WEBVTT 09:53.200 --> 09:57.440 Good morning everyone and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. 09:58.160 --> 10:03.680 It's great to see everybody here. If we could find our seats we will get started with this morning's service. 10:08.300 --> 10:10.580 It's great to see everybody here. 10:10.580 --> 10:16.820 Once we found our seats, let's go ahead and find a hymnal and turn to page number 12 or 10:16.820 --> 10:18.220 song number 12. 10:27.000 --> 10:29.000 Song number 12? 10:32.300 --> 10:35.780 Blessed Redeemer song number 12 10:36.560 --> 10:40.820 Let's all sing that out with all our might this morning song number 12 blessed Redeemer 10:55.000 --> 10:59.960 Racing for sinners, death on the cross 13:28.100 --> 13:30.100 Let's open up the service now with a word of prayer. 13:30.100 --> 13:33.100 Lord, we love you so much. 13:33.100 --> 13:38.100 We just thank you so much for this great day to serve you and be in your house and hear your word preached and sing unto you. 13:38.100 --> 13:42.100 Lord, we just ask that you fill us all with your Spirit and help us to sing out this morning. 13:42.100 --> 13:44.100 It's in Jesus' name that we pray. Amen. 13:44.100 --> 13:48.100 All right, our next song will be 13:48.100 --> 13:53.100 141. 13:55.700 --> 13:57.700 Four hundred and forty one. 14:03.400 --> 14:05.200 What am I place here? 14:07.500 --> 14:14.780 Great is thy faithfulness song number 441 let's all sing that out together. 14:14.780 --> 14:20.600 Great is thy faithfulness oh god 17:42.000 --> 17:44.200 Good morning, thank you so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church. 17:44.200 --> 17:46.200 We did not get a bulletin yet and you would like one. 17:46.200 --> 17:49.300 Just lift up your hand nice and high. 17:49.300 --> 17:54.120 And we are celebrating, actually it's our 12th year anniversary on August 30th. 17:54.120 --> 17:58.580 So congratulations to the church on celebrating 12 years. 17:58.580 --> 17:59.940 We actually have, yeah, there you go. 18:04.600 --> 18:09.480 I think we have four different member families that have eclipsed the 10-year mark. 18:09.480 --> 18:12.520 And we've ordered name plates for them and everything. We're going to be celebrating 18:12.520 --> 18:17.960 that next Sunday. So for those families that have reached that mark, congratulations to them. And 18:17.960 --> 18:24.440 again, like I said, we'll be celebrating them next Sunday. Also, if you make it to tonight 18:24.440 --> 18:29.880 and you've made it for the perfect attendance of August, you can get an ice cream gift card tonight. 18:29.880 --> 18:32.520 So you have to be here in attendance and we'll give those, we'll hand those out. 18:32.600 --> 18:36.520 tonight. On the inside is our service in soul winning times, church stats. On the 18:36.520 --> 18:41.480 right is a list of expecting ladies. We have upcoming events. Barbados missions 18:41.480 --> 18:45.560 trip is around the corner. We have a special guest, Pastor Matthew Stuckey, 18:45.560 --> 18:49.400 is gonna be preaching for us. Both services September 20th and we'll have a 18:49.400 --> 18:52.920 catered lunch. So highly encourage you to participate. If you'd like to bring a 18:52.920 --> 18:55.600 dessert to share, you're more than welcome, but you don't have to bring 18:55.600 --> 19:00.600 anything and we'll have lunch catered here at the church. Heritage of the Lord 19:00.600 --> 19:05.400 conference is October 9th to 11th. We have a mighty men's conference October 23rd through the 24th. 19:05.400 --> 19:10.200 So that's going to be a Friday evening and then Saturday activities. We have a faith word preaching 19:10.200 --> 19:15.240 boot camp November 12th through the 14th. We have the Shreveport Soul Winning Marathon. It's going 19:15.240 --> 19:19.960 to be brother Marcel is helping lead this and so if you have questions you can ask him about it. 19:19.960 --> 19:24.360 Philippines missions trip is in next year February 12th through the 20th. 19:24.360 --> 19:28.520 So if you'd like to participate you can uh we'd love for you to come out there. 19:28.600 --> 19:34.120 It'd probably be, you know, best guess is around $1,200, $1,500 probably per person 19:34.120 --> 19:36.800 to make that kind of a trip. 19:36.800 --> 19:40.380 Pretty much most of the cost is just the flight itself. 19:40.380 --> 19:45.360 So usually you can get really cheap housing or a room with some people and get pretty 19:45.360 --> 19:47.280 reasonable housing if you want that. 19:47.280 --> 19:48.880 The food's usually pretty cheap too. 19:48.880 --> 19:52.840 So honestly, it's a pretty inexpensive trip apart from the flight itself. 19:52.840 --> 19:54.840 So, and you can... 19:55.400 --> 19:59.560 find lots of different options. I think sometimes people get it under a thousand dollars, sometimes 19:59.560 --> 20:03.560 it's a thousand, twelve hundred, just kind of depends on your preferences for flying. So just 20:03.560 --> 20:07.240 give you an idea of what it'd be like to do yourself missions trip, but I think we're going 20:07.240 --> 20:11.640 to have a large crew going out there. We'll be doing a lot of soul winning going into schools. 20:11.640 --> 20:16.040 We'll also be visiting soul winning Baptist church with Pastor Stuckey. We'll be visiting 20:16.040 --> 20:21.400 steadfast Baptist church with our evangelist, Duncan Urbanek, I'm sorry. And so we're excited 20:21.400 --> 20:22.400 about that. 20:22.400 --> 20:23.400 On the back is our prayer. 20:23.400 --> 20:29.100 list and then on the inside we have a congratulations to June and May on the 20:29.100 --> 20:36.580 birth of their son John Caleb he was born on the 28th 1 p.m. 6 9 ounces 19 20:36.580 --> 20:38.900 and a half inches long congratulations to them 20:44.900 --> 20:47.500 That's pretty much all I have as far as announcements. 20:47.500 --> 20:50.540 We're going to go ahead and sing our Psalm of the Week. 20:50.540 --> 20:51.900 It's going to be Psalm 15. 21:01.900 --> 21:06.900 Alright, that was Psalm 15. You can find that in page 3 of your special song booklet. 21:06.900 --> 21:12.900 Psalm chapter 15 in your King James Bible, or page 3. 21:12.900 --> 21:15.900 Let's all sing that together. 21:15.900 --> 21:18.900 The Lord who shall abide... 24:18.000 --> 24:21.600 singing everybody now as the offering plates being passed around go and open 24:21.600 --> 24:26.900 your Bibles to the book of 1st Timothy chapter number 3 that's 1st Timothy 24:26.900 --> 24:28.500 chapter number 3 25:14.000 --> 25:17.500 1 Timothy 3, the Bible reads, this is a true saying, 25:17.500 --> 25:19.720 if a man desire the office of a bishop, 25:19.720 --> 25:21.760 he desireth a good work. 25:21.760 --> 25:25.040 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, 25:25.040 --> 25:27.920 vigilant, sober of good behavior, 25:27.920 --> 25:30.840 given to hospitality, apt to teach. 25:30.840 --> 25:35.200 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre, 25:35.200 --> 25:38.600 but patient, not a brawler, not covetous, 25:38.600 --> 25:41.000 one that ruleth well his own house, 25:41.000 --> 25:42.000 having his children in... 25:42.000 --> 25:47.800 subjection with all gravity. For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall 25:47.800 --> 25:53.360 he take care of the church of God? Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into 25:53.360 --> 25:58.140 the condemnation of the devil. Moreover, he must have a good report of them which are 25:58.140 --> 26:01.980 without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. 26:02.400 --> 26:09.060 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy 26:09.060 --> 26:13.560 lucre, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. 26:13.560 --> 26:18.680 And let these also first be proved, then let them use the office of the deacon, being found 26:18.680 --> 26:20.020 blameless. 26:20.020 --> 26:26.100 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. 26:26.100 --> 26:26.980 the deacons. 26:27.500 --> 26:32.620 be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their houses well. 26:32.620 --> 26:37.340 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree 26:37.340 --> 26:42.700 and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. These things write I unto thee, 26:42.700 --> 26:48.060 hoping to come unto thee shortly. But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to 26:48.060 --> 26:53.900 behave thyself in the house of God which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 26:54.200 --> 26:57.720 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness. 26:57.720 --> 27:02.360 God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, 27:02.360 --> 27:07.240 preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. 27:07.240 --> 27:09.080 Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer. 27:09.600 --> 27:14.040 Father, we thank you for this opportunity to be gathered together to hear the preaching 27:14.040 --> 27:15.040 of your Word. 27:15.040 --> 27:20.680 I pray that you bless the sermon and help Pastor Shelley to feed your flock through 27:20.680 --> 27:25.600 the power of the Holy Spirit and help us to listen, learn, and apply the sermon. 27:25.600 --> 27:28.200 I ask for these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. 27:28.200 --> 27:29.200 Amen. 27:29.200 --> 27:30.320 Let's look back at verse 15. 27:30.320 --> 27:37.280 The Bible says, but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave 27:37.280 --> 27:37.600 Bye. 27:37.600 --> 27:41.600 in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, 27:41.600 --> 27:43.600 the pillar and ground of the truth. 27:43.600 --> 27:46.600 So according to the Bible, there is a way to behave in church 27:46.600 --> 27:49.600 and there's a way to not behave in church. 27:49.600 --> 27:52.600 Of course, this is in a particular chapter dedicated 27:52.600 --> 27:55.600 to the qualifications of a bishop. 27:55.600 --> 27:58.600 But what I want to do is I want to focus in on this phrase 27:58.600 --> 28:01.600 of behaving in church, and that's the title of my sermon 28:01.600 --> 28:03.600 this morning is behaving in church. 28:03.600 --> 28:05.600 And I want us to all take application. 28:05.600 --> 28:09.600 from this. It's not just limited to one group, but it's all of us. 28:09.600 --> 28:14.600 And I want to first start with the men, as that's kind of the primary context of this 28:14.600 --> 28:20.600 particular chapter, is the qualifications of a bishop and how the pastor is to be an 28:20.600 --> 28:25.600 example to the other men in the church. It says here in verse number 1, this is a true 28:25.600 --> 28:30.600 saying, of a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireeth a good work. A bishop then must 28:30.600 --> 28:33.600 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife. 28:33.600 --> 28:37.400 vigilant, sober, of good behavior given to hospitality, apt to teach. 28:37.400 --> 28:43.700 Now notice that biblically speaking a church is to behave itself where their pastors are 28:43.700 --> 28:47.700 a man and the pastor is the husband of one wife. 28:47.700 --> 28:52.820 And so a church that does not have a male as their pastor, does not have a man as their 28:52.820 --> 28:54.720 pastor is not in good behavior. 28:55.100 --> 29:03.420 A church that has a man as their pastor that is not married or perhaps has been divorced 29:03.420 --> 29:08.460 and remarried or has multiple women in his life, this would be a pastor that's not in 29:08.460 --> 29:09.460 good behavior. 29:09.460 --> 29:12.580 We're not handling ourselves properly. 29:12.580 --> 29:15.060 And of course, this is a bad example for any man. 29:15.060 --> 29:19.320 You know, when we look at the qualifications of a bishop, what we must understand is that 29:19.320 --> 29:23.020 these are not special things for just this guy. 29:23.100 --> 29:25.100 This is what every man should be like. 29:26.300 --> 29:30.620 Every man should be like, I would say the one unique thing, specifically to this, is 29:30.620 --> 29:33.180 one that desires the office of a bishop. 29:33.180 --> 29:36.700 But you know, so not every man needs the desire to be a pastor. 29:36.700 --> 29:37.700 I don't believe that. 29:37.700 --> 29:40.720 I don't believe that God wants every single man to be a pastor. 29:40.720 --> 29:45.040 And so that is what's separating him from maybe other men. 29:45.040 --> 29:50.180 But in general, his qualifications, quote unquote, or what we look for in this particular 29:50.180 --> 29:54.300 individual is something we should find in every man that's aspiring to be married. 29:54.300 --> 29:59.060 married and have a family that basically this is the type of a guy that would be in charge. 29:59.060 --> 30:02.380 Of course we want a pastor that has a family. 30:02.380 --> 30:05.500 The Bible gives us instructions here in verse 4. 30:05.500 --> 30:09.900 One that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity. 30:09.900 --> 30:13.700 For a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? 30:13.700 --> 30:16.520 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall in the condemnation of the devil. 30:16.520 --> 30:19.500 So he must have a wife according to the Bible. 30:19.500 --> 30:22.300 Additionally, he has children and he has a family. 30:22.300 --> 30:26.100 He has rules for his family and they're following his rules. 30:26.100 --> 30:27.100 That makes sense. 30:27.100 --> 30:30.860 It makes sense that you would have a guy that's married, a guy that has children, and he's 30:30.860 --> 30:33.220 enforcing rules on his own family. 30:33.220 --> 30:37.220 Otherwise, how is he going to be able to enforce rules on a church? 30:37.220 --> 30:41.660 And of course, part of the job of a pastor is not solely just to preach the Bible, but 30:41.660 --> 30:42.900 it's to enforce rules. 30:42.900 --> 30:48.260 And it's to sometimes have church discipline and sometimes have to counsel people and have 30:48.260 --> 30:50.260 to basically... 30:50.300 --> 30:54.580 Make sure everything is running smoothly, everything is running correctly. 30:54.580 --> 31:00.660 Of course, a family is an important institution, but church is a much more important institution. 31:00.660 --> 31:03.940 And so it's saying if you can't even take care of that which is less, how could you 31:03.940 --> 31:06.300 then take care of that which is more important? 31:06.300 --> 31:08.500 And so he is following these rules. 31:08.500 --> 31:14.020 So as a man, what would be how we should be behaving ourselves in church is we should 31:14.020 --> 31:15.020 have one wife. 31:15.300 --> 31:21.160 Men in our churches have one wife. You know, we don't want to have a church where everybody's swapping wives. Everybody's getting divorced 31:21.840 --> 31:25.280 People are not getting married and they're just committing open fornication 31:25.720 --> 31:30.440 You know what men to just have a wife and if you have a wife and you have children 31:30.760 --> 31:35.680 that you have rules for your family and that your children are submitting themselves and 31:35.740 --> 31:41.840 Subjecting themselves to the rules of the father and that the father is basically taking care of his whole family 31:42.100 --> 31:44.540 You know, it's not just taking care of himself. 31:44.540 --> 31:48.540 It's much easier to be single because you only have to take care of yourself. 31:48.900 --> 31:55.000 Having a wife or having a children now you're forced in a sense to take care of other individuals 31:55.180 --> 31:56.340 And you want to do a good job 31:56.340 --> 32:01.880 You want to make sure that you're doing a good job taking care of not only yourself, but taking care of other people in your family 32:02.380 --> 32:09.040 Considering them having good rules for them and of course, you know, it's difficult to manage people 32:09.040 --> 32:13.480 I mean, I think anybody that in this world has had to had a management position or 32:13.860 --> 32:16.840 Leadership role where they're telling other people what to do you find? 32:16.900 --> 32:21.160 out very quickly that it can be challenging. There's a lot of challenges to ruling over 32:21.160 --> 32:27.080 people, to managing people, because people are people. And at the end of the day, that's 32:27.080 --> 32:29.620 why it's important for you to be a good example. 32:29.900 --> 32:33.100 It's important for you to take your own life seriously, 32:33.100 --> 32:34.600 to take care of yourself, 32:34.600 --> 32:36.800 so that you can take care of the others around you. 32:36.800 --> 32:39.300 It's like the analogy on the airplane, 32:39.300 --> 32:41.400 you have to first put the mask on yourself 32:41.400 --> 32:43.400 before you can mask others. 32:43.400 --> 32:46.300 And in the same way, it's like, hey, as a man, 32:46.300 --> 32:48.500 sometimes you have to make sure you're taking care of yourself 32:48.500 --> 32:50.400 so that you can then accurately, 32:50.400 --> 32:52.900 or accurately and appropriately, 32:52.900 --> 32:55.200 take care of your own wife and your own children. 32:55.600 --> 32:59.560 So there's a lot of things being unpacked in this particular passage. 