Second Timothy chapter number four.
If you don't have a Bible,
there should be one underneath the seat in front of you.
Second Timothy four.
Second Timothy chapter four of the Bible reads,
I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ
who shall judge the quick and the dead
at his appearing and his kingdom.
Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season.
Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
For the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine, but after their own lusts
shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears.
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth
and shall be turned into fables.
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,
do the work of an evangelist, make full proof
of thy ministry, for I am now ready to be offered
and the time of my departure is at hand.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith.
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness
which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day.
And not to me only, but unto all them also
that love is appearing.
Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me.
For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world
and is departed unto Thessalonica.
Cretians to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
Only Luke is with me.
Take Mark and bring him with thee,
for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
And Tycheus have I sent to Ephesus,
the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus.
When thou comest, bring with thee and the books,
but especially the parchments.
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil.
The Lord reward him according to his works.
Of whom be thou aware also,
for he had greatly withstood our words.
And my first answer, no man stood with me,
but all men forsook me.
I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthened me,
that by me the preaching might be fully known,
and that all the Gentiles might hear.
And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work,
and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom,
to whom be glory forever and ever, amen.
Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Anisphorus.
Erastus abode at Corinth,
but Trophimus have I left at Milidum sick.
Do thy diligence to come before winter.
Eubolus greeteth thee in Pudens and Linus and Claudia,
and all the brethren.
The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit,
grace be with you, amen.
Brother Timo, will you pray for us?
- It is buck dancing and ear tickling preachers.
Buck dancing and ear tickling preachers.
You might not know what buck dancing is.
I'm sure you wouldn't know what ear tickling is.
Buck dancing is like a,
it's kind of like a southern style dancing.
Do you know what it is, Brother Bill?
Have you ever heard of it?
- I mean, we would have these like,
so you'd have wooden legs and you'd bounce the paddle
and the guy would dance on the paddle.
- Yeah, it's kind of like a,
it's kind of like a clog, almost like clog dancing,
but yeah, it's,
but the slang I'm trying to use it for,
it's like contemporary slang,
and it's most often used to criticize behavior
perceived as inauthentic and subservient
rather than referring to the actual dance form.
So there's a dance form called buck dancing,
where these guys, they kind of do,
it's kind of like river dancing or whatever,
if you've ever seen that.
It's kind of like that.
But what I mean by it is,
when a preacher's a buck dancer,
he's not being authentic, he's being subservient,
he's not really being genuine,
and ear-tickling preachers are preachers
that want to tell you the things that you want to hear
instead of the things that you need to hear.
And so that's kind of what I'm preaching about tonight.
And so look at verse number one, the Bible says,
I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ
who shall judge the quick and the dead
at his appearing and his kingdom.
The Apostle Paul is charging Timothy, this preacher,
this young preacher, that he's supposed to,
by the Lord Jesus Christ and by God himself,
he's supposed to preach to people the word of God.
And it says that in verse number two,
preach the word, be instant, end season, out of season,
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
So the first thing I want to point out is that
ear tickling preachers appeal to the back-splitting Christian.
And so as a pastor, it's my job as a preacher of the gospel,
of the word of God, and just like Timothy had this charge
to preach by the apostle Paul, I'm bound by the same rules
that Timothy is supposed to have also,
which there's a charge of a pastor and a preacher
to preach what God says, what the Lord Jesus Christ says,
and we're supposed to preach the word.
Not our opinion, not how we feel, not what's popular,
what the congregation wants to hear,
not what tickles your ears and what you want to hear,
what makes you feel good when you walk out the doors,
it's what the word of God says.
Preach the word the instant, in season, out of season,
whether it's popular, whether it's not popular,
and it says reprove, that means tell people they're wrong.
Rebuke, that means tell people they're wrong
in a very strong way.
And to exhort, that means to get people to do things,
encourage them to do things,
encourage them to do the right things
with all long suffering and doctrine.
That is the job of a preacher.
Two of those things are negative,
one of those things are positive,
but even exhortation can be done in a negative way.
Now look, people don't always respond to things
just saying things in a nice way, okay?
They just don't.
And so, as a preacher, it's my job to say things
just the way that they need to be said, okay?
And that's what every preacher's job is.
If they're gonna get up and preach the word of God,
it says a lot of negative things,
and just the way things are, seeing things nice to people
doesn't always work.
And look, there's a time to be nice,
there's a time to be encouraging,
but there's also a time to tell people matter of factly
how things are and what the Bible says.
So, and God doesn't mince words,
he doesn't play games, he just tells you how it is.
And that's the job of a preacher, to not tickle the ears.
Okay, it says, "For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine."
Verse three, "But after their own lust,
shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears."
So notice who's actually doing this.
It says, "For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine."
See, the people at some point
don't want to endure sound doctrine,
but they will heap to themselves teachers
having itching ears.
See, sometimes even God's people
get tired of hearing the preaching of God's word
and they want to hear other people
tell them what they want to know
or what they want to hear
so that they can just respond how they want to respond.
But see how they heap to themselves teachers
having itching ears?
They want to have their ears tickled.
They want to be told, you know, what they want to hear.
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth.
So, and look, there's preachers out there
that'll tell you exactly what you want to hear.
They'll tell you exactly what you want.
So you can have Burger King Baptist
where they'll give it to you your way.
They'll be buffet Baptist where you can pick out
what you want.
They'll let you do that.
Because they just want to fleece the flock.
They just want you to be there.
They just want to grow their church
in whatever way they can.
And they don't care about the truth a lot of times.
They'll tell you some truth.
But a lot of things they'll say
are just for their own purposes.
But notice how it says in verse three,
but after their own lusts.
See, sometimes we fall a-lusting.
You know, we want the things
that are shiny in the distance.
And sometimes we just get tired of the hard road,
the drudgery, and these types of things.
And sometimes we just, we fall to these things.
That's why it's important
to listen to the word of God and what it says.
But it says in verse four again,
and they shall turn away their ears from the truth
and shall be turned unto fables.
What are fables?
Things that are just not true.
Stories that are not true.
Things about the Bible that are not true.
It says, "But watch thou in all things,
endure afflictions,
do the work of an evangelist,
make full proof of thy ministry.
For I am now ready to be offered,
and the time of my departure is at hand.
I have fought a good fight.
I have finished my course.
I have kept the faith."
The apostle Paul here is saying,
"Hey, I've done everything I could.
I've kept the faith.
I've finished my course.
I've done, you know, I've fought."
You know, he said he fought a good fight.
The Christian, the Christian faith is a fight sometimes.
And for the apostle Paul,
it seemed like it was a lot of times a fight.
