We love you and we just thank you again for Steadfast Baptist Church and we thank you
for allowing us to gather here and sing unto you, Lord.
We just ask you to help us lift up our voices and sing unto you, Lord, and fill this church
with your Spirit.
And it's in Jesus' name we ask it.
Amen.
Alright, for our next song, let's go to song number 183.
Song number 183, "Now I Love Jesus."
Song number 183, singing out together on the floor.
Morning, thank you so much for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you need a bulletin, lift up your hand nice and high and our ushers can come by.
Get you guys a bulletin on the front.
We have our Bible memory passage working on Psalm 59.
On the inside we have our service soul winning times, church stats down below.
On the right is a list of several expecting ladies.
Please keep them in your prayers.
Also we have a weekly prayer request list that we go through on Wednesday nights and
also we just put them in our bulletin so the church family can be praying for various prayers.
If you would like to add anything to our prayer list you can always email that in to us.
Just put prayer request at the top of your email and if it is private do indicate that
otherwise we assume it's added to our prayer list.
Down below upcoming events, so I guess it's wedding fever, and so we have another wedding
that's going to be in honor of Elijah Scott and Olivia Hunley at 6.30 p.m. and they actually
did want to invite everybody from the church and they do have a RSVP though, so it was
emailed out in our church email.
If you are planning on going, please, please RSVP just because since it is an evening wedding,
they did want to provide some food and so they want to make sure that they have enough
food and so please do RSVP.
If you have a question about that or you didn't get that email or something, you can talk
to me or our brother Oz or you can email us and we'll make sure to get you that information,
but please, please do RSVP if you are planning on attending the wedding.
We had a wedding yesterday and everything went really well for Brother Joshua Garcia and
his new wife, Miss Cynthia, and so congratulations to them.
Also June 21st to the 23rd is the Red Hot Preaching Conference, which is a conference
put on by one of our pastor friends, Pastor Menes in Sacramento, California, and so just
put that out there.
I pray that the event goes smoothly, I'm going to be preaching out there on Friday evening,
and so I'm excited to get to see their new building.
This has definitely been a long time coming.
They've had a lot of building issues as well and jerked around, and so to have a new building
and more space to grow is just a huge answer to prayer for Verity Baptist Church, and I
believe that God is definitely blessing them for having been friendly towards us and even
helping us when we needed a property, and so it's definitely great to see them thriving
and having this new building.
I've never been out there, and so I'm excited to see it in person.
July 6th is going to be a soul winning marathon hosted by Pure Words Baptist Church and Evangelist
Salvador Alvarez.
He's going to be leading this in San Antonio, Texas.
So if you are interested, that's out there.
When we maybe get a little bit closer, I might give you a little bit more detail if you want
some of the specifics.
We might even provide a church group van or something like that for people that want to
participate, but that's going to be in San Antonio.
I know Austin's about three hours from here, and I know that San Antonio is about an hour
from there, so I don't know if it's four or if you cut a little bit of time if you
go straight there or not, but it's probably about four hours is a pretty safe estimate
if you'd like to drive from here down into San Antonio, but I'm sure that it would be
a really receptive soul hunting marathon, so just throwing that out there.
Also we'll be singing our psalm next, Psalm 15, so if you want to get your special handouts,
we'll be singing that Psalm 15, psalm 15, psalm chapter 15, everybody sing it out together
on the plates are being passed around and turn in your bibles to Matthew chapter 7,
the book of Matthew chapter number 7, chapter 7 the Bible reads, "Judge not that ye be
not judged, for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure
ye meet, it shall be measured to you again.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the
beam that is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye?
And behold, a beam is in thine own eye.
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see
clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine,
lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened
unto you.
For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that
knocketh, it shall be opened.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more
shall your father, which is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them,
for this is the law and the prophets.
Enter ye in at the straight gate, for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth
to destruction, and many there be which go in there at; because straight is the gate,
and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing; but inwardly they are
ravening wolves; ye shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil
fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit; neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good
fruit.
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire; wherefore
by their fruits ye shall know them.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but
he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in
thy name have cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you, Depart from me, ye that work in
equity.
Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and do with them, I will liken him
unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock, and the rain descended, and the floods
came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded
upon a rock.
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and do with them not, shall be likened
unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house,
and it fell, and great was the fall of it.
And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that people were astonished
at his doctrine, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer.
Father in heaven, we thank you so much for this day, for our church, and for Matthew
chapter seven. I pray, Lord, that you would fill Pastor Shelley with the fullness and
power of the Holy Spirit. Now as he preaches the message to us, give him clarity of mind,
and give us ears to hear the preaching of your word, Lord, so that we may apply the
message and live a more complete Christian life. We love you, and in Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Amen. We're finishing our series on the Sermon on the Mount, and previously we had gone through
chapters five and six. Now as we enter into chapter number seven, we're concluding Jesus'
famous sermon called the Sermon on the Mount. And this has been a teaching sermon, the context as
he's talking to his disciples. But I don't want you to be confused about the word disciple,
because we're not talking about strictly the twelve who later become apostles. We're really,
when we say disciple, talking about anybody that was following Jesus at that time. And so there was
a large group. There was a lot of people following Jesus Christ, and they were just generally
described as his disciples because they were following him. And so not everybody in this
group is saved. Not everybody in this group. Of course, we know Judas, but I'm saying even
apart from people like Judas, there's just a lot of people here that are just not even saved yet.
And so when Jesus Christ is teaching through this sermon, some of the advice that he's giving is to
save people. Some of the advice he's giving is to an unsaved crowd, trying to help them understand
the importance of getting saved. And so it's kind of interwoven here when you consider both of these
audiences. But primarily, you know, the Sermon on the Mount is for those who are saved,
for Christians, for those who have already accepted Christ. Now, it starts here in verse
number one, "judge not, that ye be not judged." This is a little bit of a transition. You can see
why there's a chapter division put here from the previous idea in chapter six, because the chapter
six was bringing up the idea of "seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness." And really,
if we were to summarize chapters five and six really briefly, chapter five really emphasized the
idea of humbling ourselves and striving for perfection. And in chapter six, it really
describes ideas of being spiritual and seeking the Lord. Talking about the idea of praying and
giving alms and of course here the most famous probably portion of scripture "seek ye first
the kingdom of God and his righteousness." And so chapter six is really emphasizing the idea of
trying to draw closer to the Lord and being sincerely spiritual not a fake type of spirituality.
As we transition in chapter number seven he's giving another idea here of being careful when
judging. It says in verse one again "judge not that ye be not judged." Now a lot of people
would love to just stop here and just basically say we should never make any judgments or that
judging is wrong but what the bible is really trying to emphasize here is a warning about
judging. It says in verse two "for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged and with
what measure ye meet it shall be measured to you again." So really the main concept that's being
taught in Matthew chapter number seven is that you should be willing to be judged by the same
judgments you make. So if you're not willing to right now be judged in the same way that you would
judge others then you're being a hypocrite. And that's a warning from the Lord Jesus Christ that
God will often hold you accountable for the ways that you judge other people. So if you have a high
standard for other people you should be prepared that God is going to hold you to a high standard.