32:59.560 --> 33:03.240 Of course, as men, we shouldn't be strikers, we shouldn't be greedy or filthy lucre, we 33:03.240 --> 33:06.440 should be patient, we shouldn't be brawlers, we shouldn't be covetous. 33:06.440 --> 33:10.600 I mean, all these things aren't like, well, the pastor's like that, but I just get in 33:10.600 --> 33:13.640 fights and beat people up and I just want to get rich. 33:13.640 --> 33:16.960 You know, it's just like, you know, and I want to get rich or die trying, you know, 33:16.960 --> 33:21.200 it's just like, just full of greed and just full of covetousness, you know, this should 33:21.200 --> 33:23.600 be just the attitude and the disposition. 33:23.600 --> 33:29.720 of many men. And you know, I personally believe that ideally we should have many men in our 33:29.720 --> 33:34.600 church that meet the qualifications of a pastor, but just don't want to be a pastor. And that's 33:34.600 --> 33:39.260 okay. Like there's nothing wrong. Like we could find men and say, Hey, technically here's 33:39.260 --> 33:44.800 a guy who, Hey, he's saved. You've been saved a long time. He knows the Bible well. He has 33:44.800 --> 33:50.220 a wife, one wife. They have a good marriage here. He has great children, but you know, 33:50.220 --> 33:51.580 Please content just serving. 33:51.600 --> 33:53.920 God and whatever capacity he has. 33:53.920 --> 33:56.300 He doesn't desire to be a pastor necessarily. 33:56.300 --> 33:58.220 He doesn't want to have to take that role. 33:58.220 --> 33:59.220 That's great. 33:59.220 --> 34:02.500 You know, it's not like every single guy that meets the qualifications, we just put him 34:02.500 --> 34:06.100 in behind a pulpit or we just need to make him a pastor somewhere. 34:06.100 --> 34:09.780 And you know, I don't even personally believe like, hey, if you're a pastor, you're just 34:09.780 --> 34:15.420 a much better Christian than another guy, even though they're the same on the qualifications 34:15.420 --> 34:16.740 or the same in their life. 34:16.740 --> 34:19.580 I mean, you know, when you get to heaven, it's not just like, hey, 34:19.600 --> 34:23.000 here's the pastor's category and here's the non-pastor's category. 34:23.000 --> 34:28.760 You know, a guy that's a dedicated soul winner and going to church and serving God, I guarantee 34:28.760 --> 34:33.600 he's going to have much better rewards in heaven than a pastor who did nothing, was 34:33.600 --> 34:37.000 not very evangelistic, not accomplishing much. 34:37.000 --> 34:41.520 I don't believe that just being pastor just gives you some special privilege or special 34:41.520 --> 34:42.520 honor. 34:42.520 --> 34:47.040 So you know, don't think like, you know, children, don't think like, hey, my dad's not a pastor, 34:47.040 --> 34:47.600 So he's not as. 34:47.600 --> 34:50.640 spirituals the pastor, that's not the right outlook. 34:50.640 --> 34:55.200 You know, your dad can be very spiritual whether he's a pastor or not. 34:55.700 --> 35:00.900 And so we want to have the right mindset though as a church that the men are behaving themselves. 35:00.900 --> 35:08.400 And even if you're not a pastor, and even though you may violate these things and you don't lose your job because you're not a pastor, 35:08.400 --> 35:11.500 that doesn't mean you should just forego these instructions. 35:11.500 --> 35:14.500 You should treat these as, hey, these are rules for me too. 35:14.500 --> 35:19.800 And you know what? Even if I'm not a pastor, I just want to do my best to act like I am a pastor 35:19.800 --> 35:23.700 and try to do what a pastor would do too and just follow these same kind of instructions. 35:23.700 --> 35:25.700 because they're all good instructions anyways. 35:26.400 --> 35:30.400 You know, we want a church filled with men that sound like this. 35:30.400 --> 35:32.900 We want a church filled with men where they're saying, 35:32.900 --> 35:36.400 hey, these are guys that have one wife, these are guys that have children, 35:36.400 --> 35:41.400 their children are obeying them, their children are, you know, in subjection, 35:41.400 --> 35:46.400 this guy has rules for his family, this guy is patient, this guy is not a brawler, 35:46.400 --> 35:49.400 this guy is someone that's not greedy or filthy lucre, you know, 35:49.400 --> 35:52.400 this guy is someone that's taking the ministry seriously. 35:52.400 --> 35:54.400 You know, this is basically what, you know, 35:54.400 --> 35:58.000 we should be as a church. This is how men should be in the church. We want to behave 35:58.000 --> 36:01.560 ourselves in church. And you'll notice the apostle Paul is saying, hey, I wrote all this 36:01.560 --> 36:06.120 stuff unto you so you guys would know how church should operate, what church should 36:06.120 --> 36:11.280 look like, what should it be like. This is what we should be describing. And then he 36:11.280 --> 36:17.040 gives a secondary office here, deacons. He says, likewise must the deacons be grave, 36:17.040 --> 36:18.120 grave meaning serious. 36:18.800 --> 36:23.000 And when it says likewise, it's saying in the same way. 36:23.000 --> 36:25.840 So it's like everything we just said about the pastor, 36:25.840 --> 36:27.340 the deacon needs to be the same way. 36:28.000 --> 36:30.400 and he needs to take his life serious too. 36:30.400 --> 36:33.000 Okay, and again, a deacon is pretty much, 36:33.000 --> 36:35.600 if we were to think about the word deacon, 36:35.600 --> 36:37.300 it's kind of like servant, 36:37.300 --> 36:38.900 is kind of like what we would think of, 36:38.900 --> 36:40.500 is what that word is meaning. 36:40.500 --> 36:42.900 So as someone that's like a servant of the church. 36:42.900 --> 36:44.500 A lot of people take deacon 36:44.500 --> 36:47.200 and they kind of elevate it to a position of authority. 36:47.300 --> 36:51.220 in the sense that like this guy is like in charge of the church or this guy is 36:51.220 --> 36:54.260 ruling over the church or this guy's ruling over the pastor 36:54.260 --> 36:57.620 whereas the Bible is more painting this guy's serving the church 36:57.620 --> 37:00.740 and ministering to the church it's a different idea 37:00.740 --> 37:04.020 I'm not saying that the deacon doesn't have some level of authority 37:04.020 --> 37:07.340 but that's not really the primary focus of this person's role 37:07.340 --> 37:12.020 this person is someone serving in the church and it says not double-tongued 37:12.020 --> 37:15.260 not given a much wine not greedy filthy 37:15.300 --> 37:19.700 Luke are holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience and let these also first 37:19.700 --> 37:25.220 be proved then let them use the office of a deacon being found blameless even so must 37:25.220 --> 37:29.300 their wives be grave not slander or sober faithful in all things let the deacons be 37:29.300 --> 37:32.420 the husbands of one wife ruling their children their own house as well for they that have 37:32.420 --> 37:36.020 used the office of a deacon well purchase themselves a good degree and great bolus in 37:36.020 --> 37:41.820 the faith faith which is in christ jesus so notice again he doesn't explicitly mention 37:41.820 --> 37:42.460 the wife? 37:43.000 --> 37:45.960 in the pastoral section, like what she's like, 37:45.960 --> 37:48.200 but it does specifically in the deacons. 37:48.200 --> 37:51.040 And if the deacon is supposed to have a wife like this, 37:51.040 --> 37:53.340 how much more would the pastor in the same way? 37:53.340 --> 37:54.180 Okay. 37:54.180 --> 37:57.280 And so obviously the deacons also, according to the Bible, 37:57.280 --> 38:00.220 kind of have to meet all of these qualifications 38:00.220 --> 38:01.960 prior to even becoming a deacon. 38:01.960 --> 38:05.680 It's not like, hey, you know, you just finally... 38:05.900 --> 38:09.500 Clip the mark you just now met the qualification. So now you're deacon 38:09.500 --> 38:13.080 It's like no you have to meet the qualifications for a while and be proved you have to be tested 38:13.080 --> 38:17.100 We have to make sure this guy is a legit guy before we give him 38:17.200 --> 38:21.220 You know position in a church to be serving and of course, you know 38:21.300 --> 38:24.800 The deacon is someone that's going to be serving the church 38:25.380 --> 38:29.160 Helping the church, you know, just the daily functions of the church 38:29.460 --> 38:33.460 Just whatever is in relation to the church helping the church do church things 38:33.900 --> 38:39.540 And so, of course, if we ever had a deacon, you know, on staff, then we would want them 38:39.540 --> 38:40.740 to be paid. 38:40.740 --> 38:46.940 We would want them to have been a part of the church for a while, have proven themselves, 38:46.940 --> 38:50.020 have met, you know, this kind of a standard here. 38:50.020 --> 38:55.500 Now, things that I don't think necessarily overlap, I don't think the deacon has to be 38:55.500 --> 38:57.180 someone that's at the cheech. 38:57.180 --> 39:00.940 I don't think the deacon has to be someone that desires the office of a bishop. 39:00.940 --> 39:01.900 You know, there could be some. 39:01.900 --> 39:03.900 I don't really want to preach. 39:03.900 --> 39:05.900 I don't really want to fill the pulpit. 39:05.900 --> 39:07.900 I don't really want to pastor. 39:07.900 --> 39:09.900 I don't really want to do those things. 39:09.900 --> 39:11.900 But you know what? 39:11.900 --> 39:13.900 I just love church. 39:13.900 --> 39:15.900 I just love the gospel. 39:15.900 --> 39:17.900 I love church. 39:17.900 --> 39:19.900 And I just want to serve in that capacity. 39:19.900 --> 39:21.900 And so, you know, hey, we could have somebody 39:21.900 --> 39:23.900 that's like that and we elevate them to a deacon. 39:23.900 --> 39:25.900 And you know what? 39:25.900 --> 39:27.900 A church is growing or has a large size. 39:27.900 --> 39:29.900 It makes sense to have a deacon or more than one deacon potential. 39:29.900 --> 39:33.900 just so that the pastor can focus on his giftings 39:33.900 --> 39:35.340 and what he's supposed to be doing, 39:35.340 --> 39:37.660 and then the deacons can help just make sure 39:37.660 --> 39:40.460 other things are going well in the church. 39:40.460 --> 39:43.300 You know, we have a title in our modern idea, 39:43.300 --> 39:46.020 or modern vernacular, of like an assistant pastor, 39:46.020 --> 39:48.060 and in many cases, I almost feel like many times 39:48.060 --> 39:49.540 assistant pastor is kind of what we see 39:49.540 --> 39:51.540 as a role of a deacon, where, you know, 39:51.540 --> 39:55.860 they're simply just assisting in the duties of the church 39:55.860 --> 39:57.820 and other things, so. 39:57.900 --> 40:01.400 These are two official roles in the Bible. 40:01.400 --> 40:03.540 This is how a church should behave itself. 40:03.540 --> 40:05.820 It should have pastors and deacons that are men, 40:05.820 --> 40:08.780 that are married, that have one wife, 40:08.780 --> 40:12.680 that are having children, that are obeying them, 40:12.680 --> 40:13.900 that are in subjection. 40:14.300 --> 40:16.980 And of course they're found blameless in general. 40:16.980 --> 40:19.300 Again, blameless here is not perfect. 40:19.300 --> 40:22.020 No one would qualify, obviously. 40:22.020 --> 40:25.060 But I've heard what some people will do is they'll take this word blameless 40:25.060 --> 40:26.700 and they'll say, well, see. 40:26.900 --> 40:29.700 Since it's blameless, no one qualifies, 40:29.800 --> 40:32.100 so then they just ignore all the qualifications. 40:32.200 --> 40:33.800 So it's just like, well, if we had 40:33.900 --> 40:36.540 to meet all the qualifications, then no one would qualify. 40:36.640 --> 40:39.340 So then they just like, it doesn't matter that he's divorced. 40:39.440 --> 40:41.280 It doesn't matter that they don't have kids. 40:41.380 --> 40:44.220 It doesn't matter that he's not even safe. 40:44.320 --> 40:45.380 It's just whatever. 40:45.480 --> 40:48.320 It's just like, it doesn't matter that he's a drunkard. 40:48.420 --> 40:50.320 It doesn't matter that he's a convict. 40:50.420 --> 40:52.460 It doesn't matter that he murdered his father. 40:52.560 --> 40:53.560 It doesn't matter. 40:53.660 --> 40:54.860 And some of these things sound like I'm 40:54.900 --> 40:57.700 They're not even hyperbole at all, okay? 40:57.700 --> 41:01.540 And so it doesn't matter that the guy got thrown out of his last church for being a 41:01.540 --> 41:05.300 drunkard, let's have him start Second Chance Church. 41:05.300 --> 41:06.680 Okay? 41:06.680 --> 41:09.980 This is the guy from New Spring. 41:09.980 --> 41:14.540 He like got kicked out of his church for being a drunkard, some kind of evangelical, and 41:14.540 --> 41:17.860 then he started a second church called Second Chance Church. 41:17.860 --> 41:19.700 Who knows what I'm talking about? 41:19.700 --> 41:20.700 I don't know. 41:20.700 --> 41:21.700 I'm trying to remember this. 41:21.700 --> 41:22.500 What's the guy's name? 41:23.100 --> 41:27.360 Dang it. I'm trying to remember this guy's name. All right, I'll think of it after the service 41:27.360 --> 41:31.640 He like started one of his church services one time with a highway to hell or something like that 41:32.780 --> 41:37.140 So like further their first song for the church service. It was like highway to hell 41:37.700 --> 41:39.700 Some weirdo or whatever. 41:39.700 --> 41:41.900 But it's just funny, it's like, you know, Greg Locke, 41:41.900 --> 41:44.820 he divorces his wife, runs off with the secretary, 41:44.820 --> 41:46.380 you know, and then starts another church, 41:46.380 --> 41:47.820 starts another ministry. 41:47.820 --> 41:50.420 You know, these type of things just shouldn't even be done. 41:50.420 --> 41:52.260 It's not behaving yourself in church, you know. 41:52.260 --> 41:54.340 It's not the correct behavior. 41:54.340 --> 41:57.820 And then of course, if the pastor is divorcing his wife 41:57.820 --> 41:59.460 and running off with the secretary, 41:59.460 --> 42:01.140 what kind of signal is that gonna be 42:01.140 --> 42:02.780 to the rest of the men in the church? 42:02.780 --> 42:02.800 you 42:03.700 --> 42:11.440 And isn't that going to almost green light other men to potentially excuse that type of behavior or act in a certain way? 42:11.440 --> 42:15.800 You know, we should have some standards. We should have some example. 42:15.800 --> 42:20.160 And again, I think when we say blameless, I'm not saying it doesn't mean something. 42:20.160 --> 42:22.300 I just don't think it means perfect, obviously. 42:22.300 --> 42:27.560 But it's also not going to just contradict anything we just read that's clear, plain qualifications. 42:27.560 --> 42:31.640 I think that the blameless would just be in general that this guy doesn't have just some real... 42:31.700 --> 42:33.300 obvious big issue. 42:33.600 --> 42:35.900 You know, some big, obvious public issue. 42:35.900 --> 42:37.700 Like he murdered his father. 42:37.700 --> 42:42.200 You know, like I would say, hey, it kind of seems like he's probably not blameless, right? 42:42.200 --> 42:47.500 If they were caught in some big public scandal, or they have some big public issue, 42:47.500 --> 42:51.700 or they're just some major thing that everybody has kind of seen, 42:51.700 --> 42:55.200 it would just be shameful to just take somebody that is like, 42:55.200 --> 42:59.700 why are we having this guy be the pastor when he has this really obvious big issue? 42:59.700 --> 43:01.500 There's this big sin, you know. 43:01.600 --> 43:04.800 And again, I'm not saying like, let's cover him up or hide him, but I'm just saying in 43:04.800 --> 43:08.120 general this guy's got a bad reputation publicly. 43:08.120 --> 43:12.680 And now, it's not that after he becomes pastor and preaches hard against the sodomites and 43:12.680 --> 43:15.360 gets evicted, he's now not blameless or something. 43:15.360 --> 43:19.400 What we're talking about is prior to being a pastor and nothing associated with the Word 43:19.400 --> 43:20.720 of God or persecution. 43:20.720 --> 43:25.520 Just something that in the world's eyes, they would be upset about whether you're a pastor 43:25.520 --> 43:26.520 or not. 43:26.520 --> 43:28.760 You know, something where they would say, hey, this is something that's just kind of 43:28.760 --> 43:29.520 a big obvious- 43:29.600 --> 43:34.520 issue and we just we don't want that guy to be the quote pastor. So you know you 43:34.520 --> 43:38.900 should go to a church that fits the subscription so that you also will then 43:38.900 --> 43:44.000 behave yourself likewise. So you have a good behavior. Of course there's many 43:44.100 --> 43:50.420 many churches and many people where the pastor just doesn't have kids or is divorced or you know 43:51.220 --> 43:55.540 all these weird scenarios and some people will say like well that's your interpretation that's 43:55.540 --> 44:00.740 your opinion but you know what I noticed I never noticed those guys being the great leaders of 44:00.740 --> 44:06.100 the spiritual condition of our country they never seem to be the evangelistic leaders typically 44:06.100 --> 44:11.380 I mean they're usually the ones that are kind of bozos have other issues other compromising situations 44:11.380 --> 44:12.040 And so, you know... 44:12.100 --> 44:17.960 what I think you should have a decent standard here and I get that our culture is so wicked 44:17.960 --> 44:23.100 and so evil that it's hard to find people that meet these like qualifications but honestly 44:23.100 --> 44:27.660 it should be like a large percentage of the men in society. 