Verse number six, the Bible says,
Then Jesus said unto them,
Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees
and of the Sadducees.
Now, in Matthew chapter number six,
Jesus Christ is telling them to beware,
and specifically the leaven of the Pharisees.
At first they think it's bread,
but in verse number 12, the Bible plainly tells us,
it says in verse 12,
Then understood they how that he bade them
not beware of the leaven of bread,
but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
So Jesus Christ, while he was on this earth,
he constantly went around rebuking false teaching,
rebuking false doctrine,
going around and saying, beware of these guys' doctrine.
These guys have false doctrine,
and he could just carte blanche just say,
this guy, this group, this Pharisee,
they just have bad doctrine.
You need to beware of their false doctrine here.
And you know what?
There's no new thing under the sun.
There's still groups of people,
there's certain individuals that we have to mark
and just say, beware of this person's doctrine,
beware of what this person is teaching,
this person is a wicked person.
And so the title of my sermon this morning,
since we're gonna go in modern vernacular,
is beware of the leaven of Adam Fannin.
Beware of the leaven of Adam Fannin.
Now some people would look and say,
oh, I can't believe you mishandled this situation
of steadfast and you did all these things bad,
you handled it poorly and blah, blah, blah.
Well, I don't care how you feel like I handled the situation
first of all, okay?
But second of all, let's just fast forward.
Let's move past that.
How about what is Adam Fannin teaching?
I mean, is this guy teaching the Bible?
Is this guy teaching good doctrine?
Or is he teaching false wicked doctrine?
Now, I've been, you know, a lot of people get mad at me
because I say Adam Fannin is unsaved.
Because when I preach be steadfast, the first sermon here,
I call them a false brethren, okay?
And that's my personal opinion.
That's what I believe about him.
But let me explain to you why I believe that, okay?
Beyond all of the wicked stuff he did.
How about all the false doctrine he teaches?
And here's the thing, just to illustrate you why, okay?
I took one sermon clip of his, just one.
One sermon clip is less than 20 minutes.
And I identified at least 10 false doctrines
he taught in less than 20 minutes.
And look, I don't listen to his preaching
because it's garbage, because it's just chock full of heresy
and you say, I don't even know who Adam Fannin is.
That's fine, because I'm just gonna tell you
the false doctrine he's teaching
and then teach you the Bible, okay, this morning.
And here's the thing, we're gonna look
at a lot of Bible this morning.
Go to Romans chapter 10.
Go to Romans chapter 10 for a moment.
But this sermon clip's called
Baptist Brighter Ordination Debunked, Pastors Beget Pastors.
The original sermon clip title used to be like
Apostolic Succession Exposed or something.
But essentially, he's trying to attack the idea
that a pastor begets a pastor or a church begets a church.
And that's his number one point in the clip.
He says that churches begetting churches
is a false doctrine.
That is bizarre, okay.
If you don't already disagree, I mean,
you just haven't been in church or something.
I haven't read the Bible.
This is what he says.
He says the priesthood,
and I'm giving direct quotes from his clip.
The priesthood of the believer
debunks this churches begetting churches
and pastors begetting pastors.
He says that the doctrine of the priesthood of the believer
somehow debunks the fact that churches beget churches.
And what kind of bizarre idea is that?
First of all, we believe in the priesthood of the believer.
That means that we're all servants of God.
We're all priests of God.
We're a royal priesthood.
The Bible says in Revelation chapter number one,
he's made of kings and priests and God the Father.
We believe that doctrine.
And yeah, every single Christian is a servant of God.
We're all priests.
But even the priests of the Old Testament,
not every priest was allowed to be the high priest, okay.
There was still an authority structure.
There was still a way and things which were handled.
And you know what?
They didn't just get to start their own priesthood either.
They got to do the priesthood that God gave them, okay.
And look, the church is gonna beget the church.
You say, how do you know that?
Well, let's look at some Bible.
Romans chapter 10, look at verse 14.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not
believed and also they believe in him whom they have not
heard and also they hear without a preacher.
And how shall they preach except they be sent?
Here's the question.
How can anybody get up and say legitimately,
I'm a preacher without being sent?
It never happens in your Bible.
Nobody in the Bible gets up and says,
I'm just gonna declare words to you.
They say, hey, God sent me.
They say, hey, this person sent me.
You're either sent by Moses or God or Jesus Christ
or an angel.
There's always someone sending someone to go out
and to preach.
And therefore, hey, where does the church get his authority?
From another church sending a preacher of some sort.
And you know what?
That preacher could be a pastor, could be a deacon,
could be an evangelist, could be a layman,
but at least they're sending a preacher.
And that's how they get their authority
is from another legitimate authority structure itself.
The church is gonna beget the church.
Go to Acts chapter four, Acts chapter 14.
Acts chapter number 14, just flip backwards a few pages.
Paul went around setting up churches.
Do you know why?
Because he was sent out of a local church to go out
and start other local churches.
The apostle Paul is not just this rogue missionary.
He didn't just say, I'm just gonna do whatever I want.
I'm just gonna start setting up church.
No, he was sent out of the church of Antioch.
Not only that, he was conferred
with the church of Jerusalem, okay?
Two churches have talked with Paul.
They're sending him out.
They're blessing his ministry.
They're telling him to do things.
And to say that the church doesn't get the church,
well, let's see how Paul did it.
Acts chapter 14 goes up, set up churches.
Verse 22, confirming the souls of the disciples
and exhorting them to continue in the faith
that we must through much tribulation
enter the kingdom of God.
And when they had ordained them elders in every church
and had prayed with fast,
and they commanded the Lord on whom they believed.
So who set up the pastors of these churches?
Paul did.
Paul went to an area that's not reached with the gospel.
He preached the gospel.
He got people saved.
They start the church.
The church is forming.
He's coming back to that same church.
Then he's ordaining elders in that church.
Look, it's not rocket science here, okay?
The church is sending out people.
They're setting up a church.
They're appointing the pastors over these churches.
And when the apostle Paul,
when you read through the epistles,
we don't have sake of time to read all the Bible here.
There's too much Bible.
But the apostle Paul talks about his realm of authority.
He has authority over these churches.
Where did he get that?
From the other churches,
from the Lord Jesus Christ specifically.
But how about the principle of the fact
that everything brings forth after its own kind?
This is a principle taught from Genesis
all the way to Revelation.
The Bible makes it clear when it's talking
about the fruit tree yielding fruit after its own kind,
about the grass and the herb yielding seed after his kind.
I mean, everything's bringing after its kind
carnally and spiritually.
We see you can only get an apple tree from an apple tree.
You can only get a human from a human, okay?
Evolution debunked instantly.
You can only get things from the same type of source.
And Jesus Christ brings this up spiritually
saying that an evil tree cannot produce good fruit.
And a good tree is only going to produce good fruit.
So how do you get a church then?
A church begets a church.
It's not rocket science here.
This is a horrible doctrine.
And you say, why is this such an important doctrine,
Pastor Shelley?
Well, I take what Adam Fannin is teaching
and we apply it, okay?
That means we never need to send anybody out again.
Because we'll just tell all these people out there,
hey, just start gathering together and now you're a church.
Just y'all just get together and just church.
