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Now in this chapter, in Galatians chapter 4, and really the whole book of Galatians, but the part that we're focusing on here in chapter 4 and part of chapter 5, Paul is dealing with a problem that happened in this church in Galatia. What happened was there was a faction developing in the church that was teaching a works type of a salvation. They were trying to, and it wasn't all works, it was kind of a faith plus works, you know. They were saying, well, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ is great, but you also have to be circumcised. Or, well, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ is wonderful, but in order to be saved, you also have to keep the law. And Paul here is writing this epistle to deal with that and saying, no, we're not in bondage under the law. We are saved by grace, through faith. Jesus paid it all. All the MIO's sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. He said, we are not the children of the bondwoman. We're the children of the promise. What promise? And this is the promise that he had promised us, 1 John 2.4, even eternal life. In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. That whosoever believeth in him, John 3.15, should not perish, but have eternal life. And so the gospel is whosoever believeth. But there is a faction developing here. There was a group that was infiltrating the churches there that were teaching people that they had to follow the law of Moses and to be circumcised in order to be saved. Now any time you add anything to the gospel, as it said in chapter 5 there, you make it of none effect. He said, if you're adding circumcision, now the gospel is of none effect. Now Christ is no effect. You're not even saved. He said, if it be of grace, then is it no more works? Otherwise, grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace? Otherwise, work is no more work. You can't mix the two. It's either free or it costs you something. It's either grace or it's works. It's either faith, belief, or it's the works of the flesh. But he said here an interesting statement. Look at the end of the chapter here. In Galatians 4, verse number... Let me find the place where I want to start reading. Verse number 28. Now we brethren, Galatians 4 and 28, as Isaac was, are the children of promise? But as then, he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit. Even so it is now. Nevertheless, let's take the scripture and watch this part. Cast out the bond woman and her son, for the son of the bond woman shall not be heir with the son of the free one. So then brethren, we are not children of the bond woman, but of the free. And then look at Galatians 5 and I'll get into the sermon. It says, this persuasion cometh not even the call of you, a little leaven, leaveneth the whole lot. Now I want to preach to you this morning on the subject of the local church. And really this is kind of a doctrinal sermon. Maybe something that I would usually preach on a Sunday night, but I kind of mix things up all the time. And so we're preaching this morning on the subject of the local church. Let me start out by saying this. The local church is the assembly, the congregation, the Bible calls it, of believers. You see, the unbeliever and the believer, they don't have any part together. And what happens is, when church becomes a place filled with unbelievers, that leaven will begin to leaven the whole lot. That will destroy the unity of the local church. One of the most important things about church is the unity. Who's ever heard this word? Fellowship. Put up your hand, you know that word? A lot of times we use that word, but we don't fully understand it. We think of fellowship as, oh, after the service we're going to eat sandwiches and spend time together. Fellowship is talking about something that I have in common with you. That's what fellowship means. I mean, if we're going to have fellowship, we're going to have something in common. We have a common ground. We have a certain unity that brings us together. Now, nobody's exactly the same. There are all different people in this room that come from all different backgrounds and different upbringings, different nations. Some people were not even born in the United States. My wife was raised in Germany, and I was raised in California, and different people are from Chicago, from Toledo, Ohio, wherever the case may be. But there's one thing that gives us fellowship. There's one thing that gives us unity, and that is our belief in Jesus Christ as our Savior and the fact that we believe that every word of God is pure. Hey, that brings us together. That gives us fellowship. That gives people different races, fellowship with one another, different financial classes can have great fellowship with one another, and unity together on the common ground of the Word of God. See, this house is built upon a rock, and that rock is Jesus Christ, and it can withstand all the different torrents that will attack us, the rain, the storm, the flood of this world. Hey, we have this rock of the Bible on which to anchor our soul, and that's where we derive our unity. Now, the early church in Jerusalem had unity. Remember in Acts 2 verse 1 where the Bible said when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place? But you can't have unity. Listen to me, this is a very doctrinal sermon. You can't have unity in a church that's filled with unbelievers. It's not unity. What fellowship hath light with darkness? What part hath Christ with Belial? What part hath he that believeth with an infidel? He said, Wherefore, come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord. And text not the unclean thing, and I will receive you and I will be a father of you, and ye should be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord. The whole point of church is a congregation that's separate from the Word. It's