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Welcome back to the afternoon service. If everyone could find your seat. Find your way to a blue hymnal. It will be in the blue so make sure you have one.
First hymn 536 the unclouded day. 536 in the blue hymnal. 536 on the first.
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They tell me of a home far beyond the skies. They tell me of a home far away. They tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise.
Oh they tell me of an unclouded day. Oh the land of cloud this day. Oh the land of an unclouded sky.
Oh they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise. Oh they tell me of an unclouded day. Oh they tell me of a home where my friends have gone.
Oh they tell me of that land far away. Where the tree of life in eternal bloom sheds its fragrance through the unclouded day.
Oh the land of cloud this day. Oh the land of an unclouded sky. Oh they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise.
Oh they tell me of an unclouded day. Oh they tell me of a king in his beauty there. And they tell me that mine eye shall be whole.
Where he sits on the throne that is wider than snow. In the city that is made of gold. Oh the land of cloud this day. Oh the land of an unclouded sky.
Oh they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise. Oh they tell me of an unclouded day. Oh they tell me that he smiles on his children there.
And his smile drives their sorrows all away. And they tell me that no tears ever come again. In that lovely land of unclouded day.
Oh the land of cloud this day. Oh the land of an unclouded sky. Oh they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise. Oh they tell me of an unclouded day. Amen.
Brother Sean can you open us with a word of prayer?
Lord thank you so much for this day.
Amen. Next hymn is 123 Saved by the Blood.
123 in the blue. And I am going to sing the extended saved saved. But ask if some of the men know the bottom line. If you could sing out on that and the ladies can sing the top line with me.
Alright.
Saved by the blood of the crucified one. Now ransomed from sin and a new work begun. Sing praise to the father and praise to the son.
Saved by the blood of the crucified one. Saved saved. My sins are all poured in my gift is all gone. Saved saved.
I'm saved by the blood of the crucified one. Saved by the blood of the crucified one. The angels rejoicing because it is done.
A child of the father joy, heir with the son. Saved by the blood of the crucified one. Saved saved.
My sins are all poured in my gift is all gone. Saved saved.
I'm saved by the blood of the crucified one. Saved by the blood of the crucified one. The father he speak and his will it was done.
Great price of my pardon, his own precious son. Saved by the blood of the crucified one. Saved saved.
My sins are all poured in my gift is all gone. Saved saved.
I'm saved by the blood of the crucified one. Saved by the blood of the crucified one. All hail to the father, all hail to the son. All hail to the spirit, all great three in one.
Saved by the blood of the crucified one. Saved saved.
My sins are all poured in my gift is all gone. Saved saved. I'm saved by the blood of the crucified one.
Good afternoon. Welcome back to Schur Foundation Baptist Church. Hope you had a good in between the services time. Had a good lunch. What am I doing here? I'm looking at a hymnal. I need this. All right.
Does anybody need a bulletin? If you do, just lift up your hand and one of the ushers will bring you a bulletin. Anybody didn't get one that wasn't here maybe before? All right. I think everybody's covered.
We're going to go through this real quick. The verse of the week, it says, he is the rock. His word, his work is perfect for all his ways are judgment, a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Due to Army chapter 32 verse 4 on our inside, we have our service time Sunday morning service 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening service 3 30 p.m. Thursday Bible study.
6 30 p.m. will be in 1 Chronicles chapter 6 and so many times. We had so many today and I know that our group had two salvations. Did anybody else have any salvations in their group?
All right. I guess we were in the one area where there's actually people that need to be saved. So all right. Well, praise the Lord for the two salvations because I didn't think anybody I mean, I guess I shouldn't say that.
I should always have the mindset that someone's going to get saved. But, you know, we've been in an area that's not exactly super receptive.
But, you know, we ran into a lot of saved people, too. A lot of saved people. So we were probably just one of those honey holes where, you know, the Lord had blessed the ocean of that area or something.
But praise the Lord for that. And you got a suntan if you're out there. So, you know, you got some some exercise that you got paid. You're going to get paid for in this life and the life to come. So be thankful for that.
So you can see the praise report below there and the upcoming events on the right there. I'm not going to go through all that. But, of course, all the rules and regulations, the tithes and offerings. We're going to make this real quick.
We said sing Happy Birthday to Ili and Ethan's birthday was last week and he got a haircut. So praise the Lord for that. And that's all I have for announcements. Go ahead and sing another song. We'll keep this service rolling right along here.
All right. Next hymn is 298, More Love to Thee. 298 in the blue.
All together.
More love to Thee, O Christ, more love to Thee.
Hear thou the prayer I make on bended knee.
This is my earnest plea. More love, O Christ to Thee. More love to Thee. More love to Thee.
Once earthly joy I grieved, sought peace and rest.
Now Thee alone I seek, give what is best.
This all my prayer shall be. More love, O Christ to Thee. More love to Thee. More love to Thee.
Let sorrow do its work, send grief and pain.
Sweet are Thy messengers, sweet their refrain.
When they can sing with me, more love, O Christ to Thee.
More love to Thee. More love to Thee.
Then shall my latest breath whisper Thy praise.
This me the bawling cry, my heart shall raise. This still it prayer shall be.
More love, O Christ to Thee. More love to Thee. More love to Thee.
More love, O Christ to Thee. More love to Thee.
More love, O Christ to Thee. More love, O Christ to Thee.
More love, O Christ to Thee.
Romans 16
I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Centria, that ye receive her in the Lord as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you.
For she hath been a securer of many, and of myself also.
Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my helpers in Christ Jesus, who have from my life laid down their own necks, unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
Likewise, greet the church that is in their house.
Salute my well-beloved Epinidus, who is the firstfruits of Achaea, unto Christ. Greet Mary, who bestowed much labor on us.
Salute Adronochus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
Greet Ampleus, my beloved in the Lord.
Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.
Salute Apelles, approved in Christ.
Salute them which are of Aristobulus' household.
Salute Herodian, my kinsmen.
Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.
Salute Trifina and Trifosa, who labor in the Lord.
Salute the beloved Persis, which labored much in the Lord.
Salute Rufus, chosen in the Lord and his mother and mine.
Salute Acinichris, Philegeon, Hermas, Petrobas, Hermas, and the brethren which are with them.
Salute Philelogus and Julia, Naresis and his sister, and Olympus, and all the saints which are with them.
Salute one another with an holy kiss.
The churches of Christ salute you.
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them.
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
For your obedience is come abroad unto all men.
I am glad therefore in your behalf, but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good and simple concerning evil.
And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Timotheus, my work fellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sopater, my kinsmen salute you.
I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
Gaius, mine host, and of the whole church salute with you.
Erastus, the chamberlain of the city salute with you.
And Quartus, a brother.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery,
which was kept secret since the world began, but now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets according to the commandment of the everlasting God,
made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.
To God only wise be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.
Brother Timo, will you pray for us?
Amen.
Alright, we're there in Romans chapter 16.
Look at verse number 17, the Bible says,
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them.
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
The title of my sermon tonight is New Evangelical Nonsense.
New Evangelical Nonsense.
And you're like, well what is New Evangelical?
Well, New Evangelicalism, also known as Neo-Evangelicism, is a movement within Evangelical Christianity that emphasizes engaging with culture,
and sometimes working with more liberal Christian groups.
The term was coined in 1947 by Harold Okinga, the founding president of Fuller Theological Seminary,
or cemetery, however you want to put that,
to describe a distinct movement within fundamentalist Christianity.
Famous people that graduated from Fuller University are John Piper, Bill Bright, and Rick Warren and Rob Bell.
And those guys all have their own distinct beliefs and distinct problems.
I think Rob Bell ended up teaching that what people don't go to hell or something like that.
Rick Warren is the author of The Purpose Driven Life, The Purpose Driven Church, The Purpose Driven...
I mean, he's got his whole, the guy's like a multi-millionaire, and has established churches all over the place.
And he basically, what he does when he goes into a new area is he gives out these questionnaires
and asks people what they want from that, you know, what kind of church they would like in that area.
