All right, usually I have to put this thing way down. Go to Hebrews chapter 5. Hebrews chapter 5.
Hebrews chapter 5 and starting there in verse 12 the Bible reads, "For when the time ye ought to
be teachers ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of
God and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat for everyone that useth milk is
unskillful in the word of righteousness for he is a babe but strong meat belongeth to them that are
of full age even to those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good
and evil let's pray dear god thank you for this day and thank you for the opportunity to preach
i pray that you just held my words to be edifying to your people help us learn something tonight in
jesus name i pray amen all right the title of my sermon tonight is the dangers of youtube christianity
the dangers of youtube christianity and right off the bat i want to come out and make it clear that
i'm for youtube i like youtube i think it's a great tool i've used it every day in my life for a long
time and you know especially when you're in a lame church where you're not being fed and where you're
not hearing good preaching it's really nice and it's a blessing to be able to get on youtube and
hear hard preaching where you're going to hear the full council of god preached in an addition to
what you hear at church and also just for us even if you do go to a good church it's just great to
get more preaching you know iron sharpen of iron it's a great thing just to get more to edify
yourselves and you know galatians 418 says but it's a good thing to be zealously affected always in a
good thing and not only when i'm present with you and look listening to hard preaching is a good thing
listening to soul-winning motivational video videos and seminars things like that it's a good thing
however youtube and things like it can present a danger in a christian's life and there's lots of
things that youtube can present lots of dangers that youtube can give to a christian's life i'm
not going to have time to talk about all of them but i want to focus on three things tonight
so look there again at hebrews chapter 5 the first danger i want to talk about
is youtube replacing your bible reading look there again at hebrews chapter 5 verse 12
for when the time ye ought to be teachers ye have one need that one teach you again which be the
first principles of the oracles of god and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong
meat and i every time i read this verse i can't help but think of people hell i can't help but
think of christians who watch a lot of youtube reading but skip their bible reading they they
watch a lot of youtube reading uh watch a lot of youtube videos i'm talking about a big danger for
people that are newly saved people have been saved for less than a year less than two years and they
think that they know a lot of bible because they've heard lots of sermons and if you listen to the
preaching that that goes on in this church or the churches that we're friends with you're going to
learn a lot about the bible really really fast you're going to learn a lot but you're not going to
you're not going to know as much as you should you know the bible says here that for when the time
you ought to be teachers you have need that one teach you again some of these people they've been
saved for so long they should be teaching others by now but they still need to be taught they still
need the milk of god's word because they skip their bible reading they skip their bible reading
it's like a literal baby trying to eat a steak that's what some christians are doing right now
when they're watching their their youtube videos and they're not reading the bible it's like a
literal baby that's trying to grow by eating a big juicy steak it does not work you know these these
baby christians they just need milk just like a baby needs milk to grow christians need the word of
god to grow not just preaching of the word of god but reading the word of god matthew four verse
four says but he answered and said it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every
video that proceedeth out of the youtube account of pastor anderson that's what that's how a lot
of christians live their life they're living their christian life vicariously through pastor anderson's
preaching and through the preaching of the the pastors in our movement and it's not letting them
grow you know a christian does not thrive a christian does not grow off of every youtube video he
grows he thrives by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of god and you're not going to get
that just by listening to preaching you know a lot of christians they're so prideful they think
that they know so much bible but you know what honestly anyone who's not read their bible through
cover to cover one time is still a babe in christ and there's nothing wrong with being a babe in
christ you know as long as you don't stay a babe in christ and if you haven't gotten that yet
that's what you need to work on that's your next number one priority if you're listening to youtube
preaching throughout the day but you don't read your bible at all that day you're in sin there's
something wrong there turn to axe chapter 17 axe chapter 17 what's dangerous about this though
what's what can be the danger though if a christian just listens to bible preaching but they don't
they don't read their bible what i say axe 17 well number one they won't be able to rightly judge
the preaching that they're hearing anyways axe chapter 17 verse 11 these were more noble than
those in thessalonica and that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the
scriptures daily whether those things were so and you know hey it's great that you have a zeal for
hard preaching it's great that you have a zeal for good preaching but you know what you're not even
going to really know for sure what they're saying is true unless you're reading your bible and you
know most likely you are listening to what's true what most likely what the pastor is telling you
is true but you know what he could be taking things out of context he could just be giving you little
spoonfuls of the bible and you won't be able to rightly judge the preaching of god's word unless
you have the whole picture you have the big picture by actually reading your bible you know what else
could be a danger well you're less likely to escape temptation if you're not reading your bible
first corinthians chapter 10 verse 13 says there is no temptation taking you but such as is common
to man but god is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able but
will with the temptation also make a way to escape that you may be able to bear and a lot of times
the the best way to escape temptation is by the word of god i know jesus christ do you think about
when he was tempted in the desert by the devil what was he doing he was quoting scripture and he