So, you know, you got, and in fact, all of you,
you can just go out and grab a few buddies from a church
and now you're a church, right?
I mean, if you just apply his logic, he's saying,
church don't beget church.
Okay, where do they come from?
They just pop out of nowhere according to him.
Just people just get together
and start calling themselves a church.
And look, this happens all the time.
People do this all the time.
It's not legitimate.
These house church movements.
And you know what?
There's lots of churches that do this.
They leave a church, church split,
and then they just call themselves a church.
That is not legitimate in the scriptures.
And you know what happens?
All the time, it's not a Baptist thing.
It's an everyone thing.
And in fact, most of the time,
these churches are the biggest non-denom churches
in your area.
The largest church in the area I grew up, Amarillo,
the Trinity Fellowship Church,
the church that I was going to,
you know how they started?
Church split.
The pastor got up and he said,
hey, anybody that believes in this false speaking in tongues
and this charismatic movement, get out of my church.
And so like 20 people left the church
and they formed their own church in the living room.
And then they ordained their own pastor.
And now it runs 10,000.
And you say, how can these churches grow to so big,
so quickly?
It's because they're a weed, okay?
And they have no rules, no authority, no real structure.
They don't preach against anybody
because they don't have to preach against themselves.
So they just attract anybody.
And they say, come as you are, welcome everybody.
We won't judge you.
And then everybody else that's been kicked out of church,
they're all like, let's go.
And it becomes a trashcan church
where it attracts other bad people that have been kicked out
and they don't turn anyone away.
That's what makes a trashcan church.
They won't turn anything away.
What does a trashcan not accept?
That's why our church is not a trashcan
because we don't accept everything.
You know what, not all trash is the same.
And I already preached that sermon, taking out the trash.
You go reference that sermon, okay?
Sometimes you can recycle things out of the trash
and I get that.
But you know what?
It's a trash, it's still trash, okay?
So number one, false doctrine
that you need to be aware of, Adam Fanon,
is he teaches that churches be getting churches
and pastors be getting pastors is a false doctrine.
The Bible from cover to cover eliminates this.
It's just super clear, okay?
Now, number two in this video that he has,
he said churches always come together
and then they appoint a shepherd.
So he says the way these churches get formed
is just people just come together
and then they just appoint their own pastor.
And he said that's the only example you see in the Bible.
Every single time, that's the only thing you ever see
is the churches coming together out of nowhere
and then appointing their own leader.
Here's my first question, okay?
What was the catalyst for them to do that?
Right?
I mean, if all these people just decided to come together,
who told them to come together?
How did they come together?
Who was the first leader?
Who decided any of these things?
How does that even happen?
How does that organically happen
that just a bunch of saved people just run in,
start a church, start a church, yeah, woo!
Let's just all show up at the same place
and just start a church?
I mean, something had to be the catalyst here, didn't it?
You know what usually the catalyst is?
People getting thrown out of a church.
That's usually the catalyst, okay?
And only because of the internet phenomenon
is this even possible.
Only through the internet, really.
Where would you have this capability
of all these people connecting like this
and then just deciding to form this little trashcan church?
I mean, otherwise, how are you gonna get in contact
with all these other trashcan people
to really start these churches?
That's why with communication increasing,
we see all these trashcan churches populating in America.
Non-denominational churches, all of these church splits,
all of these things coming together,
because phones, technology, the internet, email,
all these forms of communication.
Because if churches actually exercise church discipline
and the only churches existed from other churches
forming other churches, when someone gets kicked out,
you know what they have to do?
Either get right with God or stay out of church.
But people don't like that.
They wanna go to Dan and worship there.
They wanna worship their false god
and act spiritual anyways.
So they have to set up their own little trashcan churches
and there's no new thing under the sun, my friend.
He says everywhere in the Bible,
you always see that the church came first
and then a leader was appointed from within that church.
Now let me prove this false.
Go to Matthew chapter 16.
Matthew chapter number 16.
Let me give you a really good example of how that's false.
The Bible says in Acts chapter number seven
that this is that Moses,
which said in the children of Israel,
a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up
unto you of your brethren, like unto me him shall ye hear.
This is he that was in the church in the wilderness
with the angel which spake to him in the Mount Sinai
and with our fathers who received the light of the oracles
to give unto us.
And here's the thing, the Bible says
that the children of Israel were like a church
and he knew it was like their pastor, Moses.
Now let me ask this.
Was Moses among the people and elected by the people?
Or was he off by himself in the wilderness
and God said, you're gonna be the leader?
And then he had to come and tell everybody,
hey, I'm the leader.
And were they just like, sweet.
Or they're a little bit of resistance
every once in a while, right?
How about when he tried to do it from within?
They rejected him, didn't they?
He wanted to be their leader at first.
Among the people, they rejected him.
He had to come back with God's anointing
and God's power on his life and say,
hey, I'm leading you guys out.
And then he still had to fight a lot of resistance
and a lot of people were naysayers
and a lot of mixed multitude in that situation.
How can you say, oh, every single time,
every single time the leader's appointed from within.
How about never, okay?
Now look at Matthew chapter 16, look at verse 17.
And Jesus answered and said unto him,
blessed art thou, Simon Barjona,
for flesh and blood have not revealed it unto thee.
But my Father, which is in heaven,
and I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter.
And upon this rock I will build my church,
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it,
and I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven,
and whatsoever thou shalt bind unto her
shall be bound in heaven,
and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth
shall be loose in heaven.
Now here's the thing,
the Catholics take this verse a little too far.
They take this and they say Peter's the first pope
and then they have a pope,
which is like the vicar of Christ.
That's all false.
But what you have to understand
is that Jesus is talking to Peter here, okay?
And let me break down this verse for a moment.
This is a verse a lot of people don't really understand.
How does it start out?
Jesus is asking, who am I, right?
He's asking, who am I?
And they're like, thou art the Christ, okay?
So then what's Jesus gonna say to Peter?
Well, first of all, notice how he describes him
in verse 17, Simon Barjona.
Who does he call him?
Simon Barjona.
Bar means son of, so Simon, the son of Jonah.
He says, well, you call me the son of God, okay?
Well, look at this, verse 18.
And I say unto thee that thou art Peter.
Notice he changed names, didn't he?
He called him Simon Barjona.
Now he's calling him Peter.
You wanna know what Peter means?
Rock.
You know, he's also called Cephas.
And the Bible tells you, being interpretation, a stone.
Now here's the thing, Cephas, Aramaic.
Peter, Greek.
It's the same name, though.
Why would you call someone Peter?
Now, keep your finger,
because I wanna keep looking at these verses,
but go, if you would, to Mark chapter three.
I wanna prove something to you for a moment, okay?
This is important.
He's saying, who am I?
He's saying, you're the son of God.
Now Jesus is returning the favor.
He's telling Simon who he is.
Well, you're Peter.
He's calling him a rock.
And you say, oh, is that just his other name?
Wait a minute, let's see where he got that name.
Mark chapter number three, look at verse 13.
And he goeth up into a mountain
and calleth unto him whom he would.
And they came unto him, and he ordained 12.
So who ordained Jesus Christ?
Not a multitude of bozos.
That they should be with him,
and that he might send them forth to preach,
and that power to heal sickness is,
and to cast out devils.
