That I've thought about for several years and I never really did much about it
But I've had I've had several people at the door ask me
About it and so I decided to look into it and have you guys seen those billboards around that the 83
It's like 83 for truth is what it says on the billboard and it has stuff on there that says like
You know, concern Jesus can be trusted, where are you going, heaven or hell, losing faith
in God, call 83 for truth, you know, and, and it's just these, these billboards that
are around.
And I mean, some of them are, you know, you look at it and you're like, oh yeah, that's
kind of cool.
You know, like, it says value all children like Jesus did.
Jesus, the only way to God, God created the earth in six days.
I mean, there are some statements that they put on there that you can sit there and go,
well, yeah, I agree with that.
But are they actual Bible-believing Christians?
And so I decided to really look into it.
First scripture I want you to go to is 1 John, 1 John chapter 4, or 1 John chapter 4, verse
Go to first John chapter 4 verse 1 so I decided to look up their website and
It actually I was actually really surprised when I found out who did it it's done by a company called Christian aid ministries and
Christian aid ministries
Wasn't a company I was a or wasn't an organization I was aware of so I decided to look them up Forbes actually did a whole write-up on them
Founded in 1981, Christian Aide Ministries is a foreign aid outlet for Amish Mennonite and other conservative Anabaptist groups.
So that really surprised me.
I'm like, the Mennonites are putting up billboards.
about Jesus. It's like they're usually pretty low-key, so I was I was really
surprised. So in in 1st John chapter 4 verse 1 it says beloved believe not
every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false
prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the spirit of God every
spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God and
they've come in in the flesh is not God and you know what what the Bible's saying here is it's
telling us to try the Spirit it's telling us to test the Spirit so so anytime you run across any of
these Christian organizations you should be looking into them before you recommend them or or you
know talk them up at all or anything like that because you know they can say a lot of good stuff
But, but then when you actually look into them, are these people actually preaching the gospel and I'll tell you this right now, they ain't at all.
So...
If you go to their website, it actually talks about the Gospel Billboards.
In 2006, with a vision of Pointing America to Christ, this program is operated by Christian
Aid Ministries and founded solely by donations from our supporters.
Gospel Billboards post various Gospel messages along interstates and major highways and several
shopping malls across the United States.
Our goal is to point people to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
We believe God is no respecter of persons,
and whosoever believes in Jesus
and repents from their sins can have eternal life.
So there's some real problems right off the bat
with that Gospel where it's talking about repenting your sins.
So let's go to Jonah.
Let's go to Jonah.
Chapter three and I mean pastor just preached about this
But I thought I might as well take a swipe at it as I walk past it because this is
Definitely something that
You know, definitely something that's even in Baptist circles is really, really bad.
I mean, this whole repent of your sins salvation is nowhere in the Bible.
There is nowhere in the King James Bible that says repent of your sins, okay?
And so this concept that we have to repent of our sins or turn from our sins to be saved is a damnable heresy.
Okay because it is works and I don't want you to take my word for it. I want God to actually tell you
That this is works. Okay, and we're gonna we're gonna look look down Jonah chapter 3 verse 5
See because Jonah he went to Nineveh and preached to them
Right and and he kind of did a lackluster job of preaching. He didn't want to be there
Okay
And it looked down at verse 5, it says,
So the people of Nineveh believed God.
So what happened when Jonah preached the gospel to the Ninevites?
It says they believed God.
How do you get to heaven?
Belief.
It's all about believing in God, believing what he did for us,
putting all our faith and trust in him.
Go to verse 9.
And then, and then after this, after they believed, they decided, you know, and the king decided,
hey, we need to put on sackcloth and ashes. We need to stop doing this evil. And it says in
verse nine, it says, who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away his fierce anger
that we perish not? And you're like, well, okay, well, it says repent. Well, it's saying that God
So a lot of people will tell you every time in the Bible it says repent. It means repent of your sins
But does God sin?
So how can God repent if he can't sin and if he never sin and never will sin
Then how can God repent if the if the meaning of repent means to turn from your sin?
Okay, that doesn't make any sense because God can't sin, right?
So what does repent actually mean? Repent actually means to change your mind, okay?
See, when someone believes in the gospel, they're changing their mind from whatever they used to believe in to what the Bible actually says.
That's what repent means. It doesn't mean turning from your sin.
And so what it's saying here is it's saying, hey, you know what?
If we stop doing these wicked things, you know, they were already spiritually saved because they believe God,
but they weren't physically saved because they didn't stop doing what God told them to stop doing.
See, my kids, when I tell them to do something, right, and they don't do it, are they suddenly not my children anymore?
No, they're my children. Okay?
But if they continue to not do what I tell them, what's going to happen to them, they're going to get punished, right?
Okay?
So if I'm going to punish them, if they keep doing what they're doing, right?
That's bad, okay?
But if they don't do what I tell them to do, would I ever kill them?
That'd be stupid, wouldn't it?
Right?
It's the same with God.
When you put your faith and trust in God and you become a child of God, you know, you
can still do the wrong thing and God's going to punish you, but He's never going to send
you to hell.
Okay?
And that's exactly what's happened here is that these people are saved, they're going
to heaven because they believed in God, they believed in the message of salvation, but they're
basically saying, hey, I'm still going to exercise you on you what what I said I was going to do.
And then and then the leadership is saying who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn
away from his fierce, fierce anger that we perish not.
And they were doing sackcloth and assage. They stopped sinning. They stopped doing all these bad things.
And it said in Goss, God saw their works that they turned from their evil way.
And God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them and he did it not.
So what did God see in order for him to not destroy them?
He saw their works. So what is stopping... I mean, so...
