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Good morning ladies and gentlemen welcome to our services here at faith for a baptist church very nice
See you all here on this sunday morning if you don't please find your seats now and grab a hymnal go to him
215 will begin him number 215
215 heaven came down and glory filled my soul him number
215 once you've found your place will sing it out on that first verse together him number 215 begins. Oh, what a wonderful
Wonderful day him number 215
215 lift it up on that first verse
I wonder if God is away
Jesus my Savior I'm there
Oh what a tender, compassionate friend
He met the need of my heart
Shadows are swelling with joy and telling
He made all the darkness depart
And he came down and glory filled my soul
When at the cross the Savior made me whole
My sins were washed away and my night was turned to day
Heaven came down and glory filled my soul
Lord of the Spirit with life from above into God's family divine
God survived fully through power He's love
Oh what a standing His mind
And His transcendence so quick He loved me
When at the Sinner I came
Took the offer of grace to decipher me saying the old praise is dear thing
Heaven came down and glory filled my soul
When at the cross the Savior made me whole
My sins were washed away and my night was turned to day
Heaven came down and glory filled my soul
Now I've a hope that will surely endure
After the passing of time
I have a future in heaven for sure
There in those mansions sublime
And it's because of that wonderful day
When at the cross I believe
Which is eternal and blessed
So fertile from His precious hand I receive
Heaven came down and glory filled my soul
When at the cross the Savior made me whole
My sins were washed away and my night was turned to day
Heaven came down and glory filled my soul
Thank you so much for staying this morning
Do you want to bow your heads together with me?
Dear Heavenly Father we thank you for the privilege that we have to be in church on this Sunday morning
We thank you for bringing us here safely
Thank you for everyone that chose to come out this morning to hear your word preached and to worship you
We just ask Lord your blessing upon us as we lift our voices to you in praise
Help us to be attentive to the songs and to the words as we sing them out unto you
And to be thankful for our salvation
And we just ask that you please open our ears and our hearts to receive the message this morning
That you fill Pastor Aaron Thompson with your Holy Ghost
Help him to preach with power and unction as he preaches to us
And that we be attentive to the preaching as well
And that you keep distractions to a minimum
And that all that's said and done would give you the honor and glory that you deserve for it
And we'll thank you for it in Jesus' name
Amen
Back to hymn number 102
He hideth my soul hymn number 102
We'll sing it out on that first verse
The wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord
Hymn number 102
102 sing it out
A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord
A wonderful Savior to me
He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock
Where rivers of pleasure I see
He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock
That shadows a dry, thirsty land
He hideth my life in the depths of His love
And covers me there with His hand
A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord
He taken my burden away
He holdeth me up and I shall not be moved
He giveth me strength as my day
He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock
That shadows a dry, thirsty land
He hideth my life in the depths of His love
And covers me there with His hand
With numberless blessings each moment He crowns
And filled with His fullness divine
I sing in my rapture, oh glory to God
For such a Redeemer as mine
He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock
That shadows a dry, thirsty land
He hideth my life in the depths of His love
And covers me there with His hand
When clothed in His brightness, transported I rise
To meet Him in clouds of the sky
His perfect salvation, His wonderful love
I'll shout with the millions on high
He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock
That shadows a dry, thirsty land
He hideth my life in the depths of His love
And covers me there with His hand
Alright, at this time, we're gonna go over the bulletin
So if you need a bulletin, please raise your hand right now
And the ushers will come by and bring you a bulletin as soon as they can
If you have your bulletin, go ahead and open it up
An upper left-hand corner is our service times
Below that is our soul winning times, the church-wide soul winning regional
And also the salvation and baptisms for the year at the very bottom
We will be baptizing after the service
I know one person who wants to get baptized
If there's anybody else, come see me or somebody in church
Ask them about baptism and we will take care of you
On the upper right-hand corner is information about Omega Conference
Today, Pastor Aaron Thompson, if you miss him, you need glasses
You know, he'll be preaching for us this morning
And besides him, we got Pastor Ricky Reyes coming this Wednesday
And everybody else, you can take a look at the list
So you can know who's gonna be preaching soon
Thank you to those who participated in the small town soul winning in Eden, Arizona
We have 14 soul winners, 7 salvations that knocked every single door
But join us for a soul winning on the Navajo Nation
Friday, July 26 and Saturday, July 27
And speak to Brother Raymond Cooper for details on that
On the back of the bulletin, please continue to pray for the expected ladies in our church
And below that is an event that we're gonna have
We're gonna be having a skate night in Skateland in Mesa
Thursday, August 15 from 5.38 PM
The address is right there
In the upcoming events, take a look at those when you get a chance
Other than that, that's all I have
Lead us in the next song, please
Alright, you should find the insert in the front of your hymnals of How Great Thou Art
If you don't have an insert, you can raise your hand
We'll sing it out on that first verse
O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder
How great Thou art, let's sing it out
Let's sing it out
O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder
Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
like a crew of the universe displayed.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee.
How great thou art, how great thou art.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee.
How great thou art, how great thou art.
When through the woods and forest plays I wander,
and hear the mercy sweetly in the trees.
When I look down from lofty mountains grandeur,
and hear the brook, and feel the gentle breeze.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee.
How great thou art, how great thou art.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee.
How great thou art, how great thou art.
And when I think that God, His Son, not sparing,
sends Him to die, I scarce can take it in.
That on the cross, my burning, loudly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee.
How great thou art, how great thou art.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee.
How great thou art, how great thou art.
When one shall come, wish out of that formation,
and take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.
Then I shall bow in humble adoration,
and there proclaim, my God, how great thou art.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee.
How great thou art, how great thou art.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee.
How great thou art, how great thou art.
Amen.
Excellent singing, everybody.
Let's go on your hymnals now to hymn 321.
Hymn 321, where he leads, I'll follow.
Hymn number 321, lift it up together, right on that first.
Sweet are the promises, kind is the word.
Hymn number 321, sing it out now.
Sweet are the promises, kind is the word.
Dearer far than any message man ever heard.
Oh, what a mind of Christ, sinless I see.
He, the great example, is a factor for me.
Where he leads, I'll follow, follow all the way.
Where he leads, I'll follow, follow Jesus every day.
Sweet is the tender love Jesus has shown.
Sweet are far than any love that mourns or has known.
Time to be everyone, faithful is he.
He, the great example, is a pattern for me.
Where he leads, I'll follow, follow all the way.
Where he leads, I'll follow, follow Jesus every day.
Place to his loving words, come unto me.
Wary that he lay in every sweet rest for me.
Trust in his promises, faithful and sure.
Lean upon the Savior and my soul is secure.
Where he leads, I'll follow, follow all the way.
Where he leads, I'll follow, follow Jesus every day.
Please turn your Bibles to Acts number 20.
Please turn your Bibles to Acts chapter number 20.
Acts chapter number 20, and after the uproar was seized, Paul called unto him the disciples
and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came
into Greece.
And there abode three months, and when the Jews laid wait for him as he was about
to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
And there accompanied him into Asia, Sopater of Berea, and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus
and Segundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Samothius, and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
These going before tarried for us at Troas.
And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them
to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.
And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread,
Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech until
midnight.
And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
And there sat in a window a certain young man, named Eutychus, being fallen into
a deep sleep.
And as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third
loft, and was taken up dead.
