Baptist Church. We're going to go ahead and get started this morning. If you would find a seat,
grab a hymnal and turn to our first hymn number 41 by and by. Hymn number 41 for one. Hymn number
four. We'll sing there starting on the first. There's a last prayer. With the word of prayer
is with me. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day and for all your many blessings that are just
new every morning and mercies. Pray that you'd be with us for this service, that everything's
done decently and in order, that you would open up our ears to the message and that you'd fill
Pastor Oz with your spirit. These things we pray in Jesus name, Amen. All right for our next hymn
this morning turn if you would to 53, Beulah Land. Hymn number 5353, Beulah Land. 53 there starting
on the first. I preach the land of my friends and him blissful day for all. Please raise your hand
and an usher will bring you a bulletin. On the front is our Bible memory passage of the week,
Galatians chapter 1 verse 11. Keep working on that chapter. On the inside is our service
times listed. Sunday morning at 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening at 4 30 p.m. and our Wednesday evening
Bible study at seven o'clock. Our soul winning times are all listed below that. All those meet
here at the church building. Below that you'll see our nursing home ministry schedule. Brother
Theodore preaching today. Next week brother John Reed. And below that our year to date
statistics. Having a great month of soul winning so far. So definitely keep up the great effort
out soul winning. On the right please be in prayer for Miss Whitney Reed. Our expecting lady of the
church. Also below that you'll see our upcoming events. April 13th we're going to have another
men's preaching night for the evening service. Followed by some potluck food there. April 19th
is our Easter soul winning marathon in Oklahoma City. May 16th through the 18th the King James
Conference at Sher Foundation Baptist Church. May 31st the Durant Oklahoma soul winning marathon
with Steadfast. June 28th is the Tinker Air Show fellowship day and after that on June 29th that
weekend brother Ben Naim from Steadfast is going to be preaching both services for us that day so
looking forward to having him visiting us on that weekend. August 27th through the 31st is the
fire breathing baptist fellowship at Steadfast. You definitely want to go to that if you can
and October 6th through the 11th is the Bahamas mission trip. I get more and more excited by this
by the week. Pastor Anderson and Pastor Shelley were just there this week and they're reporting
that it's going really well. It's very receptive and of course it's beautiful and fun as well so
really looking forward to that. Below that there's information about giving to our church.
On the back you'll see our prayer list updated there. If you have any updates or requests please
email the church and I'll make sure to update update that on a weekly basis. As well we do now
have on our bulletin this visitor card information so just so our ushers are aware you don't have to
necessarily give visitors a communication card anymore you can just show them that and I'll
announce it as well but praise the lord we've had a lot of visitors lately last four weeks in a row
we've had first-time visitors so you may be like what but as a pastor that's something I pay
attention to so we've had a lot of visitors lately and that's a blessing to be praying for our church
things are going really well here so we thank god for that. Below that I'm starting something called
the anchor SWAT team and we kind of had a pilot session of this yesterday where the Oklahoma City
Police Department they release like bulletins whenever there's like an officer involved shooting
or a murder in our city and what I want to do not necessarily every time there's a big event
because that could just take all of our time but you know when we feel led and when there's something
that we can make a difference in whenever there's like fire a tornado some sort of crazy event some
tragedy some shooting some murder something like that I'd like to send our SWAT team members out to
that area which is soul winning action team you know we're not going to be the physical response
for us but we're going to be the soul winning action team and a lot of times when people
experience tragedy hardship it could kind of push them one of two directions it could either make
them really hard into the gospel bitter against God or it could make them extremely receptive
and they're thinking about death thinking about heaven they're thinking about eternal life and so
we want to you know strike while the iron's hot on that and also it's kind of just a good opportunity
as Christians to show the love of Christ to be ambassadors for him to send you know Christians
out in the community and be the front lines spiritually for people that are hurting so
yesterday we went to an apartment complex where last weekend a teenage boy was murdered unfortunately
and you know that's obviously a terrible thing but we want to go to do the best we can for them
there's nothing we could do really we can't bring their loved one back we can't do a bunch for them
carnally but we could give them the gospel and we got five people saved yesterday at that apartment
complex and one of the guys me and brother john was talking to was talking about that and was very
aware of what had happened the weekend before and that guy got saved you know he was probably
thinking about those things so you know when this stuff happens throughout our community we want to
take that opportunity minister to people and who knows maybe this could even grow into something
where something happens in Tulsa something happens in another state and we could just send some soul
winners there you know I've had this idea of actually for years and years what made me first
think of it is when the Uvalde shooting happened and I just was thinking like man that community
is hurting so bad right now they're losing a bunch of kids it would be nice if some soul winners could
go and we didn't do it at that time but it's something that's been in my heart for a while
and so when I see these things I'm like we need to you know take advantage of that so you don't
have to participate in that at all you know if you don't feel comfortable going to areas where
there was violence or chaos and stuff like that we're not going to judge you or anything there's
plenty of other maps you could hit but we're going to have some SWAT team members at this church and
when stuff happens like that I might just make you a map and say hey you know if you want to be a
SWAT team today you're the SWAT team and go out and and do some good in the community so I just
want to let you guys know about that if you've been praying for that and that's going to be it
for announcements we'll go to our third song all right our third hymn this morning number 64 shall
we gather at the river hymn number 64 64 shall we gather at the river 64 there on the first
as the offering plates are being passed turn if you would to hebrews chapter number four hebrews
chapter number four let us therefore fear lest promise being left us of entering into his rest
any of you should seem to come short of it for unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto
them but the word preached not profit them not being mixed with faith in them that heard it for
we which have believed you enter into rest as he said as i have sworn in my wrath if they shall
enter into my rest although the works were finished from the foundation of the world for he spake in
a certain place of the seventh day on this wise and god did rest the seventh day from all his works
and in this place again if they shall enter into my rest seeing therefore it remaineth that some
must enter therein and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief again
he limited a certain day saying in david today after so long a time as it is said today if you
will hear his voice harden not your hearts for if jesus had given them rest then he not afterward
have have spoken of another day there remaineth therefore a rest into the people to the people of
god for he that is entered into his rest he also hath ceased from his own works as god did from his
let us their labor therefore to answer into that rest lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief for the word of god is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even
to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner the
thoughts and intents of the heart neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight but
all things are naked and open under the eyes of him to whom with whom we have to do seeing then that
we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens jesus the son of god let us hold fast
our profession for we have not in high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin let us therefore come boldly
under the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need
let's pray gracious lord thank you so much for our church
amen the bible says for the word of god is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart the title my sermon this morning is intense of the
heart intense of the heart this is a very beautiful and powerful verse explaining the power of the
word of god and the bible tells us that not only can the word of god explain and define human
nature our thoughts the way that we are the actions that we do but it can also explain the
intentions behind the actions that we have it could tell you your motives why you do the things
that you do and so it's obviously a very powerful tool but keep reading it says in verse 13 neither
is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight but all things are naked and opened
unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do so you know god the bible says that jesus is the word
of god we know that jesus is god and god can just see you for who you are all things are just naked
and open unto him and the word of god is able to discern your thoughts and the intents of your heart
and sometimes people like to you know repeat this phrase well only god can judge me only god can
judge me and here's the thing that is true that god can judge you and it's true that god is the
only one that could judge you perfectly 100 percent of the time right now the bible tells
us that we should judge but our judgment can be flawed at times our judgment can sometimes be
flawed by our opinions our experiences our perception of facts and reality if we don't
have the full picture but here's the thing about the bible is that its judgments are always right
its judgments always know exactly what you think and exactly why you do the things that you do go
