Steadfast Baptist Church nice hot one can hear to the nice cool started start this evening's songs off song number
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129 since I have been redeemed since I start again. Let's start again. Sorry. That was completely my fault
Let's start one more time 10 like that never have that fast Baptist Church 10 very this year's Lord for your glory God
We ask that you please bless the service as pastor Shelly and his family
Please put your spirit your Holy Spirit upon him so he can preach an edifying sermon father
Thank you for all the souls are one today out soul winning help us to continue as better Christians the day before yesterday and the day
Before after tomorrow Lord for your honor and glory. It's in Jesus name. We pray all right next up
We have song number two hundred and fifty seven look and live
257 look and live to five seven
Coming to set fast Baptist Church if you didn't get a bullet in this morning, and you'd still like one just lift up your hand
Hopefully our ushers can still come by this give you high five, so I don't know if we have any more
Also on the front we have the Bible every passage
Also in the inside we have our service times or soul winning times and our church stats on the right is our list of expecting ladies
And so you continue to pray for them
We have a prayer list if you have any additional prayer requests just send those in on the back
We have our upcoming events
September 1st is the ordination of brother Salvador Alvarez of pure words Baptist Church September 8th is dr. Phil Stringer his guest preaching for us for both services
October 4th through the 6th is the heritage of the Lord conference and
We're gonna have a Friday night doubleheader pastor Bruce Mejia and pastor Steven Anderson are gonna be preaching for us
And we should have dinner for you guys and so it should be a lot of fun
There's also gonna be activities in the morning on Friday for families and stuff like that
And I'm not gonna say out the details, but we'll put out that information to the church so that way you can prepare
As well Saturday morning, there is our kids spelling bee that we have every year
And so we'd love for if you want to participate in that it's I believe it's ages 5 through
15 I think it's 5 through 15, but it's on the sheet. You can check it out
There's three different age groups that we have for the competition
And so I believe that we typically have rewarded first and second of each age group
So if you'd like to participate you can all the words
Pretty much in the King James Bible. There is kind of a few exceptions of that
There is there's been a time past the older age group
Everybody or multiple people had memorized like every word perfectly and we got through all of them
And so I had to kind of just wing it from from after I learned from that mistake
okay, now we have a secret envelope list of words and
So, you know in it could be anything. So, you know, there you go. The mono ultramicroscopic silicovaconic oniosis
You know, it could be that all right. It's only 48 letters, but if you can spell now, it's not that
We do have other words that are in there and so
You can study and look it's it's really encouraging a lot of the people that participate even if you don't win
I think it's a great exercise your kids to just get up there
Get out of some of the stage fright learn how to spell some words and stuff like that and just learn how to compete a little bit
I think it's it's highly beneficial. And so I appreciate I know it's nerve-wracking
It's very stressful and it can be upsetting but that's life
So I think it's good practice and I encourage you to participate if you'd like to do that
Also, we should have another activity on Saturday and some soul winning and then Sunday morning pastor Bruce
He is actually preaching for us again. He's staying with the weekend. And so he's gonna preach that Sunday morning all preach Sunday night
So you stuck with me and then October 31st, Texas chili cook-off 6 p.m
Congratulations to Cassidy and Britt on the birth of their daughter
Sakari love she was born on the 19th to 18 a.m
9 pounds 14 ounces and 21 inches long graduates of them and anybody just visiting this evening. We we were celebrating 10 years today
We had a special
Plaque that we had made that commemorates our 10-year members and we had three that we celebrated the Milstead family
We celebrated a brother Alberto Hernandez and miss Lucy and so they're on that plaque
But we ordered it to where it's a it's a plaque that can be added to and so
The goal is when next year rolls around
Those who meet that 10-year threshold then they can be added and then we kind of keep going and it was just kind of
An idea I came up with because there's like over a hundred people that go to our church
That have been here since before me and and that's a while
So that's you know, I got here about a little less than six years ago
But there's a lot of people that are in that range and it's just kind of an extra
motivation and encouragement for people who have already done that as well as people that are getting close to just stick with church and to
keep going and
maybe we'll have a 20-year plaque or a 25-year plaque as well and so
Just a way to commemorate definitely congratulate those members and tell them
Thank you for helping this church two of those individuals or the family the Millstead family and Alberta
we're here for the first service and
Ten years at one church is a huge milestone
I don't think that very many people realize that ten years is a long time a lot of things change
families grow and
things evolve and you know for the for the miltas specifically it's funny because they used to live like
Ten feet from the church and now they live like really far and so
And but they started far they were driving from Waco. I believe
For the church and and that's some commitment folks and so you can see the dedication you see it's paid off
I think the Lord's been blessing these people in our church
And so I highly encourage you guys to also consider sticking with church and even if it's not this church just stick with church
But there is something special about being part of the same church for a long period of time and getting to see it grow
Of course that with with growth
comes
good problems, but obviously we really packed this place out and like I said when I first moved here if I had the money
I would buy a new building tomorrow
But you know at this at this stage
We're still kind of in that need a miracle for us to buy a new property at some point in time
The desires there. It's just obviously when we have this many people and looking to the future
We would need a large facility, so I don't know what's gonna happen the AC is not good tonight
I apologize for that. We're gonna try and look at it and see if it's something we can at least fix in the short term
Maybe next year we might just upgrade the system if we need to but it's kind of depends on
What we're looking at for a budget and everything like that, but I appreciate you guys being here
And it's really it's really fun to preach to a big crowd and for all of y'all to be here
And I know it's hot this evening, but I appreciate you guys being in church
So we'll try to get that fixed for next Sunday the best that we can that's pretty much all I have as far as announcements
the only other thing I was gonna say is
Thank my wife for the cookies because I I only ate them
I did not have I did not do anything to contribute and so she's she made them
And so if you don't people come out to be like thanks for the cookies. I'm like I didn't do anything
Okay, so it's kind of like birth. It's like yeah, I didn't do anything
You know, this is like she did it all so if you want to say, thank you say thank you to her
All right. Let's go ahead and sing our third song Psalm
150 for this evening Psalm
150
Raise
Instruments replace your past realm
Please turn your Bibles to 1st Timothy chapter number 1 1st Timothy chapter number 1 1st Timothy chapter number 1
Bible says Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ
Which is our hope unto Timothy my own Son in the faith grace mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ
Our Lord as I be sought thee to abide still at Ephesus
When I went into Macedonia that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine neither give heed to fables and endless
Genealogies which minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith so do now the end of the commandment is
Charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned from which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain
jangling desiring to be teachers of the law
understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm but we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully
knowing this that the law is not made for a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners for
Unholy and profane for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers for man slayers for whoremongers for them that defile themselves
with mankind for men stealers for liars for perjured persons
and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was
Committed to my trust and I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who hath enabled me for that
He counted me faithful putting me into the ministry who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious
But I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief and the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love
Which is in Christ Jesus?
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief
How be it for this cause I obtained mercy that in me first
Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting
Now unto the King eternal immortal invisible the only wise God be honor and glory forever and ever amen
This charge I commit unto thee son Timothy according to the prophecies which went before on thee that thou might us by them
War a good warfare holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwrecked
Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander whom I delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. Let us pray dear heavenly father
Thank you for steadfast Baptist Church. I thank you for all the members. Thank you for our pastor
I ask you to bless him now and help him to preach your word in Jesus name. Amen
I want to preach a sermon this evening titled Paul versus Jews
Paul versus Jews and when I were use the word Jews
I'm meaning the modern-day nation of Israel the people that live there and
practice the religion of Judaism, so
Unfortunately, there is a large segment of the Christian population
that kind of subscribes to or adheres to a doctrine called Zionism or
Zionistic leanings and
they really hate this phrase replacement theology and they really kind of squirm at that idea and
On our specific doctrinal statement. So if you go to just our website and you go to our doctrinal website
Towards the bottom. I have a list of things that I classified as false doctrines things like
modalism
ecumenicalism
The charismatic movement different things like this. One of them though is also labeled
racism
Slash Zionism and then I kind of describe what I'm meaning by that and I put in this
description
Jew worship and then I said this in parenthesis
Unconditional support of Israel and then I cited a few Bible verses now. What's interesting is
Someone had recently preached against our doctrinal statement by name and and they brought this up
And it was kind of funny to me because this other Baptist Church, which they're saved. They're they're good people
I'm not against them at all
They're they seem like they're right on the gospel and everything like that
But what was so funny to me is that's how I titled it racism slash Zionism
Jew worship unconditional support of Israel when they preached against what I had written
They said that they couldn't believe that there's a badness out there. That's against the idea of Jew worship
Of all the phrases that I put there that you take offense to like how would you advocate for Jew?