"Henceforth, there's laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge,
shall give me at that day, and not to me only,
but unto all them that love is appearing.
Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me."
Number two, I've grown accustomed to those that I love
and minister with, and that they will forsake me.
And not just me, they'll forsake the faith.
They'll forsake the right way.
That's what 2 Timothy's talking about.
That some people will just fall out.
Look at verse 10.
It says, "For Demas hath forsaken me,
having loved this present world."
Sometimes people just fall out
because they love this present world.
And it says, "And is departed unto Thessalonica,
Cretians to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia."
At a certain point, you know, Demas forsook him.
Demas was a faithful friend, a faithful minister with him.
And at some point, he just said,
"You know what, I love the world.
I want to go back to it."
And he did.
And people do that too.
Sometimes there's people that have gone to our church
that are like that.
And I love those people,
and I would accept some of those people back today.
You know, some people I wouldn't necessarily,
but I'm not talking about just people that love the world.
I'm talking about just people in general.
But look at what he says in verse 11.
"Only Luke is with me.
Take Mark and bring him with thee,
for he is profitable to me for the ministry."
So there was a guy named Mark, John Mark,
that he was like, "I don't want him now."
But later on, he accepted him back.
"Antichuchus have I sent to Ephesus,
the coke that I left in Troas and Carpus.
When thou comest, bring with thee."
And the books, but especially the parchments.
So he just kind of instructed him to bring these books
that he had left someplace in parchments.
Number three, there are enemies out there
bent on doing us evil and seek to resist our words.
This is just a theme that I've noticed
since I've become a pastor.
This thing happened.
These types of things happen all the time.
And there are just enemies out there.
The next enemy just seems to be around the corner.
And it can be frustrating for people in our church.
It can be frustrating for people
that you've been friends with
and all of a sudden now they're just like,
"Oh, well what happened with them?"
They just, you know, what happened with these people?
Well, you know, sometimes they're just people
that plant into our church that are bad.
Or maybe not bad, they just left our church
and they just don't want to believe like that anymore
or whatever.
Look what it says though.
Some people are just evil though.
It says in verse 14,
"Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil.
"The Lord reward him according to his works."
There have been people that have gone to our church
that were super evil.
And the apostle Paul acknowledges this,
that this guy Alexander the coppersmith,
he gets an honorable, dishonorable mention
in the Bible here.
And he's just saying,
"Hey, the Lord reward him according to his works."
So think whatever he did to me,
hey, may the Lord do something to him.
And so in the number four,
sometimes even our greatest friends will forsake us
in a Christian life.
This is just a fact, okay?
And it bums people out, it bums me out too.
And I hate that these things happen,
but it just does happen.
Verse 16, "At my first answer, no man stood with me,
but all men forsook me.
I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge."
It's frustrating, it's hurtful.
When people that you served with and loved
and cared for forsake you.
And the Apostle Paul felt this on a huge level
because it says that he was going,
whatever he was going through,
he said nobody stood with him at one time.
Everybody forsook him.
Jesus felt that way.
Everybody forsook Jesus.
All of his disciples ran and forsook him.
You know, sometimes people are gonna forsake us in our life
and, but, you know, he said,
I pray to God that it not be laid on their charge.
You know, we gotta forgive people sometimes.
We're human, we're weak.
Things like that happen in our lives.
So look at number five.
Jesus will never leave us nor forsake us.
Even if all your friends desert you,
all your co-Christian friends forsake you
and hate your guts, Jesus will never do that.
Says notwithstanding, verse 17,
the Lord stood with me and strengthened me
that by me the preaching might be fully known
and that all the Gentiles might hear
and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion
and the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work
and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom
to whom be glory forever and ever.
So isn't that nice that even though he was
completely forsaken by everybody else
that the Lord stood with him and strengthened him.
And God will do the same thing for us too
when we feel forsaken, when we feel alone and destitute
that the Lord will still stand with us.
The Bible says he will never leave us nor forsake us.
And I kind of just read all that and just said all that
to kind of get us to this point in a sermon.
And I do kind of want to continue my thoughts
from Thursday night.
And I was preaching about how people will desire
the ministry for wrong reasons.
And there are those that seek the title of pastor
so that they could be called rabbi, rabbi, you know,
and pastor, pastor, to have some kind of a status,
to have some kind of desire of power
and prestige and accolades.
Some seek the office for even worse reasons,
to kill, steal, and destroy.
Some for envy and strife.
And I didn't have time to get into this on Thursday night,
but some people, they become pastors or they become,
you know, somebody of status in our church movement.
And then they go out from us.
They act like they never believed anything
that they believed from the very beginning.
And it's disheartening.
And especially when they're really good friends
or they went to the same church that we did for a long time.
And this last week, Pastor Jones, formerly of Shield of Faith
Baptist Church, decided to change his name.
He preached a sermon called Why I Left Fundamentalism.
So he completely just dipped out of fundamentalism.
He changed the name of his church to Heritage Grace Bible
Church.
And then he preached a sermon, which is kind of--
it wasn't really a sermon.
It was more like a gaslight of and just a narrative that
wasn't really truthful about why he left.
And really just for someone who just believes in infinity
grace, he was not very graceful on that sermon at all.
So I mean, I feel like if you're just full of grace
and grace, grace, grace, then you're just really not very
graceful with the people that he used to be friends with.
And just flat out lied about me multiple times in a sermon,
which I don't need to right every wrong.
I don't really care about that.
I don't need to, I just, for the sake of our church,
I do need to just, there's a couple of things
that I want to address and I just want to use the Bible
and explain why once and for all,
the things that he's saying,
the things that he's preaching are not true
and they are heresy.
The things that he's preaching are heresy.
So let me just explain a couple of things to you real quick.
So let's see here.
Anton, how do you, how do you say that word by the way?
Anton, how do you say it?
Antonomianism, yeah, sorry, it's a long word there.
Not that, Antonomianism is a heresy
that teaches Christians are not bound by moral law,
believing that God's grace exempts them
from the need to obey ethical or divine laws.
This doctrine literally means against the law
is considered a false teaching because it negates
the importance of living a life of obedience
and good works that is seen as a response to salvation
rather than a means to achieve it.
While proponents claim to be living in free grace,
critics argue that this view ignores the role of the law
as a guide for believers and a means to please God.
So he might not call it this,
but this is exactly what he's teaching
when he preaches the things that he's preaching
about grace and so, 'cause he's like infinite,
like even in the sermon he said,
we don't just believe in free grace,
we believe in infinite grace.
So basically, I mean, and I'm gonna kinda just
wrap up all the things that he's been,
I don't have time to, I've already preached
against the things that he's been preaching
multiple times, I feel like.
