And for this afternoon's first song...
We love you so much, we thank you for allowing us
to rescue the perishing this afternoon.
We just thank you for all the souls that were saved,
thank you for allowing us to do your work, Lord,
and be in your house tonight.
We just ask that you fill this church with your spirit
and help us sing out unto you,
and it's in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, for our next song,
let's go over just a few more pages,
the song number 379.
bringing in the sheaves song number 379 let's all sing that out together song number 379
Bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, we shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, we shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths, bringing in the sheaths.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaths.
Going forth with weeping, soaring for the master,
though the lost mistake our spirit often breathes.
When our weeping's over, he will bid us welcome.
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaths.
Bringing in the sheaths, we shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaths bringing in the sheaths bringing in the sheaths we shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaths
Good singing thank you for coming to step fast Baptist Church if you didn't already get a bulletin
You'd like one to slip to very hand nice and high one of rushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin
We have on the front our Bible memory passage. We're working in Jude verse 11 for the week on the inside as our service and soul winning times
We have our church stats make sure to keep up the soul winning and
Hopefully we can cross that three thousand mark here for the for the first half of the year
also on the
expecting ladies list, please be in prayer for them. Our Shreveport marathon went great,
we had 42 sole winners, 61 salvations, so still a very receptive area.
upcoming events. There's a Springdale, Arkansas, July 4th event. Sign up sheet. Please make
sure to sign up. It's coming up super fast. We have our semi annual business meeting July 13th.
The 19th is another soul winning marathon. It's Lancaster, Texas. So I really encourage you to
try and participate because it's literally just our backyard. It's literally only like 20 minutes
or so from the church. And so should be a great opportunity. Um, our teen bowling is going to be
There's also another event going to be in August.
So they're kind of close to each other.
Men's Retreat August 14th to the 16th,
our FBBF conference is going to be.
August 27th through the 31st, and we have it it's packed full of all kinds of awesome stuff
Just because we're trying to get an idea of who may be participating and how much we have to plan for we kind of print
It out a sheet so people could just indicate what nights they're most likely going to be available
We'd love for you to fill that out if you walk by just try to find your name if your nimes not on there
Then you you're thrown in the lake of fire, and I'm just kidding
If your name's not on there, just indicate to us
and we'll try to get you updated and whatever.
You just have to give your name in the book of life, folks.
Okay, don't get too nervous, all right?
And then also our mission's trip to Mexico,
but the Diego's helping us with this.
It's in September.
So we have October, a Bahamas trip as well.
October 6th through the 11th. On the back is our prayer list. Please keep them in
your prayers. Our handout we have a congratulations to the goers on the
birth of Walker Norman. He was born on the 24th, 8 pounds 12 ounces measuring 20
and a half inches long and then on the back we have the weathers on the
congratulations to Hannah Ruth who was born on the 25th, 8 pounds 8 and a half
ounces 19 and a quarter inches long so congratulations both of them.
And that's pretty much all I have. Let's go to Psalm 15 and our special hymns and Psalms binder Psalm 15 sing it out nice and loud
All right, that was Psalm 15 Psalm chapter 15
The truth in his heart, he that walked in the brightly end.
Or take the blood approach against his neighbor?
Leave that rat fight if not with his son in the dark.
We gotta do it.
Grace singing everybody now as the offering plate you're being passed around go
ahead and open your Bibles the book of Isaiah chapter 65 that's the book of
Isaiah chapter number 65
Isaiah chapter 65 the Bible says,
I am sought of them that asked not for me.
I am found of them that sought me not.
I said, behold me, behold me unto a nation that was not called by my name.
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people,
which walketh in a way that was not good after their own thoughts.
A people that provoked me to anger continually to my face, that sacrificed within gardens
and burneth incense upon altars of brick, which remain among the graves and lodge in
the monuments, which eat swine's flesh and broth of abominable things is in their vessels.
Which they stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am holier than thou.
Behold, it is written before me, I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense
into their bosom.
Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together sayeth the Lord, which have
burned incense upon the mountains and blasphemed me upon the hills.
Therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
Thus sayeth the Lord, as the new wine is found in the cluster, and one sayeth, destroy it
So will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all,
and I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains,
and mine a let shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there,
and Sharon shall be a fold of flocks and the valley of Acor,
a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
But ye are they that forsake the Lord that forget my holy mountain that prepare a table for that troop and that furnish the drink
Offering unto that number
Therefore will I number you to the sword and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter
Because when I called ye did not answer when I spake ye did not hear but did evil before my eyes and did choose that
Wherein I delighted not
Therefore doth sayeth the Lord God, Behold, my servant shall eat, but ye shall be hungry.
Behold, my servant shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty.
Behold, my servant shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed.
Behold, my servant shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen, for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name.
That he who blessed himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth
And he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth
Because the former troubles are forgotten and because they are hid from my nines
For behold I create new heavens and a new earth and the former shall not be remembered nor come into mind
But be glad and rejoice forever and that which I create for behold
I create Jerusalem a rejoicing and her people a joy and I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in my people
And the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days.
For the child shall die a hundred years old, but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
And they shall build houses and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
They shall not plant and another eat, for as the days of a tree are the days of my people,
and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble, for they are the seed of the
blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them."
it shall come to pass that before they call I will answer and while they are
yet speaking I will hear the wolf and the lamb shall feed together and the lion
shall eat straw like the bullock and does shall be the serpent's meat they
shall not hurt nor destroy and all my holy mountains sayeth the Lord let us
pray
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the souls that were saved today.
I pray that you would continue to bless that fast Baptist church.
Please send more laborers.
And I ask you to bless Pastor Shelley now, fill him with your Holy Spirit,
to preach the word, and remove all distractions so we can apply it to our hearts.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
I want to look at the beginning of this chapter.
The Bible says,
asked not for me, I'm found of them that sought me not.
I said, behold me, behold me unto a nation
that was not called by my name.
I spread out my hands all the day unto rebellious people,
which walketh in a way that was not good
after their own thoughts.
Now, what's interesting is verse one and two
reminds you of some chapters in the Bible,
Romans chapter 10, this is kind of like
what's being quoted, what's being alluded to,
and we're talking about the Jews,
the Jews who think that they're godly,
They think that they're righteous, but the Bible tells us that they're not righteous.
They haven't sought after the righteousness of God, but they sought the righteousness of the law.
That's what the Romans' Chen is really emphasizing.
So it's a group of people that think they're better than other people.
They think that they're more righteous than other people,
even though they're not actually righteous at all. That's the whole context here.
It says in verse three of people that provoked me to anger continually to my face,
that sacrifices than gardens and burneth incense upon altars of brick,
which remain among the graves and lodge in the monuments which each swine's flesh,
and broth of abominable things is in their vessels, which say,
Stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am holier than thou.
a fire that burneth all the day and what God is basically saying is he can't stand these people
that have this attitude that have this belief that they are holier than thou and that's where we
get this concept or holier than vows and that's the title of my sermon this evening is holier
that I refer to these people as,
that I've explained to a few people
that I like to explain tonight,
is what I call one percenters, okay?
And in these one percenters,
it's just like no matter where they are
or where they find themselves,
in their mind, they're always in the top one percent
of wherever they're at.
So if they're in this room, they're like,
I'm in the top one percent of people in this room.
or they go to school, they're in the top 1%.
At work, they're in the top 1%.
Wherever they find themselves,
they're just always in the top 1%
and it's this infectious disease of the mind
because they're just full of themselves.
They're kind of full of themselves
and they always think they're better than everybody.
And in fact, notice what the attitude results in.
What does the attitude of a holier-than-thou result in? You'll notice it says here in verse number five. They say
Stand by thyself
Come not near to me a holier-than-thou will always be separating people away from them
They're always separating themselves. Why do they have to separate themselves because they're not actually separate
So because of the result that they're not separate they have to separate themselves so as to give themselves attention
So, you know, if you're just the best athlete if you know if we think about this in a competition perspective
If you're just the best you get to stand on the podium
You're standing on the number one spot. You're separated and everybody gets to notice you and everybody gets to look at you
But if you're not actually number one
Then in order for you to get attention you have to separate yourself and then declare that you're number one
So as to get that attention because again, there's nothing wrong with being number one
There's nothing wrong with being recognized as the best.
