WEBVTT 00:00.100 --> 00:00.800 you 01:04.100 --> 01:11.100 your Bibles to the book of 1st Timothy, the Thessalonians, 1st Timothy chapter 2. 01:11.100 --> 01:17.460 If you don't have a Bible, there should be one nearby in one of the seats. 01:20.200 --> 01:26.200 1st Timothy chapter 2 the Bible reads, I exhort thee therefore that first of all supplications, 01:26.200 --> 01:32.760 prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings, and for all that are 01:32.760 --> 01:38.120 in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 01:38.680 --> 01:42.680 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 01:42.680 --> 01:46.680 who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. 01:47.400 --> 01:53.160 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 01:53.160 --> 01:58.040 who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. 01:58.040 --> 02:03.640 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher and an apostle, I speak the truth in Christ and lie not, 02:03.640 --> 02:07.480 a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity. 02:07.480 --> 02:13.400 I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting, 02:13.600 --> 02:19.040 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shame-facedness and 02:19.040 --> 02:26.000 sobriety, not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array, but which becomeeth 02:26.000 --> 02:30.720 women professing godliness with good works. 02:30.720 --> 02:33.840 Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection. 02:33.840 --> 02:39.280 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 02:39.800 --> 02:46.760 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in 02:46.760 --> 02:52.680 the transgression. Notwithstanding, she shall be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith 02:52.680 --> 02:57.900 and charity and holiness with sobriety. Brother Jeremy, can you pray for the service? 03:18.300 --> 03:21.140 You read too fast for the bill. 03:21.140 --> 03:24.900 Sorry, I was making some last minute notes there. 03:24.900 --> 03:26.620 All right. 03:26.620 --> 03:30.260 The title this morning is New IFB Hot Takes. 03:30.260 --> 03:31.860 New IFB Hot Takes. 03:31.860 --> 03:33.380 And I'm like, what is that? 03:33.380 --> 03:35.020 Well, a hot take. 03:35.020 --> 03:36.260 What is a hot take? 03:36.260 --> 03:38.460 Well, hot take is kind of a slang word 03:38.460 --> 03:39.460 that's kind of popular. 03:40.300 --> 03:49.660 right now and it is a strongly stated controversial or unpopular opinion that is shared quickly. 03:50.000 --> 03:54.000 often to spark debate or get attention. 03:54.000 --> 03:58.000 And obviously we're not just out to preach things 03:58.000 --> 04:03.000 only to spark debate or cause controversy, 04:03.000 --> 04:07.000 but sometimes the things that we do spark debate 04:07.000 --> 04:10.000 and cause controversy, and I would say a lot of things 04:10.000 --> 04:13.000 that are preached by Christians just in general 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 cause controversy. 04:15.000 --> 04:16.300 Things that are preached out of this book 04:16.400 --> 04:24.560 cause controversy and it's not really just about the new IFB but there are a lot of things that even contemporary Christians amongst us 04:24.800 --> 04:28.200 get really triggered by and they say, 04:28.200 --> 04:30.080 well that's not what the Bible says, 04:30.080 --> 04:33.480 that's not true, you guys are just making up doctrine. 04:33.480 --> 04:36.200 And it seems like a lot of people just say that we're 04:36.200 --> 04:38.440 preaching things that are not in the Bible. 04:38.440 --> 04:40.520 And so it would kind of fall, 04:40.520 --> 04:42.880 I think that sometimes people just think that we're making up 04:42.880 --> 04:45.420 things to be controversial, 04:45.420 --> 04:47.320 to draw attention to ourselves. 04:47.320 --> 04:50.800 But if you notice in the Bible that Jesus, 04:50.800 --> 04:52.800 the apostles, the disciples, the prophets, 04:52.800 --> 04:59.800 God tells them to preach things and he doesn't say to preach it with the cameras turned off, 04:59.800 --> 05:03.800 don't preach it, only preach it to certain people when other people are not around. 05:03.800 --> 05:08.800 No, what does Jesus say? Those things that I tell you in the ear preach on the housetops. 05:08.800 --> 05:15.800 And those things that Jesus would preach, people were so offended that they wanted to keep hearing more 05:15.800 --> 05:17.800 and they would follow him everywhere he went, stalking him. 05:18.800 --> 05:23.600 and waiting for something that he would say so they could accuse him and try to kill him. 05:23.600 --> 05:26.320 And the apostles, the same thing, once Jesus left, 05:26.320 --> 05:29.680 Peter preaches sermons, they're getting thrown in jail for preaching. 05:29.680 --> 05:32.680 They're getting in jail for just preaching the gospel, 05:32.680 --> 05:35.120 for trying to get people saved, they're getting thrown in prison. 05:35.120 --> 05:38.800 And for saying that the Jews killed Jesus, they're getting thrown in prison. 05:38.800 --> 05:40.440 They're getting beaten. 05:40.440 --> 05:43.360 People have been killed and beaten and mocked. 05:43.400 --> 05:47.280 and called all kinds of names for what? Preaching what the Bible says. 05:47.280 --> 05:51.480 So in reality the Bible is a hot take. 05:51.480 --> 05:54.480 All other religions of the world hate Christians 05:54.480 --> 05:58.120 and you know in reality the feeling is mutual. 05:58.120 --> 06:02.840 I mean I do hate other religions because the Bible says we should hate every false way. 06:02.840 --> 06:08.120 If it's a false salvation, if it's false prophets promoting things that are sending people to hell, 06:08.120 --> 06:09.520 I hate those things. 06:09.900 --> 06:12.700 And so we should hate them too. 06:12.700 --> 06:14.420 We should hate things that God hates. 06:14.420 --> 06:16.980 We should hate people that God hates. 06:16.980 --> 06:19.020 We should love our personal enemies. 06:19.300 --> 06:24.660 we should cling to those things that are good and we should hate those things that are false. 06:24.660 --> 06:30.660 So, and I'm not saying we should hate all people. Obviously there's only certain people that God hates in the Bible. 06:30.660 --> 06:38.900 So, you know, obviously our personal enemies are those that we should love and pray for and even though they despitefully use us 06:38.900 --> 06:42.900 and do evil things to us, we're still supposed to love those people. 06:42.900 --> 06:47.220 But there are people that hate God and those are the people that we should hate. 06:47.300 --> 06:48.300 That's a hot take. 06:48.300 --> 06:52.740 I mean, most of Christianity does not believe that anymore, but that is a teaching in the 06:52.740 --> 06:55.900 Bible that is a hot take. 06:55.900 --> 07:00.660 But people would seem to, they always, and look, people always chime in over things that 07:00.660 --> 07:05.020 we preach and they're just like, where's that in the Bible? 07:05.020 --> 07:06.020 You know what I mean? 07:06.020 --> 07:11.340 They're just like, at first glance when we say something or preach something, they're 07:11.340 --> 07:13.340 like, that's not biblical. 07:13.340 --> 07:15.140 And it seems like a hot take to them. 07:15.300 --> 07:18.600 But it's not like we don't just prove what we say with the Bible. 07:18.600 --> 07:23.400 I think that sermons that we preach from the pulpit are always backed up with Bible. 07:23.400 --> 07:25.600 It's not like we're just making something up and then we're like, 07:25.600 --> 07:29.800 oh, well, you know, that's just, that's what the Bible says and then the Bible doesn't say it. 07:30.000 --> 07:34.680 You know, so, and I think a lot of times when people have, quote-unquote, hot takes in like 07:34.680 --> 07:40.720 sports and broadcasting and things like that, usually there is some merit into what they're 07:40.720 --> 07:41.720 saying. 07:41.720 --> 07:46.140 So, and so a little bit more about this. 07:46.140 --> 07:47.760 What it means is, what does a hot take? 07:47.760 --> 07:50.000 It's bold and provocative. 07:50.000 --> 07:52.360 It goes against what most people think. 07:52.360 --> 07:54.280 Doesn't the Bible go against what most people think? 07:54.700 --> 07:56.460 Absolutely it does. 07:56.460 --> 07:58.740 And they're quickly made. 07:58.740 --> 08:03.040 It says, the article that I was, the AI was saying, 08:03.040 --> 08:05.820 it is usually shared right away without deep thought, 08:05.820 --> 08:07.060 research, or careful planning. 08:07.060 --> 08:09.540 Now that's where I would say we're different than that. 08:09.540 --> 08:13.940 It's not like we just say things off the cuff 08:13.940 --> 08:15.740 without researching things. 08:15.740 --> 08:17.540 But it's attention seeking. 08:17.540 --> 08:20.780 Media and online slang, people often use hot takes 08:20.780 --> 08:22.660 to generate replies, arguments, or. 08:22.700 --> 08:24.500 a viral engagement. 08:24.500 --> 08:29.500 And I would say that sometimes that is intentional, it could be, or we just don't care if it is 08:29.500 --> 08:30.620 or not. 08:30.620 --> 08:34.660 Because there's been sermons that I've preached that go viral and people get really upset 08:34.660 --> 08:36.620 about and I didn't think that it would. 08:37.200 --> 08:40.800 Sometimes, you know, it just happens. 08:40.800 --> 08:46.140 But obviously there's sermons I've preached where I talk about such and such person is 08:46.140 --> 08:49.300 burning in hell or whatever, and people get upset about that. 08:49.300 --> 08:52.220 But what is the intention? 08:52.220 --> 08:56.840 It's to draw people into the fact that that person was an unsaved false prophet and you 08:56.840 --> 08:58.380 should avoid their teaching. 08:58.380 --> 09:02.460 You should avoid the preaching of that person because they're sending people to hell. 09:03.300 --> 09:05.460 And it's a rebuke against that person. 09:05.460 --> 09:07.660 And Christ rebuked the false prophets. 09:07.660 --> 09:10.380 So are we not supposed to be like Christ? 09:10.380 --> 09:12.460 Are we not supposed to rebuke and reprove? 09:12.460 --> 09:15.500 I mean, Jeremiah rebuked the false prophets. 09:15.500 --> 09:17.660 He called them false prophets. 09:17.660 --> 09:19.300 And God calls them false prophets. 09:19.300 --> 09:21.020 He tells the prophets to warn people 09:21.020 --> 09:23.260 about the false prophets and about the wolves and sheep's 09:23.260 --> 09:24.100 clothing. 09:24.100 --> 09:26.620 Jesus warned people about the wolves and sheep's clothing. 09:26.620 --> 09:28.060 Are we not supposed to warn people 09:28.060 --> 09:29.780 against the wolves and sheep's clothing? 09:29.780 --> 09:30.820 Of course we are. 09:31.300 --> 09:34.340 The things that Christ preached, he said to preach upon the housetops. 