- Welcome to Sure Foundation Baptist Church.
First song of the evening,
we're gonna be singing song 355.
355, song 355.
355, on the first.
♪ What a friend we have in Jesus ♪
♪ All sins and griefs to bear ♪
♪ What privilege to care ♪
♪ A thing to God in prayer ♪
♪ And for not care ♪
♪ Trouble should never be discouraged ♪
♪ What a friend so faithful say ♪
A great singing, Brother Brett,
could you please pray us into service?
Amen, great prayer.
Next song, we're gonna be singing song 100.
Song 100, day by day.
Song 100, song 100, on the first.
♪ Day by day and with each passing moment ♪
♪ Strength I find to meet my trials here ♪
♪ Trusting in my Father's wise bestowment ♪
♪ He whose name or for fear ♪
♪ He whose heart is kind beyond all measure ♪
♪ Gives unto each day he deems bad ♪
♪ Lovingly part of pain and pleasure ♪
♪ Mingling in sand red ♪
♪ Every day the Lord himself is near me ♪
♪ With a special mercy for each hour ♪
♪ All my cares he feign would bear and cheer me ♪
♪ He whose name is counselor in power ♪
♪ The protection of his child and treasure ♪
♪ Is a charge that on himself he lay ♪
♪ As thy days thy strength shall be in measure ♪
♪ It is the pledge to me that every tribulation ♪
♪ So to trust thy promises, O Lord, not faith or sweet consolation ♪
♪ Offered me, holy me, Lord, trouble me to take one by one ♪
♪ The moments please the promise ♪
And now for some announcements.
Welcome back to Shua Foundation Baptist Church.
Raise your hand if you need a bulletin, and Asha will bring one to you.
The verse of the week is 2 Timothy 2, verse number 3.
"Thou therefore endure harnessed as a good soldier of Jesus Christ."
Hope you guys enjoyed the sermon this morning on how we're supposed to be soldiers in the
Lord's army and how to lead others.
And let's look at the inside page.
We have morning service at 11, Sunday afternoon service at 4, and Wednesday night Bible study
at 7 p.m.
We'll be looking at Judges chapter number 16 this Wednesday, about the end of Samson's
life.
So please join us if you're able to.
We have so many time, Saturday morning at 10, 30, and Sunday afternoon at 1, 30 p.m.
And Salvation's and last week's attendance is 42C.
Of course, we canceled church last Sunday, so that's why there's not a number there.
Upcoming events, this coming weekend is our second year anniversary.
Again, that's this coming weekend, February 7th and 8th.
Please RSVP if you have not done that, because if you show up and then if you have not RSVP,
there will be a consequence, and I'm serious.
Please scan the QR code for more details about the location, so on and so forth, but basically
we'll meet on Saturday here at 930 for someone in pair up, and then we're going to go someone
in for two hours, and then we're going to have lunch at the Chipotle, and then we're
going to go bowling.
Of course, everything is free.
Thank you RSVP.
And then on Sunday, Patrick Thompson will be preaching both services.
So please join us if you are tired of hearing me preach, please come because I will not
be preaching, and you guys may get some director-cut two-hour sermons, so please join us for this
coming weekend.
It'll be fun.
And then if you finish your New Testament challenge in the month of January, please
email the church by this Wednesday, and they'll get a special gift.
Also go to our website for the Sun Wooning Marathons coming up.
We have College Sun Wooning Marathons, St. Louis, Indy 500, and Gary, a lot of exciting
events.
Also, please help us with the cleaning of the church building right after service today.
That will be appreciated.
Also, this afternoon, Brother Jerry will be preaching for us.
This is his first time preaching behind his pulpit.
So show him some grace, okay, and say amen, if you agree.
Any matters is for you to see, please stay faithful in your tithe and offerings.
Let's look on the back side.
People choose to have their birthdays in February.
Actually, is yesterday Victoria's birthday?
Okay, we will sing happy birthday to Victoria, Brother Rashid, and Miss Kelly, all right?
Let's do this.
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, God bless you, congratulations for living
another year.
Let's sing one more song and we'll take out the offering.
Next song we're going to be singing 247, saved, saved, 247, 247.
On the 1st, I found a friend who is all to his love, is it true?
I loved how he lived by his divine sublime, life now is sweet and my joy is complete for
I'm saved, saved, re-saved, take care, divine, sublime, life now is sweet and my joy is complete
for I'm saved, when poor, life now is sweet, is complete, just please come up for the offering.
Brother Brett, could you please pray again?
Amen.
We'll be in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 tonight, 1 Corinthians chapter 5, if you need a Bible,
raise your hand and Usher will give one to you, 1 Corinthians chapter 5, "It is reported
commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as
named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
When ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed
might be taken away from among you.
For I verily as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though
I were present concerning him that hath so done this deed.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together in my spirit, with
the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such and one unto Satan for the destruction
of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Your glorying is not good.
Know ye that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Purge out, therefore, the old leaven; they may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened, for
even Christ our Passover sacrificed for us.
Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice
and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to accompany with fornicators, yet not altogether with
the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or the idolaters,
for then must ye needs go out of the world.
But now I write unto you not to keep company of any man that is called a brother, be a
fornicator, or a covetous, or an idolater, or a raor, or a drunkard, or an extortioner,
with such in one know not to eat.
So what have I to do to judge them also that are without?
Do not ye judge them that are within, but them that are without, God judgeeth.
Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
Brother Wayne, could you present your service?