I just kinda wanna wrap all this up in one big nutshell.
I'm gonna address a couple of things that he said.
I don't need to address everything he said,
but there was two specific things
that I did wanna talk about.
So one thing he said is that I've allowed brother David,
Akers, to come here and preach just to allow,
and I'll just tell you this.
I just allowed brother David to come preach here
just to allow him an opportunity to preach.
It wasn't because I was trying to start a church with him.
I felt like I was pretty honest about that.
I never intended to start a church there.
And I just feel like I got enough on my plate right now.
I don't need to take on another church.
And I was very honest with them about that.
But even if I did want to start a church in Boise,
which I never said I was going to,
this is something that he has accused me of
and he accused me of it in the sermon.
And I never wanted to just stick it to Joe.
I never wanted to do that.
That was not the intention.
He clearly separated from us though.
He clearly did not want anything to do with Baptists anymore.
He clearly wanted nothing to do
with Independent Fundamental Baptists, new IFBs.
I mean, he was really clear about that.
So I don't understand why he'd be so upset
that someone did wanna start another church there
'cause there was a lot of people
that were going to his church
that he doesn't want anything to do with anymore.
So why not just allow a new church to start there?
Why would it be such a big deal?
I mean, so it's not about sticking it to somebody,
but there was a lot of people that were going to that church
that wanna have a church like our church here.
I just don't understand why that's such a big deal.
But so he clearly separated from us
and he was saying he was gonna change the name.
He changed the name to Heritage Grace Bible Church.
So he doesn't wanna be a Baptist,
so what's the big deal?
So anyway, doesn't matter.
I didn't start the church anyway.
But that was an accusation that he said.
And he got up in front of his whole church
and just told a bunch of lies on,
he preached that like,
he always preaches a sermon
then uploads it later or whatever,
but his sermon was like a last hurrah
to just throw it in everybody's face
and to go after the acres family
and call him the Snakers family one more time
and talks about how graceful he is,
how much he doesn't care,
but then he just keeps talking about stuff.
And you know, he's really, he's just preaching poison.
He's preaching contention
and you know, it just seeps out of every,
every time he opens his mouth basically.
So anyway, let me finish reading about the antinomianism.
It says freedom of the law,
the central belief is that the Christians are now free
from obligation to follow moral laws,
including the 10 commandments.
Grace over works.
It teaches that God's grace is so great
that believers are no longer obligated to follow laws
because good works are unnecessary for salvation,
which I mean,
I don't believe that good works are necessary for salvation.
So, but justification versus sanctification.
Some forms of antinomianism focus so solely
on justification by faith, effectively denying
or downplaying the importance of sanctification,
living a holy life.
So, one thing that Pastor Jones is always saying is that
we are sanctified, all will ever be sanctified
once we get saved.
We don't need to be sanctified anymore.
But he denies progressive sanctification
and he mentions this in every sermon he preaches basically,
but that's just not true because there's,
I've already preached two sermons about it,
I'm not gonna preach it again,
but why it's considered heresy is rejection
of the whole law's role.
Antinomianism is seen as a heresy
because it rejects the law's role
and a guide for righteous living,
a tool for sanctification and a way to please God.
Contradiction to scripture contradicts biblical teachings
that emphasize love for God and neighbor
as a fulfillment of the law
and that warn against disobedience.
Licentious course consequences.
Critics argue that if believers are not bound by any laws,
they're free to live a licentious life
and their disobedience cannot displease God.
Historical context.
Antinomianism has historical roots
in Protestant controversies
over the relationship between law and gospel.
It was notably associated with figures
like John Arga-Cola in the 16th century.
A major controversy involving the heresy
took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony around 1636.
That's pretty much it.
Okay, yeah.
So it's a known heresy.
Obviously, I don't agree with anything.
You know, it's a Protestant, you know, controversy.
And, you know, back then, obviously Protestants believe,
you know, similar things that we believe
as far as salvation, okay?
So it is a heresy that we don't have to,
you know, we're not supposed to follow
any of God's commandments after we're saved
to please him, okay?
Not that we get more saved or that we're more saved
than other people or something.
That's not what I'm saying.
But to say that we don't have to live a righteous life
before God or to try to please God after we get saved
is crazy to believe that.
The other lie he told is that I was told by my masters
to go after him and that all he was doing,
he said all he was doing is going against the Mormons
when he preached that sermon that I,
and look, I listened to his sermon
and he's very clearly going after new IFB people.
It's just a flat out lie, okay?
Nobody told me to preach anything.
I sat and wrote a sermon right after I heard him
preach that and the sermon was called
Exposing Work Sanctificationists.
Right, I wrote that sermon right on the spot
as a week and a half before I preached it.
I waited a week and a half to preach it
and he clearly was going after New IFB preachers
and the Bible doctrine and it's just a fact.
It wasn't just that sermon,
he preached multiple sermons about it
and just the fact that he kept preaching it after that
was proof that, you know, and then aiming it towards us.
But the other thing is that he accuses the New IFB,
in this last sermon he just preached,
in other sermons too, but he really just flat out
said it in the sermon.
He accuses the New IFB of preaching a false gospel
because we backdoor work salvation.
Because we don't know the difference
between the Old Testament and the New Testament.
So we don't understand the note.
So that makes us preach a false gospel.
And this is just a railing accusation.
And he has called us the Jew IFB
and all kinds of stuff like that.
But to say that we preach a false gospel
is calling us what?
False prophets.
I mean, I don't know what other way to say it.
So, I mean, it's just weird to call us
say or preach a false gospel
because we don't know the difference
between the Old Testament and New Testament.
Yes, I do know the difference.
I very much do know the difference,
but he just doesn't understand the difference, obviously.
So he's hyper-grace.
He says he's never heard of Joseph Prince before,
but just watch one of his sermons, Pastor Jones,
and you'll see exactly that he believes
exactly like you do.
So, and then he kind of says this stuff like,
it's one and done, is what he calls it.
Jesus died once for all.
I, look, I agree with that.
But then he also says that God doesn't punish his children.
We have a picture that God has given us
as to how God deals with his children too, right?
Who's a dad in here, okay?
If you're a dad in here,
then you understand the relationship
between you and your children,
and that's how God wants us to see that relationship
and understand his relationship with us.
Obviously, it's not exactly alike,
but we get the picture.
You know, you don't get to choose,
you know, you're born of no effort.
You didn't have to make any effort
to get born in this world.
It just happens, right?
Now, we didn't have to do any effort to get saved
except for we just had to believe, okay?
We had to have faith.
So there's no human effort on our part
as far as getting saved.