Worship, but but I'm not joking. This is a real Baptist Church with a guy behind the pulpit preaching
I guess the idea that we should be worshiping Jews now again
Like I don't think that he believes at all. We should like be bowing down or like anything like that
But basically just having this super appreciative attitude towards Jews and this exists
Specifically I did a debate on the Baptist bias where I was debating against a Jew and a Christian supposedly
That is friends with him and at one point he was saying like we need to thank this Jew for giving us the Bible
And I'm just sitting here thinking like he didn't give me the Bible
You know the King James Bible existed way before this guy was ever a twinkle in his father's eye
Okay, like there was no such thing as like this
Modern random rabbi or Jew having given me the Bible
But this is a real idea and a view out there where people act like we need to just
Love Jewish people for having given us the Bible and the commandments and our religion
and we need to be so supportive of them and and the idea of Zionism specifically is
the belief that
Anybody who's quote ethnically Jewish is special and deserves the Middle East that God's already promised it to them
And we can't revoke that and so we know we just all of that land is just theirs
And we need to make sure it's theirs and support them and having that physical nation and having all of that area as
Outlined in the Old Testament that is basically the idea of Zionism Zionism is simply a
Homeland for the Jews in the Middle East and that they get all of the declared land
According to the text of the Old Testament. That's the that's a Zionistic belief
Okay, many Christians believe that many Christians want that they support that they give money to that and many churches teach that
Unfortunately many saved people believe this and if you bring it up or you ask them questions about this
They get very heated very quickly. They get very upset very
quickly now when I
Specifically am attacking Jew worship. I don't think that there's any Christians out there that are literally bowing down and
Physically licking the boots of Jews or anything like that. Maybe you can find a video, but that would be the exception
This is what I meant by Jew worship and this is what I will not do as a church
And this is what I do not believe as a church and I don't want number one
Is we're not gonna have an Israeli flag up here on the pulpit, you know by the behind the pulpit
I would sooner put a Mexico flag
Okay, and they have a Jewish president. Okay, I'd rather put a Bahamas flag up here
Now look if there's a church out there that sends a lot of missionaries out and they just have a flag
That's basically all these different countries that they represent and there's an Israeli flag mixed in there or whatever
I'm not gonna pick a fight with them over that but that's usually not what's happening. They usually have a giant Israeli flag
That's prominent out and loud
It's basically like an American flag on one side and a Jewish flag on the other side and Israeli flag on the other side
That to me is worshiping Israel. That is worshiping Jews and I don't think that that's biblical
I think that that is a false doctrine
additionally some people some Christians would agree with
Every single military operation of Israel as being right like it doesn't matter if Israel just bombs
Some random place in the Middle East and a bunch of children are killed
They'll just be like what was justified and to me that's like worshiping the Jews where you basically just say well anything
Y'all do is just right just automatically right? I don't have that opinion
I don't personally believe that every single military thing that Israel does or every decision that Israel makes is always right
That's why I said specifically
Unconditional support of Israel again. I don't I don't think that from a foreign policy perspective
America having some ally in the Middle East is necessarily the worst thing in the world
But what I'm not for is an unconditional support of any nation over there
There's really not a nation over there to get super excited about let's just be honest, okay
It's not like let's trade Israel for Iran or something or Afghanistan or what?
I mean, they're all they all have problems. Okay, and they all have an antichrist religion frankly speaking
But again, there's nothing wrong
Technically from my perspective of the Bible to have some level of you know
coordination with other nations and trying to just generally exist and and
Really, we should probably be friends to everyone. We should be friendly towards everyone
I don't think that we should really just sit here and just be like super pro any particular nation
to me
Obviously, there's so much tension over there that we're kind of in a bad spot because if America just simply said like we're done with Israel
Israel would be destroyed like tomorrow. I mean through Russia through China and through the Muslim
Opposition over there. We're kind of like in a situation where we've gotten ourselves in a pickle
It'd be like if you had a friend come along and say hey
I need a co-signer on this loan and they're kind of a scumbag and now you're stuck on this loan
And if you don't pay it, it's not gonna get paid
But if it doesn't get paid like really bad things are gonna happen to you
So we're kind of like in this bad situation where we're propping up Israel
but if we don't prop them up then things are gonna get ugly fast in that part of the world and
Arguably even for us potentially and so it's a messy hairy situation. There's all kinds of different views
I'm not trying to get up here and give you all my political views. What I am saying is this
I think it's wrong though to say that everything that Israel does is right
I think that's worshiping the Jews at that point and I think it's weird to think it's cool. Hey, I'm glad that we bombed
10,000 children of
the Middle East or of
Arab descent and yet we're hoping for that one Jew to get saved
It's like well, why can't we hope for the 10,000 Arab children one of them to get saved?
Like what's the difference? It's not like in heaven. It's like well, you got a Muslim saved
So you got a reward, but you got a juice aid. That's like a ten times reward or something
It's not like a multiplier of like well now you got a juice aid or there's a special compartment for Jews in heaven versus Arab
Like a soul's a soul
So if you're a Christian and you think that Muslims are going to hell and Jews are going to hell
You should want either of them to be saved
You know, you should want is peace over there what you should say what we should really want is to say
Hey Israel stop bombing people or we're gonna withdraw support and if we said that they'd be like, okay
We're gonna stop the bombing people and if we stop giving the money and if we stop funding the other side
Yeah, I get there's a lot of complication there
but basically, you know if we were just striving for peace and saying also
We're gonna withdraw support if you don't let Christian missionaries go into all these areas and preach the gospel
That's what America's policy should really be
Let's just keep propping up Israel just enough so that missionaries can go to the entire parts of the Middle East and preach the gospel
That's what we should probably be doing but to just say like we're just gonna give
Unconditional support to any of these nations over there or just authorize all their actions is racist
It's saying that Jews are better than Arabs. I don't believe that
I believe that Jews and Arabs are both souls and they both need salvation and you know what?
There's really bad people on both sides, but there's also innocent people on both sides
And so we shouldn't have this idea of just like well, you know what?
Let's just nuke all the Muslims and rescue all the Jews or something now
In fact, there's way more Muslims and Jews anyways
So we're just going by pure percentages of getting people saved. There's way more Muslims to get saved than there is Jews anyways
But I'm not an I'm not into that game. I want no one to get nuked. I want no one to get bombed innocently
I want no one to just be terrorized
What I would prefer is there to be gospel being preached everywhere in these areas and there to be peace in these areas
Okay, you know Solomon was a king of peace and he's communicating with all kinds of foreign nations and heathens and pagans and all this
And the knowledge of the Lord was abounding at that time. That's what we should want
Idealistically, okay, but I'm against saying everything Israel does is right
I just don't see how any Christian could have that viewpoint and not then say I'm racist. What is what is racism?