What kind of music do they want?
And so he gives, you know, basically the way he plants churches is basically what the people want to hear,
instead of what they need to hear.
And John Piper, of course, I think he was a Calvinist or something.
But, so, really different people, and really this is kind of a broad, there's a lot of broadness in this topic,
but I'm just going to kind of go over the main things that new evangelicals are into,
or what the problems with the new evangelical movement is.
And some really famous people that would be considered new evangelicals would be Billy Graham,
who's in hell, still roasting forever.
And people are still mad about that, but it's just the truth.
And, you know, John MacArthur has been tied to this movement also.
But Billy Graham, I mean, what was the problem with Billy Graham?
Well, first of all, he taught that you have to repent of your sins to be saved.
He got to the point where he made a video and said that you can be anything,
you can even be an atheist and you still go to heaven.
Like, basically just believe that everybody went to heaven, no matter if you're from the Muslim world or from whatever.
And when he did his big crusades, he would have people at the altar calls,
and it would be from all different various types of churches.
And so he was really ecumenical.
And so it's basically like a coming together of the Kumbaya type,
let's all be friends, we're all Christians, let's all do this together type of movement.
And so they really, and number one, the new or neo-evangelical movement,
they place love over doctrine.
And this is one of the main problems that they have.
And you're like, well, Pastor Thompson, God is love.
And yes, I understand that that's true, but we don't love and just throw doctrine out the window.
As Baptists, God's word is important.
And sometimes loving is telling the actual truth about the matter,
and God would rather have us tell the truth about the matter,
and some people would take that as hate.
But in reality, you're loving someone by telling them the truth,
and they place love over doctrine,
and so they won't tell the doctrine that actually is in the Bible,
because they just don't want to do that.
It's a softer, less precise view of doctrine,
with an emphasis on the importance of love over doctrine.
Advocating, remaining in denominations that are apostate,
this is what they advocate,
new evangelicals have rejected the biblical doctrine of separation
and believe saints should infiltrate rather than separate.
So they would rather have them,
instead of leaving a church that's bad,
to just stay in there and infiltrate instead of separating from people.
And so, I mean, if you watched New World Order Bible versions,
you saw where the pope is there,
and then you saw all these religions up on the stage.
And new or neo-evangelical, that movement is basically,
it's an ecumenical movement.
Now there's various different people,
and I wouldn't say that everybody that's involved in this movement
is unsaved or something,
but there are a lot of people that are.
And there's a lot of people that probably go to these types of churches that are saved.
And I'm not just bashing on evangelicals in general.
I mean, mainline Protestants are what you would consider evangelical churches,
but now we, I mean, this is 1947 when this term was first coined.
I'm sure that the churches have gone pretty far downhill
since this whole term was coined,
where, you know, you have non,
I mean, you can really fit non-denominational into this also,
into this type of philosophy and thinking.
Let's look at some verses here.
First John chapter five, verse two.
And the Bible, so like my first point is,
they place love over doctrine.
And of course we should love people.
Of course we should preach the love of Christ,
and we do that every week.
We do that multiple times a week.
We go out when it's 90 degrees,
and we still go and knock on doors,
even though people don't want us there sometimes.
And we still blaze in the hot sun,
trying to labor for the Lord.
That's love, you know,
but they wanna call you down to an altar
and have you make a decision with some Mormon
at the end of the,
you know, this is what Billy Graham,
Billy Graham had Mormons at the end of the,
you know, the end of the road,
he'd call you to this altar call
and have a Mormon or a Catholic at the end of the road.
And so independent Baptists would go
and catch the people that were coming down
and try to get them converted.
But Billy Graham's message was a false gospel.
So they're coming down on a false gospel message
and, you know, I'm sure that some of the,
you know, a lot of the people there
were just praying with people
and not even really explaining things correctly.
I know people personally that said that they got saved
at a Billy Graham,
what are those, his, what do you call them?
Crusades.
Crusades, yeah.
At a Billy Graham crusade
and I really sincerely doubt their salvation
even to this day because of it.
Because it's just, I just don't have time
to explain it right now,
but look at what 1 John 5, 2 says.
It says, by this we know that we love the children of,
that we love the children of God
when we love God and keep his commandments.
It's not just about love,
it's also about keeping his commandments.
Isn't that what the Bible says?
For this is the love of God
that we keep his commandments
and his commandments are not grievous.
So look, doctrine is important.
It's not just about love,
but look, there's a big movement in modern churches
and probably churches all over this place,
all over Vancouver, Washington
that they don't want to major on the minors
is what they say.
They don't want to preach this type of sermons
that will be preached out of this pulpit
because they just want to preach love over doctrine.
That's why they have rainbow flags
on the outside of their buildings and say,
all are welcome.
That just tells me that we're not welcome.
We knocked on a door today that said,
it was a welcome mat
and it had a rainbow heart on the mat
and it said, all are welcome.
I said, I don't think we're welcome.
They didn't answer the door.
But let's go to John chapter 14 verse 21.
John chapter 14 verse 21.
And this is Jesus himself speaking.
Look at what it says, John 14, 21.
It says, he that hath my commandments
and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me.
You want to love God?
You want to prove that you love Jesus?
Well, he said, if you have his commandments
and keep them, he it is that loveth me.
You can say that you love Jesus all you want,
you can say that you love God all you want,
but the fact remains is that Jesus said
that if you love me, you're gonna keep his commandments.
And he that loveth me shall be loved of my father
and I will love him and I will manifest myself to him.
That's what Jesus said.
So these people that are just like,
well, you're too negative, man.
You're just bringing too much negativity.
You gotta just have love.
It should be just love only.
This is what New Evangelical Movement teaches,
and pretty much the non-denominational movement as well.
The Bible says his name is 33.
Can two walk together except they be agreed?
And the answer to that is no.
If you're just disputing with somebody all the time,
you're not gonna be able to get along with them.
People ask, well, let's just team up.
I have people invite me to preach at places.
I've had people show up here and say,
hey, will you preach at this thing?
And it's like, if I can preach whatever I want, I will.
But I guarantee you, they're not gonna like my preaching.
They're not gonna like what I have to say.
When they have women preaching at these things,
I'm sorry, I'm just not gonna show up to that.
Because I already know that I'm not gonna be well received.
I could preach the most benign sermon to us
that would seem like it's pretty soft,
but to them, it would be like nails on a chalkboard.
They couldn't handle even the lightest sermon that we preach here.
And it's a mind virus of love over doctrine,
and it's not biblical.
It's just not.
Number two, what they espouse is rethinking
or reinvestigating and keeping an open mind
regarding the fundamentals of the faith.
And look, we don't waver on the fundamentals of the faith,
but to be wishy-washy on doctrine, we're not that way.
Turn to 2 Timothy chapter two, verse 15.
2 Timothy chapter two, verse 15.
We're not gonna rethink.
We're not gonna have some kind of topical debate here
on whether salvation's by faith alone.
If the Bible says it, that's what we stick to.
We're not changing on that.
We're not rethinking that.
We're not reinvestigating whether that's true or not.
We know what the Bible says,
and we're gonna continue to keep the truths of the Bible
no matter what anybody says,
no matter what some professor says
at some theological cemetery.
I don't care.
We're not changing about stuff like that.
We're not gonna change on the fundamentals.
We're not gonna keep an open mind
to what other churches think about this,
and I'm not gonna tiptoe around about it.
And that's why we just probably could not get along
with most of these new evangelicals
or these non-denominational churches.
Look at 2 Timothy 2, 15.
It says, study to show thyself approved unto God,
a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
Look, the Bible is the truth.
The Bible is the word of God,
and you know who we need to be approved by?
Not some denominational head,
not some famous preacher.
We need to study to show ourself approved unto God,
and whatever it says in his book,
that's what we go with.
Turn to 1 Corinthians 2.
1 Corinthians 2.
We're not reinvestigating.
We're not rethinking anything.
