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You You You Well good evening everyone welcome back to Mountain Baptist Church take your songbooks and turn to song number 215 Song 215 in your songbooks will sing heaven came down and glory filled my soul and if you would stand We'll sing song 215 what am I saying am I saying something wrong? All right Like that 215 okay here we go oh What a wonderful wonderful day day, I will never forget After I wandered in darkness away Jesus my Savior I met Oh, what a tender compassionate friend. He met the need of my heart She has a spelling with joy, I am telling he made all the darkness depart Heaven came down and glory filled my soul When at the cross the Savior made me whole My sins were washed away And my night was turned to day Heaven came down and glory filled my soul Born of the Spirit with life from above into God's family divine Justified freely through Calvary's love. Oh what a standing is mine and So quickly was made when as a sinner I came Took of the offer of grace. I didn't proffer. He saved me all praises dear name Heaven came down and glory failed my soul When at the cross the Savior made me whole My sins were washed away and my night was turned to day Heaven came down and glory failed my soul Now I have hope that will surely endure after the passing of time I have a future and have for sure Future and have it for sure they're in those mansions sublime And it's because of that wonderful day when at the cross I believed Riches eternal and blessings of pearl from his precious hand I received Heaven came down and glory filled my soul When at the cross Savior made me whole My sins were washed away and my life was turned to day Heaven came down and glory filled my soul All right, let's pray Heavenly Father Lord, we just want to thank you God for today, thank you God for the Souls that were saved this past week also for the Just the services. We've had I pray Lord now that you would just receive all the honor and glory We love you in Jesus name. Amen. All right, you may be seated and Turn in your songbooks to song 288 Song 288 will sing I am resolved Song 288 I am resolved no longer to linger charmed by the world's delight Things that are higher things that are nobler these have all learned my side I Will hasten to him hasten so glad and free Jesus Greatest highest I will come to thee I Am resolved to go to the Savior faith leaving my sin and strife He is the true one. He is the just one he hath the words of life I will Hasten to him hasten so glad and free Jesus greatest highest I will come to thee I am resolved to follow the Savior faithful and true each day He what he sayeth do what he willeth he is the living way I Will hasten to him hasten so glad and free Jesus greatest highest I will come to thee Amen so welcome back to Mount Baptist Church on this Sunday evening and just some general church announcements here But first I want to get the soul winning numbers For the week, I think So there was four from brother Charles then there is a was there any on Four on Thursday The Salem yeah, so was there four on Monday four on Monday four on Thursday Yeah, brother Jim had brother Jim had to but then there was it was there on Tuesday four on Tuesday Okay, okay Tuesday was hers for Monday there was four When was there any on Wednesday? Okay, so that's that's eight and then brother Jim had to And then so that's 11 with with Dan and Ginger that's 11 for the week except for today. What do we have any today? I think brother Levi you said you had one so 12 Where'd you get where'd you guys go? Oh, yeah Yeah, we were just talking about it anyway so That's 12, and then you had how many three so 15? Wow, I prayed with a lady, but I'm just not sure So I'm just gonna be conservative but Keep up the good work with the soul winning 15 say that's good All right, so General church announcements here service times are as normal. So Lord willing Lord willing the creek don't rise, you know as they say out here in West Virginia, which a creek might rise I'm gonna be here on Wednesday to preach, you know, Lord willing on that I did continue our study through the book of Exodus. I've had that sermon written for like three weeks now I got a I got to preach it eventually So be here on on Wednesday for that and then the soul winning times There's anything different with the sewing times this week. So Monday, brother Charles Wednesday, brother Ritchie and I'm just gonna assess with with with Matt how things are going there We may have that that Tuesday time on this list here soon as long as that's gonna be a regular thing So but there's always the whatsapp. So obviously if it's like periodic we still go and it'll be fine And then upcoming events we have the men's prayer meeting at the end of the month We have the women's prayer meeting coming up at the beginning of September. We have the soul winning marathon and wheeling On September 17th, which is the day before our church anniversary and church anniversary We're gonna figure out some kind of like fellowship that we're gonna have between the services and then The Mountain Baptist Church retreat In October there and so hopefully everybody can make it out. Even those that are in college You should try to make it out so No pressure A chapter of the month 2nd John So the the book of 2nd John is what we got for this month And then 2nd Peter chapter 1 and verse 20 is our memory verse for the week we got So brother Denzel's birthdays on the August 27th. So we got to add that to the list there right August 27, so And Then anniversaries we'll have to remember to get the the Joneses Sing for them and then be in prayer for my wife pregnancy So just being prayer just be in prayer for my family in general just with this this fun time that we've had this past week And just that everything calms down and you know settles the dust settles I guess with everything. So So Yeah So how's that we had offering box in the back there we had a mother baby room so the mother baby mothers and babies only It's not all got four announcements brother days gonna come sing one more song who's reading tonight Brother Anthony is gonna be reading second Peter chapter one for us It Looks like something from the 50s or something All right, take your song books and turn to song Four hundred and seventy-two song four hundred and seventy-two We'll sing this is my father's world All right, second Peter one, all right, here we go song four hundred and seventy-two this is my father's world And to my Listening ears Oh nature sings and round me ring the music of the spheres This is my father's world I rest me in the thought of Rocks and trees of skies and seas his hand the wonders wrought This is my father's world the uppers their carols raised the morning light the lily white declare their Maker's praise This is my father's world He shines in all that's fair In the rustling grass. I hear him pass. He speaks to me everywhere This is my father's world Oh Let me ne'er forget That though the wrong seems off so strong. God is the ruler yet This is my father's world The battle is not done Jesus Who died shall be satisfied Earth and heaven be won Alright take your bowels and turn to second Peter tip number one Second Peter tip number one. We'll have brother Anthony. I'm gonna read that for us Second Peter chapter 1 Bible reads Simon Peter a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ To them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness Through a knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust and beside this giving all diligence Add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge Into knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity For if these things be in you and abound They make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ but he that lacketh these things is blind and Cannot see you far off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins Wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things you shall never fail fall For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things Though you know them and be established in the present truth Yea, I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance Knowing that shortly. I must put off this my tabernacle even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me moreover I will endeavor that ye may be able After my deceased to have these things always in remembrance for we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made Known unto the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ But were eyewitnesses of his majesty for he received from God the Father honor and glory When there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory. This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased in This voice which came from heaven we heard when we were with him in the Holy Mount we have also a more sure word of prophecy where into ye do well that you take heed as Unto a light that shineth in a dark place unto the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts Knowing this first that no prophecy of of the scripture is of any private interpretation For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man But holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost Let's pray Lord. Thank you for your word. And thank you for this time. We can gather all back together and continue to study it I pray to you be with Pastor Robinson film with the Holy Spirit and help us all to learn Jesus name. I pray So you're there in second Peter chapter 1 and I am continuing my series on NIFB or defining that that that acronym if you will as far as how we basically Label or put a signifier on what type of church we are and so obviously it stands for new independent fundamental Baptist and I'm kind of going backwards with this. So you have Baptist obviously we hit on that last week. That was last week, right? I wasn't sick, right? So I'm trying to remember what days I'm on here As far as why we're Baptist. Why is it Mountain Baptist Church? And now we're getting into why are we a fundamental Baptist Church? And so you kind of as you go down the line Through history. I feel like these things get added because they kind of need to give a little more information about I'm not just a Baptist I'm a fundamental Baptist. I'm not just a fundamental Baptist I'm an independent fundamental Baptist and nowadays it's it's there's another signifier, which I'm not Just an independent fundamental Baptist. I'm a new independent fundamental Baptist and what that all entails. Okay, so and You could and I'll just say this to anybody the church You don't have to go around saying that you're an independent fundamental Baptist, you know, you could just say hey I go to Mountain Baptist Church, you know and leave it at that But I believe it's a good way to kind of just show a lot of where we stand on the issues Where we stand as far as the church if someone's looking for our church again here We all we already know we stand for what we believe But I think it's a good idea to have a signifier just so people from the outside can look in and say, okay I know what that church is about just based off those four words. So you never know there might be another signifier that we need later on because To delineate, you know between that and other new independent fundamental Baptist, you know I mean like because independent fundamental Baptist wasn't always a thing You know like that kind of came to be to signa to separate from other Baptists and all that but let's get into what is a fundamentalist? Okay. So what does it mean to be a fundamentalist? Okay, so Again, I go to my my main source of Wikipedia, you know And here's thing though The reason I go to this is because not that I didn't get my definition necessarily from this But it's what what people are gonna look at as far as what they believe is a fundamentalist because that term Fundamentalist, you know like being in the fundamentals is basically like the primary like you think about the fundamental who here is taking like a Course in the fundamentals of chemistry or the fundamentals of physics or you know Whatever course you may take there's like the fundamentals of something And it's kind of like the primary like foundational stuff, right when you're taking the fundamentals of something you're not in the advanced like realm of You know, I mean you're not into the nitty-gritty details of it You're more so just dealing with like the basic like foundational things that you're dealing with right? Fundamentals of that math you're gonna need to know your numbers, right? You're gonna need no addition subtraction, you know, like all that but according to Wikipedia here Christian fundamentalism Also also known as fundamental Christianity or fundamentalist Christian Christianity is a religious movement emphasizing biblical literalism Okay, so if you want to know what just very simply what it means when we say we're fundamentalists we take the Bible literally That's essentially like bottom-shelf the Bible's literal now the Bible's literal Unless it's obvious that it's not. Okay, so that's the way to read the Bible obviously first of all, you need to be saved because the natural man receiveth not the things that Spirit of God and now they can you know them for their foolishness unto because he's spiritually discerned so Obviously you need to be saved to even understand the Bible but at the same time When you're dealing with it, there's gonna be times where it's gonna be obviously not literal Right. I mean you think about the big one is that when the Beast comes out of the sea having ten seven heads and ten horns and It's a you know, obviously that's going to not Actually be how the Antichrist pops up on the scene. Okay So but they all have meanings and it's symbolistic right the woman that's clothed with the Sun all that So there's gonna be times where like that's clearly figurative But what people that aren't fundamentalists do is they basically spiritualize everything and nothing's literal Like they basically just the flood that's not a literal story creation. That's not a literal story. It's all just basically a Made-up story to give you some spiritual understanding. Okay, so to give you the other side that's that's being not a fundamentalist Fundamentalist is like we believe in the six-day creation. We believe the flood actually happened like it said You know, basically you read through Genesis. We're like it's reading a history book That's being a fundamentalist. Okay at the core of being a fundamentalist. So But go to second Peter chapter one. Well, and I'm gonna read to you I'm gonna read to you another portion of the Wikipedia statement of what they believe is a fundamentalist And again, we want to have signifiers That basically people are gonna understand like hey, this is what this is what they're talking about So one we're Baptist. So that tells you. Hey, we we believe in faith alone Baptist our faith alone salvation, right? I mean, that's just what the world, you know, what Wikipedia would say on that they believe in believers baptism So we're not baptizing people like that aren't even able to believe yet and we baptized by immersion You know and going down the line as far as just the simple things of being a Baptist But we're not just that we also read the Bible and say hey We believe in a literal six-day creation. We believe in the flood. We believe all these stories We believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale We take that literally. Okay, that's being a fundamentalist. It says fundamentalists are all almost always describes a Described as upholding beliefs in biblical infallibility So this is a big reason because there's a lot of Baptists that don't believe that the Bible is infallible meaning that they they believe there's errors in it and in biblical inerrancy So basically these are just big words that basically mean that the Bible is perfect Without error, okay in Keeping with traditional Christian doctrine concerning biblical interpretation the role of Jesus in the Bible and the role of the church in society Fundamentalists usually believe in a core of Christian beliefs that includes the Historical accuracy of the Bible and all the events which are recorded in it as well as the second coming of Jesus Christ Okay. So basically we believe that he's literally going to come back They all goes back to the literal meaning right? We're literally taking saying hey, we believe the Bible is Is Inherent meaning that it's infallible. It's it's perfect We believe that Jesus is actually going to come back. Like he said he was going to come back, you know And and when it comes to this, I'm gonna be getting into just some points as far as being a fundamentalist This isn't gonna be all-inclusive or anything like that, but just kind of give you an idea Of things that we believe would be considered a fundamentalist type of view Okay, so go to 2nd Peter chapter 1 and the first is that the Bible is The Word of God, it's authored by God actually, I was talking to a lady and giving her the gospel today and this came up, you know as far as The idea that well did men write that and you know How does that work and I don't think she was saying she wasn't saying it in like a light of like well men wrote the Bible You know, it's more so just a question, you know of the infallibility of the Word of God essentially Second Peter chapter 1 verse 19 It says we have also immersed more sure word of prophecy Where until you do well that you