church and all the brothers and sisters that have come and families and we pray for those that didn't come.
We thank you for our church and we can serve you and we thank you for our pastor
and we ask you to bless this offering and that we can further your kingdom. Bless
both the gift and the giver. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Right, good to see you this evening.
If you turn with me in your Bibles to 1st Timothy chapter 6, please. 1st Timothy chapter 6, as is
our custom, we'll read the entire chapter beginning in verse 1. Please read along silently with me.
1st Timothy chapter 6. In 1st Timothy chapter 6, the Bible reads, "Lit as many servants as are
under the yoke, count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and His doctrine
be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they
are brethren, but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the
benefit. These things teach and exhort, if any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome
words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness.
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh
envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds,
and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness from such withdraw thyself.
But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into this world,
and it is certain we can carry nothing out, and having food and raiment let us be therewith
content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish
and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition; for the love of money is the
root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and
pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things,
and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the
good fight of faith. Lay a hold on eternal life whereunto thou art also called, and hast
professed a good profession before many witnesses. I give thee charge in the sight of God, who
quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate, witnessed a good
confession, that thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing
of our Lord Jesus Christ, which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only
potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who only hath immortality, dwelling in the
light which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen nor can see, to whom be honor
and power everlasting. Amen. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded
nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things
to enjoy, that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing
to communicate, laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come,
that they may lay hold on eternal life. O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy
trust, avoiding profane and vain battlings and oppositions of science, falsely so called,
which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee, amen.
Brother Jesse, would you pray for us?
And we're in 1st Timothy chapter 6, and I'm definitely going to preach two sermons out
of this, so just be prepared for that. So, 1st Timothy chapter 6, and just to kind of
start off here, my first point, and my first point is going to be the longest point, probably
only going to just have two points for tonight's sermon, so I was initially going to do four,
but I'm not trying to keep everybody here until kingdom come here. So, but everybody
has someone that they answer to no matter who they are, no matter how powerful they
are, no matter whether they're the boss of some giant corporation, whether they are the
richest person in the world. Who is that now, by the way? Is it Elon? Elon's still the richest?
I don't know. I think it just changed his hands every once in a while. Jeff Bezos,
and you know, what's his name, Jeff, or not Jeff Soros, but Emperor Palpatine,
or whatever you want to call him. But even those guys, you know, they have to answer to Satan. So,
I mean, everybody has a boss, right? And, you know, even the most powerful men that are
that are Christians in this world have to answer to God. And, you know, God is also held to account
by His own Word, because the things that have come out of His mouth, you know, He swore by Him,
by His own words. He said that He, you know, He can't go back on the things that He said.
So, He's even accountable to the things that He said in His own Word. He can't change,
like the verse of the week says. You know, He can't, He's not going to change. He can't change.
He's held to the promises that He's made to us. You know, He can't go back on His promises.
He can't sin. He can't lie. So, you know, in a sense, God is bound by the things that He
are in His nature and the things that He said. So, my first point is that how saved people should
view their masters, and I would say, aka their bosses. And everybody has one, right? So, look
at verse number one. The Bible says, "Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own
masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed." So,
and this is something that comes up a lot in the Bible, and it's something that not all Christians
are able to or always, you know, succeed in. You know, we've all had that boss that's very
difficult to deal with. I've had bosses that are very difficult to deal with. But this is a lesson
that you'll have to continuously learn if you want to stay employed. So, you know, we've all
had that forward boss or that boss that's very difficult. And we're still supposed to honor that
person. We're still supposed to obey that person. And it says that we're supposed to count them
worthy of all honor. And some people are really hard to do that with, right? And why though? So
that the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed. So, you know, if you call yourself
a Christian and people at work know that you're a Christian and then you just tell your boss off
and walk out the door, what do they think about you? What do they think about God? What do they
think about His doctrines? All the things, all the testimony that you had walks out the door with you
and they go, "Oh, that's how Christians are." And so that's why it's so important. You know,
we don't want to reproach the name of Christ. You don't want to reproach your good name, you know,
in the place that you work. And all it takes is just one failure at work to where you lose all
credibility and, you know, people just won't listen to you again. So, it's really important the way
that we respond. And this is specifically talking about your boss, your master at work. So, and it
says in verse two, "And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them." And so,
sometimes it's easy to hate your boss, but what is it saying? Don't hate your believing boss. I mean,
above all things, if your boss is a saved person, even if they're hard to deal with too, definitely
don't hate them because you're not supposed to hate your brother in your heart. That's a sin.
It is a sin to hate your brother in your heart. It's a sin. So, if you hate other people in this
church, it's a sin. You're like, "Well, they're a reprobate." Yeah, you just made that up,
didn't you? You made that up right now, didn't you? So that you can just hate them. Well, no,
you don't know. That's the one time I saw them. Look, just save it. You don't know that for sure.
