Music
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Go and find our seats. We'll go ahead and get started and
Once you find the seat grab a hymnal
We'll go to song number 415 for our first song
Number 415
Song number 415
Victory through grace
Song 415 everybody sing it out together on the first conquering now and still
Leading the host of all the faithful
Into the midst of
See them with
Glad and they're brilliant
Shouting the name
Here they mix all
Not to the strong is the battle not to the swift
Oh
Victory's promise through grace conquering now and still
When's our the armies which he leadeth while of his glory
They see
He is our Lord and
Savior and
They are the stars that forever right in this game
Not to the strong
But to the true
Conquering now and still to conquer Jesus now
Thrones in their sectors all shall perish
Yes, how the armies thou leadest faithful and true to the
Find in thy mansions
Eternal rest when their way
Not to the swift
But the true
Great singing everybody. Let's open up the service with a word of prayer
Lord we love you, and we just thank you again for steadfast batless Church
we just ask that you fill this room with your spirit bless this church and
Let us honor and glorify you and all that we do today and forevermore and it's in Jesus name. We pray. Amen
Alright for our next song. Let's go to song number
157
Song number 157
Come thou Almighty King song number 157
Oh
Now
Oh
Good morning. Thank you so much for coming to steadfast Baptist Church
If you did not already get a bulletin, but you'd like one just lift up your hand nice and high
One of our ushers will come by and get you guys a bulletin on the front
We have our Bible memory passage Psalm 59 and we're on verse 15
so if you can quote the entire passage
You can receive a prize as well as the verse of the week any
Children 18 and under that can quote it can get an ice cream in our midweek service
Our services and so many times are there in the inside. Also, we have church stats our soul winning
Information is actually kept through our soul winning captains
And so we have different tribes for the church
And so if you have any questions about that
Please just ask me or brother Jason or you can email us and we'd love to answer those questions
On the right there is a list of expecting ladies
So if you would be in prayer for all of them as well as upcoming events this week is gonna be our mighty men's conference
That's gonna be Thursday Friday and just the Saturday morning
Pastor Roger Menes is gonna actually be coming out for that conference and preaching that Friday night
And so even if you're not able to come to the conference throughout the day
But you'd still like to just hear the sermons or come out for the evening service as you can and so
If you need that information, let us know as well
I think several people did sign up on our signup sheet as just coming Friday night and
We'll send out some instructions as far as how to get there with the address if you're interested
It's about an hour south of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. So
Maybe a little bit more than that just kind of depends on exactly where you're at
So it might be an hour hour and a half drive
So it's not too bad. And if you'd like to come out to hear that sermon on Friday night, you're more than welcome
Also, babe, there's a baby shower for several or for actually a couple ladies in our church
It's from 2 to I'm sorry from 12 to 2 p.m
On the 24th and if you'd like to get either of those ladies a gift you can look on Amazon
Our baby showers ours nursing's only preferred and if you'd like to attend please RSVP with mrs. Milstead
She's helps us with a lot of our baby showers on the back
We have a list of our prayer list and if you have any other prayer requests
You can email those to us to our main email address or you could even fill out one of our communication cards
Put on there indicate a prayer request and we can try to add that to the list
We also try to update this and keep it accurate as best as possible
So if you can't help us with that on prayer requests that extend beyond the week and then down below we have the
Congratulations to the Holden's on the birth of Charlotte Kate
She was born on the 10th 6 pounds 20 and a quarter inches long
Congratulations to them
And
One one other announcement I was gonna make it's not necessarily the bullets in is our
Former staff member that was here locally brother. Dylan Oz is actually transitioned and moved to
Oklahoma and so he's actually preaching there this morning and so, you know anything that
Brother Oz was handling, you know here you need to
Realize that that transition is going to be made to where now you need to find a new person to handle that
So if you if you were trying to communicate with him or do something with them
You need to just communicate with me or you can email us or you could ask one of our ushers and we can point
You in the right direction. So just FYI
Brother Oz was helping us with several different things
and so if there was something that you're usually having him help you with or do please just communicate that with me or
you can email and
Actually pretty soon. I don't know exactly the right timeline, but in a few months or so
The evangelist tanner fur is actually going to be relocating from
Oklahoma down here and he's gonna join us and be part of our church and he's gonna work on staff here
and so we're excited to have him come and join us and he's gonna be
Taking on a lot of the job duties that brother Oz was doing for us
And so right now we're just in a transition and if you need anything just let me know
If you have any questions, of course
You can always email call text and then also for his tribe specifically. He was helping manage one of our soul winning tribes
I have resumed that tribe as the tribe leader
I tried to send out an email to everybody that was in that tribe already
And so if for some reason I missed you or you didn't see the email or anything like that
You can report all of that soul winning information to me as well as I'll try to follow up with everybody on that
I have already been receiving several texts and information about the soul winning from those people
But just wanted to put that information out there. So that's pretty much all I have as far as
Announcements, we'll go ahead and sing our third song this morning. It's gonna be a psalm in our psalm booklets. It's psalm
148 psalm 148
All
Right now psalm 148 psalm chapter 148
Oh
And they were
Decree
From the
Me
Dragons and
Oh
Made
Let them praise the name
Oh
I
Great singing as offering plates are being passed around go ahead and open up your Bibles and get ready to read the chapter
You
We'll be reading 2nd Timothy chapter 4 follow along silently in your Bibles beginning in verse number 1 2nd
Timothy chapter 4 the Bible reads I
charge the
Therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead as appearing and his kingdom
Preach the word be instant in season out of season
reprove rebuke
Exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine
But after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables
But watch thou in all things endure afflictions do the work of an evangelist
Make full proof of thy ministry for I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand
I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course
I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness
Which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day and not to me only
But unto all them also that love his appearing do thy diligence to come shortly unto me for Demas hath forsaken me
Having loved this present world and is departed unto Thessalonica
Cretans to Galatia Titus unto Dalmatia
Only Luke is with me take mark and bring him with thee for he is profitable to me for the ministry and
Antichokos have I sent to Ephesus the cloak that I left at Troas with
Carpus when thou comest bring with thee in the books, but especially the parchments
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil the Lord reward him according to his works of whom be thou where also
For he hath greatly withstood our words at my first answer
No, man stood with me, but all men forsook me. I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthened me that by me the preaching might be fully known then and that all
The Gentiles might hear and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion and
The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom to whom be glory forever
And ever amen salute Prisca and Aquila and the house of on a ciphers
Erastus abode at Corinth
But Trophimus have I met at my Letum sick do thy diligence to come before winter
Eubulus greeteth thee and
Putin's and Linus and claudia and all the brethren the Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit grace be with you
Amen, let's bow our heads for a word of prayer father in heaven
we thank you Lord for this day and I pray father God that you would just
Enable us to pay close attention to this message
Let it sink down into our hearts and inspire us to change and I pray also Lord that you fill pastor Shelley with your spirit
And help him to preach the sermon with boldness and with power. We love you and in Jesus name. I pray Amen
Amen, the Bible says in 2nd Timothy chapter 4 verse 2 preach the word
be instant in season out of season
reprove rebuke
exhort with all long-suffering and
doctrine and this is a
Portion of Scripture that's obviously directed towards a preacher
Towards a pastor towards the individual leading a church and the word that I find
really beneficial in this particular verse is the word rebuke and it's in the context of the idea to me of
How it's so clear in the Bible that preaching is geared towards people
Preaching is geared towards people. And in fact, there is nothing wrong with preaching against people
That's the title of my sermon this morning is preaching
against people
My first question would be this for those that don't agree with me is who am I to?
Rebuke if I can't preach against someone
the whole implication of
Rebuking is that it's talking about somebody that I'm rebuking now many people will get mad about
The idea of preaching against people and they have different layers here as far as what we're describing
Some people say it's okay to preach against people in a
Vague sense or in a broad sense some don't even like that
Individuals like Joel Osteen or other prosperity type preachers. They say I'm not gonna preach against anyone
I'm for everyone. This is their mantra
This is their motto, but that's clearly unbiblical because we're clearly instructed to rebuke
Now beyond just rebuking though
Individuals will then have different ideas as far as how much discretion or how far do we take that?
Are we going to rebuke just broad spectrums of people? Are we going to rebuke people that are in a specific category?
Are we going to rebuke people where people could kind of tell?
