189. Estamos en el tiempo.
Colocamos nuestras manos en la p. 189, y en la primera, 189.
¿Sabe a nadie que tiene un boleto?
Si no tienes un boleto, agarra tu mano.
Y hoy es octubre 26, y así es.
Me siento como si hubiera pasado un par de jueves.
Dije octubre 1, y luego al final de la semana.
Se va tan rápido.
Bienvenidos a la iglesia de Jesucristo.
Nuestros tiempos de servicio están ahí en el boleto.
El día de la semana es las 10.30 de la mañana.
El día de la semana es las 4.30 de la mañana.
Y el día de la semana es las 5.30 de la mañana.
Tenemos nuestro único tiempo en la iglesia de Jesucristo a las 2.00 de la mañana.
Así que continuaremos con eso.
La semana pasada tuvimos un grupo más pequeño.
Pero aún tuvimos una salvación.
Y luego la información de la Sra. Sobhya de que ella la obtuvo el día de la semana.
Agradecemos al Señor por eso.
El verso de la semana por el capítulo de memorias.
Es Philippians 1.8.
"Por Dios es mi récord.
¿Qué tan grande despediré de ti en todos los cantos de Jesucristo?"
Si alguno de los niños lo citan a un miembro de familia,
correctamente, obtendrán la permisión de los padres.
Al final de todo, si todo el mundo lo citan a un miembro de familia perfectamente,
entonces obtendrán un precio.
Más probablemente en la forma de algún tipo de cartón de regalo.
Somos una familia integrada.
Quiero recordarles que tenemos la habitación de la madre y el bebé en la parte de atrás,
con el sermen que está en live stream.
Si los bebés se quedan muy fuera de mano, o sea, si ellos están solo haciendo ruido regular,
podemos ir por eso.
Así que no estamos preocupados por ello.
Y luego tenemos los aniversarios.
Le añadimos el aniversario de Moe.
No sabía que el aniversario de Moe era ayer.
Así que si lo ves hoy, dame un buen rato y desea que te vayas a tu aniversario.
Es un joven de 24 años, pobre chico.
Es muy viejo.
Y así que, llegando el 31 de octubre, tenemos el fellowship.
Si puedo hacerle a todos los signos, me voy a dar un vistazo y voy a llegar a todos.
Solo necesito tener una buena cuenta de quiénes vienen.
Así que sabemos qué traer.
Vamos a tener algunos juegos de bordo.
Probablemente llegaremos con otras ideas también.
Pero básicamente es en lieu de un holiday satánico.
No celebramos eso aquí.
Así que todas nuestras familias estarán juzgando aquí.
6.30 hasta que el último hombre esté atrasado, o te juzgue.
No sé.
Creo que todos, muchas personas tienen llaves.
Por cierto, Matt, tengo una llave para ti ahora.
Así que recuerda a mí hacer eso.
Y luego quiero agradecer a todos que vinieron.
Ayer tuvimos un grupo que vinieron para el día de trabajo de la iglesia.
Teníamos a Sheena y sus hijos.
Su padre los dejó ir.
Y luego todos los tomaron.
Estaban muy buenos.
Y ellos ayudaron.
Y luego tuvimos a Silvia y Heath ayudando.
Y luego Trey y Gentry también estaban aquí.
Y luego mi familia estaba aquí.
Y espero que pudiéramos ir a toda la iglesia, pero fuimos adelante.
Hicimos una extracción, una extracción de estrés en todas las agujas.
Algunas de las agujas han estado allí por mucho tiempo, es muy difícil.
Pero lo hicimos. Y luego hicimos toda la iglesia.
Y luego hicimos una limpieza profunda en otras partes del mundo.
Así que a quien haya hecho eso, muchas gracias.
Ustedes merecen un aplauso acolado o algo así.
Y luego tenemos el Departamento de Derecho.
Vamos a tener detalles sobre eso.
El Maratón de Soa de Refugio será en octubre 22, perdón, en noviembre 22.
Y si pueden dejarme saber quién está pensando en ir.
Lo que creo que haremos es hacerlo más fácil.
Voy a empezar a recibir los anuncios y preparaciones.
Pero lo que creo que me gustaría hacer es, si hay algo,
podemos cargarlo o rentar un vehículo, si es un grupo grande.
Porque es unos dos y medio horas para nosotros.
Estamos reuniendo a un grupo de Corpus ahí.
Para ellos es alrededor de una hora.
Voy a llamarlo la próxima vez y estaré como,
"Hey, tenemos que hacer que esto sea legal".
Y luego tenemos el Colegio de Christmas también.
Vamos a tener detalles sobre eso.
Entonces, si estás nuevo aquí, si tienes niños o algo así,
hay algunas reglas generales allí.
Eso realmente aplica a los padres con los niños.
Y realmente aplica principalmente a los snacks y el refrigerador y todo eso.
En la parte de atrás tenemos la prensa, un par de noticias.
Prueba por la hermana Millie.
Ella está teniendo sugerencia de corazón abierta en diciembre, ¿verdad?
Así que solo prueba por ella.
Incluso que la sugerencia de corazón abierta es como un tipo de sugerencia de mil.
Incluso cuando mi padre tuvo sugerencia de corazón abierta, como ha sido hasta ahora,
es todavía una gran sugerencia.
Es como una experiencia distinta y hay muchas cosas que van a hacer.
Así que prueba por ella.
Además de eso, ella ha estado tratando de su dolor de la cabeza, así que solo prueba por ella.
Es tremendo. Si necesitas algo, solo ponte a nosotros y déjate saber.
Sé que estás en contacto con el P. Cobb, así que, ya sabes, él me lo va a saber.
Y luego, tenemos todos los otros.
Nosotros vimos a James y a Mary Bostic, si lo viste en el red.
Y nos dimos cuenta de que, en el red, nos dimos cuenta de que la gente que nos ha estado condenando,
nos ha estado condenando.
Y luego, en el, tenemos todos los otros, vimos a James y a Mary Bostic, si lo viste en el red.
Están en una fiscina, así que el pastor Cobb y la hermana Linda y yo,
tuvimos que pasar todos los días juntos, solo tuvimos que ir a la fiesta todos los días.
Tuvimos que tomar cuidado de algunos problemas de bancos y todo ese tipo de cosas.
Y luego cuando estuvimos allí, fuimos a visitar a los Bostics.
Están haciendo bien, están en una vivienda asistente, y están bien tomando cuidado,
así que estamos contentos de ver eso.
Si no sabes quiénes son, no te preocupes, pero han servido aquí un largo tiempo,
y son una gran parte de nuestra familia.
Y entonces, la única otra noticia que tengo es que Gande, que es el abuelo de Silvia,
no vi el texto hasta esta mañana.
Le rompió el hipo, tiene cáncer, y rompió el hipo y se fue al hospital,
así que solo pide por la recuperación.
Cuando tienes cáncer o una edad avanzada, romper el hipo es algo que es realmente difícil.
Si no hay nada más, devuelva el hipo hacia la página 418.
Y por cierto, si alguien tiene alguna edad, déjame saber o mensale el número que tienes las edades.
Y vamos a hacer esos cambios.
Entonces, 418, "La amor me levantó" en la primera.
Tres, "Thy faithfulness", "Great is Thy faithfulness" en la primera.
Chapter 25, 25 verse 1, Bible reads, "If there be a controversy between men, and they come into judgment, that the judges may judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. It shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give him, God exceed.
Lest, if he should exceed and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem violent to thee.
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when it treadeth out the corn.
If brethren dwell together and one of them die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger.
Her husband's brother shall go in unto her and take her to him to wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.
It shall be that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
And if the man not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders and say,
My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him; and if he stand to it and say, I like not to take her,
then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, lose his shoe from off his foot,
spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house;
and his name shall be called in Israel the house of him that his shoe loosed.