take heed as until a light that shineth in a dark place Until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts knowing this first That no prophecy of the scriptures of any private interpretation For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man But holy men of God spake as they are moved by the Holy Ghost So when it comes to this What we believe when it comes to the Word of God is the fact that it's not like well, this is my interpretation This is your interpretation and both are fine. No, there's a literal interpretation of it There is the interpretation of it and it only one can be right. Okay, obviously there's layers To an interpretation meaning this is that sometimes they'll be like the literal meaning Okay, and each passage has a literal meaning that it's getting across but then there may be like a secondary meaning or like a dual meaning as far as far as like for example You can think of I'm just trying to think of a simple one right now, but Elijah coming forth right talks about in Malachi how Elijah he's gonna send forth the Prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord And that day is when Jesus comes back the second time and and But that scripture was also fulfilled in John and John prepared the way of the Lord But that was kind of the the true fulfillment of that of Elijah physically coming doesn't happen until later on That makes sense. So but either way you're kind of dealing with the fact that he's coming and And all that. Okay, so I Don't know that's the best example But the idea here is that you have like this you have a literal meaning But then you can have a spiritual meaning out of it, right? And I mean think of you know, Cain and Abel right Cain and Abel You can have the literal meaning of that story of like hey Cain killed his brother because he did that was just right He'd and Cain didn't do what was right and that's why he killed him boom That's the literal story that happened but then you have the spiritual aspect of the children of God and the children of the devil and how they're you know, The children of the devil want to kill the children of God and there's enmity between them and getting into that spiritual aspect there right, so but when it comes to when we read the Bible let's say there was three people in the room here and I read a verse and Let's say, you know, we all three had a different interpretation Only one could be right or none of us would be right, right? It's possible that none of us had the right interpretation of it. Does that make sense? We could all be at the wrong conclusion, but here's what can't be we can't we can't all be right Two of us can't be right. You can't be saying two different things. The verse is saying two different things at the same time Okay It's like when people say well, you know, you believe it's by faith alone. That's your interpretation My interpretation it is not by faith alone. Well, one of us is wrong And Obviously they're wrong because the Bible is very clear that that it's by faith alone It's not by works of righteousness, which we have done But I go to 2nd Peter chapter 3 2nd Peter chapter 3 So when it comes to being fundamentalist we take things literally there's there's there's no private Interpretation like where it's this is my truth, right of the passage. This is my interpretation of it There is the interpretation Does that make sense? There's like the right interpretation and then there's wrong interpretations And so if your private interpretation may not be the right one okay, so And this is where it just people are just like well, you know, that's their way that's their way that no listen There's the right way and there's the wrong way and the wrong way is very broad and there's a lot of different wrong ways There's one right way and that's where we stand on issues that there's the right way we need to go down that path So in 2nd Peter chapter 3 in verse 1 and listen, it's not to say that I can't have a wrong interpretation Okay but at the same time They can't both be right. Okay, and there's been times where I've looked at a passage and I've Gone one route with the interpretation of it and then I've had to change my mind be like no actually that's wrong It's actually this I'm not gonna say well, it's both You know, they're saying completely different things So in 2nd Peter chapter 3 in verse 1 this really gets into the fact that One we believe in the literal stories of the Bible. We believe these stories happen And we're kind of going through these big stories It's kind of fitting that when we're going through the six-day creation We're talking about Adam and Eve these aren't just figurative stories That's where you're not a fundamentalist is when you think that these are just figurative stories These are just stories to help you through life. Who here is the gone-out soul-winding and it's like, yeah I think the Bible is a good guide, you know, they're cool stories to kind of just help you guide yourself through life And the question I was like what about that story is guiding you through life You know what I mean like how is that like where are you like pulling out some information is be like man This is really helping me out. I learned that you know, this was created on this day and That's gonna really help me in life right now You know So I never hear the actual interpretation that they come up with and why it's just figurative But second Peter chapter 3 in verse 1 it says this second epistle beloved I now write unto you in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets of the commandments of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior knowing this first that there shall come in the last day scoffers walking out their own lusts and saying where is the promise of his Coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation So it's talking about these scoffers that are coming in basically saying, you know They're doubting the second coming of Christ essentially, right? And one of the big things of fundamentalism is the fact that we do believe that Jesus is gonna literally come back again That he's literally gonna come back. This isn't figurative. This isn't just like well It's gonna look like he's coming back or anything like that. He's gonna literally come back and Every eye is gonna see him. Okay, and And they're basically questioning that they're like, well, you know, where's the promise of his coming, you know Everything's just like it was from the beginning But then it says in verse 5 for this they willingly ignorant They willingly are ignorant of of what that by the Word of God the heavens were of old there's a six-day creation and The earth standing out of the water and in the water. Here's the flood Whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished But the heavens and the earth which are now by the same word are kept in store Reserved them to fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men So that's all literal. Hey by the Word of God. The worlds were framed the Bible says and He spoke everything into existence. So we hit the six-day creation. That's a literal story that literally happened That's how everything came to be in six days He spoke this world into existence and on the seventh day he rested Okay, but then also the flood the water the earth standing out of the water and in the water and That it overflowed and was perished, you know talks about and obviously there's other passages on in second Peter chapter 2 he talks about how he spared not the old world and Just getting into that and obviously that we already preset sermon this morning on the flood But did you hear me at any time saying listen? You know, this is just kind of a fairy tale, but you know, we need we need to learn some lessons from this, okay We just need to be not violent, you know, we need to be less violent And that's what they'll do is they'll basically say well, you know This is just a story to kind of show that God's angry when people are violent and you know He's so angry that he would flood, you know, like flood everybody and kill everybody except for like eight people No, he literally did kill everybody but eight people. Okay, and that's a literal story that actually happened and You may say to yourself and and and children you may say to yourself well, you know What Christian wouldn't believe those stories a? lot now I'll say this when I say Christian I use that term loosely, okay Because he does of God here at God's Word he therefore here the not because you're not of God when people just openly deny Genesis and openly deny these stories in the Bible You know, don't tell me you're saved when you just completely deny it's one thing to be like ignorant about it. Okay, that's okay You don't know the Bible