Well, it's the last night here and I wanted to preach something positive, so there's gonna be
some positivity in this sermon, but I wanted to preach a message that I just kept thinking,
what am I going to preach about? And this just kept coming to my mind. But I did want to say
before I begin, thank you to everybody, people that came from the States to be here. I appreciate you
coming, Miss JC, of course, the brothers from Steadfast, Jacob and Jared, and also just everybody
that, I know you guys, the traffic is bad around here and it's hard to get here, especially on a
Wednesday night. So I really appreciate everybody that made the effort to come out and I just wanted
to thank everybody also for those that are listening at home that maybe couldn't make it.
And we're very blessed to have this church here. I'm very confident in this church moving forward
and I'm very happy with the results of it. And even though we lost a third of the people
just recently, you know, you guys are still just powering through and that's something
that I definitely want to preach about tonight, some things to think about. So let's go ahead
and look down at our Bibles at verse number one in Psalm chapter 109. The Bible says,
hold not thy peace, O God, my praise, for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful
are opened against me. They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They compass me about
also with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause for my love. They are my
adversaries, but I give myself unto prayer and they have rewarded me evil for good and hated
or excuse me, hatred for my love. Set thou a wicked man over him and let Satan stand
at his right hand. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned and let his prayer become sin.
Let his days be few and let another take his office. Let's have a word of prayer. Heavenly
Father, we thank you Lord so much for the scriptures tonight and Lord, I just pray that
you'd help me to preach what you laid on my heart tonight and God, I just pray that you would just
bless this church, continue to bless the leadership here and Lord all the church members.
Lord, I pray that everybody would be in one accord and striving together for the gospel's sake Lord
and for the truth's sake and I just pray that you would just continue to bless Sure Foundation
Baptist Church here in the UK and Lord, let us charge forward and Lord, just be a bright and
shining light in a place that has a lot of spiritual darkness and we pray these things
in Jesus' precious name. Amen. So in this psalm and obviously a lot of you probably already know
this that this psalm is talking about a lot about Judas Iscariot and Judas Iscariot betrayed the
Lord Jesus Christ and even though he walked with him and was taught by him, he was personally
chosen by the Lord Jesus Christ and everybody was, I'm guessing that everybody there was friends with
him. Everybody was friends with Judas including Jesus Christ Himself even though he knew what
was going to happen with him but you know there comes a time in every church, every church is
going to go through this if they're a proper church that Judas is going to betray us. Now Judas
betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ. Of course he's one specific person but throughout the Bible you see
multitudes of people that have seemed to be good, seemed to be right but then they just surprised
they're Judas Iscariot and so the title of my sermon tonight is When Judas Betrays Us. When
Judas Betrays Us. Now Judas for the intent of the sermon just means simply someone that does betray
you. Now not everybody that betrays you is going to be like a reprobate God-hating Judas Iscariot
but what is Judas famous for doing? He's famous for betraying the Lord Jesus Christ right and he
was a definite reprobate there's no doubt about that but someone that you know if I call, I've
called people with Judas before they're like how dare you call me unsaved and like well I'm not
calling you unsaved I'm just calling you you know someone that's betrayed me you know someone stabbed
you in the back and sometimes people stab you in the back even you know Saul promised that he
wouldn't hurt David and try to attack and kill David anymore but what did he do? He tried to go
back and kill him again so you know Saul was a saved man but yet he betrayed David and and tried
to have him killed multiple times for no reason and so obviously David is the one that's authored
this psalm here talking about Judas but you know the title of the sermon is Why or When Judas
Betrays Us and point number one tonight Judas will betray us like he betrayed Jesus now again
what I'm saying is that there's Judases that are going to come and betray us and this church has
just recently gone through a big betrayal and so I want to preach to you about this thing and I
don't want people to get discouraged with this fact because it's going to happen again all right
so it's going to happen again but how we respond to Judas betraying us is very important to how the
mission continues to go on because I preached a couple sermons on Sunday about the you know about
making England King James again and you know people will say well it was never meant to be
a monarchy you know this you know this what God put together he never meant to be a monarchy well
isn't he the king of kings and lord of lords isn't it called the kingdom of God isn't it called
the kingdom of heaven that's the kingdom that we need to be a part of the kingdom of God is not
the kingdom of men but it will be one day it'll be where he's the king of everything but yeah I mean
people will say well it's not meant to be a kingdom but it is a kingdom and we need to
continue to push forward the agenda of the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven it
doesn't matter who the king of England is right now what ultimately matters that our king is the
lord Jesus Christ and that we should push through and do our best when things like this happen to
you know and and look sometimes when Judas betrays us it might take a while but then
you know Judas might come back Judas might come back and try to you know mess with you
or you know try to get you to leave the church or something and that's what they that's ultimately
what they want to do they want to come in cause havoc try to overthrow the church and then they
want to drag as many people out as they can once they've been revealed now let's look at Mark
chapter 14 tonight mark chapter 14 number one Judas will betray us like he betrayed Jesus so
just count on the fact that a Judas is going to come out and betray us and sometimes it's multiple
Judases sometimes it's multiple people and and people that want to split a great church there's
something wrong with those people and I'm not saying that those people aren't reprobates I
kind of tend to think that they are but anyway mark chapter 14 verse 41 it says and he cometh
the third time and saith unto them sleep on now and take your rest it is enough the hour is come
behold the son of man is betrayed in the into the hand of sinners so Jesus this is Jesus at the
garden of Gethsemane he's trying to get the disciples to stay awake with him and that's kind
of a picture too it's like sometimes the church falls asleep and they don't see the wolf coming
and we need to be obviously being vigilant and diligent and making sure you know but obviously
without having to blame and try to find the pin the tail on the Judas all the time there's a fine
line there's like a it's like a middle you can't be all the way over here or all the way over here
you kind of got to be in the middle a little bit and not everybody that gives you a red flag is
necessarily a Judas sometimes people just are flaggy you know sometimes people just aren't
haven't grown up in a Baptist church not faggy but flaggy so sometimes people are flaggy right
so sometimes they might have a weird thing that they believe or something like that but you know
when you get saved you don't always you don't automatically believe every single doctrine in
the bible I don't know if you guys realize that or not but we all didn't believe the right thing
when we first got saved it takes time to learn those things and so if someone believes something
that's kind of weird that doesn't necessarily mean that they're a Judas or whatever but we should
look for the red flags when they're there or just log them in our in our memory bank and say that
was kind of a weird thing and so then when it comes out then it's not such a big surprise to you
but you know we want to give people the benefit of the doubt don't we we want to give people the
benefit of the doubt because if everybody that came to this church that we were just like where
did you come from what's your background you know and just like give them the third degree
and if we're like that maybe we should be a little bit less like that and be a little
welcoming I mean it seems like this church is pretty welcoming I appreciate that but anyway
Jesus is here and his disciples have all fallen asleep and he has just gotten done praying and
he's about ready he knows what he's about to go through and he says in verse 42 rise up let us go
lo he that betrayeth me is at hand and immediately while he yet spake cometh Judas one of the 12 and
with him a great multitude of swords and staves from the chief priests and the scribes and the
elders now if you remember in the book of John Judas he he stands up remember Jesus says hey
whoever I dip the sop you know they're saying who is it that's going to betray you and he's like
whoever I dip the sop and hand it to him and then like Jesus Jesus dips the sop hands it to Judas
and they go is it me you know like that's how slick and that's how good he was is that that
