men look at verse number 13 the Bible reads and when it was day he called unto him his disciples
and one of them he chose 12 and of them he chose 12 whom also he named apostles now in Luke chapter
number six we have a lot of information and we have a great sermon by the Lord Jesus Christ he's
preaching to his disciples we see here he's choosing 12 it says in verse 17 and he came down
with them who's the them it's the 12 disciples the apostles and stood in the plane and in the company
of his disciples and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem and from the sea
coast of Tyre and Sidon which came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases now what I want to
make clear to you is just because the word disciple is used does not mean it's always referring to the
12 because in fact anybody that's following Jesus Christ is a disciple those are just elect
disciples chosen disciples that are the 12 okay but there was many people that were Jesus
disciples throughout the Bible and I'm going to give you a verse to prove it but go to John
chapter 6 keep your finger because we're coming right back but even in Luke chapter 7 1 he said
now when he'd ended all these his sayings in the audience of the people he entered into Capernaum
so the sermon that we just heard in Luke chapter number 6 it was designed for disciples it was
designed for the safe and preaching of God's word when you come to church it should be designed for
the safe it's not it's not a goal to just get everybody saved in the audience that's that's a
one-time event okay obviously if you believe in a work salvation then you know what they preach
salvation every single week salvation salvation salvation and look salvation is a great message
I mean yeah hey all your sins are forgiven you don't have to serve God at all all you have to
do is believe in him that's a really great message but you know once you get saved and then you show
up at church it's a lot different message that whole that whole thing about you you can just
live however you want changes it changes really drastically faith that works is dead okay and what
Jesus Christ is doing is he's really bringing a strong admonition a strong rebuke and reproof to
a lot of different people based on their lifestyles now look at John chapter 6 verse 66 it says from
that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with them then said Jesus unto
the 12 will ye also go away so notice there was a bunch of disciples that left but the 12 stayed
why because Jesus just preached you know it causes a lot of people to stop following Christ
preaching it's sad is it but it's just the reality and whenever you actually preach like Jesus
it's going to cause a stir in people's hearts it's going to be really difficult for them to be like
oh okay the way they live doesn't match the way that Jesus preaches and so they get offended and
they get driven away from God's word now go back to Luke chapter number six and this sermon that
he preaches on this is nothing different if we expound on the sermon which we're going to do
it really hits home it really hurts a little bit why because when you believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ you still have that old flesh with you you still have that old man nothing of your
flesh reformed it didn't get any better and unfortunately most people continue to just walk
in the flesh and act in the flesh and do the things of the flesh they don't try to walk in
the spirit and and because of that they end up suffering a lot of problems they have a lot of
issues there's just their life is just going to be a very painstaking life the way of transgressors
is hard is what the bible says so when you forsake God's commandments and you're not doing
what he said your life is going to be miserable look at verse 20 and he lifted up his eyes on
his disciples and said blessed be ye poor for yours is the kingdom of God blessed are ye that
hunger now for ye shall be filled blessed are ye that weep now for ye shall laugh blessed are ye
when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall
reproach you and cast out your name as evil for the son of man's sake oh that's like a sign you
know up there huh rejoice ye in that day and leap for joy for behold your award is great in heaven
for in the like manner that their fathers unto the prophet so notice when we read in the old
testament we love elisha and we love jeremiah and we love isaiah the world hated these guys
the world had their signs and they were protesting them and they were mad at them and they're trying
to get them to stop and they're throwing them in jail and they're trying to get them killed they
don't like these guys and it's no different today look at verse number 24 but whoa unto you that are
rich for you have received your consolation whoa unto you that are full for ye shall hunger whoa
unto you that laugh now for you shall mourn and weep look what jesus christ is bringing up he
first brings up the blessing blessed are you poor whoa unto you that are rich he says hey blessed
are you when you're being persecuted for righteousness sake you know what whoa unto you
that are full and the title of the morning sermon is whoa unto you that are full you say oh who's
he talking about well we're going to figure that out okay let's define some terms what does whoa
mean to say you know sometimes you're like on a roller coaster like whoa that's not the whoa that
we're referring to here okay whoa is the stress of mind it's sorrow it's grief it's anguish it's
regret that's what whoa means now what does it mean to be full okay full is containing or holding
as much or as many as possible having no empty space so when you're full there's no room for
anything extra you're just i'll give you another definition not lacking or emitting anything
complete now full in and of itself could be defined in a positive sense and it could be
defined in a negative sense romans chapter number one talks about people being filled with all
unrighteousness that's a bad feeling you know what full of joy full of mercy those are good things
now when he's uh saying whoa unto them that are full he's not saying those that are full of mercy
and full of grace and full of joy and full of it he's not talking about that it's a different
kind of fool okay we're gonna get there what is the point that he's making here and i'm gonna
throw out a word here and this is basically the essence of the sermon it's apathy apathy
and you want to make me really mad apathy apathy just just drives me up the wall it makes me more
angry than anything else that i can think of i just i get so sick and tired of apathy today
but you know who's apathetic those that are full whenever you're full whenever you're rich
you're often very apathetic to the things of god now let me prove this go to luke chapter 16 luke
chapter 16 now this context let me make it very clear again we're not really preaching to get
people saved now you could take application from this passage and really you could figure out some
some salvation aspects here and i want to address that quickly but that's not the primary application
of this this passage that's not who he's preaching to he's preaching to disciples he's preaching to
those that you know already believe they're already saved and unfortunately they're just
filled up with a bunch of junk today but in luke chapter number 16 we're going to see a parable of
somebody that was full in the flesh he was rich look at verse number 19 there was a certain rich
man which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day meaning he had