And obviously there's some nuances in Scripture
that people might have some disagreements about,
but when it comes to the fundamentals,
the Bible's very clear.
Salvation is by faith alone.
It's eternal security of the believer.
Hell is real and it lasts forever.
Heaven is real and it lasts forever.
Those are non-negotiable.
The blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin.
Jesus rose from the dead literally and bodily.
Jesus put his blood on the mercy seat.
That's real.
That happened.
Jesus is the Messiah.
You can get into the dispensationalism
and stuff like that,
but that's garbage too, right?
1 Corinthians 2, verse 12.
The Bible says,
Now we have received,
not the spirit of the world,
but the spirit which is of God,
that we might know the things
that are freely given to us of God,
which things also we speak,
the words which man's wisdom teacheth,
but which the Holy Ghost teacheth,
comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Why do we know that the fundamentals of the Bible are true?
Because we take them line upon line,
precept upon precept.
We build doctrine through clear scripture
and then we back them up with other scriptures.
This is why we know that the fundamentals are right and true.
It says,
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God,
for they are foolishness unto him.
Neither can he know them
because they are spiritually discerned.
Why would you try to rethink what the fundamentals are?
Maybe because you have a natural mind.
Maybe because you're not saved.
Why would Billy Graham think that
everybody in the world is saved all of a sudden?
Well, he probably always believed that in his heart.
That's probably why.
Because he was a devil from the beginning.
He was Billy Balaam.
It says,
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things,
yet he himself is judged of no man.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord
that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
Look, if you have the mind of Christ,
there's no reason to rethink all this stuff.
There's no reason to reinvestigate
the fundamentals of the faith.
Look at Titus chapter two.
Titus chapter two, verse number one.
Titus 2, one.
The Bible says in Titus 2, one.
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine,
that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate,
sound in faith, in charity and patience,
the aged women likewise,
that they be in behavior as becometh holiness,
not false accusers, not given to much wine,
teachers of good things,
that they may teach the young women to be sober,
to love their husbands, to love their children.
This is sound doctrine.
This is doctrine that needs to be taught.
There's no reason to go and rethink this stuff
because of the feminist movement
or whatever garbage that they want to teach
at these times, that men and women are equal
and both should be working outside the home
or all this other garbage.
This is something that needs to be taught.
And we shouldn't just back away from this
because society says something different,
that they may teach the young children
to be sober, to love their husbands
and to love their children,
to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home,
good, obedient to their own husbands,
that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded
in all things showing thyself a pattern of good works
in doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity and sincerity.
So in doctrine showing uncorruptness.
So again, going back to doctrine,
the doctrine of the faith,
the fundamentals of the faith,
we need to make sure that we're not trying
to rethink these things
and this is what these types of churches will do.
They'll just throw shade on,
I mean, how many people of churches that go to some,
oh, what church do you go to?
I go to real life.
You know, where they get that song
from some stupid 90s song or something?
Like, what church is,
where in the Bible does it say real life?
I mean, at least churches like ours,
we have like a biblical name,
like Sure Foundation Baptist Church,
Faith Award Baptist Church,
Verity Baptist Church,
but why do they always come up with these weird names?
Real life?
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised
if there was a real life with R-E-E-L,
like it's a fisherman's church or something.
But they come up with just these weird names
because, you know, they're just,
they want to be trendy.
It's bizarre, like,
who knows if some other weird churches around, huh?
Well, yeah, crossroads.
I'll see you at the crossroads
where you sell your soul to the devil, right?
You have a choice,
sell your soul to the devil or what?
I mean, that's what it reminds me of
when people sell their souls, right?
But it says,
in all things,
showing thyself a pattern of good works and doctrine,
showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity.
Now turn to 2 Timothy 1, verse 12.
2 Timothy chapter 1, verse 12.
It says, verse 12, it says,
for the which cause I also suffer these things.
Nevertheless, I am not ashamed,
for I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that he is able to keep that
which I committed unto him against that day.
So this is,
I forgot what I was saying just a second ago,
but now I'm back on the trail.
When you go to people's doors and they say,
yeah, I go to real life church,
and no, I don't think,
I think you could lose your salvation.
Multiple people, when we go to their doors
and they go to non-denominational churches,
they always believe you could lose your salvation,
or if they go to a Pentecostal church,
they'll say these things.
But even at evangelical churches,
they'll say the same thing.
But most evangelical churches
should believe the truth about the gospel.
They should believe the right thing.
We ran into several today
that believe the right thing,
or some that were 95% there, right Brother Bell?
I mean, he ran into two,
he got two people saved today,
and they were like really close to the truth,
and they weren't hard to get saved,
but they had evangelical backgrounds.
But, and again,
not all evangelical churches are bad about everything,
and again, I said that some of them are probably saved,
but the vast majority of churches now
are teaching a lot of crap
and really just not teaching doctrine at all.
It's like a pep talk,
it's a rock concert and a pep talk.
Some smoke and purple lights,
and the kids have fun, fun, fun
until the daddy takes the T-bird away or whatever.
So, it's just a fun center is what it becomes.
And then people are just shopping around
at what church is my kids gonna have the most fun at?
That's not how we pick churches.
So, this verse in 1 Timothy,
you know, this is a great verse
because we should already be persuaded
of what we believe in our minds, right?
What we believe in our heart.
We know whom we believed,
and we're persuaded that he's able
to keep that which we've committed unto him
against that day.
What does that mean?
We know that we're saved,
and we know we have eternal life,
and we're counting on him.
There's no reason to rethink that.
There's no reason to reinvestigate
whether that's true or not.
Oh, can you lose your salvation?
I mean, we knocked on the door today,
and there's a lady,
and she went to church this morning.
She's going back to,
she was just about ready to go to church again,
and she doesn't know whether
it's eternal security or not.
Why?
Because they're teaching garbage.
That's why.
Because these things come up.
People will say this.
I'm sure you all have had this situation happen
where they'll say,
well, you know, that's kind of a debated topic.
I'm not really sure.
I've heard some people say yes,
some people say no,
and they're confused about it.
And you know why they're confused about it?
Because they're not getting sound doctrine.
People are reinvestigating and rethinking the truth,
and a lot of it is because of these types of churches.
So, it says,
hold fast that form of sound words
which thou hast heard of me in faith
and love which is in Christ Jesus.
I'm not gonna give the love without the sound words, folks.
Let's see.
2 Timothy 4-3.
It says for the time will come,
2 Timothy 4-3,
when they will not endure sound doctrine.
I think we're living in that time.
But after their own lust shall they heap to themselves
teachers having itching ears.
People love Billy Graham.
People love Franklin Graham.
I mean, Franklin Graham got up
when the president was accepting the Republican nomination
and people just think it's so great.
What's so great about somebody
that's just like their wicked dad
and believes the same false gospel?
And he gets up and people are like,
oh, he preached the gospel.
He didn't preach the gospel.
He's a devil.
And how does the Republican party open up
with some namaste, whatever,
some weirdo woman,
high priestess of something,
Jezebel,
I don't even know what religion it was,
but she opens up the Republican party
with some weird ecumenical prayer?
It's disgusting.
We're just supposed to be all
A-OK with that, though?
Look, if I was the presidential nominee
and I knew it was for sure,
and I said I was a Christian,
that freak would not be on the jumbotron
doing any kind of prayer.
And if he accidentally thinks
that Billy Graham was saved
and Franklin Graham was saved, OK, whatever,
but they're not.
And neither is Paula White.
And the Bible says that people
will heap to themselves
teachers having itching ears.
This is the problem.
People love to have their ears tickled.
People love to be told false things.
Jeremiah said, my people love
to have it so.
And they shall turn away their ears
from the truth and shall be turned
unto fables.
Instead of believing the truth,
believing the right doctrine,
believing the fundamentals of faith,
they're going to turn their ears away from that.
They don't want to hear sermons about how long
or short your hair is supposed to be.