people actually thought it was them it's like you don't you think you know yourself better than
than that like to say is it me could it could it possibly mean be me and then instead of the person
that Jesus said it was when he dipped the sop and handed it to him so you know Judases are very
slick and very good at what they do but here you have I said Jesus will you know Judas will betray
us like he betrayed Jesus and how did it happen well he did it secretly but then it was known to
everybody at that moment when he did it and that's kind of how it happens it's like we don't know
when they're gonna you know these these these reprobate sleeper cells are going to just pop up
and and explode and do the things that they do but this is this is what Judas did is you know
they're the the disciples are thinking is it me and then like not too long after that they see
who it really is Judas it's the same person that Jesus said it was but we don't always know who
they are we don't always know for sure who they are because they're very good at blending in
obviously there's some that are kind of like low level scum that like you see them the the you see
that they're halfway wolves as soon as they walk in the door like okay this person isn't very uh
you know it's like I'm a sheep and it's like their ears hanging out their tails wagging it's
like yeah I don't know about that you know they believe some weird strange doctrine or they're
just you know some some people like we've had some low low level wolves when we first started
our church in Vancouver but anyway look at verse 44 it says and he he that betrayeth him had given
them a token saying whomsoever I shall kiss that same is he take him and lead him away safely
so Judas had given them a token that this is what he's going to do he's going to kiss the person
that is the one and and so remember look at what it says he that betrayed him
say Judas is our betrayers they're going they're backstabbers they're people that want
to hurt us they're people that want to hurt the church but Judas said whomsoever I kiss the same
as he and in verse 45 it says and as soon as he was come he go a straight way to him and saith
master master and kissed him and they laid their hands on him and took him so Judas had given him
a token and I find that very interesting that says that they he had given him a token you know
and what is the token of knowing that Judas was this betrayer this wolf in sheep's clothing this
you know his name is Judas and you know what he is you know when we talk about him post Judas is
he's he is a Judas you know well his word has become a byword nobody in this room has the name
Judas for a reason because it's just a byword now isn't it it's a name that we don't want to name
our children because of it's synonymous with Jesus Christ being betrayed look at Philippians
chapter 1 verse 28 Philippians 1 verse 28 but the fact that he it says he had given them a token
and we know that Judas is called the son of perdition right I preached a sermon recently
about how Judas pictures the Antichrist and one of the things that make him picture the Antichrist
is that he's called the son of perdition Jesus said he was never saved he never believed he
didn't lose his salvation he never was saved that's the problem and you know we just sometimes we
just don't know who those people are going to be but how do we know the token of what Judas was
well the token was is that he walked up to a person that he'd been with for three years
that he'd ministered with you know that ministered with him in front of all of his friends and walked
up and kissed Jesus Christ on the face signifying the betrayal that he was going to betray him with
look at Philippians 1 28 says and nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an
evident token of perdition see it we're going to see when you know when someone is bad or someone
is a Judas in our church that you know there's going to be a token there should be something
that we're going to see in them eventually that shows us that they were never that they're
in perdition or there's someone that's not saved so someone that's in perdition if you just do a
study on the word perdition you're never going to find a positive a positive mention of someone
that goes on perdition or a positive thing about that statement it's always someone that's headed
for hell that's what it means it means perdition means damnation perdition means that they're
going to roast in hell eternally that's what it means okay and it says but to you of salvation
and that of god now text and constant online stalking is something i've been dealing with
for a while and it's funny these people that leave our church and things like that it's like only
people with our phone numbers would know to just stalk us online and and i don't know what their
aim is maybe it's just to to terrorize us like this verse says but i've been getting a lot of
weird text messages and you know i get signed up for emails that i never you know email addresses
that i've never signed up for and it's just like goes into you know it's it's basically
what i'm receiving now is like online harassment i've been getting it a lot lately i'm i'm sure
that maybe some of you guys get a little bit of harassment online i'm not sure but this is one
of the things that has been happening lately and it is against the law to do this but i know
there's apps out there that can like just people can you know if they have your number then they
can just text you from some rando number or whatever and they take stuff like hi or hello
hey haven't talked to you a while you know and just i think well i don't know what they're
trying to do like trying to engage you into some kind of conversation but a lot of times that
they'll just say hey it's brother robert or it's like that's this isn't brother robert's number
like what are you trying to do here but this is just an example of things that people do to try
to terrorize you now obviously i'm not afraid i just push block right but people will do all
kinds of strange things once they've left the church and it's like you know normal people that's
why i'm saying it's a it's a it's a token when someone tries to terrorize you it's a token of
their perdition because normal people when they leave a church or even if they got kicked out of
a church if they're just a normal person maybe they just you know did something wrong and just
need to be kicked out they're not reprobates okay normal people just move on with their life don't
they like i i've gone to other churches and when i left i didn't continuously stalk the pastor
on every online ability i didn't download an app where i could text and harass the person i didn't
download an app where i could text and harass all the people that go to that church
that's isn't that weird isn't it weird when people just continuously stalk and harass and
all these things and that and that's what philippians chapter 128 saying it's saying
that when you know don't be terrified by your adversaries you know understand this it's an
evident token of perdition it's the evident token that there's something wrong with that person
and they want to just try to terrorize you and we shouldn't allow those things to terrorize us
we should just know that when someone is doing something weird like that or just making up
all kinds of weird online personas and calling themselves you know whatever anything besides
their real name because they're really in in reality they're cowards aren't they they won't
face you with their real name because they're just total cowards and scumbags as brother
any would say pure scum right that's the type of people that try to try to there is a difference
between someone that's just you know maybe they just got kicked out for doing something wrong
and a difference between someone that's a total reprobate okay and reprobates will try to continue
to terrorize people afterwards because that's what psychopaths do right don't they terrorize
and and they're like predators look at the uh look at back at psalm chapter 109
look at verse uh verse number three
it says they compass me about also with with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause
well i mean what kind of person fights against someone for no reason
a scum a piece of garbage reprobate right look at verse two for the mouth of the wicked and
the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me they have spoken against me with a lying tongue
this is another thing that these types of people like to do they just like to lie and make things
up look at verse number four for my love they are my adversaries so he's saying i gave them love and
what are they they're my enemies because of the love i've shown them but i give myself on a prayer
verse five they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love this is i mean this is
such a bad person it's it's just unimaginable to to to someone like us because you know we don't
go to we don't wait and go to sleep and think who can i try to destroy before i go to bed at night
the bible talks about people that aren't even able to sleep until they've done mischief and
mischief doesn't just mean like they play a little prank or something but it can mean that
but these are people that want to try to destroy someone and they can't even sleep unless they've
done somebody wrong or evil and when we love somebody and they hate us in return you know
and i'm talking about in the church situation not just random unsaved people this is uh this is a
very strange phenomenon that we have to deal with because you notice you won't see a lot of churches
like just regular churches that aren't doing anything for god they don't really have this
issue i've this is a phenomenon i've never seen until i started you know being new ifv or whatever