And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him, said, Trouble not yourselves,
for his life is in him.
And he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a
long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Asos, there intending to take in Paul.
For so had he appointed, minding himself, to go afoot.
And when he met with us at Asos, we took him in, and came to Mydalene.
And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios.
And the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogillium.
And the next day we came to Miletus.
For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia.
For he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know from the first day that
I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, serving the
Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell
me by the lying and weight of the Jews.
And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have
taught you publicly, and from house to house, testifying both to the Jews, and also to
the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
And now behold, I go bound in the Spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that
shall befall me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that
bonds and afflictions abide me.
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that
I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord
Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
And now behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God,
shall see my face no more.
Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy
Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with
his own blood.
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 his
disciples after them.
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I cease not to warn
every one, night and day, with tears.
And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is
able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel, yea, ye yourselves know that these
hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
I have showed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to support the weak,
and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give
than to receive.
And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.
And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, sorrowing most of
all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more, and they
accompanied him unto the ship.
Father in heaven, we thank you for the opportunity to hear your word preached.
We ask that you would fill Pastor Thompson with your spirit, and give him great boldness
and utterance to declare thus saith the Lord to us, Let us have a ten of ears, Lord,
not only to hear your word, but to do it each and every day.
We love you Lord, we ask for your blessing now, in Jesus' name, Amen.
Amen.
Well it's great to be here at Faithful Word Baptist Church, I just want to say
thank you to Pastor Anderson and the Faithful Word family for having me preach here.
It's an honor to preach in this pulpit, and I just wanted to once again say thank
you, and this morning I'm preaching out of Acts chapter 20, I know Pastor Anderson's
been preaching a series about Paul's missionary journey, so you have been going through this
chapter, but I wanted to springboard off of verses 28 through 31, where the Bible
says, Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy
Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with
his own blood.
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 night and day with tears.
So you have the Apostle Paul here speaking to the Ephesian elders, and he says it's
his job, and it's the job of the elders that he's speaking to, to warn people about
wolves that would come in and they would enter in among and not spare the flock.
And that even among their own selves, in their own churches, these wolves would rise
up.
And of course we're no stranger to these things happening, of course Faithful Word's
no stranger to these things happening.
There's been many battles over the years, many wolves that have come in, and they
draw away disciples after them also.
And they take people, and people get upset over many different things.
What the job is, is that they attack people, and then they want to rip as many people
out as they possibly can.
Now how do wolves attack?
Well wolves in the wild, they pack up generally, and they circle around their prey, and they
look for the injured, they look for the weak, they look for the young, and they look
for the lame.
Now when you translate that to Christians, then sometimes they're just looking for
someone and maybe they're spiritually injured.
The wolves that I'm talking about are people that are infiltrators, they're not
real Christians, they're phonies that would come in and do what Paul's talking
about here.
Maybe they're spiritually injured, maybe they're weak in the faith, maybe they're
just young Christians, maybe they're lame, they have some kind of problem in their
spiritual life, that they just look for weaknesses, and in real life wolves look
for weaknesses, and Paul talks about people being wolves, because this is how false prophets
and infiltrators try to gain, they gain the trust, and then they attack.
The title of my sermon this morning is Red Flags, Red Flags.
So I'm going to go ahead and have my volunteers come up that I asked to come up.
We've got Alex, Alex you're in the hot seat right here, and this is Ethan right?
I'm going to have you sit right here, and then the young lady, what was, yeah, come
on up, what was her name again?
Emma, she's going to sit up here.
So they're going to sit with me for the whole service, so you don't have to look
at me, you can focus on better looking people than me, but, so yeah, my sermon title
is Red Flags, and I brought a big packet of red flags, I'm going to demonstrate a truth
that hopefully you get at the end, at least by the end of the sermon there, but what
is a red flag?
Well we hear this term often, well that person's shown me a lot of red flags, who's heard
of this term before?
I'm just, yeah, okay everybody, so what is a red flag?
Well a red flag is a warning sign of possible impending danger.
Now I want to caveat this before I get deep into this sermon and just say this, that red
flags are just that, they're red flags, they're things to check in the back of your mind,
they're not automatically something that you just accuse somebody of being some evil
infiltrator, psychopath, reprobate, false prophet.
Now if it is a major red flag, then you might be able to label them instantaneously,
you know if they look like a queer, they talk like a queer, they dress like a queer,
they sound like a queer, they have the hair of a queer, then they're probably a queer right?
I mean those red flags are pretty good indicators, but sometimes it's a little more tricky and
sometimes just a red flag is just that, sometimes you know people are, you know
just have some kind of weird belief or something that they need to get worked out and I'll
cover that more as we get into the sermon, but Faithful Word has been talked about
as being a revolving door, and you're, this church is the biggest of all the quote-unquote
new IFB churches, it has the most amount of people, but you've also had the most amount
of people come and leave I'm sure also, and you have new people that come here all the time
I'm sure, and new people that leave all the time I'm sure, so, but Pastor Anderson has
multiple times talked about the revolving door of Faithful Word, sometimes, well most of the time
I'm sure a lot of great people come here, and then sometimes there's weird people that come here
and they have red flags don't they? And eventually they wash out or they get exposed or they
expose themselves and leave, so this morning I just want to help you to identify some red
flags that I've seen displayed and help you to be able to at least give some tools to help
you to discern how to navigate some of these relationships that you might have with new
people coming to church or just people that, you know sometimes people are long-time infiltrators
like Garrett, right? How long was Garrett here? Like 10 years or something? So I mean
people can infiltrate for a long time, even the keenest minds can be fooled by high-level
devils, and even the most discerning spirit-filled believer can be fooled, a la Judas Iscariot,
right? All the disciples thought that they were the ones, I mean they would rather think they
were the ones than Judas, and of course Jesus was the only one that knew that Judas was the traitor.
