Amen. Okay, we're in 1 John chapter 2, and I'd just like to look at the first few verses
again of 1 John chapter 2, which is what we're going to look at this morning. 1 John
chapter 2, and from verse 1, 1 John 2, 1 says, my little children, these things
write around to you that you sin not, and if any man sin, we have an advocate
with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous. And here's a propitiation for our sins,
and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Inhereby we do
know that we know him if we keep his commandments. He that saith I know him
and keepeth not his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But
whoso keepeth his word in him, verily is the love of God perfected.
Hereby know we that we are in him. He that saith he abideth in him, or
ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. And the title of my sermon
this morning is, did Jesus behave like that? Did Jesus behave like that? I'm
going to pray and then get going with the message. Father, thank you for your
word, thank you for all the examples that we get from the Lord Jesus Christ,
that we know, you know, what is the behaviour of the Lord Jesus Christ, what
isn't, so we can just, we can just trust what your word says, we can trust
what we see in the Word of God, Lord, and not what maybe we're told to the
contrary. Please help me to preach this message that I've been thinking
about recently, just in a clear and accurate and bold way, Lord, and a way
that people just take home your message, we'll apply it, we'll be stronger in
their faith from it as well, and to just cast away some of maybe the doubts,
some of the, some of the attempts to be demoralised into question that, you
know, are constantly held at your children, Lord, help me to do all these
things in Jesus Christ's holy name, Amen. Okay, so when serving God, if you're
serving God, one of the things you will hear, maybe often for some, is
that's not very Christ-like, you might have heard that before, or I can't
imagine Jesus behaving like that, you might have heard that before,
sometimes people go further and add that you're shaming the name of Christ,
you'll get that maybe if you're trying to do a work for God, that your
behaviour is unchristian, many people claim as well, depending on what it is,
they might even say something like, did Jesus behave like that, you know, did
Jesus do things like that, did Jesus behave like that, and often this is by people who claim to not
even believe in Jesus, okay, so you'll get people where maybe you knock on
the door, you try and preach the gospel to someone, you're trying to just show
them the Word of God and they'll start, you know, kind of questioning and
claiming that you're not what they consider Jesus to be, who they've just
said they don't even believe in or something, right, but it's not just
those, you'll often hear this sort of thing from those that claim to be
Christian, that claim to believe that the Bible is the Word of God, in fact
you'll get even more subtle attempts at this from even those amongst us,
sadly as well, and what it is, it's all part of a grand scheme to change the
Jesus of the Bible, okay, to reshape him into a God of their own making, okay, and
that's everywhere, people are trying to reshape, remold Jesus, basically make a
God of their own, make him into what they want him to be, and of course
there's the obvious stuff, okay, inspired by Catholic sodomite artists wanting a
God in their own image, okay, so there's obviously that and people have
this sort of image of Jesus Christ which isn't, there's nothing biblical
about the obvious stuff, you know, the effeminate long flowing golden locks
that you see all over the place in artist impressions of Jesus Christ, even
though the Holy Spirit inspired Apostle Paul, said in 1 Corinthians 11
14, does not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it is
shame unto him, so how on earth was Jesus Christ running around with long
flowing girls hair when he then said through the Apostle Paul that it was
a shame unto a man to have long hair, you know, the cross-dressing Jesus in a
dress is obviously nonsense, okay, in their mind he rode into town
sitting sideways on the donkey I'd imagine, right, but even though the Holy
Spirit inspired Moses said in Deuteronomy 22 5 that the woman shall not wear
that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment,
for that do so of abomination to the Lord thy God, okay, so God
obviously wants to see differences in the way the genders dress, he wants to see those
differences, Jesus Christ wasn't trying to blur the lines obviously but
it doesn't stop with his outer appearance, so that's stuff that I
think most people here are aware of, that that's just a load of Catholic
inspired, probably Catholic inspired, although I'm sure others did as well,
nonsense, and now we see it everywhere, okay, but it doesn't stop there, it's all
part of the effeminizing, the softening, the weakening of the God of
the universe, that's the goal of it, for us to picture Jesus Christ as
something else, for us to imagine him as something else as someone else,
redefining his character through a combination of ways whilst promoting
negative qualities in his followers, okay, so that's the other thing, it's one
thing to make people maybe be less fearful of the God of this world, to
make him more of a laughingstock, but on the other hand it's also to make his
followers start to start to believe he's something he is and start to
try and copy the characteristics of the false Jesus and not the Jesus of the
Bible, okay, as believers we're told to follow the Lord Jesus Christ and to
walk as he walked, okay, that's pretty clear is it, to follow the example of
the Lord Jesus Christ, to walk as he walked, as we just saw here in verse 6,
which is our verse of the week, which says, he that saith he abideth in him
ought himself also so to walk even as he walked, now go back to verse 1
though, because a big part of that is by keeping his commandments, that's a
big part of walking like Jesus Christ, is to keep his commandments, 1st John
2 and verse 1 says, my little children these things write unto you that you
sin not, and if any man sin we have an advocate with the Father Jesus
Christ the righteous, so of course if you if you put your faith in Christ
you never have to pay for those sins in hell, he said in verse 2 and here's a
propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the
whole world, now propitiation is the act of appeasing wrath or maybe we'd
use a word, it's the atonement, the atoning sacrifice, he is the atoning
sacrifice or propitiation for the sins of the whole world, right, how do we
receive that propitiation, you don't have to turn it but Romans 3.25 says of
Christ Jesus whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his
blood, it's faith in him, it's faith in that sacrifice to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, past here meaning
ended through the forbearance of God, okay, verse 3 where we are says in
hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments, so this
isn't talking about the saved, you could be saved and know little about
the Lord can't you, okay, but if you know him, if you learn of him, if you
understand him, you're going to try and keep his commandments, aren't you, it says
in verse 4, he that saith I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a
liar and the truth is not in him, so if you claim to know him, you claim to be
reading the Bible, to be studying, to be hearing, preaching, to be praying and
you're ignoring his commandments, you're probably a bit of a liar, okay, if you're
doing all that stuff there should be, there should be a change, okay, from the
Word of God, not salvation, okay, there's not an automatic change because
you're saved, okay, there's no automatic works but if you're choosing to
continue in his Word, ultimately be a disciple, right, you're reading, you're
studying, you're hearing, preaching, it should change, shouldn't it, the Word of God
does sanctify, it does cleanse, it does change people. In Psalm 119 verse 11
you'd have to turn to the Psalmist and say, Thy Word have I hidden mine heart that I might not sin against thee.
That's what the Word is about, it's to help us not sin, it's to help us to
keep his commandments. You'll never be perfect obviously whilst you have your
sinful flesh but the Word of God can and will continue to wash you if you're
saved. Said in verse 5, But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the
love of God perfected, hereby know we that we are in him. So that's how we
improve and with that our faith is strengthened. Verse 6, it said, And he that
saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walks.
So if someone's claiming to abide in Christ, to be in Christ, to be a
Christian, okay, a follower, their goal should be to walk to behave as Christ
did, shouldn't it? He's the ultimate example, isn't he? To be more Christ-like.