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him,
and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets, then thou shalt cut off her hand, and I shall not pity her;
thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small; thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small;
but thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have.
Thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord God giveth thee.
All that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way. Ye were come forth out of Egypt, how he met thee by the way, and smote the highmost of thee.
Even all that were feeble behind thee, thou was faint and weary. Ye fear not God, for it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Thou shalt not forget it.
Let us bow our heads and go to the Lord in prayer. Father God, we thank you for allowing us to come into your presence this day. Thank you for gathering us here together in your house to hear your word.
Lord, we ask that you soften our hearts, prepare our hearts so that we can hear and understand your word and be instructed from it.
Lord, please fill Pastor Reyes with your Holy Spirit and allow him to preach with boldness and clarity from the pulpit.
Lord, we ask this all in Jesus' name.
If you love these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Thank you.
And so we're there and what I want to do today is we're going to go through a study on specifically the word vile and what it means.
I've been thinking about doing a sermon about it regardless, but then in the last couple of weeks things have been going on in our circles that just make it easier for me to just really emphasize this.
So the goal here is to just be able to discern, to learn how to discern not only what the Bible is actually saying, but also how to deal when people just basically fling either attacks correctly or incorrectly at any of us, right?
Because we're out there in the world, we're in the spiritual battle, we're dealing with people all the time and I mean it's very common of the left, now this is not the left that I'm talking about today and I'll give you some context,
but it's very common that when the argument or a position is being presented and the opposition runs out of ideas, what do they do?
They start just insulting, it's no longer about facts or about truth but it's just about just saying things that don't have anything to do with anything, right?
But before we do that, I like this chapter for many reasons, we're not going to go through it all, but right there, the word "vile" right there, it says "40 stripes he may give him and not exceed, lest if he should exceed and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee." Meaning, hey, you're overdoing it, right?
And then if we go down to verse 15, the Bible says, "But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shall thou have, that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
One of the things that I always emphasize when I'm preaching or I try to is the fact that God is a God of balance, right?
He actually is very balanced in his view and sometimes as Christians, we tend to want to overdo things, right?
Probably because we have the influence of just politics in America where you either have the right or the left and everything is either way left or way right.
But as Christians, we can't just be taken with every doctrine of wind or every wind of doctrine.
We need to be taken by the balance of the Bible.
So the title of the sermon this morning is "Vile and Trashy."
And so some of you might be visiting here today.
We have Brother Matt's mom visiting us, which we appreciate.
And I see Sister Evelyn's, I think her sister, you've been with us before.
And this young gentleman right here is visiting us.
But a couple of things that we always want to do as preachers is, number one,
we just want to preach whatever the Lord laid on our heart, right?
And it's interesting that we have so many visitors today,
and I chose to speak on a very specific subject,
because one of the accusations is that you shouldn't preach certain subjects
at certain times because people in the audience might be in there
that you might offend or lead astray.
And I'm of the thought that we're just preaching God's Word.
If people get offended Sunday morning or Sunday evening or Wednesday
because I'm preaching God's Word,
well, I might as well offend them now and not wait until, you know,
a month later when I was tippy-toeing around them.
Let's just get to the point, you know, let's just get to it.
But the reality is, though, that the Word of God is powerful, right?
The Bible says it pierces even to the dividing asunder of joy and marrow, right?
It can tell us the intent and thoughts of the heart, the Bible tells us, right?
And the goal of teaching the Bible is to give you the ammunition
to deal not only with your own personal matters, but even in the world.
And the way that I got this title is just...
Well, first of all, let me just...
I have my notes here so I don't get distracted.
But the first point I want to make is that
we're going to look at all the references today.
So, number one, whenever you go to a church,
you want to make sure that you get a lot of Bible, right?
And today there's 22 literal references to the word "vile."
We're going to take a look at every single one of those.
I don't always do that because some words
we would never finish, right?
But on occasion you run into certain references
or statements or words that are mentioned
just enough times that you can cover in a sermon.
This is one of those, right?
But in addition to that,
I really honestly, and I mean this,
whether you believe me or not, it's the truth.
I've been wanting to preach on this topic now
for quite some time because I think
people in politics, in church, just everywhere
use words and sometimes we don't even know
what the words we're using, right?
And we want to use the words that are Biblical,
not necessarily what the world tells us
should be the definition.
But then in addition to that, last Sunday
we were sending off Brother James.
If you don't know who Brother James is,
he helped fill in when I broke my collar bone
a couple of months ago.
And he's out in the Philippines.
He's actually out in the Philippines with two individuals.
Brother Duncan Urbanik, who's an evangelist
for Stepfast Baptist Church.
And he's also helping out Brother Matthew Stuckey,
who is a good friend and has known Brother Mike
for 20 years.
So it all comes full circle.
We don't plan these things, but that's just the way it is.
And we were sending him off and we went to Chipotle
and we all hung out and he's like,
"Hey, I'm going to have to travel these long hours
in the Philippines." He's like, "So I'm probably going to stay up.
You want to hang out a little bit more."
I was like, "Well, I normally don't because it's Sunday,
but why don't you come over to the house and we'll hang out."
And as we were going to the house,
I'm always checking my social media or stuff like that
to see who's preaching what.
Because I like listening to other preachers,
but on occasion other things pop up.
And this title popped up by a pastor in Sacramento.
His name is Pastor Jimenez, Roger Jimenez.
And the title was really interesting.
It actually was click-bait to me.
Because the title was, "Does the Bible teach
that a married man can commit adultery with no death penalty?"
So it's like such an odd statement.
And I was like, I don't even know where this is going.
So I wanted to listen to it.
We're not going to go through that.
I'm going to stick to the thing.
If you want to find out about all that stuff,
you can come talk to me afterwards.
Or just go online and look this up,
and then you'll just follow all the rabbit trails,
and you'll see that there's some drama attached to it.
I don't really care about all that.
That's between the individuals that are involved.
But as I was listening to this,
I was actually curious about what the topic was being preached,
which basically was like this word salad
trying to justify this issue that's going on in the church,
but then trying to blame it on another set of pastors
and group of people and individuals
that included me, myself, not by name,
but by association, and my church by association.
And I just really took offense to that,
and so I just wanted to set the record clear.
But by addressing it from a Biblical standpoint.
And so I just got two quotes from you today,
and I was really trying to download it
and get the transcript.
Rumble sucks, by the way, guys.
On a platform, if you ever set up Rumble,
it says that it's the YouTube killer.
I'm going to give you just a little bit of a funny
before we get into the seriousness of it.
And when I was with Brother Mo setting it up,
I said, "Rumble, this horrible-looking webpage
is the YouTube killer.
That's how you know it's a lie.
It's not easy to use.
You can never download the videos easy.
Needless to say, I had to type this.
I had to basically type this transcript.
I hadn't done that in years.
But in here, Pastor Jimenez is basically,
long story short in this sermon,
he's mad at another pastor.
And it's kind of like this whole...
The pastor that he's mad at is Pastor Stephen Anderson.
They've been going back and forth online.
But he doesn't disclose that
in the beginning of the sermon.
What he discloses is...
This is how he starts the sermon.
He says, "There's a teaching
that is spreading among the new IFB."
Well, I'm part of the new IFB,
which all it stands for is the New Independent
Fundamental Baptist.
And the only reason we're part of it is because
if you look at the tenets, they line up with the Bible.
If at any point they don't line up with the Bible,
you know what we won't be associated with?
The new IFB.
Basically, just any group that lines up with God's Word
is what I want to line up with.
Even independent fundamental Baptists,
by nature, I would line up with most of their stuff.
Unfortunately, over the years,
they've gotten away from some of the
foundational tenets. Just like when the
Southern Baptists had a split when
Pastor Cobbs served, why did they leave?
