Hello everybody, it's me install 23 back in our video.
Just want to quickly check the sound to make sure it's working.
Shouldn't get the notification any second now, or not, don't know why I'm not getting
it.
That's strange, okay, uh, there we go.
Okay, so the sound is working for this video, just got to make sure because on my secondary
channel MrTals1611 I never hit the microphone button, I never turned the microphone off
on my computer, and it was the one time I didn't check and it wasn't working, so I talked
for 20 minutes and nobody was listening because my microphone wasn't on.
Anyway, in this video I want to talk about a few things which are practiced by specifically
fundamentalist Christians, fundamentalist churches, even some Baptist churches which
have no basis on what the word of God says, and I'm talking about practices, things that
are practiced, different organizations, ministries, activities, things like that that take place
inside of churches today that are not inside of the Bible, that we don't see in the word
of God.
So keep in mind, in this video I'm not talking about doctrine, these things are more traditional,
traditions, things which have in some churches been taken far enough that you're almost expected
to agree with these things, you're almost expected to believe that these things are
right, that this is what the Bible commands, but if you're a Baptist you should base what
you believe on scripture, on the word of God, but as I'll show you in this video some of
this stuff doesn't have any basis in the word of God, it's just man-made traditions that
have been passed down.
And another thing I want to point out is that not all churches practice these things, not
all churches are dogmatic about it as others, and that's really the main problem.
Some of these things aren't necessarily wrong, some of them are, but the things which aren't
necessarily wrong, what's wrong is that churches push this on you and act like it's something
that's commanded in the Bible that you have to do it, and if you don't you're strange
and you're not a Baptist or whatever.
So not all churches do these things, and I want to say also beforehand that doing these
things as well, the practices I'm talking about, doesn't necessarily make a church bad
either.
Don't misunderstand what the purpose of this video is, I'm not seeking to attack Baptist
churches at all, I'm trying to just talk about what the Bible says about these specific things.
My advice is to always seek the best church in your area, because in some people's cases
they don't have a good church in their area, and the Bible still commands us to assemble
ourselves together, not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together in Hebrews chapter 10.
So no matter what, you should look for a good church in your area, even if they're wrong
on some things, it doesn't matter, you're still commanded to go to church, either you
have to move somewhere else or just go to a church that has some problems, because every
church has its problems.
As long as they're KJV only, soul winning, Bible believing, Bible preaching, Baptist
church, which is right on the main doctrines of the faith, like salvation, who God is,
baptism, what a church is and what it's supposed to do, things like that, they're right on
the main doctrines of the faith, then it's a good church, it doesn't matter if they do
some of these things which aren't in the Bible, I just don't understand why some churches
push these things, and I'm gonna talk, the things I'm gonna talk about in this video
involve things which Christians will incorporate into their churches, some of which go against
biblical teachings, and I personally believe that one shouldn't feel that there is a need
to participate in these things, I personally don't participate in these things, and I'll
explain why in this video, I don't know why, it's really hot in my room, in this house,
usually isn't, probably no air conditioning on for some reason, I don't know if it's just
the shirt or what, anyway, so, like I said, this isn't doctrine, this is just practices,
and the first thing I want to talk about that's not in the Bible are altar calls, that's one
of the many practices practiced, the Bible teaches, it's not commanded at all in the
Bible, that would be the altar call, the attitude of a lot of Christians, especially Baptist
these days, is that one needs to bow down at the altar, the so-called altar at the front
of the church, and they need to pray to God, and I can't count how many times I've heard
preachers act like there's something magical about what they call the altar, at the end
of the service, usually after the sermon, there's a call for people who haven't received
Christ to receive Christ, or for Christians who are already saved, and who are in sin
to get right with God, and almost every time without fail, some pastors will say, you better
kneel down at this altar right here, as if it's something that you absolutely need to
do, or as if you can't believe on Christ in your seat, or you can't pray to God where
you already are, it's as if there's something special about that little raised platform
in the front of the church that you need to go and pray there, that's their attitude that
some pastors have, and there's certain people in my church who will always get up after
every message, and pray before the pastor's feet in the front of the church every single
time.