They were all surprised when Judas walked up in the garden with the whole, you know, band of
guys with torches and pitchforks and swords and staves and all those things, right? So in church
work, you know I've been a pastor for almost six years now and I've been in church work
though for a long time in various different types of ministry and the old IFB, the new IFB,
I was a church, you know I was the first church plant in a Verity Baptist Church in Vancouver,
Washington before I became the pastor there, and you know I've just had to deal with a lot of
bozos. I'm sure you guys have dealt with, you guys have dealt with a lot of both, way more
than I have, but I have developed a little bit of a lack of trust with people. So you know
when you first get in it's like, and people start flattering you and things like this,
you don't really, you don't really get it, you know, you've been warned already,
you know, you've heard all the sermons, but then when you actually go through it,
it's a little bit different. So, and you have these types of things in church work,
now you can't just throw out all inhibitions and say, oh they're from church,
they're here to help. You can't completely just sell out and trust every single
person that you meet, and you know for whatever reason, in churches like this church and
our church back in Vancouver, Washington, you get more weirdos than the average church,
or maybe you know, it just gets dealt with more than the average church. I
don't know if that, that might be more true, I don't know. But flag number one,
and flag number one is this, turn to Proverbs chapter 20 verse 19, I'm going
to give my first flags out here, and each participant here is going to get
a flag. Alright, so they're all getting flags, and the first flag, I think this
is one of, if not the most important part of the sermon, which is excessive
flattery. Excessive flattery, and I know your pastors preached about this, but it
is very important, this point here. Excessive flattery. Look at Proverbs
20 19, it says, he that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets. You're
like, I thought you meant flattery. Well look at the rest of the verse
there, it says, therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
That's kind of a strange pairing there, isn't it? Well, look at that colon there,
you see that colon? What is a colon? Well, a colon is a punctuation mark
that can be used in writing to introduce list, explanation, or quoted
sentences. It's usually placed after an independent clause or complete sentence
to signal what follows is related to the previous sentence. So these two things go
together, in other words. So the talebearer and the flatterer, those two
things mesh together. The Bible connects talebearing with flattery,
doesn't it? Isn't that what it's saying there? So once a talebearer has
you listen or join in with talebearing, and what is talebearing the
modern term? It's gossip. You know, but gossip isn't a word to sound in the
Bible, that's what most people call it, but talebearing is where you're
gossiping about someone. You could even be in the telling the truth about
somebody, but it might just not be your business to be talking about. So
talebearing is something that we ought not to be doing. The Bible says, thou
should not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people. The
Bible is very clear about this. It's, I mean, Leviticus 19 16 still applies to us
today. Proverbs chapter 20 verse 19 still applies, and you know, so we got to watch
out for people that are talebearers, because a lot of times they might have
an agenda, and what's the agenda? To get your guard down. That's what they,
they flatter you with their lips so they can get your guard down and get
you to gossip, and then what? They hold something over your head. Maybe they
got you to gossip about something that wasn't that big of a deal, but now
they got you on something, so if you out them for something else, then they got
you on something. That's, that's why I think that these types of people use
flattery is so that they can get you on talebearing. They can get you to
gossip about somebody. I've seen people do this multiple times, so I know
it's true, and the Bible's explained to us right here that you're not supposed
to meddle with someone that flatter, flatters you with their lips. The Bible
says in Jeremiah 17 9, the heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked who can know it. So we can be deceiving, the most deceptive
thing about our heart is we deceive ourself a lot of times. We think, you
know, that when someone flatters us, that they really mean it. Oh, you know, maybe
I am really good at this thing. Maybe I am the best at whatever they're
saying. Maybe I am the best friend ever, or whatever it is that they're
flattering with you with. You might start to believe that because the heart
is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. You know, we start
believing what people are saying about us, and really they don't mean it.
They're just flattering you. They're just trying to tell you something
that's not true. What is flattery? It's lavish or excessive, insincere praise
and compliments upon someone. Insincere, it means they don't mean it,
especially to further one's own interests. That's the definition of
flattery, and that is the problem with it is that it's not sincere. They don't
mean it. It's a tool and a tactic to get you to trust them and let your
guard down. So you can't trust people with your sensitive information,
especially people that you just first meet. You know, Christians are too trusting
sometimes, and I'm not saying that we should never trust anybody, but you
know, confidential information, major past failures in your life, big sins
that you have in your past, those aren't things that you should just share with
the newest person that comes to the church. And why? Because they want to
store that information so they can use it against you later. That's why.
People like to data mine, you know, people, some people that
come to this church, the first thing that they do is start data mining
everybody and trying to get the goods on as many people as they can. And
regardless of how Christian should be though, some people just can't help but
judge you and hold it against you. Christians should be forgiving. People, we
should overlook past sins and things like that, but there's some things that
you share with people that they might not be able to overlook in their mind,
even though they're supposed to still forgive for it. So, and you know, these
people, they might not be able to remember to set alarm to get to church
on time, but they'll remember every conversation they've ever had with you,
they'll remember every conversation they ever had with the pastor, every
conversation with the pastor's wife, the pastor's kids, all that stuff, and
they store that in their little reprobate memory bank to use against
you later. And they're not above taking that and making half truths out
of it or just completely lying about those people. They might have had a
conversation, but they're not going to tell the truth about it. Here's some of
the things that I've heard or I've heard said to other people that end
up being weirdos, right, that we end up having to kick out or mark at our
church. This is the best church ever. I'm never going to leave. How many
times have you heard that? I mean, people come here all the time because they
say, this is the best church ever. And then what? They leave because it's not, to
them now, it's also not the best church ever. Because, you know, going here
and actually being a part of the community of this church is a lot
different than watching online and actually doing the work and being
part of it. You'll always be my pastor. I've heard that. You're my best
friend. And they tell that to every girl, lady in the church. You're the best
construction worker I've ever seen. I mean, what a weird thing to say to
somebody. You've never even seen them do any construction work. I've had, I've
had, if I had to pick someone to give the gospel to someone, it would be you
because I know you really care about people's souls. Someone said that to one
of my church members recently. People take you for granted. What is that,
what is that statement designed to say? You know, it's
designed to make you feel negatively, especially, you know, this was said to my
wife by somebody, and it's like, what is that designed to do? Make my wife
feel negatively about other people in the church. You're the most generous
person I've ever met. You're the most forgiving person I've ever met. I really
hope people appreciate all that you do. What, those things are designed to have
some sort of a reaction. It's seed planting. If I was in charge, I would take
care of that immediately, just like that. I had someone tell me that
somebody said that. That's the Absalom tactic. That's where Absalom is, oh the
pastor's too busy to help you with your problems. Let me help you. Let me
teach you. Let me take on all this. And then if the pastor doesn't take care
of what, that said thing, then they're like, well if I was the pastor, I would do
it. I would take care of it. If I was the pastor's wife or whatever. Don't fall
for flattery. Don't join in with tail bearing. If you fall for flattery, the
excessive, oh you're the greatest, then you're gonna fall for the tail
bearing. So don't do it. Don't give away your information. Don't talk
about other people with people. Don't allow the flattery to get
people to tail bear with you. Bad people are always looking for a way to
get your guard down and, you know, win you over. So don't allow that to happen.
Flag number two. Give each participant another one. All right, we're all
working with two flags here. Flag number two is hyper-spiritual holier-than-thous.
Hyper-spiritual holier-than-thous. Turn to Isaiah 65. Isaiah 65. There's nothing
wrong with being spiritual. Of course God wants us to be spiritual. There's
nothing wrong with being holy. God wants us to be holy. Be holy for I am
holy, the Bible says, right? But Isaiah 65 verse 5 says this, which say, stand
by thyself, come not near to me for I am holier than thou. And the Bible says
this, these are smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. Now God
doesn't like this attitude. That's what the Bible is saying. He doesn't like
when people think that they're better than everybody else and say don't
even come around me because I'm way holier than you are. And it's like a fire
burning all day. And I know a lot of people in here like to go camping so you
understand when you have a campfire and the smoke is constantly blowing in
your face because you know smoke follows beauty, right? And so everywhere
you move the smoke is just following you, right? It's just super annoying, right?