So it's obviously important to know how Jesus Christ walked or behaved,
isn't it? If you're going to be more Christ-like, you need to know how Jesus
Christ behaved, how he walked, how he acted, you know, what he did
and what he didn't do. And there's only one place to go to see how Jesus
Christ walked or behaved, it's the Bible, isn't it? It's the Word of God. How else
would we really know? It's not kids storybooks. Kids storybooks aren't where
we go to find out how Jesus Christ walked, how he behaved, how to be more
Christ-like. Netflix series or whatever they are, made by usually
Christ-hating producers and directors and everything else, aren't where we go
to find out how to be more Christ-like. They shouldn't be where you
go to find out to be more Christ-like. Not holier than thou's in their
various forms trying to redefine Christ, trying to put them into their version
of what's holy and what's not. That's not how we learn to be more
Christ-like. Turn to Romans chapter 12. And because of the angle of the
redefining, okay, because of the way they try and do it, it seems that we
often have to therefore focus more on balancing these things out. So what
I mean is, look, often because of the fact they try and completely
feminize everything else Christ, we have to focus on then the opposite
side of that more, but don't come away from a sermon like this forgetting
Jesus Christ, for example, his compassion for the lost. Don't come away
going, yeah, you know, he's going to show us, you know, the the hardest side of
Jesus Christ, that's all I focus on. No, we want to focus on the whole lot, okay.
Don't forget his compassion, don't forget his love. Don't come away
forgetting his love for others. John 15 13, you'll turn to Romans 12, but John
15 13 says, greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his
life for his friends. Jesus Christ had love beyond anyone. Jesus Christ is love, he
is love, he's God, God is love. He's the epitome of it, but it's genuine love, okay.
It's genuine love, not the fake love that people claim to have that isn't then
balanced by a hatred for bad things. Genuine love includes a hatred for
other things. In Romans 12 9 he told us through the Apostle Paul, let love be
without dissimulation, abhor that which is evil. He said hate, despise, abhor
that which is evil, cleave to that which is good. He said cut out all that
fake love stuff. He said let it be without dissimulation, without fakery
basically, without acting, okay. Cut out that stuff, that that love which is
only about making yourself look good. And there are people all over the place
like that aren't there. Whether they're fake Christians or not, where their so-called
love is all about how they appear to others, okay. The one-sided love which
is fake, he said abhor that which is evil, hate the bad stuff, despise it,
cleave to that which is good, hold on get close to the good things. So you
know I've heard these sort of analogies before, for example you can't
love flowers without hating weeds. If you love flowers you're gonna hate the
weeds. That's just standard isn't it, because they kill and destroy and ruin
your flowers, okay. You can't love children without hating child abusers. I
mean that's pretty standard isn't it, unless you redefine what so-called love
is. No you're gonna hate child abuse if you love children. You can't love
righteousness without hating sin. You can't love people without hating those
that lead them to hell, surely. And you can't love God without hating his
enemies. How can you love God and not hate those that despise him that are
haters of God. He said let love be without dissimulation, abhor that which
is evil, cleave to that which is good. But we should still love obviously, okay.
There's still a love but it's just not a fake love. We should love
the lost, we should love the brethren, we should love good things and that
includes loving the Lord Jesus Christ and therefore wanting to walk as he
actually walked. Turn to Luke chapter 10, the title is, did Jesus behave like
that? And point number one is, did Jesus push his religion on others? Have you ever
heard people come out with this sort of thing before? This one is worded in
various ways. Christians shouldn't be forcing it down people's throats. They
try and say if you knock on their door maybe or you try and offer to
preach some of the gospel, you shouldn't be knocking on people's doors.
You'll hear people say while claiming to be Christians. I'm finding you very
un-Christ-like or some similar wording. This isn't how Jesus would have
behaved for daring to offer to show someone what the Bible says and
pointing out that what they say isn't what the Word of God says, right.
And of course you can't force someone to believe, okay. But we offer to preach the
gospel, don't we? Okay, we do offer the gospel. We don't just wait to be asked
because no one's going to ask, or very few, okay. But we offer to preach the gospel.
And Matthew 4 23, Matthew 4 23 says this, your turn to Luke 10 though, says,
He went about all Galilee teaching their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom.
He went throughout the whole place preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all manner of
sickness and all manner of disease among the people. In Luke 10 he sent the 70 where he would
also go. He said in verse 1,
After these things the Lord appointed other 70 also, and sent them two and two before his face
into every city and place whither he himself would come. And they went door to door, okay.
However, he didn't force those places that didn't receive him, but he did warn them.
He didn't force them, but he warned them. Look at verse 10, he said,
We do wipe off against you, notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come
nigh unto you, but I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom
than for that city. Sodom which obviously was razed to the ground, which leads on to the next
point, okay. And I'm going to have to go through these quickly because I got a lot of points.
There's one of them sermons I started kind of putting down notes and making points and
they just kept getting longer and longer. So just sit tight, okay. Make yourselves comfortable,
you're here for the long haul, okay. Did Jesus behave like that is the title.
Number one, did Jesus push his religion on others? Well, ultimately, yes. Okay,
at least he offered it to all. Number two, did Jesus tell people they were going to hell?
Did Jesus tell people they were going to hell? Because people come out with that one,
don't they? Some people get really angry with this one. I don't want to talk about that,
you know, having claimed to be a Christian, claimed to go to church and everything.
I don't want to have this conversation. I don't think we should be having this conversation
on the door or something like that. Some say no one wants to hear you talking about
hell, you know. They'll be like, oh well, I think when you go to people, maybe you shouldn't really
be talking about hell. You heard that one before, you know, when they're trying to tell you how
to soul win, when they've never actually been out and ever tried to preach the gospel
to anyone in their life. Well, they don't even believe the gospel most of the time.
Or some will say things like, well, you know, do you really believe in all that hell?
Isn't it more about separation from God and things like this, you know.
Even though Psalm 139 says, if I send up into heaven now out there, if I make my
bed in hell, behold, thou art there. Talking about God. God is everywhere. He's omnipresent.
Some say, for example, where's the love? Why can't you just tell people that Jesus loves them?
You know, forget all this, you know, the gospel. Why can't you just tell him Jesus loves them?
I had someone ask me that. Why don't you just tell them Jesus loves you?
Yeah, because that's not getting them saved, okay. Because the loving thing is to warn people
what's going to happen, isn't it? That's the loving thing to do to warn people when they're
on their way to hell. And in Luke 10, Jesus was telling whole cities that they're going to hell.
It said in verse 12 of Luke 10, but I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable in
that day for Sodom than for that city. Woe unto thee, Chorazin. Woe unto thee, Bethsaida.
For if the mighty works have been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you,
they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it shall be
more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. And now Capernaum,
which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell. Jesus warned whole cities are going to hell.
