WEBVTT 10:00.000 --> 10:14.360 standing on the promises of Christ my King through eternal ages let his 10:14.360 --> 10:23.720 praises ring glory in the highest I will shout and sing standing on the promises 10:23.720 --> 10:38.200 of God standing standing on the promises of God my Savior standing 10:38.200 --> 10:51.400 standing I'm standing on the promises of God standing on the promises that cannot 10:51.440 --> 10:59.200 when the howling stores of doubt and fear us sail by the living Word of God I 10:59.200 --> 11:12.480 shall prevail standing on the promises of God standing standing standing on 11:12.480 --> 11:25.280 the promises of God my Savior standing standing I'm standing on the promises of 11:25.280 --> 11:35.200 God standing on the promises of Christ the Lord bound to him eternally by love 11:35.200 --> 11:47.240 strong core overcoming daily with the spirit sword standing on the promises of God standing 11:47.240 --> 12:04.320 standing standing on the promises of God my Savior standing standing I'm standing on the 12:04.440 --> 12:15.200 promises of God standing on the promises I cannot fall listening every moment to the 12:15.200 --> 12:28.640 spirits call resting in my Savior as my all and all standing on the promises of God standing 12:28.640 --> 12:44.400 standing standing on the promises of God my Savior standing standing I'm standing on the 12:44.400 --> 12:50.760 promises of God all right excellent thing everybody with the range you please open 12:50.760 --> 13:07.560 up a prayer amen all right if you want to take your him knows we're gonna turn to page number 13:07.560 --> 13:24.840 110 page number 110 all the way my Savior leads me page number 110 13:24.840 --> 13:45.720 all the way my Savior leads me what have I to ask beside can I doubt his tender mercy 13:45.720 --> 13:56.720 who through life has been my guy heavenly peace divide his conferred here by faith in him to 13:56.720 --> 14:09.640 dwell for I know what air befall me Jesus do with all things well for I know what air befall me 14:09.640 --> 14:21.000 Jesus do with all things well all the way my Savior leads me cheers each winding path I tread 14:21.000 --> 14:33.760 gives me grace for every trial feeds me with the living bread though my weary steps may falter and 14:33.960 --> 14:46.720 my soul the thirst may be gushing from the rock before me low a spring of joy I see gushing from 14:46.720 --> 15:00.040 the rock before me low a spring of joy I see all the way my Savior leads me all the fullness of 15:00.120 --> 15:12.000 his love perfect rest to me is promised in my father's house above when my spirit cloth 15:12.000 --> 15:24.680 immortal wings its fly to realms of day this my song through endless ages Jesus led me all the way 15:24.680 --> 15:36.120 this my song through endless ages Jesus led me all the way all right excellent singing everybody 15:36.120 --> 15:46.560 at this time we will have our announcements good morning everyone the verse of the week is Proverbs 15:46.560 --> 15:54.440 3 verse 9 Proverbs 3 verse 9 honor the Lord with thy substance and with the firstfruits of all 15:54.480 --> 16:02.360 thine increased that's Proverbs 9 I'm sorry Proverbs 3 verse 9 all right so when our service 16:02.360 --> 16:08.080 times are at 10 30 this morning through 30 this afternoon in 6 30 on Wednesday soul winning was 16:08.080 --> 16:15.080 yes a little special yesterday but usually at 12 30 on Saturdays and 1 p.m. on Sundays including 16:15.080 --> 16:23.800 today salvations for this month so far has been 14 and that's that way because many of you went 16:23.800 --> 16:29.080 out I'm really glad to hear how successful it was and was you know great trip I wish I would 16:29.080 --> 16:32.880 have made it but look like it was a beautiful drive so hope that was a blessing to everyone 16:32.880 --> 16:41.880 but that brings us to a total of 67 for the year so far so amen tins is down below upcoming 16:41.880 --> 16:53.280 events April 19th are sorry starting today or soon make sure sorry it is today I was right 16:53.840 --> 17:00.640 I want to make sure April 19 through May 19 so you have one month to memorize first Corinthians chapter 13 17:00.640 --> 17:09.080 first Corinthians chapter 13 so another memory verse I know we just finished one so hey this is 17:09.080 --> 17:15.360 a good challenge and this is for all members and if you do so I believe there is a reward at the end 17:15.360 --> 17:22.720 so just something good to get the Word of God into your mind so today's going to be the men's 17:22.760 --> 17:28.360 preaching night for those that attend I know Alejandro is prepared so I'm excited for that 17:28.360 --> 17:34.120 but for the rest of the men coming out it'll just be good to hear the messages that are prepared for 17:34.120 --> 17:41.880 everyone this up April 21st coming up will be the next home school day that's at 11 a.m. here in the 17:41.880 --> 17:48.360 church building if you haven't yet already please RSVP with Miss Kylie April 26 coming up in a week 17:48.800 --> 17:56.800 Brother Ramon is coming up great guy if you have not met him he is fantastic full of energy and I 17:56.800 --> 18:02.840 always believe he's my younger though he is actually much older than me and he puts me to shame he is 18:02.840 --> 18:08.840 awesome awesome guy so I'm super excited to see him it's always a blessing to see him and if his 18:08.840 --> 18:15.320 wife's coming as well May 2nd is going to be the next or it's going to be the ladies fellowship for 18:15.320 --> 18:22.040 Mother's Day coming right up every year we put on a ladies day so if you're if you're going to 18:22.040 --> 18:31.200 10 or your wife's going to 10 please just RSVP with brother please just RSVP I'm mixing the two 18:31.200 --> 18:38.440 I'm mixing it too so but plan activity it's always been a blessing it's always you know go out I know 18:38.440 --> 18:43.720 last year they hit a couple thrift shops went to a couple activities I don't remember last year if 18:43.720 --> 18:48.840 you guys did pedicures I remember multiple things happen so that's always a blessing it's really 18:48.840 --> 18:53.560 nice to spoil the ladies probably better than once a year but hey we're at least getting once a year 18:53.560 --> 19:00.680 right so May 8th is going to be our next soul winning marathon and that's going to be at Central 19:00.680 --> 19:08.280 Washington there in Ellensburg so I believe that's a little closer than Orofino Idaho but right there 19:08.280 --> 19:14.040 basically Center part of state do we know I sure multiple churches will come and probably assist 19:14.040 --> 19:19.640 that one right in the middle so that'll be a it's always a blessing to do those but hey getting right 19:19.640 --> 19:23.720 out there we're just going to head in the opposite direction we just did yesterday but hey we're 19:23.720 --> 19:29.000 hitting a lot of little towns we've already done Pullman this year we've done multiple others so 19:29.000 --> 19:33.720 it's just really great to get out there and hopefully this one's as fruitful as Washington 19:33.720 --> 19:39.480 State was just a month and a half ago so really great that's going to be the next big event so 19:39.480 --> 19:49.480 that's May 8th all right kids your memories verse is John 14 verse 6 John 14 verse 6 Jesus said unto 19:49.480 --> 19:56.840 him I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the father but by me and if you can 19:56.840 --> 20:03.240 memorize that and recite to miss Carly you will receive the gift a reward of a piece of candy 20:04.280 --> 20:11.080 I'm just off today rules are all down the same tithing is down below and trying to remember I 20:11.080 --> 20:19.160 haven't I wasn't here last week did Lucas and Emma get a birthday song no well we're going to sing 20:19.160 --> 20:24.840 it then whether anyone wants to hear my voice or not we're going to do it so so if you would help me 20:24.920 --> 20:31.320 I'm going to sing a little bit of a nice uh sing unto Luke because I see them I don't see 20:32.760 --> 20:41.720 I know I see it and the other one so let's sing happy birthday happy birthday to you 20:42.120 --> 20:49.000 to you happy birthday God bless you 20:51.400 --> 20:54.840 happy birthday to you 20:59.400 --> 21:03.080 all right well happy birthday you're like 12 now 21:03.720 --> 21:12.520 no 14 all right it's fine it's all good so all right um if you have any prayer requests please 21:12.520 --> 21:16.120 just let the Thompson's know and they'll get it added into the bulletin but if you would just join 21:16.120 --> 21:19.480 me with a word of prayer heavenly father thank you so much for this day thank you so much for the 21:19.480 --> 21:22.040 beautiful weather 21:33.080 --> 21:33.880 you 22:03.080 --> 22:03.240 you 22:33.080 --> 22:33.240 you 23:03.080 --> 23:05.080 you 23:19.240 --> 23:24.680 all right if you want to go ahead and take your bibles or your psalm books and turn to psalm number 23:24.680 --> 23:33.320 11 that's psalm number 11 and if you need a psalm book and don't have one we have some extra ones 23:33.320 --> 23:35.560 up here so just raise your hand if you need one 23:39.640 --> 23:43.640 all right nobody needs one it's because we're extra spiritual and just use our bibles right 23:44.360 --> 23:50.440 all right psalm chapter number 11 psalm chapter number 11 23:50.440 --> 23:55.000 okay we'll sing it out on the first 23:56.520 --> 24:05.400 in the Lord put on my trust how say he to my soul flee as a bird to your mountain 24:06.200 --> 24:17.080 for lo the wicked bend their bow they make ready their arrow upon the string that they may 24:17.080 --> 24:26.520 privilege shoot at the upright in heart if the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous 24:26.520 --> 24:38.600 do the Lord is in