It's thinking one group of people are better than another based on their inherent ethnicity
That is by definition Zionism by definition Zionism believes that some people are just better than other people
They just genuinely believe that Jews are just better than the rest of us as Gentiles
But you know, if you take my personal opinion, I don't think that Jews even exists anymore. We're all Gentiles, but that's a different conversation
Here's another thing that's Jew worship is saying that they these people are God's chosen people now
I want to prove a few things go to Romans chapter 11
I've been talking for a moment go to Romans chapter 11 and we'll get to first Timothy one in a minute
That's what I wanted to base a lot of the sermon on but I want to I want to prove a few points here
It's important for us to establish our terms and our definitions on these subjects because they're so
Controversial and people love to twist everything that we say and when you say the word Jew admittedly
It could mean a dozen different things
Jew the word Jew means a lot to a lot of different people and it depends on all kinds of different
Context of what we're talking about you can be talking about a historical context of the Bible people that live in the kingdom of Judah
You could be talking about people that were of the Jews religion
You could be talking about the evil people that are anti the Apostles and Jesus Christ
Those are Jews you can talk about the modern state of Israel. You'd be talking about people that are culturally Jewish today
You can be talking about people that are living in the Middle East
Like all of these different things are different groups of people with with different backgrounds at different situations
But we just sometimes you say Jew and of course the Bible does this even Jesus does this
Jesus talks about large groups of people just Jews the Bible talks about groups of people that are Jews
The Apostle Paul is a Jew but then at the same time
He doesn't practice religion of Judaism according to Romans chapter number two
Which we're not going there for sake of time, but according to Romans chapter number two
There is a spiritual Jew and a physical Jew. That's another distinction. So like when we use the word Jew
It's very difficult just on the surface to in need just to know exactly we're saying
So that's why I think it's important when you use these words to bring up what you mean by them and other words are describing
What group you're talking about now in Romans chapter 11, look at verse 7 specifically the Bible says this what then?
Israel have not obtained that which he seeketh for
But the election hath obtained it and the rest are blinded this proves a couple things number one
Not all of Israel is chosen now. Here's another word that means chosen
Elect you know that tells me not all of Israel is God's chosen people
They're not all elect
Okay, now in America. We have elections. They're really like selections though
Okay, but an election means that you choose something so in theory in theory in America
We elect presidents and governors and senators and all these different people. We're just making a choice
I'm just saying we're picking one over another when it comes to my wife. She's elect because I
Selected her I chose her to be my wife. Okay, that's all that that means
It doesn't mean anything doesn't mean that my wife is a supernatural being because I chose her to be my wife
It just simply means I chose her to be my wife
So when we talk about the chosen people of God all that that means is
God picked out a group of people and said this is gonna be my nation. That's all that happened. And that's what that meant
But notice here in this specific context when it says Israel have not obtained that what you seek it for
But the election have obtained it this election is talking about people who are saved
So elect could mean a couple different things to elect to be just something that's chosen and what's chosen though could be anything
He picked that nation to be chosen to be a physical nation though special unto him
But then he also chooses people who believe in Jesus Christ to go to heaven
These two groups are not the same group some people were chosen to be a part of a physical nation that was special
But they didn't get saved and then there's people who are part of that physical nation that did get saved
So you kind of have a mixture?
Israel was not ever 100% saved the only time that Israel will be 100%
Saved is what it says here in verse 26. And so all Israel shall be saved
There is coming a day in the millennial reign of Jesus Christ when all of the physical nation of Israel will be saved
But it has never happened before during the time of David. There was reprobates. There were sons of Belial amongst David
There was always a Judas. There was always infiltrators. There was always people that didn't believe there was always a mixed multitude
So there's never been a perfect one-for-one
Physical nation and spiritual nation. It was mixture because the Jews rejected Jesus Christ though
God decided to get rid of the physical nation of Israel and that's not my opinion. That's fact
That's fact that in 7080 the Jews cease to be a physical nation now, of course people love to bring up
1948 but if you bring up 1948, you know what you're admitting for
1,800 years they were not a physical nation. Don't you think that's significant? Don't think it's significant that for
1,800 years you were not a physical nation and this was so funny to me
It's like okay. When did the church start Acts chapter 2 after the gospel it spread everywhere and Christianity took over the entire world
so Christianity took over the entire world and basically the first century and
sometimes shortly after
35 AD or whatever 33 AD after the death of resurrection
You have the church starting in Jerusalem
You have the possible going out and through the 40s and the 50s of the AB cycle
We have Paul starting churches everywhere Christianity starts a flaming and by 70 AD Christianity is taken over
Christianity is thriving Christianity is exploding
Christianity then keeps thriving and growing and getting big and big and it's just taking over the entire world
Whereas their nation goes away now some people would say pretty obviously it looks like the nation got replaced with the church
But then you say that and you're like some horrible blaspheming
Heretic or something like that, but it's just like wait a minute
Isn't this just the facts of history and it's like for most of history Christians recognize replacement theology because it was just reality
It was just that the globe is a sphere. It's just that we're spinning
It's just that we're going around the earth. I'm sorry. Well, the earth is going around the Sun. I'm sorry
It's just like it's all these things are just facts of reality like gravity exists
You know all of these these things are just so obvious that everyone just believes them. But in the modern century
1948 Israel's reborn you kind of get this new idea of Zionism creeping in a lot of people start believing like oh
All these people you know God wasn't done with them and God's bringing them back and God still thinks that they're chosen and special and whatever
Even though when they came back none of them believed in Jesus
They didn't start reading the King James Bible. There wasn't a revival of Christianity. They're not following God's commandments
They're just there. They just just happened to exist there. They just took the land
Okay through the efforts of the UN and America and some other individuals, but specifically, you know
Of course, I think that that's significant
I'm not saying it's not significant
But what I am saying is how could you then tell me that those people are God's chosen people?
When in Romans chapter 11 verse 7 it makes a distinction between God's chosen people in the physical Israel because let's argue about this later
Whether or not those people even Jews, but let's just say they even work
It doesn't change anything because these people were for sure Jews and Romans chapter number 11 and they're not God's chosen people
Why because they didn't believe in Jesus and here's something I know that the vast majority of people that live in modern-day Israel today
Don't believe in Jesus and they're not God's chosen people. It's that simple. It's that click
Well, no, but God knows them and God thinks that they're special and wonderful and it's like based on what God loved these people
Paul of these people. I mean did you I mean Paul's like saying how much he loves these people
He'd he'd be willing to be a cursed of Christ for their sake God's saying that he was bending over backwards to love these people
God wants them to be saved but because they rejected him he then replaced them. It's that simple
It's that easy now the last thing I want to bring up go to Romans chapter 3 is
To me, this is another form of Jewish ship that goes worse than just thinking their God shows people is thinking that they're gonna go to heaven
Without believing in Jesus and it exists out there. They think that some of them are saved under the old covenant or they're saved by works
But here's a problem. No one's ever been saved by works
What does it say in Romans chapter 3 verse 28?
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law
So we're only saved by faith without any of the deeds of the law verse 29
Is he the God of the Jews only is he not also the Gentiles? Yes of the Gentiles also
Seeing it as one God which shall justify the circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through faith notice that the circumcision are not saved
By the works of the law the circumcision not saved by circumcision
The circumcision are saved by faith verse 31. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid?
