all that thrills my soul. Sing it out nice and loud.
Who can cheer the heart like Jesus by his presence all divine? True and tender,
pure and precious. Oh, how blessed to call him mine. All that thrills my soul is Jesus.
He is more than life to me. And the fairest of 10,000, in my blessed Lord I see. 105 on
the second. Love of Christ so freely given, grace of God beyond degree. Mercy higher than
the heavens, deeper than the deepest sea. All that thrills my soul is Jesus. He is more
than life to me. And the fairest of 10,000, in my blessed Lord I see. What a wonderful
redemption. Never can a mortal know how my sin, though red like crimson, can be whiter than the
snow. All that thrills my soul is Jesus. He is more than life to me. And the fairest of 10,000,
in my blessed Lord I see. Every need his hands supplying. I see his strength divine relying. He
is all in all to me. All that thrills my soul is Jesus. He is more than life to me. And the fairest
of 10,000, in my blessed Lord I see. On the last. By the crystal flowing river, with the
ransomed I will see. And forever and forever, praise and glorify the King. All that thrills my
soul is Jesus. He is more than life to me. And the fairest of 10,000, in my blessed Lord I see.
Great singing. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you for this day and thank
you for our church. Thank you for the word of God and all the blessings that you've given our lives.
I pray that we would not take them for granted. I pray that you'd just help us to sing out to you
from our hearts and worship you this morning. That you bless every aspect of the service. We
love you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. All right. For our second song, we'll go to 143. Blessed
Assurance. 143. Blessed Assurance. 143. Blessed Assurance. Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine.
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine. Heir of salvation. Purchase of God. Washed in his blood.
This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long. This is my story. This
is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long. Perfect submission. Perfect delight. Visions of
rapture now burst on my side. Angels descending bring from above echoes of mercy, whispers of
love. This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long. This is my story. This
is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long. Perfect submission. All is at rest. I in my Savior
am happy and blessed. Watching and waiting, looking above. Sing it out nice and loud. Lost
in his love. This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long. This is my
story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long. Good morning. Very good to see you.
If you don't have a bulletin, you can lift up your hand nice and high, and one of our ushers
would be more than happy to give you a bulletin. We have our Bible memory passage, John 1. We're
on verse 44. We're getting closer to being done with John chapter number one. Those of you that
have tarried with us and continued, be steadfast all the way to the end. Of course, any child
that's able to memorize just the verse of the week is still able to get a treat at our midweek
service. On the inside of our bulletin, we have our service times, our soul wanting times. Make
sure to pay attention that the regional soul wanting times, most of those are not actually
meeting here. They meet in different parts of the city. If you would like to go at any of those
times, please just contact our respective soul wanting leaders. Also, we have our church stats
down below. On the right, we have the list of our expecting ladies, as well as a prayer list. I
think we just added everybody from the church, just because everybody was sick. A lot of people
have been sick and stuff like that, so just pay attention to that. Please also be in prayer. One
to add, please be in prayer for Ms. Eve Garcia. She was experiencing some back pain. If you would
add that to your prayer list as well. On the back, we have some upcoming events. Our Shreveport,
Louisiana, soul wanting marathon is this Saturday. We are going to have a group travel with us to
Louisiana from the church. If you want to carpool or go with us, you need to meet here at 5.30,
so just 5.30 FYI if you want to meet here. If you already live on the east side of Dallas or
something like that, you might just want to just drive there, just because you'd kind of go
backwards quite a bit to go, but if you're kind of on this side of town or you want to carpool,
you can go with us. We'll take the church van and if necessary another vehicle or something like
that, but who wants to carpool? Is there anybody that's like wanting to carpool? Okay, so we've
got a few people, so we should be good. That was too late. Sorry, the door was closed, so I'm just
kidding. Also, we have the following day, our Sunday Sundays, so that's a great opportunity to
get rewarded immediately for soul wanting. Sometimes you don't always get that immediate
reward. We get those heavenly rewards, but that Sunday, you get a Sunday, so it was a big success
last time and I look forward to doing that again. Also, the Heritage of the Lord Conference,
October 6th to the 8th. Now, one aspect of this is we're having a kid's spelling bee and I really
wish I had gotten the words out sooner, but they are finally out. So yesterday, we posted it to the
website. So if you go to our website, sbckjv.com and then you just go to the upcoming events,
usually there's a big button on the front that just says like upcoming events. It'll have all
our events listed, but next to the Heritage of the Lord Conference section stuff, it has the
PDF of all the spelling bee words. It is pretty self-explanatory. It has the different age groups.
One thing to just keep in mind, especially for the youngest groups, if for whatever reason, we go
through all of the words in the first age group, there's instructions in there, but we would go to
the next level. Last year, we did that. So last year, the kids knew all the words in the first
group, all three stages and so we had to go to the next stage and it's very possible that that
would happen again this year. I did add a lot of words to the list, especially in that age group.
So there is going to be some new words. The order of the words will be completely different and so
it's just completely random as far as how that's going to be determined. So there's a lot of rules
about spelling bees that are important to know, but we're following basically the scripts,
spelling bee protocols. So if you're curious about how those things work, you can always look them
up, but essentially your child needs to be able to say the word and then spell it and then say
it again. So they come up, they say it, they spell it, and they say it, and that's for a couple
reasons. Number one is we want to make sure that their word is matching the word that was actually
given, that they didn't hear wrong or there wasn't kind of a mistake. That can happen and even, you
know, last year it seemed like there might have been a situation like that. We're gonna do a better
job, hopefully, with our judges to make sure that if there is some kind of an issue like that, that
we either move to another word or we give people a second attempt at something like that, but
you want to pay attention, you can ask for a definition and you can ask for it to be used in a
sentence. So those things could also be beneficial in just trying to understand exactly what word is
being used. I don't think anybody did that, but it is still a good option and kids to kind of learn
as something they can do. There's prizes and there's trophies again, so, and they're different
than last year, but these ones are cool, so I'm really excited about it. I know there wasn't a lot
of winning when it came to male dominance. It was a female dominant sport, okay? So we need some of
the boys in here, we need some of you men to rise to the occasion and step up to the plate, alright?
So I'm looking at you guys, okay? And I'm, as far as the event, a couple things on Saturday are gonna
end up switching their time just due to like making things work, but we're still having all
the events. So all the events are happening that are on this, but we might switch the order a
little bit. We probably won't even let you know until day of, so just FYI, alright? But all the
events are going to be taking place on the respective day as well, okay? Just maybe an altered
time so as to make sure everything works smoothly, but the conference, I'm really looking forward to
this. I think we're gonna even have some visitors and guests, so I would ask you guys as our church
family to be really hospitable, really welcoming to guests, try to allow them to take your seat,
you know, or sit somewhere comfortable and everything like that, and so we'll try to be
really welcoming to our guests. Also, we have the Art Length and Soul Waning Blitz at the end of
October, we have our Texas Chili Cook-Off, No Beans, November 5th, our music recital. Again,
there will be a dress rehearsal for this. Is there an actual sign-up sheet for the music recital,
or is that just online only? Is there any RSVP yet? Okay, we'll get an RSVP together for the
music recital so that way we can get, figure out who's all interested. Our Matamora Soul Waning
trip, November 10th through the 12th, we're also having a Thanksgiving Dessert Fellowship,
November 23rd, and then we're having the Ladies' Christmas Party on December 2nd, so a lot, a lot
of events, a lot of things to participate in. We have a great congratulations to the Carrasco
family on the birth of Leilani Brielle Carrasco. She was born September 13th, 6 25 p.m. She weighs
7 pounds, 7 ounces, measuring 19 and a third inches long. Congratulations to them, that's exciting,
and so it's great to see prayer requests turn into children. That's pretty much all I have as far as
announcements this morning. We'll go ahead and go to our third song, 127 Tis So Sweet. 127 Tis So
Sweet to Trust in Jesus. 127 Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus.
Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take him at his word, just to rest upon his promise,
just to know the saith of Lord. Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him, how I proved him o'er and o'er.
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus, oh, for grace to trust him more. Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus,
just to trust his cleansing blood, just in simple faith to plunge me,
need the healing cleansing blood. Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him, how I proved him o'er and o'er.
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus, oh, for grace to trust him more. Yes, tis sweet to trust in Jesus,
just from sin and self to cease, just from Jesus, simply taking life and rest and joy and peace.
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him, how I proved him o'er and o'er. Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus,
oh, for grace to trust him more. I'm so glad I learned to trust the
precious Jesus, Savior, friend. And I know that thou art with me, will be with me to the end.
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him, how I proved him o'er and o'er. Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus,
oh, for grace to trust him more.
While the offering plates are passed around, turn in your Bibles to Luke 4.
Luke 4, and we'll read the whole chapter together, as is our custom. You can follow along
silently, starting in verse 1, Luke 4. The Bible reads in Luke 4.
And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the
wilderness, being 40 days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing. And when
they were ended, he afterward hungered. And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God,
command this stone that it be made bread. And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written that
man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. And the devil, taking him up into a
high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil
said unto him, All this power will I give thee and the glory of them, for that is delivered unto me.
And to whomsoever I will, I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. And he brought him to Jerusalem and set
him on a pinnacle of the temple and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from
hence, for it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee. And in their hands,
they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. And Jesus answering,
said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. And when the devil had ended
all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. And Jesus returned in the power of the
spirit into Galilee, and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. And he
taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. And he came to Nazareth, where he had been
brought up. And as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for
to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet, Esaias. And when he had opened the
book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon thee, because he
hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He had sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at
liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the
book, and he gave it again to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the
synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled
in your ears. And all bear him witness and wandered at the gracious words which proceeded
out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son? And he said unto them, Ye will
surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum,
do also here in thy country. And he said, Verily, I say unto you, no prophet is accepted in his own
country. But I tell you of a truth. Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the
heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land.
But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Zion, unto a woman that was
a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elias, the prophet, and none of them was
cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. And all day in the synagogue, when they heard these things were
filled with wrath and rose up and thrust him out of the city and led him under the brow of the hill
where on their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. But he passing through
the midst of them went his way and came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on
the Sabbath days. And they were astonished at his doctrine for his word was with power.
And in the synagogue, there was a man which had a spirit of an unclean devil and cried out with
a loud voice saying, Let us alone. What have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou
come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him saying,
Hold thy peace and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of
him and heard him not. And they were all amazed and spake among themselves saying, What a word is
this? For with authority and power, he commanded the unclean spirits and they come out. And the
fame of them went out into every place of the country round about. And he rose out of the
synagogue and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great
fever and they besought him for her. And he stood over her and rebuked the fever and it left her.
And immediately she arose and ministered unto them. Now when the sun was setting,
all they that had any sick with diverse diseases brought them unto him. And he laid his hands on
every one of them and healed them. And devils also came out of many crying out and saying,
Thou art Christ, the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak, for they knew
that he was Christ. And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place. And the
people sought him and came unto him and stayed him that he should not depart from them. And he
said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also, for therefore am I sent.
And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee. Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.
Father God, we just pray now that you would fill the man of God with your spirit, Lord, and help
him to articulate the message you've laid on his heart and give him clarity of mind, Lord, as he
preaches for us. And also, Lord, minimize distractions in the room so we can listen,
learn, apply and walk out more complete Christians. We love you and we thank you
for everything you've given us in Jesus name. I pray. Amen. Amen. So we're here in Luke,
chapter number four, and it's probably one of my favorite passages of scripture here at the very
beginning where Jesus being tempted in the wilderness by the devil. And I've already
preached one sermon on this. I kind of was going to break into a three part sermon series,
but I preached one in Oklahoma City on the temptations of the devil, the temptations of the
devil. And we have here in this passage Jesus Christ being tempted by the devil three different
ways. Now, I just want to kind of read a little bit of this passage and I'll explain those other
points briefly, but I want to focus on just one this morning. It says in verse one, and Jesus
being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan was led by the spirit into the wilderness,
being 40 days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing. And when they were ended,
he afterward hungered and the devil said unto him, now don't pass over that. But think about
what the Bible just said. Jesus being led by the spirit goes out into a desert place.
Specifically, it's not because hanging out in deserts is cool, but rather it's just to
be alone and be spiritual, draw himself closer to the Lord, focus on praying and
things that are spiritual. That's why he's going out. But even while he's out there,
the Bible says that the devil tempted him during those 40 days, being 40 days tempted of the devil.
That's a long period of time to go through temptation from the devil specifically. You
know, the devil is not God. The devil cannot tempt every single person simultaneously because
he's a singular individual. God actually can be everywhere at all times and hear all of our
thoughts and knows everything that's going on. The devil is limited in his capability to afflict
a singular person. So the devil giving you this much dedication is much different than any of
our experiences. You know, most of our temptations that are coming from a demonic force are from his
minions or from people that are pawns being used by the devil through means of technology,
means of TV, radio, music. Those are the ways that the devil tries to reach us. But for us
individually, it's probably very unrealistic to think that any of us are going to have a direct
encounter with the devil or Satan. So we don't even know to what extremity this level of temptation
Jesus was experiencing. However, we know that it was 40 full days of it. And then it says after
this. So Jesus has just been tempted 40 days. He hasn't eaten. He's starving. His flesh has got to
be going crazy. The Bible even says he afterward hungered. So it's making it clear that even though
Jesus is God in the flesh, that flesh isn't special in the sense that it doesn't feel hunger
or pain or sorrow or sadness or any of those type of things. No, his physical body really felt
hungry. Whatever your body would feel like after not eating for 40 days, he was experiencing that
as well. It says in verse three, and the devil said to them, if thou be the son of God, command
the stone that it be made bread. And Jesus answered him saying, it is written that man shall not live
by bread alone. This is where the NIV stops. This is where the modern versions just completely
stopped. But notice what the King James says, but by every word of God. Now that makes a lot
more sense, doesn't it? To finish that thought. To say like, hey, we're not just living by bread
alone here. We're living by every word of God, meaning the Bible scripture is more important
than food. And the first way that the devil tempts you is through pleasure. Pleasuring the flesh.
Because what does food do? Food brings us pleasure. If I were to say, what is one of the
most enjoyable things that you do on a regular basis? It's eating. We all love eating, especially
in America. You know, we're not getting fed crickets and all kinds of weird stuff that other
worlds, other parts of the world are eating. You know, there's parts of the world that eating might
be kind of like necessary, but in America, it's a blessing, you know, getting to go out to eat.
There's so many wonderful things you could try. One of the coolest things about America is you
can have virtually any kind of cuisine you wish like that. I mean, if you go down to Mexico,
good luck getting good Italian food. Good luck getting a French pastry. Good luck getting,
you know, American cuisine. It's Mexican food is like, oh, that's you're racist. I'm just telling
you what it is. You go down into Mexico with me in Matamoros, they have great Mexican food
and they have good food, but it's a limited cuisine. But here in America, you can virtually
have anything you want. You could have steak, ribs, Asian. You could even have Indian if you
want to punish yourself. But food is really there for pleasure. God gave us food to enjoy.
And I love eating food. I think everyone loves eating food. You know, some of our greatest
experiences are simply just eating some of our most enjoyable experiences. We all go hang out.
We go out to a restaurant together. We bring people over. We barbecue. You know, there's
nothing better than smelling that brisket that's been roasting all day and the day before. And you
touch it with a fork and it just kind of like dissolves because it's so tender. This is how
you know if it's Texas brisket. You can hardly even pick it up with a fork. That's what's like
when you pick when you put a fork into a slice of brisket and the whole thing comes up with
your fork. That's not Texas brisket. Okay. That's a rubbery thing that they screwed up on.