09:34.600 --> 09:40.440 And obviously he's intending that to be like, people, if you stand up on housetops, and 09:40.440 --> 09:44.160 that means people can see you, and that means people can hear you. 09:44.160 --> 09:48.400 When he went out and he would get in a little ship and he's on the sea of Galilee and he 09:48.400 --> 09:53.080 would go out a little ways, because when you go out a little bit and you're preaching with 09:53.080 --> 09:57.040 the water and you're on a lake like that, it's so that people can hear you. 09:57.040 --> 10:02.560 There's a crowd behind him so that they can hear him, they can't throng him. 10:02.600 --> 10:06.920 and buffer that sound, because they didn't have microphones back then. 10:06.920 --> 10:11.280 You know, that's why they make amphitheaters, so that they can project that natural sound 10:11.280 --> 10:15.100 and Jesus would do things like that and set them, you know, he'd preach on the mount 10:15.100 --> 10:16.840 and things like that. 10:16.840 --> 10:24.020 So and was Jesus trying to not have crowds come, or do you think he was trying to make 10:24.020 --> 10:26.360 sure that crowds would come to hear him preach? 10:26.360 --> 10:29.480 Yeah, and so there's nothing really wrong with that. 10:29.900 --> 10:32.100 So here's some common examples of hot takes. 10:33.100 --> 10:35.620 Summer is the absolute worst season. 10:35.620 --> 10:38.380 There are actually people that believe that. 10:38.380 --> 10:41.980 Well, I mean, in that first glance you think, 10:41.980 --> 10:45.580 well, I like summer, you know, but are there pitfalls to summer? 10:45.580 --> 10:49.380 How about road construction every time you want to go someplace? That's annoying, isn't it? 10:49.380 --> 10:53.540 Or how about the dog days of summer when it gets super hot and if you don't have 10:53.540 --> 10:54.340 air conditioning, 10:54.340 --> 10:57.820 it can be annoying. It can be the worst season. 10:57.820 --> 11:00.820 And some people just generally like the cooler weather. 11:01.100 --> 11:07.060 So but that would be a hot take so maybe not enough evidence, but then once you start talking about it 11:07.580 --> 11:13.980 It seems a little more reasonable here. Here's another one here. Here's my hot take pineapple belongs on pizza 11:15.220 --> 11:17.220 Of course that's a controversial topic 11:17.300 --> 11:21.580 You know I'm sure you've seen that Joe pesci meme where he's like being held back by people 11:21.580 --> 11:26.420 And there's like a person with a pizza, and there's all kinds of pepperoni on it. He's just like ah 11:26.980 --> 11:29.100 Like Italians are just like getting tricked 11:29.100 --> 11:34.200 over it or whatever I think it's really funny and then 11:34.500 --> 11:35.500 Here's another one. 11:35.500 --> 11:38.820 The most famous movie of the year was actually boring. 11:38.820 --> 11:42.180 And so this is stuff like the people that review things, 11:42.180 --> 11:45.660 and sportscasters and things like that, radio talk show 11:45.660 --> 11:50.660 hosts, those news people that go on and fight about politics. 11:50.660 --> 11:53.540 According to Merriam-Webster, the phrase originally 11:53.540 --> 11:56.140 comes from journalism and sports broadcasting, 11:56.140 --> 11:59.140 where commentators would rush out fast fiery reactions 11:59.140 --> 12:00.540 to breaking news or games. 12:01.400 --> 12:07.720 So in terms of like the new IP, we often get accused of preaching things to just be shock jocks 12:07.720 --> 12:14.680 or to cause controversy, to be edgy edgelords, which I would say that sometimes that might be true. 12:15.100 --> 12:17.100 that we preach things to draw attention. 12:17.100 --> 12:20.100 I would think that that might be a little bit true. 12:20.100 --> 12:23.100 And to draw negative attention because any attention 12:23.100 --> 12:26.100 in the media or publicity is good publicity. 12:26.100 --> 12:29.100 I wouldn't say that we necessarily try to do that, 12:29.100 --> 12:34.100 but it is true that any kind of publicity is good publicity. 12:34.100 --> 12:36.100 You know, when you got a thousand sodomites out there, 12:36.100 --> 12:38.100 you know, raging against your church 12:38.100 --> 12:40.100 because you preached a hot sermon about it, 12:40.100 --> 12:43.100 you know, it's controversial. 12:43.100 --> 12:48.100 And people, like when we had people protesting our church a couple years ago out here, we 12:48.100 --> 12:51.100 had people that were just people from the neighborhood were coming up and saying, what's 12:51.100 --> 12:52.100 going on here? 12:52.100 --> 12:55.480 It's like, well, they're protesting our Bible conference. 12:55.480 --> 12:58.580 It wasn't like an anti-homo conference. 12:58.580 --> 13:03.220 It wasn't like, we were literally having a King James Bible conference where we're just 13:03.220 --> 13:05.780 talking about the Bible, preaching about the Bible. 13:05.780 --> 13:07.580 It had nothing to do with homos at all. 13:07.900 --> 13:13.900 And then all these queers show up in our parking lot and the police let them do it even though the owner said no, it's not okay. 13:13.900 --> 13:24.900 And then they're standing out there having queer weddings. This church, some Unitarian church, let their pastor or whatever priest come here and perform weddings right there. 13:24.900 --> 13:30.900 They were taking pictures of our kids, taking pictures of the adults in here, taking pictures of license plates so they could try to get people fired. 13:30.900 --> 13:33.900 And they were dressed like the weirdest freaks. 13:34.100 --> 13:36.100 that lived in Sodom and Gomorrah or whatever, 13:36.100 --> 13:38.100 they were trying to look just like 13:38.100 --> 13:41.100 that you would see somebody in a queer pride parade. 13:41.100 --> 13:43.100 And they were trying to get us thrown out of this building. 13:43.100 --> 13:45.100 That's what they were trying to do. 13:45.100 --> 13:50.100 And, you know, we just kept keeping on. 13:50.100 --> 13:52.100 You know, we're not going to just bow down 13:52.100 --> 13:56.100 and let them steamroll over us. 13:56.100 --> 13:58.100 But what did we do wrong? 13:58.600 --> 14:01.240 We announced that we were having a conference about the Bible. 14:01.240 --> 14:07.080 I mean, is that such a hot take that they're going to come and protest our church? 14:07.080 --> 14:13.800 And not only did they do that, they showed up with masks on and full tactical gear with AR-15s 14:13.800 --> 14:16.120 and all kinds of different guns. 14:16.120 --> 14:17.480 And the police did nothing about it. 14:17.480 --> 14:18.760 They said, oh, we'll fly a drone. 14:18.760 --> 14:21.480 If anything happens, you know, we might step in. 14:21.480 --> 14:25.000 But they said, we don't want to put our officers in harm's way. 14:25.000 --> 14:25.880 It's like... 14:26.500 --> 14:28.500 Isn't that your job though? 14:28.500 --> 14:31.500 To put yourself in harm's way? 14:32.500 --> 14:36.500 But I guarantee you if we went down to the Homo bars that they have here 14:36.500 --> 14:39.500 and we all showed up across in their parking lot 14:39.500 --> 14:42.500 and were brandishing firearms, 14:42.500 --> 14:45.500 I guarantee you the SWAT team would be down there to kill us. 14:45.500 --> 14:48.500 Which is what I told them when I called the police about it. 14:48.500 --> 14:50.500 They're like, oh no, they have the right to do that. 14:52.200 --> 14:57.400 Yeah, I mean we have the right to keep and bear arms, but it's actually a federal law 14:57.400 --> 14:58.680 that you can't do that. 14:58.680 --> 15:01.280 So it just doesn't apply to us. 15:01.280 --> 15:04.160 So anyway, I'm getting off the tracks here. 15:04.160 --> 15:09.680 So anyway, so in churches like ours though, we do get accused of stuff like that, but 15:09.680 --> 15:13.840 in that case, did I preach any kind of wild sermon to make that happen? 15:13.840 --> 15:14.840 No. 15:14.840 --> 15:15.840 They just don't like us. 15:15.840 --> 15:18.200 They just don't like our preaching because we do have the hot take. 15:18.500 --> 15:22.660 in today's world. You know, we're preaching things that are in season and out of season 15:23.220 --> 15:29.940 and it's okay now. It's okay. You know, I drive by that stinking church down there, that Lutheran 15:29.940 --> 15:35.220 church, our savior or whatever with all the rainbow doors, which people vandalize all the time. 15:35.220 --> 15:39.300 And it's not us, by the way. I'd only want to touch it. I don't want to accidentally get AIDS 15:39.300 --> 15:46.340 by touching one of those doors, but they have these rainbow doors that says, all are welcome always. 15:46.500 --> 15:53.820 No, they're not. They're not welcome here. That's a hot take apparently, but I mean, 15:53.820 --> 15:58.860 what are they telling you? Homo's come on in, molest our kids. Homo's come on in and 15:58.860 --> 16:04.340 teach classes. I guarantee you it's a homo that's leading that congregation. And if not, 16:04.340 --> 16:05.620 they're probably some sort of... 16:06.100 --> 16:09.300 Fag hag or queer bait or something. I don't know but 16:09.900 --> 16:16.240 Is that what God said told just let homos in your church and just have your message be about the LGBT 16:16.940 --> 16:19.100 H HIV whatever 16:20.300 --> 16:26.720 Alphabet people or something no, but we have that hot take because someone has to preach it 16:27.100 --> 16:33.420 Someone has to get up and thunder forth the things in God's Word and say we're not going to compromise on this stuff ever 16:34.500 --> 16:37.780 And we're never going to as long as I'm the pastor here. It's not happening 16:38.580 --> 16:43.700 So and people get upset. Oh, we're supposed to love everybody. Show me the chapter and verse about that 16:44.740 --> 16:48.020 Show me chapter and verse where it says we're supposed to live everybody 16:48.740 --> 16:50.740 Show me where jesus said that 16:50.740 --> 16:52.740 Because he didn't say that so 16:53.780 --> 16:57.540 Obviously in people about well god's loves everybody he does 16:58.180 --> 17:00.020 He loved the world so 17:00.020 --> 17:02.020 So much that he gave his only begotten son 17:03.000 --> 17:06.040 But do you think he still loves them in hell? 17:06.040 --> 17:08.480 Does he love the people in hell? 17:08.480 --> 17:11.400 Nobody would love someone and throw them in hell. 17:11.400 --> 17:12.880 Nobody. 17:12.880 --> 17:16.480 Would you love your own children if you threw them in an oven? 17:16.480 --> 17:17.320 I love you. 17:17.320 --> 17:18.520 Ah! 17:18.520 --> 17:19.840 No. 17:19.840 --> 17:20.880 No. 17:20.880 --> 17:23.760 That woman that killed all of her children? 17:23.760 --> 17:25.480 Does she love them? 17:25.480 --> 17:27.160 She didn't love them. 17:27.160 --> 17:29.560 How could you love someone and kill them like that? 17:29.800 --> 17:31.800 It's not possible. 17:31.800 --> 17:33.800 Did he love them before? Yeah. 17:33.800 --> 17:35.800 He loved everybody so much that he gave his only begotten son. 17:35.800 --> 17:37.800 He loved the whole world. 17:37.800 --> 17:39.800 But they're... 17:39.800 --> 17:41.800 Maybe. I don't know. 17:41.800 --> 17:43.800 But I know that... 17:44.700 --> 17:50.400 Jeffrey didn't love those people that he murdered and putting all the stuff that he did he was he was a psychopath 17:51.100 --> 17:53.720 You can't a psychopaths are incapable of loving people 17:54.280 --> 17:56.280 So anyway in reality 17:57.020 --> 18:02.040 You know everything that the prophets the Apostles and Jesus preached seemed to be wild and controversial 18:02.740 --> 18:08.120 To those that heard it sometimes even the saved people and that's no different today 18:08.680 --> 18:12.700 Save people find the things that I preached from the Bible controversy 18:12.700 --> 18:17.700 because you know why? They don't know the Bible. And to them it seems like a hot take. 18:17.700 --> 18:24.700 That's not what the Bible says. Well, let me show you. And then they show you something that's not even there, 18:24.700 --> 18:33.700 or they're reading it out of a false Bible version, or whatever. And it's a hot take to them because they don't understand what the Bible says. 18:33.700 --> 18:38.260 But if you're looking smack dab in the face of what the Bible says 18:39.300 --> 18:42.500 You know, you're resisting the Holy Ghost by not believing what it says. 18:42.500 --> 18:47.800 Because if I'm showing you what the Bible says, and you're just resisting that, then who's wrong? 