Who you're talking about or even let's just get really clear. Are we going to name names and
I would say this that everything is on the table according the Bible and
Some people they they would get really nervous or they get really upset about the idea of a preacher
Making it clear who he's preaching about but I want to demonstrate in the Bible that there is nothing wrong with
Making it clear who you're preaching about and who you're preaching against
Now the first group that I want to talk about is false prophets
The Bible is crystal clear that we as preachers should be able to call out false prophets and even name the names
And make it very clear who we're talking about in the Bible
Jesus and other instructions are clearly demonstrating that you should preach against groups of false prophets as well as
specifically naming false prophets in this particular chapter
Notice what it says in verse 14
Alexander
that's a person and
We know his name and here's another thing there could be a lot of Alexander's out there
But notice what he says Alexander the coppersmith, so he's getting as specific as he can
He wants everybody to know that he's about to preach against Alexander the coppersmith now some people say this
I feel like the preacher was preaching about me
How do you think Alexander felt?
Do you think that Alexander was thinking like Alexander who oh the coppersmith oh, man, that's that's me you know
Yeah, sometimes the preaching is so specific. It's naming you. It's like wanting to clarify
We're talking about this specific Alexander
What did he do Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil the Lord reward him according to his works
Notice this of whom be thou where also for he hath greatly withstood our words
Here's another emphasis is the Apostle Paul is trying to warn Timothy about Alexander even though
Alexander isn't necessarily a direct opposition to Timothy
He was in opposition to Paul and his companions, and he's letting him know. This is a bad guy. This is someone that you should be
Leary of you should be aware of you should be careful with and he's helping this
young preacher
Timothy not fall into a trap of getting deceived by a bad person now this makes sense if you love Timothy
And you don't want Timothy to be taken advantage of then you're gonna warn Timothy about bad people
If I just get up and just say there's bad people out there
Don't listen to bad people
No one's gonna change anything about their life. No one's actually gonna understand
But if you say don't listen to Joel Osteen
Then it's really clear who we're talking about if we say don't listen to TD Jakes
Then it's really clear who we're talking about we say don't listen to Robert Morris, which praise God
No one's listening to him anymore
But I've been preaching against this guy for a decade
I've been preaching get this guy for over 10 years
And I've known not listen to listen to him and it's always funny to me how people are like now wondering
Oh, I guess now he's bad look. I already knew he was bad
He already was wrong in the gospel and preached all kinds of averted things
Teaching that God is not just a man
But he's like a man and a woman combined all kinds of just weird heresy false doctrine
Only preaches about money only preaches about tithing it was crystal clear
that this guy is doing harm to the cause of Christ and to be avoided and
what God people would have listened to that kind of a message and
Said you know what maybe I shouldn't listen to him, but you know when I would call him out ten years ago
This is what people would say. Oh, you're envious. Oh
You're just jealous of Pastor Morris. Oh, you just you're a small ministry
You're a small guy and you just wish you were as popular and have so much fame and had the church that he had
No, the guy's preaching lies
And you should beware of the guy that's preaching lies and harming people's souls and preaching things that are against the Bible
We should be willing to call out false prophets because the Bible tells us about
Specific people in the same case this guy's a bad guy call them out this guy's and it's not like this guy is just a bad
Person what does it say specifically he for he has greatly withstood?
our words
So it's helping you understand that this guy is a false prophet
It's not like Alexander the coppersmith just ripped him off for 20 bucks
It's not like Alexander the coppersmith just tripped him in the parking lot
It's not like Alexander the smith called him a bad name
No, Alexander the coppersmith is greatly withstanding the doctrine of Christ. Why why do you think it is that the coppersmith?
Doesn't want people to know about Jesus Christ
It's because the coppersmith makes graven images for a false religion and when people believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
And they get saved they reject idols and they want nothing to do with Alexander the coppersmith
Because Alexander the coppersmith is violating the first commandments
the first commandments
That you shall have no other gods before me and then the second commandment. Hey, you shouldn't make any graven image
That's Alexander the coppersmith
Now do you think Alexander the coppersmith likes it when people are walking in saying hey?
This guy is violating commandment number one commandment number two, and you should have a faith that is gonna cause him to go bankrupt
He doesn't like that and here's the the reality if you got up and said hey salvation by faith alone is a free gift
You can't lose it. That's gonna bankrupt Robert Morris's ministry
Because Robert Morris doesn't believe that and doesn't teach that and so of course he's gonna greatly
Withstand the words of Christ and the doctrines of Christ and he's a false prophet, and he's still a false prophet
And you know what he's also still a pedophile by the way I
Heard someone defend him to me and say well, I know he molested that girl for four years back then
But he hasn't done it again
so
So he's still a pedophile
That's the reality. It's not like you just stop being a pedophile all of a sudden
Once a pedophile always a pedophile and always a reprobate, and I want nothing to do with you ever
Okay, if you're in here thinking like I'm a reformed pedophile no
You're not in my view not in our church's view and you're not welcome
I am not ever gonna allow reformed pedophiles because there's no such thing anyways
You would still act on that and you know what don't defend pedophiles to me
I want nothing to do with any of them ever
Not at any point in time that person is weird and perverted and gross and I wouldn't trust them around an animal all right
Now
Look at it says in verse I go to chapter the next book
I'm sorry go to Titus chapter 1 and look at verse number 9
I want to make it clear that you should preach against false prophets, and you should name the names
That's what the Apostle Paul did
That's the example that Jesus set for us
And this is what the Bible says over and over in so many different passages Titus chapter 1 verse 9 holding fast
The faithful word as he had been taught that he may be able by sound doctrine
Both to exhort and convince the gainsayers for there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers
Specially they of the circumcision
You know he means by specially he's saying like this group is the worst
Or this is the group that we're really talking about or this is the group that should be emphasized who is the circumcision
this is what we would know today as modern-day Judaism and
Even back then they were the Judaizers
These are the individuals that had been physically circumcised were practicing a religion that goes against the Bible
They were holding to the traditions of the elders and not to the Word of God, and they rejected Jesus Christ
They were unsaved and they were teaching a workspace salvation
And he's saying these people are an unruly and vain talking deceiving group
Verse 11 whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses
Teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre sake now. This is what's crazy to me
It's how sometimes individuals say you can't just label broad swaths of people
You can't just you can't how dare you just say like Jews or something like that, but then it's like that's what the Bible does
That's what Jesus does I mean according the Bible
He's just saying hey, you know who's bad the circumcision the circumcision is a group that just generally described as what?
Unruly vain talkers deceivers who all of their mouths need to just be stopped
anybody so whenever I get up and just say hey Catholics teach work salvation or you get up and you say hey
Hindus believe in false gods and they're unsaved or you get up and you say hey the Jews of the day
Reject Christ and they're unsaved that's the same language the Bible uses now is it possible in
the more nuanced
Categories of Christianity that someone could get saved and walk into a Catholic Church and still be saved
Yes, that is possible. And when you're making a broad generalization of just saying simply hey
Catholics are not saved. You're not really counting that person because if I walk into the kitchen
I don't turn into my wife
Okay, if I walk into a garage
I'm not a car and just because if I walk into a Catholic Church that doesn't make me Catholic
You know makes me Catholic believing Catholic doctrine. And here's the thing people who believe Catholic doctrine are not saved
And when it comes to the circumcision
Yeah
There were technically Peter and John and the Apostle Paul had been
Circumcised physically and were even of that particular lineage or ethnic group
But they had believed in Jesus Christ and they were counting their circumcision as nothing
So therefore when he talked about the circumcision
He's talking about a religious group with religious beliefs and that they're not safe
And when I talk about Jews, I'm almost always referring to those who practice the religion of Judaism
Therefore they're all unsaved even though there are people today who have a Jewish lineage or a Jewish
Ethnicity that believe in Christ and they're saved
and so the Bible has just broad swaths of people that is just saying these this entire group is just false prophets and
Let's just be clear Mormons are false prophets
Jovis witnesses are false prophets Catholic priests are false prophets
I mean
There's just huge groups of people today that are just false prophets and they're not saved and the Jews are the worst
They're anti Christ and they're unsaved
Now it also says in this passage says one of themselves
So he's just pointing out one particular person even a prophet of their own said the Cretans are always liars evil beasts
Slow bellies this witness is true
Wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith
Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men that turn from the truth
I would love to know how a Zionist would interpret verse 14
Yeah
Hey, Zionist, what are the Jewish fables that we're supposed to avoid?
What are the Jewish fables that we're not supposed to give heed to?