everything he needed and there was a certain beggar named lazarus which was laid at his gate
full of sores and desired to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table more
where the dogs came and licked his sores and it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried
by the angels and abraham's bosom the rich man also died and was buried and in hell he lift up
his eyes being in torments and seeth abraham afar off and lazareth in his bosom so we have two guys
one guy has a horrible life on this earth he's a beggar he has sores he has no money he's poor
but you know what he's going to be comforted when he goes into heaven when he has abraham you know
got his arm around him and he's up there with abraham as his buddy and they're just you know
relaxing and enjoying rest and comfort and the joys of heaven but the the other man the rich man
he was full he had all the food that his belly could desire he had all the riches that he could
want he had everything but as soon as he died he lived up his hells and he lived up his eyes in
hell is what the bible says look what it says in verse 24 and he cried and said father abraham have
mercy on me and sin lazareth that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for
i am torment of this flame he can add a drink of water every single day of his life he never went
without thirst while he's on this earth but then he's in hell for the all of eternity and he just
wants one drop of water never going to get it whoa unto them that are full whoa unto them when
i go into the rich neighborhood and i have a king james bible and salvation so easy and so simple
i'm good not interested whoa unto you whoa unto you that are full it's sickening it's gross how
can you not care if you die today are you 100 sure you go to heaven i don't care people say that
whoa unto you look what he says in verse number 29 abraham said unto him they have moses and the
prophets let them hear him and he said nay father even but if one went unto them from the dead they
will repent he says this and he said to them if they hear not moses and the prophets neither
will they be persuaded the one rose from the dead look the bible is what's going to get people to do
the right thing and if you're apathetic towards the word of god you're not going to change
i don't care if all the prophets come to you in the night and wake you up
you know it's going to change your heart the word of god and if the word of god
is not changing your heart well guess what you're too full you're way too full on other junk you're
letting too much crap come into your heart today and because you're so full you're so apathetic
to the things of god now go to proverbs 27 proverbs 27 we're gonna we're gonna learn a little
bit before we get into the preaching all right that was just a sample but you better buckle up
proverbs 27
god uses carnal truths to expound spiritual truths what's the carnal truth when you're full you you
really just become very apathetic you become lazy become tired look what it says in proverbs 27 verse
the full soul loatheth and honeycomb but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet
notice when you're stuffed it doesn't matter how good the food is that's set before you
you don't want to eat it i mean i've been to buffets where the food is just amazing
it's spectacular but once you cross that full point you don't want another bite it doesn't
matter if it's prime rib it doesn't matter if it's chocolate cake it doesn't matter if it's fruit
just you're just done and you end up loathing it like the thought of another bite actually makes
you feel a little bit queasy a little bit sick this is a carnal truth this literally happens
you can get to the point where you eat too much you even want to vomit you're just so queasy and
you're frustrated go to proverbs 16 proverbs 16 but here's the thing when you're starving
there's a strong motivating factor for you to get food when you're starving in fact your idea of
what's you know acceptable to eat starts going further down and down as the hunger you get
i mean the hunger you get you know the more appealing fast food becomes
i mean if you're full the idea of fast food might make you want to vomit but if you haven't eaten
in a long time you're just like man taco bell sounds good how do you how do you eat those
mcdonald's fries you know even if they weren't even warm whoa this guy's beside himself you know
proverbs 16 look at verse 26 he that laborer laborer for himself for his mouth craveth it
of him notice the bible has a strong connection your belly actually causes you to want to work
and in fact if you didn't need to eat you probably wouldn't work that hard
if you were just full if you already had your last meal and you're like i'm never gonna be
hungry again you'd be a lot less likely to ever work again all these homeless people they just
go hang out at the beach and just do whatever now go to ecclesiastes 10 ecclesiastes chapter 10
we need to understand this this carnal truth so that we can understand the great spiritual
truths that god wants to give us and the reality is if you're full you start to become apathetic
what is apathetic you just don't care you're not interested you you you have no enthusiasm
there's no excitement there's no zeal ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 16 whoa to the olan when thy
child's a king and thy princes eat in the morning blessed art thou olan when thy king is the son of
nobles and thy princes eat in due season notice this for strength and not for drunkenness so he's
saying hey it's a problem when all you do is you're just constantly feasting yourself not
because you need it for energy not because you need it to survive but rather you're just
stuffing yourself and you end up becoming drunken now drunken in this context is the fact that
you're full it's not just it's not being like an alcoholic necessarily obviously that has its own
context but being drunken in and of itself just means you're full you could be drunken on all
kinds of different beverages or foods or things like this and he's saying woe unto you when all
of your rulers the only thing they care about is just filling their gullet just going around
and just eating food in fact when they wake up in the morning their first spot is just food
what can i eat give me you know let me just stuff my face and just fill my gullet and get as much
food as i possibly can why why is that a problem because as soon as you start filling filling your
gullet you start losing desire to do anything else you start becoming apathetic into the day
now i have a i have an article though let's look at verse 18 before i get okay
by much slothfulness the building decayeth and through idleness of the hands the house
dropping through you think that's a coincidence that he brings up all these men these princes
and these rulers hey they're eating for drunkenness and then guess what happens hey
slothfulness the building's decaying look if i get so stuffed and full i don't want to do anything
the rest of the day and then through much idleness and slothfulness the building decay
if bad things happen you don't want your princes to be like that you don't want your rulers to be
the people that wake up and they just eat and gorge themselves and only care about satisfying
the flesh now i'll give you one more verse proverbs 19 15 says slothfulness cast on the
deep sleep and an idle soul shall suffer hunger i don't even like preaching on a full stomach
in fact i pretty much try to avoid eating hours and hours before i ever preach
