WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 Good morning. 00:02.000 --> 00:06.100 Go ahead and open your Bibles to Proverbs 28. 00:06.100 --> 00:10.860 Proverbs 28, there should be a Bible in a seat in front of you if you need one. 00:10.860 --> 00:16.740 Proverbs 28, the Bible reads, The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are 00:16.740 --> 00:18.700 bold as a lion. 00:18.700 --> 00:24.360 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof, but by a man of understanding 00:24.360 --> 00:27.900 and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged. 00:27.940 --> 00:33.980 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveeth no food. 00:33.980 --> 00:40.020 They that forsake the law praise the wicked, but such as keep the law contend with them. 00:40.020 --> 00:45.340 Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things. 00:45.340 --> 00:51.700 Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness than he that is perverse in his ways, though 00:51.700 --> 00:53.300 he be rich. 00:53.300 --> 01:00.220 Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son, but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth 01:00.220 --> 01:01.620 his father. 01:01.620 --> 01:08.860 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseeth his substance, he shall gather it for that 01:08.860 --> 01:10.700 will pity the poor. 01:10.700 --> 01:16.620 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination. 01:16.620 --> 01:22.660 Whoso causeth the uprightness to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into 01:22.700 --> 01:27.940 his own pit, but the upright shall have good things in possession. 01:27.940 --> 01:33.420 The rich man is wise in his own conceit, but the poor that have understanding searcheth 01:33.420 --> 01:34.740 him out. 01:34.740 --> 01:41.380 When a righteous man do rejoice there is great glory, but when the wicked rise a man is hidden. 01:41.380 --> 01:47.780 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall 01:47.780 --> 01:49.500 have mercy. 01:49.500 --> 01:55.980 Happy is the man that fearth all way, but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into 01:55.980 --> 01:57.340 mischief. 01:57.340 --> 02:04.620 As a roaring lion and a raging bear, so is a wicked ruler over the poor people. 02:04.620 --> 02:11.780 The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor, but he that hateth covetousness 02:11.780 --> 02:13.620 shall prolong his days. 02:13.620 --> 02:18.860 A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit. 02:18.900 --> 02:20.940 Let no man stay him. 02:20.940 --> 02:26.700 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved, but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall 02:26.700 --> 02:27.900 at once. 02:27.900 --> 02:33.580 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread, but he that followeth after vain 02:33.580 --> 02:36.500 persons shall have poverty enough. 02:36.500 --> 02:42.340 A faithful man shall bound with blessings, but he that maketh haste to be rich shall 02:42.340 --> 02:44.140 not be innocent. 02:44.140 --> 02:52.820 To have respect of persons is not good for a piece of bread that man will transgress. 02:52.820 --> 02:58.800 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come 02:58.800 --> 03:00.100 upon him. 03:00.100 --> 03:05.740 He that rebukeeth a man afterwards shall find more favor than he that flattereth with the 03:05.740 --> 03:06.740 tongue. 03:06.740 --> 03:11.720 Whoso robeth his father or his mother and sayeth, It is no transgression. 03:11.720 --> 03:15.040 The same is the commandment of a destroyer. 03:15.040 --> 03:20.760 He that is of a proud heart stirth up strife, but he that putteth his trust in the Lord 03:20.760 --> 03:22.480 shall be made fat. 03:22.480 --> 03:29.800 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool, but whoso walketh wisely he shall be delivered. 03:29.800 --> 03:35.000 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack, but he that hideeth his eyes shall have many 03:35.000 --> 03:36.260 a curse. 03:36.260 --> 03:41.360 When a wicked rise men hide themselves, but when they perish the righteous increase. 03:41.400 --> 03:43.400 Brother Bill, if you could please pray for us. 03:43.400 --> 03:45.400 Heavenly Father, thank you for the reading of the Word. 03:45.400 --> 03:49.400 We pray that you understand it and apply it through our lives. 03:49.400 --> 03:51.400 We pray that you fill the path of the gospel to the Holy Ghost. 03:51.400 --> 03:55.400 We preach an edifying sermon to us and bless us here today. 03:55.400 --> 03:57.400 We pray Amen. 03:57.400 --> 03:59.400 Amen. 03:59.440 --> 04:05.440 That's the Book of Proverbs. 04:05.440 --> 04:11.440 But this morning I'm preaching a sermon titled Covering Sin. 04:11.440 --> 04:13.440 Covering Sin. 04:13.440 --> 04:17.440 Now, there's two main concepts of the Bible about covering sin. 04:17.440 --> 04:23.440 And you would think that it's always a negative connotation, but it also is a positive, there's 04:23.440 --> 04:25.440 a positive covering of sin. 04:25.440 --> 04:27.440 It's when our sins actually get covered. 04:27.480 --> 04:33.480 And so, you know, the first type of sin that's covered is sin that leads to failure. 04:33.480 --> 04:35.480 Sin that leads to failure. 04:35.480 --> 04:41.480 And then the second type is God's grace that covers sin. 04:41.480 --> 04:45.480 So I'm going to talk about both these concepts this morning. 04:45.480 --> 04:47.480 And so point number one, I'll just get right into it. 04:47.480 --> 04:51.480 Concealing sin that leads to failure is my first point. 04:51.480 --> 04:54.480 I only have two points this morning, and this is number one. 04:54.520 --> 04:56.520 Let's look down in our Bibles at verse number 13. 04:56.520 --> 05:04.520 The Bible says, He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and forsaketh. 05:04.520 --> 05:08.520 Oh, OK, I guess we're having technical difficulties. 05:08.520 --> 05:14.520 Oh, that helps if I plug the microphone in. 05:14.520 --> 05:16.520 Good night. 05:19.520 --> 05:21.520 Are you guys having trouble hearing? 05:21.560 --> 05:23.560 Are you guys having trouble hearing? 05:23.560 --> 05:25.560 Sorry about that. 05:25.560 --> 05:29.560 All right, let me get this fixed here. 05:33.560 --> 05:35.560 It helps if you grab the actual mic. 05:35.560 --> 05:39.560 All right, so can you put me on the mic again? 05:39.560 --> 05:40.560 Am I on the mic? 05:40.560 --> 05:41.560 Can you hear me? 05:41.560 --> 05:42.560 Check, check, check. 05:42.560 --> 05:43.560 OK, all right. 05:43.560 --> 05:48.560 So Proverbs 28 verse 13, the Bible says, He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, 05:48.600 --> 05:52.600 but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. 05:52.600 --> 05:56.600 So here you have both concepts here in this Proverb. 05:56.600 --> 06:00.600 So if you think that you're going to sin and just cover those things up, 06:00.600 --> 06:02.600 bad things are going to happen. 06:02.600 --> 06:04.600 Bad things are coming your way. 06:04.600 --> 06:06.600 God is not going to just put up with it forever. 06:06.600 --> 06:08.600 He will judge your sin. 06:08.600 --> 06:14.600 But then the second part of that is that whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. 06:14.640 --> 06:16.640 So we have a God that's merciful towards us. 06:16.640 --> 06:22.640 And even when we do sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous. 06:22.640 --> 06:26.640 And He is our High Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. 06:26.640 --> 06:30.640 And He ever liveth to make intercession for us. 06:30.640 --> 06:38.640 But if we're just sinning and just trying to just hang on to that sin and refusing to get right, 06:38.640 --> 06:41.640 knowing that you're wrong but your heart is just hardened, 06:41.680 --> 06:44.680 God will then cloud up and rain on you. 06:44.680 --> 06:51.680 So it's just like if you're not a very forgiving person in this world as a Christian, 06:51.680 --> 06:53.680 the Bible says that we are supposed to forgive those. 06:53.680 --> 06:59.680 We ask God to forgive us our sins as we forgive those that trespass against us. 06:59.680 --> 07:02.680 Trespassing, meaning sinning against us. 07:02.680 --> 07:07.680 When people do something to you and then you, instead of forgiving them, 07:07.720 --> 07:10.720 you just continue to bear a grudge and get bitter, 07:10.720 --> 07:12.720 then you're not right with God. 07:12.720 --> 07:13.720 It's just plain and simple. 07:13.720 --> 07:17.720 And so when we have that kind of an attitude, it's just like, oh, I don't care. 07:17.720 --> 07:23.720 You just come up with whatever excuse you want to just continue to hate that person. 07:23.720 --> 07:25.720 That's a wicked attitude. 07:25.720 --> 07:28.720 And the Bible says that if you don't forgive others or trespasses, 07:28.720 --> 07:30.720 then God won't forgive you yours. 07:30.720 --> 07:33.720 And so that doesn't mean that overall you won't be saved. 07:33.760 --> 07:35.760 It just means the things that you do on this earth, 07:35.760 --> 07:40.760 say someone steals from you and then you're stealing from other people 07:40.760 --> 07:43.760 and you don't have mercy on that person when they ask you to forgive them, 07:43.760 --> 07:46.760 you're not going to get mercy when you're doing the same stuff. 07:46.760 --> 07:50.760 So that's basically how God looks at it. 07:50.760 --> 07:56.760 And so the best baseline for Christians is to try to be as forgiving as possible 07:56.760 --> 07:59.760 because look, God forgave us a huge debt. 07:59.760 --> 08:01.760 A debt that we could never repay. 08:01.800 --> 08:04.800 And it's a debt that is paid by the blood of Christ. 08:04.800 --> 08:05.800 I get that. 08:05.800 --> 08:08.800 But when we have this attitude that we're better than other people, 08:08.800 --> 08:12.800 we get up on a high horse and act like I would never do that, 08:12.800 --> 08:15.800 hey, take heed lest you fall, the Bible says. 08:15.800 --> 08:20.800 So we always have to have this kind of attitude as being forgiving towards others. 08:20.800 --> 08:25.800 Now I'm not saying if someone is some serial killer and kills your family, 08:25.800 --> 08:27.800 I don't think that it's wise to get up in court and say, 08:27.800 --> 08:28.800 I forgive you. 08:28.800 --> 08:29.800 I forgive you. 08:29.840 --> 08:31.840 I don't think that it's wise to get up in court and say, 08:31.840 --> 08:33.840 I forgive you, Jeffrey Dahmer, or whatever. 08:33.840 --> 08:34.840 That's ridiculous. 08:34.840 --> 08:37.840 You know, nobody's going to forgive that. 08:37.840 --> 08:43.840 And I think that sometimes Christians are used as tools of the devil 08:43.840 --> 08:45.840 to do these types of things to make you think that, 08:45.840 --> 08:48.840 oh yeah, these serial killers could be saved too. 08:48.840 --> 08:49.840 No, they can't. 08:49.840 --> 08:51.840 They've crossed the line a long time ago. 08:51.840 --> 08:52.840 They're perverts. 08:52.840 --> 08:53.840 They're serial killers. 08:53.840 --> 08:55.840 There's something wrong with them. 08:55.840 --> 08:56.840 They're psychopaths. 08:56.880 --> 09:01.880 Even mankind and their science has proven that psychopaths cannot be fixed. 09:01.880 --> 09:02.880 There's something wrong with them. 09:02.880 --> 09:03.880 They're broken. 09:03.880 --> 09:11.880 And so this morning, I know that this has been a topic that's been much discussed 09:11.880 --> 09:17.880 and much talked about, but there's the situation down at Verity Baptist Church. 09:17.880 --> 09:21.880 And so I do kind of want to address this matter somewhat. 09:21.880 --> 09:24.880 I'm not going to fully address the matter because there are still things 09:24.920 --> 09:28.920 that are forthcoming, and I want to let those people tell their story. 09:28.920 --> 09:29.920 OK? 09:29.920 --> 09:34.920 So what's been done to Pastor Stuckey is sin, and it's wicked, 09:34.920 --> 09:38.920 and he should have never been withheld those funds that he was supposed to get. 09:38.920 --> 09:41.920 I don't care what formula you come up with in your mind, 09:41.920 --> 09:44.920 100% of those should have gone to him and to his church. 09:44.920 --> 09:48.920 This whole weird funneling 50% after four years, 09:48.920 --> 09:50.920 I mean, that's just complete garbage. 09:50.920 --> 09:53.920 And to say you didn't know anything about it, I don't believe you. 09:53.960 --> 09:55.960 Because if that's the first thing that comes up, 09:55.960 --> 09:58.960 oh, hey, here's one of the first things that comes up. 09:58.960 --> 10:01.960 And then you send him an email saying, you know, we're going to, 10:01.960 --> 10:03.960 you know, this will fix this. 10:03.960 --> 10:08.960 We're going to generously allow you to have 100% of the donations 10:08.960 --> 10:09.960 that have been coming to you. 10:09.960 --> 10:11.960 It's just like, what in the world? 10:11.960 --> 10:13.960 So if you're a visitor here today, I'm sorry. 10:13.960 --> 10:17.960 I am going to preach about some stuff that's kind of like church drama a little bit, 10:17.960 --> 10:21.960 but there's a lot of drama in the Bible if you have ever read it. 10:22.000 --> 10:28.000 So anyway, so what was done to Brother Stuckey was not just unethical, 10:28.000 --> 10:31.000 OK, and that's what's being said down there. 10:31.000 --> 10:32.000 It was just unethical. 10:32.000 --> 10:33.000 No, it's sin. 10:33.000 --> 10:34.000 It's wicked. 10:34.000 --> 10:36.000 And it should have been dealt with. 10:36.000 --> 10:40.000 It should be thundered forth from the pulpit no matter who is sitting out in the audience. 10:40.000 --> 10:44.000 And if you don't want to preach what's right because his whole family 10:44.000 --> 10:47.000 is still sitting there in the audience, then maybe you should tell them to stay home 10:47.000 --> 10:51.000 for a service while you rip and preach the paint off the walls about this subject. 10:51.040 --> 10:59.040 So the matter of the missing missions money is an important matter to discuss. 10:59.040 --> 11:04.040 So as far as the moral sin committed by Pastor Jimenez, 11:04.040 --> 11:06.040 that would have to be another sermon. 11:06.040 --> 11:09.040 I'm not really going to discuss that, but I will say this. 11:09.040 --> 11:12.040 I know what they're saying it is, but what they're saying it is, 11:12.040 --> 11:17.040 and they're not even really saying it out loud, but if someone comes up and says, 11:17.080 --> 11:20.080 well, is it this, then the person will be like, thou sayest or something like that. 11:20.080 --> 11:23.080 After they say it, I'm not going to reveal what it is, 11:23.080 --> 11:26.080 and then anybody that comes up, they're just saying, 11:26.080 --> 11:29.080 you know, they're just acknowledging what it is. 11:29.080 --> 11:32.080 That's not taking the secret to your grave, by the way. 11:32.080 --> 11:40.080 So, but anyway, so, but that portion will probably get out as well, 11:40.080 --> 11:43.080 but you know, the puzzle has been coming together. 