born-again, baptized believers who set themselves apart and they assemble together apart from the world, and the only way that church can have unity is if it's filled with believers. I mean, it seems basic, but these are the things that aren't believed or taught anymore. Because you understand that people have begun to gear church toward the unbelievers. Their goal is to bring in the unbeliever. Let's bring in the unbelievers into church. Now, it sounds great on the surface, but we're going to see this morning that it's not what the Bible teaches. It sounds wonderful to say, Man, let's get these unbelievers in here and get them saved, right? Hey, that sounds great. Let's bring in all the unbelievers we can and get them saved, right? It sounds great. Wrong. You're missing the point here. The Bible says, and if you would notice what he says in verse number four, chapter verse three, he says, Nevertheless what saith the spirit, cast out the bondwoman in her sight. Now, this parable, he's teaching them, you need to get rid of this element that's crept into your church that's teaching work of salvation. That's what he's saying. I mean, you've got to get the context of the story. He describes how people are bringing in false teaching. He says, get them out. They can't compare it with you. This is not going to produce unity. This is not going to produce a oneness of spirit in your church. Now, I've often said this about faithful Word Baptist Church. This is a church of unity. Now, is this church perfect? No. But I'll tell you the one word that describes our church is unity. I mean, there aren't any factions in our church. I mean, in our church, we have a group of people who, I mean, think about when we went down to Gila Bend. Look how many people went down there. Everybody will oversee, went down there, worked hard, and we had a great group down there of winning souls all day long. Why? Because they have a unity of purpose. Everybody in this church loves to win souls. Everybody believes the Bible is the Word of God. Everybody believes salvation by the grace of God. That is what church is supposed to be all about. Fellowship. Unity. Now, he says here, you can't have the believer and the unbeliever together worshiping together in church. It doesn't work. Now, you say, were you against unbelievers coming through? No, not at all. The Bible talks about in 1 Corinthians 14 that sometimes an unbeliever will come into church. But notice, it's the exception. I mean, an unbeliever comes in, and boy, he sees, hears the preaching, and wow, he's convinced of all. And you know what? We are constantly winning through the Lord before and after the service. You know, visitors are coming. We'll talk to them before the service, after the service, try and get them saved. Wonderful! But is our church geared toward unbelievers? Are we trying to create an atmosphere to fill our church with unbelievers? No, we're not. You see, when the unbeliever comes in to faith or Baptist church, he's outnumbered. Because 90% of the people here are going to be saved, born again, and so have God. And that's where we get our unity. But look, if you would, at Ephesians chapter 4, and look at verse number 12. Ephesians chapter 4, you're in Galatians, just go back to one book, or I'm sorry, toward the end of your Bible, Ephesians chapter number 4, and we're going to see this taught very clearly in the Bible. In Ephesians chapter 4, verse 12, the Bible reads, For the perfecting, I'm sorry, verse 11, And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints. So what is the purpose of the pastor and the teacher? To perfect the saints, right? It says, For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. So what's the purpose of church here? What's the purpose of pastors and teachers? To build up God's people, the saints, Christians. Look at the next verse. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we henceforth be no more children. Notice it's all about us. Do you see that? That we, henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men, and cunning crappiness whereby they lie and wait to deceive. But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ. From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supply, according to the effectual working and the measure of every part, make an increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. Do you see that? The church's purpose is to edify itself, to build itself, to build God's people, to build Christians, to build believers. You see, when I get up and decide what I'm going to preach on Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night, I'm not thinking about, oh, this will be great for unbelievers. Wow, this will be great for the visitor that might come. Wow, somebody told me a visitor's coming. This will be great for them. I don't hear the sermon toward unbelievers. I don't hear the sermon toward the visitors. Hey, I hear the sermon toward the church that God told me to hear. If God gave this church a pastor to edify the saints, to build up the body of Christ, to perfect the saints, to do the work of the ministry, that's what I'm going to do. Now, you'll not come to this church and find me every Sunday morning preaching salvation, salvation. And believe me, there are many independent Baptist churches today where you go to the sermon and every Sunday morning it's the same thing. Come down the aisle and get saved. Be saved. This is how to be saved. Look, do you want to hear the same sermon 500 times? Plan of salvation, plan of salvation, plan of salvation. Say, well, we need to keep hearing it. We need to be stirred up about it. If you want to hear the plan of salvation, eat one of these croissant sandwiches with me after the service. I'll take you out slowly. You'll hear the plan of salvation for hours as we knock doors to preach in the gospel field because God said, go ye therefore into all the world and preach