WEBVTT 10:00.100 --> 10:04.260 Good morning everyone and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. 10:04.260 --> 10:06.060 It's so great to see everybody here. 10:06.060 --> 10:11.500 If we could find our seats and find a hymnal, we will get started with this morning's singing. 10:14.800 --> 10:19.800 Wonderful to see everybody. If you can find your hymnal and find song number 413. 10:26.400 --> 10:30.160 Song number 413. 10:33.600 --> 10:38.100 You don't have to to sing it, but it's stand up, stand up for Jesus. 10:38.100 --> 10:40.880 Song number 413. 10:40.880 --> 10:43.440 Let's all sing that out together this morning. 10:43.440 --> 10:45.120 Song number 413. 10:45.120 --> 10:48.120 Stand up, stand up for Jesus. 10:48.120 --> 10:51.600 Stand up, stand up for Jesus. 12:38.000 --> 12:42.360 singing everybody let's open up the service now with a word of prayer. Lord 12:42.360 --> 12:44.880 we love you so much and we're just so grateful to have a great church to 12:44.880 --> 12:48.360 attend and so grateful to be able to sing out unto you this morning amongst 12:48.360 --> 12:51.440 God's people we just ask that you fill us all with your spirit and help us to 12:51.440 --> 12:56.920 sing out unto you this morning it's in Jesus name we pray amen. Alright for our 12:56.920 --> 12:59.700 next song let's go to song number 315 13:04.100 --> 13:09.100 Song number 315, 13:10.100 --> 13:13.100 Take My Life and Let It Be. 13:17.100 --> 13:19.100 Song number 315. 13:19.100 --> 13:22.100 Let's all sing that out together. 13:22.100 --> 13:25.100 Take my life and 15:30.700 --> 15:32.860 Good morning, thank you so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church. 15:32.860 --> 15:35.900 If you did not get a bulletin already and you'd like one, just let your hand nice and 15:35.900 --> 15:36.900 high. 15:36.900 --> 15:39.660 One of our ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin. 15:39.660 --> 15:43.140 On the inside we have our service times and soul winning times. 15:43.140 --> 15:44.780 Below is our church stats. 15:44.780 --> 15:47.060 On the right is a list of several expecting ladies. 15:47.060 --> 15:48.500 Please be in prayer for them. 15:48.500 --> 15:53.660 We're getting close to our August service Sundays, so this is just a special offering. 15:53.660 --> 15:58.220 So if you come to all the services in the month of August, you can receive a $10 ice 15:58.700 --> 16:04.340 card per person. And so the only exception to missing is going to be if you're traveling 16:04.340 --> 16:08.300 for a church sponsored event or missions trip. And so if you are planning on doing that, 16:08.300 --> 16:13.300 just let us know. But we'll basically have a printout of everybody over here. And so 16:13.300 --> 16:19.300 you just sign the name for you. And that way we can make sure to tally. But if you come 16:19.300 --> 16:25.740 to all the services on Sunday, Sunday morning, Sunday evenings, and Wednesday night, you 16:25.740 --> 16:26.700 you can get. 16:26.700 --> 16:32.380 that special offering. Upcoming events we have a soul winning marathon on August 1st. 16:32.380 --> 16:37.100 Corsican and Texas Soul Winning Marathon. It's coming around the corner at the Massa Conference 2.0 16:37.100 --> 16:42.340 in Plainfield, Connecticut. Excited about this. So if you at least could just tune in. 16:42.340 --> 16:48.060 Also, even if you can't make it out there, teen summer events. We have one more. 16:48.060 --> 16:51.900 We had one last night. Thanks to all who participated. It was a lot of fun. 16:52.300 --> 16:57.300 And then also we had a Mexico City missions trip. 16:57.300 --> 16:59.300 Brother Diego is helping lead. 16:59.300 --> 17:02.100 And so if you have questions, you can ask him about that. 17:02.100 --> 17:06.740 Mesquite, Texas, soul hunting marathon, August 22nd, Barbados missions trip, September 7th 17:06.740 --> 17:08.140 through the 12th. 17:08.140 --> 17:11.980 September 20th, Pastor Matthew Stuckey is going to be preaching for us. 17:11.980 --> 17:15.940 Both services are going to be catering lunch that day, so I highly encourage you to come. 17:15.940 --> 17:18.420 It should be a great Sunday. 17:18.420 --> 17:22.980 Heritage Lord Conference, October 9th through 11th, Chili Cook Off, October 31st. 17:22.980 --> 17:27.220 There is a preaching boot camp in Arizona, if you'd like to attend November 12th through 17:27.220 --> 17:28.220 the 14th. 17:28.220 --> 17:30.100 Philippines missions trip. 17:30.100 --> 17:36.180 February of next year. On the back is a list of prayer requests if you'd please keep our church 17:36.180 --> 17:40.260 family in prayer. And that's pretty much all I have as far as announcements. Go ahead and sing 17:40.820 --> 17:45.860 our Psalm of the Week, Psalm 149. It's in our Psalm book, Psalm 149. 17:53.500 --> 17:54.200 Thank you. 18:00.900 --> 18:09.220 Alright that was Psalm 149. You can find it on page number 19 in your song books. Psalm 149. 18:10.340 --> 18:14.420 Those that know well, sing it out real loud this morning. Psalm 149. 18:17.300 --> 18:18.900 Raise me the... 20:32.300 --> 20:38.500 passed around, go and open your Bibles to the book of Ecclesiastes chapter number five. 20:38.500 --> 20:41.220 That's the book of Ecclesiastes chapter number five. 21:46.900 --> 21:48.580 Ecclesiastes 5 the Bible reads, 21:48.580 --> 21:51.140 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, 21:51.140 --> 21:55.020 And be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools, 21:55.020 --> 21:57.300 For they consider not that they do evil. 21:57.300 --> 21:58.980 Be not rash with thy mouth, 21:58.980 --> 22:02.980 And let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God. 22:02.980 --> 22:05.300 For God is in heaven and thou upon earth. 22:05.300 --> 22:07.700 Therefore let thy words be few. 22:07.700 --> 22:10.180 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, 22:10.180 --> 22:13.420 And a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. 22:13.420 --> 22:14.860 when thou vowest of vales. 22:14.900 --> 22:19.260 unto God, defer not to pay it, for he hath no pleasure in fools. 22:19.260 --> 22:21.260 Pay that which thou hast vowed. 22:21.260 --> 22:26.100 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 22:26.100 --> 22:28.380 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin. 22:28.380 --> 22:31.420 Neither say thou before the angel that it was an error. 22:31.420 --> 22:35.840 Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice and destroy the work of thine hands? 22:35.840 --> 22:40.440 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also diverse vanities. 22:40.440 --> 22:41.820 But fear thou God. 22:42.300 --> 22:47.860 If thou seest the oppression of the poor and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, 22:47.860 --> 22:53.820 marvel not at the matter, for he that is higher than the highest regardeth, and there be higher than they. 22:53.820 --> 23:00.060 Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all. The king himself is served by the field. 23:00.060 --> 23:07.020 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. 23:07.020 --> 23:08.540 This is also vanity. 23:08.800 --> 23:16.800 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them, and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes. 23:16.800 --> 23:23.800 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. 23:24.100 --> 23:30.100 There was a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. 23:30.100 --> 23:38.100 But those riches perish by evil travail, and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. 23:38.100 --> 23:42.100 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, 23:42.100 --> 23:46.900 and shall take nothing of his labor which he may carry away in his hand. 23:47.100 --> 23:52.140 And this also was a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go, and what 23:52.140 --> 23:55.740 profit hath he that hath laboured for the win? 23:55.740 --> 24:00.780 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness. 24:00.780 --> 24:02.660 Behold that which I have seen. 24:02.660 --> 24:07.100 It is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour, 24:07.100 --> 24:11.780 that he taketh unto the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth them, for it is 24:11.780 --> 24:12.580 his portion. 24:12.900 --> 24:19.220 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth and hath given him power to eat thereof and to take his portion 24:19.380 --> 24:21.080 And to rejoice in his labor 24:21.080 --> 24:26.460 This is the gift of God for he shall not much remember the days of his life because God 24:26.900 --> 24:29.360 Answer with him in the joy of his heart 24:29.940 --> 24:31.940 Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer 24:32.900 --> 24:36.780 Father God, we ask, Lord, that you bless the sermon this morning and fill Pastor Shelly 24:36.780 --> 24:37.860 with your spirit. 24:37.860 --> 24:41.720 Help him to preach the message you've laid on his heart with clarity of mind and give 24:41.720 --> 24:46.940 us ears to hear and help us to make changes accordingly so that we can serve you better. 24:46.940 --> 24:49.460 I ask for these things in the name of Jesus Christ. 24:49.460 --> 24:50.460 Amen. 24:50.460 --> 24:51.460 Amen. 24:51.460 --> 24:53.020 I want to look here again at verse 2. 24:53.020 --> 24:56.460 The Bible says, be not rash with thy mouth. 24:56.600 --> 25:01.400 and let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God. 25:01.400 --> 25:06.680 For God is in heaven and thou upon earth therefore let thy words be few." 25:06.680 --> 25:12.280 And this is really the one application I'm going to make this morning is just that we should be 25:12.280 --> 25:17.720 careful what we say and we should really think about the words that we're going to say because 25:17.720 --> 25:23.480 there's many sins of the mouth. And that's the title of my sermon this morning is Sins of the Mouth. 25:24.000 --> 25:26.600 Now, what's crazy about the sermon is... 25:27.100 --> 25:31.900 Every time I've thought about this sermon, just more thoughts come into my mind or more verses, 25:31.900 --> 25:37.660 because I think that this subject is so broad and there's so many sins that it would be impossible 25:37.660 --> 25:44.860 or difficult to in one sermon truly cover every possible scenario. But I'm going to do my best to 25:44.860 --> 25:50.300 just give some big categories that I feel like, you know, we can kind of find the essence of 25:50.300 --> 25:54.940 the sins of the mouth. And I'm going to, for the most part, just list lots of sins of the mouth. 25:55.100 --> 25:56.500 We're not going to really talk about them. 25:56.500 --> 25:58.100 We're not going to go deep diving. 25:58.100 --> 26:01.700 There's only a handful that I really want to talk about this morning in detail, but 26:01.700 --> 26:05.380 we're going to spend the rest of our time this morning talking about how bad the mouth 26:05.380 --> 26:09.540 is just so you're reminded of, hey, we should be careful of the words that we choose to 26:09.540 --> 26:13.500 use and that we shouldn't just say everything that comes to mind. 26:13.500 --> 26:16.460 You know, some people are more shy or timid. 26:16.900 --> 26:24.400 And it's not really about a personality thing, but that can sometimes lend itself to this idea of being more careful with your words, and that's a good thing. 26:24.600 --> 26:30.080 Whereas some of us that are a little bit more sociable or we like to talk a little bit more 26:30.200 --> 26:32.480 We should take this you know very seriously 26:33.160 --> 26:39.500 Because it's very easy to sin with the mouth is what the Bible teaches now go if you would to Proverbs chapter 10 Proverbs 26:39.500 --> 26:42.800 Chapter 10 go backwards, and we're gonna look at a few Proverbs as well 26:43.040 --> 26:48.600 But notice that the Bible says therefore let thy words be few there's nothing wrong with not talking 26:49.600 --> 26:51.600 There's nothing wrong with not 26:52.200 --> 26:56.600 being someone that's constantly uttering all of their mind. 26:56.600 --> 26:59.000 And the Bible just brings up so many verses on this, 26:59.000 --> 27:02.000 but look at Proverbs 10 verse 19. 27:02.000 --> 27:04.100 In the multitude of words, 27:04.100 --> 27:06.700 there wanteth not sin, 27:06.700 --> 27:09.700 but he that refraineth his lips is wise. 27:09.700 --> 27:13.900 Now the word wanteth in this context is just meaning like, 27:13.900 --> 27:16.500 hey, there's not a shortage. 27:16.500 --> 27:17.600 You're not going to be, 27:17.600 --> 27:20.100 and want means that there's a lack of something. 27:20.300 --> 27:25.500 So by saying, wanteth not, meaning that there's no lack of. 27:25.500 --> 27:29.500 Because you know what, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. 27:29.500 --> 27:34.500 When we think of that word want, we're saying like, hey, I'm not lacking of anything. 27:34.500 --> 27:41.300 So here it's saying, if you have enough text, if you have enough dialogue, if you have enough words, 27:41.300 --> 27:43.800 you're not going to be lacking what? 27:44.200 --> 27:45.200 It says sin. 27:45.200 --> 27:50.280 And so it's just basically saying like, hey, if someone just talked a lot or said a lot 27:50.280 --> 27:53.580 of things, there's a lot of stuff to look at or analyze. 27:53.580 --> 27:57.360 You could probably start pointing out a lot of sin is what the point is. 27:57.360 --> 28:02.640 Just saying in the multitude of words, there wanteth not sin. 28:02.640 --> 28:05.720 Notice this, but he that refraineth his lips is wise. 28:05.720 --> 28:07.280 So we should be very careful. 28:07.600 --> 28:12.720 just uttering all our mind and just saying lots of different things because the chance is 28:12.720 --> 28:18.480 we're going to be sinning often. Go if you would to chapter 11 verse 12 just right on the same page 28:18.480 --> 28:24.320 probably. He that is void of wisdom despises his neighbor but a man of understanding, notice this, 28:25.040 --> 28:32.560 holdeth his peace. Now this is a really interesting proverb. Think, think, let's think about it for a 28:32.560 --> 28:35.600 moment. He that is void of wisdom. 28:35.800 --> 28:37.800 So this is a smart person. 28:37.800 --> 28:39.800 No, this is a foolish person. 28:39.800 --> 28:41.800 This is a dumb person. 28:41.800 --> 28:43.800 This is a person that lacks understanding, 28:43.800 --> 28:45.800 lacks wisdom. 28:45.800 --> 28:47.800 He just despises his neighbor. 28:47.800 --> 28:49.800 Meaning that if you want 28:49.800 --> 28:51.800 to criticize people, 28:51.800 --> 28:53.800 you have more than you 28:53.800 --> 28:55.800 could ever wish to criticize them. 28:56.600 --> 29:00.840 He's saying, hey, you're just despising, you're just being mad at people. 29:00.840 --> 29:04.680 If you want to be mad at people, you could do it all day long. 29:04.680 --> 29:07.480 But then the Bible's saying you're stupid for doing that. 29:08.280 --> 29:10.920 The right thing to do is what? To just hold your peace. 29:11.960 --> 29:15.720 It's just so silly to sit here and just criticize people all the time. 29:15.720 --> 29:18.840 And look, criticizing people could be legitimate. 29:19.500 --> 29:25.820 But the problem is you just don't realize how sinful you are, how many mistakes you make. 29:25.820 --> 29:31.420 If we just all went around and just criticized everybody for every little thing that they do all 29:31.420 --> 29:36.460 day long, well, we would just be insufferable to live with. We'd be insufferable to be around 29:36.460 --> 29:43.580 if we're just nagging and complaining and just criticizing people for every little thing and 29:43.580 --> 29:47.420 every little imperfection and every problem that they have. The Bible says 29:47.500 --> 29:53.180 says that you're a fool to sit here and just criticize people and bring up every problem 29:53.180 --> 29:59.420 and every issue and every mistake. It's just so annoying. He's just saying, hey, why don't 29:59.420 --> 30:04.380 you just hold your peace? Why don't you just not worry about it? And look, that's if it 30:04.380 --> 30:10.280 was legitimate criticism, let alone all the illegitimate criticisms because people are 30:10.280 --> 30:14.120 constantly criticizing people, not even understanding. 30:14.400 --> 30:21.320 What they're saying they don't understand the context they don't understand the motivations. They don't understand the complexities 30:21.360 --> 30:24.020 They don't understand what's going on in the situation 30:24.020 --> 30:30.000 But they just want to sit here and criticize and complain and make just all kinds of just annoying 30:30.960 --> 30:33.040 statements and just like just stop 30:33.920 --> 30:37.560 Why don't you just watch you spend all your effort energy criticizing yourself? 30:38.940 --> 30:39.800 Okay 30:40.300 --> 30:44.300 He that is void of wisdom, notice this, despises his neighbor. 30:44.300 --> 30:48.800 He's constantly mad at other people and picking everybody else apart 30:48.800 --> 30:51.300 and mad at everything everybody else is doing. 30:51.300 --> 30:54.300 But what does the Bible say, but a man of understanding, notice this, 30:54.300 --> 30:55.800 hold it to his piece. Isn't it funny? 30:55.800 --> 30:59.800 The guy that knows a ton doesn't criticize you. 30:59.800 --> 31:03.300 The person that doesn't know anything, constantly criticizing you. 31:04.200 --> 31:07.400 constantly making accusations against you, 31:07.400 --> 31:08.400 bringing up stuff. 31:08.400 --> 31:11.000 This is again, this is just a huge sin 31:11.000 --> 31:13.700 where people will just constantly just be 31:13.700 --> 31:16.600 attacking other people, criticizing other people, 31:16.600 --> 31:19.600 hating other people, mad at everything everybody else is doing 31:19.600 --> 31:22.600 rather than just simply holding their peace and just moving on. 31:22.600 --> 31:26.800 Look, you don't think that God has enough to work with against us. 31:26.800 --> 31:31.100 But isn't it nice that God is holding his peace about us on a regular basis? 31:31.500 --> 31:37.500 I think that God could have a pretty big laundry list of criticisms for us if he really wanted it. 31:37.500 --> 31:41.980 But praise God, he's not just badgering us with criticisms. 