WEBVTT 11:30.100 --> 11:34.060 Good morning everyone and welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church. 11:34.060 --> 11:36.260 It's wonderful to see everybody here. 11:36.260 --> 11:39.700 If we could find our seats, we will get started with the service. 11:45.500 --> 11:48.500 And once we've all found a seat, let's go ahead and grab a hymnal. 11:51.000 --> 11:53.960 Help me sing this morning, my sciences are kicking my butt. 11:53.960 --> 11:59.600 Once you find a hymnal, let's go to song number 379. 11:59.600 --> 12:01.360 Song number 379. 12:08.000 --> 12:13.000 Bringing in the Sheeves, song number 379. 12:16.600 --> 12:20.600 Song 379, let's all sing that out together this morning. 12:20.600 --> 12:26.600 Sewing in the morning, sewing seeds of kindness, 12:26.600 --> 12:31.600 Sewing in the noontide and the new year, 12:31.600 --> 12:36.600 Waiting for the harvest and the time of reaping, 12:36.600 --> 12:41.600 We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, 12:41.600 --> 12:43.600 Bringing in the sheaves. 12:45.200 --> 12:53.000 the sheaths we shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaths bringing in the 12:53.000 --> 13:02.240 sheaths bringing in the sheaths we shall come rejoicing bringing in the sheaths 13:02.240 --> 13:09.920 sowing in the sunshine sowing in the shadows spearing neither clouds nor 13:09.920 --> 13:10.200 you 13:10.700 --> 13:17.700 their chilling breeze. By and by the harvest and the labor ended, we shall come rejoicing, 13:17.700 --> 13:27.500 bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves. 13:28.200 --> 13:38.280 We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves. 13:38.280 --> 13:46.720 We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, going forth with weeping, 13:46.720 --> 13:52.400 soaring for the Master, though the laws sustain our sphere. 13:54.900 --> 13:56.900 When our week brings over, 13:56.900 --> 13:58.900 He will fill us with love, 13:58.900 --> 14:00.900 We shall come rejoicing. 14:15.100 --> 14:23.200 bringing in the she's bringing in the she's we shall come rejoicing 14:26.700 --> 14:29.660 Great singing everybody. Let's open up the service now with a word of prayer. 14:30.940 --> 14:35.420 Lord we love you so much. We thank you once again for this awesome church and the opportunity to 14:35.420 --> 14:39.820 gather here and hear your word preached and to sing out unto you with these awesome songs Lord. 14:39.820 --> 14:43.100 We just ask now that you fill us all with your spirit and help us sing out unto you this morning 14:43.100 --> 14:49.580 and it's in Jesus name that we pray amen. All right for our next song let's go to song number 119. 14:54.900 --> 14:59.400 Song number 119, 15:01.400 --> 15:07.400 Till the Storm Passes By, song number 119. 15:09.400 --> 15:13.900 So I'll sing that out loud together. Song 119, Till the Storm Passes By. 15:16.400 --> 15:21.900 In the dark of the midnight, have I all... 15:33.900 --> 15:34.700 The crowd 18:38.100 --> 18:40.620 Alright welcome everyone to Steadfast Baptist Church. 18:40.620 --> 18:43.540 If you need a bulletin this morning, raise your hand nice and high. 18:43.540 --> 18:47.600 We'll have one of the ushers come around and get that to you. 18:47.600 --> 18:50.300 On the front there we do have our verse for the week. 18:50.300 --> 18:53.860 Encourage all those that are working at memorizing this chapter. 18:53.860 --> 18:56.120 Would keep up the hard work on that. 18:56.120 --> 19:01.600 On the inside we do have our service times and our regional and churchwide soul winning 19:01.600 --> 19:02.660 times as well. 19:03.200 --> 19:05.320 Then below that our church stats 19:05.880 --> 19:13.020 We're doing really great as far as the numbers and so just encourage you guys to keep up the hard work and soul winning each week 19:13.480 --> 19:16.560 continue to pray for our expecting ladies as well there on the right and 19:17.280 --> 19:22.040 Of course for the month of August we're doing a special promotion if you can make it to every service 19:22.480 --> 19:26.640 By the end of August well, you'll receive a $10 gift card 19:27.400 --> 19:29.400 towards some ice cream treats, so 19:29.840 --> 19:31.200 Definitely encourage you to be in your 19:31.200 --> 19:32.780 for each service. 19:32.780 --> 19:36.060 There is a list out on the table there 19:36.060 --> 19:37.740 that you can sign up to. 19:37.740 --> 19:39.420 Just go ahead and just make a check mark 19:39.420 --> 19:41.880 for every service that you've attended. 19:41.880 --> 19:45.360 There is the exception for church sponsored events 19:45.360 --> 19:47.620 and mission strips if you're out for those. 19:47.620 --> 19:49.300 We will make an exception for that. 19:49.800 --> 19:52.560 some upcoming events to look forward to. 19:52.560 --> 19:57.360 This coming Saturday is the last teen summer event of the summer. 19:57.360 --> 20:00.840 Encourage you to participate in that if you can. 20:00.840 --> 20:03.160 We do have the Mexico City Missions Trip. 20:03.400 --> 20:06.400 that Brother Diego is heading up. 20:06.400 --> 20:08.920 And if you have any questions about that, 20:08.920 --> 20:10.320 you can always see him. 20:10.320 --> 20:13.440 I did put a QR code on the back of the bulletin. 20:13.440 --> 20:15.520 So we've got a couple QR codes where you can sign up 20:15.520 --> 20:17.600 and register through GodResource. 20:17.600 --> 20:20.400 Kind of helps with planning for those events. 20:20.400 --> 20:22.080 So I encourage you, if you're planning on going 20:22.080 --> 20:24.120 to the Mexico City missions trip, 20:24.120 --> 20:26.080 that you go ahead and scan the QR code 20:26.080 --> 20:27.880 and get registered for that. 20:27.880 --> 20:29.400 Also, we have the Mesquite, Texas, 20:29.400 --> 20:30.680 soul-winning marathon as well. 20:30.680 --> 20:31.400 You can scan... 20:31.400 --> 20:33.960 and the QR code on the back for that. 20:33.960 --> 20:36.400 I did also, if you're old school 20:36.400 --> 20:38.840 and you wanna just write your name on a sheet of paper, 20:38.840 --> 20:41.760 there is a sign up sheet on the table as well. 20:41.760 --> 20:43.600 There's a column for breakfast and lunch. 20:43.600 --> 20:48.060 Just help me with planning and coordinating that 20:48.060 --> 20:48.920 with everyone. 20:48.920 --> 20:50.640 You'll just go ahead and write your name, your family, 20:50.640 --> 20:51.760 how many people are coming, 20:51.760 --> 20:54.180 and whether you're gonna be there for breakfast and lunch 20:54.180 --> 20:58.260 just so I can get a good head count for the 22nd. 20:58.260 --> 20:59.400 The Barbados missions trip. 20:59.400 --> 21:05.800 our church sponsored Missing Trip that's going to be taking place the first week of September. 21:05.800 --> 21:11.720 That is Labor Day weekend, so we'll be leaving on Labor Day, arriving many of you, leaving 21:11.720 --> 21:16.640 and arriving on September 7th, and then we'll go through that Saturday. 21:16.640 --> 21:19.620 And if you haven't already, we've got lots of people signed up. 21:19.620 --> 21:23.320 I think the number is like 70 people already planning on going. 21:23.320 --> 21:24.600 So praise God for that. 21:24.600 --> 21:27.400 If you haven't already sent in your itinerary, please. 21:27.400 --> 21:29.080 make sure that you do that. 21:29.080 --> 21:32.240 Or you can see me after service if you have a question 21:32.240 --> 21:33.640 on whether or not you've signed up 21:33.640 --> 21:36.100 or we've gotten that information. 21:36.100 --> 21:38.920 I can discuss that with you, I'd be happy to do that. 21:38.920 --> 21:40.520 So make sure that you do that. 21:40.520 --> 21:44.120 September 20th, we have a special guest, Pastor Stuckey 21:44.120 --> 21:46.640 from the Philippines is gonna be here with us 21:46.640 --> 21:48.080 all day preaching for us. 21:48.080 --> 21:49.380 I'm really looking forward to that, 21:49.380 --> 21:50.860 looking forward to seeing him. 21:50.860 --> 21:52.480 Again, I gotta meet him for the first time 21:52.480 --> 21:54.440 when we went on that Philippines mission strip 21:54.440 --> 21:55.400 earlier in the year. 21:55.400 --> 22:04.000 and he's a great pastor and he's doing a great work in Manila and various other cities there in the Philippines. 22:04.000 --> 22:10.500 He even just recently sent out another pastor to Australia, started a new church in Australia. 22:10.500 --> 22:14.600 The guy is just a workaholic for the Lord. I love that. 22:14.600 --> 22:19.000 And so definitely want to come and encourage him when he's here. 22:19.000 --> 22:23.400 Make sure, plus there'll be free food, right? Can't beat that. Definitely want to show up. 22:23.400 --> 22:23.800 at. 22:23.900 --> 22:27.900 October 9th through the 11th Heritage of the Lord Conference. 22:27.900 --> 22:29.400 They'll be here, we'll host that. 22:29.400 --> 22:34.900 And then November 12th through the 14th is a preaching boot camp in Faithful Word Baptist Church 22:34.900 --> 22:36.400 there in Phoenix. 22:36.400 --> 22:41.900 And then we have another mission strip that will be church sponsored in February, 22:41.900 --> 22:46.900 where we'll be going out and partnering with Pastor Stuckey and his churches, 22:46.900 --> 22:51.900 but then also getting to see our evangelist, Evangelist Urbanic. 22:51.900 --> 22:56.200 there in his work and the things that he's doing and get to see a lot of brethren there as well. 22:56.200 --> 23:00.900 So lots of things to look forward to. On the back we do have our prayer list. 23:00.900 --> 23:06.100 If you want to take that home with you and pray for each one and then again the QR codes to sign up for those events. 23:06.100 --> 23:09.000 I encourage you to do that. That's all the announcements that we have. 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 We'll go to our next song as Brother Dustin leads us. 23:18.900 --> 23:23.380 All right for our next song let's go to song number 37 in our special song booklet you should 23:23.380 --> 23:34.180 have one nearby song number 37 or page 37 I should say thou shalt be saved song page number 37 23:36.580 --> 23:40.180 thou shalt be saved let's all sing that out together 23:40.180 --> 23:45.180 A law center in this world 23:46.700 --> 23:49.360 Hope and peace within 26:08.000 --> 26:14.000 Now as offering plates are being passed around, go ahead and open your Bibles to the book of Luke chapter number 20. 26:14.000 --> 26:17.000 That is Luke chapter 20. 27:37.400 --> 27:42.120 20 the Bible reads and it came to pass that on one of those days as he taught 27:42.120 --> 27:45.760 the people in the temple and preached the gospel the chief priests and the 27:45.760 --> 27:49.960 scribes came upon him with the elders and spake unto him saying tell us by 27:49.960 --> 27:53.360 what authority doest thou these things or who is he that gave thee this 27:53.360 --> 27:57.360 authority and he answered and said unto them I will also ask you one thing and 27:57.360 --> 28:01.880 answer me the baptism of John was it from heaven or of men and they reasoned 28:01.880 --> 28:05.400 with themselves saying if we shall say from heaven he will say 28:05.400 --> 28:10.760 Why then believe ye him not? But if we say of men, all the people will stone us. 28:11.700 --> 28:16.700 for they be persuaded that John was a prophet, and they answered that they could not tell whence it was. 28:16.700 --> 28:21.200 And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. 28:21.200 --> 28:24.200 Then began he to speak to the people this parable. 28:24.200 --> 28:30.200 A certain man planted a vineyard and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time. 28:30.200 --> 28:34.700 And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard, 28:34.700 --> 28:37.700 but the husbandmen beat him and sent him away empty. 28:37.700 --> 28:39.700 And again, he sent another servant and they beat him. 28:39.700 --> 28:45.420 also and entreated him shamefully and sent him away empty. And again he sent a third, 28:45.420 --> 28:50.060 and they wounded him also and cast him out. Then said the Lord of the vineyard, What shall 28:50.060 --> 28:56.340 I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be they will reverence him when they see him. 28:56.340 --> 29:00.860 But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir, 29:00.860 --> 29:05.820 come let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. So they cast him out of the vineyard 29:05.820 --> 29:06.580 and killed him. 29:07.100 --> 29:09.900 What therefore shall the Lord of the Vineyard do unto them? 29:10.100 --> 29:14.580 He shall come and destroy these husband men, and shall give the vineyard to others. 29:14.580 --> 29:17.220 And when they heard it, they said, God forbid. 29:17.220 --> 29:20.660 And he beheld them and said, What is this then that is written, 29:20.660 --> 29:24.740 the stone which the builders rejected, the same as become the head of the corner? 29:24.740 --> 29:29.620 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, 29:29.620 --> 29:31.300 it will grind him to powder. 29:31.300 --> 29:35.060 And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him, 29:35.060 --> 29:36.580 and they feared the people. 29:36.580 --> 29:38.100 for they perceived that he had sp- 29:38.100 --> 29:40.540 spoken this parable against them. 29:40.540 --> 29:44.980 And they watched him and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that 29:44.980 --> 29:46.620 they might take hold of his words. 29:47.100 --> 29:51.260 that so they might deliver him under the power and authority of the governor. 29:51.260 --> 29:56.220 And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, 29:56.220 --> 30:00.780 neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly. 30:00.780 --> 30:04.220 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no? 30:04.220 --> 30:08.220 But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me? 30:08.220 --> 30:11.580 Show me a penny, whose image and superscription hath it? 30:11.580 --> 30:13.500 They answered and said, Caesar's. 30:13.500 --> 30:15.100 And he said unto them, render their 30:15.100 --> 30:19.460 Therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesars, and unto God the things which be 30:19.460 --> 30:20.460 gods. 30:20.460 --> 30:23.820 And they could not take hold of his words before the people, and they marveled at his 30:23.820 --> 30:26.340 answer and held their peace. 30:26.340 --> 30:30.620 Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which denied that there was any resurrection, 30:30.620 --> 30:35.460 and they asked him, saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, if any man's brother die having 30:35.460 --> 30:40.100 a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife and raise 30:40.100 --> 30:41.600 subcede unto his brother. 