the gospel and every preaching. God said, go ye therefore and teach all nations that might baptize in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, amen. He said, go, get them saved. But the local church is a place of believers and it's a place where you are fed spiritually. It's a place where you get what you need. Now, you don't need to be saved again. God said you must be born again, not you must be born again and again and again and again. And we tell that to these Pentecostals and assemblies of God and Nazarenes who think that, well now I'm saved, now I'm not. Now I'm saved, now I'm not. Hey, I've been saved once for all, O sinner, receive it. Once for all, O brother, believe it. Hey, salvation's once for all. The Bible says that, verily, verily, I say to you, he that heareth my word and believeth on him to send me, hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death to life. Tis done the great transaction is done. I am my Lord's and he is mine. There's no reason to be saved again. And so if I'm preaching to a crowd of God's people, the Lord again baptized believers, I'm not going to sit here and preach. You need to be saved. You need to be saved. You need to be saved. No, you know what you need to do? You need to get right with God. You need to learn the Bible. You need to start praying. You need to start solely. You need to go out and preach the Gospel. You need to love your neighbors yourself. You need to get the filth out of your life. You need to get the sin out of your life. There's a lot that you need to do. Getting saved is not one of them. Because you're already saved. Oh, but there's one visitor that might not be saved. Why do I gear my service toward one visitor when it's a local church? He said, I'm not seeing it. Okay. Well, turn back and look at 1 Corinthians 1. And let's see what the church is according to God. Look at 1 Corinthians 1. You see, people all over America are saying these churches are starving to be taught the Bible. They're starving to learn Bible doctrine. And what are they getting by this church service that's geared toward unbelievers? You say, well, what's wrong with that? Any people saved is the most important thing. It sure is the most important thing, but it's not the only thing. Look at verse number 2 of 1 Corinthians 1. The Bible says this. Unto, this is who the letter is being addressed to. Unto the church of God, which is at Corinth, comma. So he's going to restate it again here. To them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be saints. That's who is part of the church. Do you see that? He said, I'm writing to the church of Corinth. Here's who I'm talking about. I'm talking about those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be saints. And he said, not only that, I'm also writing to all of them in every place called upon in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Lord of all of theirs and others. He said, that's who I'm writing to, Christians. He said, I'm addressing it to the church and the church is a place of believers. Same thing pretty much in 2 Corinthians chapter 1. You know, you see the same thing. Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy, our brother, unto the church of God, which is at Corinth with all the saints, which are in all of Chiah. 1 Thessalonians 1, 1. You don't have to turn there. Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians, which is in God the Father and in our Lord Jesus Christ. You see, all throughout the Bible, you see that the church is a place of believers. So we hear the service of believers. You say, why the music? Why the old hymns? Why the great songs of the faith? Because it's geared toward Christians. It's geared toward believers. You say, oh man, that's not what the world wants to hear. It's not for the world. The whole point is to be different. The whole point is to come out from among them. If I wanted a bunch of rock and roll, I'd go to a rock concert. But if I come to church, I'm here to hear God's kind of music. You say, what's God's kind of music? Songs, hymns, and spiritual songs. Not some kind of a worldly, rocky, you know, this kind of stuff where we take the world's music and then we put Jesus' words to it. God said, be not conformed to this world. But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. You see, I don't want to be conformed to the world. I don't want to be patterned after the world. I don't want to use the world's music as my format. I want to use God's format. But see, why is it that churches all across this city, you go to church, what are you going to hear with a bunch of rock music? What are you going to hear about it? And I'm feeling it now. Why? Why is it that there's a rock band? Why is there an electric guitar? I'll tell you why there's an electric guitar. Because that's what the world has, an electric guitar. We've got to be just like them. Why is it that they have girls up there swinging and swang and oohing and aahing? I went to a church when I was a teenager. It was a Baptist church. And they had the worship leader. And the worship leader was up there singing behind the microphone. And he had these three girls off to the side with three microphones. And they were literally like, oooh. They were the backup singers. So they didn't sing the words to the song. The worship leader was singing the words. They were just doing the oohs, the aahs, you know what I mean? Like this. You know, they were doing the backup vocals. It was ridiculous. That's not what the Bible says in the midst of the congregation, while I sing praise unto thee. Not in the midst of congregation, I will ooh and aah like the world. You know, but we have a church service that's become geared toward the world, toward the unsaved. And we wonder why Christians aren't growing. We wonder why they can't get them out of soul winning. It's amazing how our church goes out of soul winning. It's amazing