Just shut up and love your brother, okay? Because it says, "Let them not despise them because they're
brethren, but rather do them service because they're faithful and beloved partakers of the
benefit." You're like, "Well, you don't know him like I know him. You don't work around him like I
do." It doesn't matter. It's not saying that they're beloved by you. They're beloved by who?
They're beloved by God. If they're saved, God loves them and they're partakers of the benefit.
What's the benefit? The benefit that everybody gets. That we get eternal life. God loves us.
He doesn't impute sin upon us. And it says these things teach and exhort. See, this is what Christian
pastors are supposed to teach to their congregations. To obey the people that are over them in the Lord.
Not like Calvinists like to do and try to overthrow governments like the Peartons did
with King Charles. So, you know, that's just not how we're supposed to do things. We're not supposed
to overthrow governments. We're not supposed to overthrow our bosses at work. We're not supposed
to overthrow the teachers at school. Obviously there's things that, you know, people have done
in the past and America is America because of, you know, what has happened in the past and there's
nothing we can do about that. But was it right? I mean, I don't think it was. But, I mean, here we
are in the greatest country in the world still. But, you know, there is a reckoning that will
happen because of that someday. So, but working hard for those in charge of us and obeying
is very important to God. It's super important. And everyone has this master according to the
flesh. Get used to it. No matter what, you will always have someone in charge of you.
Kids, listen up to me right now. When mom and dad are done raising you and you're like, "I can't
wait," you know, the older kids get, the more that they feel this way, they're like, "I can't wait to
get out on my own, get my own place, and I'm gonna get married to the, you know, Prince Charming or
whoever you think you're gonna get married to, and it's gonna be perfect, and mom and dad are
gonna be able to tell me what to do anymore." Not all kids are like this. I'm just saying that some
kids get like this, and you think, "Oh, nobody's gonna tell me what to do anymore." You're wrong
about that. Let me just tell you, if you're a man, if you're a young man, you're gonna have a boss,
and guess what? He's not gonna love you like your parents do. He's not gonna have mercy on you like
your parents do. He's gonna be like, "Why were you late? You're fired!" Not like, "Oh, Dad'll take the
garbage out. I'm about to, Dad!" You know, not that kind of stuff. You know, your parents love you.
They have mercy upon you way more than you realize. And look, your boss isn't gonna love you like your
parents do in most cases, right? So I'm not saying there's not bad parents out there and evil parents
out there. I'm not saying that. I'm saying in general, your Christian parents are gonna love
you more than anybody else outside of this world except for maybe your spouse, okay? And they're
gonna have mercy on you like nobody else is gonna have mercy on you. And you know what? Your parents
probably don't charge you for rent. And if they do ever, it's probably gonna be a very minute amount
in comparison to what you're gonna be paying outside of these walls. It's expensive to live
out in the world today. Food is expensive. You know how much it costs to shovel food down your
throats to teenagers? It's expensive. It's even more expensive than when my kids were in my house.
I mean I couldn't even imagine trying to feed those locusts right now. I don't know how you
guys do it. It was it was tough then. I can't even imagine doing that right now. But you're
gonna have to answer to someone who's more annoying than your parents, more demanding than your
parents, and someone that loves you a lot less in most cases. Let's turn over to Genesis chapter
14 though. Genesis chapter number 14. Now obviously we live in a different time than the Bible times.
And there's, you know, servants and masters can mean a myriad of different things, okay?
Servants in the Bible times could mean literal slavery or it could mean indentured servitude.
It can mean a lot of things. And to say that there was no such thing as slavery is just,
it's just not true. Slavery has existed since people were on the earth. It just has.
Now, when this country was founded, Irish people were slaves. I don't know if anybody knows that
or not, but they were treated like crap because they're Catholics. You know, we didn't want
Catholics here. So when they came off the boats, we're like throwing stuff at them and, you know,
making them work off these big debts. And I'm not saying it was right, you know, to treat them
poorly because they're Catholics. But, you know, I mean, we didn't want them here. So they were made
to work and they were made to like work off these debts. But indentured servitude was similar to what
they do in the Bible with the children of Israel. Whereas like you work six years, you let them go
for free, you give them, you know, whatever they need to survive. But then there came, I don't know
if it's pronounced chattel slavery or whatever, where they just were buying people from Africa,
putting them on these slave ships and bringing them over here. You know, that's, you know,
God does not condone of that kind of slavery, obviously. So they were being kidnapped in their
own country by their own people, you know, maybe a tribe or whatever. And then they would then they
probably just had stations of people over there, like different, you know, Europeans that were,
you know, they were selling people like, like merchandise. And our nation has a blight against
it forever because of that. It still affects our country today. It was wicked, it was wicked the
way that they're treated. And I mean, but the children of Israel were treated like that in
Egypt. And that's when God heard their cry, and He went and made sure that they could go free.
But they were there in Egypt for 400 years. They started getting mistreated in Egypt,
about 30 years after Joseph died. So for over, for like 400 years or whatever, they weren't,
they were enslaved by the Egyptians. Now when it got worse, when they started making them
kill their own children, when they started, you know, making them serve with more rigor,
you know, God heard their cries, and you know, God's not for people being mistreated like that.