Whole cities, he said, you're on the way to hell. He said in Matthew 7 13, you have to turn there,
enter in at the straight gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth
to destruction. That's hell. And many there be which go in thereat. He said most people are
going to hell. And he said it loud. And in Luke 16 even, he gave that vivid account of the
rich man in hell begging for a drop of water to cool his tongue, didn't he?
You don't have to go to Luke 16, by the way, so I should have said, okay, but did Jesus tell
people they're going to hell? Yes. And they hated him telling them the truth as much as us,
okay. They hated him saying it. Look at verse 16. He said, he that heareth you heareth me,
and he that despiseth you despiseth me, and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
If they hate you, it's because they hate the Lord Jesus Christ. If they hate the Lord Jesus Christ,
it's really they hate God, okay, because he is God. Turn to Matthew 4. Did Jesus behave like that?
Point number one, did Jesus push his religion on others? Yes. Did Jesus tell people they're
going to hell? Yes. Did Jesus stand on the written word? Okay, that's the next one you
hear. Did Jesus stand on the written word? Now this is worded in various ways, okay.
Christianity isn't about a book. Have you heard people can't try and say this one before?
Well Christianity isn't just about a book, right. Jesus didn't want us to worship, and usually that's
people where you've shown them from the book that they're wrong, yeah. Jesus didn't want us to
worship the Bible. Some say Jesus isn't there in that book, he's in your heart. You heard this
one as well, right. Now I had a really interesting email the other day, okay. It was from a lady that
myself and Lucky had spoken to on the door, okay. This was her e- or it was like a contact form
on the website, so she said this. She said, you called at my home yesterday, please be assured that
I will be praying for you. Well thank you because I was really worried about that. She said,
my prayer will be that our Lord Jesus Christ will help you to discern what it is to be
humble and gracious in your proclaiming of the Gospel. You came across as very arrogant and
certainly did not operate in the way that Jesus did when he met people. So she's telling us
how Jesus behaved, of course, right. Your knowledge of Holy Scripture is commendable, but the way in
which you use it is deplorable. She said, as a graduate in biblical studies from Sheffield
University. I had to add that one in, didn't you? As a graduate in biblical studies from Sheffield
University, the use of proof texting seldom wins souls for Christ. Oh because they did, they did
a lot of soul winning at Sheffield University, didn't they? Do you remember those, those great days
have passed at Sheffield University, the, the mass, the masses of souls won in Sheffield,
because when I went out there I didn't see many saved people. But anyway, she said, as a
graduate in biblical studies from Sheffield University, the use of proof texting seldom
wins souls for Christ. We worship the living Word, the Logos, Jesus. God made flesh, not a book.
Yes, revealed to us through the Scriptures, but people will not come into the Kingdom by
solely thrusting texts at them. It is also by the life lived. Oh yeah, oh work salvationist, of course,
which it took a while to get out of her on the door, which is why she was so frustrated.
Please try to be more loving in your approach as you seek to spread the Gospel. Which Gospel's that?
Because her Gospel is and it's about the life lived. That ain't the Gospel, love. And no wonder
she's so angry because eventually what came out of her mouth was that of course you can lose
your salvation. And when we try to show her Scripture, so angry, deplorable. It's deplorable to
show someone that they're actually on their way to Hell. And we did it in a polite way, didn't we, brother?
It wasn't, you know, we try to be nice with this lady. So it's funny, okay, because Jesus not only
stood on the written Word himself, but he said that as that man should too stand on the Word of God.
Okay, Matthew 4 is a temptation in the wilderness and it says this in verse 1.
Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil,
and when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward and hungered. And when
the tempter came to him, he said, if thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
But he answered and said, it is written, he said it's written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by
every word that precedeth that of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh them up into the
holy city and setteth him onto the pinnacle of the temple and saith unto him, if thou be the Son
of God, cast thyself down, for it is written he shall give his angels charge concerning the
and in their hands they shall bear the upless at any time thou dashed thy foot against the stone.
So the devil tried misquoting scripture like many people, like this lady did on her doorstep,
like many people do. Jesus said unto him, it is written, again, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain and showeth him all the kings of
the world and the glory of them and saith unto him, all these things will I give thee if thou
will fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, get thee hence Satan, for it is written,
thou shalt worship the Lord thy God in him, only shalt thou serve, then the devil leaveth him
and behold angels came ministered unto him. Jesus sure did stand a written word okay, it's a
written word which is how we defend against the attacks of false doctrine of the devil
and that written word hasn't gone anywhere by the way. In Matthew 24 35 he said, heaven and
earth shall pass away but my word shall not pass away.
We're going over the page from Matthew 5 okay, did Jesus behave like that? Number one, did Jesus
push his religion on others? Yes. Did Jesus tell people they're going to hell? Yes. Did Jesus
stand the written word? Yes. Did Jesus teach the law? So this is another one you get, did Jesus
teach the law? Or you know, Jesus wasn't a legalist they'll say, like you are, you know, and
this is often at the preaching and stuff, you know, Jesus did away with the law some will say,
right? Or they'll say things like, still living in the old testament are you?
And often it's about like talking about sodomites and things like this, yeah. Didn't Jesus get
rid of that? Well Jesus did away with that old covenant but we're not, we're obviously no
longer bound by the dietary laws, we're no longer bound by the washings, the sacrifices, the other
carnal ordinances, but Jesus certainly didn't do away with them all law, okay? He sure as hell didn't.
He still wants us to live right, not for salvation, but no one could ever have lived right for
salvation, okay? The law could never achieve that, Hebrews 10 4 says, for it is not possible
that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. They can never take away sins,
the law wasn't what got you saved. However, in Matthew 5 he said this in verse 17,
Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets I am not come to destroy but to fulfill
for verily I sound to you till heaven and earth pass one jot or one tittle shall in no wise
pass from the law till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least
commandments and shall teach men so he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven
but whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Breaking commandments, okay, and even teaching others to do the same has got nothing to do with
salvation. They're just called the least in the kingdom of heaven, okay? They're just not,
they're just basically, they're of the lower type in the kingdom of heaven that sadly were
out to lunch in their in their walk with God while on this earth, but they still got saved,
they put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. But as well as expanding on commandments,
Jesus made it clear that even the least of the commandments mattered, didn't he?
Even the least of the commandments, what we would consider the lowest of the moral teachings,
the least important of the moral teachings mattered. They mattered. As we'll see in the next
point, the question is or the the title is, did Jesus behave like that? Did Jesus
push his religion on others? Yes. Did Jesus tell people they're going to hell? Yes. Did Jesus
stand the written word? Yes. Did Jesus teach the law? Yes. Did Jesus preach hard on sin?
Or, now this is more, this is less when you're preaching the gospel, this is more on preachers,
preachers of churches like ours. That preacher is so unChristlike, being so mean about people's
sins, okay? This is very unChristlike, this sort of preaching. You know, didn't Jesus say
judge not? You know, they'll come out with that one obviously. Who is this guy to be so
judgmental on other people? Didn't Jesus forgive all our sins? You know, they'll claim that one
as well. Jesus paid for a lot, yeah, but he also preached hard on it as well. He paid for those sins
of the whole world, but he preached hard on sin as well. In Matthew 5 he's preaching, by the way,
to the majority saved. That, that sermon on the mount, Matthew 5, 6 and 7 is preaching to the
saved really. It said in verse 1, and seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain and
when he was set, his disciples came unto him and he opened his mouth and taught them saying.