31:41.980 --> 31:47.660 He's not just constantly browbeating us and annoying us and just over the top 31:47.660 --> 31:53.580 and just crushing our spirit, crushing our ideas, crushing our... 31:54.200 --> 31:56.000 or validity as a person. 31:56.000 --> 31:58.000 I mean, look, if you just went to the workplace 31:58.000 --> 31:59.720 and your boss, just every other sentence is, 31:59.720 --> 32:02.600 you're an idiot, you're a fool, you're stupid, you're dumb. 32:02.600 --> 32:03.560 How did you do that? 32:03.560 --> 32:04.960 I can't believe you did that right. 32:04.960 --> 32:05.920 Hey, get over here. 32:05.920 --> 32:08.200 And there's micromanaging every little thing 32:08.200 --> 32:10.300 you're doing at the job. 32:10.300 --> 32:13.000 Just micromanaging every little task. 32:13.000 --> 32:14.480 Just like, hey, why didn't you go over here? 32:14.480 --> 32:15.720 Why didn't you run over here? 32:15.720 --> 32:17.700 It would just drive you insane. 32:17.700 --> 32:19.400 It would drive you insane. 32:19.400 --> 32:20.980 And you know who would pass that test? 32:20.980 --> 32:21.980 No one. 32:22.100 --> 32:28.340 Because no one can survive constant scrutiny, constant complaining, constant ridicule, 32:28.340 --> 32:31.300 constant just bringing this stuff up. And so you should just stop. 32:32.900 --> 32:38.980 The person that's smart will just not be constantly criticizing and constantly attacking 32:38.980 --> 32:45.540 and constantly despising and constantly mad. You know, the Bible says that anger rests in the 32:45.540 --> 32:46.500 bosom of fools. 32:48.100 --> 32:51.860 There's some people that are just mad all day, every day, 32:51.860 --> 32:53.260 and they're just mad at everyone, 32:53.260 --> 32:55.100 and mad at every life situation, 32:55.100 --> 32:57.020 and they're just so frustrated, 32:57.020 --> 32:58.740 yet they don't want to work on themselves, 32:58.740 --> 33:00.740 they just want to criticize everybody else. 33:00.740 --> 33:04.620 And their world is bad because everybody else is bad. 33:04.620 --> 33:08.860 It's just, it's just, it's a wasted life, 33:08.860 --> 33:10.180 just being mad at everybody all the time. 33:10.180 --> 33:11.420 Go to Proverbs chapter 17, 33:11.420 --> 33:13.380 go to Proverbs chapter 17 verse 28. 33:15.800 --> 33:18.800 Look at verse 28. 33:18.800 --> 33:19.640 What does the Bible say? 33:19.640 --> 33:25.320 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise. 33:25.320 --> 33:30.000 And he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. 33:30.000 --> 33:34.880 I mean, how many bioverses do I have to show you before we just say, all right, 33:34.880 --> 33:35.680 case in point? 33:36.100 --> 33:39.200 But we're going to we're going to like talk about some sins in the mouth here. 33:39.200 --> 33:42.540 OK, I'm just trying to show you this is we already learned the great truth. 33:42.540 --> 33:44.280 What's the great truth of the Bible? 33:44.280 --> 33:47.880 Sometimes you need to just shut up. 33:47.880 --> 33:50.920 Shut your stupid mouth. 33:50.920 --> 33:55.080 And man, just we need so many people to just shut up. 33:55.660 --> 34:01.420 Quit talking, quit criticizing, quit bringing up whatever you think. 34:01.800 --> 34:03.560 Well, I think I don't care. 34:04.400 --> 34:06.400 It's probably stupid. 34:06.400 --> 34:08.400 It's probably wrong. 34:08.400 --> 34:10.400 You know, everybody just wants to 34:10.400 --> 34:12.400 commentate on everything 34:12.400 --> 34:14.400 and share their opinion on everything. 34:14.400 --> 34:16.400 And look, there are 34:16.400 --> 34:18.400 some people in this world that we should be 34:18.400 --> 34:20.400 listening to on a regular basis. 34:20.400 --> 34:22.100 The wise people of this world. 34:22.200 --> 34:27.200 But you know, unfortunately, we just have just a lot of fools commentating on everything, 34:27.200 --> 34:33.700 and we have a lot of idiots and grifters and just bad people commentating on everything, 34:33.700 --> 34:35.700 and it's frustrating. 34:35.700 --> 34:39.200 We need people like Job to get up and be commentating on everything. 34:39.200 --> 34:42.200 You know, it used to be that people would care what Job had to say, 34:42.200 --> 34:43.700 and they would listen to what Job had to say. 34:43.700 --> 34:47.200 You know, wise people will hear. A wise man will hear is what the Bible says. 34:47.600 --> 34:49.800 And, you know, going to church is a good thing. 34:49.800 --> 34:52.200 Oh, we should all be preaching. 34:52.200 --> 34:53.500 We should all teach. 34:53.500 --> 34:58.000 It's like, no, maybe we should just get like one guy to, you know, get up and teach the Bible, right? 34:58.000 --> 35:01.100 And we should just listen to him and pay attention to him. 35:01.100 --> 35:04.500 And even then, it's not always great. It's not always right. 35:05.200 --> 35:07.920 But let alone if we just let everybody talk. 35:07.920 --> 35:09.240 And look, I've been in this situation. 35:09.240 --> 35:10.760 It's called life groups. 35:10.760 --> 35:13.000 It's called cell groups at the non-denominational church 35:13.000 --> 35:14.600 where everybody gets to talk 35:14.600 --> 35:16.520 and everybody gets to exert their opinion. 35:16.520 --> 35:18.740 And you know what I found in those meetings? 35:18.740 --> 35:21.640 I just had less respect for everybody after I walked away. 35:21.640 --> 35:22.480 I just like, wow, 35:22.480 --> 35:24.400 I actually kind of thought you were smart. 35:24.500 --> 35:26.900 And then I realized you're an idiot. 35:26.900 --> 35:29.300 I realized you're a really big fool. 35:29.300 --> 35:30.300 But what does the Bible say? 35:30.300 --> 35:33.500 Even a fool, when he holdeth his pieces count of wise, 35:33.500 --> 35:34.500 there's some people in this world 35:34.500 --> 35:36.700 you kind of just think are smart. 35:36.700 --> 35:37.700 And then they open their mouth 35:37.700 --> 35:39.500 and they just prove beyond a shadow of a doubt 35:39.500 --> 35:42.100 that they're not, okay? 35:42.100 --> 35:44.800 You know, probably the biggest example of this 35:44.800 --> 35:46.400 I've ever seen in my entire life 35:46.400 --> 35:48.900 is a guy named Salvador Alvarez, okay? 35:50.600 --> 35:54.600 The guy is just, I mean, he's like a vault when you're around him. 35:54.600 --> 35:58.200 I mean, just never talking, very quiet. 35:58.200 --> 36:00.000 And you just kind of like, what does the Bible say? 36:00.000 --> 36:02.200 Even a fool, when he holds his piece, is kind of like, 36:02.200 --> 36:04.800 like, everybody's just kind of like, man, this guy must be smart. 36:04.800 --> 36:06.000 You know, this guy must be why. 36:06.000 --> 36:08.600 Everybody's just like, yeah, I mean, look, I mean, he's just... 36:08.600 --> 36:10.000 And isn't it funny? 36:10.000 --> 36:13.500 It's like people are considered smart for not talking. 36:13.500 --> 36:15.600 That doesn't even prove anything, honestly. 36:15.900 --> 36:17.500 But it's just how we perceive things. 36:17.500 --> 36:21.400 It's just we kind of like assume this guy must be actually pretty smart. 36:21.400 --> 36:23.100 This guy's pretty wise. 36:23.100 --> 36:28.900 But then every time this guy opens his mouth, he just proves beyond a shadow of a doubt he's a retard. 36:28.900 --> 36:32.900 He's, I mean, he has the worst takes every single time. 36:34.600 --> 36:36.600 And he proves he's incapable of learning. 36:36.600 --> 36:39.240 He's incapable of actually taking correction. 36:39.240 --> 36:43.120 It's one of the most prideful, arrogant punks I've ever seen. 36:43.120 --> 36:47.920 And it just, it baffles me how I would even get, you know, confused by somebody like this, 36:47.920 --> 36:49.280 or tricked by someone like this. 36:49.280 --> 36:53.720 But the Bible's saying, fools can trick us if they would just shut up. 36:53.720 --> 36:57.360 And it's funny, because usually an infiltrator, they always kind of have the same marks. 36:57.360 --> 36:58.840 They were like really quiet. 36:59.500 --> 37:03.020 And then it's like once they start opening their mouth they can't control themselves. 37:03.020 --> 37:07.820 You're just like wow I just I kind of thought you were different when you were when you were quiet. 37:07.820 --> 37:12.540 Okay now that you're talking like and this is the thing when you hear someone talk a lot 37:12.540 --> 37:18.140 they can't really hide who they are. You know what someone's like when you have a lot to work with. 37:18.140 --> 37:19.340 Okay. 37:20.000 --> 37:22.200 I, it's pretty hard for me to hide who I am. 37:22.200 --> 37:24.480 You kind of know who I am at this point, all right? 37:24.480 --> 37:26.360 You kind of, you kind of get what you see. 37:26.360 --> 37:28.000 But at the end of the day, 37:28.000 --> 37:29.960 you know, someone that you haven't heard speak a lot 37:29.960 --> 37:31.520 or you haven't heard talk a lot, 37:31.520 --> 37:34.280 sometimes you can, you know, be misled. 37:34.280 --> 37:35.600 You know, maybe that's a good idea 37:35.600 --> 37:37.000 if you're dating someone. 37:37.400 --> 37:39.400 to have a lot of conversations. 37:39.400 --> 37:41.720 Because the more conversations you have with someone 37:41.720 --> 37:43.520 when you're dating, it's just probably gonna give you 37:43.520 --> 37:47.840 a better idea of what they're like or who they are, 37:47.840 --> 37:49.800 what they think about things. 37:49.800 --> 37:53.240 I know me and my wife, we had lots of conversations dating. 37:53.240 --> 37:55.120 We talked about pretty much everything. 37:55.120 --> 37:59.560 We talked about kids and church and religion and salvation 37:59.560 --> 38:01.560 and just all kinds of different subjects. 38:01.560 --> 38:03.080 So, you know, when we get married, 38:03.080 --> 38:05.400 we're not like really surprised. 38:05.400 --> 38:07.160 by our personal opinions. 38:07.160 --> 38:10.120 We're not really surprised about our life decisions 38:10.120 --> 38:12.000 because we've already had those conversations. 38:12.000 --> 38:13.840 We've already talked about them. 38:13.840 --> 38:15.720 We've already kind of figured out 38:15.720 --> 38:17.280 where we settle on those issues. 38:17.280 --> 38:19.400 And so my advice would be heavily 38:19.400 --> 38:22.360 that in the dating phase, you talk to each other a lot. 38:22.360 --> 38:25.800 And not just like vain stuff, like you're so cute. 38:26.600 --> 38:29.200 You know, hey, you can put that in there if you want, 38:29.200 --> 38:32.080 but you know, maybe have some like real conversations. 38:32.080 --> 38:34.760 Now I'm not saying on the first date, 38:34.760 --> 38:36.520 in the first moments, you're like, 38:36.520 --> 38:38.520 what do you think about Jews and reprobates? 38:38.520 --> 38:39.640 Okay? 38:39.640 --> 38:41.640 Maybe that's a little over the top. 38:41.640 --> 38:42.960 But look, if she's just like, 38:42.960 --> 38:44.240 wow, this is my favorite subject, 38:44.240 --> 38:45.400 just get married, okay? 38:45.400 --> 38:48.360 You don't even have to worry at that point. 38:48.360 --> 38:50.480 I mean, you've already locked it in, okay? 38:52.120 --> 38:52.700 But. 38:52.900 --> 38:56.100 At the end of the day, you know, conversation tells us who you are. 38:57.220 --> 38:59.540 And, you know, if you want to be a wise person, 38:59.980 --> 39:03.780 you need to talk less and you need to insert your opinion less. 39:04.060 --> 39:06.540 OK, you know, give your opinion when it's asked for. 39:07.380 --> 39:10.140 Unsolicited advice is just irritating to everyone. 39:10.700 --> 39:15.140 And you know, pastor Jack Hiles, he would often say, 39:15.140 --> 39:16.740 and a lot of these pastors would often say, 39:16.740 --> 39:18.980 you should never give unsolicited advice. 39:18.980 --> 39:23.020 And he would say this to pastors for their congregation. 39:23.020 --> 39:24.020 So think about this. 39:24.020 --> 39:26.100 Like a pastor has some level of authority 39:26.100 --> 39:27.660 over the congregation, and he's saying, 39:27.660 --> 39:29.540 I don't think you should be giving unsolicited advice 39:29.540 --> 39:31.500 to people in their personal lives and stuff. 39:31.500 --> 39:32.340 We're not talking about preaching. 39:32.340 --> 39:34.420 We're just talking about unsolicited advice 39:34.420 --> 39:36.460 to people in their lives that you should just 39:36.460 --> 39:37.620 refrain from that. 39:37.900 --> 39:42.540 then how much more all of us in other contexts, right? 39:42.540 --> 39:47.660 How much more should children not give unsolicited advice to their parents? 39:47.660 --> 39:53.580 How much should single guys not give advice on marriage and child rearing? 39:53.580 --> 39:57.340 How much should people that don't have kids to parents? 39:57.700 --> 40:02.100 I mean, there's a lot of people that would love to commentate on your parenting when they don't have it. 40:02.100 --> 40:06.860 Or employers to their boss when they don't own a company. 40:06.860 --> 40:08.960 I mean, it's just like infinite scenarios. 40:08.960 --> 40:13.100 Or, you know, maybe a wife to her husband, he didn't ask, honey. 40:13.100 --> 40:15.900 So don't worry about it. 40:15.900 --> 40:21.900 It's just so frustrating how people just want to offer all this unsolicited advice and just all this information, 40:21.900 --> 40:24.800 instead of just shutting up. Just shut up. 40:26.000 --> 40:28.240 So the Bible teaches. 40:28.240 --> 40:29.240 Shut your lips. 40:29.240 --> 40:32.460 I mean, I could just go to verses after verses. 40:32.460 --> 40:33.720 I proved the point. 40:33.720 --> 40:35.280 So let's talk about sins of the mouth now. 40:35.280 --> 40:37.960 Now again, I'm just going to give you just high level. 40:37.960 --> 40:40.600 We're not even going to go to verses right this second. 40:40.600 --> 40:43.280 If you would, why don't you just go to Acts chapter 20. 40:43.280 --> 40:44.680 We're going to go to Acts 20 here in a minute. 40:44.680 --> 40:46.860 But I'm just going to list some sins. 40:46.860 --> 40:50.200 Now the first category of sins we're not going to deal with. 40:50.300 --> 40:53.900 this morning because I don't think it's even that needful. 40:53.900 --> 41:00.620 We pretty much just all agree anyways, but it would be a category of sinful or perverted things 41:00.620 --> 41:08.220 that you say. So just saying outright sinful things or perverted things is obviously sin. 41:08.220 --> 41:13.340 Okay, what is one of the biggest examples of this? Pride. Just saying prideful things is a sin. 41:13.800 --> 41:15.140 being proud. 41:15.140 --> 41:17.640 And the Bible just constantly condemns this. 41:17.640 --> 41:18.640 You know, the Bible says, 41:18.640 --> 41:21.480 let another man praise thee and not thine own lips. 41:21.480 --> 41:23.900 You should just never be complimenting yourself, 41:23.900 --> 41:27.100 praising yourself, lifting yourself up. 41:27.100 --> 41:29.700 Like, this is just not something that we should be doing. 41:29.700 --> 41:31.600 And this is what prideful people do. 41:31.600 --> 41:33.500 I'm the greatest. 41:33.500 --> 41:35.000 I'm the best. 41:35.000 --> 41:36.340 I'm terrific. 41:36.340 --> 41:38.600 Every time he says that, it's a sin. 41:39.300 --> 41:41.060 But he's just prideful. 41:41.060 --> 41:46.140 I mean, Donald Trump can almost not go without sinning by speaking. 41:46.140 --> 41:50.620 I don't even know if the guy has made any speech where he's not sinning, because every 41:50.620 --> 41:54.020 single speech is filled with pride. 41:54.020 --> 41:56.420 And the Bible says this is an abomination to God. 41:57.200 --> 42:03.200 Just the look itself is an abomination to God, let alone the statements themselves. 42:03.200 --> 42:07.700 And the constant boasting and the constant praise of himself. 42:07.700 --> 42:10.700 And he's just the greatest, repeatedly. 42:10.700 --> 42:15.700 And look, I get that some of it's hyperbole, and I'm not fully against hyperbole. 42:15.700 --> 42:20.200 But let's just be honest, Donald Trump is a bad example of how to communicate. 42:21.100 --> 42:23.260 People will say, oh, he's such a gifted communicator. 42:23.260 --> 42:25.500 Well, he's a very sinful communicator. 42:25.500 --> 42:27.660 And let me tell you something, he is not a good communicator, 42:27.660 --> 42:29.980 because almost everything that comes out of that man's mouth 42:29.980 --> 42:35.100 is a prideful, boastful statement that should never be said by anyone. 42:36.200 --> 42:40.520 And you know, it's a bad attitude, and we should have a humble attitude, and we shouldn't 42:40.520 --> 42:43.720 be praising ourselves and lifting ourselves up. 42:43.720 --> 42:48.400 And we used to have leaders and men in this country that would not praise themselves, 42:48.400 --> 42:51.960 that would not boast of their accomplishments, and actually had a humble view of themselves. 42:51.960 --> 42:57.280 And you know, it's a shame and embarrassment that we live in a country that idolizes and 42:57.280 --> 43:01.000 worships men that boast and pride themselves of everything they do. 43:02.100 --> 43:06.100 It's disgusting. It's a disgusting attitude. It's an unchristian attitude. 43:06.100 --> 43:10.100 Here's another one. Envy. You saying anything to envy people. 43:10.500 --> 43:16.000 perverseness of any kind, lewdness of any kind, just abominations. 43:16.000 --> 43:20.000 There's all kinds of abominable things that people say repeatedly. 43:20.000 --> 43:27.000 I mean, just rap music in general, everything the sodomite community is saying is despicable and wicked, 43:27.000 --> 43:34.500 things which ought not be spoken or said or described or talked about, you know, just horrific, awful. 43:34.600 --> 43:37.000 undescribable, unimaginable things. 43:37.000 --> 43:39.400 Here's another one, murmuring and complaining. 43:40.500 --> 43:42.100 Often I think you forget, 43:42.100 --> 43:46.400 God got so mad at people murmuring and complaining, 43:46.400 --> 43:48.900 that He punished them grievously. 43:49.800 --> 43:52.100 And the Bible says that God hated it. 43:52.100 --> 43:53.800 God hates the murmuring. 43:53.800 --> 43:57.700 God sent snakes to kill you for murmuring. 43:59.100 --> 44:02.300 I mean like, I thought that women hated snakes. 