And at the same time there's nothing wrong with having standards. There's nothing wrong with even
judging. What's wrong is being a hypocrite about it. It's simply saying you know what you shouldn't
drink alcohol but I'm going to drink alcohol. You know you shouldn't steal but I'm going to
steal. And of course this is famously understood as the Pharisees constantly putting rules and
burdens on the people but they themselves are actually doing exactly what they're preaching
against speaking against and holding people accountable for minor grievances when they're
actually guilty of major major grievances. I actually saw something online that kind of made
me think of this and there's this famous like YouTube power couple or something like that
that like they put themselves forward as some like Christian blog posters or whatever and for some
reason their stupid YouTube handle escapes my name because I don't like them so much but it's
like Sam and Nia or something like that. Who knows what I'm talking about? Does anybody even
know who I'm talking about? Okay they're not that popular apparently. I think they have like a couple
million subscribers on YouTube so it's not like just a nobody but they've been making just huge
impact on the media newsroom as of late and forgive me if I got her name wrong you can look
it up. I know the guy's name's Sam okay and essentially what I saw is I saw this guy criticizing
Infowars. He was basically on some show and he's just talking negatively about Alex Jones and
Infowars saying like they're so unchristian and they're getting people off track and they're
going to cause people to like commit marital infidelity by like going down that road and
whether or not that's true or not I don't really care but this is what's so interesting about this
guy publicly criticizing Infowars is a new Netflix movie just came out called Ashley Madison and then
it has the subtitle and it's all about this guy specifically how he was on Ashley Madison and his
name got leaked a few years ago so like this guy is like super going viral on the fact that he was
a Christian podcaster literally caught on adultery websites he like admitted to going to parlors to
going to gentleman's clubs to just basically doing all kinds of stuff and then he's getting off by
calling other people out he's like he was on a podcast show combating Owen Troyer on air and
he's just like talking trash on Owen Troyer and infowars and saying how horrible they are
and how unchristian they are while he himself is right now major headlines about how he was
literally on the Ashley Madison website and just saying how much better of a christian he is or
something and it's just like this is just insane it's just insane how somebody who's literally
gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar is going to go around and then pretend how so much
better of a christian he is than other people like this is the case of exactly what this is
talking about how hey when you got caught doing that go ahead and not call other people out for
that kind of stuff now again i'm not saying there's anything wrong with calling people out for
committing adultery because you know what if i got caught committing adultery i would hope someone
would expose me okay and again that's never going to happen and i'm not going to ever do that but
i'm willing to judge other people based on that standard because i would want to be held to that
exact same standard you know i don't want to necessarily go so far to say it's like hey if
you ever sin you're wicked as hell because uh-oh i definitely sin i definitely have issues i
definitely have areas where i'm not going to be successful either and is it really reasonable to
hold other people accountable for just even sinning ever when you yourself are going to be a sinner
and so what the bible is really trying to emphasize here is just not being a giant
hypocrite when it comes to judging saying hey this is our standard and you're not personally
violating it yourself imagine in first corinthians chapter number five the bible brings up several
sins on that list that would potentially get someone thrown out of church being a drunkard
being a railer being an extortioner being an idolater and imagine someone is literally guilty
of one of those things and then calling other people out for that for something else on that
list and you know sometimes the hypocrisy isn't necessarily a one-for-one maybe perhaps you're a
drunkard but they're an idolater and it's like i want this guy thrown out of church for being an
idolater well you know what that's hypocritical because you yourself should be thrown out for
being a drunkard and so you know that's another aspect of what is being taught here and jesus
gives kind of this analogy or metaphor to kind of symbolize what he's talking about since verse
three and why beholdest thou the moat that is in thy brother's eye but considers not the beam
that is in thine own eye or how wilt thou say to thy brother let me pull out the moat out of thine
eye and behold a beam is in thine own eye thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own
eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the moat out of thy brother's eye so here christ
is giving an example of many times people that want to nitpick other people's sins have bigger
issues than the sin that they're trying to fix in their brother and again it's like you're committing
adultery literally and then you want to criticize other people for the fact that they might go down
a bad path potentially it's like maybe that's true but that seems like the moat when you've got a
giant adultery ashley madison beam in your eye now here's the thing the bible is saying though
and i believe it's teaching just because you've had big sins in your past doesn't mean you can't
even judge though because notice it didn't say because you've had a beam in your eye in the past
now you can't tell anybody what's right or wrong or you couldn't potentially judge someone or fix
them it's saying you need to just first fix it though right so that means someone that committed
adultery someone that got divorced and remarried someone that was a drunkard someone that was a
railer someone that was ungodly someone that did have children out of wedlock someone that did
commit horrible sins someone that does have a batman tattoo on their chest okay i had a friend
he literally had the batman symbol on his chest okay i use the word friend loosely but it it's
kind of insane when you think about it but it's like okay is it right for that guy to tell other
people not to get tattoos i mean if you literally are covered in tattoos can you tell other people
not get tattoos well if you're not actively getting them and you don't want to get them anymore
yeah i think that it's reasonable and still possible for that person to say hey i know i
screwed up in this area in the past but now it's wrong and i want to advise you not to get a tattoo
hey yeah i did get a divorce and i am remarried and i shouldn't have done that but you know what
i realize it's wrong i'm going to tell people that what i did was wrong i'm not going to say what i
did was right and you know what i'm not going to encourage you to get the same uh go down the same
road as me right and so this is okay to have had beams in your eye to have taken them out and then
now helping your brother but what the bible really wants you to do is first work on yourself first
get the beams out of your own eyes and out of your own life way before you ever want to correct other
people or judge other people and that's the main emphasis that's being described here and i think
many people unfortunately want to fix everyone but themselves and we should be more concerned
with fixing ourselves than fixing other people. Another thing that i find is just part of human
nature is it's often easy to spot faults in other people that you're actually guilty of.
Like for some reason like typically when you have a serious problem in an area that particular sin
in other people drives you nuts and i don't know why but it's just i'm just trying to explain to
you this is typically how it happens so it's like when you start noticing hey this i just am really
frustrated this person you know being impatient it's like but are you impatient you know oftentimes
many times people when they get irritated with other individuals it's a sin or it's an issue
that they themselves are guilty of of course i'm not going to take this to some random extreme
obviously i'm not guilty of being an atheist okay or something like that because i dislike atheism
i'm not a secret calvinist because i preached against calvinism right we don't want to take
this to some weird unhealthy extreme i'm just saying certain vices and certain just pet peeves
oftentimes we're kind of projecting on other people our own issues our own faults when it
comes to some of these areas being lazy sometimes people that are lazy they get really irritated
when other people are lazy sometimes people that are late they get really mad at other people when
they're late and you're just kind of thinking like aren't you the one that's usually really late you
know the person that complains all the time for some reason they hate complainers and i think
what's going on is subconsciously and in your heart god's constantly provoking you on that sin
and you just won't address it with yourself but it's really sticks out on other people
and so you know you need to be careful that when you're thinking about someone else when judgments
arrive in your brain when you're thinking oh wow that's something i don't like first assess
yourself and say wait a minute if i were to look at them the same way i'm going to look at myself
the same way looking at them how would i measure up how would i be judged what would i say about
myself first and first fix yourself first get the big issues dealt with before you consider helping
other individuals and doing service for them now we kind of make another transition here in verse
number six the bible says give not that which is holy unto the dogs neither cast ye your pearls
before swine lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you so i guess you
don't give steak to dogs you have to give them kibble right it was a joke but obviously the
dogs here is not we're not really talking about animals we're talking about something else now
i have strong opinions on what this is saying but when it comes to the word dog there's a couple
different ways the word dog can be interpreted in the bible and honestly i think that all of the
ways that dog can be interpreted could apply in this passage and are true are good doctrines
anyways so you know i want to go to a couple places and let's talk about what this verse