Okay, he's teaching his disciples it's the multitudes of the Psalm. Now, in the
Sermon on the Mount, he does sometimes, and just for reference here when you're studying it out,
he is sometimes giving the sort of hypothetical, a man may say this or they will say that or
thou might say this, but then he also talks about ye and you and talks to his,
talks to the believers that he's preaching to as well, because that's what preaching generally
is, isn't it? When I'm preaching to church, I preach to a majority room of saved people.
People have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and are going to heaven no matter what.
Okay, so that, so what do we preach? We're trying to preach and live right, to get right,
to get the sin out of their lives so they can be more effective for the Lord Jesus Christ and,
and that's what, exactly what Jesus Christ is preaching to here. Says in verse 27,
he said, ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, thou shalt not commit adultery.
But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to last after it, committed adultery
with her already in his heart. He said, forget the actual act. He said, you even look on a
woman to last after and you're committing adultery in your heart. That's hard preaching.
That's hard preaching. That's saying to people, you don't, don't even look at a woman.
Okay, and sure as hell, that's what we preach here as well, don't we?
Because we want to be more Christlike, because we want to follow the steps of the Lord Jesus
Christ. We want to walk as he walked and he said, don't even look at a woman to last
after her. He said in verse 31 there, he said, it has been said whosoever shall put away his
wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement. But I say unto you that whosoever shall put
away his wife saving for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery. And whosoever shall
marry her that is divorced, committeth adultery. He said, you cause your wife to commit adultery.
Marrying divorcees is committing adultery. He took it further. He expanded further, but he
was still teaching the law, but he was explaining it in more depth. That's hard preaching. And I'm
sure there were all sorts in that congregation, don't you think? There were multitudes that went
up there. I'm sure there were people from all different backgrounds, there were probably divorcees,
married, there was all sorts of things going on there. But you know what, he didn't
shirk away from that, he preached hard. That's what hard preaching is. The hardest preaching
is preaching that affects the people in the room. If I'm standing here screaming about
queers, I'm standing here screaming about cross-dressing, screaming about Jews, screaming
about Muslims or whatever else, it's not, look, don't get me wrong, it's hard for the outside
world, but for people in here, it's like, yeah, whatever, yeah, I know, wicked bunch. But when it's
your own sins, that's hard preaching, okay, that's hard preaching. But that's how Jesus
Christ preached. Look at Matthew 6, same sermon, verse, and these are just the highlights of the
sermon. I mean, can you imagine the sermon itself, right? These are just the highlights. This is what we
hear about the sermon. He said in Matthew 6 and verse 1, take heed that you do not your arms
before men to be seen of them, otherwise you have no reward of your father which is in heaven.
Therefore, when thou doest sign arms, do not sound a trumpet before the ears of hypocrites
through in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily, I sound
to you they have their reward. He said, stop being a hypocrite when you do your good deeds.
Stop trying to tell everyone about your good deeds. Stop telling all and sundry about the
things done, slipping it into a conversation, managing to just mention it here, there or whatever.
He said, stop doing that stuff. And I'm sure there are people there doing that stuff, weren't there?
I'm sure there were people there who just started shrinking into their seat going, yeah, that was me,
actually. Did he know about this? Yeah, he did know about it, by the way, because he's the Lord
Jesus Christ. He knew everything he said they were doing, right? Verse 16, he said, moreover,
when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their
faces that may appear unto men to fast. Verily, I sound to you they have their reward. He
said, don't put on the iron fasting face, you hypocrites. Oh, poor me. Oh, I'm just so
hungry and everything. He said, don't do that stuff. He said there were, and you know what,
there were probably people there doing that. There were probably people there, there and then,
that were probably fasting. They were probably telling everyone they're fasting, walking around,
going, I haven't eaten for a day now. And he just gets up there and he rips face on it.
He said in verse 24, no man could serve two masters, for either he will hate the one who
loved the other, or else he will hold the one who despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and
mammon. He said, stop serving the God of money, you covetous lot. That's what he said,
stop serving the God of money, stop coveting money. And I bet there were some covetous people
there serving mammon. He said in Matthew 7 and verse 5, he talked about the hypocritical
judgment, and he said, thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then
shout thou see clearly to cast out the moat out of thy brother's eyes. Yeah, he did say still
judge, he did say to still try and get that moat out of your brother's eye, but don't do it
hypocritically, get the beam out of your eye first. He said, stop hypocritically judging.
He called his people hypocrites, thou hypocrite. That's some hot preaching, and that's just one
of many. And people can read it and it depends how it's read, you know, the Bible reader could
read it and just be like, then Jesus said this, and then he said that, and I'm sure that's how
it's read in most churches around. Or maybe the Bible reader could read him just go, thou hypocrite!
Maybe that's more like how he said it. I reckon it was more like that
than the softly spoken, effeminate vicars version of Jesus.
Where are we? Sorry. Okay, did Jesus preach God and sin? He sure did, didn't he?
That's some hard preaching, and that, like I said, that's one of many. Turn to Luke 8.
The title is, did Jesus behave like that? Did Jesus push his religion on others? Yes. Did Jesus
tell people they're going to hell? Yes. Did Jesus stand and writ a word? Yes. Did Jesus
teach the Lord? Yes. Did Jesus preach God and sin? Yes. Did Jesus shout? Did Jesus shout, okay?
An old pastor once said this to me. He said, can you imagine, he said, can you imagine Jesus
behaving like that? Shouting and hollering like, and he was talking about Pastor Steven Anderson.
He said, could you imagine Jesus behaving like that? He said, he said, things, and you hear
things like that. That's not the Holy Spirit, shouting and yelling, you know. That's not, that's
not, that's not someone in the Spirit. Well, in Luke 8, he turned to Luke 8. Luke 8, the Lord Jesus
Christ tells the parable of the sower. He said in verse 5 of Luke 8, a sower went out to sow
his seed and as he sowed some fell by the wayside and it was trodden down the fowls of the
air around it and some fell upon a rock and as soon as it sprung up it withered away because
it lacked moisture. Some fell upon thorns and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it and
others fell on good ground and sprang up and bare fruit and a hundredfold, and when he
had heard these things he cried, he that had ears to hear led him here. And no, he didn't burst into tears,
in case someone's confused there, okay. This means he shouted, he yelled, he shouted, he yelled at them,
open your ears. He said, if you understand, he said, if you're able to understand this, you had better
be listening. You'd better be listening to this. And sometimes shouting makes people listen, doesn't it?
If I just preach in a kind of low tone the whole time and everything else, I reckon there'd be more
people falling asleep, all right. Sometimes you just got to shout, sometimes you see the eyes going a
little bit, time to shout, you know. It's not the only time I shout, by the way, okay.
