Music
In your green hymn book page 167, All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name page 167.
Music
All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name, sing out loud on the first.
All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name, let Angels' Cross reform.
Bring forth the Royal Diadem and crown Him Lord of all.
On the second You chosen seed of Israel's race, He ransomed from the fall.
Hail Him who saves you by His grace, and crown Him Lord of all.
Let every kindred, every tribe, on this terrestrial ball.
To Him all majesty a scribe, and crown Him Lord of all.
On the last, all that with yonder sacred call, we at His feet may fall.
We'll join the everlasting song, and crown Him Lord of all.
Okay, Matt's time. We'll have our announcements.
Good evening, I'm your pastor, Pastor Thompson.
Let's take our bulletins and look at some announcements.
Is this the right one? Feels right.
Okay, it is right. It's been so long since I've been here, so I just...
Anyways, everybody got a sheet for the announcements?
No? You got one left. Anybody need it? Anybody want it?
Right over there. All right, on our front cover we have our verse of the week.
It says, I will both lay me down in peace and sleep, for Thou Lord
only makest me dwell in safety. Psalm chapter 4, verse number 8.
Our service times are listed below. Sunday morning service
is 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening service is 3 30 p.m. and our Thursday Bible study is
at 6 30 p.m. We're in Titus 1 again, and we'll be covering the qualifications of
the bishop tonight. And our solving times are listed below.
Let's see in our salvations. I wanted to do a check on those
salvations, because I thought that there was four saved in
Puyallup on Saturday, and there's two written in here.
Was there any salvations last week in this morning?
I thought there was. None? No days. None on Sunday. None on
Saturday. I thought Brandon had one on Saturday, so
that'd be
two, three. So that's seven. So there should be seven salvations in
there. Rylan, will you take note of that?
Take note of your failure and make sure that it's fixed. I'm not just
kidding. I was just like, am I bad at counting or
what's going on? Sorry Rylan, I'm just kidding. You know I
love you, buddy. All right, so our praise report, you can
see the salvations, which should be seven there,
and then I will adjust all those numbers. I believe there was a Brother Wynn
baptized somebody on Saturday, and then, so praise God for that.
They had seven salvations in their soloing marathon up in Canada.
And let's see, the mega soloing conference is almost over. It's going to
end up being the last one, I think, in Sacramento,
which is the Red Hot Preaching Conference. So it's kind of one conference
is melding into another. So who else is
going to the Red Hot Preaching Conference? Would you raise your hand?
Just kidding. Okay, all right, cool. So there'll be some people left
over here. I think a lot of people are going
though. So anyway, that'll be coming up next week. We had the
4th of July fellowship. Sounds like it went, everything went well
except for a couple little mishaps. But other than that,
somebody blew Eli up, I think. But he's still here, he's alive, so
praise God for that. So there was, I saw this picture where it was like everybody,
every emergency room, and it like had these, this guy with both of his hands
blown off. I was like, oh man, that's so bad. Anyway, okay,
they weren't literally blown off. It was just like a joke. But anyhow,
nothing's funny about blowing up with fireworks, right?
So anyhow, okay, let's see, the baby shower
is, for Miss Alana, is this Saturday at 11 a.m. So Miss Alejandra, you got
that all hooked up, ready to go? All right, so it doesn't say where she's
registered, but it is at Amazon. So if you just look up Alana Yankee,
it'll automatically come up if you look for the list.
So there's items on there that still are in need, so if you haven't gotten a baby
shower present, you can get on Amazon and do that if
you want. And then Red Hot Preaching Conference is next
week, so starting Thursday. So even if you go down there Wednesday,
Wednesday there's no church service, so people always get fooled by this. I think
they'll have some soul-winning times, extra soul-winning times on Wednesday,
but Thursday I think is the beginning of it,
and then it'll end on Sunday night. So that's in Sacramento, California, of
course. And then our four-year anniversary will
be the last weekend of the month, and that
will be, Pastor Pazarski will be preaching for us
on Friday at 6 30 p.m., and then Saturday we're going to have
some soul-winning, and then I'm thinking we're going to have
some kind of fun event, some fun family event.
And I heard the bounce house was pretty cool, but would that be too
back-to-backish? Okay, we're trying to think about it because
unfortunately we can't really close this off right here
unless we did like where we just park all of our cars and block everything or
something, but I'd have to get permission to do
that. So I'm going to work on that and see what we can get done, but
either way we're going to do something fun on Saturday, maybe a barbecue,
some bounce house stuff. I can get a rent, I could rent a dunk tank and we
could put brother Eli in it so, you know, he could soak his legs and
then, you know, get wet. So we'll put ice in it for him.
Anyway, sorry, he's right there, so I just can't help myself.
Anyway, I've been gone for a while so I gotta play around, but
yeah, so that weekend will be great and then Pastor Jones will be coming up.
He'll be here on Saturday, maybe, yeah, Saturday, he'll be here
Saturday morning with us, but he'll be preaching on Sunday
morning. So very excited about that and you guys all know all the other
stuff and I was hoping since it's my
anniversary that somebody would come up and sing to
me and my wife because it is our anniversary today. It's
21 years.
She's put up with me for this long, can you believe it?
Did we already sing to the woods? All right, who's going to do it?
Brando, come on up.
Happy anniversary Mrs. and Mr. Thompson. All right, let's sing happy anniversary.
One, two, three, happy anniversary to you.
Happy anniversary to you. God bless you and keep you.
Happy anniversary to you.
Thank you.
That's it for announcements. That's it, okay. Thank you Brandon.
All right, let's turn in your hymn books to page 169.
We're gonna sing Come Thou Fount page 169.
Page 169, Come Thou Fount on the first.
Yes, on it, sung by
Faming tongues above.
Praise the mount I'm fixed upon it,
Mount of thy redeeming love.
Here I raise mine
Ebenezer, hither by thy
help I'm come. And I know
by thy good pleasure,
Safely I'll arrive at home.
Jesus saw me when a stranger
Wondering come the fold of God.
Heed to rescue
me from danger, interposed
his precious blood. Oh to
grace how great a debtor,
daily I'm constrained to be.
Let thy goodness like a
fetter, bind my wondering
heart to thee. Prone to wonder
Lord I feel it, prone to leave
the God I love. Here's
my heart, I'll take it, seal it,
seal it for thy courts above.
Amen. Great singing everyone. At this time
we'll receive our offering. Brother Sean, can you bless the offering for us?
Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for this day, Lord, and I thank you for this opportunity to gather
today, Lord, and hear some preaching. I pray that you would bless all aspects of the service, Lord.
Please help us be attentive to the word. I pray you feel pastored with the Spirit and I pray you bless
this offering. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Amen.
