They're in Deuteronomy 8 and Deuteronomy 8 and let me just get this all plugged in right out.
You're there in Deuteronomy 8 and the title of the sermon this afternoon is
how to read how to read and study your Bible how to read and study your Bible.
Let me just press record here
The title of the sermon this evening is how to read instead of your Bible. So back in 2023. I brought a
Very similar message and I don't usually repeat messages. Although, I mean, I guess in a way we do, right?
There's not a lot of things. There's no new thing under the Sun at some point
We're gonna get repetitive as preachers
But one of the things I do want to always do is that if it doesn't get recorded, I mean,
obviously it was for the benefit of the congregation at the time.
But at the time we recorded it, but we didn't get any sound.
And so I knew that at some point I wanted to bring that message back.
And today just seemed appropriate due to the circumstances that I've been dealing with.
And of course, it's never the same message.
So even if you were to remember that message, you know, it's going to change so much.
Even my ideas of how to read and study your Bible have not, not the core has changed.
Just they've strengthened, if anything, right?
But we're there in Deuteronomy 8.
And the reason I'm bringing this today also is, you know, I think one of the things recently,
There's been a couple of preachers that used to be friends of ours in what we call the new FB and they've had some weird
doctrines that they've been teaching one guy just you know, he speculates a lot about
Where the temple is and where Jesus Christ dwelled
You know for a long time and then as of recent there's another pastor who just preached on the doctrine of santification and
He got it all wrong, like literally other than the fact that you're sanctified by grace through faith.
He forgot all the other parts of sanctification, which is interesting because here in Deuteronomy at the end it says,
Hey, if you don't do this, like I'm going to punish you just like I punish those people.
And I think the reason is because people start getting their own ideas and then looking to the Bible to justify what their ideas are
clear up your ideas of what you think God is or what the Bible doctrines are or what not. There is a huge difference, right?
We can have ideas of morality. The world is moral to an extent.
Whether they're right or wrong on morality, every nation, every person has a moral compass. That doesn't mean that it's pointing north.
Right that doesn't mean that that magnetic field is working the only way to get that clarified is through the word of God and
There is a method to how you read and you study your Bible and Deuteronomy 8
You're there and it says all the commandments which I commanded D this day show you observe to do
That you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which the Lord swear unto your fathers
He didn't say some of the commandments
Whatever you pick and choose he said all the commandments that I command thee this day show you observe
For what that you may live
He says and thou shall remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these 40 years in the wilderness
To humble thee and to prove thee to know that what was in thy heart
Whether that would is keep his commandments or go and for us today. We're in the spiritual wilderness
I mean we need to apply this just spiritually, right?
That's what the Old Testament was foreshadowing was the New Testament Church
And then where they're in verse 3 and it says any humble thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with manna
Which, of course, we know that manna was, what, a representation of, you know, man does not live by bread alone.
We see this here, it says, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know that thou might make thee known,
that man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
Which is kind of interesting, right? Because we need, what, food to live.
You know one of the reasons I'm feeling so weak lately is because I lost a lot of weight because I didn't eat very much over the last week
And so my body's still replenishing a lot of that new those nutrients and minerals from from eating
But also you can't overeat because when you go a long time without eating your stomach shrinks
So if I over were to overeat then I'd get sick again
But God says hey, it doesn't matter because the only thing that matters is every word that proceeded out of the mouth of the Lord
And at the end of the day, I mean, that's really the truth, right?
Because if I were to die, you know where I'm going to end up, heaven, where I'm only going
to listen to the word of the Lord.
And in verse 11, it says, Beware that I'll forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping
his commandments and his judgments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
How do we forget the Lord?
Well, we don't keep his commandments and his judgments and his statutes and the only way
We don't do that is by not reading and studying the Word of God
Now I will say this is a preface if you if you only have the chance to do one read your Bible
The Bible talks more about reading than studying because we retain more and we learn more by reading
Right, that's why you want to have a regular reading habit
Studying is good, but also studying can be bad because, you know, especially if you
have like an obsessive personality, you can go down rabbit trails, you can just get kind
of lost in the minutiae of things, but when you're reading, your subconscious is constantly
absorbing that information.
Even when you don't think you're picking it up, you're picking something up.
It might not ring true then, but at some point when you're studying, you're like, oh.
That makes sense or oh that now I get it right so you should constantly be reading your Bible do whatever it takes
You know I have a reading app
Actually, I have a couple of things. I have several
Bibles and you guys can come up up to me afterwards. I have several Bibles on my phone. I keep Bibles all around the house
I have this thing called a
Forget what this apps called. It's called through the Bible
And this is like the one where I'm going through the Bible in a percentage.
But outside of that, I also just have Bibles around the house and I'm also reading other parts of scripture.
I probably should track it all. I mean, I do as much tracking as I can, but it's kind of hard.
But my goal is to get through the Bible several times a year and I have another app.
that I use for Bible memorization.
It's called Bible memory.
And so I have three or four Bible apps
and I use them for different instances.
I keep one for like doing research
and then one for reading through the Bible.
And then one, but on top of that,
like I also then create other little tracking things
like if I'm reading like the month of May's coming.
So my goal is to read through the book of,
I mean, through the New Testament in the month of May,
things of that nature.
So reading is way more important than studying.
Although let me not neglect and study and I'm just saying if you only have the chance to do one do the reading first
But you should always make time for both
But as a way of introduction just real quick
You don't have to turn there turn to Psalm 115 if you would but in Matthew 4 we see this again in verse 4
He says but he answered and said it is written
Man shall not live by bread alone
But by every word that preceded out of the mouth of God
Jesus quotes the Old Testament to the devil and reminds them
that it's not just bread alone. In Luke 4 he he he does the same thing in verse 4 which is
interesting Matthew 4 4 and Luke 4 4 right it says Jesus answered him saying it is written
that man shall not live by bread alone but every word of God and notice it's not some words it's
And so the first point I have for you is that you need to kill your opinions and you need to just trust God's Word.
Another way to put it is you need to remove all preconceived notions that you have about the Bible and simply rely on biblical merits.
You know, one of the dangers that we do and we have is that we start to study the Bible based on what we've heard or what we believe or what we think.
