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His name is wonderful
Jesus my Lord
He is the mighty king
Master of everything
His name is wonderful
Jesus my Lord
He is the great shepherd
A rock of all ages
Almighty God is He
Bow down before Him
Love and adore Him
His name is wonderful
Jesus my Lord
Amen.
First announcement is somebody lost their shoe.
Is this anybody's shoe?
I'll just leave.
All right.
Brother Alex, you've got small feet.
All right.
If you need a bulletin, would you raise your hand
and then one of the ushers will bring you a bulletin.
On our front cover, we have our verse of the week.
It says,
But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice.
Let them ever shout for joy,
because thou defendest them.
Let them also that love thy name
be joyful in thee.
Psalm chapter 5, verse number 11.
And our service times are
Sunday morning at 10 30 a.m.
And our evening service is 3 30 p.m.
And our Thursday
Bible studies at 6 30 p.m.
We're in 1 Peter chapter 5
this week, and so
I'm not sure if I'm going to finish the whole
chapter or not, but we will be in chapter 5.
And our soul winning
times are listed below.
We do have soul winning today.
I'm not sure who's
running that, if Sean Collins
is running it or not, but I don't see him here.
Huh?
Oh, hey, there you are.
Where's Sean?
He's right in front of my face.
Anyway, we have soul winning today.
We had a good week's soul winning.
I think we had 10 salvation last week.
So praise God for that.
God is rewarding your hard work.
I think there was three saved yesterday,
but anyway,
yeah, soul winning.
So today at 1 15
and obviously we are having some food
afterwards, so it might be a little
late getting out, but we'll try
to make everything
flow as smooth as possible.
And then our praise report,
you can see the salvations and baptisms
and all those stats there.
And then
the upcoming events today, we have the chili potluck
dinner. It'll be
after the morning service.
And then we'll have a men's preaching
night tonight at the 3 30
p.m. service. I wanted to give a little
instruction about the chili.
So there's chili, there's hot dogs, there's other
stuff, but
for safety reasons,
all the chili that's
spicy is clearly marked.
There's one that has nuts in it
and that, you know, if you have a nut allergy
or something like that. So just keep those things in mind.
Any child
13 and older
can get their chili on their own
if they're 13 and younger.
Do not let your children get into the chili
because I don't
want anybody getting burned or anything like
that. So because, I mean, obviously chili
is not only spicy sometimes, but it's
actually hot. So
just please
help your children get the food
or just get the food for them. Have them sit
down. But we don't want
any incidents.
You know, red hot preaching is supposed to burn
out our chili. So anyway,
that'll be, I think there's
some desserts. I just want to appreciate everybody
for bringing something. Maybe
next year we'll make it a competition. I just
didn't want to have to give everybody a trophy this year, so
people are whining about it. But we'll try
to figure out what other people do and maybe
implement that system. We maybe will have a competition
next year. So
also, the
daylight savings time is going to be
next Saturday night
at two, or actually it'll be Sunday morning
at 2 a.m. So you're going to,
your cell phones will automatically
roll back, but your house clocks
won't. So just keep that in mind
that we're going to be losing daylight,
but you're going to be gaining an hour of sleep
theoretically. November 8th
we have a homeschool field trip
at Pioneer Farms at 10
a.m. There'll be a one and a half hour
tour. Then the sack,
you're going to need to bring a sack lunch
and then there'll be another hour
and a half tour afterward. Please
sign up with Miss Rachel Woods
or in the WhatsApp group. If you have any questions
please ask her. And then
November 9th is the
rescheduled men's leadership class.
That'll be November 9th at 7 p.m. That's
on a Wednesday. So
hopefully that's doable for everybody.
And then
November 20th I'll be preaching in Spokane.
November 22nd we're going to move our midweek
service to Tuesday and have a
high social after the
service there. And then November
excuse me December 25th is
Christmas Day. There'll be an altered
schedule of 10 a.m. for the morning
service and 1 p.m. for the afternoon service.
I'm trying to make it easy on people
that are trying to spend time with family
that day or whatever also. And
we do have Miss Annie is going to be taking
pictures and that schedule
family photos or single
photos. You can get this pose
going on right here like CJ's old school
single photo. But
yeah I mean if you're
you can just mail that that could be your
Christmas present. Everybody wants a
picture of
their children or whatever or family
members so especially
those cool ones. We got to get the laser
background one of these years. You know what I'm talking about
like the old 80s or 90s.
Anyway school picture
and backgrounds.
Anyway so but
I didn't put that in the bulletin but it is
starting this Thursday. I think
the schedule is starting to fill up. We put
the schedule in the WhatsApp group so
you're able to sign up
for those times and that goes
from this Thursday this
next coming Thursday and it'll extend to
November 27th and then it's too late
for you. It's too late for some
so but anyway we'll have
the backdrop set up and
so just make sure you're on
time for those pictures because
it is a tight schedule so
and I realize if you have a big family
that it's hard to get everybody organized
and all the clothes looking the same
and all that stuff but just keep in mind
that people are waiting for you
and it's usually before service
between services or after a service
so that's
pretty much the only times we can do it so
and then let's
see what else is going on that's
I know we're going to have the start doing
the children's choir for Christmas
I'm not sure exactly when
we're going to start practicing for
that but then we're
also going to have a cookie exchange and I'm not sure
for the date for that. They're supposed
to be in the bulletin. No I'm just kidding
they are but we don't know what
days those are. I forgot which one
what date Miss Julene put in. Do you remember the
oh it's the 10th
okay. Isn't it your husband
Ryland? Doesn't he do the bulletin? Okay I just want to make
sure. I'm just kidding
I have to beat him up every once
in a while so like every service
but anyway we're a family integrated
church that means the children and infants are welcome during the church
services. Please utilize the mother baby rooms
if your child is screaming
please take them out and
take them to the mother baby room or the dad baby room
if it's so loud that it's distracting other
people even in the mother baby room or dad baby room
please just take them outside
for a little bit and then when they calm down
bring them back in
and the rockers or gliders are for
pregnant nursing mothers and elders only
please make sure you're reserving
the back rows for families with young children
and no unattended
children in any area of the building
at any time
and please no food in the assembly
area that will not
necessarily go for today but
if you are going to eat out here please just make sure
that you keep it as clean as possible
so and then
please silence your cell phones if you
would. Escorts to the vehicles
your vehicles are available by
the ushers and they're the guys with the pens and
the radios and all that stuff
and they'd be happy to walk you to your car
especially now that it's starting to get
darker sooner
so the giving
you can give at the local
church or you can do online donations
or text giving
that information is in the
bulletin and then the ties and
offerings so far for the month of October
is written down there below
and let's see
we have a couple birthdays
that we're going to sing for
and one of them is Nia
my daughter
and so she's going to play her own
song
but her birthday is the first
she was like 15 minutes away from being a
Halloween baby so
I mean that's why she's saved because she was born
on All Saints Day instead of
October 31st so
she would have been the devil's child
and I'm just teasing but
Liberty
Liberty Harrington's
birthday is on the 5th that's this week also
and that is Guy Fawkes Day
so I'm sure
Roshan planned that
he's like just hold out for one more day
it's Guy Fawkes Day
so anyway let's sing Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
to you
Happy Birthday
to you
Happy Birthday
God bless you
Happy Birthday
to you
to me
and
I also wanted to make sure to mention
that the Conlin family
welcomed Julia Elizabeth
Conlin into the world
and basically she did all the work
so
Miss Chantel's recovering
still right and the baby's very
beautiful she's
a very beautiful girl
and she was she weighed 10
pounds and 4 ounces she is the heavyweight
champion of the world so far
in our church for kids
born I think I think she's the biggest
baby but she doesn't really look like she's
10 pounds in that picture you guys did you zoom out
a little bit or
oh he was
how big was Elias
oh wow
big babies
alright and 20
and a half inches long
so congratulations to the Conlin family
make sure that you wish them well
and congratulate them
on the birth of their daughter so
that's all I have for announcements let's sing another song
and then we'll receive the offering
alright for our next song we'll be doing a psalm
Psalms 117
you guys got those folders me and my wife
and my mother-in-law
spent last night putting those together
so you don't have to turn in your Bible
so if you have an IV you're safe for now
Psalms 117
and your little
psalm folders you got there
psalm 117
let's sing it out together
praise
him all
ye people
for his
merciful kindness
is great toward
us and the truth
of the Lord on earth
forever
praise
ye the
Lord
praise
ye the
Lord
praise the
Lord all ye nations
praise
him all
ye people
for his
merciful kindness
is great toward
us and the truth
of the Lord on earth
forever
praise
ye the
Lord
praise
ye the Lord
and our next
song will be song number 12 in your blue hymn book
Heavenly Sunlight
now that you're depressed we're gonna lift your spirits back up
with a happy song
song number 12
in your blue hymn book Heavenly Sunlight
let's sing it out together on the first
walking in
sunlight all of my
journey
over the mountains
through the deep
veil Jesus has said
I'll never
forsake thee
promise divine
that never can fail
heavenly
sunlight
heavenly sunlight
flooding my soul
with glory
divine
hallelujah
I am rejoicing
singing his
praises Jesus
is mine
shadows around me
shadows above
me never
concealed by
savior and God
he is the light
in him is no
darkness
ever I'm walking
close to his side
heavenly
sunlight heavenly
sunlight
flooding my soul
with glory divine
hallelujah
I am rejoicing
singing his
praises Jesus
is mine
in the bright sunlight
ever rejoicing
pressing my
way to
mansions above
singing his praises
gladly I'm
walking walking
in sunlight
sunlight above
heavenly
sunlight heavenly
sunlight
flooding my soul
with glory divine
hallelujah
I am rejoicing
singing his
praises Jesus
is mine
Amen
Steve, could you bless the offering for us?