44:27.660 --> 44:32.380 It's not like it's that hard or that crazy to think that there could be men that have 44:32.380 --> 44:39.060 only had one wife and men that don't have like some criminal record or something. 44:39.600 --> 44:44.600 or men that, you know, I guess in some communities that's like crazy to think about, okay? 44:44.600 --> 44:48.600 But it shouldn't be crazy to think that men have some criminal record, 44:48.600 --> 44:51.600 they just have one wife and they have some kids and they obey them. 44:51.600 --> 44:54.100 Like, that should just be like a basic standard. 44:54.600 --> 44:56.100 You know, it's just kind of crazy. 44:56.100 --> 44:59.720 It'd be like thinking like, oh, Walmart has a high standard saying you have to have shoes 44:59.720 --> 45:01.800 and a shirt on when you go inside or something. 45:01.800 --> 45:04.880 It's just like, this isn't a crazy standard, folks. 45:04.880 --> 45:05.880 Okay? 45:05.880 --> 45:07.580 But we should have at least some standard. 45:07.580 --> 45:10.200 We should have like at least some idea here. 45:10.200 --> 45:15.000 And of course, the fact that the pastor can teach well, why do we want boring, crappy 45:15.000 --> 45:16.000 preachers anyways? 45:16.000 --> 45:17.000 You know? 45:17.000 --> 45:19.060 Like, I mean, do you really want that? 45:19.060 --> 45:21.120 I mean, I've listened to some people and I'm just thinking like... 45:21.120 --> 45:21.500 like. 45:21.600 --> 45:24.800 I don't even understand how anybody could say you're at the teach. 45:24.800 --> 45:25.800 Yeah. 45:25.800 --> 45:29.600 Like you're one of the most boring people I've ever had to listen to in my entire life. 45:29.600 --> 45:31.000 You don't make any sense. 45:31.000 --> 45:33.200 You're not good at articulating things. 45:33.200 --> 45:35.200 Like, oh, but your dad ordained you. 45:35.200 --> 45:37.000 And it's just like, yeah, of course, you know. 45:37.000 --> 45:40.800 It's like, hey, we shouldn't just ordain people because they're the son of a pastor. 45:40.800 --> 45:42.200 You should be at the teach. 45:43.200 --> 45:49.140 And I'll be honest with you, over time, I've kind of given more emphasis to this point 45:49.140 --> 45:54.060 than in the past, where I've realized, like, hey, this is not a point that I'm going to 45:54.060 --> 45:56.400 be more gracious on anymore. 45:56.400 --> 46:01.160 Like if you're not a great preacher, like, I just don't want to ordain you anymore, okay? 46:01.160 --> 46:06.720 You could be a great guy, great evangelist, you could be someone that I look up to, you 46:06.720 --> 46:10.440 could be someone I really like, but if you're not just knocking out of the park, buying 46:10.440 --> 46:11.040 the pulpit. 46:11.200 --> 46:12.600 I'm just not going to ordain people. 46:12.600 --> 46:16.440 You know, and again, I just, for me, it's just too important. 46:16.440 --> 46:19.500 And you know, we don't need another boring preacher anyways, 46:19.500 --> 46:22.000 or someone that can't articulate themselves well. 46:22.000 --> 46:23.520 Let's go to Titus chapter number two, 46:23.520 --> 46:25.780 go to Titus chapter number two. 46:25.780 --> 46:26.880 Say, well, I want to be a pastor. 46:26.880 --> 46:29.000 Okay, well then learn how to preach well. 46:29.000 --> 46:31.720 Read the Bible a lot, study scripture a lot, 46:31.720 --> 46:34.440 memorize a lot of scripture, take, 46:34.440 --> 46:36.760 take toast master classes, I don't know. 46:36.760 --> 46:38.600 Learn how to speak well though. 46:41.300 --> 46:43.900 You should be able to capture people's attention. 46:43.900 --> 46:46.100 And you don't have to preach just like me. 46:46.100 --> 46:47.900 There's tons of different styles, 46:47.900 --> 46:49.200 and there's tons of different ways 46:49.200 --> 46:51.500 that people can be engaging while preaching. 46:51.500 --> 46:53.800 You don't even have to yell or scream to be engaging. 46:53.800 --> 46:56.400 But if you're not engaging, then what's the point? 46:56.600 --> 46:58.200 No one's going to listen. 46:58.200 --> 47:00.600 We want somebody that can articulate themselves. 47:00.600 --> 47:04.120 And not in this fake way that the old I.B. does. 47:04.120 --> 47:07.920 And I feel like it's almost like only old I.B. preachers that are like this. 47:07.920 --> 47:13.400 Maybe Pentecostals a little bit too, but just that like fake over the top, just like, praise 47:13.400 --> 47:14.400 the Lord! 47:14.400 --> 47:17.200 You know, just like, what are you doing, dude? 47:17.200 --> 47:19.080 Like they have a preacher voice or something. 47:19.700 --> 47:24.740 And I'm just thinking like that's weird or I've seen some guys where they they when they get mad 47:25.060 --> 47:28.380 It's just like totally out of character. It doesn't seem real at all 47:28.940 --> 47:33.580 It was like it was like were you mad or is this fake or like what is it like like? 47:34.780 --> 47:41.780 You're just like what are you doing, bro? Like you're trying too hard. You know if you get if you get mad while preaching thumbs up 47:42.200 --> 47:45.800 If you have to pretend like you're mad, thumbs down, okay? 47:45.800 --> 47:50.800 It's awkward, you can feel the energy, it's uncomfortable. 47:50.800 --> 47:55.600 So, you know, don't try to be dynamic when it's not real. 47:55.600 --> 47:59.400 I hate that, it's fake, it's just like bad acting. 47:59.400 --> 48:03.400 It's like watching one of these Christian movies or something like that. 48:03.400 --> 48:06.400 You know, it's like, why do we know that Christian movies are Christian movies 48:06.400 --> 48:07.800 and real ones are real ones? 48:07.800 --> 48:09.600 It's because of the bad acting. 48:10.000 --> 48:14.160 Okay, and again, don't be a bad actor behind the pulpit. 48:14.160 --> 48:16.120 I like somebody that's energetic. 48:16.120 --> 48:17.760 I like someone yelling and screaming. 48:17.760 --> 48:19.000 I like someone getting excited. 48:19.000 --> 48:21.120 I like that, but I like it when it's real. 48:21.700 --> 48:23.900 And if you're not like that, then don't be like that. 48:23.900 --> 48:24.600 Okay? 48:24.600 --> 48:28.500 But definitely don't be fake because you really can't convince anyone. 48:28.500 --> 48:29.500 I'm sorry. 48:29.500 --> 48:31.200 Titus chapter 2, look at verse 1. 48:31.200 --> 48:33.200 But speak the other things that become sound doctrine, 48:33.200 --> 48:36.900 that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, and charity, and patience. 48:36.900 --> 48:41.000 Now, Titus chapter 2, let's get the big picture for a second. 48:41.000 --> 48:42.900 This is the Apostle Paul. 48:43.400 --> 48:48.040 telling Titus, a pastor, what he's supposed to do. 48:48.040 --> 48:49.400 What is he supposed to do? 48:49.400 --> 48:50.800 He is supposed to speak. 48:51.000 --> 48:53.760 So we have somebody speaking in this particular chapter. 48:53.760 --> 48:54.760 It's Titus. 48:54.760 --> 48:56.320 Titus is the one speaking. 48:56.320 --> 48:57.960 Titus is the one preaching. 48:57.960 --> 48:59.680 Titus is the one instructing. 48:59.680 --> 49:00.680 And who is he instructing? 49:00.680 --> 49:05.000 He's instructing older men, or aged men, as the Bible describes it here, that they are 49:05.000 --> 49:06.000 what? 49:06.000 --> 49:09.480 Sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 49:09.480 --> 49:13.640 And notice he says, speak things which become sound doctrine. 49:13.640 --> 49:14.320 I think that... 49:14.700 --> 49:20.160 Obviously, we want to make sure that everything that is spoken behind the pulpit is accurate 49:20.160 --> 49:22.240 according to the Bible and is what the Bible says. 49:22.600 --> 49:30.100 But additionally, any applications that are driven by the text or decided by the text 49:30.100 --> 49:32.440 should make sure it's based on the text. 49:32.440 --> 49:38.300 You know, don't get up and give your application based on nothing, based on whims, or forgetting 49:38.300 --> 49:42.120 that it's actually even contradicting clear scripture in the Bible. 49:42.120 --> 49:47.320 And unfortunately, what you'll see is sometimes men, they think something sounds good or sounds 49:47.320 --> 49:50.560 right and maybe it's something the world even repeats. 49:50.600 --> 49:54.160 And so they'll preach by their pulpit, but they didn't think like, is this what the Bible 49:54.160 --> 49:55.160 says? 49:55.160 --> 49:57.840 Or is there a Bible verse that actually supports this idea? 49:57.840 --> 50:00.840 Or is there Bible verses that say the opposite of this? 50:00.840 --> 50:05.000 And so what he's trying to tell the pastor here is make sure that the things you're saying 50:05.000 --> 50:11.940 fit the biblical narrative, fit biblical principles, are not just your ideas or the world's ideas 50:11.940 --> 50:15.080 or contrary specifically to what the Bible says. 50:16.100 --> 50:23.220 Now, I think as a pastor, you have the liberty to give application within the biblical principles 50:23.220 --> 50:27.780 that I think we should. That's what preaching is. We can't just sit up here. We're not going to 50:27.780 --> 50:29.620 just get up and just read the Bible and walk home. 50:30.200 --> 50:32.200 I think we should give a sense of the reading. 50:32.200 --> 50:34.400 I think that is the point of the Bible. 50:34.400 --> 50:36.900 Obviously, there's principles in the Bible 50:36.900 --> 50:39.000 that do not apply to us directly, 50:39.000 --> 50:41.200 and then we have to derive meaning from them. 50:41.200 --> 50:43.700 You know, when it talks about Old Testament laws 50:43.700 --> 50:45.200 and Old Testament principles, 50:45.200 --> 50:48.600 sometimes we don't really necessarily have an ass and a donkey, 50:48.600 --> 50:50.500 and we don't have these type of things, 50:50.500 --> 50:53.900 and so we have to then take that and apply it to what we have. 50:53.900 --> 50:55.700 We have cars, and we have vehicles, 50:55.700 --> 50:57.700 and we have houses and different things. 50:57.700 --> 50:58.200 So it's like. 50:58.200 --> 51:03.040 Hey, someone kills someone through negligence of their animal 51:03.040 --> 51:04.280 could be then applied to, 51:04.280 --> 51:06.200 okay, how about negligence with your car? 51:06.300 --> 51:08.740 You know, that could be a similar parallel. 51:08.740 --> 51:10.220 And so we're expounding on that. 51:10.220 --> 51:11.440 We're giving a sense of the reading. 51:11.440 --> 51:13.480 We're trying to explain what the reading is saying. 51:13.480 --> 51:17.660 But what I do not believe the Bible is saying is that pastors should get up and give TED 51:17.660 --> 51:22.360 talks and just get up and give their personal opinion on every subject and matter, not based 51:22.360 --> 51:26.680 on any biblical principles, or specifically if they're against biblical principles. 51:26.680 --> 51:31.260 And so it's important for the pastor to get up and expound things and give the sense of 51:31.260 --> 51:34.180 the reading and make sure everything he's saying is sound doctrine. 51:34.180 --> 51:34.300 it. 51:34.300 --> 51:39.260 fits what the Bible is actually saying and so that what the older men can be 51:39.260 --> 51:45.860 sober. What is that serious? We want the older men in church to be serious. Take 51:45.860 --> 51:48.800 your life seriously as an older man. 51:48.900 --> 51:55.060 And, you know, this would be an example to me of age of men not being serious, 51:55.060 --> 52:01.580 is when you see pastors in America that are 40, 50, 60 years old, 52:01.580 --> 52:04.580 and they're wearing skinny jeans and a t-shirt behind the pulpit. 52:04.580 --> 52:05.740 Wow. 52:05.740 --> 52:08.900 Wouldn't you say, like, wouldn't you just almost automatically be like, 52:08.900 --> 52:10.620 this guy's not serious? 52:10.620 --> 52:13.020 Or I'm not going to take this guy seriously. 52:13.400 --> 52:16.200 Like, I mean, I don't even think you, I haven't even explained this point. 52:16.200 --> 52:17.720 You probably already agreed with me. 52:17.720 --> 52:21.280 But then if you automatically just think like, this guy is somebody I'm not going to take 52:21.280 --> 52:26.080 seriously, then wouldn't you think that other men should follow like example, whether you're 52:26.080 --> 52:31.680 a pastor or not, and that maybe the age of men should consider dressing seriously? 52:31.680 --> 52:35.120 You know, I don't necessarily expect all the single guys to dress that great. 52:35.120 --> 52:36.560 I mean, they don't have their wives to help them. 52:36.560 --> 52:38.160 All right, I get it. 52:38.160 --> 52:39.280 But at the end of the day... 52:39.700 --> 52:46.340 Maybe you could dress it a way that's serious and again does the Bible say thou shalt wear a suit and tie 52:46.460 --> 52:48.160 No, it doesn't say that at all 52:48.160 --> 52:51.380 But you know what you know if I bet if you're gonna go for an interview 52:51.620 --> 52:54.780 You'd probably dress a certain way because you were taking the interview 52:55.300 --> 53:00.700 Seriously, you know if I have an interview or a job, and I just come in and just you know my pajamas 53:00.820 --> 53:05.860 They're gonna say hey this guy's not taking this job this job application seriously 53:06.300 --> 53:10.140 Okay, I don't want to take the house of God as something is not serious. 53:10.140 --> 53:14.860 So you know what, I try to dress in a way that seems like, hey, I'm taking church seriously. 53:14.860 --> 53:18.940 Okay, I don't think that it means you have to wear a certain type of clothing. 53:18.940 --> 53:21.500 I'm not saying, and I'm not going to get up here and say, 53:21.500 --> 53:24.620 thou shalt wear this type of clothing, because I don't believe that. 53:24.620 --> 53:28.700 But what I do believe is that if you're going to follow this example, you should be serious. 53:29.340 --> 53:31.660 And maybe you should take church seriously. 53:31.660 --> 53:33.420 And one of those ways would be how you dress. 53:34.000 --> 53:36.400 And, oh, how dare you say this? 53:36.400 --> 53:37.400 Well, you know what? 53:37.400 --> 53:38.400 That's just reality. 53:38.400 --> 53:42.360 Now, as far as our leadership, you know, behind the pulpit, you know, whether it's a song 53:42.360 --> 53:47.200 leader or the announcements or the Bible reader or someone preaching, I want them to have 53:47.200 --> 53:49.160 at least a shirt and a tie as a bare minimum. 53:49.500 --> 53:52.900 I'm not saying they have to have a jacket, but you know, at least having a shirt and 53:52.900 --> 53:57.140 having a tie is kind of a bare minimum, as some kind of standard, because we want it 53:57.140 --> 53:58.140 to be serious. 53:58.140 --> 54:01.860 You know, I don't want it to be like, hey, we're just letting any random person get up 54:01.860 --> 54:04.020 here and just say whatever they want. 54:04.020 --> 54:06.060 It's like, hey, we're taking church seriously. 54:06.060 --> 54:08.580 We're taking the instruction of the church seriously. 54:08.580 --> 54:12.580 And I guarantee someone up here in a Metallica t-shirt, you're not going to take very seriously. 54:13.600 --> 54:20.580 Someone up here and a wife beater. You're not gonna take very serious. Okay, it's just like hey, we should make sure that we have 54:21.900 --> 54:27.740 Appropriate, you know standards for the church and again if there was a church where you know 54:27.740 --> 54:32.640 A pastor is not wearing a suit and tie. I can't say that he's sinning. I 54:33.360 --> 54:37.040 Can't say that he's doing something wrong, but I would say this 54:37.040 --> 54:39.960 I don't think he's taking it as serious as I would like for him to take it 54:41.200 --> 54:45.400 And you know what? The Bible says that, hey, we should be instructing the age of men to what? 54:45.400 --> 54:48.700 To be sober, meaning they're taking things seriously. 54:48.700 --> 54:52.700 Hey, if you don't have a King James Bible, you're not taking Christianity seriously. 54:52.700 --> 54:53.300 Amen. 54:53.600 --> 54:56.600 We need the aged men to have a King James Bible, 54:56.600 --> 54:59.340 because look, you're old enough and you've had enough time 54:59.340 --> 55:01.300 to realize there's a difference in the text, 55:01.300 --> 55:02.880 there's a difference in the Bibles, 55:02.880 --> 55:05.000 and anybody that's serious about Christianity 55:05.000 --> 55:07.180 is gonna have a King James Bible. 55:07.180 --> 55:08.920 All the other Bibles have mistakes, 55:08.920 --> 55:10.920 all the other Bibles have issues. 