Alright, well we're going to go to the Lord in prayer for our prayer requests so let's all bow our heads
together. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you Lord so much for the privilege
to come to you in Jesus' name and we just ask that you would
Lord put a hedge of protection about our church and about
the churches of like faith that we fellowship
with and Lord especially for Pastor Shelley and for
Pastor Jones as they've been persecuted greatly by the
sodomites and other people that just hate you
Lord and we just pray that you would
Lord that you would just protect us Lord. There's just so many people out
there just trying to destroy us and Lord I just pray that your
hand of protection would be upon us and Lord we also ask that you would help us to find a
suitable church building in Spokane for our church there
and also for Brother Alex. We pray for him and for
Miss Sheila, Ciara and Ethan and also for Brother Chris as he's away on
deployment for Miss Sarah and the girls to have comfort while
he's away and we also ask for especially
for Miss Alana for she's due really soon
and just pray that you would help them to have a very
safe and healthy delivery Lord and that Miss Alana
will have no issues health wise and the baby would be fine
and not have any issues Lord. We also ask for prayer for Miss Chantal
and Miss Amy and we also ask for
special unspoken for Miss Julene and for the Velazquez family
and also concerning their home that
they would get some answers soon on all that and then
for Miss Sheila that she would have some relief from her pain that she's been in
and for Miss Sarah Miller for her prayer for her physical health
and for work and also for Miss Leilani
that she would get some good results from her appointments
that she's been having and for the Harrington family for spiritual
unspoken for their children and prayer for Penny
James one that has cancer and also
for Heidi who has a brain tumor and Lord we just ask that you would
watch over Miss Kylie's family and we especially
pray for her Opa who is
not doing well and apparently
not supposed to make it past
this week and Lord we just ask that you would reach down and
Lord I know that they want to make sure he's saved I pray that you would just
help give him that comfort Lord that they would get another chance to
speak the gospel to him and Lord we just ask
that you would bring your healing hand upon him and Lord that
you might spare him and Lord that you might save him and Lord we pray all
these things in Jesus precious name tonight. Amen.
Alright good evening would you please turn with me to the book of Titus
chapter 1. Titus chapter 1
The book of Titus chapter 1
In Titus chapter 1 the Bible reads Paul a servant of
God and an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's
elect and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness
in hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie
promised before the world began but hath in due
times manifested his word through preaching which is committed unto me
according to the commandment of God our savior to Titus
mine own son after the common faith grace mercy and peace
from God the father and the Lord Jesus Christ our savior
for this cause left I thee in Crete that thou shouldest set
in order the things that are wanting and ordain elders in every
city as I had appointed thee if any be
blameless the husband of one wife having
faithful children not accused of riot or unruly
for a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God
not self-willed not soon angry
not given to wine no striker not given to
filthy lucre but a lover of hospitality a lover of good
men sober just holy temperate
holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught
that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort
and to convince the gainsayers for there are many unruly
and vain talkers and deceivers specially they of the
circumcision whose mouths must be stopped who subvert
whole houses teaching things which they ought not for filthy
lucre's sake one of themselves even a prophet of their own
said the cretians are always liars evil beasts slow
bellings slow bellies this witness is true
for rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith not
giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men
that turn from the truth unto the pure all things are pure
but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure
but even their mind and conscience is defiled they profess
that they know God but in works they deny him
being abominable and disobedient and unto every good
work reprobate brother Alex
would you pray for us
thank you for this time
amen
amen alright
well we're in Titus chapter 1 still we haven't really gotten
too far in the book but there's only three
chapters anyway so but I kind of wanted to take it slow
for at least the first chapter and I'll probably actually
preach one more sermon out of this chapter but tonight we're going to talk about
the qualifications for pastors so let's look
down at our bibles at verse number six
let me get to the right book here
and I'm going to be taking my qualifications for pastors out
of the book of Titus so that's going to be my main points and obviously I'm going to
bounce back and forth with 1 Timothy chapter 3
some and some other verses tonight but
anyway number 1 let's look at
verse number 6 it says
in verse number 6 if any man be blameless the husband of one wife
having faithful children not accused of riot
or unruly for a bishop must be blameless as
a steward of God not self-willed not soon angry not given to wine
nor striker not given to filthy lucre
but a lover of hospitality a lover of good men
sober just holy temperate
holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught
that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort
and to convince the gainsayers
let's have a word of prayer heavenly father we thank you lord so much for this great chapter and I pray that you'd
help me to cover the qualifications
tonight of a bishop and lord help me give the
sense of the scriptures tonight pray that you just fill me with your spirit
lord that you'd help me once again to deliver the message you put on my heart tonight
pray that you just bless the people that came here to be
faithful on a Thursday night and pray that you just bless them and fill them with
the spirit as well in Jesus' name we pray, amen. Alright so in verse number
six it says if any be blameless so number one
the first qualification for being a pastor
is that you must be found blameless if any it says
if any be blameless the husband of one wife having faithful
children not accused of riot or unruly
now I kind of believe that the part about being
blameless encompasses multiple things within the
text here and because it brings it up again in a couple
verses here so I think that
some of these things are kind of underneath that umbrella of being
blameless I'll show you what I mean here in just a minute but
blameless I just want to kind of explain what it means to be blameless because a lot of people would
say well that means thinless now I don't know if you realize
this or not but Pastor Thompson's not sinless okay
and maybe you've seen me sin before maybe you've
heard me sin before maybe you've witnessed a judgment call
that wasn't completely right or whatever you know blameless
does not mean sinless and I know that a lot of people like to
put pastors up on a pedestal and think that they could do no wrong but
that's just really far from the truth really what it is
is the pastor meets the qualifications to become a bishop
to be the leader of the church to be the ruler of the church but it doesn't mean
sinless there's only one sinless person that's ever walked the face of the
earth that's the Lord Jesus Christ okay so
and I'm not saying that I'm not held to a higher standard of course I am
but I'm not held to the and I'm glad for this
that I'm not held to the standard of being sinless because then
if you want to have a sinless pastor up here then you're going to have to
have Jesus come back down from heaven alright so what does it mean
to be blameless well it's used to describe
someone who hasn't done anything wrong so what does that mean
exactly well they haven't done anything to be blamed
for to blame some you know because blame is meaning you're
you're faulting somebody for something right to blame someone for something
is to accuse them of having caused it or to hold them responsible
for it so you know you could blame me
for blowing up Eli at the fourth of July thing but I wasn't
there so you can't blame me for that well you're the pastor of the church
yeah I understand that but you know I only have so much power
okay so I can't stop everything
from happening but so I mean I guess ultimately
am I responsible for everything that happens in this church everything rises and falls
upon leadership I understand that but like you can't blame
the pastor for everything that goes wrong alright so
let's look at a couple there's a few verses in the in the scriptures
I think might help us to understand this term let's look at Genesis chapter 44
verse 10 Genesis chapter 44 verse number 10
this is the first time it's used in the Bible
and
it says in Genesis 44 verse 10 it says and he said
now also let it be according unto your words
he with whom it is found shall be my servant and ye shall be
blameless of course this is Joseph talking about whoever is discovered with
his silver cup in the bag remember they said well
we'll be your servants you know yada yada yada
you know and because they didn't want to be found in Benjamin's stack
right but it was found in Benjamin's sack but the point
of me showing you this verse is that you know he said
let it be according unto you unto your words that he that whom it is
found shall be my servant and you shall be blameless so what is what's being
accused of is that Joseph you know
you know he's accusing them of stealing his royal goblet or whatever
his silver cup right and so
what would they be doing if they took that cup well they'd be
stealing right and you know to steal from the
second in command really the leader underneath Pharaoh
of all of Egypt to steal from his house would be a crime
wouldn't it I mean to steal from anybody is a crime
because you could file a police report now I know that
right now in modern day 2022 nobody's gonna do anything about it
I mean you'll be lucky if the cops show up if someone's you know getting shot
so right now but hopefully that's gonna change at some
point but the point is is that you know
they would have been blamed if the cup was found in their
sack and so basically it's kind of like a shoplifting thing here going on if you
think about it like if someone's shop say you got 11 guys
and they all leave and they all have bags and the Walmart person
comes over and says you guys are all stealing you know let's go into this back
room over here and then they look through everybody's bags and they found