If you preach that,
that sermon, which was pretty mild
in reality,
in any evangelical church right now,
you would get thrown out,
thrown off the cliff for that.
I mean, maybe not any,
but most new evangelical churches
or non-denominational churches,
they won't touch that sermon
with a 10-foot pole.
It's just true.
The fundamentals are non-negotiable, folks.
They're just not negotiable.
Number three, they practice infiltration
instead of biblical separation
with respect to compromised
churches and apostate
denominations.
This is what they allow
and what they do.
Turn to 2 Thessalonians 3, verse 6.
2 Thessalonians 3, verse 6.
Who's actually been to a non-denominational church
before in your life?
You accidentally stumbled in
or you actually went one.
How about a Calvinist church?
How about just an evangelical church, I guess?
How many went to a Baptist church
before you went to this Baptist church?
Lots of people.
You tried. You tried.
You get a gold star for that.
I just want to kind of see.
I've been to a couple non-denominational
churches. I've been to a couple
Pentecostal churches in my life,
but I didn't really...
I wasn't saved, obviously,
when I went to those churches,
but after being saved,
the only churches I've really attended
are Baptist churches to actually go to them
and sit through the service or whatever.
And some Baptist churches are not
the same as other ones,
so you all full well know that.
You're in 2 Thessalonians 3, verse 6.
Look at what it says.
It says,
Now we command you, brethren,
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
that you withdraw yourself from every brother
that walketh disorderly,
and not after the tradition
which he received of us.
These types of churches will say,
well, hey,
just stay there
and try to be the best influence you can
or whatever, and instead of just leaving
these compromised churches
and these apostate denominations,
like, what is the one
that just voted for
queers to be able to preach in them
recently?
What's the John Wesley...
The Methodist.
The Methodist, yeah.
There are, like,
more conservative Methodists,
but I think that as the
whole of the denomination, they just allowed
that to take place, because
I know that there was some friction
about that a while ago,
but you know, the Methodists have been sliding down
a long time. I mean, they're a far cry from
what John Wesley once was.
There's no doubt about that.
But in the end, John Wesley
believed he could lose their salvation.
That's the Armenian belief, right?
So,
but we're supposed to, you know,
if you accidentally stumble
into a church, and you're just like,
hey, these people don't believe what we believe,
you're not supposed to just stick it out.
That's like, you know, these people
that are like, they're reprobates that come into
our church, and then they're like,
they hate us, but they stay.
This is like, this is what
saved people, or supposedly saved people
doing this, and just staying to infiltrate
and try to change things
in the church.
I would just say, just leave.
You know, don't stay in a church.
If a pastor was just full blown, repent of your sins,
if you drink,
you can't get saved.
If you got saved,
and you still plan on drinking,
then that person, you know, that's kind of a litmus test.
If someone says that
a person
cannot get saved unless they give up drinking,
then they believe in a workspace salvation.
You know, that's the repentance spectrum,
really, is that,
you know, some pastors go as far as
to say, if you don't give a certain sin up,
then you can't be saved, and that's not true.
It's not what the Bible says. You have to believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's what the Bible
teaches, right? So,
look at Romans,
well, I'll just read Romans 16 again,
but turn to 2 Thessalonians 3, 14.
Again, I'll read Romans
16, 17. It says,
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which
cause divisions and offenses
contrary to the doctrine which you have learned
and avoid them. Now, we apply this to,
we apply this scripture
to, you know, kicking people
out of church if they're causing
offenses in church, but
what if you were visiting a church
and they were teaching doctrines
that were
contrary to what the apostles taught,
contrary to what the Bible says?
You would leave that place.
You don't stay there.
You don't infiltrate.
You don't still sing kumbaya
with compromised churches, and this is
the ecumenical mindset
that you have with churches
today. 2 Thessalonians
3, 14 says,
If any man obey
not our word by this epistle, note
that man and have no company
with him that he may be
ashamed. So, and of course,
this is talking about people that would refuse to work
and so on and so forth, but
you know, you should still withdraw
yourself from any brother that walks
disorderly, and if you've got
a church full of people that are doing this,
you want to get away from it as fast as you can.
Now,
you know, so you don't stay in a bad church.
Like, most people
probably realize that,
but this is not what the New Evangelical
Movement teaches. They teach the opposite.
They teach that you should stay in those
compromised churches and apostate
denominations.
4 Twisting scripture in order
to accommodate the so-called scientific
discoveries and theory,
including every form of evolution.
This is another thing
that is commonplace nowadays,
where they'll just throw out what the Bible
actually says because
science said something
different. And they'll teach,
you know, all kinds of
stupid theories like evolution,
and, you know, they'll try to fit
the Bible into science instead
of the opposite thing.
Turn to
John 1-1.
Genesis 1-1 says,
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
He didn't use
theistic evolution.
He didn't use the day-age theory.
He didn't use
the gap theory. He didn't use,
you know, the days were not
millions of years.
But this is what kind of compromise
you get from these
types of churches where they're just,
you know, throwing and believing things
that are just totally idiotic.
Twisting the
Scriptures. That's what
twisting the Scriptures is.
And they'll even use modern versions
and say, instead of it saying,
you know, it was the first day
or the second day, they say
it was a day.
And they do that on purpose so they can
fit the millions of years or the billions
of years in there and lie to
people and lie to children.
You know, when children grow up and they think that they came from a
monkey, you know what they're going to do? They're going to act like an
animal.
And what do you see in schools today? Children
acting like animals because they're not
allowed to learn God's word.
And then when people, you know,
they're passing laws where the Bible's got to be taught in
schools, people are freaking out about
it. It's just like, what? You want them
to still continue to act like animals?
Is that what you want? Where you have to have the
police, the SWAT team come in
and take over the classroom, and everybody
has to be taken out of the classroom
and you have to isolate that one kid
because they refuse to do what the teacher
says? You have people
assaulting teachers in classrooms today?
I mean, there's video
upon video about that if you just want to go on a run.
Or teachers are beating
up or getting beat up by their own
kids in their classrooms.
Or stomping out other kids in the hallway.
It's sick.
And why are they doing
that? Well, nobody's teaching them
anything different. You know, the
evolution, what does evolution teach?
The strong, the fittest survive,
the strong survive, right?
So why wouldn't you just go and beat
the crap out of anybody else that's weaker
than you? That's what evolution teaches.
Where's your moral
compass coming from? And
then the church wants to agree with that? A church
wants to say, well, yeah, I mean,
you know, the Earth
isn't 6,298 years old.
It's actually billions
of years old. It's garbage.
The Bible says God
created the heaven and the earth. The Bible
tracks 6,298 years old.
That's what it is. Give or take
20 years. Alright, John 1
says, in the beginning was the word
and the word was with God
and the word was God. The same was in
the beginning with God. All things were
made by him and without him
was not anything made that was made.
Who made the world? It wasn't
the Big Bang. It wasn't
rain on the rocks
for millions of years.
It wasn't rain in some
primordial soup where two slugs
came out and married each other.
It wasn't all this other garbage
that science teaches. Jesus Christ
spoke the world into existence.
God the Father used
Jesus Christ to speak
everything into existence.
That's how the world began.
All things were made by him.
That's what the Bible says. And without him
was not anything made that was made.
That's not the Big Bang.
But that's what they're trying to teach you
and that's what they'll compromise and say
oh no, the science, it fits in here.
You just have to fit it in.
Twisting the Scriptures trying to tell us
that this stuff is true.
Colossians 1, verse 15.
If you want to turn there.
Colossians 1, 15 says,
Who is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of every creature?
For by him are all things created
that are in heaven and that are in earth
visible and invisible
whether they be thrones or dominions
or principalities or powers. All things
are created by him and for
him. And he is before
all things. And by him
all things consist.
For the preaching of the cross is to them
that perish foolishness.
But unto us which are saved is the power
of God. For it is written
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise.
Oh I'm sorry, I needed to
have you turn to 1 Corinthians. I was reading on.
Sorry. 1 Corinthians, chapter
1, 18. I'm sorry. Turn over there.