Because they were leaving the tenets of
the Bible. They were like, this is
no longer what we're... we're not teaching God's
Word anymore, we're teaching what we want.
Right? And so here this guy
starts out, he's like, there's a teaching
that is spreading among the new IFB
and it's a teaching that says, in
the Old Testament, a married man
could commit adultery with an unmarried
woman and there wasn't a consequence
for it. There was no death penalty
and I'm going to speak on the subject this evening
and really debunk this teaching.
So he starts this thing out and I'm like, I've never
taught this, I've never heard anybody
teach it. Number one, I mean
like I'm kind of offended because I'm like
that's why I clicked on the thing because I didn't even
know where he was going with it. Number
two, I would never
in a million years condone or promote
or justify adultery in any
way, shape or form. As a matter
of fact, I don't do a lot of counseling
but if I ever do marital counseling like
in the last month I've had two or three phone calls
about it. The very first thing I say like
well, I know you might be having problems
with your spouse or whatever
but divorce is not an option. Like
you better fix it. Like that
is my first response to anything because that's biblical.
You know, he made them male and female
from the beginning, right? What God had put
together, let no man put us under.
And so right away I'm listening to this
thing. I'm like, what in the world? And then
later on he basically
saying that not only is this being taught
but it's being taught privately.
And I'm like, whoa, I'm teaching stuff
privately. When am I teaching privately? I mean, I've never
I'm like, I don't
even know what he's talking about, let alone
privately teaching it. You know, because he's
lumping this group, right? It says
now let me just say this. This is later on as he's finishing
the sermon. He's like, let me just say
a few things as we finish up. It says
the new IFB is teaching this.
So this is saying that I'm teaching
this in my congregation
to our people. And it says
and this is being taught privately.
So I know I talk to, I mean, we're
not a big church. I think I talk to
at least two or three of the church members on
a regular basis every week, right?
I mean, I know I talk to Brother Heath at least
every other day, Brother Trey every other
day. I mean, I just talk to, and Brother Matt, this week
I talk to Brother Matt several times
this week. I mean, it's just,
if you guys think I'm teaching this privately, reach out.
I've had two,
three hour conversations with Brother Mike
on doctrine, fighting
over who's right, you know, I'm usually right.
Brother Mike, you know, he can't
help himself, he just falls into the trap.
I'm just kidding. Actually, him and I
like love talking doctrine, and I know I've never
taught this, or said anything
to the effect, neither has he, like I've just never
heard it, right? And he says,
"I think it's interesting these guys will stand
up and make these challenges."
He's talking about these video challenges, he says,
"This is a dangerous doctrine, this has
real world implications."
He says, "You know what has real world implications?
The garbage they're teaching,
this stuff privately, and then idiots
are believing it and practicing it,
literally hiring prostitutes
making sure you're not married,
right? Because if you're not married
then it's cool, God is not as mad
about it." I mean, this is coming from his
pulpitus congregation about us,
right? And it says, "And the marriage gets destroyed
instead of insulting a woman whose marriage
is being destroyed." And then this is where the truth came out.
Apparently there's a divorce going on in his church,
Pastor Anderson called him out
for not doing the right thing,
and now the reality
comes out. Like an hour and twenty
minutes later, it's not about us,
it's about us. But if you realize,
I mean, these are the things that God
hates lying. It's an abomination
and I'm not attacking the character of a person,
I'm just attacking
the lie. That's like a blatant
lie about not only
myself, even though I didn't mention
my name, but our congregation.
For you guys to, you know, when it really
offends me, I've never really gotten offended
when people insult me. People make fun of
me all the time. If you've been around me, you know I'm like
self-deprecating humor is just
easy for me. You know, you can pick on me
and I'll help you. I'll
give you the ammo. But don't pick on
the people that I love if it's not
true, right? Don't pick on my kids,
don't pick on my wife, don't pick
on my church members. I mean, I'm just being
dead serious. And that's really what made
me angry about the whole thing, right?
And then he says, "Instead of insulting a woman whose marriage is being destroyed,
you should call and apologize for teaching this
garbage." And he says, "Let me tell you
something. The new IFB is
becoming vile and it's becoming
trashy." Well, by association,
whether you associate with that
group or not, you come to this church
and I said, "I don't care if you
associate with that. These are my friends,
and I'm teaching things from the Bible."
Well, you know, I
know almost all of you guys by either
name, association,
I have some history with you, we're not that
big of a church, and I don't
consider any of you vile and trashy. Now,
I am looking at a room, just
so it doesn't go to your head, I am looking at a room
full of sinners, so just so you
know, I mean, you guys need to clean up your sin,
but you know what, I'm also looking
at the mirror because I'm a sinner,
but being vile and trashy
and just falling from the grace of God
are two different things. I mean, that's
literally, that's what I'm concerned about, and by the way,
I've met Pastor Jimenez,
the only times I ever met him
he was nice to me, maybe because I didn't
really ever have a deep association
to him, and
so I don't know, and their church is
from my understanding, they've not changed doctrine,
they're a soul winning church,
you know, they're
trying to do the right thing, but that's
a wrong doctrine. That's just a lie.
It's called slander. I mean, that's
just not right, right? And
from the pulpit's perspective,
if you're preaching up here,
you should always try to preach what?
The truth. So let's get to the truth of the matter,
and like I said, I just wanted to give you some context,
I wasn't, you know, this is not
the drama,
like the drama is the drama, but hey,
if you're going to call me out,
there's one thing I don't like, is when people
say stuff about me, that's not true.
You know, in my family, my family is real left,
and my family is Hispanic,
so that's a really bad combination,
because they're always in your business,
and they're always telling you, you know,
what they think and how you're wrong about everything.
And one of the things I don't like is, you know,
when I was younger, I would get in these arguments,
and then all of a sudden the other person would say,
"Well, you said so and so."
And I said, "Well, I never said that."
They're like, "Oh, you're being this way."
I said, "I'm not being that way."
And that's when I would really lose it, and I'm like,
"You know, you can say anything about this argument,
they're not true."
You know, I'll get attacks about how, like,
you know, we're just bigoted
or we're hateful because of the way that we preach.
You know, my family knows that I'm a pastor
of what I preach.
And I'm like, "I'm not bigoted or hateful."
I mean, I hate the things of God,
but I'm not, in general, like, I don't just wake up
and I'm like, "What am I going to hate today?"
I already know what I hate from the Bible.
I don't need any more help, right?
We don't need to make this worse.
Well, let's go through this real quick.
So, for the sake of time, try to keep up with me.
Go to Lamentations 1.
I have four points for you today.
But "vile" and "trashy" are not necessarily synonyms,
although they can be, right?
And though they share some overlap in meaning,
"vile" describes something extremely unpleasant,
morally wicked, or physically repulsive.
So, I mean, for someone to say,
"Hey, these people are vile,"
is saying that, you know, when I'm looking out at the audience,
I'm not looking at people who are morally wicked or repulsive.
Trashy is speaking specifically of like poor quality,
of low value.
You know, when you're saved, you're not of low value.
If you lose that value, it's because you're basically
rebelling or backsliding against God, right?
I mean, you can do that, but when you start out,
when you get saved by grace, I mean,
you've literally elevated to the greatest value.
You are priceless.
You have an eternal gift that nobody can ever take away.
You know, one of my favorite insults for people
to throw at me is people say, "Go to hell."
Because I'm like, well, I can't.
Even if I wanted to, I can't go to hell.
I mean, I love responding to that.
It gets me fired up because I'm just like,
I couldn't go to hell even if I wanted to.
I mean, remember, Moses is like, "Hey, Lord,
blot me out if you can spare these people."
And God's like, hey, he just glosses over it.
