together on the first we praise the oh god for the son of my love for jesus who
died and is now gone above hallelujah i'm the glory hallelujah amen
hallelujah i'm the glory revive us again
Who has shown us our Savior and scattered our night.
Hallelujah, thine the glory, Hallelujah, Amen.
Hallelujah, thine the glory, Revive us again.
All glory and praise to the land that was slain.
Who has borne all our sins and hath cleansed every stain.
again. Revive us again. Fill each heart with Thy love. Mates will be rekindled with fire
from above. Alleluia, Thine the glory. Alleluia, Amen. Alleluia, Thine the glory. Revive us again.
Amen, good seeing.
This time we'll have our announcements.
Our verse of the week is Ephesians 5-8,
which says, for ye were sometimes darkness,
but now are ye light and the Lord.
Walk as children of light.
That's Ephesians 5, verse number eight.
We're here at our Sunday evening time.
Usually brother Paul or brother Jason will be preaching the service, but they are both out of commission for today at least so
Make sure we're in prayer for both their families, but chiefly brother Paul with everything with the baby and you know
making sure that
We're praying for the health and the stress of the family.
We're going to have our Wednesday evening Bible study upcoming this week.
We'll be in 1 Corinthians chapter number four, which I'm excited to get into.
And then we had our soul warning today and we will have our other soul warning time at
Saturday at 10.30 a.m.
And you guys know most of this stuff out here for the praise report. Did we have anybody saved out zoning one person?
Yeah, praise God for that. So we got one for October so far
Which is always great to see and praise God that we're allowed to be co-labors with them
And we're gonna partake in any of his ministry and getting people saved
Moving on to our next thing or upcoming events on the 14th. We have our homeschool field day or homeschool day
Good night field day. What in the world?
We have our homeschool day at 11 a.m at the church building so you can our RSVP with my wife and they're gonna have crafts and snacks
They're gonna be doing and on the 26th. They'll we'll have church picture day
So are you doing like a whole picture for the whole church?
two or is it just individuals she could she's she's meditating on it so we'll
get back to her on that one but for sure if you want to do you know your
family or just if you're a single you can do that as well I'll show a lot
take all the glamour shots that you need.
The memory verse for the kids is Psalms 46-1,
which is God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
With that all being said,
I'm pretty sure that's most of what we got down on here.
Yeah, brother, Alejandro's birthday is
at the very end of this month,
so we'll just go into right into our prayer request.
Let's pray, do it for the God.
Song before we do the Bible reading is going to be song 30, Nothing but the Blood.
Song number 30, Nothing but the Blood.
Song 3-0, let's start on the first.
What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Jesus. What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the
flow that makes me white as snow. No other fount I know. Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus Nor am I cleansing this my plea
Nothing but the blood of Jesus Oh precious is the flow
That makes me white as stone No other fount I know
force in a tone nothing but the blood of Jesus not of good that I have done
nothing but the blood of Jesus oh precious is the flow that makes me white as
snow
This is all my hope and peace. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. This is all my righteousness.
Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh precious is the flow that makes me white as snow.
All right, good singing, Brother Jake, would you bless the offering for us?
Welcome back everybody to Sher Foundation Baptist Church. If you could go ahead and take your bibles and turn to John chapter one
John chapter number one and here at our church we read the entire chapter before the preaching
John chapter one the Bible reads in the beginning was the word
And the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
And the light shinedeth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.
There was a man sent from God whose name was John.
The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light
that all men through him might believe.
He was not that light but was sent to bear witness of that light.
That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name, which were born not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John bear witness of him and cried, saying,
This was he of whom I spake,
He that cometh after me is preferred before me,
For he was before me.
And of his fullness have all we received,
And grace for grace.
For the law was given by Moses,
But grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
No man hath seen God at any time.
They only begotten Son,
Which is in the bosom of the Father,
He hath declared him.
And this is the record of John when the Jews sent priests and Leibites from Jerusalem to ask him,
Who art thou? And he confessed and denied not, but confessed, I am not the Christ.
And they asked him, What them? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not.
Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. Then said they unto him, Who art thou?
that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.
Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Asaius, and
they which were sent were of the Pharisees, and they asked him and said unto him,
Why baptizes thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
John answered them, saying,
I baptize with water,
but there standeth one among you,
whom you know not, he it is,
who coming after me is preferred before me,
whose shoes latch it,
I am not worthy to unloose.
These things were done in Beth Barbra,
beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
The next day, John seeeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith,
Behold the Lamb of God, which takeeth away the sin of the world.
This is he of whom I said, after me, comeeth the man which is preferred before me, for he was before me.
And I knew him not, but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
And John Bear record, saying,
I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove,
and it abode upon him, and I knew him not,
but he that sent me to baptize with water,
the same said unto me, upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending,
and remaining on him the same as he which baptizes with the Holy Ghost.
And I saw, and bear record, that this is the Son of God.
Again, the next day after John stood and two of his disciples, and looking upon Jesus as
he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
Then Jesus turned and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye?
They said unto him, Rabbi, which is to say, Being interpreted, Master, where dwellest
thou?
They came and saw where he dwelt and abode with him that day, for it was about the tenth
hour.
One of the two which heard John speak and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
He first findeth his own brother, Simon, and sayeth unto him, We have found the Messiah's,
which is being interpreted, the Christ.
He brought him to Jesus and when he saw and when Jesus beheld him
He said thou art Simon the son of Jonah thou shall be called Cephas, which is by interpretation a stone
The day following, Jesus would go forth into Galilee and find it Philip, and sayeth unto him,
Follow me. Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
Philip findeth Nathaniel, and sayeth unto him,
We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did right.
Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
And Nathaniel saith unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
Philip saith unto him, Come and see!
Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him, And saith of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed,
In whom is no guile.
Nathaniel said unto him,
Once knowest thou me?
Jesus answered and said unto him,
Before that Philip called thee,
When thou was under the fig tree, I saw thee.
Nathaniel answered and said unto him,
Rabbi, thou art the son of God,
Thou art the king of Israel.
Jesus answered and said unto him,
Because I said unto thee,
I saw thee under the fig tree,
Believeest thou?
Thou shall see greater things than these.
And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Hereafter ye shall see heaven open,
And the angels of God ascending and descending
Upon the Son of Man."
Brother Kyle, could you please pray for the preaching?
Thank you, Lord, for the gift of your word.
You please tell Brother Remy with his spirit
so he can preach the Holy Night Christ to me.
Cheers to you, Arthur.
Amen.
Amen. We're there in John one verse. We're going to look at verse number one.
The Bible says in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the
word was God. The title of my sermon tonight is Hail Jesus Full of Grace.
Let's pray. Do you have other God? Thank you so much for today. Thank you so much
for this opportunity to preach God. I just pray that you would have filled me
with it right now with your Holy Spirit God and help me to preach words that
would be edifying. God, I just pray that you would
allow me to interpret this chapter properly, God,
and that I could give people something
that they could take home for this week
and also just in terms of long-term doctrine, God,
I just pray that you'd help me to explain things correctly
and keep me from saying what you don't want me to say
and to say what you do want me to say.
In Jesus' name, I pray, amen.
Title of my sermon, like I said again,
is Hail Jesus Full of Grace.
That title will make a little bit more sense later on.
Here in John one and usually like I was saying they announced his brother Paul or Jason will be preaching the sermon
But brother Jason had a wedding that he was attending. So it was his grandma's wedding
I was like the grandma's wedding if I didn't know where Jason. I think he was lying to me. Okay, but
Then obviously brother Paul Vince Victoria had the baby. So I guess they just got any excuse for a skippin church, okay?
That's obviously a joke. Hopefully you guys know that but
And the reason I'm picking this is because there's a couple reasons behind this or why I'm picking this chapter because I'm going to do a verse by verse through this chapter.
I figured that on occasion because, you know, we run the church plant, I'll be called to preach a double sermon on Sundays or whatever.
So I figured it'd be good to get a book of the Bible to go through that I could just kind of immediately go to and not have to think too much like about a sermon idea that I could just throw together really quickly.
Obviously, I just want something to where I'd be like, oh, what am I preaching?
I'm just like, I'm just gonna go to John whenever I'm just kind of thrust into
preaching outside of the normal schedule. But besides just even that,
I would say this, that I picked the book of John for a couple reasons.
Number one is that the book of John is very simple, but it's also very edifying. Like,
this is the book that
I recommend the new believers that they should read through
because it's very easy to understand.
And, you know, I think as a whole,
that's what our church should be recommending
to people at the door.
Because a lot of people, I think,
just have the tendency they want to go to Genesis
because it's the very beginning
or they want to go to Matthew.
And there's nothing wrong with you.
I mean, you could really start anywhere in the Bible,
but in reality, John in the New Testament
is the easiest book to read through.
It's actually so easy that when you're also
learning another language in like a foreign language,
that's the first book they recommend
that you read as well in that language.
Because it's just easy to understand, it's very easily written.
The second thing about why I'm picking this is because the book of John reinforces the core belief of this church which is once saved always saved and that salvation is by grace through faith.
It echoes this more than any other book in the Bible and this is the whole reason why the book of John was written.
If you go to John 20 verse number 30, John 20 verse number 30, we'll see that John explicitly tells us why the book of John is given to us.
and John 20 verse number 30, it says,
and many other signs truly did Jesus
in the presence of his disciples,
which are not written in this book.
But these are written that you might believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that believing you might have life through his name.
So the whole reason, the main reason
that the book of John is written to us
is so that we could get saved,
on Jesus Christ. This is big for a couple reasons. Number one is that I would like
you to take a guess. How many times do you think the word repent is used in the
book of John?
Zero times is right.
And obviously I've talked about repentance
before I'm not gonna get into that too much
about what we believe actual biblical repentance is,
but this is what that proves,
my own shout out of a doubt,
that repenting of your sins
is not required for salvation
because the book of John is written
so that we might be saved
and Jesus doesn't use the word repent.
Nobody uses the word repent one time in the book of John.
But guess what is used over and over and over and over again, it's believe and it's faith.
It's both of those words combined are used 98 times in the book of John, which is far more
than any gospel. I was looking at the numbers earlier, but nobody, none of the other gospels
even come close to using faith or believe as many times as the book of John does.
And so for that reason, we should understand that salvation
by faith. It's not a repenting of your sins. Not to mention that the phrase
repenting your sins is not in the Bible, not even one time. That's from the book
of Mormon, okay, which a lot of Baptists are just adopting their doctrine from.
But truly, we just have to believe on Jesus Christ. It's not about repenting of
your sins. And again, I've defined repentance before. I'm not gonna get into
too much, but we know that true repentance is a change of mind. You're
changing your beliefs from one thing to another. You're changing from whatever
you believe before onto believing the gospel of Jesus Christ. This book is
And I want to take heed how John starts this book because, again, this is for salvation.
What does he say?
The very first words that come into John's mouth, and John 1-1, it says this,
in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
John states that's the very first thing from the book that's supposed to be trying to teach us what it means to be saved
and who we need to believe on, that Jesus Christ is God.
This is essential to the gospel.
I've seen people kind of dance around this
and just be like, kind of like, you know, well,
technically it just says you got to believe on Jesus,
not that you have to know the full workings of the Trinity.