his holy temple the Lord's throne is in heaven his eyes behold his eyelids 24:38.600 --> 24:50.600 try the children of men the Lord trith the righteous but the wicked and him that loveth 24:50.600 --> 25:07.480 violence his soul hateth his soul hateth upon the wicked he shall rain snares fire and brimstone hand 25:07.480 --> 25:18.040 and horrible tempest this shall be the portion of their cup for the righteous Lord 25:19.560 --> 25:34.120 loveth righteousness his countenance doth behold doth behold the upright in the Lord put I my trust 25:34.360 --> 25:38.760 all right excellent singing everybody brother paul would you please pray for the offering 25:38.760 --> 25:40.760 thank you 26:35.000 --> 26:40.440 good morning everybody welcome to sure foundation baptist church if you could go ahead and take your 26:40.440 --> 26:53.880 bibles and turn to psalm chapter 119 psalm chapter 119 and no fear we're going to start in verse 161 26:57.480 --> 27:02.760 and as always here at our our church we usually read the entire chapter before the preaching but 27:02.760 --> 27:09.560 today we're going to start in verse 161 psalm chapter 119 the bible reads 27:10.600 --> 27:16.920 princes have persecuted me without a cause but my heart standeth in awe of thy word 27:17.480 --> 27:26.440 I rejoice at thy word as one that findeth great spoil I hate an abhor lying but thy law do I love 27:27.160 --> 27:34.360 seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments great peace have they which 27:34.360 --> 27:42.200 love thy law and nothing shall offend them lord I have hoped for thy salvation and done thy 27:42.200 --> 27:51.240 commandments my soul have kept thy testimonies and I love them exceedingly I have kept thy precepts 27:51.240 --> 27:58.920 and thy testimonies for all my ways are before thee let me cry let my cry come near before 27:58.920 --> 28:06.200 thee oh lord give me understanding according to thy word let my supplication come before the 28:06.200 --> 28:13.800 deliver me according to thy word my lips shall utter praise when thou has taught me thy statutes 28:14.360 --> 28:19.320 my tongue shall speak of thy word for all thy commandments or righteousness 28:20.120 --> 28:27.560 let thine hand help me for I have chosen thy precepts I have longed for thy salvation oh lord 28:27.560 --> 28:35.800 and thy law is my delight let my soul live and it shall praise thee and let thy judgments help me 28:36.520 --> 28:44.760 I have gone astray like a lost sheep seek thy servant for I do not forget thy commandments 28:44.760 --> 28:50.760 brother Eli could you pray for the service 28:50.920 --> 28:55.960 Father as we hear your word preached our minds are heartily 29:02.120 --> 29:07.480 amen you guys are there in Psalms 119 we're going to look down at verse number 165 29:09.080 --> 29:14.760 Psalms 119 165 where the bible says great peace have they that love thy law and nothing shall 29:14.760 --> 29:20.600 offend them my sermon this morning is out of context and misapplied let's pray dear 29:20.600 --> 29:23.080 father god thank you so much wonderful day thank you so much for everything you do for us god thank 29:23.080 --> 29:27.000 you so much for everybody that showed up the church today god to hear your word preached i just pray 29:27.000 --> 29:31.000 that you would uh fill me with your holy spirit for that reason god and help me to deliver uh the 29:31.000 --> 29:34.120 message that you put on my heart well and i just pray that i'd be edifying to the people in this 29:34.120 --> 29:39.320 room that they help i i'd help them to understand uh these verses i'm going to bring up uh more 29:39.320 --> 29:43.320 properly and in their proper context and how you would want them applied and i just pray that you 29:43.320 --> 29:46.440 would um keep me from saying what you don't want me to say and help me to say boldly what you do 29:46.440 --> 29:51.400 want me to say in Jesus name i pray amen how much one like i said again is out of context and 29:51.400 --> 29:56.440 misapplied we're here in Psalms 119 165 before i get into the sermon i wanted to bring up a couple 29:56.440 --> 30:03.240 things the first thing being is that uh yesterday we went to the nez pierce uh reservation uh and 30:03.240 --> 30:09.880 we had a great success there uh praise god for that that we got uh we got uh six people saved there 30:09.880 --> 30:15.800 as the the two whole groups brother david's group and then our group um though i say i the reason 30:15.800 --> 30:19.960 i'm talking about reservations because it really was not a typical reservation where we were at at 30:19.960 --> 30:24.680 least it just felt like we were in america truly like it just felt like we were just you know 30:25.480 --> 30:32.280 knocking on regular doors uh because we saw like almost no native people if like i had one guy 30:32.280 --> 30:38.360 mentioned with brother jared and i uh the happy hunting grounds which is going to be some native 30:38.360 --> 30:42.760 stuff i imagine i mean that's kind of right up their alley it's probably like their uh blend of 30:42.760 --> 30:46.760 christianity that the the natives do but everybody else just seemed white and even that guy that said 30:46.760 --> 30:52.120 that to us looked white and i'm like he's like uh he's like uh what do you call when you take 30:52.120 --> 30:55.800 someone's culture he's uh appropriating the indian culture and their religion or something 30:56.360 --> 31:01.000 but uh so but praise god we got people say that should just show us that anywhere we go we can 31:01.000 --> 31:05.880 get people say it and that there's areas all around us that truly need the gospel and what we need the 31:05.880 --> 31:11.640 most is more laborers for the harvest and that's why we're planning to still keep up these events 31:11.640 --> 31:15.800 at this church and that's why we're getting people saved because god is willing to use people that 31:15.800 --> 31:20.280 are willing to go out and do the work for him so praise god for that and all glory goes to him 31:20.280 --> 31:24.680 for that um but the second thing i wanted to bring up about this before i get into the sermon is that 31:24.680 --> 31:28.920 this sermon was supposed to be uh way different than what it is it was actually supposed to be 31:28.920 --> 31:33.560 like multiple different verses that were out of context or that i believe that are misapplied 31:33.560 --> 31:37.800 and it ended up becoming just two verses that i was talking about out of context so they were 31:37.800 --> 31:44.280 misapplied um a little bit a little the reason why is because i was supposed to um i was thinking i 31:44.280 --> 31:48.680 was having more time than we did from coming back from the nespers reservation and then i also like 31:49.400 --> 31:53.880 went off really deep on the first one okay so i would just i'm gonna just make this like a 31:53.880 --> 31:57.400 little series because i have a ton other verses that i wanted to go through and i only got through 31:57.400 --> 32:02.680 two so just uh bear with me a little bit this is going to be a little bit of a different kind of 32:02.680 --> 32:07.080 sermon that i then what i usually like to preach on a sunday morning but with that being said verse 32:07.080 --> 32:11.160 number 165 i'll read one more time it says this it says great peace have they which love thy law 32:11.160 --> 32:16.920 and nothing shall offend them uh and we're here in psalms 190 today and like i was just saying 32:16.920 --> 32:22.120 this is going to be a little bit different kind of sermon than i would usually do um but as you can 32:22.120 --> 32:25.640 see from the title of this sermon we're going to be talking about verses that people commonly in 32:25.640 --> 32:32.360 my opinion take out of context or that verses that people misapply and don't um apply appropriately 32:32.360 --> 32:36.680 when they're preaching or when we're in our day-to-day interactions uh and this happens to be 32:36.680 --> 32:41.000 one of them in my opinion the reason i i got the idea for this sermon series in the first 32:41.000 --> 32:45.720 place was actually from my gluttons and drunkard sermon because if you remember in that sermon 32:45.720 --> 32:49.160 what that i preached i think was a couple months ago i brought up a verse would you guys go to 32:49.160 --> 32:55.000 real quick go to proverbs 23 verse number two if you would real quick proverbs 23 verse number two 32:55.720 --> 32:59.960 i brought up this verse and this is just one example of many that christians will just really 33:00.360 --> 33:04.680 grab and reach out and pull out a context and and just throw out there for a subject there's 33:04.680 --> 33:08.360 nothing to do what it's actually talking about this is a good example of that proverbs 23 verse 33:08.360 --> 33:15.000 number two it says and put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite so many people 33:15.000 --> 33:18.680 and i'm sure you guys have seen this like i said in that sermon last time too take this verse and 33:18.680 --> 33:22.920 apply this to dieting and exercising and they're saying like yeah if you're a tubby then you know 33:22.920 --> 33:26.600 what you need to do you need to put a knife to your throat if you're a man that's given to appetite 33:26.600 --> 33:31.000 but i explained to you that that is not even in the ballpark of the context for this verse not 33:31.000 --> 33:35.400 even close to the to the to the realm of what it actually means but people just throw that out all 33:35.400 --> 33:40.200 the time because what people like to do a lot nowadays you know lukewarm christians and even 33:40.200 --> 33:44.440 sometimes zealous christians alike is they'll take a verse that fits nice with their narrative that 33:44.440 --> 33:48.840 they're trying to promote