There's nothing wrong with being on the podium.
There's nothing wrong with being separate.
In fact, the Bible talks about separating ourselves in a good context.
We should separate ourselves from unbelievers.
The Bible says the guy that intermettles with all wisdom,
he separates himself.
The man desiring, you know, wisdom is going to separate himself.
So there's nothing wrong with separating yourself
and there's nothing wrong with separating yourself through wisdom or knowledge.
But what's wrong is separating yourself by putting other people down and lifting yourself
up through pride and arrogance and thinking you're better than other people and just always
is thinking like, well, I kind of am in the 1%.
And you know, let me say this, if you're sitting here listening to this sermon, you're like,
I don't know if this applies to me because I just genuinely are better than everybody
in this room.
It's not really for you though because I'm teaching you guys to be aware like be aware of this person and stay away from this person
Okay, we don't know if we can help this person or not
I mean God willing if someone had that attitude maybe they could get knocked down and and and learn that they're not that special
But often those people are just so difficult to win over and fix. I'm trying to help you understand when people are separating themselves
That's a dangerous person.
This is a holier than thou.
This is a bad attitude.
It's a carnal mindset that we want to stay away from as well.
Go to Jude chapter number one.
God is mad at these people all day.
I mean, he's just like, they're a fire in my nose all day.
Like he's just like, man, these people are just so irritating.
They're so frustrating.
They're so provoking.
And it's just, it's an irritating human to be around.
and holier-than-thous are irritating.
They will rub you the wrong way.
But, you know, the holier-than-thous can often trick us.
An example, a clear example of a holier than the Bible is Judas.
So Judas, and we kind of read this in our Matthew series recently, Judas says unto Jesus
Christ about the woman who like breaks the alabaster box and anoints Jesus' head.
He says, why was this not sold and given to the poor?
I mean, it could have been sold for 300 pence.
Why was this not sold for 300 pence and given to the poor?
from the narrator's perspective,
not that he cared for the poor,
but because he was a thief and he'd bear the bag
and he'd bear what was put therein.
So again, the holier-than-thou attitude was fake.
It wasn't sincere.
He's trying to make it seem like,
oh, I'm more spiritual than Jesus.
I'm better than Jesus.
And let me tell you something.
Holier-than-thou's think that they're better than Jesus.
They think they're better than the Bible
They'll often bring up to you things that you're doing that the Bible says and then they'll be like well
I'm better than you though. What would be an example of this? I don't know
churches that have a
Homeless ministry and then they'll be like oh you guys don't have a homeless ministry
Well, we do we're better than you and it's like the Bible saying hey if they don't work. They shouldn't eat
So you're better than Jesus now
because the Bible's telling me this,
or they say, oh, you kick people out,
we don't kick anybody out, come as you are to our church.
I guess you're just better than Jesus too, huh?
because Jesus tells me to kick people out.
You're saying not to kick people out.
Who am I supposed to believe?
And the Bible says in 1 Corinthians,
chapter number five, that the people that argue this
are puffed up.
They're puffed up that they're not putting people out of the church.
So again, you know, don't get too confused on the whole separation thing.
Obviously, there's good separation.
But the separation that's happening by these holier-than-thous is not a righteous separation.
It's a prideful separation. I'm better than you.
That is no reason to separate from people.
You don't separate people because you're just better than people.
You separate from people because they don't want to worship God with you.
You separate from people because they're committing grievous sin,
they're causing leaven, and you have to address that particular issue.
But we're not going to separate from people just because we're better than them.
You know, we're supposed to condescend to men of low estate as the Bible says.
And even if you are a one-per-center,
okay, well then help other people get better if you're so awesome.
Why don't you just help us since you're just so amazing and so great?
But usually they just want to tell you how bad you are and try to continue to separate themselves and say like look
How amazing I am I'm 1% everybody should recognize that I'm 1% and what's so funny to me is it's like it's kind of like this
Cora attitude that you see in the Bible that Moses has to rebuke and I'm not going to go with the story for the sake of time
But you know Cora when he's trying to basically
He says, why do you lift yourselves up above the congregation?
And then he has to get mad at them and he's like saying, you know, what's your problem?
Why do you have to be a priest?
Or why do you have to be above everybody when you're already of the children of Israel?
You're already of the priesthood.
It's like, was none of that good enough for you?
It's like, you're already in the upper echelon, but some people just can't even be content
being in the upper echelon until they're just literally number one.
It's like you can't even be the second best in the world you have to be the best and until you get there
You're just gonna separate and attack people now
This attitude is shown in false prophets false prophets have this this separation mindset the separation attitude and the Bible tells us about it
Look at verse 17
But beloved, remember the words which were spoken before the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, how they told you there should be mockers in the last time who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Notice this, these be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the spirit.
These mockers, they end up walking up to their own ungodly lust,
yet at the same time, they separate themselves.
Even in Isaiah chapter number 65,
these people were separating themselves,
yet the Bible is telling us that they were wicked.
The Bible is telling us,
look, they're doing all these evil things,
they're making all these abominable sacrifices,
they're doing all these crazy things behind closed doors,
but then they separate themselves and pretend like
they're better than everybody else.
And just beware, the person that seems perfect and talks about how perfect they are,
how perfect their marriage and their relationships and everything in their life,
a lot of times there's a lot of things behind closed doors that you don't really know about.
Real people have real problems, fake people don't have problems.
But you know what, fake people have serious problems, okay?
Yeah, they might seem like they don't have problems, but everybody has problems.
I mean, there's not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sineth not.
Do you believe the Bible or not?
No, no, there's this one guy. He's perfect. No, there's this one guy. He's great
And like if your mindset is so narrow like if anybody in this church was ever like, you know what?
The only pastor that's good in the world is my pastor. You're just wrong
Okay, well the only person I could ever listen to is my pastor wrong
Okay, and the multitude of counselors there is safety
And what I notice about the independent fundamental Baptist movement is they tend to become cults pretty easily
and they end up getting like this idea of like only my guy is the guy.
And what would be an example of this? Peter Ruckman.
Peter Ruckman built a cult around himself and then they started separating themselves to a weird extreme.
What would be a weird, unhealthy extreme?
They would say things like this,
if your spouse doesn't want to serve God with you
at this church, you need to divorce them
and marry someone that does.
That's why they're all, like,
multiple of them are divorced and married.
Peter Ruckman was divorced and married three times.
In fact, he bragged, he bragged about his wife
diving out of a moving car she hated him so much.
I'm like, who would brag about that?
He brags that his wife sent her wedding ring back to him like he's getting up and giving
announcements during a conference at their church and the wife has someone deliver his
wedding ring to him during the announcements of the middle of a service and he's bragging
about that like he's so separated.
Look that doesn't make you good.
That doesn't make you awesome.
You know, that's a bat, that's a shameful,
that would be embarrassing.
There's something wrong with you.
I can't even imagine, I mean, I've made my wife mad.
But I'm like, to make her so mad
that she feels like she has to dive out of a moving car.
is just like, bro, you got some serious issues, okay?
And so, you know, that's separating yourselves
and getting to a weird, weird view.
You know, there's plenty of great pastors, great men,
there's other people you can listen to.
This church is not the end all be all, it never will be.
And anybody that has that mindset has a bad mindset.
Anybody that thinks, and look, this happens.
There's plenty of people that sit there and think,
I'm actually smarter than every pastor out there.
Like, it seems laughable, but it's real.
It's real. People would be like, you know,
it's kind of even hard for me to go to church
because I know more than all the pastors.
And, you know, again, it's just a weird mindset.
And a lot of times it'll happen because they learn something
that maybe a pastor's wrong on.
Maybe they like realize pre-tribs are not real.
So then now they think they're smarter than every pre-trip pastor
in the world or something like that.
And it's like, that's not even necessarily true.
And maybe you might be right on something
that someone else is wrong on.
Okay, great, but that doesn't mean
that you're just infinitely better than them.