55:10.920 --> 55:12.920 We need men that are sober, 55:12.920 --> 55:15.020 hey, they're gonna carry themselves well, 55:15.020 --> 55:17.160 hey, they're taking care of their families, 55:17.160 --> 55:18.860 they're working hard. 55:18.860 --> 55:21.520 As an older man, we need to be behaving ourselves in church. 55:21.600 --> 55:24.880 You know that they work with quietness is what the Bible says, meaning that they're 55:24.880 --> 55:29.600 not someone going around bumming money off of everybody, constantly complaining about 55:29.600 --> 55:32.660 not having any money, can't take care of themselves. 55:32.660 --> 55:36.540 You know at the age of men should be able to take care of themselves, the way they dress, 55:36.540 --> 55:38.600 the way they talk, what kind of Bible they have. 55:38.600 --> 55:42.960 They should be people that are examples and leaders in the church, not needing handouts, 55:42.960 --> 55:46.800 not the one needing everything from everybody else, but rather taking care of everyone else. 55:46.800 --> 55:49.600 You know, the Bible says here, if we keep going, grave. 55:49.600 --> 55:52.320 Again, this is very similar, sober, engraved. 55:52.320 --> 55:55.240 Hey, not being a drunkard, taking your life seriously. 55:55.240 --> 55:57.360 You know, if you're drinking alcohol and doing drugs, 55:57.360 --> 55:59.040 you're not serious. 55:59.040 --> 56:00.840 If you're a pothead, if you're an older man 56:00.840 --> 56:03.560 and you're a pothead, you're not serious. 56:03.560 --> 56:04.600 You're not grave. 56:04.800 --> 56:08.800 You're not taking responsibility as a man as something to be considered. 56:08.800 --> 56:10.800 You know, I think another thing that you should do is, 56:10.800 --> 56:13.800 hey, take your health seriously, because you know what? 56:13.800 --> 56:16.800 Hey, it's important. And if you want to last a long time, 56:16.800 --> 56:19.800 you know, health starts to actually factor in the older you get. 56:19.800 --> 56:23.800 You know, taking your health seriously, being temperate. 56:24.300 --> 56:26.300 being sound of the faith, charity, patience. 56:26.300 --> 56:27.660 I'm not gonna go through every single one of these 56:27.660 --> 56:29.660 because I have a lot more than I wanna say this morning. 56:29.660 --> 56:31.980 But in general, these should be the things 56:31.980 --> 56:33.440 that men should be doing. 56:33.440 --> 56:36.400 Obviously they don't need all the attention, 56:36.400 --> 56:37.800 they don't need all the flash, 56:37.800 --> 56:40.480 they don't have to necessarily be the star of the show, 56:40.480 --> 56:42.360 they're temperate, they're sound of faith, 56:42.360 --> 56:45.320 meaning they're good on doctrine. 56:45.320 --> 56:48.800 It'd be kind of a shame if you're 50, 60, 70 years old 56:48.800 --> 56:50.800 and you still don't even know the doctrine of the Bible. 56:51.000 --> 56:55.500 Obviously, if you got saved last week, we get it, but I'm just in general, the aged 56:55.500 --> 57:00.920 men should be ones that know the Bible, understand the doctrine, they can expound on it. 57:00.920 --> 57:03.800 You know, they have, they're an example of love, that's what charity is. 57:03.800 --> 57:08.400 They're the example of love in the church, of people that are doing good unto other people, 57:08.400 --> 57:10.280 and that they're very patient. 57:10.280 --> 57:14.460 You know, as a younger man, you might have a little bit more testosterone, a little bit 57:14.460 --> 57:15.920 more spunk. 57:16.300 --> 57:21.260 But you know, as an aged man, you should be someone that is patient, that you can talk to, 57:21.260 --> 57:26.860 that's not going to be easily tempered, you know, temperamental, someone that's just losing their cool, 57:26.860 --> 57:31.340 you know, you should be someone that can take things well. And even when there's problems, 57:31.340 --> 57:35.900 here's the thing, there's going to be problems in life. And not just church, there's going to be 57:35.900 --> 57:40.620 major problems in life, there's going to be major ups and downs, and you know what, we need an anchor 57:40.620 --> 57:43.260 in our lives, and it's the aged men that are just patient. 57:43.800 --> 57:45.600 They're like, hey, let's not freak out. 57:45.800 --> 57:47.600 Let's not make any rash decisions. 57:47.600 --> 57:49.500 Let's consider what's going on. 57:49.500 --> 57:50.500 Someone that's patient. 57:50.500 --> 57:51.800 Let's wait. 57:51.800 --> 57:52.900 Let's figure it out. 57:52.900 --> 57:54.200 Let's take our time. 57:54.200 --> 57:55.600 Let's not be rash. 57:55.600 --> 57:57.900 Let's not just bounce around. 57:57.900 --> 57:59.500 You know, someone that's very patient, 57:59.500 --> 58:01.200 they can endure things. 58:01.200 --> 58:04.000 They're not easily swayed over. 58:04.000 --> 58:06.400 They're not easily offended, not easily provoked. 58:06.400 --> 58:08.600 I mean, that's what the whole charity chapter is about. 58:08.600 --> 58:11.300 There's someone that's very patient and can deal well. 58:11.300 --> 58:13.700 Younger people sometimes are very impatient. 58:13.800 --> 58:17.300 very immature, very rash, very quick to make decisions, 58:17.300 --> 58:19.900 and so we need the aged men to not be like that. 58:19.900 --> 58:22.100 Not someone that's just gonna jerk the chain 58:22.100 --> 58:24.000 when something goes awry. 58:24.000 --> 58:25.400 And you know what, praise God, 58:25.400 --> 58:28.100 our church has had a lot of ups and downs, 58:28.100 --> 58:29.500 and it's nice when there's some people 58:29.500 --> 58:31.600 that are just like, what's new? 58:31.600 --> 58:32.400 You know, it's just like, hey, 58:32.400 --> 58:34.000 is this another day of St. Basil's Baptist Church? 58:34.000 --> 58:37.000 No, I'm patient, I can deal with this. 58:37.000 --> 58:38.700 Let's wait, let's figure out all the facts, 58:38.700 --> 58:39.600 let's figure out what's going on, 58:39.600 --> 58:41.200 let's not panic about it. 58:41.400 --> 58:45.800 It's like, hey, we might move to church, and you just hit the panic button instantly, and 58:45.800 --> 58:47.560 it's just like, that was a bad move. 58:47.560 --> 58:50.960 And you know, that's not being someone that's patient, that's someone that's just kind of 58:50.960 --> 58:52.360 being immature. 58:52.360 --> 58:58.920 Now, as we continue in this narrative, it switches gears to not just the aged men, but 58:58.920 --> 58:59.920 to the aged women. 58:59.920 --> 59:02.460 Look at verse 3, the aged women likewise. 59:02.460 --> 59:07.680 So in the same way that all the men were supposed to behave, all the aged women should behave 59:07.680 --> 59:09.160 in the exact same way. 59:09.160 --> 59:09.200 you 59:09.300 --> 59:11.700 Now, what is it saying here? 59:11.700 --> 59:14.740 It's saying that the aged women, 59:14.740 --> 59:17.900 that they be in behavior as we come to holiness. 59:17.900 --> 59:19.240 Now here's the thing. 59:19.240 --> 59:23.080 Who is telling the aged women to be in behavior 59:23.080 --> 59:25.240 according to this narrative? 59:25.240 --> 59:26.580 The pastor. 59:26.580 --> 59:29.220 It's the pastor speaking to the older women, 59:29.220 --> 59:32.120 telling the older women how they should behave. 59:32.120 --> 59:35.660 So who is it that is supposed to tell women to behave? 59:35.660 --> 59:36.720 It's the pastor. 59:37.500 --> 59:39.500 Is the pastor telling the men to behave? 59:39.500 --> 59:41.500 Is the pastor telling the women to behave? 59:41.500 --> 59:47.500 Is the pastor basically having guidance and rules and everything for everyone? 59:47.500 --> 59:52.000 And again, I'm speaking sound things, the pastor's speaking sound doctrine, 59:52.000 --> 59:57.000 so that the aged women would be in behavior as becometh holiness. 59:57.000 --> 01:00:01.500 So how should the older women know how to behave from what the pastor is preaching behind the pulpit? 01:00:01.800 --> 01:00:04.120 And, again, expounding on the Word of God. 01:00:04.120 --> 01:00:06.680 It's the Bible that's guiding all of us, of course. 01:00:06.680 --> 01:00:11.460 But it's Him guiding and giving instruction and application for how they should behave. 01:00:11.460 --> 01:00:13.020 How should they not behave? 01:00:13.020 --> 01:00:14.700 Not false accusers, right? 01:00:14.700 --> 01:00:18.420 They should be in behavior as holiness, not a false accuser. 01:00:18.420 --> 01:00:19.660 This would be the exact opposite. 01:00:19.660 --> 01:00:22.980 So we don't want the aged women to be the false accusers. 01:00:22.980 --> 01:00:28.100 We don't want them to be given to much wine, not given to much wine, teachers of good things. 01:00:28.100 --> 01:00:28.600 out. 01:00:29.100 --> 01:00:31.500 Think about how this is showing together. 01:00:31.500 --> 01:00:36.400 Not a false accuser, not, given too much wine, teachers of good things. 01:00:36.400 --> 01:00:38.700 So what's the implication in this particular verse? 01:00:38.700 --> 01:00:45.200 That by being a false accuser, and by being given too much wine, you're teaching bad things. 01:00:45.200 --> 01:00:47.200 Not in some kind of a formal way. 01:00:47.500 --> 01:00:50.800 not in some kind of an instructional manner, but by example. 01:00:50.800 --> 01:00:55.100 By your example of being a false accuser, by your example of giving a much wine, 01:00:55.100 --> 01:00:58.200 you're not a teacher of good things, you're a teacher of bad things. 01:00:58.200 --> 01:01:00.000 You're a teacher of evil things. 01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:02.700 So what should the women be? They should be teachers of good things, 01:01:02.700 --> 01:01:05.000 and then it's going to give us an idea here, 01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:08.400 that they may teach the young women to be sober. 01:01:08.600 --> 01:01:11.400 to love their husbands, to love their children, 01:01:11.400 --> 01:01:14.100 to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, 01:01:14.100 --> 01:01:15.600 good, obedient to their own husbands, 01:01:15.600 --> 01:01:17.600 that the word of God be not blasphemed. 01:01:17.600 --> 01:01:21.100 So if we take this whole sentence together, 01:01:21.100 --> 01:01:24.100 because it's, notice, one sentence. 01:01:24.100 --> 01:01:28.600 Did you notice that verses 3 through 5 are one sentence? 01:01:28.900 --> 01:01:30.600 How does the sentence start? 01:01:30.700 --> 01:01:33.300 That they are in behavior, OK? 01:01:33.400 --> 01:01:34.900 And then it's saying, it's giving examples 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:37.440 of bad behavior, teaching bad things. 01:01:37.540 --> 01:01:38.680 And then it's giving examples of what? 01:01:38.780 --> 01:01:41.540 Good behavior, teaching good things. 01:01:41.640 --> 01:01:44.380 It's not really saying like, hey, we need 01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:47.180 to start a ladies Bible study. 01:01:47.280 --> 01:01:49.720 We need to start a woman's Sunday school. 01:01:49.820 --> 01:01:52.320 That's not really in view of this passage at all, 01:01:52.420 --> 01:01:56.100 because the person teaching in this epistle is Titus. 01:01:56.200 --> 01:01:56.900 Titus is a good teacher. 01:01:56.900 --> 01:02:01.660 the one preaching. Titus is the one instructing, and he's instructing the men how to behave, 01:02:01.660 --> 01:02:06.540 and he's instructing the women how to what? Behave. It just fits so perfectly. And of 01:02:06.540 --> 01:02:11.140 course, by their example, through the teaching and through the example of the older ladies, 01:02:11.140 --> 01:02:15.180 that's teaching the younger women how to behave as well. Because they're seeing the example. 01:02:15.180 --> 01:02:21.340 So we have old men, older ladies, we have younger women, and then of course, here in verse 6, 01:02:21.340 --> 01:02:24.300 young men likewise exhorted to be sober minded. So we cover the entire group. 01:02:24.600 --> 01:02:29.160 We have the older and younger men, we have the older ladies and the younger ladies here 01:02:29.160 --> 01:02:31.400 are clearly addressed in this particular passage. 01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:35.640 So, let's just take these things and apply them for a second. 01:02:35.640 --> 01:02:40.280 Now, I have it on the board just to kind of help us keep these things in view, but I believe 01:02:40.280 --> 01:02:43.120 the Bible, you know, it gives us boundaries. 01:02:43.120 --> 01:02:46.200 Anything inside boundaries is up for discretion. 01:02:46.200 --> 01:02:47.760 the Bible has clear. 01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:52.720 boundaries as far as women and how we should behave ourselves in church. 01:02:52.720 --> 01:02:56.980 Now we read in 1st Timothy chapter number 3 that the pastor is to be the husband of 01:02:56.980 --> 01:03:00.860 one wife, that the deacon was to be likewise the husband of one wife. 01:03:00.860 --> 01:03:06.300 So for women, they are number one not to be the pastor or deacon in a church. 01:03:06.300 --> 01:03:08.140 That's not my opinion. 01:03:08.140 --> 01:03:11.520 That's just clearly what the boundary is set in scripture. 01:03:11.520 --> 01:03:14.860 There's no arguing over that unless you just don't care what the Bible says. 01:03:15.500 --> 01:03:20.120 You know, it's not an interpretation, it's a fact, okay? 01:03:20.120 --> 01:03:23.660 Now number two, that they're not supposed to usurp authority over the man. 01:03:23.660 --> 01:03:27.580 Now keep your finger here, we'll come right back, but just flip back a few pages to 1 01:03:27.580 --> 01:03:32.220 Timothy chapter 2, and notice what it says in verse number 11. 01:03:33.100 --> 01:03:39.660 1st Timothy 2, 11, let the woman learn in silence with all subjection, but I suffer 01:03:39.660 --> 01:03:45.900 not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 01:03:45.900 --> 01:03:50.980 So according to the Bible, women are not to usurp authority over men. 01:03:50.980 --> 01:03:54.680 That's again, not a Pastor Shelley opinion. 01:03:54.680 --> 01:03:57.220 This is a biblical fact. 01:03:57.220 --> 01:04:00.820 Women are to learn in silence and they're not to usurp authority over the man. 01:04:01.400 --> 01:04:06.000 Number three, they're not to teach in church, which would be in coordination with what we just read. 01:04:06.000 --> 01:04:08.500 That's the whole silence, learning in silence. 01:04:08.500 --> 01:04:14.400 But let's go to 1 Corinthians 14 as a second proof text of this particular doctrine, 01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:17.300 that women are to learn in silence. 01:04:17.300 --> 01:04:23.300 1 Corinthians chapter number 14, that women just shouldn't be the teachers in church. 01:04:23.300 --> 01:04:28.000 Now, again, let's be clear about what the word church means. 01:04:28.100 --> 01:04:30.100 Church is not a building. 01:04:30.100 --> 01:04:32.900 Church is an assembly of the believers. 01:04:32.900 --> 01:04:35.780 So anytime you have an assembly of the believers, 01:04:35.780 --> 01:04:38.060 who should not be teaching? 01:04:38.060 --> 01:04:38.900 Any woman. 01:04:39.500 --> 01:04:43.100 Okay. Now again, some people will be like, oh, that's sexist. 01:04:43.100 --> 01:04:47.900 Yeah, but look, it's not like just they are the only ones not supposed to be getting up and teaching, 01:04:47.900 --> 01:04:50.600 because frankly speaking, we're not gonna have kids get up and teach either. 01:04:50.600 --> 01:04:52.300 So no kids, no women. 01:04:52.300 --> 01:04:55.800 And then of course, you know, it's not even just every man's gonna get up and teach. 01:04:55.800 --> 01:04:58.400 We want men to be apt to teach and in good standing. 01:04:58.400 --> 01:05:01.700 We don't want just any random dude getting up and teaching either. 01:05:01.700 --> 01:05:03.900 We wouldn't want someone that's not saved. 01:05:03.900 --> 01:05:07.400 We wouldn't, I mean, every guy that's not saved, not, not a... 01:05:07.500 --> 01:05:12.180 eligible either. Okay. Every guy that's just got saved. We don't want him getting up and 01:05:12.180 --> 01:05:15.380 just teaching the whole congregation on a regular basis. I get it that we have preaching 01:05:15.380 --> 01:05:19.060 classes and stuff like that, but that's a super rare thing. But we're just saying in 01:05:19.060 --> 01:05:23.700 general, it's not like only, you know, women were repressing them. There's a lot of people 01:05:23.700 --> 01:05:28.540 that we're not going to have get up and teach. Okay. So it's not just like limited to one 01:05:28.540 --> 01:05:29.540 classification. 01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:33.280 But what does the Bible say? I mean, do you just care what the Bible says or not? 01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:40.000 Verse 33, for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace as in all churches of the saints. 01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:46.800 Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted under them to speak, 01:05:46.800 --> 01:05:52.000 but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. 01:05:52.700 --> 01:05:57.540 And if they will learn anything, let the master husbands at home for as a shame for women 01:05:57.540 --> 01:05:58.540 to speak in the church. 