So so when they stopped sinning when they turn from their evil way, what does God call that? He calls it works
Okay, that's cuz it is work
You it do you think it's easy to stop sinning do you think it's easy to well first off you can't stop sinning
There's no there's no way
But but just for you to start doing the things that God wants you to do. Do you think that's easy?
It's not easy. It's hard
Okay, now we should do it, you know, there's some things that I want my kids to do that are really hard and they don't want to do it
But you know what if they want to stay in my good graces, they're gonna do it
Okay, and it's the same with God and it is work
And so when people talk about repenting of your sins or turning away from your sin to be saved
What they're saying is that you need to work for your salvation and the Bible tells us over and over again
That it's not of works list any man should boast
So going to heaven has nothing to do with works. It has nothing to do with repenting of your sins
Whatever that even means. I mean no one can even really describe it for me. I mean, can you turn away from every sin?
It's impossible. Okay, so
This whole concept of repenting of sin or turning away from sin is not is not possible
So that's a big strike right there
go to Matthew 7.15 and I mean Jesus warned us that there would be people out
there that would come and they would look a lot like us and they would they
would even say some things that were good
You know, that Jesus values children. Amen!
Jesus values children, we should too, you know?
But does that mean that every single group or organization that espouses that belief is actually preaching the right gospel?
Absolutely not.
I mean, how many Catholics stand in front of
Planned Parenthoods and they don't have the right gospel?
They're not believing in Jesus for salvation.
They're believing in their works to get them to heaven.
It says right here in Matthew chapter 7 verse 15, it says, Beware of false prophets which
come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves, ye shall know them
by their fruits, do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles, even so every good tree
bringeth forth good fruit.
but a corrupt tree bringing forth evil fruit.
And you know, when we would go to these homeschool conventions,
there'd be a lot of these Mennonite, Anabaptist people there
because they all homeschool their kids and they have their own printing stuff and
we even bought some of their curriculum like, you know, like math and reading and stuff like that,
nothing that had anything to do with the gospel.
But you know, these people are unsaved, completely unsaved. You talk to them about salvation.
Most of them couldn't even give you any kind of clear gospel.
not, I mean, not even close. And then the other ones were all talking about repenting your sins.
They, I thought because there were Mennonites that they'd be using old Bibles. Most of them aren't
even using the new King James. They're using like ESV or someone were using the NIV. And I'm like,
and I'm like, you guys, you guys call your, I mean, like Mennonites, you think about, like,
people with the, with the beard and the old looking clothing and the stuff covering their hair and all
but they're using these wicked modern perversions and you're like that doesn't make any sense at
all I mean they weren't even king james only so so that that was also a red flag for me um
But these billboards and I've had people at the door ask me about these. Oh, is this something your church does?
You know, we should not encourage people to have anything to do with these. We shouldn't be contributing to them
We shouldn't be telling people to call them. We're not affiliated with them at all
They they're they're really pumping this stuff out and and I'm sure they're getting a lot of people calling them
But if you on their website, they've got like little snippets of people calling in and they're just giving them terrible information
especially about the gospel. I mean, they think you can lose it. It's just it's just ridiculous. And and so as Christians, we need to make sure that we try the spirit.
So we need to any organization that claims to be a Christian organization, we should be looking at their statement of faith. We should be looking at what they do.
And if they're not preaching the right gospel, we should not support them at all. Period.
Yeah, go go to Romans chapter 3 Romans chapter 3 because you know repenting your sins is works
That's just that's just what it is
And and the Bible says over and over again that it's not of works listed Eman should boast so
So let's just look at that real fast. These are a couple of my favorite verses for this
Go to Romans chapter chapter 4
Romans chapter 4 verse 4 or verse 5 it says but to him that work it not so so the person who's not doing any works
But to him that work it not but believe it on him to justify at the ungodly his
Works are counted for righteousness. No, his faith is counted for righteousness because it's the only way we're getting to heaven
We're not getting there by turning from our sin. We're not getting there by repenting. It's all about faith 100%
Because it can't be faith and works
Okay, it's either faith
Or it's works. And if it's works, it's not a faith and you ain't going to heaven because you're not getting there by your works
Because there's the only there's only one person in the Bible who is perfect and that was Jesus Christ and you ain't perfect
so
Back up a little bit to Romans chapter 3. This is another one that I love point now Romans chapter 3 verse 28
Therefore, we conclude. So Paul has done this whole long, whole long thing in the Bible talking about whether or not you have to work your way to God or not.
And then in chapter 3, right at the end of chapter 3, he says this, therefore we conclude. Is this, is conclusion the end of the, of the matter?
Is that the last thing? This is what we conclude, right?
Without the deeds of the law. So if I have faith in Jesus Christ and what he did for me
What he that he died for me and I confessed that with my mouth if I have faith in that
Guess what?
Then it's without works. All right, because you can't you can't mix works and faith
It's without the deeds of the law. I don't have to do any of the deeds of the law to get saved, you know
It's all about faith. You can't combine them and be careful about these organizations that do combine them
because they're really pushing heavy right now.
These groups and then other the Orthodox Christian groups are really pushing hard right now
and they don't have the right gospel, you know, they believe it works.
So let's go ahead and pray Lord. Thank you so much for this day
Thank you Lord that we can come here and listen to your word preached
I pray that you would just fill the next preacher with your spirit and have him preach bold in Jesus name. Amen
All right
chapter six for a sake of time. Thank you. Thank you pastor for allowing us men to preach.
I wasn't actually not going to preach today, but you know, God forbid we ever become a church where we're not provoking unto love and to good works.
Because works do have a place, right?
And church is supposed to be a place where we encourage one another to do good things for God. That's why we come here.
And it should be a place where you would discourage that.
And that's part of what gave me an encouragement to preach today when I wasn't going to.