something that was not paid for then they would be considered thieves that person
whoever got caught would be considered thieves and the other ones would not be
considered thieves because they didn't have any merchandise in their bag so
I mean basically when you're talking about blameless in this situation
it's talking about what did they did they steal something so
that would be something that they could be blamed for and so if you
apply that to the pastor if I stole something
and it was like you know if I got caught stealing at
Walmart you walk by you see me being taken back in handcuffs because
I am a kleptomaniac and you catch me stealing
well then I would not be blameless at that point right
I would be you know someone that was to be blamed so
a public sin like that where you're caught
red-handed stealing something that it would be something that would make me
not blameless or a pastor not blameless so look at Joshua chapter
2 Joshua chapter number 2 it says
in Joshua number chapter number 2 verse 17 it says
and the men said unto her we will be blameless on this
vine oath which thou hast made us swear so what's
going on here is that not I was going to say Hagar but it's not Hagar
it's Rahab the harlot yeah she's
basically you know wants to you know
throw she was helping the spies and she basically
wanted her and her family to be spared in order for that to happen
you know they she was to swear an oath and
basically if she broke anything of that oath then
her and her family would be killed and her
oath would be null and void and it says we would be blameless
of this oath so if she doesn't do everything according to what she said
she was going to do then she would be
to be blamed and then her the thing that they
worked out with her so that she didn't have to die or her family would be null
and void so there's another example now let's look at in the New Testament Luke
chapter number one Luke chapter number one the Bible says
in Luke chapter number one I'll give you a second to turn over there
Luke chapter number one the Bible says in verse six
and they were both righteous before God walking in all the commandments
and ordinances of the Lord blameless
so here's also an example of
people that are right with God because righteous means
right before God walking in all the commandments and ordinances does that mean they're
sinless though? I mean people would look at that these work salvation people
would look at this and say well yeah they're righteous they're
doing all the commandments they're keeping all the ordinances of the Lord they're
blameless that means they're sinless no it doesn't mean they're sinless it just means
that they're keeping God's law they're keeping God's commandments
they're saved they're righteous before God but they don't have anything to be
blamed for so now look at verse number seven
back in our text in Titus chapter one and I'm going to have you put a bookmark in
Titus chapter one and then we will turn to
Timothy chapter three here pretty soon but let's look back at Titus chapter one
verse number seven so it says in verse six
actually if any man be blameless the husband of one wife having faithful children not accused
of riot or unruly so the reason why I said that it's kind of like an umbrella is because
when you look down at verse seven it says for the bishop must be
blameless right and because
so it listed all those things and then it's saying it again
bishop must be blameless as the steward of God so
for that term it is somewhat
subjective and what does subjective mean well subjective means
based on or influenced by personal feelings taste or opinion
so some another pastor might have a
different view on some of the things that I'm
saying here the term like I said the term subjective is
you know based on the influence personal sometimes personal feelings come into
this blameless it's like someone would say well yeah the pastor should be sinless
if he sins you know then he's not blameless
well that's just ridiculous I mean it's just impossible
so that's not that's not what it means but you know
there might be differing opinions basically upon what this means
but or an interpretation on what they hold you to as being
blameless but overall I believe that you must have
as a whole as a whole as a pastor you must be defined
by these standards okay so
you know if you know if I was
to say that I'm blameless and I'm the husband of one wife well is that true
am I the husband of one wife yes we've been married for 21 years
as of today I had no other wives and
I'm not planning on having anymore so
as of right now in this in this qualification I'm
blameless am I not so I am the husband of one wife
I can stand behind people would say well according to this
particular this particular item of being the husband of one wife
yes I am blameless so I mean if you look through
these lists you know it says having faithful children not accused of riot
or unruly well
like I'm saying so if you have this
in your you know at you know when people say well hey
what are his kids like well are his kids like
well are his kids nice are they good do they go to church are they
saved you know if none of my kids were saved and I was the
pastor of the church wouldn't that would that make me blameless I don't think it
would because it says having faithful children
so faithful is being you know maybe going to church
on a regular basis or whatever or just being you know being able to count on them
for things but you know if you're full of faith
you're probably saved right I mean wouldn't you think it'd be weird if a pastor
doesn't have any saved kids and then I'm the pastor
yeah it'd be kind of weird so I would not be blameless in that category
so
so overall like I said you must have or be
by as a whole defined by these standards so
that's my opinion on it so if someone
said you know is pastor Thompson blameless well
am I getting arrested for theft not that you know of
no I'm not or other crimes
you know if I had some major crime that I committed
and I'm the pastor like don't you know and I'm not talking about like being persecuted for your
faith or being told that you're you know calling
for violence against people or whatever all these people are trying to say all the time
which is ridiculous but or
major sin as part of my record as a Christian
so if I had like this major public sin
that you know I committed or something
then that would be a mark against me that would make me not blameless
you see what I'm saying there'd be a so a blemish is something that's like
you know if someone says you have a facial blemish right
you might have some kind of a mark or like a birthmark or something you know something like that
and so in the Old Testament they were not allowed to give
offerings of animals that had blemishes on them
it wasn't anything they weren't like bad animals or something
they just had a blemish they had a mark upon them that would make
them not blameless so what is the other
some of the other ones in this list here well in verse number
six it says I think it's verse number six yeah verse number six not
self-willed and being self-willed
is that would be like for me to say well I'm going to be the
pastor whether you I meet the qualifications or not
so we got a lot of that going on today got a lot of Bible college
babies wet behind the ears still haven't even read the Bible cover to cover
one time coming out and just becoming
pastors being deemed as assistant pastor no wife
no kids I mean that if someone
you know maybe someone just thinks that it's okay or something but you know it's like
there are qualifications look the reason why I'm preaching
about this is because there's qualifications for the bishop
there's a qualification there's qualifications you have to meet
in order to be the pastor of a church and
unfortunately in this world those qualifications have gone by the
wayside and so that's something that churches like ours
make a big deal about because it is a big deal not just anybody
can be the pastor of a church women cannot be the pastor of the church
single people cannot be the pastor of the church someone
that's a novice cannot be the pastor of the church you know say you got saved yesterday
I'm called to be the pastor everybody's like well I vote him in
amen and then this guy gets up to never preached
never went soul winning never read the Bible one day in his life I mean
that and I know that's a ridiculous kind of I mean that
doesn't really necessarily happen but hey there's people that deem themselves
pastors all the time well you know the Holy Ghost called me to be the
pastor all right well where's your witnesses
where's the congregation that approves of you
because where's the pastor that ordained you
see I was ordained in case you guys didn't realize that
as the pastor of the church because pastor Mendez said that I met the qualifications of
being the pastor so he
laid hands upon me first he asked if the congregation agreed the congregation
agreed and then he laid hands upon me and I became the pastor of the church
and our church stopped being Verity Baptist Church and started
to be Sure Foundation Baptist Church so
if I was self-willed and just said you know what
I don't care if pastor Mendez thinks I'm ordainable or not I'm
the new pastor of this church that's being self-willed that's
a qualification that you cannot be self-willed
okay soon angry not soon angry people
like you're always angry you're always hateful you're always mean not always
sometimes I'm nice
that's just not true you know it's just a it's an
unfair characterization because you see me ripping face in a Bible you know
in a sermon about the Bible or something I'm really passionate about
and the Bible doesn't say not to be angry it says not to be soon angry
okay so that was that would be someone that just
loses their temper really easily over every little thing
so are you are you characterized by being an
angry person all the time well if you are then
you cannot be the pastor right not soon angry
loses their temper really easily now Moses lost
his temper and people died Moses lost his temper
and the Ten Commandments died Moses lost
you know but was Moses the bonafide leader did God believe I mean he was the
meekest man on the face of the earth so
God picked Moses out of all the millions of people in Israel that he could have
picked he picked Moses but Moses got angry didn't he and actually
Moses lost his temper more than one time so
what but was he characterized as an angry
man you see what I'm saying like the qualifications of a bishop you know
obviously he wasn't a bishop in the sense of a New Testament pastor but he was
like the pastor of the church in the wilderness in the
Old Testament as a matter of fact he had a mega church
millions of people you know hundreds of people underneath him
as leaders you know I mean it's it's not an easy job to
be a leader and especially the burden that he had to bear you know
at one point he was just like just kill me I'm done