but you know when you think about it there's a lot of churches that have been conquered already
so why is the devil going to try to mess with them why would he care he's going to focus his energy
on people that are trying to do something that's good he's going to try to focus his energy on
people that are trying to get out there and preach the gospel right because he wants to
drag as many people to hell with him as he can and so wouldn't it wouldn't it make sense that
the people that are his children the children of belial that they would act the same way
they want to come in and try to drag as many people out as they can and make them unfruitful
i mean you can't make them unsaved you can't stop you can't take away someone's salvation but you
know what you can do take them out of the fight you can take them out of the church and get them
disgruntled and that's kind of how they operate they still operate on the outside like a wolf
would because wolves are scared of the shepherd wolves those wolves that got kicked out they're
not going to come back in here and try to start any crap they're not going to just like you know
they played a tough guy here but when it came down to it you know they just got walked out
they didn't do anything there's nothing tough about it they're scared once they get realized
once people realize what they are then they'll just circle around that's what actual wolves do
that they circle around trying to find the weakness in the camp they try to find the
weakest animal they can attack they try to attack the weakest person they can maybe it's a child
that's like these reprobates are all like predators that's what they do they just
circle around trying to find a weakness that they can attack at and that's why it's good to have
people like this gone from our church and so number one judas is going to attack it's going
to happen he's going to try to he's going to betray us just like we were like the lord jesus
was betrayed he's going to betray us and what do i mean by that well number two when judas betrays
us it's going to hurt why is it going to hurt well let's look at matthew chapter 26 there's
a parallel passage to mark chapter 14 and it gives us a little more detail here that's why
the gospels are so great because it's going to give us some more detail and insight from those
men that wrote the gospels down for us but matthew chapter 26 verse 21 is a very long chapter but
let's start in verse 21 it says and as they did eat he said verily i say unto you that one of you
shall betray me and they were exceedingly sorrowful and began every one of them to say unto
him lord is it i and he answered and said he the dip of his hand with me in the dish the same shall
betray me and the son of man goeth as it is written of him but woe unto the that man by whom
the son of man is betrayed it had been better or excuse me it had been good for that man if he had
never been born so jesus is talking about judas here it says in verse 25 then judas which betrayed
him answered and said master is a die and he said unto him thou has said i love how jesus does that
he'll have people ask him a question i'll go that's what you said because it's like he knows
what's in their heart he knows what they're thinking about but it's interesting that you
know he says it'd been good for that man if he had never been born what a sad thing you know and
talking about someone again who he's had to be around for three years so don't get all upset if
you have to be so around someone for three minutes okay jesus put up with this guy for three years
and he knew that he had some kind of wicked devices and influences and then ultimately he
was going to betray him but he still allowed him to be around the other disciples and that should
just tell us that the same thing is going to be for us in our church life there's going to be
people that are going to just get in here and then they're going to just you know slowly fester
until they reveal themselves also and it took about a year and a half for these people you know
that were kicked out of here to finally get where we had two witnesses against them to throw them
out so look what it says in skip down to verse 47 it says and while he had spake lo judas one of the
twelve came and with him a great multitude with swords and staves from the chief priests and the
elders of the people now he that betrayed him gave them a sign saying whosoever i shall kiss
that same as he hold him fast and forthwith he came to jesus and said hail master and kissed him
he even said hail matt he calls him master and look what look what jesus says to him in verse
50 he says and jesus said unto him friend wherefore art thou come isn't that interesting
jesus knows how bad this guy is but yet he still calls him friend you know why because jesus treated
him like a friend even though he knew what he was jesus still treated him well and sometimes we can
know like sometimes the leadership will see things that you don't see and you're you know don't so
don't feel bad that maybe you got duped by somebody that that brother ian kind of sniffed
out before don't don't feel upset about that but we can't you know here's the thing we can't as
pastors and evangelists and things like that and church leaders we can't just jump on everything
that somebody does you have to have two witnesses you have to right otherwise it's not a biblical
thing to do and so the way it was done most a lot of the people were here were sitting here when it
got when it happened and how it went down i believe that god just confounded their minds
to to do something so brazen and stupid as to just say oh yeah you know he was yelling at my
wife you know he yelled at my wife for you know 38 or 28 minutes or whatever i mean what a dumb thing
to to be revealed as but you know god is the one that's going to give that confounding to them so
that they get caught and just how it happened was just masterful and i'll explain that here more in
just a minute here but jesus says friend wherefore art thou com then came they and laid hands on
jesus and took him the last thing that jesus says to judas is he calls him he said he asked him a
question friend what do you what are you here for friend you know jesus kissed jesus on the face
and you know it's basically like kissing the very door to heaven and then he still goes straight to
hell that's how bad judas was you know who does that someone really bad and you know when judas
in our lives reveals himself it's usually someone that we call a friend too isn't it
it's not the person with the black eyeliner underneath his eyes it's like
it's somebody that we think is charismatic you know there's someone we call friend there's
someone that we prayed with someone we prayed for someone we spent time with someone we counseled
together with someone that we helped someone that our church helped someone that we gave marriage
counseling to someone that we married possibly someone that we did funerals for their family
you know i'm talking about the leadership in those cases but you know someone whose children we led
to christ someone that we called a friend that's who it usually is someone that's been around for
a while and we don't think that they are what they really are but see judas will reveal himself
and so we have to understand that when judas reveals himself it's going to be someone that
we know or we're friends with you know not everybody might be friends with them maybe
someone's like i knew he was bad the whole time it's like yeah people always say that you know
i knew garrett was bad the whole time but garrett kerchway you know just but people that's probably
because you had a red flag in your mind about that person and you just tucked it away and you're
like you know what that might be kind of weird but i'm still going to show this person christian
love i'm still going to be a brother in christ and i'm still going to help them there's people
that have betrayed me that i that they were very good friends of mine i can see i trusted them with
everything and then they stabbed me in the back and it hurts when judas betrays you it's usually
a friend and it usually hurts it's not just like ah yeah well i just want to get rid of them anyway
it's not always like that maybe sometimes it is but sometimes it's not sometimes it's someone
that you cared for you prayed for and all these different things you know but jesus christ loved
judas at some point he loved him didn't he i mean if he called him friend he called him even though
he knew that he was bad he ministered unto him he taught him things and you know what judas did he
returned evil for his good hate for his love but that's what's going to happen when we are in the
church life that we're in and we just have to it's just something we have to get used to you know
when when it happened i'm sure that a lot of people were probably really shocked and i'm not
even going to ask for a call of hands of who was shocked i'm sure it was shocking to some people
but when we get burned by a judas it could just be even a disgruntled church member
it hurts it's very disappointing because sometimes people that are good people but they're just kind
of weak in the faith or weak mentally or just you know they just don't have it all together
those are the people that the wolves pull out with them because they are like predators you know the
bible teaches that they are like predators they compass about and then they target the weak
wolves don't generally just go after the biggest alpha male bull in a load of cattle do they
they don't go after the big one that can just rip them to shreds with their horns they go after the
the little babies don't they they go after the ones that are maybe injured maybe they got a