I was kind of looking at my Bible to see the opening chapter this morning.
and brother uh brother alex has said oh you're gonna actually preach today because i said i wasn't
and then he's like ramon raise your hand so i so i did and i and i appreciate that because you know
again we should encourage one another to do that and i'm i'm talking about rewards today i'm preaching
about rewards and i know it's not a subject i know pastor touched on it this morning it's not
something that we think about much it's not something that i think about either when i go out soul
thinking about all the rewards i'm trying to get right it's not something that i believe that
most people do but it's okay if you do think about rewards because god talks about rewards
but when i go you know take the offering with brother temo i'm not asking about his rewards
portfolio like hey how's that how's that rewards portfolio going brother temo you know we don't
think about it from that perspective but the reality is the bible speaks a lot about the
Sermon is just inspired by the fact that I heard some garbage preaching about just the fact that no matter what you do
You're all we're all gonna get just get the same reward, right?
I'm just gonna read I told you to turn to Luke chapter 6. I'm gonna read Matthew 10 40
It says he that receiveth you receive with me and he that receive with me receive with him that sent me
He that receive of the prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward and he that receive of the righteous man in
The name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's
reward. So it does seem like what the Bible is showing here is that there's a couple different
types of reward here. If you receive a profit, you get a profit's reward. If you receive a
righteous man, you're going to get a righteous man's reward. But the kind of teaching that was
from this pulpit recently was, hey, it's the same reward.
You know, it doesn't matter, you're all getting the same reward.
But see, God gave us language for a reason.
You know, language is so that we could understand the words of the Bible.
It's not meant to be some sort of private interpretation for us.
And Luke chapter 6, look at verse 22, it says,
Lot of that's going on right now and when they shall separate
Separate you from their company like a lot of people like it's wanting to have nothing to do with the new IFP now
Right, they want to separate from your our company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil for the son of man
Say rejoicing in that day and leap for joy for behold your reward is great in heaven
For in the like manner did their fathers under the prophets
but see but don't be alarmed if you're somebody that's slacking and you're not doing anything for God
the reward's the same thing is you're gonna get the same reward you're gonna get that great reward
apparently according to this teaching but that's just garbage that's just a big steaming pile of
dung type of preaching because it's not the same reward great is your reward for if that were to
happen to you right it's not the same reward uh first Corinthians 3a says now he that planted
and every man shall receive his own reward according
to his own labor.
So your reward is based on your own labor, right?
And that's how it should be, right?
But does that mean that I judge another man's servant?
No, I don't judge another man's servant.
It shouldn't be that, like, you know,
somebody else goes quite a few days a week
like Brother Alex, you know,
and maybe I'm only going once a week
and then I'm mad at him
because he's going multiple times a week.
But the reality is is Alex will get rewarded
More than I would for the amount of times he goes and that would be a good just thing, right?
That system is like like pastor brought up this morning. That's in the world too
So it's not like the jokes on us that it's all the same reward. We just this everybody gets the same reward
Is this like Oprah Winfrey? Yeah, exactly like we all just get the same reward. No, it says it's according to your own labor
That means it depends on your labor. That's what according means. That's why God gave us language
That's why he gave us the ability to reason
and to understand the scriptures and to precept upon precept,
look at what the Bible is actually saying,
and not just try to be some slacker Baptist.
Now, if you wanna go to like burnt candle Baptist
or something, if you don't wanna serve God,
then that's your choice.
The Bible likens the things that we do
and the gifts that we could possibly get.
You have gold, silver and precious stones,
or you have wood, hay and stubble.
If you're gonna focus on hay in your life,
and the hay and the wood, hay and stubble
is what you're focused.
on, hey, I'm not hating on you. I still love you if you're my saved brother in
Christ, but don't hate the person that's wanting to do more for God. I mean, it
shouldn't be a place where a church shouldn't be where you discourage
somebody from doing the things of God, because that's what it would do. It would
discourage somebody from doing the things of God if you just thought nothing
you did was important. It was pretty meaningless. You could actually sit home,
watch it on YouTube, with the chips on your chest, right, and you're gonna get
the same reward as the person who's laboring.
every day. That's just garbage. This is just not what the Bible teaches, right?
It's not what the Bible teaches. 1 Corinthians 3-13, every man's work shall be made manifest,
for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire. The fire shall
try every man's work of what sort it is.
Vinnie Man's work abide which he hath built there upon he shall receive a reward see there's another if there
Okay, there's an if and it's depending on and according to your works
It's according to what you decide and choose to do now. Thank God we you know the baseline God is not willing that any
Should perish so he doesn't want anybody to go to hell
So he did make an easy way for us to go to heaven, right?
It I didn't have to do much to become my my father's son, right?
But it was very hard for me to be a good son
It was very hard, right? And I wasn't always a good son. I was actually a bad son in a lot of
respects. But see, with God, it's the same way. It's easy to get into his kingdom and to be his
son by believing on him, but it is hard still to be a good son. But the thing is, that's why he
rewards us for the things that we do, according to our own labor. That's what the Bible says.
Because look at verse the next verse in verse 15 of 1 Corinthians chapter 3 says if any man's work shall be burned
He shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved yet
So is by fire and there's so much Bible on all only why someone teaching you can just do nothing for God
And you get the same reward as someone who goes all morning every day only the devil would say that to a Christian
I think that only somebody very wicked would say that to a Christian that you just don't have to do anything
because Jesus, you look at the book of Revelation in Revelation chapter 2 says,
I know thy works and charity and service and faith and thy patience and thy works.
So it sounds like an emphasis on works there, right? And the last to be more than the first.
Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess.
So, this woman, she's already breaking a commandment because she's preaching to the church, and she's causing these people to sin,
which called herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication.
