WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.200 Escúchame esta palabra, que me tomo un alivio contra ti, incluso una lamentación, oh, 00:03.200 --> 00:04.200 la casa de Israel. 00:04.200 --> 00:09.200 La Virgen de Israel ha fallado, ella no se arrebatará, ella se desplaza en su tierra, 00:09.200 --> 00:10.800 no hay nadie que la levantara. 00:10.800 --> 00:15.000 Por eso diré al Señor Dios, la ciudad que se fue por un mil, se va a dejar un cien, 00:15.000 --> 00:18.400 y la que se fue por cien, se va a dejar cien, a la casa de Israel. 00:18.400 --> 00:23.240 Por eso diré al Señor al casa de Israel, busquenme y vosotros viváis, pero busquen 00:23.240 --> 00:28.120 no Bethel, ni entrad en Gilgal, y no pasen a Beersheba, porque Gilgal se va a 00:28.120 --> 00:32.120 ir a la cárcel y Bethel se va a entrar a Nod. 00:32.120 --> 00:36.360 Busquen al Señor y vosotros viváis, para que se rompen como fuego en la casa de Joseph, 00:36.360 --> 00:40.480 y la devueltan y no haya nadie que la levantara en Bethel. 00:40.480 --> 00:31.040 Vosotros que se convirtan en la 02:29.120 --> 02:33.120 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs, for I will not hear the melody of thy vials, 02:33.120 --> 02:36.960 but let judgment run down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream. 02:36.960 --> 02:40.800 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, oh house of 02:40.800 --> 02:41.800 Israel? 02:41.800 --> 02:46.480 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and she own your images, the star of your 02:46.480 --> 02:48.720 God which ye have made yourselves. 02:48.720 --> 02:52.960 Therefore I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name 02:52.960 --> 02:54.440 is the God of hosts. 02:55.280 --> 02:59.040 Let's pray, dear Lord God, just thank you for this time we have Lord in your house Lord, 02:59.040 --> 03:01.720 that we could hear the preaching of your word, just thank you for Pastor Reyes Lord, we pray 03:01.720 --> 03:05.720 that you bless him as he preaches your word unto us and that us in the congregation can 03:05.720 --> 03:07.800 take these truths from your word and apply to our lives Lord. 03:07.800 --> 03:09.800 We pray this all in Jesus name, amen. 03:09.800 --> 03:10.800 Amen. 03:10.800 --> 03:17.880 Thank you once again, thank you once again for having me here. 03:17.880 --> 03:22.680 I learned a lot earlier today about the culture at First Works Baptist. 03:23.160 --> 03:28.040 First of all I want to say thank you for the good meal and the good lunch and then I learned 03:28.040 --> 03:33.080 that you guys are a great group of people, you love Red Bull and pro tip if you ever 03:33.080 --> 03:35.160 come visit is you just move this mic this way. 03:35.160 --> 03:36.160 I didn't know that. 03:36.160 --> 03:40.040 So see, I'm picking up stuff and I didn't know, I'm glad because earlier I was like 03:40.040 --> 03:42.720 really struggling with that there. 03:42.720 --> 03:47.720 But anyways let's get into the message here and we're there in Amos 5 and the title of 03:47.720 --> 03:53.720 the sermon this afternoon is Stop Loving What God Hates. 03:53.720 --> 03:59.440 Stop loving what God hates and we're there in verse 6 and I've got a little bit of an 03:59.440 --> 04:02.600 intro and then we're just going to get into the points but right there in verse 6 we 04:02.600 --> 04:04.400 see a couple of things that are contrasted. 04:04.400 --> 04:09.160 Verse 6 says, seek the Lord and ye shall live, lest ye break out like a fire in the house 04:09.160 --> 04:14.280 of Joseph and devour it and there be none to quench it in Bethel. 04:14.280 --> 04:20.120 Ye who turn judgment to warm wood and leave off righteousness in the earth, seek him that 04:20.120 --> 04:25.160 maketh the seven stars and Orion and turneth the shadow of death into morning and make 04:25.160 --> 04:31.640 it the day dark with night that calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out 04:31.640 --> 04:33.040 upon the face of the earth. 04:33.040 --> 04:38.560 The Lord is his name that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong so that the spoiled 04:38.560 --> 04:40.840 shall come against the fortress. 04:40.840 --> 04:47.040 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. 04:47.040 --> 04:50.520 So we see first of all someone has hated for being righteous right? 04:50.520 --> 04:55.640 And then let's go there verse 14 says, seek good and not evil that ye may live and so 04:55.640 --> 05:00.080 the Lord the God of hosts shall be with you as ye have spoken. 05:00.080 --> 05:04.120 Hate the evil, love the good and establish judgment in the gate. 05:04.120 --> 05:08.640 It may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. 05:08.640 --> 05:14.680 Therefore the Lord the God of hosts the Lord saith thus, Wailing shall be in the streets 05:14.680 --> 05:17.760 and they shall say in all the highways, Alas, alas! 05:17.760 --> 05:24.160 And they shall call the husband men to morning and such as are skillful of lamentation to 05:24.160 --> 05:29.760 wailing and in all the vineyards shall be wailing for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord. 05:29.760 --> 05:32.160 Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord. 05:32.160 --> 05:33.600 To what end is it for you? 05:33.600 --> 05:39.800 The day of the Lord is darkness and not light as if a man did flee from a lion and a bear 05:39.800 --> 05:44.960 met him or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent bit him. 05:44.960 --> 05:48.760 Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness not light? 05:48.760 --> 05:50.440 Even very dark and no brightness in it. 05:50.440 --> 05:57.240 I hate, I despise your feast days and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 05:57.240 --> 06:03.280 And so we see here that obviously number one the man of God is hated and God hates that 06:03.600 --> 06:08.280 He not only hates that you're not listening but that they're not paying attention and 06:08.280 --> 06:12.840 I'm not talking about you guys but in the context of this but actually if you're not 06:12.840 --> 06:16.400 listening to the Lord and doing the things that the Lord asked he's going to hate those 06:16.400 --> 06:17.640 things right? 06:17.640 --> 06:22.560 But just real quick because Amos is not something that's preached out very often. 06:22.560 --> 06:27.560 So just to give you a little bit of context Amos is taking place during the time of Jeroboam 06:27.560 --> 06:31.720 the second Jeroboam you know these names get like, who's ever read through the Old Testament 06:31.720 --> 06:35.280 and you're just like is that the same guy or who is this you know who's done that? 06:35.280 --> 06:41.440 Okay this is Jeroboam the two of Israel and Uzziah king of Judah and the prophets that 06:41.440 --> 06:47.800 are alive during this time also are like Hosea, Isaiah in his early ministry and Jonah and 06:47.800 --> 06:52.760 he was a herdsman actually he's not a prophet he's asked to go prophesy and we see that 06:52.760 --> 06:58.520 actually in Amos 8 so turn your Bibles there to Amos 8 and basically what he's asked to 06:58.520 --> 07:04.120 do is he judged them because they were basically empty and wicked you know the judgment on 07:04.120 --> 07:09.200 them is because they're just you know they've got a lot it's kind of like the US right? 07:09.200 --> 07:13.660 We have a lot of the comforts and we have a lot of opulence and wealth and you know the 07:13.660 --> 07:19.320 things are they come easy to us but spiritually we're just desolate as a nation right? 07:19.320 --> 07:25.000 And he's chosen there go to chapter 8 and right there in verse let me find it here this 07:25.000 --> 07:34.240 is my wife's Bible so sometimes I and it says in verse 11 wait hold on a second I think it's 07:34.240 --> 07:41.240 in verse 7 where he says oh yeah in verse 7 of chapter 7 verse 14 he says then answered Amos 07:41.240 --> 07:45.840 and said to Amaziah because Amaziah is actually telling him like you need to stop talking like 07:45.840 --> 07:51.040 this and he says I was no prophet neither was a prophet's son but I was a herdman and gatherer 07:51.040 --> 07:56.200 of sycamore fruit right and the Lord took me as I followed the flock and the Lord said unto me go 07:56.200 --> 08:01.640 prophesy unto my people Israel so the prophecy because the Lord think about it how sad is that 08:01.640 --> 08:06.480 the prophets are failing so he just picks a guy who's actually faithful to the Lord a herdsman 08:06.480 --> 08:11.400 and says hey you need to go do this job and even the man of God supposedly Amaziah here he's like 08:11.400 --> 08:14.880 you know I don't really like this I don't like what you're saying but one thing that really stood 08:14.880 --> 08:19.760 out because I was reading through this is I before I came here go to verse 11 of chapter 8 that's 08:19.760 --> 08:23.840 where I wanted you guys to go and then we'll get into the message that says there in verse 11 says 08:23.840 --> 08:30.080 behold the days come saith the Lord God that I will send a famine in the land and pay attention 08:30.080 --> 08:37.460 says not a famine of bread nor a thirst of water but of hearing the words of the Lord and they shall 08:37.460 --> 08:43.000 wander from sea to sea and from north and from the north even to the east they shall run to and fro 08:43.000 --> 08:48.720 to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it in that day show the fair virgins and young men 08:48.720 --> 08:54.760 faint for thirst that's talking about the thirst of the word of God it says they that's where by the 08:54.760 --> 09:01.680 sin of Samarian say thy God Odan liveth and the manner of Reshiva liveth even they shall fall and 09:01.680 --> 09:07.080 never rise up again you know we don't want to get to a point in our life or in our nation where the 09:07.080 --> 09:11.520 Lord is like the famine is the word of God and isn't that literally where we're headed in the 09:11.520 --> 09:16.280 direction I mean think about how the increase in the in these last few days in these last few 09:16.280 --> 09:22.840 decades with all these perversions right now every I mean you just open up like Bible Gateway or you 09:22.840 --> 09:27.840 just look up and it's like the new version of the month right it's like Baskin Robbins like 31 09:27.840 --> 09:33.000 flavors of the Bible it's like every at every turn they're just coming up with a new version and it's 09:33.000 --> 09:38.800 just honestly it's ridiculous right but it'll get to the point where God's just like well I'm done 09:38.800 --> 09:43.480 with you you know I just I'm not gonna deal with it obviously from what we read in the Old Testament 09:43.480 --> 09:47.680 even in the New there will always be a remnant but we don't want to get to the point where just a 09:47.680 --> 09:54.240 remnant is the are the ones that are holding the keys to God's Word and the you know the keys to life 09:54.240 --> 09:59.680 eternal life but we want to get a word out to the entire world the entire nation right you know the 09:59.680 --> 10:04.600 way that I look at it is I know that we're not going to stop the end