There's several problems with that, first the history of the altar call, then the fact
that it's not even mentioned once in the Bible, and also the fact that the Bible teaches us
that we should do otherwise, and I'll get to that a little bit later, but firstly I
encourage you to do the research on the history of the altar call, it's not something that
Christians have done throughout all of time and all of history, it's a new practice, and
it doesn't even come from Baptist churches, it comes from a false teacher, a false prophet
named Charles Finney in the 1830s, now if you watch my video from a couple weeks ago,
I talked about Charles Finney in the video about great apostasy, Finney was not a Baptist,
he was a presbyterian minister during the second great awakening, and Finney was a devout
abolitionist, he used the altar call as a way to recruit new Christians to support his
abolitionist movement, had nothing to do with anything that the Bible says, it was just
a practice that he invented because he wanted to bring people in towards supporting abolitionism,
now as I pointed out a few weeks ago in the video that I made about the great apostasy,
Charles Finney was not a man of God, he was a holiness movement, work salvation preacher
who taught that somebody can lose their salvation, they need to perfect themselves and that they
can live a sinless life, that's what Charles Finney taught, he was an unsaved false prophet,
this isn't something that was come up with by a bio-believing Baptist, this isn't a Baptist
we're talking about, it's a false prophet presbyterian and his intentions had nothing
to do with getting right with God as many people will say, now there's several reasons
why the altar call is unbiblical, firstly it's just the name that the altar is wrong,
they'll say you got to kneel down at the altar, what altar, there's no altar in a church,
according to the Bible an altar is something where sacrifices are performed and there's
no basis in the New Testament for the use of an altar, every mention of the word altar
in the New Testament is referring either to the altars of the Old Testament where the
Old Testament sacrifices would take place which are done away with or it's referring
to the altar in heaven, let's just say that the altar in churches or what they call the
altar is an actual altar which it isn't but let's just say it is, it's still unbiblical
because God commanded that there should not be steps going up to an altar in Exodus chapter
20 verse 26, yet almost every single time when a pastor refers to the altar it's a step
or it's a flight of steps at the front of the church on a raised platform, they're disobeying
the commandment to not make an altar as they call it with steps going up to it, another
reason why the altar is unbiblical is because Jesus specifically commands not to pray before
men, he said in Matthew 6 verse 5 to 6 and when thou prayest thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the
streets that they may be seen of men, verily I say unto you they have the reward but thou
when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door pray to thy father
which is in secret and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly, now he
specifically tells us not to pray to be seen of men, it says to pray in secret, to enter
into your closet and pray, the altar call is all about people coming forward to the front
of the whole congregation in front of everybody and bowing down right in front of the whole
church in front of a whole bunch of people to individually pray to God, that's not right
that's not what the Bible says, Jesus says specifically not to do that, the Bible says
that those who do so are hypocrites and I'm sure that there are some in churches who are
confused, they don't understand this, they don't understand they're not supposed to do
this, they participate because they have good intentions, they have genuine intentions,
they believe that they're actually praying to God but there's also some people, I can
guarantee this, I don't know how many people exactly but I can guarantee you're going to
have somebody in every church that will come forward just to do so to appear righteous
before men, that they don't have any intention of praying to God or getting right with God,
they're just doing it to appear righteous before everybody else, so there's going to
be some people who are doing it for a show to be seen of men, that's what Jesus said.
Another reason why it's wrong is because it doesn't get you right with God, I've heard
preachers equate praying to God at the so-called altar with getting right with him, after all
there was a sermon which should have showed the people their transgressions, which should
have showed them their sin and now at the end of his service you have the call to change
and get right with God, that's what the preacher does, he says well you better get right with
God right now, you can come forward to the altar and pray to him, now the problem is
the Bible doesn't simply say to confess your sins, it says to confess and forsake your
sins in Proverbs 28, praying to God in front of the congregation is not getting right with
God, you're supposed to apply the preaching through your life and go home not thinking
that everything is right just because you bow down at an altar, you have to make an
effort to abandon the wickedness and seek the face of God, that's the purpose of preaching
according to the Scriptures, it's for exhortation, it's for edification, 1 Corinthians 14
3, 1 Timothy 4 13 and 2 Timothy 4 2 tell us that the purpose of a preacher is to exhort
and to edify the believer, to build them up, they're supposed to urge the believer to follow
the Lord, they're supposed to build them up with knowledge of the Scriptures, not to simply just
get them to bow down before God at the end of the service, call that getting right with God and then
they go home thinking that they're right with God, that's not biblical, so the altar call is just not
in the Bible and it goes against several teachings of the Bible and that's why I don't participate
in it and I don't think you should participate in it, there's no special place that we should
pray to God at, he can hear you whether in your seat, whether in your car after church, your house,
wherever, he can hear you anywhere, you don't need to go down before some raised step at the
front of the church, that's absurd, that's not in the Bible, another thing that I want to talk about
is like church camps and church conventions and conferences and things like that and I'm talking
about meetings which are based on churches having fellowship together and doing church-like
activities but which in themselves are not church and include useless activities that have nothing
to do with the church, nothing that God has ordained for the church to do, now there's nothing
necessarily wrong with the idea of a conference or anything like that, what's wrong is the attitude
that people have towards these things and like I said that's one of the main things I'm talking
about this video, not everything in this video I'm saying is completely against the Bible,
I'm just saying the attitude that people have towards these things is against what the Bible
teaches, the issue is not the practice itself but what Christians think about it and how they're
trying to command this and push it and things like that, for example I recently had a friend complain
to me that there may not be this particular camp which is held by Baptist churches in Arizona due
to this coronavirus thing and he said well I believe that God is going to make it happen but
why would you think that, it's not like camps or conventions or conferences are commanded in the
Bible, there's no significance to it at all whether it happens or not, it makes no difference,
sure you can go there and you can hear good preaching, you can do Bible related things,
you can learn the Bible at these places but it's not commanded in the Bible, there's no absolute
necessity to it and another thing that I've observed is I know a lot of pastors have
convictions about things like and it varies you know some are more traditional, some are more
liberal and watered down but some will say like all playing cards, listening to certain kinds of
music, doing all these worldly things, you shouldn't do these things because they're worldly but then
at the same time those same churches participate in worldly activities and call that fellowship,
they'll go bowling or they'll play games and go to these institutions that sell alcohol and things
like that especially among like youth groups and youth ministries which I'll talk about a little
bit later but they'll do that even though these things are worldly and they're among the world,
I don't get it, I don't understand why people you know in the pulpit they'll say don't do this,
don't do that because it's worldly but then they'll have little youth ministries and different
events out in the world where they'll congregate together like a church but it won't have anything
to do with church, they're not going out to you know soul win, get people saved, pass out tracts,
nothing like that, they're just there to have fun and just to waste their time and not be productive.