Because again, that's what the Bible calls us, it calls us servants.
And like Pastor said this morning, what does a servant do? A servant works.
That's what a servant is called to do. And so like the Bible says, what must I do to be saved?
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and not shall be saved. But it does say there's things that we
should do. There's things that we should do. And one of those things is we should have good works in our life.
It says, I gave her space to repent of her fornication.
Hey, to change her mind about thinking that it's okay to just fornicate.
And hey, there's a lot of churches that will allow people to be in their church as fornicators,
or as, you know, adulterers, or as people that are just in sin that should probably get them
removed from the church, right? According to the Bible. And God doesn't just say,
you all get the same reward. It's okay. It's just grace, grace, grace,
this hyper grace thing that's being taught out there in this church. And it says,
I gave her space to repent of her fornication, but she repented not.
Behold, I will cast her into a bed and then that commit adultery with her in a great tribulation
except they repent of their deeds.
Because see, to change your mind about what you do that's wrong and then start to do what
is right, God does want us to do that.
He wants us to repent in that way.
It's just, he made it easy for us to be saved because God is a loving God.
God is a loving God and he wants all people to go to heaven.
He doesn't want us to go to hell.
It says, and I will kill her children with death and all the churches shall know that
I am he which search at the reins and hearts and I will give unto every one of you according
to your works.
So he's going to give unto us according to our works in the form of rewards.
The Bible mentions it a lot, a lot.
And I'll just finish the last time reward is mentioned in the Bible's Revelation 2212
says, and behold, I come quickly.
And my reward is with me, and this is Jesus talking, to give every man according as his work shall be.
So this this the verses he was going to and this was taught is was the ones the parable of the vineyard
Where they had agreed with the laborers and you all know this I'm not gonna forsake a time
I'm probably getting close they had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, right?
But some of them came late some of them came early
Okay, some of them and so but look at that. It said a penny a day, right? So I'm not gonna like if if
Because brother Alex is retired and he could go soul-winning maybe for five hours in a day or something
You know, but maybe somebody who's limited or injured or you know, doesn't have still have their job to go to there
They're going one hour in that day. I'm not gonna just say oh, man
They're getting they might get the same reward as me because I shouldn't be thinking about it from that standpoint anyway
But it does say a penny a day anyway in this parable and and it still shouldn't be where you start
You preach out of this one parable that no matter what you do as
As a Christian, you could just slack and do nothing.
You get the same exact reward as somebody who's just zealously working hard for God.
Why just, you know, just show me that you don't love God by preaching that kind of way.
Right? Because the Bible says, Jesus said, if you love me, that's when you're going to obey my commandments.
So just show that you don't love God. Show that you want to go to Communist Baptist Church,
where just everybody, you know, you don't have to do anything. You just get the same reward,
you know, just so you could just be the biggest slacker in the whole building,
never, you know, barely go to church, and then God's just going to be like, hey, don't worry about it, man.
Hey.
life is a vapor so you might as well just love love yourself and live for yourself because
that's what most people do but hey that's their choice that's their choice to do that because
the reality is is even within a church there's usually the same people doing the bulk of the work
okay and they shouldn't do that because they think that they're gonna get more rewards or
because they're they're gonna be seen of men they do that I would hope this is because they love God
They want to serve God. They love God, and they don't want to be in a church that, you know, burnt candle Baptist, like I said.
You don't want to go to a church like that.
But if you do, hey, don't hate on the people that want to be in a church like ours,
where you actually have a shepherd that is exhorting you unto good works, right?
Paul said to follow him as he followed Christ.
Christ came as a servant who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but took upon him the...
took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of man. So he came here to serve.
He worked harder than everybody, right? And that's the example that he gave us. He didn't give us
the example to just sit and do nothing and then just expect the same reward.
it's ridiculous. So let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you Lord for the word of God,
that it could be clear for us in our understanding of the things that we should do for you because
we love you. I just pray that we would always have a heart to serve you in this church and to do
good works, Lord, in your name. And thank you Lord that salvation is alone by faith and that
we're saved by your grace. Please fill the next preacher of the Holy Spirit in Jesus' name. Amen.
Second Peter 2-1, second Peter 2-1.
Thank you, pastor, for having men's preaching night.
And especially when the youngsters come out to preach
is always great when the Harrington lads are preaching.
I love that.
I would rather listen to the Harrington lads,
read from the Bible, and give minimal commentary
than some false prophet.
going on for hours and hours and hours with all this mumbo jumbo that you're like what is he saying
because it's all twisted and contorted and he's taking those lies and hiding it and wrapping
it around inside the truth and uh
And that's why I had you turn it to 2nd Peter 2-1, but remember pastor last Thursday asked well
what are what are some corrupt bad churches in Vancouver and I knew them but I just didn't speak up but one of them for sure is
Vancouver landmark
Missionary Baptist Church on Northeast
133rd and the pastor is Doug Barnett who is totally a false prophet and I'll show you that in my sermon
And so, 2 Peter 2-1, the Bible reads,
But there were false prophets also among the people,
Even as there were false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresy,
Even denying the Lord that bought them.
and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
So we know false prophets are reprobates.
They're once, just like save people are once saved,
always save reprobates are once reprobate,
always reprobate.
And the damnable heresies are the kind of heresies
that send people to hell.
Like brother Sean was preaching, you know,
if you believe you got to turn from your sins
to go to heaven, that's a damnable heresy.
And that's what keeps people from going to heaven.
And then consider the word privily, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies and the word privily means like secretly or within private, you know, like maybe just one person to another person, but then this false prophet wouldn't necessarily be saying these things in a general crowd.
And it also means hidden.
And so false prophets are often hiding under the name of Baptists.