is potentially meaning here go if you went to deuteronomy chapter 23 first and i just want
to say in mark 7 when jesus christ was confronted by a outsider not someone that was from the
children of israel i believe she's described as a syrophoenician specifically and she is wanting
jesus christ to heal her daughter that this is what jesus said under her let the children first be
filled for does not meet to take the children's bread and cast it on the dogs so when a gentile
a heathen came to jesus christ asked for healing jesus literally called her a dog like that's what
he described her as and even said it's not appropriate for me to take food that would be
given to children and give it to a dog and and that's just a carnal truth that's illustrating
a spiritual truth right when you prepare a really nice meal for your family you're not just then
taking that plate of food and just dropping it down and giving to the dogs no you prepare really
nice healthy uh skillfully prepared meals for your children because they're of more value than a dog
yet we all know kids and jesus even new kids they're gonna spill aren't they right they're
gonna drop things on the ground some crumbs are gonna come off the table and who's always there
just loving it it's dogs and of course i know this a lot because of my wife's side of the family
they're very much dog enthusiasts so we always had dogs and what i notice is dogs always love
children and i think it's because of dinnertime specifically okay because as soon as they knew
like as soon as the toddler the children are going to eat the dog is right there and it is ready to
catch whatever goodies are coming and i always make a joke because not only the children even
my father-in-law every once in a while he would just give the dog like a whole slice of pizza
and so and i'd always joke because i would like talk like the animals or something just this
comedic relief for the family and i would just be like oh i love papa because he gives me whole
pieces of pizza you know it's like like but that wasn't meat okay we don't give the whole slice
to the dog right we give just the crumbs okay and it's not even purposeful necessarily many
cases before the crumb can even hit the floor the dog has already caught that okay and you never
ever take food away from a dog that's in its mouth all right children you don't want it once
it's in the once they've got a hold of it don't even try to take it away because they might bite
all right but what is the principle that's being taught in mark seven the principle is the idea
that the children are saved the dogs are not saved so it's saying what is the thing that we're
feeding well what we feed is the word of god so the word of god is primarily for the saved not for
the unsaved and that is what is holy what is set apart so church is not geared towards the unsaved
church is geared towards the safe and we're not supposed to be going around trying to preach the
whole bible to the lost to the unsaved and just as a general tip and a general advice you know
whenever i'm talking with unsaved people especially and you have to talk family friends whoever
i try my best not to argue doctrine with unsaved people with an unsaved family member
when you with relatives co-workers all that kind of stuff i'm not going to probably take them to
leviticus 27 and explain to them how women should be paid less according to the law like i'm not
going to go into my meeting at work with all with all these women and and say like hey fyi are you
paying them only 60 cents on the dollar because that's what the bible says i just wanted to make
sure and in fact they're not supposed to usurp the authority of the man so can you demote all
the women managers in our business in our company immediately and in fact really there's not supposed
to uh forsake staying at home there you know many of them are turning aside after satan would you
please make sure that they'll go back into the kitchen and make sandwiches for their husband
and uh oh by the way divorce and remarriage is adultery so you're an adulterer and you're an
adulterer and you're an adulterer he's definitely an adulterer i mean this is not what you want to
do in the business meeting okay and you definitely don't want oh here's our our uh investor goldstein
let me tell you what the bible says about you right i mean like this is just not this is casting
your your your pearls before swine this is giving that which is holy under the dogs like it's not a
little sermonette every time you're out in the world okay oh let's go to deuteronomy 22 and let's
talk about dress code for a second right i mean that's just not really how you want to handle
yourself as a christian you know when someone wants to talk about things in the bible i'm not
going to lie i'm not going to skirt around the issue you know if someone asks me something
controversial in the bible i just say stuff like yeah that's what the bible says but you know what
you don't have to do any of that to go to heaven would you like to hear how to go to heaven it's
like yeah the bible and again most of the time when people bring these things up they're not
even quoting the king james or even real issues they're bringing up fake stuff that's in like the
modern versions they'll be like well doesn't the bible say you can't even wear like a polyester
cotton blend no it doesn't say that doesn't the bible say it'll like uh hate the sinner love the
sinner no it doesn't say that this is like they just bring up all this stuff that's not even in
the bible so it's just like yeah it doesn't say that do you want me to show you what it does say
john 3 16 you know roman chapter 3 i'm probably not going to take them to the most extreme
portions of the scripture as a mini little bible study in fact i even had an opportunity one time
the ceo of our entire company knew i guess just kind of was aware i was a christian and so he
just randomly like comes into my cubicle area and just sits down right in front of me he's like give
me a bible verse right now well the biggest 2013 no it's just like come on i mean really it's like
that's not really what we should try to do you know in in the workplace i also probably wouldn't
take them to the passage of scripture i'm taking to right now okay deuteronomy chapter 23 look at
verse 17 there shall be no whore of the daughters of israel nor a sodomite of the sons of israel
thou shall not bring the hire of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the lord thy god
for any vow for even both these are abomination of the lord thy god so the bible uses the word
here in 17 verse 17 whore and whore and then it says sodomite and then dog so one definition
one usage of the word dog in the bible is a sodomite now again i don't believe that
matthew chapter number seven is limited to sodomites as an interpretation i think is just part of the
interpretation so i think one of the interpretations one of the groups i think personally that the dogs
there is just unsaved people but if we want to get really specific some of the worst people
to cast that which is holy under the dogs would be sodomites and they are dogs and they are more
likely what the bible is referencing the people that would turn again and rend you if you actually
did bring up these passages and where they would actually be very furious with you and get mad at
you if you started preaching the bible to them this is evidenced by what i call fake christians
going in street preaching at pride events you know it's pride month or whatever which is disgusting
but we have fake christians who believe in a workspace salvation going to quote pride events
defiling their eyes minds and ears because i don't even want to describe what's going on there
and they're sitting there screaming and yelling and with a bullhorn with a shofar we went to the
texas rangers game and we're leaving there's this guy blowing this like 10 foot shofar
just like that does not make me want to get saved by the way okay i'm like thinking this guy is a
weirdo you know i'm embarrassed like as a christian i'm embarrassed that that's what
christianity is today or that's what people think christianity is today is someone blowing this weird
looking horn at everybody screaming at them or something you know and it's going to the pride
parades and screaming at these people and trying to you know convert them or whatever but you know
what many times they literally get hit stuff thrown at them their signs torn people get mad
at them and then of course that's the only reason they're doing it so then they can put a video
like uh christian persecution that's not persecution when you're doing literally the opposite of what
jesus told you to do jesus is saying give not that which is holy end of the dogs lest you get
beat up and then they're like look at me i'm getting beat up according to the bible right
but that was jesus telling you what not to do you can't rejoice and go home happy that you got
punched by a sodomite because you were getting in his face screaming about how disgusting he is
and how perverted he is okay that doesn't really win you any points so you know when we've had
protests and we've had individuals coming and you're screaming yelling i'm not going to go
over there and try to educate them on the bible i'm not going to give that which is holy under the
dogs that's not appropriate that's not really what jesus saying and of course by doing it i'm
potentially putting myself in a little bit of danger of the fact that they're going to get all
upset and angry it's like trying to take food away from a dog you just don't want to do it it's a
dangerous animal it's unpredictable it has no conscience and so you want to make sure that
you're careful with these individuals go to second peter chapter 2 i want to go to another
explanation of this well how dare you how are they going to get saved well they're not so
i'm not even worried about it number one but number two you know when's the last time you've
even met anybody that was like you know i was just walking down the street and someone started
screaming at me about the bible and i just got saved like when was the last time that ever even
happened you know how people get saved is someone walks up to them and opens the bible and just
shows them gracefully how to be saved from the bible or they come and visit a church service
and the preacher preaches a message and they hear about the gospel and they choose to get saved in
the service or they go to a church and someone after the service shows them the bible i mean
apart from those that i don't know very many times when people are getting saved i mean i guess you
could say like someone watching a video of some presenting the gospel but it's pretty much someone
just presenting the gospel to you in person presenting it to you online preaching a sermon
