- All right, good evening.
It's good to see you this evening.
Would you please turn with me in your Bibles
to the book of First Timothy.
First Timothy, chapter six.
Okay, good.
First Timothy, chapter six.
Wouldn't be the first time I messed that one up.
First Timothy, chapter six will, as is our habit,
or our custom will read the entire chapter
beginning in verse one.
Please read along silently with me.
First Timothy, chapter six.
The Bible reads, "Lit as many servants as are under the yoke
to 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 into 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 there with 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 covet it after, they have erred from the faith,
and pierce 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 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.
Oh, Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust,
avoiding profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science,
falsely so called, which some professing have erred concerning the faith.
Grace be with thee. Amen. Brother Sean, would you pray for us?
We got through a couple of verses because I spent so much time
speaking about the servant issue there, but it really kind of, in verse number
three, it rolls right after what he's saying there about
what Paul is teaching in this passage is that
if you kind of boil it all down, he's really talking about being
content and not going after money and sometimes we can
get attached to these flashy things in our lives and
we can get off track and he's basically telling Timothy not to do these things
and to keep that which has been committed to him
and the charge that was kept to him, but we should also
take heed to these things and we should also take heed to not listen to false
teachers so and and really that's what it says
in verse number three well let me back up here real quick
i didn't have this in my notes but um so it says let as many uh let as
many servants as are under the yoke count
their own masters worthy of all honor that the that the
name of god and his doctrine be not blasphemed
and they that have believing masters let them not despise them because they're
brethren but rather do them service because they're
faithful and beloved partakers of the benefit these things teach
and exhort so he starts off telling people hey you know be that you should
be obeying you know basically your higher power
whoever your boss is whatever situation you're in
and that and kind of what i talked about last week is that everybody has a boss
no matter who you are no matter whether you're the richest person in the world
or the president of the united states or the most powerful person on the whole
planet you still have a boss and you know if
god if god is not your savior then your boss is the devil whether you
like it or not because he can he can you know control you whether
whether you believe that or not i mean it's the truth
because he can take people captive at his will like he did with judas
judas didn't believe and he didn't get saved and so satan was able to use him
to betray the lord jesus christ so and so he moves on here to in verse three
to say if any man teach otherwise otherwise than what to obey your
masters and to um to if you're under the yoke
that to honor those people that are in charge of you
like children should honor their parents and uh you know
we should honor uh men should honor their boss
and not you know give a reason for god's name to be blasphemed at the place that
you work or just in whatever it is that you're
whoever it is that your higher power is we don't want god to look at what we're
doing in our lives and see how we're behaving and then
think hey this is the god that they serve look at how they act
and obviously we're not trying to win people over necessarily by
our lifestyle only like lifestyle evangelism only
but lifestyle does have something to do with people
get you know with you having credibility credibility with people
because if you're known as the worst person at work the worst worker
the worst liar the the biggest dirty joke teller or whatever it is
then when it comes time to share share jesus with those people then they're
probably going to be less likely to hear it from you so you
probably just shouldn't share it i mean unless you've made some dramatic
you know rebound or something but anyway it says and they that have
believing masters or excuse me let's go down to verse three it says if any man
teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words
even the words of our lord jesus christ into the doctrine
which is according to godliness he is proud knowing nothing
but doting about questions and strives of words so
he he's kind of just immediately goes into if someone's teaching the opposite
of these things and not teaching for you to to respect
your masters and not to respect your boss at work and
you know i mean i just think of jim jones jim jones was not a christian
jim jones was not saved or even remotely close to being saved at all
but people still address uh people that are
are christians and say oh they drink the kool-aid or whatever no
he was a communist so he what what do communists want to do they want to take
over the country that they're in and make it into i mean they say that
they're sharing everything and everybody everything nobody
nothing belongs to anybody there's no private property or anything like this
and you know this socialist construct that we have in our world today
and they want to take other people's money and put it in their pockets is
what it really boils down to and they want to take other people's weapons
and give them don't give them the ability to fight back
it's like this is the same scheme that happens every time with communism
and people in our country are so stupid that they are
you know we used to be you know i mean i remember watching rocky four the movies
and it was all about like you know the russia versus the
united states i mean the cold war i was around during the cold war i'm sure a
lot of everybody else was in here and understands that russia has not been
our friend and the the soviet union fell and
but then you still have these countries that still want to try this system out
every single system that tries to use just pure communism
fails and they enslave their people they murder their people
like china like russia like stalin like mousey tongue like paul pott
and all these people and then what we think that we're going to just be
different somehow so these charismatic leaders or whatever
that are false teachers basically they you know they're not consenting
to these wholesome words like hey you know whoever's in charge of
you let them be in charge of you and don't
you know don't backtalk them don't try to overthrow them
and things like that and and then you have but
this is what these gainsayers do they want
eventually they just want money in their pockets that's what their
whole deal is a lot of times and there's like three or four different
types of false prophets three that are mentioned in the book of jude
let's go ahead and turn over there real quick though jude chapter one
the only chapter in there if you're looking for chapter two but jude chapter
one and i mean all these false teachers are
always tied to they're going to have a false gospel
it might not be outrightly evident and they might speak out of both sides of
their mouth but they are false teachers it says
beloved when i gave you all diligence to write unto you the common salvation it
was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you
should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints
so you see that word contend that means the fight you know people get
mad when we fight about these types of things but those are the things we
should fight for i mean isn't that what the bible says
earnestly contend like it's not just because you want to fight with people
but it's earnest like it's it's it's like something that's important to you
for real you know it's not something that you just do
because you want to start fights with people but anyway it says earnestly