That gets you into a lot of trouble. Let me give you a few examples of that, you know
And I'm gonna touch on here later, but I'm not gonna spend too much time on this right now
You're there in Psalm 115
And I'll read for that for you real quick and then you can turn to Isaiah 46
But in Psalm 115 verse 1 the Bible says not unto us, oh Lord
Not unto us, but unto thy name give glory for thy mercy and for thy truth's sake
Wherefore should the heathen say where is now their God, but our God is in the heavens
he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased."
And you say, what does that have to do
with the first one to kill your opponent?
Because our opinions have nothing to do
with whatever God's doing.
And the problem is when we put in our opinions,
we want to box God into an idea that we have about him
when God is way outside of anything that we believe.
You know, you go to an old IFB church
and they're always preaching,
oh, well, if you live a certain way,
if you do A, you're gonna get B.
That's not the Bible. I guess they forgot to read the book of Job.
I mean literally Job is a man who was shoot evil who was upright and the best man on the land and
The devil took out his entire family and his land and his servants and all his money
And his wife turned around and said, you know curse God and die. He did everything right and everything went wrong
So get rid of those preconceived notions that just because you do everything right everything is gonna work out, right?
You know what, sometimes you do everything right, and God just says, no, I need to test
you for some other reason.
That's just the way that's just the way it is. So you need to get rid of your opinion your preconceived notions
You know other things that you hear, you know, you have groups that teach
Dispensationalism you have groups that believe that the Nephilim existed you have groups that you know
Well now we've even heard groups that believe that Jesus was on earth for 2700 years before Moses
I mean just weird stuff. You know why because they're not actually reading their Bibles. They're forming their opinions
and nitpicking certain scripture in the Bible to accommodate their thought process instead
of the other way around, right? Isaiah 46, verse 9, the Bible says,
Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none else.
I am God, and there is none like me. Declaring the end from the beginning and from the ancient times,
the things that are yet not done are not yet done, saying my counsel shall stand, and I will do my
Calling a ravenous bird from the east the man that executed my counsel from a far country. Yeah, I have spoken it
I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it. I will also do it
You got to remember your opinion doesn't matter to God. I mean he used the dumbass to speak to Balaam, right?
He used, you know, different instances in the Bible, you know, a snake to or a serpent to deceive Eve.
God does whatever he wants.
Now, it's a good thing that God's not like the humans, right?
Where he's pretentious or he's a petulant child or anything like what people would insult God.
But God is wise above anything.
So when he does whatever he wants, he does it in all wisdom and truth.
Whereas we don't always execute in those terms right in Philippians 4 verse 11
The Bible says not that I speak in respect of want for I have learned in what's overstate. I am
There with to be content. I know both how to be a base and how to abound
Everywhere and in all things I am
Instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need
I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me
But the thing is we need to read things in context
People love to quote that verse. Philippians 4-13, they just skip verse 11, verse 12, verse 14, verse 15.
They're just like, I can do all things through Christ who strengthened me, but they're not humble about it.
I mean, Paul said, I learned to be abased, so God doesn't humble me and exalted where I need to be exalted.
We need to be conscious of the fact that God is the only truth that matters.
You know, when we're learning to read and study our Bible, it's based on God's word, not our opinion.
Now, will there always be some bias? Probably. I mean, we're human. We always have some prejudice.
But you need to remove the filters and the goggles as much as possible. Don't be like, like moms, right?
What do they call them? Mom goggles, right? Moms will look at all their kids and their kids can never do wrong.
Hey, mom so-and-so your kid did this. Oh, my kid would never do that. No, he did
Right, I mean how many moms have done that probably every mom in here. You know what don't even raise your hand, right?
My mom thinks I can't do any wrong. I'm like mom. I can do wrong, right?
And then when I got married I became the bad guy and my wife could do no wrong where my wife can do wrong, right?
We're all let's not look at the Bible through our goggles
Let's look at the Bible through the Bible's goggles through the Bible's lens
That leads me to point number two, which God said it
That settles it and then what pastor cobs always taught he said he had a pastor who said or people would say
God said it therefore, you know, I believe it, you know, but really it doesn't matter what we believe or not believe
God said it that settles it literally that's it
It doesn't matter what you think it doesn't matter, you know
if you want to preach an entire sermon on pietism and sanctification and
I don't remember all the other fancy words. You're wrong if you're wrong period and the story right like don't
Dow like simply accepted as truth.
God's word.
I mean, this morning we talked about not doubting in prayer.
Also don't doubt God's word.
Right? God's word is truth. It's inerrant. It's infallible. It was written by God and penned by man
But furthermore, she could even make the case actually
I like this case better that it was written by God and written by man and man's voice
But under the inspiration and guidance of God
I mean think about what a literal literary like
Miracle we have here where God was able to take for example Moses's character and as the first five books of the Bible
Written they're written in Moses's style
But it's God's word
or the books that Paul wrote in the New Testament,
people will, you know, you can read scholars
and they'll be like, oh, this has the same writing style
or the same voice or the same effort
as Paul wrote in the other epistles,
except that at the end of the day,
whose word is it?
It's God's word, right?
And I know that this is kind of a, you know,
for the world they would call this a cop-out,
but it's not.
It's the only book in the entire world
that you can take at face value.
It's the only book that the witness is true
100% of the time.
Now, is everything in the Bible truth?
No, I mean, God obviously tells us when someone's lying,
when someone's doing something bad,
but it's a true recount of those bad people, right?
We need to trust the word of God 100%.
If God said it, it settles it, period.
You know, people argue, oh, you know,
when was the earth created?
Why?
God said, in the beginning,
God created the heaven and the earth.
6,000 years, 6,300 years, give or take if you do all the math.
That's it, period.
Well, what about carbon dating and what?
I mean, honestly, it doesn't really matter.
You know, there's two ways that I could have preached this sermon.
One is the way I'm doing it right now.
And the other one is I could draw from the world to say, hey, see, the world basically
lines up with what the Bible says.
It's actually true because of this, this, that.
But I don't like doing that because it doesn't matter if the world lined up or not.
God's word is God's word.
Look, we need to be so bold and stand so strong that we shouldn't be just like...
