Music
Let's sing it out there on the first.
My faith has found a resting place, not in device nor creed.
I trust the ever living one, his wounds for me shall plead.
I need no other argument, I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me.
Enough for me that Jesus saves, this ends my fear and doubt.
A sinful soul I come to him, he'll never cast me out.
I need no other argument, I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me.
My heart is leaning on the Word, the written Word of God.
Salvation by my Savior's name, salvation through his blood.
I need no other argument, I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me.
My great physician heals the sick, the lost he came to save.
For me his precious blood he shed, for me his life he gave.
I need no other argument, I need no other plea.
It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me.
If you need a bulletin would you slip up your hand and somebody will bring you a bulletin.
I think they're up there Rylan, thank you.
On our front cover we have our verse of the week, it says,
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God,
because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1 John 4 verse 1, ain't that the truth?
And our service times are 10 30 a.m. on Sunday morning and Sunday evening at 3 30 p.m.
Thursday Bible studies at 6 30 p.m.
And our soul winning times are listed below that.
Tonight we're in 2 Corinthians chapter number 10, forgot to say that.
We're going to finish off the chapter tonight.
And we had soul winning tonight, do we have any salvations tonight?
No, okay well God bless you for going out and you still get rewarded for all the work you do, amen.
And our praise report, you can see the salvations, baptisms and morning attendance.
And then our upcoming events, we have a soul winning marathon this Saturday morning.
And we're going to meet here at 9 30 in the morning.
We're going to go out at 10 30 to 12 30, we'll have lunch here.
And then another session of soul winning.
Just the weather's been nice, I hope it's going to be nice on Saturday.
I don't know, it's not looking so good.
It's not looking like today, but it's a beautiful day today outside by the way.
But anyway, if you're planning on making it, please let me know or say something in the WhatsApp group that you're planning on coming.
I just want to know how much food to plan for.
And so this Sunday we're going to have the Lord's Supper service, a PM service.
And so I hope everybody makes an effort to be here for that because we only do it once a year.
Then the following week we have our Easter Sunday services.
And we'll have a potluck afterwards with men's preaching night and the evening service.
And April 23rd to 25th, I think it's actually 22nd to 25th, I think it's wrong in there.
But it's 22nd to 25th is the Detroit soul winning trip.
We have Deacon Corbin Russell is going to be there preaching for us on Sunday.
And then we also have Dylan Oz, Brother Dylan Oz from Steadfast Baptist Church.
One of our old church members, of course, and my son-in-law.
He'll be preaching for us in the evening service.
On the same day I'll be preaching in Boise at Shield of Faith Baptist Church for Pastor Appreciation Week.
And so, let's see, also May 7th is the Ladies' Tea.
That's going to be at 10 a.m. here at the church building.
And of course all ladies are welcome to attend.
It's not a mother's daughter's tea, you can bring your daughters of course.
But it's not just for mothers and daughters, it's for all ladies in our church.
And May 28th we have a fellowship meeting with our church family up from Sure Foundation Baptist Church North.
Like we did a couple months ago.
And so there will be a preaching service there.
And I think a soul-winning marathon the Friday before, if you can get the time off work and go up early.
Brother Robert's going to head that up for the soul-winning marathon.
And that will be coming up next month.
And then June 1st is church camp.
June 10th is the Northwest, excuse me, Northeast New IFB Conference Night in New Jersey at 6 p.m.
And then the service will begin at 7 p.m.
Pastor Thompson will be there and Pastor Jimenez is preaching.
And then we'll have a soul-winning marathon there the next day.
And there will be baptisms, the food's at 6 p.m.
So then July 14th through 17th is the Red Hot Preaching Conference.
And still continue to pray that special prayer for our church in Spokane.
And if you look down, you can see all the other stuff, all the rules.
And then the tithes and offerings for the month of March.
And let's see, Brother Timo's birthday is on the 9th.
And I already sang happy birthday to him.
I don't know why he's ducking out on me again.
But anyway, we sang happy birthday, we surprise attacked him after the service.
He got what was coming to him.
He reaped what he said.
So anyway, that's all I got for announcements.
Let's sing another song and we'll have our prayer time.
Or offering them prayer time.
Alright, our next song will be song number 194.
In your blue hymnals, Jesus I my cross have taken.
Song number 194 in your blue hymn books.
Jesus I my cross have taken.
Let's sing it out there on that first verse.
Jesus I my cross have taken
All to leave and follow thee
Destitute, despised, forsaken
Thou from hence my all shall be
Perish every fond ambition
All I've sought and hoped and known
Yet how rich is my condition
God and heaven are still my own
Let the world despise and leave me
They have left my savior too
Human hearts and looks deceive me
Thou art not like man untrue
And while thou shalt smile upon me
God of wisdom, love and might
Foes may hate and friends may shun me
Show thy face and all is bright
Man may trouble and distress me
Twill but drive me to thy breast
Life with trials, heart may press me
And will bring me sweeter rest
O, tis not in grief to harm me
While thy love is left to me
O, twere not in joy to charm me
Were that joy unmixed with thee
Haste thee on from grace to glory
Armed by faith and winged by prayer
Heav's eternal days before thee
God's own hand shall guide thee there
Soon shall close thy earthly mission
Swift shall be thy pilgrim days
Hope shall change to glad fruition
Faith to sight and prayer to praise
Pray that you would bless this offering. Bless both the gift and the giver.
Sorry to bring up the elephant in the room, but wow.
Okay, well let's go to the Lord in prayer for all Lord prayer requests.
Heavenly Father we thank you Lord so much for the opportunity to come to church tonight
and Lord we pray for those that are not here for whatever reason that might be.
Sickness or maybe working late or whatever.
I just pray that you would be with our church family that's not here tonight
and I pray that you would just answer all these prayers according to your will Lord.
We pray for brother Alex's wife Mary's health to stabilize and for her mind to heal.
Also that she would eat more and not refuse to take her medicine Lord.
Just pray for her brother Alex as he and his wife go through this stage of life together
and Lord I know it must be very hard for him. I just pray that you would help him
and help her to feel better and also we pray for our brother in Steadfast Baptist Church.
Pray that they would be able to find a building soon to meet in permanently
and Lord that you would just make that a permanent place that is steadfast
that they can go and worship you Lord without any issues
and Lord we also ask for prayers for the Goodwin family who lost a child
and had a severe accident. Lord we pray that you would just bless them
and continue to help and heal their family and heal their heartache and hurt
and Lord we ask for a hedge of protection around all of our churches
and a special prayer for the church in Spokane and also for our mothers with child
and Lord we pray that you would be with the Luwai family.
We thank you for them being able to get here safely but unfortunately Lord
we had Sarah had a miscarriage and Lord we just pray Lord for healing
and Lord I know that hurts them and it's hard to lose a child
and I just pray that you would just be with them and help them and give them peace
and we ask for your blessings upon the soul winning marathon this Saturday
and we pray for Lord your house to be filled this Sunday.
Lord I pray that we'd have a great harvest in the soul winning
and Lord that your house would be filled and your spirit would be here with us.
In Jesus' name we pray all these things. Amen.
Alright will you turn with me please to the book of 2nd Corinthians please.
2nd Corinthians chapter 10.
The book of 2nd Corinthians chapter 10.
And in 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 the Bible reads
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ
who in present am base among you but being absent and bold toward you.
But I beseech you that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence
wherewith I think to be bold against some which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
For though we walk in the flesh we do not war after the flesh
for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds
casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God
and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ
and having inner readiness to revenge all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
Do you look on things after the outward appearance?
If any man trust to himself that he is Christ let him of himself think this again
that as he is Christ even so are we Christs.
For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority
which the Lord hath given us for our edification and not for your destruction
I should not be ashamed that I may not seem as I would terrify you by letters.
For his letters say they are weighty and powerful
but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible.
But such and one think this that such as we are in word by letters when we are absent
such will we be also indeed when we are present.
For we dare not make ourselves of the number
or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves
but they measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise.