contend for the faith which was once delivered under the saints there's only
one type of faith it saves it's the faith and believing in the
lord so and then it says for there are certain
men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation
ungodly men turning the grace of our god into lasciviousness and denying
the only lord god and our lord jesus christ
i will therefore put you in remembrance though you once knew
this how that the lord having saved the people out of the land of egypt
afterward destroyed them that believed not and the angels which kept
not their first estate but left their own habitation he hath reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness under the judgment of the great day
even as sodom and gamora and the cities about them in like manner having
are giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange
flesh are set forth for an example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire
so i mean people are like well god the new testament he's
you know he's nicer now well i mean why is it why is it mentioning these things
because god can be very wrathful too and he's extremely
wrathful against false prophets and it's you know every
every time you read about false prophets there's nothing redeeming about them
there's no qualities about them that are that are good
or there's no chance of them getting saved unless they're doing it ignorantly
and unbelief like the apostle paul and it says but these speak evil
of those things which they know not but what they know naturally as brute
beasts or stupid animals basically in those
things they do corrupt themselves so so see how they're speaking evil of
things and so in first timothy it says if any man
teach otherwise not consented to wholesome words
it's basically it's outlining it's outlining what false prophets do
it says but woe unto them for they have gone in the way of cain and ran
greedily after the error of balam so the way of cain is to try to
please god in their own way in a way that he has not told them to do it
so this is the false gospel this is the false salvation this is the
man doing it on their own bringing he brought forth the veggies
and god's like no i'm a meat eater and i've asked for a lamb
you know so he said he wanted the sweet flavor of a lamb
and and that's what his brother did and then he ends up murdering his brother
for it so cain is one type of false prophet
and he's the type of false prophet that is there to just preach this false
message and lead people astray but you know a lot of false prophets have all
these things about them and obviously more qualities than just
what it's outlining here but it just mentions these three false prophets
and it says and ran greedily after the error of balam
for reward so uh balam what did he want he was willing to curse the children of
israel if god would allow him to so that he could get paid so and then
eventually he he found a way to curse the children of israel by
getting them to commit fornication and with the
moabites so and then so they did get cursed because of
of what they were doing and he didn't allow them
to uh whose phone was that was that you we got we all have the same like ring
tones or something it's like it's getting jim jones in here no i'm
just kidding i'm only kidding uh but i was like that's my phone that's
anyway so but it says and perished in the gains saying of core
so what is the gain scene of core well corea he wanted to
what have a position that was not his and so he desired power
he desired you know he and what what was he saying like
well all of god's people are holy we're all holy just like you moses and it's
like the bible you know of course they're
holy god said that there are set apart people
but but they that doesn't mean that he gets to be the priest
and so they were the ones that were supposed to do the incense and they had
other responsibilities but or not the incense i'm sorry they
didn't have the incense they moses told him to bring the incense
and when they did that that's when god uh clouded up and rained on him
well actually he opened up earth and dropped them straight into hell screaming
and kicking and snot and tears and all that stuff so
but that's the third type of false prophet one that would gain say to gain
uh control of somebody and so let's go back to first timothy chapter six
and it says if any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholesome words
even the words of our lord jesus christ and so the doctrine which is according
for god uh which is according to godliness see
this theme keeps coming up doctrine doctrine doctrine it's so important that
we just learn sound doctrine we understand what doctrine is
it blows me away sometimes when there's someone that's been going to our church
for a long time and then they just don't understand a
certain doctrine that's been pounded from this pulpit so many times it's like
are you just not paying attention or do you just want to be deceived
because the bible says that people will not endorse sound doctrine
and they'll heap to themselves teachers having itching ears
so they want to have their ears tickled oh you
oh you don't have to go to church anymore oh sign me up i'm not going to
go anymore then you know stuff like that oh oh i don't
have to die anymore oh yeah well you had me at hello you know
and people just listen to people like this and what are they trying to do
they're trying to gain say off them somehow
and they're trying to what uh steer uh steer them into the wrong direction
and the bible says if they don't consent to wholesome words even the
words of our lord jesus christ what is that the word of god the words
actually that jesus christ said the words of the bible
and also it says and to the doctrine which is according to godliness so
the doctrine is important it's not just about you know how you feel
it's what the bible actually says what does the bible teach what does the text
say because that's what's important and the
fact that it's god's word because yeah i mean there's a lot of
things that can teach us things in this world a lot of books that can teach us
things you can learn a lot of different things
that you need to learn in this life from books and other media sources but
the things that god expects and wants of us those are the
things you get from the bible and and it says if someone's doing that
then you already know what they are right i mean
it's usually not in the new testament is very clear who the false prophets are
but in the old testament was kind of hard like baleam is a hard character
to grasp to me in the old testament i was confused about baleam when i first
read the bible i was like wait a second like
and i because i didn't know like all there was to know about false prophets
i'm just reading through the books of moses and i'm like who's this guy
and i'm like well god's talking to him he's saying he's not going to do
anything that that god won't allow him to say or
do anything that god won't allow him to do or say anything that god won't allow
him to say but then he keeps trying to say stuff and
so he's kind of a confusing character but in the new testament it whenever it
mentions him it mentions him in a bad light
so when it mentions people in a bad light in the new testament
and especially when it's you know backed up by two false prophets
you know because Korah was definitely a false prophet I mean
and even then people are like you killed the people of the lord it's like no
god killed the people that were not of the lord that's what happened actually
and they're ready to stone Moses and Aaron because they're upset because
those guys got killed it's like because they were what renowned in the
congregation they were pillars of the of the community basically
so he says he is proud knowing nothing but
doting about questions and strifes of words what do they like to do they like
to to stir up strife they like to cause
division they like to question things they're proud
you know and this is a this is what the devil's like the devil is proud
and that's why he fell and so it's no it's
it's no wonder that the people that he has
following him or put in these places and positions of authority