You guys are like, that's not in there,
Pastor Thompson.
Colossians looks a lot like Corinthians.
It's got the L, okay.
It's abbreviated in
my notes. Alright, 1 Corinthians
chapter 1, verse 18. I was like on a roll there.
Alright, 1 Corinthians 1, 18
says, For the preaching of the cross is to
them that perish foolishness.
But unto us which are saved it
is the power of God. For it is
written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise
and will bring to nothing the understanding
of the prudent. Where is the wise?
Where is the scribe? Where is
the disputer of this world?
Hath not God made foolish
the wisdom of this world? Look,
I don't care what any scientist
says. The Word of God trumps
anything any scientific
discovery says.
And you're like, well I just think that, you know,
the science is gonna be
more important than what the Bible says.
Well then you're wrong.
Because the Word of God is right.
And there's a lot of
false science out there.
And people
believe what false scientists
say. And then, you know, people
say, well look at this great discovery.
You know, when they found Lucy
in the ground or whatever,
it wasn't a full skeleton.
They dug different parts of layers
and made this
half chimpanzee or whatever.
And then they were like, this is the missing link.
You know when you go out to find the missing link?
They're probably gonna find the missing link because
that's gonna get more money for them
to go discover more things.
These people have been caught frauding
and defrauding colleges
multiple different times.
They find one pig tooth in the
ground and they say this is, they'll form
a whole skeleton out of it.
It's phony.
These evolution people
are a bunch of charlatans
and what they're teaching
is not true. We did not come from
monkeys. You know what? There's still monkeys out there today.
There's still chimpanzees and gorillas and everything.
Isn't that
weird? That there's still all these things
and yet we've never
seen a chimpanzee produce a human before.
We've never seen a dog
produce a non-dog or a cat produce a
non-cat. Everything brings
forth after its kind. That's what the Bible
teaches. So take your theistic
evolution and shove it.
Because it's garbage.
It's not true.
Where is the disputer of this world?
I'll tell you where they're not gonna be.
They're not gonna be in heaven if they believe that garbage.
Believe the Bible.
Not the gap theory.
Not the day age theory.
Not the theistic evolution. Or the
local flood for that matter.
Even Christians will try to say
that it was just a local flood. It wasn't a
worldwide flood. It's like why
would you teach that?
How could you possibly believe that?
When the Bible's so clear that it
flooded the whole world and covered all the mountains.
It's not like
it just covered this little tiny area
in Mesopotamia or something.
Oh, it's just a local flood.
Noah put all of every kind of
animal on the boat.
You know why they do that? Because they
think, well, there's all these thousands
of species of animals.
Guess what? All you have to do is put two dogs on there.
Two cats.
Two of each kind. And there's
really a smaller
number of animals that
and you don't have to take the biggest ones on
the boat either, by the way. You didn't have to take
the biggest T-Rex
and the biggest Brachiosaurus. You could have
took little ones on there. People are just like
there's no way you can fit all those dinosaurs
Who says you had to take them all?
You just had to take two of each kind.
Each kind of animal.
And there's a lot of different kinds of
dogs, aren't there?
But they're all dogs, aren't they?
So, you're like,
you think all these things came from
Noah's Ark? It's better than
what you believe?
It's way better
than what you believe. Turn to 2 Peter 3.
2 Peter 3.
But, modern
Christianity, non-denominational
churches, neo-evangelicals
I'm not saying all
I know I'm
kind of painting with a broad brush here.
But I'll tell you
this isn't coming from independent
Baptists. You know, for the most
part. You've got your rucktards here
and there that are preaching some weird stuff, but
for the most part, Baptists
don't go off the deep end with this stuff.
So, look at 2
Peter 3. It says,
Knowing this first that there shall come in the last day
offers, walking after their own lust
and saying, where is the
promise of His coming? For since the
fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were
from the beginning of the creation.
For this they willingly
are ignorant of, that by the word of God
the heavens were of old, and the earth
standing out of the water and in the water.
Whereby the world that then was
being overflowed with water
perished. The world.
Not Mesopotamia.
Not Israel.
The world. But the heavens
and the earth which are
now by the same word are
kept in store, reserved unto
fire against the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly
men. But Beloved,
be not ignorant of this
one thing, that one day
is with the Lord as a thousand years
and a thousand years as a day.
So they'll take verses like this and just
run with it. Yeah, a thousand years
is as a day
to the Lord in a year.
So it says the Lord
the one day is with the Lord
as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.
It just means that time means nothing to God.
That's what it really means.
But people say, see, it's like one
day is a thousand years. Yeah, not a million years
though. Not a billion years.
So it says
and the Lord is not slack concerning his
promise as some men count slackness
but is longsuffering to us who are not willing
that any should perish but that all should come
to repentance. That's why he hasn't come
back yet. He loves people.
He wants people to be saved. And he's
waiting to come back until that final
person ends up getting saved. It says
but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night
in which the heavens shall
pass away with a great noise. There's your big
bang right there. The great noise.
And that's the big bang that you should
be worried about, folks. It shouldn't be the one
that supposedly happened
billions of years ago. That's fake.
That didn't happen. That's not true.
It says
with a great noise and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat. You should worry about
the fervent heat.
The melting. Worry about the melting. Worry about
that big bang.
The earth also and the works that are therein
shall be burned up.
I guess they are kind of worried about global
warming, I guess. But they call it
climate change now. So it could be either one, right?
It's whatever happens, whatever extreme
weather temperature happens somewhere.
See, it's climate change.
Anyway, moving on.
Number five. Seeking to develop
lines of thought
and arguments that Christianize
pagan ideas.
And systems
founded upon unbelief
like glorifying psychology,
psychiatry,
astrology, and higher
learning. And look, I'm not
against higher learning. But I'm against
higher learning that supposedly trumps
biblical doctrine and
biblical thought. The Bible trumps
all that stuff, folks. It does.
And I would rather
be a very highly
intelligent in Bible knowledge
and knowing what the Bible says than any
other subject in the world.
Look at 2 Peter chapter 1
verse 2. 2 Peter chapter 1 verse 2.
I'm all for reading
books and getting smarter and
other things. I know that the world can teach us
things. I'm not saying that it can't, okay?
But
I'm not for
the church. The church
is setting aside
biblical doctrine or paganizing
Christian
things, using Christian
ideas
from pagan ideas and trying to
use systems founded upon
unbelief. I'm not okay with that.
Psychiatry is
not
legitimately found
in the Bible, as far as
the system of psychiatry
that's been developed from Sigmund Freud.
I don't
even want to say what he bases all of his stuff
on, just because it's just
disgusting. But
that's what modern psychiatry is based upon,
Sigmund Freud.
Generally. I'm not saying that some psychiatrists
can't help people. I think they can.
But if you're going to go to a worldly
psychiatrist or psychologist for your
marriage or something, you're in for
a rough ride.
They're not going to tell you
and give you wise biblical counsel.
They're not saved.
They're not going to think like a saved person.
They're not going to be able to give you biblical, solid
advice. They're going to give you
wrong, worldly advice.
And so for a Christian
to send another
Christian to some kind of
psychiatrist that is
just getting all their stuff from the world is just
weird. It's wrong.
2 Peter 1
2 says, Grace and peace be
multiplied unto you through the knowledge
of God and of
Jesus Christ,
according as his divine power
hath given unto us
all things that pertain
unto life and godliness through
the knowledge of him that hath called us
to glory and virtue,
whereby are given
unto us exceeding great and
precious promises that by
these ye might be partakers
of the divine nature having
escaped the
corruption that is in the world
through lust.
Look, we've already escaped that stuff.
Why would you delve back into
things that are part of this
world system? To
go to your advice.
Go to the word of God. That's
the actual thing that's going to help you.
If you've got a problem with your marriage,
look what the Bible says.
I mean, do you really need a counselor
or do you just need to know what the Bible says?
You're having a
hard time getting along, why don't you just read the
Bible?