Yeah, we establish law
It's important for us to follow God's commandments
But has nothing to do with being justified has nothing to do with being saved or going to heaven
It's by faith only go to Galatians chapter 2 go to Galatians chapter number 2
So here's the thing I'm against you worship when you're putting Israel flags on the stage
I'm against you worship when you agree with Israel bombing women and children in the Middle East
I'm against you worship when you tell me that a bunch of Christ rejecting God-hating
Judaism worshipers are somehow God's chosen people above the rest of us and number four
I'm against you worship when you tell me that a Christ rejecting God-hating Jew is somehow saved in the Old Covenant
If you don't have the son, you don't have the father and you're an antichrist
You've never you've never been saved by anything other than believing in Jesus Christ, which is the son
Meaning if you don't have the son, you don't have the father
There's never been another way to get to heaven. There never will be another way to get to heaven. It's the everlasting
Possible they were looking to Christ and we're looking back to Christ and we're all either on Christ team or we're on another team
But there's no such thing as God the Father's team and Jesus team
They're on the same team and you either have Jesus as your Messiah as your Savior as your Christ or you're not saved
You do not have God the Father
whatsoever and the Old Covenant in a sense could not save anyone because the Old Covenant was a law-based
System and the righteousness of the law only works if you can keep it
But there's a problem for all of sin and come short of the glory of God. There's a problem. No one can keep it
There's a problem
We have sinned therefore we need grace
Galatians chapter 2 verse 14 talking about Jews
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel
I said in a Peter for them all if thou being a Jew live is after the manner of Gentiles and not as do the Jews
Why compel is thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
We who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ
Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law
For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified the Apostle Paul says hey you Peter and me
We are Jews by nature. We are physical
Ethnic Jews we're as Jewish you can get they are the example of Jew
He said knowing that we are not saved by the works of law if the Apostle Paul and Peter were not saved by the works of
The law then no one is saved by the works of the law. It doesn't matter because they're they're the most special you could think of
Okay, they're super
Physical Jew, but they didn't they didn't give them an exception Paul didn't say well, you know what you and me Peter
We're good. We're Jews didn't you realize? Hey, we have our old covenant brah. We're under the old covenant, dude
We're good. No, no, he said hey, even we who are Jews by nature
We know that a man is not justified by the works of the law. No one is
We're all saved by believing in Jesus Christ. That's how we're saved says in verse 17
But if while we seek to be justified by Christ we ourselves are also are found sinners
Is there for Christ the minister of sin God forbid? That's the stupid question people bring up
Oh, so if you're saying that we can just live however we want then when people get saved they just they sin a lot
It's like that's stupid
First of all, I guarantee the people in this room are trying way harder to not sin than they were before they got saved
I mean are you you really expect me to believe that you got saved you're like now I want to sin harder
Like is that really happening? Is that really happening where you're going out and you're like salvations by faith and like sweet now
I'm gonna start killing people, you know, like I've been really holding back. But now that I know I'm saved by faith
I mean, I'm just ready to just sin as hard as I can right like that's
Paposterous, okay. And frankly speaking even if someone did have a bad attitude. Yes. I still believe they're saved there
I said it. Okay, someone's like you think that someone that just lives however they want is gonna go to heaven by faith
Yes, I do
But I'm but is Christ the minister of sin God forbid Christ is not wanting us to sin
He's not encouraging us to sin
No one is motivated by the love of Jesus Christ and the crucifixion to say like I can't wait to start sinning harder now
Like that's just that's just ridiculous
Okay, it's just people that believe in works have to throw out some accusation and look the people that believe in works
They don't have the works anyways, buddy
They're wicked sinners and hypocrites and evil anyways verse 21 verse 18 for if I build again the things which I destroyed
I make myself a transgressor for I through the law. I'm dead to the law that I might live unto God
I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet
Not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God for if righteousness come by the law then Christ is dead in vain.
Apostle Paul is saying if you could get saved by the law then what Christ did was meaningless. But Christ had to come because no one was saved under the law. Look at chapter 3 verse 10. I love drilling in this point. The Bible is really clear on this. Verse 10. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse. For it is written cursed is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. Let me explain something to you.
The Jews in the Middle East today are cursed.
You want to know why they're cursed? Because they didn't continue in all things.
You say, "How do you know?" Because no one has.
Look, you're either under the blessing of God and you're in salvation or you're under the wrath of God.
You can't have the blessing of God without being saved.
And you're under the curse of the law, the consequence of the law.
But obviously, God is long-suffering. God is still gracious even under the lost.
And so many times they haven't really reached the consequence of their sin quite yet.
But if they die in that state, they are in a cursed state.
And they will go straight into hell where the cursed are to be.
It's like the left in Matthew 25 that are cursed and going into everlasting fire.
They are currently cursed. Because anybody who's not saved is cursed.
You are under a curse. And you have to get saved from that particular curse.
I mean, think about it. What would be the point of getting saved if you're not in a precarious situation?
If you're not saved, you're in a precarious situation.
You are currently cursed of God. And you need to get saved so that you will escape the punishment of that cursing for sinning.
Because when you sin, you've broken the law of God, you're a transgressor, you're cursed.
And as long as you stay in that state, you're headed for hell.
That's why you need to get saved and you're no longer cursed, you're only under the blessing of God in that sense.
Verse 11, "But that no man is justified by the law on the side of God, it is evident, for the just shall live by faith."
So we're saved by faith, it's obvious, it's clear, it has nothing to do with the law.
The law can only condemn you and cannot give you salvation.
Now, go back to 1 Timothy chapter 1, I just wanted to establish those few points before I kind of explain this Paul versus the Jews.
But again, our doctrinal statement, we are against racism.
Now, I clarified because to me, I just personally don't think that almost anybody in our church is racist.
And I don't even think that very many people are racist.
I think that most people are very prejudiced though, okay.
So don't hear me wrong, somebody's in there like, you don't know.
Here's the thing, I know that because frankly speaking, we have basically every color, shape, size, eye slant in this room, okay.
And we all like each other, generally speaking, and we're not like super mad at each other.
But you know, that doesn't mean that there isn't certain demographics in the world that we're all a little wary of, right.
That doesn't mean that we're all just prejudging people.
It's not like if we just saw a bunch of, you know, young black men in a ghetto car with thumping music,
pulling out in baggy clothes that we all wouldn't be like, "This is kind of a precarious situation."
We would all think that. But that doesn't make you racist. That just makes you smart, okay.
Number one, it makes you wise and having discretion.
But you know, if you see a bunch of young, sharp-dressed, young black men walking in the building, you're not like, "Oh, I'm afraid."
Okay. I'm not afraid. When I go to the Bahamas, I'm thinking like, "This is the greatest place."
I love the Bahamas, and I love preaching the gospel to these people.
And so it has nothing to do with race. Race doesn't even exist, number one.
Okay. But it wouldn't matter if you saw a bunch of young white guys.
If I see a bunch of white guys that are tatted up, and they have the bumping music, and they have the baggy clothes, and they come up,
I'm going to think that there's something up with them.
If they're Asian, I'm like, "I'm afraid of the Yakuza gang."
Like, I'm an equal opportunist to dislike someone that's dressed like a thug and acting like a criminal.
It doesn't matter what color their skin is.
And someone that's sharply dressed with a Bible in hand, I'm an equal opportunist to like them as well.
And I personally think that most people in this room feel the exact same way as I do on that particular issue.
But amongst our Christian brethren, there is a form of racism that truly exists, and it's Zionism.
It's where they genuinely elevate Jews and think that they're a special class of people and they're better than the rest of us.
And God has this special favor that he's looking down upon those people with.
And you know what? They're stealing that blessing from saved people.
Because God does have favor towards Israel and Jews, but it's the spiritual Israel and it's the spiritual Jews.
It's us. That's the people that God's looking down with favor and blessing on.
Not a bunch of Christ-rejecting people because of who their parents are or their ethnicity.
And it's so funny that they even want to make this an ethnicity when some Jews are snow white and look like Dylan
and some Jews are really dark and look like a Muslim.
And then everything in between.
There's kind of like all these different degrees of Jew out there.
How are they all of a specific ethnicity? They're not.
It's a lie, folks. That's what it says in Revelation chapter 2 verse 9.
They say they're Jews, but they do lie.
Now, they're the synagogue of Satan.
They're sorry you were waiting for that.
But here's the point that I want to make,
and it's just a simple point.
But I want to compare the Apostle Paul
to modern-day Jews today,
because this is what I constantly hear,
and this is what I'll see, is they say,
"Well, but Paul persecuted the church,
and Paul was a bad guy, and Paul was a Jew,
and he was wrong, and then he got saved."
And so even though Israel today is rebellious
and disobedient, and they hate the things of God,
and they're even persecuting the church,
we should still just consider them like the Apostle Pauls,
and, you know, they're gonna get saved,
and we're just hoping for all their salvation, okay?
But I just wanna contrast a few points from Paul
and what the modern-day Jews are like,
to show you that this is not the same situation,
and we can't just always be like, "Paul,
well, what about Paul?"
It's like, "Hey, this person seems like a false prophet
and is a reprobate, but what about Paul?"