that they're proud also i mean president's kind of proud too
isn't he he's probably one of the most proud people ever but
i mean if anybody's built it he's built it better if anybody's done it he's done
it better if anybody grew the economy one time he
grew it way better it was the fastest growing economy that ever was
and he was going to do it again but uh yeah i don't think it has happened yet
so he's definitely not a prophet but anyway
so false prophets you know when they come in
if they're not teaching what the if they're not saying the things that are
doctrinally sound then that's when you i mean we can kind of pick them apart
sometimes and no but we're you know our nature is to
not always want to question whether people are legit or not
and sometimes i mean we just like to give people the benefit of the doubt and
that's there's nothing wrong with that but sometimes those types of things can
you know get us you know hoodwinked by people
and let's look at uh the rest of the verse there it says whereof cometh
envy strife railings evil surmising what is envy it's where you're you're
you hate on somebody because of something some gift that they have
some ability that they have it doesn't necessarily it's because covetous is
trying to want something that other people
have and own but envy is that like you wish
ill will towards somebody because of the talents or
or maybe the money that they have or whatever it is that they have maybe they
have a maybe they have a great life and you don't
and you look at them and you hate them because of it that's what and envy is a
really wicked sin but it says strife railing strife is fighting
railings or you're saying things about people that aren't true
evil surmising what is that where every time
that you that you think about this person you think of the
of the wicked reason why they're doing it
like you don't give them the benefit of the doubt at all you're just already
and people do this with with pastors like me all the time
like he's probably doing this because of this and people like to surmise about
me online a lot that's why i just don't pay attention
anymore i don't even care but i just quit caring so
but like there's like a commentary of of strange weirdo stalkers that just
sit and obsess about you know people like
me and our church and and other pastors that i'm friends with and stuff it's
just like the most bizarre thing that i've ever seen in my life
so but this is this is evil surmising or they're just
ha it's just always a wicked reason why you're doing something it can't just be
anything you know or or if you hear something
a rumor about somebody and you're like well
and then someone says well this is what it is and then you're like yep yep
that's what it is it's like just because you hate that person
you know it's again the sam gip uh the sam gip thing where he
clicked on something on twitter and it was he was tweeting out porn or whatever
on accident well i mean we think given the benefit of the doubt i mean
maybe he wasn't but like just because you know he's he's a boomer like you
know and a boomer with twitter is like you know a monkey with a with a with a
matches in a and and a trying to light a fire or something i mean
but i don't even know if i completely understand twitter and i'm not a boomer
yet uh so i don't think i ever will be but
um i don't know um but like people automatically just
went against him because he was like saying stuff about pastor anderson
stuff and pastor anderson said no i'm not gonna
i'm not gonna accept that and at least give someone the benefit of the doubt
but evil surmises like yep they did it because they're
this and they're that just because this is like it's just like in our court
system you know you can't just because someone
has murdered someone before doesn't mean that they automatically did it
now it's a good you know it's well first of all if they're a murderer they should
be dead or in prison okay which that doesn't happen
all the time but you know or someone say someone's a thief
and they've got caught stealing at walmart multiple times or something
and then every time you see that person you're just like ah but they're trying
to steal something it was like you can't that that's evil
surmising you're just you're trying to you're coming up with ideas and things
that that they're doing that may or may not be true
and it's kind of speculating on them being evil so
hopefully that makes sense um but let's see so it says they're
they have evil surmising perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds
and destitute of the truth supposing that gain
is godliness from such withdraw thyself these are the type of people that we
should stay away from and have nothing to do with these
men of corrupt minds not listen to their sermons not try to like figure out
what's wrong with them and just stop listening to them
if you know there's something wrong with them stop listening to them you know
we're supposed to separate ourselves from people like that we're supposed to
mark them and avoid them and not just continuously listen to
them all the time or something it's because that stuff can
evil affect you it can it can just start to
to you know get itself into your system and then all of a sudden you're just
thinking the way they think because you're
listening to something that's wrong all the time you should listen to stuff
that's right you should try to figure out the doctrine
that's right and just if you already know there's
something wrong with them to just stop you know so let's turn to Matthew chapter
seven i think chapter seven i mean we're warned so much in the new
testament i mean it's like almost on every other chapter
in the new testament about false prophets and
steering clear of them and gives us all these lists i mean paul
paul loves the list you know paul's the list master in the bible
and here's another one you know we just got through a new one
and it's it's kind of like he just wants us to realize
just how bad these people actually are jesus said in
verse i can't even read that good night i need my glasses
what is it verse uh well it says be verse 15
beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing
but inwardly they're ravening wolves so what is the first premise of what he's
saying that we're supposed to beware of these
people stay you know stay away from them you know if someone says beware of dog
don't run into their yard and try to pet them
i mean it's not like an obvious thing so if the bible says
beware of false prophets like stay away from them don't go listen to them
don't hang out with them don't try to get them you know people are like
why didn't did why didn't you call them and try to get them saved you know it's
just like because they're a false prophet they can't get saved what are you
talking about um that's why and i don't think that billy graham's taking my phone
calls you know or franklin graham or any of these big name people that fly around
and jets and own you know massive mansions and whatever so but anyway um
and it's not like i was the first one to rebuke billy graham or something it's
like he's been getting rebuked for years decades um but anyway he says you shall
know them by their fruits so they're wolves that come in sheep clothing sheep's clothing
so how do we how do we distinguish whether they're a wolf or a sheep well
the bible says it says you shall know them by their fruits you know we have to do a fruit
inspection and so it says do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles if i told you to go
pick some apples off an apple tree and it came back with like some some brambles and some some
thorns i'd be like that's weird why would you bring me that or poisonous holly you know those
holly berries or whatever don't eat those kids um you know holly looks cool for christmas but those
little those little things are poison um if you eat them you could die so but anyway we don't you
know we're the the profit is known by the type of fruit that they produce and so if they're producing
a bunch of other people like them or a bunch of people that aren't saved i mean that's a really