18:47.800 --> 18:50.300 It's not God. 18:50.300 --> 18:54.200 It's not me if I'm reading what the Bible says. It's not the Bible, it's you. 18:54.200 --> 18:59.900 And you need to change your mind, and repent, and believe what the Bible says. 18:59.900 --> 19:06.500 So, and there's tons and tons of stuff in the Bible that people are just wrong about. 19:06.700 --> 19:11.700 And it's because 99% of Christians have not even read the Bible all the way cover to cover. 19:11.700 --> 19:16.700 If you'd never... look, don't come to me if you've never read the Bible cover to cover 19:16.700 --> 19:18.700 and tell me that you know more about the Bible than I do. 19:18.700 --> 19:20.700 Just don't do it. 19:20.700 --> 19:22.700 It's... you're ignorant. 19:23.100 --> 19:25.100 Well, I saw this one verse. 19:25.100 --> 19:27.100 Cool, but did you read it in context? 19:27.100 --> 19:28.100 Have you read it? 19:28.100 --> 19:30.100 Have you read the Bible 20 times? 19:30.100 --> 19:32.100 Well, if you haven't read the Bible 20 times, 19:32.100 --> 19:34.100 then don't come to me and tell me 19:34.100 --> 19:36.100 that you know more about the Bible than I do. 19:36.100 --> 19:39.100 You're like, yeah, but you don't interpret it correctly. 19:39.100 --> 19:40.100 Okay, Mormon. 19:40.100 --> 19:42.100 That's what the Mormons say too. 19:42.100 --> 19:44.100 They'll say, 19:44.100 --> 19:47.260 Grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves? 19:47.600 --> 19:52.600 We believe that verse as long as, you know, after you do everything that you can. 19:52.600 --> 19:55.100 Is that what the verse says? No. 19:55.100 --> 19:58.600 But that's their interpretation because they add into the Scriptures 19:58.600 --> 20:01.600 and because they're brainwashed. 20:01.600 --> 20:06.600 They got those Kool-Aid eyes that they just drank before you came to their door. 20:06.600 --> 20:08.100 They don't understand the Bible. 20:08.100 --> 20:12.100 They don't want to get saved because they just believe everything that Joseph Smith told them. 20:12.100 --> 20:12.600 So. 20:13.100 --> 20:18.060 Again, we hold some controversial doctrines that are widely considered hot takes or radical 20:18.060 --> 20:23.740 deviations by mainstream modern Christianity, but you know, I'm not going to just go with 20:23.740 --> 20:30.940 what the crowd in general says, because a lot of times the crowd in general is wrong. 20:30.940 --> 20:36.580 Modern day blanket Christianity is wrong about stuff. 20:36.580 --> 20:37.580 They're just wrong. 20:37.580 --> 20:37.800 Thanks for watching! 20:38.300 --> 20:43.340 So and you know look and if you just are saying well, I don't like the way your attitude is 20:43.340 --> 20:45.380 I don't like that you're saying these things 20:45.380 --> 20:51.040 Well, why don't you just listen to the sermon and listen to what the Bible says and then make a judgment after that 20:51.500 --> 20:54.240 Jesus said to judge righteous judgment 20:54.620 --> 21:00.000 So some of these things that I'm gonna be preaching I'm probably gonna have to preach a second part to this sermon obviously 21:00.540 --> 21:03.080 but I mean I could basically just 21:03.600 --> 21:11.640 Close my eyes turn around open the Bible and put it on any page in there and something I say in that chapter is 21:11.640 --> 21:16.040 Gonna be controversial to not only modern-day Christians, but also 21:16.680 --> 21:22.360 Just the world at large because just just okay. Let's do this little exercise 21:23.400 --> 21:28.460 Name me just a doctrine in the Bible that isn't controversial to the world 21:32.300 --> 21:40.300 that isn't controversial to the world. They'll say that but then they are against it though 21:40.300 --> 21:47.420 because they don't mean it like we mean it. Yeah they want it to include abortion. Oh hey 21:48.700 --> 21:54.140 who are you to judge that she got an abortion? They also want it to mean homos. 21:55.580 --> 21:58.220 That's what that church down the street wants it to mean. 21:59.500 --> 22:04.500 And look, you can't love flowers without hating weeds. 22:04.500 --> 22:06.500 Do you let weeds grow with your flowers? 22:06.500 --> 22:09.500 Do you let weeds grow with your garden? 22:09.500 --> 22:11.500 No, you don't. 22:11.500 --> 22:15.500 So you can't let perverts around children. 22:15.500 --> 22:19.500 Yeah, you can't let perverts in with your children. 22:19.500 --> 22:21.500 Because you know what predators do? 22:21.500 --> 22:24.500 They go after the weakest people that they can, and they... 22:25.200 --> 22:29.240 Wanted to devour them and that's what they do and that's why you can't let them around your children 22:30.120 --> 22:32.120 So it's just real. It's real simple 22:32.800 --> 22:38.960 So, anyway, let's look at a few things and I want to look at specific sermons that were 22:38.960 --> 22:41.920 preached and show you some things from the Bible here. 22:41.920 --> 22:45.960 So I've already gone on my own little rant here. 22:45.960 --> 22:49.260 So the role of silence of women in the church. 22:49.260 --> 22:50.660 Is that a hot take? 22:50.660 --> 22:53.680 Women are supposed to be silenced in the church. 22:54.300 --> 22:57.060 Oh pastor, that's a hot take. 22:57.060 --> 23:01.660 Well, let's look at some verses that actually teach this. 23:01.660 --> 23:04.760 Because it's a heavily debated topic. 23:04.760 --> 23:06.980 It's highly controversial. 23:06.980 --> 23:12.700 Women don't like it and men that are weak, feminists don't like it either. 23:12.700 --> 23:15.020 Because their wife controls them and their wife tells them what to do and their wife 23:15.020 --> 23:16.260 is the pastor. 23:16.260 --> 23:17.900 Joyce Meyer's husband. 23:17.900 --> 23:18.740 What's his name? 23:18.900 --> 23:23.700 Oh, nobody really knows of him because he's not in control of that house. 23:23.700 --> 23:24.700 She is. 23:24.700 --> 23:28.320 You know, she has a haircut just like him and she goes around telling it and she looks 23:28.320 --> 23:33.940 like the Joker and she looks just like him because there's no difference between them 23:33.940 --> 23:36.520 because she has usurped authority over him. 23:36.520 --> 23:43.900 Look at in our passage here in 1 Timothy chapter 2, let's look at verse number 11. 23:43.900 --> 23:45.900 Okay, what does the Bible say? 23:46.100 --> 23:49.840 Is it okay for women to speak in church? 23:49.840 --> 23:51.280 Well, what's the Bible say? 23:51.280 --> 23:56.340 It says, let the women learn in silence with all subjection. 23:56.340 --> 23:58.980 That means they're under subjection. 23:58.980 --> 24:00.540 They're to keep what? 24:00.540 --> 24:02.280 To learn in silence. 24:02.500 --> 24:08.300 So when the preaching is going on, they're not supposed to be standing up and asking questions, raising their hand. 24:08.300 --> 24:10.800 This isn't question answer time with the women. 24:10.800 --> 24:12.600 There shouldn't be saying amen. 24:12.600 --> 24:16.600 It says to learn in silence. 24:16.600 --> 24:19.100 But I suffer not a woman to teach. 24:19.100 --> 24:21.000 Are they supposed to teach? 24:21.000 --> 24:22.700 No, they're not supposed to teach. 24:22.700 --> 24:25.800 Nor to usurp authority over the man. 24:26.600 --> 24:31.240 So, are they supposed to be in command over men in church? 24:31.240 --> 24:32.240 No. 24:32.240 --> 24:37.600 Nor, to usurp authority over the man, but to be in, what's that say? 24:37.600 --> 24:38.600 Silence. 24:38.600 --> 24:43.560 So, just by that verse alone, that should tell you they shouldn't be allowed to be pastors, 24:43.560 --> 24:46.880 they shouldn't be allowed to be deacons, they shouldn't be allowed to be in authority over 24:46.880 --> 24:48.120 men in church. 24:48.120 --> 24:49.120 Period! 24:49.120 --> 24:52.840 It doesn't matter if it's a Sunday school teacher or whatever. 24:53.100 --> 24:59.100 Now you're like, well, but that's children. Well, I mean, they're still teaching. They're teaching. 25:00.140 --> 25:06.940 They're teaching. They're teaching people, though. What's it say? I suffered not a woman to teach. 25:07.900 --> 25:12.700 nor to usurp authority over the man." Okay, well people can make that argument whatever, 25:12.700 --> 25:17.100 all right? You can make the authority that they're teaching children, okay, but they're still not 25:17.100 --> 25:22.780 supposed to be in charge of men, all right? So, and some some Baptist churches will be like, well, 25:22.780 --> 25:26.540 you know, once they become a man, once they have their bar mitzvah or whatever, then they can, 25:26.540 --> 25:29.100 you know, then they have to stop teaching them or whatever. So... 25:29.900 --> 25:35.500 But what about pastors? What about them being pastors? Well, we'll cover that here in a minute, 25:35.500 --> 25:41.580 but let's look at just, we're just talking about being silent in church, okay, and usurping authority 25:41.580 --> 25:48.060 over men. So we've got 1 Corinthians chapter 14. Actually, no, let's, yeah, just keep your finger 25:48.060 --> 25:56.620 here in 1st Timothy and then just jog over to 1st Corinthians 14. 1st Corinthians 14. 25:59.400 --> 26:05.680 So I mean, to the world, to modern day Christianity, this doctrine seems over the top. 26:05.680 --> 26:06.680 It seems like a hot take. 26:06.680 --> 26:08.440 What do you mean women can't be pastors? 26:08.440 --> 26:11.360 There's a woman that pastors a church next door. 26:11.360 --> 26:13.480 What, she's not a pastor? 26:13.480 --> 26:16.680 Well, biblically speaking, no. 26:16.680 --> 26:19.120 So what? 26:19.120 --> 26:20.120 How dare you? 26:20.120 --> 26:20.960 She's an apostle. 26:24.000 --> 26:27.240 Show me the apostle in here that's a woman. 26:27.240 --> 26:30.740 Show me, of the 12, did Jesus choose a woman? 26:30.740 --> 26:34.140 Well, no, just because that's the times that they lived in. 26:34.140 --> 26:36.240 Well, what about the time that Paul lived in? 26:36.240 --> 26:39.940 Was there still, did he pick women to be apostles? 26:39.940 --> 26:41.740 No, because Paul was the last one. 26:41.740 --> 26:43.340 There's no apostles today. 26:44.000 --> 26:47.800 I mean, he said, I was one born out of due time. 26:47.800 --> 26:50.440 He was the last of the apostles, he says. 26:50.440 --> 26:51.920 Actually in the next chapter over. 26:51.920 --> 26:59.280 But anyway, verse Corinthians 14, verse number 34. 26:59.280 --> 27:05.440 It says, let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them 27:05.440 --> 27:07.000 to speak. 27:07.000 --> 27:09.600 they are commanded to be under obedience. 27:10.000 --> 27:13.360 as also saith the law. 27:13.360 --> 27:15.160 And if they will learn anything, 27:15.160 --> 27:17.240 let them ask their husbands at home, 27:17.240 --> 27:21.040 for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. 27:21.040 --> 27:22.700 But how many times have you been to churches 27:22.700 --> 27:25.140 where women are getting up and they're reading Bible verses, 27:25.140 --> 27:27.140 they're having question and answer time 27:27.140 --> 27:28.620 during the church services? 