But when our children, you know,
some people have several children,
and I don't want you to pick out the bad,
the most disbehaving child in your family,
but I'm sure you have one
that behaves the least in your family,
or you've had ones that you've had struggles with.
God has the same thing in his kingdom, okay?
He has some that are super obedient,
and some that are not so obedient.
And just like we're supposed to chase in our children
when they get out of line,
God chases his children when they get out of line.
It's not really that hard to figure out.
And also the fact that he says that he does it,
should also, it's like, no, in the New Testament,
that doesn't change.
Because in the New, look, and let me just give you
a little hint here.
If the New Testament keeps saying it,
it applies in the New Testament also.
And when he buck dances around these things,
and when he, you know, he'll take,
you know, I'll preach these things,
and then he'll just like preach a sermon
against that thought and say, well,
this is to the Jews, I'm believing Jews.
It's like Hebrews is just only to the Hebrews.
It's like all scripture is given by inspiration of God.
Look, the Hebrew, look, the fact that there was one
sacrifice for all, isn't that in Hebrews?
So why are you applying that if it's only to the Hebrews?
It's almost like he's pulling the pre-trib tricks.
That's what the pre-tribbers do.
They'll go to Matthew 24 to prove something
about the rapture and then,
but they don't believe that that's the rapture.
You know what I mean?
He's kind of doing the same stuff.
So he calls this one and done.
I agree, Jesus died once for all of our sins.
We don't have to add anything else to his salvation.
I agree with that.
But that doesn't mean that we can just live
however we want.
As far as on this earth, we're supposed to please God.
The Bible says it in the New Testament
and the Old Testament.
And to say that God doesn't punish his children
is absolute garbage.
And yet, if you rob a bank, yes,
you might get shot by the police,
whether you're a Christian or not.
I understand that.
But let me tell you something.
You're not gonna get away as a Christian
with the things that unsaved people will get away with.
Just read what happened, what ASAP talks about.
How the wicked kind of get away with things
and they are allowed to just get away with it.
It seems like murder in this life.
And ASAP was envious because of this.
But then he realized their end.
But see, ASAP wasn't getting away with anything.
And so Christians will not get away with the things
that the unsaved get away with.
God does chase in his children in the New Testament
and in the Old Testament.
'Cause the Psalms, aren't they stuff
that's supposed to be saying in the New Testament also?
Don't Proverbs apply to the New Testament believer also?
Don't we have New Testament Psalms
and Proverbs books that we get?
If the Bible and the New Testament commands us
to sing Psalms, doesn't it apply to the New Testament?
I don't see how you'd say that's Old Testament.
So Pastor Jones keeps using these terms
like going full prodigal.
What does he mean by that?
He says we can go full prodigal and come back boldly
as if nothing ever happened.
And he means boldly as in we have rights as children
to come to the Father at any time because we're saved.
So you can go live a life of hell like an unsaved person
and just walk right up boldly and just be like,
I'm back, like it's just nothing, right?
I agree with that, but it's not like,
like if your kid just trashes your house
and then they just walk up and go, I'm your kid,
so here I am.
Like what parent is not gonna thrash that kid
if you walk up with that attitude?
But if you walk up and you're like,
I don't know what came over me, mom and dad.
I just got really angry and I just trashed your house,
I'm really sorry,
and they're just like begging for your forgiveness.
There's a little bit difference
in how you're gonna treat that child, right?
If they're coming back,
yeah, they might be coming back and saying,
hey, you're my kid, I love you no matter what
'cause you're my kid, whatever.
But if you're just walking up,
acting like you own the place because I'm your kid,
that is, there's a little bit difference
in how that happens, right?
So he believes that Jesus received all the chastening
that we deserve on the cross,
which I believe in the regards to salvation,
that yes, that's true, absolutely.
But that doesn't mean our flesh
does not receive chastening on this earth.
Why do people get, he never did answer this question,
why do people get thrown out of church?
Why does God kill people that are abusing the Lord's Supper?
Why do some fall asleep?
'Cause he doesn't chasten people.
I mean, if he kills you,
I mean, I'm pretty sure that's chastening.
That's not a result of reaping and sowing.
That's a result of you're fornicating,
you're in church, or you're thrown out of church,
and then you're taking the Lord's Supper irreverently.
Why is that happening to you?
Why is God saying throw them out of the church
so that Satan can have them for the destruction of the flesh?
And God has to allow Satan to destroy your flesh.
He's not gonna just destroy your flesh
because God has to allow,
just like Satan had to get permission
to destroy Job's flesh, didn't he?
He just couldn't just go destroy Job.
Both times he went to God.
Job had to get permission to kill his children
and to do the things that he did.
Both times.
So Satan just can't come and wreak havoc in your life
unless God allows him to.
So that doesn't mean the flesh
does not receive chastening on earth.
And so Pastor John just ignores
and explains away tons of verses
to explain chastening of Christians on this earth.
That's what I call buck-dancing preaching.
He's dancing around, he's explaining it away,
and tickling people's ears
so they don't think that it's a big deal.
Look at Hebrews chapter four.
We're gonna look at some Bible now.
Hebrews chapter four, verse number 15.
The Bible says, "For we have not a high priest
"which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities
"but was in all points tempted like as we are,
"yet without sin.
"Let us therefore come boldly into the throne of grace
"that we may obtain mercy
"and find grace to help in time of need."
So when we're tempted,
see it says, "But was in all points tempted
"like we are, yet without sin."
So when we're tempted, God says,
"Hey, come boldly to me and ask for help when you need me."
Right?
I mean, isn't that what the Bible's saying right there?
But it says, "Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace
"that we may obtain mercy and find grace
"to help in time of need."
When we need help, God, help me.
I'm tempted to sin.
Isn't that what it's talking about?
And yes, we can obtain mercy.
But it's not talking about boldly coming up
and just being like, "You saved me, so forgive me."
That's not what it's talking about.
It's not talking about having this attitude
that you just own the place and you already forgave me,
so this is my attitude.
That's not how it works.
And he's twisting scripture on how we come to God
after being backslidden.
When he keeps saying, "Going all prodigal,"
you can just go full prodigal and just walk right back in
like you own the place or something.
It's kind of like how he's putting it.
So let's turn to Luke chapter 15.
Let's look at the story of the prodigal son here
and see what the Bible actually,
how it actually explains it.
And look, there's multiple things you can use
in the prodigal son story.
There's different interpretations you can use.
You can use the Jew Gentile 'cause that applies.
You can apply saved, unsaved.
But really this story is about a certain man, verse 11,
and he said, "A certain man had two sons."
And so this man is representing God the Father
in this story.