When the smoke is blowing in your face. This is how God feels when
someone is up on a high horse acting like they're better than everybody else,
they're hyper spiritual, and they're holier than everybody else. Turn to
Matthew chapter 6, Matthew chapter 6. And these people a lot of times end up
turning out as bad people. And I'm not saying every time, but a lot of times
in my experience these types of people end up being bad people. Matthew
chapter 6 verse 1 the Bible says, take heed that you do not your alms before
men to be seen of them otherwise you have no reward of your of your father
which is in heaven therefore when thou doest thine alms do not sound a
trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the
streets that they may have glory of men verily I say unto you they have
their reward. So what do these types of people like to do? Well they're
hyper spiritual, holier than thou's. They like to you know do things to be seen of
men. They like to brag about all the things that they do for God. They
constantly like to bring up how much soul winning or good works that they're
doing. That is a red flag when you're over the top with it. I'm not saying
don't be joyous about the people you got saved and so on and so forth, but
you know people that have to just say, oh hey the other day when I was
soul winning and when I got ten people saved and then you lead into the next
thing that you're about to say. It always has to be something that you're
saying about the good works that you do. Then what are you doing? You're
really just trying to get people to acknowledge how great of a spiritual
worker that you are. Look at verse 16 it says moreover when you fast be not
as the hypocrites of a sad countenance for they disfigure their faces
that they may appear unto men to fast verily I say unto you they have their
reward. So what's God saying? He's saying hey if you if you want to fast
and then you want everybody to notice that you're fasting then you
already have your reward. It's pointless. It's like that's the but
that's the point. They want men to see them. They want men to think that
they're really spiritual. That's why they're hyper spiritual. They're holier
than thou. And it's really funny because this is, why does he say this?
Because people have a tendency to do these things. There was a kid that was
going to one of the churches before I started the church in Vancouver. I was
going to this church and there was a maybe it was a 16 year old kid who was
going to church there and I saw, I think I was out somewhere with
him, I can't remember where we were, but he had this sad face on. He was you know
he was just all pouty or whatever and I was like what's wrong? And I knew what
he was, I just knew what he was gonna say. Well I'm fasting. I was like well
you lost your reward kid. You know I showed him this verse it's like dude
like this is what the Bible says not to do but yet and it just shows
that's why Jesus said this. Says but when thou fast anoint thine head and
wash thy face that thou appear not unto men to fast but unto the Father
which is in secret and thy father would seeth thee in secret shall reward thee
openly. Holier than thou's you know also are the type of people that are
not willing to forgive others or let people live down sins that they've
committed and mistakes that they made things like that they never cuss they
never chew they never ran with girls that did all that kind of stuff. They're
currently committing probably worse sins than you know they're holding up
their nose at everybody else. You know it's funny this one family
that we end up having a mark later on he's like he called me up and he's
like we're the we're the only people in this church that are not fake. We're
the only ones that believe in having big families and it's like we got a lot
of big families in our church. They got a funny way of showing how they don't
believe in big families but this person was a hyper spiritual person now
they're out of church now they're just living you know their best life
now and all the inhibitions that they had all the things that they were so
holy about at our church are all gone out the window and it's funny like one
time we were I asked if anybody wanted to do like a Christmas choir and they
like led the charge against it but then at the same time this same guy is
promoting drum having a drum set in our church and I had to finally go to the
guy and say hey what are you doing like why do you keep promoting drum sets
we're never gonna have a drum set in this church it's not happening we're
not gonna get a plexiglass pulpit and we're not gonna get a drum set you know
next thing I know we're gonna have purple lights after that it's not
happening or a smoke machine not happening I mean might as well just if
you get a drum set here is that the liberalism is coming right afterwards so
anyway the thing is no church is ever worthy of their magnificent splendor
that's that's what these types of people are like no church is good
enough for them no pastors good enough for them they're on a higher plane and
spiritual level than everybody else this is the hyper spiritual holier than
thou and they look down their noses at everybody else and you know some
people you know like this have been raised in church and some haven't but
the ones that have been raised in church some of these people can't get
down to or they can't condescend them in a lower state that means they don't
get down on other people's levels like some people are raised in church
they kind of get this hyper spiritual attitude too and everybody can get it
and it's just not an attitude that we should have now just because someone
is a hyper spiritual holier than thou it doesn't mean that there are
always a bad person it doesn't mean that turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 10
verse 11 1st Corinthians chapter 10 verse 11
the Bible says now all these things happened unto them for in samples and
they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are
calm and the Bible gave in all these examples of things we're not supposed to
do because in the Old Testament these people got punished really harshly for
them but it says verse 12 wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed
lest he fall now sometimes you know these people that are hyper spiritual
holier than thou is they just get puffed up they're Christians that maybe
learn things way too quick and they and then they get on this higher plane
because so-and-so didn't learn and get on board as fast as I did when I got
saved I jumped right my Bible I knew after the tribulation I knew the Jews
weren't God's chosen people and all this other stuff I knew that fags were
destined for hell no matter what like they just knew everything really quick
and they can get hyper spiritual they can get holier than thou too and so
we got to be careful about that attitude as Christians and you know
babes in Christ can get like that too and so we have to be careful not
to just label someone that's a hyper spiritual holier than thou as some
kind of reprobate because that's just not necessarily true so flag number three
is Oh lost my flag all right flag number three is constant boundary
pushing constant boundary pushing you don't get one only she gets one all
right constant boundary pushing turn to Proverbs chapter 22 verse 28 while
you're turning there I'm going to read Proverbs 23 verse 10 Proverbs 23
verse 10 says remove not the old landmark and enter not into the fields
of the fatherless obviously this is talking about you know your literal
boundaries you know on your property lines and things like that but you know
if you want to take the spiritual approach with this we don't want to
spiritually cross boundaries that we're not supposed to cross and if you
want to just talk about your boundaries in your personal life rules
in your life that you don't want people and and boundaries in your life
that you don't want people to cross that can also be an application to
look at what it says in Proverbs 22 verse 28 says remove not the ancient
landmark which thy fathers have set so what is constant boundary pushing well
constant rule breaking the borders you know that borders excuse me on
intentional you know people that just consistently just break the rules all
the time and it almost seems like it's intentional doing it and that might
sound like a weird red flag but it is kind of it is a red flag sometimes
people just they know what the boundary is and they go right up to the
edge of it and then they just kind of draw back and don't get there but
they they just like to see how far they can push it before someone's
going to react to it and when people are doing that they're testing to see
where you'll draw your line and not everybody is a confrontational person so
some people will allow their boundaries to be crossed and whatever boundary they
have and people that are like people that are bad people will see what can I
do just like I said the wolves they they like to circle around and
find the weakness well they want to find the weakness in your boundary too
and see what they can get away with and you have to set hard boundaries
sometimes it's just like even with your family members that aren't saved
you have to set boundary boundaries with your family members like hey no we're
not carving pumpkins this year mom and dad you know those types of boundaries
so go ahead and turn to 1st Corinthians 7 verse 1 now I know that there's
different interpretations for this passage and but I'm sure that we can
agree on this interpretation that I'm about to give you though and one
example I just want to give is serial huggers serial huggers and mainly I'm
talking about men okay men that are serial huggers and I'm not talking
about like you know hey you know brother and cry you know I'm talking
about dudes that like to go and hug other people's wives or hug other other
women 1st Corinthians 7 1 says now concerning the things wherever you wrote
unto me it is good for a man not to touch a woman nevertheless to avoid