You're always this one percenter.
You're holier than this pastor.
Well, I must read my Bible more than him or something.
Like, we don't know that.
We shouldn't get this attitude of thinking that we're just better than everybody and people when they start saying these statements
It should be a red flag in your mind
And and it's easy for us to fall victim of this though because even the disciples kind of like
They also went along with Judas and they were like oh, yeah
Yeah, because the Bible says and the other disciples said likewise about things being sold to the poor because it kind of sounds good on the surface
So, you have to kind of like think about is this right, is this legitimate, and like even
the separation, when people separate sometimes, they'll try to make a really compelling case
as to why they need to separate, or why they're better than other people, but then what we
understand is they're actually being carnal.
There's a carnal separation and then there's a godly separation that happens in the world
And we want to make sure that we're understanding the difference of these two things
Go view it to Luke chapter number six go to Luke chapter number six
There's a time to separate and don't even wrong Jesus Christ came to bring division
But you know the way I always try to explain this to people they try to say
You know people are gonna walk away from you. That's the division
You're saying come with me and serve the Lord and then they're walking away. That's a division
But I'm not like just saying, you know what, I need to walk away from you because you're not as godly as me.
That's not what the Bible is teaching.
You know, I'm not going to say to my parents, like, hey, I can't be around you because you're just not godly like I am.
It's more like, hey, why don't you come with me to church and they're like, no, I don't want to go to church.
Okay, that's the separation that is more what the Bible is bringing up.
Obviously, in a 1 Corinthians 5 situation, we might, as a church, exercise a church discipline to someone.
or maybe someone's cross the line is in a toxic situation
and we have to say, hey, I can't be around you
if you're going to just be a raging alcoholic,
if you're going to be committing this,
like I'm not going to come over to your fornication household
and participate in that.
And it's not like saying, I don't want to be around you.
It's saying, hey, you got to change this behavior
before we can be together.
And you're not making that up.
That's just what the Bible says.
You're like, here's chapter and verse.
It's not me making arbitrary rules up and saying,
I don't want to be around you.
It's the Bible saying, hey, stay away from this.
They're an unbeliever.
Yeah, we're not going to be unequally
yoked together with unbelievers.
Right?
Hey, I'm not going to go to the Catholic church
because the Bible says, hey, don't be unequally
yoked together with unbelievers.
The Bible is really clear about not having anything
to do with idolatry.
And yet you see Christians today yoking up with Catholics.
See, if Catholics are cool, like, who are you supposed to separate from?
But you know, people will separate from you.
Look at Luke 6, verse 22.
Blessed are ye when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company
and shall approach you and cast out your name as evil.
Notice this for the Son of Man's sake.
Rejoice ye in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for
in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
When it says the Son of Man's sake let's not get weird about that because no almost no one is going to come up to you and just say
Hey, I can't be around you because you're a God-fearing Christian
They're gonna lie about you. They're gonna make something up about you and then they're gonna separate you
But but if they're lying about you you're being persecuted and it's for the Son of Man's sake
So if they come up to you and they lie and they say something that's not true about you and then that's the excuse
As to why they're separating from you. No, it's always persecution
That is what persecution looks like
People separate from me all the time and it's not because of something legitimate. It's a lie
Like I had someone say they had to separate from me because I teach work salvation
It's like that like let's just be honest if I taught work salvation. They should separate from me
Right, but but that wasn't true
And then when I tried to call them out and say give me example to say well, I don't have time to prove that
Well, that's convenient. Isn't it or if someone said like hey, I can't be around you because you're in a cult
Well, look
We should separate from people that are in a cult
I don't want anything to do with Mormons.
I don't want anything to do with Jehovah's Witness.
I don't want to have to do anything with the Watchtower.
I don't want to have anything to do with an actual legitimate cult.
So like, that's a legit reason.
The problem is, it's a lie.
So again, that's being persecuted for righteousness sake. Okay, don't get confused and think like oh, no, no, no
You really you know there that's not really persecution. No, it's a persecution when they're lying about you when they're making
They're saying things about you falsely. They're making up lies
They're hating you. They're approaching you. I mean, I guess in this passage
It's it's doesn't say it explicitly, but it's parallel to Matthew go to Matthew. It makes it more clear there
But notice that they're separating from you
Hey, if if everybody wants to be your friend, there's something wrong with you
The godly person will constantly be separated from and this is what people this is what people don't understand
They think that like if Jesus showed up everybody would be so excited and like like him. No, no, no
If Jesus showed up, he wouldn't be welcome
If it's like you look at these churches that are like called Saint John
and St. Peter, is St. John actually went to St. John's church?
They would throw him out or put him in a boiling pot of oil again.
They would kill him. They would try to kill Peter.
They would try to kill Jesus Christ. They don't believe in these people. They don't like these people.
They just only in name. Look, the Pharisee said,
we're Moses' disciple.
There's St. Moses. There's St. Moses Catholic Church in the New Testament and they're persecuting Jesus Christ and they're a
Holier than them. They think they're better than Jesus and they think they're better than the followers of Jesus Christ as well.
Matthew chapter number five the Bible says in verse number 10
Blessed are they which are persecuted for rights and the sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of notice is evil against you falsely for my sake.
Notice again that they're lying about you, they're just making stuff up, they're falsely accusing you,
rejoicing be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
So again this holier than thou comes around and he says,
Hey, stand by thyself for I'm holier than thou art.
But they're actually not and it's so funny to me how people that are not saved or not Christian how they'll do this to you as well.
You like start going to church, you go to a church like ours and they'll say like oh well you know I can't hang out with you anymore because you're hateful.
Because you go to a hate church.
But wait a minute, did you really actually become more hateful coming to this church?
Or did you actually probably become more loving because now you go soul-winning?
Now you actually do good under a lot of people, maybe you've changed, maybe you love your spouse better,
maybe you love your kids better, maybe you're like actually helping people more.
You actually became more loving as a person, but like they're now falsely accusing you and saying like,
oh, I'm not like you, you're, you're hateful.
I mean, I had someone very close to me say,
Like a very close relationship to me, say I would rather go and hang out with the protestors of your church than go to your church because you guys are so hateful.
And I'm like, I'm hateful, but those people out there are not hateful?
Like what in the world?
You know, isn't it so funny?
And again, and then in their mind, they're literally better than you.
And then the same person is like,
I just don't even want my fam,
I don't want kids around you.
I don't want anybody to like hear anything
that you have to say because you're just dangerous.
Yeah, Pastor Shelley is just so dangerous.
He's just gonna, he's gonna scare you with the Bible.
Oh, you know, the Bible says to hate pedophiles.
Oh, what a hateful person, you know?
We should be the person that says love pedophiles.
No, that's dangerous.
That hates society. That hates God. That hates children. You know, there's holier-than-thou attitude is dangerous
People would get mad at us because we won't be nice to Catholics. Go over to 2nd Corinthians chapter number six
You know, it's funny
I've played in some sports with some of the people here and
We played against these Catholics and these Catholics will like come up to us afterwards and they'll say
and they like ask us to pray with them.
And it's like, obviously if it was a different context,
I might say like, well, I'll show you how to be saved
and then I'll pray with you.
But like they want to just have this like prayer
of like to the same God.
And it's like, bro, I don't worship Mary.
I don't have the same God you have.
And in fact, usually when I talk to actual Catholics
and they start describing God to me,
I'm like, that's not the God that I even believe in anyways.
Because they're saying, this is the Catholic view of God.
God has no emotions
God has no he doesn't live anywhere. He doesn't exist anywhere in
Fact, he's just basically just divine simplicity. He's just so simple and I'm like that's not the God. I worship
The God I worship gets mad and angry and happy and he's in he's really somewhere
He's really seated in heaven
And they'll be like, no, it's just metaphor.
He has emotions, metaphor.
Everything about God's metaphor.
And I'm just like, that's not even the same God
that I worship.
I worship a real God that lives in heaven,
that really was grieved in his heart
in Genesis chapter number six.
It's funny, I was listening to this Calvinist
say the same thing.