good indicator if they're producing a bunch of people that aren't saved well then they're
probably a false prophet and it says even so every good tree brings forth good fruit but a corrupt
tree bringeth forth evil fruit and it says a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit neither can a
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit when we knock on doors of certain areas that have churches in
that area and they're like well i go to this church or i you know and a lot of you know a lot
of these churches it's like they're not saved it's like why aren't they saved well because
they're going to a church where the where there's a tree that's bringing forth evil fruit and those
people aren't saved and so whenever we check them for salvation they're like oh no you just got to
be a good person you know and keep the commandments and follow Jesus and you know i mean it's basically
it and it's like well do you think you could lose it oh oh yeah i mean you could walk away you could
put it on the shelf you know it's just like that person i mean i'm not saying every time that person
is a false prophet but if there's everybody that we knock on that goes to that church
and when we talk to them at the door none of them are saved then it's a good good chance that
person's a false prophet you know so but it says in verse let's see in verse uh yeah it says so
it says even so a good tree bringeth forth good fruit but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit
a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit i mean
see how he's how the new testament just makes it so clear it's like if they're bad if they're
bringing forth bad fruit then they can't be good so they can't be a good you know a good prophet
they're a bad false teacher it says every tree that bringeth forth not good fruit is hewn down
and cast into the fire so what does that mean they're all going to hell isn't that what this
means i mean so wherefore by their fruits you shall know them so jesus tells us there's people
they're going to come to you they're wolves and sheep's clothing they pretend to be saved
they even come in among you here's how you pick them off they don't have good fruit nobody that
they talk to gets saved and they're nothing you know they're just surrounded they're surround
themselves by people like themselves that are not saved and it says wherefore by their fruits you
shall know them so how do you know someone's a good fruit well they have people that are saved
you know i mean they get people saved and the people that are that are their fruit are the
people that they got saved okay people will say well you know you're you have bad fruits you know
you you said bastard from the pulpit or something like that it's like that's not bad fruit idiot so
and oh i guess i just called somebody and my wife's probably mad i i i said idiot i'm sorry but i
mean you sorry i don't know what other word to use it's a good one but um anyhow so wherefore by
their fruits you shall know them so look why is paul telling us this because it's opposite of what
he was just saying if people are just trying to downplay leadership and trying to overthrow
leadership and they have no respect for people in authority the bible just has this over and over
even in peter it says that they want to overthrow the government and they you know they speak evil
of dignities and you know all these passages about false prophets a lot of them have passages about
how they will not how they just hate leadership and so it's just even people that try to become
pastors or or things like that in our church and it's like they can't follow the leadership
you know i don't i don't always just tell people things just to you know people that i'm training
or something to be a leader or something like that i sometimes i just i wanted to do something
just to see if they will you know and if they kick and scream and and you know they just don't
want to do it or they just have this obstinate face about them where i could just tell that they
they're mad about what i'm saying but they don't want to say anything because they're trying to be
you know good followers or whatever but it's pretty obvious to see so anyway let's move on to
verse number six and it says but godliness with contentment is great gain see these those types
of people they're not content they want more money they want more clout they want more whatever
power whatever they want to self-aggrandize themselves to you know it's it's pride they
have no humility and they they might have fake pride they might be humble you know that it's
fake what do you call the fake humble um humble brag and it's annoying or you know they like to
one-up and stuff like that but humbly of course but anyway it says but godliness with contentment is
great gain so you want to make gains bro you know i mean people would talk about you know working
out and getting i'm gonna get my gains bro well the bible says that godliness with contentment
is great gain so maybe you should just you know focus on what's important and and get that that
kind of gain the kind of gains that god wants you to make i'm not saying it's bad to like make gains
in the weight room or something i'm just saying i was it's kind of a popular thing right now so but
it says it says but godliness with contentment is great gain so it's not just to be godly but also
to be content with where you're at and you know we're not always going to have all the money that
we want to do all the things that we want and you know sometimes you have to work for a long time
to get these things and sometimes you'll never have them maybe god just never wants you to maybe
he always wants you to struggle so that you you know that you crave him and that you um that you
don't forget about him because when people have too much you know as soon as they get full and
as soon as they have all the things that they want need then they just forget about god and
and that's not something he wants maybe he knows you're like that and that he just wants to keep
you humbled so but you know being godly and content at the same time is the is the thing
that's going to get you great gain in this world it says for we brought nothing into this world and
it's certain we can take we can carry nothing out nothing that you have no earthly possession
that you have not your stamp collection your coin collection your comic collection nothing
that you have is going to make it through the fire you're you know i'm just trying to think
of other things that people collect those little thimbles or whatever and you know the certain
dolls ladies like have you ever been to somebody's house they have like those crazy those scary looking
dolls with the china dolls or whatever i don't know they creep me out but or clowns you know
beware of that but um be aware of people who have clown collections
but um nothing that we have though i mean the car or house nothing that we have our clothes aren't
even going to make it so nothing we have is is so such a big deal that we can't just leave it all
behind because we're going to have to anyways so that's why the bible says that we brought nothing
in this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out you can't take your money with you
so like that guy that wanted to build bigger barns and you know he's like and he's talking
to himself calling himself soul uh you've done all this stuff and you know sit back and kick
back and relax and uh eat drink and be merry and all that stuff and god's like thou fool
this day thy soul shall be required of thee so being you know being content where we're at
it's not saying that like if you're dirt poor don't try to make yourself better or something
like that but i'm just saying that god is saying that our attitude should be that we should be
content especially if we're saved i mean if you're saved and maybe you just don't have enough but
again it's not good it's not good to be rich if you can't handle it that's for sure i don't think
that most people handle being rich very well i mean look at all the people that are rich in this
world look at how jesus said it was it was harder for a rich man or it's it's easier for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of god so i mean
