Good morning everybody and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
We can go ahead and find our seats. We will get started.
Once you find a seat, grab a hymnal and we will go to song number 128.
It's going to be a newer song for a lot of us.
Song number 128 each step I take just leads me closer home song number 128
Let's sing it together on the first each step
I'll see you.
Thank you.
Lord, we love you, and we just thank you so much for this church.
Thank you for everybody gathered here.
Thank you for your word, and thank you for these awesome songs we get to sing to you this morning, Lord.
We just ask that you help us lift up our voice and fill this room with your spirit.
And it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
All right, for our next song, let's go to song number 177.
Love Shines In, song number 177.
to come into St. Baptist Baptist Church
if you did not already get a bulletin
and you would like a bulletin,
you can lift up your hand real quick.
One of our ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin.
On the front, we have our Bible memory passage,
Matthew 28, and we're working on verse 11.
It is February and so we had a New Testament challenge
to try and read the entire New Testament
in the month of January.
Who ended up doing that?
All right, lots of people.
We have a prize for you, okay?
So if you did complete it, you can come on down,
you can pick one of the gift cards from this box, all right?
And of course, the real prize is, of course, reading the Bible.
On the inside, we have our service times and our soul winning times.
We actually have a separate handout in the Bullets.
I'm going to go ahead and read a little bit of this, but this is just a missionary update from our evangelists in the Philippines.
Evangelist Duncan Urbanik, and he ends up giving us a monthly newsletter that you can read the entire thing.
I'm not going to read all of it, but in just the month of January,
He ended up having 537 salvations.
And so he really, he beat us this month, okay?
And so we need to see if we can have a month
where we beat him.
I don't know if that's possible,
but maybe when we go to the Bahamas, right?
But we had 368 salvations for the month of January for us.
And that's honestly one of the best months
that we've ever had as a church just locally here.
and so we're really on pace to do have a great year for 2025 and we want to keep doing that but
brother Evanec, Evanec has his totals there, he actually
I've been needing to make a video, but he sent me just scores and scores of pictures with a lot of the groups and the people he's talked to
and a lot of the work that they've been doing over there, and so I'm excited to try and put together like a little video with
some of the pictures and the people they've talked to.
Evangelist Urbanic also has, Brother James has been out there soul-winning with him too,
and Brother James has recently had kind of a disciple who started going soul-winning with him,
and he's really gotten plugged in.
And one of the people that he got saved is now also a soul-wonner and is getting people saved as well.
And so he gave me that praise report that one of his converts and one of his disciples is going out there with them
and they're going out soul-winning as well.
And so a lot of excitement, a lot of zeal.
I know the plant brothers are good at church, they recently have gone out to the Philippines
for about a month and a half and they're going to be doing a lot of soul winning out there
and so just continue to pray for those that are going over there, out there.
Evangelist Urbanik also says in his newsletter around 4,000 students got to hear the gospel
so they were able to team up with Verde Baptist Church which is pastored by Pastor Matthew
Stuckey.
and he ended up getting an opportunity to go into a lot of schools
and they preached to thousands and thousands of students and so
you can read all about that if you would like but
he also has on the back a couple notes about prayer requests just continue to
pray for wisdom and guidance for a new church plant
for soul-winning, laboring, also just for health for their family and health for
his wife's family.
He's gonna be visiting here in March, so and he's gonna be preaching on a Wednesday night when I
I'm not gonna be here because I'm gonna be going on a mission strip, but
He's gonna be here. I'm gonna make sure I get the date accurate again. I believe it's March 12th
So March 12th if angels are bannock is gonna be preaching for us here in person
So I just highly encourage you even if you don't normally come on Wednesday nights
It would just be really special if if you could still come that one Wednesday and really encourage him
I won't be here. So you have every reason to come and so, you know, you can show up and see
Evangus or Bannock and support him and talk to him and encourage him
You know, he's going to be coming all the way from the Philippines
The least you can do is come, you know, an hour or whatever it is
It takes you to to get out here and I know Wednesday nights traffic's a little rough, but it would just be really
It would be really special if he could have a big crowd and have a lot of people that
he gets to see.
And so I'd really encourage you to come March 12th for that Wednesday night service.
And really, you could just come every Wednesday night and then you don't have to worry about
it.
There was not very many eight men's there.
I'll just tell you what, that was sad and pathetic, okay?
You know, Wednesday night's a great service, amen?
Yeah, that's right.
Okay, there you go.
All right.
We have the list of expecting ladies as well continue to pray for them some other upcoming events our
Ray nosa trip is coming up February 6th through the 8th. We have
evangelists
Our evangelist here, locally Brother Fur, is going to be going on a cruise mission trip with a couple people from our church as well in February.
And then I'm going to be traveling and visiting and preaching in February. Also, we have a kid's choir that's going to be coming up.
We also have the spring recital, March 22nd. We'll try to get a sign-up sheet for that going pretty soon.
Who's interested in doing our spring recital, just so I have some kind of idea. Yeah.
We've always had a really good turnout for our spring recitals and the kids have done a really,
really good job. And so I'm really looking forward to that as well.
There's some church reminders down below on the back
as a list of our prayer lists.
So if you have any additional prayer requests
or you need us to update us on any of our prayer list items,
please make sure to do so.
That's pretty much all I have as far as announcements.
We'll go ahead and sing our Psalm of the week,
which is gonna be Psalm 149, Psalm 149.
All right, that was Psalm chapter 149.
In your laminated handouts, or the black binder.
Psalm 149.
Let's all sing it together real loud on the first.
Praisy the Lord, sing unto the Lord a new song.
And his praises, the congregation,
Let the children of Zion be joyful in their king.
Let them praise His pain in the day.
Let them sing praises unto Him with the devil at heart.
Let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud upon their beds, let the high praises of God be in their mouth and unto it.
in their hand to execute vengeance upon the heathens and punishments upon the people.
to execute upon them the judgment printed.
This honor have old him praise he the Lord.
Thanks for seeing everybody now.
As often plates are being passed around,
go ahead and turn in your Bibles, the Luke chapter number 15.
That's the book of Luke chapter number 15.
Luke chapter 15 the Bible says then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners
for to hear him and the Pharisees and scribes murmured saying this man received its sinners
and eateth with them and he spake this parable unto them saying what man of you having a hundred
sheep if he lose one of them doth not leave the 99 in the wilderness and go after that which is lost
And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders rejoicing.
And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbors,
saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.
I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,
more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance.
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle
and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it.
And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying,
Rejoice with me, for I have found the peace which I had lost.
Likewise I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner
that repenteth.
He said a certain man had two sons and the younger of them said to his father,
Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
He divided unto them his living.
Not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took a journey into a far country.
There wasted his substance with riotous living.
When he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land, and he began to be in want.
He went and joined himself to a citizen of that country and he sent him into his fields to feed swine
And he would feign have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat and no man gave unto him and
When he came to himself
He said how many hired servants of my father have bred enough and to spare and I perish with hunger
I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him father. I have sinned against heaven and before thee
and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Make me as one of thy hired servants."
And he arose and came to his father,
but when he was yet a great way off,
his father saw him and had compassion and ran
and fell on his neck and kissed him.
And the son said unto him,
Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight,
and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
But the father said to his servants bring forth the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on
His feet and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it and let us eat and be merry for this
My son was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found and they began to be merry
Now the elder son was in the field and as he came and drew nigh to the house
He heard music and dancing and he called one of the servants and asked what these things meet meant and he said unto them
Thy brother has come, and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
And he was angry and would not go in, therefore came his father out and entreated him, and he answering said to his father,
Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment.
And yet thou never gave us to me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.
But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, that
was killed for him the fatted calf.
And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me.
And all that I have is thine.
It was meat that we should make merry and be glad.
For this thy brother was dead and is alive again
and was lost and is found.
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, I wanna thank you for the Bible.
I would thank you for this chapter.
I thank you for a steadfast Baptist church
and the great works that you're doing here.
I pray that you had blessed Pastor Shelley now,
helping to preach this message
with the fullness of the spirit.
Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
Here in Luke chapter 15 we have what's kind of referred to
or known as the prodigal son or the parable of the prodigal son.
And I'm not going to reread this section of scripture here,
but I just want to kind of go through just a few aspects
of this particular story and kind of notice how this father
responds in this story.
And really, I want to talk about the idea of shunning the wayward,
shunning the wayward.
And I'm kind of using this story to talk about essentially,
how do you deal with people that are wayward?
What would be the appropriate action?
What's the right way to handle people?
And shunning is kind of a negative thing in our society.
A lot of people really look down upon this.
There's other ways to word it.
being excommunicated, being cut off.