This Calvinist who believes in this divine impassibility which says that God has no passions and this this Calvinist is trying to explain
Genesis chapter number six and he goes, let me prove to you that God has no emotions
He goes to Genesis six and he says God was grieved in his heart
And I'm like, where's this going? He's like, this is obviously a metaphor
And I'm like, okay a metaphor for what?
And it's like, well, God doesn't obviously have like a heart pumping organ, you know, you know blood and whatever and I'm like, bro
The feeling of sadness doesn't actually come from my blood pumping organ
Because let me tell you something.
You could rip my heart out and install a different heart, and I can still have the same emotions.
In fact, you could put an animal heart, or you could put some kind of like a random thing.
Some people, they literally just have body parts replaced by technology, and you can
still have feelings because feelings are an abstract idea, okay?
So I don't need a blood pumping organ to feel sadness, just like the people that are in
who don't have a heart are sad, they're experiencing pain, okay?
Yeah, and God doesn't need a blood-pumping organ to be sad that He made man on the earth
for it to repent Him that He made man on the earth because His thoughts were only evil continually.
Why did God flood the earth if He wasn't even upset about it?
What was the whole point?
is because I was sad, just joking, I never get sad.
It's because I was mad about it, just joking, not mad about it.
Let me explain to you hell without God being angry.
Explain that to me.
I thought the whole point of hell was that the wrath of God kindled hell.
I mean, it's just insane to listen to some of these people talk
and then it's like they want to come up to me and say like,
you want to pray together?
No!
I mean, what does it say in 2 Corinthians 6, verse number 14,
be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers,
for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness,
and what communion hath light with darkness,
and what concordeth Christ with beelial,
or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel,
and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols.
Now, who's the temple of God?
What does the Bible say?
For ye are the temple of the living God.
What agreement does this temple, my body,
have to do with a Mary statue?
Nothing.
And you know what, I want nothing to do with it.
I hate Catholicism.
That religion is a religion of the devil.
I want nothing to do with it.
You know why?
Because the Bible said for me to have nothing to do with it.
But is the, oh, you're a holier than that.
No, I'm just doing what the Bible said.
Look, there's a difference between separating
because I'm lying about you.
And then there's another thing where I'm separating from you
because the Bible is saying,
don't have any fellowship with this person.
Okay?
That's not being a holier than thou.
Holier than thou is just think they're better than other people
and it's typically based on false accusations and their own pride.
It's a carnality.
Now, the Bible says here, as we keep reading,
and what concordeth Christ with Belial,
or what part of He that believeth is an infidel,
what agreement hath a temple of God with idols.
For here the temple of the living God has God has set,
I will dwell in them and walk in them,
and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore, come out from among them
and be separate, sayeth the Lord,
and touch not the unclean being, and I will receive you.
I'll be a father and you and you should be my sons and daughters, say it's what I'm
going to.
Now, I'm only going to this verse just to kind of give some balance to the sermon because
I just don't want you to think like all separation is bad.
There is a good separation.
There is a bad separation.
But when we're talking about a holier than thou, we're talking about this idea of this
person just thinking that they're better than other people.
This passage isn't saying like, oh, we're just better than other people.
We worship God and we can't have a communion or a fellowship with worshiping devils and false gods because that's just not
That's not legitimate. Just in the same way as a husband can't be with other women. That's adultery
You know, you don't want to be with other people
That's adultery and being with other gods and stuff is a spiritual adultery against God
God is a jealous God and he doesn't want us to worship false religion and go down this other path
So we have to say hey, we're gonna be
We're going to be loyal to God, we're going to have integrity, and we're going to just
stay faithful to Him, and so if you want to worship God with me, come with me, but I can't
be with you worshiping Mary.
I can't be with you worshiping this false God and this false religion.
You need to get saved.
And look, if someone was saved, even if they're not a Baptist, I'm not saying it's wrong
to pray with that person or like have some kind of communion to some degree, but look,
You know, even some of these other non-the-nom churches,
I question if they're even saved,
and it's like, I'm just not interested
in just fellowshiping with a bunch of people
that I'm not even sure if they're even saved.
You know, I'd rather just,
I'd rather make them be offended
and then ask me like, why?
And then be like, well, you're not saved.
You know, that's probably more healthy.
And when they're teaching people to keep the Sabbath,
I don't even know if they're saved, all right?
Go to Acts chapter 20, go to Acts chapter 20.
We need to be aware of people's actions and you know the good thing is for us
That a lot of times we don't have to worry about holier than now is like exposing them
She might ask this question. What's the point of this sermon?
This is the point of the sermon holier than now's will separate themselves at some point
Don't go with them. That's the point
Don't follow the holier than thou, okay?
And this is where we get this passage in Acts chapter 20 verse 26.
Wherefore I take you to record this day
that I am pure from the blood of all men,
for I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Take ye therefore unto yourselves into all the flock
over which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers
to feed the church of God.
Would ye have purchased the zone blood?
For I know this, that after my departing
shall grievous wolves enter in among you.
not sparing the flock, also of your own selves, so men arise,
speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them.
Draw away disciples after them.
What is them? It's about the person.
It's not about anything, it's not about 2nd Corinthians 6.
It's not about 1st Corinthians 5.
It's not about some passage in the Bible.
It's about them.
We'll be an example of this.
And I brought this up a lot, but it's just such a good example.
It's Tyler Baker.
Tyler Baker, when he left the church that I was going to
in Faithful Word Baptist Church years ago,
he was leaving over the quote, this Trinity issue.
But he drew like 30 people out of the church with them and they moved across the country to go
With them to Florida and they have their little church and it's a cult
And you say how how do you know it's a cult? Well?
They've changed the name of their church since then
They've now become Calvinist
They they they like changed on the Trinity they went like kind of like a oneness modalist version. That's weird
Back to now like a Catholic Trinity and it's like look when these people left that church. They didn't leave to be this Calvinist
Catholic Trinity, you know reformed group. They left to follow Tyler Baker
and then no matter what Tyler Baker does,
they just follow him.
That's what a cult is, okay?
A cult is it doesn't matter what your leader says or does,
you just do it.
You just follow it, there's no consistency.
Now here's the thing, I'm not saying that a pastor
can't change his opinion, grow, become more mature.
Obviously, God willing, I'll learn the Bible better.
And God willing, I'll change a little bit here and there over time and I'll get sharper.
And there's been some things that I've preached at our church that I disagree with now
and that I've changed my opinion on.
But honestly, of sermons that I've purposely taken down because I changed my opinion,
it's probably less than five. I don't even know the exact number,
but I can only really think of maybe one off the top of my head, maybe two.
But like there are really minor things mostly about how to interpret certain passages of the Bible
But look if I'm getting up and changing Bibles
changing theologies
Changing just who God is like that should be just a huge red flag
You should be an independent fundamental Baptist no matter what I do you should be King James only no matter what I do
You should reject Calvinism no matter what?
period
If the guy gets up and starts changing Bibles, and changing into Calvinism, and changing
in times, to now they're all millennial or something, or post-millennial or something,
run away screaming.
Have nothing to do with that type of individual.
And what do they do?
They start speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them.
They start trying to teach things and they start saying things like this.
And again, I just use this guy's example because he's just like a glove in a hand with this type of example, ketchup and fries.
He would say, you know, some people say that I preach better than Pastor Anderson.
It's like, what kind of a comment is that?
That's like, come after me because I'm a little bit better.
Not only that, this is the funniest statement of all of it.
But why don't you come to a church that's even closer?
And it's just so funny to me.
I'm like, oh, what church was that that was closer?
The one that you completely changed away from again?
Because you don't even believe in your own baptism anymore.
You don't even believe in your own views that you had anymore.
The guy who mocked God the Father for sending Jesus Christ to die for the sins of the world.
I mean, he literally just mocked the idea of a God the Father sacrificing his son
And it's just like, what in the world?
I mean, that's just like rapper bait type of stuff,
if you ask me.
But again, we see what do these people do?
They separate themselves.
So what's the danger?
When someone comes in here and they're like,
well, I preach better than Pastor Shelley.