It seems like the Zionist group will bring up any rabbi any Jew and just allow them to say
Anything and they just believe all of it, you know, whether it's something about six million or whatever
It's just you got to believe it
It doesn't matter what the numbers are what the story is what the history what the fact and you can't
Question it either. In fact, they go beyond
Harkening to Jewish fables. They basically make it clear that it's like law
There are countries and places in this world. You cannot even go against the Jewish fable. It's illegal
You can't even question things
You can't even ask if this is really true or you can't even suggest that there's maybe a lie or something not clear about that
If you deny the Holocaust, it is a basically illegal in many places in Europe
And
And let me make it clear denying the Holocaust is not like these
Complete revisionist history people or people that are brain dead. It's people just saying like
Maybe five million Jews were killed. That's the night Holocaust
It's it's just saying like I don't think that the goal was just to kill Jews only then you're denying the Holocaust
I mean, it's basically just saying anything about it. That's not
Official story official narrative is somehow denying the Holocaust and then you start wondering like that's a weird way to word it
like just you're denying like this event ever happened or something like that because if you were to say like you deny that Jesus ever
Existed that sounds crazy
That sounds just absurd and that's what they try to make it seem like when you quote deny the Holocaust
They're just thinking like you don't think World War two happened. You don't even believe like Hitler exists
I mean, we're all driving German cars
We're all you know, basically having all kinds of manufacturing and technological advances from the Nazi Party specifically
What are you denying about this? Right and then you're just saying well, I don't know if you can cook six million pizzas
That quickly. All right, that's the question that I was basically bringing up
Just FYI if you were gonna cook six million pizzas and four ovens for 20 minutes each it would take 57 years
And you know that's illegal. Okay, so you can't ask you can't answer that question. All right
But the Bible says not giving heed to Jewish fables and
commandments of men that turn from the truth
Notice what the Bible is saying that there are men that turn to the truth now
I believe in this passage in verse 12 when he says one of themselves
I believe the only reason he's not making it clear is because he probably doesn't know
Probably just heard this is somebody out there said this and we know that it's true
I just don't really know who it is, but I want to make it clear that this did happen
Like this is a legit thing. It happened. Maybe can't remember the name
But it's not to say that you can't name the name
Some people would say this is the only way you're allowed to preach
Well, someone said one time this or some people might say this or this could happen
no, you need to get specific to and
He was specific about Alexander and he's calling out all the Jews
He's calling out the Jewish fables and he wants you to make it clear that these are people that you should never listen to
Not hearken to
Go if you would back to 2nd Timothy chapter 1 go to 2nd Timothy chapter 1
Let's get some more specific examples of where we're naming the names of the individual
2nd Timothy chapter 1 verse 15 says this this thou knowest
That all they which are in Asia be turned away from me of whom are fight jealous and homogeneous
So the apostle Paul saying look all these people that are under this false teaching
There's a source and the source is by jealous and homogeneous
He's recognizing the cult that by jealous and homogeneous have established and that many of these people have fallen away due to these false
Teachers by jealous and homogeneous and he's calling them out by name in chapter 2 look at verse 16
But shun profane and vain babblings for they will increase in a more ungodliness and their word will eat as death a canker of
Whom is hymenaeus and Phyllis
so he's saying we can't just allow false teachings to go unchecked because it's kind of like cancer and
The thing about cancer is that cancer starts small, but it slowly spreads over time
and if you're able to diagnose cancer early and you're able to
Mitigate or eliminate the cancer in the early stages many times. There's a high survival rate
What's difficult is if cancer has taken its time to spread over the entire body
Well now it's very difficult and it's in most the times you die if someone has
Cancer in all parts of their body or they're in the late stages of cancer
It's it's pretty much just deadly at that point and he's he's likening the body
Because the church is a body and think about it this way if we had a small
faction of people over here that all of this cancerous doctrine
Well, then we just pick them up and throw them out and the church is gonna survive
We're gonna be fine without that small little faction
But if everybody here is all under a cancerous doctrine, well, the church isn't gonna survive, you know
We're gonna go down a bad road, you know, either I'm gonna win or y'all gonna win, but we're not gonna survive
Okay
and if I lose then you bring up some of profit of your own hymenaeus or Phyllis or Phygelus or somebody and
Then you just become a cult then you become the Mormons then you become Islam
Which are both cults after a singular individual teaching all kinds of weird strange heresy
So we can't allow false doctrine to permeate the church
Some people would say that we're a cult for not allowing false doctrine to creep in like individuals get mad and say oh
You don't let people just come in using whatever Bible and any gospel and any view of the Trinity and it's like no
What's the point of a church if we all believe different things?
It's almost like what's the point of the Republican Party if no one's actually conservative
if you can't even agree on any conservative values, what even is the Republican Party and
Frankly speaking even what is the Democrat Party other than just against the Bible?
I mean the Democrat Party is just like anything in the Bible. We disagree with that's their agreement
And then when it comes to Republican Party, it's just like we have no idea what we believe there's like no view
That's why there's almost no unity and either of these particular movements
And you know, the church is not a congregation of people that live five minutes from this physical location
That's a club or a community group and we're not a community church. We're a church of Jesus Christ
We're a church that believes the King James Bible. We're a church that believes salvation by faith alone
We're a church that believes in the importance of soul winning
We're a church that actually believes in hard preaching and you know what we believe in preaching against people and
That's what I'm doing
And that's what I'm gonna continue doing is I'm gonna keep preaching against people and naming the names like height
Hymenaeus Philetus by jealous or hey Robert Morris TD Jakes Kenneth Copeland
Beth Moore who else you want me to name?
I'll name it because I'm not afraid to name the false prophets names today, and we should never be afraid of that
In fact, we should like it
We should like knowing who to avoid what if I said hey, there's a
Car dealership out here that's gonna rip you off if you go there or if you get your car fixed from them
Don't go there
What are you thinking which one?
You're wanting like where where am I not supposed to go and then in the back of your mind if you go to a car
Dealers, you're kind of like is this the one you know, you don't know
How is that gonna really help you if you actually want the help you'd be like name it
Who is it tell us right?
I mean, that's what you want to know so that you can address the problem and avoid the danger
That's how it should be spiritually that we need to name the names and point out the false prophets so that we can't avoid them
That's the whole goal. That's the whole point. All right, and it obviously changes all the time
So we have to make sure that we're preaching against all the new people and all the individuals that are still alive today
II Timothy chapter number. I'm sorry go to first Timothy chapter 1. We'll notice this again
Notice in verse number 18. It says this charge I commit unto thee son Timothy according to the prophecies which went before on thee that thou
by them
Midas wore a good warfare holding faith and a good conscience
Which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck of whom is hymenaeus and Alexander
Whom I have delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. So here's another group of people
Just being called out for false teaching and blaspheming go over to Romans chapter 16 now
we'll get out of the pastoral epistles for a moment and go to
Romans and
I want to look at the very end of this
epistle
this is going to be a more broad application, but it's giving kind of the
Understanding and motivation as to why you would name names why you're preaching against people because again
Why why is it that I would really want to?
Guard or protect a false prophet by not naming their name
Like what is the benefit to me or God or God's people by not naming the name if this person's a wicked person?
Destined for hell and and causing people to go to hell. Why would I ever be motivated to not name his name?
I should totally name the name. There's no there's no reason there's no logic not to name the name and
Specifically the Bible tells us to do that look at Romans chapter 16 verse 17 now. I beseech you brethren mark them
Which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them?
Well, it doesn't say name the name pastor Shelly
Yeah, it says mark them but notice this so that we can avoid if I don't name the name. How can you avoid them?
There's bad restaurants don't go to them
There's bad food don't eat it
You can't avoid it. It's like hey Indian food doesn't taste good. All right
It's like ranch dressing is gross all right there. I said it okay
That's that's so you can avoid it that you're not just like which salad dressing. What do I do okay?
Right that's that's to help you understand and identify this place is a bad place now of course there are people out there
That they'll hear the preaching and they're just gonna do it anyways
They're gonna just go and disregard the advice and again when it comes to food preferences children
I'm joking okay when it comes to false prophets. I'm being very serious. You know we avoid those individuals like the plague
now
Here it's causing us to understand
Why is well though verse 18 for they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ?