Thank you.
you
Alright, go ahead and open your Bibles
to Psalm 26
Psalm 26
if you do not have a Bible raise your hand
and one of the ushers will bring you one
Psalm
26
Psalm 26
Psalm 26 the Bible reads
judge me O Lord
for I have walked in mine integrity
I have trusted also in the Lord
therefore I shall not slide
examine me O Lord
and prove me
try my reigns and my heart
for thy loving kindness is before mine eyes
and I have walked in thy truth
I have not sat with vain persons
and neither will I go in
I have hated the congregation of evildoers
and will not sit with the wicked
I will wash mine hands
in innocency
so will I compass thine altar O Lord
that I may publish with the voice of
thanksgiving and tell of all
thy wondrous works
Lord I have loved the habitation
of thy house and the place
where thine honor dwelleth
gather not my soul with sinners
nor my life with bloody men
in whose hands is mischief and the right hand
is full of bribes
but as for me I will walk in mine integrity
redeem me
and be merciful unto me
my foot standeth in an even place
in the congregations while I bless the Lord
Brother Drew will you pray for us?
Amen.
Well I forgot to mention in my announcements
that we just got back from Canada last night
we just did like a two day trip
so it was pretty rushed but we had a great time
with the brethren up there I think we had like
thirty people in the services or whatever
had some sick people
but it was really great to go up there
and just hang out and see everybody
and preach and Pastor Brzezinski
was there and he preached a really
good sermon so if you have a chance to
smash the subscribe
button for Sure Foundation Baptist
North it's just S-F-B-C-N
if you just type it into your
YouTube and then you can
find them whenever they're preaching or
having a service there but
Pastor Brzezinski preached a really good sermon
about disguises
so it was kind of a
unique
view on like Halloween and stuff like that
so it wasn't exactly
about Halloween but he did bring some of that up
but it was a really good sermon we had a great time
and there are great hosts up there
so we really appreciate
our leadership up there
appreciate all of our church members up there
a couple years ago
I did some Bible
studies where I went through Psalm
chapter 1 and then went
up through chapter 25
so obviously
I wanted to have a break in my
Psalm teachings
but what I've decided to do is every
month that there's a fifth month
in there I'm going to preach a sermon
and go in order so it might take
me a while to get back
maybe someday I'll just go back to it
I'm sure I will but 150
weeks in a row and
especially if you have to break up Psalm 119
it's a little tough but
I'm going to be preaching from
Psalm 26 today and the title of my
sermon is I will walk
in my integrity I will walk
in my integrity let's have a word of prayer
thank you Lord so much for all these people who
come to church on a Sunday morning I pray
that you bless them for that pray that you
bless the food that we're going to fellowship
with this afternoon and our time together
our soul winning time thank you Lord so
much for all the people that were saved this last week
and we thank you for the blessings in our
lives and I pray that you fill me with your
word in Jesus name I pray amen
so I basically have like seven
statements or seven points
but the points aren't long
hopefully unless I
go up on some kind of a tangent but
I'm going to try to get us done at a reasonable
hour here what time is it it's exactly
11 o'clock okay so
point number one
this morning is we
need to be able to walk in our integrity
walk in our integrity look at verse 1
it says a Psalm of David
judge me O Lord
for I have walked in mine integrity
I have trusted also
in the Lord therefore
I shall not slide
so you know when he's talking about
sliding you know I guess I would
just figure like backsliding and
and that that type of situation
because David also talks a lot about walking
in the paths that God's provided for
him and when you're out
in the mountains it's nice to have
trails that are marked right
so that you can just not
get lost and you know you don't want to
go on trails that are real rugged and you don't know
the area very well so
it's kind of that picture of
the trail to walk through is like
kind of like going through the old paths
and making sure that you're
walking on a path that's
not going to get you lost
so when you stray off the path you're
kind of lost aren't you and there's a lot of people
in the mountains around
the surrounding areas that we live in
and they people get lost
a lot and so
we don't want to get lost so
obviously we need to stick with
the things of the Lord but
it says I have walked
in my integrity and
integrity is
something that we as Christians
should have and what is
so what is the meaning of integrity well
integrity means being honest and
having strong moral principles
so you know someone without integrity
would preach that they have strong
moral principles but then they
don't have they don't have
them behind closed doors or you know
they say that they believe something and then
they really don't practice what they
believe so and
so a person with integrity
behaves ethically and does
the right thing even behind
closed doors when nobody is looking
and so that is integrity
you know integrity isn't just you know
pretending to be holy
but it is actually something that is ingrained in your life
and something that you actually
practice so
David said I have walked in my integrity
judge me oh Lord and you know
sometimes it is good to have God
judge us and you know
the Bible says that he scourgeth
every son whom he receiveth
so obviously we are always doing
something wrong because
every son whom he receiveth that means every
person that has ever been saved and ever
will be saved is going to get spanked by
God they are going to get scourged by God at some point
in their life but you know the more
we walk in our integrity the more we
try to live a sanctified and holy life
the better off our life on earth is going to be
because obviously we believe
that if you are sinning in this
life God is never going to throw you in hell
he will never throw you in hell for any sin that
you commit after being a Christian but he will
punish you on this earth
for the sins that we commit. Turn to
Proverbs chapter 11 verse number
3 Proverbs 11 verse number 3
just to show you a few verses about integrity
so again having integrity
is basically
doing and practicing the things that you
believe even
when nobody is looking
it's a good way to sum it up. Proverbs
11 verse 3 says the integrity of the
upright shall guide
them but the perverseness of
transgressors shall destroy
them so Proverbs
you know it likes to
there's a lot of wisdom in the Proverbs
and so it's
teaching here and I just have 3 Proverbs
I'm going to have you turn to but you know
the integrity of the upright is going to guide you so
whatever you believe and that you
actually believe in your heart and you practice
you're going to practice that even when no one is looking
look at Proverbs 19 1
Proverbs 19 1 says
better is the poor
that walketh in
his integrity than he that is
versed in his lips and
is a fool so there you have the
contrast between someone that actually
walks in their integrity there's a
difference between saying I have
integrity and then
actually doing it and walking
in it and being guided by it
so one more
verse here Proverbs chapter
20 verse number 7
Proverbs chapter 20 verse number 7
the
Bible says the just
man walketh in his
integrity so what is the just man
a just man is somebody that's
saved somebody that's justified
we're not justified because of our doings
or justified because of what Christ did
for us he's imputed his righteousness
upon us and so the
Bible says the just man
walketh in his integrity so
the things that you actually believe
are things that you walk in the things that
you walk in or are guided by
are the integrity the things
that you actually believe
because there's a lot of people that say they believe something
but actually don't really believe it
or they go along to get along
or maybe in their life they're just not
doing that but I would just say this
if you're having issues with your
integrity then you need to get that right
with God and you know have him
judge you and that's a scary thing to ask
for in prayer you know
because David's saying judge me oh Lord
you know that's a scary
thing because if you're really not
walking rightly then and you
ask God to judge you be careful
you know maybe you want to get
something right before you let him judge you
right and maybe just ask for
mercy because obviously nobody's perfect
there's times when our integrity
fails you know
God's integrity is always there God always
does the right thing but we don't
always but you know basically
you want to be somebody that's
that's your way of life
obviously if your integrity fails from time
to time that doesn't mean you have no
integrity it just means you failed that time
but if you're someone
that generally
follows after the integrity the
things that you hold right
and true then it's
going to be something that kind of
sums you up kind of like the qualifications
of a bishop you're not always going to make sure
not every single thing to the T
and some of those things are subjective
obviously but
you know you want to make sure
that you're walking in your
integrity the things that you believe you know
because your children see it
your family sees it
your friends see it your co-workers see
it you know are you walking in
your integrity are you actually
living what you say you believe
and number two this morning
so number one is walking in your
integrity number two is
let God examine you
and examine
yourself this is a key to
not getting judged super harshly
is that you let God examine
you so you know you
David said judge me oh Lord