There's a lot of different ways people may describe this particular phenomenon,
but shunning is something that is kind of looked at as being a negative thing
or something that's not right, but I want to show you what the Bible says on this subject.
And when we think about this story, of course, there's always a spiritual significance.
We talk about the prodigal son parable.
There's always a spiritual picture here that Jesus is trying to illustrate.
But he uses carnal truths to expound on spiritual truths.
The spiritual truth in this particular story, I believe, is understood as the younger son
picturing kind of representing the Gentiles.
And you have the older son representing the Jews specifically.
And if you think about them from just a...
a period of history, just basically the big timeline of history,
the Gentiles just went off and just lived a party life,
lived of the world, not really serving God,
just wasting all the things that God has blessed mankind with.
Whereas the Jews were the ones that were at least trying to serve the Lord,
they had the tabernacle, they had the covenants, they had all the different things.
And he's basically foreshadowing how the Gentiles are going to end up coming back.
to the things of God and actually getting right with God
and how Jesus and God are going to be happy with them
and how they're going to rejoice
and how there's going to be restoration to their brother.
And then you kind of see the envy and the jealousy
of the older brother thinking like,
why are we treating him better when he's been bad for so long?
But that's just kind of the wrong attitude.
If someone ends up getting saved,
We shouldn't be mad that they get saved or they start becoming Christian
just because you lived a Christian life and they didn't.
You know, that doesn't make us necessarily better than them,
but at the same time, it's not like there wasn't a benefit to it.
And the older son doesn't really get this.
Notice what he says in verse number 31.
And he said in him,
Son, thou art ever with me and all that I have is thine.
Think about it this way, if you lived in the Old Testament and you were a Gentile and you end up getting saved
Well, you'd have to forsake your land house
Everything and come and move and be a part of the nation of Israel and you basically be a stranger and you're starting over
Whereas if you get saved in the land of Israel
You're already there, you've already arrived, you already have everything, everything's still already yours,
and so there's a great benefit and blessing to have already been part of the nation of Israel
and already having everything and already been serving God.
Just like growing up in a Christian home, yet you're going to be better off and better suited
to live the Christian life because you're raised in a Christian home.
And you wouldn't be like, oh, well, look at this guy.
He got to go out and party, and he went to college,
and he was with Harlots, and he did all this stuff
that's sinful and wicked, and now he's in church,
whereas I've never done that.
I've just served God humbly.
I've always done what's right, and I'm serving God,
and the pastor likes us both.
And it's like, well, of course, God likes them both.
Like, we shouldn't get mad that someone ends up
getting saved or getting right with God.
And of course the Jews were mad that the Gentiles
are gonna kind of get on with the system
of the Lord Jesus Christ and with God
and actually start serving the Lord
because they wanna kind of keep it exclusive.
They wanna keep it kind of a cult,
kind of keep it a club, a members only society,
like no, you aren't with us,
so therefore you can't be with us.
But it was supposed to provoke them into jealousy
to actually get saved,
as what the Bible teaches in another place.
But that's just kind of the spiritual picture.
I don't really want to dwell on that point.
We could sit here and go through every single verse
and talk about that.
I really want to also talk about
the carnal aspect of this, okay?
And when we think about the carnal aspect of this,
we notice that when the younger son asks for the inheritance
and asks for his, essentially the money
that he's going to inherit from his father,
his father gives it to him, and then he just leaves.
Now, when he leaves, we don't notice
that the father chases after him.
The father doesn't chase after him.
The father's not checking in and giving him more money.
The father is really just not a part of his life,
if you really kind of are looking at what the parable is saying.
And I believe that this is essentially how we should act and respond as Christians
that if we were to have an adult child or an older child
that ends up walking away from church,
walking away from Christianity,
being backslidden, going out and living of the world that you're not going to necessarily chase
after them. That you're just going to keep serving God, keep doing what's right, and if they're going
to go and make bad decisions, well, that's their fault. That's going to be their consequences of
what they're going to have to receive. And of course, do you think a father wants his son to get to
eating animals' food.
I mean, this might still be better than what they serve in India,
but I'm just saying like this, I'm just, that was a joke, okay, sorry.
You're going to be offended very easily today, but essentially,
he's going and eating just garbage food,
not even, not even like necessarily suitable for humans here.
Did you notice what he said in verse number 16?
And he would faint and filled his belly with the husks
that the swine did eat and no man gave unto him.
So
What parent would ever want this to happen?
No parent would ever want this happen and this is what will happen though children will go out and make horrible decisions
children will be completely wayward and
Unrepentant about it, but then they'll call mom and dad and they'll say hey, can you cash out me 200 bucks?
Can you can you help me with a little bit of money or can you help me with these things?
And really it's just to buy more drugs is to go to the next harlot
It's to get drunk again, and of course they'll say no, I won't use that money on the harlot
But what they'll do is they'll use that money to get some food, but then they'll use their paycheck back on the harlots
So really by giving them the money you're still allowing them and enabling them to go out and live a sinful and wicked life
And we don't see the father.
Hey, the father gave him money.
It's obviously there's nothing wrong with the father
giving this child money.
He chose to make bad decisions with it.
But now that he's made bad decisions with it,
you know, I think it would be inappropriate as a parent
to just continue to encourage your children's sinful behavior
and to continue to fund
their rumspringa, or fund their party life,
or fund their rebellion against God,
sometimes you have to allow people to hit rock bottom.
Because did you notice what it says in verse 17,
and when he came to himself, when did he come to himself?
When he hit rock bottom, when he started thinking like,
wow, I'm going to eat the food that pigs eat.
Wow, I'm so, I'm starving.
You know, what did God, we would do this to the homeless today,
is we would allow them to come to themselves.
instead of just continuing to feed their alcohol addiction,
continue to feed their rebellious addiction,
or being like the California government
and literally giving them needles.
Literally funding their drug addiction,
literally funding their disgusting habits
and bad attitudes and their rebellious nature.
You know, that is not the right attitude.
The right attitude is to say,
hey, if you're going to be an idiot,
well, then I'm going to allow you to do that.
I'm not going to help you though, I'm not going to enable you.
I'm not going to fund it and yet we have this thing in society
where it's like on TV, it's in movies, it's in culture,
it's even in a lot of churches where they act like
I will never cut off my son.
No matter what.
And they act like this is somehow like the most loving thing you could possibly do.
They just say, I would never turn away from my son or my daughter.
I would never cut them out of my life.
I will never give up on them.
And you know, that sounds cool on the surface.
It sounds like, wow, you're so amazing.
You're so awesome.
But you know what it really is?
It's just you don't have any standards.
It's just you lack any moral character and any standards and so you're willing to just
hurt your children by condescending down to wherever they're into the gutter, going down
to wherever they are and you're enabling sin, you're enabling rebellion.
That is not the right attitude.
In some cases you have to just sometimes shun the wayward.
Now when the sun returns, we notice a few different things about when the sun's returning.
that immediately the father is there to receive him.
It says in verse 20,
and he rose and came to his father,
but when he was yet a great way off,
his father saw him and had compassion rent.
Notice for the father to see the son from a great far way,
and then like come and running to him,
it means he was anticipating his return to some degree.
And I think what you could look at this as,
is it's a parent that's,
hoping for, looking for, and wanting their child to return.
It's not that they're shunning their child thinking like,
wow, I just want to be done with you.
It's not saying I don't want to have a relationship with you.
It's just where you're at, I can't be with you.
You need to change your location.
But as soon as you change your location,
as soon as you just start walking in the right direction,
I'll meet you halfway.
So I'm not saying, hey, if your child is down on their luck
or having a bad problem,
that you wouldn't necessarily help them,
but they need to start walking in the right direction.
When they start walking in the right direction,
you say, hey, I'm willing to come halfway
and bring you all the way into the fold.
But at the end of the day,
you need to start walking at least in the right direction.
You need to walk towards home.
You need to come back here.
And so there's nothing wrong with wanting to restore,
eager to restore,
willing to restore,
they're a repentant, but at the end of the day, you're not going to chase after them while they're
still walking in the wrong direction, while they're still in the pigsty, while they're still in the
harlot house, while they're still on drugs, while they're still drinking, while they're still just
living a sinful and wicked life, while they're still backslidden, you're just like, hey, I'm not
over there, I'm over here. And if you want to come over here, yeah, I'll help you get over here,
but you know what, I'm not going to hang out with you over there.
Now also you have to understand what the son's attitude was the son was coming home
But he wasn't coming home and saying like hey, can I get another thousand bucks to go back?
Because then it'd been like no
bye
What is what is the attitude of the child when he shows up?
He says in verse 21 of the Sun said unto him father
I've sinned against heaven in an eyesight and I'm no more worthy to be called by son
That's what you call as repentance.
