Let's look back at verse number 37 where the Bible reads,
"...and no man putteth new wine into old bottles,
else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled.
And the bottles shall perish, but new wine must be put into new bottles,
and both are preserved. No man also having drunk old wine
straightway desireth new, for he saith the old
is better." And what I want to focus on here is this concept of putting new wine
into old wineskins, and specifically verse 39 where we see a person who's drunk this old wine.
The Bible says he doesn't straightway desireth new. Straightway just means immediately
or very quickly. So someone that's used to something that's
old, some kind of an old wine, the Bible's telling us
that if he were to taste new wine, it was not something that he'd really enjoy.
It's not something he would prefer. In fact, he would gravitate back to that which is old.
And really I think one of the truths that we can take out of this passage,
because there's a lot of ways we can apply this verse,
but one is the fact that people often are resistant to change.
People are resistant to things that are new, and
they sometimes demonize everything that's new.
They think everything old is better in every single situation,
every single way, but that's just simply not
true, okay? And so the title of the sermon this morning is this,
The New is Better. The New is Better. He says the old is better.
I say the new is better, okay? And now when it comes to certain things
that we believe or how our church operates,
we do prefer things that are old like, you know,
the old King James Bible, right? We don't want the new King James Bible.
That would be a bad thing to embrace. You know, we believe in the old fundamentals
of the faith, right? We also believe in the old doctrine.
We're not interested in changing our doctrine on a whim,
and we're not interested in changing the fundamentals.
We're not interested in being one of these new evangelical type churches,
but that does not mean that we have to discard everything that's new,
or get rid of anything that could be new.
You know, I like technology. I like cars.
You know, I'm not ready to join the Amish cult over there,
where basically they're just going to ride a horse and buggy,
and they can only have incandescent lights, and they can, you know,
they have only certain farming implements that they can use
as they go up and down. You know, it's funny.
They just get stuck in 1800s technology, but it's like,
why is the 1800s okay? Like, why did it go all the way back
to the Garden of Eden or something? Like, at what level did technology
stop becoming a good thing? That doesn't even make sense, right?
Do we just identify a certain time and say 1950s?
That's where technology stopped getting good, and so we're going to only stick
with 1950s technology. And I saw somebody had this house,
it was like an Airbnb, and it's like designed in the 1990s.
So it's like Saved by the Bell, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
or something. It's just like everything's decorated
in the 90s. That's cool, but you know what?
I don't want to live there, all right? That'd be cool to visit,
but I don't want to be stuck to a particular time zone,
or be stuck in a particular decade. Now, things that come with new technology
are good, like phones. You know, I like phones.
They work well. You can use them to accomplish other things.
Hey, the internet. The internet has a lot of bad,
but it also has a lot of good. The internet can do a lot of cool things.
I like air conditioning. You know, without air conditioning,
a lot of people wouldn't live in the South, you know?
No one would live in Phoenix virtually. You know, Phoenix basically just boomed
with the advent of air conditioning, you know, because it was too hot
for people to really live there domestically. For some people, it's still too hot, all
but also things like indoor plumbing. You know, that's not a technological advance
that I thought, you know what? That's evil, you know, indoor plumbing.
No, that sounds pretty good. I'm not going to go back to the outhouse,
even though, you know, in Texas, that's what we used to have, right?
The outhouse, there you go. I like the indoor plumbing.
So I'm not going to get stuck in time. There's things that can be new
that are good, and some people have this mantra,
Well, if it's new, then it's not true. You know what? That's a stupid mantra.
You know why? Because it's not always right. It sounds cool. It rhymes.
You know what? Here's my question. Is it biblical?
Now let me demolish that quickly. How about a thing called the New Testament?
Isn't that new? But you know what? It's also true.
Just because something's new doesn't mean that it can't be true, number one, okay?
And any mantra that you have, you need to make sure that it fits with the Bible.
Now I have certain mantras. Go to John chapter 3 for a second.
Go to John chapter number 3. And I'm okay with a mantra here and there,
but if your mantra is constantly proven wrong with the Word of God,
you should probably get a new mantra. Now when someone usually says that they're
kind of in the connection of doctrine, but again, we've already proved the New Testament
at some point was new. It was new doctrine, in a sense,
and yet it was the greatest doctrine, okay? Now I say this. This is the mantra that I
have. Jesus and the Bible use carnal truths to explain spiritual things or spiritual
truths. You know why I say that? Because the Bible teaches that.
That's why I have this mantra. Look at verse number 12.
The Bible says this. If I have told you earthly things and you believe not, how shall
you believe if I tell you of heavenly things? There's the thing.
Jesus went around preaching carnal truths. You know why?
So He could also expound spiritual truths. Both are true.
He said, I'm the way, the truth, and the life.
Anything that is true is biblical, and Jesus often uses carnal truths to expound
spiritual truths. Now people that are not saved, you know
what books of the Bible they love? Proverbs. You know why they love proverbs?
Because it's filled with carnal truths. And you know what?
The carnal man can understand carnal truths. Hey, there's a lot of things in the Bible
that even an unsaved person can understand, but it's all the carnal applications.
It's all the carnal truths of the Bible that they could potentially grasp.
But they cannot grasp the spiritual truths of the Bible.
They're limited to understanding carnal truths. And even then, they screw those up oftentimes
too. Go to 1 Corinthians, chapter number 5.
But let me just demonstrate how new can be great, new can be a wonderful thing in
the Bible. And in fact, the new is better.
What's the title of the sermon? The new is better.
Look at 1 Corinthians, chapter 5. Look at verse 7.
Purge out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump
as ye are unleavened, for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.
You know what? When you become old leaven, you need to do something.
You need to purge out all the old leaven so that you can become a new lump.
What's the carnal truth here? Well, if you have some kind of bread, and
it's just becoming old and the yeast is drying up or whatever, you want to get rid
of that and have a new lump of bread so that you can remake your bread or do something
with that bread. But he's picturing something spiritual here.