30:41.900 --> 30:46.540 There were therefore seven brethren, and the first took a wife and died without children, 30:46.540 --> 30:50.780 and the second took her to wife, and he died childless, and the third took her, 30:50.780 --> 30:57.260 and in like manner the seven also, and they left no children and died. Last of all, the woman died also. 30:57.700 --> 31:00.700 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? 31:00.700 --> 31:04.200 For seven had heard a wife, and Jesus answering said unto them, 31:04.200 --> 31:07.200 The children of this world marry and are given in marriage, 31:07.200 --> 31:12.200 but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world in the resurrection from the dead, 31:12.200 --> 31:14.700 neither marry nor are given in marriage. 31:14.700 --> 31:18.200 Neither can they die any more, for they are equal unto the angels, 31:18.200 --> 31:22.200 and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. 31:22.400 --> 31:31.240 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called it the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 31:31.240 --> 31:35.640 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all live unto him. 31:35.640 --> 31:40.240 Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said. 31:40.240 --> 31:43.240 And after that they durst not ask him any question at all. 31:43.240 --> 31:46.880 And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? 31:46.880 --> 31:50.380 And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The Lord said unto my... 31:50.400 --> 31:54.400 sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. 31:54.400 --> 31:58.400 David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son? 31:58.400 --> 32:02.400 Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples, 32:02.400 --> 32:06.400 Beware of the scribes which desire to walk in long robes, 32:06.400 --> 32:10.400 and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, 32:10.400 --> 32:14.400 and the chief rooms at feasts which devour widows' houses, 32:14.400 --> 32:18.400 and for a show make long prayers, the same shall receive greater. 32:18.400 --> 32:20.400 Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer. 32:20.400 --> 32:24.400 Father God, we thank you for our church services today. 32:24.400 --> 32:30.400 I pray that you bless the sermon this morning and fill evangelist Tanner Furr with the Holy Spirit. 32:30.400 --> 32:34.400 Help him to preach the sermon you've laid on his heart with clarity of mind and with boldness. 32:34.400 --> 32:37.400 Help us to pay close attention to the message and apply it to our lives 32:37.400 --> 32:42.400 and enable us to make necessary changes to glorify and serve you better. 32:42.400 --> 32:44.400 We love you and in Jesus' name I pray. Amen. 32:45.600 --> 32:51.200 Amen. I just want to start off by again just thanking pastor Shelly for the opportunity to preach. 32:51.200 --> 32:56.800 Also just want to make mention that he will be back on Wednesday. So if you're a visitor, 32:56.800 --> 33:01.200 maybe you're here for the first time, please come back next week. Come back Wednesday to hear our 33:01.200 --> 33:07.520 pastor preach. But nonetheless, I am thankful to be here this morning. And I want to focus on verse 33:07.520 --> 33:13.280 verse number 20. Notice what the Bible says in verse 20. It says, and they watched him. 33:13.800 --> 33:19.700 and sent forth spies which should feign themselves just men, 33:19.700 --> 33:22.700 that they might take hold of his words, 33:22.700 --> 33:28.600 that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor." 33:28.600 --> 33:33.000 Notice in this verse, because of the hatred that the Pharisees had, 33:33.000 --> 33:37.600 the scribes, the hatred that they have for Jesus Christ, 33:37.600 --> 33:40.100 they sent forth these spies... 33:40.400 --> 33:46.000 They sent forth these deceivers, and the Bible says that they feigned themselves just men. 33:46.000 --> 33:49.200 What does that mean? It means that they appeared as if they were righteous. 33:49.200 --> 33:53.280 They appeared as if they were on the same team as Jesus. 33:54.480 --> 33:57.920 Says they feigned themselves just men. What was the purpose? 33:58.720 --> 34:02.400 So that way they could have something to accuse them of. 34:02.900 --> 34:04.740 to their authority, right? 34:04.740 --> 34:06.840 To the governor, to Pontius Pilate, 34:06.840 --> 34:09.980 people that could execute some type of judgment, 34:09.980 --> 34:13.340 some type of corrupt government, 34:13.340 --> 34:16.980 instituting some type of judgment upon Jesus. 34:16.980 --> 34:18.940 And the title of my sermon this morning 34:18.940 --> 34:21.480 is Posers and Pretenders. 34:21.800 --> 34:24.440 Posers and pretenders. 34:24.440 --> 34:27.840 Now, typically the word poser, it's a slang term, 34:27.840 --> 34:30.000 if you're not familiar with it. 34:30.000 --> 34:33.440 And it's used primarily, what I kind of found as funny 34:33.440 --> 34:35.180 is it's kind of used primarily within 34:35.180 --> 34:37.740 like the skater community, right? 34:37.740 --> 34:40.020 A lot of skateboarders, you know, 34:40.020 --> 34:42.120 they will call somebody a poser 34:42.120 --> 34:43.720 if they walk around with a skateboard, 34:43.720 --> 34:45.760 but they don't actually know how to skate, right? 34:45.760 --> 34:49.800 Or they wear some type of, you know, garments. 34:49.800 --> 34:52.560 whatever t-shirts of some rock band or whatever, 34:52.560 --> 34:54.880 but they're just a poser, they're just a pretender. 34:54.880 --> 34:58.200 They don't actually believe the things that they're, 34:59.320 --> 35:02.540 or care about, or they're not involved 35:02.540 --> 35:04.760 in the things that they're promoting, right? 35:04.760 --> 35:08.680 So I found a definition of pose, what does poser mean? 35:08.900 --> 35:16.660 It's an English slang term to describe individuals who adopt behaviors, styles, or attitudes 35:16.660 --> 35:22.420 to appear part of a group without genuinely embodying its values or skills. 35:22.420 --> 35:26.820 Now, I can think of a lot of posers when I was growing up in high school. 35:27.300 --> 35:31.500 I was thinking back, how can I think of some applications, 35:31.500 --> 35:34.940 some people that I could really identify? 35:34.940 --> 35:36.500 And when I was in high school, there 35:36.500 --> 35:40.220 was this chick that moved from the big city, Stillwater, 35:40.220 --> 35:41.900 to our podunk little town. 35:41.900 --> 35:44.060 And she was just a complete goth. 35:44.700 --> 35:47.340 Satan worshiping freak. 35:47.340 --> 35:49.080 And that's how she dressed, right? 35:49.080 --> 35:52.380 But it's funny is like that there was a group of boys 35:52.380 --> 35:54.880 in my class that were kind of nerdy. 35:54.880 --> 35:57.040 They didn't really fit into any group 35:57.040 --> 36:00.800 and they just like attached themselves to this chick. 36:00.800 --> 36:03.100 And they started being a poser, 36:03.100 --> 36:05.360 like wearing these metal band shirts 36:05.360 --> 36:08.140 and you know, acting like they're just, you know, 36:08.140 --> 36:11.840 really edgy and cool and punk rocker, you know, 36:11.840 --> 36:12.700 and it was like, it was. 36:12.700 --> 36:15.580 clear to all of us like these guys are just a bunch of posers. 36:16.020 --> 36:18.020 They don't actually believe a lot of this though. 36:18.020 --> 36:19.740 They're like, you know, now sure. 36:19.780 --> 36:22.100 On the other hand, she was a hundred percent satanic. 36:22.380 --> 36:23.380 I have no doubt about that. 36:24.100 --> 36:26.340 She worshiped the devil, I believe that. 36:26.340 --> 36:28.900 Or, you know, there was this one guy, 36:28.900 --> 36:31.660 and he was my friend, I will say that, 36:31.660 --> 36:38.980 but you'd have people who try to act like they're a gangster, right? 36:38.980 --> 36:41.460 Try to act like they're just this real tough gangster. 36:41.460 --> 36:43.180 I'm like, dude, you're white. 36:43.180 --> 36:45.620 Bro, come on. 36:45.620 --> 36:48.340 Like, your parents are happily married. 36:48.340 --> 36:49.340 Like... 36:49.800 --> 36:53.140 You grew up in the country like you're not a gangster 36:53.720 --> 36:59.340 But yet that's what he like wanted everybody to think you know and that's what he listened to that music 36:59.340 --> 37:02.360 He dressed that away, and he was a complete poser 37:03.040 --> 37:08.640 Right and listen there's there's nothing more irritating than people are fake 37:09.560 --> 37:11.560 pretenders posers 37:11.600 --> 37:15.400 The ultimate posers, how about transvestites? 37:15.400 --> 37:19.560 Bunch of disgusting freaks, worthy of death. 37:19.560 --> 37:20.400 What do they do? 37:20.400 --> 37:23.800 They try to pose as the opposite gender, right? 37:23.800 --> 37:25.720 They're not fooling anybody. 37:25.720 --> 37:27.480 We all see right through it. 37:27.480 --> 37:30.320 It's disgusting, go kill yourself. 37:30.320 --> 37:31.800 Man, do us all a favor. 37:31.800 --> 37:32.760 Right. 37:32.760 --> 37:35.400 Just to kind of piggyback on the Massa Conference, right? 37:35.400 --> 37:37.280 Just that spirit is still upon me. 37:37.700 --> 37:44.100 You know, it's disgusting to see, you know, transvestites posing, right? 37:44.100 --> 37:46.100 Nobody wants to see that. It's disgusting. 37:47.060 --> 37:53.300 And you know, what's interesting is as you serve God, man, the Bible just starts to come to life, 37:53.300 --> 38:00.500 does it not? You know, we just read this passage where you have people who are spying on Jesus, 38:01.700 --> 38:03.300 so that way they could put them to death. 38:03.900 --> 38:08.300 They hated him. But what did they do? They feigned themselves as just men. 38:08.300 --> 38:12.600 They feigned themselves as somebody who's righteous, somebody who's on his side. 38:12.600 --> 38:18.200 And, you know, this is what I've kind of realized as I've, you know, 38:18.200 --> 38:21.200 gone through the Christian life to the point that I'm at now. 38:21.200 --> 38:25.100 You know, that when you actually start serving God, 38:25.100 --> 38:30.800 and you really get dedicated, and, you know, you really start living. 38:31.000 --> 38:35.000 How the Bible asks you and not even just asks you, commands you to live. 38:35.800 --> 38:39.880 Then man, the Bible just really starts to just come to life. 38:40.680 --> 38:46.600 It starts to just pop right off the page where, you know, and hold your place here in Luke 20, 38:46.600 --> 38:50.200 go to John 15 real fast for me. Go to John 15. 38:50.700 --> 38:55.400 I remember being in my early 20s and just being really zealous and wanting to serve God, 38:55.400 --> 38:59.600 but just not doing all the things I should have been doing. 38:59.600 --> 39:01.700 Just not being angry at a lot of stuff. 39:01.700 --> 39:03.000 I wasn't a soul winner. 39:03.000 --> 39:04.000 I wanted to be. 39:04.000 --> 39:06.000 I wanted to try and I would go out. 39:06.000 --> 39:07.700 We just failed miserably. 39:07.700 --> 39:11.700 This guy that I was friends with that went to the church that we went to. 39:11.700 --> 39:15.700 And I just remember reading the Bible at that time in my life. 39:16.000 --> 39:19.200 and just some gnarly stories in the Bible and just thinking like, 39:19.200 --> 39:24.240 man, this is crazy, you know, this is cool, but this stuff doesn't actually happen anymore. 39:24.600 --> 39:30.680 You know, and I look back on that moment in my life where I'm where I can just picture myself 39:30.680 --> 39:36.120 just having this puzzle, this puzzle look on my face reading the Bible and just not understanding 39:36.120 --> 39:41.320 so many aspects of the Bible and looking back on it's because I wasn't actually living the Bible. 39:41.320 --> 39:46.840 I wasn't actually dedicated. I wasn't actually serving God the way God wants us to serve him. 39:46.840 --> 39:50.600 And when you start serving God, when you stop being of this world, 39:51.100 --> 40:00.100 and you start following him, listen, the Bible is going to be just jumping off the page of you have so much application in your life. 40:00.100 --> 40:04.100 Notice what the Bible says in John 15 and verse 18. 40:04.100 --> 40:09.900 It says, If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. 40:10.400 --> 40:14.400 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own. 40:14.400 --> 40:18.700 But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, 40:18.700 --> 40:21.100 therefore the world hateth you. 40:21.100 --> 40:23.600 Remember the word that I said unto you, 40:23.600 --> 40:27.700 the servant is not greater than his Lord. 40:27.700 --> 40:31.700 If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. 40:32.100 --> 40:35.140 If they have kept my saying, they will also keep yours. 40:35.140 --> 40:40.460 So what the Bible is saying is when you stop being of this world and you start serving 40:40.460 --> 40:46.400 Jesus Christ, you start going soul winning, you start coming to church, you start reading 40:46.400 --> 40:51.540 your Bible, you start cleaning up your life, you start dressing like a woman or you start 40:51.540 --> 40:58.620 dressing like a man, and you start acting and behaving yourself as if your conversation 40:58.620 --> 40:59.620 is in heaven. 41:00.100 --> 41:05.900 Well, listen, then you're going to actually face some real persecution in this life, right? 41:05.900 --> 41:13.100 You're going to be in a similar situation that Jesus was in, where people are backstabbing him, 41:13.100 --> 41:16.200 you know, doing him dirty, right? 41:16.200 --> 41:18.700 Going against him, persecuting him. 41:18.700 --> 41:22.600 And the Bible says, if they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. 41:22.600 --> 41:24.600 You are not above your Lord, right? 41:24.600 --> 41:27.700 If they have persecuted our Lord, they're going to persecute us. 41:28.000 --> 41:34.080 the servant. And this is something really important to understand is that, you know, 41:34.080 --> 41:39.680 we shouldn't look at somebody who's getting backstabbed, who's being persecuted, 41:39.680 --> 41:44.000 going through severe persecution, be like, oh man, he brought that upon himself. 41:44.300 --> 41:52.300 Or, you know, if he would have, and of course, you know, I think of somebody right now who's just going through a lot of persecution, Pastor Stephen Anderson. 41:52.300 --> 41:56.300 You know, he's being attacked left and right. His family's being attacked left and right. 