Okay, but Paul is not a reprobate.
Paul certainly was a sinner and had serious issues.
But let's contrast the Apostle Paul to modern-day Jews
for just a moment.
1 Timothy 1, verse 12, and I got to turn there too.
Hopefully you beat me.
1 Timothy 1, verse 12, "And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord
who hath enabled me for that economy faithful
putting me into the ministry,
who is before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious.
But I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief."
So here's the thing.
Here's a major difference from the Apostle Paul
and modern day Jews today
is that the Apostle Paul was ignorant.
The Apostle Paul did not know.
The Apostle Paul was not confronted with all the facts
of the Bible in his unbelief state.
He was ignorant at that time.
So yeah, did he make some bad decisions?
This is basically like all of the children
that are raised in a Catholic church,
in a Muslim household, and all these things.
They're gonna be pretty zealous for the religion,
but they're doing it ignorantly
'cause they've probably never even been exposed
to other things.
They've probably never even heard about the Bible
or the gospel or Christianity or all these different things.
I mean, most people that we run into out of nowhere,
they don't know what we're gonna say.
They don't know that salvation is by faith alone.
They'll say like, "Wow, I've never heard it this way."
Or, "Wow, I've never seen it explained that way."
That's the Apostle Paul.
The Apostle Paul is someone that's ignorant of the things about Jesus Christ.
He's ignorant of the gospel.
He hasn't had someone sit down and explain it to him and show him all these things.
Whereas many, many of the Jews on this side, they could tell you everything that the Bible
says.
If you ask Ben Shapiro, he could tell you exactly what the Bible says.
He could tell you what the New Testament says.
He could tell you Jesus Christ.
Ben Shapiro is not ignorantly denying Jesus Christ.
He is fully aware of Jesus Christ's and is rejecting him.
Ben Shapiro is not the Apostle Paul, folks, who's just ignorantly -- no, look, I'm not
against any of these people in the sense that I would want them to be saved, but I think
we have to make it clear that he's not the Apostle Paul on this issue.
Many Jews today, they're very aware of what the Bible teaches, of the New Testament Gospel,
and they do not like it.
They hate it.
Okay?
So, young Jewish people, I would say they're probably more in this category, but a lot
of the older, a lot of the rabbis, I mean, these people know exactly what the Bible says,
and they hate it.
It's not that they don't know, it's that they do know, and they hate it.
And that's where the religion is literally based on, is hating the Gospel.
Not being ignorant of the Gospel.
Hating it.
Hindus, their religion is not based on hating the New Testament.
Hindus are genuinely ignorant.
You talk to Hindus, they have no idea about any of this stuff.
So it would be more likely to give grace to people that are just completely ignorant than
people that are literally in a religion dedicated to hating the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
These are completely different situations.
And I don't want you to get confused.
Of the Old Testament, the Pharisees and the Sadducees, they weren't in a religion dedicated
to hating the things of God and Jesus Christ.
Yes, did they have their own traditions that made the Word of God an effect?
Sure.
Were they wrong about some things?
Did they have some false doctrine?
Some leaven in there?
Yes, they did.
But they weren't in a religion that was specifically aimed at hating the New Testament and Jesus
Christ.
They just as individuals did.
But their religion was not that way.
Their religion was worshiping the true God.
And in many cases, their religion was still performing all kinds of rituals and sacrifices
that picture Jesus Christ.
I mean, they're still performing the Passover, which is a picture of the Gospel message.
And I believe many people were saved and still getting saved before Jesus Christ had even
come on the scene in that religion.
Whereas Judaism is not converting a single person, completely different.
Look at verse 15 and 16, "This is a fateful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that
Christ Jesus came in the world to save sinners of whom I am chief.
Howbeit for this cause I obtain mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth
all long-suffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on Him to life everlasting."
Now, some people, I think, again, take this words of Paul way too far.
The Apostle Paul is not the worst sinner to ever live, folks, okay?
That is absurd, okay?
He's using hyperbole about how he feels about himself.
He just feels like, you know, "I persecuted the Church of God, so I just feel like I'm
like the worst sinner."
But that's not the reality.
It's just a little bit of hyperbole and exaggeration.
He's being bombastic about himself.
And frankly speaking, a lot of great men and humble men say things like this.
You know, like I talk to my friend, Pastor Anderson, all the time, and he'll be like,
you know, I'm not even above average intelligence, I'm not even a good preacher, there's nothing
special about me.
And I'm just sitting here thinking like, you're very wrong about all of those statements.
You're definitely above average intelligence, you're obviously a great preacher, and yes,
I do believe you have personal gifting in preaching and speaking and these kind of areas.
And I'm like, you kind of have a bad view of yourself, is what I try to help him with.
But again, he's just trying to be humble about it.
I think it's sincere.
It's not a fake thing.
It is a sincere viewpoint.
He's just a little bit off.
The apostle Paul, it's like, hey, hey, Paul, are you really worse than Judas Iscariot?
The answer is obviously no.
Are you really worse than Cain and Pharaoh and Herod?
Are you really worse than Caiaphas?
It's like, obviously no.
The apostle Paul is not worse than those people.
So we can't take this phrase and then just start running with it and be like, oh, well,
the apostle Paul is the chief of sinners, therefore, no one's a reprobate.
No one is worse than Paul.
Anybody could get saved no matter what.
Let's pray for the devil.
I mean, it's like, no, that's not what the text is saying.
He's just using a little bit of hyperbole of the idea of this.
Even if he was, you could still be saved.
It doesn't matter if you did have the most sins, you could still technically be saved.
But let's just be honest, there are some people that are reprobate.
There are some people that are anti-Christ, and those people are definitely the chief
of sinners, and they're not going to get saved.
Many people on this side of Judaism are in the reprobate anti-Christ camp, okay?
Not all of them, many of them.
And so we don't want to get confused on this and say, "Well, I just think they're all
like the Apostle Paul."
No, the Apostle Paul was ignorant.
People that are not ignorant are not in the same camp as the Apostle Paul.
Okay, and I'm going to explain that in a minute as well.
Go to Acts chapter 13. Let's go to that group of people.
What's the difference between the Apostle Paul and the other Jews that live today?
Well, the Apostle Paul was ignorant.
But as soon as he wasn't ignorant, let me explain something.
As soon as the Apostle Paul was confronted with the real gospel, you know what he did?
He got saved.
He was ignorant.
But then as soon as he's confronted with the right gospel, he gets saved.
Why?
Because he's not a reprobate.
Because he's not an antichrist.
Because he actually genuinely loves the Lord, he was just wrong.
He was sincerely wrong.
And there's a lot of people in this world that are sincerely wrong, and if confronted
with the gospel, they would change.
But let's just be honest, most people, if they don't have a positive reaction to the
gospel in their early stages, they're probably not going to accept.
Now, I'm not saying that there aren't hard cases, there aren't some people that take
a little time to get one over, but for the vast majority of people, when confronted with
the clear gospel, they either get saved and they were going to get saved, or they don't
and they're probably not.
And for the Apostle Paul, if we're going to contrast him with the other Jews, it's really
clear when he was confronted, he got saved.
When the other Jews are confronted, didn't get saved.
Now, some people say, "Well, it's not fair because the Apostle Paul had the Lord Jesus
Christ show up and like appear to him."
Have you ever read John chapter one?
But he came unto his own and his own received him not.
There was a lot of Jews that were with Jesus and they saw the miracles and he literally
preached to them sermon after sermon after sermon for years and they didn't get saved.
The Apostle Paul, one encounter with Jesus and he immediately wants to get saved and
Ananias comes, preached him the gospel, he gets saved.
That is a completely different experience.
Okay.
So if you're going to say, "Well, they're a bunch of Apostle Pauls."
Okay.
Well, if they're a bunch of Apostle Pauls, then all they need is for me to show them
the gospel one time and they're going to instantly get saved, and they're going to like it.
Because that would be the Apostle Paul story.
Not like, "Well, but they need just decades," or whatever.