why because i know that if i just if i just ate like a full meal right i preached i'm gonna be
a little bit just kind of you know sedentary a little bit more relaxed i'll probably burp a lot
you know i just you know i'm just just being honest okay now i've done it it's not like i've
never done it sometimes you have a fellowship right before and you just want to hang out with
people and things like this but 99 of the time i haven't eaten for several hours before i preach
because i don't want to and in fact i notice i preach a little bit angry hangrier no i'm just
kidding but i haven't been eating now this article i looked at it says why do i feel tired after
eating it was from healthline.com it says feeling tired after eating we've all felt it that drowsy
feeling that sneaks in after a meal you're full and relaxed and struggling to keep your eyes open
it's called you know 2 p.m right at the workplace why are why are meals so often followed by a
sudden urge to take a nap and should you be concerned about it in general a little bit of
sleepiness after eating is completely normal and nothing to worry about now i'm not going to go
into details as articles because i don't care the point is is just bringing up hey it's just common
it's common knowledge it's just obvious that after eating a full meal you often tend to feel a little
bit sleepy tired relaxed comfortable let me look at another article why do you get sleepy after
eating these are the top theories from time.com time magazine if eating makes you tired you've
got something in common with most people and for that matter with most living things researchers
have turned up evidence of postprandial sleepiness also known as a food coma in fact most of the time
when i would go out to eat lunch with my co-workers when i look at the software industry
they're always talking about their food coma afterwards and since i didn't work a real
physical labor job man that 2 p.m would hit hard i mean you sitting at a computer after
stuffing your gullet you're just kind of like uh yeah i'm just gonna think about this code for a
second you know it's like i mean it hits hard it says uh researchers have turned up evidence
it says in a food coma okay in insects snakes worms and rats so you're just like a rat
the conservation of this behavior across species suggests that it's really important for something
says william jaw an associate professor of neuroscience at the scripps research institute
in florida who has studied this food coma phenomenon some experts have hypothesized
that animals humans included have built in vigilant signals that keep them awake and
alert when hungry these signals help them locate and acquire food it follows that once an animal
or human has eaten a lot these vigilant signals dissipate and are replaced by feelings of fatigue
so even this secular article it says hey when you're hungry it's like there's something just
kicking up in your brain like let's go out and get some food let's go find somewhere to eat hey
i've got some energy i'm ready to go out and do some work but as soon as you satisfy those things
you start to be like oh okay i'm done good relaxed this is a carnal truth today that jesus christ is
appealing to and i i have secular articles i can show you verse after verse after verse
and in fact the bible even brings up animals being in the same behavior so the article is
very biblical now go if you would to proverbs chapter 30 proverbs chapter 30 you say what
is going to help me get past this well you have to seek for it you have to desire it you have to
want something that's going to give you the energy that's going to get you past your apathetic state
it's going to get you past some of your apathy is actually desiring something
being hungry you know people want to find the truth and that causes them you know to get past
a lot of apathy today you know who's not interested in you know the gospel people that aren't
interested in truth isn't that interesting they're not hungry for the truth so guess what they don't
seek any truth do they and it says in proverbs 30 look at verse 8 remove far from me notice this
vanity and lies this guy is a truth seeker he hates lies he hates vanity he's not interested
in things that don't matter that don't care he's decided you know what i'm not going to be
apathetic in this world today i'm not just going to fill myself on vanity and lies today i want
some truth so now now what does he say give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with food
convenient for me notice he's bringing up food isn't he verse 9 lest i be full and deny thee
now let me make it clear again this context is a saved person it's not an unsaved person
he's saying hey god i don't want you to just fill my gullet with so much stuff so much food because
then i'll start denying you because then i'll stop caring about you because i'm so apathetic
look what he says and say who is the lord what a bad state to get into notice he's taking the
carnal truth and he's making it real clear for us the spiritual truth he's bringing us both pictures
isn't he he's saying hey when you get full you stop caring about god you stop desiring god you
stop wanting god when you're just filling yourself he says or lest i be poor and steal and take the
name of my god in vain look being poor is not a virtue either he's saying hey i don't want to
struggle so much where i can never find any food but you know what i want to have that that healthy
balance of constantly needing you know still go out and work and get that food and so i'm not
denying you i'm still relying upon you for my food but at the end of the day i want to find it okay
he doesn't he doesn't want to keep going out and searching and not finding anything he wants to
have kind of just food that's convenient for him things that are good for him now go to luke
luke chapter 17 here's the problem let's let's turn to the spiritual now okay we've established
the carnal the carnal truth and the carnal truth just you know kicks our butt spiritually all right
because people have a tendency to give up on spiritual things give up on the lord when they're
full when they get full they just start denying god they're not interested in the things of god
look at luke chapter 17 verse 12 and as he entered in a certain village there met him
10 men that were leopards which stood afar off and they lifted up their voices and said jesus
master have mercy on us and when he saw them he said unto them go show yourselves unto the priest
and it came to pass that as they went they were cleansed and one of them when he saw that he was
healed turned back and with a loud voice glorified god and fell down on his face at his feet giving
him thanks and he was a samaritan and jesus answering said were there not ten co-workers
ten cleansed but where are the nine they're not found that return to give glory to god
save this stranger and he said unto them arise go thy way thy faith hath made thee whole look
nine people that just got miraculously healed by god they can't even come back and say thank you
why because they're just full well i'm good now why do i need to seek god i'm good now
why do i even have to go say thank you hey some stranger just came to my door and gave me the
gospel but i can't even just go to the church one time and say thank you where are the nine
i mean you're just gonna rot in hell for all of eternity i guess you know it's not enough to just
come and say thanks one time huh why because they're full now oh you mean i don't have to go