I agree, obviously, that you don't have to know the full workings of the Trinity to be
saved, but here's the thing, you do have to believe that Jesus Christ is God.
I don't care how you slice that, you must believe that Jesus Christ is God, or you're
believing in another Jesus.
You're believing in a false Jesus and a Jesus that's not of the Bible.
And if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you are not saved as a Christian.
First John 222, another book of John that he wrote, he says this, who is a liar, but
Antichrist that denied the father and the son who's over denied the son the same half not the father
But he that acknowledges the son half the father also
This is the fundamental problem with Muslims and with Jews and why they are not saved because people want to like sugarcoat
These things and be like oh, you know just maybe
Maybe the the Muslims are just serving God in their own way and the Jews to I mean at least they believe in the in the Old Testament, right?
But the Bible says right here that if you don't have the son, you don't have the father either.
So you have to believe on Jesus Christ, and that He is the Christ, and that He is God to be saved.
A period at the end of the day. There is no exceptions to that rule.
And to be very clear...
You know, people will say that we hate Muslims and we hate Jews because of that, but no, we love them.
We want them to get saved. That's why we're telling them that they're wrong.
Because it's not loving to just let them believe something blasphemous or a dandable heresy that'll let them go to hell.
It's loving to tell them, listen guys, if you don't believe on Jesus Christ that he wasn't just a prophet or just some man that the Jews crucified,
or that he wasn't just some messenger from Allah, if you don't believe that Jesus Christ is God, you guys will die and go to hell.
That's true love. That's loving them enough to not let them die and go to hell and we're trying to get them to turn from their antichrist religion at the other day.
That's true love at the end of the day. Go back to John 1 verse number two if you guys ever even left there.
John 1 verse number 2. I've talked a lot about John 1 in recent memory, so I'm not going to go too much into it,
but I will just say before I go into John 1-2 that
that translation of
In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was a God
is garbage. It's trash. I've talked about that before, so I'm not going to go into it, but just
know it is. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
No exceptions to that. Every other person that's not a scoundrel translates it that way, because
they don't have an agenda to prove. John 1-2 though, it says this, the same was in the beginning
with God. Now, I'm not going to posit every single verse that we get to right here,
but I do want to make, I want to make a pause when we get to something that I want to make a point on.
anti-truditarian people will take this verse and be like,
we'll see you right here.
Jesus isn't God because he says
the same was in the beginning with God,
which is just like,
please just read one verse above that, okay?
But...
Like people will wonder sometimes like why does the Bible separate Jesus from God quote-unquote?
But it's just important to realize that the Bible isn't separating the divinity of Jesus Christ from God here
It's saying that Jesus it's separating Jesus Christ the son from Jesus Christ the father
Because most of the time when you see the word God in the Bible not like it's 99% of time
It's referring to God the father
And it just uses that title for them so that they don't,
you kind of don't get mixed up between them.
But go if you would to 1st Corinthians 323
and keep your finger there in the book of 1st John.
Because like I said, the the Trinity is complex, so I'm not going to go into a whole sermon about the Trinity right now
But what I do want you to understand is that when you see the word God in the Bible
99% of time it's referring to the Father and that's a title per se that it uses for God and it refers to Jesus as Christ
So that we understand who he's talking about within the Godhead
And we saw this like in 1 Corinthians 2-23,
where I didn't really touch on this proper,
but it says in New York Christ and Christ is God.
And again, people will look at this kind of verse
and be like, that means Jesus Christ
isn't really truly God at the end of the day.
It's not what it's saying though.
He's separating there to say that Jesus Christ,
the Son is separate from Jesus Christ, the Father.
But these three are one is what the Bible says.
The Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost,
these three are one, right?
So what the Bible's doing when it lays us out here
is it's one showing us the Trinity,
but it's also trying to not be confusing.
Because I just want you to kind of imagine
how this would be written
if it just didn't make the difference.
If it was just like,
and you're God's and God is God's.
It's kind of like, I mean, the true per se,
but it's like, isn't it more clear to be like,
and Christ is God's?
So he's not doing that to take away from the divinity of Jesus,
but to say that Jesus Christ and the Father are separate.
And obviously, I said the Trinity, there's different opinions about there.
Sometimes the lines blur. I'm not going to do a whole sermon on that right now.
But we do know that these three are one.
The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, these three are one.
There's not multiple gods. There's one God made up of three different people.
John 1-2 though, because then that kind of goes back to what I was saying in my sermon on Wednesday as well,
that people will really latch on to these, per se, unclear verses and really like when they're anti-trinitarian,
that's what they latch down on, like really hard, be like, you need to explain why it's separating Jesus Christ from God here.
And we can give them a logical answer, because it's very logical to say, well, Paul's trying to make it clear here which person of the Godhead he's talking about.
But what's their explanation for John 1.1?
Nothing that's worthwhile.
I'm like, what do people say about John 1.1?
They just run off to like, when Jesus says,
you're God's, and they take it out of context,
it has nothing to do with John 1.1 though.
John is trying to clearly show, in the book of John,
chapter one, verse one, that Jesus Christ is God.
That's what he's trying to show.
And they'll explain that away a bunch of different ways,
but nothing that makes sense, okay?
Again, that's what I was talking about,
We can explain things that make like they're kind of harder. I guess you'd say but
They still make sense, but they'll have positions against us that they just can't explain away
There's so many verses in the Bible. You just can't explain without the Trinity
Where we are here John 1 verse number 3 let's look back at that it says this all things were made by him and without him
Was not anything made that was made go to Genesis 1 3 if you would if you didn't have enough proof that Jesus Christ
Was God from verses 1 and from verses 2 you can see this right here. He doubled. He triples down on this really
verse John 1 3 where he just says that Jesus Christ made all things in Genesis 1 1
I want you to hear what the Bible says the very first verse in the Bible
It says in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and isn't it very interesting that
Like people will be like oh, you know the people will say like
God used Jesus Christ to create the earth,
which per se on how you slice that could be true.