11:43.080 --> 11:45.080 Thursday night I kind of talked to our church off camera 11:45.120 --> 11:49.120 and just said, I'm conducting an investigation on my own. 11:49.120 --> 11:52.120 So, you know, I know there's been lots of investigations, 11:52.120 --> 11:56.120 lots of talk about this, but I was just kind of doing my own investigation 11:56.120 --> 11:59.120 because I think that you should get both sides of it, okay? 11:59.120 --> 12:03.120 So I told everybody that was here on Thursday night 12:03.120 --> 12:06.120 that I had some questions that I wanted to have answered, 12:06.120 --> 12:11.120 and those questions did not get answered, directly anyway. 12:11.160 --> 12:17.160 So I called Brother Oliver, it went straight to voicemail, 12:17.160 --> 12:19.160 but it went to voicemail after a couple of rings. 12:19.160 --> 12:21.160 He never calls me back. 12:21.160 --> 12:23.160 I call Pastor Buzarnski. 12:23.160 --> 12:26.160 He doesn't answer, so I text him and tell him, 12:26.160 --> 12:29.160 hey, I'm not just trying to attack you or something, 12:29.160 --> 12:32.160 I just want to know, you know, I just have a couple questions to ask. 12:32.160 --> 12:36.160 So then he relays his, you know, he wants to know what I want to talk to him about. 12:36.160 --> 12:38.160 Everything's been already answered in the video. 12:38.160 --> 12:39.160 Well, no, it hasn't. 12:39.200 --> 12:41.200 It has not been answered. 12:41.200 --> 12:43.200 A lot of, you know, it's like we're transparent, 12:43.200 --> 12:46.200 we're just come up and ask us, and then like when people come up 12:46.200 --> 12:48.200 and ask them, they get stonewalled. 12:48.200 --> 12:52.200 And a couple people were actually kicked out of their church last night 12:52.200 --> 12:56.200 for actually, you know, telling people what's been going on. 12:56.200 --> 13:01.200 And so when you're doing a damage control emergency meeting 13:01.200 --> 13:04.200 and then throwing out the people that are telling people what's going on, 13:04.200 --> 13:05.200 that's a problem. 13:05.200 --> 13:07.200 That's covering sin. 13:07.240 --> 13:10.240 That is, you know, it's like they're being easier on the guy 13:10.240 --> 13:14.240 that left them high and dry and destroyed their church 13:14.240 --> 13:16.240 than they are on the person that is, you know, 13:16.240 --> 13:19.240 they're actually being hard on Pastor Stuckey 13:19.240 --> 13:21.240 who is actually the victim in this case. 13:21.240 --> 13:23.240 And it is victim blaming. 13:23.240 --> 13:24.240 It really is. 13:24.240 --> 13:27.240 And so you can say, well, he should have done this or he should have done that. 13:27.240 --> 13:30.240 Well, how about you shouldn't have been stealing from him for four years. 13:30.240 --> 13:31.240 How about that one? 13:31.240 --> 13:32.240 You know? 13:32.240 --> 13:34.240 And so that is what was happening. 13:34.240 --> 13:36.240 It's a fact. 13:36.280 --> 13:42.280 So, and I don't, you know, I don't remember money ever coming to our church, 13:42.280 --> 13:44.280 you know, directly for Matthew Stuckey. 13:44.280 --> 13:46.280 I can't remember if there was any other. 13:46.280 --> 13:48.280 I mean, I just honestly don't remember that. 13:48.280 --> 13:52.280 But there's no way I would have said, hey, you know, here, 13:52.280 --> 13:54.280 we're keeping his check or something. 13:54.280 --> 13:56.280 Like, that's ridiculous. 13:56.280 --> 13:57.280 I mean, I would not do that. 13:57.280 --> 14:03.280 So, and look, to say that you didn't know, but then you're just like, 14:03.280 --> 14:05.280 this is one of the first things that was brought to me. 14:05.320 --> 14:08.320 It's just like, you knew something was rotten. 14:08.320 --> 14:10.320 You knew something was bad. 14:10.320 --> 14:14.320 You just don't bother to even ask the CFO about these things. 14:14.320 --> 14:18.320 Like, supposedly he's the CFO, Pastor Stuckey, but he's not really, okay? 14:18.320 --> 14:19.320 I'm just saying. 14:19.320 --> 14:25.320 But you don't ask the guy that's been operating and doing your books for the last, 14:25.320 --> 14:28.320 however many years he's been, 10 years he's been doing it. 14:28.320 --> 14:31.320 You're not going to ask him any questions whatsoever. 14:31.360 --> 14:35.360 And then when it comes, when the line items come up about the missions, 14:35.360 --> 14:37.360 it's like, oh, no, we can't do that anymore. 14:37.360 --> 14:39.360 We've got to go give him 100%. 14:39.360 --> 14:42.360 Well, if he hasn't been getting 100%, don't you think he would track down? 14:42.360 --> 14:45.360 Like, how long has he not been getting 100%? 14:45.360 --> 14:49.360 You know, have some kind of question about that, but instead he just fires him? 14:49.360 --> 14:51.360 I mean, that doesn't look right. 14:51.360 --> 14:55.360 No matter whether you understood the whole deal or not, it doesn't look right. 14:55.360 --> 15:00.360 It doesn't seem right to anybody that has two eyeballs and a brain in the head. 15:00.400 --> 15:02.400 And a brain inside their head. 15:02.400 --> 15:04.400 So there's a lot of gaslighting going on. 15:04.400 --> 15:06.400 There's a lot of lying going on down there. 15:06.400 --> 15:10.400 And a lot of that's going to get revealed in the next days to come. 15:10.400 --> 15:12.400 So be prepared. 15:12.400 --> 15:16.400 I don't know at what avenue it's going to come, but I know I did talk to two witnesses 15:16.400 --> 15:18.400 last night and yesterday. 15:18.400 --> 15:22.400 You know, I talked for a long time getting their side of the story. 15:22.400 --> 15:27.400 And, you know, they've been wronged, but a lot of people in that church have been wronged. 15:27.440 --> 15:34.440 So as far as the moral sin of Pastor Jimenez, I'm not going to divulge that at this time. 15:34.440 --> 15:38.440 So because I, first of all, I just don't believe that that's all it is. 15:38.440 --> 15:41.440 I think that it's worse than what they're trying. 15:41.440 --> 15:45.440 It seems like they're trying to, like, throw the happy shiny thing out there. 15:45.440 --> 15:47.440 So people go, oh, it's just that. 15:47.440 --> 15:49.440 But it's more than just that. 15:49.440 --> 15:54.440 So anyway, people's lives have been majorly impacted. 15:54.480 --> 15:58.480 And Deacon, Oliver Gonzales, and Jared Pizarnski have been partakers in this. 15:58.480 --> 15:59.480 They have been. 15:59.480 --> 16:04.480 Whether they want to admit that or not, they have been partaking in a cover-up there. 16:04.480 --> 16:06.480 And I did try to call them. 16:06.480 --> 16:08.480 I tried to get their side. 16:08.480 --> 16:13.480 But, you know, it's weird when, you know, it's not like I was going to rip their heads off 16:13.480 --> 16:14.480 or something. 16:14.480 --> 16:17.480 I just wanted to find out what the answers to the questions I had were. 16:17.480 --> 16:21.480 And when you want to be that evasive about just answering some plain questions, 16:21.480 --> 16:23.480 that kind of concerns me a little bit. 16:23.520 --> 16:26.520 So, and to the two of the people that I... 16:26.520 --> 16:28.520 I'm just not even going to mention their names yet, 16:28.520 --> 16:31.520 because I want to make sure that this actually is going to come out. 16:31.520 --> 16:36.520 But the two people I talked to yesterday had some very interesting things to say 16:36.520 --> 16:41.520 about the S show that's going on down at Verity Baptist Church. 16:41.520 --> 16:43.520 It's just a complete dumpster fire. 16:43.520 --> 16:44.520 It really is. 16:44.520 --> 16:48.520 And Pastor Pizarnski wants to get up and cry about being attacked 16:48.520 --> 16:50.520 when he's the one that first attacked in the first place. 16:50.560 --> 16:51.560 That's what... 16:51.560 --> 16:52.560 I mean, it's funny. 16:52.560 --> 16:55.560 I like the analogy that Pastor Stuckey gave when he was like, 16:55.560 --> 16:57.560 if someone punches you in the face, 16:57.560 --> 16:58.560 you can't... 16:58.560 --> 17:02.560 when someone comes back and beats you up for punching them in the face, 17:02.560 --> 17:05.560 it's like, then you're going to cry about being attacked. 17:05.560 --> 17:07.560 It's like, he was like... 17:07.560 --> 17:10.560 I think he was the first person to come out and make a public statement 17:10.560 --> 17:12.560 and put stuff on his YouTube page. 17:12.560 --> 17:14.560 He put this little poster that he made, 17:14.560 --> 17:17.560 this little flyer that he put up on Facebook. 17:17.560 --> 17:19.560 You know, he doesn't use social media, 17:19.600 --> 17:22.600 but then he uses it to trash a pastor without any evidence 17:22.600 --> 17:24.600 based upon his own... 17:24.600 --> 17:27.600 just his own hard-heartedness towards this person. 17:27.600 --> 17:30.600 Pastor Pizarnski's hated Pastor Anderson for a long time, 17:30.600 --> 17:32.600 before he was a pastor, 17:32.600 --> 17:36.600 even back to when Pastor Shelley became the pastor at Steadfast. 17:36.600 --> 17:39.600 So that's how long he's had a problem with them. 17:39.600 --> 17:43.600 And then I guess he pretended to be good with them for a while, 17:43.600 --> 17:46.600 but then, you know, they got in a fight about, you know, 17:46.600 --> 17:48.600 the earth and stuff like that, 17:48.640 --> 17:50.640 or at some camp. 17:50.640 --> 17:53.640 I'm not saying he's a flat-earther or he's a geocitrus. 17:53.640 --> 17:58.640 I don't know, but, I mean, he was definitely arguing the side of it. 17:58.640 --> 18:00.640 So... 18:00.640 --> 18:04.640 But if you're just arguing the side of something just to be a contrarian, 18:04.640 --> 18:06.640 then that's kind of stupid, you know? 18:06.640 --> 18:11.640 Especially with someone that has like biology degrees and astrolog... 18:11.640 --> 18:13.640 I mean, he's been in... 18:13.640 --> 18:16.640 you know, he's got several degrees from college 18:16.680 --> 18:18.680 just because he gets bored or something. 18:18.680 --> 18:21.680 He just keeps learning and learning, you know? 18:21.680 --> 18:24.680 But anyway, you know, the geocentric earth 18:24.680 --> 18:26.680 has been debunked several times. 18:26.680 --> 18:30.680 So it's been debunked over, you know, multiple different ways. 18:30.680 --> 18:32.680 So I'm not going to get into that. 18:32.680 --> 18:34.680 It's getting too far into the weeds there. 18:34.680 --> 18:36.680 But... 18:36.680 --> 18:39.680 So I did get third-hand information back 18:39.680 --> 18:41.680 that supposedly they didn't know 18:41.720 --> 18:46.720 about the total, the totality of everything. 18:46.720 --> 18:50.720 And, you know, okay, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt about that, 18:50.720 --> 18:53.720 but why is it being one of the first things brought up? 18:53.720 --> 18:56.720 Why are you firing said CFO 18:56.720 --> 18:59.720 without ever even talking to him about it at all? 18:59.720 --> 19:02.720 So I'm like, hey, you know, I noticed that there's this 50-50 deal going on. 19:02.720 --> 19:04.720 Like, can you explain this to me? 19:04.720 --> 19:05.720 Like, what was going on? 19:05.720 --> 19:08.720 Instead of just, we're going to give you 100% from now on 19:08.720 --> 19:10.720 with no explanations. 19:10.760 --> 19:12.760 And what it is is that he's mad. 19:12.760 --> 19:14.760 Probably the pastor stuck. 19:14.760 --> 19:16.760 He stuck up for Pastor Anderson in a couple posts 19:16.760 --> 19:18.760 over Facebook in the last year. 19:18.760 --> 19:21.760 And he probably didn't want to keep him as a missionary. 19:21.760 --> 19:23.760 So... 19:23.760 --> 19:25.760 But it's funny that, you know, 19:25.760 --> 19:27.760 Joshua Jimenez is on the payroll. 19:31.760 --> 19:35.760 So, you know, you're going to keep the pastor's son on staff 19:35.760 --> 19:37.760 and get rid of the, you know... 19:37.800 --> 19:40.800 And then now they're saying they're going to pay $2,000 a month back to him. 19:40.800 --> 19:43.800 That's pretty close to $2,700 that they were already going to give him anyway 19:43.800 --> 19:45.800 for being an employee there. 19:45.800 --> 19:47.800 So it's like now... 19:47.800 --> 19:49.800 I don't know. 19:49.800 --> 19:50.800 It's just bizarre. 19:50.800 --> 19:52.800 Now they have the money to do it, supposedly, 19:52.800 --> 19:56.800 and it's just the whole thing is just a complete train wreck. 19:56.800 --> 19:59.800 And so... 19:59.800 --> 20:02.800 Anyway, the people that I talked to yesterday, 20:02.800 --> 20:04.800 I believe that they're very credible witnesses. 20:04.800 --> 20:06.800 They were there. 20:06.840 --> 20:09.840 They actually asked these questions, 20:09.840 --> 20:13.840 some very hard questions to, you know, Roger Jimenez, 20:13.840 --> 20:16.840 to Oliver Gonzalez, 20:16.840 --> 20:18.840 and to Jerry Pizarnski. 20:18.840 --> 20:21.840 And when he said, hey, we need to know some of these things, 20:21.840 --> 20:25.840 then he got called into the office yesterday morning 20:25.840 --> 20:27.840 and told to not talk about it, 20:27.840 --> 20:29.840 according to this witness. 20:29.840 --> 20:33.840 And so that, you know, these people both left the church this last week. 20:33.880 --> 20:37.880 So...and these are people that are very loyal 20:37.880 --> 20:40.880 than were already for over nine years. 20:40.880 --> 20:42.880 And it really hurts them to have to do what they're doing, 20:42.880 --> 20:44.880 but now they're just smearing them 20:44.880 --> 20:47.880 and telling the church that they're marked. 20:47.880 --> 20:49.880 So they're marked, they're kicked out, 20:49.880 --> 20:53.880 even though they left, but they're marked and kicked out. 20:53.880 --> 20:57.880 And they're being told that they're lying about stuff. 20:57.880 --> 21:00.880 So like, you know, there's... 21:00.920 --> 21:03.920 Just to kind of fill you in a little bit, 21:03.920 --> 21:05.920 there's NDAs that have been signed, 21:05.920 --> 21:07.920 so that's probably part of the reason why 21:07.920 --> 21:10.920 you're not hearing what's been done. 21:10.920 --> 21:14.920 And, okay, I'm going to say this. 21:14.920 --> 21:18.920 Maybe it's not technically called an NDA, 21:18.920 --> 21:20.920 but whatever it is, it's a gag order 21:20.920 --> 21:23.920 to not talk about Pastor Jimenez's sin 21:23.920 --> 21:28.920 and to talk about, you know, anything to do with the church. 21:28.960 --> 21:32.960 So when the church leadership is gagged 21:32.960 --> 21:37.960 from the ending pastor, that's pretty bad. 21:37.960 --> 21:39.960 You can't even bring up what's happened. 21:39.960 --> 21:42.960 You can't tell people what's going on. 21:42.960 --> 21:47.960 And these things were disclosed, you know, 21:47.960 --> 21:48.960 not disclosed... 21:48.960 --> 21:51.960 They did not disclose these things to the whole church. 21:51.960 --> 21:53.960 And so basically they're hiding things from the church 21:53.960 --> 21:56.960 and then, you know, it's bad. 21:57.000 --> 21:59.000 You're going to see very soon how bad it really is. 21:59.000 --> 22:02.000 But apparently it's all the new IFBs' fault, though, 22:02.000 --> 22:05.000 that their church is getting destroyed. 