01:05:58.540 --> 01:06:04.340 I mean, I don't know how much clearer Paul or like what did he have to say? 01:06:04.340 --> 01:06:08.500 But you know, for these women pastors out there, I'm just thinking like what did Paul 01:06:08.500 --> 01:06:11.100 have to pin down for you to get it? 01:06:11.500 --> 01:06:17.600 I guess even if it said like not a woman pastor, he'd be like, well, that's in their day that they didn't want a woman to be a pastor. 01:06:17.600 --> 01:06:21.700 You know, it just it doesn't matter what it said because it really doesn't need to be clearer. 01:06:21.700 --> 01:06:24.200 It's clearer than it could possibly be. 01:06:24.200 --> 01:06:27.400 And yet it's just saying, hey, they're not supposed to be teaching in church. 01:06:27.400 --> 01:06:29.700 So again, we have all the church gathered together. 01:06:29.700 --> 01:06:31.000 They're not to be the pastor. 01:06:31.000 --> 01:06:31.900 They're not to be the deacon. 01:06:31.900 --> 01:06:33.900 They're not supposed to use super authority over a man. 01:06:33.900 --> 01:06:35.800 And they're not supposed to be teaching in the church. 01:06:35.800 --> 01:06:37.100 They're supposed to be in silence. 01:06:37.100 --> 01:06:39.460 And notice it clarifies even 01:06:39.500 --> 01:06:45.300 what that means. It says they're not even allowed to ask a question in church. It says 01:06:45.300 --> 01:06:49.780 if they have any question, did you notice what it said? If they will learn anything, 01:06:49.780 --> 01:06:55.060 let them ask their husbands at home. So are they allowed to ask in church? No, they're 01:06:55.060 --> 01:06:59.900 not allowed, not allowed to ask questions in church. They are to be in silence. 01:07:00.200 --> 01:07:04.200 That is what the Bible is saying. So when we gather and I'm sure somebody's going to be offended, 01:07:04.200 --> 01:07:08.360 it's like we have an opportunity sometimes where I say, hey, does any guy have a question here? 01:07:09.000 --> 01:07:14.760 We're not opening it up for the ladies to speak. Oh, how dare you? You're a misogynist. Oh, you're 01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:21.320 a sexist. You know what? I just love the Bible. Sorry. Hey, if you don't have it said, let every 01:07:21.320 --> 01:07:23.960 woman ask a question, then I would just do that. 01:07:26.200 --> 01:07:30.280 If it said only let women ask questions, I would do that. 01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:32.040 I'm just going to do what the text says because you know what? 01:07:32.040 --> 01:07:37.160 This is the shepherd of our church. 01:07:37.160 --> 01:07:39.880 I am a pastor, but I'm not the chief shepherd. 01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:43.880 And we have the true bishop, which is Jesus Christ, 01:07:43.880 --> 01:07:46.120 and he's right here, and he's telling us how to behave. 01:07:46.120 --> 01:07:49.640 So if you don't like what I'm saying, you just don't like Jesus. 01:07:49.640 --> 01:07:50.920 You don't like the word of God. 01:07:50.920 --> 01:07:52.400 You don't like God. 01:07:52.400 --> 01:07:57.680 You just don't like authority because everything about God's authority and for some reason just people just don't like authority 01:07:57.680 --> 01:08:01.120 No, it's like hey children are supposed to be their parents. Oh, why cuz 01:08:02.280 --> 01:08:05.980 Women are supposed to be speaking in church. Why cuz yeah, okay 01:08:06.100 --> 01:08:10.720 Well divorced men shouldn't be the pastor why cuz yeah, you know, it's just how it is 01:08:11.160 --> 01:08:14.720 And hey pastors, you don't get to tell the Bible what to do. Why cuz 01:08:15.600 --> 01:08:17.600 Your opinion is lesser than God's. 01:08:17.600 --> 01:08:19.600 We have a hierarchy, we have a structure, 01:08:19.600 --> 01:08:23.400 and you know, we should obey the higher powers 01:08:23.400 --> 01:08:24.900 and those that have rule over us, 01:08:24.900 --> 01:08:26.100 and we should be subject to them. 01:08:26.100 --> 01:08:26.600 And you know what? 01:08:26.600 --> 01:08:28.400 Why would you want a pastor that gets up and says, 01:08:28.400 --> 01:08:29.600 I don't care about this part of the Bible? 01:08:29.600 --> 01:08:31.100 Huh, right? 01:08:31.100 --> 01:08:32.300 Because if I don't care about this part, 01:08:32.300 --> 01:08:34.500 if I'm willing to excuse or be like, 01:08:34.500 --> 01:08:37.000 this is kind of mean to women, 01:08:37.000 --> 01:08:38.100 then what other... 01:08:38.400 --> 01:08:40.000 concessions will I make? 01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:44.240 What other weird feminist ideas will I bring into the church 01:08:44.240 --> 01:08:45.440 or into other people's marriage? 01:08:45.440 --> 01:08:46.760 I mean, do you really... 01:08:46.760 --> 01:08:49.000 If I can't even get up and say, 01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:50.800 women are not allowed to ask questions in church, 01:08:50.800 --> 01:08:53.600 do you really want me to give you marriage advice? 01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:55.400 I mean, think about it logically. 01:08:55.400 --> 01:08:58.160 If I'm unwilling to just offend people 01:08:58.160 --> 01:09:00.720 by saying what the Bible just clearly says... 01:09:00.900 --> 01:09:03.940 Do you think I'm going to be able to give good counsel and good advice to people? 01:09:03.940 --> 01:09:09.340 Like, no, we want to make sure that we believe every verse and every line, whether it's comfortable, 01:09:09.340 --> 01:09:12.700 uncomfortable, popular, not popular, in season, out of season. 01:09:12.700 --> 01:09:15.460 We're supposed to approve of you, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine. 01:09:15.460 --> 01:09:16.740 And you know what? 01:09:16.740 --> 01:09:18.980 If you don't like the Bible, you can go anywhere else. 01:09:18.980 --> 01:09:19.980 Yeah. 01:09:19.980 --> 01:09:20.980 But we like the Bible here. 01:09:20.980 --> 01:09:21.980 Okay? 01:09:21.980 --> 01:09:23.540 So number four, they're not allowed to ask questions in church. 01:09:24.200 --> 01:09:28.620 Number five go to first Peter chapter 3 theirs to be meek and quiet 01:09:37.800 --> 01:09:40.700 1 Peter chapter number three, let's read verse four, 01:09:40.700 --> 01:09:42.200 but let it be the hidden man of the heart 01:09:42.200 --> 01:09:44.800 and that which is not corruptible, 01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:47.940 even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, 01:09:47.940 --> 01:09:50.280 which is in the sight of God of great price. 01:09:50.280 --> 01:09:54.480 So if we're gonna interpret anything in the Bible 01:09:54.480 --> 01:09:56.920 and pertainings to women, 01:09:56.920 --> 01:10:01.520 we need to make sure we consider all of these factors, okay? 01:10:01.520 --> 01:10:02.200 So. 01:10:02.400 --> 01:10:06.400 I just put this on the board so then we can just think about things and say like, 01:10:06.400 --> 01:10:10.960 okay, does it, how does it do on this little boundary list? 01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:15.760 Okay, because if you're playing soccer, you know, there's multiple boundaries. 01:10:15.760 --> 01:10:18.800 There's a boundary at the end of the goal, there's a boundary on the side. 01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:21.760 It doesn't matter which one of those you cross, you're out of bounds. 01:10:22.200 --> 01:10:25.400 Okay, it's not like you have to cross all of them simultaneously. 01:10:25.400 --> 01:10:28.520 If you cross any of them, you're out of bounds. 01:10:28.520 --> 01:10:31.720 Okay, so again, if you cross any of these, it's out of bounds, 01:10:31.720 --> 01:10:34.280 meaning it's not in play, meaning it's not an option, 01:10:34.280 --> 01:10:36.280 meaning you stop playing the game. 01:10:36.280 --> 01:10:38.040 Okay, so what is okay? 01:10:39.240 --> 01:10:43.560 What about a woman uploading a video about how to sew a dress? 01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:48.000 Was he a pastor or deacon? 01:10:48.000 --> 01:10:49.000 Nope. 01:10:49.000 --> 01:10:51.000 Is she usurping authority over a man? 01:10:51.000 --> 01:10:52.000 No. 01:10:52.000 --> 01:10:53.000 Is she teaching in the church? 01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:54.000 No. 01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:56.000 Is she asking questions in church? 01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:57.000 Nope. 01:10:57.000 --> 01:11:01.000 Is this potentially still within being meek and quiet? 01:11:01.000 --> 01:11:03.000 I don't see why it wouldn't be. 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:05.000 I would think that's totally fine. 01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:08.000 That doesn't seem to bother me. 01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:10.000 How about her? 01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:13.940 Putting other videos up or post about clothes 01:11:14.660 --> 01:11:16.600 recipes cleaning 01:11:16.600 --> 01:11:22.940 Homemaking homeschooling any of these things would any of those cross any of these quote boundaries in my opinion? 01:11:22.940 --> 01:11:27.600 No, I don't see how it could possibly I mean obviously we're gonna have to use discretion on number five 01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:31.680 But in general, I don't see how that's violating anything that we said there 01:11:32.240 --> 01:11:33.900 What about a woman? 01:11:34.100 --> 01:11:41.000 having a social media podcast to influence and expound the Bible. 01:11:41.000 --> 01:11:44.500 Well, number one, that doesn't mean she's a pastor or deacon. 01:11:44.500 --> 01:11:45.900 Okay. 01:11:45.900 --> 01:11:48.400 What about usurping the authority of the man? 01:11:48.400 --> 01:11:51.400 Well, I think that's kind of getting in dangerous territory here. 01:11:51.400 --> 01:11:54.300 But more specifically, how about not teaching in church? 01:11:54.300 --> 01:11:56.400 Or not even asking questions in church? 01:11:56.400 --> 01:11:58.900 Now, again, you say, well, it wasn't in a church building. 01:11:59.100 --> 01:12:06.700 But yeah, but if I'm have a platform of several hundred thousand people and I'm teaching the Bible to them, 01:12:06.700 --> 01:12:11.900 how is that, you know, what is the whole point of these commandments? 01:12:11.900 --> 01:12:14.700 It's like, well, we just didn't want it to be in a building. 01:12:14.700 --> 01:12:18.200 But if you're teaching hundreds of thousands of people this, it's fine. 01:12:18.200 --> 01:12:23.000 It's like, no, no, the whole point is that you just don't want women getting up in these big social gatherings, 01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:25.700 teaching a whole bunch of people because it's just not the right... 01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:31.620 format. It's not the right way to behave yourself. It's totally usurping this and just pretending like church is a building 01:12:31.760 --> 01:12:36.160 instead of an assembly or a congregation or a gathering of people. And now all of a sudden 01:12:36.520 --> 01:12:41.260 it's just crossing into these lines. Plus, it doesn't even seem like you're being very meek and quiet. 01:12:41.400 --> 01:12:49.120 You know, it doesn't say, hey, if a lady wants to learn something about the Bible, ask ladies outside of the building. 01:12:50.200 --> 01:12:56.000 Ask ladies before the church service and a different church service. 01:12:56.000 --> 01:12:57.000 Right? 01:12:57.000 --> 01:12:58.600 Have women's church. 01:12:58.600 --> 01:13:00.200 That would be the answer. 01:13:00.200 --> 01:13:02.800 It wouldn't be like, hey, ask your husband at home. 01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:05.400 It would be like, hey, ask the ladies. 01:13:05.400 --> 01:13:09.800 And again, the whole context of Titus chapter 2, 01:13:09.800 --> 01:13:11.800 let's go back there if you would, 01:13:11.800 --> 01:13:14.200 says teaching the younger women. 01:13:14.900 --> 01:13:16.700 So then you're like, well, how do you interpret that? 01:13:16.700 --> 01:13:19.200 How are the older ladies supposed to teach the younger women 01:13:19.200 --> 01:13:21.700 if you're not going to let them have a formal way to teach them? 01:13:21.700 --> 01:13:24.500 It's because they're teaching them through their behavior. 01:13:24.500 --> 01:13:25.000 Yeah. 01:13:25.000 --> 01:13:25.500 Yeah. 01:13:25.500 --> 01:13:29.700 They're a good example of loving their husbands and loving their children 01:13:29.700 --> 01:13:30.800 and doing all these things. 01:13:30.800 --> 01:13:33.100 So they don't have to necessarily get up and teach. 01:13:33.100 --> 01:13:36.300 But did it say, I mean, let's just be honest with the text for a moment. 01:13:36.300 --> 01:13:39.600 Does it say that they may teach the young women doctrine? 01:13:41.200 --> 01:13:48.000 Does it say they may teach them the law or their testimonies or thy commandments? 01:13:48.800 --> 01:13:50.880 I mean, pretty much it doesn't say any of those things. 01:13:51.520 --> 01:13:54.000 It does say to be obedient to their own husbands. 01:13:54.720 --> 01:13:57.600 Wouldn't that kind of being obedient to your husband would be what? 01:13:57.600 --> 01:14:02.000 Not asking other people questions, but asking him at home when it comes to the Bible, 01:14:02.000 --> 01:14:05.120 when it comes to Bible doctrine, when it comes to these matters. 01:14:05.120 --> 01:14:07.520 If you think about 1st Corinthians 14, what we read. 01:14:08.200 --> 01:14:11.680 It said, as also saith the law. 01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:14.440 It sounds like what the apostle Paul is saying. 01:14:14.440 --> 01:14:16.400 And it's clear. 01:14:16.400 --> 01:14:18.840 He's not saying that this is actually coming 01:14:18.840 --> 01:14:20.520 strictly from the church. 01:14:20.520 --> 01:14:23.080 It's coming from the law saying they're not allowed to speak. 01:14:23.080 --> 01:14:24.960 So he's saying from the principle of them not being able 01:14:24.960 --> 01:14:28.160 to speak in a lost context should be the same 01:14:28.160 --> 01:14:29.840 as in a church context. 01:14:29.840 --> 01:14:32.320 Because he's saying as also. 01:14:32.500 --> 01:14:35.380 Say it the law. He's not saying because of the law 01:14:35.700 --> 01:14:40.060 He's not saying the law thing he's saying as also say at the law meaning 01:14:40.060 --> 01:14:46.300 Here's another context and which women are not permitted to speak and what is that under what the law is saying? 01:14:46.740 --> 01:14:52.040 Saying they the laws having them be silent the laws having them not deal with these particular issues 01:14:53.400 --> 01:14:57.740 So, again, what does the teach good things, teach young women to be sober, to love their 01:14:57.740 --> 01:15:00.580 husbands, love their children, to be discreet? 01:15:00.580 --> 01:15:07.420 That sounds similar to being meek and quiet, not broadcasting your opinions on the Bible, 01:15:07.420 --> 01:15:09.620 criticizing pastors and doing whatever. 01:15:09.620 --> 01:15:12.700 You know, and again, who are some of the biggest names in this? 01:15:12.700 --> 01:15:13.700 How about like Candace Owens? 01:15:14.400 --> 01:15:18.800 getting out there and just giving her opinions on all kinds of matters. 01:15:18.800 --> 01:15:24.800 How about Ali Beth Stuckey, who has some channel where she's constantly talking about theology, 01:15:24.800 --> 01:15:32.500 the Bible, salvation, Calvinism, all of her beliefs, everything you could possibly think about 01:15:32.500 --> 01:15:37.100 teaching from a theological perspective, just some lady with hundreds of thousands of followers, 01:15:37.100 --> 01:15:40.400 hundreds of thousands of people are paying attention to this kind of content. 01:15:40.400 --> 01:15:42.300 And look, when you're doing that, you know what? 01:15:42.400 --> 01:15:47.160 you're forcing the situation where if you teach something wrong, men of God should get 01:15:47.160 --> 01:15:48.160 up and correct it. 01:15:48.160 --> 01:15:52.120 Because you can't just allow people to get up and teach hundreds of thousands of people 01:15:52.120 --> 01:15:57.900 lies and false doctrine and then just expect the men of God to be quiet about that. 01:15:57.900 --> 01:16:01.240 Men are supposed to be in the gates, men are supposed to be out there combating the false 01:16:01.240 --> 01:16:06.880 prophets, naming names, marking people, publicly exposing them, taking them to task. 01:16:06.880 --> 01:16:09.000 Now look, what if a lady got up? 01:16:09.400 --> 01:16:13.000 and made a video about how to sew and she just totally butchered it. 01:16:13.000 --> 01:16:14.520 Like she just doesn't even know what to do. 01:16:14.520 --> 01:16:17.000 She's just like a total bad way to sew. 01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:19.120 Do you think I need to get up behind my pulpit and be like, 01:16:19.120 --> 01:16:20.800 don't listen to this lady about sewing. 