Amen okay so John chapter 7 I'd like to look at verse 24 which is a verse we're
going to focus on specifically so John chapter 7 and verse 24 which reads judge
not according to the appearance but judge righteous judgment and the title
of my sermon today is choosing jobs hobbies and entertainment choosing jobs
hobbies and entertainment so let's go to the Lord you know in a another quick
word of prayer father I thank you for your word I thank you thank you for this
church building thank you for all the people here please just fill me with
your spirit now please help me this just preach accurately boldly help me to
preach that the message that you've laid on my heart I feel you've laid on my
heart today and help people to just have understanding ears and hearts and I want
to apply this to their lives as well in Jesus' name we pray all this Amen
I got asked a question the other day while we're doing some of this work by
someone just asked me a question something that hadn't actually heard for
a long time I've been sort of surrounded by probably very like-minded believers
for a long time it was just someone who from a different church background had
asked this question as well and the question was what's the biblical view
or what's your view on things like fight sports and and it's something that you
know I thought actually that's probably a good shout for something that could
be talked about among other things because I've been asked recently people
ask questions about jobs and about other hobbies and if you think this is
okay what do you think about this sort of job so yeah it made me think well
yeah that's something that we need to preach about don't we something that
needs preaching people kind of have a few questions about these sorts of
things and there's a lot of bad teaching out there isn't there there's a lot of
there's a lot of funny sorts of teachers out there that make their own rules up
as they go along but we're to judge righteous judgment aren't we that's what
Jesus said here so it's something I want to talk about today and like I said
there are a lot of decisions that we make in life that aren't necessarily
black and white but it doesn't say thou shalt or thou shalt not in the Bible so
we make a judgment on it don't we and we have free will to make a judgment on
many things but especially in these areas of life I think this is a common
question a common thing jobs hobbies entertainment those sorts of things so
with that in mind let's have a look down at John chapter 7 and just see where
what's been going on here so says in verse 14 John 7 14 now about the midst
of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught okay so the Feast of
Tabernacles by the way is an eight-day feast so this is after four days and the
Jews marveled saying how knoweth this man letters having never learned Jesus
answered them and said my doctrine is not mine but his sent me if any man will
do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether
I speak of myself he that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory but he
that seeketh his glory that sent him the same is true and no one righteousness is
in him did not Moses give you the law and yet none of you keepeth the law why
go ye about to kill me so he's pointing out the hypocrisy here yeah the people
answered said now has a devil who goeth about to kill thee did you hear that
there they said thou has a devil they've just called Jesus Christ possessed
possessed with a devil to just let's just quickly just put that in context
what that means when someone says that if you turn over to Mark chapter 3 but
keep a finger there so they just said the people answered and said thou hast a
devil who goeth about to kill thee so Mark chapter 3 and from verse 28 Jesus
said this mark 3 28 verily I sound to you all sin shall be forgiven unto the
sons of men and blasphemies wherewithsoever they shall blaspheme but
he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness but is in
danger of eternal damnation because they said he hath an unclean spirit now just
so you understand this point here he's not saying right if you're saved and you
said this you lose your salvation you cannot lose your salvation verily verily
I stand to you he that believeth of me hath everlasting life you have everlasting
life the second you put your faith in Jesus Christ what he's saying here is
that people that people are able to be forgiven yeah people are able to be
forgiven through faith in Jesus Christ ultimately yeah up until their dying day
except for certain situations one of those situations is someone that has
blasphemed the Holy Spirit by calling Jesus Christ possessed is saying he has
a devil the second you're doing that you're given over to a reprobate mind
okay you are unable to be saved you are done it's you're done in dust it seems
if you're adding and removing words from the Bible same is obviously if you
change the truth of God into a lie etc and all those things which go along with
Romans 1 these are what we call reprobates okay reprobates and that's
someone that cannot be saved so he's not saying you can lose your salvation but
these people that we've just seen it over in John chapter 7 they're saying
that he has a devil so these are reprobates that he's talking to yeah
okay so we're going to reprobate here go back to John 7 and verse 21 where it
says Jesus answered and said unto them I have done one work in ye all marvel Moses
therefore gave unto you circumcision not because it is of Moses but of the
fathers in ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man if a man on the
Sabbath day received circumcision that the law of Moses should not be broken are
you angry at me because I've made a man every whit hole on the Sabbath day so
he's saying that where circumcision was done on the eighth day yeah I think most
people probably understand that you know the the Old Testament law there was a
child was to be circumcised on the eighth day eighth day now that would
often obviously there's a one in seven chance that that's going to fall on a
Saturday which was a Sabbath day when it fell on a Saturday they still
circumcised them that was a choice they made to do they still circumcised them
now keep a finger there and turn back to John 5 which is a person he's talking
about here the person that they're saying he healed he's referring to this
man from John chapter 5 again keep a finger there though we're going to John
5 and from verse 15 so he's just healed what's what's called an impotent or an
invalid basically okay he's just healed this guy and verse 15 says John 5 15 the
man departed told the Jews that it was Jesus which had made him whole and
therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus has sought to slay him because he had
done these things on the Sabbath day but Jesus answered them my father worketh
hitherto and I work therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him because he
not only had broken the Sabbath but said also that God was his father making
himself equal with God so basically how ridiculous that they want to kill him
for healing a man I mean it's absolutely ridiculous isn't it he's just
healed and invalid and they want to kill him but even more so considering where
we were that that was just a reference go back to where we were in John 7 it
said in verse 19 did not Moses give you the law and yet none of you keepeth the
law why go ye about to kill me so they had decided that circumcision on the
eighth day was okay that was their choice to mate they you know you they
think they've judged right judgment yet they're saying you can't heal a man on
the Sabbath day how absolutely bizarre isn't it absolutely bizarre but people
do this don't know they make their own rules up they decide what what they
think is okay and what isn't judge verse 24 where we were in John John 7 says he
said judge not according to the appearance but judge righteous judgment
so Jesus Christ says just basically say how ridiculous yeah how ridiculous that
I've just healed a guy and you're you want to kill me because I healed a guy
now obviously these are reprobates yeah but many people know they don't have to
be a reprobate to just get these sorts of areas completely wrong okay and that
like I said there's a lot of bad teacher there so how do we judge righteous
judgment when it comes to areas like work hobbies entertainment because
they're basically two sides of the scale with this if you've ever spoken to
either Christians or so-called Christians as we call them you've got
the liberal evangelical type the sort of the world is there for you to enjoy if
it feels good do it no no bother at all forget all those those rules and laws
and edges do what you like yeah do what you like you say it's grace man you're
in grace yeah so you've got that type then you've got the hypocritical make
your own rules type yeah the holier the now that we see in all areas of
Christianity and a lot of the time they're absolutely wicked yet they
still like to pretend they're not and make their own rules up okay and then
we've got everywhere in between yeah but we want to judge righteous judgment yeah
okay everyone here I hope you see you know I want to judge righteous judgment
I don't want to be influenced by this or influenced by that well how do we judge
what you started where does righteousness come from where does
righteous judgment come from the Word of God doesn't it yeah the Word of God
that's where it comes from the Word of God but like we said it's not always a
thou shalt and thou shalt not is that it's not always and I know some of you
here done this when you google what does the Bible say about yeah okay you're not
necessarily gonna get a clear verse in it are you you might get someone who
tries to claim it's a clear verse in it but it's not necessarily a clear verse
on it okay so what you do well what do I do about this because the Bible doesn't
even mention this what do I do about it well you know what you can do make sure
you read your Bible because the more you're in the Word of God the more
you're going to be able to judge righteous judgment the more you read the
Word of God and the more you live the Word of God as well yeah it's not like
I've said many times not just reading the Word of God now in the first area
that we want to know about this is choosing a job okay how about choose
your job because there are there are kids here they're gonna be choose your
job soon they're unemployed here I'm sure there are people that maybe you're
thinking about changing jobs so how do you choose a job which you think is okay
with God and a lot of I just need God's will I'll put the I'll put the fleece
out and see if it's got Jew on it oh you know I'll do something I'm you know
maybe God's gonna keep God just give me a sign you know and then you see it you
see a workable oh okay right that's it it's building yeah okay but is that is
that the way we really should do it no we just want to judge righteous shall we
have free will to choose a job yeah you will have free will okay but but what
sort of things well the first thing you need to do is strike off the clear