for I've walked in my integrity but in
verse two he says examine me
oh Lord and prove me
try my reigns and my
heart so that's
something that we should ask
God to do examine me
is there something that's glaring that
we don't see because a lot of times we deal
in self-deception we
think that we're better than we are
we think we're more holy than we are
we think that we're
walking in our integrity more than other
people you know but people
see who you are like
Pastor Pazarski was preaching about
that that you can deceive yourself all
you want but you know for
sure what you do
and if you don't
then you know ask God to examine
you but basically
people walk around with disguises on all the time
we always put on our Sunday best and I'm not saying
not to do that but we put on our Sunday
best we have our nicest talk
you know but maybe
you're not necessarily always doing that
behind closed doors or when you're
in your daily life so
but we should constantly be self-examining
ourselves
we should constantly be saying hey
what's wrong with me right now
what can I get fixed because you don't want
to walk around deceiving yourself
like James 1-22
says you know let's turn over to James
1-22 real quickly
it goes Hebrews, James
James chapter 1 verse 22
says but be doers of the
word and not hearers
only deceiving your own
selves see a lot of
people you know like they're like hey that was a great
sermon that really helped me but then they just walk off
and just forget all about it
because it says in verse 23
for if any be a hearer of the word
and not a doer he is like a man beholding his
natural face in a glass so you
see yourself for what you are
the word of God is you know when you're
hearing the word of God of praise or when you're reading it in your
Bible you're looking at yourself
you see what you're doing
but then it says in verse 24
for he beholdeth himself and goeth his way
and straightway forgetteth what manner
of man he was
so we don't want to
just be hearers only we should be doers of
the word not just hearers
and that will help us
but you know it's going to help
us not be self deceptive
you know and we don't want to deceive
our own selves because
nobody else is being fooled by what you're putting on
so
that's one of the things he preached yesterday I'm not going to preach this whole
sermon but I just thought it was a really great point
that we think that
nobody sees how we're failing
in our lives but we do other people do
see it and you can try to cover it up
or put a mask on
you know you're going to the costume party
you know you got all your
new costume put on
but everybody sees who you really are
underneath that costume and you can't hide it forever
so
but the Bible says here in verse
Psalm chapter 26 let's go back there
examine me O Lord
and prove me
so and that is a hard
saying though because when you're asking
God to do something like that
be ready
to actually take
what he gives you
and get rid of that stuff just chop that
stuff out of your life if it's at all
possible for you you know and God
can help you overcome sins that you're
having a hard time with
you know nobody here again is perfect
we all have some sort of
sin so but
the purpose
of having God examine you is so you can
continuously get those things out of your life
in John chapter 15 it talks about how God
purges you so that you can bring forth
more fruit what's he purging
the things out of your life that are not necessary
the things in your life that need to
go away so he can use
you better than he did before
and that is called sanctification
you'll be going through a sanctification
and pruning process for
your whole life as long as you
are desiring that as long as you're
actually trying to do that God
will help you get the things out of
your life that you need to get out and
he'll help you to become a more complete
Christian because it is possible
to be the complete package otherwise
God wouldn't tell us to be perfect
you know and I'm not saying perfect as
in we walk on water I'm saying perfect as in
complete so
so obviously it is possible
to become the complete package Job
was the complete package obviously
Job was probably the greatest man
you know one of the greatest men that ever walked the face
of the earth not the greatest
John the Baptist was the greatest Jesus was
better than him but what I'm saying as
just a regular man Job was one
of the greatest men that ever lived and went through all these
trials and went through all this purging
and we
you know we can attain
to be God says be perfect
you know be holy for I am
holy so holy is
sanctified so if God set
apart and God is holy and God is sanctified
then that means that we can be it too
because otherwise God wouldn't ask us to do that
he wouldn't say hey do something that
there's no way you can ever do
so obviously there is a way
to attain those things
and it starts by allowing God to judge you
allowing God to
examine you and your life
and the things that you're doing and he says prove
me try my reigns in my
heart you know and so
you have to get your heart right
by allowing God to examine you
but you should also examine yourself
so
you know sometimes we
you know you want God to examine you but
it's a scary situation isn't it
because if he really gets down to the
details the Bible says for the
word of God is quick
quick powerful
sharper than any two edged sword piercing
even through the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit and of the joints and marrow
and is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart so
when you're reading God's word when God's word is being
preached to you it's going to start
chopping stuff and you might not
like that chopping
effect but again that's part of the purging
process what do you purge
plants and trees and stuff with
a sharp object right
so you know if you want God to examine
you the first thing to do
is to get into his word
but then take God's
word and examine yourself with it too
because you know we always
should be in a
point where we self diagnose
what are we doing right now because
we tend to go backwards
and get worse
but if you apply the
scriptures to your life if you apply
God's word to your life
that is going to help you examine yourself
look at 1 Corinthians chapter 11
verse 28 1 Corinthians 11
verse 28
so allow God to examine you
allow God to prove you
allow God to try your reins in your heart
but the Bible does teach
for us to examine ourselves look what it says
in 1 Corinthians 11, 28 it says
but let a man examine
himself and so
let him eat of that bread
and drink of that cup every year we do the
Lord's supper and
I personally believe that we are supposed to
examine how we're living our life
if you're in really gross
sin a sin that would get you kicked out of church
I always tell people don't
partake if you've never been baptized
before don't partake
why does God say here to
why does the apostle Paul through the Holy Spirit
tell us to examine ourselves
because we don't want to get punished
for partaking in
something that we shouldn't be partaking in because
we're not right with God
for whatever reason and obviously
I've preached about that before I'm going to preach about it
again this year like I do every
year but we should
examine ourself so that
we don't get punished right
that's the point that's what he's saying
to examine yourself for look at 2 Corinthians
chapter 13 2 Corinthians
chapter 13
2 Corinthians
chapter 13 verse 5 says
examine yourselves whether
you be in the faith prove
your own selves know you're not
your own selves how that Jesus Christ
is in you except to be reprobates
so you know he's talking
to this Corinthian church and there's some people
that are calling him into question they're going
against him saying he's not a real apostle
and they're really just
kind of giving Paul the business but yet he
still loves this church he still
loves the people there but he's saying
examine yourself whether to be in the faith
and so obviously the Bible
does teach the concept of examining
yourself now if you
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and trust him
only for your salvation and believe
that he's going to eternally save you
then you are saved
so that's you know
people like have doubts about their salvation
sometimes and think that
they're reprobates well if you believe the
truth and you know that you're
saved you've called upon the name of the Lord
then that's an examination you can make
so
there were some people that were calling
Pastor Bruce Mejia a false prophet that were in
our church and they were
saying that that he
you know that basically he was teaching
that if you ever
doubt your salvation that
you're not really saved
and you know the Bible actually
doesn't teach that at all
but they were taking
stuff he said but then
also he made
a video just to make sure that people understood what he
meant by that
when someone doubts their
salvation and you show them in the scriptures
all the verses you
cover all those things with them
and they still say well I still don't know if I'm
saved or not that means that they
don't believe the word of God
they're not trusting in what God said
they're not trusting in the truth and
so then yeah they probably aren't saved
but the Bible does teach us
to examine ourselves in those ways
so there's nothing wrong with
examining yourself and obviously you know
it's usually the time you would doubt
your salvation is when you've
committed some big sin you're like how could
I do that if I'm actually
saved but there's a lot of
sins that people could commit and still be
saved so you need to
trust in what the Bible says the promises
of God's word and
you know I just want to show you
an example a couple examples of how we should
examine ourselves examine
yourself whether you're right with God
examine yourself in your life how
am I doing as a dad how am I doing