41:56.300 --> 42:03.300 And, you know, you might have this thought, oh, well, man, it seems weird that all these weirdos. 42:04.000 --> 42:08.320 all these backstabbers, these posers, these pretenders 42:08.320 --> 42:11.520 just seem to just flock to his church, right? 42:11.520 --> 42:15.160 And the reality is that the reason that's happening 42:15.160 --> 42:17.760 is because he is serving the Lord greatly. 42:17.760 --> 42:22.400 It's because he is sacrificing a lot to serve God. 42:22.400 --> 42:24.800 That's why he's got the big target on his back. 42:24.800 --> 42:26.640 It's not anything that he has done. 42:26.640 --> 42:28.320 He's just not of the world. 42:28.600 --> 42:35.600 Right? And when you're not of the world, you're going to face the same type of persecutions that the Lord Jesus Christ faced. 42:35.600 --> 42:38.600 The same things He went through. Go back to Luke chapter number 20. 42:38.600 --> 42:40.600 Luke chapter number 20. 42:49.500 --> 42:52.900 You know, and there's lots of different posers and pretenders in this world. 42:52.900 --> 42:56.100 You know, social media kind of gives everybody a platform to be a poser. 42:56.100 --> 42:59.500 You know, you have a lot of fake people on social media, 42:59.500 --> 43:03.800 and you know, the things that they post on social media is not their real life. 43:03.800 --> 43:08.300 You know, and so you wouldn't, it would be silly to judge your life 43:08.300 --> 43:11.300 and compare it to somebody else's based on their social media 43:11.300 --> 43:13.400 page, right? 43:13.600 --> 43:16.860 You know, because you could look at them and be like, man, it seems like they're living 43:16.860 --> 43:18.540 just the greatest life. 43:18.540 --> 43:20.060 They seem so cool. 43:20.060 --> 43:21.860 You know, they have issues. 43:21.860 --> 43:23.940 They have problems. 43:23.940 --> 43:29.300 And in a way, social media kind of gives people an opportunity or this platform to be a poser. 43:29.300 --> 43:33.300 How about the Calvinists, the pseudo-intellectuals, right? 43:33.300 --> 43:34.500 A bunch of posers. 43:35.200 --> 43:38.800 People, they don't even know what they're saying half the time. 43:38.800 --> 43:41.800 You know, they can use these great swelling words. 43:41.800 --> 43:45.700 They can use these big words that make them seem like they're intellectuals. 43:45.700 --> 43:47.700 But the reality is they're complete idiots. 43:47.700 --> 43:50.900 Why? Because they don't believe in salvation by grace through faith. 43:51.900 --> 43:55.900 They think it's God that chooses who goes to heaven or not. 43:58.100 --> 44:06.100 How about, you know, this might step on some people's, you know, toes, but what about just your appearance? 44:06.100 --> 44:16.100 Right? A lot of people are striving to give this persona about themselves that's fake. That's not real. 44:16.100 --> 44:21.100 I mean, I think of like people who have a lot of money, famous people, what do they love to do? 44:21.400 --> 44:23.600 Plastic surgery, right? 44:23.600 --> 44:24.440 What are they doing? 44:24.440 --> 44:26.000 They're trying to be a poser. 44:26.000 --> 44:27.560 They're trying to be a pretender. 44:27.560 --> 44:29.880 They're this 80 year old Dolly Parton 44:29.880 --> 44:33.200 that has had so much plastic surgery, 44:33.200 --> 44:36.320 her face looks like it's like stapled back, you know? 44:37.800 --> 44:38.920 She's a poser. 44:39.400 --> 44:47.240 And you see this a lot with, and unfortunately, I think a lot of women, they see these people 44:47.240 --> 44:52.120 and then they think that this is the way that I should act or that this is what beauty actually 44:52.120 --> 44:53.120 looks like. 44:53.120 --> 44:56.920 The reality is, hey, listen, if you're all just embrace it. 44:58.200 --> 45:02.360 When I started to realize my hair was falling out, 45:02.360 --> 45:03.880 you know what I didn't do? 45:03.880 --> 45:05.600 I didn't just grow it out longer 45:05.600 --> 45:07.680 and try to comb it over, right? 45:09.280 --> 45:11.800 Something that irritates me so bad 45:11.800 --> 45:15.120 is when old guys who have no hair 45:15.120 --> 45:17.280 start trying to do the comb over, 45:17.280 --> 45:19.820 like you're not fooling anybody, dude. 45:19.820 --> 45:21.760 Just embrace it. 45:21.760 --> 45:23.700 Embrace age, right? 45:23.700 --> 45:25.700 There's a lot of great things that come with that. 45:26.000 --> 45:31.120 Listen beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It's why I tell my wife all the time. She's beautiful 45:31.640 --> 45:33.640 the way God made her and 45:33.720 --> 45:39.960 She doesn't need to put on all this makeup or get Botox or plastic surgery for me to be attracted to her 45:39.960 --> 45:41.960 I'm attracted to her the way that God made her 45:42.200 --> 45:46.360 You know, and I believe that the longer, you know, our marriage, you know, 45:46.360 --> 45:49.000 as Lord willing, we'll be able to have a long marriage. 45:49.000 --> 45:51.200 I'll be able to live a long life. 45:51.200 --> 45:56.200 And I believe that the older I get, I'm only going to be that much more in love with my wife 45:56.200 --> 45:58.200 and that much more attracted to her. 45:58.900 --> 46:01.900 And, you know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 46:01.900 --> 46:06.400 Don't be this person that's pretending to be somebody that you're not, right? 46:06.400 --> 46:10.400 Don't pretend to have a bunch of knowledge in an area that you don't have knowledge in. 46:10.400 --> 46:13.100 It's okay to say, I don't know. 46:13.100 --> 46:15.800 You know, people ask me questions from time to time. 46:15.800 --> 46:18.700 I don't know the answer. It's just like, sorry, I don't know. 46:18.700 --> 46:22.600 You know, that's a good question. Let me do some research. Let me try to find that out. 46:22.600 --> 46:24.600 It's okay, you know, if you're on the job. 46:24.900 --> 46:28.420 And you see this a lot within the workplace. 46:28.420 --> 46:32.980 You go for an interview and you want to impress the person you're trying to get the job with, right? 46:32.980 --> 46:38.580 Well, there's that proclivity of that, maybe that temptation to just like, you know, they ask you, 46:38.580 --> 46:40.500 hey, do you know X, Y, and Z? 46:40.500 --> 46:41.700 Oh, yeah, of course I know that. 46:42.300 --> 46:48.220 Man, I've been in a situation where I've been in an interview room where you're interviewing 46:48.220 --> 46:50.060 somebody else and you ask them these questions. 46:50.060 --> 46:51.460 Oh yeah, I know this. 46:51.460 --> 46:53.220 Debits and credits, I got it. 46:53.220 --> 46:55.620 Balance sheet, financials, I got it. 46:55.620 --> 46:59.580 And then you put them in the seat and you realize real fast these people have no idea 46:59.580 --> 47:00.500 what they're talking about. 47:01.000 --> 47:03.600 They've never done this before. They've lied. 47:03.600 --> 47:05.300 It's okay to say you don't know. 47:05.300 --> 47:09.000 Listen, if you don't know, just have a willing attitude to learn, right? 47:09.000 --> 47:12.700 To, you know, get to know more about that topic. 47:12.700 --> 47:15.500 Don't be a pretender. Don't be a poser. 47:15.500 --> 47:19.700 You know, and obviously the sermon is going to be directed towards spiritual things. 47:20.000 --> 47:23.900 So yes, all those things are important, but even more so, 47:23.900 --> 47:26.500 it's important not to be a spiritual poser, 47:26.500 --> 47:29.900 a spiritual pretender, these holier than thou's. 47:30.200 --> 47:32.000 You know, something that really aggravates me. 47:32.000 --> 47:34.500 And I guess I just took it for granted. 47:34.500 --> 47:38.500 I didn't realize it or how bad it was growing up in an IFB church. 47:38.500 --> 47:44.500 But man, in most church circles that you if you've ever been to just a random Baptist Church 47:44.500 --> 47:48.300 or just any church in general, most people when they're going to church, 47:48.300 --> 47:52.100 whether they start speaking Christianese, right? 47:52.100 --> 47:55.100 Or this King James ease where it's like. 47:55.400 --> 48:01.880 Well, you know, praise the Lord about everything and just over the top, you know, speaking 48:01.880 --> 48:06.680 in King James language, they're using these and Thou's. 48:06.680 --> 48:10.440 It's like, dude, you know, you're not fooling anybody, right? 48:10.440 --> 48:13.220 And it's, it's, it's honestly embarrassing. 48:13.220 --> 48:16.360 And so I'm just encouraging you, hey, don't be that person. 48:16.360 --> 48:20.400 You know, growing up in an IP church, there's a lot of people who are a bunch of posers 48:20.400 --> 48:21.320 and pretenders. 48:21.800 --> 48:29.600 Right? They're trying to fame themselves as just men, fame themselves as somebody who's really righteous, these holier than nouns. 48:29.600 --> 48:33.600 But the reality is that inward, they're just a bunch of ravening wolves. 48:33.800 --> 48:36.100 They're wicked people or they have a bad heart. 48:37.000 --> 48:39.000 You know, we don't want to be these types of Christians. 48:39.000 --> 48:41.300 We want to be real Christians, right? 48:41.400 --> 48:42.400 Just be real with people. 48:42.400 --> 48:43.200 Be honest. 48:43.500 --> 48:44.700 Be transparent. 48:45.100 --> 48:52.100 So I have three points this morning that I believe the Bible kind of highlights posers and pretenders, 48:52.100 --> 48:56.100 you know, that we're going to see that we're going to come in contact with. 48:56.100 --> 48:58.600 And I think it's really important on this. 48:58.600 --> 49:03.100 Of course, we're looking at this first example here in Luke chapter number 20. 49:03.100 --> 49:07.100 But notice what the Bible says in the next verse, verse number 21. 49:07.100 --> 49:10.000 The Bible says, And they asked him, saying, Master. 49:10.100 --> 49:16.300 We know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, 49:16.300 --> 49:19.500 but teachest the way of God truly." 49:19.500 --> 49:24.940 And my first point is people who pretend to be righteous, people who pretend to be righteous, 49:24.940 --> 49:27.180 they fame themselves as just men. 49:27.180 --> 49:29.380 But notice what they said to Jesus. 49:30.100 --> 49:31.300 Notice what they said. 49:31.300 --> 49:34.500 We know that thou sayest and teaches rightly, 49:34.500 --> 49:38.300 neither accept this style, the person of any, but teaches the way of God truly. 49:38.300 --> 49:41.500 Now is what they said wrong? 49:41.500 --> 49:45.300 No, the Bible says that, you know, they call the master. 49:45.300 --> 49:48.300 We're not to call anybody master, but Jesus Christ. 49:48.300 --> 49:51.000 So they weren't wrong for calling Jesus master. 49:51.000 --> 49:56.100 They weren't wrong for making this statement that what he teaches is right and true. 49:56.600 --> 49:59.600 But the problem is they didn't actually believe it. 49:59.600 --> 50:02.900 The problem is it's a fake righteousness. 50:02.900 --> 50:05.400 They're pretending to be righteous. 50:05.400 --> 50:09.600 They're pretending to believe the things that they're saying. 50:09.600 --> 50:10.900 They don't actually believe it, 50:10.900 --> 50:13.300 and this is what the Bible calls flattery. 50:13.800 --> 50:16.200 Right. They're flattering Jesus Christ. 50:16.200 --> 50:21.700 Now Jesus has the ability to read people's hearts and he identifies this right away. 50:21.700 --> 50:24.500 Sometimes we don't have, you know, we don't. 50:24.500 --> 50:27.000 First of all, we don't have that ability to read people's hearts. 50:27.000 --> 50:32.200 We may not always know somebody might be saying something that's right, but it could be flattering. 50:32.500 --> 50:36.500 You know, and I think this is why it's really important that we are aware of these things. 50:36.500 --> 50:42.460 So that way when you know, a backstabber or somebody who's a pretender, a poser gets exposed. 50:42.460 --> 50:46.680 We're not offended by those things that we kind of realize like these people are going 50:46.680 --> 50:47.780 to exist. 50:47.780 --> 50:51.580 There's some things we can pick up on, but you know, if we're in this position, we may 50:51.580 --> 50:56.900 not necessarily identify these people that have famed themselves as just men as being 50:56.900 --> 50:58.700 posers or pretenders. 50:58.700 --> 51:00.500 And I'm gonna kinda get to the attitude we sh- 51:00.500 --> 51:02.780 should have at the end of the sermon. 51:02.780 --> 51:04.020 But you know, we obviously, 51:04.020 --> 51:06.740 we wanna give people the benefit of the doubt, right? 51:06.740 --> 51:09.060 We wanna see the good in everybody. 51:09.060 --> 51:11.420 But in the back of our mind, we should just know, 51:11.420 --> 51:14.300 like there's a potential for people to be flattering us, 51:14.300 --> 51:17.440 and we don't wanna fall into that snare, into that trap. 51:17.440 --> 51:19.180 The Bible says in Proverbs 29, five, 51:19.180 --> 51:21.180 a man that flattereth his neighbor, 51:21.180 --> 51:23.100 spreadeth the net for his feet. 51:23.500 --> 51:29.300 Right? So what is it that they're doing? They're flattering Jesus so that way they can ensnare him in his words. 51:29.300 --> 51:35.600 They're trying to get him to say something negative about the Roman government, about Caesar. Right? 51:35.600 --> 51:39.300 They're trying to get him to say, hey, you don't have to pay your taxes. Right? 51:39.300 --> 51:44.800 And of course, Jesus perceiving this, he gives them the correct answer, which is, hey, pay your taxes. 51:44.800 --> 51:49.500 You know, render unto Caesar what's Caesar's and render unto God what's God's. 51:49.800 --> 51:51.800 Go to Matthew chapter number 23. 51:51.800 --> 51:53.800 Matthew chapter number 23. 52:01.300 --> 52:03.140 Matthew chapter number 23. 52:07.400 --> 52:12.200 The Bible says in verse number 14, this is a really famous chapter about Jesus just going 52:12.200 --> 52:20.200 hardcore and rebuking all the scribes and Pharisees, the hypocrites of his day, just 52:20.200 --> 52:24.880 calling them out for all their hypocrisy, the fakery being for he's calling them out 52:24.880 --> 52:27.320 for being posers and pretenders. 52:27.320 --> 52:28.800 Notice what he says in verse 14. 52:28.800 --> 52:33.000 It says, woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. 52:33.300 --> 52:39.300 For you devour widows houses and for a pretense make long prayer. 52:39.300 --> 52:42.180 Therefore you shall receive the greater damnation." 52:42.180 --> 52:47.220 Now that word pretense there just means that they're basically they're pretending, right? 