And do what the Bible says for your
part, and then pray for
your partner, your
loved one, your spouse,
to do their part.
And work it out.
Don't go to Sigmund Freud.
He'll tell you that you want to sleep with your mother.
And that's what it's all about.
What a weirdo.
That's what he taught.
I mean, that was the basis of his
psychology.
We need to
escape that stuff, and
modern Christianity will send you
to that stuff. It's just ridiculous.
Look at 1 Timothy chapter 6,
verse 20.
1 Timothy chapter 6, verse 20.
It says,
O Timothy, keep that which is
committed to thy trust, avoiding
profane and vain babblings
and oppositions of science
falsely so-called.
If it's false science, we
need to avoid it and stay away from it.
If it's profane and vain, we need to
avoid it and stay away from it, which
some professing have erred
concerning the faith.
So,
some people, and this is
exactly what I'm talking about, that some have
erred through the faith with what?
They're taking and trying to
incorporate the false
science, the false
psychology, and all these other things,
and incorporate it into their Christianity
when we should be avoiding those things.
That's what the Bible says.
2 Timothy 3.16 says,
All Scripture is given
by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine,
for reproof or correction, for instruction
and righteousness, that the man of God
may be perfect, thoroughly furnished
unto all good works.
So, look, all Scripture is
given by inspiration, and that's not
the only thing you need to know in life,
but all Scripture
is given to us by God.
It's inspired of God. It's profitable
for doctrine, for reproof or correction,
for instruction and righteousness.
And that's really what we need.
That's what we need.
We don't need to know
all this trash, scientific
stuff that they're trying to teach us.
And look, there is legit science. I'm not saying
that all science is not legitimate, but
you know, if it's based upon
wanting to do something
to your mother, and that's the
psychology that you're studying,
that's garbage. Why would you even
take two seconds of your life to
have anything to do with that?
The Bible says in John 17
17, Sanctify them through
thy truth. Thy word is truth.
God's word is true.
That's what you know for sure is true.
That's what you can hang your hat on
at the end of the day. That He's going to give you
the right counsel. He's going to, you know,
you want the right counsel
for anything in your life, the Bible
is going to give you the right answer.
You don't need anything
else when it comes to those things.
You really don't.
But people, you know,
but other churches will
send you through all these different, they'll have
all these different systems in place,
you know, the Alcoholics Anonymous,
and I'm not saying that none of that, that that's not
helpful, but most Alcoholics Anonymous,
it's based upon,
you know, you just have to have a higher power.
It doesn't matter what higher power it is.
Oh, so is that a godly system then?
It just doesn't matter, you just have to believe
in some higher power.
And if that higher power
is the vegetable garden in your backyard, then that's
okay too. I mean,
or the dog that you
take with you to the store every time.
You have your little sweatshirt
or whatever, and it's just peeking its little head out.
That's a lot of people's gods.
Oh, don't get me started on that.
Anyway, I'm starting to get mad.
Okay, anyway, let's
move on. Number six, preaching positive
only messages.
This is a scourge
in churches today. This is a scourge
of our society. This is what is
ruining churches all
across America, is just
preaching only positive
messages.
There has to be negativity
in sermons. There has to be.
I mean, two-thirds
of the Bible is negative.
How are you going to avoid two-thirds of the Bible?
Well, guess what? They're good at doing it.
They're good at preaching.
I mean, what's that guy's name
at Lancaster? Paul Chapel.
I mean, I looked one time
and just, what is his most recent sermon?
He had like a 30-something
thing on grace.
A 30-something series
on grace. Like, really?
Like, you can't cover that in a couple
different sermons? 30
great...
I'm sure people are ready to hear
something else.
And the problem is, is this
neo-evangelical movement,
these non-denominational
people have rubbed off on Baptists
and, you know what, they forgot about the hard
preaching a long time ago, and that's
why people are sickened to go
to these churches a lot of times, because
that's all they're getting, is positivity.
They're not getting a swift kick
in the pants. They're not getting
challenged on things that they're doing wrong.
And, you know what, the Word of God is supposed to challenge us
on these things.
Look at Jude chapter 1, the only chapter in Jude,
but it's Jude 1, verse number 3.
Jude 1, verse number 3.
There has to be negative messages preached.
Jude 1, verse 3 says,
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write
unto you of the common salvation,
it was needful for me to write unto you,
and exhort you that you should earnestly
contend
for the faith which was once delivered
unto the saints.
So, earnestly contend means to fight.
Right?
For there are certain men, crept and unawares,
who were before of old, ordained
to this condemnation,
ungodly men, turning the grace of our
God into lasciviousness,
and denying the only Lord God
and our Lord Jesus Christ.
So, why do we have to preach
some negative messages? Well, there's ungodly men
that creep into churches. Well, and sometimes
you have to preach sermons, so those types
of people are exposed, or that
mentality is exposed.
I mean, the apostle Paul, if you
look at his epistles,
there's a lot of negative stuff in there.
Of course, there's a lot of encouraging things in there.
But,
not everything is positive
in the Bible. In fact, there's a lot of
negative stuff. Look at Acts chapter
number 20, Acts chapter number 20.
Paul, the apostle here, is before
the elders
or pastors in Ephesus,
and he's about to leave them
for the last time. This is the last time
they're going to see him. They're very upset.
They're weeping at the end of this.
They're falling on him and kissing
his neck, and they're just really upset that he's
going to leave. And the last
thing he says to them,
he's like charging them
to preach the whole counsel of
God. He's proclaiming the fact
that he preached the whole counsel of God.
Now, look what it says
in verse 29. He says,
For I know this,
that after my departing shall
grievous wolves enter in among you,
not sparing the flock.
Also of your own selves shall
men arise, speaking perverse things
to draw away disciples after
them. Therefore,
watch and remember that by the space of
three years I cease not to warn
every one of you night and day
with tears. Is that a positive
message, or is that a negative message?
Three years,
night and day, he preached
and told them,
you have wolves coming to you.
Be warned.
And he's telling them this
is a negative thing that's going to happen.
And he's preaching, so is Paul
preaching them a negative sermon here?
He did it for three years, and he's like,
okay, this is the last time I'm going to see you. Just remember what I told you.
That this
is going to happen.
And you need to be prepared for it.
We need to be prepared as Christians
for the hard times, for the lean
times. Because you see
the lean times in the Bible.
Every generation
of the patriarchs had some kind
of lean time where
the famine was in the land.
And God will bring his people through these
lean times, but if
you're just slipping
and you're sleeping and you're not paying attention
to what's going on, you're going to get caught up
with everybody else.
God can get us through that, but
we have to learn how to navigate through the lean times,
folks.
Look at Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verse 9.
Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verse 9.
You have Solomon here
talking about
the words of the wise.
It says in Ecclesiastes chapter 12,
verse 9, it says,
and moreover, because the preacher was wise,
he still taught the people
knowledge.
Yea, he gave good heed and sought out
and set in order many proverbs.
The preacher sought to
find out acceptable words
and that which was written upright,
even words of truth.
The words of the wise are as goads.
Now a goad is like a stick
with pointy things on the end of it
to drive cattle
and, you know, sheep and cattle
and stuff. It says the words of the wise
are as goads and as nails
fastened by the masters of
assemblies, which are given
from one shepherd. So the one
shepherd we get our doctrine
in our Bible from, of course, is the
Lord Jesus Christ. But the
preacher is supposed to take the words
of the wise and use those
to goad people to do
the right thing. And
it hurts sometimes.
It hurts to, you know, have
your delicate sensibility stepped
on by the word of God, but
that is the job of a preacher.
It's not to just preach only positive
sermons. But if you
go to any non-denominational
church, you know, we're
non-denominational.
But we're not weak non-denominational
like they are. We're Baptist
but we don't have a denominational headquarters
that tells us what to do. The
Lord Jesus Christ is our head.
So, but
you're not going to hear negative sermons.