In my opinion things like that is worldly and there's nothing wrong with having fellowship
but if you're going to do something that's worldly especially in a worldly institution like a bowling
alley or something like that with the intention of having fun and not sharing the gospel that's
unbiblical and you can call me strict if you want but there's no sense or purpose in doing things
like that. The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 12.3 fear God and keep his commandments for this is
the whole duty of man. If you're not doing that you're not doing what your duty is on this earth.
It says in, okay so I'm done with that now so those are the two things so far altar calls and
church camps conventions and conferences. The third thing is Bible college and Christian schools.
One of the big problems I see in modern-day churches is the heavy promotion of colleges
and schools. For a lot of fundamentalist Christians it's mainly Bible colleges and
then homeschooling is popular among younger people. However even among some Baptists it's
taught that both public schools and Christian schools are somehow good. I've been reading this
book recently it's called The Cross and the Crown and in the beginning of the book it says that
public schools are a gift of God brought by the Protestant Reformation which I think is completely
false. Well it's not that I think it's completely false it is completely false. There's a modern
public school system that we have was created by the homosexual king of Prussia Frederick the Great
in the 1700s. Now it's just talking about elementary and secondary schools. The idea of a
college and university is foreign to scripture. The modern university system that we have today
is modeled after Roman Catholic academics and institutions that came in the Middle Ages. Now
this again seems to be a big issue because of how it's promoted that it almost seems like it's
necessary that pastors will try to push it on you they'll say you'll yeah at least try one year of
Bible college yeah kind of try to go to Bible college and they'll do that to every teenager
it's happened to me. My pastors asked me many times if I wanted to go to Bible college and my
answer has always been I'll think about it or just no. Another thing is that the the wife of
the pastor of my church gave me a book called The Case for Bible College and she said well why don't
you read that and just you know think about it think about the decision if you want to go to
Bible college or not and so I took the book and I skimmed through it and I quickly noticed that
there's not a single verse from scripture quoting that book. Now this is produced by I think it's
produced by like Lancaster Baptist Church or Striving Together publications whatever their
publishing company is so it's produced by a Baptist Church right it's for the purpose of
trying to lead people into going to an institution that tries to teach the Bible and yet there's not
a single Bible verse to defend the doctrine it's all just a bunch of man-made arguments and man's
wisdom. Now it's obvious why they didn't use scripture because if you're truly using the
Bible as your final authority on all things you never come to the conclusion that you need to go
to a college or university or that that is sanctioned in scripture at all. It's all man's
wisdom it's all man's faulty reasoning for why we should do this they're just trying to model it
after the world because universities are worldly institutions they're founded by the Roman
Catholics and for the last several hundred years at least they've been secular institutions it's
only been recently that Bible colleges have been a thing where Baptists have said well we're gonna
take what the world does and how they teach people and we're just gonna kind of put a Christian twist
on it which is not what the Bible says to do it says not to learn the way of the heathen. Now I
want to address the problem of formal schooling from the standpoint of how dangerous it is. There's
a difference between a university and an individual church the local New Testament church as God has
ordained as we read about in the New Testament where there's only one pastor difference between
a university a Bible college or whatever and an individual church is that it's more difficult to
oppose false teachings for several reasons. Firstly you paid to go to the university so
most of the time people aren't going to just walk out because they already spent their money. Second
if you paid for to go to that university then the faculty will be a lot lighter with the people
amongst the students who might teach false doctrine they'll say well they paid so therefore
they're allowed here you know they're from a Baptist Church it doesn't matter if they
believe false doctrine they're just a little bit wrong we'll teach them we'll get them on the right
path and then most of the time they don't end up doing that. Secondly since there's a board of
directors and multiple professors for Bible colleges it's unlikely that every single one
is right on doctrine. If they're constantly warned in the Bible that false prophets would creep into
churches it wouldn't be surprising if there are false prophets creeping into an institution
modeled after the world's institution where there's an abundance of so-called professors
and teachers and that's exactly what we see there's a lot of Bible colleges out there with
false prophets. One of the most well-known independent fundamental Baptist Bible colleges
is West Coast Bible College which I mentioned earlier with the Lancaster Baptist Church they're
the one that produced the book The Case for Bible College that I didn't end up reading because it
doesn't have any scriptural arguments. West Coast Bible College which I've been recommended by a
friend before I've heard about it I've heard good things about it but once you actually look into
the people that are coming out of it and the people that in charge you understand it's a
bunch of false prophets. For example the vice president John Getch literally got up in Lancaster
Baptist Church which like I said is connected to West Coast it's overseen by Paul Chappell
who is the pastor of West Coast Baptist Church or Bible College or Lancaster Baptist Church I mean
and I'm not thinking right today but Paul Chappell is the pastor of Lancaster Baptist Church and he's
also the president of West Coast Bible College. John Getch is the vice president and John Getch
got up in the church and he taught straight heresy about salvation he said that you need
true biblical repentance to be saved and this is the way that he defined it he defined repentance
as turning from all your sins he said you can't have salvation and sin and he said that if you
remain in sin after salvation that shows you're not safe. Now same guy said that we should respect
homosexuals and bring them into our churches and it's interesting that Lancaster Baptist Church
allows homosexuals and all other kinds of perverts into their church you know they say
oh we don't agree with it we think it's wrong but you know all these perverts who want to rape our