church service like show me people that are saved outside of those methods i mean there really isn't
it's not like just hoards of people are getting saved from street preaching and yelling and screaming
and going around and just making a literal fool of yourself and the bible is saying not to do that
jesus didn't do that jesus is not even doing it now he's going off into a mountain by himself
and just the people that followed him get to hear him get to have to have to listen what he has to
say he wasn't forcing anybody to hear the message folks he doesn't want to force people to hear the
message because we're not supposed to give that which is holy under the dogs now in second peter
chapter 2 i think for sake of time i'm not going to necessarily go through this as much as i wanted
there's something really important you have to understand about second peter chapter 2 is that
the context of who we're talking to doesn't change so in verse 1 it says but there were false prophets
also among the people even meaning specifically as there shall be false teachers among you who
privately shall bring a damn little heresies even denying the lord that bought them and bring upon
themselves swift destruction so in chapter 2 when we bring up this concept of a false prophet or a
false teacher we never leave this context this context and so when you notice in chapter 2
is it'll constantly say things like they they're them and of course that's accurate to describe
these disgusting freaks because they usually call themselves they and them but we're still talking
about these false prophets okay you look at verse 2 and many shall follow their pernicious ways who
are we talking about those false prophets verse 3 and through covetousness shall they with feign
words who are we talking about the false prophets now when you get to verse 4 notice it starts with
the word four four for four okay that's saying because and then it gives a little bit of a
parenthetical explanation as to what it's talking about that goes all the way down into verse number
nine i believe i'm sorry basically to ten so ten if you'll notice in verse ten there is a period
just right in the middle of that verse that's basically just like some commentary on what we've
been talking about but notice even after is immediately when you're done with the period in
verse ten it says presumptuous are they now we're back to those false prophets again and then it's
just going to sit here and hammer just over and i'd love to go through this a little bit more slowly
but you do it yourself you check it out yourself be a brian read yourself but it's like self-willed
they're not afraid to speak evil of dignities verse 12 but these as naturals who's are these
the false prophets verse 12 they understand not verse 12 their own corruption they're going to
perish in their own corruption that's important the word corruption there verse 13 as they that
count it pleasure to riot in the daytime they are spots and blemishes sporting themselves with their
own deceivings while they these are the verse 14 they have exercise with covetous practices so just
they they them they they're okay and if we look at verse 17 these are wells without water who's
the these again the false prophets the false teachers verse 18 for when they speak great
swelling words of Andy who are we talking about false prophets false teachers they allure through
much of the lust of the flesh and it says they allure through the lust of the flesh through much
wantonness those that were clean escape from them so this is where sometimes the bible gets confusing
because you start getting all these pronouns and if you kind of lost the context you kind of forget
it's kind of like you see those magicians where they have three hats and they put a ball under the
hat and then they start moving them around and if you ever stop paying attention then you just
forget like where the ball is under the hat well that's sometimes what happened in the bible it's
like you know if you don't pay attention you kind of lose context where that ball was going with
all the they's and the them's but in verse 18 again it's those that were clean this is people
that are not false prophets these are people that are not engaged in their horrible acts are saying
people who were those that were clean escape from them who live in error meaning people that are
actually serving god can sometimes get away from these false prophets but then verse 19 while they
promise them liberty who's the they and the them while they while the false prophets promise those
who have escaped them liberty they meaning the false prophets themselves are the servants of
corruption verse 20 for if after they have escaped through the pollutions of the world
through the knowledge of the lord and savior jesus christ they are again entangled therein
and overcome the latter end is worse with them than the beginning for it had been better for them
not to have known the way of righteousness than after they have known it to turn from the holy
commandment delivered unto them so in verse 19 while they promised them liberty that's the false
prophets while the prophets promised other people promised their congregation liberty they themselves
are the servants corruption while steven furtick promises his congregation liberty he himself is a
servant of corruption while this sam youtube false prophet promises people liberty he himself
is a servant of ashley madison and adultery and corruption while kenneth copeland while t.d jakes
while michael todd promises liberty while joel osteen promises liberty to his congregation they
themselves are the servants of corruption while jimmy baker jim baker and tammy faye well they
promised them liberty they themselves are the servants of corruption this is what the bible
is saying here okay and verse uh 20 for after they have escaped the pollutions of the world
through the nods of the lord and savior jesus christ they are again entangled therein and
overcome the latter end is worse with them than the beginning meaning what many of these false
prophets like isaiah salad saldivar i would say salad bark is so dumb it's hard to say his name
this false prophet will talk to you about how horrible he was before like getting radically
saved and how he was just a servant of corruption of the world and through the bible and the
knowledge of our lord and savior jesus christ they became free they became liberty liberate
liberated cod white he'll tell you how horrible he was and how evil he was and through the
knowledge of our lord and savior he's become no longer entangled that's what they'll say
that's what they'll tell you but what does the bible say it says they are again entangled there
in and overcome the latter end is worse with them than the beginning meaning whatever sins they
temporarily got away from they're going to end up being worse in the future for it had been better
for them the any of these false prophets to have not even known the way of righteousness than after
they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered on them here's the thing how do you
genuinely get away from wicked sin how can you be sanctified truly how can you actually overcome
evil in your life there's only one way it's actually getting saved because when you get saved
you have something transform you are from the inside out and again that doesn't mean that you
ever stop sinning it doesn't mean that you won't struggle with sin but if someone were to truly
have genuine success over a sin in their life or to actually have true transformation that's going
to last a lifetime they have to first get saved and actually be a child of God and so what the
Bible is teaching here is they didn't get saved they didn't actually get that true transformation
they just recognize oh drinking's bad so I'll just stop drinking or fornication is a little
bit bad so I'll kind of stop doing fornication but instead of actually getting saved they turn
from the holy commandment and now they're going to be even worse there's this idea like I can
transform my life without Christ okay wrong you know what's the evidence of this every other
religion because other religions teach strict adherence to you know certain morality of like
not lying or not committing fornication or not drink there's other religions that teach things
that are found in the bible even islam islam is very strict on certain things um specifically
they don't drink alcohol most of them by practice they're very anti-whoredom I mean they literally
have to cover their women in tents okay but but i'm supposed to believe then that muslim
men don't struggle in that area or don't commit fornication or don't commit adultery it's
like if we actually lifted up the tent we would realize there's a lot of adultery going
on there a lot of fornication going on there and the reality is that these false religions
are not producing moral righteous people because the only way to have genuinely righteous moral
kind people filled with charity and love is a christian only christians have those true
attributes everyone else is faking it and the false prophets are also faking it and
what does the bible say well it would have been better if they had never even heard about
christianity because since they heard about the antidote and rejected it god is going
to make it even worse and punish them even worse verse 22 but it happened unto them according
to the true proverb the dog is turned to his own vomit again and the sow that was washed
to her wallowing in the mire so the bible is and i took a while to explain that but
the bible is basically saying a dog and a pig are in reference to false prophets and
false teachers so what i should not be doing is giving that which is holy unto false prophets
and false teachers and i want to give an application to this as well go back to magic chapter
7 because i think most people are thinking like well i haven't tried to get kenneth
copeland saved recently and i get that but this is what i see a lot and i hear honestly
quite a bit is how people will kind of hear about our church or the watch a video or whatever
and they'll get saved and they're going to a presbyterian church they're going to a
methodist church they're going to a catholic church and they're like man i've been going
around and i've been trying to talk to my sunday school teacher and all the assistant
pastors and i'm trying to like win them over and show them how they're wrong on salvation
and it's like you're not going to convert the catholic church you're not going to convert your
methodist church you're not going to convert your false prophet and false teacher you need to get
away from them and get into a fundamental baptist church stop trying to waste time converting that