And Simon, notice this, he surnamed Peter.
Where did Simon get his name, Peter?
From Jesus Christ.
So Jesus Christ is saying, hey, Peter,
you're Peter, you're Cephas, you're a rock.
Let's go back and read our verse that we've been reading.
Matthew chapter number 16.
Hey, who do you say that I am?
You're the son of God, okay.
Well, what I say unto thee, thou art Peter,
and upon this rock, I will build my church
from the gates of hell, so not prevail against it.
Now who's the most instrumental person
in building the church in the New Testament?
Peter.
Why?
Because he's that rock that he's allowing
to start the church.
He's appointing him to be the first leader
to start the church, and it's proven through the scriptures.
Now think about what he says unto Peter
after he's risen again.
He looks at Peter, he comes unto him,
he pulls him out of the water.
What does he say?
Simon, son of Jonas, loveth thou me?
He saith to them, yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee.
He saith to them, feed my sheep.
Here's my question, where's Peter's church
at that point in time?
Doesn't exist.
He's telling him, you're the leader.
You're the rock.
You're the one that needs to get this church kicked off.
You're the one that needs to get it started.
And then as soon as Jesus Christ goes up into heaven,
who do we see taking the charge?
Peter, standing up in the multitude, doesn't he?
And the Holy Ghost falls.
Hey, when they're asking all these questions
about the preaching, where they're speaking in other tongues,
who's the guy that gets up and preaches the great sermon?
Peter does.
Peter is that rock, he's that stone,
and he's that strong leader
to get the church off of the ground.
Now, who picked Peter?
A congregation of Bozos or Jesus?
Jesus Christ picked Peter to be that strong leader,
and then he's sending him into the work,
sending him into the mission field,
sending him to be that first rock of the church at Jerusalem.
Oh, you know, we never see appointed leader.
First, it's always a congregation coming together,
and then they self-appoint a leader.
Never happened in that instance.
Now, you do see, obviously,
people being picked out of a group to be a pastor,
Titus chapter number one, and other things,
but the person doing the picking is always that leader.
It's not the congregation.
Okay, now, there's a couple things
that we'll talk about here in a moment,
because we're gonna put this to bed, all right?
But go, if you would, to John chapter number 10,
John chapter number 10.
Not only this, he says,
a shepherd without sheep is a hireling.
So apparently, Peter was a hireling
when Jesus was talking to him.
But why can't we just let the Bible
tell us what a hireling is?
Because a shepherd without a sheep is out of business, okay?
He needs to get to work, but it doesn't make him a hireling.
What has he been hired to do?
He's just, he's needing to go and get some laborers,
all right, he's needing to go out
and find some sheep to tend to.
He needs to go find all those lost sheep
and bring them back together, okay?
But yes, you can be a shepherd without sheep, my friend.
That's a silly doctrine, that's a silly statement to make.
But let's find out what a hireling actually looks like.
John chapter 10, verse 11.
So this is his third false doctrine.
He says, Jesus Christ said, I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
But he that is a hireling, and not the shepherd,
whose own the sheep are not,
seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep,
and fleeth, and the wolf catcheth them,
and scattereth the sheep.
The hireling fleeth because he is a hireling,
and careth not for the sheep.
So is it saying that the hireling has no sheep?
No, it's saying he does have sheep.
It's saying he abandons the sheep
when he sees a wolf coming.
And we see this all the time.
Like maybe Adam Fanon walking into your church
and not fighting for your sheep.
That person's a hireling.
That's the person that's not really willing
to fight for the congregation.
How about leaving the sheep with Adam Fanon
and not fighting against the wolf?
You know, that was put on the table for me
when I was gonna be the pastor of this church.
Hey, why don't you just let them just go do their own thing?
Why don't you just let them just separate
and they can just be independent already,
and they'll figure out their own problems.
Well, you know what, if I was a hireling,
I would have said sure, because he just flees.
He's just like, oh, you got a wolf over there,
but have fun with him.
Or you could make a public video and say the guy's a wolf.
And yeah, a lot of people don't like that.
But you know what, the hireling's not gonna
call out the wolf.
The hireling's not gonna be like, hey, here's a wolf.
He's running from the wolf.
And you know what, plenty of pastors do this today.
You see this in all kinds of churches.
What do they do?
A pastor comes in, he's there for one, two, three years
in the church, he noticed all the wolves in there,
and instead of fighting against them,
he just moves to another church.
He just swaps churches.
Look, most churches today, they swap pastors all the time.
Independent fundamental Baptist churches can do this too,
but like, you're outside of these denominations,
I mean, there's pastors swapping left and right.
Those are the hirelings, because when they
see the wolf, they don't wanna fight,
they don't want it to be ugly,
they don't wanna go through a church split,
they don't wanna call anybody's name out,
they don't wanna get public attack videos,
they don't want people to come in their house
and take pictures of them and try to slander them
and lie against them, so they're just like,
ah, I don't wanna deal with all that.
I don't blame them for not wanting to deal with that.
But, you know what, you're a coward.
You're a hireling at that point.
Someone has to stand up to the wolf!
Someone!
Why can't it be the pastor?
Why can't it be the shepherd to say,
hey, this guy's a wolf!
I'm not gonna let him come in the congregation.
And you know what, bags are not wolves
dressed in sheep's clothing.
They're a wolf dressed in another wolf outfit
with a skirt on, okay?
I mean, wrapped around their waist.
Look, there are wolves today,
and they're not just walking in like, I'm a wolf.
Unless they're Doug Trowbridge, he does, okay?
I mean, they're not just like, super obvious all the time.
And you know what, it's one of the jobs,
it's not the only job, it's one of the jobs
of a pastor to identify wolves and say,
you're not welcome in this congregation.
You need to get out, you need to take a hike, buddy,
and if you don't, I'm gonna use the rod.
Now, go over to Titus chapter number two,
Titus chapter number two, that's third false doctrine.
Fourth false doctrine he has, and I'm trying to go quickly,
but you know what, we need to get through this leaven
and expose this false doctrine here.
Because some people, I guess, have forgotten
how bad Adam Fannin is,
so we're gonna help remind them.
Number four, historically, biblical authority,
this is what he said, Adam Fannin.
Historically, biblical authority comes from the scriptures.
The scriptures say it's the congregation,
it's the people that have authority, not the potpourri.
Well, first of all, you know, there's no pope around here.
But he says that he does not agree
with pastoral authority or a leader.
He thinks the congregation is the one with authority.
It's not an individual.
Well, okay, he said it's the scriptures that matter, though.
Where's your scripture?
Let's see if there's any scriptures
that say something different, all right?
Titus chapter two, look at verse 15.
These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority.
Let no man despise, and look at this word, thee.
Is thee singular or plural?
Thee is singular.
You know why?
Because Titus is the one with authority as an individual,
not the congregation, my friend.
Go if you would to 2 Timothy chapter two, flip backwards.
1 Timothy chapter three, instructions of the Timothy.
But if I tarry along, thou mayest know how thou
oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God,
which is the church of the living God,
the pillar and the ground of the truth.
Why would the apostle Paul write specific letters
to a person named Timothy, a person named Titus,
and say they're the one with authority?