But we will not boast of things without our measure
but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us
a measure to reach even unto you.
For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure
as though we reach not unto you
for we are come as far as to you also in the preaching of the gospel of Christ.
Not boasting of things without our measure that is of other men's labors
but having hope when your faith is increased
that we should be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly
to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you
and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand
but he that glorieth let him glory in the Lord
for not he that commendeth himself is approved
but whom the Lord commended.
Brother Shawm, would you pray for us?
Amen.
Alright, 2 Corinthians chapter 10.
This is the second sermon out of this chapter
and it was such a great chapter.
I kind of got a little carried away last week
and I can't say that I won't get carried away tonight either
because I was good.
I love this chapter.
It's a great chapter in the Bible.
We ended off, I think we only got six verses last week
so let's start off in verse number 7.
Now, and again, just a little bit of context here.
Paul is talking to the Church of Corinth, of course
and if you look at the context, he's kind of being accused of walking in the flesh
and so he's kind of reproving some of the people in the letter
but also trying to encourage the people that are doing right.
Of course the famous verse about the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds
casting down imaginations in every high thing
that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God
and bringeth into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
Two very famous verses.
There's multiple famous verses in here
and last week I focused a lot on the warfare
that our warfare is not the type of warfare that the world has
and obviously in the context of the chapter
we don't fight a battle of flesh and blood.
We fight a battle that is a spiritual battle
and so a lot of Christians get carried away with wanting to go to war
because their talking points come from Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck
and all these different warmongers that are on Fox News and Newsmax
or whatever it is
and I kind of mentioned last week that when the Democrats want to go to war
you know something's really rotten in Denmark
because they're like, well let's take Putin over
and Joe Biden is gaffing himself over and over again.
I mean I pay attention a little bit.
I kind of every once in a while just kind of jump in, jump out
because I want to know what's going on in the world.
I mean we can't just completely bury our head in the sand
but at the same time I don't want it to be a focus of my life.
I think our focus should be serving the Lord
but obviously we do still need to know a little bit about what's going on
and it also brings into perspective the Bible teaching
because a lot of churches pray for our troops
and let's say the Pledge of Allegiance
and have the American flag in here
and you'll never see that flag fly in this church as long as I'm the pastor
because unless America has like a huge revival of some sort
and the president becomes a Baptist, I'm not going to be on board.
So one day we will have a Baptist as the president, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Nah, this guy. I'm kidding.
But yeah, I mean so I focused on that a lot in last week's sermon
and so now I want to pick up in verse number seven
because that was a real big focus of what I was talking about last week.
So look at verse number seven. It says,
Do you look on things after the outward appearance?
If any man trusts to himself that he is Christ,
let him of himself think this again,
that as he is Christ, even so are we Christ.
And so he's talking about these people that are looking at Paul
and they've said that he looks weak but his letters are weighty
and so they're talking about how he talks,
basically they're saying he talks real tough in his letters to us
but when we see his appearance, he's contemptible
and his speech is contemptible and he's just not really much to look upon
but we're not supposed to look at things,
and I mentioned this last week also that we're not supposed to look at things on the outward appearance
and I basically kind of made the point that we can't see how God sees
because we don't have that power of God,
but through his word we can see how people are.
That's how we know that flattery is a sin that we should avoid.
If someone's up flattering us, then you can kind of see,
well hey, God told me if someone's just flattering me
and telling me everything I do is great,
I'm the most handsome man in the world and all this other stuff,
then they're just over the top of flattery.
They have something wicked in their heart, a wicked agenda,
and that's just one instance, but we can look on people's hearts through God's word,
through the Bible.
The Bible shows us and tells us how we're supposed to respond to things
and how we're supposed to look at things
so we can look at people's hearts somewhat through the lens of God's word.
And I made that point last week.
Now look at 1 Samuel 16 verse 6.
I don't think I had you turn here last week, but maybe I did, I don't know.
But anyway, 1 Samuel 16 is still a very relevant verse
because he's saying, Paul's saying,
do you look on things after the outward appearance?
And obviously we see with our eyes, so we do.
A lot of times, just like we're supposed to not warn the flesh,
we shouldn't walk in the flesh either.
So we shouldn't just judge things by our eyes necessarily
or judge a person by what they're wearing or how they appear in most cases.
But it says, if any man trusts to himself that he is Christ,
let him of himself think this again, that as he is Christ, even so are we Christ.
So Paul's saying, hey, you're Christians, guess what, I'm a Christian too.
And people seem to forget that.
And look, Paul was the authority at this church
and he makes sure to mention that several times just in this chapter alone.
But you're in 1 Samuel 16, 6, look what it says.
So then it came to pass when they were come that he looked on Eliab
and said, surely the Lord's anointed is before him.
Now this is talking about Samuel when Saul's been rejected as king
and Samuel, he's going to try to anoint the Lord's anointed,
but God doesn't really tell him who he is.
And he kind of lets this procession of his older brothers come through
and he's basically like, you know, surely this is the Lord's anointed
because he's this big strapping guy or whatever.
And God said, look at what it says in verse 7,
But the Lord said unto Samuel, he said,
Look not on his countenance, or of the height of his stature,
because I have refused him.
For the Lord seeth not as man seeth,
for man looketh on the outward appearance,
but the Lord looketh on the heart.
So God's basically telling us, hey,
a lot of people just judge by the appearance of someone,
but why did he think that he had the Lord's anointed?
Because you would think it's the biggest, strongest guy.
That's why I personally believe that Samson was not some big hulking,
ripped dude that was just walking around like the gym walk.
He was just like, you see the gym anywhere?
He probably didn't look like that at all.
The thing that would make it more of a miracle
is if he was just this tiny, skinny dude
and he was just wrecking a thousand guys with the jawbone of an ass
through the power of God.
And he had long hair.
But anyway, so God doesn't look at things the way we do,
but you know what?
We can try to see things the way God sees them,
and that's an important aspect of this teaching.
But let's turn over to James 2, verse 1.
We shouldn't judge people by their appearance.
And David, you know,
David wasn't like a bad-looking guy or something.
He was just a small,
he said he was ruddy with beautiful countenance or whatever,
and he, so he was just like a, you know,
just a regular kid, but you know,
apparently his brothers looked more the part
of the anointed of the Lord.
But anyway, look at James chapter 2, verse 1.
It says, my brethren,
have not the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ
the Lord of glory with respect of persons.
This is a very important teaching also,
is that we shouldn't have respect for someone's person
as in this person's better than this person.
We're not supposed to look at things in that fashion.
We're supposed to have, you know,
it's not talking about like respect of,
you know, you're never supposed to respect someone.
It's talking about, you know,
having respect of a person by the way they appear
because the context clearly shows us that.
In verse 2 it says,
for if there come unto your assembly
a man with a gold ring in goodly apparel,
and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment,
and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing,
and say unto him, sit thou here in a good place,
and say to the poor, stand thou there
or sit here under my footstool,
are ye not then partial in yourselves?
So he's saying, hey, if someone comes into your church
and one person isn't dressed very nice,
and you can tell that they're poor,
and then someone else, you know,
they come in and they have a big gold ring
and, you know, the Mr. T. startup kit or whatever,
and it says the gay clothing.
Gay means happy, okay?
So the queers took that word and made it into their own,
but gay just means happy or whatever.
But anyway, the point is, is that he says,
are you not then partial in yourselves?
And so we're not supposed to have respect of persons
because of the way they dress,
because of the way they look, their physical features.
And it says, and are become judges of evil thoughts.
Oh, he's poor, he must be evil.
Oh, this guy's rich, he must be good.
Isn't that how people view things today, though?
Like all these Hollywood actors are like,
oh, they respect them.
If they take some kind of picture and put it on Instagram,
they're like, oh, everybody's just raving
over this picture that they took.
Who cares?
They're like, they're devils.
So why would you care what Brad Pitt
and Angelina Jolie are wearing at the Oscars?
Who cares?
God doesn't look at that and have respect to that.
So we shouldn't either.