as a mom how am I doing as a son
or a daughter how am I doing as a worker
these are all things that we can examine
ourself on and say hey am I
cutting the mustard here am I like
up to par am I doing what's
right am I doing the best that I possibly
can be or is there some blind spots
that you know that God's word points
out to me that I can get fixed
because if you have blind spots
then fix those things and then
you know it's just on to the next challenge
you're like well why is the Christian life so challenging
it just is we live in a sinful
and fallen world and we're fallen
people that are actually
saved we have two natures within
side of us you know we have
the flesh and the
things of the flesh that want to do wicked and we
have the things of the spirit the new man that wants
to do right and they're constantly doing
this they're constantly doing
this and whatever whichever one you feed the most is
going to be the more powerful one
so examine yourself
and then
God will and then ask God
to examine you and you know
your life is going to be better off for that number
three walk in his
truth not yours
this is an important point walk in his
truth and not in
yours let's turn back to our text
Psalm chapter 26 verse 3
walk in his truth not
yours look what it says
for thy loving kindness is before
mine eyes and I have walked
in thy truth
see notice how he said thy truth
not my truth
see a lot of people a lot of Christians
think that it's like buffet Christianity where
you can just pick whatever parts out that you like
and then you just leave
the other stuff that you don't like
or you can just eat all the goodies
on the plate but you never eat the vegetables
or things that are good for you
that have vitamins for you and things
like that so
a lot of people like to pick and choose
what they say they believe in the Bible
or what they're going to follow in the Bible
because a lot of times
pastors will get up and preach or
preachers will get up and preach and
people know they hear it
they know that that applies to
them and yet they still continue to say well
I'm just not going to show up for church
I don't care what he says I don't believe
the Bible says that you should be there
three times a week well a three fold
cord is not quickly broken my friends
and if you're coming to church three times a week
it's going to help you and strengthen you
and you know if you have one
one you know thread
basically you have that one time that you've come
you know that's good
but you know two times is even better
but three times is even better than that
and then you also have all your brethren
here to help you and encourage you
and things like that and obviously
I know there's people that live out of town
or live far away and couldn't make it
for a third service or whatever
like that but you know we should
try our best to
walk in God's truth and not
just say you know it doesn't matter what
what the Bible says in this point because
I'm just going to choose to believe something else
we shouldn't be like that we should walk
in his truth when we read the word of
God that's his truth
our truth is often sometimes
skewed or our interpretation of a
verse is skewed because we don't want
to accept it we don't
want to accept certain things in the Bible because
of our situation
you know it's just like a lot of people try to use
like 1st Corinthians chapter 7
to say
well you know if someone
wants to get remarried
you know because the
the unbelieving
spouse leaves then that
just frees you to be able
to get remarried
that's not what it's teaching
it says they're not in bondage in such cases
but the bondage
it's talking about is in the
context of the first parts of
that chapter where it's talking about
how you have to
render unto the wife due benevolence
that means you're taking
benevolence is taking care of someone isn't it
so a husband is supposed to take care of their wives
you know that's due benevolence
when you make a vow tell death do us part
there's certain things that the husband says
I vow to do these things and there's certain things
that the wife vows to do
and one of those things is tell death do us part
not tell you get
sick of them or they left the toilet
seat up too many times or you know
rolled the toothpaste up wrong or
didn't make you dinner the house wasn't
perfectly clean that's not what it says
so we're supposed to
be with our spouse
tell death do us part
obviously there's people that
are outside of that
and have chosen to get remarried or whatever but don't
use the Bible to prop up
your false belief
because in Matthew chapter 5
Jesus says if you marry
someone that's committed
if you marry someone that's been divorced you're committing adultery already
you're committing adultery with them
not already but you're committing adultery with them
and it says in
Matthew chapter 19
it says the same thing so what Jesus is just wrong
and you're right
well I go
with what Paul says
Paul agrees with Jesus
you know we're not this isn't a
Ruckman church this isn't a Ruckmanite
church where every single
chapter is divided and supposedly for somebody
else and different
times and we're saved in different
ways or whatever
so we've got to walk in his truth
and whatever he says goes
don't try to twist things to your own
benefit because you don't
want to believe what the Bible says
turn to John chapter 17 verse 17
John chapter 17 verse 17
what is God's truth?
what is the truth we're supposed to walk in?
well Jesus explains it for us
really simply here
in John 17 verse 17
he says
sanctify them
that means set apart, sanctify them through
thy truth
thy word is truth
so what is the truth that David's talking about?
I have walked in thy truth
Jesus said
sanctify them through thy truth
thy word is truth
not sanctify them through your own truth
but through God's truth
thy word is truth
so the Bible is true
your opinion is not
your interpretation
is not, it's not a private
interpretation, it's an interpretation
of what the Bible says
and if you're saved you can read the Bible
and figure it out for yourself because the
Holy Spirit is going to guide you and help you and guide you
into all what? Truth
so we don't walk
after our own truth, we walk
after God's truth
so, you know, don't live a life
of self-deception
don't live a life without integrity
you know, walk in
God's truth and what it
says, that's what you should believe
and if it
hair-lips your predisposition
for anything, then you've got to just
say, you know what, I know that I used to believe
this or that people outside
or other Christian churches say this
but what does the Bible actually
say? and that should be
what you believe, no matter whether
it bothers you or not, no matter
whether it upsets you or not
because people will say, well you guys are just a
hate, you're a hate church, you're a
hate group and all this other stuff is like
you're calling God
a hate preacher
and sometimes He is, sometimes
the Bible says
the Bible says there's a time to love and a time to hate
but you know, it's funny how people that say that
there's, God never hates anybody
we're never supposed to hate anybody
isn't it funny how
you know, they, that's another
thing of self-deception that they do
they're saying something that
you could throw that verse and say that
verse and they'll say, well that's not
what it really means
that's not what it really means
and that's what I'm talking
about is that people will walk in their truth
and not God's truth
because the word hate is in the
Bible quite a few times
and look, we love people, we go
every week, we want people to be saved
our main goal at this church is to get people
saved, not to make people hate us
people are going to hate us because we preach the truth
people are going to hate us because we believe
the truth but
that shouldn't change how we
perceive things
so, number four
this morning is steer clear
of vain people and dissemblers
steer clear
of vain people and dissemblers
look back in our text
at verse number four, it says
I have not sat with vain persons
neither will I go in
with dissemblers
and these aren't really things that we say
in our normal vernacular
you don't normally say, you dissembler
not that it's
not a good word, it's the Bible, right?
but we should sometimes try to figure
out, because a lot of times we'll gloss over things
when we're reading, like lists of different sins
and maybe we kind of have a picture
of what they are, but sometimes it's good to
learn the definition of words
there's nothing wrong with being smart
there's nothing wrong with learning
right and true words
and so that term vain persons, well, vain
just means it has no
purpose, it's empty
it's useless
and a person that's a
vain person would be someone that's
excessively proud
or concerned about one's own appearance
qualities or
achievements
now, this is the plight of the human race
you know, I mean
we were in Vancouver, B.C. and
we went up to this lookout
point where you could see the whole city
and all the bridges and like the park
and
I don't know if anybody else that was with us noticed this
but it was me, my wife, Pastor Bierczynski
and his wife, brother Nguyen
and his wife, and brother Jim Weeb
and we're all up there, we're just looking at this
and obviously, you know, we took some pictures
of couples and you know
we tried to get Jim to do like this
this picture, but he wouldn't do it
but I noticed that there's a lot of people
all dolled up
and taking pictures of themselves
or people were taking
pictures of them by themselves
where they're trying to look
you know, provocative
or just like, you know, I don't know
people just, that is vanity
it's one thing to take a picture with your wife because
you love her and you want to remember the moment
but it's another thing to just be constantly
doing this
for the camera, the duck lips look
or the fish scape
that one
why do people do that?