22:05.000 --> 22:07.000 Of course, it's Pastor Anderson's fault. 22:07.000 --> 22:09.000 I guess apparently all they like to do 22:09.000 --> 22:11.000 is sit around and talk about how bad Pastor Anderson is 22:11.000 --> 22:13.000 and how bad of a deal they got 22:13.000 --> 22:15.000 from Pastor Anderson or whatever. 22:15.000 --> 22:20.000 So, but, you know, that's just... 22:20.000 --> 22:22.000 That's just like what little girls do 22:22.000 --> 22:25.000 is cry about how it's somebody else's fault. 22:25.040 --> 22:27.040 And no offense to little girls 22:27.040 --> 22:29.040 because little girls cry sometimes, you know. 22:29.040 --> 22:33.040 But I don't expect grown men to cry about being attacked 22:33.040 --> 22:34.040 when you attack them first. 22:34.040 --> 22:38.040 I mean, it's like you did it to yourself, man. 22:38.040 --> 22:40.040 And then the Bible has a principle 22:40.040 --> 22:42.040 called reaping and sowing. 22:42.040 --> 22:45.040 Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 22:45.040 --> 22:47.040 You know, you just go on a full attack 22:47.040 --> 22:50.040 and attack somebody and then preach a sermon series 22:50.040 --> 22:53.040 based on a false scripture that's not... 22:53.040 --> 22:54.040 I mean, it's not a false scripture, 22:54.080 --> 22:57.080 but it's a scripture that's not interpreted correctly. 22:57.080 --> 23:00.080 You know, you're going to have problems. 23:00.080 --> 23:03.080 And that's why I said I don't care what smoke comes to him 23:03.080 --> 23:06.080 or any of the pastors that just came out with no evidence 23:06.080 --> 23:10.080 just believing these kids when their stories don't add up. 23:10.080 --> 23:12.080 And let me just tell you something right now. 23:12.080 --> 23:14.080 If their stories don't add up 23:14.080 --> 23:16.080 and they're different from each other's, 23:16.080 --> 23:19.080 vastly different, it's not true. 23:19.080 --> 23:21.080 You cannot count their witness. 23:21.080 --> 23:22.080 I don't care... 23:22.120 --> 23:23.120 Look, in a court of law, 23:23.120 --> 23:25.120 once you're found lying about a matter, 23:25.120 --> 23:27.120 the matter at hand, 23:27.120 --> 23:30.120 your testimony is completely dismissed. 23:30.120 --> 23:32.120 I mean, look it up. 23:32.120 --> 23:36.120 So, again, no lies of the truth, the Bible says. 23:36.120 --> 23:40.120 So if your premise starts out with lies, 23:40.120 --> 23:41.120 then what else are you lying about? 23:41.120 --> 23:45.120 How can you trust anything else that they say after that? 23:45.120 --> 23:46.120 Okay? 23:46.120 --> 23:47.120 And look, you can get off into the weeds 23:47.120 --> 23:49.120 about all these different things, 23:49.120 --> 23:51.120 but the fact remains that there's still no evidence 23:51.160 --> 23:53.160 that Pastor Anderson beat his wife 23:53.160 --> 23:56.160 or beat his kids in a way where 23:56.160 --> 24:00.160 there's lashes on their back and all this other stuff. 24:00.160 --> 24:04.160 It's just, you know, if you already want to hate somebody, 24:04.160 --> 24:06.160 and I've talked about this before, 24:06.160 --> 24:08.160 if you already want to hate somebody 24:08.160 --> 24:10.160 and then you just... 24:10.160 --> 24:13.160 Everything they do, yep, he did it, yep, uh-huh, I believe it. 24:13.160 --> 24:15.160 That's not right judgment. 24:15.160 --> 24:17.160 That is not right judgment. 24:17.160 --> 24:19.160 It doesn't matter what they did before. 24:19.200 --> 24:21.200 If someone lies before, 24:21.200 --> 24:23.200 and then you're saying they're lying now 24:23.200 --> 24:26.200 because they're a known liar, well, everybody's a liar. 24:26.200 --> 24:28.200 But are you lying about the matter at hand? 24:28.200 --> 24:29.200 Because... 24:29.200 --> 24:31.200 And then it's just someone maybe has murdered someone 24:31.200 --> 24:33.200 in the past and they didn't get the death penalty 24:33.200 --> 24:34.200 and they're out of jail, it's like, 24:34.200 --> 24:35.200 hey, did you murder... 24:35.200 --> 24:37.200 Let's check and see if he murdered them, you know? 24:37.200 --> 24:41.200 And in today's society, I guess that could happen, okay? 24:41.200 --> 24:44.200 People get let out of jail on, you know, with no bail, 24:44.200 --> 24:45.200 you know, on stuff today. 24:45.200 --> 24:48.200 But I'm just saying it shouldn't be like that. 24:48.240 --> 24:50.240 But, I mean, you can't just say that, 24:50.240 --> 24:52.240 oh, he did it because he murdered somebody 20 years ago. 24:52.240 --> 24:54.240 You have to actually look at the evidence 24:54.240 --> 24:56.240 and see whether it's true or not. 24:56.240 --> 24:58.240 And that's called judging righteous judgment. 24:58.240 --> 25:01.240 So turn to 1 Corinthians 5. 25:01.240 --> 25:02.240 Keep your finger... 25:02.240 --> 25:03.240 Well, you don't have to keep your finger here, 25:03.240 --> 25:05.240 but we're gonna come back to Proverbs in a bit. 25:05.240 --> 25:08.240 But, look, you can't just sit there 25:08.240 --> 25:10.240 and blame Pastor Anderson for everything 25:10.240 --> 25:13.240 and blame the new IFB for your church getting smoked. 25:13.240 --> 25:15.240 How is it always somebody else's fault 25:15.280 --> 25:17.280 but you never blame the actual person 25:17.280 --> 25:19.280 who screwed your church over? 25:19.280 --> 25:20.280 Amen. 25:20.280 --> 25:22.280 And, look, let me just tell you this. 25:22.280 --> 25:23.280 I love Pastor Jimenez. 25:23.280 --> 25:24.280 I don't like him. 25:24.280 --> 25:25.280 I love him. 25:25.280 --> 25:27.280 And he's not Pastor Jimenez. 25:27.280 --> 25:29.280 I just keep calling him that out of habit. 25:29.280 --> 25:31.280 But I do love him. 25:31.280 --> 25:34.280 And I hope he gets right, but he's unrepentant. 25:34.280 --> 25:37.280 And he's just... 25:37.280 --> 25:40.280 I feel like he's controlling Verity 25:40.280 --> 25:43.280 in a way where all his family still goes there. 25:43.320 --> 25:46.320 Like, why would you let your family go back to that church? 25:46.320 --> 25:48.320 You should let that church be. 25:48.320 --> 25:51.320 You should let them move on and quit haunting 25:51.320 --> 25:53.320 the halls of that church and the pews of that church 25:53.320 --> 25:55.320 with your family members. 25:55.320 --> 25:58.320 And, you know, it's putting a compromising position 25:58.320 --> 26:00.320 on the coming in pastor. 26:00.320 --> 26:02.320 And the pastor there is being a respecter of persons 26:02.320 --> 26:03.320 because of that. 26:03.320 --> 26:05.320 He doesn't want them to leave the church. 26:05.320 --> 26:07.320 He doesn't want them to go away from the church. 26:07.320 --> 26:10.320 And it's like, well, I mean, why are you letting them go there? 26:10.320 --> 26:12.320 Oh, because they're gonna miss their friends. 26:12.360 --> 26:15.360 So family is more important than friends, okay? 26:15.360 --> 26:17.360 You gotta take care of your family first. 26:17.360 --> 26:20.360 And just who cares about the friends? 26:20.360 --> 26:21.360 They'll make new friends. 26:21.360 --> 26:23.360 Kids make friends all the time. 26:23.360 --> 26:25.360 It's like, oh, I'll never have another friend again. 26:25.360 --> 26:28.360 I mean, we've moved before, and our kids were the same way. 26:28.360 --> 26:30.360 And it's like, but they made new friends. 26:30.360 --> 26:33.360 It's like, at the time, it's the end of a teenager's life 26:33.360 --> 26:34.360 when they... 26:34.360 --> 26:36.360 But you're not gonna be friends with that teenager 26:36.360 --> 26:38.360 20 years from down the road. 26:38.360 --> 26:40.360 More than likely. 26:40.400 --> 26:42.400 The people you went to high school with, 26:42.400 --> 26:44.400 you're probably not gonna still be friends 26:44.400 --> 26:45.400 with most of those people. 26:45.400 --> 26:47.400 Even though, oh, it's the best of times or whatever. 26:47.400 --> 26:48.400 No. 26:48.400 --> 26:52.400 Who here is still friends with their high school best friend? 26:52.400 --> 26:54.400 Bill, that's it. 26:54.400 --> 26:55.400 Because he's nice. 26:55.400 --> 26:56.400 No, I'm just kidding. 26:56.400 --> 26:57.400 Miss Olleh. 26:57.400 --> 26:58.400 Two people. 26:58.400 --> 27:00.400 I mean, that's just how rare it is. 27:00.400 --> 27:04.400 So I mean, I'm still friends with friends from high school, 27:04.400 --> 27:07.400 a couple of them, but most of them I can't be friends with. 27:07.440 --> 27:12.440 Anyway, 1 Corinthians, chapter 5, the Bible says, 27:12.440 --> 27:15.440 it is reported commonly that there is a fornication among you 27:15.440 --> 27:19.440 and such fornication is not so much as named among the Gentiles 27:19.440 --> 27:22.440 that one should have his father's wife. 27:22.440 --> 27:24.440 Now, of course, this isn't what has happened, 27:24.440 --> 27:28.440 but the point I want to show you here is that it says in verse 2, 27:28.440 --> 27:31.440 and you're puffed up and have not rather mourned 27:31.440 --> 27:34.440 that he that hath done this deed might be taken away 27:34.440 --> 27:35.440 from among you. 27:35.480 --> 27:38.480 And look, if he still has a major imprint in that church, 27:38.480 --> 27:41.480 if he's the one that picked the new pastor, 27:41.480 --> 27:43.480 that's a problem. 27:43.480 --> 27:46.480 Why are you letting somebody that's disgraced themselves 27:46.480 --> 27:49.480 and had to resign at the drop of a hat, 27:49.480 --> 27:51.480 look, if it's what they're saying it is, 27:51.480 --> 27:56.480 then the reaction to what the sin that is being said it is 27:56.480 --> 27:59.480 in behind the scenes or whatever, 27:59.480 --> 28:03.480 does not match the reaction, is what I'm saying. 28:03.520 --> 28:07.520 And look, I'm not trying to downplay what they're saying it is 28:07.520 --> 28:08.520 as being a sin. 28:08.520 --> 28:10.520 Of course it is, of course it's wicked, 28:10.520 --> 28:14.520 but it's not what warrants what has taken place since then. 28:14.520 --> 28:17.520 And like I said, I can't give out all the details right now, 28:17.520 --> 28:19.520 but I have heard myself from the two witnesses, 28:19.520 --> 28:23.520 so anything that I say has been corroborated by two witnesses. 28:23.520 --> 28:26.520 So I'll just say that. 28:26.520 --> 28:29.520 But I'll let the men that are going to come forward 28:29.520 --> 28:32.520 and their wives know what they're saying, 28:32.560 --> 28:35.560 and their wives know about what happened too. 28:35.560 --> 28:38.560 But I'll let that be revealed by those guys 28:38.560 --> 28:41.560 in whatever capacity they want to. 28:44.560 --> 28:45.560 So it says, 28:45.560 --> 28:48.560 But you're puffed up and have not rather mourned 28:48.560 --> 28:51.560 that he that has done this deed may be taken away from among you. 28:51.560 --> 28:53.560 Look, and this is the attitude that Verity's had. 28:53.560 --> 28:55.560 They've had a puffed up attitude. 28:55.560 --> 28:57.560 It's all Pastor Anderson's fault. 28:57.560 --> 28:58.560 That dang new IFB, 28:58.560 --> 29:01.560 we would have been able to move on if it wasn't for that dang new IFB, 29:01.600 --> 29:05.600 but you need to move on by telling what happened 29:05.600 --> 29:07.600 and stop gaslighting your people, 29:07.600 --> 29:09.600 stop gaslighting the internet, 29:09.600 --> 29:11.600 stop gaslighting people. 29:11.600 --> 29:14.600 And look, some of the people that go there are good people that I love. 29:14.600 --> 29:16.600 And they probably don't love me right now, 29:16.600 --> 29:17.600 but that's okay. 29:17.600 --> 29:19.600 I still love them. 29:19.600 --> 29:22.600 And look, and I'm not trying to destroy their church. 29:22.600 --> 29:24.600 They've done that already. 29:24.600 --> 29:26.600 They've allowed that to happen to them. 29:26.600 --> 29:28.600 And look, the people aren't going to necessarily be able to fight 29:28.600 --> 29:30.600 and stand up for themselves, 29:30.640 --> 29:33.640 but people that actually have two eyeballs and a brain there 29:33.640 --> 29:35.640 and that are not still sucked into all this, 29:35.640 --> 29:38.640 they're like, they're looking at things 29:38.640 --> 29:40.640 and they're like, hey, there's something wrong here. 29:40.640 --> 29:42.640 There's no transparency here. 29:42.640 --> 29:44.640 The new pastor should just be transparent 29:44.640 --> 29:46.640 and tell them everything that they want to know. 29:46.640 --> 29:48.640 Instead, he's just like, 29:48.640 --> 29:50.640 Stucky's fault, 29:50.640 --> 29:51.640 Pastor Anderson's fault. 29:51.640 --> 29:54.640 Take some accountability for what you've done 29:54.640 --> 29:56.640 and what your previous pastor has done. 29:56.640 --> 29:58.640 And stop being a respecter of persons 29:58.680 --> 30:00.680 and families all sitting in the pews 30:00.680 --> 30:02.680 and you just don't want to preach hard against it. 30:02.680 --> 30:04.680 Tell them to stay home. 30:04.680 --> 30:05.680 Stay home. 30:05.680 --> 30:08.680 I'm going to rip your husband to pieces. 30:08.680 --> 30:11.680 But it's like, oh, well, we just want a place for them. 30:11.680 --> 30:14.680 There's plenty of churches in that Sacramento area 30:14.680 --> 30:15.680 where they can go to church at. 30:15.680 --> 30:17.680 They don't have to go to that one. 30:17.680 --> 30:20.680 But then, you know, he doesn't like Pioneer either. 30:22.680 --> 30:23.680 Some people don't like Pioneer. 30:23.680 --> 30:25.680 Okay, well, there's Regency. 30:25.680 --> 30:27.680 And then there's another church 30:27.720 --> 30:29.720 that's called Grace Baptist or something. 30:29.720 --> 30:31.720 But you can go someplace else, 30:31.720 --> 30:32.720 but have your family with you. 30:32.720 --> 30:35.720 I mean, I just don't understand how you could be 30:35.720 --> 30:38.720 a pastor and, you know, leading your family to church 30:38.720 --> 30:40.720 and then now you're just letting your family 30:40.720 --> 30:42.720 go to a church that you destroyed 30:42.720 --> 30:43.720 and then you're going to some other church. 30:43.720 --> 30:45.720 That's just weird. 30:45.720 --> 30:47.720 And it seems like it's almost like some of them 30:47.720 --> 30:48.720 are there to be gatekeepers 30:48.720 --> 30:50.720 so that nobody tells the secret or something. 30:50.720 --> 30:53.720 Nobody reveals what's going on. 30:53.720 --> 30:56.720 There's a lot of bad things going on there. 30:56.760 --> 31:00.760 So, and it says, verse 3, 31:00.760 --> 31:04.760 For I verily as present in body but present, 31:04.760 --> 31:06.760 absent in body, excuse me, but present in spirit 31:06.760 --> 31:09.760 have judged already as though I were present 31:09.760 --> 31:12.760 concerning him that hath so done this deed. 31:12.760 --> 31:14.760 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ 31:14.760 --> 31:16.760 when you're gathered together in my spirit 31:16.760 --> 31:18.760 with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ 31:18.760 --> 31:19.760 to deliver such an one unto Satan 31:19.760 --> 31:21.760 for the destruction of the flesh 31:21.760 --> 31:23.760 that the spirit may be saved 31:23.760 --> 31:25.760 in the day of the Lord Jesus. 