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 second for this is 364 standing on the promises this is of Christ my shame of

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 the testimony of our Lord me his prisoner be thou partaker of the

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 afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God the inside of our

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 bulletins you'll see there are service times listed Sunday morning 1030 Sunday

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 evening Wednesday or sorry Sunday evening 430 in our Wednesday Bible study

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 at 7 o'clock do you have all of our soul winning times churchwide soul winning

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 times listed there and we do have our year-to-date statistics as well looks

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 like we had a great day out soul winning and I did want to give everyone

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 an update for the New Jersey soul winning marathon the Patterson New

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 Jersey soul winning marathon there was a total of 40 salvations so that is great

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 results 40 people save for brother Cameron texted me let me see how many

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 soul winners he had today so there's just 18 salvations today with eight soul

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 winners so a total of 40 salvations for the weekend so praise God for that it

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 definitely seems like God answered our prayers for that event and then today

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 it was great as well out soul winning we do have our online visitor card there

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 for both visitors in church and also this is great to show people out soul

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 winning just about every single person I try to get our YouTube subscription or

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 whatever I succeed so it's just really easy just try you know as Jimenez used

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 to say just try all right but literally I just say hey you know can I show you

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 our YouTube channel on your phone and then I just pull up anchor Baptist

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 Church subscribe them a lot of pastors kind of have this idea that we shouldn't

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 you know have all the ministries a lot of people in the old IFB are like down

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 on putting our sermons out there making live streams because they're their

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 goal is to get people in church and of course we do want people in church but

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 if I have to choose between them sitting in their house not getting the Word of

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 God or them sitting in their house getting the Word of God I'll choose the

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 second so and you know some people do visit even because of our online

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 presence we had two people this morning tell us that they heard about us online

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 came to church so it's just a great way to get people to get the Word of God so

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 please do try to do that if you can we do have our online giving information

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 our online visitor card as well as our prayer list there on the right you have

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 any requests please do email the church and we will add that for you then on the

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 back just a review of our upcoming events this Wednesday April 1st is the

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 Lord's Supper April 4th that's gonna be the Oklahoma City soul winning marathon

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 and remember to sign up godresource.com/events there is a OKC marathon

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 event there you could sign up for April 12th will be our next men's preaching

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 night that's gonna be the p.m. service on April 12th May 2nd will be a soul

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 winning marathon at OSU May 9th Mother's Day tea May 20th through the 24th Anti

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 Israel conference you know this conference also is a really great way

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 to reach people because now more than I've ever seen before in my life so many

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 people are waking up on the issue of Zionism and the Jews and like I said

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 even this morning someone's telling me they're just tired of their church

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 preaching Zionism and so this could be a great conference to reach people as well

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 June 17th and 20th is the soul winning conference in Frankfurt Germany so lots

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 of great events coming up that's gonna be it for announcements this evening

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 let's go ahead and go to our third song together third song will be number 97 in

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 the red hymnal

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 I shall not watch I will come on thee as a thief now shall not know what hour I

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 will come upon thee thou has had a few names in Sardis which have not defiled

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 their garments and they shall walk with me in white for they are worthy he that

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 overcomeeth the same shall be clothed in white raiment and I will not blot out

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 his name out of the book of life but I will confess his name before my father

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 and before his angels he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit sayeth

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 unto the churches and to the angel of the church in philadelphia right these

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 things say if he that is holy he that is true he that hath the key of david he

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 that openeth and no man shut it and shut it and no man open it I know thy works

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 behold I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it thou has

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 had a little strength and has kept my word and has not denied my name behold I

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 will make them of the synagogue of Satan which say they are Jews and are not but

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 do lie behold I will make them to come and to worship before thy feet and to

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 know that I have loved thee because thou has kept the word of my patience I also

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 will keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the

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 world to try them which dwell upon the earth behold I come quickly hold that

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 thatch which thou hast that no man take thy crown and that overcome it will I

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 make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out and I will

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 write upon him the name of my God in the name of the city of my God which is new

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 Jerusalem which cometh down out of heaven from my God and I will write upon

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 him my new name he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit sayeth under

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 the churches and under the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write these

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 things sayeth the amen the faithful and true witness the beginning of the

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 creation of God I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot I would

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 thou were cold or hot so then that because thou art lukewarm and neither

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 cold nor hot I will spew thee out of my mouth because thou sayest I am rich and

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 creased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou are

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 wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked I counsel thee to buy of me

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 gold tried in the fire that thou mayest be rich white raiment that thou mayest

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 be clothed and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint

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 thine eyes with eye salve that thou mayest see as many as I love I rebuke

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 and chasten be zealous therefore and repent behold I stand at the door and

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 knock if any man hear my voice open the door I will come in to him and will

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 sup with him and he with me to him that overcomeeth will I grant to sit with me

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 in my throne even as I also overcame and am sat down with my father in his throne

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 he that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit sayeth under the church of

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 us pray gracious Lord thankful for the souls that were saved today thankful to

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 be gathered in your house

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 man Revelation chapter number three let's look at verse one the Bible says

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 and unto the angel of the church in Sardis write these things sayeth he that

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 hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars I know thy works that thou

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 hast a name that thou livest and art dead so here we have letters written to

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 real churches that actually existed from the Lord Jesus Christ I would want to

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 see that letter and maybe you know there'd be even some correction for us

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 I'm sure but anything that Jesus wants us to do we should want to hear that

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 correction from him and he's given this correction he says I know thy works

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 that thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead so Jesus is looking at a

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 church that formerly had a really good reputation they have a name that they

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 live what does that mean it means they have some sort of reputation that wow

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 this is a good church this is a church that does a lot of great work they have

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 maybe have good doctrine some sort of positive reputation but he says thou hast

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 a name that thou livest and art dead and you know one of the things right off

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 the bat we can learn from this is that just because a church or a movement was

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 good in times past or even just because the church is good now does not mean it

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 will always be that way there have been great movements in Christianity in the

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 past great churches in the past that if we looked at now they just don't have

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 their same former glory that they once have maybe they have a name that they

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 live maybe they still have some sort of reputation but you could actually look

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 at the works you could say you know this church is kind of dead it's no longer

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 living up to the reputation that it once has and that's why he says in verse 2 be

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 watchful and strengthen the things which remain that are ready to die for I have

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 not found thy works perfect before God so what is Jesus's instruction to this

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 church it's like hey number one let's stop the bleeding the good things that

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 you do have going for you we need to strengthen those things that remain why

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 because everything in this world is in a constant state of decay and if you want

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 something to be good if you want to have something of quality you have to

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 constantly be putting work into that thing whether that is your marriage your

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 relationship with family members friends or a church you can't just go on

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 autopilot in this world and just hope that things will automatically continue

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 to be good or even get better he says no you got to strengthen the things that

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 remain but that's not it verse four he said or verse three says remember

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 therefore how thou hast received and heard and hold fast and repent if

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 therefore that will not watch I will come on thee as a thief and thou shall

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 not know what hour I will come upon thee so first he tells them what

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 strengthen the things that remain then he tells us to do what remember therefore

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 how that's received and heard and hold fast and repent so things that you have

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 going good for you hold on to those things strengthen those things then you

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 need to remember and hold fast that which is good and do what repent

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 sometimes you have to look at the direction your church is going your

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 family's going whatever is going and you have to say hey I'm actually going a

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 wrong direction I need to repent I need to change what I am doing now I want to

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 the time I serve in this evening is this remember why you are an IFB remember

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 why you are an IFB first let me say this is that I love what we call the old IFB

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 I love the old IFB I think there's a lot of great things about them and when it

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 comes to the fundamentals when it comes to the most important things we actually

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 agree on doctrine when it comes to the most important things with the vast

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 majority of churches that we would call old IFB so I'm not talking about old IFB

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 churches that would be like repent of your sins heretics obviously you know

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 go see my morning sermon of how I feel about that but you know most old IFB

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 churches they would agree with us on things like salvation by faith alone a

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 lot of old IFB churches would agree with being King James only eternal security

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 the Trinity the importance of soul winning anti Calvinism baptism by

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 immersion after salvation living a separated life having the old-fashioned

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 hymns you know if there's an old IFB church that fits that description let me

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 just say this I love those people I'm for those people thank God for those

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 people right but here's the thing when it comes to a lot of the old IFB I think

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 a lot of the old IFB has a name that it lives but it's kind of dying or is just

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 dead right there's a lot of old IFB churches where maybe in the 60s 70s 80s

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 90s they were just really on fire for soul winning they were really on fire

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 for hard preaching but I think that they should maybe let those things die they

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 didn't strengthen the things that remain they didn't hold fast to that which is

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 good they didn't repent when they started going a bad direction and let me

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 honest a lot of old IFB churches today have gotten kind of lame have watered

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 down the doctrine have not really emphasized soul winning aren't gonna be

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 as strong on a lot of things as the new IFB so the time I serve is this

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 remember why you are an IFB because here's the thing what does the Bible say

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 we have to remember these things because if we just put our movement on

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 autopilot or if we just put anchor Baptist Church on autopilot things could

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 start to change over time for the negative right and if we want to change

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 anything going forward it should be for the positive now go to Acts chapter

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 number eight while you're turning there Hebrews 2 one says this therefore we

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 ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at

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 any time we should let them slip and see the new IFB I don't think that the new

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 IFB really is anything new or is trying to do anything new what is an IFB it

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 stands for new independent fundamental Baptist right that's what we would call

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 our church and IFB but really what it is is it's more like renewed IFB you know

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 we like the independent fundamental Baptist movement of yesteryear and the

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 great works that men did like pastor Jack Hiles you know we love the sermons

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 of pastor Jack Hiles and the great soul winning movement and the the great

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 doctrine that was preached we just think that unfortunately the old IFB has

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 allowed some of these things to slip and so we're not trying to reinvent the

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 wheel with the new IFB we're just saying hey we need to take heed to those things

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 that we've heard less than any times we would let them slip because that's what

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 I think the old IFB has done in some areas is they've just let some things

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 slip they've let some things fall by the wayside and so I want to give you seven

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 areas where I think that the new IFB has the edge over the old IFB the purpose

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 of this sermon is not so we can just say like oh yeah you know we're so much

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 better than the old IFB I just want you guys to know that that we're better the

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 purpose is that we would what remember these things hold fast to these things

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 so that we don't let them slip so that we don't become the old IFB in 20 years

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 so that we don't let these things slip in so for the next several hours let me

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 talk to you about seven areas that I think the NIFB has the edge in all right

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 number one better soul winning and training better soul winning and training

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 here's one of the things that bothers me about a lot of old IFB churches is that

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 they've kind of let quality soul winning go by the wayside you know pastor Jack

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 Hiles was famous for you know teaching people the Romans Road having

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 confrontational soul winning not just showing up to someone's door and leaving

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 a door hanger not just showing up to someone's door and leaving a track not

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 just showing up to someone's door and being like hey I want to get your kids

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 on our bus route the old IFB used to be about going up to someone and preaching

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 them the gospel asking them hey if you were to die today are you a hundred

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 percent sure that you're going to heaven let me tell you soul winning works soul

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 winning works I'm with soul winning today brother Jorge this man was on fire

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 today he had three salvations and you know what he did he looked people in the

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 eye and he asked them are you a hundred percent sure if you died today you'd go

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 to heaven and then guess what happened he preached them the gospel they

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 repented they put their faith in Christ they called upon the name of the Lord

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 they got saved we need to hold on to biblical soul winning Acts chapter

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 number eight notice what it says verse 26 and the angel of the Lord spake unto

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 Philip saying arise and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from

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 Jerusalem unto Gaza which is desert and he rose and went and behold a man of

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 Ethiopia and eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians

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 who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem for to worship

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 was returning and sitting in his chariot read Isaias the prophet so we have this

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 man here this Ethiopian eunuch and he's sitting down in his chariot and he's

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 actually reading the Bible so this is a man who's seeking the truth I mean if you

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 walk up someone and they're reading the Bible boy that's a good soul-winning

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 opportunity right there that they already have a heart for the things of

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 God in some sense and it says in verse 29 then the spirit said unto Philip go

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 near and join thyself to this chariot and Philip ran thither to him and heard

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 him read the prophet Isaiah's and said understandest thou what thou readest

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 and notice the Spirit of God wanted Philip to go to this man and you know the

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 spirit moved Philip and what did Philip do Philip ran to go meet this man in the

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 chariot you know what didn't happen is the spirit didn't say hey hope that this

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 guy comes to church have him walk down an aisle do an altar call we'll have

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 every head bow every eyes closed and we'll ask people you know are you sure

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 you want to go to heaven that's not what happened Philip actually ran to this man

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 sat with him in the chariot it says in verse number 31 and he said how can I

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 accept some man should guide me right so how can this man understand the Bible

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 unless someone guides him he's saying and he desired Philip that he would come

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 up and sit with him there's a lot of people today that still desire to be

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 taught the word of God there's still a lot of people today that desire you to

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 open up the Bible and expound the scripture to them yeah you knock doors

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 there's gonna be people that reject you there's going to be people that don't

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 like you but you know there's a lot of people that desire you to come unto

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 them and today it was just like all the fish were biting they want they desired

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 us to preach them the gospel that still happens today verse 32 the place of the

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 scripture which he read was this he was led as a sheep to the slaughter and like

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 a lamb dumb before his shearer so opened he not his mouth in his humiliation his

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 judgment was taken away and who shall declare his generation for his life is

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 taken from the earth and the eunuch answered Philip and said I pray thee of

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 whom speak at the prophet this of himself or if some other man then Philip

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 notice opened his mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him

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 Jesus hey we do confrontational soul winning because confrontational soul

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 winning is biblical right Jesus said go forth and preach the gospel to every

00:31:27.900 --> 00:31:32.830
 creature but he did not say go and just leave a door hanger and honestly just

00:31:32.830 --> 00:31:37.400
 seems like a waste of time seems like a waste of the church's time to send

00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:41.440
 people out into the heat into the cold to knock on someone's door just to leave

00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:45.400
 them a door hanger what is that accomplishing that's not accomplishing