But he said if you're, he said, he said, he said to them, look, he said you need to understand he
shouted and it, and for, also we're going to see, okay, it didn't matter whether he was inside or
outside, okay. It didn't matter whether he was somewhere apparently holy or not, by the way, either.
Have a look at John 7, if you want, if you want to flick there quickly. John chapter 7. Because some
people say things like this, they go, you know, I can't believe the way they, they disrespect the
pulpit. Or, you know, there are, there are, I've heard these people come out with this one,
that pastors are abusing the pulpit for shouting, for hollering, for slamming the pulpit and
everything else. Well, have a look, where are you, in John chapter 7, look at verse 28.
Verse 28 of John 27, of John 7, sorry, said, then cried Jesus in the temple.
Where was he? In the temple, God's house, and he's shouting, as he taught, saying, you both know me
and you know whence I am, and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom you know
not, but I know him, for I am from him, and he have sent me. He said, you know who I am, but
you're rejecting me, and sometimes truths like that need shouting, don't they? There are many truths
that need shouting. Jesus shouted, he shouted in the temple, and he wasn't abusing the temple,
all right, like we don't abuse the pulpit, but we do shout like Jesus shouted.
Trying to be more Christ-like, trying to be more Christ-like here. Turn to Matthew 23. Did
Jesus behave like that? Did Jesus push his religion on others? Yes. Did Jesus tell people they're
going to hell? Yes. Did Jesus stand in the written word? Yes. Did Jesus teach the Lord? Yes. Did Jesus
preach hard on sin? Yes. Did Jesus shout? Yes. Did Jesus insult people? Did Jesus insult people?
Because that's got to be, that's a sign of someone probably not even being saved, isn't it?
I heard this from that same pastor, actually, interestingly, who said something about, you know,
these people, you should hear what comes out of their mouths. I mean, you wonder if they're even saved.
Now, what is this really? It's just another criticism of biblical preaching,
and you'll hear this in various ways. Jesus wouldn't have behaved like that, for example,
okay? Insulting a brother instead of ringing them up. Yeah, why didn't you ring up
so-and-so and explain it instead of just insulting them from behind the pulpit? Causing
division in, they'll say the, and what they mean is this sort of bizarre universal body of
Christ. I mean, oh, it's just another pastor or preacher causing division in the body of Christ,
usually talking about a false prophet, okay, which has got nothing to do with the body of Christ,
but regardless, and well, in Matthew 23, okay, Jesus lets rip on the whole lot of these false
prophets in what is an apparently un-Christlike way, according to most. Look what he says in
Matthew 23 in verse 13. He said, but woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.
That's an insult, isn't it? Yeah, that's an insult. He said, for you shut up the kingdom
of heaven against men, for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are
entering to go in. He said, you're not going to, he said, you're going to hell, basically.
You're not going to heaven. He said, woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you
devour with those houses, and for a pretense, he said, your fakes. He said, your covetous
thieves, your fakes, for a pretense make long prayer, therefore you shall receive the
greater damnation. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you compass sea and land
to make one proselyte, and when he is made you make him twofold more the child of hell than
yourselves. He called them children of hell. Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, whosoever
shall swear by the temple, it is nothing, but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple,
he is a debtor, ye fools and blind. For whether it's great to the gold of the temple that
sanctify the gold. And by the way, if you ever want to hear this Redwell, listen to Alexander
Scobie's Matthew 23. It's great. It's hard not to read it like he does. And whosoever shall swear
by the altar, it is nothing, but whosoever swears by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty,
ye fools and blind. For whether it's great to the gift or the altar that sanctify the gift.
That sounds like some insult to me, doesn't it? He said, woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
in verse 23, hypocrites again, for you pay tithe and mint and anise and cummin, and have
omitted the way to your matters of the Lord, judgment, mercy and faith, that he's ought you
to have done, and not to leave the other undone, ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow
a camel. Wont you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you may clean the outside of the cup
and of the platter, but within there, full of extortion and excess, thou blind Pharisee,
cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Wont you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you like unto whited sepulchres, which
indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.
He's saying you're full of dead men's bones of all uncleanness. Even so you outwardly appear
right, son to men, but within you're full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Ye serpents,
ye generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell? Because they can't.
Because they reprobate. Because they're going to hell. They're twice dead. He called them
serpents. He called them generations of vipers. Did Jesus insult people? He sure did.
Because sometimes it's needed, isn't it? Even just for others to learn from. Even just for the
congregation to learn from that and to learn to keep away from that wicked bunch.
Stay in Matthew 23. The question is, did Jesus behave like that? Did Jesus push his religion
on others? Yes. Did Jesus tell people they're going to hell? Yes. Did Jesus stand on the
writ of word? Yes. Did Jesus teach the law? Yes. Did Jesus preach hard of sin? Yes.
Did Jesus shout? Yes. Did Jesus insult people? Yes. Did Jesus rebuke rulers? Did Jesus rebuke
rulers? Now this is a bad interpretation of Romans 13, okay, where people will claim that
we're never to say a bad word of our government. You might have heard this from
these sort of soft lily liver preachers that don't want to, they don't want to stand up
against anything, so they're like, well you should never say anything against the rulers.
What about Romans 13? Okay, now Romans 13 is talking about obeying the highest power.
The highest power is God, okay, and God said to shine the light on wickedness.
But they'll say, you know, Christian isn't to call out wickedness in government. Now tell that
to Christians living in some of the most wicked regimes of the past, right? I mean, what on earth?
Oh no, no, no, no, you're just to obey the government. It's like, are you having a laugh, right?
But of course they only see it from their maybe western lens where they want to
pretend that everything, democracy's just this great, you know, sort of free world and everything's
amazing and everything else. Don't say a word, don't complain, mustn't say a thing, right?
Well in Matthew 23, okay, these religious leaders, by the way, were also civil leaders
to some degree, okay? Obviously under the Roman governor Pilate, but he did say in verse 1
of Matthew 23, then spake Jesus to the multitude and to his disciples saying,
the scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. So he said, yeah, they're in a position
of authority. He then said, so do as you're told. He said, oh therefore whatsoever they bid
you observe, that observe and do. But do not ye after their work, so they say and do not.
So he said, don't behave like these hypocrites. Then like we just read, he goes on to just
absolutely smash them for everything that they do, which is wicked. But he did say, yeah,
he said, yeah, we're to obey the rulers, obviously, unless it goes outside of what
God tells us to do. But he still rebuked them, didn't he? He still reproved them from behind,
well, at least the version of the pulpit. Turn to Luke 13. It was the same with the non-religious
leadership of King Herod, okay? He not only rebuked him, but he insulted him too.