right, but if you're just reading through gonna be like that's false. That's wrong. That didn't happen Give me a break Don't tell me you're saved And you know and I'm not like putting out extra stipulations. I'm just telling you that you know what? Hereby know we the spirit of truth the spirit of error Here, you know and it talks about he that here at us is of God, you know it's talking about the Apostles the words of the Apostles the commandments of the Apostles and You know getting into the the idea of what the fact that you're gonna know the Shepherd's voice. Okay, and so when it comes to Knowing these stories are literal You know that that's something that Is a fundamental trait just core, right? I mean think about it I'm preaching through these stories because they're fundamental stories, aren't they? The creation Adam and Eve Cain and Abel the flood. These are fundamental stories Where these are stories where people like yeah, that didn't really happen It didn't all just start with Adam Eve, you know, God created everything through evolution There's evolutionary Theists if you will be basically people that are Christians Claim to be Christians and they're just like pushing the fact that God created everything through evolution It was millions of years and they just completely say that Genesis is just a spiritual story That's what you call a non fundamentalist. Okay, so and you know fundamentalists get get labeled you know basically as being What's the term simple, you know Basically when when I say simple, they're basically saying simple-minded. Okay, they're basically saying we're uneducated You know, we were educated and knew about you know, how they date everything and how you know You know We were educated in science and we would also believe in evolution and say that well We just have to say that God did it that way. Yeah, the Bible never teaches anything like that so a fundamentalist is someone that says you know what I believe the Bible and Anything that contradicts the Bible is rejected out of hand and by the way, the Bible is not scientifically inaccurate Okay, because everything that the world is trying to throw at the story of Genesis doesn't stick The idea that everything got evolved they can't prove any of that They can't prove that the earth is billions or millions of years old or whatever. They can't prove any of that Now they stated as if it's fact but you know what you can keep saying that all day long doesn't make it true You Know I can't stand up here and say that I'm seven foot tall all day long, but that's not gonna make it true You know and that's what these people do and and Christians or the Christian Umbrella if you will people at Christianity as a whole a lot of times just follow this hook line and sinker. I Mean, I remember when I got saved I didn't really even know I just knew That I knew that there was dinosaurs and I knew that you know Like they found they find these bones and all this stuff and I just you know, obviously I I thought that was true And everything which obviously I still do think they're dinosaurs and they find these bones But you you you watch the land before time, you know as a kid and it's like before man. There's no man around There's no woman around there's no one around it's just dinosaurs and they're basically saying millions of years ago. It's Before land before time they're basically saying before man or anybody came on the scene And then when I got saved I'm like, how does this fit, you know, how does like Adam and Eve and my creation? How's that fit with what the world is telling me with dinosaurs and how they were way before man came on the scene? And then I realized oh they're making it up Right because then you're like, oh wait a minute Okay, there's dinosaurs, but it's not like they're saying it is they're not they didn't come before us and then we evolved You know because when you're a kid as a you know a boy, you know, I love dinosaurs You know, there's just certain things. I mean my kids like dinosaurs and they're you know, my girls like dinosaurs and there's something just cool about dinosaurs, but here's the thing they lie about it or they just make up stuff and Ultimately, they're making it up because they don't want to believe the Bible. They're trying to discredit the Bible I found a fundamentalist though says, you know what? No, I believe the Bible and what you're trying to shove down my throat You're gonna have to prove to me and they can't prove it Okay, and it's not that now there's some fundamentalists that are just completely ignorant And I've heard I've heard Baptist preachers. Just basically say hey, you know You know, basically they they glory and being simple-minded and I think that's a sin, you know Because you know, how long? Will you love simplicity you simple ones and fools despise knowledge, you know there It's it's foolishness to want to be simple-minded. Okay and not be educated on the issue. Okay, but ultimately though The Bible is simple. It's simple to understand It's not that complex and when people try to make like the story of knowing the flood this super complex thing No, it's just it is what it is. I just read it to you this morning And it's kind of went through a step-by-step. Is there anything that complicated about what happened? No, but it's hard to swallow When you have to take it by faith and it and it and it flies in the face with what the world tells you Okay, but that's being a fundamentalist being a fundamentalist says, you know what? I take that literally I believe that's right I believe that's exactly what happened So, how about this and and go to Exodus chapter 20 in Psalm 11 verse 3 it says if the foundations be destroyed. What can the righteous do? We have to all when I think about fundamental being a fundamental Baptist I think about a Baptist that is taking care of the foundational truths That is holding the foundation as being the the most important portion part of what we believe The Bible is perfect without error, you know, we take the the Bible to be literal and When you do that, you're gonna have these foundational truths like the six-day creation You know the flood Just going down the line. You're gonna say hey that actually happened that actually happened. Jesus actually walked on water Jesus actually fed five thousand and four thousand with just some loaves of bread and a little bit of loaves of bread and a little bit of fish When it should be impossible Jesus actually rose people from the dead. Jesus actually rose from the dead literally That's being a fundamentalist Obviously, there's gonna be people that don't call themselves fundamentalists that will Subscribe to some of these things right? They may say well, you know creation Yeah, you know that didn't really happen the way it said but we believe that Jesus actually rose from the dead literally That doesn't mean that they're saved, you know, because a lot of times they don't believe it's by faith alone They think they could lose their salvation all that. Okay, but Exodus chapter 20 the six-day creation I know we already hit on this but Just so you know, the Bible is referring to the story as if it actually happened It's not like when we're talking about this commandment of remembering the Sabbath that they were given to Israel to keep there's a reason they're remembering the Sabbath because they're remembering what God already did and It says remember the Sabbath day in verse 8 there to keep it Holy six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work thou Nor thy son nor thy daughter thy manservant nor thy maidservant nor thy cattle nor thy stranger that is within thy gates for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is and rest of the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it very clear if Anybody who's just reading this just just just reading this excerpt they would say the Lord created everything in six days six little days that you'd have in a week and He rested on the seventh. So it's just a seven-day week So we take that literally And That's being a fundamentalist. The Word of God is preserved. It's infallible Go to Psalm 12 Psalm 12 and verse 6 Psalm 12 verse 6 I Mean in order to really take the Bible literally you do have to believe that it is accurate, right? I mean who would take it literally if you're just like, yeah, I'm not sure if this is true Like that wouldn't make any sense So you kind of have to have first in place that the Word of God is perfect without error Before you're gonna really take it to the T literal. Okay, and A lot of times people don't take it literally because they don't believe it's perfect Now in Psalm 12 verse 6 It says the words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in the furnace of earth purified seven