And that I could then work on my 01:07:40.920 --> 01:07:46.680 morality and not have to worry about plotting to kill my wife so that I could be with my mistress. 01:07:47.800 --> 01:07:50.760 Because you know my theology is all screwed up. 01:07:51.700 --> 01:07:56.180 Go back to 1 Corinthians 10, go back to 1 Corinthians 10 as we start to wrap this thing up, but 01:07:56.180 --> 01:08:00.260 the idolater, we're addressing the idolater in the church, point number two, idolater gives God's 01:08:00.260 --> 01:08:06.340 place to another. Point number three, you cannot fellowship with Christ and idols. 01:08:07.140 --> 01:08:09.540 In 1 Corinthians 10 right there in verse number 14, 01:08:12.900 --> 01:08:15.140 We see the seriousness of idolatry, right? It says, 01:08:15.140 --> 01:08:19.700 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, and by the way, we see this phrase a lot, right? 01:08:19.700 --> 01:08:23.380 Flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men. 01:08:24.100 --> 01:08:26.260 Judge ye what I say. He's saying, hey, be wise. 01:08:26.820 --> 01:08:30.740 The cup of blessing which we bless, it is not the communion of the blood of Christ, 01:08:30.740 --> 01:08:34.100 the bread which we break. It is not the communion of the body of Christ. 01:08:34.740 --> 01:08:39.620 For we being many are one bread and one body, for we are all partakers of that one bread. 01:08:40.200 --> 01:08:47.080 Behold Israel after the flesh are not they which eat of the sacrifices partake eat of the sacrifices 01:08:47.640 --> 01:08:49.320 partakers of the altar 01:08:49.320 --> 01:08:51.000 What say I then? 01:08:51.000 --> 01:08:56.320 That the idol is anything or that that which is offered is sacrificed to idols is anything 01:08:56.480 --> 01:09:02.540 But I say that the things which Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to devils 01:09:03.300 --> 01:09:08.900 not to God and I would not that you should have fellowship with Devils many saying hey 01:09:08.900 --> 01:09:13.020 This is so bad that you're basically fellowshiping with Devils 01:09:13.740 --> 01:09:15.740 with wicked individuals 01:09:16.980 --> 01:09:22.100 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of Devils you cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and the end 01:09:22.100 --> 01:09:28.040 Of the table of Devils do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? 01:09:29.400 --> 01:09:33.160 And it all comes down to God is a jealous God. 01:09:33.160 --> 01:09:36.800 My wife was telling me that she went to some park in Dallas. 01:09:36.800 --> 01:09:38.040 She's like, I didn't recognize it. 01:09:38.040 --> 01:09:39.520 It's all ethnic. 01:09:39.520 --> 01:09:41.960 You know, my wife's not racist. 01:09:41.960 --> 01:09:44.000 By the way, she can say stuff like that. 01:09:44.000 --> 01:09:46.800 And she has like more receipts because she married a Mexican. 01:09:46.800 --> 01:09:48.240 Like I'm 100% Mexican. 01:09:48.240 --> 01:09:51.520 Like at one point, I was literally an eagle. 01:09:51.520 --> 01:09:53.360 You know, I had to get legal residency. 01:09:53.700 --> 01:09:58.900 You know, you could call me basically, you could, I didn't cross the river, but I might as well have. 01:09:58.900 --> 01:10:04.100 I could have just done that thing, right? But what she's referring to is the fact that we're losing 01:10:04.100 --> 01:10:10.500 our identity, our Christian identity, this country, and what we're bringing in is fellowship with devils. 01:10:10.900 --> 01:10:15.220 You know, I'm sorry if there's Indians listening, you know, I'm talking about Indians with a 01:10:15.220 --> 01:10:18.980 dot on their head, not the Indian with the feather, although both of them are bad, you know, like, 01:10:18.980 --> 01:10:23.700 oh yeah, I know it's really bad, but if I'm going to offend them anyway, then I might as well, 01:10:23.700 --> 01:10:29.940 right, just finish the whole thought. But yeah, what do Indians, they, they, they literally believe 01:10:29.940 --> 01:10:36.300 millions of gods. Right? They think that the feces... 