you know, they're just people that
they're just vain in their own deceit
they're vain
persons and they're
excessively concerned about their appearance
they look at themselves in the mirror
any chance they get, they're like, hey what's up
you know, it's just
it's just a strange phenomenon
but David said
I have not sat with vain persons
that's not just necessarily
someone that's concerned about their appearance
they're also concerned about
their qualities and how people view
them and their own
human achievement
Pastor Jones preaches about the human
achievement a lot
but isn't that what most people live for?
look at me and what I have done
look at my, you know,
posterity
look at my appearance, look at my quality
and they always want to look perfect
and all these different things
but that's a vain way to live your life
and
people that like, you know, these sports stars
like, when I played football
our coaches would scream at us
if we spiked the football
or if we did some kind of stupid touchdown dance
we'd be doing push-ups
and up-downs and bear crawls
until we puked
our coaches were like
had the whistle
the polo shirt
the shorts
they're tucked in and tennis shoes
I mean they were like serious guys
they went to Linfield College
and
they were good coaches
but you know what they didn't like us doing?
they didn't like us celebrating ourselves and how great we are
you know, it's about the team
when you play a team sport
it's not about you, it's about the team
you know, maybe in college sports
professional sports
you know, someone does something really great
a great move or whatever
and then they do some kind of stupid dance
or they all like celebrate in the end zone
and, you know, pretend to shoot them all
and they all fall down and all this stupid stuff
I mean it's kind of funny sometimes
but really it's just
it is vain
or you'll see like a defensive guy
hit somebody and make a big hit
or it could just be they just tackled somebody
and then every time they're like
yeah, woohoo
you know, they're like, dude, you just tackled somebody
I mean, like, that happens on every play
you're not that great, okay
so, but people
we don't want to be around people
that are like this because that kind of stuff
rubs off on you
you are who you hang around with
you know, you kids, you're like, why can't I
hang out with so and so? Because
you don't want your children
to learn the things that those
other children are learning
so that's why it is important who your kids
hang around with and it's important who you
hang around with
so if you're hanging around vain people
you're going to become vain yourself
because you can only look at someone
taking selfies for so long before you join in the selfies
you know, I mean
God forbid that should happen
you know, if you have a selfie stick
I'm not like judging you, but like
if you have a selfie stick and you have like
a thousand pictures of yourself on Facebook
just different poses
you know, all that stuff
it's weird
it is weird
it's a problem, it's a character defect
it's a personality defect
and if you're just
so proud of all your achievements
you know, what about God's achievements?
God's the one that actually achieves stuff
we just got made
we just got born into this world
and we didn't ask to be born in this world
it just happened, right?
so we need to steer clear of vain people
because we don't want our life to be vanity
we don't want our
thoughts and everything that we pursue
something that's vain
you know, the main
theme of Ecclesiastes
is talking about everything is vanity
you know,
vanity of vanity, say it the preacher
you know, and he just
goes on and talks about this is also
vanity, you know
and Solomon had it all
right? he was probably a good looking
guy, he was the king of Israel
he had more wisdom than
anybody on the planet, people came
from far and wide to hear him speak
to hear him talk about the peacocks and the apes
and you know, whatever kind of
flowers or whatever, he was just a really wise
man, but then he became
vain, didn't he?
he started to, you know, just pick
all these different strange wives
and then what happened at the end of his life is that
he ended up dying
not right with God
because what do you think that the princesses
were like that he was marrying?
probably vain, probably vain in their
appearance and he just, you know
in Ecclesiastes, Solomon talks about
how he just pursued
after knowledge, pursued after all
pleasures and enjoyment
and entertainment and all these things and in the end
he's just like, I'm really sorry that I even did that
this is vexation
it's vanity
it's meaningless, it's nothingness, it's useless
turn to Proverbs chapter 30
verse number 8
Proverbs chapter 30 verse number 8
the Bible says in Proverbs
chapter 30 verse number 8
it says, remove
far from me vanity
and lies
give me neither poverty
nor riches, feed me with food convenient
for me, lest I be full and deny
thee and say, who is the Lord?
or lest I be poor
and steal and take the name of the Lord
God in vain
so what's he saying in this proverb
he's saying, hey, just let me have as much as I need
let me just have the things
that are useful to me
and convenient for me
remove vanity from me
because isn't that
vanity to just like
have too much riches
and then, you know, the poor
sometimes can be just as bad as the rich
you know, with their entitlement
programs, you know, we live in an
entitlement society, folks
big time, I mean
the government just basically wants us to
be on their teeth from the time we're
born to the time we die
they want us to
you know, they got this college
what is it, the forgiveness
of your student loans
thing that Joe Biden
just proclaimed laws because
he thinks he's the emperor or something
but in reality it's probably just his MK Ultra
training that he's, you know, saying all this
stuff or whatever, but
it's just ridiculous
I had to pay student
loans off and it took me years to do it
and now all of a sudden these people are going
to college and racking up
$200,000 or how, I mean
some colleges are $200,000 a year
probably more than that, I mean, I don't
really know because I'm kind of
out of the loop of that, but there's people
that go to college for underwater
basket weaving or whatever and it's
some useless thing
and they just use, you know, the
government's money to basically play
beer pong and play the whore
outside of their father's house
or play the whore monger outside
of their parent's house and
basically just wasted their
lives on something and now they're just
professional protesters
professional
you know, scroungers
just, you know, give us
everything for free because
well, because we were born into this world and we didn't ask to be
you know, it's just
people are just weird
but you know, the Bible says that we shouldn't be
around these vain type of people
and it also says
dissemblers, turn to
James chapter 4 verse 4
I'm just going to read that verse again
in our text, it says
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I
go in with
dissemblers
what is a dissembler?
actually go to 2 Peter chapter 2
I'm sorry, 2 Peter chapter 2
what is a dissembler?
well, a dissembler
hides under false
appearance
a dissembler
is to put on the appearance of
and to simulate
something
to put on a false appearance
to conceal facts
and intentions or feelings
under some pretense
and there's a lot of people
that we have seen that are like this
right, that they're
dissemblers and David
said I'm not going to go with those people
when I find out someone's a dissembler
some kind of a phony, some kind of a false
brethren, crept in unaware
some kind of false prophet, I'm not
going to go with that person, so
he says I have not sat with vain persons
neither will I go in with dissemblers
2 Peter chapter 2 verse 1
you know, the Bible
warns us multiple times that people will
creep into churches, people will
rise up in congregations
teaching false doctrine, teaching
lies and heresy, and damnable
heresy, look at 2 Peter chapter 2
verse 1, you're like why are you always trying to make
it about the false prophets, what did I say
the dissemblers meant?
it means someone that hides under a false pretense
someone that hides under a false
appearance, someone who
simulates, what does simulate?
well it means that you're copying something
and pretending that it's something that's
you know, you're just simulating
something that somebody else has done
you're pretending, it's like the hypocrite
in reality
they don't really believe those things, in reality
you know, they are pretending
so it says
but there are false prophets also
among the people, even as there
shall be false teachers among you
so Peter's saying
here that there are false
prophets, there were false prophets in the
Old Testament, and what were they?
among the people, what was Korah?
he was one of the people, he was famous in the
congregation, Korah, Dathan, Abiram
they were in the congregation
and then they waited for their chance
to what? try to
you know, they pulled, there were dissemblers
that tried to pull
and overthrow Moses
and the leadership, and by doing
that they were just saying, well we're holy too
the whole congregation is holy
and so like basically
they were just saying, we need to have a voting
system, and you know
we're not going to just accept who you
think should be lighting the incense Moses
we're not just going to accept who
you think all the holy people
are, but God said
everybody was supposed to be holy
but just because God says
for people to be holy doesn't mean that everybody is
there's people that creep
in, and they want to cause
problems, and Peter
is saying that here, he's saying there was
false prophets among the people
and there shall be false teachers
among you
so we shouldn't be surprised by this
happening, ever
when it happens, we should just be like
well, there's another one, who's the
next one? you know
it shouldn't be like, you're
wrong, you're wrong for kicking
them out, you're wrong for preaching against them
they're the people of the Lord
you know, just like
the people, you know
when Koradath and Abiram and all that pertained
unto them dropped down into hell
what did the people say the next day?
you've killed the people of the Lord
well number one, Moses didn't
kill anybody, God killed them
and number two, God
opened up hell, right?