31:26.760 --> 31:28.760 Your glorying is not good. 31:28.760 --> 31:29.760 Know ye not that a little leaven 31:29.760 --> 31:31.760 leaveneth the whole lump? 31:31.760 --> 31:34.760 And so they're glorying, they're acting like 31:34.760 --> 31:36.760 hey, we've got to remember everything that's positive 31:36.760 --> 31:38.760 and look, I preach a sermon that was 31:38.760 --> 31:41.760 hey, you know, someone gets killed 31:41.760 --> 31:44.760 and one of God's anointed people 31:44.760 --> 31:46.760 go down in flames or whatever 31:46.760 --> 31:50.760 that we shouldn't just bash them to death 31:50.760 --> 31:53.760 but what has been done needs to be acknowledged. 31:53.760 --> 31:55.760 David acknowledged his sin. 31:55.800 --> 31:58.800 You know, so it does need to be acknowledged 31:58.800 --> 31:59.800 but what's Saul's attitude? 31:59.800 --> 32:02.800 Saul's attitude, oh, the people, it's their fault. 32:02.800 --> 32:04.800 It's the people's fault. 32:04.800 --> 32:05.800 That's the Saul attitude. 32:05.800 --> 32:07.800 See, the difference between David and Saul is 32:07.800 --> 32:09.800 Saul actually didn't take accountability 32:09.800 --> 32:12.800 for the things he did and David did. 32:12.800 --> 32:14.800 That's why God had mercy on David 32:14.800 --> 32:16.800 and he didn't have mercy on Saul 32:16.800 --> 32:18.800 because Saul was really just making excuses 32:18.800 --> 32:20.800 as to why it was somebody else's fault. 32:20.800 --> 32:22.800 The people grabbed of the best of the sheep 32:22.800 --> 32:23.800 and all that stuff. 32:23.840 --> 32:26.840 No, there's two different attitudes. 32:26.840 --> 32:28.840 You know, if he, and look, 32:28.840 --> 32:31.840 I just think that he should have just moved on. 32:31.840 --> 32:33.840 Let that church, you know, quit haunting that church 32:33.840 --> 32:34.840 with all your family members 32:34.840 --> 32:36.840 and let that church move on 32:36.840 --> 32:37.840 and you need to get rid of Oliver 32:37.840 --> 32:40.840 and you need to get rid of Pastor Buzarnsky. 32:40.840 --> 32:41.840 Just plain and simple. 32:41.840 --> 32:44.840 You're going to see why soon enough 32:44.840 --> 32:46.840 but it's bad, it's bad. 32:46.840 --> 32:48.840 They've been lying to their people. 32:48.840 --> 32:49.840 They've been making stuff up 32:49.840 --> 32:52.840 and it's just, and then blaming the wrong people. 32:52.880 --> 32:54.880 Blaming the wrong people, of course. 32:54.880 --> 32:59.880 So, lots of lies are being told around the camp there. 32:59.880 --> 33:00.880 Verse 6, 33:10.880 --> 33:13.880 for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. 33:13.880 --> 33:15.880 Look, this passage is about 33:15.880 --> 33:17.880 getting rid of people that shouldn't be in church 33:17.880 --> 33:21.880 because they're going to be a cancer inside your church. 33:21.920 --> 33:22.920 Their leaven is going to grow. 33:22.920 --> 33:23.920 Their sin is going to grow 33:23.920 --> 33:25.920 and infest the rest of the church. 33:25.920 --> 33:27.920 And so you have to get them out of there. 33:27.920 --> 33:28.920 Okay? 33:28.920 --> 33:31.920 So, not just let their whole family stay there 33:31.920 --> 33:33.920 and just always looking at the pastor. 33:33.920 --> 33:34.920 What's he going to say? 33:34.920 --> 33:36.920 What's he going to say about them? 33:36.920 --> 33:39.920 You know, and then, how'd you hear that? 33:39.920 --> 33:41.920 You know, just this kind of stuff. 33:41.920 --> 33:44.920 And people are afraid probably to even speak up 33:44.920 --> 33:45.920 and say anything because, you know, 33:45.920 --> 33:47.920 pastor Mendes can do no wrong, apparently. 33:47.920 --> 33:50.920 What he did wasn't sin. 33:50.960 --> 33:55.960 It was just, you know, it was just not really, 33:57.960 --> 33:59.960 what's the word I'm trying to think of? 34:01.960 --> 34:03.960 Yeah, optimal, but it's not that. 34:03.960 --> 34:07.960 It's unethical. 34:07.960 --> 34:09.960 Yeah, it's just unethical. 34:09.960 --> 34:10.960 No, it's sin. 34:10.960 --> 34:12.960 You have to call it what it is. 34:12.960 --> 34:16.960 But you're going to just call out the guy that got victimized. 34:16.960 --> 34:17.960 It's just not right. 34:17.960 --> 34:19.960 The Bible says, go ahead and turn to Luke 12. 34:20.000 --> 34:23.000 I'm going to read Luke 8, 17. 34:23.000 --> 34:24.000 Luke 8, 17 says, 34:24.000 --> 34:27.000 For nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest, 34:27.000 --> 34:32.000 neither anything hid that shall not be known and come abroad. 34:34.000 --> 34:37.000 So, and then that last verse in 1 Corinthians, 34:37.000 --> 34:38.000 I already had you turn away from it, 34:38.000 --> 34:39.000 but it says, 34:39.000 --> 34:41.000 Therefore let us keep the feast not with old leaven, 34:41.000 --> 34:44.000 neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, 34:44.000 --> 34:48.000 but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 34:48.040 --> 34:50.040 There has to be truth. 34:50.040 --> 34:53.040 Your church can't be based on lies. 34:53.040 --> 34:56.040 And you have to be sincere, you have to have truth. 34:56.040 --> 34:58.040 And look, we're going to take the Lord's Supper, 34:58.040 --> 35:00.040 and I think this directly applies. 35:00.040 --> 35:02.040 Why was he using that imagery? 35:02.040 --> 35:05.040 Because Christ our Lord is our Passover, 35:05.040 --> 35:10.040 and when those types of sins are being done in the church, 35:10.040 --> 35:14.040 you've got to get rid of that element and completely squash it. 35:14.040 --> 35:16.040 So again, I do love the people, 35:16.080 --> 35:18.080 a lot of the people of Verity Baptist Church, 35:18.080 --> 35:21.080 but they're being lied to and things are being covered up, 35:21.080 --> 35:24.080 and they will get revealed very soon. 35:24.080 --> 35:26.080 Luke chapter 12 verse 1, the Bible says, 35:26.080 --> 35:30.080 In the meantime, when there were gathered together 35:30.080 --> 35:32.080 an innumerable multitude of people 35:32.080 --> 35:34.080 and so much that they trod one upon another, 35:34.080 --> 35:36.080 He began to say unto His disciples, 35:36.080 --> 35:40.080 First of all, be wary of the leaven of the Pharisees, 35:40.080 --> 35:42.080 which is hypocrisy. 35:42.080 --> 35:45.080 For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed 35:45.120 --> 35:48.120 neither hid that shall not be known. 35:48.120 --> 35:52.120 So look, these things, you can try to cover them 35:52.120 --> 35:53.120 as long as you want, 35:53.120 --> 35:55.120 but eventually they're going to come to the surface. 35:55.120 --> 35:57.120 The truth is going to come out. 35:57.120 --> 36:00.120 And people are just like, I need to know the truth. 36:00.120 --> 36:02.120 They're like, you can't handle the truth or whatever, 36:02.120 --> 36:05.120 but they can handle the truth. 36:05.120 --> 36:07.120 They need to handle the truth and then get past it 36:07.120 --> 36:09.120 and move forward as a church 36:09.120 --> 36:11.120 and move forward without people that are going to sit there 36:11.120 --> 36:13.120 and gaslight and lie to them. 36:13.160 --> 36:15.160 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness 36:15.160 --> 36:17.160 shall be heard in the light, 36:17.160 --> 36:19.160 and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets 36:19.160 --> 36:21.160 shall be proclaimed on the housetops. 36:21.160 --> 36:23.160 And I say unto you, my friends, 36:23.160 --> 36:25.160 be not afraid of them that kill the body 36:25.160 --> 36:28.160 and after that have no more that they can do. 36:28.160 --> 36:30.160 But I will forewarn you of whom ye shall fear. 36:30.160 --> 36:33.160 Fear Him which after he hath killed 36:33.160 --> 36:36.160 hath power to cast into hell. 36:36.160 --> 36:38.160 Yea, I say unto you, fear Him. 36:38.160 --> 36:40.160 So look, the fear of God is something 36:40.160 --> 36:42.160 that's very important in our lives. 36:42.200 --> 36:44.200 And if you're fearing the people 36:44.200 --> 36:46.200 more than you're fearing what God is going to do, 36:46.200 --> 36:48.200 you've got a problem on your hands. 36:48.200 --> 36:50.200 If you're fearing the eyes of the pastor's family 36:50.200 --> 36:52.200 that's still sitting in the church there 36:52.200 --> 36:54.200 and you're fearing the rest of the people 36:54.200 --> 36:55.200 that are loyal to them, 36:55.200 --> 36:57.200 you're compromised already. 36:57.200 --> 36:58.200 You might as well just resign 36:58.200 --> 37:00.200 and just go back to Fresno or something. 37:00.200 --> 37:02.200 Because you're compromised, 37:02.200 --> 37:03.200 you're not saying the truth, 37:03.200 --> 37:05.200 you're not ripping on it. 37:05.200 --> 37:07.200 And look, I don't want to preach against 37:07.200 --> 37:09.200 the former Pastor Jimenez. 37:09.200 --> 37:10.200 I don't. 37:10.240 --> 37:12.240 But these things do have, 37:12.240 --> 37:14.240 this has to be talked about. 37:14.240 --> 37:15.240 This has to be preached about. 37:15.240 --> 37:19.240 Look, and this is what I said to Jared in my text message. 37:19.240 --> 37:22.240 I said, whether people like it or not, 37:22.240 --> 37:23.240 our church is intertwined with the name 37:23.240 --> 37:24.240 of Verity Baptist Church 37:24.240 --> 37:26.240 because we were the first church 37:26.240 --> 37:28.240 that was started by Pastor Jimenez. 37:28.240 --> 37:30.240 So it is important to people in our church 37:30.240 --> 37:32.240 because a lot of people love him too. 37:32.240 --> 37:34.240 And some people didn't really know him that well 37:34.240 --> 37:35.240 that are here now, 37:35.240 --> 37:36.240 but there's a lot of people here 37:36.240 --> 37:38.240 that have been with us from the beginning. 37:38.280 --> 37:41.280 And so it is something I can't just pretend 37:41.280 --> 37:43.280 like this isn't happening. 37:43.280 --> 37:45.280 Okay, and I'm not going to. 37:45.280 --> 37:49.280 And so like I said, do I like Roger Jimenez? 37:49.280 --> 37:51.280 No, I love him. 37:51.280 --> 37:54.280 And I think it's important that, 37:54.280 --> 37:56.280 you know, it's like Nathan the prophet loved David, 37:56.280 --> 37:58.280 but he still rebuked him to his face 37:58.280 --> 38:00.280 and told him, thou art the man. 38:00.280 --> 38:03.280 So that needs to happen. 38:03.280 --> 38:05.280 And they're not doing that. 38:05.320 --> 38:07.320 And they're not doing that. 38:07.320 --> 38:09.320 And it seems that he's still ruling 38:09.320 --> 38:10.320 over that church's leadership 38:10.320 --> 38:14.320 with fear of threats of being sued 38:14.320 --> 38:16.320 and all kinds of stuff like that, 38:16.320 --> 38:18.320 which is wicked. 38:18.320 --> 38:20.320 1 Corinthians 6, we're not supposed to have 38:20.320 --> 38:22.320 lawsuits against other believers, 38:22.320 --> 38:23.320 just plain and simple. 38:23.320 --> 38:26.320 So if you're having people sign some kind of, 38:26.320 --> 38:27.320 whatever you want to call it, 38:27.320 --> 38:28.320 I'm not going to say, 38:28.320 --> 38:30.320 I don't want to get sued for saying it's an NDA, 38:30.360 --> 38:36.360 but it's some kind of separation of employment clause 38:36.360 --> 38:39.360 that they were told that they had to sign. 38:39.360 --> 38:41.360 And from what I've heard, they have signed it. 38:41.360 --> 38:43.360 And then last night, they were telling their people 38:43.360 --> 38:44.360 that they didn't sign anything. 38:44.360 --> 38:47.360 So I don't know. 38:47.360 --> 38:50.360 I guess, you know, we might not ever know 38:50.360 --> 38:51.360 the full truth of that matter, 38:51.360 --> 38:55.360 but I know for a fact that they were doing NDAs on people 38:55.360 --> 38:58.360 and they were calling it NDAs. 38:58.360 --> 38:59.360 That I do know. 38:59.400 --> 39:01.400 So... 39:03.400 --> 39:05.400 And let's see, so... 39:05.400 --> 39:08.400 And look, people are leaving that church in droves. 39:08.400 --> 39:10.400 They are, you know, 39:10.400 --> 39:12.400 how many more have to come against the church 39:12.400 --> 39:14.400 and spill the tea before people will just wake up? 39:14.400 --> 39:17.400 There's a lot of, like, inner fighting on the internet 39:17.400 --> 39:18.400 about all this stuff. 39:18.400 --> 39:20.400 I've been trying to stay away from it. 39:20.400 --> 39:22.400 I really have not gone to any of the messages 39:22.400 --> 39:25.400 and message boards or whatever, the groups. 39:25.440 --> 39:26.440 I haven't been... 39:26.440 --> 39:31.440 I've not let that influence my decision-making on this at all. 39:31.440 --> 39:33.440 I just have clearly stayed away from it. 39:33.440 --> 39:36.440 And I've barely been on Facebook at all. 39:36.440 --> 39:39.440 And I've just stayed out of the groups, 39:39.440 --> 39:41.440 not being involved in it. 39:41.440 --> 39:46.440 Because I just wanted to make a decision based upon the facts 39:46.440 --> 39:50.440 and not just how my heart feels about the situation. 39:50.440 --> 39:52.440 We never should make decisions like that. 39:52.480 --> 39:57.480 So, anyway, I've made my decision from the start about what... 39:57.480 --> 39:59.480 And I've stuck by this the whole time. 39:59.480 --> 40:02.480 When all this stuff with Pastor Anderson first came out, 40:02.480 --> 40:04.480 the first sermon I preached about it 40:04.480 --> 40:06.480 and I still stick by that sermon 40:06.480 --> 40:08.480 is that until there's two or three witnesses 40:08.480 --> 40:11.480 and there's evidence, I will not believe it. 40:11.480 --> 40:13.480 You can't just believe something because you... 40:13.480 --> 40:14.480 Oh, I think that it... 40:14.480 --> 40:16.480 You know, how did he lose the heart of his children? 40:16.480 --> 40:19.480 Look, it doesn't matter what you think. 40:19.480 --> 40:21.480 What is the answer? 40:21.520 --> 40:23.520 What does the evidence say? 40:23.520 --> 40:25.520 Because if they're saying that there's lashes on their back 40:25.520 --> 40:28.520 that are drawing blood, where's the marks? 40:28.520 --> 40:32.520 Their backs are as smooth as a baby's bottom. 40:32.520 --> 40:34.520 If they're going out with their shirts off, 40:34.520 --> 40:36.520 swimming in the public, I doubt very much 40:36.520 --> 40:39.520 that they have giant lash marks that are bleeding on their back. 40:39.520 --> 40:41.520 Nobody's going to do that. 40:41.520 --> 40:44.520 Every time CPS has gone there, everything is cool. 40:44.520 --> 40:47.520 It's not like they just know that CPS is going to arrive. 40:47.520 --> 40:49.520 And when they come every day, 40:49.560 --> 40:51.560 I mean, multiple times a day, 40:51.560 --> 40:53.560 then, you know, this is like... 40:53.560 --> 40:55.560 You can feed into these lies all you want 40:55.560 --> 40:57.560 and just believe... 