to first corinthians chapter two first corinthians chapter two but you know people will kind of say
this like well only god can judge me as an excuse to kind of just push to the side biblical preaching
you know they'll hear a preacher rip on the word of god and just use the word of god to point out
sin and to point out people's actions that are wrong and they'll just say well only god can judge
me but notice what the bible says in first Corinthians 2 verse 14 it says but the natural
man receiveth not the things of the spirit of god for they are foolishness unto him neither can he
know them because they are spiritually discerned but he that is spiritual judgeth all things that's
a powerful statement right there oh you know christians should never judge judging is a sin
the bible says that those that are actually spiritual judge all things now how do we judge
though it says yet he himself is judged of no man for who hath known the mind of the lord
that he may instruct him but we have the mind of christ so it's like man man's human reasoning our
little peon brains we can't sit here and instruct the lord and really fully understand his ways from
a carnal perspective but we the saved we can how because we have the mind of christ how is it that
we have the mind of christ because we have the word of god by having the word of god we can judge
accurately we can sometimes understand people's actions and motives and intentions how through
the mind of christ go to john chapter three john chapter number three so yes our judgment can be
flawed but god's judgment is never flawed so when we're judging things according to what the bible
says we know that that is a right judgment by the way this idea of the bible being able to
discern your thoughts and the intents of your heart this is why people hate the word of god
this is why the wicked hate the bible is because the bible is just laying bare for all to see who
they really are and people like to put up a facade and pretend to be something they're not but the
bible is going to expose you for who you are whether good or bad john 3 18 he that believeth on him is
not condemned but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of
the only begotten son of god and this is the condemnation that light is come into the world
and men loved darkness rather than light so remember hebrews 4 said that the bible is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart so here's a thought that the wicked have
they have this thought that they love darkness rather than light now can we find out why what's
the intent of their heart why is it that they love darkness rather than light well it says right
there because their deeds were evil so you see how you could look at someone and you could identify
using the word of god their thoughts what actions they're doing their state of being and the reason
why they're in that state see i could actually make the judgment and say why does someone hate
the light why does someone hate the word of god why does someone not want to come to the word of
god well i know exactly their motivation you say are you mind reader no can you look into their
heart no but i can with the word of god because the bible says because their deeds were evil the
reason people don't like church the word of god the lord jesus christ is because they are wicked
that's why and i know that for a fact because the bible has discerned that verse 20 for everyone
that doeth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved
why do people want to get the bible out of our society why do people want to censor voices that
are preaching the word of god because they're evil they're doing evil and they don't want their
deeds being reproved right this is like what the jews did after jesus christ was crucified
and risen again and the apostles were going forth everywhere preaching the word of god what were the
jews wanting to do to shut their mouths to command them to not speak anymore in the name of the lord
jesus why because paul and peter and all these guys are preaching hey look these are the people
that killed the lord jesus right and so by shining the light of the truth it's reproving
those who had done evil deeds verse 21 but he that doeth truth that's an action cometh to the light
that his deeds may be manifest that they are wrought in god you see if someone comes to the
light if someone reads the bible if someone loves church if someone loves the lord jesus christ
that's someone that loves the truth and i could tell that they're motivated by truth how do i know
that because they came to the light if you come to the light that means that you wanted the truth
you love the truth go to if you would proverbs chapter number one so we see this observation
from hebrews 4 that the bible says that it's a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
heart it knows what you're thinking it could define what your actions are and it could also
tell us what or why you're doing the things that you do so number one this morning the bible exposes
you the bible exposes you and what i want to do is i want to do just a little bit of a bible study
here just through proverbs and really this principle can be found all throughout the word of
god where it tells you what you're doing and why you're doing it but boy proverbs is really where
this just comes up over and over well it tells you an attribute about someone and then explains why
they have that attribute the intent of their heart look at proverbs chapter one verse 22 notice what
it says how long ye simple ones so being simple is a state of being right someone is foolish someone
is stupid someone is simple the question is why are they that way can i understand the intent of
their heart by the fact that they are a simple person yes i can let's keep reading it says how
long you simple ones will ye love simplicity you see when you look at someone who's simple who's
foolish who's ignorant who is stupid the question is why are they that way it's because they love it
it's because they love being stupid it's because they hate knowledge they love being an idiot they
love being uneducated because if they actually loved knowledge they wouldn't be stupid do you
understand what i'm saying right now look this is the word of god you could actually look at
someone and say okay this person is stupid why well they just didn't have all the opportunities
well you know they would just have this different disadvantage in life look there's i'm sure there's
exceptions of people out there that are born literally mentally retarded okay i'm not talking
about those people there's people that are literally retarded i'm using that as the medical word there
and i'm not judging those people but it's like there's nothing wrong with you you don't have some
sort of learning disability you just have never read any books you've never done any study you
never took school seriously you didn't pay attention in church you don't read the bible
and let me tell you now you're simple now you're stupid and you want to know whose fault it is it's
your fault it's your fault the intent of your heart is that you love simplicity you want to know why
leftist communists are so stupid is because they love being stupid you want to know why atheists
are so stupid is because they love stupidity oh yeah nothing exploded in the universe and
turned into everything you foolish idiots you person that loves stupidity you and so i don't
look at an atheist and think like oh man he was born into an atheist home he just had no chance to
learn the truth no no no you had a chance and you rejected it and here's the thing i don't fault
someone for being born into a mormon home that's not their fault but let me tell you if you stay a
mormon that's your fault oh i don't i don't fault people born in india being born into a hindu
religion that sucks i'm sorry that's terrible but if you stay a hindu that's your fault you're born
a muslim not your fault you stay a muslim your fault you're born a catholic not your fault you
stay catholic your fault by the way this is why hell is just it's not like god is sending people
to hell that don't deserve it the gospel and the truth is just out there crying in the streets
trying to get you to know the truth love the truth hear the truth but some people they just
love simplicity some people they hear the word of god being preached and they just scoff at it turn
their ear away from it and they just stay stupid you know whose fault that is that's their fault
let's keep reading and scorners oh someone's a scorner why delight in their scorning and fools
hate knowledge see if you're if you're simple if you're a scorner if you're a fool the reason you
are that is because that's what you love to be and people that are smart the bible says through
desire man having separated himself intermetallith with all knowledge right so someone who's wise
someone who is educated they didn't get that way by accident they got that way because they love
knowledge they love instruction they love wisdom and that is why they got to that point verse 23
says turn you at my reproof behold i will pour out my spirit unto you i will make known my words
unto you so notice god is more than willing to just pour out his spirit on someone and just to
make known his words unto someone god loves the world and wants people to be saved god wants people
to hear the gospel god wants people to repent from unbelief to trust in jesus christ that's
god's heart that's god's desire and he's ready to help someone at any time but you know what's
stopping people from getting saved is from loving lies from loving false religion from loving
themselves right oh no no no you have to do good to get to heaven oh you don't understand i'm a
good person and i go to church and i read the bible and i live a good life you see that person
they're unwilling to turn to the truth of the gospel because they just love themselves so much
they think so highly of themselves no you need to love the truth and if the truth says you're a
sinner if the truth says there is none good if the truth says that if you've transgressed the law
on one point that you're guilty of all if the truth says that every single human being is worthy
of hell you should put down the thoughts of your heart that says you're so great and submit yourself
to the word of god and say hey if that's the truth then that's the truth if i'm wicked if i'm a sinner
if i'm deserving of hell if that's what the truth is then you know what i'm just going to believe the
truth and i'm going to believe in jesus christ to save me because verse 24 i have called and ye
refused see god's calling people today i've stretched out mine hand and no man regarded
but ye have said it not all my counsel and would none of my reproof you see why people reject truth