And in reality in most independent Baptist
churches you're not going to hear a lot of
negative sermons either. It's going to be
the salvation message at 11 am,
the Sunday school
is going to be pretty much the same.
I mean, you're going to get the flannel graphs,
you're going to get the Jonah and the whale
good story part of it. Not
that he was suffering like he
was suffering in hell. You know, it's going to be
the whale smiling
as it eats Noah or Jonah. I mean,
it's not going to be
the way that we preach Jonah.
And then, you know,
the evening sermons sometimes they'll rough up
people a little bit, but
in general, I mean, it's been a while since I've been
that I've sat through a lot of
old IFB stuff, but like, even when I was
still going to old IFB churches it was that way.
So I can't imagine what it's like now
like eight years later.
But, but what it says, and
verse 12,
and further by these my son be admonished
of making many books there is no end and much study
is a weariness
of the flesh. Let us hear the conclusion
of the whole matter. Fear God and keep his commandments
for this is the whole duty of man.
See, why do we
why does the preacher have to
goad and preach negative messages
and messages
to encourage people to get out and do stuff?
Well, because God wants
us to fear him.
You're like, well that's, why should we fear
him? He loves us.
We should fear him
because we love him and we know that the consequences
are going to be dire
if we break his commandments.
That's why it says fear God and keep
his commandments. At the beginning of the sermon
I started out with Jesus saying
if you love me to keep my commandments.
Now this is how
we show our love to Jesus
by doing what he says.
You know, if it was sacrifice he desired
then, you know, David
said I would give it.
But he wants obedience. That's what
he desires. For God shall bring
every work into judgment
and every secret thing whether it be good
or whether it be evil.
So if I just
give the positive
only and never give any
negative sermons
then I'm not doing my part.
I'm not doing what I'm supposed to do because
how am I going to tell people to fear God
and keep his commandments if I never preach
those things? If I never preach
the things that you should fear
God over? If I never preach
the commandments that God teaches?
How are people going to change
from their wicked ways? How are people
going to stop
doing that which God hates
if you never preach about it?
And only preach positive sermons.
I just don't understand how that happens.
And so you have churches all
over America, all over
this world that are not telling
people what they need to hear.
And so the people
are just walking out with the warm and fuzzies.
Oh, this is so great.
This is such a great church. What a wonderful message
Pastor. Thank you.
And then they go and
they don't get told what they need to do
to make their life better.
They don't get told what they need to do
to fear God. They don't get
told what they need to do to serve God
better. It says, For God shall bring
every work into judgment.
So when we're doing
evil works, he's going to bring that into judgment
when he does good works. And every
secret thing, whether it be
good or whether it be evil.
So you're not getting away with the things you do in
secret.
When you do secret things for good, though, he's going to
reward you. And so that's the positive
part, of course.
Let's see. Let's turn over to Ezekiel chapter
six.
We preach about the evil
so the people know
about the evil.
How else can
we warn people unless we tell them?
We have to tell them.
There's negative things in the Bible.
There's negative things. There's negative
consequences for our actions.
How does God say
to preach? Ezekiel chapter six
verse 11 says, Thus saith the Lord
God, Smite with the hand
and stamp with thy foot
and say, Alas for all
the evil abominations of the house
of Israel, for they shall fall
by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence. I mean,
people act like
the Old Testament prophets didn't
rip face or something. Ezekiel's
one of the hardest preachers in the whole Bible.
He preaches some stuff that I'm like, ah,
I kind of blush to say.
He has a whole chapter where he's just saying whore,
harlot, whore, harlots,
whoredoms, and just multiple
times he's just saying a bunch of
stuff that's pretty, pretty risky.
But it's God's word.
So it can't be wrong.
But he is ripping face
about whores and
harlots. And
he doesn't pull any punches. He's talking
about some stuff in graphic detail
that's pretty rough. But God
told him to preach that stuff.
And you're not going to hear
those chapters preached
in some kind of neo-evangelical
church, or in some non-denominational
fun center. They'll never
preach that stuff.
They're probably reading a
Bible version where it takes those words out.
I mean, I would really
just be interested to say to see
what the NIV renders.
Is it Ezekiel chapter 16? Is that the one I'm thinking
of? Where it just says harlot,
whore, and yeah, somebody
can, when somebody gets there, just
tell me some of what they changed the words to.
Because those aren't acceptable in society
anymore. But anyway,
turn to Isaiah 58 verse 1.
How did he tell Isaiah
to preach? Well, he told Ezekiel
to smite with the hand, stamp with the foot,
get people's attention,
preach some dynamics,
get people to listen. And even
if they don't listen, he's still got to preach it.
People can walk out and
not listen to a thing I said,
nothing with their problems that
they have with their kids, or their
spouse, or anything like that,
or motivating them to try to get out and go soul
winning, or whatever it is that
the word of God is saying to them that day.
But my responsibility is to just
preach it, and preach it the way God says to preach it.
Isaiah 58 one
says, cry aloud, spare not,
lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and show my people their
transgression, and the house of Jacob
their sins. He told Isaiah
to preach like that. He said stuff
to the king. He's like,
this is what God has
to say about you showing all the people of Babylon
all your toys,
all your gold, all your silver,
all the beautiful things of the house of God,
all the stuff in your house,
like that was a stupid move.
And then, what did Babylon
do? Not too long after that,
they came and just wiped everything out.
They're acting like brazen prostitutes.
Brazen prostitutes.
Talk about blunting it.
What else?
Instead of fornication, it says,
lavish your favors.
It says what? Lavish your favors.
Lavish your favors instead of fornication.
You see what I'm saying?
They blunt down the message,
and do you think that the
neo evangelicals are preaching out of the King James Bible?
Do you think the non-denominationals
are preaching out of the King James Bible?
What's another one?
Instead of thou hast committed fornication with the
Egyptians, thy neighbor's grain of flesh,
instead of grain of flesh, it says
lavish your favors.
Yikes.
That might be worse.
It's just bizarre.
Okay.
Yeah, but
they are just changing
what the word of God says
to make it less offensive.
So even if they read those, you're not even
going to get what the true meaning of it is.
Where Ezekiel's just like, whore,
harlot.
I mean, it's pretty rough.
And that's just, that's not the
only sermon he preaches is rough.
He preaches a lot of rough stuff.
But even Isaiah, it's like, you know,
he's supposed to cry aloud and spare not.
Like, don't spare their feelings.
Don't worry about hurting their feelings.
You know, Jeremiah was supposed to go in
and he preached to hostile
crowds.
Where everybody hated him.
And he says, don't look at their faces.
Don't look at their faces.
Preach what I have to say.
If you don't preach everything I have to say,
then I'm going to confound you in front of them.
So,
Jeremiah just preached what he was supposed to preach.
And it got to the point where they hated him so much
that he's just like, I have to stop preaching.
But
because the word of God was so,
he was such a fiery guy
and the word of God was in him,
that he could not forbear.
He had to preach the word of God.
It was like a fire burning inside of him.
And he could not forbear.
He had to preach the word of God.
And, you know, he was hated for it.
And people, you know, people hate churches like this.
Oh, you're fire and damnation preaching.
Well, you know what, I'd rather be that
than lily livered and weak
and pink tea, lemonade,
soft soap, back scratching,
ear tickling, teetotaling.
Well, teetotaling's okay, but whatever.
Whatever you want to say.
They're not leather-lunged.
They're silver-tongued.
They're fork-tongued.
That's what they really are.
They're not preaching the word of God like they're supposed to be.
And turn to Ezekiel chapter 33 verse 6.
Ezekiel 33 verse 6 says,
But if the watchman see the sword come
and blow not the trumpet
and the people be not warned,
if the sword come
and take any person from among them,
he is taken away in his iniquity,
but his blood will I require
at the watchman's hand.
So thou, O son of man,
I have set thee as a watchman
unto the house of Israel.
Therefore, thou shalt hear the word
at my mouth and warn them from me.