And so we shouldn't have disrespect
for people that walk into this church.
Now, I will say this.
If someone comes in acting weird
and they're dressed in viral raiment,
that kind of gives me a clue about what they're doing.
But see, I'm not judging them based upon how they look.
I'm judging them based upon how they're acting,
like that kind of weirdo that came in here that one day
and he's going from person to person,
saying a bunch of weird stuff, throwing an elbow
at Brother Ramon.
Then he just sits here and falls asleep
and I'm screaming my head off.
So obviously the guy is on something
and we end up having to call the police to have him removed
because we just don't want to have
like some kind of drag him out in the middle
of the service type of a situation.
But it didn't have anything to do with how he looked.
It had to do with how he was acting.
So anyway, and look at verse five.
It says,
So what's the Bible saying here?
That we're not supposed to look on the outward appearance
and have respect for that person because they look rich.
The Bible says you have sinned by doing that.
You commit sin and you're convinced of the law
as a transgressor.
So Paul in this epistle is saying,
do you look on things after the outward appearance,
making fun of how he looks, making fun of how he talks,
and maybe he didn't have the golden voice.
He didn't sound like Tom Brokenjaw
or some other, you know, some famous person orator.
He didn't sound like, what's the guy's name
that reads the King James Bible?
He didn't sound like Alexander Scorby
when he preached or something.
He didn't sound like Brother Eli.
No, I'm just kidding.
When he's reading the scriptures, you know,
it doesn't matter.
It's what is in the message that's important.
You know, so if you're just sitting back and saying,
oh, that pastor has a squeaky voice
or that pastor is too loud
or that pastor is this or that,
you know, don't listen to how their voice sounds
or what they look like necessarily.
Why don't you listen to what the message is saying
and let that be how you judge that person
by the message that they preach.
I'm talking about just, of course, pastors.
Now, look at verse number eight back in our text.
It says, for though I should boast
somewhat more of our authority,
and what is he saying here?
For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority,
saying, hey, I ought to tell you more often
that I'm the one that's in charge here,
which the Lord hath given us for edification.
So God gave Paul authority over this church here
and it says, and not for your destruction,
I should not be ashamed.
He's like, if I have to boast and tell you I'm in charge,
then I don't need to be ashamed about that
because it's the truth.
And the Lord gave them that authority for edification.
And so apparently some of these people
aren't receiving that edification.
And, you know, he wouldn't be ashamed
because he is the authority of the church.
Why would he be ashamed of that?
And, you know, obviously I've heard preaching that says,
if you have to tell everybody you're the boss all the time,
then you're probably not the boss.
If you're the husband and you're always saying,
ah, my wife obeys me and she listens to everything I say,
she probably doesn't obey you
and listen to everything you say.
You just say that at work or whatever
and really she doesn't even make you sandwiches
or cookie dinner, no, I'm just kidding.
But I'm just saying, you know,
you don't have to just flex all the time.
Was the Apostle Paul flexing here?
A little bit, but he's just basically saying,
well, do I have to say that I'm in the authority here?
I mean, even if I do, I'm not doing anything wrong.
Look at Hebrews chapter 13, verse 17.
And, you know, people, they buck at pastoral authority.
They buck at following leadership.
And they have all throughout the Bible.
Moses was a great man of God and the children of Israel,
you know, you couldn't have had a better pastor.
He was the meekest man on the face of the earth.
And yet the children of Israel didn't follow him.
They caused Moses to get so angry that he sinned.
You know, obviously it was Moses' own fault.
He had a bad temper.
But, you know, they pushed him and kept pushing him.
And, you know, Moses, you know, God told Moses to,
I think he told him to speak to the rock
and then Moses struck the rock.
And that was, that kind of ruined the picture
of what was supposed to be and, you know,
made God angry, angry enough to where he said,
you're not gonna go into the Promised Land.
So, but biblical pastoral leadership,
biblical leadership, or even secular leadership
is taught in the Bible.
You know, in the Bible you'll see secular rulers
that are ruling over people.
And people fell in line a lot more than they do now.
It's hard to find people who actually follow leadership.
You know, it's funny, I always see people wanting
to step up and be leaders, you know,
just in the work world and they can't even follow
the leaders that they have at that time.
They won't even submit themselves to the leaders
that they have at their own jobs.
How are you gonna be a leader
if you've never been a follower before?
It's not gonna happen.
You don't lead first, you follow and learn how to lead.
Elisha followed Elijah and basically just washed his hands.
That's how he started out, washing his hands.
He poured water on his hands and washed them.
And then you see Elisha following Elijah
and getting a double portion of the spirit
that Elijah had, which was a big ask.
But he did have double the miracles
and did double the things that he did.
But my point is, is that we need to learn
to follow leadership and stop bucking
at the authority of leaders.
Children, you should be obeying your parents
and following the leadership that they have in your life.
Are they perfect?
Are they always gonna judge every situation correctly?
Probably not, but you know, they're still your parents
and the Bible says you're supposed to obey them.
Children, obey your parents and the Lord for this is right.
That's what the Bible says.
It doesn't say obey them as long as they're right.
It's saying obey them for this is right.
So and maybe they have rules that you think are dumb,
but you know what?
They think that you're breaking the rules
that they have are dumb too.
They think that it's dumb when you're breaking their rules,
which are very simple in most cases.
Clean your room.
I did.
And then you gotta go in there like 30 times
and you're just like with the white glove inspection
and you know, sometimes you gotta do that.
Sometimes you gotta be like some sergeant in the military
where you're just like throwing open up drawers
and dumping them out on the ground,
making them pick it up.
Gotta teach them, right?
Do some push ups.
But anyway, we need to have biblical authority
in place in church and what's really going on
is that most churches are ran by committees.
Most churches are ran as a democracy
like we're imperialistic Rome or something
or that we're the United States of America Baptist Church.
You know, you don't see that taught in the Bible.
Look at what it says in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 17.
It says obey them that have the rule over you
and submit yourselves for they watch for your souls
as they that must give account.
As the pastor of this church, I rule over this church.
I rule in this house of God.
I'm the boss here, okay?
I'm the boss.
But you know what?
I'm not the boss at your house.
Have I ever come to anybody's house here
and said what are you doing with these DVDs?
I don't really like the magazines that you have
sitting on your coffee table.
No, I just preach the word of God
and let the chips fall where they may
and you know what?
You can make those decisions in your own life.
I don't rule your house.
I don't rule your marriage.
I don't rule your children.
But you know what I do rule?
This place right here.
And there's rules that you have to follow in this place.
And so you shouldn't give me a hard time
when I have to make some kind of ruling
and you're not always gonna like every decision I make.
But do you like every decision your boss makes at work?
Well do you tell him off and say I'm quitting
because I don't like one of your rules that you have?
That's stupid.
If you have that attitude, you're never gonna succeed
in anywhere that you're at.
No church you're at because eventually
the pastor's gonna say something you don't like
or the pastor's gonna say something that steps on your toes
that stomps on all 10 piggies that went to the market
and you're gonna go wee wee wee all the way home
because you don't like the preaching.
You don't like your life being torn apart by the Bible.
It's not like I'm just like spying on you at your house
and I say what can I get?
What can I get brother Eli with today?
I'm gonna invite myself over to his house
and I'm gonna pick him apart.
I see his idols.
His idols are, you know, that's just, that's weird.
I'm sure that there are pastors that are like that
but I try not to interfere with people's lives.
I'm here to preach the Bible and rule this house well
and make sure this place runs well
and it says obey them that have the rule over you
and submit yourselves for they watch for your souls.
As they that must give account.
You know I have to give an account on what I teach?
I have to give an account to what I preach.
I have to give an account for how I rule.
It's something that I have to do
and if I fail God's gonna judge me harshly on those things.
It says that they may do it with joy and not with grief
for that is unprofitable for you.
So I was just seeing like, I kinda mentioned this last week
but I've seen where little old ladies
wait for their little business meeting
so they can just rip on the pastor
and say all the stuff he's doing isn't right
and you know that's not right.