44:02.900 --> 44:06.180 It's not snakes on a plane, it's snakes wherever you're at. 44:06.180 --> 44:08.220 It's like, hey, you want some snakes in your life? 44:08.220 --> 44:11.540 Complain and murmur, and God could send fiery serpents 44:11.540 --> 44:16.460 to come in and kill you for just complaining and murmuring. 44:16.460 --> 44:18.300 And look, they were murmuring, complaining, 44:18.300 --> 44:21.340 walking through a wilderness. 44:21.340 --> 44:23.460 How much AC do you think they had? 44:25.800 --> 44:28.360 How do you think the accommodations were? 44:29.400 --> 44:31.400 Oh, well, we didn't have the nicest car. 44:31.400 --> 44:33.400 How nice a car do you think they had? 44:34.000 --> 44:36.800 I mean, at best, what, a Camel or something? 44:36.800 --> 44:38.400 I mean, like, I... 44:39.000 --> 44:45.920 Look, God hates complaining, God hates murmuring, and it's just so frustrating when you're around 44:45.920 --> 44:51.240 someone that's just constantly murmuring and constantly complaining, constantly talking 44:51.240 --> 44:54.440 under their breath and just mad about everything. 44:54.440 --> 44:57.960 The Bible says this is an ungodly attitude. 44:57.960 --> 44:59.220 It's a sin. 44:59.220 --> 45:01.640 Every time you're murmuring, it's a sinning. 45:01.640 --> 45:03.440 Every time you're complaining, it's sinning. 45:04.500 --> 45:07.260 But people don't care, they just do it all day long, don't they? 45:07.260 --> 45:08.260 No. 45:08.260 --> 45:11.580 Flattery. Flattery is another sin. 45:11.580 --> 45:15.100 Where you say something insincere to compliment someone. 45:15.100 --> 45:16.780 Foolish talking. 45:16.780 --> 45:19.900 I would categorize this as saying something stupid. 45:19.900 --> 45:22.580 So every documentary on the flat earth is a sin. 45:22.580 --> 45:28.500 Just talking about it in any way other than contempt and ridicule is a sin. 45:29.400 --> 45:38.160 jesting. So this would be, you know, just some kind of a making a joke, but it's not 45:38.160 --> 45:42.780 saying like making jokes that are sinful, but it's just basically like an inappropriate 45:42.780 --> 45:51.860 joke or some kind of like making something serious like a joke, just not taking it seriously 45:51.860 --> 45:54.820 enough, just kind of like... 45:55.700 --> 45:58.820 taking something and profaning it by jesting about it. 45:58.820 --> 46:00.900 You know, the fools make a mock at sin. 46:00.900 --> 46:02.500 It's kind of like what the Bible says. 46:02.500 --> 46:04.460 So I would put this in the category of jesting, 46:04.460 --> 46:07.020 where people are basically just making fun of things 46:07.020 --> 46:08.700 that shouldn't be made fun of, 46:08.700 --> 46:11.720 that are inappropriate, don't really fit. 46:11.720 --> 46:14.000 You know, making fun of your boss at work 46:14.000 --> 46:16.060 just to make fun of him isn't cool. 46:16.300 --> 46:20.140 You know, making fun of people when there's nothing they can do about it. 46:20.140 --> 46:22.300 You know, just making fun of someone because they're blind. 46:22.300 --> 46:23.500 Not cool. 46:23.500 --> 46:26.140 Making fun of someone because they're deaf, because they're deaf. 46:26.140 --> 46:27.340 Not cool. 46:27.340 --> 46:32.140 OK, just constantly making like what if someone were making fun of church 46:32.140 --> 46:37.580 or or their pastor or whatever, you know, the Bible or the things of God? 46:37.580 --> 46:39.980 Like, that's not cool. Like, I don't want jokes. 46:40.400 --> 46:43.200 that are making light of the God of the Bible, 46:43.200 --> 46:46.000 or putting down the Bible, or putting down Christians. 46:46.000 --> 46:48.200 You know, that crosses the line, 46:48.200 --> 46:50.200 and we shouldn't be jesting about those kind of things. 46:50.200 --> 46:54.000 We shouldn't be a jester, okay? 46:54.000 --> 46:59.400 Whispering, backbiting, making an oath and breaking it. 46:59.400 --> 47:02.200 So if you make a promise, if you make a vow and you don't do it, 47:02.200 --> 47:03.200 it's a sin. 47:03.200 --> 47:05.600 Idle words, sin. 47:05.600 --> 47:06.500 I mean, just... 47:07.100 --> 47:10.940 I already feel convicted just on this list alone. 47:10.940 --> 47:12.220 But it's going to get, there's a lot more. 47:12.220 --> 47:14.860 I mean, there's so much that you could do 47:14.860 --> 47:16.780 with your mouth that's a sin. 47:16.780 --> 47:19.260 And the Bible, I mean, describes the tongue 47:19.260 --> 47:21.180 as like an unruly member. 47:21.820 --> 47:23.980 It's just something that can't even be tamed 47:23.980 --> 47:25.340 because it's just so difficult. 47:25.340 --> 47:27.100 That's why it's like, you should probably just shut up 47:28.220 --> 47:31.340 because using it is just so difficult. 47:31.900 --> 47:35.300 in the sense of like not sinning because there's just so many opportunities for sin 47:35.300 --> 47:38.460 and the world is sinning through their tongue so much 47:38.460 --> 47:41.940 so often it's just a regular basis 47:41.940 --> 47:46.900 alright now I want to move to a different category okay so we talked about just things 47:46.900 --> 47:47.580 if you're 47:47.580 --> 47:51.500 obviously talking about sin or just outright sinning through your mouth or talking about 47:51.500 --> 47:52.420 perverted things like 47:52.420 --> 47:57.100 that's obviously an issue but here's another way that you can send it to a big category 47:57.100 --> 47:58.900 in the Bible is just saying things that are not true 47:59.900 --> 48:02.900 Okay, so one of those would be just lying. 48:02.900 --> 48:05.400 Lying is a sin, obviously. 48:05.400 --> 48:08.400 Okay, I don't know if that's controversial or not. 48:09.900 --> 48:16.400 And I would say, you know, and I'm trying to be very technical in this sermon, but... 48:16.500 --> 48:21.500 The only way I could say that, like, there's a couple of ways that we could look at lying, 48:21.500 --> 48:24.500 in a sense, where it would not necessarily be a sin. 48:24.500 --> 48:29.500 So if you're quoting someone's lie, then I do not believe that's a sin. 48:29.500 --> 48:34.500 And so the Bible records people making false statements. 48:34.900 --> 48:41.300 And so sometimes, you know, we have to be careful how we word these things and we want to approach the context, you know, diligently. 48:41.300 --> 48:45.600 But, you know, we could say that the Bible contains people lying. 48:45.600 --> 48:46.200 Yeah. 48:46.200 --> 48:55.200 You know, if someone, I've even said this before, it's probably not the best wording, but it's like the Bible contains lies only in the context of people being recorded as lying. 48:55.200 --> 48:57.900 Obviously, the Bible itself, though, is 100% true. 48:58.200 --> 49:01.480 So it'd be like a transcript in a courtroom 49:01.480 --> 49:06.920 that's just recording everything that's spoken by the people that are testifying. 49:06.920 --> 49:09.320 Someone gets on the witness stand and they said X, Y, and Z. 49:09.320 --> 49:11.560 They're just recording a transcript of that. 49:11.560 --> 49:14.280 Everything they said is true. The transcript is true. 49:15.000 --> 49:18.840 Even though the transcript's recording someone that lied on the witness stand. 49:19.400 --> 49:22.280 Okay, so we have to understand that the Bible is true. 49:23.000 --> 49:30.100 Everything the Bible says is 100% true, but it records people lying. 49:30.100 --> 49:34.200 So it truthfully and 100% accurately records people lying. 49:34.200 --> 49:40.100 So there's nothing wrong with recording or representing or quoting someone lying. 49:40.100 --> 49:41.300 Okay. 49:41.300 --> 49:48.100 That's different than me repeating someone's lie as if it were true. 49:48.100 --> 49:49.800 Okay, so we have to be careful with that. 49:50.100 --> 49:56.800 If I hear gossip and then I'm repeating what other people are saying, 49:56.800 --> 50:00.300 as if it's true, that's a sin. 50:00.300 --> 50:02.900 That would be railing if it's not true. 50:02.900 --> 50:04.800 Okay, and we'll get to that in a minute. 50:04.800 --> 50:07.800 This is why newspapers, you have to understand how our society even works. 50:07.800 --> 50:09.100 Our society understands this. 50:09.100 --> 50:10.200 America understands this. 50:10.200 --> 50:11.900 The legal system understands this. 50:11.900 --> 50:14.500 That's why anybody that's accused of a crime... 50:14.900 --> 50:20.500 the newspaper will say so-and-so is allegedly guilty of X, Y, and Z. 50:21.220 --> 50:22.980 Why do they say allegedly? 50:22.980 --> 50:26.740 Because they're saying someone is making this accusation. 50:26.740 --> 50:31.540 But they're not saying it's true because if a newspaper just got up and said so-and-so guilty of murder. 50:31.700 --> 50:34.200 And it turns out that that was not true. 50:34.200 --> 50:37.400 They can sue that newspaper for libel and for slander, 50:37.400 --> 50:39.100 and they can get lots of money from them. 50:39.100 --> 50:43.000 So they have to say, so-and-so is allegedly guilty of murder, 50:43.000 --> 50:46.200 or so-and-so has been accused of murder 50:46.200 --> 50:50.800 because they don't want to be guilty of railing and lying and slander 50:50.800 --> 50:54.800 because it's an actionable offense by our criminal system, 50:54.800 --> 50:56.500 by our civil system at least, 50:56.500 --> 50:59.700 by the sense that you can be taken to task and you can be s- 50:59.700 --> 51:03.780 sued and you could lose a lot of money for damaging someone's reputation for 51:03.780 --> 51:11.820 repeating lies about them. Now again, them accurately recording someone making a 51:11.820 --> 51:18.740 statement, not a sin. Them alleging the statement as true when it finds out that 51:18.740 --> 51:24.020 it's false is a sin. So if the paper says so and so accused so and so of this, 51:24.500 --> 51:28.500 That's not a sin. That's just a fact. That's just recording the information. 51:28.500 --> 51:32.500 Them just getting rid of that context and just asserting that statement. 51:32.500 --> 51:38.500 This person is guilty of X, Y, and Z. Well now they changed from being a record reporter, 51:38.500 --> 51:43.500 from a transcriber to making a statement, and if that statement turns out to be false, 51:43.500 --> 51:45.500 they're lying and that would be wrong. 51:45.500 --> 51:48.500 Okay, so we have to understand, I know I'm really spelling it out and I'm being slow here 51:48.500 --> 51:50.500 because I want people to understand this point. 51:50.500 --> 51:52.500 I want us to walk away and understand 51:52.500 --> 51:55.380 how the world works and how the Bible works, okay? 51:56.380 --> 51:58.460 Here's the only other caveat 51:58.460 --> 52:01.020 that I've recently reconsidered 52:01.020 --> 52:04.220 because I've always said like lying is this end period 52:04.220 --> 52:06.340 and I've genuinely believed that, 52:06.340 --> 52:09.860 but I could see how someone could make this argument 52:09.860 --> 52:12.180 and I think it's somewhat legitimate 52:12.180 --> 52:15.980 that if you were in a pressured situation 52:15.980 --> 52:18.060 like war type situation. 52:18.200 --> 52:22.360 a law enforcement situation, or you're under the threat of death, 52:22.360 --> 52:25.560 I could see how lying could be justified in that context. 52:25.560 --> 52:30.200 Only because it's like, it's not right for me to kill someone, right? 52:30.200 --> 52:32.760 It's not right for me to murder someone, that's illegal. 52:32.760 --> 52:35.000 But if someone were threatening my life, 52:35.000 --> 52:39.400 I can defend myself properly up to including... 52:39.600 --> 52:42.760 you know, killing them, okay, 52:42.760 --> 52:45.440 that I could stand my ground and I could use a gun. 52:45.440 --> 52:47.900 So it would be weird to think 52:47.900 --> 52:50.040 that someone could break into my house 52:50.040 --> 52:52.360 and I could put a bullet in their head, 52:52.360 --> 52:54.680 but I couldn't tell them a lie, right? 52:54.680 --> 52:57.080 Isn't that kind of weird to think about the fact like, 52:57.080 --> 52:59.000 if someone broke into my house with a gun 52:59.000 --> 53:01.080 and was trying to kill me and my family, 53:01.080 --> 53:02.880 that I couldn't be like, look over there, 53:02.880 --> 53:04.680 and then I shoot them in the head or something. 53:05.200 --> 53:07.200 Like, what's that over there, you know? 53:07.200 --> 53:10.200 And they just distract them that that would have been a sin, 53:10.200 --> 53:13.200 but shooting them in the head was cool. 53:13.200 --> 53:17.200 It's like, I think God's okay with that type of misdirection, 53:17.200 --> 53:21.200 considering the fact that God literally tells the children of Israel 53:21.200 --> 53:23.200 to send spies into the land. 53:23.800 --> 53:31.160 Isn't that somewhat misleading? Isn't that something like a little bit not being completely upfront with who they are since they're actual 53:31.160 --> 53:38.520 spies in the land? But again, this is a war type situation where they're basically using these tactics for 53:39.400 --> 53:46.400 military perspective. Look, when you're not in the military under threat of death, you're not law enforcement 53:46.900 --> 53:49.200 We're putting your life on the line. 53:49.200 --> 53:50.600 And again, I'm not saying cops should lie. 53:50.600 --> 53:51.800 Don't get me wrong, okay? 53:51.800 --> 53:55.300 I'm just saying, like, if a cop were an undercover cop, 53:55.300 --> 53:57.800 isn't that lying? 53:57.800 --> 53:59.300 But is that really a sin? 53:59.600 --> 54:01.600 I don't think it's necessarily a sin. 54:01.600 --> 54:03.600 And hey, I'm not even mad at the undercover cops. 54:03.600 --> 54:07.600 I'm not mad that police officers are going online 54:07.600 --> 54:10.600 and pretending to be some horrible person 54:10.600 --> 54:13.600 to catch literal pedophiles and criminals. 54:13.600 --> 54:16.600 I mean, I'm not going to say, let's shut down the pedophile catching 54:16.600 --> 54:18.600 because those cops are lying. 54:18.600 --> 54:20.600 Okay? I'm kind of okay with it. 54:20.600 --> 54:22.600 Who's okay with that? 54:22.600 --> 54:24.600 Yeah. I'm just mad that they didn't execute him. 54:24.600 --> 54:26.100 You know what I mean? 54:26.200 --> 54:30.200 Like, I'm not mad that they caught them, I'm just mad that they didn't execute them afterwards, 54:30.200 --> 54:34.840 because I'm thinking like, not only should you catch these freaks, we should execute them too. 54:34.840 --> 54:37.800 Hey, I'm not mad at Chris Hansen's to catch a Predator show. 54:38.840 --> 54:41.640 You know, I'm not mad at that particular context, okay? 54:42.760 --> 54:44.920 So obviously someone that's worthy of death, 54:45.800 --> 54:50.760 in the situation where you're engaging with them in their criminal act, 54:51.300 --> 54:55.860 I can see how there is a justification to be dishonest towards that person, 54:55.860 --> 55:01.380 so as to prevent further injury or further victimization or whatever. 55:01.700 --> 55:07.060 Now again, I'm not saying that in the situation of the courtroom that we should lie about 55:07.060 --> 55:08.060 them. 55:08.060 --> 55:09.380 I don't think we should plant evidence on them. 55:09.380 --> 55:13.860 I don't think that we should do something criminal or weird or over the top. 55:13.860 --> 55:19.340 But I'm just saying in a situation where you're in the moment, it's under pressure, there's 55:19.340 --> 55:23.940 a real threat of death or whatever, or we're trying to catch literal pedophiles and predators 55:23.940 --> 55:26.460 and murderers, I think that there could be an exception. 55:26.460 --> 55:29.220 I think the Bible shows that exception repeatedly. 55:29.220 --> 55:29.660 Okay? 55:29.700 --> 55:34.700 So, I've kind of changed my mind in that particular context. 55:34.700 --> 55:36.700 And I'm just trying to be honest with the text. 55:36.700 --> 55:43.700 But everything else, I think lying is just wrong, it's a sin, we shouldn't be doing it whatsoever. 55:44.800 --> 55:50.240 Bearing false witness is a variation of lying, and it's also a sin. 55:50.240 --> 55:55.040 Okay? So, you could just be lying to someone about yourself, right? 55:55.040 --> 55:56.320 You could just say anything. 55:56.320 --> 55:59.200 Bearing false witness is a little bit different in some ways, 55:59.200 --> 56:05.200 that you're testifying about someone else doing something, and you're lying about it. 56:05.200 --> 56:10.400 You know, this would be like going on the witness stand and lying about someone. 56:10.400 --> 56:12.720 Making public videos, lying. 56:12.800 --> 56:18.680 about someone so as to try and get them in trouble, you have the two sodomites who lie 56:18.680 --> 56:24.280 about Naboth and they bear false witness to try and get him executed and of course they're 56:24.280 --> 56:26.400 successful in doing so. 56:26.400 --> 56:28.280 Oh, I thought two witnesses are always true. 56:28.280 --> 56:30.040 No, that's not what the Bible teaches ever. 56:30.600 --> 56:35.400 Never said that. It said that you have to have that at a minimum for it to even possibly be true. 56:35.400 --> 56:38.200 It doesn't say two witnesses automatically true. 56:38.200 --> 56:44.000 It says if you don't have two witnesses, never count it for anything worthy of actually executing. 56:44.000 --> 56:45.800 You can't ever execute... 56:46.300 --> 56:49.500 some serious offense based on one witness. 56:49.500 --> 56:52.500 If you have two witnesses, you still have to make sure they agree 56:52.500 --> 56:54.800 and fit reality and there's due diligence. 56:54.800 --> 56:57.400 It doesn't say two witnesses, automatically true. 56:57.400 --> 56:59.100 Never says that in the Bible. 56:59.100 --> 57:05.100 It's not, it's not necessarily proven unless we can verify with other information. 57:05.100 --> 57:09.000 Now, if you have two reliable witnesses and you can't, 57:09.000 --> 57:10.900 you can't go against their testimony, 57:10.900 --> 57:14.200 then the Bible says it's sufficient to them be considered true. 57:14.600 --> 57:20.940 But if you have two witnesses and then it's contradicted by a multitude of other witnesses and facts and reality 57:20.940 --> 57:25.340 and they're not actually agreeing, well then we just throw that out and say they're both lying. 