52:47.220 --> 52:53.940 They're using deceit, that they're trying to make a show, right? 52:53.940 --> 52:55.140 That they're righteous. 52:55.900 --> 52:57.900 They're doing it for pretense. 52:57.900 --> 53:01.500 And you'll see this a lot within Christianity as well, 53:01.500 --> 53:05.900 is where people, they'll try to make themselves appear righteous 53:05.900 --> 53:09.400 by just doing these over-the-top works, right? 53:09.400 --> 53:12.900 Doing things where they're trying to get the attention of everybody. 53:12.900 --> 53:16.900 Hey, look at me. Look at all the great things that I've done. 53:16.900 --> 53:20.400 You know, the Bible also brings up somebody who blows a trumpet 53:20.400 --> 53:22.400 when they give alms, right? 53:22.400 --> 53:23.900 They're giving a... 53:23.900 --> 53:26.260 of charity, they're helping somebody, 53:26.260 --> 53:28.940 but they want everybody to know that they're doing it, right? 53:28.940 --> 53:31.060 They're making a big show about that. 53:31.060 --> 53:35.140 And this is an identifiable marker 53:35.140 --> 53:37.920 of somebody who's a poser, somebody who's a pretender. 53:37.920 --> 53:39.220 They're making long prayer. 53:39.220 --> 53:41.740 They're trying to make themselves appear 53:41.740 --> 53:45.400 as if they're very righteous, as if they're just. 53:45.400 --> 53:48.140 And it brings up other examples in this chapter. 53:48.900 --> 53:52.100 Skip down just a couple of verses to verse number 27. 53:53.060 --> 53:58.140 Verse number 27 says, woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, 53:58.660 --> 54:03.100 for you like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, 54:03.940 --> 54:07.980 but are within full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness. 54:08.340 --> 54:11.940 Even so, you also outwardly appear righteous unto men. 54:12.300 --> 54:15.500 but within you're full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 54:15.500 --> 54:20.000 Something that's just a common characteristic of a poser and a pretender 54:20.000 --> 54:22.800 is they're usually somebody who has bad motives. 54:22.800 --> 54:26.100 They're somebody who internally is a wicked person. 54:26.100 --> 54:27.700 Very wicked. 54:27.700 --> 54:31.800 And, you know, some of the most obvious examples in our world today 54:31.800 --> 54:35.600 that would fit the Matthew 23 Pharisees and scribes 54:35.600 --> 54:37.300 would be Catholics and Protestants. 54:37.500 --> 54:44.100 Right? What do they do? Love to go around in long robes. They love to pontificate about how righteous they are. 54:44.100 --> 54:50.700 They'll wear their backwards collar. Right? They want everybody to know that they're super righteous. 54:50.700 --> 54:55.700 But yet these people are some of the most wicked individuals on the face of the planet. 54:56.300 --> 55:00.300 When you look up statistically, people have been abused in church. 55:00.300 --> 55:04.300 It's overwhelmingly by a Catholic priest, right? 55:04.300 --> 55:07.800 By somebody in a position of authority, a position of power, 55:07.800 --> 55:15.800 somebody who is doing all these outward shows of how they're so beautiful on the outside. 55:15.800 --> 55:17.800 They're these white and sepulchers. 55:17.800 --> 55:24.300 And I like the example that Jesus brings up here because the example is that the grave is beautiful. 55:24.300 --> 55:29.820 So it looks pretty, it's beautiful, but on the inside is just dead man's bones, right? 55:29.820 --> 55:30.980 It's a dead man. 55:30.980 --> 55:34.400 And that's a perfect example of the Catholic priest, right? 55:34.400 --> 55:42.580 The Orthodox priest, these Protestant bishops that worship idols and, you know, are preaching, 55:42.580 --> 55:48.220 you know, a false gospel that are believing all kinds of heresy when it comes to salvation. 55:48.600 --> 55:52.800 You know, these people, they're just inwardly dead men's bones, right? 55:52.800 --> 55:54.800 And many of them are twice dead. 55:54.800 --> 55:58.800 And we see that example being brought out in their works. 55:58.800 --> 56:04.200 The things that they do kind of helps us to understand that these are twice dead people. 56:04.200 --> 56:06.200 These are people who have no hope of salvation. 56:06.200 --> 56:08.100 And of course, that's what Jesus Christ said. 56:08.100 --> 56:13.000 You know, he said that how can you escape the damnation of hell? 56:13.700 --> 56:16.900 Right? Because there's no salvation for these people. 56:16.900 --> 56:21.000 They're wicked individuals and they're posers and pretenders. 56:21.000 --> 56:24.200 Our world is filled with a bunch of religious posers. 56:24.200 --> 56:28.400 You know, that's why it's so important that you're picking a good church, right? 56:28.400 --> 56:32.900 A church where the pastor's sincere and honestly is handling the Word of God sincerely. 56:32.900 --> 56:36.800 Right? He's not twisting scripture to his own liking. 56:36.800 --> 56:41.400 He's not just getting up and telling you what you want to hear. 56:41.800 --> 56:49.800 He's telling you what you need to hear, you know, regardless of what, you know, what feelings might get hurt in the process. 56:49.800 --> 56:57.800 You know, that's a type of church you should desire to go to is one where the pastor is going to get up and tell you exactly what the Bible says. 56:57.800 --> 57:00.800 Right. And not leave anything, any stone unturned. 57:00.800 --> 57:06.400 Go to Second Timothy, Chapter number three. Second Timothy, Chapter number three. 57:15.300 --> 57:18.420 And this is really just a point we could just park it on the whole sermon 57:19.540 --> 57:23.220 and just hit so many verses because there's so much information in the Bible about 57:24.180 --> 57:28.100 pretending to be religious, pretending to be righteous, 57:28.980 --> 57:31.380 pretending to be somebody that you're not through your works. 57:32.020 --> 57:35.620 Second Timothy chapter number three, look at verse number one. 57:36.260 --> 57:37.540 So this is talking about 57:38.100 --> 57:42.600 you know, what's going to happen in the end times or as we get closer to the day of the Lord. 57:42.600 --> 57:47.400 The Bible says this know also that in the last days perilous time shall come 57:47.400 --> 57:53.500 and it gives us a list of things that we can look for things that are going to be prevalent that are going to be prominent in this time. 57:53.500 --> 57:56.400 Let's skip down to verse number five. 57:56.400 --> 58:00.000 It says having a form of godliness. 58:00.300 --> 58:04.500 but denying the power thereof from such turn away. 58:04.500 --> 58:09.100 So the Bible says in the end times or as we get closer to the day of the Lord 58:09.100 --> 58:15.000 that there are going to be more people who are going to masquerade as being righteous on the outside. 58:15.000 --> 58:22.600 They're going to appear as being righteous on the outside, but they don't actually know God. 58:22.600 --> 58:26.700 They're not actually saved. Why? Because they deny the power of God. 58:26.900 --> 58:29.300 They're not actually putting their faith and trust in God. 58:29.300 --> 58:31.460 They don't believe the things that they're saying. 58:31.460 --> 58:33.460 They don't believe the word of God. 58:33.460 --> 58:36.500 It's like, how can you be a Christian and not believe the word of God? 58:36.500 --> 58:37.700 That makes no sense. 58:38.340 --> 58:39.540 It's like, why are you a Muslim? 58:39.540 --> 58:41.380 Because you believe the Quran, right? 58:41.380 --> 58:42.100 Why are you a Hindu? 58:42.100 --> 58:44.660 Because you believe in whatever weird book that they have. 58:46.420 --> 58:47.860 Nobody ever knows what book they have. 58:48.500 --> 58:50.260 Some book out there, I'm sure. 58:50.700 --> 58:53.100 You know, why do you follow the religion? 58:53.100 --> 58:55.400 It's because of the teachings, right? 58:55.400 --> 58:59.300 It's like, how can you be a Christian and not believe the Bible? 58:59.300 --> 59:02.300 I mean, talk about being a poser. 59:02.300 --> 59:06.100 You know, you're like the skater with the skateboard walking around, right? 59:06.100 --> 59:08.500 That's never skated in his life. 59:08.500 --> 59:09.800 I mean, how many Christians are like that? 59:09.800 --> 59:13.000 They're walking around with the Bible that they don't even read. 59:13.000 --> 59:14.500 They don't even know what it says. 59:15.200 --> 59:20.800 And then they get offended when the preacher gets up and just clearly preaches what the Bible's saying. 59:20.800 --> 59:22.400 Hey, fags should be put to death. 59:23.400 --> 59:26.600 That's what the Bible says. Leviticus 20 13. 59:28.200 --> 59:31.600 You know, these wicked false prophets, these pedophiles, 59:31.600 --> 59:35.800 hey, put a millstone around their neck and cast them into the sea. 59:36.100 --> 59:37.500 Put a bullet in their head. 59:38.200 --> 59:40.300 These people need to die. 59:40.300 --> 59:42.500 They're only a harm to our society. 59:43.000 --> 59:47.200 People like this faggot, weird, loving freak Gordon out here. 59:47.200 --> 59:48.000 Right? 59:48.000 --> 59:49.000 What a freak! 59:49.000 --> 59:50.000 Like, does the guy have... 59:50.000 --> 59:51.800 Does he not get the memo? 59:51.800 --> 59:55.600 Like, everyone that he's partnered with is either in prison, 59:55.600 --> 59:58.400 they're just too apathetic to even come protesting any longer. 59:58.400 --> 01:00:00.800 I mean, they're not steadfast, that's for sure. 01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:04.600 I mean, what a reprobate freak. 01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:09.000 You know, these people deserve the death penalty. 01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:10.000 And you say... 01:00:10.500 --> 01:00:12.000 You know, how can he say that? 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:15.800 Well, that's what the Bible says, you know, and we just believe the Bible around here. 01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:17.200 We're not a bunch of posers. 01:00:17.200 --> 01:00:18.900 We're not a bunch of pretenders. 01:00:18.900 --> 01:00:24.400 I'm sick and tired of all these apathetic Christians that don't actually believe the Bible. 01:00:26.800 --> 01:00:29.800 Go to Titus chapter number one, just flip over a couple pages. 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:33.500 Titus chapter number one. 01:00:36.300 --> 01:00:41.340 This is talking about false prophets and we're going to learn a little bit about false prophets 01:00:41.340 --> 01:00:47.900 to help you this morning. Notice what the Bible says in 16. It says, they profess that they know 01:00:47.900 --> 01:00:55.820 God, but in works they deny him. Being abominable and disobedient unto every good work, reprobate. 01:00:56.540 --> 01:01:02.540 So again, we see that the false prophet is a pretender, their apposer. They profess that they 01:01:02.540 --> 01:01:03.400 know God. 01:01:03.500 --> 01:01:13.500 Right? How many people do you see these Catholic priests, these Baptist pastors, you see all kinds of people getting up and professing that they know God. 01:01:13.500 --> 01:01:18.500 But how do we know, you know, the person that's the true prophet versus the false prophet? 01:01:18.500 --> 01:01:20.500 Well, it says in works they deny him. 01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:26.440 So you say, well, and I've heard different interpretations of that, like, you know, 01:01:26.440 --> 01:01:31.160 them trusting in their works to go to heaven, that's how they're basically manifesting. 01:01:31.160 --> 01:01:37.080 But I believe the Bible just tells us clearly what the work is that makes them manifest that 01:01:37.080 --> 01:01:42.440 they're reprobate. Notice the very next two words, it says, being abominable. 01:01:43.200 --> 01:01:48.320 You know, what is it that the works that they're doing that deny the Lord Jesus Christ, 01:01:48.320 --> 01:01:52.560 that deny their faith in Him for salvation, it's being abominable. 01:01:52.560 --> 01:01:53.360 Yeah, that's right. 01:01:53.360 --> 01:01:57.440 You know, I don't have to worry or wonder, it's like, is Kenny Baldwin saved? 01:01:57.440 --> 01:01:58.720 No, he's a faggot! 01:01:59.520 --> 01:02:00.640 Hey, put him to death! 01:02:02.080 --> 01:02:04.240 Like, what are we even talking about here? 01:02:04.600 --> 01:02:11.180 Why are we even, you know, having this conflict in our mind whether or not the guy is saved or not? 01:02:11.180 --> 01:02:12.180 Come on. 01:02:12.180 --> 01:02:15.180 You know, he's professed himself. 01:02:15.180 --> 01:02:18.980 He's shown himself not to be a true prophet. 01:02:18.980 --> 01:02:21.680 It's not like, oh, oh, well, he said some good things. 01:02:21.680 --> 01:02:22.680 I don't care. 01:02:22.680 --> 01:02:23.680 Yeah. 01:02:23.680 --> 01:02:25.680 So what? 01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:30.800 You know, I knew this pastor once where I went to this church. 01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:35.000 And, you know, this is one of the reasons I stopped going to the church. 01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:37.400 And I like the guy. I want to like the guy. 01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:39.000 I believe he saved. 01:02:39.000 --> 01:02:43.800 But, you know, his dad basically got caught as being a pedophile. 01:02:43.800 --> 01:02:48.000 And he was a pastor, a Baptist pastor, got caught as being a pedophile in California. 01:02:48.000 --> 01:02:49.400 He got locked up. 01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:51.200 He's in prison and. 01:02:51.500 --> 01:02:57.500 You know, that information kind of came to me and I approached this pastor about it, 01:02:57.500 --> 01:02:59.500 just asking him like, where is he out on this? 01:02:59.500 --> 01:03:02.500 Because I know, you know, he seems like a good guy. 01:03:02.500 --> 01:03:04.500 I went sewing it with him. 01:03:04.500 --> 01:03:09.500 You know, he preaches a good gospel and he's just like, yeah, I think my dad saved 01:03:09.500 --> 01:03:12.500 and he's getting people saved in church. 01:03:12.500 --> 01:03:15.500 And when he gets out, I'm going to welcome him back into my church. 01:03:15.500 --> 01:03:17.500 And I'm just like, see ya. 01:03:17.700 --> 01:03:18.980 I'm outta here. 01:03:18.980 --> 01:03:21.340 This is not the type of place I wanna be where, 01:03:21.340 --> 01:03:23.580 you know, the pastor's just attracting all kinds of 01:03:23.580 --> 01:03:25.880 filth and disgusting debauchery. 