to church go to heaven great not going
oh i i don't like institutionalized religion they try to make you do stuff you're right
right about that they're gonna preach about my sin you're right about that
they're gonna make me feel uncomfortable they're gonna make me want to crucify the flesh
well what one do you that are full today these guys are full
and you know what they're denying the lord at this point aren't they
now from an unsafe perspective obviously kind of covered that people that you know are full
on work salvation they're full on false religion they're full on all these other things they're
good they don't need the gospel they don't want to hear hey i was born catholic my parents are
catholic my grandparents are catholic we're good can i show you what you're saying is wrong with
the bible no not interested don't want it well what one of those people what about people that
are sitting here this morning and they say you know what i don't really think i need church
whoa unto you what do you think you don't need church what about people that come and they sit
here and they think well i know what the bible says i don't really need to read my bible whoa
unto you whoa unto you if you think you know the bible what do you think you're done reading the
bible you know sometimes people in the christian life they think they've arrived go to ezekiel 34
ezekiel 34 you know often i think does this pastors because knowledge puffed up
oh i know the bible i know all the stories i've read it so they stop reading god's word and they
start filling themselves with junk and they start getting full of junk today and then they don't
actually teach the people any of god's word because they're so full of junk
i don't care who you are you're not full on god's word you ought to be poor today you ought
to be hungry for god's word i don't care who you are how many times you read the bible how much you
have it memorized how many sermons that you've heard you're not anywhere close to full and if
you think that you're full whoa unto you all right look at ezekiel 34 verse 1 and the word
of the lord came to me saying son of man prophesy against the shepherds of israel prophesy and say
to them thus say lord god and the shepherds whoa be to the shepherds of israel that do feed
themselves should not the shepherds feed the flocks you eat the fat and you clothe you with
the wool you kill them that are fed but you feed not the flock so here's the thing there's a lot of
pastors today there's a lot of men that are saved today and guess what they do know the bible
they have a lot of great truths they have you know learned a lot of these things
but instead of actually imparting that knowledge to other people
they start filling themselves with junk and then they start feeding the people with junk and they
stop preaching the bible you know if i go and ask you know pastors all kinds of different things
in the bible hey is this what the bible says about this yeah hey you know should you believe
in the death penalty yeah do you believe birth controls the sin yeah you believe the king james
bible is the only word of god and all the modern versions are wicked as hell yeah well then how
can we never preach that yeah do you think that people that don't hear the gospel or people that
you know believe a false gospel are going to hell yeah well how can we never preach on hell
well here's the thing they're so full on the bible they're so apathetic towards the things
of god that they start reading commentary and they just listen to fox news all day and they just
listen to all the world today and they get all their sermon ideas from their own buddies today
so then when they stand behind the pulpit you know it comes out that junk because they're so
full on that junk today and they think i don't need the bible i got that it's wicked
what would you that are full today and you know what you're gonna hunger
look at verse four the disease have you not strengthened neither you healed that which was
sick neither you bound up that which was broken neither you brought again that which was driven
away neither have you sought that which was lost but with force and with cruelty have you ruled
them and they were scattered because there's no shepherd and they became meat to all the beasts
of the field when they were scattered my sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every
high hill yea my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth and none did search or seek
after them why because the shepherds they're so full and fat and lazy they don't actually go seek
anybody out look at verse seven therefore you shepherds hear the word of the lord as i live
saith the lord god surely because my flock became a prey and my flock became meat to every beast of
the field because there was no shepherd neither did my shepherd search for my flock notice this
but the shepherds fed themselves and fed not my flock so they're fine just sitting at home feeding
themselves and gorging themselves but you know what they don't care to actually go out and care
for other people and seek for the lost and to help people and to minister unto people why because
they're so full today they're so full on the word of god and they look at the world they're like oh
it's the laodicean age you're the one that's the laodicean yeah right you're the one that's
apathetic and a pathetic loser if you think oh it's a little teenage look you're the one that's
supposed to go out and feed them you know why it's laodicean age is because you're a laodicean
baptist you're lazy that's why and you know why they got lazy because they're so full
usually full of lies look at verse nine therefore you shepherds hear the word of the lord thus saith
the lord god behold it's the shepherds and i will require my flock at their hand and cause them to
cease from feeding the flock neither shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore for i will
deliver my flock from their mouth that they may not be meat for them he says hey guess what now
you're gonna be hungry i'm gonna cast you out i'm gonna take your flock from you and you know what
these bads today these independent bads today that are gonna stop preaching the bible they're
not gonna repent they're not gonna turn back from it guess what god's gonna take the flock out of
their hand woe unto them you know what it doesn't i don't care what independent baptists you are
i don't care what friends you have i don't care what movement you're in i don't care what area
you are in if you start preaching the word of god the way it's supposed to be preached people will
come you really think that there's going to be somebody out there that's just tearing it up
that's like the greatest preacher out there and nobody wants to hear nobody's going to come god's
not going to send them of course not i don't care who you are i don't care what friends you have
i don't care who your sending pastor was i don't care that i don't care if you have 10 bible
colleges you know degrees it doesn't matter or if you have none it does not matter what matters is
that you preach the word of god and you know what no matter who my sending pastor is no matter who
my friends are no matter what movement or anything that i'm associated with is that doesn't matter
if i just sit up here and preach lies you know what's going to happen my church is going to be
filled with idiots and morons and flat earthers and railers and the church is going to be really
unhealthy and eventually they'll just crumble and cripple and die i have to still preach the word