He's like, "Those who sin against me, I'm going to punish them,
and those who don't, I'm going to punish them."
And so we're not unpleasant or morally wicked or repulsive.
And trashy people means poor quality, low value, gaudy,
things like trashy jewelry or trashy...
You know what I'm talking about.
That's a very common term that people...
If some lady came in looking all scantily into church,
maybe the other people in church might be like,
"That's a little trashy, right?
I can't believe they came to church like that."
So, those are just kind of the examples, right?
So, vile is really morally reprehensible
or extremely unpleasant to the senses, right?
So, for example, these are just examples I wrote.
The smell of a dumpster could be vile, right?
Sometimes, you know, you're...
Oh, actually, it's interesting.
Yesterday we were shampooing and we're stirring up
just like a lot of the dirt here.
And Brother Heath got a headache.
You know, some people are more sensitive to like dander
and dirt and all that stuff.
You could almost say that was vile.
Like it was reprehensible, right?
But a vile individual is someone...
You know, we don't think of someone who's just sinning regularly.
We think of like...
If we think of a vile person, we think of like serial murderers
or, you know, some kind of wicked crime,
something premeditated with a lot of hurt and violence.
I'm not just like, you know, thinking of...
You know, when I wake up in the morning and think vile,
and then my first thought is like,
"Oh, you know, Brother Matt is vile" or something.
By the way, Brother Matt is not vile.
That's not the way it goes, right?
Or trashy is something of low quality, shoddy or gaudy, right?
So we kind of...
I just want to really drive this there,
and you guys are there in Lamentations 1.
And so other adjectives for vile are, you know,
wretchedly bad, highly offensive, unpleasant, objectionable, repulsive,
or disgusting as to the sense of feeling.
You know, even a church I don't agree with,
and there's a lot of Baptist churches that we don't see eye to eye,
you know what I don't think of them?
I don't think of them as vile and trashy.
I just think that they should just clear up some of their doctrine, right?
But if they're out there preaching the Word of God,
if they have a clear gospel message,
even if they're not soul-winning, but they're pro-soul-winning,
if they have the right Bible,
I'm not just going to trash on church like that,
because we don't know what God is doing.
You know, there's two things that just make me think,
like, of individuals that I don't necessarily associate with.
Brother Mike preached a sermon a couple of weeks ago,
and I took the clips,
and I made little two-minute clips of all his sermons,
because that's popular online,
and a pastor who I consider to be one of the greatest missionaries of our time,
his friend Matthew Stuckey makes a comment there and says,
"Hey, I love to see brother Mike serving in the church that he's serving with.
He's the guy that led me to the Lord, right?
And now I've been saved 20 years.
I don't think, I don't know anything about that church.
They're out there soul-winning, they're out there doing their things,
and I guarantee you if I ever met brother Matthew Stuckey just by listening to him,
we might not see eye to eye on just execution and everything.
I mean, he just seems like a little bit more reserved, more calm,
whereas I'm always kind of like in your face.
So, you know, you put two people like that in a room,
they might not always agree on the best way to execute,
but you know what I don't think? I don't think violent trashing, right?
There was a famous church, Hiles, in First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana.
This is in the late 90s, early 2000s, led by brother Hiles, Jack Hiles.
And out of that spawned a ton of individuals that came out,
and some church had been good, some bad, that happens everywhere.
And there's a church literally in Mexico City that runs 7,000 members every week.
And they're out soul winning, and this guy's preaching hard.
I mean, he's literally putting up statues, life-size statues of the Virgin Mary,
and he's like busting them up, and he's being on like the news in Mexico.
You know what I don't think? And he does, I guarantee you,
he doesn't agree with us on the pre-trip rapture and the post-trip rapture.
I guarantee that he doesn't probably agree with us on the anti-Zionist versus Zionist view.
But you know what I don't think? I don't think violent trashing.
Hey, if I look up a Baptist church and they're right on salvation,
and they're right on the right word, I don't poo-poo that church.
I might not associate with them just because we might not see eye to eye,
but I don't poo-poo that church.
And I use poo-poo a lot because my kids are in the audience,
and at least they keep them entertained.
And the Bible says dung, and that's in the Bible, too.
But let's go there.
I have four points for you today on what that word "vile" means.
Trashy, I didn't want to spend too much time on
because that means it's pretty easy.
We all throw out trash every day.
It's things that we don't want, right?
We discard.
Although it has been said, one man's trash is another man's treasure,
so it just depends, right?
But the first point I have for you today,
so of all the terms that you see in the Bible,
most of them are going to be that negative connotation, right?
But there's really like four categories
that that word "vile" falls into.
The first category,
and this is the first point I have for you today,
is "degradation of value or brought low."
And so I could, I guess, to an extent,
but it wasn't delivered like that,
but I could say, "Hey, you know, we have some vileness in us."
The Bible actually uses that.
Job talks about it.
We're going to see here in Deuteronomy, it said,
"Hey, don't do this or don't overdo it
so your brother seems vile unto thee," right?
In Lamentations 1, verse 11, the Bible says,
"For people sigh, they seek bread,
they have given their pleasant things for meat
to relieve the soul.
See, O Lord, and consider, for I am become vile."
Well, you know, the way that I, as I was saying this,
in the eyes of the Lord, we can all become vile.
Technically, "for all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God."
Anytime that I use that verse, like in my mind,
I'm very visual, like I see a picture
literally of this chasm
because we're so vile in our sinful nature
that there's nothing that we can do to attain a Christ, right?
I mean, sorry, to God the Father,
except through Jesus Christ because it's the cleansing blood
of Jesus Christ that cleanses us.
You know, when I think also of like
when getting to heaven, this is mine,
it's not even an interpretation, this is just what I visualize.
This is not documented in my opinion, but I think of like,
how does God see us?
Well, he doesn't see Enrique the sinner,
he sees Enrique covered in the blood of Jesus Christ.
And that's why we're going.
Like, why should I let you, you know, the stupid,
like when you get to the pearly gates and Peter's like,
"Hey, why should I let you in?" type of thing,
is the reason he's letting you in is because
you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
But in the eyes of God, obviously we're vile
without Jesus Christ, right? We're sinners.
And in Lamentations, you know, Jeremiah's like,
"Hey, for I am become vile," right?
When you humble yourself before the Lord,
you just realize, "Hey, what did Paul say?"
"Oh wretched man that I am."
Wretched could be a synonym for what?
Vile.
In 2 Samuel, go to 2 Samuel,
and I'm just going to give you the references
if you can keep up great, if not, that's okay.
2 Samuel 6, verse 22, the Bible says,
I mean verse 20, when David is willingly made vile,
right, he's being humble, it says,
"And David returned to bless his household,"
this is after the Ark of the Covenant's come in,
and he's celebrating, right, and it says,
"Then David returned to bless his household,
and Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet David,
and he said, 'How glorious was the king of Israel today,
how uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants,
as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovered it himself.'
And David said unto Michal, 'It was before the Lord,
which chose me before thy father and before all his house,
to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord of Israel.
Therefore I will play before the Lord,
and I will yet be more vile than thus,
and will be base in my own sight.
And of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of,
and of them shall I be had an honor.
Therefore Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child until the day.'
He's like, 'Hey, I will do whatever before the Lord.
I'm just going to present myself as I need to.'
Like David understood, and I mean, this is not the story,
but in my opinion, David also understands that just before...
The Lord sees everything, right?
And he's basically calling her out because she's just trying to control him,
and he's like, 'Not before the Lord.'
So, you know, if you think that was bad,
just wait until you see how I really celebrate, right?
In Job 18, verse 3, I mean verse 1, the Bible says,
this is when Bildad is speaking,
and we know that they were wrong about everything they said.