kids and attack us we're just gonna let them in our church anyway so you have this guy who's the
vice president of their college he's a wolf in sheep's clothing he teaches work salvation he
teaches all these perverse things and he's in charge and you know something's wrong when he
says that in front of a crowd in front of Lancaster Baptist Church there's hundreds of
people there maybe thousands I don't know how big the congregation is exactly and nobody rebukes him
nobody says anything the pastor doesn't say anything none of the the board of directors of
the college they don't say anything they just say amen you know even though it's not in the Bible
it goes against numerous biblical teachings it's false doctrine shows you that I'm guessing most of
the board of directors most of the teachers at that college and from that church are false
teachers they don't understand the Bible they're not safe so I want to talk about a few biblical
reasons so they don't have biblical reasons to defend the practice but I want to talk about
political reasons why formal schooling including Bible College is not right first starting with the
fact that they try to force it down your throat despite the Bible never mentioning it which I
talked about the word school is only used once in the whole Bible to talk about the school of
Tyrannus in the book of Acts which was a pagan philosophy Academy in Ephesus pagan thing it's
not a godly thing and the word college is only used once in 2nd Kings chapter 22 verse 14 and
also it's parallel passage in 2nd Chronicles 34 which talks about the same thing where it
uses college in the sense of just a group of people because the word college as we define it
today did not used to mean an academic institution or university college back then just meant like
you know like the College of Cardinals within the Vatican or the College of Pontiffs in the
ancient Roman religion it's just a group of religious people right it's kind of like a
church it's almost the same thing it's not the modern definition of a school so you have these
two words only appear once and one time talking about a pagan school one time not even talking
about our modern definition of college the Bible commands parents to teach their own children as
well as a Deuteronomy chapter 6 verse 6 to 7 and these words which I command thee this day shall
be in thine heart and thou shall teach them diligently unto thy children and shall talk of
them when thou sit in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou liest down and
when thou risest up again it says in Deuteronomy 11 19 and you shall teach your children speaking
of them when thou sit in thine house and when thou walkest by the way when thou liest down and when
thou risest up it says in Proverbs 22 6 it says train up a child in the way you should go so it's
never anything in the Bible about sending your child off somewhere else to let people teach
them to let somebody else teach them God commands you as parents if you're a parent watching this
or if you're a child it commands your parents or maybe not even a child just a middle-aged
person somebody in their 20s or whatever your parents are still around it says that your
parents should have taught you the Bible it's a command for parents to do that it's not a command
to just send them off to somewhere so somebody else can do it to train them for life no parents
are commanded to do that to their own children not somebody else one might say okay but what
about when one is no longer under their parents authority what if they're they're married and they
move out of their house and they get called to ministry later in life how are their parents
supposed to teach them that well it doesn't matter because in 1st Timothy 3 it was the
requirements for being a pastor and guess what it doesn't talk about Bible College I don't
understand why there's just this kind of mental just idea of so many people that you have to
absolutely it's just ingrained in people's minds that you have to go to Bible College in order to
be a pastor I was telling one of my friends the other day I said I was talking about about
about preaching or something that I remember exactly we were talking about he said doesn't
somebody need to go to college in order to do that I said no where does it say then the Bible
because it doesn't the only requirements from being a pastor are in 1st Timothy 3 and I think
Titus 1 or Titus 2 and doesn't mention Bible College because Bible College didn't exist then
it's a modern invention based on worldly institutions the Bible says in 1st John 2 27
but the anointing which you've received of him abideth in you and you need not that any man teach
you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie and even as it
hath taught you you shall abide in him we don't need man to teach us we don't need man to guide
us Jesus promised that the Holy Ghost would teach us of all things he said that also in John 14 and
16 he said that the Holy Ghost the comforter would teach us of all things guide us in all truth the
Spirit of truth the the Holy Spirit that's our teacher he guides us he helps us understand the
Bible we don't need somebody to well you can't understand it on your own you can't be a pastor
you don't have the ability to understand the scriptures you need to go to a Bible College
wrong we don't need some stupid Bible College teacher who most of the time like I said using
the example of West Coast Bible College and I've heard other stories a lot of the time they're not
even safe there's false prophets can creep into those places easily you don't need them to
understand the Bible we don't need some Bible College thing to interpret this good or Bible
College degree or anything like that to interpret the scriptures you need to take a special class
that's not in the Bible at all the apostles of Jesus Christ they never went to Bible College
at all none of the disciples went to Bible College because there's no such thing as Bible College in
the New Testament most of the time Bible College all it does is confuse people because they spend
years being indoctrinated sometimes with false doctrine and they refuse to learn the by the way
that the Bible tells us to learn and instead because of what they're used to because of what
they're indoctrinated with with going to Bible College for four years or however long they rely
more on man's word instead of God's Word I've heard about it how in Bible College they'll make
you read books by so-called great creatures of the past I think my pastor's wife was just telling
me about how she had this like homeschooling curriculum for her daughters and she was saying
there was a course about talking there's like a class about a Baptist preachers of the past and
obviously most of the Baptist they mean a reformed Baptist who teach false doctrine and when you take
classes on the great preachers of the past and things like that it'll be people like Charles
Spurgeon you know you won't hear about actual Bible believers you'll hear about false prophets
