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Dylan Oz all right turn to Hebrews chapter 5 Hebrews chapter number 5 Hebrews chapter number 5 I'll start reading there in verse number 12 Bible reads for when the time you ought to be teachers you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat for everyone that uses milk is is unskillful in the word of righteousness for he is a babe but strong meat belongeth unto them that are of full age even though who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil let's pray Lord thank you so much for this opportunity to preach pray to give me a clear mind and sound words Lord I just pray to help me identify your people tonight in Jesus name I pray amen okay so this passage is often used to talk about babes in Christ and then as Christians we hear lots of preaching about babes in Christ and we often think that there's basically two stages of growth in the Christian life and that's being a babe in Christ and being a mature Christian but the title of my sermon tonight is spiritual teenage punks because I believe that there's a third you know growth in your spiritual life that not everyone hit some people just grow up you know everyone's a babe of course but you know I see a lot of spiritual teenage punks today and sometimes we even see those people in our movement I'm sure you guys would agree with that but you know these people aren't total babes you know like a teenager isn't isn't a child right they have some knowledge they have some characteristics of an adult they do some things that an adult does but obviously they have a lot of problems as well so I want to talk about three characteristics of a spiritual teenage punk turn to Galatians chapter 5 Galatians chapter 5 Galatians chapter 5 verse 19 now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions heresy so number one spiritual teenage punks are different for the sake of being different one of the words there that was listed was variance and that means that you're just constantly changing right and obviously we know as Christians you know we should be the same in the local church of course right you know we should be different from the world but these people they want to be different than spiritual leadership just for the sake of being different they want to be different than your friends just for the sake of being different Matthew 10 35 says for I am come to set a man at variance against his father and the daughter against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law so God has sent us to be variant but it's from a specific type of person it's from the unsaved it's from the ungodly it's from those that refuse to serve God but we shouldn't just be different than every single brother in Christ that we have you know that's a bad sign if every single you know opinion that your church has every single doctrine that your church holds to and you're just the one guy in the church is like well I'm different on that I'm different on how we go slowly I'm different on the Trinity I'm different on all these things obviously that's being variant and that's a sin Titus 2 14 says who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works you know if you want to stand out as being someone that's different why don't you stand out for being a great soul winner why don't you stand out as being just a man that's full of the spirit and that loves the brethren and that serves in the church and that submits yourselves to your pastor you know stand out from the world by the way that you live but don't stand out from just all the stupidity that flows out of your mouth you know because you're spiritual teenage punk and you can't submit to anybody okay Ephesians 4 1 through 3 you know I'm just gonna skip that just for for a lack of time so turn to turn to Proverbs 9 we'll be getting there in a little bit so number two spiritual teenage punks are know-it-alls and the reason I'm actually preaching this sermon is because the fool that pastor Jimenez and pastor Thompson kicked out of our church Sebastian Sandoval was like this now obviously I believe he's a reprobate and that he's not saved but he had a lot of these attributes of what I guess a teenage punk would have and I'm very thankful that they kicked him out of the church by the way as well but you know this guy just thought he knew everything the whole time going to our church he hadn't even read the Bible through cover to cover one time by the very end of him coming to church he said that he had read the Bible one time cover to cover and yet he wants to correct pastor Jimenez and all of his doctrine he wants to crack all the pastors in our movement on all of their doctrine and all the people in the church and all of their doctrine 1st Corinthians 8 2 says and if any man think that he know if anything he know if nothing yet as he ought to know so those of us that actually have read the Bible more than one time cover to cover and those of us that aren't a spiritual teenage punk you know we know that the more that we read the Bible we know that we know nothing as we ought to know you know and you see these pastors who have read the Bible through cover to cover just tens and scores of times these people aren't lifted up with pride about their knowledge you know the more that you read the Bible the more you realize that hey I don't know what I need to know so someone who's read the Bible through one time cover to cover and wants to say well pastor minutes doesn't know to go soul winning you know because I have a better way you're a fool you're an arrogant idiot in your spiritual teenage punk Psalm 131 1 says Lord my heart is not haughty nor mine eyes lofty neither do I exercise myself in great matters or in things too high for me you know it's like every time this guy got up on a men's preaching night sermon he had to preach some weird deep new truth out of the Bible that no one's ever heard of he's like hey did you know that the feeding of the five thousand was just a parable yeah that's how that sounds right you know his first sermon ever I believe he preached on Hebrews chapter 6 you know it's a bad sign and a young man when you cannot just preach any normal doctrine out of the Bible you know if you're new at preaching you know even even if you're not really that new at preaching why would you not be able just to preach what the Bible says why can't you just pick a doctrine and say hey I just want to get better at preaching and I'm just gonna preach on baptism I'm just gonna preach on soul winning I'm not gonna preach these weird just strange truths out of the Bible it's not it's not right and it's something we need to stay away from and obviously every pastor in this movement you know that can preach just amazing sermons they started out by preaching faithfully the milk of the word and just the basic precepts of the Bible number three spiritual teenage punks are rebellious I had you turn to Proverbs chapter 9 let me get there because just like a teenager is rebellious spiritual teenage punks are rebellious Proverbs chapter 9 verse 8 reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser teach a just man and he will increase in learning the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is understanding so when when teenage spiritual teenage punks get corrected it just goes in one year and out the other you know one of the things that this idiot was doing is when he was going so many he was refusing to ask people to preach the gospel he was asking he's refusing to ask permission and a very Baptist Church that's one of the things Pastor Mendez wants a soul winners to do is ask permission to preach the gospel you don't just walk up and start vomiting you know scripture out of people and he would as soon as they would open the door he'd stick in his foot in their door you know and he'd get up in people's face and he'd be a jerk and he'd be mean to people and you know he was corrected so many times and then he'd be like yeah okay I'll work on that you know and when I cracked over when someone else corrected him out soul winning Grammy brother Aaron and you know he'll he'll say okay I'll change that and then he'll go soul winning with brother Brandon and do the same thing like he was never who never corrected you know and he'll play like an idiot because a fool will not be instructed a fool you cannot teach them anything it goes in one ear and out the other and you know it doesn't matter how many times this guy had to be corrected he was just waiting to break the rules again and to despise authority again and just to be a fool again Jude 1 8 says likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh despise Dominion and speak evil of dignities you know no respect for authority this guy was kicked out of church told not to return to any church function functions the next day he shows up at the church nursing home ministry and I confront him and I'm trying to get him out of here he's like well pastor Menes isn't my pastor anymore so this whole time in church he obviously had no respect for the man of God no fear of God why because he was a spiritual teenage punk so if you see any of these attributes in a person you know it's it's very likely that you're dealing with a false prophet first of all and I just want to encourage everyone to report to your pastor when you see this kind of stuff you know that's one thing I definitely know that I did right in this situation and I was constantly updating brother Aaron about this kid's foolishness and you know you say oh you're a snitch this is not a prison this is a Baptist Church trying to fulfill the Great Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ you know stop being so weak that you do that you're unable to tell your pastor about what some fool is doing that's ruining your church all right let's pray Lord thank you for this day and take the opportunity to preach pray should fill the next man with your spirit Lord Jesus never pray Amen Phil Perry turning your Bibles to Jeremiah chapter 23