00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:49.080
 anything folks you're there you're at someone's house you run into someone

00:31:49.080 --> 00:31:54.330
 open your mouth boldly and make known the mystery of the gospel that is an

00:31:54.330 --> 00:31:59.520
 area that I believe the new IFB has the edge because a lot of old by IFB

00:31:59.520 --> 00:32:03.190
 churches they do not preach the gospel they just leave a door hanger they just

00:32:03.190 --> 00:32:06.850
 leave a track other people I've heard stories that people go in soul-winding

00:32:06.850 --> 00:32:10.120
 with old IFB churches where they just simply ask the person like hey you

00:32:10.120 --> 00:32:13.910
 believe in Jesus and then they say yes and they just assume that person is

00:32:13.910 --> 00:32:18.870
 saved they don't sit there and ask like hey you know if you were to die today

00:32:18.870 --> 00:32:21.890
 are you hundred percent sure that you go to heaven and you know what do you think

00:32:21.890 --> 00:32:25.340
 that it takes to get to heaven oh do you think it's by believing in Jesus or

00:32:25.340 --> 00:32:29.680
 by good works or both they don't ask these qualifying questions to try to

00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:33.180
 really drill down into this person's heart to see what it is that they're

00:32:33.180 --> 00:32:39.130
 trusting in which is why a lot of times these churches are filled with saved

00:32:39.130 --> 00:32:44.310
 people and unsaved people because they're more concerned about getting

00:32:44.310 --> 00:32:47.970
 people in the door than they are about getting people saved and they've turned

00:32:47.970 --> 00:32:52.370
 the church service into evangelism rather than keeping things straight hey

00:32:52.370 --> 00:32:56.690
 the church is for edifying the believers out there the doorstep that's for

00:32:56.690 --> 00:33:00.370
 preaching the gospel and you know we need to get back to we need to hold on

00:33:00.370 --> 00:33:05.170
 to hold fast to doorstep soul winning and I'll tell you what I'm not lit I'm

00:33:05.170 --> 00:33:09.060
 not interested in listening to anyone preach a sermon who is not a soul

00:33:09.060 --> 00:33:12.860
 winner I'm not interested in going to a conference and listening to people get

00:33:12.860 --> 00:33:16.570
 behind the pulpit if they are not doing door to door soul winning hey they have

00:33:16.570 --> 00:33:21.080
 left their first works they have left their first love they need to repent

00:33:21.080 --> 00:33:25.550
 quickly or God can come away and take that candlestick from them now let me

00:33:25.550 --> 00:33:30.220
 tell you a personal story I went to an old IFB church for many years this was

00:33:30.220 --> 00:33:34.680
 not a good IFB church there's some great IFB churches here in Oklahoma City the

00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:39.060
 one I went to was not good in Boise Idaho it's called Treasure Valley Baptist

00:33:39.060 --> 00:33:43.080
 Church that's an X that church out on godresource.com if pastor Shelley or

00:33:43.080 --> 00:33:46.700
 pastor Anderson hear this that's a bad church that's where Sam Gibb got up and

00:33:46.700 --> 00:33:50.290
 said that Jesus isn't your Messiah unless you're a Jew you know that's

00:33:50.290 --> 00:33:54.450
 where Sam Gibb got up and said that Jesus's name wasn't supposed to be

00:33:54.450 --> 00:33:58.100
 Jesus all right that's a blasphemous church I would stay away from that

00:33:58.100 --> 00:34:01.970
 church but you know when I got saved I was really zealous about soul winning

00:34:01.970 --> 00:34:06.670
 because I was listening to new IFB preaching and I heard pastor Anderson

00:34:06.670 --> 00:34:11.330
 get up and I heard him preach a sermon series how to go soul winning part one

00:34:11.330 --> 00:34:14.520
 and two that's how I learned how to become a soul winner and I heard those

00:34:14.520 --> 00:34:18.470
 sermons and I went out soul winning by myself there was no soul winning program

00:34:18.470 --> 00:34:23.490
 there but I remember asking some people on staff at that church hey do we have a

00:34:23.490 --> 00:34:26.400
 soul winning program can we get a program started where we go out and

00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:31.340
 preach the gospel and I am not kidding you this pastor told me hey we don't go

00:34:31.340 --> 00:34:34.640
 soul winning out in the summer because it's too hot and we don't go because

00:34:34.640 --> 00:34:39.370
 it's too cold in the winter it's too hot in the summer it's too cold in the

00:34:39.370 --> 00:34:43.220
 winter that's why we don't go so any let me tell you what that church is

00:34:43.220 --> 00:34:47.460
 worthless a church that's a little afraid of a little bit of sweat a little bit of

00:34:47.460 --> 00:34:52.800
 cold go to Proverbs chapter number 20 hey you know what hell is very hot who

00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:55.530
 cares about you being a little uncomfortable in the summer get out

00:34:55.530 --> 00:34:59.580
 there and work you know it's why it's such a shame today that pastors like

00:34:59.580 --> 00:35:03.150
 this and ministers like this they kind of bring a reproach on the office of a

00:35:03.150 --> 00:35:07.440
 bishop because a lot of people think that pastors and bishops are a bunch of

00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:10.940
 just sissies that don't want to work hard and unfortunately that's true for a

00:35:10.940 --> 00:35:14.700
 lot of people when you're running this big palace but you're too scared to go

00:35:14.700 --> 00:35:17.680
 out there and go soul winning because you might get hot you might get cold

00:35:17.680 --> 00:35:21.450
 sounds like you need to retire buddy look at what Proverbs 20 verse 4 says

00:35:21.450 --> 00:35:27.010
 the sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold therefore shall he beg and

00:35:27.010 --> 00:35:30.360
 harvest and have nothing yeah I've got a word for someone like you that doesn't

00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:34.100
 go soul winning because it's a little too cold you're called lazy it's called

00:35:34.100 --> 00:35:38.800
 being a sluggard hey you ever heard of a jacket you ever heard of a beanie put

00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:42.050
 some gloves on and get out to work I mean does that work for the

00:35:42.050 --> 00:35:46.220
 construction industry in this world you think that the plumbers and the

00:35:46.220 --> 00:35:50.570
 electricians and the iron workers that are building this nation you think they

00:35:50.570 --> 00:35:55.050
 wake up in the morning and say oh it's cold boss can't go no they just get up

00:35:55.050 --> 00:35:59.530
 and work how much more should pastors be willing to work in the cold how much

00:35:59.530 --> 00:36:03.060
 more should soul winners be willing to work in the cold let me tell you what

00:36:03.060 --> 00:36:07.950
 there's a bunch of soft Christians today in the old IFB that won't get out and

00:36:07.950 --> 00:36:11.390
 work when it's cold hey get out and work when it's cold how about when it's hot

00:36:11.390 --> 00:36:15.520
 go to Proverbs 10 Proverbs chapter number 10 look in Oklahoma City we get

00:36:15.520 --> 00:36:21.400
 both don't we man in the winter when that Oklahoma wind is hitting you it's

00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:25.170
 already 10 degrees and then the wind chill makes it negative 3,000 degrees

00:36:25.170 --> 00:36:29.530
 that's rough right and then in the summer oh you think the wind helps but

00:36:29.530 --> 00:36:33.250
 it's just like a blow dryer just right in your face right look at Proverbs 10

00:36:33.250 --> 00:36:39.800
 verse 5 he that gathereth in summer is a wise son but he that sleepeth in

00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:44.790
 harvest is a son that causeth shame look it doesn't matter if it is winter

00:36:44.790 --> 00:36:49.180
 doesn't matter if it's summer we need to go out and preach the gospel because

00:36:49.180 --> 00:36:51.690
 guess what people are dying in the summer and people are dying in the

00:36:51.690 --> 00:36:55.330
 winter and who else is gonna do it if we don't I mean if we just take a little

00:36:55.330 --> 00:36:59.030
 break every summer and every winter who's gonna be out there doing the work

00:36:59.030 --> 00:37:03.460
 of evangelism if it's not gonna be us we need to be tough and preach the gospel

00:37:03.460 --> 00:37:08.410
 go to 1st John chapter number 5 so you know the new IFB we've got the edge when

00:37:08.410 --> 00:37:12.050
 it comes to soul winning in the sense that we're more zealous about it I

00:37:12.050 --> 00:37:16.610
 believe I believe that we're willing to do it under more dire circumstances we

00:37:16.610 --> 00:37:20.870
 do it just everywhere right and it's not just our zip code right it's not like

00:37:20.870 --> 00:37:23.690
 let's just hit the zip code around the church so we can get as many visitors as

00:37:23.690 --> 00:37:27.910
 possible it's like hey let's go all over the metro let's go all over Oklahoma

00:37:27.910 --> 00:37:32.040
 hey let's send brother Cameron and his wife let's spend thousands of dollars

00:37:32.040 --> 00:37:35.720
 for a marathon that's not gonna benefit us whatsoever when it comes to like

00:37:35.720 --> 00:37:39.730
 members I mean hey 40 people saved in New Jersey guess how many of them are

00:37:39.730 --> 00:37:43.940
 ever gonna come to Acre Baptist Church probably zero probably zero ask me how

00:37:43.940 --> 00:37:47.570
 much I care they're going to heaven that's what it's all about but not only

00:37:47.570 --> 00:37:50.590
 do I think that the new IFB is just more zealous about soul winning but I think

00:37:50.590 --> 00:37:54.270
 that we do soul winning better why because we emphasize things like

00:37:54.270 --> 00:37:58.700
 eternal security you must believe in eternal security to be saved if you

00:37:58.700 --> 00:38:02.100
 deny eternal security you are not saved because you're trusting in your works

00:38:02.100 --> 00:38:06.850
 to save you look what it says in first John 5 10 he that believeth on the Son

00:38:06.850 --> 00:38:11.270
 of God hath the witness in himself he that believeth not God have made him a

00:38:11.270 --> 00:38:17.150
 liar because he believeth not the record that God gave of his son and this is the

00:38:17.150 --> 00:38:23.400
 record that God had given to us eternal life and this life is in his son hey you

00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:27.490
 know what someone just telling us oh I believe in Jesus that's not gonna be

00:38:27.490 --> 00:38:31.410
 enough for me when I'm out so winning I'm gonna ask some deeper questions to

00:38:31.410 --> 00:38:35.370
 make sure that you've put all of your trust in Christ that you're not trusting

00:38:35.370 --> 00:38:39.010
 half in Jesus and half in your works and I'm gonna make sure that you believe

00:38:39.010 --> 00:38:42.990
 the record that God gave of his son what is that record that God has given us

00:38:42.990 --> 00:38:47.430
 eternal life if you don't believe that God's given you eternal life you're

00:38:47.430 --> 00:38:51.070
 denying the record you're calling God a liar you're not saved if you deny

00:38:51.070 --> 00:38:56.440
 eternal security and so hey we emphasize eternal security I don't believe that

00:38:56.440 --> 00:39:00.110
 you should count someone that you didn't go over eternal security with you should

00:39:00.110 --> 00:39:05.210
 always always always go over eternal security with someone at the door and

00:39:05.210 --> 00:39:08.920
 look if there's old ife churches out there that are really thorough then I'm

00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:12.050
 not talking about them this evening but I'm talking about a lot of old ife

00:39:12.050 --> 00:39:16.870
 churches that have let these things slip and they're sending people soul-winning

00:39:16.870 --> 00:39:23.640
 translation door hanging translation bus filling and look praise God if you're

00:39:23.640 --> 00:39:26.690
 bringing people on the bus to church and those people are coming to church but

00:39:26.690 --> 00:39:30.450
 you know what preach the gospel too hey praise God if you're getting people on

00:39:30.450 --> 00:39:34.000
 your bus but while you do that why don't you preach them the gospel why don't you

00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:37.040
 preach eternal security why don't you make sure that they're saved so that we

00:39:37.040 --> 00:39:40.560
 don't have to come to your church and get your people saved in your pew like

00:39:40.560 --> 00:39:46.230
 happened recently go if you would to Joshua chapter 8 Joshua chapter number

00:39:46.230 --> 00:39:49.930
 8 so that's one thing the new ife has the edge on do I say that so we can be

00:39:49.930 --> 00:39:53.690
 prideful no I'm saying let's hold on to those things let's make sure we don't

00:39:53.690 --> 00:39:58.450
 let those things slip let's make sure that soul winning is always the priority

00:39:58.450 --> 00:40:04.600
 not building a building not building a palace not having the coolest events it

00:40:04.600 --> 00:40:09.910
 is all about soul winning that is the main thing folks number two the new ife

00:40:09.910 --> 00:40:15.530
 is family integrated family integrated this is a big deal and this is something

00:40:15.530 --> 00:40:19.970
 that I feel like people take for granted that that I even forget about and then

00:40:19.970 --> 00:40:23.700
 every once in a while I'm reminded of how special it is to have a family

00:40:23.700 --> 00:40:28.570
 integrated church because that is not the normal okay a lot of churches when

00:40:28.570 --> 00:40:33.000
 you show up with your family they're gonna put a lot of pressure on you to

00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:38.410
 put your kids in the nursery for you to drop off your babies your toddlers your

00:40:38.410 --> 00:40:43.500
 children your teenagers with some random stranger during the service and look

00:40:43.500 --> 00:40:47.660
 people think that I mean people think that new ife preachers are mean let me

00:40:47.660 --> 00:40:51.540
 tell you I heard a preacher recently who is literally preaching a sermon on love

00:40:51.540 --> 00:40:57.350
 literally preaching about love and charity and grace and long-suffering and

00:40:57.350 --> 00:41:01.280
 you hear in the sermon this baby makes the tiniest little noise he's like I

00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:04.250
 can't have that baby in here when I'm preaching get that baby out of here it's

00:41:04.250 --> 00:41:10.480
 like whoa love love grace long-suffering charity a little baby peeps and you're

00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:15.700
 freaking out Wow look what the Bible says in Joshua 8 verse 34 the Bible says

00:41:15.700 --> 00:41:21.160
 and afterward he read all the words of the law the blessings and cursings