It says, 'Then Bildad, the shoe height,
then answered Bildad the shoe height and said,
"How long will it be ere ye make end of words?"
Speaking to Job, "Mark, and afterwards we will speak.
Wherefore, we are counted as beasts,
and reputed vile in your sight."
And even though they were wrong,
it's interesting when they're having that conversation,
Job's defending himself, and Bildad's kind of offended.
He's like, "Dude, you're calling me vile.
You're saying I'm just like this repugnant repel..."
And I mean, obviously that's not true.
They were lying.
I mean, Job's literally just defending himself
and holding his ground.
He actually never insults his friends.
He's just like, "Hey, I'm not going to just let you
throw all this at me without letting you know
that that's a lie." Right?
He's holding his ground. In Job 40, Job
now talking, right? He's confessing
before the Lord after the
conversation, after God
comes in and says, "Hey, answer
me." And in Job 40, right there,
it says, "Moreover," in verse 1,
"the Lord answered Job and said,
'Shall he that contendeth
with the Almighty instruct him,
he that reproveth God, let him answer
it.' Then Job answered, 'The Lord
has said, 'Behold,
I am vile. What shall I answer
thee? I will lay my hand
upon my mouth.'" Hey, before the Lord,
I completely agree. We are
vile. Like, I don't...
How could you present yourself before
the Lord in any other form
yourself? The only reason
we can come boldly to the throne
of grace is through Jesus Christ,
right? And the Bible says that we ought to
esteem others better than
ourselves, that we ought to love our brothers
and sisters in Christ. Notice, I don't care
and I'm not going to talk about a person
individually. I'm just addressing
the statements because those statements
actually do have real-world
implications because people could be like,
"Well, this is some guy that
has a lot of respect and a lot of
authority in
certain circles and he actually..."
I mean, YouTube
changed their hate policies
based on some of his preaching.
It's literally almost verbatim
the quote, they quote
his sermon in 2016
when he's speaking about the sodomites
as to that's the policies on hate speech.
This same individual is someone that now
has turned around and because he's mad at someone else
he's looking to take it on you.
I know this is a bad reference
personally but it just made me, I just
remembered it. If you ever watched the movie
The Three Abigos many many many years ago
this scene always stood on my mind
and El Jefe
who's the main boss, he's
I mean El Guapo, which is the worst
name, El Guapo is the handsome
the handsome one, he's on his horse and he's
the main boss and he has his right hand guy
El Jefe, and El Jefe is
like talking to him and they're going about these
pinatas, but at one point
the main boss like kind of rips
into the right hand, and the right hand
is like it's not really just and he's like
hey, Aguapo, could it be that once
again you are mad at something
else and are looking to take it out
at me? And you know the pulpit is not
the place for me to be mad at something else
and look to take it out on
you all, right? Could it be
that this person, I don't know, but
this is not the right attitude,
right? And these are the people that have some
authority, that people listen to.
I know in this room some of you have listened
to this individual, and I'm not telling
you, you can do whatever you want. You guys are
all grown men, I never call you and tell you
what to think or do, other than from the pulpit.
But this is the kind of stuff that can
influence individuals, right?
I mean, look at the
Republican Party today, based on
the words of Donald Trump. And look at the
Democrat Party today, based on the words
of Barack Obama, because he really had
the, I think, the quintessential influence
on the Democratic Party, right?
I mean, the stuff that he says still rings
true today. He's not even on the
public platform anymore, but people can go
back and listen to speeches. I mean,
we still quote stuff like,
"I have a dream." So words
matter, right? I mean,
think now what you can do,
what your country can do for you, but what you can
do for your country. I mean, these are statements
that carry for ages
and ages. I was never even alive when
John F. Kennedy was alive, and I'm quoting it.
Right? So we need to be
very careful with what we say, specifically
when you have the role
of a pastor from behind the pulpit.
Go to Jeremiah 15, verse 19.
Stayed on the same
of just being degraded
in value or brought low.
In Jeremiah 15, verse 15
the Bible says, "O Lord thou knowest,"
this is Jeremiah speaking again,
"remember me and visit me
and revenge me of my
persecutors. Take me not away
in thy longsuffering. Know
that for thy sake I have suffered
rebuke." I mean, that's fine.
We know we're going to do it. We know we're going to be
rebuke. "Thy words were found
and I did eat them, and thy word was unto
me the joy and rejoicing
of mine heart, for I am called
by thy name, O Lord God of Hosts.
I sat not in the assembly of
mockers, nor rejoiced.
I sat alone because of thy hand,
for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Why is my pain perpetual
and my wound incurable,
which refuseeth to be healed?
Wilt thou be altogether
unto me as a liar, and as
waters that fail?
Therefore, thus saith the Lord,
if thou return, then will I bring thee,
and thou shall stand before me.
And if thou take forth
the precious from the
vial, thou shall be as my
youth. Let them return
unto thee, but return not
thou unto them. And so we start
not to see the separation, right? Now God
says, hey, Jeremiah comes, and you know,
this is when they're really dealing with the
captivity of the Babylon. That's a whole
other sermon for another day, but in
there, you know, Jeremiah reminds the Lord,
like, this is a tough thing, but Lord, I've
done all this. And he says, we'll separate
these, right? And what I want to do is
let's really be separate, right? I'm not so
independent. I'm not going to be associated
with anybody, but we are independent, right?
And we need to know what these words really
mean and how to apply them in our lives.
The second point I have for you today is
go to Judges 19, and this is the main use
that you're going to see these next two points.
This is the main usage of the word vile is what?
Moral corruption or wickedness.
And most of the time when people are using
the term from the pulpit, this is where
they're referring to. I mean, I would say
nine times out of ten, maybe even ten times
out of ten, when you're preaching from the Bible
and you say that's vile, that's wicked,
you're not referring to coming in the
lowly state before the Lord Jesus Christ.
You're talking about just the wickedness,
the reprobates, or the God haters of this world,
the people that are looking to do damage, right?
Someone who's really backslidden,
Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines,
that's vile, right?
I'm not even taking liberty, that's disgusting.
And the Lord would never,
there's a punishment for that,
it's just not a capital crime.
That's a whole other sermon, let me not get distracted,
but let's go to Judges 19,
and right there in verse 23 the Bible says,
"And the man and the master of his house
went out unto them and said unto them,
Nay, my brethren, I pray you do not so wickedly,
seeing that this man is coming into my house,
do not do this folly."
Sorry, somehow I copied the verse before,
but we can go to the book of Judges,
because Judges 19,
let me just go there real quick,
and then verse 24,
and he says, "Behold, here is my daughter,
a maiden, and his concubine.
Then will I bring out now and humble you them,
and do with them what seemeth good unto you,
but unto this man do not so vile a thing."
Now, if you know anything about Judges 19,
this is where these sodomites are trying to basically
rape this guy, right?
They're trying to just take advantage of this man,
and the owner of the house is like,
"Hey, take my daughter."
Now, this is not a good thing, by the way.
He didn't react well,
but in his justification,
in his worldly justification,
probably not going to church, not reading his Bible,
it was better for him to deliver the daughter
than to have this vile thing come.
I mean, this is a serious, like,
that's a major contrast.
Both are horrible,
and in my eyes, both are just as vile,
but this guy, I'm just telling you from the story,
this guy, the way he thought it is like,
this is a vile thing, right?
It's disgusting.
I mean, isn't that what we're fighting today?
Like, what happens, was it last week or this week
that they got rid of the queer flag
down in Montrose, right there on the crosswalks?
And you got all these vile women and men coming out,
you know, from the clergy,
saying that this is not the way Christians act.
That's vile when you go against the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
In 1 Samuel 3, verse 13,
the Bible says, "And the Lord said to Samuel,"
I mean, verse 11 said,
"And the Lord said to Samuel, 'Behold,'"
this is when Samuel first talks to God in the vision,
and he says, "I will do a thing in Israel
at which both the ears of everyone that heareth it
shall tingle in that day I will perform against Eli."