There's many Baptist churches and when you go on their website, it's return from your sins,
follow Jesus, surrender your life to Jesus, and all these Daniel heresies.
And so, you know, they're not saved. They're not sons of God.
Ye are bastards and not sons of God.
And so the title of my sermon is Landmark Missionary Bastard Church.
Their mission is to send people to hell. Our mission is to get people saved and
So you go on their website and it's KJV only and the old hands and three per week. So so far so good, right?
salvation and then there's articles of faith and
Under the salvation is free. It says we believe that the blessings of salvation are made free to all the gospel
That is in the immediate and that it is the immediate duty of all
to accept him by a cordial, penitent, and obedient faith.
So, I mean, just that there is kind of slippery too,
because it's like, well, it is our duty once we're saved
to be obedient to him and to want to turn from our sins.
But it sounds like they're kind of mixing it in
with the salvation too.
And so, I wouldn't necessarily say
that's damnable heresy by itself, but it's getting close.
Because if you think about it, the word penitent, the definition is, you know,
sincerely affected by a sense of guilt on account of sins and resolving on
amendment of life and repenting of sins. And so penitent and the Catholics use
that a lot and it means turning from their sins.
Okay, so and also in their article of faith, there's a section on grace and regeneration it says to be saved sinners must be regenerated
Yeah, that's what the Bible says. Yeah, okay, and but then it says that it's proper evidence appears in the holy fruits of repentance faith and newness of life
And and so well repentance in the Bible does say that we need to repent and turn from our false belief of trusting in ourselves and our own works
And the Bible says, repent ye and believe the gospel, which means believe in the free gift.
So the word repentance in the context of spiritual salvation is change your mind from the wrong
thing you're believing into putting all your trust in Jesus. But this says the proper evidence
appears in the holy fruits of repentance, faith, and newness of life. And so just like a lot of
Calvinists, this is saying that once a person is saved that there's going to be some change in their
and and then the the section on repentance and faith we believe that
repentance and faith are all are inseparable graces and so that's pretty
much the same thing as that other paragraph where they're saying if a
person's saved they're gonna have the works
And that's just a backdoor way of putting works on to the gospel.
Because then you'll say, well, what if a person doesn't have the works?
Then they'll say, well, then he wasn't saved.
Well, so then you have to have works to be saved.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
It's faith. You're saved by faith alone.
But then you'll have the works.
But then if you don't have the works, well, then you weren't saved.
Because then you're saying you're saved by faith.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
And so in their mind, they cannot resolve that simple logic.
And because they've heard some false prophet preaching that for so long that they just take it for like, okay, yeah
So here's a the righteous and the wicked contrasted it says whereas all such as continuing
Impendance and unbelief are in his sight wicked and under the curse
And so again, you know, if you don't turn from your sins, then you're still under the curse which in the Bible is talking about hell
And
so
You know this they're very slippery in their wording and I think they do that purposely and and so it's like you're like
Yeah, it's pretty sure it's a false church, but you know, can you really be that sure and
so interestingly enough we had actually knocked Doug Barnett's door a couple of years ago and
We talked to him and and it was the usual. Oh, yeah, you're saved by faith alone
But you got a turn from your sins
Or he said, you know, stuff like you have to make Jesus the Lord of your life, you got to surrender your life to Jesus, and that's all works.
And then we asked him about, well, do you believe in eternal security? Once saved, always saved. He says, oh, yeah, yeah, you can never lose your salvation, you know, as long as you keep following God.
And so these are the things that we usually hear,
but here was one that was kind of unusual.
He also said that, well, for some people,
believing is enough, but other people, it's not.
And what he was saying is like,
if a person was relatively clean and free from sin,
then that person just believing was enough
because he didn't really have to turn from his sins.
But if you were like, you know,
some sort of drug dealer or gang lord or, you know,
Total wicked deprived person then you would have to turn from your sins to be saved
So it's like yeah, that's interesting. So for some people you have to turn from sins, but other people don't have to turn from sins and
So now turn in Matthew 714 Matthew 714
Because straight is the gate and narrows the way which leadeth unto life and few be there
Find it and so we get to heaven by what we believe and that verse is saying and we have to believe very narrowly
You've got to believe in the free gift of everlasting life
You can't believe that your works have anything to do with it because then you're believing damnable heresy and
in verse 15, beware of false prophets.
Those are the ones that teach the damn old heresy,
which come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Ye shall know them by their fruits."
Now there's two ways of interpreting this fruits.
You know, one is like, do they get people saved?
Do they have converts?
And you know, is that person actually saved or not?
because these false prophets are very slippery and they can kind of bamboozle you and you're like,
I don't know, is this guy saved or not? But if you talk to one of their supposed converts,
they're not that slippery. They're just going to tell what they believe. And so if that convert's
not saved, you know, then that person was preaching into him a false gospel. Now, the other way the
word fruits can be interpreted is like fruits of the lip, like the words we speak. And there's
verses that talk about the fruits of the lip. And now turn to Matthew 3.8. And I think this is also
that applies of the fruits of the lips. And this was when the Pharisees had come to John the Baptist.
I'll start reading in verse 7.
But when he saw he's talking about John the Baptist many of the Pharisees and the Sadducees come to his baptism
He said unto them old generation of vipers who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come
Bring forth for therefore fruits meet for repentance and and so what this is saying is
is John the Baptist is saying, well, if you're really a saved person, you're going to be able to
speak the words and tell me what it means to be saved, that it's a free gift. Just like when we
go door to door, we ask people, well, if a person asks you, how do you get to heaven? What would you
tell them? And so John the Baptist is saying, you know, tell me what you think it takes to be saved.
Bring forth the fruit's meat for repentance.