how when we say, let's go soul winning, people go. Why? Because we sing spiritual songs. We have spiritual preaching. We have preaching that's geared toward Christians. Music that's geared toward Christians. We have our whole service geared toward you. And you know, I don't often think of specific people when I'm preparing my sermon. I just prepare a sermon that I think everybody in our church needs to hear. But if I do sometimes think of specific people in my mind while I'm writing the sermon, you know who I'm thinking about? It's the most faithful people to this church who have been coming the longest, who are the most grown in their Christian life, who are the most spiritual. That's who I'm going to gear the sermon toward. I'm not gearing it toward Johnny Come Lately. I'm not gearing my sermon toward somebody who's a worldly Christian. You see, church is a place of fellowship and unity the whole point of church is to be different than the world. But if you would, look at 1 Samuel 10. You see, our church is not seeker-sensitive. Have you noticed that? Our church is not seeker-sensitive. Our church is not non-denominational. Now, truth of the matter is we're not part of any denomination because we're independent baptism. We are truly independent of any affiliation, any form. We are as independent as they come. But we're not a non-denominational church. We're not a seeker-sensitive church. You see, this whole non-denominational movement is ridiculous. Let me just explain it to you real quick. OK, non-denominational movement is churches that are part of denominations is the first part that I don't understand because here I am, an independent Baptist. Our church is not affiliated with any denomination. And yet there are churches all over the state that say, we're non-denominational. Yet if you look them up in the phone book, they're under the heading, Southern Baptist, Assemblies of God, Church of Christ. And they say, we're non-denominational. OK, then why are you a member of the Assemblies of God of America? Why are you a member of the Southern Baptist Convention? Why are you a member of the Assemblies of God of America? And wait a minute. No, no, no, no. You don't understand. Our church doesn't have a Baptist in the name. Look, man, if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. So because you take it out of the name, that makes you no longer Assemblies of God? That makes you no longer a Baptist? And here's the thing about every non-denominational church in the world. You go to their website, they have a statement of faith and a church constitution. Or if it's not on the website, it's in the back office somewhere. They have a church constitution, and they have a statement of faith that tells you exactly what they believe about everything. It'll tell you, this is what we believe about salvation. This is what we believe about separation. This is what we believe about the gift of tongues. And this is what we believe about eternal security, or lack thereof. This is what we believe. So how are they non-denominational? Well, I'll tell you why. Because the difference is that they don't want to tell you what they believe. Now I'm going to tell you what I believe. If you came here by mistake this morning, you'd say, oh man, I don't know what I'm doing here. Look outside, there was a big sign on the way in that said, Faithful Word, Baptist Church. It didn't say Faithful Word, non-denominational church. It didn't say Faithful Word, Church of the Rock concert. It didn't say Rock Church. Rock on Baptist Church. It didn't say, all Bibles are welcome. No, it said, King James Bible only. You say, why? Why is it King James Bible only? You say, is somebody not allowed to come with another Bible? They can come with another Bible. And if I see them with another Bible, all kindly and politely walk up to them and say, hey, great to have you here. Let me give you a King James Bible so you can follow along, and then you can follow along with what I'm preaching. And let me give you one. There's about 20 of them on the bookshelf out there. They're all free. Go ahead and grab them. Read it. Love it. Study it. Live by every word of God. No, this is not a free-for-all. All Bible versions are welcome. All denominations are welcome. It doesn't matter if you're a Methodist or a Catholic or a Presbyterian or a Nazirite or something. No, let me tell you something. If you're a Catholic, get saved or get out. If you're a Semitic God, get saved or get out of here. If you're a Presbyterian, get saved or get out of here. If you're a Methodist, get saved or get out of here. We don't need the bond woman and her children bringing bondage into our church. This is a church of people that are free-born sons of God. See, this is a place of liberty. We don't tell people that if you don't live right, you're going to go to hell. We don't believe that here. You're in the wrong place. We believe that if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, that shall be saved. Don't bring in false doctrine into this church. We don't want you around. Go ahead and don't bring your rosary beads. Don't bring your lose your salvation. Now I'm saying, no, I'm not. Don't bring in your rock music. Don't bring in your tongue speaking. Don't come in here and start flopping around on the aisle. Hey, this is the house of God. And this is a Baptist church that's going to stay that way. Unity. Unity. You say, why? Because unity is so important, that's why. You say, good night. You're the most divisive creature I've ever heard. You're talking about unity. No, no, no. You don't understand. I'm talking about unity in this place. That's all I'm talking about. We're not going to be unified with the whole United States. We're not going to be unified with the whole world. We're not going to be unified with unbelievers. We're going to be unified with God's people. That's what church is all about. Thank God for