The two sons are both saved because God the Father,
if you're saved, God is your father, right?
And he has two sons.
If you're a son of God, you're saved.
So a man had two sons, okay?
And the younger of them said to his father,
"Father, give me the portion of goods that follow to me."
And he divided unto him his living.
And not many days after the younger son gathered
altogether and took his journey into a far country,
and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
So he took his inheritance and split.
And he wasted what his father had stored up for him.
He took his inheritance early,
and it says that he wasted it on riotous living.
So he's living a wicked life as a Christian, right?
This is what it's teaching.
The younger son rebels and sins.
He's living a life of sin.
And when he had spent all,
there arose a mighty famine in the land.
What does God use when people are in sin?
Well, he will start doing things
like bringing a famine in their life.
What does he do to a nation?
He'll start bringing a famine into that land
so there's no rain.
And he began to be in want.
So what does God do?
He just starts wasting your resources.
Make sure you run out of money.
And then, so that's the first wave, this famine.
God's first wave of chastening.
It's like God doesn't come down with a literal paddle
and spank you.
He's gonna do it in different ways.
But it says, and he went and joined himself
to a citizen of that country,
and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
So, you know, he's gone pretty far down the line here.
He's wasted all this money on riotous living.
You know, he's wasted on prostitutes
and drinking and whatever and riotous living.
And then he's destitute, he's feeding pigs.
And he would feign have filled his belly
with the husks that the swine did eat
and no man gave unto him.
So what happens now?
The other punishment is that nobody's helping him.
Nobody's helping him, he's destitute,
he's hit rock bottom.
Second wave of chastening, completely destitute,
no help, completely forsaken.
So, I mean, you can say whatever you want,
but this is chastening.
This is him, you know, getting to the point
where he has nowhere else to turn.
Verse 17, "And when he came to himself, he said,
'How many hired servants of my fathers
have bread enough to spare, and I perish with hunger?'"
So, his realization that he's at rock bottom,
that even the lowliest in God's servants
will never beg for bread when they're right with him.
Obviously, God's never gonna make his seed beg for bread.
So, he's like, "Hey, I gotta get right with God.
God will forgive me, and, you know,
I'll at least be able to eat."
He says, "I will rise."
Here's his plan.
"I will rise, go to my Father, and will say unto him,
'Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee.'"
So, is this boldly going to God,
or is this humbly going to God, or is it both?
He is kind of boldly going to God
because he knows he can go to him, right?
So, when we're in sin, where we're backslidden,
we can boldly go to God and ask for mercy
in a time of trouble.
Yeah, but how is he going to him?
Humbly, isn't he?
He's saying, "Father, I have sinned."
He's admitting, what, that he's sinned,
and he's already been, he's been chasing this guy.
And then verse 19 says,
"And am no more worthy to be called thy son.
"Make me as one of thy hired servants."
Super humble.
This is his plan, he hasn't even said this to him yet.
He's just saying, "This is what I'm going to do."
And he arose and came to his father,
but when he was yet a great way off,
his father saw him and had compassion
and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.
So he gets there and he hasn't even gotten to the house yet
and his father sees him coming.
And he says his father had compassion and ran towards him.
So here's the thing.
Yeah, we boldly go to God,
but was he just like, "Yeah, forgive me."
No, he was like super humble
and God came and met him before he even got there.
Because see, we don't just get to go to God
however we want.
And this is Jesus teaching people this.
It's not just, "Oh, yeah, go full prodigal
"and just come back like nothing happened."
No, it's not like nothing happened.
It's you come back humble.
It says, "And the son said unto him,"
so what he said he was gonna do, this is what he does.
"Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight
"and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
"But the father said to his servants,
"bring forth the best robe and put it on him
"and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet."
See, the father didn't accept him back
until his son arose and came back to him first and repented.
Do you see that?
So this parable of going full prodigal has stipulations.
It does have stipulations.
You do have to meet God and get right with him.
So of course, God will accept your repentance.
And when your back's slidden,
but to say that there's no need to make things right
when you're doing wrong is madness, it's folly,
it's heretical teaching.
To say that we don't have to have any kind of repentance
for the things that we're doing towards God
and towards other people, it's ridiculous.
And yeah, God is gonna bring forth the fatted calf
and kill it and say, let us eat and be merry.
He's gonna be happy that we turn things around in our life.
Absolutely, I agree with that.
Turn to James chapter four.
But to say that we can just go full prodigal
and just act like nothing happened, that's not true.
You do need to come to God in the right manner.
Look at what James four, it backs it up here.
James four, verse four.
And I mean these, look, you guys are, if you're saved,
you know that when you're doing something wrong,
you're doing something wrong.
You know when you're living right
and when you're not living right.
You know because you have the spirit of God in you
and when the scriptures are read, you're like, ugh.
You know, it hits you.
You're like, I need to change this.
I need to change this in my life.
And if you go out the doors
and you don't change that in your life,
well, you're like a doer and not a hearer.
You gotta be a doer, a hearer and a doer only.
I mean, excuse me.
You gotta be a hearer and a doer,
not just a hearer only.
So if you hear something that you know you need to change
and you don't change it,
well, you're like a natural man
that looks at himself in the mirror,
and then you go out and forget what manner of man you are.
Okay, look at James 4.4.
It says, "The adulterers and adulteresses,
know you not that the friendship of the world
is enmity with God?
Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world
is the enemy of God."
Does it sound like God just doesn't care
how you act and what you do?
No, it sounds like if you're a friend of the world,
you're at enmity with God.
God is, what's it say there?
Is this the New Testament?
I think it is.
"Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world
is the enemy of God."
Isn't that what it says?
Do you think therefore, or excuse me,
do you think that the scripture sayeth in vain,
the spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Isn't that why people keep to themselves
teachers having itching ears?
Because they lusteth to do what they want?
Yeah, so the spirit in us dwelleth,
the dwelleth in us lusteth to envy,
but he giveth more grace.
Wherefore he sayeth, God resisteth the proud,
but giveth grace unto the humble.
So how does God want us to come to him?
Humble, submit yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you.
Isn't that what he did with the prodigal son?
He drew nigh to God and God drew nigh to him.
And he ran towards him, didn't he?
Cleanse your hands, you sinners.
And purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Sounds like God wants us to cleanse our hands from the sins that we're doing.
He wants us to humble ourselves and come back to him and not be double-minded with the way
we think.
Be afflicted and mourn and weep.
Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.
Look, if you just think that you have to feel happy all the time and feel joyful all the
time, otherwise you just can't live this Christian life, you're fooling yourself.
Sometimes we do need to feel mourning over the things that we do.
Sometimes we should weep over the way that we're behaving.