that's saying a lot so but then it's like jesus hung around all these people that were rich too
so it's like all the rich ones that he was friends with they were saved you know what i mean like
marion martha i mean you just had a few people that were rich that were friends with him and
that's always good you know there's nothing wrong with being rich but it's it's the attitude of like
i want to get rich you know or die trying or whatever you know that's that's uh that's a
stupid mentality to have so because we can't carry anything with us and all that stuff that you thought
was so important people are going to fight over that when you die then you're like man i wish i
would have you know done something different with that stuff but look at uh verse nine it says
or verse eight excuse me it says and having food and raiment let us be there with content and i
think a lot of us were so spoiled in this country that if we if that's all we had we wouldn't be
content i think a lot of people wouldn't be content but you know we probably have to learn
to be that way wouldn't we so and maybe there's coming a day when it will be like that you know
we don't know the great wars have come upon people and they didn't think that those wars
were coming in their generation but they did you know next thing they know they're in world war one
and their houses are being exploded by tanks and bombs and missiles and all kinds of stuff right
and then world war two was you know they call those the great wars for a reason because millions
and millions of people died in them and then there's been other wars since then that millions
and millions of people have died in so and there's probably going to be a world war three most
assuredly there's going to be a world war three because the bible talks about that in the in the
end time like when the end times really start kicking off there's going to be a great war like
that so that'll be at least there'll be at least world war three right so it says to be content
with those things food and raiment if that's all you had that's all you didn't have a house you
didn't have a car you didn't have anything like that but you just had food to eat and clothes to
wear you should be content with those things and god david said i i was young and now i'm an old
now i'm old i've never seen god's seed begging for bread you know so he's he's going to take
care of us so we don't have to worry about that but it says in verse nine but they that will be
rich fall into temptation and a snare what does that mean it means it's a trap to to want to be
rich is a trap because it says you fall into temptation you know how people say say i've heard
people make fun of people that say well i just fell into sin or whatever and it's like how do
you just fall into sin well if you're trying to be rich you can just fall into you can fall into
temptation so the temptation you know you just don't want to fall into the temptation because
with temptation comes sin you know we're tempted we're to to you know do these lusts these lusts
come upon us and then eventually you know you it wears you down and that's why it's a trap a snare
is a trap and it says and into many foolish and hurtful lusts and foolish is another word for what
stupid sorry to tell you that but that's what it means anyway so it's many it's many stupid or
foolish lust and hurtful lust things that hurt things that can ruin your life and drown which
drown men in destruction and perdition and so look that's that's a that's a rough verse
we don't want to end up like that and who's he talking to here he's talking to a christian
he's talking to a pastor he's talking to god's people you know we don't want to fall into this
trap or we just want to be rich and as christians that should not be our motivation you know to
to support a family yeah that should be our motivation to support yourself that should be
a motivation but you know going past that we're just like you know i just got to stack more
benjamins i got to stack all this cash and it's just it's a it's a foolish uh thing to do so it
says for the love of money is the root of all evil and yes it says all evil the root of all evil
now money's not evil the bible does call it not filthy but just calls it lucre or it calls it the
unrighteous mammon but it doesn't mean it's not a tool that we can't use to further god's kingdom
of course everything is consists of money it's been that way that's how people have paid for
things for thousands of years even abraham so it says the love of money though is the root of all
evil so all the modern versions change this verse guaranteed there's no there's probably no modern
verses that say exactly what this verse says why because they want to change that why do they want
to change it because well they want to make money off that bible version that they just they just
drew up right and anybody that's using those stupid bible versions are probably teaching
give till it hurts and you know full paycheck friday and hey the bible actually teaches 20
percent you know if you figure it out it could be 30 percent like where do they come up with this
stuff because they love money but do you think that they want us to know that so they say it's
the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil or you know they said there's a lot of different
renditions we're going to look at some a couple here but it says which while some coveted after
they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows so this
is the downfall of christians isn't that what it's saying which some have coveted after
so we people covet after money and it's the root of all evil and it says they've erred from the
faith because of that because it's a downfall it's a way to to destroy a christian and the
devil has all kinds of money you know he he can throw all kinds of great jobs in a different
distant land or whatever your way but i'll tell you what if there's not a good church in the
place that you're going to move and i've said this before and it's proved true every single time
you would it might not be right now might not be five years from now but you will be out of church
eventually and and it's it's been true so and people that have left our church and and they
knew that there wasn't a good church that they're moving to and i said hey i pleaded with them don't
don't do it you know find a place to go that's not there and they're not in church anymore so
just a fact but why because it's not always about money though it could be about just loving
you know people more than god so that's another issue though but it says they pierce themselves
through with many sorrows so again it's not the money that's evil it's the love of money that's
the root of all evil that's the root that's where it starts you know roots uh dig down deep into
things and they that's how plants spring up and it says um well i mean let's look at some verses
let's actually i just want to i want to see i want to read the new i the new ife the new international
version the new ife version i'm sure see i knew they were going to come out with a new ife version
it's on his mind it came out of his heart video at 10 but first timothy 6 10 says for the love of
money is the is a root is a root of all kinds of evil some people eager for money have wandered
from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs so but was the king james said that the
love of money is the root of all evil not all kinds of evil first timothy 6 10 the message says
but if it's only money these leaders are after they'll self-destruct in no time lust for money
brings trouble and nothing but trouble going down that path some lose their footing in the
faith completely and live to regret it bitterly after now it's a little bit different than the
king james wouldn't you say i it's just always it's always fun to quote the message though it's
so weird but if it's only money these leaders are after they'll self-destruct in no time
the new king james and this is the one that uh that captain skinny jeans wants us to change over