27:28.620 --> 27:31.320 I mean, for some reason, it's really prevalent 27:31.320 --> 27:33.200 in missionary Baptist churches. 27:33.300 --> 27:41.300 I've gone to many Bible studies where the pastor is not behind the pulpit, but he has something like one of these things right here. 27:41.300 --> 27:44.300 It's like the Sunday school hour, the Wednesday night. 27:44.300 --> 27:47.300 Instead of preaching behind the pulpit, they put this little podium right here. 27:47.300 --> 27:49.300 It's just a little bit closer or something. 27:49.300 --> 27:51.300 You know what I'm talking about? 27:51.300 --> 27:53.300 Why they do that? I don't know. 27:53.300 --> 27:54.140 It's just like. 27:54.300 --> 27:59.340 It's almost like they got that from, I don't know, maybe Jack Hiles or some of, it's like 27:59.340 --> 28:03.260 the more personal, you know, they're wearing the blue jeans or something. 28:03.260 --> 28:08.100 But anyway, they have that there, and then they're like, the first person to stand up, 28:08.100 --> 28:10.140 read this Bible verse. 28:10.140 --> 28:14.860 And then they're like, the women just like, as soon as they like, okay, stand up and read 28:14.860 --> 28:17.500 the Bible verse, the women are just like, bing! 28:17.500 --> 28:19.900 You know, they're beating their husbands to the punch. 28:20.200 --> 28:23.720 and then they're getting up and then or anybody with a question or if you have 28:23.720 --> 28:25.800 prayer requests or whatever they're just like BING! 28:25.800 --> 28:30.040 You know they just want to stand up and talk in church. 28:30.040 --> 28:34.360 It's bizarre but it does happen a lot in other churches I'm too I'm sure too 28:34.360 --> 28:37.480 but I've been a Baptist ever since I got saved. 28:37.700 --> 28:41.540 I was, you know, the Lord just drilled it into me to go to a Baptist church. 28:41.540 --> 28:43.540 He drilled it into me to be King James only. 28:43.540 --> 28:48.820 He drilled it into me to, you know, to just follow the Baptist movement. 28:48.820 --> 28:52.420 And you're like, well, he drilled it into you to follow denomination. 28:52.420 --> 28:53.700 This is not a denomination. 28:54.420 --> 28:57.380 There are Baptist denominations, but this is not a denomination. 28:58.020 --> 29:01.060 Independent fundamental Baptists are not a denomination. 29:01.060 --> 29:03.140 And if they are, they went off the tracks. 29:03.800 --> 29:07.640 If they're following some man from a Bible college, 29:07.640 --> 29:09.120 and that that's what they're, 29:09.120 --> 29:11.040 obviously we can have associations, 29:11.040 --> 29:13.400 we can have fellowships, there's nothing wrong with that. 29:13.400 --> 29:15.840 We're associated with the new IFB, 29:15.840 --> 29:18.040 but we're independent. 29:18.040 --> 29:20.640 We don't get orders from headquarters. 29:21.200 --> 29:27.340 I don't have to pass my notes and send them to Pastor Anderson or Pastor Shelley or Pastor 29:27.340 --> 29:32.800 Mejia or any of the other guys that are pastors in this movement before I get up and preach. 29:32.800 --> 29:34.800 They've never asked me to do that. 29:34.800 --> 29:35.320 That would be weird. 29:36.900 --> 29:43.300 But you know what, there's a lot of Baptist churches where all the missions money gets funded to one location, 29:43.300 --> 29:51.000 or one church, or one headquarters makes the rules for all the churches. That's the denomination. 29:51.000 --> 29:55.700 If you can't make, if the pastor, the local church pastor can't make a decision based upon what the Bible says, 29:55.700 --> 29:57.400 that's not an independent church. 29:57.800 --> 30:00.800 And so I would say we are non-denominational. 30:00.800 --> 30:04.100 You know, I hate saying that because it seems disingenuous, 30:04.100 --> 30:05.800 but we aren't denominational. 30:06.300 --> 30:08.060 So, at the door sometimes people say, 30:08.060 --> 30:12.220 oh, you're Baptist, your denomination is Baptist. 30:12.220 --> 30:13.980 It's like, well no, not really. 30:13.980 --> 30:17.180 Because nobody controls us, we're not a denomination. 30:17.180 --> 30:20.020 We're just Baptists in practice as far as 30:20.020 --> 30:22.220 salvation by faith alone, 30:22.220 --> 30:24.900 baptism by immersion only after you're saved, 30:24.900 --> 30:27.220 and we believe in soul winning, 30:27.220 --> 30:29.380 we believe in the King James Bible, 30:29.380 --> 30:31.300 and there's a bunch of other stuff. 30:31.300 --> 30:33.780 But I'm just saying that... 30:34.000 --> 30:37.000 It's like reading the label at the store. 30:37.000 --> 30:39.000 Well, does it have sugar in it? 30:39.000 --> 30:40.000 No. 30:40.000 --> 30:42.000 There's no sugar in our britches here. 30:42.000 --> 30:46.000 But, you know, if you want to know what Baptists believe, 30:46.000 --> 30:48.000 there are certain things that Baptists believe, 30:48.000 --> 30:50.000 and we hold to those main tenets of the faith. 30:50.000 --> 30:52.000 We believe in the Trinity. 30:52.000 --> 30:54.000 We're not Trinity deniers. 30:54.000 --> 30:56.000 We believe in the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost. 30:56.000 --> 30:56.300 These three are one. 30:56.500 --> 31:01.140 and a bunch of other things that we hold to 31:01.140 --> 31:03.640 because that's what we are. 31:03.640 --> 31:07.280 But we're not Baptist because we follow 31:07.280 --> 31:09.320 the Southern Baptist Convention or whatever, 31:09.320 --> 31:11.620 who now is basically mostly Calvinists. 31:11.620 --> 31:13.680 And they always are having controversies 31:13.680 --> 31:15.920 about women becoming pastors. 31:15.920 --> 31:17.920 It's always a big controversy. 31:17.920 --> 31:19.760 And the United Methodists... 31:20.200 --> 31:22.200 church is not united anymore. 31:22.500 --> 31:28.380 They've allowed women to become pastors and they let queers become pastors. I mean how far have they fallen? 31:29.020 --> 31:33.320 Pretty far. The Presbyterians, how far have they fallen? I mean, they're still, you know, pretty 31:36.140 --> 31:39.200 conservative Presbyterians that haven't gone along with that agenda, 31:39.500 --> 31:45.000 but there's a lot that have and they have queers in their churches as pastors. How is that even possible? 31:45.700 --> 31:50.420 Well, because they stop following this book, they let some wolf get in there and take control. 31:50.420 --> 31:54.580 And then if the wolf gets in and takes control of the denomination, then all the other churches 31:54.580 --> 31:55.900 are going to fall too. 31:55.900 --> 32:01.100 That's why Jesus wrote letters to the seven churches, because they're all connected. 32:01.500 --> 32:04.780 Because each church is controlled by the Lord Jesus. 32:04.780 --> 32:06.980 He said, but I have a problem with you. 32:06.980 --> 32:10.900 He didn't say I have a problem with you and therefore all the other churches I have a 32:10.900 --> 32:12.060 problem with too. 32:12.060 --> 32:15.980 No, he specified the problems that he had with each church. 32:15.980 --> 32:18.060 Because churches is a plural term. 32:18.060 --> 32:20.900 There's independent churches, there's local churches. 32:20.900 --> 32:24.300 One day we'll all be together in heaven, we'll all be one big church, but we're not one big 32:24.300 --> 32:24.980 church down here. 32:25.400 --> 32:27.400 I have no connection with the Catholic Church. 32:27.400 --> 32:29.400 I have no connection with the Mormon Church. 32:29.400 --> 32:34.400 I have no connection with any other church except for this church, as far as like who tells us what to do. 32:34.400 --> 32:38.400 It's this book, it's the Lord Jesus Christ, and I am just His under shepherd. 32:38.400 --> 32:41.400 And we are His people. We are God's people. 32:41.400 --> 32:44.400 That's how the church polity works. 32:44.400 --> 32:47.300 So, let's see. 32:47.600 --> 32:54.880 I had you turn to 1 Corinthians 14, 34. The Bible says, let them ask a question, 32:55.760 --> 32:59.680 ask their questions at home. It's not time for women to get up and speak in church 32:59.680 --> 33:04.080 during church services. You're like, well, should I just sew my lips shut from the time I walk in, 33:04.080 --> 33:10.720 pastor, the women? No, this is talking about during church services. Oh, can I not sing? 33:10.720 --> 33:11.440 Is that what it said? 33:12.400 --> 33:16.960 No, you can sing. Can I not sit by my husband? Of course you can sit next to your husband. 33:16.960 --> 33:20.480 You know, churches just take things too far. Can we not play musical instruments? 33:20.480 --> 33:23.760 Musical instruments are not even mentioned in the New Testament, pastor. 33:26.000 --> 33:29.000 The stupid hurts sometimes. It really does. 33:29.000 --> 33:35.000 We're commanded to sing Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs twice in the New Testament. 33:35.000 --> 33:37.000 So what? We just throw out all the... 33:37.000 --> 33:41.000 There's Psalms that tell us what musical instruments we can use. 33:41.000 --> 33:44.800 Stringed instruments. High sounding cymbals. 33:44.900 --> 33:50.500 All these different things that we're supposed to use, it specifically says those things that we can use, 33:50.500 --> 33:54.300 but then we're supposed to just not use them because it doesn't say it in the New Testament. 33:56.000 --> 33:58.100 But yet there's people that believe that stuff. 33:58.100 --> 33:59.500 Well, if it doesn't say it in the New... 33:59.500 --> 34:02.100 There's a lot of things the New Testament doesn't say, because you know what? 34:02.100 --> 34:03.700 It said it in the Old Testament! 34:03.700 --> 34:04.300 Amen. 34:04.300 --> 34:05.900 Yeah, but that's all gone away with. 34:05.900 --> 34:06.900 No, it's not! 34:07.300 --> 34:12.740 The things that are done away with are the carnal ordinances, the washings, the certain 34:12.740 --> 34:15.140 pictures are already fulfilled in Christ. 34:15.140 --> 34:16.140 We don't have to do those things. 34:16.140 --> 34:18.580 We don't have to do, have you done an animal sacrifice lately? 34:18.580 --> 34:20.920 No, because Christ was our sacrifice. 34:20.920 --> 34:22.940 He was our Passover. 34:22.940 --> 34:25.380 Those things are done away. 34:25.380 --> 34:27.300 Here's how you have to actually look at it. 34:27.300 --> 34:32.840 The things in the New Testament that are nullified by the New Testament, those things are no 34:32.840 --> 34:34.380 longer have to be kept. 34:35.000 --> 34:39.000 But the moral law still has to be kept. 34:39.000 --> 34:41.500 You still don't murder people. 34:41.500 --> 34:44.200 You still don't murder babies. 34:44.200 --> 34:47.800 God still commands us not to be faggots. 34:47.800 --> 34:50.700 God still tells us not to cross dress. 34:50.700 --> 34:53.800 He still wants women to have long hair and men to have short hair. 34:54.400 --> 34:59.400 I mean, I just don't understand why people just think these weird things. 34:59.400 --> 35:00.840 Those are hotcakes, Pastor. 35:00.840 --> 35:02.280 No, they're Bible. 35:02.280 --> 35:04.320 They're in the New Testament. 35:04.320 --> 35:05.320 What are you talking about? 35:05.320 --> 35:11.040 All right, let's turn over to, back over to, I had to stay in 1 Timothy, look at 1 Timothy 35:11.040 --> 35:12.760 chapter 3. 35:12.760 --> 35:16.280 These are the qualifications of the bishop. 