Eli is the one who trained up Samuel,
he's the priest at the time,
but Eli dropped the ball with his kids, right?
It says, "All the things which I have spoken concerning his house
when I begin, I will also make an end,
for I have told him that I will judge his house forever
for the iniquity which he knoweth,
because his son made themselves vile,
and he restraineth them not."
There's a difference because Samuel's kids later on
weren't that great either, but they weren't vile,
they were corrupt, they weren't vile.
So this is worse, right?
This is just beyond what we can think of.
None of us in our normal capacity would just think of vile things.
We have the ability to maybe think of corrupt things, right?
Like maybe in the flesh you let out a lie
or you just maybe defraud someone the way you shouldn't
or you set up a bad business deal,
but vile would be like,
not only am I going to set up this bad business deal
but I'm also going to hire Hitman to kill this person.
That's vile.
None of us have those thoughts running through our minds on a regular basis.
At least, if you do, don't tell me about it
because then I'm going to address it
because I don't think that of you guys.
I don't see that, okay?
Right?
And verse 14 of that same chapter says,
"And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli
that the iniquity of Eli's house should not be purged
with sacrifice nor offering forever."
Now, Isaiah 32 verse 6, the Bible says,
"For the vile person will speak villainy,
and his heart will work iniquity to practice hypocrisy
and to utter error against the Lord,
to make empty the soul of the hungry,
and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fall."
Look, this is some pretty serious character flaws.
I don't see that just in our congregation.
You know, I don't see people speaking villainy
and their heart is working iniquity
and they're practicing hypocrisy.
One thing is being a hypocrite.
The other thing is actively practicing it, right?
We're all hypocrites.
Zig Ziglar was famous for saying,
"Hey," people would come to him and say,
"I don't want to go to church
because it's full of hypocrites."
And he's like, "Hey, come on down.
We could use one more."
Right? Everybody's a hypocrite.
But there's a difference between being a hypocrite
and practicing hypocrisy, right?
And for uttering error against the Lord.
Look, I believe if you're in church today
it's because you're trying to rectify the errors in your life.
It's not that you're coming to church
just so you can see how you can work more errors in your life, right?
Or to make the empty soul of the hungry
and will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
In Romans 1, verse 26, speaking of the reprobate, it says,
"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections.
For even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature.
And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman
burned in their lust one toward another, with men working that which is unseemly
and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meat.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient."
Hey, you guys are not rejecting God, you're actually here trying to absorb the things of God, right?
I always tell people, I know people show up to church because they love the Lord,
and they're showing up consistently because I don't care how good of a pastor you are,
eventually it's the same voice, it's the same pattern.
You know, I mean, I can only be so good for so long and every once in a while you might like it,
but it has nothing to do with me. You're here because you love the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
You're here because you know that even in my failed attempt to give you the Word of God,
as long as I'm giving you the Word of God, you're going to get something good out of it.
That's the purpose of church, right? It's not to come listen to some guy,
give you some great oration or, you know, just air out his dirty laundry with everybody
or pick on somebody for something. No, it's to learn the Word of God.
What is, what are we learning? The things of the Lord.
Right there, Nahum 1, verse 14. Nahum 1, verse 14.
And then if you're there, we're going to go to verse 3, I mean, chapter 3, but in verse 14,
I mean, verse 1, sorry, to give you some context.
Nahum is preaching to who? It says the burden of Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum,
the Elkishite, God is jealous and the Lord revengeeth, the Lord revengeeth and is furious.
The Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries and he will serve with wrath for his adversaries.
The Lord is slow to anger and great in power and will not acquit the wicked.
He's not going to let him get away with it.
The Lord has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
So this is setting up the stage, the Lord's angry.
We'll go to verse 14, it says, "And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee."
He said in Nahum about Nineveh, "That no more of thy name be sown out of the house of thy gods,
while I cut off the graven image and the molten image, I will make thy grave, for thou art vile."
What's a vile person? Someone who's idol-worshipping, who's just going against the Lord,
who's rebelling against him, causing the wrath and vengeance of the Lord upon him.
The Bible says there in Ahum 3, just a few pages over, verse 6, it says, "Woe to that bloody city," in verse 1.
"It is full of lies and robbery, that prey departeth not.
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
The horsemen lifted up both the bright sword and the glittering spear,
and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcasses, and there is none, and of their corpses.
They stumble upon their corpses, because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot,
the mistress of witchcrafts that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of Hosts, and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face,
and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame,
and I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile,
and will set thee as a gazing stock, and shall come to pass,
that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee,
and say Nineveh is laid waste, who will bemoan her?
When shall I seek comforters for thee?
Hey, Houston is a bad city, but Houston is not this.
This is bad.
Like, there's very few places in the world that I can think of like this.
I can think of maybe a couple of cities in Mexico that are, you know, in this place.
Maybe, you know, you go to Haiti, where there's always unrest.
Maybe there might be some cities in Africa.
But definitely, I mean, even though as bad as Houston is, this is vile, right?
There is a difference.
Turn your Bibles over to 1 Samuel 15, the third point I have for you.
So we looked at vile can be degradation or value.
You know, words have different meanings and different context, right?
But the majority of those contexts are moral, corruption, wickedness.
That was the second point.
The third point, it also means what?
It's almost synonymous, but there is a slight separation of worthless or rejected.
There's a rejection, a worthlessness to it, right?
Look, you're not a rejected people.
You're saved by grace through Jesus Christ.
So, so is the people that threw out these accusations.
Hey, when we get to heaven, I was talking to someone and it's like,
hey, when we get to heaven, maybe, you know, all the arguments we've had with people,
we'll get up there and be like, hey, man, what were you thinking?
But I corrected him.
I'm like, no, when we get to heaven, we're just going to be like,
let's just praise the Lord.
We're not even going to think about those things.
That's where we need to be looking, heavily minded, right?
Praise the Lord that it's just temporary.
But in this life, we do need to address these things
because the Bible tells us that we need to know how to fight these spiritual battles.
Look, the devil's angry at groups of Christians that are doing a good job.
And, you know, the best way to destroy them is from within.
I mean, that's like Art of War 101, right?
What's the best way to destroy the United States of America?
From within, right?
I mean, actually, if you look at it, and I mean, I'm not going to give you a whole history lesson,
but the United States is what the reason it's so great of a country
is not only because of its Christian roots and because of the Constitution,
but also our location is great.
It's really hard to attack our nation.
I mean, it's not like Canada is going to invade us.
Like, I mean, come on, guys.
I mean, I'm just, I know we pick on Canadians, even Donald Trump,
but it's because they just don't have any people.
Eighty percent of like all Canadians live like in this one city, right?
Like Toronto, Quebec, Vermont, because the rest of it is just barren land.
And so how do you destroy the United States of America from within?
How do you destroy Bible believing churches from within?
The Lord's put a hedge of protection about us, right?
I mean, the enemy will attack as the Lord allows.
Trials and tribulations and persecution are part of the Christian walk.
It's part of the spiritual battle, but God's always got our back.
So if God's always got our back, then we can't be shut down, we can't be destroyed.
Sometimes we destroy each other from within.
And sometimes it's from within the independent church,
but it's also from within our associations, who we associate with.
1 Samuel 15, verse 19, I just have a really quick point here.
This is Saul, he's given the command to go and destroy all these people,
and of course Saul does whatever he wants.
But just because the king chose, because he's going to remove the vile things for the sacrifice,
in God's eyes, that's not right.
God decides what's vile and what's not.
Not man, God does.
It says, "But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep,
and of the oxen, and of the fatleens, and of the lambs,
and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them,
but everything that was vile and refuse, or trashy, that they destroyed utterly."