the faithful word of the Baptist church. You know why I love this church? Because I come to this church and I always like the music. Always. Always. Who here doesn't like the music? Put up your hand. Who here likes the music? Unity. All right. Hey, you walk in and, man, I always like the music. And you know what? Not only that, the preaching is never namby-pamby. It's never watered down. It's never politically correct. That's what I love about it. I get so sick of these watered down churches. A pastor a couple weeks ago, where some of my family members go, in California, he got up in the pulpit and said, you know, they just ruled on the gay marriage state. He got up and said this. He said, well, I have nothing against gay people. In an independent, fundamental, King James only Baptist church. He said, I have nothing against gay people. I'm getting the tape, by the way. And I heard that from two different people that were told to be completely separate. Two witnesses were in that service. He said, I have nothing against gay people. He said, now, I don't agree with the fact that they should get married. And I don't agree with that ruling. But he said, I don't think we should treat them any different than anybody else. I don't have anything against them. You know what? If I want that, I'll just, listen, pal. If I want that, I'll just turn on the TV. I'll go dig it out of the trash and reassemble it, from where I destroyed it seven years ago. You know what? I'll just go ahead and dig out my stupid TV and listen to a bunch of unbelievers, because that's what they'll tell me. Or if I want that, I'll just go down to the Southern Baptist church. If I want that, I'll go down to Na Na Na John down the street and have him preach to me for a while. If I wanted that kind of garbage, I'll just turn on the radio and listen to a bunch of money-grabbing phony creatures telling me to send in your check now. Send in your money now. Hey, your money pairs with you. Take your money and get out of here. If you want to hear that kind of namby-tamby, sissified, liberal preaching, hey, the Bible says, he that lieth with mankind as he lied with womankind, both of them have committed an abomination they shall surely be put to death. That sounds like you're supposed to dream a little bit different. Don't treat them any different. I have nothing against them. I have nothing against some pedophile sodomite. You better know I've got something against them. You better know I've got something against a guy who walks down the street dressed like a woman. You better know I've got something against some effeminate, queer little sissy flaunting his flamboyant self up and down the streets of America, destroying our country, bringing down the wrath of God on this nation. You better know I've got something against him. And if you don't, I wonder if you're even on the Lord's side. I wonder if you're even on the right side of things. You say, good night, I can't believe you preached like this. Your church isn't going to grow. Well, look down at the survival in 1 Samuel chapter number 10. Look at verse 25. The Bible says in verse 25, Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord. And Samuel set all the people away, every man to his house. And Saul also went home to Gibeah, and watch this, and there went with him a band of men whose hearts God had fetched. You see, God is the one who builds the church. Jesus Christ said, upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Now, God's the one who builds the church. It's not my job to build a church. You know, if I came here to build a church, I'm the wrong person. I mean, if God sent me to be a church owner to build a church, He sent the wrong person. Do I sound like a church builder? Because I'm not. You know what I am? A preacher. You know what I am? A prophet. And you know what I am? More than both of those two things, a soldier. That's why the first day I got to town, December 26, 2005, I was at knock-on doors and he gave me the prize. And the next day I was at knock-on doors. And the next day, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day, daily in the temple at every house, they ceased not to preach Jesus Christ. I was at knock-on doors, winning him a prize, winning him a prize, winning him a prize. And you know what? The first Sunday morning, and your husband was in the service on the very first Sunday morning, December 25, 2005, your husband was in the service, and I preached a sermon called Who Art Thou? Where they asked John the Baptist, Who are you? And I said, Let me tell you who I am. Let me tell you what kind of church I'm preaching right now. I said, This is a church where the truth's not watered down, where the Bible's preached, where it's thus saith the Lord, where we don't care if it's popular, we don't care if people like it. This is faithful word, Baptist church, and it hasn't changed its thing. Thank God for one church that we know it's not going to change. One church where we know it's not all about putting our finger up in the air and seeing which way the wind blows. You know what? These bunch of sodomites are taking over America. You know, I was saying in the Bible, if you don't know, if you don't know, if you don't know, if you don't know, if you don't know, You know, I was saying in the Bible, you know, the first war that was ever fought in the Bible? The things they know. I didn't know, I hadn't really thought about it. The first war that was ever fought in the Bible. It's going to be in Genesis, right? Go back, way back in the Bible. The first war that was ever fought was against Adam and Gomorrah in Genesis 7, 14. That's the first war in the Bible. This is interesting. A little tidbit, a little bit of trivia there, a little bit of a break now to get back into the Bible. Okay. Genesis 14, the first war that was ever fought. And you know what, you know what the war is against today? The Sodomites, the