But I want you to notice right here
that it doesn't say that God used us here.
It just says in the beginning,
God created the heaven and the earth, right?
And in verse three, where you guys are at,
it says what?
It says, and God said, let there be light.
And there was light.
It doesn't say God told Jesus,
hey, you better say, let there be light real quick.
It just says, and God said, let there be light.
You know why?
Because Jesus Christ is God. Okay, that's that's exactly why
John 1 for you can go back there as well
John 1 for
It says in him was life and the life was the light of men and the light
Shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not these verses are pretty self
Explanatory, but if you would just keep a finger in John 1 maybe put a bookmark there
But go to John 9 5 that's probably what I should have just had you turn back to anyways
But these verses are pretty self-explanatory, but I do want to say one thing about them in John 9 verse number 5
Because about Jesus being the light of men, the Bible says in John 9.5 it says,
as long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. That's Jesus speaking.
Here's the thing you have to ask though, is Jesus Christ still in the world?
He's not still in the world right? So what does that mean for us? It means this in Matthew 5 14
It says ye are the light of the world a city that is set on a hill
Cannot be hid now that Jesus Christ is no longer in the world. We are supposed to be the light of the world
We were supposed to pick up the torch
After Jesus Christ left and continue on with that light and reflecting the light of Jesus Christ in our lives
And the thing about this is that so many Christians have dropped this nowadays and some people will get on to our case
And they'll be like is that all you guys talk about is like so winning. That's all you guys preach about
First of all, that's not all we preach about but second of all, okay
I mean we have to throw it with Vegas 2013 in there too, but even besides those things, okay?
with the gospel, that is the most important thing in the New Testament.
That's the theme of the whole New Testament.
So of course we're going to talk about it.
And people nowadays just don't talk about the gospel enough.
I mean, people have let soul winning go by the wayside
because they just don't talk about the gospel at all.
Or they've made the gospel out to be just some alter call.
But the Bible is clear that we're supposed to go into the world and preach the gospel.
And if we don't do that, what happens according to the Bible?
In 2 Corinthians 4-1 it says this,
have this ministry, as we've received grace, we faint not.
And if you jump down to verse three, it says,
but if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost,
in whom the God of this world has blinded the mind of them,
which believe not, listen to what it says,
lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,
who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
The Bible is teaching us here
that if we don't pick up that torch
and continue where Jesus Christ left off,
then our gospels hid.
It's the people that are lost.
We're supposed to be a light to people nowadays,
and what's sad is that so many Christians
don't show any kind of light.
Obviously, we're supposed to do light through good works,
which people focus on really hardcore.
But even besides that, we're supposed to be shining the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to people.
And so many people have dropped the ball on that.
So listen, I'll scream my head off about that until the day I die here,
because that's the main thing of the New Testament, is the Great Commitment.
That's what Jesus Christ led us with before He left this earth.
I've said that a before.
I'll say that a thousand times because it's 100% true.
What did He say here?
He says, I'm the light when I'm in the world,
but now that He's out of the world, we're supposed to be the light of Christ.
We should be going out and preaching the Gospel.
Don't do that.
The people we hurt are the people that are lost
because we let Satan keep dominion over them
and keep domination over them.
So I'll, again, we talk about so many a lot
and I will continue to talk about so many a lot
because that's what comes up in the Bible over
and over and over again.
And rightfully so because that is what our purpose is
for being on earth.
John one, verse number six.
The Bible says this there was a man sent from God whose name was John
The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light that all men through him might believe
He was not that light but was sent to bear witness of that light these verses are again
Pretty self-explanatory go if you were to John 3 27 though John 3 27
The one they want to bring up about these verses is that I want you to notice that John knows what his role is and who he is in the grand scheme of things.
Pause that here. Also, I would say the John that the Bible is talking about here is a different John than who wrote the book of John, which can be confusing sometimes.
But this is John the Baptist that we're talking about in this story.
And John, the Baptist didn't write any books of the Bible.
That was the Bible trivia that I did in Vancouver, okay?
I got some people with that one there.
I was like, how many books of the Bible did John the Baptist write?
And they're like, oh, how many is it?
One, two, three, four.
Zero. It's like how many animals did Moses bring on the Ark? Zero. It was Noah. You dummy.
But again, that's just for free. That's you guys on that one, but
I want to kind of notice how this lines up with our theme in 1 Corinthians 3 because John in the
story himself, both the narrator John and even the John in the story, when we read more about him,
we realize that he understood who he was and he wasn't the light. He acknowledges it and confesses
it many times, but who he was was a witness of the light that was Jesus Christ.
And I just want you to see how familiar this is with our theme.
You guys are there in John 3 27.
Like John is just like, I'm not the light.
I'm just a witness of the light.
And that sounds a lot like what Paul was saying in First Corinthians, where he's like.
I'm just a minister of Jesus Christ.
And I want you to notice that some of the greatest men in the Bible,
they just have such a low view of themselves.
And I brought that up a lot as well.
But truly, that's a huge theme throughout the Bible.
Because people are so puffed up.
They want to be so proud of themselves and how good they are.
But the best man...
I mean, the Bible says that John was the best man born among women.
And Paul, who arguably besides John, is going to be, you know, the second best person.
They're both like, hey, I'm nothing special.
I'm not the light.
I'm just a witness to that light.
Hey, I'm not Jesus Christ.
He's like Paul's like, I'm just a minister.
of Jesus Christ. You guys should all understand that. And would the God more Christians would
understand this? That we're truly nothing at the end of the day. That we are ministers of Jesus Christ
and that's all we are. We're nothing special. All glory should go to God at the end of the day.