So I'm just saying that to say this, like this passage where it's saying, you know, that those
are the, that are under the yoke and count their masters worthy of all honor, it can mean a lot of
different things. And I feel like this is specifically talking about like obeying,
you know, the, the authorities in your life, your boss, your, you know, whatever,
but it could mean that too, because in this time, the apostle Paul lived in a world in Rome where
the Romans ruled everything. And guess what? They had slaves back then. So, and look, God has rules
for how people were supposed to be treated. But, you know, in the Bible, the children of Israel
were able to take people captive and they worked for them for the rest of their life that they took
in warfare, okay? But they were not able to take the children of Israel past that six-year mark
unless they consented unto it. Remember, they would put them against the doorpost and they put it all
through their ear or whatever. But I would rather work for somebody for the rest of my life and be
treated halfway decent than to be killed because that was the other option. You know, so, and look,
I'm not, I'm not saying slavery is right or being forced into working is good or whatever,
but God, you know, he did make provisions, like you knock someone's tooth out, they go free for
their tooth. You poke, you pop someone's eye out, they go free for their eye or whatever. And it's
like, well, why would you do that to someone that worked for you? Well, if they're not working,
they would beat them. That's why. And you know, there's probably people that you work with that
you just wish you probably could pop their eye out because they don't want to work. You know,
I mean, not literally. But you know, like, if you've ever worked at a union, where everybody
gets paid the exact same amount, and they get paid to flake off all day and not do their job,
and then you're expected to pull the weight of that person, it can anger you, it can make you
upset. And imagine if you're a boss, and you're trying to get everything you can out of somebody,
and it is legal to beat them up. I mean, you know, if they won't come to work on time or whatever,
and look, I don't want to get all into slavery and this sermon, I'm just saying that there's
a myriad of different aspects to this. So again, it's a dark, so it can be a dark subject, but
I'm just saying that there's a lot of different things going on in that time. And we don't have
that, and I'm glad. And I think that the reason why we don't have that going on in this day and
age is because Jesus doesn't want that going on. And I think that he, just like he put a stop to
multiple wives and concubines and all that kind of stuff, he put a stop to slavery also.
And this country had a short history of that, but we reap what we sow. Just like Joseph reaped
what he sowed when he enslaved basically the whole country of Egypt and gave it all to Pharaoh.
And then the children of Israel were slaves in Egypt for 400 years. So, I mean, it just,
you know, what you do in this life will come back on you. So anyway, Genesis 14, 14, okay, it says,
"And when Abraham heard that his brother was taken captive," it's talking about Lot, it says,
"he trained his, or he armed his trained servants born in his own house, 318, and pursued them
unto Dan." Some pretty interesting things about this, okay? Abraham had trained servants that
were born in his own house, 318. That's a lot of people to be born in your own house, isn't that?
I mean, it's talking about his own house, like under his, maybe not literally in his front room
or something, but like in his household, basically 318 people. And it says they were trained by him.
Isn't that what it says? And they pursued him in a den. Now, just some things I want to point out
about this is that he loved their parents enough to let them be born in his house. These, because
it says these people were born in his house. These servants here that he trained were born in his
house. So that means his parents had children that were born in his house. So he loved them enough
to allow them to be born into his house and trained by him. So it sounds like his servants
weren't really mistreated and that he cared about them. And he had them trained in the art of
warfare because he didn't just say this sword, they knew how to use these things, right? And he
trusted them enough to arm them. So he has 318 trained servants that were born in his house that
he trained how to use them. He's like, here's all your swords. Let's go get my nephew right now.
And they didn't turn against them. They didn't overthrow him and take all of his wealth and
everything. These guys worked for him. They obviously loved Abraham enough to go and get
lot. I mean, these are things that I just had never really thought about before. But as I was
kind of studying for this term, I was like, man, he really, they must have really loved Abraham
because, you know, you think about like stories from the south, like they would not just give
all their slaves 318 shotguns and say, come on, let's go get these people. It's like, yeah, right.
Just be blowing these guys away. Right. But they didn't try to overthrow them. They fought for him.
They fought for Abraham to get lot back and they did a good job. They killed a bunch of kings doing
it. They like slaughtered this army by themselves. So obviously they were well-trained, not just,
you know, just willy-nilly trained. They were well-trained and by doing this, surely they must
have loved him and loved serving him. So now let's turn to Genesis chapter 24. Now he also had this
guy that was a steward because remember Isaac hadn't been born yet and he had this guy, Eliezer,
who was his steward that would have inherited all of his stuff. This is early on, you know, but now
you know, he had two sons and one of them was Isaac, right? Isaac is the promised son and
Abraham is old now, well stricken in age. Look at verse number one. It says, "And Abraham was old
and well stricken in age, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. And Abraham said unto the
eldest servant of his house that ruled over all that he had, 'Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my
thigh.'" So this guy still, I mean, Isaac is old enough to get married. And who's in charge of all
this stuff? This guy here. And it says, "And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven,
and the God of earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites,
among whom I dwell. But thou shalt go unto my country, into my kindred, and take a wife unto
my son Isaac. And the servant said unto him, 'Pared venture, the woman will not be willing to
follow me unto this land, must I needs bring thy son again onto the land from whence thou camest.'