which is already reprobate why are you wasting time giving that which is holy under the dogs
and under the swine you know what you need to get away from that institution now again i'm not
saying don't try to draw other people with you out of that wicked institution i'm not saying don't
address salvation with people you care about what i'm saying is some people genuinely think that
they're going to turn a methodist church into a fundamental baptist church or something or they're
going to get their catholic priest saved or something like it it's just like no you need
to get away from these individuals and recognize jesus is saying give not that which is holy
unto the dogs neither cast your pearls before swine lest they turn again you know trample them
under the feet and turn again and rend you you know if you start going into a church like that
and you're really teaching what the bible says they'll pick you up and throw you out of there
they're they're gonna say like they're gonna excommunicate you put you on blacklist whatever
even sadly enough even some other baptist churches will do this to you and you're not even trying
they'll say you're horrible and a heretic and you're bringing in false doctrine and how dare you
people say literally get people saved bring them to church to get them baptized and they don't want
to baptize them just because they've heard of the new i.b or something and and it's like they'll
email like what do i do how do i fix my church you leave that i mean i mean they don't like that
answer but it's just like sorry you know if if they're that vitriolic if they're that you know
obstinate you know my my pastor preaches repent of your sins how do i fix that leave you know it's
just like i've showed him all the videos and all the things like how am i going to convince you're
just not going to convince them you know and and it's sad it's not like i want that person to be
stuck on stupid it's not like i want this person to believe in a wicked false religion but the
reality is if someone's dedicating their life to studying the bible and they've already seen
these verses you're not going to change them you got to just be humble enough to move on and say
hey that person you know is wicked i'm just going to let them alone let them be filthy still let
them be unjust still you know man that is in heretic after the first and second ammunition
reject knowing that he that is subverted and senteth being condemned of himself he's condemned
oh well don't you want to say they're condemned well jesus is saying for me to get away from that
person and this is what i find really frustrating about this chapter i find that while people get
mad at me specifically and i've heard this like you don't preach on the sermon on the mount or
you don't preach the nice parts of the bible or whatever i'm like okay well i'm preaching the
sermon on the mount i would love to hear your sermon on the sermon of the mount where you
explained what group we're supposed to stay away from because you don't like what i said okay i
would love to hear any of these pastors or preachers get up and explain to me who the dogs are that
we're supposed to be staying away from because they usually don't even tell you to stay away
from anyone i'm i believe that the passage is generally about unsaved people but then
specifically we really want to stay away from sodomites and false prophets and we want to
not give them that which is holy not waste their time with them not trying to convert them but
just basically saying bye and that is what jesus christ is giving us instruction to do now it says
in verse seven ask and it shall be given you seek and you shall find knock and it shall be open
unto you for everyone that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh
it shall be open or what man is there of you whom if his son asked bread will he give him a stone
or if he asked a fish will he give him a serpent if even being evil know how to give good gifts
unto your children how much more shall your heavenly father or shall your father which is in heaven
give good things to them that ask him you know i like about jesus he has no problem just gathering
all the disciples together and just be like hey you guys are evil did you read what i just read
he says how then can you being evil he didn't give a caveat he didn't say like well i know you're
not he just said hey all of you guys you're evil that's what he said it's like you're so mean well
what jesus are you reading i mean the jesus that i'm reading he's literally calling people dogs this
is the sermon on the mount the one that you think so beloved and so precious and so sweet and kind
right he's calling people dogs he's saying you're all evil but of course he's saying how can you
even being evil you're you're an evil person but you still have love towards your children
then how much more does god the father who's not evil love you so when your children ask for things
and you're giving them good gifts how much more is it likely that god the father will give you
good gifts also it brings up this idea of asking it should be given you god i believe likes ambition
god likes passion god likes people with vision god likes people that want to get something done
that want stuff that are going to do stuff and many times he's only holding back using us and
giving us things because we just simply aren't asking we're not seeking we don't have a vision
and you know what people in general even like this you know you want to advance in the company
you want to advance in the workplace you want to advance in your career
many times the reason you don't have it is because you're not asking for it you say hey boss i want
to move up into management boss i want more responsibility boss i want to work more boss
i want to get more sales boss i want more of these things you know what many times the only reason
you don't have it is because you didn't ask for it hey i want to i want to work my way up i want
to move into this department i want to do this great thing you know what that's how you get up
in this world and that's how you get up in the kingdom of god is he asked for it god i want to
be used god i want to do these things i want children i want a wife you know so many young
single men are frustrated by not finding a wife, but here's my question.
How many days are you asking God for a wife?
And can He give that to you?
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing and obtaineth favor from the Lord.
Maybe it's a miracle, but ask for it.
I mean, I've looked at some of you.
It might be a miracle, okay?
I'm just saying.
But you know what?
Here's some good things.
A spouse.
You know, ask for a good church.
Ask for a good job.
Ask for a good place to live.
Ask for wisdom.
Ask for courage.
Ask for strength.
Ask for patience.
Ask for miracles.
In many cases, the reason why we don't have the things that we want is because we're not
asking for it, or here's another thing, we're not seeking it.
It's like, I'm over in Timbuktu, hid under a tree, asking for a fundamental Baptist church
to be five minutes from my house.
Well, that's not going to happen, bucko, but you might have to go seek it.
You might actually have to go find it, but you know what?
If you really want one, you can find one.
If you really want something, you can get there.
Hey, you really want the Bible?
You can find a King James Bible if you really want one.
You can find the word of God if you really want it.
You can find how to get saved.
You can find the things that you want, the things that you need.
And so it's important that we have desire, ambition, that we seek.
And again, the latter portion of this is not so much emphasizing anything to us other than
the fact of how willing God is to give us good things.
If you give your children good food, how much more does God want to give you all the things
that you need?
Food, clothing, housing, a good place to live, everything that you could possibly want.
God wants to give it to you right now.
Verse 12 says, "Therefore, all things whatsoever you would that men should do unto you, should
do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the law in the prophets."
This is kind of that quote golden rule.
I also think you have to be careful here.
I don't even think that verse 12 is just in response to the previous few verses.
I believe that verse 12 is all the way back to chapter number five.
He's giving a conclusory statement.
He's concluding an idea.
What is the idea?
Therefore, in conclusion, all things, whatsoever you should do to you, do you even so to them?
For this is the law and the prophets.
Jesus Christ is concluding everything he taught.
Think about Matthew chapter number five.
What did he teach?
Hey, if someone wants to go one mile, go two with them.
If someone wants your coat, give them your cloak also.
If someone smites you on the cheek, turn them the other also.
What is the concept?
Whatever you want people to do to you, you do to them, right?
Being forgiving, being kind, being gracious, letting your light shine.
Chapter number six, praying, giving alms, fasting, seeking the Lord.
Chapter number seven, not being a hypocrite, not judging people falsely, helping your brother
after you've helped yourself and fixed yourself first.
Seeking God and getting gifts from God and using those as blessings to other people and
he's saying, "Hey, every single thing that you want from people, you should be giving
to other people and doing for other people."
This is what Jesus is teaching, the quote, "Golden rule, do unto others as you have them
do unto you."
Verse 13, "Enter ye into the straight gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way
that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in there at, because straight
is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that find it."
I think it makes sense that in verse 12 he kind of concluded everything he previously
taught and now in the end of his sermon he's kind of addressing the unsaved crowd again.
Hey, you want to know what the Bible says?
You want to know what Jesus is saying?
Love people, love your neighbor as yourself, love God, this is the law in the prophets.
I mean that's basically what he taught and now he's saying make sure you're entering
into the straight gate.
He's really trying to get into this people that are not saved.
Hey, you need to understand how to get saved here and notice that salvation is a few things.
Number one, it's exclusive. Salvation is not for everybody. It's exclusive to only those
who've entered the straight gate.
Number two, it's specific. Salvation is specific. There is not many ways to heaven, but there
is only one way. It's a narrow way and there's only one opportunity to get into life. So
salvation has to be exclusive. It has to be specific and here's the last one that's unfortunate.