You guys are there. We need this attitude that John has here in John 3.2070. He says,
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing except be given him from heaven.
You yourself bear witness that I said I am not the Christ but that I am sent before him.
But the friend of the bridegroom which standeth in here with him rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice for my joy
Therefore is fulfilled. Look what John says here. He says he must increase
But I must decrease what like a humble attitude. You want to know why he's the greatest born among women?
It's because of that attitude right there that he says I'm not especially he's like I'm not the main character
I'm not the guy. I'm not the light that's coming. He's like I'm just you know
the witness. I get to witness about this light is what John's attitude is.
Like how much more do we need to adopt this as the Christians that we're like,
we need less of me and more of Jesus Christ. We need less of the flesh and more of the spirit.
We need to decrease and Jesus Christ needs to increase in our life and get all the glory and
all the praise. And if you have that attitude, I would submit to you this that Jesus is probably
a lot more likely to use you as a Christian.
And if you want to be great like these men were adopt the same mind that they had, which was a lowly mind of themselves and a high mind and a high view of God, you guys can go back to John one verse number nine.
Look what the Bible says there in John 1 9. It says that was the true light which lighteth
every man that cometh into the world. This is a little tough. I feel like on this pygmies in
Africa doctrine that have so many people like struggle with they're like what about the pygmies
in Africa that never hear about Jesus Christ? What the Bible say right here though? He says
that Jesus lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Sounds tough on that doctrine. It also
only God's elect are going to be drawn to the light. It's like, well, it sounds like every man,
every man that comes into the world, they get to see the light of Jesus Christ.
But I'm sure that they butcher this just like they butcher John 3.16. I was watching a video
about how James White interprets John 3.16 because it's just like one of the most fundamental basic
verses in the Bible for God. So the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever
believed in him should not perish, but everlasting life. And I'm like, what does James White do with
James White has a lot to do with that, he has like multiple excerpts online of like, you know, 16 minute longs video explaining what John 316 really means, and guess how he finds the secret meaning of John 316, what do you think he does?
Goes right to the Greek, you know, that's what they always go to like you gotta you can't understand the Bible in English
You pesant you got to go to the Greek and he's like and in the Greek
This is what it really says for God to love the world in order that everyone
Believing in him or he'll say or all the believing ones, you know could be saved. He's like but who are
The believing ones, John 3.16, doesn't touch on that.
But we know it's the elect, like wink, wink, you know what I'm talking about?
It's like way to butcher the most popular verse in the Bible that there is.
He's like, in the video that I was watching, he's like,
you can't just look at this board whosoever and take it at face value.
It's like, what? Okay.
You got to have a special man teach you what whosoever means.
I mean, I feel like a lot of people just know, like,
Whosoever will may come.
Whosoever will can come and drink
of the waters of life freely.
No, no, no.
Whosoever God chose can come.
Uh-uh.
Stupid, man.
That's the kind of dumb stuff.
I'm wondering how do Calvinists get away
with all these verses?
That's what they do, though.
They just go to the Greek and just throw things out there
and be like, surely it doesn't mean what it clearly
says in English.
Unless you have 10 degrees, you can't argue with the guy on that one either.
I think it's dumb and no modern Bible version even translates it that way.
They all say whosoever or they say whoever.
Either one of those translations right there are more right than James White's dumb interpretation.
John 1.10, though, look what the Bible says, it says,
he was in the world and the world was made by him
and the world knew him not.
That proves 100% that Jesus Christ is the one
who made the world in verse number three, I believe it was.
And again, that's because Jesus Christ is God.
If you needed another proof verse for that,
I mean, I think it's pretty clear though
through this chapter.
Verse number 11, he says,
he came unto his own and his own received him not.
Who didn't receive Jesus Christ? What is he talking about right here?
It was the Jews that did not receive Jesus Christ and this morning
I had the displeasure of watching a video of a man and I used the word man very lightly
Kylie saw the video where is Kylie gonna get a witness?
He's like a man who is like wearing this like
Priests garment of something like that. He starts off the video being like you want to hear a secret Christians
most of the things in the book of John
that are attributed to Jesus, he didn't even really say.
People just like added that in.
And he gives a bunch of reasons why in this dumb video,
and then there's this puppet in this video
that's debunking him, which I thought was weird too, okay?
But at least the puppet was spitting some facts in the video.
But...
But but in the video, he's like, you know, this is why we know that, you know
All like that so many things in the book of John that Jesus that people say Jesus said aren't really what he said
He says John has all these long
drawn-out dialogues of Jesus Christ
But the book of Matthew and Mark and Luke,
they have just short little phrases of Jesus Christ.
And that's way more logical when you're like
trying to write something down to use like the short phrases
that you'd remember not whole dialogues.
But here's the thing, that's done for two reasons.
Number one, these men that wrote the Bible
were under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.
It wasn't just them, if it was just man,
then of course they'd mess up.
But the Bible is written under inspiration
of the Holy Ghost.
Every single word of the Bible is.
But number two, this is dumb because it's not even true.
I mean, think about Matthew chapter five.
That isn't just a short dialogue of Jesus.
It's a whole sermon that he's preaching on the mount.
Like what is he even talking about?
He doesn't even know this guy, like he's dressed in these
priest clothes, probably goes to a lesbiterian church.
Like this guy, like is just like.
He's wearing these like diverse colors. I was like, what does this mean chat GBT tell me and it's like that's to
Represent like the marginalized people of his community. I was like, okay, that strikes two and three right there
I already I didn't need anything else from this guy, but here's the thing. I will give you another this here strike for he says this he says
Also, the book of John has a bunch of anti-Semitic language in it.