Church, I'd first like to thank Evangelist Justin and Pastor Thompson for allowing me
to be able to practice preaching and preach to the church, and this church has been a
super blessing to myself and my family.
But today I'm preaching on separation.
Some tools to use to discern when you should separate and when you shouldn't separate,
whether or not separation is good and bad.
The Bible talks about separation a lot.
You're in 1 Corinthians 5, please turn to Deuteronomy chapter 6, Deuteronomy chapter
6.
And the first tool you should be using to discern whether or not you should separate
from someone, separate from a brother, separate from the unsaved or from false prophets,
things the Bible talks about in regards to separation.
The first tool is our Bibles.
We should know our Bibles, we should study and memorize our Bibles and that's what it
says here in Deuteronomy chapter 6 starting in verse 4, "Here, O Israel, the Lord our
God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all
thy soul and with all thy might.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart, and thou shalt
teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine
house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou riseth
up.
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between
thine eyes.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and on thy gates.
Reading and memorizing, loving God by keeping His commandments, that's a sure way to know,
to be armored up, to know when to discern.
The Bible says to meditate on these things, that's to memorize, right?
You should be memorizing your scriptures, right?
You should be comparing scripture with scripture to know that you're not deceived by these
people out here, that you should be practicing these things on.
And loving God, if you're going to love God, you've got to keep His commandments, right?
If you love Him, you'll keep His commandments, and He'll reward you with wisdom, knowledge,
and understanding if you're doing these things.
If you're continually in prayer, you're continually seeking after God.
In Romans 12, 2, yeah, verse 2 in Romans 12, "And be not conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove that which is good and
acceptable in perfect will of God."
How you can discern what the perfect will of God is by knowing your Bible is the first
tool that you should know.
You should, like I said, read, memorize, love God, keep His commandments, and memorize Scripture.
But turn to Ephesians chapter 4.
Another tool is church.
You should be showing it for church and listening to Godly preaching.
Sorry, I hit my phone.
In Ephesians chapter 4, starting in verse 11, "And He gave some apostles and some prophets
and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints,
for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we come into the
unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure
of the stature of the fulness of Christ, that we henceforth be no more children tossed to
and fro carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sight of men and cunning craftiness
whereby they lie in wait to deceive.
Church is a tool that God has given us, he has given us apostles, apostles that wrote
down scripture, prophets like Jeremiah and Ezekiel, you need to be studying these and
reading these so that what they say on these things as well, an evangelist, we have an
evangelist that uses the tools that God has given you, maybe call or text your evangelist
on whether or not to discern these things on separation and by me studying this, I realize
another tool is motive, like why am I separating from this person? Why am I considering separating
from this person or this church or this institution? Is it for the glory of God or is it my glory?
Is it good or bad? Am I loving my neighbor by doing this or am I loving myself? Is it
to damage somebody else's reputation or is it to protect my family or to protect my church
or the brethren or new believers? You really can't search, you really can't know if the
motive is good or bad or not if you don't know the scriptures, if you're not showing
it for church, if you're not reading and memorizing these things, right? Am I doing this to edify
or mislead? But yeah, turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 5 and it talks about people that we
should separate from and 1 Corinthians 5, this is a good separation, there's good and
bad separation, right? We don't want to be ultra-super separated from the world the Bible
talks about in 1 Corinthians 5 where we're coming out of the world and we're not useful
to the world or for God to the world, right? We're commanded to be the salt of the earth,
right? The light of this world, right? We're commanded to preach the gospel. But there's
a certain group of people that we should separate from and it's in not just brethren in sin
but in grievous sin, right? Sin that God has commanded us to reprove and remove out of
the church, right? A little leaven, a little lump. But right here verse 9 in chapter 5,
1 Corinthians, "I wrote unto you an epistle not to accompany with fornicators." Right?
Fornicators are ones that are having sexual relations outside of marriage, right? If we
know that's happening within our church, that's a problem, right? If that person is deliberately
doing that, unrepentant, and this person is being confronted with scripture, this person
is being removed out of the church, right? That's what the Bible teaches, because Jesus
says it in the Gospels, "A little leaven, leaven of the whole lump." If you keep that
person in here, they're going to try to bring others into that sin, the fornication, right?
They're going to try to justify that. They want as many people as possible to believe
the same that they do so they can justify their sin, right? And the Bible says, "Yet
not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous or extortioners
or with idolaters, for then must ye knees go out of the world." Right? That's what
I was talking about before the fornicators. We don't want to separate from the fornicators
of this world because that would mean that we're basically just separating from everybody
at all times. We're basically becoming a cult, like the Mormons or those that divide themselves
to the point where they're hiding their sermons. They're like the Scientologists, where they're
going after people for exposing all the things that they believe and stuff like that. We
don't want to be a cult. We don't want to come out of the world. We want to be useful
for God to reach the world. Then he continues in verse 11, "But now I have written unto
you not to keep company with any man that is called a brother, be a fornicator or covetous
or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or extortioner, with such one know not to eat."
The scripture says, "Know not to eat." We're not even supposed to eat with these people,
let alone, you know, go to church with them and have fellowship with them. And the Bible
teaches that, well, I've actually, I've heard pastors say that it's God's job to remove
these people, right? But that is not what 1 Corinthians 5 is teaching. It's over and
over again. It's purge out there for the old leaven, right? God is commanding us to purge
these people out of the church. These covetous Christians, these are brothers, these railers,
these junkers, drunkers, extortioners, fornicators. But I've heard a pastor say, "No, this is
God's job." It's not our duty to purge these people out or remove these people to deliver
them unto Satan. But it's not our job, but it's God's job. But that's clearly not what
the Bible is teaching. One of the reasons why we are removing these people from the
church, obviously, is to protect ourselves, to protect the church, because a little leaven,
leaven of the whole lump. But another reason is because we actually care about this person.