times Thou shalt keep them O Lord thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever We believe in the preservation of the Word of God We believe that God is going to preserve it from this generation forever And that it's never going to go out of existence go to Matthew chapter 5 just to give you some other verses on this Matthew chapter 5 and verse 18 Matthew chapter 5 and verse 18 Matthew chapter 5 verse 18 and For those that call themselves Christian that want to say that the Word of God isn't complete right now or that you know We don't have all of the Word of God right now. I'd like to ask him did Jesus lie here When he says in verse 18 But for verily I say unto you till heaven and earth pass one jot or one tittle shall know wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled and Matthew 24 and verse 35 says heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away So one of the big keys of being a fundamentalist is one bit taking it literally but to the infallibility and inerrancy of the Word of God now obviously We take it to we believe the King James Bible is that okay? That's why you know on our if you look at our all our list of like what we are or soul winning or King James Bible only So we believe the word is infallible, but we believe it's in the King James Bible So we're not gonna say that about the NIV. We're not gonna say that about the ESV But we do believe the King James Bible in English language is infallible I also believe that the Greek and Hebrew is infallible as well, but you know what? most people aren't just going around speaking Greek and Hebrew right now and Right now the world is being evangelized by the english-speaking people and God preserved it in that language And if the Greek and Hebrew fell off the face of the earth And we didn't have it anymore Guess what the Word of God is going to be in English and if English falls off the face of the earth the Word of God Is gonna be put somewhere else? It's never going away, and it's not bound to any certain language So Whereas other people would say well, we don't really have it perfectly in English and in the Greek Maybe we're trying to make sure we have it perfectly, but they they wouldn't say it's inerrant. They would say like hey, you know Time will tell you know whether it's really perfect and whether we have it all or not, you know So why yeah, why would they take it literally? If that's what they believe okay But you know why it's important go to 1st Peter chapter 1 1st Peter chapter 1 and verse 22 Why is this an important thing that we believe that the Word of God is perfect? Because It's a heaven it's a heaven or hell issue like I said we're dealing with fundamentals, which is the foundational truth, right? If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do? If we don't have the Word of God basically what we believe is the fundamentals is that the Word of God is our final authority Now in the Baptist name is it that is entailed in that But let's just be honest You know Southern Baptists. They don't do that A lot of these Baptists they don't do that. They may say it right on the surface. Yeah, the Bible's our final authority But it's really not Because they're using some other and they're basically saying well there's errors in this and there's errors in that and this has mistakes We got to go back to the Greek We got to do this and they don't know Greek and you know They're just basically making up stuff and they're not really holding to it literally and they just wherever they don't want it to be literal They go back to the Greek and make up something Okay So first Peter chapter 1 verse 22 says seeing ye have purified your souls and obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently being born again not of corruptible seed, but if Incorruptible by the Word of God. So what's incorruptible? What's the incorruptible seed the Word of God? Which liveth and abideth forever. So there's your inspiration and preservation all in one verse right there inspiration meaning It's alive. It's quick and powerful and sharpened any two-edged sword But it abideth forever meaning it's preserved from this generation forever. It is it is going to forever be there Okay, and we believe it's in the King James Bible, but you if you would come and say well I don't believe it's the King James Bible. Where is it then? Because do you not believe that it's gonna it's gonna be preserved or do you believe that those verse all those verses I read to you are Just they're all incorrect right And it says for all fleshes as grass and all the glory of man is a flower of grass The grass withers and the flower thereof falleth away but the word of the Lord endureth forever and this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you because faith cometh by Hearing and hearing by the Word of God, you're born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word of God And so this is this is a fundamental truth. This is a foundational truth that the Word of God is incorruptible and And I don't see how someone could call themselves a Christian a Bible believing Christian and not be fundamental on this issue Okay, so obviously we're not just a fundamentalist Christian. We're a fundamentalist Baptist okay, because you can find fundamentalists in like Amish and fundamentalists and and Mormonism, you know, you can find fundamentalists in any type of Religion right where they take it to the T fundamentals Muslim, you know Like there's all kinds of different fundamentalists or fundamentalists Baptists, right? So I'm not going to say hey, we're a fundamentalist Church What kind of church though, right? Yeah. I'm a fundamentalist Baptist Church Okay, and those two have to go together I'd rather if you if I was gonna have to take all the other monikers and all the other signifiers off I'm gonna keep Baptist. Okay But the other signifiers tell me a little more information I'm not just a Baptist I'm a Baptist that believes the Word of God is perfect I'm a Baptist that takes the Word of God literally So that's where fundamentalists comes into play. Okay. How about another one? We believe in Soul winning door-to-door. We believe in preaching the gospel to every creature. Okay, go to a Proverbs chapter. Well, actually go to Matthew Chapter 28. I'm gonna read to you Proverbs 11 30 just so you know, like soul winning is a biblical term The fruit of the righteous is the tree of life and he that win his souls is wise, okay? So he that win his souls would be a soul winner And that's the fruit of a righteous. That's the fruit of the righteous. Okay, there's fruits of righteousness That's different than the fruit of the righteous meaning that that's the fruit of a Christian bringing forth another Christian Winning a soul if you will that is what we're talking about there the fruit of the righteous. So we believe in in Exactly what Jesus taught his disciples to do to go out and preach the gospel. We believe that's what we're supposed to do That's a fundamental doctrine, right? I mean because what people are gonna do is they're gonna be like well, you know That's the way they did it back then but you know, we're just gonna do it this way And ultimately, I'm not saying that Door-to-door is the only way to win people to Christ because you can win people to Christ all over the place Okay, but here's a fundamental truth. Our main form of soul winning is door-to-door And then we branch out from that and do other things as well Okay, but we're never gonna get rid of the door-to-door soul winning. Okay, because you say well You know, what about like just go on to marketplaces and go in the place of where people are at That's fine and dandy and that's that's great I mean Paul did it he went and met with people in the marketplace that would meet with him and he preached the gospel And he would go in the synagogues and preach the gospel in there. I don't recommend doing that today You know, let's go over to the synagogue and start preaching the gospel I don't think they're gonna you're gonna be sitting there be like, hey brother. What do you have to say? you know, yeah and getting up there preach, but But but the reason that we do door-to-door and I'm gonna show you some verses on this The reason that we do door-to-door because it's the most methodical way to try to reach everybody Because there's gonna be some people that are just not going to be out at that Location where you're gonna see a lot of people I got, you know, I don't know You know what you think about people just walking around the park or whatever. That's all good You know to go like up to that person individually. Obviously, I'm against street preaching. Okay, street preaching just doesn't work. It's obnoxious Don't do it. Okay, but at the same time