Sometimes we need to stop laughing all the time and feel a little bit of mourning for
the things that we're doing and for the way that we act, for the things that we say and
for the stupid thoughts that we think.
It says humble yourselves on the side of the Lord and He shall lift you up.
It's not, come boldly and act, oh I'm all prodigal, now I'm just going to, here I am
God.
It's not how you act.
You humble yourselves and you come back to Him the right way.
Not proud.
Turn to Hebrews chapter 12.
Jack, will you hand me my water that's right in front of the bench that I sit at please?
Thank you.
I forgot to grab it.
Thank you sir.
Hebrews 12.
Here's another buck dance sermon, section of scripture that he just likes to dance around.
I just, look I don't know how you dance around this.
Oh let me guess.
This is just to the Jews.
Hebrews 12.5.
"And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as of the children, My
Son."
Does it say My Jew?
No, it says My Son.
"Despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him."
You know what?
God sometimes chastens His children and it says, sometimes we're rebuked by Him.
It says, "For whom the Lord loveth, He chastenseth."
Does He just love the Jews or does He love all of His children?
He loves all of His children, "And scourgeth every son whom He receiveth."
So that means anybody that's saved gets scourged, gets spanked, gets beaten, right?
Isn't that what it says or am I just taking this out of context from the Old Testament?
Is this an Old Testament passage?
Does this belong in the Old Testament or is this New Testament?
You just don't understand, Pastor Thompson, you're just too dumb to figure it out.
If you endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons.
For what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not?
This has not changed in the New Testament.
As a matter of fact, it's telling us in the New Testament that the Father chastens every
son that he receives, right?
But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then you're bastards and
not sons.
So, if you're like, "I never get chastened," well, then you're a bastard and that means
you're not saved.
Isn't that what he's saying?
Then you're just a bastard and you need to get saved.
It's real simple.
Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us.
This is talking about our earthly fathers, and we gave them reverence.
Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spirits and live?
Look, what is it saying here?
Isn't this helping us with the family dynamic to help us understand how God deals with us?
What does it say?
Furthermore, we've had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, our dads, and we gave
them reverence.
We were afraid of them.
We give them respect.
Shall we not much rather be in subjection, what does that mean?
Obeying what God says, right?
Unto the father of spirits and live.
Who's the father of spirits?
God the father, right?
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure, but he for our
profit.
So what does, does it say chastened that we might be partakers of his holiness?
So but he already saved us.
So what's it talking about?
Well, it sounds like he still chastens us in this life.
And you know what?
When we get people saved, we should tell people about this.
This helps people understand that you can't just live however you want and not expect
to get corrected for it.
What if we told our kids that what if we taught our kids like that?
Do whatever you want.
I still love you.
You're my son.
How does that work out with kids?
They're the ones doing the school shootings and having meltdowns in stores because they're
told they can just do whatever they want.
It says, "Now, no chasing of the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous.
Nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are
exercised thereby."
What is this talking about?
When you spank your kids after they've been royal brats and you're like, "Okay, I've had
enough," and you spank them, what do they act like afterwards?
I love you, Mom.
I love you, Dad.
You know, most of the time they're really gentile and not hostile anymore.
It's really weird.
But the Bible says that they have this peaceable fruit of righteousness, and it's like a connection
that you can't really understand unless you're a parent.
Who's felt that way when you deal with your kids finally and they're just like, "Man,
I wish I would have just spanked them like hours ago," and then you get this like peaceable
fruit.
If you're not a parent, you don't understand this.
You know, you hug it out, you're like, "I love you, I love you too," you know.
It's hard to understand unless you're a parent, but this is what God says too, because the
Bible is true.
This is what's truth.
We can witness this with our own children, so how can you not see the application here
in the verses?
Why is God showing us the picture of a father and a son?
How will we understand this if God isn't chasing us in the New Testament?
Why is this even in here?
Is this just to the Jews?
No, it's not just to the Jews, it's to everybody, it says all.
He chases every son whom he receives.
And you know why?
Because people don't want to see this.
They don't want to see the application.
And don't give me this rightly divide crap, because that doesn't apply here.
Old Testament, New Testament.
So if you're under the spell of this hyper-grace garbage, it's because you're tired of the
grind and that's just all there is to it.
Just have the good sense to say you're done, own it, you're backslidden, but don't jump
off the clip with the teaching.
Because if you're backslidden, just be backslidden, but don't believe this crap.
It's just like people that don't want to drink and they hear an Afshan sermon, an Afshan
Yatan sermon like, "Oh man, I can drink, yeah!"
It's like, "No dude, you can't drink."
And like he even admitted to me that he doesn't do the Lord's Supper with alcohol because
he has people in his church that were alcoholics.
It's like, "Oh, but you believe that they serve the Lord's Supper with real alcohol.
That's kind of weird."
It's like, then why do you fight so hard against it?
It makes sense, man.
So, and he admits in his sermon that, Pastor Jones admits in his sermon that he liked fighting
with people, and that's essentially why he became a new IFB pastor.
That's what he says in the sermon.
His sermon is so cringe, it's unbelievable, and filled with so many lies, it's too many
to list.
But I did feel it necessary to tell you tonight that he officially left being a fundamental
Baptist and has taken the name Baptist off his church name.
You know, I'm glad, though.
I mean, please do.
He said he's never going to preach about us again, he's going to take that sermon down
after a week.
Cool.
I hope he does.
I hope he just leaves everything alone and, you know, he rides off into the gray sunset.
But he talks so much about grace, he just doesn't have a lot for other people.
So there's enemies.
I mean, I thought we were supposed to love our enemies, but apparently just not us.
So but it's been said that, you know, we get people saved.
And once we get them into church, we flip the script and tell them that they're never
good enough, unless you're doing A, B, C, D, E, F, et cetera, God's going to beat you
and kill you.
Now, I'll admit there's, there's scriptures that say that if you, you know, if you do
certain things that God will kill you, God will chase in you.
But I'm not, if you, if you skip a church service, I don't think God's just ready to
just make you get into a 10 car collision and your whole family dies or something.
I'm not saying that I just, but I preach the Bible.
So I don't, I don't feel like that that's, I think it's a huge over oversimplification
of what any pastor would say.
So there are sins that under death, there are sins that are not under death.
Of course the Bible says we shouldn't pray for those things.
So but stating what the Bible says is what we're supposed to do.
So wouldn't it be a disservice of me to not say what the scriptures say in regards to
certain things?
So, you know, but stating what the Bible says is my job and you know, if you want to go
to a Christian fantasy island where God's never mad at you, He never tells you He's
never mad about anything you do, He doesn't care what you do, then let's just see how
that works out for you because it's not going to work out good.