35:16.280 --> 35:17.960 And this is even controversial. 35:19.500 --> 35:23.100 But look, some of these are subjective, okay? 35:23.100 --> 35:24.980 Some of them are not. 35:24.980 --> 35:26.780 We're gonna look at one that's not subjective. 35:26.780 --> 35:28.940 It's very clearly not subjective. 35:28.940 --> 35:32.820 All right, let's look at 1 Timothy 3, 2. 35:34.660 --> 35:35.900 Actually, let's look at the first verse. 35:35.900 --> 35:36.940 It says, this is a true saying, 35:36.940 --> 35:41.940 if a man, if a man desire the office of a bishop, 35:42.940 --> 35:44.700 he desireth a good work. 35:45.900 --> 35:56.000 A bishop then must be blameless, see those words must be, a bishop must be blameless, 35:56.000 --> 35:57.740 the husband of one wife. 36:00.600 --> 36:03.320 Okay, so you have to be a man. 36:03.320 --> 36:05.120 You have to be the husband of one wife. 36:05.120 --> 36:07.500 Does it say that there has to be, 36:07.500 --> 36:11.180 the wife has to be, to be a bishop you have to be a woman 36:11.180 --> 36:13.340 and only have one husband? 36:14.480 --> 36:17.400 No, it's talking about a man. 36:17.400 --> 36:21.000 And you have to be a man and you have to have one wife. 36:21.000 --> 36:23.400 And then it says sober of good behavior 36:23.400 --> 36:25.800 given to hospitality apt to teach. 36:26.300 --> 36:32.820 not given to wine or a striker or no striker not greedy filthy looker I'm not 36:32.820 --> 36:36.900 going to go through the whole thing but I'm just saying look at verse 4 one that 36:36.900 --> 36:42.900 rule it well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity 36:42.900 --> 36:49.740 notice how it's talking about a man well what's controversial well it causes 36:49.740 --> 36:51.100 controversy because 36:51.300 --> 36:54.500 Women can't be ordained to be pastors. 36:54.500 --> 36:58.660 That's supposedly controversial, but what does the Bible teach? 36:58.660 --> 37:04.420 Look, if you're not even supposed to talk during the church service, how can you be the pastor? 37:04.420 --> 37:08.740 The minute they get up and open their mouth, they're wrong. 37:08.740 --> 37:14.420 If you're a pastor and you list your wife as the co-pastor, you're wrong. 37:15.600 --> 37:22.000 If a woman gets up and preaches or if a woman just even asks the pastor a question in the church service, she's wrong. 37:22.000 --> 37:25.000 If she gets up and reads a Bible verse during the church service, she's wrong. 37:25.000 --> 37:27.600 It's not okay. 37:27.600 --> 37:33.600 Is that a hot top? Is that a hot take or do I have actual scriptural evidence to say that it's true? 37:33.600 --> 37:36.600 Is it true? It's the truth. 37:36.600 --> 37:41.400 It's not really that hot of a take but it seems to be in society even within Christianity. 37:41.900 --> 37:43.900 You know why it's a hot take in Christianity? 37:43.900 --> 37:45.900 Because they don't read the Bible or they're not, 37:45.900 --> 37:47.900 some people just aren't saved. 37:47.900 --> 37:49.900 Unfortunately there's a lot of Christians 37:49.900 --> 37:51.900 that just aren't saved either. 37:51.900 --> 37:53.900 Alright, here's another hot one. 37:53.900 --> 37:57.900 And I'm going heavy on the women here this morning, 37:57.900 --> 37:59.900 but it's not really the women's fault necessarily all the time either. 37:59.900 --> 38:02.900 Sometimes it's dumb men that just are led by women, 38:02.900 --> 38:05.900 but they've allowed themselves to do that. 38:05.900 --> 38:07.900 And it's the man's fault. 38:07.900 --> 38:08.740 So. 38:09.500 --> 38:16.300 I mean, was it Adam's fault that he ate the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? 38:16.300 --> 38:20.040 Yeah, it was his fault that God blamed him. 38:20.040 --> 38:23.580 He cursed Adam for listening to his wife. 38:23.580 --> 38:24.940 He said he shouldn't have listened to her. 38:24.940 --> 38:30.140 He was like, the woman that thou gavest me, she made me do it. 38:30.140 --> 38:31.140 No. 38:31.140 --> 38:32.140 Dummy. 38:32.140 --> 38:33.820 God put the blame on him. 38:33.820 --> 38:35.940 And death passes upon all men for all of sin. 38:36.500 --> 38:39.580 Okay, so submission in marriage, 38:39.580 --> 38:40.580 dun dun dun. 38:42.540 --> 38:46.540 Wives are supposed to submit to their husbands. 38:46.540 --> 38:51.080 So this is apparently a controversial subject. 38:51.080 --> 38:52.880 It's highly controversial. 38:52.880 --> 38:57.140 Look at Ephesians chapter five, Ephesians chapter five. 38:57.140 --> 38:59.140 Submit to your husband. 39:02.400 --> 39:05.400 Why is this supposed to submit? 39:05.400 --> 39:08.200 Hot take. 39:08.200 --> 39:12.400 While in the world this is highly controversial. 39:12.400 --> 39:15.000 If you preach this, people get upset. 39:15.000 --> 39:19.240 But I'll tell you what, modern preachers, they can't mention these verses without saying, 39:19.240 --> 39:21.520 but the husband's still supposed to love his wife though. 39:21.800 --> 39:26.880 They can't mention one without mentioning the other because they're afraid to offend the women in their congregation 39:27.000 --> 39:32.260 Which that woman controls the house, so she's gonna be like that's the last time we're ever going to that church 39:33.280 --> 39:36.600 And he's like yes, dear. Well can I carry your purse with the car? 39:38.400 --> 39:41.160 That's what that's what modern-day Christianity is like now 39:42.960 --> 39:47.020 Okay, honey, where do you want to go we're going to the Catholic Church now boy 39:48.700 --> 39:50.700 That's kind of what it's turned into. 39:50.700 --> 39:54.700 That church, we're not going to that church, it doesn't have a kids program. 39:54.700 --> 39:58.700 Oh, okay, I didn't realize it was your job to pick what church we're going to, honey. 39:58.700 --> 40:02.700 No, it's the husband's job to make those decisions. 40:02.700 --> 40:06.700 It's the husband's job where you're going to live, what church you're going to go to, 40:06.700 --> 40:09.700 and the wives are supposed to be in submission. 40:09.700 --> 40:13.700 Okay? So, look at what the Bible says in... 40:14.600 --> 40:17.600 Ephesians chapter 5, Ephesians chapter 5 verse 22. 40:17.600 --> 40:19.100 Oops, I didn't turn there. 40:24.400 --> 40:26.600 Sorry, just give me a second here. 40:26.600 --> 40:29.600 Ephesians chapter five, verse number 22. 40:37.700 --> 40:39.060 It says wives. 40:42.600 --> 40:43.880 Actually, I'm going to read more of this. 40:43.880 --> 40:44.380 Okay. 40:47.600 --> 40:54.880 And look, people get this weird idea that we're supposed to submit to each other. 40:55.600 --> 41:00.960 Because in this passage it does say that, but it's not talking about husbands and wives in that part. 41:02.080 --> 41:06.000 You have to read the context of a passage to get the meaning sometimes. 41:06.600 --> 41:10.600 And it's very important, that's why we read the whole chapter of the Bible 41:10.600 --> 41:16.600 so that I can't just get up here and cherry pick verses and say something out of context that isn't true. 41:16.600 --> 41:24.400 Okay, so the whole, first of all, the Bible says that until I come, give attendance to reading. 41:24.700 --> 41:28.220 Alright, so we're supposed to read the Bible in the church, we're supposed to sing the 41:28.220 --> 41:31.940 Psalms in the church, we're supposed to come in His presence with singing. 41:31.940 --> 41:33.260 That's why we do that. 41:33.260 --> 41:36.700 We don't just do time fillers for no reason at this church. 41:36.700 --> 41:40.740 We're singing to the Lord, we're worshiping the Lord, we're reading His Word out loud. 41:40.740 --> 41:44.120 So in case you just didn't read the Bible all week, you're going to get a chance to 41:44.120 --> 41:47.380 put your eyeballs on a whole chapter in two services. 41:47.380 --> 41:49.980 You're going to get two chapters a day here if you're following along. 41:50.600 --> 41:55.600 then you're gonna get two sermons. Okay, maybe four with my times, but anyway 41:57.960 --> 42:01.800 So look it says in verse 15 42:04.400 --> 42:13.200 It says, it says, See then that ye walk circumspectly not as fools, but as wise, 42:13.200 --> 42:16.400 redeeming the time because the days are evil. 42:16.400 --> 42:21.000 Wherefore, be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. 42:21.000 --> 42:26.000 And be not drunk with wine, wherein his excess, but be filled with the Spirit. 42:26.600 --> 42:33.200 speaking to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. 42:33.200 --> 42:39.300 This is talking about individuals in Christ and our responsibilities. 42:39.300 --> 42:45.600 It says, giving thanks always to all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 42:45.800 --> 42:49.240 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of the Lord. 42:49.240 --> 42:52.800 Look, this is talking about ourselves and our responsibilities in church. 42:52.800 --> 42:55.400 Isn't that what you would say that that context is about? 42:55.400 --> 42:57.640 Is it talking about husbands and wives right there? 42:57.640 --> 43:04.200 Then, it segues right here, and it says, 43:04.200 --> 43:07.800 wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands. 43:07.800 --> 43:10.400 So the verse before it says submitting yourselves to... 43:10.900 --> 43:14.420 one to another in the fear of God, then it changes subjects here. 43:14.420 --> 43:18.740 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. 43:18.740 --> 43:21.820 Isn't that two different things it's talking about? 43:21.820 --> 43:24.940 I mean, if you understand the English language, 43:24.940 --> 43:27.060 it's segued into another subject right here. 43:27.060 --> 43:28.780 And I'll prove it because it says, 43:28.780 --> 43:31.180 wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands. 43:31.180 --> 43:34.940 Not other people's husbands, or yeah, not other people's husbands, 43:34.940 --> 43:36.380 as unto the Lord. 43:36.380 --> 43:38.180 What does it say? As unto the Lord. 43:38.500 --> 43:43.580 So, when your husband tells you something, it's as if the Lord told you to do it. 43:43.580 --> 43:44.820 That's how you're supposed to submit. 43:44.820 --> 43:45.820 That's what the Bible says. 43:45.820 --> 43:51.500 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church. 43:51.500 --> 43:53.580 So it's comparing these two things. 43:53.580 --> 43:57.460 And it says, and he is the savior of the body. 43:57.460 --> 44:02.400 Therefore, for this reason is what therefore means, as the church is subject unto Christ, 44:02.400 --> 44:05.040 So let the wives be to their own husbands. 44:05.500 --> 44:10.740 And some things know everything. 44:10.740 --> 44:11.740 Is that what it says? 44:11.740 --> 44:13.260 Look down at your Bible. 44:13.260 --> 44:15.860 I see people looking up at me, look down at your Bible. 44:15.860 --> 44:20.140 It says, therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their 44:20.140 --> 44:21.660 own husbands and everything. 44:21.660 --> 44:23.540 I don't care if you agree with me or not. 44:23.540 --> 44:27.340 Why don't you just agree with what the Bible says? 44:27.340 --> 44:31.740 And wives, stop trying to usurp authority over your husband and just obey him. 44:32.600 --> 44:35.720 I'm not saying obey him when he says to go rob a bank. 44:35.720 --> 44:38.440 Like all these weird hypotheticals always get thrown out. 44:38.440 --> 44:40.480 Well what about this and what about that? 44:40.480 --> 44:42.480 What about just obeying your husband? 