What's that spiritual truth? Hey, sometimes in a church, sometimes in
a congregation of a body, you have people bringing in leaven, and you are an old leaven
church, and you need to purge out that leaven. You need to get certain people out
of the church so that the church can be a new lump presented to Christ unleavened.
Something that Christ can use so he can worship God in spirit and in truth.
We don't want to just let every single person come to church.
I don't have a sign here, but not everyone's welcome to come to a church.
You say, who's not welcome to come to a church?
Well, it has a list in 1 Corinthians, chapter 5.
It says very clearly in verse 11, but now I have written unto you not to keep company
if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or a covetous or an idolater
or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such and one know not to eat.
The Bible is crystal clear on this doctrine of church discipline, and it is a biblical
doctrine, and really I like this doctrine because I don't want to come to church
with a bunch of leaven. I don't want to come to church with a bunch of railers
and drunkards and extortioners and people that can just do whatever they want without
recourse. No, we need some accountability in the house
of God today, and we need to tell people, hey, if you're not going to act right,
if you're not going to live above these type of sins, live above approach of these
type of sins, you need to get out and that we can be a new lump.
So you know what? The new lump's better. You know what's better than the old leaven?
The new lump. When you're in a church and it kind
of starts to stink and it has that leaven, as soon as you purge out that leaven, all
of a sudden it's just better, isn't it? You just feel that weight of that evil spirit
that was just hurting the church. Now go if you would to 1 Corinthians 15,
and look at verse number 46. So how is the new better? Well, the new lump is better
than the old leaven. Look at 1 Corinthians 15. Look at verse 46. Howbeit that was
not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterward that which
is spiritual. Hey, another proof text of God uses carnal
truths to expound spiritual truths. Just like we took the image of Adam, we're
going to also take the image of the Lord Jesus Christ, and so both are true and
both help us understand what's going to happen in the future. God uses the carnal
truths of being born again. Hey, you see your child being born. That
illustrates a spiritual birth in someone's life, and God constantly uses all kinds
of carnal physical truths for us to understand the spiritual truths that God has given us.
Verse 47, the first man is of the earth, earthy. The second man is the Lord from
heaven. You know what? I like the second man way more than the first man. You know
why? Because the new is better. Hey, the new one's better, and guess what? I
like this old flesh of mine, but you know what's going to be better? The new one.
The new one that's coming. Look at verse 51. Behold, I show you a mystery. We
shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. End a moment in the twinkling of
an eye at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be changed, for this corruptible must put on incorruption,
and this mortal must put on immortality. You know what's better? The new body. Hey,
you're going to get a new body one day. Hey, if you're in Christ, if you're
saved, if you're a child of God, there's going to be a day where you're going
to get a new body, and let me tell you what, the new is better. I don't want the old.
Now go, if you would, to Revelation chapter 2. Not only do we want our church to be
a new lump, we want to get out the old leaven. Not only are we excited about getting
a new body one day, look at this really cool truth, Revelation chapter 2, and look
at verse number 17. The Bible says this. He that hath an ear, let him hear what
the Spirit saith in the churches. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the
hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written which no
man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. You know what? I like my name. I like the
name my parents gave me. I like the name Jonathan. It's biblical. In Hebrew, it means
the gift from God, all right? So put that in your pipe and smoke it, all right?
But guess what? I'm going to get a new name. You know what? The new is going to
be better. Hey, you're going to get a new name if you've overcome. You know how you
overcome? By putting your faith in Jesus Christ. You've overcome the deception of
this world, and you know what? Christ is going to give you a new name, and the
new is better. Look at chapter 14. Look at chapter 14. We're just heating up, all
right? We're talking about how the new is better today, but some people, they
just drink the old wine, and they just can't stand the new. You know what? I'm
excited about the new. Look at Revelation 14. Look at verse 3. And they sung as it
were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders,
and no man could learn that song but the 144,000 which were redeemed from
the earth. You know what? The 144,000 are going to sing a new song, and then
in Revelation 15, we're going to sing a new song. We're going to sing the song
of Moses. Hey, I like the hymns that we sing. I like the songs that we sing.
You know what? We're going to have new songs in heaven. Go over to Revelation 21.
Revelation chapter 21. Hey, we get a new lump. Hey, we get a new body. Hey, we get
a new name. Hey, we're going to have new songs. Hey, the new is looking better,
if you ask me. How about this one? Revelation 21 verse 1, and I saw a new
heaven and a new earth. That sounds great, too, because you know what? There's
some sorry things in this earth. It's not the earth itself. It's the people
that live in it, and we're going to purge out that old leaven, and we're
going to be a new lump, and we're going to have a new heaven, and we're going to
have a new earth, and you know what? The new is going to be better. Well, if
it's new, it's not true. Well, you just sound like you got a bad mantra,
buddy. I like new things. You know what? I like the smell of a new car.
There's like nothing like it. I like things that are brand spanking new. Go
over to Hebrews chapter 7. Now, I have three points this morning. I think I've
already proved the foundation of where we're going, but you know what? The new
can be better. Now, we don't want to take this doctrine too far and say
everything new is better. Hey, the new King James, worse, all right? Hey, there's
certain things that can be new that can be bad, but you know what? There's
lots of new things that can be good, too. So if you're going to come up
with a mantra, make sure it's always true, not just sometimes true. Hebrews
chapter 7, let's look at verse number 19. What's my first point? How is the
new better? Well, the new is better because we have the New Testament. The
New Testament is better than the Old Testament, and the Bible emphasizes
this and proves this over and over, but look at verse number 19. The Bible
reads, for the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better
hope did, by the which we draw nigh unto God, and as much as not without an
oath, he was made a priest, for those priests were made without an oath, but
this with an oath by him that said on him, the Lord swear and will not
repent. Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. By so
much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. You say, hey, how
do you, you just keep saying the new is better. No, the Bible says it. The
Bible says that the New Testament is the better testament. The new is
better, and you know what? Sometimes new doctrine is better, like the New
Testament. Let me evidence that for you real quick. You know what? The
Old Testament was great. The Old Testament was good. The law of the
Lord is perfect, but it was weak through the flesh. So you know what
God did? He gave us a better testament. He gave us a better covenant.