they'll rip it out of its context and then they'll place it in whatever 33:48.840 --> 33:53.320 subject they want to make it mean whatever they want it to mean but it's important to realize that 33:53.320 --> 33:56.760 when we deal with any verses in the bible we always need to make sure that they're in their 33:56.760 --> 34:01.640 proper context and that we're applying them appropriately and because we saw that last time 34:01.640 --> 34:04.520 and i'll just show you again that this has nothing to do with dieting exercise because if you go to 34:04.520 --> 34:09.000 verse one of that same chapter it says when thou sittest to eat with a ruler consider diligently 34:09.000 --> 34:12.440 what is before thee so already where you can see from the context right there that this isn't just 34:12.440 --> 34:16.600 your day-to-day life this is when you're sitting before a ruler this is kind of a big deal yeah 34:16.600 --> 34:20.520 verse number two then he says and put a knife to the third that be a man given to appetite 34:21.160 --> 34:27.000 be not desirous of his dainties for they are deceitful meat so what we saw from this verse 34:27.000 --> 34:32.360 and even if you jump down to verse number six as well it says eat thou not the the bread of him 34:32.360 --> 34:37.640 that has an evil eye nor desire thou his dainties so you can just see there that this has nothing to 34:37.640 --> 34:41.240 do with weight loss so this is not the verse you should be turning to if you're talking about 34:41.240 --> 34:45.800 dieting and exercising there's other verses you could go to in the bible that actually are talking 34:45.880 --> 34:51.400 you know at least adjacent to that subject but this is not one of them so you can see there that 34:51.400 --> 34:55.960 just ripping a verse out of its context and applying it to whatever situation you want 34:55.960 --> 35:01.000 situation excuse me you want is not appropriate to do with the bible and that's a textbook example 35:01.000 --> 35:05.160 and more often than not you'll find out that whenever you're dealing with verses in the bible 35:05.160 --> 35:10.760 if you read the surrounding verses that are around them when they're difficult to understand you'll 35:10.760 --> 35:14.040 understand perfectly what the bible is trying to say it's not always the case because sometimes 35:14.040 --> 35:19.400 there's really difficult verses in the bible but this is true most of the time but before i move 35:19.400 --> 35:23.640 on to the main kind of part of this sermon the main content of this sermon after i just showed 35:23.640 --> 35:28.520 you that example i want to bring up two relevant examples with this in mind and the first one is 35:28.520 --> 35:33.960 this is that when you're out soulening and someone brings up a work salvation verse to you a verse 35:33.960 --> 35:38.600 that they're twisting to mean work salvations what i should probably say you should always 35:38.600 --> 35:43.720 always go to that verse in your own bible to rebuttal them when you're going to explain what 35:43.720 --> 35:48.520 that actually means in its proper context because so many times you'll find out that a verse sounds 35:48.520 --> 35:53.400 intimidating when they just quote that one verse but then you'll find out that when you look at 35:53.400 --> 35:57.960 the other verses that surround it that it makes perfect sense because the bible in no way shape 35:57.960 --> 36:03.000 or form teaches that we have to work to get to heaven that is the opposite of the new testaments 36:03.000 --> 36:10.680 message in its entirety that's the exact opposite that it's by faith alone in jesus christ and it's 36:10.680 --> 36:15.160 a free gift by grace through faith but so that's the first thing i want to say and also with that 36:15.160 --> 36:19.240 being said as well i want to say this when you're out soulening never allow someone to disarm you 36:19.240 --> 36:23.480 when you're out soulening and what i mean by that is never give someone your bible at the door okay 36:23.480 --> 36:28.360 i don't know if you've ever uh fell trapped to this game but it's a dumb game to play they'll be like 36:28.360 --> 36:31.320 oh well let me show you a verse in your bible and you hand your bible over to them and then 36:31.320 --> 36:36.280 they just try to like dominate the conversation from right there never do that out soulening 36:36.280 --> 36:40.360 if someone wants to see a verse they can go grab their own bible or you can say tell me what verse 36:40.360 --> 36:44.120 to flip to and i'll flip there but don't don't give them your weapon your only tool while you're 36:44.120 --> 36:49.240 out soulening yeah it's not not a good plan uh but then the second thing i wanted to bring up 36:49.240 --> 36:53.400 concerning that as well is that if you take a step back when you're interpreting hard passes 36:53.400 --> 36:58.440 scriptures more often than not you can find out what the bible is teaching when you have the 36:58.440 --> 37:03.560 context around it and context isn't always just the next couple verses before it or after it 37:03.560 --> 37:07.320 sometimes it's you know the whole book in its entirety like you see that a lot in romans or 37:07.320 --> 37:12.280 in first corinthians where we're there because paul has a way of bringing up a topic in chapter 37:12.280 --> 37:17.480 three and then touching on it again in chapter 11 you're like whoa like this was like a big uh loop 37:17.480 --> 37:21.320 that he did here to get there but anyways with that all being said we're going to get into the 37:21.320 --> 37:26.200 sermon proper let's first look at verse number 165 again it says great peace have they which love thy 37:26.200 --> 37:31.240 law and nothing shall offend them this is super awesome verse and a super awesome chapter of the 37:31.240 --> 37:36.760 bible we only read a little section of it just because you know it's so long and i'm sure many 37:36.760 --> 37:42.920 of you know this but psalms 119 is the longest chapter in the whole in the entire bible and all 37:42.920 --> 37:48.600 of it which is super amazing to me is about the word of god it always ties back to the word of god 37:48.600 --> 37:53.400 his judgments his commandments his precepts in some way shape or form and i think there's something 37:53.400 --> 37:57.000 like really poetic about that something very beautiful about that that basically like what 37:57.000 --> 38:01.640 the bible is saying is that when we're talking about the word of god you can just go on and on 38:02.280 --> 38:07.560 in the best of ways and never run out of things to say about how awesome the bible is and that 38:07.560 --> 38:12.760 even attaches as well it shows you like that to us it should prove even more so that jesus christ 38:12.760 --> 38:18.760 is the word of god because we see something very similar to this in john 21 25 it says 38:18.760 --> 38:23.800 and there are also many other things which jesus did the which if he they should be written every 38:23.800 --> 38:29.000 one of them i suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written 38:29.000 --> 38:34.920 amen because jesus christ is the word of god because jesus christ is god manifests in the 38:34.920 --> 38:39.400 flesh and so we could just go on and on about jesus christ just like we can go on and on about 38:39.400 --> 38:43.560 the word of god because he is the word of god yeah so you see the connection right there that 38:43.560 --> 38:46.600 was kind of just for free for you guys right there okay but just i just thought it was really cool 38:46.600 --> 38:52.040 when i was studying this out but the first thing i want to bring up about this verse okay talking 38:52.040 --> 38:58.760 about things being misapplied when psalms 119 165 is that a lot of people will take this and 38:58.760 --> 39:03.480 they'll twist it in my opinion not in a way that's like i don't think people do this on purpose i 39:03.480 --> 39:07.640 think this is just a misunderstanding of what the bible is actually saying right here but before i 39:07.640 --> 39:12.120 get into how people get this wrong i want to tell you two valid interpretations of this scripture 39:12.120 --> 39:15.880 okay that i think that you can go with though i think the second one is more valid than the other 39:15.880 --> 39:19.400 if i was being honest with you the first way you can take this verse is you could say that people 39:19.400 --> 39:24.600 that love god's word won't be offended by the word of god itself which even if this is not what this 39:24.600 --> 39:28.760 is teaching that's a true concept anyways yeah because many christians out there nowadays that 39:28.760 --> 39:34.360 we'll talk to will say to us oh we love the bible we love christianity we love jesus christ but then 39:34.360 --> 39:39.080 when you quote them a verse from the bible they'll look at you and be offended by it and act like you 39:39.080 --> 39:42.760 we're talking about the quran or something like that you're like no this is the bible friend 39:42.760 --> 39:46.600 because a lot of times when people think when they say that they love the word of god they're 39:46.600 --> 39:52.840 talking about you know the the instagram bio friendly verses like you know i can do all things 39:52.840 --> 39:57.320 through christ which strengthens me or they're talking about you know he has made everything 39:57.320 --> 40:00.840 beautiful in his time that's what the one that girls like to put a lot it's like that's not what 40:00.840 --> 40:08.280 he's he's not talking about you specifically first okay i've seen that one a lot though it's like okay 40:09.400 --> 40:12.440 but uh that's the ones they're talking about though most time when they say that the love 40:12.440 --> 40:16.280 the word of god they're not talking about leviticus 20 