They're not saved
They're not of God
They're they're nothing good about them. It's not like well
I know this guy preached all this heresy, but he's still a servant of God no no no they're not of our Lord Jesus Christ
They don't serve our Lord Jesus Christ who do they serve their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of
the simple
unfortunately many
Christians and many Americans today are very deceived and being taken advantage of for being very simple-minded
They have not read the Bible
They're not many of them have not learned very much doctrine
It's very easy for them to be deceived and to be tricked
And it's important that we call these people out and help people learn how to avoid individuals not everybody has the time
to devote to
Listening to all the different doctrines and paying attention to everybody and maybe people don't have the time to even study the Bible
The way others do that's why the Bible makes it clear that the elders are the ones that are supposed to study the word
They're supposed to labor in the doctrine
they're supposed to take all this time effort and energy to study all this information and then present to the congregation a
summary or a clear consensus or
Take all the information and boil it down and make it really simple to digest to help people to understand the Bible likens
Preachers unto animals like oxen
And if you understand what an oxen does is an oxen or a cow will eat grass and then it'll throw it up
And then it'll like eat it again like throws it up
I think they have four stomachs and they're basically just
digesting this material over and over and over and breaking it down to then ultimately produce milk and
Here's the thing. I love milk. I
don't like eating grass and
If I were to sit here and put a bunch of grass in my mouth and try to like chew on it and wait for
It to turn into milk. It never would. Okay. I'm just not built for that. I'm not designed for that. That's not my profession
That's not my job
I don't have the stomachs for it
and here's the thing we shouldn't be getting women up behind the pulpit to try and
Digest the Word of God and present the milk of God's Word to God's people because they're not designed for that
And we have so many people today they're so concerned with being a preacher and a pastor, but they're not even equipped
They're not qualified. They don't meet what the Bible actually says and you know, those people need to be called out to
What if we went to a farm and they have a bunch of chickens eating grass to try and make milk?
chicken milk
You'd be like no put the chicken back in the coop and get the cow out there to make the milk
Because the chicken is not gonna make milk for me. Okay, and it's not to say that chickens don't have value
It's not to say that chickens don't taste good. It's not that I'm not gonna eat the chickens eggs
you know what chickens are great, but they're not a cow and
cows are not chickens and men are not women and so it's very clear that we need to have these boundaries and we need to
Call people out so that we can have the appropriate function being performed by the the appropriate person
And the reality is that false prophets and false teachers are constantly deceiving people
Because they have not gotten the sincere milk of the word. They don't understand the Bible
They're not harking to the right people and you know as preachers and pastors. It's a great responsibility
We need to be calling out the liars and calling up because not only are some people just not being fed
they're being fed poison and
They're being damaged and you and I both know the individuals that are almost a clean slate are much easier getting saved
Than someone that's been top poison whole life
If you run into someone that says like I haven't really heard much about the Bible or you run into someone that says I'm going
To the Mormon Church, which one's more likely to get saved
We already know because the Mormon Church is like handing out the kool-aid of Jim Jones in their institution
Spiritually and they're just damning people spiritually
I mean, I don't know but I would venture to say that no Mormons that have gone on mission will ever get saved. I
Mean, maybe there's an exception. I've never heard of it. I've never met that person
I've personally given the gospel to almost ten Mormons
That are either on mission or have been on mission and they're not even close to getting sick
It wasn't like well, they'll almost persuade us me. It was just like it wasn't even close
These people were so brain dead that it was just it was really it's really sad
Honestly, I liked and in fact, I liked some of them and I wanted them to be saved
I even worked with them, but they're just they're just not there in the head anymore. It's like someone's been lobotomized
Spiritually go to Ezekiel chapter 13 go to Ezekiel chapter 13. And so it's important to reach these people before they get lobotomized
Before their whole body is filled with cancer. Well, how do you do that preach against false prophets warn people early? I
Wish that there was more calling people out not less if anything. We need to have more people being called out not less
If anything we need more preaching against false prophets not less now to have a healthy church
That should not be the only thing being preached that should probably not even be the most regular thing being preached
But it needs to be preached from time to time
It needs to be preached on and addressed and talked about
You're not gonna really build a church on preaching against people that doesn't build a church
But it's an appropriate thing to be brought up and to talk about and to introduce
obviously, we want to build our church on things like faith on
The gospel on grace we want to build it on mercy want to build on the love of Jesus on God's kindness
We want to build a church on the positive attributes of the Bible and the love of Jesus that we all share and hold to
but at the end of the day
We also need a balance here of recognizing there's false prophets and for some people to be preached against
Ezekiel chapter number 13
this is what Ezekiel was commanded by God verse 1 and
The word of Lord came unto me saying son of man
prophesy against the prophets of Israel
Notice he's being told preach against people and then somebody will come to me and say like how dare you preach against people
Well, here's Ezekiel being told by God to preach against people
The Apostle Paul is preaching against people and naming the names we see in Romans chapter number 16
To mark and to avoid it could not be clearer that we are to preach against people from time to time
What does he even say?
Preach against the prophets of Israel that prophesy and say unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts
Hear ye the word of the Lord
Thus sayeth the Lord God whoa
Under the foolish prophets that follow their own spirit and have seen nothing Oh
Israel thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts
You know, this is so many preachers in America of the day. Yeah
These Pentecostals who will tell you I've been to heaven. I've seen Jesus
God came to me last night and he told me X Y & Z
They're all liars and deceivers and they've seen nothing. They've seen nothing
How dare you say that little kid that wrote the book that said he went to heaven is a liar. Well, he's a liar
in
Fact sometimes they've even come out and even admitted it
There's been little kids that went on these tours and told everybody what heaven was like and then they come out later
They say my parents just told me to do it and I made it all up. It was just a lie
How embarrassing you know to lie to your children and to use your children exploit your children in such a way
There was another one. I think his name's like Colton burpo or something like this. His dad's a pastor and
His he claims that his son went to heaven was like two or three and he's gonna tell everybody about it
I would love for any of us parents in here that have two and three-year-olds or had two three-year-olds. They're now five
Please explain to me something that happened when you were two or three
And in fact, we've all been two or three who in here has been two or three at some point your life
Okay after the sermon. I want you to write a whole a whole book on what happened when you were two
And
If you come up and show me that book, I'm gonna throw in the trash because you're a liar
You don't remember anything that happened when you were two nor do you have the vocabulary?
to even
Articulate anything you understood at age two and even if you did a two-year-old doesn't understand what they're looking at or seen
They describe things and such a crazy and weird manner
it's goo-goo and gaga for many of them at age two and
at age three
What kind of nonsense to say all my child went to heaven at two years old is gonna tell us all what it's like
Well, you know what the the darkness of the Bible on that subject is still more clear
the us looking through a glass darkly is still more clear than a two-year-old explaining to you anything and
It just even if that did happen, even if a two-year-old went to heaven and came back
I would expect them to be able to explain to me
Nothing that happened and they would have no idea what they saw and they have no idea how they comprehended any of that
Unless you're a Muslim and think that baby Jesus was talking at like five weeks old or something right out of the womb
You know what? That's a lie, too
That didn't happen
Jesus while he was the god-man was still a baby and still had to learn so I had to grow and
Jesus was not walking around teaching people the Bible at six months old
He wasn't walking around teaching people at two years old. He wasn't even doing it at 12 at 12
He had to submit himself unto his parents and he had to follow them and he waited until became an adult man to go around
Teaching the Word of God if Jesus has to wait to teach the Word of God to become a grown adult
Why aren't we allowing men to do that as well? I
seen on YouTube, there's a huge phenomenon of
kid preachers
It's so cringy. It's so cringy. It's it's always the Pentecostals
It's the Pentecostals and I've seen they're bringing to their five-year-old kids up on the stage in front of the entire congregation to preach
the Bible and
The five-year-olds many of the five-year-olds can't even really make coherent sentences, but think about it. It's Pentecostals
It doesn't really matter if it's coherent or not, right?
He's like and the Word of God and the Word of God and preach and pray
I mean, this is what the five-year-olds doing and saying like that's what they sound like. He's really good at imitating them
Yeah, it's really easy to imitate them
You know, it'd be hard to imitate someone that's actually preaching the Word of God. You actually have to know what you're saying
It would just sound like gargly goop, but that's what Pentecostals sound like
So I guess they can imitate them, but you know what?
No, we're not gonna bring five-year-olds up here in the middle of the service and have them preach us the Bible
Look, I'm not against kids playing church
I'm not against them going home and singing and playing church and preaching each other and doing whatever have fun. I think that's cool
I'm for it, but you know, we're not gonna take that serious
We're not gonna actually bring them up and say he's gotten a word of the Lord now
Please prophesy to all of us you five-year-old not happening. It's ridiculous. And you know what that should be called out to
How dare you preach against a child? Well, you know what? No child should ever preach the Bible like that in the front of the congregation
It's inappropriate and I don't even think kids should say Amen
The young boys and the young teenage men in here don't say Amen waiting to become a man
Because you know what women shouldn't be saying Amen kids shouldn't be saying Amen. We should have the grown men saying Amen
And if you're wondering if you're a grown man, you're not
Over here, I don't know where I'm pointing at. All right
Go if you would to Amos chapter 7 go to Amos chapter 7. How dare you preach against kids?