little limp they target that person or you know not the person they target that other animal
and then they focus their their their rage and and and try to eat that one that's weak
but that's we have to understand that's what's going to happen here and so there was three there
was four couples that were kicked out but there was three you know two one couple has been restored
but they weren't part of what the main thing that happened where they actually literally stood up
in our church and lied through their teeth in front of everybody here these people are alex
afotato is it afotato is that how you and and obviously his wife him and his wife holly are
both kicked out alex didn't get kicked out to the very end because he tried to change his story in
the middle of it but the reason why i'm mentioning names because i want to make sure these people are
publicly marked because there's not the video that we that where all this happened is not public
but i want to make sure they're publicly marked because i don't want them running around to other
churches thinking that they have an inroad there so as the pastor of shirt foundation baptist
church i'm publicly marking alex and holly afotato doran and elena lazar ben and nick
franklin they're all marked and uh basically according to the bible we're to have no fellowship
with them okay and i know the brother ian probably has already said that but i just want to make it
clear that i stand behind ian with those people being kicked out and they're never coming back
and i'll tell you why i'll explain that in the rest of the sermon but number three tonight
when judas betrays us we must judge right and true without pity when judas betrays us
we must judge right and true without pity this is what the bible teaches folks and like this is some
kind of nasty it is a little bit of a nasty business isn't it dealing with these types of
people let's turn over to first corinthians chapter five and brother ian's preaching a
series right now about people that should be kicked out of church i think that's the isn't
that what the series is called people that should be kicked out of church and so you know i know
that church maybe in your past might not have been like this and when you saw the showdown
that happened here it was pretty dramatic like if you have and if you weren't here and did not see
it i watched it same day and i was like dang that was gangsta but anyway it was uh it was it was
pretty you know like it was just a normal day at our church i'm sitting here watching like this
showdown happen of wicked people but basically just what happened is that that ben he he
basically false accused ian of a bunch of things over a meeting that happened and ian brought two
couple he brought in uh doran and elena and ben and nick and he wanted to find out whether you
know it really wasn't a big deal but he wanted to find out like whether she was like elena was
gossiping to somebody else and that's really how it all kind of started seems like a petty
deal some people might think well that's pretty petty it is but here's what's not petty saying
that ian is a hypocrite and that ian is a liar and like he had i mean a 10 page basically essay that
he sent to me like accusing ian of all this stuff and it's like i had already heard the recording
though i knew exactly what was said and his accusation is you know first it started out he
yell he shouted at my wife and made her cry which wasn't true ever who who was here when that
happened raise your hands so did he shout at his wife and make her cry no did he shout at any time
in that whole record recording to make his wife cry no yeah and so that's that's kind of what
took place is that you know ben basically told me that he had three witnesses and i was like
because i had told ben that he needed to apologize and just move on if he wants to come to this
church he's going to need to apologize or respond to the letter that ian wrote wrote back to him
answering his accusations or you know or just move on apologize and be done with it but he
just really got bold he i think that he just didn't realize obviously that there was a
recording of everything that was said there and then he just doubled down and then said it was
like he shouted at them for 28 minutes or whatever it was a half hour so then you know that's that's
when the three false witnesses stood up and like alex's you know his arm just you know but then
like once he i think he he kind of he kind of backed down a little bit of what he was saying
but still said i i listened outside and i could hear what they were saying and it was just like
so ian waited to kick him out for the dramatic ending but you know we were hoping to not have
to play that whole thing and ian to have to give all the commentary on it but it ended up being
that it had to be done so anyway you guys all everybody that goes to this church already knows
that but you know basically what they did was so evil and so wicked that i would never allow
someone that did something that brazen to come back to this church again look at first corinthians
four or five four it says in the name of our lord jesus christ when you're gathered together
and my spirit with the power of the lord jesus christ to deliver such and one unto satan for
the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the lord jesus so
what is the bible talking about here well it's talking about this guy that that committed
fornication with his father's wife and they were like not wanting to kick the guy out paul says
you got to kick this guy out but what's the bible say here it says to deliver such and one unto
satan for the destruction of the flesh what happens when someone's kicked out of this church
the bible says that they're given over to satan for the destruction of the flesh
now look at verse six your glory is not good know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole
lump so when you have this type of leaven in your church you have to what get rid of it that's what
it says purge out there for verse 7 the old leaven that you may be a new lump and so now this church
has purged that leaven out of our church we had to kick them out because you know what they stood
up and railed and lied about something that even it doesn't matter how stupid it was it's still
railing and lying and so in order for this church to be a new lump and to continue forward
then they had to be purged out of here does it say purge out there the old leaven that you may
be new lump as you are unleavened for even christ our passover sacrifice for us therefore let us
keep the feast not with old leaven neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness but the unleaven
bread of sincerity and truth i wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators yet not
all together with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with
idolaters for then must you needs go out of the world but now i have written unto you not to keep
company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or what's
it say there a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such and one no not to eat
we're to have it says not to keep company what does that mean you don't hang out with them
you don't eat with them so if someone's kicked out of this church that means you're to have no
fellowship with them and that's not just like us like trying to control you or something that's
what god says why does he say that because they're leaven because there's someone poisoned they
they're trying to poison the well here and you don't want to be outside hanging out with them
you're like well yeah but the bible says to restore them that are you know if you're either
spiritual restore them that that's not what it's talking about here in this case because what they
did was way more brazen than just someone if someone is a railer can they be forgiven yes
they can be forgiven but what they did here was different it was a different level and that's why
the other couple that got kicked out was forgiven for the and after they repented okay so look at
verse 12 it says and what have i to do to judge them that are without do not you judge them that
are within but them that are without god judges therefore put away from among yourselves that
wicked person what's the bible say that we're supposed to do with these types of people
we're supposed to put them out of the church god's going to deal with them god's going to judge them
and you know what if they're not what i think they are then you know they'll they'll thrive
someplace else but what i've seen is that some of them are reaching out online to other pastors
they're still see that because that's what they're going to do they're going to use other
angles to try to get into other circles because we don't all know each other who hangs around
each other necessarily but all it takes is one of these wolves to just you know they're going to
i i just want to help to warn other pastors about these people because if they're going to come in
to another church i want to warn that pastor now if someone doesn't want to take and heed to the
warning they don't want to take the mark that we put upon them then that's their problem and they
can just deal with it themselves but i'll tell you what you know they people should should take
heed when someone's been marked publicly by a pastor you know what it's not like i'm just on
a hair trigger to do this type of thing i'm not just kicking people out left and right every
single week but even if i was and i'm right then it's still not wrong to kick someone out
and and enforce a mark upon them turn to romans chapter 16 verse 17 romans chapter 16 verse 17
romans chapter 16 verse 17 see the bible tells us we're supposed to throw people out we're supposed
to not keep company with these types of people and we're supposed to judge those people from within