01:10:37.100 --> 01:10:42.100 of a cow is holy and has like supernatural powers. 01:10:44.500 --> 01:10:46.960 In Texas we call those cow patties 01:10:46.960 --> 01:10:49.480 and nobody wants to get their boots stuck in them. 01:10:49.480 --> 01:10:51.160 Like we don't think it's clean. 01:10:51.160 --> 01:10:53.120 We're like, that's gross. 01:10:53.120 --> 01:10:55.360 Clean your boots before you get in my truck, right? 01:10:55.360 --> 01:10:56.720 Like a good old Texan like, 01:10:56.720 --> 01:10:59.440 don't be bringing that crap inside my truck. 01:10:59.440 --> 01:11:01.960 But in India they'd be like, oh, this is so great. 01:11:01.960 --> 01:11:02.700 You know, like. 01:11:03.700 --> 01:11:09.620 Then you got the Muslims and they've got all this like whatever they call it the halal meat or whatnot. 01:11:09.620 --> 01:11:13.220 And I know, I mean I literally know people. 01:11:13.220 --> 01:11:20.660 I've hired like assistants and developers from other countries where they'll butcher cows and do all kinds of weird stuff. 01:11:20.660 --> 01:11:26.100 And it's just like it and God says hey don't be partakers with them. 01:11:26.100 --> 01:11:30.100 But yeah today we have Christianity trying to be friends with all the religions of the world. 01:11:31.300 --> 01:11:36.420 like Baptist Church is doing this. It wasn't that long ago, less than a year ago, that we saw a post 01:11:36.420 --> 01:11:42.900 from the Baptist Church where my wife was raised, where they literally did a tour in Dallas, in the 01:11:42.900 --> 01:11:50.260 Garland area, in Garland Rowland area, where they went to a Buddhist temple, and they went to a Muslim 01:11:50.260 --> 01:11:57.060 mosque, and they went to like a Sikh temple, and they like, and they went to like be like, oh we 01:11:57.060 --> 01:11:59.300 We need to learn and we need to learn how to get along. 01:11:59.300 --> 01:12:00.840 and blah blah blah blah blah. 01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:02.520 No, you need to be like, rebuke them 01:12:02.520 --> 01:12:04.160 and be like, you're going to hell 01:12:04.160 --> 01:12:06.020 and you probably ought to destroy this building 01:12:06.020 --> 01:12:07.720 and it's not the great thing that we have. 01:12:07.720 --> 01:12:09.540 You know, here in Houston, it makes me sick 01:12:09.540 --> 01:12:12.240 every time I drive by one of these Buddhist temples. 01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:14.840 Right? 01:12:14.840 --> 01:12:16.120 You know what my prayer would be? 01:12:16.120 --> 01:12:17.600 That nobody would be there, 01:12:17.600 --> 01:12:18.880 so they have the opportunity to listen 01:12:18.880 --> 01:12:19.980 to the gospel of Christ, 01:12:19.980 --> 01:12:22.480 but that God would just strike all those things down 01:12:22.480 --> 01:12:24.880 with lightning and that they would disappear. 01:12:26.700 --> 01:12:28.700 I know that'll get taken out of context. 01:12:28.700 --> 01:12:30.700 We were preaching across the Catholic Church. 01:12:30.700 --> 01:12:33.700 You know, I just hope all Catholic churches just crumble to the ground. 01:12:34.700 --> 01:12:36.700 I mean, we don't need them. 01:12:36.700 --> 01:12:38.700 They're not necessary. 01:12:38.700 --> 01:12:40.700 Go to Psalm 106. Go to Psalm 106. 01:12:40.700 --> 01:12:42.700 In Deuteronomy 32 verse 16 it says, 01:12:42.700 --> 01:12:44.700 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods. 01:12:44.700 --> 01:12:47.700 With abominations provoked they him to anger. 01:12:47.700 --> 01:12:50.700 They sacrificed them to devils, not to God, 01:12:50.700 --> 01:12:53.700 to the gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came. 01:12:54.400 --> 01:13:02.560 that came newly up, whom your fathers fear not." In Psalms 106 verse 34, the Bible says, 01:13:02.560 --> 01:13:09.280 they did not destroy the nations concerning whom the Lord commanded them. 01:13:09.700 --> 01:13:13.620 but were mingled among the heathen and learned their works, and they served their idols, 01:13:13.620 --> 01:13:18.500 which were a snare unto them. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 01:13:18.500 --> 01:13:22.580 and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed 01:13:22.580 --> 01:13:27.300 unto idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with the blood." You know, we live in such a 01:13:27.300 --> 01:13:33.620 wicked nation. At least back then, you knew that they were sacrificing their kids to devils. Now, 01:13:33.620 --> 01:13:37.620 we just veil it under the fact that it's an inconvenience, and everybody thinks that 01:13:37.700 --> 01:13:39.200 you know, it's okay. 01:13:39.200 --> 01:13:42.540 You got churches today filled with a bunch of women 01:13:42.540 --> 01:13:44.020 who've murdered their babies 01:13:44.020 --> 01:13:46.860 and men who've encouraged their women to murder their babies. 01:13:46.860 --> 01:13:48.940 And then we say, and then you preach about it 01:13:48.940 --> 01:13:51.100 and be like, oh, I'm not an idolater. 01:13:51.100 --> 01:13:51.940 Yeah, you are. 01:13:52.960 --> 01:13:54.280 Cause you did it for convenience. 01:13:54.280 --> 01:13:58.120 You worship the convenience more than what God gave you. 01:13:58.120 --> 01:14:00.900 Like you literally discarded the gift of God 01:14:00.900 --> 01:14:02.560 that he said, hey, here's your blessing. 01:14:02.560 --> 01:14:03.740 Be fruitful and multiply. 01:14:03.740 --> 01:14:05.500 He opened up the womb. 01:14:05.700 --> 01:14:07.540 And you're like, no thank you. 01:14:07.540 --> 01:14:11.100 Let me just kill it and destroy it. 01:14:11.100 --> 01:14:13.340 I'm not even, I've got a couple of minutes. 01:14:13.340 --> 01:14:16.700 But I mean, honestly, the last two points 01:14:16.700 --> 01:14:21.780 are just like a driving home of what we preached in the past, 01:14:21.780 --> 01:14:24.020 which is basically, we're not going to have this thing. 01:14:24.020 --> 01:14:26.940 But go over, the only thing I want to really focus on, 01:14:26.940 --> 01:14:29.420 go over to Exodus 34. 01:14:29.420 --> 01:14:29.600 Thanks for watching! 01:14:29.900 --> 01:14:32.340 Then I'll give you, I'll read for you really quick. 01:14:32.340 --> 01:14:33.900 But in Revelation 2 14 the Bible says, 01:14:33.900 --> 01:14:35.820 but I have a few things against thee 01:14:35.820 --> 01:14:38.380 because thou hast there them that 01:14:38.380 --> 01:14:41.700 hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak, 01:14:41.700 --> 01:14:44.420 Balak to cast the stumbling block before the children 01:14:44.420 --> 01:14:47.260 of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, 01:14:47.260 --> 01:14:48.700 and to commit fornication. 01:14:49.200 --> 01:14:54.080 And Judy Levin, he says, one of them for they've gone in the way of Cain and ran greedily after 01:14:54.080 --> 01:15:00.240 the reward of Balaam for reward and perished in the game scene of Korah. By the way, this is important. 01:15:01.680 --> 01:15:06.160 When we get off on these things and we let the church just not, there's no church disability, 01:15:06.960 --> 01:15:12.480 we end up coming really close to just basically looking like the reprobate. 01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:19.440 You know, in, in Judy Levin and Revelation, Balaam is a reprobate, but because he delivered 01:15:19.440 --> 01:15:23.280 things in God's name, because that's how God allowed it, people get confused. 01:15:23.280 --> 01:15:26.640 Balaam was a bad dude and he was doing it all for money. 01:15:26.640 --> 01:15:30.240 And then he convinced them to just fall away into idol worship. 01:15:32.600 --> 01:15:37.080 Like we need to be staunch about the things that we preach. 01:15:37.080 --> 01:15:41.560 Go to Exodus 34, we'll close that out right there. 