why they reject knowledge why they reject the gospel is because they don't want it that's why
they're not some poor little victims poor little victim look if soul winners of this church knocks
on a door of a human being in oklahoma city and offers them the gospel and they turn away they
love they love scorning they love being stupid they love being simple they love lies because
here was just calling to them here's the word of god i want to pour my spirit out unto you
i want you to be saved when they reject that and they go to hell you know whose fault that is
that's their fault it's not my fault it's not your fault hey our hands are clean from the blood of
the people that we warn our hands are clean it's done it's on them go to proverbs chapter three
proverbs chapter three so notice you can identify the intentions of people's hearts the bible exposes
us for who we really are and like i said i as a human being i can make poor judgments if i don't
have all of the facts if i don't have all of the context i could sometimes as a human rely on my
own understanding i can make mistakes in my judgment but if we are judging things according
to the word of god we could actually know for a fact the intents of someone's heart and you know i
want to be careful drawing those two distinctions because today we live in this like pseudo-intellectual
world where everyone's a psychologist and everyone wants to say that you're a narcissist and everyone
wants to say you're an abuser and everyone wants to like be some sort of armchair psychologist
you know that's that can get too far that could be weird but when we're judging according to the
bible we can know the intents of people's heart even god himself look at what it says for whom
the lord loveth he correcteth so we have an action from god god correcting someone can i
know the intention behind the lord's heart in him correcting someone can i assign motive to god
himself as to why he's doing something yes i can because notice what the bible says whom the lord
loveth he corrected see even i could look at god himself and see god correct me as his child god
correct you as his child and i could say hey i know why god is doing this is because god loves me
and because god loves you and i could actually say for a fact this is the motive behind even god
himself let's keep reading even as so now it's going to be applied to us even as a father the
son in whom he delighteth so if i see a father correcting his son if i see parents disciplining
their children giving them spankings giving them the rod you know what i could say i could say hey
those parents delight in their children right but notice what it says in verse 24 of proverbs 13 if
you'll turn there proverbs 13 verse 24 so action motive god corrects god loves father corrects father
loves what about this verse 24 of proverbs 13 he that spareth his rod action motive hateth his son
but he that loveth him chaseneth him be times see the bible exposes you for who you really are
you say no no i love my child in fact i love them too much to discipline them no actually i love my
child so much you know i have to wait till they get to this magical age of you know eight years
old to start spanking them it's like now hold on your mouth is telling me one thing but the bible
is saying that your heart is different the bible saying that if you spare the rod you hate your son
who am i supposed to believe right this helps you with judgment in his life when you realize that the
bible is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart thought oh you know i'm gonna not
discipline my son okay you hate him you hate your child go back to proverbs chapter six proverbs
chapter number six notice what verse 12 says a naughty person a wicked man walketh with a
foward mouth what is someone that's foward it's someone who's stubborn contrarian hard to deal with
right these are people that i've just noticed that are just like allergic to the truth people that
are foward it's like every single time there's a battle every single time there's a controversy
they just somehow always find themselves on the wrong side of judgment and it's like man what's
wrong with this person well let me help you let me help you it says a wicked man walketh with a
forward mouth why is someone contrarian why is someone never having right judgment always
bucking at leadership it's because they're wicked that's why verse 13 he winketh with his eyes he
speaketh with his feet he teacheth with his his fingers forwardness is in his heart he diviseth
mischief continually notice he soweth discord huh why is this person sowing discord we talked about
this on wednesday oh you know people will like to say oh i just care about the truth i just care
about right doctrine i just care about us having a loving spirit i just want us to be a loving
church well hold on if you're sowing discord it's because you're a wicked person here's action
action sowing discord motive you're wicked you're evil you're a wicked person look at verse number
16 of proverbs 6 these six things doth the lord hate yea seven are an abomination unto him notice
a proud look see sometimes you could know the intents of someone's heart just by the look on
their face that's what the bible is saying and you're like what's a proud look watch a sports game
watch any sports game and when a touchdown's made you'll see the prideful dance and the spiking of
the football and the prideful look and you could say hey here's the look on their face what's in
their heart what's their motivation what's the intents of their heart pride right and you know
man it's really annoying how sports has gotten like this because it kind of just i don't know
about you but it cringes me out seeing people be super prideful and i used to really appreciate the
coach that i had uh when i was a kid playing baseball is that like my coach would discipline
the fire out of anyone on our team caught being prideful he's like if you hit a home run you keep
a straight face you know if you win even if you destroy the other team you shake their hand at
the end of the game good game having good sportsmanship you know you pick up your team you
make a great play you just stand there and just have a straight face you don't sit here and gloat
and showboat and it's like baseball specifically and you baseball fans out here know what i'm saying
is true it used to be known as like a gentleman sport right but now it's like dudes hit home runs
they throw their bat 500 feet in the air and do a cartwheel and start trotting the bases it's just
like it's cringy right it's just gross to look at but you know what when i see someone with a
proud look i could identify the intents of their heart that they're a prideful person a lying tongue
and hands that shed innocent blood and heart that diviseth wicked imaginations feet that be swift
in running to mischief a false witness that speaketh lies and he that soweth discord among
brethren go to proverbs 6 verse 3 notice what it says bind them upon thy fingers write them upon
the table of thine heart say unto wisdom thou art my sister and call understanding thy kin's woman
that they may keep thee from the strange woman from the stranger which flattereth with her words
the bible warns over and over and over about people who will flatter you people who will give you
insincere compliments and they're doing that because internally they actually hate you you
know they're hiding hatred with deceit and so when you run into the strange woman that flatters you
with her lips you know the foolish person person the person who has no judgment says oh man this
lady really likes me oh man she really does think that i'm more attractive than tom cruise or
whatever the guy is nowadays right you know she really does think that i'm just all this in a
bag of chips it's like no she's a flatterer and you know what that means it means she's the strange
woman and what does the bible tell you to do with the strange woman don't even go by her house get
far away from her you know a whore is a deep ditch the bible says like get away from that trap that's
going to hurt you when you identify that it should tell you everything that you need to know about
that woman verse number six for at the window of my house i looked through my casement and i beheld
among the simple ones here we go state of being i discerned among the youths a young man void of
understanding passing through the street near her corner and he went the way to her house how is a
way that we could appropriately judge this situation okay if we see a young man who spends
time around a bunch of whores i know something about that young man he is foolish he is devoid
of wisdom he is simple he is stupid and you could judge that situation saying like okay action man
hangs out with whores non-stop okay what's his heart he's stupid he's foolish right that's what
the bible saying verse 9 in the twilight in the evening in the black and dark night and behold
there met him with there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot and subtle of heart can you
judge a woman that dresses like a harlot yes you can and you should know oh she's dressed like a
harlot she's dressed like a whore well she's probably subtle of heart she's probably a flatterer
she's probably a wicked person and it's so funny how there's all these like conservative influencer
girls nowadays where like their thing online is that they're going to be like the conservative
housewife in the kitchen and she's going to make all these videos of her in her kitchen
and she's dressed like a whore while doing it right but she's like this trad wife she's this
traditional ultra conservative back 200 years is ready to obey her husband but dressed like a whore
okay let me tell you i don't care that her handle says like conservative babe or whatever it is
i could tell you that she is a whore i could tell you you're not conservative because a
conservative woman who actually fears god and loves her husband you know what she's doing she's
focusing on her family she's in her kitchen making great meals for her husband without a camera
why does why does the world need to see what my wife is doing in the kitchen like why do you guys
need to see my wife folding laundry why do i need to see your wife making the bed and doing the
laundry and you're doing all the stuff at home it's freaking weird guys and look i could i could see
the intense of your heart because by nature you just filming yourself and putting yourself
all over the internet and trying to get your name out there and look at me look at my life
look at how i'm dressed look at how conservative i am look at how godly i am it's like okay you're
not conservative then you're not godly you're not and here's the thing these guys are just simple