40:57.560 --> 40:59.560 I just want to believe the kids! 40:59.560 --> 41:01.560 And this is what was said. 41:01.560 --> 41:03.560 This is exactly what was said, I believe Miriam. 41:03.560 --> 41:05.560 I believe the kids. 41:05.560 --> 41:07.560 It's just like, well, why do you believe them? 41:07.560 --> 41:10.560 Because their stories don't match up. 41:10.560 --> 41:12.560 I mean, does anybody really think 41:12.560 --> 41:14.560 that Pastor Anderson was going to kill his daughter 41:14.560 --> 41:16.560 and dump her in the swamp somewhere? 41:16.560 --> 41:18.560 Because that's what she said. 41:18.600 --> 41:20.600 And anybody that was ever around her, 41:20.600 --> 41:23.600 because she came to our churches when he came to preach sometimes, 41:23.600 --> 41:25.600 and they were cutting it up and laughing, 41:25.600 --> 41:27.600 I don't think that's the face of somebody 41:27.600 --> 41:29.600 that's afraid that her dad's going to kill her. 41:29.600 --> 41:31.600 I'm sorry, I don't believe that. 41:33.600 --> 41:35.600 And there's still... 41:35.600 --> 41:39.600 Guess what? There's still no evidence after over a year and a half. 41:39.600 --> 41:42.600 So no matter how many people try to convince me, 41:42.600 --> 41:44.600 it's just not going to happen unless I see the proof. 41:44.600 --> 41:46.600 And I don't think it's ever going to manifest. 41:46.640 --> 41:48.640 But I'll tell you what is proven, 41:48.640 --> 41:50.640 that everybody that's just come out against him hard, 41:50.640 --> 41:53.640 their church is no longer what it used to be. 41:53.640 --> 41:56.640 Even Pastor Buzarnski's church in Fresno, gone. 41:56.640 --> 41:58.640 Joe Jones' church, gone. 41:58.640 --> 42:03.640 He's just a...what, a free gracer now or something? 42:03.640 --> 42:06.640 I'm a free gracer, but not like on his level. 42:06.640 --> 42:10.640 I mean, he done threw away the Baptist's name and everything. 42:10.640 --> 42:13.640 But both of those guys, 42:13.680 --> 42:16.680 both got information that I was told, 42:16.680 --> 42:19.680 and I just...when I was told this information, 42:19.680 --> 42:22.680 it was by one witness. 42:22.680 --> 42:25.680 Even if a pastor comes to you and tells you something, 42:25.680 --> 42:27.680 just because that pastor told you something, 42:27.680 --> 42:30.680 it doesn't mean that that pastor is telling the truth. 42:30.680 --> 42:34.680 So when I was told this bit of information, 42:34.680 --> 42:38.680 I just dismissed it because I'm not going to take the accusation 42:38.680 --> 42:41.680 against an elder by one witness. 42:41.720 --> 42:44.720 But as soon as those guys heard that same thing that I heard, 42:44.720 --> 42:47.720 they're making...they're putting things on their Facebook pages 42:47.720 --> 42:49.720 telling you how they believe the kids. 42:49.720 --> 42:51.720 Now they believe somebody else. 42:51.720 --> 42:55.720 They believe their pastor sending pastors what they did 42:55.720 --> 42:59.720 without thinking about how to judge correctly. 42:59.720 --> 43:01.720 Turn to Numbers, chapter 32. 43:01.720 --> 43:03.720 Numbers, chapter 32. 43:07.720 --> 43:09.720 Numbers, chapter 32. 43:11.720 --> 43:14.720 So is the new IFB the problem? 43:14.720 --> 43:16.720 That's what Verity's problem is? 43:16.720 --> 43:18.720 No, I mean, they... 43:18.720 --> 43:21.720 Look, Pastor Arman is coined the term new IFB. 43:21.720 --> 43:23.720 He coined the term. 43:23.720 --> 43:25.720 We call it that because of him. 43:25.720 --> 43:28.720 That was a new IFB church, and now it's definitely not that. 43:28.720 --> 43:32.720 It's called, we sit around and talk about the new IFB. 43:32.720 --> 43:36.720 That's...I mean, it's completely changed 43:36.720 --> 43:39.720 in what the mission was from the beginning. 43:39.760 --> 43:41.760 What made Verity great, their heart... 43:41.760 --> 43:43.760 Pastor Arman has preached some of the greatest sermons 43:43.760 --> 43:45.760 that I've ever heard. 43:45.760 --> 43:49.760 I will never...I will never, like, say that he didn't do 43:49.760 --> 43:51.760 great things for us because he did. 43:51.760 --> 43:56.760 But it's just the new IFB isn't your problem. 43:56.760 --> 43:59.760 It's like going against the new IFB was your problem 43:59.760 --> 44:01.760 and lying about people. 44:01.760 --> 44:03.760 That's the problem. 44:03.760 --> 44:05.760 So Numbers 32, 22 says, 44:05.800 --> 44:07.800 So it's talking about the... 44:07.800 --> 44:09.800 doing what you say you're going to do, basically. 44:09.800 --> 44:11.800 But it says, 44:15.800 --> 44:17.800 So when you don't do the things that you say you're going to do, 44:17.800 --> 44:19.800 you're sinning against the Lord. 44:19.800 --> 44:21.800 It says, 44:21.800 --> 44:23.800 That's a scary verse. 44:23.800 --> 44:25.800 That verse scares me. 44:25.800 --> 44:27.800 I'm going to be a little bit scared. 44:27.800 --> 44:29.800 I'm going to be a little bit scared. 44:29.800 --> 44:31.800 I'm going to be a little bit scared. 44:31.800 --> 44:33.800 I'm going to be a little bit scared. 44:33.840 --> 44:35.840 That verse scares me. 44:35.840 --> 44:37.840 And if you're afraid of God at all, 44:37.840 --> 44:39.840 that verse should scare you too. 44:39.840 --> 44:42.840 Because be sure your sin will find you out. 44:42.840 --> 44:45.840 That's like... does sin have its own agenda? 44:45.840 --> 44:48.840 It finds you out because God is going to make sure 44:48.840 --> 44:50.840 that the sin is found out. 44:50.840 --> 44:52.840 That's why. 44:52.840 --> 44:55.840 It's not sin, you know, just sin is like some entity or something. 44:55.840 --> 44:58.840 But your sin will find you out means that God's going to make 44:58.840 --> 45:00.840 sure that people find out about your sin. 45:00.880 --> 45:03.880 Especially when you're refusing to confess and forsake that sin 45:03.880 --> 45:07.880 and just continue to just keep doing it over and over again. 45:07.880 --> 45:09.880 It says, 45:09.880 --> 45:11.880 Build you your cities for your little ones 45:11.880 --> 45:13.880 and folds for your sheep 45:13.880 --> 45:16.880 and do that which have proceeded out of your mouth. 45:16.880 --> 45:20.880 So God really is a stickler about doing what you say you're going to do. 45:20.880 --> 45:22.880 So, 45:22.880 --> 45:24.880 Nehemiah chapter... 45:24.880 --> 45:26.880 We'll skip Nehemiah chapter. 45:26.880 --> 45:28.880 I'll just actually read Nehemiah 4-5. 45:28.920 --> 45:30.920 I'm going to turn to Genesis 3. 45:30.920 --> 45:32.920 Genesis 3, because I've got to hurry here. 45:32.920 --> 45:35.920 But Nehemiah 4-5 says, 45:35.920 --> 45:38.920 And cover not their iniquity 45:38.920 --> 45:41.920 and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee. 45:41.920 --> 45:44.920 For they have provoked thee to anger before the builders. 45:44.920 --> 45:48.920 So this is when Sam, Belat, and Tobiah, and all them 45:48.920 --> 45:50.920 were trying to taunt the people of God 45:50.920 --> 45:52.920 when they were trying to build this wall. 45:52.920 --> 45:54.920 But, 45:54.960 --> 45:57.960 He's clearly preaching for them 45:57.960 --> 46:00.960 for God to not cover their iniquity. 46:00.960 --> 46:02.960 So when your iniquity is not covered, 46:02.960 --> 46:05.960 you've got trouble coming your way. 46:05.960 --> 46:07.960 And I'm not saying this is like some reprobate situation, 46:07.960 --> 46:09.960 but I'm just saying, 46:09.960 --> 46:12.960 God has His limits to the things that He's going to allow to be covered 46:12.960 --> 46:16.960 and God hearkened unto the prophet Nehemiah, 46:16.960 --> 46:18.960 well, whatever Nehemiah was, 46:18.960 --> 46:21.960 the governor of the building program there. 46:21.960 --> 46:23.960 So, here in Genesis 3-6, 46:24.000 --> 46:27.000 here's an example of the first people 46:27.000 --> 46:28.000 trying to cover their sin. 46:28.000 --> 46:31.000 I mean, this has been going on since the Garden of Eden, guys. 46:31.000 --> 46:32.000 It says, 46:32.000 --> 46:34.000 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food 46:34.000 --> 46:36.000 and that it was pleasant to the eyes 46:36.000 --> 46:38.000 and a tree to be desired to make one wise, 46:38.000 --> 46:40.000 she took of the fruit thereof 46:40.000 --> 46:43.000 and did eat and gave also unto her husband, 46:43.000 --> 46:44.000 and he did eat. 46:44.000 --> 46:47.000 So did he, did she had to like pull a gun to his head 46:47.000 --> 46:48.000 and say, eat the food? 46:48.000 --> 46:49.000 No. 46:49.000 --> 46:52.000 He just, she handed it to him and he ate it too. 46:52.040 --> 46:54.040 So he had a choice in the matter, 46:54.040 --> 46:55.040 whether to do it or not. 46:55.040 --> 46:56.040 And it says, 46:56.040 --> 46:57.040 And the eyes of them both were open 46:57.040 --> 46:59.040 and they knew that they were naked 46:59.040 --> 47:01.040 and they sewed fig leaves together 47:01.040 --> 47:03.040 and made themselves aprons. 47:03.040 --> 47:05.040 And they heard the voice of the Lord God 47:05.040 --> 47:07.040 calling in the garden in the cool of the day 47:07.040 --> 47:09.040 and Adam and his wife hid themselves 47:09.040 --> 47:11.040 from the presence of the Lord God 47:11.040 --> 47:12.040 among the trees of the garden. 47:12.040 --> 47:15.040 So, they sinned, they knew that they were naked, 47:15.040 --> 47:18.040 and so they tried to physically do something 47:18.040 --> 47:20.040 to cover up themselves, 47:20.040 --> 47:21.040 so because they knew they were naked, 47:21.080 --> 47:23.080 and then they tried to hide from God. 47:23.080 --> 47:26.080 This is like the opposite thing that you should do. 47:26.080 --> 47:29.080 When you know you're zeroed in on 47:29.080 --> 47:32.080 just confess and forsake, okay? 47:32.080 --> 47:34.080 But Adam doesn't do that. 47:34.080 --> 47:37.080 He blames Eve, his wife, for what he did. 47:37.080 --> 47:41.080 And then he blames God for giving him his wife. 47:41.080 --> 47:43.080 But who did he hold responsible, 47:43.080 --> 47:44.080 did God put up with that? 47:44.080 --> 47:48.080 Did God say, oh no, you know, you're right, Adam. 47:48.080 --> 47:49.080 I forgive you. 47:49.080 --> 47:50.080 You will not die. 47:50.120 --> 47:51.120 No, you will not die. 47:51.120 --> 47:54.120 No, he's like, he still condemns him 47:54.120 --> 47:58.120 for, and then death passes upon all men 47:58.120 --> 48:02.120 for all sin, so man is actually the one 48:02.120 --> 48:04.120 that is in trouble more than the woman is 48:04.120 --> 48:07.120 in this situation because he knew better. 48:07.120 --> 48:09.120 He was not beguiled. 48:09.120 --> 48:11.120 He just willingly partook. 48:11.120 --> 48:12.120 Amen. 48:12.120 --> 48:16.120 And they're both trying to hide their sins together. 48:16.120 --> 48:17.120 Ananias and Sapphira, same thing. 48:17.120 --> 48:19.120 They try to hide their sins, 48:19.160 --> 48:21.160 and then they're questioned independently 48:21.160 --> 48:23.160 of each other, and they drop dead 48:23.160 --> 48:25.160 because they lied to the Holy Ghost. 48:25.160 --> 48:28.160 So the best thing to do is to not hide among the trees, 48:28.160 --> 48:30.160 to sew yourself some little aprons 48:30.160 --> 48:31.160 and try to get away with what you're doing, 48:31.160 --> 48:34.160 but you need to confess and forsake your sin, 48:34.160 --> 48:36.160 and God's going to have mercy on you, right? 48:36.160 --> 48:41.160 And so Genesis 4. 48:41.160 --> 48:44.160 So as a result of this, the next generation 48:44.160 --> 48:46.160 has problems covering up their sin too. 48:46.200 --> 48:49.200 And Cain, he might have been somewhat 48:49.200 --> 48:50.200 of a little serial killer himself, 48:50.200 --> 48:53.200 but I'm somewhat of a serial killer myself. 48:53.200 --> 48:55.200 I don't know if he was a serial killer, 48:55.200 --> 48:56.200 but he was definitely a murderer. 48:56.200 --> 48:59.200 And it says in Genesis 4.1, 48:59.200 --> 49:01.200 And Adam knew Eve his wife, 49:01.200 --> 49:02.200 and she conceived him, bare Cain, 49:02.200 --> 49:04.200 and said, I've gotten a man from the Lord, 49:04.200 --> 49:06.200 and she again bare his brother Abel, 49:06.200 --> 49:08.200 and Abel was a keeper of sheep, 49:08.200 --> 49:10.200 but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 49:10.200 --> 49:12.200 In the process of time it came to pass 49:12.200 --> 49:14.200 that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground 49:14.240 --> 49:16.240 an offering unto the Lord, 49:16.240 --> 49:19.240 and Abel he also brought of the first things of the flock 49:19.240 --> 49:21.240 and of the fat thereof, 49:21.240 --> 49:23.240 and the Lord had respect unto Abel 49:23.240 --> 49:25.240 and to his offering. 49:25.240 --> 49:27.240 But unto Cain and to his offering 49:27.240 --> 49:28.240 he had not respect, 49:28.240 --> 49:29.240 and Cain was very wroth, 49:29.240 --> 49:30.240 and his countenance fell. 49:30.240 --> 49:31.240 And the Lord said unto Cain, 49:31.240 --> 49:32.240 Why art thou wroth, 49:32.240 --> 49:34.240 and why is thy countenance falling? 49:34.240 --> 49:36.240 If thou doest well, 49:36.240 --> 49:38.240 thou shalt thou not be accepted. 49:38.240 --> 49:39.240 And if thou doest not well, 49:39.240 --> 49:41.240 sin lieth at the door. 49:41.240 --> 49:43.240 And unto thee shall be his desire 49:43.280 --> 49:45.280 and thou shalt rule over him. 49:45.280 --> 49:47.280 And Cain talked with Abel his brother 49:47.280 --> 49:49.280 and it came to pass when they were in the field 49:49.280 --> 49:51.280 that Cain rose up against Abel his brother 49:51.280 --> 49:52.280 and slew him. 49:52.280 --> 49:53.280 And the Lord said unto Cain, 49:53.280 --> 49:55.280 Where is Abel thy brother? 49:55.280 --> 49:56.280 And he said, I know not. 49:56.280 --> 49:58.280 Am I my brother's keeper? 49:58.280 --> 50:00.280 So, I mean it doesn't say that he hid the body 50:00.280 --> 50:02.280 but he obviously did because where is he at? 50:02.280 --> 50:04.280 He's hidden. 50:04.280 --> 50:06.280 So he wants to cover up his sin. 50:06.280 --> 50:08.280 What do people do when they kill somebody? 50:08.280 --> 50:09.280 They want to cover it up, right? 50:09.280 --> 50:11.280 And so there's not a lot of people probably on the earth 50:11.280 --> 50:12.280 at this time. 50:12.320 --> 50:15.320 So it's not like, you know, you can just, 50:15.320 --> 50:16.320 oh, someone just disappears 50:16.320 --> 50:17.320 and you don't know where they went. 50:17.320 --> 50:18.320 Oh, where did they go? 50:18.320 --> 50:22.320 You know, this is the first born son, 50:22.320 --> 50:25.320 Cain getting rid of the second born son, Abel. 50:25.320 --> 50:28.320 And so he's like, where is he at? 50:28.320 --> 50:30.320 And he says, Am I my brother's keeper? 50:30.320 --> 50:32.320 And he said, What hast thou done? 50:32.320 --> 50:34.320 The voice of thy brother's blood cryeth unto me 50:34.320 --> 50:35.320 from the ground. 