Like, that's not very realistic.
Now, in Acts chapter 13, the Apostle Paul came to the conclusion, look at verse 38.
"Be it known therefore unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is
preached unto you the forgiveness of sins," talking about Jesus, "and by him all that
believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law
of Moses.
Beware therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken of in the prophets.
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, fry work a work in your days, a work which
ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might
be preached to them the next Sabbath.
Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed
Paul and Barnes, who speaking to them persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy and spake against those
things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
Let's just pause for a second.
Pastor Paul enters into an area.
He preaches to Jews and he preaches to Gentiles.
Some Jews believed immediately, a lot of Gentiles believed.
But then the Jews that did not believe, they keep hearing it and keep hearing it.
And what's their response?
It's not getting saved.
It's they're contradicting and blaspheming repeatedly when they hear the gospel.
Because that's what the Apostle Paul is preaching repeatedly.
The gospel of Jesus Christ from all kinds of portions of the scripture, teaching us
by faith.
It's not by the works of law.
They're constantly contradicting, constantly blaspheming.
This is not the Apostle Paul.
Show me in the Bible where the Apostle Paul is wandering around contradicting people preaching
the clear gospel.
Now the Bible does say he blasphemed, but he was a blasphemer.
But at the same time, the Apostle Paul was probably blaspheming in ignorance in the sense
that people aren't coming up and showing up in the scripture.
He's just simply mad about the name Jesus or whatever and just using in vain a few times
or whatever.
But when he was confronted, he didn't argue.
He accepted it.
So when you have a group of people that are hearing it and rejecting it, hearing, rejecting,
blasphemy and contradicting, what was the Apostle Paul's attitude towards those people?
Well, look at what it says in verse 46, "Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold and said it was
necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you.
But seeing you put it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to
the Gentiles."
What did the Apostle Paul say?
You guys are unworthy of everlasting life.
Why?
Because they weren't an Apostle Paul.
They didn't accept it.
They didn't get saved.
They didn't like the message.
They hate the message.
So if I give someone the gospel over and over, they just hate it and they hate it and they
blaspheme and they're contradicting, I'm not going to then be like, "This guy's the Apostle
Paul."
Now again, is it to say that there isn't some random one out of a million hard case where
somebody was just really ardent against it and after a long time they got saved?
Sure, but the vast majority of these people are what the Apostle Paul just clearly said,
they're unworthy of everlasting life.
Now think about it this way, there are Christian missionaries going to Israel all of the time
and they're preaching the gospel of Jesus to these Jews and they're spitting on them.
If you go to Israel today as a Christian holding a New Testament, the Jews will walk up and
literally spit on you, okay?
Are you going to tell me that that is the same as the Apostle Paul?
Like you're just really just denying reality.
The Apostle Paul even had to come to terms at one point and just recognize, "You know
what?
I've given you the gospel over and over and over and you're not going to accept it.
I'm moving on because you're reprobate, you're not God's chosen people, you're not elect,
and you know what?
You're unworthy of everlasting life."
Why can't Christians do the same?
Why can't Christians just recognize Israel is done?
Go to another nation.
Go to the Bahamas.
Go to Mexico.
Go to Fiji.
Now imagine, what if they said like, "Hey, we're going to go on a missions trip to the
Bahamas."
And we all go down, a hundred of us go down there.
And when we go down there, every person from the Bahamas is spitting on us.
And we're like walking up to them like, "Hey, let me show you how to go to heaven."
And it's like salvation is by faith.
No, it's by works.
No, it's by faith.
Let me show you.
It's by works.
Get out of here.
And then they chase us out.
They're stoning us.
They're cursing at us.
They hate us.
Everybody.
And then we're just like, "We just got to keep going to the Bahamas."
Like isn't that insane?
Wouldn't that be weird?
You'd be like, "Why do you just keep going to this area where they just are spitting
on you and hating on you?"
It's just like a weird idea to try and hurt yourself or something.
There's no point.
It's like beating your head against a wall over there in Israel.
I guess they do that too, right?
Go to Acts chapter 26, go to Acts chapter 26.
But look, Paul is not the Jews.
Number one, Paul was ignorant.
Many Jews today are not.
Secondly, Paul got saved.
Many Jews, they're not going to get saved.
They don't want to get saved.
They hate the gospel.
Now, again, if I run into young people that are Jewish and I say, "Hey, you want to hear
the gospel?"
They're like, "Yeah, I haven't heard this before."
And I start showing them the gospel.
I'm not against showing the gospel to anybody that's "Jewish" or of that religion.
I know people that are Jewish, that are saved, in the sense that they were ethnically Jewish
and they were raised that way.
They were literally raised in modern Judaism.
Their parents are still practicing Judaism and they converted and rejected that and became
a Christian.
It's gonna be so funny to me because our church is labeled as anti-Semitic by our Baptist
brethren friends and I'm like, how am I anti-Semitic if I literally have friends that are physical
Jews that I like?
Like, doesn't anti-Semitic mean that I would hate that person for just being ethnically
Jewish?
I don't hate anybody for being ethnically Jewish.
You know what I hate?
Judaism.
I don't hate Muslims.
I hate Islam.
I don't hate people in India.
I just hate their food and their religion, okay?
I hate Hinduism, okay?
I don't hate the person.
I love the person.
I'm not supposed to suffer sin upon him.
I'm like brisket, okay?
Showers.
These things are great, okay?
And look, you say like, "Oh, that's just mean."
Look, I know tons of Indian people and they say that they stink.
They say it like, not about themselves, they're just saying, "I don't like other Indians because
they stink and they don't bathe and they don't have hygiene."
Like we should all like hygiene regardless of what country we're from, okay?
And not bathing in cows using the bathroom, which they literally do.
It's real.
It's gross.
But, you know, we're talking about Paul and the Jews here, and I'm not anti-Semitic.
I love Jews that get saved.
And I want Jews to get saved.
And I would show the gospel to a Jew.
And I'm not even against...
If someone wants to go to Israel and try to get people saved over there, go for it.
But don't tell me that they're more special than anybody else.
Don't tell me that they're all like the Apostle Paul either, though.
There's plenty that I know for a fact the Apostle Paul would walk up to and say, "You're
unworthy of everlasting life."
That's what Paul's opinion would be of many of those people.
And Paul would be thrown out of these churches today and be called anti-Semitic.
Even though he's a Jew, does he hate himself?
I mean, think about that.
Would the Apostle Paul be called an anti-Semit today because he looks at Jews and says, "You're
unworthy of everlasting life," when he himself is a Jew?
Think about the irony of that, okay?
I get up and read the Jewish comments from a Jewish author, from a Jewish apostle, and
then I'm anti-Semitic somehow.
It's like he doesn't hate himself, folks.
In fact, he loved Jews more than anybody's ever loved Jews, okay?
Acts chapter 26, look at verse 19.
This is the apostle Paul talking about him getting saved.
He says in verse 19, "Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision,
but showed first unto them of Damascus and at Jerusalem and throughout all the coasts
of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do works
meet for repentance."
So when the apostle Paul recounts his encounter, he says, "Hey, when I was in front of the
gospel, I wasn't disobedient, I immediately accepted, I immediately went for it."
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 15, go to 1 Corinthians chapter 15.
This is what I heard recently, someone said, "Well, the apostle Paul is one born out of
due time."
So what I think that that means is that he was premature, meaning that he was born before
all the other God-hating Jews or something.
And so he was an example of what's going to happen in the end times, how there's going
to be all these Christ-rejecting, God-hating Jews that just when they see Christ in the
clouds and they just believe in Him.
And I talk to these people and I say, "Well, first of all, isn't salvation by faith and
not by sight?
Why do you get saved?
Because now you just see Jesus.
And if that's how it works, then why didn't all the Jews get saved the last time when
they saw Jesus?"
And they're like, "Well, He wasn't glorified."
Okay, but Jesus was performing miracles that are unexplainable.
I mean, He's walking on water.
He's turning water into wine.