Well, you know what? I'm gonna preach against everybody
Okay, not just the false prophets, but you know what? Even if a kid isn't yet there hasn't gotten there
It's inappropriate for them to get up and preach the Bible
Well, you're mean I'm not mean the guys in the Bible are mean okay, and they're not even mean
They're just telling you what the Bible says and they're just telling what God says and sometimes God's mean
God can be mean and the things that he says are kind of harsh are kind of rough
I mean if I were to try to think like what would be the worst that someone could ever preach against me
It's Amos chapter 7. All right. This is the worst thing that you could ever have someone preach against you as a man
Verse 16 now therefore hear the word of the Lord
Thou sayest prophesy not against Israel and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac
so quick context Amos is preaching another false prophet comes up and rebukes him and tells him to stop preaching and go away and
So Amos is saying okay. Well, this is what God wants to say to you and
When he's addressing this other prophet, he's saying this is what the other prophet says
The other prophet is saying don't prophesy against Israel and don't drop thy word against else with it
So this is the guy saying don't preach against people don't preach against Israel. Stop preaching against everyone
That's what this prophet is like and then God wants to tell him a message. God wants to explain something to him
Therefore thus say the Lord thy wife shall be a harlot in the city
That's just that's like the worst thing you could ever have God say to you
Thy
wife shall be a harlot in the city and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword and thy land shall be
divided by line and thou shalt die in a polluted land and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of
his land Wow
No one wants that message
Hey, you know what? I'm gonna kill you and all your kids are gonna die and your wife. She's not gonna die
So you become a harlot?
Way worse than your wife being killed is becoming a harlot
in the city and
That's what God is saying. Why because God is punishing this guy as harshly as he possibly can for what being too nice of a
preacher folks
You think like oh, I think we should just be so kind and loving and only that well
There's a time for kindness. There's a time for love. There's a time for grace. There's a time for mercy
There's a time for love, but there's also a time to hate. It's also a time of war
it's also a time to break and you know what there's a time to preach against people and
Sometimes that needs to happen in our culture
It's a time to preach against people if there's ever been a time to preach against people. It's 2024 America
This is not the time of peace
This is not the time to sit here and and worry about being to be being loving and kind
We need to preach against the wickedness and the evil of this world
This is the time to preach against people go to Acts chapter 20
Well, I think you just do it too much
Okay, well, let's see how the Apostle Paul
what his kind of frequency was in preaching against people or preaching against false prophets and how often he felt it was
Necessary to preach against people and then compare that to your preacher
If you think that I preach too much against people compare me to the Apostle Paul Acts chapter 20
Look what it says in verse number
29 for I know this
That after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock
Also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away
Disciples after them therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years. I cease not to warn everyone
Night and day with tears now
This is this is kind of a seems like it's probably a little bit of an exaggerated statement
But think about what he tried to communicate he tried to communicate for three years straight
He warned every single day and not just every single day every single person. Did you notice what he said?
he said
in verse number 30, I'm sorry verse 31 I
Cease not to warn every one
Night and day with tears. Let me ask you this when you go home tomorrow. Are you expecting a text from me?
and
Not just you everyone just like literally just every night. I'm just gonna be like, hey
I just wanted to warn you about false prophets again today
daily reminder
daily devotional
Daily tip of the way, you know false prophet of the day or something like that
I mean, maybe that's what we should start, you know, maybe I'm just slacking if anything
I'm not gonna stop preaching as false prophets. I'm more likely to have a daily reminder
Because that's what the Apostle Paul was like is he's like hey, here's your daily false prophet
Here's your daily reminder that this guy's wicked
Here's your daily reminder that even of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves
And you know what?
Just because we haven't had one in a little while
Doesn't mean there couldn't be one trying to creep up or in the near future
That there could be some loser that tries to creep into our church and try to take people away with him
And you know what? I will name his name and preach against him
And we should keep doing it and never stop. I won't stop go view to Luke chapter 11. Well, that's not what Christ like
What would Christ do the Christ name the name would Christ call people? Well, first of all, you have to understand that Christ is the Bible
So every single verse that we've read was Jesus
Okay in the beginning was the word and the word is with God and word was God the same was in beginning with God
Forever thy word is settled in heaven. Oh Lord. Hey, all these names were named before any of us even existed
God already knew that they were or there were men that were ordained to this condemnation
ungodly men
Certain men crept in that's what the Bible describes
But even in his earthly ministry, which was geared towards the saved geared towards saving people geared towards redeeming people
Geared towards mercy and compassion. He wasn't coming to condemn and to judge as his primary goal or purpose
Anyway, his goal was to be a ransom for mankind
But even in his ministry, yes, he preached against people and he called people out specifically
Luke chapter 11. I want to look at the end of this passage. Look at verse 44. Whoa, and you scribes and Pharisees
Hypocrites fear as graves which appear not and the men that walk over them are not aware of them
He is so clear because you have to understand this is a
Broad group imagine if we were in a community event and I just say police officers
everybody know what I'm talking about all the people wearing the uniform would be the police officers if I said
Hey the mayor and all the city staff
everybody know who I'm talking about and
If in this context, it'd be like you'd say hey all you Catholics here
Or all you people that are from the Presbyterian Church or whatever group
Hey all the Jews or all the Baptists or all the whatever group you're naming. He's calling them out specifically
They know who they're talking about. He's not just preaching against one. He's preaching. It's all of them
Hey all of you Pharisees that are out here right here. Whoa unto you and
specifically you are like you are like a grave and
People don't understand it meaning that they're a damned
Reprobate they're twice dead and people don't even realize it. I
I
Feel unfortunately, like I probably debated one last night on salvation
It was a grave and people don't even know that it's a grave and there's so many people out there that are just walking graves
You know, it's all the LGBTQ
Dead men walking just walking around and talk about a dangerous person to be around is a grave
Yeah, a dangerous person is one that's already destined for hell and there's no escaping it
Some people will tell you that it's never too late for someone
This is proving the reprobate doctrine right here. This one verse Jesus is preaching the reprobate doctrine
He's saying for year as graves which appear not and the men that walk over them are not aware of them
He's saying there are reprobates here that people haven't identified
But Jesus knows that the reprobate
Verse number 45 then answered one of the lawyers and said in a master
Thus saying thou reproaches us also. Hey, how are you naming names?
Why are you calling people out? This sounds like you're mad at us too. This sounds like you're calling us out, too
What is Jesus response and he said to them? Well, would you also?
Did you say I'm sorry, I shouldn't preach against people. I'm sorry. I forgot
We shouldn't name names. No, then he just goes in. Well, and you also you lawyers only get specific all the way now again
Well lawyers of today are really not much different there is a slight difference here
The lawyers here is really the people that are practicing the law of God
Okay, but it's a similar profession because our lawyers are
Basically in for the profession of the laws of America
So really the distinction is just which laws they're attributing but they act in the same way
these individuals are responsible for interpreting the law defending the law and
They're probably being brought in for
Council for judgment for the different legal proceedings that exist in their society
And the lawyers are the ones that are supposed to tell you what the law really means and it's so fun
How we have to have lawyers today to tell us what the law really means like what free speech really means and what?
You know Congress is not supposed to pass any law regarding the free exercise of religion. What does that really mean?
We have to get some Jewish lawyer to come tell us what that means, right?
And what you know, we're not allowed to have any restrictions on the right to bear arms
We're gonna tell you what that really means
What that really means you can't have a bump stock. You really you really expect me to believe that
What that means is you can't have nine rounds and a handgun in California
No, we don't need a Jewish lawyer to interpret that it was really clear
I guarantee a five-year-old could probably understand the Constitution better than most of the lawyers in our government today and
The lawyers of this time also were the same way where they weren't interpreting the Bible correctly
They were totally screwed up. They were perverted just judges taking bribes
Misinterpreting the Word of God and what does he say unto them?