Teterine or nervous when someone calls it calls it out and says well, what proof do you have? I don't need any proof
I have the King James Bible. It's truth
Well, how do you know because I know how do you know? It's not the truth. They don't
That's the problem. They don't know it's not the truth
Psalm 190 I mean Psalm 19 turnover to Cleesey asked these 12 but in Psalm 19 in Psalm 19 the Bible says
Moreover by them is thy servant warned and in keeping of them. There's great reward
Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse thou me from secret faults
Keep keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins
Let them now have dominion over me
Then shall the I be upright and I shall be innocent from the great
Transgression let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
Well, how do we become acceptable to the Lord?
Well, we accept the fact that reading, learning and applying God's Word in our life is truth.
Right? I mean, honestly, if someone said,
I'm never going to read another book in my life except the Bible,
There might be some kind of, you know, some good, I guess, it might be some, it would be a little commendable
the fact that they would stick to it. Now most people probably wouldn't stick to it,
but if you only read the Bible the rest of your life, you could be a moral correct person.
Now, the challenge is that we live in the world, so it's probably good to get educated as it is, right?
I don't discourage education. You just have to be careful when you're reading anything outside of the Bible.
because you have to see it then through the eyes of the fact that there's humans writing that
and humans what make what mistakes all the time and so we always have to apply it on the lens of
of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Bible because he is that that word is truth he is true and
Ecclesiastes 12 verse 9 the Bible says and moreover because the preacher was wise he still
taught the people knowledge yet he gave good heed and sought out and said in order many proverbs
the preacher sought to find out acceptable words.
Hey, I don't just preach up here what I'm thinking,
I'm seeking to look and give you what?
Acceptable words, as nails fastened by the master of assemblies.
Oh, I'm sorry.
And that which was written was upright,
even the words of truth.
The words of the wise are as goats,
as nails fastened by the master of assembly,
which are given from one shepherd.
And further, by these, my son, be admonished.
And then I love what it says here says of many books there is no end and much study is a weariness of the flesh
Look studying will be weary will wear you out right and it says let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter
Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man for God
She'll bring every work in a judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil. Look your life
should start to skew in
Proportion to the fact that you're spending more time with God, right? One of the reasons that
People don't always see eye-to-eye with the pastor or with the church or with the doctors that they're teaching
It's not that I may be teaching wrong or you and I have a disagreement
Is that you're not spending us as much time as I am reading the Word of God
Right or vice versa
Sometimes you go to a church and the preacher gets up and he's preaching some kind of weird stuff and it may be he's not
Proportionate that's why we don't send our kids to public school because think about it
You send your kids to public school and they get eight hours
Ten hours of indoctrination
world. This is the world. This is the world. This is the world. Then they come home and
they have homework and you're like, the world and the world and the world and the world
and the world. And then you don't want to spend any time reading the Bible to them.
You don't spend any time telling them to read their Bible on their own. You don't spend
any time in prayer. And then if you're lucky, if you meet a good family, they're there Wednesday
night, Sunday morning, Sunday evening, and you're like, okay, maybe four or five hours
and then they don't even read their Bible.
And then you wonder, you give them 40 hours worth of world
and 10 hours maybe worth of Bible or church time.
And then you wonder why when your kids grow up,
they don't want to go to church.
It's hard.
It's disproportionate.
It's unbalanced.
Whereas if you take time to just to break that disproportion, you say, you know what every day
I'm gonna skew the balances. We're gonna tip them in the direction of who the Lord Jesus Christ
You need to read more Bible than you want it. You're like if I but pastor I'm reading a lot of Bible
Yeah, well, it's not enough. How much Bible should I read a lot Bible says day and night so they'll meditate therein
Right? How often should I pray? Well, the Bible says pray often without seizing, right? All the time
You need to do this all the time. You say that sounds exaggerated
Not not according to the old prophets
Not according to God himself saying you need to meditate man does not live by bread alone
Proverbs 10 verse 31 you guys turn over to John John 8 but Proverbs turn 10 verse 31
The Bible says the mouth of the just bring it forth wisdom
But the forward tongue shall be cut out the lips of the righteous know what is acceptable
But the mouth of the wicked speak it forward
forwardness
Hey, the righteous know what it you know how you know what's acceptable
Because you read the Word of God
Because you understand the Word of God because you spend time in the Word of God
That's why you know the more independent you become the more radical you become you're not just taken by every wind of doctrine
That's why Donald Trump is not exciting to me because I'm not a Republican. I'm a
Baptist I'm a King James only you know and when Trump speaks because he's a current president. I'm not picking on just
All I hear is that's not acceptable. That's not acceptable. Why do I hear that? Because Bible says my sheep hear my voice
He's not the shepherd Christ is my shepherd the Republican Party thinks Trump is the shepherd because they're reading the Bible of the Republican Party
Whereas I know who my shepherd is because I read my Bible
The Bible says hey, you shouldn't be an adulterer
Trump's been adulterer all his life
That doesn't line up
So it's not acceptable
Right, the Bible says hey, don't be haughty. It says pride coming before destruction right in the fall before haughty spirit
Maybe I got those backwards, but all I hear from Trump is brag and brag and brag. I'm like, ooh
I want to stay away from that and
Another deal with him has to do with the word of God. I
Don't want to be around someone haughty. It's a miracle that the that our country hasn't fallen yet
But it's coming what you don't think God's word is true
We're gonna be arrogant for this log and we're not gonna have a fall and a destruction. Oh, it's coming
You say that sounds a little doom and gloom it's just the facts it's just the truth
I love sports and I'm not going to go too long to but I remember growing up in
the 90s and just watching all these great basketball players, these guys in
high school and they were supposed to be the next Michael Jordan. You know how
many of them became the next Michael Jordan? None of them. You know why? Because
they were haughty in their spirit, because they were prideful, right? The
Bible is just acceptable. It's true. The Bible is so clear like you can smell a
false wolf a mile away if you're just reading your Bible.
People are like, oh, you know, you shouldn't say lately
The term has been thrown around. I don't even know if this person is saved and people are like, ooh
I don't know if you should say stuff like that. Well, according to the Bible. You can't say stuff like that
Bible gives us clear indication of what wolves look like
The Bible gives us clear indication of what false prophets look like we just need to take it as truth
The challenge is we let our emotions get in the way, right? We become a little bit of a
Sympathetic towards other people. What is it a bleeding heart?