01:03:26.600 --> 01:03:35.320 just these abominable people. What in the world, man? How can you be a Baptist preacher and believe 01:03:35.320 --> 01:03:41.720 the Bible and preach hard on sin and then look at somebody who has committed such an abominable act 01:03:41.720 --> 01:03:47.640 as pedophilia and then be like, oh, I think they can still be saved? What does the Bible say? It 01:03:47.640 --> 01:03:49.440 It says that the reprobate. 01:03:49.800 --> 01:03:52.700 They're disobedient and unto every good work reprobate. 01:03:52.700 --> 01:03:56.100 It doesn't matter, even if his dad is in prison 01:03:56.100 --> 01:03:58.700 and he's even giving lip service to the right gospel. 01:03:58.700 --> 01:04:00.100 I don't give a rip. 01:04:00.100 --> 01:04:01.700 The dude is a reprobate. 01:04:01.700 --> 01:04:03.500 There's no coming back from that. 01:04:03.500 --> 01:04:05.000 He's worthy of death. 01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:06.500 They should just do us all a favor, 01:04:06.500 --> 01:04:08.200 save us some tax dollar money 01:04:08.200 --> 01:04:10.400 and put the bullet in the guy's head. 01:04:10.400 --> 01:04:11.500 Just put him to death. 01:04:13.200 --> 01:04:19.680 You know, we need to stop just pretending and having this weird mentality about salvation, 01:04:19.680 --> 01:04:26.000 about false prophets. It's like, okay, so what? So what if somebody says the right thing about 01:04:26.000 --> 01:04:33.360 salvation? If they come out later as a literal faggot, they're worthy of death. They can't be 01:04:33.360 --> 01:04:40.640 saved. That's right. It's ridiculous. Go to Numbers chapter number 24. 01:04:41.100 --> 01:04:43.900 Numbers chapter 24. 01:04:47.400 --> 01:04:55.100 The second point I have for you this morning is pretending to speak for God. 01:04:55.100 --> 01:04:57.400 Pretending to speak for God. 01:04:59.900 --> 01:05:01.900 Numbers chapter 24 01:05:02.580 --> 01:05:06.820 Here we have a kind of this unique character in the Bible 01:05:06.820 --> 01:05:11.940 I think on the surface if you haven't really studied this particular character you could 01:05:12.620 --> 01:05:16.420 Maybe get confused as to the role that this guy's playing 01:05:16.420 --> 01:05:21.500 I think it's you know, if you're new to Christianity, you know, maybe you've only read through your Bible 01:05:22.100 --> 01:05:25.600 Or maybe you haven't read all the way through your Bible, maybe only once or twice. 01:05:25.600 --> 01:05:28.600 I can understand somebody getting kind of confused on this character, but 01:05:28.600 --> 01:05:33.100 you know, the Bible clearly teaches that this guy, Balaam, the son of Bezor, 01:05:33.100 --> 01:05:34.700 is a false prophet. 01:05:34.700 --> 01:05:40.300 And you know, if you just read numbers on, you know, by itself on face value, 01:05:40.300 --> 01:05:42.500 you can see the guy's kind of up to no good, 01:05:42.500 --> 01:05:45.100 but you can't really just put your finger on it, right? 01:05:45.100 --> 01:05:47.800 It doesn't, it's not just like a hundred percent revealed. 01:05:47.800 --> 01:05:51.100 It's later on in the New Testament. 01:05:51.100 --> 01:05:55.400 And honestly, he gets, he does get destroyed by God later on, 01:05:55.400 --> 01:05:58.400 but in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament, 01:05:58.400 --> 01:06:00.300 the Bible is just super clear on this guy. 01:06:00.500 --> 01:06:07.300 But I want to point out this particular part where, you know, Balaam, he kept telling Balak 01:06:07.300 --> 01:06:12.900 that he can't go beyond the word of the Lord, right? He can't go and curse the children of Israel. 01:06:13.200 --> 01:06:20.000 But it's not like he is because man, I'm just, you know, I'm just righteous inside and I just don't want to curse good people. 01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:22.400 That's not the reason why he didn't want to do it. 01:06:22.400 --> 01:06:25.600 The reason he didn't want to do is because it wouldn't have mattered if he did it. 01:06:25.600 --> 01:06:27.800 Right? God wasn't going to curse these people. 01:06:27.800 --> 01:06:32.600 He knew that he couldn't go beyond the word of the Lord to curse the children of Israel. 01:06:33.100 --> 01:06:34.500 It wasn't going to be effective. 01:06:34.500 --> 01:06:36.700 There wasn't going to be any good outcome of that. 01:06:36.700 --> 01:06:37.500 It didn't matter. 01:06:37.500 --> 01:06:42.100 And yet even still knowing that he's still kind of like skirted around the issue and 01:06:42.100 --> 01:06:48.300 still tried to do it multiple times just in a way that you know, maybe wasn't as a parent 01:06:48.300 --> 01:06:49.400 or whatever. 01:06:49.400 --> 01:06:54.800 But what's interesting here is kind of towards the end of this passage about him. 01:06:54.800 --> 01:06:56.800 He preaches the truth. 01:06:56.800 --> 01:06:58.700 He preaches something that's right. 01:06:58.700 --> 01:07:00.700 Notice what the Bible says in verse 16. 01:07:01.600 --> 01:07:06.880 It says, he has said, which heard the words of God, this is Balaam speaking, and knew 01:07:06.880 --> 01:07:12.120 the knowledge of the most high, which saw the vision of the Almighty falling into a 01:07:12.120 --> 01:07:14.440 trance, but having his eyes open. 01:07:14.440 --> 01:07:17.280 I shall see him, but not now. 01:07:17.280 --> 01:07:20.160 I shall behold him, but not nigh. 01:07:20.160 --> 01:07:25.040 There shall come a star out of Jacob and a set there shall rise out of Israel and shall 01:07:25.040 --> 01:07:29.280 smite the corners of Moab and destroy all the children of Seth. 01:07:29.700 --> 01:07:33.220 And it goes on, it's kind of listing out all these different prophecies. 01:07:33.220 --> 01:07:36.020 But notice he's prophesying with the Lord Jesus Christ here. 01:07:36.580 --> 01:07:38.980 You know, it is what he's saying. Is it wrong? 01:07:39.780 --> 01:07:43.780 No, what he's saying is actually true. This is a true prophecy. 01:07:43.780 --> 01:07:46.800 But yet Balaam is a false prophet. 01:07:46.900 --> 01:07:54.780 And this is something I think people struggle with as they see somebody get up and say something that's right and then you know, they have you know 01:07:55.360 --> 01:08:00.640 They fall into you know, some type of terrible sin and then they're confused 01:08:00.640 --> 01:08:03.060 They're like, you know, why is this guy? 01:08:03.060 --> 01:08:07.060 I mean if he did something if he said something right, how could he be a false prophet? 01:08:07.060 --> 01:08:09.060 I they just struggle with 01:08:09.140 --> 01:08:11.000 reconciling these things in your mind 01:08:11.600 --> 01:08:15.600 But the reality is that they're opposers and pretenders, folks. 01:08:15.600 --> 01:08:21.040 I mean, there are a lot of people that get up and can say and give lip service to the 01:08:21.040 --> 01:08:22.040 right gospel. 01:08:22.040 --> 01:08:25.280 They can get up and, you know, it's obvious the Muslims are unsaved. 01:08:25.600 --> 01:08:29.600 It's obvious the Gateway Church is unsaved, right? 01:08:29.600 --> 01:08:36.100 It's obvious, you know, that Hindus or, you know, some of these other religions or Catholics, they're not saved. 01:08:36.100 --> 01:08:39.100 Like, we can obviously see these are false prophets. 01:08:39.100 --> 01:08:44.600 But you know, there's also people who put on sheep's clothing, right? 01:08:44.600 --> 01:08:46.100 They come in as a sheep. 01:08:46.100 --> 01:08:51.500 They wouldn't need to put on sheep's clothing if it was just obvious that they were a wolf. 01:08:51.800 --> 01:08:55.100 Right? They put on sheep's clothing and they appear righteous. 01:08:55.100 --> 01:08:57.000 They appear as if they're one of us. 01:08:57.000 --> 01:08:59.500 But inwardly, they're ravening wolves. 01:08:59.500 --> 01:09:01.600 Right? Inwardly, they're very wicked. 01:09:01.600 --> 01:09:05.600 In fact, these are probably more wicked than the outward ones. 01:09:05.600 --> 01:09:08.000 Right? Those are the people that are more dangerous. 01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:13.100 The ones that creep in and, you know, want to destroy good men of God. 01:09:14.000 --> 01:09:18.400 And Balaam, he kind of fits this model because he's saying something that's right. 01:09:18.400 --> 01:09:24.300 He's preaching something that's true, but he obviously is a false prophet. 01:09:24.300 --> 01:09:27.400 Now he finishes this prophecy. 01:09:27.400 --> 01:09:30.100 If you skip down to verse 25, notice what the Bible says. 01:09:30.100 --> 01:09:34.700 And Balaam rose up and went and returned to his place and Balak. 01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:37.000 also went his way. 01:09:37.000 --> 01:09:38.800 Chapter 25, it says, 01:09:38.800 --> 01:09:40.200 and Israel bowed and shit them, 01:09:40.200 --> 01:09:42.900 and the people began to commit whoredom 01:09:42.900 --> 01:09:45.100 with the daughters of Moab. 01:09:45.100 --> 01:09:47.500 And so directly after this, 01:09:47.500 --> 01:09:49.000 what ends up happening? 01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:50.200 The children of Israel, 01:09:50.200 --> 01:09:52.000 they go and they commit fornication 01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:53.100 with the Moabites, 01:09:53.100 --> 01:09:56.100 and God slays thousands of them. 01:09:56.100 --> 01:09:56.900 And 01:09:57.700 --> 01:10:03.300 On the surface, you just read these, you might be kind of confused about this story, but we're going to kind of clear some of this up. 01:10:03.300 --> 01:10:07.300 Go to 2nd Peter chapter number two, 2nd Peter chapter number two. 01:10:07.300 --> 01:10:16.600 The Bible says in Revelation, when when Jesus is writing to the seven churches, he's bringing up an example of somebody. 01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:19.560 that's causing sin to happen in the church. 01:10:19.560 --> 01:10:23.160 And he says that the sin that they're causing to happen 01:10:23.160 --> 01:10:27.800 is the same sin that Balaam basically used, 01:10:27.800 --> 01:10:31.480 or the same deception that Balaam used. 01:10:31.900 --> 01:10:37.180 to teach Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel to eat things sacrificed 01:10:37.180 --> 01:10:43.100 unto idols and to commit fornication. So the Bible just clearly spells it out for us that what Balaam 01:10:43.100 --> 01:10:49.100 did is instead of, you know, he couldn't curse the children of Israel. That wasn't going to have any 01:10:49.100 --> 01:10:53.260 effect. It wasn't going to have any power because God was going to curse them. He didn't have any 01:10:53.260 --> 01:10:58.380 power in that way. So what did he do? He used deception to basically entice the children of 01:10:58.380 --> 01:10:59.780 of Israel to sin, right? 01:10:59.900 --> 01:11:03.600 And so that's what the Bible just tells us. 01:11:03.600 --> 01:11:07.100 And this is the reason why Balaam is a false prophet. 01:11:07.100 --> 01:11:09.700 He's not somebody to be trusted, even though he might have said 01:11:09.700 --> 01:11:11.800 some things that were true, some things that were right. 01:11:11.800 --> 01:11:16.700 Notice there in verse number 14, having eyes full of adultery 01:11:16.700 --> 01:11:22.200 and that cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls and heart. 01:11:22.200 --> 01:11:27.100 They have exercised with covetous practices, cursed children. 01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:30.800 When the Bible says cursed children, we're talking about false prophets here. 01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:31.800 You know what that means? 01:11:31.800 --> 01:11:33.300 That they're cursed. 01:11:33.300 --> 01:11:35.600 They have no hope of salvation. 01:11:35.600 --> 01:11:40.600 Just like Paul said, if any man preach another gospel, let him be accursed. 01:11:40.600 --> 01:11:43.300 Right? These people have no hope of salvation. 01:11:43.300 --> 01:11:47.500 It says in verse 15, which have forsaken the right way. 01:11:47.500 --> 01:11:52.600 Notice this and are gone astray following the way of Balaam, the son of Beozer. 01:11:53.000 --> 01:11:55.800 who loved the wages of unrighteousness. 01:11:55.800 --> 01:12:00.800 So Balaam, the son of Bozor, he is a false prophet. 01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:03.800 Why? Because he didn't actually believe the things that he was saying. 01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:08.200 He didn't actually believe in the prophecy of Jesus Christ. 01:12:08.200 --> 01:12:11.800 He didn't believe any of the things that he was saying that were true. 01:12:11.800 --> 01:12:14.600 He's just exercising himself. 01:12:14.900 --> 01:12:17.500 in a way to where he can get gain, right? 01:12:17.500 --> 01:12:21.300 And you notice how it's interesting how the Bible words this. 01:12:21.300 --> 01:12:23.980 It says that these false prophets, their heart, 01:12:23.980 --> 01:12:27.140 they have exercised with covetous practices. 01:12:27.140 --> 01:12:30.220 So this is something that they've thought a lot about, right? 01:12:30.220 --> 01:12:32.380 They're sitting around thinking, 01:12:32.380 --> 01:12:34.580 you know, I know I don't believe these things. 01:12:35.200 --> 01:12:40.600 I know I don't actually have any conviction about these things, 01:12:40.600 --> 01:12:43.600 but I'm trying to get some gain out of this. 01:12:43.600 --> 01:12:46.300 How can I get some personal gain? 01:12:46.300 --> 01:12:47.200 So what will they do? 01:12:47.200 --> 01:12:49.300 They'll exercise their heart. 01:12:49.300 --> 01:12:56.300 and covetous practices means in which that they can get some type of benefit out of their preaching, right? 01:12:56.300 --> 01:13:02.300 Whatever it is that they're saying, whatever they are trying to convince somebody of, they're just trying to get gain. 01:13:02.300 --> 01:13:12.300 And, you know, our mind probably goes towards the prosperity preachers, the Kenneth Copeland's, Joel, Joel Olsteen, Jesse Duplantis, like all these guys. 01:13:12.300 --> 01:13:16.300 These are guys with hearts that have exercised. 01:13:16.300 --> 01:13:17.300 They've exercised the- 01:13:17.300 --> 01:13:22.260 heart to covetous practices, right? They're teaching things so that way they can get gain 01:13:22.260 --> 01:13:29.580 from their congregants. They can make merchandise of their members. And I want to kind of highlight 01:13:29.580 --> 01:13:37.220 this idea that false prophets, they will pretend to speak true things or they will say things 01:13:37.220 --> 01:13:43.500 that are true. They will agree with things. They'll go along with certain doctrines just 01:13:43.500 --> 01:13:43.900 to get. 01:13:44.200 --> 01:13:46.000 some gain out of it, right? 