And Abraham said unto him, 'Beware thou that thou bring not my son to there again.' So he's like,
'Hey, if she won't follow, don't take Isaac back to my land, don't take him there.'
The Lord God of heaven which took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred,
and which spake unto me, and swearing to me, saying, 'Unto thy seed will I give this land,
he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath,
only bring not my son thither again.' So he tells him twice now.
'And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swear to him concerning
this matter. And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master and departed.'
Now look what it says here. 'For all the goods of his master were in his hand.'
So he took he takes all the money all of his treasure he takes the camels and even if he
didn't take it all you know he took a lot because he had the Mr. T startup kit when he was there
offering him all this stuff right and then he gives the first thing he does with Rebecca is
puts a puts an earring on her right a gold earring and he's just like throwing around
Abraham's money like it's nothing right but he takes these camels but what could he have done
he could have just taken all that stuff and left and never come back I mean Abraham's old
I mean I guess he could have took the 318 guys and had him go after him probably would have found
him maybe but my point is is that he loved Abraham and you'll see that here really quickly it says
and he rose and went to Mesopotamia unto the city of Nahor and he made his camels to kneel down
without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening even the time that women go out
to draw water and he said oh lord god of my master Abraham so he's praying to god so what does that
tell you he's saved isn't he and he says oh lord god of my master Abraham I pray thee send me good
speed this day and show kindness unto my master Abraham so he's there and he's sincerely I mean
this telling us what he prayed he sincerely loves Abraham he's going and doing exactly what Abraham
tells him to do and of course you probably know the story so this is the longest chapter in the
whole book of Genesis so I'm not going to go through the whole story but what happens Rebecca
just agrees to go with you know and then he takes her back it's love at first sight they run to
each other they get married and Isaac is comforted concerning the death of his mom so Abraham was a
man that was a master he was rich he was a father of many nations but he was also the father unto
many servants wasn't he he had all these servants born in his house and he allowed them to be born
in his house these people were strangers not of his own people now let's look at Galatians chapter
four verse 21 like why are you telling me all this well because as Christians also when we're
when we're bosses of people we should also be good to the people that were over we should treat them
with respect and i mean look how much they loved Abraham they're willing to do anything for him i
mean they're willing to go fight people and i mean they're killing kings and stuff for him i mean
but Abraham loved them and he showed them that they he loved them and they loved him back
look at Galatians 421 it says tell me ye that desire to be under the law do you not hear the
law for it is written that Abraham had two sons the one by what does it say there a bondmaid so
what does that mean it means that she was a slave wasn't she she didn't have a choice to she wasn't
free because it says the other by a free woman Sarah was a free woman and Abraham was married
to both of them but one was free and one was not it says but he who was of the bond woman was born
after the flesh but he of the free woman was by the promise so i'm just showing you that to say
that Hagar was a bondmaid so Abraham owned you know i mean he didn't own her his wife Sarah did
and she gave Abraham her to wife or her to Abraham's wife so Abraham had bond women
bond men and bond women in his service these people in most cases were more than pleased to
stay with him you know obviously she ran away that one time but God said what to her go back
though the angel of the Lord told her to go back and and to listen to what her mistress said to do
so I mean things could get a little complicated now she dealt harshly with her but she shouldn't
have been acting all haughty in front of in front of Sarah the way she was doing and then her son
was being a little brat and persecuting Isaac when he was waned remember the whole the story
so I mean it's not like she was just doing everything right but obviously that persecution
was going to get worse God made her go away for a reason and him so but anyway so then you know
so you know I would much rather be in the service of a believing master if I was in that situation
than an unbelieving one but see in our world today we act like you know being in this situation like
abraham most people say abraham was wicked for having these servants or whatever but it's just
like yeah but look how he treated them it's not like he was just this wicked evil person
abraham is the father of all those that believe basically he's the father of the faithful so are
you going to sit there and say that abraham was a bad person he was like one of the best people
that have ever lived and i don't think that he bought that person you know however he acquired
these people in the beginning i don't think it was like you know i don't know how he acquired
him the bible doesn't say that but he just did and what he did with them was treat them right
you know it's not like it says that he was knocking out their teeth and you know whatever
and look i'm not trying to condone anything either i'm just saying that abraham is an example
of a master like it says here in the bible that masters are also supposed to treat their people
right okay abraham was an example of a lot of great things a lot of great faith and raising
his children right raising his son right and making sure he had a godly wife went and got
somebody that was a believer like himself and he also took in stranger you know those strangers
that lived in in his house the his employees had children in his house i mean i don't know how much
better of a boss he could be trained him how to fight i mean what boss have you ever had is like
here let me teach you some sword play you know while we're at work i mean that'd be pretty cool
right here's let me teach you some jujitsu while we're at it and you know how it's a boxing and
you know hey by the way you know one of these days i might call on you we might have to go