44:42.480 --> 44:44.160 What about just that? 44:44.160 --> 44:47.140 What about just being subject under your own husband? 44:47.140 --> 44:49.280 What about just that? 44:49.280 --> 44:50.280 Let's start there. 44:50.280 --> 44:55.120 Not the, well what if he's pimpin' me out to be a prostitute? 44:55.120 --> 44:57.280 Is that what men in this church are doing? 44:57.280 --> 44:59.480 Is that what men in churches that you know of are doing? 44:59.800 --> 45:02.600 Those are extreme outliers. 45:02.600 --> 45:06.100 And if a supposed Christian man is doing that, 45:06.100 --> 45:08.520 then hopefully God strikes him dead. 45:10.840 --> 45:14.440 But that is not something that we normatively deal with 45:14.440 --> 45:17.040 on any level in churches like ours. 45:18.240 --> 45:20.080 So let's start there. 45:21.240 --> 45:22.960 And then you're like, well, what about the, 45:22.960 --> 45:24.400 you gotta read your part now, Pastor. 45:24.400 --> 45:25.480 Okay, oh, I will. 45:25.900 --> 45:30.740 Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it. 45:30.740 --> 45:35.780 I agree, we are supposed to be sacrificial in our love towards our wives. 45:35.780 --> 45:40.860 We're supposed to love them as much as Christ loved the church and we're supposed to give 45:40.860 --> 45:41.540 ourselves. 45:41.800 --> 45:44.800 We're supposed to jump in front of a bullet for them. 45:44.800 --> 45:50.160 We're supposed to protect them and take care of them like Christ does for us. 45:50.160 --> 45:55.360 We're supposed to be benevolent dictators, not just dictators alone. 45:55.360 --> 45:57.920 And we are supposed to love them like we love ourselves. 45:57.920 --> 46:00.200 How much do you love yourself? 46:00.200 --> 46:01.200 Probably a lot. 46:01.200 --> 46:04.600 You know, so if you love yourself a lot, you take care of yourself, don't you? 46:04.600 --> 46:06.880 Well take care of your wife just like you would take care of yourself. 46:07.700 --> 46:13.700 Love yourself as much as Christ loved you and sacrificed his life for you. 46:13.700 --> 46:18.700 And if you love your wife that much, then you're not going to have, hopefully, too many problems. 46:18.700 --> 46:22.700 But we're sinful. We don't always do everything we're supposed to. 46:22.700 --> 46:25.700 Wives don't always subject themselves to their husbands like they should. 46:25.700 --> 46:28.700 And husbands don't always love their wives like they should. 46:28.700 --> 46:31.700 But don't take the part that they're doing wrong and say, 46:31.700 --> 46:33.700 well, I'm not going to do my part then either. 46:33.700 --> 46:35.300 Because that's not right either. 46:36.000 --> 46:38.000 Don't do the tit for tat thing. 46:38.000 --> 46:41.800 Don't do the, well you didn't do yours, well I'm not going to do mine. 46:41.800 --> 46:42.800 That's not right. 46:42.800 --> 46:44.840 But we shouldn't have that attitude. 46:44.840 --> 46:48.560 We should just say, well hey, yeah, they screwed up. 46:48.560 --> 46:50.480 He screwed up, she screwed up. 46:50.480 --> 46:51.480 Just have grace. 46:51.480 --> 46:55.400 You know, we're supposed to have grace in our hearts for our wives. 46:55.400 --> 46:58.760 We're supposed to have grace in our hearts for our husbands. 46:58.760 --> 47:01.000 This is how Christianity works. 47:01.000 --> 47:02.680 Did God have grace for you? 47:03.100 --> 47:06.740 Does He still continue to have grace for you every day that you sin on this earth? 47:06.740 --> 47:07.740 Because you do. 47:07.740 --> 47:11.960 And if you say that you don't sin every day in some way, shape, or form, you're just, 47:11.960 --> 47:13.740 I think you're a liar. 47:13.740 --> 47:19.420 Don't tell me you've lived a sinless day on this earth, because I will call you a liar. 47:19.420 --> 47:23.220 Just tell me, come up and tell me after the service, pastor, I have lived a sinless day. 47:23.220 --> 47:27.100 Well, you just don't know that you did then. 47:27.100 --> 47:28.860 And I'll still call you a liar. 47:28.860 --> 47:30.780 Anyway, verse 26. 47:31.200 --> 47:34.800 Actually, let me make sure that I... 47:34.800 --> 47:35.800 Nope. 47:35.800 --> 47:36.800 Nope. 47:36.800 --> 47:37.800 That's it. 47:37.800 --> 47:42.160 Okay, so now let's go to 1 Peter chapter 3. 47:42.160 --> 47:43.160 1 Peter chapter 3. 47:43.160 --> 47:45.000 I'm not going to just hit every... 47:45.000 --> 47:48.440 I don't want to hit every single verse in the Bible about mirrors, but... 47:51.500 --> 47:57.280 The Bible is very clear though, and look about that controversy while we're supposed to submit 47:57.280 --> 47:58.280 ourselves to each other. 47:58.280 --> 48:00.480 I've heard Baptist preachers teach this. 48:00.480 --> 48:03.680 Do you not know how to read in context? 48:03.680 --> 48:04.680 Did you fail English? 48:04.680 --> 48:09.560 There used to be this King of the Hill commercial, you know that cartoon or whatever, King of 48:09.560 --> 48:10.560 the Hill. 48:10.560 --> 48:11.800 And he's making, he's like. 48:12.100 --> 48:15.740 You know, Bobby, you got a D in English, you speak English. 48:15.740 --> 48:19.380 It's like, Bobby, how did you get a D in English? 48:19.380 --> 48:26.380 It's like, you're a pastor and you act like you got an F in English. 48:26.380 --> 48:29.300 Because you don't even know what the Bible says. 48:29.300 --> 48:33.620 I've even heard actual New IP, supposed New IP pastors get this wrong. 48:33.620 --> 48:35.780 It's just like, OK, I understand if you just didn't understand it, but 48:35.780 --> 48:38.300 if someone straightens you out on this, you should get it. 48:38.800 --> 48:41.800 That verse is not talking about husbands and wives. 48:41.800 --> 48:44.800 It changes subjects and says wives. 48:44.800 --> 48:48.800 And before that it's talking about individuals and church, you know, 48:48.800 --> 48:53.800 Psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, it's talking about our duties in Christ. 48:53.800 --> 48:55.800 It does change subjects there. 48:55.800 --> 48:58.800 The chapters and verses weren't there until way later. 48:58.800 --> 49:01.800 So you have to be able to understand context. 49:01.800 --> 49:05.300 Alright, so I had you turn to 1 Peter, chapter number 3. 49:05.800 --> 49:08.680 What does the Bible say it says this? 49:13.500 --> 49:17.500 Likewise, you wives be in subjection to your own husbands. 49:17.500 --> 49:20.660 Oh, is that saying the same thing that Ephesians said? 49:20.660 --> 49:27.780 If any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the 49:27.780 --> 49:28.780 wives. 49:28.780 --> 49:33.900 So, if you don't have a husband that's saved, it's saying that, hey, your godly life that 49:33.900 --> 49:36.340 you're living might win them over. 49:36.340 --> 49:36.840 Okay? 49:37.000 --> 49:43.040 So, while they behold your chaste conversation, that means your holy lifestyle that you're 49:43.040 --> 49:45.420 living in front of them coupled with fear. 49:45.420 --> 49:46.420 Fear of who? 49:46.900 --> 49:48.900 and fear of your husband, right? 49:48.900 --> 49:50.900 Not fear that he's going to, you know, 49:50.900 --> 49:53.900 cut you up into little pieces and bury you in the swamp or something. 49:53.900 --> 49:54.900 I'm not talking about that. 49:54.900 --> 49:57.900 There's the same fear of the law of your husband 49:57.900 --> 49:58.900 and the law of God. It says, 49:58.900 --> 50:03.900 Who's adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plating of hair, 50:03.900 --> 50:06.900 and of the wearing of gold, and of the putting on of apparel. 50:07.600 --> 50:15.240 But let it be the hidden man of the heart and that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit 50:15.240 --> 50:19.200 Which is in the sight of God great price 50:19.560 --> 50:25.060 So what is God looking for in a wife acts like? 50:25.360 --> 50:32.920 That is you're going after the hidden man of the heart. That's Christ in you. That is the new man, right? 50:33.940 --> 50:35.300 Jesus in your heart 50:35.600 --> 50:38.600 And it says even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. 50:38.600 --> 50:41.600 So, and God holds that as a great price. 50:41.600 --> 50:44.600 That's your responsibility towards God as a wife. 50:44.600 --> 50:50.600 For after this manner in the old time, the holy women also who trusted in God, 50:50.600 --> 50:53.600 talking about women in the Old Testament that were saved, 50:53.600 --> 50:57.600 adorn themselves being in subjection onto their own husbands. 50:57.600 --> 50:59.600 Now it's going to give us an example of one of these women. 51:00.200 --> 51:04.360 Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him Lord 51:05.080 --> 51:11.140 Whose daughters you are as long as you do well and are not afraid with any amazement 51:11.140 --> 51:13.440 so he brings up Sarah as 51:14.160 --> 51:19.080 She obeyed Abraham and caught and called him Lord and she called him Lord 51:19.260 --> 51:23.140 Probably in she probably said that verbally to him many times in their life 51:23.800 --> 51:26.600 But in the passage that it's talking about in Genesis, 51:26.600 --> 51:29.240 she called him Lord in her mind. 51:29.240 --> 51:30.920 This is something that she, 51:30.920 --> 51:33.560 you know, and I'm not saying call your husband Lord 51:33.560 --> 51:35.120 or something all the time, okay? 51:35.120 --> 51:37.240 I know people, like, there's people that, 51:37.240 --> 51:39.400 Hiles, that were like, 51:39.400 --> 51:40.640 we had this lady that went to our church 51:40.640 --> 51:42.280 and they went, and her husband went to Hiles, 51:42.280 --> 51:44.280 and she made her husband call him Lord, 51:44.280 --> 51:45.720 and everybody at our church thought 51:45.720 --> 51:47.960 that was just crazy and weird or whatever. 51:47.960 --> 51:48.600 But. 51:48.700 --> 51:52.380 If your husband does ask you to do that, maybe you should. You should obey your husband. 51:52.380 --> 51:59.100 But I'm not recommending that you do that, okay? I'm just saying that Sarah did. And it's not 51:59.100 --> 52:03.500 Lord with a capital L like he's God or something, but Lord just means that he's the boss. 52:04.780 --> 52:09.020 But she did this in her heart. This is what she called him in her heart because he was her boss. 52:11.020 --> 52:12.860 Obviously Abraham loves Sarah. 52:13.700 --> 52:15.920 He mourned for Sarah. 52:15.920 --> 52:21.820 He found a special burial place and bought this parcel of land and weighed out the price 52:21.820 --> 52:22.820 of it. 52:22.820 --> 52:23.820 Would not take it for free. 52:23.820 --> 52:25.780 He refused to take it for free. 52:25.780 --> 52:27.500 He paid money for it. 52:27.500 --> 52:29.700 It's obvious that he loved her. 52:29.700 --> 52:31.300 She called him Lord. 52:31.300 --> 52:32.560 She was in subjection. 52:32.560 --> 52:34.620 You know what he told her to do? 52:34.620 --> 52:37.700 He just said, you know, make dinner for… 52:38.400 --> 52:42.800 these angels and the Lord that had just popped. They just showed up unannounced. 52:43.760 --> 52:47.760 Would your wife if you said, hey whip up this meal real quick? 52:48.000 --> 52:49.960 You know, because Abraham, he said, 52:49.960 --> 52:52.760 let me get this stuff, I'm gonna make you some lunch 52:52.760 --> 52:55.480 or whatever and get your feet washed real quick. 52:55.480 --> 52:57.000 And then he says, I'm gonna do this. 52:57.000 --> 52:59.400 And then he goes to his wife and says, do this real quick. 