50:35.320 --> 50:37.320 And now art thou cursed from the earth 50:37.320 --> 50:41.320 which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood 50:41.360 --> 50:42.360 from my hand. 50:42.360 --> 50:44.360 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth 50:44.360 --> 50:47.360 yield unto thee her strength, a fugitive and a vagabond, 50:47.360 --> 50:50.360 shalt thou be in the earth, and Cain sendeth the Lord 50:50.360 --> 50:52.360 my punishment is greater than I can bear. 50:52.360 --> 50:54.360 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day 50:54.360 --> 50:58.360 from the face of the earth, and from my face shall it be hid 50:58.360 --> 51:00.360 and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth 51:00.360 --> 51:03.360 and it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me 51:03.360 --> 51:04.360 shall slay me. 51:04.360 --> 51:07.360 So he said he can't bear this punishment. 51:07.360 --> 51:10.360 Well, maybe you shouldn't have tried to hide your sin then. 51:10.400 --> 51:12.400 Maybe when God asked you, What have you done? 51:12.400 --> 51:13.400 I killed my brother. 51:13.400 --> 51:17.400 I'm sorry, Lord, I got envious or whatever. 51:17.400 --> 51:18.400 He doesn't do that though. 51:18.400 --> 51:22.400 He hides his sin, he tries to, but God sees everything. 51:22.400 --> 51:23.400 He already knew what would happen. 51:23.400 --> 51:26.400 He's just questioning them to see what he's going to say. 51:26.400 --> 51:31.400 So we want God to have mercy on us in our life. 51:31.400 --> 51:34.400 But sometimes people are past the point of forgiveness 51:34.400 --> 51:37.400 like Nehemiah was talking about, 51:37.400 --> 51:38.400 and their sins can't be covered. 51:38.440 --> 51:43.440 I preached about this in 3 Samuel last Thursday night 51:43.440 --> 51:51.440 how there are no offering would be acceptable to cover 51:51.440 --> 51:54.440 for the sins of his reprobate sons. 51:54.440 --> 51:57.440 So I mean, there's a point that you can get past with God 51:57.440 --> 52:00.440 and obviously it's a very small percentage of people, 52:00.440 --> 52:01.440 but it's still true. 52:01.440 --> 52:06.440 So, but if we as Christians will confess our sins 52:06.480 --> 52:08.480 to God, He's going to forgive us. 52:08.480 --> 52:09.480 He's going to have mercy on us. 52:09.480 --> 52:11.480 You know, the Bible said, like tonight we're going to take 52:11.480 --> 52:12.480 the Lord's Supper. 52:12.480 --> 52:16.480 It says, Let a man examine himself and then partake. 52:16.480 --> 52:19.480 So we should be examining ourselves, 52:19.480 --> 52:22.480 where we're at as Christians, and not just, 52:22.480 --> 52:24.480 oh, let's just cover this one up for a while. 52:24.480 --> 52:28.480 You just bury that sin that you have instead of dealing with it 52:28.480 --> 52:30.480 because sometimes we just have to deal with it 52:30.480 --> 52:32.480 and confess and forsake those sins 52:32.480 --> 52:35.480 and God will have mercy on us. 52:35.520 --> 52:38.520 Look back at Proverbs chapter 28 verse 13, 52:38.520 --> 52:41.520 my second point, which is going to have to be fast, 52:41.520 --> 52:44.520 God's grace covers sins through forgiveness. 52:44.520 --> 52:46.520 So there's the bad covering up of sins, 52:46.520 --> 52:49.520 where you're covering up sins to get away with things, 52:49.520 --> 52:52.520 but look, God, everything is naked in God's eyes. 52:52.520 --> 52:55.520 You can't hide it anyway. 52:55.520 --> 52:58.520 In Revelation chapter 6, they ask the rocks 52:58.520 --> 53:00.520 and the mountains to fall on them 53:00.520 --> 53:02.520 because they don't want God's faith, 53:02.520 --> 53:04.520 they don't want to see the rocks fall on them 53:04.560 --> 53:06.560 because they don't want to see the wrath of the Lamb. 53:06.560 --> 53:08.560 They want to hide themselves from the wrath of the Lamb, 53:08.560 --> 53:09.560 but they can't. 53:09.560 --> 53:11.560 He can see through mountains, 53:11.560 --> 53:13.560 He can see through your little apron that you have on, 53:13.560 --> 53:17.560 He can see your skimpy apron bathing suit, 53:17.560 --> 53:19.560 He can see, you know, 53:19.560 --> 53:21.560 nothing is hidden from His eyes. 53:21.560 --> 53:23.560 He can see everything. 53:23.560 --> 53:25.560 And the reason I say that is because 53:25.560 --> 53:29.560 Adam and Eve, they try to cover themselves 53:29.560 --> 53:32.560 with aprons and with plants, 53:32.600 --> 53:35.600 which obviously is a picture of them trying to do works, 53:35.600 --> 53:37.600 right, to cover up. 53:37.600 --> 53:40.600 But, you know, God covered them with coats of skins 53:40.600 --> 53:43.600 and is like, here's the real covering that you need, 53:43.600 --> 53:44.600 and that represents what? 53:44.600 --> 53:47.600 The blood, the blood of Christ. 53:47.600 --> 53:50.600 And so that's the only way we can truly get our sins covered. 53:50.600 --> 53:52.600 If you're not saved this morning, 53:52.600 --> 53:54.600 then your sins are not covered 53:54.600 --> 53:56.600 and you're under God's wrath, 53:56.600 --> 53:58.600 whether you like that or not. 53:58.600 --> 54:00.600 You know, if you die unsaved, you're going to die 54:00.640 --> 54:02.640 and you're going to split hell wide open, 54:02.640 --> 54:04.640 you're going to go straight to hell. 54:04.640 --> 54:06.640 And what a sad testimony it is when someone said, 54:06.640 --> 54:08.640 well, I've been going to such-and-such church 54:08.640 --> 54:12.640 for 40 years and they're still lost. 54:12.640 --> 54:14.640 I mean, it's sad. That's sad. 54:14.640 --> 54:16.640 And people will say, well, 54:16.640 --> 54:17.640 this is just what I've always believed. 54:17.640 --> 54:19.640 This is what my family believes. 54:19.640 --> 54:21.640 Those are not excuses. 54:21.640 --> 54:24.640 You have to own up and you have to get saved the right way. 54:24.640 --> 54:26.640 But we're back in our verse there. 54:26.640 --> 54:28.640 It says in Proverbs 28 verse 13, it says, 54:28.680 --> 54:31.680 David covereth his sins shall not prosper. 54:31.680 --> 54:33.680 So we already saw that in point number one. 54:33.680 --> 54:35.680 Look, Cain didn't prosper. 54:35.680 --> 54:37.680 And Adam and Eve didn't prosper 54:37.680 --> 54:39.680 when they tried to cover their sins. 54:39.680 --> 54:41.680 And look, nobody is going to prosper 54:41.680 --> 54:43.680 when they try to cover up their sins. 54:43.680 --> 54:45.680 David tried to cover up his sins. 54:45.680 --> 54:47.680 He tried. He even had somebody killed for it. 54:47.680 --> 54:50.680 But when he was confronted with it, 54:50.680 --> 54:52.680 he did the right thing though. 54:52.680 --> 54:55.680 And he didn't try to cover up any further. 54:55.680 --> 54:57.680 And he was punished for it. 54:57.720 --> 54:58.720 Severely. 54:58.720 --> 55:01.720 So Proverbs 28 verse 13 says, 55:01.720 --> 55:03.720 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, 55:03.720 --> 55:05.720 but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them 55:05.720 --> 55:07.720 shall have mercy. 55:07.720 --> 55:09.720 So the second part of this sermon 55:09.720 --> 55:11.720 is talking about God's mercy 55:11.720 --> 55:12.720 when we what? 55:12.720 --> 55:14.720 Confess and forsake those sins. 55:14.720 --> 55:17.720 So look, everybody has sin in their life. 55:17.720 --> 55:18.720 Everybody does. 55:18.720 --> 55:21.720 But again, we should always be trying to work 55:21.720 --> 55:25.720 towards the goal of getting sin out of our lives. 55:25.760 --> 55:26.760 And the longer we're Christians, 55:26.760 --> 55:28.760 the better at it we should be. 55:28.760 --> 55:30.760 But you know, there's some of those ones 55:30.760 --> 55:31.760 that are the high places in our lives. 55:31.760 --> 55:33.760 The ones that you don't want to tear down. 55:33.760 --> 55:35.760 You know, the pair of pants 55:35.760 --> 55:36.760 that the ladies have in their closet 55:36.760 --> 55:37.760 that they just want 55:37.760 --> 55:38.760 or are waiting to break out 55:38.760 --> 55:40.760 when they get a chance. 55:40.760 --> 55:42.760 I like to use that one. 55:42.760 --> 55:43.760 It's just funny to me. 55:43.760 --> 55:45.760 But guys, you know, 55:45.760 --> 55:47.760 we have our own little things that we like to, 55:47.760 --> 55:50.760 our own high places that we don't want to tear down. 55:50.760 --> 55:52.760 And like those high places that 55:52.760 --> 55:53.760 were never torn down 55:53.800 --> 55:55.800 is a picture of basically, 55:55.800 --> 55:57.800 yeah, they were right with God to a certain extent, 55:57.800 --> 55:59.800 but there's always something in their life 55:59.800 --> 56:00.800 that was jamming them up. 56:00.800 --> 56:04.800 So turn to, well, I'm just going to go ahead 56:04.800 --> 56:06.800 and read Psalm 32, 56:06.800 --> 56:08.800 but you go to Romans 4, 6. 56:08.800 --> 56:11.800 And this is what Romans 4 is quoted from. 56:11.800 --> 56:12.800 Psalm 32 is, 56:12.800 --> 56:15.800 Psalm of David blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven 56:15.800 --> 56:17.800 and whose sin is covered. 56:17.800 --> 56:21.800 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity 56:21.840 --> 56:24.840 and in whose spirit there is no guile. 56:24.840 --> 56:29.840 So David here is saying this truth also. 56:29.840 --> 56:31.840 Hey, blessed is those whose sins are forgiven 56:31.840 --> 56:33.840 and sin is covered, 56:33.840 --> 56:34.840 because everybody has sin. 56:34.840 --> 56:37.840 But you know, if you're not saved, you're not blessed. 56:37.840 --> 56:39.840 And if you're saved and you're not confessing 56:39.840 --> 56:42.840 and going to God with your sins, 56:42.840 --> 56:46.840 then he's going to whip you. 56:46.840 --> 56:47.840 So, you know, spirit, 56:47.840 --> 56:48.840 I'm not saying he's going to come down 56:48.840 --> 56:49.840 with a literal paddle 56:49.880 --> 56:51.880 and whip you or a whip, 56:51.880 --> 56:53.880 but it's going to be things done in your life. 56:53.880 --> 56:57.880 And you'll know this is God chasing me. 56:57.880 --> 56:58.880 This is God dealing with me. 56:58.880 --> 57:00.880 And he doesn't really want to do that. 57:00.880 --> 57:02.880 You know, like, I think in parents, 57:02.880 --> 57:04.880 we get this from God 57:04.880 --> 57:06.880 where we want to give our kids a pass 57:06.880 --> 57:07.880 when they do something. 57:07.880 --> 57:09.880 We don't always want to spank them. 57:09.880 --> 57:10.880 And it's like that's, 57:10.880 --> 57:13.880 but that's something that God puts into us as mankind 57:13.880 --> 57:15.880 because, you know, most people, 57:15.880 --> 57:17.880 but some people just to an extreme 57:17.920 --> 57:19.920 just let their kids get away with stuff, 57:19.920 --> 57:20.920 and that's wrong. 57:20.920 --> 57:23.920 But we should be long-suffering with our kids. 57:23.920 --> 57:24.920 We should teach them. 57:24.920 --> 57:27.920 We should give them grace in times 57:27.920 --> 57:28.920 and just tell them, 57:28.920 --> 57:29.920 hey, but the next time you do that, 57:29.920 --> 57:31.920 it's going to be the cord. 57:31.920 --> 57:32.920 No, I'm just kidding. 57:32.920 --> 57:35.920 It's going to be the belt. 57:35.920 --> 57:37.920 It's going to be, you know, something. 57:37.920 --> 57:38.920 It could be the cord. 57:38.920 --> 57:39.920 I don't know. 57:39.920 --> 57:40.920 I'm teasing. 57:40.920 --> 57:45.920 But anyway, so you're in Romans 4, 6. 57:45.960 --> 57:46.960 Romans 4, 6 it says, 57:46.960 --> 57:50.960 even as David also described with the blessedness of the man 57:50.960 --> 57:54.960 unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works. 57:54.960 --> 57:57.960 So look, we're not saved by our works. 57:57.960 --> 57:59.960 You know, confessing and forsaking our sin, 57:59.960 --> 58:01.960 like a lot of people that we talk to at doors, 58:01.960 --> 58:05.960 they'll say, well, as long as I, you know, repent, 58:05.960 --> 58:07.960 I'm still going to go to heaven. 58:07.960 --> 58:09.960 But then I ask it, well, what if you die sinning? 58:09.960 --> 58:12.960 What if, like, the last act you do on this earth is sinning? 58:12.960 --> 58:14.960 And most people probably don't think about that, 58:15.000 --> 58:18.000 but how many people do you think have died sinning? 58:18.000 --> 58:20.000 There's probably been a lot of people that God's just like, 58:20.000 --> 58:23.000 all right, last chance, you're done. 58:23.000 --> 58:26.000 Heart attack, you know, or whatever. 58:26.000 --> 58:28.000 Or like King Saul, you know, 58:28.000 --> 58:30.000 he made sure he was killed on the battlefield 58:30.000 --> 58:32.000 and what was his last thing that he did? 58:32.000 --> 58:35.000 He sinned by killing himself on the battlefield 58:35.000 --> 58:36.000 because, I mean, obviously, 58:36.000 --> 58:38.000 he didn't want the Philistines to do weird things to him, 58:38.000 --> 58:42.000 but he died sinning. 58:42.040 --> 58:44.040 And so it's possible to die sinning, 58:44.040 --> 58:46.040 but some people think that if you died sinning, 58:46.040 --> 58:49.040 you'd go to hell because, oh, you didn't ask for forgiveness. 58:49.040 --> 58:51.040 Well, this is like, God's not like the genie in the bottle 58:51.040 --> 58:53.040 that you have to just rub the lamp every time 58:53.040 --> 58:54.040 that you do something wrong. 58:54.040 --> 58:56.040 Forgive me, Lord, forgive me, Lord. 58:56.040 --> 58:58.040 Give me this, give me that, give me that. 58:58.040 --> 59:00.040 Look, that's not how God is. 59:00.040 --> 59:04.040 But he will forgive us sin when we ask him, 59:04.040 --> 59:06.040 and when we get right with him, 59:06.040 --> 59:08.040 he wants us to get right with him. 59:08.080 --> 59:14.080 I mean, don't go too long with trying to get right with him. 59:14.080 --> 59:16.080 Don't go too long where you're just not on your knees 59:16.080 --> 59:18.080 begging him for mercy 59:18.080 --> 59:21.080 because we all do things that we shouldn't do. 59:21.080 --> 59:22.080 It's just a fact. 59:22.080 --> 59:25.080 So don't act like you're the only one 59:25.080 --> 59:28.080 that's sinless in this room or something. 59:28.080 --> 59:32.080 Yeah, we're in Romans 4, 6, and 7. 59:32.080 --> 59:34.080 It says, saying, 59:34.120 --> 59:35.120 saying, 59:43.120 --> 59:45.120 See, your sins are, 59:45.120 --> 59:48.120 if you're saved, your sins are already forgiven 59:48.120 --> 59:50.120 and your sins are already covered 59:50.120 --> 59:52.120 and you're blessed 59:52.120 --> 59:54.120 because God will not impute sin. 59:54.120 --> 59:58.120 And this is, but this is talking about your overall, 59:58.120 --> 01:00:00.120 your overall in Christ. 01:00:00.120 --> 01:00:02.120 You know, because you can die sinning. 01:00:02.160 --> 01:00:03.160 But you know what? 01:00:03.160 --> 01:00:05.160 You're going to go straight to heaven. 01:00:05.160 --> 01:00:07.160 You just messed up to the point 01:00:07.160 --> 01:00:09.160 where God just took you off the planet 01:00:09.160 --> 01:00:11.160 because he had no more use for you. 01:00:11.160 --> 01:00:15.160 Turn to 1 John, 1 John 1. 