and dropped
them in, and they died and went to hell
they didn't go to heaven
so how are they the people of the Lord?
so we've got to get on
the right side of things immediately
when something is going on
and some person just reveals
themselves to be a wicked person
our first
our first thing should be
I want to be on the right side of something
I want to be on the right side of things
and if you already know these things
are going to happen, then it should never
surprise you, but it always does, doesn't it?
it always surprises some people
but we shouldn't be surprised
so it says there will be false teachers
among you, who privately
that means privately, secretly
shall bring in damnable
heresies, there's a difference
between someone preaching heresy
and someone preaching a damnable heresy
heresy is the pre-trib
rapture, you know
it's wrong, it's stupid
there's no verses that back it up
and right
is the post-trib pre-wrath position
because Jesus
said he's coming back after the tribulation
he didn't stutter, and that
when the disciples said
what's the sign of thy coming
they didn't say
the third one
they said what's the sign of thy coming
the next time he's coming
let's follow the context
you pre-tribbers
but that is an example
of a heresy
but it doesn't make them
not saved because they teach that
but damnable heresy is when
you say the Trinity's not
true
the Father, the Son, the Holy, you know
like the Jehovah's Witnesses will say the Holy Spirit
is a force
it's like their Star Wars doctrine or something
you know, use the force Luke
and they also
don't believe that Jesus Christ is God
manifest in the flesh, they believe he's Michael
the Archangel, so what have they done with the Trinity
they deny the Trinity
don't they
they deny the Trinity, that is a
damnable heresy, that means if you believe
that and you teach that, you're
not saved and if you're going
door to door with that stupid message
then you're a false prophet
you know what
there will be no mercy for them on judgment day
anybody that they turn aside
from being able to be saved because of that stupid doctrine
they're going to roast further in hell
and deeper in hell for the things that they bring forth
so it says
who shall bring in damnable heresies
even denying the Lord that bought them
and bring upon themselves
swift destruction
and you know, when people
do these types of things, I do pray
that God swiftly destroys them
now our view of
swiftly might not be the same
as somebody else's view of swiftly
because you know, God does things in his own time
you know, a thousand years is like a day to him
and a day is a thousand years to us
I mean, a day is a thousand years
so you know, we
we just don't judge and measure time
the same way God does
when it says swiftly, do it right now God
but God's going to do it when he feels like doing it
when it's right for him to do it
but it says in verse 2
and many shall follow
their pernicious ways
by reason of whom the way of truth
shall be evil spoken of
so these types of people
they'll develop followers
you know, there's a lot of people
that meet in
Joel Osteen's church
many have followed
his pernicious ways
and by reason of whom
the way of truth shall be evil spoken of
so they're like, he's just a money
grubber, all he cares about is money
he would let the people from the hurricane
stay inside the church building
and obviously
you know, I understand that to a certain extent
but if people are like dying because of a hurricane
I mean, that probably would be
the time to allow people to come in and help them
like sorry, you should have been
you should have been at church last Sunday
I would have let you in, you know
but you know, these people
will get people to follow them
these false prophets, I mean because
if you just look online
you'll see like the churches that are
that we kind of associate with
you know, you'll see like
you know, 25, 35 people watching a live stream
or something and then you'll look at like
T.D. Jakes and there's like millions of people watching
at the same time or whatever
and it says
many of them
will follow
shall follow their pernicious ways, many of them
and so these people
their purpose is like
to be giant trash collectors
and to just gather
people to themselves so that they won't
get saved because they're not preaching what's
right and true, they're preaching damnable
heresies, something that
you know, will lead them to
the lake of fire
look at verse 3 it says
fake, that's a
dissembler, a fake
person, fake words
feigned means fake
so if someone feigns being your friend
they're pretending to be your friend but they really are not
your friend, it says
with feigned words make merchandise of you
whose judgment now of a long time
lingereth not and their damnation slumbereth
not, you know these false prophets
are going to hell
so
you know, you're like well you should pray for them
pray for someone that's going to hell
they're done
God's done with them, they're twice
dead, plucked up by the roots
they're dead men walking
or dead women walking, if they're preaching
lies and
damnable heresy, there's no
hope for that person
no hope
Job said there's no hope for the hypocrite
and a true hypocrite
is someone that's pretending
to be saved but really
they believe something different
that is a true hypocrite, we all have
capabilities of being hypocrites at times
but you know one thing
that's funny to say is like
when people say well I'm not going to come to church
it's full of hypocrites, well so is Walmart
so is the bank, so is all these different
places that you probably eat, the Golden Corral is probably
filled with hypocrites too, but you still
go there don't you?
you can kick that crutch out from underneath people
pretty easily, but
there's something different about church because
people don't want to go where people
are pretending to be something
that they're really not
and a lot of these churches out there
they believe damnable heresy
or they don't teach the truth
and so they truly are hypocrites
they're playing the part of a Christian
they think that they're
they act like they're saved
they pretend like they're saved, but in reality
they're not
because if you don't believe the truth
you're not saved, if you don't believe that
Jesus Christ is the son of God and that he died
for all your sins and that you have everlasting life
you're not saved, period
turn to Matthew chapter
23 verse 14, Matthew chapter
23 verse 14
Matthew chapter 23 verse 14
you know when Jesus is calling the
Pharisees hypocrites
what is he saying to them?
let's take a look at
just a couple verses, I mean the whole chapter
is probably the hardest sermon in the whole Bible
but he's really going after
pretenders
fakers
spurious
feigned
pretentious people that are dissemblers
so
David said I'm not going to go and
hang out and follow after dissemblers
Jesus didn't hang out with them either
they hung out with him, they tried to come to him
all the time, they showed up at his meetings
they showed up at his church services
they tried to get him to stumble
and fumble on all these different things
tried to get him to get himself killed
tried to get him for the Roman
government to kill him and then
tried to kill him themselves, they sent people
after him and they're like never a man speak like this
man, they're like they sent their temple
troops after him and
they were just like when he spoke
they realized
that he was not somebody they should be trifling
with and messing around with, look at
Matthew chapter 23 verse 14 it says
woe unto you scribes
and Pharisees hypocrites
for you devour widows
houses and for a pretense
that means they're pretending right
make long prayer
I was kind of talking about this yesterday
how annoying it is at churches I've been
before when the pastor calls upon someone
to pray and they pray
like this super long prayer
and usually it's after
20 stanzas of just as I am
and 23 altar calls
come on there's still room for you
come on up here and show your fannies
everybody and
let's cry and get all emotional
and stuff you know
and that's how preachers judge their
preaching of how many people came up to the
altar and like
even in independent Baptist churches you see
this there's like there'll be pictures on
Facebook of some Baptist church that I might
like their page or whatever and you see
all these people like with
their hands upon other people and they're all at the
altar and they're crying
and weeping it's just like
you know God said in Malachi
don't weep at my altar
it makes me angry
so but Jesus said
what that if they like
make that long prayer therefore
you shall receive the greater damnation
and that's just pretending
to pray
he's just describing how these
hypocrites are they're pretending to pray
what about the Pharisee
and the publican
you know they're both in the temple
and the Pharisee says
I thank thee Lord that I'm not like this man
this publican over here
and you know I give all
ties of all and I you know
he's just talking about how holy and righteous he is
but it says that he prayed
within himself he's not
even praying to God he's praying within
himself what a weird thing for someone
to do but you know why he did that
probably so that people would look
at him and go look how holy he is
look at his wizard outfit
oh how holy you are
and that makes God really angry
and Jesus Christ is just giving him the business
for it look at verse 15
woe unto you scribes and Pharisees
hypocrites
for you compass sea and land to make one
proselyte and when he is made
you make him twofold
more the child of hell than you are yourselves
what is Jesus
saying hypocrites this type
of hypocrite here the hypocrite that pretends
to be saved the hypocrite
that loves to make these long prayers
the hypocrite that just wants to
everybody see his wizard outfit
so they can say look at him
he must be holy they walk
around in public you know and people
do this in all these different religions
you know the Buddhist monk
walks around with an orange napkin
on them or something you
know what I'm talking about why is it orange
were they the great pumpkin or something
or the Jews they have the long
tassel you know the big long
curly locks and the big hats
and they like to do this in front of people
and
shake their head at the wailing wall
they wear weird outfits too
and they like
wrap things around their arms I forgot what the
verses of the Torah
yeah the verses of the Torah they you know they have like a
it looks like a flashlight
a medieval flashlight or something but it's actually just
