My mom recently purchased me this tie and I absolutely love it.
I've always loved the game of basketball. My college coach
would always tell me to master the fundamentals
of the game and he always told me and the team that if we master the
fundamentals that we could go on and win national
championships. Some people say, well I'm not radical,
Matt. I'm not going to be a radical Christian. I'm just going to be kind of
lukewarm about what I believe and about going to church and about
telling others about the Lord. Just don't be a fundamentalist. You can have
faith in God, but don't be a fundamentalist Christian.
They're too judgmental. Look, you should embrace fundamental
Christianity at the foundation and hold on to the
fundamentals of the Bible. A lot of false religions out there will
spend time training and getting people developed for
outreach. They will do anything they can
to become skilled in the lies that they've learned.
Listen, we should do everything in our power to become skilled
in the Holy Scriptures, in God's Word, the Holy Bible. Don't let anybody tell
you for a minute that we should have a negative
connotation towards being fundamental about our faith.
The Bible says, Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write
unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto
you and exhort you that you should earnestly
contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.
The devil wants you to not take God seriously. He'll do
anything he can to keep you from being effective.
And that's why the world loves the fake Christianity of today, the modern
rock and roll fund center churches. He doesn't care what they do.
He cares more about shutting down and stopping and putting a halt to those
who stand on the fundamentals of the Bible. He
wants to shut them down because he knows that they are the ones that can be
effective, that they're the ones that are going to
knock doors, tell others about the Lord, that they're the ones that are going to
get local churches, local Baptist churches to grow.
And you should be a Baptist. I believe in being a fundamental Baptist.
John the Baptist in the Bible was not John the Catholic.
He was not John the Lutheran, John the Pentecostal.
John the Seventh-day Adventist. No, he was John the Baptist. When people say
fundamentalist Christianity, it's so dangerous. Yeah, it is dangerous
to falsehoods. It's dangerous to lies because it shines so much light against
the forces of evil and against darkness. Fundamentalism is not some poison. The
poison is watering down what the Bible says and making it out
like we shouldn't take it seriously. Yes, are there some really weird cults
out there that claim fundamentalism? Sure. Are there some bad apples? Absolutely.
But don't let them spoil the bunch. This world desperately wants you to
compromise. And they will be so happy if they can get you to compromise
because it will make them feel secure in their disbelief of the facts.
But if you take a strong stand and you do not compromise,
you're going to make a difference. And if you have compassion,
the Bible says, some having compassion making a difference.
You want to make a difference in somebody's life? Speak the truth in love.
But don't be afraid to open your mouth boldly
for the cause of Christ. I guess I don't really
care that much about what the whole world thinks. They can all declare me a
hate monger. But at the end of the day, I'm
only concerned about what Jesus thinks. I'm only concerned about what God
thinks of me. Thank you for taking the time to listen to this video.
And I hope that it's been a blessing to you. But more importantly than that, if
you are not sure that you're going to heaven when you die,
it is so important to get that nailed down.
Make sure to check out The Bible Way to Heaven. I have it linked on the channel
here. And it tells you about how you can know
that you'll go to heaven with our Savior, our Redeemer, Jesus the
Christ.