It has to be not popular. If your salvation message doesn't meet those three criterion,
then it's not even the right message. It can't be the right kind of salvation because the
salvation according to the Bible is exclusive, it's specific, and it's not common. It's
not widely accepted. And so universalism, which is an idea of Christianity that kind
of generally teaches almost everybody saving the whole world, can't be true. Additionally,
there's other views that are similar. They kind of almost think like every Christian
saved or everybody that names the name of Christ is saved. But again, that wouldn't
really meet this criterion either, would it? Not being very, not being in the context of
here being the few, few there be that find it. So in order to be accurate when it comes
to salvation, we have to understand that there is a only one way, a narrow way that is exclusive
and is not very popular. Verse 15, "Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's
clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. You should know them by their fruits. Do men
gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Even so, every good tree bringeth forth good
fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil
fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth
good fruit is hewn down and cast in the fire. Wherefore, by their fruits ye shall know them.
This is an interesting passage and I do want to kind of emphasize this while we finish
here, but I want to go to a couple places just to help you understand this passage a
little bit better. Keep your finger here and go to Matthew 12 for a moment. He makes it
abundantly clear that a good tree cannot produce corrupt fruit, neither could a corrupt fruit
produce, I'm sorry, neither could a corrupt tree produce good fruit. That's important
to understanding what we're talking about, because there's a lot of strange interpretations
of this passage or misapplied interpretations of this passage, but I believe when you look
at a couple other portions of scripture that talk about the exact same thing, bring up
the exact same concept, it's a little bit clearer what we're talking about. Matthew
12 verse 33 says, "Either make the tree good and his fruit good, or else make the tree
corrupt and his fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by its fruit. O generation of vipers,
how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good
things. An evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say in you
that every idle word that men shall speak they shall give an account thereof in the
day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt
be condemned. How will you judge someone? You can judge someone by their what? By their
words. Why? Because what do the words indicate? What's going on in their heart? Out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. And notice in this passage he even says in
verse 34 how can ye, notice this, being evil speak good things. Meaning how could a corrupt
tree bring forth good fruit? It's impossible. It's impossible for a corrupt tree to bring
forth good fruit. Go if you went to Luke chapter number 6, go to Luke chapter number 6. So
when we look at this in Matthew chapter number 7, I think the Bible is really clear when
you study this in all the passages that what we're talking about is what people say, is
the words that they use, okay? And what they teach, what they believe, okay? And it also
emphasizes again in Luke chapter 6, look at verse 43, "For a good tree bringeth not forth
corrupt fruit, neither does the corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is
known by his own fruit, for of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush
gather they grapes. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth
that which is good, and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth
that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." So again,
if we just let the Bible kind of speak for itself here, it's describing that the good
tree has a good heart, an evil tree has an evil heart, and what comes out of the heart
is the things that the person says, and so how we can identify the good trees is what
comes out of their mouth, and how we can identify the bad trees is what comes out of their mouth.
Now go back even to Matthew chapter 7, here's the thing, this is already accepted by all
of us, because 99% of all false prophets that we believe is based on what they teach.
I mean if you were just to say like, hey do you think that this Catholic priest is saved?
You would say no.
And it's like you've never even met the person, you don't even know their name, you don't
know what street they've lived on, you know nothing about their personal life, and I would
say why?
Well he teaches work salvation, and you would say yeah, but you know what?
That Catholic may be very conservative, he may have a nice wife, they may have several
children, they on an outward appearance may seem to be very conservative and kind and
nice, he may be a good neighbor, and he comes to you and presents himself as a sheep, and
he has sheep's clothing, but here's the problem, inside, if you were to say how do I go to
heaven, well then you're going to have all this corrupt fruit coming out of his mouth
and you're going to recognize this person's not saved, and the vast majority of our world
is not new IFB, I don't know if you know this.
The vast majority of people on this planet are not fundamental baptists, and the vast
majority of people that are sincere and decent people are being misled and being deceived
by false prophets, by the Catholic Church, by the Protestants, by Joel Osteen, Kenneth
Copeland, I mean 99% of all people, even higher than that, we all recognize this person's
not a saved based on only one criterion, one thing, what do they teach about salvation?
I mean that is how we identify 99% of all false prophets.
Now there is of course this special canine, special breed of dog named Judas where they
can parrot the right thing.
They can lie and say the right things about salvation.
But that's not the vast majority of false prophets in this world.
That is a rare special breed and the most people in this world are not being misled
by a Judas.
The vast majority of our world is being misled and going to hell because of the pope, because
of Kenneth Copeland and T.D.
Jakes and Joel Osteen and all these other wicked false teachers.
So in Matthew chapter number seven, what Jesus is addressing is the Pharisees and the Sadducees
and your Catholics and all these other people out there that are teaching work salvation,
teaching damnable heresy, teaching works as a means of salvation, Calvinism, whatever
other junk and garbage you want to label out there, that's what he's warning and he's saying
these people will look good on the outside, but you know what, they're actually wicked
on the inside.
That is what Matthew chapter number seven is really warning about.
Now again, I think sometimes because of our history or some of the things that have happened
where we've just had an anomaly of Judas's or we've had like a bunch of crazy weirdos
try to infiltrate our churches, we sometimes like try to interpret every passage in that
light, like where we just think like every passage is about Judas Iscariot or something
like that.
But that's just not really what is in view of Matthew chapter number seven.
It's not really addressing the Judas's.
That's more second Peter chapter number two.
That's more Jude.
That's other passages of the Bible that address what a Judas is like, because here's what
a Judas is like.
A Judas, you say, how do you go to heaven?
Oh, it's just by faith.
Can you lose salvation?
Nope.
You're like, okay.
And then you start talking to this person a little bit more, and they're like, yeah,
actually there's a difference between someone who believes in Jesus and someone who believes
on Jesus.
You're like, what?
Yeah.
I mean, have you not seen?
And in fact, if you read the Bible, the Bible says, do you see this passage where it says
like the disciples didn't believe on Jesus?
All of them were unsaved.
I'm like, that's not what believe means.
Here's the thing.
Even the Judas, when you start listening to him and you let him explain to you how salvation
actually works, and a lot of the passages of the Bible, you'll start recognizing this
guy's not saved either.
I think all of the people that are unsaved, you could find out with their words.
That's why it's important for them to be quiet.
Almost every one of these infiltrators that has ever come into one of our churches or
we've exposed later, how did we end up recognizing they were bad?
They ended up starting slipping up and saying weird stuff.
And they started saying, you're just like, that's not what the Bible says here.
And they start teaching weird things and they're mixing stuff.
Why?
Because they're not actually saved.
They don't actually really understand the Bible.
All they learned was just fucker, challenge my faith, but they don't actually believe
it.
They don't understand it.
They don't have the Holy Ghost.
And so whenever they have to get up and teach, it's really dangerous.
And you also notice this about false prophets and Judas Iscariots.
They will have meticulous notes and they just like read them like a script because they're
terrified of just extemporaneously speaking because they don't actually understand what
they're saying.
So they have to use a detailed microscope.
Like there's a guy named Garrett Kershworth that used to go to Fave Word, Baptist Search.
This guy, he would refuse to preach unless he had like a full 24 hours to prepare.
And he would say like he would have to sit there and he'd like preach a sermon like four
or five times before he'd actually preach it because he just wanted to make sure he
knew what he was saying.
And it's like, I wonder why.
I wonder why.
It's because these people don't know what they're talking about.
Imagine if I brought you and I said, hey, you get an opportunity tomorrow, you're going
to speak in front of NASA on how rockets are put together.
Would you want to have some meticulous notes?
Yeah.
Because you wouldn't know what you're talking about.
And the only way to even fake it would be for you to do a ton of research and cram and
study and just use a bunch of buzzwords and just kind of put a lot of word salads together
and then just get up there and just kind of, this is why most of the false prophets, their
sermons just sound like word salads.
It's like, God's going to open a door in your life and you've just been sitting there with
that door closed and you need to realize that he's knocking and if you would just turn the
knob, he'd be there to turn the other side of the knob and then he would just open unto
you and then it would just be the experience of a lifetime.
You know, applause.