57:26.500 --> 57:28.180 Did you realize that two people can lie? 57:28.180 --> 57:28.680 Yeah. 57:29.180 --> 57:33.580 There's more than one person in this world that can lie and you could have two people lying about you. 57:36.700 --> 57:39.500 In fact, they sought out many false witnesses against Jesus. 57:39.500 --> 57:42.000 Isn't it funny that they tried to get many false witnesses 57:42.000 --> 57:45.200 and they still couldn't even get in their stories right? 57:45.200 --> 57:46.700 You know what's funny about false witnesses? 57:46.700 --> 57:51.000 It's usually a false witness doesn't even agree with themselves 57:51.000 --> 57:52.300 because they're lying. 57:52.300 --> 57:55.300 So obviously in the court, in a court situation, a legal situation, 57:55.300 --> 57:57.800 what they do is they try to get a deposition from someone. 57:57.800 --> 58:01.000 And what a deposition is, they try to record what you think 58:01.000 --> 58:04.100 and what happened in the situation months before the trial. 58:04.300 --> 58:08.300 So then that way when they actually get in the courtroom, you can't change your story. 58:08.300 --> 58:12.300 And if you do change your story, then they'll point it out and they'll say, 58:12.300 --> 58:18.300 we need to strike this witness from the record because they've shown that they've impeached themselves 58:18.300 --> 58:20.300 and they're not actually saying the same thing. 58:20.300 --> 58:25.300 And when they impeach themselves, their testimony is struck from the record. 58:25.300 --> 58:28.300 They can't even testify anymore because they changed their story. 58:29.200 --> 58:31.000 So that's why it's important to get an early testimony. 58:31.000 --> 58:33.800 It's funny, it's like, hey, this person said this one year ago, 58:33.800 --> 58:36.000 and now they're saying something completely different. 58:36.000 --> 58:38.500 That's impeaching themselves. 58:38.500 --> 58:41.200 And here's the thing, if you were guilty, if you were, 58:41.200 --> 58:43.900 like, not guilty, I'm saying, but if you were on trial 58:43.900 --> 58:45.500 and you're considered the defendant, you're considered 58:45.500 --> 58:48.200 the one with the accusation against you, they have to 58:48.200 --> 58:52.000 actually prove it before the burden of proof shifts to you. 58:52.000 --> 58:52.500 OK? 58:52.500 --> 58:54.400 And in many cases, you can plead the fifth, meaning you 58:54.400 --> 58:56.000 don't even have to testify for yourself. 58:56.700 --> 59:04.200 So if there's four witnesses against you, there's four witnesses, and they're going to testify against you in a court of law, 59:04.200 --> 59:12.700 and we impeach all four witnesses, meaning they've proven themselves to not be honest with their own record, they've all been struck with record, 59:12.700 --> 59:18.200 there's no reason for you to even go to the defense because there's no prosecution. The trial's over. 59:18.200 --> 59:22.700 Oh, we've already struck all four witnesses. Okay, we just, we move to dismiss. 59:23.400 --> 59:25.000 and they would just dismiss the case. 59:25.000 --> 59:26.700 You would never even have to go on the stand. 59:26.700 --> 59:28.500 You would never have to defend yourself from anything 59:28.500 --> 59:30.800 because they've already proven themselves to be false. 59:32.800 --> 59:34.900 And look, it's obviously a sin to bear false witness. 59:34.900 --> 59:37.300 You know what the Bible says the punishment is for a false witness? 59:37.300 --> 59:40.300 That they receive the punishment that you would have gotten. 59:40.300 --> 59:41.100 Yep. 59:42.100 --> 59:43.300 That's serious. 59:43.300 --> 59:47.300 If we actually did that to people, I think there'd be a lot less false accusations. 59:48.300 --> 59:50.400 At least they wouldn't be able to be repeat offenders. 59:50.600 --> 59:52.100 Here's another one, heresy. 59:52.100 --> 59:56.100 Heresy, saying things that are not true about the Bible would be heresy. 59:56.100 --> 01:00:03.100 Now, the word heresy, I don't know that it actually has an agreed upon definition, okay? 01:00:03.100 --> 01:00:09.100 Some people would say heresy is just like anything false. 01:00:09.900 --> 01:00:14.780 from a doctrinal perspective, just like any false doctrine, at any layer, at any level. 01:00:14.780 --> 01:00:17.180 I kind of lean into this camp. 01:00:17.180 --> 01:00:22.380 So when you hear me using this word, I tend to mean it in that sense, okay? 01:00:23.500 --> 01:00:30.100 Some people reserve heresy for just like very big doctrinal issues. 01:00:30.100 --> 01:00:33.700 Just like very, very off doctrinal issues. 01:00:33.700 --> 01:00:39.700 And somehow, like minor issues or minor things that are wrong, they wouldn't call it, quote, heresy. 01:00:39.700 --> 01:00:43.900 And they'll even reserve the word heretic for someone that has major issues. 01:00:44.800 --> 01:00:51.500 Now, I would probably agree that we should probably not throw out the word heretic for someone that's even off-doctrinally. 01:00:51.500 --> 01:00:53.500 So, like, case in point. 01:00:53.500 --> 01:00:56.500 I think that the preacher of rapture, personally, is heresy. 01:00:56.500 --> 01:00:57.500 Okay? 01:00:57.500 --> 01:01:05.500 But I wouldn't call every preacher, rapture believer, or like every pastor that hears that, as a heretic. 01:01:05.500 --> 01:01:06.500 Okay? 01:01:06.500 --> 01:01:09.400 So, I kind of make that distinction as well. 01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:14.160 But some people would just be like so careful that they they really only reserve 01:01:14.720 --> 01:01:18.560 Heresy for like what the Bible describes as damnable heresy 01:01:18.640 --> 01:01:22.960 But to me that distinction is made in the text because there is a distinction in the text 01:01:23.120 --> 01:01:27.200 So I think that there's Daniel heresy which I would for sure call you a heretic 01:01:27.200 --> 01:01:33.400 And then I think they're just heresy is just anything is false. Okay, that's just kind of my personal understanding this but 01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:37.500 Regardless of how you define these words or how you classify these things. It's all sin 01:01:38.500 --> 01:01:40.700 It's all sin. It's all wrong. 01:01:40.700 --> 01:01:44.400 And the Bible even says in Acts 20, look at verse number 30, 01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:46.600 also of your own selves, so men arise, 01:01:46.600 --> 01:01:52.800 speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them. 01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:55.400 So these are people that are saying perverse things. 01:01:55.400 --> 01:02:00.000 Now, I want to go to 1 Timothy 6 as well, 1 Timothy 6. 01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:04.500 A lot of times the Bible does mean this when it says perverse or perverted 01:02:04.500 --> 01:02:09.000 to mean kind of like of a bedroom nature or abominable nature. 01:02:09.000 --> 01:02:14.800 But also the Bible uses the word pervert just to mean twist, corrupt, or do anything wrong. 01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:17.000 So it doesn't even have to be of that nature. 01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:20.000 So again, it's just saying things that are wrong. 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:24.000 So I don't want you to get this idea like, oh, well this preacher... 01:02:24.200 --> 01:02:28.040 didn't say something that's wrong of a bedroom nature, so therefore it's not perverted. 01:02:28.040 --> 01:02:32.040 No, it can be perverted even though it's not of a bedroom nature. 01:02:32.040 --> 01:02:36.880 And he's saying there are preachers perverting the scripture, perverting doctrine, 01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:39.400 to draw away disciples after themselves, 01:02:39.400 --> 01:02:44.440 and that's why it's important to be careful what you're hearing, what you're listening to. 01:02:44.440 --> 01:02:46.920 And we don't want to listen to things that are not true. 01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:50.560 Perverted doctrine. 1 Timothy chapter 6, look at verse 3. 01:02:51.500 --> 01:02:56.140 If any man teach otherwise and consent not to notice this wholesome words, 01:02:56.140 --> 01:02:58.700 even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ in the doctrine, 01:02:58.700 --> 01:03:01.900 which is according to godliness, he is proud. 01:03:02.200 --> 01:03:06.900 knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, 01:03:06.900 --> 01:03:10.100 whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmising, 01:03:10.100 --> 01:03:13.300 perverse disputings of men of corrupted minds, 01:03:13.300 --> 01:03:15.800 and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness, 01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:17.300 from such withdraw thyself." 01:03:17.300 --> 01:03:20.100 Now, this is why I make that statement. 01:03:20.100 --> 01:03:24.300 Notice that it gives an example. 01:03:24.300 --> 01:03:27.600 In verse 5, an example of a bad teaching is what? 01:03:27.600 --> 01:03:29.000 Supposing... 01:03:29.200 --> 01:03:31.200 that gain is godliness. 01:03:31.200 --> 01:03:34.960 But notice it says in verse 5 that this is perverse 01:03:34.960 --> 01:03:37.080 disputings of men of corrupt minds 01:03:37.080 --> 01:03:39.240 and death to the truth, supposing. 01:03:39.240 --> 01:03:44.440 So it's tying this doctrine to the word perverse, 01:03:44.440 --> 01:03:47.560 proving that you can have a perverse doctrine 01:03:47.560 --> 01:03:49.240 that's not about the bedroom. 01:03:49.500 --> 01:03:51.700 Because this is not about a bedroom topic. 01:03:51.700 --> 01:03:54.000 This is not about an abominable topic. 01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:55.900 This is simply a false doctrine. 01:03:55.900 --> 01:03:58.900 And notice the Bible is calling it perverse. 01:03:58.900 --> 01:04:01.600 So then in Acts chapter number 20, 01:04:01.600 --> 01:04:04.900 when it's warning about men speaking perverse things 01:04:04.900 --> 01:04:06.300 to draw away disciples out of them, 01:04:06.300 --> 01:04:09.300 it's not limited to those things of a bedroom nature. 01:04:09.300 --> 01:04:14.100 Now of course, if preachers are getting up saying perverted things of a bedroom nature, 01:04:14.100 --> 01:04:15.900 they're gross too. 01:04:16.200 --> 01:04:21.200 And that's a sin too, and you should be careful of those people, and you should want to stay away from those people. 01:04:21.200 --> 01:04:28.200 But also, the Bible is warning people for reading any kind of perverse doctrine, any kind of perversion, 01:04:28.200 --> 01:04:32.200 perverting the words of God, hey, this is a serious issue. 01:04:32.200 --> 01:04:36.200 And we want to be careful to stay away from those type of individuals. 01:04:36.200 --> 01:04:39.200 And it says, if any man teach otherwise. 01:04:39.500 --> 01:04:44.500 Okay, if anybody teaches anything that's not in the Bible, the Bible says they're prideful, 01:04:44.500 --> 01:04:47.500 they're proud, and they don't know anything. 01:04:47.500 --> 01:04:51.500 And notice that they love to dote about questions, and notice this in stripes of words. 01:04:51.500 --> 01:05:00.500 It's so funny, the people that are bad, they're always trying to quibble over definitions of words. 01:05:01.100 --> 01:05:06.780 and they're just always striving about exactly what this word means or does it not 01:05:06.780 --> 01:05:12.860 or can you use this word or can you not use that word and just it just always is this this pedantic 01:05:13.420 --> 01:05:18.620 stuff and they don't realize that they just butchered the doctrine of the bible by 01:05:19.980 --> 01:05:21.260 having these stripes of words 01:05:21.800 --> 01:05:30.600 They create a strife of words and then they miss the force for the trees and don't realize all the weird doctrine they're actually teaching by changing definitions of words. 01:05:30.600 --> 01:05:33.400 By striving about what a word actually means. 01:05:33.400 --> 01:05:37.000 And it's corrupt, it's wicked, is what the Bible is saying. 01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:38.640 It's saying here specifically, 01:05:38.640 --> 01:05:40.440 "...worth cometh envy." 01:05:40.440 --> 01:05:43.040 So notice, why would someone change the definition of a word? 01:05:43.040 --> 01:05:45.000 Because they're envious of people. 01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:46.440 Because they're prideful. 01:05:46.440 --> 01:05:48.040 Because they want to cause strife. 01:05:48.200 --> 01:05:50.200 And because they want to rail. 01:05:50.200 --> 01:05:54.200 People change the definition of words so they can rail. 01:05:54.200 --> 01:05:58.200 And then it's funny because they change the definition of rail so then they can rail. 01:06:01.500 --> 01:06:08.300 Evil surmising. They changed the definition of rail so then they can evil surmise all day long. 01:06:08.300 --> 01:06:14.100 What's evil surmising? It's just presuming evil on someone that you don't even know about. 01:06:14.100 --> 01:06:17.800 Why just, I just think you're bad because of nothing. 01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:24.300 Based on nothing. I just, I believe something bad about you even though I have no proof or no evidence necessarily. 01:06:24.300 --> 01:06:28.500 You know, again, it's not saying they're making reasonable deductions here. 01:06:28.700 --> 01:06:31.900 Evil surmising is not reasonable deductions. 01:06:31.900 --> 01:06:36.620 It's like, hey, we saw this guy go to the store alone by himself, 01:06:36.620 --> 01:06:40.660 he's on the camera, he has the gun in his possession, 01:06:40.660 --> 01:06:42.540 reasonable deduction, he's the guilty party. 01:06:42.540 --> 01:06:44.820 That's not evil surmising. 01:06:44.820 --> 01:06:48.860 But it's just like, hey, there was a robbery from the store, 01:06:48.860 --> 01:06:51.100 why does it think it was Ben? 01:06:51.100 --> 01:06:53.460 It's just like, whoa, like why? 01:06:53.800 --> 01:06:55.800 It's like, oh, a plane went down and crashed. 01:06:55.800 --> 01:06:57.480 It was Ben. 01:06:57.480 --> 01:06:58.800 It's like, why? 01:06:58.800 --> 01:06:59.960 Well, he's from Lebanon. 01:06:59.960 --> 01:07:00.720 You know what I mean? 01:07:00.720 --> 01:07:04.240 Case in point, that's evil surmising. 01:07:04.240 --> 01:07:04.840 OK? 01:07:04.840 --> 01:07:07.120 So we have to understand there's a huge difference 01:07:07.120 --> 01:07:11.680 between making a reasonable deduction and evil surmising, 01:07:11.680 --> 01:07:14.400 OK, where you just project evil and you just 01:07:14.400 --> 01:07:18.880 say horrible things about people that have no basis in reality. 01:07:18.880 --> 01:07:20.280 You're not even pointing to a fact. 01:07:20.500 --> 01:07:24.500 You're just making stuff up, just calling people bad based on nothing. 01:07:24.500 --> 01:07:28.500 No evidence. This would be a serious issue. 01:07:28.500 --> 01:07:32.500 So anytime you're saying anything that's not true, let me say this, it's a sin. 01:07:32.500 --> 01:07:36.500 Except for the few caveats I gave, right? 01:07:36.500 --> 01:07:40.500 We're recording someone lying, or it's like a threat of death. 01:07:40.500 --> 01:07:44.500 Okay? Putting those two caveats aside, 01:07:44.500 --> 01:07:48.100 when you're speaking false things, it's wrong. Okay? It's a sin. 01:07:48.800 --> 01:07:50.800 Couple other examples, blasphemy. 01:07:50.800 --> 01:07:54.800 Again, I don't know why this is controversial, but let me explain something to you. 01:07:54.800 --> 01:07:57.800 Blasphemy is not true. 01:07:57.800 --> 01:07:58.800 Okay? 01:07:58.800 --> 01:07:59.800 This is a radical statement. 01:07:59.800 --> 01:08:02.800 But when you're blaspheming, you're not saying things that are true. 01:08:02.800 --> 01:08:05.800 It's either twisted or profane. 01:08:05.800 --> 01:08:07.800 You're making fun of something. 01:08:07.800 --> 01:08:13.800 And of course, blasphemy typically is in relation to just directly against God himself. 01:08:13.800 --> 01:08:16.400 It could be about God or it could be about the things of God. 01:08:16.500 --> 01:08:22.420 But in general, you're just disparaging God, putting God down, taking the Lord's name in 01:08:22.420 --> 01:08:26.100 vain, just any of these things. And the Bible says the Lord will not hold him guiltless that 01:08:26.100 --> 01:08:32.500 take it as name in vain. It's a serious, serious thing. Now you have to understand that blasphemy 01:08:33.540 --> 01:08:42.020 is not about only tone or something. Okay. Now again, could tone be included in that aspect? Yes. 01:08:42.700 --> 01:08:46.200 but it's not really about the tone because think about it. 01:08:46.200 --> 01:08:49.400 You can say in the Bible, 01:08:49.400 --> 01:08:52.000 you can say all kinds of things about God. 01:08:52.000 --> 01:08:54.200 You can use His name repeatedly. 01:08:54.200 --> 01:08:57.100 That's not what makes it blasphemous, is using His name. 01:08:57.100 --> 01:08:59.300 It's not even really the tone entirely. 01:08:59.300 --> 01:09:03.100 It's about the context upon which you're using the name that matters. 01:09:03.100 --> 01:09:07.900 If you're talking about God or to God, it seems justified. 01:09:07.900 --> 01:09:09.900 But if you're using God's name, 01:09:10.100 --> 01:09:12.100 when it has nothing to do with the context 01:09:12.100 --> 01:09:14.100 or in a disparaging manner, 01:09:14.100 --> 01:09:16.100 well, now it seems like it's in vain. 01:09:16.100 --> 01:09:19.600 You know, it's like, hey, you hit your thumb with a nail 01:09:19.600 --> 01:09:21.600 and then you just use the Lord's name. 01:09:21.600 --> 01:09:25.600 What did Jesus have to do with you hitting your thumb with a nail? 01:09:25.600 --> 01:09:27.100 Or with a hammer or whatever? 01:09:27.300 --> 01:09:31.620 It's like that was taking his name in vain because he's not involved in that transaction. 01:09:31.620 --> 01:09:35.380 He's not the reason that you are dumb. He's not the reason that you hate yourself. 01:09:35.380 --> 01:09:42.500 You know, that's not fair to use the Lord's name as an expletive because what are you saying? 01:09:43.380 --> 01:09:47.060 What is the expression? Like, what is the idea you're communicating? You're mad. 01:09:48.020 --> 01:09:53.780 You're angry. You know, you're exerting anger. You're exerting frustration. You're exerting pain. 01:09:54.300 --> 01:09:56.860 Well, did Jesus cause you pain? 01:09:56.860 --> 01:09:58.940 Did Jesus cause you this discomfort? 01:09:58.940 --> 01:10:00.740 Or did you just self-injure? 01:10:00.740 --> 01:10:04.100 It's like, it's not fair to use the Lord's name in vain 01:10:04.100 --> 01:10:06.260 when he's not involved. 01:10:06.260 --> 01:10:10.460 But there's nothing wrong with saying Jesus' name. 01:10:10.460 --> 01:10:12.660 It's the name above all names. 01:10:12.660 --> 01:10:15.940 So again, it's about the context upon which it's used. 01:10:15.940 --> 01:10:17.420 Because think about it. 01:10:17.420 --> 01:10:20.860 You know, you could be very expressive about saying that. 01:10:21.700 --> 01:10:24.700 Jesus! I mean you could yell it! 01:10:24.700 --> 01:10:31.700 That's fine. But it's just like, if I did that exact same thing after I smashed my thumb with a hammer, isn't it bad? 01:10:31.700 --> 01:10:38.700 So was it the tone? Was it how I expressed it? Or was it the context upon which I expressed it? 01:10:38.700 --> 01:10:40.700 And we would all be pretty offended, right? 01:10:40.700 --> 01:10:44.700 What if I just tripped right now and I just screamed Jesus' name? 01:10:44.700 --> 01:10:46.200 Wouldn't you be kind of mad at me? 01:10:46.700 --> 01:10:48.900 But if I said, hey, there's a name above every name, 01:10:48.900 --> 01:10:51.660 and I said, Jesus, no one's offended. 01:10:51.660 --> 01:10:54.220 I could have said it with the exact same inflection, 01:10:54.220 --> 01:10:57.620 the exact same tone, the exact same everything, 01:10:57.620 --> 01:10:59.140 and you're not offended. 01:10:59.140 --> 01:11:02.020 I do it in a different context, totally offended. 01:11:02.020 --> 01:11:02.300 Why? 01:11:02.300 --> 01:11:04.700 Because the context is driving that. 01:11:04.700 --> 01:11:08.220 And again, it would be false or untrue for me 01:11:08.220 --> 01:11:12.100 to blame Jesus for me tripping. 01:11:12.100 --> 01:11:13.700 That's why it's blasphemy. 01:11:14.000 --> 01:11:19.000 But it's not blasphemy to yell his name being the name above every name because that's what the Bible says. 01:11:19.000 --> 01:11:24.000 So you have to understand blasphemy is taking the Lord's name in vain. 01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:28.000 It's something the Bible says in the Ten Commandments. 01:11:28.000 --> 01:11:31.000 It's something God will not hold you guiltless for. 01:11:31.000 --> 01:11:37.900 Of course, talking about the things of God, you know, disparaging God, talking negatively about God, teaching false doctrine could be considered blasphemy. 01:11:39.800 --> 01:11:43.800 And another point would be in a similar vein would be railing. 01:11:43.800 --> 01:11:49.800 Now railing, I want to spend some time on this particular point. 01:11:49.800 --> 01:11:56.800 We're going to spend a little bit of time on this, but railing I believe biblically is saying something that is false. 01:11:56.800 --> 01:12:00.800 In a negative, harsh, scolding, mocking, whatever way. 01:12:01.400 --> 01:12:06.040 But I would argue that even if someone said it in the most gentle way, 01:12:06.040 --> 01:12:08.200 if it's not true, I would still consider railing. 01:12:08.200 --> 01:12:08.700 Yeah. 01:12:09.560 --> 01:12:12.520 And I would say someone that's saying the most harsh, scolding, 01:12:13.480 --> 01:12:17.640 you know, ridiculing, mocking, mean-spirited thing, 01:12:18.360 --> 01:12:24.120 but it's true, I won't take the task for the Bible's definition of railing. 01:12:24.400 --> 01:12:29.140 Now again, in a modern dictionary, and this is a big point because there's a lot of people 01:12:29.140 --> 01:12:34.260 that would get mad about me saying this, in a modern dictionary today, if you look up 01:12:34.260 --> 01:12:38.700 railing as a broader definition, and this is the only point they have on their side, 01:12:38.700 --> 01:12:42.000 is that the people that disagree with me on what I just said, is that a modern dictionary 01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:43.000 will say this. 01:12:43.000 --> 01:12:46.520 in dictionary will say, hey, railing is just harsh scolding. 01:12:47.100 --> 01:12:53.100 or abusive language, or just basically just saying something negative about someone. 01:12:53.100 --> 01:12:57.100 And it says it doesn't matter if it's true or not, okay? 01:12:57.100 --> 01:13:02.100 But I have a problem with that from a Bible perspective, and you can go, I've preached many sermons on this. 01:13:02.100 --> 01:13:08.100 Because there's been many bozo preachers in the past that have tried to redefine railing, and I've taken them to task repeatedly. 01:13:08.100 --> 01:13:12.100 The word rail is only used a handful of times in the Bible, it's like seven or eight times or something like this. 01:13:12.300 --> 01:13:16.300 or its variations, and it's always a twisted statement, it's always a false statement. 01:13:17.580 --> 01:13:21.500 But look, I don't let the modern world dictate how I use biblical language. 01:13:22.140 --> 01:13:27.260 Because in our modern idea, the word wine almost always just only means an alcoholic beverage. 01:13:27.900 --> 01:13:31.020 But the word wine in the Bible is not always alcohol. 01:13:31.020 --> 01:13:34.540 So I'm not going to sit here and redefine the word wine 01:13:34.540 --> 01:13:37.100 in my King James Bible as always being alcoholic. 01:13:37.900 --> 01:13:41.500 when the Bible uses it in non-alcoholic ways. 01:13:41.500 --> 01:13:43.900 Same way, if the modern world will say, 01:13:43.900 --> 01:13:47.300 well, railing can mean true statements that are mean, 01:13:47.300 --> 01:13:49.300 I'm not going to take that and insert it into the Bible 01:13:49.300 --> 01:13:52.900 and twist what the word railing is meaning in the Bible. 01:13:52.900 --> 01:13:55.900 Because the context determines what is right and wrong, 01:13:55.900 --> 01:13:59.100 not a modern understanding or a modern dictionary. 01:13:59.100 --> 01:14:03.500 I'm not going to take the modern idea of nephew and insert it. 01:14:03.600 --> 01:14:06.600 into 1st Timothy chapter number 5, 01:14:06.600 --> 01:14:09.600 where the word nephew is used and it kind of means grandson. 01:14:09.600 --> 01:14:13.600 Okay? So there can be all kinds of different things where 01:14:13.600 --> 01:14:16.600 we have a different idea. You know there's a guy named Noah Webster, 01:14:16.600 --> 01:14:19.600 and it's funny because 01:14:19.600 --> 01:14:22.600 all of these people who disagree with me, they love to go to his dictionary, 01:14:22.600 --> 01:14:25.100 the 1828 Noah Webster's Dictionary. 01:14:25.300 --> 01:14:27.700 and they use his definition of railing. 01:14:27.700 --> 01:14:29.500 But Noah Webster has his own Bible. 01:14:29.500 --> 01:14:32.300 He made his own Bible translation. 01:14:32.300 --> 01:14:32.820 Okay? 01:14:32.820 --> 01:14:35.500 What's funny is like if you love Noah Webster so much in 1828, 01:14:35.500 --> 01:14:37.100 why don't you just use the Noah Webster's dictionary? 01:14:37.100 --> 01:14:39.420 Or Noah Webster's Bible, okay? 01:14:39.420 --> 01:14:42.740 But Noah Webster would update words 01:14:42.740 --> 01:14:44.900 that he considered, quote, false friends. 01:14:44.900 --> 01:14:46.060 And one of them was usury, 01:14:46.060 --> 01:14:50.100 because he said the modern idea of usury is excessive interest. 01:14:50.300 --> 01:14:52.300 And that's not what the Bible means by usury. 01:14:52.300 --> 01:14:54.300 The Bible means just interest. 01:14:54.300 --> 01:15:00.300 And so he literally changed usury to interest in every place in his Bible 01:15:00.300 --> 01:15:03.300 so that you would have a better understanding of what that word particular means. 01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:07.040 But again, that's not the problem with the modern versions today. 01:15:07.040 --> 01:15:10.960 They're not taking the quote, few false friends that we have, 01:15:10.960 --> 01:15:15.040 the few modern words and trying to update them and get them a little bit better understanding. 01:15:15.040 --> 01:15:18.880 They're using a completely different underlying text, 01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:22.400 and they're taking whole verses out and saying perverse things, okay? 01:15:22.400 --> 01:15:24.240 That's why we don't like the modern versions. 01:15:24.700 --> 01:15:29.780 But there's nothing wrong with clarifying the definition of words from the counterpart 01:15:29.780 --> 01:15:36.540 and the modern usage today and saying, hey, yeah, modern day railing is a broad definition. 01:15:36.540 --> 01:15:39.660 But let me tell you something, biblical definition of railing, not that. 01:15:40.200 --> 01:15:43.060 Hey, modern day usury, excessive interest. 01:15:43.060 --> 01:15:46.500 Bible? No, no, no, no. Strictly any interest whatsoever. 01:15:46.500 --> 01:15:49.300 Hey, modern idea of wine, alcoholic beverage. 01:15:49.300 --> 01:15:53.800 Biblically, it could be intoxicated or intoxicating beverage. 01:15:53.800 --> 01:15:56.500 Okay, I think we should always be making those distinctions. 01:15:56.800 --> 01:16:01.600 And it would be unfair to say that we can't when it's so many examples. 01:16:01.600 --> 01:16:06.800 There's so many examples where I could take a modern or limited understanding of a word 01:16:06.800 --> 01:16:10.000 and retroactively apply to the Bible and teach false doctrine. 01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:14.720 So we want to make sure that we're always considering the context of the Bible 01:16:14.720 --> 01:16:15.760 when we get our definitions. 01:16:15.760 --> 01:16:16.720 And let me tell you something. 01:16:16.720 --> 01:16:22.960 Every example of railing in the Bible that you can derive meaning is a false or a twisted statement. 01:16:23.400 --> 01:16:26.000 So therefore, that is the standard for our church, 01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:28.140 and that's how we apply biblical railing 01:16:28.140 --> 01:16:29.880 in 1 Corinthians chapter number five. 01:16:29.880 --> 01:16:31.880 We don't believe in quote, good railing. 01:16:33.880 --> 01:16:36.880 Okay, and these other people that disagree with me 01:16:36.880 --> 01:16:40.660 on this issue, they can't figure out what they believe. 01:16:40.660 --> 01:16:41.820 So they'll sometimes be like, 01:16:41.820 --> 01:16:43.920 well, that's biblical railing, but it's not, 01:16:43.920 --> 01:16:45.800 but it is, but it isn't, but it could be, 01:16:45.800 --> 01:16:47.660 but I don't know, you define it. 01:16:47.660 --> 01:16:49.500 And you're just like, okay. 01:16:49.500 --> 01:16:51.140 So is Jesus a good railer? 01:16:51.400 --> 01:16:54.400 And it's like they don't want to answer the question. 01:16:54.400 --> 01:16:57.520 But again, since I define railing as lying, 01:16:57.520 --> 01:17:00.640 I can say Jesus is not a railer. 01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:02.920 The people that disagree with me have to figure out 01:17:02.920 --> 01:17:05.000 how they reconcile Jesus. 01:17:05.000 --> 01:17:05.680 Is he a railer? 01:17:05.680 --> 01:17:06.440 Is he not a railer? 01:17:06.440 --> 01:17:08.160 I don't know. 01:17:08.160 --> 01:17:09.760 And this is a big, big issue. 01:17:09.760 --> 01:17:12.560 So I would say that, hey, if you're 01:17:12.560 --> 01:17:16.880 saying something that's true, it's not railing. 01:17:16.880 --> 01:17:18.520 But I also want to make another clear. 01:17:19.100 --> 01:17:21.100 distinction because we've been talking about sins of the mouth. 01:17:21.100 --> 01:17:24.100 Just because you're saying something that's true 01:17:24.100 --> 01:17:27.100 doesn't mean it's still not a sin. 01:17:27.100 --> 01:17:30.100 Okay? And this is a big category mismatch. 01:17:30.100 --> 01:17:33.100 People will take sinful speech 01:17:33.100 --> 01:17:35.100 and call it railing, 01:17:35.100 --> 01:17:37.100 even though it's true. 01:17:37.100 --> 01:17:41.100 And you think that's, we don't want to make a mistake on this category, okay? 01:17:41.100 --> 01:17:43.100 You can say something that's true 01:17:43.100 --> 01:17:45.100 and still be sinning, 01:17:45.100 --> 01:17:46.100 but it's not railing. 01:17:46.600 --> 01:17:52.200 Okay, but I don't believe biblically can be railing and saying something that's true. 01:17:52.200 --> 01:17:56.600 Okay, these are two different categories and we want to unwind these for a moment, okay? 01:17:56.600 --> 01:17:58.600 What's saying something that's true that's a sin? 01:17:58.600 --> 01:18:01.100 It's called tail-bearing. 01:18:01.100 --> 01:18:04.000 Revealing private information that you shouldn't. 01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:05.100 Okay? 01:18:05.100 --> 01:18:07.900 It's not that it's not true that's the sin. 01:18:07.900 --> 01:18:10.100 The fact that it's true is why it's tail-bearing. 01:18:10.600 --> 01:18:13.640 The problem is that you shouldn't have been sharing that information 01:18:13.640 --> 01:18:16.120 because you should have been exercising discretion. 01:18:16.120 --> 01:18:16.840 Okay? 01:18:16.840 --> 01:18:20.520 So sometimes people will be guilty of tail-bearing 01:18:20.520 --> 01:18:23.320 and then they'll be categorized as a railer. 01:18:23.320 --> 01:18:26.120 This would be a false categorization, okay? 01:18:26.120 --> 01:18:28.120 You can be tail-bearing and it's wrong, 01:18:28.120 --> 01:18:29.240 they should be called out, 01:18:29.240 --> 01:18:30.840 you should tell people to not do it, 01:18:30.840 --> 01:18:31.720 but it's not railing. 01:18:31.720 --> 01:18:35.400 And look, you won't be thrown out of our church for railing 01:18:35.400 --> 01:18:36.920 because you are a tail-bearer. 01:18:38.200 --> 01:18:39.700 that's not going to happen. 01:18:39.700 --> 01:18:41.600 If you're repeating things that are true, 01:18:41.600 --> 01:18:44.360 you will not be kicked out of our church for railing. 01:18:44.360 --> 01:18:45.560 Now here's the thing. 01:18:45.560 --> 01:18:47.800 If I reveal a bunch of secrets about someone 01:18:47.800 --> 01:18:50.760 and offend them greatly and hurt their feelings 01:18:50.760 --> 01:18:53.240 and cause them all kinds of problems, 01:18:53.240 --> 01:18:54.840 and they come to me and they say, 01:18:54.840 --> 01:18:56.160 hey, you need to like apologize, 01:18:56.160 --> 01:18:57.320 you shouldn't have revealed that information. 01:18:57.320 --> 01:18:58.160 I'm like, no, I don't care. 01:18:58.160 --> 01:19:00.000 I'm going to do it anyways. 01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:02.360 Well, then they could say like, 01:19:02.360 --> 01:19:03.680 well, I'm going to get two more witnesses 01:19:03.680 --> 01:19:05.300 and we're going to confront you on this issue. 01:19:05.500 --> 01:19:07.840 Then you go through Matthew 18. 01:19:07.840 --> 01:19:09.500 Hey, here's four of us. 01:19:09.500 --> 01:19:12.220 We don't think you should have revealed this information. 01:19:12.220 --> 01:19:13.840 It was inappropriate. 01:19:13.840 --> 01:19:15.100 You should have had discretion here. 01:19:15.100 --> 01:19:17.380 Why don't I'm not sorry for it? 01:19:17.380 --> 01:19:18.580 Then we take it for the church. 01:19:18.580 --> 01:19:20.740 Then you could be technically kicked out of church 01:19:20.740 --> 01:19:24.100 for offending a brother based on the tail bearing. 01:19:24.100 --> 01:19:27.380 But you could not be unilaterally church disciplined 01:19:27.380 --> 01:19:28.780 for railing for doing that. 01:19:29.000 --> 01:19:32.840 Because it's a different category, it's a different situation, it's a different scenario. 01:19:32.840 --> 01:19:35.200 And so we don't want to mix these categories up. 01:19:35.200 --> 01:19:37.040 We don't want to confuse these categories. 01:19:37.040 --> 01:19:41.800 And if someone was saying something that's true, I don't want to call them a railer. 01:19:41.800 --> 01:19:45.520 Because it's not fair to call them a railer if they're not railing, okay? 01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:49.040 They could be a tail-bearer, but not a railer. 01:19:49.040 --> 01:19:52.920 Here's another one. How about memes? Okay, let's talk about memes for a moment, alright? 01:19:52.920 --> 01:19:55.080 Go to Job chapter 29. 01:19:55.080 --> 01:19:56.080 Memes. 01:19:56.300 --> 01:20:02.300 And I'm trying to unwind and be very careful and precise in how we're defining these things so we understand them. 01:20:03.300 --> 01:20:05.300 Memes are obviously like jokes. 01:20:05.300 --> 01:20:08.300 And look, before the internet memes existed. 01:20:08.300 --> 01:20:13.300 It was just crude. You just kind of had to make, you know, you had to verbalize it, what you were saying. 01:20:13.300 --> 01:20:18.300 But I guarantee someone drew a picture in the past sometimes and made a meme out of it, okay? 01:20:18.800 --> 01:20:20.720 We didn't invent it because of the internet. 01:20:20.720 --> 01:20:24.000 It's just the internet makes it so much more accessible than ever before. 01:20:24.000 --> 01:20:27.920 It'd be like saying that letters didn't exist because of email. 01:20:27.920 --> 01:20:31.280 It's like, no, email has replaced letters in a lot of ways. 01:20:31.280 --> 01:20:33.600 But look, there's no new thing under the sun. 01:20:33.600 --> 01:20:37.360 There's always been jokes and ridicule and making fun of people 01:20:37.360 --> 01:20:42.240 and putting together clever ways to basically make a joke about something. 01:20:42.240 --> 01:20:43.840 Okay? 01:20:43.840 --> 01:20:44.600 Now... 01:20:45.300 --> 01:20:47.300 Are memes sinful? 01:20:47.300 --> 01:20:49.300 And here's the answer. 01:20:49.300 --> 01:20:51.300 No. 01:20:51.300 --> 01:20:54.300 But does that mean that every meme is okay? 01:20:54.300 --> 01:20:56.300 No. 01:20:56.300 --> 01:20:58.300 So just because you're saying something that's true 01:20:58.300 --> 01:21:01.300 doesn't mean it's not a sin. 01:21:01.300 --> 01:21:03.300 You could be doing a meme 01:21:03.300 --> 01:21:05.300 that's revealing private information 01:21:05.300 --> 01:21:07.200 and it crossed the boundary of tail-bearing again. 