It's not their place to do that.
They should not be just causing problems
and people shouldn't be causing problems
and going behind the pastor's back.
I would hope that if people are talking bad about me
behind my back that you would tell me
or that you would say hey let's go talk to the pastor
about that and see what he has to say about it
because I guarantee you that they're gonna stop.
You know and you don't want,
it says that you know I wanna rule this house with joy.
I wanna rule this house not with giving grief
from everybody over every decision I make
and I'm not saying that that happens.
I'm just saying that it's possible people could come in
and that could happen, that has happened
but you know it says it's unprofitable for you.
If you're always just a pain in the neck to me
and you're never a blessing at this church
or a pain in the neck to everybody around you
then you're the problem
and don't make it my problem because you know it says
the Bible says it's unprofitable for you.
It's not good for you.
I mean if I hate coming here
because I know I'm just getting grief
from everybody all the time
or if I just wanna quit all the time
because nobody's coming to church
or you know nobody has a zeal for God or anything like that
then how's that profitable for you
if I feel like quitting all the time?
I'm not saying I do.
I'm just saying you know that people can get to that point
and I'm sure there's many pastors
who feel pretty alone sometimes
at certain points in their life and as our pastor.
Look at 1 Timothy chapter five or 17.
1 Timothy chapter five or 17.
So we do have, there is a biblical authority
and most people probably haven't gone to a church
like this before unless you went
to one of my friend's churches
but this church operates differently.
I always have to tell people that
when I'm telling people about our church
like we're family integrated.
How many churches in town are family integrated?
We're it, we're the only one in town
and you know why we do that?
So our kids are protected
but you tell people that and they're like
they were hoping you were gonna say
we have a great Sunday school program
so all your kids can be taught by some stranger
that you've never met.
You don't know what their qualifications are.
You don't know if they can teach the Bible right
and a lot of times I've seen churches
where someone comes in, they've been there for two weeks
and they make them a Sunday school teacher.
It's like wow, so much for vetting somebody.
I was a Sunday school superintendent
at a church that I went to in this town
and I had to go narc people off sometimes to the pastor.
I didn't have authority necessarily.
I had to go to the pastor and say hey this is going on.
It probably needs to be dealt with or whatever
and there was these women that were using
KJVER, easy reader
and it basically takes out the thes and thes
and then messes with a lot of the other scriptures.
They say it's just like a really sensitively
changed King James but it changes a lot of stuff
and why do we have to be dumbed down?
Thou, thee, ye, yours.
It's not really that difficult.
Ye, you, you and yours is plural.
Thee, thine and thou is singular.
Oh well that's really hard.
Hopefully you have a reading level that can help you
and cognitive ability to figure that out.
It's not really that hard.
If you have a hard word the King James,
just look it up in the dictionary
because if it wasn't in the dictionary
then you'd say well that's truly an archaic word
and maybe it's archaic in our time
because this book is 411 years old or whatever
and yeah, right?
1611, 2022, yeah, 400, next month I think.
I think it's next month.
I'm pretty sure that it's 411 years old.
So anyway, it's an older book
and people talked different back then
but even during the time that the King James was translated
people didn't talk like that
but what they did is they used the right words
for those situations
because if you just say you all the time
people do that now.
Nobody says thee.
I'm talking to thee.
We don't talk like that
but it also can be confusing
if you're just saying you
then it's talking about everybody in reality.
That's the right word
but if I say thee
then I'm just talking to someone singularly.
But in our modern day
we're not as smart as we used to be back then.
That's when the English language was at its zenith.
So the words that they used back then
are the right words.
Now maybe someday we might have to have
some kind of new translation or something
because if everything in this book becomes archaic
and nobody understands it
then obviously the language becomes dead.
So you're like, oh, you're talking about changing the King James.
No, I'm not.
I'm just saying that if it got so bad
because there's different types of German
that other Germans can't understand
like slow German and high German.
I don't understand this or all that
but I do know that some people can't read
those certain kind of German.
And so it's like that in a lot of different languages and stuff.
So anyway I'm not talking about that
but 1 Timothy 5 or 17 says
Let the elders that rule well
be counted worthy of double honor
especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.
So a pastor is supposed to labor in the word and doctrine.
If they're not then they're not doing a very good job at what they do.
And a pastor should study.
A pastor should read.
A pastor should know what they're talking about
when they get up and preach the Bible.
Obviously nobody's mistake free.
Nobody's right about everything.
Just because you think you're right about something
that you think I'm wrong about
doesn't mean I'm like some bad guy or something
because I might think that you're wrong about what your issue is
and obviously I do because I wouldn't agree with you.
But I'm just saying that it doesn't matter.
Now if I'm wrong about salvation
then run.
Run out of here screaming.
If I'm starting to preach you've got to repent of all your sins.
Like bye.
The essentials is what matters.
All doctrine matters
but the essentials are most important.
But what's the Bible say?
The elders that rule well are to be counted worthy of double honor
especially they who labor in the word and doctrine.
So the scripture says
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn
and the laborer is worthy of his reward.
Of course it's talking about pastors that get paid and things like that
but it says rule.
You know this church is a dictatorship whether you like that or not.
It's dictated, the rules are dictated by the Bible
and I interpret those as the pastor as I see fit.
And you know people don't like that kind of stuff
but it's just the truth.
That's what the Bible teaches.
Nobody voted whether Moses was going to be the prophet for the children of Israel.
Nobody voted.
I don't remember reading that Joshua was voted on by the congregation
and everybody said yeah we're going to vote for him.
And they did the ballot box at the back of the church with the treasure chest
with the slits in there so they could all drop their votes in.
No.
God told them who was going to be the next person.
It was Joshua.
And guess what Joshua was the attendant of Moses.
So Joshua learned with Moses
as Moses preached and taught and ruled
and he ruled well, right.
So there's nothing wrong with one man ruling
and it better be a man.
You know that's what the Bible teaches.
You know people get all upset about it because they're all woke nowadays
and listening to Joyce Myers
and listening to Kenneth Copeland
and listening to all these bozos.
What's her name? Beth. What's her?
Huh?
Beth Moore.
You know, Timo's favorite preacher.
No I'm just kidding.
But you know these people are bozos
and you know if a woman gets up to preach she's wrong
the moment she opens her mouth.
Period.
Turn to 1 Peter 5 verse 1.
1 Peter 5 verse 1.
The Bible says that the elders which are among you I exhort
who am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ
and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed.
Feed the flock of God which is among you
taking the oversight thereof
not by constraint but willingly
not for filthy lucre but a ready mind
neither as being lords over God's heritage
but being in samples to the flock.
So again it's saying not lords over God's heritage.
I'm not the lord of you or your faith
or what you practice in your own home
but you know what I am the ruler in this church
and that's the way it is
and if you don't like it then go to Voters Baptist Church
People's Choice Baptist Church
or Democratic Socialist Baptist Church
or whatever church you want to go to
because I guarantee you they're not going to be like this church.
So if you don't want just one person ruling
then find a different church
because this church isn't changing on that.
So it says when the chief shepherd shall appear
you shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
So as a ruler, as the pastor
see it's saying the shepherds
feed the flock of God.
My job is to feed the word of God
to the people that go here
and take oversight of the things that go on in this church.
Not by constraint but willingly.
Not for filthy lucre but for a ready mind.
And the job of the shepherd
is to be underneath the chief shepherd
who is Jesus Christ, right?
And the reason I am bringing this up
is because there is just this Korah attitude
that pops up every once in a while
and when the Korah attitude pops up
I want to smash the Korah rebellion
when that happens.
And I just kind of want to bring this up
while I'm preaching about this
because I've gotten questioned about
I kicked somebody out in the UK Whatsapp group.
It wasn't even in the church.
They never even stepped foot in our church one single time
and I just told them
because he was thinking about moving to our church or whatever.
So he was loud in the group
because he was saying he was going to move or whatever.
But he's saying that I kicked him out
for asking a question.
Is there anybody in this room
that's asked me a question before?