01:00:19.160 --> 01:00:21.160 Now look, we want to get mercy. 01:00:21.160 --> 01:00:25.160 Look, this is the, right here is the formula 01:00:25.160 --> 01:00:28.160 of going to God and getting mercy. 01:00:28.160 --> 01:00:29.160 And this is not talking about salvation. 01:00:29.200 --> 01:00:31.200 This is talking about having, 01:00:31.200 --> 01:00:34.200 it's kind of like when you do something wrong 01:00:34.200 --> 01:00:36.200 to your brother or sister 01:00:36.200 --> 01:00:39.200 or you break your parents' rules 01:00:39.200 --> 01:00:41.200 or something when you're growing up. 01:00:43.200 --> 01:00:46.200 That, you know, if you ask your parents to forgive you 01:00:46.200 --> 01:00:47.200 for not cleaning your room 01:00:47.200 --> 01:00:48.200 when you said you were going to, 01:00:48.200 --> 01:00:50.200 they're going to forgive you in most cases 01:00:50.200 --> 01:00:51.200 unless they're just weird or whatever. 01:00:51.200 --> 01:00:54.200 But, you know, or maybe it takes a little bit of time 01:00:54.200 --> 01:00:56.200 to calm down. 01:00:56.240 --> 01:00:58.240 But, you know, if we, 01:00:58.240 --> 01:01:00.240 I think it's a lot better as children 01:01:00.240 --> 01:01:01.240 if you just go and tell your parents, 01:01:01.240 --> 01:01:02.240 hey, I did this wrong, 01:01:02.240 --> 01:01:05.240 instead of them having to beat it out of you or something. 01:01:05.240 --> 01:01:07.240 What did you do? 01:01:07.240 --> 01:01:09.240 Confess, you know. 01:01:10.240 --> 01:01:12.240 Like parents just, 01:01:12.240 --> 01:01:13.240 and there's a lot of times when I would just say, 01:01:13.240 --> 01:01:15.240 hey, if you just tell me the truth, 01:01:15.240 --> 01:01:17.240 then you're not going to get in trouble. 01:01:17.240 --> 01:01:19.240 And I really meant that. 01:01:19.240 --> 01:01:20.240 At least you're not going to get in trouble 01:01:20.240 --> 01:01:22.240 as much as you were going to get in trouble. 01:01:22.240 --> 01:01:24.240 But see, look, God's like that too. 01:01:24.280 --> 01:01:25.280 Even though He has mercy on us 01:01:25.280 --> 01:01:27.280 when we confess and forgive, 01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:29.280 it doesn't mean there's not consequences to what we did. 01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:32.280 So if we think there's no consequences every time, 01:01:32.280 --> 01:01:34.280 just we just have to rub the lamp or something, 01:01:34.280 --> 01:01:36.280 that's not what this is. 01:01:36.280 --> 01:01:38.280 But look what it says though. 01:01:38.280 --> 01:01:39.280 It says in verse 6, 01:01:39.280 --> 01:01:40.280 it says, 01:01:40.280 --> 01:01:41.280 If we say we have fellowship with Him 01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:42.280 and walk in darkness, 01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:44.280 we lie and do not the truth. 01:01:44.280 --> 01:01:45.280 But if we walk in the light, 01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:46.280 as He is in the light, 01:01:46.280 --> 01:01:48.280 we have fellowship one with another 01:01:48.280 --> 01:01:50.280 and the blood of Jesus Christ, 01:01:50.280 --> 01:01:53.280 His Son cleanseth us from all sin. 01:01:54.280 --> 01:01:56.280 Look, that covers us. 01:01:56.280 --> 01:01:58.280 His blood covers our sin. 01:01:58.280 --> 01:01:59.280 It says, 01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:00.280 If we say we have no sin, 01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:01.280 we deceive ourselves 01:02:01.280 --> 01:02:04.280 and the truth is not in us. 01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:05.280 It doesn't mean you're not saved. 01:02:05.280 --> 01:02:08.280 It just means that you're lacking truth in your life 01:02:08.280 --> 01:02:11.280 and you're deceiving yourself by saying you don't have sin. 01:02:11.280 --> 01:02:13.280 Oh, that's not a sin. 01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:16.280 The Bible words chapter and verse on that, 01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:17.280 that that's sin. 01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:20.280 Well, I mean, some things, 01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:21.280 you might not think it's sin 01:02:21.280 --> 01:02:23.280 because you want to just keep getting away with it. 01:02:23.320 --> 01:02:24.320 You know, you can make excuses. 01:02:24.320 --> 01:02:27.320 People make excuses for themselves all the time 01:02:27.320 --> 01:02:28.320 about the things that they do. 01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:31.320 Well, yeah, but that's not, yeah, it is. 01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:33.320 Instead of just having a hard heart about it, 01:02:33.320 --> 01:02:34.320 just confess. 01:02:34.320 --> 01:02:35.320 It says, 01:02:35.320 --> 01:02:36.320 If we confess our sins, 01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:39.320 He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 01:02:39.320 --> 01:02:42.320 and to cleanse us from some of the unrighteousness. 01:02:42.320 --> 01:02:43.320 Is that what it says? 01:02:43.320 --> 01:02:45.320 No, it says all unrighteousness. 01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:48.320 So that's all we have to do is go to God 01:02:48.320 --> 01:02:50.320 and ask Him to forgive us. 01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:51.320 And it says, 01:02:51.360 --> 01:02:52.360 He's faithful. 01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:53.360 We're not faithful. 01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:54.360 He's faithful. 01:02:54.360 --> 01:02:55.360 But, you know, we should be faithful 01:02:55.360 --> 01:02:58.360 at least to go and confess our sins, at least. 01:02:58.360 --> 01:03:02.360 And He's just, He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins. 01:03:02.360 --> 01:03:04.360 And He wants to cleanse us from that unrighteousness. 01:03:04.360 --> 01:03:05.360 It says, 01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:07.360 If we say that we have not sinned, 01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:10.360 we make Him a liar and His word is not in us. 01:03:10.360 --> 01:03:11.360 So don't go around just saying, 01:03:11.360 --> 01:03:12.360 I haven't sinned, I haven't sinned. 01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:14.360 Just admit what you've done 01:03:14.360 --> 01:03:17.360 and confess it and forsake it. 01:03:17.360 --> 01:03:18.360 First Peter chapter four, 01:03:18.400 --> 01:03:19.400 almost done here. 01:03:19.400 --> 01:03:20.400 We've got two minutes. 01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:22.400 I don't know if it's going to be two minutes, 01:03:22.400 --> 01:03:24.400 but it's going to be quick. 01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:25.400 All right. 01:03:25.400 --> 01:03:29.400 And above all things have fervent charity, 01:03:29.400 --> 01:03:32.400 1 Peter 4, 8, among yourselves, 01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:36.400 for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 01:03:36.400 --> 01:03:38.400 And so, like, does our good, 01:03:38.400 --> 01:03:41.400 do our good works have some sort of favor with God? 01:03:41.400 --> 01:03:43.400 Well, the Bible says right here, 01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:45.440 I'm not saying that you just do good works 01:03:45.440 --> 01:03:46.440 and you're going to get saved, 01:03:46.440 --> 01:03:48.440 that you're saved because of your good works. 01:03:48.440 --> 01:03:49.440 That's not what it's saying. 01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:51.440 But God will have mercy on us 01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:53.440 when we have mercy on other people. 01:03:53.440 --> 01:03:54.440 Hey, you got saved by someone, 01:03:54.440 --> 01:03:56.440 why don't you go out and get somebody else saved? 01:03:56.440 --> 01:03:57.440 That's love. 01:03:57.440 --> 01:03:59.440 That's charity. 01:03:59.440 --> 01:04:00.440 Doing things for people 01:04:00.440 --> 01:04:01.440 that can't do things back for you, 01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:03.440 that's love, that's charity. 01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:06.440 That's something that God has done for you. 01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:08.440 And so, I'm going to go ahead and say, 01:04:08.440 --> 01:04:09.440 I'm going to go ahead and say, 01:04:09.440 --> 01:04:10.440 I'm going to go ahead and say, 01:04:10.480 --> 01:04:11.480 That's love, that's charity. 01:04:11.480 --> 01:04:14.480 That's something that God, 01:04:14.480 --> 01:04:18.480 he's not going to necessarily give you all the smoke 01:04:18.480 --> 01:04:20.480 for the things that you're doing wrong. 01:04:20.480 --> 01:04:22.480 So, James chapter 5, verse 19, 01:04:22.480 --> 01:04:24.480 James 5, 19, the Bible says, 01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:29.480 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth 01:04:29.480 --> 01:04:30.480 and one convert him, 01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:33.480 let him know that he which converted the sinner 01:04:33.480 --> 01:04:36.480 from the error of his way shall save a soul from death 01:04:36.480 --> 01:04:39.480 and shall hide a multitude of sins. 01:04:39.520 --> 01:04:42.520 So, helping people get right with God. 01:04:42.520 --> 01:04:44.520 And look, my intention this morning 01:04:44.520 --> 01:04:46.520 wasn't to just try to beat up on verity, 01:04:46.520 --> 01:04:47.520 beat up on pastor minutes. 01:04:47.520 --> 01:04:50.520 It's not what I'm, you know, beat up on all these people. 01:04:50.520 --> 01:04:56.520 But, you know, in the sake of helping convert someone 01:04:56.520 --> 01:04:57.520 from the error of their way, 01:04:57.520 --> 01:04:59.520 that's what the purpose of Bible preaching is 01:04:59.520 --> 01:05:00.520 in a lot of ways. 01:05:00.520 --> 01:05:03.520 Is that we need to call things out, 01:05:03.520 --> 01:05:04.520 we can't just sweep them under the rug, 01:05:04.520 --> 01:05:07.520 it has to be brought to the surface. 01:05:07.560 --> 01:05:10.560 And then restoration can happen. 01:05:10.560 --> 01:05:13.560 So, but when you convert a sinner 01:05:13.560 --> 01:05:14.560 from the error of their way, 01:05:14.560 --> 01:05:16.560 you've saved their soul from death 01:05:16.560 --> 01:05:18.560 and shall hide a multitude of sins. 01:05:18.560 --> 01:05:21.560 So, it's a good thing to help people 01:05:21.560 --> 01:05:23.560 to realize where they're at. 01:05:23.560 --> 01:05:25.560 Galatians 6, 1, Galatians 6, 1, 01:05:25.560 --> 01:05:27.560 it's the last passage I'm going to have you turn to 01:05:27.560 --> 01:05:28.560 and we'll be done. 01:05:28.560 --> 01:05:31.560 Galatians 6, 1. 01:05:31.600 --> 01:05:34.600 Why is this sermon also, 01:05:34.600 --> 01:05:36.600 I mean, this sermon should be applicable to us too. 01:05:36.600 --> 01:05:37.600 We're taking the Lord's Supper, 01:05:37.600 --> 01:05:39.600 we're asked to examine ourselves 01:05:39.600 --> 01:05:42.600 and the Bible's given us the formula. 01:05:42.600 --> 01:05:44.600 Hey, confess your sins, I'm faithful and just, 01:05:44.600 --> 01:05:47.600 forgive them and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. 01:05:47.600 --> 01:05:50.600 You know, when you have a lot of charity 01:05:50.600 --> 01:05:53.600 in your heart towards other people, 01:05:53.600 --> 01:05:55.600 it covers a multitude of sins. 01:05:55.600 --> 01:05:58.600 And when you convert a sinner from the error of their way, 01:05:58.640 --> 01:06:00.640 tell them their Ouija board's wrong. 01:06:00.640 --> 01:06:04.640 You know, I'm going to invite them to a barbecue first 01:06:04.640 --> 01:06:06.640 and then, you know, over time, 01:06:06.640 --> 01:06:08.640 I'm going to let them know that their Ouija board's wrong. 01:06:08.640 --> 01:06:10.640 No, just tell them right now. 01:06:10.640 --> 01:06:12.640 I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. 01:06:12.640 --> 01:06:13.640 Especially if somebody's saved. 01:06:13.640 --> 01:06:16.640 Obviously, people that are not saved, 01:06:16.640 --> 01:06:18.640 you know, telling them their Ouija board is wrong 01:06:18.640 --> 01:06:19.640 is just like, they're like, 01:06:19.640 --> 01:06:22.640 what, what are you talking about, you weird Christian? 01:06:22.640 --> 01:06:23.640 But someone that's saved that still has one, 01:06:23.640 --> 01:06:25.640 it's like, you need to get that out of their head. 01:06:25.640 --> 01:06:27.640 You know, you're not going to be able to do that. 01:06:27.680 --> 01:06:29.680 You need to get that out of the house. 01:06:29.680 --> 01:06:31.680 You know, get those demons out of here. 01:06:31.680 --> 01:06:33.680 They have a portal from underneath your bed 01:06:33.680 --> 01:06:34.680 where you're hiding it. 01:06:34.680 --> 01:06:37.680 So anyway, Galatians 6-1, 01:06:37.680 --> 01:06:39.680 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, 01:06:39.680 --> 01:06:41.680 ye which are spiritual restore such a one 01:06:41.680 --> 01:06:42.680 in the spirit of meekness, 01:06:42.680 --> 01:06:45.680 considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 01:06:45.680 --> 01:06:46.680 Look, if it's a place that you're weak in, 01:06:46.680 --> 01:06:49.680 you're not the one to be the doctor. 01:06:49.680 --> 01:06:51.680 Okay, let somebody else help them. 01:06:51.680 --> 01:06:53.680 But, so we've got to consider, 01:06:53.680 --> 01:06:54.680 you've got to consider yourself 01:06:54.680 --> 01:06:56.680 whether that's going to make you fall too. 01:06:56.720 --> 01:07:00.720 But, if someone's overtaken in a fault, 01:07:00.720 --> 01:07:02.720 if you're spiritual, 01:07:02.720 --> 01:07:04.720 you should try to restore that person. 01:07:04.720 --> 01:07:06.720 And it says, bury one another's burdens 01:07:06.720 --> 01:07:08.720 and so fulfill the law of Christ. 01:07:08.720 --> 01:07:09.720 Look, we bury each other's burdens. 01:07:09.720 --> 01:07:10.720 Like, what does that mean? 01:07:10.720 --> 01:07:11.720 You help lift. 01:07:11.720 --> 01:07:14.720 Team lift is something that you see on boxes sometimes 01:07:14.720 --> 01:07:16.720 when a box is too heavy for you to pick up. 01:07:16.720 --> 01:07:19.720 And we should learn to help each other 01:07:19.720 --> 01:07:23.720 and be team members and help people lift. 01:07:23.720 --> 01:07:24.720 What? 01:07:24.760 --> 01:07:26.760 And so fulfill the law of Christ. 01:07:26.760 --> 01:07:28.760 For if a man think himself to be something 01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:30.760 when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:35.760 But let every man prove his own work 01:07:35.760 --> 01:07:42.760 and then he shall have rejoicing in himself 01:07:42.760 --> 01:07:44.760 alone and not another. 