and you know i allowed the church to judge the situation see what was brought forth was
their false accusation and then they they got to say what their false accusation was all three of
them didn't they get to stand up and say what they said that they saw right and then the recording
was played and then everybody here knew that they were liars but had that recording not been there
then what would have been stopping them from trying to overthrow ian in the church what would
have stopped them so we have to deal with things look at romans 16 17 now i beseech you brethren
mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you've received
and what's it say hang out with them go to tea with them eat dinner with them
talk to them message them text them what's it say avoid them doesn't it isn't that what it says and
i'm not saying anybody here is talking to these people that were thrown out but i'll tell you
what and and look i'm not going to single you out or whatever but you know if you are talking to
them and if you if you are talking to them then shame on you you're not right with god and you
need to to repent of that and you don't have to come tell me you don't have to come tell brother
ian but let me tell you something if you're hanging out with them they're going to drag you down
they're going to drag you down look god gave that to us because i'll tell you what they had
done a lot of weird things up until that point and i'll and i'll list for for you some of the
weird things that they did later that just it's just a textbook it's a playbook for these people
this is what they do this is what they always do and i'll run through some of those with you but
let's turn to deuteronomy chapter 19 verse 15 deuteronomy chapter 19 verse 15
while you're turning i'm just going to read the rest of roman 16 verse 18 it says
for when they for they that are such serve not our lord jesus christ but their own belly and
by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple look you don't want to
be hanging around these people that's why we're supposed to mark them that's why we're supposed
to avoid them so that you know who to avoid and if their names are named publicly and you're like
well that's just not right for you to name their names publicly well how come paul named people's
names publicly then how come john named people's names publicly how come jesus named people's names
publicly you're like who how about harry called him a fox you know and you guys know what foxes
are like they're bad aren't they all right so but you're in deuteronomy look at verse 19 verse 15
it says now this is what made me i was reading this just in my daily bible reading and i and i
saw this and i thought well this really bears a lot of weight in my decision to never allow them
back you know and the other thing is they never tried to repent afterwards they just said well
you know there's more to that recording which is a total lie if you listen to it then you know
that there's nowhere in that recording it's like you heard it from beginning to end and i made
sure that he was going to play the whole thing in its entirety but then i got a message from doran
just like right after it said there's 10 more minutes missing from that it's like no there
isn't dude i didn't even i didn't even answer him because i don't want to talk to him at all
but these people are slithering around in our circles still and i just want to make sure that
like anybody that wants to can just listen to this sermon they know these people are marked
permanently from our church and if you want to hang out with them then that's your problem but
you know i would i would advise against it look what it says in verse 15 one witness shall not
rise up against a man for any iniquity or for any sin in any sin that he sinneth at the mouth of two
witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses shall the matter be established so that's why
so when he said see he wanted the three witnesses and when they stood up they had two or three
witnesses right and they thought they were going to smash in into oblivion and that would have
smashed this church into oblivion do you understand how pivotal that day was to this church's moving
forward it's very it was very pivotal it's a big deal it's like you're being dramatic pastor
thompson i'm not being dramatic at all it was pivotal it says if a false witness rise up against
any man to testify against him that which is wrong then both the men between whom the controversy is
shall stand before the lord before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days and the
judges shall make diligent inquisition and behold if the witness be a false witness and have
testified falsely against his brother then shall you do unto him as he had thought to do unto his
brother so shall thou put the evil away from among you and those which remain shall hear and fear
and shall henceforth commit no more such evil among you and thine eye shall not pity
you see that thine eye shall not pity but life shall go for life eye for eye tooth for tooth
hand for hand foot for foot so whatever those false witnesses intentions were
to this church and to the leadership of this church those things should be done unto them
what were they trying to do they were trying to overthrow brother ian as the leader here and so
and what would what would have happened do you think ian would have just stayed at this church
or do you think that they would have made him go if they had gotten their way they would have made
him go in shame because he didn't have the witnesses that he need and they would have stood
before him as three false witnesses isn't that what jezabel did to naboth
he he had a vineyard that ahab really wanted pretty bad and his wife was like aren't you the
king and then like she hired false witnesses to stand up and and supposedly it was a big
celebration for him but really the false witnesses were standing up to murder him and that's what
happened they bore false witness against him and everybody threw rocks at him until he died now
we're living in an age where these things like we don't live under god's government right now
but this is what god says should happen now they weren't trying to stand up to have them
put to death they were trying to stand up to have them thrown out of this church
so shouldn't what they wanted to do happen to them yes do you think that they would allowed
him to stay do you think they would allow them to come back no they would have just turned this
church would have turned into a a nightmare fanboy garbage church it would have been turned
into a trash can see that's why i know that god is with this church because god stood up for us
when we didn't have you know we didn't have everything we needed and he just allowed that
to happen i mean over something so trivial but he still allowed it to happen and it's like we got
you know three for the price of one or whatever you know one stone three wicked families thrown
out of this church so in the new testament we can only go as far as our judgments are allowed
to go by law so the extent of the power of our church is to cast them out right we can't just
do what would have been done in the old testament we have to just cast them out that's why first
christians five is there so we know what do we do in this situation you throw them out you get
the 11 out of the church if someone murders someone in our church the police come and take
them away hopefully that's what would be done so like whatever we have in our power is what we can
do and and instead of like stoning false prophets or whatever you know stoning you know sodomites
and pedophiles or whatever we have to just call the police on them but a lot of times even
nowadays the police won't come they wouldn't come they said we got a sodomite down here
sure foundation baptist uk come quickly they'd be like yeah we're gonna take you to jail that's
basically what happened but what can we do we have the right to throw them out that's what we
have the right to do and that's what was done so turn to first corinthians chapter six first
christians chapter number six so the only thing we can do to punish these evil doers is throw them
out of the church that's what the bible says to do we don't live under the levitical priesthood we
don't live under the old testament laws not that they're not still good not that they're not still
right of course they're right of course they're true the law of the lord is perfect right but
what the only thing we can do is just get them out of here so when judas attacks you know first
of all we need to understand that judas is going to attack and number two when judas attacks it's
going to hurt it's going to hurt our church family members it's going to hurt uh our church in some
way shape or form but we also need to not number three we also need to not pity these types of
people when they're thrown out we got to judge rightly and hey it doesn't matter how much you
like them doesn't matter how much you love them doesn't matter whether they you know help fix your
car doesn't matter whatever it is that they that they've done that has nothing to do with judging
rightly according to what the bible says so if someone is supporting you full time it doesn't
matter if they're like helping you in every way shape and form if that person is a false witness
or a a false prophet or just anything said in first christians five and they're going to be
thrown out of the church that that that should be where you just like cut everything off and
say you know what what god says is right i don't care how good of a friend they are we're you know
the bible says if someone's a false prophet in deuteronomy chapter 6 if someone's a false prophet