Yeah, lots of people have asked me questions.
We talk about the Bible like every week in this church.
And as far as I know I've never kicked anybody out
for just asking a question.
But you know what?
I kicked this guy up just for asking a question.
Do you think that that's how I am?
No, because the question was just a loaded question.
Some people ask questions
but they're not really asking a question.
They just want to use that as a reason
for them to just puke out their opinion
and puke out their false doctrine
and tell you why they're upset with you,
why they're upset with the church,
why they're upset with your teachings and things like that.
So I'm not even going to name this bozo
just because it's not really that important who it is.
It's just he doesn't go here.
But the point is that I've heard some whisperings
that maybe some other people are saying that
in our church over there.
And I just want to say this,
that if anybody thinks that after me reading this
and showing you this
and they think that I still just kicked that guy out
for a question,
you can just go ahead and leave our church
and never come back
because you're just as idiotic as this person here.
Here's what they said.
Here's the question that they asked in our church group.
Mind you, in the middle of the night,
and this isn't the first person that's done this
in the middle of the night in a WhatsApp group.
I don't know what it is about WhatsApp groups
but people just think that it's church.
This guy actually thinks that he went to our church
because he was in our WhatsApp group.
I mean, how stupid do you have to be?
You're not in the church
unless you're actually congregating there.
Now if you want to come there someday,
then you will be part of the church.
But until then, until you actually show the whites
of your eyes in a church building,
then you're not a member of that church, period.
Here's what he said.
Hi everyone, I have a question.
Now, okay, if he had a true, sincere question,
don't you think he would have just private messaged me?
You know, in WhatsApp, you can private message
anybody that's in the group.
If he really wanted to know what Pastor Thompson
thought about this, but instead,
he wants to ask everybody.
I have a question.
Hi everyone, I have a question.
So that's how he starts out.
I watched a video of Pastor Shelley
calling Norm Diamante a heretic
for saying that you don't need
to pray a sinner's prayer to be saved.
I remember a few years ago Stephen Anderson
was teaching that the sinner's prayer
is not a requirement for salvation.
And in his soul winning video,
he would explain to people
that the prayer doesn't save you.
I haven't been following the new IFB
very closely for a while,
and I'm surprised by this change.
So why say that part?
Because you want to throw shade on the new IFB, right?
So, does the new IFB believe that the sinner's prayer
is a requirement for salvation now?
Pastor Shelley talks about calling
upon the name of the Lord and saying
the sinner's prayer as equivalent.
From my own reading,
I've only seen examples of people
acknowledging that Jesus is the Son of God,
just like a lot of the disciples
in the gospels do.
And this only happens after God's
Spirit reveals to them,
confirming that God's Spirit
is inside their heart,
the type of that.
For example, and then he's gonna come off,
just like people do on Facebook
when they want to convince everybody,
they just do text walls of verses.
But, you know, so, I mean,
let's analyze this really quickly.
First of all, he has a question for everybody.
Or is this a question you come to the pastor about?
This is a question you come to the pastor about.
And then in one paragraph,
one run-on paragraph,
he calls out Pastor Shelley,
he calls out Pastor Anderson,
he calls out the new IFB.
Does it sound like he really
cares about
what he's about to ask
to everybody?
It's not a genuine question.
That is not a genuine question
that's sincere.
And then he just, like,
Matthew 6, 16,
John 1, 49,
he just, like, he's using
all these examples of scriptures where people
get saved and they didn't,
it doesn't show them pray the sinner's prayer or whatever.
And
so he even
has this little commentary in there.
There's no example of anyone praying a prayer
to get saved. And it's actually the
Spirit of God from within
our hearts that calls upon the name of the
Lord without us even
uttering a word with our lips.
Bozo alert.
Bozo alert
because, you know, he's
saying that the Spirit of God
is the one that calls upon the name of the Lord
for us. No, you
don't have the Spirit of the Lord in you
until you get saved.
So he's misapplying
scriptures from the book of Romans,
he's misapplying scriptures from
Galatians, chapter 4,
6, and he's saying
that God himself
calls upon his own name for
us and that's how we get saved.
That's stupid. That's idiotic.
That's not what the Bible teaches.
And then, you know, all throughout all
the scriptures that he uses,
it's funny how he never uses
the verses Romans 10
9 through 10 13.
Whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved.
When you call upon his name, are you
praying? And it says you're
saved. Okay, well
then you're saved by calling upon the name of the Lord.
You're saved because you believed
and you called upon the name of the Lord.
So, praying
a sinner's prayer, repeating the sinner
prayer, that's what Norm made a big
he made a
big thing out of that. You know,
I didn't repeat a prayer.
I didn't repeat anything.
And so what, because
you didn't repeat something? You know, he says
he never called upon the name of the Lord. So
Pastor Shelley said he's not saved if
he didn't call upon the name of the Lord. That's what I'd say
to anybody that says I never
called upon the name of the Lord. You're not saved.
I mean, it's
really pretty simple. I preached a whole sermon on it
not too long ago. Here's
the verses he used to teach
that the Holy Spirit calls
upon him for us.
Galatians 4, 6, and because your sons
God has sent forth the spirit of
his son into your hearts crying, Abba
Father. Is that a proof text
for what he's saying? It's not a proof
text for what he's saying. It says because your sons
so you're already
saved then
God sends forth the spirit of his son
into your hearts crying, Abba Father.
It's not before.
Romans 8, 26, here's the other one
he says, likewise the
spirit also helpeth our
infirmities. We know not
what we should pray
for as we ought, but the spirit itself
maketh intercession for us
with
the groanings which cannot be uttered.
And he that
searcheth the hearts knoweth
what is in the mind of the spirit because he maketh
intercession for the saints according to the will of
God. Key word, he
maketh intercession for the saints.
The people that are already
saved. The
spirit does make intercession
for us, but you're already saved.
He doesn't call
upon the name of the Lord for you. What kind of
bozo theology is
that? I mean it almost sounds
like Calvinism.
But even the Calvinism, I mean it might even
be weirder than Calvinism.
But he's talking
about how Cornelius gets saved and he
you know Peter hadn't even got done
and finished. Well how does
he know that he didn't already have some
of that knowledge before Peter finished?
You know people get saved
when they believe, yes.
And we don't teach that if
someone calls upon the name of the Lord in their mind
or in their heart that they're not saved,
I've never said that.
I think that you are saved.
But here's the thing, this is what
we teach that if we're soul
winning and they refuse to call
upon the name of the Lord in front of us, we don't
count them. Because we didn't hear them
call upon the name of the Lord. You know
with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation. Your mouth
isn't your brain.
You know your brain helps your mouth speak
but your mouth isn't your brain. So how do
we know if someone really got saved? We
still don't know for sure.
Because we don't know their hearts
or whatever. There's a little button that goes on
their head and it says saved after that.
So we don't know for sure. But you know
what we do know? That if they
call upon the name of the Lord they shall be saved.
So that's why
we would lead someone in a sinner's prayer.
I've had people just pray their own
prayer before. And it was great.
And I counted
that person as saved because they truly
called upon the name of the Lord. You know they
said everything right. So why
would I you know I don't go
around making people pray their own prayers like
some what is it Ray Comfort that makes
you pray your own prayers or something?
I mean come on.
People are going to stumble and
falter and they don't you know why did the
disciples say Jesus teach you know
master teach us how to pray?
Because they didn't even at that point know
how to pray right.
And so why wouldn't we teach
them how to pray the right thing
for them to be saved?
I mean is that so wrong?
You're repeating something.
You're having them repeat
a prayer. Well I tell people
hey you know the fact that
you're praying a prayer doesn't save you. It's the
fact that you believe in your calling upon the name
of the Lord. So if they're
just repeating a prayer and that's
what they think is saving them. That isn't
what's saving them. I don't believe that. I don't
think any of my pastor friends believe that.
That's ridiculous.
So he goes on and on
talking about different scriptures
and
basically
he you know he gets to the
end and he repeats the
because your son's one
and he's like confirming again that no
outward praying is required.