01:13:46.000 --> 01:13:48.800 And again, our mind goes with the prosperity preacher. 01:13:48.800 --> 01:13:53.600 They twist the Bible to basically fit their model 01:13:53.600 --> 01:13:56.400 so they can get rich off of their congregates. 01:13:56.400 --> 01:13:59.400 But you know, there's other ways to even think about this, right? 01:13:59.400 --> 01:14:03.200 I mean, how many people have attached themselves to our movement, 01:14:03.200 --> 01:14:06.800 to our, you know, to our church and our friends of our churches, 01:14:06.800 --> 01:14:07.800 of our church? 01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:11.360 where they say, oh, well, I'm pre-trived, or I'm sorry, 01:14:11.360 --> 01:14:15.040 I'm no longer pre-trived, I'm post-trived, pre-wrathed, right? 01:14:15.040 --> 01:14:17.360 Or I'm anti-Zionist. 01:14:17.360 --> 01:14:22.680 Or they'll say, hey, I believe Jesus went to hell, right? 01:14:22.680 --> 01:14:25.920 And they'll preach that for a period of time, right? 01:14:26.100 --> 01:14:29.900 But the reality is they're only trying to get some type of gain out of that, right? 01:14:29.900 --> 01:14:32.500 They're just trying to manipulate, they're trying to deceive, 01:14:32.500 --> 01:14:35.700 they're trying to get people to come over to their side, 01:14:35.700 --> 01:14:39.900 so then later on they can have a gain from that person. 01:14:39.900 --> 01:14:43.400 They can make merchandise of them, they can get, you know, in their mind, 01:14:43.400 --> 01:14:47.400 they can be the prominent one, they can get all the fame, all the glory. 01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:52.800 And this is why people do these things is for covetous practices, right? 01:14:52.800 --> 01:14:57.840 That covetous heart, the they love the wages of unrighteousness. 01:14:59.520 --> 01:15:03.600 Their motivation is to get game. Go to Jude, the book of Jude, verse 16. 01:15:06.800 --> 01:15:09.200 The book of Jude verse number 16. 01:15:13.200 --> 01:15:20.000 The Bible says, verse 16, these are murmurs, complainers walking after their own lusts 01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:27.000 and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage. 01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:32.000 Now notice the Bible is kind of bringing out this point that the false prophet, 01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:36.000 the person who pretends to speak the word of God truly 01:15:36.500 --> 01:15:44.500 What do they do? They try to, they give admiration to people because they really just have an ulterior motive. 01:15:44.500 --> 01:15:48.500 They want to get some type of an advantage of that person, right? 01:15:48.500 --> 01:15:54.500 I mean, they're using grace swelling words, words of flattery, words of vanity. Why? 01:15:54.500 --> 01:16:00.500 So they can take advantage of people. They're not sincere. They don't actually believe the things that they're saying. 01:16:00.700 --> 01:16:06.700 They're trying to get some type of clout or some type of recognition. 01:16:06.700 --> 01:16:11.180 I think probably a really prominent 01:16:11.500 --> 01:16:19.500 application you could come up with on this is, you know, somebody who tells the richest person at the church 01:16:19.500 --> 01:16:24.500 all the things that they want to hear. You know, they won't preach on their sin. They won't, you know, 01:16:24.500 --> 01:16:29.500 they'll do everything that they can to make them feel comfortable. Why? Because they know that they're the person 01:16:29.500 --> 01:16:36.500 that's supplying a lot of their salary, right? A lot of their means to, you know, for the church to thrive 01:16:36.500 --> 01:16:39.300 and to, you know, to get gain from them. 01:16:39.300 --> 01:16:41.140 Right? And that's wrong. That's wicked. 01:16:41.140 --> 01:16:45.860 A pastor or a preacher should not be somebody who is giving respect to persons. 01:16:45.860 --> 01:16:46.580 Right? 01:16:46.580 --> 01:16:50.100 They shouldn't just be flattering somebody so they can get something out of it. 01:16:50.100 --> 01:16:53.300 They should be preaching with sincerity and truth. 01:16:53.300 --> 01:16:55.140 Right? Preaching things that are right. 01:16:55.140 --> 01:16:58.180 And not just saying a bunch of things to make people feel good. 01:16:58.180 --> 01:17:01.700 To make people be your friend or to be on your side. 01:17:02.900 --> 01:17:05.700 They could preach things that are wrong. 01:17:06.200 --> 01:17:08.840 So that way they could be lifted up in people's eyes. 01:17:08.840 --> 01:17:10.980 That they could be the prominent preacher. 01:17:10.980 --> 01:17:12.480 You know, Tommy McMurtry, you know, 01:17:12.480 --> 01:17:16.180 wanted to be the leader of the ex-New YIB, the no YIB. 01:17:16.180 --> 01:17:17.620 Right? 01:17:17.620 --> 01:17:19.980 So, you know, he's kind of put himself in this position 01:17:19.980 --> 01:17:22.960 where he says a lot of things he doesn't actually believe. 01:17:22.960 --> 01:17:23.760 Yeah. 01:17:23.760 --> 01:17:24.560 Right. 01:17:24.560 --> 01:17:27.520 You know, he gets up and preaches a sermon 01:17:27.520 --> 01:17:31.600 and basically states that men should be spanking their wives 01:17:31.600 --> 01:17:32.400 like in McClintock. 01:17:32.400 --> 01:17:33.200 Yeah. 01:17:33.300 --> 01:17:37.780 Catherine O'Hare, you know, how she got woofed by John Wayne. 01:17:37.780 --> 01:17:39.280 And listen, that's a funny movie. 01:17:39.280 --> 01:17:40.280 I don't know if you've ever seen it. 01:17:40.280 --> 01:17:41.480 It's a good movie. 01:17:41.480 --> 01:17:42.280 I like that movie. 01:17:42.280 --> 01:17:45.180 That's one of my favorite parts. 01:17:45.180 --> 01:17:46.440 And he, buddy, what does he do? 01:17:46.440 --> 01:17:49.240 He gets up and emphatically is saying, you know, 01:17:49.240 --> 01:17:51.640 you should be spanking your wives. 01:17:51.640 --> 01:17:53.640 He didn't actually believe that, though. 01:17:53.640 --> 01:17:54.040 What did he say? 01:17:54.040 --> 01:17:57.880 He said, oh, well, I was just riling up the bass. 01:17:57.880 --> 01:17:58.780 What a phony. 01:17:58.780 --> 01:17:59.400 What a poser. 01:18:00.300 --> 01:18:04.300 What a pretend. You know, I don't get up here and say a bunch of things that I don't actually believe. 01:18:04.300 --> 01:18:12.800 You know, the things that I'm trying to preach and get up and expound from the Word of God and use examples, 01:18:12.800 --> 01:18:19.800 the things that I actually believe, the things I actually care about, that I'm zealous about, that I think are important. 01:18:19.800 --> 01:18:24.300 I'm not just getting up here to rattle up the bass, get a bunch of amens. 01:18:24.700 --> 01:18:29.180 You know, and honestly, the old IB is notorious for this. 01:18:29.180 --> 01:18:34.060 They just go around, they just say a bunch of crap, just say a bunch of stupid nonsense 01:18:34.060 --> 01:18:35.940 just to rile everybody up. 01:18:35.940 --> 01:18:40.460 Just so they can get the guy on the front pew to stand up with his Bible, hey, praise 01:18:40.460 --> 01:18:43.460 God! 01:18:43.460 --> 01:18:44.900 Because it makes them feel good, I guess. 01:18:44.900 --> 01:18:45.900 I don't know. 01:18:45.900 --> 01:18:47.900 It's like, what a joke. 01:18:47.900 --> 01:18:48.900 What a loser. 01:18:48.900 --> 01:18:49.900 What a poser. 01:18:50.900 --> 01:18:54.260 You know, my favorite example of this is Jeff Owens. 01:18:54.260 --> 01:18:57.340 Man, this guy, this old IB preacher, I don't really know. 01:18:57.340 --> 01:18:58.100 I never knew him. 01:18:58.100 --> 01:18:59.740 I never heard of him before. 01:18:59.740 --> 01:19:02.500 You know, he was exposed. 01:19:02.500 --> 01:19:04.620 But I mean, he preaches a really fiery sermon 01:19:04.620 --> 01:19:06.580 about the sodomites. 01:19:06.580 --> 01:19:09.980 You know, and I can get on board with some of these statements 01:19:09.980 --> 01:19:12.940 that he said, you know, just to preface. 01:19:12.940 --> 01:19:15.740 You know, I would agree with these statements 01:19:15.740 --> 01:19:17.340 if our government. 01:19:17.600 --> 01:19:21.760 was a righteous government and they instituted Leviticus 2013. 01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:26.640 I'd be right on board with the things he's saying, like, hey, sign me up, I'll volunteer 01:19:26.640 --> 01:19:28.400 to go and do some of these things. 01:19:28.400 --> 01:19:32.560 But, you know, obviously we shouldn't take the law into our own hands. 01:19:32.560 --> 01:19:39.760 So I do want to preface that, that we should not go out, our goal is not to just go and murder a bunch of fags. 01:19:39.760 --> 01:19:44.480 Right? But listen, if some psychopath murders a bunch of fags, I'm not going to be upset about that. 01:19:44.800 --> 01:19:46.800 I'm not going to cry over that. 01:19:46.800 --> 01:19:49.800 It's not going to, I'm going to sleep like a baby. 01:19:49.800 --> 01:19:52.800 It's not going to bother me a bit. 01:19:52.800 --> 01:19:55.800 You know, Jeff Owens, he gets up in his sermon, 01:19:55.800 --> 01:19:58.800 and I'll give him a little bit of credit, 01:19:58.800 --> 01:20:01.800 because he starts each one of these statements off by saying, 01:20:01.800 --> 01:20:02.800 we need. 01:20:02.800 --> 01:20:06.800 Now, I would agree, this is something that our country needs, okay? 01:20:06.800 --> 01:20:11.800 So he says, we need to stop burning flags and start burning fags. 01:20:12.200 --> 01:20:18.760 Hey, praise God. Let's do it. Hey, bring back Leviticus 2013. Jordan McCarm- I'm waiting on- I mean, 01:20:19.640 --> 01:20:26.840 if I could vote for Jayden, I'd be doing it right now. We need Hunt-A-Homo week. I'm thinking like, 01:20:26.840 --> 01:20:28.440 how about Hunt-A-Homo month? 01:20:29.000 --> 01:20:33.600 Let's just do it like, you know, Jehu did the prophets of Baal. 01:20:33.600 --> 01:20:35.300 Just get them all in one spot. 01:20:35.300 --> 01:20:38.000 Just make them think like, oh yeah, we're going to celebrate you 01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:40.500 and just burn the house down on top of them. 01:20:40.500 --> 01:20:41.900 Let's do it. 01:20:41.900 --> 01:20:46.300 We need to take them all out and shoot them with a scatter shotgun. 01:20:46.300 --> 01:20:49.400 Hey, Pastor Oz, he already kind of coined that phrase, right? 01:20:49.400 --> 01:20:52.100 Just line them up against the wall and put a bullet in their head. 01:20:52.500 --> 01:20:59.100 Listen, I like these phrases, you know, and again, I don't think we should go out and 01:20:59.100 --> 01:21:00.620 do these things. 01:21:00.620 --> 01:21:04.460 You know, I don't think that this is something we should take the law in our own hands. 01:21:04.460 --> 01:21:10.580 But listen, you better believe I'm going to be rejoicing in the Lord if Leviticus 2013 01:21:10.580 --> 01:21:11.920 ever comes back. 01:21:11.920 --> 01:21:16.780 You know, if our government actually cares about being a Christian nation and instituting 01:21:16.780 --> 01:21:20.060 biblical laws, I'm going to be rejoicing all the way. 01:21:20.800 --> 01:21:22.640 I'm going to be all for it. 01:21:22.640 --> 01:21:24.800 And if I was Jeff Owens, I wouldn't even 01:21:24.800 --> 01:21:28.320 be upset that I made these statements. 01:21:28.320 --> 01:21:36.000 And even if, oh, well, he didn't make some preface, 01:21:36.000 --> 01:21:38.440 or he didn't state, hey, you shouldn't actually. 01:21:38.440 --> 01:21:40.720 Listen, I'm still OK with him making these statements, 01:21:40.720 --> 01:21:42.120 quite honestly. 01:21:42.120 --> 01:21:44.680 But here's the thing. 01:21:44.680 --> 01:21:46.120 He didn't actually believe this stuff. 01:21:46.800 --> 01:21:49.800 He's just getting up there to rile up the base. 01:21:49.800 --> 01:21:55.800 Because later on when he was confronted, when he was called out for saying these things, 01:21:55.800 --> 01:21:56.800 this is what he said, 01:21:56.800 --> 01:22:02.800 nearly 15 years ago I preached a sermon that promoted physically hurting gay people. 01:22:02.800 --> 01:22:06.800 He doesn't call them facts any longer, he calls them gay. 01:22:06.800 --> 01:22:08.800 What a queer bait. 01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:09.800 He goes on, he says, 01:22:09.800 --> 01:22:14.600 I didn't even hold to the belief of hurting people when I wrongly made these comments. 01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:18.000 So, I mean, there you go, folks. 01:22:18.000 --> 01:22:22.520 He's getting out there and preaching something he doesn't even believe. 01:22:22.520 --> 01:22:24.220 He had no real convictions. 01:22:24.220 --> 01:22:27.860 He's just trying to get some attention from his peers, right? 01:22:27.860 --> 01:22:30.000 Get some amens. 01:22:30.000 --> 01:22:32.540 You know, and we shouldn't be that type of a person. 01:22:32.540 --> 01:22:34.080 You know, there's plenty of people you could look at. 01:22:34.080 --> 01:22:37.000 Joel Olsteen did the same thing on Larry King, right? 01:22:37.000 --> 01:22:39.160 The Jew asked him, is Jesus the only way to heaven? 01:22:39.160 --> 01:22:42.360 He's like, oh, ah, ah, ah, you know. 01:22:42.800 --> 01:22:46.800 Why? Because he's a false prophet. Billy Graham, same way. Same thing. 01:22:49.500 --> 01:22:56.700 So, you know, there are going to be plenty of people that are posers and pretenders preaching or, you know, pretending to speak the word of God. 01:22:56.700 --> 01:23:00.200 The third point I have for you is pretending to be a friend. 01:23:00.200 --> 01:23:05.000 Pretending to be a friend. Go to Matthew chapter number 26. 01:23:05.000 --> 01:23:08.500 Matthew chapter number 26. 01:23:08.500 --> 01:23:12.300 You know, and this one probably hurts the most. 01:23:12.300 --> 01:23:14.500 Matthew chapter number 26. 01:23:24.400 --> 01:23:26.400 Matthew chapter number 26 01:23:29.300 --> 01:23:32.300 Notice what the Bible says in verse 47. 01:23:34.500 --> 01:23:45.500 Verse 47, it says, And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves from the chief priests and elders of the people. 01:23:46.300 --> 01:24:00.000 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same as he hold him fast and forthwith he came to Jesus and said, Hail master and kissed him. 01:24:00.500 --> 01:24:05.500 And Jesus said unto him, friend, wherefore art thou come? 01:24:05.500 --> 01:24:09.900 Then come they, and laid hands on Jesus and took him. 01:24:09.900 --> 01:24:14.540 And you have the betrayal of the kiss here by Judas Iscariot. 