fornication let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her
own husband again there's different people have different views on this
verse but I'll tell you one thing you probably don't like is if a dude
walked up and hugged your wife who would not have a problem with that
really everybody would so we have this guy in our church and he was just like a
massive boundary pusher he's just always doing something that I'm always
having to correct the guy over and one of the things is like that I had heard
that he did was walked up and full frontal hugged another man's wife two
times and when I confronted him about it he's like I don't subscribe to
everything that the new IFB teaches and he'd also hugged little girl of one
of the men in our churches daughters but it was side hugs but still like and and
when I said to him as I said I don't think that's a new IFB thing I think
that's just a general purposes thing like some dude walks in and starts
hugging everybody's wife in here there's gonna be you know there's
gonna be an instant showdown isn't there someone's gonna get corrected
really quick aren't they so you know I'm I know what Pastor Anderson believes
about this if somebody walks up and hugs his wife there there's gonna be an
instant problem now I don't know how protective you are of your wife but I'm
pretty protective and this is where we had a guy another guy come in and he
I when I looked up who he was he was a proclaiming pastor he came in and sat
next to one of the ladies in our church and hugged her like he did he
came in for the hug and tried to hug her but then he left immediately just
real creepy real weird guy and he better not ever come back because he's
gonna get he's not gonna get hugged he's gonna get thrown out the door but
isn't that a big boundary to push with somebody like people that do stuff
like that oh you know I don't subscribe to everything in the new IFB
what does that what does that mean like like that's just one of our core
doctrines no hugging other people's wives no it's just common decency it's just
something you don't do so and here and here's what I said to him I was like
well hey you know the next time you come to church which he never did
because I kicked him out but if your wife came up like say I'm the
pastor of the church if I just walked up and full-frontal hugged every
single woman that could every wife that came up to the church what do you
think that's weird of course you would I wouldn't be the pastor for very
much longer but I said how would you like it if I just walked up and
full-frontal hugged your wife when she came to church dead silence on the
phone you know why because he wouldn't like it and nobody would it's
just bizarre it's a it's a boundary pusher type of thing so but you know
it doesn't matter what you think bozo you just don't come in and start
hugging people's wives so let's see this guy is saying it's this guy I'll
just tell you how much of a boundary pusher this guy was okay so on Father's
Day he's like hey everybody bring your boxing gloves like it's in our
whatsapp church group and I'm like I thought you know people thought he was
joking but he's like we'll just we'll box after church and I was like no
you're not this isn't like MMA church or boxing church or fight church I said
I don't think that our landlord would appreciate it very much if we had a
boxing match after church you know because we rent this building and so he
gets all pouty like he's fasting or something and everybody's like walking
around asking what's wrong what's wrong he's just pissed because I told
him no he said well you lied about the reason it's like I didn't lie about the
reason I don't think unlicensed boxing matches are on our insurance I
mean I think you pretty much have to have like a special kind of insurance to
have boxing matches so I think you have to have like the boxing commission
come in and you have to have judge you know all that stuff but anyway it's
just weird the guy was weird we had the Lord's Supper at our church and I
just during the instructions I said hey it's just going to take a little bit
please don't get up and get in and go to the bathroom and stuff like that if
you don't have to and so his wife gets up and takes her their son to the
bathroom I didn't even notice I'm just you know doing my thing he comes
up to me after the end of the church he's like really sorry like why
he's like my wife took my son to the bathroom I was like okay I was like
oh I'd rather have him do that than go to you know pee his pants he's like
it's not okay she's my wife just like okay like what did you expect me to say
like I don't understand so the guy is just super weird anyway and you know
what I kicked him out for was railing against the pastor you know Pastor
Shelley made that video where it's like you know he's got the turban on
his head and he's like mocking Muhammad or whatever and so this guy pipes up in
the group and he's like fools make a mock at sin so he's calling Pastor
Shelley a fool and he said unless you can show me scripture otherwise I'm not
I'm not I'm not backing off this I was just like well then don't come
back to church how about that and then he he's just such a boundary you
know he was making invitations or no not invitations he's making preaching
pamphlets showing our men how to preach sermons he brought him and handed him
out without asking and it's like you preach one time at our church man one
time and he's making the preaching oh here you go you know don't worry
about the pastor's like you see how that's just like continuously just
crossing boundaries and then when he tried to come back he's like what do I
got to do to come back like what do you think you have to do like why do
you have to ask me what you have to do to come back you got to apologize
idiot but I said I don't want you to come back because I mean this is just
such a an egregious thing now this is over the top this is just one person
being you know this is all in one week too by the way this isn't just
over over months of time there was other stuff he did that was even
weirder that I just don't have time for to this morning but it's just
you know you got people that are crossing boundaries constantly like this
it is a red flag can you see how that just built up like he should have a
whole bunch of flags right now but here let me give you one more so other ways
that this could be like just people you know giving unsolicited advice where
they didn't ask for it just constantly parenting other people's kids things
like that obviously when people's kids are in danger of course you should you
know step in and save their lives and things like that but like nobody should
be punishing other people's kids and stuff like that but taking any you know
responsibility on that's not yours things like that but you do have to
stand up to people like this and here's why because when people are
border they're they're border crossers the different kind of border
crossers okay when they're boundary pushers you guys know about that in
Arizona okay well when people are constantly doing this kind of stuff when
people are not confrontational then they'll they'll they'll just keep
doing it and then these types of people like when you finally say
something and you haven't just checked them the first time then they get
really mad and turn and you know turn against you or whatever but I
would just highly recommend if you have you know if you don't have borders in
place and and checks and balances with what people you allow people to do in
your lives then you need to put them in and then you just have to take a strong
stand if you're you know you just sometimes you just have to do it
because otherwise they'll just keep doing it and keep doing it until you
do something about it number four pretentious people pretentious people
look at Matthew chapter 23 here's another flag pretentious people oh look
at Matthew 23 pretentious people Matthew chapter 23 verse 14 pretentious
people can also be hypocrites okay pretentious people Matthew 23 well says
well into scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you devour widows
houses and for a pretense make long prayer you know you've heard those
people right for a pretense for a pretense make long prayer therefore you
shall receive the greater damnation a pretentious person is someone who is
showing off something that they do not have so what was the Pharisee showing
off something he wasn't they're not really spiritual they're pretending to
pray they're maybe eloquent in speech but they're not really people of
prayer because the this guy wasn't even say he said they have the greater
damnation that means they're not saved right so they have fake claims about
being more important more knowledgeable or claims about being richer than they
really are they pretend to be something or someone they are not this is a
pretentious person look at Luke chapter 18 verse 9 and these people
are really dangerous because there's people that creep into churches and
they're pretending to be saved they're not really saved these are your Judas
type people the ones that are really hard to root out pretentious people
pretending to be saved look at Luke chapter 18 these are people that could
preach the real gospel they know what the real gospel is they know what
we believe and yet are still pretending to be saved Luke chapter 18
verse 9 the Bible says and he spake this parable onto certain that trusted
in themselves that they were righteous and despised others they trusted in
themselves that they were righteous and despised others this is such a weird
story two men went up to the temple to pray the one a Pharisee the other
Republican the Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself so he's
praying with himself but he's saying it's to God God I thank thee that I'm
not as other men are extortioners unjust adulterers or even as this
publican I fast twice in the week I give tithes of all that I possess and
the publican standing afar off would not lift up so much as his eyes unto