01:21:07.600 --> 01:21:12.160 Shouldn't do that. You shouldn't be making memes or jokes or talking about situations 01:21:12.160 --> 01:21:14.580 You shouldn't be talking about that crosses that line 01:21:15.780 --> 01:21:22.320 But a lot of memes in our world today if we really think about it, what is it doing? It's addressing public information 01:21:23.440 --> 01:21:29.580 It's addressing public doctrine. It's addressing public actions and public situations 01:21:30.300 --> 01:21:35.500 I think we should be allowed the freedom to talk about things that are in the public domain. 01:21:35.500 --> 01:21:36.900 Okay? 01:21:36.900 --> 01:21:37.900 Things that are... 01:21:37.900 --> 01:21:40.700 When someone's putting a sermon on the internet for everyone to hear, 01:21:40.700 --> 01:21:45.500 I think you should be allowed to talk about the sermon that people have been putting on the internet for everyone to hear. 01:21:45.500 --> 01:21:49.500 I think that our politicians passing legislation... 01:21:49.700 --> 01:21:54.100 that is public record should be open for us to talk about. 01:21:54.100 --> 01:22:00.100 I think the decisions and the speeches of our politicians are open for public discourse. 01:22:00.100 --> 01:22:05.140 Okay, so if you are talking about what the politicians have said publicly 01:22:05.140 --> 01:22:08.580 about what our legislation is legislating publicly, 01:22:08.580 --> 01:22:12.260 and what we're doing publicly, and what our president does publicly, 01:22:12.900 --> 01:22:14.100 there's nothing wrong with that. 01:22:15.620 --> 01:22:16.820 Now, historically, 01:22:17.400 --> 01:22:24.380 Many countries and many tyrants have not liked this because they realize that when you make fun of what the king said 01:22:24.800 --> 01:22:26.800 It makes the king look bad 01:22:27.240 --> 01:22:31.240 So then they outlawed it and they said you can't criticize the king 01:22:31.280 --> 01:22:35.920 You can't make jokes about the king you can't talk negatively about the king 01:22:36.280 --> 01:22:39.320 You can't say anything that the Emperor is wearing no clothes 01:22:40.400 --> 01:22:46.400 Okay, so they would ban this. Americans, your forefathers, at least some of us, 01:22:46.400 --> 01:22:52.400 I don't know if you freshly got off the boat or not, but I'm just saying a lot of us, okay, our forefathers, 01:22:52.400 --> 01:22:58.400 hey, they realize this is bad. We should be able to say whatever we want. 01:22:58.400 --> 01:23:03.400 We should be able to criticize the government however we see fit. 01:23:03.400 --> 01:23:07.400 And you know what? Praise God you have this thing called the First Amendment! 01:23:08.000 --> 01:23:12.600 Where you can criticize public discourse at will. 01:23:12.600 --> 01:23:15.400 You can say whatever you want. 01:23:15.400 --> 01:23:17.700 You can believe whatever you want. 01:23:17.700 --> 01:23:18.900 Freedom. 01:23:18.900 --> 01:23:21.000 And you know what? I like it. 01:23:21.000 --> 01:23:23.400 I like it and I think it's biblical. 01:23:23.400 --> 01:23:24.900 You can even sin with your mouth. 01:23:24.900 --> 01:23:26.300 The Bible allows you to do it. 01:23:26.300 --> 01:23:28.000 And you know what? God allows you to do it. 01:23:28.000 --> 01:23:30.400 Should you do it? No. 01:23:30.400 --> 01:23:32.800 Are we going to make it a crime though? 01:23:32.800 --> 01:23:33.600 No. 01:23:33.900 --> 01:23:37.900 We shouldn't be criminalizing people for saying things that are true. 01:23:37.900 --> 01:23:43.900 Okay? It's insane. It's insane and it's communist and it's wicked and it's evil. 01:23:43.900 --> 01:23:49.900 Now this is what people say, well I know that God mocks people 01:23:49.900 --> 01:23:53.900 and I know that Elijah mocked the prophets of Baal. 01:23:54.400 --> 01:24:02.200 And I know that we have countless examples of ridicule and mocking towards unsaved false prophets or done by God, 01:24:02.200 --> 01:24:08.400 but we should never, never mock a brother in Christ. 01:24:08.400 --> 01:24:11.000 We should never mock someone that's not a reprobate. 01:24:11.000 --> 01:24:12.600 Well, is that true biblically? 01:24:12.600 --> 01:24:14.100 Let's answer the question, alright? 01:24:14.600 --> 01:24:19.600 Job talks about himself, what he used to be like before he had his calamity. 01:24:19.600 --> 01:24:21.200 Look at Job 29 verse 8. 01:24:21.200 --> 01:24:26.900 The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged arose and stood up. 01:24:26.900 --> 01:24:32.200 The princes refrained talking and laid their hand on their mouth. 01:24:32.200 --> 01:24:37.300 The nobles held their peace and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 01:24:38.500 --> 01:24:41.980 Now, again, I'm not going to explain old Job, but let me explain something to you. 01:24:41.980 --> 01:24:49.180 What he's saying is his opinion and his reputation and status in society was so high 01:24:49.180 --> 01:24:53.660 that people were covering their mouth at the things that Job would say or do. 01:24:53.660 --> 01:24:54.980 That's what the Bible is saying. 01:24:54.980 --> 01:24:56.060 The princes would refrain. 01:24:56.060 --> 01:24:59.140 People would stop talking in presence of Job. 01:24:59.140 --> 01:25:04.660 People would cover their mouth in shame for what they said in the presence of Job. 01:25:04.660 --> 01:25:05.340 Okay? 01:25:05.800 --> 01:25:11.880 Look at verse 17, and I break the jaws of the wicked and pluck the spoil out of his teeth. 01:25:11.880 --> 01:25:16.680 He's saying he was shutting up the wicked people, he was shutting people down, 01:25:16.680 --> 01:25:19.080 people are shutting their stupid mouth because of Job. 01:25:19.880 --> 01:25:26.920 Look at verse 21, unto me men gave ear and waited and kept silence at my counsel, 01:25:26.920 --> 01:25:29.720 meaning he walks into a room, everybody shuts up. 01:25:30.440 --> 01:25:32.200 People are embarrassed for whatever they said. 01:25:32.900 --> 01:25:36.300 He's breaking the all the stupid things the wicked people are saying. 01:25:36.300 --> 01:25:40.400 He's breaking their jaws, meaning he's making it where they can't talk anymore. 01:25:40.400 --> 01:25:42.100 And this is metaphorically. 01:25:42.100 --> 01:25:46.000 It's not literally. He's not going around just crushing everybody's skull. 01:25:46.000 --> 01:25:52.700 OK, he's just saying he commands so much wisdom and he would make people look so stupid 01:25:52.700 --> 01:25:57.300 for the things that they would say that they would end up just not talking again 01:25:57.300 --> 01:25:59.500 and they would just be basically ruined. 01:25:59.700 --> 01:26:01.900 They would just be completely destroyed. 01:26:01.900 --> 01:26:02.700 Okay? 01:26:02.700 --> 01:26:04.400 You're destroying them. 01:26:04.400 --> 01:26:06.100 How did he destroy them? 01:26:06.100 --> 01:26:10.500 It says, after my words, they spake not again. 01:26:10.500 --> 01:26:12.400 And my speech dropped upon them. 01:26:12.400 --> 01:26:17.500 He's, he's destroying the mouths of the wicked with what? 01:26:17.500 --> 01:26:18.900 With his words. 01:26:18.900 --> 01:26:19.700 All right? 01:26:19.700 --> 01:26:20.500 And... 01:26:21.000 --> 01:26:22.400 Let's read a little bit more. 01:26:22.400 --> 01:26:25.040 And they waited for me as for the rain, 01:26:25.040 --> 01:26:27.680 and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. 01:26:27.680 --> 01:26:32.000 If I laughed on them, they believed it not. 01:26:32.000 --> 01:26:35.360 And the light of my countenance, they cast not down. 01:26:35.360 --> 01:26:38.960 He's saying if he just made a face at what they said, 01:26:38.960 --> 01:26:40.520 they would change. 01:26:40.520 --> 01:26:44.040 And if he laughed at them, if he's joking, 01:26:44.040 --> 01:26:46.720 if he makes a joke at their expense, 01:26:47.000 --> 01:26:49.440 They would just immediately change their belief. 01:26:49.440 --> 01:26:51.320 It's like, oh, I believe the earth is flat. 01:26:51.320 --> 01:26:53.120 Ha ha, you're an idiot. 01:26:53.120 --> 01:26:56.200 And then they would just be like, I'm never going to talk again. 01:26:56.200 --> 01:26:59.080 They'd be like, oh. 01:26:59.080 --> 01:27:00.400 And he's destroying them. 01:27:00.400 --> 01:27:03.160 And look, I've heard preachers and pastors get up and say, 01:27:03.160 --> 01:27:08.400 oh, there's people out there trying to destroy us with memes. 01:27:08.400 --> 01:27:12.120 And I'm like, OK, well, the only way you can be destroyed by memes 01:27:12.120 --> 01:27:13.600 is if what they're saying is true. 01:27:13.600 --> 01:27:14.100 Yes. 01:27:14.400 --> 01:27:17.200 Hey, you know who that was like that? 01:27:17.200 --> 01:27:20.960 Job, one of the smartest and wisest people on the planet. 01:27:20.960 --> 01:27:22.520 And let me just tell you something, 01:27:22.520 --> 01:27:24.960 there's something to go with the wisdom of a person 01:27:24.960 --> 01:27:26.840 and their meme ability. 01:27:28.840 --> 01:27:30.360 I'm just telling you, 01:27:30.360 --> 01:27:33.040 people that don't like the truth cannot meme at all. 01:27:34.080 --> 01:27:36.280 It's like the more wisdom and the more truth you have, 01:27:36.280 --> 01:27:37.520 the better you are at meming. 01:27:37.520 --> 01:27:39.160 It's not even really a skill, 01:27:39.160 --> 01:27:41.760 it's just about having truth and wisdom. 01:27:42.300 --> 01:27:45.740 And so it's like, who's like one of the most savage memers in the world? 01:27:45.740 --> 01:27:50.620 It'd be someone that's really smart, that really loves the truth, and has a lot of wisdom. 01:27:51.180 --> 01:27:53.100 I don't know, how about like Pastor Stephen Anderson? 01:27:54.220 --> 01:27:59.180 He has some savage memes, man. I'm just telling you, he is great at memeing. 01:28:00.620 --> 01:28:03.820 And it's like, if he is destroying your church with a meme, 01:28:04.780 --> 01:28:08.380 let me tell you something. The reason why you're being destroyed is because you lied. 01:28:09.000 --> 01:28:11.800 The reason you got destroyed is because you did something stupid, 01:28:11.800 --> 01:28:15.000 because you had bad actions or bad heresy. 01:28:15.000 --> 01:28:18.600 Look, if someone gets up and makes lies about you in a meme, 01:28:18.600 --> 01:28:20.200 it doesn't work. 01:28:20.200 --> 01:28:22.900 The left and the Democrats, they make memes. 01:28:22.900 --> 01:28:25.800 They have entire groups called the Onion, 01:28:25.800 --> 01:28:30.800 designed to make up memes and jokes about conservatives. 01:28:30.800 --> 01:28:33.400 But nobody cares because they're not true! 01:28:33.400 --> 01:28:36.500 No one finds them funny because they're not true! 01:28:36.700 --> 01:28:39.500 You know why people like memes? Because they're true! 01:28:40.700 --> 01:28:46.300 And look, there's nothing wrong with making fun of unrepentant heresy 01:28:46.300 --> 01:28:49.300 and unrepentant actions in the public discourse. 01:28:50.900 --> 01:28:53.140 What's the goal? To get them to change. 01:28:53.140 --> 01:28:55.540 To realize they were stupid. For them to cover their mouth. 01:28:55.540 --> 01:28:57.620 For them to get right on that doctrine. 01:28:57.620 --> 01:29:00.580 And look, we should make fun of bad ideas. Why? 01:29:00.580 --> 01:29:04.420 It's healthy for our society. It's healthy for everyone. 01:29:04.420 --> 01:29:06.260 If we can have the good doctrine. 01:29:06.260 --> 01:29:08.260 That's why it's good to make fun of these things. 01:29:08.260 --> 01:29:11.060 Why is it that the Democrats and the government hate memes? 01:29:11.860 --> 01:29:14.660 And then disgruntled ex-NYP pastors hate memes? 01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:17.560 It's because neither side wants to be corrected with the truth. 01:29:17.560 --> 01:29:18.800 It's that simple. 01:29:18.800 --> 01:29:20.880 It's the exact same spirit. 01:29:20.880 --> 01:29:24.360 Why is it that the communists outlaw and make it illegal 01:29:24.360 --> 01:29:27.240 to meme and to make jokes and do these things? 01:29:27.240 --> 01:29:29.480 Is it because communism is right? 01:29:29.480 --> 01:29:31.880 No, it's because communism is with Satan. 01:29:31.880 --> 01:29:32.880 And they hate these things. 01:29:32.880 --> 01:29:34.080 And of course, who does God mock? 01:29:34.080 --> 01:29:35.000 He mocks Satan. 01:29:35.000 --> 01:29:36.280 He mocks his fool. 01:29:36.280 --> 01:29:40.400 He makes fun of all the fools and all the idiots. 01:29:40.800 --> 01:29:48.800 Like, I'm supposed to believe that God is the only person in the universe that gets to laugh at the stupidity of this world. 01:29:48.800 --> 01:29:54.000 Like, he gets to mock, he gets to ridicule, he gets to laugh at all the insanity in this world. 01:29:54.000 --> 01:29:59.000 But all of us, we're supposed to over here just be like, I'm not, that's not funny. 01:29:59.000 --> 01:30:02.000 No, I would never laugh at such a thing. 01:30:02.000 --> 01:30:04.700 You know, you're just so much more pious than God. 01:30:04.700 --> 01:30:06.700 You're so more righteous than God. 01:30:06.700 --> 01:30:08.100 Right? No. 01:30:08.500 --> 01:30:12.680 It's just funny when someone does something stupid or says something stupid. It's funny 01:30:13.260 --> 01:30:19.700 You can't help but laugh. That's the whole point laughter isn't laughter basically and it's like a 01:30:20.580 --> 01:30:22.420 involuntary response 01:30:22.420 --> 01:30:25.720 And when people try to laugh it sounds goofy 01:30:26.420 --> 01:30:29.000 Like a forced laugh is way different 01:30:29.000 --> 01:30:34.180 We all know the difference between a forced laugh and a real laugh and what's a real laugh. You can't even control it 01:30:34.700 --> 01:30:41.700 So now I'm supposed to believe God is mad at you for the involuntary response of laughter to something that's true. 01:30:42.700 --> 01:30:43.700 How dare you? 01:30:43.700 --> 01:30:46.700 You know what's ruining America? Memes that are true. 01:30:47.700 --> 01:30:48.700 Right? 01:30:48.900 --> 01:30:52.900 It's not all the heresy and false doctrine and wickedness is abounding in America. 01:30:52.900 --> 01:30:57.400 It's people making true statements in a clever and funny way. 01:30:57.400 --> 01:30:59.400 That's destroying America. 01:30:59.400 --> 01:31:01.400 You know what's destroying churches in America? 01:31:01.400 --> 01:31:04.700 It's not all the pedophiles and false doctrine and false Bible versions. 01:31:04.700 --> 01:31:06.700 It's memes that are true. 01:31:08.200 --> 01:31:09.700 You can't even make this stuff up, man. 01:31:12.100 --> 01:31:17.940 I have too much stuff to talk about, honestly, but I'm just going to skip to some more application, 01:31:17.940 --> 01:31:22.660 because you already know the point. Just shut up, alright? Shut up and laugh at the meme, okay? 01:31:22.660 --> 01:31:25.700 You didn't have a choice anyways because it was funny, alright? 01:31:27.060 --> 01:31:32.900 But, look, obviously if you're insulting somebody without a cause, that's sinful. 01:31:33.380 --> 01:31:37.380 Okay? So that's why I changed the difference from a meme to a mean. 01:31:37.800 --> 01:31:42.800 If you're just making someone, because they're blind, because they're blind, that's not really nice. 01:31:42.800 --> 01:31:46.300 It's not fair to just make fun of deaf people for just being deaf. 01:31:46.300 --> 01:31:48.300 And the Bible even like forbids it. It says, 01:31:48.300 --> 01:31:51.800 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind. 01:31:51.800 --> 01:31:56.800 Okay, so obviously if you're making fun of somebody with something they can't change, 01:31:56.800 --> 01:32:04.300 that's out of their control, or they've repented of, or asked for forgiveness of, or is private, that's not cool. 01:32:04.500 --> 01:32:10.340 Okay? But if you're making fun of somebody for a public, unrepentant heresy, 01:32:10.340 --> 01:32:16.420 a public, unrepentant bad action, then yeah, I say it's on the table. 01:32:16.980 --> 01:32:19.540 Now, should that be the only thing you do in your life? 01:32:19.540 --> 01:32:23.780 No. But can we all just cope with the insanity of our world a little bit 01:32:25.300 --> 01:32:27.620 and realize that the truth isn't going to really hurt you? 01:32:28.740 --> 01:32:31.300 The truth is not what's hurting you in this world. It's lies. 01:32:31.900 --> 01:32:38.200 You know, Jesus called the Pharisees fools, but, you know, this is what they'll say, 01:32:38.200 --> 01:32:39.900 Oh, Jesus called unsaved people fools. 01:32:39.900 --> 01:32:46.000 You know, in Luke 24, He said unto the two saved guys, Oh fools, and slow of heart to believe. 01:32:46.000 --> 01:32:52.100 Not only that, the Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians chapter 5, Thou fool. 01:32:52.100 --> 01:32:56.800 In Galatians chapter 3, 1, the Apostle Paul says, Oh, foolish Galatians. 01:32:57.400 --> 01:33:01.100 I should never call a brother a fool. 01:33:01.100 --> 01:33:03.240 Well, that's just not true. 01:33:03.240 --> 01:33:06.200 Jesus did, Paul did, the Bible does. 01:33:06.200 --> 01:33:08.500 Sometimes a saved person can be an idiot. 01:33:08.500 --> 01:33:09.880 I'm sorry. 01:33:09.880 --> 01:33:11.880 There's like whole churches of them, okay? 01:33:15.200 --> 01:33:18.500 Go to Proverbs 29, go to Proverbs 29. 01:33:18.500 --> 01:33:21.600 There's a whole other list of sins that I haven't even covered. 01:33:21.600 --> 01:33:25.300 This would be what I call an unjustified imprecation. 01:33:25.300 --> 01:33:31.700 The Bible brings up imprecatory prayers, wishing evil or harm upon people. 01:33:31.700 --> 01:33:34.000 But there is an unjustified imprecation. 01:33:34.000 --> 01:33:34.800 Okay. 01:33:34.800 --> 01:33:36.800 What is an unjustified imprecation? 01:33:36.800 --> 01:33:42.600 When the disciples want to smoke the Samaritans for not giving them room and board. 