even if it's your own spouse you're supposed to rise up and put their your hand on them first
and then to be stoned with stones i mean god looks at things a lot differently than we do
we get all sympathetic and sentimental and things like that and again i'm not saying that that's
what we should do now right now but there was a time when it was supposed to be done and the
reason why israel was always overthrown is because people just refused to do what god said in the
future it'll be like that when the kingdom of god is actually come unto us and we're judging with
the lord jesus christ things are going to be a little bit different a lot different so here in
first corinthian six one look what it says dare any of you having to matter against another go to
law before the unjust and not before the saints do you not know that the saints shall judge the world
and if the world shall be judged by you are you worthy or excuse me unworthy to judge the smallest
matter so what's the bible what's god saying here what's the apostle paul telling us here through
the inspiration of the holy spirit saying hey we should be able to judge small matters in church
as and and we're going to judge the world someday so we can't judge a simple matter in a church
service says look know you not that we shall judge angels how much more the things that pertain to
this life so you know these people say we're not supposed to judge i mean this is the opposite of
what's being taught in scripture right here if then you have judgments of the things pertaining
to this life set them to judge who are the are least esteemed in the church and i wouldn't say
that there was a bunch of people that were least esteemed but i allowed this church to i mean when
brother ian said you know what do the people of the lord have to say and they're like you know
all in unison saying you know he's like did i did i shout at them they're like everybody was like no
you know it was pretty cool because anybody can listen and judge and hear we should be able to
judge these things for ourselves and i mean they kind of just let us set it up and knock it down
i was just like really surprised actually but you know god you know for all these things all the
the wicked and evil things that they do and all the plans that they make and all the plots that
they make and whatever they're doing with these computers trying to harass us all the time trying
to call the authorities on us and tell them we're bad parents and and just whatever it is that
they're trying to do these people are always going to try to do something but you know what
god is always going to be our benefactor you know what having the benefactor that rules the whole
universe is a pretty good ally to have isn't it i'd rather have god than any of their little you
know he can set them up the devil the god of this world can set them up with everything he wants but
you know what i'd rather have eternity and being right with god and then having some bad things
happen to me here than to get what they get which is you know the devil just treats them right while
they're here on this earth but then they're going to go and roast in hell for all eternity
number four tonight when judas attacks we need to get on the right side of things so our church got
on the right side of things but look this isn't this isn't the only time that maybe something
that's dramatic like this might not ever happen again but i mean i believe that god just allowed
you guys to see what you know the leadership sees and hear what the leadership hears sometimes
because it was just like it was it was in front of everybody i mean you've got to to take that
picture with with ian and live real time as they just slandered and lied and and and everything
that they said was just was false you guys got to be with that in that situation you guys got to
judge that situation and see it all played out that might not happen again but turn to access
chapter 32 but here's you know if you're on the fence and i'm not saying anybody is but if you're
on the fence about whether these people are bad or not you know just judge the situation did they
lie or did they not did they stand up in this church and proclaim false witnesses to try to get
a man of god slandered and thrown out of here if that's what they did then you need to get on the
right side of things it doesn't matter what they think now they're out of here and so we need to
get on the right side of things when we realize when judas attacks we got to get on that right
side so look at exodus 32 verse 25 it says and when moses saw that the people were naked for
aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies then moses stood at the gate of the
camp and said who is on the lord's side let him come unto me so moses comes down he smashes the
ten commandments moses is furious he's angry and you know he you know moses was he had a temper
didn't he he comes down they're all dancing they're all naked there's two golden calves there
he just is up you know on the mountaintop with god just getting all spiritual and he comes down
and sees everybody he's not even gone for very long and they've totally corrupted themselves
he's angry and when he comes back down he said you know he smashes he he's just upset he said
who's on the lord's side let him come unto me and all the sons of levi gathered themselves together
onto him so there was a faction of people that were doing something wicked and bad
and how they handled it was this verse 27 he said unto them thus saith the lord god of israel put
every man his sword by his side and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp and slay
every man his brother and every man his companion and every man his neighbor and the children of
levi did according to the word of moses and there fell of the people that day about three thousand
men for moses had said consecrate yourselves today for the uh to the lord even every man
upon his son and upon his brother they may bestow upon you a blessing this day
and it came to pass on the moral that moses said unto the people you have sinned a great sin
and now i will go up to the lord peradventure i shall make an atonement for your sin
and so basically moses you know he he even though all these people have sinned and everything the
people but the people that were the the rebellious ones that didn't want to get right with god
what happened to them moses said kill them get them out of here and the only way we can kill
you know people here is spiritually throw them outside of the church and let god deal with them
let the let god sick satan on them and allow them to be destroyed but you notice he's saying who's
on who's on the lord's side see when someone reveal when judas reveals himself and betrays us
we should immediately get on the lord's side we don't want to get on the side of the wicked and
evil people and allow them to mess with our minds and do all these things now here's some things to
look out for when it comes to these types of people these uh these false brethren coming in
unawares so flattery don't allow people to flatter you if someone just comes out oh you know your
sermon's so good so much better than brother i really like the way you preach you know what i
think you're the best preacher that ever lived you know people will lay it on thick i think
you're the best parent i think you're you know you're the best dad you're the best bible reader
whatever it is that they're saying you know just don't allow once people start flattering you just
know that lies are coming out of their mouth afterwards you're not the greatest thing that
ever lived you're not the greatest preacher that ever preached you're not the best thing since
sliced bread you know and some people don't slice you slice your own bread whatever but
yeah you got to watch out for flattery okay flattery is going to be the key to where people
try to get into your hearts they're going to tell you how great you are and then they're
going to lavish you with gifts you know gift perverted it's going to pervert you and your
judgment and so when someone does something really nice or gives you a gift or something
like that that's just to butter you up isn't it so they flatter you they give you gifts
and then you they kind of feel like they have the hook in you so when they drop their mask
when they drop you know when they and they want to teach you some wicked false doctrine that they
believe then they if you feel it makes you feel like well they've been so nice to me
they've said all these compliments to me they've given me all these gifts and you know if i say
anything i i'd feel bad about it because they've helped me out so much isn't that what they do come
spend the night at my house brother oh brother they talk all spiritually don't they i love you
brother they get it gets weird right so but that's the kind of things they do that you know and this
is what what these types of people do also when a new person comes to to the church they'll they'll
say hey why don't you come stay at my house this weekend and then hey let me give you a ride hey
can i get your email address and contact information when i told pastor menes and this is before this
ever took place but i already knew that there was kind of a showdown brewing and i already knew that
there was some bad that that there was some bad faction in here and i was just telling pastor
menes about it i didn't say like who they were because he wouldn't know anyway but i just said
this is some of the things that they're doing and he goes they're bad
that's what he said they're bad he's like i don't have a bible verse for it but they're bad
and i was like okay well
i mean i trust pastor men's judgment and really there is no bible verse for saying you know but
they will try to take you aside take you into the corner teach you stuff that's not right