Well, you know, their step ass is pretty, pretty good,
but you want to go to church is even closer to the truth.
It's like, bro, we're not close to the truth.
We have the truth.
We're not like dancing near it.
We have it.
Now, does that mean that I'm right personally on every interpretation of the Bible?
Probably not.
But at the end of the day, even if someone was a little bit better at interpreting the
Bible than I am, they're not, quote, closer to the truth, okay?
That's a weird thing to say.
It's a weird, perverted idea, okay?
We should stay away from these type of statements.
They're a jaw in chapter number one, but look people will do this often. They will become better than us
They're smarter than us. They will outgrow us and I'm saying all this from a sarcastic perspective
They're not actually better. They're not actually smarter. They didn't actually outgrow us, but in their mind
They're a hero and their mind. They're a champion and their mind. They're a one percenter
Well, I'm just more loving than everybody at Steadfast.
Everybody at Steadfast was just, you know, mean.
They weren't nice and they weren't kind.
They were always talking about the reprobate doctrine,
you know, and it's just like, bro, that was you.
They were like, everybody at Steadfast is uncharitable.
This is what people say when they leave our church.
They're like, everybody there was uncharitable.
I heard one guy said,
all the women at Steadfast are always crying.
And I was just like, what in the world?
Like, when?
You know, and I'm like, I'm sure that's happened,
but you know, maybe some guys have cried too, I don't know.
You know, like, what does that even mean?
Like, they just say weird things.
They just bring up all these crazy accusations.
You know, and again, why is it?
Because they need to separate themselves
and be like, well, I'm more loving than everybody.
I'm more kind.
I'm great.
And this was so funny to me.
You just trashed everyone.
They'll call you and they still want to be your friend, though.
Why do three quarters of the soul winning of the church?
I'm better than everybody.
No one there's loving.
They're not charitable.
They're in a cult.
Do you want to be my friend?
It's like, why would you want to be a friend with someone
like that?
I mean, imagine you go to work and you're talking with somebody
and they're like, yeah, I'm in this Jim Jones cult.
Cool, do you want to be friends?
You'd be like you'd be like that's weird. Like you wouldn't want to hang out with that person
You'd be you'd be afraid of that person being in that type of occult
So it's like how can he have it both ways? You're in a cult. You're following a cult leader. Do you want to be my friend?
That's not a logical statement. Yeah
No one would ask you to be their friend if you if they actually believed you were a cult following weirdo
Okay, they don't believe that because it's not true.
They just want to draw away disciples after themselves.
They want to drag people down with them.
They want to have preeminence.
Third John, verse 9, I wrote into the church, but deotrophies who loveth to have the preeminence
among them receiveeth us not, wherefore if I come, I will remember his deeds which he
doeth, prading against us with malicious words and not content therewith, neither doth
and casted them out of the church.
You know, deotrophies is an interesting character in the Bible,
but you see these people happen in real life.
And I've heard stories about this.
I can't say that I can personally confirm it from my own experience,
but I've had multiple people tell me the same thing,
and I believe it,
but that a pastor basically just cornered all the members
and said, hey, if you're listening to Pastor Anderson,
And it's just like, that's a weird arbitrary rule, you know?
Like, if you thought someone was bad, wouldn't you just like say,
here's what so-and-so preached, and here's why it's wrong.
Don't believe that.
But why do you have to be so afraid of lies?
Like, I don't have to get up and be like, you know,
if you guys listen to John McArthur, you're not welcome.
You know to me if you're listening to John MacArthur, and you believe that junk you're an idiot, you know
I'm not I'm not like intimidated by John MacArthur, you know what I mean like I'm not intimidated by other people
You know, I'm not I'm not sitting here thinking you know what if you listen to Pastor Joe Jones. You need to leave our church
I'm thinking like if you listen to Pastor Joe Jones, and you can even make it through the end of the sermon
You have a lot of patience number one
Number two, I mean, everybody kind of sometimes
just wants to see a car wreck for themselves.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I'm like, okay.
You know, lots of times when the service is just so bad,
I'm thinking like, I kind of want you to watch it
because people won't even believe me.
Yeah.
I'm thinking like, this is what this person said,
and they're like, nah.
And it's just like, bro, listen.
You know, it was like, mainly Perry got up and taught,
no one burns in hell.
And I'm sitting there thinking like,
no one's gonna even believe me.
Like I have to bring the receipt on that because no one will even sneak and believe that
You know what? I mean like if you actually believe that what they're teaching is so dangerous so bad just preach against it
Just expose them and just explain why it's so bad.
Now obviously we don't want to take this to some unhealthy level
where we're just consuming false teaching on purpose.
Obviously there's a time to shut stuff off.
Sometimes some ideas are dangerous
because they can plant bad ideas in your head.
That's why we do warn against it.
But at the end of the day like, you know,
it becomes like a diatribe's cult
when it's actually a pretty good person
that's generally preaching good stuff.
And you're just like, you can't listen to this person
or you can't come to my church.
You know, like, well, why?
It's because they want the preeminence.
It's not because they're genuinely concerned
about a false doctrine.
In fact, they can't even point to a false doctrine.
They didn't say, hey, you can't listen to Pastor Anderson
because he's teaching this specific false doctrine,
this specific heresy,
and I'm afraid of this heresy ruining you.
It's just, don't listen.
Why, because I need to be number one in your life.
And you know what, I don't really care.
Like, it doesn't matter.
And I'm sure most normal people,
they're not constantly in their head ranking everybody.
Like, this is the best preacher or this is second best
or I have a little chart at home
and I'm always moving people around or something like that.
Like, it doesn't even matter.
But like, if literally every person on the planet
was like, hey, Pastor Shelley is like,
not even my top 10, I don't really care.
because it's not really a competition.
And frankly speaking, you know,
just because I'm not liked of you as a preaching
doesn't even mean I'm doing a bad job.
Sometimes people don't like the truth.
Now look, if someone really likes my preaching
and it's because it's for a good reason, praise God.
But you know what, it's not a competition.
I don't need to be better than another preacher.
And as someone says, you know what,
I think Jack Hiles is the best preacher I've ever heard.
Praise God, I like his preaching, he's a great preacher.
I'm not gonna sit here and fight you like you can't come here if you like him better than me or something
You know, that's carnal and again, what do they need to do? They need to separate themselves from people
Hey, you can't listen to them. You can't be like them because I'm holier than now
Hey, don't listen to this person. Don't like that person. They're separating not for a godly reason. They're separating for a preeminence
Reason go good to 3rd John chapter 1 go to 3rd John chapter 1. I
Have a few more verses on it goes to but
At the end of the day, there's a lot of different applications we could take from this.
One thing that I've heard some holier than thou say, I'm going to go through some holier
than thou statements that I've thought of, but one that I've heard is, well, I got more
people saved than you today.
Okay.
You want me to give you a badge?
It's like, bro, that's a really unhealthy attitude.
Okay, and like, you know, sometimes when I got so many of my so many partner, like,
all just, I don't, you can do it however you want. I like to just alternate doors
because it just seems like you're kind of more engaged. Some people like to
alternate talking, and if you alternate talking, it sometimes becomes a little bit
more fair, you know, if you're, if you're doing that way. If you're knocking
doors every once in a while, it's like one person gets everybody saved, one person
doesn't, you know?
And it wasn't so much that this person
is just the most amazing soul winner and you suck.
It's just like the luck of the draw,
you got the good doors, they got the bad doors or whatever.
Does that really make you better than the other person?
It's like, hey, sometimes I give out maps.
And look, sometimes you just get the hot map.
And then sometimes you get the Karen map.
You know what I mean?
Sometimes you get the, I mean, you just get whatever it is,
the luck of the draw.
And you know, we all go out and we all try
to preach the gospel.