It all happens in your
here. I think he meant heart.
Believing, repenting
and calling upon the name of the Lord.
Okay.
But then he's saying that we're
teaching a false gospel
because
we teach that repeating a prayer
is you know we don't even teach that. But anyway
so
he goes on. He puts
Galatians 4, Romans
8 at the end of his
little you know ramblings
and says
so because remember
he asked the question right.
Hi everyone. I have a question.
That's what he said right.
He said at the end of all this
so that's my biblical
understanding of believing.
Well thank you so much
person I don't have any idea who
you are. Thank you for
teaching us all. Everyone
in my church WhatsApp group
what your understanding of believing
is. Which is wrong
by the way.
Repenting and calling upon the name of the Lord.
No outward prayer with your mouth
is required so does the new
I have been out teach that the sinners prayers
are requirement for salvation.
If so this is very worrying
saying a prayer is
works just like getting
baptized it's not required
for salvation. Okay
except for here let's turn to Romans 10
real quick. Let's just turn over there.
We'll read it together.
This is what
most people in our church close with
in the scriptures. Who
closes with Romans 10
yeah 9 through 13
that thou shall
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus
and shall believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him from the dead
thou shalt be saved.
So he's saying you don't
have to say anything with your mouth.
It says
if you confess with your mouth right there doesn't it.
Okay case closed you're an idiot.
For with the heart man believeth under
righteousness and with the mouth confession
is made unto salvation.
I noticed that he didn't use
those verses in any of the things he said.
Why not because he's a
heretic he's a liar he's a
false demon trying to creep
in unawares.
And look what it says in verse 11
for the scripture sayeth whosoever believeth
on him shall not be ashamed. So what's
it equating. It's equating
that you believe in your heart you
confess with your mouth that that is
a person that believes on him.
So it defines what believing is.
Right.
But according to this bozo
you know the Holy Spirit has to ask
he's the one that calls upon
the name of the Lord for you.
Okay. And so it
says for there's no difference between the Jew and the Greek
the same Lord over all is rich
unto all that call upon him
for whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved. It just defined for us
to call upon the name of the Lord and
believing in your heart confess with your mouth
is believing.
So this guy saying it's
works. How is that
works.
The Bible says that salvation is not
of works lest any man should boast.
So how is it works
your definition is wrong
the Bible definition is always
going to be right.
And so
my reply was this.
Okay
I guess since that's your biblical
understanding then everyone else
is wrong. Norm is right.
The new IFB is wrong or bad.
You're an idiot.
I noticed you didn't use
Romans 10 9 through 13.
The Bible says whosoever shall call upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved with the heart man believeth
unto righteousness confession is made unto salvation.
Here's what I believe and my
pastor friends. Believing on
Christ saves you. If you believe
you will call upon him. That's not works.
That's faith. Furthermore
if you call upon him in your heart
and in your mind it counts.
We just don't count them out solely
and won't pray out loud because
or the people that won't pray out loud
because we don't know for sure that they called upon him.
This isn't a hard concept.
So if you're not
paying attention to the new IFB
then why are you even bringing this up.
Why did he even bring it up if he's just like I'm not paying
attention to the new IFB.
And he said that I kicked
him like that he was a member of our church.
I don't understand how he was a member of our church.
First of all I never saw him when I went over there.
Second of all he's never been to our church.
So how are you a member.
He must be in the oneness consciousness
or something.
And I said you're not
asking legit questions.
You're trying to smack talk good men
that actually preach the word of God
and know the Bible.
But his understanding you know we should just listen
to his understanding of it.
No you're a bozo.
Go take your ball and go bounce it somewhere else.
Go bounce it in bozo-ville
because we don't want you.
I said if you don't like Bible doctrine
get the hell out of here.
Don't come to our church.
It's new IFB and belief and what I mean by that
is that we
you know we believe that
in the post-Trib pre-wrath rapture
we believe salvation by faith alone.
We believe that the Jews are not God's chosen people.
Some things kind of earmark
the new IFB as a little bit different.
But it's still the Bible
doctrine.
It's not some weird thing that we just made up.
We believe you must call upon the
name of the Lord because that's what the Bible says.
Go follow Norm off the cliff.
I don't even know who you are
but I don't care.
This group isn't your whipping post for my pastor
friends.
And anyone else that believes like this bozo
can go kick rocks as well.
Now and I say that
look I don't want to kick people out of our church.
But look
I can't have leaven like this
spreading in our church.
Whether that's through a
WhatsApp group, a Facebook group
you know text messages
whatever it is. Verbal communication.
I'm not putting up with this crap anymore.
I'm not.
And if someone starts doing this kind of stuff
I'm going to bounce them
quick. They're going to be out of here.
Because I've seen what happens
when you just let these people hang around.
This guy's preaching. He's causing division
and preaching a false salvation
and false doctrine about
salvation. Get out.
Don't come back. Go make your little video
you whining little baby.
And that's what he did and nobody cares.
But anyway
the point is
this guy you know he makes an hour long video
saying how me and Ian aren't qualified
to be pastors. Pastor Shelley preaches a
false gospel.
I'm just defending my friend.
Yeah I do defend my friends.
Especially when they're right.
Especially when they're right
and I'm not saying that they're wrong. I'm just saying
I'm going to defend my friends. Why wouldn't I?
We believe
a lot of similar things.
And then of course
in his video he talks about how we're a cult
and Pastor Anderson is the head of our cult.
You know I did talk to him
yesterday for like two seconds
on the phone or something
but he didn't tell me what to preach
tonight. He didn't tell me what to preach
next week or the week after that
or the week after that. In fact he never
has told me what to preach. Amazing
that he's my cult leader and he's never
told me what to preach so that's pretty weird.
Anyway the guy's a complete
bozo and look
if you go to our church in the UK
and people are repeating in our church
people are repeating the same
crap that this guy's repeating
and saying that I'm kicking people out
for asking a question. Is that why I kicked
him out? Did I kick him out
for asking a question? I mean seriously be honest
with me. No it was
because he was trying. Hi
everyone I got a question.
Do you guys believe false doctrine? The new F.B.
sucks. You know Pastor Shelley's a wolf.
You know I mean come on.
That's not a legitimate question.
And I just want to
say this that if you are
spreading that in our church there and I
find out you can get out too
because I don't want to have to go all the way over there
and throw you out myself.
As in fact I won't have to.
I'll just have Ian do it himself.
And he'll gladly do it.
Trust me.
So you know
I'm not like I said I'm not going to put up with this.
And these people are really
slick that want to try to talk bad
behind the leadership's back
and talk bad about the wife
behind their back. You know what these people
are sacrificing everything that they have
in order to lead a church
you know putting off some of their
own needs for the needs
of the church and they're going to just go around
and talk crap about their wife.
You're going to go around and talk crap about the pastor
and his friends. You're going to go around and talk
crap about what the evangelist believes.
Get out. Go someplace else
because I don't want you at our church.
Get out.
And if I find
if I get a second witness you're done.
And if you're like
well are you talking about me?
I might be.
I might be talking about you.
You know the answer to that question.
And hey
if you are talking crap
and you want to get right, get right now because
if I get a second witness you're done.
Period. Not putting it up with it.
You know I'm a big teddy bear.
Sometimes the fangs and the claws come out.
Trust me.
They will come out. I'm not going to just sit there
and mess up with this stuff.
Okay.
That was a long thing. But anyway
sorry I had to get that off my chest because look
we just need to smash false doctrine
as it comes out.
Maybe I'm a little too nice.
Because I'm always like trying to get people
the benefit of the doubt saying well
you know I don't know.
But then when they say stuff like
when I find out that some bozo
is teaching false doctrine and a false gospel
in our church's WhatsApp group
and then you know someone else
is repeating well Pastor Thompson just
kicked somebody out for asking a question. You liar.
You know that's not true.
And yeah
it makes me mad. Let's go back to our text
in 2 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 9.
I'm finishing this chapter.