Because, you know, I think a lot of times these false prophets, they can hide, they're very good at refraining themselves, just like Haman, the reprobate, refrained himself, and so if a person is talking to him and they know the truth, oftentimes they'll lie.
I think they'll say the right words that correspond to the true gospel, but they really don't believe it.
And so in closing the application here is there is a lot of corrupt Baptist churches out there
I mean I I think way way way more corrupt ones than good ones
And so when we're out at the door and we're talking to people, you know
We need to make sure we warn them that you know
It's obvious that the Catholics and the Mormons and the Jehovah's and the Lutherans and the Methodists and the Pentecostals and the Seventh-day Adventists
I mean these guys are just very open
with their false prophet and their false gospel. But the Baptists can be very subtle. There's a
lot of them there, Calvinists are reformed, and people need to be careful about churches and whether
or not that pastor's actually saved or not. And so in that I'll close. Dear Heavenly Father,
thank you for the opportunity to preach in our church here, and I pray that this message can
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James chaper number four before I get going. I just wanted to ask everyone on your free time if you could just remember a
Little girl named Faith from Idaho. She's pray for her and her family about a week ago
She suffered a terrible accident. If you want to talk to my sister after the service
She knows all the details. It was a bad car accident
You know, but you know things happen like that all the time
Um, I'm kind of taking that event and I just wanted to preach on the reality of death, you know, things happen
You hear stories all the time about
People walking down the street and just getting hit by a car or something
You know, they are just minding their own business. They have their airpods in or something and they get hit by some drunk driver
Just walking down the road. They're not even paying attention and
I just want to preach on just the reality that death can strike at any moment whether you're saved
or not. I just want to encourage people to reach out to your friends and family.
Whether they're saved or unsaved, reach out to all your loved ones, especially the ones that
aren't saved. You know, everybody has, the clock is ticking on everybody. We don't know when we're
When you realize that no one is promised tomorrow,
you really, the sobering thought of death
really becomes a reality.
It can strike at any moment.
Again, it doesn't matter if you're saved or not.
We're here for just a moment and we're gone the next.
James chapter 4, look at verse 14.
Whereas, you know,
not what shall be on tomorrow.
For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little and it vanishes away. Just like I said
we all have a ticker and
We don't know when it's gonna stop whether you're saved or unsaved turn the first Thessalonians chapter number four
So, hold on to your loved ones.
Reach out to people that you haven't reached out to for a long time, especially, you know,
for me, I have my mom back in California, she's unsaved, and I feel like God is giving
her almost every opportunity on the planet to just listen to the gospel.
I know there's people, I'm sure everybody in this room have old friends, family that
aren't saved.
How long they have left? You don't know if they could get in the car tonight and a
Drunk driver hits them or something. You just don't know
You know, you can see someone or be or be talking to someone on the phone and a minute later
They're just gone. So we don't know
Everybody we just don't know
Anybody could be gone at any moment. You're there in 1st Thessalonians chapter number 4
Look down at verse number 13. It says, but I would not have you to be ignorant brethren
Concerning them which are asleep and we understand the people who are asleep here are the people who are saved
They've passed on and gone with the Lord that you sorrow not
Even as others which have no hope for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again
Even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. Look us as saved people. We have a blessed hope
We know exactly where we're going. We have a hope in Jesus Christ
We have a place a home in heaven to look forward to but what does the Bible say in verse 13?
It says that people have no hope. There's people out there that have no hope
There's people out there that aren't saved
They don't know where they're going when they die.
They may think they're going to heaven, maybe, but they believe in a false gospel.
They believe in repentance of sin for salvation.
They're trusting on their works to get to heaven.
They have no hope, the Bible says.
So we need to reach out to those people.
We need to clear up things with people.
It says they have no hope.
And all of all the people on the on this planet that are lost have no hope
according to the Bible and think about it.
Look, we have all kinds of people in the world with some of the most bizarre beliefs.
You know, there's people out there that their only hope is being reincarnated.
They want to come back as some sort of mountain goat or some sort of heifer or something.
These people are crazy.
You know, people come up with the most bizarre things.
Being in eternity with surrounded by 12 virgins or something you know these people are nuts like the Mormons
They actually believe stuff like that like they're gonna have their own little planet like their own little personal Epstein Island or something these people are nuts
but
That just goes to show that people out there in the world. They believe in the most bizarre things
They have no hope think about it all those things. I just listed. What's missing? What is missing?
Christ
There is no hope in Jesus with any of those things being reincarnated and coming back as some animal
being surrounded by
12 versions or whatever whatever these crazy Mormons believe it's nuts. It is nuts. They have no hope, you know
It's a bunch of bizarre, weird doctrine, weird beliefs that people have.
Again, where's the comfort in any of that?
You know, some of us in here, they're like, man, the Mormons are pretty crazy.
You know, when you think of, you know, David and Solomon in the Bible, it's like, man.
How do they have multiple wives? I got hardly handle one at home. It's you know, it's pretty crazy. These guys are nuts
But hey, you know and the Mormons actually, you know something, you know
There's some factions of Mormons that actually still still operate that way. They're they're crazy
I don't know how they do it. I don't know how these guys want to spend an attorney eternity like that
Pretty crazy pretty crazy
So and they're you know, there's a there's a lot of reality reality checks coming for people when they die
especially unsaved people I could I could come up with a few
But before I get there Psalm 139 verse 8 says if I ascend up in a heaven
Now are there if I make my bed in hell behold thou are there again for us who know the Lord
For us who know the Lord we have a hope in eternity of a better and more heavenly kingdom
We have a hope the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5
I'm kind of paraphrasing but to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord
Of course, that's that's true for the same people. We're gonna be present with the Lord in his comfort
But that's also true for the unsaved person. They have a big reality check coming, you know
It says the people who go to hell there
They're torment the smoke of their torment is set it up forever and ever it says they have no rest day or day nor night
I remember what it also says that they're gonna be in the presence of the lamb
Yeah, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord
For saved people, you're in comfort.