So what I'm saying, though, in this passage is that the devil is tempting with pleasure.
And what is Jesus elevating above pleasure? Scripture. He's saying more important than me
pleasing my body or doing things that I enjoy, I need the Bible. I need the Word of God. You know,
is coming to church on a Sunday morning the most physically pleasing thing you could do to your
body? Probably not. Sleeping in or gorging yourself on food or doing any other activity
would probably be more enjoyable to your flesh. Your flesh would enjoy it more than dragging it
to church. However, you're elevating the spiritual above the physical and you're saying, you know,
what's more important than me just enjoying life is being a spiritual person, is pleasing God,
is worshiping and sacrificing the Lord, is by living by every word of God. It also tells me
you need a King James Bible because that's how you get every word of God, folks.
Not these cheap imitations that are another Jesus, the NIV, the HSV, the HIV, whatever you want to
call it. That's not the word of God. Now let's keep reading. It says in verse five, and the
devil taking him up into a high mountain showed him unto him all the kingdoms of the world in
a moment of time and the devil said unto him all this power will I give thee and the glory of them
for that is delivered unto me to whomsoever I will I give it. Now what we have to understand
about the devil is of course he's the father of lies so everything that the devil says is a lie.
However, the devil knowing that he's such a liar and so untrustworthy he often mixes a lot of truth
in with the lie. What is kind of like true about this statement? It is true that the devil is
considered the god of this world and that at the god of this world the devil is at the forefront
of a lot of the authority and the rulers and the kingdoms of this world. Often throughout
scripture when you see a ruler in a particular area of the world it's even known where Satan is
and sometimes they'll even address the king as Satan because they basically are saying you guys
are the same person meaning that that that person is just a minion for the devil. He basically is
just a vessel-less pawn that the devil just uses for his own bidding and he's constantly whispering
in this guy's ear maybe even possessing his body at times and just telling him to say certain
things forcing him to say certain things so that the devil's agenda goes forth. The devil is not
an idiot. The devil is a very sophisticated intelligent being that wants to destroy all
of mankind so if he can demonly possess a particular individual then of course what he
wants to do is put that person at the top of the food chain so that he can then possess their body
and then just say whatever satanic agenda he wants to be accomplished and then people have to go for
his bidding. Now the the biggest culmination of this is the coming antichrist. The coming
antichrist is exactly this model where the devil is going to rise this guy to power. He's going
to influence all the right people to put a person in power and then once that person is at the top
of the food chain everybody knows this is the leader then the devil is going to finally inhabit
that body for himself so as to then put forth his wicked satanic agenda forcing everybody to take a
mark in their hand or in their forehead to worship the image of the beast and they can't buy or sell
without it so he's going to literally turn off the economy for everyone that does not have the mark
of the beast. Now this is just pure speculation on my part so don't take this as gospel but just my
understanding of how that's supposed to work and and scripture is that I believe that the
infrastructure for the mark of the beast will be in place before the antichrist actually comes into
power. So what I mean by that is if somebody stood up in Israel today and said I'm the antichrist
everybody's got to take a mark the problem with that is practically speaking us here in Texas
would probably not experience that for a very long time because it would take a long time for
a mark to be designed, manufactured, then distributed to all the different stores or
the different locations then for people to be organized to be lined up like sheep to go and
try to take this particular mark and and all the different facets that would be necessary for you
to actually take that practically speaking because that process would take so long I just don't think
that this could happen anytime soon. Now when I mean soon I'm saying like this year or the next
few years or something like that we would have to see an explosion of technology and an
implementation from the government forcing people to take this type of technology you'd have to
eliminate cash you'd have to eliminate some other means of payment that exists today things like
even cryptocurrencies and stuff like that but what could happen and this is again this is theory
what could happen and this is what I just think might happen is the government is going to allow
the dollar and some of these things to just get to a point where there's just too many problems
which is definitely happening and once the economy is just in kind of shambles they're going to
introduce and mandate a chip type technology that is going to force you to buy and sell with the
government chips what's going to happen though is because that is not the mark of the beast
you're going to have a major resistance from your like alex jones crowd from your truther crowd
and you're going to have almost every one of these churches get up and say this is the mark of the
beast you know pretty similar to how like when covid came out and the covid shots people are
getting up and saying the covid shot was the mark of the beast that was stupid now of course
it's reminiscent of government complying you to take some kind of a device so that you can't buy
or sell and i get that aspect of it but the covid shot was not the mark of the beast if you got a
covid shot you're not damned to hell okay i don't recommend it you know i preached whole sermons on
that but at the same time that's not the mark and of course i think it's reasonable to think that
the government could mandate a chip or mandate some kind of a mark that's not the mark of the
beast that's a precursor to the antichrist now number one i'm not going to take either okay i
don't want to take the government chip or the actual mark of the beast chip so don't hear me
wrong i'm not trying to like warm you up to the idea of taking a chip in your hand or your forehead
what i am saying is this what if the government did mandate that eliminated cash eliminated
bitcoin you could see a bunch of churches getting up and saying this is the mark of the beast and
then what's going to happen nothing because it's not the mark of the beast and then what's going
to happen is the fulfillment in second peter when the last day there's going to be scoffers that
come saying oh where's the promise is coming because all these pastors are freaking out and
saying oh man it's coming it's coming it's coming here it is this is the mark this is the mark and
then when nothing happens you're going to have this giant falling away from church because they
all feel lied to because it wasn't really the mark and then when you have this great falling
away you already have all the technology in place plus all these people were falsely prophesying
that christ would come what do you think is going to rise out of that a bunch of tyler doka's going
around saying that they really are the christ that came because they were they were prophesying about
christ coming christ coming christ coming so then it's a great window of opportunity for them to
step up and be like oh actually he did come i'm here and it's like no you're not tyler doka
you're an idiot and a loser you are not the lord jesus christ okay and there's going to be many
antichrists but think about it this way if you have this scenario that i'm describing for you
all the technology is in place people have already been getting chipped it's already ready at your
local cbs or whatever you have all these churches that basically just to show themselves to be
losers and idiots and morons for having lied about the mark of the beast so people are just
mad about christianity in general bunch of false christs are arising that's going to set up a
pretty good environment for the actual antichrist to then come in and then implement his mark and
from a way technology works is it's plausible to think that all the people that have aim a chip
already or some kind of mark they can just simply alter that with a computer program to be
retrofitted to the mark of the beast so basically everybody that's already got the mark all you have
to do is just say yes or go down to the store and they'll change it to the 666 and you're good to go
so all those people are already turned on and then anybody else that needs it can basically just walk
in and just get it now i don't know what the technology is going to be i'm just speculating
again right some people think it's going to be an actual microchip i've seen uh i think it was a
bill gates organization but they had come up with a new technology that was like an ink and the ink
has like these little dots and you basically just inject the ink and it just kind of goes down to
this in the lower level level of your hand or your body and then they have these little dots and
these dots basically form some type of a structure that can be scanned and then that's when you scan
that that'll tell you all the information you don't know about that person and the the product
like the ink or whatever that they've made they call it luciferase okay so it could be something
like that where they're putting this kind of like liquid gel like a kind of a stamp you know you
you know there's technologies like this that are similar in the sense like you can get a stamp
that's invisible ink right where you can't really see with the eye but it's there somehow and it's
like this luciferase garbage could just kind of be some residue that's inside of you that's not
really moving around and then you can just scan it with a phone scan it with whatever and they can
get all the information they need on you all of that stuff seems very reasonable in the future
but just probably not tomorrow you know probably not a year from now probably not even years from
now it could be decades from now i'm not going to say exactly when this is going to happen or if it
you know is even going to happen in our lifetime i still think it's reasonable to believe that this
may never even happen in our lifetime folks okay so don't go out and and live in the woods tomorrow
okay we're supposed to be in the world just not of the world
so the point though of this passage is that the devil does have a lot of power