door-to-door, that's how we're gonna mark off Okay, we hit all this that and are we gonna miss people? I'm sure but I believe that that's the way that God laid it out to be the most methodical like hey Let's make sure we you know, turn over every stone if you will Okay now in Matthew chapter 28 verse 18 It says in Jesus came and spake unto them saying all power is given unto me in heaven and earth Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Ghost Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever commanded you and though I'm with you all wait even unto the end of the world. Amen This wasn't just given to his disciples He's teaching them to one preach them the gospel to teach all nations But then to the baptized them which obviously that gets into our Baptist name And then three teaching them to observe all things whatsoever. I've commanded you. Okay what do you command them teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost and Teaching them to observe all things that now they're supposed to be teaching It's this cycle that's supposed to go down the line because the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith And it goes down the line like that Okay So that being said is that we take that literally that hey that commandment Was not just to his disciples in that day that's to us as well You don't have to turn there But in Mark chapter 16 and verse 15 it says and he said unto them go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature Go to Mark chapter 6 though Mark chapter 6 and verse 7. This isn't this is where he's commanding the 12 to go out and preach the gospel and to also, you know, he was giving them power to basically You know heal people of unclean spirits heal people with sicknesses, you know casting out devils all that stuff, right? but in Mark chapter 6 and verse 7 says and he called unto them the twelve and began to send them forth by two and two and Gave them power over unclean spirits two and two. This is why we go You say why do we go two by two out soul winning because that's what Jesus had his disciples do because we're fundamental on that Issue okay. Now there's times where we'll have three I mean there's times where Peter I mean when Peter went to preach the gospel of Cornelius He had more than one person with them So I'm not saying like it's just anathema to have more than than two, but I'll say this We really try not to have just one Okay And sometimes it happens. It is what it is We get split up and you're just there at the door by yourself or whatever, but let's just let's just face it We're trying to go two by two We don't just come here and be like listen, you know what I know we have ten groups But we could have twenty groups if we just go one at a time You know each one of us hits the door by ourselves without anybody with us. No We're going two and two because that's the way Jesus laid it out I believe that you know, and especially after experiencing soul winning you realize why it should be two and two Okay, there's many reasons Why that works the best God's right? Let's do it his way Okay Now and go to Luke chapter 10 Luke chapter 10, so that's to the 12 Like well, I was just to the 12 You know, that's not to us. Well, he had 70 others that he sent out as well It says in Luke chapter 10 verse 1 It says after these things the Lord appointed other 70 also and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whether he himself would come Therefore said he unto them the harvest truly is great But the laborers are few pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labors into his harvest go your ways Behold I send you forth as lambs among wolves. I mean, let me ask this question Why would you pray for laborers if well know that was only to the 70? Right, there's only to the 12. There's only to the 70. No, he's praying for more laborers To what go to and to and to every city Right we take this literally that's what our church if you're to put what new I&P is about it's about soul-winning What's our work about? What are we trying to do here? We're trying to win the lost The Great Commission win the lost get them baptized and then teach them to do the likewise That is the ending that is like our modus operandi if you want to know what we're about And you say well, I thought you're about hard preaching Yeah, we're for hard preaching so we can go out so winning get people baptized and teach them to deserve all things I thought you're about all you know doctrine and knowing a bunch of doctors. Yeah, we're about doctrine So we go out soul-winning so we can get people baptized and so that we can get them to do likewise. I Thought you were about like having good marriages and having a good family and raise them Yeah, we're about that So we go out soul-winning and so that we can get them baptized and we can teach them to observe all things and that our Kids will do the same and that their kids will do the same and that generation after generation will do the same Because that's being a fundamentalist that's saying you know what I believe this way they did it back then That's exactly how we should do it today Now they didn't have cars back then so it's not like in here It's like oh, you know thou shalt carpool to the the destination, you know Obviously there's Liberty in there and like how we get there and and you know, how far we travel and all that It doesn't say where you have to eat at, you know You must eat a Panera bread when you go on a soul-winning marathon Obviously, there's a lot of Liberty around that but here's the thing when we do a soul-winning marathon we go to and to When we go so many throughout the week to and to We we try to get people saved we try to get him baptized we try to get him to observe all things That is what we do. That's being a fundamentalist to what Jesus commanded us to do Go to Acts chapter 5 verse 42 Acts chapter 5 verse 42, you should show you a couple more verses on this Because when I think about being a fundamentalist obviously I you know The idea being a fundamentalist Baptist is that we take that we believe the Word of God is perfect without error and we take it literally But here's some principles on what we take literally Okay, obviously the stories we take literally But these commandments that are given to us we're taking literally Acts chapter 5 verse 42 it says in daily in the temple and in every house they cease not to teach and preach Jesus Christ How about Acts chapter 20 verse 20 Acts chapter 20 in verse 20 Acts chapter 20 and verse 20 It says in how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you But have showed you and have taught you publicly and from house to house Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ You know the Bible talks about how I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation To the Jew first and also to everyone to believe it to the Jew first and also to the Greek That's what he's doing from house to house and So we take that literally we go house to house door to door two by two preaching the gospel So Like I said a Lot of people will call, you know Fundamentalist, you know, I think the Babylon I always think about the Babylon bee because I'm pretty sure the Babylon bees run by a Reformed Baptist Just because of everybody else they make fun of except for the Reformed guys Like the Reformed got you know, like when I talk about Reformed guys, they're just a little more kind of like not as Down on it, you know, but they call the one phrase that always sticks out to me is they call fundamentalists fundees and so they'll kind of like talk down, you know, and the idea is that We'll be accused of being simple minded Because we keep it we keep most what we do is on the bottom shelf really, right? I mean, it's the core things that are very simple to understand We're not just up here with this high vocabulary and just everything we do has to be like this this, you know Secret language of like words that they use or that you know what we're gonna exegete this passage tonight And I'm going to show you some true hermeneutics tonight on how yeah, it's just They these are all real words, but at the same time like no one talks like that Jesus didn't talk like that Okay, when you when you hear Jesus talking to people, you know a woman at the well, did he talk like that to her? He said hey, you know, he's talking about drawing draw me out water And It's just you just talk to him like a normal person. Okay, that doesn't mean that Jesus was simple-minded It just means that he talked in a simple manner to people so they can understand him So don't confuse being easily understood as being simple-minded Okay, because you can be very intelligent and speak in a simple manner to people and that is the point of preaching