He gave us better doctrine, the Lord Jesus Christ. And you know what? I
love the Old Testament, but I'll be honest, I love reading the New
Testament more. I mean, if you're going to say, what books do you
just fly through when you're reading? The book of John, the book
of Romans. I mean, I love reading the New Testament. You know
why? Because it just has better promises. And you know what? I
love the Old Testament. There's nothing wrong with the Old
Testament, but from God's own mouth, the New Testament is
better, and I think it's better too. Look at verse 13 in
chapter 8. Look at verse 13 in chapter number 8. And that he
saith a new covenant. He hath made the first old. Now that
which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. So
notice we have something. It's the old. But isn't it just
evident when you read the Bible? There was a lot of
people that had drunk the Old Covenant, drunk the Old
Testament, and when the new came, they didn't really like
it. They didn't straightway embrace it. Hey, you got
people like James. Hey, you got other apostles and prophets
who struggled with the New Testament. They struggled with
new doctrine, like the fact that the Gentiles could get
saved. They didn't really like that doctrine right away.
A lot of them struggled with that doctrine. They were
frustrated by that doctrine. Hey, even Peter has to come
back. He's nervous to preach that new doctrine. He's like,
Hey, look, I got a vision from heaven. And you know
what? There was all these unclean beasts, but you know
what? In that unclean beast was bacon. And let me tell
you something. It's better. It's better. Hey, don't just
give me that kosher diet. Give me that bacon. Hey, put
some cheese on the burger. Put some bacon on the
burger. Hey, I'm ready to eat. You know what? Because
it's better. But you know what? People struggle with
that doctrine. We see the apostles struggling with that
doctrine. Why? Because they were on the old wine. It
was hard for them to embrace the new wine. But you
know what? It was better. It was definitively better.
Look at chapter nine. Look at verse number six. Chapter
nine. Look at verse number six. Now, when these
things were thus ordained, the priest went always in
the first tabernacle accomplishing the service of
God. But in the second went the high priest alone
once every year, not without blood, which he
offered for himself and for the areas of the
people. Holy Ghost, this signifying that the way
into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest
while as the first tabernacle was yet standing,
which was a figure for the time then present and
which were offered both gifts and sacrifices
that could not make him that did the service
perfect as pertaining to the conscience, which
stood only in meats and drinks and divers
washings and carnal ordinances imposed on them
until the time of reformation. So the Bible
saying, hey, the Old Testament, they had all
these pictures, they had all this service of God,
and it had symbolic significance. But it was
really simply just carnal ordinances. What is
that physical? Meaning what? Hey, they're doing
all these physical things like killing a lamb, and
they're sprinkling blood on the altar, and
they're removing all the fat and all the call
of the of the liver. And then they take the
just big chunk of the beast with its skin and
hooves and eyes and everything, and they lay it
on the burnt offering altar, and they would
burn it to a crisp and they did not eat
it. Okay, FYI. But then they would eat the
meat offering, they had the sin offering, they
had the trespass offering, they had the peace
offerings, and all these things were to do
something to picture the Lamb of God, to
picture the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and what He was going to do for us.
You know what? It was simply just a carnal
thing. It was carnal ordinances, just divers
washings. Then they walked in, the priest
walked in, they had to wash their feet, they
had to wash their hands to do the service
of God, because you know what? We're supposed
to spiritually wash ourselves and cleanse
ourselves from our sins when we serve God, when
we worship God, picturing the fact that, hey,
we just don't want leaven coming into the
church. No, why don't you clean your hands
and feet before you walk into church? And
I'm not talking about the physical, even
though that's true. I'm talking about the
spiritual, right? Because both are important.
And they had all these different things
they were supposed to do about lighting
incense. And you know what? The altar was
never, ever supposed to burn out. That burnt
offering fire is supposed to burn forever
and ever and ever. You know what that's a
picture of hell. And the fact that hell
burns forever and ever and ever. The Bible
says everlasting burnings. Look it up. It's
a place of burning. All right? It's a place
of roasting and fire and torment and
suffering and smoke. And where there's
smoke, there's fire. But here's the
thing. All that carnal stuff was this
picture, spiritual things. And when Jesus
Christ fulfilled every single aspect of
that, not just the death, but also the
separation of all the fat. You know what
that is? Hey, his soul was separated
from his body. And you know what his
soul did? It went down into hell and
it burned. And then you know what? He
rose again. He fulfilled every single
aspect of all the offering, all the
service of God. He even went into the
highest place, the holiest of holies. He
sprinkled his blood. And you know
what? They sprinkled the blood on the
bottom of the altar and they sprinkled
the blood on the horns of the altar. You
know what that is? Well, his blood was
spelt on this earth, which is like the
bottom of the altar. And then you
know what? He went up into heaven
and he sprinkled his blood on the
horns of the altar. He did it all,
every single aspect. So then you ask
this question. Do we still need to do
it? Well, let's keep reading. He says
in verse number 11, but Christ
being come and high priest of good
things to come by greater and more
perfect tabernacle, not made with
hands, that is to say, not of this
building, neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but by his own blood, he
entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption for
us. Hey, if I've been eternally
redeemed, it's done. You know what?
Christianity is a done religion
because Christ already did it. He's the
lamb slain before the foundation of
the world. And you know what? We're
securing Christ. We're seated in
heavenly places with Christ today. And
you know what? The blood, if it's been
sprinkled to your heart by faith,
you're saved. It's been done.