times right and obviously we 10:04.600 --> 10:09.960 talk about how cool it would be to you know maybe get the crown of life for martyrdom and stuff like 10:09.960 --> 10:14.840 that but I'm gonna be honest with you if I don't have to die I'd rather just die of natural causes you 10:14.840 --> 10:19.040 know I think Paul it's rumored that he might have died of natural causes right some there's an 10:19.040 --> 10:25.960 argument going on out there but I think about Josiah he was a young king and the Lord held off 10:25.960 --> 10:30.680 the judgment of Manasseh to the people because Josiah did such a good job and I just keep thinking 10:30.680 --> 10:36.160 how many generations of Josiah's could we have before the end comes unfortunately there will 10:36.160 --> 10:42.720 come a time where a generation will have to face that hard you know tribulation and that hard 10:42.720 --> 10:48.520 persecution but you know if we can avoid that for some time then let's do it and if not then two 10:48.520 --> 10:54.320 things are we need to accomplish number one we need to preach hard just in case the Lord stays off 10:54.320 --> 10:59.160 that judgment but number two if he doesn't we're ready for it right so either way we're still 10:59.160 --> 11:03.360 winning because we're ready for the battle but if the battle doesn't come to us with that judgment 11:03.360 --> 11:07.160 then you know at least we know we did something right you know that's the way that I look at it and 11:07.160 --> 11:12.440 the doctrine of hate or you know hating those things that God hates is a really important doctrine 11:12.440 --> 11:17.600 right the world especially America has done a great job of trying to convince you that hate is a bad 11:17.600 --> 11:24.600 word right and every word can be a bad word if it's used in the wrong context but biblically hate is a 11:24.600 --> 11:30.800 righteous word and has its place and its time in life right what is doctrine right doctrine is just 11:30.800 --> 11:36.920 what we teach it's a particular principle or position or policy that is taught or advocated in 11:36.920 --> 11:42.680 religion in religion or government right it's it's something that we teach or a body of system of 11:42.680 --> 11:48.080 teaching so no matter where you go somewhere somehow you're always being indoctrinated you know 11:48.080 --> 11:52.400 we're talking about Red Bull and the indoctrination of Red Bull and all the marketing that you've done 11:52.400 --> 11:56.560 behind it right and the reason we're talking about so much is because in case you didn't know when I 11:56.560 --> 12:01.800 was 20 years old I actually worked for Red Bull and I drove around in the little car with a big can and I 12:01.800 --> 12:06.680 would give out Red Bulls back then nobody knew what Red Bull was so we were like little celebrities in 12:06.680 --> 12:10.720 our local town everybody wanted to let us in everywhere because we had Red Bull and nobody knew 12:10.720 --> 12:16.760 what it was but you know what we were doing we were indoctrinating it right fast forward 25 years later 12:16.760 --> 12:22.320 everybody knows what Red Bull is right you you you you're like yeah I like this teaching let me drink 12:22.320 --> 12:28.240 some more caffeine and sugar and whatever else they're giving you right and then what does that word hate mean 12:28.240 --> 12:34.160 right that word hate I'm just giving you a couple of definitions here as an intro and then in the 12:34.160 --> 12:41.160 meantime stay there in Amos but also go to Psalm 97 Psalm 97 but that word hate is just basically 12:41.160 --> 12:48.800 to dislike intensely or passionately right to feel extreme aversion for an or an extreme 12:48.800 --> 12:57.880 hostility towards towards something to detest right to be like to dislike or be unwilling to feel 12:57.880 --> 13:04.000 an intense dislike or extreme aversion hostility if you notice I'm giving you other definitions 13:04.000 --> 13:09.240 but they're basically the same right intense dislike extreme aversion or hostility the object 13:09.240 --> 13:13.880 of extreme aversion or hostility right you're nothing related to the acts that are motivated 13:13.880 --> 13:20.080 by hatred so basically hate is what an aversion you don't like something it's it's kind of gross you want 13:20.080 --> 13:26.760 to stay away from it and God hates a lot of things that means he has an extreme aversion or what 13:26.760 --> 13:33.120 hostility towards certain things the Bible tells us and people say well I thought God was a loving 13:33.120 --> 13:39.080 God that's why he hates certain things you know and I like the God of the Bible because God is 13:39.840 --> 13:44.680 merciful and he's gracious and his mercy endureth forever but I also like when you get to Revelation 13:44.680 --> 13:50.880 and Jesus comes down with a sword out of his mouth and his eyes are aflame and he's taken out all the 13:50.880 --> 13:55.280 people that wronged not only us but the future Christians and the past Christians and those that 13:55.280 --> 14:00.200 serve the Lord faithfully right I mean at least I know I can sleep well at night that no matter how 14:00.200 --> 14:05.640 people treat me the Lord's gonna avenge me right and then actually it's great if you come to terms 14:05.640 --> 14:09.280 with that that the Lord's gonna avenge you because it's so much better than whatever you could come 14:09.280 --> 14:15.600 up with anyways right I mean you think about it they're gonna burn in hell for all eternity the 14:15.600 --> 14:22.000 guy Luke 16 the rich man and Luke 16 is still burning in hell today right he's still saying hey 14:22.000 --> 14:26.520 if somebody could dip you know their their finger in water and quench my thirst it's not gonna 14:26.520 --> 14:33.580 quench anything it's just so extreme and he's doing it right now we were preaching this message he is in 14:33.580 --> 14:40.460 hell suffering the pangs of eternal punishment forever right so this is a serious thing we need 14:40.460 --> 14:46.140 to learn to hate and you know just like love hate is also a choice right you know I remember growing 14:46.140 --> 14:50.940 up I've never liked queers I'm never like sodomites you know or the gays as we used to call them right 14:50.940 --> 14:56.100 the gays I don't know whatever I don't know that was horrible but they had say every time I hear that 14:56.100 --> 15:03.060 I just think of Donald Trump but the but I remember we used to have games like smear the queer who 15:03.060 --> 15:07.220 remembers that you know you're about my age remember playing smear the queer that was the worst 15:07.220 --> 15:11.060 game because basically what it was is like you would throw the ball at somebody then everybody 15:11.060 --> 15:16.300 else was like dogpile you know it's like if you were at the bottom of the dogpile is horrible but 15:16.300 --> 15:23.180 nobody ever liked it growing up but you know what TV and music and everything around us made it 15:23.180 --> 15:28.500 tolerable so even if you were uncomfortable you didn't even say anything and so I came from a 15:28.500 --> 15:33.780 just a different cloth where I was you know I grew up worldly and then I got saved as an adult and I 15:33.780 --> 15:39.460 remember the first time I preached and I even said the word queer I was a little nervous to say it 15:39.460 --> 15:43.460 right but I wasn't nervous because I was afraid I was just nervous because that's how I was 15:43.460 --> 15:49.460 conditioned you know that's how I was trained by the world that's how I was what indoctrinated 15:49.460 --> 15:54.300 right and what we need to do is un-brainwash ourselves and then I'm gonna tell you something 15:54.300 --> 16:00.020 brainwash yourselves in the word of God hey everybody's brainwashed some way right you might 16:00.020 --> 16:08.340 as well be in the good stuff so for point number one today is seeking God requires hating evil it 16:08.340 --> 16:14.460 requires it honestly you can only get to a certain point as a Christian if you're not willing to 16:14.460 --> 16:18.620 accept all the other things that might make you uncomfortable about God you know the Bible says 16:18.620 --> 16:22.980 that God is terrible now I know that word terrible in the King James has a little bit different 16:23.220 --> 16:29.700 meaning like he can cause you know things to happen but it's still terrible right God can destroy 16:29.700 --> 16:35.340 the world he did flood the entire world he can do things that's a terrible thing we'll say I don't 16:35.340 --> 16:40.580 know if I like that well you know that's God you go to I think it's an Isaiah and forgive me if I 16:40.580 --> 16:47.540 get that wrong but he says hey I have both created the good and the evil God remember when I love 16:47.540 --> 16:52.540 that that conversation where there's a conversation in heaven and they're like well you know Ahab's 16:52.540 --> 16:57.500 just made basically a half screwing up and one of guns like I got an idea and he's like God's 16:57.500 --> 17:01.860 like what's your idea he's like I'll just how about we lie to the guy he's like I'll just bring a 17:01.860 --> 17:08.100 lying spirit and what does God say go for it right like go get it done and so these things don't add 17:08.100 --> 17:13.700 up if you just go to like a lame church it's always like oh happy God God would God is capable of a 17:13.700 --> 17:18.380 lot of damage and destruction as a matter of fact God is the only one that can actually destroy 17:18.380 --> 17:22.980 anything says fear not them who can take your body but fear him who can take your body and soul 17:22.980 --> 17:28.220 that's the ultimate destruction right and hating things it's not a wrong it's not bad to hate 17:28.220 --> 17:33.780 something you know I love my children that's why I hate pedophiles right I mean I can only like 17:33.780 --> 17:38.620 sometimes I'll look at my kids and I'm just like I don't know how somebody could ever hurt a child 17:38.620 --> 17:45.620 like who could come up with the that in their mind to ever defile a child in any way that is you 17:45.620 --> 17:49.740 know incorrect right and I'll leave it at that just because I don't want to defile your minds but 17:49.740 --> 17:54.980 it's disgusting yeah they should be put to death you know the Dugard brothers they should be hung 17:54.980 --> 18:01.540 publicly so that no other person would ever abuse a child ever again you know I mean it's just I hate 18:01.540 --> 18:06.260 that stuff right I would never want to hurt my children and I don't know why anybody else would 18:06.260 --> 18:13.220 but go there to Psalm 97 but in Amos 5 we see that right we see see good and not evil God said hey 18:13.220 --> 18:20.500 seek good and not evil that you may live and so the Lord the God of hosts shall be with you as you 18:20.500 --> 18:27.340 have spoken hate the evil and love the good and establish judgment in the gate it may be that the 18:27.340 --> 18:33.820 Lord God of hosts it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of 18:33.820 --> 18:39.260 Joseph hey it may be that our nation might hold off judgment as long as we keep preaching the 18:39.260 --> 18:44.580 word of