We're delivering them unto Satan so that they have the potential to get right with God.
The Bible says that those pastors, those churches that don't do this, that just allow this leaven
to leaven the whole lump, these people are puffed up. In verse 1 of chapter 5 it is reported
commonly that there is fornication among you and such fornication as is not so much named
among the Gentiles that one should have his father's wife and ye are puffed up that have
not rather mourned that he has done this deed might be taken away from among you. So Paul
is saying that these people that are just allowing this to happen in their church, these
people are puffed up, they're proud, right? They're in sin by allowing this to happen
in their church. The Bible says that these people should be taken away among you concerning
him that hath done so this deed. And then, you know, fornicators, adulterers, basically
the same thing, right? If we have rampant, if we have a person that's in adultery, right?
We don't want this church to be just filled with a bunch of whores and whoremongers, right?
We have families there, we have children, we have wives and husbands, right? I don't
want my wife around a bunch of whoremongers, right? I don't want her influenced by a bunch
of whores that will seek to, you know, want to influence her to dive into the sin as well,
right? Turn to Romans 7-7. We also want, we want to be separate from these covetous Christians
because covetousness is just idolatry. Yeah, Romans 7-7, what shall we say then? Is the
law sin? God forbid, "Nay, I had not known sin, but the law, but by the law, for I had not known
lust, except the law had said, 'Thou shalt not covet.'" Right? Lusting, coveting after somebody's
wife, coveting after somebody's things, lusting after those things, that needs to also be,
you know, cut out of the church. If someone is found to be a covetous Christian, they're going,
actually going after, they're putting, you know, the love of money before God. These people who
can, they're idolaters, they can become extortioners in the church, they can really hurt the church.
Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 6, starting in verse 1, "Are any of you having matter
against another? Go to the law before the unjust and not before the saints. Do you not know that
the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye worthy to judge the
smallest matters? Know ye not, we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life?"
If ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed of
the church. The Bible teaches that we should be, we're to judge angels. There's a book in the
Bible called Judges. They're setting up people that are believers. They can judge righteous judgment
because they actually have the Holy Spirit within them. The unsaved, if you're to take your brother
to law before the unsaved, that's an unjust thing to do because these people don't even
understand the truth. They don't have God, right? That's a form of extortion. You're using the club
of the, you know, the imbeciles of the world against your brother and to extort money.
Let's say the person wronged you, right? You should suffer yourself to be defrauded, right?
That should be your first, you know, line of thinking that you should do. But if you are going,
if it's an actual problem, turn to Matthew 18. If it's an actual thing that you really can't let go,
maybe it's hurting you, maybe it's putting your family in a certain situation where,
you know, it's unbearable for you. Maybe you're going to lose your house or car because your
brother is taking advantage of you. He's extorted. He's extorted you because he's a coverageist
Christian. The church is not dealing with those things. Matthew 18, there's a process for these
things. And it should be handled within the church, not outside the church, where you can use the
people that... I mean, if you look at our judges, our politicians and stuff, they're unrighteous.
You don't want to use those people against your own brothers. But starting in verse 15 of Matthew
18, "Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between
thee and him alone. If ye shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear
thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word
may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church. But if he
neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican." So these people
that are trying to use the world, the judges of this world, the police of this world, the politicians
of this world to extort their brethren here in the church. And if the church comes to this believer
and they don't repent of this thing, this person should be thrown out. We should throw extortioners
out. We should throw these covenants Christians out because that's going to divide the church.
That's going to destroy a church. And if you're not going to throw them out, the Bible is clear
that you're puffed up if you're going to put up with these things. Turn to Ezekiel 6 and with
idolatry, from my experience, Christians suffer from all these. Any Christian can be a fornicator,
an adulterer, covetous, extortioners, idolaters, railers, or drunkards. I mean, if you look at
Moses, people just say that Christians can't be drunks. I mean, look at Moses, or not Moses, Noah.
Sorry. I was like, "Wait a minute, when did Moses get drunk?" I was like, "I'm ready when he gets
Moses. He can throw me out." But Ezekiel, yeah, they really can't say anything about Noah getting
drunk. Noah, I mean, obviously it was a sin for him to do that, but he was a saved man, right?
And he ended up in that wicked sin of drunkenness. And it actually led to some pretty
disgusting sin because he did that. So I lost Ezekiel for a second. Ezekiel chapter 6 and verse 5,
"And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter
your bones round about your altars." These are one of the punishments for, like, when you're
replacing physical idols with God. If you're, you know, the Catholics, right? If our country
is going to be just flooded with Catholicism, with that idolatry, this is one of the punishments
that God is going to do to the nation that does that. But also for us, idols can be of the heart,
as in, like, Ezekiel 14, where, you know, they're putting, like, money or your family before God,
right? Like, obviously they're physical, but, like, in my heart, you know, I love my family,
but to put them before God is a sin, I become an idolater, or, you know, Israel, right? Like,
a lot of the, you know, the old IFB Baptists, where they're trusting in, you know,
blessing Israel, and they're going to receive a blessing instead of blessing the brethren,
right? That's a form of idolatry. And Christians can be idolaters, right? That's why the Bible
continuously warns us about that, and why 1 Corinthians chapter 5 is written, is pinned
down, because it's a problem, right? If it wasn't a problem, then it wouldn't be in the Bible that
we should be throwing these people out and watching and judging these things as a church.