Type of mentality. You can't have a bleeding heart when you read the Bible
Go to go to John A. But the third point I have for you is the scholars are liars
And only God is true. You're saying all scholars are liars all of them
And Bible says in all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire meaning everybody's lie
That's why I love that the ending of
Revelation 21 8 because you know when I'm going through it people are like they're kind of looking at you because they're like
Especially sorcerers right like who's a sorcerer nowadays, right?
You're like in all sorcerers and they're like, but then I'm like an all-yre and usually you get like a little smile
Because we've all lied right I'm not saying
Scholars come out with the intent to lie to you, but they're human, right?
They're going to lie to you just based on the fact that maybe they're prejudiced.
Maybe, maybe they're just leaning on one doctrine versus another, right?
Think about it.
If I wrote a book 10 years ago on Melchizedek, my book would be the fact that Melchizedek
is Jesus.
I heard a sermon that might skew my view one way or the other.
And by the way, it's not 100% skewed yet, and this is another thing I wanted to point
out.
That sermon, based on this sermon, was preached by Pastor Anderson, and I think it's a really
good sermon, and he makes a really good case because it being just a regular guy.
But you know what? You need to go and search that out and you know why I'm not dogmatic
and I haven't made that decision yet? Because the one thing is listening to a sermon. Second
thing is reading about it and studying that point out and drawing my own conclusion on
the matter. I'm not going to let somebody else tell me what to think about the Bible.
Now they could influence what I think about the Bible and I have no problem with that.
But I'm not going to just be like, okay, well, so and so said it, so it must be true. No.
Right, which by the way, I encourage you to listen to it and then study the matter out
And then you can decide and if and by the way, I don't care which way you land or the other
But imagine if I would have written a book about Melchizedek ten years ago. It would say that Melchizedek is Jesus
when there's two strong viewpoints on that and
Some people would be like, oh, you know pastures is right and some people would be like, oh, no pastures is wrong
You know at the end of the day, you need to draw your own conclusion and draw your own truth
Right? You need to study and read the Bible, removing any preconceived notions that I have, or that some other pastor has, or that Joe Blow Down the Street has, or that YouTube, Mr. Bible, YouTube Superstar has.
Just read your Bible. And if you come to the conclusion that Christ is Melchizedek, then that's between you and God.
If you come to the conclusion that he's a man, that's between you and God, but that's
the way it should be.
Not, oh, well, you know, I believe this because so-and-so preached it.
That just doesn't ever make any sense to me.
You're there in John 8, you know, don't simply believe others, simply believe God.
That's it, right?
In John 8, verse 41, the Bible says, you do the deeds of your Father.
Then say that to him, we be not a fornication. We have one father, even God, Jesus said unto them,
if God were your father, ye would love me. For I proceeded forth, and came from God, neither came I of myself,
but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech, even because ye cannot hear my word?
Ye are of your father the devil and the lust of your father you will do
He was a murder a murder from the beginning and a boat not in truth because there is no truth in him
When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it
And because I tell you the truth you believe me not the problem is that's the problem
We tell the truth and most people don't want to hear it so they rather not believe it
Which of you convinces me of a sin? And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me?
He that is of God here with God's words you therefore hear them not because you're not of God
Hey, you want to know how you're right with God when you hear the preaching of God's word and you're like man
Even if that kind of stunned a little bit, that's truth
right
I mean, I've listened to sermons all my life, right?
And there's been times where, you know,
now as a married man for almost 13, 14 years,
where there's times where I'll be walking to my wife
and I'll be like, man, so-and-so preached the sermon.
I didn't really like it, but it's true.
You know, I understand now why they don't like that guy
because he's preaching truth.
That was a rough sermon to listen to because it's truth.
That was a hard saying because it's true, right?
I mean, truth is truth.
And the problem is, back in the Old Testament and New Testament, you had scholars and you
had Pharisees and you had Sadducees and you had scribes.
Today, all they did was, they just gave them different titles.
What are the titles now?
Oh, Master in Divinity and Dr. So-and-So and PhD and this and that.
And Mr. I have a YouTube channel for apologetics.
It doesn't matter.
You know, they say all kinds of, what's that guy, Jordan Peterson, who's ever heard that
guy?
Literally, that's how you know you read your Bible because you listen to that guy and you're
like, this is one of the biggest morons I've ever heard in my life.
And by the way, somebody got offended that I called him a moron.
Moron just means stupid.
Look, sometimes we say stupid things.
You might not be a moron in everything, but if you're misquoting the Bible, you're a moron.
sorry to insult you that way then you know take it up with God because you
know who thinks you're a moron also if you don't agree with God God God thinks
you're look whenever I disagree with God it's not like God's like oh poor child
he's like no you're an idiot I mean I don't know if he's necessarily saying
it like that but God doesn't mince any words Jesus was like hey you you sons of
You vipers you generation of vipers like you go out and you all you're doing is seeking people who to destroy
You're making them twice the children of hell. Those are hard words
Right, but the reason is he that God's like that is because they're not listening in his word
When we're studying and reading your Bible, how do we read and study our Bible?
We get rid of preconceived notions. We accept that it's truth
What was the third point I gave you?
Let me just, I'm trying to recap.
I should have written these down,
but I almost forgot what time church was today.
You know, and then scholars are liars, right?
Only God is true.
The Bible says in 2 Timothy 3,7,
the Bible says, ever learning and never able
to come to the knowledge of truth.
There's people that spend a lifetime in college
and they never just, they never get it.
Bible says in Acts 4, verse 12,
the Bible says, neither is there salvation by any other
for there's none other name under heaven.
Giving among men, among men, whereby we must be saved.
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned
and ignorant men, they marveled and they took knowledge of them.
They had been with Jesus. The world will always look at us a little bit dumb.
A little bit backwards, because they don't get the wisdom of God.
He uses the simple like us to confound the wise, and I'm talking about the simple in
Christ to confound the wise in the world, right?
Sometimes the Bible inverts those meanings.
Sometimes wisdom is good for us.
Sometimes he's using wisdom of the world.
Right, point number four, turn over Psalm 119, point number four, I have eight for you today.
We'll go through these quickly.
They get shorter as we progress, but in verse number, in point number four, it's quit making
God's word harder than it is.