That's true humility is saying,
hey, I've sinned, I'm wrong, I've shamed you,
I've embarrassed you, I'm not even really worthy
of being your son.
And you just see the humility of the son
recognizing his fault, recognizing his sin,
and wanting to make a change.
Because he was coming to the father saying,
I'm willing to just serve so you just feed me.
He's just looking for a job.
You know, he's not looking for a handout.
Did you notice that first he's looking for handouts,
now he's looking for a job.
And when he was looking for handouts,
well, he's just out on his own.
When he's looking for a job,
well, now his father wants to restore him
and his father wants to help him and encourage him.
So, you know, here's some tips on how to be restored
in a situation, admit you're wrong and look for a job.
Look for work.
Don't actually look for a handout.
You know, it surprises me, all these homeless people today,
you know what, they never admit that they did anything wrong in their life.
It's everybody else's fault.
If you've ever been approached by a homeless person,
if you've ever been approached by these people,
it's anyone and everyone else's fault.
Well so and so cut me off so and so hurt me so this tire exploded for no reason
I got a good tire someone lied to me someone ripped me off someone did it's not like they are a jerk
It's not like they lied. It's not like they took advantage of people. It's not like they said hey
I took drugs when I shouldn't have it's not like hey
I got drunk and got fired on the job because I screwed up or I broke something it's not like hey
I got arrested for stealing it's just like it's everyone else's fault
And then on top of that, the homeless person's never coming up to you saying,
hey, I've really screwed up my life.
I'm not a very good person, but I'm really looking for some work that I could do
to earn a little bit of money so that I could have some food.
Because, you know, if they said that to me, I might try to figure out a way to help them.
You know, they don't want that. They want to continue being a drunk, lazy loser.
And you know what?
We should not help drunk, lazy, losers,
and sinful and rebellious people,
even if it was your own child.
You know what?
I'll restore my child.
When they're willing to admit I sinned,
I did wrong, and I'm looking for a job.
I'm looking for some work to do.
Then it's like, all right, let's restore you.
Let's figure out how to fix this issue.
Go to Second Timothy chapter number two.
Shunning the wayward, I believe that is the biblical ideal
when it comes to a negative situation like this.
And of course, this is gonna happen.
There's gonna be people that in your life
need to be shunned and there's other ways to word this,
being ostracized, being avoided,
separating from someone.
According to Wikipedia, shunning is this,
this is how it's defined in Wikipedia.
Shunning can be the act of social rejection.
or emotional distance.
In a religious context,
Shunning is a formal decision by a denomination
or a congregation to seize interaction
with an individual or a group
and follows a particular set of rules it differs from
but may be associated with quote, excommunication.
So excommunication is more in the vein of like this person is a heretic, this person
is preaching damnable heresy, this person is causing some offense contrary to the doctrines
that we have learned and so we are publicly marking them and excommunicating them from
our church.
Shunning could just be a little bit less extreme, it's more like hey this person is just kind
in a toxic person, they're backslidden,
they're causing issues or whatever,
and so I'm just gonna avoid that person.
I'm gonna have to stay away from that person.
I'm gonna have to keep some distance from that person,
and I'm not gonna go and hang out with them
or be around them, and so it's kind of like
an aspect of a social rejection,
not so much just like this person's
a little dangerous heretic.
I can't, I don't have any relationship with you at all.
Now second to me chapter number two says in verse 16 it says but shun
profane and vain babblings for they will increase into more ungodliness.
Notice that the Bible is giving you an idea of shunning. The shunning here is
profane and vain babbling. People that are just going to say dumb things, meaningless things,
false things, lies, you want to stay away from them because notice it increases
ungodliness or it has more ungodliness to it.
When you're just around people that are saying things that are not positive, that are not Christian,
that are not godly, it's gonna draw you down with them
and it's gonna hurt you and harm you.
And so we should shun those kind of people in our lives.
Go through it to 2 Corinthians chapter number six.
The Bible says, be not deceived,
evil communications corrupt good manners.
So here's a question.
What if your child was profane
and uttering vain babblings?
What did the Bible say?
To shun that person.
to say, hey, I'm not gonna be around you.
I'm not gonna allow you to fill my head
with toxic ideas, toxic nonsense.
I don't wanna hear your liberal communism.
I mean, if my child became a liberal leftist communist,
yeah, I don't wanna have conversations with them.
If they were a flat earther,
I'm not gonna let them drive me around.
No, it's not possible. Okay, they think that these people are dumb. All right, they get it
In fact, if they became, you know, too toxic to some degree, then yeah, I might have to even say, hey
I can't I don't really want to be around you. I don't want to hear these ideas
I'm not interested in talking about this kind of stuff because you know, it's important that we ourselves are not infected with
nonsense, with vain babblings, with profane things.
I mean, if someone's gonna just talk negatively
about the King James Bible,
talk negatively about Christianity,
talk negatively about the Lord Jesus Christ,
talk negatively about sound doctrine,
you know, that's gonna affect you.
And so you wanna stay away from that individual.
What does the Bible say?
Be not deceived, evil communications corrupt good manners.
Oh, I can handle it.
No one can handle it.
We're all susceptible.
I mean, even the disciples themselves,
hey, when they have devil influencing them,
Peter starts saying false doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And he's like, you know not what spirit you're of
when they want to burn all this, the Samaritans.
And Peter, it's like, get the behind me Satan.
He's influenced by Satan.
And we see...
Demis at forsaken me and we see Peter is caught up in the
Judaizing in the book of Galatians. We see the entire church of Galatia who has
bewitched you. I mean it's just a constant theme in the Bible of people
being tricked, deceived, beguiled, taken advantage of. I mean you have Joshua in
that great generation. They get beguiled by the inhabitants of Gideon. I mean you
just have constant people just getting tricked and deceived. You have Jacob
be tricked. So you're just better than literally everyone. You're just, you're just smarter than
every single person in the Bible, right? You can't be beguiled, but almost everybody in the
Bible is being guiled. I mean, the Apostle Peter is, is beguiled. The entire church of Galatia
is beguiled. I mean, people are constantly being tricked, led astray, caught in false doctrine.
Of the seven churches in Asia, many of them are being led astray by false doctrine.
I mean, many of them are being taken advantage of and deceived.
So, you know, don't sit here and think like I can handle it.
That's a foolish attitude.
Hey, I can sit here and watch videos
just attacking everything I believe and everything about me,
and it won't affect me.
No, it always will affect you.
That's why you should stay away from that kind of stuff
and you should treat it very carefully.
2 Corinthians chapter 6 says this in verse 14,
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness,
and what communion hath light with darkness,
and what concordeth Christ with beelial?
Or what part hath he that believeth other than infidel?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
For ye are the temple of the living God,
as God hath said, I will dwell in them and walk in them,
and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them,
and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
and touch not the unclean thing,
and I will receive you, and I will be a father unto you,
and ye shall be my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord almighty.
Look, obviously it would be great if every single person was just raised an independent fundamental Baptist
and your whole family is just a King James only soul-winning fundamental Baptist.
But the reality is most people are not in that situation
and that many people get saved out of a Catholic household
and their household is still worshiping Mary.
Their household still has idolatry and paganism in their building.
There's this restaurant called Buka de Bipo, who knows what I'm talking about.
They have literal Catholic idolatry in the restaurant everywhere.
You go just all kinds of different places in America today,
you're going to find Mary Shrines and all this kind of idolatry.
We typically think of idolatry as not existing in America.
It's called Catholicism!
And yeah, the Bible is saying you shouldn't be hanging out with people that are idolaters that are worshiping statues
Oh, yeah, my sister's gonna get married in this Catholic church where there's a bunch of pagan idolatry
Yeah, well, I'm sorry. I'm gonna separate myself from that
Sorry, I don't wanna be a part of your demonic ceremony here,
where you're gonna worship idols,
where you're gonna have a Mary statue coming down the aisle
and everybody's gonna do these seances and they have smoke.
I saw somebody post this thing online.
It's like all these guys in a,
basically look like the black KKK.
I don't know, it's like, not black people,
but like the garment was black.
Like, you know, it's usually the white hood,
but it was like a black hood that looked like the black KKK.
And then they have these big boxes that are smoking,
like there's all this smoke coming out.
And then they have this giant like 10 by 10 structure
with a Mary on top of it.
And they're just walking down chanting,
just like,
na, na, na, na, na, na.
And then the business of the post says,
if every church was doing this,
all the pros would become Catholic.
And I was like, no, this looks demonic.
Are you kidding me?
Like why in the world will I be enticed
to go join this weird satanic ritual?
This pagan idolatry.
And look, if my child decided,
hey, dad, I'm gonna become Catholic
and I'm gonna go worship Mary
and I'm gonna bow down to idols.
Will you come do that with me?
I'm gonna say no.