they say wear fontlets between
your eyes and it's like this big I think it's the
scriptures or something the Torah
and they put it on their head
they put the dixie cup on there
they put you know
they dress in all this weird stuff
we were flying to the Philippines and at
sunrise all these Jews get
up that are flying over there dressed
in their wizard outfits and all
wrapping all the stuff around them and stuff
and they're just like you know praying in front
of everybody why they're pretending
to be holy that's why
because you know what they don't really believe in Jesus
they're false
brethren they're pretentious
false brethren that are
crept in and they want people to
think they're holy
and what's the Bible what did Jesus say
you're twofold more the child of hell
you want to make someone else twofold more the child
of hell than you are yourselves
so what is he saying they're going to hell
how can you escape
the damnation of hell
so why not hang around people that
believe false gospels
and all these false ideas
or stick with people that came
into our church and they've
revealed themselves to be false
well because the Bible says not
to follow after dissemblers
that's why
and why would you want to
hang around someone that believes somehow
rank heresy you
wouldn't number five
hate God's enemies
from head to toe
like this sermon is taking a dark turn
well you know what the Bible
look at what it says in verse five in our text
you know people I mentioned this earlier
people say well God would never hate
anybody God never
tells us to hate anybody
what about verse number
five it says I've hated the congregation
of evil doers
and will not
sit with the wicked
what is that talking about well
there's a lot of different congregations out there
isn't there
congregation bet Yosef and all these
other different places I've hated
the congregation of evil doers
if they're a false church
if they're false prophets why would you go and hang around
with them
and people are like well Jesus he went
you know he went to the bars and he
you know hung out with the whores and everything
well listen he ate
with them because he was trying to reach
them and preach the truth to them
he's not just hanging out at the piano
you know
you know playing Jerry Lee Lewis or something
okay he's not just
you know hanging out and singing the piano
man and all this other stuff
and drinking beers with everybody
because you know Jesus turned water into wine
or whatever that's a twisted
blasphemous way to look at God
we shouldn't be hanging out with
and I'm not saying hate sinners that can
be saved this is obviously not
what he's talking about because Jesus
did hang around
sinful people he was always
being accused of you know he eats
and sits with publicans and sinners
but yeah there's a difference between
someone that is just
a run of the mill sinner
and someone that is the congregation
of evil doers
the workers of iniquity
the children of Belial
and you know David hated
them and you know what God
hates them too
sorry to burst your little you know
unicorn church bubble
your unicorn belief of
you know that God Jesus Christ
would never hate anybody
he came to save sinners
I know
I know that's true
but you know when he comes back is he going to be
nice or is he going to be peaceful
he's going to come his wrath
is going to be poured out on all
of mankind to take the mark
of the beast and when he shows back
up at the end he's going to kill
every single person in that army
he's not going to go let me preach
the gospel to you I don't hate anybody
no he's going to kill them all
and throw them in hell
and let me just say this to you also
you know
if you love somebody you don't throw
them in hell so there comes a
point when God stops
loving people he did love
the whole world he did give
his son for that the world be saved but there's
people that won't be saved
there's people that it's past
the point of no return for them
and God will throw
and has thrown many people into hell
because there's many
you know the broad is the way that leads
under destruction and many there be
that go in there at
so not everybody's going to take
the narrow way not everybody's going to
take the straight gate
a lot of people are going to hell
and you're like how and people still
say well how how dare you say
that God hates people
let me ask you this question if your children don't
clean their room do you throw them in an oven
if your
children sass you
do you throw them into the oven do you throw them
into a fire no
and you know why God throws
those people in the fire because they are not
his children and let me just
burst this bubble for you too not
everybody's God's children
only the people that believe by faith
according to John 1 12
are actually
saved and sons of God
and daughters of God
not everybody is going to heaven
there's most people
are going to hell
so when I say
you know hate God's enemies
from head to toe
that means with everything you've got
hate their false ways
hate their false gospel
hate their false doctrine hate their
evil and wicked things that they do
and look obviously
again I'm not saying hate
all sinners I'm saying hate
people that hate God because
that's what David's talking about here
you know and obviously tomorrow
is Halloween
and so I got to kick this
pony this dog while I'm walking past
it but listen
you know David is
saying that
he hates the congregation of evil doers
so isn't it weird though
how many Christians will still partake
in a clearly
satanic holiday
something that the Roman Catholic Church took
from pagans and just said oh this
is All Saints Day now
it's just like all their saints in their churches
and the
you know like the icons
that are kissed and the
pictures of saints that are kissed at these
Orthodox churches and stuff all this
stuff was dreamed up so they could just
integrate pagans into their
because the Catholic Church and the Orthodox
they're already pagan
they just took their gods and made them into
saints
Saint Christopher I was called brother Chris
Saint Christopher when he walked in I'm sorry about that
but he's like the isn't he like the
saint of travel or something like that
and he traveled from a long way so you know the
but you know the thing is that Chris
actually is a saint
because when you believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ you become
a saint but yet
they call Mother Teresa a saint
and she was not saved
she was wicked
but everybody's like how dare you talk
about Mother Teresa like that
what do you mean she's roasting in hell right now
what are you talking about
she didn't believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and actually there's a lot of
scandal about how she ran that
orphanage and the thing the wicked things that
she did and she
she didn't believe the truth she was in a pagan
religion called the Roman Catholic Church
but yet she's
called a saint on this earth but you know what
God's already called brother Chris
Saint Christopher a saint
in heaven and
anybody else in this church that's saved
you're already a saint
it's not some kind of thing that you do by
you know whipping yourself in the back
with a leather whip
and crawling through crushed
glass and crucifying yourself
on a cross you know Jesus
was crucified already once for us
we don't have to literally be
crucified to be suffering with Jesus
that's self suffering that's
self mutilation is weird
if you're going to suffer with Christ why don't you just
suffer you know the
reproach of what it
is to be called a born again Christian
but the Bible condemns
let me just let you in on another
little clue the Bible condemns
witchcraft, wizards
ghosts, evil spirits
necromancy, divination
magic, sorcery
all that stuff is condemned
under the biblical
guidelines
and you know what there's no such thing as a good
witch the only good witch is a dead witch
turn to Deuteronomy
chapter 18
see
the nations that
the children of
Israel left Egypt
and God put them into a land
and it was replacement
he took the Jews
and replaced the people in the land with
them the ones that were actually
believers and he said
here's the reason why
I kicked these people out and he mentions
it multiple times in multiple
books of Moses where
the practices of the
indigenous people
is why God kicked them out
he said go ahead and colonize
these people because I've rejected them
look at verse 9
when thou art common to the land which the Lord thy
God giveth thee thou shalt not learn to do
after the abominations of those
nations
is that me?
it is
that's my alarm
it's my alarm
the call to prayer
sorry
I guess I need to reset that for
sorry let me
pray real quick
I'm going to pray it's only going to be an 8 minute prayer
you guys
but anyway
sorry on a more serious note
back to the seriousness of this
so he said not to learn to do
after the abominations of those nations
and there shall not be
found among you
any one that maketh
his son or daughter to pass through the fire
or that use a divination
or an observer of times
or an enchanter or a witch
or a charmer or a consultant with familiar
spirits or a wizard
or a necromancer so
God is condemning these
nations and saying I cast these people
out of the land
and I'm letting you have it because this is
what they were doing and yet
Christians will just go out with the heathen
and congregate with the wicked
on Halloween and just be like oh it's no big deal
it's just fun and games
what for you to worship the devil
one night a year that's just fun and
games you're like
well we're not literally worshipping the devil
well you're partaking with them aren't you
it says
for all that do these things are an
abomination unto the Lord
and because of these abominations the Lord
thy God doth drive them out
from before thee
thou shalt be perfect
with the Lord thy God for these
nations which thou
shall possess hearken unto observers
of times and unto diviners
but as for thee the Lord thy God
hath not suffered thee to do
so. So he's not allowed
his children to partake in these
types of things but yet Christians will
go out dressed like witches Christians
will dress like wizards
and Harry Potter and all this other garbage
and so
I'm going to skip over Deuteronomy chapter 32
but let's turn to
1st Corinthians chapter 10
I gotta hurry up here
1st Corinthians chapter 10 verse 20
it says in 1st Corinthians 10
20 it says but I say
that the things which the Gentiles
sacrifice they sacrifice
to devils and not
to God and I would not
that you have fellowship
with devils. What is fellowship?