And I turned to 1 Corinthians 10. Yeah, 1 Corinthians 10. My first sermon here, so I'm
relying heavily on the Bible. Yeah, and I've been in these situations where, like my son and I,
we were out preaching the gospel, right? On our own time. We like to do it every once in a while
when we have time and stuff. And we didn't get anybody to say that today, but we ran into two
saved individuals. And one of them, this lady was like super zealous. Like we kept preaching,
we handed her the Invive Shirt Foundation. And, you know, I'm going through, I'm asking,
you know, the question is like, "Hey, do you believe it's eternal? Do you believe that Jesus
died for all sin or some sin? Do you believe you could lose that?" Right? And she answered correctly.
And I'm like, "Look, maybe our churches can do something together." Right? You know, let's call
this number. This is my evangelist's number. Right? And she's like, "You'll love my pastor. He's an
ascetic Jew." And it's, and I'm like, kind of taken aback. I don't know how to respond to this.
And my son behind me is like, "Well, that doesn't sound right." Like, he's starting his, I'm like,
chill, bro. Like, I don't know what to say yet. Chill. Well, it's just like, that's how deceived
some Christians can get if you're in it, in that wrong church where they're just letting that stuff
go rampant. I mean, the Bible talks about these false prophets leading silly women. That's right.
This was definitely a silly woman, right? She understood the gospel, but then was listening
to a person that was an antichrist, right? He doesn't believe that he rejects the son, right?
He's like, and she's telling me, he's like, well, he's telling, he's showing us all the
Jewish holidays that are in the New Testament and stuff and how we can, and I'm, I have to walk away
from this conversation, but that's how bad some of these Christians can get if we're not going to
Purge out this old leaven first Corinthians chapter 10 and starting in 19 of verse 19
What say I then that the idol is anything or that which is offered and sacrificed to idols is anything
But I say that the things which the gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to devils and not to god
And I would not that ye should have fellowship with these devils or with devils
You cannot drink the cup of the lord and the cup of devils
He cannot be partakers of the lord's table and of the tables of devils. Do we not provoke the lord to jealousy?
Are we stronger than he um, you know this person this lady she will not be useful
For the kingdom of god here on earth, right? She's not going to be the salt of the earth
She's not going to be that light on the hill, right because she's in she's deceived, right?
She's having fellowship with devils, right? She's in idolatry with uh,
You know and pertains to israel and she's to the point where she's
Her pastor is an actual hystetic jew. It's just it's mind-boggling. Um turn to proverbs chapter 21
Idolatrous that we should throw them out
I don't really want to I don't like I don't want to fellowship with people that are
Worshiping nations or a group of people because of their bloodline or race. I don't want to be
Um in a church where you know, there's rampant racism because that's what you know, zionism is it is racism, right?
Forgot where else i'm sorry. Um proverbs chapter 21. Sorry proverbs is a good book to
Um pen down and memorize and you know, um, one of the things I like to do is at work
I work at a warehouse. So I have a forklift. I have my own desk and stuff
I like to put up scriptures, you know
Just pen them down put them up so I can look at them every time I get on my forklift get off my forklift
Get to my desk. I can see these things and that's what it talks about in dude around me six, right?
You know like basically stapling them around your wall or around your house and stuff and it's in my house
There's you know, whatever scripture i'm memorizing is in the bathroom because I spend a lot of time in the bathroom
Cleaning some stuff and other things right or on the fridge where i'm searching for food and stuff like that
It's there and it's all the time every time i'm walking out the door
I really should switch that out because I still have roman's 10. I already got that done
I need to switch to proverbs, right proverbs chapter 21
starting verse 23
Who so keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from trouble and this is
pertaining to railers, right it um, I went to uh railers or some of the people that
Really can destroy a church really can destroy a church's reputation
christian's reputation by just
Um railing accusations telling lies about pastors and other brethren and stuff like that
um, I went to a church that you know, it it destroyed a soul winner really because
The soul winner he was he's super zealous somebody I looked up to when you know, I first got saved
He taught me a lot of things and his wife started railing right? He had no way of
He he couldn't bring that back in he couldn't fix that and it you know, it led him astray
It led, you know others astray in the church, right?
And who so keepeth his mouth and keep and his tongue keeping the soul from troubles
It caused a lot of trouble for that family, right?
And it caused a lot of trouble for the church. A lot of some people left the church, right?
They just couldn't put up with it, right?
It wasn't it wasn't thrown out that and those people were proud for not throwing that person out turn to psalm
Chapter 101 here in verse 7 of chapter 101 of psalms
He that worketh the seed shall not dwell within my house. He that telleth lie shall not tarry in my sight
I will
Early destroy all the wicked of the land. I may cut off the wicked doers from the city of the lord
Um, this is I mean, that's how that's how the lord feels about these railers in these churches, right?
And if the lord feels that way about
Railers in the church, right? Do you really want that in your church?
Do you really want and if somebody's going to rail about somebody else they're going to rail about you, right?
They're going to try to bring other people into that railing. I saw it firsthand, right?
They're going into the corners of the room. They're going down in the basement. They're going, you know out to eat discussing
Well, well, they're usually discussing the people discussing the people that are pushing the soul winning the most, right?
You know god's righteous, right?
God's god's people that are going out there and doing the works and those bachelor and christians that are railing
They're trying to get that soul winning to stop, right?