He like really said this in the video.
He's like, therefore, therefore, we know that this could have been real because Jesus was
a Jew.
So why would he be anti-Semitic to the Jews?
Here's the thing though, they're wrong because there is nothing anti-Semitic in the Bible,
okay?
Because the Bible is just laying out facts and truths.
So if they're just defining anti-Semitic to mean something negative about the Jews,
then that's stupid. Because that, I mean, make no mistake about it.
The Jews were the ones that crucified Jesus Christ. That's not racist. That's just a fact.
That's what we see in the Bible. And like, I mean, they crucified Jesus Christ,
they crucified many prophets in the Bible.
That's not anti-Semitic, that's a fact.
That's what we see throughout the entire Bible.
So for him to just throw out the book of John
because it's anti-Semitic shows
that he doesn't care about the word of God.
He cares about his own dumb opinions
and his dumb politics that he has nowadays.
It's ridiculous though.
Here's the thing though, the Bible's not anti-Semitic.
But the Jews did crucified Jesus Christ. That's just the truth
But another fact about that is that God still loves the Jews though. God still wants them to be saved
He says like we see over and over like he's like would to God
He's like I've tried to gather them like a mother hand tries to gather her chickens
I would love for the Jews to be saved. He's like I'm reaching out my arm towards them
Like would you guys just believe on Jesus Christ?
they won't do it. God still loves the Jews though despite the fact that they said his blood be on
us and upon our children. And despite the fact that they have killed most of the prophets that
were sent to them or a big chunk of the prophets that were sent to him in the Bible. So if they
put their faith on Jesus Christ though, he still will receive them with open arms. That's not
anti-Semitic. That's true love right there. That despite the fact that they've done nothing but spit
And if you don't like that fact, I mean, you're just,
I don't even know what to say.
I mean, not that I would take that guy seriously.
I mean, any guy, he's like preaching like atheist stuff,
and he's supposed to be a priest.
That's why I'd never take a,
I would've looked at what he's wearing,
I would've just hightailed it out of that church
in the first place.
But second of all, like anybody that's denying
the word of God like that,
that's questioning the word of God like that,
run far away from them.
Why would I want anything to do with them
if they're denying the words of our Lord and Savior,
Jesus Christ?
John 1-12 says this,
but as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God,
even then to believe on his name,
which were born not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh,
nor the will of man, but of God.
Something that I used to believe is that you know,
good night, what am I even looking at here?
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm about to miss the big time.
Pause on that real quick, okay?
Okay, something that I know that like a lot of people believe is that that you must be saved to become a child of God
This is true. Okay, this is this is true from the Bible
However, I do want to bring something to your attention just for the sake of you not getting slammed dunked on by some Mormons
Okay, go to act 1726 act 17 verse number 26 right here. I
Just talked about chasing recently and I talked about these verses recently
So I'm just gonna take a little bit of a different angle at them
because truly to be saved and be a spiritual child of God,
you must believe on Jesus Christ is a fact from the Bible.
But I do want to show you something
that you could get slammed dunked on
if you weren't paying attention.
Acts 17, 26 says this, as Paul speaking, he says,
and have made of one blood all nations of men
for to dwell on all the face of the earth,
and have determined the times before appointed
and the bounds of their habitation.
We read that this morning.
Verse 17 says that they should seek the Lord
if happily they might feel after him
and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.
for in him we live and move and have our being as certain also of your own poets have said look
what Paul says he says for we are also his offspring which would be like a child okay
verse 29 says for as much then or for as much then as we are the offspring of God he's including
everybody right here because he's saying even your own poets are saying this yeah
He says, we ought not to think that the Godhead
is like unto gold or silver or stone
graven by art and man's devices.
So I'm bringing this to your attention
because I've seen this before with Mormons.
I'm trying to remember if I had this really happened to me
or if I'm like.
Creating a delusion in my mind where this situation happened
But I can't remember if I saw this on like Mormon dot org or something like this or where they were like
I because I was like why do they believe that we're all God's children and this was the verses that they cited
So I think that's what happened. My mind is like creating a false reality of something
I feel like we're like I like got slammed on a dunked on by some Mormons, but I don't know
We'll find out someday in heaven, but
Go to Luke 3 38
Luke 3 38
You have the you do have to reconcile these verses right here because he's saying we're all God's offspring
But then in in John he's saying you know that as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God
So which one is it here? Well, it's really both when you think about it
Okay, because spiritually it's true that you have to believe on Jesus Christ to become a son or a daughter of God
But as concerns the flesh and our creation,
we see this answer here in Luke 3.38.
It says, which was the son of Enos,
which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam,
which was the son of God.
So if you take that logic,
you understand clearly what he's saying is that
because we were all created by God,
we're his offspring in some sense.
Yeah.
But he does make it abundantly clear in the New Testament
that to be spiritually a child of God,
you have to hold the Holy Spirit in your heart.
You have to believe on Jesus Christ.
You have to be adopted into his family.
So I just thought that that'd be kind of edifying
to bring up just so you don't get cooked
by some Mormon out there.
Don't let some Mormons catch you lacking how someone, okay?
Don't let some Jehovah's Witnesses catch you lacking either.
John 1, 14, they'll go there real quick.
John 1, verse number 14.
I think this is just about the last couple of verses
that we're gonna be going through.
You might be getting off pretty slick today.
John 1, verse number 14.
So just to be clear about what I said about physically because God created us
We'd all technically be his children per se, but spiritually which is what considers, you know
being saved and and with chasing and stuff like that you have to believe on Jesus Christ
To be a spiritual son or daughter of God
John 1.14, it says this,
and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us,
and we beheld His glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth.