right what the bible says they flock to these women and it's like what really ends up happening
is that there's probably a little extra link on her site somewhere taking you to her only fans or
something where you could be an idiot and spend money on that garbage like these conservative babes
that are dressed like whores let me help you they're not conservative okay conservative housewife
social media account for millions of people to see it's like this is an oxymoron right this doesn't
make any sense it's just you could see a person's heart in that situation passing verse eight through
the street near her corner and he went away to her house or i'm sorry go to verse 11 she is loud and
stubborn her feet abide not in her house boy that could apply to social media today right loud and
stubborn look if you see a woman that's dressed like a whore that is loud and stubborn you could
identify some things about her you can say okay this woman's loud and stubborn this is a wicked
woman you know young men that aren't married yet don't just marry someone because they're beautiful
and overlook the fact that huh why is she dressed like a harlot huh why is she loud and stubborn
huh why doesn't she want to have her feet abide in her house like you're going down a very bad
path and many many men have been destroyed by going after some woman just because she's beautiful
just because she's nice to look at overlooking all the major red flags and it's like the bible's here
specifically proverbs is here to give us wisdom to warn us about certain things so that we can
understand the motivation behind certain people's hearts and you know you should just see a woman
like that and just run away and say look god has told me what this type of woman is like i don't
care that she's beautiful i don't care that she's nice to talk to or whatever this is a red flag you
need to run run away from these people go to first timothy five as you keep your place in proverbs
first timothy chapter five so who are we supposed to believe are we supposed to believe the bible
that says when women are loud and stubborn when they're dressed like harlots that they're wicked
that they're people that you should avoid or are we supposed to believe the bio on the instagram
that says trad wife i love god john 3 16 here's all my pictures of me half naked it's like come on you
know you have to not be so stupid today but man so many men are just so simple and so dumb and you
know what it comes from is not reading the bible not reading proverbs that would have warned you
about these women first timothy five verse 11 but the younger widows refuse for when they have begun
to wax wanton against christ they will marry having damnation because they have cast off their first
faith and with all they learn to be idle wandering about from house to house and not only idle but
tatlers also in busy bodies speaking things which they ought not i will therefore that the younger
women marry bear children guide the house give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully
for some are already turned aside after satan you know don't be the simple man that looks at a woman
and says yeah you know i know she spends all day on social media yeah i know she's constantly like
getting arguments with pastors online yeah i know she's going house to house i know she's a gossip
i know she likes to tell you know tales about other people but she's actually really godly though you
have to understand no actually she really does love god no she actually is super it's a great
christian loves the lord and it's like no no no let the bible tell you what she's like don't rely
on your own understanding see this is where your judgment as a human being gets wrong is when you
are relying on your own understanding when you're trusting in your own heart and you say oh man she's
beautiful i love her so much wait a second don't rely on your own understanding what does the bible
say about women like this these women have turned aside after satan and boy oh boy there's so much
feminism in this world today and i'll tell you feminism has crept into america feminism has crept
into christianity feminism has crept into independent fundamental baptist feminism has
crept into the new ifb folks let me tell you feminism is in the new ifb and it just blows my
mind sometimes how women view themselves so much differently than what the bible says they should
be like that they should be meek and quiet that they shouldn't be going around house to house
speaking things which they ought not you know being a gossip being a busybody what should they be
doing marrying bearing children guiding the house right serving god reading the bible loving your
family loving your church family being a soul winner right there's so much good that you should
be focused on but then it's like people will go on facebook and just blow their mouths off all day
long about what pastors are doing what pastors are preaching getting fights with other churches and
it's shameful it is disgusting it's sickening to see and you know it's just safe and even men
should apply this oftentimes it's just it's safe to just be so much more quiet in your life and
just not to open your mouth as much and sometimes i just blow my it blows my mind like i see people
asking very serious questions whether facebook email whatever people will be asking like advice
for a very serious situation in their life that's going to affect their life that's going to affect
them spiritually and it's like this question is asked and pastors will get on there and offer
advice and offer the bible and offer counsel men who have read the bible 20 30 40 50 100 times
cover to cover who have the spirit of god who have been men ordained and chosen by god to lead god's
people but then mrs housewife will go on there and offer her two cents too how gross is that how
disgusting is that but what has it come like what about social media has caused people to just lose
all shame because could you imagine if someone came to me or another pastor and asked for counsel and
i'm right there in front of them talking to them and some sister in the church walks up and just
pushes the pastor aside let me tell you what you should do wouldn't we all just be like what the
hell is this like are you out of your mind like do you not see how gross and disgusting that is
but every woman she just thinks oh wow i'm just going to go on facebook and i'm going to argue
with pastors i'm going to offer my two cents it's like no you know what you're doing you're giving
occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully and shame on christians today that we've allowed
feminism in the new ifb and you know i've been told oh i'm a migtal that's married with kids
folks no no no i'm just judging according to what the bible says i love my wife i love women in this
church i want to protect them i want them to be thriving in the role that god has given them
what i don't want is them making a fool out of themselves i'm trying to help you i'm trying to
make it to where people don't look at you and say oh christianity gross oh yeah christianity is so
great that women will call pastors punks wow that's awesome religion right no you are turning aside
after satan you are giving the enemies an occasion to blaspheme god almighty and so i'm not going to
let people despise what i'm saying right now because what i'm saying is the truth from god's
word and i'm judging rightly this morning how do i know because look what the bible says and so i
can look at someone's actions it's like action here is a woman rebuking a pastor intention you're a
wicked feminist you are turning side after the devil that's your opinion nope the bible is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart and if you as a woman rebuke a pastor you are
wicked period i don't care if you're a pastor's wife i don't care if you're a layman i don't care
if you're single married mother not a mother doesn't matter it's inappropriate it's uncomely
it's disgusting it needs to be called out and corrected go back to proverbs chapter 8 and let
me tell you who should really be ashamed is men that allow their wives to do this on facebook
that's who should really be ashamed because look human beings are sinners but god has created an
authority structure in the home and he has put the man in charge of the wife he is in charge of her
he's supposed to be the boss he's supposed to be telling her what she can and cannot do
and what kind of a man what kind of a man allows his wife to rebuke a pastor one with no stones
i'll tell you that one who is a weak pathetic excuse of a leader if my wife went on facebook
and called a pastor a punk i would throw her phone in a river i would smash it with a hammer
that's what would happen what a joke and then the pastors are hiding in the corner
it's okay yeah i accept what she's doing you weak freak unbelievable look at proverbs chapter 9 verse
13 proverbs chapter 9 verse 13 a foolish woman is clamorous she is simple and knoweth nothing
imagine just amazing how much the bible tells us about people clamorous what is clamor a loud uproar
a vehement expression of desire or dissatisfaction any loud or continuous noise that's what the bible
is saying a foolish woman is clamorous okay action this woman's loud wow this woman's constantly
expressing her vehement dissatisfaction at the world and at pastors and at her husband okay i
know something about you you're a fool you are simple you know nothing oh she's really smart
though but she's really no she's stupid she is a fool she knows nothing go to proverbs 10 are you
starting to see how the bible tells us a lot about people proverbs 10 he becomeeth poor that dealeth
with a slack hand but the hand of the diligent maketh rich right why is someone poor and of course
we could talk about exceptions to the rule too but in general why is someone poor not you know our
modern definition of poor where it's like you live in an apartment you have an xbox you have a computer
you have two cars but you're poor it's like no no no someone who's actually poor right why is someone
that way well he become a poor that dealeth with a slack hand oftentimes not always but oftentimes
people who are poor are poor because they love being lazy they love dealing with a slack hand
they don't want to work they don't want to get educated they don't want to get skills they don't
want to put their nose to the grindstone and put in the hard labor they want to deal with a slack
hand they become poor but the hand of the diligent maketh rich want to know why most rich people are
rich is because they work hard now again are there exceptions yes but the rule most people who are
rich are rich because they worked hard because they got educated they got skills they worked