01:16:20.800 --> 01:16:22.880 No, I don't care. 01:16:22.880 --> 01:16:24.160 I don't give a rip. 01:16:24.160 --> 01:16:25.960 Like I don't like that's silly. 01:16:25.960 --> 01:16:29.880 OK, what if she gives a recipe for Texas chili and she puts beans in it? 01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:33.720 I'm not going to get up and have the need of being like, 01:16:33.720 --> 01:16:36.400 hey, this woman's teaching false doctrine. 01:16:36.400 --> 01:16:39.920 Texas chili needs to have not beans in it or something. 01:16:39.920 --> 01:16:40.520 But you know what? 01:16:40.520 --> 01:16:42.600 What if she's getting up and saying, hey, it's 01:16:42.600 --> 01:16:44.400 OK to divorce your husband? 01:16:44.700 --> 01:16:50.000 What if she's getting up and saying it's okay to abandon your family and run off and do all this kind of stuff? 01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:51.200 Yeah, well then you know what? 01:16:51.200 --> 01:16:55.520 I think it's it's reasonable for a pastor get up and say beware of this woman 01:16:55.520 --> 01:17:02.660 Who's getting up and publicly telling people to leave their husband or to become Catholic or to become a Calvinist? 01:17:02.660 --> 01:17:06.800 Or teaching all this false doctrine like it makes total reasonable sense to correct that 01:17:07.300 --> 01:17:09.300 And that's why women should stay out of that lane. 01:17:09.300 --> 01:17:11.300 They shouldn't be teaching the Bible. 01:17:11.300 --> 01:17:15.300 And I get that, hey, this is the primary context of when we're assembled, 01:17:15.300 --> 01:17:18.300 but don't usurp that by creating your own online church 01:17:18.300 --> 01:17:21.300 and your own online congregation, your own online assembly, 01:17:21.300 --> 01:17:25.300 and then pretend like you're not violating this particular principle. 01:17:27.300 --> 01:17:29.300 Here's another thing. 01:17:29.300 --> 01:17:34.300 What about women just getting up and giving their commentary on political, criminal, social commentary? 01:17:35.400 --> 01:17:43.400 What about that? Well, this is where I would say, you know, I think what I just said clearly violates this, the previous statement. 01:17:43.400 --> 01:17:49.400 This would be my personal judgment that it's somehow violating this as well, because I don't think it's being meek and quiet. 01:17:49.400 --> 01:17:59.400 It's my judgment, okay, my discernment. And then secondly, if you actually kind of think about what Paul said, and I go, it's a derived meaning, but he says, as also say the law, 01:17:59.400 --> 01:18:02.300 it sounds like women shouldn't really be talking about the law either. 01:18:03.000 --> 01:18:08.400 And that kind of makes sense to me that you didn't, you know, you're not having women be the judges of our society. 01:18:08.400 --> 01:18:10.800 They shouldn't be the governors. They shouldn't be the rulers. 01:18:10.800 --> 01:18:13.900 They shouldn't be the one enforcing criminal justice. 01:18:13.900 --> 01:18:19.800 And you know what? It doesn't make sense to have women getting up there and criticizing the criminal justice system, 01:18:19.800 --> 01:18:23.400 criticizing lawyers, criticizing what's really going on. 01:18:23.400 --> 01:18:25.000 You know, do we really want that? 01:18:25.000 --> 01:18:27.200 You know, how about the death penalty? 01:18:27.400 --> 01:18:33.400 I guarantee there's way more women that are empathetic towards murderers than men are. 01:18:33.400 --> 01:18:34.400 Yep. 01:18:34.400 --> 01:18:37.400 They would get up and it's like, oh, this guy deserves a death penalty. 01:18:37.400 --> 01:18:39.400 Oh, but he's such a sweet guy or whatever. 01:18:39.400 --> 01:18:42.400 You know, what is that like Luigi or something? 01:18:42.400 --> 01:18:44.400 Who knows what I'm talking about? 01:18:44.400 --> 01:18:47.400 I can't say his last name, stupid. 01:18:47.400 --> 01:18:49.400 Something Maggie, something, you know, whatever. 01:18:49.400 --> 01:18:51.400 Luigi Maggiano or whatever. 01:18:51.400 --> 01:18:52.400 I don't know. 01:18:52.400 --> 01:18:53.800 It's like... 01:18:54.000 --> 01:18:56.240 Maciano's little Italy or something, you know, it's like 01:18:56.960 --> 01:19:02.480 Hey this guy it's like all these women were fawning over this guy and acting like he's not a bad guy 01:19:02.760 --> 01:19:05.100 It's like look murderers should be put to death 01:19:05.740 --> 01:19:13.260 How many women right now are getting up and just condemning the justice system for the idea that Lindsay Clancy? 01:19:13.360 --> 01:19:15.200 Would be found guilty of murder 01:19:15.400 --> 01:19:17.100 Not even getting the death penalty. 01:19:17.100 --> 01:19:18.400 We don't even know if that's on the table. 01:19:18.400 --> 01:19:20.600 We don't even know what the sentencing would be. 01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:25.100 Just even facing prison or just facing any kind of criminal justice for murdering all of her kids. 01:19:25.100 --> 01:19:31.600 It's just like, I bet if we had a poll and it's like dudes, it's like, hey, should she go to jail? 01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:33.600 It would be a really high percentage. 01:19:35.100 --> 01:19:37.100 and women is a lot less. 01:19:37.100 --> 01:19:41.820 And it's like, hey, maybe they just shouldn't be the ones commenting on criminal justice. 01:19:41.820 --> 01:19:47.340 Maybe they shouldn't be the ones commenting on, you know, political and social commentary. 01:19:47.340 --> 01:19:54.620 And look, it's hard to detach political, criminal, and social commentary from theology anyways. 01:19:55.000 --> 01:20:00.400 I mean, we derive our morality from the Bible, from the legal code of God. 01:20:00.400 --> 01:20:05.480 And so if we're going to say like, oh, women can now get up and rip on lawyers in the criminal 01:20:05.480 --> 01:20:10.120 justice system and talk about all these different things, well, how are they not usurping the 01:20:10.120 --> 01:20:11.320 authority of the man? 01:20:11.320 --> 01:20:13.080 How are they really being meek and quiet? 01:20:13.080 --> 01:20:16.440 And if they say these things, I think men of God are going to have to get up and combat 01:20:16.440 --> 01:20:20.280 that nonsense and call it out and say, hey, this isn't what the Bible says. 01:20:20.280 --> 01:20:21.640 This isn't right. 01:20:21.640 --> 01:20:22.960 And so you know what? 01:20:23.000 --> 01:20:25.120 for having us as a church, we're a church, 01:20:25.120 --> 01:20:26.800 we're supposed to behave ourselves. 01:20:26.800 --> 01:20:29.040 Not only when we're here, but when we're not here. 01:20:29.040 --> 01:20:31.240 Hey, you know what, I don't wanna have a bunch of women 01:20:31.240 --> 01:20:34.820 in my church that are social and political commentators. 01:20:35.920 --> 01:20:38.300 I don't want a bunch of Candace Owens in my church. 01:20:38.600 --> 01:20:41.480 I don't want a bunch of Ali Best Stuckies in my church getting up there. 01:20:41.480 --> 01:20:44.160 And think about it, you know the Bible is not saying in Titus chapter number 2 that 01:20:44.160 --> 01:20:47.160 the pastor's wife should do these things, it's just saying older women. 01:20:47.160 --> 01:20:49.960 So if you were to actually interpret this the way a lot of these people are doing, they 01:20:49.960 --> 01:20:53.960 would have to believe that virtually every older lady in our church should be a social 01:20:53.960 --> 01:20:58.340 media influencer and commentator and giving all their public opinions and whatever. 01:20:58.340 --> 01:21:03.040 But no, it's usually just a feminist pastor's wife that wants to get up there and take all 01:21:03.040 --> 01:21:05.600 the power and authority in themselves and then point to this verse. 01:21:05.600 --> 01:21:06.600 even though it has nothing to do with the past. 01:21:06.600 --> 01:21:12.340 The pastor's wife is told not to be a slanderer and be sober and grave, but then it's just 01:21:12.340 --> 01:21:17.180 like older ladies can teach younger ladies by example of course, and then it's like, 01:21:17.180 --> 01:21:19.660 okay, so you're saying women can't teach anything? 01:21:19.660 --> 01:21:21.800 No, no, I never said that. 01:21:21.800 --> 01:21:23.580 Teaching your children, is that a violation of anything in here? 01:21:24.000 --> 01:21:27.300 Absolutely not. In fact, that is instructed in the Bible. That's a commandment of the Bible. 01:21:27.300 --> 01:21:29.000 It's for them to teach their children. 01:21:29.000 --> 01:21:33.200 What if a lady in the church asked another lady a question? 01:21:33.200 --> 01:21:35.700 Yeah, answer the question. 01:21:35.700 --> 01:21:38.800 That's silly. It's like, oh, what about Deborah? 01:21:38.800 --> 01:21:42.900 Well, here's the thing. Deborah doesn't have the Deborah show. 01:21:45.600 --> 01:21:47.600 Did you realize that? 01:21:47.600 --> 01:21:51.600 Deborah is like sitting under a tree minding her own business. 01:21:51.600 --> 01:21:55.600 And then a guy comes up and asks her a question and she answers it. 01:21:55.600 --> 01:22:00.600 The Bible is not saying women are not allowed to answer questions at all. 01:22:00.600 --> 01:22:02.600 It doesn't say that at all. That's silly. 01:22:02.600 --> 01:22:07.600 Obviously a woman being asked a question, it's not saying she can't quote the Bible. 01:22:07.600 --> 01:22:11.400 She can't point to what the Bible says. Of course she can. 01:22:12.500 --> 01:22:18.820 But, you know what? It's not saying they should get up and give unsolicited advice, be a public 01:22:18.820 --> 01:22:26.060 commentator, be a public teacher, be the pastor, be the deacon. Obviously, the Bible points 01:22:26.060 --> 01:22:31.660 to women going out and being evangelistic and preaching the gospel. I get it. Obviously, 01:22:31.660 --> 01:22:37.140 they point to, oh, Priscilla is teaching Apollos, but it's like her and her husband in an evangelistic 01:22:37.140 --> 01:22:37.640 setting. 01:22:37.900 --> 01:22:42.600 Yeah, you know what? It makes total sense that if me and my wife are talking with people 01:22:42.600 --> 01:22:46.000 and they want to ask my wife a question, they can do it. 01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:48.920 And then my wife, my wife usually gives great advice. 01:22:48.920 --> 01:22:50.840 It's not even that women can't give good advice. 01:22:50.840 --> 01:22:52.280 It's not that women can't be wise. 01:22:52.280 --> 01:22:54.600 It's not that women can't help younger ladies. 01:22:54.600 --> 01:22:55.600 But you know what? 01:22:55.600 --> 01:22:57.440 It's just saying, hey, maybe they should just stay in their lane. 01:22:59.400 --> 01:23:03.000 And again, not violate any one of these clear biblical principles. 01:23:03.000 --> 01:23:06.920 And you know what? We want to have a church where the men are behaving, the women are behaving, 01:23:06.920 --> 01:23:12.920 everyone is behaving. It's not some weird formal instruction. It's just really simple. 01:23:13.720 --> 01:23:14.440 And again. 01:23:15.400 --> 01:23:21.000 My political social commentary, that's kind of my personal interpretation, my judgment of this verse. 01:23:21.000 --> 01:23:27.700 If you have a different judgment and you want your wife to be the lawyer of the family and go online and give all this political commentary, 01:23:27.700 --> 01:23:34.700 I can't necessarily say you're in sin, but I'm just telling you I don't like it and I wouldn't agree with it and I would stand in judgment of that. 01:23:34.700 --> 01:23:35.100 Yeah. 01:23:35.100 --> 01:23:35.700 Okay. 01:23:36.100 --> 01:23:40.700 I can't necessarily take you to task, but go to 1 Corinthians chapter 11 for a moment. 01:23:40.700 --> 01:23:42.200 Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 11. 01:23:42.200 --> 01:23:45.500 Let me show you some more evidence about this point. 01:23:45.500 --> 01:23:46.900 And we'll move on. 01:23:46.900 --> 01:23:51.000 I know you love this point, but we'll move on, okay? 01:23:51.000 --> 01:23:53.500 1 Corinthians chapter 11. 01:23:53.500 --> 01:23:57.500 Look at verse number 14. 01:23:57.500 --> 01:23:58.100 Now... 01:23:58.400 --> 01:24:01.840 I want to read this because I want to show you that there's verses in the Bible 01:24:01.840 --> 01:24:04.640 use the word teach and it's not a formal instruction. 01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:06.280 Let's see. 01:24:06.280 --> 01:24:11.840 Does not even nature itself teach you that of a man of long hair is a shame on him? 01:24:11.840 --> 01:24:15.840 Now, when have you sat down and had a nature teach you something? 01:24:16.500 --> 01:24:18.100 What is it saying? 01:24:18.100 --> 01:24:21.980 It's saying just the example of natural circumstances, 01:24:21.980 --> 01:24:26.140 of natural experiences just show and evidence for you 01:24:26.140 --> 01:24:27.820 that it's gross. 01:24:27.820 --> 01:24:32.060 You know, just seeing a dude with the long nasty mullet 01:24:32.060 --> 01:24:35.700 or these Fabios or whatever, with their hair flowing in the wind. 01:24:35.700 --> 01:24:37.820 There's somebody that you look from behind, 01:24:37.820 --> 01:24:39.540 you kind of thought it was a woman, 01:24:39.540 --> 01:24:40.500 and then they turn around, you're like, 01:24:40.500 --> 01:24:42.420 ah, what is that? 01:24:42.420 --> 01:24:43.180 Okay. 01:24:43.400 --> 01:24:46.680 It was like no one taught me that was gross. 01:24:46.680 --> 01:24:50.280 It was a natural reaction to it being gross. 01:24:50.280 --> 01:24:53.800 It was just, I was taught by just experiencing it. 01:24:53.800 --> 01:24:55.320 It was like no one had to show me, 01:24:55.320 --> 01:24:57.640 I didn't have a class in school where they're like, 01:24:57.640 --> 01:25:01.000 okay now children, when there's this really long hair 01:25:01.000 --> 01:25:03.080 on the guy, you say gross. 01:25:03.080 --> 01:25:05.480 I say long hair, you say gross. 01:25:05.480 --> 01:25:07.000 It's like never happened. 01:25:07.000 --> 01:25:09.720 It was, I saw it and I was just like, wow, it's gross. 01:25:10.200 --> 01:25:11.800 Which is obvious. 01:25:11.800 --> 01:25:14.700 Now, in the next verse, it says, 01:25:14.700 --> 01:25:15.800 but if a woman have long hair, 01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:18.100 it is a glory to her for her hair is given to her company. 01:25:18.100 --> 01:25:19.400 The Bible's crystal clear. 01:25:19.400 --> 01:25:22.400 Women should have long hair, men should have short hair. 01:25:22.400 --> 01:25:24.700 And it says even nature teaches you this stuff. 01:25:24.700 --> 01:25:26.400 You don't even need the Bible to teach you this. 01:25:26.400 --> 01:25:30.100 Just natural experiences teach you this kind of obvious thing. 01:25:30.100 --> 01:25:34.300 But here's the thing, did the Bible say what long hair is? 01:25:34.300 --> 01:25:36.300 It didn't give a measurement, did it? 01:25:36.500 --> 01:25:38.900 Okay, so that's where discretion comes into play. 01:25:38.900 --> 01:25:43.700 Just like, does it expel out what meek and quiet means? 01:25:43.700 --> 01:25:46.100 No, we don't have a length. 01:25:46.100 --> 01:25:48.800 But man, when you're just posting online every day 01:25:48.800 --> 01:25:51.300 your social and political commentary, 01:25:51.300 --> 01:25:53.200 it doesn't, it's like having a butch haircut 01:25:53.200 --> 01:25:54.500 trying to tell me it's long. 01:25:54.500 --> 01:25:58.340 And it's just like, well, how do you know? 01:25:58.900 --> 01:26:00.620 Well, nature teaches me that. 01:26:00.620 --> 01:26:01.620 Right. 01:26:01.620 --> 01:26:06.020 Okay, it's just nature, it's just, it's natural to realize there's something wrong about this 01:26:06.020 --> 01:26:09.220 and we all kind of see it and we all kind of get it and we're all just kind of like, 01:26:09.220 --> 01:26:10.420 wow, that's gross. 01:26:10.420 --> 01:26:11.500 I don't want it. 01:26:11.500 --> 01:26:14.680 But of course the people, they want to sit here and argue about hair link and they're 01:26:14.680 --> 01:26:19.780 always flirting with the line and always crossing lines for most people and then they just try 01:26:19.780 --> 01:26:21.260 to pretend like they're not. 01:26:21.260 --> 01:26:22.260 Okay. 01:26:22.260 --> 01:26:25.580 Oh, well the Bible, I mean I've had people get up and say the Bible commands the women 01:26:25.580 --> 01:26:26.580 to teach the younger women. 01:26:26.580 --> 01:26:26.900 Thank you. 01:26:27.000 --> 01:26:30.200 And I'm just like, sure, but like in a behavior sense. 01:26:30.200 --> 01:26:31.200 Yeah. 01:26:31.200 --> 01:26:36.920 I don't think, I don't think you have to ever verbally instruct other people to be in compliance 01:26:36.920 --> 01:26:37.920 with that. 01:26:37.920 --> 01:26:40.820 I don't think any older women have to sit any younger women down and have some kind 01:26:40.820 --> 01:26:45.960 of a verbal instruction time or let me share everything that I know with you. 01:26:45.960 --> 01:26:47.560 Like just be a good example. 