slaughter some kings okay they're probably like let's go you know so but of course this is also
a picture of being born again you know they're born into this man's house who's what the father
of the faithful and this also is a picture of perpetual salvation of the next generation
because they were already his parents were obviously already in his service and training
that next generation because they're born into his house and then he's training them up right
training them to be soldiers in his little army there right and so you know it's important for us
to not just be saved ourselves but to make sure that the next generation is in the father's house
right because abraham fought he's called what father abraham right so and who does he picture
in the bible he pictures the heavenly father who does isaac picture he pictures the lord jesus
christ of course so and if you're a servant of the lord let your children be born into the house
like abraham made sure isaac and jacob would be so like your grandchildren don't just think
about your children but think about your children's children your grandchildren you know the bible says
that uh you know that a godly man will leave an inheritance to his children and his children's
children so i don't think it's just talking about money you know it's money is probably a good thing
too but it's more important to leave your children a spiritual inheritance you know you might be
broke but at least you can pass on you know this you know the bible says to buy the truth and sell
it not we can get the truth into our children's hands and into their brains and into their hearts
you know for reason i mean i can buy this i can buy a bible for reasonably cheap and get that
into their you know if you got the holy spirit you can get that into your children's hearts and
make sure that they get saved and when then they have children someday you know hopefully your
children are going to make sure that they get saved i have three grandchildren that are saved
already so i'm very happy about that um two that are already baptized so the the cycle is moving
and i'm glad to hear that i mean leah got baptized in the bahamas how cool would that be
i mean that was great so i mean i wish i could say i was baptized in the bahamas
no good morning get back to us in the bomb no i'm just kidding
but you know obeying the spiritual call to be saved in our spiritual master is the most important
thing that we can do in our life right because christ is our master i mean you know for people
to say that math you know master is kind of like a bad word in our society because of the connotation
of slavery the bad connotation of slavery in our society but so the word master like who do you
think you you are my master well i think christ is my master you know but our boss is our master
anybody that has you know that's your boss is your master basically so um and if we can't obey our
earthly masters then how are we going to obey our spiritual ones you know it's it's important
children that you obey your parents why because god expects you to obey him and if you can't obey
your earthly father then how are you gonna obey your heavenly father and he expects you to obey
him believe it or not he does he expects you to obey your parents he expects you not to flash them
an evil eye and for you to murmur and whisper things under your breath about them or to go
into your bedroom and tell them and say that you hate them and scream into your pillow or whatever
but god can hear you when you scream into your pillow too just so you know he can hear you in
your thoughts when you don't even say it out loud there's no hiding what you think there's no hiding
what you say even if you whisper the lowest whisper ever even your thoughts are naked under him he
knows you know santa claus doesn't know anything jesus knows everything god knows everything you
think everything you do everything you see all the things that you are in your heart so it's
good to put good things into our hearts and to you know think on good things and not to disrespect
our parents turn to romans 10 romans 10 i might only get one point in here tonight uh romans 10
verse 13 the bible says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved how then
shall they call on him and who they have not believed and how shall they believe in him whom
they have not heard how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach except they
be sent as it is written how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace
and bring glad tidings of good things but they have not all obeyed the gospel see we do have to
obey our spiritual master also our spiritual master is christ and so what does it mean to obey the
gospel when i typed this into a google search what does it mean to obey the gospel it says it means
to repent of your sins i was like what that's not what it means because it's just saying you know
whosoever should call upon the name of the lord how shall they believe on him who they've not heard
how should they hear without a preacher you know how should they preach except they be sent how
beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good
things but they have not all obeyed the gospel for ezias saith lord who hath believed our report
it's the report what is the report the report is the gospel that jesus has died he lived a perfect
life he died for us he rose again and so it says what the next verse so then faith cometh by hearing
and hearing by the word of god how do you get repenting of your sins out of that google is
just wrong i mean i'm sure that if i fought with that stupid chat gutp or whatever that it would
probably go oh yeah i guess you are right same thing with grok or whatever just these things
just tell you what you want to hear so you just keep pumping more information into them or whatever
so you can figure you out or whatever turn to second uh the second thessalonians 1 8 so to obey
the gospel when the bible says to obey the gospel it's just saying because the bible said god
commandeth all men everywhere to repent yes but that's not the it's not saying repent of your
sins it's like it's almost like it's almost like google is like uh these repent of your sins
preachers it's like it adds of your sins at the end of repent or something like google just thinks
that repent means of your sins automatically even though god repents 37 times in the bible
but repentance under salvation is you know stop believing the dumb things that you believed about
salvation before and put your faith in jesus you have to believe the true report the true gospel