hard in their trade they built a business they spent years investing into a business that made no profit
whatsoever and they finally started turning the corner and they have some money it's because they
work hard the bible tells us the intents of people's hearts proverbs 10 verse 8 the wise in heart
will receive commandments but a praying fool shall fall what does it tell you about someone when they
receive the word of god when when a sermon is preached and the commandments of god are thundering
forth and someone receives that and they say man i love that i love the word of god i want to hear
more of that what does it say about them it says the wise in heart will receive commandments you
know someone who loves the bible someone who loves church someone who reads it someone who wants more
of it that is a wise person and you know i want to be around wise people and so part of the way i
make judgments in my life is like who's going to church who's going three to thrive who's reading
the bible who's going soul winning i'm like hey this is a wise person this is a good person to be
my friend because they're wise iron sharpened with iron right go to uh verse number 14 wise men lay
up knowledge but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction see someone who's wise they're going
to be constantly trying to get knowledge they're never going to be stagnant or be content and say
hey i went you know k through 12 but the day i'm done with high school is the day that i'm done
learning no that's a foolish person the wise person is constantly wanting to learn constantly
wanted to read the bible and study it deeper and deeper you know we are never ever in our lifetimes
going to understand everything in this book not even close but you know what i want to do i want
to understand as much as i possibly can of it i want to study it and i don't even want to just
study the bible i just want knowledge in general i just want to read books i just want to learn
things you know i want to study languages i want to learn how the world works this is what wise
people do verse 13 of uh sorry proverbs 11 verse 13 proverbs 11 verse 13 a tale bearer revealeth
secrets but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter see if someone's being
a tale bearer and someone's gossiping someone's revealing secrets that's their action what is
their heart they're not faithful because the bible says that someone who is of a faithful spirit
conceals a matter so when someone's gossiping when someone's being a tale bearer you should
recognize hey this is not a person i could trust this is not a person that i could trust with my
secrets because you know what they're going to do they're going to turn around and tale bear
against you and you know spread your business all over the world so you can know their intents in
that way go to proverbs 12 i mean it just seems like every chapter in this book is constantly
telling you not only what people do but why they do it proverbs 12 verse 1 whoso loveth instruction
loveth knowledge but he that hateth reproof is brutish so again it's kind of rephrasing what
we talked about in proverbs 1 if someone's brutish they're they're dumb they're stupid they're like an
animal why is it it's because they hate reproof right and so not only just knowledge we should
love yes knowledge but we should even love reproof we should love when someone tells you you're wrong
about this you should love when you come to church and hear a preacher tell you that something's
wrong you should actually love that the bible says not cringe at it not make an angry face not storm
out of the church as soon as the you know the service is over you should actually love that
that's what a wise person does look at proverbs 13 verse 20 proverbs 13 verse 20 he that walketh
with wise men shall be wise but a companion of fools shall be destroyed see i can know a lot of
about a person and you can know a lot about me and about everyone by looking at who their friends
are you know if your friends are wise the people that are free to thrive the people that are soul
winners the people that do sincerely love god and want to live a godly separated life the bible says
you yourself will be wise but when you're a companion of fools you are going to be destroyed
and so by the bible giving us that insight into the hearts of men then we can make judgments about
who we want our friends to be and it's like okay you're friends with all these fools you're friends
with all these people that don't like the bible or that talk crap about our church and don't like us
and it's like okay you're on a bad path here you're on a dangerous path and you need to realize man if
i'm going to be a companion of fools then i'm going to be destroyed i need to be friends with
the wise proverbs 14 verse 9 proverbs 14 verse 9 fools make a mock at sin but among the righteous
there is favor right so someone that makes a mock at sin that jokes around about things that are
wicked and sinful what does the bible tell us about that person that person is a fool
that person is is an idiot right you have these like christian prank channel influencers on youtube
like cassidy campbell where he's like yeah i'm a christian i'm an independent final baptist i'm a
soul winner you want to check out my youtube channel where i just pick up other women all day
where i go and flirt with married women as a married man oh but don't worry because it's
just a joke ha ha ha you're a fool you're an idiot and so hey he that walketh with wise men
shall be wise but a companion of fools shall be destroyed don't follow that idiot on social media
don't don't like that guy's facebook page for crying out loud don't be don't be following him
on youtube or on rumble or on x or whatever because at that point you're like do you want to be a
companion of fools you want to be friends with that guy you know it's one thing when someone is
new to church and they've got a lot of problems but we bring them in because we're hoping that
they're going to grow we're going to invest into them we're going to love them they're going to get
the preaching of the word of god but when people just have rejected that they're done they don't
want to hear it anymore it's like okay this person has cemented themselves as a fool and the wise
thing to do would just be to get away from that person you know don't listen kids if people grow
when you grow up you're going to be around people that will make fun of sin that will make jokes
about doing drugs that will make jokes about how cool it would be if you wouldn't drink alcohol
that'll make you know young boys there'll be there'll be boys around you that'll make jokes
about women and girls and their bodies and stuff like that when you start noticing your friends
joking around about sin you better realize you better get away from those people you better not
be those people's friends those people are going to lead you to destruction and you know kids you
should probably tell your parents when other kids are joking around about filthy disgusting things
that's something that adults should know about so that it can be corrected go to if you would
verse 15 proverbs 14 verse 15 one of my favorite verses in the bible the simple believe in every
word my goodness is this so true but the prudent man looketh well to his going you know man alive
do we live in a time where people just believe everything they see everything they hear any
short reel any youtube video any x post they see it's just wow they immediately believe it and what
does that tell you about that person they are simple they are stupid you know i saw this picture
the other day that just every time i see stuff like this i think of this verse and it showed
in i forget i forget if it was like the nevada or um arizona desert where nasa astronauts were
doing some training out there in the the desert because they hypothesize that that's what the
surface of the moon is going to look like and they're like see moon landings were all filmed in the
arizona desert i'm just like wow how do you even drive around like how do you drive to your job
without crashing your car like how do you even like put food to your mouth without like stabbing
yourself in the eye like you're so stupid you're so foolish you say that's your opinion no no no
no that's what the bible says the simple believeth every word oh man look at this look at this hillary
clinton has been captured she's in guantanamo bay she's being tortured and spilling all the state
secrets and she's been executed yeah wow i hate these conspiracy videos guys i mean it's just it's
so sad how there's real conspiracies in this world and real things that we should be talking about
but they're constantly being destroyed by all this stupidity of people denying the moon landing
and stupidity of people just talking about all these ridiculous conspiracy theories and it's like
look why does someone i'm just gonna be real specific here i talk about this all the time and
i don't care who defends you okay the moon landings are some of the most well-documented
events in human history the moon landings are a fact my friend and if you don't want to see that
it's because you want to be simple you want to love simplicity you don't want to actually look
into things do any research and you're just like i'm just gonna believe whatever i hear because i
saw a funny video of astronauts training underwater so haha it never happened it's like you are dumb
you are foolish and i'm sorry to say this but you're making christians look bad that's why i'm
saying this right now because i don't want christians going around giving people a reason
to think we're stupid right there's all these um stereotypes about christians let's not make them
true please okay if the s if the soviet union was tracking apollo 11 the whole time and other
countries were and it happened and all these other countries were like yes america did it yes we're
congratulating them it's like i'm pretty sure our greatest enemy during the time would not have
given us that win if it didn't happen folks okay and i could go for hours about why this was real
maybe i'll do it in a video someday but that's just an example i think of with that verse go to
proverbs 15 proverbs 15 verse 5 proverbs 15 verse 5 a fool despiseth his father's instruction but
he that regardeth reproof is prudent what kind of a person doesn't want to listen to what their
dad has to say. What kind of a kid is going to hear their dad giving them instruction,
you know, giving them wisdom and just not regard it, not listen to it. It's a child
that is a fool, right? You know, God has given parents to their children as a blessing and
it's parents jobs to instruct them, to give them wisdom, to give them the word of God.