Alright.
That I may not seem as I would
terrify you by letters. Paul
talking about you know the letters that he writes.
For his letters say they are
weighty and powerful but his bodily
presence is weak and his speech
contemptible.
Say they. So there is a faction
in this church that's talking
crap about the Apostle Paul and
he's bringing it up right here isn't he?
He's saying you know
this is what they say about me.
Let such and one think
this. Let those people think this
that such as we are
in word by letters when we are
absent such will
we be also indeed
when we are present. So Paul's saying
the way I am in the letters
the terrifying things that I write in the letters
I'll be like that in person too
if that's how you want me to be.
Right? For such and one also
indeed
such will we be also
indeed when we are present.
For we dare not to make ourselves of the number
or compare ourselves
with some that can mend themselves
but they measuring themselves
by themselves and comparing themselves
among themselves are not
wise. This is a very famous verse
preached a lot
and it's
you know it's basically saying hey
we shouldn't be commending ourselves number one
what's commending?
Patting yourself on the back. You did a
good job boy. Yeah you got the
gold star for the day. Why don't you put the stickers
up on the refrigerator okay?
You know the little gold star for the day.
We're not supposed to commend ourselves.
Let somebody else commend you.
And measuring themselves
by themselves
and comparing themselves among themselves
are not wise. Look
this is an attitude that I hate
where people start acting like they're more
spiritual and righteous than other people
and comparing how spiritual
they are with how spiritual somebody else
is. And the Bible
is condemning it over here. Paul is saying don't do this.
You know it says you're not
wise. We're not supposed to
compare ourselves or commend ourselves.
So when you think you've
arrived and you want to start talking about how great you
did or how many soul winning
people you got saved soul winning.
You know you want to report your video game numbers. Hey look
unless you're in some foreign
country like the Philippines or something
and you want to report some video games numbers then go
ahead and do that. But in
Vancouver if you start saying I got five saved every
week I'm going to start thinking you're a liar.
Or either you're soul winning a lot.
So
but nobody does that here.
So I'm glad for that.
And I don't see people comparing themselves. I hope
people aren't doing that. Well let's look at
1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 1.
Here's an example that the apostle Paul uses.
1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 1.
I got to preach fast because I went on a tangent
there. It says and I brethren
could not speak unto you as unto spiritual
but as unto carnal
even as unto babes in Christ. So
in his first epistle he couldn't even
talk to them in a
very spiritual manner because
they were babes in Christ and they
couldn't even handle the milk.
It says I've fed you with milk
and not with meat
for hitherto you were not able to bear it
neither yet now
are ye able. So remember
I've told you that this
book is written to a bunch of messed
up, it's a messed up church, got problems
and they just weren't growing
very fast. It says for a year
yet carnal
whereas there is among you envying in
strife, divisions, are ye not
carnal and walk as men?
For while one sayeth
I am of Paul and another I am of
Apollos are ye not carnal?
You know don't start comparing yourself
to what pastor you follow.
Well I follow this pastor.
Look the apostle
Paul is saying don't do that.
Don't say I am of Apollos and then have
a division and other person say I'm of Apollos.
You know I like when people say
hey I got saved by watching pastor
I got saved by watching pastor
Menes' videos. I don't hear people saying
well I was of pastor Menes.
I mean that's carnal.
You got saved.
That's what's the important thing.
And they're ministers by whom you believe.
Look what it says in verse 5.
Who then is Paul? Who is Apollos?
But ministers by whom you believe.
Even as the Lord gave to every man.
Every man, every woman
that's ever been saved had someone
that helped them get to
that point of believing. Isn't that what it says?
I have planted
Apollos water but God
gave the increase. So then
neither is he that planteth anything
neither he that watereth but God that
giveth the increase. Now he that
planteth and he that watereth are one.
And every man shall receive
his own reward according to his
own labor for we are laborers
together with God. You're
God's husbandry. You're God's
building.
Verse 10
According to the grace of God which is given unto
me as a wise master builder
I have laid the foundation and another buildeth
thereon.
So we were
saved and someone else
could have built some of that
foundation on top of
Christ. That's the only way anything
gets built. If it's not on top of Christ it doesn't mean
anything. But see some of us
got saved and I've told my testimony how
you know just one lady that I worked with said
when I asked her what time it was
it's time for you to trust in the Lord with all your heart.
I remember that. Why do I
remember that? Because it had an
effect on my life. She was laying
some kind of a foundation for me.
You know anything that I ever got
where I got to the point where I got saved
other people built upon that.
And that's kind of what the Apostle Paul
is saying. I have laid the foundation and
another buildeth thereon. You know
why puff yourself up and act like you're so
cool because you reaped. You don't know what other
people did and laid the ground work for before you
went there. He says
let every man take heed how he
buildeth there upon for other
foundation can no man lay
than that which is
laid which is
Jesus Christ. So
the Apostle Paul is saying don't be carnal.
Don't compare yourselves.
Don't say I came from a better
pastor stock. I got saved
by this pastor. I got saved by
this video. It doesn't matter. You got saved.
That's what's important.
And God gave you someone to minister
to you to get you saved.
Appreciate what
you got but you don't have to brag about
it. I mean that would be
weird. I don't really hear people doing that but
it wouldn't surprise me
like I want this pastor to baptize me.
I mean Paul directly addresses
that too. He's like
I thank God that I didn't baptize any of you
except for a couple people because then
you'd be saying well I was baptized of Paul.
People just get weird about stuff like
that. What difference does it make who baptizes
you as long as it's not
some roasting
in hell heretic or something.
But even then if you
got baptized right
they were sent out
by a good church. What difference does it make?
Anyway but let's
look back at our text. 2 Corinthians 10
13 it says but we will not boast
of things without our measure
but according to the measure of the rule
which God hath distributed
to us a measure
to reach even unto you.
For we stretch not on ourselves beyond
our measure as though we reach not
unto you for we are come as far
as to you also
in preaching the gospel
of Christ.
So what is he saying?
Basically
that they
stretched their measure. Who did they reach?
Who reached this church?
And so it says we stretched on
ourselves beyond our measure
as though we reach
not unto you because they did reach them.
Who reached this church? The apostle
Paul did with his
friends and it says
for we are come to you as to
you also in preaching the gospel
of Christ. He's saying hey we're not
boasting about these things that we
haven't done but hey let me just tell you
this we're the ones that reach you guys in the first place.
You know and so
it's funny that people turn against the ministers
that actually got them saved. Or the ministers
that started that church that are good
people. You know good ministers.
Look at verse 15. Not boasting
of the things without our measure
that is of other men's
labors.
See doesn't that kind of compare with 1 Corinthians
chapter 3 verses
that we just looked at?
That we're labors together with God.
You know we've laid the foundation but another
buildeth thereupon. They're not boasting
he's not boasting about things that he
didn't do. He's not even boasting
about anything really.
But these people are and he's
trying to kind of throw it in their face
that they are boasting about things and
they're talking crap about the apostle Paul
and he's going to straighten them out.
You know he's already
been there once. He's going to come again.
Look what it says.
Verse 15 again
but not boasting of these things without our measure
that is of other men's
labors. But we have hope
when your faith is
increased that we shall be enlarged
by you according to the rule
our rule abundantly.
So don't get puffed up
in this life. Don't get puffed
up and think like the Macphailer twins.
You know that
you know you're and then start talking
in King James E's or
you know
man I've never seen anything like that. It's so weird.
But anyhow
don't get puffed up because that's the result
of it. You start thinking you're getting all these people
saved and you're like in the Philippines.
Like that's great. I'm glad you're getting a lot of people
saved and I'm not
discounting at work. But
going solely here and going solely in the
Philippines are different places. But do you
think we don't get the same rewards?
Of course we do. You're not rewarded
by how many people
you get saved. You're rewarded on
your faithfulness in
the labor. So obviously
I think you are probably rewarded for people who get
saved but you know this
place is a harder place to get people saved.
So I mean
then we don't compare ourselves amongst
ourselves. So are we
a group of Bible believing Christians that
go solely here in Vancouver, Washington?