he has a lot of influence he is in control of a lot of different things in this world
not control of everything yet he never will be in a hundred percent
but he's telling jesus i could give you all of this power now that's the lie the lie is that
he has the authority to just give all of these things to the to christ and that he would you
really think that the lord jesus christ bowed down to the devil then he's gonna be like oh yeah here's
the power then he would have mocked jesus and you know gone on a tirade or done whatever but of
course jesus would have never done that because that would have been a sin it's not impossible
for jesus sin okay look what jesus said and jesus said answered and said in him get thee behind me
satan for it is written thou shalt worship the lord thy god and him only shalt thou serve
but isn't this verse pretty fitting for the idea of the anti-christ hey i'm not going to worship
the anti-christ i'm only going to worship god and we see a bunch of build-ups to this throughout the
bible with end times type characters like daniel where we have shadrach nishak and abednego being
forced to worship the image being forced to worship the graven statue that neva kesler has
lifted up and they say hey we're not careful to answer the in this matter we're not going to
worship this this graven image and you know what we need christians that are going to be like
shadrach nishak and abednego in the end times and they say hey we're not careful to not get the mark
we're not getting it you know it i i i don't even think it's possible to get because according to
the bible we can't even be deceived and we we're basically you know not going to be sincere in
anything anyways so i don't think it's possible for christians to take mark people are always
like well what if you just lie i don't think it'll work that way okay you know that would be like
telling a straight dude to like pretend to be a homo okay this is not possible you know i can't
pretend you know that's not something you know maybe you might could like be on a stage or a play
but it's like when they when they actually say like you have to do it then the pretending is
like it's not gonna happen you know it's just like sorry can't pretend like that right that's
not a reasonable request just like i could never do that i can't eat vomit and i'm also not gonna
take the mark of the beast these things are just too vile too gross too horrible too reprehensible
i mean you're just not gonna do it right but we want to have that boldness and that charisma like
shadrach meshach and bendigo where we're like you know we're not careful we're not gonna take it you
know now jesus rebukes the devil again with scripture notice it's it's like the devil's
bringing him up like these temptations but jesus is always beating with scripture beating him with
scripture and really the second thing that the devil tempts you with is with power he tempts you
with pleasure but then he'll tempt you with power and notice what jesus does is he rather
worships god signifying the fact that he's going to serve instead of taking power he serves instead
of taking pleasure he takes sacrifice and then lastly look at this portion of scripture says and
he brought him to jerusalem to set him on a pinnacle of the temple and said to them if thou
be the son of god cast thyself down from hence for it is written he shall give his angels charge
over thee to keep thee and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time
thou dash thy foot against a stone so notice a pattern the devil tempts him jesus defeats him
with scripture the devil tempts him jesus defeats him with scripture what is the devil's third attack
scripture so now the devil's like okay i'll use scripture then and here's what you have
to understand about the devil the devil didn't use the niv
okay now some people say that because the wording in psalms is like ever so slightly different
but it's basically saying the exact same thing this is no different than in the new testament
when jesus and all the apostles are quoting the old testament and it's slightly different but
it's saying the exact same thing you know we use a king today's bible not because the word order
in our english bible is the exact word order of the greek or the hebrew okay it's saying the
exact same thing that's why we use it and it's not like the bishop's bible having a slightly
different english word order saying the exact same thing wasn't the word of god in the 1500s
it was the word of god back then too okay you know why we don't like the niv it's not the word order
it's not the sentence structure it's not the synonyms that they chose it's that it's saying
something different folks but look the devil here is not saying something different this is what
scripture says so then what's wrong with it the context in which it's applied and and some people
just they get all mad they're like oh you bad this y'all care so much about the exact context
and the nuances of scripture and all the little words and all the little you know how it's phrased
and how you know you just get so nitpicky over everything yeah because the devil tries to use
scripture out of context to trick you have you ever read the book of jobe i mean the book of
jobe is one of the most tricky books of the bible because consistently jobe's three friends are
quoting scripture accurately and saying things that are true about god it's the context in which
they're using it that's wrong that's why it's a really confusing book on the surface because
you're thinking like this guy is saying a lot of things that are right it's just that they're
the wrong application they're the wrong context and so of course the devil loves to rip things
out of context and twist things so as to trick you and deceive you just like in the garden of eden
didn't he tell adam and eve that if they ate of that tree in the midst of the garden that
they wouldn't die that day now wait a minute god said that they would surely die right in the day
in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die so who's telling the truth because
did adam and eve die well here's the thing they did spiritually but did they physically no so
what the devil likes to do is he likes to use the exact same word and instead of using the spiritual
context uses the physical context to try and discount what god actually said because he's a
liar but wasn't it true that they didn't physically die sure it was true that's just not what god told
them so again the devil loves to twist things he said hey you're gonna be as gods knowing good and
evil isn't that in essence a little bit true but here's the thing knowing that information didn't
actually make them superior or make them better it made them worse so it did make them like god
in the sense that they knew good and evil but it was a bad thing for them to have done they were
violating god's commandments god didn't need them to have that knowledge of good and evil
they took that upon themselves in a in a prideful way i mean eve is thinking oh i know better than
god or i want to know more or i want to be like god and so out of pride and lust for that special
knowledge she sought this tree in the midst or sought the fruit on the tree of the midst in the
garden the same is really the problem in this passage the dim the devil is going to tempt
jesus with pride because look what he says in verse 12 and jesus answering said to them
it is said thou shall not tempt the lord thy god so first the devil tempts you with pleasure
second the devil tempts you with power third the devil tempt you with pride now you say
how is he tempting them with pride because it's prideful to assume things about scripture
that god is not intending now this is a this is an interesting one this is what i want to focus
on for the rest of the sermon is is how the devil tempts you with pride and what this means in this
passage but to understand tempting the lord we have to kind of read other places in scripture
go to deuteronomy chapter 6 for a moment go to deuteronomy chapter 6 now what would be the
opposite of this submission just submitting to whatever god said whatever god's going to do
what is pride not submitting to god's word not submitting to god's program not submitting to
what god wants for your life thinking that you know better than god or you would do things better
or you have a better idea or you know we have to understand about tempting in this passage is god
really asking for us to go on to tall buildings and just start jumping down to see if god would
catch us i mean is god just saying live the most risky lifestyle do the most dangerous activities
you can think of and i'll make sure that nothing bad happens to you is that really the context of
the psalm or was it that if you're serving god and doing right and you're following his
commandments even though some mischief may fall upon you god could still deliver you out of that
and rescue you you know with shadrach mishak and abednego just saying like hey let's try to jump
into a fiery furnace and see what happens or did they withstand evil did they withstand the devil
and get thrown in there by force and then and then jesus rescued them
you know was daniel saying hey i want to go and just hang out in a cave with a bunch of lions
and just see what it's like see if i can make a pet out of any of them or did he get thrown
into the lion's den and then the lord sent his angel to close the mouth of lions so there's
there's a major difference between being in danger because you put yourself in that danger
versus being forced into that danger and obviously the context that god is giving us
is that we shouldn't put ourselves in a bad situation on purpose and then
expect god to rescue us expect god to deliver us based on our misunderstanding of scripture
based on our misinterpretation of scripture you know often this can happen in a situation where
a husband may promise something to a wife a boss may promise something to an employee
a parent may promise something to a child and instead of those people taking that promise into
context they rip it into whatever context they want and then get mad at the person for not doing
it how they see fit or what they expected or what they wanted out of it but that's not fair god makes
us a lot of promises but those promises have to be taken within his context otherwise it's us being
prideful or assuming that we're better or would have made a better promise or done things
differently than the lord look at deuteronomy chapter 6 verse 16 you shall not tempt the lord
your god as he tempted him in masa so notice the bible says there's a time when the children of
israel tempted god it was in masa go back to exodus 17 let's look that up but notice wasn't