There's no more need for animal
sacrifice. Animal sacrifice is going to
come back with the anti Christ. That's
when the animal sacrifice and come
back in his blasphemy. It's a
rejection of the fact that Christ came
in the flesh. Think about the Bible
talking about the spirit of
antichrist. What is it? What is the
spirit of antichrist saying that
Christ is not coming to flesh? What
could be a what could be a more
clear picture of the spirit of
antichrist than offering animal
sacrifices again? That's a complete
rejection of the New Testament, a
complete rejection of the Son of God,
a complete rejection of the fact
that the Son of God has come,
which we learned about what last
Sunday night, didn't we? But we
know the Son of God has come and
has given us an understanding that
what? It's the Old Testament. We're
done with that. We now have the
New Testament, which is better. The
Jews reject the New Testament.
Theoretically, they accept the old,
but they don't accept that either.
But here's the thing. We like the Old
Testament. We think it's great, but
we believe it's been fulfilled, and
we are New Testament Christians
today. And you know what? The
new is better. The New Testament
is better. Well, if it's new,
then it's not true. Well, don't
get stuck in the Old Testament
then. I mean, you would have to,
I mean, could you ever get new
doctrine? I mean, basically,
there's after one commandment,
you're just done, right? No, God
can't continue to reveal his
word throughout ages. And he
gave us the New Testament. Don't
get stuck with a stupid mantra
that's not even true. Go to
chapter 12 and look at verse
24. Look at chapter 12 and look
at verse number 24. The Bible
says this, and to Jesus, the
mediator of the new covenant and
to the blood of sprinkling that
speaketh, notice this, better
things than that of Abel. Well,
you know what? After Abel gave
us doctrine, we didn't say
we're done. Nope. Then we get
Moses, and then we get other
prophets and teachers, and then
we get Jesus himself. And you
know what? He speaketh better
things than Abel. Why? Because
the new is better. Go to
Colossians chapter one. So
point one is what? The new is
better than the fact that we
have the New Testament. The New
Testament is provably true as
better. It's just better. The
Bible says it's better. Just
from a logical perspective, it's
better. Bacon, you know, I
can't emphasize that enough,
all right? I mean, it's just
in every way better. Hey, if
I want to get right with God,
all I have to do is go into
my closet, get on my knees and
pray to God. You know, in the
Old Testament, you had to
literally bring an animal. Some
of you would be bringing
animals all the time. I would
too, all right? I mean, just
think about it. It's like
anytime you sin, it's like
bring another cow. It's like,
Oh man, you know, bring
another goat, you know, and
bring some more pigeons. And
it's like, man, this would be
a zoo. I mean, just look,
they were slaying nonstop. I
mean, they were killing animals
left and right. I mean, when
you read some of the
sacrifices, it's thousands and
thousands and thousands of cows.
I mean, PETA would have been
so triggered their head would
explode. It's like, you
know, but praise God, we're
in the New Testament. They've
already slaughtered the beast
and it's, you know, going to
be served at the table when I
go to eat lunch today, but
I don't have to bring it in
the house of God. Do I? We
have the lamb of God, which
is sprinkling in our hearts.
The spiritual picture is
better than the physical
picture. Now, Colossians
chapter three, I have a
second point here of how the
new is better. And that is
the fact that once you get
saved, if you put all your
faith in Lord Jesus Christ
and you trust him as your
savior, the Bible says that
something happens. Behold, all
things are become new filled.
All things are new. I mean,
when you say new, what does
that mean? Well, your
physical flesh doesn't change
one iota. Your physical
flesh is still the same
corruptible flesh. There's
nothing good in it. As Paul
would say, it's just, it's
just corrupted. It's, it's
evil. It's a body of death.
I mean, there's no, I mean,
he doesn't say anything
positive about the flesh.
All right. But something
happens inside of you. Your
spirit is quickened according
to the Bible. Quickened means
to be made alive. Something
is made alive inside of you.
It's that new man. And that
new man is incorruptible.
That new man cannot sin. That
new man has been made in
righteousness and holiness.
And you know what? It's been
born of God. And because
it's been born of God, your
new man can't even sin is
what the Bible says. You
know, false teachers take
verses that describe this
picture of the new man and
not sending and say, well,
if you're saved, you'll
never sin again. And it's
like, that's false doctrine.
If we say that we, if we say
that we haven't, we say we
have no sin, we deceive
ourselves and the truth is
not in us. But the Bible
says, well, let's read this
passage here and get a
picture of the new man. It
says in Colossians chapter
number three, verse nine,
lie not one to another,
seeing that you have put
off the old man with his
deeds and have put on the
new man, which is renewed in
knowledge after the image of
him that created him, where
there is neither Jew or
Greek nor Jew circumcision nor
uncircumcision, barbarian,
Scythian, bond nor free, but
Christ is all and in all put
on therefore as the elect of
God, holy and beloved bows of
mercy's kindness, humbleness
of mind, meekness, long
suffering for bearing one
another and forgiving one
another. If any man have a
quarrel against any, even as
Christ forgave you. So also
do ye. And it goes on to
give us even more great
doctrine here, but let's
emphasize this one point. We
need to put off the old
man and we need to put on
the new man. You know why?
Because the new is better.
Hey, the old man is a
liar. The old man is
deceitful. The old man
steals and blasphemes and
envies and the old man
looks with lust and the old
man is insatiable and the
old man, just all he does
is evil continually. That's
all he does. The old man
sucks. The old man is
nothing to tout about. It's
nothing to write home
about, but you know what
is the new man and the new
man gives us the opportunity
to serve God in holiness
and in righteousness and to
walk in that spirit. And
we know what we need to
do. We need to encourage
people to walk in the new
man today. That's what
he's given some instruction
here. He say, Hey, have
bowels of mercy's today.
Hey, why don't you have
kindness today? Why don't
you humble yourself in your
mind? You know what? It's
one thing to humble
yourself with your words.