commanded no type of jobs yeah okay and there are some clear jobs that we
shouldn't do they doesn't say thou shalt not do this job but there are some
things that we shouldn't be doing aren't there in the Bible okay so first things
first let's turn to Proverbs 23 and many of you will probably know why we've
turning to Proverbs 23 some of you might not don't worry if you don't because
Proverbs 23 makes it clear that you cannot be getting a job that involves
alcoholic drinks okay you want to be nowhere near a job that involves
alcoholic drinks Proverbs 23 and from 29 verse 29 says who have woe who have
sorrow who have contentions who have babbling who have wounds without cause
who have redness of eyes they that tarry long at the wine they that go to seek
mixed wine look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth his color
in the cup when it moveth itself awry that means don't look at alcoholic wine
that means don't look at fermented grape juice that means don't look at any
fermented juice that means don't look at alcoholic drinks yeah that's pretty
clear wouldn't you say look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it
giveth his color in the cup when it moveth itself awry that means you can't
sell it that means you can't serve it because you can't do any of that without
looking at it can you okay and why would you want to why would you want to give
that to someone yeah why would you want to be involved in any sort of industry
where you're serving people up this poison in a bottle poison in a clark
glass poison in a in a can yeah it's horrible isn't it it wrecks lives it
ruins lives we all know it ruins lives why would you want to be involved in an
industry that does that okay and there are many industries that do this not
just okay well I can't be a bartender what about a way to a waitress at a
restaurant people get smashed when they drink meals I've seen it many times yeah
and there are many other places aren't there do you want to work in an off
license serving booze you want to work now okay you know some people would say
well should you really be working behind a checkout in a supermarket ringing
through the beers for people ringing through the vodka's and everything else
I would say no I don't think so and again if you if you think there's a
reason why you could justify it tell me I don't think I don't want to serve
alcohol I don't want to look at it I'm told not to even look at it well on to
thee that giveth his neighbor drink yeah what so why do I want to give any one
alcohol and get involved with that so that that crosses off quite a lot of
jobs doesn't it but isn't that good oh well yeah but but that's the only thing
my kids gonna get is a Saturday job will get them another to find something else
there are other things out there yeah so why why though why why is why not
alcohol it's not that bad is it yeah just you drink a little bit to get
relaxed you know there's responsible drinkers aren't there out there because
verse 32 says that the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an
adder but I know I shall behold strange women in thine heart shall utter
perverse sings yea thou shalt be and see that life down in the midst of the sea
whereas he that life upon the top of a mask they have stricken me shout thou
say and I was not sick they have beaten me and I felt it not when shall I awake
I will seek it yet again and that's the results of alcohol why do you want to
get involved with that rubbish I've been working here as you know this week and
I'll be doing some late nights here and doing some stuff in the car park and we
have a pub right across the road there don't we oh wow there's stuff I've seen
stuff I've heard people what I mean on one day we had a guy in the middle of
the day wander into the car park and I heard him and I think I want him I think
I might have I want him and I think I heard him went out and the guys about to
urinate just in our car park what you doing you caught me out what you mean I
caught you out we do oh you caught me out I was just gonna just gonna you know
go for a whatever and then and then it was all we do that's disgusting oh sorry
walks off yeah not long after you know next guy starts shouting something
across the road and they're outside you
outside there outside the pole you just think you wow like like I mean just
seeing that is reason enough yeah and another guy the other day we had some
broken chairs smashing them with a mallet why don't you give those to
charity instead of smash them up yeah so you're welcome to if you like what
you can rig them up yeah yeah I'll tell you what come and get them or you could
call them up they'll come and collect it you know you're like well how about you
call them up yeah I'll tell you what they're broken they're moldy but if you
want to go and then that's the end he's actually that was a holier than now
alcoholic yeah that's holier than now alcoholic outside apartment don't know
I mean that those I mean that part of it's got some characters isn't it but
but why would you want to get involved in anything that that the result is that
and so many like so many of those guys they probably started off as teenage
kids and their parents can hey well they can have a little drink oh it's all right
isn't it I'll buy you the beer yo you 15 now I'll buy at 16 or whatever it is
it's all I'll buy for you yeah yeah so you just have a bit of fun with your
mates and look at the state of them now they're the state of those guys yeah
they are like the picture of ill health aren't they and the rest that goes with
it so obviously we don't want to get involved in anything that that involves
alcohol Turner Proverbs chapter 12 Proverbs chapter 12 okay Proverbs 12 22
reads lying lips of abomination to the Lord but they that deal truly are his
delight see that again lying lips are abomination to the Lord but they that
deal truly is the light abomination is something he hates yeah he despises he
hates lying lips and let's be honest a lot of people lie a lot don't know a lot
of people it's just their reaction just lie just lie they're just the lies just
come out their mouth get them out of whatever it is trying to argue a point
or anything else lie lie lie well that means you don't want to be getting a job
where you need to be dishonest in that job where your boss wants you to be
dishonest where you can't not be dishonest you don't want to get a job
where you have to lie now that for me would cut out probably a lot of sales
type jobs not all of them but there's a lot of sales jobs where it's just
bare-faced lies isn't it well just tell them this just tell they're just lying
about their product lying about many things a lot of advertisement is just
lying isn't it yeah so again I'm not gonna listen there's not a job that you
can't do it but you need to judge righteous judgment don't ya yeah and you
need to be wise about that you don't want to get into a job invest a lot of
interest in something where there's a big chance you're gonna have to be
dishonest you're gonna have to be lying anything in in the news media is pretty
much ruled out then isn't it yeah anything in our lying mainstream media I
don't think you want to really be getting involved with any sort of job in
any form of government I think that pretty much rules out doesn't it as well
I mean you might find some that doesn't but I don't I think that's a lot of it
what but there are a lot of unscrupulous companies not just sales things like
that I mean I mean you think about it what about the guys that knock knock
around your house and start telling you oh you got a tile off on your roof you
know next thing you know it's a five grand bill or something else I'm not
saying you can't be a roofer but be aware of who you're working for as well
yeah you don't want to be working for people like that you don't want to be
there ripping people off being dishonest being told well don't tell them but
actually there was only a couple of chipped tiles but we're gonna tell it or
whatever it is that you want to make sure and when someone does it you need
to be saying no I'm not lying yeah make a stand like and obviously you could
think about a hundred different jobs and I hope people aren't in jobs right now
where they need to lie at times to keep their job or to impress their boss or
and if you are you need to cut out the long if you can't do that with that job
you need to find a new job don't you because it's an abomination to the Lord
lying lips of abomination not just our world lying look yeah we we've played it
down in our in our world now haven't we and I look I remember when I was growing
up I remember adults and whether obviously they were lying but they would
say I do not lie I'm you know my word is my bond yeah what I say don't you dare
cook people used to get really out don't you dare call me a lot you know don't I
will not I do not like people used to try and live like that yeah they used to
try now obviously they failed yeah yeah everyone's lied and they yeah but but
people tried yeah people had some they had some integrity about that when they
wanted to at least try their best not to be a liar nowadays it's just yeah
just lie I've heard Christians I've had people around this church before well
pastor can I just just just say this why don't you just say this to that but why
don't you just say this to that person your job or this and that why don't you
not why don't you could why don't you realize that the Bible says it's an
abomination you talk to people I've talked to Christians who you ask
something or talk to them or maybe you pull them up on something first things
a lie straight out of mouth like them get out of it like just automatic lie
that's wicked yes and you know when you're talking something you like look
we both know you're lying yeah I know you're lying you know you're lying but
I can't prove you're lying so we just have to play this game yeah we have to
play this game where we have to pretend that that you didn't lie because I can't
prove you're lying how frustrating is that but how many of us can do that yeah
every Chris is able to do that let's cut that and we want to make sure we're not
going into a job where you have to do that yeah it's abomination to the law
turn to 1st Corinthians 5 1st Corinthians chapter 5 from verse 11 so
obviously this is about people that that are not welcome in a church 1st
Corinthians 5 11 says but now I've written unto you not to keep company if
any man that is called a brother okay remember this is talking about Christians
be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an
extortioner with such and one know not to eat so if we're told not to keep
company and you're told that you're going to be kicked out the church if you
are one of those that rules out a few jobs there doesn't it as well for you
what about a railer again that's the news media out again isn't it so if
you're you know haha for what you see the news media is railing on someone or
some railing is always dishonest okay dishonest lies slander etc and what about
extortioner so we've talked about this before debt collectors now look it's not
that every debt collectors an extortioner but some are extorting