Yes we are. Don't get
all turned upside down because I said we're having
a solely marathon here in Vancouver. Hey
love the place that you live and try to
reach them too. You're like well we do
all the time. I get that.
But there's more people that are going to get
saved here. We haven't reached the
end of getting people saved
here. We're still going to get
people saved. We're going to get people saved on Saturday.
Guaranteed.
Guaranteed we're going to get people saved. So show up
and support your hometown
and don't be a spiritual adrenaline junkie.
The only place you can go
get people saved is in some far away place.
And look I'm not saying it's bad. I think it's great.
I like to go solely in places
that are receptive too. But if you live
here don't just say well
Vancouver isn't as good as this. Hey
receptivity is when people are getting saved
every week and we get people saved here every
single week. Period.
So solely is not a competition
number one. Number two
preaching is not a competition.
You know we shouldn't be
comparing all these people.
Do you think it's wise to say
well my favorite pastor is this pastor
because of this. I mean you can have your favorite
people you listen to but I mean how
is that edifying to anybody
to say who your favorite pastor is.
I mean I just
it's carnal.
It's carnal especially to do it in front of other people
that maybe have a different pastor
than you do. I mean it's a weird
thing to say in front of somebody else.
Well I personally like Pastor Anderson better
it's like when you're in front of Pastor Jimenez's
church members. I mean
it's not right. It is
carnal. It's stupid.
It's not a competition.
Good works is not a competition
number three. Number four
being the most spiritual
is not a competition.
You're holier than thou
attitude of how spiritual you are
and then you look down your nose
at other people. Your holiness
is not a competition with other people. You do
you.
And stop worrying about what everybody else is
doing. There's
a saying that says there's time to come
for everybody to clean up their own backyard
and stop knocking on the neighbor's doors.
You know your
grass in your backyard is this tall
and you're knocking on the neighbor's door about
their junker car in front of the house or whatever.
Why don't you worry about what you got?
Cut your grass homie.
Trim the verge or whatever.
Do something but don't sit there
and just point your finger at everybody else
and act like you're better than anybody in this church
because comparing yourself
amongst yourself is not wise.
Stop comparing yourself
just be you know
maybe you are more spiritual but you know the person
that's more spiritual isn't going to go and say
that they're the most spiritual in the church.
We're the best
missionaries in the world. We're better than brother
Stuckey and pastor Jimenez. You're
an idiot. You're a puffed up
prideful clown.
That's what you are.
You know and the fact that they just ran
right to Adam Fannish to show you everything that
we need to know.
Tell them to come.
It's like
bozos unite.
I wouldn't be
surprised if the galligator
and Argon went down there
with them.
And all these other clowns.
Failures.
They're failures.
Do the things for the
Lord and not your own vanity
and the adoration of men.
If you're if people are
looking at your if you want people to look at
how holy you are your heart is
not right with God instantly.
And if you
think you're holy and
everybody else isn't then
you're the problem.
And when I always think of puffed up like
the Stay Puft Marshmallow man I don't know
I've seen Ghostbusters so many times when I was a kid
or something but puffed
up means you're
I always thought like your head's puffed up.
I never even thought about it as
in bread.
Because bread that's puffed up
is bread that has leaven in
it isn't it?
And so unleavened bread
is you know is something that would be
sinless. But when the bread's puffed
up I kind of
wonder if that's what Paul's actually talking about when he says
people are puffed up.
You know you got this puffed up
you got the puffy bread.
The hot cross buns or whatever.
You got the good
you know the leavened bread or whatever.
You know it's just a picture of sin
but like that just shows that someone has
a carnal mind because
they're puffed up and they have leavened they think they're
better than everybody else. It's not right.
Look at verse 16.
To preach the gospel in the regions
beyond you and not to boast
in another man's line of things
made ready to our hand.
The apostle Paul's saying
hey you know not only did I preach here
but you know what I want to preach to the
lands beyond. But he's
not going to boast
in some other person's line of things.
You know and boasting is just
not something that Paul
Paul's just like he's being tongue in cheek
about some of this stuff and he's just saying
like you know get
you know these people that are like
saying all this stuff about him are
one they're wrong about him
and number two they're
they were reached by the apostle
Paul so why are they acting like they're better than him.
It's just weird
like the people that you know
they want to
they want to say well
pastor Anderson got me saved but he's
wicked now. He's changed.
Changed his doctrine. He used to be
he used to be oneness now he
believes in the Trinity. It's like you're so
dumb if you actually think that.
They'll like still play
a sound bite of
somebody saying something and
you know they always want to play the sound bites without
the full context in it and stuff like that.
Look at verse 17. But he that glorieth let
him glory in God.
That's who we should be glorying in.
Don't glory in yourself.
Don't glory in other people but
glory in God. For
not he that commendeth
himself is approved but whom the
Lord commendeth.
Let God commend you.
Let other people commend
you and say hey that person's a solid person
or whatever. Don't
do it yourself because when
you're patting yourself on the back
it's just weird. It comes off as strange
and weird.
But a lot of new believers do that.
And that was the Corinthians problem. There were a lot
of new believers and
they were having that you know that's something that new
believers go through. They start learning the Bible
and they become
smarter than the pastor.
Instantly. I watched all these videos.
But they probably
couldn't sit down and explain the post
trib pre-wrath rapture without
going to the sermon and writing the notes for it. They probably
couldn't just take you through the Bible and show you.
So make sure that you're getting your doctrine
the right way.
Proverbs 27 verse 2. We'll end on this
verse here. It's a great verse for
this chapter.
Proverbs 27 verse 2.
The Bible says
Let another man praise thee
and not thine own mouth
a stranger
and not thine own lips.
That's very wise counsel
from the book of Proverbs.
Don't you know let somebody else
tell you how good you are.
Let somebody else you know a stranger say
something nice about you.
But not your own lips.
Not your own lips. Don't compare yourselves
to other Christians.
It's not wise.
Because then you're going to get puffed up.
You're going to get hyper spiritual.
And it's going to be not good
for you. So remember
we're at war.
Don't forget about that. The battles
with the devil, the world, and ourselves.
And don't make God your enemy
by giving up and giving
into sin and quitting the Christian life.
And remember to be thankful
for your God given authority
whoever that might be.
Me? No I'm just kidding.
Don't commend yourselves.
Let other men commend
or let other men or God
commend you for the good things that you do.
Alright let's close in prayer.
Heavenly Father we thank you so much for this great
chapter in your word. I pray that you just
bless everybody here in this
church. I pray Lord that we'd have a great turn out on
Saturday for our soul winning marathon.
And Lord that we'd see many saved.
Pray Lord for the services this Sunday.
Lord their hearts be prepared
to take the Lord's Supper.
We'd take it seriously and
we'd get
anything out of our lives that needs to be out of it.
And Lord we'd just have a
nice time together
in communion with the saints and with our Lord
Jesus Christ. For it's in His name
we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
The last song would be song number 579
in your blue hymn books
I Surrender All.
Song number
579
in your blue hymn books
I Surrender All.
Song 579
let's sing it out on that first verse.
All
to Jesus
I surrender
all
to him I
freely give
I
will ever
love and trust
him in
his presence
daily
live
I surrender
all
I
surrender
all
to thee my
blessed Savior
I
surrender
all
to Jesus
I surrender
humbly
at his
feet I bow
worldly
pleasures
all forsaken
take
me Jesus
take me now
I
surrender
all
I
surrender
all
all to
thee my
blessed Savior
I
surrender
all
all to
Jesus I
surrender
make me
Savior
holy thine
let me
feel the
Holy Spirit
truly
know that thou
art mine
I
surrender
all
I
surrender
all
all to
thee my
blessed Savior
I
surrender
all
all to
Jesus
I surrender
Lord I
give myself
to thee
fill me
with thy love
and power
let thy
blessings fall
on me
I
surrender
all
I
surrender
all
all to
thee my
blessed Savior
I
surrender
all
amen