One of the things that we have a tendency to do is we tend to overcomplicate the Bible
and we just need to keep it simple.
Simplifying the word of God. You know what the deeper it gets and the more actually you draw out the complicated things
Right, sometimes we want to get a little bit too deep
That's why you have all these stupid doctrines and these stupid remember back in the 90s. You had all the the what is it the oh
Over those rapture movies the left behind series, right?
And I remember when I was a young Christian at three o'clock in the morning when I was working, you know, 90 hours a week
I'd come home. I had a tiny apartment. I like this tiny little TV
I wasn't paying for cable because I was like done with TV and I would watch TV on occasion and
I had like my bed was on the floor
Like I just had a mattress on the floor and I remember I come home like late
I'd be working till midnight and I come home and I'd buy dinner and when I was eating dinner
I wanted to watch TV and you know at three o'clock in the morning on regular axis cable
I know you kids don't know what regular access cable is, but don't worry about it.
Maybe one day you'll learn is there's not a lot on there and you have TBS or TBN or
TMB or whatever.
And it's the Christian station and I would turn it to the Christian station and they're
playing that stupid movie like the left behind movie and you're like, oh, wow, that, that,
that looks really cool.
And then you read the Bible and you're like, none of it lines up.
Whoever saw like how cheesy those movies were like it's just horrible, right?
But why because they just make it more complicated than it should be
I mean if they draw like this whole doctrine out of like a few verses in Thessalonians
They have nothing to do like they have some to do with the rabbi
I'm not like not this whole doctor. They drew out is what I'm saying the Bible is very clear when God's coming back
And it's after the tribulation right the Bible says in Matthew 24
But anyway, let's not let's not get off on a rabbit trail, but just don't overcomplicate it
The Bible says in Psalm 119 says in verse 129 it says thy testimonies are wonderful
Therefore does my soul keep them the entrance of thy words giveth light and giveth understanding unto what the simple
I open my mouth and pant it for I long for thy commandments.
Look thou upon me and be merciful unto me as thou uses to do unto those that love thy name.
Order my steps in thy word and let not iniquity of dominion over me.
Deliver me from the oppression of man so I will keep thy precepts.
Make thy face shine upon thy servant and teach me thy statutes.
Rivers of water run down mine eyes because they keep not
by law it's you know what do you say there I give understanding unto who the simple
the reason we don't understand things sometimes is because we're too wise for God we're too
we're too knowledgeable I ask chat gpt and grok and google so I must know more than God right
It's just sometimes anyways, here's a couple of things that you need to stop.
These are just a few examples.
The two examples I'm going to use is the Nephilim, who's ever heard of the Nephilim, right?
It's this weird doctrine where people think that the sons of men, you know, were angels
and they basically knew the women or the women on earth and they created demigods.
Such a dumb doctrine.
We don't read it. We over-complicate it. It's not that difficult. In Genesis 6, if you want to turn there with me in verse 1, the Bible says,
and it came to pass,
let's read this in simple English,
comma,
when men began to multiply in the face of the earth, so when it's referring to men,
it's not saying sons of God, it's what,
unsaved people, that's all, it's just saying people, humans that live on the earth,
and the daughters were born unto them, so this is just the world having children, specifically daughters.
Verse two says that the sons of God
Well, if you read the Bible, as many as received them to them gave me power to become the sons
of God, even to them that believe on his name.
So in John 1.12, it clears up who are the sons of God, those that believe on his name.
And remember Abraham and earlier in Genesis said, and he began to call upon the name of
the Lord.
So now we know that there's sons of God, right?
Because people believed on the Lord Jesus Christ says the sons of God.
So this is saved men, not just regular men, saw the daughters of men.
They got taken by the strange woman, they were attracted to the the girl who's wearing
skimpy clothes and you know drawing their attention says that they were fair and they took them wives
of all them which they chose and the Lord said comma my spirit shall not always strive with man
for that he also is flesh yet his day shall be 120. So what does God say? He's just giving you a
For he's also flesh and what he does is he comes in who men who are unsaved and also men who are spiritual?
Because I'm eternal in the spirit, but in my flesh. Let me tell you this last week reminded me how fleshly I am
Man, my body just didn't recover like when I was 25 26 years old, right? I mean, it just it's not the same thing
I'm not like, you know, so weak that I didn't recover, but it just, it took a little bit
longer than usual.
Now, verse four says there were giants.
All it says is there were giants in the earth in those days.
And also after that, when the sons of God came into, unto the daughters of men and they
bear children of them, the same became mighty men, which were of old men of renown.
That's it.
That's all it's saying.
It's just letting you know that there were giants on the earth. You know what? There's giants on the earth today
Literally pastor Cobb was watching the NBA right now
Those guys are all giants
And if you don't believe me just go watch the game
I mean if you stand next to like a 12 basketball players, especially me
I mean, I just look like a midget like
It's just insane how big those guys are and it's not just tall. They're big
Big guys we sister Karen had a picture of when Pastor Aaron Thompson came to preach for us back in
2023 and we all took a picture with him. I mean, it's insane and
He's not even as tall as those guys like he's not actually as tall as most NBA players
Isn't that crazy? Like they're literally giants and then it says that some became mighty men
Well, we have mighty men today.
You think Elon Musk and Bill Gates, those are mighty men in the sense that they have
wealth and power and, you know, not, you know, fame.
That's all that is.
And verse five says, and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and
that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually and repented
the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart.
That's how simple it is.
If God wanted us to know that there was demigods, you don't think he would have put it in the Bible?
I mean, let's just be honest.
He literally in Ephesians says, hey, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, right?
Let's go there to Ephesians 6 really quick.
This is not part of the sermon, but just really quick.
He makes it, he lets us know what the world that we don't see has, right?
In Ephesians 6, in verse, let me see, I think it's 12 or 13, oh, I'm in chapter one, well
that's not going to help any.
It says, in verse 12 it says, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, and then he tells
us who actually, who lives in this realm that we just don't see, right?
Blood, but against powers, I mean against principalities, and against powers, against
the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
So there is a realm that exists that we don't see that gives power to men on this world,
but that's it.
You know what they're called?
Demons.
They're called fallen angels.
That's it.