people aren't they some oh you know you you owed a few quid you couldn't pay it
and next thing you know they're adding on 500 pounds and sending people around
to remove your goods taking away your bed etc yeah okay it's wrong isn't it
yeah it's wrong what about what about like we said car clampers and again look
some people have like we have a private car park if we didn't have a gate there
you can imagine that would get pretty annoying wouldn't it because there would
be people parking it South End it seems you have to pay for parking until
midnight on a Sunday or something I mean it's absolutely ridiculous running but
but look yeah maybe we're clamped someone maybe it'd be worth getting a
camping company and but I wouldn't be getting a camping company that's charging
them 500 600 thousand pounds how about look signs up and a clamp for and giving
them like a reasonable release maybe the price of double parking for the day or
something like that and tell them look just don't do it because that's what
you got to do I don't know so but look there are sometimes reasons for it but
there's a big difference between that and some of those firms which are
literally they're tying away your car because you've parked in the wrong place
and didn't read the sign people that are just giving you these huge bills because
you didn't see the small print that said that you couldn't stop there for longer
than 10 minutes I mean that's just extortion isn't it and a lot of time
it's dishonest as well at the same time isn't it and and look with that
extortion or covetousness there's a lot of like loan type companies some of the
finance industry is wicked isn't it yeah and again you need to be making
sure that the company you're working for that you're not having to do any of that
sort of stuff and do you should do some due diligence shouldn't you and I know
you're starting to think this is kind of narrowing down can I even get a job
self-employed that's about it isn't it well I'm not saying that but you should
at least do some diligence shouldn't you okay look okay some look I'm not saying
they're not going to be dishonest yeah most people sadly are aren't they yeah
but you want to make sure you don't have to in your place of work yeah there's
nothing that you're doing which is partaking in any of these sorts of sins
obvious no-brainers would be nothing to do in the abortion clinic yeah obvious
Lee yeah nothing to do with that industry at all thou shalt not kill okay
it's murder plain and simple life starts at conception we don't have to go into a
study to prove that today it's clear as day in the Bible is it not anyone who's
unsure about that then please you're happy to talk to you after obviously
nothing to do with that but it is a contentious one okay say you let's give
a recent example say you lived in Cambodia yeah during the reign of Pol
Pot anyone anyone not aware of who that is actually no one's gonna want to put
their hand oh yeah yeah no exactly okay so basically this was like a wicked
Marxist dictator you're talking about you know massive murders and and this is
a wicked wicked person and his army was a wicked army okay now say say you live
during that period you're a Christian we're joining his army have been okay
would that been all right no okay so he's he's he's going around murdering
people that you know I think I don't think this is just based on our news
media I think it's pretty common knowledge that was a wicked regime okay
no our wicked regime and you could think about many wicked regimes throughout
history now you might be a Christian already in the army okay and then you
know we'll talk about that in a minute but say would you just join that no okay
how about you were saved in oh say you're saved in modern-day false Israel
okay and say you're saved in Israel and you're you you now think yeah well I
wouldn't mind and you're not maybe you'll be on conscription I think they
can they make them they make them join don't they do military service but say
you choose you decide okay I'm gonna join the army and start shooting
Palestinians at throw stones and you know and and I'm gonna start displacing
people out of homes because we've decided we said would that be okay you
know it would be okay I don't think that would be okay I don't think that would
be an okay job okay so I think everyone agrees with that what's your tipping
point then for the military what's your tipping point because what about what
about our military here oh fine upstanding people give me a poppy now
give me a poppy to show my support for our UK military well what about if
you're in Iraq and you're responsible for the murder of about a million Iraqi
children and families is that okay if you know you know the politics of it and
I don't think you have you don't have to be the brain of Britain do you to
realize that that was just basically grabbing land this taking over an
economy taking over a nation with some blatant lies about weapons of mass
destruction I mean I don't think this is even open for debate anymore is it
people just accept it and just oh yeah just forget that you know brush that one
under the carpet you know but but they must be telling the truth about other
wars yeah well say what about half the rest of the ones they claim weapons of
mass structure the rest of it so would that be okay because when you're joining
that you're basically part of that aren't you and now you're being oh well
it's warfare is it really warfare though is it warfare when you just invade a
country it's no threat to yours okay sometimes that in an army you're gonna
have to fight but look when you look you want to at least do some due diligence
about what you're joining don't you for me that's what I think now turn to Luke
chapter 3 I would say bombing Iraqi chill women and children that's just a
recent example cuz I don't think there's any debate about the lies that sent
people there and the amount of innocent civilians have got killed I would say
just because you got a uniform on with either a Union Jack on it or any other
Western nation flag I don't think that makes it okay Luke 3 and verse 10 they're
getting saved yeah baptized by John he's telling them to live right okay so
they're getting saved and baptized he's telling them how they should live how
they should go on and live for God now what if you're already in the military
yeah what if you're already in the military and you're asked to do these
things what if you get saved and you're in the military so what you do well
sometimes it's not so easy though is it sometimes you know you're on you're on a
contract and things like that you have some problems that well stay in it if
you can do it without sinning I'm not saying look if you could if you think
you can do a job in the military maybe you can maybe transfer to a different
regiment or something else but you feel that you can do that job without sinning
then look sure but we shouldn't be aiming to sin should we we shouldn't be
say oh well it doesn't matter I'm already there now what did Jesus say or
at least John here sorry and the people asked him saying what shall we do then
Luke 3 verse 10 he answered the saith unto them he that hath two coats let him
impart to him that hath none and he that hath me let him do likewise then came
also publicans be baptized and said unto him master what shall we do now these
were tax collectors what's he say to them and he sent them exact no more than
that which is appointed you so no more extortion yeah don't extort people you
stay in a job and not extort people go ahead look there's taxes is taxes wicked
Joseph implemented taxes didn't he okay I don't think taxes themselves are
wicked it's how you go about collecting what they do with them and everything
else it's wicked isn't it okay verse 14 the soldiers likewise demanded of him
saying and what shall we do and he said unto them do violence to no man neither
accuse any falsely and be content with your wages okay now when it says do
violence to no man all right well they can't fight no violence if you turn to
Genesis 6 let's have a quick look at this Genesis chapter 6 and from verse 9
Genesis 6 9 says these are the generations of Noah Noah was a just man
and perfect in his generations and Noah walked with God and Noah begat three
sons Shem Ham and Japheth the earth also was corrupt before God in the earth was
filled with violence and God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt for
all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth and God said unto Noah the end of
all flesh has come before me for the earth is filled with violence through
them and behold I will destroy them with the earth okay is he going to destroy
them because maybe they're I don't know they're they're having play fights too
much maybe they're you know maybe a few people have gone around and slapped
some around the face or something else no he's talking about wickedness okay
violence that's the first use of word in the Bible it was so wicked that he
destroyed him and bear in mind he commands his children as the children of
Israel to go out and kill many nations okay so it's all well I'll go to war
he's right he's talking about like wicked voice talking about all sorts of
filth and disgusting and horrible things that's that's the usage of the word
violence here it's not say like the world use it now that any things that's
not just complete passive and never saying boo to a goose okay so back where
we were it was the violence caused God to destroy the world with a flood to
destroy everything in it behind the people in the arm that's the sort of
violence he said do violence to no man neither accuse any falsely and be
content with your wages because of course the pacifists love to go to this
as if like you you can't you know you can never defend yourself or anything
else well he's in he's in the army so he's saying don't basically go around
abusing people beating them doing wicked things because you have the power of
being in the army now or being a soldier now like I said obvious exceptions would
be actual warfare wouldn't they okay actual warfare against other trained
soldiers okay I don't consider that for me like otherwise it goes against things
like Roman 13 and other things that's not murder okay that's not murder we
kind of around is killing innocent civilians is okay he said do violence to
no man neither accuse any falsely and be content with your wages so don't force
the accused again that rules out most of you the UK's military campaigns or at
least those that are involved in that part of it and they're falsely accusing
and everything else he's saying neither neither accuse any falsely and be
content with your wages so what's this about being content with your wages well
turn to 1st Timothy chapter 6 so you're saved you're in a job be content with
your wages 1st Timothy chapter 6 now while you're turning I'm gonna read
Matthew 6 24 which says no man can serve two masters for either he will hate the
one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other
you cannot serve God and mammon so looking for a job that will provide for
your family is sensible isn't it yeah that's sensible thing oh well I better