01:24:14.540 --> 01:24:17.300 And what does this symbolize? 01:24:17.300 --> 01:24:19.340 It symbolizes a closeness. 01:24:19.340 --> 01:24:22.140 Now obviously, Judas, he wasn't in the inner three. 01:24:22.140 --> 01:24:24.900 He wasn't like the best friend of Jesus, but he was a friend. 01:24:24.900 --> 01:24:26.700 Notice Jesus called him a friend. 01:24:27.400 --> 01:24:29.200 Jesus called him a friend. 01:24:29.200 --> 01:24:31.300 And that idea of the kiss, 01:24:31.300 --> 01:24:35.000 obviously we're not talking about something faggity or weird. 01:24:35.000 --> 01:24:36.700 We're just talking about a greeting, right? 01:24:36.700 --> 01:24:40.700 In the Bible, in the Bible times, in their culture, 01:24:40.700 --> 01:24:42.800 it would have been like a handshake, right? 01:24:42.800 --> 01:24:47.100 It was something that they spent time together, 01:24:47.100 --> 01:24:49.200 they communed together. 01:24:50.400 --> 01:24:51.700 He considered him a friend. 01:24:52.200 --> 01:24:56.040 And Judas just stabs him right in the back. 01:24:56.040 --> 01:25:03.840 He's the one that brings all the people to Jesus to bind him and take him before the rulers. 01:25:03.840 --> 01:25:08.840 And you know, the reality is that there are going to be people that pretend to be your friend. 01:25:08.840 --> 01:25:10.560 You know, and this does hurt. 01:25:10.560 --> 01:25:13.880 This is something that it's not fun to go through. 01:25:13.880 --> 01:25:18.080 You have somebody just backstab you, somebody you consider... 01:25:18.300 --> 01:25:23.180 close or somebody that you invested in, somebody who you cared about, and then they just turn 01:25:23.180 --> 01:25:27.260 right around and just stab you in the back. 01:25:27.260 --> 01:25:31.620 I'm bringing this up, again, because I want us not to be offended when things like this 01:25:31.620 --> 01:25:32.620 happen. 01:25:32.620 --> 01:25:36.500 I mean, unfortunately, there are bad people in this world. 01:25:36.500 --> 01:25:42.360 There are pretenders, there are posers, and we will see or experience getting stabbed 01:25:42.360 --> 01:25:43.360 in the back by people. 01:25:43.360 --> 01:25:43.700 Yeah. 01:25:44.300 --> 01:25:46.100 Go to Psalm 41. 01:25:46.100 --> 01:25:50.100 You know, maybe some of you have already experienced that in this church. 01:25:50.100 --> 01:25:55.300 You know, we've had, uh, you know, uh, 01:25:55.300 --> 01:25:58.600 different transitions where, you know, you have people coming and going, 01:25:58.600 --> 01:26:00.600 people leaving, 01:26:00.600 --> 01:26:03.200 people being disgruntled, 01:26:03.200 --> 01:26:05.800 you know, people stabbing pastor in the back. 01:26:07.100 --> 01:26:13.100 You know, not being truthful, going over to his house and taking pictures of his house? 01:26:13.100 --> 01:26:15.100 What a psycho. 01:26:15.100 --> 01:26:17.100 What a freak. 01:26:17.100 --> 01:26:19.100 I just don't understand that. 01:26:19.100 --> 01:26:22.100 That's just something that does not make any sense to me. 01:26:22.100 --> 01:26:25.100 But you know, it's just in the heart of wicked people. 01:26:25.100 --> 01:26:31.100 Wicked people are devising, they're feigning themselves just men to get close to people, 01:26:31.100 --> 01:26:32.100 just like Judas did. 01:26:32.900 --> 01:26:37.380 Notice in Psalm 41 in verse 9, it says, 01:26:37.380 --> 01:26:42.100 Ye my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, 01:26:42.100 --> 01:26:45.940 which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. 01:26:45.940 --> 01:26:50.580 You know, it really sucks to put your confidence and trust in somebody that 01:26:50.580 --> 01:26:53.540 you consider a friend and then they just stab you in the back. 01:26:54.600 --> 01:26:56.480 You invite them over to dinner. 01:26:56.480 --> 01:26:58.080 You spend time with them. 01:26:58.080 --> 01:26:59.720 You invest in them. 01:26:59.720 --> 01:27:02.400 You pray for them. 01:27:02.400 --> 01:27:03.800 You do all these things for them, 01:27:03.800 --> 01:27:06.400 and then they just stab you in the back. 01:27:07.320 --> 01:27:08.400 Man, that hurts. 01:27:09.480 --> 01:27:10.840 That's a terrible feeling. 01:27:11.840 --> 01:27:13.120 And it can make people jaded. 01:27:13.120 --> 01:27:16.160 I understand why people get jaded when it comes to friends. 01:27:17.120 --> 01:27:19.720 We should not be people that are just quick 01:27:19.720 --> 01:27:20.960 to turn on our friends. 01:27:21.500 --> 01:27:24.700 We should be people who are loyal to our friends. 01:27:24.700 --> 01:27:27.380 We look at the people that you consider a friend. 01:27:27.380 --> 01:27:30.580 Hey, even if they do something that you don't like, 01:27:30.580 --> 01:27:34.300 hey, don't go around spreading that garbage to other people. 01:27:34.300 --> 01:27:37.820 If it's such a bad offense, just go directly to them. 01:27:37.820 --> 01:27:39.620 Just talk to them about it. 01:27:39.620 --> 01:27:40.700 They're your friend. 01:27:40.700 --> 01:27:42.900 I mean, that's the person you should talk to, 01:27:42.900 --> 01:27:44.300 especially if they have offended you. 01:27:44.300 --> 01:27:46.300 If they're your friend, they're going to understand. 01:27:46.600 --> 01:27:48.800 They're probably going to feel bad about it. 01:27:48.800 --> 01:27:52.080 They're probably going to be able to reconcile that with you. 01:27:52.080 --> 01:27:54.520 How wicked is it for you to just go and just trash 01:27:54.520 --> 01:27:58.200 that person to somebody else behind their back? 01:27:58.200 --> 01:28:00.640 Unfortunately, you see this a lot. 01:28:00.640 --> 01:28:02.520 People are fickle. 01:28:02.520 --> 01:28:03.960 People are not very faithful. 01:28:03.960 --> 01:28:05.120 People are not very loyal. 01:28:05.800 --> 01:28:07.520 And it's a really bad quality. 01:28:07.520 --> 01:28:09.120 It's a bad characteristic. 01:28:09.120 --> 01:28:13.000 And it's something that none of us should want to be that. 01:28:13.000 --> 01:28:16.840 We don't want to be that person. 01:28:16.840 --> 01:28:18.040 And honestly, you do that. 01:28:18.040 --> 01:28:19.800 You backstab people enough. 01:28:19.800 --> 01:28:22.680 Listen, it's going to come back around to you. 01:28:22.680 --> 01:28:25.760 You're going to get what's coming to you. 01:28:25.760 --> 01:28:27.960 Go to 2 Samuel chapter 20. 01:28:27.960 --> 01:28:30.640 2 Samuel chapter number 20. 01:28:30.640 --> 01:28:32.800 Look at another example of this. 01:28:32.800 --> 01:28:32.900 you 01:28:36.900 --> 01:28:39.940 Here's another poser, pretender Joab. 01:28:41.140 --> 01:28:44.420 Joab is a really famous poser in the Bible. 01:28:46.100 --> 01:28:52.180 Again, he's kind of more, he's one of those characters in the Bible that he's a complex character. 01:28:52.500 --> 01:28:54.180 You know, he does some good things. 01:28:54.660 --> 01:28:56.100 He does some things that are right. 01:28:56.100 --> 01:28:58.740 Ultimately, I don't think the guy is a good guy. 01:28:58.740 --> 01:29:00.180 I think he's got a bad heart. 01:29:01.060 --> 01:29:02.580 He only cares about himself. 01:29:03.700 --> 01:29:05.700 And he's not a very good friend. 01:29:05.700 --> 01:29:13.700 Now notice what the Bible says in 2 Samuel chapter 20, 2 Samuel chapter 20 verse 9. 01:29:13.700 --> 01:29:21.700 It says, and Joab said to Amasa, now Amasa has basically been given the opportunity to be the, 01:29:21.700 --> 01:29:24.700 basically the general of David's army. 01:29:24.700 --> 01:29:25.700 Okay. 01:29:25.700 --> 01:29:28.700 And David had a... 01:29:29.400 --> 01:29:33.680 mercy on him. He had grace because he got kind of got caught up with Absalom and 01:29:34.720 --> 01:29:38.440 he basically makes him the the chief of 01:29:38.920 --> 01:29:46.020 His army and if you kind of study who Amasa is he's basically the cousin of Joe Abbott's jobs cousin 01:29:46.020 --> 01:29:53.640 They're family, right? It's not just that they're friends. They're family. He's basically the daughter of Zerui his 01:29:54.700 --> 01:29:55.500 sister 01:29:55.500 --> 01:29:59.500 And if you know anything about the Old Testament and the life of David, 01:29:59.500 --> 01:30:03.500 it's like there were three brothers that were kind of just this burden to him. 01:30:03.500 --> 01:30:06.500 They're great fighters, warriors, but they're kind of a burden. 01:30:06.500 --> 01:30:10.500 He always kept saying, you sons of Zeruiah, right? 01:30:10.500 --> 01:30:13.500 You're constantly this burden unto me. 01:30:13.500 --> 01:30:16.500 And he's talking about Joab, Abishai, and Azahel. 01:30:16.500 --> 01:30:22.500 And so for one, I think Joab probably gets a little disgruntled. 01:30:23.100 --> 01:30:25.100 Because of masses is 01:30:25.140 --> 01:30:30.780 Made the chief of the of the armies of David and that's probably the position that Joab wanted 01:30:30.940 --> 01:30:33.860 You know Joab liked to be in that position 01:30:33.860 --> 01:30:40.100 He liked to have the preeminence and that's kind of just myself reading into a lot of the texts there 01:30:40.100 --> 01:30:46.300 It seems to be that's maybe the reason also just maybe it's envy too. You know he sees his cousin 01:30:47.020 --> 01:30:49.900 Getting some love from his uncle David 01:30:50.400 --> 01:30:53.400 And, you know, he wants to be in that position. 01:30:53.400 --> 01:30:54.900 But notice what he says. 01:30:54.900 --> 01:30:58.800 He says, and Joe said to Massa, aren't that one health my brother? 01:30:58.800 --> 01:31:06.000 So even a family member like he's coming to him and he's feigning himself to actually care about him. 01:31:06.000 --> 01:31:08.900 He doesn't actually care about a Massa. 01:31:08.900 --> 01:31:10.500 He cares nothing about him. 01:31:10.500 --> 01:31:13.700 And we're going to see this here in a minute, but he's calling him brother. 01:31:13.700 --> 01:31:15.800 He's asking about his health. 01:31:16.400 --> 01:31:20.900 He's seeming to be somebody who is genuine or sincere. 01:31:20.900 --> 01:31:21.400 It goes on. 01:31:21.400 --> 01:31:25.200 It says, and Job took a massive by the beard with the right hand 01:31:25.200 --> 01:31:26.200 to kiss him. 01:31:26.200 --> 01:31:30.900 Notice again, the Judas Iscariot kiss, this betrayal where 01:31:30.900 --> 01:31:31.700 he pulls him in close. 01:31:31.700 --> 01:31:33.300 It's kind of a picture of somebody 01:31:33.300 --> 01:31:35.700 who is caring for them. 01:31:35.700 --> 01:31:40.400 He is trying to act like he's sincere about his love 01:31:40.400 --> 01:31:41.700 for his family member. 01:31:42.500 --> 01:31:46.400 So he pulls him in close to greet him, to embrace him. 01:31:46.400 --> 01:31:48.540 Verse 10, it says, 01:31:48.540 --> 01:31:51.340 but Amasa took no heed to the sword 01:31:51.340 --> 01:31:53.520 that was in Joab's hand. 01:31:53.520 --> 01:31:56.120 So he smote him therewith in the fifth rib 01:31:56.120 --> 01:31:59.220 and shout out his bowels to the ground 01:31:59.220 --> 01:32:02.460 and struck him not again, and he died. 01:32:03.000 --> 01:32:07.800 So Joab and Abishai, his brother, pursued after Sheba, the son of Bicri. 01:32:07.800 --> 01:32:14.400 See, Joab wanted to be the guy who brought Sheba, the son of Bicri, to justice, right? 01:32:14.400 --> 01:32:21.660 He wanted to be the guy that went out and did the work that Amasa was supposed to do. 01:32:21.660 --> 01:32:26.000 And again, maybe I am reading a little bit into it, but to me it seems like Joab was 01:32:26.000 --> 01:32:28.600 is pretty envious of a Massa. 01:32:28.900 --> 01:32:30.400 He wanted his position. 01:32:30.400 --> 01:32:31.300 He didn't like it. 01:32:31.300 --> 01:32:32.000 So what did he do? 01:32:32.000 --> 01:32:34.400 He stabs him in the back. 01:32:34.400 --> 01:32:37.000 And this is a brutal killing, because the Bible says that a 01:32:37.000 --> 01:32:39.900 lot of the men saw what happened. 01:32:39.900 --> 01:32:42.100 Mass is literally on the side of the, he's in the middle of 01:32:42.100 --> 01:32:45.600 the road, just like blood is just coming out of his mouth. 01:32:45.600 --> 01:32:48.200 And they have to drag him off the road. 01:32:48.200 --> 01:32:50.500 So it's a very public thing that he did. 01:32:50.500 --> 01:32:52.400 And he just stabbed him in the back. 01:32:52.400 --> 01:32:54.300 Just no conscience whatsoever. 01:32:55.400 --> 01:32:58.600 You know, and that's why I don't think Joab was probably a pretty good guy. 01:32:58.600 --> 01:33:00.400 I don't think he's saved. 01:33:00.400 --> 01:33:02.760 And it seems like he's somebody who had a double heart. 01:33:02.760 --> 01:33:07.480 He's somebody who, you know, people who like to flatter and have a double heart, those 01:33:07.480 --> 01:33:14.080 are people you want to really be careful because usually inside they're full of iniquity. 01:33:14.080 --> 01:33:22.520 They're full of, you know, just a very corrupt, sinful nature, just really hating people. 01:33:22.520 --> 01:33:23.000 and I'll see you next time. 01:33:23.000 --> 01:33:25.200 you know, these are dangerous people to be around. 01:33:25.200 --> 01:33:28.100 Go to Proverbs chapter number 26. 01:33:28.100 --> 01:33:31.000 Proverbs chapter number 26, the Bible says, 01:33:31.000 --> 01:33:33.400 faithful are the wounds of a friend, 01:33:33.400 --> 01:33:37.000 but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. 01:33:37.000 --> 01:33:39.800 You know, and sometimes this can be hard to see because, 01:33:39.800 --> 01:33:42.800 you know, I believe that we should all 01:33:42.800 --> 01:33:44.600 give people the benefit of the doubt. 01:33:44.800 --> 01:33:48.400 You know, and we should want to have close friends. 01:33:48.400 --> 01:33:49.500 You know, I was thinking about this. 01:33:49.500 --> 01:33:54.400 It's like we shouldn't let Judas cost you the Jonathan, right? 01:33:54.400 --> 01:33:59.500 Jonathan was a great friend to David, right? 01:33:59.500 --> 01:34:04.600 He was like his they were of the, you know, they just loved each other greatly, right? 01:34:04.600 --> 01:34:05.500 They're great friends. 01:34:05.500 --> 01:34:09.900 I can't I kind of forget how the Bible words it, but the Bible indicates like, hey, 01:34:09.900 --> 01:34:12.300 They were just super close. 01:34:12.400 --> 01:34:16.240 great friends, but you know he also had people who backstabbed him. 01:34:16.240 --> 01:34:21.240 You know, you have Ahithophel, Absalom, his own son, Joab. 01:34:21.240 --> 01:34:23.480 I mean you have many people who backstabbed David. 