So not only did he just rebuke King Herod, he insulted him. It says in Luke 13 and verse 31,
Luke 13 31 says, the same day there came certain of the Pharisees saying unto him,
Get thee out and depart hence, for Herod will kill thee. Verse 32,
and he said unto them, go ye and tell that fox. That wasn't a compliment. I've seen people try
and explain this as, well, he was saying he's very cunning, you know. He's like, no, he's
calling him a dog, okay? He said, go and tell that fox. Behold, I cast out devils and I do cures
today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected. Nevertheless, I must walk today and
tomorrow and a day following, for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. He rebuked
rulers. Why? Because rulers need rebuking too. People need rebuking. We need to shine the
light on these things. We need to preach on sin, and sometimes it's the sin of those in
leadership, okay? Turn to John chapter 2. The question, did Jesus behave like that? Did Jesus
push his religion on others? Yes. Did Jesus tell people they're going to hell? Yes.
Did Jesus stand in a written word? Yes. Did Jesus teach the law? Yes. Did Jesus preach
out of sin? Yes. Did Jesus shout? Yes. Did Jesus insult people? Yes. Did Jesus rebuke rulers? Yes.
Number nine, did Jesus kick people out of God's house? Did Jesus kick people out of God's house?
You're so unloving, is what they try and claim. Church should be open to all, yeah? Isn't
church for all? You should never close the doors of a church to someone. Well, tell that to Jesus,
because when he kicked people out, okay, he didn't warn them. He didn't give them a chance
to explain themselves. He spent that time on better things. Do you know what he spent that time on?
In John 2, he spent that time making a whip, okay? Instead of the sit-down chat, he just made a whip
instead. In John 2, he's just been at a wedding feast, okay? But his mood was quickly soured,
okay? It says in verse 13, John chapter 2, and the Jews' Passover was at hand. The Jews went up to
Jerusalem and found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changes of
money sitting, and when he had made a scourge of small cords, that's a whip of multiple cords,
it's a whip with multiple ends to it, when he'd made a scourge of small cords, he drove them
all out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen. Let me tell you how you drive someone out
with a whip. You crack that whip towards them. Maybe they were getting whipped as well, at the
least he drove them out with the whip, right? It said that he drove them all out of the
temple and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changes of money and overthrew the tables.
Now, in the kids' storybooks, I'd imagine he was hitching up his skirt,
he probably had to quickly plait his hair so it didn't go over his face,
and he was tottering about going like this. But that's not the Jesus of the Bible, is it?
Okay, when you read the actual Bible and not the other people's versions of the
Lord Jesus Christ, you see it's a completely different person, isn't it?
He's whipping these people out of the temple and said unto them that sold doves,
take these things hence. The kids' books, and not just the kids' books, most people's
idea of him would have been going, now, can I suggest that maybe, if you wouldn't mind,
maybe just, you know, taking these things outside, because I don't think it's a good idea
that you make, no, he said take these things hence, make not my father's house and house of merchandise.
That's the Jesus of the Bible. He said stop trading God's house, you covetous bunch, you covetous
scum, coming here to make money to merchandise God's people. And we've had people do this
before in our church, coming to the house of God to merchandise God's people, it's wicked.
Jesus drove them out with a whip, and people try and say, oh you just can't believe it,
you're causing division, all these poor original members, they're scum. Jesus would
have done a lot more than just tell them you're not welcome back, get out.
And his disciples remembered that it was written, the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
That's the zeal that we should have, isn't it? This isn't some free-for-all party, okay,
it's the house of God that should be treated as such. When we come together here, it is
a house of God, and we should treat it as a house of God. And he didn't just kick them out there,
he didn't just tell us of, you know, of those to be kicked out in Matthew 18, he tells us of
those that we need to be kicking out just a certain time, but in Matthew 21, a couple of
years later, he had to do it again. He did it again in Matthew 21, it said in verse 12,
and Jesus, you can turn if you like, I'm going to be quick, it's two verses, and Jesus went
into the temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in a temple, and overthrew
the tables of the money changers and the seats of them that sold. So he's overturning
tables, he's overturning seats, chairs, he's tipping their chairs over, and said unto them,
it is written, my house should be called the house of prayer, but you have made it a den of
thieves. I think when we kicked out that bunch a couple of years ago, we were a little bit too
soft with it, really. We should have been ripping their chairs out from underneath them,
if we'd been more Christ-like, we're just not Christ-like enough here, that's the problem.
We just were too unChrist-like.
He said you've made it a den of thieves. Jesus physically ejected them. Yeah, I got,
I got criticised recently for ejecting a flaming sodomite. A flaming sodomite,
queer as you like, and I'm being told how unloving it is, you can't make this stuff up.
Jesus is whipping out the guys trading some stuff, let alone some,
some sodomite coming into a family integrated church. Did Jesus kick people out of God's house?
Yes he did on more than one occasion. Turn to John chapter 6. Did Jesus behave like that?
Did Jesus push his religion on others? Yes. Did Jesus tell people they're going to hell? Yes.
Did Jesus stand on the written word? Yes. Did Jesus teach the law? Yes. Did Jesus preach
hard on the sin? Yes. Did Jesus shout? Yes. Did Jesus insult people? Yes. Did Jesus rebuke
rulers? Yes. Did Jesus kick people out of God's house? Yes. Did Jesus call so-called Christians
devils? They say, they say, who are you to judge someone's salvation? Yeah, this is the
one they like to come out with. Who are you to judge someone's salvation? You can't say that
someone isn't saved. You can't say someone's a devil. Aren't we meant to love our brothers and
sisters? Yeah, the brothers and sisters. That's who we're meant to love. Many of us here can say
that we love the brethren. Many people here could say, yep, I love the brethren. Yeah, I love the
brethren. But therefore, like we explained at the beginning, therefore we hate the false brethren.
We hate the fakes. We hate the Judases. And in John 6, Jesus Christ said this in verse 63,
John 6, 63, it is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I
speak unto you, they're spirit and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not.
For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believe not and who should betray him. There
are those that attach themselves who don't believe and who betray us. That's just, that's just
the fact of it. And he said, therefore say down to you that no man could come unto me except
it were given unto him of my father. Basically, they need to be saved. There are those that
aren't, okay? From that time, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.
Then said Jesus unto the twelve, will ye go, will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him,
Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life and we believe and assure that
thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered them, have not I chosen you
twelve and one of you is a devil. He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for he it was
that should betray him being one of the twelve. Do you know what's funny about that? That's back in
in John 6 that he's saying to them, I've chosen you twelve, one of you is a devil,
and they still didn't clock it. Had no idea. Couldn't work it out. He is a devil. He didn't
say one of you becomes a devil. So people get confused about this, okay? Wasn't that, oh well,
Judas just kind of, you know, in the end, I don't know what happened to him and just
something turned him. No, he always was a devil. He was a fake. How dare Jesus say that? How dare he
call Simon a devil? Judas was probably just a bit sinful, you know, just a bit offended by
Jesus rebuking him for moaning about that expensive ointment. You know, he just got a bit upset,
you know, it's probably just a justified grievance he had, which is why he then basically
betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ. No, Judas was a devil that pulled the wool over everyone's eyes
and that sadly is a part of Christian life, okay? That's just the way it is. There are devils, okay?