Here's the instructions of how to open and run the church,
and say, oh, it's the congregation, though.
Where's the congregate?
Look, he has plenty of epistles to congregations.
I don't remember that.
I remember him saying, I have authority.
I remember him saying, Timothy has authority.
I remember him saying, Titus has authority.
I remember him saying, you guys have all the authority here.
You know what Paul's saying?
Hey, some of you guys don't even believe in resurrection.
Let's put that guy in authority.
Let's put that guy in charge.
He's saying some people need to get thrown out.
Do we let him vote too?
Do we let the guy in fornication decide
whether or not he should say?
I mean, it doesn't even make sense, my friend.
Second Timothy chapter two, look at verse two.
And the things that thou has heard of me among many witnesses
the same commit thou to faithful men,
who should be able to teach others also.
Who's the one appointing other preachers?
Who's the one making the decisions of who's faithful?
Thou.
Timothy is the one making these decisions.
How could this point to a congregational authority?
Go if you would to Acts 13, Acts 13.
I'll read for you Acts chapter 20.
The Bible says the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers.
How could you have an overseer if the church is
the one in authority?
That doesn't even make sense.
What successful company even runs like this?
There's no managers, no CEO.
Everyone's in charge.
Well, my first order of business, I deserve a pay raise.
All right.
And I get more vacation.
I mean, what in the world?
How do these things even work?
And look, we're not voting as a church
if we're going to change the NIV.
We're not voting on our doctrine.
We're not voting on who gets to come and go.
We're not voting on anything.
You get to show up, all right?
You get to vote on which donut you want.
That's your authority, all right?
So I don't like that.
Oh, I want to go to church where I get to vote on everything.
Well, guess what?
It's called democracy, and it sucks.
Because you're not the one in charge.
Everyone's in charge, and everyone sucks.
Let me tell you that, all right?
Now, one other thing I want to say
is this is the statements that he makes.
Scriptural authority is what we stand on right after that.
OK, what's scripture?
He says this, so we see apostles Paul and Barnabas
are ordaining pastors and evangelists in the congregation.
So mind you, he tells you that the congregation
is the one authority.
And then he says, so we see Paul and Barnabas
are ordaining pastors and evangelists.
How is that congregation an ordination?
He can't even get his own story straight.
And that's very consistent throughout the sermon.
He constantly contradicts this one himself.
He says, apostles beginning an evangelist or a pastor,
that debunks pastors beginning pastors.
What?
So he says, because the apostle Paul ordained a pastor,
that proves that pastors don't beget pastors.
But here's the thing you have to understand.
There is no more apostles.
So we're just saying today, pastors beget pastors, right?
We're not saying that it was never possible
that an apostle could ordain one.
It's just saying now, since we don't
have any pastors beget pastors, he doesn't put forth the way
that a pastor gets ordained other than just,
I guess you get a bunch of bozos to say pastor to you.
He says this, where does the Bible
say pastors begetting pastors?
He says he asked this question
and no one can give him an answer.
It's just crickets.
There might just be crickets is the only thing you hear
in your head, Adam, but you know what?
There's plenty of people that can teach you this doctrine.
You just don't wanna listen.
Now Acts chapter 13, this is his fifth false doctrine.
He said this, the congregation,
he's taking this congregation ordination
to the extreme, my friend.
He says the congregation ordained Barnabas as an apostle
and the implies that the apostle Paul was also ordained
as an apostle by the congregation
in the context of what he's saying.
So you didn't know you had so much power.
You could just set up an apostle pretty soon.
He asked this question, who ordained Paul and Barnabas?
And he goes, well, all apostles are ordained of God.
He says, at least it's appointed by God.
But then he says this, in chapter 13,
Barnabas is called a prophet and teacher.
And then in chapter 14, he's called an apostle.
So he's trying to read between the lines here
and say that Barnabas somehow became an apostle
from chapter 13 to 14 when him and Paul got sent out.
So they're claiming that this is a congregational ordination
and that's when he became an apostle.
Now I'm gonna destroy this false doctrine, okay?
If you believe the Bible, there's no way to believe this.
It's not even possible, okay?
It's not like, well, maybe he's right, it's just wrong, okay?
Now look at Acts chapter 13, verse one.
Now there were in the church, let me just say this again.
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch
certain prophets and teachers as Barnabas and Simeon
that was called Niger and Lucius of Cyrene and Manian,
which had been brought up with Herod the T-trarch and Saul.
As they ministered to the Lord and fasted,
the Lord said, separate me Barnabas and Saul
for the work where into I've called them.
And when they had fasted and prayed
and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Now he first says that this is a congregational ordination.
It's five guys, okay?
Is this really a church of five dudes?
No, okay?
First of all, he says it's a group ordination.
Well, I'd agree that there's multiple people involved
in this particular sending out and it makes sense.
Hey, if we had a church running 2,000,
we could potentially have four or five pastors on staff.
Churches that run 1,000, 2,000, that many people,
they have pastors and assistant pastors
and lots of people doing the work of the ministry.
It's not feasible for me to minister to 2,000 people.
I've read a lot of articles that say
you can't even do it to 200.
That it's just too difficult.
You have to have other people involved to help minister,
to help get the work of the Lord done
because you just can't do it by yourself, Moses, right?
So it's basically like having a church
with all these pastors and they identify,
hey, you guys are doing a lot here,
but you could do even more out there
or there's another church that needs you
and they identify two of the pastors out of the five,
they say, let's send you.
Now it calls them prophets and teachers, absolutely.
But here's the thing, who does the preaching at the church?
The pastors, the apostles, okay?
And just because someone's called a prophet or teacher
does not mean they're not an apostle already.
It's just identifying another thing they're doing.
Look, these five guys are all in full-time ministry.
Look what it says in verse two,
as they minister to the Lord.
Notice these guys aren't doing other things.
Their full-time job is ministry.
It's talking about five guys in ministry,
identify, they could be deacons, pastors, apostles.
I don't know, it doesn't matter.
But guess what, they're ordained, my friend.
It's ordained leadership identifying,
let's make a split here
so we can do more work for the Lord.
Which makes sense.
It's saying, hey, how is this a congregational ordination?
Now go to Acts chapter number 11.
Acts chapter number 11,
he would say that the church
could never have authority over another church
that's just this one congregation deciding things.
Well, let's prove this false for a moment.
Acts chapter number 11, and let's look at verse number 21.
And the hand of the Lord was with them,
and a great number believed in turn of the Lord.
So the church of Jerusalem's hearing
about all the people of the Gentiles getting saved,
all this great works that are going on.
It says in verse 22, then tidings of these came,
and to the ears of the church was it Jerusalem,
and they sent forth Barnabas
that he should go as far as Antioch.
So when's the first time Barnabas is sent out of a church?
It's actually in Acts chapter number 11.
They're the ones that sent him to that church.
Now if I send a leader to another church,
you know what he's gonna do with that church?
Be the leader.
And then we see in Acts chapter 13, he's the leader.
He's the one preaching, he's the one being a prophet.
It's just identifying.
Now was he an apostle in Acts chapter number 11?
Or was it after in 13 like Adam Bannon teaches?
Well, go if you would to 1 Corinthians 15.