of god every single sunday every single sunday night every single wednesday i have to constantly
feed the flock or god's going to take it away from me just like he should every pastor and he will
i have not just get so full of myself so full of lies so full of all kinds of other junk i need to
keep filling myself with god's word i need to be hungry for god's righteousness and god's word and
then feeding the people that right just like every pastor wants to these pastors though they're so
full of the commentary the television how can you be full of god's word it's the unsearchable riches
you don't know what the bible says don't come look i there's pastors they've been pastoring
for decades and you could probably stump them with all kinds of things in the bible because
you forget it i don't care how many times you've read it i don't care how many times you studied it
and oftentimes even things that you remember there's somehow it's a little wrong there's
a little off or you go read the context you're like oh yeah i forgot about this person or i
didn't see that before i looked at a new context look you can't stop learning every time i read
the bible i feel like i learned way more than the last time i read it not less i'm not reading the
bible and thinking like i mean i already got all these things every time though i feel like i
learned more every single time every single time way more and you know what i don't think that's
going to stop there's so many things in the bible that i read and i think to myself i would love to
know what that means and i'm gonna have to study the bible so much more to finally figure out what
that even means like there's certain sections of the bible i think i know i would have to devote
so much time and so much energy to probably understand that and i don't have that time right
now you know what i'm never gonna get to the place where i'm just like oh i good i didn't care if you
had the whole bible memorized you would still be learning it you would still be growing in it we
ought never get full of the bible today we ever never we ought not think i know all the stories
and i know all the things you know i asked a men's preaching class i said can anybody in this room
tell me anything about the book of obadiah you know i got crickets
you want me to just keep playing that game here's the thing you're not full my friend
and you need to come to church and realize how not full you really are
so that you can hey i need to get some more bible in my life i ain't start reading the bible a
little bit more you know and when you start getting full on the wrong things you start
getting into bad things good ezekiel 16 just ask david about that one oh i i'm done battling
i'm done going out to war so i'm just gonna go hang out on my rooftop and look at things that
i shouldn't be looking at like basheba taking a bath and then he gets into adultery doesn't he
you say hey why do these pastors they just destroy themselves well
they're so full on the bible so they have to go find something else
oh i don't need bible i need basheba bad idea my friend you need you need the bible
oh i need to find something to do with my time it's called the bible if you're a pastor i mean
come on memorize more of it you don't have that much memorized there's very few pastors that have
very much of the bible memorized it's sad ezekiel 16 look at verse 48 as i live say the
lord god saw to my sister hath not done nor she nor her daughters as thou was done thou my
daughters behold this was the iniquity of thy sister saw it and pride notice this fullness of
bread and abundance of idleness you want to see those things connected it's right here was in her
and in her daughters neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy look at verse
50 and they were hottie and committed abomination before me therefore i took them away as i saw good
you say why are you worried about america pride fullness of bread abundance of idleness
hottie committed abomination i mean we're we're we're the next side of the war my friend
and notice why are they so apathetic to the things of god
why why is apathy just a curse on this nation because of fullness of bread because they're
just so full today they don't need god you know you look at the what's the like hungriest country
on the planet africa you know what they're seeking god now granted they have a zeal of god
not according to the knowledge you know what they're a lot hungrier for god they're a lot
hungry for the truth you want to find some receptive people to the gospel try africa
these people want the gospel they want to be saved they want to know the truth they want god
and unfortunately they have a million liars going around just deceiving them and taking advantage of
them and putting on a show and you know for a pretense making long prayers just all this junk
that they're doing and we need some of god's people decide hey i want to go there and get some
people saved but here's the thing we as god's people oftentimes we're just so dang full the
thought of even getting out of our own house to come to church in the morning is too dreadful
let alone to go across the country and preach the gospel why because you're just so full you're just
so full on all this junk and all these lies on all kinds of deception on the deceitfulness of riches
today and then you get carried away with bass shiba you just want to watch bass shiba on the
tv don't you and bass shiba at the movie house and bass shiba on the magazine rack and you just want
to go find something else to do because you're just so full today hey if you'd be a little bit
hungrier maybe you'd start changing your life a little bit go to jeremiah five jeremiah chapter
five it's sickening today all these people they go to a church of lies even why because
they don't want any truth they're full they show up to church full so all they want is just a
starbucks coffee they just want dessert they want their treat they want their happy meal you know
play place they don't even want any bible preaching they just want to go and just
whoa yeah 15 minutes of just like you're awesome y'all are amazing god loves you
keep keep going we're so full vote trump it's like good night
jeremiah five look there's four therefore i said surely these are poor they are foolish for they
know not the way of the lord nor the judgment of their god i will get me unto the great men
and will speak unto them for they have known the way of the lord and the judgment of their god
but these have all together broken the oak and burst the bonds now let me make it clear because
i just want i don't want you to be confused when he says surely these are poor these people are
filthy rich they have plenty of money he's not talking about money here verse six wherefore a
lion out of the forest shall slay them and a wolf of the evening shall spoil them a leopard shall
watch over their cities everyone that goes out then shall be torn in pieces because their
transgressions are many and their backslidings are increased how should i pardon thee for this
thy children have forsaken me and sworn by them there are no gods when i had fed them to the full
they then committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops into harlot's houses
here's a sad reality when god blesses you and god makes you full oftentimes you start denying him
oh let's go hang out the harlots now let's go hang out with the hookers today
hey father give me all of my inheritance now and then what do you do just waste is on riotous
living and harlots look at verse eight they were as fed horses in the morning everyone made after