01:26:47.560 --> 01:26:48.760 And that's what the Bible is telling you. 01:26:49.800 --> 01:26:51.800 And then who's going to tell you to do that? 01:26:51.800 --> 01:26:53.240 The pastor's going to tell you to do that. 01:26:53.240 --> 01:26:56.280 The pastor's going to tell you how to be in behavior so that you can set a good example 01:26:56.280 --> 01:26:57.280 for the younger ladies. 01:26:57.280 --> 01:26:58.280 And you know what? 01:26:58.280 --> 01:27:02.120 I want the older women to do what I'm saying so the younger women will follow suit. 01:27:02.120 --> 01:27:05.880 Because let's just be honest, you older ladies didn't grow up where social influencers was 01:27:05.880 --> 01:27:06.880 even a thing. 01:27:06.880 --> 01:27:08.080 Do you realize that? 01:27:09.000 --> 01:27:16.400 Like you, maybe you do or don't, remember, you didn't have a smartphone, you didn't have the opportunity to do all this kind of stuff. 01:27:16.400 --> 01:27:22.300 So, if you just continue to not do it, you'll set a good example to the younger ladies. 01:27:22.300 --> 01:27:26.500 If an older lady then just decides, now I need to be a social media influencer. 01:27:26.800 --> 01:27:32.080 That's going to set an example to this younger generation like we need to all be like that then we need to all fall like suit 01:27:32.080 --> 01:27:34.520 I want to be like her too. I want to be Candace, too 01:27:34.520 --> 01:27:38.560 I want to be Ali best lucky to I just want to be Joyce Meyer and Beth Moore and 01:27:39.240 --> 01:27:44.040 Paula white and I want to be the one and I want to be the one that is the spiritual 01:27:44.320 --> 01:27:46.840 Guider of the President of the United States. I 01:27:48.280 --> 01:27:51.620 Mean Donald Trump said that his pastor was Paula white at one point 01:27:52.700 --> 01:27:56.540 Like we're supposed to believe that the most powerful man on the earth, 01:27:56.540 --> 01:27:59.900 the person that is his spiritual guidance is a woman. 01:28:02.460 --> 01:28:05.820 Wow. I mean, it's just mind boggling. 01:28:06.620 --> 01:28:08.540 How is that not usurping authority over the man? 01:28:09.420 --> 01:28:13.500 I mean, wouldn't that in a sense almost make you the most powerful person in the world? 01:28:14.200 --> 01:28:18.200 Like if you're the one guiding and instructing the most powerful person, 01:28:18.200 --> 01:28:22.200 sounds like you're the most powerful person, why are we giving it to Paula White? 01:28:22.200 --> 01:28:28.200 Divorced and just nonsensical, Pentecostal flavor, you know, woman pastor. 01:28:28.200 --> 01:28:32.200 It's just, it's just, it's nonsense. It's nonsense, it's ridiculous. 01:28:32.200 --> 01:28:35.200 And you say, this is what someone will do, well I'm not Paula White. 01:28:35.200 --> 01:28:38.200 Well you can still be in violation of these things and not be Paula White, okay? 01:28:38.200 --> 01:28:41.200 So let's have good behavior in the church. 01:28:42.000 --> 01:28:46.440 Good with Ephesians 6, you know, another verse to just bring up while you're going there 01:28:46.440 --> 01:28:47.680 and transitioning is, 01:28:47.680 --> 01:28:52.360 "'Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, 01:28:52.360 --> 01:28:58.960 which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach, and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, 01:28:58.960 --> 01:29:00.480 and to eat things sacrificed in idols.'" 01:29:00.480 --> 01:29:01.480 You know, one of the things that... 01:29:01.480 --> 01:29:01.700 you 01:29:02.000 --> 01:29:07.280 The Lord Jesus Christ, because that's who's speaking in Revelation, I don't know if you 01:29:07.280 --> 01:29:12.080 remember that, said that he didn't like about this church is that there was a woman teaching. 01:29:12.080 --> 01:29:13.080 Yeah. 01:29:13.080 --> 01:29:14.520 I mean, that's just what he said. 01:29:14.520 --> 01:29:16.200 So I kind of like, I like Jesus' opinion. 01:29:16.200 --> 01:29:17.200 I'll just be honest with you. 01:29:21.000 --> 01:29:24.800 So, last group that I want to address is children for a moment. 01:29:24.800 --> 01:29:30.300 And Ephesians chapter number 6 tells us that children are to obey their parents. 01:29:30.300 --> 01:29:33.300 I want to read verses 1 through 3. 01:29:33.300 --> 01:29:34.100 So, you know... 01:29:34.600 --> 01:29:39.160 Obviously, the parents need to be in behavior so that the children will then be in behavior. 01:29:39.160 --> 01:29:40.160 Okay. 01:29:40.160 --> 01:29:41.400 Look what it says in verse number one. 01:29:41.400 --> 01:29:45.120 Children obey your parents and the Lord for this is right. 01:29:45.120 --> 01:29:47.680 Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise that it may 01:29:47.680 --> 01:29:50.400 be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the earth. 01:29:50.400 --> 01:29:56.880 So according to the Bible, your link of life in many ways is directly tied to how you treat 01:29:56.880 --> 01:29:59.680 your parents and how well you listen to it. 01:30:00.100 --> 01:30:02.260 the instructions of your parents. 01:30:02.260 --> 01:30:04.900 And for those who disregard their parents, 01:30:04.900 --> 01:30:06.020 don't obey their parents, 01:30:06.020 --> 01:30:08.020 don't care what their parents have to say, 01:30:08.020 --> 01:30:10.260 in many cases their lives will be cut short. 01:30:10.600 --> 01:30:14.640 I don't think that means they'll die as a child necessarily, but they could die in their 01:30:14.640 --> 01:30:20.200 20s, their 30s, their 40s because of living such a rebellious, wicked lifestyle. 01:30:20.200 --> 01:30:24.680 And look, this is a promise from God that, hey, you want to live a longer life? 01:30:24.680 --> 01:30:26.660 Well, you should honor your father and your mother. 01:30:26.660 --> 01:30:27.660 You should obey them. 01:30:27.660 --> 01:30:29.280 You should do good unto them. 01:30:29.280 --> 01:30:35.340 Look at chapter 5, verse 1, be therefore followers of God as dear children. 01:30:35.340 --> 01:30:36.540 You know, we should all... 01:30:36.700 --> 01:30:42.500 Also, realize that even though you're not an actual child, you are a child of God. 01:30:42.500 --> 01:30:45.460 And so therefore, we should take the same principle applied to our children and apply 01:30:45.460 --> 01:30:51.000 it to ourselves that we are in the house of God, God is our Father, we are His children, 01:30:51.000 --> 01:30:53.420 and we are supposed to be followers of God. 01:30:53.420 --> 01:30:57.020 So we want to make sure that we are behaving ourselves well in the house of God. 01:30:57.020 --> 01:30:58.940 Go to Ecclesiastes chapter 5 as well. 01:30:58.940 --> 01:31:02.700 Go to Ecclesiastes, go back to Ecclesiastes chapter number 5. 01:31:03.500 --> 01:31:06.000 We should treat the house of God with respect. 01:31:06.000 --> 01:31:11.000 And you know, in your house, I guarantee you have rules. 01:31:12.580 --> 01:31:14.280 I don't know what they are. 01:31:14.280 --> 01:31:17.780 I'll just speculate that some people might have rules like, 01:31:17.780 --> 01:31:20.380 I don't know, no jumping up and down on the bed. 01:31:22.900 --> 01:31:24.900 No jumping up and down on furniture. 01:31:24.900 --> 01:31:32.900 Just for my sanity's sake, who in here would tell their kids to stop jumping up and down on your furniture in the living room? 01:31:32.900 --> 01:31:37.900 Okay. What about if they're jumping up and down on the furniture in church? 01:31:37.900 --> 01:31:40.900 Maybe you should say no. 01:31:40.900 --> 01:31:44.900 Maybe you should be like, hey, that's not acceptable. 01:31:44.900 --> 01:31:48.900 Hey kids, you're not allowed to jump up and down on the furniture in church. 01:31:49.100 --> 01:31:53.980 You shouldn't be running across it like little mice and jumping across like Super Mario. 01:31:55.180 --> 01:31:59.100 Okay, just like you shouldn't be doing that in house. I mean if you're not going to do that in 01:31:59.100 --> 01:32:02.220 your home, how much more in the house of God? 01:32:03.400 --> 01:32:06.000 And you know, children, this is one thing you should learn. 01:32:06.000 --> 01:32:09.200 You should behave yourselves better at someone else's house than your own. 01:32:09.200 --> 01:32:12.000 If you're a guest in someone else's house, 01:32:12.000 --> 01:32:14.600 or you're invited to one of your friend's houses, 01:32:14.600 --> 01:32:18.200 you should be better behaved there than you would be at home. 01:32:18.200 --> 01:32:22.600 And then how much more at the house of God should you behave yourself? 01:32:22.600 --> 01:32:25.300 Now, Ecclesiastes chapter 5, look at verse 1. 01:32:25.300 --> 01:32:29.140 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God. 01:32:29.500 --> 01:32:34.060 and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools for they consider not that they do evil. 01:32:34.060 --> 01:32:37.500 Now again, it's using metaphoric language here, 01:32:37.500 --> 01:32:40.780 but we should at least just consider the analogy that's being used here, 01:32:40.780 --> 01:32:42.860 is that you should watch your step. 01:32:42.860 --> 01:32:43.980 You should be careful. 01:32:44.200 --> 01:32:49.960 And again, literally, but again, there's obviously a more metaphorical and more pronounced, 01:32:49.960 --> 01:32:53.760 you know, expounding on this particular verse, but hey, we should be careful coming to church. 01:32:53.760 --> 01:32:55.920 We should be serious about coming to church. 01:32:55.920 --> 01:32:57.720 We shouldn't take things lightly. 01:32:57.720 --> 01:32:58.960 You know, we have a nice church. 01:32:58.960 --> 01:33:00.360 We have nice things. 01:33:00.360 --> 01:33:01.360 We shouldn't be coming here. 01:33:01.360 --> 01:33:04.920 It's not a jungle gym. 01:33:04.920 --> 01:33:06.680 And look, I get it. 01:33:06.680 --> 01:33:09.400 Hey, as a kid, everything's a jungle gym. 01:33:10.900 --> 01:33:16.680 I love it too, you know, you watch those videos, some teenagers think this way too, it's called parkour or whatever. 01:33:17.380 --> 01:33:20.840 They just like, they think everything's a gym and they just want to run around everything. 01:33:21.340 --> 01:33:24.060 Hardcore parkour. It's like that's not the church building! 01:33:25.100 --> 01:33:31.420 Okay, we want to be things and look we're filling up where we have a lot of people on Sunday morning 01:33:31.760 --> 01:33:34.380 Sometimes we like almost run out of chairs and I get it 01:33:34.560 --> 01:33:40.660 But you know and then it gets tight after the services, but this is still be a time to act on your best behavior 01:33:41.320 --> 01:33:45.600 Hey, I'm not saying don't talk to your friends. I'm not saying don't have a good time 01:33:45.600 --> 01:33:49.300 I'm not saying don't hang out, but what I am saying is don't play parkour 01:33:50.200 --> 01:33:52.400 What I am saying is don't run around on the furniture. 01:33:52.500 --> 01:33:54.600 What I am saying is don't jump up and down. 01:33:54.700 --> 01:33:55.800 What I am saying is, hey, we have rules. 01:33:55.900 --> 01:33:57.000 No running. 01:33:57.100 --> 01:33:58.600 Because, you know, we don't want you to get hurt. 01:33:58.700 --> 01:34:00.300 We don't want other kids to get hurt. 01:34:00.400 --> 01:34:01.600 Because here's the thing. 01:34:01.700 --> 01:34:04.000 You're going to run, and you're going to hit another kid. 01:34:04.100 --> 01:34:05.600 And this other kid's really sensitive, 01:34:05.700 --> 01:34:07.980 and they're going to be like, ah, I'm so injured. 01:34:08.080 --> 01:34:09.780 And then they're going to go tell their parents, 01:34:09.880 --> 01:34:11.420 and these parents are going to get mad at those parents, 01:34:11.520 --> 01:34:13.080 and they're going to get mad at everybody. 01:34:13.180 --> 01:34:14.580 And it's just like, stop. 01:34:14.680 --> 01:34:15.780 You know, just don't run. 01:34:17.600 --> 01:34:19.600 The sensitive kid can't handle it. 01:34:19.600 --> 01:34:20.600 Okay, we get it. 01:34:22.100 --> 01:34:25.500 And look, you say the sensitive kid, that's all of them, okay? 01:34:25.500 --> 01:34:27.000 They all have their sensitive day. 01:34:27.000 --> 01:34:28.400 There's always that one day. 01:34:28.400 --> 01:34:31.700 And it's, you know, they don't even hardly get, they're all like soccer players. 01:34:31.700 --> 01:34:33.800 It's all fake injuries and stuff, you know? 01:34:33.800 --> 01:34:36.400 They're just throwing themselves on the ground because they got injured, 01:34:36.400 --> 01:34:39.100 or someone pushed them, or someone hurt them, and it's just like, 01:34:39.100 --> 01:34:40.800 they should all get red cards or whatever, you know? 01:34:40.800 --> 01:34:42.700 They should all be ejected out of the game. 01:34:42.700 --> 01:34:46.500 But it's just like, seriously, we don't want the roughhousing, 01:34:46.500 --> 01:34:49.400 we don't want the running, we should be careful. 01:34:49.400 --> 01:34:50.000 Obviously, they're... 01:34:50.100 --> 01:34:53.500 There's older people here, there's women that are pregnant. 01:34:53.500 --> 01:34:54.900 I mean, have you seen the pregnant list? 01:34:54.900 --> 01:34:55.900 Yeah. 01:34:55.900 --> 01:34:56.900 It's a lot. 01:34:56.900 --> 01:35:00.300 Like, I don't even remember every time when someone's pregnant or not. 01:35:01.100 --> 01:35:02.840 And we don't even always know. 01:35:02.840 --> 01:35:04.980 Some people don't even necessarily broadcast it, 01:35:04.980 --> 01:35:07.140 and they could be potentially expecting. 01:35:07.140 --> 01:35:10.540 So we want to be careful that we're not injuring people. 01:35:10.540 --> 01:35:11.740 We have a space. 01:35:11.740 --> 01:35:14.940 Look, I would love to have a larger church building, 01:35:14.940 --> 01:35:17.380 and I would love to have a dedicated playground 01:35:17.380 --> 01:35:21.520 that the kids could go run and jump at, but we don't. 01:35:21.520 --> 01:35:22.660 I'm sorry. 01:35:22.660 --> 01:35:24.220 You know, I'd love to have one at my house. 01:35:24.220 --> 01:35:25.020 I don't. 01:35:25.700 --> 01:35:29.380 But you know, we don't we don't want to let them just trash our furniture and trash our house 01:35:29.780 --> 01:35:33.780 Just because they want to have a playground in there. We don't want to do that in the house of god 01:35:33.860 --> 01:35:37.460 We don't want to do that in church. We want to behave ourselves and be appropriate 01:35:37.620 --> 01:35:40.180 You know the bible says let all things be done decently and in order 01:35:41.460 --> 01:35:44.440 I want to go to proverbs 22 just flip back a little bit 01:35:46.200 --> 01:35:49.800 You know, the Bible says God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints. 01:35:49.800 --> 01:35:53.900 I mean, can you imagine going to the Old Testament temple and letting your kids just run around 01:35:53.900 --> 01:35:59.300 and pull on the curtains and just do cartwheels and just wrestle and throw stuff? 01:35:59.300 --> 01:36:02.500 I mean, just like, just pick up the incense and throw it around. 01:36:02.900 --> 01:36:04.740 I mean, but you know, you come to church here, 01:36:04.740 --> 01:36:07.380 and it's just like throwing stuff around. 01:36:07.380 --> 01:36:10.180 I mean, it's just like a party at the water fountain. 01:36:10.180 --> 01:36:11.940 I usually find there's like five cups 01:36:11.940 --> 01:36:14.180 just in the water fountain with water. 01:36:14.180 --> 01:36:14.860 And I'm just thinking like, 01:36:14.860 --> 01:36:16.420 I don't even know what's going on here, you know? 01:36:16.420 --> 01:36:18.220 It's just like, we're just filling up 01:36:18.220 --> 01:36:20.460 poor offerings or something, I don't know. 01:36:21.000 --> 01:36:23.200 Like, what's happening? 01:36:23.200 --> 01:36:25.440 And hey, I get it, we want to keep the church available 01:36:25.440 --> 01:36:26.280 for everybody. 01:36:26.280 --> 01:36:28.580 If people want to have lunch, or they want a fellowship, 01:36:28.580 --> 01:36:29.420 that's fine. 01:36:29.420 --> 01:36:32.220 But you know, don't just like go hide in a corner 01:36:32.220 --> 01:36:34.580 and let your kids just run, you know, 01:36:34.580 --> 01:36:36.580 and wreck havoc everywhere. 01:36:36.580 --> 01:36:39.300 Chips everywhere, and popsicles everywhere, 01:36:39.300 --> 01:36:41.700 and candy everywhere, and popcorn, and whatever. 01:36:41.700 --> 01:36:43.100 It's not Logan's Roadhouse. 01:36:43.100 --> 01:36:44.300 Yeah. 01:36:44.300 --> 01:36:47.000 We're not like, please throw the peanuts on the floor. 01:36:47.600 --> 01:36:52.000 Okay, it's like hey, why don't you clean up after yourself and here's the thing 01:36:52.000 --> 01:36:57.860 I get like you're all I can clean up later. Just don't even let it happen. Just do some damage control. Yeah 01:36:58.840 --> 01:37:02.860 You know make sure your kids are well behaved that they're not running around 01:37:02.860 --> 01:37:09.500 They're not left just unattended and of course a lot of the parents that do watch their kids will continue watching their kids 01:37:09.500 --> 01:37:12.700 And the ones that don't care what I'm saying will continue to not care what I'm saying 01:37:14.100 --> 01:37:16.500 But care, please, okay? 01:37:16.500 --> 01:37:18.500 And of course, you know, our ushers and others, 01:37:18.500 --> 01:37:19.800 sometimes they help us. 01:37:19.800 --> 01:37:22.200 Don't get mad at them if they're just trying to keep 01:37:22.200 --> 01:37:24.500 the house of God in order, okay? 01:37:24.500 --> 01:37:26.200 And you know, here's another thing we should all do, 01:37:26.200 --> 01:37:27.600 Proverbs 22 verse 15. 