The problem with that statement is that in God's eyes, everything was vile.
He literally said, "Saul, you go to this country,
and you're going to destroy man, woman, child, beast, buildings, everything."
And then Samuel shows up, he's like, "Hey, what's this bleeding of sheep that I hear?"
He's like, "Oh, well, we kept all the good stuff for God."
And Samuel's pissed. He's like, "I cannot believe that you disobeyed them.
Because of what you did, God's chosen a new king.
The anointing is gone." And shortly afterwards,
Saul receives an evil spirit from the Lord.
Jeremiah 29. In Jeremiah 29, the Bible says, in verse 15,
it says, "Because ye have said, the Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon,
know that thus saith the Lord, the king that sitteth upon the throne of David,
and all the people that dwelleth in the city,
and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity,
thus saith the Lord a host, behold, I will send upon them the sword,
the famine, and the pestilence, and I will make them like vile figs
that cannot be eaten, they are so evil, and I will persecute them with the sword,
and with the famine, and with the pestilence, and I will deliver them to be removed
to all the kingdoms of the earth, and to be a curse, and an astonishment,
and a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations, whether I have driven them,
because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord,
which I sent unto them by the servant, the prophets, rising up early and sending them,
but ye would not hear, saith the Lord.
Hey, when you call a congregation or a set of congregations violent trashy,
they better line up with the word of God.
Last I checked, you guys are trying to do what the word God said.
And if you're not, I'll preach this enough to tell you,
hey, in Jeremiah, God gave them a specific order.
I think I've said this at least six times in the last two weeks.
And he said, go into captivity in a Babylon.
If you do, I'll take care of you.
But if you don't, here's the consequences.
How do we translate that to today?
Hey, if you just open up your Bible and do what it says,
don't worry about the world.
The only one we're looking to please is the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Psalm 15, the Bible says,
"Lord, who shall abide, in verse one, in thy tabernacle,
who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
He walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness,
and speaketh the truth in his heart.
He that backbideth not with his tongue,
nor doeth evil with his neighbor,
nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor."
In other words, he doesn't get involved in all this stuff.
He says, "In whose eyes a vile person is contempted,
but he honoreth them that fear the Lord,
he that sweareth to his own heart and changeth not.
He that puteth not out his money to usury,
nor taketh reward against the innocent,
he that doeth these things shall never be moved."
Hey, you know how you're never moved?
Because you're not vile.
You're not rejected. You're not reputed.
Job 30, verse 8, the Bible says,
"They were the children of fools,
yea, the children of basemen.
They were viler than the earth,
and now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.
They abhor me, they flee far from me,
and spare not to spit in my face."
And this is when Job is like at the end of all the complaining,
and he's like, even the people that were vile in my eyes,
the ones that I separate, now they look at me the same way.
But it's not the same.
See, when the world looks at us,
when other Christians or other people that say they, you know,
that they believe like we do, call us vile,
and we're doing the things of God,
we've just got to take the attitude of Job.
Now we're their song, now we're their byword.
They're going to abhor us.
But, you know, if we look at the end of Job, what did he get?
He got a much better reward, right?
Ten times.
In Psalm 12, verse 8, the Bible says,
"The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted."
Hey, I want to tell you something.
In this church, there's no wickedness walking around.
We have very strict rules.
That's why we're family integrated.
You know why?
Because I'm not going to send my children or your children to some other room
with some stranger that might have just joined church
and said he wanted to volunteer and then all kinds of hell breaks loose.
And you know what I'm talking about because it's a rampant problem
in all churches in America, right?
We're not going to do the things that the world does.
We're not just going to, hey, we're not going to do trunk and treat
just so that we can just bring in all kinds of evil and satanic beliefs
and trashy women and men coming in here and doing all kinds of...
We're not going to do it.
That's just not the way that we roll.
Because we don't exalt the vilest men, right?
The greatest place I like to be is at church.
We had a great time yesterday.
You know, we got here, we cleaned up, we had good conversation.
We ate some water burger.
We had some good tacos that Heath brought us.
And then we had donuts.
You know what? There wasn't wickedness.
You know, all the kids were running around.
Little Theo was playing the tin whistle.
That was probably the closest thing to the vial, right?
I'm just making fun of them.
Who knows what a tin whistle is?
If you don't, it's more high pitched than a recorder.
And there's no way to even get a really clear note.
And so the kids, and I'm not picking on Theo,
because my kids do it all the time too.
They grab this thing and they're like...
That was it.
That was the worst part of my day, you could say.
Just listening to a tin whistle.
That's not wickedness.
And you know what, did I tell them anything?
No, because they're children.
They can, you know, I'm the one that, you know,
we deal with kids all the time.
You move on.
You just learn, you know, anybody who has kids
knows how to zone that stuff out, right?
And then what happens is then they're like,
daddy, daddy, daddy.
Because now you've just tuned them out completely.
But that was the worst of it.
Isaiah 32, verse 5, the Bible says,
"The vile person shall be no more called liberal,
nor the churl set to be bountiful."
This is God rejecting them, right?
In Daniel 11, verse 21, speaking of the Antichrist,
the Bible says,
"And in his estate shall stand up a vile person,
to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom,
but he shall come in peaceably
and obtain the kingdom by flatteries."
And I already talked about peace and how deceptive that is,
but even here it says, hey, they're coming in peaceably,
but they're vile.
Because the only peace we need is the peace of Christ.
Let's go to the last point.
I have like just a few verses and we close this out,
but, you know, that word vile can mean degradation or low.
That's how it's used in the Bible.
There's very few references to that.
And then the next two points, which is moral corruption
or wickedness or worthlessness or rejection,
that's the majority of those.
And so the majority of the time when Christians are using
this word, especially from behind the pulpit,
this is what they're referencing, right?
We're going to Romans 1.
God gave them up to do what?
Vile affections.
He's not referring to us being vile in His eyes,
like, "I am coming to you humbly, Lord.
I am vile in Your eyes."
There's a difference between me coming to the Lord
humbly, like in a closet prayer saying,
"Lord, I am vile. I am wretched.
Thank You for saving me. I don't deserve this."
That's a very different scenario to God saying,
"I gave them up to this vile affection
because they left the natural use."
You know, this disgusting, wicked, perverse lifestyle.
Let's go to the last point.
You've got your physical or outward condition.
In James 2, I've just got three verses for you guys.
So, actually, go to 2 Samuel.
This is where we're going to close.
Go to 2 Samuel.
I've just got three references left for you.
And we'll close the thing out.
In James 2, verse 1, it says,
"My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the Lord of glory, with respect of persons,
for they come unto you, your assembly,
a man with gold ring and goodly apparel,
and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment."
And what is this obviously setting up the contrast?
Hey, that we shouldn't look at things
based on people's outward appearance
or their status in life.
And that's usually when you find
this kind of accusation,
it stems from something deeper, right?
Where they're trying to probably appease
or please other people, right?
Why would we, we have nothing to do
with this online battle that's going on
between Pastor Anderson and Pastor Jimenez,
why would we, this church,
have anything to do with it?
Why blanket statement this thing?
You know why? Because you're lying.
Because you know that you have to manipulate
the situation in order to get your way.
You're being a respecter of something.
I would say respecter of persons.
I'm not in that church.
I'm not going to make those assumptions.
But something's going on.
I mean, that's just human nature.
You've been around long enough.
You know that when people are projecting
something that doesn't make any sense,
it's probably the root problem is somewhere else.
I mean, we're not just...
You know, I know I throw a lot of accusations.
You know what?
One of the things that my wife will attest to,
I constantly catch myself trying to be like,
"Man, maybe I shouldn't have said that,"
or, "I need to correct that,"
or, "Next time I preach that, I need to get better."