You know in the Old Testament if you had a family member try to draw you away after other gods and to worship idols
The Bible says your your hand we first upon them to put them to death. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Oh
But you're gonna shun them, you know, it's so funny how people get offended by the idea of shunning when the Bible says put them to death
I'm thinking like you can't even handle what the Bible really says on this subject
But yeah, shunning is not the worst thing that can happen to you
Okay, and what's the point of being shunned? What's the point of saying no?
What's the point of separating yourself? Well number one, it's because you're supposed to be pleasing unto God
But number two, it's to give them a wake-up call and say hey, buddy. You're wrong
Hey, buddy. What you're doing is weird. Hey, what you're doing is satanic
I don't want to participate in this and maybe it could shake a few people out of their stupidity
And they could realize oh wow this is weird
This doesn't make a lot of sense.
Maybe I am wrong on this.
If my family member or this person I care about is so willing to separate from me over this,
maybe I should actually consider my position again and really think about,
am I right on this?
Whereas if you just go along with it,
well then they never have to cross that road mentally.
They never even have to think about it.
They never even have to be worried about it.
They don't have to try and reconcile, is this actually true or not?
And let me tell you something, sometimes shunning works.
But you know what doesn't work?
Just going along with everything.
People don't get right when you just go along with everything
and tolerate everything and you never separate yourself.
Go to Luke chapter 12, go to Luke chapter 12.
You know, the Bible says,
for you that will love life and see good days,
let them refrain his tongue from evil
and his lips that they speak no guile.
Let them eschew evil.
and do good, let him seek peace.
And so what does a shoe mean?
It means to shun, to a shoe evil.
Job was one who eschewed evil,
meaning he stayed away from evil.
Now here's the thing,
there's not this like magic little box somewhere
that just has evil inside of it.
and you just stay away from that box.
I mean, obviously that could be like the black box
where the Muslims walk around it, okay?
But I'm just saying, it's not like evil is this item
that you just stay away from.
You know where evil exists?
Inside of people.
When it's saying a shoe evil,
it's talking about people, folks.
It's talking about evil people
and staying away from certain people and doing good.
Not everybody's a good person.
I don't know if this is a shock to you
or something like that.
I don't know if you've ever read the Bible for five seconds,
but it says, there's none that do with good, no, not one.
Now, obviously, that doesn't mean we stay away from literally everyone and become a nun,
but there's some people that are just quantifiably, objectively evil according to the text, according
to the Bible, and you should stay away from those people.
It's called Proverbs.
Read it.
It'll tell you about the froward man.
It'll talk about the woman that flatters you with her tongue.
It'll talk about all the different evil people that are...
Wanting to go out and commit crimes and they hate God,
the fool has said in his heart, there is no God.
Obviously there's certain people you just want to say,
I want to stay far away from this person.
The person that privately slanders his neighbor,
that's a person that you want to stay far, far away from.
But we need to eschew evil, we need to shun evil people,
even if it was someone close to us.
You know, it's really easy for us to stay away from people
that we never have a chance to even be around.
It's like, hey, I'm going to stay away from Joe Biden.
Oh, wow.
I couldn't hang out with them if I wanted to, okay?
So it's not really meaningful if you say like,
I'm gonna stay away from Freemasons.
Okay, I don't even know who they are.
I don't want to know who they are, all right?
There's a lot of people that I'm gonna stay away from
that I'm probably never even gonna have a chance
to stay away from because I don't even know them.
I'm gonna stay away from King Jong-Ugul, okay?
Oh wow, that's impressive, you know?
But you know what's actually important
is you're staying away from the people in your life
that you actually know, that you actually are around,
that are actually evil,
that are actually gonna cause a downfall in your life.
Those are the people that actually matter.
And what is one of those people?
Maybe a son, maybe a daughter.
And it's not just children, it's everybody.
Look what it says in Luke 12, verse 51,
Suppose you that I am come to give peace on earth,
I tell you nay, but rather division from henceforth,
there shall be five in one house divided,
three against two and two against three,
the father shall be divided against the son.
Did you notice the absolute number one thing?
The first thing mentioned,
what is the first division that he brings up?
The father is gonna be divided against the son.
That's what the Bible says.
There is going to be divisions amongst family members and this is one of the most
important relationships is a father and son
But there's going to be division
He says the son against the father the mother against the daughter the daughter against the mother the mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
And the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law a lot of close family relationships and it's saying they're going to be division
There's going to be a separation.
Go to Matthew 10, go to Matthew chapter number 10.
The Bible says a friend, lover that all times,
and a brother is born for adversity.
Oh, well, I just think that brothers should always get along
and they always will.
But what does the Bible literally say?
The Bible says that a brother is born for adversity.
If you just read the Bible,
you pretty much notice that constantly
you have one good brother and one bad brother.
It's called Cain and Abel, folks.
I mean, it's just Esau and Jacob.
And in many cases, brothers are trying to kill each other.
I mean, Jacob is terrified that Esau is gonna kill him.
Esau was trying to pursue his brother
and wanting to harm him and wanting to hurt him.
We see that Jesus's own brethren didn't believe in him and they weren't his biggest supporters
Especially initially especially at the very onset. They were not his biggest supporters
Joseph's brethren wanted to kill Joseph. I know that we think about Joseph being sold in the slavery
But let me just remind you of the story all the brethren wanted to kill Joseph
Ruben is the one that delivered him Ruben is basically like thinking like oh, no, no
No, we can't do like like can we just at least just sell him into slavery
Like that was the good option right selling your brother into slavery literally into a foreign land
That was the good option. They wanted to kill him. They wanted to murder their brother
You know why just cuz dad liked the brother better
You want to know I like the brother brother because he was a better person
Joseph is just a better person Joseph has the coat of many colors Joseph is the son of his
He's the youngest, so he's of his old age, is what the Bible says.
But also they had an evil report, Joseph's constantly coming and talking about their evil
report.
And of course, as a parent, who do you think you're just going to naturally favor more?
The son that's doing right and loving God, or the children that are evil and doing wrong?
You're probably just going to have a little bit better relationship with the ones that
are doing right.
It's just natural, it's just normal.
You're gonna kind of favor that one.
You're probably gonna give them even more attention.
You're gonna have a better communication with them.
It's just how it works.
It's just how life works.
And some people, they get all mad about their parents
not liking them as much.
And it's like, well, be more likable.
I mean, have you ever tried that?
It's like, oh, well, you know,
my parents don't like me as much as this one.
Okay, well, do they call your parents?
Oh, they call them every day.
Do you ever call them?
No.
Well, maybe you know a man that have friends must show himself friendly
Maybe there's a reason why they like that one a little bit more
Maybe you actually spend a little bit of time with them. Maybe you're having a better relationship with them
But of course, maybe they like them better because they're worldly and they're your parents are worldly and
You're not or
Whatever, but at the end of the day, hey, if my parents are gonna favor the worldly children over me
Well, then that's their loss
That's their problem because I want to serve God. I want to do what's right
And what does the Bible say in Matthew 10 verse 34? Think not that I'm kind of sinned peace on earth. I
came not
To sinned peace but a sword for I am come to set a man at variance against his father
Have you ever read the Bible?
Man, that's crazy when you think about it.
He said, like, I'm coming specifically.
I have a purpose.
You know why I'm here?
Just to cause a son to be at variance with his father.
Wow, that's harsh words.
And then people will be shocked when it happens.
They'll think, like, oh, this isn't Christianity.
How is this not Christianity?
I mean, I'm telling you, that point blank, red letters, Jesus Christ, gospel, multiple mentions,
he's saying, hey, I'm coming to set a man at variance against his father.
Oh, but that would never happen in a Christian household.
No, it's specifically happening in Christian households.
That's Christianity 101.
That's what Jesus Christ is saying is going to happen.
He says in the daughter against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law and a man's foes
Shall be they of his own household who does the Bible warn about who does Jesus warn about as the biggest enemies is
family
Family is the number one foe of the Christian
Yet people want to say oh well in our house. We don't have any issues
In my family, everybody loves everybody.
We're all super great.
We have all the Christmas cards
and we have all the different Thanksgiving meals
and we've never had an issue.
Well, here's my question.
Is anybody even serving God in that household?
Because I would submit to you this.
I think that if no one's really serving God,
if everybody's just kind of a fake Christian,
you can have a superficial fake family relationship
that seems great.
I mean, you can all go drink together, you can all go to the Cowboys game together, you
can all go on the lake together, you can all go to your little Southern Baptist church
and get the NIV together, and you can have your little Bible study where everybody has
their own little opinion, and you can all dress however you want because you have literally
no standards.
You can all just have whatever kind of job,
any kind of occupation.
You can marry whoever you want.
You can have 10 mixed families and all kinds.