second thessalonians chapter 1 verse 8 so i just went to a couple passages and where did it say
repent of your sins in this in that last passage didn't say anything like that did it second
thessalonians chapter 1 verse 8 says in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not god
and that obey not the gospel of our lord jesus christ see you got to repent of your sins that
no and obey obey so you got to obey you got to do stuff well what does that mean though who shall
be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the lord and from the glory of his
power when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired in all them that what's
it say believe and then skip the brackets and that believe in that day so when he comes back
he's going to be glorified by us and admired by all that believe because the people that believe
are the ones that are saved right now what's it say in the parentheses because our testimony
among you was what's it say there believed okay so both instances where it talks about
obeying the gospel it talks about believing doesn't it doesn't talk about repenting of your
sins now just because the bible says god commands all men everywhere to repent you know you can't
just take that repent and make it say of your sins it's not what the bible says it's not what
the bible is teaching at all because the king james bible never says that term one time now
i'll turn to matthew chapter 11 because getting saved is super easy jesus made that very clear
he talked about disciples you know if you want to be his disciple you got to pick up your cross
daily and follow after him you know you can't put your hand to the plow turning back again
you know you're not we're not worthy to be his disciple nobody's worthy to be saved either
we're not worthy to be his disciples if we turn back but it doesn't mean we can't still be his
disciples doesn't mean we're not still saved right just because we're not worthy to be saved doesn't
mean that we're not still saved but anyway matthew chapter 11 verse 28 says come unto me all ye that
labor and are heavy laden and what's he say and i will give you rest so this is to the laboring
person well someone that works really hard and understands that that you know working hard is
you're laden but what is this really talking about it's talking about people that try to work their
way to heaven they try to do a lot of stuff to get to heaven all you that are laboring are heavy
laden with what sin you try to just do something to make up for him and it says and i can't you
come to me i'll give you rest i'll i'll i'll let you stop resting from trying to do your own works
to get in this is take my yoke upon you and that yoke is talking about something that you hook two
animals together with you know teams of horses who's seen that before or teams of oxen and you
hook these two animals together now but jesus is saying you know take my yoke upon you like he's
because jesus did a lot of work to get us into heaven didn't he mark the bible says in mark that
he was working so hard that people thought he was crazy they thought he was because i mean he would
just get up before everybody go pray someplace and then they'd be like oh there's jesus you know he's
just he'd been up since before dark but he was also working all the way past dark and people they
were so tired so irritated when they went to go to the desert place when john they found out john
the baptist was killed they go to the desert place and they're like see we're in desert place let's
rest and it's like then all the people followed him they're just like you can just tell they're
so mad and then jesus is trying to tell him about the leaven of the Pharisees and they're like is
it because we didn't bring bread it's like no you know he just like jesus blows up on him and it's
like it's because they just want to take a break it's so obvious they wanted to take a break and
they just wanted to rest in this desert place it's like they wanted to go to you know alcapocco or
something and like nope the people followed them feed them and they're just like but that's just
how hard he worked it says take my yoke upon you and learn of me for i'm meek and lowly in heart
and you shall find rest unto your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light he's going
to be doing all the work that's why it's light that's why it's easy you know people are like
oh easy believism it's so you know you believe they believe in this easy believism what's jesus say
my yoke is easy it's so easy that we don't have to do anything it's so easy when he puts his yoke
upon us he's doing all the pulling he's doing all the lifting and if you've ever lifted things with
me before i'm the taller person so you're doing all the lifting when it's like when people or you
know people try to get me to go up the stairs with stuff and it's like that's harder for me because
i'm tall right but you're still doing most of the major lifting because i'm tall and like all that
weight balance is going to be put upon you so if you want me to walk up the stairs i mean okay
that's fine but you're going to be like you know you're going to be like lifting the major part
of it and i'm usually stronger than most people that i'm lifting stuff with so it's usually easier
for me to walk up the stairs and i know people don't like to walk backwards but i mean i'm going
to carry the heavy part of the stuff with me so anytime i usually lift stuff i always say well let
me do that part you know because i'm going to carry the heavier load so jesus wants to carry
not just the heavier load the whole thing that's why he's saying take my yoke upon you so when paul
is saying at the beginning of his passage that we're in tonight he's like those that are under the
yoke you know to follow your master while jesus saying hey if you want to be under my yoke it's
super easy to get saved it's so easy that all you have to do is believe in me he says come unto me
just come unto me but a lot of people want to do it their own way a lot of people want to lift
with jesus like no jesus you shouldn't be lifting all this heavy load for me let me do some of it too
you know and every person that does that are going to find their way into hell every single person
and you think you're doing something nice well jesus needs me to do some stuff too
no he doesn't he as a matter of fact he doesn't want you to you know the reason why the sabbath
is no longer in effect is because jesus fulfilled the sabbath jesus did all the work he he did all
the work while we rest that's the whole point of the sabbath that's why the guy that picked up