they're not talking about romans 1 most of 40:16.280 --> 40:21.080 time they're not about first kyrinthians 5 or ezekiel 16 most of time they're talking about the very 40:21.240 --> 40:26.520 uh um like presentable and friendly verses which obviously we know every verse in the word of god 40:26.520 --> 40:32.520 is pure every word verse in the word of god is awesome but if we say that we love the word of god 40:32.520 --> 40:37.160 we shouldn't just be talking about just the new testament or just the nice verse of the new 40:37.160 --> 40:42.280 testament we should be talking about every single word that proceeds out of the mouth of god that's 40:42.280 --> 40:47.800 truly loving the word of god and obviously this is a true teaching like i said however if i was 40:47.800 --> 40:51.240 being honest with you i don't think that that's what this verse is teaching right here i don't 40:51.240 --> 40:54.840 think it's the primary application of what this verse is teaching right here is maybe what i should 40:54.840 --> 40:59.160 say because what i think is a lot more likely when you think about this and when you study this out 40:59.800 --> 41:03.160 is that this isn't talking about our feelings at all like how we would modernly take the word 41:03.160 --> 41:09.320 offended but it's saying that nothing can harm us or can cause us to fall or nothing can hurt us 41:09.320 --> 41:13.880 as christians because obviously when it's talking about someone who loves the law of god it's talking 41:13.880 --> 41:20.200 about someone who is a safe christian and this would be in an overarching sense very clearly 41:20.200 --> 41:25.640 and as a matter of fact you guys go to luke 17 verse number one luke 17 verse number one because 41:25.640 --> 41:30.360 even outside of the topic at hand i think it's important to point out that there are multiple 41:30.360 --> 41:36.680 definitions of the word offend and offense or offended in the bible and and it's i think it's 41:36.680 --> 41:40.280 important to point this out because this is such a common word in the bible it's used quite a few 41:40.280 --> 41:47.720 times but this word offend just like the word suffer has multiple definitions some more familiar 41:47.720 --> 41:51.560 with us in a modern sense and some that we don't use in a modern sense at all because if you think 41:51.560 --> 41:55.320 about the word suffer suffer in the king james when you read it most of the time it's going to 41:55.320 --> 41:59.560 be talking about allowing something like when jesus christ says to suffer the little children 41:59.560 --> 42:04.680 to come unto him he's saying allow them to come unto him but then you also see in the bible 42:04.680 --> 42:09.960 sometimes when it does talk about suffering it is talking about enduring pain how we would use it 42:09.960 --> 42:14.840 so the bible uses two different definitions of the word right there it's very similar in my 42:14.840 --> 42:18.520 opinion to how the bible uses the word offend that there's like actually like three definitions 42:18.520 --> 42:22.120 that you can come up with from the bible that it uses all three of these things that it can be 42:22.120 --> 42:27.480 talking about harming someone or like tripping someone up or hurting someone it can talk about 42:27.480 --> 42:31.960 be talking about doing someone wrong like an offense to someone like you're doing someone 42:31.960 --> 42:36.360 you know something something evil to someone something bad to someone or it can be talking 42:36.360 --> 42:40.600 about how we modernly use it hurting someone's feelings this is also a way that the bible uses 42:40.600 --> 42:44.280 it uses all three of these definitions but the reason i'm bringing this up is because 42:44.280 --> 42:50.200 nowadays in casual speech when we say someone offended me everyone is going to understand you 42:50.200 --> 42:55.560 to be saying you know someone hurt my feelings right like if i said like oh you know you offended 42:55.560 --> 43:00.280 my kid it's not like oh you hurt my kid right we're talking about like hey they hurt their 43:00.280 --> 43:05.640 feelings yeah so that modernly we don't really use offend in the way that the bible does a lot 43:05.640 --> 43:11.240 of times but we still have forms of it that it's still there like if you think about kind of a silly 43:11.240 --> 43:17.800 example but in football you have offense and you have defense what is the offense's goal to harm 43:17.800 --> 43:21.400 the other team right you're trying to do damage the defense right you're trying to score a touchdown 43:21.400 --> 43:27.080 yeah so that your team wins and not theirs that's not talking about hurting someone's feeling though 43:27.080 --> 43:31.080 right yeah it's like that's that's not that's not the point of offense in football or the same thing 43:31.080 --> 43:35.240 with like a criminal offense that's not talking about someone hurting someone's feelings that's 43:35.240 --> 43:38.360 talking about a crime that they committed a wrongdoing that they did to someone else 43:39.240 --> 43:43.880 so we can also see this in the bible though as well and in luke 17 verse number one it says this 43:43.880 --> 43:50.120 it says then said he unto the disciples it is impossible that offenses will come or but it is 43:50.120 --> 43:54.840 impossible that offenses will come but woe unto him through whom they come it were better for him 43:54.840 --> 44:00.440 that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he and he cast into and he cast to the sea then 44:00.440 --> 44:05.880 that he should offend one of these little ones obviously this isn't talking about hurting a little 44:05.880 --> 44:10.280 kid's feelings right this is talking about doing damage to or hurting a little one is what the 44:10.280 --> 44:14.360 bible is talking about right here or you know doing them wrong would be another way you could 44:14.360 --> 44:19.880 say that as well go to matthew 16 verse number 23 we'll see a different way the bible kind of 44:19.880 --> 44:25.320 uses it very similarly right here matthew 16 verse number 23 and this should make sense to us why 44:25.320 --> 44:29.880 these all connect because they are kind of you know attached to each other in some way like you 44:29.880 --> 44:35.160 know if you hurt someone then most of the time you're doing them wrong yeah or if you're causing 44:35.160 --> 44:40.040 someone to stumble you're hurting them or if you hurt someone's feelings you can be harming them or 44:40.040 --> 44:44.440 harming them can hurt their feelings you see how they can all be very like closely related and very 44:44.440 --> 44:50.200 attached though they do have like distinct ways that they you know are used in their own independent 44:50.200 --> 44:56.360 context but matthew 16 23 it says but he turned and said unto peter get thee behind me satan for 44:56.440 --> 45:02.360 thou art in offense unto me for thou savors not the things that be of god but those that be of men 45:03.000 --> 45:06.840 so obviously right here jesus christ is saying like hey peter you're hurting my feelings like 45:06.840 --> 45:10.440 what are you doing right he's saying you're an offense on me like hey you're trying to hurt what 45:10.440 --> 45:15.000 i'm teaching because what jesus is teaching right here is the fact that he's going to be crucified 45:15.000 --> 45:18.680 he's going to bear he'd be buried he's going to rise again from the grave and peter's telling him 45:18.680 --> 45:23.800 whoa jesus you're not going to do that that's not going to happen so peter you know though he's not 45:23.800 --> 45:26.520 doing on purpose it's kind of like attacking the gospel right there you know what i mean 45:27.080 --> 45:32.440 so you can see there that like it's like hey you're you're you're um offending my teachings 45:32.440 --> 45:37.160 you're attacking you're harming my teachings quote unquote though he was doing this in ignorance 45:37.160 --> 45:41.880 because peter like many of the jews at that time were thinking that the messiah was just going to 45:41.880 --> 45:46.040 come and immediately rule and reign that's why he's pushing back against jesus he's like well wait a 45:46.040 --> 45:50.920 minute jesus you can't die because you're the messiah so you got to rule and reign so it is out 45:50.920 --> 45:56.120 of ignorance that he's doing this so that's important to clarify go back to psalm 119 165 45:56.120 --> 46:00.040 though with these things in mind now because i kind of showed you that there are definitions 46:00.040 --> 46:04.360 for the word offend that you can't always just take it as offending like like in the sense of 46:04.360 --> 46:15.080 hurting someone's feelings psalms 165 or excuse me psalms 119 165 it says again one more time it 46:15.080 --> 46:20.440 says great peace of the day which love thy law and nothing shall offend them so what this is saying 46:20.440 --> 46:26.120 in my opinion and in its proper context and with the proper application of this is that someone 46:26.120 --> 46:31.320 that loves the law of god which is going to be a safe person obviously those kind of people cannot 46:31.320 --> 46:37.400 be hurt by this world we can't be you know attacked and hurt by this world in an overarching sense 46:37.400 --> 46:42.280 okay obviously because in our day-to-day life obviously we can get you know damage done to us 46:42.280 --> 46:47.080 or we can get hurt but in the grand scheme of things as christians we win at the end of the day 46:47.080 --> 46:51.240 nothing can take us down we weren't we're not going to lose this world we've already overcome 46:51.240 --> 46:56.680 this world through our faith in jesus christ and we see this idea as well in first peter 3 13 46:56.680 --> 47:00.120 because someone might push back on what i'm saying here but i'd push back harder and say you're wrong 47:00.120 --> 47:05.640 about that because look at first peter 3 13 and see what it says right there we get the same kind 47:05.640 --> 47:12.440 of idea in first peter 3 verse number 13 talking about an overarching sense peter says and who is 47:12.760 --> 47:17.560 that will harm you if you be followers of that which is good peter's obviously not meaning like 47:17.560 --> 47:22.760 literally like we can never face any bad thing on this earth because peter's writing this after just 47:22.760 --> 47:27.880 writing about jesus christ who was crucified on the cross though he was a perfect man he's also 47:27.880 --> 47:31.800 writing this as a man that knows he's going to be martyred one day for the following the teachings 47:31.800 --> 47:37.080 of jesus christ so when he's talking about who is he that will harm you he's not saying that you'll 47:37.080 --> 47:42.440 never face a bad day on this earth he's just saying in the end we win as christians which is 47:42.440 --> 47:47.640 true because no matter what this world throws it up even to the point where it killed our flesh 47:47.640 --> 47:52.360 we still win because we die and get to go to heaven when we die we we get to live with jesus 47:52.360 --> 47:56.520 christ forever so we can't lose nothing can harm us though they think that they win against us in 47:56.520 --> 48:01.800 this world we always come on top we always come out on top because jesus christ is leading the 48:01.800 --> 48:08.600 charge for us so go to first peter's uh two verse number eight though first peter two verse number 48:08.600 --> 48:14.360 eight so you can see there that that's what i believe this is talking about and i'm going to 48:14.360 --> 48:19.160 show you though a little bit further about why i don't think the other interpretations that someone 48:19.160 --> 48:24.440 might bring up about that are valid concerning this verse though i do think that people do this 48:24.440 --> 48:29.400 with a good heart so don't get me wrong about that and and for a while i kind of i kind of believe 48:29.400 --> 48:34.920 the wrong thing in my opinion now about this verse okay first peter two verse number eight though 48:34.920 --> 48:38.040 something cool i found when i was studying this out as well i found this interesting if you don't 48:38.040 --> 48:42.760 find it interesting that's too bad i'm gonna tell you anyways but in first peter two eight it says 48:42.760 --> 48:48.840 this it says and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense even to them which stumble at the word 48:48.840 --> 48:53.560 being disobedient weren't to also they were appointed if you notice a couple times i've said 48:53.560 --> 48:57.880 like offending someone could be also to like trip them up and the reason why i'm saying this is 48:57.880 --> 49:04.040 because actually the word stumbling block or how it's referenced right here the rock of offense is 49:04.040 --> 49:10.520 the exact same word as offend stumbling block and to offend is the same thing it's very interesting 49:10.520 --> 49:14.360 obviously they're rendered in different ways there but many times this word that's rendered 49:14.360 --> 49:18.520 that it is excuse me offense is rendered as stumbling block in the bible it's actually 49:18.520 --> 49:24.040 very typical to see that in the bible and you guys go to first uh corinthians 2 23 i'll show 49:24.040 --> 49:28.760 you example of that as a matter of fact first corinthians 2 verse number 23 i'd also point out 49:28.760 --> 49:33.400 to you that i already just showed you that when jesus christ says thou art in offense unto me to 49:33.400 --> 49:38.840 peter he uses the same exact word that's right here for the word offense okay like you're like 49:38.840 --> 49:42.760 a stumbling block to me you're like causing me to fall and you can see how that's related as well 49:42.760 --> 49:47.000 too right because what happens when you fall down when you trip on something you get hurt right so 49:47.000 --> 49:52.840 you can see how these things would attach to each other it's very similar in first corinthians 1 23 49:52.840 --> 49:57.160 it says this it says but we preach christ crucified unto the jews a stumbling block and 49:57.160 --> 50:01.560 unto the greeks foolishness that's the same word right there stumbling block and for offense and 50:01.560 --> 50:05.240 again you can see the way that'd be the case because laying a stumbling block in front of 50:05.240 --> 50:09.320 someone is going to cause them to get hurt and the jews themselves get hurt on the stumbling 50:09.320 --> 50:14.680 block of jesus christ because they reject him what happens they stumble at that stumbling stone right 50:14.680 --> 50:19.800 and then it says that anybody that tries to go on to jesus christ that they'll crush him to powder 50:19.800 --> 50:24.040 any rock that tries to go on top of him they get crushed to powder as well right so they they can't 50:24.040 --> 50:29.800 win against jesus christ um go to leviticus 19 verse number 14 because if you're a smart cookie 50:29.800 --> 50:35.160 you would realize that uh psalms 119 the word offense is in hebrew that it wouldn't be greek 50:35.160 --> 50:41.320 okay but i got something for you as well okay go to leviticus 19 verse number 14 leviticus 19 verse 50:41.320 --> 50:47.640 number 14 because the same word that's rendered as offense in psalms 119 is also rendered as 50:47.640 --> 50:51.400 stumbling block here in the old testament because it's the same way in greek and hebrew right here 50:51.400 --> 50:56.520 okay but also just in english you can see this i'm showing you this in in leviticus uh 1914 you can 50:56.520 --> 51:00.680 see that in english anyways because what do we just read in peter right that he was the stone of 51:00.680 --> 51:05.800 stumbling and he's the rock of offense right it's the same thing is what it's saying right there 51:05.800 --> 51:10.680 but you also see this in the bible in leviticus 1914 it says thou shall not curse the death nor 51:10.680 --> 51:15.720 put a stumbling block before the blind but shall fear the lord thy god i'm the lord it's the same 51:15.720 --> 51:20.760 exact word right there as well so outside of trying to get you to have that connection inside 51:20.760 --> 51:25.160 your brain i'm bringing this up because back in psalms 119 go there to verse number 105 real quick 51:25.160 --> 51:30.040 i know i have you bouncing a lot uh just bear with me a little bit okay i would like to say it's 51:30.040 --> 51:34.040 going to get better but it doesn't really get better okay but just know i have a good heart with 51:34.040 --> 51:41.400 this in mind okay psalms uh 119 verse number 105 i i got caught on like a rabbit okay and i was 51:41.400 --> 51:46.920 chasing it pretty hard i was going down deep maybe too deep on this more deep than i should 51:46.920 --> 51:51.240 have done for this sermon okay i'm sorry it's not a sunday morning sermon it's really a like a 51:51.240 --> 51:56.200 wednesday sermon in disguise but just uh forgive me this wrong it's all the word of god right it's a 51:56.200 --> 52:03.160 it's a bible study nonetheless psalms 119 verse number 105 the next time i do a verse a sermon 52:03.160 --> 52:07.400 in this series though will not be like this it'll be a little bit different psalms 119 105 it says 52:07.400 --> 52:12.360 thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path the reason i'm bringing that up is this 52:12.360 --> 52:17.240 is because with the idea that an offense like a stumbling block are kind of the same thing in the 52:17.240 --> 52:21.880 bible you can see then how this would attach the word that we the verse that we've already read 52:21.880 --> 52:26.760 because what is the point of the word of god being a lamp unto your feet and a light on your path 52:26.760 --> 52:31.560 it's so you don't stumble and fall right so you can see the connection right there because the 52:31.560 --> 52:35.240 idea is is that if you don't have a lamp and you're just walking around in this world in 52:35.240 --> 52:39.480 darkness you're gonna fall and you're gonna get hurt right but because we have the word of god 52:39.480 --> 52:44.120 because we love the word of god that doesn't happen to us as christians so i thought that was 52:44.120 --> 52:51.960 pretty cool if you don't it's kind of lame but i thought it was pretty cool okay psalms 119 though 52:51.960 --> 52:58.200 so um uh we're yeah excuse me we're gonna we're gonna go into the the what i don't believe this 52:58.200 --> 53:02.360 verse is talking about now in psalms 119 verse number 165 we won't read again we've read it a 53:02.360 --> 53:08.360 few times but the point about me showing you that was that when we are have the light of god before 53:08.360 --> 53:11.800 us we're not going to fall we're not going to stumble so we're never going to be offended we're 53:11.800 --> 53:17.720 never going to trip up in this world we uh don't get hurt in this world obviously in an overarching 53:17.720 --> 53:22.120 eternal sense is what it's talking about like what it was talking about in first peter uh in the 53:22.120 --> 53:27.880 different places that we read that but i also want to push back and talk about now what psalms 119 53:28.680 --> 53:34.520 okay which it does not mean this it does not mean that if you're a good spiritual christian that 53:34.520 --> 53:39.320 nothing should ever hurt your feelings i don't believe that at all i think that that's a 53:39.320 --> 53:43.720 misapplication of the scripture i truly do because if you just think about this in a couple different 53:43.720 --> 53:48.920 ways you'll see how this does doesn't make sense like imagine if like you know you're you're a 53:48.920 --> 53:52.440 wife in here okay