to it says for the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil for which some have strayed from
the faith in their greediness and pierced themselves through with many sorrows i'm sorry but that's
just not what the king that's that's not a faithful translation to the king james i'm sorry it's just
not so i mean every time they say well the king james is good it's a good alternative to the to
the king james though just get saved that's a good alternative get get saved and you can understand
the king james is fine so let's move on to the last thing here the last passage part of the passage
here verse number 11 says but thou oh man of god flee these things and follow after righteousness
godliness faith love patience meekness there's another list paul has given us the good list now
these are the things that we should follow after not after the love of money not after the lust of
all kinds of things not after these things that the false prophets want and love and that you know
people that are false brethren crept in unaware that they want but we should follow after different
things we should follow after righteousness we should follow after godliness we should follow
after faith and love patience and meekness those are good things to follow after it says fight the
good fight of faith so again just like it said in jude you know it says that we should earnestly
contend for the faith now it says this is paul a different preacher saying fight the good fight
of faith so we are supposed to fight for the faith that's once been delivered it's not something we
just get this is what people think of christians that we just are like doormats that you can wipe
your feet on all the time now it's true that they can over they they have the ability to to over the
years to kill christians and and do all these different types of things but i don't i don't
let apartment managers boss me around and tell me what to do and say don't come back you know but
what most people would say well first of all most people just stop soul winning altogether
if they got any kind of pushback like we get pushed back number one but number two i'm not
going to let some apartment manager that just signed on and is now just thinks that they're
the gatekeeper of the community or something tell me what to do god told me to go and knock these
doors god told me to send people out and have them preach the gospel and also the constitution
says that we have the right to uh have a freedom of speech and also the freedom of religion my
religion tells me to go and tell people about about jesus and try to get him saved and invite
him to church and whatever so i mean i'm gonna just stick with what i'm supposed to do and so
those are the types of things that i will fight over i'll fight an apartment manager anytime
anywhere in a war of words i've had them send cease and desist letters to me but they can do
that all they want they're just huffing and puffing they have no power they have no ability it's the
constitution versus you it's god's word versus you and what are they gonna do throw me in jail
or sue me because i was doing what the bible said i'm sorry but you got the wrong law the supreme
court's already ruled in this case it's already said that we have the right to do this the
constitution the bill writes already said we have the right to do this but more importantly jesus
christ said we have the right to do this you know what we also have the right to preach whatever
the bible says and to not be afraid to preach the hard truths that are in it even though people
don't like that either and they want to censor and tell us that we can't don't say that you know
that's not nice don't don't say whore that's a bad word well the bible says it multiple times
the bible says i mean Rahab is called Rahab the harlot i mean she doesn't seem to be mad about it
i don't know if she has a choice in being called that or not but she's a saint she's someone we're
going to see in heaven and it's like calling her Rahab the harlot it's just like you know
it's not she's not a harlot anymore it's just identifying what Rahab are you talking about
it's the one that used to be a harlot you know i mean that might embarrass some people but like
is it is it is it shaming is it is it ho shaming her or something like that like what
what do they call it slut shaming or something yeah well i mean she keeps being called a harlot
even in the new testament so what about that is is jesus shaming her or the apostles shaming her
i don't think so because she's in a line of christ she was actually a she's a relative of jesus
i mean so what's the problem well the problem is people just don't want to hear the truth anymore
that's what the problem is and really they never have wanted to hear it i mean it's not like
jeremiah jeremiah would preach and everybody hated him i mean imagine that it's not we're not that
bad of a dire straits in this country yet we're not like it was in jeremiah's day where just
everybody hated him he only had a couple homies one named baruch and i don't even know who the
other one was but everybody in this town wanted to kill him and so god has destroyed that place
because of it but jeremiah didn't have friends and why because he was preaching what god said to
preach so as long as the pastor or whoever is preaching is preaching what god's word says
then people shouldn't be you know don't get so offended over it you know but people still do
oh yeah they do they get real offended over it how dare you say that well how dare you talk the way
you talk how about that how many crappy youtube videos have we had to endure or or things that
people say on television or whatever just all this just people's things people say in public all the
time around our children and they act like that's just okay but you're you're mad because you tuned
into a video that you didn't have to tune into or you came to a church that nobody said you had to
stay you can get up and walk out and plenty of people have done that so i mean nobody's forcing
you to do that but then i always have these people that want to call and tell me exactly how they
feel about it and i just don't answer i'll let them leave their stupid message and you know they just
they get all mad about that they just want a response it's like someone knocks on your door
and tries to give you the gospel and then you're just like i don't want to hear your stupid stuff
and like don't you know i mean we've had people just at the door just are like it's that f in
church i was like that was what last a week ago or two weeks ago that's just like you can that's how
scumbag that guy was it's like and his kids are there at his house that's how he's talking about
the church and it's like what did we do wrong we'd knock on your door to try to invite you to church
and try to preach the gospel to you and he just when he opened the door he's just like
you know smash the door closed or whatever it's just like okay well i mean it doesn't make me mad
it's just it's too bad for you is what it is but we're supposed to fight the good fight of faith
and look sometimes fighting gets old sometimes fighting gets tiresome i mean even sporting
events that i've been in like i was in a like a overtime game that just would hardly ever end it
was and i think i was in sixth grade who are playing for the championship in a football game
and it went into it just kept going into overtime overtime overtime we're just kids you know we're
not like grown adults with gatorade and you know we're working out all the time or something we're
like six six you know 12 year old kids or whatever but eventually everybody you know somebody's got to
get tired someone's got to give up and someone's got to to lose but you know as long as we're
breathing and we're working for the lord we should be fighting that fight of faith and not
just ready to just lay down our arms when we feel like oh well i've done my duty i did my five years
of soul winning or whatever it was or i've done you know my preaching you know we we got to keep
going got to keep fighting says lay hold on eternal life whereunto thou art also called and
has professed a good profession before many witnesses so the apostle paul is you know saying