sticks on the sabbath day that's why he was killed for that that's why it was the death penalty
you know because i remember i've told this before but i thought it was super harsh that a guy just
picked up some sticks i'm thinking this guy's cold why is he getting killed for picking up sticks
i just thought that's harsh but you know what's more harsh is dying and going to hell because
you try to do it yourself because you want to carry the load because you think you have to do
something because faith without works is dead no if you try to do works to get yourself into heaven
you are dead you're going to go to hell you're going to split hell wide open if you don't just
accept that jesus did it all and then it's super easy with his yoke then you're going to go to hell
you have to accept that he does it all for you or you're not going to heaven it's just that simple
now let's turn to john chapter 20 verse 16 john chapter 20 verse 16 there's no way i'm getting
a point to tonight so just forget it anyway john chapter 20 verse 16 now i'm just having to go
here because this defines the word master for you it actually defines the word rabbi for you
when jesus rises from the dead mary is the first one to find him it says in john 20 verse 16 says
jesus saith unto her mary she turned herself and saith unto him rabboni which is to say master so
the term master so when the rab the rabbi you know rabbis even modern day rabbis what does that word
mean so every time you call someone rabbi so and so you're calling a master so i refuse to call
any rabbi rabbi anything because then you're called because now turn to now turn to matthew
chapter 23 because we're not supposed to call people master and isn't it funny how every bible
college gives people these degrees called master of divinity but yet the bible says don't call
people master they have this thing when people get high degrees in college and stuff like that
they call it a what degree master's degree i have a master's degree i have a master's degree sir
you peon you know it's just like that people want to be called masters it's like some kind of
prideful thing or something but i'm not saying being educated is bad i'm just saying that like
to have to call yourself you better call me master because i have a master's degree you know
but anyway um so matthew 23 verse 8 says but be but be not ye called rabbi for one is your master
even christ and all ye are brethren so she is okay for mary to call him rabbi because he is
master so jesus said for one is your master even christ and all your brethren but don't you be
called rabbi so all these guys in this jewish religion that call themselves rabbi they're
wrong for doing that shouldn't call them that now turn back to john chapter 13 john chapter 13
so i mean we have a master his name is jesus he's our ultimate master he's our ultimate king i mean
there's lots of there's been lots of kings in the world but there's only one main king there's only
one real master in this world he just said it but be not called rabbi for one is your master even
christ there's no we don't have any other real i mean but he said but you know it seems like a
contradiction right because we're supposed to obey our masters in the flesh or whatever because they
want to be called master but how are we supposed to work we're supposed to work to them as if
we're working for christ right but anyway john 13 13 says you call me master and lord and you say
well for so i am he he just says it flat out hey you call me these things and you're right to call
me those things because that's what i am i am master i am lord so who's your master the lord
jesus christ is your master now i had some other verses that i wanted to go to in romans and in
axe but let's go ahead and just start moving over to first corinthians i gotta be done here pretty
quick anyway even though we started late but um first corinthians chapter seven verse 20
first corinthians seven verse 20 so i mean it's obvious jesus is supposed to be our master
we get saved by obeying the gospel our master has called us to get saved we obey him by believing
in him and he's ultimately our our master and anything we do as christians we should put it
through the filter of that we're doing it because we're doing it we're doing these things because
we're we're doing it as unto christ we're obeying these guys even though they're jerks or maybe our
parents aren't being fair to us at this point in time but why are we doing it because why are we
obeying everything they do because god says to that's why maybe they're not maybe your parents
aren't always right when they spank you because they didn't do due diligence and figure out that
it was actually paul that did it and timothy it wasn't timothy's fault this time but sometimes
it's probably actually is timothy's fault sometimes and he deserves it whatever your parents are going
to make mistakes sometimes don't hold it against them for the rest of their life because you know
what you make mistakes too and you know what you're going to probably do the same thing with your kids
accidentally sometimes too you're going to spank a kid that didn't deserve it so it happens but
kids act like they need to go to therapy for the rest of their life because they actually go i got
spanked one time and it wasn't there well i didn't even do it they told tore the nose off the teddy
bear it wasn't me anyway first first first uh corinthians 7 20 it says let every man abide in
the same calling wherein he was called art thou called being a servant care not for it but if thou
if thou mayest be made free use it rather for he that is called in the lord being a servant is the
lord's free man likewise also he that is called being free is christ servant you're bought with a
price be not ye the servants of men brethren let every man wherein he is called there and abide
with god you know so and i think that this is probably talking about people that are actually
in bondage of some sort and you know he's saying hey but you can use you can still be effective as
in this situation wherever whatever situation you're in hey and you're saved you know just
abide in the calling where you were called you know make the best of your situation
aphesians chapter 6 aphesians chapter 6 five minutes left and i'm going to quit five minutes
left aphesians chapter 6 that's still less than an hour aphesians chapter 6 hang with me for five
more four more minutes servants be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh
with fear and trembling and singleness of your heart as unto christ see that so it says as