They're trying to bring those people into the fold right into their sin
Just like the adulterers and fornicators and the covetous christians and extortioners. It's a it's a it's a reincurring thing
They they want to bring these people in right and you should keep your tongue
You should keep your mouth. You should shut your mouth
If you you know, you have something like that to say and you have no idea what the truth is, right?
To weigh in on those things where you have no idea if it's a lie or true or not
Especially with like the things that pertaining to like pastor anderson to seeing that I saw that firsthand, right?
Like when I was you know, i'm a i'm a new i'm a newer christian, right? That was a good lesson for me
I was like, oh i'm gonna stay away from railing accusations and
Partaking it partaking in some of this stuff because it destroyed churches. It destroyed people's lives, right?
There's some churches are no longer here now because of what they did
They let that leaven in the church and leaven the whole lump. It's gone
And the work isn't getting done in those cities, right? What if that were to happen here in indianapolis?
What if that were to happen in sure foundation, right? We let that little leaven in it leavens the whole lump, right?
There's some churches here in indianapolis doing the soul winning, but who's doing the bulk of the soul winning?
Who's doing the most work, right? Like I don't drive two and a half hours here for, you know, this church to be leavened, right?
I don't want it leavened. I want this church to go forth and preach the gospel, right?
I mean, what else is there if i'm not going to preach the gospel then like what am I doing here on earth?
If I don't have a church, man, I i'm gonna have to find one, right?
But uh turn to proverbs chapter six and um in first corinthians it says, uh, first corinthians chapter five where we started off
It says to do this, uh when we're gathered together in christ, right in the church
This should be a public thing when we're throwing these people out, right?
It's also like I I forgot to mention but like it's it's to help them
Yes, it's to protect us but it's also to make it so that we fear doing the same thing, right?
We don't want to be publicly shamed and thrown out right? Um, and in proverbs chapter six verse 17 and 19
17 through 19 for they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence
But the path of the just is as shining light that shineth more and more into the perfect day
The way of the wicked is darkness and they know not what they stumble, right?
These people become blind to their what they're doing, right? They think they're on the good side
They're blinded right and this blindness is it from God, right?
These people that are in these wicked sins and that's what I believe
These and drunkers, you know wine is a mocker, right? He that is deceived is not wise
Deceived by it is not wise, right? We don't want yeah, let's turn there Proverbs chapter 20
Yeah, wine is a mocker strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. We don't want to be
Destroyed by you know drunkers in Proverbs 13 and talks about you know
Surrounding yourself with wise men and not fools, right?
If you're gonna surround yourself with fools, you're gonna be destroyed. And if you're a drunkard if you're deceived by wine, right?
You're a fool, right? We don't want to be surrounded by fools. That's another leaven and that's why I bring
First Corinthians that brings it up because that will also destroy a church
Turn to Galatians chapter 5 Galatians chapter 5 verse 19 now the worst of the flesh are manifests
Which are these adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness?
idolatry witchcraft hatred variants emulations rastripes seditions heresies envies murders
drunkenness revilings and such
Such like of which I tell you before as I have also told you in time past
That they which do the do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God
But the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith weakness temperance
Against such there is no law right if we're gonna be in Christ
That's how we want to be described right temperate people long-suffering
joyful peaceful
Loving right it's not loving to let these people just destroy a church right to destroy the soul winning movement
That's going on here in Indiana and let these people just destroy everything and right and if you think you you can you know
Yoke up with these people and allow them into the church the Bible says that you're puffed up right if we're just gonna put
Up with that stuff. We're the ones that are prideful right he that thinketh he standeth lest he fall right you will fall, right?
You don't want to be yoked up with these people because it's easier for someone to bring someone else down
Right, like I said, but like to bring somebody else back up is is very hard, right?
and these people will try to bring you down and
No, those are some
examples of good separation, right and
Turn to John chapter 17 and that's that like like I said
These are this is separation from brother and that are in wicked sin not just you know
You know, they're not like not like they're just backslidden right?
They you know, they've cut back on their soul winning time or you know, they're not reading their Bible
Not or you know, maybe you know, they're not tithing right? These aren't so these aren't things everybody is a sinner, right?
We shouldn't be ultra super separated from people but there is a level of separation that we need to stay useful
For the kingdom of God John chapter 17
verse 15
I pray not that thou should shouldest take them out of the world, but thou shouldest keep them from evil
They are not of the world even as I am not of the world sanctify them through thy truth thy word is truth
So pertaining to brethren, it's clear in what first Corinthians chapter 5 is teaching
But with the there's a level of separation that we need from the world, right?
And it's not a physical separation, but a spiritual separation. We should be a peculiar people
We should be trying to sanctify them through thy truth thy word is truth, right? And who is the word? That's Jesus, right?
We should be preaching the gospel to the unsaved. We should be spiritually minded not carnally minded, right?
That's the the level of separation that we need from the unsaved for the most part. That should be um
Like our our base, right? We shouldn't be taking ourselves out of the world, right?
We should be in the world but not of the world. We should be spiritually minded not carnally minded and I heard
One person tell me that you know
You could be so spiritually minded that you're no worldly use and it just kind of seems like nonsense, right?
The Bible teaches the exact opposite that I should be we should as a peculiar people be spiritually minded, right?
We should be judging things with righteous judgment using the Word of God, right? We should be judging
Within the church and without the church so that we can be the best Christians that we can be the most useful
For the kingdom of God that we can be the best soul owners we can be right turn to 1st Corinthians again chapter 6
Jesus doesn't want us to be physically separated from the world but spiritually in chapter 6 of 1st Corinthians
verse 14 and the God
And God hath both raised up the Lord and will also raise up raise up us by his own power
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot?