But for the unsaved, you're in torments.
And the Lord is there.
You're in the presence of the Lamb, burning in the lake of fire.
And again, I could think of a couple people who just died recently that are wailing in
the nationalities and the reality check hit them as soon as they breathed their last breath
and opened their eyes in torments like the rich man in Luke 16.
The first one I could think of is John MacArthur.
I mean, I'm kind of beating the horse.
You know, you just heard a sermon a couple of weeks ago
that Pastor Thompson preached about John MacArthur
roasting in hell.
Yeah, the guy who says that it's hard,
it's difficult to get to heaven.
Yeah, that guy's roasting in hell.
If you actually really believe,
well, I mean, we all know he believed that.
He preached, he was a big Calvinist.
Come on, he's definitely wailing in the national teeth.
How about Ozzy Osbourne?
You know, I know there's some conflicting things about that guy, you know, I've heard I've tried to dig in and see videos of like
Oh, did he actually believe the gospel or something? I can't really find anything honestly
You know, you spend your entire life in the rock and roll music industry
building this persona of you being a devil worshiper you have people calling you that
What is the prince of darkness people calling you Satan and you love it you you build your whole life
you build your whole life around that image there's some reality TV show some
years back of him just being a devil trying to put a light on his family oh
they're just normal people and they're not normal people a lot of these
Hollywood and music industry weirdos that's what they are they're weirdos
there's a reason why they
They have success in the world.
There's a reason why Ozzy Osbourne loved to be surrounded by darkness.
What does the Bible say about people who love darkness rather than light?
They love the darkness because their deeds are evil and I'll tell you what Ozzy Osbourne was definitely an evil person.
There's no doubt about that.
And I guarantee you I mean again, maybe I can't guarantee. I don't really know his testimony
I don't think he has one really, you know, I've seen some videos
I sent does send Pastor Tom does send you that one video. Yeah, the guy's like, oh, yeah
He heard the gospel, but you listen to video
There's nothing about the gospel just about how he had to buy him a Bible that he could understand because it sounded like the guy
Try to give him a King James
Oh, I can't read this. I can't understand what it says.
So we got to give him like an NIV or ESV or something.
Oh, I can understand this.
Wow.
It has all the audio has my name on the Bible.
That's so cool.
Like that's the gospel.
That doesn't make any sense.
That makes no sense.
You're still there in 1st Thessalonians chapter number four.
Look at verse number 14.
Well, we read it for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them
Which are asleep again asleep there the people who are saved
Passed on there with the Lord
and look where it says in verse 16 for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with the shout
with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first
verse 17 and then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air so shall we ever be with the Lord this is the rapture and it says
wherefore comfort one another with these words so we're seeing here in the bible the people who
The Bible is promising that we're going to see them again.
There's a hope for saved people.
But the thing is, we all have a ticker.
We're all going to pass on.
Let's comfort one another with these words
that we're going to see each other again someday.
And that's why, that should be motivation to get other people in our lives saved.
We go out in the community to preach to the loss, to get people saved.
And one of the last things I always tell someone at the door, just to recap, hey, so if someone
else comes to your door after this and they ask you, hey, are you 100% sure you're on
your way to heaven?
What do you say?
And they say, yes, okay, why?
Well, because he gave me the free gift of eternal life.
Alright, well, if I never see you again here on this earth and this life, where for sure will I see you?
I say heaven. Amen.
That's that hope that they know, hey, I may never see you again, but I know for sure I will see you when we're all dead and gone.
Again, because someday, you know...
We may never see our loved ones again on this earth. We need or our friends
We need to make sure that we're there. Yeah, you don't want to beat them over the head with it
You know, I know for my mom. She probably doesn't want to hear it every single week, but
Some people, you know
The right moment's never the right moment, right
So, we're all going to be together with the Lord someday.
That's a good hope.
But we only us who are saved have that hope.
The rest of the world don't have that hope.
And we need to comfort one another with these words.
But again, until then, reach out to your friends, your old friends, your loved ones.
You may never see them again.
They may never see tomorrow.
You know, people go to sleep and just don't wake up.
It's crazy. Like, their heart stops when they sleep. I mean, that just happened, I guess, to
Hulk Hogan. I mean, I pray that he is saved. That'd be really cool to see Hulk Hogan in heaven,
you know? That'd be really cool. That'd be really cool. Well, look, again, that's why we preach the
gospel to others. That's why we go out in the community. And that's why I ask people that
after I'm wrapping up the gospel with them, hey, if I never see you again, where for sure will I
Again, that's the reality of death. It could strike at any moment, doesn't matter if you're saved,
unsaved, all of us are going to pass away someday. All right, let's pray. Dear Lord,
I just thank you for this opportunity to preach in front of this congregation. Lord,
I just ask that you fill the next preacher with your Holy Spirit and I pray for the preaching.