It's not like I'm when I listen to other people give the gospel. I'm not sitting here thinking like man. That was terrible
You know, I'm just thinking like man that sounds like everybody else because we all give the same gospel
And when people ask me for tips, yeah, I usually try to give them a tip because I feel like they want one
But like usually it's really like nitpicky fine-tuning things
It's not like well if you'd done this magical step you would have got them saved and if you hadn't you wouldn't or something
It's just like hey here's just a little tip maybe to help make it more efficient or benefit a little bit or whatever
But at the end of the day, it's just like I mean there's been times where I've watched someone give the gospel
I'm kind of thinking they're doing a bad job and they still get them saved
I'm thinking like this is gonna fail and then it wins and something cool. That was weird
I mean, I watched somebody knock on the door and like the person opened the door and they just say we're checking
Salvation, what do you believe?
And I just thought like wow that was a fail
and
Then the person just is like I don't know and they're like you want to see and they're like yeah, and then they start giving the guys
They got him saved. I was thinking like that was totally bad. I was the wrong way to handle it, but it worked
You know and look I'm not trying to say do goofy stuff. Okay, but but at the end of the day
It's just like it's not really about us
And if someone has a hot day, you know, we should be like hey praise God. I'm glad you got a bunch of people say
And let me tell you something if someone was a silent partner and got nobody saved
I'm I'm still thankful that person came out just as much
You know when everybody comes back from soul winning. I'm not like I'm really glad you came and not them or whatever
It's I'm glad that everybody showed up and you know what the sons of Belial were the ones that were like
Hey, let's not split and spoil the goods with the people that stayed back with the stuff
Not the godly people not the spiritual people
And you know, we're planning on, you know,
we keep stats on all of our soul winning.
Everybody has access to it.
Everybody's in the group virtually.
So you could do this yourself,
but we were just gonna total it all up
at every six months and 12 months and just hand it out
so people could just see the work that they did.
And I could see someone get a bad attitude
and think like, oh, well, I got more people saved than you.
Or I got more, a bigger number.
But you know what I've also noticed
that some of the worst people had the biggest numbers.
Oh, yeah, I've been in the church where someone is getting like 10 people saved every single week
And it's like they're getting zero people saved through every week. You know what I mean?
But they love they love to get that preeminent. They love to separate themselves again
and act like they're so special and so wonderful.
But again, for the good people, I like being motivated.
I like seeing the progress.
I like seeing the numbers.
I like being pushed a little bit.
I like trying to do and accomplish more.
And you know what, at the end of the day,
there's nothing wrong with keeping numbers,
but I'm not gonna sit here and look down upon someone
because they had less numbers than me
because you know what, that's a bad attitude.
It's a bad attitude and it's a holier than out attitude that's walking around trying to act like they're better than you like
Oh, I got more people safe if you both went out for the same amount of time. That's even more insane
Obviously if someone's just never going out soul winning and you're going out a lot and you're saying like look at the results
I'm getting you're not getting much results because you're just not going
Hey, that might be a conversation you could have to help somebody
But when you're both going out for a couple hours, and then you're coming back like I got this many you didn't know and I'm better than you
You know what you have a problem
And instead of you know
It's because there's contention and the person doesn't want to address the real issues and then they're bringing up something stupid and carnal
To try and make it that the argument all of a sudden
It's like that's not the argument, you know, we're not we're not bringing that up
That's not what we should be doing is flexing our muscle on something like that because a lot of it's a luck of the draw anyways
It's the luck of the draw and you know that the same person that made that comment to me
Because I've never gone so I can't remember going soul winning with them, you know
Recently or anytime that could actually remember but other people told me like their soul wings terrible and they question whether they were getting people saved
So it's like, oh, yeah, you're getting all these people saved, but it's like, are you?
Because look, I can't go sewing with literally everyone in this room all the time and know how good a job they're doing
But it's interesting the people that always constantly want to like brag about it end up a lot of times having issues
Isn't that interesting?
Well, we're I'm better than this person. I'm smarter than this person. You know, those are there's a dangerous comments
I'm more godly than this person. You know, here's another one just having really high standards for a wife
To where it you know, it's like why are you not getting a wife?
Maybe it's your standards are just so much higher
than reality and look this happens on both men and women
You know there's all these videos on like
TikTok and and all these videos on Twitter and stuff like that where they're interviewing women and
They're like what kind of guy would you marry and they're like six five?
Makes two million dollars a year
You know this is like super athletic
brown hair
you know, what age, you know, 24,
and they're like, oh, well, by your list,
zero people like that exist on the planet.
So good luck getting married.
And then it's like, you ask these new IFB guys.
It's like, what is your list?
And it's just like this, you know,
debt-free virgin who's never done anything wrong,
who's new IFB, and, you know,
she looks like this Hollywood celebrity,
and it's just like, they're just like describing on this.
It's like, okay, your list also yields zero results.
And even if she did exist, she's not interested in you.
I'm like just like the same. It's like, okay
Do you really think this six five athletics super awesome dude that makes two million dollars a year is interested in you?
It's just like yeah, probably not. Okay, and again
Sometimes you have this like standard that just not very realistic, and it's just like hey
You know, are you the type of person that can even get something like that?
You know, it's the Cadillac taste on a Honda Fint budget, you know what I mean?
It's what they used to say, a champagne taste on a beer budget, but sorry for that bad reference
order.
It's just basically saying you're going shopping with stuff you can't write the check on, cash
in checks that you can't write or whatever, I don't know what's the phrase, something
like that.
But there's these attitude of people, they just think they're better than they really
are.
They think they're worth more than they really are.
And you know what is a dangerous attitude?
What does it say in 1 Corinthians 1 verse 10?
Now, I beseech you, brethren, by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
that ye all speak the same thing,
and that there be no divisions among you.
But that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment for it has been declared unto me of you
My brethren by them which are the house of Chloe that there are
Contensions among you so this is a church is divided. There's a lot of arguing and the Bible just says when there's arguing a contention
It's carnal the Bible says only by pride
cometh contention
When there's arguing and fighting and separation,
there's gonna be pride somewhere in there, okay?
What is the pride?
Now this I say that every one of you say,
I am of Paul, and I am of Paulus,
and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.
Is Christ divided?
Was Paul crucified for you,
or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
So, again, this attitude of really being kind of identifying yourself with a particular
personality or a particular following or a particular group, this can sometimes be a
carnal mindset, a carnal idea.
Now again, we have to balance scripture Paul said be followers of me as I'm a follower of Christ
Okay, there's nothing wrong with subscribing to Paul. There's nothing wrong with following Paul
But what's wrong is thinking you're better than other people
Because Paul got you saved
That's really what the heart of the issue is.
Or thinking that Paul's converts are better than Apollos' converts.
Or thinking there's something wrong with certain people based on their journey or where they're
coming from.
Or saying this church's people are better than this church's people.
That's what's being described here.
And this happens all the time.
who got them saved or who's they're following
or where they're from.
You know, it'd be wrong for me to look at a Christian
and think like, well, you're not as good a Christian
because you don't come to my church
or you don't follow my pastor
or you didn't get saved by my pastor
or you know what, I got baptized by this person.
And look, there are people that even beg for this.
They'll be like, well, I gotta be baptized by this person.
It's like that's a little carnal.
You know, as long as they're saved, you should be okay with whoever's baptizing you.
Whoever got you saved, it doesn't really matter who got you saved.
You know, it doesn't matter if a young woman got you saved.
It's the same as getting saved by a godly pastor.
We all got saved by the gospel, okay?
And it's not really about who or of whom.
And look, this could be another attitude that sometimes pastors would get where they're...
They're like well my church is better than your church because I got my people saved and someone else got your people saved or something
But but at the end of the day is like a person I got saved a better church member
Then you if you got saved by somebody else
That would be weird and it would be weird for me to think about that in that mindset
Like that would be the wrong mindset. It doesn't really matter how y'all got saved. It matters that you're saved
And it matters that I should not reject brethren like deotrophies, I should receive the brethren.
But there will be people that ask to be baptized at their church and they'll say,
who got you saved? They'll say Pastor Anderson, they'll say, I can't baptize you.
Like that's what this is talking about. It's saying like that's the wrong attitude.
You know, I should receive, it doesn't matter who got someone saved, I should receive them
if they're saved.
I should receive them if they got baptized by a saved person.
You know, we're not making unhealthy separations.