We'll always have it. That's just the way it goes if you're a legitimate church. Matthew 7
15, Jesus said, beware of false prophets, plural, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly
they are ravening wolves. But we will know them by their fruits, by what comes out of their
mouths. For example, in the context in that passage in Matthew 7, he gives us an example. Lord, Lord,
he said, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have cast out devils in thy name, done
many wonderful works, often the work of salvation comes out eventually, subtly or not. Did Jesus
call so-called Christians devil? But aren't they all just brothers in Christ? Yes, and he warned us
about them too. Turn to Matthew 15, did Jesus behave like that? Did Jesus push his religion
on others? Yes. Did Jesus tell people they're going to hell? Yes. Did Jesus stand in the written
word? Yes. You're turned in Matthew 15, by the way. Did Jesus teach the Lord? Yes. Did Jesus
preach hard at sin? Yes. Did Jesus shout? Yes. Did Jesus suck people? Yes. Did Jesus rebuke rulers?
Yes. Did Jesus kick people out of God's house? Yes. Did Jesus call so-called Christians devils? Yes.
Did Jesus reject false prophets? Did Jesus reject false prophets? So some will say, how can you
decide who's able to get saved? They say, Jesus died for all, the Gospel is for everyone.
Yeah, you hear that a lot. Well, not according to Jesus, not according to the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes,
he died for the sins of the whole world, but there are certain people that are unable to believe.
There are certain people that have been given over that are unable. You've turned to
Matthew 15, but in John 12 39, he said, therefore, they could not believe, could not believe,
because Isaiah said again, he, he, talking about God, has blinded their eyes and hardened their
heart that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart and be
converted, and I should heal them. And one type of these people is false prophets,
those teaching a false Gospel, a false way of salvation. There are those that teach a false
way of salvation, they're false prophets. And however, however meek and mild they appear to be,
however calmly spoken they are, however kind they seem to be when it's, when it's in front
of people or anything else, the Bible says they're false prophets. They're teaching lies,
they're damning people to hell. Like the Pharisees here in Matthew 15, where it says in
verse 12 of Matthew, Matthew 15, then came his disciples and said unto him, know as thou that
the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying, going on, aren't you worried about
the Pharisees being offended? Aren't you worried about these false prophets? I mean, maybe we
can reach them somehow, maybe we could persuade them, maybe we could just have a good long
10-hour debate and somehow they're going to get convinced by the Gospel. But he answered and said,
every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up. Let them alone,
he said, leave them to it. They be blind leaders of the blind, if the blind lead the blind,
both shall fall into the ditch. Do you know what he said? He said, leave them to it. He said,
they're wicked. Now don't get me wrong, he preached on them, but what he's saying is,
you don't need to go and try and appease them, you don't need to go and try and preach the Gospel
to them, let them alone. They be blind leaders of the blind, they're all going to go to hell.
He didn't spend hours to debate them, he didn't find a way to reach those poor
false prophets, he said let them alone. And that includes, for example,
that includes, because I, and again, look, I'm not a big, I don't really care too much
about like silly YouTube comments, things like that, and usually pretty minor, but for example,
Islamic paedophiles, okay? I'm not, oh where's the love? This is so un-Christ like,
no it's not, they're wicked, they're a wicked bunch, they need preaching on.
Jewish rabbis, imams, Catholic priests, oh look, they're wicked, they need, I'm not,
oh I need to somehow not offend them and reach them, no they need preaching on.
People need warning about these people. They've been blind leaders of the blind, if the blind
leader blind, both shall fall into the ditch and all their followers are on their way to hell as well.
Did Jesus reject false prophets? He sure did, okay, and it wasn't just false prophets which
leads me on to the final point, okay, or at least as we would see it. Turn to Deuteronomy 23.
Put a finger in Deuteronomy 23 when you turn there and then also turn to Matthew 7.
So you need Deuteronomy 23 and Matthew chapter 7. Did Jesus behave like that?
I'll do the list while you're doing that. Did Jesus push his religion on others? Yes. Did Jesus
tell people they're going to hell? Yes. Did Jesus stand on the written word? Yes.
Did Jesus teach the Lord? Yes. Did Jesus preach hard on sin? Yes. Did Jesus shout? Yes.
Did Jesus insult people? Yes. Did Jesus rebuke rulers? Yes. Did Jesus kick people out of God's
house? Yes. Did Jesus call so-called Christians devils? Yes. Did Jesus reject false prophets? Yes.
And number 12. Did Jesus reject quares? Now they don't usually call them quares, okay,
they'll call them something else. They call them gay people, the LGBTQ. Did Jesus,
or they'll say something like, you know, did Jesus say that they weren't, did Jesus say
they're, you know, didn't he die for all? I've had, I've been getting, uh, this in emails from
from a, from a sodomite recently, okay, I've been getting called a Pharisee for believing
the Bible, okay, and for apparently, apparently I'm shutting up the kingdom of heaven against men.
Now there is actually, there's an error here because really I'm shutting it, I'm shutting up
the kingdom of heaven against dogs, okay, which he did say without a dogs, okay, so I'm, I'm,
I'm just trying to be more Christ-like, all right. In Matthew 7-6 there's this
standalone verse, okay, Matthew 7-6, where Jesus said it like this, he said,
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they
trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. Did Jesus Christ preach against
sodomites? Yes he did. He said don't give that holy, give not that which is holy unto the
dogs. What's a dog another name for in the Bible? Well look at Deuteronomy 23, in verse 17,
Deuteronomy 23-17 says, There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel,
nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price
of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow, for even both these are abomination
unto the Lord thy God. So God would say, I don't even want their dirty money brought into my
house. I don't want their money brought in to pay a vow. I don't want anything from these people,
but notice how a dog is used as an alternative name for a sodomite here.
He said, he said in verse 17, he gave, he said, There shall be no whore of the daughters of
Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel, and in verse 18, he then was referring to them
again, Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the
Lord thy God for any vow. So back in Matthew 7, where he said, Give not that which is holy
unto the dogs, is he saying, is he worried about them preaching the Gospel to Phido?
Is that what he's worried about? Is he worried that they're trying to open up their Bible and
show their animals reading the Bible or something? Is that, that's not what he's worried about,
okay? Do you know what he's talking about? He's talking about sodomites. He said, Don't give
that which is holy unto the dogs, and then he also calls them something else. He says,
Nigh the cast of your pearls before swine. Pigs, they're swine, they're dogs.
He's basically saying, don't try to win them. Don't try to reason with them out of the word.
Don't try to teach them they will trample it and they will harm you.
We don't have them in this church because they ain't getting saved.
They've been, and this is again something that just people don't really understand.
I was thinking about just preaching a whole sermon on the reprobate doctrine.
A quare like the false prophet, okay, it's the outward sign of someone that's been given over
to a reprobate mind. It's not because this is, and you can explain this to people,
and of course, you know, they, you know, they just won't get it, okay? The unsaved,
especially, the natural mind just cannot get this or they pretend not to get it.
We're not saying that, oh, because they've done this, that means they're now
done a sin that's beyond. They go, look, he paid for all sin. Yeah, he paid for all sin.
