Now, the Bible does say a man that is a heretic after the first and second ammunition reject,
knowing that he that is such as subverted and sinneth being condemned of himself.
So you say, well, Pastor Anderson, should I be patient with the heretic?
Well, here's why you're not going to be patient with the heretic,
because after the first and second ammunition, it's best to just get out of there and just move on.
You see, if I show someone a clear scripture from the Bible,
plain as day, and they say, well, I still don't believe that.
And then I take the Bible and I show them a different scripture,
clearly plain as day, and they still don't believe it.
Then at that point, it's time to just walk away.
Why would I waste my time with somebody who is not willing to hear
the clear statements from the Word of God?
I'd rather just move on to somebody else.
And a lot of times when people go out soul winning, they get hung up with a heretic.
Somebody who's just all wrapped up in a false religion, whether that's a Mormon or Jehovah's
Witness or whatever the denomination, where they're goofed up on salvation,
and they just get tied up in a big argument.
They get into a big striving with them.
When in reality, after the first and second ammunition, they need to just move on.
Why?
Because there's a person down the street that's waiting to get saved,
and you won't want to burn up all your time with somebody who's not even interested in learning.
They're not interested in changing anything they believe, no matter what you show them.
So a man that is in heretic after the first and second admonition, reject.
You just move on.
Now, a lot of people, their flesh could get in the way.
And I've had this happen to me before.
I think we've all had this happen, where we just want to win that argument.
And so we don't want to walk away.
We want to stay and prove to this guy and show him up one side and down the other that he's wrong,
because we know.
Now, it's funny because I was talking to somebody who was a newer soul winner the other day.
And they said, I don't really know all the answers when people ask me really hard questions.
If I go out soul winning, sometimes I get hit with a really difficult question.
And sometimes they stump me, or sometimes they ask me about an obscure religion,
and I don't know what to say.
But I told that person, I said, you know what?
In some ways, that could make you a better soul winner,
because you're not going to be tempted to go down all these rabbit trails
and get off topic and get in a bunch of arguments with people,
because you know so much about the Jehovah's Witnesses.
You know so much about the Mormons.
You're going to really eat this guy's lunch.
But the goal is not to go out and just tear people up.
The goal is to get somebody saved.
And I'd rather go get somebody saved than to waste my time going back and forth with a heretic.
So the Bible says a man that's a heretic after the first and second admonition, reject.
That's somebody who's just really steeped in a false...
Stephen, you sit down right now.
You sit in our row and you quit goofing off.
Children need to know how to behave themselves in the house of God.
My wife's not there, but you kids need to line up and sit down,
or you'll face me after the service.
Excuse me for that.
But the bottom line is that we're out there to get people saved.
And we don't want to get off topic and into strivings.
You see, arguing with people in an angry argument is not a way to get people saved.
It just doesn't work.