53:01.400 --> 53:02.920 But would your wife do that on the fly 53:02.920 --> 53:04.720 if some friends dropped by real quick? 53:04.720 --> 53:07.000 I mean, she obeyed him. 53:07.100 --> 53:11.800 Calling him Lord in her mind and she laughed about the the prophecy 53:11.800 --> 53:16.820 But it's just saying likewise your husband dwell with them according to knowledge giving honor unto the wife 53:16.820 --> 53:22.640 Oh, well see it says giving honor unto them as into the weaker vessel though 53:23.400 --> 53:24.680 So, what do we do? 53:24.680 --> 53:27.680 We make sure, we're not gonna work them harder than we work, 53:27.680 --> 53:29.440 as far as like physically, except, 53:29.440 --> 53:32.260 hey, while I'm gone, you know, I want you to do, 53:32.260 --> 53:35.480 you know, I want you to build a house while I'm gone. 53:35.480 --> 53:37.420 You know, stuff, I mean, look, 53:37.420 --> 53:41.220 they're supposed to be guiding and keeping the house, 53:41.220 --> 53:45.720 not, you know, architecting skyscrapers or something. 53:45.720 --> 53:46.300 Anyway. 53:46.700 --> 53:51.180 as being heirs together of the grace of life that your prayer be not hindered. 53:51.180 --> 53:55.380 So look, I mean, submission to marriage is something that the Bible teaches. 53:55.380 --> 53:58.340 They're also commanded as also saith the law. 53:58.340 --> 54:00.340 We read that in the previous passage. 54:00.340 --> 54:02.940 These are hot takes. 54:02.940 --> 54:09.160 But the Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter number 11 that God the Father is the head 54:09.160 --> 54:10.740 of Christ. 54:10.740 --> 54:11.940 This is the head of man. 54:12.300 --> 54:15.100 Talking about the head is in the boss, right? 54:15.100 --> 54:18.460 And that the man is the head of the wife. 54:18.460 --> 54:19.900 That is the hierarchy. 54:19.900 --> 54:25.180 And both parents are, the children are subject under the parents. 54:25.180 --> 54:26.620 This is what the Bible teaches. 54:26.620 --> 54:30.780 This shouldn't be such a hot take, but it actually is. 54:30.780 --> 54:36.620 Because people in the world, they say it's 50-50. 54:36.620 --> 54:37.260 And you know what? 54:37.260 --> 54:38.380 That ruins marriages. 54:39.100 --> 54:39.580 It does. 54:40.400 --> 54:50.400 You know, if both parents are working outside the home, both are professionals, but then ingrained in our DNA, and especially men, 54:50.400 --> 54:54.400 when we both get home, you're doing the laundry, you're cooking dinner. 54:54.400 --> 55:00.400 This causes problems, because that's not 50-50. Oh, you're both, oh, it's your turn to wake up with the baby. 55:01.200 --> 55:04.760 No, that's just not a natural thing for me to do. 55:04.760 --> 55:10.400 And then those fights occur and it's just not the natural order of things. 55:10.400 --> 55:13.240 So it shouldn't be such a hot take. 55:13.240 --> 55:18.640 Well, I can't afford for my wife to stay home. 55:18.640 --> 55:19.640 Work harder. 55:19.640 --> 55:21.080 Get another job. 55:21.080 --> 55:22.560 Work some overtime. 55:22.560 --> 55:23.560 Door dash. 55:23.560 --> 55:24.560 Do what you got to do. 55:24.560 --> 55:25.560 All right. 55:25.560 --> 55:26.760 So now. 55:28.300 --> 55:48.300 There's also regulations on, well I'm going to skip this one for now, but here's another hot take about salvation being exclusive and no other religions can lead you to heaven. 55:48.300 --> 55:55.300 This is something that seems on the surface to be a hot take, but is it really a hot take? It's not a hot take. 55:56.500 --> 56:01.000 Even just preaching salvation is a super hot take to people. 56:01.000 --> 56:03.000 It's a hot take to other Christians too. 56:03.000 --> 56:09.500 That's what's so funny about this subject is that it's not just a hot take to us, 56:09.500 --> 56:16.000 I mean to other Christians, it's a hot take to non-believers, it's a hot take to other Christians too. 56:16.000 --> 56:21.500 When we talk to people about salvation, they shut down and melt down over this stuff. 56:21.700 --> 56:25.200 because we teach that salvation is by faith alone, 56:25.200 --> 56:29.200 in Christ alone, apart from any works whatsoever. 56:30.500 --> 56:34.360 And we don't even teach that if you get saved, 56:34.360 --> 56:37.640 that works will follow you necessarily. 56:37.640 --> 56:38.800 And then that's when people, 56:38.800 --> 56:40.640 we really lose people in the Christian community 56:40.640 --> 56:43.340 because they're like, what do you mean? 56:43.340 --> 56:46.560 If you get saved, you'll do the works. 56:46.560 --> 56:48.340 But is that what the Bible says? 56:48.340 --> 56:48.400 you 56:48.500 --> 56:55.380 That is not what the Bible says. So let's turn to John chapter 14. I'm going to have to hurry up 56:55.380 --> 56:58.900 and wrap this up. But John chapter 14, let's turn over there real quick. 57:01.700 --> 57:07.300 This really just nails this doctrine down about Jesus being the only way to heaven. 57:10.600 --> 57:17.920 In your face Buddha, in your face Muhammad, in your face any other religion. 57:17.920 --> 57:19.040 What did Jesus say? 57:19.040 --> 57:28.320 John chapter 14 verse 6, Jesus sayeth unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. 57:28.320 --> 57:33.540 No man cometh unto the Father but by me. 57:33.540 --> 57:34.540 What is he saying there? 57:34.540 --> 57:34.600 you 57:35.700 --> 57:42.100 It's an exclusive club. The only way you're getting to heaven is the one way. That one way is through me. 57:43.460 --> 57:45.460 The Bible says there's no 57:45.460 --> 57:50.020 Name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved 57:50.660 --> 57:52.660 There's no other way to get to heaven 57:54.420 --> 57:55.200 So 57:55.600 --> 57:59.100 When people say, oh well I just believe in a higher power, 57:59.100 --> 58:01.840 and that people just follow the light that they have. 58:01.840 --> 58:03.200 This is what Billy Graham actually taught 58:03.200 --> 58:04.560 in the end of his career. 58:04.560 --> 58:06.240 People get mad when I rip on Billy Graham, 58:06.240 --> 58:08.720 but I call him Billy Balaam, 58:08.720 --> 58:12.140 because Billy Graham was a false prophet. 58:12.140 --> 58:13.400 And I know that people are like, 58:13.400 --> 58:16.200 well but wait, everybody loved him. 58:16.200 --> 58:18.200 So they loved all the false prophets too. 58:19.240 --> 58:21.780 People loved the false prophets too. 58:21.780 --> 58:23.200 But did they like Jeremiah? 58:23.900 --> 58:26.900 No, they hated Jeremiah. Did they like Jesus? 58:26.900 --> 58:28.900 Well, they liked him at first. Some people did. 58:28.900 --> 58:31.900 But what did they end up doing in the end? Crucifying him. 58:31.900 --> 58:33.900 What did they do to Jeremiah? They tried to kill him. 58:33.900 --> 58:36.900 They wanted to kill him, but God wouldn't allow them. 58:36.900 --> 58:38.900 But everybody hated Jeremiah. 58:38.900 --> 58:42.900 He had no friends. The dogs wouldn't even play with him. 58:42.900 --> 58:46.900 They threw him basically in an outhouse. 58:46.900 --> 58:49.700 They threw him in the porta potty, basically. 58:50.700 --> 58:54.220 in the castle Myri pit there and 58:55.220 --> 58:57.440 So that's pretty gross, you know 58:58.080 --> 59:03.640 They persecuted the prophets. I mean Jesus said you're the sons of those that persecuted the prophets. What are you talking about? 59:04.940 --> 59:06.700 look 59:06.700 --> 59:08.140 they 59:08.140 --> 59:12.860 the people today that like that reject that Jesus is the only way to heaven are 59:14.060 --> 59:15.800 barking up the wrong tree 59:15.900 --> 59:23.420 Look, the controversy is this, that Christianity is exclusive and the only true path to God 59:23.420 --> 59:25.140 is to be saved by faith alone. 59:25.140 --> 59:30.460 I don't have time to preach the whole thing about this, but what is John 3? 59:30.460 --> 59:35.660 John 3 is the most famous verse in the whole Bible and people like they can quote it, they 59:35.660 --> 59:38.680 know it, but what does it actually say? 59:38.680 --> 59:40.020 What does it actually teach? 59:40.020 --> 59:43.120 For God so loved the world that He gave. 59:43.700 --> 59:51.700 His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life. 59:51.700 --> 59:56.700 If you believe in Jesus, you have everlasting life. 59:56.700 --> 59:59.700 That's how you get saved. You put your faith in Jesus. 59:59.700 --> 01:00:02.700 That's too easy, Pastor. You believe in easy believism, what? 01:00:02.700 --> 01:00:05.700 That's what the Bible says, friend. 01:00:05.700 --> 01:00:08.700 That's not a hot take. That's the truth. 01:00:09.900 --> 01:00:14.180 Verily verily I say unto you he that believeth on me hath everlasting life I 01:00:16.080 --> 01:00:20.460 Mean what oh, but what else but nothing, but that's it 01:00:21.340 --> 01:00:23.900 And you're like, but you will have the works 01:00:25.020 --> 01:00:26.620 No 01:00:26.620 --> 01:00:29.260 You might not you have to work 01:00:30.100 --> 01:00:34.500 And you have to, you have to, look if you get saved and you never go to church, you 01:00:34.500 --> 01:00:40.260 never read your Bible, you never pray, you never, you know, act out on anything. 01:00:40.260 --> 01:00:42.700 All you have is the Holy Spirit. 01:00:42.700 --> 01:00:49.140 And look, I immediately had some changes, but I didn't change like, I didn't just like, 01:00:49.140 --> 01:00:55.460 you know, instantly stop smoking, instantly stop drinking, I had to be taught some things. 01:00:56.000 --> 01:01:00.780 Didn't know everything that was wrong. You're not gonna know what's wrong unless you read the book that tells you it's wrong 01:01:01.520 --> 01:01:04.920 You're not gonna know it's wrong unless you get preaching that tells you something's wrong 01:01:05.120 --> 01:01:10.600 If you if it's not pointed out to you're not necessarily gonna know it's not like you know once you get saved a download comes 01:01:10.600 --> 01:01:13.900 In you know it might be an AOL download 01:01:19.300 --> 01:01:23.700 Yeah, it's going to be super dial-up especially if you're not going to a church that's preaching the Bible right 01:01:24.200 --> 01:01:28.300 You know and if it's a bad Bible version, then you might not ever get stuff right 01:01:29.020 --> 01:01:32.920 Because there's some weird stuff in these new Bible versions, but 01:01:33.520 --> 01:01:40.620 Look, it's you know the Bible says in Matthew 25 46 and the and these shall go away into everlasting punishment 01:01:41.260 --> 01:01:44.220 But the righteous into life eternal 01:01:44.900 --> 01:01:47.620 And look, we're not righteous because of our own works. 01:01:47.620 --> 01:01:53.060 We're righteous because Jesus imputes righteousness to us. 01:01:53.060 --> 01:01:54.820 Because He was righteous. 01:01:54.820 --> 01:01:58.660 Because He was perfect when He was sacrificed. 01:01:58.660 --> 01:01:59.460 We're not perfect. 01:01:59.460 --> 01:02:01.420 We can't even begin to be perfect. 01:02:01.420 --> 01:02:04.260 And if we counted on our goodness at all to get us 01:02:04.260 --> 01:02:06.540 to heaven, it cancels out. 01:02:06.540 --> 01:02:08.980 Let's turn to one last verse, and we'll be done. 01:02:08.980 --> 01:02:09.480 OK? 01:02:11.300 --> 01:02:16.900 One last verse here, Romans chapter 4. You're like, no, but you will have the works, pastor. 