heaven but smote his breast seen God be merciful to me a sinner I tell
you this man went down to his house justified rather than the other for
every one that exalted himself shall be a base and he that humble at
himself shall be exalted but normal people have a hard time grasping this
action of this Pharisee normal people can't grasp it because it's super weird
to pray within yourself to God isn't it it's super weird to pretend to be
saved when you're actually not you're pretty I mean some people are just not
saved and they think they are but these people actually pretend that they
are and they know they're not these are really bad people and that's why
it's hard for us to understand how people are like this it's just like you
know these you know people I don't know if anybody like watches the
detective type you know forensic files and things like that maybe you
are interested in things like that but I think that we're people are so
interested in true crime because we can't imagine what it's like to
actually be that person so it intrigues us because we just can't understand it
and you know these types of people they pretend to love you they pretend to be
your friend they pretend to pray they pretend to read the Bible ten times a
year I mean that's five times a year pretend to love the pastor pretend to
love the church pretend to love lost souls they pretend to be one of us
but you know and here's the thing everyone is a hypocrite to a certain
extent everybody is but the true hypocrite in the Bible is the one that
pretends to be saved and knows they're not and they are pretending on purpose
again something that normal people cannot fathom turn to Job chapter 8 now
Job chapter 8 in the book of Job it kind of calls out the hypocrites for
what they really are the true hypocrite now Jesus said you know pull out the
mode out of your your eyes so you can pull the beam you know thou hypocrite so
you can pull the beam out of their eyes so Jesus talks about believers
being hypocrites too now people always like to say well I don't go to
church because of all the hypocrites there well but you go to Walmart
don't you there's a lot of hypocrites at Walmart look at look at how they
dress but there's a I mean there's hypocrites everywhere you go but you
still go there but people just like to use that as an excuse and everybody has
hypocrisy you know we believe one thing and yet we do another because we're
sinful people but the true hypocrite like I said believes or they don't
believe but they pretend to look at Job 8 13 it says so are the pasts of
all that forget God and the hypocrites hope shall perish look at Job 13 16
Job 13 16 so it says the hypocrites hope shall perish they have no hope it's
gone Job 13 16 he also shall be my salvation for an hypocrite shall not
come before him so another verse showing the hypocrites not going to
come before God Job 20 verse 5 Job 20 verse 5 the Bible says that the
triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of the hypocrite but for a
moment Job 27 verse 8 Job 27 verse 8 for what is the hope of the hypocrite
though he hath gained and this is why they're hypocrites because they want
to gain they want to come in and gain something when God taketh away his
soul so the true hypocrite they're not going to heaven they're going to hell
that's why Jesus in Matthew chapter 20 he's just constantly saying won't you
scribes Pharisees hypocrites the whole time these are people that are
very dangerous very bad people pretenders pretentious people like this
are very hard to spot sometimes like I said Judas is one of these types of
people but sometimes they're super obvious sometimes they're real obvious
like we do it seems like we kind of get high levels and low levels you know
the the low level wolves are their tails already out you can see their ears
you know it's like that dude you dude you're super obvious like you really
came to the wrong church if you thought you were going to get one over on us
because you're like we picked everybody picked you the moment you walked in
but the ones we have to worry about are the ones that are the high-level devils
and you know so we just got to watch out for it so now flag number
five flag number five is they speak King James ease they speak King James
ease aka ultra spiritual language so sorry I got to get these books out real
quick these are the the twins letters that they wrote I'm not gonna go
over them all there's too much that's too much I think Pastor Anderson
already did that anyway but you know the turn to second Peter chapter 2 verse
3 second Peter chapter 2 verse 3 while you're turning there I'm so this Uganda
mission report is 14 pages long and some of the weirdest language I'm just
going to read the first paragraph for you glorious things are spoken of thee
Oh city of God see law Psalm 87 verse 3 on the frontiers of the Ugandan
mission field light has arisen in darkness and the people that walked in
darkness have seen a great light no more let sins and sorrows grow nor
thorns infest the ground for I have found a ransom whereas in time past they
were not a people yet now many thousands of this benign country are the
children of God Uganda is quickly becoming and perhaps already is the
African country with the brightest prospects of total evangelism with the
true gospel in the shortest time not us not a single day goes by here without
many dozens even on some days hundreds of souls being translated into the
kingdom of his dear son God the dear son of God excuse me multitudes both of
men and women acts 514 I mean I'm not gonna go through 14 pages of this
but that was a waste of my copy paper like but they even have like a like you
have to like if you've got this letter I who got this letter like when it
originally came out okay like it's just filled with lots of King James E's
like they fit scripture in with their sentences and stuff ultra spiritual
language is what it is but I said I call it King James E's but so then they
have this like you have to reference to this other massive totally heretical on
human formal ordination or they just because they couldn't get ordained then
they have to write a treatise on why human ordination is not necessary
to be a missionary so and then yeah one of the I do have to read one of
things that they said if I can I think it's at the blast page here oh there's
like multiple pages of the examples of Jesse and John at faithful word how
great they were here but anyway the last page I thought was really
interesting because the Apostle Paul you know he was or he was called of
Jesus Christ he was you know knocked off his horse blinded you know he has a
pretty incredible testimony of his salvation going and getting saved in the
town being baptized but so they use this they said it says on the last page
said of his apostleship we say of our evangelistic Commission not of men
neither by man but by Jesus Christ Galatians 1 1 it's like so they're
taking something that the Apostle said about his apostleship and applying it
to their evangelistic starting a church without any ordination it's just like you
know and of course you know now they're saying that they don't believe that
hell you know that Jesus went to hell for three days and three nights
and they're outing now of course what do you think that they're saying
that faithful word is now what do you think that they're saying it's a cult
pastor Anderson's the cult of personality after all the the nice things
that they said over the years and how much you know great things that it's but
it's what they did that was great at faithful word it wasn't that faithful
were trained them and helped them and and all this it's that they learned
all the great things they became great preachers they read the Bible 15
times both of them and well you know who cares
there were also some of the most prideful people on the face of the
planet too and so prideful that they're throwing out human formal ordination
because I guess they forgot where it says neglect not the gift is in thee by
the laying of the hands of the presbytery to to Timothy like where
Paul said that hands were actually laid upon Timothy to be ordained or that
you know how he left Titus and Crete to ordain men in every city but you
know formal ordination is just not a thing that we're supposed to do right
so people that have this ultra spiritual language second Peter chapter 2 verse 3
says and through covetousness shall they with feigned words that means fake
words make merchandise of you whose judgment now of a longtime lingereth not
and their damnation slumberth not skip down to verse 18 it says for when
they speak great swelling words of vanity and this is what they do they
allure through the lust of the flesh they want their their spiced up words
and the way they talk brother and all this you know I'm not saying don't call
people brother that that's totally appropriate but I'm just I'm talking about
the King James ease hyper spiritual language that these guys use is beyond
you know disgusting it's weird and it's just over the top and when
people start talking like that I instantly just like ding ding ding ding
the flag goes off in my mind this remember the other guy that I said was
the boundary pusher he says he said this to one of the people in the
church you refresh my bowels brother now the Apostle Paul did say that you
know this in the New Testament but you know when we hear that when we think of
bowels what do you I know what you're thinking because it's what I
think but it's still it's a strange thing to say to somebody you know you
just walk up you refresh my bowels brother if you don't think that's weird
I mean I don't know what to do well I don't know what to tell you but the
McPhail your twins you know they just saying that they do greater they've
done greater works than pastor men is and all this other stuff it's just
like you know if they have to tell you how great they are by writing two
novels and sending it out they're failures all right number six video game
so many numbers oh yeah and one of the funny things in here is like they they