01:34:23.480 --> 01:34:27.640 But you know, we should allow the Judas to cost us the Jonathan in our life. 01:34:27.640 --> 01:34:30.320 You know, I will be honest, this is something that I probably struggle with, 01:34:30.320 --> 01:34:34.520 is I just don't, you know, I struggle with allowing people to get really close to me. 01:34:34.520 --> 01:34:37.120 You know, and I don't think that's a good thing. 01:34:37.200 --> 01:34:38.800 Like, we should have good friends. 01:34:38.800 --> 01:34:40.920 We should have people that we're close with. 01:34:40.920 --> 01:34:45.300 But the reality is, and I don't want you to be offended, but when you do that, guess what? 01:34:45.300 --> 01:34:49.360 There are going to be some wicked people that will flatter you, and they'll have a double 01:34:49.360 --> 01:34:51.400 heart and they will stab you in the back. 01:34:51.400 --> 01:34:55.480 And the more you serve God, the higher those chances become. 01:34:56.100 --> 01:34:57.600 And that's just the reality. 01:34:57.600 --> 01:35:00.900 If you make a choice, if you draw a line in the sand, say, 01:35:00.900 --> 01:35:03.100 hey, I'm not crossing this line. 01:35:03.100 --> 01:35:04.700 I'm not going into sin. 01:35:04.700 --> 01:35:07.200 I'm not going to live like the rest of this world. 01:35:07.200 --> 01:35:09.600 I'm going to be conformed into the image of Christ. 01:35:09.600 --> 01:35:10.100 Guess what? 01:35:10.100 --> 01:35:11.700 Your chances of being backstabbed, 01:35:11.700 --> 01:35:16.500 of being persecuted, of experiencing a Judas Iscariot 01:35:16.500 --> 01:35:21.000 kissing you, if you will, backstabbing you, it only goes up. 01:35:21.000 --> 01:35:21.500 Right? 01:35:22.200 --> 01:35:27.560 But we should not allow that to discourage us from making close friends, right? 01:35:27.560 --> 01:35:29.400 Or being close with people. 01:35:29.400 --> 01:35:31.000 We don't want to get that attitude. 01:35:31.000 --> 01:35:36.200 And we just have to have the solace of realizing that God is going to take care of these people. 01:35:36.200 --> 01:35:38.760 Hey, God is going to take care of the backstabber. 01:35:38.760 --> 01:35:41.720 He's going to be on our side if we're just doing what's right. 01:35:41.720 --> 01:35:45.560 If we're sincere, we're doing things with honesty and truth, 01:35:45.560 --> 01:35:47.320 and we're doing things in the light. 01:35:47.320 --> 01:35:48.840 Hey, God is going to be on our side. 01:35:49.500 --> 01:35:51.900 Notice what the Bible says in verse number 24. 01:35:53.300 --> 01:35:57.000 It says he that hateth dissembleth with his lips. 01:35:57.000 --> 01:35:59.100 So the symbol it just means to deceive. 01:35:59.500 --> 01:35:59.800 Right? 01:35:59.800 --> 01:36:03.900 So he the person that hates you is going to deceive you with their mouth with their words. 01:36:05.100 --> 01:36:07.700 They're going to say aren't thou in health my brother? 01:36:09.000 --> 01:36:12.800 All right, they're going to try to draw close to you, but they're not actually sincere. 01:36:12.800 --> 01:36:14.100 These are wicked people. 01:36:14.400 --> 01:36:20.320 It says in verse 25, when he speaketh fair, believe him not, for there are seven abominations 01:36:20.320 --> 01:36:21.320 in his heart. 01:36:21.320 --> 01:36:24.920 You see the Bible is painting this picture of people who flatter, people who have a double 01:36:24.920 --> 01:36:27.000 heart, they're very wicked people. 01:36:27.000 --> 01:36:29.040 These are dangerous people. 01:36:29.040 --> 01:36:34.640 You know, and if you catch, you know, somebody with a double heart or flattering you, you 01:36:34.640 --> 01:36:36.480 should remove yourself far from that person. 01:36:37.000 --> 01:36:43.480 Because you need to understand that that person is somebody who has an evil heart. There's somebody that can do a lot of damage 01:36:44.560 --> 01:36:48.880 Notice in verse 26. It says whose hatred is covered by deceit 01:36:49.680 --> 01:36:52.860 So they'll smile. They'll act like they like you 01:36:53.600 --> 01:36:55.600 They'll come up to you 01:36:55.720 --> 01:36:59.560 They'll come and eat at your table and tell you all kinds of good things 01:37:00.360 --> 01:37:03.600 But then they're just waiting for that moment to stab you in the back 01:37:05.900 --> 01:37:08.140 whose hatred is covered by deceit, 01:37:08.140 --> 01:37:11.260 his wickedness shall be shown before the whole congregation." 01:37:11.260 --> 01:37:12.780 And that's the solace. 01:37:12.780 --> 01:37:15.820 Is even though they might have a double heart, 01:37:15.820 --> 01:37:17.580 and they might be able to do some damage, 01:37:17.580 --> 01:37:20.100 guess what, we're all gonna eventually figure it out. 01:37:20.100 --> 01:37:22.740 We're all gonna, they're gonna expose themselves, 01:37:22.740 --> 01:37:26.460 we're all gonna know exactly who that person is. 01:37:26.460 --> 01:37:29.620 You know, I think of this idiot Daniel Hernandez, 01:37:29.620 --> 01:37:31.020 isn't that his name? 01:37:31.020 --> 01:37:32.820 What a piece of trash. 01:37:33.300 --> 01:37:34.500 What a joke! 01:37:36.700 --> 01:37:43.000 You know, try to get as close to Pastor Anderson as you possibly can and then just stab him right in the back. 01:37:43.000 --> 01:37:45.200 What a wicked person. That guy. 01:37:45.200 --> 01:37:50.400 I mean, what I've heard, you know, I listened to the sermons in Massa. 01:37:50.400 --> 01:37:53.000 The guy sounds like a faggot. 01:37:53.000 --> 01:37:57.700 You know, he sounds like he's got seven abominations in his heart. 01:37:57.700 --> 01:37:59.100 What a wicked person. 01:37:59.800 --> 01:38:02.500 to deceive people to symbol with your lips. 01:38:02.500 --> 01:38:05.100 Listen, man, these are people that are very wicked people. 01:38:05.100 --> 01:38:08.300 These are people that are very dangerous. 01:38:08.300 --> 01:38:10.200 But notice what the Bible says in verse 27, 01:38:10.200 --> 01:38:12.800 who so dig at the pitch shall fall therein. 01:38:12.800 --> 01:38:16.400 And he that rolleth the stone, it will return upon him. 01:38:16.400 --> 01:38:18.600 Listen, if you're somebody who has a double heart. 01:38:18.900 --> 01:38:22.900 And it's just a fake person, a poser, a pretender, 01:38:22.900 --> 01:38:24.560 and your back's having people in the back. 01:38:24.560 --> 01:38:25.460 Guess what? 01:38:25.460 --> 01:38:29.180 Your antics are going to come back around to you. 01:38:29.180 --> 01:38:30.940 It's going to come right back around. 01:38:30.940 --> 01:38:33.820 You dig that pit, you're going to fall in that pit. 01:38:33.820 --> 01:38:35.500 You're going to be exposed. 01:38:38.100 --> 01:38:42.340 You know, maybe he'll pull somebody over and, you know, 01:38:42.340 --> 01:38:43.940 because apparently the guy's a cop, right? 01:38:43.940 --> 01:38:44.440 Yeah. 01:38:44.440 --> 01:38:46.260 Well, maybe he'll pull the wrong person over. 01:38:46.260 --> 01:38:46.820 Yeah. 01:38:46.820 --> 01:38:48.860 You know, that'll have a gun and be willing to use it. 01:38:48.860 --> 01:38:49.540 Some gangster. 01:38:49.540 --> 01:38:52.980 That's not a poser or a pretender. 01:38:52.980 --> 01:38:58.580 Hey, I wouldn't be, I wouldn't shed a tear. 01:38:58.580 --> 01:38:59.780 Lying reprobate. 01:38:59.780 --> 01:39:01.020 Yeah. 01:39:01.020 --> 01:39:02.900 You know, we need to have the right type of mentality 01:39:02.900 --> 01:39:04.220 when it comes to these people. 01:39:04.220 --> 01:39:04.720 You know? 01:39:05.700 --> 01:39:08.000 You know, our eyes should not pity. 01:39:08.000 --> 01:39:10.900 And we shouldn't look at people that are like this 01:39:10.900 --> 01:39:13.700 and have a soft spot in our heart, Tommy McMurtry. 01:39:13.700 --> 01:39:14.700 Yeah. 01:39:14.700 --> 01:39:17.000 I mean, what kind of a freak and weirdo 01:39:17.000 --> 01:39:20.300 is gonna have a soft spot in their heart for a pedophile? 01:39:20.300 --> 01:39:23.800 For a betrayer, for a backstabber? 01:39:23.800 --> 01:39:24.800 Give me a break. 01:39:25.700 --> 01:39:27.900 You know, these people, they're going to get what's coming to them. 01:39:27.900 --> 01:39:32.380 Notice in verse 28, it says, a lying tongue hated those that are afflicted by it, and 01:39:32.380 --> 01:39:35.300 a flattering mouth worketh ruin. 01:39:35.300 --> 01:39:38.320 You know, these people, they're just out for destruction. 01:39:38.320 --> 01:39:39.660 They want to cause violence. 01:39:39.660 --> 01:39:41.280 They want to separate families. 01:39:41.280 --> 01:39:44.540 They want to do just the most harm possible. 01:39:44.540 --> 01:39:47.180 The wicked. 01:39:47.180 --> 01:39:50.800 You know, and we should have the right mentality, realizing, hey, you know what? 01:39:50.800 --> 01:39:52.100 These things are going to happen. 01:39:52.400 --> 01:39:55.000 These things are going to be evident in my life. 01:39:55.000 --> 01:39:58.800 The more I want to serve God, the more righteous I want to try to be, 01:39:58.800 --> 01:40:02.400 the more Christ-like I want to try to be. 01:40:02.900 --> 01:40:05.940 that these things are going to happen. We should see these things. 01:40:05.940 --> 01:40:10.820 And when we see them, I don't want you to get offended. I don't want you to be discouraged or 01:40:10.820 --> 01:40:17.860 to think like, oh, well, you know, now I can't go to church anymore. You know, why would I serve God? 01:40:19.300 --> 01:40:22.820 You know, when there's people like this at church and you know, you hear this a lot from the world. 01:40:23.460 --> 01:40:27.300 You know, a lot of people won't go to church because they've been hurt in church. 01:40:27.700 --> 01:40:35.100 They've had somebody do something evil to them or backstab them. 01:40:35.100 --> 01:40:37.620 All manner of things. 01:40:37.620 --> 01:40:42.140 It could be a legitimate reason to be disgruntled or to be upset, but it's not a legitimate 01:40:42.140 --> 01:40:44.500 reason to forsake God. 01:40:44.500 --> 01:40:49.320 We should serve God and realize that this life is going to be filled with a lot of wicked 01:40:49.320 --> 01:40:52.500 people that we're going to have to deal with. 01:40:52.500 --> 01:40:53.920 We shouldn't allow that to not. 01:40:54.400 --> 01:40:58.400 You know, to put ourselves in a position where we don't let people get close to us. 01:40:58.400 --> 01:41:02.300 Go to Matthew 10, I'll end there. Go to Matthew chapter number 10. 01:41:10.100 --> 01:41:12.100 Matthew chapter number 10 01:41:12.380 --> 01:41:18.140 Verse number 16 the Bible says behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves 01:41:19.100 --> 01:41:24.220 So think about this Jesus. He's sending and of course we're talking about so winning here in the context 01:41:24.220 --> 01:41:26.220 He's sending them out two by two 01:41:27.620 --> 01:41:30.580 But he says that he's sending them out as sheep in the midst of wolves 01:41:32.140 --> 01:41:35.500 He's letting them know hey, there's gonna be evil people 01:41:36.200 --> 01:41:39.800 you're going to be serving alongside of, around, you're going to come in contact with. 01:41:40.440 --> 01:41:46.680 Notice what he tells them. He says, be therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves. We should 01:41:46.680 --> 01:41:50.120 be wise in realizing, hey, these are things are going to happen. People are going to be wicked. 01:41:50.840 --> 01:41:54.760 You know, they're going to be posers and pretenders. But at the same time, 01:41:54.760 --> 01:41:59.400 we should also be harmless as doves, right? We should think the best about people until it's 01:41:59.400 --> 01:42:02.920 just obvious that they're, you know, somebody who's wicked. 01:42:03.400 --> 01:42:04.560 that they're a backstabber. 01:42:04.560 --> 01:42:06.880 We should try to get people to benefit from the doubt. 01:42:06.880 --> 01:42:08.120 We should try to love people. 01:42:08.120 --> 01:42:10.120 We should allow people to get close to us, 01:42:10.120 --> 01:42:12.600 to be friends with them. 01:42:12.600 --> 01:42:15.340 And just realize that, you know what? 01:42:15.340 --> 01:42:17.840 If you get backstabbed, it just means 01:42:17.840 --> 01:42:20.840 that you're in the same company as Christ. 01:42:20.840 --> 01:42:24.320 And that's something to at least kind of look back on 01:42:24.320 --> 01:42:26.160 and be like, all right, well, at least I know 01:42:26.160 --> 01:42:27.560 I'm doing the right thing. 01:42:27.560 --> 01:42:29.040 At least I'm in good company. 01:42:29.400 --> 01:42:32.200 and realizing that even Christ was betrayed. 01:42:32.200 --> 01:42:33.900 Even Christ was backstabbed. 01:42:33.900 --> 01:42:38.400 And so I think it's okay if you allow yourself to be a little bit vulnerable, 01:42:38.400 --> 01:42:40.700 allow yourself to think good about people, 01:42:40.700 --> 01:42:42.200 not be jaded, 01:42:42.200 --> 01:42:43.500 to be friends with people, 01:42:43.500 --> 01:42:47.700 and just understand that if it happens, hey, at least you're in good company. 01:42:47.700 --> 01:42:49.900 And so, again, 01:42:49.900 --> 01:42:51.400 posers and pretenders, 01:42:51.600 --> 01:42:57.640 abound in the Christian life. We're gonna see it happen time and time again, but let us not be moved by those things. 01:42:58.200 --> 01:43:00.480 Let's send a word of prayer to Emily. Father, God, 01:43:00.480 --> 01:43:03.640 thank you for your word and just the comfort that it brings and 01:43:04.280 --> 01:43:09.420 understanding that, you know, your son suffered many of these things and yet even worse things than 01:43:10.080 --> 01:43:12.160 most likely any of us will ever go through. 01:43:12.700 --> 01:43:17.020 God, I pray that you would help us to be wise as serpents on this topic, 01:43:17.020 --> 01:43:21.420 realize that there's posers and pretenders, Lord, but that we would also be harmless as doves, Lord, 01:43:21.420 --> 01:43:28.620 that we wouldn't stop trying to be Christ-like, that we wouldn't stop trying to be charitable 01:43:28.620 --> 01:43:34.220 and loving and good brothers and sisters to our fellow brethren here in the church. 01:43:34.600 --> 01:43:43.160 that we would allow ourselves to still make good friends and to spend our life together serving 01:43:43.160 --> 01:43:49.400 alongside other good people to give you honor and glory. We pray these things in your son's name. Amen. 01:43:52.300 --> 01:43:57.100 Alright, in closing, let's find a hymnal and go to song number 124. 01:44:04.900 --> 01:44:08.400 Song number 124. 01:44:12.000 --> 01:44:18.000 God will take care of you, song number 124. 01:44:18.000 --> 01:44:24.000 Be not dismayed, what air be tied, God will take care of you, song 124. 01:44:24.000 --> 01:44:25.900 Let's all sing that out together. 01:44:29.000 --> 01:44:32.240 We not just make what it 01:44:34.700 --> 01:44:35.500 GOD DAMNIT