by the way the point of preaching is to take something that's complex and Unpack it and show it to people so they can understand it. Simply. That's my job And if I if I if I can't do that if you're just like I have no idea what you're talking about Then I'm not doing my job Because what's the point of that, you know, let me read a passage to you me like got that. All right, let's move on the whole point of me preaching is to give the sense of the passage in the understanding and In order to do that you have to speak in a simple manner in order for people to grasp it, okay now Second Corinthians chapter 1 verse 12 says this Is this for our rejoicing is this the testimony of our conscience? That in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdom But by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly to you were You know what he's saying we you weren't using these these fair speeches You know great swelling words of vanity You know what? Spoke in simplicity and godly sincerity Not in fleshly wisdom and a lot of times when these people get up, you know I'm speaking more to like the Reform Baptist guys You know the Reformers and they're just like up here high up in their vocabulary But it's it's fleshly wisdom is what it is And it's not in godly sincerity. They're not doing it. So that people will understand they're doing it to make themselves look smart They're flexing their intellectual muscles if you will Look at me and how much vocabulary I know. All right, dr. Fat bottom, but who in this in the pews can understand what you're saying And so When it comes to being fundamental, we're accused of being simple You know what? Yeah, we preach in a manner. That's simplistic We we what we do in life is it is simplistic because notice what says in second Corinthians chapter 11 verse 3 Don't start complicating things that are simple In second Corinthians chapter 11 in verse 3 It says but I fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety So your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ You know what ends up happening when people start making things complicated that they're simple. They start muddying the water on salvation Believable Lord Jesus Christ now shall be saved in thy house For God so loved the world he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have everlasting life Simple, isn't it? What do people do they complicate it? So Being fundamentalist is Keeping things on the bottom shelf exactly what the Bible says and listen, there are complex things in the Bible Okay, go to Hebrews chapter 5 there's milk of the word and then there's strong meat But listen if you don't have the fundamentals down you need to stay on milk The Problem is you have these people like the Reform Baptist or you have people that are like in these these high Theological realms like Presbyterians will be in that group and other people will be in these these high lofty seats of you know being an intellectual or whatever and They'll be talking about all this this this supposed strong meat, but they got the milk wrong. They got the fundamentals wrong You know what that does messes up everything else If the foundation is wrong everything on top of it's going to be wrong You ever heard you know the idea of how you know You ever talk to somebody and they're like, hey Let me explain this to you and then the first thing they say is wrong and you're like I can't even listen to the rest of this Right. They start off with a false premise They start off with something that's completely off base and then they're like building off of that They're building off this whole false premise and you're just like everything you have to say after this even if in isolation What you're saying is true about this over here. It's completely wrong because it's based off this false idea. You started it off with It's like well, we know that this is true and it's like not true at all and everything's based off of that. So If you had to have the fundamentals down you have to have the foundation down or everything that you build off that's gonna be wrong Okay Imagine if you're gonna take the Bible and and you start off with salvation's by works Well everything you come to conclusions with in Scripture is gonna be completely wrong then Now Hebrews chapter 5 verse 12 here. It says for when for the time you ought to be teachers You have need that one teach you again Which be the first principles of the oracles of God and are becomes such as that need of milk and not a strong meat For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness for he is a babe But strong meat belonging to them that are full age even those who by reason of use Have their senses exercises discern both good and evil So When it comes to the Word of God and being skillful in the Word of God, you better have those those First principles of the doctrines of Christ the first principles of the oracles of God, which is the Word of God You better have that stuff down You're gonna be a teacher to the word. You better have the fundamentals down So If people don't want to be called a fundamentalist, oh, I'm not a fundamentalist that's simple stuff over there Well, then you're messed up on everything else then And listen a fundamentalist Baptist can get deep on doctrine and listen We've gotten deep down deep in doctrine at this church but it doesn't mean that I'm gonna lay aside the fact that the Word of God is perfect and that these stories are literal stories in The Bible and that we take it that there's only one interpretation. There's no private interpretation of these verses I'm not gonna get a stray away from that as I'm teaching it You know, it's kind of like when people say oh you're going into that that doctrine right there with with preconceived ideas And they'll be like you shouldn't go into it with preconceived ideas. You better have some presuppositions though That the Word of God is right without error If you're gonna go into like studying a doctrine and you don't believe that the Word of God is Is without error then you're gonna have problems now, you're gonna be like, well, that's may not even be true So when it comes to Doctrines obviously need to have the foundations notice it says in Hebrew chapter 6 and verse 1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ. Let us go on to on the perfection Not laying in the foundation So he's basically saying let's leave the principles. Let's leave the foundation. Let's leave these first principles of the oracles of God Let's go on to perfection, you know, let's let's uh, let's go further Okay, so I'm not against going above and beyond the principles, but don't leave those out Okay You have to have the foundation there And that's being a fundamentalist is having the foundational truths of the Bible down pat. They don't move and Then it says here's the foundation of repentance from dead works and the faith toward God So you're trusting in your dead works to get you to heaven you need to repent and believe the gospel and believe that it's by faith alone I Keep reading there. It says of the doctrine of baptisms of the dock of the laying on of hands of resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment and This will we do if God permit it's basically saying let's go on to perfection and not laying this foundational truths again But here's the thing. You can't go on under perfection. You can't go on to the strong meat unless you get those doctrines down Fundamentals, okay, you're not going to go into advanced chemistry if you've never gotten into the fundamentals of chemistry You have to do that first. You can't skip that step and So when I say we're fundamentalist, I'm not saying that hey, listen, we're only going to talk about these these foundational doctrines I'm not saying that Okay, because obviously we preached on things that are not just foundational doctors I preached on many doctrines that are not just like like if you disagree on on that that issue. It's not like You know, we don't have break fellowship, right? But listen, if you don't believe that the King James Bible is perfect And this isn't church for you If you don't believe that salvation is by faith alone and that you can't lose your salvation this church isn't for you If you don't like soul winning and you're gonna put wet blanket on soul winning this church isn't for you I'm not saying that you have to go so and become this church But you better not be putting a wet blanket on it. You better not be against soul winning. This church isn't for you Okay If you're expecting me to get sermons from down from some other Preachers and you want this church to be some denomination this church isn't for you I mean, there's there's things that are gonna be fundamental truths and being independent is