God forbid what know ye not that ye which is joined to a harlot is one body or two sayeth
He shall be one flesh, but he is joined unto the Lord is one spirit flee fornication
Every sin that man doeth is without the body
But he that committed fornication sent against his own body what know ye not that your
Body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you which ye have have of God and ye are not your own
For ye are bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are gods, right?
We're a possession of God. God has bought hit bought us with his blood, right?
And we're a temple for the Holy Ghost right and we should be using this to glorify God going out and preaching the gospel
Not removing ourselves from the unsaved from the world, right?
But we also don't want the world in here, right? We should be fleeing fornicate the fleeing fornication, right? We shouldn't be just
Allowing the world to come in right and sit in with us, right?
When I was a teenager, I grew up as an atheist, but I when I was a teenager
I went to do this this non-denom church
It was more Presbyterian and stuff like that giant youth group and stuff
so it was like, you know, really appealing I you know, I can play sports and stuff with them and you know, and
Basically, I went in and they're having this like rock concert, right?
I'm going in and I've you know, the the only Christians I really interacted with before as an atheist or you know
Apostles, right? So it's kind of similar, right? They're basically just having rock concerts
they know tripping out on the floor licking windows and stuff and
You know, but this you know this they're not in jean skirts and you know, their hair is all nice and stuff
There's just a bunch of whores a bunch of whoremongers right a bunch of fornicators of this world
they've they grabbed whoever they could brought him into the church, right and
And then you have a bunch of people with you know
This I idea of a deliverance doctrine, right, you know, God saved me from my party and God saved me from you know
you know fornication and drugs and stuff like that and and you have a bunch of you know unsaved men and women, you know,
basically children and
Teenagers in this church and they're talking about these things and then that draws in predators like
We don't it draws in predators, right?
Where was I going with that? Yeah, we don't want we don't want to be yoked up with the world in that sense, right?
We don't want you know whores whores and harlots because we are bought with a price, right?
Our our whosoever confessed that Jesus is the Son of God God wealth and him and him and God, right?
We want to be with like-minded believers, right?
And someone is coming in here day in and day in out not getting saved and they're in these sins, too
They need to get out, right?
turn to
Sorry turn to turn to Deuteronomy chapter 13
another
and yeah, we should be using our Bibles and stuff like we should be using the Bible and teachings from church and
Searching within ourselves. What is the motive and why we are separating from certain people certain institutions and stuff like that
And another thing that we should be thinking about is our families
like when is it appropriate to separate from family or allow them to or not allow them to separate but you know
The what the Bible says that if you are going to do if you are gonna follow Christ, right?
The enemies your your enemies will be of your own household and Deuteronomy chapter 13
Starting in verse 6. Yeah starting in verse 6 and Deuteronomy chapter 13
If thy brother if thy brother the son of thy mother or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosom
Or thy friend which is in thine own which is as thine own soul entice thee secretly saying
Let us go and serve other gods which thou has not known
Thou nor thy fathers namely the gods of the people which are round about you
Nigh unto thee or far off from thee from the one end of the earth
Even unto the other end of the earth thou shalt not consent unto him nor harken unto him neither shall thine eye pity him
Neither shalt thou spare him neither shalt thou conceal him
but thou shalt surely kill him thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death and
Afterwards the hand of all the people thou shalt stone him with stones that he died because he hath sought to thrust thee
Away from the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage
So just like church our church has certain boundaries what when it comes to
Grievous sin like the drunkers the extortioners and railers right you should have certain boundaries within you know
Your unsafe friends or your unsafe family members, right?
If they are trying to draw you away from God right and they and they know that's a clear boundary with you, right?
You've set that boundary you made it obvious right and they're trying to continually draw you away, right?
We the Bible says we're to stone him with stones, right? Obviously we're in the New Testament. We're not stoning people, right?
I'm not gonna stone my grandmother and my mother, right?
I'm not gonna stone Cooper when he you know, he disobeys me, right?
But I there's a certain level of separation if Cooper let's I'm gonna use my son as an example
If my son were to grow up right and try to draw me away
Like I've seen it happen with brethren right draw me away from soul winning draw me away from church
Draw me away from the things of God. I should be
Choosing God over my own son. I should be choosing God over my grandmother
I should be choosing God over my best friend, right and these people
I view is unsaved that are drawing away these these family members these friends, right and
I'm I mean, what fellowship do you have with the unfruitful works of darkness, right?
How can your best friend be an unsaved person?
Right it like what do you have in common with them? Like you're filled with the Holy Spirit
Are you like do you actually care about this person? Like if they're not?
Hearing the gospel for me like when I you know, I have co-workers. I i'm in the world. I have co-workers
I have you know friends and family that are unsaved and all of them are fully aware of what I believe
Right. I want them to know that you know, i'm taking this seriously
I want to I want to live a god a holy separated life
So that they know that i'm actually taking this seriously because I love my neighbor as myself, right?
I want them to get saved, right?
And um, you know, i'm continually giving them the gospel that'll either you know, that'll do one of three things, right?
That they'll either separate themselves from you because they don't want to hear about the bible all the time, right?
You know, I had I had a co-worker tell me the other day. It's like it's like I never talked to jared
It's always like i'm interacting with the bible, right? I don't want to hear proverbs
Like okay, I get it. All right, you don't want to hear it. You know, like we have to get along, right?
I I need to be at peace with all men, right? He doesn't want to hear it, right?