that hey lots of people heard you say that you were saved lots of people heard that profession
of faith that you made and so you need to fight for that faith i mean you got saved by that faith
so why won't you fight for it so we need to be willing to fight for the things that that are
truth and again who are we fighting against we're fighting against the devil and his army basically
and those are principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places
sometimes it's just spiritual wickedness in the apartment complex sometimes it's spiritual
wickedness in the police department sometimes it's spiritual wickedness in the government i mean
it could be just spiritual wickedness that walks into our building i mean that happens
but we still have to fight the fight of faith look at verse 13 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 and that's a hard task right there to be unrebukeable or nobody ever
is able to rebuke you but what's he saying just try to live the best life you that you possibly
can so that you are unrebukeable and so it says which is which in his times he shall show who are
the blessed and only potentate who is excuse me the blessed and only potentate the king of kings
and the lord of lords and it's like well is he the only potentate well that's what the bible says
i mean the other ones are just pretenders to the throne obviously he had kings that he allowed you
know he's he respects kings he respects government i mean god is above all people he is the king of
kings and lord of lords he's above everybody but yet he still respects other people that are that
are in power i mean even the wicked kings of israel when do you ever see where unless it's god
overthrowing that he's okay with it anybody that assassinates one of those kings they get assassinated
i mean how many chances did he give ahab i mean he sent elijah the prophet to specifically deal
with him and then at one point ahab even humbled himself and put on sackcloth and ashes and he said
and god said see how he humbles himself so i mean it's not like the preaching wasn't affecting
certain people but like god does have respect for those that are in charge and even if they're
wicked like i mean it was ahab wicked absolutely but he still respected the position that he was
in that god gave him that position and then when he was like he told told him to go smoke the king
of syria and then he doesn't do it and he's like hey you're my brother then god allowed him to get
killed so that's when he overthrew him so see god sets up and deposes kings god's the one
that sets up and allows these people to be in charge and empower and it's not our job to
overthrow them so and that's that overthrowing process is something that's not you know something
that god's okay with i don't believe that so anyway it says that that he is the king of kings
he's the only potentate what is the potentate a ruler or a king and verse 16 says who only hath
immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach to whom no man hath seen nor can see
to whom the honor and power everlasting amen this is the the verse that tyler baker became a motorist
over right here because he's like well that's jesus he's he must be the father because it says
no man can approach unto whom no man has seen but you know what we've seen people i didn't i haven't
seen jesus okay but people that lived during the time of jesus saw jesus didn't they so that must
not be what it's saying so what's the light that no man can approach to well that's god the father
because where's jesus now he's with god the father so wherever they're at specifically when he you
know when he's in that light because it says whom only hath immortality he's talking about people
that are human beings at this point because god's immortal right but he's the only one with
immortality right now as in his body is immortal and he's you know his spirit and soul are together
in that body that are immortal but we're not that way yet i mean if i stub my toe it's going to
hurt you know if if i die i'm i'm dead but my spirit and soul will go to heaven and be reunited
with my body one day and so you know we shouldn't put too much stock in how i mean obviously i think
that we we should respect the dead we should bury our dead and you know obviously we should
you know be respectful in that way but i think that it's it can be dangerous to like put too much
like you know when people go and just go back to the grave sites and to do that like on a memorial
day or something like that i don't think there's anything wrong with that but i mean if someone's
just weekly going to someone's grave and talking to someone that's not there anymore it's just like
you know just as a christian you know we're not supposed to sorrow like those that have no hope
because we do have hope and if that person was saved then there's hope there's the hope of their
resurrection also and so you know their body their body is just a body there it's decomposing
and then one day god is going to bring that body back together again and that body is going to be
immortal and never be able to die but right now Jesus is the only one that has that immortality
but again we will have that someday and that's going to be cool right to be immortal but we're
not there quite yet there's still him having to come back and give us that that immortality
but i mean this just shows like i mean how can you read this passage and think
god is a motorist or whatever jesus is the father i mean that's just ridiculous
because it says if no man no man can approach unto no man hath seen but people have seen jesus
so what how could that just like why would that just not churn in your brain you know and make
you think well this isn't talk this must not be talking about him in this at this point 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 what would that be like speculating on markets
and things like that i mean you don't know when the bottom is going to drop out of some company so
trusting in those things are kind of that's why i've always kind of hated 401ks i know that
you know that's kind of what our our country kind of goes off of or whatever but
it is kind of uncertain riches so i mean if you're it's it's kind of it is kind of like gambling but
i mean then you have the parable where he said he should have put my money to the user users
or whatever but i mean so i mean if you put your money into retirement and that your company is
re is investing that in stuff that's not super i mean you just can't trust in it that's all
that's just saying don't trust in it you can't trust in those things because the bottom could
fall out of the market at any time there could be another great depression fannie may you know can
go to bernie mack or whatever i don't know uh i don't know the whole the whole market can go
to pot like it has before and then you your 401k isn't worth anything it happened to a lot of people
when all that happened a lot of people got rich over that big scandal scam so um it was barney
frank who was the queer that was like the orchestrator of that whole thing um so yeah
big surprise there right uh but it says 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 so you know instead of trusting those riches we should trust in god who gives us richly
all things to enjoy he's the one that gives us everything we have he gives us our job he gives
us our health and everything that we have and that's who we should you know be thankful to
that's who we should look to if we need something you know when it says he shall never leave us
nor forsake us it's in context of you know not committing you know fornication it's not
committing adultery but also the fact that he's just he's going to be there for us you know
laying out in store they that they do good and that they be rich in good works ready to distribute
willing to communicate it you know you fall into the trap of just work work work work
and you don't put god first you know it's it's not a good thing to do so being rich in good
works is what you want to be because look if you seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness
all these things shall be added unto you that's what the bible says you know hallelujah hallelujah
but yeah seek ye first the kingdom of god and his righteousness and all these things shall be added
unto you i mean it's just like he's just saying the thing those things will take care of themselves
like well he says you know you worry about all these things but you know he loves you more than
he loves the sparrows and this he provides for the sparrows all the time so like why
would you just worry and and fret about everything all the time when god's going to take care of you
that they let's see laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time
to come that they may lay hold on eternal life so the best the the foundation that you really want
to build is a spiritual foundation and you know build your riches in heaven but you know i mean
i guess we're all just getting the same thing right you know that's the gain saint that's the
kind of preaching that you shouldn't listen to that's exactly what i'm saying so see how it's
just opposite of all this crap that's being churned out by some of these guys it's like no
no you you put you put some effort into it and you're going to be blessed for those things not
just here on earth but also in heaven it's like we're not all going to get the same thing in
heaven this isn't communist china when you're when you're preaching just straight communism
from your pulpit it's just straight you're just mousy tongue up there what the white mousy tongue
preaching from your pulpit then you should stop listening to that person honestly they're they're
just lying because that's not what the bible teaches is it you know why would we be rich in
good works if everybody just gets the same thing and then ready to distribute willing to communicate
you know if you're rich in good works then you're willing to what distribute those things to other
people you're willing to distribute not only just i mean the gospel i mean isn't that a distribution
process i mean you got to have the right logistics and all that and you got to have
you know the shipping manifest and you know take it to their door and you know you knock on their
door make sure that they get the they get the manifest right i don't know it's logistics right
so um but it says in verse 20 oh timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding
profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsely so called so he's basically
warning him against hey whatever these these gainsayers or whatever these people they like
to bring up these scientific things it's it's if it's against the word of god then it's not it's
not true so if people are bringing up the oh yeah the the world's billions of years old and we came
from the big bang and we used to be monkeys a long time ago but even though there's still monkeys
around how do you explain that one some of them evolved and some of them didn't there's i don't
know it's weird so why are there so many different types of monkeys why do why do monkeys not have
thumbs why are they called why are they beasts look only humans are are like humans everything
is explained in genesis it might not be explained in detail exactly how he did everything he just
says this is what he this is what i said and this is what happened i said let there be light and
there was light well how does that work i mean scientifically and all this stuff it's like what
does it matter you're being explained how the world got here by god in the first chapters of
the bible the first 11 chapters of the bible are just giving a foundation for what humanity is
going to be like anyway and where the where we come from what was our purpose here i mean what
is our purpose here well god wants us to serve him he wants he wants a he wants a relationship
with us and that's just you know that's why we're here because god made us for his own good pleasure
what are the reasons does there have to be i mean there doesn't have to be any reason and then
people are just bringing up all this alien stuff look it's nonsense it's probably government
designed aircraft that they've been testing for years and then they just you know let these
senators get up and and go well i think i think it is true yeah you know it's true that it's it's
probably just some jet propelled thing or you know well how could it move like that i don't know
maybe they found some another kind of energy they come out the internet came out way before
people were actually able to use it so it's not like the government you know it's just like the
same thing with like oh the pyramids couldn't have been built by people why are there rope marks on
the on the rocks then i mean explain that look people are just the engineering that we have now
is not as good in some ways as the engineering back then it's just a fact you know and knowledge
gets lost over time and then people just technology really doesn't help us sometimes it's worse i bet
if everybody's phone just went out tomorrow and some big bomb happened or whatever what are those
they call those uh emp bombs and do the military guys in here would would know or the gun guys
would get that emp yeah it's supposed to take out all the different all electronics and we'd be like
in the stone age again or something well how are you going to find your way around because i remember
when there was just maps i found my i found my way all the way through los angeles on a on a street
map my grandpa was like how did you find us and i was like uh the map i mean here's the freeway it
goes right here i just i memorized it the last time i was here you know but back then you had
to write things on i mean who's had like that who's here before like the the cell phones right and
then you had to write down directions like okay there's like a little like a little nub on the
tree right here and you need to take a right there you know it's like that's why things were were
were done by identification was done by the what you know it was the rock of whatever
and they would identify markers oh you're you're almost here because you're by that one rock
that's how people have found their way around for thousands of years that's true you know
that old mean lady's house if you go past here the dog will come out and bark at you and then
you know this is a lot of turn left at the dog bark after the dog barks at you yeah whatever
anyway all right let's let's get out of here uh which some professing have erred concerning the
faith grace be with thee amen so look i mean if they come out with some science that says the
bible's not true look there's something faulty about it okay because you know if you're saved
you know that that's all baloney there's no such thing as aliens from other planets okay and i
don't know what it is don't ask me i don't care because i know it's just there's gonna be lots of
deception in the last days and why is it such a big thing why'd they stop taking all the history
off the history channels started putting ancient aliens on and that's all i mean the history
channel is not even watchable anymore and then it's all just a bunch of like gold digger and
you know whatever else stupid shows that they have on swamp people and you know what i don't
know i don't even know if that's on that channel it's probably on something else but anyway don't
listen to science falsely so-called let's pray lord we thank you so much for the bible and for
doctrine lord i pray that you just help us as a people that we would just know uh when people are
just you know they're full of it lord and they're they're false teachers they're liars and trying to
harm god's people just taking them out like the wolves that they are pray lord you just rebuke
those false prophets and help us to earnestly contend for the faith and to be wise by our
knowledge of the bible and our uh that the you tell us with your spirit lord and help us to see
things for how they are in jesus name we pray amen song is 277 silent night holy night 277
perhaps our second german song of the night depends on if you believe martin luther wrote away in a
manger or not in the red book it says martin luther in the blue it doesn't but this one is german