01:37:27.600 --> 01:37:29.800 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, 01:37:29.800 --> 01:37:32.200 but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. 01:37:32.200 --> 01:37:35.100 You know, we all need to be disciplining our kids physically. 01:37:35.300 --> 01:37:38.100 on a regular basis so they're well behaved. 01:37:38.100 --> 01:37:40.140 And you'll kind of notice a pattern. 01:37:40.140 --> 01:37:43.580 It seems like parents that are not watching their kids 01:37:43.580 --> 01:37:45.540 and the kids that are really rowdy, 01:37:45.540 --> 01:37:47.620 I can only speculate, but it seems like they're the ones 01:37:47.620 --> 01:37:50.620 probably not applying the rod very often either. 01:37:50.620 --> 01:37:53.340 And so, you know, we need to do all of it. 01:37:53.340 --> 01:37:55.260 You know, we need to be watching our kids, 01:37:55.260 --> 01:37:56.780 we need to be telling them no, 01:37:56.780 --> 01:37:58.580 and we need to be physically disciplining them 01:37:58.580 --> 01:37:59.420 because they're gonna be foolish. 01:37:59.420 --> 01:38:00.260 And you know what? 01:38:00.260 --> 01:38:01.980 I'm not really that shocked. 01:38:02.200 --> 01:38:04.040 when kids act silly. 01:38:04.040 --> 01:38:06.680 I'm not really that shocked when kids want to wrestle 01:38:06.680 --> 01:38:09.400 and run around and scream and yell and get excited 01:38:09.400 --> 01:38:11.160 and whatever, that's being a kid. 01:38:11.160 --> 01:38:13.200 And look, they're doing great during the service. 01:38:13.200 --> 01:38:14.680 I know you can do it. 01:38:14.680 --> 01:38:16.240 And I've preached some really long sermons. 01:38:16.240 --> 01:38:18.240 I know you can do it even past the sermon. 01:38:18.240 --> 01:38:19.720 Okay, but you know what? 01:38:19.720 --> 01:38:21.960 I'm not saying you have to be completely quiet. 01:38:21.960 --> 01:38:24.640 We're not trying to be a library here after the service, 01:38:24.640 --> 01:38:25.480 but you know what? 01:38:25.480 --> 01:38:27.000 We shouldn't be a jungle gym either. 01:38:27.500 --> 01:38:29.900 And I think we all know there's a difference between those things. 01:38:29.900 --> 01:38:32.620 We should behave, we should treat the house of God with respect. 01:38:32.620 --> 01:38:37.900 And look, you should want this to be you, not just here, everywhere. 01:38:37.900 --> 01:38:41.060 When you're invited to someone's house, you should want this to be the case. 01:38:41.060 --> 01:38:44.100 You don't want them to be like, I don't want to invite them back again because they tore 01:38:44.100 --> 01:38:45.100 up my house. 01:38:45.100 --> 01:38:48.620 Or those kids never listen, or these kids are too difficult to be around, so I don't 01:38:48.620 --> 01:38:49.620 want to invite them over. 01:38:49.620 --> 01:38:52.100 I like them, but I just don't want to be around them. 01:38:52.700 --> 01:38:57.220 because they're just too, they're too lax in their parenting and it makes it 01:38:57.220 --> 01:39:00.500 unpleasant. You don't want to go to the restaurant, you know, I'll be honest with 01:39:00.500 --> 01:39:05.580 you. We go to the restaurant and you see how big my family is, we get a lot of bad 01:39:05.580 --> 01:39:09.140 looks when we first walk in and it's because people are just prejudging us. 01:39:09.140 --> 01:39:10.500 They're just thinking like... 01:39:10.500 --> 01:39:12.140 Oh, here we go. 01:39:12.140 --> 01:39:13.740 Oh, they're going to be awful. 01:39:13.740 --> 01:39:15.380 Or we have to sit by the kid table. 01:39:15.380 --> 01:39:17.540 You know, usually they're putting us in the back corner 01:39:17.540 --> 01:39:19.880 by where the waiter entrance is or something, 01:39:19.880 --> 01:39:22.140 or like off somewhere, because they're just like, 01:39:22.140 --> 01:39:24.540 they're like, oh, it's going to be the kid table or whatever. 01:39:24.540 --> 01:39:26.140 But then, like, by the end of the meal, 01:39:26.140 --> 01:39:28.220 everybody's, like, coming up complimenting us or whatever. 01:39:28.220 --> 01:39:30.700 I guess they're, like, shocked that, you know, 01:39:30.700 --> 01:39:33.620 our kids can actually be quiet without a tablet 01:39:33.620 --> 01:39:34.620 or something like that. 01:39:35.700 --> 01:39:39.500 But you know, we don't want to be the stereotype that's just like, 01:39:39.500 --> 01:39:42.700 oh, look at all these big families that can't manage their kids, 01:39:42.700 --> 01:39:45.500 can't dress their kids, their kids can't behave, 01:39:45.500 --> 01:39:47.300 their kids are a train wreck. 01:39:47.300 --> 01:39:51.100 Because then we're just discouraging people from having a lot of kids. 01:39:51.100 --> 01:39:53.700 You know, I want people to say like, wow, 01:39:53.700 --> 01:39:56.600 your seven kids are better than my one. 01:39:56.600 --> 01:39:58.100 Meaning it's not the number. 01:39:58.500 --> 01:40:02.100 There's something else that's the main, you know, impact here. 01:40:02.100 --> 01:40:07.300 And unfortunately we live in a society where we're trying to excuse the reason for women not have kids, 01:40:07.300 --> 01:40:12.500 and we should be doing the opposite. We should be a poster for having kids. 01:40:16.900 --> 01:40:20.340 I want to go to one more go to Luke chapter 2 go to Luke chapter 2 this last verse I'll have you go to 01:40:22.340 --> 01:40:24.340 You know I 01:40:24.500 --> 01:40:26.500 it's sad, but 01:40:26.620 --> 01:40:29.580 we were out me and my wife and all the kids and 01:40:30.260 --> 01:40:34.980 We were in a furniture store, and we were leaving we're leaving the furniture store 01:40:35.700 --> 01:40:42.620 And there's a lady with one cop one child, and I don't know the age three four five somewhere in that range 01:40:43.200 --> 01:40:47.100 And it was near like a Ferris wheel, like you could see it. 01:40:47.200 --> 01:40:49.000 And he's like, hey, can we do the Ferris wheel? 01:40:49.100 --> 01:40:50.940 And she's just like, no. 01:40:51.040 --> 01:40:52.340 She's like, we're not doing that. 01:40:52.440 --> 01:40:56.080 I'm more likely to drive off a cliff than take you to that. 01:40:56.180 --> 01:40:59.940 And I'm just like, what in the world kind of society 01:41:00.040 --> 01:41:04.420 do we live in where a mom is saying something like that 01:41:04.520 --> 01:41:05.220 to her kid? 01:41:05.320 --> 01:41:06.020 And she has one. 01:41:06.900 --> 01:41:11.540 And I'm thinking, you know, me and my wife, we always like reminisce when we had like three kids 01:41:12.100 --> 01:41:18.660 or two kids. We were like, man, how easy it was, man. How like it was carefree. I mean, to have one 01:41:18.660 --> 01:41:23.780 kid, like I can't even like, even like even one of some of our hardest kids, we have a few kids that 01:41:23.780 --> 01:41:29.780 are harder than others. Okay. But like the one kid that's difficult when I just have only him, 01:41:29.780 --> 01:41:31.780 it's awesome. Like it's not even a problem. 01:41:32.400 --> 01:41:37.900 It's just, it's usually that you can't give him as much attention when there's all of him, or he's the instigator, or whatever. 01:41:37.900 --> 01:41:42.100 But usually when you just have one kid, it's just like, dang, this is like, fun. 01:41:42.100 --> 01:41:44.000 This is easy, okay? 01:41:44.000 --> 01:41:49.400 But unfortunately, our society has gotten so weird that they think just even one kid, 01:41:49.400 --> 01:41:52.200 you know, is somehow so awful and so difficult. 01:41:52.200 --> 01:41:55.300 That's just being a really selfish person. 01:41:55.300 --> 01:42:00.200 It's a really gross person. And look, you're not having postpartum when they're five years old, okay? 01:42:01.700 --> 01:42:03.700 Can we stop with that nonsense? 01:42:03.700 --> 01:42:04.200 Yeah. 01:42:04.200 --> 01:42:04.700 Okay. 01:42:05.400 --> 01:42:10.300 When they're five, I think you finally stop that that era or whatever. 01:42:10.800 --> 01:42:15.700 But you know, as a kid, you know, what would a what would a kid look like if he was being well behaved? 01:42:15.900 --> 01:42:17.900 Well, what if we just look to Jesus as our example? 01:42:18.800 --> 01:42:21.500 Luke chapter two, look at verse. 01:42:21.800 --> 01:42:24.760 46 and it came to pass that after three days they found him in the temple 01:42:25.160 --> 01:42:27.560 Sitting in the midst of the doctors both hearing them and asking the questions 01:42:27.880 --> 01:42:34.680 Jesus isn't going around causing a ruckus in the house of god. He's sitting down quietly asking questions wanting to learn 01:42:35.160 --> 01:42:37.160 Taking church seriously. Hey, you know 01:42:38.040 --> 01:42:41.260 As you get older in church, don't just be sitting here coloring 01:42:42.300 --> 01:42:46.280 Looking on your parents phone. You know you should be doing as a kid should be paying attention 01:42:46.660 --> 01:42:53.140 Maybe taking notes and look it's if Jesus is the one doing that. How about the men? How about the hey? 01:42:53.140 --> 01:42:59.780 I'm pro you taking notes in church and look I don't think you have to necessarily get out a pen and paper or whatever 01:42:59.780 --> 01:43:02.260 Hey, if you want to write down a note on your phone go for it 01:43:02.260 --> 01:43:07.780 I do that all the time when I'm listening to sermons and something hits me or strikes a quarter whatever I'll write down 01:43:07.780 --> 01:43:09.300 You know that thought 01:43:09.400 --> 01:43:14.600 Hey, you guys that want to get better at preaching and you come up with a sermon idea, write it down. 01:43:14.600 --> 01:43:18.520 Hey, if you want to take physical notes, go for it. I'm for that too. I'm just saying like, 01:43:18.520 --> 01:43:22.440 hey, when something strikes a chord or you remember something, write it down. 01:43:22.440 --> 01:43:26.520 Bring it up throughout the week. You know, Jesus is thinking about, you know, we should take church 01:43:26.520 --> 01:43:31.160 seriously. This is an opportunity to learn. Don't just let it all just go in one ear and out the 01:43:31.160 --> 01:43:33.800 other. This is not an opportunity to take a nap. 01:43:34.700 --> 01:43:40.300 Hey, you young teenagers, the decisions you're going to be making are going to affect the rest of your life. 01:43:40.300 --> 01:43:40.800 Yeah. 01:43:41.800 --> 01:43:46.500 Whether you're lazy, whether you work hard, whether you do a savings, whether you do retirement, 01:43:46.500 --> 01:43:50.700 whether you not do retirement, who you date, who you don't date, who you think of marrying, 01:43:50.700 --> 01:43:54.800 who you're not going to marry, what kind of education you pursue, what kind of career you pursue. 01:43:54.800 --> 01:43:58.700 Like, everything you're doing right now is going to impact almost the rest of your life. 01:43:58.700 --> 01:44:00.300 You should be taking it seriously. 01:44:01.700 --> 01:44:07.700 and considering it and not just not just have to go to church or whatever 01:44:07.700 --> 01:44:11.700 hey learn something right that's that's the behaving yourself in church is learning 01:44:11.700 --> 01:44:17.140 yes paying attention learning growing implementing hey you're gonna have verses come to mind you're 01:44:17.140 --> 01:44:22.260 gonna have applications come to mind you write them down you think about them you pray about them 01:44:22.260 --> 01:44:25.780 you implement them you know how can you go home and search the scriptures daily whether those 01:44:25.780 --> 01:44:27.620 things are so when you don't even remember what the sermon is about 01:44:28.800 --> 01:44:32.800 And I'll just be honest, like, it does bother me. 01:44:32.800 --> 01:44:34.640 I'll just be honest with you, it bothers me. 01:44:34.640 --> 01:44:35.840 When you ask somebody like, 01:44:35.840 --> 01:44:37.680 hey, what was the sermon about? 01:44:37.680 --> 01:44:39.280 And they're like, I don't remember anything about the sermon. 01:44:39.280 --> 01:44:40.080 Wow. 01:44:41.360 --> 01:44:43.680 You know, I mean, it was an hour and a half. 01:44:43.680 --> 01:44:44.800 I mean, you didn't remember anything? 01:44:44.800 --> 01:44:48.000 It's like, or it's just like, 01:44:48.960 --> 01:44:51.520 one time you said something about beans and chili, it was funny. 01:44:51.520 --> 01:44:54.880 You know, it's like, okay, thanks. 01:44:55.700 --> 01:45:00.140 You know, maybe like think about something in the sermon and meditate on it a little 01:45:00.140 --> 01:45:01.140 bit. 01:45:01.140 --> 01:45:03.260 You know, walk away with at least one thing. 01:45:03.260 --> 01:45:04.260 Okay? 01:45:04.260 --> 01:45:06.220 That's how we should behave as a church. 01:45:06.220 --> 01:45:08.580 We don't want to be a church where we walk away and we forget everything we hear. 01:45:08.580 --> 01:45:10.540 We don't want to be forgetful hearers of the Word. 01:45:10.540 --> 01:45:12.020 We want to be doers of the Word. 01:45:12.020 --> 01:45:15.260 We want to be people that are going home and searching the scriptures whether those things 01:45:15.260 --> 01:45:16.260 are so. 01:45:16.260 --> 01:45:18.780 We want to be men that are going home and having rules for our wives. 01:45:19.300 --> 01:45:22.300 We want to be women, you know, not me, but obviously, 01:45:22.300 --> 01:45:25.860 we want the women of our church to be good examples, 01:45:25.860 --> 01:45:28.900 you know, not going out and usurping authority over the man 01:45:28.900 --> 01:45:31.420 and trying to be a political blowhard. 01:45:31.420 --> 01:45:32.260 But you know what? 01:45:32.260 --> 01:45:34.980 Being sober, being meek, being quiet, 01:45:34.980 --> 01:45:35.940 you know, being a good example, 01:45:35.940 --> 01:45:38.780 loving their husbands, loving their children. 01:45:38.780 --> 01:45:39.620 You know what? 01:45:39.620 --> 01:45:40.980 We want the children to care about their lives 01:45:40.980 --> 01:45:43.540 and be serious, pay attention to the service, 01:45:43.540 --> 01:45:44.900 and before and after the service, 01:45:44.900 --> 01:45:46.580 not acting like hooligans. 01:45:47.300 --> 01:45:48.800 Treating the church with respect. 01:45:48.800 --> 01:45:49.300 And you know what? 01:45:49.300 --> 01:45:51.140 We need the parents to help with that. 01:45:51.140 --> 01:45:54.100 You know, please take care of your kids in the church. 01:45:54.100 --> 01:45:57.860 Let's just, you know, hey, at lunch, don't be wild. 01:45:57.860 --> 01:45:58.780 Don't be messy. 01:45:58.780 --> 01:45:59.660 Don't be running. 01:45:59.660 --> 01:46:01.300 Don't be crawling on the floor. 01:46:01.300 --> 01:46:02.940 Don't be getting cups so you don't need it. 01:46:02.940 --> 01:46:04.380 Don't mess with all the soul-wetting materials. 01:46:04.380 --> 01:46:05.180 Don't be wrestling. 01:46:05.180 --> 01:46:06.300 Don't be roughhousing. 01:46:06.300 --> 01:46:08.220 You know, let's behave ourselves, 01:46:08.220 --> 01:46:11.140 and let's be appropriate, and let's treat this institution 01:46:11.140 --> 01:46:12.220 as a house of God. 01:46:12.900 --> 01:46:17.900 and house of learning, and house of prayer, and house of focused, serious attention to 01:46:17.900 --> 01:46:18.900 the things of God. 01:46:18.900 --> 01:46:19.900 Let's close in prayer. 01:46:19.900 --> 01:46:20.900 Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for our church. 01:46:20.900 --> 01:46:24.700 Thank you so much for the men and the women and the children in this room. 01:46:24.700 --> 01:46:28.860 I pray that we take all of our roles in our job seriously, that we take church seriously, 01:46:28.860 --> 01:46:30.700 we take our Bible seriously. 01:46:30.700 --> 01:46:33.740 I pray that you'd help us to learn during the sermons. 01:46:34.200 --> 01:46:38.200 to take the instruction as something that we should apply in our lives. 01:46:38.200 --> 01:46:42.700 I pray that you would help the men to rule over their families and have rules and to enforce those rules. 01:46:42.700 --> 01:46:45.200 I pray that you would help the women to be submissive to their husbands, 01:46:45.200 --> 01:46:50.200 to love their husbands, to be obedient to their husbands, to be meek and quiet in their homes. 01:46:50.200 --> 01:46:52.200 I pray that you would help them to love their children. 01:46:52.200 --> 01:46:56.200 I pray that you would help the children to love and obey their parents, to do good on their parents. 01:46:56.200 --> 01:46:59.200 I pray that you would help us all pay attention to the things of God 01:46:59.200 --> 01:47:02.200 and respect the church and respect the things of God. 01:47:02.200 --> 01:47:06.200 and that you would continue to bless us. In Jesus name we pray, amen. 01:47:09.500 --> 01:47:13.880 Alright in closing, let's go to song number 20 song number 20 01:47:21.900 --> 01:47:26.480 Song number 20 when I see the blood 01:47:28.500 --> 01:47:30.500 Song number 20, let's all sing that together