01:33:43.400 --> 01:33:50.280 Okay, that's different than them actively trying to destroy their ministry and attacking God 01:33:50.560 --> 01:33:55.920 there's a difference between somebody not putting you up for the night or not being friendly and 01:33:56.080 --> 01:34:03.400 You wishing for them to die and someone actively trying to assault you and attack you and hurt your family and your church and the things 01:34:03.400 --> 01:34:05.400 Of God, that's a way different group of people 01:34:06.000 --> 01:34:10.240 And it's so funny that you bring up imprecatory wishes on someone and they're like, 01:34:10.240 --> 01:34:13.040 ah, how dare you, you don't know what spirit you are of. 01:34:13.040 --> 01:34:14.800 It's like, I know what spirit you're of. 01:34:14.800 --> 01:34:16.400 It's pretty queer if you ask me. 01:34:18.000 --> 01:34:21.280 But look, the Bible does not forbid imprecatory prayers 01:34:22.320 --> 01:34:24.720 towards just a specific group. 01:34:24.720 --> 01:34:28.960 It doesn't say you can make an imprecation against enemies of God 01:34:28.960 --> 01:34:30.800 only if they meet this criterion. 01:34:31.400 --> 01:34:37.600 Okay, King Saul is attacking David and he's considered an enemy of God and is saved. 01:34:37.600 --> 01:34:41.200 And hey, David is saying, hey, I hope the Lord avenges me of you. 01:34:41.200 --> 01:34:43.200 Okay, that's an imprecation. Sorry. 01:34:43.200 --> 01:34:45.400 Sorry if you don't like that application. 01:34:45.400 --> 01:34:47.400 That's why the Psalms are so generic. 01:34:47.400 --> 01:34:50.000 I mean, don't you think the Psalms would be a little bit more careful 01:34:50.000 --> 01:34:55.800 if you could never pray an imprecation against someone that's lost or of say brother in theory? 01:34:55.800 --> 01:34:56.800 It's like, look, it's just... 01:34:57.200 --> 01:35:00.200 You can ask God to avenge you of your enemies, period. 01:35:00.200 --> 01:35:01.000 Okay? 01:35:01.000 --> 01:35:05.000 Now again, should we still try to love our enemies that do us personal injury 01:35:05.000 --> 01:35:07.700 and are not necessarily like evil reprobates? 01:35:07.700 --> 01:35:08.600 Yeah, I get it. 01:35:08.600 --> 01:35:09.300 Okay? 01:35:09.300 --> 01:35:12.000 And I do do that on a regular basis. 01:35:12.000 --> 01:35:16.300 I've gone to many of the protesters and tried to give them the gospel at our church. 01:35:16.700 --> 01:35:22.460 But then the ones that are like, I'm a former Baptist pastor and I hate Jesus and bleep, bleep, bleep, and blah, blah, blah. 01:35:22.460 --> 01:35:26.860 Yeah, after a while it's like, okay, my prayer for you is for you to die and go to hell. 01:35:26.860 --> 01:35:27.660 Okay. 01:35:27.660 --> 01:35:30.940 It's like there's been people that have left our church and lied and whatever, 01:35:30.940 --> 01:35:35.660 and I've just said, hey, God, just bless that person anyways, or I hope that things go well for them. 01:35:35.660 --> 01:35:36.300 Okay. 01:35:37.100 --> 01:35:43.100 But there's some people that are actively attacking our church on a regular basis and trying to destroy the ministry and whatever. 01:35:43.100 --> 01:35:45.900 And I don't know if they're saved or not. I don't really give a rip. 01:35:45.900 --> 01:35:53.100 I'm going to pray to God and say, hey, God, please avenge me of this person that's constantly assaulting the work of God. 01:35:53.100 --> 01:35:59.500 OK, there's a difference between trying to shut down soul winning and try just not offering me a place to stay. 01:35:59.500 --> 01:36:04.100 OK, I'm not praying implications against Airbnb because I've been banned. 01:36:05.900 --> 01:36:09.100 Yeah, Airbnb, I get the disciples. 01:36:09.100 --> 01:36:14.700 I'm kind of like, smoke them, you know, but I didn't, I'm not praying that and I'm not saying that. 01:36:14.700 --> 01:36:15.200 But you know what? 01:36:15.200 --> 01:36:19.500 The people that are trying to shut down our church and destroy soul winning and destroy people's lives, 01:36:19.500 --> 01:36:23.400 you better believe that I pray that God would avenge us of those people. 01:36:23.400 --> 01:36:26.100 Yes, I would pray that and I do pray that. 01:36:26.100 --> 01:36:29.700 Okay, and I'm not mad about that, but I do think unjustified imprecations. 01:36:29.700 --> 01:36:30.100 Yes. 01:36:30.100 --> 01:36:30.600 Okay. 01:36:31.200 --> 01:36:41.200 But I want to warn about communism, and of course communism is a counter-revolutionary hate speech incorrect tone police. 01:36:41.200 --> 01:36:43.200 I hate this hate speech stuff. 01:36:43.200 --> 01:36:45.200 And why would pastors embrace it? 01:36:45.200 --> 01:36:47.200 Why are pastors embracing this quote hate speech? 01:36:47.200 --> 01:36:51.200 Whatever I determine as hate speech is now railing for them, 01:36:51.200 --> 01:36:56.200 and they just accuse everybody of just railing, so that they can what? Cover up the fact that they're a railer. 01:36:56.800 --> 01:37:01.800 Because here's the thing, they say that we change the definition of railing so that we can rail. 01:37:01.800 --> 01:37:08.800 But it's like, why would I change the definition of railing to lying so that I could lie? 01:37:08.800 --> 01:37:21.800 It's just like, what? But here's the thing, they lied and are railers, so they change the definition of railing so that everyone's a railer to disguise the fact that there's some people not lying and there's some people lying. 01:37:22.600 --> 01:37:23.960 Because we're all mean. 01:37:23.960 --> 01:37:26.000 They're like, oh, you're just disguising it to be mean. 01:37:26.000 --> 01:37:27.720 We're all mean, folks. 01:37:27.720 --> 01:37:29.920 There is someone in this world you don't like. 01:37:29.920 --> 01:37:31.400 There's someone that you're mean about. 01:37:31.400 --> 01:37:33.280 There's someone you say negative things about. 01:37:33.280 --> 01:37:35.520 And if that's the definition, well, who can stand? 01:37:35.520 --> 01:37:36.440 You know? 01:37:36.440 --> 01:37:37.280 But that's stupid. 01:37:37.280 --> 01:37:39.080 It's stupid to just make everybody a railer. 01:37:39.080 --> 01:37:42.080 That's like when I say, hey, murders deserve the death penalty. 01:37:42.080 --> 01:37:43.720 Well, the Bible says for the wages of sin is death. 01:37:43.720 --> 01:37:44.900 We all deserve death. 01:37:45.300 --> 01:37:52.300 No, no, now you're minimizing that sin of murder to try and make it seem like it's not a big deal anymore 01:37:52.300 --> 01:37:54.300 by misapplying the Bible. 01:37:54.300 --> 01:37:59.300 In the same way that people that lie publicly get called out for railing, 01:37:59.300 --> 01:38:04.300 so they change everything into railing to just anything negative so that now everybody's a railer. 01:38:04.300 --> 01:38:07.300 And in fact, according to these people, I'm the king of it. Okay? 01:38:07.800 --> 01:38:12.080 Yes. You know, the people that defect from our movement or our friends or whatever 01:38:12.080 --> 01:38:14.980 always change their definition on railing, okay? 01:38:14.980 --> 01:38:19.760 It started with Tommy McMurtry and Manley Perry changing their definition. 01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:23.760 Then it just slowly... everybody that goes to their circle now all just believes it, okay? 01:38:23.760 --> 01:38:28.440 Jason Robinson believes that, and he said, I take the crown for railing. 01:38:28.440 --> 01:38:31.720 And at first I'm thinking like, man, that's kind of an insult. 01:38:31.720 --> 01:38:34.200 Because who would want to be the person that's known as the biggest liar? 01:38:34.700 --> 01:38:38.140 But then I realized they don't think that railing is lying. 01:38:38.140 --> 01:38:41.040 You know what their definition of railing is? 01:38:41.040 --> 01:38:42.040 Hard preaching. 01:38:42.040 --> 01:38:44.480 And I was like, okay, well, I'll take the crown for hard preaching. 01:38:44.480 --> 01:38:45.480 No problem. 01:38:45.480 --> 01:38:45.980 I like that. 01:38:46.500 --> 01:38:48.900 It's actually not an insult, it's a compliment, okay? 01:38:48.900 --> 01:38:53.500 Hey, here's a guy that'll tell you the harsh truth whether you like it or not. 01:38:53.500 --> 01:38:54.500 Isn't that the whole point? 01:38:54.500 --> 01:38:59.500 I mean, how can you have hard preaching if you can't say things that are true, that are 01:38:59.500 --> 01:39:01.500 negative, that are going to harshly scold? 01:39:01.500 --> 01:39:03.500 What's the difference between rebuke and railing to these people? 01:39:03.500 --> 01:39:04.500 And you know what? 01:39:04.500 --> 01:39:09.500 They create these conflations of definitions to where they teach false doctrine now. 01:39:11.000 --> 01:39:15.400 We want to keep their separate lanes. Rebuke true, railing false. 01:39:15.400 --> 01:39:17.900 Okay? We want to keep these... 01:39:17.900 --> 01:39:20.700 And we don't want to get to the point where we have hate speech laws. 01:39:20.700 --> 01:39:27.700 You know, in the UK, it's in 1979, they made criminal law... 01:39:27.700 --> 01:39:30.000 I'm sorry, I'm misquoting the country. 01:39:30.000 --> 01:39:35.400 In China, okay, China, Communist China, in 1979, they made a law in Article 102... 01:39:35.800 --> 01:39:38.400 that writing, distributing, or speaking material 01:39:38.400 --> 01:39:41.800 that incited the overthrow of the dictatorship 01:39:41.800 --> 01:39:43.600 of the proletariat 01:39:43.600 --> 01:39:48.000 or, quote, defamed the socialist system was illegal. 01:39:48.000 --> 01:39:50.100 So, obviously, the first part, you know, 01:39:50.100 --> 01:39:52.300 you could see a little bit of an argument for, 01:39:52.300 --> 01:39:53.400 but just any defaming. 01:39:53.400 --> 01:39:55.400 So if you just say anything negative about socialism, 01:39:55.400 --> 01:39:56.400 it's a crime. 01:39:56.400 --> 01:39:58.000 Wow. 01:39:58.000 --> 01:39:59.400 And look, if you... 01:39:59.400 --> 01:40:02.200 Even if you talk to people that are from China and America, 01:40:02.200 --> 01:40:03.600 they still won't do it. 01:40:03.700 --> 01:40:07.900 Because if word gets back, their whole families will be persecuted for this. 01:40:07.900 --> 01:40:09.900 They'll be criminalized for this kind of stuff. 01:40:09.900 --> 01:40:14.900 So that's why many Chinese people will never say anything negative about socialism. 01:40:14.900 --> 01:40:18.900 You can't even say it. You can't even say it. It's just like, no talking about it. 01:40:18.900 --> 01:40:23.700 Yeah, because the problem is criticizing socialism, not socialism. 01:40:23.700 --> 01:40:27.900 Socialism is not a problem. Criticizing socialism. It's now a crime. 01:40:29.000 --> 01:40:34.720 Not only this, many countries like Canada, they created a law, 01:40:34.720 --> 01:40:36.920 Criminal Code Section 319, 01:40:36.920 --> 01:40:42.600 willful promoting hatred against an identifiable group, is a crime. 01:40:42.600 --> 01:40:47.640 It says there's also a provision if you're willfully promoting anti-Semitism 01:40:47.640 --> 01:40:51.960 by condoning, denying, or just downplaying the Holocaust. 01:40:52.300 --> 01:40:55.300 So downplaying the Holocaust is a crime in Canada. 01:40:55.300 --> 01:41:00.300 I've heard that quoting Leviticus 20 13 is a crime in Canada. 01:41:00.300 --> 01:41:04.300 You're just so mean to certain identifiable groups. 01:41:04.300 --> 01:41:14.300 John Donne was arrested for preaching the biblical definition of marriage and sexuality in 2020. 01:41:14.900 --> 01:41:16.240 This is in the UK. 01:41:16.240 --> 01:41:21.140 John Craven in Manchester was arrested for quoting the Bible's teaching on homosexuality 01:41:21.140 --> 01:41:23.420 when two teenagers asked him about it. 01:41:23.420 --> 01:41:28.300 He was held for 15 hours without food or water. 01:41:28.300 --> 01:41:35.780 Pastor Steve Mailey was also recently charged for, quote, inciting religious hatred in the 01:41:35.780 --> 01:41:39.980 UK and public order offenses after preaching the gospel. 01:41:39.980 --> 01:41:40.000 you 01:41:40.500 --> 01:41:43.060 and making critical comments about Islam 01:41:43.060 --> 01:41:45.540 and transgender ideology. 01:41:45.540 --> 01:41:48.100 Is that where we're going to head? 01:41:48.100 --> 01:41:50.740 Oh, you were too mean to Islam. 01:41:50.740 --> 01:41:52.660 You were too mean to Muslims. 01:41:52.660 --> 01:41:55.220 So now it's railing. You're a railer. 01:41:55.220 --> 01:41:58.740 So now we're going to criminalize it. 01:41:58.740 --> 01:42:01.780 Look, this is the same satanic agenda 01:42:01.780 --> 01:42:05.860 to shut down what the Bible says and to shut down truth. 01:42:06.200 --> 01:42:09.400 We don't want pastors getting up and teaching this nonsense. 01:42:10.520 --> 01:42:15.760 The Public Order Act of 1986 criminalizes stirring up racial hatred 01:42:16.320 --> 01:42:18.520 and stirring up religious hatred. 01:42:19.320 --> 01:42:22.600 So you can't be a racist and you can't say anything negative about religion, 01:42:23.000 --> 01:42:26.360 which reminds me of a recent case about Shiloh Hendrix. 01:42:26.400 --> 01:42:29.840 OK, some white lady who. 01:42:30.200 --> 01:42:35.460 was at a park, and again, forgive me for my crude summarization, okay? 01:42:35.460 --> 01:42:39.300 Crude summarization, there's a lady at a park, I don't remember if it was a few years ago, 01:42:39.300 --> 01:42:43.020 some kid steals 01:42:43.020 --> 01:42:48.380 something out of her bag, like in her, she sees like a kid taking stuff out of her bag, 01:42:48.380 --> 01:42:53.380 okay? She chases down the kid and uses derogatory language towards it, okay? 01:42:54.500 --> 01:42:59.060 All right. He was a black kid and she used a bad word about him. Okay. 01:42:59.780 --> 01:43:05.060 Now again, I'm not approving of that behavior. I'm not saying that that was the right behavior, 01:43:05.060 --> 01:43:12.020 but is it a crime? Is it, is it really, should it be a crime? And here's the problem is that many 01:43:12.020 --> 01:43:16.660 people believe that's a crime. Now she was actually on trial. 01:43:17.200 --> 01:43:20.000 And she was, it was kind of like a kangaroo court, 01:43:20.000 --> 01:43:22.040 according to a lot of people's testimony, 01:43:22.040 --> 01:43:24.840 that it was ridiculous, the things that were going on in there. 01:43:24.840 --> 01:43:29.200 The jury found that what she did against this kid, not a crime. 01:43:29.200 --> 01:43:31.880 And again, the First Amendment would say that it's not a crime. 01:43:31.880 --> 01:43:33.640 But what's so funny is there's pastors today 01:43:33.640 --> 01:43:36.520 that would throw you out of church for this kind of stuff. 01:43:36.520 --> 01:43:38.600 And they would exercise discipline. 01:43:38.600 --> 01:43:43.520 It's like, how does the world accept or tolerate this kind of stuff? 01:43:44.000 --> 01:43:44.700 And they don't. 01:43:44.700 --> 01:43:47.700 Now she was given a guilty charge though, 01:43:47.700 --> 01:43:50.840 for saying the same thing to an adult man, 01:43:50.840 --> 01:43:52.600 who was there present as well. 01:43:52.600 --> 01:43:55.700 So basically she just said a bunch of obscenities 01:43:55.700 --> 01:43:58.600 and racist stuff towards this guy 01:43:58.600 --> 01:44:00.700 that was confronting her with a camera, okay? 01:44:00.700 --> 01:44:02.700 Confronting her with a phone or something. 01:44:02.700 --> 01:44:04.900 I think he was like a Somalian immigrant 01:44:04.900 --> 01:44:06.200 or something like this. 01:44:06.200 --> 01:44:08.700 And I think he's maybe even been guilty of rape, 01:44:08.700 --> 01:44:09.540 but you know. 01:44:10.000 --> 01:44:14.000 And I think he's gotten like over $300,000 donated to him for this incident. 01:44:14.000 --> 01:44:20.000 But they are found guilty. Now of course they're gonna appeal and hopefully they'll get thrown out because again, 01:44:20.000 --> 01:44:25.000 she didn't hurt him. She didn't like harm him. She just said mean things about him. 01:44:25.000 --> 01:44:29.000 Again, I'm not gonna sit here and say you should say mean things about people. 01:44:29.000 --> 01:44:32.800 You should use derogatory terms about people even when you're mad. 01:44:33.000 --> 01:44:34.600 But think about the context. 01:44:34.600 --> 01:44:37.720 She's involved and someone's stealing something from her, 01:44:37.720 --> 01:44:39.560 and she uses strong language. 01:44:39.560 --> 01:44:42.600 Isn't that kind of the one context that you would think someone might slip 01:44:42.600 --> 01:44:44.680 or say something kind of derogatory 01:44:45.320 --> 01:44:48.120 when they're in the middle of someone stealing something from them 01:44:48.120 --> 01:44:50.680 or attacking them or something like that? 01:44:51.320 --> 01:44:51.800 And you know what? 01:44:52.440 --> 01:44:53.800 Look, you know me. 01:44:54.000 --> 01:44:59.800 I'm not going to get super mad at people for using strong language in intense situations. 01:44:59.800 --> 01:45:00.300 Okay? 01:45:00.300 --> 01:45:03.000 Now again, am I saying you should use derogatory language? 01:45:03.000 --> 01:45:03.500 No. 01:45:03.800 --> 01:45:06.900 Am I justifying her use of this N-word? 01:45:06.900 --> 01:45:07.400 No. 01:45:07.400 --> 01:45:10.400 But am I saying that it should be criminalized? 01:45:10.400 --> 01:45:11.200 No! 01:45:11.600 --> 01:45:14.000 So you can fight, you can say, hey, is it wrong? 01:45:14.000 --> 01:45:14.500 Yes. 01:45:14.500 --> 01:45:15.600 Is it a crime? 01:45:15.600 --> 01:45:16.300 No. 01:45:16.700 --> 01:45:21.580 Okay, is it possible that someone out there has made a joke about a pastor 01:45:21.580 --> 01:45:24.940 or said something mean about a pastor and it was wrong? 01:45:24.940 --> 01:45:31.420 Yes. But if it was true, it wasn't railing. 01:45:31.420 --> 01:45:32.860 And you know what you should do as a pastor? 01:45:32.860 --> 01:45:35.180 If someone's saying something mean about you that's true, 01:45:35.180 --> 01:45:38.300 you should just take the correction and move on. 01:45:38.300 --> 01:45:42.540 I mean, look, it's frustrating when people can't take... 01:45:42.900 --> 01:45:45.300 legitimate criticism or true criticism. 01:45:45.300 --> 01:45:46.900 Look at Proverbs 29 verse 1. 01:45:46.900 --> 01:45:49.900 He that being often reproved hardened at his neck 01:45:49.900 --> 01:45:53.900 shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy. 01:45:53.900 --> 01:45:56.400 Look, if everyone's making fun of you 01:45:56.400 --> 01:45:58.700 and if everyone's making memes about you 01:45:58.700 --> 01:46:01.100 and everyone's criticizing what you're doing 01:46:01.100 --> 01:46:03.600 and it's all true, you know what you should do? 01:46:03.600 --> 01:46:04.900 Change! 