And your parents kids love you. Your parents want you to be successful. They want you to
get a good job. They want you to go to church. They want you to be a soul winner. And when
they're giving you instruction, they're giving it to you to that end, to try to help you.
And a child that just doesn't want to listen to mom or dad, that child is foolish. That
child has a character issue. Proverbs 16, we'll just keep going through these great
Proverbs here. Proverbs 16 verse 27, "An ungodly man diggeth up evil, and in his lips there
is as a burning fire, a foward man soweth strife, and a whisperer separateth chief chief
friends." You know, why is it that someone would want to constantly dig up evil on people?
They always want to hear the drama. They always want to find out all the latest scuttlebutt.
What everyone's saying about everyone else, it's because they're ungodly. It's an ungodly
attribute to want to dig up evil on other people. You know, the Bible says that love
covereth a multitude of sins. I mean, think about it, if there was something really bad
in someone's life that was 20 years ago, already been dealt with, people have already apologized,
people have already repented, people have already reconciled, people have already gotten
things right, why would I ever want to hear about that? I mean, would I want other people
to hear everything I've ever done in my life? Would you want that done to you? Of course
not. So, if someone comes up to you, "Hey, let me tell you what Brother so-and-so did
before he got saved." Why would I want to hear that? That's gross. You know, that's
not a Christian attribute. Christianity is about forgiveness, grace, love, letting things
go. Oh, you messed up? Or hey, you know, you believed something stupid in the past,
but you've changed? Never bring it up again. Let it go. Hey, praise the Lord. Plenty of
things I've learned. Plenty of things that I used to believe that were stupid. Plenty
of things that I needed to get corrected on. Plenty of times I've come to church and my
sins are being ripped on, but when I fix those things, I expect people to let it go. I expect
people to not bring it up again, right? Oh, remember that one time you were out soul-winding
and you said this really stupid thing? Did you correct it? Did they change? Just let
it go. Don't bring it up all the time, it's not right. Here's a really great verse, Proverbs
17 verse 4. Proverbs 17 verse 4, "A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips, and a liar
giveth ear to a naughty tongue." See, not only does the Bible condemn people that lie,
people who have the false lips, the Bible says that if you even listen to liars that
you yourself are wicked. Well, it's not my fault that people lie to me, it's not my fault
that they're, you know, all these other people are saying these lies. No, truth is discernible.
You can identify truth. You can find truth. How can you do that? Well, we've been doing
this entire sermon, looking at facts, looking at situations. What does the Bible say? What
does it mean? How do we apply it to this person? You can actually do that in real life with
real situations. And when someone is a known liar, when someone's railing against another
person and you listen to it, you give heed to it, you give it credence, you want to listen
to more, you want to, you know, put them up as someone who's telling the truth even though
they're lying, you yourself are wicked. You're not just, "Oh, they're taking advantage of,
oh, they're just foolish." No, someone who listens to liars is a wicked person. Wicked
person. Go to Proverbs chapter number 18. Proverbs chapter number 18. We talked about
this verse earlier. Verse 1, "Through desire, a man having separated himself, seeketh and
intermedaleth with all wisdom. A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his
heart may discover its self." Why does someone have wisdom? Why is someone walking in the
right paths? Because they wanted that. Because they diligently sought it. They wanted it.
They sought it with their heart. But someone who has no delight in understanding, the Bible
says, is a fool. Go to Proverbs 20. We looked at a few more of these examples in Proverbs.
Proverbs 20. Wine is a mocker, verse 1. Strong drink is raging. Whosoever is deceived thereby
is not wise. See, I could look at action. This person drinks alcohol. Oh, this person
condones of drinking. Oh, here's this Calvinist pastor that says, oh yeah, let's drink beer.
No problem. Not a sin whatsoever. That person is a fool. That person is not wise. Action,
drink alcohol, intent of the heart. You're an idiot. You're a fool. How can you just
judge people that drink alcohol with a blanket, you know, statement like that? Because of
Proverbs chapter 20 verse 1, that's why. Because God, I have the mind of Christ. I can look
at things through the way God looks at them. Proverbs 28, Proverbs 28 verse 4, they that
forsake the law, praise the wicked, but such as keep the law, contend with them. See, when
someone praises a wicked person, it has told me something about that individual that they
have forsaken the Bible. They don't care about the Bible. They've turned their ear away from
hearing the law, and as a result of that, you see them praising the wicked. But, such
as keep the law, so people who love God's word, love what the Bible says, they contend
with the wicked. So, you know, you see a church that's constantly preaching against the wicked,
preaching against bad preachers, preaching against false prophets, preaching against
the sodomites, the reprobates, whatever. That's a church that loves God. That's a church that
loves the word of God. Go to Proverbs chapter number one. So, number one, the Bible exposes
you. The Bible exposes me. It really shows us who we are and you cannot hide behind God's
word. God can look right through you. He knows the thoughts and intents of your heart. Number
two, the more Bible you read, the better judgment you will have. You say, "I want to be a good
judge of character. I want to learn how to judge situations, judge people's motives,
judge people's actions." How does that happen? It comes by reading a lot of Bible. Proverbs
chapter 1 verse 1, the Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, to know
wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding, to receive the instruction
of wisdom, judgment, and judgment, and equity, to give subtlety to the simple, to the young
man knowledge and discretion. So how is it that you get wisdom, knowledge, discretion?
The best place to ever get those things is from the Bible. And specifically, the book
of Proverbs itself was written to give the young man wisdom, discretion, you know, knowledge.
We should be constantly reading the Proverbs because it's going to give us a lot of wisdom.
And, you know, there's going to be a big difference between judging ability and just discretion
in life between a Christian who's never read the Bible and a Christian who's read the Bible
cover to cover five times, ten times. Like, there's going to be a massive chasm between
them of judging ability. If you want to get good at judging, you want to be a good judge
of character. You know, by the way, parents, you should try to be this. You should care
about this because your kids are going to marry someone someday. Don't you want to be
able to identify some things? Don't you want to be a good judge of character? Don't you
want a good man to marry your daughters or a godly lady to marry your sons, right? Well,
you're going to have to be a good judge and you should be a good judge. How does that
happen? By reading the Bible. Go to 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Corinthians chapter 6. You'll be able
to pick up on, oh, this person's lying. What does that tell me about him? Oh, this person's
friend with fools. Oh, this person believes everything they hear. Oh, this person likes
to give heed to liars. Oh, this lady dresses like a whore. Oh, this person's a flatterer.
And you're going to start to realize, oh, wow, I'm going to understand what's their
motive behind that. What are they trying to do? And this could save you from a lot of
mistakes in life. You know, it could help you avoid a lot of pain. 1 Corinthians 6, 1. Dare
any of you having a matter against another, go to 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 you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know you not that we
shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life? If you then have judgments
of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
Here's the truth, Christians are the best judges, the best judges. So much so that the
Bible is saying like, look, rather than going to the world for judgment, to the unsaved,
people that are murderers, adulterers, idolaters, people in false religions, people who've never
read the Bible, instead of going to those people for judgment, you would rather go to
someone who's saved in the house of God, who's the least esteemed, who someone's like, oh
yeah, you know, this guy's never really preached, you know, no, no one really knows much about
this guy.