teach you false things but first they'll flatter you they'll they'll get your contact information
here's another thing to look out for the video the people with the video game numbers
you know apparently doran got the whole hospital saved when he was had broken ribs right and then
lifted someone's car like the day he got out or i don't know was it the day he got out with broken
ribs lifted up someone's car that goes to this church and broke their bumper off or something
i don't know it's like that was the demons giving him power or what but
i had my ribs popped out before out of out of joint and i couldn't you know they hurt for six
months if someone has broken ribs they're not going to pick up a car the next day or whatever
that's pretty crazy right but i'm just saying that they will they will just video game number
they'll say i got 10 people saved i got 20 people saved just like no you didn't man
come on i mean if a place is receptive it it is possible to get five and six people saved in a
day if you're going out for like hours at a time and you're in a very receptive area it's possible
to get a lot of salvations but like i mean if you're coming back with 10 15 people saved it's
like i've got 10 people saved in a day one time in my whole time i've been a you know soul winning
and i was there i was out for hours and i got six kids saved at the very end of the day
and they were all paying attention i didn't count everybody but that was that was i was preaching
to but i'm not trying to put myself i'm just saying that like when you get a day like that
it's very rare it doesn't just happen every week if you're in the philippines and you're getting
10 people saved a day that's normal but if you're like getting 30 every single day unless you speak
the language and like like giving people you know just they're preaching the gospel and over over
and over again it's just you know people just like this we're going to do the video game style
numbers and they're also very hyper spiritual and talk very spiritually amen brother god bless and
there's nothing wrong with saying that kind of stuff obviously we're christians we should have
somewhat of a christian vernacular but if everything is just over the top brother brother
you know god is good praise god over everything it's like my cat got run over last night praise
god oh i mean you know just like it gets pretty weird but anyway they're hyper spiritual you know
and then a weird and erratic belief might pop up so watch out for that and then again like they'll
drop their mass from time to time but they know that they have certain people hooked to the point
where they're not going to say anything but if someone does something says something really
strange really weird then you should just let brother ian know you know don't keep those things
to yourself watch out for highly ambitious and self-willed people i'm not talking about people
that are zealous there's a difference between being zealous and highly ambitious and self-willed
see the bible says as a pastor you're not supposed you know you're not supposed to be self-willed
that means that you're what everything is for yourself everything is for your will for yourself
and so we got to be careful around people that are just so ambitious and so ready to jump into
leadership and i want people to be in the leadership i don't want you to be freaked out
and say well pastor thompson said you know i want you to be i want people to step up and be leaders
but not to the point where you're you know stabbing your way up to the top right if you know
what i mean by that and then watch out for people that are covetous the covetous you know secretly
they're covetous and and want things that they shouldn't have so and then we should not also
seek to justify the wicked so these people have all these weird things they get thrown
out and then people will still be like they're not that bad you know it's like what are you talking
about the bible says to throw them out you know god just doesn't tell us to throw people out for
no reason don't justify the wicked you know turn to uh number chapter 16 verse 41 number
chapter 16 verse 41 the bible says in number 1641 and so this is where you know quora comes out
and basically tries to take over from moses and there's the quora rebellion that happens
and it's obvious whose side god was on because they all dropped into hell later on in the story
but actually so the this has already happened so they'd all dropped down into hell they rebelled
against moses they rebelled against aaron god showed everybody whose side he was on
and then the people that were with them here's what they said verse 41 but on the morrow so the
day after this happens all the congregation of the children of israel murmured against moses and
against aaron saying you have killed the people of the lord i i just find this such a strange
thing for them to say you know people that are saved don't drop into hell people that are saved
cannot go to hell so they're like saying you've killed the people of the lord these aren't the
people of the lord that were killed and and number one moses didn't kill them aaron didn't kill them
god killed them moses just said well hey you know
if they die a normal death you know it's just all of a sudden that earth opens up
and kills everybody there right and then these people are like you've killed the people of the
lord and it came to pass when the congregation was gathered against moses and against aaron
so not only do they say that they gather against them and that look toward the tabernacle the
congregation behold the cloud covered it and the glory of the lord appeared and moses and aaron
came before the tabernacle of the congregation the lord spake unto moses saying get you up from
among this congregation that i may consume them as in a moment and they fell upon their faces so
you know there was a big amount of people that fell because of this cora rebellion even after
cora and all of his people went into hell these other people stood up against moses so that what
were they on they were on the wrong side of things weren't they they're so wrong that they actually
think that people that are saved can go to hell that's how wrong they are how are you going to
call someone that gets smoked like that the people of the lord we we got to be on the right side of
things and we need to judge things correctly number five this is my last point turn to
acts chapter one acts chapter number one don't worry the fish and chips are coming oh boy
number five when judas attacks we need to just move forward and continue serving when judas
attacks when judas betrays we just need to move forward and continue serving acts chapter number
one look verse 14 so this is after jesus betrayed this is after jesus is resurrected this is after
jesus has gone up into heaven and now it's just the the 12 or the 11 if you want it it's the 11
because judas is dead and hanged himself by now and you have a small gathering of people here
it says these all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women
and married the mother of jesus and with his brethren and in those days peter stood up in
the midst of disciples and said the number of names together were about 120 men and brethren
the scriptures must need have been fulfilled which the holy ghost by the mouth of david
spake before concerning judas which was guide to them that took jesus for he was numbered with us
and had obtained part of his of this ministry now the man purchased a field with the reward of
iniquity and falling headlong he burst asunder in the midst and all of his bowels gushed out
and it was known until all the dwellers at jerusalem and so much as the field is called
in the proper tongue ecledema that is to say the field of blood for it was written in the
book of psalms let his habitation be desolate let no man dwell therein and let his bishop bishop
rick let another take so let's talk about obviously the verses we began with wherefore
of these men which have accompanied with us all the time that the lord jesus went in and out among
us beginning at the baptism of john the same day he was taken up from us must one be ordained to
be witness with us of his resurrection and they appointed to joseph called varsabas whose surname
was justice of mathias and they prayed and said thou lord which knowest the hearts of all men
show whether these to be uh thou has chosen that he may take part of the ministry and apostleship
from which judas by transgression fell that he might go in his place so of course this is when
they cast lots mathias has chosen but they didn't just whine and cry oh judas he was so good what
did they do they they got past judas they're like we need to replace judas judas is a wicked person
judas killed himself judas is a reprobate judas is in hell let's pick somebody else and let's go
forward they didn't sit there and whine and complain and cry about it they just continued
forward and that's what we need to do when judas reveals himself is we can't just dwell upon these
people and say oh they're poor kids or this and that look hey quit worrying about that you let
god worry about that and you know what you need to do just continue to serve god with your life
because you're not going to bring number one you're not going to bring them back here
and if you go and follow them you're going to follow them right off the cliff is which
where they're going to okay don't follow judas off the cliff what happened to him
he fell headlong and his bowels gushed out upon him after he killed himself
we don't want to follow judas off the cliff we want to move forward the disciples replace judas
and move forward look at second timothy chapter 3 verse 13