or a woman in here you're cooking meals for the church and then someone 53:52.440 --> 53:58.520 comes up to you and you're like hey your cooking sucks would someone feel some type of way about 53:58.520 --> 54:03.480 that probably right is that is that a bad feeling that they have that because they're being rude to 54:03.480 --> 54:08.440 them probably not right but but someone if you're trying to take this interpretation this verse to 54:08.440 --> 54:13.640 say that being offended nothing should ever offend you means that you should never ever get your 54:13.640 --> 54:19.560 feelings hurt then you would have to turn around to that situation and be like well nothing should 54:19.560 --> 54:23.880 ever hurt your feelings as a christian which is not true though that's a good example of that or 54:23.880 --> 54:29.640 like another one that uh maybe is more applicable to than than just that one is like you know what 54:29.640 --> 54:33.400 really pisses me off as a christian that does offend me as a christian is when people take the 54:33.400 --> 54:38.040 name of jesus christ or they take our religion they blaspheme jesus christ where they like will 54:38.040 --> 54:43.960 say like just uh evil things to us like they'll say like oh you have like the magic sky daddy or 54:43.960 --> 54:49.320 they'll say the flying spaghetti monster or like they'll say zombie jesus day for easter or something 54:49.320 --> 54:53.400 like that just like things that are straight up blasphemous that does offend me as a christian 54:53.400 --> 54:57.960 and that's not like a bad feeling that that's a righteous feeling that you have you but you're 54:57.960 --> 55:02.200 not supposed to be offended from the word of god itself though that's obviously true but that's not 55:02.200 --> 55:08.120 to say that you should never be offended by anything in this world and to be fair someone 55:08.120 --> 55:13.480 again might take this and say well it's just saying that you should never be offended by something 55:13.480 --> 55:17.320 out of the bible itself which i i don't think that's like the worst thing ever 55:18.040 --> 55:23.000 but i would just say about that that like i kind of think it's redundant to some degree because 55:23.000 --> 55:27.560 it's like great peace have they that love thy law and nothing shall offend them they'd be like 55:27.560 --> 55:31.480 great peace of they that love their law and then nothing out of that law is going to offend them 55:31.480 --> 55:34.360 it's like i feel like that's kind of redundant to the point of the verse i don't i don't think that 55:34.360 --> 55:38.680 that makes too much sense okay you could try to take that interpretation though like you just say 55:38.680 --> 55:42.760 like he's just double clarifying right there that could be the case okay but i don't think it's the 55:42.760 --> 55:47.720 case right here and you guys might think i'm being kind of nitpicky in this sermon and to some degree 55:47.720 --> 55:52.600 i am being nitpicky on this verse but i would push back on that as well and say these two things 55:52.600 --> 55:58.600 okay that the word of god and the interpretations we take out of it it's all important so the way 55:58.600 --> 56:04.360 we interpret some sets of verses can affect our daily behavior and how we treat people and how we 56:04.360 --> 56:09.560 you know operate in this world as christians that we can get this idea where it's like well if someone 56:09.560 --> 56:14.280 really loved the word of god then nothing i should do it should never be offensive to them which i 56:14.280 --> 56:19.000 just don't think is a good idea i don't think it's a quality as a christian that we should be 56:19.000 --> 56:23.880 adopting into ourselves but also i would point out as well that there are people that take this 56:23.880 --> 56:28.520 verse and verses like this and use it to treat people like trash there's people that take verses 56:28.520 --> 56:34.280 like this and they'll just like use it to justify all their crappy behavior as a christian i don't 56:34.280 --> 56:38.680 think that that's a good thing they're just like oh they'll like just treat someone like garbage 56:38.680 --> 56:42.840 they'll just act like a huge jerk to someone and then at the very end of all their dumb things 56:42.840 --> 56:46.600 that they're doing they'll just sprinkle in this verse and be like well you wouldn't be offended 56:46.600 --> 56:51.400 what i was doing if you read what the bible says because great peace are they the love their law 56:51.400 --> 56:57.080 nothing shall offend them right except that's a misapplication is it not people do this though 56:57.080 --> 57:00.360 and i'm like you think like you might think yourself like that's a strong man nobody does 57:00.360 --> 57:03.880 this but people do do this though i'm not joking i'm doing this with my own eyes people that do 57:03.880 --> 57:08.680 this that they'll they'll take this verse and they'll use it to treat people like trash they'll 57:08.680 --> 57:13.320 weaponize it against someone that's their brother or sister in christ and they'll just justify 57:13.320 --> 57:17.160 everything they did with the shield of this verse it's not appropriate as a christian 57:17.160 --> 57:21.240 should be doing these kind of things you shouldn't be using this verse the point of this verse is not 57:21.240 --> 57:25.080 get out of jail free card it's not a weapon to use against your brother sister in christ 57:25.080 --> 57:30.920 it's not like a blank check to treat people like trash this is a these are misapplications of this 57:30.920 --> 57:36.040 verse truly it is so don't don't ever get this idea as a christian where you think that being 57:36.040 --> 57:40.680 offensive is just a really noble quality it's something that's a really great quality i've 57:40.680 --> 57:45.480 explained to you guys before and maybe i will go more in depth that being offensive is not always 57:45.480 --> 57:50.680 bad but it's not always good either okay that's where i leave it for just this sermon's sake right 57:50.680 --> 57:56.440 now but there's also an idea that people get with this verse as well when it comes to preaching 57:56.600 --> 58:01.160 people will bring up something they'll go on some unhinged rant about a random subject and then 58:01.160 --> 58:05.240 they'll throw this verse at the end of it and be like well if you love the word of god you wouldn't 58:05.240 --> 58:09.080 be offended by what i'm saying right now because the bible says great peace of they that love the 58:09.080 --> 58:13.480 law and nothing shall offend them but it's like well maybe they're not offended by the verses that 58:13.480 --> 58:17.320 you're showing me but maybe they're offended by you acting like a big jerk behind the pulpit maybe 58:17.320 --> 58:21.240 that's the real reason why maybe they're offended because you're teaching something that you're 58:21.240 --> 58:25.880 twisting from the bible or that's not actually found in the bible at all and then you're just 58:25.880 --> 58:29.400 sprinkling this verse at the end maybe that's why people are offended but no no they'll be just 58:29.400 --> 58:34.120 about no if you if you love the word of god tonight brother you wouldn't be offended by what i'm 58:34.120 --> 58:38.280 saying maybe that's true if you're just preaching the word of god but the reality of preaching is 58:38.280 --> 58:42.680 that you're adding your interpretations a lot so it's not always just the word of god itself 58:42.680 --> 58:47.640 but obviously to be clear on that if you get up and read a bible verse like leviticus 2013 and 58:47.640 --> 58:52.040 someone's offended hey that's too bad that is the word of god itself right but then there's things 58:52.120 --> 58:58.680 you could go over the top on or preach in a way that's not comely that could offend people and 58:58.680 --> 59:02.520 that's not necessarily always that person's fault let me give you a good example of this because i 59:02.520 --> 59:07.960 know i'm kind of being a little bit generic right now okay like talking about like you know using a 59:07.960 --> 59:13.480 verse as a shield and then just kind of like hiding behind it let's say like because because 59:13.480 --> 59:16.520 i want to understand that like when you're just because you're technically right about a subject 59:16.520 --> 59:21.160 or just because you have a bible verse behind a subject that doesn't excuse every other behavior 59:21.160 --> 59:26.040 you'd have in your day-to-day life or behind a pulpit okay let me give you a good example of this 59:26.040 --> 59:31.480 okay what if because what if i got a preacher sermon today on church attendance because last 59:31.480 --> 59:35.320 week you know we had a lot of people gone because they were sick and there's a bunch of things okay 59:36.120 --> 59:39.960 this is not necessarily a bad thing you can preach on church attendance to you know like 59:39.960 --> 59:44.200 i would hope you have a good spirit if you did that right because last week it's got we have like 59:44.920 --> 59:48.840 we actually have nobody here last week okay but like except for me and my my wife and my family 59:48.840 --> 59:52.360 i told her to stay home though so that he would have been the trooper to come to church though so 59:52.360 --> 59:56.280 but it was just because everybody had sick they had issues going on though you know what i mean 59:56.280 --> 01:00:00.920 so but like what if i did this though deceitfully and i was just like oh guys i just got called to 01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:05.880 preach on church attendance no reason for it okay no reason okay and then i get up in my sermon and 01:00:05.880 --> 01:00:09.480 i show some bible verses about coming to church which is good right but