I mean, you can have literally any issue you want.
It just doesn't matter because you know what?
I'll never cut off my child for any reason.
And you know, the big push about five years ago,
about 2015, you know what the big push was?
For parents to say they would not cut off their son
for being a faggot.
It was just it was just exploding everywhere all these pastors just saying like telling these horror stories
And this would be the horror story
It would be a letter that a father sent to his son and it would be a with father writing a letter to his
sodomite son
Saying I'm sorry that you've rejected Christianity and you've rejected the Lord
But I want nothing to do with you and they would act like this parent is the worst parent ever
They would they would demonize this parent and then they would like do the opposite
They would show this one parent like writing a letter to their son saying I don't care who you love and
You're just so wonderful, and I just love everything about you
And you're just so great and blah blah blah blah blah and I just love your aides and I just love you know
I love all your pedophilia and everything. It's just so wonderful. You know, it's gross. It's disgusting
Yeah, and God forbid any Christian has a sodomite child. You would just say bye. I
Mean talk about an unbeliever
Talk about a good reason to separate. You know what? There's gonna be reasons beyond that to separate. Hey, if they're not saved
That's the time to separate
What does the Bible say in verse 37 he that loveth father mother more than me is not worthy of me
And he that love a son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me
What did Jesus just say? Point blank, hey, if you love your child more than the Word of God,
you're not worthy of being a Christian.
You're not worthy of being called a Christian.
Oh, no, no, I would never forsake my child.
Well, you know what? You're not a Christian.
Christian, I mean, I've just read Genesis.
You just start out and it's like Abraham going to kill his own son on the altar, Isaac,
his only son, the one he loves dearly.
That is Christianity 101.
And then Abraham's the father of our faith.
He's not like, there's this kind of embarrassing character
in the Bible who kind of like got crazy at one point
and he drug his son up to the mountain for no reason
and was gonna kill him.
And God just kind of like slapped him
beside the head and said, don't do it.
No, no, no, it was a picture of the gospel.
Did you realize that God sacrificed his son for us?
I mean, think about, like, what is Christianity?
Like, what is just like the most important part of Christianity?
Isn't it the fact that God sacrificed his son?
I mean, that's just point number one.
Christianity, Jesus Christ, sacrificed by his own father.
The love that the father has towards you is so much
that he would sacrifice his son.
But then you can't sacrifice your son for him?
What in the world?
I mean...
It's not even a close comparison because our children, if we had to sever a relationship,
would be based on their bad behavior and doing wickedly.
God had to sacrifice His Son when He did nothing wrong.
He had to give up that relationship and allow him to be suffering on the cross and allow him to go into hell for three days and three nights and
To suffer all kinds of humiliation and shame and embarrassment. The Bible says he endured the cross
He bear the shame. Hey, he became sin for us who knew no sin and then you can't sacrifice or sever a
Relationship that you have in your life. It just sounds like you don't really appreciate what Jesus did for you
Sounds like you don't even understand the essence of Christianity if you wouldn't sever that kind of a relationship
Go to Leviticus chapter 10 go to Leviticus chapter 10
What is and here's the thing? What's the point of?
Raising children and
Then being a productive member of society if they're spiritually dead
I mean, the Bible says faith that works is dead.
So if I produce children that have a good job,
that get married, have lots of kids,
they send me a present on Father's Day,
we go hang out on the lake,
they like the cowboys, I like cowboys,
they like Texas brisket, I like Texas brisket,
but you know what, they never serve God with their life.
What's the point between that and any other scenario?
Like what's the significance?
And I know like most people they think like oh man, I really want that look
It's not that you don't want your kid to be a productive member of society
But let me tell you something that's not the measure of success anyways
There's plenty of productive members of society that are Catholic
There's plenty of productive members. In fact, let's just go to the number one
Let's go to the top of the list right you ready for the most productive members of society in America. It's Indians
If you look at a pay scale chart,
they'll tell you the highest paid demographic in America
is Hindu, believing, dung, lighting, urine,
ceremony on the door, Indians.
7-Eleven, hotel ending,
doctors and computer programming Indians.
They make the most money in America.
They're the most productive members of society.
How...
Please, would you be if you went over to your son's house and he's lighting dung on fire?
If he's a Hindu
You know and you know what Hindus actually it's kind of funny
But if you have not gone into his door, they usually have a swastika on the door because that's a that's the sign for peace
You know, so you'll go you go or see the swastika on the door
and you walk into the Hindu household,
and you know what, almost every Hindu,
every Indian that I've ever met
is one of the nicest people I've met.
I've known tons of Indians.
I had to work with tons of Indians.
I've worked on, because I'm in software, sorry.
Now praise God I don't do Java,
so I don't have to see them as much.
But boy, if you do Java, I mean,
you are gonna be inundated with India, okay?
And look, some of these people are some of the nicest people.
I've gone to church with them plenty of times.
There was a guy that was part of, he was a close friend
with one of my family members,
and they just were trying to be nice to him.
They were trying to do the lifestyle Christianity,
so they invited him to church every single week.
And he went to church with us every, almost every week.
He went to dinner with us every single week.
And I would ask him, I'd say like,
hey, what do you think about Jesus?
He's like, I like Jesus too.
Along with my other five trillion gods.
And you know what?
And you know, what's the point of us even being nice to Him for years and decades if we never even give Him the gospel and never confront Him and say,
hey, you're on your way to hell, buddy.
Hey, you have to reject your Hinduism and actually believe in Jesus Christ. That's how you're going to get saved.
What's the point of loving this Hindu and loving this Catholic and loving these individuals straight into hell?
And what's the point of me just having children and loving on them all the way to hell or
just a backslidden state where they produce nothing for God?
And look, I want my children to get saved.
That's step one.
But beyond salvation, I want them to serve God.
And if I'm not motivating them and encouraging them to serve God, what's the point?
What's the point if my kid is the CEO of the biggest company in America or is a homeless
What does a man profited if he gained the whole world and yet lose his own soul?
But some people they want to sit here and act like you know what the most important thing is that my child
There's just a productive member of society. Where does the Bible teach that anywhere?
It's like hey, I want you to be a Christian. Hey, I want you to serve God. Hey, I want you to go to church
Hey, I want you to become a soul winner. Hey, I want you to actually produce some fruit in your life
That's what's important to me. That's what motivates me yet
Most people they care more about their child being a professional athlete being good at sports
Making lots of money having a nice house having a nice car
They don't care if their child serves God with their life
picture of me and so-and-so on the card, look at my amazing kid.
Yeah, who cares that he's a heretic?
Who cares that he has an effeminate haircut?
Who cares that he reads the NIV?
Who cares that he goes to some non-denominational church
and does nothing for God?
At least he didn't make a video online attacking me.
Oh, wow, you're so amazing.
Let's give you a round of applause.
What's the point of that?
And let me tell you something, I'm not going to hang out with my liberal, leftist, effeminate child
and go to some non-denominational church with them and end up doing nothing for God like them.
If my child wants to abandon the independent fundamental Baptist, wants to abandon the King James Bible,
well, you know what? They can go hang out over there.
Because as for me and my house, the ones that are under my authority,
we're going to come to this church and we're going to go soul-winning
and we're going to read the Bible zealously and we're going to serve God.
And hey, as soon as you start walking my way, I'll go pick you up and bring you into church.
But let me tell you something, I'm not going to go hang out with you at the NIV Church.
I'm not going to hang out with you while you do nothing for God.
I'm not going to go with you and go to some Zionist church
that teaches repent of your sins that doesn't do soul-winning.
Oh, but they're so good on the family.
What does that even mean?
Like, explain this to me.
How is somebody so good on the family
when none of their kids are King James
and none of the kids go soul-winning?
What does good mean?
Maybe you don't understand the word good.
There's none that do with good, no, not one, okay?
I mean, what is your definition of good anyways?
And again, what is their definition of good?
Fake.
Social media good, marketing good, PR good.
Well, I don't want a PR good family.
I don't want a marketing good family.
Look, my children are gorgeous, okay,
especially my daughter, Ellie,
she's one of the cutest little girls
I've ever seen in my life.
I'm sure if I put her image,
you know, I could have my own little Debbie snacks
or whatever, you know what I mean?
I could have my own Wendy's restaurant or whatever.
In fact, I was like,
I'll just make a company called Elly Cakes, all right?
And my wife makes amazing cupcakes.
I'm sure I could sell tons of stuff if I want to.
I'm sure I could market my family.
I could make them look so polished and so good.
And just, everybody could just ogle them
and just think like, oh, what a perfect little family
because how cute they are.
My wife has great fashion sense.
She always dresses them really nice.
But let me tell you something, that is meaningless to me.
If my children are good-looking, it's meaningless.