Let's leave no stone unturned.
It also says in Acts chapter number 15,
I'm gonna read a little bit here for you
about church authority.
It says in verse 22,
then it pleased the apostles and elders
with the whole church to send chosen men
of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas,
namely Judas, their name Bursabas,
and Silas, chief men among the brethren.
So the church of Jerusalem,
they're hearing about what other churches are doing.
They're sending their leaders
to go and be the leaders of other churches.
We're independent, we're so independent.
Well then how come the church of Jerusalem
gets to send leaders to other churches?
How does that work?
It's because they're getting formed,
they're getting started.
Obviously because churches beget churches.
We already established that.
But I had you go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 15.
Let's ask this question.
When was Barnabas ordained as an apostle?
Were Barnabas and Paul ordained as apostles
in Acts chapter 13?
Well, look at verse number four.
Talking about the gospel and he was buried
and he rose again the third day according to the scriptures
and then he was seen of Cephas, then of the 12,
after that he was seen of above 500 brethren at once
of whom the greater part remain under this present.
But some are falling asleep.
After that he was seen of James, then of all the apostles.
So the apostle Paul's defining the gospel
and then he's making a point to say
every single apostle saw the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ.
Notice what it says.
Then of all the apostles,
all the apostles saw the Lord Jesus Christ.
You know why you're an apostle?
Because you saw the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ.
That's the whole point, my friend.
Is they're eyewitnesses of his resurrection.
That they're going around preaching the gospel
and not just hearsay, they saw it.
Oh, that's shocking that Jesus would use eyewitnesses.
No, it's not.
It makes a lot of sense, okay?
Now this is important.
Look at verse eight.
And last of all, he was seen of me also,
notice this, as one born out of due time.
The apostle Paul says that he became an apostle
way after every other apostle.
So how is it that Barnabas and Paul
got ordained apostles at the same time in Acts chapter 13?
It's impossible, my friend.
And notice the apostle Paul was way after
everybody else that's an apostle
because Barnabas was an apostle way before Paul, my friend.
And it wasn't in Acts chapter number 13.
That's a wicked false doctrine.
It's a stupid false doctrine to try and teach this.
Let me prove it more.
Go to Galatians chapter one.
Galatians chapter one.
Look, you don't ordain apostles.
It doesn't happen, okay?
The church can ordain a pastor.
It can ordain a deacon and evangelist.
These are the roles that we look at.
These are the ones we find in scripture.
These are the offices that God has given us.
I didn't see the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ.
You didn't.
The bum on the street corner didn't either, okay?
He'll tell you he did.
Galatians chapter one, look at verse one.
Paul, an apostle.
Notice this, not of men.
Notice this, neither by man.
What man ordained the apostle Paul as the apostle?
Zero, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father
who raised him up from the dead.
And you know what?
Paul says I'm an apostle, a preacher, a teacher,
because you can be more than one thing, okay, FYI.
Now go to Acts chapter number six.
Point number five just is a stupid, horrible, false talk.
Look, this is less than 20 minutes
he's teaching this many heresies.
And look, I'm saying at least
because I'm sure there's ones I didn't catch.
And there was a few that I just threw out
because they were a little complicated
to explain to everybody all the weird stuff
that he was teaching, okay?
Number six, he says that the congregation ordained Stephen
in Acts chapter number six.
Now this is where they try to scrounge the scriptures
and try to find like a congregation ordination.
This is usually what they go to.
This is like their best proof or whatever.
But he has to twist the scriptures in order to use it.
Now in Acts chapter number six and verse number two
it says then the 12, doesn't it?
Then the 12, who's the 12 disciples, apostles?
Says verse three, wherefore, brethren,
look ye out among you seven men of honest report
full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom
whom we may appoint over this business.
So who wants to do the appointing?
Who wants to do the ordaining?
The 12 apostles, okay?
Verse four, we will give ourselves continually to prayer
and to the ministry of the word
and the saying, please the whole multitude.
Notice who's doing the full-time ministry, the apostles.
Remember when we were in Acts chapter 13
who was doing the full-time ministry?
Oh, those five guys, I bet they might have been leaders.
I bet they might have been apostles, okay?
And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith
and of the Holy Ghost and Philip and Procurius
and Acanter and Timon and Parmenas
and Nicholas, a proselyte of Antioch.
Notice this, whom they set before the apostles
and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
Now he says in verse number six,
the first they there is the church, is the congregation.
Any five-year-old could read this and tell you
that it was the apostles for they, okay?
But let's just say that it wasn't for a second.
Here's my question, who did the apostles ordain then?
Hey, we wanna ordain a bunch of guys, okay?
We ordain these guys, here you go.
It's like, who did they ordain then?
They didn't ordain anybody.
It completely ruins the whole point of the scripture,
saying, hey, we wanna ordain people over here.
Well, we'll just take care of it ourselves.
No, they set them before the apostles and said,
hey, these are the guys that you should ordain.
And then guess what?
The apostles laid their hands on them
and the apostles ordained them
and the apostles gave them the Holy Ghost
and the apostles appointed them.
Now obviously, when it comes to ordination,
doesn't it just make common sense
to just ask everybody, hey, do you like this guy?
Hey, do you think this guy's a good guy?
And in fact, whenever I took over this church,
I did do that.
Whenever I was taking over Jacksonville,
I just said, hey, I asked a bunch of guys,
I said, give me your top three guys in the church
that you think should be the leader, excluding yourself.
And then I just let them speak.
And I said, okay, there's the guy, let's put him in church.
And you know what, he did a very good job
and I like Brother Theo, he's a very good guy.
You know, he did a good job, I mean, the best that he could.
And you know what, it makes sense to ask the congregation,
but you know who appointed him?
Not the congregation, I did.
If they had said Adam Fannin, I would have said, get out.
Okay?
I'd have been like, well, these guys are all Judases,
so get out.
Go to Titus chapter one, Titus chapter one.
Look, this is a doctrine of convenience for Adam Fannin, why?
Because no pastor, no pastor wanted him, zero.
He makes a video saying, waiting for a better option.
When did that come?
What was that better option?
I remember a lot of other pastors saying
that they didn't want him to, publicly.
So I made a video about it.
Look, I mean, who wants this guy?
I mean, only a fool would want this guy.
Only a fool would want to partner up with someone
that's showing themselves to be evil, duplicitous,
teaching all this false doctrine.
Now, number seven, he says this,
when Titus chapter one verse five says, ordain elders,
he says that means older men.
He says elder means older men here.
So, well, let's just read the sentence
the way he believes it, okay?
Because ordain means choose.
He says, for this cause, let thy thee accrete,
that thou shouldest set in order the things
that are wanting, and choose older men,
and every city as I'd appointed thee.
There's my question, if that was what it said,
which it doesn't, what are you choosing them to do?
Choose older men.
If I can't let you say, hey, Brother Colin,
choose older men, what do you think
your first question would be?
To do what?
For what reason?
If I said, hey, we need to pick some pastors.
We need to ordain a bishop here.
We need to pick a bishop here.
That actually makes sense.
It's a full sentence.
It actually coincides with the context.
He's just saying, pick older men.
And then just, I guess, through indirect context,
you'd pick up that it meant about a bishop later.