01:46:04.900 --> 01:46:07.900 Instead of getting so sensitive and saying, 01:46:07.900 --> 01:46:09.200 hate speech. 01:46:09.900 --> 01:46:12.660 You know, that's not the way to handle this. 01:46:12.660 --> 01:46:13.980 It's change. 01:46:13.980 --> 01:46:15.140 It's get right. 01:46:15.140 --> 01:46:16.860 I don't care if they were, like look, 01:46:16.860 --> 01:46:19.340 instead of being so sensitive about what they said, 01:46:19.340 --> 01:46:20.500 why don't you just change? 01:46:20.500 --> 01:46:21.740 You know, that's what's annoying. 01:46:21.740 --> 01:46:22.940 People come visit our church, 01:46:22.940 --> 01:46:24.420 or your family or friends visit our church, 01:46:24.420 --> 01:46:25.860 listen to sermons online, and they're like, 01:46:25.860 --> 01:46:28.380 well, I agree with everything you said. 01:46:28.380 --> 01:46:30.580 I just don't like how he said it. 01:46:30.580 --> 01:46:31.420 You know what? 01:46:31.420 --> 01:46:33.900 I don't really care if you like how I said it. 01:46:33.900 --> 01:46:35.020 You know, sometimes I listen back, 01:46:35.020 --> 01:46:36.900 I don't even like how I said it, okay? 01:46:37.900 --> 01:46:42.700 But you know what? Most of the time, the reason I don't like the way I said it is because it's not as true as it could have possibly been. 01:46:42.700 --> 01:46:50.200 I maybe was a little bit too exaggerated, or maybe I didn't emphasize the point exactly how I wanted. 01:46:50.200 --> 01:46:53.700 But you know what? I'm usually not offended at how harsh I was. 01:46:54.400 --> 01:46:57.700 I just want the truth to be as true as possible. 01:46:58.300 --> 01:47:01.300 And we should just love the truth for the truth's sake. 01:47:01.300 --> 01:47:03.500 Okay, we need more truth in our society. 01:47:03.500 --> 01:47:05.500 And look, there's plenty of sins with the mouth. 01:47:05.500 --> 01:47:07.400 Okay, so I want to make it clear. 01:47:07.400 --> 01:47:09.900 We're not going to throw anybody out of church for railing, 01:47:09.900 --> 01:47:11.900 for telling something that's true. 01:47:11.900 --> 01:47:15.100 But that doesn't mean that everything you say is true is good. 01:47:15.100 --> 01:47:18.100 There's a lot of sins in the mouth and we should be very careful with that. 01:47:18.100 --> 01:47:22.100 And we shouldn't just spend our whole life making fun of people and being mean 01:47:22.100 --> 01:47:23.300 and insulting them. 01:47:23.300 --> 01:47:23.800 Okay? 01:47:24.300 --> 01:47:28.400 Now again, occasionally we should insult some people for really stupid opinions 01:47:28.400 --> 01:47:30.600 because we love them and we care about them and we want them to change. 01:47:30.600 --> 01:47:33.000 And he's like, how can I decide what's right or wrong? 01:47:33.000 --> 01:47:35.000 Well, is it public discourse? 01:47:35.000 --> 01:47:38.400 If by hearing this could they possibly change? 01:47:38.400 --> 01:47:39.700 Then it's probably safe. 01:47:40.000 --> 01:47:44.400 If they can't really change it, they've already repented of it, it's private information, 01:47:44.400 --> 01:47:46.800 you should refrain from that and not do that. 01:47:46.800 --> 01:47:55.400 And look, I've seen people online be mean, over the top, say things they shouldn't, 01:47:55.400 --> 01:47:57.000 and I thought, I don't like that. 01:47:57.000 --> 01:47:58.600 And you know what I just don't do? 01:47:58.600 --> 01:48:00.600 I just don't like it. 01:48:00.600 --> 01:48:03.400 I just don't hit the like button, okay? 01:48:03.400 --> 01:48:04.200 But you know what I don't do? 01:48:04.200 --> 01:48:05.600 I don't call them a railer. 01:48:06.400 --> 01:48:08.900 But if they're lying about people, then I'm like, 01:48:08.900 --> 01:48:10.500 hey, you're lying. 01:48:10.500 --> 01:48:12.000 Hey, that's slander. 01:48:12.000 --> 01:48:13.800 Hey, that's a false accusation. 01:48:13.800 --> 01:48:15.100 Hey, that's railing. 01:48:15.100 --> 01:48:16.100 You shouldn't do that. 01:48:16.100 --> 01:48:17.300 You know what? 01:48:17.300 --> 01:48:20.200 Praise God, our church has done really good on this in the last few years, 01:48:20.200 --> 01:48:24.000 and I have not seen railing from our church online like this. 01:48:24.000 --> 01:48:24.500 And you know what? 01:48:24.500 --> 01:48:27.300 There are other churches where they rail all the time. 01:48:28.200 --> 01:48:32.200 In fact, it was this morning, there was a guy that used to go to our church, 01:48:32.200 --> 01:48:38.200 Connor Gartner, it was Jason Gartner's son, the Gartner family. 01:48:38.200 --> 01:48:41.200 Who remembers this family? Does anybody remember them going to church with us? 01:48:41.200 --> 01:48:46.200 He went online and said, oh, you guys throw out everybody for railing. 01:48:46.200 --> 01:48:51.200 Even if you disagree with Pastor Shelley, throw him out for railing. 01:48:51.200 --> 01:48:54.200 Now, I don't need to get a raise of hands of who in here disagrees with me on something, 01:48:54.200 --> 01:48:56.200 because it's everyone. 01:48:56.500 --> 01:48:57.500 Silly. 01:48:57.500 --> 01:49:01.860 But he's like, you threw out the Gartner family for railing over a minor disagreement. 01:49:01.860 --> 01:49:06.100 Now, who remembers me publicly getting up and saying that they were kicked out of a 01:49:06.100 --> 01:49:07.100 railing? 01:49:07.100 --> 01:49:08.100 Oh yeah, zero people. 01:49:08.100 --> 01:49:09.100 You know why? 01:49:09.100 --> 01:49:10.100 Because it never happened. 01:49:10.100 --> 01:49:12.180 This is what did happen. 01:49:12.180 --> 01:49:15.460 I said, hey, I've been thinking we should move to the church. 01:49:15.460 --> 01:49:19.260 I had a meeting with the men of the church and I said, I'm thinking about moving about 01:49:19.260 --> 01:49:20.980 20 minutes away potentially. 01:49:21.400 --> 01:49:24.680 kind of more central to kind of even out the commute. 01:49:24.680 --> 01:49:26.760 And this is a place that I'm looking into. 01:49:26.760 --> 01:49:28.040 I don't even know if it's going to work out. 01:49:28.040 --> 01:49:30.120 I'm just saying I have an intent to try and move the church 01:49:30.120 --> 01:49:31.880 to a little bit more central location. 01:49:31.880 --> 01:49:35.480 And I'm willing to consider 15, 20, 25 minute drive. 01:49:35.480 --> 01:49:37.000 Who was even there at that meeting? 01:49:37.000 --> 01:49:38.600 Isn't that what I basically said? 01:49:38.600 --> 01:49:40.360 And I pursued it and didn't even pan out. 01:49:40.360 --> 01:49:42.120 It was like a year later that we ended up moving 01:49:42.120 --> 01:49:43.960 a little bit more central. 01:49:43.960 --> 01:49:47.240 The guy was so mad at the idea of me moving the church. 01:49:47.900 --> 01:49:51.900 that he rage quits and moves four hours away to go to Manly Perry's church. 01:49:51.900 --> 01:49:56.100 Now explain to me 01:49:56.100 --> 01:49:59.420 how it makes sense that you're mad at me for moving the church 01:49:59.420 --> 01:50:03.740 20 minutes away when you're willing to move four hours away to go to Manly 01:50:03.740 --> 01:50:04.660 Perry's church. 01:50:04.660 --> 01:50:09.660 And look, I have a detailed spreadsheet. 01:50:09.800 --> 01:50:12.680 that has everybody that's visited our church for a meaningful period of time, 01:50:12.680 --> 01:50:14.040 everybody was a member of our church, 01:50:14.040 --> 01:50:16.440 and I have all the people that are on the kicked out list. 01:50:17.640 --> 01:50:20.840 Brother Fer can witness this, Google history can witness this. 01:50:20.840 --> 01:50:23.880 You know what? Family's name's never been on the kicked out list. 01:50:23.880 --> 01:50:25.880 The Gartner family never even been there. 01:50:26.840 --> 01:50:29.960 But again, this is what the liars and the railers love to do. 01:50:29.960 --> 01:50:34.200 Oh, you just throw people out for railing or disagreeing with you or whatever. 01:50:34.200 --> 01:50:34.920 Never happened. 01:50:35.600 --> 01:50:37.900 Now again, if Cardinal Gartner tried to come to our church, 01:50:37.900 --> 01:50:39.900 he would be thrown out physically, 01:50:39.900 --> 01:50:41.860 because the guy is a false prophet. 01:50:41.860 --> 01:50:44.200 The guy teaches a false gospel, 01:50:44.200 --> 01:50:48.540 a hardcore repent of your sins, Calvinist type gospel. 01:50:48.540 --> 01:50:50.300 He's a false prophet. 01:50:50.300 --> 01:50:52.740 And look, he's a pastor of a church with zero kids. 01:50:53.400 --> 01:50:58.200 He took over some like liberal denomination, changed it into a Calvinist church, 01:50:58.200 --> 01:51:02.200 some kind of reformed church or whatever, and then is it a shocker that the guy that teaches 01:51:02.200 --> 01:51:08.760 a false gospel is then going to rail on me and then call me a railer? Shocking. 01:51:09.500 --> 01:51:15.300 When again, it's just like, I had very limited interactions with this family for the short time they came to our church, 01:51:15.300 --> 01:51:17.900 and I did only nice things or good things to these people. 01:51:17.900 --> 01:51:23.100 The worst thing I did was mention how I might move the church away 20 minutes away. 01:51:23.100 --> 01:51:25.300 That's the worst thing I did to these people. 01:51:25.300 --> 01:51:26.700 Now you're a railer. 01:51:26.700 --> 01:51:31.300 And it's like, oh, I guess going to Manly Perry's church for years did a wonder for this family, right? 01:51:31.300 --> 01:51:35.300 Now their son's a false prophet repenting your sins, you know, pastor. 01:51:35.300 --> 01:51:36.100 Okay. 01:51:37.100 --> 01:51:41.020 The guy that hides all of his sermons. It's just like what are you hiding? 01:51:41.700 --> 01:51:44.960 You know why he's hiding because we call him out for all his heresy and make fun of it 01:51:46.200 --> 01:51:48.100 Now they're railers 01:51:48.100 --> 01:51:49.520 No 01:51:49.520 --> 01:51:53.420 We just like the truth and we hate heresy. We hate lies and we like to call it out 01:51:53.420 --> 01:51:55.220 We like to make fun of false prophets 01:51:55.220 --> 01:51:59.820 That's why false prophets are afraid of you listening to their preaching because you're gonna catch them in their words 01:52:00.160 --> 01:52:03.820 Okay, and look there was a recent sermon by pastor David Burson's 01:52:04.400 --> 01:52:09.400 criticizing the new IFB on our definition of railing and acting like we don't know what railing is and that we're just 01:52:09.800 --> 01:52:12.500 forcing people to believe railing and whatever. It's like 01:52:13.400 --> 01:52:18.400 It's so funny that they change their definition to just saying negative things or making memes 01:52:18.920 --> 01:52:21.920 while they literally have Tommy McMurtry and 01:52:22.400 --> 01:52:26.120 Jason Robinson going to their churches and preaching for them and hanging out with them 01:52:26.120 --> 01:52:30.300 It's like Tommy McMurtry makes a meme almost every day 01:52:31.000 --> 01:52:33.660 making fun of old Ivy preachers. 01:52:33.660 --> 01:52:38.080 Almost every single day, if not every day, some weeks, 01:52:38.080 --> 01:52:41.220 making fun of them, ridiculing them over the top, 01:52:41.220 --> 01:52:43.800 let alone what he says about us. 01:52:43.800 --> 01:52:46.880 And then it's like, oh, I don't want to eat with a railer, 01:52:46.880 --> 01:52:49.920 wink, wink, nod, nod, the hate speech I don't like, 01:52:49.920 --> 01:52:52.220 but I love the hate speech of my friends. 01:52:52.220 --> 01:52:54.380 I love the hate speech of all these people. 01:52:54.380 --> 01:52:55.800 Look, this is where this doctrine goes. 01:52:55.800 --> 01:52:57.320 It's always hypocrisy. 01:52:58.200 --> 01:53:01.000 It's always lies. And look, I don't want you to sit here. 01:53:01.000 --> 01:53:04.600 It's not fair for these people to just take us to task and lie about us 01:53:04.600 --> 01:53:07.600 and just make whatever they want, say whatever they want. 01:53:07.600 --> 01:53:10.600 Because, you know, these guys forbid you from going to our churches. 01:53:10.600 --> 01:53:13.800 I've never forbid anybody from going to these people's churches. 01:53:13.800 --> 01:53:17.400 And I know people in our church will literally go to their church, visit their church. 01:53:17.700 --> 01:53:19.460 and not him, other people's churches, 01:53:19.460 --> 01:53:20.960 and I don't say anything about it, 01:53:20.960 --> 01:53:22.660 I don't make a big deal about it, or whatever. 01:53:22.660 --> 01:53:26.900 But I think it's fair that if you're gonna go listen to him lie about us 01:53:26.900 --> 01:53:28.460 and actually rail on us, 01:53:28.460 --> 01:53:31.540 that I can defend myself from lies and railing. 01:53:31.540 --> 01:53:32.960 Okay? 01:53:32.960 --> 01:53:36.860 And yes, he's lying about us and has a bad definition of railing, 01:53:36.860 --> 01:53:40.360 and I would love to see him apply it to his new best friend, Tommy McMurtry. 01:53:41.900 --> 01:53:46.460 The guy, according to their definition, biggest railer. 01:53:46.460 --> 01:53:49.180 According to our definition, biggest railer. 01:53:49.180 --> 01:53:50.020 Okay? 01:53:50.900 --> 01:53:54.220 Every way you slice it, he's a railer. 01:53:54.220 --> 01:53:55.060 Okay? 01:53:55.060 --> 01:53:57.020 So how in the world could anybody be buddies with? 01:53:57.020 --> 01:53:57.860 Well, isn't it funny? 01:53:57.860 --> 01:54:00.300 He's the one that taught them this new definition too. 01:54:01.700 --> 01:54:03.400 It's not the Bible that taught these people. 01:54:03.400 --> 01:54:05.700 And of course, then Pastor David Bursons got up 01:54:05.700 --> 01:54:09.200 and he repeated what the false witnesses said about Jesus and said it was true. 01:54:09.200 --> 01:54:09.700 Wow. 01:54:09.700 --> 01:54:11.200 In his effort to teach this. 01:54:12.000 --> 01:54:14.700 He went back to the Greek in his sermon 01:54:15.200 --> 01:54:17.200 and then actually went back to Latin. 01:54:17.200 --> 01:54:17.700 Okay. 01:54:19.000 --> 01:54:19.700 Okay. 01:54:20.000 --> 01:54:21.700 And he said that blasphemy is true. 01:54:22.100 --> 01:54:22.600 Wow. 01:54:22.600 --> 01:54:24.000 He said blasphemy is true. 01:54:24.000 --> 01:54:26.700 He said that the railing statements against Jesus was true. 01:54:27.300 --> 01:54:28.580 by the false witnesses. 01:54:28.580 --> 01:54:31.860 And again, it's just sad to see people do this kind of stuff. 01:54:31.860 --> 01:54:33.060 I don't want to see that. 01:54:33.060 --> 01:54:34.660 You know what I want to see these people do? 01:54:34.660 --> 01:54:35.940 Just say, hey, I was wrong. 01:54:36.820 --> 01:54:38.500 Railing is false statements. 01:54:38.500 --> 01:54:39.620 I made false statements. 01:54:39.620 --> 01:54:40.580 I'm not going to do it. 01:54:40.580 --> 01:54:41.300 Let's move on. 01:54:42.100 --> 01:54:44.260 But it's like these people just keep attacking us 01:54:44.260 --> 01:54:46.580 and taking us to task and lying about us. 01:54:46.580 --> 01:54:48.100 And it's like we defend ourselves. 01:54:48.100 --> 01:54:49.780 And then they're like, oh, you're a railer. 01:54:49.780 --> 01:54:51.940 It's like defending yourself from lies, not railing. 01:54:52.500 --> 01:54:53.000 OK. 01:54:53.900 --> 01:54:55.400 Railing is you lying. 01:54:55.400 --> 01:54:59.300 I don't go way over time, so that's what I do, all right? 01:54:59.300 --> 01:55:02.100 Forgive me for the sins of the mouth or whatever, all right? 01:55:02.100 --> 01:55:02.700 What's the point? 01:55:02.700 --> 01:55:05.300 Hey, shut up, Pastor Shelley, OK? 01:55:05.300 --> 01:55:07.100 But you know, I'm speaking a lot, so maybe we 01:55:07.100 --> 01:55:08.900 would talk a little bit less, all right? 01:55:08.900 --> 01:55:10.900 And you know, we should be careful what we say 01:55:10.900 --> 01:55:12.300 and be careful with our motivations, 01:55:12.300 --> 01:55:15.500 because when you get off, when you have these bad spirits, 01:55:15.500 --> 01:55:17.900 this envy, and this evil surmising, 01:55:17.900 --> 01:55:19.300 you're going to say stupid stuff. 01:55:19.700 --> 01:55:21.500 We need to have a pure heart. Let's close in prayer. 01:55:21.500 --> 01:55:23.200 Thank you, Holy Father, so much for your Word. 01:55:23.200 --> 01:55:24.500 Thank you so much for the gospel truth. 01:55:24.500 --> 01:55:26.700 Thank you so much for your mercy. 01:55:26.700 --> 01:55:28.000 Thank you for being long-suffering with us. 01:55:28.000 --> 01:55:29.500 I pray that you would help us. 01:55:29.900 --> 01:55:34.060 as your people to not overly criticize other people, 01:55:34.060 --> 01:55:35.860 that we would shut our mouths, 01:55:35.860 --> 01:55:38.000 that we wouldn't despise our neighbors, 01:55:38.000 --> 01:55:41.800 that we wouldn't have so much hatred and envy and pride, 01:55:41.800 --> 01:55:44.640 that we wouldn't murmur and complain, 01:55:44.640 --> 01:55:46.920 that we wouldn't just constantly criticize, 01:55:46.920 --> 01:55:48.680 that we wouldn't just be mean, 01:55:48.680 --> 01:55:50.440 that we wouldn't just talk negatively, 01:55:50.440 --> 01:55:53.240 that we wouldn't lie, that we wouldn't bear false witness. 01:55:53.240 --> 01:55:55.840 I pray that you would help us to never be guilty of railing. 01:55:55.840 --> 01:55:57.760 I pray that you would help us not to repeat things 01:55:57.900 --> 01:56:02.980 we hear, that we wouldn't be a tail bearer, we wouldn't reveal private information or 01:56:02.980 --> 01:56:05.580 gossip, we wouldn't repeat slander. 01:56:05.580 --> 01:56:10.160 I pray that you would help us to realize just how many sins there are with the tongue and 01:56:10.160 --> 01:56:15.540 that we would be more careful with our words, be careful to speak the truth, and we do it 01:56:15.540 --> 01:56:16.540 in love. 01:56:16.540 --> 01:56:17.540 In Jesus' name we pray. 01:56:17.540 --> 01:56:18.540 Amen. 01:56:18.540 --> 01:56:19.540 Amen. 01:56:19.540 --> 01:56:23.660 All right, for our last song, let's go to song number 41. 01:56:34.800 --> 01:56:37.940 Song number 41. 01:56:37.940 --> 01:56:38.920 Sweet. 01:56:38.920 --> 01:56:40.040 Bye and bye. 01:56:40.040 --> 01:56:42.000 Song number 41. 01:56:47.300 --> 01:56:49.740 Song number 41, let's all sing that out together. 01:56:49.740 --> 01:56:51.540 Sweet by and by. 01:56:51.540 --> 01:56:55.620 There's a land that is 01:59:07.800 --> 01:59:09.800 everybody you are all dismissed.