You'd rather that person judge you because they're saved, because they have the Holy
Spirit of God, because hopefully they've been reading their Bible, because if they've done
those things, their judgment is going to be so much better than the world's.
You know, this is why it's important as a country that we try our best to make sure
that Christians are in offices like being a judge, right?
I mean, I don't know about you, if I were to go to a court of law, I would really hope
that the judge is a Christian.
And you know, I preached to you guys a while back about the qualifications for being a
congressman during the 13 colonies, they're like, you have to say that you believe Jesus
is God.
Like, you have to say that you believe the Old and New Testaments are divinely inspired
by God, because why would you want someone judging for your nation that doesn't have
step one?
I mean, it's like step one for ability to judge is that you're saved.
Step two is that you actually read the Bible, and the more that you read the Bible, the
better of a judge you will go to Matthew chapter 12, Matthew chapter 12.
Not only that, the more you read the Bible, not only will you be able to judge people
better, but you'll be able to more easily identify false doctrine and things that are
being preached that are wrong.
You know, I've noticed babes in Christ or Christians who are kind of culturally Christian
before they got saved, after they get saved, I noticed that they often post videos and
repost shorts of false prophets preaching.
And it's like, this person's saved, I know this person's saved.
But they're retweeting this false prophet.
They're sharing this video of this really terrible preacher that's preaching false doctrine.
It's like, why has the connection not been made yet?
It's because even though they're saved, they haven't read much Bible.
Since they haven't read much Bible, they're not able to identify false doctrine as easily.
They might be able to identify big things like if a Muslim came up to them and said,
you know, Mohammed is the true prophet, okay, every Christian's going to be like, no, that's
not true, right?
But within Christianity, there's all these different flavors, there's all these false
prophets, there's all these people that want to teach their own private interpretation.
And how do you discern what's right and what's wrong?
You discern with the word of God.
Look at Matthew chapter 12 verse 33, "Either make the tree good and his tree or in his
fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt, for the tree is known
by his fruit.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things, for out of the abundance
of the heart the mouth speaketh."
See what people say reveals something, their heart, the intents of their heart.
A good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, bringeth forth good things.
See good preacher, good doctrine, good preacher, good sermons, what does the Bible say?
And an evil man, out of the evil treasure of what of his heart bringeth forth evil things.
Constantly bad preaching, constant bad sermons, constant bad doctrine, bad preacher, bad pastor,
bad tree.
But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof
in the day of judgment.
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Obviously, preachers are going to get up and they're going to at times mix up their words,
or they're going to get a fact wrong, they're going to conflate things in their mind, stuff
like that.
But when a preacher gets up and says like, "Hey, there's nothing special about the blood
of Christ."
It's like, "Okay, bad words, bad tree, bad preacher."
Oh, you know, you have a religion out there that teaches that Jesus was a created being,
Mormonism.
That Jesus is not God, but that he's just one of billions of gods in their own galaxies,
that he was created, he was a created being, that Jesus is just our bro, and he's also
Satan's bro, according to Mormonism.
Right?
Okay, bad doctrine, bad tree.
And I could say, "Oh, Mormon, I know you have a nice family, I know you look nice on the
outside, I know that in interacting with you, yeah, you're a pretty nice person, you guys
are clean, you guys don't really commit a lot of crimes," like Mormon neighborhoods
are usually chill, no big deal, nice areas.
But hold on a sec, the words coming out of their mouths, I could tell you, they're false
prophets.
It's a false religion.
Go to 1 John chapter 4, 1 John chapter number 4.
You know, you identify false prophets, not by their works, not by the things that they
do, not by how nice their church is, not by how many outreach programs they have.
You identify a false prophet by what he says, or what she says nowadays, right?
It's just like, that's just an obvious one right there.
1 John 4 verse 1, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they
are of God," because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Right?
So someone, just because someone says they're religious, or clergy, or even a Baptist, or
a pastor, you ought not to just immediately assume, "Oh, this person's great.
This person's of God."
No, you have to try the spirits to see whether they are of God.
"Hereby know ye the Spirit of God.
Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God.
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of
God.
This is that Spirit of Antichrist where you have heard that it should come and even now
already is it in the world."
You know at the time that 1 John was being written, New Testament Christianity was a
very new thing.
So you pretty much only had a few religions out there.
You pretty much had true Christianity, the New Testament version of true Christianity.
You had Judaism and you had just pagan, random, pagan religions, right?
So at this time, it's pretty easy to tell who's of God because if someone's saying Jesus
is the Christ, Jesus is the Messiah, Jesus is God come in the flesh, I mean that person's
of God, right?
And if someone's saying that Jesus has not come in the flesh, well that's an anti-Christ.
Now today where there's so much more versions of Christianity, I think that the way that
we apply this is that people need to have the correct doctrine of Christ, right?
We have, you know, you have to believe that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.
You need to believe He's the Messiah and you need to believe that He's eternally existed
as God because He has come from where, right?
He's come in the flesh.
You also have to believe Jesus is 100% man, 100% God, 100% man.
He's the Messiah.
You have to believe the right things about Jesus Christ or you're not safe.
First John 5, you know, so when I, when you hear someone preaching heresy about who Jesus
is, you can know that's a bad tree.
That's a bad preacher.
First John 5, 10, "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself.
He that believeth not God hath made him a liar because he believeth not the record that
God gave of his Son."
So you got two people.
One believes the record that God gave of his Son.
One does not.
The one that does not is calling God a liar.
Why?
Verse 11, "And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life and this life
is in His Son."
See, to be saved, you must believe that salvation is eternal life, not temporary life, not,
"Well, if I sin in the future, I'll lose my salvation."
So any preacher that teaches, you could lose your salvation and not of God, false prophet.
And that this life, it says, it says, "And this is the record that God hath given to
us eternal life and this life is in His Son."
Right?
You have to believe that it's exclusively through the Lord Jesus Christ.
He that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
These things have I written unto you that believe in the name of the Son of God that
ye may know that ye have eternal life and that ye may believe in the name of the Son
of God.
See, if someone believes and has put their faith in the Jesus of the Bible, I know that
that person is saved.
And I have put my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and I know for 100% certainty that
I am saved.
And if I see a preacher that preaches damnable heresy about the Lord Jesus Christ or about
salvation, I know just as surely as I know I'm saved, I know that they're a false prophet.
I know that they're wicked.
We could judge that way, how?
By knowing the Bible.
See, when you read 1 John, when you understand these things, it gives you a tool to judge.
Also, go to Romans 13, Romans chapter 13, understand this, that the more Bible you read,
the better you'll be at judging bad behaviors.
Not just doctrine, but behaviors, Romans 13, 8, "Oh, no man, anything but to love one another,
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
For this thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou
shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet.
And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Love worketh no ill to his neighbor.
Therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
You know, let's use marriage as an example real quick.
Let's say a husband, he just says, I love my wife.
Oh, I'm a good husband.
I love my wife.
I would die for my wife.
But are you committing adultery?
Because if you're committing adultery, that's in direct opposition with what the Bible says
love is.
And you could kid yourself, and you could try to lie to yourself, and you could try to lie
to other people, oh yeah, I'm such a great husband, oh I love my wife.
But if you're committing adultery, you do not love your wife.
If you're going out flirting with other women, trying to pick up other women, let me help
you something, you don't love your wife.
You're a liar.
And I could look at your actions, and I could compare them to your words, and I say, okay,
this man says he loves his wife, but he's committing adultery.
You don't love your wife.
You're a liar.
Okay, what about for ladies?
I'll just read for you, Ephesians 5.33, "Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love
his wife, even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband."