00:41:21.160 --> 00:41:26.440
 according to all that is written in the book of the law there was not a word of

00:41:26.440 --> 00:41:31.620
 all that Moses commanded which Joshua read not before all the congregation of

00:41:31.620 --> 00:41:37.880
 Israel with the women notice and the little ones in the strangers that were

00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:45.470
 conversant among them look kids need to be in church children need to be in the

00:41:45.470 --> 00:41:49.670
 main services we don't need to take the kids away from the preaching and put

00:41:49.670 --> 00:41:53.720
 them in some sort of watered-down kid version of church no here in the Old

00:41:53.720 --> 00:41:58.380
 Testament they had the real deal and notice what Joshua was reading he was

00:41:58.380 --> 00:42:02.880
 reading the blessings and the cursings hey the kids were hearing the hard

00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:08.230
 preaching the kids were getting the hard truths and look children pick up more

00:42:08.230 --> 00:42:12.630
 than you realize they pick up more than you realize they pick up more doctrine

00:42:12.630 --> 00:42:17.730
 and more Bible than you realize but also when kids are in a real church they're

00:42:17.730 --> 00:42:20.920
 hearing real biblical preaching you know they're understanding and they're

00:42:20.920 --> 00:42:25.510
 learning what real church is what does real church sound like what does real

00:42:25.510 --> 00:42:30.200
 church feel like what are what are the songs sound like at a real church hey

00:42:30.200 --> 00:42:34.450
 what is a real pastor sound like you know what any you know what they're not

00:42:34.450 --> 00:42:38.060
 only looking at the pastor and the songs they're also looking at you right

00:42:38.060 --> 00:42:42.220
 they're saying hey look mom and dad they take church seriously hey you know mom

00:42:42.220 --> 00:42:46.250
 and dad they see you all day every day and you know what they should see is

00:42:46.250 --> 00:42:49.200
 they should see a time of the week where you come here and you say hey God is

00:42:49.200 --> 00:42:52.840
 important we're gonna pay attention hey God is important it's time to sing

00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:55.970
 praise unto him hey God is important it's time to look down at the Bible and

00:42:55.970 --> 00:42:59.650
 read the words of God that are being read hey God is important it's time to

00:42:59.650 --> 00:43:03.880
 go out soul winning at two o'clock God is important you know they see that they

00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:07.740
 see those things when you go to a real church and you know what they see when

00:43:07.740 --> 00:43:12.350
 you stick them in some sort of daycare is they see I don't know cartoons they

00:43:12.350 --> 00:43:17.510
 see kids church they see candy they see just like a watered-down version of

00:43:17.510 --> 00:43:21.080
 Christianity but it's like what you see in the Bible is Joshua gets up and he

00:43:21.080 --> 00:43:26.020
 reads the blessings and the cursings he says there wasn't a word of the law that

00:43:26.020 --> 00:43:29.500
 he didn't read before all the congregation before the women before the

00:43:29.500 --> 00:43:33.750
 children look kids need to be hearing every part of the Bible God you know the

00:43:33.750 --> 00:43:38.070
 Bible says that every word of God is pure don't sit here and believe this lie

00:43:38.070 --> 00:43:42.960
 that's this stupid thought that I heard this guy Steven Crowder say saying you

00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:47.000
 know oh we wouldn't want to teach the kids the book of Revelation you know

00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:50.100
 that's too much for them no no no the Bible says every word of God is pure in

00:43:50.100 --> 00:43:54.010
 Joshua the little children they were listening to the blessings and the

00:43:54.010 --> 00:43:58.320
 cursings hey I want my kids and guess what my kids do know that alcohol is bad

00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:02.700
 they're young they I don't even think they fully understand what it is and

00:44:02.700 --> 00:44:06.560
 what it does to you but they see a bottle of it and they say that's bad you

00:44:06.560 --> 00:44:09.910
 know I don't even know if they fully understand everything about Halloween

00:44:09.910 --> 00:44:13.470
 but they know Halloween is bad they see the Halloween decorations they're like

00:44:13.470 --> 00:44:17.270
 dad they're doing Halloween that's wicked I'm like that's right and they're

00:44:17.270 --> 00:44:21.070
 more judgmental than us they I mean they get so mad they're just like oh I hate

00:44:21.070 --> 00:44:25.470
 Halloween what's wrong with them I'm just like they're not safe you know right

00:44:25.470 --> 00:44:29.130
 like hey kids understand these things and praise God for that but you want to

00:44:29.130 --> 00:44:31.730
 know why they understand that is because we're a family integrated church is

00:44:31.730 --> 00:44:35.930
 because they're listening to hard preaching they're learning doctrine we're

00:44:35.930 --> 00:44:40.530
 not just putting them away and look it's good to have children in church go to

00:44:40.530 --> 00:44:47.750
 Matthew chapter number 19 Matthew 19 they get more out of church than you

00:44:47.750 --> 00:44:52.710
 think you know the other day might one of my daughters drew me a picture and

00:44:52.710 --> 00:44:57.320
 the caption just said I love God how do they love God because they're in the

00:44:57.320 --> 00:45:00.700
 house of God because they're around people that love God because they hear

00:45:00.700 --> 00:45:05.660
 the preaching of God's word look what Jesus said Matthew 19 verse 13 then

00:45:05.660 --> 00:45:09.890
 were there brought unto him little children that he should put his hands on

00:45:09.890 --> 00:45:15.310
 them and pray and the disciples rebuked them so the disciples were old IFB right

00:45:15.310 --> 00:45:19.390
 here. Kids were brought to Jesus and they said, "I can't have that baby in here when I'm preaching.

00:45:19.390 --> 00:45:26.180
 Get that baby out of here." But notice, "But Jesus said, 'Suffer little children and forbid them not

00:45:26.180 --> 00:45:31.680
 to come unto me, for if such is the kingdom of heaven.' And he laid his hands on them and departed."

00:45:31.680 --> 00:45:38.210
 That's, you know what suffer means? It means to allow or to put up with. And let's be honest, hey,

00:45:38.210 --> 00:45:42.620
 sometimes kids are going to make some noise. Sometimes kids are going to destroy a hymnal.

00:45:42.620 --> 00:45:47.100
 Sometimes kids are going to spill something. Sometimes kids are going to ruin something in the church.

00:45:47.100 --> 00:45:53.190
 But Jesus says, what? Suffer them. Put up with it. Allow it. Suffer the children to come up to Him.

00:45:53.190 --> 00:45:58.470
 And it's like, look, look, Baptist preacher, if you can't yell louder than the crying babies,

00:45:58.470 --> 00:46:03.930
 we got a big problem. You might be in the wrong profession. It's like, hey, kids are going to cry.

00:46:03.930 --> 00:46:08.270
 That's okay. Out yell them. You know, I was soul winning last week and this woman was listening to

00:46:08.270 --> 00:46:13.200
 the gospel and her kid is just melting down this whole time. And I looked at that kid. I said,

00:46:13.200 --> 00:46:17.160
 listen, kid, I'm a Baptist preacher. I can out yell you. And then the kid calmed down. The wife

00:46:17.160 --> 00:46:20.710
 kind of laughed, but it's like, you know, I'm joking kind of, but I'm also not joking. Like if

00:46:20.710 --> 00:46:25.250
 I have to yell over your kid also winning, I will do that if I have to. And it's like, if your kids

00:46:25.250 --> 00:46:30.100
 are crying in church, obviously can get to a point where it's just like super distracting.

00:46:30.100 --> 00:46:33.610
 At that point, that's why we have them other baby rooms. That's why you can take them out.

00:46:33.610 --> 00:46:37.900
 You know, if they're just losing it and melting down, don't just sit there or don't just like,

00:46:37.900 --> 00:46:41.630
 I've seen some people, there's like kids absolutely screaming and moms just like

00:46:41.630 --> 00:46:44.940
 slowly walking out as the child's dying. It's like, all right, you know, going out of service.

00:46:44.940 --> 00:46:49.860
 But look, little peeps, little noises. It's like, why can't Baptist preachers just suffer

00:46:49.860 --> 00:46:55.560
 the children, right? It's good to be family integrated. Also, you know, it's safer to be

00:46:55.560 --> 00:47:02.240
 family integrated. It is not safe to just drop off your kid with a random stranger because guess what,

00:47:02.240 --> 00:47:08.230
 pedophiles use churches as hunting grounds. And you know what churches where they're giving

00:47:08.230 --> 00:47:14.160
 positions away where you're going to have access to children. Guess what, that can attract sure good

00:47:14.160 --> 00:47:17.200
 people. I'm sure it could attract some good people, but that could also attract some pedophiles.

00:47:17.200 --> 00:47:21.430
 Yeah, there's the sweet old lady nursery worker and they're not all bad. I'm not saying they're

00:47:21.430 --> 00:47:26.380
 all evil or something like that. But you know, is it worth the risk? No, it's not worth the risk.

00:47:26.380 --> 00:47:31.500
 You know, there was that church in Ohio. It was an it was called another anchor Baptist church

00:47:31.500 --> 00:47:37.000
 where the pastor was like in his late 80s. He got arrested. He got charged with pedophilia and he was

00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:40.880
 one of these pastors that would just pressure people. You got to put your kids in the nursery.

00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:44.370
 You got to put your kids in the daycare. You got to give us your kids. Look, that's weird.

00:47:44.370 --> 00:47:48.820
 It's weird when someone some random person is just demanding that you hand over your children.

00:47:48.820 --> 00:47:54.380
 Look, you know, if you're in another state, another city on a Sunday, I recommend that

00:47:54.380 --> 00:47:58.640
 you still go to church, but I recommend you keep your kids with you, you know, and you don't have

00:47:58.640 --> 00:48:03.080
 to give your kids over to the pastor. Yes, pastors have authority in church, but you know,

00:48:03.080 --> 00:48:07.040
 they don't have authority over your children. They can't tell you give me your children.

00:48:07.040 --> 00:48:11.930
 All right, you could be respectful about it, but I would always decline that. Keep your children

00:48:11.930 --> 00:48:18.450
 with you. Go view what a second or first Corinthians two first Corinthians two. So hey,

00:48:18.450 --> 00:48:23.900
 I think the new IFB sharper on soul winning, more zealous on soul winning. We've got the edge there.

00:48:23.900 --> 00:48:28.890
 I think we've got the edge when it comes to family integration. Number three is that the new IFB is

00:48:28.890 --> 00:48:34.970
 sharper on doctrine. The new IFB is sharper on doctrine. Now here's the thing in the sermon

00:48:34.970 --> 00:48:40.280
 that I've been preaching for you so far this evening there's already been 24 Bible verses

00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:45.530
 which is not really that much in my opinion. 24 Bible verses not that much but here's the thing

00:48:45.530 --> 00:48:51.850
 you may not realize this but many old IFB sermons and I'm telling you if you've never been old IFB

00:48:51.850 --> 00:48:56.720
 this is going to sound crazy to you but I'm telling you the truth right now many old IFB sermons have

00:48:56.720 --> 00:49:04.120
 one Bible verse one they get up they start the sermon they read one Bible verse and then they

00:49:04.120 --> 00:49:10.380
 preach the rest of the sermon and that's it recently I heard a good old IFB sermon it had two and it was

00:49:10.380 --> 00:49:15.310
 a good sermon but it had two Bible verses and here's the thing even though some of these guys

00:49:15.310 --> 00:49:19.990
 are really good preachers and they're really talented and like they have seriously good

00:49:19.990 --> 00:49:25.700
 preaching ability because the Bible though is not being preached and emphasized as much in the new

00:49:25.700 --> 00:49:32.460
 IFB doctrine can suffer doctrine can fail because when you're just getting up and reading one verse

00:49:32.460 --> 00:49:38.320
 for the whole sermon that's not a lot of doctrine it ends up being a lot of the pastor's opinion a

00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:44.670
 lot of the pastor's ideas and look some of these guys are talented they're funny but they're not

00:49:44.670 --> 00:49:49.230
 preaching the Bible you know let me give you an example of this this is a guy I like okay but I'm

00:49:49.230 --> 00:49:54.000
 just telling you this is a good example of what I'm talking about Tony Hudson I you know I love the

00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:57.480
 guy but I'm not really worried about saying his name because I doubt he's ever going to come preach

00:49:57.480 --> 00:50:01.440
 for us or anything like that but you know Tony Hudson recently preached a sermon I think it was

00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:06.530
 called like they became as women they became as women and I'm telling you he just got up he read

00:50:06.530 --> 00:50:11.840
 one verse and the rest of his sermon was just his opinions and his ideas and a lot of his opinions

00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:18.280
 I agreed with and a lot of his opinions I thought was funny as all get out the guy is hilarious the

00:50:18.280 --> 00:50:23.850
 guy is entertaining the guy is a good speaker but you know what the bible says preach the word you

00:50:23.850 --> 00:50:31.470
 know what the house of god is not a comedy show the house of god is not the pastor's entertainment

00:50:31.470 --> 00:50:36.640
 bit this is the house of god and we've been commanded to preach the word and you know what

00:50:36.640 --> 00:50:43.470
 it annoys me when preachers get up and take god's time and god's people's time and spend the whole

00:50:43.470 --> 00:50:48.010
 thing preaching their opinion I may agree with their opinion let me tell you it makes me really

00:50:48.010 --> 00:50:52.170
 mad when I disagree with their opinion but even if I do agree with their opinion I still don't

00:50:52.170 --> 00:50:57.240
 like it and you know what if you preach behind this pulpit and you get up and you just preach

00:50:57.240 --> 00:51:01.350
 your opinions and even if I agree with all your opinions I'm still gonna be mad if you're not

00:51:01.350 --> 00:51:06.420
 preaching the Bible because it's not about your opinions it's not about your comedy show it's not

00:51:06.420 --> 00:51:13.190
 about your bit it's about the word of God being preached and we need more Bible in our sermons

00:51:13.190 --> 00:51:20.070
 today go if you would to first Corinthians 2 verse 4 it says this in my speech and my preaching was

00:51:20.070 --> 00:51:28.570
 not with enticing words of man's wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit and of power that your