01:15:41.560 --> 01:15:46.520 But so point number one, we want to address the idolatry in the church. 01:15:46.600 --> 01:15:51.160 Idolatry is what gives God's place to another thing, 01:15:51.160 --> 01:15:54.900 and we cannot fellowship with Christ and idols. 01:15:55.000 --> 01:15:59.320 and then adultery provokes God to jealousy and we do not want to provoke God to jealousy. 01:15:59.320 --> 01:16:04.280 God is a jealous God and I love that. And this is why the family structure is so important. 01:16:04.280 --> 01:16:09.000 That's why divorce is, you know, this is a hot topic right now in feminism because they want to 01:16:09.000 --> 01:16:14.680 destroy this. You know, there's no jealousy in feminism. What are you jealous of? You know what? 01:16:14.680 --> 01:16:16.360 I don't want anybody looking at my wife but me. 01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:19.200 I don't want anybody taking my wife's attention. 01:16:19.200 --> 01:16:24.040 I get mad, I get jealous when the kids get more of my wife's attention than I do. 01:16:24.040 --> 01:16:26.000 That's my wife. 01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:29.700 You know, and if I feel like that, can you imagine a holy God, 01:16:29.700 --> 01:16:35.700 how he feels about those who have believed in the finished work of his son on the cross? 01:16:36.000 --> 01:16:37.060 We shouldn't do it. 01:16:37.060 --> 01:16:39.300 Exodus 32, I mean 34, right there, verse 12 says, 01:16:39.300 --> 01:16:40.680 take heed to thyself, 01:16:40.680 --> 01:16:42.840 lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land 01:16:42.840 --> 01:16:44.040 wherewith thou goest. 01:16:44.040 --> 01:16:46.400 Let it be for a snare in the midst of thee, 01:16:46.400 --> 01:16:49.180 but ye shall destroy their altars, 01:16:49.180 --> 01:16:51.280 break their images, and cut down their groves, 01:16:51.280 --> 01:16:53.480 for thou shall worship no other God. 01:16:53.480 --> 01:16:56.040 For the Lord whose name is jealous, 01:16:56.040 --> 01:16:58.800 says the Lord's name is Jealous. 01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:00.760 One of his names is Jealous. 01:17:01.000 --> 01:17:05.800 is a jealous God, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, 01:17:05.800 --> 01:17:09.880 and they go a-whoring after their gods, and do sacrifices unto their gods. 01:17:09.880 --> 01:17:14.840 And one call thee, and thou eat of this sacrifice, and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, 01:17:14.840 --> 01:17:19.000 and their daughters go a-whoring after their gods, and make thy sons to go a-whoring after 01:17:19.000 --> 01:17:23.000 their gods. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. 01:17:25.700 --> 01:17:29.940 That's pretty interesting, right? One of God's names is Jealous. 01:17:29.940 --> 01:17:33.300 We could say, we could pray God's name is Jealous. 01:17:33.300 --> 01:17:36.340 I mean, I'm not, I'm not, that's what it says. 01:17:39.000 --> 01:17:41.800 It's pretty serious to not be distracted. 01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:43.340 Obviously, we don't have an army. 01:17:43.340 --> 01:17:44.640 We're not the children of Israel. 01:17:44.640 --> 01:17:45.360 I can't go. 01:17:45.360 --> 01:17:47.500 I really wish I could just go and destroy that, right? 01:17:47.700 --> 01:17:54.660 You know the Catholic Church and the Buddhist temple, but I can't pray against it and we can't separate because here in our church 01:17:54.660 --> 01:17:58.300 I mean somebody made an observation. We don't have a windows now. We're not Jehovah's Witnesses 01:17:58.300 --> 01:18:00.740 I just think it's just an old wind like an older building 01:18:00.860 --> 01:18:06.720 But we you know everything that we try to put up here should be to edify the Lord right like I'm thinking at some point 01:18:06.720 --> 01:18:08.020 We want to put like a verse up here 01:18:08.020 --> 01:18:12.540 I want to put a verse not a cross or anything like that you know so the last point 01:18:12.540 --> 01:18:15.700 I really had for you is this perch out the leaven of idolatry, but 01:18:15.700 --> 01:18:18.900 But we've already driven that in the series. 