If my children are dressed well, it's meaningless.
You know what? I want my kid to drag his hide to church
and go soul-winning. That's what I want my kid to do.
And you know what? Who cares if they have this little
perfect social media online life or whatever?
That is not the Christianity.
Having this perfect...
And look, if my child just starts doing something that's not right
or not serving God, I will shun them.
I will have nothing to do with them.
I will emotionally detach from them
because, you know, that is a biblical concept.
Now, I want to show you a lot of the examples
of this New Testament that are pretty much the same.
Look at Leviticus chapter number 10,
and we're going to look at Aaron's sons,
Nadab and Abihu.
Now,
I had planned to read this whole thing, but for a second time, we're not going to read it.
Look at verse one.
And Nadab and Abayu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them a censor and put fire therein
and put incense thereon and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.
And they went out of fire from the Lord and devoured them and they died before the Lord.
So Aaron's sons just like, do something super wicked.
They're not serving God correctly.
And God kills them as a result.
Now, from context, it seems likely that the sons were drunk when they did this stupid
action.
Just because, like, right down below, if you kind of notice, it says in verse 8, and Lord
spake unto Aaron saying, do not drink wine nor strong drink.
So it's kind of like a wink, wink, nod, nod.
It's like, hey, your son did something stupid.
I killed him immediately.
And then here, oh, let me give you a reminder.
Don't drink alcohol and it's like
Probably related can we prove that? No, but it seems pretty likely that that's what ended up happening
But at the end of the day, this is what I find is kind of interesting
In this story, look at verse 4,
and Moses called Michiel and Elizavim, the sons of Uziel,
the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them,
Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary
out of the camp.
So they went near and carried them in the coats
out of the camp, as Moses had said.
And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eliezer,
and to Ephemar, his sons, uncover not your heads,
neither in your clothes, lest ye die,
and lest wrath come upon all the people.
But let your brethren, the whole house of Israel,
which the Lord hath kindled, and ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die.
For the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you, and they did according to the word of Moses."
So Aaron, his sons die, and Moses says,
you're not allowed to go to their funeral, you're not allowed to touch them, you're not allowed to be around them.
Everybody else can mourn their death, but you're not allowed to mourn your own son's death.
You have to stay here and you have to make sure that you're making atonement for the children of Israel for the children of Israel's sake
And here's the reality. In some cases, it's like, hey, you don't go follow your children over here and pay attention to them.
You need to go out there and preach the gospel and get people saved.
Let the dead bury their dead.
Hey, you have an important job to do here, Aaron. You're a priest of God. You're supposed to be doing the service of God.
Hey, I know this is sad. I know this is tough for you. I know you probably want to be there for them right now and grieve.
But you know what? You're too important. You need to go out there and just serve God right now.
And if they're going to make dumb decisions, if they're going to do foolish things, that's on them.
You're shunning them, even in death.
Look at Leviticus 13, just flip the page, look at verse 46.
The idea of shunning is a biblical concept in many contexts, not just waywardness, but simply sickness.
Look what it says in Leviticus chapter 13 verse 46.
All the days we're in the plague shall be in him. He shall be defiled. He is unclean
He shall dwell alone without the camp shells habitation be so mild con and I'm not gonna show you all the verses this when someone's sick
You put them outside the camp
You don't you don't hang out with them. You don't be around them
Because they're sick. You don't want to get sick with them. You don't want to get their disease
He's like, oh, that's mean you're you're making them isolated. What did the Bible say in verse number 46?
He shoved well alone. Is God worried about people being alone?
Is God worried about their feelings? Is God worried about their, you know,
mental health?
He's saying put this guy by himself.
Put him alone.
Get him outside put him alone. Don't go hang out with him. Don't talk to him. Don't be near him
Let him heal himself, and then he can come back. Let him get healed first. Okay?
Go to Numbers chapter 5 go to Numbers chapter number 5
We're gonna see this consistently in the Bible. Hey when someone was sick you got him outside
You say go away stay away
This is just a health related issue
I'm so glad when we have sick people, we quarantine them and we put them in the hospital or we put them somewhere else
that we're not just allowing them to just be a part of society. A lot of companies, praise God, they recognize us.
They say, hey, you're sick. Don't come to work. Work from home or just don't work.
That's why they give sick time off, so you're not infecting everybody else at your workplace.
And if you're sick, don't come and get everybody else sick. It worked. That's rude.
It's unbiblical. It's not Christian.
Christians should not go around and get other people sick on purpose.
Numbers chapter 5, look at verse 1.
And Lord Spake and Moses saying,
Command the children of Israel,
they put out of the camp every leper and every one that hath an issue,
and new servers defiled by the dead.
Both male and female shall ye put out,
without the camp shall ye put them,
that they defile not their camps in the midst whereof I dwell.
So he's saying, not just men, women.
Hey, you're sick, bye.
We're putting you out. Go to Numbers 12. Go to Numbers 12.
Shunning is a biblical practice in all kinds of different contexts, okay?
Number one, children, unbelievers.
We see here sick people.
And, you know, sometimes it's a combination.
Sometimes they're even sick because they sin because they did something shameful in numbers 12
We kind of have a combination here where it says in verse 1 and Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman
He had married for he had married an Ethiopian woman. This is a sin
They sinned against God as a result of their sin
God punished them with sickness and illness look at verse 11 and Aaron said unto Moses I'll ask my Lord
I beseech thee lay not the sin upon us when we have done foolishly and where and we have sinned
You know what? You shouldn't speak against pastors and preachers and evangelists and deacons.
How dare you say that?
Well, how do you imply this verse?
Oh, the only person you're never allowed to speak against was Moses, or you just don't speak against the man of God.
Hey, speaking against the man of God is a dangerous habit.
It's a dangerous attitude. And boy, bad things can happen to you when you're just going around talking bad about men of God.
He says, hey, I send, at least Aaron got it, so did Miriam.
It says in verse 12,
let her not be as one dead of whom the flesh is half consumed
when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
And Moses cried unto the Lord saying,
Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
So Moses is even begging like, hey, don't punish her with leprosy.
She got leprosy.
She immediately gets leprosy from God.
This is God's response.
And the Lord said unto Moses,
If her father had but spit in her face,
Should she not be ashamed seven days let her be shut out of the camp seven days and after that let her be received in again
Why would God shun?
Miriam you know what sometimes people need to learn a heart lesson
And boy, I mean just think about how much the world would freak out if a father just spit on his daughter's face
That's actually considered assault at America. So if you spit on someone it can you can be arrested for assault
Well, you know, the Bible doesn't care about U.S. law, okay?
The Bible says that a father could spit in his daughter's face
if she was acting so inappropriately, so rebellious,
talking against her father, talking against her mother.
And here's what God did. God says, get out of the camp.
I don't want to see you.
for seven days. You should be embarrassed. You should be ashamed of yourself.
How dare you speak against your father? How dare you speak against your mother?
How dare you speak against the man of God? How dare you speak against Christianity?
Yet, how many children are speaking against Christianity?
They're speaking against the man of God and then parents won't shun them.
Oh, you made a troll video attacking preachers of God?
I'm gonna share that and like that.
What in the world? And then brag about how my son's a good son.
What part of the Bible do you even believe?
Go to 1 Corinthians 7.
For a second time, I'm not going to be able to go to all the verses I wanted to.
But here's the thing, 1 Corinthians 5 is super clear.
that certain people should be excommunicated from church,
should be marked and avoided.
Romans 16 literally just says, mark and avoid.
It just says, hey, there's some people
that are causing divisions and offenses
contrary to the doctrines which you've learned.
And it says, hey, these type of people,
we should mark and avoid.
Shun them, shun the wayward, shun the non-believer.
Whoever it is.
Whoever is, you know, attacking Christianity,
attacking the church, you know, get rid of this person.
Someone that's sowing this gorge should be shunned.
The Bible says,
therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
And look, our church does this,
and I have done this many times,
and the goal is not because we just want people to leave our church,
the goal is we want people to change.
You know, we don't want people to be drunk.
Wanted to be sober, so we say hey stop drinking and then come back, but if they won't quit drinking stay away
Hey, we don't want people to worship idols. Don't worship idols. You can't come
Don't extort members of the church. It should be rock. It shouldn't be rocket science, okay?
And I've heard some people try to say like oh this list is like a bitch who'll sends and I'm like no no no
Bra you extort one person in our church. You're getting thrown out. It's not like well. I didn't extort everybody
Oh, okay, well you're not an extortioner then.
You know, I mean, I didn't commit fornication with everyone.
Okay, well did you do it one time with someone?
Yeah, okay, you're a fornicator.
And until you say I'm sorry I was wrong
and you don't want to do it, you're not welcome here.