He paid for the sins of the whole world, past, present and future.
But a sodomite, someone burning in their lust, in vile affections, one for another, is
unable, they're unable to be saved because they've been, it's a symptom of their reprobate,
their seared mind, their conscience is said, they're unable to be saved.
Okay, that's what the Bible says. Read through Romans 1, it's clear as day.
Jesus called them dogs and he said, don't give that which is holy unto them, they're done.
There's no, there's no, it's same with the false prophet. You're not going to convince
the Catholic priest to put his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ alone for salvation.
Like, you're not going to convince the flaming sodomite to get saved. Now, some will pretend,
some might fake it, to try and latch on to a church, and ultimately, what's usually their
goal, kids, to latch on to a church and have access to children. That's the reality of it.
They ain't coming in here, and if I find one in here, I'll kick him out,
and maybe we will use a whip. I'm trying to be more Christ-like.
But, look, did Jesus reject quiz? Yup, that's why they're quiz, because they're rejected.
Because he rejects them, that's why they're quiz.
Because they've been given over because God has rejected them. Because ultimately,
and it's the same thing, because it's not that, oh well, they just didn't,
they rejected the gospel. Look, people reject the gospel, but there's some combination between
rejecting the knowledge of God, and it's not necessarily someone preaching in the gospel,
and changing the truth of God into a lie. Like the Bible corrector, like the worshipper
of the Antichrist, we've taken a mark of the beast. Like the person that adds or takes away
from God's word, like them calling Jesus possessed with a devil, the blasphemy of the
Holy Spirit, that is a symptom of a reprobate mind. That's someone whose mind has been,
what, and ultimately it kind of goes hand in hand with it, they're calling Jesus a devil.
Okay, all these people have changed the truth of God into a lie,
purposely rejected the truth of God and changed him, and that's what a sodomite does as well.
And that's why throughout all these false religions and all these false prophets,
what is there an absolute plethora of is sodomites. They're everywhere. It's not just
the Catholic priest, that's just because that's the biggest community to make it look like it's
all Christians. They're not Christian, okay. Like the Imams, it's full of them,
full of sodomites. The rabbis, full of them, they do horrific stuff. The whole lot of them,
the Jehovah's Witnesses, full of it. The whole lot of them, all these false religious types,
it's full of sodomy, it's full of child abuse, because it goes hand in hand. Did Jesus
reject quiz? Yes, yes. You know what, once they're given over, reprobate, he said don't give that
which is holy unto them. Don't even talk to them about the word of God. Don't
bring him into a house of God. I mean, it's blasphemy.
Did Jesus behave like that? Yes he did. That's the Jesus of the Bible. It's a fake,
this sort of, oh yeah, those sodomites, I love them all. Oh no, that was that mean
Old Testament God. Oh yeah, no, that was all that mean old Leviticus stuff,
I just wish he'd never written that. He wouldn't listen. God the Father wouldn't listen. Lucky
I'm here to set things straight. No, he said give not that which is holy unto them.
You know why? Because they should be put to death as the Old Testament commanded a godly
government to do. A government which was doing things as God wanted would have put them to
death. And caveat, no, don't go out and put them to death, okay. That's not what we're
saying. We're not a government, okay. However a godly government would, that's what the
Bible teaches. Nothing's changed. Jesus Christ's saying yes day to day and forever.
Go back to 1 John 2. Did Jesus behave like that? Did Jesus push his religion on others? Yes.
Did Jesus tell people they're going to hell? Yes. Did Jesus stand on the writ of word? Yes.
Did Jesus teach the law? Yes. And obviously the caveat there is obviously not the
ordinances and everything else but the moral law for sure. Did Jesus preach hard on sin? Yes.
Did Jesus shout? Yes. Did Jesus insult people? Yes. Did Jesus rebuke rulers? Yes.
Did Jesus kick people out of God's house? Yes. Did Jesus call so-called Christians devils? Yes.
Did Jesus reject false prophets? Yes. And did Jesus reject quares? Yes.
So I just like calling them quares. It tickles me. But isn't a lot of that opposite to even
and let's be honest now and you don't have to put your hands up to what so many here think
about when they think of someone being Christ-like. Really. Many people here will be sitting there
going yeah when someone says be more Christ-like and everything else I'm not thinking about this
stuff and of course there's other parts of course like I said at the beginning okay you
have to kind of counterbalance all the kind of you know the the other side of it and I'm
just trying to show you the full character of the Lord Jesus Christ. But you know what
it gets to the point where people will even say of just men and women of God
people are just out trying to do the things of God they'll say things like did Jesus behave
like that because in their mind they've already got this image of this very effeminate
non-confrontational very you know whatever you want to call it all the fake version of Jesus
and not the Jesus of the Bible.
The real Jesus wasn't some fake holier than thou clown. He wasn't a fake in whom there was no
guile okay so trying to make yourself look holy like all these guys do out there all
these so-called vicars priests pastors bishops apostles and the rest of them okay they ain't
holy they're fakes they're full of guile they're not Christ-like. He wasn't some queer
and he wasn't some scared rabbit okay he wasn't you know just so scared of saying anything to
offend anyone upset anyone yeah look we don't go out to cause offense but you know what when
you preach the word of God when you go out and you try and show people the gospel you're
going to offend people sometimes yeah I've been teaching and preaching and trying to encourage
you to avoid it where possible but it's going to happen that's just that's just the way it is
okay you go out and you show people the gospel people get upset people get angry they don't
always just write silly little emails like that woman did okay
however for us we want to be more Christ-like don't we and you know what they got angry with
Christ they got angry so much with Christ ended up nailing him to a cross that's the way it is
but it takes learning the Bible to know him properly verse five where you were said in
first John chapter two but who so keepeth his word in him verily is a love of God perfected
hereby know we that we are in him and if you know him then you should also walk like him but
the real Jesus as revealed by his word verse six says he that saith he abideth in him
ought himself also so to walk even as he walked we should be trying to walk more like Christ
but it's the Christ of the Bible not the Christ of the world not the Christ that is a making
of their own of their own hands the making of the image that they want it's a Christ
as revealed in the preserved inspired word of God on that we're going to finish in a word of prayer
well thank you for um well the Lord Jesus Christ thank you that you sent your son to
well to come and and not only to to die on the cross and pay for all our sins Lord but also
to to give us an example of how we should behave as as men women children of God here Lord
help us to be more Christlike but more like the real Lord Jesus Christ the Christ of the Bible
not the Christ of people's imaginations not the Christ that's been altered and changed by
by the wicked in this world Lord in various ways help us to to be in the word Lord to keep
studying the word to keep reading the word to keep hearing the word preach to know what really
is the Lord Jesus Christ and and what isn't and help us to um to take your word seriously
as that's ultimately what we the only thing we can really stand on like the example we saw
in the Lord Jesus Christ standing on the written word Lord and help us to do that as
we go out now and preach the gospel to the lost help us to find those that want to hear your
word and to preach it clearly and accurately emboldened and get people say this afternoon
to return for this evening's service in Jesus name pray all of this amen