That's silly.
This is a weird thing.
But here's my next question.
Okay, older men, how old?
These are some pretty important questions, right?
You think God was like, hey, pick older people.
And you're like, God, how old?
No answer.
I'm gonna give you just list after list after list
of qualifications, but I'm gonna forget to tell you how old.
And older than what?
You know, at certain points in American history,
the average age of people that would live
like 40 years old, you know?
I mean, you can't just look and isolate yourself
into 2020, my friend.
There's been plenty of times throughout history
where people are commonly dying at age 40 and 50.
That's the old.
So, who's old in that generation?
What if people start living to be 120 in the,
I don't know.
I mean, do we have to wait until we are 100?
It's gonna be a sparse group to pick from.
Anybody close to 100 in here?
Like, what's the age?
It's a stupid doctrine.
It doesn't make any sense.
It's an ominous proclamation according to him.
And you know, you point out verses like 1 Timothy 4,
let no man despise thy youth, right, about Timothy.
That applies in the face of his doctrine.
So he says, well, that's because Timothy's not a pastor.
You know, when you have a false doctrine,
you know what you have to do?
Make lots of more false doctrines.
Number eight false doctrine, he says,
I'm gonna prove that Timothy is an evangelist
and not a pastor.
He said he's gonna prove it.
2 Timothy, look at 2 Timothy 4.
This is how he proves it.
2 Timothy 4, verse 25, okay?
But watch thou in all things and do afflictions,
do the work of an evangelist.
Make full proof of thy ministry.
He says because he tells him to do the work of an evangelist,
that means he's an evangelist.
That doesn't mean that necessarily.
And honestly, if that's what that meant,
it's a pretty hardcore dis.
If I look at you and I say, do the job of a husband,
are you gonna think like pastor thinks I'm doing a good job?
You know?
If you came up and said, do the work of a pastor,
it sounds like I'm like really failing at my job, doesn't it?
But if I'm just kind of telling you one aspect of your job,
reminding you about that,
it's not really as harsh of a rebuke.
It's kind of a different spirit.
He has a different spirit.
But let me prove to you a reason why this makes no sense.
It can't be logical, okay?
And again, Adam Pham doesn't know the Bible.
He doesn't really understand.
He's familiar with the text, but he doesn't understand it,
so he can't see through how this doesn't make sense, okay?
He claims that Timothy is an evangelist.
So he says evangelists can ordain pastors,
which again, somehow supports his congregational ordination.
It doesn't, okay?
You're just swapping one problem for another,
you know, with that idea.
But go to Acts chapter number eight.
Acts number eight, let me say why this is so silly.
You really think that an evangelist can ordain a pastor,
okay, yet the Bible tells us very clearly
that the evangelist doesn't have certain authority.
It tells us that the laying on of hands of evangelists
doesn't work in certain areas.
Now, Acts chapter 21 tells us
a person named Philip was the evangelist.
The word evangelist used three times in your Bible.
There, here, and it also talks about,
it gave some apostles and, you know,
prophets and teachers, evangelists, pastors, okay?
There's a list in Ephesians.
So we know Philip's an evangelist.
Here's our one example, all right?
Now, verse 14, Acts chapter eight, verse 14.
Now when the apostles which read Jerusalem
heard that Samaria had received the word of God,
they sent unto them Peter and John,
who, when they were come down,
prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost.
For as yet he was fallen upon none of them,
only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus,
then laid they their hands on them
and they received the Holy Ghost.
And when Simon saw that through the laying on
of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given,
he offered them money.
Philip the evangelist goes out,
preaches the gospel, gets people saved,
he gets people baptized,
but then if they want the Holy Ghost,
he cannot give it to them.
They have to send Peter and John
at the beginning of this ministry
for the apostles to lay hands on people
for them to receive the Holy Ghost.
But go back to 1 Timothy chapter five,
1 Timothy chapter five.
So if I'm an evangelist, I can preach the gospel,
I can baptize, we see that example with Philip, okay?
But can I give someone that filling of the Holy Ghost?
No, the Bible tells us that he couldn't, okay?
But then Timothy is given instruction
in 1 Timothy chapter five, look at verse 22.
Lay hands suddenly on no man,
neither be overtaken by the men's sins,
keep thyself pure.
Who does the laying on of hands for the pastor?
Timothy, so you're telling me
that the evangelist can't give someone
the Holy Ghost that just saved,
but he can give a Holy Ghost anointing to a pastor.
It's like, what in the world?
Of course not.
That's so illogical.
Well, I can't lay my hands on a layman,
just a random person, they get filled with the Holy Ghost,
but I could lay it on a pastor
and he could get the Holy Ghost anointing.
He could get the special gift
because God just decides like random gifts
to get the people.
Well, lay hands on just pastors, not regular people.
It's like, no, the evangelist
just doesn't have that authority.
It's a position to go out and evangelize,
preach the gospel and baptize, okay?
If you wanna do other things,
you need somebody else like a pastor, okay?
Now, then he says this, not only that,
he says Timothy did not even meet
the requirements of a bishop.
He says because he's too young,
because the Bible says,
let no man despise thy youth.
So he was too young, so he couldn't have been a pastor.
Look, it's just false doctrine after false doctrine.
Look, let me say this about age, it's a number.
I don't care about the age of the guy.
Can he do the job?
How about the qualifications God actually gave us?
You know what?
And look, obviously,
there's gonna be a realm of practicality.
A 17 year old's not gonna meet all the requirements
of a pastor, my friend, okay?
In my estimation, I doubt someone could get there
before the age of like 24, 25,
just from practicality of the fact
that he has to be married for a while
and have faithful children.
I mean, that's gonna take some time, okay?
It's gonna take a little bit of time,
but once someone's there,
once someone's godly and is capable of doing the job,
I don't really care about that age.
That doesn't bother me.
You know, a lot of people love preaching
from Faith Word Baptist Church in 2006.
I do.
I love listening to that preaching.
That's some of the most powerful preaching I've ever heard.
And Pastor Anderson was 24.
I wouldn't have thought that.
I've listened to Pastor Menes' early sermons at age 25.
They're filled with power.
I've listened to guys that are 80, and they're powerful.
They get up there, and they're just kinda like,
they barely get up there, but when they get up there,
they're just like, bam!
They're preaching the word of God.
They're like Caleb, you know?
Their natural force comes back to them or something.
It's abated.
It's not abated yet or whatever.
Look, I don't care what the age is.
Can you do the job?
And you know what, it's so silly.
These people wanna make it about age.
Why?
Because they just happen to be older.
Doctrine and convenience again.
Because Adam Fan is 40 or something.
How is that old?
I mean, I don't know.
Who's making these determinations?
And you know what?
He then goes on.
He says, not only is Timothy not qualified,
I'm not qualified.
He said that I'm not an elder.
He said, because I'm too young.
So here's the thing.
When is Adam Fan gonna preach against every single pastor
in America that's under the age of 33?
Is he gonna be consistent with his doctrine?
Is he gonna get up and call every single pastor
of the age of 33 and under unqualified?
Where is his limit?
Is it 39 and a half?
Does it go up a year every year that he gets older too?
I mean, how does this work?
Just a silly doctrine of convenience.