God-eaters. They're destroying our country and nobody cares. And if an independent fundamental Baptist pastor can't stand up without making you uncomfortable, when he sits there and says that God put the death penalty on the Sodomites because he knows that they're not reproducers, they're recruiters and that they want your children and it's in the news every day and you can go ahead and bury your head in the sand but they're out recruiting day in and day out. These bunch of Sodomite perverts, hey, if you can't see that, if you can't understand that, then we're all going to be overrun by them. They're multiplying like magnets. They're multiplying by the drones. Say, why are you so mad about it? Because I saw them yesterday and the day before and the day before that and the day before that shaking their little booty up and down the street and I'm taking it. And I'm going to say there's one place where we can agree on one thing that they're the enemy. But, and you know, you say, man, we're the enemy. We're the enemy. We're the enemy. We're the enemy. We're the enemy. We're the enemy. We're the enemy. But, and I, you know, you say, man, a lot of discernment. Just buckle up and let me tell you something. When I was at Hyles Anderson College, we had a special preacher come in. David Gibbs. And David Gibbs came in and taught us for one week about how to build our church constitution and how to, how to, you know, deal with legal issues. And he sat us down and he said this. He said, and I have the notes. I can prove it to you. I was in the class and I have the notes and they handed us out. He said this. He said, you need to write in your church constitution that homosexuals are welcome. That is what he said. You can get, the whole class is on tape. They videotaped the whole thing. I've got my notes. He said, you need to write in your church constitution that homosexuals are welcome. They just have to behave themselves, but they can continue to attend your church. I don't know what he meant by that. But he said, write down they have to behave themselves. But you need to put in your constitution that homosexuals are welcome. He said, they can't be a Sunday school teacher or a deacon, but they're welcome to come to your church. And he said, don't you want sinners to come to your church? What kind of, and you know he does this weird thing where he like stares at everybody who want to run like this. He's like, don't you want sinners to come to your church? I mean, don't you want unstating people coming to your church? What kind of a preacher are you? I don't know what kind I am, but I'm not your guy. I don't want some home. You think I want some faggot sitting next to the mic getting in the service? You're wrong. I grew up in and compromised watered down independent Baptist churches all my life and I came to start a church because I was tired of it. That's why I started my own church. Sick of it. Done with it. I'm done sitting next to fairies and queers in church and telling them they're welcome. They're not welcome. They're filthy. They're abominable. They need to be cast out. Cast out the bomb on their son. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter number five. Let's, let's get into the Bible here. Let the Bible speak for itself. I said what I want to say. Now let's see what the Bible says. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter number five. Now we saw, first of all, we established that church is a place of believers. It's a, it's an assembly of God's people. It's Christians. It's geared toward Christians. The preaching is for Christians. The music is to build up to Christians. The fellowship is with a Christian with another Christian. With a Baptist with another Baptist, by the way. And that's what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter five. Again, in verse six. Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavened the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven. Get it out, he's saying. Look at verse nine. I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators. Do you see that? Let alone a sodomite, which is way worse. But see, there's no death penalty in the Bible on fornication. Okay? Now that's a wicked standard. But the death penalty was not enough for you. But he said, I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators. Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or with the extortioners, or with idolaters, for then must ye need to go out of the world. He's saying, look, you misunderstood me. I'm not saying that you can never hang around with somebody who's a fornicator, or a covetous, or an idol. He said, you misunderstood me. He said, if that were the case, you'd have to go with one of these Jim Jones people, he said. That's not what I meant. But look, here's where he clarifies. Watch this. But now I have written unto you not to keep company. Look at verse 11. If any man that is called a brother, you see that? Any man that is called a brother be a fornicator. He's saying, look, you're going to be around people that are fornicators. That's fine. You know, I'm around ungodly people all the time. I don't treat them ungodly. I assume. You know, fornicators, he says, you know, but if they're called a brother, and they're a fornicator, or a covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such and one know not to eat. But what about to judge them also that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without not judging? Watch this. Face it. Face the truth. Therefore, put away from among yourselves that wicked person. You see that? If we had some Christian coming to our church, and I'm not talking about somebody who just got saved last week. I mean, look, if somebody just got saved, it's going to take them time to grow. We understand that, okay? I mean, people who've gotten saved in this church and they were living with somebody they're not married to, you