And so this is why I titled my sermon,
Hail Jesus, Full of Grace,
because if you look up the phrase,
full of grace in the Bible,
you know the only person that this is ever said about
is Jesus Christ Himself.
But what do the Catholics say?
all the time. That's the joke on the title of the sermon. Hail Mary, full of grace.
Even though this is a title only attributed to Jesus, which should just show you the motives of the Catholic Church
They want to make Mary a God or a goddess of some sort
They want to put her on the level of Jesus Christ even though it's very clear that
Jesus Christ was the only perfect person that there ever was period. I'm sure Mary was a great girl
I mean God chose her to be the deliverer of the Messiah. Yeah, I'm sure that she was a good person
I'm sure Joseph was a really great guy as well
but she was not sinless. This is heresy. This is blasphemy. This is not true with what we see
in the Bible. But two things about this. This connects back to verse one to prove that Jesus
Christ is the Word in case you need that as well. I am again like I like for the life of me I was
like racking my brain. I was like did this actually happen or am I just like going crazy? Maybe I am
that I can't remember if this happened or not,
or if I was just like imagining this,
but out soaring, I felt like I showed someone,
like in the beginning was the word and the word was with God
and the word was God.
And they were like, well, that doesn't prove
that that's Jesus Christ.
And then I was like, oh yeah, what about verse 14, buddy?
But take that with a green assault
because I can't even trust my own mind on that one.
But clearly, Jesus Christ, no matter which way
that story is true or just my own imagination or not,
is the word that was made flesh and dwelt among us,
which means that Jesus Christ is God.
and the story. But with that phrase full of grace and truth, I was telling you how the
Catholic Church takes this and they'll apply this to Mary and they'll be like, no, no, no.
You're wrong. This is directly from the Bible itself. Okay. Go to Luke 1 28 then
So they got a scripture to show you that not only Jesus is full of grace and truth
They're like we got one for Mary that shows that she's full of grace and truth as well and listen
Here's the thing about us as Baptist
We're all ears to this kind of stuff like these Catholics sometimes I think they they feel like we doesn't make our doctrine just to
Be contrary to them, but it's like this is not true
We build our doctrine based on what the Word of God says so if the Word of God calls Mary full of grace
I'll believe it if the word of God said that Mary was sinless
I would believe it if the word of God made out Mary to be like this like Queen of heaven like they wanted to be I
Would believe it but here's the thing you have to show me a verse from the Bible to make me believe that
Because I don't take the crap from the church fathers back then as my doctrine
I'm not gonna trust what any of these wicked Catholic church members say I even just saw what was this this doofus
His name Pope Leo the new one. Yeah, Pope Leo
I saw a quote of him on maybe it was YouTube.
He's like, you can't say that you're pro-life
and be pro-death penalty.
Yes, yeah, absolutely can.
Because here's the thing,
that's what God teaches in the Bible.
I'm like, you have to teach the Pope stuff nowadays?
What is he even talking about?
I mean, he's like blaspheming the law of God.
The law of God clearly says that for multiple sins
in the Old Testament, that if you commit them,
you should be put to death.
Are you saying, Pope Leo's saying that God's not pro-life?
He's just being a hypocrite?
No, you're a hypocrite, Pope Leo.
And you don't know what you're talking about.
Why is even the pope in the first place?
Stupid.
Second of all, he also said in this same stupid quote,
he, well, I don't want to like misquote him,
but he referenced abortion with pro-life too,
and said, you can't be anti-abortion.
And then again, I think maybe he said,
I can't remember if it was, it has nothing to do with the immigrants.
I don't know if he was saying for healthcare or for them being across the border.
But it's like, yes you can, because here's the thing.
I don't care what your opinion is on the border thing.
The Bible doesn't necessarily lay out something crystal clear on that issue per se.
But the Bible does lay out crystal clear
that abortion is wicked as hell.
That when a girl commits abortion,
she is killing her child.
So there's no hypocrisy in that at all.
Like no matter which way you slice it,
you should not be pro-abortion.
Period, at the end of the day.
what I'm yapping about Pope Leo though. Oh this is why I was bringing this up
because they got the verse to show you. Mary's full of grace. Let's see what
they're even talking about right here. Luke 1.28 says this, and the angel came
in under her and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee
blessed art thou among women. Right there you see the full of grace? Oh no you
They took a number from James White. You know what they do here to show this?
They go to the Greek, buddy, just like every false denomination does to prove all their dumb
teachings that they don't really have a verse for. They run off into the Greek and they right here
they're like, they do a couple things with that. The Catholics actually lose their mind on these
set of verses, okay? Because number one, this is what they do with this. The Catholics teach that
the angel right here in this story is changing Mary's name.
Not in this is in the Greek though. So you just got to believe me on this one. Okay, that he's the angel isn't just like greeting Mary
He's changing her name like you know how like in the Bible Saul goes to Paul or how Abram goes to Abraham
The Catholic Church says this is the same exact thing with Mary right here. He's changing her name from Mary
to full of grace
Which doesn't even make sense. You never see anybody call Mary full of grace in the Bible and number two
It says thou that are highly favored and her name isn't highly favored either. It's Mary
Okay from the Bible. What would indicate them that this is
Him changing her name. They just like focus on that word hail. They're like, oh, yeah
What hail what it was who cares that doesn't mean like why is it super clear every other time in the Bible when someone gets their name
Changed, but then they're big, you know special
No, what do you say? They're big special person that they focus on like Mary. It's just super unclear
Why is that that doesn't make any sense
Number two, here's why this also doesn't make sense,
because the Bible, after he supposedly changed his names here,
the angel does not refer to her as full of grace.
Look at verse number 30, it's two verses down.