You know, that would be a holier-than-thou attitude, acting like, hey, they have to come
from a certain origin.
Go to Galatians chapter number six, go to Galatians chapter number six.
You know, we don't want to make ungodly separations saying that we're better than certain people.
We want to make sure that even if we were better than other people that we have a gracious
attitude.
And, you know, I'm not saying that you have to be friends with everybody.
I'm not saying you have to be hanging out with everybody.
As a Christian, we should just not be separating from other Christians, unless the Bible is telling us so.
You know, we really shouldn't be separating, unless it's a 1st Corinthians 5 issue, it's a Matthew 18 issue, it's, you know,
or Matthew 19, I can't remember, is it 18 or 19, someone help me? 18, yeah, I got it right I guess.
Matthew 18.
or it could obviously be something that's been church-disciplined or something like that,
obviously, but again, the goal is by punishing that person that they get right.
You're not even trying to separate from them.
You're trying to actually warn them to get their life right so that they can be restored.
The whole point is actually kind of like help them fix their issue and then bring them back and restore them.
Because why would we not want to have fellowship with you?
I mean, we're going to spend eternity with each other.
There's no point in not being friends now either and again, if we got our our carnality out of the way
We would be friends. There's not there's no reason not be friends with the same person except for your carnal flesh and your own pride
Okay, now again, obviously you're gonna have certain friendships that are closer than others
Not everybody you should necessarily want to invite to your home or anything like that. I get it, but but at the end of the day
We should be
Generally not separating ourselves from other Christians
People that are separating themselves for ungodly or unbilligly reasons are carnal.
There's something carnal.
They could be a false prophet, or they could even just be a Christian that's become carnal
and is basically causing division and causing problems, and like 1 Corinthians chapter number
1 brings up.
But what would be the attitude?
If someone is doing something bad or wrong or makes a mistake, I don't have to necessarily
separate from that person.
What does the Bible say in Galatians chapter 6 verse 1, Brethren, if a man be overtaken
Separate from them and have nothing to do with them.
No.
It says restore such a one in the spirit of meekness considering thyself lest they'll also be tempted.
So what the Bible is saying is even when you see people making mistakes or doing bad things,
a sincere person is trying to restore.
The carnal person is just, they're just bad and I won't change my mind.
There's not even an open door.
Why would I say that to another saved person like hey, I'm just gonna cut you off and there's no chance of remedy no chance of
Reconciliation and you're like, what have I even done? We can't talk about it
I don't bring it up or false accusations or what it's like
You know that's not being spiritual that's being carnal and it starts becoming a holier than thou where they're separating themselves
Stand by thyself or I'm holier than thou
Hey, I can't be around. I'm just I'm just better than you and I don't want to be around you
You know, that's an evil attitude.
That's a carnal attitude, that's a wrong attitude.
What is the Bible saying?
Even if they had a problem, what would I do?
If I was spiritual, I would try to restore the person.
I would say, hey, you're drinking.
Stop drinking so we can be buddies again.
Stop fornicating so we can be buddies again.
Stop preaching heresy so we can be buddies again.
You know, it never fails, and it's like,
it's not that I want this, but it's like,
when I see these weirdos preaching heresy,
and I call it out, I'm kinda hoping that they'll be like,
yeah, that was wrong, and fix it, and move on.
But then they just start preaching even weirder stuff.
You know, it's just like,
but a lot of times it's good to just expose it,
because then we'll see what's in the person's heart.
Are you gonna fix it?
Or are you gonna dig in?
Are you gonna double down?
Are you gonna just keep being weirder?
But, you know, we have to be careful about the holier-than-thou attitude.
And this is the last one I want to bring up.
For sake of the time, I probably won't go all the verses, but go to Romans 1 for a second.
Is where people think they're better than us because they say this, I love everybody.
And they're more loving than God, really, is what they are.
And they get mad at you.
This is not one person. This is not two people. This is not a dozen people
This is hundreds of people that say this to me all the time. I had you know
Someone in a business relationship bringing this up to me all the time and I've had personal family members
Bring this up to me all the time and and they kind of this is the kind of the attitude
This is what I've always heard from them as they say well out of just out of caution. I'm just gonna love everybody
Okay, but how is that cautious if the Bible is telling you not to do that?
Okay, and look, the Bible teaches there are some people that just God doesn't love.
It's just a reality.
Now, in Romans chapter 1, it brings up evil people, it says in verse 25,
they changed the truth of God into a lie and worship and serve the creature more than the Creator is blessed forever.
Amen.
For this cause, God gave them up.
Well, I'm never going to give up on anybody.
Well, I guess you're just better than God,
because the Bible says that God gives up on people.
God gave them up unto vile affections, for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature.
And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly,
and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meat.
And even as they did not like to retain God and their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are convenient, which are not convenient.
This was so funny to me.
People say like well, how do you know that God gave up on them?
Okay
Men with men
Well, wait a minute, how do you know though men with men?
And you say but how do you know that that's that's what happened because it says it's unnatural
No, no person just walking down the street and then wants to be a faggot
No guy is just like you know what I don't like the cheerleaders anymore I like the football players
No, they're like it's gross and disgusting because he's a normal person
Look it is not a natural sin the Bible says they left the natural use of the woman
They weren't born that way. They left the natural use of the woman and they became a faggot as a
punishment from God
Why? Because being gay is a punishment from God.
Well, I just love homosexuals.
Well, that's gross. Don't be a fag-loving idiot.
Be a Bible-believing Christian and say, you know what?
It's unnatural. And this is what I hate about modern Christianity
is they never use the Bible to describe homosexuality.
And it's almost like God knew that people are going to be so soft on this issue that
every time he described it, it was so clear that they can't even use the Bible because
then it would sound wrong according to what they believe.
They're like, they read Leviticus 2013 and they say, I don't even know what it means.
Like I know it's saying kill faggots.
But like in my mind that can't be true,
so then I just live over here
where I don't know what it means.
It's like, no, no, you do know what it means.
You just told us.
It's like the church of Nazarene in Witaga
that was right next to us,
the pastor literally preached to his congregation.
Leviticus 2013 says to kill faggots
and I have no idea what it means.
No, you do, because you just explained it.
You just don't believe it, that's your problem.
That's the real issue and you know what why is it that when Christians get up to talk about homosexuality being a sin?
They never give us a verse
Show me that homosexuality is a sin in the Bible because when you show me that homosexuality is a sin in the Bible
You know they'll say put them to death. That's what it actually says
So it would be it would be like the point they made is so minor in comparison to what the plain reading of the text just said
Oh, they're sinners exceedingly before the Lord.
Oh, they're abominable.
Oh, they have vile affections.
Oh, they hate God.
They don't want to retain God and their knowledge.
Why aren't they reading that out loud?
And then almost the only people I ever hear read this
are Calvinists.
And you know what's disgusting about Calvinists?
Here's the number one reason why you should never be a Calvinist.
You ready?
They say that Romans 1 is about all of us.
They say we're all like that.
Well, you might be like that, but I'm definitely not like that.
I'm not a faggot.
Nor am I tempted like that.
I listen to this one Catholic guy.
I'm pretty sure he's Catholic.
Maybe he's some light Catholic light or something.
I think his name is Andrew Wilson.
He's usually on like these podcasts or something.
This guy is explaining how having an attraction to a man
is normal and natural.
And and I was just they were like saying hey, there was like these prostitutes
It's like this show where it's like a bunch of horrors and then this like Catholic theologian
What a weird idea for a podcast, but they're like arguing and talking. Okay, it's called whatever
They're arguing about this and these these horrors are like so if a dude is
Like thinking about men like men with men. Is he is he a fag and then this guy's like no
No, that doesn't mean that.
That could just be, you know,
that could just be like a demonic spirit or something.
And I'm thinking like, bro,
do you have some demonic spirits or what?
Let me answer the question.
If you are thinking about other dudes, you're a faggot.
There, I've resolved it, okay?
Yes, you are a faggot,
and I want nothing to do with you.
You can leave our church whenever.
Please self-cast out.
I, that's, like, I will run away from you screaming in the other direction if you tell
me that.