another sermon that's coming to you know soon, but Now when it comes to being fundamental obviously the principles of these doctrines But another thing the last thing I want to hit on I'll be done is just standards Okay, when you think about someone being a fundamentalist, it's just the idea of them having Tight strict standards. Okay now Some of this goes too far. Okay, you know, it's kind of like for example clothing You know, it says in Deuteronomy 22 5 it says the woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man Neither shall a man put on a woman's garment for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God This isn't a whole sermon on clothing. But listen, it really comes down to this men should wear pants women should wear skirts dresses Okay, and then there's a lot of Liberty in that you say well, you know these these pants that I'm wearing aren't They're not man's pants there, you know, yeah, but are they modest like because you think about like skin tight pants, right? Like you're wearing yoga pants. It's like well, you're kind of wearing underwear and nothing over it. Let's see what you're doing, right? Like I came out, you know, a girl comes out here in Long John's it's like well It's okay for women to wear Long John's but would you want me to just come out here in my underwear? You're like, well, I'm wearing shorts Their boxer briefs though That's not modest. Okay, and so getting into dress standards But here's the thing some people take it way too far, you know Think of the Amish right where it's like you have dress standards, but then there's just like overboard. You can't have buttons You can't have anything that has any type of like, you know, any type of pattern on it, you know and stuff like that Right, that's where you can go too far with those things But listen that verse is there there is a man's garment. There is a woman's garment figure out what it is Okay, and if you don't want I mean figure out what what's what's a man's garment that a woman shouldn't wear and then come back And talk to me okay, and if you're like there isn't any then you just negated the Word of God by your own tradition You made the Word of God of none effect by your own by your own thinking and tradition of thinking that there's no Man's garment out there that a woman can't wear Okay, so figure it out Hair length. Okay. Now this obviously these there's some subjection in here when it comes to you know When it comes to clothing and all that hair length as well It says in 1st Corinthians chapter 11 verse 14 does not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair It is a shame unto him But if a woman have long hair it is glory it is a glory to her for her hair is given her for covering So again men should have short hair women should have long hair. Okay. I'm not gonna be out here with a ruler and there's no like I Don't believe there. I think there's a hair length where we should all stay away from You know as far as like where the short and long hits, you know, but in the end have short hair men have long hair Women, but listen, I'm not gonna say hey listen ladies You you know, you need to have your hair and it needs to be like past your waist or you're in sin, right? You know, like that's where you're going to like standards or men listen if you're if your hair is touching your ears you're in sin Right and having though now you can have those standards But in the end being a fundamentalist is more so hey, we believe that there's a man's garment. There's a woman's garment We believe that men should have short hair and women should have long hair as being a fundamentalist Okay, we take those things literally and the last thing is we we believe that you should not drink alcohol Okay, and here's here's some verses on that It says in a proper chapter 20 in verse 1 it says wine is a marker strong Drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise I happen to take that literally my friends We could stop there close up shop and go home Give me the spiritual meaning on that one Here's What it means wine is a mocker strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise That's what it means. I don't have to explain it. I just have to read it But you know the Bible also says in Proverbs 23 verse 31 Look not thou on the wine when it is red when it giveth its color in the cup when it moves itself. All right at the last it biteth like Serpents think it's like an adder. So Obviously, there's wine that's fermented in wine. It isn't fermented This isn't a whole sermon on that. But obviously we're talking about alcoholic wine Alcoholic strong drink if you will, you know, we're talking about alcohol and not drinking alcohol You know, we're labeled fundies for that all you and your strict standards that you shouldn't drink alcohol Well, what does the Bible say about it? I take it literally and I'm sure they'll be right Jesus turned water into wine and they're just like getting all angry on that. Yeah. Well, listen to my sermon about wine in the Bible Okay Because obviously Jesus didn't give people alcoholic wine when they were sloshed Essentially right there were well drunk Okay obviously they weren't drinking alcoholic wine to begin with but at the same time if they were and they're just like Oh, here's some more alcohol you know, but that being said I could go on and on about like different like Standards that we'd have but in the end that comes out to being a fundamentalist and It should be based off a verse in the Bible. Okay? So if you're gonna have like a standard and You're gonna try to say that it's sin. If you don't do it, you better have chapter and verse Let me say that really clear here's being a fundamentalist Because people want to claim to be IFB or new IFB you have some standard That's not a chapter and verse in the Bible then you know, what great have your standard But don't tell me that I'm in sin if I'm not keeping your standard Okay, and this can go on the old IFB and new IFB when it comes to their their standards or where they stand on certain Issues listen, this is an independent fundamental Baptist Church That's another sermon for another day and the fact that we don't have any ties to any other church as far as any other Authority in here besides Jesus and I am the leader of this church I'm the under Shepherd and that gets into the the independent aspect But when it comes to standards of this church, it's going to be dictated by this pastor. Okay, and You know your standards in your house are dictated dictated by the husband, right? And you may have different standards than I do Right when it comes to the fundamental aspects of different standards that you would hold to maybe you take one a little higher than I Do or maybe you take it a little lower than I do as far as that goes But I hope that makes sense as far as like what it means to be a fundamentalist Okay, and I'm not ashamed of being a fundamentalist Okay because some people would maybe be ashamed of and be like I don't want to be considered a Fundamentalist because it sounds like we're just a bunch of country bumpkins out here. They don't know anything Because it has a bad connotation, right? I mean you think about it probably the reason they called us fun You know it we're being called fundamentalist. It's probably like a hit on them They're like all those guys are just all about the fundamentals and we need to get on into the higher stuff It's like the way I look at it though. Is that we had the foundation. Sure Okay We're holding the foundation. Sure and we're not afraid to build on that foundation. But you know what one thing we're not changing that foundation we're gonna hold to that foundation and That's going to be the rock of what we stand on at this church is the fundamentals of the faith Okay, so that's not what the word of prayer the only father we think today Thank you for your word and just be with us throughout the rest of this week. I pray to keep Us healthy I pray to heal anybody that's not feeling well You know any illnesses or anything like that and just help us with work help us to support our families and what we love you Pray also in Jesus Christ name. Amen The right able come and sing one more song and then we'll be dismissed You All right, take your song books and turn to song number 84 Song number 84 in your song books. Well saying Jesus is coming again song number 84 Marvelous message we bring Glorious Carol we see Wonderful word of the key Jesus is coming again Coming again Coming again Maybe morning maybe noon maybe evening and maybe soon Coming again Coming again Oh, what a wonderful day it will be Jesus is coming again Again Forest and flower exclaim Mountain and meadow the same all earth and heaven proclaim Jesus is coming again Come