But you know, he wants to separate himself from me because he doesn't want to hear that hear that right?
He doesn't like that stuff, right?
Or they'll end up getting saved, right? Like do you actually even love your co-workers? Are you giving them the gospel, right?
How can you say you your best friend that's unsaved if you haven't even tried to give them the gospel, right?
If you're like they at any moment they could die and go to hell, right?
Like your grandmother, right? Like you're you're letting in your life. You're letting you know influence your children your um
Do you even love your grandmother?
Do you love your mother or father that are unsaved if you're not giving them the gospel, right?
Just think about these things that these people at any moment could die and go to hell
But if they are, you know, they know those boundaries
They know you're trying to live a wholly separated life. You they know you're trying to serve god. You've set up those boundaries and
They understand those boundaries right and they're continually trying to draw you away from god
It might be wise to consider separation, right?
But you should always search the motive and why you're doing this is it to help them to protect your family, right?
because if I have you know, uh my children are around a bunch of uh, you know, let's say
The reason why we homeschool, right? The reason why I homeschool is because I don't want my children
Subjected to teachers that do not believe like I do, right? I want them to have my values
I want them to have the values of the bible, right? I want them to serve god become soul winners, right?
That's my goal, right? That's what I want for my children is to become soul winners
Whether or not, you know, they do anything else with their lives
I'm like, I hope they are not worse than an infidel and don't work and stuff like that, right?
But my main goal is for them to win souls, right? I want them to shine brighter than me in heaven and
Separating for myself from certain family members or friends, right?
Like I can't run with my old atheist crowd, right?
Like what we used to do back when I was an atheist. I can't do that stuff anymore, right?
Like what fellowship do I have with them when they want to go out bar hopping and stuff like that?
I can't be doing that, right? I have no I I can't I and
You know when they come over for like I've invited them over for like a fire in my place, right?
But they know exactly what's going to happen, right?
We're going to sit around the fire and we're going to talk about the gospel, right?
Because I actually love them and I want them to go to heaven
But um another thing that we should practice separation on turn to Philippians chapter
number three
Verse number two beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of the concision for we are the circumcision
Which worship god in the spirit and rejoice in christ jesus and have no confidence in the flesh right?
The bible lists beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of the concision, right?
the concision would be the the jews obviously obviously the the um, the
Circumcision physical circumcision right the jews
Evil workers the workers of iniquity turn to matthew chapter
Seven like our church we should be um separated to a certain extent where we're not working with
You know, um those that are preaching a false way, right a false truth, right false prophets
We shouldn't be working with you know
We shouldn't be yoking up with the pentacostal street or church down the street, right to preach the gospel
They don't even believe the gospel, right? We should be separate from these people
Um verse 21 of matthew 7 we use this out soul winning
Not everyone that saith unto me lord lord shall inherit to the kingdom of heaven
But he that do with the will of my father which is in heaven many will say to me in that day lord lord
Have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast out devils and in thine
Named on many wonderful works and then will I profess unto them?
I never knew you depart from me ye that work iniquity these um, these people are false
These people are unsafe because they're trusting in their works, right? But the you know the
the
Vast majority of christian denominations christian denominations teach a works-based salvation, right?
We shouldn't be working with these people
We should be it should be clear that we're against these people right because they're against us, right?
These false prophets they're they're you know children of satan dragging people to hell along with them just like satan is
Um, and we should be completely separate from separate from them. I'm not going to visit a pentacostal church
I'm not visiting my parents pentacostal church and i'm not going to watch them roll around on the floor licking windows
It's it's nonsense, right?
And when I first got saved I did that I made that mistake, right?
And my wife is telling me like what is going on? I don't even understand what's going on
Why are these people weeping and running around the church?
like like I
And I thought about that because this was a recent conversation. I'm just like yeah, I don't remember anything other than that
Right and when I was a kid, you know
that was like kind of like normal for me where I'd now sit in my grandpa's church and
People are running straight into the walls and rolling down the stairs and stuff and it's just it's mass mayhem
Right. We don't want to we don't want the world, you know
The unsafe world to see that and think that that's christianity, right?
That we don't want to see they don't we don't want the we don't want them to see us yoked up with that
Right, right. They're not going to take it seriously
I mean that that is the one of the driving factors of why I grew up as an atheist because I would see that nonsense
And you know, it made me blaspheme god as an unsafe person, right?
I didn't want anything to do with god because I thought that was of god, right?
And I don't want that for our church and I don't want that for myself and my family
We should be separate from these people
But uh turn to romans chapter one another group of people that we should be separated from from
From are the people that like to stand outside our church and protest it
We should be yoked up with these people
We shouldn't be buying them subway and giving them water while they're out there in the heat
I was hoping they'd be here today, but like that just because it's freezing, you know
And then just think about that. I'm like, yeah, they're out there freezing but
Starting in verse 18 of romans 1 for the wrath of god is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
And unrighteousness of men who hold the truth and unrighteousness
These people these uh, these sodomites these these faggots. They understand the truth, right? That's why they're fags, right?
They are our direct enemy, right? They are the children of satan, right? These people should
And then at the end of it at the end
Verse 32 who knowing the judgment of god that they which commit such things are worthy of death
Not only to do the same but have pleasure in them that do them, right?
And romans one teaches that they you know, man, uh, they lie with man
Men with men is disgusting
But the bible teaches that these people are worthy of death, right?
These people wouldn't be a problem if the government was actually doing their job
But we should be separate from these people, right?