that a quote that you shouldn't tempt the lord so when jesus is rebuking the devil when he says hey
throw yourself off this building god will catch you what did he say hey we're not supposed to tempt
the lord where's that coming from scripture so when the devil comes at you with bad scripture
you defeat him with good scripture and it's not that the scripture itself is bad
it's that it was a bad context a bad context of scripture is defeated with a good context
of scripture false doctrine is defeated by good doctrine why do you come to church so that a lot
of the false doctrines that have been sewn into your heart by the world by your parents by your
friends by your family even by yourself can be defeated with good doctrine coming from the bible
you know it's really important that you listen to it's really important to the preacher to preach
what the bible actually says use the proper context of scripture otherwise you're going to
just go off a cliff but god's not going to catch you because it wasn't the right context you know
if if i'm shoved off of a cliff by a bunch of people for believing in jesus christ god might
rescue me from that but if i just go to a tall cliff today and just say i i think that my life's
too important for god not to rescue me i'm just gonna jump off that would be being too prideful
and god would just let me splat and be like i didn't need you that was dumb you shouldn't
have tempted me because when you tempted me you noticed that you failed right how did i fail
because i didn't understand scripture because i was prideful because i did something foolish
you know the devil will try to tempt you to do things that god didn't say to do
even trying to use scripture to justify it but we're supposed to be humble and just submit to
what the bible actually says we should submit ourselves to what the bible says in all of
scripture meaning you have to study all of it read all of it go to a church that believes all of it
harken to pastors and preachers that believe all of it you know it's funny to me when people will
think that they have figured out life but they can't find a pastor that even believes like them
and i'm thinking like every single man of god on the whole planet
is not willing to submit to the bible only you only you have that truth only you have that
knowledge only you believe this that's a cult that's a cult of personality you know everything
that i believe today i guarantee you i could find another pastor or another saved christian
that's a leader in somewhere in some church that probably believes the exact same as me
you know most of my friends believe with me believe the same as i do on 99.999 percent of
stuff i mean i don't even know hardly very much of a difference but even those minor differences
probably half of them agree with me and the other half don't so there's like at least one of my
immediate friends then on top of that i could find you pastors and churches and all kinds of
other people that believe all the other stuff that i believe because i'm not unique the holy spirit
gives the same truths to men of god that care about the bible and submit themselves to the
scripture so you know in the multitude of counselors there is safety if you're coming
to a conclusion i think i should jump and every pastor and every one of your friends and all of
your churches are saying don't jump don't jump i don't care how right you think you are you're
probably wrong you know and what frustrates me is this attitude is where people disagree with me
or they disagree with pastors and they don't allow for the possibility that they're wrong
it's like
look all of us believe that we're right because if we didn't believe we were right we would
believe differently every single thing you think is right it's because you believe it's right
otherwise you would immediately have already changed your mind and then what i said is true
because now everything you believe is exactly what you believe right but if you've ever changed
your mind in the past realize it could happen in the future too who in yours ever changed their
mind about something in the bible okay allow yourself to believe that's possible today and
tomorrow as well okay that you could possibly change your mind again so when you get challenged
with something you don't already believe or agree with don't just immediately write it off like well
i don't believe that think like are they right because if you have this attitude are they right
what's going to happen is by challenging yourself one of the things is going to happen either a
you're going to strengthen your position and you're going to realize you're right even more
or you're going to end up changing your mind and then being right but in both scenarios you win you
know it's not a good attitude i'm just right i don't care to listen i don't want to talk about
it i don't want to see the evidence i've already read everything or i don't need it you know this
is a prideful attitude that leads you to being stupid stupid people never question whether or
not they're right smart people always question whether or not they're right this is even uh
the case in software development and software development you should always be testing and
making sure that all of your code and everything you've done works and is right and never just
assuming it works because people that just assume all their code works are terrible developers
they're always writing bugs into the code because nobody is smart enough to think about every
scenario and every possibility and every situation and have all of that understanding that it just
always works and it's always good just like no one in this room knows everything in the bible
myself included we should all be willing to challenge ourselves with the scripture and if
you were in jesus situation where the devil's telling you to throw yourself down and you don't
know the answer to that sometimes it's good to just say i don't know but i'm not going to do it
yet because i'm not sure that's right that's okay but what's wrong is to just decide you're right
ignore the rest of scripture not even check it not even use the second reference and then just jump
you know here's here's a good rule of thumb when it comes to scripture
if you can't find an explicit statement saying exactly what you're going to do or believe
then you should have high suspicion that that's true number one so think about this did the
scripture say jump off tall buildings no it didn't if that were true we would find a commandment in
the bible saying jump off tall buildings and god will catch you show me another place in scripture
you know comparing spiritual with spiritual where it says to do that it doesn't say that anywhere
so anytime you have an idea about a verse if it's this vague verse of like do right
that's a verse in the bible okay that's at least a phrase that do right and you're gonna use that
to justify you know blessed are you poor i'm gonna just justify that to do anything i want
that isn't related to that category this is a foolish attitude god is love this is what the
the enemy does they take these little cute phrases from the bible and they twist them to whatever
they want them to mean here's another one that's happening in exodus that we're here the children
of israel have been taken out of egypt to go where the promised land okay but is their journey a
promised land no wouldn't you think like okay we're going to the promised land i've got an idea
god first class tickets you know non a direct flight non-stop that's what i pick but is that
what god picked no god picked for them to go up to the the red sea they had to walk through the
red sea they had to walk through the wilderness of sin and did they get you know did they have a
whole foods on the corner out there in the wilderness they have fresh juice boxes did
they have ice of course not right it's probably difficult look at excess chapter 17 verse 1
and all the congregation of the children of israel journey from the wilderness of sin
after their journeys according to the commandment of the lord and pitched in refidim
and there was no water for the people to drink wherefore the people did chide with moses and said
give us water that we may drink and moses said to them why chide you with me wherefore do you
tempt the lord so saying why are we here there's no water what's going on what's the why are we
here verse three and the people thirsted there for water and the people murmured against moses
and said wherefore is this that thou has brought us up out of egypt to kill us and our children
and our cattle with thirst oh the only reason we're here is just to die no you're there so you
can go to the promised land no you're there because you're not in egypt as a slave right now
did you not just see all the egyptians thrown to the red sea and killed and and and slaughtered
by god for you directly oh but you you know the pit stops aren't as often as you would like
you're going on a road trip to the greatest place imaginable and you got thirsty one hour into the
trip but it takes two hours to get to the gas station and get a drink so now you're going to
say now you're going to complain and act as if well if i was in charge of this caboose we would
add water here this is what they're complaining this is what they're doing and they're tempting
the lord saying oh what are you doing trying to kill us can you imagine your family was
taken hostage by a bunch of like islamic hordes
and you went and rescued them and you're taking them back home
and your plan is that you're going to drive for four hours and stop and get lunch
but two hours in the trip your wife's like why did you come and rescue me and kill me because
we don't have any water yet it's like hold on folks i just rescued you from islamic terrorists
it's like i just rescued you from egypt oh but if you if you really cared about me if you really
love me and have water for me right now it's like that's a foolish attitude because when did god
say that when did god say hey when you show up here fountains of of living water he never said
that he said he's going to take you to the promised land now is his trip to the promised
trip to the promised land what you dreamed up no but you know what that would be
instead of just submitting to god's plan enduring the thirst that you're experiencing in this place
and just moving on they chide they murmur and they tempt god by complaining about his program
saying oh this is the atheist thoughts of the world today
yeah right the atheist thoughts of the day say well if god wanted me to believe the bible
why didn't he just come down from heaven and just put a king james bible in my hands and say believe
it if god wants me to believe in him why doesn't jesus just come down from heaven and just show
himself to me and tap me on the shoulder and do a miracle before me these are the foolish ideas of