his neighbor's wife shall i not visit for these things saith the lord and shall not my soul be
avenged on such a nation as this look they're apathetic to god's commandments they're apathetic
to seeking god why because they're just so full they've got their gullet full so they think well
what are we going to do now well let's just commit abomination let's just commit adultery let's just
go commit all kinds of wicked sin today they're not relying on god anymore i'm full why do i need
god money is their god their belly is their god and as long as their belly is full they don't need
god they don't have room for god what does it mean to be full it's completely contained there's
no extra space they show up to church and they're full today they're good they don't need anything
so let's just go commit all kinds of sin and wickedness and filth and smut today
go to roman seven apathy apathy is a disgusting problem that we have in america you say why because
we're so full romans chapter seven look at verse 14 now let me explain a few things for you okay
because at the end of the day you have two versions of yourself in a sense because the
bible talks about you having the old man and having the new man that old man is your flesh
it's your mind it's your brain it's your physical heart it's your physical stomach
it's your physical body and your flesh in most cases unfortunately rules your life
if you start feeling physical pain you're at the hospital hey if your stomach starts hurting
you're grabbing food hey if your brain is bored you're going to fill it with all kinds of
entertainment just whatever the flesh says and wants you're just like yes sir yes master yes
please can i do more yeah and there's a struggle there's a struggle with that new man and the
struggle with that old man and you know false teachers and false prophets and and wicked
deceivers they don't really teach this distinction so they just say oh you need to get delivered from
that you're not going to be delivered from that until you die that's how you get delivered your
deliverance is death okay so what you have to do is you have to daily crucify that flesh you have
to daily die to that old man and you have to pick up your cross and you have to walk in the spirit
you have to walk in the new man you know what this takes effort desire through desire a man
having separated himself seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom is what the bible says it takes
desire but if you're so apathetic you're not going to do it let me give you this struggle it says in
verse 14 we know the law is spiritual but i am carnal sold understand that which i do i allow not
for what i would that do i not but what i hate that do i the reality is the apostle paul he
said hey there's things that i hate there's things that i would never allow someone else to do and i
find myself doing them i find myself struggling with them because i realize i'm carnal verse 16
if then i do that which i would not i can send the law that it is good now then there's no more i
that do it but sin that dwelleth in me i for i know that in me that is my flesh dwelleth no good
thing for the will is present with me but how to perform that which is good i find not for the good
that i would i do not but the evil which i would not that i do so he's saying hey i woke up this
morning and i thought bible and you know what i did i grabbed orange juice i grabbed the cereal
you know i did i grabbed the newspaper i grabbed the facebook feed i grabbed the twitter feed
hey i just watched youtube hey i just slept in i just satisfied the flesh and he was like
i wanted to do this but i ended up doing this he says in verse 22 for i delight in the law of god
after the inward man but i see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and
bringing me into captivity the law of sin which is my members oh wretched man that i am who shall
deliver me from the body of this death he's saying hey my flesh is wicked my flesh is evil there's no
good thing in it and it's constantly warring again there's a constant struggle there's a constant
fight go back to chapter six but here's the problem in that battle whoever you feed the
other one's going to starve if you feed your flesh to the fool
you're not going to want to do the spiritual things
you're going to be your spirit is going to be starving it's going to be dying it's going to
be grieved you know what if you satisfy the spirit you know it's going to be grieved that flesh and
that's the reason why people don't want to do it because you can't have both you can't fill the
flesh and the spirit today you can't be full on both sides of the equation you have to decide you
know what i want to fill the spirit i want to i want to walk in the spirit and that means i have
to say no to the flesh you say well pastor shelly that doesn't sound like fun well your flesh is
saying that all day long but you know who's saying yes that spirit man that new man inside you look
at roman chapter 6 verse 12 let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey it
and the lust thereof neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin
but yield yourselves unto god as those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments
of righteousness unto god for sin shall not have dominion over you for you're not under the law but
under grace what then shall we sin because we are not on the law but under grace god forbid
oh you mean i can do whatever i want go to heaven yeah should you do that god forbid
no you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey
his servants you are to whom you obey notice this whether of sin unto death or of obedience
unto righteousness who are you obeying today who is your master today who are you full of today
look at verse 17 but god be thanked that ye were the servants of sin that you've obeyed from the
heart that form of doctrine which is delivered you being then made free from sin you became the
servants of righteousness now look you have the opportunity to choose who you serve today as for
me and my house we will serve the lord that's what we're going to do we're going to deny the flesh
we're going to put it down and what you need is to buckle up your flesh for a moment how many of
you say oh i love truth i'm seeking truth i'm hungry for truth today say oh man i just me
pastor shelly i'm just so hungry for truth today okay well here's another question how many of you
ate breakfast this morning okay how many of you read your bible this morning oh i just love to
eat food today which one were you hungry for which one was more important today oh it's just
i'm just so hungry for this for the truth are you how many people are coming to church tonight
yeah how hungry are you oh i'm just so hungry pastor shelly when are you going sewing this week
how hungry are you yeah because you know what i know that every single one of you
if you didn't eat monday and tuesday and wednesday and wednesday nights rolling around
and the only place open was i hop i'd see all of you there
you'd be filling your gullet you know even if it's two hours away
no food try it try no food monday tuesday wednesday and you'll be calling me pastor
shelly right i'll eat anything the prodigal son he's eating the husks with the swine
you don't know how how hunger affects you but here's my question how hungry is your spiritual
man today you say well i felt like it was hungry you know the problem is you keep filling the flesh
today you're so full on the flesh today that you don't desire god you're so apathetic and it