It's another thing to
humble yourself in your
mind. This is a difficult
task to humble yourself
in your mind is where you
truly believe other people
are better than you. You
truly believe you need
other people more. You
know what? Coming to
church and my mind is a
picture of humbleness
because you're saying, you
know what? I need
something. You know what?
I need to hear the word
of God being preached. Hey,
when you read the Bible,
it's saying, Hey, I need
the Lord today. I need his
instruction. You know
what? When you're not
doing the things of God,
it shows a picture of
arrogance. It shows a
picture of pride of the
fact that you don't need
anyone. You don't need
anything. If someone comes
and says, Hey, can I help
you with this? No, I'm
good. Is that a humble
person? No, but whenever
you have the Bible and
you're like, no, I'm
good. I don't need Bible.
I don't need church. I
don't need anybody to
tell me I'm doing
anything wrong. Oh, I
didn't know you figured
it all out. You know
what? The, if you want
to be a wise person, you
will, you will readily
accept criticism because
all of us, all of us
could improve and all
kinds of areas in our
life. There's so many
areas of our life that
we can improve upon. I
didn't know you were
Jesus Christ in this
room. There should be
some more. Amen. No,
I'm just kidding. Hey,
there is a lot of areas
in your life that you
need improvement marriage.
Hey, you need, you need
an improvement and being
a father and being a
mother and being a
child. Hey, you need
improvement being a
soul winner. Hey, you
need improvement being a
Christian. Hey, you need
improvement being an
employee. Hey, you need
improvement. You're
preaching. Hey, you need
some improvement. You're
preaching, right? Hey,
you need some
improvement in your Bible
knowledge. Hey, we all
need it. We all need
improvement today. Hey,
you know what, how
you're going to get
that by seeking help
from others, by asking
others to help you and
to correct you and to
give you guidance. And
you know what? Open
rebuke is better than
secret love. We should
desire people to tell
us that we're wrong so
we can get better, so
we can be the best
version of ourselves. And
you know what? We need
to walk in that new
man. You know why?
Cause it's better. Don't
resist the new man.
Embrace the new man
desire to walk in the
new man. You know
what it says in verse
13, forgiving one
another, but the old
man doesn't want to
forgive. The new man
says you must forgive if
any man have a quarrel
against any, even as
Christ forgave you. So
also do ye. We should
be a church that
forgives one another
and loves one another
and helps one another.
And we need to be
humble in our minds and
realize our need for
one another. We need
each other today. Go to
Ephesians chapter four.
Go to Ephesians
chapter number four.
What's the title of
the sermon? The new is
better. There's so many
new things that I just
love about the Bible.
How could you have a
doctrine condemning
anything that's new when
everything that's new is
better in the Bible. I
mean, it's just
constantly hammering this
one, isn't it? This
new man is great.
Ephesians chapter four,
look at verse 17. This
I say, therefore, and
testifying the Lord, the
henceforth walk, not as
other Gentiles walk in
the vanity of their
mind, having the
understanding darken,
being alienated from the
life of God through the
ignorance that is in them
because of the blindness
of their heart, who being
past feeling have given
themselves over under
lasciviousness to work
all uncleanness with
greediness. The Bible
says those that are not
saved, they walk in the
vanity of their mind.
Everything is based on
what they think. Every
man does that which is
right in his own eyes
is what the Bible says.
And notice they're
alienated from the life
and God. What does it
say in verse number 18?
Alienated from the life
of God. They're not
serving God. If you're
not saved, you have
nothing to do with God.
I mean, God is trying
to draw you in. He's
trying to get you
saved. He's trying to
make you a child of
God. I mean, there's
constant call out. I
mean, even creation
itself cries every single
morning, begging for
you to accept the life
that's coming from God.
But you know what?
People are resistant.
They're blind. Notice
what it says, because
of the blindness of
their heart. Their heart
is not right. And we
need to go out and to
preach the gospel to
these people so that they
can get a new man
because this old man
is bad. He says in
verse 20, but ye have
not so learned Christ
if so be that you
have heard of him and
have been taught by him
as the truth is in
Jesus that you put off
concerning the former
conversation, the old
man, which is corrupt
according to the
deceitful lust and be
renewed in the spirit
of your mind and that
you put on the new man,
which after God is
created in righteousness
and true holiness. So
he's saying, hey, this
new man that's inside
of you, it's holy. It's
true righteousness that's
inside of you. You are
capable of being holy
and righteous at times
in your life. Whenever
you're walking in the
spirit, you can walk in
holiness. You can walk
in true righteousness
today. You know what
you have to do? You
have to put off the old
man. That means when
you wake up daily, you
have to crucify the
flesh. You have to die
to yourself. You have
to try and force
yourself to walk in the
new man. It's not
automatic. It's hard.
It's difficult.
Crucifying is not
something that's easy.
Dying yourself is not
easy. And there's that
constant war. There's
that constant battle.
But you know what? The
new is better. If you
live today in the old
man, your day will
suck. If you live today
in the new man, it'll
be great. It'll be
better. Hey, tomorrow,
if you decide to go
back to the old man,
you put on the old
man all day Monday,
it's not going to be
as good as if you put
on the new man that
day. Why? Because
the new is better.
Put on the new.
Force yourself to put
on the new. You
know, if you wake
up, it would be easy
to just go straight to
work. But you know
what? You need to
like put some
clothes on and
shower and groom
yourself a little
bit. And you know
what? You need to
do that with the
new man. You need
to carve out some
time to put on the
new man, put some
effort in and put the
new man on so you can
walk the rest of the
day in the new man.
Why? Because the new
man is better. Let's
get some specifics
here. He says in verse
number 25, wherefore
put away lying. Lying
is terrible. Lying is
awful. You know, you
should come to church
and never have to hear
lies. Should be the
one place where you
hear the truth today.
That's why it says in
the next breath, it
says, put away lying.
Speak every man truth
with his neighbor. We
are members one of
another. The best
thing that we can do
as a church is just be
ones who love the
truth. Let us just love
the truth today. Let
us not lie to one
another. Let us not
be deceitful. Let us
not trick one another.