00:51:28.570 --> 00:51:36.060
 faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God look the life changing power

00:51:36.060 --> 00:51:42.650
 from a sermon is not found in the preacher's wisdom it's not found in his illustrations his

00:51:42.650 --> 00:51:48.780
 stories his opinions it is found in the word of God that is where the power is found and you know

00:51:48.780 --> 00:51:54.870
 what if there's many preachers out there who are very wise who speak well who are so talented but

00:51:54.870 --> 00:52:00.010
 here's the thing if they take all that talent that they have and they don't use the word of God as

00:52:00.010 --> 00:52:05.300
 they're preaching what can happen is people in the congregation their faith is going to stand in the

00:52:05.300 --> 00:52:10.430
 wisdom of that pastor in the words of that pastor whereas if someone gets up and maybe they're not

00:52:10.430 --> 00:52:14.910
 as eloquent they're not as dynamic but everything they're saying is just biblical they're just

00:52:14.910 --> 00:52:19.580
 dropping Bible verse after Bible verse backing up all of their points you know what then happens is

00:52:19.580 --> 00:52:24.560
 that the congregation is putting their faith in what the words of God and that is a much more

00:52:24.560 --> 00:52:30.120
 lasting faith than having their faith in man's wisdom you know you've heard the saying you keep

00:52:30.120 --> 00:52:36.480
 them with what you win them to right we want to win people to Bible doctrine so that we wanted

00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:41.580
 to make it to where hey how do we keep people by preaching Bible doctrine and if I you know went

00:52:41.580 --> 00:52:45.960
 off of Bible doctrine and started preaching my opinion my ideas you would be mad at me you would

00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:50.390
 be annoyed you'd be like hey these sermons are really starting to suck whereas like if you always

00:52:50.390 --> 00:52:54.260
 just emphasize the Bible you have to keep emphasizing the Bible to keep the right type

00:52:54.260 --> 00:53:00.470
 of people 1st Corinthians 2 verse 12 notice it says now we have received not the spirit of the

00:53:00.470 --> 00:53:05.610
 world but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to

00:53:05.610 --> 00:53:11.840
 us of God which things also we speak notice not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth but which

00:53:11.840 --> 00:53:18.550
 the Holy Ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual hey when we get up we want to use

00:53:18.550 --> 00:53:23.770
 the words that the Holy Ghost gave us what is that that's the word of God and we want to compare

00:53:23.770 --> 00:53:29.620
 spiritual things with spiritual you know the sermon time is not the time for the pastor to get up and

00:53:29.620 --> 00:53:35.270
 read all of his commentaries and read all of his concordances and read all of his secular books

00:53:35.270 --> 00:53:41.530
 read all of these charts you know that's the time that you compare spiritual things with spiritual

00:53:41.530 --> 00:53:47.410
 go through with Isaiah chapter number 28 Isaiah 28 you know it really annoys me when a preacher

00:53:47.410 --> 00:53:53.350
 gets up and they want to defend their doctrine and they're like well if you go to Clarence Larkin's

00:53:53.350 --> 00:53:59.270
 dispensational book of truth well if you go to the Schofield reference bible notes it's like you know

00:53:59.270 --> 00:54:03.670
 what i want to hear it from the bible hey if you're gonna if you're gonna contradict our doctrine

00:54:03.670 --> 00:54:07.770
 if you're gonna tell us we're wrong about something you better show me in the bible or i'm not

00:54:07.770 --> 00:54:12.240
 listening don't care what Clarence Larkin said i don't care what your commentary says i don't care

00:54:12.240 --> 00:54:16.680
 what your books say i don't care what your chart says i don't care what preachers of yesteryear say

00:54:16.680 --> 00:54:22.010
 i don't care what dead theologians say what does the bible say that's what we want to hear look

00:54:22.010 --> 00:54:29.840
 at isaiah chapter number 28 verse 10 the bible says for precept must be upon precept precept upon

00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:36.850
 precept line upon line line upon line here a little and there a little here's another edge

00:54:36.850 --> 00:54:43.000
 that we've got when it comes to doctrine and preaching is that many old ifb churches never

00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:49.530
 do verse by verse bible studies they only do topical preaching and it's kind of weird because

00:54:49.530 --> 00:54:54.930
 like the old ifb there's some of them they only do topical sermons and then a lot of very liberal

00:54:54.930 --> 00:54:59.620
 churches they never do topical sermons they only do expository preaching i believe that we should

00:54:59.620 --> 00:55:05.120
 have a mix of these things and the bible says here that precept must be upon precept precept

00:55:05.120 --> 00:55:10.890
 upon precept line upon line you know i think it's good for us that we have our wednesday bible study

00:55:10.890 --> 00:55:16.830
 that we're going through verse by verse through a chapter why because that's going to make us

00:55:16.830 --> 00:55:22.310
 sharper on doctrine it's going to be harder of course we're humans we can still make mistakes

00:55:22.310 --> 00:55:27.550
 but it's going to be harder for us to have these big huge holes in our doctrine and just have these

00:55:27.550 --> 00:55:33.660
 big errors in our doctrine when we're taking the time to go through verse by verse through a chapter

00:55:33.660 --> 00:55:39.140
 also how am i going to get away with preaching one bible verse per chapter if i have to go through

00:55:39.140 --> 00:55:43.500
 the whole chapter on a wednesday right i'm not going to just get up to like all right let's all

00:55:43.500 --> 00:55:46.810
 stay in let's read one verse i'm just going to yell at you for the rest time no we're going through

00:55:46.810 --> 00:55:53.910
 every single verse now here's the thing that means that not every single wednesday sermon is just

00:55:53.910 --> 00:55:58.260
 going to be like the most exciting off the chain sermon because you know what we're doing we're

00:55:58.260 --> 00:56:02.690
 going line upon line we're going to go through every single word of god and let's be honest some

00:56:02.690 --> 00:56:06.490
 chapters in the bible are more exciting than others right that's just the fact but you know

00:56:06.490 --> 00:56:09.990
 what we need to have the character and the discipline to say all right every word of god

00:56:09.990 --> 00:56:14.610
 is pure there's something in this chapter that god wants us to learn let's preach it let's pay

00:56:14.610 --> 00:56:20.250
 attention to it let's give heed to the doctrine verse 11 for with stammering lips and another

00:56:20.250 --> 00:56:24.760
 tongue will he speak to this people to whom he said this is the rest wherewith he may cause the

00:56:24.760 --> 00:56:30.990
 weary to rest and this is the refreshing yet they would not hear but the word of the lord was unto

00:56:30.990 --> 00:56:39.520
 them precept upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line hear a little and

00:56:39.520 --> 00:56:44.740
 there a little that they might go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken hey

00:56:44.740 --> 00:56:52.280
 the bible says man shall not live on bread alone but by every word of god hey i'm all for the

00:56:52.280 --> 00:56:57.590
 topical sermons i love the topical sermons i don't believe we should have only the verse by verse

00:56:57.590 --> 00:57:04.510
 sermons but you know what the bible also says line upon line precept upon precept every word of god

00:57:04.510 --> 00:57:12.200
 we need today i'll read for you first simothy 413 says till i come give attendance to reading to

00:57:12.200 --> 00:57:18.500
 exhortation to doctrine here's something else you know before the service we read an entire chapter

00:57:18.500 --> 00:57:24.430
 whatever is the anchor text for my sermon whatever the main text that i'm pulling from in my sermon

00:57:24.430 --> 00:57:31.730
 we read that entire verse why because the bible says give attendance to reading in the old ifb

00:57:31.730 --> 00:57:36.490
 that is not how they do things usually the preacher gets up and he just reads one verse

00:57:36.490 --> 00:57:41.160
 some churches i've seen they'll read you know five or six verses surrounding that verse

00:57:41.160 --> 00:57:45.140
 i like that we just read the whole chapter because you know what i'm not trying to hide anything

00:57:45.140 --> 00:57:48.930
 i'm not trying to pull anything out of context not trying to pull a fast one on any of you

00:57:48.930 --> 00:57:52.880
 i want you to see the full chapter pay attention to the whole chat and you know what give attendance

00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:59.010
 to reading pay attention to the reading don't just sit there actually read go if you would

00:57:59.010 --> 00:58:03.980
 aphesians chapter four aphesians chapter four now another reason why i believe we have the edge on

00:58:03.980 --> 00:58:13.700
 doctrine is because our church services are not geared towards evangelism in the old ifb many of

00:58:13.700 --> 00:58:20.580
 the church services are geared towards getting people saved now look i'm for getting people saved

00:58:20.580 --> 00:58:26.030
 but that's not the purpose of church look at aphesians chapter 4 verse 11 and he gave some

00:58:26.030 --> 00:58:31.230
 apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the what

00:58:31.230 --> 00:58:38.100
 perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of christ

00:58:38.100 --> 00:58:42.940
 why is that god gave us men of god it's not to get everyone in the church saved it's that we

00:58:42.940 --> 00:58:49.010
 could perfect the saints by feeding them doctrine perfecting them helping them grow he says for the

00:58:49.010 --> 00:58:53.900
 work of the ministry i'm trying to exhort people to get to work to go out and preach the gospel

00:58:53.900 --> 00:58:59.380
 to serve god for the edifying of the body of christ till we all come in the unity of the faith

00:58:59.380 --> 00:59:03.900
 and of the knowledge of the son of god unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of

00:59:03.900 --> 00:59:10.930
 the fullness of christ why that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried

00:59:10.930 --> 00:59:17.660
 about with every wind of what doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they

00:59:17.660 --> 00:59:24.590
 lie and wait to deceive notice if churches are not emphasizing doctrine if pastors are not getting up

00:59:24.590 --> 00:59:31.090
 and clearly teaching bible doctrine then the congregation is in danger of being carried about

00:59:31.090 --> 00:59:35.830
 with every wind of doctrine like children right what do the old if we do oh you want to learn

00:59:35.830 --> 00:59:41.050
 doctrine come to bible college come to the bible institute pay us money then we'll finally teach

00:59:41.050 --> 00:59:46.330
 you doctrine why don't you teach doctrine in church why is it that your church services are

00:59:46.330 --> 00:59:51.680
 geared towards the lost that is not how church is supposed to be you're supposed to go out there

00:59:51.680 --> 00:59:57.040
 preach the gospel to the lost hey bring them in and then teach them to observe all things

00:59:57.040 --> 01:00:03.090
 whatsoever christ hath commanded that's the great commission right hey reach them baptize them teach

01:00:03.090 --> 01:00:07.070
 them all things that's what we're supposed to do but what does the old if you do they preach a

01:00:07.070 --> 01:00:12.260
 sermon and it usually is about salvation and you know what they do at the end of this sermon they

01:00:12.260 --> 01:00:19.040
 say all right everyone every head bowed every eye closed if you're not 100 sure today that you would

01:00:19.040 --> 01:00:23.300
 die go to heaven you know you need to come up here to this altar you need to do business with

01:00:23.300 --> 01:00:28.770
 god today is the day of days for you no one's watching raising oh i see that hand oh there's

01:00:28.770 --> 01:00:33.050
 another there's a who knows what i'm talking about i'm not making stuff up right now this is how it is

01:00:33.050 --> 01:00:39.700
 every single church service and it's like why is it that there's just constantly people getting

01:00:39.700 --> 01:00:45.190
 re-saved at your altars it's once saved always saved seems like you're not doing a good job of

01:00:45.190 --> 01:00:51.690
 emphasizing doctrine if people are constantly getting re-saved it's ridiculous we've got the

01:00:51.690 --> 01:00:57.800
 edge there we need to keep that we need to hang on to teaching doctrine and there's a big consequence

01:00:57.800 --> 01:01:03.280
 of the old ifb not emphasizing doctrine guess what that is is that they end up being wrong on a lot

01:01:03.280 --> 01:01:10.610
 of doctrines how about this how about the old ifb supporting and loving the synagogue of satan what's

01:01:10.610 --> 01:01:16.540
 a big issue in the old ifb is that they get up and they promote and they love people that hate

01:01:16.540 --> 01:01:22.600
 jesus christ people that the bible says are anti-christ hey he is anti-christ that denieth

01:01:22.600 --> 01:01:28.000
 the father and the son the bible says guess what jews are anti-christs and a lot of people thank

01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:32.140
 god are waking up to this you know what it makes christianity look bad when people walk into a

01:01:32.140 --> 01:01:38.510
 baptist church and there's a synagogue of satan flag up there and they're worshiping the jews

01:01:38.510 --> 01:01:43.730
 they're worshiping those that killed the lord jesus christ go to galatians chapter number three

01:01:43.730 --> 01:01:49.600
 galatians chapter number three say why do they do this well here's why is because they do not

01:01:49.600 --> 01:01:56.350
 emphasize doctrine they just repeat cute things that they've heard they just look at the commentaries

01:01:56.350 --> 01:02:00.920
 they just ask themselves what do men of the past say what are we supposed to do hey we're supposed

01:02:00.920 --> 01:02:06.940
 to ask ourselves you know are we believing what's right let's hold fast to that which is good hey

01:02:06.940 --> 01:02:11.670
 let's repent if we need to if we believe something wrong look at galatians 3 verse 16 the bible says

01:02:11.670 --> 01:02:21.320
 now to abraham and his seed were the promises made he saith not and to seeds as of many but as of one

01:02:21.320 --> 01:02:27.540
 and to thy seed which is christ what's the promise that's being referred to that all the nations of

01:02:27.540 --> 01:02:34.450
 the world would be blessed through abraham's seed now the bible defines us what that seed is that

01:02:34.450 --> 01:02:40.720
 seed is the lord jesus christ this is not saying hey abraham your physical descendants are going

01:02:40.720 --> 01:02:45.340
 to be the reason that the whole world is blessed no the king james bible which i thought the old

01:02:45.340 --> 01:02:51.920
 ifb believes the king james bible says this seed the modern version says descendants but the king

01:02:51.920 --> 01:02:56.660
 james bible says seed what is that seed it's the lord jesus christ hey you know who god's chosen