destroys christianity when everybody's just so full on the flesh today and we live in a country
where it's a smorgasbord i mean it's just a buffet of just whatever you want any pleasures
any things that you can possibly desire and that's what people are constantly doing
they're just filling themselves you know what jesus said whoa and you that are full
people are just throwing themselves on cheap entertainment so then they don't want church hey
if you throw all the entertainment in the trash throw your tv in the trash throw all the movies
in the trash throw all the trashy magazines in the trash stop doing all the cheap garbage
entertainment you know what i can't wait to go to church on wednesday night yeah because i didn't
fill myself up with junk i'm not going to see my wicked friends at the bar every night so you know
what i want to see my friends at church i'm desiring things of god today
how about your prayer life who do you talk to the most how hungry are you
do you read your bible or do you just watch youtube and facebook and
you know who are you spending your time with this is hardcore pastor shelley well you know what the
flesh the flesh man right now is getting beat the crap out of him you know what your spiritual
man inside is saying hit him again go to james four because you know what all this week your
flesh didn't get beat up you had to come to church to get your flesh beat in a little bit
and that spiritual man he said stand on the chair again yeah whoa james four verse four
he adulterers and adulteresses know you're not that friendship of the world is entity with god
therefore who's really the friend of the world is the enemy of god
you're just you're just so full today i wonder why people left jesus preaching
go to romans chapter 8 romans chapter 8 john chapter 6 it is the spirit that quickeneth
the flesh profiteth nothing matthew 26 but the flesh is weak says the spirit's willing
the flesh is weak hey my new man wants to come to church my new man wants to read the bible my new
man wants to go soul winning but that flesh of yours he's so weak because he's so full and junk
today matthew 14 watching and prayless the inner temptation the true the spirit truly is ready
the flesh is weak ephesians 5 14 wherefore he saith awake thou that sleepest and arise from
the dead i want your spirit man to actually wake up it's not being so apathetic why don't you get
a little hunger and that spirit man romans 7 he says that in my flesh dwells no good thing
we're just taken to the flesh all right romans 8 1 there is therefore no condemnation of them
which are in christ jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit you know who's
not offended by this preaching people walk in the spirit look at verse four
that the righteousness of the law might be filled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the
spirit look at verse five for they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh
but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit the bible's clear what we have to do
look at verse eight so then they that are in the flesh cannot please god
he is so full of the flesh today is god pleased with you no look at verse nine
but you're not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be the spirit of god dwell in you now if any
man have not the spirit of christ he is none of his verse 12 therefore brethren we are debtors
not to the flesh to live after the flesh verse 13 for if you live after the flesh you shall die
but if you through the spirit notice this do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall
live what we need people to do today is they need to quit feeding that flesh
quit getting so full on the flesh today mortify that flesh why can't you be hungry today
go to hebrews chapter four
i even thought about you know when i was you know preparing this message
i thought this is hardcore i don't want to preach this and then you know my first thought
was spare not yeah lift of thy voice like a trumpet you know what sparing not means hey
this is going to hurt a little bit but i'm still going to do it anyways
you know what i'm only hurting your flesh and it profits nothing anyways
who cares about that man that man's gonna die it's your spirit your spirit in there's just like yeah
come on hit him again let's go it's a war today and you know who wins most people they hear a
sermon like this their spirit man's like whoa and then as soon as the church is over you know that
that flesh man just goes lunch you walk outside and it's just like he's just like lunch and then
what happens after lunch you get tired and apathetic oh soul winning oh look i'm trying
to beat the crap out of that flesh so he'll think about you know hitting spirit look where else are
you gonna get your flesh beat up nowhere people for you know six days a week they're just letting
the flesh just wreak havoc they need a little bit of reverse beating here i need someone on
their side hebrews 4 12 for the word of god is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged
sword piercing even dividing the center soul and spirit and to the joints of moral and is
a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart hey you call me lord but do you do the
things that i say go to deuteronomy chapter 8 deuteronomy chapter 8
you know what makes me angry apathy
they're just so full on other things and you know god warned about this over and over and over
deuteronomy chapter 8 leaguer's vibe thou shalt also consider in thine heart that is a man
chasing to the sun so the lord thy god chasing of thee therefore thou shalt keep the commandments
of the lord thy god to walk in his ways and to fear him for the lord thy god bringeth thee into
a good land a land of brooks of water of fountains and depths that spring out the valleys and hills
a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates a land of oil
oil olive and honey a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness thou shalt not lack
anything in it a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest dig grass
when thou hast eaten notice this and art full then thou shalt bless the lord thy god for the
good land which he hath given thee beware that thou forget not the lord thy god and not keeping
his commandments and his judgments and his statutes which i commanded this day lest when
thou hast eaten and art full and has built goodly houses and dwelt therein and when thy herds and
thy flocks multiply and thy silver and gold is multiplied and all that thou has is multiplied
then thy heart be lifted up and now forget the lord thy god which brought thee forth out of the
land of egypt from the house of bondage pastor show has so much money and my house is just so
nice and i just have all these great things today i mean i'm just living it up well you know what
that's a blessing but where beware that's going to cause you to forget god to forget his commandments
to forget serving him i mean i get so sick and tired of wanting to show somebody something in
the bible hey going to church i don't care how can the god of the universe the creator of the
heavens and the earth who formed thee and your mother's womb fearfully and wonderfully were you
made he fashioned together all your members perfectly he gave you the breath of life he
gave you all kinds of wonderful blessings in this world he gave you the power to get wealth
he sent his son down here to die on the cross for all of your sins a crown of thorns was shoved
upon his head he was spit upon and bruised and beaten and climbed himself on that tree