go and get the lowest paid job so I'm not focusing on money no look you want
to be able to provide for your family provide for yourself provide for
whoever it is whatever it is you need to you need to do but focusing on money is
where it goes wrong isn't it if your focus your your whole the top of your
list is right money which is a highest paid job you can have a problem aren't
you in life okay that's the problem and obviously when you're in a job and
you're being paid you need to you need to be content with your wages okay well
first Timothy 6 9 says but godliness with contentment is great gain for we
brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out and
having food and raiment let us be there with content we need to learn
contentment don't we yeah we need to learn contentment because many people
aren't content with that are they they're not content they want more they
want more and look once you start getting into that snare chasing money
it's never enough verse 9 but they that will be rich fall into temptation as
they're into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and
perdition so basically if you're obsessed if your goal is to be rich your
goal is to be richer they that will be rich you fall into temptation and a
snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and
perdition so like I said look yeah we need money to live don't we yeah you're
focusing on being rich the Bible says it's gonna go wrong for you okay and
that's the important thing to remember when we're raising our kids as well why
is that well verse 10 says for the love of money is a root of all evil which
while some coveted after they have heard from the faith and pierce themselves
through with many sorrows but thou a man of God flee these things and follow
after righteousness godliness faith love patience meekness the Bible's clear
isn't it about that yeah really clear about that yet how many people will
still be focusing money money money how do I get more money how do you really
need that money is it really going to make a difference your life I'll tell
you it will make a difference it will make a negative difference if that's
what you're seeking after that's what you're chasing after so looking for a
job obviously that doesn't need to be our focus so as long as a job isn't
obviously sinful yeah as long as we're not just focusing on money well how
about a job though because is that okay is that okay is that all well how about
a job that keeps you from church how about you choose a job you go for a job
your job prevents you going to church is that okay no Hebrews 12 24 says and let
us consider one another to provoke unto you'd have to turn everyone knows these
verses unto love unto good works not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together as a manner of summies but exhorting one another and so much the
more as you see the day approaching look the Bible is clear about that isn't it
we should not be forsaking the the assembling of ourselves together so if
your job does that you need to think either how you can change that job how
you can get a new job how you can do something with that job so that it
doesn't keep you from church otherwise you're in sin yeah and if you're
choosing a job that does that well you're out of God's will aren't you
straight away okay you're not going to be blessed for that you it's not going
to go well for you because God wants us in church it doesn't have to be this
church well everyone's got to find it look go to another church if you like as
long as it's a proper church as long as it's a proper church what about a job
that keeps you away from your family about that is that okay okay it doesn't
say thou shalt not get a job that will let's judge righteous judgment with that
turn to Proverbs chapter 4 more you turn now I'm gonna read Ephesians 6 4 which
says in you father's provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in
the nurture and admonition of the Lord that's father's having a hand in raising
their kids yeah okay clearly look at Proverbs chapter 4 and from verse 1
Proverbs 4 1 reads hear ye children the instruction of a father and attend to
no understanding for I give you good doctrine forsake ye not my law for I was
my father's son tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother he talked to
me also and said unto me let thine heart retain my words keep my
commandments and live so going off and working on an oil rig because it pays
you well oh well no because they got a little church group meeting now or
something else would it be okay would it yeah and look by the way that doesn't
mean right guys got look for a part-time job you got to look for a part-time job
on your doorstep because I see in the Bible I see 12-hour days yeah I see I
see basically every time they're talking about men going out and working they're
working 12-hour days I'm not saying okay man you gotta go and find 12-hour shift
jobs as well what I am saying is judge righteous judgment with that okay don't
look at that alright that's it now I need to okay part-time job as long as
you know as long as we have food arraignment but we don't have a roof
over our head and we don't have anything I'm saying just just get try and get
things right yeah if you can work and you can still raise your kids and you
have to maybe work a bit further you have to do some longer hours sometimes
but then maybe you get more time off maybe you give your whole weekends to
your family or something else but that can still work on it it's not that all
right I've got to be there every every day I've got to be there for breakfast
lunch dinner I've got to find a way to be home that's not what it's saying is
it but what it is saying is that fathers do have a have a responsibility to raise
their children as well and if you're just going for a job where you're
nowhere near you've just moving away or whatever else you know just just don't
even see your kids you're out of God's will as well aren't you and that for me
is not judging righteous judgment okay how about women working women working
wicked isn't it how evil well look yeah ultimately yeah the Bible teaches that
wives wives yeah especially I don't think they should be working look at a
turn of Titus 2 which is talking about the older women in the church being an
example to the younger so Titus 2 and from verse 4 Titus 2 4 says talk about
the older women teaching younger that they may teach the young women to be
sober to love their husbands to love their children to be discreet chaste
keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands at the word of God be not
blaspheme so this is obviously the ideal here isn't it yeah that's the ideal men
you need to be finding a way to provide for your wife like those that are
married or planning to get married to be providing for your wife to be providing
for your children for your wife to be a keeper at home for your wife to be able
to there to be there loving her children okay because look at the end of the day
are we loving our children we're just shoving them off to strangers to look
after it is that loving our children really is it loving our children when
when we see a minimal minimal time possible so we can have a bit extra cash
so I can you know be be the woman who's got this job because they keep asking
me what job I got and I just feel a bit insecure just being a mum a bit of mum
is an amazing thing yeah it is an amazing thing it is an honor it's a
glory it's something you should be really you should be proud of really
without using the word wrongly there but you should have some self-respect that
being a mum and being I'll tell you what being a stay-at-home mum yeah is is I
could never I could never do that job impossible for me I would be pulling my
hair out within I'm pulling my hair out within a few hours okay honestly yeah
it is so hard it's so difficult there's so many things that they're having to
deal with and look it's such an honor and a glory yet so poisoned in this
world to believe that you're somehow failing if you're a mum you're somehow a
failure because you're looking after your kids at home and you're trying to
teach him and trying to trying to be there for them and everything else look
they should be getting taught to love their children to be discreet chase
keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the word of God be not
blaspheme first Timothy turn there to first
Timothy 5 and this is talking about widows this is talking about widows who
aren't the older widows under 60 it's saying but the younger widows refuse
first Timothy 5 11 for when they have began to wax wanton against Christ they
will marry having damnation because they have cast off their first faith and with
all they learn to be idle wandering about from house to house and not only
idle but tackle is also a busybodies speaking things which they ought not I
will therefore that the younger women marry bear children guide the house give
none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully so he didn't say to him oh
yeah younger women you better go out and get a job yeah find someone family
friends something else schooling system etc look after the kids get out they get
working no he said find a husband find a husband get married and be a keeper at
home and that is the most honorable thing you could do as a lady okay that's
the best thing you do being God's will and be a great mum be a great mum be a
great wife okay and and young girls growing up here don't get poisoned by
the world that somehow we have I want to be this and my dream is to be that look
just just look look forward to being a mum yeah look forward to doing what God
wants you to do but but there are some women in different situations on there
are there there are some women that maybe they didn't get married or maybe
they're they're single maybe they're divorced maybe they don't have kids
maybe there's many many different types of situations so it's easy to just look
at the ideal but what do we do there oh well they've just got us you know they
got to stay at home on their own yeah and just somehow magic the money or
something well it doesn't always work does it the welfare systems that they
don't always work either and of course God had a different welfare system we
looked at that in a book of Roo well so what do they do what sort of job should
they be doing well they should be find a job where they can still love their
children okay so look it doesn't mean okay well now I've got to go out and
well we need more money because we need some better stuff I need it yeah a lot
of times people look oh well I need to justify the holiday yeah well my kids
need a holiday each year in you know in the in the Maldives yeah so that's why
I'm working long days long hours and and my unsaved mums looking after the kids
or whatever else is that loving your children no it's not is it now some
though might have to go to work well what should they do well I would say
try and make sure you don't have a married man as a boss yeah because why
you know husbands love their wives wise bid subjection to that own husbands yeah