God as long as we keep seeking good but hey what comes with seeking good hating evil 18:44.580 --> 18:49.980 you notice like it's not it's paired why because love is a choice and you know what else is a choice 18:49.980 --> 18:56.860 hating things is a choice right now even as a child like the kids that hate vegetables they 18:56.860 --> 19:01.900 make the choice to hate vegetables because who's had a child that was a baby and you fed them 19:01.900 --> 19:05.900 vegetables right before they were like one year old and they ate all the vegetables and then one 19:05.900 --> 19:10.540 day I don't know how they found out that vegetables weren't good and then they're like I don't like 19:10.540 --> 19:15.300 vegetables anymore like dude you're full of it I fed you since you were a baby you've been eating 19:15.300 --> 19:20.940 the same vegetable since you were like months old what do you mean you don't like it anymore you 19:20.940 --> 19:25.500 know why because they made that choice right it's a choice to do that who's gone from hating 19:25.500 --> 19:31.020 vegetables to now liking vegetables right after maybe you go out on your own and you don't have 19:32.020 --> 19:36.300 a lot of money in your pocket and you're just like I'm hungry and I need to eat you know a tomato salad 19:36.300 --> 19:40.940 sounds pretty good about them right and you really love it right it's a choice that you're making and 19:40.940 --> 19:48.460 so we need to have we need to seek God and I mean seeking God sorry requires hating evil go to 19:48.460 --> 19:55.300 Psalm 97 verse 9 the Bible says for thou Lord are high above all the earth thou are exalted far 19:55.300 --> 20:05.940 above all gods and that's lowercase G that you love the Lord hate evil ye that love the Lord hate 20:05.940 --> 20:11.380 evil he per serveth the souls of his saints he delivered them out of the hand of the wicked light 20:11.380 --> 20:17.460 is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright and heart rejoicing the Lord you righteous 20:17.460 --> 20:22.700 and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness and when we say holiness was set apart thank you 20:22.700 --> 20:27.260 right but you know it's interesting also the reason it's important to learn this stuff is because 20:27.260 --> 20:33.260 you also then can become a really good person having some what's called emotional intelligence 20:33.260 --> 20:39.180 because here's the problem over time we also get this thing where we call it I guess you know 20:39.180 --> 20:45.980 bleeding heart it's really hard to see someone in a certain light and but the Bible says hey if they 20:45.980 --> 20:51.900 meet this criteria they're just bad right you know so the world's done a really good job of saying 20:51.900 --> 20:57.660 hey you know the queers and I think your pastor preached something like that's gay the gays right 20:57.660 --> 21:05.500 like they if you turn on like the television or some programming and I was reading an interesting 21:05.500 --> 21:09.820 article also don't ask me what where my brain goes with all this stuff because before I came here I 21:09.820 --> 21:16.220 read Amos and then I also read an article about how basically the end of movie monoculture is over 21:16.220 --> 21:20.860 meaning nobody watches like nobody goes to the movies anymore because the meat is like on-demand 21:20.860 --> 21:26.060 Netflix and you know Facebook and YouTube and everybody's making their own content don't ask me 21:26.060 --> 21:30.940 how I got off on that but what it did it did remind me of is the fact that you know as you're 21:30.940 --> 21:36.860 doing all of this they try to paint what this pretty picture right I grew up I didn't get safe 21:36.860 --> 21:42.780 till I was 25 so I grew up in the late 90s watching sitcoms and there was a sitcom by the 21:42.780 --> 21:47.260 name of Will and Grace I don't know if anybody if you don't don't worry about it but it was really 21:47.260 --> 21:53.020 about two queers and they're like flamboyant cool lifestyle they made it seem real cool and I 21:53.020 --> 21:57.260 remember watching it and I you know even though I never liked it it didn't I just sat through it 21:57.260 --> 22:02.700 because it was funny and there was nothing egregious about it but the Bible says hey these people are 22:02.700 --> 22:08.540 pedophiles these people are wicked they're looking to destroy they're full of all unrighteousness so 22:08.540 --> 22:13.260 then just turn off everything you think about that everything you might have felt about that and just 22:13.260 --> 22:20.700 accept what the Lord says right and here he says ye that love the Lord hate evil so look don't 22:20.700 --> 22:25.260 tell me you love the Lord if you don't hate evil right like and so someone comes and says oh you 22:25.260 --> 22:31.580 know all these like maybe what is it like these contemporary pastors are left to get up there and 22:31.580 --> 22:35.980 it's all happy Jesus hey if you're not preaching the hard stuff it's you're not happy Jesus 22:35.980 --> 22:40.780 you're not even happy anything you know Joe Olsteen's like well that's not my field you know 22:40.780 --> 22:45.020 that's not what I was called to do is only called to motivate and encourage people and blah blah blah 22:45.020 --> 22:50.060 blah you know what you don't love the Lord you hate the Lord because if you love the Lord you 22:50.060 --> 22:56.220 would preach the whole council of God right let's go there I'm sorry oh we're still in song I mean go 22:56.220 --> 23:02.300 to Proverbs 8 go to Proverbs 8 I'll read for you really quick Romans 12 the Bible says let love be 23:02.300 --> 23:08.460 without dissimulation and then what does it say abhor that which is evil cleave to that which is 23:08.460 --> 23:12.460 good so I've given it both in the Old Testament and the New Testament in case you don't know what 23:12.460 --> 23:18.940 that word abhor means all it is is a synonym to hate you know if you abhor something you hate it 23:18.940 --> 23:24.140 you know that's all it is let love be with us without dissimulation hate don't give me fake love 23:24.780 --> 23:30.620 hate that which is evil that's what God's saying right go to Proverbs 8 verse 10 says receive my 23:30.620 --> 23:39.020 instruction and not silver and knowledge rather than choice gold for wisdom is better than rubies 23:39.020 --> 23:45.500 and all the things that may be desired or not to be compared to it I wisdom dwell with prudence and 23:45.500 --> 23:51.900 find out knowledge of witty inventions the fear of the Lord is what to hate evil so you want to 23:51.900 --> 23:57.420 love the Lord hate evil you want to fear the Lord and that's the only fear you really should have 23:57.420 --> 24:03.820 you want to hate evil pride arrogance and the evil way and the froward mouth do I hate 24:04.940 --> 24:10.940 so let me think about it what does this make you think of politicians maybe you know some of like 24:10.940 --> 24:15.740 people that don't always agree with the Bible like he literally the Lord says hate this is what he 24:15.740 --> 24:21.580 hates you think the Lord loves Donald Trump sorry to say but he doesn't right you think the Lord 24:21.580 --> 24:26.060 loves uh I we were talking about it earlier with some I don't remember Gavin Newsom no of course 24:26.060 --> 24:31.020 not right and I know that's what that comes it brings it closer to home but you know pride 24:31.580 --> 24:38.620 arrogance and the evil way and the froward mouth do I hate counsel is mine and sound wisdom I am 24:38.620 --> 24:45.500 understanding I have strength by me King's reign and princes decree justice by me princes rule and 24:45.500 --> 24:53.100 nobles even all the judges of the earth I love them that love me and those that seek me early shall 24:53.100 --> 24:59.420 find me but notice that the love is tied to who if God loves you if you love him but you know what 24:59.420 --> 25:04.700 you got to do you got to hate the evil I mean you just got to hate it and I know that it might not 25:04.700 --> 25:09.180 be something that you're accustomed to I don't you know I don't know that you guys here at this 25:09.180 --> 25:13.340 church but just in general in America like hates like this you know you don't touch it it's kind 25:13.340 --> 25:18.460 of like the thing you tip your toe around but biblically it's just it's just another word that 25:18.540 --> 25:25.180 has an action tied to it that has a you know motivation a sanctification behind it right 25:25.180 --> 25:29.980 there's certain things that we have to hate now that doesn't mean we walk around hateful we just 25:29.980 --> 25:34.860 hate what God hates that's it right now if you hate above and beyond that you know what that's also 25:34.860 --> 25:39.580 wrong right you're only supposed to hate what God hates so the bible says you shouldn't hate your 25:39.580 --> 25:45.100 brother in Christ and that's a hard thing to do you know as a pastor I'll just tell you that you 25:45.100 --> 25:49.740 know we deal with a lot of personalities and not every personality lines up with mine and I don't 25:49.740 --> 25:55.100 line up with every personality but as a pastor it's my duty to love every one of my church members 25:55.100 --> 26:00.300 but not only every one of my church members it's my duty to love everybody that is a brother in 26:00.300 --> 26:05.980 Christ or a sister in Christ right it's our duty to be patient with them to love them to admonish 26:05.980 --> 26:10.940 them to reprove them to rebuke them that's what we need to do so the first point is that seeking 26:10.940 --> 26:20.780 God requires hating evil point number two go over to John 15 point go to John 15 the world hates God 26:21.580 --> 26:27.980 because it is evil and we need to start maybe preaching that more you know one of the things 26:27.980 --> 26:31.580 I do with my kids and by the way this is just my personal thing I'm not telling you how to deal 26:31.580 --> 26:40.300 with your kids although I think it's a good method is I just over scare my kids to the world 26:41.020 --> 26:46.220 like they just like I was to I always like get them to think that it's worse than it is because it is 26:46.860 --> 26:51.820 I'm like look if you get lost from me and you get stolen I'm never going to see you again 26:53.260 --> 26:57.580 now the chances of my kids getting stolen are probably slim but you know what kids get stolen 26:57.580 --> 27:03.420 every day get abducted every day so kids stay close to your parents you're like I don't know if you're 27:03.420 --> 27:10.220 hey the world is worse than you think it's bad out there and it's up to men to say the truth 27:10.220 --> 27:14.620 because oftentimes we're the only ones who have faced stuff like that or seen stuff like that and 27:14.620 --> 27:21.100 we're the ones that can call it out like the world is a bad place and they you know the world hates 27:21.100 --> 27:27.180 God because it hates evil John 7 you're there in John 15 but in John 7 verse 7 says about the world 27:27.180 --> 27:34.460 cannot hate you but it hateth but me it hateth because I testify of it that the works there are 27:35.340 --> 27:41.820 that