01:02:56.660 --> 01:03:01.400
 people are are those that believe in jesus christ hey if you are of the descendant if you're a

01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:06.300
 descendant of abraham and you believe in jesus your god's chosen people if you're a descendant

01:03:06.300 --> 01:03:10.210
 of abraham and you don't you're going to go to hell when you die regardless of what your dna is

01:03:10.210 --> 01:03:17.410
 look at verse 28 galatians 3 verse 28 here's some doctrine there is neither jew nor greek

01:03:17.410 --> 01:03:22.770
 there is neither bond nor free there's neither male nor female for you are all one in christ

01:03:22.770 --> 01:03:31.520
 jesus and if ye be christ then are ye abraham seed and heirs according to the promise what does the

01:03:31.520 --> 01:03:38.300
 old ife often say no no no the seed of abraham that's the jews oh that's the people who rejected christ

01:03:38.300 --> 01:03:42.350
 that's the people who go and worship in the synagogue those are the people that have the

01:03:42.350 --> 01:03:47.580
 torah and then you know go to the wailing wall in jerusalem that's the seed of abraham no no no

01:03:47.580 --> 01:03:55.000
 read this again what does it say and if ye be christ then ye are abraham seed you know we are

01:03:55.000 --> 01:04:00.830
 abraham seed the people at anchor baptist church that believe in you we are the chosen we are the

01:04:00.830 --> 01:04:09.020
 chosen people christians are the chosen people not the christ hating jews go to first peter 2 first

01:04:09.020 --> 01:04:15.760
 peter chapter number two you know this is a doctrine today that's just screwed up in the old

01:04:15.760 --> 01:04:22.010
 ifb because they're not you know emphasizing doctrine first peter chapter 2 verse 9 it says

01:04:22.010 --> 01:04:29.960
 this but ye are a chosen generation a royal priesthood and holy nation a peculiar people

01:04:29.960 --> 01:04:34.160
 that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness

01:04:34.160 --> 01:04:41.760
 into his marvelous light which in time past were not a people but are now the people of god

01:04:41.760 --> 01:04:46.600
 which had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy so who who is it that's the

01:04:46.600 --> 01:04:51.910
 chosen generation who is it that's the royal priesthood who is it that's the holy nation

01:04:51.910 --> 01:04:56.280
 who is it that's the peculiar people it's those who were at one point not a people

01:04:56.280 --> 01:05:01.010
 well were the jews a people at one point of course they were was israel a people at one point

01:05:01.010 --> 01:05:04.930
 absolutely so that can't be talking about the jews can it no it's talking about a group of people

01:05:04.930 --> 01:05:10.950
 that was not a people but now we are a people it says hey that we did not obtain mercy now we have

01:05:10.950 --> 01:05:17.640
 what is that that's believers in jesus christ of all nations jew or gentile male female bond free

01:05:17.640 --> 01:05:24.020
 you believe in jesus christ you are the chosen you are god's chosen people go to mark 13 you know

01:05:24.020 --> 01:05:30.010
 they're just messed up on that doctrine and you know i don't know about you it frustrates me going

01:05:30.010 --> 01:05:35.020
 to church after i've read my bible i've studied the word of god it frustrates me going to church

01:05:35.020 --> 01:05:38.740
 just to hear lies preached on the pulpit i mean isn't this supposed to be the pillar and ground

01:05:38.740 --> 01:05:44.470
 of the truth and look like i said i'm for these guys that are king james only salvation eternal

01:05:44.470 --> 01:05:49.190
 security doing great things i'm for them i would be their friends i would preach for them i would

01:05:49.190 --> 01:05:52.800
 let some of these guys preach for me not all of them but some of them but here's the thing i don't

01:05:52.800 --> 01:05:56.990
 want to go to a church to hear lies i just don't and you know what saying that the jews are god's

01:05:56.990 --> 01:06:02.050
 chosen people it's just a big fat dirty lie here's another big fat dirty lie the preacher of rapture

01:06:02.050 --> 01:06:06.100
 and i'm sorry i think it should insult the intelligence of people that actually read their bible

01:06:06.100 --> 01:06:10.460
 to get up and say that it can happen before the tribulation what does the bible say mark 13 verse

01:06:10.460 --> 01:06:18.990
 23 but take ye heed behold i foretold you all things but in those days after that tribulation

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 the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars of heaven shall fall

01:06:23.890 --> 01:06:28.160
 and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken and they shall see the son of man

01:06:28.160 --> 01:06:33.680
 coming in the clouds with great power and glory and then shall he send his angels and shall gather

01:06:33.680 --> 01:06:37.670
 together his elect from the four winds from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part

01:06:37.670 --> 01:06:44.900
 in heaven hey when are the elect gathered to meet the lord in the air after that tribulation hey it's

01:06:44.900 --> 01:06:50.720
 a great movie called after the tribulation the bible teaches we are raptured after the tribulation

01:06:50.720 --> 01:06:54.590
 and you know what it is just a lie it's a false doctrine why do they have that false doctrine

01:06:54.590 --> 01:06:58.880
 because they're not emphasizing doctrine in their churches it's well you got let me show you this

01:06:58.880 --> 01:07:03.650
 chart let me show you this chart let me show you this commentary i mean it's the time of jacob's

01:07:03.650 --> 01:07:09.820
 trouble brother don't you know that it's like that has nothing to do with end times the captivity

01:07:09.820 --> 01:07:14.540
 of the babylonians the time of jacob's trouble let me help you with some end times theology that

01:07:14.540 --> 01:07:18.990
 has nothing to do with the rapture that has nothing to do with the tribulation that's nothing to do

01:07:18.990 --> 01:07:23.720
 the wrath of god no brother you got to look at it's time of jacob's trouble amen just stop saying

01:07:23.720 --> 01:07:29.740
 that why don't you say what the bible says go to act chapter number 20 number four where do we have

01:07:29.740 --> 01:07:33.650
 the edge and remember we need to hold fast to these things we have to make sure we don't let

01:07:33.650 --> 01:07:39.370
 these things slip number four longer sermons you're like is this an edge is this something

01:07:39.370 --> 01:07:44.000
 that's good about the new ifb you're like i thought something was bad hey you know we need

01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:49.070
 god's word to be preached today and if you're going to spend you know the five dollar a gallon

01:07:49.070 --> 01:07:52.970
 to get here don't you want to hear the bible being preached don't you want to be here for a

01:07:52.970 --> 01:07:58.400
 while we need some long sermons today act chapter number 20 verse 7 and upon the first day of the

01:07:58.400 --> 01:08:03.540
 week when the disciples were when the disciples came together to break bread paul preached

01:08:03.540 --> 01:08:11.680
 unto them ready to depart on the morrow and continued his speech until midnight till midnight

01:08:11.680 --> 01:08:18.420
 look back there we got several hours to go folks till midnight verse 8 and there were many lights

01:08:18.420 --> 01:08:22.800
 in the upper chamber where they were gathered together and they're sat in a window a certain

01:08:22.800 --> 01:08:28.480
 young man named euticus being fallen into a deep sleep see kids you got to be careful about falling

01:08:28.480 --> 01:08:33.950
 asleep in church look what happens kids look at it euticus right here euticus fell asleep during

01:08:33.950 --> 01:08:39.860
 church it says and as paul was long preaching he sunk down with sleep and fell down from the

01:08:39.860 --> 01:08:45.350
 third loft it was taken up dead you know one of my kids they've never fallen through a loft

01:08:45.350 --> 01:08:49.310
 but i think you guys remember that one time where there was just a sudden shriek out of nowhere

01:08:49.310 --> 01:08:52.790
 it was because one of those kids fell asleep and just fell down off the chair right you got to be

01:08:52.790 --> 01:08:57.690
 careful kids not to fall asleep during church and paul went down and fell on him and embracing him

01:08:57.690 --> 01:09:02.600
 said trouble not yourselves for his life is in him you know to quote a little saying that the old

01:09:02.600 --> 01:09:08.730
 ifb loves to say so much if it was good enough for the apostle paul it's good enough for me

01:09:08.730 --> 01:09:12.710
 right hey if it's long sermons are good enough for the apostle paul is good enough for me

01:09:12.710 --> 01:09:16.770
 if the apostle paul will get up and he'll preach all night he'll preach till midnight then i think

01:09:16.770 --> 01:09:24.150
 people can handle an hour an hour long sermon you know an hour and a half long sermon look you know

01:09:24.150 --> 01:09:29.390
 the other earlier this year i tried to challenge myself can i run for longer than a pastor shelly

01:09:29.390 --> 01:09:35.110
 sermon and i made it to two hours and some people do it way more than two hours that's great that's

01:09:35.110 --> 01:09:41.380
 awesome but it's like hey some people could run for two hours you can't sit there for one you can't

01:09:41.380 --> 01:09:46.110
 sit there for 50 minutes and hear god's word being preached it's like come on guys we need we need to

01:09:46.110 --> 01:09:52.350
 hear some long sermons today how much is how much time do people give to social media during the

01:09:52.350 --> 01:09:59.230
 week how much time do people give to entertainment to video games to all their extracurricular things

01:09:59.230 --> 01:10:04.310
 it's like can we not give the house of god three hours a week do not pay attention in church for

01:10:04.310 --> 01:10:09.480
 three hours a week i think we've got the edge there go to first corinthians five here's another

01:10:09.480 --> 01:10:13.980
 area i think the new ifb has the edge we need to hold fast to these things not let them slip

01:10:13.980 --> 01:10:22.700
 that is church discipline church discipline a lot of churches in the old ifb will scarcely sometimes

01:10:22.700 --> 01:10:27.180
 never execute church discipline and oftentimes when they do it it's because you listen to pastor

01:10:27.180 --> 01:10:33.330
 anderson or you listen to the new ifb it's true i mean i went to the old ifb church for three years

01:10:33.330 --> 01:10:39.140
 and i went soul winning by myself they didn't have a soul winning program so i'm doing my best

01:10:39.140 --> 01:10:44.650
 to just love this church to contribute to go soul winning tithe was trying to be a good member

01:10:44.650 --> 01:10:49.980
 and i didn't go around spreading my beliefs or my doctrines but one time this girl called me

01:10:49.980 --> 01:10:55.060
 and she said hey this person told me that the rapture happens after the tribulation

01:10:55.060 --> 01:11:00.180
 i know you read your bible a lot can you help me prove this person wrong and i said that person's

01:11:00.180 --> 01:11:04.200
 right it does happen after the tribulation hey i didn't go around spreading my doctrine but if

01:11:04.200 --> 01:11:08.480
 someone just straight up asks me yeah i'm just gonna tell them and then in this giant church

01:11:08.480 --> 01:11:13.150
 like thousand people church next week i get a call from the church secretary saying you know the

01:11:13.150 --> 01:11:18.100
 pastor wants to meet with you and it's like why does the pastor want to meet with like this 17

01:11:18.100 --> 01:11:22.440
 year old 16 year old kid or whatever and i just felt kind of weird about it but i was like okay

01:11:22.440 --> 01:11:27.910
 whatever i'll go and you know he meets with me and he's like you know i heard that you've been

01:11:27.910 --> 01:11:33.160
 listening to this guy Stephen Anderson and you know he's in Arizona and he's really dangerous

01:11:33.160 --> 01:11:37.860
 all this stuff and i said yeah you know you know i got saved by listening to new ip preaching

01:11:37.860 --> 01:11:41.600
 i listened to him i listened to other new ip preachers i think they're great and he's like

01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:46.340
 well you know i appreciate your candor but i really think that you need to meet with sam gip you need

01:11:46.340 --> 01:11:52.080
 to talk to sam gip about the rapture and i'm just like horrified in my mind because i've already

01:11:52.080 --> 01:11:56.380
 heard pastor innocent ripping against sam gip and just calling him a damnable heretic because

01:11:56.380 --> 01:12:00.200
 he's saying that jesus isn't the messiah and i just said you know pastor with all due respect

01:12:00.200 --> 01:12:04.420
 if there's any correction that i need i'd way rather get it from you you know you're my pastor

01:12:04.420 --> 01:12:09.520
 i've listened to sam gip i don't you know agree with his doctrine and he ends up saying he's

01:12:09.520 --> 01:12:13.770
 like well you know sam gip knows this a lot better than me which even as a teenager i thought it was

01:12:13.770 --> 01:12:18.050
 weird that the pastor couldn't explain to me the preacher rapture it's like you're the pastor it's

01:12:18.050 --> 01:12:21.610
 like you're a man in your 60s you can't explain this to me then my phone is being blown up by

01:12:21.610 --> 01:12:25.940
 sam gitt for like the next three weeks and i'm just like super annoyed i don't want to meet with him

01:12:25.940 --> 01:12:30.570
 and then finally pastor anderson he posted this video he's just like it was called like treasure

01:12:30.570 --> 01:12:34.320
 valley baptist church is wicked or something like that and finally i'm just like i'm done i'm leaving

01:12:34.320 --> 01:12:37.510
 this church i'm going somewhere else but you got to understand like it was really hard for me at

01:12:37.510 --> 01:12:41.900
 first because i'm listening to new ife preaching and i'm hearing these pastors get up and just

01:12:41.900 --> 01:12:46.600
 rip face like you need to go to the best church in your area you need to stop complaining you need

01:12:46.600 --> 01:12:50.350
 to just go to a good church and be a blessing and i'm just like i'm trying man i'm trying

01:12:50.350 --> 01:12:53.780
 i'm like i don't think you realize how bad it is and they're like you know if you're in america you

01:12:53.780 --> 01:12:57.930
 have a good church to go to it's good and then finally pastor arson uploads treasure valley

01:12:57.930 --> 01:13:02.610
 baptist church is wicked i was just like all right i'm not crazy it was just like miserable going

01:13:02.610 --> 01:13:09.410
 there but you know what the pressure was on me right it's like oh this guy who's a soul winner

01:13:09.410 --> 01:13:13.930
 this guy who's just minding his own business a teenager going soul winning of his own volition

01:13:13.930 --> 01:13:17.270
 we gotta have meetings with this guy we gotta put the pressure on this guy we gotta send

01:13:17.270 --> 01:13:21.720
 the witch at endor sam gimp to talk to this guy but you know what i never saw i never saw

01:13:21.720 --> 01:13:27.250
 fornicators getting kicked out of church i knew of open couples and fornication nothing ever

01:13:27.250 --> 01:13:32.920
 happened to them nothing happened to the drunks nothing happened to i mean there was literally

01:13:32.920 --> 01:13:39.280
 pentecostals in this church there was literally a family that was an ex ministry family the guy was

01:13:39.280 --> 01:13:45.260
 an ex pentecostal pastor he went around teaching everyone oneness heresy i knew about oneness

01:13:45.260 --> 01:13:51.590
 before the new ifb oneness controversy because of this nut job walking around our church saying

01:13:51.590 --> 01:13:56.230
 hey you know jesus is the father he was never kicked out but you know who's dragged in the office

01:13:56.230 --> 01:14:01.760
 the teenage soul winner that was listening to pastor anderson that's wicked folks look what the

01:14:01.760 --> 01:14:07.850
 bible says in first corinthians 5 verse 9 it says i wrote unto you in an epistle not to company

01:14:07.850 --> 01:14:13.690
 with fornicators yet not all together with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous

01:14:13.690 --> 01:14:19.440
 or extortioners or with idolaters for then musty needs go out of the world he's saying hey i'm not

01:14:19.440 --> 01:14:24.540
 saying you have to separate from the unsaved obviously you can't separate from these sins in

01:14:24.540 --> 01:14:29.720
 unsafe people because this is just what unsafe people are like but he says but now i have written

01:14:29.720 --> 01:14:36.850
 unto you not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or

01:14:36.850 --> 01:14:42.450
 an idolater or a railer or a drunker or an extortioner with such and one no not to eat who

01:14:42.450 --> 01:14:44.210
 Who is someone that's called a brother?