Fill him with your word, Lord. Give him the words that you'd have him to speak. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
I turn to Exodus chapter 5, Exodus 5. So quickly pray Lord is filming for spirit and we preach a
good short message and uh
Educate the people just now I pray him and well not I guess the theme of tonight's was works
I think everyone brought it up
Not to beat the twice dead horse again, but I'm talking about John MacArthur
I was uh, I was listening to the Bible and audiobook I'm blue-toothed I hearing protection
It's helped me pass the time and exes 5 came up
And if you've read x is five it is
pretty obvious what they're talking about. This is the first time Moses asked Pharaoh
if they could go and leave. And he doesn't ask them if they could permanently leave. He does
starts out going to go three days into the desert and sacrifice unto the Lord, lest he fall upon
us with pestilence. And this is the first time they asked Pharaoh if they could leave. And Pharaoh
answers, wherefore do you, Moses Aaron, let the people from their works get ye
get you unto your burdens. And this, of course, is a very strong reference to what I've heard,
is the modern-day hamster wheel Christianity of you just back on that wheel, just keep going,
keep going, and you're getting nowhere. You're getting nowhere with that. That was actually,
I got that from the Calvinism documentary on all the preaching. I think that's where it came from,
Pharaoh is offended that these people letting these people go out into the promised land and he accuses them of being idle and
There is and
Pharaoh said and behold the people of the land now are many and he make them rest from their burdens and
Pharaoh commanded the same day to task-raxers of the people
And their officers saying, ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick as heretofore, let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Skip a little bit, ye shall not diminish hothereof, for they be idle.
And therefore they cry saying, let's go and sacrifice them to the Lord.
He goes over and over again, complaining how they are idle, that they need to get back
to work.
And of course, that idleness would be salvation, it's no secret that—
The the modern-day Sabbath the day of rest is is Christ that when we
Is a picture that that the Sabbath is Christ that the rest and go into the promise on salvation
that is
Kind of the whole exodus is just a big picture of salvation right there
And so he lays this task on them of this impossible tasks and they they bring it up later
It said there is no straw given unto a servant and the saith has make brick and behold the servants are beaten
but the fault is in thine own people and
Pharaoh said your idol your idol therefore you say let us and go and do sacrifice again
The picture is Pharaoh's just keeps on putting burdens saying you guys are idle you have to do works
You know, you can't rest you can't take rest in the Lord
You have to do works and of course one of the John MacArthur is famous
Doctrins he teach was Lordship Salvation this idea of well you got to have the works or else you're not saved or you're never saved
of course, this would be Pharaoh and
Going into the promised land of course is a picture of salvation
when they went into and
A lot of these people in in the story right now would never actually see the promised land and they didn't see it not see it a
Promise lane because of their failure to do work works
You know
They didn't make enough bricks and never Moses, you know said you can't enter the promise land
I still get a hundred thousand bricks for Pharaoh. No in
In numbers 2012 is why they were
Never allowed into the promised land into the rest and the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron
Because you because you believe me not he had a hit the rock instead of speaking unto it
Very clearly. Let me repeat that because you believe me not
To sanctify me in the eyes of children of Israel therefore you shall not bring this congregation into the land
just proving that they were not allowed into the promise and not because they
were idle but because they believed they did not believe God. Another verse I was
thinking of was in Hebrews and to whom swear he that they should not enter
So we see that they cannot enter in because of unbelief just showing that
Going to the promising and going to Canaan's land was always a picture of salvation. It was always they would
even like
They had sat they built that
Golden calf and we're dancing around it. That's not why they were not allowed
They were not allowed. They were even doubting Moses and questioning Moses
With the manna when they're complaining about the manna from heaven. They were still I think at that point allowed in it was because
of their unbelief that they were not allowed in and
so of course
Yet idleness
A lot of people accuse us of being idle. That's not the case.
We're not idle. If you heard in the apartment complexes of three-story stairs, we're not idle in our salvation.
We do a lot of work.
So,
but people who accuse us of
idleness and
I'd say to that, I mean
Yeah
That's that's kind of the point of Christianity is the modern Sabbath is rest in Christ. We are resting in our works in the finished works of Christ that it's like, yeah, so yes, we're idle, I guess, I'll take that.
Thank you for noticing that I'm trusting in Christ work for salvation, not my own.
There are no longer around would rather you just lay burdens on you
This is in Romans 7 5
For when we're in the flesh the motions of our sins which were by the law
Did work and our members to bring forth fruit unto death and again that the picture that the Hebrew children
in making
Bricks of straw they were going nowhere. They were you've heard the phrase working yourself to death
They were they were banging the law of in this case pharaoh and that law would just minors
Would just lead them to endless endless toil and ultimately
Working themselves to death which?
of course, instead of believing God and being able to be able to enter into Canaan's land,
the promised land, the...
They would minister unto death. Very short sermon. Of course everyone here already knows that don't listen to John MacArthur
Fortunately due to modern streaming platforms, you will be dealing with his acolytes and
His followers for forever nothing on the internet's ever gone. So that's unfortunate, but uh, fortunately
You know, we don't have to listen to him.
So with that, let's look forward to pray.
Lord, let's see you bless all the preachers this morning, this afternoon.
Let's see you bless the singing, and Jesus, never pray, amen.
Yeah, I'm touching on what Brother Jesse was saying.
This doesn't happen often, but when someone will argue with you
about how, because you are preaching a faith-loan gospel,
that you don't want to do the work,
it's like, well, I just came out in the sun
and walked up these three stories to your apartment,
and you're not in your church clothes on Sunday,
and you're telling me that I'm not doing the works.
It's a very interesting perspective you have.
page 19 in the red of the green. There is a fountain.
And sinners plunge beneath that plot,
Lose all their guilty stings,
The world's all the guilty stains, The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day.
I'll show my sins away, I'll show my sins away.
And there may I go all who see, I'll show my sins away.
And some church of God be saved to sin no more.
Be saved to sin no more.
There stands my faith, I saw the stream, Thy flowing wounds supply.
Redeeming love has burned my feet.
And shall be till I die.
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.
Then in a noblah sweeter song,
When this poor this being, stumbling tongue,
Lies silent in the grave.
When this poor this being, stumbling tongue,
Full Grieve. Amen. Brother Drew, can you close this with a prayer?