I just try to strive and preach what the Bible says and, you know, look, if you're saved
regardless of, you know, what works, you're saved regardless of what works you do.
I'll just want to be clear about that and I've never taught anything otherwise.
So God is long suffering to us, word, and it takes a lot to get him angry.
He loves us.
He wants us.
He wants the best for us, but, you know, to lie to my congregation and say he doesn't
want his servants to serve would be detrimental and a disservice to you.
To lie and say God is not grieved when we backslide and fall into our former lust and
give in to the old man, his madness, folly, and shame.
When we forsake the Lord and refuse to obey his commandments, we will event, he'll eventually
clout up and rain on us.
And I'm not going to come, hear every service, and preach grace at every single service.
I did that at the old IFB.
I listened to every service.
At the end was grace and a salvation sermon for every 11 o'clock service.
Who's done that before?
And how did you like that?
It was boring.
We preach God's grace at the door.
We had eight people saved today.
That's from going out and preaching the gospel.
And I do preach about God's grace a lot, preaching about it today.
But to say that we shouldn't fear the Lord is also pure madness.
He gives us the father-son picture so that we can understand his nature toward us for
a reason.
So we can grasp how our relationship with him should be as well.
It's not the Dr. Spock, gentle parenting, no spanking ever approach.
That doesn't work in the human being with their children, and it doesn't work with God
and his children.
It just doesn't work.
Let's see, turn back, turn to 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 3, 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 3, I
got to hurry up here, 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 3, the Bible says this, "Thou therefore
endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ."
So are we supposed to endure things that are hard sometimes?
Absolutely.
"No man that warth entangle with himself in the affairs of this life that he may," what's
it say there?
"Please him."
Are we supposed to want to please God?
Well it kind of says that, doesn't it?
"Who hath chosen him to be a soldier."
So look, God wants us to please him.
Isn't that what it says?
Isn't that what the apostle Paul is saying to Timothy?
And we shouldn't entangle ourselves in the affairs of this life.
Why?
That we may please him who's chosen us to be a soldier.
That's Jesus.
"And if a man also strive for masteries, yet he is not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
The husbandman that laboreth must be first partaker of the fruits.
Consider what I say, and the Lord give the understanding in all things."
And look, I hope that the Lord gives you understanding in all these things that I'm talking about
tonight.
Because, you know, is God more pleased by the children that obey him or those that don't?
I mean, it's a simple question.
Is God more pleased with the children that obey him or the children that don't?
It's real simple.
Anybody in their right mind is going to say that they're more pleased with the children
that obey them.
It's not rocket science.
Is God pleased by his children that labor for him and obey his word?
Or is he more pleased with those that refuse to labor and refuse to obey?
Which one's he more pleased with?
So to say that everything is just communism and everybody gets the same reward, that's
madness.
It's folly and shame.
How does Jesus say, and we won't have to go, we're not going to go through the whole thing,
but I just, Matthew 25, when he gives out all these talents and he's like, Hey, you
know, you've done well with your talents and turned, you know, well done thou good.
And what does it say?
Faithful servant.
So does he want us to be faithful?
Does he want us to serve him?
Absolutely.
But when he says to the ones that don't obey, he says that wicked and slothful servant.
Thou knewst that I reap where I sowed not and gather where I have not strawed.
Thou hast to put my money to the exchangers that on my coming, I would have received mine
on with usury.
So, like, he's judging between two different types of believers there.
He's saying, "Hey, the ones that have done good, I'm going to reward them with things,
and the ones that have done evil, I'm going to rebuke them."
So, like, how do you get that we don't have to do anything for God?
Sowing doesn't matter if you do it or not.
I mean, these are the types of things that he's preaching.
And to say that one person doesn't do, like, look, you love all your children.
I know you do if you have children.
But to say that one doesn't please you more than the others,
if they're not doing better, is madness.
It's just madness.
So in 1 Samuel chapter 15 verse 22, Samuel says,
"And Samuel said, 'Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams.'
Because Saul rebelled against God.
He didn't obey the word of the Lord.
Says for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because God has rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
So why did he reject Saul?
Because he didn't obey.
And then in verse 28 he says, 'And Samuel said unto him,
The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day,
and hath given it to a neighbor of thine that is better than now.'
So which one was better, David or Saul?
David was better because one obeyed and one didn't.
It was just that simple.
And then Samuel had to do all the work.
Samuel, this old man, had to pick up a sword and chop this guy up into pieces
because Saul refused to do his job.
So when Christians don't work for the Lord, someone else has to pick up their slack.
I mean, it's just real simple.
John 14, 15 says, 'If you love me, keep my commandments.'
What does that mean?
Turn to 1 Peter chapter 1.
1 Peter chapter 1.
What does it mean?
Does Jesus not have commandments?
Is it just two commandments now?
Because He sums up the law with two commandments?
No.
He still wants us and the law is still holy.
The law is still good.
You know, Paul says, you know, is the law sin?
God forbid.
Yea, we established the law.
So if Jesus says, 'Keep my commandments,'
well, He said a lot of things, didn't He?
Not to be saved though.
It's not what we're saying.
1 Peter chapter 1 verse 13 says,
'Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober,
and hope to the end for the grace that is to be
brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.'
What does it say there?
'As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lust and your ignorance,
the life that you lived before.'
He wants us to be what?
Obedient children.
'But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.'
That word conversation is talking about the way in which you live your life.
This is the New Testament.
It's pretty deep into the book.
What's it saying?
That we're supposed to be obedient children and that we're supposed to be
holy in all manner of our lives.
Now, obviously we fail in these areas sometimes, but what does the Bible say?
Look, this is the theme of the day for me.
What's the Bible say?
Don't sit there and tell me I'm a tally band pastor.
Don't sit there and tell me that I don't know what the New Testament says.
Don't tell me that I'm not rightly dividing the word of truth.
This is the New Testament.
This is what it says.
You're the one that's preaching heresy.
Not me.
This is what it says.
Because it's written, "Be holy, for I am holy."
And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons
judges according to every man's work,
pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.
Not just doing whatever you want,
because God doesn't judge his children anymore.
God doesn't spank his children anymore.
What does it say?
Fear.
Fear the Lord.
We are to fear the Lord.
New Testament or not?
Is it New Testament?
Case closed.
1 John 5, 2 says, "By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God
and keep His commandments."
And this is the love of God that we keep His commandments and His commandments are not
grievous.
New Testament.
3 John 1, 9.
"I wrote unto the church, but Deutrophes, who love it to have the preeminence among
them, receiveth thus not."