He's healing people that have been blind and deaf their entire life.
He raises people from the dead.
I mean, imagine someone in our church died, and we all had the funeral service, and we
all went out there and watched them get buried into the ground.
And then Sunday morning, He comes back, and He shows up in the church service.
And He's like, "Hey, Jesus rose me from the dead."
It's like, "Whoa, that's not normal, folks."
You know, that's kind of a miracle, but they still didn't believe.
Can you imagine that?
Someone could literally see someone that they buried come back to life and still deny Jesus
Christ, and still deny the miracles of Him.
That's what an antichrist is like.
It doesn't matter how much of it.
I mean, you could have him handwrite the gospel out, and Jesus and God the Father and the
Holy Spirit are standing there with him, and they would still reject the gospel.
Some people just don't get it.
It's like, antichrists hate the gospel.
They don't want to believe it.
Have you ever read Romans 1?
The truth is manifest in them.
They know it.
They just hate the truth, literally.
There are some people that, it's not that they don't know the gospel, it's that they
do know the gospel, and they hate it.
But if we look at the Apostle Paul in this passage that was brought up, we'll see in
the context, it has nothing to do with the Apostle Paul being a premature example of
in times Jews getting saved.
What does it say in verse number eight?
And last of all, he was seen of me also as of one born out of the time.
Here's a word that hurts your premature birth idea, is the word last.
Okay.
You know what the context of 1 Corinthians 15 here is?
Apostle Paul is saying, "I'm an apostle, but I was the last of all the apostles, one born
out of due time."
What does the phrase born out of due time mean?
Basically, it was a birth that's not on the due date.
And look, you women know exactly what I'm talking about, okay?
Now what would be the most frustrating one?
It's not when they come early, it's when they come late, right?
When they're two weeks late.
You could say that that was born out of due time, meaning it didn't happen on the due
date and boy is that a frustrating birth and it can be a lot more laborious because the
baby is bigger, okay?
And it's got to come out.
So of course that just makes it more difficult.
This is what the apostle Paul is describing himself as.
He was that difficult, stubborn baby that was past due.
He was born out of due time.
He should have been born when?
On the due date, right?
When all the other apostles got saved and were doing the works of God.
He should have been born then, but he was born out of due time, meaning past due.
This has nothing to do with end times Christ rejecting God hating Jews in the Middle East
getting saved because they saw Jesus coming in the clouds.
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing in the context here.
It's so funny that they want to act like I don't even read the Bible and then they're
going to use that as a proof text for their Zionism.
I'm like baffled by that as a proof text of end times Jews getting saved.
Now look, can I prove to you that a bunch of Christ-rejecting Jews in the end times
won't get saved?
No.
Go to Philippians chapter 3.
But you know what I'm not going to do?
I'm not going to take 1 Corinthians 15 verse 8 and prove that they will, right?
There's some things that we don't know about the end times and we can't be sure of.
But what we can be sure of is that that's not what the Bible's saying in 1 Corinthians
chapter 15.
And this is why that's important.
Because when you take that away, then you start realizing I have zero textual support
for anything that I believe.
And then they would have to say this, this is my personal opinion.
And then if they said this is my personal opinion, it wouldn't make sense to get mad
at other Christians for your personal opinions anymore.
So they have to try and twist the verse somewhere to try and make it seem biblical so then they
have justification to get mad at people that don't agree with them on doctrine.
But the reality is Zionism doesn't have any verses in the Bible to support it.
In fact, there's many that are against it.
And this Jew worship needs to stop.
I think with the next generation it will.
Young people are not pro-Israel.
And it's actually increasing in droves.
That's why the government's freaking out.
They're like, we're going to have to start passing laws and censoring everybody and trying
to shut this down because they're getting nervous.
They're getting really nervous about how much people are like-- 1948 was a long time ago,
bro.
They're not tricked by that anymore.
And the Bible just doesn't teach it and historically hasn't taught it.
So the Zionism doctrine is dying very quickly.
Now it's still very well alive because there's a lot of baby boomers.
But when the baby boomers are gone, like, I don't know.
I hope that people will finally wake up.
Here's the last point I want to make and I'll make it quickly, is that the apostle Paul,
number one, was ignorant.
He was number two.
He got saved quickly.
But number three, the apostle Paul actually kept the law.
That is a huge difference between modern-day Jews and the apostle Paul.
Now he kept the law great, too, okay?
Look at it says in verse 4, "Though I might also have confidence in the flesh, if any
other man thinketh that he hath, whereof he might trust in the flesh, I the more."
This is what the apostle Paul, this is kind of dense language, you know what he just said?
If anybody's saved by the works, I'm definitely saved by works.
The apostle Paul is trying to make it clear, like, anybody that could possibly have any
confidence in flesh, I have everything you could ever want.
Number one, I'm a Jew.
Number two, I'm a Pharisee of the Pharisees.
I'm in the most elite special group of religious leaders, in the most elite ethnic group that
could possibly exist.
Not only that, I keep the law perfectly.
And let me explain this, what he says here in the next few verses here.
He says in verse five, "Circumcised the eighth day of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of
Benjamin, and Hebrew of the Hebrews, as touching the law, a Pharisee concerning zeal, persecuting
the church, touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless."
You know what he just said?
He keeps the law perfectly, okay?
But what things were gained to me, those I counted, lost for Christ.
Paul was obviously a special example of someone who if anybody could ever believe in works
salvation, it was this guy.
And yet he realized he was still a sinner.
Yet he still realized the law can't save.
Now when it says the law perfectly, I want you to understand that because it's not saying
that Paul never sinned.
What Paul is saying is because in the Old Testament law, if you sinned, you would then
perform a sacrifice to make up for that.
So it's saying that he was in perfect standing with God.
He was keeping all of the tithes correctly.
Every time he had ever sinned, he was going in there and offering that perfect sacrifice
to make atonement.
As far as the law was concerned, there was no area of apostle Paul's life that we could
look at and say, "Yeah, but he's doing this.
Yeah, but he's like that."
Which is contrast with most of the rest of the Pharisees, because the rest of the Pharisees
were super wicked.
They were devouring widows' houses and committing adultery and doing all these things.
But the apostle Paul wasn't committing adultery.
The apostle Paul wasn't a fornicator.
The apostle Paul wasn't a lying scumbag cheater.
The apostle Paul zealously loved the word of God, and he tried to keep all the commandments
to the best of his ability.
That is a giant difference from modern day Jews and Israel today.
The Jews are not doing this.
The apostle Paul kept the Passover perfectly.
The apostle Paul wasn't lying.
The apostle Paul wasn't committing adultery.
You know what the apostle Paul didn't like?
Faggots.
Okay?
You know why?
Because concerning the law, he was blameless.
All right?
You want to know something about Israel today?
They love faggots.
All right?
In fact, I typed this in, and I was looking up the top 10 most, like, homo-friendly cities
in the world.
Okay?
Number three in the world is Tel Aviv.
Of all the cities in the world, number three is Tel Aviv.
Number five, San Francisco.
Number eight, New York.
Now, this is what's significant about those three cities, is I also then typed in another
list.
Cities with the most Jews in them.
Number one, New York.
Number two, Jerusalem.
Three, Los Angeles.
I wonder, what are the most wicked cities in the world?
You know, like where Hollywood is, or where New York is, and all the stuff that they pump
out in the world today?
Number four, Tel Aviv.
Number five, Miami.
Number six, Chicago.
And boy, are those, you want to talk about faggot zones in the world today?
You want to talk about giant areas of sodomy?
It is New York, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Tel Aviv, Miami, and Chicago.
I mean, they might be more fags in those few cities than the rest of the world combined.
I don't know, I'm just making stuff up on the top of my head, but that is a lot of fags
and Jews.
It's interesting that they're in the same city.
You know why?
Because it's usually the same person.
All right?
There I said it.
I looked up an article that said Israel is the most developed country as far as LGBT
rights in the Middle East.
And according to recent statistics in Israel, their divorces are up 5% in just the last
few years.