okay you might not be a wife but you don't want to be subject to someone
else's husband okay cuz that's good that's a recipe for disaster isn't it I
would say they're good things to look at look at jobs again with the rest of the
list where you're not being forced to sin or anything else and try look at
jobs where you can find a way to still be there for your kids and sometimes not
gonna be easy is it because you need to provide and stuff there's now more jobs
we could work from home and other things like that there are things you
can do but again just judge righteous judgment yeah make sure you're not going
into sin make sure that you're still able to love your children that you're
still able to to do those things that God wants you to do and and look there's
not a rule for everyone with that is there but but again you got a look and
we're going to talk about it in a minute you got to look at it and you got to say
okay well is that really okay is that okay working for this guy I'm now his
personal secretary this married man and I'm with him eight hours a day is that
okay do you think that's a good job to be in no but there are women in the
Bible that do so we took it we talked about the maidens in the book of Ruth
and there are young women that do jobs and things like that I personally don't
want my my children I don't want my daughters out in the workplace okay
that's that's what I believe I believe I'm basically trained them up for
marriage so why am I then going to send them out to the wicked world I don't
want them doing that but if you decide you want to do that judge the righteous
judgment with that yeah make sure that you're putting them in a right man not
in it not in a dangerous place not a place where they're going to be
poisoned and they're going to have all sorts of guys all over them and the rest
of it yeah okay that's choosing a job choosing a hobby how about choosing a
hobby so this is after your work yeah and by the way that includes women at
home your your other responsibilities yeah this is after church soul-winning
Bible reading prayer family responsibilities after that yeah your
hobby doesn't come above any of that yeah okay now some then after all those
things still have a hobby is that a bad thing is it a bad thing to have a hobby
because there are those that oh well if it are you why aren't you just in the
Bible when you got free time why aren't you just you know everything's the
things of God well turn to 1st Timothy chapter 4 and while you turn now I'm
going to read Ecclesiastes 2 24 which says there is nothing better for a man
than that he should eat and drink and that he should make his soul enjoy good
in his labor this also I saw that it was from the hand of God
Ecclesiastes 3 13 says and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy
the good of all his labor it is a gift of God
Ecclesiastes 5 18 behold that which I have seen it is good and comely for one
to eat and to drink and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he taketh
under the Sun all the days of his life which God giveth him for it is his
portion now it's not necessarily a bad thing is it yeah if you can afford it if
you have the time if you're doing your other responsibilities you want to have
some time doing something that something else well it says here in the
Ecclesiastes 5 18 I know you haven't turned there but don't worry it says it
says and and to enjoy and it obviously talks about eating and drinking quite a
lot and be careful if you make that a real regular hobby yeah well that's my
hobby I just eat a drink all day yeah but it says here and to enjoy the good
of all his labor that he taketh under the Sun all the days of his life now
it's not necessarily a bad thing but sometimes sometimes it's actually a good
thing sometimes a hobby is actually a good thing can you believe that well
first Timothy 4 and verse 8 says for bodily exercise profit is little but
godliness is profitable under all things having promised of the life that now is
and of that which is to come now this verse if you notice you could say it in a
couple of ways can't you depends how you say you could say for bodily exercise
profit is little but godliness is profitable under all things or you could
say for bodily exercise profit is little but godliness is profitable under all
things okay either way you say it it still says that bodily exercise profits
a little doesn't it yeah bodily exercise profits a little and we live in a world
where the vast majority of jobs nowadays is sedentary jobs aren't they yeah the
jobs where you're not doing very much where a lot of jobs you're sitting there
I was talking to someone the other day who's saying that they're driving all
day they have to do bodily exercise because of how unhealthy it is and there
are many other jobs like that aren't there okay so we're not designed for
that really are we I mean the first first man and woman were tending a
garden okay and and I believe that you should be doing some form of exercise
now if your job is some form of exercise great if it's not for health
reasons I would try and do some form of exercise okay but doing some exercise
is completely different to obsessing over some exercise isn't it yeah
completely different to staring in the mirror all day every day going I need to
do more exercise because those two hours today weren't enough yeah now there's a
difference isn't there but there are there are there are sinful hobbies
aren't there we'll talk about them in a minute but sport for me sport you do
learn quite a lot from sport for kids I believe kids should do sport now again
I'm not going to go to a Bible verse this is from you know first opinions
chapter 1 verse 1 okay I I do believe that kids you should get your kids doing
sport why do I believe that your kids should do some sport because it's
character building because they learn about winning they learn about losing
they learn about teamwork they learn about many things like that because it
gets them healthy it gets them fitter because they get used to sometimes being
uncomfortable and feeling the pain and everything else and working through that
because you can you get so many lessons from that and anyone that's done sport
will know that but do we want to try and make our kids the next pro sportsman
well no look if they're able to grow I don't see many of those sorts of things
that are able to do that and not them being a world of sin and everything else
but do we want them to be healthy do we want them to be well-rounded
individuals yes now there's a balance isn't there but what's a sinful hobby
then what sports are sinful will turn a deuteronomy 22 how about something that
forces you to dress in a sinful way how about a sport that forces you to
cross-dress is that okay it's not is it unfortunately that rules out quite a lot
of sports for ladies and we're gonna look at for the men in a minute in a
minute as well do to honor me 22 5 says the woman shall not wear that which
pertaineth unto a man this is due to honor me 22 5 neither shall a man put
on a woman's garment for all that do so our abomination unto the Lord thy God
there's that's that word abomination again something he hates something he
despises so you could think about some cross-dressing hobbies couldn't you out
there cross-dressing hobbies which force women to dress like men now there are
there what it works other ways round as well obviously we talked before about
the caber tossing or whatever they call it I up in Scotland that's wicked yeah
men dressed in skirts throwing logs around like that is that's wicked isn't
it that's an abomination to God but in and as well what about pantomime is that
okay you're probably thinking what well that's it quite an old English tradition
yeah pantomime yeah people getting up on stage and prancing around like idiots
there's some guy dressing like a woman yeah it's wicked yeah it's disgusting
and by the way I used to see a bit of that when I was younger and and it leaves
you with our horror images in your mind still of these men in like lippy and the
rest of it and it's disgusting so obviously getting involved in pantomime
if anyone was thinking about it sorry if I'll just cut that out but you can maybe
be the back of the horse or something but you know just avoid the rest of it
yeah but what else is there well what about a lot of sports a lot of sports
for women yeah a lot of sports for women they have them dressed as men don't they
yeah dressed in trousers dressed in short stressed you know if there's God
say that's okay cuz it's sport oh no it's alright because it's sport you
cross dress because you're playing a sport well go play another sport go play
sport you don't have to do that and make a stand you take your kids to a class
make a stand there's nothing you can do that you know you can make a
stand I've done that before I've told you before I did that a gymnastics
class they back they told my daughter she was not allowed to do gymnastics
with a skort which is a skirt down to here and underneath the shorts to keep
her privacy she had leggings underneath as well no no just got to do it in the
leggings I said well she's not doing them in the leggings they said well well
it's dangerous health and safety health and safety apparently wearing a school
doing gymnastics and they got boys in there with shorts this wide big long
t-shirts oh no that's all right but a lady dressed as there or a young lady
dressed as a young lady no no it's dangerous dangerous so we left okay so
we left and that was that and and okay oh no she's not gonna be able to do
there's such a good cartwheel anymore Oh God's gonna be God's gonna be really
angry with me isn't he no he's not he's gonna say good on you you made a stand
I made it clear was making that stand when I did that they said to me well
we'll talk to whatever her name is because she's a Muslim she understand
she's standing in a pair of trousers so and then a pair of trousers which she's covering her
arms oh well that's all right you know I've been talking this so she's Jehovah's
Witness she knows a bit about this she's standing dressed as a man as well in a
pair of trousers well I try to be polite obviously but what are they gonna tell
you oh yeah go to go talk to the force the fake religions and everything else
no so look again make that choice but there are there are things they can do
what about swimming oh what about swimming but but and it is your kids
should learn to swim shouldn't they yeah I think it's quite quite a life skill
yeah it's quite safe to do if you can if you're able to yeah try and teach them
to swim what you do about young girls so because how do they get in the water
without basically showing all their thighs okay and thighs and nakedness
aren't they yeah the Bible's clear about that they have to turn to Exodus 28 42
says thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness from the loins
even unto the thighs they shall reach they shall be upon Aaron and upon and
upon his sons when they come into the tabernacle of the congregation or when
they come near unto the orders of minister in the holy place that they
bear not iniquity and die shall be a statute for forever unto them and his