01:14:44.210 --> 01:14:46.970
 Well, it would definitely be people that go to church, right?

01:14:46.970 --> 01:14:49.250
 I mean, don't you say, hey, brother so-and-so,

01:14:49.250 --> 01:14:50.190
 brother so-and-so?

01:14:50.190 --> 01:14:53.840
 So if brother so-and-so is guilty of these things,

01:14:53.840 --> 01:14:58.790
 fornication, covetousness, extortion, idolatry,

01:14:58.790 --> 01:15:01.790
 railing, being a drunkard,

01:15:01.790 --> 01:15:05.640
 the Bible says with that type of a person, don't even eat.

01:15:05.640 --> 01:15:08.050
 It says don't even eat with that type of person.

01:15:08.050 --> 01:15:09.940
 Don't even be friends with that type of person.

01:15:09.940 --> 01:15:11.750
 Don't even hang out with that type of person.

01:15:11.750 --> 01:15:14.500
 How much less have that person in your church?

01:15:14.500 --> 01:15:16.970
 How much less have an open situation of fornication

01:15:16.970 --> 01:15:18.500
 and just no one deals with it?

01:15:18.500 --> 01:15:21.280
 You got people going around teaching damnable heresy,

01:15:21.280 --> 01:15:22.920
 no one deals with it.

01:15:22.920 --> 01:15:24.940
 Teenager that listens to Pastor Anderson,

01:15:24.940 --> 01:15:27.040
 let's put the screws on this guy.

01:15:27.040 --> 01:15:29.130
 It's crazy, but that's what a lot of old IFB churches

01:15:29.130 --> 01:15:30.640
 are like.

01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:33.710
 It says in verse 12, for what have I to do to judge them

01:15:33.710 --> 01:15:35.170
 also that are without?

01:15:35.170 --> 01:15:37.680
 Do not ye judge them that are within?

01:15:37.680 --> 01:15:40.510
 Paul's saying you need to be judging in the house of God.

01:15:40.510 --> 01:15:42.320
 You need to be judging these things.

01:15:42.320 --> 01:15:44.160
 But them that are without God judgeth,

01:15:44.160 --> 01:15:48.390
 therefore here's the command, put away from among yourselves

01:15:48.390 --> 01:15:50.080
 that wicked person.

01:15:50.080 --> 01:15:52.990
 You know, this may seem strange to a lot of people today.

01:15:52.990 --> 01:15:53.500
 Why though?

01:15:53.500 --> 01:15:55.730
 Because doctrine's not being preached.

01:15:55.730 --> 01:15:59.530
 Because if you're going line by line, precept upon precept,

01:15:59.530 --> 01:16:01.770
 through 1 Corinthians 5, eventually someone's

01:16:01.770 --> 01:16:04.520
 going to have to explain this concept of church discipline.

01:16:04.520 --> 01:16:06.230
 That the Bible says there are some people that

01:16:06.230 --> 01:16:08.080
 are to be put away from among you,

01:16:08.080 --> 01:16:10.050
 that are not to be allowed in the house of God.

01:16:10.050 --> 01:16:12.350
 You say, well, I thought the church

01:16:12.350 --> 01:16:14.340
 was a spiritual hospital.

01:16:14.340 --> 01:16:17.630
 Never does the Bible say that church is a spiritual hospital.

01:16:17.630 --> 01:16:18.820
 That is not in the Bible.

01:16:18.820 --> 01:16:20.230
 I mean, the Bible says endure hardness

01:16:20.230 --> 01:16:22.470
 is a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

01:16:22.470 --> 01:16:23.390
 You want to compare it to something,

01:16:23.390 --> 01:16:25.270
 I guess we're like a spiritual boot camp.

01:16:25.270 --> 01:16:26.100
 And guess what?

01:16:26.100 --> 01:16:29.560
 This isn't 2016, you're 2015 Obama military.

01:16:29.560 --> 01:16:33.240
 We've got some requirements and no trannies allowed.

01:16:33.240 --> 01:16:34.500
 You know what, there's some requirements

01:16:34.500 --> 01:16:36.530
 that you got to meet to attend the house of God.

01:16:36.530 --> 01:16:38.780
 And it's called not being a railer,

01:16:38.780 --> 01:16:41.150
 not being an extortioner, not being a drunkard,

01:16:41.150 --> 01:16:42.680
 not being covetousness.

01:16:42.680 --> 01:16:43.490
 No, you know what?

01:16:43.490 --> 01:16:45.530
 The house of God is more like a spiritual boot camp

01:16:45.530 --> 01:16:46.850
 than a hospital.

01:16:46.850 --> 01:16:48.710
 Hey, out there, we're trying to heal people,

01:16:48.710 --> 01:16:49.930
 trying to get in the gospel.

01:16:49.930 --> 01:16:51.750
 Here, we're trying to train people.

01:16:51.750 --> 01:16:54.760
 We're trying to help people become effective soldiers

01:16:54.760 --> 01:16:56.190
 for Jesus Christ.

01:16:56.190 --> 01:16:56.950
 And so you know what?

01:16:56.950 --> 01:16:59.430
 Yeah, we are not gonna allow these things in church.

01:16:59.430 --> 01:17:00.250
 And how about this?

01:17:00.250 --> 01:17:01.600
 You know, go hear my sermon last week.

01:17:01.600 --> 01:17:05.540
 No sodomites or pedophiles are allowed in the house of God.

01:17:05.540 --> 01:17:08.610
 Some churches and old IFB, they have an open policy

01:17:08.610 --> 01:17:12.370
 saying we welcome sodomites, we welcome pedophiles.

01:17:12.370 --> 01:17:14.410
 Hey, bring the sodomites into the house of God.

01:17:14.410 --> 01:17:15.910
 That is wicked.

01:17:15.910 --> 01:17:18.310
 The Bible says they are not allowed.

01:17:18.310 --> 01:17:21.420
 The Bible says they should be put to death, okay?

01:17:21.420 --> 01:17:24.860
 Bringing sodomites into the house of God is wicked and evil.

01:17:24.860 --> 01:17:26.810
 You're begging for God's judgment.

01:17:26.810 --> 01:17:28.280
 All right, you're bringing in pedophiles

01:17:28.280 --> 01:17:29.560
 that could harm these kids.

01:17:29.560 --> 01:17:30.650
 You know what, any pastor,

01:17:30.650 --> 01:17:32.960
 even if he is a good person overall,

01:17:32.960 --> 01:17:35.210
 if a child gets hurt in his congregation

01:17:35.210 --> 01:17:36.800
 because he allows pedophiles,

01:17:36.800 --> 01:17:38.630
 I believe God should hold him accountable to that

01:17:38.630 --> 01:17:41.620
 and will, it's evil.

01:17:41.620 --> 01:17:44.920
 Go to John chapter number two.

01:17:44.920 --> 01:17:47.010
 What's another area that we have the edge?

01:17:47.010 --> 01:17:50.850
 Number six, the new IFB is not constantly emphasizing

01:17:50.850 --> 01:17:53.220
 and talking about money.

01:17:53.220 --> 01:17:54.360
 Good night folks.

01:17:54.360 --> 01:17:56.080
 And if you've never been old IFB,

01:17:56.080 --> 01:17:58.280
 it's gonna be hard for you to really appreciate

01:17:58.280 --> 01:17:59.520
 what I'm talking about.

01:17:59.520 --> 01:18:02.920
 How much the old IFB emphasizes money.

01:18:02.920 --> 01:18:04.100
 And you take for granted the thing

01:18:04.100 --> 01:18:06.270
 that all of our events here are free.

01:18:06.270 --> 01:18:08.460
 Everything that we do is free, all the food is free.

01:18:08.460 --> 01:18:10.600
 We have these soul winning marathons, just all free.

01:18:10.600 --> 01:18:11.820
 The material's free.

01:18:11.820 --> 01:18:14.350
 That is not usually the case in the old IFB.

01:18:14.350 --> 01:18:16.380
 In the old IFB a lot of people are charging you

01:18:16.380 --> 01:18:18.180
 for your soul winning materials.

01:18:18.180 --> 01:18:19.480
 You wanna go to that men's retreat?

01:18:19.480 --> 01:18:20.830
 You gotta pay for it.

01:18:20.830 --> 01:18:22.560
 You wanna go to this mission strip?

01:18:22.560 --> 01:18:24.700
 You gotta pay for everything, right?

01:18:24.700 --> 01:18:27.050
 And even when they do offer things that are free,

01:18:27.050 --> 01:18:29.080
 it's like, they're gonna get up behind the pulpit

01:18:29.080 --> 01:18:30.990
 and just be like, hey, let me tell you what.

01:18:30.990 --> 01:18:32.740
 These conferences, they cost a lot of money.

01:18:32.740 --> 01:18:34.930
 We're taking up a special offering right now.

01:18:34.930 --> 01:18:36.720
 You can just find it in your heart to give.

01:18:36.720 --> 01:18:38.670
 Please do that, please give more money,

01:18:38.670 --> 01:18:39.500
 please give more money.

01:18:39.500 --> 01:18:41.030
 Did I talk about money yet, right?

01:18:41.030 --> 01:18:43.140
 Just emphasizing all these things.

01:18:43.140 --> 01:18:45.760
 You know the Bible talks about the tithe, and that's true.

01:18:45.760 --> 01:18:47.150
 The Bible does teach to tithe.

01:18:47.150 --> 01:18:49.040
 That's Bible doctrine.

01:18:49.040 --> 01:18:50.720
 But the Bible doesn't say, hey, you know,

01:18:50.720 --> 01:18:52.870
 we need to take up a special offering

01:18:52.870 --> 01:18:54.560
 for every little thing that we do.

01:18:54.560 --> 01:18:57.570
 You know, there's no vision offering in the Bible.

01:18:57.570 --> 01:18:59.140
 You know, it gets real annoying

01:18:59.140 --> 01:19:00.250
 when you go to the house of God

01:19:00.250 --> 01:19:02.750
 and you're just constantly being pestered about money,

01:19:02.750 --> 01:19:04.410
 and it's constantly putting on a show,

01:19:04.410 --> 01:19:06.350
 and it's guilt trip preaching.

01:19:06.350 --> 01:19:09.420
 You know, oh, you know, God loves a cheerful giver,

01:19:09.420 --> 01:19:10.490
 so if you don't give, you know,

01:19:10.490 --> 01:19:14.220
 you must not be a really godly person, right?

01:19:14.220 --> 01:19:15.160
 It's crazy.

01:19:15.160 --> 01:19:18.080
 Look at John chapter two, verse 13.

01:19:18.080 --> 01:19:20.350
 It says, and the Jews' Passover was at hand,

01:19:20.350 --> 01:19:22.500
 and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

01:19:22.500 --> 01:19:25.590
 and found in the temple those that sold oxen,

01:19:25.590 --> 01:19:30.430
 and sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

01:19:30.430 --> 01:19:31.250
 So what does he see?

01:19:31.250 --> 01:19:32.310
 He goes to the house of God,

01:19:32.310 --> 01:19:34.860
 and he sees people buying and selling.

01:19:34.860 --> 01:19:36.980
 This is something you see a lot in the old IP.

01:19:36.980 --> 01:19:39.570
 You show up, and as soon as you walk through the door,

01:19:39.570 --> 01:19:43.530
 it's the book stands, it's the DVDs, it's the materials,

01:19:43.530 --> 01:19:45.100
 and, you know, pastors get up,

01:19:45.100 --> 01:19:46.290
 and immediately it's just like,

01:19:46.290 --> 01:19:47.600
 hey, thanks for inviting me.

01:19:47.600 --> 01:19:49.110
 All my books are in the back over there.

01:19:49.110 --> 01:19:49.950
 You go ahead and buy it.

01:19:49.950 --> 01:19:52.580
 Like, money, money, money is constantly being emphasized

01:19:52.580 --> 01:19:53.410
 in the old IFB.

01:19:53.410 --> 01:19:54.930
 Notice what Jesus did.

01:19:54.930 --> 01:19:58.520
 When he had made a scourge of small cords.

01:19:58.520 --> 01:20:00.530
 You see, Pastor Anderson isn't alone.

01:20:00.530 --> 01:20:02.810
 Sometimes you gotta use a cord, all right?