the works thereof are evil so why does the world hate Jesus because he testified that 27:41.820 --> 27:46.220 they're evil why does the world hate us well it doesn't really hate us it hates Jesus as long as 27:46.220 --> 27:50.940 we're preaching God's word right actually we wouldn't get any hate if we didn't come to this 27:50.940 --> 27:57.260 church our lives I mean honestly my life would be so much easier if I wasn't a pastor if I wasn't 27:57.260 --> 28:01.820 preaching God's word if I wasn't willing to stand on it I sometimes I think man it just you know 28:01.820 --> 28:09.260 it's even in the flesh it's even tempting right I just have my job I clock in eight to five I'd have 28:09.260 --> 28:16.860 my weekends I could watch you know my basketball games I'd have my little vacation build up my 401k 28:17.580 --> 28:23.260 retire go on the golf course I mean life would be easy peasy but then you know when you get to 28:23.260 --> 28:28.300 heaven and face your maker that'd be a pretty serious thing right God says hey we need to lay 28:28.300 --> 28:32.860 up treasures here I mean in heaven not here on earth you're there in John 15 the Bible says 28:33.740 --> 28:35.100 well let me get a drink real quick 28:37.820 --> 28:41.260 the Bible says there in John 15 verse 18 it says if the world hate you 28:42.220 --> 28:47.420 you know that it hated me before it hated you if you were of the world the world would love his own 28:47.420 --> 28:52.860 but because you are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world 28:52.860 --> 28:58.140 hated you remember the word that I said unto you the servant is not greater than his lord 28:58.140 --> 29:04.140 if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you if they have kept my sayings they will keep 29:04.140 --> 29:10.220 yours also but all these things will they do unto you for my namesake because they know not him that 29:10.220 --> 29:17.980 sent me if I had not come and spoken unto them they had not had sin but now they have no cloak 29:18.140 --> 29:24.860 for their sin he that hateth me hateth my father also if I had not done among them the works which 29:24.860 --> 29:34.460 none other man did they had not they had not had sin but now have they both seen and hated both me 29:34.460 --> 29:40.140 and my father but this cometh to pass that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law 29:40.140 --> 29:46.940 they hated me without a cause that's really the truth you know there's no reason to hate the Lord 29:46.940 --> 29:50.940 the bible says for all have sin and come short of the glory of God right the bible says that we 29:50.940 --> 29:57.020 need to be chastised and corrected so that we can lead better lives but if you don't love the Lord 29:57.020 --> 30:01.340 you're going to hate all those things that the God says right I mean not everything that I preach 30:01.340 --> 30:05.900 is going to be comfortable for the people listening but you know what also is the truth you know maybe 30:05.900 --> 30:10.300 you know I don't know I'm pretty sure the pastors have said I just don't listen I wish I had time 30:10.300 --> 30:14.620 to listen to more preaching but I don't right but also you know what everything I preach sometimes 30:14.620 --> 30:19.260 is uncomfortable to me right sometimes I'm preaching to myself and I'm just like I love the 30:19.260 --> 30:24.700 Lord so I just need to just just need to swallow it and just keep on moving on you know just deal 30:24.700 --> 30:29.660 with it right and go over to Romans one go over to Romans one I know we were there this morning but 30:29.660 --> 30:34.060 we're going to look at a couple of different uh pieces of scripture there go to Romans one 30:35.420 --> 30:39.900 the bible says there in verse 28 we know these verses but it's also important to review this 30:39.900 --> 30:45.580 stuff especially in the world where you're constantly being told that hate is a bad thing 30:46.220 --> 30:50.060 right that's why you need to be in church as much as possible that's why you need to be in the 30:50.060 --> 30:54.700 word as much as possible you need to get the balances right right most of the people spend 30:54.700 --> 30:59.820 you know you think about kids why do we homeschool because and by the way I said that this morning 30:59.820 --> 31:03.740 you know everybody does their own thing but why do we homeschool me and my family because I thought 31:03.740 --> 31:08.780 about it many many years before we had children right like I'm going to send my kids to the public 31:08.780 --> 31:16.140 full system for eight hours at minimum you know five days a week that's 40 hours a week but then 31:16.140 --> 31:20.620 I'm going to only ask him to show up to church for three or four hours a week well where's the 31:20.620 --> 31:26.460 balance who's winning that battle but hey if I have them with me they're listening to dad talk 31:26.460 --> 31:32.540 about all this stuff for 24 hours a day seven days a week who's going to win that battle and 31:32.540 --> 31:37.660 even with that it's not even guaranteed that they're still going to be on the right you know and 31:38.540 --> 31:42.220 they're not even that doesn't guarantee that they're going to be on the right path because the devil 31:42.220 --> 31:48.300 has that many tools at his disposal right like it doesn't take a lot to just ruin and pervert 31:48.300 --> 31:53.180 someone's mind and so we need to be very careful with that go to romans 1 right there verse 20 says 31:53.180 --> 31:58.140 and even as they did not like to retain god in their knowledge see it's not that they weren't 31:58.140 --> 32:03.020 knowledgeable of god but they didn't want to retain them god gave them over to reprobate mind to do 32:03.020 --> 32:08.940 those things which are not convenient being filled with all unrighteousness fornication 32:08.940 --> 32:17.100 wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murder debate deceit malignity 32:17.100 --> 32:25.260 whispers backbite errs haters of god despiteful proud boasters inventors of evil things 32:25.260 --> 32:32.780 disobedient to parents without understanding covenant breakers without natural affection 32:33.180 --> 32:39.660 implacable unmerciful who knowing the judgment of god the day which commits such things are worthy 32:39.660 --> 32:45.180 of death not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them you know you think about this 32:45.180 --> 32:49.100 individual this is gotta be one of the most wicked individuals this verse it always stands out to me 32:49.100 --> 32:57.020 says hey they know it's coming and they know that they're worthy of death but they not only do it 32:57.020 --> 33:03.900 but they take pleasure in doing that right i was watching this news article i guess they opened 33:03.900 --> 33:10.540 some museum or some something i didn't you know i was in a hurry what i was doing but and it was 33:10.540 --> 33:18.460 like this thing where they have like rooms dedicated to like the mind of all these serial killers like 33:18.460 --> 33:24.380 jeffrey dommer and you know all these guys and they asked the lady they're like you know a lot of 33:24.380 --> 33:27.740 people would say that this is a bad thing you know like why are you doing this like it's saying it 33:27.740 --> 33:31.820 looks like you're memorializing them or building them up and she's like no it's to warn them you 33:31.820 --> 33:35.100 know what made me sad is she thinks that's what's going to help you know what's going to help the 33:35.100 --> 33:42.380 word of god you know what's going to help preaching romans one over and over and over and over again 33:42.380 --> 33:46.300 because the one thing that's true about all those serial killers in case you don't know them or the 33:46.300 --> 33:52.940 majority of them is people thought they were good people you know uh what's his name uh the the one 33:52.940 --> 33:57.340 from chicago william casey or whatever the guy that was dressed like a clown he was like a member 33:57.340 --> 34:02.140 of society right i think he even like ran in politics people thought he was just like this 34:02.140 --> 34:07.900 regular old joe in the meantime he's all perverse and doing all kinds of wicked stuff nobody saw 34:07.900 --> 34:12.540 jeffrey dommer coming and then at the end of his life he's like oh you know i believe in jesus and 34:12.540 --> 34:19.020 all no you don't you don't believe in jesus i mean it's unnatural what they what he did it's you know 34:19.020 --> 34:22.780 and i and i'm not going to touch on it if you don't know don't worry about it if you do 34:22.860 --> 34:27.660 then you know what i'm talking about point number three go over to psalm and by the way i have like 34:27.660 --> 34:33.020 six points for you today but uh you know this one flows a lot easier than the morning one by the way 34:34.460 --> 34:42.300 point number three is biblical christians are commanded to hate god righteously i mean i'm sorry 34:42.300 --> 34:49.340 commanded to hate righteously biblical christians are commanded to hate righteously right and so 34:49.340 --> 34:55.180 you want to seek god then it requires that you hate evil like you really want you want to seek god 34:55.180 --> 35:01.740 then you hate evil the world hates god because it hates evil and if you're going to be a biblical 35:01.740 --> 35:07.340 christian then you're commanded to hate righteously and what do i mean by that people say oh i read my 35:07.340 --> 35:11.900 bible do you really read your bible because if you read your bible we wouldn't be having this 35:11.900 --> 35:15.980 argument who's ever had an argument with someone you're like how is it that we're even having this 35:15.980 --> 35:20.460 discussion and i'm not talking about like who is melchizedek you know obviously some things are 35:20.460 --> 35:24.140 harder to understand the bible i'm just talking about like even salvation verses right you'll knock 35:24.140 --> 35:27.820 at the door and someone would be there and they're like oh salvation is by works and i was like well if i 35:27.820 --> 35:31.340 can show you in the bible that it's not by works you know is that something that we could just 35:31.340 --> 35:36.380 overcome oh yeah yeah yeah okay and then you take them to the verses that say it's it's not by works 35:36.380 --> 35:40.780 they're like well you're not reading your bible you know if you're reading your bible then you're 35:40.780 --> 35:45.020 going to do what the bible says right and the bible says that you're commanded to hate 35:46.380 --> 35:52.780 it's righteous hate go to psalm 119 go to psalm 119 and if we have time i might touch on all those 35:52.780 --> 35:57.180 verses i have like a list of verses i don't know if i'm going to get there or not but the bible talks 35:57.180 --> 36:03.500 about hate a lot and god hates a lot just like you know it's interesting i just preached uh last 36:03.500 --> 36:08.460 week i think on repent and you know who who repents the most and i'm pretty sure you guys know but 36:08.460 --> 36:12.780 god repents the most you know why because people don't want to read their bibles and let the bible 36:12.780 --> 36:17.500 define