For you laid men with burdens grievous to be born and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers
This is like the individuals to say we need a stricter gun laws
we need to restrict people's access to firearms and
They're so dangerous
But they themselves have hired security and those hired security have all the guns that they want to restrict everybody else to have
Why because they want to put you in a burdenous situation of not being able to defend yourself
But they themselves would never be in that situation
They want to put you in a situation where you are gonna be stolen from and robbed and taken advantage of but they themselves don't
Actually have to experience that they want to be in Congress
Making their millions and printing more money and taking more bribes and
Yet they themselves don't aren't burdened with inflation. They'll burden all of us with inflation, but they don't want to experience that themselves
And so it's very similar to how our world and government even works today
Verse 47 well into you for you build the sepulchres of the prophets and your fathers killed them
I could go on and on and on point number one is this false prophets need to be named
And I could really do the whole sermon on that but for sake of time
I want to go somewhere else go if you would to 1st Corinthians chapter 5 now
Let's turn the sermon a little bit different here for a moment because not only should false prophets be be called out
I believe people in the church should be called out
Not just the unsaved but even the saved
okay, and
This is where it gets controversial for a lot of people because almost everybody in here at least in our church is
Probably on board they like the sermon
People outside of our church many of them will still get offended by calling out certain pastors and certain preachers and things like that
but I'm saying like in this room people will get very upset and
They'll get very nervous and frustrated by calling people out, but this is what the Bible has
Examples of all over in verse Corinthians chapter 5 it says in verse 1 it is reported commonly
That there is fornication among you and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles
that one should have his father's wife and
You're puffed up and have not rather mourned that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you
Now you think when this was being read
That guy knew that they were talking about him
Like you expect me to believe that this guy was just like I wonder who that is
Oh
This is just people in that situation
No, it's not just people in this situation
It's a specific situation that applies to one person because did you notice I said that he that had done this deed
hey, there's a guy that did this and
You know what verse 3 for I verily is absent in body
But president spirit have judged already as though I were present concerning him that has so done this deed
He's not saying like well hypothetically the guy that did this he's saying no, I've already judged the guy that did this
I'm not even there and I already know what you should do to this guy
Do you think that anybody knows who he's preaching about?
Do you think amongst the congregation people recognize that?
How about all the people that are invited to you know, their house to hang out or their friends or whatever?
You know, I guarantee somebody knows who this guy is
Otherwise
This next admonition wouldn't make sense in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ when you're gathered together in my spirit with the power of
Our Lord Jesus Christ to deliver such in one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh
How are you gonna pick someone up out of the congregation and deliver him to Satan if you don't even know who it is
He made it clear enough that every single person knew who we were talking about
In fact, he's saying this has come abroad like pretty much kind of everybody knows about this situation
Even the unsaved know about this because it's so gross and it's so weird and it's just bringing all this reproach to Christ
It's like oh you guys are Christians. So you're with your father's wife
Like that's weird. Like why would I want to be in that religion? It's making paganism sound good
It's so weird. It's so gross and he's saying how in the world have you guys not already judged this guy?
How have you guys not already thrown this guy out of the church?
So, you know what sometimes somebody needs to be called out
specifically
amongst the congregation and be
disassociated from the congregation
It even says, you know a group here and verse number 11
but I have now written unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a
Fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or extortioner with such in one know not to eat
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without do not you judge them that are within
With them that are without God judge it therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person
How is the congregation avoid this person and stop eating with them if they don't even know who it is?
church discipline is
Uncomfortable, but it's necessary. It's uncomfortable, but it's necessary
You know what our church will practice this our church has practiced this and there should be a little level of like
well, I can't just live ever I want because then the pastor might call me out and
That's good. That's healthy. It's accountability
Just like I mean you really think like at your workplace you can just act however you want. They might not fire you
You just come in not dressed appropriately showing up late
Doing things that are getting drunk on the job. I mean most jobs today if you're getting drunk on the job, they'll fire you
Are we gonna now say that that place of employment is a cult?
But that's what we will say. Oh, you know what American Airlines is a cult because they don't let their pilots get drunk and fly the plane
Is that really make American Airlines a cult because they don't let them do that
But then how much more that Church of God the house of God that we're not gonna let drunkards be a part of the congregation
Then we're not allowed fornication to be a part of our organization
You sound like a cult. Well, you know what every place has their standards and has their rules
Even if you go to Chick-fil-a
Okay, even Chick-fil-a has its standards and has its rules you have to go to Revelation chapter number two
Go to Revelation chapter number two, and I would say in this scenario
Paul is using the discretion to not necessarily name the name
So in some cases you don't necessarily have to name the name
But I'm gonna make the case that I believe in some cases you would have to name the name and it's even biblical
Look at Revelation chapter 2 verse 20
Notwithstanding of a few things against thee because thou suffers that woman Jezebel
Which called herself a prophetess to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication and eat things sacrifice and idols
Do you think that Jezebel thought this was about her?
Like I'm just being serious like
Not only is she called out think about this. This is a pistol that's supposed to be read in all seven churches
So this isn't even like I'm calling her out in front of her church. I'm calling her out in front of everyone
Some people would say like how dare you call someone out online or in an online sermon
But how is that any different than this epistle that's being read in front of everybody?
This is like a public statement. Here's Jezebel. She's
Committing this horrible sin. She's doing this bad thing. She needs to be called out
so, you know if a pastor called out a
Church member publicly
I'm not gonna say that's wrong necessarily
Because there's a literal precedent for that now. Does that mean that you do this for every scenario every situation?
Well, that's where the wise pastor has discretion and he uses this carefully
But at the end of the day, I'm not gonna stand against a pastor for calling someone out
Even by name and not even just to his congregation to the whole world
You know what? That's for him to decide what's appropriate
Look at 3rd John right there just flip to the left 3rd John look at verse 9. I
Wrote unto the church who is who is John writing unto one person or everybody?
I wrote unto the church but the atrophies who love it they have the preeminence among them receive it
It's not here's another person being called out in the church. You think the atrophies is like I wonder who that's about
Are you seeing a theme that I'm seeing in the Bible?
Where we're literally calling people out in some cases obviously it's false prophets in other cases
It's people in the church the atrophies in the church
Jezebel is in the church. We have the guy that's sleeping with his father's wife that guy's in the church
and so
There's different layers here of naming the name or being specific enough where everybody in the in the room can figure it out
To then maybe you even get to just broad topics or broad groups
If you do first timothy chap number five go to first timothy chap number five. I want to show you another example here
Point one is we should preach against false prophets point two is we should preach against people for church discipline
And you know, what's the point? Why are they calling you people because they want them to repent
Stop committing fornication
Stop preaching as a woman
Stop committing adultery Jezebel. Hey the atri's stop preying against them with malicious words
Stop rejecting people in the church
Right. He's wanting them to potentially repent. He's wanting them to stop doing whatever it is that they're doing
first timothy chap number five look at verse 17
Let the elders that rule well be kind of worthy of double honor
Especially they who labor in the word and doctrine for the scripture say thou should not muzzle the ox that treaded out the corn
And the laborer is worthy of his reward
Against an elder received not an accusation but before two or three witnesses now
I read that previous part because I don't want you to get confused. What elder is
What was the elder at all the previous verses?
The pastor the one that's laboring in the word and doctrine the guy that's preaching the Bible the guy that's compared to an ox
That's the guy if against an elder meaning the pastor the bishop you're not supposed to receive an accusation
But before two or three witnesses meaning if one person comes to you to accuse the pastor you don't receive it
You would only receive an accusation if you have multiple witnesses
Meaning okay. This person said the pastor, you know
Did something horrible the pastor did this really bad thing. Well, who else saw it? No one who else has heard of it
No one. Well, then you can't believe it. That's what it's saying that you're not receiving it
Just like what does it mean to receive Christ?
It means that you're believing in them you're trusting in him what it would mean to receive an accusation
It means you're believing and trusting that accusation you believe that accusations true and you're acknowledging it to be true
So what does it mean by before two or three witnesses? It's meaning?
Well, I've actually had two or three people testify. They saw this they experienced this. Here's all the proof in the evidence
Well now I can start believing and receiving that accusation and saying that seems legitimate
That must be something that we need to address them
But it's saying against a pastor don't do this. Why because individuals will lie about a pastor all the time
It's very common. And so you can't just even a false prophet. I don't take one witness seriously
I want to have multiple witnesses and multiple evidences before I'm going to receive an accusation against a bishop or a pastor
What if someone?
Makes a false accusation
What do we how do we handle that verse 20 then that sin?
Rebuke before all that others also may fear
So if you just hear some gossip about a pastor and start running with it or start lying about pastors and repeating false
Accusations, how does the Bible say to address it?
What does the Bible say to do it says to rebuke them before all that others also may fear?