kill me God you know it's just like I mean
sometimes when I feel like I have a rough I just go and read Numbers chapter 11
I'm like okay Moses you know you had it a lot harder okay
but but so look at Proverbs chapter 14 let's just look at a verse
on it real quick and since there's so much to cover
tonight I just I'm not going to go to a whole bunch of different verses
mainly just be dealing with Titus and first Timothy chapter 3
but we'll look at some other stuff here Proverbs chapter 14 verse 17
he that is soon angry dealeth foolishly
so why would it be bad to be soon
angry if you're characterized as someone that's soon angry someone that just loses
their cool over every single thing
well what's the Bible say they deal with foolishly
so why would God not want a man that's always just on
a hair trigger and angry about every little thing anything goes wrong
you know he's flipping out and throwing things and you know
cussing people out or whatever
or fighting people or whatever it is you know if you're soon angry
that I mean the Bible says you deal foolishly so what happens
when you lose it what happens when you lose it well you lose
control of your senses a little bit you lose control
of what you do and then that's when you can make really big mistakes
so that's why God doesn't want a pastor that
is soon angry now let's look at verse number seven
verse number seven again it says not given to wine
not given to wine now I believe
that we're supposed to be teetotalers we're not supposed to be drinking alcohol
at all the Bible does specifically say that you're not
supposed to be drunk okay so
drunken or to be drunk on wine is obviously
you know you're not sober at that point I don't believe that God wants us
drinking alcoholic beverages Nadab and Abihu is an example
of people that drank you know
and then it doesn't say specifically that that's what God killed them for it says that
they offered strange fire but
they were but God does say that
you know you're not supposed to drink and go into the house of the Lord
right after that happens it's like God just doesn't just
blurt sentences out to people for no apparent reason in the middle of
some kind of a story I believe that that's directly connected to that
story I believe that Nadab and Abihu were probably drinking some
kind of alcoholic beverage and then when they went in
there they're messing around they're supposed to offer the fire in a
specific way the incense in a specific way and then God killed them
he torched them you know and then
pronounced that proclamation you know we're not supposed
to be drunk in the house of the Lord we don't allow drunks to come in
here so why would it be okay for the pastor to drink alcohol
in his spare time and it says not given to wine
like someone's just like given to something is like you're always doing it
right so literally and in this
you know it's I believe that you're literally not supposed to be
given to drinking wine but also in the sense that you
indulge in only the extravagant and finer things wine
is a picture in the Bible of extravagance
because not everybody could just afford fine wines and things like that
today you'll see if you look at your neighbors
recycling bins you'll see that there are a lot of people
they're filled with wine bottles aren't they and that's a big
problem in this country is alcoholism is what it's called but
really it should be called drunkards you know that's the
strong word that the Bible uses people don't like that word because they want to say well it's
my disease that I have it's not a disease it's a sin
okay and so when you're someone that's a drunkard
then you're going to indulge in alcoholic beverages
or you know even weed and things like that I think that that's wrong
to do hard drugs and smoke marijuana
and things like that and be the pastor I mean
I think that it's directly talking about that but it's also talking about
you know just being extravagant with you know given
over to these extravagant tastes because
it is you know when it talks about wine and
lists and things like that in the Bible it's talking about something that's extravagant it was very
expensive in ancient times they didn't have
modern presses like they do now people had to actually get in
with their bare feet and squish the grapes and do a process
in order to have it turn into alcoholic wine and even
just regular grape juice was very expensive
so juice is still expensive now I mean go try to buy a vat of grape juice
it's expensive so it's not cheap
and it's something that you shouldn't overindulge in right
because Paul told Timothy to drink a little wine for thy stomach's sake
so what kind of wine is it talking about it's just talking about grape juice
why would he say a literal qualification is that
you can't be given the wine and then he says here have some wine
for your stomach problems that doesn't make sense so
but the you know to have
to be given the wine I believe does like if I had to have caviar
with my dinner every single night caviar is very expensive I mean I don't know
how expensive it is I just know I've had it once when I was a little kid and it tasted
disgusting and so I've never tried it again but it's like really
salty they're like fish eggs or something but they must be good
like maybe I just had like cheap ones or something or maybe
I was just a kid and I didn't know it tasted good at the time but
I was like I put some on like a cracker or something
and it was gross but
all I'm saying is that part where it's talking about not being given to wine
I think literally it's talking about not drinking wine, pastors aren't supposed to be drunkards
or drinking wine but also overindulging
expensive items and just an
overindulging period no striker
verse 7 well what would that be talking about well
it's talking about not fighting and beating people up physically
okay striker you know and like mixed martial arts
there's you know there's the wrestlers the jujitsu people and then there's
the strikers the strikers are the ones that are
trained to kick and punch and that's kind of their
main thing to do so a pastor is not supposed to be a
striker so I haven't been in a fight since I was before I was
saved so have I been in a fight before yes I've been in many
fights before but I haven't been in a fight as a Christian and I've been
saved for 20 years so over 20 years
so I would say that that does not characterize
me as a person I'm not characterized I don't drink alcohol
I don't smoke pot I don't do
drugs and I don't beat people
up so I'm not soon angry because if I was soon angry I'd be beating people up
you see what I'm saying so like all these things like are qualifications of being
blameless in my opinion they fall under a whole banner but
at the same time individually if I was if I kept
all these other things and then I was like just out punching knocking people out
every time I was out soloing and they're like I don't want to hear the gospel like
good night you know
sleep tight I would be a striker
right you know I mean so the next thing is not given to filthy
lucre what does that mean does that mean you can't make money pastors shouldn't be
paid I know that that gets thrown around a lot pastors are just
out for the money what and all that stuff but not
given to filthy lucre means money especially when regarded
as sorted or distasteful or gained in a dishonorable way
so if I was a striker
and I was out fighting people for money that would be
first of all I'd be breaking the commandment to be a striker to not be a striker
and then I would be earning money in a dishonorable way
and you know I know that there's people that box for a living or whatever but I
personally believe that if I was a professional boxer and a pastor at the same time
that would be a contradiction right I'm not supposed to be a striker so
I know that people might disagree with me on that but I think
that it's pretty clear what it means to not be a striker you know not knocking people
out or whatever so I remember when I was a kid
I had moved from an old hick school that I was going to
it was just different you know back then there was no cell phones
and internet and things like that so I moved from the country
to the big city I'm wearing wranglers and cowboy boots
and like a cowboy looking shirt type thing and I mean I was a hillbilly
whatever but when I got to
Portland public schools you know they're looking at me
people are making fun of what I'm dressed like and I've never experienced this before because
that just wasn't the way things were where I went to school you know so
I'm getting burned on I don't even realize it half the time
but when you come from a different place there's like
people just like to pick on the new kids you know what I mean they either like you or they don't
and I got picked on a little bit and so
eventually I started standing up for myself and I remember I'd gotten
in like two fights when I was like sixth grade or something
and the guys jumped me at a party they invited me to a party just so they could
the guys could like jump me or whatever and they didn't even hurt me
but like at school like these guys were like really popular
and they wore Keds and they were like super cool and one guy wore a
leather jacket and he thought he was all tough or whatever
and I dinged him up in the hallway one time because he was like
just put you know he just kept pushing me and messing with me I don't want to tell too long
but ultimately I got in a couple fights that year and I remember
like the next year a girl walked up to me and she was like
really getting a lot of fights and I'm just like
I do? I got in like two fights or whatever
but like it's funny because the two fights I got like
that fight got continued at a community center in Sellwood which I don't know if you know where
Sellwood is but like the whole school was there watching
the fight and then the other fight I got into the whole school showed up too
and they all wanted me to get beat up but I beat up their little pretty boy boyfriends and they didn't like
that but yeah
so I had a reputation for what? For being a striker
so as a young adolescent man
but I mean so
the reason why I said that is because that's what I was classified as and I thought
to myself I was like wow people do other people think this about me like
that I just going around just beating everybody up or something
but I mean if she thought that then I had that reputation didn't I
so if I had that reputation now that would make me have the reputation of being a striker
you see what I'm saying? So you know that can't be what I'm defined
by or I'm not qualified so anyway
let's see let's move on here as far as the filthy
verse 8 but a lover of hospitality
so I got to love hospitality I got to love it
you know and do you always feel like being hospitable? I'm sure not everybody
does especially women when they haven't cleaned their house they're like husbands are like
hey my friends are coming over and it's like what?