What if you were in a church
where everybody was 33 or younger?
What would you do?
You can't even do that?
I mean, how do you?
All these questions.
You know what their private preaching does?
It ministers questions, not answers.
What questions is he answering?
None.
He's just asking more.
He's just making more problems, more questions,
less clarity.
He just wants to confuse you and confound you
because he's confounded himself.
That's the only thing he can do.
Isn't it funny?
He wants to tell me I'm unqualified.
Number 10, my last point, all right.
Go to 1 Timothy chapter five.
He says the word elder never means pastor in the Bible.
He says it only means older.
So let's play mad gab with his false Bible
that he carries around apparently.
1 Timothy chapter number five
and let's look at verse number 17.
Let the older people that rule well
be kind of worthy of double honor.
So just every older person.
Now what's the opposite of that?
Older people that don't rule well.
But it just assumes every older person is just ruling.
How does that work?
Because it's saying, hey, the ones that are ruling well
give them double honor.
So what would be the implication?
The ones that are not ruling well
give them honor.
How about the older people that are just not ruling?
Is that a category?
No, because this is just a weird doctrine.
How about verse 19?
Against an elder receive not an accusation.
So against an older person receive not an accusation.
What?
Why are old people better?
Why do they get a special privilege here?
Just because they're old.
Hey, how old are you?
I wanna make sure before I bring up something against you.
How about verse 25, one?
Rebuke not an elder.
Now there's a lot of people that say that just means older.
It's grammatically possible.
But I don't think it's practically possible.
And when you study the Bible
it doesn't really make a lot of sense, okay.
Now obviously older people should get respect.
I'm not against that, okay.
But how could you tell the pastor
not to rebuke an older person?
So does that mean the oldest person period
just has to be the one preaching every time?
Or do I have to be, hey, all of you older than me,
turn yours off for a second, okay.
Don't let me say anything.
If I just preach against lying or stealing
or church attendance or anything,
if you're older than me you can't listen.
Don't listen, okay.
I guess Jesus Christ, what about him?
I thought he was like 30.
That we're not yet 50 years old.
I guess he couldn't have reaped anybody
because they were older.
These doctrines are just so bad, my friend.
The application, go to Acts chapter 20.
Let's keep going with this folly.
Look, this is less than 20 minute clip.
Less than 20 minutes.
Look, if you listen to his preaching
it's just heresy after heresy
after false doctrine or false doctrine.
And you know, I didn't do this on purpose.
I didn't even know.
Guess what book he's preaching through right now?
Judges.
And I'm getting a follow up.
And guess what?
There's some application that we're gonna destroy.
He's blasting God the Father
in his most recent sermon on Judges.
He didn't know it probably, but he did.
Maybe he did, I don't know.
The guy's so wicked.
Yeah, I'm sick of hearing about this false doctrine
and this false preaching, you know.
Well, just tear out pages in your Bible
because the Bible constantly warns about people
over and over and over again.
I love reading about it.
You know what, the names don't update in the Bible.
You get to keep hearing about the same people.
It's still Hymenaeus.
It's still Philetus.
It's still Alexander the Coppersmith.
It's still the Pharisees.
It's not gonna change the Democrats.
I know you want it to.
It's still the Pharisees.
It's still the Sadducees.
It's still Pilate.
It's still Judas.
It's still the same people, okay?
Well, are you gonna wear out that, you know, name?
I hope so.
Somebody needs, you know, some pastors preached
against Adam Fannin and now they're just taking it all down.
Why would you do that?
What changed?
His preaching?
I don't think the preaching exonerated him, my friend.
Acts chapter 20, look at verse 17.
And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus
and called the older people of the church.
So just again, I guess older people are just so much better.
I don't know what that age cutoff was.
Everybody, what if I made an announcement?
Everybody over the age of 40, please come to the church.
That'd be weird.
You're like, why?
Is this like an AARP meeting or like, what's it?
You know, prostate exam or like, what's the deal?
What do you want to, he called all the elders
or the pastors, maybe that makes sense.
Look at verse 28.
Take heed therefore in yourselves and to all the flock
over the which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers.
You guys didn't know when you become old,
you're automatically an overseer of the church.
Hey, we get someone saved, out soul winning that's older,
as soon as they walk in, overseer.
Well, then you don't have to walk in.
We'll just go in their living room, it's church now.
And then I can start calling him pastor.
Because churches don't beget churches, right?
I mean, his application is so bad.
And if people actually gravitate to this,
like, I don't know, people like Josh Gander,
where they just come together and just pretend
like they're just a church with nobody sending them.
Hey, this thing is happening all over,
where people just come together
and start calling themselves a church.
It's not a church, my friend, it's fake.
And this garbage teaching, I'm not gonna stand for it, okay?
And if you wanna go start your own cult church, go for it.
But I'm gonna call you out, so FYI.
Go to 1 Peter 5, here's this verse,
James 5, verse 14, is any sick among you?
Let him call for the older people in the church.
That almost goes against conventional wisdom.
People that are sick, let's get all
the really old people to come pray on.
It's like, let's keep them away, you know?
That just, it's like, what?
Why are they calling the older people?
Are the older people's prayers
just better than younger people?
I mean, how can you say, every mention of the word elder
always means older.
Well, you know what, it does mean older a lot,
but not every time.
And you'll be like, these people that get up
and say elder always means pastor.
I've never met that person.
He brings out all these straw men arguments
that don't exist.
Then you call him out for what he actually said,
and this is what they say.
Pastor Shelley's just a liar and a railer.
What do you lie about?
He's just a liar, just a railer.
This is like the phone call I had
with Jacksonville on Friday.
I call, and he's like, Pastor Shelley's a liar,
Pastor Shelley's a railer, Pastor Shelley's a liar.
It's like, how long are you gonna stay on that phone call?
About five minutes, that seemed pretty long for me.
It's like, hey, I'm done.
If you just wanna keep calling me a liar,
you're not even saying anything I said, that was wrong.
You can't even point out one time I lied
or one time I railed, well, he said that I'm unsaved.
Well, you know, good luck on that one.
First Peter chapter five, verse one.
The older people which are among you I exhort,
who am also an older person,
and a witness of the sufferings of Christ,
and also partaker of the glory that shall be revealed.
Feed the flock of God which is among you,
taking the oversight thereof,
not by constraint, but willingly.
Willingly become an older person.
Don't become an older person for filthy lucre.
Don't become an older person because of,
have a ready mind to become an older person.
Don't become an older person by constraint.
Let me tell you this, you will become an older person
by constraint, whether you like it or not.
It's period.
No one just becomes older.
It's forced upon you.
No one does it for money.
People are paying money to become younger.
This is so bad.
Neither is being lords over God's heritage,
but being in samples of the flock.
So every older person is automatically in charge.
Isn't it funny that older people are constantly mentioned
all throughout the New Testament with all these instructions
about how to lead and take charge,
but pastors are never mentioned,
bishops are never mentioned, overseers are never mentioned,
because the word most commonly used is elder.
So therefore, all the instruction that we think
is to like a pastor or the leader,
it's just to the older people,
and there's no instruction to the pastor,
no instruction to the bishop,
no instruction to the overseer.