i got two more places to have you turn i'm done second timothy 3 13 says did i say 2 13 second
timothy 3 13. we got to understand this we got to just realize this is going to happen especially
in a church like this i wouldn't even get up and preach this type of sermon if it wasn't necessary
it is necessary because we have to know where we're going from here on out
and i want you to know that i'm standing with that guy right there brother ian to lead this
church forward okay it says but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and
being deceived see it's not going to get better folks it's going to get worse and so and again
when all churches are basically falling away from the faith when churches are like standing you know
rolling rainbow flags out when churches are you know have women pastors when church you know i
mean like half the churches here have women pastors it's like all the church of england what
what's going on we have to be on guard even more and just realize hey the hits are going to keep
coming but you got to take the hit and keep on moving it says in verse 14 but continue
see that word but those three words but continue no you know evil men and seducers are going to
wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived but continue thou in the things which thou has
learned and has been assured of knowing of whom thou has learned them the apostle paul is saying
hey it doesn't matter what's going to what happens these people are going to are going to get worse
and worse hymenaeus philetus hermogenes all these people they're going to wax worse and worse they're
going to get where they're going to you know pop out in churches everywhere but you know what the
apostle paul says some but continue you know what he's trying to get his man timothy to get his
church motivated to continue forward now turn to hebrews chapter 12 verse number 18 see we have to
continue going no matter what happens no matter what kind even even if it's not judas just take
judas aside for a second and the and the things the hits that come in your daily life and and life
is hard life is hard and life is harder when you're a christian in a lot of different ways
it's obviously great and blessed and peaceful you know where you're going when you die and all that
stuff but you know it is hard i always tell people when i'm at the door i said getting saves easy but
following jesus is the hard part and it's true because you know how far are you willing to follow
jesus follow jesus you better count the cost because the counts the cost can be high the cost
can be very high it can cost your life hebrews 12 verse 18 says for you're not come upon come
unto the mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor into blackness and darkness
the tempest and tempest excuse me and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words which voice
they had heard and treated that the word should not be spoken to them anymore let's talk about
when moses said hey nobody's allowed to come near the mount everything's holy and god started to
rumble and smoke started to come out of the mountain and they heard the voice of god and
they were terrified for their lives they were scared they told moses don't let him talk to us
anymore you know whatever you say that's what we're going to do and it says for they could
not endure that which was commanded and if so much as a beast touched the mountain it should
be stoned or thrust through with a dart and so terrible was the sight that moses said i exceedingly
fear and quake so even moses was afraid but you're come unto mount sion and unto a city
of the living god the heavenly jerusalem to an innumerable company of angels this is our future
to the general assembly and church of the firstborn which which are written in heaven
and to god the judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to jesus the mediator of
the new covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of able
see that you refuse not him that speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him that spake
on earth much more shall we shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven
so obviously that's the lord jesus christ is talking about whose voice then shook the earth
but now he hath promised saying yet once more i shake not the earth only but also heaven there's
going to come a day when there's going to be a great big earthquake that will shake everything
all the buildings in the world are going to fall everything is going you know the jerusalem's going
to be split into different parts you know they they had like a local earthquake they had like
a local thing but the whole world it says even heaven is going to shake and this word yet once
more signifies the removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made that those
things which cannot be shaken may remain and so i just want to encourage you with this you know
the the devil might shake at us the the the earth might seem to be opening up on us and and and fire
is raining down in our lives and and it feels like we're living in our own personal earthquake
but you know what it says wherefore we receive a kingdom which cannot be moved no matter what
happens in our life no matter what happens in this church you know we cannot be moved the
kingdom of god can't be moved and so it says let us have grace whereby we may serve god acceptably
with reverence and godly fear and you know anything could be happening in our lives
and you know what things go wrong in our lives and we have all these things just are it seems
like our world's falling apart and it's nice to just be able to come to church and like get a
little bit of you know away from this world time i think that's why god made the assembly so that
we could be together and we could just encourage one another because even though our world might
be falling apart we don't i mean i don't know what's going on everybody's lives i know that
there's you know prayer requests i know some things but you know nobody really knows exactly
what kind of a hard time we're having but you know who does god does and he says no matter
what's going on hey let us have grace whereby we may serve god
acceptably with reverence and godly fear for our god is a consuming fire
and you know like i said our world might be coming apart and everything else but you know we have
a kingdom that cannot be moved and we need to even when judas betrays us even when our friendships
seem to be like hey that person was my best friend now they're out of the church
hey move forward continue when your own personal life is going wrong hey find a way to make it to
church do what you can because you know we only have one short life here on this earth and we
shouldn't allow false prophets of wicked people to to destroy that we shouldn't allow our car
breaking down to destroy that what is it going to take to get you out of the fight you know the
devil's going to try to do anything he can to get you out of this fight he's going to do anything
he can to get you out of this church he's going to get you he's going to do anything he can to
break your family apart to break up your marriage to have your children go astray but all these
things can happen to us but you know what we need to just put our face like a flint like jesus did
in jerusalem he said i i set my i set my face like a flint and when we just say we're going
to serve god no matter what happens no matter what befalls us no matter what is shaken up in
our lives you know everything might be shaken but they're those things that cannot be shaken
may remain and you want the things you know what what's not going to be shaken the kingdom of god
no matter what happens no matter it seems like we're losing on every side you know what god's
going to come through for us in the end and he's going to make sure that we as long as we stand
and and continue and do what's right god's going to be on our side you know we're not perfect
nobody is but you know we shouldn't allow something like a big split like this to shake
our faith to shake our perseverance to serve the lord in our lives number one judas will betray us
just like he betrayed jesus there's going to be more judices when judas betrays us it's going
to hurt because a lot of times that person's going to be a friend of ours or someone that we deeply
care about when judas betrays us we must judge right and true and without pity number four when
judas attacks we need to get on the right side of things we need to be on the right side of things
and and that's most importantly the lord's side amen and then number five when judas attacks we
need to just move forward and continue serving and i would just say that applies to anything
in our life because judas can attack in many different ways not just in a church family but
it could be a family member it could be anything out there or just you know our daily lives
it's a hard world we live in and this world is a history of misery and it's because of sin
you know we need to still serve the lord with fear and trembling and godly fear let's pray
heavenly father we thank you lord so much for this great church lord i pray that you would just stand
with them and i pray that you would just help them and fight for them lord and and lord people
are having health problems and and their lives might be shaken and you know things might be
falling apart their finances or whatever it is their marriages lord i just pray that you would
just bless this church lord help them lord to get through the hard times and and that they would
just focus on the kingdom and lord that they would no matter what's going on in their lives
that they would just continue to serve you and we pray that you would just bless this church
and keep it and protect it and and lord till kingdom come in jesus name we pray amen