so that's why it's my qualification I
guess but anyway I'm supposed to be a lover of hospitality but
hospitality doesn't only have to be at your house it can be
at church it can be just an attitude that you have
so it basically just means to be friendly and welcoming to
strangers or guests so as a pastor
I'm supposed to be welcoming to people that come to our church I'm supposed to be welcoming
strangers and try to at least get over and talk to them
and I do make an effort to do that but
I mean or when people come to visit or when pastors come
hospitality is something that pastor Amanda has really ingrained
into me and I believe that it's right to be hospitable
so and not only that it seems like it's a qualification doesn't it it says
but a lover of hospitality and so also it
says a lover of good men so I should love I shouldn't just love
all the bad boys in town and just you know oh I hate
all my Christian brothers that are good men but I love
all the bad boys in town that's just a weird mentality
we're supposed to love men that are good right
and that's as a pastor my job should be to love
good men and I do so but it's pretty self
explanatory I mean it says I'm supposed to be a lover of good men but
doesn't say wicked men does it now I love sinners
because everybody's a sinner we're supposed to love sinners but
it doesn't say I have to love reprobates does it love the reprobates
love all the queers bring them into the church put
some banners out in the front and just show them how much you love them
that's not a qualification homie it's not a qualification
it says a lover of good men you know not drag queens
so or just evil men in general
like that's not that's not what I'm supposed to do I'm supposed to love
good men I'm supposed to care for the brethren
it says to be sober and again when you're talking
combining this with the not giving to wine sober
just means not drunk right so we're supposed to be
sober not drunk not inebriated or stoned
but also it can mean to be serious so
I do joke around sometimes and and I have a good time and you know I'm pretty
light-hearted about things a lot but I also have you know a very sober side to
me where I'm serious about things I'm serious about preaching the word of God I'm serious
about soul and I'm serious about the things of God
and you know taking care of the church you know I'm sober
when it comes to those things I'm not just trying to compare myself I'm just trying to say like
you know this is what the Bible expects us to be like this is what
the Bible says about being a bishop or a pastor you have to
meet the qualifications okay to be
just that means based on or
behaving according to what is morally right and fair so
just you know just you know what would what's the long term of that well
it's justice do I do I care about things being right
yes I do and any pastor with results should
care about things being just right and
fair or you know what's the Bible talk about a just man
you know a just man is a man that is saved
Lot was a just man even though he wasn't a very good
saved man he was still saved so the Bible talks about being
just you know justified just as if I'd never sinned
so a person that's just is saved so a pastor should be saved
right I mean but what do we have in this world
we have a world full of men that call themselves pastors that are not even
saved and then they're going around talking about how we need to love
people it's like you're not even saved buddy you don't even love people you don't even talk
to your neighbor you wouldn't even walk across the street and hand your neighbor an
invitation to your church you're you're you're you're nothing
you're nothing what the you're nothing that the qualifications say most pastors nowadays
think it's okay to drink and teach their congregations to do so
you know it's just there's got to be
either there's qualifications or there's not and the Bible clearly has them so we need
to clearly go by them right so
also there's the it says holy and
holy is to be dedicated or consecrated to God set apart
you know sanctified is another word for it so
that means that you know you're dedicated but you know all these
lists that I'm reading all these things that I'm reading a pastor must be these things
that you must be these things to be qualified
well are any of these things on here something that you all
shouldn't be doing everything on there is something that every
Christian should be able to say yes I'm this way too but the
pastor is just the example of this and then sample unto the believers
who and then you must like maybe you
don't you lack on some of these things or maybe you've already been divorced or
you know whatever you can't so if you've been divorced
and remarried you cannot be a pastor now it doesn't mean God can never use you again
doesn't mean God is done with you it doesn't mean you're a bad Christian it just means
you know you made a mistake and you just can't be a
pastor you know why and people just get so upset about stuff like this
now I remember there was a time when someone was teetering me back and forth on this
belief because they couldn't be what they wanted
to be they wanted to be a missionary and they were divorced
before before they were saved and their spouse cheated on them and they
end up getting divorced and so this guy is trying to justify
the fact that he that happened before
he got saved and he should be able to be he's only married to one wife
now that he's faithful to that wife and they've been married for a long time whatever
and he was trying to justify to me why he's still qualified
and that the church is wrong about that as
they're going to try to be a missionary I'm just like
but like he kind of had me teetering a little bit on it
and I just wasn't really sure but like as I thought about it and
studied it I mean the Bible is very clear
that you can't be divorced and remarried why is that well
you know if you can't rule your own house how are you going to rule the house of God
if you can't rule your own marriage
you know and it doesn't matter if you were married before you know all the sins that we
did before we were saved there were still sins that we did
there were still sins we have to be forgiven for the sins after you're saved are still sins
and you still have to be forgiven for them so it's like
you know if you messed up just serve God in some other
capacity I mean it doesn't have to be as the pastor and so then
I would promote I'd say you know because some of these things can domino
into other things because if you're so
self-willed to be this position then you're going to
justify what you're not in order to be qualified
which makes you self-willed so we just
can't bend on these qualifications
temperate means showing moderation
or self-restraint and
let's look at let's see I kind of already went over this
but let's see let's look at the
second let's look at number two the husband of one wife I want to kind of dive into
this a little bit here so the husband of one wife
and that's in verse number what six
okay look at verse number six again so it says
you know the the bishop must be blameless the husband or
no excuse me it says if any be blameless the husband of one wife
in titus chapter 1 6 so it says
the husband of one wife not one wife at a time
one wife okay so
having faithful children not accused of a right or unruly so
the husband of one wife that means one wife okay
now here's the thing let me caveat this just a little bit if your wife passes
away and you've only been married to one woman and you get remarried
to another woman that you don't lose
your qualification because of that that would be kind of weird to be blamed
for something that you didn't you know that's out of your control right so
you can't because the vow is what tell death do us part
so once your one your partner passes
then that then you can get remarried so
let's look at first timothy chapter three verse two first fifty chapter three verse two
and keep your finger there in titus one
first timothy chapter three verse two says a bishop then
what does it say must be
blameless the husband of one wife so when it says must be
what does that mean to you
it means you have to right there's no
wiggle room here must be
and when it says the husband of one wife you know it's not stuttering
means not divorced it means you know
obviously it does mean you can't have a plurality of wives
right because there's some cultures where that was acceptable but
if you were in a country where that was acceptable and you had multiple wives that person
would not be qualified to be a bishop period right
it wouldn't be like oh i'm gonna divorce all the other ones and keep the one i like the best
no you're the husband of one wife and so because god doesn't want
any weirdness involved in it either you know
so he doesn't want some kind of weird family dynamic
because you know god's plan his perfect plan for us
is to be married to one spouse for our life and to have
children together and then that is the picture of what
the family that god is most acceptable of
now can there be all kinds of crazy different dynamics in your
family and god still loves you and still blesses you and maybe you come from two
different families merging as one or whatever it is you know god's still
gonna allow you to thrive and have
blessings in that situation you just can't be a pastor
okay so
so again if your wife dies though you can get remarried
and as a pastor if your wife dies
then you i think have time to mourn you have
time to you know find a new wife
because i do believe that you do have