That's the logic of Adam Pan.
Just although, you know when the Bible wants to delineate
between the elder and the older person,
you know what they call them?
The aged men.
The aged women.
Okay.
There's an delineation there.
He says elders always means older,
and he also said this.
Elders are pretty much, as you see in the Bible,
always business owners.
Didn't you read that?
He said because in the Old Testament,
the elders would go at the gate,
and if they have all this free time,
they must be a business owner,
because I guess business owners have all this free time.
Have you ever owned a business?
Hey, when I owned a business,
I was working like 80 and 90 hours a week.
I have all this free time now.
Just owning business.
He said there must be the older business owners,
the respectable people.
I guess he just loves money, doesn't he?
Bible says that the people that were appointed by Moses
were supposed to not be covetous.
Now, here's the thing.
I'm pretty much finished my sermon.
Go to 1 Corinthians 11.
That's the last place I'll have your turn.
I lied.
Sorry.
I'll admit it, all right?
Proverbs 17, too.
1 Corinthians 11, Proverbs 17,
we're gonna finish this sermon, all right?
Now, here's the thing about Adam Fanon.
Adam Fanon was literally
ordained by a guy who confessed
that Jesus Christ is the Antichrist.
He confused him.
Okay.
That was his ordination as a pastor.
A bunch of randos that are flat earthers,
people that believe in oneness,
people that sympathize with Tyler Baker,
people that confuse
Jesus Christ with the Antichrist.
That's his ordination committee, okay, for pastor.
Who is his ordination committee for evangelist?
Donny Romero.
Now, I released a video of what Donny Romero
actually thinks about Adam Fanon.
Some people are like, ah, I can't believe you do that.
He was such a bad person.
Okay, well, here's the thing.
How is it okay for Adam Fanon's website to say this?
Pastor Adam Fanon was ordained and sent to start a church
in Jacksonville, Florida in 2017.
Who did that?
Donny Romero.
So he can cling to the ordination of Donny Romero,
but what Donny Romero actually thinks about him,
that's off the table.
How does that make sense?
How can you say that, well, the ordination was good.
He had good judgment when he ordained me,
just not good judgment when he said I was unsaved,
just not good judgment when he said that I'm a bozo.
You know, I get to pick and choose
when he had good judgment or not.
And let me say this.
Hey, everything that Donny Romero said in that video,
I confirm with multiple witnesses.
Donny Romero says this about Adam Fanon.
He was lying about Mrs. Romero and the church.
He did that in a public video himself.
There's your evidence, and there's multiple witnesses.
Number two, he said, Donny Romero said
that Adam Fanon wasn't counting the ties.
I have multiple witnesses that said
he didn't count the ties with anybody.
He never even produced one witness to the contrary
that he counted the ties with.
Number three, Romero said that Fanon was lazy.
Just ask anybody.
I mean, he had one soul at a time.
Godwin personally confirmed how he did nothing
on the documentaries that this church made.
Jacksonville, the whole church basically confirmed that,
that he was lazy.
Number four, Romero said that Adam Fanon
was talking bad about me.
I had multiple people tell me that.
Amen.
Romero said that Fanon's daughter was on a leash.
Multiple witnesses could confirm that.
Hey, I have faithful children.
I bring them on a leash to church.
And then he wants to talk about my family, okay.
I've never, look, this is weird, my friend.
Number six, Donny Romero said that Adam Fanon
was asking members who he threw out
or had left the church to come and vote.
That was confirmed by them.
Adam Fanon made a lie-up about a lady being a witch
and then asked her to come vote for him.
They didn't vote for him.
Donny Romero said that Fanon didn't want
to re-enclish the power.
Any witnesses on that one?
And then Donny Romero said he's not saved.
Okay, they're like, oh, I can't believe
you had trust with Donny Romero.
Well, it's like what everybody else said too.
I just want to point out, hey, this is,
this is who you cling to for your ordination.
This is who you say went and sent.
And it's funny how churches don't beget churches,
but on his own website, he said he was sent
by a church to go start a church.
How does that work?
Can't you get your doctrine straight?
Why don't you just say, we just decided to just link up.
We just all met together for no reason.
You say, oh, the things that Romero said were hearsay.
Well, I wouldn't want to bring up hearsay like Paul did.
First Corinthians chapter 11, look at verse number 18.
For first of all, when you come together in the church,
I hear that there'd be divisions among you
and I partly believe it, you know?
Hey, I'm gonna bring this hearsay because I believe it.
And guess what?
I believe what Romero's saying on that portion.
Here's my question.
What ordained, qualified pastor
thinks that Adam Fanon is legit?
Anybody?
Nobody.
The only people that think he's legit
is his own cult following and they all hate Pastor Anderson.
That's their common denominator.
Now, go to Proverbs 17, the last verse of my return.
Anybody that can listen to this sermon
and then still wants anything to do with Adam Fanon,
wants him to come and be a part of their church,
wants him to come and do soul-wanting,
wants him to come and pray for their church,
this is what the Bible says.
Proverbs 17, verse four.
A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips
and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
Who has a naughty tongue more than Adam Fanon?
Who is preaching lies and has false lips
more than Adam Fanon?
I can't find you a person.
I mean, if there's one person we can just say,
like, this guy's bad, this guy's toxic,
this guy's teaching false,
I mean, just listen to a 20-minute sermon clip
and you'll get at least 10 heresies.
I just demonstrated it for you.
Okay, and you need to be aware of the leaven of Adam Fanon.
We need to expose these type of people,
we need to point out their heresy,
and people say, you're not gracious, Pastor Shelley.
You're not loving.
Well, you know what, I'm never gonna be loving
towards false doctrine.
I don't care what the false doctrine is.
If you want me to be gracious towards false doctrine,
you have a heart problem.
Because if you love the Lord, you hate every false way,
is what the Bible says.
I don't like false doctrine, and you know what?
If you don't think I'm gracious, that's your problem.
I don't answer to you, I answer to God.
God's the one that decides if I'm gracious.
God's the one that decides if I'm long suffering.
And you know what, there's been plenty of people,
I've known bad stuff about them,
and I wait a long time to say it.
Anybody you know I've called out publicly,
I wait a long time to repeat some of the problems
I had with them, because I was giving them grace,
giving them the benefit of the doubt.
I don't want to just attack people.
But you know what, I do want to attack Adam Fanon.
All day long.
And you know what, if you want to hear more,
come on Wednesdays.
And if you don't, come on Wednesdays.
Because the Bible says you're not supposed to forsake
dissembling yourselves together, all right?
And get a donut on the way out, all right?
Let's close with a prayer.
Thank you Father so much for your word.
Thank you for giving us clear instruction
and clear guidance so that we could know exactly what to do.
I pray that you would just confound those
that are teaching lies, that you would just expose
their folly and their foolishness.
And I pray that people would beware of this false doctrine
that Adam Fanon is spreading.
That they would have nothing to do with it.
That you would just confound those that want to have
anything to do with it.
That you would just somehow just bring it
for more glory and honor to you.
And we just thank you that you give us your word
and you give us your instruction.
You give us the church that we can meet together.
We can have like-minded fellowship.
I pray that our heart would just be towards the truth
and we just love the word of God more and more every day.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen.