The prince of glory died, my richest king, I count that lost,
And for content of all my pride, For many, Lord, that I should
boast, Save in the death of Christ my God.
All the main things that sure be most, I sacrifice him to his
blood, Sleep from his head, his hands his feet,
Sorrow and love, help me go down, Fear such love and sorrow be,
Lord, thoughts now close, so rich and proud, Were the whole health of nature mine,
That were a present gorgeous home, Not so amazing, so divine,
He meant my soul, my life, my home.
We have heard the joyful sound, Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
Spread the tidings all around, Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
Bear the mists in every land, Climb the streets and cross the bays,
Onward tis of Uthman, Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
Walked it on the rolling tide, Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
Tilt we sinners far and wide, Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
Sing the islands of the sea, Wreck the land the ocean pays,
Worship him, urge him to believe, Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
Sing above the battle-stride, Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
Ride his death in endless life, Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
Sing it softly through the gloom, Win the harp for mercy praise,
Sing in triumph o'er the tomb, Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
Give the winds a mighty voice, Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
Let the nations now rejoice, Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
Shout salvation full and free, highest hills and deepest caves,
Here's our song of victory, Jesus saves, Jesus saves.
Oh, in the grave we lay, Jesus my Savior,
Late in the coming day, Jesus my Lord,
Up from the grave he abodes, With a mighty triumph o'er his voice,
He abodes a victor from the dark domain, And he lives forever with his saints to reign.
He abodes, he abodes, God and Julia, Christ abodes,
Vainly they watch his web, Jesus my Savior,
Vainly they seal the dead, Jesus my Lord,
Up from the grave he abodes, With a mighty triumph o'er his voice,
He abodes a victor from the dark domain, And he lives forever with his saints to reign.
He abodes, he abodes, Hallelujah, Christ abodes,
Death could not keep his reign, Jesus my Savior,
We tore the boys away, Jesus my Lord, Up from the grave he abodes,
With a mighty triumph o'er his voice, He abodes a victor from the dark domain,
And he lives forever with his saints to reign.
He abodes, he abodes, Hallelujah, Christ abodes,
What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and grace to bear!
What a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer!
Oh, what peace we often forget! Oh, what needless pain we bear!
All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!
Happy trials and temptations, Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged, Take you to the Lord in prayer,
When we find our friends so fair!
Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
We can go ahead and find our seats. We will get started.
And once we find our seats, grab a hymnal. Let's all go together to song number 164.
164. Praise Him, praise Him. Song number 164.
Praise Him, praise Him. Jesus, our blessed Redeemer.
Sing, O Earth, this wonderful love proclaim. Hail Him, hail Him, highest archangels in glory.
Strength and honor give to His holy name.
Like a shepherd, Jesus will guard His children. When His arms He carries them all day long.
Praise Him, praise Him. Tell Him His excellent greatness.
Praise Him, praise Him. Ever in joyful song.
Praise Him, praise Him. Jesus, our blessed Redeemer.
For our sins He suffered and bled and died. We are rock, our hope of eternal salvation.
Hail Him, hail Him. Jesus, the crucified. Sound His praises.
Jesus, who bore our sorrows. Love unbounded, wonderful, deep, and strong.
Praise Him, praise Him. Tell Him His excellent greatness.
Praise Him, praise Him. Ever in joyful song.
Praise Him, praise Him. Jesus, our blessed Redeemer.
Heavenly portals loud with close hands ring. Jesus, Savior, reigneth forever and ever.
Drown Him, drown Him. Prophet and Priest and King.
Christ is coming over the world victorious. Power and glory unto the Lord below.
Praise Him, praise Him. Tell Him His excellent greatness.
Praise Him, praise Him. Ever in joyful song.
Great singing everybody. Let's open up the service now with a word of prayer.
Lord, we love you. We just thank you so much for everything you do with this church and
all the souls that were one through it today out this afternoon.
We just ask that you bless them, bring them in, and just fill this room with your
spirit. Help us to sing out loudly unto you, and it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
All right, for our next song, let's go to song number 157.
Song number 157, Come Thou Almighty King. Song number 157.
Come Thou Almighty King.
Help us, my King, to sing. Help us to praise.
Father of Glorious, Lord of Victorious,
Come and reign over us ancient of days.
Come, Thou incarnate Word,
Gird on Thy mighty sword our prayer attend.
Come, and Thy people bless, and give Thy Word success.
Spirit of holiness, honestly send.
Come, Holy Comforter,
Thy sacred wind is fair in this glad hour.
Thou who Almighty art, Thou rule in every heart,
and there from us be more Spirit of power.
To the great one and three,
eternal praises be.
It's evermore.
His sovereign majesty,
greatly in glory see, and to eternity love and adore.
Awesome singing everybody.
Thanks for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church, and if you did not already get a
bulletin or you'd like one you can lift up your hand real quick.
If you completed our New Testament challenge for the month of January and
you did not get a prize,
you can come on down. I'm just going to set the box over here. You can come down
and get a prize real quick.
If not, you can get it later. Also on the inside of our bulletin,
we have our announcements for our soul winning times. We have
three that meet here at the church. We have regional soul winning times that
meet in different parts of the city, and if you'd like to go to any of those
just see the respective leaders. A lady's time my wife helps lead, so if
you're interested in that you could just message her
or talk to her and she can help you as far as where they meet.
Then make sure you're turning in your church stats to our soul
winning groups so that way we can keep track of
everything. Also on the right we have the list of
our expecting ladies. Please be in prayer for all of them.
Also our upcoming events are there. Please make sure you're praying for our
missions trips and everything that we're doing there.
A couple church reminders down below on the back is the note about our church
family if you've been in prayer for them. Additional prayer requests please just
email us, submit them in. We'd like to be in
prayer for you. Additionally we would like to get updates if
you have any updates. On our insert we have the announcement
for evangelist Urbanic and the soul winning that he's doing
out there in the Philippines and the work that he's doing.
Honestly it's just incredible the amount of opportunity that you have
out there and just the sheer volume of people in
the Philippines is hard to explain until you've seen it with your eyes just
because it's a very densely populated, especially
Manila specifically, is a very densely populated city. A very
large city and so you know I've been to other
large cities like New York City, LA and things like that and man the
Philippines it's just to me it's just way more densely
populated and there's just so many people so that's why you can see
numbers like this because it's kind of hard to understand like how could
someone get this many people saved but I'm just telling you just that the
sheer volume of people in the Philippines is just
really incredible and it's honestly a pretty
receptive place. I mean a lot of people will talk to you,
a lot of people talk to you in groups and so
there's just a great opportunity for so many that's why so many people love
going there and we've sent a lot of people there
and so if you ever want to go to a place where
there's a lot of people, you know Philippines is a great place
to visit and preach the gospel and you'll never have a shortage of
people to talk to. You know today I was knocking on doors
and it was just like, here are you, you know go away or whatever and it's just
like it's kind of refreshing when you go to
an area and there's just hordes of people there and you just kind
of have endless opportunity to talk to people.
So of course there's still receptive people
out there. I don't want to knock soul winning here. I love soul winning here
but you know sometimes you can go to areas
that just aren't that receptive and so it's nice and refreshing to go to places
that are. That's pretty much all I have as far as
announcements. Oh I was just gonna say in theory some of
our heating and air we just had some weird issues
and I'm about to pull all my hair out and look like Jason if we don't get it
fixed but we've been working on it and we've
been trying I think God willing we should get things smoothed out
pretty soon so thanks for bearing with us.
It is it was a little hot this morning hopefully it's a little bit cooler
tonight but the preaching will be extra hot so just buckle up all right.
Psalm 149 all right Psalm 149.
All right that was Psalm 149.
Your King James Bible or your Black Binder.
Psalm 149 let's all sing it out together on the first.
Praise ye the Lord, sing unto the Lord a new song
and his praise in the congregation of saints.
Let his real rejoice in him that made him.
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
Let them praise his name in the dance. Let them sing praises unto him with the
temple and heart. For the Lord take him pleasure
in his people he will beautify the team of salvation.
Let the saints be joyful in glory. Let them
sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of God be
in their mouth and the two hedges stored in their hands.
To execute vengeance upon the heathen and punishments upon the
people. To find their kings with chains in their
roles with betters of iron. To execute upon them the judgment
written. This summer have all the victims
praising the Lord.
Great singing everybody. Now let's go get our Bibles out.
That's the operating plates we can pass around. Do we know the Bible chapter?
Anybody? Mark 7. We can all turn to Mark chapter 7
in our King James Bible. Mark chapter 7.
Mark chapter 7 the Bible says,
Then came together unto him the Pharisees and certain of the scribes
which came from Jerusalem. And when they saw some of his
disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say with unwashing hands,
they found fault. For the Pharisees and all the Jews
except they wash their hands oft eat not holding the tradition of the elders.
And when they come from the market except they wash they eat not
and many other things there be which they have received to hold
as the washing of cups and pots brazen vessels
and of tables. Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him
why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders
but eat bread with unwashing hands. He answered and said unto them
well hath these eyes prophesied of you hypocrites
as it is written this people on earth me with their lips
but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain
they do worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men
for laying aside the commandment of God ye hold the tradition of men
as the washing of pots and cups and many other such like things ye do.
And he said unto them full well ye reject the commandment of God
that ye may keep your own tradition for Moses said
honor thy father and thy mother and whoso cursed father or mother let him
die the death but ye say if a man shall say to his
father or mother it is Corbin that is to say a gift by
whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me
he shall be free and ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his
mother making the word of God of none effect
through your tradition which ye have delivered and many such
like things do ye and when he had called all the people
unto him he said unto them harken unto me every one of you and
understand there is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile
him but the things which come out of him
those are they that defile the man if any man have ears to hear let him
hear and when he was entered into the house from the people
his disciples asked him concerning the parable
and he saith unto them are ye so without understanding also
do ye not perceive that whatsoever thing from without
enterth into the man it cannot defile him because it enterth not into his
heart but into the belly and goeth out into
the draught purging all meats and he said that which cometh out of the
man that defileth the man for from within out of the heart of men
proceed evil thoughts adulteries fornications murders thefts
covetousness wickedness deceit lasciviousness an
evil eye blasphemy pride foolishness
all these evil things come from within and defile the man
and from thence he arose and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon
entered and entered into a house and would have no man know it
but he could not be hid for a certain woman whose young daughter had an
unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell at his feet the woman
was a greek a syrophoenician by nation and she besought him that he would cast
forth the devil out of her daughter but jesus said unto her let the children
first be filled for it is not meat to take the children's
bread and to cast it onto the dogs and she answered and said unto him yes
lord yet the dogs under the table eat of the
children's crumbs and he said unto her for this saying go
thy way the devil is gone out of thy daughter
and when she was come to her house she found the devil gone out
and her daughter laid upon the bed and again departing from the coast of Tyre
and Sidon he came under the sea of Galilee through
the midst of the coasts of Decapolis and they bring unto him one that was
deaf and had an impediment in his speech and they beseech him to put his hand
upon him and he took him aside from the multitude
and put his fingers into his ears and he spit
and touched his tongue and looking up to heaven he sighed and saith unto him
that is be opened and straightway his ears were opened and the string of his
tongue was loosed and he spake plain and he charged them
that they should tell no man but the more he charged them so much the
more a great deal they published it and were beyond measure astonished
saying he hath done all things well he maketh both the deaf to hear and the
dumb to speak let us pray dear heavenly father thank
you for this day thank you for all the souls that were saved today
i pray that you would bless pastor Shelley and give him boldness to preach
the message i pray that you would fill us with zeal to be better christians
and to obey your word in jesus name amen amen i want to go back to chapter
seven verse seven the bible says how be it in vain they do worship me
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men
for laying aside the commandment of god he hold the tradition of men as the
washing of pots and cups and many other such like things
ye do and he said unto them full well ye reject the commandment of god that you
may keep your own tradition now the lord jesus christ is
rebuking the pharisees for the fact that they
were making the word of god of none effect
look at verse 13 making the word of god of none effect
and he's bringing up in verse 9 full well you reject the commandment of
god they're missing the point when it comes
to the bible they're missing the point when it comes
to the bible and they've created their own excuses
as to why they're not going to do what the bible says
now what is the excuse that they give here in verse 10
for moses said honor thy father thy mother and who so curses the father
mother let him die the death but ye say if a man shall say to his
father mother it is corban that is to say a gift by whatsoever
that might as be profited by me he shall be free and you suffer him no
more to do ought for his father or his mother
making the word of god of none effect through your tradition
which you have delivered and many such like things do you
now this is not a teaching the lord jesus christ is saying is the only
teaching that they made of none effect in fact
what did he say in verse 13 and many such like things do you so there
was many ways in which the pharisees basically
took commandments of the bible and made them of none effect
what does that mean it means there was no application
it means they came up with an excuse or they came up with some
bad interpretation or weird idea that essentially made that part of the bible
meaningless to everyone to where nobody could apply it
it didn't have any application and no one has to do anything
here's a commandment honor thy father thy mother and then be like okay well
what does that mean nothing do i have to actually pay for
them no do i have to respect them no do i have to do anything for them no
just say it's corbin and you have to do literally nothing for them
and then it just makes this verse meaningless that's what jesus christ is
bringing up and he's getting really really mad
he gets really really angry at them making the bible of none
effect and i'll just be honest i'm a little bit angry too
okay and you say about what not one thing not two things many things
and i just figured i would just put them all in one sermon okay
now someone might think like hey you're trying to step on my toes in the sermon
and you're not paying attention because i'm trying to smack you upside the head
okay so the reality is that i don't know why people do this but
being nice doesn't seem to work so maybe if i'm just
really really clear maybe you'll you'll figure it out
but i'm just going to be honest there's a lot of things that i want to bring up
this evening go to romans chapter number 10 go to
romans chapter 10 that make me really mad
and i'm just like you're just missing the whole point of the bible you're just
missing the point of what this verse is actually saying
now some of these things i don't think our church is even guilty of
at least i hope not but some of them we could be guilty of and we want to make
sure that we're not missing the point of the bible
but one thing that i'll just tell you just irritates the fire out of me
is this really really stupid idea saying you don't have to call upon the name of
the lord to be saved when the bible literally says in romans
10 verse 13 what does the bible say for whosoever shall
call upon the name of the lord shall be saved
there is this doctrine out there that makes this verse of none effect
because they basically just make it a meaningless statement that has no impact
that nobody has any real application from
and they make the verses proceeding of none effect look at verse nine
that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord jesus and shalt believe
in thine heart that god have raised him from the dead
thou shalt be saved for with the heart man to believeth unto righteousness
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation
now let me explain to you what is consistently happening
not only in this situation but many situations
is people come up with an exception so that they can just completely discard
the general truth and the wisdom given the bible
so they'll we'll read this verse and i don't even know how you could literally
misinterpret it it's so clear that it's saying hey you
believe and you're confessing and you're safe
that they'll say oh yeah what about the guy that doesn't have a mouth
hmm did you ever think about that guy what about the guy that doesn't have
teeth you know he's been smoking too much
meth and he can't even talk what about him are you saying he can't
be saved pastor shelley no you idiot obviously if you're not
physically capable of speaking you could still pray in your heart and
you could still be saved you know what i'm not going to do is i'm
not going to base my entire life on the one guy that doesn't literally
have a mouth to understand this verse i'm not going to literally just throw
romans 10 in the trash and ignore the entire context of the
passage and say it doesn't really mean what it's saying
because there's technically somebody out there that's mute
but you know what that's what people do is they just completely miss the entire
point because they come up with a stupid excuse
a stupid exception to try and nullify the truth of the bible
right you could do this with any verse if you wanted
oh for all of sin it comes short of the glory of god well that's not true
because jesus didn't sin okay idiot but it's obvious that he's
excluded from that passage and let me tell you something people do
this with almost every part of the bible they don't want to believe
is they think about an exception they think about a stupid hypothetical
so they don't actually have to do what the bible says
but let me tell you something when we go out soul winning
we help people call upon the name lord to be saved
why because the bible says it right this is not my idea
i didn't come up with this i didn't write romans chapter number 10
and let me tell you something the context could not be clearer
that is talking about being saved spiritually
oh it's talking about physical salvation where
what part
the the the end part of verse number nine it says
thou shalt be saved okay but what about the part where it says believe in thy
heart that god has raised him from the dead
you know why do i have to do that to be physically delivered
why would it bring up the first thing is confess then the second thing is believe
so it's like physical salvation spiritual salvation in the middle
physical salvation again that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord
jesus physical salvation and believe in thy
heart that god raised from the dead spiritual salvation then thou shalt be
saved oh so we're back to physical salvation
again so in the middle of one verse we change
context twice you're an idiot you're just ignoring the whole point of
the passage what does even what does verse one say
brethren my heart's desire and prayer to god for israel is that they might be
saved what's the point spiritual salvation
what does it say a few verses before this verse number 31
of chapter 9 but israel which follows after the law of righteousness have not
attained the law of righteousness wherefore meaning why because they
sought it not by faith but as it were by the works of the law
for they stumbled at that stumbling stone
as is written behold i lie in zion a stumbling stone in rock of offense
and whosoever believeth on him should not be ashamed
what is romans chapter 9 explaining how to be saved
why are the jews not saved because they trust in the works of the law
why are the gentiles safe because they believed on him
and then in chapter 10 he makes it clear i wish they would get saved
but they're not going for the righteousness which is of christ they're
going for the righteousness of the law but you know how you get saved if you
confess through the mouth and you believe in your heart
and whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved
you know i i'm not going to get mixed up on this because i'm not going to miss
the entire point coming up with a stupid hypothetical
you know i want you know why people do this
because they don't want to go so any it's that simple you know why someone
comes with this stupid doctrine because they just want to have a youtube
ministry and i've noticed it's pretty much youtube ministry only doctrine
you only meet these people on youtube that believe the stupidity and this
nonsense and it's because they don't want to actually go out and get people
saved or maybe they're just bad at soul winning and not getting a lot of people
saved so they just want an excuse why people
aren't wanting to pray with them and get saved
but let me tell you something if you're good at soul winning and you're going
out there scores of people are going to want to
pray with you and scores of people are going to get saved
and you know what this doctrine is not an optional doctrine at our church
for our soul winning program and if people don't want to believe this
then they can go and not call the name of the lord of people wherever you want
you know what we're going to do we're going to help people call upon the name
of the lord and get saved go to romans chapter number six go to
romans chapter number six it's so funny that if you ask the people
in the room that are saved who in here called upon the name of the lord when
you got saved well that's funny if it's a false
doctrine then why is everybody that saved that you know that saved did that
and then there'll be these people that are like oh well i didn't but if you
fast forward like two months prior to that statement they
said that they did so which one is it are you lying now
i've seen people say like oh i didn't do it but then they were literally teaching
it to other people for years it's like well which one is it it sounds
like you're just backslidden in a liar that's what really sounds like
it doesn't sound like and look if someone literally came to me and says
hey i understand the facts of the gospel and
i believe them to be true but i have not called the name of the lord
to be saved and i don't want to ask jesus to save me you know what i would
tell that person i don't think you're saved
you should probably just settle that and decide to believe in him because you
know i've met atheists and fags that can tell me that the
bible teaches salvation is a free gift by faith and all you have to do is
believe in jesus to be saved and i've even heard them tell me this
i did believe that at one point so what's the difference between you and
that other guy i don't even know you make me nervous i'm i'm afraid of you
and it's like oh you just think they couldn't be saved i don't know but i
don't want to play that game with you i don't want to play that game with your
soul i don't know why you would okay why why in the world would you not
want to do that it just doesn't even make sense
it's how you believe in jesus christ folks i'll say it until i'm blue in the
face roman six look at verse number 20
for when you were the servants of sin you were free from righteousness
what fruit had you then and those things where have you're now ashamed for the
end of those things is death but now being made free from sin and
become servants of god you have your fruit unto holiness
and the end everlasting life so i'm going to go through a lot of
different things and i'm not going to spend a lot i'm not going to spend a lot
of time explaining them here's another thing i think is really
really frustrating to me and is missing the point
is how so many preachers and how many so many pastors will get up
and they will preach and they will explain to the congregation the
evidences of salvation they'll say hey you should have fruit
and i think people that are saved are going to demonstrate fruit in their life
and have evidence of salvation and then holier than thou's from our
crowd will say they're not saved because they think that there's evidence
of salvation let me tell you something there are
evidences of salvation there are fruits that come from being
saved what did the bible literally even say
here in romans chapter number six it says hey you were the servants of sin
and then it says in verse 21 what fruit had you in those things nothing
basically for the end of those things is death
but now being made free from sin and become servants to god you have your
fruit unto holiness what does the bible say it's emphasizing
people that are saved having fruit in their lives
and let me tell you something there are a lot of preachers and pastors out there
emphasizing the need of fruit after you get saved
that doesn't mean they're teaching work salvation we shouldn't be just so quick
to just damn every single person to hell because just say
well i technically think that someone could do no fruit and be saved
yeah we all do but is that do we really want to base our christian life on the
guy that did literally nothing after he got saved or do we want to base
our life on the people that actually had fruit unto holiness
or do we need to preach really hard about people having fruit in their lives
and evidencing their salvation through their works not to say that that means
you have to do that to be saved not to say that every saved person is
going to evidence that we understand there's an exception but you know what i
don't live my life on exceptions and i'm not going to sit here and
criticize some man of god for preaching what the bible is saying
because technically someone could do absolutely nothing and still be saved
yeah i get that and that's a point i emphasize when i'm getting someone saved
but you know what when we're preaching to a congregation of saved people
i don't think i need to emphasize that and you know what we shouldn't hold
these pastor's feet to a fire of every technical exception and think
like well this guy said people that are saved are going to hear the truth
this person said the people that are saved are going to evidence salvation
this person said the people that are saved are going to have fruit well you
know what in many cases that's the truth in 99
of cases that is true yeah but i think technically
technically there's an exception well you know what you're missing the point
again why didn't paul make sure every every
single sentence caveat it hey you had fruit and holiness now
technically there's a guy out there that didn't have any fruit in the holiness i
just want to be clear that he saved and salvation is a free gift i just want to
say that again even though i said it 500 times in
chapter 5 i said it was a free gift free gift free gift free gift in chapter 4
i made it clear that you know what even if you have no works you're still saved
by faith do you do i have to say it in chapter 6
2 you know what stop thinking that everybody's
unsaved just based on a hair trigger yeah it's annoying it makes us look bad
and you're typically doing it based on exceptions
based on weird hypotheticals and look i'm not saying that we shouldn't be
crystal clear on the gospel i'm not saying don't make sure the
person at the door doesn't understand this point
i'm just saying let's not crucify every preacher and pastor
and every man of god that's emphasizing the evidence of salvation
because there's an exception that exists out there it's a bad attitude
you know what the bible says examine yourselves whether you be in the faith
shouldn't we be evident what shouldn't we be every once in a while examining
the fruit in our lives just to see like if we're on the right
track and why would even tell a church hey examine yourselves whether you be in
the faith if there's no such thing as evidence of
your salvation there should be evidence of salvation in
your life look if you don't love the bible at all
if you don't love jesus at all if you hate all the things of god
maybe you should question the fact of whether you're saved or not
and look obviously salvation is just simple trust in jesus christ i get that
but look it's a little scary when you have no evidences
just like the bible says if you be without chastisement then are you
bastards and not sons that's another like ring the bell hey
are you even saved do you even get it and galatians they're mixed up on the
gospel he's worried are they even safe sometimes
we need to examine ourselves and look i'm i'm not really up here like
wondering if i'm saved don't hear me wrong i know i'm saved
like there's not even a doubt in my mind i could go out and be sinful the rest of
my life and i would still know i'm saved but generally speaking it's biblical to
teach that there's evidences of salvation
it's biblical to ask people and question people to examine themselves
to be skeptical and to try and encourage people to have fruit
and so if you're gonna if someone preaches those points don't misconstrue
what they're saying and then think like oh they're a
heretic because they think people that are saved are going to evidence their
salvation well then why is paul telling people
to examine themselves then why is paul saying you had your fruit unto holiness
and there's a lot of verses i go to prove this point but go over to matthew
five now go to matthew chapter five i don't think these first few points
really very many people are screwed up on in our church but
i hope not the first one for sure the second point
hey you know if someone's talking about the evidence of salvation let's not
crucify them yet okay maybe maybe there's some some
passages in the bible that even teach that
okay obviously we need to call upon the name lord to be saved here's another one
that just really makes me mad and i want to look at a couple verses to
before i explain this point but look what it says in matthew chapter 5 verse
14
the bible says you're the light of the world
a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid neither do men light a candle and
put it under a bushel but on a candlestick
and it giveth light unto all that are in the house let your light so shine before
men that they may see your good works and
glorify your father which is in heaven there's
the thing the bible is telling us to do this
but then what people do is they'll go to chapter six and they'll look at verse
one take heed that you do not your alms of
four men to be seen of them and they'll look at verse five and when
they'll praise thou should not be as the hypocrites are
for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and the corners in the
streets verse six but thou when they'll praise
enter thy closet and they'll take the the message of chapter six and they'll
apply it backwards to chapter five and they'll say oh well we should never
do anything to be seen of men this is false teaching the bible is
literally saying there are some things that you should let your light shine
that men should see did you see what it's go back to matthew five read these
verses with me in verse number 16 let your life so
shine before men that they may see your good works so
there's something that people should see
and let me explain it it's real easy it's your church attendance
and it's your soul winning those are the good works that people should see
and you should let your light shine think about the insanity
of saying we can't do that are we all now going to put
a white hood over our head and show up and meet because we don't want anybody
know that we went to church god forbid someone would think like we're
trying to i'm trying to be seen of men by going to church
so we should just all hide we should all wear a tent
we should all wear ninja costumes and show up
so that nobody will know that we went to church and we should hide how many
people even came to church because that would just be embarrassing
to let people know that we're actually successful or growing or reaching people
look this is a stupid attitude or to hide or conceal our soul winning is
also a stupid attitude okay why do i put in the bulletin
literally evangelist urbanic's newsletter so you
can see what kind of works he's doing how would you like it if the newsletter
said hey i'm doing stuff i don't want to be seen of men just fy
i'm doing stuff how would we distinguish him from another
missionary oh all the letters from all the missionaries i do stuff
i don't want to elaborate or anything i don't want to say i don't want to be
like the book of acts in the bible which says three thousand
people are saved oops i guess god is okay with telling us
how many people got saved yet some people will literally criticize
counting soul winning and i'm thinking like why in the world
would you criticize counting soul winning and i'm thinking like
okay then what are the good works that we're allowed to see
oh well it says when you pray don't let anybody see well then why in the world
do we literally have a prayer list why in the world on wednesday night do
we pray corporately maybe you just don't understand the
context upon which that verse was being brought out hey you shouldn't pray with
a hypocritical attitude this is the same kind of person that if
someone came up to you and asked for help
and let's say i was sam was standing next to me i would say well i can't give
you help because sam might see and i don't want to i don't want to be
seen of men or something like that no no the whole passage says don't blow
a trumpet right if someone needs help and sam's
gonna happen to notice then sam notices but i'm not gonna say like be filled and
warm go on your way i'm not gonna help you because sam might notice
you know what i'm not gonna do is i'm gonna say hey everybody i'm gonna help
someone hey everybody here's a giant check
with this person's name on it and i'm gonna give them money that's sounding a
trumpet isn't it but some people get so over the top on
helping people that they want to like wear the ninja
costume and sneak into their house and like let
it just fall out of the sky into their lap and
that's the only way they think they'll be rewarded by god
look you can help somebody and someone technically noticed
okay i guarantee if you went to the bank the teller noticed you took money out of
the account someone noticed you know you can't you
can't just get this holier than thou attitude to
think like no one's ever going to notice and look let me tell you something i
want everyone to hear how many salvations our church has
i'm not afraid of that there's nothing unbiblical about that
and the people that think that's unbiblical will then explain to me what
works i'm supposed to show to everybody and let me explain
something it's stupid to think that that's bad
because you know i can't get anybody saved anyways it's the gospel that gets
people saved i don't have some magical ability when
i go out and do some song and dance trick or
something get someone saved i just open the bible and preach the
gospel and they get saved so you know when i say hey 10 people got
saved you know what i'm doing i'm glorifying the gospel
i'm making it clear how great the gospel is
and boy how stupid would it be if i never told anybody
how many people get saved and someone's like hey how's the bahamas
it's there is it receptive well i don't want to i don't want to say
i don't want to talk about numbers or something like that
and so you have no idea so it's like going to israel
going to the bahamas going somewhere you canada you have no idea
how about if i say hey this area is great we got thousands of people saved
and then you know what happens tons of people go there and they get more people
saved because when you say the numbers people
are motivated to go there what if i said hey we went to this
neighborhood and got 20 people saved they're like i want to go to that
neighborhood as opposed to saying like well i don't
want to say i don't want to tell anybody anything
because matthew six does matthew six bring up soul winning
no and then people make up these stupid excuses
to ignore what matthew five is saying they're making the word of god of none
effect you know what i hate people making soul
winning look bad attacking soul winning being against
soul winning you know what nuts to you we don't need you if you want to attack
soul winning go somewhere else and go with the other churches where they won't
count you want to know why they don't count because they don't get anybody
saved that's why they don't count when someone says hey let's play but
let's not keep score you know what they're saying i'm not good at this and
i don't want to keep score to recognize how bad i'm doing
there's a reason why some people aren't keeping score it's because they're not
doing anything there's nothing to score so that's why
they're mad about it you know what when i see a church getting thousands of
people saved you know what it tells me let's get more hey when i see
evangelist bannock i'm saying like we need to do more
i'm not sitting here like oh he's trying to brag about it now look could someone
have a bad attitude sure if someone says like i got five savior
you got two well that's a bad attitude you know i've
never seen someone be like that and you know our church's policy is we
say you and your silent partner just say you and this person got this many people
saved we don't know who actually did the work
or who got them saved or whatever who cares
but you know what you participated you contributed
we keep detailed stats to try and motivate ourselves to do more
i want more people to be saved and let me tell you something by keeping
numbers we're going to get more people saved
and if we decided to just have this weird holier than thou attitude
that says like i don't want to keep numbers we'll get less people saved
and you know what i'm all about getting people saved whatever it takes whatever
we're going to do and so that's what we're going to do
then you're going to have to tell me what does matthew five really mean then
go to malachi chapter three go to malachi chapter three
if you don't like numbers you won't like the bible because god gives you numbers
all the time this many people say three thousand
saved here this many people in church you know i
think we should constantly be talking about how many people are in
church how many people are getting saved how many people are getting baptized
those are the things we should brag about because it's god doing a work
but i'm not going to go around and brag about me giving money to poor people
that would be inappropriate i'm not going to brag about how many days i've
been on a fast i'm not going to brag about you know my
secret prayer life or something like that
obviously there's limits to the things that we do and the bible gives clear
limits but i'm not going to put them on our good
works because i want god to be glorified you know god's
glorified when we say hey a bunch of people got saved
god's glorified when we say a bunch of people are in church god's glorified you
know people get mad about you saying like a lot of people came to church
why would i be mad about that we need the entire nation to go to church
would god every church would be busting at the seams
would god every fundamental Baptist church was filled with people today
and getting scores baptized and scores saved
i'm not going to sit here and be mad at a church for doing that i'm going to say
praise god people are getting saved over there
that's the right attitude look at malachi chapter number three
look at verse number eight will a man rob god
yet you have robbed me but you say wherein we rob thee in ties and
offerings you're cursed with the curse for you
robbed me even this whole nation bring ye all the ties in the storehouse
that there may be meat in mine house and prove me now herewith
saying the lord of hosts if i will not open you the windows of heaven and pour
you out a blessing and there shall not be room enough to receive it
here's the thing every point that i'm bringing up
you have to understand this verse means something
people make up a stupid excuse to why this verse means nothing
and so many people will make this verse nothing they'll say
oh well tithing is unbiblical it's old testament
i'm thinking like man god really kind of screwed up to put that in the last old
testament book right if it was for only the old testament boy
he really missed the mark of like trying to put this
passage like earlier in the text since it somehow magically doesn't apply
all of a sudden and i'm thinking like why does it not
apply it's old testament oh you mean like incest
incest let's say it's not new testament incest is not in the new testament
who in here thinks incest is cool nobody from alabama okay
i mean how many things in the old testament are not brought up in the new
testament are we going to play that game and then
it's like okay then what does this verse mean how
does this verse even apply people that are just they're just missing
the whole point well i just don't think ties and
ties and offerings are symbolic of what
you know if you don't believe what i'm saying then tell me what it really means
right but this is what people do they come up with an excuse and then they
have no reason for it they have no picture for it
they have no reason why it could even exist they just
they just don't want to do it they don't want to call upon the name of the lord
because they don't want to get people saved and
they are too lazy to read their bible and they don't want to have evidence as
a fruit in their salvation so then they pick other people apart
thirdly there's people that just don't do a lot of soul winning so they get mad
about counting and then another one people don't want
to tithe and so they have to have a reason why they're not tied well it's not
biblical and look it's kind of sad when you think
about the numbers the vast majority of christians just
don't tithe why they just miss the point and they
just come up with excuses and they say oh well they tithe the
sheep in the old testament i don't have any sheep
just something stupid they just completely miss
the entire point of the bible go to first corinthians chapter five first
corinthians i'm just bringing up lots of random things here
hopefully you're offended by at least a couple all right
well i don't really agree with this okay then what does it mean
let me challenge you if you disagree with anything i'm saying tonight
then please explain to me what that verse really means
and you'll see a pattern the people that do this kind of stuff they have no
alternative explanation they have no reason
or justification they just simply make an excuse they go to a hypothetical or
an exception old testament well i guess you believe in
incest too then first corinthians chapter five look at
verse 11 but now i've written unto you not to keep
company of any man that's called a brother be a fornicator covetous or an
idolatry or a railer or a drunkard or extortioner with
such and one not to eat the bible's clear that railers should be
church discipline a railer is very clearly someone that's
making a false accusation but people don't want to believe this
and so what they do is they go to the dictionary
and they come up with a weird definition for rail
so then they they make this verse of none effect
and they'll say oh well if you go to the dictionary railing just means to
speak harshly about someone oh so just everybody's a railer and
they'll be like yeah everybody's a railer and then you're like well then
how do you enforce this verse and they're just like well you know
come on no no explain that to me well you know of course come on
look what does rail mean because if i'm gonna enforce this verse it has to have
a clear definition and there's somebody that accused me of
slander there's a pastor that said i slandered them
and in the whole in a whole sermon about railing
now here's the thing if i slander somebody you know what i want them to do
provide the receipt say what what did i say
what was it that i did because if i said something then i'll fix it
if i accuse you falsely of something please tell me so i can fix it because i
don't want to falsely accuse anybody whether i like them or dislike them it's
like show me on the doll where i hurt you
okay because you know what if i'm a slander or a railer i want to fix it
but you know what it's what slander and railing is not
is just whatever you want to make it up to be just being mean
or saying something uh that's true okay here's my litmus test for railing is it
true and everything sometimes people are mean
sometimes people are jerks sometimes people do things that i strongly
disagree with but then i ask this question is it true
and here's the thing if it's true it's not railing
okay and yet some people come up with this definition here's the definition i
hear and i hear from a lot of people so they just ignore this verse this is
the definition of railing to speak in a way that persuades others
toward a negative or dishonorable perception of someone else
let me repeat that to speak in a way that persuades others towards a negative
or dishonorable perception of someone else i don't know maybe like jesus did in
matthew 23 about the pharisees why in the world would you come up with
a definition of rail that makes jesus christ a railer
like that's insane how about you come up with a definition of rail
that doesn't make jesus a railer and then the only way to do that let me
explain it to you is for rail to be defined as making a
false accusation you can find consistently jesus christ
speaking in a harsh manner speaking in a negative manner
calling names i mean he's calling harrod a fox
he upbraided the disciples he's calling the pharisees serpents and vipers and
whited sepulchers and every name in the book
fools blind guides this is just off the top of my head
what else do you want him to say you think oh but he was
trying to make people like the pharisees obviously
he did not honor them he did not respect them he
said very negative things about them but let me say something about what jesus
said it was true every single thing that jesus said was
true and he is not a railer what's so funny
in this sermon of this pastor accusing me of slander
he admitted that he is a railer
he said sometimes i rail this is what happens
and i'm thinking like you've totally made this verse of none effect now
because he was saying because according to him it's just speaking in a negative
manner well who doesn't do that exactly so
then you basically make this verse of none effect
you know what it's you're just missing the entire point of what the bible is
actually saying and let me just help you and help
everybody and help this person look rebuke true rail
false revile mean it's that simple when someone's reviling you they're
being harsh and mean when they're railing on you they're
lying about you whenever they're rebuking you
it's true they're all harsh they're all harsh
don't make don't confuse these words and you'll see a consistent pattern in the
bible of this go over to feasance chapter
number four go to feasance chapter number four
look if someone's a railer we have to say we have to have a clear statement
that's a false statement to say that they're a railer
and i am not going to throw someone out of church for being mean
i'm not going to throw someone at church for saying things i disagree with
i would throw people at a church for saying false statements making public
false accusations and they won't repent of them
why would i want that if someone just lies about you
which happens to plenty of people in our church and has happened it's not
just me there's been plenty of people where
they just make a random weird accusation including there was someone that was
accused of being a pedophile literally there was somebody at one point in our
church where someone made a public video accusing a church member of molesting
their child how would you like for me to allow that
person to come to church that falsely accused you of that
that has to be dealt with we can't just allow things like that to happen
we can't just allow people to make all these accusations i heard someone say
well railing is a habitual thing no no you
make one statement like that one time and you are going to be taking a
task until you're a benefit it's not like oh well extortioners it's a
habitual thing no no you extort one person in this church
we're taking a task on that you commit fornication with one person in this
church we're taking you to task on that okay
and if you rail on someone it doesn't matter who it is we're going to take you
to task on that and it's a false statement don't make
this verse of none effect
here's another thing that kind of it's funny because it kind of
parlays into the point that i'm making though is is all these people
they they get the definition of rail wrong
they also get the definition of curse wrong
because curse means to wish evil upon someone
what curse does not mean is cuss okay and people just love love to tell
you that they don't cuss i've noticed this i've never asked
somebody in my entire life do you cuss
do you do you ask people that actively but then the people that say they don't
cuss they love to tell me about it it's like that meme where it's like
nobody and then someone coming in they're like
hey i just want to let you know i don't cuss or this is what i hear it's just
crazy i've never cussed in my entire life i'm
just thinking like wow
you are so amazing you are holy you're holier than i you're a holier than
thou art hmm holier than thou what is a holier
than thou they're better than you what is someone trying to do when they
say i've never cussed my entire life they're trying to just let you know that
they're better than you you know what this same person that will
unprovoked you didn't ask you don't even care
tell you that they've never cussed they will speak evil of you
every way you could ever think of and then while they're doing it they'll
quote this verse to you verse 29 let no corrupt communication
proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of
edifying that it may minister grace and the hearers
so you know they do they turn this into cussing and then they make this whole
verse of none effect because the whole point of this passage
is not whether you use a bad word in society
or use a certain four-letter word it's about actually just talking trash on
people and being evil and being malicious
that's what the whole point is look what it says in verse number 31 let all
bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away
from you with all malice and be kind one to
another tenderhearted forgiving one another
even as god for christ's sake and forgiven you
there's a specific person that's mad at me because years ago
i used a naughty word i use a bad word and it wasn't even about that person i
said it about someone else that's a really bad
person and i guarantee this person even agrees
with what i said they wouldn't want to tell you that i
bet you they've even said the alternative let's go brandon
i bet they've said that but here's the thing because i use this naughty word
i'm super guilty of this verse yet this is what they say about me they
say i'm a kool-aid drinker paint eater an emulator mentally handicapped
dumbest preacher alive spiritual drag queen
vile clown insincere idiot worse than sodomites
pretending to be a christian wife beater abuser
abuse enabler and evil that's what they'll say about me
but i said a bad word one time about somebody else that they also think is a
bad person and then they'll quote that verse to me
and i'm thinking like you're making the word of god of none effect
like what does this passage really even mean
like they just don't even get they're just missing the point completely
and they're a giant hypocrite a giant hypocrite
go if you went to first peter chapter three
of course the bible says this it says if they've called the master of the house
beelzebub how much more should they call them of his household
it doesn't really shock me that people just say every horrible thing about me
that you could think of but it's just so funny that this person would love
to tell you all these things about you i would love to know if this is being
kind one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another
oh you you paint chip eating kool-aid drinking mentally handicapped
vile spiritual drag queen how kind of you
how spiritual you are but but they'll let you know
i've never cussed before my entire life do you think god is looking down from
heaven just like man i'm so glad you've never slipped up and
said a bad word when you hit your thumb on with a hammer
but i'm so pleased that you're just calling people all these
insane insane insane accusations insane insults
these people are crazy yeah i'm an abuse enabler
because i tell husbands and wives to work on their marriage
even if they're in a bad situation but you know what i didn't come up with that
and you know the world doesn't even look at that way the world doesn't even agree
with that in many cases i grew up in a church under pastor
jimmy evans and he's probably one of the most prolific
marriage counselors in the world he's one of the most well-known marriage
counselors in the world he's written multiple books on this
issue he has one of the most popular marriage on the rock tv shows ever
and he would constantly tell stories about bad marriage situations one in
particular he said that there was a wife and husband
where the husband was extremely evil he was committing adultery regularly
was not treating his wife well at all and he
had a counseling session with this woman this woman said i still love my husband
and i just want our marriage to work he believes in divorce for exceptions i
don't okay jimmy evans does but he said well if
you want to work on your marriage what you should do is you should dress
nice you should talk nice only to him never
criticize him make great meals for him and just do
everything right and you know what he was basing it on
first peter chap number three verse one which hey the bible is true whether
even if the guy's not saved even if he's saying it it's still true look what it
says likewise ye wives being subjection to your own husbands
that if any obey not the word they also may without the word be won by the
conversation of the wise saying hey even if they won't listen to
the bible just be a great wife and maybe you'll win them over
and he taught this and he had all these stories about women especially this one
in particular who just was nicer husband and finally
he you know making a long story short he
said the husband just kept coming home upset saying like man why are you so
nice to me like you're making me feel terrible
because you're so nice to me and i don't deserve it
and then he said he felt so rotten he said fine i'm gonna give up all that
and they end up fixing their marriage and having a great marriage now would
that be someone that's an an adultery enabler because he's telling
this woman to just be submissive and obey her husband and just do right even
when he's super in the wrong no interesting i do the same thing i
counsel people based on first peter chap number three and i tell people
hey even if you're in a bad situation even if your husband's a scumbag
even if your husband did something to you that i strongly disagree with
i still think you should love him and stick with him and do right
and they're like oh you're an abuse enabler
look that's garbage you know what if some guy
punches his wife he's a loser he's a loser i've said that before i'll say it
again you know i didn't even ask my friend
about this i didn't even ask pastor interested in this but i had already
made a mental note i said if he's punching his wife i will
not defend him and then i asked him all the questions
and later i realized that's not happening there's no evidence of that
him and his wife both said no but look i'm not gonna defend somebody who's
punching their wife and beating up their wife that's insane
okay and if somebody comes to me and says like hey i hit my wife i'm not
gonna be like up top give me five man that's cool i'm gonna
say that's that's wicked that's evil that's stupid
you know i'm gonna say that's horrible i'm gonna say
that you're a jerk okay but at the end of the day if a wife says hey
should i stay with my husband my answer is always going to be yes
look if someone is in danger of their physical safety
if they want to temporarily remove themselves so that their physical safety
is protected i'm all for that you know what just because a man made a
mistake five years ago i'm not going to say you go girl you get
rid of him you get you a dime you know i'm not
going to be like that i'm going to say stick with is that me
an abuse enabler no and they always want to come up with
these weird hypotheticals weird extremes just ignore what first
peter chapter three literally says hey just stick with your husband and
just obey him and do what's right that's what the bible says hey if you
want to win your husband over be a great wife
go through to matthew chapter 19 never divorce
you know jimmy evans might tell divorce i don't believe in divorce at all
you say what about adultery no what about abuse no
what about this no if you ever ask me for advice
i will never ever ever ever ever ever tell you to divorce never
it's always wrong i'm a hundred percent against it
you will never get me to say that but you know what people love to go to
matthew chapter 19 and they love to just focus on the
exception look what it says in verse 9 and i say
unto you whosoever shall put away his wife
except it be for fornication and shall marry another
commit his adultery and they'll say like look there's an exception
pastor shelley jesus is teaching deceptions oh is that because you missed
the first few verses let's back up verse three the pharisees
king also came on him tempting him saying
on him is it lawful for man to put away his wife for every cause
and he answered and said to them have you not read that he which made them at
the beginning made the male female and said for this cause shall a man leave
father and mother and took leave to his wife
and they twain shall be one flesh the bible says in another passage
what god has joined together let not man put asunder
jesus said don't divorce and then like okay well what about this exception
and it's always the evil people that want to bring up exceptions
hypotheticals whatever notice the pharisees they're ready to drop divorce
for every cause she burned the cookies divorce
she forgot something she forgot to pack something on our trip divorce
right i mean what for every cause that's where this leads to when you start
opening the door it just gets wider and wider i saw a
video because my former pastor jimmy evans there was
person was explaining his position on divorce and said in his early parts of
his ministry he only allowed for adultery now he says
there's four a's there's a abuse there's adultery there's
abandonment i can't remember the fourth one i was
already i already stopped tuning in some other fourth a and i'm just thinking
like but they basically had everything they needed
they said like oh abandonment's a spiritual adultery
and i'm thinking like look if you want to believe that you should
divorce your spouse you'll believe it no matter what the text says
but you know what you need to just believe what jesus said if he said let
not man put asunder what did that mean what did that mean what does railing
mean what does it mean that we should not let corrupt communication proceed
out of her mouth what do these things actually mean because most people are
just missing the point they're coming up with their own
definitions their own examples their own situations
and they're just missing the point often and let me tell you something
divorce happens in couples happens in pairs you stay away from
people that are even thinking about divorce
that even mention it that should just be an immediate end to your friendship
if people are suggesting that if people are encouraging that
you stay away from anybody encouraging you to divorce someone
go to deuteronomy 22 go to deuteronomy 22
stay away from those people and look i'm going to tell you something
you know i mentioned it earlier in this in the morning but when you hang out
with disgruntled people people that are hating on the
church other people in this church are going
to notice that and they may want to stay away from you
they may not want to be your friend they may treat you differently i'm not even
saying that's right i'm just saying that's how it is
because let me tell you something if someone was coughing up a lung and
hacking and was all disease looking and was
having snot come out of their nose and then you go and hang out with that
person and you're like buddy and and hugging on them and touching them
i'm gonna stay away from you because i'm like afraid that you're
sick now even if you don't even exhibit any of the signs
i'm just worried that you hung out of that person's house and you're around
that person and look other people may see that and
think like what's going on with this person
you may be healthy we just don't know we're just nervous
about what you're doing you know stay away from people that are going to cause
you to fall stay away from people that encourage
you to divorce stay away from people that are sick and diseased
here's another verse that people love to just make of none effect you don't only
22 verse 5 the woman shall not wear that which
pertains unto a man now let's just stop there that was the
first part of this verse explain to me what the garment is that
women are not allowed to wear
and then here's the thing when someone has a different definition than pants
it's usually this definition i don't have one
and they'll be like ah but what about leggings leggings aren't pants
if i was wearing leggings no one in here be like did you see the pants that
pastor shelley was wearing
you know that and i know that okay all of you hopefully have left by now okay
or be like stay behind the pulpit okay
look leggings is underwear it's not pants
we all know what pants look like and let me say something
men like women dressing feminine anyways why is it the wedding dress and not the
women's pantsuit why is it that all the lesbians dress
like that it's because it's a male's garment and
of course what people do is they say like oh you you think that
women shouldn't wear pants where does it say that in the bible
and then you point to this verse it's like it doesn't say pants
well then what does it say it doesn't say pants
well then what does it say what does it say pants you're missing the point
it's obviously saying something what is it saying
and then they just have no to i heard something like maybe it's a tie
what really come on you think there's a big tie problem in america
when's the last time other than olive garden you saw a woman wearing a tie
anyways
come on they make the word of god of none effect
since we're close by let's go to leviticus 19 for a second
hopefully you've been offended by now i don't know
hey if you love the bible though you probably won't
if you're actually wanting to know what the bible says you'll like the sermon
if you want to make excuses and explain every verse away well then you're going
to be really offended really quick hey quit missing the point and just tell
me what the verse actually means hey for who starts to call by the name of
the lord shall be saved what do you think that means
uh that anybody that calls the name of the lord is going to be saved
hey what do you think it means when jesus said let not man put us under don't
ever divorce what do you think it means when it says
women shouldn't wear a garment that a man wears
uh what every bathroom door says pants every bathroom door i mean come on
well i just don't think it says that well what does it say
tell me how you're observing that verse or just admit to me you don't like the
bible look vitticus chapter 19 like verse 28
you should not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print any marks
upon you i am the lord you know this is tattoos don't get a
tattoo they're stupid i dislike all of them
here's a statement i've never said cool tattoo
and was sincere all right
and i mean to the world i've seen some cool tattoos i've seen the batman symbol
on someone's chest
but i'm like i'm glad it's on you and not me
dude that's not cool nobody like nobody is really going to truly love their
tattoo their entire life i'm sorry most almost everybody will
admit there was a mistake at some point but even the people that won't admit it
outwardly i already know okay it's a dumb dumb decision don't do it
and look there's so many people tattoos it's
insane i've always hated tattoos but the bible says to not get one and
then they'll be like oh well it says here for the dead well
wait a minute it said you should not make any cuttings in your flesh for the
dead then it just says comma nor print any
marks upon you and they'll say like well i didn't get a
tattoo for the dead okay then what does this verse mean
oh you're only supposed to not get certain tattoos that are for the dead
really is that really the epidemic problem in the world today
is people getting the wrong type of tattoo
god's like man i wish you had gotten this kind of tattoo and not that one
really or did god make you how he wanted you and he didn't want you to tat up
your body oh well the bible doesn't say tattoo
here okay well then let's ask the diction what
is the what is the dictionary definition of tattoo
a mark with an indelible design by inserting pigment into punctures in the
skin wow you know if the bible actually said
don't get tattoos you know what people do
well i looked it up in a dictionary and tattoo means
and it'd just be something that has nothing to do with tattoo
so god just says print marks on your body so it's just like even an idiot
could understand what that means
look just don't get like tattoos make you look stupid
and why in the world i mean have you ever been to a tattoo parlor don't raise
your hand it's the most shady weird girl i've
never been inside one but i can just guarantee it's not a place
i want to hang out you know what parts of town have a lot
of tattoo parlors not the nice part of town have you ever
been a nice part of town there's not two tattoo parlors everywhere
go to the really rough receptive soul winning part of town
tattoo parlors everywhere along with a a payday cash advance right next to it
don't go to either of those places and then right next to it cricket mobile
and then right next to that is going to be planned parenthood
avoid the shopping center completely okay just stay away from that shopping
center all of them are bad and then there's a
liquor store at the end cap okay it just stay away from all of
these things don't get a stupid tattoo and they'll be like ah well it's all
testament oh so now we're back to incest again oh
it didn't say tattoo what does tattoo even mean oh well it
wasn't a tattoo for the dead dude you're just what is the point of
the passage you're just missing the whole point it
said hey don't print marks on your body
go if you would to proverbs 23 go to proverbs 23
look i could just preach so many of these i'm just gonna be honest i'm just
i'm just mad at people when you just show them a verse
and they just make the stupid excuse why they don't believe it
and they just miss the whole point and you just say well then what does it mean
what is the point look we need to just say you know what
the bible's right i'm wrong i'm gonna change we need to call upon the name of
the lord we need to hey sometimes examine ourselves
and encourage other people to examine themselves look for the fruit in their
life sometimes we have to separate from
railers we should let our work shine we should allow people to see our soul
winning in our church attendance and get excited about things of god
we should tithe we should make sure that we're not letting corrupt communication
proceed out of our mouth we shouldn't be just talking trash on people
falsely accusing people being mean we shouldn't be mean
and look we shouldn't render railing for railing
if someone rails on you you don't rail back on them
and if even someone rails on you even if what you're saying is true you don't
even have to be mean back okay i don't think that we should be mean
back in response now some people think being true or
just telling the truth is mean i'm talking about actually being me like
insulting them talking negatively about them making fun
of them calling them names pointing out whatever sin issues they
have in their life you know obviously some people are
really easy to make fun of just because they have obvious issues
maybe they just they have a messed up face and it's just really easy to make
fun of or they just have a really obvious like
issue with their body or their hair or whatever hey just don't
don't do that don't go down that road don't be junior high
don't sit here and just criticize people for these type of things because
we could do that to everyone hey you're too tall hey you're too short
hey you're too skinny hey you're too big hey whatever i mean
all of us none of us look like a hollywood celebrity
and even they get made fun of so it's it's silly to get
be mean and be mean spirit about these things hey
love your enemies there's a verse that we need to learn as a church
people are like oh but that means we should just there's reprobates
so you know what i don't have to love my enemies no no that's the exception
what is the point of love your enemies if you're just always going to say well
i don't have to love reprobates quit making everybody a reprobate yeah
well this person doesn't like me that doesn't make them a reprobate
yeah this person doesn't like pastor shelley that doesn't make them a
reprobate otherwise almost everybody reprobate okay
there's not that many reprobates okay look just because someone doesn't like
me doesn't make them a reprobate don't be mean to them love them you
know what you should say to somebody you should bless them well i hope good
things happen to you i hope your kids turn out great i hope
your church is successful i hope you actually go on a mission
strip this year i hope you actually do something with your life
you know what would happen if all the people that were the quote x
new ifb and all the disgruntled ifb and all the old ifb what if we all just
said you know what we're gonna put all of our differences aside and just be
friends and love each other and just focus on getting people saved
can you imagine like how much work we could actually accomplish
if people could just put their stupid petty crap aside
and stop attacking other people and having stupid definitions for words to
attack people and just actually get someone saved
instead of putting all your creative energy and making troll videos
why don't you make a video that's actually true why don't you actually
work on a documentary that's true why don't you actually go out there and