Now look, obviously someone could be a repeat offender
and whatever, but if they're not repentant,
if they're not sorry, then they're not welcome.
How about railing? Yes, railers. That's like number one for some reason, making false accusation.
Now how would you feel if someone makes a public false accusation about you? They're not repentant.
They're not taking it back. Do you want to go to church with that person? I don't want to go to church with that person.
I want that person to say, you know what? That's not true. You're right.
I'm sorry before I'm gonna allow that person to show back up at church. It's not rocket science.
Now when someone gets excommunicated, I tell the church you don't have to wonder if someone's kicked out or not. You'll know
All right, you'll know and when you know, this is what you should do. I'm not gonna hang out with that person
I'm gonna shun them
Now everybody gets this from the sick perspective. What if I said hey this person has an infectious disease that's highly contagious
Hey, let's go hang out with that person and play checkers
Let's go hang out at their birthday party.
Let's go hang out with them at their little kinsen year.
Let's go shop with them at the mall.
Like you would never do that in a million years.
I don't even have to convince you
because you're just not, you're not silly.
But then it's like, hey, here's a person
that's evil affected against our church
that has a spiritual infectious disease
that's attacking the church and negative and evil
and saying all kinds of bad things.
But you love hanging out with that person.
That doesn't make any sense you should shun the wayward person
Now look if someone doesn't go to our church anymore. I don't care hang out with them be their best friend
I could care less but if someone's attacking your church attacking your pastor lying about people
You know what you should stay away from that person
Now here's the thing. I am not gonna police that I
Throw out railers. I'm not gonna throw out you for hanging out with the railer
And let me explain this, it's really easy to understand.
People have infectious diseases, they get put outside the camp.
Now, what if you, being silly, decide to say,
you know what, I'm going to go talk to that person.
I'm going to go hang out with that person.
And you give them some food, you hang out with them,
you go to their birthday party, you give them lots of hugs and stuff.
And then you leave, and you somehow didn't catch their disease.
Well, then I can't throw you out of church,
because I can't throw you out of the camp because you're not sick.
So, here's the thing, you hang out with this person and they say,
you know, I hate passage cell and I hate stat fast and I hate blah, blah, blah.
And for some reason, you at least have enough gumption to say,
well, I don't agree with you and you leave.
Well, you didn't get their sickness, did you?
But here's the thing, when you hang out with infectious diseases,
a lot of times you get sick too.
And so you start hanging out with railers
and you start hanging out with evil people,
people sewing discord.
Now you start sewing discord and you start railing,
well now you're gonna be thrown out with them too.
And so it's just not wise to hang out with people
that are sick.
It's not wise to hang out with people
that are spiritually sick.
You should shun the wayward and say,
hey bro, you got some serious issues.
You need to fix that before we're gonna hang out again.
Okay, and people act like, oh, you just go around
and you're just policing people and you're a cult.
Molo, it's like, show me the person.
Testify when I'm policing you, giving unsolicited advice.
It just never happens.
I just don't really care.
But you know what, I don't want you to get sick.
I mean, just think, I'm sitting up here saying like,
don't go hang out people with AIDS.
Don't hang out people with infectious diseases.
And they're like, oh, this guy's a cult.
He's telling us to not hang out with certain people.
Mm-hmm.
How dare him say to not hang out with people
with AIDS and infectious diseases
and high contagious fevers and COVID and stuff.
Can you imagine that?
What a cult, man!
No, it's like don't hang out with disease.
Don't hang out with sickness.
Don't hang out with people that are gonna drag you down
and affect you.
You know, keep some distance and say,
hey man, you need to work on that issue.
Stay away from that individual.
You know I can't I can't force anybody to do that and I'm not gonna force anybody to that
But you know, it's a bad idea to do it
It's a bad idea and you'll get sick with them. The Bible tells us to mark and avoid
Now what happens if this person's your spouse?
Because this is kind of a different relationship because the Bible says you you're now one flesh, right?
Well, the Bible gives us a little bit of a
Some verses on this about this topic of shunning look at what it says in verse 10
And on the myriad I command get not I but the Lord let the not the wife depart from her husband
But if she depart let her remain unmarried and or be reconciled her husband
Let not the husband put away his wife the Bible says that you should not abandon your spouse period
So, we should shun, we were children, we should shun unbelievers, we should shun the heretics,
we should shun the people that are in church discipline issues, we should shun the sick,
but I believe the Bible is saying you shouldn't shun your spouse, I mean even if they're
not saved, even if they were an unbeliever, the Bible still says that you shouldn't shun
that person.
and the one which hath an husband that believeth not,
and if he be pleased to dwell with her,
let her not leave him."
So the Bible is saying like,
hey, even if your spouse wasn't saved,
you should still be a good spouse.
You should still love your spouse.
You become one flesh.
So of course you're not going to abandon your spouse.
You should never leave your spouse ever.
You should never divorce your spouse.
These are all different things though.
You shouldn't leave your spouse physically.
You shouldn't leave your spouse emotionally.
And he should never divorce your spouse ever.
He should just always, you know,
no man ever yet hated his own flesh,
but nourished and cherished with it.
So even if my spouse was wayward,
you know what, I'm not gonna shun them.
I think that's the wrong approach in marriage.
So this is kind of, in my opinion, the one caveat.
I wanna make this clear,
because you're hearing this message about shunning,
I don't want someone to start thinking like,
oh yeah, my spouse is like this, blah, blah, blah.
Well, you know what?
No, don't shun your spouse, you know, that's not that's not what I'm teaching. I'm not gonna shun my left arm
Okay, I'm not gonna be like hey my left arm is doing some weird stuff. I'm gonna cut it off and leave it a behind
Okay, no, I'm gonna I'm gonna nourish and cherish it. I'm gonna approach that slightly differently
But people that are not physically attached to me and people that are not my spouse
Hey, you know what I could sever a relationship with you
Now what does the Bible say? What if your spouse though doesn't have that attitude?
What if your spouse literally just runs away? What if your spouse literally abandons you physically?
Well, what does it say in verse number 15?
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or sister is not in her bondage cases, but God has called us peace.
Now here's the thing. It says unbelieving depart.
If you are married to someone that's not saved and it's not like a question, it's not like,
hey, they differ on end times eschatology, I think they're not saved.
No, that's stupid, okay.
I'm saying like, they're just literally not a Christian.
They're Catholic, they're atheist, they're Hindu or whatever.
If they say, I hate Christianity, I want nothing to do with you, I'm never gonna stay with you,
and they literally run away,
then I don't think that you're obligated to pursue them with every fiber of your being.
I mean that's basically what he's bringing up.
He's just saying, well, you know, it's a pretty bad scenario.
But it's pretty clear, though, that you should still not divorce them ever.
You should not put them away.
You just maybe you're just not dwelling together and it's a rocky relationship.
But at the end of the day if my spouse who is safe my spouse is saved I gotta never make this excuse
I can't be like Peter Ruckman and just keep saying every one of my wives is an unbeliever and then just marry another one and
Then the next one just jumps out of the moving car, and it's somehow her fault
Like what did you do to think to what did you do to your wife to cause her to want to jump out of a moving car?
And then he brags about that. It's like that's weird
Peter Rookman brags about one of his wives giving her wedding ring back in the middle
of a conference.
What in the world?
That's bizarre.
And then acting like he's somehow super spiritual or something.
Like look, that would be embarrassing, it would be shameful if your spouse was that upset
with you, if you were having that major of issues.
And his thinking, if my wife literally abandoned me or ran away, let me explain what I would
do.
I would chase her with flowers.
I would chase her with, I would definitely take food, okay?
If you're ever in an argument,
you have to check if you think,
it's kind of like a child when they're crying
and you don't know.
It's like you first try to feed them, change their diaper,
and then give them a nap.
It's like with your wife,
it's like you need to number one check if they're hungry,
okay?
When's the last time you've eaten?
When's the last time you've gotten a drink or a treat?
Okay, and it's like when they're,
when they're not hungry or not thirsty
and they're still mad, that's when you're in danger, okay?
Hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna try and figure out. Hey, let's go shopping. Hey, let's go hang out. Hey, let's stop everything
I mean, I would I would quit my job right now if it was gonna somehow fix my marriage. I
Will I will not compromise, but I will sacrifice
If my wife saved I will not compromise, but I will sacrifice for them
Whatever I can do to make it right to fix things to repair things to have them content enough to dwell with me
I will do it
But you know if push comes to shove if I can't win them back. I mean, I'm still gonna show up at church on Sunday morning
I'm still gonna go to church on Sunday night. I'm still gonna take some time out of my schedule
and I'm gonna go soul-winning.
Now, when I'm not soul-winning,
I'm gonna take the jukebox and I'm gonna go to her window
and I'm gonna play outside and ask her on a date.