Look, we need to know that we need to also accept correction
and we need to preach things correctly one time.
And as a matter of fact, I'm going to bring it here
in the next couple of months
because I think it's an important sermon.
I preached about a year ago
or maybe a little bit over a year ago
a sermon called The Doctrine of Hate.
And because we didn't have all the nice technology
and even with the nice technology
sometimes stuff breaks down and didn't get recorded.
But you know what? Maybe the Lord did it
for a specific reason. Afterwards
Brother Mike and I went soul winning
and he was just like, "Hey, you know what?
You made this one point and I don't know
if I necessarily agree." And he talked about the point.
I didn't even have to fight with him. He was actually right.
So he is right sometimes.
Don't pick on me.
But in that thing, I got all excited
about preaching on this doctrine of hate.
And I'm like, "The Lord hates this, and the Lord hates that,
and the Lord hates you."
The Lord doesn't hate us. He reproves us
and He corrects us, and He wants us
to do things right. We can be at enmity with God,
but God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.
Whosoever believeth on Him
should not perish, right?
So we have to just accept reproof.
And I told him,
"Oh, you actually were right."
And I said that in the heat of the moment.
And it's wrong. Like it shouldn't have been said.
I'm glad that it didn't get recorded.
Because then the next time I bring it, I can actually correct that statement.
We need to be careful with what we say.
Like, "Hey,
the Southern Baptist Convention,
they're all vile and trashy."
I don't believe that. I believe the leadership is wrong.
And I believe they're leading people to hell.
And I would actually say,
they're not trashy, but I would say they're vile.
Because they just throw things under the rug
and they do all these things.
And the majority of people going to that church
even know what's going on.
They're just clocking in and clocking out.
What they need is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Let's go to Philippians, you're there.
I mean, sorry, you're there, Samuel.
We're going to have you close, I've got three minutes,
so let me get this done.
But in Philippians 3, verse 20, it says,
"For our conversation is in heaven,
for whence also we look for the Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body,
that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body,
according to the working,
to subdue all things unto Himself."
So, our bodies are violent by nature,
meaning the Lord, and I've already kind of
re-emphasized this a little bit different,
because one is us coming humbly,
this is actually speaking of a physical
or outward condition.
And then in 2 Samuel, you go there in verse 17,
that's where I had you turn, and it says,
"And David lamented with his lamentation
over Saul and over Jonathan his son."
Now, if anybody had an excuse,
and this is why I wanted to close with this one,
if anybody had an excuse and justification
for wanting to sling out accusations and insults
at somebody else, it would have been David to Saul.
Not Jonathan to Saul.
I mean, literally, Saul flung a javelin at David
on numerous occasions trying to kill him.
Not only that, he conspired his top brass to kill David.
He was so envious of David, he's like,
"I'm going to kill David."
His son Jonathan came and he's like,
"Dad, David's not that bad."
He's like, "You're just as bad for taking the side of David.
Maybe I need to kill you too."
I mean, Saul's like a bad dude, right?
And now Saul and Jonathan die in battle,
and it says here,
"And David lamented with lamentation over Saul
and over Jonathan his son.
Also he bathed them,
'Teach the children of Judah to use the bow.
Behold, it is written in the book of Jasur,
'The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places.
How are the mighty fallen?
Tell it not in Gath.
Publish it not in the streets of Ascalon.
Lest thy daughters of the Philistines rejoice.
Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew.
Neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings.
For there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away,
the shield of Saul, as though he hath not been anointed with oil.
For the blood of the slain, for the fat of the mighty,
for the bow of Jonathan turned not back,
and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives,
and in their death they were not divided.
They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
who clothed you in scarlet with other delights,
who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle?
O Jonathan, thou was slain in thy high places.
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan.
Very pleasant has thou been unto me.
For thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished?
And you know, it says that the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away.
The thing that was vile was the shield, right?
Like the enemy looked at it and cast it away so it's something vile.
But when you look at David, you notice he's not saying Saul was vile.
Or Jonathan, as a matter of fact, we know he says he loved Jonathan more than the love of women.
Right? Our attitude should be that we need to use the proper terms from the Bible, right?
Our attitude should be twofold. So what's the goal of today?
Number one, you just got a good understanding of what this word means in the Bible
and how to use it in proper context.
But number two is number one, people are going to sling attacks at you
and you can, you know, we have a tendency to want to, like, we have self-esteem.
And so sometimes our self-esteem can be shattered or moved or removed
because people say things to us. You know what?
Whenever you feel that way, go to the Word of God and verify if that's even true.
Is it true? I mean, are we violent and trashy? No.
It doesn't even, that doesn't bother me.
You know, he got up there and he's like, "Hey, this guy should apologize to this woman
for ruining her marriage or whatever."
That's not true. Those people are divorced. They ruined their marriage.
I don't even care if anybody apologizes to you guys or me
because I know where you guys stand.
You're saved by grace. You serve the Lord Jesus Christ.
You're not violent and trashy, right?
But number two is that the way we use our speech with others.
And I'm not talking about, you know, we can make that argument later
about certain words that people use.
I'm talking about the effect that you're trying to accomplish with that word, right?
I mean, that's a harsh word, that's a hard accusation.
And I do use it.
The sodomites, reprobates, they're vile.
A brother and sister in Christ who's in sin, they're backslidden.
They need to get right with God, they need to repent, they need to clean stuff up.
They're definitely not vile.
Now you can do some trashy things, I do agree with that.
But I would say that that's on a case-by-case basis.
But I would definitely take a look at that.
So in conclusion, I just want to say I love you guys.
Like I was actually offended.
Maybe it's not as dear and near to you guys.
But it really pissed me off.
And I was like, at least I want to address it from the pulpit.
We were challenged to say something about it.
I don't do videos often.
I'm really uncomfortable behind the camera.
Sometimes I'm even uncomfortable here.
I might get better over the years.
But I will say this.
You know, as a church, I want you to know when I look at the church,
what I look at is what God wants you to look at, is the heart, right?
Where are you guys headed in life?
And I'm not saying I'm a perfect, you know, I don't know.
I can't judge you guys perfectly.
Absolutely not.
But I judge every one of you, and I do judge you based on the Bible.
And I hope that you do the same with me, right?
That when I get up here, if I say something stupid like that,
then you correct me and that you would hold me accountable
because the purpose of this church is to hold everybody accountable
so we can do better works for God, not worse works for God.
You know, you think it's encouraging to someone to go soul winning
if they think they're violent and trashy?
Or hey, you might be, you know, you might think you're wretched
and violent in the eyes of God, but you know what?
You can go soul winning, you can do so many great things
because you're saved by grace through Jesus Christ.
Because it's not of works, you just go out there and do the things
because you already got the gift, right?
So let's close in a word of prayer.
Emily, Father, Lord, thank you so much for today.
Thank you for the opportunity to preach this message.
Thank you, Lord, that we have strong words in the book
that we can use to define and sanctify and separate,
but we also need to be careful with those words, Lord.
I pray, Lord, that not only the new ISP,
but any independent fundamental Baptist,
any saved Christian out there would just choose to seek ye first
and seek the kingdom of God, Lord,
and that they would search these words out
and that they would use them to sanctify not only themselves,
but their families, their neighbors,
that they would go out there and be encouraged
to not only read the word, but also be doers of the word, Lord,
that we would go out there and really avoid
the vile and the trashy world
by bringing more people over to Christ,
by leading more people in soul winning
to the Lord Jesus Christ for all eternity.
Lord, thank you for all that you do.
Thank you for all those in attendance.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
What's the lesson?
And turn your hands over to page 471,
and we will be this verse, 471.
Count your blessings, amen.
Great Baptist hymn, 471.
Go ahead.