It's like a kindred spirit
it's like you know when we fellowship
together it's us as believers
hanging out together and join
one another's company talking about the Bible
talking about whatever
but we're fellowshipping together
God does not want us to have fellowship with devils
and he already
I already read you in Deuteronomy
chapter 18 that these people
that do all these abominable acts
are an abomination
to God and he drove them out of the land for this purpose
so why in the world would a Christian
knowing these things
still partake in the
things that are evil and wicked
you know and here's another thing
to think about
it scares children
you know I'm sorry
to bring this up but my
granddaughter Emmy she's only three years
old and she's seen
the things that are in people's
yards your children will probably
see them too and they think
that they're scary don't they
Emmy goes spooky that's what
she says spooky
that's because for a whole
month out of the year
maybe even two months we're bombarded
with all this Halloween garbage and
nonsense and scary things you can't go into Home
Depot or Lowe's
or any place without all these
spooky things
and it's like you almost have to just put
like you know blinders on your
children for a couple months out of the year
so they don't have to look at this
stuff
but you know what it's teaching it's teaching children to
fear the wrong thing
it's teaching children to fear
the wrong thing well what do I mean by that well
they shouldn't be afraid of those
those things they should be afraid and have a
fear for the Lord
but if they're more afraid of some
kind of spooky spider or something
like that or you know and it gets way worse
than that obviously
but you know there's a culture of death
that the Gentiles the
unbelievers will put forth
they think it's just normal
but to us even going soul winning you can't even
walk through neighborhoods without all
this garbage up there
we were in a neighborhood a couple weeks ago
and they like had like severed heads
hanging from trees and all kinds of stuff it's just like
that's just weird why is that cool
you know and
it just scares children
and Halloween is just a wicked holiday
I hope you're not partaking with that with your children
it's just an evil holiday
and you know God doesn't want us to have fellowship
with devils
and what do they do they love death
all that hate God says all that hate me
love death
and so we shouldn't
love death
because the people that hate God
that's what they love
so number six
let's have a clear conscience before God
verse number six back in our text
says I will wash my hands
in innocency
excuse me so will I
compass thine altar
and obviously you know David isn't
completely innocent all the time is he
but when he's not what's he do
see back then there was an altar
back then he could go
and you know go in front of a literal altar
and so what's David saying
I'm going to wash my hands
and be innocent
and how do you do that well you ask God
you confess your faults
you confess your sins to God
and then he washes you clean also
now I'm not talking about
salvation I'm talking about
you know being right with God
and I'm not going to have you turn there
but I'm just going to read
one verse for you 1 John 1 says
if we confess our sins he is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness
when we sin we should go to God
and confess our sins we don't have to go
to an altar there's no
altar in the New Testament folks
Jesus Christ is our high priest
we pray to the Father through
Jesus the Son
and he hears our prayers
and when we make things right with God
through prayer you don't have to go to
an altar and grab the horns
and cry in front of people or whatever
you just go to God and say I'm sorry God
wash me make me clean
number 7
develop a love for the house of the Lord
look at verse 8 back in our text
it says Lord I have loved the
habitation of thy house
and the place where thine honor
dwelleth and that is
that would be the house of the Lord
you're in the house of the Lord tonight the pillar
and ground of the truth this morning
excuse me and you know we're in
a place where we should be
and we should he said I've loved the
habitation of thy house
and when people are in the house
they're habitating
right in God's house
David said I loved it I love
the habitation of thy house and the
place where thine honor dwelleth
you know what God should be honored in this
congregation God should be honored
in spirit and truth the things that
we do for the Lord should be
you know obviously worship
worshiping him through song
and prayer and obviously
the true message of God's
word being preached and thundered
from the pulpit
so it says gather not my soul with
sinners nor my life with bloody men
and whose hands is mischief
and their right hand is full of bribes
so the opposite of being in here
you know if you're not here
what are you doing
who are you with what type of
people are you hanging out with
because I just again I can't
understand why if you're a saved
Christian why you're not in church
why aren't you in church if you have a good
church to go to especially people who live
in this town and go to this church and they just don't show
up for no reason
I'm sure that you know that's not always
the case but obviously people get sick
things like that I'm not talking about that I'm talking
about people who just forsake the house of God for no
reason you should love the house of God
you should love being in church you should
love the habitation of the saints
inside the church and when we
sing we should sing with all of our heart to the Lord
and when we pray
when someone prays in this church we should be
praying with them and saying amen
and if you're a woman just say it in your heart
you know but
we should praise God
and have a deep love
for the house of God it says
but as for
as for me I will verse 11
I will walk in mine integrity
redeem me and be merciful
unto me my foot
standeth in an even place
in the congregation
will I bless the Lord
see a lot of times we forget that
we bless we're supposed to bless the Lord
so
and obviously sometimes we think
well God's we talk about how God
blesses us and God's blessing on this and that
and those things are great
but when you're worshipping God
we're supposed to be blessing God also
so don't forget to bless
God bless the Lord
bless the Lord you know it's like well that just kind of seems weird
it's why is it weird
why wouldn't we bless someone that only
that only is blessing
that only is you know
obviously you know he hates to but
but love
we should love the fact because we get
daily benefits from God
he hears our prayers
he created the whole heaven and the earth and he's our father
think about that
we should when we're here we should give him honor
we should love his house
and he says it's the pillar and ground of the truth
so why aren't you here when you can be
why
it's the pillar and ground of the truth
you're going to get the truth here three times a week
and you're going to get a chance to bless
God and to worship him
and all those other things so
he said my foot standeth
in an even place
and you know have you ever heard that term
even keel
or stability
even keel just means stability
and consistency
David said my feet are in an even place
you know you should
watch where you walk to a certain extent right
but you ever step like there's
places where you'll just like step
and like all of a sudden it's like
drops off and like it
kind of hurts you sometimes right
so David's just talking you know
basically just if you take it like that
you know we need to be in an even place
where our feet are firmly on
the ground or we're
watching where we're walking
and you know when you're watching where you walk
you're not going to run too fast
and burn yourself out
but just make sure that your feet
are in an even keel that your life is in an
even keel and you know
try to be perfect
with the Lord your God because that's what he wants
he wants us to just love him
and enjoy him
and ask things of him
and bless him and worship him
and sing to him and
we do what he says
you know that's what most fathers want right
they want their children to obey them
they want their children to love them
him and all those other things
so anyway that's Psalm chapter 26 let's pray
Heavenly Father we thank the Lord so much
for Psalm chapter 26 what a great Psalm it is
I pray that you just bless the food
as we receive it
after the service and that you would
just take all those people
home that have a
long travel home
and all the people that
attend our church from long distances
Lord that you protect them as they go home
and just all of our people Lord as they go home
pray that you just bless the rest of this day
in Jesus name Amen
Amen let's turn in our blue hymnals
to page number 94
sing our last song this morning
and can it be that I should gain
your blue hymn books
and can it be that I should gain
page 94
alright let's sing it out on the first
and can it be
that I
should gain
an
interest
in the
Savior's
blood
died he
for me
who caused
his pain
for me
who him
to death
pursued
amazing
love how
can it
be
that thou
my God
should
die for me
amazing
love
how can
it
be
that thou
my God
should die
for me
he
left his
Father's throne
above
so free
so
infinite
in his
grace
emptied
himself
of all
my love
and bled
for
Adam's
helpless
race
tis mercy
all
immense
and free
for oh
my God
it found
out me
amazing
love
how can
it be
that thou
my God
should
die for
me
long
my imprisoned
spirit
lay
fast
mountains
and
a nature
sky
thine eye
diffused
a quick
being rage
I woke
the
dungeon
flame with
light
my chains fell
off my
heart was
free
I rose
when forth
amazing
love
how can
it be
that thou
my God
should
die for
me
Amen. Thank you for attending our Sunday morning service. We'd love for you to stick around for the chili and come back here later this evening for the men's preaching night.
Brother Sean Harrington, can you bless the food and end us with a prayer?
Amen.