was doing that as an example to us jesus christ himself he was laying that example that the best
defense against the the temptations of the devil is the word of god and you know what when you're
being tempted by sin or you're you're enduring some sort of temptation you might be able to
remember a sermon that pastor Jimenez or pastor Anderson brother Aaron preached about it but you
know what it's not going to be as effective weapon of defense or effective effective defense weapon
than the word of god the word of god is a lot more powerful in in quenching the fiery darts of the
wicked you know sermons can help too but you have to have the word of god written on your heart the
bible says thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light to my path so the word of god can illuminate
your steps you can see where you're going by looking at the word of god not not just by preaching okay
so the first danger is youtube replacing bible reading the second one i want to talk about is
youtube replacing church a lot of people they watch youtube sermons and then they let that replace
their church they're assembling with other believers okay but you know they do it because
they think that there's no good church in their area or whatever the reason whatever the reason
it's wrong and it's sin you know if i can go to sam gibbs church because god commanded me
to be assembled with god's believers then you can go to some some church too okay you're not you're
not better than you're not so good that you are escaped now from god's commandment to go to church
all right hebrews 10 verse 25 not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of
some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching look now is not
the time to be leaving church now is not the time to just be watching your youtube sermons but we
got to remember this even in this church where if life ever takes us away from verity baptist church
chances are whatever church you're going to next is not going to be as good but you know what you
need to not just stay home and tune into the live stream of the preaching because god commands you
to be in church okay why can this be dangerous for people well number one because disobeying god is
dangerous you should be terrified to disobey god if you're not in god if you're not in church
you're disobeying god and you should be terrified of the wrath of god that could come upon your life
as a christian but not only that you're not in church you have no fellowship turn to first
thesilonians chapter five first thesilonians chapter five first thesilonians chapter five
look down there at verse 11 wherefore comfort yourselves together and edify one another
another even as also ye do and we beseech you brethren to know them which labor among you
and are over you in the lord and admonish you so look we're supposed to be comforting each other
and edifying each other and knowing those that labor among us and that labor over us but you're
not able to do that when you're watching just youtube videos at home and obviously in a church
like this we know the importance of fellowship because this is a fellowshiping church everybody's
here close everybody's here really welcoming you know i don't ever want to forsake that i don't
want to ever get that out of my life for fear of god and just because i love god's people you know
and you know when when you're not in church and you'll have the fellowship you don't have
anyone to help you if you backslide go ahead and turn to ecclesiastes chapter 4 ecclesiastes chapter
4 i'll start reading in verse 9 it says two are better than one because they have a good reward
for their labor for if they fall the one will lift up his fellow but woe to him that is alone when
he falleth for he hath not another to help him up again if two lie together they then they have heat
but how can one be warm alone and if one prevail against him two shall withstand him and a threefold
cord is not quickly broken you know if the word of god wasn't enough you know for you to withstand
that temptation and you do backslide you know you have god's people here to help you out too we have
each other to provoke each other to love and to good works and that's something that you don't get
when you're just watching the videos online not only that if you're not in church you're not
soul-winning that's just the honest fact if you're not in church you're doing very very little
soul-winning or no soul-winning at all why because the bible says how shall they preach except they
be sent you know if you're not sent chances are you're going to get in the flesh and you're not
going to be preaching the gospel but you know if these things are absent from a christian's life
if church is absent if uh bible reading is absent if fellowship is absent if soul winning is absent
look you're still a babe in christ and you need to get these things right and these are big dangers
that youtube can present to a christian's life okay so we saw so far the danger of youtube um
replacing bible reading or replacing church but now i want to talk about the danger of youtube
making you prideful so the first two points of the sermon was talking mostly about youtube consumers
but now i want to talk a little bit about the big danger for those who produce youtube videos
there's lots and lots of dangers for what comes into your eyes and what comes into your heart
but you know what there's also just as big if not bigger dangers for those who are making youtube
videos and i just want to make it clear i'm not preaching this to try to attack anyone or make
anyone feel bad i think that these are some serious things that can destroy a christian's walk with god
by pride and i don't want any of my brothers or sisters in christ to be destroyed by god
so i'm not preaching this in a bad spirit i can promise you that but turn to first timothy chapter
two first timothy chapter two verse nine starting in verse nine in like manner also that women
adorn themselves in modest apparel with shame facelessness and sobriety not with broidered hair
or gold or pearls or costly away array but which becomeeth women professing godliness with good
works let the women learn in silence with all subjection let's repeat that verse let the women
learn in silence with all subjection but i suffer not a woman to teach let's repeat that but i suffer
not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over a man but to be in silence but you know what's
prideful today you know what's a danger what's a temptation is women knowing that they're not
supposed to be behind the pulpit preaching women knowing that they have no authority to teach the
bible and these sorts of things so what do they do they get on youtube and they preach behind their
camera i tell you what that's a wicked heart and it's not right it's not right i believe it's a