then i'm just like yeah 01:00:09.480 --> 01:00:14.520 you have these people that you know they they start feeling sick and they just stay home from 01:00:14.520 --> 01:00:18.600 church not talking about anybody in particular though okay you have these people their kid gets 01:00:18.600 --> 01:00:22.440 sick and they stay home from church no no not anybody in this room though okay you know we 01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:26.600 have these people their their work makes them work overtime which is like why don't you find a god 01:00:26.600 --> 01:00:31.000 a job that lets you serve god then now i'm using those examples because those are the three real 01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:35.320 examples okay from last wednesday but you can you see though if i just actually did that today 01:00:35.320 --> 01:00:39.160 wouldn't that make you feel some type of way wouldn't that be like crazy and out of pocket 01:00:39.160 --> 01:00:44.040 right if it's just like what are you doing right but i'm showing you those examples to say which 01:00:44.120 --> 01:00:48.200 those are good examples by the way okay just to be clear okay if you're sick stay home from church 01:00:48.200 --> 01:00:52.040 you should okay and stay home from work too okay that's a different sermon though if your kid's 01:00:52.040 --> 01:00:55.560 sick stay home you know if you have to go to work because they're forcing you to work overtime i'm 01:00:55.560 --> 01:00:59.320 not against you i've said that many times okay i'm just clarifying why i'm using those examples to 01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:04.680 show you the fact that just because you're right technically about a certain subject that doesn't 01:01:04.680 --> 01:01:09.800 mean that that just gives you a license to go up and just lambast people and treat people like 01:01:09.880 --> 01:01:13.160 trash because you're technically right you guys understand the difference there 01:01:13.880 --> 01:01:17.080 well i could be like but brother if you're offended by any of those examples 01:01:17.880 --> 01:01:22.600 great piece of they don't love a lot of these outbound them right that'd be a bad interpretation 01:01:22.600 --> 01:01:26.120 though yeah so you shouldn't be weaponized description i use those examples hopefully you 01:01:26.120 --> 01:01:31.480 guys all understand right okay i've i've told you guys many times if if you have those issues stay 01:01:31.480 --> 01:01:35.240 home okay i'm not i only bring up that example because i think it works perfect for what we're 01:01:35.320 --> 01:01:41.800 just talking about okay um but but that should just show you though that just being right about 01:01:41.800 --> 01:01:48.360 a specific topic per se or just because it envelopes some kind of realm of your life as a christian 01:01:48.360 --> 01:01:53.800 that doesn't justify every other action that follows behind the pulpit or in your day-to-day 01:01:53.800 --> 01:01:59.240 life hopefully you guys understand what i'm saying right there okay go to romans 10 verse 11 though 01:01:59.240 --> 01:02:01.000 romans 10 verse number 11 01:02:08.360 --> 01:02:13.480 romans 10 verse number 11 i know i ranted about that um but we're going to move on to the second 01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:17.640 subject now but i just wanted to say about this verse though that obviously what i was explaining 01:02:17.640 --> 01:02:20.600 you guys is that what i believe this means when it says great piece of the love that love that 01:02:20.600 --> 01:02:24.440 law nothing shall offend them is that it's not even talking about your feelings it has nothing 01:02:24.440 --> 01:02:29.240 to do with your feelings it's talking about we're never going to be hurt you know eternally 01:02:29.240 --> 01:02:33.720 obviously as christians um and we'll see a little bit uh more that or i can explain that a little 01:02:33.720 --> 01:02:36.840 bit more after the service i think it makes a lot of sense it's a general statement right there it's 01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:40.760 not it's like it's just like when it's when peter said you know who will harm you when you're being 01:02:40.760 --> 01:02:46.200 a follower of jesus christ it's it's not like a literal or i say i mean let's say a hyper literal 01:02:46.200 --> 01:02:50.600 day-to-day application that you could take from that that we're never going to lose as christians 01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:56.440 that love the bible the second thing i want to bring up though is the subject of being ashamed 01:02:56.440 --> 01:03:01.400 okay because roman's 10 verse number 11 and it's the only other verse i'll cover so bear with me 01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:04.920 it's not going to be it's not going to be a long sermon at all roman's 10 verse number 11 it says 01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:11.800 for the scripture saith whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed the reason i'm bringing 01:03:11.800 --> 01:03:15.560 this verse up is because there's a lot of people that will teach and i think with a good heart as 01:03:15.560 --> 01:03:17.960 well i don't think there's anything malicious about this there's people that will teach that 01:03:17.960 --> 01:03:22.760 this verse is saying that when we're preaching the gospel out soul winning if someone truly 01:03:22.760 --> 01:03:27.960 believes what we're preaching then they're not gonna you know hesitate per se to call upon the 01:03:27.960 --> 01:03:32.600 name of the lord now to be clear on that we obviously believe that you have to call upon 01:03:32.600 --> 01:03:36.840 the name of the lord at this church that is what the bible says friend if you disagree with that 01:03:36.840 --> 01:03:40.680 you disagree with the bible because it says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord 01:03:40.680 --> 01:03:45.320 jesus and believe on thine heart that god hath raised him to the dead thou shalt be saved that 01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:49.720 is my biggest pet peeve don't ever start trying to teach that garbage that you don't have to call 01:03:49.720 --> 01:03:53.080 on the name of the lord at this church because you will be rebuked for it this is this is a 01:03:53.080 --> 01:03:57.560 salvation issue if you believe on jesus christ it says you will call upon the name of the lord and 01:03:57.560 --> 01:04:03.560 you will be saved hello this is bible one-on-one like this is so obvious from roman's but this is 01:04:03.560 --> 01:04:08.600 not my service let me get off away from that okay i always want a tangent on that okay but i gotta 01:04:08.600 --> 01:04:13.160 reel it in okay we gotta lock in okay about this verse what i'm talking about is this verse where 01:04:13.720 --> 01:04:17.560 talks about not being ashamed because again i think that you do have to call upon the name of 01:04:17.560 --> 01:04:21.240 lord to be saved as the bible says itself it's not me just saying that's the bible that says that 01:04:21.960 --> 01:04:27.800 but this passage is not teaching in my opinion that if you don't if someone doesn't call upon 01:04:27.800 --> 01:04:33.080 the name lord out so wanting that they don't necessarily uh don't believe in god okay um or 01:04:33.080 --> 01:04:37.800 maybe i should say like this that that this verse is just not talking about that subject at all is 01:04:37.800 --> 01:04:41.960 what i think okay because if someone does believe in god they will call upon the name of the lord i 01:04:41.960 --> 01:04:45.880 just don't think that that that's what this verse specifically is saying okay you guys you guys 01:04:45.880 --> 01:04:52.120 catch what i'm saying right there so the confusion on this in my opinion it comes from the same kind 01:04:52.120 --> 01:04:57.000 of problem that's why i lumped this together in this sermon as our other word with offend where 01:04:57.000 --> 01:05:01.080 there's kind of like two different definitions for this word you have like the way we use it 01:05:01.080 --> 01:05:05.800 nowadays which is being like you know ashamed or being you know you know put to shame or something 01:05:05.800 --> 01:05:10.440 like that but then you have the other definition which would be like uh being let down or being 01:05:10.440 --> 01:05:16.840 confounded or something like that go to isaiah 28 verse number 16 we only have a few more 01:05:16.840 --> 01:05:22.760 places to turn so bear with me on these last few verses isaiah 28 verse number 16 01:05:26.520 --> 01:05:30.360 because i don't think it's the same like because i would say firstly that someone 01:05:30.360 --> 01:05:33.720 might not call upon the name lord out so many because they are actually ashamed right like they 01:05:33.720 --> 01:05:37.960 might you know be embarrassed to do it in the moment sometimes though people just and i think 01:05:37.960 --> 01:05:40.840 it could be a good sign as well sometimes people just don't understand what you're saying they just 01:05:40.840 --> 01:05:45.000 kind of been nice with you the whole time or sometimes they just need a minute to think about 01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:50.040 what you've been telling them there's a lot of different options there but when the bible says 01:05:50.600 --> 01:05:54.680 whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed i don't think it's talking about they won't be 01:05:54.680 --> 01:05:59.080 ashamed to call upon the lord i think it's a different subject completely the reason why is 01:05:59.080 --> 01:06:04.920 in isaiah 28 verse 16 look it says it says therefore let's say the lord god behold i lay in scion for a 01:06:04.920 --> 01:06:11.400 