Boy, wouldn't you be embarrassed if you started lying about a pastor and you came to church and you got called out personally about it
You know think about it doesn't that fit the crime doesn't God usually pay eye for eye and tooth for tooth
so if you're gonna publicly lie about someone and
Publicly expose them and publicly say all this damaging things about them that are lies
What do you get as a punishment? Oh, we're gonna publicly say what you did
We're gonna publicly call you out because it's the crime if the punishment is fitting the crime
Perfectly go over to 2nd Timothy chapter 4
now
You know, I'm not gonna do this today
I don't have any like juicy information like spoil for you this this this morning
but I'm preparing you that if that does happen in the future that I've already explained to you why it's gonna happen and
How it's gonna happen and that it will have don't think like oh well pastor won't do that to me. I'll do it to you
It doesn't matter who it is
You know, I don't it's like well I tied a lot. I don't care. I don't even pay attention to that
So it's not gonna work with me
So it doesn't even matter don't think like well, I've been here for a long time. It doesn't matter
You know and I'll call out anyone
So you should be afraid. Oh, I don't want to be afraid. You should be afraid of sinning
You should be afraid of lying. You should be afraid of doing wickedness. We're supposed to fear the Lord
Okay, and we're supposed to fear his judgment
2nd Timothy chapter 4 look at verse 9 again
Do thy diligence is to come shortly unto me for Demas hath forsaken me having loved this present world is departed on the Thessalonica
Crescions to Galatia Titus unto Dalmatia only Luke is with me take mark and bring him with thee for he's profitable to me for the
ministry
Here's the here's the third category. I kind of want to bring up is the idea of a public issue
Sometimes the pastor the preacher is gonna call people out or call things out that kind of become a public issue
Like Demas hath forsaken me
So, you know if there's somebody that's involved in the ministry if there's someone in on staff at the church if there's someone
that's an usher if there's someone that's a soul winning captain or a leader and they just
Randomly leave the church or just do something
well, there's a chance that they may to be called out because it's a public issue, you know, you put yourself in a position of
Leadership of authority you're allowing people to recognize that you're an important person
Well when you fail when you screw up when something happens, sometimes you have to just say hey
So-and-so is no longer the leader so and so's not here anymore
So and so's not gonna do this and you have to tell everybody and you have to let them know
No, sometimes that's good. Sometimes it's bad. Right? Sometimes it's through promotion that they're not here
Sometimes it's through sinning backsliding doing wickedly who knows but occasionally they might get
Called out like Demas Demas have forsaken me
That's kind of disappointing, isn't it?
That's not that wouldn't be fun for you to be Demas
There's probably a reason that you don't go around and meet a lot of Demas's
I've never met who's met a Demas anybody
Yeah, I mean, okay, there's a Demas all right, it's probably someone that's never heard of the Bible
Yeah, or his parents have never heard, you know, because it's like why would you want to be called Demas, right?
And again, sometimes there's people in the Bible that have a name where one guy did bad one guy's good
You kind of have a mixed bag of names and I'm not against it, but Judas isn't a mixed bag. All right
Go through it to Titus 2 or you're right here
You don't have to go anywhere Matthew 18 also brings us up where if there was a controversy between believers that you could have
them potentially escalate it to a point where be brought before the whole church or you have a controversy between
Someone you try to resolve it
It's unresolved you bring a couple witnesses if they won't hear them
Then you bring it before the church if they won't hear the church then they are actually excommunicated from the church
So that's another scenario where there could be a public issue with specific people that are being named and being called out
But this is what happens. I already proved you number one. We should call it false prophets already proved Church discipline
I already proved public issues
But then this is what people people get mad because they'll be like, I feel like you're preaching against me this morning and
You're just calling out sin and I'm thinking like you don't even know what it's like to be called out
Preaching what do you what do you mean and they'll act like you did something wrong?
Or they'll act like I can't believe that preacher was so specific. I can't believe that
I feel like that preacher was preaching about me
Well, don't get offended because if I'm really preaching about you everyone will know
Okay, but even if I did it's biblical
So then how much more should it be biblical that if the preaching feels like it's about you that it's still okay
Because there's plenty of times where it's literally about you and that's okay. So how much more when it's just
Generically about you or could be about you or people might think like this might be about me. Yeah, that's gonna happen
There is nothing wrong with that
I've heard a lot of preachers and a lot of people get mad and they say like preachers shouldn't be preaching sermons where
It's about somebody or against somebody or people can tell who it's about or whatever
And you know what? They can have their opinion, but they're wrong
Because I've already I've already demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt
calling people out by name and marking them specifically from a false prophet all the way to just Joe church member and
So no matter what is preached if you're being convicted of the Holy Spirit
You need to just accept that and you need to repent and change
That's the point the point of preaching of people and so they would change
Barring the false prophets obviously they need to just die and go to hell
But I'm just saying like the individuals that can repent they need to repent and if you feel like the sermons about you
Well, you know what repent, you know, Isaiah 58
But it says that we're supposed to lift of our voice like a trumpet and show Israel their transgression and your Israel
Okay, I like showing the physical Israel too, but it's really about y'all. All right
So I get up and I'll say this, you know divorce is wrong. You know, it's gonna feel the attacked people have been divorced
They'll be like, oh man must be preaching about me. Yes. I am preaching about you
Well, I've been divorced remarried are you talking about me pastor Shelley? Yes, I'm talking about you if you got divorced it was wrong. Oh
I think he's preaching about me. I am
Well, what about people that aren't divorced I'm preaching about you too
I'm saying you should not get divorced and if you're struggling your marriage never divorce
And if you kids are wanting to get married pick somebody that believes that you should never divorce
Divorce ruins families. It ruins people's lives. It destroys our country
It destroys our society. It promotes adultery. It's wicked as hell. And you know what? No one should ever get divorced
Hey, you like it when I preach against Joel Osteen, but not that one, huh?
Hey tattoos are wicked
You're preaching about my tattoo
Yes, I am
And it's it's it looks ugly. I'm that's my personal opinion. Okay, but biblically it's wrong
I've never seen a tattoo and said like that's cool
Now maybe I did just a flatter the person but I didn't mean it. All right
Cuz I don't mean it I've never liked tattoos they're ugly I'm not into it it's not cool
I'm not gonna be like well
You know, that's an exception no, no never get a tattoo kids it's not cool don't ruin your body
Don't like them don't entertain it. Don't think about it. Why is it that the tattoo parlors look like the worst place in the world
They're so gross I've never seen a tattoo bar like that looks like a nice establishment
They always have bars on the window
They look like you're about to get hurt
They look like a torture center and in many cases they are because getting a tattoo hurts really bad
Why would I want to torture myself to get something that's so ugly that I can never get rid of you know
There's no guarantee that the tattoo artist is even a good artist folks. I
Mean the people that are these tattoo artists, you know, you're trusting
Usually a reprobate to draw something on your body permanently. This is just the worst advice never get a tattoo
Don't do it
Hey, if I'm preaching about people that commit fornication and you did it that's you if you commit adultery. I'm preaching about you
Hey, if you did anything that I say I'm talking about you
You know and people get really upset and irritate. They like I feel like you're preaching about me and anything. Yes
Well, hey husbands. Love your wives. Well, I was you know a jerk the other day. I'm talking about you
You know when I get up and I say hey why should obey their husbands and why shouldn't mouth off their husbands
Yeah, I'm preaching to all the wives
Children you're supposed to obey your parents. I'm preaching about you kids you kids better obey your parents
He say why so you can live a long life
And if you haven't been a good kid this week repent and be a good kid this week
Be a good kid today be a good kid tomorrow pay attention in church. Do what your parents say
You know, if you're not a good employee be a good employee tomorrow
The preaching should motivate you to do something different
That's why we preach against things and what's so funny to me is this sometimes when I'm preaching I
Might think of scenarios that have happened amongst our church or amongst people that we know
But almost every time when someone comes up to me and actually asked me about it
I never thought about that or I didn't care about their scenario at all. And and here's here's the thing that
It
It's it's kind of it kind of feels awkward, but I just want to like make it clearer that this is not the case
I'll prepare a sermon about marriage or something and
someone will call me on Saturday night with a marriage issue and
I'm thinking like they're gonna think that tomorrow sermons all about them
and
You know what? It is it is all about them, but I
that sermon was ready to be preached about them before I even knew any of this stuff and
And what's what's frustrating is it's like this person's gonna think it was a personalized message for them
But it really isn't because I don't I don't like sit there and wonder like I don't know what to preach
Let's call a church member and see what they're dealing with so I can preach against them
You know, I don't really care enough to do something like that. And that's not my motivation for preaching sermons
Anyways, you know people have issues and you know, frankly speaking
Many people struggle in their marriage. Everyone struggles in the marriage
Everybody struggles with their kids. There's no temptation taking but such as common to man
It's just people sometimes they're just too narcissistic that they think like everything's about them when the reality is just the Bible's about you
Like it's manifesting what's really in our hearts and we're just we're wicked. We're sinful
We've caused problems and we need to be constantly reproved rebuked exhorted of all long-suffering doctrine
And we need to be told about the things that we're doing that's wrong Titus chapter 2 look at verse 2
That the aged men be sober
Grave temperate sound and faith and charity pace. He's calling up broad groups, too
You think this is you think the older men are wondering if the preachings about them? Hey older guys. This is about you
Hey husbands, this is about you. Hey men. This is about you. Yeah, we're
Talking about those groups and yes the sermons about you. You know, I love it when sermons are about me. I
Would be disappointed if I came in and the sermon has nothing to do with me now
I want to talk about Jewish people from the 5th century
Here's a sermon of what they should have done. I'm like, well, that's kind of disappointing, you know, I
Don't care about that individual, right?