itself they just want to make up whatever they want in their own minds but in psalm 119 right 36:17.500 --> 36:25.660 there in verse 103 the bible says how sweet are thy words unto my taste ye sweeter than honey to my 36:25.660 --> 36:35.900 mouth through thy precepts i get understanding therefore therefore i hate every false way not some 36:36.460 --> 36:42.380 every false way you know in my house we have a rule i don't even a white lie is an egregious 36:42.380 --> 36:48.460 sin in my house you know because the bible says he hates lying and lying is like the gateway sin to a 36:48.460 --> 36:53.260 lot of sins because it's the one the kids learn the easiest right and if you have kids you know 36:53.260 --> 36:57.020 what i'm talking about one day they come up to you and you catch them in a line you're like 36:57.820 --> 37:03.500 what the what happened to my child what happened to this cute little baby that googled and gagged 37:03.500 --> 37:08.060 and you know ate food and played with me and all of a sudden now that you can't you're like hey did you eat 37:08.060 --> 37:11.580 the cookie you weren't supposed to eat and they're covered in cookie you know and they're holding the 37:11.580 --> 37:17.180 cookie in their hand they're like no what's in your hand nothing you're like what are you talking 37:17.180 --> 37:21.980 about right of course their lives get more intricate and they get more deceptive as they get older and 37:21.980 --> 37:28.060 so we need to preach against that bible says right go down to verse 113 of psalm 119 it says i hate 37:29.020 --> 37:35.260 vain thoughts but thy law do i love hey god doesn't even want you to just have like fleeting 37:35.260 --> 37:40.780 he wants you to be focused and on him now is that going to happen of course but you know what we need 37:40.780 --> 37:45.260 to just confess that sin and move on what's a vain thought when you're not thinking about the lord 37:45.260 --> 37:49.340 when you're not thinking about something that's productive and purposeful for your family for 37:49.340 --> 37:55.660 raising them for the admonition something that's going to be uh what is it um the word eluded me 37:55.660 --> 38:01.500 but prosperous or profitable thank you i don't know who said that but somebody read my mind the 38:01.500 --> 38:06.220 things that are going to be profitable for the things of god you don't want to just have vain 38:06.220 --> 38:14.220 thoughts psalm 119 verse 161 says princes have persecuted me without a cause but my heart standeth 38:14.220 --> 38:21.500 in awe of thy word hey we want to be in awe of god's word as a matter of fact it you know amos 38:21.500 --> 38:25.820 is one of those books that people don't read a lot unless your son is named amos you like how i 38:25.820 --> 38:30.460 tied that in there i was just kidding but and if your son's name amos you might read this but amos 38:30.460 --> 38:36.220 is actually really cool book it has really beautiful language but it's also a really stark like i mean 38:36.220 --> 38:41.180 a really hard message to take in we don't want to get to the point where we're a nation like the 38:41.180 --> 38:47.420 nation that is portrayed in the book of amos right it says there 161 says princes have persecuted me 38:47.420 --> 38:53.900 without a cause but my heart standeth in awe of thy word i rejoice at thy word as one that findeth 38:53.900 --> 39:02.780 great spoil i hate and abhor lying but thy law do i love hey it's for us to hate lying to abhor 39:02.780 --> 39:07.420 lying and to love what god's word you know the thing that we should think about in the morning 39:07.420 --> 39:10.620 is god's word the thing that we should think about at lunch is god's word the thing we should think 39:10.620 --> 39:16.220 about before we go to bed is god's word it's the thing that's going to change your life getting 39:16.220 --> 39:22.140 saved is a free gift but changing your life for christ requires that work that you got to be in 39:22.140 --> 39:28.540 god's word all the time i'll tell you what has if i could contribute anything to the success or growth 39:28.540 --> 39:34.860 that we've had is that the people that are in our church and even myself i'm just constantly pushing 39:34.860 --> 39:40.460 read your bible read your bible how many times should i read my bible more what do you mean by 39:40.460 --> 39:44.620 more just more than what you did yesterday but but i don't read my bible that much right now 39:44.620 --> 39:48.620 and read it more than what you did before what do you mean just read your bible you know if you 39:48.620 --> 39:53.660 only read four chapters a day you've heard this right that you can read the bible in in one year 39:54.220 --> 39:58.620 but you can also read the bible in one quarter you can read the bible in one month i mean just read 39:58.620 --> 40:04.140 your bible i mean how many what other activities are more important than reading your bible not 40:04.140 --> 40:09.340 many right other than going to church soul wedding spending time with your family in the fear and 40:09.340 --> 40:13.740 admonition of the lord but how do you learn all that reading your bible how do you get to that 40:13.740 --> 40:19.420 level reading your bible all right so my 19 is one of those great books that says hey it's all 40:19.420 --> 40:24.140 someone i'm sorry one is one of those great chapters that's all about god's word the longest 40:24.140 --> 40:31.820 chapter in the bible psalm 119 is all about what god's word right in the i love thy law i meditate 40:31.820 --> 40:40.060 on thy law you know i just think about thy law go to psalm 139 psalm 139 and the bible says there 40:40.060 --> 40:47.020 in verse 19 surely thou will slay the wicked so look surely means he's going to do it 40:47.820 --> 40:53.900 so don't worry about that oh god depart from me therefore ye bloody men for they speak against 40:53.900 --> 41:01.340 thee wickedly and thine enemies take thy name in vain do not i hate them oh lord that hate thee 41:02.140 --> 41:08.380 and am i not grieved with those that rise up against thee i hate them with a perfect hatred 41:08.380 --> 41:16.460 i count them my enemies search me oh god and know my heart try me and know my thoughts and see if 41:16.460 --> 41:21.100 there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting i like the ending of that because 41:21.100 --> 41:26.540 he's saying hey not only do i hate this stuff but search me and if i even match up anyway lead me 41:26.540 --> 41:30.220 in the way everlasting i don't even want to look like these guys i don't want to smell like these 41:30.220 --> 41:34.700 guys i don't you know like it says if it quacks like a duck looks like i don't even want to i don't 41:34.700 --> 41:39.740 want people to mistake me for a duck right i just want people to mistake me for someone that loves 41:39.740 --> 41:44.060 the lord and what's interesting when you read the bible these are great verses that you need to read 41:44.060 --> 41:51.820 because then it helps you balance out love your enemies right because people you know sometimes 41:51.820 --> 41:55.420 you say well you know i hate the queers and they're like well the bible says love your enemies well 41:55.420 --> 42:01.900 they're not my enemies they're god's enemies god says i can hate them that hate him i'm i'm 42:01.900 --> 42:06.700 i'm commanded to love my enemies so i'll give you a great example if i'm dealing with someone let's 42:06.700 --> 42:10.220 say i don't know that they're maybe at work i don't know that they're a sodomite or queer and they 42:10.220 --> 42:15.580 hate me well then i'm just supposed to be loving so maybe at that time they get lucky right they get 42:15.580 --> 42:19.580 some mercy from me because i didn't know but the minute i find out that they hate the lord 42:20.460 --> 42:26.220 it's open season it's open season i mean sometimes i got that attitude who ever had heard that 42:26.220 --> 42:30.540 attitude some people that say oh i wish i wish he would i wish he would look at me the wrong way 42:31.100 --> 42:35.740 i don't get that attitude very often but you know with people that hate god you know i wish they would 42:35.740 --> 42:39.820 so i could just let them have a piece of my mind right a piece of god's word like you know we're 42:39.820 --> 42:44.060 talking about how jehovah's witnesses come to the door i love what jehovah's witnesses come to my door 42:44.060 --> 42:48.620 there's nobody that i love kicking out of my door more than jehovah's witnesses it's like the minute 42:48.620 --> 42:53.580 they show up to my door i'm already like let's go let's get let's get out of here i remember one time 42:54.140 --> 42:58.620 it was christmas day and i had my wife's family over my brother-in-law was there i mean i had all 42:58.620 --> 43:01.900 of them but my brother-in-law was the one that really was like taking it back and jehovah's 43:01.900 --> 43:05.260 witnesses showed up to the door and you know that i don't know if you know this about jehovah's 43:05.260 --> 43:09.420 witnesses they always got like the seasoned guy and the rookie right and the rookie is the one that 43:09.420 --> 43:14.220 you get to talk to until he gets stuck and then the guy that knows everything supposedly he's the one 43:14.220 --> 43:19.100 that comes in for the save and so we're talking and i said look i don't want to talk to you guys you 43:19.100 --> 43:23.580 guys hate god you don't even believe you know you believe jesus was a creative being you know you 43:23.580 --> 43:27.340 guys are the worst you don't even use the king james bible and the other guy's like oh we we love 43:27.420 --> 43:31.420 i was like you know what get out of here and i just like ran them off they like i mean i followed 43:31.420 --> 43:34.780 them i'm like get the heck out of here you're going to hell you pieces of crap whatever i don't 43:34.780 --> 43:40.380 remember everything i said my brother-in-law came he's like he's like whoa dude you're crazy i was 43:40.380 --> 43:45.500 like no i'm not crazy i just hate those that hate god right those people are knocking doors 43:45.500 --> 43:50.460 because they think they're earning rewards in heaven by just clocking in hours ask me what is 43:50.460 --> 43:54.940 the purpose of a jehovah's witness who's ever had a productive conversation with jehovah's witness 43:54.940 --> 43:59.980 nobody right hey you at least you talk to me at the door you know that i'm telling you something 43:59.980 --> 44:05.020 i'm like hey i'm pulling you out of hell if you don't want to that's fine but here's my goal my 44:05.020 --> 44:10.780 goal is to teach you how to avoid hell for all eternity that's pretty clear-cut result right 44:10.780 --> 44:14.860 that i'm trying to give you if you don't like it well that's tough cookies right i don't know what 44:14.860 --> 44:19.660 to tell you then let's go to point number four go back to amos five go back to amos five actually 44:19.660 --> 44:23.020 don't go back to amos five sorry about that because i only have one verse there go to 44:25.180 --> 44:31.980 go to first kings go to first kings but point number four so first seeking god requires hating 44:31.980 --> 44:40.060 evil the world hates god because it is evil as a biblical christian and i would say as a biblical 44:40.060 --> 44:45.660 baptist i just even like more distinctiveness right as a biblical new independent fundamental baptist 44:46.300 --> 44:50.140 we're commanded to hate righteously and the point number four is people 44:52.140 --> 45:00.940 hate righteous preaching look even in our circles some sermons are just hated right and you need to 45:00.940 --> 45:05.980 get over the fact that that's not what you want to hate right i'm telling you here to hate stuff but 45:05.980 --> 45:10.780 you know what you shouldn't hate is when god's preaching hard to you whether you're reading it 45:10.780 --> 45:15.580 in the bible on your own or the preacher's getting up there i don't care if you like whether 45:15.580 --> 45:19.980 the preacher did a good job or not i don't care if you like the tone of his voice i don't care if you 45:19.980 --> 45:25.260 think it's too nasally or too raspy or too boring or too monotone hey if he's preaching god's word 45:25.980 --> 45:31.340 you got to stop hating that like it doesn't really matter i always tell our church i was like i don't 45:31.340 --> 45:35.500 know if i'm really the most the best preacher i don't know if i'm the most dynamic you know i look 45:35.580 --> 45:41.500 at other it's not good to compare but unfortunately on occasion you just like you do that and i don't 45:41.500 --> 45:45.820 know if i you know i'm really that dynamic or i get up and preach like that and i'm not there's no 45:45.820 --> 45:51.260 self-pity here that don't play that game we're men here i'm just saying but i what i would do know 45:51.260 --> 45:56.300 is that i preach god's word right and regardless of whether i jump from the pulpits or not or run up 45:56.300 --> 46:01.020 the the pews or not or whatever you're going to hear the truth for me and that's all that really 46:01.820 --> 46:06.380 matters right the reason that god has me here is for that purpose and anytime i go guest preach 46:06.380 --> 46:10.300 somewhere you know i get a little bit of imposter syndrome i get a little bit nervous you know i 46:10.300 --> 46:15.180 think about your church and the history it has and i think about your pastor at just like the beacon 46:15.180 --> 46:19.980 of light that he is in the world and then you start getting your own head but then i'm reminded hey god 46:19.980 --> 46:23.740 got mad at moses because he said moses you need to go and moses was like i'm not that good of a 46:23.740 --> 46:28.540 speaker and god's like i might have to take you out remember that story who remembers that for the 46:28.540 --> 46:33.420 foreskins and all that i mean that's kind of a wild story right god's chasing them and there's all 46:33.420 --> 46:38.700 like foreskins are thrown around it's like it's wild it's like whoa this is right but why was he 46:38.700 --> 46:43.580 mad because moses wasn't willing to preach so if god sends me somewhere i'm just going to preach 46:43.580 --> 46:48.460 god's work that's my whole goal right but you know what but you know i have to remind myself 46:48.460 --> 46:54.460 also that when i'm preaching god's word you know what people hate righteous preaching it doesn't 46:54.460 --> 47:00.060 matter if you say you you're you're this type of baptist or that type of baptist eventually 47:00.060 --> 47:03.740 somebody's going to pray at you you're going to be like i just need to be tough about it i had to 47:03.740 --> 47:10.060 turn to first kings but in ameth's five verse 10 the bible says they hate him that rebuketh in the 47:10.060 --> 47:18.140 gate and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly so look if you ever if you guys have men here that 47:18.140 --> 47:24.220 preach just commit that to memory somebody's going to hate you at the gate and abhor you for 47:24.220 --> 47:28.380 speaking up rightly it's just part of the game you know as a matter of fact where does the badge 47:28.380 --> 47:32.940 of honor i'm just like always thinking how many more people can i get to you know be pissed off at 47:32.940 --> 47:37.500 me like i mean let's just let's make it a game right but go to first kings 22 right there in verse 47:37.500 --> 47:45.820 seven it says and jehosaphat said is there not here a prophet of the lord beside that we might inquire 47:45.820 --> 47:51.340 of him and in case you don't know the story ahab and jehosaphat they're going to go to war and all 47:51.420 --> 47:56.620 the you know the milly mouth prophets are like oh yeah go it's great there are a bunch of yes men 47:56.620 --> 48:01.500 you know you can do awesome but jehosaphat's like he's probably like his guts telling him maybe 48:01.500 --> 48:06.700 we're off and what did he say and the king of israel sent to jehosaphat there is yet one man 48:07.260 --> 48:15.020 makiah the son of imla by whom we may inquire of the lord but i hate him for he does not prophesy 48:15.100 --> 48:22.220 concerning me but evil and jehosaphat said let not the king say so why did he hate him because he 48:22.220 --> 48:27.660 he just preached the truth and they have you that he was in the wrong right you don't have to turn 48:27.660 --> 48:34.620 there go to psalm 86 go to psalm 86 but psalm 69 verse 14 the bible says deliver me out of the mire 48:35.500 --> 48:41.980 let me not sink let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters the reason 48:41.980 --> 48:45.900 i picked this verse to follow the weather just this because what happened to makiah he was mad at 48:45.900 --> 48:50.220 him and remember they they threw him and he's like well he's like i'll come back and deal with you 48:50.220 --> 48:54.940 he's like you might not even see me ever again all right remember that and and so the lord's always 48:54.940 --> 48:59.900 going to deliver us from that stuff proverbs 9 verse 8 the bible says reprove not a scorner lest 48:59.900 --> 49:05.980 he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee unfortunately when we get up and preach i 49:05.980 --> 49:10.860 don't know who's wise and i don't know who's a scorner but it's my duty to preach but ultimately 49:10.860 --> 49:15.820 we want a church of wise people but you know what the bible says he that when his souls is wise 49:15.820 --> 49:20.620 so soul winning church is going to have more wise people than it is fools in his church right 49:21.420 --> 49:29.660 in galatians 4 the bible says there verse 12 says brethren i beseech you be as i am for i am as you 49:29.660 --> 49:35.180 are you have not injured me at all you know how through infirmity of the flesh i preach the gospel 49:35.180 --> 49:41.740 unto you at the first and my temptation which was in my flesh he despised not nor rejected but 49:41.740 --> 49:50.300 received me as an angel of god even as christ jesus where is then the the blessedness you spake of for i 49:50.300 --> 49:56.860 bear you record that if had been possible you would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them 49:56.860 --> 50:03.660 to me am i therefore become your enemy because i tell you the truth and i love the reason i pick 50:03.660 --> 50:09.500 this here is i love this because this is exactly as a if you've been in church long enough and if 50:09.500 --> 50:14.300 you're serving the lord and you're doing things because it's not just for the pastor but even for 50:14.300 --> 50:17.660 people that are just in leadership they're doing great things for the lord you're always going to 50:17.660 --> 50:22.700 have those people that are like oh that's a great job you're doing i got your back we're going to 50:22.700 --> 50:26.700 you know we're just going to do these great things he says i'll even take out my own eyes 50:27.260 --> 50:31.340 pastor if you need them if you ever go blind i'll give you my sight he's that's what he's saying 50:31.980 --> 50:36.460 but then the minute i tell you the truth i become your enemy you know you want to watch out for that 50:36.460 --> 50:41.020 those people that are all excited they're all talk for you but then the minute things get real 50:42.140 --> 50:47.180 they're no longer your friends so just be ready you know i tell my church all the time i tell you 50:47.180 --> 50:52.140 right now because this is across the board anybody that i meet this happened maybe 50:53.180 --> 50:58.540 15 20 years ago because in business business is pretty cutthroat you know i come from the 50:58.540 --> 51:03.500 investment banking world where you raise money and it's all about greed and you know people love 51:03.500 --> 51:08.540 those movies like you know the one that michael douglas did what was it called i don't remember 51:08.540 --> 51:14.300 who remembers micro anyways it's all about greed that's the line that that's famous in that movie 51:14.300 --> 51:19.100 but you know it's pretty cutthroat and so i just came to the conclusion one time many years ago 51:19.100 --> 51:24.140 and then the bible just backed it up i just happened to be biblical at that point but that 51:24.140 --> 51:29.900 every relationship that i have in my life outside of my wife is i just expect to just get back stabbed 51:29.900 --> 51:34.300 and screwed and so it just makes my life easy because then i don't have to worry about you know 51:34.300 --> 51:38.460 letting my guard down and being your friend and loving on you because i just know that no matter 51:38.460 --> 51:42.780 what i do you might still stab me on the back and then that way i could just go to wet you know go 51:42.780 --> 51:46.780 to sleep comfortable at night if you ever backstab me i won't be that shocked and i'll just be able 51:46.780 --> 51:50.380 to move on with my life i'm not going to worry about it and all that stuff so maybe that's a good 51:50.380 --> 51:53.660 attitude for some of you guys to have like don't worry about how people are going to treat you 51:53.660 --> 51:58.780 because human nature is that you know we're all going to fail in some way form or fashion so 51:59.580 --> 52:04.300 i don't know if if somebody needed that but that's why i said it so go to psalm 86 i had to turn 52:04.300 --> 52:13.580 there in psalm 86 right there in verse 14 the bible says there in verse 14 says oh god 52:14.540 --> 52:21.420 the proud are risen against me and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul 52:22.380 --> 52:28.860 and have not set thee before them but thou oh lord are a god full of compassion and gracious 52:29.420 --> 52:36.380 long-suffering and plenteous in mercy and truth oh turn unto me and have mercy upon me give thy 52:36.380 --> 52:41.900 strength unto thy servant and save the son of thine handmaid show me a token for good 52:42.620 --> 52:49.420 that they which have hate that they which hate me see it and be ashamed because thou lord has 52:49.420 --> 52:56.300 hope in me and comforted me so you know you're going to have a token of good but only if somebody's 52:56.300 --> 53:01.900 hating you so i'm not telling you to go pick a fight and i think i said this morning but you don't 53:01.900 --> 53:07.820 have to like every time we preach god's word somebody's hate it right and it doesn't matter if 53:07.820 --> 53:13.180 