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Part of the chapter that I'd like to focus on is beginning there in verse number 3 where the Bible reads, As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou might discharge some that they teach no other doctrine. Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies which minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith, so do. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned from which some, having swerved, have turned aside unto vain jangling, desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm. Now the title of my sermon tonight is vain jangling. Vein jangling. And I'm going to explain what the word jangling means because that's a very strange word indeed it's not used very often and it's only used just you know right here in the Bible but it's not something that you find throughout the Bible. So I'm going to try to help you understand what that word means. But first of all, let me just give you the context of the passage here. Paul is explaining the need for Timothy to abide in Ephesus. Now if you keep your finger there in 1 Timothy, flip over to Titus chapter 1 because these two epistles are very similar. The epistle of Paul to Timothy and the epistle of Paul to Titus because of the fact that these are both young preachers that he's trained and that he is charging how to continue the ministry and he's raising up the next generation of preachers. And it's funny because he says something similar in Titus chapter 1. Over in Titus 1 verse 5 he says for this cause left I thee in Crete. Now isn't that really similar to what he said to Timothy? He says to Timothy as I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus and then he says to Titus hey this is why I left you in Crete. These guys would have wanted to follow him and go with him but he's explaining why it's needful. Hey stay in Ephesus, stay in Crete. What's the purpose? Why are you needed? He says here in Titus chapter 1, he said for this cause left I thee in Crete that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting or lacking, he says, and ordain elders in every city as I had appointed thee. He says in verse 10 for there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers specially they of the circumcision whose mouths must be stopped to subvert whole houses teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake. So he talks about the deceivers and the deceivers are the ones who are teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake. These are the people who are just intentionally preaching lies. Those are the ones where he says hey especially of the circumcision they abound. Their mouths need to be stopped. But before he mentions the deceivers, he mentions a few other groups that aren't really given as much mention here because he really wants to home in on dealing with the deceivers. But he did kind of throw out there that it's not just the deceivers that are out there. He said there are also people that are unruly and vain talkers and this has to do with the vain jangling, the blathering, the babbling, the being a vain talker. So it's just interesting that he gives a very similar admonition to Titus that he gives to Timothy saying look you need to stay there and not only that you need to ordain other leaders because of the fact that there's a lot of vain talk, vain jangling and blabbering going on. Now go back if you would to 1 Timothy chapter 1 verse 3 it says as I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies which minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith so do. What's he saying here? You know there's going to be a choice in our lives of what we're going to spend our time on. And when we spend time on one thing then that can sometimes take away from time that we could be spending on something else. And so in our lives we have to decide what is important, what matters and what is vain. And the meaning of vain means that it's not profitable. It doesn't really have any benefit, it doesn't accomplish anything, it's a waste of our time. And so the Bible says here that there are things that are profitable and there are things that are vain. And he says here don't give heed to fables and endless genealogies which minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith so do. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned from which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling. Now let's come back to the vain jangling. Keep your finger there, flip over to Titus chapter 3. We already looked at Titus chapter 1 but look at Titus chapter number 3 where it says, I'll start reading in verse 7, that being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. And then look at this next statement, these things are good and profitable to man. He says maintain good works, these things are good and profitable unto men meaning they have value but on the other hand avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions means arguments, contentions and strivings about the law for their unprofitable and vain. So you see how unprofitable and vain are put side by side. So basically there are things that you can talk about and argue about and contend about and basically they're just a waste of time, they're just vain jangling, they don't really matter, they're not profitable, they're not accomplishing anything and they are contrasted with good works, with sound doctrine, okay, and with charity out of pure heart, faith unfeigned, etc. Now in this same vain he continues in the same passage, a man that is in heretic after the first and second admonition, reject, knowing that he that is such is subverted and sinneth being condemned of himself. Now this is another thing where when we go out soul winning you can sometimes get caught up in a lot of just foolish questions, contentions and vain jangling, okay, I'm going to get back to what that means, jangling. Here's what, well I'll tell you what the dictionary says it means. Here's what the dictionary said, to talk excessively, to chatter or to talk idly. So I would just say that it's a synonym for babbling or just talking about vain things, things that don't matter, just blabbering, okay. When you go out soul winning sometimes there are people who want to get you caught up in foolish questions and contentions and strivings about the law and the Bible doesn't say, hey, you need to make sure and answer every foolish question and make sure that you settle this thing and get to the bottom of every foolish question that is asked of you. Actually the Bible just says to avoid foolish questions. So you know when I'm out soul winning and somebody asks me a foolish question I don't want to talk about it because I don't have time for the jangling, I'm not going out door to door so that I can hang out on somebody's doorstep and talk about stupid things that don't matter. And I'll give you some examples of what that could be but, you know, aliens and just, you know, that's one thing and I'm not talking about the people coming from Mexico, you know, I'm talking about, you know, the little green men and so forth. Well they're gray or whatever, shut up, you're vain. But basically, you know, you go out at soul winning and sometimes you'll find that Jehovah's Witness that just wants to argue with you and that Mormon that just wants to argue with you and doesn't want to let you go. But see, talking and going back and forth and arguing is unprofitable and vain. He says, look, a man that is a heretic after the first and second admonition, reject. He's not saying not to try. He says try once, try twice and then walk away because honestly he's subverted, he's condemned of himself, you're wasting your time and here's why it's so important to not get caught up in stupid conversations and dumb contentions is because there's that other person that's waiting down the street that wants to hear the Gospel and that is profitable. Those are good works that you could be doing. That's charity that you could be showing on some poor soul that needs the Gospel and instead sometimes people will tend to get caught up in the vain jangling. Now one of the things that will lead to this is that sometimes people will get a lot of knowledge about false doctrine and then they think, well I can shut this guy down, I mean I can win this argument. But is that really profitable, does it really matter at that point? You know, just shake it off and move on because honestly winning an argument doesn't get people saved. Preaching the word gets people saved. It's up to them to accept it or reject it and honestly it's going to be according to whether they want to accept it or not. Some people that don't want the truth, it doesn't matter how many times you show them, they're just not going to accept the truth so it's a waste of time at that point. Now flip over if you would to 2 Timothy chapter 2. This is just a few pages left. And it's interesting that there's so much talk about this in Titus and Timothy. He's talking to a young preacher and he's warning him about the babbling, about the foolish talking, about the vain jangling, over and over again repeatedly in 1 Timothy, in 2 Timothy, in Titus, he keeps warning about this. And then the other place where it seems like you find a lot of warnings about this is in the book of Proverbs, which is also a book that's directed at young men. So I think that there's not a coincidence there. I think that it's for a reason that these are the books that really seem to focus in on this subject. It says in 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 16, but shun, and that's another word for a void, it's a strong word for a void, but shun profane and vain babblings. That is a vain babbling. Just talking about stuff that doesn't matter, just blah, blah, blah. He says, Shun profane and vain babblings, for they will increase unto more ungodliness, and their word will eat as doth the canker of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus, who concerning the truth of erred, saying that the resurrection has passed already and overthrow the faith of some. You know, it almost doesn't even sound like necessarily these guys are doing this intentionally in a sense, but it's just basically they've erred, they made an error, they're wrong, but their vain babblings are causing some people's faith to be overthrown. Go back just a few pages to 1 Timothy chapter 6, 1 Timothy chapter 6 verse 20 says this, O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science, falsely so called, which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. Now notice, he doesn't say, let's start an entire ministry and let's spend all of our time and resources and energy on countering these oppositions of science, falsely so called. I mean, is that what he says? Or does he say, to avoid oppositions of science, falsely so called. I mean, that's what I see right here. Keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions. So we're to avoid the oppositions of science, falsely so called. And I like how he puts these oppositions of science, falsely so called, in the category of vain babblings, because that's really what they are. When you hear all this babbling on about, well the Earth's been proven to be billions of years old, it's impossible to prove that. How do you prove that? You can't. Anyone who knows anything about science would know that that is false, that you cannot prove something about thousands and thousands or millions and millions of years ago, because there was nobody there to tell you about it. There's no way to observe it. And you could sit there and say, well we know this is so old. How do you know? Because you have nothing to compare it to. It's like when you have a thermometer. You have to calibrate that thermometer. I mean, if you had a thermometer with no lines on it, it's worthless, right? You've got to have those little lines that tell you, hey, this is zero, this is 32, this is 100. And the way that they would calibrate thermometers back a long time ago and test them, they'd use certain points of reference, like the freezing point of water, the boiling point of water. And that will say, hey, we know that water boils at this temperature, so therefore we put the thermometer in there. And then that's going to tell us, you know, how the line is going to move for boiling water. And then we can draw a line there and say, hey, this is 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Or, you know, here's the freezing point. Okay, that's a good place to put 32. Here's the human body temperature. That's a good place for 98.6, okay? That's how you would calibrate that, because you'd go with a temperature that you know. Hey, we know this is the boiling point. We know this is the freezing point. We know that this is the human body temperature, okay? But here's the thing. If you extrapolate that out, it's not going to be accurate anymore, because, for example, that thermometer eventually, if it keeps getting hotter and hotter, it's going to max out or explode. That thermometer can't just measure any temperature. You can't just get a home thermometer and measure, you know, 1,800 degrees with it, something that's designed for seeing if you have a fever, right? Now if you wanted to have a temperature gauge that would go up to those type of numbers, you know, you'd have to calibrate it with something that's at that level. You can't just go with mercury in a tube and, you know, just think, well, if I just keep going, you know, it's going to stay consistent, you know? No, it just doesn't work that way. So you have to have some kind of a control group in your science, you know, to be able to show, hey, this is something we know is that old. But when you look at their criteria for what they know is old, it leaves something to be desired, my friend. They don't know how old this stuff is. Plus, of course, when God created the earth, he didn't create it as a baby. He didn't create Adam as a baby. I mean, if you were to examine Adam, you'd say he's 30 years old. Oh, here's a, he was born yesterday, in a sense. He's created yesterday, but they're saying he's 30 years old. So look, if God put all these trees in the garden, right, how old are the trees in the garden? If a botanist looked at them, what's he going to do? Count the rings and say, oh, yeah, these are hundreds of thousands of years old, but they were just planted yesterday. So that is what is known as apparent age, the apparent age of the earth, meaning that God created a mature earth, in a sense. He didn't create things as being a fresh newborn. He didn't create a newborn baby. He didn't plant a seed in the garden. He planted trees in the garden, full grown trees. And he didn't just create a flat earth. Okay, and no, I'm not talking about the flat earth. I'm saying he didn't create it, like, just flat, and then the mountains and valleys were carved out by rivers over time. And that's what people say, right? Oh, well, it would have taken this many years for the Colorado River to form that Grand Canyon. Yeah, if the Colorado River had formed that thing. But wait a minute. Do we really think that God just created an earth with no mountains, no hills, no valleys, no rivers, and that water slowly began to carve these things? Or did he create them already made, already done, mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes? And then the observer would look at it and say, well, here's how long it would take for this lake to form, or this river to form. Or here's how long it would take this stalactite to form. Maybe God just made caves that already had stalactites in them. If everything else he made is mature. But oh, we know it's millions, well, we know that it's billions, but these are oppositions of science, falsely so-called. Because the word science means knowledge. And it has to do with what we know to be true, not just the wild-eyed fables and theories of people's imaginations. And so the Bible says avoid oppositions of science, falsely so-called. You know, you don't need to get too caught up in, you know, I'm going to learn everything about the evolution debate, and I'm going to fix, it's not going to fix anything, friend. It's a spiritual problem, not a physical problem that we have. But he talks about, look, vain babblings, oppositions of science, falsely so-called. Couple pages to the left, go back to 1 Timothy chapter 1, the vain, jangling passage. It says, as I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, verse 3, when I went into Macedonia that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies which minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith, so do. So instead of leading to answers, they lead to questions. You know, endless genealogies. They're confusing. They put questions in people's minds. They're unprofitable and vain. Why? Because it doesn't matter what our genealogy is. It doesn't matter what our nationality is. It doesn't matter what tribe somebody thinks they're from. It's unprofitable and vain. It's not something to argue about or waste time talking about. He says, now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeigned from which some having swerved, verse 6, have turned aside unto vain jangling. All throughout these scriptures he says, vain talk, babbling, vain questions, foolish questions, unlearned questions, avoid it, don't get caught up in it, don't waste your time with it. He says that these people who turn aside unto vain jangling, verse 7, desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm. So where does vain jangling come from according to the Bible? Where does all this foolish talk come from? All these profane babblings and blatherings and all of this nonsense. Where does it come from according to the Bible? Well it comes from pride of a person who wants to sound smart. This is the purpose of running your mouth and babbling. Think about it. When you go out soul winning, isn't that where it's coming from? I mean when you go soul winning sometimes you'll run into that guy who just wants to show you all the stuff that he knows, but it's all vain, it's unprofitable, it's babbling and people who actually know the Bible are just kind of like, you got to be kidding me. When you think you're so smart and you're just, oh yeah, blah, blah, blah, you know. Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm. You see there are a lot of people who want to teach the Bible but they don't know the Bible themselves. He says, you know, you have a desire to be teachers but you have need that one teach you again. He said you're desiring to be teachers of the law. He says you ought to be teachers but you need one to teach you again which be the first principles of the doctrine of Christ and it becomes such as have need of milk and not of strong meat. And interestingly the person who knows how to use strong meat, the Bible says everyone that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness for he is a babe but strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. So it's by doing profitable work that you actually become knowledgeable and it's through vain jangling and vain babbling that you basically are one who just, you know, wants to be a teacher but you don't know what you're talking about. Now it's amazing to me how people are constantly rebuking me and correcting me for basically preaching at this church and I'm not saying people in our church but people outside of our church are often criticizing me for preaching at this church Sunday morning and Sunday night and Wednesday night and basically they'll just say well everybody should have a chance to get up and preach. Everybody should be allowed to preach. We should listen to what everybody has to say. Now look, anybody who has come out of the new evangelical movement as I was in for my teenage years, have you ever been to one of these Bible studies where everybody's allowed to teach? Who's ever been to one of these Bible studies where everybody's allowed to teach and everybody's allowed to talk and we can all be heard and you know what it is? Vain babbling, vain jangling, foolishness because of the fact that a lot of people are not qualified to teach. Other people are qualified to teach and so you can't just have an open mic where you just let anybody get up and teach and preach the Bible. No you're supposed to have leaders who actually know the Bible get up and preach and teach the Bible. Oh that's cult-like. No, it's the Bible model for a church actually. And people will constantly say oh you know you just are up there preaching. Yeah that's because I've studied. Okay and other people that have studied can earn the right to get up and preach behind the pulpit. But it's not just an open mic of oh you've been here for a week and a half? Come on up and preach. It's unbelievable to me. You know what's unbelievable to me too is that missionaries who I don't know from Adam will call me up all the time and say hey I want to come through and preach at your church and I'm thinking like I don't even know you. I don't just let random strangers. Oh but I'm an independent Baptist. That doesn't mean as much as it used to. And there are a lot of independent Baptists that I would never want to preach behind this pulpit. Why? Because I'm the overseer and it's my job to guard against false doctrine and lies. You know the people and look I've had guest preachers come in and preach or or men from the church get up and preach but you know what I do is I actually screen people and I know them and I and I make sure you know who I'm allowing to preach because it's important that we don't allow a lot of confusion and vain jangling come across the pulpit. And a lot of it is not necessarily that you know people are just evil or bad it's just that they haven't learned. It's not even necessarily that they're dumb although sometimes it is that they're dumb but but but it's not even necessarily that people are dumb. It could also just be that they're just haven't learned and that they just need to grow more and take more time to study before being ready to get up and and preach behind the boat. I mean shall I take one of my youngest children and put them behind the pulpit to preach so we can hear from them? I'm sure they'd say a lot of right things but you know they're probably going to preach some some some weird stuff too you know. I mean just because they're young just because they're little. But the Bible talks about people desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say nor where they affirm. Now the Bible says if you desire the office of a bishop that's a good thing. If you desire the office of a bishop you desire a good work. And let me show you some scriptures to show you here the difference between the vain babbler, the vain jangling, and the legitimate teacher of God's Word. The difference is that the one puts in the work to do the real study and the real learning. And the other person just is puffed up in their mind and thinks that they're already there and they're just ready to get up and to be a teacher of the law understanding neither what they say nor where of they affirm. There are so many foolish teachers on the internet and they're you know that look there's great preaching on the internet there are great pastors and preachers to listen to but there's also just a lot of just foolish nonsense on the internet today. And then a lot of people will go on YouTube and find it and listen to it and surf that thing and basically just come out with all kinds of stupid ideas. And listen to me legitimate research, legitimate learning, legitimate study starts with reading the Bible okay. Reading the Bible is hard work. It's not you know it's black ink on white pages and there's no pictures. It's not a video. You have to read this book and it's a lot of hard work to read through this book and study and learn what the Bible says. That's where it starts and I'm not talking about reading it once and you know I'll repeat it over and over again. I love what my pastor said when I was a teenager and you know what teenagers tend to have foolishness and I was no exception and I remember what my pastor said when I was in Sacramento California. He said from the pulpit this is something that he would often preach he said before you even think about studying the Bible you need to read the Bible five times cover to cover before you start studying it. Because everybody wants to go all deep and study it and pull out these brand new truths that nobody's ever heard of okay but you know we need to first build a foundation of having a solid just knowledge of what the book even says from cover to cover and reading it once isn't going to do it. And so he said before you even think about studying the Bible he said there's too much talk about studying the Bible he said first read it then study it not against Bible study but read it first and he said read it five times he said once you read it five times then start to study the Bible but you know get the big picture okay and I remember as a teenager I heard him say that and when he said that I just finished reading the Bible once for the first time I'd read it cover to cover and so I decided I said you know in the next 12 months I'm going to read it four times because I want to get to that five level you know. I took it seriously say why do you take it so seriously you know because you're supposed to take things seriously when people who are older and wiser than you you know teach you things and say things you know it's good to listen to what they say and that's how I was I was like okay here's a guy that I respect I want to hear what he has to say he says I should read the Bible five times cover to cover that sounds great I think that is what I should do that makes perfect sense to me so I took that real serious I said okay next year I'm reading the Bible four times cover to cover so I did that I read the Bible four times in one year and when I got to the end of the fifth time I didn't even say all right let's let's do the Bible study let's let's go and and teach things that have never been heard of no here's what I said when I got to the end of the fifth time here's what I said you know what I think Pastor Nichols is wrong because it should be read 10 times before being deeply studied and and before we go down deep and stay down long and come up dry because I just felt like you know what I still don't have the grasp of the full book and so I read I said you know I'm gonna read it another five times I'm not kidding I'm not being up here dramatic for effect I'm telling you that is literally what I said when I finished the fifth time I said it needs to be read another five times before the real study can begin and the reason that I say that is because of the how old was I 17 when I finished it the first time and then that you know I read it four times I was 18 four times I was 19 four times every single year after that but honestly I got to the point where I didn't really care as much about studying the Bible I just kept reading it and reading it and reading it and I and I didn't really get caught up in all the study and you know hey before you take the commentary down and start going deep you know read it five times you know I never really got to that stage you know where you start digging into all this stuff why because the Bible is taught by the Holy Ghost and it's hard work to study the Bible and a true Bible teacher has to just do a lot of reading and then they can preach and speak the truth okay this is what the Bible teaches now where is this vain babbling come from we'll look at Colossians 2 because in Colossians 2 there's an example of one of these kind of vain babbling false doctrines of foolishness that people will back and look this one's real applicable because this is one you hear people babble about a lot and if you go on the internet you'll find millions of people babbling about this one and look where the Bible says it's coming from and see if it matches up with all the other scripture we've looked at this evening so far look what it says in Colossians chapter 2 verse 18 let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels intruding into those things which he hath not seen vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind so the Bible warns about those who are vainly puffed up in their fleshly mind and that they intrude into those things which they've not seen and specifically the thing he brings up is he says a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels intruding into those things which he had not seen now there's a very similar statement made over in Jude flip over to Jude similar statement because remember he said that they're vainly puffed up in their fleshly mind and that they are listen intruding into those things which they've not seen look at the book of Jude verse number 9 it says yet Michael the Archangel when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses durst not bring against him a railing accusation but said the Lord rebuke thee but these speak evil of the things which they know not so do we not have people here talking about things that they don't know about it says these speak evil of those things which they know not but what they know naturally as brute beasts and those things they corrupt themselves so what is the Bible saying in both Colossians 2 and Jude that basically we don't really know that much about angels and demons and Michael the Archangel and contending with the devil and yet we see so many people today building entire doctrines and spending hours and hours and hours talking about fallen angels don't we on and on and on and on and on and on and people have contacted me constantly said hey you need to do a sermon on angels and do a sermon here's the thing you know I've preached on angels but honestly the reason I don't do these long in-depth teachings on angels and demonology is because honestly the Bible doesn't really talk that much about angels and it doesn't really give us that many details all about angels and so I'm not gonna just sit there and go off on some wild vain jangling session about all the theories about angels and demons and nonsense but think about how many people get so wrapped up in these vain jangling babbling arguments about the Nephilim right and where does it come from Jewish friends fables book of Enoch or whatever so it's just this it's just this vain jangling God has given us all kinds of scripture that is profitable into our lives he tells us hey this is how you're gonna get married this is how your marriage is gonna be this is how you're gonna raise your children this is how you go to work and how you succeed at work here's where you go to church and and basically here's how you can be an asset to the church and be a part of the body and and do profitable work and here's how you're gonna win souls and and preach the word and here are 66 books for you to study but yet people want to intrude into other things that just are vain and don't matter look if God thought it was profitable for us to know all the ins and outs of the spirit world and angels wouldn't he have given us much more information to go on then for us to just delve in and just I've got to get to the bottom of it I've got to figure it out the world's dying and going to hell you know you're not making enough money at your job to even pay your bills or you're not soul winning or you're not reading the Bible and doing the legitimate study but you just gotta get to the bottom of this angel and demon and Nephilim and UFOs and the great delusion and I'm gonna unlock the mysteries of the universe this is vain puffed up imaginations of the jangler the jangler why because basically instead of worrying about things that matter I spend a lot of time worrying about things that don't matter you know what is it that matters well I'll tell you what matters the thing that God talks a lot about you know doctrines that the Bible clearly tells us about and goes on and on about those are things that matter and then there are other things that don't really matter and that's why God doesn't spend a lot of time explaining them to us because we don't need to know I mean what does it affect us what exactly is going on between the angels and the demons in the spirit world is that really our problem to worry about you know Michael the Archangel battling the Prince of Persia you know he gives us a glimpse of that just to let us know hey listen this is something that's going on he just wants us to know look there is a spiritual battle going on you know and when he talks about demons it's usually just in the context of hey this is what people who are demon possessed this is what they're like this is what they're gonna do this is how to identify that you know they're he basically gives us the information that we actually need but really when it comes to living our life you know when I get up tomorrow morning my actions are gonna be based upon the doctrines found in the Bible what I do in the way of work how much work I do how hard I work is gonna be dictated by what I've read in the Bible okay I'm gonna get up I'm gonna read the Bible and pray it's gonna be profitable it's going to be beneficial it's not gonna be vain it's not gonna be a waste of time okay then I'm gonna interact with my family I'm gonna eat certain foods and drink certain beverages these things are all you know things that I'm gonna do based upon the wisdom found in God's Word but what in the world about my actions tomorrow is going to be affected by all this talk about aliens and demons and angels and all this stuff it's is it gonna change I mean look God gave me commandments of don't do certain things right he said don't do these bad things and do these other good things and preach the gospel to every creature right but what in the world is some deep study about giants and Nephilim and angels and demons gonna affect any of that no it's entertainment my friend that's what it is call it what it is you are being entertained and it's just like Star Trek geeks and Star Wars geeks who get all into the world of the Empire and the Galactic whatever and the Wookiees and they speak both you know Klingon and they speak you know Wookiee fluently and they basically are are just so into the the the just the element of just the the force and you know they're just so into magic and Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings and everything like that look it's like a Christian version of that it really is I mean it's just it's a Christian version of that instead of you know dungeons and dragons it it's like angels and demons and then basically they can go on YouTube and do a lot of research I've done a lot of research about the Nephilim you know and basically they feel spiritual but they haven't really read their Bible they haven't really won any souls they haven't really done anything that was profitable they haven't really helped anybody but they just get puffed up with a bunch of knowledge that's worthless knowledge and let you look for the millionth time I don't even believe in the stupid Nephilim doctrine it's a false doctrine never even happened doesn't even exist angels coming down and mating with humans it's a lie it's a fraud it's not biblical I've done I'm not even gonna debunk it right I'm just gonna avoid that foolish question tonight I've already preached sermons where I have debunked it where I've taught the truth about what the Bible says but you know you taught the people who are real into this I want show me a zealous soul winner who's real into the Nephilim show me somebody who's a who is an active member of their local church who comes because listen there are two kinds of people who come to church there are people who are an asset and people who are a liability people that are helpful and people that are a pain in the neck and then there are other people that just kind of come and go and don't really say much but you know that's okay too but I'm saying you know there are people who are a pain and then there are people that are an asset you know what why would you want to come to church and be a pain and be a liability you know you're supposed to come and be a blessing and be a helper and help people and and be but but see I want to see a basically a person who is really into that Nephilim sci-fi doctrine who is an active member of their local church and who is a weekly soul winner you know I'd like to see that and I'm not saying it's not out there because the exception proves the rule but you know the vast majority of these people are just an internet warrior okay and they're not even and they're just vainly puffed up and they know so much about but here's the thing it's easy to confuse real knowledge and and and basically fake knowledge okay now turn if you're in Colossians 2 and we saw that people become vainly puffed up in their fleshly mind now here's another scripture in first Corinthians 8 it says this now as touching things offered unto idols we know that we all have knowledge knowledge puffeth up but charity edify now the Bible's not saying hey stay away from knowledge it'll get you puffed up but the Bible is saying that knowledge has a tendency to puff people up where people get prideful and arrogant because they gain knowledge so he's saying we need to be aware of that and balance that with charity so that we don't become puffed up by knowledge okay now here's what happens people start coming to a church like faithful word Baptist Church or you know listening to the sermons from faithful word Baptist Church and they gain a lot of knowledge in a short amount of time maybe they're used to going to a church where a lot of doctrine isn't really being preached and they basically are just hearing like a feel-good sermon that's not very meaty in the word so then they come to a church like ours or start listening to preaching online and basically all of a sudden there's all this information coming in and like wow I'm learning so much but the danger is that for the people who get vainly puffed up in their fleshly mind they'll get about six months in they'll get about 12 months in and think that they know everything now yeah I think they know so much now because I mean they've listened to all this preaching got this all this information now here's the thing about that though what you're forgetting is that the guy that you're listening to didn't just go to a church sit there and get all this taught to him in a short amount of time you know I got it from reading and here's the thing you have to get stuff from reading on your own too and not just think oh man I went to church I got all this information now I know a lot but here's the thing you may not have developed the critical skills of thinking yet because of the fact that just hearing hearing sound doctrine and saying yeah that's right I believe that you know now you have some good knowledge because you've learned some good things from the Bible but that doesn't mean that you've learned how to study and interpret the Bible because the only way to learn how to study and interpret the Bible is by studying and interpreting the Bible which starts with a lot of reading before you even begin studying so what you'll have is people that have read the Bible like once okay which that's not a lot they've read the Bible like twice cover to cover but they've listened to a lot of preaching and then they'll basically come to you and start talking real big and telling you how it is and they're gonna straighten you out on doctrine and they say a lot of things that just don't add up because of just not having learned and I'm telling you it's the hard work of reading and studying that actually makes you smart not just listening to preaching or any video or audio that you listen to a lot of people think you know watching an educational program on TV is just as good as reading it's not it's been proven say who proved it every single person who's ever done it and listen there are people today and you know I don't want to hurt your feelings by saying this but there are people today who say I don't like reading and there's a name for those people stupid people and then there's other people who say I love to read and there's a name for those people smart people this is the truth people who say oh well you know I just learned better from watching videos no because videos are are icing videos are icing on the cake of knowledge okay that is not the meat and potatoes of learning the meat and potatoes of learning you're picking up books and reading them and here's the thing going on the internet and surfing the internet is not the same as reading a book all kinds of crazy stuff on the internet it's not the same as reading books and going to the source you've got to get yourself to the source and it takes hard work and frankly people are lazy today and they don't want to go through that work you know the Bible says let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor especially they who labor in the word and doctrine doctrine is teaching the word but he says laboring in the word and doctrine why because reading the word and studying the word is hard work and that's why a lot of people don't want to do it and they turn aside unto vain jangling talking about stupid things that don't matter instead of getting real knowledge and real wisdom you see the Bible says in all labor there is profit go back to go back to proverbs go back to proverbs eighteen in all labor there is profit but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury and when it says in all labor there's profit that would include laboring in the word that would include the labor of study you know the Bible says much study is a weariness of the flesh because studying can make you tired reading will sometimes wear you out but it's work that needs to be done if you ever want to be a teacher if you ever want to be one that's knowledgeable in the word you say well I'm not knowledgeable I don't want to do all that study or I haven't done that study yet then you need to be quiet now you know go out and teach the gospel because the gospel is simple you don't have to have much knowledge you don't have to do much study to be a soul winner you can be a soul winner day one of being saved you know you just you know how to be saved you tell someone else how to be saved and in fact sometimes people who are newly saved are the best soul winners because they don't get off on all this vain jangling because they haven't had a chance to get puffed up in their fleshly mind yet so they just keep it simple I don't know here's here's the gospel here's how to be saved you know they can be more effective sometimes than those who get caught up in these other things but the Bible says in Proverbs chapter eighteen verse six a fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth calls for strokes a fool's mouth is his destruction and his lips are the snare of his soul the words of a tale bearer as wounds they go down into the innermost parts of the belly he also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster now notice that there are three verses that talk about the mouth there in verses six seven and eight one of them talks about a person who wants to argue all the time that wants to enter into contention for the sake of contention another person talks about one whose mouth is his destruction his lips are the snare of his soul he just says stupid things that get him into trouble and then verse eight talks about the tale bearer the gossip who would go around and talk about other people behind their back but in verse nine he says he also so there's a connection there two verses six through eight he also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster and let me tell you the greatest thing that people waste time now it's funny we were here the other day and there were these weird bums you know outside of the church building that were just there was a guy just laying in front of the door of the church this derelict and he's laying out there and he had some real junky gas station food and listen the gas station food is not the cheapest food it's just junky food for lazy people because it's convenient total junk total garbage food worthless nutritionally and this guy is laying in front of that door with a bunch of gas station food and a bunch of synthetic beverages and he's just laying in front of the door of the church and then he gets up and and he basically leaves like a half-eaten hot dog I mean the garbage is right there but he leaves like a half was it a half-eaten or one and a half is that what one yeah Miriam's like one and a half yeah he left like one and a half gas station hot dogs everything's half-eaten also so he's too lazy to even pick up his trash and take it and it is interesting that he's also a great waster although what he was eating was waste in the first place you know but still you know this is the food that he spent his money on and he's not even eating it he just wasted just leaves it there just derelict leaves I mean in front of a church here let me just put all my junk and trash in front of the door of a church and a lot of these bums get this attitude like well you're a church you need to help me you know and this entitled attitude when a lot of times it's because they're a drunk and a drug addict and a lazy person and they just want everything given to them for free and then they get prideful and arrogant toward people who actually work for a living but listen to me waste is not just money it's people wasting their time and the Bible says that he that is slothful in his labor is also brother to him that is a great waster I don't think he's just talking about wasting money there or wasting a gas station hot dog you know or wasting food I think also he's talking about people wasting time lazy people wasting time and what do they do blabber in all labor there's profit but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury blabbering and talking about stupid worthless things that don't matter go to Ephesians chapter five we should talk about things that matter we should spend our lives working on things that matter you need to decide today what matters and what doesn't what affects our lives what does God want us to do and what is just something that is unprofitable me you know the Bible says avoid foolish questions and and this includes dumb doctrinal debates about things that are not even revealed in scripture or that don't matter or things to which the question is already obvious and people just want to argue and contend and vainly babble about things these are like those Greek philosophers who instead of working they would just go on Mars Hill and just talk all day about some new thing and dispute with one another I mean if you ever have read the writings of Plato they are the most stupid worthless vain profane babblings in the world what about this what are you know these stupid philosophers who just want to talk about do we even really exist do we even exist you know it's like shut up you idiot it's stupid but then you know you look at you look at the question people you know here's here's some examples of things that you know hey could God make a rock so big that he couldn't even pick it up here's a great doctrinal debate can God make a rock so big that he cannot pick it up I mean it's stupid you know somebody asked that to my grandpa one time and he just stuck his finger in their face and yelled the Bible says avoid foolish questions look I know my dad the apple doesn't fall very far from the tree that was my grandpa then my dad was in a Sunday school class and you know this lady started asking a bunch of stupid questions and my dad just stood up in the middle of the class and just started reading the verse about like how she needs to ask her husband at home and avoid foolish questions he's like that's a foolish question and then the Sunday school teacher literally just said like alright let's close in prayer he shut down the lesson because of the fact that he was so embarrassed that my dad just started rebuking this woman but look I've sat in Bible studies and I have family that has sat in Bible studies even at independent Baptist churches where the question was asked well the Bible says preach the gospel to every creature what about the animals it's out there friend I mean if it's I mean why didn't he say preach it to all men why didn't he say preach unto all people why all creatures what about the animals are we supposed to preach it what about dogs I mean somebody has literally said in an independent Baptist church in a Sunday school class what about dogs you know just foolish stupid questions about hey do we need to preach the gospel to animals or hey is you know are animals gonna be in heaven you know with that well that matters no it doesn't matter without her dogs no that okay I know I'm taking that out of context that's a hot dog you know by the way but basically you know these questions of hey did Adam have a belly button because you know I mean think about it I mean he since he was never born of a woman so he never had an umbilical cord so was he created with a belly button hmm or was it just I mean was it okay here's the real question was it an innie or an Audi if he was the if he was the perfect man but this is the kind of stupid foolishness that people talk about and waste their time with nonsense and things that don't matter and honestly you know I'm all for discussing Bible doctrine but it should be stuff that matters like stuff that actually affects our lives that affects our thinking about the Word of God and you know by the way this stupid flat earth thing is another vain babbling and stupidity and is another foolish question it's foolish you know who is this that darkeneth counsel with vain words without knowledge here's the thing the the flat earth suppose that can be disproved so easily that you'd have to be an idiot to believe in it and I'm standing by what I said on Wednesday night you know you have to be stupid to believe in it and anybody who heard my sermon on Wednesday night and still believes in it today on Sunday is stupid and you come up to me after the service and and tell me that I'm wrong and I'll tell you you're stupid and you know I it's very few people who have been duped by this thank God but honestly you know these type of things here's the thing these are things that don't even matter anyway they don't even matter anyway but you know when it starts Matt well then why do you care why does it matter because I don't want to be known as a pastor of idiots I'm not trying to run a mental institution here I'm trying to run a Baptist Church I'm not trying to babysit people you know and I don't I don't have any straitjackets in the closet I don't have a napkin to wipe the slobber off your face and you know what I'm not going to put up with people coming into the church and look I can't control who comes in here and teaches whatever stupidity but I can get up behind the pulpit and rebuke it and I don't know I don't really even know who all it was who was going around but I I even heard that people came in here and are basically taking people aside and evangelizing them with the gospel of the flat earth and you know I'm not going to put up with that crap not going to happen friend and you say well I believe in it well then keep your stupid mouth shut because I'm not putting up with it because it's my job to make sure that this is a church where sound doctrine and you know what look there are all kinds of other dumb thing that's just one example of dumb things that people get idle and they sit around navel gazing and spoon bending and they come up with this stuff whoa dude what if it's flat dude whoa and look you say well they've lied to us about everything else look sometimes when you have a hammer in your hand everything starts looking like a nail you know just because just because they lied about so it doesn't mean that they lied about everything we don't even exist this is all you know we're all robots we're all machines we're all in somebody's dream did Adam have a did Adam have a belly button is the movie The Matrix isn't real is Star Wars real you know I mean look why don't you talk about something that matters why don't you care about something that matters and you know what it's a hindrance to the gospel because you know here we are trying to do serious work for God in this church serious work of actually evangelizing actually getting the gospel to all nations and reaching the peoples of Phoenix Arizona and then we have to deal with this kind of silliness and it's a waste of time and a pain in my rear end when people could come to me and complain how somebody got in their face and demanded for them to accept the flat earth I mean what in the world it's like what is going on and so the thing is you know we need to get focused on the real mission you know here's the thing I love reading I love studying but here's the thing whenever I read anything I always ask myself okay how is this going to be profitable unto me how is this going to help me do more work for God you know like for example you know when I want to study a foreign language because I love foreign languages so when I'm asked myself you know which foreign language do I want to learn you know one of the big things is like well how am I going to use this for God how am I going to use this to do something profitable you know that you know that's why Latin has never really been that appealing to me and I you know I'm not against if you learn Latin if there's a profitable reason that you have for doing it great I just I couldn't really find one so I walked away saying you know what let's learn languages that people speak that we can give them the gospel and evangelize and do you know or when it comes to you know if I'm going to read a book about you know history or science or math or what you know I've always asked myself you know what what is the point you know because I want to do something with my life that matters and not just get caught up where I'm just filling my mind with vain knowledge that doesn't really matter you know and if you might have a certain job where you need to fill your mind with knowledge for that job well then it's profitable to you in the most literal sense because you're making a profit I'm going to work I'm making money but honestly I think that people sometimes just get caught up in the wrong and you know here's another really vain and unprofitable thing to get really into professional sports I mean does that really affect the temperature of hell one degree you know whether or not you know this pitcher or this you know point guard or all the stats and everything but a lot of people get real sucked into these unprofitable and vain conversations and they just talk and talk about it and things that don't matter now you think I can see some profit in playing sports just because it's good for your body but even that could get taken out of hand where it could become a distraction you know because bodily exercise profit little we should exercise ourselves rather unto godliness you know that if there's a choice in priorities right it's the godliness that takes priority over having a physical body that's in great health but we should you know take care of ourselves I could see some profit in you know spending time with your children by playing sports with your children you know playing catch taking them down shooting hoops with them at the park and you know going for a jog with your family and friends and stuff like that you know that's profitable and taking care of your body and being healthy but there's zero profit and sitting and watching a bunch of overpaid grown-up children running around in tights and and and a bunch of you know just oh yeah you know well we're going to the Super Bowl let's paint our bodies and paint our faces and and how and drink beer and we won we won you can't even run from one of that football field to the other without having a heart attack you didn't win you did nothing look the Bible says in Ephesians 5 verse 15 see then that you walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise redeeming the time because the days are evil wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is he said look redeem the time we only have a little bit of time use it for things that matter talk about things that matter study subjects in the Bible that matter not that's the one subject that God barely talks about and that's the one that you just want to delve into and get to the bottom of it when there's another thing he talks about a hundred times that we don't care I mean there are literally people who pick what church they go to based on the most silly foolish nitpicky things they'll overlook huge false doctrines they'll overlook wrong Bible overlook no soul winning overlook wrong gospel but they're just like you know they have the right dress code at that church they're real strict about the you know they're real strict on courtship you know just all this stuff that's not really a clear teaching of the Bible that they latch on to or literally the whole I've literally been contacted by multiple people where they said well you know I'm looking for a church this is my this is my big criteria this is my one criteria is the communion open closed or close what are you talking and I said you know you can't even articulate to me from a clear verse in scripture anything about your doctrine about that and this lady's like oh my daughter so I'm trying to kill a mosquito my daughter I'm not I'm not like getting happy up here like in the spirit anyway I was trying to kill a mosquito it was there folks but anyway you know this lady sent her daughter to asu devil state university where the mascot is satan and where the doctrine is of devils and she's like well I need to find a church for my daughter to go to while she's at asu and so I need to make sure that the communion is is you know close not closed or whatever and it's just like I said you know what you have bigger problems than communion I said your daughter is going to a school filled with sodomites and weirdos and I said I've attached a jpeg of their mascot the devil but but I mean talk about a wrong emphasis right and here's the thing the bible says very little about communion very little precious little you know when you study the doctrine of communion it's it's tough because there's so little scripture on it in the new testament very little and so you have to try to piece it together from very little scripture and you end up having to go back to the passover to really learn the most about it just because that's where it starts from and that's where you you derive the doctrine from because there's very little teaching on in the new testament but to sit there and say well that's that's my whole choice of what church I go to there are people who say that's what determines a true church or not the type of communion the style of communion as opposed to all these important bible doctrines those aren't the see how people can just get vainly puffed up about some weird doctrine and get all hung up on it and that's their big emphasis we need to keep our emphasis on the things that the bible emphasizes and we need to get real knowledge from the bible and here's the thing about reading the bible versus studying the bible if you read the bible you're reading the whole bible you get a balanced view because think about if you read the whole bible you're getting everything and then you read it a second time you get everything again you read a third time you get everything again whereas studying the bible tends to get out a microscope and just get on one verse or one word and miss it's like people can't see the forest for the trees you know it's like they get so it's like they go they're like looking at the world like this to where that you know they don't see the big picture that's why it's so important to study the but and here's the thing one of the things that I think really got a lot of my doctorate on track as an older teenager was reading the bible cover to cover especially it really nailed down what I believed about salvation now I always knew salvation was by faith and that it was not of works but when I read the bible cover to cover what I noticed when you read the new testament cover to cover over and over again is how many times it keeps saying believe and it gets to where it's kind of hard to ignore when it's just like believe believe believe believe believe believe believe believe believe faith faith faith faith and you're just like whoa and then the repent of your sins thing is just kind of like it becomes ridiculous to you and they can pull out a few proof texts that they take out of context and twist but the person who actually reads and reads is going to see the faith and the belief so many times that it's going to leave zero doubt in their mind that that's what salvation is and so my admonition to you is this decide in your heart that you want to become a person who doesn't waste your time on unprofitable things that you don't become one where you're constantly talking about things that don't matter you're constantly blabbering and blathering and discussing things that really don't have any impact on our lives okay that don't really change what we're going to do tomorrow or how we're going to live our lives because there's so many things that do matter that are going to affect our actions you know just theorizing about black holes you know hey let's talk about black holes for two hours it's unprofitable in vain sit around and talk about you know the theory of an ice dome you know before the flood or it's just like what you know did God give us details exactly about the entire ecosystem before the flood let's just go on and on about pre-flood technology is that really the most profitable thing for us to be talking about because if so wouldn't God have given more details and told us about it I mean do we really need to just go on and on about you know pre-flood technology ice dome flat earth as a disc you know let's talk about angels and demons Nephilim UFO phenomenon you know let's talk about all these weird things that don't affect the price of tea in China they don't get a single person out of hell that don't accomplish anything for the work of God and therefore basically vain janglers lazy babblers puffed up in their own fleshly mind it's time to just get off this junk and roll up the sleeves and get serious about doing the work of God and being an asset and not a hindrance to the work of God and before we talk we should study and know what we're talking about before we just start talking about stuff you know especially before you say really radical things don't just repeat radical things that you hear even if you hear them from me verify them first make sure they're true you know there's so many things where you know somebody will come out with something and then everybody just starts repeating it and it's like they haven't really thought about it for themselves because just too much work and there are people in our generation who sit down to read the Bible and after a few seconds it's like they just it's like they have ADD spiritually or just ADD physically where they can't focus but you know you got to have the discipline to just sit and read and to get big and if you want to know about other subjects besides the things of God then you have to get big thick books and start reading them start learning start studying you know if you look the perfect example of vain jangling going back to the Greek in sermons by pastors who aren't fluent in Greek see the lazy man gets up and wants to be puffed up in his fleshly mind and say oh actually if you go back to the Greek you know here's what it really means about but here's the thing you walk up to him afterward and say katala venete alinika and he's like whoa what are you saying you know and here's the thing I'm not interested in learning Hebrew Greek you know I see profit in learning Greek just because there's 15 million Greek people that you can preach the gospel to that's a great reason but you know I I don't really see a whole lot of profit in learning Hebrew just because the Jews are like the most unreceptive people on the planet so you know I'm not really interested in you know you know learning a language so I can go communicate with the people who are the least receptive people on the planet you know I'd rather learn a language that people are more receptive you know so but I'm not against people who want to learn Hebrew at all but you know what I spent time learning just enough Hebrew to learn the basic greetings of just kind of like hi how you doing do you speak Hebrew I speak a little bit would you like to have something to eat with me you know I spent some time learning those basics just so that every time one of these Hebrew roots people comes up to me with the star of Remfan around their neck and starts hawking phlegm in my presence then I just say I just I basically start speaking Hebrew to them you know shalom mashalom ha and then they're just like whoa you know oh I only know a little bit no if somebody asks you how you're doing and you can't answer that you don't know a little bit you know nothing and I've never to this day confronted a Bible teacher who went back to the Greek and walked up to him and said unto him something like you know and had him know what I was saying ever never they never do and then they'll admit well you know I know the Greek alphabet and I know how to look things up in the lexicon but look real knowledge folks you see they want the shortcut see thank God for the King James Version because the guys who translated the King James Version didn't just learn Hebrew fully they also learned Arabic say why would they learn Arabic because Arabic's related to Hebrew Arabic is actually very similar to Hebrew lots of the words are identical so you know what they wanted to have such a good understanding of the Hebrew that they said we're not just gonna learn Hebrew we're also gonna learn Arabic we're not just gonna learn Arabic we're gonna learn Aramaic and we're not just gonna learn Greek but we're gonna know Latin and we're gonna know all these related languages some of them spoke as many one of the guys spoke twenty one languages fifteen I believe it was fifteen ancient and six modern you know and he learned these languages because he wanted to really know what he was talking about he's a true scholar you know and a lot of the other guys in the in the King James there was one guy in particular that I'm thinking of he believed to his knowledge that he had read every word of Greek that was extant on the face of the earth at that time he had basically sought out everything that was written in ancient Greek that was available in that time and had read all of it okay so these are people who are serious about learning you know they're serious about knowledge but today's scholars there's something to be desired it's a joke when you talk to him and by the way James White is a joke you know you talk to James White and some of the stuff he says is so stupid and he makes foolish mistakes and you know I thought to myself because he seemed like at least like okay he knows okay you know even though he's evil and a liar and a false problem you know it's like oh you know what I thought well he seems like he does at least know the language but then you know then I started really studying more and I had the recording from our conversation it's on YouTube the whole conversation between me and him and I went back and started fact checking the stuff that he said and I found out you know this guy's not what he's cracked up to be because I noticed he's pronouncing the Greek words in a really stupid way because I learned the Greek that I've said was according to modern pronunciation which is the only pronunciation that anybody can verify okay so it's the only real pronunciation that anybody can even use with authority but you know he learned the weirdo made-up pronunciation that's always taught in seminaries cemeteries but you know of dead spiritually dead Bible theologians but basically you know I noticed he's pronouncing these words in a weird way and I just thought oh yeah he learned that weird Arasmian you know pronunciation but then I look I was looking at the Arasmian and he wasn't even pronouncing it according to that he was just pronouncing stuff wrong like he kept he kept saying over again ha days ha days ha days that's not the right way to pronounce that word in any pronunciation so it's like well how do you how do you claim to be an expert in this and you can't pronounce the word right it doesn't make any sense and then it's like oh well he's just reading it not but yeah but but even when you read it though it has the accent marks and everything there and so you know I I don't know it just makes you doubt the scholarship of these people and then when he when he when he says oh the words in the King James are archaic he said here's some archaic words a dough now look is somebody who doesn't know the English word a do ADO is pronounced ado somebody who pronounces it a dough and he pronounced in multiple interviews multiple debates he pronounced as a dough dough a deer a female deer ray a drop of golden sun you know yeah a dough I mean it's hard to take somebody seriously who's like look at RK who knows what the word ado means yeah nobody but a lot of people know what ado means you know and I mean he pronounced other words in weird ways but oh he's so knowledgeable he knows he has more knowledge in his little finger than we have in our whole bodies he's so intelligent but honestly these these Bible scholars and Bible teachers many of them are just puffed up and it's all a facade you know you need to if you want to learn you need to actually do diligence and study and you know if you wanted to say I'm a Greek expert you'd have to go to Greece or if you if you can't afford the trip to Greece you'd have to at least go to the Greek food festival you know what I mean and get around Greek people or at least go to the Greek Orthodox Church and find a bunch of Greek people and go talk to them you know that would be a serious way to actually learn the language through conversation because that's how you learn or at least you'd have to become fluent in it you know through books and tapes and and whatever but but you know what these people are not fluent but yet they want to talk about it and and you know and go on about it it's just pride it's just it's just the flesh and instead of you know talking about things that matter that aren't as trendy and cool you know everybody's out looking for the 67th book of the Bible they haven't read the 66th this is a this is exactly what we see today and so I you know I just want to admonish you tonight not to be lazy not to be slothful not to get puffed up and think that you know more than you really know when you haven't even read the Bible the initial five times yet let alone the ten times and get all puffed up and you know everything and Pastor Anderson doesn't know what he's talking about you know it's all right for you to not think that I know what I'm talking about after you've read the Bible you know many times and after you have concrete biblical reasons for and here's the thing I find it funny when somebody's like you're the best preacher that I've found so far literally that's what somebody said to me this week you're the best preacher teacher I've found so far and then literally the next day said wow how can the people in your church be so blind you're such a deceiver and a liar and you're leading them away from the truth and the true God it's like hold on a second you just said that I was your favorite pastor and teacher and then the next day you said you can't understand well how were you so stupid and blind then but it's people that are tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine and just like driven with the wind and toss build a foundation of Bible reading build a foundation and listen go yeah talk to people in the church about the Bible talk to people about doctrine that matters that matters not things that don't matter work read study and talk about things that matter that are helpful and edifying and profitable to people not just this navel gazing spoon bending you know blah blah blather blather vain jangling that's worthless and a waste of time we need to be serious about the things about and just decide look there are things our lives that don't matter cut them out of your life and get busy about the things that matter that's the great secret to getting things done well I don't have time to read the Bible cut out stupid things that don't matter and read your Bible as far as that word of prayer father we thank you so much for your word Lord and we pray that you please just help every person in our church to do a lot of reading a lot of studying Lord and just study to show themselves approved Lord help us all to to get real knowledge and not just get puffed up and think that we know everything when when in reality we know very little Lord and and Lord I pray that this will be a Bible reading church and I God I know that 90 some percent of the people in the church you know totally understand what I'm saying right now Lord but I pray that the that the that the small percentage Lord that that are puffed up would basically just understand that you know the church is your institution of learning it's the pillar and ground of the truth and it's a place to come and learn and be taught and be more ready to hear than to offer the sacrifice of fools and in Jesus name we pray amen