Let us always preach the
truth because the
truth will help you.
The truth will never
harm you. And you
know what? People get
mad at my preaching.
People get mad at
this church. But then
I have to ask the
question, well, is it
true though? Because
here's the thing. If
it's true, it's not
going to hurt you. You
know what's going to
hurt you is lies. And
you know what? The
truth is better than
lies. The new man is
better. We need to
emphasize truth and
work on truth today.
And that's why it
brings me to my third
point. My final point
this morning is this,
how the new is
better. The new I of
B is better than the
old I of B. It's
better. Hey, I got a
board up here. I'm
going to, I'm going
to explain what I
mean. All right. I'm
gonna make it manifest
this morning. The new
I have B is better.
All right. You say,
what do these things
mean? Well, let's make
them clear because
whatsoever does make
manifest is light is
what the Bible says. So
we've got the old I
have B over here and
I'm gonna explain what
I believe these things
mean. All right. Cause
people have different
definitions and it's
really just an abstract
concept. Okay.
But I have a list of
what I believe old
I have B means and
what new I have B
means, and I'll
explain why it's
better. All right. So
what is old I have B
well, first of all,
I have B just stands
for independent
fundamental Baptist.
There's a lot of
people that go by that
moniker, but how
would I delineate
between an older
and new this, I
didn't delineate
altar calls.
Alter calls is old
I have B you know,
else's old, old, old
I have B bus routes.
You know,
what else is old?
I have B tracks.
You know,
what else is old?
I have B Sunday
school.
You know,
what else is old?
I have B nursery.
Hey, if you've
ever been to an old
I have B church,
you know, I'm
hitting the mark
right here. Bible
college.
You know,
what else is old?
I have B Zionism.
They want Zionism.
It's where you
worship people.
They call themselves
Jews, but they're not.
They lie.
They're the
synagogue of Satan.
Pre-trib.
I went to an old
I have B church.
We started January
1st on a new series
called a pre-trib
series, and it
lasted for the first
week of January,
the second week of
January, the third
week of January,
the fourth week of
January.
Hey, let's roll into
February, February,
March, April.
I left, so I don't know
what happened.
I don't know if
they're still preaching
pre-trib every single
Sunday, but they were
while I was there.
Pre-trib.
And you know what?
If you're not pre-trib,
you're not old,
I'd be to them either.
I'll tell you what,
they get all mad
about that.
Storytelling preaching.
Oh, we're eating up.
All right.
Fox News preaching.
What else do we got here?
We got American flag.
Mirka.
You know what they got
behind that one?
Israel flag.
You know what they do
after that?
They celebrate and
praise the mayor
and police chief.
Also, they support
150 missionaries
for $25 a month.
And let me say
something about memes.
Memes are only funny
because they're true.
And this list is only
funny because it's true.
Deputation.
Not only deputation,
friends with heretics.
Not only friends with heretics,
they reject unpopular laws
of God.
And my, I'm rounding off
with this.
They welcome
and tolerate reprobates.
They welcome
and tolerate reprobates.
Depends on how bad
that church is.
I don't know.
Like West Coast.
West Coast says
that you're not allowed
to have a vile attitude
towards fags.
It's not even allowed
in the church.
So I don't know if you just like
rip out Jude out of your Bible
or what, but.
This is what I believe
old IFB stands for.
So if I say old IFB,
this is what I mean.
And I think most people
get what I'm saying.
Now, what do I believe
new IFB is?
Well, again, I think these
are abstract concepts, okay?
But we're going to have
our counterpart for all the
new IFB pieces, all right?
And we're going to talk about
why the new IFB is better.
You know what we don't have?
We don't have altar calls,
but you know what we do have?
Something called soul winning.
You know, we don't have
a bus route, but you know
what we do?
We do soul winning marathons.
You know, we don't have tracks,
but you know what we do?
We do online ministries
and documentaries.
We don't have Sunday school.
You know what we have?
We have a family integrated
service this morning.
You know what?
We don't have the nursery.
We have toddler
and other baby areas, all right?
We don't have Bible college.
We have in-house training.
I'm not going to ship you off
and make you pay a whole bunch
of money to get a bad education.
You know, we don't have Zionism.
We have replacement theology.
We don't worship other people.
You know what we do?
We accept the reality
that we're the sons of God.
Hey, we don't preach it.
We're post-trib.
Pre-wrath.
All right?
We don't have storytelling
preaching.
We have Bible preaching.
We don't have Fox News.
You know what we have?
We have hard preaching.
You know, Fox News preaching is
not hard preaching because
everybody in the pews already
agrees with you.
It's stupid.
It's nonsense.
Hard preaching says,
hey, I looked at you guys.
You have all these mistakes.
Let me tell you all about them.
That's what real biblical
preaching is and we have hard
preaching today and you know
what, if you don't like hard
preaching, just watch TV.
They'll tell you everything you
want to hear.
Just turn into which channel,
CNN or Fox News and you'll just,
you'll just tune out.
You know, we don't have an
American flag.
We believe America's Babylon.
You know what?
We don't have an Israel flag.
We believe it's the synagogue
of Satan.
You know, we don't honor the
mayor and the police chief up
here. You know we honor
soul-winning leaders.
Who do you want your little
Johnny to be?
The mayor and the police chief
and the governor?
Or do you want to be a
soul-winning leader in your
church?
I know I want them to be.
Hey, we don't support 150
missionaries for 25 bucks.
You know what we do?
We'll send out our own
missionaries and we'll pay
their way.
You say, when does that
happen?
Well, whenever I get somebody
that actually wants to do it.
Deputation.
We don't do deputation.
We do do it yourself mission
trips.
Because guess what?
They're doing the same thing
anyways.
But instead of going to a
foreign land and preaching the
gospel, they go to another
church and preach a watered
down compromise message.
And you know what?
You're paying for them to
travel around.