preach something that's true and actually build someone up
why don't you put all your effort into you on a mission strip why don't you
take all your money and invest it in something spiritual
i mean would the god that christians could love other christians
and you know what if people hate me but they're getting people saved
god bless them i don't care there could be
10 churches that hate my guts but if they're gonna go soul winning this week
i hope they get a lot of people saved i hope they go on every missions trip
i hope they go to the bahamas i hope they go to jamaica
i hope they go to mexico hey if they come to my
my neighborhood if they knock on my next door neighbor's door i hope he gets them
saved
you know what we need people to get saved we should stop putting all our
petty grievances out there and being like everybody has to like me
no one has to like you it's all about christ
and people will sit here and they'll just read love your enemies and they're
like well that's not reprobates quit worrying about that exception you're
missing the point there's a lot of people to love that are
an enemy that don't like you the end of the
commandment is charity out of a pure heart you know what the goal of the
bible is charity here's a question how much charity are
you showing to anybody well i'm nice to the people that like me
so is the publican so is the roman centurion
so is the pharisee everybody's like that you know what
as a christian is someone that's charitable to someone that's not
charitable to them that loves them that's kind of them that
doesn't mean we don't call out sin that doesn't mean that we don't help to
explain to people why they're wrong on the definition of
rail you know i want these pastors to get the right
definition of rail and then enforce it i don't hate them you know these people
that have railed on me and been stupid and whatever
i don't want them to quit pastoring i want them to just stop railing
i want them to stop being dumb i want them to just get people saved
do something with their life and you know people that drink alcohol get
tattoos and do all this stuff like i'm not mad at you i just want you
to quit if you're not tithing tithe if you have
stupid ideas get good ideas believe what the bible says read the
bible you know the bible warns about drinking
alcohol this one just makes me mad but everybody wants to make an excuse about
this look at verse 31 proverbs 23 verse 31 look not upon the
wine when it is red
okay drunkard what drink are you not allowed to look at
you know i've never heard someone that's an advocate for alcohol ever tell me
what it's telling you not to do here
look not upon the wine when it's red what does that verse mean drunkard
what does that put down the beer for half a second and tell me
what drink am i not allowed to drink because you're missing the point they'll
be like oh this just says don't get drunk
no no it says look not thou upon the wine when it's red when it give it this
color in the cup when it moves all right there's a drink that you're not allowed
to look at what is it
they just don't want to explain it because you know what it's real obvious
it's called alcohol buddy but they don't want to admit that because they want to
say no i think drinking's fine and they'll say i know someone that
drinks in moderation they don't have problems in their life
okay ignore the exception because you're missing the point buddy
is there some random person out there look i've known someone in my personal
life that i think drinks alcohol maybe one
or two times a year and it's honestly one of the most sober
people i know works hard seems like a pretty good christian
really good father really good husband does a lot of great work for the lord
and he just drinks like on super rare occasion usually just a beer not even
not alcohol like liquor or something just like a couple beers
am i gonna now throw every commandment in the bible about drinking in the trash
and say like oh no i guess people aren't drunkards and people don't mess up and
cause problems no i'm gonna ignore that stupid hypothetical and exception
because he's one in a trillion and just say hey
avoid alcohol period don't try to be like that exception
don't try to be like that guy just say hey there's a beverage i should never
touch i shouldn't look at it it shouldn't be in the fridge i shouldn't
mess with it and i'm not gonna have it and you know what you might say hey i'm
not gonna mess with it but what about your teenage son
when you're not looking and let me tell you something
teenagers if they drink alcohol at 14 15 or 16
the chances of them becoming an alcoholic as an adult
are astronomical you should never allow alcohol to be in their reach ever
well i can handle it but can your kids handle it there's a beverage that you
should never look at you shouldn't have around you wine is a
mocker strong drink is raging and whoever's received thereby is not
wise well i know someone that drinks is smart
well you're just focusing on a stupid hypothetical
because you know what the people that do the most for god the people that i
actually look up to none of them drink ever
show show me the booze pastor that's going out soul winning
show me the guy that's drinking hard liquor i'll show you the guy that drinks
hard liquor and he's a calvinist that's what he is
a stinking calvinist that's prideful and arrogant and doesn't get people saved
that's the kind of person that drinks alcohol because he has to constantly
numb away the fact that he gets no one saved he probably hates numbers counting
too he just likes to count jack daniels and
whatever 57 or something isn't there stupid
numbers associated with drinking i don't know
where's the drunkard in the room no i'm just kidding
rum or something or vodka there's all these numbers he's carrying about 80 180
proof or something right everclear or something look we need to
think about when we're reading the bible what is the point
stop letting exceptions and hypotheticals ruin the point of the
bible when you read the bible don't sit there
and think like well there's an exception of this
no think about what is the point what is the point of the passage and
quit just getting rid of all the general
wisdom and truth of the bible because you know of an exception
i mean you could do this to anything the apostle paul's talking about the jews
be like well i know there's at least one jew that's not bad
okay but the jews as a whole are bad
yeah the proverbs there's always exceptions of the proverbs
but the proverbs are true quit thinking about all the hypotheticals quit
thinking about all the exceptions and just do what the bible says
we need to call upon the name of the lord we need to not be afraid
of someone saying examine yourself and looking for evidence of salvation
we need to make sure that we're letting our light shine
and that people are seeing our good works of soul winning and our missions
trips and our church attendance we need to make sure that we're not
railing on people we want to make sure that we're tithing we want to make sure
that we're not speaking evil of people and letting communication
come out of our mouth you could never cuss
and be in violation of this entire passage quit worrying about
cussing and start worrying about just talking evil about people
you should never ever ever divorce hey men don't wear dresses was that hard
no it's not for some reason it's that women wearing pants
i wonder if that's why if you read dinner 22 it first addresses women
the woman shall not wear that which are pertaining to the man probably because
it's more prevalent for them huh you should never drink alcohol get rid of
all of it pour it all out and look if you have a tattoo i'm not
mad at you but don't get another one don't even say it's cool don't don't
show it off to the kids like hey look at this cool tattoo i got
because you know if i walk by i'll say like it's stupid now i won't insult you
if you just have it but if you try to tell one of these kids it's cool
i will make fun of you in front of them because i don't want them to think it's
cool i want no kid to ever get a tattoo i want
no one to get any more you know i want our church to actually
be comfortable in their skin and you know what we have a lot of
enemies let us not render railing for railing and evil for evil
let us love our enemies and let us just focus on the things that really matter
let's not us miss the point of christian what's the point of christian getting
people saved let us focus on the soul winning and the
missions trips and getting people baptized and getting in church and look
i know you know sometimes you come to church
and you want a positive message but you need a negative message too
occasionally all right and if you're mad at me come back next
week and i can do it again all right let's go
thank you heavenly father so much for your word thank you for
giving us so much great wisdom in the bible i pray that we wouldn't have an
evil heart that we wouldn't have this evil mindset
where we just make all these excuses where we we come up with dumb ideas to
try and make the word of god of none effect
where we try to ignore what the bible is really saying i pray that anybody in
this room that has an issue with some verse in the
bible that you would just give them the faith to believe it
pray that you would help motivate us to be focused on the right things
i pray that you would help us to love our enemies i pray that you'd also help
us to do great works for your honor and for
your glory and that we could reach more people this
year than we ever have so that we could do more things that are
pleasing to you and more people could glorify you and in jesus name we pray
amen
all right in closing let's go to song
number 145
song number 145 as usual the ladies will sing out the
first it is well and the men follow it up
and on the last it as well we sing it out together
song number 145 pay attention on the last verse for the keychain
we'll all sing it out on the verse when peace like a river
attended my way when sorrows like sea
hello
it is well it is well
my soul
with my soul it is well it is well
my soul
let this class assurance control
that Christ have regarded
my helpless estate
and have shed his own blood
for my soul
it is well
with my soul
it is well
it is well with my soul
my soul
the place of its glorious
star
praise the lord
it is well it is well
with my soul
it is well
it is well with my soul
and lord
praise the day when my faith
shall be signed
the clouds below pass
as the school
the trunk shall resound
and the horn shall be sent
even so it is well
with my soul
it is well with my soul
with my soul
it is well it is well
with my soul
great singing everybody we're all dismissed