God's messenger, God's preacher
is supposed to get up
and say what the word of God says
and whether that harelips every dog
in the county or not,
whether that upsets your kitty cat at home,
whether that upsets every single person
in this church, it doesn't matter
because it's my job to get up
and preach a hard message sometimes.
It's my job to get up
and tell you what the word of God says
without apologizing for it.
Oh, I'm sorry, was that too hard of a sermon?
No. Do you see Ezekiel ever apologizing?
Do you see Isaiah ever apologizing?
No, they don't apologize.
We should apologize to God
if we offended God, that's it.
But if it's in the Bible,
and my job is to warn people.
I'm a watchman on the wall.
So if I don't tell you something,
that's where, you know,
I want to be able to tell
what I'm supposed to tell.
I'm supposed to preach what I'm supposed to preach.
And the God of the Bible wants his men
to preach the word of God,
not just positive only messages.
So these guys that just get up in these churches
and it's all positive all the time,
they're not helping anybody.
They're a detriment to our society.
They're a detriment to our church.
They're a detriment to the people around them.
They're not helping them at all.
The Bible says to preach the word,
be instant in season, out of season,
out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort,
with all long suffering and doctrine.
That's the job of the preacher.
And notice it says reprove and rebuke.
That's two negative things, isn't it?
And the exhort is to encourage people
to do the right thing.
So it's all encouraging people to do the right thing.
But the reprove and rebuke are negative aspects of that.
That's what the word of God says, folks.
It's not to just sing Kumbaya
and explain away everything with science
and all these little weak things
that the modern churches are doing.
I mean, it's called new evangelical whatever.
But you can just fit any modern church
into this sermon in reality.
And unfortunately, some of our own independent Baptists.
So I'm gonna skip point seven
and just move on to point eight and be done here,
because it's 1700.
Is it really the right time?
Oh, we got like three minutes.
All right, so number, so this point is
making church a social justice change
and humanitarian concern
rather than carrying out the Great Commission
and the eternal welfare of men.
This is the problem, is that every church out there,
do you have a homeless feeding ministry?
That's what they're doing.
It's not about getting people saved.
It's about getting people fed.
It's about opening up food banks.
And look, I'm for helping people, okay?
But they're not helping people.
They're hurting them.
Because the Bible says if a man doesn't work,
neither should he eat.
So just going out and just getting all this food
and just giving it out to people
that are throwing it in our flower beds
and camping it under people's doorsteps,
this is not what Jesus said to do.
And in fact, people followed him around the first time.
You know, when he gave out food,
they followed him around thinking
he was like their meal ticket for the,
he's just like, you only gave him for the free food.
And people were literally following him around
for the free food.
Look, that's not why I want people to come to our church,
just for the free food.
When we give out food, if you come to our services
and you happen to be here
when we're serving round table pizza
and ice cream and cake,
you're gonna get some free food.
But I'm not gonna sit here like a, you know,
like a just glorified soup kitchen
and just make all these rules
while you have to be here to get the food.
Like, look, if people will go
and they'll sit through a service
and just let their mind be numbed,
they don't care.
They just wanna get what they came for.
And I'm not gonna set up a system like that.
But, you know, we're not a social justice.
This isn't a place to do your social justice warrior stuff.
But a lot of churches have allowed people to come in
and do their little Black Lives Matter crap
and their little homo agenda in the churches.
It's blasphemous, it's disgusting,
it's wicked, it's wrong.
Turn to 2 Corinthians 6 and we'll end here.
And they'll just, they say, let everybody in.
Well, the Bible doesn't say let everybody in.
The Bible says there's certain people that need to be out.
People that refuse to work should be gone.
Not allowed to come here.
Period.
People that refuse to take care of their family, bye.
If you're a man and you don't take care of your family,
you're worthless.
You're worse than an infidel.
Look at 2 Corinthians 6 verse 14.
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers,
for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness,
and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial?
Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
Look, the answer is we don't have any part with them.
We don't have any communion with them.
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
For ye are the temple of the living God.
As God has said, I will dwell in them
and walk in them, and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
Wherefore, come out from among them,
and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
and touch not the unclean thing,
and I will receive you, and I will be a father unto you,
and ye shall be my sons and daughters,
saith the Almighty.
Look, we're not supposed to have some agreement
or have some kind of unsaved element in this church
where we're helping them fight, you know.
I mean, Martin Luther King,
he did the black rights movement out of churches, didn't he?
Was he a real reverend?
No, he wasn't a real reverend.
He was a wicked false prophet,
reprobate, womanizing homo is what he was.
And people get really upset about that, too.
Well, I don't really care.
He denied the virgin birth.
He got caught by the FBI doing homo acts.
He got caught being a total adulterer
and womanizer multiple times,
and, you know, he was doing it out of churches.
We're not here to do some kind of agenda for the unsaved.
It's just not what we do here.
We're not gonna feed the unsaved in that way.
That's not what the Bible says to do.
Show me a verse where it says
to have a homeless ministry in the Bible.
But you know what we are supposed to do?
We're supposed to go out and preach the gospel.
But you know what?
You don't see them out there doing that, do you?
When was the last time you ran across
a non-denominational flier on the door?
Have you seen real life's flier lately?
But I saw Skyview Baptist.
I see other Baptist churches every once in a while.
But you know what I see?
Unfortunately, Mormon literature.
But you know what I never see?
I don't see the neo-evangelical type churches,
and I don't see the non-denoms.
Because people just go there
because of what they offer them.
We should be going to church for what we can do,
for our church and for what we can do for our God.
The churches today are just so messed up,
but then they make us look bad
because people think that that's what churches
are supposed to be like, and it's not.
It's just not.
It's not what it's supposed to be like,
because that's the first thing people do.
Accuses of not being loving.
No, we are loving.
They get mad about our homo policy.
It's like, we love kids.
We love children, so we don't want your homos
and freaks and weirdos in this church
because you keep them.
You keep them.
You keep them on a leash.
But they don't.
We're going to see the fruits
of just letting all these fags and queers
and child molesters in churches
we're going to see the fruit of it soon.
And it's going to be bad.
They've infiltrated every part of government
and service, the military, the hospital system.
I mean, how can you just trust some fag
that's going to perform surgery on you?
And you put Christian on your chart.
I mean, are you going to trust some homo
to do an open heart surgery on you?
I'm sure not.
I'll be like, please, can I get another doctor?
And how are you going to know?
They can look normal if they want to.
But it's become a scary world out there.
And the last thing I want to do
is have them in here.
I want a safe space.
Sorry.
Safe space for your kids
and a safe space for you.
And you know what?
You're not going to get that
in the non-denominational churches
because they're like, oh yeah,
they're just, yeah, bring them in.
They're going to be saved, yeah.
That's what the repent of your sins
little weirdo teachers want to tell you.
They can all be saved.
No, they can't, folks.
You already know that.
All right, let's pray.
Lord, we thank you so much
for this great church.
And Lord, I pray that our church
would always be a church
that preaches the truth
without any holding back,
without any sparing.
Lord, that we would always be a church
that's about the truth.
And I pray that we would always also be
a church that's about preaching the gospel
and getting people saved, Lord.
And I pray that you would just help us
to stay strong even in the lean times.
Help us to get through the hard times.
Lord, whether it's in our personal life
or at work or at home
or whether it's here at church,
I pray that we would just stick through things
and know that you're going to be
pleased with us as long as we're
doing our part.
And we thank you for all your blessings
at this church, Lord.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
I shall lay my armor by and dwell in peace at home.
We'll work till Jesus comes.
We'll work till Jesus comes
and we'll be gathered home.
To Jesus Christ I fled for rest.
He bade me cease to roam
and lean for soccer on his breast
till he conduct me home.
We'll work till Jesus comes.
We'll work till Jesus comes
and we'll be gathered home.
I sought at once my Savior's side.
No more my steps shall roam
and with him I'll brave death's chilling tide
and reach my heavenly home.
We'll work till Jesus comes.
We'll work till Jesus comes
and we'll be gathered home.
Brother Robert, can you close this with a word of prayer?