This is like, it's like great swelling words of vanity.
And isn't that what it said in second Peter chapter number two is how we identify one
of these bad people is they just say stuff and it's meaningless.
You're like, you didn't even say anything.
You didn't communicate anything.
It was a complete uncertain sound.
And so I believe it's very clear that in Matthew chapter number seven, when we talk about verses
15 through 20, we're talking about identifying a false prophet based on what they say.
Now what would be a direct application of this?
Well if I can't preach the gospel successfully because I don't understand it, if I'm teaching
work salvation, how many people do you think I'm going to get saved?
Zero.
It's never going to happen.
It's impossible, isn't it?
Isn't that what it's saying?
That a corrupt tree cannot produce good fruit, meaning that no one's going to go into the
Catholic church and the Catholic priest is going to accidentally teach salvation by
faith that day and accidentally get a bunch of people saved and be like, "Wow, I was just
in the Catholic church and then I just realized it was salvation by free and it was just by
faith and you can't lose it."
It's like that never happens.
It never will happen.
And here's another thing that will never happen, is you as a saved person, you're not going
to go around and teach people about colob.
Like it doesn't matter how like backslidden you get.
It doesn't matter how much into sin you get.
You're not going to go around and start teaching people how to become a Mormon.
You're not going to just slip and teach people how to become a Catholic.
You're not like, "Well, I was on John 3, 16 and I got nervous and then I was just like
self-examining my works."
What does it say?
It's the same thing, like a good tree cannot produce grub fruit.
Okay?
And this is an important concept because this is what people teach about Matthew 7, is to
say, "Oh, well if you're not cleaning up your life, then you're a false prophet."
Because a good tree cannot produce grub fruit.
But wait a minute, can't every saved person sin?
I can sin.
If you don't think you can sin, you can leave, alright?
I mean, that is in no way what the Bible's teaching here, that the fruit is your actions
or how much sin you have in your life or something like that.
Because that's impossible, that's an impossible standard.
But what makes sense is how you as a saved person, you'll never teach work salvation.
And someone who's not saved is never gonna accidentally teach how to get saved, okay?
Now again, if we draw that out and we put that into real life application, what would
we notice about people that are saved?
They're getting people saved.
And what would we notice about people that are not saved?
They're never getting anybody saved.
And so another way to extrapolate from this passage would be the idea or the concept that
those who are the true genuine preachers of the Bible, they're gonna have converts.
And the people who are not preaching what the Bible says and are preaching false doctrine,
they're not gonna have converts.
And you can even do this sometimes.
You could go to a church and when everybody in the congregation is teaching work salvation,
you can just basically put it in the bank, the preacher's preaching work salvation.
And when you're going and you're knocking on doors and every single person at that church
is saved, you can pretty much just put it in the bank, that pastor's saved.
You know, at least the one that was the most influential.
Obviously if they just got a brand new pastor, we don't know about him yet.
He could be a bozo.
He could be a Jack Scott, right?
But it's like, hey, if literally everybody going to Hiles Anderson is saved and believes
salvation by faith alone, it means that Jack Hiles was a good guy.
I mean, just case closed.
And if you go and you knock on the doors of everybody that goes to John MacArthur's church
and they all believe in work salvation, well, it's just case closed.
John MacArthur's not saved.
Okay.
Now, again, I believe that and I believe that from this passage you can teach that.
But I also want you to understand that I believe this passage is the primary understanding,
what it's really emphasizing is what people say.
And then from there, we can draw out other conclusions and make clear statements and
good doctrine from that.
Saved people are getting saved people, saved and, you know, unsaved people are not getting
anybody saved.
Right?
Why?
Because they don't ever preach the right gospel.
And that's what Matthew 7 is bringing up.
And then, of course, look at verse 21 to even further confirm what we're talking about.
Not everyone that saith unto me.
Think about what he did.
He just brought up these false prophets, identifying them.
And then he's saying, wink, wink, nod, nod, let me explain something to you.
Not everybody that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter in the kingdom of heaven.
But he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
So what is this saying?
There's many people that use the name of Jesus and Lord and God and the Father, and they're
not saved.
Which is what he just warned you about.
There's many Catholics, Protestants, Methodists, Presbyterians, and sadly even Baptists that
say Lord, Lord, and they're not entering into the kingdom of heaven.
Why?
Because they've not done the will of my Father which is in heaven.
And then it gives an example of what these people are like, verse 22.
Many will say to me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, in the
name of cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then while I professed unto them, I never knew you, depart from me, ye that work in
equity."
Let me ask you this question.
How did you determine whether these people were going to go to heaven or hell?
Did you visit their church?
Did you visit them in their life?
Did you check their converts?
What is it that you use, what information did you use to determine the people that we
just read about whether they were saved or unsaved?
Is it what they said?
It's exactly how we determine who's right and who's wrong is based on what they said.
Just like he was explaining in the previous passage of scripture about verses 15 through
20, hey, we're determining people based on their fruit.
What's their fruit?
The fruit of their lips, what's coming out of the abundance of the heart, the mouthspeaker,
and what are they saying?
We've done many wonderful works.
And this is a great test to check someone's salvation.
It's not my number one or anything like that, but whenever I'm confused about somebody and
they can't seem to really give me a clear answer and I've been talking to them a while,
sometimes I just take them to the passage like this and I'll just say, "Why is it that
these people aren't saved?" Well, they didn't have enough works. Well, they didn't live
a good enough life. Then the whole passage just went over like this and they might not
be saved. It just seems like they don't understand. Whereas someone that says, "Well, they were
trusting in their works." Then it's like, "Oh, this person actually understands what
salvation is then." They actually get it. This is where you can kind of catch the Judas'
sometimes because they don't understand these kind of passages. And so, "Oh, this person
was trusting in their works." They never trusted in Christ. That's why Christ said, "And then
I will press on them, I never knew you. Depart from me, ye that work in equity." It's kind
of like celebrities. Everybody knows a celebrity, but the celebrity doesn't always know you.
Okay? And when it comes to Jesus Christ, yeah, a lot of people know Jesus, but he doesn't
know everybody else. He doesn't know in reciprocation every other person. And so, those who have
not believed in Jesus, he doesn't know them. They're not his sheep. They're not his children.
They're not of his fold, and they'll be cast in the lake of fire. In fact, they're literally
not in his book, in the Lamb's book of life. You didn't, you're not on the list, bro. You
show up to the event, sorry, you're not getting in. Because salvation's exclusive, remember?
There's a straight gate, and in order to get in that gate, you've got to get your name
on the book. And the only way to get your name on the book is to believe in Jesus Christ.
Salvation is by faith alone. It's not by being good. He just explained in the last few chapters
how you're not good enough, how you don't have enough righteousness. The only way to
go to heaven is through him and the only way to go through him is to believe in Jesus Christ.
That's how someone gets saved. Now, he gives us another great passage here. For the sake
of time, I'm not going to preach it, but I'll just read through it. It says, "Therefore,
whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man
which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended and the floods came and the
winds blew and beat upon that house and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.
And everyone that heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them not shall be likened unto
a foolish man which built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended and the floods
came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it fell. And great was the fall
of it. And it came to pass when Jesus had ended these sayings that people were astonished
at his doctrine, for he taught them as one having authority and not as a scribe.