Another example is a way simpler one go to John 2 if you for the sake of time but in John 2 verse 9 speaking of wine
You know why people complicate the issue of wine in the Bible because they want to be drunkards
You know, God would never just give you the book of Proverbs where it says don't look on upon, you know
The wine when it's red because it's thinking like an adder like it's gonna make you drunk
And Jeremiah says that they vomited and they got beat up and they didn't know that
He wouldn't do that and then Jesus would show up on the scene in the New Testament and be like
Oh, I'm just gonna make everybody drunk like that's so contradictory
It's kind of like oh, well, Jesus had long hair
But then he wrote an entire chapter that says mention and have long hair
Doesn't even make any sense right in John 2 verse 9 the Bible says when the ruler of the feast had tasted the water
That was made wine and we knew not when it once it was but the servants which drew the water knew the governor of feast
Called the bridegroom and said unto him every man at the beginning death set forth good wine and when men have well drunk
It says they're not drunk drunk past tense like you just you've drank for a while
It says now then that which is worse, but that was kept the good wine until now
You know what alcohol is worse tasting than than grape juice
It's an acquired taste
Like I could give grape juice to everybody here and unless you didn't like grapes everybody like oh that tastes great
I could give you fermented grape juice and I 50% of the audience might be like who this is disgusting
I mean when was the last time you saw somebody walking around and be like hey, what are you drinking vinegar?
Absolutely not, because vinegar is disgusting, right?
That's literally what I mean.
What does wine turn into, like fermented wine?
If you leave it out a long time,
what does it actually turn into?
Vinegar.
It's just the fermenting process.
Like, don't be so dumb that you're like,
oh, well, God, Jesus turned water into wine.
That's why I drink.
I mean, people say stupid stuff like that all the time.
Point number five, and actually do turn a Jonah three.
You don't have to turn back to Genesis six,
but do turn a Jonah three.
Let the Bible define itself
The Bible defines itself, like don't define according to the world, just let the Bible
define the Bible.
And here's a good way that it's not in the Bible, but like I said, this is a lot of
things change.
The word conversation in the King James is not necessarily always just talking about
what your conversation, like your speech, it's talking about your, like your, the way
you are, your manner of life, who you are, your conversation, right?
How we converse.
50% of our communication is actually non-verbal, right?
I could say more with my body language
than I can with my speech.
So for example, I know that I'm committed
to the word of God because as tired as I am
and as sick as I feel, I get excited
about preaching the word of God
and you can see that in my body language, right?
I'm excited, I get a little bit, you know,
like my blood gets flowing, my adrenaline gets going,
but sometimes you get a preacher who says,
oh, I really believe in the word of God.
And they're like, bro, you barely keep me awake.
Who's ever been in a church service like that,
where you're like, when is this guy gonna be quiet?
Like, this is one of the most boring
service I've ever heard.
It happens, right?
But go over to Jonah three
and the Bible tells us they're verse nine.
I'm gonna give you two examples, right?
One is repentance, actually one example.
It's repentance.
People love to fight about this word.
Somehow in the modern vernacular,
repentance has become repent of your sins.
And that's not the truth.
Bible says there in verse 9 who can tell if God will turn and repent there's your definition
What does repent mean? It's a turn
Who did it?
God so if you need to repent of your sins to get saved
Then God's not saved
Now, let me make sure you understand. I'm not making that statement. I'm just saying that's how people are that's the statement
They're making they're like, oh, I never said that that's literally what you're saying because the person who repented most in the Bible
Who God Almighty?
It says who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not?
And what is it?
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way, and God repented of the evil
that he had said that he would do unto them, and he did it not.
So is there a repentance, like a work repentance?
Yeah, like if you repent of a sin, it takes work to not commit that sin anymore.
But that's why you have verse nine that says God will turn and repent, meaning he changed
There's also repentance like I just changed my mind. I thought this piano could save me
You say that's a dumb example. No, it isn't I mean people believe that some statue of a Virgin Mary can save you
And you say I no longer believe that this piano can save me
But that the Bible can save me God said all I have to do is believe on the word of God, right?
I've just changed my mind from that piano to the word of God. That's that's literally all repent means
Go over to Genesis 6 if you have the time. If not, that's fine in verse 7
Continuing down the Nephilim, but it also clears up. It says and the Lord said
I will destroy man who I have created from the face of the earth both man and beast and the creeping thing and the
Foul of the fowls of the air for repenteth me that I have made them
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord
What did it say God it got repented of creating man
How sad that we got to the point in history that God was like I
Changed my mind about that about creation. Thank God that he sent his only begun son
Thank God that we have the Word of God that all we have to do is read it to understand it
You know why they burn Tyndale the stake because people don't want you to have the Word of God
You should be the most privileged most knowledgeable most zealous
Group of Christians to ever have walked the face of the earth
Literally, it's at your fingertips. You could go anywhere at any time and read the Bible
anywhere at any time
You'd have the free version of chat gpt
And you could just turn it on
They'd be like hey quote for me Genesis 1 1 in the King James
Sure thing Genesis 1 1 in the King James version says in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth I
Mean literally it's at our fingerprint our fingerprints. I mean our fingertips. Sorry
You could get the free version of chat. I mean, by the way, don't trust it
Always trust the word of God because eventually what they'll do is change that but right now
It's a great time
Let it be with like I don't have time to read my Bible. You mean you're telling me you can't get on chat GPT free version
I think it gives you like 20 minutes of voice and get in the car and be like hey read for me the king James
Read me chapter one of the Genesis
You can go online on YouTube and find score B and just listen to it at nauseam
You can pick up your Bible and read it.
You can go down to the dollar store and pick up a Bible and read it.
You can, I have literally, I said four apps.
I could download apps all day long.
King James Version.
I can go on Bible Gateway.
I can go on KJVOnline.com.
I mean, it's everywhere.
So what are you doing?
And yet, with all of that, people define the Bible the way they want to, people don't trust it, people come up with weird doctrines, people just all kinds of weird stuff.
Bible, they're in verse, I mean, point number six, burn your commentaries. Just read your Bible.
I know it sounds a little bit exaggerated. Now, I don't have anything against commentaries. I'm being...
Over radical to drive the point in if you want it to I guess read that stuff
But honestly, I haven't read a commentary in years because at the end of the day
It's some guy giving you his opinion of what the Bible says
Are you saying they're dumb? No, I'm just saying they're men
Look if you ask my opinion on the Bible, we're gonna we're gonna at some point that we're gonna be at an impasse
We're gonna be at some disagreement
Because I'm only human just read God's word just read don't rely on any extra biblical material
Just simply rely on the word of God, you know the Bibles that we provide here the Bible that we read
I don't you know, I don't I don't even like this one with the the like the excerpt here
Although this is just like a little history, but even then I try to just get them with like no notes. No nothing
I mean, I don't mind the cross references
That's fine, but just fine as clean of a Bible as you can.
Just let it be the King James, just the Bible verses, you know,
the Scofield Bible, for example, horrible Bible.
That's where they got the, you know, the Rapture doctrine from,
because it's written all over the stupid thing.
You don't have to turn there for the sake of time and in Psalm 12 verse 6 the Bible says the words of the Lord are pure words as silver
Trident in the furnace of earth purified seven times thou shall keep them
Oh Lord, thou shall preserve them from this generation forever. Look the Bible's preserved period and the story
Like either God can do that or God can't and if God can't do that then as the verse says we are of most men most miserable
And I doubt that
Proverbs 15-26 the Bible says the thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord
But the words of the pure are pleasant words
How are the words of the pure pleasant words because we're quoting the Bible?
right
Psalm 119 if you want to turn over to 2nd Peter but in Psalm 119 105 the Bible says
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path
I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
I am afflicted very much.
Quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word, except I beseech thee the free will offering
of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me thy judgments.
My soul is continually in my hand, yet do I not forget thy law.
The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I aired not from what?
Thy precepts. Why does the wicked lay a snare to distract you from what?
The Word of God. Because what does he say? He says, yet I aired not from thy precepts.
Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
I have inclined my heart to perform thy statues all way, even unto the end.
Humble ourselves to perform God's statutes, not man's statutes, God's statutes, point
number seven.
And then the point number eight is really a bonus point, but so we're kind of starting
to wrap up here, but point number seven is just what?
Study or be a casualty of a spiritual warfare, right?
You still do need to study, study to be prepared.
We're known for what being obsessed about studying military history
Right, we love Patton and we love MacArthur. You know why they were so good at what they did because they read
military tactics
From the Bible from old, you know from Caesar from Napoleon from Hitler
Like they they studied that stuff out while they were fighting Hitler, but even then they were still studying their enemy
They were they were they were watching what he had done in World War one
So they wouldn't make the same mistakes in World War two
Right, how do we fight the spiritual battle? We look at what the devil attacks with in the Bible so we know how to recognize it
The only reason you don't see things coming is because you're not reading your Bible now
The other thing is you got to realize that sometimes you're just not going to see things coming because that's also in the Bible
but when you don't see
God wants you to be prepared to see most of the things that are coming and
The things that you don't see coming, you know, who's protecting you as long as you're in the Word of God God
Remember I was talking about it a couple weeks ago. I've been praying that now constantly
You know what? It's not that I want to be delivered from temptation because it says count it all joy when when you're you know
Tried with diverse temptations, but I asked the Lord. Hey, lead me not into temptation
The temptations are always there. You you actually need to have diverse temptations. The Bible says count it all joy
So you're perfected. But what I don't want to do is be led into temptation
Right you're there in 2nd Peter
You know, don't be willingly ignorant. We're gonna see
2nd Peter 3 verse 1 the Bible says the cis second epistle beloved now
I run unto you in both which I stir up your pure minds
by a way of remembrance, that ye be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets
and of the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and the Savior,
knowing this first, that there shall come in the last day scoffers,
walking after their own lusts,
and saying, where is the promise of His coming?
For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
For this, they are willingly
They willingly are ignorant of that that by the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water
Hey, look people are some Christians are just ignorant because they want to be the Bible says
Stay clear those guys
Go over to 2nd Timothy verse chapter 2 2 Timothy
chapter 2
verse 14
The Bible says of these things put them in reverse and remember in verse 14
Charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit
But the subverting of the hearing hears study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not be ashamed
Rightly dividing the word of truth. How do you get weird doctrine? How do you not rightly divide because you didn't study?
But shun profane and vain babblings for they will increase unto more ungodliness
And their word will eat as doth he canker, of whom Hymenius and Phyletus, who, concerning the truth, have aired, saying the resurrection has passed already, and overthrow the faith of some.
Nevertheless, the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are his, and let everyone that nameeth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth.
and some to honor, and some to dishonor.
If a man therefore purges himself from these, he shall have a vessel to honor, unto honor
sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
Flee also youthful lusts, but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call
on the Lord out of a pure heart, but foolish and unheard questions avoid knowing that they
do gender strife.
and the servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men,
apt to teach patient and meekness instructing those that oppose themselves of God-pair adventure
will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth and that they may recover themselves
out of the snare of the devil who are taken captive by him at his will."
And that interesting what I'm saying here is the devil basically can do whatever he wants
with you when you're not reading the Word of God.
You're his little puppet
You're just like a marionette
He's just doing whatever he wants with you because you've not read the word of God
You know how you cut those strings that are above you you read the word of God
You read a little bit of Genesis
Snip you read a little bit of Psalms and Proverbs and you snip the rest you get to the New Testament
You're like this is a better Testament devil
You get rid of it all and then the last point I have for you
Turn over to Ecclesiastes 12 again. I'll read to you two sermons. I mean two two sermons, man
two verses and we'll be done is
Stick with the Bible in your native tongue
You don't need to go back to the Hebrew. You don't need to go back to the Greek
You don't need that
Look either study Greek because you want to study it and you want to just get better
But you don't need that to reinforce your belief in the King James for the English people.
If you speak Spanish, Rita Reina Valera Gomez 2010.
Right? You don't need to go back to the Greek.
You gotta, and it's funny, they've done that study, right?
Where you have all these professors in Bible colleges that took Greek.
None of them can speak Greek.
And somehow they're like, we're going to teach you what the Bible says about Greek.
Okay. I speak Spanish a lot. I grew up in a Spanish speaking home. My mom does not even
speak English. Ask my children. My dad speaks with a thick Mexican accent. Sometimes it's
really hard to understand them. I would never venture to say that I could translate Spanish
All right, you've heard me give you that example, but I'll give it to you one more time in Spanish
We use the word out eat that a lot and it does not mean right now
Right, I would eat that literally translates to right now
Except it doesn't mean right now
Audita in Spanish can mean right now
or it could mean in a little bit right now or
Maybe later right now
or right now.