seed after him okay the Bible's clear that thighs are nakedness okay so what
do we do about that then get him a swim skirt yeah my daughter goes swimming in
a swim skirt she goes to a swimming class and does lengths with other kids
in a swim skirt oh she looks so no she actually looks like she has some
decency yeah she doesn't look like she's got all or everything on shows
disgusting isn't it isn't it wicked but she goes if she swims in the swim skirt
you know what she keeps up with everyone else in a swim skirt oh she's not quite
so streamlined so what yeah so what bit she's pleasing God but he's looking down
and going how good of a faithful servant yeah you're listening to what I said and
you're doing it and look I'm not trying to say how great well we've got many
things when we'll continue to get many things wrong well I'm trying to give you
as an example that you can do it yeah you can do it you don't have you don't
have to just well bend to the world oh what might people say and if they had a
problem with this swim skirt I'll say see you later then yeah bye bye okay
we'll go somewhere else yeah who will take our money and and look you can't do
it yeah okay what about but but I'm sorry I'm picking on the women a bit
here because sadly it seems that the women and the kids are just you know I'll
just send your little girl out in next to nothing is that okay it's that okay
would it be okay she went down the shops like that was it okay because it's a
pool of water why is it okay when it's down oh well it's okay down the beach oh
well we've got to the beach so it's okay for her to have a bum out forever it's
disgusting isn't it isn't it whatever age and any of you mums here don't go
out dressed like that yeah dress properly and find something to put over
yourself because what you doing you just you're becoming a problem for other
people then as well okay but but what about men what men in your little short
short sports yeah short short sport they love a short short sport don't know
there's some old football clique the other day on YouTube wow those shorts
were sure yeah I thought there's more decency the old days but I mean they
were literally hot pants yeah it is it's disgusting and you're looking at
thinking how on earth did like who even just said that was a game people just
follow this stuff oh well that's normal look if you if your sport makes you have
short shorts stop the sport or find a way to have long shorts with it and you
can I've said many times before Muay Thai Thai boxing yeah they wear short
shorts they look queer so do it with a so I started doing it and coaching it
with long shorts on when people ask me I tell them why and it's a good
introduction to then talking preaching the gospel to him as well yeah okay so
they're just some obvious things there that I was thinking of and I'm sure you
could think of many many others yeah first Timothy 2 9 says if you're there
you could turn there just just in case you're wondering with that with the
women you're thinking well well it says you like man who also in first Timothy
2 9 that women adorn themselves in modest apparel with shame-facedness and
sobriety not with broidered hair or gold or pearls or cosy array so women should
have dawned themselves in modest apparel and that includes whether you're at the
swimming baths at the beach in the sports whatever it is and in the same
way shouldn't be cross-dressing yeah don't cross-dress the Bible God says
it's an abomination okay but also like I said with the men that means ditch the
speedos yeah any of you guys that like to go swimming in the speedos because
you save a split point one off your time of the length yeah ditch the speed
they're disgusting they're vile I don't think anyone here wear speeders I hope
anyway but like I said there's many other sports now here's another sport
like this is a question I got asked yeah and I heard this a lot so when I first
got saved I went to one of these churches where they were kind of liberal
in some areas but oh they really frowned upon fight sports you know the part of
the ex passing are when are you gonna give it up in because I actually said to
us well other people were just you know really a tie box fool whoa even maybe
you need to look to do something else why is that anyone anyone wonder why
that is well firstly with that you need to get the clothing right yeah so
obviously in any of those fight sports not okay if you're bearing your thighs
if you're dressing like a woman I don't think there's many fight sports you have
to dress like a woman but if you did yeah that wouldn't be right and same
with the same same with if a young lady decided a man thinks well I wanted to
learn a bit of self-defense or something well make sure she's not dressing like a
man to do it yeah okay but secondly is it religious that's a good question for
it because there are there are kung-fus and other things where they start going
on about magical Chi power and everything else yeah and they're you
know and there's all this Buddhist and New Age mysticism involved in it and by
the way that includes yoga anyone wondering about that yoga is wicked yeah
yoga is praying in all sorts of poses to snake gods and the real snake poses to
whatever weird God or higher power they're praying to it is wicked yeah do
Pilates do Pilates okay it's not spiritual it doesn't have any but if
you want to do that sort of thing you like stretching and like someone telling
you how to stretch go and do it don't do yoga yeah it's spiritual you're praying
to Devils okay you're getting prostrate to Devils okay cut that cut that out
okay okay but what about what about this what about the fight sports okay you
cut out okay it's not religious yeah you you've ticked that off okay I'm not
dressing like like like like you know like a woman okay if you're a man doing
it and let's be honest with fight we'll talk about that in a sec with fight
sports women as well okay then the question is but it's fighting but it's
fighting you're meant to be a Christian no it's not fighting it's a sport yeah
get that in your head it's a spool anyone who wonders is she sitting there
like look if if someone jumped up here wanted to fight me now I tell you the
last thing they would do we stop there get on some boxing gloves get some put
on their gum shield get on a groin guard yeah they're at the least yeah then get
our brother Alex you come and referee us here please as well because he's really
angry with me right now yeah so we need we need a referee I have the rescue
could you all judge it as well just in case it doesn't go to a finish and we
end up having to go to the judges scorecards yeah and then on top of that
guys I'm you know with that as well there's going to be certain things that
we can and can't do so you know by the Gary there he's really got the up with
me now so but okay no no biting no I got look that's not that's not a fight is it
that's agreed rules between two consenting people yeah with a load of
other parameters there it's a sport in the same way that when a rugby player
charges into someone lifts them up and slams them on the head on the floor yeah
it's not a fight they're playing a sport now yes some people in the fight might
lift someone up and stand them on the head and other people in a fight might
punch someone in the face or knee them or elbow them or whatever it is or maybe
choke them on the floor or something else yeah it's not a fight it's a sport
and it's amazing isn't it how people just get pulled in and sucked into this
holier-than-thou nonsense yeah because where does the Bible say thou shalt not
do a contact sport well so then people go oh I'm still not convinced by the
rain yeah have you read the Bible if you read the Bible yeah have you read
honestly have you read the whole test of the old tester where God is it she's
sending his children out to slay whole nations the women and children of those
wicked nations well we need to wipe them out where they're literally hacking
through people with swords and everything else oh but suddenly he's got
a bit squeamish isn't it suddenly oh yeah but I want them to like get touched
now because you know they might get put got huge pillows on your hands you
literally have pillows on your hands in boxing and things oh yeah we might get
hit with a pillow but go out rip a jawbone yeah by the way something the
Holy Spirit came upon him he ripped a jawbone out of a living donkey and then
slayed a thousand people with it whilst the Holy Ghost had come upon him yeah
oh but but you better not punch someone with a pillow when you had who's agreed
to get punched by you isn't it isn't it preposterous but do you know how many
people believe this how many people are like it's wicked oh it's evil it's
everything else it look you have to turn there like I said have you read about
the Bible which says is Psalm 144 one blessed be the Lord my strength which
teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight David said God talked his hands
to war and his fingers to fight oh but that was Old Testament wasn't it oh that
was Old Testament has got changed it's got changed yeah yeah look I'm not
trying to suggest we have a physical war going on here okay I'm not going to tell
you all the dollar arms and get out there and slay that slay the sodomites
of South Bend and everything else yeah but but what I am saying is that God
hasn't suddenly become a bit Oh shy about that sort of thing yeah and oh no
look look nothing like God's not looking down and go oh I just can't stand the
blood anymore you know anything else so it's a small if you've got time and you
can tick all the other boxes and you've got time you want to do a bit of that
through that spool yeah it doesn't matter yeah look it's ridiculous but
like I said yes I know I know that that we're not a physical nation fighting
those battles anymore but look some say this they go yeah but aren't you a
temple of the Holy Spirit they got you there didn't they you're a temple of the
Holy Spirit while sitting there eating who knows what that they haven't even
read the ingredients of guzzling whatever else that they've never read
the ingredients so what were they even having a lot I don't even care I don't
even know what 50 of those ingredients are glug-glug-glug-glug you're a temple
of the Holy Spirit you know don't do a spot you might get injured funny that
because wasn't Paul the temple of the Holy Spirit I mean I think here the
spirit was pretty full up in him as well wasn't it and didn't Paul whilst being a
temple of the Holy Spirit get 39 lashes three times was it didn't he get beat
or didn't he get stoned halfway to death God didn't seem so fussed about that did
he God actually it seems a lot of time actually put him into those situations
yeah he wants to know I'm not saying abuse your body I'm not saying that but
what I am saying is it's ridiculous yeah these are sports with rules and
everything else so turn to Matthew 23 because with this sort of thing and you
could look at this in many areas okay this is just one example that I dealt
with a lot at the beginning and so you know I was I was googling when I was