I don't want, like, if someone's like, hey, I've been struggling with something.
And you tell me that, you're immediately banned from the church permanently.
I will hang up on you.
I might even hurt you a little bit.
I don't even know.
It says no striker, but there might be an exception.
I don't know.
I'm just saying, like, that is not something we believe around here.
It's so funny to me how Christians though, they'll be like, oh, well, I'm more loving than you. Yeah
Look, look out. You you're so loving. That's why our country is turning into a cesspool of child trafficking
That's why our country is turning into drag Queen story hour
That's why our country is turning into a filthy abominable place
That's why Hollywood celebrities are literally doing dances on Satan's lap in our country because you're so loving
No, you're not loving you're you're the type of person that's bringing this filth in and then saying like but did you pray for them?
Yeah, I pray for them to die and go to hell
That's what I prayed. Yeah, I prayed that we'd bring back Leviticus 2013 as a nation. Yeah, I prayed that
You know what? I'm not gonna pray like let's get the devil saved
Let's get the the sodomite reprobates that hate your guts and try to kill you. Let's try to get them safe
No, I don't pray that
No, what does Psalm 139 say in verse 21,
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee,
And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee.
I hate them with perfect hatred, I count them mine enemies.
I don't even read that, I pray that,
I don't only pray that, I sing that.
do not I hate them oh Lord that hate thee that's what I sing how can you love
God and love the people that hate him at the same time that's insane that's like
the guy that went to the Stanley Cup playoffs and he's like wearing like a
Edmonton Oilers jersey over top of Florida Jersey
You can only wear one jersey at a time and eventually rip that one jersey off and he's like I'm all right Panthers
Okay, eventually you need to just rip off the jersey and be like sodomite deception. You know what I mean?
Just say I'm gonna go all the way and just love God. I
Hate fags and I hate the people that hate God and I hate child molesters. You would think that hating child molesters would be easy
Boy people today
Like the church at that the Nazarene church
The guy behind his pulpit said it is easier for him to pray for child traffickers than for the members of our church
What a loving dude take your children there
The guy feeding subway to the predators and he allowed them to come use their bathrooms
I'm kind of thinking like which bathroom were they allowed to use?
You really want to send, you really want to take a bunch of vile protesters and bring them into your church
and have them use your bathroom with your children?
Wow.
That guy doesn't love anybody.
That guy is a worshipper of the devil.
Yeah.
Well, that's Old Testament to hate people.
Okay, go to 1 Corinthians 16 for a second.
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 16.
You know, the Bible says, give not that which is wholly under the dogs.
Someone has to be a dog, or that's a meaningless statement.
Yeah.
Cast not your prose before swine
Someone's got to be swine. The Bible says beware of dogs. Someone's got to be phyto. Oh, oh, it's just talking about little dog
It's not just dogs. It's people buddy
It's not just animals
It's talking about people that are like animals beware of dogs
You know what? This is New Testament doctrine. There are people to stay away from there are bad people and you know
Holier than thou's will say
I even try to get the fag get saved.
You could be a holier than I would with Manly Perry,
who says that he gets fag saved all the time,
but that he just tells him not to come to his church.
What's the logic there?
Like, if you could actually get a fag saved,
wouldn't you kind of be forced
to let them come to your church?
Like, that's just like one step away from actually bringing them into the church, really.
It's just kind of like softening the blow, and it's just like, yeah, I get fax saved
and whatever.
It doesn't matter if they're wearing a skirt and a dress and whatever.
I mean, mainly Perry came to my church up here where it's the first sermon that he ever
came to preach.
He preached about the importance of getting false prophets saved.
I'm like, you're starting a church, it's like the most important thing is for us to
False prophets saved and he was saying then he tried to say that Paul the Apostle Paul was a false prophet or something
Because he was in a false religion or something so now he's a Jehovah's Witness or a Mormon or whatever
It's like you really think that I'm gonna build a church on ex Jehovah's Witnesses
Wow like I I've never even met one in person that I was like oh wow this is a
Total true convert or whatever
Like let alone I'm going to build a church on that you know
That's that's just weird when the Bible is saying you know hey let them be a curse and then you're saying let's get them saved
Well again, you're just more loving the God you manly Perry loves false prophets more than God does
You know and of course the Universalists they love everybody more because they're like well, I wouldn't send anybody to hell
Good job, you're so great. You're so wonderful that you wouldn't let you wouldn't send rapists and Hillary Clinton to hell
You're just so wonderful that you didn't send Judas or Caiaphas to hell because you're
just so loving.
But you know what?
That's a holier-than-thou attitude.
What does 1 Corinthians 16 verse 22 say, If any man loved not the Lord Jesus Christ,
let him be anathema maranatha.
Let me ask you this.
How many churches have you heard that preached in?
How many churches have you had them say, Hey, there's some people we should curse?
There's some people we should say you know what let them be cursed of God if they don't love Jesus let them be a cursed and
You know, I'm just bringing up a few examples
But look we should be aware of this whole other than now attitude when someone comes to this church and they say you know what?
Step back Baptist Church is hateful. You need to come with me. We're gonna be more loving
Don't follow that person off the cliff the person comes in they're like
Oh, well, you know, I'm just smarter than everybody over there
And I'm just better than everybody and I do more soul winning and I'm just I do three quarters of the soul winning and whatever
It's just like don't follow that person off the cliff and it's so funny the person that did three quarters of the soul winning now
They didn't go soul winning
It's so funny the person that's so much better than us at church doesn't go to church
Doesn't read their Bible. Where are they now? It's like we need to have like a where are they now?
Oh, they have a one in 17 trillion skin disease or whatever, you know, chance skin disease or something or they went and bought shoes and died in an alley or
You know, oh this pastor that's so much better than the new IVB. Oh, you quit and shut down your church
What are you accomplishing then? How are you helping the cause of Christ?
Oh, well, I'm just so much better than you with my 1.7 church members in the middle of nowhere with no missions trips
Here's my question. How is anybody in the Bahamas gonna get saved if we're all like you?
How is anybody in Mexico gonna get saved if we're all like you?
And look, these holier-than-thous, you know, it's a dangerous attitude.
We need to humble ourselves in the sight of God and then it'll lift us up.
And look, when you notice people separating, and it's not here, and they're not saying,
I'm ready to restore you right now, it's carnal.
If someone is saying like, hey, we have to separate because the Bible says this and I'm ready to receive you again as soon as you fix it, that's Bible.
When someone's saying I'm separating you and it's not that, there's something carnal, there's something prideful, there's some kind of an issue.
Don't follow deotrophies, don't follow the false prophet, don't follow the holier than the owls.
And please don't have this one percenter attitude, because I've never met a one percenter that's actually a one percenter.
One percenters don't have to tell you.
You know Michael Jordan doesn't go around telling everybody he's the best
LeBron has to tell everybody he's the best
I don't even know he says that
But there are lots of basketball players that'll tell you they're the best and they're never the best
The ones that to talk the biggest smack are always like not that great
And again, it's just like, hey, when you're legit,
when you're the best, you don't have to go around
and tell everybody, everybody just knows you're the best.
Tiger Woods doesn't have to go around and tell everybody
he's the best golfer, he just is.
You know, whoever's just the best,
they just feel comfortable in their skin.
They don't have to go around
and tell everybody about it.
So that's just the tip for the day, right?
Let's go to the prayer.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for...
Giving us your word. Thank you for giving us a multitude of counselors for safety
I pray that we would notice the difference between godly separation and ungodly separation. I pray that we wouldn't have this
Attitude of thinking we're better than other people and I pray that whenever we get tempted
By people that are trying to draw us away that
We would really try to look at their motives we try to look at what's really going behind the scenes and that we would still
Clean to Christ that we'd still be a follower of Christ and I pray that you would just help all the works
That we do to make sure that we're always giving the glory to Jesus and not taking for ourselves and Jesus name
We pray amen
All right and closing let's go to song number
335
If Jesus goes with me, song number three hundred and thirty five.
So I'll sing that out together. If Jesus goes with me song three hundred and thirty five.
Great singing everybody, you were all dismissed.