I mean, I'm not kidding.
So my wife literally, this was a real fight.
When we first got married,
she would ask me to do something.
She's like, honey, can you take off the trash?
And I'm like, I'll do it right now, meaning later.
Not right now, right now.
Cause she didn't say it right now, right now.
This is not a joke.
This was a serious thing.
And then she, I don't know, she'd asked me other stuff.
And I'm like, yeah, I'll do it.
I'll take care of it right now.
And I'll do this right now.
And did it right now.
And then finally one day she's like,
I don't remember what she asked me.
She's like, hey honey, can you do this?
And I was like, right now she goes,
do you mean right now or right now, right now?
Because right now means right this very minute.
Right now.
I was like, ooh, sorry.
You're right.
I mean right now.
It was like.
So I don't even say right now anymore to my wife. I mean unless I mean it
But it's because in Spanish we say that all the time like my parents would ask us to take out the trash
I'm like mom
I'll eat the lozaco and she wouldn't get on to me because she knew I meant like 10 15 20 minutes later
Like it's a horrible translation. It doesn't it doesn't even compute
So why would I trust someone that says oh, you know, I memorized a couple of Greek words
And I can show you what Greek means
That's a bunch of baloney like it. It's horrible
Go to Ecclesiaston 12, but in 1st Peter 14
I'm sorry in 1st Peter. I don't know where I didn't write this note, right?
But in 1st Peter one of the chapters in verse 14 the Bible says but and if ye suffer for righteous in its sake
I probably it's probably three happy or ye and be not afraid of their terror neither be troubled
But sanctify the Lord in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope
That is in you with meekness and fear having a good conscious that whereas they speak evil of you as evil doers
Accused your good conversation in Christ for it is better if the will of God be so that you suffer for well-doing
Then for evil doing you know people that want to argue with you that stuff
They will vilify you for only trusting the King James
It's better that you suffer for being a King James all King James only is
Then then to just give it and be like well, maybe we need to read the new
NIV or the NASB or the the message or the what was the one you told me mo the
The Pigeon Bible, the Pigeon Bible, it's written like a Hawaiian dialect.
What an insult to God's word that you think that people are that dumb they can't read the King James.
It's literally written like the average is like a ninth grade level reading.
Psalm 19 verse 7, the Bible says the law, you're in Ecclesiastes, but it says,
the law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul, the testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right.
Rejoicing the heart, the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes, the fear
of the Lord is clean, enduring forever, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous
altogether, more to be desired than they gold, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey,
and the honeycomb.
Why do you feel like you need to go somewhere else?
Because you don't think it's sweet.
The only reason that you want to divert yourself your attention from the King James
After there's been so much proof that this is the word of God is because it's not sweet to you
Because you're not hearing the shepherd's voice
There's nothing more comforting than Jesus Christ words
For anything that you're facing
In Cleesey asked these 12 we already read it, but
It's worth closing out and this is where we're going to close out and further by these my son be admonished of making many books
There's no end and much studies of weirdness of the flesh. Let us hear the whole conclusion the conclusion of the whole matter
What is it fear? God
There's people that say oh you shouldn't fear God or just be preaching that in the church
Look, this is not that church. You better fear God
If you're screwing up fix it
You know, I'm sick and I'm not kidding. I'm like Lord. I don't know what I did if this is chastisement. I'm like Lord. I fear God
Like if you're taking me out, I mean then just take me out
And I'm sorry for whatever. So then I committed, you know, and maybe it's a little bit exaggerated
But sometimes in your illness, you just it's a little bit desperate, right? You know what? It was true fear
I'm not joking around with that stuff. Gotta take you out
Well, Pastor, you're stressing me out.
Well, good.
Maybe you need a little stress in your life.
All right?
Maybe life's a little bit too comfortable in these United States of America.
Maybe you need a little heat in your meal.
Right you need a little good hot sauce. That's why I love being a Mexican, right?
There's no like a really good hot sauce
You know the one that stings in your ears and you're in the back of your throat
And you're kind of sweating to the to your eyes and you're right. Who's ever had that good hot sauce, you know
It really burns, but it's just so good. You can't stop eating it
Don't you just feel better after a good like a good hot sauce?
If you've never felt that don't worry about it
That's how I like the word of God right the word of God's like that to me
Like it's just like a good hot sauce like it burns a little it stings a little. I'm sweating. I'm coughing
I'm just like a mucus is coming out of my nose, but man. It's cleaning me out. It's good
It says in verse 14 for God she'll bring every
Work into judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil
Look the reason that you want to learn how to read and study your Bible and you should apply these points is because
That's the conclusion of the whole matter
The only thing that matters is what you guys did today when you went soul-winning
Two more people. That's a look. I don't care how much money you make. It doesn't matter. I
Don't care how famous you become
It does not matter. I don't care if you become a famous preacher, it doesn't matter.
The only thing that matters is what we do for Christ.
We have to read and study our Bible to actually come to terms with that.
That's one of the hardest things to come to terms with because it's human nature that we want to do great things.
And there's nothing wrong with that, but remember, do great things for the Lord, not for yourself.
Let's close in a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today.
Thank you for the opportunity to preach this message, the message that's much needed,
that I'll probably bring some variation of it again in the future.
We need to read and study our Bibles, not sometime, all the time.
And I'm not just picking on the congregation. I mean, we're all guilty of just falling short of the glory of God
So if we fall short of the glory God by being sinful
We're gonna fall short in our reading and in our studying and in our soul winning and in our church attendance
many things can get in the way Lord, but we need to
Get on unction from the Holy Spirit and just push through
So we could just be better. There is a spiritual warfare out there Lord. We need to trust that this is your word
100% that there's no variable in it, that we are given everything that we need to succeed
in life under your command.
Help us to just delight in thy word, as the psalmist said, to delight every day that it
would just taste so good, that it would nourish us so well, that it would motivate us to be
better.
To love better, to care for our families better, to just fight better, to just rejuvenate better, Lord
just give us the strength to study and read our Bible and to learn how to do it properly. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.