unto christ so it's like you're supposed to obey them like you would obey christ is that what it
says i mean am i speaking pig latin here or something is that what it says not with eye
service as men pleasers but as the servants of christ doing the will of god from the heart
so it's not even like you're you're just doing it you know begrudgingly and like okay i'll do it
i'll pretend he's christ or whatever it's like no just do it with a good heart too and not just
like only when he's around you're like oh yeah boss yeah whatever you know and then like when
he's not around you're like no you're supposed to have the attitude like you're doing it for christ
at all times right with good will doing service as to the lord and not to men this is the attitude
look i know it's hard trust me i know it's hard because i've had some bosses that i really didn't
like and even as a christian i've had bosses i didn't like knowing that whatsoever good thing
any man doeth the same shall he receive of the lord whether he be bond or free and he masters
do the same things unto them for bearing threatening knowing that your master also is
in heaven neither is their respect of persons with him so see how he's just saying it's the same
thing for someone that's the their master you have a boss too master you have to you know god's not
going to just let you get away with mistreating people that are under your charge you are going
to get held accountable there's no you know you might think you're a big shot here but god's way
bigger of a big shot than you ever thought about being and go ahead and turn to Titus 2 I'm going
to read Colossians 4.1 Titus chapter 2 two more minutes left Colossians 4.1 says masters give unto
your servants that which is just and equal knowing that ye also have a master in heaven so there's
another one for the masters hey make sure that you're being just make sure you're being equal
don't be using favoritism and you know preferring uh you know just showing open favoritism be just
be equal don't pay someone more than the other person because just because you like them more
you know obviously everything should be done fairly Titus 2 9 says exhort servants to be
obedient unto their own masters and to please them well in all things not answering again what does
that mean back talking your boss talking back to him oh you know you have to just say one last thing
i just have to say i just have to say what i what's on my mind no i'm just a straight up person
pastor i gotta say what's on my mind not to your boss look trust me i know it's hard and i've been
in situations like that and done the wrong thing and paid severely for it like verse 10 not perloining
but showing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of god our savior in all things
what is perloining it's like dishonest gain you know a breach of trust type of like theft
is what it is fidelity is you know it says showing fidelity good fidelity it's having
faithfulness to a person demonstrated by continual loyalty and support so you know not not perloining
not trying to get over on them and showing good fidelity being loyal so and then it says in first
peter chapter 2 verse 18 that you don't have to turn there if you don't want but turn i'm out of
time but i'll just read this last verse and we'll be we'll close first peter 2 18 says servants be
subject to your masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the foward so
it's nice when you have a good boss and you get along with them and look obviously i've been
talking about bosses outside of work because that's my experience but you know i mean everybody has a
boss wife's your boss is your husband at home and sometimes your husband can be nice and sometimes
he can't be sometimes he's gonna he could be gruff but you know it's not like your husband's only
gonna be nice and give you great answers all the time and just be all bubbly you know so sometimes
they can be forward you know sometimes they're not going to give you the answer that you want
and they're not always good and gentle should we be yeah but we're not always so but that doesn't
mean that it's time for you to just puff up and say i am woman and burn your bra and whatever
you know i am woman hear me roar and put the rosy of the riveter you know poster on the wall
and say i'm going back to work or whatever i mean that's not the way to handle it so
you know when you're thinking of these verses think of well who's my boss well your boss is
your husband so i mean these verses apply to you also and so when it's you're supposed to obey your
master you know who's it talking about you know because the you know we don't want to go to the
athensians verses do we tonight okay i don't want to do that but you know and obviously we're
supposed to love our wives like christ loved the church i understand that but we don't always you
know we're supposed to do our part not only when the other person's doing their part but supposed
to do it at all times so just because someone fails on their side doesn't mean you get to fail
on your side so all right well we definitely got some some uh extra stuff to do next week so anyway
let's close the prayer lord we thank you so much for the word of god and all that it can teach us
lord i pray that you just help us to put these things in perspective lord that we would that lord
would honor you first who is the the main boss that we should be listening to above all things
and lord that we would consider all these things and lord that we would make sure that we reach our
children and the next generation after that our grandchildren and lord just those in our lives
also that we have influence over the people that we work with and and even our bosses lord that we
could have some influence over those that are in our lives and that we could reach and i pray that
you'd help us in our homes in our in our families lord that we would be good examples and that your
doctrine and that your name would not be blasphemed among the gentiles and the unbelievers
because of the actions that we do not thinking about some of the things that we do sometimes
and just making mistakes and I pray that you'd help us this week as we go our separate ways
pray that you'd just help us have a good week uh just trying to reach those around us and
and soul winning and and lord this weekend I pray that the ladies have a great time
at their uh cookie exchange and you bless pastor Anderson as he comes and preaches for us the word
of god and uh pray that you just take care of us as we go our separate ways and Jesus name we pray
amen as long as 214 in the blue jesus loves me three verses