know, the fornicator, right? Give them time to grow, you know, and we're not going to throw them out. But somebody who's called a brother, okay, somebody who's called a brother. Am I reading wrong? Let's look at it again. Let me make sure I write it right. Therefore, put away from among yourselves that wicked person. What wicked person? The person who's a born-again, believing Christian, who's known as a Christian. I mean, they've been a Christian for some time. They're a believer in Jesus Christ. And yet, they're a drunk. Yet, they're a fornicator. Yet, they're covetous. Yet, they're idolaters. He says, put away from your brother. And Paul said, you need to get that guy thrown out of your church. You can't have that guy in your church. Your kids are looking at him. They're going to begin to emulate him. It's their hero. Get him out of there. Now, you say, well, how do you throw him out? Well, I never had to throw anybody out because people who are ungodly, backslid, worldly Christians don't like to come to church and hear this kind of preaching. They just leave and throw themselves out because they don't like to preach. And that's fine with me. You say, oh, I need to preach the Bible. This is the Bible. Let me introduce you. Let me introduce you to the Bible. Sir, Bible. Bible, who are you? This is the Bible. Okay, meet the Bible. Okay? Put away from among yourselves that wicked person. Have no fellowship with the unproofable works of darkness, but rather approve them. What part hath he that believeth with an infidel? The pastor is for the edification of the body of Christ, perfecting of the saints. That's the Bible. That's not me talking. Now, sometimes you go to the Bible, you know, it's like trying, you know, we talk a little bit, but here the Bible is just to say whatever it wants or not concerned. Now, look at 2 Timothy chapter number 2. 2 Timothy chapter number 2 and look at verse number 19. 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 19. So, let's do a quick review. What's the purpose of church? It's to build up believers. It's for the edification of the body, not to impress a visitor, you know, not to get somebody saved. It's called the unbeliever. You're sitting there. I mean, we spend hours, and you know, when it gets really hot, when it gets like 115, we have our soul winning marathon in August every year and we go out in the hottest days of the year and we spend three days out in the highest days of the year. You know why? Because we love people 365 days a year. Because we go out and win people to Christ like crazy. Say, where are they going? Some of them, believe it or not, don't want to come to a church like this. But that's fine with us. Because this is how we like it. And so, this is how it's going to be. We just like it the way it is. So we're going to keep it this way. But look at 2 Timothy 2 verse 19. The Bible says this, Nevertheless, the foundation of God stands assured, having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are his. And, watch this, let everyone in the name of Christ depart from iniquity. Now there are many, many people, but look at the next verse, he says, all of the Bible is finding itself, but in a great house, and some to honor and some to dishonor. If a man therefore hurts himself from peace, he shall be a vessel unto honor. Sanctified and neat for the master's use and prepared unto every good work. What's he saying here? He's saying, look, Jesus is saying, let everyone in the name of the name of Christ depart from iniquity. If you're saved, you need to get the sin out of Christ. There are some vessels of gold and silver and some of wood and earth. He's saying, not every Christian brings honor and glory to God. Some Christians are living in fornication. Some Christians are living in adultery. Some Christians are idolaters. Some Christians are living in God's life. But look what he says, he shall be a vessel of honor. But what's he saying? If you're going to hang around those worldly, ungodly Christians, you will be like them. You'll be a vessel of dishonor also unless you purge yourself from these. You see, the church is number one a place for believers only. Now anybody's welcome to visit, but we don't sit there and pray. Isn't that terrible? Can you believe this sermon? Unbelievable, isn't it? We don't want a bunch of ungodly worldly Christians. You think I want to hang around? I don't. I don't even want to eat a meal with them. That's what the Bible said. I might eat a meal with some drunken Christian. No thanks. I don't want to sit down and eat a meal with them. I don't want to eat a meal with them. I don't want to eat a meal with them. I don't want to eat a meal with them. I don't want to eat a meal with them. I don't want to eat a meal with them. I don't want to eat a meal with them. I don't want to eat a meal with them. I don't want to eat a meal with them. I don't want to eat a meal with them. I don't want to eat a meal with them. That he may be ashamed, yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. So here we're talking about Christians who are disobedient to the word God, they're living in sin, they're living in filth, he says don't have any company with them. Withdraw yourself from them. He says I love you, I do anything for you, but you know what, I just can't get around. I can't get around somebody who's a born again Christian who's hanging around with a bunch of queers, you know, or who's living in sin, fornication. Now the reason this sermon sounds extreme is because we're living in 2008 when churches have become nothing more than a feel of the iniquity of your life, then you'll be blessed. Purge yourself of your worldly, ungodly friends, you'll be blessed. Come to a church where we sing praises to God that lift up Jesus Christ that are heavy and Bible doctrine, you'll be blessed. Go out and win souls with me this afternoon, with the church. Now if you go to a