01:07:44.760 --> 01:07:47.760 For every man shall bear his own burden. 01:07:47.760 --> 01:07:50.760 So, why is it saying to bear one another's burdens, 01:07:50.760 --> 01:07:52.760 but it says, but every man shall bear his own burden? 01:07:52.800 --> 01:07:55.800 Because ultimately, you're responsible for yourself. 01:07:55.800 --> 01:07:56.800 That's why. 01:07:56.800 --> 01:07:59.800 So, Christianity is a team sport. 01:07:59.800 --> 01:08:02.800 We're all working together for one purpose. 01:08:02.800 --> 01:08:07.800 But your individual efforts help the team out. 01:08:07.800 --> 01:08:09.800 It's like wrestling. 01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:11.800 You might have a couple people lose the match, 01:08:11.800 --> 01:08:14.800 and the points for the team in wrestling 01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:18.800 are gauged based upon the individual's performances. 01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:20.800 So, it's like that in Christianity, apparently, too. 01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:22.840 Every man is going to bear his own burdens. 01:08:22.840 --> 01:08:25.840 It's not like you can say, well, he's helping me lift the burden. 01:08:25.840 --> 01:08:28.840 He's going soul winning for me. 01:08:28.840 --> 01:08:31.840 Hey, if you can walk, if you can get around to the doors, 01:08:31.840 --> 01:08:32.840 you should go soul winning. 01:08:32.840 --> 01:08:33.840 All right? 01:08:33.840 --> 01:08:35.840 There's no excuse for you to not go. 01:08:35.840 --> 01:08:38.840 It says, and let him that is taught in the word 01:08:38.840 --> 01:08:42.840 communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. 01:08:42.840 --> 01:08:43.840 Be not deceived. 01:08:43.840 --> 01:08:46.840 God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth, 01:08:46.840 --> 01:08:47.840 that shall he also reap. 01:08:47.840 --> 01:08:48.840 Hey, what's the point of that? 01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:49.880 That's good. 01:08:49.880 --> 01:08:51.880 You're going to reap good things back from that. 01:08:51.880 --> 01:08:54.880 But if you're not, then you're going to reap 01:08:54.880 --> 01:08:56.880 the things of the flesh. 01:08:56.880 --> 01:08:59.880 It says, for he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh 01:08:59.880 --> 01:09:00.880 reap corruption. 01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:03.880 But he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit 01:09:03.880 --> 01:09:05.880 reap life everlasting. 01:09:05.880 --> 01:09:07.880 And let us not be weary in well doing, 01:09:07.880 --> 01:09:10.880 for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. 01:09:10.880 --> 01:09:12.880 Don't get discouraged. 01:09:12.880 --> 01:09:14.880 You're going to reap good things back from that. 01:09:14.920 --> 01:09:16.920 We shall reap if we faint not. 01:09:16.920 --> 01:09:19.920 Don't get discouraged by things that are going on around you 01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:22.920 or by what so and so is doing or what so and so happened. 01:09:22.920 --> 01:09:24.920 Look, a lot of times in situations like what's 01:09:24.920 --> 01:09:26.920 been going on down there, people get disillusioned 01:09:26.920 --> 01:09:27.920 with Christianity. 01:09:27.920 --> 01:09:29.920 And they're like, why are, you know, 01:09:29.920 --> 01:09:30.920 why is this all happening? 01:09:30.920 --> 01:09:32.920 Well, it doesn't really matter because we're supposed 01:09:32.920 --> 01:09:35.920 to be serving the Lord Jesus Christ and not men. 01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:37.920 We don't put men up on pedestals. 01:09:37.920 --> 01:09:38.920 Men fall. 01:09:38.920 --> 01:09:39.920 Men sin. 01:09:39.920 --> 01:09:40.920 Men do wrong. 01:09:40.920 --> 01:09:42.920 Follow them while they follow Christ. 01:09:42.960 --> 01:09:45.960 But don't just sit there and just get discouraged 01:09:45.960 --> 01:09:47.960 because it says, let us not be weary in well doing, 01:09:47.960 --> 01:09:49.960 for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. 01:09:49.960 --> 01:09:50.960 Don't faint. 01:09:50.960 --> 01:09:52.960 That means don't fade away from Christianity. 01:09:52.960 --> 01:09:53.960 Don't leave. 01:09:53.960 --> 01:09:56.960 Don't, you know, like, it's like if you're all in a race, 01:09:56.960 --> 01:09:58.960 you know, you want to finish the race. 01:09:58.960 --> 01:10:00.960 The apostle Paul says he finished the race. 01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:02.960 He finished. 01:10:02.960 --> 01:10:05.960 And that's what's important for us to not get so discouraged 01:10:05.960 --> 01:10:06.960 about things like this. 01:10:06.960 --> 01:10:07.960 Look, it is discouraging. 01:10:07.960 --> 01:10:08.960 I understand. 01:10:08.960 --> 01:10:10.960 I've shed my tears about this. 01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:11.960 Like, literally. 01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:15.000 But, you know, we have to move on. 01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:16.000 We have to move forward. 01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:17.000 We have to push forward. 01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:21.000 Don't just get all, oh, no, all Christianity is bad. 01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:22.000 No, it's not. 01:10:22.000 --> 01:10:23.000 It's not. 01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:25.000 Christianity is good. 01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:28.000 Christianity is the best thing that we have in this world. 01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:31.000 It's the only thing holding back the darkness in this world. 01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:34.000 And you might not think it's holding it back, but it is. 01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:35.000 It is holding it back. 01:10:35.000 --> 01:10:38.000 And, you know, it's up to, you know, every man shall 01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:39.000 bear his own burdens. 01:10:39.000 --> 01:10:40.000 Yes. 01:10:40.040 --> 01:10:42.040 Why don't you bear your burdens then? 01:10:42.040 --> 01:10:45.040 And if somebody can help you with the burdens you have, 01:10:45.040 --> 01:10:46.040 that's great. 01:10:46.040 --> 01:10:48.040 But ultimately we're responsible for ourself 01:10:48.040 --> 01:10:50.040 and not for what other people do. 01:10:50.040 --> 01:10:54.040 It's not Matthew Stuckey's fault that he was a victim. 01:10:54.040 --> 01:10:55.040 Okay? 01:10:55.040 --> 01:10:57.040 Quit victim blaming people. 01:10:57.040 --> 01:10:58.040 It's not his fault. 01:10:58.040 --> 01:11:01.040 You're like, well, he should have done this 01:11:01.040 --> 01:11:02.040 and he should have done that. 01:11:02.040 --> 01:11:05.040 Well, you don't know the situation unless you're actually in it. 01:11:05.040 --> 01:11:07.040 So walk a mile. 01:11:07.040 --> 01:11:09.040 There's a term called walk a mile on my moccasins. 01:11:09.080 --> 01:11:11.080 Walk a mile on my moccasins or whatever, right? 01:11:11.080 --> 01:11:13.080 That's an old person's term, I guess. 01:11:13.080 --> 01:11:15.080 But what's moccasins? 01:11:17.080 --> 01:11:19.080 Native American shoes. 01:11:19.080 --> 01:11:20.080 No. 01:11:20.080 --> 01:11:23.080 But, you know, it's hard to judge a situation 01:11:23.080 --> 01:11:24.080 when you're not in it. 01:11:24.080 --> 01:11:28.080 You don't, I mean, you're not that person. 01:11:28.080 --> 01:11:31.080 So look, just do your best to take, you know, 01:11:31.080 --> 01:11:33.080 obviously we want to take care of other people, 01:11:33.080 --> 01:11:36.080 but ultimately we're responsible for our own stuff. 01:11:36.080 --> 01:11:37.080 Mankind. 01:11:37.120 --> 01:11:39.120 So the key differences in the covering, 01:11:39.120 --> 01:11:41.120 just to wrap it up here, 01:11:41.120 --> 01:11:44.120 that mankind likes to hide things. 01:11:44.120 --> 01:11:46.120 They like to conceal their sin. 01:11:46.120 --> 01:11:48.120 And concealing out of sin of fear or pride 01:11:48.120 --> 01:11:52.120 is condemned and brings failure every single time. 01:11:52.120 --> 01:11:56.120 But we have a God that covers our sins. 01:11:56.120 --> 01:11:58.120 It's not like the other religions. 01:11:58.120 --> 01:12:01.120 The other religions, it's like, was he good enough? 01:12:01.120 --> 01:12:02.120 Was he bad enough? 01:12:02.120 --> 01:12:04.120 No, they're all going, those people are, 01:12:04.120 --> 01:12:06.120 sorry, but they're all going to hell. 01:12:06.160 --> 01:12:07.160 It's not based upon our works. 01:12:07.160 --> 01:12:10.160 We have to put our faith in Jesus Christ to be saved. 01:12:10.160 --> 01:12:12.160 God covers sin through atonement 01:12:12.160 --> 01:12:14.160 by blotting those sins out 01:12:14.160 --> 01:12:17.160 and by removing them from his memory. 01:12:17.160 --> 01:12:18.160 He forgets them. 01:12:18.160 --> 01:12:20.160 I'm glad he does. 01:12:20.160 --> 01:12:24.160 So, and then, love as a covering. 01:12:24.160 --> 01:12:27.160 Christians cover sins by forgiving others, 01:12:27.160 --> 01:12:30.160 refusing to dwell on faults, 01:12:30.160 --> 01:12:33.160 and showing charity in soul, 01:12:33.160 --> 01:12:35.160 and, you know, some of those things are soul winning 01:12:35.200 --> 01:12:36.200 and, of course, just helping others 01:12:36.200 --> 01:12:38.200 that can't help, you know, 01:12:38.200 --> 01:12:39.200 can't do anything back for you. 01:12:39.200 --> 01:12:41.200 That's, you know, charity. 01:12:41.200 --> 01:12:45.200 So, and then true forgiveness requires confession. 01:12:45.200 --> 01:12:46.200 If you actually want to get forgiven 01:12:46.200 --> 01:12:47.200 for something that you're doing, 01:12:47.200 --> 01:12:49.200 you need to tell God that. 01:12:49.200 --> 01:12:51.200 You need to confess your sins to God. 01:12:51.200 --> 01:12:54.200 So, not to be saved, but to be right with him. 01:12:54.200 --> 01:12:57.200 Just like when your parents are upset with you, 01:12:57.200 --> 01:12:59.200 just tell them you're sorry. 01:12:59.200 --> 01:13:01.200 Don't be, don't get hard hearted. 01:13:01.200 --> 01:13:03.200 If your spouse does something against you, 01:13:03.200 --> 01:13:04.200 don't be hard hearted. 01:13:04.240 --> 01:13:06.240 Be willing to forgive. 01:13:06.240 --> 01:13:08.240 You know, we all have problems, 01:13:08.240 --> 01:13:11.240 and, you know, we need to, 01:13:11.240 --> 01:13:12.240 we need to stick it out. 01:13:12.240 --> 01:13:15.240 You made vows, keep them. 01:13:15.240 --> 01:13:19.240 And so God covers sins 01:13:19.240 --> 01:13:22.240 by not imputing iniquity to the believer. 01:13:22.240 --> 01:13:27.240 And if man forgives, they get forgiven. 01:13:27.240 --> 01:13:31.240 So when we forgive people that trespass against us, 01:13:31.280 --> 01:13:34.280 then God forgives us, our trespasses here too. 01:13:34.280 --> 01:13:36.280 And if you hold grudges and refuse to forgive, 01:13:36.280 --> 01:13:39.280 then God will not forgive you for those things. 01:13:39.280 --> 01:13:40.280 And you'll make sure that all the smoke 01:13:40.280 --> 01:13:43.280 that's coming to them is going to come to you also. 01:13:43.280 --> 01:13:45.280 And we reap what we sow. 01:13:45.280 --> 01:13:49.280 So, but let's not let these ugly things discourage us. 01:13:49.280 --> 01:13:50.280 And in the coming days, 01:13:50.280 --> 01:13:51.280 I'm sure there's going to be a lot more 01:13:51.280 --> 01:13:53.280 discouragement about it. 01:13:53.280 --> 01:13:57.280 But you just, look, keep your eyes on Jesus. 01:13:57.280 --> 01:14:00.280 Looking at Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, 01:14:00.320 --> 01:14:03.320 Pastor Jimenez is not the author and finisher of your faith. 01:14:03.320 --> 01:14:04.320 Pastor Anderson is not the author 01:14:04.320 --> 01:14:06.320 and finisher of your faith. 01:14:06.320 --> 01:14:07.320 You know, Pastor Shelley is not 01:14:07.320 --> 01:14:09.320 the author and finisher of your faith. 01:14:09.320 --> 01:14:11.320 You know, whatever preacher you like 01:14:11.320 --> 01:14:12.320 is not the author and finisher of your faith. 01:14:12.320 --> 01:14:15.320 It's Jesus Christ is the author and finisher of our faith. 01:14:15.320 --> 01:14:18.320 And we got to keep our eyes on him and him alone. 01:14:18.320 --> 01:14:21.320 And obviously we follow men that follow God, 01:14:21.320 --> 01:14:22.320 but if they fall off the cliff 01:14:22.320 --> 01:14:25.320 or if they fall into sin, that's their problem. 01:14:25.320 --> 01:14:27.320 They bear their own burdens. 01:14:27.320 --> 01:14:28.320 Yeah, we can try to lift them up 01:14:28.360 --> 01:14:30.360 and help them out, but, you know, eventually, 01:14:30.360 --> 01:14:33.360 but if they won't even confess what they've done, 01:14:33.360 --> 01:14:35.360 if they won't even tell people what they've done, 01:14:35.360 --> 01:14:37.360 they're still trying to hide it. 01:14:37.360 --> 01:14:43.360 And when you have the church that is helping 01:14:43.360 --> 01:14:45.360 cover those things up, that's not good. 01:14:45.360 --> 01:14:46.360 It's not good. 01:14:46.360 --> 01:14:49.360 And so, look, I'm not saying that people need to hear 01:14:49.360 --> 01:14:53.360 every gory detail, but there needs to be a reckoning 01:14:53.360 --> 01:14:55.360 about this. 01:14:55.360 --> 01:14:57.360 Quit trying to hide and cover things up. 01:14:57.400 --> 01:15:00.400 And then God's going to forgive you too, you know. 01:15:00.400 --> 01:15:02.400 Confess and forsake your sins, 01:15:02.400 --> 01:15:04.400 and God will forgive you. 01:15:04.400 --> 01:15:05.400 Let's pray. 01:15:05.400 --> 01:15:07.400 Lord, we thank you so much for the Bible. 01:15:07.400 --> 01:15:09.400 And I pray that you'd help us, Lord, 01:15:09.400 --> 01:15:11.400 even as the afternoon continues on, 01:15:11.400 --> 01:15:14.400 that we would examine the things in our lives 01:15:14.400 --> 01:15:16.400 that we need to get rid of 01:15:16.400 --> 01:15:17.400 and the things that we have faults in. 01:15:17.400 --> 01:15:20.400 And Lord, help us to confess those things before you. 01:15:20.400 --> 01:15:23.400 Help us to have unity in our church. 01:15:23.400 --> 01:15:25.400 And I pray that you would help us 01:15:25.440 --> 01:15:28.440 to really just think about the things that you've done for us, 01:15:28.440 --> 01:15:30.440 how you bled and died for us, 01:15:30.440 --> 01:15:34.440 and how your sins, or your blood covers us 01:15:34.440 --> 01:15:36.440 from all sins, Lord. 01:15:36.440 --> 01:15:38.440 And we thank you for all the people 01:15:38.440 --> 01:15:39.440 that came to church this morning. 01:15:39.440 --> 01:15:42.440 We pray that you just bless them all in a special way. 01:15:42.440 --> 01:15:44.440 In Jesus' name we pray, amen.