I'd rather just pay for us
to go to a city and just
preach the gospel there.
It's ridiculous.
Deputation is terrible.
Don't get me started on
that one.
All right.
Instead of being friends
with heretics, you know we
do?
We expose the heretic.
Nonsense.
Hey, instead of rejecting
unpopular laws, you know
we do?
We make documentaries about
them.
We'll just put this out of
my deception here.
Hey, and you know, instead of
welcoming and tolerate
reprobates, you know we do?
We have protesters outside.
Something they'll never have.
They don't have anything to
protest.
You know why?
I say the news better because
the new IFB is better.
Which one?
I mean, look, if you want to
personify the old IFB, it's
right here, buddy.
And if you want to, you say,
what do you think the new
IFB is, Pastor Shelley?
A church that looks like
this.
And so a church that doesn't
look like this?
Not new IFB to me.
And you say, hey, where
would you want to go to
church, Pastor Shelley?
Here.
This is where I want to go
to church.
You know what?
There's a lot of people that
try to mix these two.
And that's where we get the
parable that we already
went to, right?
If a man drinks old wine,
no man having drunk old
wine straightway desireth
new, does he?
And whenever you try to put
new into old, you know, you
burst the old wineskins.
They can't handle this.
And here's the thing.
We should stop trying to put
new IFB into old IFB.
It doesn't work.
It's oil and water, my
friend.
You know what?
If you want to be new IFB,
you know what you need to
do?
You need to get into a new
IFB church.
And if you know what, you're
going to go to old IFB
church, try to be old IFB,
because if you try to be new
IFB, it's not going to
work.
You're either going to
destroy their church because
it's terrible, or they're
going to throw you out.
It just doesn't really mix.
And hey, I'm not saying
don't go to the best
church in the area because
you should, and I'm not
saying the old IFB can't do
things for God, because they
can.
But you know what?
If you try to mix these
two, you'll destroy both of
them.
You know what we should do?
We should just let both be
preserved.
Hey, let the old IFB exist for
all the people that want to
be old IFB, and let them do
their thing, and let them
get, you know, a kid saved
every once in a while in the
altar call, and hey, let them
pick up a kid in the bus
route and get them saved or
whatever.
Hey, it's not like they
didn't do good things in the
past.
Hey, it's not like people
didn't get saved in the Old
Testament.
They did.
You know what?
The New Testament was
better.
Hey, and if you want to be
a new IFB, jump into the
new IFB train.
Hop on, let's go.
Don't bring this stuff with
you, though.
I don't want any of it.
I'm not interested in any of
this.
And you know what?
There's some people, they're
this guy.
But they like these people.
So they try to pretend
like they're this.
And you know where they just
gravitate all the way back
to this.
And you know what they do?
They take a really good new
wine and they ruin it.
They spill it all over the
ground.
There's people, they take
great people,
great potential and they
destroy them and they ruin
their lives because you know
it's just not a good fit.
You know what?
I'm not going to fit in at
the non-evangelical church,
the Methodist church,
the Catholic church.
And you know what?
I'm not really going to fit
in the old IFB.
Now if this is my only
option, I'm going to go and
sit down and shut up and
I'm going to get on their
programs and do the best
that I can.
But you know what?
I'd rather get into this
church.
And I don't rather support
this type of a church.
And you know why?
Because the new is better.
Go to Psalms 19,
Psalms 19.
Now let me harp
on one of these points.
Basically this could all,
every one of these points
could be a sermon, okay?
So you preacher boys pay
attention, all right?
Pick one of these and just
make the sermon out of it.
I just gave you like 20
sermons.
Psalms 19, let's pick one of
these. How about the fact
that they reject unpopular laws
in the Bible?
Now let's look at Psalms 19.
Let's see what the Bible
says in verse number seven.
The law of the Lord is
perfect,
converting the soul.
The testimony of the Lord is
sure,
making wise the simple.
The Bible says the laws
of God are perfect.
And in fact they make you
smarter.
The more you learn God's law,
the more wise you become.
He says in the next verse,
look at verse number eight.
The statutes of the Lord
are right.
Get that in your mind.
Get that deep, deep, deep in
your mind.
There is no law
in the Bible that's bad.
There's nothing bad about it.
There's nothing evil about it.
It's all perfect.
It's all right.
It's exactly how the world
should work.
Now it says this,
rejoicing the heart.
You know what Leviticus 2013
does to me?
It rejoices my heart.
Hey, every, hey, put
beastophiles to death,
rejoices my heart.
Thou should not suffer a witch
to live, rejoices my heart.
I wish, I wish to God after
Halloween we could just round
them all up and stone them to
death.
I'm not going to sit here and
pretend like I don't believe the
Bible today because I do.
You know what?
It makes me sick when a
preacher would get behind the
pulpit and disgrace the word
of God by saying,
oh, I can't believe these
preachers get up and preach
the law and they preach God's
commandments and that's such
an approach on Christ.
No, you're an approach on
Christ.
Because you know what?
They rejoice my heart.
That's what the Bible says.
We should even be singing this.
Let's keep reading because it
just keeps getting better.
The commandment of the Lord
is pure and lightening the
eyes.
Every one of God's laws is
pure.
There's nothing evil in it.
There's nothing bad about it.
And you know what?
For hundreds of years in this
country our nation actually
believed a lot of them.
That's why I'm making a whole
documentary called The
Sodomite Deception.
Because you know what?
In the New Testament there was
a group of people that decided
to make their laws like the
laws of God.
And you know what?
I believe that's why God
blessed this country so much.
You know what?
The more that we're like
Christ the more that we're
like the Bible the more that
we're like God the more he's
going to bless us.
Hey, whether that's
individualistically whether
that's our city whether that's
our state whether that's our
country it doesn't matter
the more you're like Christ
the more he's going to bless
you.
You know you should ignore
what everybody else is doing
because if everybody else
wants to serve Baal I'm going
to serve God.