01:20:02.810 --> 01:20:05.740
 And when he had made a scourge of small cords,

01:20:05.740 --> 01:20:07.940
 he drove them all out of the temple,

01:20:07.940 --> 01:20:09.680
 and the sheep, and the oxen,

01:20:09.680 --> 01:20:11.450
 and poured out the changers' money,

01:20:11.450 --> 01:20:13.760
 and overthrew the tables.

01:20:13.760 --> 01:20:15.510
 Oh, you just gotta be more Christ-like.

01:20:15.510 --> 01:20:17.450
 You sure about that?

01:20:17.450 --> 01:20:19.040
 You sure you want that?

01:20:19.040 --> 01:20:22.530
 'Cause Jesus sat down and made a weapon.

01:20:22.530 --> 01:20:27.260
 He sat down and carefully made a scourge of small cords.

01:20:27.260 --> 01:20:29.260
 Oh, Pastor Anderson's so evil.

01:20:29.260 --> 01:20:32.720
 The cord, Jesus used cord's plural.

01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:35.230
 Cord's multiple.

01:20:35.230 --> 01:20:36.720
 And he went in there and he flipped the tables.

01:20:36.720 --> 01:20:39.100
 He started beating the crap out of Jews with a cord.

01:20:39.100 --> 01:20:42.220
 He might be on the ADL hate side or something like that.

01:20:42.220 --> 01:20:44.750
 Oh yeah, the Jews hate Jesus, that's right.

01:20:44.750 --> 01:20:49.510
 Jesus beat these people with a weapon, with a cord.

01:20:49.510 --> 01:20:53.130
 He saw their tables, he flipped them over,

01:20:53.130 --> 01:20:55.350
 and said unto them that soul doves,

01:20:55.350 --> 01:20:57.190
 "Take these things hence.

01:20:57.190 --> 01:21:01.340
 "Make not my father's house and house of merchandise."

01:21:01.340 --> 01:21:03.650
 And his disciples remembered that it was written,

01:21:03.650 --> 01:21:07.870
 "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up."

01:21:07.870 --> 01:21:09.370
 Hey, you know what, in the house of God,

01:21:09.370 --> 01:21:12.290
 why don't we emphasize, why aren't we zealous

01:21:12.290 --> 01:21:16.600
 for soul winning, for doctrine, for hard preaching,

01:21:16.600 --> 01:21:18.600
 for fellowship, for things that are good?

01:21:18.600 --> 01:21:20.770
 Why is it that the focus of our ministry

01:21:20.770 --> 01:21:22.590
 would ever become money?

01:21:22.590 --> 01:21:24.220
 Why is it that you'd get up

01:21:24.220 --> 01:21:26.720
 and just constantly emphasize money?

01:21:26.720 --> 01:21:28.070
 You know, let me just say this too.

01:21:28.070 --> 01:21:31.050
 Another reason why I knew Roger Jimenez was going downhill

01:21:31.050 --> 01:21:31.890
 is because let me tell you

01:21:31.890 --> 01:21:34.110
 one of the ways you could identify bad preaching.

01:21:34.110 --> 01:21:36.600
 It's this game called Drop the Hammer, all right?

01:21:36.600 --> 01:21:38.540
 Invented by Pastor Jonathan Shelley.

01:21:38.540 --> 01:21:40.500
 And I used to have to do this for people all the time.

01:21:40.500 --> 01:21:43.040
 And it wasn't fun when I had to do this for like Manley Perry

01:21:43.040 --> 01:21:44.830
 and like heretics and stuff like this.

01:21:44.830 --> 01:21:46.130
 But there's this game called Drop the Hammer.

01:21:46.130 --> 01:21:47.640
 It's called open someone's sermon

01:21:47.640 --> 01:21:49.800
 and drop it to a random point in the sermon.

01:21:49.800 --> 01:21:51.560
 And you know what you'll find with good preachers

01:21:51.560 --> 01:21:54.230
 is that you just constantly see them just preaching truth,

01:21:54.230 --> 01:21:56.220
 preaching hard, preaching the Bible.

01:21:56.220 --> 01:21:57.890
 And you know, you can go to any sermon

01:21:57.890 --> 01:22:00.080
 and you can just take 10 years worth of preaching,

01:22:00.080 --> 01:22:01.880
 a Pastor Anderson, Pastor Shelley,

01:22:01.880 --> 01:22:02.710
 you just drop the hammer,

01:22:02.710 --> 01:22:04.900
 you're just gonna find good sermon, good point,

01:22:04.900 --> 01:22:07.450
 that's Bible, that's true, that's good.

01:22:07.450 --> 01:22:09.330
 But you know what you find with bad preachers

01:22:09.330 --> 01:22:11.800
 is that you could go to a big swath of their preaching,

01:22:11.800 --> 01:22:13.130
 doesn't matter how long it is,

01:22:13.130 --> 01:22:16.070
 you just find, oh, bad doctrine, bad idea,

01:22:16.070 --> 01:22:17.620
 false doctrine, heresy.

01:22:17.620 --> 01:22:19.050
 Well, here's one of the concerns that I had

01:22:19.050 --> 01:22:21.210
 with Roger Jimenez when he was going downhill

01:22:21.210 --> 01:22:22.780
 is you play Drop the Hammer and it's just like,

01:22:22.780 --> 01:22:24.710
 talking about money, talking about money,

01:22:24.710 --> 01:22:26.580
 talking about money, talking about more money.

01:22:26.580 --> 01:22:27.410
 Hey, money, money.

01:22:27.410 --> 01:22:29.170
 Hey, you know, your gift is spiritual giving.

01:22:29.170 --> 01:22:30.280
 Hey, some people can't go slowly,

01:22:30.280 --> 01:22:31.400
 but did you know you could give?

01:22:31.400 --> 01:22:32.870
 Hey, have you heard about the vision offering?

01:22:32.870 --> 01:22:34.460
 Hey, have you heard about the offerings,

01:22:34.460 --> 01:22:35.300
 the special offerings?

01:22:35.300 --> 01:22:38.140
 It's like, dude, if I'm playing Drop the Hammer

01:22:38.140 --> 01:22:40.430
 and I'm just constantly hearing about money,

01:22:40.430 --> 01:22:42.830
 that is a wrong emphasis.

01:22:42.830 --> 01:22:46.420
 We should not, in the house of God, make things about money.

01:22:46.420 --> 01:22:48.210
 Now look, we need money.

01:22:48.210 --> 01:22:49.690
 There's nothing wrong with money.

01:22:49.690 --> 01:22:51.290
 The Bible has tithing.

01:22:51.290 --> 01:22:53.090
 The house of God operates out of money.

01:22:53.090 --> 01:22:55.430
 You know, someone who's right with God has no problem

01:22:55.430 --> 01:22:57.050
 with the house of God being blessed,

01:22:57.050 --> 01:22:58.440
 the man of God being taken care of.

01:22:58.440 --> 01:22:59.270
 But you know what?

01:22:59.270 --> 01:23:01.090
 When money becomes the focus,

01:23:01.090 --> 01:23:04.180
 that's a ministry that's going the wrong direction.

01:23:04.180 --> 01:23:07.240
 When you show up at church and everything costs money

01:23:07.240 --> 01:23:08.440
 and the sermon's about the money,

01:23:08.440 --> 01:23:09.860
 it's always pressure on the money.

01:23:09.860 --> 01:23:11.110
 Look, that's a bad thing.

01:23:11.110 --> 01:23:12.410
 You know, we like in the new IFB,

01:23:12.410 --> 01:23:14.270
 we like to emphasize hard preaching.

01:23:14.270 --> 01:23:15.810
 We like to emphasize doctrine.

01:23:15.810 --> 01:23:17.540
 We like to emphasize soul winning.

01:23:17.540 --> 01:23:19.980
 We like to emphasize fellowship.

01:23:19.980 --> 01:23:20.800
 You know what?

01:23:20.800 --> 01:23:23.120
 We're just not that into palaces in the new IFB.

01:23:23.120 --> 01:23:23.900
 Have you noticed that?

01:23:23.900 --> 01:23:25.170
 I mean, look around.

01:23:25.170 --> 01:23:27.030
 We're just not really that into palaces.

01:23:27.030 --> 01:23:29.290
 We're not really into the things of this world.

01:23:29.290 --> 01:23:30.110
 You know what?

01:23:30.110 --> 01:23:31.540
 We're into the service of God.

01:23:31.540 --> 01:23:32.370
 And you know what?

01:23:32.370 --> 01:23:34.290
 Hey, praise God for churches out there

01:23:34.290 --> 01:23:35.700
 that get big, beautiful buildings

01:23:35.700 --> 01:23:37.740
 and they never compromise in their preaching.

01:23:37.740 --> 01:23:41.530
 But let's be honest, that is the exception, not the rule.

01:23:41.530 --> 01:23:44.320
 Show me the church that has the big, magnificent palace

01:23:44.320 --> 01:23:46.920
 and it's probably a church that's watered down doctrine,

01:23:46.920 --> 01:23:51.220
 that's not preaching hard, that's compromising somewhere.

01:23:51.220 --> 01:23:54.000
 Go to 1 Corinthians 14, 1 Corinthians 14.

01:23:54.000 --> 01:23:55.560
 And look, I'm not, you know,

01:23:55.560 --> 01:23:57.260
 I was saying that you drop the hammer

01:23:57.260 --> 01:23:58.760
 and you hear a lot of heresies, heretic.

01:23:58.760 --> 01:24:00.050
 I'm not saying Roger Mendes was a heretic.

01:24:00.050 --> 01:24:01.290
 I'm just saying I could tell something

01:24:01.290 --> 01:24:02.130
 was going in the wrong direction

01:24:02.130 --> 01:24:05.540
 'cause it was always emphasizing money.

01:24:05.540 --> 01:24:08.040
 Number seven, where the new IFB has the edge.

01:24:08.040 --> 01:24:12.230
 No feminism, no women preachers,

01:24:12.230 --> 01:24:14.870
 no women screaming amen.

01:24:14.870 --> 01:24:17.570
 I mean, I almost have a heart attack.

01:24:17.570 --> 01:24:20.180
 When I'm at these old IFB churches, I constantly, amen!

01:24:20.180 --> 01:24:23.850
 I'm just like, what is happening right now, right?

01:24:23.850 --> 01:24:25.450
 And by the way, I don't think it's appropriate

01:24:25.450 --> 01:24:27.890
 for little kids to be screaming amen either.

01:24:27.890 --> 01:24:30.760
 You know, young children, little boys screaming amen.

01:24:30.760 --> 01:24:32.840
 I don't think that's appropriate either.

01:24:32.840 --> 01:24:33.770
 But especially women.

01:24:33.770 --> 01:24:37.030
 Look at what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 14 verse 33.

01:24:37.030 --> 01:24:39.690
 For God is not the author of confusion,

01:24:39.690 --> 01:24:43.970
 but of peace as in all churches of the saints.

01:24:43.970 --> 01:24:47.010
 Let your women keep silence in the churches,

01:24:47.010 --> 01:24:50.120
 for it is not permitted unto them to speak,

01:24:50.120 --> 01:24:52.040
 but they are commanded to be under obedience

01:24:52.040 --> 01:24:53.570
 is also sayeth the law.

01:24:53.570 --> 01:24:56.380
 Hey, God's not the author of confusion, but of peace.

01:24:56.380 --> 01:24:58.730
 You wanna remove peace from a church

01:24:58.730 --> 01:25:01.150
 and you wanna introduce a bunch of confusion?

01:25:01.150 --> 01:25:03.160
 You let the women get up and preach.

01:25:03.160 --> 01:25:04.890
 That's gonna lead to confusion.

01:25:04.890 --> 01:25:06.770
 That's gonna take away peace from the church.

01:25:06.770 --> 01:25:08.930
 You know, it's so cringe and annoying.

01:25:08.930 --> 01:25:11.390
 When you go to an old IFB church, you go to a conference

01:25:11.390 --> 01:25:15.500
 and it's Pastor John and Pastor Susie.

01:25:15.500 --> 01:25:17.520
 And they stand up next to each other on the stage

01:25:17.520 --> 01:25:20.290
 and Pastor Susie is giving you the rundown

01:25:20.290 --> 01:25:22.080
 of how their ministry works

01:25:22.080 --> 01:25:24.250
 and how their missionary trips are going.

01:25:24.250 --> 01:25:25.870
 It's cringe.

01:25:25.870 --> 01:25:27.340
 It's confusing.

01:25:27.340 --> 01:25:28.310
 It's not biblical.

01:25:28.310 --> 01:25:31.550
 The Bible says let your women keep silence in the churches.

01:25:31.550 --> 01:25:32.930
 It's not, notice what it says.

01:25:32.930 --> 01:25:35.260
 And if they will learn anything,

01:25:35.260 --> 01:25:37.480
 let them ask their husbands at home,

01:25:37.480 --> 01:25:41.220
 for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

01:25:41.220 --> 01:25:42.560
 So they're not supposed to be teaching.

01:25:42.560 --> 01:25:44.610
 Hey, and even if you didn't understand everything

01:25:44.610 --> 01:25:48.140
 from the sermon, especially married women,

01:25:48.140 --> 01:25:50.410
 married women should not be walking up to the pastor

01:25:50.410 --> 01:25:51.230
 after the sermon.

01:25:51.230 --> 01:25:53.260
 What were you saying there about Daniel's 70th week?

01:25:53.260 --> 01:25:55.470
 I'm gonna say go ask your husband.

01:25:55.470 --> 01:25:56.640
 Go ask your husband that.

01:25:56.640 --> 01:25:58.720
 And if your husband has any questions, he can come ask me.

01:25:58.720 --> 01:26:01.480
 But it's not appropriate for married women to be going up

01:26:01.480 --> 01:26:03.500
 and just talking Bible with the pastor and stuff like that.

01:26:03.500 --> 01:26:06.590
 No, the Bible says you need to ask your husband at home.

01:26:06.590 --> 01:26:09.030
 And you know what, husbands, read your Bible.