non-denominational church, you'll feel blessed, but you won't be blessed. I'd rather be blessed than feel blessed. I'd rather feel the swift kick in the pants than be blessed. That's why I come here. But anyway, you see how we become, and turn if you would to 1 Corinthians 2. You know what the title of my sermon is? This church isn't for everybody. It's not for Methodists, it's not for Presbyterians, it's not for Catholics, it's not for Mormons, it's not for Jehovah's Witnesses, it's not for unbelievers, it's not for Muslims, it's not for Buddhists, it's not even for fornicating drunken Christians either. It's for people who love the Lord. This is where the confusion comes from, and let's settle it right now. Look at 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 16. The Bible reads, But though I preach the gospel, I am nothing to glory of, for necessity is laid upon me. Yea, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel, for if I do this thing willingly I have a reward, but if against my will a dispensation of the gospel is committed to something, like a coke dispenser. And you know, theologians have invented these periods of time called dispensations. Look, that's not what dispense means. I mean, how long are you going to spend in front of that soap dispenser? You know, how long are you really going to spend in front of the coke machine? It's a dispenser. It's giving you something. That's what dispense means. If I were to dispense some money right now, if I want some money, that's what dispense means. But, you know, it seems like churches can make words mean whatever they want them to mean. But the Bible says here, a dispensation of the gospel is committed to me. He says, God has given me the responsibility to give out the gospel, to dispense the gospel. When it talks about the dispensation of God's grace, there's none that do it good, no, not one. But look what it says here, let's keep reading. It says, dispensation of the gospel is committed to me, verse 18. What is my reward then? Verily that when I preach the gospel I may make the gospel of Christ without charge that I might gain the Jews, to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law, to them that are without law, as without law, being not without law, I say I'm still falling God's laws, but under the law to Christ, that I might be partaking there with me. But what does that have to do with church? Nothing. He's saying when it comes to winning people to Christ I'm going to get down right where they are, I'm going to be like them, to the Jew, I'm going to be like a Jew, to the lawless, and the church will become all things to all men. No it won't. No it won't. Do you see the difference here? If you think that church is about getting people saved, that's when you're going to say well we need to become all things to all men, and you're wrong. Now when it comes to winning souls, what it means to our culture is because they think church is about getting people saved and it's not. People don't need to come to church to be saved. The Bible doesn't say believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and come to church and thou shalt be saved. To be saved they just have to believe. We'll take it. You know what? I'm not going to go down there with my nose up in the air. I'm going to get right down there with them. I'm going to be like them. I want to become all things to all men that I might by all means save some. I'll do what it takes to get them saved. And we're going to be like the Bible and like God. Okay, we're not going to go out and be like everybody else and then come to church and bring all their culture with us. We're not going to bring their music. We don't need their clothing styles. We don't need the fads and the fashions of the world. I don't want to talk about the church. I want to talk about getting people saved, which is out there in the world, not in the house of God. But look if you went to Luke chapter 14. This is the last place we'll turn. Luke chapter number 14. Luke chapter number 14. The Bible says in Luke 14 13, the Bible reads, But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and thou shalt be blessed. For they cannot recompense thee, for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. Now so this is Jesus' response to a man who says, man, blessed is he that shall he meet in the kingdom of God. That's going to be great to be dying up in heaven. What a feast that's going to be. What an exciting time that's going to be. Well that's what Jesus says. Then said he unto him, a certain I pray thee have me excused. And another said I bought five yoke of oxen and I go proof and I pray thee have me excused. And another said I married a wife and therefore I cannot come. So that servant came and showed his Lord these things. Then the master of the house brought in the highways and hedges and compelled them he's saying try to push them into doing it. He said compelled them to be safe. I'm sorry compelled them to come in that my house may be filled for I say unto you that none of these men which were bidden shall taste my life. Whoever will come let's just bring them in. That's not what it's saying because you've got to get the context here. He's talking about the real feast up in heaven. Okay. That's the great suffering and notice he said all things are now ready. Jesus already paid the whole thing. You don't have to bring baptism in your good heart. You have to bring baptism in your good heart. You have to bring baptism in your good heart. You have to bring baptism in your good heart. 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We come here to take a breath of fresh air and say, people who love God, people who aren't compromisers, people who aren't liberals, people who aren't contrary to God's word, people who love God. I love this church. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Father, please just bless us now as we go.