Oh, you've got to understand, I'm a trad wife.
I am a godly woman.
I reverence my husband.
I respect my husband.
Okay, really?
Do you hang up the phone on him when you're on the phone?
Because you could pretend like you respect your husband, like you revere your husband,
that you ever hang up the phone on him, god help you, you do not respect your husband.
Oh, when you're talking to him, do you storm away, do you get in the car and go drive off
in the city?
Oh yeah, you respect your husband, and you're a liar.
Try to fool yourself all day long.
Try to fool me.
Do you yell at your husband?
Do you rebuke your husband?
No, that's not reverent.
And like I said, boy, has feminism crept into this world.
Because you know what I would never do in a million, quadrillion, bazillion years is
be on the phone with my boss at work.
You know what I would never do in a million years to him is hang up the phone on him.
God help me if an employee would hang up the phone on his boss.
I mean, you know what that shows?
It just shows the utmost disrespect towards that person.
Do you think if my boss pulled me into his office and said, "Hey, I need to talk to you.
There's this issue going on."
And I just went, "You know what happened?
I get fired immediately."
And obviously you can't get fired in marriage, but you know what?
You could do a lot of harm to your marriage, ladies, by being such a disrespectful little
brat.
And you could pretend to the world that you're godly, that you're reverent.
But when you do these actions, it reveals the thoughts and intents of your heart.
Because you know what's funny about Sarah?
Is that Sarah called Abraham Lord in her heart, not on Facebook, not on Instagram, not in
the audience of other people that could see how you're interacting with your husband and
putting on a show. Sarah actually called Abraham Lord from her heart. That's actual respect.
You know, men, how do you think about your boss in your heart? Do you actually respect
or care about your boss in your heart? Do you actually want to give him the reference
that he's due for a title in your heart? You know, this could apply to any type of leadership.
You know, it's rebellion, it's stubbornness, it's wickedness when you would make these
kind of actions to your authority. Storming away, hanging up the phone. Look, don't fool
yourself. And that brings me to my last point. Go to 2nd Timothy chapter 3. 2nd Timothy chapter
3. My last point is this, when the Bible convicts you, don't lie to yourself. Don't lie to yourself.
Here's the thing, folks. Every single person in this room, myself included, is constantly
going to be reading things from the Bible or hearing things that are being preached
that's going to step directly on your toes. That's going to directly be speaking to you.
And at that moment, you have a choice. You can sit here and lie to yourself and pretend
like it doesn't apply to you. But here's why that's so stupid, is that the Bible is
a discerner, the thoughts and intents of the heart. You can't hide from God. So when the
Bible convicts you, you know what you should do. You should just admit it and just pray
to God and just fix the problem. That's what you should do. Look at 2nd Timothy 316. All
scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine. That's teaching
of truth, right? For reproof, telling you that you're wrong. For correction, telling
you what's right. For instruction in righteousness, telling you how to do something right. That
the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. Let me tell you something.
The Bible is for you. Say, are you preaching against me right now? Yes. That answer is
always yes. If you feel like a sermon is against you, it's because it is. And here's what's
funny about that is I, when I'm writing the sermon, probably didn't even think that. Probably
didn't even intend that. But if you ever feel, I'm just answering in advance, if you ever
feel was the sermon against you, the answer is yes. Why? Because all scripture is given
by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, truly furnished unto
all good works. Don't you want the Bible to be about you? Don't you want the sermon to
apply to you? Or do you want to come here and just waste the time that you have on a
Sunday just hearing about how other people need to change? No, you need to change. You
need to take things to heart. You need to realize that, "Yes, I'm talking about you.
Are you sure you're talking about me? Yes. You. Your spouse. Your kids. You. I'm talking
about you." And the Bible is talking about you. And when you're reading the Bible, you
should be thinking about your wife or your other people in your life. No, you should
be thinking about you. And I'm thinking about me. And I'm taking the word of God and I'm
applying it to me. That's what we all should be doing. Go to Hebrews chapter 4 again. Hebrews
chapter 4. But you know, here's the thing. The Bible, reading the Bible is an exercise
in futility to people who are not willing to humble themselves and apply anything to
themselves. I mean, it's literally just an exercise in futility because the Bible is
given there to reprove you, to correct you, to instruct you. And if you're not willing
to take reproof, instruction, correction, or any of these things, then you're just wasting
your time. The Bible is not going to profit you by you just putting your eyes on the words
on the page. It only profits you when you apply it to yourself. And you're listening
to sermons, they only help you if you apply it to yourself. You don't just like become
godly by hearing sermons. No, you become godly by applying what's being preached to your
life. Hebrews 412, "For the word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged
sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there
any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and open unto the
eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Man, that's scary if you're wicked. That's scary
if you're insincere, but you know what? If you actually want to be corrected, if you
want to get better, if you want to be instructed from God's Word, then you say, "Okay, God,
my heart's open and before you, and I'm naked before you, and I can't hide from you, and
you can see who I am, and Lord, that's okay, because I want you to help me. I want you
to instruct me. I want you to tell me where I'm wrong." You know, this is why the Bible
is either so treasured and loved by people, or so just detested and despised. The wicked
that don't want to be exposed, boy, do they hate the Bible. But you know, those of us
who love God and want to be sincere, it is a treasure unto us. It is precious unto us,
and we love it with all of our hearts. Seeing then that we have a great high priest that
is passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For
we have not in high priest, which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities,
but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
I don't think it's a coincidence that in the same chapter that it explains the awesome
power of the Word of God, how the Word of God is alive, how the Word of God is able
to discern our thoughts and intents and how we're just naked and open before God, how
it tells us that, hey, you know what you should do, we've got this high priest, he hasn't
been touched, or he hasn't not been touched with the feelings of our infirmities, he was
tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin, but you know what we should do as a result
of that is come before him boldly and ask for grace to help us in time of need.
See, there's going to be times, you read the Bible, yep, that's about me, yep, the preaching
is about me right now, yep, Pastor Oz is talking exactly about me, and you know what the reaction
you should have, you got two choices at that point, ignore it and lie to yourself, you're
not fooling God though, you can lie to yourself and act like you don't need to change, oh
the sermon's not about me, oh you know, I do all those things but I'm actually a godly
husband, oh I know I do all those things but I'm actually a submissive wife, or you could
just say like wow, the Bible got me, man God just saw right through me, man you know what,
I'm naked and open before him and I can't hide and look, God just got me, he called
it out, you know what I should do, I should just pray to God, Lord I'm a sinner, I'm wicked,
I've got these problems and you caught me Lord, but will you just help me to do better?
I hear what you're saying, I want to listen to it God, I don't want to turn away my ears
from hearing the law, right, I don't want my prayer to become an abomination, oh you
convicted me, you got me, okay Lord you got me, help me to be better, help me to do better
next time.
You know come to the Lord and ask him for grace to help in time of need because I'll
tell you what, the Bible exposes you, the Bible exposes me, can't hide from him so you
might as well just have a clean heart and submit to the Lord.
We thank you for the word of God and what a great, powerful, special tool it is and
we just pray that all of the people here would love the word of God, would seek for knowledge,
seek for wisdom, seek for truth from the word of God and I pray Lord that when I read the
Bible, when anyone in this room reads the Bible, when something hits us at home that we wouldn't
hide from it or lie to ourselves or pretend that we're not guilty but that we would just
realize okay Lord you've seen us, help us to do better, help us to seek truth. In Jesus
name we pray, Amen.
Alright for our last hymn this morning, turn if you would to number 81, When We See Christ.
Hymn number 81, 81, When We See Christ. 81 there, we'll start on the first.
Of times the day seems long, our trials are too bare, we're tempted to complain, we're
bare, we'll soon have been tried.