to be married to be a pastor
and there's where someone would say well i don't know if i agree with you on that one
well i'm not saying you have to get remarried right away
but it says the husband must be
the husband of one wife right so obviously
god's gonna give you time to mourn and all those things but i do believe that
you should be married you know you should be married to be
a pastor so because you know you need
your helpmate like if you don't have anybody to help you
in your ministry you're gonna be in a lot of trouble
so unless you're just having like one fifteen minute sermon every sunday
and it's like a praise and worship band with purple lights and smoke
you know that's not too difficult to deal with
but then you have all those people to deal with because you know your church is gonna be a mega church
because that's kind of the system that they're built upon so
and then let's look at having faithful children number three
titus chapter one verse six again it says if any be blameless the husband of one wife
having faithful children not accused of
riot or unruly so we kind of know what a riot
is because you see them happen in portland every single night where they're breaking people's windows
out of their personal businesses and doing all kinds of crazy stuff like that
unruly what does that mean well
you're unable to rule them they cannot be ruled
and so because the pastor is supposed to be a ruler
in his home and a ruler in the church and so if you have children
that are rioting or unruly you're just unable
to rein them in for any reason well you got
problems and so let's look at first timothy chapter
three again and let's look at verse number four because
this is and this kind of goes back into the husband and wife thing
also a little bit here but first timothy chapter three verse four says one that
ruleth well his own house having his
children in subjection with all gravity so you
gotta be able to rule your own house okay and so if you can't rule
your own house then you're you have an unruly
household right and specifically talking about children
subjection means that they're subject unto your
rules and gods you know with all gravity
gravity is being you know seriousness it's a serious thing
verse five for if a man know not how to rule his own house
how shall he take care of the church of god
and so see how that's a qualification that if you can't even rule your own home
then you have no business being the pastor if you can't
make people follow the rules they're unruly you got no
business being the pastor so
now let's look at
first samuel chapter two verse 22 and we'll look at some examples of some
some young men that were unruly in the bible
i know i only got about 20 minutes left here so
we gotta hurry but uh we're gonna look at eli
sorry eli right here man every time
so first samuel chapter two verse 22
says now eli was very old and heard that all the sons did
and unto all israel how they lay with the women that assembled at the door
of the tabernacle of the congregation and he said unto them
why do you such things for i hear of your evil dealings
by all this people nay my sons
for it is not no good report that i hear you make the lord's people to
transgress if one man sin against another
the judge shall judge him but if a man sin against the lord who shall entreat
for him notwithstanding they hearken not unto the voice of their father because
the lord would slay them so these guys these uh sons of
sons of eli were the bible says that they're men of belial their children of
belial they're sons of the devil so eli is the high priest
and eli is like basically like the spiritual leader
of israel at this time and so
he has sons that are priests also
and they're getting the best chunks of meat they're supposed to be
that are supposed to be already fried or boiled and they're like
taking this hook and hooking the best piece of meat and saying
you know if you don't give it to me i'm going to take it from you by force so they're extorting people
they're committing fornication with women at the gates
at the at the church i mean it's pretty bad and so
they they made god so angry that you know they didn't
hearken unto eli so you know eli is coming to him far too
late i mean they're already you know young men and you know they're
you know they're they're serving in god's house but god's very angry with them
and they're not even saved so this would be an example
of someone that did not rule his own house well his sons are reprobates
now look at for uh samuel first samuel chapter eight
verse number one so samuel is actually raised by eli
and eli actually does a good job raising him but that's not even his own son
so but samuel has his own sons and he's
a great prophet he's a great judge for god as
a matter of fact he's the last judge to rule as a
as a judge over israel before the kings
and uh says in verse number one in chapter eight it says
and it came to pass when samuel was old that he made his sons judges
over israel now the name of his firstborn was jol and the name
of his second abia they were judges
in beersheba so he makes them judges they're his own
sons and this is why nepotism can run a little bit wild
you shouldn't just pick people just because they're your sons you know he is
the spiritual leader at this time and he is the the priest
and he's the prophet and he's the judge
jury executioner hughes agag into pieces at one point
he's a good man he doesn't take bribes he's not covetous
he's not a bad guy but you know what his sons don't walk in his ways
look at verse number three it says and his sons walk not in his ways
but turned aside after what lucre so
they turned aside and do what they do the opposite of
the way samuel is it says and took bribes and
perverted judgment so people come to them for judgment someone
slip them a 20 and say hey make sure you judge in my favor or whatever
they throw them a shekel you know and so they were
perverting judgment you know what god really hates that
that's something that really gets god angry you know if you're sitting there
just being paid off to judge a
situation wrongly but anyway it says then all the elders of israel gathered
themselves together and came to samuel unto rama
and said unto him behold thou art old and thy sons walk not in thy ways
now make us a king to judge us like all the nations
so you know god was the one that had picked these judges before
and you know they basically
samuel took it upon himself to just say well you know what my since i'm a judge i'm gonna make my sons
a judge too and this can happen in churches where the pastor
just picks their sons because they're his sons to be the
next pastor now i don't always think that that's wrong
but if the person's not qualified and you're just
picking them because they're your son then that's wrong that's nepotism
that's what's not right there's a lot of nepotism in this world and a lot
of different situations but you know to just pick someone just because
they're your son when you know they're not qualified is wrong and so that's what
samuel did though didn't he and that's what eli did he allowed his sons
to be you know working at the church basically while they're
doing all these all these wicked things and allows it to take place so you can't
allow that kind of stuff to take place and not check it
not have you know some something done about it
so you know you have to be able to judge rightly and you know what
your children as a pastor your children should walk in the
ways of the lord and not turn aside you know and and again
here here's you know it doesn't say anything it says here that be the husband
of one wife it doesn't say anything about the wife being this perfect you know
bible teacher and she's this and she's that it just says you have to be the husband
of one wife but should the wife be a good christian absolutely
and then it talks about the kids being able to rule your kids see while they're
in your home they should be able to be ruled over by you while
they're you know children right because it's talking about children
so you should be able to rule your children well if you're the pastor of the church
and your kids are the biggest brats there then you got a problem
that person's not qualified because you know
but what I was going to say is it doesn't say that the children have to be sinless
okay that's also not being said
because if the pastor can't even you know you can't say the pastor has to be sinless
because the pastor doesn't have to be sinless the pastor has to be
blameless but you can't say that the children
have to be sinless either it says that they're subject in
subjection so if you if you're correcting them and they're
under subjection then they are under subjection aren't
they so do you lose the qualification if your children do something wrong
but then you correct them and they're in subjection no
so people also pastors kids get attacked
a lot about things and I've seen this happen in other churches
too like and even in churches where you know I thought the kid pastors
kids were brats they did get unfairly judged in certain
situations that maybe they shouldn't have been judged for though so
I mean I just thought that they were rude and just like
you'd say hi to them and they just would look at you and not say hi back to me that's rude
I don't know but I mean if the kid
if they don't say hi to me is that like make him lose his qualification
no I don't think it does but anyway so in subjection once again
is not sinless it's to bring under domination
control or influence to rule well