I want to hear about something that applies to me as an American in
2024 that lives in Texas. I want to know stuff about being a husband. I want to know stuff about being a man
I want to know stuff about being an employee. I want to know stuff about being a business owner
I want to know stuff about being a Christian. I want to know stuff about being a soul winner
I want to know about things that pertain to me in my life
I would be offended if I came to church and I felt like the preaching was never about me and
You know what?
I even want the preaching to be about my sins because I want to be called out on those and make sure that I have
Some accountability with the Word of God in my life
I don't want to walk into church and think like I'm so glad he never talks about anything that has to do with me
I'm so glad he never makes me feel uncomfortable
No, I'd rather go to church and be addressing the thing
I'm struggling with the most not just another pat on the back way to go
In fact when I would go to preaching class
What I would want is the instructor to tell me all the things I did bad in my preaching
Not to just say good job attaboy go down go sit down again
So when I come to church, I don't want to actually hear an attaboy. I want to hear what I'm doing wrong
I want to hear as a Christian how I can become a better Christian
That should be the attitude and we should have a different attitude of saying I hope he preaches against me
Not how dare he preach against me
But you know what some people they just have the wrong attitude towards the things of God
Look at verse 3 the aged women likewise that they be in behavior has become with holiness not false accusers
Not given the much wine
Teachers of good things that they may teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands and love their children to be discreet
Chase keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the Word of God be not blaspheme
Notice women need twice as much instruction as the men
It it's it's the reality that you know, hey sometimes we have to deal with things that are more prevalent and
Let's think of some scenarios where the the preaching applies more to women than men. How about how we dress?
People like oh, it seems like you just really harp on how women dress
But you're not really hammering on how men dress what affects them more
It's more relevant for them
Did you even notice in this passage that he's giving twice the airtime to women than he is to men?
Sometimes the preaching is gonna focus on certain people certain issues
well
It just seems like he's really harping on wise obeying their husbands and not the other way around well men don't obey their wives
So I don't need to harp on that
You know things that men don't have an issue in I don't need to talk about
Things that women aren't struggling with I don't really need to address with them, you know
We both have our different temptations. We both have our different issues. I don't really harp on women being leaders much
They don't need that that much, you know who needs that men
I don't really harp on men submitting as much as I do women because women need more
instruction on submitting and obeying and being meek and being quiet and being dressed appropriate and being modest
You know what? Oh, I just I don't like how he focuses on the well, maybe just don't like the Bible
What does it say in verse six young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded
So no, he's covering everybody men women young women young men. He's covering all the bases
Say like well, he's not talking about children as much. Well children don't even pay attention that much
Have you ever noticed that?
They're just kind of getting used to the pattern
you know what, I'm not gonna put them in a
Non-denominational fun center with all the kids programs because you know what they do with that church
they eat snacks drink Kool-Aid and just like yeah, yeah, and then that's the church that they grew up and go to isn't it?
You kind of wonder like why are all these southern Baptist churches just turning out people going to the non-denominational church
It's because their kid program is like a non-denominational church
You go to the southern Baptist Church and while it may be a little conservative, it may be a little traditional
They're losing their entire youth to the non-denominational fun center because that's exactly what their kids program looks like
You know what our kids love to do. They love to sing hymns
You know what our kids like to do hear the Bible being preached and you know what?
I guarantee that my 18 year old is not gonna think that the non-denominational cool church is cool
He's like what weird freak show are they doing here?
You know what if you teach them that from five six seven eight nine ten all the way to their youth
Then they'll either quit church or go to a you know, a gay church, okay?
Basically in a feminine Church. I'm not meaning happy queer is what I mean
Because you know you go into the go into these non-denominational churches, it's not all these
rough
Tough men. It's not a bunch of strong dudes that are manly
It's not a bunch of guys that are wanting to wear a gun on their hip
How many guys are being rejected the nomination of church because they want to open carry
They probably think that guns are yucky, you know
It's like that's the kind of guy that's being attracted to these kind of churches
Why because they were raised that way and they were probably taught by a woman. I
Mean they went to the Sunday school and it was taught by a woman they go to school is taught by a woman there
They're basically just taught by a woman their whole life. They didn't see an example of a real man
And so you know what we need a church where children are constantly taught by a man
Who's rough around the edges who uses choice language every once in a while? All right?
Look at first Timothy chapter 6. I'll go to one more verse here
You know hey first John 2 he's talking about the little children. He's talking about the men
He's talking about the young men the Bible's constantly addressing groups of people. So if you bring up divorced, hey, you're divorced
You're in that group. You're young you're old you're married. You're not you're single you're
Whatever, you're white. You're black. You're green. You're Hispanic. I don't care
You know, it doesn't matter these things if you fall in one of these categories just get over it and brace the teaching
Stop being so sensitive and start embracing the Word of God first Timothy chapter 6 look at verse 17
Charge them that are rich in this world
That's the rich people
Now, you know for most of you you don't have to worry about you're just like ears off
Okay, you know what if you're rich sometimes you need to be called out to
Right charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high-minded
Don't think that you're better than everybody else in this room. Just because you're rich
That's what he says. He says nor trust and uncertain riches. Don't think that you're secure because you're rich either
But in the living God who giveth us richly all things to enjoy
What are the rich people supposed to do? They're supposed to do good that they be rich and good works
Ready to distribute willing to communicate
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life
He's just saying like whatever whatever you have that you can benefit society. You're supposed to use for the Church of God
Hey, if you're a good preacher, you better preach if you're a good soul winner
You better go out there and be a soul winner. If you're someone that can minister you better minister
Hey
If you're rich you should be willing to distribute and to communicate meaning you should be willing to use that money for the things of God
It's what he's saying. Hey, you know what if you're not rich, you don't have to worry about that one
Hey, if you're not divorced, you don't have to worry about that one necessarily, right? Hey, if you're not married
You don't have to worry about it. You don't have to yell. Amen in every single marriage sermon, okay?
Because maybe it doesn't really apply to you right now again, if you think the Word of God's true and you want to yell
Amen, I'm not against that
Hey, if you're divorced and someone that's not divorced screams
Amen at not getting divorced don't get offended because they like the Word of God
You know what?
We should all embrace the Word of God and stop being so narcissistic and thinking about ourselves and say you know, what?
What can I do differently? I need to repent and you should come to church hoping. Hey, I hope the sermons about me. I
Hope the sermon is gonna have something that I can do better and not just pick on all the people that I don't like
And
Picking all the sins that I don't like because you know what people think that hard preaching is me getting up and preaching against people
that we all hate
like Democrats or something or the LGBTQ or government or
Biden and you know, I preach sermons like that. Everyone's well damn Joe Biden. That was a sermon
I preached you know what that wasn't really hard preaching, you know, it's hard preaching when I start calling you guys out
And our sins out and our problems out and you know what people don't like hard preaching by and large
But we should learn to like it we should learn to we should learn to appreciate it, you know, I don't like working out
but I still do it and
It's not even fun in the moment many times it can hurt especially leg day. I hate like who hates leg day
All right. Yeah, I see that hand. God bless it here leg day can be rough, you know, but you know what it's beneficial
And you do it because it's it's the right thing to do and I'm not against leg day
It's just sometimes a little rough but we need and you know, sometimes Church needs to be leg day
And sometimes it needs to be you know, the cardio. Oh, man
Cardio can be rough
And then sometimes it's arm day. I love arm day. Okay, that one was easy, but all the other ones they're rough
Okay, so sometimes Church is gonna be fun
Sometimes it's not but but you know, if someone's offended about the preaching help remind them that that should be a good thing
Don't be offended don't be since let's go some prayer
Thank You Heavenly Father so much for giving us the Word of God and making all the preaching so applicable to us and
Giving us the Holy Spirit inside of us to convict us of sin and to approve us
I pray that when someone feels conviction or it feels the
Uncomfortable nature of our sin that we wouldn't blame the preacher or the message or the Word of God or Jesus that we would actually
Just look inwardly and look at how we can fix it
We would feel the need to repent as opposed to
Getting mad at the message or the messenger and I pray that you would just help
This church to love hard preaching for the right reasons and that the things that we need to fix that we would fix in Jesus
Name we pray. Amen
All right in closing let's go to song number 402
Song number 402 our best
Let's give God our best and sing it out together on the first song 402
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Great singing everybody you were all dismissed
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