have like an exact number of how many Judas Iscariots are in here it was
like two thousand seven hundred and like they got it down peg like they're
really you know counting their numbers I didn't know that was a stat that was
kept is how many Judas Iscariots that they've come across but it was like
two over two thousand Judas Iscariots so not sure how they got that but
anyway video game numbers is a flag number six so let me get this flag out
here so that might go with one of the other categories it was just kind of
something you don't get all right all right so video games only numbers and
look you know when we go to like places that are really receptive then
getting video games so any number and what I mean by that like you're just
racking up lots of numbers right and it's possible to just continuously give
the gospel I know you guys have gone to many great soloing areas and preach the
gospel but if it's like Vancouver Washington and you're getting you know
like ten you're getting ten saved every time you go out soloing I mean
that's ridiculous and I'm sure you guys have had people that have come
here and then every time they go out soloing they're getting like ten
people saved have you guys had that before like I don't know okay so I
don't know I'm not gonna have you turn to any verses that is just a red
flag that I've noticed over the years grifters is another one always just
needing help we have this this one family in our church and and look if
people need help I'm not knocking people that need help at all but we had
this family that was like you know anytime you say hey how's it going
they'd be like well I'm just wondering you know how I'm gonna pay my bills
this month but you know I'm just living by faith and like they were
literally on the dole with every single person in the church was like helping
their family giving them money and then when it all came down to it they
just completely turned against our church you know and they these these
people will be like we're so broke and then the next week they come with
their whole family has brand new clothes from JC Penney's or
something's like I don't know there's people like that so if someone answers
that question like that every single time they're probably just kind of on
the grift so and then flag number eight over the top suspicion that
everyone is a wolf or a fag this is also a red flag to me okay over the top
I'm talking about over the top now if someone looks like like I said if
someone looks like a queer they sound like a queer and all that stuff
they probably are so now if people do try to infiltrate our churches like
that that are their homos right I'm talking about the false prophet fag
hunters that are just everybody's a queer that walks in we've had a couple
people like this at our church and they are both they both turned out to be
super weird so now just to caveat this also if you think someone is
please don't hide it go through the right channels tell pastor or brother
Chris or whoever that you think that someone might be but you know when
it's over the top you know it's just it gets weird so we did have some weird
trainee come to one of our churches in Spokane and they made like this
hour-long video about it but I was actually proud by the way our church
handled it because in my opinion it made our church look good and here's
why because we're accused of being these bloodthirsty murderers that would
just kill a fag if we ever had a chance to or something and this person
came by themselves they're a man that is dresses up and like a woman or whatever
but they came and they'd called me and taught and two different people called
and told me about this person and they were displaying some sign of being
a possible infiltrator but they said they just weren't sure but they did
suspect them and what was this how they suspect him man bun man bun so and this
this person came like just for a couple weeks or something they were
secretly filming and things like that but you know but our people were nice
you know even though they did have a couple suspicions they were nice but
this person even went so far as to let someone give the gospel to them and
pretend to get saved and do the sinner's prayer and everything what a
disgusting faggoty freak that person is but you know for for them to come
and then at they act like they were so afraid but note like in the whole
video like nobody mistreats them at all and they're not they're not brave
enough to actually walk in as they are but we still wouldn't shoot them or
do anything any violence to them unless they refuse to leave or something we
wouldn't shoot them but we would just make them leave but you know it's just
weird it's weird that so you know that someone would do that just so they can
just get clicks on their videos or whatever but you know not everybody is
an infiltrator but that person actually was and they were right to
call it out but you know we're not going to we're not trying to kill
people or hurt people we just we just don't want them in so but I mean you
know you win some you lose some I guess number nine weird child rearing
techniques there's another one weird child rearing techniques punishments that
are over the top and if you've done any of these I'm not trying to offend
you I don't know nobody came to me and said hey you need to get on these
people that are doing the weird child rearing techniques okay but hot sauce in
the mouth of a child I've seen people do that not not in church work but I
just I've seen someone that did that cold showers hose people down outside
with cold water in the middle of winter making people write 10,000 word
essays I think that's kind of weird making people write read the Bible all
day I will chime in on this one real quick though we had there was a
deacon and a deacon's wife at church that we went to and they put their son
in what's called total timeout and that was where you're set in front of you're
at a table and you make your they made their son read the Bible all day
from the time they woke up to the time that they went to bed there's no
quicker way to make your child a reprobate than doing that I mean you
want to get your kid to hate the Bible then make them do that I'm not saying
you shouldn't have your children read the Bible of course you should but as a
punishment so you know that guy that that kids a tranny now he's not a kid
he's an adult he trained he came out and said his name is Iris now
his name what used to be Jeff now it's Iris and his poor children had to
see this happen and then his wife they seem to be like normal people or
whatever it is now his wife is a dude or whatever so yeah I don't know these
people you want to make someone a reprobate then punish them weirdly
with the Bible that's just strange don't do that kind of stuff one of
the people that used to go to your church this is a real a real thing it
made their their baby crawl for their food because if a man doesn't work
neither should he eat Dominique Davis not letting your children look at the
dad's plate of food because thou shalt not covet also Dominique Davis that's
bizarre man crawl for your food crawl for your bottle I think it was a
bottle that's bizarre then they turn out to be oneness so big surprise there
Proverbs 23 verse 13 go ahead and heard of Proverbs 23 verse 13 I gotta
hurry up here I knew I was gonna run out of time I didn't give you another
flag today there you go all right Proverbs 23 verse 13 says withhold
not correction from the trial child for if thou beatest him with the rod he
shall not die thou shalt beat him with the rod and shall deliver his soul from
hell the Bible says we're just supposed to spank him spank him with
the rod and that's what the Bible says it doesn't say to do all these
other weird things with them so it is a red flag if someone has some weird
over-the-top you know child rearing techniques now I'm gonna skip through
let's see
all right let's go back to Acts chapter 20 I have to skip a couple of these I'll
just tell you what they were there real quick as I skip through them
because I got to get down here flag number 10 was narcissistic personality
disorder behavior but I don't have time to go through that that's a that's
a big point but not everybody is a narcissist just so you know there's
like all this these studies now and people just think that if they watch a
couple of YouTube videos that they've pegged everybody their spouse as being a
narcissist so I would just be careful about becoming you know Sigmund Freud
over watching some some YouTube videos anyway another one is weird
gospel presentations so I'll give you a couple flags even though I didn't
really go into detail but people have weird gospel presentations aren't always
weird they just need training but some people even though they've been
trained and they've been doing it for a long time they still can't get a
write gospel presentation out that is a red flag flag number another flag
perverse diverse and strange doctrine acts 20 verse 30 says also of your own
self shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples
after themselves how are after them excuse me so so like what well this
is out of our text this is what Paul's worrying about people that would
use perverted doctrine to to draw people away like what like I don't know like
oneness like the flat earth like I don't know what's another one that you
guys could think of anybody those are the two big ones okay so two weird
ones right Jesus warned us about being aware of false prophets and wolves and
sheep's clothing Paul warned us of dogs evil workers and the concision so
you know when people have some weird doctrine that only they teach and
it's something just really bizarre that is a red flag that we need to
watch out for and I don't know if I gave you a one but I'll give you
another one anyway so we need to watch out for people that are bringing in some
kind of a strange obscure doctrine and they're taking people aside and teach
them that's what false prophets do that's what infiltrators do flag
another flag is attacking the leadership leaders wives children and