This is Pastor Jones now.
He flipped the script.
Now he doesn't want anything to do with this.
It's like everything that he said he believed he no longer believes it anymore.
How is this possible?
Now he doesn't receive the brethren.
Now he's forsaken Pastor Jimenez.
He's forsaken his friends.
You know what?
I was a good friend to him.
"Wherefore, if I come, I'll remember his deeds, which he doeth,
praying against us with malicious words, and not content therewith.
Neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbideth them that would,
and casteth them out of the church.
Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good.
He that doeth good is of God, he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
Look, John says, people are like this, he just makes it real simple.
Follow that which is evil.
He that doeth good is of God, he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
And he makes it pretty simple there, doesn't he?
So, don't follow pastors that want to lead you off of the path to Loserville,
because if they're just telling you, you don't have to be sanctified in your life,
you don't have to go to church, you don't need to tithe,
you don't need to go soul winning. Fundamentalism is Taliban Baptist.
Your pastor Thompson is an imam and basically a Muslim.
We don't need to fear God. We're not chastised for anything that,
you know, we're not chastised by God for anything that we do.
It's perfectly fine for women to wear men's clothing
and men to wear women's clothing. He said that in a sermon.
Did I miss anything? All that stuff's just fine.
Now, please tell me how any of those things are going to help you
to be more spiritual in your life. Just tell me.
If you go to church less, if you don't think you have a responsibility
to love your neighbor as yourself, if you think that, you know,
helping and giving back to the Lord a portion of what you've brought in,
if you think that you're, if you think it's okay for your,
for a pastor that used to be friends with us to sit there and call me a Muslim,
you think that's okay? And look, to say that you don't have to fear the Lord,
when I just read multiple scriptures, multiple verses that fly in the face of everything he says,
but I'm wrong. Ephesians chapter two, Ephesians chapter two, we're almost done. I'm sorry.
I'm almost done here though. Real quick, while you're turning there, actually, just, just,
actually, we know these verses, turn to Titus chapter three, verse eight, but Ephesians two,
eight says, "For by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast." Look, I know that,
I believe that, that's what I preach, but people always forget about verse 10, "For we are his
workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we
should walk in them." Are we supposed to do good works? Should we do good works? Absolutely,
but to act like we don't have to do any good works, we can just do whatever we want, you can,
but there's, look, to say that we aren't supposed to serve God, that's madness. Titus 3, 8, "This is
a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly." This is another passage
to a pastor. He's saying this, say this stuff constantly, that they which have believed in God,
is that, are you, have you believed in God today? That they which have believed in God might be
careful to maintain good works. What does that mean? You're going to do it and keep doing it.
You know, when you maintenance your car, you change the oil on a regular basis, change the brakes on
a regular basis. Make sure that there's air in the tires. You know, it's winter time. Make sure
you deflate your tires, you know, and, you know, put a bunch of, you know, whatever, you know, that
put fill up the windshield, you know, the, never mind. I'm not even going to go into it. I got to
go. But look, maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. So what's he
saying? Tell these things constantly. So what? I'm not supposed to just keep harping on this stuff.
No, that's what the Bible says to do. This is what the apostle Paul says to do. Oh, I'm just
not supposed to preach about this because it just makes people feel bad. Look, I don't know what
else to tell you. I'm supposed to do this. But the Bible says to avoid foolish questions and
genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law for their unprofitable and vain. And a
man that is in heretic after the first and second admonition reject knowing that he is such he that
is such is subverted and syneth being condemned of himself. Look and that's kind of how I feel
about him now. You know, it's like how many times do I got to reject this guy because he's a he's
and look I'm not saying he's a damnable heretic. I'm just saying that he's a heretic because he's
teaching things that are lies. So there you have it. If you can't get that spoon feeding,
you're trusting your feelings personally about someone with respect to persons instead of just
clear statements of God's word. I don't know how to help you but if you love the truth and you love
God's word and take it as a whole, you'll listen to the shepherd's voice and not me. The true
shepherd of the sheep, the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost should guide you and will guide
you into all truth. Last verse Matthew chapter 5 verse 17 and look I honestly don't think that
anyone that is believing what Pastor Jones is preaching actually believes what he's saying
because I just it's madness. I think his message speaks to people that are just looking for a way
out. I think it's that's why it's ear tickling preaching because it's like well this is a dream
come true I don't have to do anything. I don't get spanked. I don't have to fear God. I don't
have to do any work. It's like wow this is a dream come true. Wow where was this preaching all my life.
People who want to feel good about quitting this is right up your alley but it's not the truth.
I've showed you the truth tonight. Matthew 5 17 says think now that I've come to destroy the law
or the prophets that I have not come to destroy but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you tell heaven
and earth pass one jot or one tittle showing no wise pass from the law. What does it say there?
Tell all be fulfilled. Do you have your glorified bodies right now? Have we ruled and reigned with
Christ for a thousand years? Have we gone to to New Jerusalem yet? No not all things are fulfilled
yet so not all things are passed from the law. And look the moral law still stands. Whosoever therefore
shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least
in the kingdom of heaven. But whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall be called great in
the kingdom of heaven. You know what? I don't want to be called least in the kingdom of heaven. If
I'm teaching something that is telling you to break a commandment, God help me. But I want to teach
what the bible says and what the commandments say. You know what? If I stand before God someday and
he says well you weren't supposed to be teaching those commandments then that's not going to happen
though because I'm teaching what I mean I'm showing you stuff out of the pastoral epistles what he's
telling his pastors to teach what Jesus straight up said right out of his mouth. Yeah I've taught
some things out of the Old Testament but you know most of the stuff I went to is New Testament
stuff which is I think the testament that we live in right? Anyway that's it that's all I got. I'm
sorry I went a little long. We started church late though so don't get mad it's brother Bill's
fault. Anyway let's pray. Lord thank you so much for the scriptures Lord and I'm so sorry that
there's another church that's just kind of out of commission but I'm thankful for the one that's
started back up. Lord I'm sad to have a friendship lost but I pray Lord that you would just uh help
us to make new friends and I'm just uh just breaks my heart Lord to see the things that have happened
there and I know that some of our friends here are saddened by it too but Lord we have to go uh with
you always and with what the Bible says and pray Lord you'd help us to have grace uh with ourselves
and Lord if people are mad about the things I preach Lord I pray that they would forgive me
but I'm just trying to preach what the Bible says and pray to be with us as we go our separate ways
tonight and that Lord we'd have sweet fellowship after the service and I am sorry that things had
to end on a negative note today because it's been such a great weekend but whatever we should just
feel thankful that the word of God gets preached in Jesus name we pray amen.