Now verses 24 through 27 could be a whole sermon in itself, of course, but let's revisit
one concept I already brought up previously. Remember how in 2 Peter chapter number 2,
the false prophets, they kind of cleaned up their lives a little bit, but then they ended
up being worse off. That was them building their house on sand, and they didn't really
get the rock, which is salvation by Jesus Christ. And so whenever there's any kind
of pressure or any kind of really strong temptation, they just crater because their house is built
on sand. Their Christianity is built on sand. It's a fake Christianity. Whereas when you
build it on the rock, it doesn't matter what comes against you, you can keep standing
against all of the evils of this world, all the protesters, all the persecution, all the
threats. And so that's why it's important to truly be built on Christ. And of course
at the end of this, it makes a really important statement as well. That it says when Jesus
taught, he taught the people in a way that astonished them. Why? Because he taught as
having authority and not as the scribes. What does it mean he taught them as one having
authority? I think that we could misunderstand this very easily and think, well Jesus of
course God, so he has ultimate authority, so he gets to teach these things the way he
did because he's God. And a lot of people have this attitude, well Jesus can say that
but I'm not Jesus. Or, well that's what Jesus said but you're not Jesus. And they basically
try to strip authority away from the preacher or the power of God's word because you're
just not Jesus. But that's not what this is emphasizing. What this is emphasizing is him
teaching them as one having authority. Notice it didn't even say, notice what it says. It
doesn't say he, for he taught them having authority. For he taught them as one having
authority. Meaning what? Just the way he spoke. That's what's being emphasized. Not the fact
that he has authority but the way that he taught. Being dogmatic. Being specific. Being
clear. Giving a certain sound and not being like the scribes and the Pharisees which gave
an uncertain sound. Like Michael Todd getting up and saying well I don't know about gender.
I don't know if there's A, B, C, D or E or whatever. As opposed to just saying thus saith
the Lord God created the male and female. Teaching as one having authority. Meaning
what? When someone gets up to preach the Bible they shouldn't give an uncertain sound. How
can you be prepared for the battle when someone's giving an uncertain sound? And you know what?
We're in a battle. Ephesians tells us that we have armor of God. What do you need armor
for if you're not in a battle? We are in a raging battle for the culture of this country.
We're in a raging battle for the spiritual direction of our nation. We're in a spiritual
battle for the souls of men right now. And we need people to get up and preach as one
having authority and not sitting up here and saying, "Well, I don't know what the Bible
says. I don't know what dogs means." Me and all my college friends, we just sat around
and read Leviticus 2013. And we're just not sure what it's saying. And I've just wondered
for so long, "What does it mean?" It's like, you fag it, it means put fags to death. That's
what it means. How dare you say like that? Well, you know what? You're not solving America's
problems, are you? And you know what? There's two kinds of people. There's people that are
offended by the word fag, and there's people that hate fags. And you know what? I know
which one I am. And the reality is, you know, we're not going to save our nation by this
milk toast, fake, watered down type of Christianity. We need preachers to get up and preach with
authority and not their own authority, the authority of saying this is right. You know
what? I'm getting mad about this phrase. I'm sorry. I'm going to preach for another minute.
Okay. I get mad about this phrase. Elections have consequences. You know why I'm mad about
that stupid phrase is people in America genuinely think the problem with our country is that
we voted Biden into office. And I'm thinking like, no, the problem with our country is
not that we voted Biden in office. The problem with our country is that we don't say this
is true. That's the problem with our nation. Biden is a symptom. Our country is in decline
as a symptom of the fact that we won't adhere to the King James Bible. That we as God's
people aren't saying this is right. Because if you want to fix America, it's not putting
the right person in office. It's all of us just saying this is right and we're going
to do what this says. That's the starting point. And then when we start opening passages
like Leviticus, then we can be like, "Well, we already decided this was right." We're
not arguing whether or not this is right. That was established. This is right. And you
know what? You see throughout history, you read the Bible, you recognize when nations
actually fix themselves, it's when they started there and said, "You know what? This is right."
When King Josiah said, "You know what? This is right and we're going to do whatever it
said about all of our problems." Because right now, we're doing what democracy says about
our problems. Democracy will never fix our nation. Democracy is evil. Democracy is allowing
the devil to tell us what to do. We have to get rid of democracy and say, "This is right."
Because right now, it's like, "Well, what is the vast majority of the people want? Does
the vast majority of the people want men in women's locker rooms?" "Okay, no, we don't,
so okay. We'll get men out of women's locker rooms." "What about gay marriage?" "Oh, well,
you know, they're not hurting anybody. We'll keep that one." "Well, what about, you know,
just sodomites existing?" "Well, you know, that's okay. I mean, 51% of America says that's
okay. Why don't care if 99% of America says that's okay. This says put them to death."
And everybody's kind of wondering, like, how do we fix our nation? How do we fix all these
problems? What do we do about, you know, drag queens and all the child molestation and what
do we do with all the things that are going on? It's like, we just say this is right.
This is right. What do we do about APAC? This. You say, "How is that going to fix this?"
Well, it says get rid of usury. That'll get rid of a lot of them fast. You know, maybe
just clean out the sewers every once in a while. That'll get rid of a lot of them. You
know, I mean, it's just so frustrating to me how so many people, they just think like
the symptom is the cause and not recognize the reason why our country is being flushed
down the toilet in every way possible is because people don't like this. Well, I think if we
get Biden out of office and we get Trump in office, our nation will be better. Okay, are
Southern Baptists going to like what this says now? Are Methodists going to like what this says now?
Are Catholics going to do what this says? I mean, Donald Trump, who said Caitlyn Jenner can use
whatever bathroom it wants. That's what that's the kind of nation you like. That's the kind of
country. I mean, you think that our country is going to be blessed by God just because we put
Donald Trump in office? I mean, you're just you're just diluted. You don't even have the right
mindset. And again, I'm not saying like, let's go vote for Biden. People get confused. They're
thinking like, well, how are we going to fix our country? How are we going to fix our nation?
Well, you know what? This is the only way. It'd be like, well, how are you going to get to heaven?
Can't we try just doing the rosary? It's not going to help. What if I give up some sins?
Still not going to help you get into heaven. There's only one way to get to heaven. And look,
there's only one way to fix a nation. There is one way. Well, what if we compromise and just vote
the lesser of two evils in? That's not going to fix our nation. The only thing that will fix our
nation is us being salt and light and for God's people to get back to the word of God and to trust
what it said and to say hey let's be built on a rock instead of the shifting sands of this wicked
leftist communist satanic agenda. And our country is so much more communist than you really can
perceive and it's not just because of Democrats. Republicans are communist too buddy. Thomas Massey
did an interview with Tucker Carlson and he said every Republican, every Republican has a buddy at
the APAC that tells them what to do. Every Republican. Well I think when we get the
Republicans in there, we'll do what APAC wants. How is that going to help? Like you're just down
the wrong tunnel buddy. This is the only tunnel. This is the only path forward. This is the only
light. Jesus Christ already, and you know what? Our nation is trying to build itself on sand.
We need to be built on a rock, unshifting this, or we'll crumble, or we'll be destroyed. And you
know what? I think that's what's going to probably happen because people don't want this. But you
know I'm not going to, I'm not going to, I'm not going to hide behind the real solution. This is
the only solution. Let's close in prayer. Thank you heavenly father so much for giving us the rock,
for giving us the Lord Jesus Christ, for making salvation so simple and so easy. Thank you for
also giving us the word of God so that we could understand how to live our lives. I pray that
we would let the words of Christ sink deep down into our ears, that we'd be motivated to go out
and preach the gospel and get many people saved, that we wouldn't waste their time giving that which
is holy unto the dogs, and that we wouldn't turn to solutions that are never going to actually
make a difference in this world. I pray that you would actually motivate people's hearts, minds,
and energies and efforts towards getting people back to being saved, using the King James Bible,
trusting it, to pointing to the only real solution for any nation, for any country,
for any state, for any church. And I pray that you could help use us as a bright and shining light
to get other people to trust the Bible and to turn back to you. And in Jesus name we pray, amen.
In closing, let's go to song number 133. Song number 133. Safe Wherever I Go. We're going to
sing it twice together. Song number 133. Let's sing it out together.
Safe Wherever I Go. We're in heaven my home. Safe Wherever. Safe Wherever.
Singing everybody, we're all dismissed.