the atheists of this world or well you know what i see a lot of people doing wicked and they get
away with it so i don't think god sees any wicked i'm gonna go and do my own thing these people
don't seem to be getting judged so i'll just go out and commit sin and do whatever i want because
it doesn't seem like god really judges so i'll just ignore all the verses in the bible about
god judging i'll ignore all the verses in the bible talking about god looking and seeing
everything that goes on i'll ignore all of the reasons why god told me that i was supposed to
believe in him by faith i'll ignore the fact that god has given me free will and i'll falsely
charge god and falsely accuse him of not being loving because this is what they love to do
atheists and god haters love to say oh god is love but if if that were true then we wouldn't see the
world that we see today because look at all the evil in this world and look at all the problems
if i was loving and if i was god it would be so much better and so much different and we wouldn't
be thirsty sounds like the children of israel doesn't it sounds like a pretty prideful attitude
to think that you're better than god you would see more than god you would judge better than god
you'd give more water than god all of the things that you think are coming from the pride of your
heart and what this is what the devil tempts you with is these prideful foolish ideas charging god
tempting god suggesting that god somehow doesn't care about you doesn't love you isn't interacting
with us on a daily basis doesn't have a plan for your life doesn't want you to do things this is
what the devil's agenda is you know what was the devil trying to stop jesus from doing fulfilling
his plan you know jesus came here to die but not to jump off of a building
not to even be pushed off a building
not to be stoned you know he had to die a very specific way
he had a specific plan in his life and he said well how did jesus know that
oh but you know if god really had that special plan
why didn't you just come down and give him like a whole notebook and why didn't he give
him a computer with all that information why didn't he tell him exactly every step he was
going to take you know because god wants us to walk by faith not by sight because if we're
walking by sight we're a bunch of robots you know there's a difference between a robot and me
free will and you know you can never give a robot as free will you can simulate it you can make it
appear like it has free will it is impossible to give a robot free will the two things that
separate man's creations from god's creations is number one man cannot take things that are
unalive and make them alive and secondly man cannot give something free will these are the
two things that separate our creations from god's creations now of course we can take things that
are not or things that have some life in them and bring new things to life right in a petri dish or
there's a lot of experiments but we can't start with two rocks and click them together
and a genie comes out or a baby comes out or a dinosaur or anything none of that is even
possible we even have greater limitations than that you know we can't even in breeding we can't
breed animals into a completely different animal we have certain confines that we're limited to
that god has given us and he's we're not going to be able to get past some of those things like
we're reading the bible about creatures that are like half lion and half eagle and all kinds of
we can't do that okay god could do it so there's there's limitations on the things that we could do
in comparison to god however we still have a lot of ability to do things and god gives us a lot of
free will and there's a lot of purpose to this but the atheists of this world and the pride that the
devil attracts in these people's hearts will just ooze out and in reference to scripture because
they misinterpret scripture they misinterpret the concepts found in scripture especially about god
being loving go if you would to second thessalonians chapter three for a moment
now there's the biggest loser in this regard in my mind is richard dawkins and richard dawkins
wrote this horrible blasphemous book called the the god delusion and this is what he said
so again you know some people get this is what i'm about to read is way more
blasphemous than let's go brandon okay folks and i'm only reading it because he said it
to give you context this is a quote from him the god of the old testament is arguably the most
unpleasant character in all fiction jealous and proud of it a petty unjust unforgiving control
freak a vindictive bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser a misogynistic homophobic racist infanticidal
genocidal philicidal pestilential megalomaniacal sadomasochistic capriciously malevolent bully
that's a rant i i hope he can repeat that while he's burning in hell for all of eternity
the loser what he thinks that god is all of those things i mean he's calling him even just
petty petty about what unforgiving so we're just gonna ignore every verse in the bible
where god actually forgave somebody i mean you have literal examples of god forgiving people
all the time and often if i were to be honest i typically think like god is being a little bit
too long suffering or a little too forgiving with people rather than the opposite charge
that he's giving but of course i'm still wrong because god is just god is righteous you know
he calls him jealous well that's just because you're an idiot and you don't even know what
jealousy is jealousy is a positive thing i get so frustrated with this world because they're
so stupid they make these charges against god saying that he's bad for being jealous you know
oprah winfrey is another woman you know that god on television and is falsely charging god as being
jealous as being a negative thing look jealousy means that you love the things that you possess
how is that a bad attribute you know a man being jealous for his wife is a blessing what this
means is that he would not allow another man to sleep with his wife whatever man would allow
another man to sleep with his wife is wicked is evil so if you want to call me jealous for
only wanting to be the only husband to my wife then call me jealous all day long but that's
because i love my wife and i'm not going to share her with another just like god is jealous for us
and he doesn't want to share us with the devil how is that a bad attribute how is that bizarre
just like my children i'm jealous for my children i'm not going to let you just take my children and
do whatever you want with them they're mine and you're not going to take them i'm jealous for my
children and you know what god's jealous for his children he doesn't want someone to come in and
steal his children and take advantage of them but you have all these people just ripping scripture
out of context and then charging god about it and it's coming to a place of pride that we see
that the devil tempt the jesus with now here's another one that really just makes me angry
it's it's poor quote unquote really just lazy homeless jerks standing on street
corners demanding me give them money
and then they'll use bible verses to try and justify it who's seen a homeless person with
a bible verse on their sign yeah that makes me mad you know what i want to just like i'm not
going to do it but i would like to have a cardboard cut out in my back of my car with this verse on it
to hand them okay look at second thessalonians chapter number three
and it says in verse six now we command you brethren in the name of our lord jesus christ
that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walked this orderly and not of the tradition
which he received of us for yourselves know how you ought to follow us we behave not ourselves
disorderly among you neither do we eat any man's bread for not but rot with labor and travail night
and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you not because we have not power but to make
ourselves in a sample unto you to follow us for even when we're with you this we commanded you
we commanded you that if any would not work neither should he eat put that on your little
handout you homeless lazy jerk you know these able-bodied men standing on the street corner
with bible verses and then they try to make you look bad by not wanting to give them money or
saying you're unchristian for not wanting to give you money i'm reading in the bible where i'm
commanded by jesus christ to tell any it didn't even just say able-bodied men but they are have no
i have no sympathy for it says if any would not work neither should eat you know obviously when
there's poor people in the bible they're crippled they're lame they have a disease like leprosy or
something like that those are the people that jesus is helping and giving alms to and that
they're being a blessing to not these able-bodied drunkards standing on the
corner that refuse to work that are getting high on meth and just want another hit that is not
somebody that i'm going to give money to i i refuse to give them money i used to think i
would give them a sandwich but i don't want to do that because you give these people food and
they'll throw in the trash because all they want is drugs all they want is liquor and so that's
the reason the only thing they can get from you is cash you offer these people food you
offer these people carrots and they'll throw them in the trash here's my test to you if you
don't believe me offer a homeless person carrots and see what they do with them
you know why because if you're not hungry you won't eat carrots
but i'll tell you this if you're hungry you will eat carrots you will love carrots i i've
gone on diets before where i was i was eating like a really low calorie diet just to try and
cut a little bit and i kid you not i would take carrots with me for my for my lunch and i would
just stare at them on my desk at work and i'd be like i want to eat those right now
and look carrots aren't that i mean i like carrots they're not like horrible or anything
but i don't really ever just sit there just like you know what some carrots sound good today
in fact i'll be honest with you you know why i even eat carrots on a diet this is your diet
okay number one they're good for your teeth number two i think they're good for your eyes too
number three though is if you start eating a lot of carrots you start losing an appetite
because this is not that enjoyable but if you're starving you would eat all of them
when someone is starving they eat everything and everything tastes so delicious things that you
didn't even really appreciate before if you're starving you love it it's like the greatest meal