first say is boxing I tried Thai boxing but there wasn't enough of that yeah it
wasn't popular enough is boxing okay for a Christian yeah you'd be amazed at what
sort of stuff comes up yeah I was good I was I was googling Christianity yeah and
yeah I came up with some wicked lies and and everything else about it well Matthew
23 and verse 23 says whoa unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you
pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin and have emitted the way to your matters
of the Lord judgment mercy and faith these all you've done and not to leave
the other undone ye blind guides which strain and that and swallow a camel and
that's your you're a temple of the Holy Ghost type thing whilst literally living
in wickedness while most of the people that say this aren't even say you're so
aggressive whilst tolerating all sorts of just just you name it false doctrine
and the rest of it the cross-dressing like mostly people that say this across
dressing cross-dressing abominations to God yeah oh but and whatever it is
straining at whatever nat it is and swallowing a camel and like I said with
that they're more likely to accept women in those sports now aren't they even
these types of people that's okay but oh men can't be aggressive because they've
decided that that a man should just be this basically the Church of England
vicar yeah that is a godly man because that's what the that's what the TV tells
you is a godly man doesn't it some guy that talks very softly like this and and
you know walks a bit like this and apparently that's a Christian according
to the world isn't it is that Chris if you've seen a man like that in the
Bible seen a man like that in a Bible no I see real men in the Bible yeah I see
real men that would cut that guy's head off yeah without even thinking they
wouldn't even give a child they just cut his head off straight away yeah and tear
down the rest of the sodomites house at the same time wouldn't they so I'm so
I'm so I'm so meek and mild I'm such a good Christian well what are you talking
about that's not what the Bible says does it yeah it says be angry and sin
not yeah thou blind Pharisee cleanse first that which is within the cup and
platter that the outside of them may be clean also by the way on that as well
notice how Jesus had an all-night wrestling match with Jacob yeah all
night wrestling match and he did a little submission move on him put his hip
out a joint yeah that's Jesus Christ by the way yeah yeah he wasn't and he was
playing with him oh he was playing with he's just guy just the right level
wasn't he you know he was just guy just saw like like any of you guys ever do
these sorts of sports when you wish somebody's a bit of a novice you just
play with them and and he was just entertaining him wasn't he could have
twisted him up in less than a second couldn't they but but he let he let it
go for the whole night that's Jesus Christ by the way what did it say thou
blind Pharisee cleanse first that which is within the cup of platter that the
outside of them may be clean also so sort out you rotten heart you hypocrites
the people that come out of this rubbish you holier than thou's because that's
what they are aren't they holier than thou's yeah trying to lift up their own
holiness with some rules that aren't even there in the Bible because it
comes from their own wickedness that's what it comes from when people are
insecure about their own wickedness and they like to project their own holiness
onto you in other ways says woe unto you scribes of Pharisees hypocrites for your
like unto whited sepulchres which indeed appear beautiful outward but are within
full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness even so you outwardly appear
right to men but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity and they know it
don't they that's why they have to make their own judgments because they don't
know the rules do they I don't know the rules but look it's ridiculous isn't it
it's ridiculous now I've even added into sorry that's it we I had a guy that come
here yeah he come in just just to let you know it's the other day you know he
was like a real character yeah and he's come to collect all the metal and he you
know some people just have a catchphrase don't they and all he just kept saying
anything anyone say just go you know the rules the skip truck guy was
like yeah I'll move out of it he's gone I'll park there you know the rules and
then I actually preached it managed to preach him a gospel yeah the guy was I
thought pretty open and everything else and he wanted to chat about it and got
to the end I said he didn't want to call him the name the Lord I said I said uh
where you gonna go though if you've got run over now on the way home where'd
you gonna go it's gone you know the rules I really can't I really want to
come back if he came back because I said to come get those gas cans if he
come back you you guys are like this guy it's funny but anyway yeah he knows the
rules and a lot of people know the rules deep down but they're just trying to
project their own their own holiness aren't they well okay that's some sorts
what about weightlifting what about weightlifting and I'm going to hurry up
a little bit through this because for sake of time but well here's the thing
with weightlifting what's your motivation so what's your motivation is
it to get stronger is it to get fitter is it to be healthier or are you
staring at yourself in the mirror yeah are you saying it yourself in the mirror
the whole time alert let's be honest but there are mirrors are there for
reason people do look in the mirror yeah we're not going to pretend that if you
you know you're wicked if you ever glance in a mirror yeah look some people
have some self-respect yeah some people might look at themselves and go yeah
well you know I prefer to look a little bit more like this but if you're
obsessing over that yeah if you're just staring in the mirror if you're just
constantly top off doing the poses you know all this stuff if you're like every
time you pick up a drink you just like in front of people is that you are God's
will there aren't you yeah and again you've got that wrong yeah and that
becomes an obsession doesn't it and everything else and and I've seen I've
been you know around many gyms and for many people that could become a big
problem in their life doesn't it because then suddenly it's not enough
they need more they need to be there more they need to do more then it starts
creeping into steroids and other things like that a lot of the time as well and
that's absolutely crazy isn't it poison your body to look like a moron yeah it's
it's ridiculous yeah so obviously with that you know you've got to get your
motivation right with that but look nothing wrong with wanting to be a bit
strong no one with enjoying that sort of what nothing wrong with enjoying adding
weight on and trying to get stronger stronger that's quite fun for many
people no it's you know I've done a bit of it not not you know it's not a big
thing for me I prefer sports like more kind of sports which have some skill
like more skill maybe and I don't give on there's some skill in some power
lifting and things like that everyone has their own sort of thing is what I'm
trying to say and you have your own likes and dislike nothing wrong with
that but obviously if you start obsessing over your body and your image
and stuff then you you're going off there aren't you now because basically
what you're doing you're making your physique some sort of idol that's what
happens you're making your physique an idol and any of these things if you put
and that goes for any of it oh yeah well I love I love boxing but is boxing
becoming more important than God yeah is whatever sport whatever hobby and look
I've only just touched sports there are many many hobbies out there and they now
becoming more important than the things of God because if they are now you've
made you've made that an idol haven't you and if you made that an idol then
no it's wrong yeah and again you need to judge righteous judgment on that don't
you okay is it more important than your Bible reading yeah do you miss your
Bible reading to go to the gym in the morning or to go somewhere in the
evening is it more important than your soul winning is it more important than
than church attendance there are people that don't go to church because well
yeah but I wanted to train that night I wanted to do whatever it is whatever
hobby it is because God said you know God said husband is especially here
cuz a lot of men a lot of men like their hobbies don't they said love your wives
not love your biceps yeah not love your pecs yeah and the rest of it so okay
last one we'll be quick here choose the entertainment how about choose the
entertainment so turn to Psalm 101 obviously we want to avoid sinful things
Psalm 101 from verse 1 reads Psalm 101 verse 1 I will sing of mercy and
judgment unto thee Oh Lord will I sing so singing to God is a good form of
entertainment isn't it yeah yeah singing to God playing instruments yes you could
obviously there's a crossover between entertainment and hobby now but some
people have a hobby of playing an instrument that's a good thing to do
isn't it but is that okay when you when you're playing or singing wicked worldly
songs yeah oh well I'm singing to God but I'm singing about you know my when
you can imagine the sort of the sort of topics and stuff that sadly is sung
about a lot well definitely listening to people singing about wickedness isn't
good either you know I've turned a bit please yeah see 75 says it is better to
hear the rebuke of the wise then for a man to hear the song of fools yeah
better to get rebuked and told off by someone it is to hear all these fools
making their foolish songs about foolish subjects it's foolishness isn't it and
look in the same way look just because they call it Christian yeah but it's
completely in the world's way and and it's not okay and it when you look at
the lyrics of all that stuff as well it's at the least just complete empty
nonsense really you know God is love or something else or it's or a lot of the
time it's full stop train as well so you want to be careful with that as well
because music is powerful isn't it yeah music is really powerful and you find
yourself humming along to music you find yourself humming along to bad music
sometimes music has just got in your head that you've heard you want to make
sure that it's to something that's not poisoning you with some people get
poisoned by the lyrics of it obviously make sure that something good there and
for me just good traditional clear doctrine hymns oh you funny daddy you
old you're boring guy well what's wrong with that yeah don't you like singing to
God yeah what's wrong with that what's all
we like singing together nice anyone not enjoy the hymns that we sing here yeah I
love him yeah listen to him sing along to him brilliant verse 2 I will behave
myself wisely in a perfect way oh when will thou come unto me I will walk
within my house with a perfect heart okay not just when you come to church
okay this is talking about when he's at home isn't it yeah not just when you're
at church in front of everyone that's walking with a per not it's not you know
well I've got I've got the the right attire on at home and then I get home
and it's you know straight into me jogging bottoms ladies and me tight
jeans and my skinny jeans men and my you know and and whatever else get the
right short shorts on now I've got home it's summertime yeah is that okay but
and the rest of it yeah how about how about verse 3 it says I will set no
wicked thing before mine eyes I hate the work of them that turn aside it shall
not cleave to me and that rules out most of what's on television doesn't it yeah
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes I hate the work of them that turn
aside it shall not cleave to me that's a major vast majority that's on the
television yeah and look if you if you think you can find something which isn't
obviously simple and there are things aren't obviously simple okay you don't
have to be a holier than now right that's never you know I would never even
look at something on the TV look sometimes there can be a look all right
thing I'd say live TV is pretty risky but there are things you can find that
are recorded you can obviously you know I'm sounding a bit old now you can get
the VHS out and put it you know and if you put a sticky tape over the bit that
you can record over it as well but no I'm not talking that loud but but look
you can find things can't you but again you need to be discerning with that
don't you because you want to be careful not to be casting wickedness before your
eyes first force says a forward heart shall depart for me I will not know a
wicked person who so privately slandered with his neighbor him will I cut off him
that having high look and a proud heart will not I suffer right you wouldn't
have them in your house would you yeah David doesn't want to know them he wants
to cut them off doesn't he so why have them in your house talk to you on the
TV yeah why have some wicked pervert amusing you on the TV yeah it sounds to
me like he's pretty much in your house in fact a lot of the time what's on the
TV is more in people's house and you know their neighbor or friend or anyone
else really isn't it what about talking to your kids yeah are you just shoving
on the TV and put your kids in front of it who even are these people making do
you know who's making that show do you know what the motivation you know what
your kids are being do you know what's being said to your kids on a tee it's
not okay it's not like it like listen take it from me there are many many
wicked people making kids shows okay look at Walt Disney yeah what oh like
Walt Disney the most famous one full of perverts isn't it absolutely full of
them yeah and and they've come out recently haven't they with some of their
queer intentions and everything else it is disgusting yet yeah how many parents
sadly we'll just go right TV but well that's all right oh wait don't say
anything wicked thing before your eyes all your kids I say look you might find
something that's okay yeah you might find something you might find a show
that you think there are some things out there okay so again it's not right
that's it a kid can never see anything on some sort of digital screen yeah look
again judge righteous judgment yeah judge righteous judgment but but there
are kids yeah we want to love our kids and not poison them with filth and
rubbish and who knows what and you don't know what okay and with that watching
sports documentaries again you have to be discerning with that as well I mean
I try to find a football clip of something recently and they were
wearing rainbow laces yeah and and promoting faggotry so again
seriously you'd be amazed you get involved like that and then I looked
into it I was looking at one of the teams they were sending people they were
sending representatives of LGBTQ plus you you know brainwash to the academies
of that club to teach the kids so they're basically getting you you send
your kid off to a football they might make it I might get rich you know my
kids gonna be really rich and everyone's gonna think we're really cool because
they play football but they're getting brainwashed with faggotry most days or
at least you know most most weeks most months they just send these people
regularly to keep brainwashing them and brainwashing them unbelievable isn't it
unbelievable so again you have to be careful with that stuff don't you
documentaries that just because it says documentary doesn't mean it's okay does
it again there are some good documentaries out there okay but again
righteous judgment okay so that is a lot of a lot of entertainment out the window
but there are lots of things you could do aren't there doesn't have to be what
our world does our world just wants to sit in front of a screen yeah whether
it's a video game and by the way a video game you know can be very addictive and
there can be a lot of wickedness on them again I'm not saying every video games
wicked but what I'm saying is again have a look at it yeah I think what is it
that you're playing what is it that you're just doing for hours on end and
and if you're brought under the power of it first criticism says all things are
lawful unto me but all things are not expedient all things are lawful for me
but I will not be brought under the power of any make sure you're not being
brought under the power that because that quickly becomes an idol at least an
addiction doesn't it well there are other things I walks parks players in
eating and drinking and eating and drinking could be nice nice food good
food having fellowship time etc that there's many things you can do aren't
there and there's many things that aren't sinful but it's easy they give
the ease of use of button on you on whether it's a TV on the internet social
media you have to be wise with don't you I'm gonna have to hurry up here so one
thing I've just wanted to say as well and obviously you know there's board
games all these good things you could do be careful with reading as well a little
bit oh it's a book it's okay I was a purchase just my kids can read books so
you know me and my wife like we you know it's something we've thought about a lot
because look when you're in a book you can be a lot of hours in a book each day
we had to start putting limits and caps and be careful about what books we allow
our kids to read because that's a lot of time you're getting brainwashed aren't
you and are you gonna sit through and read through everybody especially when
your kids start getting older and it's not just a two-minute kids story and by
the way be careful a lot of them as well there's a lot of cross-dressing in them
there's a lot of weird stuff yeah I remember we had this book yeah called
the smartest giant in town anyone seen that yeah yeah it is flock in his gown
yeah so this is giant who's like trying to I think he gets all this new clothing
and then he starts stripping it off to help all these animals but before he's
like he's at the end he's got just what my gal but he's waiting 90 but like it's
quite a populated at first you kind of don't really think you're just you know
and then you we've been there but anyway yeah that's just one of them and that
was like meant to be a fairly light it's not like there's some real bad ones
out there so look again be careful that be careful with what your kids are
reading and everything else and and obviously yourselves as well you're just
engrossed in some book what is it that you're really thinking about the whole
time it might not be wicked yeah try not to get engrossed in it though you
have to have some discipline okay we're just about there so sorry about it's
gone over time okay it comes back to judging righteous judgment okay turn
back to John chapter 7 because how do you get that right so how did you get
that right because you know there's so many mine for you know it's like a
minefield isn't it oh well yeah but do I do this do I do that what do I do
well John chapter 7 and from verse 17 Jesus said this John 7 17 if any man
will do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether
I speak of myself he that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory but he
that seeketh his glory that sent him the same is true and no unrighteousness is
in him so getting the will of God yeah get in the will of God make sure you're
in the will of God make sure you're basically saying I will be done yeah
you're gonna get it wrong yeah you're gonna sit yeah you're gonna slip up yeah
you're gonna have bad times but I will be done not mine yeah if you if that's
how you're trying to live that's how you're trying to do things then you're
gonna I think you're gonna be much better at judging righteous judgment
aren't ya yeah when you're trying to seek the glory of him when you're
trying to do things for him yeah you might have some time to do a hobby oh
that means I'm gonna be that's it you know Bible church or soul winning all
day every day where I'm not working no there's there's gonna be times when you
have free time there's gonna be things when you're in the will of God you're
gonna be able to make that righteous judgment more don't forget you have be
being in the will of God doesn't mean right well if it feels good yeah okay
remember Jeremiah 79 says a heart is deceitful above all things are
desperately wicked who can know it yeah okay you again it still has to line up
with the Word of God oh well I'm in the will oh well I seem to be going to
church and soul winning I read my Bible so now anything that I fancy doing is
okay no it doesn't work like that does it yeah obviously if you're reading your
Bible and you're paying attention to your Bible you live in your Bible then
you're gonna start to know you're gonna start to feel that pricking and start to
think about those things when they come up which clearly are against what God
wants you to be doing but it comes from being saved comes from being in the will
of God last bit Proverbs 16 3 says commit thy works unto the Lord and thy
thoughts shall be established yeah that's where you want to be don't ya
that's our goal that's we want to be if we commit our works unto the Lord then
our thoughts should be established and then we're more able to judge that
righteous judgment when it especially in these main areas of our life and on that
let's pray father I thank you for your word thank you for thank you for just
just so many the many examples you give us so many ways you help us with making
these decisions you know in all these many many areas of life we can still
just go to the Word of God and it gives us the ability to judge righteous
judgment please help us to all do that help us to to just be in your will in
all that we do to to commit our works unto you so our thoughts are established
help us to to want to do that help us to what a serve you to want to live for you
please just help us to have a good day now help help the soul winning to go to
go great to get many people saved and help men's preaching night tonight to be
a great success for everyone to be filled with the spirit and preach
edifying service in Jesus name we pray all of this Amen