But me and my family and
we're going to follow God's
commandments and we're going to
we're going to dress right.
Hey me and my family we're
going to dress right and
we're going to still read the
Bible and we're going to
still believe right.
And you know what we're going
to still be abhorred by the
filth and smut and
disgusting freaks of today.
I don't care how many
increase.
I don't care if it's 90 percent
bags in this country I'm still
going to hate them.
There's not it doesn't matter.
Look what the Bible says
next.
It says the fear of the Lord
is clean.
Oh you guys you're just
making things dirty with all
your law preaching.
No it makes it clean.
You want to clean up San
Francisco implement Leviticus
2013.
You know makes it dirty is
not believing the Lord.
Says the fear the Lord is
clean enduring forever.
The judgments of the Lord are
true and righteous all
together.
Man I just love the Bible
because you know what it
lifts up the word of God.
It gives me more appreciation
for the Bible.
You know it makes me feel
gross when a preacher gets up
and makes me feel worse about
the Bible and worse about
God's commandments and worse
about the teaching of the law
of the Lord.
There's nothing wrong with the
law of the Lord.
There's something wrong with
you.
Hey the law was weak through
the flesh.
That was the only reason you
couldn't get in is because you
you and I suck.
And let me adopt this
philosophy.
People suck but the law of the
Lord is great.
All right.
Says this more to be desired
are they than gold.
More to be desired than gold.
I would rather have a church
of five people where we can
preach God's law and God's
word than a golden palace
where we all get to meet and
reject the law of God and
reject the commandments of God
and where I can't get up and
preach Leviticus where I can't
get.
Hey Jesus preached from
Leviticus my friend.
Wake up.
Why you get to cherry pick
which verses you like just
because they're unpopular.
But you know what.
The old Eye of Bee would
rather meet in a golden
palace than preach the
Bible.
Hey I'd rather preach outside
then have a golden palace and
not be able to preach the
word of God.
There's nothing more clean.
There's nothing more
righteous.
And you know what.
That's why the new eye of
bees better because we love
the Bible.
Because we love the word of
God.
Because you know what it's
clean it's right.
It's more desired.
I desire it more.
You know why.
Because it's better.
Hey you know what.
I want a good building but
not at the sacrifice of God's
word.
It is more desired.
Says Yea then much fine
gold sweeter also than honey
and the honeycomb.
Every law every commandment
is sweet.
It's beautiful.
Eleven more over by them is
thy servant warned
and in keeping of them there
is great reward.
You say well Pastor Shelley
you shouldn't preach the law
of God because America will
never institute him again.
Probably right.
I wish they would.
I'll keep preaching like they
should.
You know what.
At worst case scenario you
know what it'll do.
It'll warn me and you from
the evils and the dangers that
exist out there.
You know there's a lot of
people that embrace
the most disgusting vile people
because they haven't been
warned by the law of God.
They haven't seen a vile
disgusting and evil people
can be.
And so they're not warned.
They're ignorant.
They're sheep to the
slaughter.
You know what.
We don't want sheep to go
jump in the wolves mouth
today.
We want a good shepherd to
try and beat the wolves off
and warn about the other one
circling about.
You know we need more
shepherds.
I can't go around and beat
every wolf to death by
myself.
But you know what I'm sure
going to try.
Don't challenge me.
Hey I can I can name a lot
of names pretty quickly if I
have to know if there's
going to be what I don't
care what the wolf is.
I'm going to warn against it.
I don't care what his name
looks or sounds like or
rhymes with.
Look what it says in verse
12.
Who can understand his errors
cleansed me from secret
faults.
Keep back my servant also
from resumptuous sins.
Let them not have dominion
over me.
Then shall I be upright and I
shall be innocent from the
great transgression.
Let the words of my mouth and
the meditation of my heart be
acceptable in my sight.
Oh Lord my strength and my
Redeemer.
You know what if you want
God to look down at you and
say I like this guy's heart.
I like this guy's mind.
You know what it's going to
be thinking about the law of
God.
Don't downplay the law of
God today.
Don't downplay the
righteousness of God.
You know we need these
reminders and you know what
the New Testament is the best
testament.
Hey the new man is great but
you know what the new I.B. is
better than the old I.B.
You say is that your opinion
it's fact.
What the Bible teaches.
Because you know what the
Bible says truth is better
than lies.
And that's why a lot of
these things suck over here.
You say does that mean that
those other churches you're
saying they're all unsaved
and they're all bad.
No I'm not saying that.
I'm saying that they're not
as good.
I'm saying there's a
quantifiable difference.
And you know what they can
still reach people they can
still get people say I've
been a non you know
denominational churches that
look like hell and they're
still say people in them.
And somehow every once in a
while they get a person
saved by.
I don't know how.
Because a Baptist accidentally
went there and just
by happens is preach the
gospel so I'm going to get
someone saved.
It still happens you know.
But am I going to recommend
that church.
No.
Am I going to believe like
them.
No.
And you want the old IV has
done a lot of good things
in the past and there's still
churches they do good things
the Lord and praise God for
the good things they do.
You know what we should be
willing to scrutinize today.
We should be really we
should be willing to change
on things.
But here's the problem.
Someone that's drunk the
old wine does not straightway
desire the new.
We have to understand this
truth and man has been
proved this year.
You don't know what I'm
talking about.
Don't worry about it.
But here's the thing.
We need to be a new lump
today and we need to stop
wasting resources on trying
to mix these things.
Let's just be as new IV as
we can be.
Let's close in prayer.
Thank you father so much for
your word.
Thank you for the truth that
you've given us.
Thank you for giving us an
opportunity to be better by
following your commandments by
memorizing your word by
appreciating the law of the
Lord.
I pray that we would just
continue to desire to be more
like you and to continue to
improve ourselves through the
word of God that we'd humble
ourselves and realize our need
for other people our need for
the word of God and our need
to be constantly corrected in
Jesus name we pray men.