01:26:09.030 --> 01:26:10.660
 Become spiritual so that you can actually

01:26:10.660 --> 01:26:12.050
 answer your wife's questions.

01:26:12.050 --> 01:26:14.860
 What a shame in a marriage when the wife is more spiritual

01:26:14.860 --> 01:26:16.290
 and the wife knows more Bible.

01:26:16.290 --> 01:26:18.830
 And look, ladies, you should be as spiritual as possible.

01:26:18.830 --> 01:26:20.820
 You should know as much Bible as possible.

01:26:20.820 --> 01:26:23.270
 You should make it a challenge for your husband.

01:26:23.270 --> 01:26:26.140
 But you know what, husbands, you better meet that challenge.

01:26:26.140 --> 01:26:28.720
 Listen, if your wife reads the Bible five times a year,

01:26:28.720 --> 01:26:30.800
 you better read it six.

01:26:30.800 --> 01:26:32.130
 You better figure it out.

01:26:32.130 --> 01:26:34.100
 I don't care if you gotta sleep three hours a night,

01:26:34.100 --> 01:26:37.460
 you better lead your wife spiritually.

01:26:37.460 --> 01:26:39.900
 Because I'm gonna tell her, you ask your husband.

01:26:39.900 --> 01:26:41.880
 I'm not gonna sit here and have a private conversation

01:26:41.880 --> 01:26:43.330
 about doctrine with your wife.

01:26:43.330 --> 01:26:45.240
 It's just not gonna happen.

01:26:45.240 --> 01:26:46.890
 You know, some pastors like to take control

01:26:46.890 --> 01:26:48.170
 of people's lives in that area.

01:26:48.170 --> 01:26:50.250
 That's weird, if you ask me.

01:26:50.250 --> 01:26:52.030
 Go to the First Timothy chapter number two.

01:26:52.030 --> 01:26:53.050
 But notice it says, hey,

01:26:53.050 --> 01:26:55.180
 let your women keep silence in the churches.

01:26:55.180 --> 01:26:57.600
 Of course that means they're not the pastor.

01:26:57.600 --> 01:26:59.700
 Of course that means they're not teaching.

01:26:59.700 --> 01:27:00.500
 But you know what?

01:27:00.500 --> 01:27:02.390
 Also, they shouldn't even be saying amen.

01:27:02.390 --> 01:27:03.870
 I don't think it's biblical.

01:27:03.870 --> 01:27:06.490
 I don't think it's right for women to be screaming amen.

01:27:06.490 --> 01:27:08.050
 You know, it's the leader of the house.

01:27:08.050 --> 01:27:11.100
 Hey, it's his job to endorse what's being said, right?

01:27:11.100 --> 01:27:11.910
 And you know what?

01:27:11.910 --> 01:27:12.700
 Amen.

01:27:12.700 --> 01:27:13.650
 You should say amen.

01:27:13.650 --> 01:27:15.430
 You should, hey, you know when something's being preached,

01:27:15.430 --> 01:27:17.090
 it's from the Bible, say amen.

01:27:17.090 --> 01:27:17.920
 That's a good thing.

01:27:17.920 --> 01:27:19.600
 You're endorsing what's being said.

01:27:19.600 --> 01:27:20.430
 But you know what?

01:27:20.430 --> 01:27:22.800
 The wife does not have the authority to endorse

01:27:22.800 --> 01:27:24.280
 for her family what's being said.

01:27:24.280 --> 01:27:26.940
 Children, you don't have the authority to endorse

01:27:26.940 --> 01:27:28.750
 what's being said, the man does.

01:27:28.750 --> 01:27:31.560
 Let your women keep silence in the churches.

01:27:31.560 --> 01:27:34.050
 This would go really over well in the old IFB.

01:27:34.050 --> 01:27:35.510
 First Timothy chapter two, verse 11.

01:27:35.510 --> 01:27:39.090
 Let the women learn in silence with all subjection,

01:27:39.090 --> 01:27:41.950
 but I suffer not a woman to teach,

01:27:41.950 --> 01:27:44.270
 nor to usurp authority over the man,

01:27:44.270 --> 01:27:46.480
 but to be in silence.

01:27:46.480 --> 01:27:48.500
 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

01:27:48.500 --> 01:27:49.960
 And Adam was not deceived,

01:27:49.960 --> 01:27:52.640
 but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

01:27:52.640 --> 01:27:56.100
 Notwithstanding, she shall be saved and childbearing

01:27:56.100 --> 01:27:58.010
 if they continue in faith and charity

01:27:58.010 --> 01:27:59.160
 and holiness with sobriety.

01:27:59.160 --> 01:28:02.270
 So notice the Bible says, I suffer not a woman to teach.

01:28:02.270 --> 01:28:04.570
 And most Baptists, I don't know about most anymore,

01:28:04.570 --> 01:28:06.160
 but a lot of Baptists will say, yeah, of course,

01:28:06.160 --> 01:28:08.330
 women pastors, that's not biblical.

01:28:08.330 --> 01:28:09.860
 But yet they'll have tons of women

01:28:09.860 --> 01:28:12.070
 leading Sunday school classes.

01:28:12.070 --> 01:28:13.520
 They'll have tons of women, you know,

01:28:13.520 --> 01:28:15.810
 leading some sort of fellowship class

01:28:15.810 --> 01:28:17.590
 where they're getting up, they're studying the Bible.

01:28:17.590 --> 01:28:18.660
 Look, I think that's wrong.

01:28:18.660 --> 01:28:20.900
 That will never be allowed at Anchor Baptist Church.

01:28:20.900 --> 01:28:24.270
 There will never be a position of teaching the Bible,

01:28:24.270 --> 01:28:27.760
 of teaching doctrine that's ever led by a woman ever,

01:28:27.760 --> 01:28:30.910
 because the Bible says, I suffer not a woman to teach.

01:28:30.910 --> 01:28:32.650
 Now go to Titus chapter number two,

01:28:32.650 --> 01:28:36.660
 'cause the way that people will kind of respond to this

01:28:36.660 --> 01:28:39.600
 is they'll go to Titus chapter number two,

01:28:39.600 --> 01:28:42.270
 and I believe they take this out of context.

01:28:42.270 --> 01:28:44.450
 Notice what it says in Titus chapter two verse three,

01:28:44.450 --> 01:28:46.350
 it says, the age of women likewise,

01:28:46.350 --> 01:28:48.850
 that they be in behavior as become with holiness,

01:28:48.850 --> 01:28:52.380
 not false accusers, not given to much wine,

01:28:52.380 --> 01:28:55.630
 teachers of good things,

01:28:55.630 --> 01:28:59.120
 that they may teach the young women to be sober,

01:28:59.120 --> 01:29:01.890
 to love their husbands, to love their children,

01:29:01.890 --> 01:29:04.850
 to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home,

01:29:04.850 --> 01:29:06.680
 good, obedient to their own husbands,

01:29:06.680 --> 01:29:10.850
 that the word of God be not blasphemed.

01:29:10.850 --> 01:29:12.080
 And so people that will say,

01:29:12.080 --> 01:29:15.170
 see, look, the elder women are supposed to teach

01:29:15.170 --> 01:29:16.350
 the younger women.

01:29:16.350 --> 01:29:18.330
 And I say, yeah, they are supposed to teach those things,

01:29:18.330 --> 01:29:20.090
 but the question is how?

01:29:20.090 --> 01:29:22.550
 You really think that we need to have a class

01:29:22.550 --> 01:29:24.020
 where an older lady gets up

01:29:24.020 --> 01:29:25.650
 and she has on some sort of whiteboard?

01:29:25.650 --> 01:29:27.380
 It's like, all right, class,

01:29:27.380 --> 01:29:29.360
 here's what we're gonna go over today.

01:29:29.360 --> 01:29:32.790
 Be sober, you got that?

01:29:32.790 --> 01:29:35.210
 Love your husbands, love your children,

01:29:35.210 --> 01:29:36.920
 be discreet, chaste, keepers at home,

01:29:36.920 --> 01:29:38.340
 good, obedient to their own husbands.

01:29:38.340 --> 01:29:40.160
 All right, we'll see you for next week.

01:29:40.160 --> 01:29:41.830
 We're gonna go over those same things again.

01:29:41.830 --> 01:29:43.000
 No, no, no, what is this saying?

01:29:43.000 --> 01:29:44.610
 It's that by your lifestyle,

01:29:44.610 --> 01:29:46.930
 you're showing a good example, right?

01:29:46.930 --> 01:29:49.570
 By your lifestyle, the aged women,

01:29:49.570 --> 01:29:51.420
 they're showing, hey, they love their husbands,

01:29:51.420 --> 01:29:54.970
 they're obedient, they're chaste, they're meek, right?

01:29:54.970 --> 01:29:58.570
 They're quiet, they love their children, right?

01:29:58.570 --> 01:30:01.420
 They're keepers at home, they're good, they're obedient.

01:30:01.420 --> 01:30:04.120
 How do you as an elder woman teach other women?

01:30:04.120 --> 01:30:06.020
 By being this type of woman.

01:30:06.020 --> 01:30:07.660
 And you know what, praise God for that.

01:30:07.660 --> 01:30:10.020
 That's a very valuable thing to have in a church.

01:30:10.020 --> 01:30:12.560
 That's a very honorable and praiseworthy thing,

01:30:12.560 --> 01:30:15.170
 to have a woman living in her role,

01:30:15.170 --> 01:30:17.150
 being godly, being a great example,

01:30:17.150 --> 01:30:18.830
 that is very praiseworthy.

01:30:18.830 --> 01:30:20.920
 You know what, we should honor godly women.

01:30:20.920 --> 01:30:22.350
 We're for godly women.

01:30:22.350 --> 01:30:24.990
 You know, a virtuous woman, her price is far above rubies,

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 the Bible says.

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 Praise God for godly women.

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 But you know what, it's disgraceful

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 when a woman gets up and says, I'm Pastor Susie.

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 It's disgraceful, it's wicked, it's wrong.

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 One of the moments in my life

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 that my wife and I had the biggest cringe ever,

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 was we were at a restaurant, and we were listening.

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 You know, the people behind us,

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 you can sometimes hear what they're saying,

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 and it was a female pastor counseling a man.

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 It was a female pastor counseling a full-grown man.

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 And I couldn't hear all that they were talking about,

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 but I remember my wife and I heard this,

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 you believe that I'm the woman of God, don't you?

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 Well then, you need to take my advice.

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 And I just like, I got my fork, and I'm just like,

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 should I just slam my head into this,

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 and just, should I end it all right now?

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 It was like, so cringey and terrible, you remember that?

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 It was a terrible situation.

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 But it's like, that is not giving honor to Christ.

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 That is not giving honor to God.

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 That is out of bounds, that is wicked.

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 And you know what the old IFB needs

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 to stop letting women get up and preach,

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 stop letting women get up and lead their Sunday school,

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 stop letting women scream amen in the congregation.

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 It is not biblical.

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 And I don't care how feminist this world gets.

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 The new IFB, hey, we're gonna hold fast

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 to that which is good.

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 We are gonna make sure we don't let these things slip.

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 Go back to Hebrews 2, Hebrews chapter number two.

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 Look, someone could hear a sermon like this

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 and be like, oh, Pastor Oz hates the old IFB,

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 he thinks the new IFB's so better.

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 Look, you guys know me.

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 I speak positively of the old IFB.

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 I'm for these guys.

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 I reach out to these guys.

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 I would love to do things with them,

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 work with them, go soul winning with them.

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 But I'm just saying, you know,

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 these things that we talked about tonight,

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 I find them to be very important.

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 I find it to be right from the word of God.

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 It's not my opinion that I'm giving tonight.

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 It's just straight from the Bible.

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 Look what Hebrews 2 verse one says.

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 Therefore, we ought to give the more earnest heed

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 to the things we have heard,

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 lest at any time we should let them slip.

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 Look, thank God for the old IFB,

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 'cause if it wasn't for the old IFB,

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 the new IFB wouldn't even be here.

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 What is the new IFB?

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 It's hey, we're looking back at the good things

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 of the old IFB, and we're trying to hold fast

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 to those things and not let them slip.

01:32:33.220 --> 01:32:35.010
 We're trying to examine our ways,

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 we're trying to open up the word of God and say okay,

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 where have some people let some things slip along the way?

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 Let's hold fast that which is good

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 so that they don't slip in the future.

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 And look, don't be mistaken.

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 Don't think that just because the new IFB is great now,

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 don't think that just because our church is doing good now

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 that that means that we'll always be that way.

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 We have to remain vigilant.

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 We cannot go on autopilot.

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 You cannot coast in your Christian life.

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 You always have to be adding life into that thing

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 or it will die.

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 You gotta, guess what, you read the Bible before,

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 you gotta read the Bible again tomorrow.

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 Hey, you've prayed before, you gotta pray again tomorrow.

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 You went to church before,

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 you gotta come again on Wednesday.

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 And you know what, the new IFB,

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 we've received these good things.

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 We need to hold on to these good things

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 and not let them slip.

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 Let's pray, Lord, thank you so much for your word.

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 Thank you for the new IFB movement, Lord.

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 We love this movement because of the souls

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 that are being saved, the doctrine that's being preached.

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 Help it to always be about souls, doctrine,

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 the word of God, the service of God.

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 Help us never to slip into feminism

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 or caring too much about money

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 or the things of this world or the palaces

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 or anything like that, God.

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 I pray that the good people in the old IFB,

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 that they would just repent of the areas where they're wrong.

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 I pray that there would be brotherly love between us

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 so we would be able to work together

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 for the cause of the gospel.

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 In Jesus' name we pray, amen.

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 - The final song, turn in your red hymnal

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 to song number 97, "I Need Thee Every Hour."

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 Song number 97.

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 Sing this one already.

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 But did I sing it in the beginning?

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 Did we sing "Bring Them In" yet?

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 OK.

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 Sorry.

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 Song 389, "Bring Them In."

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 [MUSIC - "BRIING THEM IN"]

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 (SINGING) In the shepherds' boar's riding out,

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 and the herds are cawing the steed.

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 Who's got a strength, shepherds, for shepherds?