is not unruly exercise ultimate power or
authority over or unable to be ruled would be unruly
so if they can't be ruled if they can't be in subjection
then that means that the pastor is not qualified isn't that right
so last thing and then
we'll be done here tonight last subject here is
number four they have to be above average ability to teach and
preach and know the bible okay it can't just be Joe
Blow behind the pulpit being the pastor that doesn't
know the bible he's read the bible three quarters of the way and then
he's up teaching the bible to people that know the bible better than him
that's not right look at Titus chapter 1 verse 9
Titus chapter 1 verse 9 almost done about 10 more minutes here
verse number 9 says holding fast the
faithful word which is what this thing right here the faithful word the bible
right as he hath been taught and he may that he
may be able to or able by sound
doctrine both to exhort and to convince the
so look you gotta be able to hold fast this book you know
this is this is what we're supposed to be preaching holding fast
right hold fast the faithful word
which is the bible as he hath been taught
that he may be able by sound doctrine
see you have to have the ability to be able
by sound doctrine so if you don't know the bible then you don't know sound
doctrine you just don't know doctrine period you might know a few things but you don't know a lot
you might know salvation maybe you just have read the bible twice
well you don't even really begin to get a full
wrap of what it all of the timeline and
who's saying what to who and who's right and what to who if you've only read the bible
twice you're just kind of getting a basic understanding of the bible at that
point you might start to kind of see some patterns and
and what not but when you've read the bible
tens, twenties, however many times
you've read it you know you're going to have a full concept of the timeline
when the bible you know when the earth was created
who were the writers of the books you know what
time periods were these basically these happening
when was the second temple when was the first I mean you should know the
bible if you're going to be a pastor you've got to know
what the bible says so it says in
let's turn over to 1 Timothy chapter 3 verse number 6
the bible says in 1 Timothy chapter 3
verse number 6 not a novice
lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation
of the devil why do you not want to have some newbie
master that doesn't know the bible well because the bible commands you
to not be a novice in 1 Timothy chapter 3 and those are the qualifications
for the bishop in 1 Timothy chapter 3
so why would you not be a novice well because it says lest being lifted up
with pride he fall because
what do new people like to do they like to brag about
the things that they know but don't you think it's kind of weird that someone that's really new
to something would be lifted up with pride like usually you would
think well if I don't really know a lot about something that I'm not
going to be real prideful because I don't really know what I'm talking about but
what a person that would be a novice lifted into the position of a pastor
that person could get prideful and go well I'm so good
that you know they deemed me to be the pastor and then
they get lifted up with pride because they think that something is great about
them instead of the fact that they are actually qualified
to be the pastor because
a novice like in wrestling they have all these different you know kids
wrestling right like actual organized wrestling they have
I think novice is one of the first things that you
are as a wrestler and it's like it seems like it's
you know kind of a derogatory term but it just means that you're new that's all it means
so a novice is somebody new you don't want to have some newly
saved man up behind the pulpit preaching
the word of God as the pastor because they're not going to know
what they're talking about they're going to know some things like I said maybe they're dynamic maybe
they can just they can preach really good and they have a good ability but if you don't know the Bible
then you don't know sound doctrine and you're not going to be able to exhort
or convince the gainsayers you're not going to be able to teach people the word
of God without actually knowing the word of God so you can't be a novice
so in wrestling a novice like I said is a person
that's new then they have midget and I don't know if midget's a thing
maybe they'd change that or something but who's wrestled the little kids
wrestling or had their kids wrestle what were the other ones Remy would you remember
novice midget I don't know huh
oh yeah bantam yeah bantam is one
so bantam I think then it starts going by weights or whatever yeah bantam is
like a bantam weight or something yeah but anyway novice
doesn't mean it's not meant to be a slight against somebody if you're a new Christian there's nothing wrong with
being a new Christian you're just new but why can you
not be a pastor well because you're a novice and then you don't want to be lifted up
with pride and fall into the condemnation of the devil because what's going to happen the devil's
going to destroy him then the devil's going to destroy the church so
there's got to be a man of God that can actually stand up against the wiles of the
devil and stand up and fight for the church stand
up and fight for the neighborhood stand up and fight for the city that they live in
stand up and fight for God in the place that we live in
and just be able to just say you know what I've had enough of this I'm going to
preach against this and that's what people get so mad about you know our
kind of preaching for is that we're just you know we're always mad about something
well you know what there's a lot of things to be mad about out there isn't there
isn't there a lot of things to be mad about there is and you know what if people
think that God's not mad about these things they're mistaken like
well God's not mad about what of course he's mad about it
you think he's mad that people are just stealing people's catalytic converters under
people's cars all the time and you know shooting drugs in the back
in the back of our church or you know just being whores
or whoremongers you know all the stuff that's going on in this world
all these queers and weirdos I'm so glad that that month's over
I want to quit talking about it okay because it irritates me but look
someone's got to get up and scream about the things that make God angry
someone's got to get if you don't know the Bible at all then how are you going to get up
and teach God's people and say hey let's get on get it to get together
as a team and win this city to Christ
but there's a lot of people out there that would say that this kind of preaching is just like oh
man you know you're not supposed to be like that you're turning people away
well what are you doing you're not turning people anyway
you're just doing nothing so really you're part of the problem
why don't you move over pastor and let another real pastor
get up and preach to the congregation because you're too scared
you're too scared of COVID you're too scared of this
people setting up circus tents next to their buildings because they're too afraid that the government's
going to shut them down or something it's like hey man we got to get past that
got to get past that quit being spooked
over something that didn't end up being as big as it was supposed to be okay
but we all know it's real okay we all know it's real because we've all had it
right never forget two years ago
right off preaching conference the struggle was real
we all came back infected
so look the bishop look at verse
2 Timothy or excuse me 1 Timothy you're already there look at verse number 2
the bible says the bishop must be blameless
the husband of one wife vigilant sober of good behavior
given to hospitality what does it say there the end apt
to teach so you have to have what the aptitude
to teach but apt also means
ready to teach qualified have the ability
to do so so you have to be able to preach
Paul is you know the two books we've been looking at mainly is
Timothy and Titus because they're pastoral epistles
right and so that's where we get the qualifications
and like I said I'm getting the qualifications from Titus
so I've been kind of going back and forth to the other one so let's look at 2 Timothy and we'll close
out here in 2 Timothy chapter 4 it says in 2 Timothy
chapter 4 what are we supposed to do
preach the word what's he telling Timothy preach
the word not preach the opinion not preach what's popular
in fact it says the instant in season
out of season reprove rebuke exhort
with all long suffering and doctrine look it's part of the
qualifications of a pastor to what
preach God's word so I'm
I get up here and I preach the Bible you know and if that the Bible just
bores you or whatever then that's a problem within yourself
but I'm supposed to get up and I'm supposed to thunder forth what God says
so to preach the word I'm supposed to be instant in season so when it's
popular I preach about it and then out of season when it's
not popular so out of season right now would be a winter coat
why am I even wearing this coat it's too hot I don't know what's wrong with me but anyway
instant in season and out of season
so what am I supposed to do I'm supposed to preach the Bible whether it's out of season or not
and that is the problem today that almost
everything in this book seems to be out of season
it's like the fall count you know it's the fall