We should not allow these people into our families into our homes
We should have no fellowship with these children of satan, right? They are the direct enemies of god, right?
We don't want to be friends with the enemies of god
But um, you know a lot of christians do yoke up with these people out of fear, right?
Fear of the repercussions from the government or losing our building or you know bomb threats, right?
There's churches that have been bombed that have stood up against these children of satan, right?
It can be a fearful thing and we shouldn't be separating. We shouldn't be um separating
Um because of fear right actually turn to galatians chapter two. There's an example of that in
the apostle Peter verse 11. Yeah, but when Peter was come to Antioch I was stood him to the face
because he was to be blamed for before that certain came from James he did eat with the
Gentiles but when they were come he withdrew and separated himself fearing them which were
of the circumcision and other Jews dissembled likewise with him in so much that Barnabas also
carried away with a dissimulation, right? So Paul's pointing out that Peter was in sin here because
he was fearing the Jews, right? He was fearing what they might say or do, right? The apostle
Peter is a leader, right? If our evangelist is going to do something like that, let's say he's
afraid and he's yoking up with these false prophets or you know these Jews and stuff, right?
How many of you is that going to lead, right? Hopefully none, but like you know it might,
right? As an example of Peter, Peter in so much that Barnabas, right? Barnabas was a great man
of God, right? He did many wonderful works, right? But he was also carried away because of this fear,
right? We don't want to fear the children of Satan, you know, and you know kowtow to them,
bow down to them, you know, give in to their demands, right? No, we should just ignore them,
right? Pray that the government finally, you know, does what the just thing to do
and to put them to death. We shouldn't be yoked up with them. And also the Jews, right? Most,
like I said, most old IFB churches are yoked up with the Jews, right? Like that lady that I
brought up, right? That's a, it's a huge problem amongst believing Christians, right? They're
Judaized, right? And some of them out of fear. I'm, I'm, I'm sure, right? Because when I was
in an old IFB church, right? Like I, the thing that I, the thing that I feared is if I like,
you know, said something, then I have to listen to an 18 sermon series on why the Jews are God's
chosen people. And then I don't get edified at all, right? Like I don't, I'm just not going to say
anything, right? But yeah, we want to be separate from the Jews, especially in this day and age,
obviously always. But the Jews are, the unsaved world is seeing what they are, right? Contrary
to all men, against all men, right? They're seeing the, you know, the TikTok videos of what the Jews
have to say about the people outside of their, you know, little group, right? They're disgusting,
racist gumbags, right? And that's what the world is seeing, right? And we want the world to see
that, right? So they stay away from that, right? And if we're going to yoke up with those people,
they're going to view us as, you know, these Jew-worshipping imbeciles, right? We don't want
that, right? We don't want the word of God to be blasphemed just because we're fearing the Jews
and what the government might do or, you know, the Jews with their money in the banks might do to us,
right? We don't want to fear these things. Like, you know, Peter made that mistake and, you know,
who is a liar that he denied the son, right? If you don't have the son, you don't have the father,
right? You're Antichrist, right? We don't want to be yoked up with Antichrist, right? Just like the
sodomites, they're the children of Satan. They're the direct enemies. I mean, the Antichrist is
another direct enemy, right? There's a synagogue of Satan, right? We need to be separate from these
people and there should be a distinction that the world sees, you know, between us and them.
Turn to Matthew 10 28. I'll just hit fear a little bit more because fear is a thing that,
you know, can cause Christians to sin. You should only fear God. I think, yeah, fearing other things
other than God, right, is a sin and fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the
soul but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body and health, right? We should
fear God, right? We should separate ourselves for the glory of God and not for our glory, right? We
should read our Bibles. We should memorize our Bibles so we can discern when to separate and
when not to separate, right? We should be coming to church like an Ephesians 4 teaches, right?
Sitting under a righteous man of God that teaches us the Bible, right? And God has given us these
resources to use to discern these things so that we can be useful for the Kingdom of God, right?
And always, as I've studied this, motive is a big thing where, you know, what is my motive? Why do
I want to do these? Why do I want to separate from this institution? Why do I homeschool my kids,
right? Because I want them to have my values, right? Because I want to protect my family,
right? That's the motive, right? Why am I separating myself from the concision, the Jews,
right? Why am I separating myself from them? Because I don't want the world to look at,
you know, our church or myself, you know, and have the word of God blaspheme, right? It's like this
guy's just working with basically the people that hate us, right? They want to slaughter us and use
us, right? Or the disgusting sodomites, right? We want to be separate from them. We want to, um,
and then the brethren, a little leaveneth, leaveneth the whole lump, right? If we don't
know our Bibles, how do we know when to discern, when to separate from an individual in the church,
right? We want our church to be a healthy church. We want our church to be a soul-winning church,
right? God won't receive us if we're not doing these things, right? And if we become unfruitful
because of these things, He'll hew us down, right? He'll chop this church down. He'll remove that
candlestick, right? And we don't want these things to happen, so we need to read our Bibles. We need
to continue the work of God and discern whether or not, and discern whether or not to set when to
separate and when not. Amen. Let's say another word of prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you for
this opportunity to prayer, opportunity to preach. Thank you for this church. Please be with us as we,
you know, go through this this life, discerning whether or not to separate or to not separate,
and please give us wisdom, knowledge, and understanding to do these things and to serve
you, Lord. We love you, in your son's name, amen. All right, amen. Last song of the evening,
we're going to be singing "Cleanse Me," song 471. 471.
(singing)
Singing, uh, Brother Brett, you have the best prayers, so, amen. You are dismissed.