You know what I mean?
Sorry, there's only like a few 80s kids in here, all right?
I'm just saying like, I'm gonna make sure
that I'm doing what I can to win her back
because she says, and I know she has the Holy Spirit,
and now she could be convicted and get back with me
and get right with me.
You know, I'm not gonna give up on my marriage ever.
But at the end of the day sometimes you have to just say well, I'm gonna put that on pause and then go back to serving God though
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say like hey, I'll stop going to church for you. Hey, I'll stop reading the Bible for you
Hey, I'll stop going soul-winning for you. Hey, I'll stop following God's commandments for you. No, no, no
I'm gonna follow God's commandments
No, I'm gonna I'm gonna read my Bible. No, I'm gonna go soul-winning. No, I'm gonna serve God with my life
And hey, I'm gonna take care of my kids even if you won't
Hey, I'm gonna do the things that I need to as a responsible Christian even if you won't but at the end of the day
You know when push comes to shove even if you had to separate from your spouse as far as a decision
Well, you need to serve Christ over your spouse. I mean some people in Christ's list
He said they even had to forsake spouses forsake wives or forsake whatever
But I just want to make it clear that the shunning aspect. I'm not gonna shun my spouse
Even if they were sinful, you know, I've had people like try to tell me like
My spouse committed a sin in first Corinthians five
You know, so I can't even eat with them. It's like no
You're one flesh. Okay, even if even if they're
In a serious issue like that. You have to stick it out with you married them. I didn't
Okay
Obviously, you know some people would say like what about like really severe if your spouse is trying to kill you
Yeah, you can get away from them. All right
Obviously like David ran away from Saul when he was trying to kill him
Okay, if your spouse is trying to harm you or hurt you or trying to kill you
Yeah, I think that there's reason to say like I'm gonna separate the person come home drunk
You know and they're gonna hurt you harm you
There's nothing wrong with staying away from that individual and they come sober again or or whatever it is
Go to Psalm 101 go to Psalm 101 will finish
But I do not believe you should shun your spouse.
No, I'm just gonna try and explain
what I taught you this morning
so maybe you can walk away and take something from it.
You need to have standards.
That's the whole point of the sermon.
Why would you shun anybody?
Because you have a standard.
What is your standard?
I'm not gonna hang out with unbelievers.
If there's someone in your life that's not saved,
you need to separate from that person.
It doesn't matter who it is with our one exception, of course, the spouse, okay?
If someone crosses a line of church discipline,
you need to stay away from that person
and not go hang out there, even if it was a child. If the child's a railer, if the child's an extortioner,
if the child is a drunkard, yeah, you need to put distance between them. And I've known people in my life,
they won't do this, they won't separate from their drunkard child, and the child's just getting worse as a drunkard.
And I'm like, I think if the whole family would just say,
hey, stop drinking or we're not gonna hang out with you,
they might actually, they might actually be influenced
enough to say, okay, that's important enough
for me to change.
But until their family does that,
they're just on a bad path.
And even if they don't,
well, I'm just not gonna hang out with drunkards.
And third, you should stay away from people that are toxic.
And this is kind of a broad thing, but the Bible brings up a lot of other scenarios.
And if someone fits in this category, even a close person, you should separate.
So you need to know what to have the standard.
And then number two, you need to enforce the standard.
And you just make it clear to everybody in your life, hey, if you cross these lines,
this is what I always hear and I'm accused of personally,
because I've had to separate from a lot of family members,
is they say, oh, you're just making stuff up to separate from us.
And I'm like, if First Corinthians 5 is me making something up, then okay.
I'm not making anything up.
And they're always like, well, we're just always worried like you're going to come
up with a new rule that we can't hang out with you.
And I'm like, look, it's the same list.
Are you an unbeliever?
Are you on First Corinthians 5?
And then are you in like a really clear, obvious other portion of the description?
I want to show you like another one that's like this, okay?
Look what it says in Psalm 101, verse 3.
People that are lying and sewing discord and they're slandering people and they're whispering and they're gossips and they're just
Proud and they they don't like the things that got you know just stay away from that person. They're a toxic person
Hey, I don't want to hang out with you and this is what happens in a society in America today
Is the vast majority of parents today don't shun anyone and you know what happens?
It makes us where we as a culture have no standards
You know what? God puts people outside of the church for crossing the line in 1 Corinthians 5.
If every single church enforced 1 Corinthians chapter number 5,
then the backslidden would actually have to get right to get back into church.
But because there's so many churches today that do not care about 1 Corinthians 5 whatsoever,
they will harbor wicked people in their churches.
And let me tell you something, if I hear that someone comes to our church and they were
thrown out of their last church for a first Corinthians five issue, they're not welcome
at our church.
And you say, what kind of church?
Any church?
If you get thrown out of the Mormon tabernacle for being a drunkard, you're not welcome here.
You're not allowed to drink and be a Mormon.
At least they have standards, and you know what Mormons will do?
They'll separate you from the church!
You're not allowed to any of the Mormon churches.
Is it embarrassing that the Mormons will not allow drunkards in their churches and they're
consistent on that issue, but then Christians will allow that all day long?
Hey, you can rail and slander and lie about the pastor, but as long as it wasn't me, you
can come to my church.
Well, you know what?
Shame on you.
Shame on you for not shunning people.
And you know what, we live in a society
that enables bad people and enables wicked people
to just keep doing whatever they're doing.
And of course, you know, the big churches
are probably the worst about this
because you just go to a big church,
you can just blend in.
That's why people that get to this grotto
against our churches and stuff,
they always try to find the biggest one
so they can just go and hide.
They can just go hide all their sin and the rebellion and whatever because nobody ever can confront them on their issues
And confront them on why they're even there you got it like shouldn't you ask that question?
Shouldn't you ask I mean if there's this this one church and the whole area that just everybody just kind of keeps coming from to your church
Wouldn't you think like hmm, maybe I should ask why all these people are just coming to my church from this one other church
And then what if I called the phone, I said,
hey, I've noticed like 30 or 40 of your members
are coming to my church, why is that?
Oh, well this person's lying, this person's railing,
this person's a drunkard, this person's on drugs,
this person's just committing all kinds of grievous sin,
this person's committing adultery.
He'd be like, oh, maybe I don't want these people
in my church.
But because they don't do that, because they care more
about just getting more tithe money or whatever it is,
and they don't want to ask any of the hard questions,
then they just enable people to live in that sin.
But if everybody did that,
then they'd quickly be ostracized from every good church,
and they wouldn't be able to say like,
I love my new church so much.
That is so wonderful.
No, it'd be like, hey, you actually have to be held accountable
for your sin and for your wickedness and for your rebellion.
You know, in not every church like that,
I've had a few pastors call me and say,
hey, so-and-so from your church came to mind,
what's their issue?
And I'm about to be like, here's their issue.
And he's like, okay, great,
I don't want that person in my church.
You know what, praise God for someone
that actually has some common sense in their brain.
But you know what, then they'll just go
to the non-denominational church where everything,
everything's accepted.
And that's what people want you to do,
is they want you to be a non-denominational family.
Don't be a non-denominational family.
Oh, we're the Nandanam family, one son's Southern Baptist,
one kid's going to Gateway, one kid's Catholic,
this other one's a Hindu.
But we're Nandanam, man.
We're gonna all sing our God's an awesome God later.
Ah, God is an awesome God.
And then we're gonna take our little Christmas picture
or whatever, ignore the ankle bracelet, okay?
You know?
Or whatever, and we're just such a wonderful family man. We're just great Christians because we I would never separate from my son
I would never separate my daughter. Well, you know what? You're just not a Christian
And you know what? You're not worthy of Jesus Christ and if a pastor would get up and say hey
I would not willing to sacrifice my son for the cause of Christ. You know, that's a bad pastor
It's not a good leader. It's not someone you want to follow
You know what? I hope that I never have to separate my kids for one second
But let me tell you something.
I already have the standards
and I will enforce the standards.
It's closing prayer.
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for your word.
Thank you for giving us these clear guidelines.
Thank you for trying to help us to not get sick
and to be around dangerous and toxic individuals.
Also, thank you for giving us this example
of how shunning can work.
I pray that if anybody ever has someone in their family
or their relationships that they have to shun,
that they have to stay away from.
That that would end up working, they would end up having the prodigal son's heart and they would return.
They would say, you know what, I've sinned, I've screwed up, I'm going to get it right.
But without the shunning, without separation, without these biblical principles,
in many cases people won't make the right decision.
I pray that you give us the courage and the faith that when we have these difficult relationships,
that we have to sever ties, that we do what the Bible says,
and that you would allow that to work in those people's lives.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Alright, in closing, let's go to song number 124.
Song number 124, God will take care of you.