seers catalog or something it's like hey I'm not I'm in
the summer right now and it's just like permanently what the pastors are
doing they're permanently out of season
they're only preaching the things that are in season
and what is that love love love
that's all they ever preach God's love and I love God's
love and I'm happy for the fact that we have God's love and I love
to preach about God's love I'm thankful for God's love I'm thankful for the fact
that he saved me I'm thankful for the fact that he saved sinners
but you know what that's not all there is in the Bible
in this big book that you're supposed to read
has multiple different things and you know what two thirds
of this book is negative and so what would you say
that we're supposed to preach some negative sermons yeah like well I feel
negative when I come here I know you're supposed to
you're supposed to feel negative about yourself
and what you're failing to do as a Christian but I also want
you to feel positive a little bit positive
I want you to be exhorted I want you to be
I want you to be you know exhorted
I want you to be encouraged I want you to be built up
in the faith of course you know but also
you need to be torn down and told that you're bad
you're bad we're all bad we all fail all week
long don't we and then that's when you go to church and you're like
what's the pastor going to destroy me about tonight
and you're like well that's not the Christianity that I grew up on I know
that's the problem that's the problem the problem is
is that preachers forgot this verse
they like to say it they like to say it out loud but you know it's funny
that like I don't remember pastors that I went to because I went
to Baptist churches before I started this church I don't ever remember people
focusing on this part where it says in season out of season you know why
because they were already not preaching things that were out of season at that
time because they don't want the controversy
they don't want to be called out on the news they don't want to be put in
Newsweek because they said that their wife should make them pancakes if they
asked them to that literally
made it into Newsweek brother Jared Pazarski
pastor Jared Pazarski he was making like an
off-the-cuff tongue-in-cheek comment about if I came home
and my wife made me food and I said you know what I really would like some
pancakes instead she should do that
because you're supposed to obey your husband right he said I'm not a
jerk and I wouldn't necessarily do that he said but technically
if I did ask she should do it so like they take that part of it
out and just say that pastor
tells his wife if she doesn't make him some pancakes that she's not right with God
or something it's like that made it to Newsweek magazine
that is not like some you know
that's a big magazine it's like in the grocery stores
and stuff you know I got
put on the ADL website the front page
it was a good picture too dang it that was a good picture they made me look good
but anyway I was like I'm going to use that I keep meaning to
changes my Facebook profile picture but anyway
Breaking news, pastor says
women that premeditate and murder their own children should be put to death
it's like doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo it's like
when did that become like controversial? I thought
all pastors believed that I thought all Christians believed that but apparently
it's not believed about so much anymore because it's making
the front page of news articles that are like,
you know, oh, the ADL, the Anti-Defamation League.
I just don't understand it.
But you know, I do understand it.
I understand it because, and this is, listen,
this is why we have qualifications.
Because there's a lot of bozos in this area
and in this country and in this world
that refuse to stand up and preach God's word
and that's why the pancake articles are getting written.
That's why it's controversial for me to say
that if a woman murders her own child premeditatedly,
I give the verses in the Bible that actually prove it
and say it, that if you say I'm going to, you know,
premeditate to murder somebody, that it's the death penalty.
They're seeing abortion, no, not abortion, child murderers.
Well, we call it what it really is.
And all these liberal tears, they don't sway me.
I'm gonna just keep preaching what the Bible says
because the Bible says to preach the word
whether it's in season or out of season.
And we're supposed to reprove, we're supposed to rebuke,
we're supposed to exhort with all long suffering
and doctrine.
I'll be long suffering about it,
but I'm not gonna stop preaching it.
I'm not gonna just sweep it under the rug and say,
you know what, that's just too controversial.
We're gonna lose all of our tithers.
We're gonna lose all of our support.
Well, last time I checked, we're not like a mega church
bringing in, raking in millions and millions of dollars here.
So that was never the intention of starting this church.
Money has nothing to do with it.
You know what it has to do with?
Reaching this city with the gospel.
It says, look at verse number three.
Oh, it was there the whole time.
For the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine, but after their own lust,
shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears.
That's being done heaps and heaps, heaps and heaps
of people heaping themselves teachers having itching ears.
How about Joe Osteen?
How about Rick Warren?
How about all these guys that just, you know, they say,
well, what kind of church would you like?
Hey, you know what?
I wanna have a church that wants what God wants,
not what they like.
See, because Moses told the people
what God told them he wanted, right?
God said, God had Moses rule the people
and when the people rose up to try to overthrow Moses,
what happened?
God smoked them.
And then they still were like,
you killed the people of the Lord.
Anyway, it's a different sermon.
But look at verse number four, it says,
and they shall turn away their ears from the truth
and shall be turned unto fables.
That's where we're living right now.
We're living in a time where they have turned their ears
away from the truth and you can literally
just quote them Bible verses and they're like,
I don't believe that.
Where in the Bible does it say that right here?
I don't believe that.
Because they've turned their ears from the truth
and they've gone from being Baptist and Bible believers
to being Jedi Baptist.
They've turned into people that want to have, you know,
Star Wars Baptist Church, where there's no hate.
Yoda is the Jedi master in charge
and he's a little short guy that loves everybody
and talks weird.
But the fact that hate looks,
there's a direct correlation between Star Wars
and the no hate movement in churches.
There is.
Well, doesn't the Bible say God's not supposed to hate,
you're not supposed to hate people?
Why don't you just look up the word hate in the Bible
and see how many times it says it?
Because it says it a lot.
And a lot of times it's God hating somebody.
How about all the times when it says detest,
abhor, abomination?
See, we're living in tough times, folks.
And you know what?
The qualifications mean something.
And we should stick by them and say, you know what?
I'm not ashamed to say that I believe the standards
that the Bible puts in place for pastors.
And look, I know I'm out of time,
but you know, there's qualifications.
And if you want to be a pastor,
you're going to have to meet them at this church of,
you know, and obviously we haven't been doing our class
for a while, but we're going to probably start that up
here in a bit.
We'll start back up the class.
And you know, if you're interested in being a pastor,
you know, I'm interested in training people, but hey,
it's not going to be, you'd have an easier time
going to Bible college than you would probably
getting being ordained here as a pastor.
Because at the Bible college, they'll just say,
oh, here's your certificate, sir.
You're now the assistant pastor
of such and such Baptist church,
the churches that you went to Bible college from.
You know what I mean?
That's pretty easy.
We had an assistant pastor at a church that I went to,
and when he came back from Bible college,
his first year at Hyles Anderson College,
guess how many times he'd read the Bible while he was there?
Zero.
Guess how many times he'd read the Bible
before he left for the Bible college, and you know why?
Because I asked him.
Zero.
So he's the assistant pastor,
and he read the Bible zero times.
That's what we're dealing with, folks.
That's what Baptists have become.
Just not biblical, all right?
Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord,
so much for this great chapter in the Bible, Lord.
And we're thankful for the qualifications, Lord.
There's a guide for us to look at a measuring stick
for men of God that rule the church well.
And Lord, it's not an easy job.
Pray, Lord, that you would maybe put a burden
on the heart of some of the men that we have
in this church, Lord, and that you would help them
to try to meet the qualifications.
Lord, even if they don't want to be a pastor,
I pray that everybody in this room would strive
to meet some of these qualifications
just in their own lives as Christians.
And we pray that you would just bless this church, Lord.
We thank you so much for all your grace and mercy to us.
We pray that you'd dismiss us and take us home safely.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Read the symbols, page 29.
At the cross.
Page 29, at the cross.
Page 10.
Oh.
At the cross.
Amen.
At the cross.