you've ever had these people are not hungry they're lazy and then they get verses go to
proverbs 28 go to proverbs chapter 28 they'll bring up a verse in the bible
out of context to try and suggest that you should give them money or try to make you feel bad
you know i don't feel bad not giving them money now some of those cripple or lame or down on their
luck sure people are going on going through hard times people that are serving god to the best
of their ability and bad stuff happens to them let's help those people let's love on those people
you know not the lazy jerk standing on the street corner trying to twist scripture proverbs 28
look at verse 27 he that giveth unto the poor shall not lack but he that hideth his eyes shall
have many a curse this is what this is what these are kind of verses that the homies love
to put up there and they mean mug you and you walk by and i just you know it irritates the fire
out of me now i usually don't try to engage these people because they're often like sodomites and
the demon possessed and all kinds of weird stuff so you should try to avoid these people at all
costs and be highly cautious around these people okay but i'm telling you i'm not going to go over
there and hand that guy five dollars i'm not gonna feel bad for him i even ladies i don't
give ladies money and you know honestly if you give them money you're really just not realizing
that what's happening there is a pimp somewhere that is putting her out there to get money
most of the women are usually like in sex trafficking at night and during the day
they're a homeless beggar and they have some handler that drives them around and drops them
off at a street corner to beg for money during the day and all the money goes through the pimp
so if you like funding sex trafficking give money to women that are standing out on the corner
because what self-respecting woman would go and stand on the street corner and beg for money
anyways i don't even see that in scripture she would go out and work you know there's some women
that are in a horrible situation they go out and have to have a horrible job and provide for their
family and you know what i feel bad for them i empathize for those women but you know what
these women that are being pimped out like whores for free donations i'm not going to give them
money either i'm just telling you i know you don't like the truth but i'm just telling you what it's
like go to first john chapter four now there's one last person i wanted to pimp on i wish i had
a little more time but i'm gonna mention him it's this idiot matt walsh who knows what i'm talking
about matt walsh who knows what he's a conservative talking head he is a catholic he's catholic
honestly he's catholic in name only the guy's not even a catholic folks this guy is a grifter
and he recently paired up with ben shapiro the jew which proves that he's not catholic
why would any catholic commentator go and work for a jew it's like have you ever read history
i mean do you even know what john chris's dome ever said ever do you even know any of these
do you know any of the church fathers and how they felt about jews i mean this is bizarre folks
but of course when both religions are of the devil they can usually find unity around satanic things
and matt walsh did a little interview recently with ben shapiro where he summarizes his religious
beliefs and essentially he starts out the interview and i like the way he he answered
some of the first questions because ben shapiro's kind of asking him like why are you politically
conservative or why do you have some of the viewpoints you have today and he said well
that's not really the root question he said the most basic question and the most important thing
is whether or not when you die you're going to go to heaven or not and i said wow that's a great
i that's a great place to start and he said based on that what you believe about that or
what you think is necessary to go to heaven is going to shape all of your political views and
everything else is going to spiral outward from that so i agreed but then ben's like
okay so what does someone have to do you know to be saved because he's like in christianity
it seems like there's two camps there's belief and then there's faith and works
and i think ben shapiro's basically even insinuating catholics believe in faith and works
and ben shapiro's just like well i don't want to write off like 500 years of history like with a
with one statement but the Protestant reformation is kind of like a misunderstanding
yeah a misunderstanding that got people burned at the stake for even owning a bible
what a misunderstanding that was a misunderstanding that took people and put them in boiling hot oil
and burned them to death which took hours in some cases a misunderstanding that caused people to be
saunasunder which is an indescribable evil we were arguing the other day of being drawn and quartered
or being saunasunder was worse i think saunasunder still okay in some cases
being saunasunder can last for a long time which that i just i don't i don't know
these things are so horrible the only benefit of all of understanding all these things is that
you can't do all of them at the same time so that's that's good you can't be killed by being
saunasunder and drawn and quartered so that's my only comfort is that i can't experience
every single torture possible okay you also couldn't be saunasunder and crucified
unless it was upside down maybe then i'm not trying to invent new things okay
but in this interview he says well you know i i kind of look at christianity or being saved by
faith is is like a bridge because because he's trying to say that no it's a misunderstanding
we still believe in faith for salvation it's just that faith is not just a belief it's not
an intellectual sin he says faith is like there's a great chasm between god and you
and jesus is this bridge and it's not believing the bridge is real is going to get you there
it's walking across the bridge so that's what our faith needs is our faith is walking on that bridge
but notice when i redescribe to you what he said of course i'm paraphrasing what he said though
no verses in the bible did i bring up a verse no go to wood Romans chapter 11
go to Romans chapter 11 here's here's the problem with
the the false doctrine on salvation okay and this is what i i thought about recently and i kind of
this is kind of a new thing that a way to word this that i hadn't really thought about before
because you have all these people that will say salvations by faith but they mean works right and
you're thinking like how what does that mean or how are they confused well that's because most
people when they hear the word faith that are in this these false religions and false urges
when they hear the word faith they hear faithful and faithful means that you're following the
commandments doing right whatever but here's here's really where the equation is that faith
is being broken out faith plus something equals salvation okay this is what they're doing faith
plus works equals salvation this is wrong it is faith plus grace that equals salvation
the problem is not the faith and matt waltz's argument the problem is he substituted grace
with works that is the problem and according to scripture you can't have both they're completely
different words look at romans chapter 11 verse 5 even so then at this present time also there
is a remnant according to the election of grace and if by grace then it is no more of works
otherwise grace is no more grace meaning hey let me tell you something matt waltz if your
salvation is faith plus works then there's no grace there's not even an ounce of grace
zero grace grace even ceases to be grace meaning that you don't believe ephesians two eight nine
which says for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift
of god not of works you know why those two verses are coupled because the word grace means no works
if you're going to just figure out like let's figure out what the word grace means it means no
works for by no works are you saved through faith that's another way to word ephesians 2 8
that's why it's been coupling for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourself
not of yourselves it is the gift of god not of works i said it three different ways
unless any man should boast like matt waltz boasting about how righteous he is
or how much godlier he is than all the other people on this planet but the problem is that
matt waltz is still a sinner and arguably matt waltz might be way more righteous than the
majority of americans i mean the guy has like five children i think or something like that
he seems to be a well-cut well-dressed well-articulated man he seems to care for
his family but you know what he said in this interview that he believes someone who truly
loves their wife or children he doesn't see how they're going to go to hell how is that even
catholic that's universalism he even said that if someone wanted to go to heaven and didn't and they
went to hell that god wasn't really just and sending them to hell it's like have you ever
read luke chapter 16 how about the rich man lifting up his eyes in hell and desiring that
his brethren wouldn't go there you're going to tell me that guy didn't want to go to heaven
you're telling me that guy didn't want his brethren to go to heaven look it's not a desire
to go to heaven that gets you saved it's not loving your family that gets you saved
it's believing the gospel that gets you saved now go if you would to first john chapter four i want
to finish kind of on that point and what is the devil trying to do the devil's trying to appeal
to their logic to their pride of well god is loving so if god's loving no one's going to go
to hell or only a few people go to hell or you know hell could only be justified if people really
want to be burning for all of eternity let me tell you a little secret about hell no one likes it
no one is in hell like cool man so glad i finally got here that was worth it i'm glad
i didn't pick jesus i'm glad i didn't pick heaven no it's eternal torment
no one picks hell in the sense that they really really really want to go there they get deceived
into maybe thinking that's what they want but once it comes to realization they're not like
that was a good decision it's eternal regret it's eternal sorrow it's the worst thing you know why
do we go through all the evil and the suffering that we go through why even take a stand for
christ it's so that some of these people won't go to hell it's so that we have an opportunity to
preach the gospel and to love people and to preach them how to be saved by grace not by works matt
waltz not by just loving your wife and if you really loved your wife you'd preach her the gospel
and you'd let her get saved or you'd help her hear the gospel so that she would get saved that's the