like Charles Spurgeon just a couple weeks ago I remember my pastor told us about how a lot of
people in his college which was Heartland Baptist College he went to Heartland Baptist Bible College
which is in Oklahoma and he said that a lot of people went towards Calvinism he said oh he really
regrets that and when I heard that he said that the one thing that I thought was obviously I mean
you forgiving the books by Charles Spurgeon if you're telling them to read stuff by Charles
Spurgeon if you're saying Charles Spurgeon is a Baptist of course they're gonna be led in a false
doctrine he literally wrote a book called in defense of Calvinism and yet you'll hear these
you go on the website of Lancaster Baptist Church or West Coast Bible College or striving together
publications they're promoting books by Charles Spurgeon they're promoting commentaries by Charles
Spurgeon that's just the the tendency of a lot of independent fundamental Baptist institutions he
was a Calvinist he taught that you needed to repent of all your sins or to be saved he taught
he believed that the King James Bible isn't the Word of God he believed that in inaccuracies and
even said in the 1880s that the revised version based on the corrupt Alexandrian manuscripts was
better he was a false prophet he was a Calvinist he didn't understand salvation he's not a great
man of God just because his church had Baptist in the title if one's gonna be trained for the
ministry the Bible tells us that it's the job of the local church to do so in Ephesians 4 it
couples teachers with pastors pastors are the ones who had commanded preach the word be instant in
season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long soft suffering and doctrine it's not the
job of some professor in a classroom to teach doctrine to exhort people to tell them what the
Bible says that's the job of the pastor it's the job of parents to teach their children and those
children when they are growing in the Lord if they're saved they should read the Bible and let
the Holy Ghost guide them they should go to church to hear doctrine and hear exhortation there's no
such thing as formal schooling in the Bible that's how you learn according to the Bible Christians
are not commanded to go to these institutions it's ripped off from the world it's a worldly
thing and it's a waste of time it's a waste of money the next thing is Bible commentaries and
study Bibles which kind of ties in with the Bible College thing one thing I want to talk about is
how heavily churches will and specifically pastors they'll base their sermons on Bible commentaries
they won't study the Bible and you can it's sometimes easy to sometimes easy to spot this
because you'll hear people say stuff in the pulpit and then it's almost verbatim what somebody will
say in the commentary but they know that most of the congregation isn't reading this stuff so they
don't know that they plagiarized it they're just you know they're just a bunch of dumb people I'm
just gonna rip it off from whatever study Bible or whatever notes or whatever just yesterday I was
at church and I was given a devotional and I used to read devotionals I don't do that anymore I
again it's useless it's the specific devotional to one verse and then like one or two paragraphs
and it's like just a story or something that vaguely ties in with the verse has nothing to
the verse it's not reading the Bible it's not studying the Bible reading man's word
and man's interpretation of the Bible is not reading the Bible reading notes and references
is not reading the Bible reading God's Word the thing that he actually said is reading the Bible
not reading what man said about his word reading his word is reading the Bible anyway so as I said
it's obvious that people will rip these things off that they'll use commentaries to explain the
the scriptures I've heard preachers almost word for word repeat what's written the
Schofield reference Bible as if they're trusting in it without error like it's just true like
they'll just say well this is what Schofield said or sometimes they won't even say this is
what Schofield said they'll just say it and act like it's their own preaching and they'll act
like the the notes of Schofield are God's Word even though C.I. Schofield was a damnable heretic
he taught work salvation he taught that there are different Gospels he denied the authority of the
King James Version he tampered with God's Word he believed in a gap theory which is completely
unbiblical he wasn't even qualified to be a pastor he wasn't even a Baptist he was a
Congregationalist who wasn't supposed to be a pastor because he had been divorced and the
Bible says that a bishop should only have one wife and he left his family became a
Congregationalist and then later a Presbyterian minister he got all kinds of false doctrines and
yet people are relying on his notes as if they're absolutely right so this ties in with some of the
things that I mentioned hi Mr. Tull hello Stephen Holm remember the Bible says that we need not that
a man teach us I already read that in 1st John 2 27 but there's also in 1st Corinthians 2 verse
11 to 14 for what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in him even so the
things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God now we have received not the spirit of the
world but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God
which things also we speak not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth but with which the Holy
Ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual what the natural man receiveth not the
things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are
spiritually discerned the Bible teaches that the Spirit of God teaches us the things of God we're
not supposed to teach you're not supposed to learn by the wisdom of man but the wisdom of the Holy
Ghost a lot of commentaries out there are written by false prophets and I don't understand why so
many Baptists will take commentaries written by Methodists and hyper Calvinists and Anglicans who
teach a false gospel and act as if those notes are true they'll say well you can get some out of it
you can you know even though some of its false you can get some good things out of it you may not
agree with everything but there's some useful information in there which is stupid because if
they believe a false gospel they're not even saved they believe that works can save them
they're not saved they don't even have the Holy Ghost inside of them so they're spiritually blinded
the Bible says that they cannot know the things of God because they're spiritually discerned doesn't
say no a bit no if anybody out there is unsaved and they're teaching something they're just
regurgitating what they heard from somewhere else it's not like oh they're just super intelligent
they just know what the Bible says no they're just repeating it from someone else and that's
what a lot of these pastors are doing you know even though they might be saved they're just
regurgitating the same thing that C.I. Scofield and Charles Spurgeon and Kiel and Delich and J.C.