01:02:18.340 --> 01:02:22.740 Well, let's just see what the Bible says. That's kind of another hot take. There's hot takes within 01:02:22.740 --> 01:02:27.220 these hot takes, okay? Romans chapter 4, verse number... 01:02:30.100 --> 01:02:31.580 Let's just go to verse number one. 01:02:31.580 --> 01:02:37.320 What shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found? 01:02:37.320 --> 01:02:42.800 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory but not before God. 01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:44.140 Did Abraham have good works? 01:02:44.140 --> 01:02:47.780 Of course he did, but not before God. 01:02:47.780 --> 01:02:50.780 So we can look at people's works and say, that person seems like they're saved. 01:02:50.780 --> 01:02:51.780 They're doing a lot of good stuff. 01:02:52.200 --> 01:02:54.160 But, not before God. 01:02:54.160 --> 01:02:56.720 Our works are like filthy rags. 01:02:56.720 --> 01:02:58.800 For what saith the scripture? 01:02:58.800 --> 01:03:00.400 What does the Bible say? 01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:01.400 That's the most important thing. 01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:06.040 I love this verse because it says, for what saith the scriptures? 01:03:06.040 --> 01:03:08.840 Let's just reason together here. 01:03:08.840 --> 01:03:13.360 Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness. 01:03:13.360 --> 01:03:14.760 How was Abraham saved, friends? 01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:21.680 Abraham is saved by faith. It sounds like he says he believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness 01:03:22.240 --> 01:03:24.320 He was saved the same way that people are saved today 01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:28.560 He just didn't know the name of Jesus, but he still knew the name that he knew then 01:03:29.040 --> 01:03:31.240 Which is Lord God Almighty or something like that 01:03:31.240 --> 01:03:36.560 So says verse 4 now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace 01:03:36.560 --> 01:03:41.320 But of debt if you try to work your way to heaven in any way shape or form 01:03:42.300 --> 01:03:50.300 What's it say? You're working out of debt. We all owe a sin debt and every sin you commit just piles on that debt. 01:03:50.300 --> 01:04:03.300 It says, but to him that worketh not, if you're not trying to work your way to heaven, but you believe on him that justifieth the ungodly, that's Jesus, his faith is counted for righteousness. 01:04:03.300 --> 01:04:05.300 If you stop trying to work your way to heaven, 01:04:05.800 --> 01:04:09.480 and you just put all your faith in Jesus, what's it say? 01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:12.840 His faith is counted for righteousness. 01:04:12.840 --> 01:04:17.840 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man 01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:22.120 unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works. 01:04:22.120 --> 01:04:24.560 So David talked about this in the Psalms, 01:04:24.560 --> 01:04:27.400 and he said, hey, blessed is the man, 01:04:27.400 --> 01:04:31.480 saying blessed are they whose iniquities... 01:04:31.700 --> 01:04:35.320 are forgiven and whose sins are covered. 01:04:35.320 --> 01:04:40.060 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. 01:04:40.060 --> 01:04:45.440 Once you get saved, he will no longer impute sin into your account. 01:04:45.440 --> 01:04:49.580 And all the sins that you did before that are wiped away. 01:04:49.580 --> 01:04:57.380 See? So, why would you have to do good works after you get saved in order to be counted righteous? 01:04:58.800 --> 01:05:04.500 Yeah, I mean you can you get rewards for keeping the law your life is better for keeping the law 01:05:04.620 --> 01:05:08.840 But that has nothing to do with your salvation because it says to him that worketh not 01:05:10.300 --> 01:05:17.400 Do you see that but you show that to you show that to some Christians? Well, I just believe that you will still have the works 01:05:18.220 --> 01:05:21.260 Well, what about the thief on the cross? Well, he didn't have a chance to do anything 01:05:22.700 --> 01:05:24.540 Yeah, he didn't because he died right after that. 01:05:24.540 --> 01:05:27.020 But I mean, he did like kind of stick up for Jesus. 01:05:27.020 --> 01:05:27.860 That was a work. 01:05:27.860 --> 01:05:29.420 I guess he did one work. 01:05:29.420 --> 01:05:31.380 But his other world, he just died. 01:05:31.380 --> 01:05:33.560 But there's other people in this world. 01:05:33.560 --> 01:05:36.500 We get people saved all the time that never come to church. 01:05:37.400 --> 01:05:42.300 They don't get baptized, but maybe their family member was praying for them to get saved and they're like, 01:05:42.300 --> 01:05:44.300 Oh, you guys saved, we'll come to our church. 01:05:46.300 --> 01:05:51.600 But just because they don't come to our church, just because they don't get baptized, it doesn't mean that they didn't get saved. 01:05:52.500 --> 01:05:58.800 I was looking at statistics from our scan code that we give out when we go to Solany and stuff, 01:05:58.800 --> 01:06:02.600 and it's tracking all the people around the world using our codes. 01:06:03.200 --> 01:06:07.200 And there's people that are getting saved in Japanese 01:06:07.200 --> 01:06:08.880 and all these different languages. 01:06:08.880 --> 01:06:12.320 And people all around the world are using those scan codes. 01:06:12.320 --> 01:06:14.880 And people are getting saved from them. 01:06:14.880 --> 01:06:17.400 And they might not ever come to our church. 01:06:17.400 --> 01:06:20.400 If someone's getting saved in Brazil or in Portuguese, 01:06:20.400 --> 01:06:22.160 do you think they're going to come to our church 01:06:22.160 --> 01:06:24.480 if that's their modern language? 01:06:24.480 --> 01:06:27.560 If someone speaks Japanese as their natural language 01:06:27.560 --> 01:06:29.080 and they can't speak English, 01:06:29.080 --> 01:06:30.400 do you think they're ever going to come here? 01:06:31.200 --> 01:06:33.200 Oh, well, where are they all? 01:06:33.200 --> 01:06:34.720 Where are these people, Pastor Thomas, 01:06:34.720 --> 01:06:35.960 that are getting saved? 01:06:35.960 --> 01:06:38.440 Well, where are the nine? 01:06:38.440 --> 01:06:41.680 Jesus healed 10 lepers, only one came back to give thanks. 01:06:41.680 --> 01:06:43.480 Look, people aren't thankful for things 01:06:43.480 --> 01:06:46.000 that they get for free sometimes. 01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:49.680 My wife's been picking up some stuff for free on Facebook 01:06:49.680 --> 01:06:52.640 or that app where they'll just give you stuff for free. 01:06:53.200 --> 01:06:55.200 and the marketplace and 01:06:55.460 --> 01:07:01.960 She always thanks people for giving them giving her stuff and gives them good reviews, but not all people are like that I 01:07:03.380 --> 01:07:06.480 Made the mistake of putting my recycling out trying to be nice 01:07:07.140 --> 01:07:10.580 I don't like doing that because I don't like just people dig 01:07:10.820 --> 01:07:14.280 Counting on the fact that they can just come up to my property and dig around stuff 01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:16.540 But I was like I should just be nice you know 01:07:17.100 --> 01:07:18.700 And what do they do? 01:07:18.700 --> 01:07:20.900 They just took all the stuff out of my bins 01:07:20.900 --> 01:07:22.740 and it was all laying there the next morning. 01:07:22.740 --> 01:07:25.580 I was like, that's the last time I'm ever doing it. 01:07:25.580 --> 01:07:27.700 Because I'm trying to give people stuff for free. 01:07:27.700 --> 01:07:29.180 And what do they do to thank me? 01:07:29.180 --> 01:07:31.060 Don't even pick up the mess. 01:07:31.060 --> 01:07:32.300 I don't care if you take the stuff out 01:07:32.300 --> 01:07:35.300 and grab the cans or whatever, but put the stuff back. 01:07:35.300 --> 01:07:37.100 Like, what kind of person does that? 01:07:37.100 --> 01:07:38.860 People that don't care about a free gift. 01:07:38.860 --> 01:07:40.820 And a lot of people get saved and they don't care 01:07:40.820 --> 01:07:42.100 that they got a free gift. 01:07:42.700 --> 01:07:45.300 And they don't follow up with it. 01:07:45.300 --> 01:07:47.400 But you know what? We'll still see them in heaven 01:07:47.400 --> 01:07:50.300 because it's not the works that we do that get us saved. 01:07:50.300 --> 01:07:53.000 It's the fact that we believe in Jesus. 01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:55.200 Faith is what saves us. 01:07:55.200 --> 01:07:57.700 Trusting in Christ is what saves us. 01:07:57.700 --> 01:08:01.000 And that's all that it takes. 01:08:01.000 --> 01:08:06.000 That's what the Bible says. But look at verse 14 and we'll be done. 01:08:06.000 --> 01:08:09.520 For if they which are of the law be heirs... 01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:14.200 Faith is made void and the promise made of none effect 01:08:15.740 --> 01:08:20.880 So if you think that it's faith and works that you have to have works and faith 01:08:22.000 --> 01:08:23.680 It's void 01:08:23.680 --> 01:08:25.680 You can it's not both 01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:29.440 It's only one and faith is not works and work is not faith 01:08:29.440 --> 01:08:36.460 They're two separate things and so if it's only faith then you adding works to it voids out the transaction 01:08:37.100 --> 01:08:41.100 That's what it says. Look at what it says. It says it's made void. 01:08:42.300 --> 01:08:47.580 It's either you're going to work off the debt, which you can never do, or it's salvation by faith alone. 01:08:47.580 --> 01:08:54.300 God stops imputing the sin to your account. The debt stops. Your debt relief is here. 01:08:55.420 --> 01:08:57.740 You know, 877-CASH-NOW. 01:08:59.200 --> 01:09:01.360 Yeah, J.G. went... I'm just kidding. 01:09:01.360 --> 01:09:03.680 Anyway, that's gonna be stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Let's pray. 01:09:03.680 --> 01:09:06.080 Lord, we thank you so much for the Bible. 01:09:06.080 --> 01:09:09.680 And Lord, what seems to be hot takes some people is just Bible. 01:09:09.680 --> 01:09:10.880 And that's the way we should take it. 01:09:10.880 --> 01:09:16.320 Lord, help us to just mold our opinions by what the Bible says, not what it doesn't say. 01:09:16.320 --> 01:09:22.640 Help us before we start spouting off and disagreeing with stuff and just... 01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:26.900 Having preconceived opinions about things, 01:09:26.900 --> 01:09:28.700 we just take a look at what the Bible says 01:09:28.700 --> 01:09:31.100 before we just dismiss things out of hand. 01:09:31.100 --> 01:09:35.200 Lord, help us to not speak before we know the whole matter. 01:09:35.200 --> 01:09:39.900 Help us to read our Bibles and be sharp on these things 01:09:39.900 --> 01:09:44.200 and be ready to give an answer to those that ask us 01:09:44.200 --> 01:09:45.500 of the hope that's in us. 01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:48.000 We pray that you just bless the rest of our day. 01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:51.560 Bless us so wanting and bless us as we come back for our second service. 01:09:51.560 --> 01:09:53.560 In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.