spirit of rebellion against the word of god and i don't think any young girl any girl at all should
have a youtube video when you're teaching the bible teaching spiritual things it's wrong and
god is not pleased with it i don't care if what you're saying is right it's unseemly it's wrong
and you know i don't know why they do it i don't know if it's always in a bad spirit i don't know
if they're trying to attract men with it but you know what godly men are going to be attracted to
a meek and quiet spirit you know what a godly man is not going to be attracted to a girl who
has her face all over the world running her mouth about all the things that her opinions and her
beliefs no godly man is going to be attracted to that that's not right it hurts them it's not just
it's not just mean it actually hurts themselves go to titus chapter 2 titus chapter 2 verse 3 the
aged women likewise that they be in behavior has become with holiness not false accusers not given
them much wine teachers of good things okay so what good things should the aged women be teaching
let's see what the good thing that the age of women should be teaching that they may teach their
young women to be sober to love their husbands to love their children to be discreet chase keepers
at home good obedient to their own husband that the word of god be not blasphemed so you know what
makes sense to me it makes sense to me when a godly virtuous woman like mrs anderson you know
makes youtube videos of seminars of home making and cooking and child rearing and homeschooling
you know what that makes sense to me because she's a woman that's that's a virtuous woman and who's
been saved for a long time and she has a lot of wisdom that we can learn from and you know what
what is she doing she's teaching the younger women to do all those things in verse four and five but
you know what makes no sense to me young teenage girls unmarried girls teaching those same things
that's not biblical that's sin and that's not right at all that's not right at all where am i
at here but let's do you think i'm just trying to pick on women you know what else i think is pride
i think it's let's see hold on real fast hold on let me make sure i don't get out of oh yeah i just
want to before i move on here i want to talk about one thing there how it says discreet okay
discreet that the age of women should teach younger women to be discreet how about the
discretion to know what is appropriate to talk about what's not to talk about how about to know
when it's appropriate to be what's appropriate to be teaching what's not appropriate to be teaching
you know how about that it's inappropriate for a young single girl to be teaching the bible
to the whole world it's i don't think it's appropriate at all but i'm not just you know
talking about the women too because i think there's also a huge danger for young men
you know the pride of when a young man says he wants to be a pastor and he videotapes and posts
on youtube every aspect of his christian life hey here's me praying here's me writing a sermon
here's me memorizing scripture here's me reading my bible here's me preaching you know i think that
that can be a temptation of pride as well and like i don't think that every single video is made in
that spirit but you at least need to hear it so that you don't get that spirit in the future turn
to philippians chapter two a few pages to your left philippians chapter two philippians chapter
two verse five let this mind be in you which was also in christ jesus who being in the form of god
thought it not robbery to be equal with god but made himself of no reputation and took upon him
the form of a servant it was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man he
humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross wherefore because of that
god also hath highly exalted him look jesus is the greatest lever leader that's ever lived and ever
will and you know he did he made himself of no reputation he was served he was a servant he
humbled himself and maybe i'm wrong but sometimes it seems to me like some of these guys are going
around trying to make a reputation for themselves on the internet and it's like wait a second jesus
made himself of no reputation i don't want a reputation you know i want to be a humble
servant of christ but these men want to be and you know it's great to look up to men like pastor
anderson pastor men and say hey i want to be like that that's great but you know what pastor
anderson and pastor jimenez were probably doing to prepare to become a pastor they were probably
working full-time they were probably working overtime they were probably starting a family
they were probably soul winning multiple times a week reading their bible being a blessing to
their church doing whatever they can for their pastor memorizing scripture praying writing sermons
without telling anyone about it they were doing it because they wanted to be humble servants of
Jesus Christ and that's why God highly exalted them because they humbled themselves and you
know what what do you want your reward to be do you want your reward to be a pastor
or do you want to be seen of men if you're seen of men you have your reward you're the
rock star that everybody loves but if you want to be a pastor then back away from that
stuff it's dangerous and it you're not really showing that that's what you really want to
be when you're doing those kind of things you know it's a it's a huge temptation and
it's a it's a temptation of pride for men and every man here knows that that's a big
temptation for men so you especially if you want to be a leader someday where that's
going to be an even bigger temptation for you then how are you handling that now when
you're not even close to being a pastor and you know you want to see how many likes how
many views you can get on YouTube you better be careful of that and make sure that that
doesn't creep into your heart because why because I want my brothers to succeed anyone
who wants to be a pastor I want them to succeed and thrive because I want the work of God
to continue you know I want it to thrive so I want them to to take heed to this so that
God doesn't destroy their goals because of pride which will destroy anyone so last person
will close first Corinthians 10 verse 12 well wherefore let him that think if he stand if
take heed lest he fall look YouTube is a great tool I use it every day but let's make sure
that we use it for the glory of God you know let's make sure that we're not getting prideful
and that we take heed to these dangers that YouTube can present so let's pray dear God
thank you for this day and I thank you for the tools that you do give us I thank you
that we're able to listen to great preaching on YouTube in addition to what we get here
in church I just pray that you would help guard our hearts from these dangers and in
Jesus name I pray amen.