most loving thing you can do but the whole conversation that ends with ben shapiro and matt
waltz mocking the phrase found in your bible god is love because ben shapiro is just like christians
always say like god is love but i think he's i think he's more than that my wife's a doctor
it's like matt waltz is like well actually it would be better to say i don't really like that
phrase a phrase found in the bible oh like if you were to just say god's all loving
no no it wouldn't be better okay and god is love is found twice in john chapter number first john
chapter number four look what it says in verse number seven beloved love us love one another
for love is of god and everyone that is and everyone that loveth is born of god and know
of god he that loveth not knoweth not god for god is love they also hypothesize that there's
all these people are so loving that are not safe but that's actually an oxymoron because you cannot
love you cannot love if you're not safe it's impossible the the emotion described as love
in our modern society that unsaved people feel and experience is not the experience of love
according to scripture and they don't truly love because you don't you don't really understand what
love means you think that love means i think this person's attractive that's not love you know
they'll say love at first sight what does that mean it means you found that person physically
attractive you know most men lust after women that they know nothing about what through billboards
tv whatever like they just look at an image of a woman and they like it but it doesn't matter if
that girl had a voice like fran dresser it doesn't matter if she was a feminist it doesn't matter if
she you know killed a bunch of people it's just like i just like that image that's not love that's
lust you could even like how someone treats you hey i like that my wife rubs my feet and rubs my
back and cooks me meals i love her that's not love you don't even know what love is still
everyone likes that okay you know what is love well let's let the bible tell us what love is
and then we'll figure it out okay first john chapter four look at verse nine now in this was
manifested the love of god toward us because that godson is only begotten son of the world
that we might live through him so what is the love of god sacrificing your son
verse 10 here in his love not that we love god but that he loved us and sent his son to be the
propitiation for our sins beloved if god so loved us we ought also to love one another no man has
seen god at any time if we love one another god dwells in us and his love is perfected in us
hereby know we that we dwell in him and he and us because he has given us of his spirit
and we have seen it to testify that the father sent the son to be the son of the world
whosoever shall confess that jesus is the son of god god dwelleth in him and he and god
and we have known and believed the love that god hath to us god is love and he that dwelleth in
love dwelleth in god and god in him so they're ripping out this phrase god is love to then
suggest well then why is there cancer in the world why is there bad people why is there murder
why is there adultery why why would anybody go to hell hell or something well let's not rip this
verse out of context let's not rip this phrase what is it we have known and believed the love
that god had to us what is the love that god has towards me the love that god has towards me
is that he took his only begotten son who had never done anything wrong in his entire life
and he had him brutally beaten he had a crown of thorns shoved on his head he had him
have to march up to calvary and get nailed to a cross and die in humiliation and shame and
nakedness and for his soul to send down into hell for three days and three nights
so that i could have an opportunity to be saved that was the love of god and i've known that love
i believe that love and that's what saves me is believing the love that god has to me
if i think me going to church and reading the bible and going and doing good is getting me
into heaven i don't believe in the love of god i'm rejecting the love of god i deny the very
essence of god's love because god sacrifices can you imagine your precious child us taking him
and shoving thorns into his body and whipping him and nailing him to a cross
just so some people out here might get saved i mean that's incredible god did that
that's how much he loves you that's what real love is now let me ask you this question when's
the last time that you took a brutal beating murdering and and crucifixion and going to hell
so that someone could maybe get saved now tell me how loving you are
you tell me how loving you are to your spouse oh oh by the way while doing that i'm gonna mock
you spit on you and ridicule you and say every worst thing imaginable to you while while doing
it that's the real that's real love you know real love is not eating the sandwich your
wife made you that you like but it didn't have cheese on it i love her man even though we didn't
have my favorite cheese i still i bear through that bro that's not love folks people are
divorcing their spouse left and right for nothing and then they want to tell me how loving they are
you don't even know what love is hosea had to pay his wife not to be a whore against him
that's love the apostle paul walked into a town getting beaten and stoned just to try and give
people the gospel so they can get saved that was the love of god you know it's not the love of god
these freaks out here on this on this corner right screaming how much they want to murder me
in my church i don't know if that surprises you that that's not love okay you know what's not
love what sodomites do to each other abusing each other physically for some gratification that'll
never happen that disgusting filthy smut that is not love committing some kind of a one-night stand
with someone is not love oh i just i i think people that love their wife they're not going
to go to hell i'll tell you what you could be the most loving spouse on the planet and you'll split
hell wide open if you don't believe the love that god gave you have to believe the gospel and you
know what that takes it takes a submission to the bible if you don't like the gospel nuts to you
we don't we can't be prideful thinking well if i was god i would just let everyone go to heaven
if i was god i would plan a different way for people to say i would just show up and say
believe in me if i was god i would make it a workspace program if i was god i'd make it a
bridge you have to walk across well sorry matt walls there is no bridge for you to walk across
you either hop on jesus back and he carries you all the way or you don't go
but you trying to walk across any bridge you're going to fall straight into hell
and everyone that follows matt wall straight into hell oh but he made a cool video about what's a
woman yeah that was a real hard question to answer what's his next one two plus two is four
his stupid video wasn't even good because he still didn't have leviticus 2013 in it
or anywhere close in fact he didn't have any bible in it because you know what you want to know why
all these other churches and all the other christians are silent on the sodomite issue
do you really want to know why because there's not a single verse they could use because all
of them are more radical than their doctrine that's why they don't use any bible it's so funny to me
when they say i love this one well in the old testament homosexuality is a sin and i'm like
show me that verse what verse are you basing that thought on is it leviticus 2013 what does it really
say it's like these people are just a joke today why they're prideful they think they're smarter
than god well i wouldn't have the death penalty for that you arrogant punk yeah this is way better
isn't it the world that we live in the day trannies everywhere sodomizing our youth
sodomizing our city sodomizing everything they see it it's like well but we got this great
documentary from matt walsh matt walsh is a false prophet leading everybody to hell folks you know
what and whenever you are going to make life decisions don't make them on one verse don't
just listen to the talking heads we need to know the bible in context and we need to not be prideful
we need to submit ourselves to the whole scripture submit ourselves to a church submit ourselves to
a pastor submit ourselves to men of god and say you know what whatever god deems for me to do i'm
going to do it i'm not going to complain like well but if i were god i wouldn't make i wouldn't make
christians go to a church as being protested well you're like the children of israel aren't you
well if i was god i wouldn't make you thirst in the wilderness maybe god's making you thirst on
purposes to see what you're like see what you got see if you're going to complain or not
stop complaining about god's journey that he has you on and just submit to it stop being so
prideful the devil's tempting you that you know better but we need to just submit to what god
actually says in the bible let's close in prayer thank you heavenly father for the word that you've
given us i pray that you would help us to overcome temptation that you would just avenge us of our
enemies we know that we're just trusting and waiting on you for your plan but whatever that
timing is whatever that plan is i pray that we would have the humility to just submit ourselves
to that plan that we wouldn't dream up our own idea of what you would do that we wouldn't falsely
accuse you of of not being just or loving or kind or just or a judge or any of these things but
rather we would just submit ourselves what the bible already says and we would allow you
to do your work through us and that we would just be a humble servant not letting the devil tempt us
into making a bad accusation or trying to tempt the lord in jesus name we pray amen
all right for our final song this morning we'll go to 118 near to the heart of god
118 near to the heart of god
one one eight near to the heart of god
there is a place of quiet rest near to the heart of god
a place where sin cannot molest near to the heart of god
oh jesus blessed redeemer sent from the heart of god hold us who wade before the
near to the heart of god there is a place of comfort sweet near to the heart of god
a place where we are savior meet near to the heart of god oh jesus blessed redeemer
sent from the heart of god hold us who wait before the near to the heart of god
there is a place of full release near to the heart of god
a place where all is joy and peace near to the heart of god oh jesus blessed redeemer
said from the heart of god hold us who wait before
near to the heart of god great singing thank you all for coming you are dismissed