01:18:18.900 --> 01:18:26.060 And I'll just close out with, you don't want to give your time to anything that's not godly. 01:18:26.060 --> 01:18:29.140 Now we're not perfect, so things are going to distract us. 01:18:29.140 --> 01:18:34.660 You know, I mean, I wish I was a perfect parent, but my kids, you know, we try to spend time 01:18:34.660 --> 01:18:38.140 in the word and we try to do things, but I also know that they just, there's distractions 01:18:38.140 --> 01:18:39.140 at times. 01:18:39.140 --> 01:18:40.840 It's just life in the world. 01:18:40.840 --> 01:18:42.260 But what it shouldn't do is dominate. 01:18:42.900 --> 01:18:46.580 At the end of the day, the most important thing is the things of God. 01:18:46.580 --> 01:18:50.780 Forsake not the same line of ourselves, reading our Bibles, going soul-wending, even if it's 01:18:50.780 --> 01:18:51.780 hard. 01:18:51.780 --> 01:18:52.780 I'm going to just be honest with you. 01:18:52.780 --> 01:18:56.700 I already told you guys, today was hard, but I'm glad I'm here and not at home. 01:18:57.000 --> 01:18:59.800 I'm glad I'm, and I know you guys would understand, 01:18:59.800 --> 01:19:01.520 I probably could have been like, hey, you know, 01:19:01.520 --> 01:19:04.400 maybe show me some grace, maybe let's, 01:19:04.400 --> 01:19:06.380 I'll be back on Wednesday, but you know, 01:19:06.380 --> 01:19:08.320 I would rather not even put myself in a position 01:19:08.320 --> 01:19:09.440 where I could get distracted. 01:19:09.440 --> 01:19:11.320 And I know you guys do the same. 01:19:11.320 --> 01:19:13.560 You know, Pastor Cobb literally will call me 01:19:13.560 --> 01:19:14.400 and it's not even that big of a deal, 01:19:14.400 --> 01:19:16.040 he's like, I'm not gonna be at church tonight, 01:19:16.040 --> 01:19:18.720 I'm sorry, like I'm gonna try to make it. 01:19:18.720 --> 01:19:19.920 That's the accountability we want 01:19:19.920 --> 01:19:21.280 because we don't wanna get distracted 01:19:21.280 --> 01:19:22.400 with the things of this world. 01:19:22.500 --> 01:19:26.740 So let's close in order to prayer. Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today. Thank you for your blessings. 01:19:26.740 --> 01:19:29.620 Thank you for our church, Lord. 01:19:29.620 --> 01:19:39.020 And, you know, I think that I just I'm so glad that we have the church that we have 01:19:39.020 --> 01:19:43.980 and that we have the remnant one that we have, because we know from the Bible that we don't need large numbers. 01:19:43.980 --> 01:19:45.460 We just need effective numbers. 01:19:46.000 --> 01:19:50.720 And I'm just glad that we're here to be able to serve you Lord and I would pray that if there is any 01:19:52.000 --> 01:19:58.640 any uh leaven like that any fornication or extortion or idolatry or railing 01:20:00.080 --> 01:20:05.440 covetousness Lord that we would just purge it out so that we could continue to do great works for 01:20:05.440 --> 01:20:09.200 you Lord help us to hit our goals to surpass them. 01:20:09.400 --> 01:20:13.720 to just knock them out of the ballpark. We're grateful for all our friends in the ministry. 01:20:13.720 --> 01:20:17.240 We're grateful for those that might not be our friends but they're doing great work for the Lord 01:20:17.240 --> 01:20:21.800 and that I pray that anybody who's doing great work for you Lord that they would keep themselves 01:20:21.800 --> 01:20:25.320 from all this stuff. Help us have a great week. Thank you for getting me through this today. 01:20:25.320 --> 01:20:27.400 In Jesus' name we pray, amen. 01:20:27.400 --> 01:20:30.320 Let's turn our hymnals over to page 208. 01:20:31.840 --> 01:20:32.680 208. 01:20:49.400 --> 01:20:53.960 Grace greater than our sin. Amen.