Ryle and John Wesley and all these others they're just repeating the same thing that they said and
they're just putting in their own words instead of you know just getting rid of all man's word
and just interpreting the Bible based on what it says and what it says alone all the people
are just named C.I. Scofield Charles Spurgeon etc they're unsaved they don't understand the
scriptures and yet people want to use them instead of reading the Bible we're supposed to read the
Bible not read man's word you know I always hear preachers say so-and-so say or the Greek word for
this or whatever and they don't even know a single word in Greek or they don't know a single word in
Hebrew they're just again reading it they're just ripping it off from some commentary or just
looking at a lexicon and just trusting that that's right even though they don't know a single word
the language they're just stealing it they don't know what they're talking about the Spirit didn't
reveal that to them they're just lifting themselves up and acting like they know what they're talking
about when they don't that's a major problem in churches today fake preaching that's what I'm
talking about here with Bible commentaries it's fake preaching it's not preaching it's not from
the heart it's just stealing things from other people plagiarism from commentaries and reading
books about the Bible instead of reading the Bible is not studying now I'm not saying that
there's anything wrong with hearing different interpretations or different opinions or whatever
but the person you're listening to ought to be somebody who's actually saved first of all you
ought to be using the Bible as their final authority and you ought not to rely on them
but test what they say based on what the scriptures say using the Bible as your final authority
instead of just concluding that what they say is just right automatically for no reason just
because they have Baptists in their name just because they call themselves a Baptist well
Bible says a lot of people will creep into the church it says in the last days people will take
heed to doctrines of devils etc next thing I want to talk about are like different age group
ministries nurseries and youth ministries and different pastors for different age groups and
things like that that's again something I'll never understand because it's not in the Bible
I don't understand why a lot of churches feel the need to split up the congregation into different
age groups because that's never found the Bible once a church is defined in the Bible as a
congregation of believers so why would there be children ministries and young adult ministries
and teen ministries and all kinds of different levels and that's especially the case in some
bigger churches where you'll have a few hundred people they'll just divide it up and then you'll
have a whole other service in a whole room or a different building where there is like dozens of
children taught by a person and they're being taught a different message than what the main
congregation is preaching in a different room or a different building a lot of the nurseries and
child ministries what they're doing is they're just dumbing down the Bible they're softening
it up because when I think that's dangerous because younger children were being raised in
a Christian home need to hear godly preaching everybody needs to hear godly preaching Jesus
said in Matthew 19 14 offer little children there forbid them not to come unto me for such
is the kingdom of heaven Bible we never see an example of children or younger folk being kept
in little sections or being pulled off from from the work what the Word of God says and just you
know just giving them little coloring pages and things like that and just childish things you
know a bit some of them are you know if they're children the point is not to just kind of dumb
down you know they can do all that other stuff that the stuff that child children like to do
outside of a church the purpose of a church is again to preach the word to exhort to rebuke to
teach doctrine things like that not to just you know do all kinds of things that they would do
at home or or whatever that's not the purpose of a church they can do that outside of a church now
it even talks about in the Bible about all people listening to the preaching of the Word of God
there's an example of that in Nehemiah chapter 8 verse 1 to 3 so then all the people gathered
themselves together as one man into the street that was before the Watergate and they spake
unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had commanded to Israel
and Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women and all that
could hear with understanding upon the first day of the seventh month and he read there in before
the street that was before the Watergate for the morning until midday before the men and the women
and those who could understand in the ears of all the people were attentive under the book of the
law not prohibit different age groups from being part of a service that's dividing a church up and
that's unbiblical the church of the congregation of believers and the pastor has the job of being
the overseer of the church the Bible says in Acts chapter 20 verse 28 take he therefore unto
yourselves into all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost Holy Ghost have made you overseers to
feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood first Peter chapter 5 verse 1
to 2 it says the elders which are among you I exhort who am also an elder and a witness of the
sufferings of Christ and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed feed the flock of
God which is among you taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not
for filthy lucre but of a ready mind it's the job of a pastor or Bishop which means overseer to
oversee the church the flock of God which includes both old and young when you're dividing it up and
giving somebody else to be the overseer of them and say well this you know we're one church these
children are these teens they're part of our church but they have a different overseer no
the pastor he's the overseer of the church it shouldn't be get the pastor's wife to teach them
or get some other guy that's not even fully qualified to teach them that's not in the Bible
again so the next thing is selling merchandise or church bookstores and selling books and CDs and
things like that in a church that's not in the Bible and that's against the Bible you know like
I said some of these things are not necessarily completely wrong some of these things are
completely wrong and I would say selling merchandise in a church is completely wrong
there are churches that will sell CDs or books in the congregation sometimes bigger churches
will have food that they sell or actual bookstores inside of the church Oh Jesus said in John 2 13 to
16 or the Bible says it says and the Jews Passover was at hand and Jesus went up to Jerusalem and