foundation or for a foundation a stone a tried stone a precious cornerstone a sure foundation 01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:17.480 amen he that believeth shall not make haste now that's kind of important right there because if 01:06:17.480 --> 01:06:21.640 you notice that that's different than romans what it would say because it says not be ashamed but 01:06:21.640 --> 01:06:26.680 this says shall not make haste but uh and you could compare that with a different couple other 01:06:26.680 --> 01:06:32.600 verses in romans that are very similar to this uh like romans 9 33 okay but the reason i point 01:06:32.600 --> 01:06:38.760 this out to you is because the context about shall not make haste doesn't talk about embarrassment to 01:06:38.760 --> 01:06:43.160 to call upon the name of lord at all does it this is not what this is talking about this is talking 01:06:43.160 --> 01:06:47.000 about like the picture he's trying to paint right here is basically that you're gonna not going to 01:06:47.000 --> 01:06:51.160 be someone who's you know lost the battle and fleeing away because you lost or something like 01:06:51.160 --> 01:06:55.960 that yeah that like you know that uh when we call upon god and we believe on god we're never going 01:06:55.960 --> 01:07:00.520 to lose as christians like i was kind of saying earlier but that's talking about the wording here 01:07:00.520 --> 01:07:05.000 of making haste would be implying someone who loses a battle and is having to flee away for 01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:09.320 their life basically this is what this is talking about if you ever kind of wondered about that but 01:07:09.320 --> 01:07:17.480 go to isaiah 45 verse number 16 isaiah 45 verse number 16 because kind of when you think about 01:07:17.480 --> 01:07:21.080 this in that context it's basically telling us like hey when we believe on god we'll never have 01:07:21.080 --> 01:07:26.600 to make haste because we won't lose as christians and we could just sit there cozy because we know 01:07:26.680 --> 01:07:30.600 that our salvation is sure right that once we call upon the name of lord once we believe in 01:07:30.600 --> 01:07:35.480 jesus christ our salvation is a done deal we'll never make haste we'll never be ashamed because 01:07:35.480 --> 01:07:41.800 god will give us the eternal life that he promised us and isaiah 45 verse number 16 it says they shall 01:07:41.800 --> 01:07:47.000 be ashamed and also confounded all of them they shall go by or go to confusion together that 01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:52.120 are makers of idols but israel shall be saved in the lord with an everlasting salvation look 01:07:52.120 --> 01:07:58.360 what it says it says he shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end and again that's not 01:07:58.360 --> 01:08:01.800 talking about they're not going to be ashamed a couple of little or it's about they're never 01:08:01.800 --> 01:08:06.600 going to be let down by god almighty god's never going to let them down because his promise his 01:08:06.600 --> 01:08:12.200 word to us of salvation of eternal security is a done deal so we can rest assured that and we can 01:08:12.200 --> 01:08:17.000 never make haste and we'll never have to make us we'll never be ashamed go to first peter 2 6 01:08:17.000 --> 01:08:20.840 first peer to six i think i have a few more places for you guys to turn then we're done 01:08:21.960 --> 01:08:29.320 first peter 2 6 yeah unless you guys give me a ranting about something okay uh first peter 2 6 01:08:30.600 --> 01:08:34.040 you see this kind of definition again right here because the the interchangeable way that it uses 01:08:34.040 --> 01:08:39.000 this instead of using the word ashamed here it says wherefore also it is contained in the scripture 01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:45.240 behold i land scion a chief cornerstone elect precious and he that believed on him shall not be 01:08:46.040 --> 01:08:51.640 confounded right which means that he won't be put to shame he won't be let down so you can kind of 01:08:51.640 --> 01:08:56.360 see there that the ashamed is not talking about being ashamed to call upon the name of the lord 01:08:56.360 --> 01:09:00.120 though again for clarity because that is an important doctrine someone needs to call upon 01:09:00.120 --> 01:09:04.680 any lord to be saved period and a story no doubt about it uh last place i'll give you go daniel 01:09:04.680 --> 01:09:11.320 12 2 so yeah just last place daniel 12 2 okay daniel 12 verse number two 01:09:11.320 --> 01:09:17.720 so again this was a different style than i wanted to do this was more like a bible study 01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:21.960 i felt bad about that i realized that past the point of no return i was like okay we're just 01:09:21.960 --> 01:09:29.960 doing sunday morning bible study i guess daniel uh 12 verse number two is where you guys are going 01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:33.160 so when we're again i'll read for you guys romans 10 11 again one more time it says for the scripture 01:09:33.160 --> 01:09:37.400 sayeth whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed what the bible is teaching us right here 01:09:37.400 --> 01:09:43.640 is that when we believe on god we can rest assured in our salvation we'll never be ashamed 01:09:43.640 --> 01:09:48.600 we'll never be let down because that's all it takes to be saved right because what roman is 01:09:48.600 --> 01:09:53.480 teaching us that's the theme of roman is the theme of the whole new testament but this is the last 01:09:53.480 --> 01:09:58.520 thing i want to show you in daniel 12 2 talking about the subject of shame says and many of them 01:09:58.520 --> 01:10:04.440 that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and 01:10:04.440 --> 01:10:08.440 everlasting contentment so the people that call upon the name of the lord the people that believe 01:10:08.440 --> 01:10:12.200 in jesus christ they're not going to be a part of that second group they're going to be part of the 01:10:12.200 --> 01:10:18.120 first group that we wake up unto everlasting life not to everlasting shame not to everlasting 01:10:18.120 --> 01:10:23.640 contentment because what did the bible say who's ever believed on him shall not be ashamed yeah so 01:10:23.640 --> 01:10:27.240 that's exactly what the bible is talking about right here so again this is the the end of the 01:10:27.240 --> 01:10:30.360 sermon i'm sorry that that was so lopsided i've spent a lot of time on the first one and not a 01:10:30.360 --> 01:10:34.040 lot of time on the second one and i'm sorry that that was so verse heavy hopefully you guys like 01:10:34.040 --> 01:10:39.080 bible verses at a church okay but it is a little bit different for a sunday morning usually that's 01:10:39.080 --> 01:10:45.640 the the wednesday crowd okay but hopefully you got something edifying from that sermon and hopefully 01:10:45.640 --> 01:10:49.320 you understand those scriptures a little bit better and this will be a series that i go through 01:10:49.320 --> 01:10:52.920 though it probably won't just be back to back to back to back but anyways with that all being said 01:10:52.920 --> 01:10:55.560 let's pray deal with the god thank you so much for a wonderful day thank you so much for everything 01:10:55.560 --> 01:10:59.240 you do for us god thank you so much for this church god and for people that love your word 01:10:59.240 --> 01:11:03.320 and that love to study the bible god and love to understand the harder things of the bible thank 01:11:03.320 --> 01:11:09.160 you for people that don't shy away from verse heavy sermons god and thank you so much for people 01:11:09.160 --> 01:11:13.080 that love your word and i just pray that you help us as we interpret the bible to interpret it 01:11:13.080 --> 01:11:16.600 properly and i pray that when we go out so late you help us to get people saying just gonna pray 01:11:16.600 --> 01:11:26.600 amen 01:11:27.240 --> 01:11:33.160 all right if you want to take your him know we're going to return to page number 142 01:11:38.280 --> 01:11:48.440 page number 142 the old time religion page number 142 01:11:57.320 --> 01:12:09.640 Is the old time religion is the old time religion is the old time religion and it's good 01:12:09.640 --> 01:12:21.080 enough for me it was good for our mothers it was good for our mothers it was good for our mothers 01:12:21.080 --> 01:12:24.080 And it's good enough for me 01:12:24.080 --> 01:12:27.280 It has saved our fathers 01:12:27.280 --> 01:12:30.280 It has saved our fathers 01:12:30.280 --> 01:12:33.280 It has saved our fathers 01:12:33.280 --> 01:12:36.280 And it's good enough for me 01:12:36.280 --> 01:12:39.280 Makes me love everybody 01:12:39.280 --> 01:12:42.280 Makes me love everybody 01:12:42.280 --> 01:12:45.280 Makes me love everybody 01:12:45.280 --> 01:12:48.280 And it's good enough for me 01:12:48.720 --> 01:12:51.960 It will do when I am dying 01:12:54.200 --> 01:12:58.060 It will do when I am dying 01:12:58.280 --> 01:13:02.180 It will do when I am dying 01:13:04.560 --> 01:13:10.580 It will take us all to Heaven 01:13:10.580 --> 01:13:20.580 enough for me. Tis the old time religion. Tis the old time religion. Tis the old time 01:13:20.580 --> 01:13:26.580 religion and it's good enough for me. Alright, excellent singing everybody. 01:13:26.580 --> 01:13:28.580 Brother Ron, would you please close us a word of prayer? 01:13:28.580 --> 01:13:32.580 Dear heavenly father, thank you God for this church and this preaching Lord. 01:13:32.580 --> 01:13:39.580 I just pray God that as we go you bless the fellowship and the soul of Jesus. Amen. 01:13:39.580 --> 01:13:41.580 Amen.