you think somebody's listening or not i always think of the book isaiah in chapter six where 53:13.180 --> 53:17.660 isaiah says hey how long lord how long do you want me to preach and he says until the streets be 53:17.660 --> 53:22.940 desolate and there be no more inhabitants so our duty is just to preach the word you know it doesn't 53:22.940 --> 53:27.740 matter if there's a big audience or a small audience once the word gets out the devil is 53:27.740 --> 53:33.100 going to get pissed right and he's going to send somebody to hate you but he's also going to be 53:33.100 --> 53:39.660 merciful and gracious and watch over us so it's our duty to just obey the lord to submit to his 53:39.660 --> 53:45.740 authority and just do what he says and you know what god wants us to hate certain things he wants 53:45.740 --> 53:52.300 us to have a hateful attitude at times right point number five is god himself hates and i know 53:52.300 --> 53:56.620 i've made this earlier but i just want to drive that point home repetition is the mother of skill 53:57.180 --> 54:00.700 and i might i've heard several variations of this so if you think it's not the right one 54:01.340 --> 54:06.220 just you you quote the one that you think is right but it's the mother of skill right it's the father 54:06.220 --> 54:13.820 of learning and it's the grandfather of character right repetition repetition repetition god hates 54:13.820 --> 54:18.940 things there's things that god does hate just like god so loved the world that he gave his only 54:18.940 --> 54:23.980 begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but everlasting life he also hates those 54:23.980 --> 54:29.740 that work iniquity he hates lying he hates things go to proverbs six go to proverbs six 54:31.660 --> 54:37.500 go to proverbs six but in jeremiah 44 verse four the bible says how be it i sent unto you all my 54:38.140 --> 54:48.220 the prophets rising early and sending them saying oh do not this abominable thing that i hate hey 54:48.220 --> 54:54.220 don't do this thing that i hate proverbs six verse 16 the bible says these things these six things 54:54.220 --> 55:01.580 doth the lord hate ye seven are an abomination unto him a proud look a lying tongue and hands that 55:01.580 --> 55:08.620 shed innocent blood a heart that diviseth wicked imaginations feet that be swift in running to 55:08.620 --> 55:15.740 mischief a false witness that speaketh lies and he that soweth discord among the brethren it's 55:15.740 --> 55:21.900 interesting because that last one doesn't feel like it fits but it fits right if god threw it in there 55:21.900 --> 55:29.580 it fits perfectly for the sake of time go over go back to amos five but i'm just going to read 55:29.580 --> 55:34.220 off a bunch of verses just to prove the point that god hates psalm five verse four the bible says for 55:34.220 --> 55:40.460 thou art not a god that hath pleasure and wickedness neither shall evil dwell with thee the foolish shall 55:40.460 --> 55:49.740 not stand in thy sight thou hatest all workers of iniquity thou shall destroy them that speak leasing 55:49.740 --> 55:58.300 the lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man the lord doesn't like that he hates it malachi 2 55:58.300 --> 56:04.860 16 says for the lord the god of israel saith that he hated putting away for one covereth violence 56:04.860 --> 56:10.700 with his government garment saith the lord of hosts therefore take heed to your spirit that ye deal not 56:10.700 --> 56:16.780 treacherously and by the way this has been a contention hasn't it about divorce and you know 56:16.780 --> 56:23.020 whether the wife can leave or not well the bible is clear god hates it right you know it's not an 56:23.020 --> 56:27.820 option for me there's a lot of things that might be an option in my marriage with my wife but you 56:27.820 --> 56:34.540 know what's not an option divorce the lord hates it i tell my wife all the time you know if you leave 56:34.540 --> 56:39.020 me i'm coming with you so might as well just we'll figure this thing out right it's never been an 56:39.020 --> 56:44.380 option you know whenever we have issues as a marriage and by the way we have a normal marriage 56:44.380 --> 56:49.020 like my wife and i fight you know i love my wife because she's fiery and but what comes with that is 56:49.020 --> 56:52.700 you know sometimes it comes a little bit of tug of bull but you know what's never an option 56:53.660 --> 56:58.620 is divorce i never think oh man that was such a horrible fight that i just i don't want my wife 56:58.620 --> 57:03.580 anymore i'm most of the time i'm like that was such a horrible fight how can i love my wife better how 57:03.580 --> 57:08.220 can i serve her better you know after the anger and the pride and everything you know calms down 57:08.220 --> 57:13.180 because we're all human but by the way just in case you guys get the wrong idea i love my wife we 57:13.180 --> 57:17.740 have a great relationship she's the best thing that's ever happened to me i don't know how i got so 57:17.740 --> 57:23.340 lucky and if you think that i'm embellishing just call my parents because my parents always tell me 57:23.340 --> 57:28.860 that i hit the lottery my wife can do no harm uh it's a matter of fact i hate having a fight with 57:28.860 --> 57:33.660 my wife in front of my parents because it seems like they love her more than me i don't ever i don't 57:33.660 --> 57:38.700 get it they're like leave her alone she's the best thing i'm like yeah but she's also human guys like 57:38.700 --> 57:44.700 let me just let's get this thing straight here so just on a side note but zechariah 8 17 coming back 57:44.700 --> 57:49.420 to the point of hate says and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor 57:50.060 --> 57:58.300 and love no false oath for all these things that i hate sayeth the lord and then we saw this earlier 57:58.300 --> 58:04.140 today in revelation two verse six the bible says but this thou hast that thou hatest the deeds of 58:04.140 --> 58:10.860 the nickeliteans which i also hate hey god says hey i'm going to line up with you if you hate this and i 58:10.860 --> 58:18.780 hate it let's go verse 15 says so that has thou also them that hold the doctrine of the 58:18.780 --> 58:26.460 delinquent nickeliteans which things i hate he said it twice he said hey you hate them and i hate them 58:26.460 --> 58:33.980 and that's a good thing right god wants us to hate certain things and so i don't know my oh yeah 58:34.460 --> 58:41.420 uh and so just in recapping as we start to close this thing out seeking god requires hating evil 58:42.620 --> 58:48.700 the world hates god because it's evil and i'm talking just the world in general and they do 58:48.700 --> 58:53.420 right nobody likes to be told what to do everybody has opinion the minute you bring the bible and 58:53.420 --> 58:59.260 got into the equation it no longer matches up talk to a republican who's pro-christian about the bible 58:59.340 --> 59:04.300 and you'll see how much hate you get i used to be in politics many many many years ago and i'm just 59:04.300 --> 59:08.620 telling you they do not like god you know it's just i don't care what the republicans say they're just 59:08.620 --> 59:14.380 as evil as the democrats biblical christians are commanded to hate righteously people hate 59:14.380 --> 59:20.860 righteous preaching but also remind yourself god himself hates and he hates specific things god 59:20.860 --> 59:27.900 hates point number six god hates false worship hey don't just show up and be fake right 59:29.340 --> 59:32.700 you don't have to like uh obviously archers wouldn't do that we don't have to be like the 59:32.700 --> 59:37.180 charismatics nobody needs to jump up and run around or anything when i'm you know if you think the 59:37.180 --> 59:42.220 preach is good but just don't be fake with god bible says ever and amos 5 verse 21 and you can 59:42.220 --> 59:48.380 turn over to isaiah 1 and amos 5 verse 21 the bible says i hate i despise your feast days 59:49.100 --> 59:54.780 and i will not smell in your solemn assemblies he's like i don't you're doing all the things that 59:54.780 --> 59:59.980 you're supposed to be doing but your heart's in the wrong place i hate it it'd be better if you 59:59.980 --> 01:00:07.180 didn't do it right who you know i'm not it's not the equivalent but it's a good example you know i 01:00:07.180 --> 01:00:11.260 love having kids because they give you a lot of good examples for the bible you know you tell your 01:00:11.260 --> 01:00:17.340 kids to clean up who hates the kid that goes to clean up and it's like and they're like 01:00:19.180 --> 01:00:23.900 and then what do you do you get mad it's like hey i didn't ask it's not like a suggestion 01:00:23.900 --> 01:00:28.620 for you to clean your room and i didn't you know you better have a good attitude like you don't pay 01:00:28.620 --> 01:00:34.780 rent i feed you you got like this great life the least you could do is just clean your room and be 01:00:34.780 --> 01:00:38.860 have a good attitude about it right that's kind of like how god i think sometimes looks at us you 01:00:38.860 --> 01:00:42.620 know god says hey don't here's the bible here's all these things you're supposed to do you're like 01:00:43.340 --> 01:00:48.620 i don't know if i like that one well god's not asking you if you like it he says get on the program 01:00:49.260 --> 01:00:56.220 do it right isaiah 1 verse 13 the bible says bring no more vain ablations incense is an 01:00:56.220 --> 01:01:03.260 abomination unto me the new moons and sabbaths the calling of assemblies i cannot away with 01:01:03.820 --> 01:01:09.980 it is iniquity even the solemn meeting your new moons and your appointed feast my soul 01:01:10.860 --> 01:01:19.100 hateth they are trouble unto me i am weary to bear them i mean god's soul is like i just hate it 01:01:19.980 --> 01:01:24.460 because at this point if you know the bible by the time they get to isaiah they're just doing 01:01:24.460 --> 01:01:29.980 things to just do them they look worse than the world right in matthew seven verse 22 01:01:30.940 --> 01:01:34.940 in matthew seven verse 22 you don't have to turn them for the second time says many will say to me 01:01:34.940 --> 01:01:40.460 that day lord lord have we not prophesied in thy name and then they name have cast out devils and in 01:01:40.460 --> 01:01:45.180 thy name done many wonderful works and then i will profess unto them i never knew you 01:01:46.060 --> 01:01:51.100 depart from me ye that work iniquity you said well you used the word hate well look if you never knew 01:01:51.100 --> 01:01:56.620 you and he's like doesn't want anything to do with you that's pretty hateful right who hates being 01:01:56.620 --> 01:02:01.740 rejected i mean nobody likes being rejected but it's usually a sign because you know that that 01:02:01.740 --> 01:02:05.500 person like might have disdain or hate god saying i don't even want to deal with you 01:02:06.060 --> 01:02:11.820 titus 116 the bible says they profess that they know god but in their works that they not they not 01:02:11.820 --> 01:02:20.540 they deny him being