leaders and staff members this is another red flag that people like to do
they you know the Bible says salute them that have the rule over you salute
all the brethren but a lot of times people will start ignoring the
leadership or just lying about them or just constantly trying to confront them
or their children and lying about their you know the wives and their in
their children this stuff happens all the time and it's unfortunate but it is
a red flag that happens a lot let's see and people that try to pretend like
they're super tight with the leadership that's another weird thing
that people do they're like oh yeah we were just hanging out the other day
and they like pretend to everybody in the church that their best friends with
the pastor or the pastor's wife when they really aren't that's another red
flag data mining I already kind of covered that and let's see yeah I'm just
gonna wrap up right now so in the end you know look at all these flags okay
just hold up all these flags all right now everybody hold up your flags she's
got three he's got two he's got here takes it take these two so in the end I
mean what's the illustration the illustration is that you know and
obviously they might not have all these flags but the illustration is that this
person has all these problems this person over here maybe she just doesn't
believe the reprobate doctrine she doesn't do you have four how'd you get
four did I give you four okay she doesn't believe the reprobate doctrine
that's not necessarily a red flag but it might be to some people okay she
doesn't believe that it's after the tribulation she believes in the
pre-trip rapture she doesn't she still believes that the Jews are God's chosen
people and you know she's you know things is okay for women to wear
pants or something okay so she's got some things that need to be
straightened out but you know she starts coming to the church and after a
while you know she gets all this stuff right now she doesn't have any
flags she's she's normalized and the thing is is that going to church you
know makes you normal the people that move here and they start coming to
church they start hearing all the great doctrine of this church it's gonna
normalize you it's gonna make you a better Christian and you're gonna learn
the Bible if people want to sit and learn and and and get to know and
understand the Bible they start reading their Bible they start
listening to the preaching applying to their lives it's gonna normalize them
now this guy over here you know he he just never seems to get it right
he just can't he still believes that homos can be saved all right he still
believes that the Jews are God's chosen people okay now those might be red
flags to you but it doesn't mean he's not saved it just means that he's
stupid about a couple things okay but it doesn't mean he's a bad person it
just means he has a couple red flags yet so that's why I'm just trying to
help you understand the illustration a little bit that some people come in
they might have some red flags but they're not necessarily bad they just
need to learn and some people will never get over a couple of the red
flags or whatever that they have but they're still saved and they're still
good people and we shouldn't accuse them of being a wolf that person right
there's got major problems they are a wolf I mean he's total wolf right
and I'll just say this so when I first got saved I didn't go to church for
about six months but I had read the Bible some I didn't read the whole Bible
but I'd read a lot of prophecy like Matthew 24 and read Revelation and I was
like I believed a lot of stupid things so I just pictured that so
there's a prophecy conference at a Baptist Church I'd been watching Kent
Hoban's videos or whatever I know sorry but at that time that's all I had
I didn't know so I didn't know he believed all that weird stuff if he
knows now but but he you know he was King James only and he was encouraging
people to go to a Baptist Church so that's the only kind of church I want
to go to is a Baptist Church so when I was offered the opportunity to go to
a Baptist Church they were like this the prophecy there's a prophecy
conference going on this guy's speaking and I still remember the
preacher's name was Bill Bramlett and he was pretty I came in we were a
couple minutes late or whatever and he's I came in right when he's preaching
so he's preaching just like I am right now and preaching about prophecy
so I come in I'd never been to a Baptist Church in my life I'm wearing
a Portland Trailblazers jersey just the jersey not an undershirt guns out
right got a couple tickets to the gun show at that point and then I said I
smell like cigarettes I'm wearing a pair of gym gym shorts and I go in and then
I just start asked I just start raising my hand and asking questions without
being called on and I'm like just blurting out questions and he starts
answering my questions but he's preaching but I didn't know it wasn't a
question or answer time I just thought this is how it worked so I mean
think of this someone comes in and does that I mean if I did that here I
would be dragged out as Michael the Archangel at that point Pastor Anderson
would drag this bozo out of here he's quit asking all this he might have you
know he'd probably just politely say hey this isn't time for the questions
but if I kept doing it he'd be like get this guy out of here right so I
was kind of you know a little bit of a bozo at that point and you know my
deal-breaker for going for staying at that church was I if he didn't
believe that Christians could cast devils out of people that I wasn't gonna stay
there so after church I went and talked to him in his office I said do you
believe this and he was like well yeah but then he kind of just gave me this
answer and I it sufficed me so I started going to the church I got
baptized you know and and I got married at that church and and I
started learning the Bible and it started to normalize me I had some
weird beliefs and I was still a Zionist until what I started listen to pastor
Anderson sermons and I thought he was wrong about that I was like he's
right about all this stuff he you know the homos the after the tribulation I
always agreed with him about that but when it came to the Jews I was like I
remember sent my wife down go he I said he's right about a lot of stuff
but he's wrong about this let's look at Zechariah chapter 14 I like I
remember like going through that with my wife and she was like uh-huh uh-huh
and she knew I was wrong but she just was respecting me right but the point
is is that I was I was still wrong about that but then you know she actually
helped me understand that doctrine and a friend of mine and it was just like
now I'm told now I totally see it I just don't understand how I didn't see
it before but I totally see it now but a long time ago and I can't remember
what the pastor's name was but this story's been told before but there
was a pastor and they him and his wife went to bed one night and they were
talking and the wife asked the pastor is there ever gonna be any normal people in
our church and the and the pastor said it's our job to make them normal and so
that is what normalizes you is being in church that's why it's important to
be here three times a week and you know of course we don't want to ignore
red flags that people have but you know we do want people to get normal and
sometimes they're gonna have red flags but we do need to have a balance you
know we can't just think everybody that has a red flag is some weirdo bozo but
again there are some people that instantly you already know but there's
some people that just need help they just need to learn and I know this is a
great church and that you all are really good about helping people to find
those things out but I would just say this that you know we're not supposed
to be these heretic hunters that are exposing every person that comes in
necessarily you know I'm not gonna have you go to the verses but Jesus you
know talks about how the tares and the wheat will be together and I think what
happens is these people expose themselves or God allows them to be
exposed and sometimes we might expose we might catch something that they do
but a lot of times they just kind of they're like they're like sleeper cell
agents right they're like reprobate sleeper cell agents and you know they just
kind of you know they just kind of freak out at whatever point and they
make themselves known because sometimes we just don't know until they reveal
themselves like well that person's acting really weird they said it's a
really weird stuff and it's just like it's it's the time that God allows us
to see it happen so you know I'm not saying don't say something if you see
something say something all right you know to quote the TSA but I hate the
TSA but that's a good quote so but you know we do need to give people the
benefit of the doubt that is a good policy but you know also be vigilant
be sober because the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom
he may devour let's pray Lord we thank you so much for the word of God
and and and Lord I pray that we'd have discernment Lord that we would
think about these red flags and and keep it in our mind and heart that not
everybody is a wolf Lord and sometimes people have red flags and problems that
they might have but Lord I pray that we would just be able to have
discerning eyes and and Lord that we would not fall trap and get
ensnared by people like this but Lord that you would protect us protect
this church Lord pray that you just bless it for many many years to come
and Lord that you bless the people here thank you for the great service
today and the great music and we pray that you just bring us back here
together for the evening service in Jesus name we pray amen
man let's take our hymnals please go to him number one him number one
Jesus I my cross have taken him number one we'll sing it out on that first verse together
number one sing it out now
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