found at the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changers of money sitting
and when he had made a scourge of small cords he drove them all out of the temple and the sheep and
the oxen and poured out the changers money and overthrew the tables and said unto them the sold
doves take these things hence make not my father's house and house of merchandise but what's
merchandise it's something that's sold Jesus was angry with these Jews who were selling things in
the house of God he drove them out because they were doing that he was angry because they were
selling things in his father's house the Bible tells us that the local church is the house of
God it says in first Timothy 3 15 but if I Terry long that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to
behave thyself in the house of God which is the church of the living God the pillar and ground of
the truth the local church is the house of God and Jesus was angry when people sold merchandise
in the father's house and yet what do you see people doing today you'll have guest speakers
come in and they'll sell things they'll take like a little a bunch of boxes of CDs and Bibles and
all kinds of merchandise and little souvenirs from where they're from if they're a missionary
to a foreign country they'll take things from that foreign country they'll take it with them
and they'll sell it to the congregation I've had that happen to my in my church well we have no
table set up and they'll sell stuff you know missionaries who are coming through if the Bible
tells us that we should not do that and Jesus said later when he drove them out again at the
end of his ministry he said my house shall be called the house of prayer but he have made it
a den of thieves purpose of a church is not to sell things it's not to do this wicked thing it's
wicked in the Bible if Jesus is getting angry at it then it's sin the Dutch if a guest preacher
has stuff to sell if he has stuff with him that's okay you just shouldn't sell it in the church you
should go sell somewhere else you know sell it in the back of his car or whatever just don't sell
among the congregation when people are congregating together on Sunday morning or whenever you
shouldn't just meet among the congregation and just sell it to the congregation that's unbiblical
that's selling merchandise in the house of God they could do it anywhere but if they do in the
church it's unbiblical it's a sin now the last thing I want to talk about is this the last thing
yes it is the last thing is in kind of not everything wrong with this it's just the way
that people do it and that's tracked canvassing versus soul winning or specifically only passing
out tracks and calling that soul winning that's not in the Bible again I don't think there's
anything wrong with passing out tracks in itself you know those little pamphlets or cards that
people that churches will have a little handed to people and invite people to church things like
that it'll have a little message will have a little Bible truth directions to the church
things like that I don't think there's anything wrong with that the issue of doing that is calling
it soul winning and not doing proper soul winning but only doing that because it's not so when you're
not winning somebody's soul by giving them a little card or a pamphlet it's not going to get
them saved there are some churches which as a church do nothing but hand out tracks they only
do that they don't go door-to-door they don't preach the gospel as Jesus said and mine is
unfortunately one of them once a week we'll go out and we'll put tracks on doors and I've been
helping out since October and so far in the whole time we've probably hit several hundred houses and
only four or five people or four or five families ever ended up coming to the church in the whole
time we've hit hundreds possibly thousands of houses whole communities whole subdivisions
y'all all the time every week and barely anybody comes because I mean it just makes common sense
why would it the Catholic that you give a track to come to a Baptist Church if they're not saved
most people are just gonna throw it away you know something comes on my door if somebody sticks
something in my door some religion that I don't believe in if Jehovah's Witness comes and they put
something in my door I just throw it away I don't I'm a Baptist I'm just gonna not gonna take a
Jehovah's Witness pamphlet just maybe I'll read through this huh no if somebody doesn't agree
with what we believe they're not gonna go to a Baptist Church not only that but zero people have
gotten say if they do hypothetically read it zero people get saved from that because the Bible says
in verse 14 or Romans 10 verse 14 to 17 sorry how then shall they call on him and in whom they have
not believed and how they believe in him in whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without
a preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent as it is written how beautiful are the
feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things but they
have not all obeyed the gospel for as I say it Lord who has believed our report so then faith
cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God if somebody does not hear the preaching of the
Word of God they're not getting saved faith comes by hearing the Word of God that's what the Bible
says it's not just you know that's why I don't just put words on the screen I can you know there
are some people who take like a robot voice and that's not obviously a godly preacher the Holy
Spirit isn't speaking through them there's nothing about hearing you know when they just do a robot
voice or whatever some people just put text on the screen and it won't say anything that's why
I don't do that on these videos I actually speak to people over this camera over the internet so
that they can actually hear the preaching of God's Word so when I do preach the gospel somebody can
get saved now somebody tells me they got saved from reading a tract I don't believe that I don't
care what they say you know there's a lot of people who are false converts who say yeah I'm
saved but they're not actually saved and a lot of the time if you ask them you go through the plan
of salvation they don't really understand it because there's only so much you can put on a
tract tracks we have at our church there's three or four verses and just like one sentence of
explanation I don't think most people are gonna read that and understand the gospel and they're
not because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God one might say well have a
track they'll come to church and they'll hear the preaching there now there's several problems with
that as I said most people don't respond to tracts as I've said out of the hundreds of houses we fit
verily very few people have ever showed up it's the same whenever churches that's why independent