It says,
It's because it's nonsense. It's stupid. Just Catholic fanfiction that they write for Mary
They write all this dumb stuff for Mary, which again is not to dismary
I'm sure she was a great person, but they try to elevate her to a level where we have to like pull it down a little bit
It's insane that they make us do that
Number two though is that they use these verses to teach that Mary is sinless here
Did you see that in the text? You might have missed it because it's next to where she gets her name changed in the Greek as well
Okay, in this text
How do they rationalize this though? This is what they say because you're just uneducated. That's the thing
You're they're just uneducated of the Bible. That's why you're uneducated of Greek. That's why you understand this
Okay, let me educate you though. This word highly favored here, which the Greek word is
Kahari to many
They say, this is not just any word.
This verb isn't here.
They're like, this is a perfect passive tense word,
which means that she wasn't just filled with grace
at one time in her life.
They're like, she's continually filled with grace.
Even till now, it's just like a continual thing
that she's full of grace.
And this is what the Catholic Apologist page said
that I looked up online.
This is insane.
This is what they believe.
They say, what does it mean to be full of grace?
that Mary is filled with the presence of God
and that she is entirely inhabited by God,
there is no room for sin within her.
What? Oh, wow.
That's really what they take that to believe.
They're like, but you just don't know Greek, you idiot.
That's why you can't understand the Bible, right?
No, I just think that that's a stupid interpretation here because here's the thing about Mary.
This isn't about Mary's salvation here, is it?
What is she highly favored for?
What is she graced for?
What is she blessed for in this situation?
It's not her salvation, it's that she gets to bear and deliver the Messiah Jesus Christ
who actually is full of grace and full of truth according to the book of John.
They're like, they're like getting so lost in their own fan fiction in the Greek here that they miss the actual context here
That the angel is saying hey, Mary you're blessed. You know why because thousands of years before this
It was prophesied that you would give birth to Jesus christ
What a privilege
What an honor to bear Jesus christ to be the one that nurtures your own messiah
To be the one that bears the person that would take away all the sins of the whole entire earth
What a blessing. She is highly favored. She is graced in that sense.
But this stupid man-made definition that they add to it is garbage.
Mary was not sinless. The Bible says in Romans 3-23,
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
The only person that's the exception to that
is Jesus Christ. And there's some other dumb stuff that people do with that to make
exception to that. But here's the thing, if Mary was sinless, the Bible would tell you
that she's sinless. And not in this fake Greek text, like, right, where they're just like,
you gotta go here to understand this. Not so. Okay, that's stupid. Like, again,
give me a verse Catholic Church, Pope Leo, stop making dumb opinions about abortion and about
the death penalty, and just give me an actual verse that says Mary's perfect. I don't believe it.
On the spot, I would believe it right there if that's what the Bible actually said.
But they can't, because they don't have one.
That's the reality of things the other day.
John 1.5, this we're in the Sermon off here.
It says this, it says, John Bear witness of him
and cried saying, this was he of whom I spake,
he that cometh after me is preferred before me,
for he was before me.
which shows again that Jesus Christ is God.
And all of his, and all of his fullness
have all we received and grace for grace.
Here's the thing, I didn't even mention this
about the Catholic church as well,
or with the whole thing with Mary,
because they're like, she's full of grace.
Listen, we're all full of grace,
because we've been forgiven of all of our sins, right?
For by grace are you saved through faith?
We all are full of grace and there's no room for sin in us
Not because we were perfect in the first place
But because Jesus Christ was washed as clean and has made that new man inside of us
But they don't believe Mary sinned at all. They think that she was conceived perfect
Which is insane of the preachal sermon about the Catholic Church and their dumb teachings because they have quite a few of them
And that being one of the cheapest of them that Mary they're like the immaculate conception
I think I've told this before I was like this is surely about Jesus Christ
No, the Immaculate Conception is about Mary.
They're like that she was conceived without sin.
Nonsense.
Jesus Christ was the Immaculate Conception.
He was the person that was created without sin
and never did sin until the day he died.
And Mary absolutely did sin in her life.
John 1.16, though, keep going, and of His fullness have all we received, and grace for grace says for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, not by Mary, not by the Catholic Church, not by any person in this world, but besides Jesus Christ.
That's who gave us our grace and our hope and our life in this world.
So with that all being said, that's all I had time to type up.
That's, where are we even at in this?
John 17, I think there's like 50 person in this, okay?
So I could definitely make a couple of sermons out of that one.
Sorry if it was a little bit disjointed, I didn't have the most time to prepare, so
blame Brother Jason, okay? Like always, when in doubt, just blame Brother Jason, okay?
Let's pray. Dear Brother God, thank you so much for today, thank you so much for what you do for
us, God. Thank you so much for your word, God, and thank you so much, God, that you've given us
a Bible that we don't need to learn some cryptic language or some hidden language to understand
the truth, God. Thank you so much that you make it plain for us, God, that we can read the Bible
And not have need for a teacher or for a guide, but that we can just rely on the Holy Ghost to teach us the Bible
I just pray that we'd never get deceived by the false doctrine that are out there
Concerning these things and I pray that we would always trust in you and always count on you. Jesus in prayer. Amen
Our last song by the way will be song 39
how beautiful heaven must be song number 39 how beautiful heaven must be
song green nine let's sing it together on the first we read of a place that's called
must be sweet home of the happy and free bear haven of rest for the
How beautiful heaven must be. Sweet home of the happy and free. Fair Haven, I've rest for the weep.
must be. Sweet home of the happy and free. Fair haven of rest for the weary. How beautiful
heaven must be. The angels so sweetly are singing up there by the beautiful sea. Sweet
must be. How beautiful heaven must be. Sweet home of the happy and free. Bear haven of rest
for the weary. How beautiful heaven must be.