and died and tasted death for every man and he split hell wide open for three days and three
nights and he rose again hey do you want to hear about jesus i don't care you're pathetic
yeah he gives you the bible you just don't want to hear it oh going to church is so hard
and you're the boss what did god do for you oh i'm just so full on all this vanity and lies today
because you let me tell you what all the other stuff you're full on is vanity and lies
vanity and vanity you say at the preacher all is vanity god puts you on this earth to serve him
and to worship him i didn't know that was an inconvenience to you all that god did for you
can you imagine your little your little child looking at you
you're like hey let's hang out i'm good
what do you mean you're good i gave you a roof i feed you i take care of you i changed all your
diapers nap don't want it no thanks who are you to come and ask me to do anything of you
that's how most people treat god today they're so stuffed with a bunch of junk today they don't
have any time for god go view into matthew chapter seven
bible says blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be
filled your attitude should be i'm never full the people's attitude says that they're full
they're apathetic the people that say i can never attain be holy even as your father you
know be be perfect even as your father which in heaven is perfect i i'm not going to attain to
that i'm not going to get there paul says hey i haven't apprehended he keeps pressing towards
the mark he wants to know christ he's not full he's hungry he's hungry for it that's why he keeps
fighting the people that are full they're going to quit church they're going to quit on god
they're going to deny god they're not interested in god because they're just
going to keep feeding that flesh and their flesh is going to just beat them into the grave
i love them to love me and those that seek me early shall find me you know who's going
to find god today those that want to if you seek me and find me when you'll search for me
with all your heart the full people aren't going to stumble across god
matthew seven look at verse six give not that which is holy unto the dogs neither cast your
pearls before swine lest they trample them on their feet and turn again to rend you
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 in that knocker that shall be opened
for what man if there is you whom his if he ask his son bread will they give him a stone
look if you want to hunger for god ask him for it you know but today christians are so
full on kanye west music they don't want the bible
this loser he's literally at joel osteen's church playing dj there's a video of him he's just got
the turntables it's not even pseudo christian music it's just like and everybody's just dancing
nightclub it's dark it's like he's trolling christians look i can set up a nightclub in a
church it's like what in the world how did people not wake up they're so full
they're so full on kanye west
someone need to go in there and flip those turntables
now let me get i'm i'm done but i want to give you three things to chew on all right
how are you going to fix your apathy number one you need to stop eating junk
if i just go home on my way home okay for dinner with my wife if i stop and i just
get five big macs and chow down i'm not going to want dinner i'm going to be apathetic towards
dinner so you know how i get hungry for dinner i don't eat junk i don't eat anything else
stop filling yourself on mcdonald's and fruitcake spiritually
and then you get really hungry for church and god
number two stop looking at junk you know what causes you to desire things looking at them
when you see the billboards and you see the advertisement and you're thinking about it
and daydreaming it if you're daydreaming about the junk guess where you're going to find yourself
guess where you're going to find yourself at the junk
if you're daydreaming about church and the bible
and the things of god i know we're going to end up
and number three this is the most important force the right habits
now here's the thing if i try to just skip one of the three meals of the day
breakfast lunch or dinner doesn't matter which one you know what's going to do it's going to hurt
because i forced that habit upon myself because i miss it and there's nowhere the bible that says
eat three times a day you know some parts of the country they eat four times a day two times a day
one time that's just a habit that we're in you could change those habits okay physically speaking
or if you added a meal let's say you just add a meal let's add a midnight snack
some people might have already added this okay
if you start skipping that you know what's going to happen you're going to miss it
you're going to start wishing you're going to like oh man i want that midnight snack now or
i'm used to having that midnight snack well here's the thing if you start going to church
on sunday night and you start forcing yourself to do it eventually you know what happens when
you miss you'd be like oh man i actually wanted to go to church on sunday night you end up start
missing it hey if you read your bible daily and then all of a sudden you miss it on a day
and then all of a sudden you miss it on a day like man i feel like crud because i missed my
bible reading that day you know you don't miss things that you never had a habit for
you know what i'm never hungry for a restaurant i never tried
there's plenty of there's lots of restaurants i've never tried and you know what i'm not
thinking like i can't wait to eat there because i've never tried it now maybe if i fill myself
with the advertisement i could desire it okay but i'm just saying you don't desire things
you've never done you know who doesn't desire to go soul winning people that have never gone
soul winning you know people don't desire to go sunday church people that don't go to sunday
church you know people don't desire to go to wednesday night church people don't desire to
go into church if you don't do it you're never going to get the desire why don't you start
forcing yourself to have the right habits commit thy works unto the lord and all thy thoughts shall
be established what the bible says when you just start doing it you'll start building good habits
and you say hey every night i sit my kids down and we read some of the bible before they go to
bed and if i if i don't do it i end up missing it why don't you just start forcing yourself to have
the right habits and then guess what you'll start missing them and guess what if you're not hungry
if you're full stop eating let's close in prayer thank you father so much for your word thank you
for this great preaching that you gave us in luke chapter number six i pray that people would
realize that they're offended it's just their flesh talking and they should tell to shut up
but rather they need to feed that spirit and i pray that you could just give our church a great
hungering and a great thirsting for righteousness for god's word that people would decide they need
to stop filling the flesh they need to stop being full of junk and vanity and lies today
and rather purge themselves from these things and start forming new habits and start desiring
righteousness desiring god and wanting to serve god all the things that you've done for us sending
your son and the sacrifice and the love and the attention along suffering and the grace and the
mercy that you give us i pray would not be in vain today but i pray that we'd rather decide
we need to serve you in jesus name we pray amen