abominable and disobedient unto every good work reprobate just because 01:02:20.540 --> 01:02:26.700 they're doing what the world calls a good work their reprobate mother therese is burning in hell 01:02:26.700 --> 01:02:31.020 mother therese was no mother and she was no therese like i don't because you know that's how 01:02:31.020 --> 01:02:35.740 people tie oh mother therese mother therese is in hell let me just let you know that she hated the 01:02:35.740 --> 01:02:42.540 lord jesus christ and you need a hater as well right deuteronomy 12 verse 31 the bible says thou 01:02:42.540 --> 01:02:49.020 shall not do so unto the lord thy god for every abomination to the lord which he hated they have 01:02:49.020 --> 01:02:54.460 done unto their gods for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods 01:02:55.020 --> 01:02:57.820 and i'm not going to read the whole list i'm going to just get to the last point we'll close this 01:02:57.980 --> 01:03:01.980 thing out but i mean if you want to i can just send you the verses or you can just look them up 01:03:01.980 --> 01:03:07.100 you know in the day of technology if you can't find this stuff i'm just like i don't know what 01:03:07.100 --> 01:03:13.180 just ask chat gpt okay if you don't like chat gpt ask whatever aie that it'll filter it out for you 01:03:13.900 --> 01:03:24.300 point number seven discipleship requires supreme love for christ right you think about john six go 01:03:24.940 --> 01:03:30.940 go over to luke 14 go to luke 14 this is where i'll close out but you go to john you think about 01:03:30.940 --> 01:03:36.940 john six and and towards the end of john six it says and many of his disciples walked with him no 01:03:36.940 --> 01:03:41.500 more remember when he says hey you know you need to eat my flesh and you need to drink my blood 01:03:41.500 --> 01:03:44.940 and they're really offended he basically saying i'm god i'm the remission of says 01:03:45.500 --> 01:03:48.700 and then he turns to the apostles and he's like and the rest of the disciples that were left over 01:03:48.700 --> 01:03:54.220 he's like does this thing offend you right you just think about these things and what was what's 01:03:54.220 --> 01:03:59.100 really what was the cause of them leaving because it was extreme you know serving the lord is an 01:03:59.100 --> 01:04:08.060 extreme thing serving them righteously is it's hard work right it's a many of you have plugged into 01:04:08.060 --> 01:04:13.020 church later in life many of you have done things in life maybe you had jobs you had family you have 01:04:13.020 --> 01:04:20.540 friends that you no longer have why because you made the sacrifice to be holy to serve the lord 01:04:20.540 --> 01:04:26.940 jesus christ it's not an easy thing to live this life but it's easy if you put it on god's 01:04:26.940 --> 01:04:32.380 shoulders right the thing is most of most of the time we try to carry this instead of the opposite 01:04:32.380 --> 01:04:36.700 we just got to leave it on the lord's hands right go to luke 14 right there in verse 26 the bible 01:04:36.700 --> 01:04:48.220 says if any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren 01:04:48.220 --> 01:04:56.060 and sisters yay and his own life also he cannot be my disciple and whosoever does not bear his cross 01:04:56.620 --> 01:05:02.540 and come after me cannot be my disciple now for many years this was a difficult verse for me 01:05:02.540 --> 01:05:07.900 because i mean this is extreme what do you mean i have to hate my wife and my mother and and my 01:05:08.540 --> 01:05:15.020 father and my children and my brethren but this is talking about discipleship right and he's saying 01:05:15.020 --> 01:05:20.060 look you've got to be willing to lose it all to get it all back right he that will lose his life 01:05:20.060 --> 01:05:26.620 shall gain it for his sake right and so this verse was difficult for me but or over time 01:05:27.180 --> 01:05:31.900 it really like if you study this verse out this is just i'm not giving you dogmatic doctrine here 01:05:31.900 --> 01:05:36.700 but i'm just giving you my opinion based on what i've read here many times you got to hate the fact 01:05:36.700 --> 01:05:43.100 that people are lost right we don't have compassion for the loss this verse makes no sense right 01:05:43.740 --> 01:05:48.860 and but you also got to hate the fact that some people are reprobate you know you have the extremes 01:05:48.860 --> 01:05:53.580 because see if you live in the middle ground then you have no passion for the loss that's why people 01:05:53.580 --> 01:05:59.740 don't go so any 90 of people will never knock knock a door you know why because they're just like 01:06:01.420 --> 01:06:09.900 indifferent apathy has set in they just they don't care my life is great i have a job i have food so 01:06:09.900 --> 01:06:16.300 who cares about the rest of the world but god said hey if you want to bear this cross and be my 01:06:16.300 --> 01:06:21.260 disciple you've got to hate these things now that doesn't mean that i hate my wife it just means that 01:06:21.260 --> 01:06:26.780 i'm willing to lose it all for the cause of christ but you know what's interesting if you do that 01:06:26.780 --> 01:06:31.340 what does god do he's going to reward you with all these things you know i personally i'm not 01:06:31.340 --> 01:06:35.500 saying that for everybody but personally i have a great relationship with my mom i have a relationship 01:06:35.500 --> 01:06:39.580 with my dad but it wasn't always like that when i first got saved they didn't really understand 01:06:39.580 --> 01:06:45.900 my commitment to this cause right my wanting to preach and soul win and all this stuff my wife 01:06:45.980 --> 01:06:51.980 and soul win and all this stuff my wife when we met it was kind of interesting like we had so much 01:06:51.980 --> 01:06:56.860 opposition just you know her mother and father hated me and her family hated me and now i have 01:06:56.860 --> 01:07:01.660 a great relationship with them but we we had a common cause was jesus christ right i love my 01:07:01.660 --> 01:07:07.180 children but hey i told my children christ comes first i they're young right now but i tell them 01:07:07.180 --> 01:07:13.020 hey don't live under the illusion and i'm gonna back you if you decide to go against god if you go 01:07:13.020 --> 01:07:18.540 against god i'm on god's side i'm just telling you right now i'm telling from a young age because 01:07:18.540 --> 01:07:23.340 we don't know what kind of decisions are going to make in life right so it's important to just 01:07:23.340 --> 01:07:27.980 have a balance and balanced view of these biblical doctrines right we need to hate 01:07:28.620 --> 01:07:34.780 in order to balance out love because if not it's not really love it's just your emotions right 01:07:35.340 --> 01:07:40.460 you know how can we love something if there's not an enemy of love which is hate you know how can we 01:07:40.460 --> 01:07:46.620 love souls we don't hate hell right i mean i got saved because i was afraid of hell i just 01:07:46.620 --> 01:07:51.180 didn't want to go to hell i don't want to go to hell i'm glad i'm not going to hell how can we love 01:07:51.180 --> 01:07:58.300 light if we don't hate darkness you know everyone hates even those that lie and tell you they don't 01:07:58.300 --> 01:08:04.380 everybody hates you know the crowd that that's uh what is it love wins they hate the most 01:08:04.380 --> 01:08:10.540 i mean they actually hate you they want you to be destroyed if it was up to them they could push a 01:08:10.540 --> 01:08:15.100 button you know everybody's so mad i i don't remember which preacher preached i think it was 01:08:15.100 --> 01:08:19.100 pastor anderson or pastor thompson said if i had a button and i could just push it so that all the 01:08:19.100 --> 01:08:23.660 queers would die i would push it until my finger broke remember that one but you know what on their 01:08:23.660 --> 01:08:30.460 end they wish they had multiple buttons to push just to kill every single one of you right because 01:08:31.100 --> 01:08:34.300 they don't care about your life they don't care about you and i'm not making it just about the 01:08:34.300 --> 01:08:40.060 queers but they're like the most hateful people of all right that and jews right like they they hate 01:08:40.060 --> 01:08:47.420 everything about anything that we say well i don't hate uh well i hate the jewish religion you know 01:08:47.420 --> 01:08:50.780 if they want to get saved great but you know who's not going to get saved the reprobate 01:08:51.580 --> 01:08:56.220 so it's not like there's a choice for them so i just hate them i do hate all reprobates right god 01:08:56.220 --> 01:09:01.100 said to hate them all so i'm not even worried about it but in closing i gave you all the points i 01:09:01.100 --> 01:09:08.220 think i went over them is that we just need to stop loving what god hates right we see example 01:09:08.220 --> 01:09:14.940 after example in the old testament and in the new of people who just compromise on their morals 01:09:14.940 --> 01:09:20.700 compromise on the word of god and god hates it and it's up to us to toe the line you know we're in a 01:09:20.700 --> 01:09:26.860 good i guess period in in american history right now where there seems to be the tide is changing 01:09:28.620 --> 01:09:36.540 but don't get don't uh don't get easy on your laurels don't rest because you know what history 01:09:36.540 --> 01:09:42.780 has shown us is it just like it's coming up it'll go down and just give it some time and we're back 01:09:42.780 --> 01:09:46.860 to where we started but we need to stick to the word of god so let's close in a word of prayer 01:09:46.860 --> 01:09:50.540 heavenly father lord thank you so much for your time and we're going to close with a prayer 01:09:50.540 --> 01:09:54.940 thank you so much for today thank you for your blessings lord thank you for the opportunity to 01:09:54.940 --> 01:10:01.020 preach here at first works baptist church thank you for the invitation but also lord thank you for 01:10:01.900 --> 01:10:08.060 just every one of the members here lord i pray that you would encourage them in the fight and that you 01:10:08.060 --> 01:10:14.780 would remind them that you're with them and that they just need to hold fast and hold true to your 01:10:15.740 --> 01:10:22.700 every bit of it every jot and every tittle and the good parts and the what we would consider bad 01:10:22.700 --> 01:10:28.220 parts but they're great parts lord thank you for your word thank you for giving us free grace and 01:10:28.220 --> 01:10:32.540 salvation and thank you for the great time of fellowship and great sunday and bless all the 01:10:32.540 --> 01:10:36.300 soul winners out in beliefs lord pulling people out of the fire and just bless all the soul 01:10:36.300 --> 01:10:41.180 winners everywhere even the soul winning uh contribution today with the church members here 01:10:41.900 --> 01:10:46.620 also winning is good so winning so thank you lord for all of that in jesus name we pray amen 01:10:52.060 --> 01:11:01.020 amen song number one 208 grace greater than our sin song number 208