phenomenal Baptist churches are dying and most of the time if they do show up they're already saved
they're already Baptist maybe they just moved in the area or they just haven't considered going
into church in a while maybe they're raised as a Baptist they haven't just haven't gone to church
in a while or whatever and then sometimes people will show up they'll go for one week they won't
hear the plan of salvation and they'll just leave they won't ever come back so you have four or five
people most of them are already saved if they're not saved they will never come back they don't
care they get offended or whatever again why would a Roman Catholic who goes to a mass every
week see a tract on their door from a Baptist Church and think maybe I'll go to a Baptist
Church on Sunday that's not gonna happen but if you give them the gospel and you pull them out
of that false religion of Roman Catholicism then it's a different story then they might actually
come to church but then they don't come to the church for the purpose of hearing the gospel
because they're already saved they come to be part of the congregation to be baptized and to
become a member of the church after they're saved so that's why the Bible commands us to
go out and preach the gospel that's another problem with people saying well we'll just draw
them in a church no Jesus said go ye into all the world and preach the gospel at every creature at
mark 16 15 said in Matthew 28 go you teach all nations baptize them in the name of the Father
of the Son and the Holy Ghost he didn't say go he invite everybody to church or go he and pass
out tracts to every creature he didn't say that he said preach the gospel every creature the
preaching of the cross is the power of God the gospel is the power of God unto salvation
according to Bible it's not to hand out tracts to every creature not to hand out tracts everybody
that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe it that's what the Bible
says it's not about bringing them a church it's not about doing anything else but sharing with
the world the preaching of the cross and understand that that people have various reasons
for why they're not able to easily do that to go out into the world if a church doesn't have a soul
winning program if somebody wants to do more for the Lord they want to go out they want to preach
the gospel but maybe they're not really good at it they don't really know how to do it they're
kind of shy or whatever obviously if they're new a Christian they don't have the experience it'll
be difficult for them to get in that habit and that's why I recommend doing what I do to get
into the habit take advantage of the opportunities that you have as the Bible doesn't command us to
necessarily go door-to-door that is an example that we see in the Bible but preaching the gospel
does not necessarily have to be door-to-door it's just sharing the gospel with anybody so my mother
was a little bit restrictive after I converted after I got saved and she doesn't really let
me go outside and do that kind of stuff you know go door-to-door so I preached Christ in my school
to several people the old friends to acquaintances to even some random classmates I had I preached to
my dad I'm now even preaching to my mother it's just people in your life you know take advantage
of the people around you your co-workers your neighbors your friends anybody you come across
try to preach the gospel to them try to share the gospel with them if they don't want to hear it
that's why you have a track it's a secondary thing for okay well maybe you can think about it maybe
you can think about coming to church we'll talk to you later or whatever to kind of plant that seed
in them they won't get saved from that so don't call that soul winning that's for people who
maybe don't want to talk or maybe if you go to a soul winning and there's a house that you come
to and nobody's home or something like that or they're busy you know that's what tracks are for
but don't call that soul winning that's unfortunately what a lot of churches do so
all right so I'm gonna read those Stephen Holmes comments so thank you buddy for watching before I
go okay so I've got a decent church pastor biblical knowledge is great but he had to shut the church
never reads out of commentaries that's great so God has brought his people out of false churches
through the phony virus workspace salvation has people bound up in a doctrines of devil it's like
saying Christ crucified wasn't enough absolutely true there's actually a false prophet on YouTube
who makes videos and he flat-out he doesn't even apologize for he literally uploaded a video called
Jesus taught work salvation and I'm going to refute that guy in a video in a couple weeks
I think it's next week actually I've been working on it today I started working on the video on the
notes for it Jesus said unless you have yes Jesus kicked out the sellers of the temple here the
gospel if everyone is in isolation at home yeah that's another thing if people were in isolation
that's that's why I do what I'm doing right now is I actually have an Instagram account and I do
there's an option to do live videos on there and I think I mentioned this on mr. tall 1611 I don't
remember but my plan is to just for now because I have some acquaintances on there who I know aren't
safe the people who are following me I have like 60 followers or something so what I'm doing is I'm
preaching the gospel and focusing only on gospel based things reaching on only preaching the cross
and hoping that people will get saved through that and then I'm still trying to work on my mother
preached the gospel several times she doesn't really understand it yet so yeah there's that
and then there's even some people who are going out so winning I know some churches which are
still going out door-to-door so winning even in the the coronavirus thing they'll just kind of
you know they'll knock on the door take a few steps back if somebody opens up but kind of just
stand like six or seven or eight feet away or whatever and just preach to them from there
because you don't need to be up close to them in order to preach the gospel you just need to lift
up your voice a little bit more so that's it for this video these are things wow I did not
expect it to be this long maybe it's because I think I have kind of a sore throat maybe I have
coronavirus who knows or maybe it's just because I'm talking a lot I don't know or maybe something
I ate I don't know anyway so that's it for this video thank you buddy for watching these are
things which are not in the Bible I don't think altar calls are biblical church conventions camps
conferences or at least acting like these things are necessary Bible colleges Bible commentaries
and study Bibles track currency canvassing youth ministries all this stuff on biblical so thank
you ready for watching God bless you and goodbye