Here's another thing that's different from the Apostle Paul and modern-day Jews today
is, yes, the Apostle Paul believed in circumcision, and he was circumcised on the 8th day, but
you know what modern Jews do?
They drink blood when they perform circumcision.
And the Apostle Paul, as concerning the law, was blameless.
You know the law prohibits drinking blood, period.
So if I was to contrast the Apostle Paul to the modern-day Jews today, they're not the
same person at all.
The Apostle Paul is someone that cares very much for the laws of God.
Is not a lying, cheating scumbag.
Is someone that works very hard.
Is someone that's not drinking blood.
Is someone that's not prosodomy.
Is not encouraging all these wicked satanic practices that are happening.
Whereas the modern day Jews today are basically just like "What does the Bible say not to
do?
I'm going to do it."
And it's just silly to me how so many Christians today want to sit here and pretend like "Oh
it's just a bunch of apostle Pauls."
No.
Go to Galatians 3 and we'll finish.
Just so you make, just so you know that I'm not just like cherry picking random statistics
just to like prove my own personal bias or own point.
Let me just list for you the largest cities in the world.
Because if you think about it like "Oh well you're just saying there's a bunch of facts
and Jews in those areas just because they're large population centers." No. If there was
no statistical correlation then we would just be looking at the largest cities in the world.
But let me list for you the top 10 largest cities and you'll recognize something. They
don't have Jews or facts in them as the predominant cities. Number one is Tokyo, Japan. That's
not filled with a bunch of Jews. Delhi, India. Shanghai, China. Sao Paulo, Brazil. Mexico
City, Mexico. Cairo, Egypt. Mumbai, India. Beijing, China. Dhaka, Bangladesh. Osaka,
Japan. I'm not saying that these cities don't have problems and don't have their issues.
But it's not just like, "Oh, these are the largest cities, therefore that's the most
Jews and the most facts." No, no, no. The largest cities aren't necessarily like that.
You know what the cities with lots of Jews are? The ones with lots of facts. Why? Because
Judaism promotes sodomy and Satanism. If the apostle Paul was in charge of a city, I mean
if you had 15 million apostle Pauls running a nation, they would not be the most LGBT
friendly. They would be stoning them with stones, folks. They wouldn't be pro-adultery.
They wouldn't be pro-all these things. They would be stoning people according to the law.
They would be observing the commandments very strictly. Okay, that is not what we see in
Israel at all. We see just a complete satanic, God-hating religion. And it makes me frustrated
that I have to sit up here and explain this to people, but the Jews are not God's chosen
people, folks. Okay, and when I say that, I'm meaning the people in Israel. God's chosen
people are the people who believe in Jesus Christ. And they always have been and they
always will be. Yes, there was a special physical nation for a period of history that has been
replaced with the church. And if you can't recognize that historical fact, I probably
can't help you. Because it's just evident that in 70 AD the physical nation went away
and for the last 2,000 years the church has dominated the world. And the church has encompassed
the world. And the church is what God is blessing today. God is not blessing the Middle East.
God is blessing Steadfast Baptist Church. And just think about it logistically. The
people in the Middle East right now are constantly under threat of death and gunfire and baptism.
Battling and war and all kinds of serious issues. We're living in the land of prosperity
right now. We're living the best lives now. I mean show me people in this world that are
living much better or higher on the hog than us in Texas. I mean it's not really very many
places in this world that you could even argue with me on that particular issue. When we
talk about all their factors, I mean we factor in safety, food, living expenses, weather.
You talk about housing, you talk about roads, you talk about all the different factors,
talk about happiness, you talk about the people that you get to interact with. I mean you
basically are just hitting the top of the list on almost everything where we live. Almost
everything. Again, obviously there's some places that might be a little higher in one
category, but I'm just saying you take all those and you mix them together. Our overall
score is really high if not one of the highest. I would argue it's basically the highest.
I love this place. I love being here. I'm so excited that I get to also do a lot of
evangelism and a great place to live, because there's some great places to do evangelism
that I don't want to live at all, like the Philippines. That's one. But hey, when we
talk about spiritual opportunity, that's off the charts. I mean, and look, some people
love the Philippines. I've heard their beaches are nice. I've heard some people like their
food and those areas. But it would be a sacrifice to me personally. To Brother Duncan, it's
a little bit of a sacrifice for him to be over there. But he is serving God, and he's
going to get rewarded in heaven. I'm glad that I get to enjoy where I live and get to
do a lot of evangelism. But you know, I also have to realize that there's a lot of evangelism
out there that's not in our backyard, and we need to go out there on the highways and
hedges too. We need to go to Streetport, Louisiana. Would never live there. We need to go to Mexico.
Would never live there. There's lots of areas that I'm going to go soul-winning in, and
I don't want to live. Hey, I like Jamaica. That was fun. I like Fiji. Would never live
in Fiji, ever. I'd more likely live in the Philippines than I would in Fiji. But there's
a lot of areas to live in this world, and we are living in one of the most blessed areas.
That's not a coincidence. You know what that is? That's God's favor for us being a great
church and for Christianity having thrived in this nation. You know why Israel is constantly
under threat of death and has so many problems and so many issues? It's because it's anti-Christ
religion. Because it's a God-hating religion. You know why the Middle East is one of the
worst places to live? Because there's just a den of iniquity and horrible false religion
is there. Wherever religion is bad, it's a really bad place to live. I mean, what's the
worst in North Korea? In both, religious category and living conditions. And then it just basically
escalates. Communism, China, all these areas. India. I can't even imagine living in India.
It's horrible. Horrible religion. Oh, I know this exception. No, you don't. I know this
one place that hates God and they're just such a great place to live. No, you don't.
It doesn't exist, folks. There's a few great places to live in this world and it's where
Christianity is doing the best. And it will continue to be that way. And we see some churches
in our areas keep getting worse, like Gateway and Tony Evans Church and all these areas.
And I'm just thinking, like, praise God. Praise God. Maybe that'll make our area even better.
You know, I hope that these giant mountains get cast in the sea because they weren't a
biblical foundation anyways. You know what? The more that Steadfast Baptist Church gets better,
let, you know, the Word of God increase and let them decrease because they're wicked anyways.
Let's just keep destroying all the disgusting mega churches here and let's actually have a good
church, you know, to take over this area and get more of God's blessing and more of God's
prosperity in this area. And I think that we will, I think that our area is just going to
keep getting more and more blessed in the, in the near future. It doesn't even matter if Kamala
gets elected. I think that our area will continue to be blessed because we have God's favor and the
areas that are ungodly are going to still be cursed and still have all kinds of wicked punishment.
And you know what? Paul is not modern day Jews and modern day Jews are not the apostle Paul.
And I don't want us to get confused on that. I don't want us to get racist at all.
I want us to recognize that you know hey I want Jews to get saved but they're not better than
anybody else. Let's stop let's stop hoping for them to keep bombing people because you know if
Christians would finally change their opinion you know what happened? Less people get bombed
and we get more of those children saved. More young people could reach with the gospel.
Let's close in prayer. Thank you heavenly father so much for your word. Thank you so much for
helping us to understand that we're all one in Christ Jesus. There's no such thing as a
Jew or a Gentile. That all of these racial ethnic things are just of the devil. And I pray you'd
also help us not to be confused about hating one group over another. That we recognize that we live
in a spiritual world and that we need to look through spiritual lenses. And I pray that you
could just help some of our brethren. There's other Christians that are out there that are
confused on these issues to just recognize that it's all about the gospel of Jesus Christ.
It's not about an ethnicity. It's not about a race. It's not about some land over in the Middle East.
It's about the King James Bible. It's about the New Testament. It's about Jesus Christ.
And I pray that you would just help wake more people up so that we could have more peace in
this world so that we could give the gospel to more people. And in Jesus name we pray, amen.
Amen. All right, for our last song we're going to do 356, "I Must Tell Jesus." 356, song 356,
I must tell Jesus. Let's tell Jesus I cannot be a straight buddy.